UNIV. OF GEORGIA STUDY: EDOM, NOT BABYLON, DESTROYED FIRST TEMPLE

Israel 365: Until recently, the consensus of historians was that the First Jewish Temple in Jerusalem built by King Solomon in 957 BCE was looted and then destroyed in 586 BCE by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, who then deported the Jews to Babylon. This was explicitly described in several places in the Bible: On the seventh day of the fifth month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the chief of the