History of ancient Israel 11 - Babylonian Exile and Return

Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle of the destruction of Jerusalem under the Babylonian rule

This article is part of a series Divine Principle - History of restoration

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Summary: Also in the period of the last few centuries before Jesus, the land of Israel was mostly divided between influences from the Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt from the South and the Seleucid Empire from the North. They both were successor states of the Empire of Alexander the Great and many Jews objected the Hellenistic influences.

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