“Israelites left behind in … the land of Jerusalem have now been killed or exiled (600–586 B.C.).
“Some of the exiles, now generically called ‘Jews,’ would return to the land of Jerusalem (539 through the mid 400s B.C.). Jacob learned from an angel that centuries later, among the remnant of the Jews, the Messiah … would manifest himself in the flesh, and at the end of his ministry he would be scourged and crucified (ca..D. 30–33).
“After the Jews reject their Holy Messiah, they will suffer his judgments, being killed and persecuted (beginning with the great Jewish-Roman War of A.D. 66–73)” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 1:139).