What Does “Exile” Mean in the Bible?
Having to live far from one’s own land, taken away by force. This is how the Jews lived in Babylon.
A detail
- In the Hail, Holy Queen: we are all “poor banished children of Eve”: we live far from heaven, our true home.
Where it appears in the Bible
2 Kings 25:11; Psalms 137:1
What the Bible says
2 Kings 25:11
And Nabuzardan the commander of the army, carried away the rest of the people that remained in the city, and the fugitives that had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people.
Psalms 137:1
Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “desterrar”; 2 Kings 25:11