Talk:Guide to Kings
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Need to pull quotes from Kings, do serious clean up on what was written, and find out who destroyed the Upper Kingdom. But, it's lunch time.--WaitingforGodot 11:25, 23 July 2008 (EDT)
- And I have to reconcile all diverging theories of quantum mechanics at some point before teatime :nods: ⇨↕▽← 11:27, 23 July 2008 (EDT)
- Hm. Liberal deceit? --AKjeldsenCum dissensie 11:29, 23 July 2008 (EDT)
- No :shakes head: ↳↑⇨↕▽← 11:31, 23 July 2008 (EDT)
- Hey, you're good with history! who destroyed the Isreal (upper kingdom). Was it the assyrians? I get so lost in reading what feels like 10 billion names thrown around and have no idea who led whom, who conquered whom, etc..--WaitingforGodot 11:30, 23 July 2008 (EDT)
- As far as I remember, yes, it was the Assyrians. The Siege of Samara and all that. I think all that stuff about the fall of the two Kingdoms is in the last couple of chapters of 2 Kings. --AKjeldsenCum dissensie 11:45, 23 July 2008 (EDT)
- Ah yes, here we are. 2 Kings ch. 17. The Assyrian King Salmaneser attacks Israel under King Hosea, who becomes a tributary vassal. But when Hosea later allies with the Egyptians and refuses to pay the tribute, Salmaneser invades again, besieges the capital at Samaria, and conquers it after three years. The people of Judea are forced to move away, and people from elsewhere in the Empire are later brought in to settled the area, apparently without much success. --AKjeldsenCum dissensie 11:53, 23 July 2008 (EDT)
- Thankie! K & C are two of the more mind boggling books for me, as they list lots and lots of battles, and very little fun stuff...well, cept Jezebel! she's fun.--WaitingforGodot 12:01, 23 July 2008 (EDT)
- Ah yes, here we are. 2 Kings ch. 17. The Assyrian King Salmaneser attacks Israel under King Hosea, who becomes a tributary vassal. But when Hosea later allies with the Egyptians and refuses to pay the tribute, Salmaneser invades again, besieges the capital at Samaria, and conquers it after three years. The people of Judea are forced to move away, and people from elsewhere in the Empire are later brought in to settled the area, apparently without much success. --AKjeldsenCum dissensie 11:53, 23 July 2008 (EDT)
- As far as I remember, yes, it was the Assyrians. The Siege of Samara and all that. I think all that stuff about the fall of the two Kingdoms is in the last couple of chapters of 2 Kings. --AKjeldsenCum dissensie 11:45, 23 July 2008 (EDT)
- Hm. Liberal deceit? --AKjeldsenCum dissensie 11:29, 23 July 2008 (EDT)
