Ezra II Kings 25 6 7 586 BC

Ezra

II Kings 25: 6 -7 586 BC Then they captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and he passed sentence on him. 7 They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, then put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon. Ezra 1: 1 536 BC 50 Years after the destruction of Jerusalem

Isaiah 44: 28 702 – 687 BC 150 – 165 years before Ezra chapter one “It is I who says of Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd! And he will perform all My desire. ’ And he declares of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built, ’ And of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid. ’” Isaiah 45: 13 “I have aroused him in righteousness And I will make all his ways smooth; He will build My city and will let My exiles go free, Without any payment or reward, ” says the LORD of hosts. Jeremiah 25: 11 -12 606 BC At the time of the first deportation. 20 years before the destruction of Jerusalem, 70 years before Ezra chapter 1 ‘This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12‘Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, ’ declares the LORD, ‘for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

Jeremiah 29: 10 -14 594 BC about 8 years before the fall of Jerusalem. Written to those who were already in exile. 58 years before Ezra chapter 1 “For thus says the LORD, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place. 11‘For I know the plans that I have for you, ’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. 12‘Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13‘You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 14‘I will be found by you, ’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, ’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile. ’

Jeremiah 29: 16 -19 594 BC about 8 years before the fall of Jerusalem for thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile— 17 thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Behold, I am sending upon them the sword, famine and pestilence, and I will make them like split-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness. 18‘I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with pestilence; and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a horror and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them, 19 because they have not listened to My words, ’ declares the LORD, ‘which I sent to them again and again by My servants the prophets; but you did not listen, ’ declares the LORD. Daniel 5: 30 -31 539 BC Destruction of Babylon That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain. So Darius the Mede received the kingdom at about the age of sixty-two. Ezra 5: 13 Cyrus King of Babylon 1 st year. 536 BC However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.

Jeremiah 27: 19 – 22 In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, more than 50 years before Ezra chapter one “For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the stands and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, 20 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem. 21“Yes, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem, 22‘They will be carried to Babylon and they will be there until the day I visit them, ’ declares the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place. ’”

II Kings 24: 11 – 12 597 BC And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it. Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign. Jeremiah 52: 31 – 34 31 Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison. 32 Then he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 33 So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and had his meals in the king’s presence regularly all the days of his life. 34 For his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king of Babylon, a daily portion all the days of his life until the day of his death.

Matthew 1: 1, 6, 12, 16 1 The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham: 2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of £Judah and his brothers…… 6 Jesse was the father of David the king. David was the father of Solomon by £Bathsheba who had been the wife of Uriah…. . 12 After the deportation to Babylon: Jeconiah became the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel…… 16 Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called the Messiah.