<P> Historically, there has been considerable controversy over the date when Jerusalem was captured the second time and Zedekiah's reign came to an end . There is no dispute about the month: it was the summer month of Tammuz (Jeremiah 52: 6). The problem has been to determine the year . Albright preferred 587 BC and Thiele advocated 586 BC, and this division among scholars has persisted until the present time . If Zedekiah's years are by accession counting, whereby the year he came to the throne was considered his "zero" year and his first full year in office, 597 / 596, was counted as year one, Zedekiah's eleventh year, the year the city fell, would be 587 / 586 . Since Judean regnal years were measured from Tishri in the fall, this would place the end of his reign and the capture of the city in the summer of 586 BC . Accession counting was the rule for most, but not all, of the kings of Judah, whereas "non-accession" counting was the rule for most, but not all, of the kings of Israel . </P> <P> The publication of the Babylonian Chronicles in 1956, however, gave evidence that the years of Zedekiah were measured in a non-accession sense . This reckoning makes year 598 / 597, the year Zedekiah was installed by Nebuchadnezzar according to Judah's Tishri - based calendar, to be year "one," so that the fall of Jerusalem in his eleventh year would have been in year 588 / 587, i.e. in the summer of 587 BC . The Bablyonian Chronicles allow the fairly precise dating of the capture of Jehoiachin and the start of Zedekiah's reign, and they also give the accession year of Nebuchadnezzar's successor Amel - Marduk (Evil Merodach) as 562 / 561 BC, which was the 37th year of Jehoiachin's captivity according to 2 Kings 25: 27 . These Babylonian records related to Jehoiachin's reign are consistent with the fall of the city in 587 but not in 586, thus vindicating Albright's date . </P> <P> Another potential confusion arises from the convention of dating the reigns of the Israelite kings by reference to the Gregorian calendar . This potential confusion arises because year numbers of the Gregorian calendar commence on 1 January, while year numbers for dating biblical events start on 1 Tishri of the Hebrew calendar, which is not fixed in terms of the Gregorian year, and also usually occurs in September--October of the Gregorian year . Accordingly, an event which takes place after 1 Tishri, between, say, November and December under Gregorian dating, would be in the next year under biblical dating . </P> <P> A detailed account of a coronation in ancient Judah is found in II Kings 11: 12 and II Chronicles 23: 11, in which the seven - year - old Jehoash is crowned in a coup against the usurper Athaliah . This ceremony took place in the doorway of the Temple in Jerusalem . The king was led to "his pillar", "as the manner was", where a crown was placed upon his head, and "the testimony" given to him, followed by anointing at the hands of the high priest and his sons . Afterwards, the people "clapped their hands" and shouted "God save the King" as trumpets blew, music played, and singers offered hymns of praise . </P>

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