Brewer's: Babylonish Captivity

The seventy years that the Jews were captives in Babylon. They were made captives by Nebuchadnezzar, and released by Cyrus (B.C. 538).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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