1.49 The Assyrian Storm

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 January 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In Judah, we meet a bunch of kings: Uzziah, Jotham and Ahaz. Uzziah gets leprosy when he offends the priests. Jotham's reign is confused, just like I am. Ahaz is threatened on all sides. Back in Israel, Jeroboam II is followed by Zechariah, then in quick succession by Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, and Pekah. Israel is falling apart. King Retzin of Aram-Damascus hammers the Hebrews, but is squashed by the Assyrians.

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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, The Assyrian Storm.
0:47.1	In the last episode of the history in the Bible, I took time off from the political histories of the two kingdoms
0:54.3	to tell the stories of the first two prophets
0:57.5	who get their own books, Amos and Josiah.
1:01.6	The next prophet we will meet is Isaiah,
1:04.9	the first superstar prophet.
1:08.2	At this point in our story,
1:14.9	the Assyrians march to centre stage in all their grisly glory.
1:20.1	Let's set the background to the final decades of the Kingdom of Israel.
1:26.3	The Assyrians had spent a generation preoccupied with threats to their north.
1:35.0	King Tiglath Pailiza III, Terthulti Apal Ashara, launched a highly successful program of Assyrian expansion and consolidation. He contained the ambitions of the Kingdom of Iratu.
1:42.8	He campaigned along the Mediterranean coast
1:45.5	in an attempt to control the trade routes between Egypt,
1:49.8	Anatolia and the Aegean.
1:52.6	The Assyrians never sought friends.
1:55.7	They wanted components they could incorporate
1:58.0	into their imperial economic system
2:00.7	for their own benefit.
2:03.0	They were at Walmart with an army.
2:05.9	I was going to make some modern comparisons, but I'll forbear.
2:10.7	In an age where eye-gouging was the international standard penalty
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