How Did King Saul's Settlements Affect The Creation Of Israel?

In the beginning the Hebrews were divided into 12 different tribes. They each had their own leader and a single leader that was over all of the tribes. These tribes were eventually united under King Saul. He helped solve conflicts between the tribes that were caused by them being separated. Israel was the first ever united kingdom. King Saul’s reign was unsuccessful, but then soon came King David. Jerusalem was united under King David. He united all tribes of Israel under complete monarchy. David’s son had a son named Solomon. He built a giant temple for the Hebrew’s God, Yahweh, and many beautiful palaces. Israel was split in two after Solomon’s death, and now had a northern kingdom and a southern kingdom. The northern kingdom was the Kingdom of Israel, and the southern kingdom was the Kingdom of Judah (Kamm 11-21). The Hebrews were proven to be inadequate when the Assyrians gained control of Samaria. Samaria was the capital of the northern kingdom. The assyrians took hebrews as slaves and prisoners, and soon had control of the southern kingdom as well. Then the Chaldeans swoop in and take control under the rule of Nebuchadnezzar. The Chaldeans destroyed Jerusalem with no mercy, and started forcing the southern kingdom into slavery just like the northern …show more content…
It was also referred to as the speech of Canaan or Judean from the Kingdom of Judah (Funk & Wagnalls). Hebrew was the easiest language to understand universally by all people and not solely by scribes (Hoffman 3). The first version to come along was ancient Hebrew, which is the language of the bible. Following ancient Hebrew was Mishnaic in the third century B.C. Modern Hebrew was after, and it was the only indigenous language based on ancient written form. It was developed in the 19th and 20th centuries (Funk & Wagnalls). The Hebrew language is around 3,000 years old (Hoffman