Daniel and Jeremiah Esther

610 600 590 580 570 560 550 540 530 520 510 500 490 480 470 460 450 440 430 420 410 400 Amel-marduk 561-560 Labashi-marduk 556 Xerxes II 425-424

Cambyses Nebuchadnezzar 605-562 556-536 Cyrus 539-530 Darius I 521-486 486-465 465-424 Darius II 423-404 625-605 529-522

Nergal-shal-usur 559-557 Belshazzar 553-539 Smerdis 522 ESTHER 424-423 

DANIEL

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Dan 3 Dan Dan 2 Dan 4 Dan 7 Dan 6,9 5, Dan 10 Dan Fiery Fiery furnace, c603 The tree dream, c571 Vision of four beasts, 553 Vision of ram &goat, 551 Fall of , 539 Lion’s den Reading of Jeremiah, 539 Vision of the end, 536 The statue dream, 604

538 ,

Deportation, Deportation, 605

st 1

597 Deportation,

Deportation, 587 Deportation,

Sheshbazzar nd

rd Letters sent from Jews at 2 3 Elephantine to Yohanan, high priest in Jerusalem,

410 and 407

Nehemiah returned to Artaxerxes, Artaxerxes, 433 toNehemiah returned visit of Nehemiah, Nehemiah, 432 visit of

445 visit of Nehemiah,

return, return, led by

st nd

Return of Ezra, 458 of Return Ezra, 1 2 st

JEREMIAH 1

Walls of 29 25 Temple Jerusalem

rebuilt

Jer Jer Message Message to exiles, 597 Prophecy Prophecy of captivity, 605 rebuilt, Temple foundation laid 520-516 443

Jehoiakim 609-598 HAGGAI NEHEMIAH

Jehoiachin 608-597 Zedekiah 597-587 585 flight to ForcedEgypt,

ZECHARIAH EZRA MALACHI

44

Jer Prophecy Prophecy against refugees in

Setting of Esther

540 530 520 510 500 490 480 470 460 450 440 430

478 BC 482 BC Esther 2:16 474 BC Esther 1:5-22 Esther chosen as Esther 3:7 New Year’s Festival, Queen Haman determines to Queen Vashti rejected destroy the Jews

483 BC 473 BC Esther 1:1-3 Esther 9:17 Military banquet planning Planned destruction of the war with Greece Jews turned to victory

Cambyses Cyrus 539-530 Darius I 521-486 Xerxes I 486-465 Artaxerxes I 465-424 529-522

Smerdis 522 492 BC 490 BC 479 BC 466 BC First attack on Defeat at Lost battle of Lost battle of

Athens failed Marathon Mycale Eurymedon , 538 ,

486 BC 480 BC Rebellion of 484 BC May - leaves for Greece; Egypt Reconquest June - arrives at Hellespont; August - arrives in Therma, battle Sheshbazzar of Egypt of Thermopylae; September - taken, battle

of Salamis lost 445 visit of Nehemiah,

st

1 Nehemiah returned to Artaxerxes, Artaxerxes, 433 toNehemiah returned

482 BC Nehemiah, 432 visit of

return, ledreturn, by

nd

Return 458 of Ezra, 2 st Babylon rebels 1 Walls of and destroyed Temple Jerusalem rebuilt rebuilt, Temple foundation laid 520-516 443

HAGGAI NEHEMIAH

ZECHARIAH EZRA MALACHI