[Jeremiah 25:11 And all this land must become a
devastated place, an object of astonishment, and these nations will have to
serve the king of Babylon seventy years.”’ 12 “‘And it must
occur that when seventy years have been fulfilled I shall call to account
against the king of Babylon and against that nation,’ is the utterance of
Jehovah,]
When
did Jehovah say he was going to call to account Babylon???
when seventy years have been fulfilled
When did Jehovah call to account Babylon???
[8-1-81 WT- “The idol-worshiping
Babylonians now were in line for God’s judgment to be executed upon them. That
happened in 539 B.C.E. when Babylon was overthrown by the
Medes and the Persians.”]
[DP ch7 p.108- “The Great Timekeeper, Jehovah,
had numbered the days of Babylon’s reign as a world power, and the end was
closer than anyone at Belshazzar’s banquet thought. In fact, time had run
out—not only for Belshazzar but also for his father, Nabonidus.”]
[9-15-98
WT- “The Medes and the Persians easily took the
city, and Belshazzar did not live through the night. With his death, and the
apparent surrender of Nabonidus to Cyrus, the Neo-Babylonian Empire came to
an end.”]
[9-15-65
WT p.566 “JEHOVAH GOD is an accurate timekeeper. He sets the times for
events in the carrying out of his purposes, and sees to it that they take place
exactly on time”]
[11-15-98
WT p.16 “we have confidence
that he never fails to fulfill his purposes at his appointed time.”]
How did they serve Babylon 70 years???
The
beginning of the servitude/subjection/domination that Babylon had over the
nations, started when Babylon became the 3rd world power in 609*. The nations became
in subjection to Babylon at the start of Babylonia’s greatest domination
period, which is the 70-year period from 609 to 539**. The nations began
their servitude to Babylon when Babylon’s yoke came upon them at that time. Any
destruction or captivity by Babylon against any nation is not what started the
servitude for those nations. That destruction and captivity only came about
due to trying to resist putting themselves under the yoke of Babylon, which all
nations came under when Babylon became the 3rd world power. It is
under that yoke that it was considered to be serving Babylon.
[Jeremiah
27:8 “And it must occur that the nation and the kingdom that
will not serve him, even Neb·u·chad·nez´zar the king of Babylon; and
the one that will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of
Babylon, with the sword and with the famine and with the pestilence I shall
turn my attention upon that nation,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘until I
shall have finished them off by his hand.’ 11 “‘“‘And as for the
nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and
actually serve him, I will also let it rest upon its ground,’ is the
utterance of Jehovah, ‘and it will certainly cultivate it and dwell in it.’]
* [Insight Vol 1-The fall of the empire-
The Babylonian
Chronicle B.M. (British Museum) 21901 recounts the fall of Nineveh, the capital of
Assyria, following a siege carried out by the combined forces of Nabopolassar,
the king of Babylon, and of Cyaxares the Mede during the 14th year of
Nabopolassar: “The city [they turned] into ruin-hills and hea[ps (of debris)].”
(Ancient Near Eastern Texts, edited by J. B.
Pritchard, 1974, p. 305; brackets and parentheses theirs.) Thus the
fierce Assyrian Empire came to an ignominious end.—Isa 10:12, 24-26;
23:13; 30:30-33; 31:8, 9; Na 3:1-19; Zep 2:13. According to the same chronicle,
in the 14th year of Nabopolassar, Ashur-uballit II attempted to continue
Assyrian rule from Haran as his capital city. This chronicle states, under the
17th year of Nabopolassar: “In the month Du´uzu, Ashur-uballit, king of
Assyria, (and) a large [army of] E[gy]pt [who had come to his aid] crossed the
river (Euphrates) and [marched on] to conquer Harran.” (Ancient Near
Eastern Texts, p. 305; brackets and parentheses theirs.)
Actually, Ashur-uballit was trying to reconquer it after having been driven
out. This record is in harmony with the account relative to the activity of
Pharaoh Nechoh recorded at 2 Kings 23:29, which activity resulted in the death
of King Josiah of Judah. This text states that “Pharaoh Nechoh the king of
Egypt came up to the king of Assyria by the river Euphrates”—evidently to help
him. “The king of Assyria” to whom Nechoh came may well have been Ashur-uballit
II. Their campaign against Haran did not succeed. The Assyrian Empire had
ended.]
Babylonian
Chronicle B.M. (British Museum) 21901- [Cuneiform tablet with part of the Babylonian Chronicle (616-609 BC) The
text of the Chronicle is broken for the year 612 BC, but the Medes joined the
Babylonian forces and laid siege to Nineveh between June and August. Eventually
the city fell and was plundered, though some Assyrians escaped westwards. A new
Assyrian king, Ashur-uballit II rallied his troops at the city of Harran. The
following year the Babylonians plundered the region of Harran. In 610/9 Ashur-uballit and the Egyptians who had come to his aid withdrew west
of the Euphrates and Napopolassar sacked Harran. The Assyrians and Egyptians
attempted to retake the region, but their siege failed. From this point
on the Assyrians and their king disappear from history.]
https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/c/cuneiform_fall_of_nineveh.aspx
** [All Scripture-The Cyrus Cylinder- Some time after he
began ruling as king of the Persian World Power, Cyrus’ capture of Babylon in 539 B.C.E. was recorded on a clay
cylinder. This outstanding document is also preserved in the British Museum.]
The Cyrus Cylinder, British Museum -
[a clay cylinder is inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform with
an account by Cyrus, king of Persia (559-530 BC) of his conquest of Babylon in
539 BC and capture of
Nabonidus, the last Babylonian king.]
https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/c/cyrus_cylinder.aspx
In the Isaiah Prophecy book excerpt (IP1
p.253), it states: “True to the prophecy,
for the duration of “one king”—the Babylonian Empire” they are referring to
the length of time that Babylon was a world power as being considered as “one king” even though there
were actually 7 kings during that time period. This means that although Babylon
was a nation with a king (Nabopolassar) during the time that Assyria was the 2nd
world power, it wasn’t until Assyria was defeated by Babylon in 609, that
Babylon began it’s reign as the 3rd world power
until 539 when that 3rd world power came to it’s end, a time period Jehovah
himself gave.
[DP ch7 p.108 “The Great Timekeeper, Jehovah,
had numbered the days of Babylon’s reign as a world power, and the end was
closer than anyone at Belshazzar’s banquet thought. In fact, time had run
out—not only for Belshazzar but also for his father, Nabonidus.”]
[Instight p.425
Particularly was this domination manifest during the seventh
and sixth centuries B.C.E. when Nabopolassar, a native of Chaldea, and
his successors, Nebuchadnezzar II, Evil-merodach (Awil-Marduk), Neriglissar,
Labashi-Marduk, Nabonidus, and Belshazzar, ruled the
Third World Power, Babylon. (2Ki 24:1, 2; 2Ch 36:17; Ezr 5:12; Jer 21:4, 9;
25:12; 32:4; 43:3; 50:1; Eze 1:3; Hab 1:6) That dynasty came to its end when
“Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.]
[Instight
Volume 2 p.480 During the 21st year of Nabopolassar’s reign,
Nebuchadnezzar marched with the Babylonian army to Carchemish, there to fight
against the Egyptians.]
[DP p.50 par.2
Nebuchadnezzar, who reigned for 43 years, headed a dynasty
that ruled over the Babylonian Empire.]
[1-1-65 WT p.29
par.3 Evil-merodach reigned two years and was murdered by his brother-in-law
Neriglissar]
[1-1-65 WT p.29
par.3 Neriglissar, who reigned for four years]
[1-1-65 WT p.29
par.3 His (Neriglissar) underage son Labashi-Marduk, a vicious boy,
succeeded him, and was assassinated within nine months.]
[Instight p.457
par.1 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.).]
[5-8-72
Awake “Ptolemy’s
Canon”-
According to this Canon, the five kings that ruled during this period were Nabopolassar
(21 years), Nebuchadnezzar
(43 years), Evil-merodach (2 years), Neriglissar (4 years) and Nabonidus (17 years).]
[KC p.186 par.5 Nabonidus
Harran Stele (NABON H 1, B): This contemporary
stele, or pillar with an inscription, was discovered in 1956. It mentions the
reigns of the Neo-Babylonian kings Nebuchadnezzar, Evil-Merodach,
Neriglissar. The figures given for these three agree with those from
Ptolemy’s Canon.]
The Nabonidus Harran
Stele
actually mentions Nabopolassar’s reign as well.
[NABONIDUS H1, B Col. 1
31 .his son, the 21st year of
Nabopolassar, the 43rd year of Nebuchadrezzar,
32. the 2nd year of Awel-Marduk, the 4th year of
Neriglissar,]
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sitchin/Adda_Guppi_Harran.htm
In regards to those kings: Starting from Nebuchadnezzar 43+2+4+9m+17=66y 9m
[2-1-55 WT p.95
par.14 It is well to understand that all Bible chronology dates for events prior
to 539 B.C. must be figured backward from the Absolute date of 539
B.C.]
539+66.9=605.9
[Instight p.480 - During the 21st year
of Nabopolassar’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar marched with the Babylonian army to
Carchemish, there to fight against the Egyptians. He led his forces to victory.
The news of his father’s death brought Nebuchadnezzar back to Babylon, and on
the first of Elul (August-September), he ascended the throne.]
From the British Museum-
[In
605 Nebuchadnezzar, the
Babylonian crown prince, replaced his father Nabopolassar as commander-in-chief
and led the army up the Euphrates to the city of Charchemish. There he defeated
the Egyptians. Later that year Nabopolassar died and Nebuchadnezzar returned to
Babylon to be crowned.]
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/c/cuneiform_nebuchadnezzar_ii.aspx
[KC
p186 par.3 The Bible reports that the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar
destroyed Jerusalem in his 18th regnal year (19th when
accession year is included)]
605-18=587
[May 2009 Awake
“A Receipt That Corroborates the Bible Record”
A two-inch-wide [5.5 cm] clay tablet was unearthed in the 1870’s near
modern-day Baghdad, Iraq. In 2007, Michael Jursa, a professor at the University
of Vienna, in Austria, came across the tablet while doing research at the British
Museum. Jursa recognized the name Nebo-sarsechim
(Nabu-sharrussu-ukin, in its Babylonian form), a Babylonian official mentioned
in the Bible at Jeremiah 39:3.]
British Museum- [The Babylonian cuneiform inscription on this clay
tablet sheds new light on Chapter 39 of the Biblical Book of Jeremiah. It gives
the name and title of a high-ranking Babylonian officer who, according to
Jeremiah, was present at the historic siege of Jerusalem in 587 BC
with King Nebuchadnezzar II. It therefore confirms the historical existence of
this Biblical figure. The tablet was translated in 2007 by Dr Michael Jursa,
working in the Department of the Middle East study room. The text relates that
the Babylonian officer had sent a quantity of gold, presumably as a gift, to
Esangila, the temple of the chief god of Babylonia, Marduk:]
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/t/tablet_recording_gold_delivery.aspx
British Museum- [Dr Jursa, Associate Professor of the University of
Vienna, has been studying tablets at the British Museum since 1991. He says of
this discovery:
“Reading Babylonian tablets is often
laborious, but also very satisfying: there is so much new information yet to be
discovered. But finding something like this tablet, where we see a person
mentioned in the Bible making an everyday payment to the temple in Babylon and
quoting the exact date is quite extraordinary.”]
http://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/news_and_press/press_releases/2007/biblical_archaeology_find.aspx
[May 2009
Awake- “finding something like this tablet, where we see a person mentioned in
the Bible making an everyday payment to the temple in Babylon and quoting
the exact date, is quite
extraordinary,” said Professor Jursa.
Acclaimed as one of the most significant discoveries in modern Biblical
archaeology, the tablet “supports the view that the historical books of the Old
Testament are based on fact,” says Britain’s Telegraph newspaper.]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1557124/Tiny-tablet-provides-proof-for-Old-Testament.html
