Judah's revolts against Babylon

Judah's revolts against Babylon
	; Zedekiah is chained and brought before Nebuchadnezzar II, from Petrus Comestor's Bible Historiale (1372)
Date	601–586 BCE
Location	Kingdom of Judah (including Jerusalem)
Result	Babylonian victory Destruction of Solomon's Temple; Beginning of the Babylonian captivity;
Belligerents
Kingdom of Judah; Supported by:; Twenty-sixth Egyptian dynasty	Neo-Babylonian Empire; Supported by:; Moab; Ammon; Chaldea
Commanders and leaders
Jehoiakim †; Jehoiachin; Zedekiah ; Pashur Ben-Amar; Jehuchal Ben-Shelamiah; Gedaliah Ben-Pashur ; Sefaniah Ben-Masiah ; Shefatiah Ben-Matan ; Pashur Ben-Malkiah	Nebuchadnezzar II; Nebuzaradan
Strength
Much fewer	Unknown
Casualties and losses
More than 4,200 captive, many slain	Unknown
	Based on Kings 2:24 and 25 of the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament

Judah's revolts against Babylon (601–586 BCE) were attempts by the Kingdom of Judah to escape dominance by the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Resulting in a Babylonian victory and the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah, it marked the beginning of the prolonged hiatus in Jewish self-rule in Judaea until the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE. Babylonian forces captured the capital city of Jerusalem and destroyed Solomon's Temple, completing the fall of Judah, an event which marked the beginning of the Babylonian captivity, a period in Jewish history in which a large number of Judeans were forcibly removed from Judah and resettled in Mesopotamia (rendered in the Bible simply as "Babylon").

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