Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary ...

Biblical Israel is not the Jewish people, not the state of Israel, and not the Christian Church. Most Israelites were not ...

However, on the accession of Rehoboam, David's grandson, in c. 930 BC the northern tribes split from the House of David to reform a Kingdom of Israel as the Northern Kingdom.

King Rehoboam made the decision to establish two new temples, one in Beit El and the other in Dan, both of which included golden calf statues (1 Kings 12:28–29). He even made up his own holidays a ...

In contrast, the Southern Kingdom of Judah retained Jerusalem as its religious and political capital, with the First Temple constructed by Solomon serving as the principal place of worship.

After King Solomon's death in around 930 B.C., the kingdom split into a northern kingdom, which retained the name Israel, and a southern kingdom called Judah, named after the tribe of Judah that ...

The Hebrew Bible, although filled with stories of the Kingdom of Israel, there is a lack of information about Israel. The prophet Amos confronted the High Priest Amaziah in the Beit El temple in ...