To what city were many of the people of Judah taken as captives?

To what city were many of the people of Judah taken as captives?

• A. Jerusalem
• B. Nineveh
• C. Memphis
• D. Babylon

Answer: (D)

The event tested is the Babylonian exile—the time when many people from Judah were forced to leave their homeland and live in a distant city. Babylon, as the capital of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, is the destination where these captives were taken after Jerusalem was conquered and the temple destroyed. This exile lasted about seventy years and ends when Cyrus the Great allows the return of some Judeans. The other options don’t fit: Nineveh was the Assyrian capital from an earlier era, Memphis is in Egypt, and Jerusalem is where they came from rather than where they were sent.

The event tested is the Babylonian exile—the time when many people from Judah were forced to leave their homeland and live in a distant city. Babylon, as the capital of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, is the destination where these captives were taken after Jerusalem was conquered and the temple destroyed. This exile lasted about seventy years and ends when Cyrus the Great allows the return of some Judeans. The other options don’t fit: Nineveh was the Assyrian capital from an earlier era, Memphis is in Egypt, and Jerusalem is where they came from rather than where they were sent.