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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt:...B.C. 581, Nebuchadnezzar succeeded his father at Babylon. Thus, then, I have fulfilled my undertaking, and have shown from Jewish, Median, Assyrian and Babylonian, and Egyptian reckoning, how the Fall of Nineveh took place in the year B.C. 583, and how the dynasty of Babylonian kings, which began with Nebuchadnezzar, was set up in B.C. 581, and lasted till the seventeenth year of Nabonadius, B.C. 513, when Cyras son of Cambyses took that throne. Lastly, this reckoning is placed beyond dispute, when we consider that the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, in which he conquered Jerusalem, thus fell in the year B.C. 563, which is the year of that event derived from Demetrius: that " seventy years of desolation of the city of Jerusalem "1 counted from that date brings us to B.C. 493, that is to say, to the first year of Darius son, or successor, of Ahasuerus of the seed of the Medes, who was then about sixty-two years of age, which we know from Ctesias was the age of Darius son of Hystaspes at that date: and that "seventy weeks" of years, or 490 years, counted from thence, lead us to the year B.C. 3, in the autumn of which year Christ was born. I am well aware of certain difficulties in the way of this system of reckoning, arising, as is supposed, from the history of Sargon found at Khorsabad. For Sargon certainly cap 1 Daniel ix, 2; v, 31. Vol. n. 12 tured Samaria: and this capture is generally placed in B.C. 721, the commonly received date of the capture, not by Sargon, but by Shalmanezer, when Hoshea ceased to reign. But I feel little doubt that it will ultimately turn out that Sargon's capture was really that which occurred when Pekah was slain, and Hoshea was first set up as governor in his stead by the Assyrians: also that Sargon was ac...