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The northern border of Judah extended east-west from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, passing near Jericho to the area of Gezer. To the west, the border ran from Gezer across the Shephelah to Beersheba in the northern Negev.
The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE.
When Solomon died, between 926 and 922 BCE, the ten northern tribes refused to submit to his son, Rehoboam, and revolted. From this point on, there would be two kingdoms of Hebrews: in the north - Israel, and in the south - Judah.
The Kingdom of Israel (Hebrew: מַמְלֶכֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל Mamleḵeṯ Yīśrāʾēl), also called the Northern Kingdom or the Kingdom of Samaria, was an Israelite kingdom that existed in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.
The vast majority of the Hebrews, the northern tribes, rebelled against his feckless son Rehoboam and established their own kingdom, under Solomon's repentant taskmaster Jeroboam. They called their kingdom Israel.
22 wrz 2022 · After King Solomon's death in around 930 B.C., the kingdom split into a northern kingdom, which retained the name Israel, and a southern kingdom called Judah, named after the tribe of Judah that...
The Kingdom of the Ten Tribes. Led by their rulers, who were universally wicked, the people of the Ten Tribes sank into a morass of idolatry and materialism. King Ahab ’s Phoenician wife Jezebel introduced the Baal cult, which ate at the very fabric of society.
