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Bible prophecy checked against the historical record

Exile and return

  • Bible Trivia: Babylon and the Exile

    Twelve questions on the empire that took Jerusalem, the deportations, and the return — including the parts where the biblical numbers disagree with each other.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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: 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.

  • The Exile in Order

    Twenty-one readings covering the fall of Nineveh to the reading of the law in Jerusalem, arranged by when the events happened rather than by where the books are printed.

  • Bible Trivia: The Exile and the Return

    Twelve questions on the fall of Jerusalem, the years in Babylon and the return under Persia — the period where the biblical account and the external record overlap most.