Well, it’s the start of the S’19 semester at Palomar, and I want to continue with my blog. Let’s see more of the history of the Bible regions–see the last blog for the history leading up to this point.

For the next 300 years the Jews invaded and attempted to conquer the land of Canaan, located between the two major powers along the Nile and the Tigris/Euphrates rivers. The most famous king in Israel’s history, David, ruled an expanded kingdom from 1011 to 971 B.C.

Unfortunately, the glory faded quickly when the Jews started a vicious civil war that split the country into two kingdoms; Israel to the north and Judah to the south. By this time another power had arisen in the Fertile Crescent, one that ruled by terror and cruelty—Assyria with its capital at Nineveh.

In 722 B.C. the northern Jewish kingdom was overrun by the Assyrians who hauled the inhabitants off to captivity. The southern kingdom lasted a bit longer until in 586 B.C. the people there  were conquered by the new power of the Middle East—Babylon.