Timeline of the Bible · The Captivity & the Return

Jehoiachin Released from Prison

Event · 563 BC

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What the Bible Says

  • “in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin” 2 Kings 25:27

Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.

The Years

The Year 563 BC
“on which he gave order for the enlarging of Jeconia”

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.

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