WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The walls and houses of Jerusalem were destroyed, its temple was sacked and burned, and the people of Judah, except for the poorest of the land, were deported to Babylon. Thus began the Babylonian Exile. Judah lost its status as a kingdom and became a Babylonian province.

Detailed explanation-2: -After the exile, Judah was politically rebuilt as a Persian satrapy, a semi-autonomous administrative province, ruled by a priestly elite that remigrated from Babylonia and whose views and attitudes were shaped by the religious blue-prints for reconstruction drafted in the exile.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jerusalem fell after a 30-month siege, following which the Babylonians systematically destroyed the city and the First Temple. The Kingdom of Judah was dissolved and many of its inhabitants were exiled to Babylon. During the late 7th century BCE, Judah became a vassal kingdom of Babylon.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nebuchadnezzar pillaged the city and its Temple, and the new king Jeconiah, who was either 8 or 18, and his court and other prominent citizens and craftsmen, were deported to Babylon. The deportation occurred prior to Nisan of 597 BC, and dates in the Book of Ezekiel are counted from that event.

Detailed explanation-5: -By the time of Nebuchadnezzar II’s death, the kingdom of Babylon had expanded to include the Levant with its Phoenician cities, but had not conquered Egypt. 1 It continued to incorporate Assyria, Nabopolassar’s conquest. The last king of the dynasty, Nabonidus, added north-west Arabia to the empire.