Judah, having lost its status as a…
585 BCE to 574 BCE
Judah, having lost its status as a kingdom, has become a Babylonian province.
Nebuchadnezzar imposes upon Judah a further deportation of its citizens to Babylonia in 582, leaving only the poorest, who number some twenty thousand.
Thus begins the so-called Babylonian Captivity of Jewish tradition.