Daniel 1:3
Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his court officials, to bring in some Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Babylon 1
- 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
- Isaiah 39:7 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
- 2 Kings 20:17-18 The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the…
- 2 Kings 24:15 Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem…
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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