Judah Timeline

Timeline

  • c. 3000 BCE
    First Bronze Age settlement in Jerusalem.
  • 722 BCE
    The upper class in Israel, the Northern Kingdom, is exiled by the Assyrians.
  • 701 BCE
    King Sennacherib of Assyria sacks the city of Lachish in Judah but fails to take the capital Jerusalem.
  • 586 BCE
    Destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and exile of upper class Judeans.
  • 539 BCE
    Some Judean in exile are permitted to return to Judah.
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