For today’s post we will tackle the question the Skeptic Annotated Bible asked: How long was the Babylonian Captivity?
Here are the answers which the skeptic believes indicate a Bible contradiction:
70 years
“For thus says the Lord, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.” (Jeremiah 29:10)
Seven generations
“And when you are come into Babylon, you shall be there many years, and for a long time, even to seven generations: and after that I will bring you away from thence with peace.” (Baruch 6:2; quoted from Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)
(All Scriptural quotation comes from the New American Standard Bible)
