2 Kings study section

2 Kings maps & timelines

2 Kings ranges from Samaria and Damascus to the empires of Assyria and Babylon.

The setting

Both kingdoms fall

Mediterranean Sea(the Great Sea)Red SeaPersian GulfCaspian SeaNileEuphratesTigrisASSYRIABABYLONIAISRAELIsrael to Assyria, 722 BCJudah to Babylon, 586 BCand back, from 538 BCJerusalemSamariaNinevehBabylonSusaRiblah0100200300miles
Two deportations and one return, drawn to scale. Jerusalem to Babylon is about 900 miles by the road up the Euphrates and down again, since nobody crossed the desert directly. The return under Cyrus retraced it, and most of the exiles did not come.

Timeline

My notes