– The deportation of the Jews whose territory had been devastated by the invaders took place in two stages. First, from the kingdom of Israel, about 721 BC; second, about 120 years later, with the deportation of the inhabitants of the kingdom of Judah:
2 Kings 17 :6 : In the ninth year of Hosea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites.
Am 5:27 : I sent you away from Damascus, says the Lord who is called the God of hosts.
2 Kings 24:12-13 : Joaquin, king of Judah, went to the king of Babylon […] And the king of Babylon arrested him.
2 Kings 25:11-12 : Nebuzaradan, chief of the guard, deported to Babylon what was left of the city’s population.
Jer 39,9-10 : Nebuzaradan, chief of the guards, deported to Babylon what was left of the city’s population.
Ez 1,1-2 : When I was among the deportees, on the banks of the Cobar river, the heavens were opened.
– Seventy years later:
2Ch 36:21 : The land was uncultivated during all this period of desolation, until the completion of seventy years.
Jer 25,11-12 : This land will become anguish and solitude, and its servitude will last for seventy years.
Jer 29:10 : When seventy years have passed for Babylon, I will visit you.
Dan 9,2 : According to the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, concerning the desolation of Jerusalem, it would be seventy years.
Zc 1,12 : For seventy years you have been angry with them.
Zec 7,5 : You have, in fact, fasted and wept in the fifth and in the seventh month, during these seventy years.
– The return to the homeland:
Jer 16,14-15 : Long live God, who brought the Israelites out of Egypt![…] Long live God, who brought the Israelites back.
Jer 23,7-8 : Long live God, who brought the Israelites back from the north and from all the lands, where he had exiled them, bringing them to the homeland.
