A little lesson in authentic history.
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Thanks for posting. Interesting. Educational.
Very interesting article! It really helps to put together the chronology of all the characters from the different Biblical sources. Thank you for your effort.
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AUTHENTIC history is always welcome!
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For the following reasons. In 606 Bc is when Nebuchadnezzar beseiged Jerusalem.
Dan 1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzarking of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
Jer 25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
The reason for the difference in one year is due to different methods of reckoning. Daniel used the Babylonian and Jeremiah used the Hebrew method. This does not make much difference in this study.
That is when the 70 yr. captivity begins which is 606 BC ( 3155).
Jer 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Thus if we advance 70 years we get to 3225 or 537/536 BC. ..."(Cyrus the Great (Koresh) 536-529 B.C.E.).
2Chron 36:21-23To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
Usurper king Artaxerxes (Smerdis) begins his 7 month reign in 522BC (3239). He stopped the construction.
Ezr 4:21 Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.
Darius Hystapses (Darius I) begins reign (521 BC (3240) - 486 BC (3275).
The author is in error by 167 years. He writes “In 3408, the second year of his reign, Darius granted the Jews permission to continue the work halted 18 years earlier by King Cyrus and to complete the reconstruction of their Temple in Jerusalem.
Blessings in your search for TRUTH.