The book continues, and under the leadership of Moses, the Jews finally left Egypt and reached the Sinai Peninsula. But on the way to escape they abandoned all their supplies, hunger, plague, cold and other pains surrounded them, and the imaginary land flowing with milk and honey was still out of reach, so the Jews began to complain non-stop, and finally angered God, so God punished the Jews for wandering outside the land of Canaan for 40 years, until the first generation of Jews who escaped Egypt all died, and they were not allowed to return to the land of Canaan.
Judaism and Christianity both believe in the Bible, but because Judaism does not agree with the identity of the Messiah of Jesus, Judaism only believes in the Old Testament and does not recognize the New Testament. Moses was the most important prophet and none of them, because he was the first to dare to go against the will of the gods. The complaints of the Jews mentioned above led God to think that their faith was no longer religious, and He wanted to send his anger and destroy all the Jews. God's punishment was prevented by Moses and instead allowed to return to Canaan in order to allow all the first generation of Jews to flee Egypt die. Moses made a covenant with God on Mount Sinai and listened to the oracle, and the Lord gave him two stone slabs recorded in the Ten Commandments of Moses, which were the basis of later Jewish law. Following God's will, he made the ark of the covenant to store these two stone tablets, known as the golden ark.
The Golden Ark, the legendary place where the Ten Commandments of Moses were stored, was lost in the midst of war
There are countless legends about the Golden Ark, including the most famous Templar Order, which will not be repeated here. After Moses' death, under the leadership of his son Joshua (it is also said that Joshua was not Moses' son), the twelve tribes were united into a nation, the ancient Jewish kingdom. But unlike ordinary countries, the throne of the ancient Jewish kingdom was not by blood, they were kings by God, that is, those chosen by Jehovah to become kings.
Around 1000 BC, David defeated the giant Goliath and gradually became a god and thus king of the Jewish people. Israel ushered in glory under his leadership, and the Israelites finally defeated their enemies, the Philistines, and captured Jerusalem. For this reason, many legends of King David have been circulated in Western society to this day. Michelangelo has a famous statue of David, which depicts David preparing to launch a catapult as he defeated the Philistine giant Goliath. And the David in the names of many Westerners today also comes from this, and you think of David Beckham??
Now do you know the origin of the name David?
After King David's death, the throne passed to King Solomon. This period was also the strongest time of the ancient Jewish kingdom, because the country was strong and grateful for Jehovah's grace, so they built a temple to worship Jehovah, and the Jews entered the First Temple period. The golden ark was also placed in the temple. During Solomon's reign, the ancient Jewish kingdom expanded to the northeast to the Euphrates River, southeast to the Gulf of Aqaba, and southwest to the Egyptian border. But the splendor of the Jews was short-lived.
King Solomon's extravagance in his later years intensified the discontent of the people, and after his death, the country was divided again, and ten of the original twelve tribes formed the State of Israel in the north, and the remaining two merged into one state, the Jewish State, which continued to be ruled by King Solomon's son Rehoboam. The division of the country inevitably led to a decline in power, and at this time their feuds, the Assyrians, rose, and they easily destroyed the two states of the Jews.
The Assyrian Empire, the first militaristic state in human history, a nation known for its brutality. The Assyrian Empire's wars of conquest were known for their brutality, with towns burned and destroyed, property plundered, inhabitants slaughtered or taken captive, and a catastrophe in which the population plummeted. Because of the extraordinary brutality of the Assyrian behavior in war, the Jews referred to the Assyrian capital of Nineveh as the "bloody lion's den."
The first militaristic empire in human history, Assyria
During his time in Shinahrib, he captured and burned 75 cities, taking people and belongings captive. During his first expedition to Samaria in Palestine , Sargon II captured 27,290 men , and on his first expedition to suppress an uprising in the southern part of the Two Rivers Valley, he recaptured 200,800 men and a large amount of wealth back to Assyria, and brought 200,150 men and a large amount of plundered wealth back to Assyria during the suppression of the uprising in Palestine.
Brutal pleasure was bound to come to a brutal end, and revolts within the Assyrian Empire arose, and in 626 BC the Chaldeans of Babylon broke away from the Assyrian Empire and established the Kingdom of Babylon. They allied with the Medes and invaded Nineveh in 612 BC, ending the Assyrian Empire. The nascent kingdom of Babylon again invaded Jerusalem, destroyed the temple, and took all the Jews into captivity in Babylon, known as the prisoners of Babylon.
The First Temple period ended and the Jews entered the Second Path of Exile.
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