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Jerusalem is taken and the temple burned Dated from the sources quoted below
True span 4004 BC – AD 100
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How we know the date ISBE counts the fall of Jerusalem among the fixed dates of Old Testament chronology, set by the Babylonian records; it is the hinge of the whole Old Testament scheme. ISBE's Old Testament chronology (1915) gives 586 BC.
Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation
The sources, word for word “Such accepted dates are: the completion of the Second Temple in 516, the fall of Jerusalem in 586, the fall of Samaria in 721, tribute to Shalmaneser II from Jehu in 842, and from a member of Omri's dynasty in 854.”
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT · gives 586 BC Sources