Jeremiah Prophesies against Egypt
c. 586 b.c. Many of the leading families who had been freed from Ishmael chose to flee to Egypt to escape the Babylonians’ wrath over Gedaliah’s… Read More »Jeremiah Prophesies against Egypt
c. 586 b.c. Many of the leading families who had been freed from Ishmael chose to flee to Egypt to escape the Babylonians’ wrath over Gedaliah’s… Read More »Jeremiah Prophesies against Egypt
586 b.c. After depopulating Judah of all but the poorest of its inhabitants, the Babylonians set up a new governor, Gedaliah, in Mizpah. Among Gedaliah’s new… Read More »Gedaliah Is Assassinated
586 b.c. As punishment for Zedekiah’s rebellion, Nebuchadnezzar attacked Jerusalem. After the Babylonians had made a breach in the wall at the middle gate, Zedekiah realized… Read More »The Fall of Jerusalem
c. 597, 586, 582 b.c. Jeremiah witnessed multiple deportations of many of his fellow Judeans to Babylon (see 52:28–30), which he and other prophets had foretold would… Read More »The Babylonian Empire
c. 620 b.c. Though the exact date of the prophecies of Habakkuk are difficult to determine, it is likely that he prophesied a short time before… Read More »The Near East at the Time of Habakkuk
c. 597 b.c. The book of Jeremiah is set during the politically tumultuous times following the fall of the Assyrians and the rise of the Babylonians.… Read More »Israel and Judah at the Time of Jeremiah
c. 701 b.c. During the reign of Hezekiah of Judah, Sennacherib of Assyria came and attacked cities along the western edge of Judah, and he sent… Read More »Assyria Attacks Judah and Jerusalem
c. 718 b.c. Over a hundred years before Isaiah’s time, the nation of Moab, distantly related to the Israelites (Genesis 19), had expanded their territory northward… Read More »Isaiah Prophesies against Moab
Isaiah prophesied that although Assyria would pose a great threat to God’s people, God would stop them from fully carrying out their destruction. Isaiah 10:28–34 may recount… Read More »Assyria Advances toward Jerusalem
c. 740 b.c. The prophecies of Isaiah are set against the backdrop of a rising Assyrian Empire. This resurgent ancient nation posed a great threat to… Read More »The Near East at the Time of Isaiah
c. 479 b.c. Long before Esther’s time, the people of Israel and Judah (later called Jews) had been dispersed throughout the Near East by the Assyrians… Read More »The Persian Empire at the Time of Esther
c. 445 b.c. Though Nehemiah gives a careful listing of the sections of Jerusalem’s walls that were rebuilt, it is difficult to be certain exactly which… Read More »Jerusalem at the Time of Nehemiah