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2 Kings 25:19

Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

WHEN
586 BC
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WHEN

586 BC

counted from the text

The destruction of Solomon's Temple.

WHO RULED

  • Nebuchadnezzar II king of Babylon 605-562 BC

MEANWHILE

  • 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

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