Fall of Jerusalem

588 BCJudah Alone

Babylon burns the Temple and the city.

The facts

Dates	588 BC
Scripture	2 Kings 25
Era	Judah Alone
Source	Chart + scripture

A disputed dateCommonly dated 586 BC; the chart follows Ussher's 588 BC.

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Fall of Jerusalem falls 3416 years out from Creation at the centre, inside the Judah Alone arc. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.

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Who else was alive

Jehoiachin599 BC Zedekiah599 BC – 588 BC Ezekiel595 BC – 574 BC The ministry of the prophet Ezekiel in Babylon593 BC – 571 BC The Babylonian captivity of Judah587 BC Taught 571-544551 BC – 479 BC Return from exile536 BC The reconstruction of the templein Jerusalem(Second Temple)536 BC – 516 BC

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