The Babylonian chronicles are terse year-by-year notes with none of the boasting of royal monuments, which is what makes them precious. For Nebuchadnezzar's seventh year the entry records, almost in passing: he marched to the west, besieged “the city of Judah,” took it on the second day of Adar (16 March 597 BC by our calendar), seized its king, appointed a king of his own choosing, and sent tribute home. That is 2 Kings 24 in Babylonian shorthand — down to the replaced king.
- What it is
- A clay tablet of the neutral Babylonian court chronicle series, covering the years 605–594 BC
- Date of artifact
- 6th century BC
- Discovered
- Babylonia (acquired by the British Museum; published 1956)
- Where it is now
- British Museum, London
- Related to
- Nebuchadnezzar's capture of Jerusalem and the exile of King Jehoiachin
- पवित्र शास्त्र
- 2 Kings 24:8–17
What this find showsThe 597 BC fall of Jerusalem, the deportation of Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah's installation as puppet king — event, sequence, and virtually the exact date.
What it does not proveThe chronicle for the later, final destruction of 586 BC has not survived, so this tablet covers only the first capture.
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