Return from Babylon – Introduction

Ezra and Nehemiah

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• References
  • Ezra 1:1-4
•  History
  • Egypt 1400 BC: Israel is beginning to form as a nation, even in captivity
    • Moses leads the people of Israel out of Egyptian slavery
    • Israel begins to enter the Promised Land; after 40 years of wilderness
  • Kings: height of Israel as a nation empire
    • Saul: 1100 BC
    • David: 1000 BC
    • Solomon: 930 BC
  • Break up: North (10 tribes) and South (2 tribes)
    • 10 Northern tribes, create a “temple” on Mt Gerizim in Samaria
    • 2 Southern tribes, worship in Jerusalem
  • Assyria 800 BC
    • Isaiah prophesies
    • Northern Kingdom conquered in 721 BC
  • Babylon 680 BC
    • Jeremiah prophesies
    • Babylon begins to conquer former Assyrian land
    • Babylon takes the former Northern Kingdom and Southern Kingdoms 586 BC