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The exile and the return

In the order Scripture gives them · 2 Kings 25:1–21 · Ezra 1:1–11 · Nehemiah 2:1–10

6 stops
1·6JerusalemJerusalem · stop 1·62RiblahRiblah · stop 23BabylonBabylon · stop 34SusaSusa · stop 45EcbatanaEcbatana · stop 5about 1631 km across · drawn without map tilesThe exile and the return
Coastlines, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth · 1:10m physical vectors — ne_10m_coastline, ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines, ne_10m_lakes · v5.2.0-pre · Public domain · places: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding · CC BY 4.0 · the route is drawn stop to stop, not road by road

About this route

Judah's road out and back: Jerusalem falls, the king is judged at Riblah on the Orontes and the people are carried to Babylon; Daniel serves there and at Susa, Cyrus's decree comes from the Persian court, and the returns under Zerubbabel, Ezra and Nehemiah retrace the thousand miles home.

Written in-house from the passages named on each stop

The stops

1
Jerusalem2 Kings 25:1–10

In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against…

2
Riblah2 Kings 25:6–7

Then they captured the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.

3
Babylon2 Kings 25:11 · Daniel 1:1–7

Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the rest of the people who were left in the city and those who had deserted to the king of…

4
SusaDaniel 8:2 · Nehemiah 1:1 · Esther 1:2

I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by…

5
EcbatanaEzra 6:1–2

Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.

6
JerusalemEzra 2:1 · Ezra 7:8 · Nehemiah 2:11

Now these are the children of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of…

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