Year
A.M. |
Year A.D. |
Event |
| 3398 |
605 |
Daniel led captive to Babylon, 1:1-7. |
| 3399 |
604 |
Death of Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar. |
| 3401 |
602 |
Jehoiakim revolts against Nebuchadnezzar, 2 Kings 24:1. |
| 3402 |
601 |
Dream of the compound statue, Daniel 2:1, etc. |
| Daniel and his companions promoted to honor at court. |
| Birth of Cyrus, son of Cambyses and Mandane. |
| 3405 |
598 |
Jehoiakim is taken and put to death by the Chaldeans. Jeconiah is raised
to his throne, but reigns only three months and ten days. Zedekiah, last
king of Judah, succeeds; and reigns eleven years. |
| 3416 |
587 |
Taking of Jerusalem, and destruction of the temple, 2 Chronicles 36. |
| 3434 |
569 |
Return of Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon after his great conquests in Phoenicia,
Judea, Egypt, etc. |
| Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the great tree, 4:7, etc. |
| 3435 |
568 |
Nebuchadnezzar becomes insane, which lasts for seven years, 4:32, 33. |
| 3442 |
561 |
Nebuchadnezzar becomes sane, and re-ascends the throne. |
| The golden image set up. The three Hebrews cast into the fiery furnace,
2: |
| Death of Nebuchadnezzar after a reign of forty-three years, according
to Berosus. |
| Evil-Merodach succeeds him, and reigns two years.—Berosus. |
| Evil-Merodach sets Jeconiah at liberty, Jeremiah 52:31. |
| 3444 |
559 |
Belshazzar Merodach's son succeeds, Daniel 7:1. |
| Daniel’s vision of the four beasts, representing the four great empires,
chap. 7. |
| 3447 |
556 |
Vision of the ram and he-goat, 8: |
| The death of Belshazzar, chap. 5. |
| 3449 |
554 |
Darius the Mede, called Cyaxares by Xenophon, and Astyages in the Apocrypha,
son of Astyages, king of the Medes, and maternal great uncle to Belshazzar,
succeeds him in the government of Chaldea, 5:30, 31. See Isaiah 13:1, etc. |
| The visions of Daniel related, chap. 9, 10, 11, 12: |
| Cyrus attacks the Medes in the first or second year of Darius the Mede,
chap. 10:1. |
| 3455 |
548 |
Daniel is cast into the den of lions, chap. 6. |
| 3456 |
547 |
Death of Darius. Cyrus succeeds him. |
| 3457 |
546 |
End of the Babylonish captivity declared by Cyrus, in the first year
of his reign, 2 Chronicles 36:22, and Ezra 1:1; but afterward interrupted.
See below. |
| 3485 |
518 |
Termination of Jeremiah’s seventy years under Darius Hystaspes, who gives
orders to continue the rebuilding of the temple. |
