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Two House theology primarily focuses on the division of the ancient United Monarchy of Israel into two kingdoms, Israel and Judah.Two House theology raises questions when applied to modern peoples who are thought to be descendants of the two ancient kingdoms, both Jews (of the Kingdom of Judah) and the ten lost tribes of the Kingdom of Israel.
Judah prospered as a vassal state (despite a disastrous rebellion against Sennacherib), but in the last half of the 7th century BCE, Assyria suddenly collapsed, and the ensuing competition between Egypt and the Neo-Babylonian Empire for control of the land led to the destruction of Judah in a series of campaigns between 597 and 582. [60]
Although Judah was a vassal of Assyria during this time and paid an annual tribute to the powerful empire, it was the most important state between Assyria and Egypt. [ 1 ] When Hezekiah became king of Judah , he initiated widespread religious changes, including the breaking of religious idols.
At that time it referred to a people or chieftain to the northwest of the Shang. [10] In the early eighth century BC, a tribe on the middle Yangtze were called the Yangyue, a term later used for peoples further south. [10] Between the seventh and fourth centuries BC Yue/Việt referred to the State of Yue in the lower Yangtze basin and its people.
2 Kings 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the second part of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the Second Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. [3]
Deportation of the Israelites after the destruction of Israel and the subjugation of Judah by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 8th–7th century BCE. The Assyrian captivity, also called the Assyrian exile, is the period in the history of ancient Israel and Judah during which tens of thousands of Israelites from the Kingdom of Israel were dispossessed and forcibly relocated by the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
The factor for Judah's success in the battle is mainly attributed to Abijah and his troops' devotion to their God. [13] Jeroboam was crippled by this severe defeat to Abijah and thus posed little threat to the Kingdom of Judah for the rest of his reign; [14] however, despite being victorious, Abijah failed to reunify Israel and Judah.
Outside Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics, as Nguyen. Nguyen was the seventh most common family name in Australia in 2006 [8] (second only to Smith in Melbourne phone books [9]), and the 54th most common in France. [10] It was the 41st most common surname in Norway in 2020 [11] and tops the foreign name list in the ...