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Selected Chronology of the Empires
for the Hebrew Prophets

Assyrian Kings
Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 bce)
Shalmaneser III (858-824) [humiliation of Jehu depicted on Black Obelisk]
(period of weakness 823-745)
Tiglath-pileser III (744-27)

c. 740 Menaham pays tribute (2 Kgs 15:19-20)
734-732 Syria-Ephraim debacle (Isa 7:1)
733 Ahaz asks Tiglath-Pileser for help (2 Kgs 16:5-9)

Shalmaneser V (726-22)
Sargon II (721-05)

721 The fall of Samaria (2 Kgs 17)
711 Jerusalem is preserved apparently in relation to the sign-act of Isaiah’s nakedness (Isa 20:1-5), though the sign was against Egypt and Cush (Ethiopia)

Sennacherib (704-681)

701 Assyrian conquest of Judah and siege of Jerusalem (Isa 36-37)

Esarhaddon (680-669)
Ashurbanipal (668-626)

Babylonian Kings
Nabopolassar (627-605) [threw off Assyrian rule in 612]
Nebuchadnezzar (605-562)

Deportations of Jerusalem took place in c. 605 (Dan 1:1), 597 (2 Kgs 24:8-12; Ezek 1:2), and 586 Jerusalem and temple destroyed (2 Kgs 25)

Amel-marduk (Evil-Merodach) (562-560)
Neriglissar (560-556)
Nabonidus (556-539)
Belshazzar (co-regent) (549-539)

539 Babylon captured by Cyrus

Persian Kings	(returns to Jerusalem)
Cyrus (550-530)	Sheshbazzar (538)
Cambyses (530-522)
Darius I (521-486)	Zerubbabel, Joshua (c. 520)
Ahasuerus (Xerxes) (486-465)	(Esther)
Artaxerxes (464-424) Darius II (423-404)	Ezra (c. 450), Nehemiah (c. 445)

And see Chronological Orientation of the Prophets and Other Materials on the Prophets