The Kingdom of Israel

Chapter 3/Section 2

Around 1000 B.C., the Philistines (fih*luh*steens), not the Israelites, were the strongest people living in Canaan.

The Philistines had strong cities and they knew how to make iron tools and weapons.

Fearing the power of the Philistines, many Israelites copied their ways and worshiped their gods.

The Israelites Choose a King (pg. 87)

The 12 tribes often quarreled and finally asked the prophet Samuel to appoint a king to keep the tribes from fighting among themselves and save their religion.

Samuel warned the Israelites against a king, but the Israelites chose Saul (sawl), a warrior-farmer, to be their king.

King Saul displeased God so God chose David, a young shepherd, to be king.

David was a famous warrior.

He killed a giant Philistine name Goliath with a slingshot and five smooth stones.

King Saul put David in charge of the army but later grew envious of David and plotted to have him killed.

David hid out in enemy territory until Saul and his three sons were killed.

David finally took the throne in about 1000 B.C.

David and Solomon (pgs. 89-90)

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King DavidDavid drove the Philistines out and conquered other

countries to build his empire.

Conquered people had to pay tribute to David and he heavily taxed the Israelites.

David wanted to build a grand temple to house sacred religious objects.

David chose Jerusalem (juh*roo*suh*luhm) as his capital due to its central location.

When David died, his son Solomon (sahl*uh*muhn) became king.

SolomonMany Israelites hated Solomon’s rule because

of the high taxes and making young men work in mines.

When Solomon died, the 12 tribes began fighting.

Ten of the tribes moved north and called their nation the kingdom of Israel, with Samaria as its capital.

The other two tribes founded the smaller kingdom of Judah in the south, with Jerusalem as its capital.

A Troubled Time (pgs. 90-92)After creating the kingdoms of Israel and Judah,

many Israelites forgot their religion.

Both kingdoms felt threatened by the Assyrians and the Chaldeans who had created powerful empires in southwest Asia.

In 722 B.C., the Assyrians conquered Israel and dispersed the 10 tribes throughout their empire.

The Israelites lost their religion and were often called the “lost tribes of Israel.”

The Fall of IsraelThe Assyrians settled around Samaria and

were called Samaritans.

The Samaritans feared Israel’s God would be angry with them for taking the Israelite’s land, so they began following the Israelite’s religion.

The people of Judah believed that they were God’s only people.

The Fall of JudahThe Egyptians conquered the kingdom of Judah in 620

B.C. and the Chaldeans conquered Egypt in 605 B.C.

The Jews joined forces with the Egyptians to conquer the Chaldeans.

In 597 B.C., King Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldeans captured Jerusalem and punished the Jews by sending 10,000 Jews to Babylon and appointing a new Jewish king.

In 586 B.C., the Jews revolted against the Chaldeans who crushed Jerusalem, destroyed their temple, and took the king and thousands of Jews to Babylon.

This period is known as the Babylonian Captivity.