Original sentence: When the Babylonian faction eventually won the Assyrian civil war, they set out to forcibly retake the former Assyrian tributaries, eventually plundering Jerusalem in 597 BCE, and imposing a new vassal king; the Babylonian Chronicle says that they seized the former king and heavy tribute from Judah, something agreed upon by the Bible, which claims that the Babylonians specifically deported all the nobles and skilled workers, leaving only the paupers
Edited sentence: The suzerainty was particularly unfortunate, because when the Babylonian faction eventually won the Assyrian civil war, they set out to forcibly retake the former Assyrian tributaries, eventually plundering Jerusalem in 597 BCE, and imposing a new vassal king; the Babylonian Chronicle says that they seized the former king and heavy tribute from Judah, something agreed upon by the Bible, which claims that the Babylonians specifically deported all the nobles and skilled workers, leaving only the paupers