The immediate reason was because the king, Rehoboam, flouted the advice of his elder advisers and turned down the people's request that he lower the taxes. This led the Ten Tribes to secede from his kingdom (1 Kings ch.12).The background reason was because King Solomon was less than perfectly righteous. This led God to punish him by diminishing his dynasty during the reign of his son (Rehoboam). See 1 Kings ch.11.
In about 926BC, Israel split into two kingdoms: Israel (in the north) and Judah (in the south)
Israel was split into two kingdoms, if that's what you mean.
You aren't; he was a king over Israel before it split into the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel
why did Israel split into two different kingdoms
Nowadays, Israel is not divided into two kingdoms, but thousands of years ago, Israel was split into two kingdoms called "Yehuda" and "Israel". Both kingdoms were Jewish and both had their own ledership, but only one kingdom, "Yehuda", was oficially ruling the land of Israel and Jerusalem
After Solomon's death, Israel split into the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel. Israel now had ten tribes and Judah had two.
Israel and Judea
The two new kingdoms that emerged were the Kingdom of Israel in the north, with Samaria as its capital, and the Kingdom of Judah in the south, with Jerusalem as its capital.
After King Solomon's death, Israel separated into two Kingdoms - the Northern Kingdom of Israel which consisted primarily of 10 of the 12 tribes of Israel, and the Southern Kingdom of Judah which consisted primarily of tribe of Judah and Benjamin. It should be noted however, that each Kingdom had members of all 12 tribes of Israel.
Judah.See also:More about the Kings
Israel (ישראל) and Judea (יהודה)
A:According to the Bible, the Hebrew nation split into two separate kingdoms after the death of King Solomon, with the Kingdom of Israel in the north and the Kingdom of Judah in the south. However, many scholars now believe there never was a united monarchy and that Israel and Judah were always separate, with their own distinctive pottery, religious beliefs and even different dialects of the Hebrew language.