Babylonian Captivity
EpochCaptivity3,376–3,446 AH70 years
Dating
- Start — Jeremiah 29:10. The year the seventy-year exile (Babylonian captivity) began is the year the Temple was destroyed = 3376
- End — Jeremiah 29:10. The year the Babylonian captivity ended was the year the captivity began (3376) + its duration (70) = 3446
Notes
START:[Shulman date p83] [Ussher date p104] END:[Shulman date p83 and p143] [Ussher date p128]
Years are anno hominis — counted from Creation as year 1 — which is the frame the source computes in. The arithmetic behind each boundary is given above rather than assumed.