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2 Kings 25:7

And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

WHERE
Babylon 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

  • 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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