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The destruction of the first Temple and ensuing exile were incredibly traumatic experiences for the Jewish people: The Temple and its daily service were gone as was the monarchy!. The Jews found themselves in an alien land with none of the normative institutions fundamental to Judaism!. (410 BCE)
This is the time of the first Jewish Diaspora or dispersion!.

The Siege of Jerusalem in the year 70 was a decisive event in the First Jewish-Roman War, followed by the fall of Masada in 73!. The Roman army, led by the future Emperor Titus, with Tiberius Julius Alexander as his second-in-command, besieged and conquered the city of Jerusalem, which had been occupied by its Jewish defenders in 66!. The city and its famous Temple were completely destroyed!.

The Jews who escaped death in all this terrible fighting were deported, and some were sold into slavery!. They were literally carried captive into all nations as Jesus had foretold ("And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled!." Luke 21:24)!.

The total destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple was catastrophic for the Jewish people!. According to the contemporary historian Josephus Flavius, hundreds of thousands of Jews perished in the siege of Jerusalem and elsewhere in the country, and many thousands more were sold into slavery!.

This was the 2nd Diaspora which began in 70 BCE!. It has been estimated that about 97,000 Jewish prisoners, including women and children were taken captive to Rome and never returned to Jerusalem and Israel!. The Romans renamed Israel, Palestina, and Jerusalem, Aelia Capitolina!.

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