Daniel's 70 weeks (6) Redating the historical eclipses during Xerxes the Great's reign
In my previous video titled “ Nabonidus was Nebuchadnezzar, proven by lunar eclipse in Nabonidus' 2nd year reign ” I showed that historians gave the wrong date for the lunar eclipse that occurred in the 2nd year of Nabonidus which they dated September 26, 554 BC . I dated this lunar eclipse seven years earlier on August 15, 561 BC instead. The Reign of Nabonidus King of Babylon 556-539 BC , pg 127 last paragraph by Paul-Alain Beaulieu: It is known from the Royal Chronicle that the eclipse must have taken place in the second year of Nabonidus or slightly before… If the lunar eclipse indeed took place on August 15, 561 BC during the early part of Nabonidus’ second year, then the first year of Nabonidus must have been in 562 BC instead of 556 BC, or six years earlier than the historically recognized date. We know for certain that Astyages , the last king of Media, was defeated by the Persian king Cyrus the Great in the sixth year of his Babylonian colleague Nabonidus as record