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Chronology and 607 BCE · Claim record

Of the publications opened in this pass, the calculation is given in its most precise form in the 1999 Daniel book, which dates the beginning of the “seven times” to Tishri 15 of 607 BCE and their end to Tishri 15, or 4-5 October, 1914.

Claim ID claim-chronology-1914-tishri-15Concerns 1999Explicit statement
Explicit statement · 1999 Verified

Of the publications opened in this pass, the calculation is given in its most precise form in the 1999 Daniel book, which dates the beginning of the “seven times” to Tishri 15 of 607 BCE and their end to Tishri 15, or 4-5 October, 1914. Pay Attention to Daniel’s Prophecy!, 1999What Does the Bible Really Teach?, 2005

The organisation’s position or later explanation: The arithmetic is given in the 2005 appendix: 606 years from October 607 BCE to October 1 BCE, plus 1,914 years to October 1914, there being no zero year.

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Pay Attention to Daniel’s Prophecy!, “Unraveling the Mystery of the Great Tree (chap. 6)”

1999 · pp.96-97 · par. 28 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“Since the “seven times” are prophetic, we must apply to the 2,520 days the Scriptural rule: “A day for a year.” … They began with the desolation of Judah and Jerusalem in the seventh lunar month (Tishri 15) of 607 B.C.E. … From that point to 1 B.C.E. is 606 years. The remaining 1,914 years stretch from then to 1914 C.E. Thus, the “seven times,” or 2,520 years, ended by Tishri 15, or October 4/5, 1914 C.E.”

The preceding paragraphs argue that Nebuchadnezzar’s own “seven times” were seven years of 360 days, that 2,520 literal days from 607 B.C.E. would reach only “600 B.C.E., a year having no Scriptural significance”, and that 537 B.C.E. cannot be the end because Zerubbabel was made governor, not king.

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Provenance and verification note

Confidence note. Full document fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read in full; the quotation, the paragraph and the page were confirmed against the article text and its embedded page markers (span class=“pageNum”).

Corroborated by. src-chr-o-it1-appointed-times-2520, src-chr-o-bh-2005-appendix

Notes. The most precise published form of the calculation: a named day, Tishri 15, 4/5 October 1914.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chr-o-dp-1999-seven-times

Primary JW publication Verified

What Does the Bible Really Teach?, “Appendix: 1914—A Significant Year in Bible Prophecy”

2005 · pp.215-218 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“The 2,520 years began in October 607 B.C.E., when Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians and the Davidic king was taken off his throne. The period ended in October 1914. At that time, “the appointed times of the nations” ended, and Jesus Christ was installed as God’s heavenly King.”

The appendix to the organisation’s principal Bible-study textbook of 2005-2015 sets out the chain in five steps: Luke 21:24; Jerusalem as a symbol of Jehovah’s rulership; Daniel 4’s felled tree; 1,260 days x 2 = 2,520 days from Revelation 12:6, 14; and the day-for-a-year rule from Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6. A footnote adds the arithmetic (606 + 1,914 = 2,520, there being no zero year) and refers readers to the article “Chronology” in Insight on the Scriptures.

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Provenance and verification note

Confidence note. Full document fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read in full; the quotation, the paragraph and the page were confirmed against the article text and its embedded page markers (span class=“pageNum”).

Corroborated by. src-chr-o-bhs-2015-endnote, src-chr-o-jw-ijwbq-1914

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chr-o-bh-2005-appendix

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