Timeline of Judean Kings and Events in the 8th-6th centuries B.C.E. Up to Destruction of [First] Temple (All dates are B.C.E.)

728–699 Hezekiah – religious reformer and builder

722 Assyria conquers Israel – 10 tribes of the North dispersed

705 Assyria tries and fails to conquer Jerusalem

699–643 Manasseh – restores idol worship

642–640 Amon

640–609 Josiah – institutes religious reform in 622.

Many believe Deuteronomy was written at this time.

627 Beginning of Jeremiah’s prophecies

612 Babylonians conquer Assyrian capital Nineveh with help of Medians and Scythians

609 Josiah dies fighting for Babylon against Egypt. Jehoahaz briefly becomes King of Judea

609–598 Jehoiakim

605 Babylonians defeat Egyptians at Carchemish (now on the frontier between Turkey & Syria)

597 Jehoiachin, first deportation of Judean leaders from Jerusalem

597–587 Zedekiah

586 Jerusalem falls to Babylonian conquest, Temple destroyed