Jehovahs Witnesses: Was Jerusalem destroyed in 607 or 587 B.C.E?
Greetings, It should come as no surprise that there is disagreement between True Christians and secular authorities regarding the date of Jerusalem’s destruction in 607 B.C.E. Since True Christians believe that the Bible is accurate they accept its chronology rather than the uncertain and contradictory chronology found in human historical records. Pointing out the problems with the secular evidence Professor Edward F. Campbell Jr. says: “The more one studies the intricacies of the chronological problems in the ancient Near East, the less he is inclined to think of any presentation as final. For this reason, the term circa [about] could be used even more liberally than it is.”—The Bible and the Ancient Near East (1965 ed.), p. 281. So, while most historians base their date for the destruction of Jerusalem on uncertain secular evidence, Jehovah’s Witnesses base theirs on a Biblically-foretold seventy-year period of servitude to Babylon for Judah. Basically, the question is a simple one.
