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1. Babylonian Exile

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   | Third Deportation | 587/586 BCE | Remnant of the population following the final destruction of Jerusalem | Jeremiah 52:28-30 |
   The sheer volume of metalwork removed from the Jerusalem Temple during the second deportation is estimated by the Babylonian financial records (the Uruk Ledger) to have included approximately 4,200 standard talents of electrum, a metric that scholars find surprisingly consistent with biblical descriptions of the Temple's "unaccountably smooth …