fringe views ii how do you not understand that you're confirming that the babylonian empire ended in when its king was called to account strawman try again talk read jeremiah it gives an order of events years ends babylon's king is called to account babylon's king was called to account in ergo years ended in ergo years of nations serving babylon began in babylon replaced the assyrian world power in as i keep telling you your exegesis is fatuous for it obviates the context of chronicles jeremiah zechariah daniel zechariah and jeremiah among others try again talk 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 b c e cyrus first regal year began in the spring of b c e this means that the jews would be back in their homeland by october b c e or the seventh month tishri as ezra says it is a simple matter of counting back years which brings us to bce for jerusalem s destruction dates other than bce ignore the statements in scripture that the land would be desolate for years daniel 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 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 months to make the month journey back to jerusalem argumentum assertio does not a valid substitute for actual evidence make try again