When and why did the Romans seige and destroy Jerusalem?

Question

how is this still significant today?

WHY DID THEY DESTROY JEWISH TEMPLES THERE AND EXILE THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THERE?

Answer 1

Destroy? its still there.......

Answer 2

There have been several military engagements between the Jews and the Romans: the Roman general Pompey subdued Judaea in 63 BCE (after which it became a client kingdom)
in 6 CE, the emperor Augustus deposed king Archelaus, and his governor of Syria, Quirinius, established the province of Judaea (which became a prefecture) in 66, a serious rebellion started, which led to the destruction of the Temple (September 70); this war was described by Flavius Josephus in his Jewish War a little later, the Romans took the fortress Masada (in 74) in 115, the Levantine Jews revolted against emperor Trajan when the emperor Hadrian forbade circumcision, Simon bar Kochba started a Messianic war, which lasted until 136. It meant the end of the multiform Judaism of the first century.

Answer 3

Jerusalem lay on a major trade route between the far East and Rome. During periods when the Persian Empire was antagonistic to Rome, this became the only available route. The Romans had a vast appetite for silks, spices and gems from he East, and so there was an endless drain on the Roman treasury to pay for it. Control of the Red Sea transshipment points and land routes to the Med became very important to them as an issue of pure economics.

With the conquest of Egypt in the 1st century BC, Judea remained the only nation in the Eastern Med still capable of resisting Rome. Rome's grip on Judea built through the first century, culminating in a war which begin around 66AD and continued until 73AD. The Temple itself was destroyed in 70AD. The nominal trigger for this war was religious tension, created when the Romans erected statues of their emperors on the Temple Mount. But this was a contrived cause: Rome's mercantile costs were high despite military control of Judea, while the cost of maintaining three Roman legions there to quell rebellion was enormous. It's likely that war was deliberately instigated with the goal of crushing resistance, so that military costs could be reduced.

The result of the war was that the Jews were defeated. Jews were expelled from Jerusalem, and many were killed or sold into slavery. But Judea continued to be a problem for Rome. After many years of struggle, open warfare broke out again around 132AD, the so-called Bar Kokhba rebellion. When this was put down in 135AD, the entire population of Judea was killed or sold as slaves throughout the empire.

The result of these Roman actions was that Jews became dispersed throughout the world. Christianity came along with the Jews, as it was likely a minority religion in Jerusalem at the time of the war.

Regaining Judea, the city of Jerusalem, and the Temple have remained a goal of the Jewish people since the beginning of the diaspora. The nation of Israel has restored this birthright, at the expense of much warfare and tension.

Answer 4

I understand they destroyed Jerusalem in the year AD 70.

The reason was that the Jews finally rebelled against the occupation of their land (Israel).
There was a great slaughter with many thousand perishing and a mass suicide on Massadah (spelling?) a mountain.

As to the significance today:
I would say that for those people who are taking note, (and that should include all of us) there is a great lesson. The Jewish people were dispersed across the known world. Yet in 1948 when Britain withdrew her mandate to rule Palestine (Balfour declaration) Israel again became a sovereign state. In one day as prophesied by the prophet Isaiah.
11 Arab countries immediately declared war, and so far have not prevailed against Israel.
The clear lesson is that although the Jews were dispersed to so many different lands / cultures, they remained Jews. Clear evidence of a keeping power I would say.