-587

This page relates to the year -587 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

With the beginning of the year, the advance of an Egyptian army temporarily causes the lifting of the seat of Jerusalem. The release promised to the slaves at the time of the danger is given to later and Jérémie is imprisoned. But the army of Apriès is demolished and the head office of Jerusalem begins again, involving the famine and the plague.
the July 29th, a breach is open in the wall of the city and the king Sédécias tries an exit of night towards the the Jordan and the territory Ammon ite. The Babylonians do it captive with Jericho. It has the eyes burst after having seen its sons cut the throat of in front of him, then and having taken along captive to Babylon.
the general of Nabuchodonosor II, Nebouzaradan, takes Jerusalem. It destroys the Temple and the royal palace, makes dismantle the city, appendix the kingdom and off-sets 20 000 people towards Babylon, is the quarter of the population in -586. It places at the head of Juda Godolias (Gedalyahu), former Prime Minister for the party probabylonien and close to Jérémie which settles in Mizpa, in the north of Jerusalem.
October: The governor of Juda Godolias is assassinated in by Yishmaél, a prince of the blood which had found refuge at Baalis, king d' Ammon. Yishmaél off-sets in Ammon the members of the government of Mizpa, while what succeed in escaping to him, of which Jérémie and its scribe Baruch, take refuge in Egypt.

the Edom ites occupy the South of the mountain of Juda and the Shéphélah, including in their territory Lakish, Hebron and Ein-Gédi.

the fatal combat, the destruction of the cities and the massive deportation leave on reduced the Judéen territory only one small people of peasants related to the ground. The Babylonians attach certainly this population dispersed in the campaigns to the province of Samarie, recreating the unit of the people paradoxically Hebrew.

Exile in Babylon: Judéens off-set in -597, -587 and -582 represent the elite of the population (notable, senior official, craftsmen). They are gathered in several camps or villages of Babylonia (Such-Abib). This regrouping enables them to remain plain around a prophet, Ezéchiel. They easily find their place in the Babylonian company in full expansion (trade, administration). They keep the feeling of national membership and hope for the return to the country, hope maintained by the prophets.
Of others Juifs takes refuge in mow adjoining countries: Edom, Moab, Ammon, Phénicie, Philistie and Egypt. Judéens groups are engaged as mercenaries in various Egyptian garrison towns (Migdol, Tahpanès, Memphis and Éléphantine).

the prophet Ezéchiel announces the ruin of Jerusalem, then the future restoration of Israel to the prisoners of Babylon. The Judaism, result of a major reflection on the faith of the class of the priests and the scribes, appears following the destruction of the Temple. The sacrificial worship, become impossible, is replaced by the worship synagonal (recitation of the Torah, prayers). The stress and laid on the unicity of God, national god who cannot compromise with the other gods.

In liaison with the Babylonian astrologers, the exiled priests judéens reform the lunar Calendrier traditional and propose a “sacerdotal calendar more precise”. They transpose the date of the “Sabbaths”, traditional festivals related to full moon, in a public holiday every seven days.

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