2 Kings 25:5
but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Chaldea, Jericho 1, 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
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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
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