After Alexander the great died at the age of 32 in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, in Babylon, due to a high fever, The Selucids started to rule the Persian kingdom of the Macedonian dynasty in 321 BCE. However, its empire withered between Roman and Parthian growth of power in the 1st century BCE. Moreover, the Neo-Babylonian Empire led to the destruction of the kingdom Judah in a series of battles between 597 and 582, the deportation of the elite of the community, and the incorporation of Judah into a province of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.