In the fourth year of Nebuchadnezzar II's reign, Jehoiakim refused to pay further tribute, which led to another siege of the city in Nebuchadnezzar II's seventh year that culminated in the death of Jehoiakim and the exile to Babylonia of his successor Jeconiah, his court and many others Jeconiah's successor Zedekiah and others were exiled in Nebuchadnezzar II's 18th year a later deportation occurred in Nebuchadnezzar II's 23rd year. The event is described in the Hebrew Bible, and its historicity is supported by archaeological and non-biblical evidence.Īfter the Battle of Carchemish in 605 BCE, the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II besieged Jerusalem, which resulted in tribute being paid by the Judean king Jehoiakim. The Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile is the period in Jewish history during which a large number of Judeans from the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon, the capital city of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, following their defeat in the Jewish–Babylonian War and the destruction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. The Flight of the Prisoners (1896) by James Tissot the exile of the Jews from Canaan to Babylon
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