How do you trace the history of the Israelites to King Solomon?

Answer 1

The lineage from Abraham to Solomon is as follows: Abraham was the father of Isaac,

Isaac the father of Jacob,

Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar,

Perez the father of Hezron,

Hezron the father of Ram,

Ram the father of Amminadab,

Amminadab the father of Nahshon,

Nahshon the father of Salmon,

Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,

Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth,

Obed the father of Jesse,

and Jesse the father of King David.

David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah's wife,

(from Matthew Ch. 1, vss 2-6)

The Bible tells us that the Israelites owe their ancestry to the Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that their descendants were enslaved in Egypt and that Moses led them out of captivity over four hundred years later, in the fifteenth century BCE. After forty years of wandering, the Israelites conquered the Promised Land and destroyed the great cities throughout the Canaanite hinterland. A period of rule by the Judges followed, then the United Monarchy, under the rule of Kings Saul, David and Solomon. The Bible tells us that this period was a time of military expansion, with Israel becoming a great regional power, spreading its influence from the Euphrates to Arabia and the legendary nation of Sheba.

Answer 2

A:One way to trace the history of the Israelites would be to read the Bible, beginning with Genesis and reading to the First Book of Kings, with 1 Chronicles providing a somewhat different history of King David. A better way could be to look at the history of the Israelites in the context of Archaeology and the secular history of the Near East.

The Bible tells us that the Israelites owe their ancestry to the Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that their descendants were enslaved in Egypt and that Moses led them out of captivity over four hundred years later, in the fifteenth century BCE. After forty years of wandering, the Israelites conquered the Promised Land and destroyed the great cities throughout the Canaanite hinterland. A period of rule by the Judges followed, then the United Monarchy, under the rule of Kings Saul, David and Solomon. The Bible tells us that this period was a time of military expansion, with Israel becoming a great regional power, spreading its influence from the Euphrates to Arabia and the legendary nation of Sheba.

Historians tell us that there was no Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were mythical people. The Israelites were simply Canaanites who left the region of the coastal cities to settle peacefully in the hitherto sparsely populated mountainous hinterland late in the thrteenth century BCE. Long after they had forgotten their real origins, the Israelites developed traditions of their glorious defeat and annihilation of the Canaanites. Even the existence of the United Monarchy has been called into doubt, with many scholars saying that if Saul and David existed, they would simply have been local warlords who had managed to dominate other Hebrew tribal leaders for a period.

The secular history is one of the decline of the Canaanite cities in the coastal plains and valleys, leading to a migration into the hinterland. There had been large population centres in the highlands in previous centuries, with significant migrations away from the coastal regions, but whenever circumstances became favourable again, most of the highland cities were abandoned and the people moved back to the coast. Two new technologies made long-term occupation of the highland region more attractive than it had been in the past - iron ploughs, which could manage the stony soils, and the development of terracing. Archaeologists find that population of the region grew slowly and was still relatively small by the start of the eleventh century BCE.