What Was Life Like in Exile? • Spotlight • Living in the Babylonian Exile

Beginning in 597 BC, eleven years before the destruction of Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar enacted the first wave of deportations of citizens of Jerusalem to his Babylonian Empire. This first exile was a show of his power and an attempt to squash any spirit of rebellion or independence in Judah and Jerusalem. As rebellions continued, Nebuchadnezzar would call for at least two more rounds of deportation, one following the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple (586 BC), and one to squash ideas of revolution several years after the Temple’s fall (582 BC).

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