Neo-Babylonian Empire
Babylonian empire of the Chaldean dynasty, from Nabopolassar (626 BC) to the fall of Babylon (539 BC).
Rulers recorded so far
No chronology model (model-independent)
- Nebuchadnezzar II: 605 BC → 562 BC
- Nabonidus: 556 BC → 539 BC
- Amēl-Marduk (Evil-merodach): 562 BC → 560 BC
Belshazzar's years counted from the entrusting of the kingship
- Belshazzar: 553 BC → 539 BC
This is not a complete king list. Only rulers reached by research so far are shown.
Researched events
- Battle of Carchemish (605 BC)
- Training of Judean youths at the Babylonian court (Dan 1:3–7, 17–20)
- Nebuchadnezzar's campaign against Jerusalem in Jehoiakim's third year (Dan 1:1–2)
- The word to Jeremiah in Jehoiakim's fourth year, Nebuchadnezzar's first (Jer 25:1–14)
- Nebuchadnezzar's dream and Daniel's interpretation (Dan 2:1–45)
- Daniel appointed over the province of Babylon (Dan 2:46–49)
- Nebuchadnezzar's golden image on the plain of Dura (Dan 3:1–7)
- The refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and the fiery furnace (Dan 3:8–27)
- Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the great tree and Daniel's interpretation (Dan 4:4–27)
- Nebuchadnezzar's boast, madness and restoration (Dan 4:28–37)
- Belshazzar slain; Darius the Mede receives the kingdom (Dan 5:30–31)
- Belshazzar's feast and the writing on the wall (Dan 5:1–29)
- Fall of Babylon to Cyrus (October 539 BC)
- Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)
- Daniel reads Jeremiah's seventy years and prays (Dan 9:1–19)
- Composition of the book of Daniel (date and authorship debated)
- Nebuchadnezzar installs Mattaniah as King Zedekiah (2 Kgs 24:17–20)
- Evil-merodach (Amēl-Marduk) releases Jehoiachin (561 BC)
- Gedaliah governs from Mizpah and is assassinated (2 Kgs 25:22–26)
- Jehoiakim submits to Nebuchadnezzar for three years, then rebels (2 Kgs 24:1–4)
- The breach of Jerusalem and Zedekiah's capture at Riblah (9/IV of Zedekiah's 11th year)
- The final siege of Jerusalem begins (10/X of Zedekiah's ninth year)
- Capture of Jerusalem and deportation of Jehoiachin (March 597 BC)
- Nebuzaradan burns the Temple and Jerusalem (5th month of Nebuchadnezzar's 19th year)
- The deportation of Nebuchadnezzar's twenty-third year (Jer 52:30)
- Josiah killed at Megiddo by Necho II (609 BC)
- Zechariah's night visions (24 Shebat, Darius year 2; Zech 1:7–6:8)