2 Kings 25:18
The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- 586 BC
WHEN
586 BC
counted from the text
The destruction of Solomon's Temple.
WHO RULED
- Nebuchadnezzar II king of Babylon 605-562 BC
MEANWHILE
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586 BC Judea
Destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple
The end of the kingdom of Judah, and the start of the seventy years.
SOURCES
- date — 2 Kings 25:8 dates itself by the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar; the Babylonian Chronicles, which fix the start of his reign in 605 BC, convert the year.
- Nebuchadnezzar II — Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), which date the Battle of Carchemish and the first campaign against Judah; Berossus, cited by Josephus in Against Apion I
- Destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple — Babylonian Chronicles; 2 Kings 25:8-9
SEE ALSO
- 1 Chronicles 6:14 Azariah was the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah was the father of Jehozadak.
- Ezra 7:1 Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
- Jeremiah 21:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,
- Jeremiah 29:25 this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and…
- Jeremiah 29:29 (Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)
- Jeremiah 52:24 The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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