Kings of Israel

There were nineteen dynasties and nineteen different Kings of Israel after the division of the kingdom. The death of Solomon was followed by a defection of ten of the tribes of Israel, which established the separation of Israel from Judah in 975 B.C. This was the most important event which had befallen the Hebrew nation since their conquest of Canaan. The chief territory and population were now with Jeroboam, but the religious sanction, the legitimate descent, lay with the rival monarch, Rehoboam. From the political danger of allowing the ten tribes to come up to the sanctuary of Jerusalem, the princes of Israel, as it were in self-defense, set up a sanctuary of their own. The kingdom of Israel lasted 254 years, from B.C. 975 to B.C. 721.

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