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Aramean siege of Samaria
The Aramean siege of Samaria was an attack on Israel's capital by Ben-Hadad of Damascus with 32 allied kings, narrated in 1 Kings 20 under Ahab.
Assassination of Gedaliah
The assassination of Gedaliah, also called the murder of Gedaliah, was the killing of Gedaliah, Judah's Babylonian-appointed governor, by Ishmael son of Nethaniah at Mizpah after 586 BC.
Assyrian conquest of Galilee
The Assyrian conquest of Galilee, also called the Tiglath-Pileser III campaign against Israel, annexed Galilee and Gilead in 734-732 BC, leaving Israel a vassal under Hoshea.
Battle of Beth-Shemesh
The Battle of Beth-Shemesh was a battle around 800–785 BC in which Jehoash of Israel defeated and captured Amaziah of Judah at Beth-shemesh, a Judahite town.
Battle of Mount Gilboa
The Battle of Mount Gilboa, or Battle of Gilboa, was a Philistine victory over Israel on Mount Gilboa, in which King Saul and three of his sons died.
Battle of Mount Zemaraim
The Battle of Mount Zemaraim was a battle reported in 2 Chronicles 13 in which Abijah, king of Judah, defeated Jeroboam I of Israel, capturing Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron.
Battle of Ramoth-gilead
The Battle of Ramoth-gilead, fought around 842/841 BC, was a defeat of Israel and Judah by Aram-Damascus in which King Joram of Israel was wounded.
Battle of the Wood of Ephraim
The Battle of the Wood of Ephraim is the battle reported in 2 Samuel 18 in which David's forces defeated the army of his son Absalom, ending his revolt.
Capture of Jerusalem by David
The capture of Jerusalem by David is the event, told in 2 Samuel 5:6-10, in which David took the Jebusite stronghold of Zion and made it his capital around 1000 BCE.
Completion of the Second Temple
The completion of the Second Temple, or dedication of the Second Temple, was the finishing of the rebuilt Jerusalem temple in 516/515 BC under Darius I.
Construction of the Second Temple
The Construction of the Second Temple, also called the Rebuilding of the Second Temple, was the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem, completed in 516 BC under Zerubbabel.
Deportations under Sargon II
The deportations under Sargon II, also known as the Assyrian deportations of Israelites, were the forced transfers of Israelites after Samaria fell in 720 BCE.
Destruction of the First Temple
The Destruction of the First Temple, also called the Destruction of Solomon's Temple, was the burning of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II's Babylonian army in 587/586 BC.
Discovery of the Book of the Law
The discovery of the Book of the Law was the finding of a scroll in the Temple of Jerusalem in 622 BC, during repairs under King Josiah of Judah.
Division of the Kingdom
The Division of the Kingdom, or Schism of Jeroboam and Rehoboam, was the split of the Israelite monarchy around 931 BC into Israel under Jeroboam and Judah under Rehoboam.
Edict of Cyrus
The Edict of Cyrus, also known as Cyrus's edict, was Cyrus the Great's 539 BC proclamation permitting Judean exiles to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple.
Founding of Samaria
The founding of Samaria, around 880 BCE, was King Omri's purchase of a hill from Shemer for two talents of silver to build Israel's capital.
Hezekiah's revolt
Hezekiah's revolt was King Hezekiah's rebellion of Judah against Assyrian rule, launched after Sargon II's death in 705 BC and crushed by Sennacherib in 701 BC.
Israelite highland settlement
Israelite highland settlement was the Iron Age I founding of hundreds of small villages in the central hill country of Canaan, roughly 1200 to 1000 BC.
Israelite–Aramean War
The Israelite–Aramean War is the conventional label for a series of 9th-century BC conflicts between Israel and Aram-Damascus, shaped by Assyrian pressure on both kingdoms.
Jehu's coup
Jehu's coup, also called the Revolt of Jehu, was the 841 BC military revolt in Israel in which Jehu seized the throne and ended the Omride dynasty.
Jeroboam's Revolt
Jeroboam's Revolt was the secession of the northern Israelite tribes from Rehoboam at his accession around 931 BC, ending the united monarchy and creating the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Judah's revolts against Babylon
Judah's revolts against Babylon were the Kingdom of Judah's rebellions against the Neo-Babylonian Empire between 601 and 586 BC, ending with the fall of Jerusalem, the destruction of Solomon's Temple, and exile to Babylon.
Manasseh's vassalage to Assyria
Manasseh's vassalage to Assyria was the subordination of Judah under King Manasseh to Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal in the seventh century BC, with Judah remaining a vassal kingdom, not an Assyrian province.
Mission of Ezra
The Mission of Ezra, or Ezra's reform, was the journey of the priest and scribe Ezra from Babylon to Persian-ruled Jerusalem, traditionally dated to 458 BC under Artaxerxes I.
Nehemiah's rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem
Nehemiah's rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, also known as Nehemiah's wall, was a 52-day restoration of the city's fortifications described in the Book of Nehemiah, traditionally dated to 445 BC.
Omride wars with Aram
The Omride wars with Aram were ninth-century BC conflicts between Israel under Ahab and Aram-Damascus under Ben-Hadad, ending with Hazael's victory at Ramoth-gilead around 842 BC.
Reforms of Hezekiah
The reforms of Hezekiah, also called Hezekiah's religious reform, were a late eighth century BCE program removing high places, Asherah poles, and the Nehushtan, centralizing sacrifice in the Jerusalem Temple.
Reforms of Jeroboam I
The reforms of Jeroboam I, also called Jeroboam's cultic reform, were religious measures by the first king of northern Israel, establishing golden calves at Dan and Bethel.
Reforms of Josiah
The Reforms of Josiah, also called the Josianic reform, were King Josiah's religious reforms of Judah in 622 BC, purging foreign cult objects and centralizing all sacrifice at the Jerusalem Temple.