Many settled in what is now northern Israel, Lebanon and Syria. Most of the exiled did not return to their homeland, instead travelling westward and northward. All of these events are considered significant to the developed history and culture of the Jewish people, and ultimately had a far-reaching impact on the development of Judaism.Īrchaeological studies have revealed that, although the city of Jerusalem was utterly destroyed, other parts of Judah continued to be inhabited during the period of the exile. 537 BCE in the new Persian province of Yehud Medinata. According to the biblical Book of Ezra, construction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem began in c.
Īfter the fall of the Neo-Babylonian Empire to the Achaemenid Persian Empire and its founding king Cyrus the Great at the Battle of Opis in 539 BCE, exiled Judeans were permitted by the Persians to return to Judah. These deportations are dated to 597 BCE for the first, with others dated at 587/586 BCE, and 582/581 BCE respectively. The dates, numbers of deportations, and numbers of deportees given in the biblical accounts vary. In the fourth year of Nebuchadnezzar II's reign, Jehoiakim refused to pay further tribute, which led to another siege of the city in Nebuchadnezzar II's seventh year that culminated in the death of Jehoiakim and the exile to Babylonia of his successor Jeconiah, his court and many others Jeconiah's successor Zedekiah and others were exiled in Nebuchadnezzar II's 18th year a later deportation occurred in Nebuchadnezzar II's 23rd year. The event is described in the Hebrew Bible, and its historicity is supported by archaeological and non-biblical evidence.Īfter the Battle of Carchemish in 605 BCE, the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II besieged Jerusalem, which resulted in tribute being paid by the Judean king Jehoiakim. The Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile is the period in Jewish history during which a large number of Judeans from the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon, the capital city of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, following their defeat in the Jewish–Babylonian War and the destruction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. The Flight of the Prisoners (1896) by James Tissot the exile of the Jews from Canaan to Babylon
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