No events are recorded for 640 BC.
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Assyrian deportation of Israelites to the cities of the Medes
The King of Assyria took Israel captive and deported some of the Jews, settling them in Median cities.
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- King of Assyria
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Assyrian deportation of the people of Samaria
After the Assyrians destroyed the northern kingdom, Sargon deported thousands of Samaria's inhabitants to Mesopotamia and the Median frontier.
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- Sargon of Assyria
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Assyrian exile of the Kingdom of Israel
The Neo-Assyrian Empire conquered the northern Kingdom of Israel and deported much of its population to other parts of the empire. Samaria fell in 722 BC.
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- Neo-Assyrian Empire (Tiglath-Pileser III, Shalmaneser V, Sargon II)
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The Kingdom of Israel falls to the Neo-Assyrian Empire, The fall of Israel resulted in the deportation of many Israelites, often referred to as the " Lost Ten Tribes ", This marked the end of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, leaving only the Southern Kingdom of Judah.
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- Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Besieged Jerusalem
In 598 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo-Babylonian Empire besieged Jerusalem, then capital of the southern Kingdom of Judah. The city fell after a three-month siege, and the new king Jeconiah, who was either 8 or 18, his court and other prominent citizens (including the prophet Ezekiel) and craftsmen, were deported to Babylon.
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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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Expulsions record persecution of Jews, not wrongdoing by Jews. Why this matters
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