2 Kings 23:21

The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

WHEN

c. 622-609 BC

dated by the text itself

WHO RULED

MEANWHILE

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)

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