APPROXIMATE CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES B.C. Jehoiakim 608-597 Zedekiah 597-588 Jerusalem taken 588 Death of Nebuchadrezzar 561 Evil-merodach 561 Neriglissar 559 Laborosoarchod 555 Nabunaid 555 Capture of Babylon 538 Decree of Cyrus 536 Cambyses 529 Darius, son of Hystaspes 521 Dedication of the Second Temple 516 Battle of Salamis 480 Ezra 458 Nehemiah 444 Nehemiah's reforms 428 Malachi 420 Alexander the Great invades Persia 334 Battle of Granicus 334 Battle of Issus 333 Battle of Arbela 331 Death of Darius Codomannus 330 Death of Alexander 323 Ptolemy Soter captures Jerusalem 320 Simon the Just high priest 310 Beginning of Septuagint translation 284 Antiochus the Great conquers Palestine (?) 202 B.C. Accession of Antiochus Epiphanes 176 Dan. vii. 8, 20. Joshua (Jason), brother of Onias III., gets the priesthood by bribery, and promotes Hellenism among the Jews 174 Dan. xi. 23-24, ix. 26. First expedition of Antiochus against Egypt.--Murder of Onias III 171 His second expedition (?) 170 His plunder of the Temple and massacre at Jerusalem 170 Dan. viii. 9, 10; xi. 28. Third expedition of Antiochus 169 Dan. xi. 29, 30. Apollonius, the general of Antiochus, advances against Jerusalem with an army of 22,000.--Massacre.--The abomination of desolation in the Dan. vii. 21, 24, 25; Temple.--Antiochus carries off some viii. 11-13, 24, 25; of the holy vessels (1 Macc. i. 25); xi. 30-35, etc. forbids circumcision; burns the books of the Law; puts down the daily sacrifice 169-8 Desecration of the Temple.--Jews compelled to pay public honour to false gods.--Faithfulness of scribes and _Chasidîm_.--Revolt of Maccabees 167 Dan. xi. 34, 35; xii. 3.