ANCIENT ISRAEL TIMELINE

ABRAHAM

• Abraham moves to Canaan
• He became the father of the Hebrew
• The first monotheists

ISAAC

• Isaac was one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites.
• was the only son Abraham had with his wife Sarah
• Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born

JACOB

• Jacob had twelve sons
• Before the birth of Benjamin, Jacob is renamed "Israel" by God

JOSEPH

• He was the grandson of Isaac
• 13 years as a slave

MOSES

• Famine forces the Hebrew to move to Egypt
• New kingdom
• Exodus from Egypt

AARON

• was the older brother of Moses
• He represented the priestly functions of his tribe
• Aaron and his sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the eastern borderland

JOSHUA

• he became the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses
• Joshua died at the age of 110

DAVID

• Ruth and Naomi move to Bethlehem
• Kind David make Jerusalem his capital
• The Torah is written

ESTHER

• Esther is addressed to the multitudes of Jews who did not return to Judea.

THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL

• Assyrians destroyed the northern kingdom
• The ten lost tribes were exiled

THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY

• Babylonians destroyed the southern kingdom
• They destroyed the first temple kidnapped the Jews and got them back to Babylon as slaves
• The Babylonian captivity 70 years

THE GREEK EMPIRE

• Alexander the Great conquers Palestine
• Translation of the Torah into Greek
• King of Syria conquers Isreal

THE ROMAN EMPIRE

• Rome rules lsrael
• Jesus is born at Israel

DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE

• The Jews revolt against Rome
• Jewish center for study at yavneh

THE DIASPORA

• From then on the Jewish people Are dispersed around the Roman world