http://feastupontheword.org/index.php?title=Historical_Overview_of_the_Old_Testament&feed=atom&action=historyHistorical Overview of the Old Testament - Revision history2024-03-29T05:40:08ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.23.2http://feastupontheword.org/index.php?title=Historical_Overview_of_the_Old_Testament&diff=160424&oldid=prevKurtElieson: Adding Simplified Overview section, theme of righteousness-apostate decline; moving Saul-Solomon from Period #2 to #32019-08-04T07:34:08Z<p>Adding Simplified Overview section, theme of righteousness-apostate decline; moving Saul-Solomon from Period #2 to #3</p>
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</table>KurtEliesonhttp://feastupontheword.org/index.php?title=Historical_Overview_of_the_Old_Testament&diff=159719&oldid=prevKurtElieson: /* One conquered kingdom */ Adding anchor point2017-12-23T12:43:25Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">One conquered kingdom: </span> Adding anchor point</span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''[[Judges 3-16]]'''. The middle portion relates stories about six judges: '''Othniel''', '''Ehud''', '''Deborah''', '''Gideon''', '''Jephthah''', and '''Samson''', makes brief mention of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">five </del>more judges<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, and rounds </del>out an even dozen <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">with </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">central story </del>of a usurper king named '''Abimelech'''. These stories depict Israel’s increasing wickedness, weakness, and inability to obtain deliverance and rest. This portion of Judges relates a chronology of about 329 years that overlaps into the beginning years of Israel's final judge, '''Samuel'''.<ref>'''(1)''' Prior to the judgeship of Jephthah, the book of Judges recounts an uninterrupted chronological sequence of 290 years ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/judg/3.8?lang=eng#7 Judg 3:8] to [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/judg/10.3-5?lang=eng#2 10:5]). Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 95-96, 103, 106-07 (subtracting one year from each notice of elapsed time on the assumption that the inclusion of partial event years leads to double-counting transitional calendar years). This is consistent with Jephthah's statement that in his day 300 years had passed since the Israelites first occupied Gilead ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/judg/11.26?lang=eng#25 Judg 11:26]) beginning not earlier than the last year of Moses' life ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/num/32?lang=eng Numbers 32]), or not more than eight years before the land was divided under Joshua (see notes above on Numbers 20-Deuteronomy 34 and on Joshua). Judges then relates that the Israelites were oppressed by the Ammonites for 18 years and the Philistines for 40 years ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/judg/10.7-9?lang=eng#6 Judg 10:7-9]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/judg/13.1?lang=eng Judg 13:1]). So the total time covered by Judges would be 290 + 17 + 39 = 346 years.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''[[Judges 3-16]]'''. The middle portion relates stories about six judges: '''Othniel''', '''Ehud''', '''Deborah''', '''Gideon''', '''Jephthah''', and '''Samson''', makes brief mention of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">six </ins>more judges <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">to round </ins>out an even dozen<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, and at </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">center tells </ins>of a usurper king named '''Abimelech'''. These stories depict Israel’s increasing wickedness, weakness, and inability to obtain deliverance and rest. This portion of Judges relates a chronology of about 329 years that overlaps into the beginning years of Israel's final judge, '''Samuel'''.<ref>'''(1)''' Prior to the judgeship of Jephthah, the book of Judges recounts an uninterrupted chronological sequence of 290 years ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/judg/3.8?lang=eng#7 Judg 3:8] to [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/judg/10.3-5?lang=eng#2 10:5]). Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 95-96, 103, 106-07 (subtracting one year from each notice of elapsed time on the assumption that the inclusion of partial event years leads to double-counting transitional calendar years). This is consistent with Jephthah's statement that in his day 300 years had passed since the Israelites first occupied Gilead ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/judg/11.26?lang=eng#25 Judg 11:26]) beginning not earlier than the last year of Moses' life ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/num/32?lang=eng Numbers 32]), or not more than eight years before the land was divided under Joshua (see notes above on Numbers 20-Deuteronomy 34 and on Joshua). Judges then relates that the Israelites were oppressed by the Ammonites for 18 years and the Philistines for 40 years ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/judg/10.7-9?lang=eng#6 Judg 10:7-9]; [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/judg/13.1?lang=eng Judg 13:1]). So the total time covered by Judges would be 290 + 17 + 39 = 346 years.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>King Jehoiakim (S #18) of Judah soon rebelled against [[Babylonian]] rule, and Nebuchadnezzar invaded a second time, conquering Jerusalem on 16 March '''597 BC'''. The rebellious Jehoiakim died during the siege and was succeeded by his son Jehoiachin (S #19). But upon taking the city, the Babylonians replaced the new Jewish king with his uncle Zedekiah (S #20). [[Jeremiah |'''Jeremiah 24, 29''']] and [[First Nephi |'''1 Nephi 1''']] date from the initial months of Zedekiah's reign.<ref>Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 257-58, 264; Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 162, 167.</ref> Following this second invasion, the Babylonians carried off most of the remaining Jewish elites and and resettled many of these exiles on the Chebar River about 50 miles southeast of the capital Babylon.<ref>[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/24.1,6-8,10-14?lang=eng 2 Kgs 24:1-14]; Coogan, ''The Oxford History of the Biblical World'', 371; Pasachoff & Littleman, ''A Concise History of the Jewish People'', 43; Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 264.</ref> Six years later '''Ezekiel''' received his call as a prophet while among these exiles on 31 July 593 BC, and he received several more revelations over the following two years ('''[[Ezekiel |Ezekiel 1-23]]''').<ref>The date of 31 July 593 BC is widely accepted. Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 163-64, 167; Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 264.</ref> About the same time, likely around 595-94 BC, Nebuchadnezzar sentenced Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to the fiery furnace ('''[[Daniel 3]]''').<ref>Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 159-60.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>King Jehoiakim (S #18) of Judah soon rebelled against [[Babylonian]] rule, and Nebuchadnezzar invaded a second time, conquering Jerusalem on 16 March '''597 BC'''. The rebellious Jehoiakim died during the siege and was succeeded by his son Jehoiachin (S #19). But upon taking the city, the Babylonians replaced the new Jewish king with his uncle Zedekiah (S #20). [[Jeremiah |'''Jeremiah 24, 29''']] and [[First Nephi |'''1 Nephi 1''']] date from the initial months of Zedekiah's reign.<ref>Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 257-58, 264; Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 162, 167.</ref> Following this second invasion, the Babylonians carried off most of the remaining Jewish elites and and resettled many of these exiles on the Chebar River about 50 miles southeast of the capital Babylon.<ref>[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/24.1,6-8,10-14?lang=eng 2 Kgs 24:1-14]; Coogan, ''The Oxford History of the Biblical World'', 371; Pasachoff & Littleman, ''A Concise History of the Jewish People'', 43; Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 264.</ref> Six years later '''Ezekiel''' received his call as a prophet while among these exiles on 31 July 593 BC, and he received several more revelations over the following two years ('''[[Ezekiel |Ezekiel 1-23]]''').<ref>The date of 31 July 593 BC is widely accepted. Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 163-64, 167; Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 264.</ref> About the same time, likely around 595-94 BC, Nebuchadnezzar sentenced Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to the fiery furnace ('''[[Daniel 3]]''').<ref>Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 159-60.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Jeremiah left the fallen city of Jerusalem to live at [[Mizpah]] with the Jewish governor of [[Babylonian]] Judah. Several months later the governor was assassinated. Those who fled to avoid reprisal took Jeremiah with them to [[Egypt]], where he announced his last prophecy ([[Jeremiah |'''Jeremiah 41-44''']]).<ref>Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 167.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Jeremiah left the fallen city of Jerusalem to live at [[Mizpah]] with the Jewish governor of [[Babylonian]] Judah. Several months later the governor was assassinated. Those who fled to avoid reprisal took Jeremiah with them to [[Egypt]], where he announced his last prophecy ([[Jeremiah |'''Jeremiah 41-44''']]).<ref>Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 167.</ref></div></td></tr>
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</table>KurtEliesonhttp://feastupontheword.org/index.php?title=Historical_Overview_of_the_Old_Testament&diff=158430&oldid=prevKurtElieson: /* The patriarchs */ minor addition re Jaredites2017-11-11T06:13:31Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">The patriarchs: </span> minor addition re Jaredites</span></p>
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</table>KurtEliesonhttp://feastupontheword.org/index.php?title=Historical_Overview_of_the_Old_Testament&diff=158427&oldid=prevKurtElieson: /* Timelines */2017-11-08T21:56:23Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Timelines</span></span></p>
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</table>KurtEliesonhttp://feastupontheword.org/index.php?title=Historical_Overview_of_the_Old_Testament&diff=158426&oldid=prevKurtElieson: Minor edits2017-11-08T21:22:46Z<p>Minor edits</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''1. Nebuchadnezzar''' (ruled 605-562 BC) decisively defeated the combined armies of [[Assyria]] and [[Egypt]] in mid '''605 BC''' at the battle of Carchemish. He soon returned to [[Babylon]] to succeed his father as king, and then before the end of the year invaded Judah. The Jewish king Jehoiakim submitted to [[Babylon]], and Nebuchadnezzar carried off a large number of Jewish captives<ref>Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'',  252-53; Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 158-59, 172.</ref> including Daniel and his three friends. Daniel's refusal to eat the king's food occurred upon his arrival in Babylon, and during the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign Daniel interpreted the king's dream of the statue ('''[[Daniel 1 |Daniel 1-2]]'''). During the same year as this first Babylonian invasion, Jeremiah prophesied that Judah would serve Babylon for seventy years and also announced prophecies against several other nations. That year he also dictated the prophecies he had received so far to his scribe Baruch. King Jehoiakim burned the scroll on which the prophecies were written, so Jeremiah dictated them again ([[Jeremiah |'''Jeremiah 25, 36, 45-51''']]).<ref>Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 158-59, 164.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''1. Nebuchadnezzar''' (ruled 605-562 BC) decisively defeated the combined armies of [[Assyria]] and [[Egypt]] in mid '''605 BC''' at the battle of Carchemish. He soon returned to [[Babylon]] to succeed his father as king, and then before the end of the year invaded Judah. The Jewish king Jehoiakim <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(S #18) </ins>submitted to [[Babylon]], and Nebuchadnezzar carried off a large number of Jewish captives<ref>Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'',  252-53; Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 158-59, 172.</ref> including Daniel and his three friends. Daniel's refusal to eat the king's food occurred upon his arrival in Babylon, and during the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign Daniel interpreted the king's dream of the statue ('''[[Daniel 1 |Daniel 1-2]]'''). During the same year as this first Babylonian invasion, Jeremiah prophesied that Judah would serve Babylon for seventy years and also announced prophecies against several other nations. That year he also dictated the prophecies he had received so far to his scribe Baruch. King Jehoiakim burned the scroll on which the prophecies were written, so Jeremiah dictated them again ([[Jeremiah |'''Jeremiah 25, 36, 45-51''']]).<ref>Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 158-59, 164.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>King Jehoiakim (S<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-</del>18) of Judah soon rebelled against [[Babylonian]] rule, and Nebuchadnezzar invaded a second time, conquering Jerusalem on 16 March 597 BC. The rebellious Jehoiakim died during the siege and was succeeded by his son Jehoiachin (S<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-</del>19). But upon taking the city, the Babylonians replaced the new Jewish king with his uncle Zedekiah (S<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-</del>20). [[Jeremiah |'''Jeremiah 24, 29''']] date from the initial months of Zedekiah's reign.<ref>Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 257-58, 264; Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 162, 167.</ref> Following this second invasion, the Babylonians carried off all but the poorest of the Jews and resettled many of these exiles on the Chebar River about 50 miles southeast of the capital Babylon.<ref>[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/24.1,6-8,10-14?lang=eng 2 Kgs 24:1-14]; Coogan, ''The Oxford History of the Biblical World'', 371; Pasachoff & Littleman, ''A Concise History of the Jewish People'', 43; Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 264.</ref> Six years later Ezekiel received his call as a prophet while among these exiles on 31 July 593 BC, and he received several more revelations over the following two years ('''[[Ezekiel |Ezekiel 1-23]]''').<ref>The date of 31 July 593 BC is widely accepted. Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 163-64, 167; Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 264.</ref> About the same time, likely around 595-94 BC, Nebuchadnezzar sentenced Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to the fiery furnace ('''[[Daniel 3]]''').<ref>Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 159-60.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>King Jehoiakim (S <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">#</ins>18) of Judah soon rebelled against [[Babylonian]] rule, and Nebuchadnezzar invaded a second time, conquering Jerusalem on 16 March 597 BC. The rebellious Jehoiakim died during the siege and was succeeded by his son Jehoiachin (S <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">#</ins>19). But upon taking the city, the Babylonians replaced the new Jewish king with his uncle Zedekiah (S <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">#</ins>20). [[Jeremiah |'''Jeremiah 24, 29''']] date from the initial months of Zedekiah's reign.<ref>Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 257-58, 264; Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 162, 167.</ref> Following this second invasion, the Babylonians carried off all but the poorest of the Jews and resettled many of these exiles on the Chebar River about 50 miles southeast of the capital Babylon.<ref>[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/24.1,6-8,10-14?lang=eng 2 Kgs 24:1-14]; Coogan, ''The Oxford History of the Biblical World'', 371; Pasachoff & Littleman, ''A Concise History of the Jewish People'', 43; Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 264.</ref> Six years later Ezekiel received his call as a prophet while among these exiles on 31 July 593 BC, and he received several more revelations over the following two years ('''[[Ezekiel |Ezekiel 1-23]]''').<ref>The date of 31 July 593 BC is widely accepted. Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 163-64, 167; Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 264.</ref> About the same time, likely around 595-94 BC, Nebuchadnezzar sentenced Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to the fiery furnace ('''[[Daniel 3]]''').<ref>Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 159-60.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 594 BC the Jewish king Zedekiah was plotting to rebel against [[Babylon]], contrary to the counsel of Jeremiah ([[Jeremiah |'''Jeremiah 27-28''']]) and Ezekiel ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezek/17.13-16?lang=eng#12 Ezek 17:13-16]). Nebuchadnezzar responded by invading Judah for the third time and in 589 BC again laying siege to Jerusalem. Jeremiah was in Jerusalem during this siege, though he tried to leave when the siege was temporarily lifted, and this appears to be the setting for [[Jeremiah |'''Jeremiah 21-23, 32-35, 37-40''']]. Also during this siege Ezekiel, still in exile on the Chebar River in Babylonia, received several of the prophecies recorded in [[Ezekiel |'''Ezekiel 24-31''']].<ref>[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/24.20?lang=eng#19 2 Kgs 24:20]; Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 159-68, 174; Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 258-59.</ref> After besieging Jerusalem for two and a half years, the [[Babylonians]] again took the city, and a month later on 28 August '''587 BC''' destroyed the Temple of Solomon ('''[[Jeremiah 52]]'''; '''[[2 Kings 25]]'''; '''[[2 Chronicles 36]]''').<ref>The consensus date for the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple has been 17 August 586 BC. Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 259; Coogan, ''The Oxford History of the Biblical World'', 371; Pasachoff & Littleman, ''A Concise History of the Jewish People'', 43. Steinmann appears, however, to be correct in building upon that earlier work to advocate a date one year earlier, 28 August 587 BC, discussing especially [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezek/26.1-2?lang=eng Ezek 26:1-2]. Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 136-38, 164-69.</ref> Soon after receiving news of Jerusalem's fall, Ezekiel announced the prophecies recorded in [[Ezekiel |'''Ezekiel 32-39''']].<ref>Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 172, 174.</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By 594 BC the Jewish king Zedekiah was plotting to rebel against [[Babylon]], contrary to the counsel of Jeremiah ([[Jeremiah |'''Jeremiah 27-28''']]) and Ezekiel ([http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezek/17.13-16?lang=eng#12 Ezek 17:13-16]). Nebuchadnezzar responded by invading Judah for the third time and in 589 BC again laying siege to Jerusalem. Jeremiah was in Jerusalem during this siege, though he tried to leave when the siege was temporarily lifted, and this appears to be the setting for [[Jeremiah |'''Jeremiah 21-23, 32-35, 37-40''']]. Also during this siege Ezekiel, still in exile on the Chebar River in Babylonia, received several of the prophecies recorded in [[Ezekiel |'''Ezekiel 24-31''']].<ref>[http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/24.20?lang=eng#19 2 Kgs 24:20]; Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 159-68, 174; Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 258-59.</ref> After besieging Jerusalem for two and a half years, the [[Babylonians]] again took the city, and a month later on 28 August '''587 BC''' destroyed the Temple of Solomon ('''[[Jeremiah 52]]'''; '''[[2 Kings 25]]'''; '''[[2 Chronicles 36]]''').<ref>The consensus date for the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple has been 17 August 586 BC. Finegan, ''Handbook of Biblical Chronology'', 259; Coogan, ''The Oxford History of the Biblical World'', 371; Pasachoff & Littleman, ''A Concise History of the Jewish People'', 43. Steinmann appears, however, to be correct in building upon that earlier work to advocate a date one year earlier, 28 August 587 BC, discussing especially [http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/ezek/26.1-2?lang=eng Ezek 26:1-2]. Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 136-38, 164-69.</ref> Soon after receiving news of Jerusalem's fall, Ezekiel announced the prophecies recorded in [[Ezekiel |'''Ezekiel 32-39''']].<ref>Steinmann, ''From Abraham to Paul'', 172, 174.</ref></div></td></tr>
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