@Alwayshere:
djeggnog said "Nabopolassar begin to rule as King of Babylon in 646, died in 625, which year became his son's (Neb.) accession year, so the following year(624) would be his 1st year.
Correct.
History says 6o6 was Neb. accession so that would make 605 his 1st year. The Bible at 2Kings 25:8 "the 19th year of King Neb. was when Jerusalem was desolated."
This is not correct.
624-18=606. 605-18=587.
Perhaps you aren't aware of this, but it is Nebuchadnezzar's "nineteenth" year if counting from his accession year as Jeremiah does at Jeremiah 52:12 (2 Kings 25:8), but it would be his "eighteenth" regnal year, which is the reckoning that Jeremiah uses at Jeremiah 52:29. Consequently, you believe Jerusalem was destroyed in 587 BC and I believe it was destroyed in 607 BC.
@Alwayshere:
606-18=587 BC
@djeggnog:
625-18=607 BC
According to 2 Kings 24:10-12, it was "in the eighth year" of Nebuchadnezzar's kingship that Babylon lay siege to Jerusalem, which ended Jehoiachin's vassalage after "three months and ten days" and begins his first year of exile at Babylon. After Jehoiachin's having been taken into exile -- and keep in mind that 2 Kings 25:27 indicates that Evil-Merodach succeeds his father, Nebuchadnezzar, as king of Babylon during the 37th year of Jehoiachin's exile at Babylon, thus ending Nebuchadnezzar's 43-year reign -- it is then that Nebuchadnezzar decided to make Jehoiachin's uncle Mattaniah his vassal king, changing his name to Zedekiah. During the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, Zedekiah rebelled against Babylon and attempted to ally Judah with Egypt against Babylon, and Nebuchadnezzar was about to besiege Judah at that time, but withdrew over the report regarding Egypt. (Jeremiah 37:5, 6).
Two years later, however, during Zedekiah's 11th year, "the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon," Nebuchadnezzar's accession year, or his eighteenth regnal year, Jerusalem came under siege by Babylon so that Jerusalem's wall was successfully breached and its temple destroyed through Nebuchadnezzar's chief of the bodyguard, Nebuzaradan. Zedekiah's sons were all slaughtered as Zedekiah watched, after which he himself was blinded, bound and led prisoner to Babylon where he died. (2 Kings 25:1-11)
Let's see how your 587 BC date squares algebraically.
FACT 1:
2 Kings 25:8 indicates that it was after Gedaliah's assassination that Nebuchadnezzar's chief of the bodyguard Nebuzaradan destroys Jerusalem and his temple during Nebuchadnezzar's nineteenth year, two months after Zedekiah's first year in exile began, giving Babylon totalitarian control over the Promised Land that God had given to the nation of Israel back in 1473 BC.
FACT 2:
Nabonidus Chronicle indicates that the drop dead date of Babylon's fall occurred on Tishri 16, 539 BC, for it was "in the first year of Cyrus the king of Persia" -- Cyrus' first regnal year ran from Nisan 538 BC to Nisan 537 BC -- that Cyrus caused a decree to go out to the Jews to "rebuild the house of Jehovah the God of Israel." (Ezra 1:3)
First, let's assign 587 BC to x:
x = 587 BC
Second, 2 Kings 24:12 indicates that Jehoiachin's first year in exile occurred during Nebuchadnezzar's eighth year.
y = x - (19 - 8) [y = 598 BC]
Third, 2 Kings 25:27 indicates that Evil-Merodach is the king of Babylon during the 37th year of Jehoiachin's exile, after Nebuchadnezzar's 43-year reign.
z = y + (37-1) [z = 562 BC]
Ptolemy’s Canon assigns a total of 87 years to the Babylonian dynasty beginning with Nabopolassar and ending with Nabonidus at the fall of Babylon in 539 BC. Accordingly, this canon lists five kings that ruled during the Babylonian Dynasty as follows:
Nabopolassar, 627 BC for 21 years
Nebuchadnezzar, 606/605 BC for 43 years
Evil-Merodach, from 562 BC for two years
Neriglissar, from 560 BC for four years
Nabonidus, from 556 BC for 17 years
End of Babylonian Dynasty, 539 BC
First, let's now assign 607 BC to x:
x = 607 BC
Second, 2 Kings 24:12 indicates that Jehoiachin's first year in exile occurred during Nebuchadnezzar's eighth year.
y = x - (19 - 8) [y = 618 BC]
Third, 2 Kings 25:27 indicates that Evil-Merodach is the king of Babylon during the 37th year of Jehoiachin's exile, after Nebuchadnezzar's 43-year reign.
z = y + (37-1) [z = 582 BC]
Actually, the seven kings that ruled during the Babylonian Dynasty are as follows:
Nabopolassar, 646 BC for 21 years
Nebuchadnezzar, 625/624 BC for 43 years
Evil-Merodach, from 581 BC for two years
Neriglissar, from 579 BC for four years
Labashi-Marduk, from 575 BC for three months
Nabonidus and Belshazzar, coregents, from 575/574 BC for 35 years
[Belshazzar (557/556 BC) for 17 years]
End of Babylonian Dynasty, 539 BC
Cyrus decreed the release of the exiled Jews and they were able to return to the land of Judah by 537 BC, bringing to an end the period of during which the land of Judah lay desolate for 70 years. But you have Evil-Merodach succeeding to Nebuchadnezzar's throne in 562 BC, when his father died some 19 years earlier in 581 BC, which suggests that his father's death had somehow been concealed from him. Really?? 2 Kings 25:27 indicates that Evil-Merodach succeeds his father, Nebuchadnezzar, as king of Babylon during the 37th year of Jehoiachin's exile at Babylon. What happened to those 19 years? Did they get lost somehow? Jehoiachin's first year of exile was 617 BC and so his 37th year as an exile would have been 581 BC, the year when Nebuchadnezzar died.
If theocratic sovereignty of the Promised Land were to have ended in 587 BC, then where are Cyrus the king of Persia and Darius the Mede in all of this? Where have they gone? They haven't disappeared, have they? Should we regard these men as if they never existed, and, if so, to whom (other than to Jehovah God, who makes sure that his prophesies always come true) ought we to credit for freeing the Jews from Babylonian captivity? Who? What?
Secular history has established Tishri 16, 539 BC as a drop dead date for when Babylon was deposed by Cyrus the King of Persia, which your chronology erases from history altogether.
@djeggnog