2 Kings 25:26
Then all the people small and great, together with the commanders of the army, arose and fled to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Egypt, Chaldea
- 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
- Jeremiah 43:4-7 So Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces disobeyed the command of the LORD to stay in the land of Judah. …
- Jeremiah 41:16-18 Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him took the whole remnant of the people from Mizpah whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after…
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