The Kingdom of Judah was the southern of the two Israelite states that emerged after the break-up of the earlier united monarchy, with Jerusalem as its capital and a royal line descended from David. It occupied the hill country around Jerusalem and Hebron, a smaller and poorer territory than its northern neighbour, the Kingdom of Israel. When Assyria destroyed Israel, Judah survived as an Assyrian vassal, and kings such as Hezekiah and Josiah are remembered for religious reforms centred on the Jerusalem Temple. The Babylonians conquered the kingdom, destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple, and deported much of the elite. Historians still debate how large and powerful the early kingdom really was, since the biblical account and the archaeological evidence do not always agree.
Before and after
- 1st millennium BCEOrigins of Kabul
- from c. 996 BCE to 586 BCEConstruction of Solomon's Temple
- from c. 945 BCE to 715 BCETwenty-second Dynasty of Egypt
- from c. 930 BCE to 720 BCEKingdom of Israel
- from c. 930 BCE to 586 BCEKingdom of Judah
- from c. 911 BCE to 609 BCENeo-Assyrian Empire
- 10th century BCEFounding of Arezzo
- from c. 860s BCE to 590s BCEUrartu
- from c. 818 BCE to 715 BCETwenty-third Dynasty of Egypt
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