Begin with Judah, not with an isolated empire list
The research follows the sequence through Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, Zedekiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, Nebuchadnezzar, and the fall of Jerusalem. Babylon is therefore studied through its relationship to Judah and the prophetic record, not as a disconnected kingdom.
Read the biblical movement
SCRIPTURE: Kings, Chronicles, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel supply overlapping records of Judah's final kings, Babylon, captivity, prophetic warnings, and kingdom transitions. Ezra opens the return by recording that the LORD stirred Cyrus king of Persia.
The word crosses the change of kingdoms
Jeremiah's seventy-year word remains important inside the captivity story. Daniel later turns to Jeremiah's writings while Babylon's rule is giving way to the next kingdom. The project follows that continuity into Cyrus and the return.
Persia does not end the chronology
From the return, the wider research continues through the restoration period and then toward Greece, Alexander, the divided Greek kingdoms, Antiochus, the Maccabean period, and Rome's gradual entrance. Those later layers must remain visibly distinguished between biblical text, Will's chronological study, expanded sources, and broader historical context.
Do not force artificial certainty
WILL'S CHRONOLOGY: calculated year relationships and restoration periods belong to the research layer. Where the source material leaves a chronological question open, the website should show the calculation and the question rather than presenting an arranged date as though Scripture directly states it.