Why were Jews exiled from Assyria?

Answer 1

Because they didn't want the Jews to rule Israel and Judah.

Because they didn't think they're beliefs and traditional factories were professional like or very well as them selves ,yet they wanted more than what they've got already so they took the land from the Israelites and posed a " political" area, to defeat them with ideas of they're tougher then them , and silly things like that. And in 722 BC: The Assyrians tried to argue in defeat everything in they're way but they're confidence took them down to earth with they're long in consensual voice along with others. So Israelites failed their succeeded attempts.Yet they took it for land.

Answer 2

Answer 1

There were two main reasons that Assyrians engaged in this practice. Note also that the Assyrians were not the only civilization that did this, they just did it more barbarically than most.

1) People-Land Connection: In the Ancient Period, people felt a strong connection to land upon which they and their ancestors had lived. It was from living on that land that they often determined their identity. This contrasts with the modern nationalist or patriotic view that identity is determined by culture, history, ethnicity, and beliefs, but not land. (I.e. in the Ancient Period you were Aramean because you lived in Aram; if you no longer live in Aram, you are just a foreigner.) Therefore, relocating people to lands in which they had not previously lived was an effective way to sever cultural histories of conquered nations.

2) Religious or Tribal Revolt: In addition to moving the people of one area to another, they mixed different hostile groups together and separated parts of the same original group. This made the residents of the new cities wary of one another as their prior tribal feuds would cloud their current judgment. On account of this, the Assyrians ran less of a risk that the subjugated people would rebel in any given area.

Answer 2

Usually as a punishment for rebellion. Once removed, their lands would be given to people less likely to rebel.

And of course the people who were moved elsewhere no longer had ties to the lands or kingdoms that caused them to rebel in the first place.

The more drastic alternative was to kill all males and enslave the women and children, so it could be worse for the deportees.

Answer 3

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Israel and Judah feared Assyria because it was the great regional power to their north. Israel attempted to repel the Assyrian army and, as a result, was totally destroyed in 722 BCE. Judah, at first willing to fight, eventually became a vassal state of Assyria.

The Chaldeans did not come to power in Babylon until long after the total destruction of Israel, so the Israelites never knew of the Chaldeans. Judah feared the Chaldeans, but perhaps not quite enough, because they failed to accept Babylon's new role in the Near East, resulting in the defeat of Jerusalem and the Babylonian Exile.

Answer 4

By the time of the death of Assyrian King Tiglath-pileser III in 727, most of the northern kingdom of Israel was part of his Assyrian Empire. The hill country around Israel's capital city, Samaria, was all that was left to the people of Israel. The Assyrian king after Tiglath-pileser, Sargon II, destroyed Samaria, made Assyrians of the Israelites, and exiled them. This was the end of the period of the "Two Kingdoms" or "Divided Monarchy" of Israel/Judah.

Answer 5

They would take the aristocracy and transplant it to another region, ad bring in a new foreign aristocracy to replace them. This meant that the local rulers were not sympathetic to the people and would keep them under control, which saved the Assyrians having to deal with onngoing local uprisings.

Answer 6

First off, the Jews were exiled from Israel and Judah, not the entire Assyrian Empire.

This was part of a concrete policy by the Assyrians (and other Middle Eastern peoples) to prevent rebellion. Most people had a very localized sense of identity. The current idea that you retain your culture and beliefs when you move from place to place did not exist at that time. As a result, forcibly deporting people also took away their identities and their gods, making them much less likely to rebel. The Assyrians did not just do it to the Israelites.

Answer 7

This was part of a concrete policy by the Assyrians (and other Middle Eastern peoples like the Chaldeans) to prevent rebellion. Most people had a very localized sense of identity. The current idea that you retain your culture and beliefs when you move from place to place did not exist at that time. As a result, forcibly deporting people also took away their identities and their gods, making them much less likely to rebel. The Assyrians did not just do it to the Israelites, but to other groups like Arameans, Phoenicians, and Syriacs.

The Babylonians (who are sometimes called Chaldeans) also had an interest in bringing the best and brightest of the conquered regions to Babylon in order to help build up Babylon. As a result, they deported the Judean Aristocracy directly to the city of Babylon.

Answer 8

This was part of a concrete policy by the Assyrians (and other Middle Eastern peoples like the Chaldeans) to prevent rebellion. Most people had a very localized sense of identity. The current idea that you retain your culture and beliefs when you move from place to place did not exist at that time. As a result, forcibly deporting people also took away their identities and their gods, making them much less likely to rebel. The Assyrians did not just do it to the Israelites, but to other groups like Arameans, Phoenicians, Hattis, Hurrians, and Urartu (who were in their conquest area).

The Babylonians (who are sometimes called Chaldeans) also had an interest in bringing the best and brightest of the conquered regions to Babylon in order to help build up Babylon. As a result, they deported the Judean Aristocracy directly to the city of Babylon.

Answer 9

To weaken the monarchy and subjugate the people. The Assyrians had a policy of uprooting populations (Isaiah ch.10), not only in the Holy Land.

See also:

The Destruction of Israel and Judah

Answer 10

This was part of a concrete policy by the Assyrians (and other Middle Eastern peoples like the Chaldeans) to prevent rebellion. Most people had a very localized sense of identity. The current idea that you retain your culture and beliefs when you move from place to place did not exist at that time. As a result, forcibly deporting people also took away their identities and their gods, making them much less likely to rebel. The Assyrians did not just do it to the Israelites, but to other groups like Arameans, Phoenicians, Hattis, Hurrians, and Urartu (who were in their conquest area).