Dates - OT

Question 1

1010 BC

Answer 1

David becomes King of Judah.

Question 2

1003 BC

Answer 2

David becomes King of Israel & Judah.

Question 3

970 BC

Answer 3

Solomon crowned King of Israel & Judah.

Question 4

930 BC

Answer 4

Divided Kingdom (1 Kings 12) – Northern Kingdom and Southern Kingdom

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.

Question 8

606 BC

What’s the second occurence for this date and the Scripture?

Answer 8

The date from which Jeremiah’s prophecy of 70 years of exile is taken. (2 Chronicles 36:20-22)

Question 9

606 BC

What’s the third occurrence for this date and the Scripture?

Answer 9

Daniel is taken to Babylon at this time. (Daniel 1:1)

Question 10

597 BC

Answer 10

This is the date of the second exiling of Judah.

Question 11

586 BC

Answer 11

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 12

536 BC

Scripture

Answer 12

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

Question 13

516 BC

Scripture

Answer 13

The Temple is rebuilt (Ezra 6:15)

Question 14

486 BC

Answer 14

Xerxes in the Book of Esther (Artaxerxes in the Book of Nehemiah) begins to reign.

Question 15

Xerxes is portrayed in two well-known movies:

Answer 15

300 which is about the Battle of Thermopylae

A Night With The King which is about Esther becoming Queen of Persia.

Question 16

479 BC

Scripture

Answer 16

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

Question 17

466 BC

Scripture

Answer 17

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

Question 18

How many years after the temple is rebuilt that Jerusalem’s walls are rebuilt?

Answer 18

50 years

Question 19

What is Xerxes called as well and in what book does he have a different name?

Answer 19

Artexerxes in Nehemiah

Question 20

What are the 2 other names of the Temple that was rebuilt?

Answer 20

The Second Temple Zerubbabal’s Temple.

Question 21

597 BC

Why is this date significant and what Scripture reflects this?

Answer 21

This is significant as the line of David to Jesus comes through Jehoiachin. (Matthew 1:11)

Question 22

What happened during the 2nd exiling?

Answer 22

Jehoiachin is taken to Babylon.

Question 23

What was the Northern Kingdom Israel also called?

Answer 23

Israel - “the ten lost tribes”

Question 24

What was the Southern Kingdom also called?

Answer 24

Judah