
The Kings of Israel and Judah
A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Jewish Kingdom of David and Solomon, the Divided Monarchy, and the Assyrian and Babylonian Conquests of Samaria and Jerusalem
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The history of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah and their kings is a story of epic heroes and villains. David was the God-chosen savior who fought giants, and the remarkable individual who inspired the world’s greatest artists to create their immortal sculptures and paintings. Solomon is regarded as the author of many of the proverbs that we still use - and the ancient sources say he was married to 70 foreign princesses. The protagonists of this book also include famous rulers of the ancient world, such as Queen of Sheba and Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
You will learn how David unified the nation, but you’ll also find out about his dark secret and its terrible consequences. You will discover all about the golden age of Solomon, the building of his Temple, and the legendary Ark of the Covenant - and you’ll also learn how ruthless he was toward his subjects near the end of his reign. In addition to that, you will get to know the roots of the conflict between the Israelite tribes, why the Jewish kingdom had split in two, and how the two disunited kingdoms fell to the mighty empires of Egypt and Babylon.
This book covers a timespan of about half a millennium. The first couple of chapters, which cover Israel’s shift from tribal government to a centralized monarchy, tell the stories of the people and events initially described in the two Books of Samuel (Sam. 1 and 2). The rest of the book follows the storyline of the two Books of Kings (Kings 1 and 2).
In The Kings of Israel and Judah: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Jewish Kingdom of David and Solomon, the Divided Monarchy, and the Assyrian and Babylonian Conquests of Samaria and Jerusalem, you will discover topics such as
- The Last Judges
- Give Us a King
- A Boy from Bethlehem
- Saul Has a Rival
- King David
- David’s Downfall
- The Horrors
- King Solomon
- Divided Monarchy
- The Kings of the Divided Monarchy Until the Fall of Israel
- Ten Lost Tribes: The Destruction and Fall of Israel
- Judah’s Resistance and Reforms
- The Fall of Jerusalem and the End of the Kingdom of Judah
- And much, much more!
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- Michael Ainsworth
- 12-16-21
A Readers Digest version of Biblical Books
This is nothing more or less than a short summary of actions in the Biblical books covering the period between the Late Bronze Age collapse and the Babylonian Exile. If you are already familiar with Biblical text, you will learn almost nothing. If not or you just want a short reminder of key actions, it is probably worth the book’s low price of about $5.00. However, be aware this is a summary of the Bible narrative only. The veracity of that narrative is neither supported nor denied. This book provides almost no insights into recent archeological and historical discoveries that have expanded understanding of the period, and when it attempts to do so the information is misleading . For instance, the book suggests Solomon’s declining power resulted from his weakening dedication to Jewish monotheism despite modern scholarship indicating Jewish ritual during this period was largely henotheistic and strong monotheism was only a subsequent development.
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- Aim
- 08-19-24
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AI voice was awful. Mispronounced words, The "reading" was extremely distracting and the information fell short.
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- The Dirty Duke
- 03-26-24
History Ruined by Text to Speech
This is pretty well written, though often sketchy on facts. It does offer brief, encapuslated snapshots that allow the listener to traverse the entire history of the Kings of Israel in just over an hour. Naturally, you're missing a lot of content & context, but if you recognize that going in, then there should be no problem. The real problem lies in the AI Text to Speech: it is nothing short of horrific. Awkward starts and stops with no pauses, just terrible overall rhythm, mispronounced words, all the things that serve as the hallmarks for poor Text to Speech. It really makes this decent book a really, really bad listen. Unfortunately.
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