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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE . The dales printed in heavy type are certain, at least within a unit. Events in Contemporary See also:History. Probable Real Biblical Events. See also:Dates. Babylonia. See also:Assyria. See also:Egypt.' Indeterminable, Creation of See also:Man but much before 47U. See also:Menes, the first See also:king of the First See also:Egyptian See also:Dynasty 3998-372I . See also:Fourth Dynasty 3969-3908 See also:Cheops. The See also:Great See also:Pyramid built 2098-1587. See also:Rule of the See also:Hyksos 1587-1328.

Eighteenth Dynasty 1503-1449. Thothmes (Tethmosis) III. (leads victorious expeditions into See also:

Asia) 1414-1383. See also:Amen-hotep (Amenophis) III. 1383-1365. Amen-hotep IV. 1328-1202. Nineteenth Dynasty 1300-1234. Ramses II. 1234-1214. Merenptal-II. 952-749 (al.

945-745). 1 Twenty-secondD yn a st y 952-93011 (Breasted, 945.924)• Sheshonq (Shishak). Shishak invades See also:

Judah in the , fifth yearof See also:Rehoboam (1 Ki. xiv. 25 f.) 1 The real Biblical date, Ussher in Gen. xi. 26 interpolating 6o years, because it is said in Acts vii. 4 that See also:Abraham See also:left Haran after his See also:father Terah's See also:death (Gen. xi. 32), and also (as explained above) interpreting wrongly Ex. xii. 40. 2 Hilprecht's dates (The Bab. Expedition of the University of See also:Pennsylvania, vol. i. pt. i. 1893, pp. II, i2; pt. ii.

1896, pp. 23, 24. 43, 44). See also:

Petrie's dates, Hist. of Egypt, vol. i. (ed. 5, 1903), pp. 20, 30, 233, 251, 252; vol. 111. (1905), pp. 2, 235, 281-7, 296-360. Other authorities, however, assign considerably See also:lower dates for the dynasties See also:prior to the 18th. Thus Breasted (Hist. of Egypt, 1906, pp.

22 if., 221, 597) agrees with Ed. See also:

Meyer in giving, for reasons which cannot be here explained, for the beginning of the 1st dynasty c. B C. 3400, for the 4th dynasty c. B.C. 2900--2750, and for the rule of the Hyksos c. B.C. 1680-1580; and in his Researches in See also:Sinai, 1906, p. 175, Petrie proposes for Menes B.C. 5510, and for the 4th dynasty B.C. 4731-4454. See EGYPT (See also:Chronology).

' So See also:

Sayce, See also:Rogers (Hist. of Bab. and See also:Ass., 1900, i. 318 f.) and others. The date rests upon a statement of Nabu-na'id's, that See also:Sargon's son, Naram-See also:Sin, reigned 3200 years before himself. See also:Lehmann holds that there are reasons for believing that the engraver, by See also:error, put a stroke too many, and that 2200 should be read instead of 3200. a The real Biblical date. e Rogers, i. 373-375. Many monuments and See also:inscriptions of other See also:kings in Babylonia, between 4000 and 2000 B.C., are also known. i The lists of the Babylonian and See also:Assyrian kings are not continuous; and before 1907, from the data then available (see the discussion in Rogers, op. cit. i. 312-348), Khammurabi, the See also:sixth king of the first Babylonian dynasty, was commonly referred to such dates as 2376-2333 B.C. (Sayce) or 2285-2242 B.C. (Johns). But inscriptions recently discovered, by showing that the second dynasty was partly contemporaneous with the first and the third, have proved that these dates are too high : see L.

W. King, See also:

Chronicles Concerning See also:Early Bab. Kings (1907), i. ”-1 10; and the See also:article BABYLONIA, Chronology. The date B.c. 2130-2088 is that adopted by Thureau-Dangin, after a discussion of the subject, in the See also:Journal See also:des Savants, 1908, p. 199; and by Ungnad in the Orient. Litt.-zeitung, 1908, p. 13, and in Gressmann's Altorientalische Texte and Bilder zum A.T. (1909), p. 103. 8 King, op. cit. i.

116, ii. 14. 9 The dates of the kings are, in most cases, those given by Kautzsch in the table in his Outline of the Hist. of the Literature of the O.T. (tr. by See also:

Taylor, 1898), pp. 167 ff.; see also A. R. S. See also:Kennedy, "See also:Samuel" in the See also:Century See also:Bible (1905), p. 31. The dates given by other See also:recent authorities seldom differ by more than three or four years. 1O The figures after a king's name indicate the number of years assigned to his reign in the O.T. For See also:Saul, see i Sam. xiii.

1, R.V 11 The date of Sheshonq depends on that fixed for Rehoboam. Petrie places the See also:

accession of Rehoboam in 937 B.C. 1996-182I [22I I-2036 61 Chronology of Ussher. 1099-1058 I058-1017 1017--977 4004 [41571] 2348 [2501 6] 1491 977 959 956 956 954 7000 B.C. C. 2I00 (if, as is probable, the Amraphel of Gen. xiv. I is Khammurabi) C. 1230 C. 1025-10109 C. I0I0-970 c. 970-933 Judah. 933.

Rehoboam(17) 916. See also:

Abijah (3) 913. See also:Asa (41) See also:Israel. 933. See also:Jeroboam I. (22) 912. Nadab (2) 911. Baasha (24) The See also:Deluge Abraham The See also:Exodus Saul (2) 10 See also:David (40) See also:Solomon (40) 7-6000.2 See also:Temple of See also:Bel at See also:Nippur founded c. 40002 Lugal-zaggisi, king of Uruk (See also:Erech, Gen. x. to) 3800.' Sargon of Agade, who carries his arms as far as the Mediterranean See also:Sea c. 2800 8 Ur-bau and Dungi, kings of Uru (Ur, Gen. xi. 28, 31) C. B.C.

213o-2O88? Khammurabi unifies Babylonia and constructs in it many great See also:

works (see See also:art. BABYLONIA) C. 1400. Burnaburiash. Tel el-Amarna See also:correspondence C. 2300. Ushpia, See also:priest of Ashur, builder of temple in the See also:city of Ashur c. 2225. I lu-shama, first king of Assyria at See also:present (1909) known8 C. 1300. See also:Shalmaneser I.

(builder of See also:

Calah, Gen. x.

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