Chapter III: Book IV: The Restoration

XXI. DOUBTS IN THE WAY 381
ISAIAH xlix.-lii. 12.

XXII. ON THE EVE OF RETURN 397
ISAIAH liv.-lvi. 8.

XXIII. THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE 408
ISAIAH lvi. 9-lix.

XXIV. SALVATION IN SIGHT 428
ISAIAH lx.-lxiii. 7.

XXV. A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGEMENT 445
ISAIAH lxiii. 7-lxvi.

INDEX OF CHAPTERS 469

INDEX OF SUBJECTS 471

TABLE OF DATES.

B.C.

721. Fall of Samaria. Captivity of Northern Israel.

701. Deliverance of Jerusalem from Sennacherib.

696?-641. Reign of Manasseh. Supposed time of Isaiah's death.

630. Josiah's Reformation begun.

629 or 628. Jeremiah called to be a prophet.

621. The Book of Deuteronomy discovered.

607. Fall of Nineveh and Assyria. Babylon supreme.

THE EXILE.

599-598. Siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadrezzar. First Captivity of
the Jews.

594. Ezekiel begins to prophesy in Chaldea.

587. Destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadrezzar. Second Captivity
of the Jews. Flight of many Jews with Jeremiah to Egypt.

585. Battle of the Eclipse. Triple League: Babylon, Media, Lydia.

561. Nebuchadrezzar dies. Evil-Merodach succeeds.

559. Neriglissar succeeds Evil-Merodach.

554. Nabunahid or Nabonidos usurps the throne of Babylon. Harder
times for the Jews.

549. Fall of Median monarchy before Cyrus.

545. Cyrus attacks Babylonia from the north, and is repulsed.
Invades Lydia, and takes Sardis and King Crœsus.

538. Cyrus captures Babylon.

Permission to the Jews to return and rebuild Jerusalem. Zerubbabel,
Joshua.

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529. Cyrus dies. Cambyses sole king.

522. Cambyses dies.

521. Babylon revolts. Retaken by Darius.

486. Xerxes succeeds Darius.

466. Artaxerxes Longimanus.

458. Second great return of Jews. Ezra.

401. Revolt and defeat of Cyrus. The Anabasis. #/