We know that both kingdoms sinned, both ignored multiple warnings by the prophets and both were ultimately exiled — Israel by Sennacarib, king of Assyria and Judah subsequently by Nebuchadnezzar ...

Paradoxically, the books of Samuel and Kings devote 57 chapters to the three kings of the 10th century BCE, compared to only 37 for all the monarchs of Israel and Judah combined. While these two ...

The slab has been dated to about 750 BC, before the Assyrian conquest of the northern Kingdom of Israel. At the time, the Kingdom of Judah was under the reign of the "cursed" King Uzziah, who held ...

Literacy was already on the rise in the ancient Kingdom of Judah by the time of the Babylonian ... when the kingdom was divided into Israel, in the north, and Judah, ... The Book of Deuteronomy ...

Israel and Judah co-existed for about two centuries, although they often fought each other. Israel also fought against a non-Jewish kingdom called Moab, which was located largely in modern-day Jordan.

In the years 722-721 BC, the Ten Tribes who comprised the northern Kingdom of Israel disappeared. Conquered by the Assyrian King Shalmaneser V, they were exiled to upper Mesopotamia and Medes ...

Prof. Yossi Garfinkel speaks with journalist during a tour at the archaeological site of Khirbet Qeiyafa near Beit Shemesh, Israel, August 29, 2016. According to a study by researchers at the ...

A comparison between the names mentioned in the biblical book of Jeremiah and those appearing on archaeological artifacts from the period when the prophet is believed to have lived – around the ...