History of Ancient Isreal

King David 1010-970 BC

1010 BCE

First king of Israel after capturing it and makes it the capital of his kingdom. Being religiously devoted to Christianity he wanted to build a sacred temple to house the Arch of the Covenant, but he was unable to because of all of the blood in his hands from his acts of violence. One act that he did was he sent one of his best generals to the front lines to die because he wanted to marry is wife ,after getting her pregnant, but was unable to because she was already a married women.

King Solomon

960 BCE

King Solomon was a Great king, he was the youngest son of King David. He was very intelligent, people traveled long distances to hear his words of wisdom. He built the first holy temple that housed to Arch. He composed 3,000 proverbs and wrote over 1,000 songs. As age caught up to him people lost faith in him because he started to build shrines to other gods that his wives worshiped, he also taxed his people heavily to pay for the temples as well as for his own riches.

Assyrians

701 BCE

Persians

614 BCE

Their capture of Jerusalem was very violent one one of the most bloodiest. In the process of the capturing of the city there was a three day pillage. In these three days of destruction families were robbed and the second holy temple was robbed as well and then it was destroyed. After the city had felt the Persians wraith they left with their loot and prisoners.

Babylonians

598 BCE

King Babylon assembled an army and invaded the city of Judah, they pillaged and robbed the city and left it in ruins. After the city was conquered, he took the king prisoner and named himself king, and forced the citizens to pay him a rich tribute. He saw the citizens a potential workers and slaves so he deported about 10,000 of them to Babylonia. This first deportation triggered the Jewish Diaspora.

Ezra the Scribe

348 BCE

Ezra was seen as a great man, he was believed to have followed in the very footsteps of one of the last prophets. He was a simple priest, teaching about his religion. He also wrote Torah Scrolls. He lead an epic journey to the homeland of his people, only to find that it was occupied already. He triggered an uprising against the Jewish religion because he believed that they had displeased god by marrying into other regions, so Jewish men left their families in hopes of pleasing god.

The Greeks

270 BCE

Greeks gained control of the Holy land after the Persian invasion. Soon after they were conquered King Alexander was determined to untie his great kingdom through Hellenism. He wanted to slowly convert all of his subject to the Greek culture so they could all live in peace. As years went by and as new kings came the Greek speaking Jews were unable to read ancient Hebrew scriptures, The Greek culture was forced upon them and eventually lead to their rebellion.

Antuchus IV

175 BCE

This guy was known as the "Mad King", this was because of he was convinced that he was a manifestation of Zeus himself. He also did everything in his power to suppress Judaism. The Jewish population resented him greatly because he had banned some of their most sacred religious practices such as circumcision, reading from the Torah, and Sabbath observations, he declared that if any of these practices were caught they would be punishable by death.

Maccabees

100 BCE

These five sons of Mattathias's were seen as active saviors in the Jewish religion. They literally stood up the the Greek empire and fought for their own independence. They went through great feats, and took down a powerful army. They reclaimed Jerusalem and restored their city. The five brothers reigned as priest kings over their independent Jerusalem.