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v. t. e. The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan 's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE. This history unfolds within the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.
The priestly breastplate or breastpiece of judgment ( Hebrew: חֹשֶׁן ḥōšen) was a sacred breastplate worn by the High Priest of the Israelites, according to the Book of Exodus. In the biblical account, the breastplate is termed the breastplate of judgment ( Hebrew: חֹשֶׁן מִשְׁפָּט ḥōšen mišpāṭ – Exodus 28:15 ...
History. The Hebrews obtained gemstones from the Middle East, India, and Egypt. [1] At the time of the Exodus, the Bible states that the Israelites took gemstones with them ( Book of Exodus, iii, 22; xii, 35–36). When they were settled in the Land of Israel, they obtained gemstones from the merchant caravans travelling from Babylonia or ...
Solomon ( / ˈsɒləmən / ), [a] also called Jedidiah, [b] was a monarch of ancient Israel and the son and successor of King David, according to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. [4] [5] He is described as having been the penultimate ruler of an amalgamated Israel and Judah.
Reigned for 3 months & 10 days. Death: King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon sent for him and brought him to Babylon, where he lived and died. Jerusalem was captured by the Babylonians and Jehoiachin deposed on 16 March, 597 BCE. Called Jeconiah in Jeremiah and Esther. 597–587: 597–586: 597–586: 597–586: Zedekiah
The Kingdom of Judah [a] was an Israelite kingdom of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.Centered in the highlands of Judea, the kingdom's capital was Jerusalem. [3]The Hebrew Bible depicts the Kingdom of Judah as one of the two successor states of the United Kingdom of Israel, a term denoting the united monarchy under biblical kings Saul, David, and Solomon and covering the territory of ...
The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire (circa 722 BCE), and the Kingdom of Judah by the Neo-Babylonian Empire (586 BCE). Initially exiled to Babylon, upon the defeat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire by the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great (538 BCE), many of the Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem, building the Second ...
Jehoiakim. Jehoiakim, [ a] also sometimes spelled Jehoikim[ b] was the eighteenth and antepenultimate King of Judah from 609 to 598 BC. He was the second son of King Josiah ( 1 Chronicles 3:15) and Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. [ 2] His birth name was Eliakim.