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This article is about the historical Kingdom of Israel, that lay to the north of the Kingdom of Judah. For the Biblical, unified monarchy, seeKingdom of Israel (united monarchy).For other uses, seeKingdom of Israel.

Kingdom of Israel
𐤉𐤔𐤓𐤀𐤋[1]
c. 930 BCE–c. 720 BCE
StatusKingdom
Capital
Common languagesBiblical Hebrew,Israelian Hebrew
Religion
GovernmentMonarchy
King
• 931–910 BCE
Jeroboam I(first)
• 732–c. 720 BCE
Hoshea(last)
Historical eraIron Age
• Established
c. 930 BCE
c. 720 BCE
 Succeeded by
Samerina
Today part of

TheKingdom of Israel(Biblical Hebrew:מַמְלֶכֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל‎,romanized:Mamleḵeṯ Yīśrāʾēl),Northern KingdomorKingdom of Samaria,was anIsraelitekingdom in theSouthern Levantduring theIron Age,whose beginnings can be dated back to the first half of the 10th century BCE.[2]The kingdom controlled the areas ofSamaria,Galileeand parts ofTransjordan.The regions of Samaria and Galilee underwent a period with large number of settlements during the 10th century BCE,[3]with the capital inShechem,and then inTirzah.The kingdom was ruled by theOmride dynastyin the 9th century BCE, whose political center was the city ofSamaria.

TheHebrew Bibledepicts the Kingdom of Israel, also known as the Kingdom of Samaria, as one of two successor states to theUnited Kingdom of Israelruled by KingDavidand his sonSolomon,the other being theKingdom of Judahto the south. Many historians and archaeologists, however, reject the historicity of a United Kingdom as depicted in the Bible.[Notes 1]

The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by theNeo-Assyrian Empirearound 720BCE.[4]The records ofSargon IIofAssyriaindicate that he deported 27,290 Israelites – around one fifth of the population of the Kingdom of Israel[5]– to Mesopotamia;[6]this deportation became the basis for theJewishidea of theTen Lost Tribes of Israel.Some Israelites migrated to the southern kingdom of Judah,[7]while those Israelites that remained in Samaria, concentrated mainly aroundMount Gerizim,came to be known asSamaritans.[8][9]Foreign groups were also settled by the Assyrians in the territories of the conquered kingdom.[9]

History

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Ruins of theOmridepalace inSamaria,capital of the Kingdom of Israel

According toIsrael Finkelstein,Shoshenq I's campaign in the second half of the 10th century BCE collapsed the early polity ofGibeonin central highlands, and made possible the beginning of the Northern Kingdom, with its capital atShechem,[10][11]around 931 BCE. Israel consolidated as a kingdom in the first half of 9th century BCE,[12]with its capital atTirzahfirst,[13]and next at the city ofSamariasince 880 BCE. The existence of thisIsraelitestate in the north is documented in9th century BCEinscriptions.[14]The earliest mention is from theKurkh stelaof c. 853 BCE, whenShalmaneser IIImentions "Ahab the Israelite", plus the denominative for "land", and his ten thousand troops.[15]This kingdom would have included parts of the lowlands (theShephelah), the Jezreel plain, lower Galilee and parts of the Transjordan.[15]

Ahab's forces were part of an anti-Assyrian coalition, implying that an urban elite ruled the kingdom, possessed a royal and state cult with large urban temples, and had scribes, mercenaries, and an administrative apparatus.[15]In all this, it was similar to other recently-founded kingdoms of the time, such asAmmonandMoab.[15]Samaria is one of the most universally accepted archaeological sites from the biblical period.[16]In around 840 BCE, theMesha Stelerecords the victory ofMoab(in today'sJordan), under KingMesha,over Israel, KingOmriand his sonAhab.[17]

Archaeological finds, ancient Near Eastern texts, and the biblical record testify that in the time of theOmrides,Israel ruled in the mountainousGalilee,atHazorin the upperJordan Valley,in large parts ofTransjordanbetween theWadi Mujiband theYarmuk,and in the coastalSharon plain.[18]

In Assyrian inscriptions, the Kingdom of Israel is referred to as the "House ofʻOmri".[15]TheBlack Obelisk of Shalmaneser IIImentionsJehu,son of ʻOmri.[15]TheNeo-Assyrian emperorAdad-nirari IIIdid an expedition into the Levant around 803 BCE mentioned in the Nimrud slab, which comments he went to "the Hatti and Amurru lands, Tyre, Sidon, thematof Hu-um-ri "land of ʻOmri",Edom,Philistia,andAram(not Judah). "[15]TheTell al-Rimah stelaof the same king introduces a third way of talking about the kingdom, as Samaria, in the phrase "Joash of Samaria".[19]The use of Omri's name to refer to the kingdom still survived, and was used bySargon IIin the phrase "the whole house of Omri" in describing his conquest of the city of Samaria in 722 BCE.[20]It is significant that the Assyrians never mention theKingdom of Judahuntil the end of the 8th century, when it was an Assyrianvassal state:possibly they never had contact with it, or possibly they regarded it as a vassal of Israel/Samaria or Aram, or possibly the southern kingdom did not exist during this period.[21]

In the Bible

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The Northern Kingdom at its greatest extent, underJeroboam II,per2 Kings14.

One traditional source for the history of the Kingdom of Israel has been the Hebrew Bible, especially the Books ofKingsandChronicles.These books were written by authors inJerusalem,the capital of the Kingdom of Judah. Being written in a rival kingdom, they were inspired by ideological and theological viewpoints that influence the narrative.[18]Anachronisms, legends and literary forms also affect the story. Some of the recorded events are believed to have occurred long after the destruction of the kingdom of Israel.Biblical archaeologyhas both confirmed and challenged parts of the biblical account.[18]According to the Hebrew Bible, there existed a United Kingdom of Israel (theUnited Monarchy), ruled fromJerusalembyDavidand his sonSolomon,after whose death Israel andJudahseparated into two kingdoms.

The first mention of the nameIsraelis from an Egyptian inscription, theMerneptah Stele,dating from the Late Bronze Age (c. 1208 BCE); this gives little solid information, but indicates that the name of the later kingdom was borrowed rather than originating with the kingdom itself.[22]

Relations between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah

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According to the Hebrew Bible, for the first sixty years after the split, the kings of Judah tried to re-establish their authority over the northern kingdom, and there was perpetual war between them. For the following eighty years, there was no open war between them, as, for the most part, Judah had engaged in a military alliance withAram-Damascus,opening a northern front against Israel.[23]The conflict between Israel and Judah was temporarily settled whenJehoshaphat,King of Judah, allied himself with the reigning house of Israel,Ahab,through marriage. Later, Jehosophat's son and successor,Jehoram of Judah,married Ahab's daughterAthaliah,cementing the alliance.[23]However, the sons of Ahab were slaughtered byJehufollowing hiscoup d'étataround 840 BCE.[24]

From Hazael to Jeroboam II

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After being defeated byHazael,Israel began a period of progressive recovery following the campaigns against Aram-Damascus ofAdad-nirari III.[25]This ultimately led to a period of major territorial expansion underJeroboam II,who extended the kingdom's possessions throughout the Northern Transjordan. Following Jeroboam II's death, the Kingdom experienced a period of decline as a result of sectional rivalries and struggles for the throne.[26]

Destruction of the Kingdom, 732–720 BCE

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Main article:Assyrian captivity
Jehu's delegation toShalmaneser III,Black Obelisk,841–840 BCE.

In c. 732 BCE, kingPekahof Israel, while allied withRezin,king ofAram,threatenedJerusalem.Ahaz,king of Judah,appealed toTiglath-Pileser III,the king ofAssyria,for help. After Ahaz paid tribute to Tiglath-Pileser,[27]Tiglath-Pileser sacked Damascus and Israel, anne xing Aram[28]and the territories of the tribes ofReuben,GadandManassehin Gilead including the desert outposts ofJetur,NaphishandNodab.People from these tribes, including the Reubenite leader, were taken captive and resettled in the region of theKhabur Riversystem, inHalah,Habor, Hara andGozan(1 Chronicles 5:26). Tiglath-Pilesar also captured the territory ofNaphtaliand the city ofJanoahinEphraim,and an Assyrian governor was placed over the region of Naphtali. According to2 Kings 16:9and2 Kings 15:29,the population of Aram and the annexed part of Israel was deported to Assyria.[29]

The tribute of Northern Kingdom King "Jehuof the people of the land ofOmri"(Akkadian:𒅀𒌑𒀀 𒈥 𒄷𒌝𒊑𒄿) as depicted on theBlack ObeliskofShalmaneser III,841–840 BCE.[30]This is "the only portrayal we have in ancient Near Eastern art of an Israelite or Judaean monarch".[31]

The remainder of the northern kingdom of Israel continued to exist within the reduced territory as an independent kingdom until around 720 BCE, when it was again invaded by Assyria and the rest of the population was deported. During the three-year siege ofSamariain the territory of Ephraim by the Assyrians,Shalmaneser Vdied and was succeeded bySargon II,who himself records the capture of that city thus: "Samaria I looked at, I captured; 27,280 men who dwelt in it I carried away" into Assyria. Thus, around 720 BCE, after two centuries, the kingdom of the ten tribes came to an end. Some of the Israelite captives were resettled in the Khabur region, and the rest in the land of theMedes,thus establishing Hebrew communities inEcbatanaandRages.TheBook of Tobitadditionally records that Sargon had taken other captives from the northern kingdom to the Assyrian capital ofNineveh,in particular Tobit from the town of Thisbe in Naphtali.[citation needed]

The Hebrew Bible relates that the population of the Kingdom of Israel was exiled, becoming known as theTen Lost Tribes.To the south, theTribe of Judah,theTribe of Simeon(that was "absorbed" into Judah), theTribe of Benjaminand the people of theTribe of Levi,who lived among them of the originalIsraelitenation, remained in the southern Kingdom of Judah. The Kingdom of Judah continued to exist as an independent state until 586 BCE, when it was conquered by theNeo-Babylonian Empire.

Samaritan version

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Samaritantradition states that much of the population of the Kingdom of Israel remained in place after theAssyrian captivity,including the Tribes of Naphtali, Manasseh, Benjamin and Levi – being the progenitors of the modern Samaritans. In their bookThe Bible Unearthed,Israeli authorsIsrael FinkelsteinandNeil Asher Silbermanestimate that only a fifth (about 40,000) of the population of the Kingdom of Israel were actually resettled out of the area during the two deportation periods underTiglath-Pileser IIIandSargon II.[5]: 221 Many members of these northern tribes also fled south to the Kingdom of Judah. Jerusalem seems to have expanded in size five-fold during this period, requiring a new wall to be built, and a new source of waterSiloamto be provided by KingHezekiah.[7]

Recorded history

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Part of the gift-bearing Israelite delegation of King Jehu,Black Obelisk,841–840 BCE.[32]

In their bookThe Bible Unearthed,Israeli authorsIsrael FinkelsteinandNeil Asher Silbermanestimate that only a fifth (about 40,000) of the population of the northern Kingdom of Israel were actually resettled out of the area during the two deportation periods underTiglath-Pileser IIIandSargon II.[5]No known non-Biblical record exists of the Assyrians having exiled people from four of the tribes of Israel:Dan,Asher,Issachar,Zebulun.Descriptions of the deportation of people fromReuben,Gad,Manasseh,Ephraim and Naphtali indicate that only a portion of these tribes were deported, and the places to which they were deported are known locations given in the accounts. The deported communities are mentioned as still existing at the time of the composition of theBooks of KingsandChroniclesand did not disappear by assimilation. 2 Chronicles 30:1–18 explicitly mentions northern Israelites who had been spared by the Assyrians, in particular people of Ephraim, Manasseh, Asher, Issachar and Zebulun, and how members of the latter three returned to worship at the Temple in Jerusalem during the reign ofHezekiah.[33]

Deportation of the Northern Kingdom by theAssyrian Empire

Religion

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Thereligious climateof the Kingdom of Israel appears to have followed two major trends. The first was the worship ofYahweh;the religion of ancient Israel is sometimes referred to by modern scholars asYahwism.[34]TheHebrew Bible,however, states that some of the northern Israelites also adoredBaal(see1 Kings 16:31and theBaal cyclediscovered atUgarit).[34]The reference inHosea 10to Israel's "divided heart"[35]may refer to these two cultic observances, although alternatively it may refer to hesitation between looking to Assyria and Egypt for support.[36]

The Jewish Bible also states thatAhaballowed the cult worship ofBaalto become acceptable of the kingdom. His wifeJezebelwas the daughter of thePhoenicianking ofTyreand a devotee to Baal worship (1 Kings 16:31).[37]

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    Main article:Kings of Israel and Judah

    According to the Bible, the Northern Kingdom had 19 kings across 9 different dynasties throughout its 208 years of existence.

    The genealogy of the kings of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judea, the Kingdom of Israel and the kings of the Kingdom of Judah. Most historians follow either of the older chronologies established byWilliam F. AlbrightorEdwin R. Thiele,or the newer chronologies ofGershon GalilandKenneth Kitchen,all of which are shown below. All dates areBC/BCE.

    List of Assyrian references to Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)

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    The table below lists all the historical references to the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) in Assyrian records.[38]KingOmri's name takes the Assyrian shape of "Humri", his kingdom or dynasty that of Bit Humri or alike—the "House of Humri/Omri".

    Assyrian King Inscription Year Transliteration Translation
    Shalmaneser III Kurkh Monoliths 853 BCE KUR sir-'i-la-a-a "Israel"
    Shalmaneser III Black Obelisk,Calah Fragment, Kurba'il Stone, Ashur Stone 841 BCE mar Hu-um-ri-i "of Omri"
    Adad-nirari III Tell al-Rimah Stela 803 BCE KUR Sa-me-ri-na-a-a "land of Samaria"
    Adad-nirari III Nimrud Slab 803 BCE KUR <Bit>-Hu-um-ri-i "the 'land of [the House of] Omri"
    Tiglath-Pileser III Layard 45b+ III R 9,1 740 BCE [KUR sa-me-ri-i-na-a-a] [ "land of Samaria" ]
    Tiglath-Pileser III Iran Stela 739–738 BCE KUR sa-m[e]-ri-i-na-a-[a] "land of Samaria"
    Tiglath-Pileser III Layard 50a + 50b + 67a 738–737 BCE URU sa-me-ri-na-a-a "city of Samaria"
    Tiglath-Pileser III Layard 66 732–731 BCE URU Sa-me-ri-na "city of Samaria"
    Tiglath-Pileser III III R 10,2 731 BCE KUR E Hu-um-ri-a "land of the House of Omri"
    Tiglath-Pileser III ND 4301 + 4305 730 BCE KUR E Hu-um-ri-a "land of the House of Omri"
    Shalmaneser V Babylonian Chronicle ABC1 725 BCE URU Sa-ma/ba-ra-'-in "city of Samaria"
    Sargon II Nimrud Prism, Great Summary Inscription 720 BCE URU Sa-me-ri-na "city of Samaria"
    Sargon II Palace Door, Small Summary Inscription, Cylinder Inscription, Bull Inscription 720 BCE KUR Bit-Hu-um-ri-a "land of Omri"

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    Notes

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    1. ^The debate is described in Amihai Mazar (2010),"Archaeology and the Biblical Narrative: The Case of the United Monarchy",pp. 29-30, fn. 2: "For conservative approaches defining the United Monarchy as a state 'from Dan to Beer Sheba' including 'conquered kingdoms' (Ammon, Moab, Edom) and 'spheres of influence' in Geshur and Hamath cf. e.g. Ahlström (1993), 455–542; Meyers (1998); Lemaire (1999); Masters (2001); Stager (2003); Rainey (2006), 159–168; Kitchen (1997); Millard (1997; 2008). For a total denial of the historicity of the United Monarchy cf. e.g. Davies (1992), 67–68; others suggested a 'chiefdom' comprising a small region around Jerusalem, cf. Knauf (1997), 81–85; Niemann (1997), 252–299 and Finkelstein (1999). For a 'middle of the road' approach suggesting a United Monarchy of larger territorial scope though smaller than the biblical description cf. e.g. Miller (1997); Halpern (2001), 229–262; Liverani (2005), 92–101. The latter recently suggested a state comprising the territories of Judah and Ephraim during the time of David, that was subsequently enlarged to include areas of northern Samaria and influence areas in the Galilee and Transjordan. Na'aman (1992; 1996) once accepted the basic biography of David as authentic and later rejected the United Monarchy as a state, cf. id. (2007), 401–402."

    Citations

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    1. ^
      • Rollston, Chris A.(2010).Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel: Epigraphic Evidence from the Iron Age.Society of Biblical Literature. pp. 52–54.ISBN978-1-58983-107-0.
      • Compston, Herbert F. B. (1919).The Inscription on the Stele of Méšaʿ.
    2. ^Arie, Eran (2023)."Canaanites in a Changing World: The Jezreel Valley during the Iron Age I".In Koch, Ido; Lipschits, Oded; Sergi, Omer (eds.).From Nomadism to Monarchy?: Revisiting the Early Iron Age Southern Levant.Penn State Press. p. 120.ISBN978-1-64602-270-0.[T]he growing proto-Israelite power in the central hill country, out of which would emerge the Northern Kingdom of Israel, [that] should be dated to the first half of the 10th century BCE.
    3. ^Killebrew, Ann E., (2014)."Israel during the Iron Age II Period",in: The Archaeology of the Levant, Oxford University Press, p. 733: "In the Lower Galilee [...] during the Iron IIA, earlier Iron I settlements were deserted and appear to have been replaced by new large fortified sites [and] Zertal's landmark survey of northern Samaria [...] demonstrates a doubling of the number of sites from the Iron I to II [...] Finkelstein and Lederman's survey of the territory of Ephraim revealed [the] settlement density peaks in the later Iron II period, with over 200 sites identified [...]"
    4. ^Hasegawa, Levin & Radner 2018,p. 55.
    5. ^abcFinkelstein, Israel; Silberman, Neil Asher (2002)The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts,Simon & Schuster,ISBN978-0-684-86912-4
    6. ^Younger, K. Lawson (1998)."The Deportations of the Israelites".Journal of Biblical Literature.117(2): 201–227.doi:10.2307/3266980.ISSN0021-9231.JSTOR3266980.
    7. ^abFinkelstein, Israel (28 June 2015)."Migration of Israelites into Judah after 720 BCE: An Answer and an Update".Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft.127(2): 188–206.doi:10.1515/zaw-2015-0011.ISSN1613-0103.S2CID171178702.
    8. ^Shen et al. 2004.
    9. ^abFinkelstein, Israel (2013).The forgotten kingdom: the archaeology and history of Northern Israel.Society of Biblical Literature. p. 158.ISBN978-1-58983-910-6.OCLC949151323.
    10. ^Finkelstein, Israel, (2022)."The Impact of the Sheshonq I Campaign on the Territorial History of the Levant: An Update","[...] Sheshoq I campaign [...] brought the collapse of [...] an early Israelite polity in the central highlands and neighboring areas [and replaced it by] the Northern Kingdom in the Samaria highlands and the Jezreel Valley" (Abstract).
    11. ^Finkelstein, Israel, (2022): "...In the central part of the country, [Shoshenq I's campaign] caused the decline of an early Israelite entity [Gibeon polity], probably the one memorized in the Bible as the House of Saul, and the rise of the Northern Kingdom, which was centered around Shechem and expanded, under pharaonic auspices, to the Jezreel--Beth-shean Valley..." (Summary).
    12. ^Finkelstein, Israel, (2020)."Saul and Highlands of Benjamin Update: The Role of Jerusalem",in Joachim J. Krause, Omer Sergi, and Kristin Weingart (eds.),Saul, Benjamin, and the Emergence of Monarchy in Israel: Biblical and Archaeological Perspectives,SBL Press, Atlanta, GA, p. 48, footnote 57: "...They became territorial kingdoms later, Israel in the first half of the ninth century BCE and Judah in its second half..."
    13. ^Sergi 2023,p. 77, "...almost one hundred years from the destruction of Shechem...a new urban center emerged in the region, first and only for a short time at Tell el-Far'ah (North), identified as the biblical Tirzah (Albright 1925)..."
    14. ^Dever 2017,p. 338.
    15. ^abcdefgDavies 2015,p. 72.
    16. ^See Yohanan Aharoni, et al. (1993)The Macmillan Bible Atlas,p. 94, Macmillan Publishing: New York; and Amihai Mazar (1992)The Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000 – 586 B.C.E,p. 404, New York: Doubleday, see pp. 406-410 for discussion of the archaeological significance of Shomron (Samaria) under Omride Dynasty.
    17. ^2 Kings 3
    18. ^abcFinkelstein, Israel (2013).The forgotten kingdom: the archaeology and history of Northern Israel.p. 74.ISBN978-1-58983-910-6.OCLC949151323.
    19. ^Davies 2015,p. 72-73.
    20. ^Davies 2015,p. 73.
    21. ^Davies 2015,p. 3.
    22. ^Davies 2015,p. 71-72.
    23. ^abRoberts 2016,p. 203.
    24. ^Roberts 2016,p. 204.
    25. ^Roberts 2016,p. 206.
    26. ^Roberts 2016,p. 207.
    27. ^2 Kings 16:7–9
    28. ^Lester L. Grabbe (2007).Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?.New York: T&T Clark. p.134.ISBN978-05-67-11012-1.
    29. ^2 Kings 16:9and15:29
    30. ^Kuan, Jeffrey Kah-Jin (2016).Neo-Assyrian Historical Inscriptions and Syria-Palestine: Israelite/Judean-Tyrian-Damascene Political and Commercial Relations in the Ninth-Eighth Centuries BCE.Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 64–66.ISBN978-1-4982-8143-0.
    31. ^Cohen, Ada; Kangas, Steven E. (2010).Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography.UPNE. p. 127.ISBN978-1-58465-817-7.
    32. ^Delitzsch, Friedrich; McCormack, Joseph; Carruth, William Herbert; Robinson, Lydia Gillingham (1906).Babel and Bible;.Chicago, The Open court publishing company. p. 78.
    33. ^2 Chronicles 30:1–18
    34. ^abMiller, Patrick D. (2000).The religion of ancient Israel.London: SPCK.ISBN978-0-664-22145-4.OCLC44174114.
    35. ^Hosea 10:2in theNew Revised Standard Version,but some translators prefer "deceitful", as in theNew International Version.
    36. ^Jerusalem Bible (1966), Footnote b at Hosea 10:2
    37. ^This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Hirsch, Emil G.; Price, Ira Maurice (1901–1906)."JEZEBEL".InSinger, Isidore;et al. (eds.).The Jewish Encyclopedia.New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
    38. ^Kelle, Brad, (2002)."What's in a Name? Neo-Assyrian Designations for the Northern Kingdom and Their Implications for Israelite History and Biblical Interpretation",Journal of Biblical Literature, 121 (4), pp. 639–666, (See table in p. 640).

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