David And Solomon Research Paper

After reaching the summit of its greatness during the reigns of David and Solomon in X b.C, the ancient kingdom of Israel was increasingly more vulnerable to the will of its powerful neighbors and internal struggles. Divided its royal lineage in two main branches, north and south, the Assyrians took advantage of the situation to conquer the northern kingdom. The South with capital in Jerusalem, tried to maintain their independence making strongholds between Egypt and Babylon, the latter, at the second part of VII b.C seemed decided to put the small Jewish kingdom under its orbit. Finally, in 597 the troops of the King Nebuchadnezzar entered Jerusalem as a punishment for the behavior of its kings. Around 3000 people, some pertaining the most powerful families of the country were deported to Babylon altogether with the King itself. Regardless the Babylonians respected the kingdom of Judea, in which they named King a relative to the former king. In 587 when, after a new hebrew rebellion, Jerusalem was conquered and the Temple of Solomon was set fire, this concluded in a new exile of the influential Jewish to Babylon. In a sense, the exile is the punishment the Hebrews receive for not having listened to their prophets that were delivering a message from the Lord, they distanced themselves …show more content…
But in reality, this episode casted decisive consequences regarding the configuration of the religion and national Jewish identity. If before the conquest of Jerusalem the hebrew nation would have tended to politeism, the priests had elaborated a rigurous monoteist thinking, very influenced by the mesopotamic science. Equally, in this years there were written several texts that now constitute our Bible. The coming back to Jerusalem after 521, the exiled established a new religious and political model that has shaped the whole come about of the Jewish nations up to our