After Solaiman (pbuh) death, 300 years passed.
The people of Israel's situation became worse.
They were forgetting about Allah (swt) and started to worship the idol Baal as their
god again!
By this time they even killed many prophets.
So Allah (swt) became very angry at the Bani Israel.
He decided to destroy the people and their cities.
But as the last warning Allah (swt) send prophet Aramaya, or in English, Jeremiah (pbuh) to
guide the Bani Israel.
Animal: Why do Bani Israel always go back to worshipping Baal as their god?
Is there a history behind the idol Baal?
Yusuf: After Prophet Musa (pbuh) death, Bani Israel finally made it to Palestine.
And from the beginning they loved Idol worshiping.
Their male Idol's name was Ayl, which they considered to be the father of the idols and
his face looks like a cow.
That Idol had a wife and her name was Asherah, which they considered as the mother of Idols.
Those idols couple had more than 70 children and grand children.
Among them, one of the idol's name was Baal.
He was considered to be the god of rain and growth and the lord of the earth and heavens.
So the Idol Baal was considered to be the most powerful god.
He had two Idol wives.
People kept one of the wife on the north side of the country and her name was Anathoth.
The other wife, people kept on the south side of the country of the Palestine and her name
was Ashtaroth.
These two wife was consider the goddesses of love and child birth.
For some reason the people of Bani Israel believed in this kind of crazy made up stories.
Animal: Wow, that's really weired.
How did they even believe on that?
Yusuf: That's why, Allah (swt) told Jeremaya that he would destroy the Bani Israel, prophet
Jeremaih started to cry and requested to forgive Bani Israel.
Allah (swt) told him to go to the king and the people of Israel and guide them to become
good and accept Allah (swt) as their God and they should follow Allah (swt)’s laws.
Prophet Jeremiah also tried to convince the people that it was their last chance otherwise
they would be destroyed.
But the people of Israel were very bad.
They rejected his advice.
They even told him that he was a liar.
Bunny: But they were shown many miracles time and time again!
How can they say that he was a liar!?
For some reason Bani Israel was always arrogant no matter how many miracles they were shown.
They could not believe that Allah (swt) would destroy the Solomon Temple and Dome of the
Rock.
As you know in present time, these two things are in Baitul Muqaddas or Masjid Al-Aqsa.
The king was so arrogant that he ordered to arrest the prophet and send him to the prison.
And that was their final mistake.
Allah (swt) sent their enemy which was the king of Babylon, Nabuchadnezzar, to attack
Israel.
His big army surrounded the city.
The Israel army surrendered and opened the city gate.
Thousands to Babylon’s army got into the city and they were very cruel.
They killed one third of the population of Israel.
It was a horrible moment for Bani Israel.
The land was covered by people with blood.
Dead bodied were all over the place.
The Babylonians only let the disable and old people to go but unfortunately they arrested
the rest as their slaves.
They destroyed all of the Bani Israel’s houses.
They even destroyed all the beautiful castles and temples.
Babylon’s army burned all of their holy books including the Torah.
They even were very rude with the children and the women.
It was the most terrible day for Bani Israel.
Animal: Why did Allah (swt) gave them such a big punishment?
Yusuf: The children of Prophet Israel was a very respected nation to Allah (swt).
They had lots of powerful prophets to guide and protect them.
Allah (swt) gave them many opportunities to be thankful to Allah (swt) and become good
people.
But unfortunately they always broke Allah (swt)’s law.
They even killed many prophets and continued their Idol worship.
That’s why Allah (swt) became very angry and destroyed the whole nation.
One day the king of Babylon heard that one of the Bani Israel’s prophet knew about
this disaster at advance, and that prophet's name was Jeremiah.
The king order to bring him from the prison.
After talking to prophet Jememiah, the king realized that, he was really the prophet of
Allah (swt).
The king let the prophet go as a free man.
After destroying the whole city the king of Babylon went back to his kingdom with valuable
treasures, as well as men, women and children with him.
The historians say he took about seventy thousand men and women with him as slaves.
New beginning started for Bani Israel from that moment.
Prophet Jeremiah (pbuh) told the people, whoever was in the city of Israel, to say sorry to
Allah (swt) and ask forgiveness from Allah (swt).
He also told them that, Allah (swt) wanted them to stay united and rebuild the town.
But most of them did not want to stay in that destroyed country.
They again refused to follow the prophet’s order.
And so they were spread all over the world.
Some of them moved to Hijar, Taif and Medina.
Others moved to Egypt and some other countries.
But prophet Jaramiah tried his best to rebuild the Israel.
Some historians say, later he moved to Egypt and he died over there.
But Allah (swt) knows the best.