Creation year 3318 · Nisan calendar year 872 · Historical date 605 BC · Nebuchadnezzar
Jeremiah ties the battle of Carchemish to Jehoiakim’s fourth year. The linked Babylonian record supplies historical context alongside this event.
King James Version
“The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles; Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim.”
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