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Chronology Table (by Guy Cramer)
Nebuchadnezzar
Using Babalonian Accession
Nebuchadnezzar
Using Jewish Non Accession System
Year in B.C.
1 Nisan(Mar/April) -
Last day of Adar (Feb/Mar) following year
Jewish Kings
Using Jewish Accession
    609/608 Accession Year for Jehoiakim 609
    608/607 1
    607/606 2
    606/605 3 (Daniel 1)
Accession Year System =
Accession year for Nebuchadnezzar
reign begins Sept. 605 (Babylon chronicle)
All regnal years after would begin on 1 Nisan (Mar/April)
Jeweish Non Accession Year System when explaining the year of Nebuchadnezzar =
1st year for Nebuchadnezzar
All regnal years would begin 1 Nisan (Mar/April)
605/604 4 (Jeremiah 46:2)
Battle of Carchemish May-June 605 BC
1 2 604/603 5
2 (Daniel 2:1) 3 603/602 6
3 4 602/601 7
4 5 601/600 8
5 5 600/599 9
6 7 599/598 10
7 (Babylonian chronicle)
(Jeremiah 52:28)
8 (2 Kings 24:12) 598/597 11 Jehoiakim's reign ends approximate Nov/Dec 598 BC
(2 Chronicles 36:5)
(2 Kings 23:36)

Jehoiachin (Jehoiakim's son) reigned 3 months 10 days
(2 Chr. 36:9-10)
(2 Kings 24:8)

Accession year begins for Zedekiah 2nd Adar [Mar 16 597 BC] (2 Kings 24:17)

8 9 597/596 1
9 10 596/595 2
10 11 595/594 3
11 12 594/593 4
12 13 593/592 5
13 14 592/591 6
14 "saros" texts 15 591/590 7
15 16 590/589 8
16 17 589/588 9 (2 Kings 25:1)
17 18 588/587 10
18
(Jeremiah 52:29)
19 (Jeremiah 52:12)
(2 Kings 25:8)
587/586 11 Zedekiah reign ends
approximate July/Aug 587 BC
(2 Chronicles 36:11)
(2 Kings 24:18)
19 20 586/585  

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