Chronology

Fall of Jerusalem
The Hebrew Bible contains a rather consistent timeline of a 20 year period from the reign of Jehoiakim to the fall of Jerusalem. However, modern scholarship ignores the Bible timeline. Rather, they make the assumption that all of the events that led up to the fall of Jerusalem, more or less, occurred around a one year period. There is a consensus of modern historians who claim that the battle of Nebuchadnezzar and Pharaoh Necho, Nebuchadnezzar's assumption of the throne to Babylon, and the rise and fall of three Judean Kings, including their vassalage mandates, had all occurred around 605 BCE. This is in complete contrast to multiple Hebrew Bible records that give a 20 year time span, as supported in the books of Kings, Chronicles, Isaiah and Jeremiah.