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.
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.
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
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:
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.
It is generally agreed that the Assyrian Empire invaded and conquered the Northern 10 Tribes during the 722-718 BC period.
The Assyrians took the Northern Kingdom of Israel into captivity in 722 BC.
Rehoboam lost most of his kingdom due to his harsh and oppressive rule over the people of Israel. After the death of King Solomon, the ten northern tribes rebelled against Rehoboam's leadership and followed Jeroboam, splitting the kingdom into two – the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah.
No, Judah was located in the southern part of ancient Israel, while Israel (also known as the Northern Kingdom) was in the northern part. Judah was one of the two kingdoms that emerged after the united Kingdom of Israel split following the reign of King Solomon.
"Pre-exilic" refers to the time period in ancient Israelite history before the Babylonian exile, which took place in the 6th century BCE. During this period, the Israelites lived in the land of Canaan and were ruled by various kings. The pre-exilic period is significant for understanding the development of Israelite religion and identity.
The leadership of Israel fell on the shoulders of Joshua. At first he was scared wether the Isareal would listen to him now that Moses was dead. But God told Joshua to be brave and courages for I am with you.Joshua chapter1 verse 6.
The children of Israel took the bones of Joseph with them when they left Egypt. Joseph had requested his descendants to carry his bones out of Egypt and bury them in the promised land.
There are two different empires at play here. The empire that destroyed the Northern Kingdom of Israel was Assyria in 722 BCE. The empire that took the Jews into captivity (and destroyed the Southern Kingdom of Judah) was Babylonia in 586 BCE.
It is generally agreed that the Assyrian Empire invaded and conquered the Northern 10 Tribes during the 722-718 BC period.
Actually the hyksos took over Egypt and then they (the Hyksos) enslaved the Hebrews. In 722 B.C. the Assyrians enslaved the northern kingdom of Israel. In 587 BC the rest of Israel in southern kingdom of Judah were taken in exile by the Babylonians.
In 586 BC, Babylon took the southern kingdom (Judah) into captivity.
Rehoboam Another answer: Rehav'am (Rehoboam) did not conquer the Northern Kingdom. Rather, he took leadership over it when it was formed (the Ten Tribes seceded from the rule of King David's descendants). The Northern Kingdom was conquered by the Assyrian king Shalmanesser.
In 722 BCE the Assyrians captured Samaria completing their conquest of the northern Kingdom of Israel and the ten northern tribes. The two southern tribes - Judah and Benjamin were later taken over by Babylon.
No kingdom was renamed Judea. When the United Kingdom of Israel divided in two, the Northern Kingdom retained the name Israel while the Southern Kingdom took on the name Judah since it primarily controlled the lands assigned to the tribe of Judah. Judea was the Roman term for the area once controlled by the Southern Kingdom of Judah.
They enslaved the Jews and took them in captivity to Babylon.
They Enslaved the Jews and during their captivity they took them to Babylon.
They Enslaved the Jews and during their captivity they took them to Babylon.
The crucifixion took place just outside the old city walls of Jerusalem. This was in Judea, the southern kingdom when Israel spilt into the northern kingdon of israel and the southern one of Judea. Nowadays, Jerusalem is in the modern country of Israel.
The people of the northern kingdom did not go into captivity in Assyria. Their aristocracy was sent to rule a province in Assyria, and that province's aristocracy was imported to rule Israel. This was a technique used by the Assyrians to ensure that aristocracies were not friendly with the inhabitants and lead uprisings, rather they would keep the people quiet. The Israelite aristocracy remained in Assyria, absorbed into the population. The ten tribes of Israelites remained in Israel. The Babylonians who took over Assyria did the same thing when they captured southern Judea - deported the aristocracy to Babylon and brought in an unsympathetic replacement one. When Persia took over from Babylon, Cyrus gave the Judean aristocracy the option of returning to try to reclaim their estates. Some did, the remainder stayed in Babylon where they were comfortably established.