Original sentence: Jehovah's Witnesses assert that Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians in 607 BCE and completely uninhabited for exactly seventy years.Not all scholars support 607 BCE for the event; most scholars date the destruction of Jerusalem to within a year of 587 BCE, twenty years later
Edited sentence: Jehovah's Witnesses assert that Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians in 607 BC and completely uninhabited for exactly seventy years.Non-Witness scholars do not support 607 BC for the event; most scholars date the destruction of Jerusalem to within a year of 587 BC, twenty years later.This date is critical to their selection of October 1914 for the arrival of Christ in kingly power—2520 years after October 607 BC