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2 Kings 25:4

Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

WHERE
Chaldea, Arabah
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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