Jehovah’s Word Comes True in Every Detail

Jehovah precisely foretold future events

51:11, 28

• The Medes and Persians were expert archers and used the bow as their principal weapon. They polished their arrows to make them penetrate deeper

51:30

• The Nabonidus Chronicle says: “The army of Cyrus entered Babylon without battle.” This likely means without a general conflict and agrees with the prophecy of Jeremiah

51:37, 62

• Beginning in 539 B.C.E., Babylon’s glory began to fade. Alexander the Great intended to make Babylon his capital, but he died suddenly. At the start of the Christian era, a community of Jews still existed there, giving the apostle Peter reason to visit Babylon. But by the fourth century C.E., the city was in ruins, and it eventually passed out of existence