<page_title> Shmita </page_title> <section_title> Shmitas in the First Temple period </section_title> <table> <cell> Summer 587 BCE <col_header> Year </col_header> </cell> <cell> Fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in the latter part of the Sabbatical year 588/587. <col_header> Event </col_header> </cell> </table>
The year 588/587 BCE was the year that Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians.