Babylon Nebuchadnezzar’s 1st year 605 b.c. ch. 1 Nebuchadnezzar’s 2nd year 604 ch. 2 Nebuchadnezzar’s reign 605–562 chs. 3–4 Belshazzar’s 1st year 550 ch. 7 Belshazzar’s… Read More »Explicit References to Dates in Daniel
Babylon Nebuchadnezzar 605–562 b.c. Nabonidus 556–539 Co-regent Belshazzar 550–539 Persia Cyrus 539–530 Darius I 522–486
Reference Year/month/day following exile of Jehoiachin Modern equivalent*/yearb.c. Situation 1:2 5th year / 4th month / 5th day July 593*** inaugural vision 8:1 6th year… Read More »Dates in Ezekiel
Jeremiah Lamentations I will make this house like Shiloh (chs. 7, 26) The Lord has scorned … his sanctuary (2:7) Let my eyes run down with… Read More »Parallels between Jeremiah and Lamentations
Jeremiah 52 Parallels in 2 Kings 24–25 Parallels in Jeremiah 39 vv. 1–11 24:18–25:7 vv. 4–11 vv. 1–7 vv. 12–27 25:8–21 vv. 31–34 25:27–30
Date Event 628/627 b.c. Josiah’s cleansing of the temple (12th year of Josiah’s reign) 627 Jeremiah’s call (13th year of Josiah’s reign) 626 Babylon’s rebellion and… Read More »The Date of Jeremiah’s Call
Dates Passage Under Josiah (627–609 b.c.) 1:1–19 3:6–6:30 Under Jehoahaz (609) and Jehoiakim (609–597) 7:1–34 25:1–38 26:1–24 35:1–19 36:1–32 45:1–5 46:1–28 47:1–7 48:1–47 Under Jehoiachin (597)… Read More »Dates of Events in Jeremiah
Isaiah 1–39 Isaiah 40–55 Isaiah 56–66 Date and Setting The eighth century b.c.(700s); the Assyrian threat Prophecies about the sixth century b.c. (500s); the Babylonian exile Prophecies about… Read More »Simplified Overview of Isaiah
Oracles against the Nations in the Prophets Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Nahum Zephaniah Zechariah* Ammon 49:1–6 25:1–7 1:13–15 Arabia 21:13–17 Assyria (Nineveh)… Read More »Oracles against the Nations in the Prophets
Uzziah’s death; Isaiah’s call ch. 6 740 b.c. Days of Ahaz ch. 7 c. 735 Assyrian invasion chs. 36–38 701 Sennacherib’s death 37:38 681 Babylonians will… Read More »Datable Events in the Book of Isaiah
Isaiah prophesied “in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah” (1:1). Kings of Judah Years of Reign Uzziah (Azariah) 767–740 b.c. Jotham… Read More »Kings of Judah in the Time of Isaiah
Timeline King of Judah // Event Prophet to Judah Prophet to Israel King of Israel // Event 780 b.c. Jeroboam II (781–753) 770 760 Uzziah (c.… Read More »Activity of the Writing Prophets during the Reigns of the Kings of Israel and Judah