Timeline of the Bible · The Divided Kingdom
Jehoiachin Carried to Babylon
Event · 599 BC
What the Bible Says
- “in the eighth year of his reign” 2 Kings 24:12
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- The Year 599 BC
- As Jehoiachin’s reign began
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.
