The Babylonian Chronicles indicate that until 605 BC Nebuchadnezzar was quite busy with the Assyrian-Egyptian coalition. After capturing Nineveh and chasing them to Harran, which he also took, he withstood a siege of Harran and finally defeated them at Carchemish in 605.
There is a constant tendency in the OT to portray "Jerusalem" as far larger and more important than it actually was. Archaeology shows that it was an 8,000 person settlement at its peak. I suspect the Nebuchadnezzar had far more important and strategically important sites to secure before he could worry about Judah.
There is a constant tendency in the OT to portray "Jerusalem" as far larger and more important than it actually was. Archaeology shows that it was an 8,000 person settlement at its peak. I suspect the Nebuchadnezzar had far more important and strategically important sites to secure before he could worry about Judah.
