Exile and return
Jerusalem burns, Babylon falls, and the Temple rises again.
Open the chronicle on the mapIn −586 the kingdom ends and the people are carried off, yet they do not disappear. Seventy years later a new empire lets them go home, and Judaism begins to take the form it will carry through every later exile.
Events 8 moments
First Temple Destroyed−586
Babylonian Exile−586
Fall of Babylon−539
Return to Zion−538
Second Temple Completed−516
Purim−474- Knesset HaGdolah−450
Rebuilding of Jerusalem Walls−445
