The Babylonian captivity of Judah

587 BCThe Exile

The facts

Dates	587 BC
Era	The Exile
Source	Printed on the chart

Where this sits on the chart

The Babylonian captivity of Judah falls 3417 years out from Creation at the centre, inside the The Exile arc. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.

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Who else was alive

Zedekiah599 BC – 588 BC Ezekiel595 BC – 574 BC The ministry of the prophet Ezekiel in Babylon593 BC – 571 BC Fall of Jerusalem588 BC Taught 571-544551 BC – 479 BC Return from exile536 BC The reconstruction of the templein Jerusalem(Second Temple)536 BC – 516 BC Pythagoras established fthe oundation530 BC

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