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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the term given to the event in history when the Jewish people were taken captive from the Kingdom of Judah and sent to Babylon?
A
The Lost Tribes of Israel
B
The Diaspora
C
Babylonian Captivity
D
Babylonian Dispersion
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Babylonian Captivity, also called Babylonian Exile, the forced detention of Jews in Babylonia following the latter’s conquest of the kingdom of Judah in 598/7 and 587/6 bce.

Detailed explanation-2: -JEREMIAH 25:9-13 This prophecy came to Jeremiah in 605 BC (Jer 25:1)-Nebuchadnezzar’s first year, and the beginning of Judah’s phased exile to Babylon. It specifies that Judah and the surrounding nations would serve the king of Babylon 70 years (Jer 25:9-13).

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

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