The siege of Jerusalem (c. 589–587 BCE) was the final event of the Judahite revolts against Babylon, in which Nebuchadnezzar II, king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, besieged Jerusalem, the capital city of the Kingdom of Judah.

2025年1月31日 · Babylonian Captivity, the forced detention of Jews in Babylonia following the Neo-Babylonian Empire’s conquest of the kingdom of Judah in 598/7 and 587/6 bce. The captivity formally ended in 538 bce, when the Persian conqueror of Babylonia, Cyrus the Great, gave the Jews permission to return to Palestine.

2016年7月6日 · The Prophet Yechezkel is exiled in 586 BCE along with the Jewish people to Babylon, but all things considered, this is a relatively non–brutal exile. The exile is under Nebuchadnezzar II, who reigns from 605 BCE to 562 BCE and constructs the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a Wonder of the Ancient World.

In 586 BC the Babylonian military, led by King Nebuchadnezzar, succeeded in breaking a two-year-long siege and destroyed much of the city of Jerusalem; her walls, palaces, and most devastatingly, the Temple of Solomon.

2023年12月31日 · Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence in support of Biblical accounts of the siege and burning of the city of Jerusalem by the Babylonians around 586 BCE, according to a September paper...

2011年9月29日 · At the end of the sixth century BC, the Assyrian Empire collapsed and the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar besieged the city of Jerusalem, captured the king, and ended the first commonwealth. Even...

2020年8月9日 · The Bible and pure science converge in a new archaeomagnetism study of a large public structure that was razed to the ground on Tisha B’Av 586 BCE during the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem.

In 561 B.C.E. Nebuchadnezzar’s successor Amel-Marduk, released Jehoiachin from prison and even assigned him provisions from the royal storehouses. The only manifestations of religion among the Jews in Babylonia that we know of were public prayer and communal fasts to commemorate the various stages of Jerusalem’s fall.

2023年9月1日 · Jerusalem has undergone several catastrophic political upheavals, a central one being the Babylonian or First Temple destruction in 586 BCE. This destruction event has reached an almost mythical status in collective memory and in reconstructions of this region's history.

Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian forces returned in 588/586 BCE and rampaged through Judah, leaving clear archaeological evidence of destruction in many towns and settlements there.