See Babylonian Exile.

The forcible deportation of the Israelites of Judah from 586-539 BCE. As the Hebrew Bible took shape during this period, the theme of exile and return becomes prominent throughout the Torah.

being forcibly evicted from your homeland. The ancient Israelites (technically, the Judeans, since it was the southern kingdom) were sent into Exile in Babylon when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia conquered the Kingdom of Judah, destroyed Solomon's Temple and took possession of the city of Jerusalem in 587 BCE.

The forced removal of the Judean elite to Babylon in the wake of the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 587 BCE, and the period of approximately 50 years during which these people lived in servitude in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley.

(also called the Babylonian exile) The Babylonian exile was the period in the middle of the 6th century B.C.E. when Judeans were taken as captives to Babylonia and resettled there; it officially ended in 539 B.C.E., but many Judeans nontheless remained there. See Biblical Story.