the northern kingdom of israel was destroyed in around 720 bce.
the northern kingdom of israel was destroyed in around 720 bce.
when was the northern kingdom of israel destroyed?
around 720 bce
israel continued to exist within the reduced territory as an independent kingdom until around 720 bce, when it was again invaded by assyria and the rest of the population deported. during the three-year siege of samaria by the assyrians, shalmaneser v died and was succeeded by sargon ii of assyria, who himself records the capture of that city thus: "samaria i looked at, i captured; 27,280 men who dwelt in it i carried away" into assyria. thus, around 720 bce, after two centuries, the kingdom of the ten tribes came to an end. the remainder of the northern kingdom was conquered by sargon ii, who captured the capital city samaria in the territory of ephraim. he took 27,290 people captive from the city of samaria resettling some with the israelites in the khabur region and the rest in the land of the medes thus establishing hebrew communities in ecbatana and rages. the book of tobit additionally records that sargon had taken other captives from the northern kingdom to the assyrian capital of nineveh, in particular tobit from the town of thisbe in naphtali.
kingdom of israel (samaria)
bullet::::2. as "an attack on the northern kingdom of israel." the second explanation relies on the "sin of jeroboam," who was the first king of the northern kingdom, as the cause of the northern kingdom's fall to assyria in 722 bce. jeroboam's "sin" was creating two calves of gold, and sending one to bethel as a worship site in the south of the kingdom, and the other to dan as a worship site in the north, so that the people of the northern kingdom would not have to continue to go to jerusalem to worship (see 1 kings 12:26–30). according to coogan, this episode is part of the deuteronomistic history, written in the southern kingdom of judah, after the fall of the northern kingdom, which was biased against the northern kingdom. coogan maintains that jeroboam was merely presenting an alternative to the cherubim of the temple in jerusalem, and that calves did not indicate non-yahwehistic worship.
golden calf