Old Testament

The split into two kingdoms.

Rehoboam's father, King Solomon, had levied relatively heavy taxes, which had been used for such large-scale endeavors as building the First Temple. The fact that the nation was so prosperous and happy in his time (1 Kings 4:20) demonstrates that Solomon conducted his governance in a praiseworthy manner.

After Solomon's death, the people approached his son Rehav'am (Rehoboam) and asked that he now lower the tax. He ignored the counsel of his elder advisers and refused the people's request. This led the Ten Tribes to turn away from him (1 Kings ch.12).

The background reason was because King Solomon had been less than perfectly righteous. This led God to punish him by diminishing his dynasty in the lifetime of his son (Rehoboam). 1 Kings ch.11.

A deeper reason is that God wanted the more righteous people of Judah to be influenced by the Ten Tribes as little as possible.

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Solomon's errors

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There were two men named Nahor (Genesis ch.11), and both lived in the northern area of the Fertile Crescent (see Genesis 24:10).

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The early Hebrews (including Nahor) were Abraham's uncles and cousins for several generations back. They were Western Semites and lived in northern Mesopotamia.In 1934-39, excavations were conducted at ancient Mari on the Euphrates River. They found that ancient towns were named after the ancestors of Abraham:
The city of Nahor was found near the city of Harran which exists to this day. Equally clear signs of early Hebrew residence appear in the names of other towns nearby: Serug (Assyrian Sarugi), Terah (Til Turakhi, "Mound of Terah"), and Peleg (Paliga, on the Euphrates near the mouth of the Habur). All these names are found in Genesis ch.11.

Commentary in Talmud Sotah 34b appears to suggest the people might have crossed over in the formation of their encampment, but there is another suggestion they crossed in single file. One commentary says they achieved the crossing by packing together into a space little more than one square kilometre and moving forward. The Talmud is a commentary on the Bible, so it should not be regarded as definitive. If the Bible is literally true, there were 600,000 fighting men, plus women, children, the elderly and infirm, plus their livestock, wagons and possessions, which suggests that a single-file crossing would be entirely impractical. Packing, say, 2.5 million people together in such a small space, even if physically possible, would have resulted in numerous deaths and injuries, so we can also rule this out.

In the melee that would no doubt have ensued, we could imagine 100 men crossing at a time, spread out along the reach of the river, each assisting his womenfolk and children in the crossing. If the next 100 followed down the river banks just one minute later, then 6000 family groups would cross per hour. With no mishaps and crossing throughout day and night, the people could be across in a little over 4 days.

The Book of Joshua is a stirring story of conquest, but almost all modern scholars believe the Israelites never invaded Canaan or conquered the cities. The Israelites did not need to cross the River Jordan to invade the land of the Canaanites, because they were already there: the evidence is of peaceful, internal migration rather than of conquest. This is consistent with the modern scholarly consensus that the Israelites were never in Egypt and that there never was an Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible.

"Because you, God, do not desire wickedness. Evil shall not sojourn with you."

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"For you are not a God that desires wickedness. Evil shall not sojourn with you."

Pharaoh refused to allow the Israelites to stop working even temporarily, and commanded that from then on, no straw should be supplied for the bricks they had to make. They would have to gather the straw themselves (Exodus ch.5).See also:

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The Exodus

Jonah was (according to the book of Jonah) instructed by God to go and preach to the Assyrian city of Nineveh. God told Jonah that their wickedness had come before him and he wanted Jonah to be his messenger.

Jonah, being fearful, ran from God to try and avoid God's instruction. The story can be found in the Book of Jonah.

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So David revealed himself in 2 Samuel Chapter 22 because everyone though he was a monster because he was the King and He F*cked his best friends wife and she was prego. THE END

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Priestly duties were confined to the male members of Aaron's family, with the Levites, the rest of the tribe, acting as their assistants. (Nu 3:3, 6-10) This arrangement began with the setting up of the tabernacle, as before this no particular family or tribe was assigned to offer the sacrifices.-Ex 24:5.The Levites were chosen by God in place of all the firstborn of the other tribes. (Ex 13:1, 2, 11-16; Nu 3:41.)

The Levites were made up of three families, from Levi's sons Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. (Ge 46:11; 1Ch 6:1)

Psalm 92 talks about:

• Praising God, and recognizing and speaking of His ways
  
• How the wicked are unmindful of God's ways because they're impressed by their own numbers
  
• How the wicked are eventually destroyed, while the righteous prosper and flourish into old age.
  

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Biblical scholars say that Isaiah chapters 56-66 were written after the Babylonian Exile, by an anonymous prophet ow known as Third Isaiah, and subsequently added to the Book of Isaiah. Third Isaiah used a rhetorical technique of praise followed by condemnation, followed by praise.

• Chapter 56 opens on a joyous note, saying that those who keep the commandments will be happy. 56:3-8 extends an invitation to all, including the diaspora Jews who have not yet returned and even foreigners and eunuchs, to join in worshipping the God of the Jews.
  
• Chapter 57 is a reminder not to return to the old pre-Exilic ways, when necromancy was practised and children were sacrificed, rhetorically asking (57:11) whom the people feared that they had turned away from God.
• 58:1 tells the prophet to tell the people of their wickedness, but after this, he acknowledges that they do seek to follow God.
• Continuing this rhetorical technique of praise followed by condemnation (followed by praise), chapter 59 reminds the people that their iniquities have separated them from God, listing some practices to their dishonour.
• Chapter 60 returns to praise mode, telling of a glorious future for Judah.
  

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UPDATE: I had this same question and was looking for the answer. But when I came across this I knew that this could not be correct. The reasoning is in Ezra 2:64 it states that a little under 50,000 Jews went back to Judah after the exile. So if that many went back then more must have been sent into exile.

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According to the Book of Joshua, the Israelites defeated 31 city kingdoms in their conquest of the Promised Land. However, Lawrence E. Stager (The Oxford History of the Biblical World, Forging an Identity: The Emergence of Ancient Israel) examines the evidenced for each of he cities mentioned in Joshua and finds that most of the cities could not have been conquered by Joshua, including that many of them were not even occupied at that time.

The strong consensus of historians is that there was no unified conquest of the Canaanite cities. The Israelites were actually descendants of rural Canaanites who left the region of the rich coastal cities to settle peacefully in the hitherto sparsely populated hinterland. In time, the Israelites needed a glorious past that they could be proud of, and this legendary conquest became that glorious past.

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