Bibliography

Sources

Every source cited anywhere in the published research, with how far it was actually examined. A working link or a DOI only proves the source exists. "Claim checked" means the specific passage supporting or challenging a claim was read.

Discovered only: 1
Metadata verified: 12
Source accessed: 1
Claim checked: 242
Human reviewed: 0

Archaeological evidence

Judahite Gath in the Eighth Century B.C.E.: Finds in Area F from the Earthquake to the Assyrians
Chadwick, Jeffrey R., Maeir, Aren M. · Near Eastern Archaeology 81(1): 48–54 · University of Chicago Press for ASOR · 2018-03
Claim checkedExcavation reportdoi:10.5615/neareastarch.81.1.0048
Only the opening paragraph (supplied as abstract via OpenAlex) was read; the article body was not accessed.
Rights: Publisher copyright
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1. 2026-10-12 — Metadata verified: Crossref API bibliographic match
2. 2026-10-12 — Source accessed: Opening paragraph read via OpenAlex API
3. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Opening paragraph states that a cataclysmic earthquake shook the region around 760 BCE, affecting the long-abandoned site of Gath (citing Chadwick and Maeir forthcoming; Maeir 2012)
Cited in: The earthquake in the days of Uzziah
BM 34113 — British Museum collection record (historical-literary text)
British Museum · British Museum
Discovered onlyMuseum catalogwww.britishmuseum.org
Not accessed. A search summary reports the museum catalogues it as a historical-literary text concerning Amel-Marduk (Grayson, BHLT pp. 87–92), and that some (Wiseman; a JETS article by Ferguson, 1994) read parts as referring to Nebuchadnezzar. None of this was verified at source.
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1. 2026-10-12 — Discovered only: Found in a web search; the collection page returned HTTP 403 to automated access.
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's boast, madness and restoration (Dan 4:28–37)
Babylonian Ration List: King Jehoiakhin in Exile, 592/1 BCE — Center for Online Judaic Studies
Center for Online Judaic Studies · cojs.org
Claim checkedMuseum catalogcojs.org
Educational presentation of the tablet (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin); does not name the translation used; Weidner's 1939 edition not read.
Rights: © Center for Online Judaic Studies; paraphrased
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the page
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Monthly ration lists name "Ya'u-kīnu, king of the land of Yahudu" with other dignitaries including his five sons; dated to Nebuchadnezzar's 13th year (592/1 BCE); held in Berlin
Cited in: Training of Judean youths at the Babylonian court (Dan 1:3–7, 17–20)Evil-merodach (Amēl-Marduk) releases Jehoiachin (561 BC)Capture of Jerusalem and deportation of Jehoiachin (March 597 BC)

Scientific findings

Amos's Earthquake: An Extraordinary Middle East Seismic Event of 750 B.C.
Austin, Steven A., Franz, Gordon W., Frost, Eric G. · International Geology Review 42(7): 657–671 · Taylor & Francis · 2000-07
Claim checkedScientific paperdoi:10.1080/00206810009465104
Abstract only (via OpenAlex). Full text paywalled and NOT read. Authors are affiliated with creationist/advocacy organizations per secondary reports; their framing is noted, their data claims are evaluated on the evidence.
Rights: Publisher copyright; abstract only consulted
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1. 2026-10-12 — Metadata verified: Crossref API bibliographic match (DOI, journal, volume, pages, authors)
2. 2026-10-12 — Source accessed: Abstract read via OpenAlex API (api.openalex.org/works/doi:10.1080/00206810009465104)
3. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Abstract states: debris at six sites confined to mid-8th c. BC (±~30 y); single event 750 BC; epicentre probably Lebanon; M ≥7.8, likely 8.2
Cited in: The earthquake in the days of Uzziah
Intrabasin paleoearthquake and quiescence correlation of the late Holocene Dead Sea
Kagan, Elisa, Stein, Mordechai, Agnon, Amotz, Neumann, Frank · Journal of Geophysical Research 116(B4): B04311 · American Geophysical Union / Wiley · 2011-04-21
Source accessedScientific paperdoi:10.1029/2010JB007452
Abstract only (via OpenAlex). The abstract lists intrabasin seismites back to the mid-2nd century BC and does NOT mention mid-8th-century BC seismites; that claim is known here only from a secondary catalog (Williams). Publisher page returned HTTP 403. A published correction exists (doi:10.1029/2011JB008870), content not accessed.
Rights: Publisher copyright
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1. 2026-10-12 — Metadata verified: Crossref API bibliographic match
2. 2026-10-12 — Source accessed: Abstract read via OpenAlex API
Cited in: The earthquake in the days of Uzziah
Correction to "Intrabasin paleoearthquake and quiescence correlation of the late Holocene Dead Sea"
Kagan, Elisa, Stein, Mordechai, Agnon, Amotz, Neumann, Frank · Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 116(B11) · 2011-11
Metadata verifiedScientific paperdoi:10.1029/2011JB008870
Existence verified via Crossref; content not accessed. Impact on the mid-8th-century seismites is unknown.
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1. 2026-10-12 — Metadata verified: Crossref API search returned this correction alongside the original article
The Chronology of the Divided Monarchy of Israel
Albright, William F. · Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 100: 16–22 · 1945-12
Metadata verifiedScientific paperdoi:10.2307/1355182
Article not accessed. Albright dates are taken from Wikipedia articles citing this article.
Rights: Publisher copyright
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1. 2026-10-12 — Metadata verified: Crossref API bibliographic match
Daniel 3: Extra-Biblical Texts and the Convocation on the Plain of Dura
Shea, William H. · Andrews University Seminary Studies 20.1 (1982): 29–52 · Andrews University Press · 1982
Metadata verifiedScientific paperdigitalcommons.andrews.edu
Landing page and issue table of contents confirmed (pp. 29–52); the PDF endpoint returned HTTP 403 to automated download and has no abstract. Content NOT read; its argument is not characterised here.
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1. 2026-10-12 — Metadata verified: Andrews University Digital Commons landing page and AUSS 1982/1 contents page
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's golden image on the plain of Dura (Dan 3:1–7)
Dating ancient manuscripts using radiocarbon and AI-based writing style analysis
Popović, Mladen, Dhali, Maruf A., Schomaker, Lambert, van der Plicht, Johannes, Rasmussen, Kaare Lund, La Nasa, Jacopo, Degano, Ilaria, Colombini, Maria Perla, Tigchelaar, Eibert · PLOS ONE 20(6): e0323185 (2025)
Claim checkedScientific paperdoi:10.1371/journal.pone.0323185
Open-access article read online.
Rights: CC BY 4.0
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the article
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 4Q114 (4QDanᶜ): accepted 2σ calibrated range 230–160 BCE (not the complete calibrated range); the range "overlaps with the period in which the final part of the biblical book of Daniel was presumably authored"
Cited in: Composition of the book of Daniel (date and authorship debated)
Tattenai, Governor of "Across the River"
Olmstead, A. T. · Journal of Near Eastern Studies 3 (1944), p. 46
Metadata verifiedScientific paperkeibi.uni-tuebingen.de
Bibliographic record only (KEIBI, Tübingen). The article itself was not accessible in this session.
Rights: Publisher copyright (JSTOR); not read
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1. 2026-10-13 — Metadata verified: KEIBI record: A. T. Olmstead, "Tattenai, Governor of 'Across the River'", JNES 3 (1944), 46
Cited in: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
Persian Period Jerusalem and Yehud: A Rejoinder
Finkelstein, Israel · Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 9, article 24 (2009)
Claim checkedScientific paperjhsonline.org
Read in full (PDF). Summarises Finkelstein, JSOT 32 (2008) 501–520, which was not read.
Rights: Open access (JHS)
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded and read the PDF
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Introduction: Persian-period Jerusalem was "a small settlement" of ca. 2–2.5 ha, "no more than a few hundred people"; a century of archaeology "has failed to reveal any trace of a city-wall" datable to the Persian period and identifiable as Nehemiah's; Neh 3 "may represent the reality" of the Hasmonean First Wall; "Nehemiah's Wall … built on quicksand": E. Mazar's finds under the northern tower in Area G give only a terminus post quem; the most logical date for the tower is late Hellenistic (Hasmonean)
Cited in: The rebuilding of Jerusalem's wall and gates, section by section (Neh 3)
Persian Period Finds from Jerusalem: Facts and Interpretations
Lipschits, Oded · Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 9, article 20 (2009)
Claim checkedScientific paperjhsonline.org
Read in full (PDF).
Rights: Open access (JHS)
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded and read the PDF
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: §2: Jerusalem destroyed and left deserted for nearly 50 years; Nehemiah's refortification in the mid-5th century would have made it a bîrāh replacing Mizpah; archaeological data "minimal"; the Western Hill "entirely abandoned" in the Persian and early Hellenistic periods, resettled in the 2nd century BCE (the common view); on the City of David: Kenyon assigned a wall to Nehemiah and the tower to the Hasmoneans; Mazar's fill under the tower is "certainly not sufficient grounds" to date the tower to the 5th century or identify it as Nehemiah's wall; De Groot and Ariel's Persian-period construction phase on the eastern slope may indicate the "missing" wall
Cited in: The rebuilding of Jerusalem's wall and gates, section by section (Neh 3)

Ancient documents

Antiquities of the Jews, Book IX, chapter 10, §4 (trans. William Whiston)
Flavius Josephus, Whiston, William (translator) · Project Gutenberg eBook #2848 · c. AD 93–94 (original); Whiston translation 1737
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.gutenberg.org
Full passage read in the Gutenberg plain-text edition.
Rights: Public domain in the USA (Project Gutenberg)
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1. 2026-10-12 — Source accessed: Downloaded Gutenberg plain text (pg2848.txt) and read Book IX ch. 10 §4
2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Passage states: during Uzziah's incense attempt "a great earthquake shook the ground and a rent was made in the temple"; landslide at "Eroge" before the city damaged roads and the king's gardens
Cited in: The earthquake in the days of Uzziah The second "burden" of Zechariah 12–14 (undated oracle collection)
ABC 5 (Jerusalem Chronicle / Chronicle of the early years of Nebuchadnezzar) — English translation on Livius.org
Lendering, Jona (ed.) · Livius.org
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.livius.org
Full translation page read (obverse 1–27, reverse 1′–13′). Cuneiform and the printed editions (Wiseman 1956; Grayson 1975; Glassner 2004) were not consulted directly. Julian equivalents on the page follow Parker & Dubberstein.
Rights: Translation adapted from Grayson 1975 and Glassner 2004; paraphrased only
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1. 2026-10-12 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the translation
2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Obv. 1–11 Carchemish, Hamath, death of Nabopolassar 8 Abu (15 Aug 605), accession 1 Ululu (7 Sep 605); Obv. 12–20 Hatti campaigns, tribute, Ashkelon; Rev. 11′–13′ capture of "the city of Judah" on 2 Addaru, year 7. Jerusalem/Judah not named for 605/604.
Cited in: Battle of Carchemish (605 BC)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 golden image on the plain of Dura (Dan 3:1–7)Nebuchadnezzar installs Mattaniah as King Zedekiah (2 Kgs 24:17–20)Jehoiakim submits to Nebuchadnezzar for three years, then rebels (2 Kgs 24:1–4)Capture of Jerusalem and deportation of Jehoiachin (March 597 BC)Death of Jehoiakim and the three-month reign of Jehoiachin (2 Kgs 24:5–9)
ABC 3 (Fall of Nineveh Chronicle) — English translation on Livius.org
Lendering, Jona (ed.) · Livius.org
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.livius.org
Years 16–17 of Nabopolassar read.
Rights: Translation adapted from Grayson 1975 and Glassner 1993; paraphrased only
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1. 2026-10-12 — Source accessed: Fetched and read years 16–17
2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Year 17: in Du'ûzu Aššur-uballit and a large Egyptian army crossed the Euphrates and besieged Harran until Ulûlu. Josiah/Judah not mentioned in the chronicle text.
Cited in: Battle of Carchemish (605 BC)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)Necho II deposes Jehoahaz and installs Jehoiakim (609 BC)Josiah desecrates Jeroboam's altar at Bethel and the high places of Samaria Temple repairs and the finding of the book of the law (Josiah's 18th year)Josiah killed at Megiddo by Necho II (609 BC)Josiah seeks God (8th year) and begins to purge Judah and Israel (12th year) — Chronicles
Against Apion, Book I, §19 (trans. William Whiston) — quoting Berossus
Flavius Josephus, Whiston, William (translator) · Project Gutenberg eBook #2849 · c. AD 95 (original); Whiston 1737
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.gutenberg.org
Full passage read. Berossus (c. 290 BC) survives only in later quotation; this is Josephus's quotation in Whiston's English.
Rights: Public domain in the USA
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1. 2026-10-12 — Source accessed: Downloaded Gutenberg plain text (pg2849.txt) and read Book I §19
2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Berossus: Nebuchadnezzar, campaigning in his father's last days, learned of Nabopolassar's death, sent captives "from the Jews", Phoenicians and Syrians to Babylonia, and adorned the temple of Belus from the spoils; gives Nabopolassar 29 years
Cited in: Battle of Carchemish (605 BC)Nebuchadnezzar's campaign against Jerusalem in Jehoiakim's third year (Dan 1:1–2)
Antiquities of the Jews, Book X, chapter 10, §4 (trans. William Whiston)
Flavius Josephus, Whiston, William (translator) · Project Gutenberg eBook #2848 · c. AD 93–94 (original); Whiston 1737
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.gutenberg.org
Full passage read.
Rights: Public domain in the USA
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1. 2026-10-12 — Source accessed: Read Book X ch. 10 §4 in the Gutenberg plain text
2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Head of gold = Nebuchadnezzar and earlier Babylonian kings; two arms = the government dissolved by two kings; a king from the west armed with brass; an iron government ruling all the earth; Josephus declines to explain the stone because it concerns the future
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's dream and Daniel's interpretation (Dan 2:1–45)
The Code of Hammurabi, trans. L. W. King — Avalon Project
Hammurabi of Babylon, King, L. W. (translator) · Avalon Project, Yale Law School
Claim checkedAncient primary textavalon.law.yale.edu
Old Babylonian law (18th c. BC), not Neo-Babylonian practice.
Rights: Public-domain translation
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1. 2026-10-12 — Source accessed: Downloaded the translation page
2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: §25 looter at a house fire thrown into that fire; §110 a "sister of a god" opening or entering a tavern burned; §157 incest with one's mother after the father's death: both burned
Cited in: The refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and the fiery furnace (Dan 3:8–27)
Daniel 3 — Brenton's English Septuagint (1851), eBible.org
Brenton, Lancelot C. L. (translator) · eBible.org
Claim checkedAncient primary textebible.org
Which Greek textual tradition (Old Greek or Theodotion) carries the date was not verified.
Rights: Public domain
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1. 2026-10-12 — Source accessed: Fetched the chapter
2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: 3:1 reads "In his eighteenth year Nabuchodonosor the king made a golden image … in the plain of Deira"
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's golden image on the plain of Dura (Dan 3:1–7)
Daniel (Greek) 3 — World English Bible (eBible.org eng-web)
World English Bible translators · eBible.org
Claim checkedAncient primary textebible.org
Contains the Greek additions (vv. 24–90). Its 3:1 lacks the "eighteenth year" date found in Brenton.
Rights: Public domain
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1. 2026-10-12 — Source accessed: Fetched the chapter
2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Includes the Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Young Men within chapter 3; 3:1 has no regnal date
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's golden image on the plain of Dura (Dan 3:1–7)
ABC 7 (Nabonidus Chronicle) — English translation on Livius.org
Lendering, Jona (ed.) · Livius.org
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.livius.org
Full translation page read. The page gives no museum number and no Julian dates.
Rights: Translation after Grayson 1975 with revisions; paraphrased only
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1. 2026-10-12 — Source accessed: Fetched and read
2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Years 7, 9, 10, 11: "the king was in Tayma" while "the prince, his officers and army" were in Akkad and the Akitu festival was not held; year 17: Opis, Sippar taken on day 14, Ugbaru and Cyrus's army entered Babylon on day 16 without battle, Cyrus entered on 3 Arahsamna, Ugbaru died 11 Arahsamna
Cited in: 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)Darius appoints 120 satraps and three chief officials (Dan 6:1–3, 28)Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)
Nabonidus Cylinder from Ur — English translation on Livius.org
Beaulieu, Paul-Alain (trans.), Lendering, Jona (ed.) · Livius.org
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.livius.org
Page gives no museum number. Dated c. 540 BC, probably Nabonidus's last building inscription.
Rights: Translation by P.-A. Beaulieu; paraphrased only
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Nabonidus prays to Sin for "the eldest son — my offspring" Bel-šar-uṣur (Belshazzar), that reverence be placed in his heart
Cited in: Belshazzar's feast and the writing on the wall (Dan 5:1–29)
Verse Account of Nabonidus — English translation on Livius.org
Oppenheim, A. Leo (trans., ANET 1950), Lendering, Jona (ed.) · Livius.org
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.livius.org
Page gives no museum number. The text is hostile to Nabonidus and favourable to Cyrus.
Rights: Translation after Oppenheim in ANET; paraphrased only
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Col. ii 5–6: Nabonidus gave the army to his eldest son and "entrusted the kingship to him", then went to Tayma, killed its prince and built a palace there; col. iv lacuna has "the king is mad"; cols. iv–vi praise Cyrus
Cited in: Belshazzar's feast and the writing on the wall (Dan 5:1–29)Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)
Cyrus Cylinder — English translation on Livius.org
Cogan, Mordechai (trans., COS 2003), Schaudig, Hanspeter (edition), van der Spek, R. J. · Livius.org
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.livius.org
Page states only that the cylinder is in the British Museum.
Rights: Translation after Cogan; paraphrased only
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Line 17: Marduk made Cyrus enter Babylon "without fighting or battle"; Nabonidus presented as impious (lines 3–8); no mention of Belshazzar, Ugbaru/Gubaru, a feast, or a Median king named Darius
Cited in: Belshazzar slain; Darius the Mede receives the kingdom (Dan 5:30–31)Fall of Babylon to Cyrus (October 539 BC)Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)Cyrus returns the Temple vessels to Sheshbazzar; the first return (Ezra 1:5–11)
Herodotus, Histories 1.188–191 (trans. G. C. Macaulay)
Herodotus, Macaulay, G. C. (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2707
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.gutenberg.org
Rights: Public domain
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded the Gutenberg text (pglaf mirror) and read 1.188–191
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 1.188: the king attacked was Labynetos son of Labynetos; 1.190–191: after a siege Cyrus diverted the river into the lake, the Persians entered by the riverbed at about mid-thigh depth, and those in the centre, "holding a festival", did not know the city was taken
Cited in: Belshazzar's feast and the writing on the wall (Dan 5:1–29)Fall of Babylon to Cyrus (October 539 BC)Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)
Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5 (trans. H. G. Dakyns)
Xenophon, Dakyns, Henry Graham (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2085
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.gutenberg.org
Rights: Public domain
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded the Gutenberg text (pglaf mirror) and read Book VII ch. 5
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 7.5.15–16: trenches opened on a night of "high festival" so the riverbed became a road; 7.5.26–33: Gobryas and Gadatas reach the palace, the unnamed king is found sword in hand and killed
Cited in: 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)
Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.5 (trans. H. G. Dakyns)
Xenophon, Dakyns, Henry Graham (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2085
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.gutenberg.org
Rights: Public domain
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded the Gutenberg text and read Book I ch. 5
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 1.5.2: on Astyages' death his son Cyaxares, brother of Cyrus's mother, took the Median kingdom
Cited in: Belshazzar slain; Darius the Mede receives the kingdom (Dan 5:30–31)
Josephus, Antiquities 10.11.2–4 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.gutenberg.org
Rights: Public domain
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded the Gutenberg text (pglaf mirror) and read 10.11.2–4
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 10.11.2: "Baltasar, who by the Babylonians was called Naboandelus", fought by Cyrus and Darius king of Media; 10.11.4: Babylon taken by Darius with his kinsman Cyrus, Darius aged 62, "the son of Astyages", with "another name among the Greeks"
Cited in: 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)
Behistun inscription, Old Persian text, col. i 9–26 — Livius.org (after King & Thompson 1907)
Darius I, King, L. W. & Thompson, R. C. (trans., adapted) · Livius.org
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.livius.org
Pages T 02 (i 9–17) and T 03 (i 18–26) read; the overview page returned HTTP 500.
Rights: Translation after King & Thompson 1907 (public domain), adapted by Livius; paraphrased
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read pages T 02 and T 03
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: §6: "twenty-three lands in all" came to Darius (Persia, Elam, Babylonia, Assyria, Arabia, Egypt … Maka); §8: "these lands have conformed to my decrees"
Cited in: The thirty-day decree and Daniel in the lions' den (Dan 6:4–23)Darius appoints 120 satraps and three chief officials (Dan 6:1–3, 28)
Herodotus, Histories 3.89 (trans. G. C. Macaulay)
Herodotus, Macaulay, G. C. (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2707
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.gutenberg.org
Rights: Public domain
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read in the downloaded Gutenberg text
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Darius (I) "established twenty provinces, which the Persians themselves call satrapies", fixing tribute; under Cyrus and Cambyses nothing was fixed about tribute
Cited in: Darius appoints 120 satraps and three chief officials (Dan 6:1–3, 28)
Herodotus, Histories 3.118–119 (trans. G. C. Macaulay)
Herodotus, Macaulay, G. C. (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2707
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.gutenberg.org
Rights: Public domain
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read in the downloaded Gutenberg text
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Darius I seized Intaphrenes "and his sons and all his kinsmen" for execution, suspecting a plot
Cited in: The accusers punished; Darius's decree honouring the God of Daniel (Dan 6:24–27)
Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.6 (trans. H. G. Dakyns)
Xenophon, Dakyns, Henry Graham (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2085
Claim checkedAncient primary textwww.gutenberg.org
Rights: Public domain
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read in the downloaded Gutenberg text
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 8.6.1–7: back in Babylon, Cyrus resolved to appoint satraps over the conquered peoples, keeping garrison commanders under his own authority, and sent six named satraps (Arabia, Cappadocia, Greater Phrygia, Lydia, Caria, Hellespontine Phrygia)
Cited in: Darius appoints 120 satraps and three chief officials (Dan 6:1–3, 28)
Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.81 (trans. J. C. Rolfe, Loeb 1940)
Ammianus Marcellinus, Rolfe, John C. (trans.) · LacusCurtius (Bill Thayer)
Claim checkedAncient primary textpenelope.uchicago.edu
Rights: Public domain translation (Loeb 1940)
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 23.6.81: among the Persians some laws are "detestable", providing that "because of the guilt of a single person all his relatives are put to death" (Rolfe; Guzik quotes a different translation with "formidable")
Cited in: The accusers punished; Darius's decree honouring the God of Daniel (Dan 6:24–27)
Diodorus Siculus, Library 17.30 (Loeb vol. VIII, 1963)
Diodorus Siculus · LacusCurtius (Bill Thayer)
Claim checkedAncient primary textpenelope.uchicago.edu
The page names no translator; edition given as Loeb vol. VIII (1963).
Rights: Loeb translation on LacusCurtius; paraphrased
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 17.30: Darius III had Charidemus executed in anger, then regretted it, but "all his royal power was not able to undo what was done" (17.30.6); no law against revoking a royal decision is mentioned
Cited in: The thirty-day decree and Daniel in the lions' den (Dan 6:4–23)
Jerome, Commentary on Daniel (trans. Gleason L. Archer, 1958) — chapter 7
Jerome, Archer, Gleason L. (trans.) · tertullian.org (transcribed by Roger Pearse)
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Read in full for ch. 7 (Archer pp. 72–83 / Migne cols. 663–672).
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded and read the chapter 7 commentary
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Four beasts = Babylonians, Persians (Medes and Persians), Macedonians, Romans; ten horns = ten kings partitioning the Roman world at the end; little horn = Antichrist, a man indwelt by Satan; Porphyry made the leopard Alexander, the fourth beast his successors, ten cruel kings up to Antiochus Epiphanes, and the little horn Antiochus; son of man = the Son of God; time = year, times = two years; "Away, then, with the fable about a millennium"
Cited in: Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)
The Book of Enoch (trans. R. H. Charles, SPCK 1917)
Charles, R. H. (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #77935
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Charles dates the Parables (chs. 37–71) c. 105–64 BC; other scholars date them later (Driver, p. 105 n.).
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded the Gutenberg text and read ch. 46
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 46:1–4: one "who had a head of days", white-haired, with "another being whose countenance had the appearance of a man"; the angel calls him "the Son of Man who hath righteousness", who will raise up kings from their seats
Cited in: Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)
World English Bible — Apocrypha/Deuterocanon (1 Maccabees; 2 Esdras)
World English Bible · eBible.org (eng-web USFM)
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WEB footnotes giving "circa B.C." dates are editorial and were not used as chronological evidence.
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded the eng-web USFM and read 1 Macc 1:10, 54; 4:52–54; 6:16; 2 Esd 12:11–12; 13:1–3
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 1 Macc 1:10: Antiochus Epiphanes reigned from year 137 of the Greeks; 1:54: on 15 Chislev 145 "they built an abomination of desolation upon the altar"; 4:52–54: rededication 25 Chislev 148; 6:16: died in 149; 2 Esd 12:11: the eagle "is the fourth kingdom which appeared in a vision to your brother Daniel"; 13:3: a man "flew with the clouds of heaven"
Cited in: Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)Rededication of the Temple by Judas Maccabaeus (25 Chislev 148 SE, 165/164 BC)Death of Antiochus IV at Tabae in Persia (164 BC)Desecration of the Temple: the "abomination of desolation" (15 Chislev 145 SE, 168/167 BC)The closing dialogue by the river: the oath, the numbers and Daniel's dismissal (Dan 12:5–13)
Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 38b and 98a (William Davidson Edition) — Sefaria
Babylonian Talmud, Steinsaltz, Adin (William Davidson English Edition) · Sefaria
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched both pages through the Sefaria API
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 98a: R. Alexandri for R. Joshua b. Levi reconciles Dan 7:13 (clouds of heaven) and Zech 9:9 (on a donkey) — the Messiah comes with the clouds if Israel merits it; 38b: R. Akiva, "one throne is for Him and one throne is for David", disputed by R. Yose (thrones for judgment and righteousness)
Polybius, Histories 26.1–1a (Loeb 1926) — LacusCurtius
Polybius · LacusCurtius (Bill Thayer)
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Fragments preserved by Athenaeus; the page names no translator.
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 26.1: Antiochus "surnamed Epiphanes gained the name of Epimanes by his conduct"; 26.1a: Polybius calls him Epimanes (the Madman) instead of Epiphanes
Cited in: Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)
Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period (BM 35603) — Livius.org (trans. R. J. van der Spek)
van der Spek, R. J. (trans.) · Livius.org
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The page warns that the translation needs revision and some restorations are uncertain; "son" in rev. 10 is not literal (Antiochus IV was Seleucus IV's brother).
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Rev. 9–10: year 137, Ulûlu: Seleucus IV died and Antiochus (IV) ascended the throne the same month, reigning eleven years; rev. 11–13: co-regency with a son, killed in year 142; rev. 14: year 148, Kislîmu: "it was heard that" Antiochus (IV) the king died
Cited in: Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)Rededication of the Temple by Judas Maccabaeus (25 Chislev 148 SE, 165/164 BC)
Jerome, Commentary on Daniel (trans. Gleason L. Archer, 1958) — chapter 8
Jerome, Archer, Gleason L. (trans.) · tertullian.org (transcribed by Roger Pearse)
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read the chapter 8 commentary in the downloaded page
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Great horn = Alexander; four successors Ptolemy (Egypt), Philip Arrhidaeus (Macedonia), Seleucus (Syria, Babylonia, the East), Antigonus (Asia Minor); the king of shameless countenance = Antiochus Epiphanes; 2,300 days ≈ six years and three months from Antiochus's entry into Jerusalem (year 143) to Judas Maccabaeus; "Most of our commentators" refer it to the Antichrist, Antiochus being a type
Cited in: Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat at Susa (Dan 8)
Josephus, Antiquities 11.8.5 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read in the downloaded Gutenberg text
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: At Jerusalem Alexander was shown the Book of Daniel, "wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians", and "supposed that himself was the person intended"
Cited in: Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat at Susa (Dan 8)Composition of the book of Daniel (date and authorship debated)The priestly and Levitical registers to the days of Jaddua (Neh 12:1–26)The first "burden" of Zechariah 9–11 (undated oracle collection)
Josephus, Antiquities 12.7.6–7 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read in the downloaded Gutenberg text
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Temple desolate three years: desolation 145 SE, 153rd Olympiad; rededication 25 Casleu (Apellaeus) 148 SE, 154th Olympiad; "this desolation came to pass according to the prophecy of Daniel"; the eight-day festival called "Lights"
Cited in: Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat at Susa (Dan 8)Rededication of the Temple by Judas Maccabaeus (25 Chislev 148 SE, 165/164 BC)Daniel's vision by the Tigris in the third year of Cyrus (Dan 10:1–11:1)Desecration of the Temple: the "abomination of desolation" (15 Chislev 145 SE, 168/167 BC)The closing dialogue by the river: the oath, the numbers and Daniel's dismissal (Dan 12:5–13)
Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander (trans. E. J. Chinnock, 1884)
Arrian, Chinnock, E. J. (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #46976
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded the Gutenberg text (pglaf mirror)
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 3.15: the battle of Arbela (Gaugamela) fought in the archonship of Aristophanes, month Pyanepsion; 3.21–22: Darius III wounded by his own officers and died before Alexander saw him, archonship of Aristophon, month Hecatombaion; Arrian's narrative does not mention Jerusalem (only the translator's note refers to Josephus)
Cited in: Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat at Susa (Dan 8)
Diodorus Siculus, Library 20.106 (Loeb vol. X, 1954) — LacusCurtius
Diodorus Siculus · LacusCurtius (Bill Thayer)
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The page names no translator.
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 20.106.2–5: Cassander, refused terms by Antigonus, summoned Lysimachus; Ptolemy and Seleucus agreed to join them against Antigonus
Cited in: Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat at Susa (Dan 8)
Jerome, Commentary on Daniel (trans. Gleason L. Archer, 1958) — chapter 9
Jerome, Archer, Gleason L. (trans.) · tertullian.org (transcribed by Roger Pearse)
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read the chapter 9 commentary in the downloaded page
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Darius = the Mede who with Cyrus conquered Babylon, not Darius I or III; Jerome declines to choose and reports the views of Africanus (Artaxerxes' 20th year, lunar years, to Christ), Eusebius (two schemes: high-priestly "christs" from Cyrus; from Darius's 6th year to Herod/Hyrcanus), Hippolytus (last week at the end of the world), Apollinaris (from Christ's birth; future rebuilding), Clement (Cyrus to Vespasian), Origen (seek the data), Tertullian (Darius's first year to Christ's birth and to Vespasian) and "the Hebrews" (Vespasian and Hadrian)
Cited in: The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)Gabriel comes at the evening offering with the word of the seventy weeks (Dan 9:20–27)Daniel reads Jeremiah's seventy years and prays (Dan 9:1–19)
World English Bible — Apocrypha/Deuterocanon (2 Maccabees 4)
World English Bible contributors · eBible.org (eng-web USFM)
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read 2 Maccabees 4 in the downloaded USFM (53-2MAeng-web.usfm)
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 4:7–10 Jason supplants his brother Onias under Antiochus Epiphanes; 4:23–26 Menelaus outbids Jason after three years; 4:33–38 Onias, having taken refuge at Daphne near Antioch, is killed by Andronicus at Menelaus's request, and the king later has Andronicus executed
Cited in: Daniel reads Jeremiah's seventy years and prays (Dan 9:1–19)
Jerome, Commentary on Daniel (trans. Gleason L. Archer, 1958) — chapter 10
Jerome, Archer, Gleason L. (trans.) · tertullian.org (transcribed by Roger Pearse)
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read the chapter 10 commentary in the downloaded page
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Reconciles 1:21 with 10:1 (Daniel kept his rank until Cyrus's first year); the 24th of the first month is in Nisan; the prince of Persia is the angel to whom Persia was committed (Deut 32:8, "according to the number of the angels of God"); Michael has oversight of Israel; "chief princes" = archangels; the prince of the Greeks came in when Alexander overthrew Persia; Symmachus renders "one like unto a man"
Cited in: Daniel's vision by the Tigris in the third year of Cyrus (Dan 10:1–11:1)
Behistun inscription, Old Persian text, §1 — Livius.org (after King & Thompson 1907)
Darius I, Livius.org (Jona Lendering) · Livius.org
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched the Livius page for DB §1
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: "I am Darius, the great king, king of kings, the king of Persia, the king of countries"
Cited in: Daniel's vision by the Tigris in the third year of Cyrus (Dan 10:1–11:1)
Jerome, Commentary on Daniel (trans. Gleason L. Archer, 1958) — chapter 11
Jerome, Archer, Gleason L. (trans.) · tertullian.org (transcribed by Roger Pearse)
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read the chapter 11 commentary in the downloaded page
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 11:2 Cambyses, Smerdis, Darius, Xerxes; 11:3–20 historical order agreed with Porphyry (Ptolemy I … Seleucus Philopator); from 11:21 Porphyry applies all to Antiochus Epiphanes, "our school" to the Antichrist with Antiochus as type; Jewish readings: 11:31 Romans/Vespasian and Titus, 11:34 Julian, 11:36 the Antichrist; Porphyry's fourth Egyptian expedition, Apedno, death at Tabae; Popilius Laenas's circle
Cited in: Daniel's vision by the Tigris in the third year of Cyrus (Dan 10:1–11:1)Popillius Laenas orders Antiochus IV out of Egypt at Eleusis (168 BC)Death of Antiochus IV at Tabae in Persia (164 BC)Battle of Panium: Antiochus III defeats Scopas (c. 200–198 BC)Battle of Magnesia: Rome defeats Antiochus III (190 BC)Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV defeats Antiochus III (217 BC)Desecration of the Temple: the "abomination of desolation" (15 Chislev 145 SE, 168/167 BC)Assassination of Seleucus IV and accession of Antiochus IV (175 BC)
Polybius, Histories 5.82–87 (Loeb III, 1923) — LacusCurtius
Polybius, Paton, W. R. (trans.) · LacusCurtius (Bill Thayer)
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Book 5; the page does not name the translator (Loeb Polybius is Paton's) and says it has not been proofread.
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched the LacusCurtius page for book 5
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 85.12–13 Antiochus withdraws to Raphia; 86.5 nearly 10,000 foot and 300 horse lost; 86.8 Ptolemy takes Raphia and other towns; 87.3–4 Ptolemy recovers Coele-Syria and grants a year's truce
Cited in: Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV defeats Antiochus III (217 BC)
Polybius, Histories 16.18–19, 16.39 (Loeb V, 1926) — LacusCurtius
Polybius, Paton, W. R. (trans.) · LacusCurtius (Bill Thayer)
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Book 16; the page does not name the translator (Loeb Polybius is Paton's) and says it has not been proofread.
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched the LacusCurtius page for book 16
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 19.10 Scopas "despaired of victory and retreated"; 39.3–4 (quoted by Josephus) after Scopas was conquered by Antiochus, Samaria, Abila and Gadara were occupied and the Jews of Jerusalem submitted
Cited in: Battle of Panium: Antiochus III defeats Scopas (c. 200–198 BC)
Polybius, Histories 29.27 (Loeb VI, 1927) — LacusCurtius
Polybius, Paton, W. R. (trans.) · LacusCurtius (Bill Thayer)
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Book 29; the page does not name the translator (Loeb Polybius is Paton's) and says it has not been proofread.
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched the LacusCurtius page for book 29
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 27.5 Popilius "drew a circle round Antiochus" with a vine-stick; 27.6 after brief hesitation Antiochus said he would do all the Romans demanded
Cited in: Daniel's vision by the Tigris in the third year of Cyrus (Dan 10:1–11:1)Popillius Laenas orders Antiochus IV out of Egypt at Eleusis (168 BC)
Polybius, Histories 31.9 (Loeb VI, 1927) — LacusCurtius
Polybius, Paton, W. R. (trans.) · LacusCurtius (Bill Thayer)
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Book 31; the page does not name the translator (Loeb Polybius is Paton's) and says it has not been proofread.
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched the LacusCurtius page for book 31
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 31.9.1–4 Antiochus, attempting to plunder the sanctuary of Artemis in Elymaïs, was thwarted and "died at Tabae in Persia, smitten with madness, as some people say"
Cited in: Daniel's vision by the Tigris in the third year of Cyrus (Dan 10:1–11:1)Death of Antiochus IV at Tabae in Persia (164 BC)
Appian, Syrian Wars 41–45 — Livius.org
Appian, White, Horace (trans., 1899) · Livius.org
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Translator attribution taken from the Livius series; not stated on the fetched section.
Rights: Translation H. White (1899), public domain; paraphrased
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched the Livius page (part 9, §§41–45)
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: §45: "Seleucus was assassinated as the result of a conspiracy of a certain Heliodorus"; Eumenes and Attalus expelled Heliodorus and installed Antiochus
Cited in: Daniel's vision by the Tigris in the third year of Cyrus (Dan 10:1–11:1)Assassination of Seleucus IV and accession of Antiochus IV (175 BC)
Appian, Syrian Wars 31–35 — Livius.org
Appian, White, Horace (trans., 1899) · Livius.org
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched the Livius page (part 7, §§31–35)
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: The battle against the Romans (Magnesia): §34 Antiochus breaks through on his wing; §35 "the phalanx broke into disorderly flight"; the section does not name the Scipios or state the final result
Cited in: Battle of Magnesia: Rome defeats Antiochus III (190 BC)
Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period (BM 35603) — Livius.org, Seleucus IV entries
van der Spek, R. J. (trans.) · Livius.org
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Same page as the earlier record; re-read for the Antiochus III and Seleucus IV entries. The editor marks the translation as needing revision.
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Re-fetched the king list page
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Year 125, Simanu 25: Antiochus III "killed in Elam"; Seleucus IV ascends, reigns 12 years; year 137, Ululu 10: Seleucus IV died; same month Antiochus IV ascends (11 years); year 148 Kislimu: death of Antiochus IV heard
Cited in: Death of Antiochus IV at Tabae in Persia (164 BC)Assassination of Seleucus IV and accession of Antiochus IV (175 BC)
Jerome, Commentary on Daniel (trans. Gleason L. Archer, 1958) — chapter 12
Jerome, Archer, Gleason L. (trans.) · tertullian.org (transcribed by Roger Pearse)
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read the chapter 12 commentary in the downloaded page
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Porphyry reads 12:1–3 metaphorically of the Maccabean loyalists rising from caves "as if" from the dead; Jerome: bodily resurrection after the Antichrist; time, times and half = 3½ years (Porphyry and Jerome agree on the idiom); the Temple was defiled three years (1 Macc; Josephus), so the 1,290 days belong to the Antichrist; 1,335 = 45 more days before Christ's coming (Porphyry: victory over Antiochus's generals and the cleansing); Theodotion: "you shall rise again in your turn"; the two figures on the banks = angels of the Greeks and Persians
Cited in: The closing dialogue by the river: the oath, the numbers and Daniel's dismissal (Dan 12:5–13)
Jerome, Commentary on Daniel (trans. Gleason L. Archer, 1958) — prologue
Jerome, Archer, Gleason L. (trans.) · tertullian.org (transcribed by Roger Pearse)
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read the prologue in the downloaded page
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Porphyry's twelfth book argued that the book was composed in Judaea under Antiochus Epiphanes, narrating the past, accurate to Antiochus and false beyond; answered by Eusebius, Apollinaris and Methodius; Jerome: this very attack "testifies to Daniel's accuracy"
Cited in: Composition of the book of Daniel (date and authorship debated)
World English Bible — Apocrypha/Deuterocanon (Sirach 44–49)
World English Bible contributors · eBible.org (eng-web USFM)
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read Sirach 49 in the downloaded USFM (46-SIReng-web.usfm)
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Sir 49:6–13 names Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the Twelve, Zerubbabel, Jeshua and Nehemiah; neither Daniel nor Ezra is named in the praise of famous men
Cited in: Composition of the book of Daniel (date and authorship debated)
World English Bible — Apocrypha/Deuterocanon (1 Maccabees 2)
World English Bible contributors · eBible.org (eng-web USFM)
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read 1 Maccabees 2 in the downloaded USFM
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 2:59–60: Hananiah, Azariah and Mishael saved from the flame; Daniel delivered from the mouth of lions — cited in Mattathias's dying speech
Cited in: Composition of the book of Daniel (date and authorship debated)
World English Bible — Apocrypha/Deuterocanon (2 Maccabees 3, 6, 7, 9–11)
World English Bible contributors · eBible.org (eng-web USFM)
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read in the downloaded USFM (53-2MAeng-web.usfm)
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 3:7–28 Heliodorus sent by King Seleucus for the Temple treasury; 6:2 the sanctuary renamed for Olympian Zeus; 7:9, 14 martyrs' hope of being "raised up"; 9:1–29 Antiochus retreats from Persepolis and dies in the mountains; 10:1–8 the Temple recovered and cleansed on 25 Chislev, sacrifices "after they had ceased for two years"; 11:21, 33, 38 letters dated year 148; 11:23 Antiochus V: "our father passed to the gods"
Cited in: Rededication of the Temple by Judas Maccabaeus (25 Chislev 148 SE, 165/164 BC)Death of Antiochus IV at Tabae in Persia (164 BC)Desecration of the Temple: the "abomination of desolation" (15 Chislev 145 SE, 168/167 BC)Assassination of Seleucus IV and accession of Antiochus IV (175 BC)The closing dialogue by the river: the oath, the numbers and Daniel's dismissal (Dan 12:5–13)
Josephus, The Wars of the Jews 1.1.1 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2850
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded the Gutenberg text
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Antiochus spoiled the Temple and stopped the daily sacrifice "for three years and six months"; Onias the high priest fled to Ptolemy and built a temple in the nome of Heliopolis
Cited in: Daniel reads Jeremiah's seventy years and prays (Dan 9:1–19)The closing dialogue by the river: the oath, the numbers and Daniel's dismissal (Dan 12:5–13)
Josephus, Antiquities 12.3.3 and 12.9.1 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Read in the downloaded Gutenberg text
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 12.3.3: Antiochus III overcame Scopas "at the fountains of Jordan", the Jews received him into Jerusalem; Josephus quotes Polybius book 16; 12.9.1: Antiochus IV died in Persia after hearing of the Jews' success; Josephus disputes Polybius's explanation (the temple of Diana)
Cited in: Death of Antiochus IV at Tabae in Persia (164 BC)Battle of Panium: Antiochus III defeats Scopas (c. 200–198 BC)
Livy, History of Rome 37.38–44 and 45.12 (trans. W. A. McDevitte)
Livy, McDevitte, William A. (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #44318
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded the Gutenberg text (books 37 to the end)
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Book 37 (consuls L. Cornelius Scipio and C. Laelius): Antiochus camps near Magnesia at Sipylus; the army routed, 44: up to 50,000 foot and 3,000 horse said killed; 45.12: Roman envoys met Antiochus at Eleusine four miles from Alexandria; Popilius drew a line round the king with a wand; he replied "I will do as the senate directs"
Cited in: Popillius Laenas orders Antiochus IV out of Egypt at Eleusis (168 BC)Battle of Magnesia: Rome defeats Antiochus III (190 BC)
Herodotus, Histories 1.107–108 (trans. G. C. Macaulay)
Herodotus, Macaulay, G. C. (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2707
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Astyages delivers his dreams "to the interpreters of dreams" of the Magi, who interpret them of his daughter's offspring
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Josephus, Antiquities 10.6.3, 10.8.2–5, 10.11.2 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 10.6.3: Nebuchadnezzar slew Jehoiakim and had him thrown before the walls unburied, took 3,000 captives including Ezekiel; Jehoiachin reigned three months and ten days; 10.8.2: city taken 9/IV of Zedekiah's 11th year; 10.8.5: Temple fired on the first day of the fifth month, Zedekiah's 11th and Nebuchadnezzar's 18th year; 10.11.2: Evil-Merodach freed Jeconiah and reigned eighteen years
Cited in: Evil-merodach (Amēl-Marduk) releases Jehoiachin (561 BC)The breach of Jerusalem and Zedekiah's capture at Riblah (9/IV of Zedekiah's 11th year)Capture of Jerusalem and deportation of Jehoiachin (March 597 BC)Nebuzaradan burns the Temple and Jerusalem (5th month of Nebuchadnezzar's 19th year)Death of Jehoiakim and the three-month reign of Jehoiachin (2 Kgs 24:5–9)
Josephus, Antiquities 10.9.7 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: In the fifth year after the destruction, Nebuchadnezzar's twenty-third year, he campaigned against Coele-Syria, the Ammonites and Moabites, then Egypt, and took the Jews there captive to Babylon
Cited in: The deportation of Nebuchadnezzar's twenty-third year (Jer 52:30)
Josephus, Antiquities 11.1.1–3 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Cyrus's first year was the seventieth from the removal to Babylon; Cyrus knew his charge "by his reading the book which Isaiah left behind"; vessels committed to Mithridates the treasurer for Sanabassar; Cyrus's letter names Mithridates and "Zorobabel, the governor of the Jews"
Cited in: Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)Cyrus returns the Temple vessels to Sheshbazzar; the first return (Ezra 1:5–11)
World English Bible — Apocrypha/Deuterocanon (1 Esdras 2)
World English Bible contributors · eBible.org (eng-web USFM)
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Cited in: Cyrus returns the Temple vessels to Sheshbazzar; the first return (Ezra 1:5–11)
Josephus, Antiquities 10.4.1–10.5.2 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 10.4.1: Josiah king at eight, began reform at twelve, temple repairs (curators include "Eliakim the high priest"); 10.4.2: in the eighteenth year the high priest found "the holy books of Moses"; Huldah: God would delay the calamities because Josiah was righteous; 10.4.3: covenant with an oath; 10.4.4: bones burned on Jeroboam's altar as the prophet [Jadon] foretold, fulfilled "after three hundred and sixty-one years"; 10.4.5: Passover, none like it "from the times of Samuel"; 10.5.1: Neco marched to the Euphrates "to fight with the Medes and Babylonians"; Josiah blocked him, was shot by an Egyptian archer, retreated to Jerusalem "and died of that wound"; lived 39 years, reigned 31; Jeremiah's elegy; 10.5.2: Jehoahaz deposed at Hamath after three months and ten days
Cited in: The Passover of Josiah's eighteenth year Josiah desecrates Jeroboam's altar at Bethel and the high places of Samaria Temple repairs and the finding of the book of the law (Josiah's 18th year)Josiah's covenant and the purge of Jerusalem and Judah Josiah killed at Megiddo by Necho II (609 BC)Josiah's delegation consults Huldah the prophetess Josiah seeks God (8th year) and begins to purge Judah and Israel (12th year) — Chronicles
Herodotus, Histories 2.159 (trans. G. C. Macaulay)
Herodotus, Macaulay, G. C. (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2707
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Necos built triremes; "on land Necos engaged battle at Magdolos with the Syrians, and conquered them; and after this he took Cadytis"; reigned sixteen years in all
Cited in: Josiah killed at Megiddo by Necho II (609 BC)
World English Bible — Apocrypha/Deuterocanon (1 Esdras 1)
World English Bible (translators) · eBible.org
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Greek parallel to 2 Chr 35–36; quoted only briefly.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 1:25: Pharaoh came "to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates"; 1:27: "my war is against the Euphrates"; 1:28: Josias did not regard "the words of the prophet Jeremy from the Lord's mouth"; 1:29: battle "in the plain of Megiddo"; 1:31: after he was brought back to Jerusalem he died; 1:32: Jeremy lamented for Josias
Cited in: Josiah killed at Megiddo by Necho II (609 BC)
World English Bible — Apocrypha/Deuterocanon (1 Esdras 5)
World English Bible (translators) · eBible.org
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Greek parallel to Ezra 2–3; quoted only briefly.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 5:1–6: the heads of families go up under Darius, with an escort of one thousand cavalry; Zorobabel "spoke wise words before Darius … in the second year of his reign, in the month Nisan"; 5:7–40: the list (with variant readings in the notes); 5:41: "from twelve years old and upward … forty two thousand three hundred sixty"; 5:45: one thousand minas of gold, five thousand of silver; 5:47–55: altar in the seventh month; cedar to Joppa "according to the commandment … by Cyrus"; 5:56–57: foundation "on the new moon of the second month, in the second year after they had come"
Cited in: The altar rebuilt in Jerusalem and the Feast of Booths kept (Ezra 3:1–7)The return of the exiles with Zerubbabel and Jeshua; the list of returnees (Ezra 2)The foundation of the Second Temple laid (Ezra 3:8–13)
Josephus, Antiquities 11.3.10 and 11.4.1–2 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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Cited in: The return of the exiles with Zerubbabel and Jeshua; the list of returnees (Ezra 2)The foundation of the Second Temple laid (Ezra 3:8–13)
Josephus, Antiquities 11.1.3 (trans. W. Whiston) — number of returnees
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: "the number of those that came out of captivity to Jerusalem, were forty-two thousand four hundred and sixty-two" — at the end of the Cyrus narrative
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Josephus, Antiquities 11.2.1–2 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 11.2.1: the Cutheans bribed the governors to slow the building of the city and Temple while Cyrus, busy with wars, knew nothing; after Cyrus's death the governors (Rathumus, Semellius) wrote to "Cambyses"; 11.2.2: Cambyses forbade the building, which stopped until the second year of Darius
Cited in: Opposition from the people of the land; the Temple work ceases until Darius's second year (Ezra 4:1–5, 24)Accusations to Ahasuerus and the Rehum–Shimshai letter to Artaxerxes; the city's rebuilding stopped (Ezra 4:6–23)
World English Bible — Apocrypha/Deuterocanon (1 Esdras 2:16–30)
World English Bible (translators) · eBible.org
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Greek parallel to Ezra 4:7–24; quoted only briefly.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 2:16–29: Rathumus and Samellius write to "King Artaxerxes" that the Jews are building the city, its walls and "laying the foundation of a temple"; the king forbids the city's building; 2:30: the building of the Temple ceased "until the second year of the reign of King Darius" — the letter is placed before Darius
Cited in: Opposition from the people of the land; the Temple work ceases until Darius's second year (Ezra 4:1–5, 24)Accusations to Ahasuerus and the Rehum–Shimshai letter to Artaxerxes; the city's rebuilding stopped (Ezra 4:6–23)
World English Bible — Apocrypha/Deuterocanon (1 Esdras 6)
World English Bible (translators) · eBible.org
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Greek parallel to Ezra 5–6.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 6:1: "in the second year of the reign of Darius" Aggaeus and Zacharius prophesied; 6:3: "Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia" with Sathrabuzanes questions the builders; 6:18–20: Sanabassarus (Sheshbazzar) "laid the foundations"; 6:27: Darius allows "Zorobabel … governor of Judea" to build
Cited in: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)Haggai and Zechariah stir the people; the Temple work resumes (Darius's second year, 520 BC)
Josephus, Antiquities 11.4.6–7 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 11.4.6: the book found "at Ecbatana, in the tower that was in Media"; Cyrus's first-year command; the altar (sic) sixty cubits high and broad; vessels entrusted to "Sanabassar"; 11.4.7: Darius's letter to Sisinnes; "the temple was built in seven years' time"; dedication sacrifices "in the ninth year of the reign of Darius, on the twenty-third day of the twelfth month … Adar"; 100 bulls, 200 rams, 400 lambs, 12 kids
Cited in: The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
World English Bible — Apocrypha/Deuterocanon (1 Esdras 7)
World English Bible (translators) · eBible.org
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Greek parallel to Ezra 6:13–22.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 7:5: "the holy house was finished by the twenty-third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of King Darius"
Cited in: The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)
Josephus, Antiquities 11.5.1–2 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 11.5.1: after Darius, "Xerxes his son"; Joacim son of Jeshua high priest; Esdras, a priest in Babylon well acquainted with Xerxes, receives a letter from "Xerxes, king of kings"; 11.5.2: they left Babylon in the first month and came to Jerusalem in the fifth month "of the seventh year of the reign of Xerxes"
Cited in: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)Ezra's caravan from the Ahava to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:7–10; 8)
Josephus, Antiquities 11.5.6–8 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 11.5.6: Nehemiah, a captive, "cup-bearer to king Xerxes", hears at Susa of Jerusalem's fallen walls; arrives in "the twenty and fifth year of the reign of Xerxes"; 11.5.8: the wall built in "two years and four months", finished in the ninth month of Xerxes's twenty-eighth year
Cited in: Artaxerxes sends Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem, Nisan of his twentieth year (Neh 2:1–8)Nehemiah arrives, inspects the walls by night and calls for rebuilding (Neh 2:9–20)The wall completed on 25 Elul after fifty-two days (Neh 6:15–19)
World English Bible — Apocrypha/Deuterocanon (1 Esdras 9)
World English Bible (translators) · eBible.org
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Greek parallel to Ezra 10 and Neh 7:73–8:12.
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2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Verses 37–55 follow the mixed-marriage account (9:1–36 = Ezra 10) directly with the reading of the law on the new moon of the seventh month; v. 49 names "Attharates", not Nehemiah; the text ends at the parallel to Neh 8:12
Cited in: Ezra reads the Law on the first day of the seventh month (Neh 7:73b–8:12)The Feast of Booths kept "as it is written" (Neh 8:13–18)
Josephus, Antiquities 11.7.1–11.8.4 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: 11.7.1: after Eliashib, Judas then John (Johanan) high priest; John killed his brother Jesus in the temple; Bagoses, general of "another Artaxerxes", punished the Jews seven years. 11.7.2: Jaddua son of John; his brother Manasseh married Nicaso daughter of Sanballat, sent to Samaria by "Darius, the last king". 11.8.2: elders forced Manasseh from the altar; Sanballat promised him a temple on Gerizim
Cited in: Nehemiah's return and second-term reforms (Neh 13:4–31)The priestly and Levitical registers to the days of Jaddua (Neh 12:1–26)The first "burden" of Zechariah 9–11 (undated oracle collection)
Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 2.11–2.27 (trans. E. J. Chinnock, 1884)
Arrian, Chinnock, E. J. (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #46976
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2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: After Issus, Parmenio seized the Persian treasure at Damascus; Tyre was captured "in the month Hecatombaion, when Anicetus was archon at Athens" (translator: late July–early August 332); the rest of Palestine Syria yielded except Gaza under Batis, which was stormed, its men killed and women and children enslaved; from Gaza to Pelusium in seven days
Cited in: The first "burden" of Zechariah 9–11 (undated oracle collection)
Herodotus, Histories 7.8, 7.20, 7.61; 9.33; 9.108–113 (trans. G. C. Macaulay)
Herodotus, Macaulay, G. C. (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2456
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2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: 7.8: after reconquering Egypt Xerxes summoned the chief Persians to consult on the expedition against Greece; 7.20: four full years of preparation after Egypt; 7.61: Otanes "the father of Amestris the wife of Xerxes"; 9.108–113: Amestris, Xerxes's wife, at Sardis and Susa after the defeat; 9.33: Hegias is the brother of the Elean seer Tisamenus, not a royal eunuch
Cited in: Ahasuerus's third-year feast at Susa and the deposing of Vashti (Esth 1; 483/482 BC)Esther made queen in Tebeth of Xerxes's seventh year (Esth 2:1–18; winter 479/478 BC)
Josephus, Antiquities 11.6.1–13 (trans. W. Whiston)
Josephus, Whiston, William (trans.) · Project Gutenberg #2848
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2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: 11.6.1: after Xerxes the kingdom passed to "his son Cyrus, whom the Greeks called Artaxerxes", who married a Jewish wife; 11.6.13: seventy-five thousand enemies slain in the provinces; Mordecai wrote to keep the days, and "the Jews still keep the forementioned days, and call them days of Phurim"
Cited in: The institution of Purim; Mordecai second to the king (Esth 9:20–10:3)The Jews defend themselves on 13–14 Adar (Esth 9:1–19; 473 BC)
World English Bible — Apocrypha/Deuterocanon (2 Maccabees 15)
World English Bible (translators) · eBible.org
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Nicanor's Day.
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2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: 15:36: the victory over Nicanor to be marked on the thirteenth of Adar, "the day before the day of Mordecai"
Cited in: The institution of Purim; Mordecai second to the king (Esth 9:20–10:3)

Modern news and announcements

Evidence of the earthquake from the days of King Uzziah found in the City of David (announcement)
City of David
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Announcement of an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation (directors J. Uziel and O. Chalaf). Page displays date 23 March 2026, while press coverage (e.g. Israel Hayom, 4 Aug 2021) dates the announcement to August 2021 — the page appears re-posted. No peer-reviewed publication is cited; the underlying excavation publication was not identified (reports_on_source_id left empty deliberately).
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Page states: 8th-c. BCE destruction layer of smashed vessels from collapsed walls, no signs of fire, attributed by the directors to an earthquake and linked to Amos/Zechariah; cites prior evidence at Hazor, Gezer, Tel Agol, Tell es-Safi/Gath
Cited in: The earthquake in the days of Uzziah

Reference works and summaries

Amos Quake(s) — Earthquake Catalog of the Dead Sea (entry)
Williams, Jefferson · deadseaquake.info (self-published research catalog)
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Read characters 0–200,000 of a ~350,000-character page (summary, archaeoseismic site list, critiques). Remaining portion not read. Secondary compilation: its citations of Kagan et al. 2011, Ambraseys 2009, Ben-Menahem 1991 and site reports were not verified at source unless separately registered.
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Located statements on: two mid-8th-c. seismites (Kagan 2011); critiques of Austin 2000 dating; Ambraseys 2009 "overstated"; per-site evidence and alternative explanations (Hazor, Gezer, Gath, Deir Alla, Jerusalem, etc.)
Cited in: The earthquake in the days of Uzziah
Earthquakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East: A Multidisciplinary Study of Seismicity up to 1900
Ambraseys, Nicholas · Cambridge University Press · 2009-10-22
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Not accessed. Its assessment of the Amos earthquake is known here only via Williams (deadseaquake.info).
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Cited in: The earthquake in the days of Uzziah
The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings (3rd ed.)
Thiele, Edwin R. · Zondervan / Kregel · 1983
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Book not accessed. Dates attributed to Thiele are taken from Wikipedia articles citing Thiele 1983 p. 217 (Uzziah) and Thiele (Jeroboam II).
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Uzziah — Wikipedia
Wikipedia contributors · Wikimedia Foundation
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: States Thiele: coregency from 792/791, sole reign 768/767, leprosy 751/750, died 740/739 BCE (Thiele 1983 p. 217); Albright 783–742 BC (BASOR 1945); notes Josephus' incense-earthquake link conflicts with Thiele-based dating
Cited in: The earthquake in the days of Uzziah
Jeroboam II — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: States Thiele: coregent 793–782, sole 782–753 BC; Albright: 786–746 BC
Cited in: The earthquake in the days of Uzziah
Tel Hazor — Pleiades place 779967430
Pleiades contributors · Pleiades (pleiades.stoa.org)
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Representative point read from the Pleiades JSON record: lon 35.566769, lat 33.019181.
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Ierusalem/Hierosolyma — Pleiades place 687928
Pleiades contributors · Pleiades (pleiades.stoa.org)
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Gimtu (Gath, Tell es-Safi) — Pleiades place 889522884
Pleiades contributors · Pleiades (pleiades.stoa.org)
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Gazara (Gezer) — Pleiades place 687904
Pleiades contributors · Pleiades (pleiades.stoa.org)
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Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles
Grayson, A. Kirk · J. J. Augustin · 1975
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Mesopotamian Chronicles
Glassner, Jean-Jacques · Society of Biblical Literature (Writings from the Ancient World) · 2004
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Not accessed.
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Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle — Wikipedia
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Used for museum/acquisition details of BM 21946.
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Daniel 1 — Wikipedia
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Used to report the critical position with its citations (Seow 2003; Collins 1984).
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: States (citing Seow 2003 pp. 20–21) that Babylonian chronicles record no campaign against Jerusalem before 597 and that Dan 1:1 is hard to harmonise; (citing Collins 1984 p. 45) that the author apparently drew on 2 Chr 36:5–7 and 2 Kgs 24:1; chapters 1–6 as Hellenistic-era court tales
Cited in: 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)Daniel's refusal of the king's food and the ten-day test (Dan 1:8–16)
Daniel, with an Introduction to Apocalyptic Literature (Forms of the Old Testament Literature 20)
Collins, John J. · Eerdmans · 1984
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Cited in: 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)
Daniel (Westminster Bible Companion)
Seow, C. L. · Westminster John Knox Press · 2003
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Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's campaign against Jerusalem in Jehoiakim's third year (Dan 1:1–2)
Daniel: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel (Hermeneia)
Collins, John J. · Fortress Press · 1993
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Some Historical Problems in the Book of Daniel (in Notes on Some Problems in the Book of Daniel, pp. 9–18)
Wiseman, D. J. · Tyndale Press · 1965
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Bibliographic record verified (Tübingen catalogue). The PDF on biblicalstudies.org.uk returned HTTP 403 to automated access; content NOT read. Its treatment of Dan 1:1 is known here only from secondary mentions.
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1. 2026-10-12 — Metadata verified: Tübingen OCB catalogue record KEI00121498
2. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded the chapter PDF from biblicalstudies.org.uk (reproduced with the author's permission): https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/tp/notes-daniel/daniel_wiseman.pdf
3. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. 9–18: rejects the Gubaru theory (no evidence Gubaru bore a royal title; contracts of 535–524 call him governor) and proposes Darius the Mede = Cyrus, reading 6:28 appositionally; on Dan 1:1, Daniel's accession-year reckoning vs Jeremiah's non-accession reckoning removes the discrepancy, and the extant data "does not allow any dogmatic assertion against the historical accuracy of this verse"
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's campaign against Jerusalem in Jehoiakim's third year (Dan 1:1–2)Belshazzar slain; Darius the Mede receives the kingdom (Dan 5:30–31)Jehoiakim submits to Nebuchadnezzar for three years, then rebels (2 Kgs 24:1–4)
Nebuchadnezzar II — Wikipedia
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First 100k characters read.
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Reign 15 Aug 605 – 7 Oct 562 BC (Parker & Dubberstein 1942; Lipschits 2005); Akkadian Nabû-kudurri-uṣur; after Carchemish none of the westernmost Levantine states swore fealty or paid tribute in 605 (Eph'al 2003; Elayi 2018); Ashkelon taken 604; no 605 attack on Jerusalem mentioned
Cited in: 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)Nebuchadnezzar's boast, madness and restoration (Dan 4:28–37)
Jehoiakim — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Reign 609–598 BC; appointed by Necho II after Harran, three months after Josiah's death (Lipschits 2002); fall of Jerusalem 2 Adar (16 March) 597 BC; 605 siege claim marked "citation needed"
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Jehoiachin's Rations Tablets — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Tablets excavated by Koldewey at Babylon (1899–1917) near the Ishtar Gate; in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin (VAT 16378 pictured); record oil rations for Ya'u-kīnu king of Judah and five sons, plus foreign craftsmen; c. 595–570 BC
Cited in: Training of Judean youths at the Babylonian court (Dan 1:3–7, 17–20)
Strong's H1095 Belteshazzar — Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's entries (Bible Hub)
Brown, F., Driver, S. R., Briggs, C. A. · Bible Hub (online lexicon)
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Transliterated Akkadian form on the page is partly garbled.
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: BDB: probably Babylonian balāṭsu-uṣur, "protect his life"; connection with Bel unexplained
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Danel — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Ezek 14:14, 14:20, 28:3 spell dnʾl; identification with Ugaritic Danel (Dussaud 1931; Day 1980; Greenstein) vs rejection (Dressler 1979; Wallace & MacGregor 2016)
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Strong's H6598 pathbag — Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's entries (Bible Hub)
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: BDB: Persian loanword for a king's portion/delicacies (cf. pati-baga); six occurrences, all in Daniel
Cited in: Training of Judean youths at the Babylonian court (Dan 1:3–7, 17–20)
Babylon — Pleiades place 893951
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Representative point read from the Pleiades JSON record: lon 44.42497815, lat 32.53729695.
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Carchemish — Pleiades place 658465
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Representative point read from the Pleiades JSON record: lon 38.014920519720285, lat 36.829422953272655.
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Daniel 2 — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Majority scholarly identification Babylon–Media–Persia–Seleucid/Ptolemaic; iron-and-clay as Seleucid–Ptolemaic marriages (c. 250 or 193 BC); chapter in present form no earlier than early Seleucid period; Aramaic 2:4b–7:28 unexplained; royal dreams as portents; a Nabonidus inscription records a dream of Nebuchadnezzar; giant-figure parallels (Hesiod, Ovid, Bahman Yasht)
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's dream and Daniel's interpretation (Dan 2:1–45)Daniel appointed over the province of Babylon (Dan 2:46–49)
Four kingdoms of Daniel — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Roman view: Jerome, Talmud, medieval Jewish commentators (Rashi), Calvin, Reformation writers; Greek view: modern consensus (Collins), and earlier Porphyry, Ephrem, Polychronius, Cosmas; Aemilius Sura sequence Assyria–Media–Persia–Macedonia–Rome (Swain 1940 early 2nd c. BC; Mendels 1981, Oellig 2023 1st c. BC); futurist/dispensational revived Rome; Seventh-day Adventist historicist reading
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Aemilius Sura — Wikipedia (quoting Velleius Paterculus, trans. F. W. Shipley 1924)
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Fragment read as quoted; the LacusCurtius edition URL returned 404.
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Fragment of De annis populi Romani, a gloss in Velleius Paterculus: Assyrians, Medes, Persians, Macedonians held world power before it passed to the Romans; 1,995 years from Ninus
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's dream and Daniel's interpretation (Dan 2:1–45)
The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East, with a Translation of an Assyrian Dream-Book
Oppenheim, A. Leo · American Philosophical Society (Transactions 46.3); reprinted · 1956
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Not accessed; standard study of Mesopotamian dream interpretation.
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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego — Wikipedia
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The URL "Daniel_3" resolves to this article.
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Chapter possibly originally independent (Daniel absent; Levine 2010); legendary features and folklore plot (Collins 1984); "Dura" means plain/fortress, not a specific place; 60×6 cubits vs the 60×60 temple (Wesselius 2002); Herodotus mentions a golden image of Bel; Greek additions (Prayer of Azariah, Song of the Three) are deuterocanonical
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's golden image on the plain of Dura (Dan 3:1–7)Nebuchadnezzar's decree honouring the God of the three Judeans (Dan 3:28–30)
Dura — Smith's Bible Names Dictionary (Bible Gateway)
Smith, William (ed.) · Bible Gateway (public-domain 19th-century dictionary)
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19th-century reference; reports Oppert's proposal without modern verification.
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Oppert placed the plain south-east of Babylon near the mound of Dowair/Duair, where a pedestal of a huge statue was found; others proposed a tract a little south of Tekrit on the Tigris ("Dur")
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's golden image on the plain of Dura (Dan 3:1–7)
Strong's H5481 sumponeyah — Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's entries (Bible Hub)
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: BDB: loanword from late Greek symphōnia; occurs Dan 3:5, 10, 15 (Kethib/Qere variation in 3:10)
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Daniel 4 — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Probably a variant of an original Jewish story about Nabonidus (Collins 1984); Prayer of Nabonidus describes seven years of inflammation at Tayma; letter opening attached to ch. 3 in Jewish Bibles (3:31–33; Seow 2003); tree linked to Ezekiel 31 (Seow); no Babylonian evidence of the illness cited
Cited in: 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)
Prayer of Nabonidus — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: 4Q242 (Israel Museum), Aramaic, script c. 50–25 BC (Milik) / second quarter 1st c. BC (Cross); Nabonidus reports an ulcer for seven years at Tayma, forgiven and healed by God, a Judean urges him to proclaim it; usually assumed that Daniel depends on it (or a common tradition; Lange & Sieker; von Soden)
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's boast, madness and restoration (Dan 4:28–37)
Daniel on Nebuchadnezzar's madness — Livius.org
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Cuneiform texts reveal nothing about Nebuchadnezzar's mental health; the story was originally about Nabonidus (Verse Account rumours of illness; Prayer of Nabonidus); Daniel avoids naming Nabonidus
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East India House Inscription — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Limestone foundation tablet of Nebuchadnezzar II found at Babylon before 1803; British Museum 1938,0520.1; probably from one of his numerous constructions; records his temple building and care for the shrines of Babylon and Borsippa
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Thaima (Tayma) — Pleiades place 814739
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Representative point read from the Pleiades JSON record: lon 38.55, lat 27.6219.
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Cyrus Cylinder — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Found at Babylon (Esagila foundation deposit per the article; Rassam gave conflicting locations) in March 1879 by Hormuzd Rassam; British Museum BM 90920, reg. 1880,0617.1941 (cited to the BM database); baked clay, Akkadian; dated 539–538 or 539–530 BC
Cited in: Fall of Babylon to Cyrus (October 539 BC)
Nabonidus Cylinder — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Four cylinders found by J. G. Taylor in 1854 in the foundation of the ziggurat at Ur; name Belshazzar as eldest son; no museum numbers given for the Ur cylinders
Belshazzar — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Called mār šarri, never šarru; documents not dated by his years; Nabonidus left Babylon May 553, returned Oct 543 (best supported); fate unknown ("none of the sources record it"); possible descent from Nebuchadnezzar through his mother (Shea 1982 on Nitocris); critical view via Collins, Laughlin, Seow
Cited in: 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)
Darius the Mede — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Identifications: Gubaru/Ugbaru; Cyrus (Wiseman 1965, Frye 1994, Colless 1992); Cambyses II; son of Astyages (Josephus, Jerome); Cyaxares II (Jerome, Calvin, Ussher, Keil, Hengstenberg; Hirsch defends Xenophon); Darius I projected (Newsom & Breed 2014); literary figure (Rowley 1935; Hill 2009); "most scholars view this Darius as a literary fiction"
Cited in: Belshazzar slain; Darius the Mede receives the kingdom (Dan 5:30–31)Darius appoints 120 satraps and three chief officials (Dan 6:1–3, 28)
Fall of Babylon — Wikipedia
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Its Julian date (12 Oct 539) is cited to a 2025 newspaper and a 2025 popular article, not to a chronology table; not relied on for the date.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Cuneiform texts say "without battle"; Briant calls this "prima facie unlikely" and Michalowski notes no contemporary evidence supports it; Herodotus and Xenophon describe a diverted river and festival; Tolini proposes a forced entry through the Enlil Gate; Belshazzar's death per Xenophon "not widely accepted"
Cited in: Fall of Babylon to Cyrus (October 539 BC)
Belshazzar's feast — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Seow 2003 pp. 80–84: mənê = mina, təqêl = shekel, parsîn = half-pieces, pun on Persia; verbs numbered/weighed/divided; possible total of 62 shekels = Darius's age; Collins 1984: a court-contest legend where historical accuracy is not essential; Belshazzar never king (Seow 2003 pp. 4–6)
Cited in: 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)
Babylonian Chronology 626 B.C.–A.D. 45 (SAOC 24)
Parker, Richard A., Dubberstein, Waldo H. · University of Chicago Press (Oriental Institute)
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: p. 11: Nabonidus Chronicle iii 14–18: Sippar fell VII/14/17 = 11 Oct 539, Babylon fell VII/16/17 = 13 Oct, Cyrus entered VIII/3 = 29 Oct; last Nabonidus tablet from Uruk dated the day after the fall (VII/17/17 = 14 Oct); Nabonidus's first texts 25 May 556, sole ruler by end of June 556; Neriglissar's last text 12 Apr 556; Cyrus's last texts Aug 530 (12 Aug), Cambyses's first 31 Aug 530; year tables: Cyrus year 1 Nisan 1 = 24 Mar 538
Cited in: The word to Jeremiah in Jehoiakim's fourth year, Nebuchadnezzar's first (Jer 25:1–14)Belshazzar slain; Darius the Mede receives the kingdom (Dan 5:30–31)Daniel continues until the first year of King Cyrus (Dan 1:21)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)Artaxerxes sends Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem, Nisan of his twentieth year (Neh 2:1–8)Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)Daniel reads Jeremiah's seventy years and prays (Dan 9:1–19)Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)Daniel's vision by the Tigris in the third year of Cyrus (Dan 10:1–11:1)Evil-merodach (Amēl-Marduk) releases Jehoiachin (561 BC)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)Haggai and Zechariah stir the people; the Temple work resumes (Darius's second year, 520 BC)Haggai's oracles of 24/IX, Darius year 2: "from this day I will bless you"; Zerubbabel the signet Haggai's oracle on the latter glory of the house (21/VII, Darius year 2)Zechariah's first oracle: the call to return (8th month, Darius year 2)Zechariah's night visions (24 Shebat, Darius year 2; Zech 1:7–6:8)The Bethel delegation and the question of fasting; Zechariah's answer (4/IX, Darius year 4)Hanani's report at Susa and Nehemiah's prayer (Chislev, Artaxerxes's 20th year)Nehemiah's first governorship: twelve years, 20th–32nd year of Artaxerxes (445–433 BC)The wall completed on 25 Elul after fifty-two days (Neh 6:15–19)Ezra reads the Law on the first day of the seventh month (Neh 7:73b–8:12)The Feast of Booths kept "as it is written" (Neh 8:13–18)Ahasuerus's third-year feast at Susa and the deposing of Vashti (Esth 1; 483/482 BC)Esther made queen in Tebeth of Xerxes's seventh year (Esth 2:1–18; winter 479/478 BC)Haman casts pur and the decree against the Jews (Esth 3; Nisan 474 BC)The Jews defend themselves on 13–14 Adar (Esth 9:1–19; 473 BC)Mordecai's counter-decree of 23 Sivan (Esth 8; June 474 BC)
Nabonidus and Belshazzar: A Study of the Closing Events of the Neo-Babylonian Empire
Dougherty, Raymond Philip · Yale University Press (Yale Oriental Series Researches 15)
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. 96–97: oath formulas dated in Nabonidus's 12th year swear by Nabonidus, king of Babylon, "and Belshazzar, the son of the king" (Pinches; two Yale tablets) — no other oath in the name of a king's son; pp. 196–197: "third ruler" read as third after Nabonidus and Belshazzar (first suggested by Grotius); notes Torrey's alternative reading; Genouillac's Nabonidus-behind-Nebuchadnezzar thesis called "extremely hypothetical"
Cited in: Belshazzar's feast and the writing on the wall (Dan 5:1–29)Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)
Daniel in the lions' den — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Tales of chs. 1–6 originally independent folktales of the Persian and Hellenistic periods (Collins 1984); collected mid-2nd century BC (Seow 2003); chs. 4–6 differ markedly in the oldest texts (Redditt 2008); closest parallel is Daniel 3 (Seow 2003); no discussion of satrapy counts, Persian law or lion-keeping
Cited in: The thirty-day decree and Daniel in the lions' den (Dan 6:4–23)
Studies in the Book of Daniel: A Discussion of the Historical Questions
Wilson, Robert Dick · G. P. Putnam's Sons
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Rights: Published 1917; public domain
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. 141–144: Darius the Mede identified with Gobryas; Daniel's 120 "satraps" compared with the Chronicle's statement that Gobryas appointed governors (pīḫātu) in Babylon; "satrap" ambiguous and applied in Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar's officers; Esther's 127 provinces, Behistun's 23 lands and Xenophon's six satraps compared; argues 120 officials in Babylonia alone are possible
Cited in: Belshazzar slain; Darius the Mede receives the kingdom (Dan 5:30–31)Darius appoints 120 satraps and three chief officials (Dan 6:1–3, 28)Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)Composition of the book of Daniel (date and authorship debated)
Strong's Hebrew/Aramaic 324, ʾăḥašdarpan — Bible Hub (BDB)
Brown, Driver, Briggs (BDB), Bible Hub · Bible Hub
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Aramaic plural "satraps"; corresponds to Old Persian khshathra-pāvan, "protector of the realm"; nine occurrences, Dan 3:2, 3, 27 and 6:1–7
Cited in: Darius appoints 120 satraps and three chief officials (Dan 6:1–3, 28)
Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: North Palace reliefs, Nineveh, c. 645–635 BC (British Museum Room 10a; Reade 1998): captured lions released from cages into an arena for the king; Ashurnasirpal II inscription on lion cubs kept in cages at Kalhu (Oates & Oates 2001, p. 34); no mention of lion pits
Cited in: The thirty-day decree and Daniel in the lions' den (Dan 6:4–23)
The Book of Daniel (Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges)
Driver, S. R. · Cambridge University Press
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. 94–98: table of the "Roman" (A) and "Grecian" (B) theories; A first in 2 Esdras 12:11, then Barnabas, Hippolytus, the Fathers, Auberlen, Hengstenberg, Keil, Pusey; papal (Rule 1869) and futurist variants; Driver's objection that no ten kingdoms arise from Rome; pp. 98–102: B first in Ephrem Syrus, then Ewald, Bleek, Delitzsch, Kuenen, Bevan; little horn of ch. 7 = that of ch. 8 (Antiochus); time, times, half = 3½ years as in 12:7; candidate Seleucid lists for the ten horns; pp. 102–107: "one like a son of man" = ideal Israel (vv. 18, 22, 27), messianic reading early (Similitudes of Enoch)
3. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Introduction pp. x–xi: the image signifies four empires, "in all probability the Median, Persian, and Greek" after Babylon, the stone = the kingdom of God; p. lxxxvii: the kingdom of God follows "immediately upon the overthrow of the 'fourth empire' in the person of Antiochus Epiphanes"
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's campaign against Jerusalem in Jehoiakim's third year (Dan 1:1–2)Nebuchadnezzar's dream and Daniel's interpretation (Dan 2:1–45)Nebuchadnezzar's golden image on the plain of Dura (Dan 3:1–7)The thirty-day decree and Daniel in the lions' den (Dan 6:4–23)Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat at Susa (Dan 8)Rededication of the Temple by Judas Maccabaeus (25 Chislev 148 SE, 165/164 BC)Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)Gabriel comes at the evening offering with the word of the seventy weeks (Dan 9:20–27)Daniel reads Jeremiah's seventy years and prays (Dan 9:1–19)Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)Daniel's vision by the Tigris in the third year of Cyrus (Dan 10:1–11:1)Popillius Laenas orders Antiochus IV out of Egypt at Eleusis (168 BC)Death of Antiochus IV at Tabae in Persia (164 BC)Battle of Panium: Antiochus III defeats Scopas (c. 200–198 BC)Battle of Magnesia: Rome defeats Antiochus III (190 BC)Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV defeats Antiochus III (217 BC)Desecration of the Temple: the "abomination of desolation" (15 Chislev 145 SE, 168/167 BC)The closing dialogue by the river: the oath, the numbers and Daniel's dismissal (Dan 12:5–13)Composition of the book of Daniel (date and authorship debated)
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel (ICC)
Montgomery, James A. · T. & T. Clark
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Three classes of son-of-man interpretation: (1) personal, messianic — "the eldest" and formerly prevailing in Jewish and Christian exegesis; (2) symbolic of the people of the saints — "itself an ancient view"; (3) mythological — recent; messianic and non-messianic views found "almost indifferently with conservatives and radicals"; Montgomery holds that the saints are the group typified by the human figure
Cited in: The thirty-day decree and Daniel in the lions' den (Dan 6:4–23)Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat at Susa (Dan 8)Rededication of the Temple by Judas Maccabaeus (25 Chislev 148 SE, 165/164 BC)Gabriel comes at the evening offering with the word of the seventy weeks (Dan 9:20–27)Daniel's vision by the Tigris in the third year of Cyrus (Dan 10:1–11:1)Desecration of the Temple: the "abomination of desolation" (15 Chislev 145 SE, 168/167 BC)The closing dialogue by the river: the oath, the numbers and Daniel's dismissal (Dan 12:5–13)Composition of the book of Daniel (date and authorship debated)
Daniel 7 — Wikipedia
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Four kingdoms Babylon–Media–Persia–Greece and little horn = Antiochus IV (Levine 2010); collective son of man "the usual suggestion" (uncited); angelic leader of God's host (Michael) "the main alternative view" (Collins 1998, pp. 101–103); visionary chapters 167–164 BC, ch. 7 somewhat earlier, "most scholars accept" its unity (Collins 1984); Baal–Yamm background accepted by "many scholars" (unnamed)
Cited in: Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)
Susa/Seleucia ad Eulaeum — Pleiades place 912936
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Cited in: Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat at Susa (Dan 8)
Saimarreh/Eulaeus?/Ula(ya)? (river) — Pleiades place 903109
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Identification marked uncertain by Pleiades itself ("?"); representative point lon 47.343, lat 33.470 lies far upstream of Susa.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Title "Saimarreh/Eulaeus?/Ula(ya)? (river)", names Eulaeus, Ulaya, Ula; cited from Barrington Atlas 92 B3
Tigris/Diglitus (river) — Pleiades place 912964
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Karkheh/Eulaeus?/Ula(ya)? (river) — Pleiades place 912877
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Seleucid Era — Encyclopaedia Iranica
Strootman, Rolf · Encyclopaedia Iranica (online), 2015
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Published 25 Mar 2015; does not say which calendar 1 or 2 Maccabees uses.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Two calendars: the Babylonian year began in spring with Nisannu, the Macedonian year at the autumn equinox; year 1 SE = 312/311 BCE
Cited in: Rededication of the Temple by Judas Maccabaeus (25 Chislev 148 SE, 165/164 BC)Desecration of the Temple: the "abomination of desolation" (15 Chislev 145 SE, 168/167 BC)
A Handbook on Nehemiah (UBS Helps for Translators) — on Neh 2:1
Noss, Philip A., Thomas, Kenneth J. · United Bible Societies, 2005 (via Translation Insights and Perspectives)
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Nisan could not follow Chislev in the same calendar year; proposals: emend 1:1 to "the nineteenth year", count regnal years from the accession, or an autumn new year; translators should render the text as it stands
Cited in: Artaxerxes sends Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem, Nisan of his twentieth year (Neh 2:1–8)
Ulai — International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Pinches, T. G. · ISBE, ed. J. Orr (1915; Eerdmans reprint 1939) — internationalstandardbible.com
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The web page gives the 1939 Eerdmans printing.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: "There is but little doubt that the Ulai is the Kerkhah"; Assyrian Ulaa/Ulaia, with Ashurbanipal's reliefs of the campaign against Te-umman
The Aramaic of Daniel
Kitchen, K. A. · In D. J. Wiseman (ed.), Notes on Some Problems in the Book of Daniel, Tyndale Press, 1965, pp. 31–79
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: p. 79 summary: the date of Daniel "cannot be decided upon linguistic grounds alone"; a second-century date cannot be based on three Greek words, and a late sixth-century date is early enough for the Persian words; nine-tenths of the vocabulary is attested in the fifth century or earlier
Cited in: Composition of the book of Daniel (date and authorship debated)
The Musical Instruments in Nebuchadnezzar's Orchestra
Mitchell, T. C., Joyce, R. · In D. J. Wiseman (ed.), Notes on Some Problems in the Book of Daniel, Tyndale Press, 1965, pp. 19–27
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: The instruments are poorly identifiable; kitharis occurs already in Homer; with such scanty material "a sixth-century date for the orchestra cannot be categorically denied"
Cited in: Composition of the book of Daniel (date and authorship debated)
The Royal Inscriptions of Nabopolassar (625–605 BC) and Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 BC), Kings of Babylon, Part 1 (RINBE 1/1)
Novotny, Jamie, Weiershäuser, Frauke · Eisenbrauns (University Park, PA), 2024
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Read the Introduction in the open-access PDF.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Introduction p. 13: at Babylon Nebuchadnezzar worked on no fewer than thirteen temples and the ziggurat, renovated one palace and built two more, completed the inner and outer walls "nearly doubling Babylon's size", redug a canal, and raised the processional ways three times; Nbk. 2, the East India House Inscription (BM 129397), a 1,592-word text whose prologue summarises his building at Babylon and Borsippa
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's boast, madness and restoration (Dan 4:28–37)
The Royal Inscriptions of Amēl-Marduk (561–560 BC), Neriglissar (559–556 BC), and Nabonidus (555–539 BC), Kings of Babylon (RINBE 2)
Weiershäuser, Frauke, Novotny, Jamie · Eisenbrauns (University Park, PA), 2020
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Introduction n. 46: the Ḫarrān Stele gives Nabonidus ten years in Arabia, the Qumran Prayer of Nabonidus seven years in Tēmā; Nabonidus claims to have begun building projects on instruction received in dreams, "one acceptable means" of divine communication; Nabonidus 3 (Babylon Stele) vi 12′–36′: in a dream Nebuchadnezzar (II) asks Nabonidus to report what he has seen (Jupiter, the moon and Marduk)
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's dream and Daniel's interpretation (Dan 2:1–45)Nebuchadnezzar's boast, madness and restoration (Dan 4:28–37)
When Did Jerusalem Fall?
Young, Rodger C. · Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 47/1 (2004) 21–38
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Babylonian records for the destruction are lost; scholars divide on 586 vs 587 (Hughes lists eleven for each; Thiele 586; Wiseman and Kitchen 587); conclusion: Jerusalem fell in Tammuz 587; Ezekiel and 2 Kgs 24–25 use Tishri years, 2 Kings non-accession years for Nebuchadnezzar; the siege began c. January 589
Cited in: 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)
Rablê (Riblah) — Pleiades place 431124909
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Jericho — Pleiades place 687917
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Tell en-Nasbeh (Mizpah in Benjamin?) — Pleiades place 666067876
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Name "Mizpah in Benjamin" attached with association certainty "less-certain"; representative point lon 35.2165, lat 31.8854.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Names: Tall al-Naṣbah (certain); Mizpah in Benjamin (less-certain); reprPoint lon 35.2165, lat 31.8854
Cited in: Gedaliah governs from Mizpah and is assassinated (2 Kgs 25:22–26)
The Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Chapters XL–LXVI (Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges)
Skinner, John · Cambridge University Press, 1898 (1915 printing)
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. xv–xvii: the first modern challenge to Isaianic authorship was Döderlein (1775), with Ibn Ezra a guarded forerunner; since Delitzsch (1890) an exilic author is "the unanimous verdict of Old Testament scholarship", on historical, conceptual and stylistic grounds; pp. xxxiii–xl: Cyrus is already a famous conqueror but Babylon not yet taken, so chs. 40–48 date between 550 and 539, "almost certainly after 546"
Cited in: Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)
Biblical Commentary on the Books of the Kings (Clark's Foreign Theological Library)
Keil, C. F., Martin, James (trans.) · T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1872
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. 473–475: the reform cannot all fall within the eighteenth year (against Ussher's placing of the Passover at its close); the narrative groups by subject; idolatry's removal began earlier (2 Chr 34:3); pp. 478–479 (notes): the "book of the law" is the Temple copy of the Pentateuch, not a separate collection; de Wette conceded this as the first certain trace of the Pentateuch; "find" is not "forge"; on 22:20 "gathered to his fathers" is used also of death in battle, "in peace" = without seeing Jerusalem's devastation; pp. 493–496: Josiah opposed Necho to keep Judah from Egyptian control; Herodotus's Magdolos is a confusion with Megiddo, not the Egyptian Migdol (against Movers); Necho probably came by sea to Acco; Chronicles does not affirm that Josiah died in Jerusalem
Cited in: The Passover of Josiah's eighteenth year Temple repairs and the finding of the book of the law (Josiah's 18th year)Josiah's covenant and the purge of Jerusalem and Judah Josiah killed at Megiddo by Necho II (609 BC)Josiah's delegation consults Huldah the prophetess
The Second Book of the Kings, with Introduction and Notes (Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges)
Lumby, J. Rawson · Cambridge University Press, 1887
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: On 22:8: the law had been neglected for nearly sixty years under Manasseh and Amon, so its loss is unsurprising; on 22:20 "in peace": none of the denounced evils would come in his time; on 23:29: Necho's "expedition against the king of Assyria was B.C. 610"; Necho probably came by sea; "Josiah at this time was in alliance with, or perhaps tributary to, Assyria"; on 23:30: from Zech 12:11 it "has been supposed that Josiah did not die till he reached Hadad-Rimmon"; Jeremiah's dirge probably lost; on 23:22–23: Kings omits Hezekiah's passover; the point is that none had been kept in this complete form since Samuel
Cited in: The Passover of Josiah's eighteenth year Temple repairs and the finding of the book of the law (Josiah's 18th year)Josiah killed at Megiddo by Necho II (609 BC)Josiah's delegation consults Huldah the prophetess
An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament (1st ed.)
Driver, S. R. · T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1891
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. 81–82: Deuteronomy must have been written before the eighteenth year of Josiah (B.C. 621), when Hilkiah found the "book of the law"; that book "must have contained Deuteronomy" (covenant allusions, 23:2–3; the reform follows Dt step by step); Hilkiah's authorship improbable; composition "not later than the reign of Manasseh"; p. 183: the prophecy against the altar of Bethel (1 Kgs 13) is "a narrative not probably of very early origin", the names of both prophets being no longer remembered
Cited in: Josiah desecrates Jeroboam's altar at Bethel and the high places of Samaria Temple repairs and the finding of the book of the law (Josiah's 18th year)
Archaeological Proof for Hilkiah the High Priest
Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology · Armstrong Institute (armstronginstitute.org)
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Popular, advocacy-leaning summary; cites T. Schneider, Biblical Archaeology Review July–August 1991 (not read). Treated as a secondary report only.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Bulla "Belonging to Azariah, son of Hilkiah" excavated by Yigal Shiloh in 1982 in the City of David ("house of bullae", 51 bullae), found in the same stratum as the Gemariah son of Shaphan bulla (quoting Schneider); concedes the bulla "does not explicitly say that it belonged to the high priest"; a second seal "Hanan son of Hilkiah the priest" is unprovenanced (antiquities market, published by J. Elayi 1987)
Cited in: Temple repairs and the finding of the book of the law (Josiah's 18th year)
Magidû (Megiddo) — Pleiades place 26356565
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Representative point read from the Pleiades JSON record: lon 35.18373, lat 32.58378.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Names Tel Megiddo, Magidû, Megiddo (all "certain"); modern Tell al-Mutesellim; reprPoint lon 35.18373, lat 32.58378
Cited in: Josiah killed at Megiddo by Necho II (609 BC)
Beitin (Bethel) — Pleiades place 260940008
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Representative point read from the Pleiades JSON record: lon 35.238333, lat 31.928333. Pleiades gives the names Bethela and Bethega (certain) for Beitin.
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Title Beitin; names Bethela, Bethega (certain); reprPoint lon 35.238333, lat 31.928333
Cited in: Josiah desecrates Jeroboam's altar at Bethel and the high places of Samaria
Biblical Commentary on the Books of the Chronicles (Clark's Foreign Theological Library)
Keil, C. F., Harper, Andrew (trans.) · T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1872
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. 488–490: Chronicles keeps the events "according to their order in time" — seeking God in the eighth year (aged sixteen), purging from the twelfth year (begun, not completed, then: "he commenced to cleanse"; cf. v. 33), law book in the eighteenth; p. 504 n.: the LXX addition "in the eighth month" at 2 Kgs 22:3, used by Thenius and Bertheau for autumn-reckoned regnal years, is a "worthless gloss"; pp. 504–505: Necho came "to fight at Carchemish"; "the house of my war" = his hereditary enemy; the God who commanded Necho is the true God, but no special revelation need be supposed
Cited in: The Passover of Josiah's eighteenth year Josiah's covenant and the purge of Jerusalem and Judah Josiah killed at Megiddo by Necho II (609 BC)Josiah seeks God (8th year) and begins to purge Judah and Israel (12th year) — Chronicles
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Books of Chronicles (International Critical Commentary)
Curtis, Edward Lewis, Madsen, Albert Alonzo · T. & T. Clark / Scribner, 1910
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. 501–502: Kings knows no reform before the eighteenth year; the Chronicler makes Josiah pious from his eighth year and moves the purge before the discovery because "such a pious king … must be represented as pious from his youth"; p. 503: harmonisation (Bertheau, Zöckler, Oettli) treats Kings as describing the consummation of an earlier reform; p. 511: since Josiah was slain at Megiddo, "in peace" suggests Huldah's words were written before his death — "a testimony to the genuineness of the prophecy"; pp. 516–518: Necho reigned 609–594; Carchemish is the "geographical goal" introduced from the defeat there two years later; Josiah probably acted to preserve Judah's independence; the embassy is "probably" a fiction; the death is modelled on Ahab's; the battle was at Megiddo not because Necho came by sea (against Cheyne) but as an old battle-ground; Chronicles says he died after reaching Jerusalem; an assassination reading of Kings is unlikely; Jeremiah's elegy is lost; the "lamentations" are not the canonical book; a reference in Zech 12:11 is "very doubtful"
Cited in: Josiah's covenant and the purge of Jerusalem and Judah Josiah killed at Megiddo by Necho II (609 BC)Josiah seeks God (8th year) and begins to purge Judah and Israel (12th year) — Chronicles
Biblical Commentary on the Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther (Clark's Foreign Theological Library)
Keil, C. F., Taylor, Sophia (trans.) · T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1873
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. 45–46: 42,360 in Ezra, Nehemiah and 1 Esdras; itemised totals 29,818, 31,089 and 30,143 (table by groups); "undoubtedly owing to mere clerical errors"; rejects the view of Seder Olam, Rashi and Ussher that the total adds northern Israelites, and J. D. Michaelis's use of 1 Esd 5:41 ("from twelve years old") for an age distinction; p. 55: Solomon's temple destroyed B.C. 588, the new foundation "laid B.C. 535 or 534"; some old men still living in Darius's second year (Hag 2:2)
Cited in: Artaxerxes sends Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem, Nisan of his twentieth year (Neh 2:1–8)The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)The altar rebuilt in Jerusalem and the Feast of Booths kept (Ezra 3:1–7)The return of the exiles with Zerubbabel and Jeshua; the list of returnees (Ezra 2)The foundation of the Second Temple laid (Ezra 3:8–13)Haggai and Zechariah stir the people; the Temple work resumes (Darius's second year, 520 BC)Opposition from the people of the land; the Temple work ceases until Darius's second year (Ezra 4:1–5, 24)Accusations to Ahasuerus and the Rehum–Shimshai letter to Artaxerxes; the city's rebuilding stopped (Ezra 4:6–23)The returned exiles keep the Passover after the Temple's dedication (Ezra 6:19–22)Ezra's caravan from the Ahava to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:7–10; 8)The mixed-marriages crisis: Ezra's confession, the assembly in the rain (20/IX) and the commission (Ezra 9–10)Hanani's report at Susa and Nehemiah's prayer (Chislev, Artaxerxes's 20th year)Plots against Nehemiah: Ono, the open letter, Shemaiah (Neh 6:1–14)The wall completed on 25 Elul after fifty-two days (Neh 6:15–19)Jerusalem guarded under Hanani and Hananiah; the registry of the first returnees found (Neh 7:1–5)Ezra reads the Law on the first day of the seventh month (Neh 7:73b–8:12)The Feast of Booths kept "as it is written" (Neh 8:13–18)The sealed covenant to keep the law and support the temple (Neh 9:38–10:39)The fast of the twenty-fourth day and the Levites' confession (Neh 9)Nehemiah's return and second-term reforms (Neh 13:4–31)Jerusalem repopulated: one in ten by lot (Neh 11)The dedication of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27–13:3)The priestly and Levitical registers to the days of Jaddua (Neh 12:1–26)Mordecai uncovers the plot of Bigthan and Teresh (Esth 2:19–23)Ahasuerus's third-year feast at Susa and the deposing of Vashti (Esth 1; 483/482 BC)Esther made queen in Tebeth of Xerxes's seventh year (Esth 2:1–18; winter 479/478 BC)Mordecai mourns; Esther resolves to go to the king (Esth 4)Esther before the king; the first banquet; Haman's gallows (Esth 5)Haman casts pur and the decree against the Jews (Esth 3; Nisan 474 BC)The sleepless king; Mordecai honoured by Haman (Esth 6)The institution of Purim; Mordecai second to the king (Esth 9:20–10:3)The Jews defend themselves on 13–14 Adar (Esth 9:1–19; 473 BC)Mordecai's counter-decree of 23 Sivan (Esth 8; June 474 BC)The second banquet; Haman hanged (Esth 7)
The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah, with Introduction, Notes and Maps (Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges)
Ryle, Herbert Edward · Cambridge University Press, 1893
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Introduction: Sheshbazzar's position perhaps temporary, Zerubbabel perhaps arriving with a second contingent as resident governor; 42,360 perhaps only heads of families; the foundation "in the second year of their coming" is "in all probability" 536; condemned as unhistorical by some on three grounds (Ezra 5:2 with 4:24; Hag 2:18; Ezra 5:16), which Ryle answers: "began to build" can mean resumption, Hag 2:18 dates the prophet's utterance not the foundation, and Ezra 5:16 assumes Sheshbazzar laid the foundation; on 2:69: "darics" are the Persian gold coin; derivation from Darius "far from certain"; first mention of coined money in the OT, the reference in 1 Chr 29:7 being "strictly an anachronism"
Cited in: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)The return of the exiles with Zerubbabel and Jeshua; the list of returnees (Ezra 2)The foundation of the Second Temple laid (Ezra 3:8–13)Haggai and Zechariah stir the people; the Temple work resumes (Darius's second year, 520 BC)Opposition from the people of the land; the Temple work ceases until Darius's second year (Ezra 4:1–5, 24)Accusations to Ahasuerus and the Rehum–Shimshai letter to Artaxerxes; the city's rebuilding stopped (Ezra 4:6–23)The returned exiles keep the Passover after the Temple's dedication (Ezra 6:19–22)Ezra's caravan from the Ahava to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:7–10; 8)The mixed-marriages crisis: Ezra's confession, the assembly in the rain (20/IX) and the commission (Ezra 9–10)Hanani's report at Susa and Nehemiah's prayer (Chislev, Artaxerxes's 20th year)Plots against Nehemiah: Ono, the open letter, Shemaiah (Neh 6:1–14)
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah (International Critical Commentary)
Batten, Loring W. · T. & T. Clark / Scribner, 1913
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. 40–41: the altar restored first; "the foundations of the new temple were laid on the 24th day of the 9th month of the 2d year of Darius, 520 B.C. (Hg.)"; against Kosters, the altar passage implies only that this altar had not been restored; p. 101: the gifts "show that the passage followed the rebuilding of the temple"; "darics" vs drachma disputed; Smend says the word would be a later introduction if the list is early; the figures show "the hand of the Chr."; p. 103: qāhāl "suggests a date later than Cyrus"; total 42,360 or 42,308 (Greek of Nehemiah); pp. 114–115: Ezra 3:6b–4:3 parallels the Aramaic account of the rebuilding (cc. 5–6); the Chronicler "made sad havoc of his sources", placing the work under Cyrus; this disposes of Kosters's claim that vv. 8–13 are unhistorical
Cited in: The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)The altar rebuilt in Jerusalem and the Feast of Booths kept (Ezra 3:1–7)The return of the exiles with Zerubbabel and Jeshua; the list of returnees (Ezra 2)The foundation of the Second Temple laid (Ezra 3:8–13)Haggai and Zechariah stir the people; the Temple work resumes (Darius's second year, 520 BC)Opposition from the people of the land; the Temple work ceases until Darius's second year (Ezra 4:1–5, 24)Ezra's caravan from the Ahava to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:7–10; 8)Hanani's report at Susa and Nehemiah's prayer (Chislev, Artaxerxes's 20th year)The wall completed on 25 Elul after fifty-two days (Neh 6:15–19)Ezra reads the Law on the first day of the seventh month (Neh 7:73b–8:12)The Feast of Booths kept "as it is written" (Neh 8:13–18)The sealed covenant to keep the law and support the temple (Neh 9:38–10:39)The fast of the twenty-fourth day and the Levites' confession (Neh 9)
Ioppe (Joppa) — Pleiades place 687931
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Names Ioppe, Yafo, Joppe, Jaffa, Yapu (all certain); reprPoint lon 34.74993, lat 32.05308
Cited in: The altar rebuilt in Jerusalem and the Feast of Booths kept (Ezra 3:1–7)
Tattenai — Encyclopaedia Judaica (via Encyclopedia.com)
Porten, Bezalel · Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.), hosted by Encyclopedia.com
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Tattenai: "governor (peḥah) of the territory known as Beyond The River" (Ezra 5:3 ff.; 6:13 ff.); bibliography: A. T. Olmstead, JNES 3 (1944), 46; A. F. Rainey, Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology 1 (1969), 53
Cited in: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)
Ecbatana / Hagmatana / Achmeta (Hamadan) — Pleiades place 903021
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Names Ecbatana, Hagmatana, Achmeta, Hamadan (all certain); reprPoint lon 48.51641, lat 34.80556
Cited in: Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi and Jonah (International Critical Commentary)
Mitchell, Hinckley G., Smith, J. M. P., Bewer, J. A. · T. & T. Clark / Scribner, 1912
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. 20–22: Darius's first full year from Nisan 521; Haggai's first date (1/VI of year 2) "about the middle of August" 520, the work beginning days later; the movement came when the eastern revolts against Darius suggested the empire's collapse; 24/IX = December 520, the height of enthusiasm; pp. 62–63: 2:7 means the nations' "precious things" coming to the temple; the older Messianic reading (Vulgate desideratus, with Luke 2) "is now generally abandoned"; pp. 76–78: 2:23 — Haggai "identified Zerubbabel with the long-expected son of David"; the signet as one's most precious possession
Cited in: Haggai and Zechariah stir the people; the Temple work resumes (Darius's second year, 520 BC)Haggai's oracles of 24/IX, Darius year 2: "from this day I will bless you"; Zerubbabel the signet Haggai's oracle on the latter glory of the house (21/VII, Darius year 2)Zechariah's night visions (24 Shebat, Darius year 2; Zech 1:7–6:8)Crowns made from the exiles' gifts and set on Joshua; the oracle of the Branch (Zech 6:9–15)The Bethel delegation and the question of fasting; Zechariah's answer (4/IX, Darius year 4)The first "burden" of Zechariah 9–11 (undated oracle collection)The second "burden" of Zechariah 12–14 (undated oracle collection)Malachi's disputations with priests and people (Mal 1–4; undated, mid-fifth century BC)
Biblical Commentary on the Twelve Minor Prophets, vol. 2 (Clark's Foreign Theological Library)
Keil, C. F., Martin, James (trans.) · T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1868 (1878 printing)
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. 193–195 on 2:7: the Vulgate desideratus and the Messianic reading of chemdath discussed; a coming of the nations to the Messiah "would be a thought completely foreign to the context"; pp. 213–215 on 2:23: as a signet ring Zerubbabel would be inseparable from Jehovah (after Koehler, Calvin, Osiander); the promise applies not to his own person but to his position as representative of David's line
Cited in: Haggai's oracles of 24/IX, Darius year 2: "from this day I will bless you"; Zerubbabel the signet Haggai's oracle on the latter glory of the house (21/VII, Darius year 2)Zechariah's night visions (24 Shebat, Darius year 2; Zech 1:7–6:8)Crowns made from the exiles' gifts and set on Joshua; the oracle of the Branch (Zech 6:9–15)The Bethel delegation and the question of fasting; Zechariah's answer (4/IX, Darius year 4)The first "burden" of Zechariah 9–11 (undated oracle collection)The second "burden" of Zechariah 12–14 (undated oracle collection)Malachi's disputations with priests and people (Mal 1–4; undated, mid-fifth century BC)
Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century B.C.
Cowley, A. E. · Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1923
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: No. 30 (pp. 108–114): letter of Yedoniah and the priests of Yeb to Bigvai, governor of Judah, about the destroyed temple; line 18: "Johanan the high priest and his colleagues the priests who are in Jerusalem"; line 29: a letter sent "to Delaiah and Shelemiah the sons of Sanballat governor of Samaria"; line 30: "the 20th of Marheshwan, the 17th year of Darius the king" (Cowley: Darius II = 408 B.C.); Cowley: Nehemiah's Sanballat is "no doubt" the same; since Bigvai was governor in 408 the 32nd year of Neh 13:6 must be Artaxerxes I = 433 B.C., "a fixed point in the history of Nehemiah"; Johanan of Neh 12:22–23; Josephus telescopes the history; No. 21: no evidence identifies Hananiah of the Passover letter with any Hananiah of Nehemiah
Cited in: Artaxerxes sends Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem, Nisan of his twentieth year (Neh 2:1–8)Nehemiah arrives, inspects the walls by night and calls for rebuilding (Neh 2:9–20)The rebuilding of Jerusalem's wall and gates, section by section (Neh 3)Mockery, threats and the armed builders (Neh 4)Nehemiah's first governorship: twelve years, 20th–32nd year of Artaxerxes (445–433 BC)Nehemiah's return and second-term reforms (Neh 13:4–31)The priestly and Levitical registers to the days of Jaddua (Neh 12:1–26)

Theological commentary

Amos 1 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Located: Amos as sheep breeder of Tekoa; ministry c. 760–750 B.C.; treats "two years before the earthquake" as not useful for dating, quoting Boice that there is no independent record
Cited in: The earthquake in the days of Uzziah
Daniel 1 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Dates the siege to 605 BC; explains "third year" vs Jeremiah's "fourth year" by Babylonian accession-year counting; youths ~13–17; names and meanings; refusal of food as defilement/idolatry/covenant-fellowship concerns
Cited in: 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)Daniel's refusal of the king's food and the ten-day test (Dan 1:8–16)
Daniel 2 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Second-year problem (overlapping regnal years, 602 BC); Aramaic from 2:4 to 7:28; metals = Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome; ten toes = future revived Roman confederation; stone = the Messiah's kingdom, decisive future event
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's dream and Daniel's interpretation (Dan 2:1–45)Daniel appointed over the province of Babylon (Dan 2:46–49)
Daniel 3 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Date disputed (soon after ch. 2 or years later); image probably gold-overlaid, pillar-like (c. 90 × 9 ft); cites a mound with a pedestal as a possible Dura site; answers the Greek-instrument-names dating argument; fourth figure = the Son of God; refusal treated as treason
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar's golden image on the plain of Dura (Dan 3:1–7)Nebuchadnezzar's decree honouring the God of the three Judeans (Dan 3:28–30)The refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and the fiery furnace (Dan 3:8–27)
Daniel 4 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-12 — Claim checked: Royal decree as testimony; tree = the king; watchers as angels; boast matched by bricks and BM cylinders; boanthropy (1946 case); seven times = seven years; cites Abydenus (c. 268 BC) "possessed by some god"; gap in records c. 582–575 BC; does not mention Nabonidus
Cited in: 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)
Daniel 5 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Belshazzar eldest son of Nabonidus and co-regent from 553 BC (Nabonidus Cylinder, BM); "father" = grandfather or predecessor; third ruler because Belshazzar was second; mene/tekel/peres read as verbs (after Adam Clarke); Herodotus on the diverted Euphrates; Darius the Mede = Gubaru, a sub-king under Cyrus; cites Isa 44:28–45:7 and Jer 51:57–58 as fulfilled
Cited in: 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 6 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: No Darius in secular records for this time; Darius = Cyrus, Cambyses or (preferred) Gubaru, "Darius" perhaps an honorific; signed decrees binding on the king because he spoke for the gods; no historical example given for irrevocability; quotes Ammianus Marcellinus on Persian laws killing all kindred for one man's guilt; typology of burial and rescue
Cited in: The thirty-day decree and Daniel in the lions' den (Dan 6:4–23)Darius appoints 120 satraps and three chief officials (Dan 6:1–3, 28)The accusers punished; Darius's decree honouring the God of Daniel (Dan 6:24–27)
Daniel 7 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: No BC date for Belshazzar's first year; lion = Babylon, bear = Medo-Persia (Persia dominant; ribs = Babylon, Egypt, Lydia), leopard = Greece (four heads = Cassander, Lysimachus, Seleucus, Ptolemy), fourth beast = Rome; ten horns future (ten toes of Dan 2); little horn = future Antichrist from a restored Roman empire (rejects Calvin's Julius Caesar; notes the Adventist papacy view); Ancient of Days = God the Father; son of man = Jesus; time, times, half = 3½ years (Rev 11–13); kingdom received at Jesus' return, on the millennial earth
Cited in: Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
Newton, Isaac · Project Gutenberg #16878 (first published 1733)
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Ten horns = ten kingdoms into which the Western Roman Empire broke; the little horn is a kingdom, "a Seer, a Prophet and a King … the Church of Rome", rising to temporal dominion in the later 8th century; time, times and half a time = 1260 solar years (day-year); rejects Antiochus for the little horn of ch. 8
Cited in: Daniel's night vision of the four beasts and its interpretation (Dan 7)Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat at Susa (Dan 8)Gabriel comes at the evening offering with the word of the seventy weeks (Dan 9:20–27)Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)Daniel's vision by the Tigris in the third year of Cyrus (Dan 10:1–11:1)
Daniel 8 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: No BC date for the third year; Daniel in Shushan on the king's business (8:27); ram = Media and Persia (Persia higher, later); goat = Greece, great horn = Alexander; four horns = Cassander, Lysimachus, Seleucus, Ptolemy; little horn = Antiochus IV as near fulfillment and the Antichrist as far (dual); prefers 2,300 days (171–165 BC, cleansing 25 Dec 165) and notes Newell's 1,150 days (168–165); rejects William Miller's year-day 1844 reckoning; John 10:22
Cited in: Daniel's vision of the ram and the goat at Susa (Dan 8)Rededication of the Temple by Judas Maccabaeus (25 Chislev 148 SE, 165/164 BC)
Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ, about the Year 1843
Miller, William · Joshua V. Himes (Boston), 1842
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: The 2,300 days are years, beginning with the decree in the 7th year of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7), 457 BC, together with the seventy weeks; 2,300 − 457 = AD 1843
Cited in: Gabriel comes at the evening offering with the word of the seventy weeks (Dan 9:20–27)Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
Daniel 9 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Darius not identified beyond the text; prayer 3–4 years before 70 years from 605 ran out; Jeremiah's 70 years literal (Jer 25:11–13; 29:10), deportations 605/597/587; four candidate decrees (Cyrus 538, Darius 517, Artaxerxes 458, Artaxerxes 445) and only Neh 2 orders the street and wall; 1 Nisan 445 = 14 March; Anderson's 360-day years, 173,880 days to 6 April AD 32 (triumphal entry); notes AD 32 is controversial (most prefer 30 or 33); gap between weeks 69 and 70; the prince who is to come = Antichrist, heir of Rome; covenant with "the many" = Israel
Cited in: Artaxerxes sends Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem, Nisan of his twentieth year (Neh 2:1–8)Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)Gabriel comes at the evening offering with the word of the seventy weeks (Dan 9:20–27)Daniel reads Jeremiah's seventy years and prays (Dan 9:1–19)Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)
The Coming Prince, or the Seventy Weeks of Daniel (11th edition)
Anderson, Sir Robert · Pickering & Inglis (Glasgow), n.d. (first ed. 1881)
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Summary pp. vi–vii: decree of Artaxerxes in Nisan of his 20th year, 445 BC; 1 Nisan 445 = 14 March (new moon 13 March 445, 7h 9m, from a calculation sent by G. B. Airy, Royal Observatory, 26 June 1877); 69 weeks = 173,880 days of 360-day years, ending 6 April AD 32, the entry into Jerusalem (Zech 9:9); p. 77: "a gap or parenthesis" before the seventieth week, which is "of necessity still future"
Cited in: Artaxerxes sends Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem, Nisan of his twentieth year (Neh 2:1–8)Gabriel comes at the evening offering with the word of the seventy weeks (Dan 9:20–27)Daniel reads Jeremiah's seventy years and prays (Dan 9:1–19)
Daniel 10 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Daniel 10
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: No BC date given; Daniel (c. 84) stayed in Babylon after the first return; three weeks of partial fast (no pleasant food, meat, wine or anointing); the man in linen: some see a Christophany (cf. Rev 1:12–16), others a high-ranking angel — Guzik leans to an angel because Michael had to help; the prince of Persia is "a demon of high rank", not a human ruler; Michael Israel's guardian (Rev 12; Jude 9); cites Walvoord, Wood, Baldwin, Spurgeon, Archer
Cited in: Daniel's vision by the Tigris in the third year of Cyrus (Dan 10:1–11:1)
Daniel 11 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 11:2 three Persian kings then Xerxes (count omits Cyrus or Smerdis); 11:3–4 Alexander, four generals; 11:5 Ptolemy I and Seleucus; 11:6 Antiochus II and Berenice; 11:7–9 Ptolemy III; 11:10 "Seleucus III and Antiochus III"; 11:11–12 Raphia; 11:13–16 Antiochus III takes the Holy Land; 11:17 Cleopatra; 11:18–19 Lucius Scipio, death after robbing a temple; 11:20 names "Seleucus III, the eldest son of Antiochus III"; 11:21–35 Antiochus IV; 11:36 transition to the future Antichrist ("trailer" and "feature"); 11:40 king of the North possibly Russia (speculative); no BC dates except Smerdis 522–521
Cited in: Daniel's vision by the Tigris in the third year of Cyrus (Dan 10:1–11:1)Assassination of Seleucus IV and accession of Antiochus IV (175 BC)Composition of the book of Daniel (date and authorship debated)
Daniel 12 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Daniel 12
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: 12:1 "at that time" = era of 11:36–45; Michael; the time of trouble = Great Tribulation (Jer 30:7; Matt 24:21), worse than Antiochus, AD 70 or the Holocaust; 12:2 bodily resurrection, two resurrections (John 5:29; Rev 20:4–6), "many" may mean all (Baldwin); rejects national-resurrection reading; 12:4 sealing preserves; "run to and fro" more about searching for knowledge (Wood, Newell); quotes Adam Clarke; 12:7 time, times, half = 3½ years, last half of the 70th week; 12:11–12 tentative: 1,260 return, 1,290 government installed, 1,335 judgment of nations (Smith); Antiochus not linked to the numbers
Cited in: The closing dialogue by the river: the oath, the numbers and Daniel's dismissal (Dan 12:5–13)
Biblical Commentary on the Book of Daniel (Keil & Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament)
Keil, C. F., Easton, M. G. (trans.) · T. & T. Clark (Edinburgh), 1872
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Downloaded and read the OCR text (chs. 9 and 12)
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: pp. 373–374, 399–402: the seventy "sevens" are symbolic, not chronological (after Kliefoth and Leyrer); seven sevens from the word to restore Jerusalem (Isa 44:28, Cyrus) to the Messiah, sixty-two of building in troubled times, the last week the final enemy; pp. 500–502: the 1,290 and 1,335 days are symbolic; no event 45 days after Antiochus's death marks a better time (1 Macc 6:18–54; 7:26–50)
2 Kings 24 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: First campaign 605 (a few choice captives such as Daniel); Jehoiakim died about December 598 (quoting Wiseman); 2 Chr 36:6 and Jer 22:19 noted; Jehoiachin 18 (Kings) vs 8 (2 Chr 36:9, "probably a copyist's error"); 10,000 and 7,000 + 1,000 deportees; Ezekiel among the captives; Zedekiah 21, eleven years; final destruction 586
Cited in: Nebuchadnezzar installs Mattaniah as King Zedekiah (2 Kgs 24:17–20)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)Capture of Jerusalem and deportation of Jehoiachin (March 597 BC)Death of Jehoiakim and the three-month reign of Jehoiachin (2 Kgs 24:5–9)
2 Kings 25 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Siege from 10/X of Zedekiah's 9th year about a year and a half (Wiseman); breach 9/IV of the 11th year; capture at Jericho, judgment at Riblah; Temple burned 7/V of Nebuchadnezzar's 19th year; Gedaliah killed in the 7th month and flight to Egypt; Jehoiachin released 27/XII of the 37th year by Evil-Merodach; no discussion of 587 vs 586 or of Jer 52:12
Cited in: Evil-merodach (Amēl-Marduk) releases Jehoiachin (561 BC)Gedaliah governs from Mizpah and is assassinated (2 Kgs 25:22–26)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)Nebuzaradan burns the Temple and Jerusalem (5th month of Nebuchadnezzar's 19th year)
Jeremiah 52 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Chapter close to 2 Kgs 24:18–25:30 (Clarke); 10th vs 7th day: interval between Nebuzaradan's arrival and the burning (Harrison); 52:28–30 (3,023 + 832 + 745 = 4,600) "a portion of the exiles, and only the adult males" (Harrison: actual head count of adult males; Feinberg); 52:12 vs 52:29 explained by counting with and without the accession year (Cundall); no BC dates
Cited in: The deportation of Nebuchadnezzar's twenty-third year (Jer 52:30)
2 Chronicles 36 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on 2 Chronicles 36
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Jehoahaz deposed by Necho after three months, tribute 100 talents of silver and a talent of gold; 36:6 does not say Jehoiakim reached Babylon (Knapp: perhaps released); "eight" for Jehoiachin probably a copyist's error; the land owed seventy sabbaths after about 490 years of neglect; Cyrus's decree 538, Babylon fell 539; 605, 597 (16 March) and 586 (one passage says 587)
Cited in: Necho II deposes Jehoahaz and installs Jehoiakim (609 BC)
Jeremiah 25 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Jeremiah 25
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Fourth year of Jehoiakim = 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar's first; possibly between Carchemish and his return to Babylon; "my servant" (absent in the LXX); seventy years: round number 605–c. 536 (Harrison) or literal (Feinberg; Guzik favours literal); the "many nations and great kings" = Medes and Persians under Cyrus (Feinberg); the cup list too complete for one event — ultimate fulfilment in the final judgment (Rev 19); Sheshach as an atbash cipher for Babylon, following Jerome (with Kidner's caution)
Cited in: The word to Jeremiah in Jehoiakim's fourth year, Nebuchadnezzar's first (Jer 25:1–14)
Ezra 1 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Ezra 1
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Decree 538 BC (Ezra 1:1–4; 5:13–17); Cyrus Cylinder cited (Payne, Kidner); Josephus says Cyrus was shown Isaiah (Clarke); a "spirit-stirred minority" returned; Mithredath the treasurer; Sheshbazzar "prince of Judah", perhaps the same as Zerubbabel (Kidner: official name; Clarke: Chaldean name) or distinct; the vessel totals not discussed
Cited in: Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)Cyrus returns the Temple vessels to Sheshbazzar; the first return (Ezra 1:5–11)
Isaiah 44 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Isaiah 44
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Cyrus named "more than 200 years before" his birth (Poole); "my shepherd" = the LORD's appointed carer (Motyer); Ezra records only the foundation laid under Cyrus; many modern scholars take the passage as the strongest argument for an exilic author; Guzik: the name cannot have been inserted later; Motyer: we cannot limit predictive prophecy; Josephus's Cyrus-read-Isaiah report via Bultema (220 years)
Cited in: Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)
Isaiah 45 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Cyrus "His anointed", a rare non-Israelite (Grogan); conquests via Xenophon (Trapp) and Herodotus; Babylon entered by diverting the Euphrates (Herodotus), inner bronze gates "inexplicably unlocked"; largely bloodless (Motyer); "I form the light and create darkness" against Persian dualism (Bultema); 45:13 Cyrus frees the exiles "not for price"; 45:23 and Phil 2:10–11
Cited in: Cyrus's proclamation permitting the return and the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1; 6:3–5)
2 Kings 22 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on 2 Kings 22
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Josiah king at eight after Amon's assassination; 2 Chr 34 has a commitment at 16 and a purge four years later (Wiseman: the two-stage sequence may suit the Chronicler's emphases); Jeremiah identified as son of this Hilkiah (Jer 1:1); law book possibly Deuteronomy (Wiseman: Josiah's acts depend on it) or Deut 28–31 (Clarke), even Moses' autograph (Clarke); Huldah otherwise known only from 2 Chr 34:22; Zephaniah active (Wiseman); "in peace" explained three ways though Josiah died in battle; Knapp: 1 Kgs 13:2 fulfilled after more than three hundred years
Cited in: The Passover of Josiah's eighteenth year Josiah desecrates Jeroboam's altar at Bethel and the high places of Samaria Temple repairs and the finding of the book of the law (Josiah's 18th year)Josiah's covenant and the purge of Jerusalem and Judah Josiah killed at Megiddo by Necho II (609 BC)Josiah's delegation consults Huldah the prophetess
2 Kings 23 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Covenant compared with Mizpah and Shechem (Wiseman); kemarim priests (Clarke); horses of the sun attested in Assyrian and Aramean sources (Patterson and Austel); Bethel reform possible because Assyria was weak; 1 Kgs 13:1–2 fulfilled; Passover; 23:29 "went to the aid of the king of Assyria" (NKJV) — Assyria allied with Egypt against Babylon; Josiah shot by archers after ignoring Necho's warning (2 Chr 35:20–25); place Hadad-rimmon (Clarke, Zech 12:11); Jehoahaz = Shallum, a throne name, primogeniture overridden (Wiseman); Jehoiakim's palace by forced labour (Wiseman)
Cited in: The Passover of Josiah's eighteenth year Josiah desecrates Jeroboam's altar at Bethel and the high places of Samaria Josiah's covenant and the purge of Jerusalem and Judah Josiah killed at Megiddo by Necho II (609 BC)
2 Chronicles 34 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on 2 Chronicles 34
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Payne links the twelfth year with Scythian incursions (628–626 BC); Wiseman: the two-stage sequence may fit the Chronicler's emphases; Payne: the book was misplaced when the ark was moved under Manasseh and Amon; Selman: neither Kings nor Chronicles directly supports the thesis, "advocated repeatedly since 1805", that the scroll was composed for a Deuteronomic reform; Selman: "in peace" means the exile would not come in Josiah's lifetime
Cited in: Josiah seeks God (8th year) and begins to purge Judah and Israel (12th year) — Chronicles
2 Chronicles 35 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on 2 Chronicles 35
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Passover on 14/I (Hezekiah's had been in the second month); 30,000 small cattle and 3,000 bulls from the king; Selman: total more than double Hezekiah's; Levites slaughtered the lambs; Necho "came up to fight against Carchemish" in support of Assyria; Josiah's opposition was in support of Assyria (Morgan); Payne: the battle at Megiddo has "archaeological confirmation" in Stratum II (not verified here); Selman: Josiah's death paralleled with Ahab's; Payne: the "Laments" are a lost book, not the canonical Lamentations
Cited in: The Passover of Josiah's eighteenth year Josiah killed at Megiddo by Necho II (609 BC)
Ezra 2 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Ezra 2
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Eleven leaders in 2:2, twelve in Neh 7:7 (Nahamani dropped, Kidner); Zerubbabel probably the same as Sheshbazzar (Ezra 5:16 vs 3:8); Jeshua = Joshua of Haggai and Zechariah (Kidner); Arah 775 vs 652 in Neh 7:10 (copyist error or attrition, Poole); three copies of the list (Clarke); Kidner: 42,360 in all three, items total 29,818 (Ezra), 31,089 (Nehemiah), 30,143 (1 Esdras) — explanations "the narrative is silent"; Murashu archives with Jewish names (Yamauchi); population estimates for postexilic Judah 20,000–235,000 (Yamauchi)
Cited in: The return of the exiles with Zerubbabel and Jeshua; the list of returnees (Ezra 2)
Ezra 3 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Ezra 3
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Altar rebuilt on its bases in the seventh month; Feast of Tabernacles; cedar from Lebanon via Joppa by Cyrus's "grant" (Kidner); foundation in the second month of the second year — the month Solomon began (Kidner); Levites from twenty years (1 Chr 23:24); old men wept (Hag 2:1–9; Zech 4:8–10); Jeshua grandson of Seraiah (Clarke)
Cited in: The altar rebuilt in Jerusalem and the Feast of Booths kept (Ezra 3:1–7)The foundation of the Second Temple laid (Ezra 3:8–13)
Ezra 4 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Adversaries = descendants of the Assyrian deportees (2 Kgs 17:33); 4:4–23 is a topical overview of opposition reaching into Nehemiah's time; Ahasuerus = Xerxes (485–465), Artaxerxes = Artaxerxes I (464–424); 4:8–6:18 in Aramaic; the letter concerns the city and its walls, not the Temple, which "had been standing for half a century" (Kidner); 4:24 resumes the thread of 4:5 (Kidner); the work stopped "some 15 years"
Cited in: Opposition from the people of the land; the Temple work ceases until Darius's second year (Ezra 4:1–5, 24)Accusations to Ahasuerus and the Rehum–Shimshai letter to Artaxerxes; the city's rebuilding stopped (Ezra 4:6–23)
Ezra 5 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Ezra 5
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Haggai 1:2–10 rebukes the people; Zechariah son of Iddo; Darius busy securing his throne (Adeney); Kidner: a Babylonian record of 502 B.C. names "Ta-at[-tan-ni] governor of Ebernari" (name probably, office certainly); timber courses in walls a common building feature (Kidner); Sheshbazzar named in the letter — perhaps the same as Zerubbabel, or the official governor (Yamauchi)
Cited in: Tattenai governor of Beyond the River inquires and writes to Darius (Ezra 5:3–17)Haggai and Zechariah stir the people; the Temple work resumes (Darius's second year, 520 BC)
Ezra 6 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Achmetha = Ecbatana; Diodorus 2.32.4 on Persian royal parchments (Yamauchi); de Vaux: Persian kings wintered in Babylon and summered at Susa or Ecbatana, and Cyrus left Babylon in spring 538 — a forger would not have known to place the scroll there; 60-cubit dimensions read as limits (Guzik); Kenyon's straight joint as possible remains of Zerubbabel's building (via Yamauchi); Herodotus 3.159 and Behistun on Darius's impalements (Yamauchi); the 1973 Xanthos trilingual cult charter as a parallel for Persian support of local cults (Yamauchi); four years from resumption to completion; Artaxerxes in 6:14 added "to complete the picture" (Kidner)
Cited in: The rebuilt Temple completed on 3 Adar of Darius's sixth year (Ezra 6:15)Darius I confirms Cyrus's decree and orders the Temple completed (Ezra 6:1–12)The returned exiles keep the Passover after the Temple's dedication (Ezra 6:19–22)
Haggai 1 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Haggai 1
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Five dates (1:1, 1:15, 2:1, 2:10, 2:20); the first oracle "September, 520 B.C."; chronology: return 538, construction begun 536, stopped 534, resumed 520, finished four years later; "the time has not come" possibly tied to Jeremiah's seventy years (Ussher: the 69th year since the last siege); Haggai the first post-exilic prophet; drought and poor harvests as the covenant curse (Deut 11:16–17)
Cited in: Haggai and Zechariah stir the people; the Temple work resumes (Darius's second year, 520 BC)
Haggai 2 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Second oracle in October 520 at the feast; old men who had seen Solomon's Temple; Heb 12:26 quotes 2:6; "Desire of All Nations" read by ancient rabbis and Christians as the Messiah, though the word can mean "treasures"; the latter glory greater through Herod's remodelling and Jesus' presence (Trapp); clean/unclean ruling; Zerubbabel made like a signet ring — a token of royal authority
Cited in: Haggai's oracles of 24/IX, Darius year 2: "from this day I will bless you"; Zerubbabel the signet Haggai's oracle on the latter glory of the house (21/VII, Darius year 2)
Zechariah 1 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Zechariah's first word in the eighth month of Darius's second year, October–November 520, two months after Haggai 1:1; the horses as an imperial-style patrol (Baldwin); colour symbolism debated, link with Rev 6 rejected; the man among the myrtles = the Angel of the LORD (1:11), "an Old Testament appearance of Jesus"; the four horns "likely" Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome if read prophetically; the craftsmen are nations raised to judge the scatterers
Cited in: Zechariah's first oracle: the call to return (8th month, Darius year 2)Zechariah's night visions (24 Shebat, Darius year 2; Zech 1:7–6:8)
Zechariah 2 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: The measuring man an angel; Jerusalem too small for the multitudes; a short-term fulfilment in God's protection under Ezra and Nehemiah and an ultimate one under the Messiah; "flee from the land of the north" — most exiles stayed in Babylon; Babylon literal and figurative (Rev 18:4–5); "many nations shall be joined to the LORD"
Cited in: Zechariah's night visions (24 Shebat, Darius year 2; Zech 1:7–6:8)
Zechariah 3 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Satan ("adversary") accuses Joshua in filthy garments; "The LORD rebuke you" (cf. Jude 9); Joshua cleansed and clothed; "my Servant the BRANCH" a Messianic title (Isa 4:2; 11:1; Jer 23:5; 33:15); the stone with seven eyes; early Christians saw the engraving as Christ's wounds; vine and fig tree as Messianic peace
Cited in: Zechariah's night visions (24 Shebat, Darius year 2; Zech 1:7–6:8)
Zechariah 4 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Self-filling lampstand fed by two olive trees; "not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit" to Zerubbabel, who had to finish the stalled work; "his hands shall also finish it"; the day of small things after "almost 20 years"; the two anointed ones are Zerubbabel and Joshua (possibly branches from trees representing the kingly and priestly offices)
Cited in: Zechariah's night visions (24 Shebat, Darius year 2; Zech 1:7–6:8)
Zechariah 5 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Flying scroll 20 by 10 cubits = the dimensions of the porch of Solomon's Temple (1 Kgs 6:3); curses on thieves and perjurers (perhaps the two tables of the law); the ephah and lead weight as images of commerce; "Wickedness" (feminine noun) carried to Shinar (Babylon) and set on a base (pedestal for an idol)
Cited in: Zechariah's night visions (24 Shebat, Darius year 2; Zech 1:7–6:8)
Zechariah 6 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Two bronze mountains (perhaps Olives and Zion); four chariots = "four spirits of heaven", agents of judgment; identification with Daniel's empires noted and set aside (colours like Rev 6); the north country (Babylon) where the Spirit is at rest; gifts from Heldai, Tobijah and Jedaiah; a royal crown on the high priest is "unthinkable" except as prophecy of the King-Priest Jesus; "liberal critics" who would crown Zerubbabel miss the point; "Behold the Man" and the Branch who builds the temple of God's people
Cited in: Zechariah's night visions (24 Shebat, Darius year 2; Zech 1:7–6:8)Crowns made from the exiles' gifts and set on Joshua; the oracle of the Branch (Zech 6:9–15)
Zechariah 7 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Zechariah 7
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: "On December 4, 518 B.C." a delegation asked about fasting; the Temple about half finished; fifth-month fast for the Temple's destruction (2 Kgs 25:8–9), seventh-month fast for Gedaliah's murder; fasts instituted by men, kept "at least 70 years"; hypocrisy rebuked; obedience to the former prophets; scattered "with a whirlwind" (Clarke)
Cited in: The Bethel delegation and the question of fasting; Zechariah's answer (4/IX, Darius year 4)
Zechariah 8 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Zechariah 8
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Old men and women in Jerusalem's streets; the walls not completed "for another 60 years"; "let your hands be strong" since the foundation; the four fasts turned into feasts (Morgan: fasts the result of sins); many peoples seeking the LORD in Jerusalem fulfilled "in the millennial kingdom"; ten men grasping a Jew's robe — Israel drawing the nations in the Messiah's reign (Feinberg via Barker) or clinging to Jesus the Jew (Boice)
Cited in: The Bethel delegation and the question of fasting; Zechariah's answer (4/IX, Darius year 4)
Ezra 7 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Ezra 7
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Some 60 years between Ezra 6 and 7; Artaxerxes = Artaxerxes I Longimanus; Yamauchi: "If this was Artaxerxes I as the traditional view maintains … Ezra arrived in Palestine in 458 (457)"; genealogy abbreviated, from Aaron through Zadok and Seraiah; "skilled scribe"; Babylon–Jerusalem about 500 miles direct but about 900 travelled (Yamauchi); four-month journey
Cited in: Artaxerxes' decree to Ezra in his seventh year (Ezra 7)Ezra's caravan from the Ahava to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:7–10; 8)
Ezra 8 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Ezra 8
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: The males of the caravan total at least 1,496; Kidner: the groups join the descendants of the pioneers "eighty years before"; no Levites at first; recruitment from Casiphia (Iddo); fast at the Ahava; Ezra ashamed to ask for an escort (contrast Neh 2:7–9, Kidner); treasure entrusted to twelve priests
Cited in: Ezra's caravan from the Ahava to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:7–10; 8)
Ezra 9 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Ezra 9
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: The problem not primarily ethnic but religious ("the abominations" of the peoples); recalls Exod 34:11–16 and Deut 7:1–4; Ezra plucks his own hair, Nehemiah others' (Neh 13:25); Yamauchi: some critics read the "wall" of 9:9 as Nehemiah's wall and an argument for Nehemiah's priority, but most take it figuratively
Cited in: The mixed-marriages crisis: Ezra's confession, the assembly in the rain (20/IX) and the commission (Ezra 9–10)
Ezra 10 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Ezra 10
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Divorce permitted (Deut 24:1) though hateful (Mal 2:16); a "lesser of two evils"; children went with mothers; Adeney thought the zeal excessive; a total fast; property forfeited for absence within three days (Ezra's civil authority, 7:26); assembly in heavy rain; cases examined from the first of the tenth month over three months
Cited in: The mixed-marriages crisis: Ezra's confession, the assembly in the rain (20/IX) and the commission (Ezra 9–10)
Nehemiah 1 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Nehemiah 1
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Nehemiah begins about fifteen years after Ezra ends; Shushan the citadel; the broken walls and burned gates; an earlier attempt on the walls stopped (Ezra 4:6–23)
Cited in: Hanani's report at Susa and Nehemiah's prayer (Chislev, Artaxerxes's 20th year)
Nehemiah 2 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Nehemiah 2
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: The cupbearer's role (taster, confidant); Nisan of the twentieth year dated "March 14, 445 B.C." following Anderson's 173,880-day reckoning for Dan 9:25; Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite disturbed; the night ride from the Valley Gate counter-clockwise
Cited in: Artaxerxes sends Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem, Nisan of his twentieth year (Neh 2:1–8)Nehemiah arrives, inspects the walls by night and calls for rebuilding (Neh 2:9–20)
Nehemiah 3 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Nehemiah 3
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Work described gate by gate from the Sheep Gate; Eliashib the high priest first; the Tekoite nobles did not work; "repair" (ḥāzaq) used 35 times (Kidner); the Broad Wall "more than 20 feet (6 meters) wide" can be seen today — the archaeologist's shovel confirming the text
Cited in: The rebuilding of Jerusalem's wall and gates, section by section (Neh 3)
Nehemiah 4 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Nehemiah 4
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Sanballat's and Tobiah's mockery ("if a fox goes up on it"); the wall joined to half its height; a threatened attack that did not come; prayer and a watch; half worked, half held spears
Cited in: Mockery, threats and the armed builders (Neh 4)
Nehemiah 5 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Nehemiah 5
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: The work stopped by internal strife; the king's tax, mortgaged fields, children enslaved; "the hundredth part" = 12% a year; Nehemiah demanded restitution that day; he did not take the governor's food allowance and fed 150 Jews and rulers at his table
Cited in: The debt crisis and the remission of pledges (Neh 5:1–13)Nehemiah's first governorship: twelve years, 20th–32nd year of Artaxerxes (445–433 BC)
Nehemiah 6 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-13 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Nehemiah 6
2. 2026-10-13 — Claim checked: Invitation to the plain of Ono as a trap; the open letter alleging rebellion and kingship; Shemaiah's temple-refuge plot (only priests could enter; cf. Uzziah, 2 Chr 26); the wall finished on 25 Elul in 52 days, after four months of prayer
Cited in: Plots against Nehemiah: Ono, the open letter, Shemaiah (Neh 6:1–14)The wall completed on 25 Elul after fifty-two days (Neh 6:15–19)
Nehemiah 7 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Nehemiah 7
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Hanani and Hananiah placed over Jerusalem; watches on the walls; the city large but thinly populated; the registry of Ezra 2 found and copied (7:6–73)
Cited in: Jerusalem guarded under Hanani and Hananiah; the registry of the first returnees found (Neh 7:1–5)
Nehemiah 8 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Nehemiah 8
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: The people asked Ezra to bring the Law; reading from morning to midday on the first day of the seventh month at the Water Gate; Levites gave the sense; "the joy of the LORD is your strength"; booths kept as written, "not since Joshua"
Cited in: Ezra reads the Law on the first day of the seventh month (Neh 7:73b–8:12)The Feast of Booths kept "as it is written" (Neh 8:13–18)
Nehemiah 9 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Nehemiah 9
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Assembly on the 24th with fasting, sackcloth and dust; confession of God's faithfulness and Israel's rebellion from creation to the present; the cycle of blessing, rebellion, discipline and mercy; a written, sealed decision (9:38)
Cited in: The fast of the twenty-fourth day and the Levites' confession (Neh 9)
Nehemiah 10 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Nehemiah 10
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: The covenant "cut" and sealed; commitments on marriage outside Israel, Sabbath trade, the seventh year, the temple tax, the wood offering, firstfruits and tithes; "we will not forsake the house of our God"
Cited in: The sealed covenant to keep the law and support the temple (Neh 9:38–10:39)
Nehemiah 11 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Nehemiah 11
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Leaders lived in Jerusalem; lots cast to bring one in ten to the city; those who volunteered were blessed; lists of residents of Jerusalem and of the villages
Cited in: Jerusalem repopulated: one in ten by lot (Neh 11)
Nehemiah 12 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Nehemiah 12
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Priestly and Levitical lists; Levites gathered for the dedication; purification of priests, Levites, people, gates and wall; two thanksgiving choirs on the wall; joy heard far off; portions for priests and Levites
Cited in: The dedication of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27–13:3)The priestly and Levitical registers to the days of Jaddua (Neh 12:1–26)
Nehemiah 13 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Nehemiah 13
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Separation after reading Deut 23 on Ammonites and Moabites; Tobiah's room in the temple emptied; Levites' portions restored; Sabbath trade stopped; marriages with women of Ashdod, Ammon and Moab; the son of Joiada, son-in-law of Sanballat, driven away; the covenant's pledges broken within some years
Cited in: Nehemiah's return and second-term reforms (Neh 13:4–31)
Zechariah 9 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Zechariah 9
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Chs. 9–14 undated, many think from Zechariah's old age; most see 9:1–7 fulfilled in Alexander's march of 332–331; the lowly king on a donkey contrasted with Alexander and fulfilled in Jesus; "sons of Greece" partly fulfilled in the Maccabees, ultimately future
Cited in: The first "burden" of Zechariah 9–11 (undated oracle collection)
Zechariah 10 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Zechariah 10
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: No shepherd; anger against the shepherds; cornerstone, tent peg, battle bow and ruler from Judah read as titles of the Messiah; Judah and Joseph regathered from Egypt and Assyria
Zechariah 11 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Zechariah 11
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Zechariah acts out a shepherd; three shepherds dismissed; the staffs Beauty and Bonds broken; thirty pieces of silver, the price of a slave (Exod 21:32), thrown to the potter in the house of the LORD — fulfilled in Judas (Matt 27:3–10); Matthew's "Jeremiah" discussed; the foolish shepherd
Cited in: The first "burden" of Zechariah 9–11 (undated oracle collection)
Zechariah 12 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Zechariah 12
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: God defends Jerusalem against the nations; the feeble like David; Israel will look on Jesus "whom they pierced" (thorns, nails, spear) — "Me" taken as showing Jesus is Yahweh; mourning compared to that for Josiah
Cited in: The second "burden" of Zechariah 12–14 (undated oracle collection)
Zechariah 13 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Zechariah 13
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: A fountain for sin; idols and false prophets removed; the struck shepherd, "the Man who is my Companion", is the Messiah struck by God's design; two-thirds cut off, a third refined
Zechariah 14 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Zechariah 14
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: The siege of AD 70 does not fit (no deliverance); the Messiah will literally stand on the Mount of Olives; living waters; the nations keep the Feast of Tabernacles; "Holiness to the LORD" on the horses' bells — read as millennial
Cited in: The second "burden" of Zechariah 12–14 (undated oracle collection)
Malachi 1 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Malachi 1
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Malachi spoke about 100 years after the return, at or just after Nehemiah's time (temple rebuilt; a governor, 1:8; the same sins Nehemiah opposed); Jacob loved and Esau "hated" as election, Edom left in ruins; blemished sacrifices
Cited in: Malachi's disputations with priests and people (Mal 1–4; undated, mid-fifth century BC)
Malachi 2 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Malachi 2
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Rebuke of the priests; the covenant with Levi; marrying "the daughter of a foreign god"; "he hates divorce"; "where is the God of justice?"
Malachi 3 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Malachi 3
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: The messenger who prepares the way and the Lord who comes to his temple (a second Messenger, Jesus); the refiner's fire; robbing God in tithes and offerings; the book of remembrance
Cited in: Malachi's disputations with priests and people (Mal 1–4; undated, mid-fifth century BC)
Malachi 4 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Malachi 4
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: The day burning like a furnace; the Sun of Righteousness (Jesus); remember the law of Moses; Elijah fulfilled figuratively in John the Baptist and completely before the second coming
Esther 1 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Esther 1
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Ahasuerus is Xerxes; the palace ruins at Susa have been found; about 483 BC Xerxes was planning the invasion of Greece; three feasts; Vashti's refusal read as modesty
Cited in: Ahasuerus's third-year feast at Susa and the deposing of Vashti (Esth 1; 483/482 BC)
Esther 2 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Esther 2
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: A four-year gap (2:16) during which Xerxes invaded Greece and returned defeated; Hadassah = myrtle; Kish carried away with Jeconiah; Hegai said (after Baldwin) to be mentioned by Herodotus — not borne out by the Herodotus text read
Cited in: Esther made queen in Tebeth of Xerxes's seventh year (Esth 2:1–18; winter 479/478 BC)
Esther 3 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Esther 3
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Haman a descendant of Agag king of Amalek (Exod 17:14–16); Mordecai's refusal to bow; the lot (Pur, "the Persian word for the lot") cast in Nisan of year 12 fell on Adar, eleven months later; ten thousand talents offered; the decree a half-truth
Cited in: Haman casts pur and the decree against the Jews (Esth 3; Nisan 474 BC)
Esther 4 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Mordecai in sackcloth; Esther, isolated, learns of the decree; entering uninvited meant death; "relief and deliverance will arise … from another place"; "for such a time as this"; a three-day fast
Cited in: Mordecai mourns; Esther resolves to go to the king (Esth 4)
Esther 5 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Esther 5
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Esther approaches the king uninvited; the first banquet; her delay as wisdom; Haman's rage at Mordecai; Zeresh's counsel of a gallows (or stake) fifty cubits high
Cited in: Esther before the king; the first banquet; Haman's gallows (Esth 5)
Esther 6 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Esther 6
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: The sleepless king hears the chronicles; Mordecai unrewarded; Haman arrives to ask for Mordecai's death and is made to honour him; no coincidences in God's kingdom
Cited in: The sleepless king; Mordecai honoured by Haman (Esth 6)
Esther 7 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Esther 7
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Esther's request at the second banquet; the king's anger at the unnamed plotter he had himself authorised; Haman found on Esther's couch and hanged on his own gallows
Cited in: The second banquet; Haman hanged (Esth 7)
Esther 8 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Esther 8
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Haman's house to Esther, his office to Mordecai; the irrevocable decree countered by a new one allowing the Jews to defend themselves; joy and many become Jews
Cited in: Mordecai's counter-decree of 23 Sivan (Esth 8; June 474 BC)
Esther 9 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Esther 9
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: On the appointed day the Jews overpowered their enemies with the officials' help; a second day in Susa; Haman's sons as Amalekites; Purim instituted
Cited in: The Jews defend themselves on 13–14 Adar (Esth 9:1–19; 473 BC)
Esther 10 — Enduring Word Bible Commentary
Guzik, David · Enduring Word
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1. 2026-10-14 — Source accessed: Fetched and read the commentary on Esther 10
2. 2026-10-14 — Claim checked: Mordecai second to the king; "a record of wonders without a miracle" (Spurgeon); providence and human freedom
Cited in: The institution of Purim; Mordecai second to the king (Esth 9:20–10:3)