SCRIPTORIA BIBLE

2 Kings 23:9

Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

WHERE
Jerusalem
WHEN
c. 622-609 BC
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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

  • 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

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

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