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Bible prophecy checked against the historical record

Historical

  • Bible Trivia: The Temple

    Twelve questions on the temple: who built it, who rebuilt it, what the prophets said about it, and why the first temple has left no direct archaeological record at all.

  • The fall of Jerusalem, 597 BCE

    A Babylonian clerk dated the capture of Jerusalem to the day. 2 Kings 24 describes the same event. They agree on almost everything that can be compared — and the numbers that disagree are inside the Bible, not between it…

  • Bible Trivia: Jerusalem

    Twelve questions on Jerusalem: who took it and when, why 597 BCE is a date and 587 is a dispute, and what the ground can and cannot tell us about the temple.

  • Bible Trivia: Archaeology and the Bible

    Twelve questions on the archaeology touching the Bible: the Kurkh Monolith, the Black Obelisk, the Lachish reliefs, the Cyrus Cylinder — and what each one really establishes.

  • 2 Chronicles

    2 Chronicles from Solomon to Cyrus: what the Chronicler adds to Kings, what he removes, where an Assyrian and a Babylonian record touch the account, and why the ending is the strongest evidence for its date.

  • 1 Chronicles

    1 Chronicles as a deliberate rewriting of Samuel with a source we can still read: what it adds, what it removes, how its post-exilic date is argued, and why comparing it with Samuel is a rare controlled experiment.

  • The Neo-Babylonian decades, 626–539 BCE

    Eighty-seven years, from the revolt that founded the Neo-Babylonian empire to the night it ended — with the biblical texts placed beside the events, so the gap between the two bands is visible.

  • Bible Trivia: Bible Geography

    Twelve questions on the map behind the text — which town is where, which mountain hosted which scene, and what several familiar places were called before they were famous.

  • Esther

    The only book in the Bible that never names God — and the Greek versions add prayers that do, which tells you the omission was felt early.

  • Bible Trivia: The Return and the Rebuilding

    Twelve questions on the deportation and what came after it — the Babylonian court, the Persian decrees, and the two men who rebuilt the temple and the wall.