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Evangelical Christians claim Jerusalem was destroyed in either 587 or 586 BCE. What is the evidence?
I recommend a reading of "The Gentile Times Reconsidered" by Carl Olof Jonsson. The depth of research represented in this work is far more than can be summarized here. Suffice it to say that this man has thoroughly extinguished any possibility of a 607 B.C. date for Jerusalem's fall. He is a former Jehovah's Witness in Sweden who, after a ...
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Evangelical Christians claim Jerusalem was destroyed in either 587 or 586 BCE. What is the evidence?
The confusion here comes from the assertion that the 70 year period was about captivity in Babylon. No where in the Scriptures does the time period refers to captivity, per se. See "these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years" (Jer 25:12), "the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years" (Daniel 9:2).
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