This captivity was in the eighth year of _Nebuchadnezzar_'s Reign, 2 _Kings_ xxiv. 12. and eleventh of _Jehoiakim_'s: for the first year of _Nebuchadnezzar_'s Reign was the fourth of _Jehoiakim_'s, _Jer._ xxv. i. and _Jehoiakim_ Reigned eleven years before this captivity, 2 _Kings_ xxiii. 36. 2 _Chron._ xxxvi. 5, and _Jechoniah_ three months, ending with the captivity; and the tenth year of _Jechoniah_'s captivity, was the eighteenth year of _Nebuchadnezzar_'s Reign, _Jer._ xxxii. 1. and the eleventh year of _Zedekiah_, in which _Jerusalem_ was taken, was the nineteenth of _Nebuchadnezzar_, _Jer._ lii. 5, 12. and therefore _Nebuchadnezzar_ began his Reign in the year of _Nabonassar_ 142, that is, two years before the death of his father _Nabopolassar_, he being then made King by his father; and _Jehoiakim_ succeeded his father _Josiah_ in the year of _Nabonassar_ 139; and _Jerusalem_ was taken and the Temple burnt in the year of _Nabonassar_ 160, about twenty years after the destruction of _Nineveh_. The Reign of _Darius Hystaspis_ over _Persia_, by the Canon and the consent of all Chronologers, and by several Eclipses of the Moon, began in spring in the year of _Nabonassar_ 227: and _in the fourth year of King _Darius_, in the 4th day of the ninth month, which is the month _Chisleu_, when the _Jews_ had sent unto the house of God, saying, should I weep in the fifth month as I have done these so many years? the word of the Lord came unto _Zechariah_, saying, speak to all the people of the Land, and to the Priests, saying; when ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me?_ _Zech._ vii. Count backwards those seventy years in which they fasted in the fifth month for the burning of the Temple, and in the seventh for the death of _Gedaliah_; and the burning of the Temple and death of _Gedaliah_, will fall upon the fifth and seventh _Jewish_ months, in the year of _Nabonassar_ 160, as above.