Timeline of the Bible · The Divided Kingdom
Babylon
Empire · 607–538 BC
The Years
- Began 607 BC
- “When Nebuchadnesar was associated with his father in the kingdom”
- Ended 538 BC
- “In the same night, that this banquet was made, was Belshasar the king of the Chaldeans slain”
From Nebuchadnezzar, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 25:1), to the night Belshazzar was slain (Daniel 5:30). Babylon is named before, when Merodachbaladan sent to Hezekiah (2 Kings 20:12).
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
