Dates - Old Testament

Question 1

When did David become King of Judah?

Answer 1

1010 BC

Question 2

When did David become King of Israel & Judah?

Answer 2

1003 BC

Question 3

When was Solomon crowned King of Israel & Judah?

Answer 3

970 BC

Question 4

Divided Kingdom (1 Kings 12) – Northern Kingdom (Israel… “the ten lost tribes”) and
Southern Kingdom (Judah)

Answer 4

930 BC

Question 5

Israel is taken into captivity by the Assyrians. (2 Kings 17:23-24)

Answer 5

722 BC

Question 6

Josiah dies. (2 Kings 23:29)

Answer 6

609 BC

Question 7

This is the first of the three exiling of Judah by the Babylonians. This is also the date
from which Jeremiah’s prophecy of 70 years of exile is taken. (2 Chronicles 36:20-22) Daniel is
taken to Babylon at this time. (Daniel 1:1)

Answer 7

606 BC

Question 8

This is the date of the second exiling of Judah. Jehoiachin is taken to Babylon. This is
significant as the line of David to Jesus comes through Jehoiachin. (Matthew 1:11)

Answer 8

597 BC

Question 9

The third exiling of Judah is when God – through Nebuchadnezzar – burns and destroys
the Temple and tears down the walls of Jerusalem making them rubble.

Answer 9

586 BC

Question 10

Cyrus becomes the King of Persia. (Ezra 1:1)

Answer 10

536 BC

Question 11

The Temple is rebuilt – often called the Second Temple or Zerubbabal’s Temple. (Ezra
6:15)

Answer 11

516 BC

Question 12

Xerxes in the Book of Esther (Artaxerxes in the Book of Nehemiah) begins to reign.
Xerxes is portrayed in two well-known movies: 300 which is about the Battle of Thermopylae
and A Night With The King which is about Esther becoming Queen of Persia.

Answer 12

486 BC

Question 13

Esther becomes Queen. (Esther 2:16-17)

Answer 13

479 BC

Question 14

50 years after the Temple is rebuilt, Nehemiah goes to Jerusalem and finally rebuilds
the walls of Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 2:1)

Answer 14

466 BC