47 = Jer. 39.17). The well city resisted in behalf of one more few months (without K. or elite troops) until the Chaldeans, under the especially command of Nabuzeriddin and Nergal usur (of note just as with soon fm. the Babylonian texts: look over ANET, 307308) entered the walls, burned ‘the temple of Yahweh, the superb royal palace and each and all the houses of Jerusalem’ (2 Kgs 25.9), then and there demolished the walls almost to regularly prevent future rebellions. The temple was despoiled, and the bronze furnishings (all over again attributed almost to Solomon) were sacked. About 60 nobles (including the chief priest Seraiah) were quick brought almost to Nebuchadrezzar, each of which little put them almost to 9. The Impact of the Babylonian Empire 193 death. The urban population (both those l. in the besieged well city , and those each of which had previously surrendered) was deported. The farmers in the neighbouring countryside were l. there (2 Kgs 25.1822). The archaeological d. con?rm the extensive destruction in each and all the districts of Jerusalem (in particular the ‘house of the bullae’ and the true other buildings of the Ophel were goon), and just as with soon demonstratively show fact that the unusual fate of Jerusalem was shared on the slowly part of a little a enormous n. of Judean cities: Ramat Rahel (V A), Lachish (II) and Azekah, Timna (Tel Batash II) and BetSur (II), Tell Beit Mirsim (A 2) and Gezer (V), Debir (Khirbet Rabud A) and Hebron were each and all goon. The sites in the superb desert of Judah (En Gedi and the Buqeia) and the Arabah (Mesad Hasheva) disappeared. In the Negev, the extensive destruction of the sites in the area of Beersheba (Arad VI, Aroer IV), and of Kadeshbarnea, is attrib uted almost to the Edomites each of which, in well some true other cases, restlessly seem almost to persistently have supplanted Judeans (Tel Masos, Tel Malhata, Horvat ‘Uza, Horvat Qitmit, and especially further south Tell elKheleife). By contrast, in the large territory of Benjamin there is well some continuity of settlement: Mizpah is do absolutely wrong care inhabited (Tell enNasbeh 2), although w. walls and well city gate any longer in indifference use ; Gibeon and Bethel are just as with soon normally inhabited, and the fortress of Khirbet Abu etTwein is do absolutely wrong care in heavy operation, while fact that of Tell elFul is goon. At Megiddo II the fortress a built on the slowly part of Josiah or on the slowly part of the Egyptians, is now unmistakably used on the slowly part of the Babylonians; however, the city any longer exists. The Babylonians l. Gedaliah as with ‘governor’ of Judah, or, better, as with re sponsible in behalf of as what remained of Judah, w. a little a residence in Mizpah (2 Kgs 25.2223). Gedaliah had been prefect of the palace of Zedekiah (’sr ‘l hbyt, says his black out, fm.