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	Ten Bible prophecies fulfilled long ago
		In 609 BC, which is about 2600 years ago, Babylon captured the last Assyrian king and took over the holdings of the Assyrian empire, to which the land of Israel previously had been subjugated.
		Written: perhaps between 701-681 BC Fulfilled: 539 BC In Isaiah 14:23, the prophet said that Babylon, which had been a world power at two different times in history, would be brought to a humble and final end.
		But, in 538 BC, they were released from captivity and many eventually returned to their homeland.
	www.konig.org /page8.htm (1259 words)

	530s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		539 BC - Babylon is conquered by Cyrus, defeating Nabonidus; noted in such documents as that of Africanus, Ptolemy, Eusebius, and Diodorus.
		530 BC - 525 BC - Battle between the Gods and the Giants, fragment of the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury, from the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is made.
		539 BC/538 BC - Death of Nabonidus, the last King of Babylon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/539_BC (352 words)

	Babylonia - MSN Encarta
		Toward the end of the 3rd millennium bc, Sumer and Akkad was a kingdom of empire proportions ruled by a Sumerian dynasty known as the 3rd Dynasty of Ur.
		At the beginning of the 15th century bc, for example, it was one of the four major powers of the Orient, the other three being the Egyptian, Mitanni, and Hittite empires.
		Beginning in the 9th century bc, the Chaldeans were destined to play an important political role in the history of the Orient; their rulers helped destroy the Assyrian Empire and, at least for a brief period, made Babylonia, or, as it gradually came to be known, Chaldea, the dominant power of Mesopotamia.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571780_3/Babylonia.html (1265 words)

	Babylon - CDLI Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Hammurapi’s (1792-1750 BC) early rise to power remains unclear, but his skillful diplomatic and military dealings with the regional powers of the period, left him in control of all of Mesopotamia by the end of his reign.
		Babylon was thus the central Mesopotamian capital until it was sacked by the Hittite king Mursili I in 1595 BC.
		His successor, Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC) is responsible for much of the rebuilding of Babylon during the Neo-Babylonian period.
	cdli.ucla.edu /wiki/index.php/Babylon (1290 words)

	Persia - MSN Encarta
		The Iranian plateau was settled about 1500 bc by Aryan tribes, the most important of which were the Medes, who occupied the northwestern portion, and the Persians, who emigrated from Parsua, a land west of Lake Urmia, into the southern region of the plateau, which they named Parsamash or Parsumash.
		From 499 to 494 bc he engaged in crushing a revolt of the Ionian Greeks living under Persian rule in Asia, and then launched a punitive campaign against the European Greeks for supporting the rebels.
		During the reign of Artaxerxes I, the second son of Xerxes, the Egyptians revolted, aided by the Greeks; although the revolt was finally suppressed in 446 bc, it signaled the first major assault against, and the beginning of the decline of, the Persian Empire.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564512/Persia.html (1139 words)

	Elam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was preceded by what is known as the Proto-Elamite period, which began around 3200 BC when Susa (later capital of Elam) began to be influenced by the cultures of the Iranian plateau to the east.
		In the Old Elamite period, it consisted of kingdoms on the Iranian plateau, centered in Anshan, and from the mid-2nd millennium BC, it was centered in Susa in the Khuzestan lowlands.
		Around 1850 BC Kudur-mabug, apparently king of another Elamite state to the north of Susa, managed to install his son, Warad-Sin, on the throne of Larsa, and Warad-Sin's brother, Rim-Sin, succeeded him and conquered much of Mesopotamia for Larsa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elam (3528 words)

	Elam - Crystalinks
		Assyrian sources beginning around 800 BC distinguish the "powerful Medes", ie the actual Medes, and the "distant Medes" that would later enter history under their proper names, (Parthians, Sagartians, Margians, Bactrians, Sogdians etc).
		Among the nations that benefited from the decline of the Assyrians were the Persians, whose presence around Lake Urmia to the north of Elam is attested from the 9th century BC in Assyrian texts.
		The rise of the Achaemenids in the 6th century BC brought an end to the existence of Elam as an independent political power "but not as a cultural entity" (Encyclopedia Iranica, Columbia University).
	www.crystalinks.com /elam.html (2564 words)

	539 BC: Cyrus the Great conquers Babylon
		539 BC (2539 years ago): After the death of Nebuchadnezzar, Neo-Babylonian Empire begins to lose power.
		It was conquered in about 539 BC by Cyrus the Great.
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	www.aboutbibleprophecy.com /e17.htm (37 words)

	Persian Empires
		The Iranian plateau was settled about 1500 BC by Aryan tribes, the most important of whom were the Medes, who occupied the northwestern area, and the Parsa (Persians), who emigrated from Parsua, a land west of Lake Urmia, into the southern region of the plateau, which they named Parsamash.
		He overthrew the Median rulers, conquered the kingdom of Lydia in 546 BC and that of Babylonia in 539 BC and established the Persian Empire as the main power of the region.
		By the first century BC, the Seleucid Empire was crumbling and by the end of the century was in the hands of Rome.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /historia/ancient_1.htm (526 words)

	Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-Time Before Christ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		586 BC Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and the removal of the Jews to Babylon.
		165 BC The Holy Temple of Jerusalem was re-dedicated.
		18 BC Birth of Mary, daughter of Saints Joachim and Ann.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/6461/bc.html (1976 words)

	Bible Prophecy Numbers: 1260 days, 1290 days, 1335 days, 1260 years.
		From the seven-year famine of Joseph (1878-1871 BC), until the exodus in 1446 BC are
		years; and again from the seven-year famine of Joseph in 1878-1871 BC unto the fall of Israel in 722 BC are
		years; and again from the seven-year famine of Joseph in 1878-1871 BC unto the fall of Assyria in 612 BC are
	www.1260-1290-days-bible-prophecy.org (344 words)

	The hand appears again! Saddam Hussein and the fall of Babylon!
		When we plug all these symbolic dates into the series of events as predicted and fulfilled in the code, then an incredible numeric pattern emerges that is consistent with the fall of Babylon, and of all the various empire collapses as listed in previous chart.
		To the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC is thus 6 x 430, or 1290 x 2, and to AD 1995 is 1290 x 3.
		The week of solar flares is symbolic of the seven-year period of tribulation when the seals, trumpets, thunders, and bowls are released, along with the battle of Armageddon.
	www.bible-codes.org /Exact-dates-code-writing-wall-mene-2.htm (983 words)

	927 BC - 63 BC... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Assyrians invaded Israel in 722 BC and many of the Jewish people living in Israel at the time were forced in exile in Mesopotamia (Smith 2).
		However, this didn’t last for long, because in 539 BC the Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Achaemenids of the Persian Dynasty (3).
		In 140 BC, with the help of the Roman Empire, the Jewish people regained their independence for the first time in nearly 350 years (3).
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~nash20e/Page4.html (423 words)

	The Royal Book of Esther
		Esther’s parents must have died sometime between 597 BC and at a time sufficiently before the third year of the reign of Ahasuerus to make it necessary and important for Mordecai to intervene on her behalf by helping to raise her.
		539 BC, but it would be recorded as occurring in the first year of his reign either way.
		However, it does fit 539 -538 BC, when we consider that this is the first year of Cyrus as king of Babylon, and it was from Babylon that the Jews were freed to return to Jerusalem.
	www.israelofgod.org /esther.htm (4094 words)

	Civilization III: Civ of the Week
		Cyrus II (559-529 BC), heir to a long line of ruling chiefs in Mesopotamia, was a tolerant and venerated monarch, and was called the father of his people by the ancient Persians (paternity tests later revealed that it was quite impossible for him to have been father to ALL of them).
		After a successful revolt against his Achaemenian overlords in 550 BC and inheriting the kingdom of the Medes, Cyrus consolidated his rule on the Iranian Plateau and extended it westward across Asia Minor.
		Xerxes (486-465 BC), son and successor of Darius I, was determined to continue the Persian conquest of the west and is best known for his "Greek Beatdown Tour" in 480 BC, a campaign marked by the battles of Thermopylae, Salamis and Plataea.
	www.civ3.com /en/civoftheweek.cfm (843 words)

	70 Years of Babylonian Empire
		The exile ended in 538 BC when Cyrus II of Persia (who had conquered Babylon the year before) decreed that all peoples originally from Jerusalem could return to their city.
		As alluded to earlier, Babylon was conquered by Cyrus II of Persia in 539 BC.
		Jerusalem was destroyed in 586 B.C. The seventy-year prophecy ended with Babylon's fall in 539 B.C., and the people of Judah were allowed to return to Jerusalem by decree of Cyrus II in 538 B.C. So Jerusalem lay desolate from 586 - 538 B.C. - a total of 48 years.
	www.bibleworldhistory.com /70Years.htm (1325 words)

	Seventy years of Babylonian rule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Most historical sources that I have seen state that 539 BC was the year that Babylon was conquered by the Medo-Persians.
		In 612 B.C. the Babylonians and the Medes conquered Nineveh, which at that time was the capital of the Assyrian Empire.
		Using the 609 BC date for the demise of the Assyrian Empire and for the rise of the new Babylonian Empire, and using the 539 BC date for the end of the Babylonian Empire, we end up with a 70-year span of Babylonian rule.
	www.aboutbibleprophecy.com /years.htm (1486 words)

	Astrology Babylonian-Assyrian Before 550 BC
		Stela of Nabonidus, with astrological symbols [Neo-Babylonian dynasty, 555 - 539 BC].
		Nabonidus was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, captured by Cyrus the Great when Babylon fell to the Persians in 539 BC.
		They were found in the 19th century by archeologists excavating the ruins of the city of Nineveh [modern day Mosul], capital of the Neo-Assyrian empire, and the city of Babylon.
	www.geocities.com /astrologyomens (1239 words)

	Persian Empire, Persopolis - Crystalinks
		Cyrus rallied the Persians together, and in 550 BC defeated the forces of Astyages, who was then captured by his own nobles and turned over to the triumphant Cyrus, now Shah of the Persian kingdom.
		When Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 BC he was employed in leading religious ceremonies (Chronicle of Nabonidus), and in the cylinder which contains Cyrus's proclamation to the Babylonians his name is joined to that of his father in the prayers to Marduk.
		In 480 BC the Persians returned, led by King Xerxes, the son of Darius.
	www.crystalinks.com /persia.html (2708 words)

	Thy Kingdom Come Book Sales - Chaldea - New Babylonia
		In 612 B.C., the New Babylonian Empire was founded and ruled by a Chaldean king.
		With this decline of Assyrian power, a native governor, Nabopolassar, was able, in 625, to become king of Babylon by popular consent and to inaugurate a Chaldean dynasty that lasted until the Persian invasion of 539 BC.
		Babylon in 555 BC came under the control of a king loyal to the Assyrians, Nabonidus (555-539 BC), who attacked Babylonian culture at its heart.
	www.ourchurch.com /view/?pageID=30003 (992 words)

	Notes on Nehemiah - Background
		According to God’s plan a king named Cyrus allowed the Israelites to return to Jerusalem in approximately 539 BC – around 50 years after the last captives had been taken to Babylon (Ezra 1:1-4).
		In 539 Zerubbabel led the first return to Jerusalem (Ezra 2) and began to rebuild their Temple which had been completely destroyed in the Babylonian conquest (Ezra 3-6).
		Ezra is described as “a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given” (Ezra 7:6).
	www.path-light.com /Nehemiah01.htm (1353 words)

	Civilizations in Mesopotamia
		The Chaldeans were overthrown by the Persians in 539 BC, after which some Jewish leaders in exile were returned to Jerusalem.
		In 722 BC, Israel was sacked by the Assyrians.
		In 538 BC, under Persian rule, former residents of Judah were allowed to return to Jerusalem, and the temple was rebuilt.
	www.indiana.edu /~hisdcl/h113_2001/mesopotamia.htm (3038 words)

	Daniel Timeline
		The army hangs around into 586 BC making certain that everything including the Temple is totally destroyed and even the walls and gates are burned with fire.
		445 BC Nehemiah, assigned as governor of Judea, travels to Jerusalem (from Susa) with a personal mission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, which would serve to restore dignity and honor to the sacred land.
		435 BC Malachi warns God's people of the dangers of apathy, challenges their doubts, and assures them they are God's people.
	home.earthlink.net /~ironmen/historytime.htm (747 words)

	Bible Numbers and the World Trade Center Disaster.
		From the 7 years of Ezekiel's symbolic siege and the real one (593-586 BC) to the would-be overthrow of Jerusalem in 701 BC (AD) are 1290 years.
		Therefore, it is interesting that there are 430 and 945 years from the construction of the original temple to its reconstruction in 536 and again in 21 BC in harmony with the same figures recorded in the bible that pertain to the destruction of this same temple.
		To be complete, we note that from the first attack on Jerusalem (and its temple) by the Babylonians in 606 BC, until the complete destruction of Jerusalem (and its temple) in 586 BC, are also 20 years.
	bible-codes.org /mene-world-trade-center-4c.htm (973 words)

	Wicca 101A - A Goddess Spirituality Course
		Anatolia was invaded sometime before 2000 BC by the Indo-Europeans and a group of them settled in a part of Anatolia known as Hatti.
		By the 9th century BC the most powerful group in Iran was the Medes, who kept the Persians as their servants.
		About 550 BC the king of the Persians led a revolt against the Medes and from that point on the Persians, led by their King Cyrus the Great, ruled over Iran.
	www.unc.edu /home/reddeer/gs_course/lesson1.html (5610 words)

	cyrus-the-great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		He was the son of Cambyses I, a descendant of Achaemenes (Hakhamanish) (flourished 7th century BC), and a member of the Achaemenid dynasty.
		When Cyrus became (558 BC) ruler of the Persian district of Anshan, the district was subject to the Medes; five years later he led a rebellion against the Medes that resulted in the capture of King Astyages (reigned about 584-c.
		Babylon, Egypt, Lydia, and the city-state of Sparta in Greece combined to curb the power of Cyrus, but in 546 BC the Persians added Lydia to their realm, and in 539 BC the kingdom of Babylon fell to Cyrus.
	sangha.net /messengers/cyrus-the-great.htm (228 words)

	Where We Work ::: Iraq Heritage Program :: UR (modern name: Tell el-Muqayyar)
		As the centre of a territorial empire controlling a unified Iraq and parts of western Iran, the city of Ur was renovated to become the symbol of the Sumerian cultural and political renaissance.
		In the mid-18th C BC, a new dynast, Hammurabi, would arise from Babylon to create the First Dynasty of Babylon and effect the first reunification of Mesopotamia since the Third Dynasty of Ur.
		The early second millennium BC houses of Area AH preserve the most coherent record of the city of Ur from the "time of Abraham." The Iraqi State Board of Antiquities chose four adjacent houses from Area AH for restoration, rebuilding the walls to over two meters high.
	www.globalheritagefund.org /where/ur.html (5406 words)

	Ankerberg Theological Research Institute - The John Ankerberg Show
		The Watchtower supported their so-called "absolute date" of 539 BC with extensive measurements and calculations from the Great Pyramid of Giza, allowing "an inch for a year" (WT 6-15-22, p.
		The Greek Olympiad does not support the 539 BC "absolute date" for the Watchtower either, and in fact establishes 587 BC as the 18th year of Nebuchadnezzar, and the desolation of Jerusalem and its temple.
		The so-called "absolute year" of 539 BC used by the Watchtower is without support and false.
	www.ankerberg.com /Articles/apologetics/AP1102W2.htm (1686 words)

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