Editing Babylonian captivity (section)

===First campaign (597 BCE)===
Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem, his capture of its king, his appointment of another in his place, and the plundering of the city in 597 BCE are corroborated by a passage in the [[Babylonian Chronicles]]:<ref name=Finkelstein>{{Cite book |last1=Finkelstein |first1=Israel |author-link1=Israel Finkelstein |last2=Silberman |first2=Neil Asher |author-link2=Neil Asher Silberman |title=The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-684-86912-4}}</ref>{{rp|293}}<blockquote>In the seventh year, in the month of Kislev, the king of Akkad mustered his troops, marched to the Hatti-land, and encamped against the City of Judah and on the ninth day of the month of Adar he seized the city and captured the king. He appointed there a king of his own choice and taking heavy tribute brought it back to Babylon.</blockquote>

[[Jehoiachin's Rations Tablets]], describing ration orders for a captive King of Judah, identified with King Jeconiah, have been discovered during excavations in Babylon, in the royal archives of Nebuchadnezzar.<ref>{{cite book |last=Thomas |first=David Winton |author-link=David Winton Thomas |title=Documents from Old Testament Times |publisher=Thomas Nelson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4cRBAQAAIAAJ&q=tablets&pg=PA84 |location=Edinburgh and London |year=1958 |edition=1961 |page=84|isbn=9780061300851 }}</ref><ref>Cf. {{Bibleverse||2Kings|24:12|kjv|}}, {{Bibleverse-nb||2Kings|24:15–24:16|kjv|}}, {{Bibleverse-nb||2Kings|25:27–25:30|kjv|}}; {{Bibleverse||2Chronicles|36:9–36:10|kjv|}}; {{Bibleverse||Jeremiah|22:24–22:6|kjv|}}, {{Bibleverse-nb||Jeremiah|29:2|kjv|}}, {{Bibleverse-nb||Jeremiah|52:31–52:34|kjv|}}; {{Bibleverse||Ezekiel|17:12|kjv|}}.</ref> One of the tablets refers to food rations for "Ya’u-kīnu, king of the land of Yahudu" and five royal princes, his sons.<ref>{{cite web|author=COJS staff |url=http://cojs.org/cojswiki/Babylonian_Ration_List:_King_Jehoiakhin_in_Exile,_592/1_BCE |title=Babylonian Ration List: King Jehoiakhin in Exile, 592/1 BCE |website=COJS.org |publisher=The Center for Online Judaic Studies |access-date=23 August 2013 |quote=Ya’u-kīnu, king of the land of Yahudu |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616092557/http://cojs.org/cojswiki/Babylonian_Ration_List%3A_King_Jehoiakhin_in_Exile%2C_592/1_BCE |archive-date=16 June 2013}}</ref>