2 Kings 25:21
There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Hamath 1, Babylon 1, Riblah 1
- 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
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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
- Deuteronomy 28:64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor…
- 2 Kings 23:27 For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name…
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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