My son asked me how you can know the Bible is true/accurate. First of all, we know it highly suspect. Their temple and belongings were destroyed by the Babylonians. Their history was written "from memory" or "by revelation" after a generation of captivity by Babylon. The Israelites pre-captivity, were already rejecting their religion and purging anything they decided was wrong. But still the question, how can you know its not completely made up? I told him, one thing you can always rely on, in any age, is the vanity of people. They will always put themselves in the best light possible. So, yes, there will be some accuracies because it's their history. You can rely on major events as Thomas Jefferson observed about American newspapers, but everything else is suspect.
“And the Most High gave understanding to the five men, and by turns they wrote what was dictated, in characters which they did not know. They sat forty days, and wrote during the daytime, and ate their bread at night. As for me, I spoke in the daytime and was not silent at night. So during the forty days ninety-four books were written. And when the forty days were ended, the Most High spoke to me, saying, “Make public the twenty-four books that you wrote first and let the worthy and the unworthy read them; but keep the seventy that were written last, in order to give them to the wise among your people. For in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the river of knowledge.” And I did so." (2 Esdras 14, RSV)
"…during the captivity of the people under Nebuchadnezzar, the Scriptures had been corrupted, and when, after seventy years, the Jews had returned to their own land, then, in the times of Artaxerxes king of the Persians, inspired Esdras the priest, of the tribe of Levi, to recast all the words of the former prophets, and to re-establish with the people the Mosaic legislation." (Irenaeus of Smyrna, Against Heresies, Book 3, Ch. 21)
"Just before the temple was destroyed, there had been a massive purge of the religion of Judah and Jerusalem, usually described as King Josiah’s reform...What the refugees described as abandoning the Queen of Heaven, and Enoch described as forsaking Wisdom must have been this purge by Josiah. What he had tried to destroy was the older religion of Jerusalem and Judah...There had been a Lady in Jerusalem who had been rejected and returned to her place among the angels. She had been worshipped [sic] with wine and incense, and bread to represent her. She had protected the city and given prosperity, and she had given vision to the priests. She had been evicted from the temple by Josiah, and her cult probably involved the items removed in the purge or remembered as missing from the second temple: the item named the Asherah." (Margaret Barker, Where Shall Wisdom Be Found)