Judah submitted to Babylonia in 605 BCE, after a period of Egyptian control, but rebelled in 600 BCE, in anticipation of Egyptian assistance. Babylon took Jerusalem.
There was an insurrection under Zedekiah in 588BCE, followed by a two-year siege of Jerusalem. Jerusalem was destroyed in 586 BCE and probably two thirds of the population killed in battle or taken to Babylonia. Babylon installed an administrator, headquartered just north of the former site of Jerusalem, but he was killed as a collaborator. Many of the remaining Jews fled to Egypt, fearing reprisals.
Alexander the Great defeated the Persian Empire, and one of the minor territories he took over in the process was Judah.
Alexander the Great defeated Persia and absorbed the minor territory of Judea in the process.
Alexander the Great took Judah over in passing and incorporated it as a minor part of his empire.No Jewish king defeated the Persians, the Persians took over Judah as part of their empire.
Cyrus.
No Greek king conquered Persia as there was no kingdom of Greece, and no king. King Alexander of Macedonia defeated the Persian Empire and made it into an empire of his own. Judah was a small state within that empire.
KING CYRUS THE GREAT conquered the Babylonian or Chaldean Empire and gave the Babylonian Jews permission to return to their homeland of Judah and rebuild their sacred Temple.
The Judeans did not defeat Persia, the Persians under their king Cyrus the Great took control of Judah which was already under control of the Babylonians whom Persia replaced as ruler. The Babylonians had already deported the entire aristocracy of Judea. Persian king Cyrus the Great allowed them to return and try to reclaim their ancestral estates.
Cyrus II (Cyrus the Great) freed the Jewish Exiles from captivity
During the 500s B.C., a group of people called the Persians swept across southwest Asia. The Persians defeated the Chaldeans and took over Babylon. In 538 B.C. the Persian King Cyrus permitted Jews to return to Judah.
The King did pray to God who went against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated (see 2 Chronicles 20).
Alexander the Great took over Judea as a minor part of his empire when capturing the eastern Mediterranean coastline as a prelude to his conquest of Persia.
the capital city of Judah is Jerusalem. both were conquered by both Israel and Judah. Jerusalem.