PURE WORSHIP OF JEHOVAH RESTORED AT LAST! Chart on p 27
- 628-618: Jehoiakim is a bad king and is made a vassal by Pharaoh Nechoh.
Issue
- You are very specific that Jehoiakim's rule started in 628 B.C.E. You do not use the word 'circa'.
- But you are not so specific about the start of Jeremiah's preaching which started exactly 23 years before the 4th year of Jehoiakim, in the 13th year of Josiah. Please click on link Pictures (above) and click on Picture 1. You are also quite clear in saying Josiah became king in 659.
it-2 p. 118 Josiah
- Toward the close of Josiah’s 31-year reign (659-629 B.C.E.)
Issue
- You are very specific that Josiah's rule started in 659 B.C.E. You do not use the word 'circa'.
- But you are not so specific about the start of Jeremiah's preaching which started in the 13th year of Josiah's reign and ended exactly 23 years later in the 4th year of Jehoiakim, which was the 1st year of Nebuchadnezzar. Please click on link Pictures (above) and click on Picture 1. You say Jehoiakim started to rule in 628 BCE but you have 628 BCE in two different locations on this timeline. The start of Jehoiakim's reign is at the point 624 BCE.
dp chap. 2 p. 19 par. 14 Daniel—A Book on Trial
- Soon thereafter (in 620 B.C.E.), Nebuchadnezzar invaded Judah and made Jehoiakim a vassal king under Babylon. (2 Kings 23:34; 24:1) To a Jew living in Babylon, Jehoiakim’s “third year” would have been the third year of that king’s vassal service to Babylon. Daniel wrote from that perspective. Jeremiah, however, wrote from the perspective of the Jews living right in Jerusalem. So he referred to Jehoiakim’s kingship as starting when Pharaoh Necho made him king.
Issue
- You also manage to say that the 3rd year of Jehoiakim is three years AFTER 620 BCE.
- Three years after 620 BCE would be 618 BCE - that is actually your 11th year of Jehoiakim.
PURE WORSHIP OF JEHOVAH RESTORED AT LAST! Chart on p 27
- 628-618: Jehoiakim is a bad king and is made a vassal by Pharaoh Nechoh.
Issue
- Jehoiakim ruled for 11 years.
- His 11th year (by your own dates) would have been 618 BCE but you say that 618 BCE is the 3rd year of Jehoiakim's rulership and that this 3rd year is what Daniel is speaking about at Daniel 1:1. But that is not true. Daniel is speaking about the 3rd year of Jehoiakim's kingship. (Daniel 1:1) . . .In the third year of the kingship of Je‧hoi′a‧kim the king of Judah, Neb‧u‧chad‧nez′zar the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and proceeded to lay siege to it.