After the Persians captured Babylon, they did not force the conquered peoples to return to their homelands; they simply allowed them to do so if they wished. some Jews had established themselves in Babylon and had no wish to uproot themselves just to live in a distant homeland they had never seen.
The men offered to stay behind and protect the ship because there was no compass on the ship.
Because they wanted to go home.
they had nowhere to go.
He allowed the Judean upper class, which had been deported to Babylon, to return to Judea to try to reclaim their ancestral estates. Half preferred to stay in Babylon where the y had become well established. Those who returned had mixed success - some could not prove their claim to lands, others succeeded.
to stay behind or to be left
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.
Jerusalem was destroyed twice - and each time most of the Jews in Israel were deported:By the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE. The Jews were deported to Babylon for 70 years. Some of them moved to Europe and North Africa during that time.By the Romans under Titus in 70 CE. The Jews were deported to Rome and from there they scatted all over the globe.
stay, stay put, stay behind, linger, wait, hang about
* Most Polish Jews were unable to escape. * Some fled eastwards into the Soviet Union, but unless they were able to stay behind the Soviet lines after June 1941 that didn't help them. * A number managed to get permission to travel through the Soviet Union to the Far East.
All emergency vehicles in my area are labelled "Stay 500 feet behind"
It is where the Jews would stay and if they could not work they were killed. 6 million Jews were killed
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