Timeline of return of the Exiles and the rebuilding of Jerusalem
Category: History
Updated: 1 days ago
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Created byJamin Lloyd
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Cyrus' edict — Jews may return (Ezra 1:1)Zerubbabel and Jeshua lead the first wave of exiles back to Jerusalem (Ezra 2)Built the alter (Ezra 3:1)Commenced rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 3:8)Haggai commands the people to recommence the building of the temple (Haggai 1:1)
Haggai's first message (Haggai 1:1-11)Haggai commands the people to recommence the building of the temple (Ezra 4:24-5:1)People recommence the building of the temple (Ezra 5:2)People recommence the building of the temple (Haggai 1:15)The old people are sad at the size of the new temple
Haggai’s Second Message (Haggai 2:1-9)Zechariah speaks to the people. A call to return to the LORD
(Zechariah 1:1)Haggai speaks to the people
Haggai's third message (Haggai 2:10-19)Haggai speaks to Zerubbabel
Fourth message
(Haggai 2:20-23)Zechariah’s night visions
(Zechariah 1:7 onwards)Delegation from Bethel
(Zechariah 1:1)The Temple is finished (Ezra 6:15)Passover celebrated (Ezra 6:19)Ahasuerus Feast (Esther 1:3)Esther taken to the king and made Queen (Esther 2:16)Haman casts lots to choose a day to destroy the jews
(Esther 3:7)Haman’s letter is dispatched
(Esther 3:12)Mordecai counter decree (Esther 8:9)The jews defend themselves; Purim is celebrated (Esther 9:1)Ezra gathers another wave of exiles to return (Ezra 7:7 + 8:31)Ezra arrives in Jerusalem (Ezra 7:8)Nehemiah sent to Jerusalem
Works starts on the walls
(Nehemiah 2:1)The wall is finished (Nehemiah 6:15)Ezra reads the law (Nehemiah 8:2)The people confess their sins (Nehemiah 9:15)Nehemiah's returnPeriods
An example of a time spanCyrus IICambyses IIDarius I (the Great)Xerxes I (Ahasuerus)Artaxerxes IPolitical pressure, temple work halted (Ezra 4:1-5)Tattenai’s Inquiry (Ezra 5:3–6:12)Somewhere in this period a letter sent to Artaxerxes
(Ezra 4:6-23)Ezra discovers
sins of the people
(Ezra 9:1-10:44)Nehemiah - Governor of JudahNehemiah is absent from JerusalemMalachi's messageBuilding of the templeBuilding of the walls
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