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  2. 2 Kings 2 - Wikipedia

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    2 Kings 2 is the second chapter of the second part of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the Second Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. [3]

  3. 2 Kings 24 - Wikipedia

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    2 Kings 24 is the twenty-fourth chapter of the second part of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the Second Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. [3]

  4. Jeconiah - Wikipedia

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    In Ezekiel, the years are everywhere else measured according to Jeconiah's captivity, which must be taken in a non-accession sense, so that the beginning of the siege was eight actual years after the beginning of the captivity. The comparison with 2 Kings 25:1 would indicate that Zedekiah's years in 2 Kings were also by non-accession reckoning.

  5. Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC) - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Kings (written in the 7th and 6th centuries BC) records that 10,000 people were exiled during this time, [21] also adding 7,000 craftsmen and 1,000 "smiths", [22] bringing the total to 18,000. [23] Comparatively, the Book of Jeremiah mentions 3,023 people taken into captivity. [24] Some scholars have argued whether this number ...

  6. Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC) - Wikipedia

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    (The same events are described at 2 Kings 24:12 and 2 Kings 25:8 as occurring in Nebuchadnezzar's eighth and nineteenth years, including his accession year.) Identification of Nebuchadnezzar's eighteenth year for the end of the siege places the event in the summer of 587 BC, which is consistent with all three relevant biblical sources ...

  7. 2 Chronicles 24 - Wikipedia

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    The Chronicles divide the reign of Joash into two periods: before and after the death of Jehoiada (verse 2: 'all the days of the priest Jehoiada'; cf. 2 Kings 12:2 : 'all his days, because the priest Jehoiada instructed him'). [4] During his good period, Joash displayed strong leadership in rebuilding the neglected Temple in Jerusalem. [11]

  8. 2 Kings 25 - Wikipedia

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    Both cities were besieged three times, from two different enemies. Samaria was twice besieged by the Arameans (1 Kings 20:1; 2 Kings 6:24) and once by the Assyrians (2 Kings 17:5), whereas Jerusalem was besieged once by the Assyrians (2 Kings 18–19) and twice by the Babylonians (2 Kings 24:10; 25:1). Each city was ultimately destroyed in its ...

  9. Two witnesses - Wikipedia

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    The early Christian writer, Hippolytus of Rome, concluded that the two witnesses would be Enoch and Elijah, the two individuals who did not experience death according to other biblical passages (Genesis 5:24; 2 Kings 2:10-11; Hebrews 11:5). [4] This is the earliest proposed identification for the two witnesses.