Timeline

1921 BC

Abraham leaves Ur and comes to Haran

1857 BC

Abraham's servant goes to get a wife for Isaac

1760 BC

Jacob visits Laban

1452 BC

Balaam is called to curse Israel

1040 BC

David subdues Zobah and Damascus

975

Zobah and Damascus recover their independence

838-836 BC

Joash or Jehoash obtain three important victories over Benhadad

740 BC

Tiglath-pileser defeats Rezin, its last independent ruler, and reduces it to a dependency of Assyria

604 BC

Syria is attacked by Pharaoh Necho and is captured by Nebuchadnezzar

333 BC

Syria comes under Alexander the Great

323 BC

Seleucus Nicator founds his dynasty

301 BC

Seleucus Nicator founds Antioch as its capital

114 BC

Antiochus Cyzicenus sets himself up at Damascus

65 BC

Syria becomes subject to Rome

47 BC

Julius Caesar confirms the rights of many cities

Kings of Syria

Rezin

d. 742 BC (Isaiah 7)

Source

Robert Young, Analytical Concordance to the Bible, Seventh edition (Edinburgh: George Adam Young, n.d.)