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Babylonian Captivity

a term usually applied to the deportation of the two tribes of the kingdom of Judah to Babylon by Nabuchadnezzar, 585 B. C.

The duration of this captivity is usually reckoned 70 years, though, strictly speaking, it lasted only 56 years. A great part of the 10 tribes of Israel had been previously taken captive to Assyria.

BACCARAT (bä-kä-rä'), a town of France, in the department of Meurtheet-Moselle, having the most important plate glass works in France. Pop. of commune about 7,500.