Dates - Old Testament

Question 1

1010 BC

Answer 1

David becomes King of Judah

Question 2

1003 BC

Answer 2

David becomes King of Israel and Judah

Question 3

970 BC

Answer 3

Solomon crowned King of Israel and Judah

Question 4

930 BC

Answer 4

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

Question 5

722 BC

Answer 5

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

Question 6

609 BC

Answer 6

Josiah dies (2 Kings 23:29)

Question 7

606 BC

Answer 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)

Question 8

597 BC

Answer 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)

Question 9

586 BC

Answer 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.

Question 10

536 BC

Answer 10

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

Question 11

516 BC

Answer 11

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

Question 12

486 BC

Answer 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 “One Night With The King” which is about Esther becoming Queen of Persia.

Question 13

479 BC

Answer 13

Esther becomes Queen (Esther 2:16-17)

Question 14

466 BC

Answer 14

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