Timeline of the Bible · The Captivity & the Return
The Jews Delivered from Haman
Event · 509 BC
What the Bible Says
- “in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus” Esther 3:7
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- The Year 509 BC
- “Upon the 13 day of the 12 moneth Adar, the Jews in all parts slew”
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
