Kingdom of Judah exiled to Babylon

Kingdom of Judah exiled to Babylon

12Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign [in Babylon]. 13He carried out from there all the treasures of the house of YHVH, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of YHVH, just as YHVH had said. 14Then he led away into exile all Jerusalem and all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land.

15So he led Jehoiachin away into exile to Babylon; also the king’s mother and the king’s wives and his officials and the leading men of the land, he led away into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16All the men of valour, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all strong and fit for war, and these the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.

2 Kings 24:12-16
2 Kings 25
Lamentations

 

In the month of Addaru [early in 597 BC], the second day, he [Nebuchadnezzer II] took the city and captured the king [Jehoiachin of Judah]. He installed there a king of his choice. He colle[cted] its massive tribute and went back to Babylon.

Babylonian Chronicles

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