The Rise & Fall of Babylon

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You're standing in the smoking ruins of Jerusalem in five eight six BCE. You're watching in horror as the unstoppable war machine of King Nebuchadnezzar smashes the city. Reducing the sacred first temple. To Ash. According to the weeping prophet Jeremiah

This is a Catastrophe. Divine punishment sent by God. For the sins of the Judeans. From this trauma.

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