where were the hebrews moved after the fall of judah in 597 b.c.e
History of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel The Assyrian Empire was overthrown in 612 BCE by the Medes and the Neo-Babylonian Empire. In 586 BCE King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon conquered Judah. According to the Hebrew Bible, he destroyed Solomon's Temple and exiled the Jews to Babylon. The defeat was also recorded by the Babylonians in the Babylonian Chronicles.[34][35] The exile of Jews may have been restricted to the elite.