the southern kingdom fell to babylon in 586 bce.
the southern kingdom fell to babylon in 586 bce.
when did the southern kingdom fall to babylon?
586 bce
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if this were not complicated enough, thiele was able to demonstrate that the northern kingdom (israel) celebrated a spring new year while the southern kingdom (judah) held to an autumn new year. differing new years and different methods of calculating reigns were responsible for much of the confusion in the cross references, with the additional problem that the southern kingdom appears to have adopted its neighbour's non-accession method during the time when athaliah seized power. unknown to thiele when he first published his findings, these same conclusions that the northern kingdom used non-accession years and a spring new year while the southern kingdom used accession years and a fall new year had been discovered by v. coucke of belgium some years previously, a fact which thiele acknowledges in his "mysterious numbers".
edwin r. thiele