Who took the Northern Kingdom Israel into captivity?

Answer 1

Initially in 740 BCE the northern part was absorbed into the Assyrian Empire. Then in 722 BCE, the southern part and capital Samaria was absorbed. The aristocracy was deported to Assyria where it was used to rule another part of the empire, and the aristocracy there brought in to take on ruling the northern 10 tribes. The Assyrians use this technique so that conquered territories did not have sympathetic aristocracies which might promote rebellions. The Babylonians copied this technique when they later took over Judah and Benjamin in the south, deporting the aristocracy to Babylon and importing a foreign aristocracy to rule them.

Answer 2

The Israelites were never taken to Babylon, at least not by the Babylonians. Israel was conquered by the Assyrians in 722 BCE and its people, the Israelites, dispersed throughout the Near East, where they gradually adopted the religion and cultures of their neighbours and ceased to exist as an identifiable ethnic group.

The small southern kingdom of Judah was finally defeated in 587, and the Jews were exiled to Babylon.

Answer 3

The northern kingdom of Israel was finally conquered by the Assyrians in 722 BCE. Many of the Israelites who were unable to flee south to Judah or Egypt were taken into captivity and eventually assimilated the culture and religion of their host nations, losing their separate identity.

722 BC

Answer 4

the kingdom of Israel was conquered by Assyria in stages, over the course of several years. According to traditional chronology, the final conquest and exile of the kingdom of Israel (Ten Tribes) by Assyria was in 555 BCE. Others place it at an earlier date. See also:

Reasons for the Destruction

Answer 5

The question confuses two terms as commonly used in the English language.

The word "captivity" is commonly used in reference to the Babylonian Captivity, which was when Babylonia conquered the Israelite Kingdom of Judah and deported its elites to Babylon from 586 B.C.E. to 539 B.C.E. when King Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered Babylon and permitted the deported Judeans to return to the lands of Judah.

The Israelite Kingdom of Israel, was a different country, which was destroyed by Assyria in waves, the latest one taking place in 722 B.C.E. Unlike the Babylonians who transported a group of Israelites together as a homogenous group to Babylon, the Assyrians forcibly mixed the Israelites with other Northern Levantine tribes, such as Phoenicians and Arameans with the intent of removing their particularized identities and lessening the risk of rebellion. In this, they were incredibly successful, resulting in those Israelite Tribes becoming lost to history (e.g. the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel). However, this conquest of the Kingdom of Israel by Assyria is never labelled as a captivity.

Answer 6

It is generally agreed that the Assyrian Empire invaded and conquered the Northern 10 Tribes during the 722-718 BC period.