ClaimChronology and 607 BCEverified2010sOrganisation's explanation

Cronología y 607 a. E.C. · Claim record

El argumento de la organización a favor del 607 a.e.c. es que la Biblia exige una desolación literal de setenta años de Judá que terminó cuando los exiliados regresaron en el 537 a.e.c., y que contar setenta años hacia atrás desde el 537 da el 607. Sostiene que, cuando la cronología secular choca con esa lectura, la prueba secular es la más débil.

Claim ID claim-chronology-org-case-for-607Concerns 1 de octubre de 2011Explicación de la organización

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Explicación de la organización · 1 de octubre de 2011 Verificado

El argumento de la organización a favor del 607 a.e.c. es que la Biblia exige una desolación literal de setenta años de Judá que terminó cuando los exiliados regresaron en el 537 a.e.c., y que contar setenta años hacia atrás desde el 537 da el 607. Sostiene que, cuando la cronología secular choca con esa lectura, la prueba secular es la más débil. Source: The Watchtower, 1 de octubre de 2011Source: The Watchtower, 15 de agosto de 1968Source: The Watchtower, 1 de noviembre de 2011

La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: 'So why do Jehovah's Witnesses hold to a date that differs from widely accepted chronology by 20 years? In short, because of evidence within the Bible itself.'

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The Watchtower, “When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?-Part One”

1 de octubre de 2011 · pp.26-31 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“So why do Jehovah's Witnesses hold to a date that differs from widely accepted chronology by 20 years? In short, because of evidence within the Bible itself.”

The organisation’s fullest modern statement of its case for 607 BCE. It opens by printing a reader’s question — “586 or 587 B.C.E. is generally accepted as the year of Jerusalem’s destruction. Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses say that it was 607 B.C.E.?” — and answers it. In its own words, in the summary box on page 31: “Secular historians usually say that Jerusalem was destroyed in 587 B.C.E.” The article rests its own date on a literal seventy-year exile ending in 537 BCE.

Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Watchtower, When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?-Part One

Nota de confianza. The whole article was fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read with the page markers (span class="pageNum") intact; the quotation falls between the markers for pages 26 and 27, that is, on page 26.

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Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-chr-e-w11-1001-part-one

Publicación primaria de los testigos de Jehová Verificado

The Watchtower, “The Book of Truthful Historical Dates”

15 de agosto de 1968 · pp.488-494 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“The fixing of 539 B.C.E. as the year when this historical event occurred is based on a stone document known as the Nabonidus (Nabunaid) Chronicle.”

Under the heading 'THE ABSOLUTE DATE OF 539 B.C.E.', the article explains that an absolute date 'must be one where sacred and secular historical events coincide', and derives 539 BCE from a Babylonian chronicle, quoting it from Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, p. 306.

Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Watchtower, The Book of Truthful Historical Dates

Nota de confianza. The full article was fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read with page markers intact; the quotation is on page 490.

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Notes. The article then says of 607: 'It is now a simple formula to determine when the seventy years began. One has only to add 70 to 537 to get 607.'

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-chr-e-w68-0815-absolute-539

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The Watchtower, “When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?-Part Two”

1 de noviembre de 2011 · pp.22-28 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“Clearly, much of the astronomical data in VAT 4956 fits the year 588 B.C.E. as the 37th year of Nebuchadnezzar II. This, therefore, supports the date of 607 B.C.E. for Jerusalem's destruction-just as the Bible indicates.”

The organisation's positive case from the cuneiform record. It argues that the Babylonian chronicles are incomplete, that business tablets show discrepancies at reign transitions, and that thirteen sets of lunar positions on VAT 4956 match 588/587 BCE.

Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Watchtower, When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed?-Part Two

Nota de confianza. The whole article was fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read with page markers intact; the quotation is on page 27.

Corroborado por. src-chr-e-w11-1001-part-one

Notes. Note 21, the authority for the claim that the lunar position in line 3 matches Nisanu 9 of 588 BCE, is present in the Online Library text and reads: “VAT 4956 reads on line three: ‘The moon stood 1 cubit [or 2 degrees] in front of ß Virginis.’ The previously mentioned analysis concluded that on Nisanu 9, the moon was 2°04ʹ in front of and 0° below the star ß Virginis. It was considered an exact match.” It names no external authority: “the previously mentioned analysis” is the organisation’s own, described in note 19 as having been made with the software TheSky6, the freeware Cartes du Ciel / Sky Charts and a US Naval Observatory date converter. No astronomer, publication or independent calculation is cited for it.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-chr-e-w11-1101-part-two

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