ABSTRACT
The Kingdom of Israel came to an end in 722 BCE, at the hands of the Assyrian army. The Kingdom of Judah survived the Assyrian onslaught, but found itself under siege slightly more than a century later, when the Babylonian army progressed against the Judean territories. In 600–599, the first Judean exiles were removed to Babylon. Thirteen years later, the great Jerusalem Temple was destroyed and the last wave of exiles was on its way to a new, foreign home.
