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The '''Fall of [[Jerusalem]]''' (588 BC according to [[James Ussher|Ussher]]<ref name=Ussher>[[James Ussher]], ''[[The Annals of the World]]'', [[Larry Pierce]], ed., Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2003 (ISBN 0890513600), pghh. 847-51</ref>, or 586 BC according to [[Edwin R. Thiele|Thiele]]<ref name=Wood>Leon J. Wood, ''A Survey of Israel's History'', rev. ed. David O'Brien, Grand Rapids, MI: Academie Books, 1986 (ISBN 031034770X), pp. 319-20</ref>) was the final military event in the conquest of the [[Southern Kingdom]] of [[Israel]] by [[Nebuchadnezzar II]], King of [[Babylonia]]. It marked the end of the history of the Southern Kingdom after twenty-two years of decline and, according to [[Ezekiel (prophet)|Ezekiel]], three hundred ninety years of "iniquity" on the part of the children of Israel.

The '''Fall of [[Jerusalem]]''' (588 BC according to [[James Ussher|Ussher]]<ref name=Ussher>[[James Ussher]], ''[[The Annals of the World]]'', [[Larry Pierce]], ed., Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2003 (ISBN 0890513600), pghh. 847-51</ref>, or 586 BC according to [[Edwin R. Thiele|Thiele]]<ref name=Wood>Leon J. Wood, ''A Survey of Israel's History'', rev. ed. [[David O'Brien]], Grand Rapids, MI: Academie Books, 1986 (ISBN 031034770X), pp. 319-20</ref>) was the final military event in the conquest of the [[Southern Kingdom]] of [[Israel]] by [[Nebuchadnezzar II]], King of [[Babylonia]]. It marked the end of the history of the Southern Kingdom after twenty-two years of decline and, according to [[Ezekiel (prophet)|Ezekiel]], three hundred ninety years of "iniquity" on the part of the children of Israel.

== Background ==

== Background ==