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22 Phraortes besieging Nineveh, is there slain. 371 Cyaxares, his son, succeeds him.

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7 Jeremiah first called to the prophetic of fice.

10 Nabopolassar rebels against the king of As11 syria, and makes himself king of Babylon. 48 12 Josiah's third reformation of religion in Judea.

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The Captivity

Darius the Median born.

Cyrus born. Jehoiakim slain.

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4 Ezekiel called to the prophetic 5 office. Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt.

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Jehoiachin released and advanced.
Evilmerodach slain by a conspiracy
against him, and Astyages dies in
Media.

Neriglissar succeeds in Babylon, and
Cyaxares (the Darius Medus of
the Scriptures, in Media. Cyrus
comes to the aid of the Medes
against the Babylonians.
Great preparations made by the
Medes and Babylonians for war
against each other.

Cyrus, being general of the Medes
and Persians under Cyaxares, slays
Neriglissar in battle. Laborosoar-
chod succeeds, and is slain.
Nabonadius (the Belshazzar of the
Scripture succeeds Laborosoarchod,
Daniel saw the vision of the ram and
the he-goat, chap. viii.

Belshazzar goes into Lesser Asia, and there hires a great army against Cyrus, of which Cræsus takes the command.

Cyrus sends a spy into Crasus' army, by whom he hath intelligence of all there done.

Cyrus vanquisheth Crasus at the river Halys, pursues him to Sardis, and takes the city, and Cræsus in it. Cyrus brings all the Lesser Asia under his dominion.

Cyrus, having settled all affairs in the Lesser Asia, subdues Syria, Palestine, and Arabia.

18 65 Cyrus marcheth into Upper Asia, and reduceth all there under his obedience.

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66 Cyrus returns into Syria, and lays siege to
67 Babylon.

68 Takes Babylon, and slays Belshazzar.
69 Cyrus placeth his uncle Darius on the throne
at Babylon, and makes an expedition into
Syria.

70 Darius dies at Babylon, and Cyrus succeeds
in the whole empire.

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8 Cambyses, his son, succeeds in the empire.

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11 He invadeth Egypt.

12 Vanquisheth Psamminitus, who newly succeeded Amasis, his father, in the kingdom, and conquereth the whole kingdom.

13 Makes an expedition against the Ethiopians, and returns with loss.

14 14 Slays the Egyptian god Apis, and commits many outrages among them.

18 18 The Samaritans again disturb them, till a decree was obtained for the going on with

the work.

19 19 Which decree is brought to Jerusalem, and

there executed.

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The Babylonians revolting from Darius, are besieged by him.

Babylon taken by Darius, after a siege of twenty

months.

22 The temple rebuilt and dedicated.

23 The Jews obtain sentence from Darius against
the Samaritans about the tribute of Samaria.
24 Darius passeth the Bosphorus and the Danube,
to make war against the Scythians, and returns
with the loss of half his army.

25 Subdues Thrace, and returns to Susa.

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27 The Scythians ravage Thrace, and drive Miltiades out of the Chersonesus

28 Darius sends Scylax with a fleet down the Indus, to discover India.

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30 Scylax returns by the way of the ocean and the Red Sea, and gives Darius an account of his discoveries.

31 Darius invades and conquers India.

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34 The Persians, under the command of Aristagoras of Miletus, make an attempt upon Naxus, and miscarry in it. Tyre restored.

35 Aristagoras and the Ionians revolt from Darius. 56 The Athenians enter into a confederacy with the Ionians against Darius.

37 37 They burn Sardis, which gave the first rise to the Persian war against the Greeks.

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38 The Persians prevail against the Ionians. Aristagoras flees into Thrace. Hestiæus Milesius

returns into Ionia, and joins the revolters.

39 Aristagoras slain in Thrace.

40 Miletus taken, the Ionians reduced, and an end
put to that war.

41 Hestiæus taken by the Persians, and crucified.
42 The Persians reduce the Hellespont and Thracian
Chersonesus, and force Miltiades to flee to
Athens.

43 Mardonius being sent by Darius to make war
against the Greeks, miscarries in the expedi-
tion, and returns with great loss.

44 Darius sends heralds to demand earth and water of the Greeks.

45 Two other generals sent against the Greeks in the place of Mardonius. Zoroastres appears at the Persian court.

46 The Persians invade Attica, and are defeated at Marathon.

47 Darius makes great preparations to invade Greece in person.

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