Israel & Judah: The Two Kingdoms

For two centuries the land was split between two rival kingdoms — richer, stronger Israel in the north, smaller Judah in the south around Jerusalem. It was the age of Omri and Ahab, of Queen Jezebel and the prophet Elijah, of the fiery preaching of Amos and Hosea — and, in the end, of the Assyrian war-machine, which swept the northern kingdom away forever. Slide across the age of the two kingdoms.