Kingdom of the union is a union of the twelve tribes of Israel who live in areas that currently constitute the modern Israel and Palestine. This kingdom up from about 1030-930 BC.
After the death of Solomon in 931 BC, the ten northern tribes refused to accept Rehoboam as their king, and instead, about the year 930 BC Jeroboam, who was not from the line of David, as their king. The northern kingdom became known as the Kingdom of Israel or Israelis. The uprising occurred in Shechem, and the tribe of Judah was left the first time that received the Family of David. Then, after the tribe of Benjamin joined Judah, Jerusalem (which is located in the territory of Benjamin: "Joshua 18:28") " Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families. " became the capital of the new kingdom. Southern kingdom called the kingdom of Judah, or Judah.
(2 Chronicles 15:9) " He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him. " also mentioned that members of the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon "escape" to Judah during the reign of Asa of Judah. During the first sixty years, the kings of Judah tried to restore their authority against the northern kingdom, and a war that continues raging between them. Over the next eighty years, has not happened again open war between them, and then become allied with each other, work together against their common enemy, especially Damascus.
Sebiah Israel stands as an independent state until about the year 720 BC during the conquest by the Assyrian Empire. The Bible tells us that all Israel be discarded, which became known as the "Ten lost tribes". However, only approximately one-fifth of the population (about 40,000) are actually removed from their territory during the two periods of exile under Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II. Many Israelis also fled south to Jerusalem, which became five times larger during this period, so it established a new wall and a spring (Siloam) provided by King Hezekiah.
After the destruction of Israel, Judah survived until about a half a century until conquered by the Babylonians. King Hezekiah of Judah (727-698 BC) mentioned in the Bible as the initiator of reforms that forced the Jews rejected the idolatry of law (in this case, the worship of Asherah Ba'alim and among the traditional gods in the Near East). During the power also of Siloam inscription dated in the Old Hebrew alphabet.
Manasseh of Judah (698-642 BC), to sacrifice his son to Molech (2 Kings 21) 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.
2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead. He and his son Amon (reigned 642-640 BC) returns Hezekiah's reforms and formally entered into idolatry again. According to the stories of prophecy, Manasseh placed a four-faced idol in the Holy of Holies from the Holy Places.
In the reign of Josiah (640-609 BC) religious reforms. According to the Bible, when recovery is carried out at the Temple, a 'Book of the Law' was found (probably Deuteronomy). In 586 BC, the Babylonians, under King Nebuchadnezzar II, besieged Jerusalem. First Temple was destroyed so was the city of Jerusalem. Until now, the destruction is celebrated by people Yahudo on 9 Abib, or Tisya B'Ab.
As a result of this conquest, many inhabitants of Judah were exiled from their land and dispersed throughout the Babylonian Empire, and the independent kingdom of Judah to an end. David's family still respected and accepted as the leader of the Jewish community of Babylonia as Rosh Galut. Jewish kingdom of the Maccabees returned by four centuries later in a modified form.
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