Josiah King of Judah oppod him, and was defeated and slain at Megiddo (608 B.C.).
Judah became a tributary to Egypt, and when Nebuezzar the Great, the new Chaldean king in Babylon, rolled babsp;Nebsp;into Egypt, he attempted to manage Judah by tting up puppet kings in Jerusalem.
The experiment failed, the people massacred his Babylonian officials, and he then determined to break up this little state altogether, whibsp;had long been playing off Egypt against the northern empire.
Jerusalem was sacked and burnt, and the remnant of the people was carried off captive to Babylon.
There they remained until Cyrus took Babylon (538 B.C.).
He then collected them together and nt them babsp;to rettle their try and rebuild the walls and temple of Jerusalem.
Before that time the Jews do not em to have been a very civilized or united people.
Probably only a very few of them could read or write.
In their own history one never hears of the early books of the Bible being read; the first mention of a book is in the time of Josiah.
Josiah King of Judah oppod him, and was defeated and slain at Megiddo (608 B.C.).
Judah became a tributary to Egypt, and when Nebuezzar the Great, the new Chaldean king in Babylon, rolled babsp;Nebsp;into Egypt, he attempted to manage Judah by tting up puppet kings in Jerusalem.
The experiment failed, the people massacred his Babylonian officials, and he then determined to break up this little state altogether, whibsp;had long been playing off Egypt against the northern empire.
Jerusalem was sacked and burnt, and the remnant of the people was carried off captive to Babylon.
There they remained until Cyrus took Babylon (538 B.C.).
He then collected them together and nt them babsp;to rettle their try and rebuild the walls and temple of Jerusalem.
Before that time the Jews do not em to have been a very civilized or united people.
Probably only a very few of them could read or write.
In their own history one never hears of the early books of the Bible being read; the first mention of a book is in the time of Josiah.