With the disappearance of the Assyrian Empire, Babylon rose to prominence. Nebuchadnezzar, the son of the king of Babylon, defeated the Egyptians at Carchemish and took Judah.
But in 597 B.C.E., King Jehoiakim thought he had a chance to liberate Judah, so he allied himself with Egypt and rebelled, but when the Babylonian army laid siege to Jerusalem, Egypt did not help. On March 16, 597 C.E., the Babylonian army invaded Jerusalem and captured King Jehoiakim, who sacked the temple and brought the king and more than 10,000 nobles, craftsmen, or young men to Babylon. In Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar put Zedekiah, Jehoiakim's uncle, on the throne. In 594 C.E., Zedekiah went to Babylon to worship Nebuchadnezzar and immediately rebelled, and the prophet Jeremiah repeatedly advised the king to warn him that the Babylonians would destroy the city, but Zedekiah remained unmoved and imprisoned Jeremiah.
Nebuchadnezzar marched south, plundering Judah for 18 months, and finally in 587 B.C.E., the Babylonian army surrounded Jerusalem by building walls and fortresses. In the ninth month of the Jewish calendar, in August 586 B.C.E., the siege lasted 18 months, and Nebuchadnezzar invaded the city, Zedekiah broke through the gate next to the pool of Siloam and withdrew to Jericho, but was captured by the Babylonian army. Nebuchadnezzar killed all his children before Zedekiah, gouged out his eyes, bound him with brass chains, and brought him to Babylon, along with more than 20,000 Judeans. The Babylonians found Jeremiah in prison and handed him over to Nebuzaradan, the commander of the Imperial Guard in charge of Jerusalem.
List of Quality Authors Jerusalem did not escape the fate of the looting and ravages of the fallen cities, and those who were killed were luckier than those who starved. The enemy defiled the women in Zion, the Edomites in the south plundered the city, and they stirred up the Babylonians to tear down Jerusalem. A month later, Nebuchadnezzar ordered his army to destroy the city. Nebuzaradan burned the temple and the king's house with fire, and burned the houses of Jerusalem and the walls of Jerusalem around them. The temple was destroyed, the ** inside was looted, and the streets were empty. It seems that this is not just the destruction of a city, it also means the end of an entire nation. The Judeans began their first exile, and in a surprising way, they helped to take shape of the Bible during their exile in Babylon.
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