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Bible Times and Isaiah - Study of the Book and Man

Week 2 Jan 2011

Captivated by the Kingdoms

BIBLE TIMELINE

1445  BC -  Giving of Law of Moses at Mt Sanai

1405 – Beginning of Conquest of Canaan

1050 – Saul becomes King of  Israel

1010 – David becomes King of Israel

970 -  Solomon becomes King of Israel

931– death of Solomon sees kingdom split into Judah & Israel (10 tribes north).

722 B.C. – Assyria conquers Israel

606 – Judah taken into captivity by Babylon (1^st group)

597 – City of Jerusaem captured by Babylon (second group)                           

536 – First group returns with Joshya and Zerubbabel   

516– Temple Rebuilt

458 -  Second group return with Ezra

444 – Third Group returns with Nehemiah who rebuilds City Walls of Jerusalem
THE TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL - Northern Kingdom

  Reuben

Simeon

Dan

Naphtali

Gad

Asher

Issachar

Zebulun

Ephraim

Manasseh

• TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL
• Corrupt government
• Assyria captures Israel
• Many return to Judah
• Judah is eventually captured by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia
• People taken from Judah were thenceforth known as Jews
• Return to Jerusalem
• 50 years of exile in Babylon
• Rebuilt temple in 515 BCE
• Those who did not return were said to be living in the “Diaspora”
• Ezra edits the Pentateuch for the last time
• The Torah established as the spiritual foundation for a dispersed people

The Southern Kingdom of Judah Judah and Benjamin became known as the Southern Kingdom of Judah. The Cohanim (Priests) of the Tribe of Levi were mainly present in the Land of the Tribes of Judah and Benjamin, but they (Levi) nor Simeon received land inheritance because of their actions at Shechem (Genesis 49:5-7), but were instead scattered in the midst of both Kingdoms.

Judah

Benjamin

Levi (technically scattered and present in both Kingdoms, but mostly attributed to and present in the Southern Kingdom)