ar deported the wealthy citizens to Babylon, he distributed the land among the poor, which was better off for some people anyway. There were actually some rivalries among the two groups of Jews. The rivals started because the wealthy and professional Jews in Babylon thought of themselves as better than the Jews left in Judah and they thought of themselves as the true Jewish people.
             Even though these two groups had some conflict with each other, they both had the same feelings such as shock, hopelessness, and just unable to explain what happened. They both believed that "Hebrew history was built on the promise of Yahweh to protect the Hebrews and use them for his purpose in human history. Their defeat and the loss of the Promised Land seemed to imply that their faith in this promise was misplaced." (Vanderkam, An Introduction to Early J
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