Bible Explorer · Event · 586 BC
After an eighteen-month siege, Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian army breaches Jerusalem, burns the Temple of Solomon and royal palaces, captures King Zedekiah at Jericho, blinds him at Riblah, and marches the people into exile in Babylon.
Date: 586 BC · Note: The catastrophic destruction of Jerusalem, end of the Davidic monarchy, and beginning of the Babylonian Captivity.
2 Kings 25:1-21, Jeremiah 39:1-10, Jeremiah 52:4-27