Daniel 1:2
And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Shinar
- WHEN
- 605 BC
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WHEN
605 BC
dated by the text itself
The first of the three deportations, in the same year as the Battle of Carchemish.
WHO RULED
- Nebuchadnezzar II king of Babylon 605-562 BC
- Neco II pharaoh of Egypt 610-595 BC
MEANWHILE
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605 BC Syria
Nebuchadnezzar defeats the Egyptians at Carchemish
The battle that hands the Levant to Babylon, in the same year that Daniel 1:1 begins.
SOURCES
- date — Daniel 1:1 dates itself by the third year of Jehoiakim; the Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 5) puts Nebuchadnezzar's first campaign in the Levant in 605 BC.
- 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
- Neco II — Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), Battle of Carchemish; Herodotus II
- Nebuchadnezzar defeats the Egyptians at Carchemish — Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 5); Jeremiah 46:2 names the same battle
SEE ALSO
- 2 Chronicles 36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
- Jeremiah 27:19-20 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city, …
- Zechariah 5:11 “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”
- Deuteronomy 32:30 How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
- Genesis 10:10 His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Genesis 11:2 And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
- Deuteronomy 28:49-52 The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand, …
- Judges 2:14 Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom…
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