THE VEYMONT INSTITUTION

Chronology with visible evidence.

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Documented historical anchors

597 BC
Primary-Source Attested
Babylonian campaign against Jerusalem
The Babylonian Chronicle records Nebuchadnezzar’s campaign against Jerusalem. The British Museum’s record dates this campaign to 597 BC.
British Museum, Babylonian Chronicle, 1896,0409.51 · 2 Kings 24:10-17
The date is a historical identification from the chronicle and its chronology, not a date printed in this KJV passage.
539 BC
Primary-Source Attested
Cyrus takes Babylon
The Getty’s Cyrus Cylinder exhibition identifies the cylinder’s account with Cyrus’s conquest of Babylon in 539 BC.
J. Paul Getty Museum, The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia · Ezra 1:1-4
The cylinder is an independent royal source about Babylonian policy. Connecting it to the historical setting of Ezra does not make its wording a quotation of Ezra’s decree.

Biblical event register · 450

The source event index links participants and passages. Its proposed dates remain on individual records under “Source chronological model”; unreviewed dates are not placed on this historical timeline.

Creation of all things Creation of Adam and Eve The Fall Lifetime of Adam Cain kills Abel God curses Cain Birth of Seth Lifetime of Seth Birth of Enos Lifetime of Enos Birth of Cainan Lifetime of Cainan Birth of Mahlaleel Lifetime of Mahlaleel Birth of Jared Lifetime of Jared Birth of Enoch Lifetime of Enoch Birth of Methuselah Lifetime of Methuselah Birth of Lamech Lifetime of Lamech Death of Adam Enoch taken up Death of Seth Birth of Noah Lifetime of Noah Death of Enos Death of Cainan Death of Mahlaleel Death of Jared God decides to destroy every living thing Birth of Shem Lifetime of Shem God instructs Noah to build the ark Death of Lamech Death of Methuselah The Great Flood begins The Great Flood Water covers the earth The flood subsides Leaving the Ark God makes a covenant with Noah Noah gets drunk and Canaan is cursed Birth of Arphaxad Lifetime of Arphaxad Birth of Salah Lifetime of Salah

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Documented historical anchors

Babylonian campaign against Jerusalem

Cyrus takes Babylon

Biblical event register · 450