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This Battle of Megiddo is recorded as having taken place in 609 BC, when Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt led his army to Carchemish (northern Syria) to join with his allies, the fading Neo-Assyrian Empire, against the surging Neo-Babylonian Empire. This required passing through territory controlled by the Kingdom of Judah.
The Battle of Megiddo (fought 15th century BC) was fought between Egyptian forces under the command of Pharaoh Thutmose III and a large rebellious coalition of Canaanite vassal states led by the king of Kadesh. [4] It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. [5]
Battle of Megiddo may refer to: Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC), between the Egyptians and the Canaanites; Battle of Megiddo (609 BC), between the Egyptians and the Judahites; Battle of Megiddo (1918), between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire; Armageddon (הַר מְגִדּוֹ Hār Məgīddō), a prophesied catastrophic end-of ...
The year 609 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire , it was known as year 145 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 609 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
With the fall of Harran, the Assyrian empire ceased to exist as a state. [7] [8] [9] Remnants of the former Assyrian empire's army met up with the Egyptian forces that had defeated the Kingdom of Judah at Megiddo but their combined forces were defeated again the same year at the Siege of Harran and in 605 BC at the Carchemish, ending the Egyptian intervention in the Near East.
609 BCE 609 BCE Battle of Megiddo (609 BC) Twenty-sixth Egyptian dynasty: Kingdom of Judah: 601 BCE 586 BCE Judah's revolts against Babylon: Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Battle of Megiddo (609 BC) P. Battle of Pelusium (373 BC) Battle of Pelusium; Battle of Perire; Q. Battle of Quramati; S. Siege of Naqada; T. Sack of Thebes; Z ...
627 BC: The death of Ashurbanipal and the successful revolt of Nabopolassar replaces the Neo-Assyrian Empire with the Neo-Babylonian Empire 609 BC : The region becomes part of the Empire of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt after the Battle of Megiddo (609 BC) , only to switch back after the Battle of Carchemish in 605 BC