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• Nebuchadnezzar carried large numbers of the Jews in Jerusalem and Judea into captivity in Babylon, a far away land which they were not familiar with. We can read more about Nebuchadnezzar’s siege against Jerusalem and the beginning of the deportation in Daniel chapter 1:
• Dan. 1:1   In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.