![]() ![]() Now therefore give pledges, I pray you, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you be able on your part to set riders on them. But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar? ![]() See, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt where on if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. I say, say you, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me? The Bible records the boastful words of the arrogant Assyrian monarch, Sennacherib, as he tried to intimidate and humiliate Hezekiah, king of Judah ( Isaiah 36:4-10 Isaiah 36:4-10 And Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus said the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein you trust? And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.Īmerican King James Version ×). And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a great army. By the late eighth century they crushed the kingdom of Israel.Ībout this same time they also invaded the southern kingdom of Judah, conquering its major cities and besieging its capital, Jerusalem ( Isaiah 36:1-2 Isaiah 36:1-2 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defended cities of Judah, and took them. They eventually subjugated the whole of the Fertile Crescent from Mesopotamia to Egypt. Led by able and ruthless monarchs, the Assyrians began to menace and conquer their neighbors. They listened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.Īmerican King James Version ×). Thus said the LORD, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers the children of Israel: return every man to his house for this thing is from me. Speak to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. ![]() And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only. So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But as for the children of Israel which dwelled in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. By this time, about 40 years after the reign of Solomon, Israel had split into two distinct kingdoms-Israel and Judah ( 1 Kings 12:16-24 1 Kings 12:16-24 So when all Israel saw that the king listened not to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to your own house, David. In the ninth century B.C., Assyria developed into an aggressive and powerful empire. The remains of a ziggurat, or temple tower, from that era still stand near the site of its ancient capital. Ranked among the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time is the unearthing of the ancient Assyrian Empire.Īssyria first appeared as an empire early in the second millennium B.C. ![]()
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