kingdom of judah
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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Kingdom of Judah
Kingdom of Judah (Assyria)
Kingdom of Judah (Babylonian Vassal)
Establishment
January 929 BC: Following Solomon's death in c. 926 BC, tensions between the northern part of Israel, containing the ten northern tribes, and the southern section, dominated by Jerusalem and the southern tribes, reached a boiling point. In about the year 930 BC the Kingdom of Israel and Judah split into two kingdoms: the northern Kingdom of Israel, which included the cities of Shechem and Samaria.
Chronology
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Military campaigns of Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III.
1.1.Syro-Ephraimite War
Was a war between the Neo-Assyrian Empire and its tributary states Aram-Damascus and Israel that decided to break away from the empire.
January 731 BC: Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III made the Kingdom of Judah dependent on him as tributary vassal state.
Military campaign of Median king Cyaxares.
2.1.Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire
Was a war fought between Media and Babylon against the Neo-Assyrian Empire that led to the fall of the latter.
2.1.1.Necho´s first campaign in syria
Was a military campaign by Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II that invaded the Levant to help the Assyrian in their war against Media and Babylon.
June 609 BC: Egyptian Pharaoh Necho led a sizable force to help the Assyrians. He soon captured Kadesh on the Orontes and moved forward, joining forces with Assyrian ruler Ashur-uballit and together they crossed the Euphrates and laid siege to Harran. Although Necho became the first pharaoh to cross the Euphrates since Thutmose III, he failed to capture Harran, and retreated back to northern Syria.
January 608 BC: Egyptian Pharaoh Necho led a sizable force to help the Assyrians. He soon captured Kadesh on the Orontes and moved forward, joining forces with Assyrian ruler Ashur-uballit and together they crossed the Euphrates and laid siege to Harran. Although Necho became the first pharaoh to cross the Euphrates since Thutmose III, he failed to capture Harran, and retreated back to northern Syria.
Was a revolt of the Kingdom of Judah against the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
January 608 BC: In -609, King Josiah of Judah declared independence from the Assyrian Empire and established the Kingdom of Israel. This move was part of Josiah's efforts to assert Judah's sovereignty and religious identity.
January 596 BC: Following the siege of 597 BC, the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar installed Zedekiah as vassal king of Judah.
January 586 BC: In July 587 BC, Zedekiah rebelled against Babylonia.
January 586 BC: The Babylonian troops managed to get inside the walls and conquer the city. On the seventh of Av, Nebuzaradan, a Babylonian executioner, burned down Solomon's Temple, destroyed the walls of Jerusalem, and exiled the rest of the Jews to Babylonia. He appointed Gedalia as the administrator of the Jews that weren't exiled from Judah.
January 585 BC: Judah ceased to exist in 586 BC as it was annexed to the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Disestablishment
January 585 BC: Judah ceased to exist in 586 BC as it was annexed to the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Selected Sources
Bernd Schipper, 2010, Egypt and the Kingdom of Judah under Josiah and Jehoiakim, p. 218
