Timeline
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c. 3000 BCEFirst Bronze Age settlement in Jerusalem.
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722 BCEThe upper class in Israel, the Northern Kingdom, is exiled by the Assyrians.
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701 BCEKing Sennacherib of Assyria sacks the city of Lachish in Judah but fails to take the capital Jerusalem.
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586 BCEDestruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and exile of upper class Judeans.
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539 BCESome Judean in exile are permitted to return to Judah.