Babylon is 80km from Baghdad in the city called Al Hillah
about 500 miles more or less
We can approximate this by the distance from Jerusalem to modern Baghdad is a reasonable approximation. As the crow flies, it is 878 km which is 546 miles. By modern roads, it is 2583 km or 1605 miles, using a route through the West Bank, Jordan and Iraq. It is reasonable to guess that modern roads probably follow routes not horribly different from ancient ones.
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This is nonsens. The Judean aristocracy was given estates in Babylon by the Babylonians. The common people remained in Judea under an imported aristocracy. When the Persians took over, they offered the ones in Babylon the option of returning to Judea to try to reclaim their estates. Half took the offer, the other half were doing so well in Babylon that they refused and stayed. Not exactly enslavement.
distance between Susa and Babylon
It was the Israelis who where taken captives by the Babylonians. The forced exile ended in 538 BCE after the fall of Babylon to the Persian king Cyrus the Great, who gave the Jews permission to return to Judea province and to rebuild the Temple.
2,435 miles
The distance is about 500 miles as the crow flies. By caravans, the route would be about twice since it meanders.
The question answers itself. Specifically, the "Babylonian Exile" refers to the invasion of Judea by Babylon in 586 B.C.E. and the deportation of the Jewish population of Judea to Babylon. The Babylonian Exile ended in 534 B.C.E. when King Cyrus of Persia conquered Babylon and permitted the Jews in Babylon to return to the southern Levant.
King Cyrus announced that they were free to return to Israel (Judea).
This is nonsens. The Judean aristocracy was given estates in Babylon by the Babylonians. The common people remained in Judea under an imported aristocracy. When the Persians took over, they offered the ones in Babylon the option of returning to Judea to try to reclaim their estates. Half took the offer, the other half were doing so well in Babylon that they refused and stayed. Not exactly enslavement.
19 miles
Judea is area of mountains that are located closely to Jerusalem. There is approximately 6,070 miles between Judea and Samaria, Michigan.
26km
The Babylonians exiled the Judeans to Babylon and destroyed numerous buildings in Judea.
About 50 miles
The distance between Nazareth and Egypt is 2026 miles or 3261 kilometers.
They had moved the aristocracy of Judea to Babylon and replaced them in Judea with one from Babylon. This was the way the Assyrians and the Chaldeans kept down conquered peoples - an imported foreign aristocracy would be unsympathetic to the people they ruled and would stop uprisings. So the Judean aristocracy was moved to Babylon to ule a different people there. When Persian king Cyrus took over the Chaldean and Syrian empires, he allowed the Jewish aristocracy the choice of staying in Babylon or going back to Judaea to try to reclaim their old estates there. Half elected to stay in Babylon where they already controlled estates, the rest went beck to Judea where the lower classes of the Jews had remained; some were successful some weren't.
It was the Israelis who where taken captives by the Babylonians. The forced exile ended in 538 BCE after the fall of Babylon to the Persian king Cyrus the Great, who gave the Jews permission to return to Judea province and to rebuild the Temple.
He allowed the Judeans return to Judea to let them attempt to claim the ancestral land they lost when Babylon deported them to Babylon to stop them leading rebellions against its rule.