Creation year 3336 · Nisan calendar year 890 · Historical date 587 BC overview marker · Judah

Judah’s Babylonian Captivity

This overview marker stands at Jerusalem’s final fall in Creation year 3336, Nisan year 890. Judah’s removal unfolded in stages: people had already been carried away under Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin, and the surviving remnant was taken after Jerusalem fell. Chronicles connects the captivity, the land’s sabbaths, the seventy years, and the coming kingdom of Persia.

King James Version

2 Chronicles 36:20–21; Jeremiah 25:11–12

And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: To 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. And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

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