All the war games re the new state of Israel versus Persia.
Turns out this was never really a 'promised land',
until Josiah said it had been so.
The Omrides were the real power in the North at the time of the Assyrian conquest.
Saul David and Solomon were minor chieftains, no big Israeli Empire in the 12, 11 or 10th Centuries BCE.
By then, Pentateuch, of course, Assyria had leveled the Northern (Omride) Kingdom of Israel.
Judah was an impoverished hinterland, even in the 8th Century BCE.
The average God fearing American, or Israeli, for that matter, will not believe it really.
What a shame.
What a strategic and political tar baby this state has become, in modern times.
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