During the time of Josiah literacy began to spread to everyday people. The Lachish Letter 3 demonstrates this because is shows that a common soldier in the army can write for himself and does not need a scribe to record his words. Another example of literature becoming more popular is the Ketef Hinnom. Someone had taken the time to have an inscription inscribed upon a necklace. The fate of Jerusalem closely follows the interpretation of the scripture.
Babylon rises to power with King Nebuchadnezzar, and his defeat of the Assyrians. He then moves onto Judah and takes over Jerusalem, where he exiles some of the nobility. Then later he comes back and destroys the temple in 586 and exiles almost all the skilled or important people to Babylon. This starts a long and difficult period for many Jews. Some people abandon all faith in God because they see that his promise has been broken, while others try to reinterpret the promise to David in order to justify what is happening to them.
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