It survived, a longer or a shorter time, in places.

To a slight extent it corrupted Zoroastrianism; but, on the whole, from the date of the fall of Babylon it declined.
"Bel bowed down; Nebo stooped;" "Merodach was broken in pieces." Judgment was done upon the Babylonian graven images; and the system, of which they formed a necessary part, having once fallen from its proud pre-eminence, gradually decayed and vanished.
Parallel with the decline of the old Semitic idolatry was the advance of its direct antithesis, pure spiritual Monotheism.

The same blow which laid the Babylonian religion in the dust struck off the fetters from Judaism.

Purified and refined by the precious discipline of adversity, the Jewish system, which Cyrus, feeling towards it a natural sympathy, protected, upheld, and replaced in its proper locality, advanced from this time in influence and importance, leavening little by little the foul mass of superstition and impurity which came in contact with it.
Proselytism grew more common.

The Jews spread themselves wider.