Information summarized from The New Interpreter’s Bible, Volume VII
| 805 | Assyria defeats Damascus opening the way for a growing luxury class with economic and religious excesses | Jonah Amos |
| 745 | Political unrest in Israel | Hosea |
| 735 | Syro-Ephraimite War | Isaiah of Jerusalem |
| 732 | Damascus destroyed by Assyria; Israel becomes a vassal state | Micah |
| 689 | Babylon destroyed by Assyria | |
| 626 | Babylon gains freedom from Assyria; Josiah’s ‘deuteronomic reform’ | Jeremiah |
| 604 | Babylon controls Syria and Palestine | Nahum Habakkuk |
| 598/597 | Babylonians besiege Jerusalem; first deportation | Ezekiel |
| 587 | Jerusalem falls; second deportation | Obadiah |
| 582/581 | King of Judah assassinated; third deportation | |
| 550 | Cyrus of Persia threatens Babylon | |
| 538 | Babylon surrenders to Persia; Edict of Cyrus allows first return of exiles led by Sheshbazzar. Temple rebuilding begins and then halted | Second Isaiah |
| 522 | King Darius of Persia Temple rebuilding resumes | Haggai Zechariah |
| 516/515 | Temple completed and rededicated | |
| 458 | Ezra travels to Jerusalem | Malachi |
| 445 | Nehemiah travels to Jerusalem | Joel |
| 333 | Conquests of Alexander the Great | |
| 175/164 | Rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanies and the Maccabean revolt | Daniel |
