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The Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile is the 70-year period in Jewish history during which a number of people from the ancient Kingdom of Judah were forcibly exiled to Babylonia.
1) The general spiritual reason for the Babylonian Exile was that God had found the people of Judah to be below the spiritual level that was a requisite for having His presence remain among them. The prophets had warned them (Jeremiah 7:25) but were not sufficiently heeded (2 Chronicles 36:16). Once God's presence no longer felt welcome, the destruction and exile were just a matter of time (Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 31a, and midrash Eichah Rabbah 1:43).
A more specific spiritual reason was the egregious sins of Menasheh, king of Judah (2 Kings 21:11-13 and 24:3).
2) The temporal circumstance was the fact that King Yehoiakim, after having been obedient to Nevuchadnezzar (king of Babylonia), became insubordinate (2 Kings 24:1); and Nevuchadnezzar responded by conquering the land of Judah, destroying the First Temple and exiling the populace.
Some positive results: the false prophets, at long last, were silenced forever. They had predicted that Judah would remain independent of Babylonia (Jeremiah ch.27) and no Destruction would take place.
Also, the lure of idolatry finally weakened, since the Destruction and Exile happened exactly as predicted by the true Prophets, who were the same ones who had spoken ceaselessly against dabbling in idolatry.
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∙ 12y agoIn 722 BCE, the northern Hebrew kingdom, Israel had been destroyed by the Assyrians, who took the Israelites into exile, where they gradually assimilated into the local cultures and lost their separate ethnic identity.
Nearly one and a half centuries later, in 586 BCE, Babylon destroyed the city of Jerusalem, ending the southern Hebrew kingdom of Judah, and took the population as captive to Babylon. Around 538 BCE, after the Persian defeat of Babylon, the Jews were allowed to return to Jerusalem. In this case, the period of captivity was too short for the Jews to lose their separate ethnic identity, and the Persians were instrumental in fostering the Judaic religion. The captivity and the period 586-538 is known as the Babylonian Exile.
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∙ 7y agoThe Babylonians, on taking over the Assyrian Empire, followed their practice of exchanging aristocracies between peoples, This meant that the local rulers were unsympathetic to the people they ruled, and therefore likely to keep them in check, rather than leading revolts. So the Judean aristocracy was deported to Babylon and a new aristocracy was brought in to take control. The people of Judea remained in place under the imported aristocracy. When the Persians took over the Babylonian Empire, they gave the Judean aristocracy in Babylon the option of returning to Judea to try to reclaim their estates. Some did, many were so well established with their new estates in Babylon thy declined the offer.
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∙ 8y agoThe exile in Babylon was the forced transfer of the Jews from Israel (Judah) to Babylon at the time of the First Destruction, some 2500 years ago. This was 133 years after the Ten Tribes had already been exiled elsewhere by the Assyrians. The exile in Babylon was coerced upon the Jews for seventy years, after which they were allowed by Cyrus to return to Judea. The majority chose not to go to Judea, thus beginning the Diaspora (spreading afield of Jewish communities) that has lasted ever since.
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∙ 9y agoThe Babylonian exile is the name given to the period of time in The Bible where the Babylonians captured many of the Israeli people and made them slaves.
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∙ 13y agoThe Jews exiled to Babylon in 586 BCE.
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What did the jews call their time in babylon?
It was called the Babylonian Exile or the First Diaspora.
The 50 years that Jewish exiles spent in Babylon is known as the?
Babylonian Exile.
Is there evidence of Jewish history in the Babylonian writings?
It depends on what aspect of Jewish history is being discussed. There is actually strong agreement between the Bible and the Babylonian accounts of the Judean-Babylonian Wars and the Babylonian Exile. The rest of the Biblical Account is neither confirmed nor denied by Babylonian writings.
What is the time when the conquered Jewish people were moved to Babylon?
The time when the Jews were moved to Babylon is called the Babylonian Exile.
The downfall of the babylonian empire and other societies was partly caused by unwise land-use which resulted in?
Deforestation
What did the jews call their time in babylon?
It was called the Babylonian Exile or the First Diaspora.
What is Babylonian exile?
The Babylonian exile is the name given to the period of time in The Bible where the Babylonians captured many of the Israeli people and made them slaves.
What period begun after the fall of Judah?
The Babylonian exile.
Number of years that Israel spent in Babylonian exile?
Seventy years
What was the significance of the exile in Babylon for Jewish people?
The Babylonian exile showed that the warnings of the Torah (Leviticus ch.26) were serious and were prophecies that had now come true, with all that that implies. The Babylonian exile exonerated the true prophets such as Jeremiah, and exposed the lies of the false prophets.
What event in the Jewish history is referred to as the Babylonian Exile?
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.
Captivity in which the Jewish people were enslaved by the babylonian enpire?
That was the Babylonian exile, which followed the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BCE.
The 50 years that Jewish exiles spent in Babylon is known as the?
Babylonian Exile.
What ruler predicted by Isaiah allowed the Jews to return after the Babylonian exile?
Cyrus of Persia.
What do you call the period of time in Jewish history between the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple after Babylonian exile?
In order for there to be a between, you need two points. The Rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple after the Babylonian Exile is point 1. What is point 2? If you are going forwards, it would be the Persian Occupation, the Hellenistic Period, the Hasmonean Kingdom, and the Roman Occupation. If you are going backwards, it would be the Babylonian Exile, the Judean Period, and the Two Kingdoms Period.
Who predicted the Babylonian Exile?
No-one predicted the Babylonian Captivity. It was once thought that Isaiah did, because he wrote of the times of Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, but then began to write of the Babylonian Exile. However, scholars now know that the Book of Isaiah was really written by two different people. Isaiah, known today as First Isaiah for convenience, wrote about the time of Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, just as he outlined in the introduction to the Book. Another, anonymous author, living during the Babylonian Exile, added to the Book, based on his personal experiences during the Exile.
Is there evidence of Jewish history in the Babylonian writings?
It depends on what aspect of Jewish history is being discussed. There is actually strong agreement between the Bible and the Babylonian accounts of the Judean-Babylonian Wars and the Babylonian Exile. The rest of the Biblical Account is neither confirmed nor denied by Babylonian writings.
