2 Kings 22:20
‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- c. 622-609 BC
WHEN
c. 622-609 BC
dated by the text itself
WHO RULED
- Neco II pharaoh of Egypt 610-595 BC
- Josiah king of Judah 640-609 BC
MEANWHILE
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612 BC Assyria
Fall of Nineveh
The empire that took the northern kingdom captive vanishes within a generation, as Nahum 3 announces.
SOURCES
- date — 2 Kings 22:3 dates the finding of the Book of the Law by the eighteenth year of Josiah.
- Neco II — Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), Battle of Carchemish; Herodotus II
- Josiah — 2 Kings 22-23; 2 Chronicles 34-35; his death at Megiddo falls in the Egyptian campaign of 609 BC, which the Babylonian Chronicles record
- Fall of Nineveh — Chronicle of Nabopolassar (ABC 3)
SEE ALSO
- Psalms 37:37 Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
- Isaiah 57:1-2 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil. …
- 1 Chronicles 17:11 And when your days are fulfilled and you go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
- Genesis 25:8 And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
- Jeremiah 22:15-16 Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him. …
- 2 Kings 23:29-30 At the end of Josiah’s reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went out to confront him, but Neco faced him…
- Jeremiah 22:10 Do not weep for the dead king; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for the one who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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