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| | The Kingdoms of Israel and Yahud |
 | | The Southern Kingdom, was destroyed over the period of about 604-597 BC, when Nebuchadnezzar took captive most of the remaining Yahudim in Jerusalem, to Babylon, Jer. |
 | | From those taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, a rag tag remnant, mixture of Israelites, (consisting mostly of Yahudah), numbering 42,360, returned back to the land 70 years later under Nehemiah and Ezra, from which was born the Messiah Yahshua. |
 | | This resulted in an amalgamation of the remaining population with the immigrating people of the surrounding pagan nations, including many Edomites coming from Edom, of which many infiltrated into, and became, the corrupted religious and civil authority of Messiah's day. |
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