Jerusalem was besieged from 589 to 587 BC, marking the final phase of Judah's revolts against Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar II, king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, besieged Judah's capital city for approximately 30 months. The city fell in the summer of 587 BC, after which the Babylonians systematically destroyed Jerusalem and razed Solomon's Temple. The kingdom of Judah was dissolved, and a large segment of its population was exiled to Babylonia.
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YearThe source gives only the season, summer of 587 BC, for the city's fall, never a specific day; event-date is left empty rather than guessed (ruling 678). The calendar is BC, so no ValueDate can be written at all; event-year alone carries the date, as a negative int matching the live Nebuchadnezzar II birth-year/death-year convention. Sources
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