1.42 The Kingdom Sundered

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 October 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The policies of King Solomon's idiot son Rehoboam split the united kingdom in two: Israel and Judah. The fracture was permanent. I introduce the Biblical sources we have for this period, Kings and Chronicles and a few prophets; and the Assyrian and Babylonian records. I also introduce the archaeological evidence we have (such as the Moabite stone, the black obelisk of Shalmaneser III, and the Tel Dan stele), and the very difficult chronological problems. What would we know about the Hebrew kingdoms without the Bible? Not much.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.
0:24.8	All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles. Episode 1.42. The Kingdom sundered.
0:46.9	In episode 1.39, I left King Solomon dead, somewhere between 931 and 927 Bese.
0:57.0	His realm split in two. The two kingdoms would never be reunited. They never got on,
1:04.0	brothers though they were. Really, they hated each other's guts. For the first 40 years
1:10.0	of their coexistence,
1:12.3	they engaged in endless raids over the long-suffering tribal lands of Benjamin.
1:17.6	For the 40 years after that,
1:20.0	the Kingdom of Judah was a vassal of the Kingdom of Israel under the House of Omri.
1:25.6	For the remaining 120 years of the life of Israel until 722 BC,
1:32.6	the kingdoms were sometimes friends, sometimes enemies. They were rarely best buddies. The Davidic
1:40.6	line reigned in Judah for more than 300 years, with one brief interlude.
1:47.4	Most kings died in their beds, or honorably, in battle.
1:52.4	Israel was racked with instability.
1:55.3	The Israelites obviously had to reject the Royal Zion theology
1:59.3	that claimed that God had given a monopoly to one house
2:03.1	and that the headquarters of this monopoly was Jerusalem. Only two of its kings died in their beds.
2:12.1	Seven Israelite kings were assassinated or executed. Time and again, the old king would die,
2:20.4	his son would come to the throne,
2:22.7	then the son and the entire royal family would be exterminated.
2:27.6	The leader of the rebellion would be enthroned
2:29.9	to start yet another short-lived dynasty.
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