{"id":13877,"date":"2011-07-26T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/production.ou.org\/life\/other\/a_chronology_of_destruction\/"},"modified":"2015-11-03T06:22:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T11:22:42","slug":"a_chronology_of_destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/torah\/a_chronology_of_destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chronology of Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of the major events leading up to the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">First Temple<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3316<\/span>: Yehoyakim ben Yoshiyahu becomes King of Judea (II Kings 23:36)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3320<\/span>: Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon conquers Judea. He removes part of the Temple&#8217;s holy vessels and children of the royal family take them to Babylon (Daniel 1)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3327<\/span>: Yehoyachim (Yechonia) ben Yehoyakim becomes king and reigns for only three months. Nebuchadnezzar exiles him to Babylon together with 10,000 people and the Torah Sages (II Kings 24:16)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3327<\/span>: Zedekiah ben Yehoyakim becomes the last King of Judea (24:18)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3338<\/span>: The First Temple is destroyed. It had stood for 410 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Second Temple<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3768<\/span>:\u00a0Rome (the dominant power in Judea since 3648) begins to appoint the Kings of Judea. The first Roman appointee is Agrippas ben Aristobulus.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3788<\/span>: The Sanhedrin is exiled (Avodah Zarah 9b). Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai, a student of Hillel the Elder (who died in 3768), becomes Head of the Academy (Zemach David 910).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3804<\/span>: Agrippas II becomes the last Roman-appointed King and Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel becomes Nassi (Prince).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3828<\/span>: The Second Temple is destroyed. It had stood for 420 years.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>The information was compiled from Rabbi Shlomo Rottenberg&#8217;s Toldot Am Olam by Long Island NCSY. To view more relevant articles, audio and video content for the three weeks, please visit: <a title=\"OU's Pearl &amp; Harold Jacobs Jewish Holiday Resource Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/\">OU&#8217;s Pearl &amp; Harold Jacobs Jewish Holiday Resource Center<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a list of the major events leading up to the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. First Temple 3316: Yehoyakim ben Yoshiyahu becomes King of Judea (II Kings 23:36) 3320: Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon conquers Judea. 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