And in the twelfth year of the reign of Zedekiah, forty years before the supremacy of the Persians, Nebuchodonosor made war against the Phoenicians and the Jews, as Berosus asserts in his Chaldaean Histories. And Joabas, writing about the Assyrians, acknowledges that he had received the history from Berosus, and testifies to his accuracy. Nebuchodonosor, therefore, having put out the eyes of Zedekiah, took him away to Babylon, and transported the whole people (the captivity lasted seventy years), with the exception of a few who fled to Egypt.

.... And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon; and Jechonias begat....

Canaan in the forty-seventh jubilee, in the second week in the second year, and the children of Israel brought forth all the bones of the children of ...

In the fourth week in the first year in the .beginning thereof in the four and thirtieth jubilee, were they dispersed from the land of Shinar,: The...

Edom was finally made tributary to Israel by John Hyrcanus.

And he sent him with them in the second year of this 2172 a.m. week on the first day of the month, and they came to the land of Egypt with all those w...

Eliezer xxxix. (towards end). Judah went forth in front, and Naphtali and Gad" with him and fifty servants with him on the south side of the tower,...

These are the generations of Jacob. And Joseph was seven- teen years old when they took him down into the land of Egypt, and Potiphar, an eunuch of...