Jehoiachin’s Ration Tablets
c. 595–570 BC
Administrative tablets excavated at Babylon that list oil rations issued to captives at Nebuchadnezzar’s court, among them the king of Judah and his retinue.
German excavators found an archive of ration lists at Babylon in the early twentieth century. The tablet linked here names, among recipients from many lands, the king of Judah with his entourage. It confirms from Babylon’s own records that Jehoiachin lived there as a royal captive after the First Deportation to Babylon, as the end of 2 Kings says.
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- 16 March 597 BC, firm date