All you need is Volume 2 of the INSIGHT on the SCRIPTURES, the January 1, 1965 Watchtower magazine page 29 and 2 Kings 25:8 to prove that Jerusalem DID NOT fall in 607 B.C.
I posted the names of the rulers in the order that they appeared in the January 1, 1965 Watchtower magazine.
I took the material presented in the Watchtower magazine and in 2 Kings 25:8 and DID the math.
I did not use any other source to calculate the years that the Babylonian kings ruled.
All anyone with a calculator and enough sense to read and understand that a ruler such as Evil-merodach who reigned for 2 years and was murdered, understands that the murder occurred in his 3rd year of reign.
The same holds true for the other rulers listed in the January 1, 1965 Watchtower magazine...
Neriglissar reigned for four years and died in the 5th year of his reign.
Labashi-Marduk was assassinated during the 1st year of his reign.
Nabonidus was in the 18th year of his reign when Babylon fell in 539 B.C. according to the Watchtower's INSIGHT on the SCRIPTURES book and the January 1, 1965 Watchtower magazine....
*** INSIGHT on the SCRIPTURES ***
Volume 2
Page 457
*** Nabonidus ***
Last supreme monarch of the Babylonian Empire; father of Belshazzar. On the basis of cuneiform texts he is believed to have ruled some 17 years (556-539 B.C.E.). He was given to literature, art, and religion.
In his own inscriptions Nabonidus claims to be of noble descent. A tablet found near ancient Haran gives evidence that Nabonidus’ mother or grandmother was a devotee of the moon-god Sin. (Ancient Near Eastern Texts, edited by J. Pritchard, 1974, pp. 311, 312) As king, Nabonidus showed great devotion to the worship of the moon-god, both at Haran and at Ur, where this god occupied a dominant position.—PICTURE, Vol. 2, p. 324.
Cuneiform tablets of the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar (Nisan 617-Nisan 616 B.C.E.) list a certain Nabu-na’id as the one "who is over the city," and some historians believe this is the same Nabonidus who later became king. However, this would mean that Nabonidus was a very young man when placed in such administrative position and would make him extremely aged at the fall of Babylon, some 77 years later (539 B.C.E.).
Nebuchadnezzar entered Jerusalem in the 19th year of his reign according to 2 Kings 25:8...
(2 Kings 25:8) . . .
And in the fifth month on the seventh [day] of the month, that is to say, the nineteenth year of King Neb·u·chad·nez´zar the king of Babylon, Neb·u´zar·ad´an the chief of the bodyguard, the servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
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The Watchtower Society agrees that Babylon fell in 539 B.C. according to Volume 2 on Page 457 in the INSIGHT on the SCRIPTURES under the heading of Nabonidus [the information is quoted above].
IT DOESN'T TAKE A DEGREE IN ROCKET SCIENCE TO START AT 539 B.C. and ADD the years up to arrive at the date of 585/586 INSTEAD of 607 B.C.
*** w65 1/1 p. 29 The Rejoicing of the Wicked Is Short-lived ***
Evil-merodach reigned two years and was murdered by his brother-in-law Neriglissar, who reigned for four years, which time he spent mainly in building operations. His underage son Labashi-Marduk, a vicious boy, succeeded him, and was assassinated within nine months. Nabonidus, who had served as governor of Babylon and who had been Nebuchadnezzar’s favorite son-in-law, took the throne and had a fairly glorious reign until Babylon fell in 539 B.C.E.
2 Kings 25:8
On the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
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I invite every reader to DO THE MATH and iF they find any ERRORS in the math to bring it to my attention.
