Jonah

862 BC – 840 BCSemiticDivided Kingdom

Sent to Nineveh, and fled the other way first.

The facts

Dates	862 BC – 840 BC
Lineage band	Semitic
Scripture	Jonah; 2 Kings 14:25
Era	Divided Kingdom
Source	Chart + scripture

Where this sits on the chart

Jonah falls 3142 years out from Creation at the centre, inside the Divided Kingdom arc. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.

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Who else was alive

Athaliah884 BC – 878 BC Jehu884 BC – 856 BC Joash878 BC – 839 BC The ministries of the prophets Elijah and Elisha875 BC – 797 BC Jehoahaz of Israel856 BC – 840 BC Jehoash of Israel840 BC – 825 BC Amaziah839 BC – 810 BC Jeroboam II825 BC – 784 BC

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