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First exiles return from Babylon to Jerusalem
A small first group of Jews came back from Babylon to restore the city and rebuild its walls, closing a seventy-year period of exile.
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- Neo-Babylonian Empire
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Babylonian exile
Nebuchadnezzar II deported the elite and much of the population of Judah to Babylon in waves beginning in 597 BC, with the largest deportation after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC. The exile lasted until the Persian conquest of Babylon.
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- King Nebuchadnezzar II (Neo-Babylonian Empire)
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