Yup they defeated the “Northern Kingdom” known as Israel. The “Southern Kingdom” was known as Judah and located in Jerusalem. Babylon would come knocking for them later. That would lead to the 70 year “Diaspora” until King Cyrus of Media-Persia allowed the Jews to return home. Daniel, writer of the Book of Daniel, would be in those sent into the Diaspora and he would, through Divine Inspiration, write the Book.
The first attempt to undo the consequences of Babel. Other subsequent empires have been less draconian -- until Stalin. He vigorously employed this scheme - e.g. Nagorno-Karabakh, where Armenian Christians were relocated in to Islamic cultures.
