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Time of the Kings to the New Testament
1050–30 BC
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B 972 BC. Joab sends a Cushite,
who was likely from the region
known today as Sudan (2 Samuel
18:21), to tell King David that his
son Absalom died during battle.
C Between 971 and 931 BC. King
Solomon builds merchant ships
and creates trade routes, amassing
wealth that “made gold and silver
as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone”
(2 Chronicles 1:15). Among other
places, he establishes trading
alliances in Africa with Ophir
whose exact location is debated.
Possible locations include ancient
Zimbabwe, Mozambique, or along
the African shore of the Red Sea.
D Between 970 and 931 BC.
The Queen of Sheba visits King
Solomon to test his famous
wisdom. Ancient writers such as
Josephus, Origen, and Jerome
believe Sheba was located in
eastern Africa in the region known
today as Ethiopia.
KINGDOM OF
MOAB
Israel, Before and After (A, F). The left map depicts the kingdom
of Israel at its height. The map on the right shows Israel split into two
kingdoms.
A 1050 BC. Israel becomes a
kingdom.
Hebron
Beersheba
E Between 970 and 960 BC.
Solomon marries the daughter of
an Egyptian pharaoh. He builds a
new palace for her. Pharaoh gives
the city of Gezer to his daughter as
a dowry (1 Kings 9:16, 24).
1100 BC
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1000 BC
B C D E
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900 BC
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800 BC
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700 BC
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F 931 BC. Israel splits into two
kingdoms.
G 945–924 BC. A Libyan
nobleman, Shoshenq I (called
Shishak in the Bible), overthrows
the ruling pharaoh and founds the
Twenty-second Dynasty in Egypt.
Shoshenq I becomes the first
foreign ruler to pillage Jerusalem
during King Rehoboam’s fifth year
(925 BC).
H 912–609 BC. Assyrian Empire.
I About 910 BC. Asa’s armies defeat Zerah, a Cushite general who
was likely from the region known
today as Sudan (2 Chronicles
14:9-13). Zerah may have been sent
by Osorkon I, the Libyan pharaoh
who ruled Egypt from 922–887 BC
and who was the son of Shoshenq I.