Why were Jews exiled in Babylon? what is the history of this?

Answer 1

Read all about it in your Bible.

Basically: The 12 tribes of Israel, who were led out of Egypt under Moses and eventually given their own land, under condition that they keep only God's Law (The Law of Moses), never kept that Law. They first split in to two houses. The 10 tribed house of Israel and the 2 tribed house of Judah (the jews). First the house of Israel were taken into captivity and slavery by the Assyrians for not keeping Gods Law, then later the house of Judah were taken into Babylon, for the same reason.

Answer 2

The Captivity in Babylon happened because Nebuchadnezzar was beginning to consolidate his hegemony over most of the then-'civilised' world. This meant the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia, Palestine, Syria, Persia. Egypt and so on, i.e. most of what we know as the present day Middle East.

There were several assaults against the two Hebrew kingdoms of Judea and Jesubal ( what we know as Jerusalem ). And the resulting deportation of many of the 'noble', wealthy and erudite amongst the Hebrews to Babylon was a fairly common procedure. It is generally considered to have taken place between 586 and 516 bc, a period of exactly 70 years, which coveniently fitted the prophecy of some Jonah or other ( probably Isiah, he had a penchant for the Doom and Gloom school of profecy ).

Anyway, an interesting little side-bar on this is that Good King Neb ( well he wasn't all bad, give or take a mass blinding of opposing king's sons and so on ) had a kind obsession with the legend of immortality. So a great deal of his invading, plundering, and captivitying was really about nobbling everybody's 'wisemen' and getting them into Babylon to work on the Elixir of Life wheeze.

Now.....did it work I hear the reader ask ? Well, as far as I can tell........... it's still going strong 2,523 years later ! ;-)

Answer 3

When the Babylonians invade their neighbours to build their empire, they tended to take their conquered foes to foreign lands to decrease the likelyhood of rebellion.

From a religios standpoint: God said they would be exiled. The law said that they had to obey the sabbaths, including the "7 year" sabbath where they had to let the land lie fallow for a whole season, so that it could rest. This would mean that they would have no grain for the following year, but God promised to bless them if they obeyed him. When they did put their trust in him, the season prior to the Sabbath year produced a bumper crop to tide them over to the year when they could reap the next harvest, which would be in two years. Often, though, they didn't trust God, but continued to plant in the Sabbath year. Therefore, the land went for long periods without it's God-assigned rest. To make up for what the land missed, the Israelites had to be removed from their homes, the land left desolate for a period of time equal to the exact number of Sabbath years they missed. This indicates that that the Israelites were unfaithful to God for much of the time they lived in the promised land at first.

Answer 4

If you check your history you will find that the JEWS have been expelled from europe in the past and have been generally hated for 2000 years.
Why you might ask.Read history books to find out why.
Are the history books wrong.
No.
Make your own mind up.When you have the answers.
They try to take over and buy everything.

Answer 5

They couldnt speak the language.

Answer 6

read the BIBLE/Isaiah/The book of Isaiah.Old Testament.