`==Fringe Views? II== How do you not understand that you're confirming that the Babylonian empire ended in 539 when its king was called to account?!!   :Strawman. Try again     Read Jeremiah 25:12. It gives an order of events. 1) 70 years ends. 2) Babylon's king is called to account. Babylon's king was called to account in 539. Ergo, 70 years ended in 539. Ergo, 70 years of nations serving Babylon began in 609. Babylon replaced the Assyrian world power in 609.   :As I keep telling you, your exegesis is fatuous for it obviates the context of 2 Chronicles 36:20,21; Jeremiah 25:12; Zechariah 1:12; Daniel 9:2; Zechariah 7:5 and Jeremiah 29:10, among others. Try again.        == Fringe Views? ==  Please desist from changing articles to match the fringe views of Jehovah's Witnesses. You might like to start a section at articles' Talk pages, however it is unlikely that you will be able to indicate any widespread support for the alternative views taught by your religion. Thanks.    :How is it fringe when they're based on accurate and reliable sources? Wikipedia is a place for truth not your noetical bigotry.    ::Reliable sources indicate the widely accepted chronology of the period. They do not support the JW chronology. And you didn't even provide any sources. You will need to discuss at the article's Talk pages to reach a concensus, however there are no mainstream sources in support of your views.    :::Agreed. I've reverted you again.    ::::You are both misinformed. According to the Cyrus Cylinder, Cyrus conquered Babylon in October 539 B.C.E. Cyrus’ first regal year began in the spring of 538 B.C.E. This means that the Jews would be back in their homeland by October 537 B.C.E. or “the seventh month (Tishri)” as Ezra 3:1 says.  ::::It is a simple matter of counting back 70 years which brings us to 607 BCE for Jerusalem’s destruction. Dates other than 607 BCE ignore the statements in Scripture that the land would be desolate for 70 years. (Daniel 9:1,2)      :::::Looking at your other edits I'm concerned that you don't have any grasp yet of WP:NPOV. I've raised them at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bible#Editor changes biblical dates, etc where I hope you will explain your edits. You are also failing to use WP:Edit summaries, which is sufficient reason for many people to revert you.     ::::::Thank you for the reminder concerning the ``edit summaries`` field.     :::::You said: This means that the Jews would be back in their homeland by October 537 B.C.E.. That is wrong. The JW conclusion that the Jews 'must' have returned the following year is entirely speculative. Josephus explicitly states that the temple foundations were laid in Cyrus second year, which means the Jews were back in his first year, which means Cyrus decree was made at the beginning of hist first year, and the Jews then had 6 months to make the 4-month journey back to Jerusalem.    ::::::Argumentum assertio does not a valid substitute for actual evidence make. Try again.     :::::You also said: It is a simple matter of counting back 70 years which brings us to 607 BCE for Jerusalem’s destruction. That is also wrong. Jeremiah 25:12 (NWT) states: ``“‘And it must occur that when seventy years have been fulfilled I shall call to account against the king of Babylon and against that nation``. The seventy years were a period during which all the nations served Babylon (Jeremiah 25:11). One of the nations listed as serving Babylon was the Medes (Jeremiah 25:25), but the Medes were not serving Babylon when the Median general Darius conquered Babylon in 539. After Babylon was conquered, the nations were serving Persia. The book of Daniel quite clearly identifies when Babylon's king was 'called to account' (Daniel 5:26-31).    ::::::Your exegesis of Jeremiah 25:25 is shockingly sophistic. Verses 12-14 & 17-26 lists those who would suffer Jehovah God's judgment; 'drink from his cup of the wine of his rage.' (25:15,16) It most certainly does not assert what you mendaciously allege. As I've already explicated, the seventy years of desolation Jerusalem had to experience was precisely that. (2 Chronicles 36:20,21; Jeremiah 25:12; Zechariah 1:12; Daniel 9:2; Zechariah 7:5; Jeremiah 29:10) Nowhere is this figure presented as allegorical or figurative in any way, shape or form. Your whole argument, then, has no purchase whatsoever.    :::::::I'm not going to reply to each of your errors here. Suffice to say, your religious opinions are not welcome in historical articles.   ::::::::Your harassment is not welcome nor will it be tolerated. Consider yourself warned.    :::::::::POV-pushing of your religious beliefs without any support from neutral sources is neither welcome nor tolerated. Unlike your 'warning', that's based on policy.   ::::::::::And in what possible world do you think your atheistic bent is accepted as noetical integrity? Multiple editors on here have provided independent, verifiable evidence for  537 BCE as being the year in which the exiled Jews in Babylon were repatriated. No matter your illusions, all your petulant bleating cannot change established history. Aut disce aut discede.   :::::::::::Your attempt at ad hominem is irrelevant. And there are in fact more than twice the number of results on Google books for searching on 538 instead of 537. Josephus indicates that the temple foundations were laid in Cyrus' second year (Against Apion, Book I, chapter 21), and Ezra 3:8 places that event in the 2nd month (Iyyar), corresponding with May of 537 BCE. Ezra 3:1 says that the Jews were ``in their cities`` in the 7th month (Tishri) of the year before, corresponding with October of 538 BCE. Various sources indicate either 538 or 537. Following is a mixed list of secular, Jewish and Christian sources that indicate 538 for the return. This is not an exhaustive list. :::::::::::*Fire Bible-NIV-Student - Page 580, Donald Stamps, Carey Huffman, J. Wesley Adams – 2009: “In stage one (538 BC), 50000 exiles returned, led by Zerubbabel and Jeshua (cf. Ezra 2).” :::::::::::*Fire Bible Student Edition: New International Version - Page 580, Hendrickson Publishers, Carey Hu