SEDER OLAM - Revisited

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GENERATION 22
Judges (Othniel, Ehud, Gideon, Deborah)
Hebrew years 2520-2640 - From 1240 BCE
Contents:
Death of Joshua, The Merneptah Stele, Death of Eleazar the High Priest, The Period of the Judges, The Arameans, Judge Othniel, Civil war against Benjamin, The origin of Rome, The Moabites, Ruth and Boaz, Judge Ehud, Judge Shamgar, The Hazorites, The Midianites, Gideon the Prophet, Deborah the Prophetess

GENERATION 23
Judges (Jair, Samson, Yiftah), Kingdom (Saul, David, Solomon)
Hebrew years 2640-2760 - From 1120 BCE
Contents:
Abimelech, Judge Yair, Birth of Samuel, Samuel the Prophet, Idolatry, The Philistines, The Ammonites, Judge Samson, Judge Yiftah, Sacrifice of Yiftah's daughter, Death of Eli the High Priest, Ichabod, Ark of Covenant, Three Judges

King Saul, David and Goliath, Death of Samuel, Slaughter of Abimelech and the priests, Death of King Saul, Death of Abner, End of the Philistine yoke, King David, David and Bathsheba, The rape of Tamar, The rebellion of Absalom, Solomon is chosen as heir, Death of King David

 Alliance with Pharaoh, Solomon's wisdom, The Bat Creek inscription, The Gezer calendar, The Phoenicians, The "trade winds", The Greeks, The alphabet, Contruction of the Temple, The number Pi, Completion of the Temple, The 24 hours day

GENERATION 24
Hebrew years 2760-2880 - From 1000 BCE - Kings (Jeroboam, Asa, Omri, Ahab, Jehu, Prophet Elijah)
Contents:
Solomon starts to sin, Osorkon the Elder, of Egypt, Hadad the Edomite, Rezon the Aramaean, Jeroboam and Shoshenq, Death of Solomon, Scission of the kingdom, Idolatry in the kingdom of Israel, The kings' chronology

Chronology of the 24th generation, Shoshenq sacks Jerusalem, King Asa of Judah, Omri establishes Samaria as capital of the kingdom of Israel, King Ahab of Israel, Ben-Hadad of Aram, Elijah and the prophets of Baal, Aram and Israel, Death of Elijah the Prophet, The Mesha Stele, The two kings Jeroham

Jehu king of Israel, The Tel-Dan Stele, Death of Jezebel, Joash king of Judah

GENERATION 25
King (Joash, Azariah, Menahem)
Hebrew years 2880-3000 - From 880 BCE
Contents:
Chronology during the 25th generation, King Joash repairs the Temple, The House of Jehu, kings of Israel, The Kurkh Stele, King Amaziah of Judah, The Black Obelisk of Shalmanezer III

King Jeroboam II of Israel, King Uzziah of Judah, Amos the Prophet, King Zechariah of Israel, Shallum and Menachem of Israel, Chronology of the kingdoms until King Jotham, The campaign of Ashuar-Dan III of Assyria, The Millennium eclipse (763 BCE)

GENERATION 26
Fall of Israel (Tiglath-Pileser, Sennacherib), Hezekiah
Hebrew years 3000-3120 - From 760 BCE
Contents:
Chronology of the kings during the 26th generation, Death of King Uzziah of Judah, Isaiah the Prophet, Tiglath-Pileser III, King Ahaz of Judah, The merit of the Patriarchs is exhausted, Deportation of the tribe of Naphtali, King Hezekiah of Judah, The Continental Drift, End of the kingdom of Israel, Deportation of the 10 tribes, King Numa of Rome

Campaign against the kingdom of Judah, The fall of Lachish, The throne of Solomon, The siege of Jerusalem, The last years of King Hezekiah, Jonah and the repentance of Sennacherib, Manasseh, the worst king of Judah, Destruction of Babylon, Assassination of Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, king of Assyria

GENERATION 27
Fall of Judah (Nebuchadnezzar, Josiah, Zedekiah, Jeremiah, Daniel), Captivity of Babylon, Cyrus of Persia
Hebrew years 3120-3240 - From 640 BCE
Contents:
Chronology of the kings during the 27th generation, The 8 years old King Josiah, Jeremiah the Prophet, King Josiah celebrates Passover, King Josiah hides the Ark, Destruction of Nineveh, Pharaoh Necoh, Jeremiah prophetizes the destruction of Jerusalem, The Battle of Carchemish, Daniel is taken to Babylon, Jehoiakim's Rations Tablets, The dream of Nebuchadnezzar

Nebuchadnezzar spoils Jerusalem, Zedekiah last king of Judah, Hananiah the false prophet, The vision of Ezekiel, The 70 years of captivity, The siege of Jerusalem, The fall of Jerusalem, The Book of Lamentations, The assassination of Gedaliah, Jeremiah in Egypt, The Jews of Elephantine

Nebuchadnezzar defies God, Ezekiel's vision of the Second Temple, Nebuchadnezzar spoils Egypt, Death of Prophet Ezekiel, The madness of King Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar and the writing on the wall, Nabonides

Cyrus conquers Babylon, The Cylinder of Cyrus, Return to Sion, The Yehud province, Pythagoras, Death of Cyrus, End of the Egyptian Dynasties, Succession crisis in Persia, Daniel's prophecy, Daniel in the lions' den, Darius introduces the alphabet, Death of Daniel, God orders the reconstruction of the Temple

GENERATION 28
Return to Sion, Second Temple, Esther and Purim, Ezra and Nehemiah
Hebrew years 3240-3360 - From 520 BCE
Contents:
Completion of the Second Temple, Pseudo-Scylax, Death of Darius, Reign of Xerxes, Ahasuerus, The 70 years of the prophecy, Xerxes' campaign against Greece

Queen Esther, The festival of Purim, Reign of Artaxerxes, The dream of Mordechai, Ezra the Scribe, Nehemiah, Governor of Judah, Compilation of the Tanakh, Nehemiah settles in Jerusalem, Death of Nehemiah

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