. The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story. eep themfor his children: but they would not. So at last God did to them what his prophets had said he would do. Hedrove the people of Israel out of Canaan, as he had driven out the heathennations that lived there before them. For the king of Assyria, went throughall the land of Israel, and took the people and carried them away captive tothe land of Assyria. There he gave them cities to live in; but he would notlet them come back to the land of Israel again. So the kingdom of Israel was ended. It had lasted two hundred and fift
. The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story. eep themfor his children: but they would not. So at last God did to them what his prophets had said he would do. Hedrove the people of Israel out of Canaan, as he had driven out the heathennations that lived there before them. For the king of Assyria, went throughall the land of Israel, and took the people and carried them away captive tothe land of Assyria. There he gave them cities to live in; but he would notlet them come back to the land of Israel again. So the kingdom of Israel was ended. It had lasted two hundred and fifty-four years, ever since the ten tribes chose Jeroboam for their king. Nineteenkings had ruled over them during that time, every one of whom did evil anddisobeyed the Lord. And the king of Assyria sent people from his own land tolive in the cities of Israel, where the ten tribes had lived; and they came andlived there, and took those cities for their own. But we do not read that the ten tribes ever returned, and no one can tell what afterward became of them. 166. THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL MOURN IX CAPTIVITY UNDER THE ASSYRIANS. 167 The Kingdom of Judah. ^npfHE story of the kingdom of Israel has been finished, and we will now go backtwo hundred and fifty-four years, to begin the story of the kingdom of have read that Rehoboam, Solomons son, was made king over thetribes of Judah and Benjamin, and that he lived at Jerusalem, where the templewas which his father had built. Jeroboam would not allow the people of theten tribes to go to Jerusalem to worship at the temple, as God had commanded;but he set up two golden calves in that part of the land where the ten tribeslived, and taught the people to worship them. Yet the priests and the Levites who were living among the ten tribes atthat time, would not worship the golden calves. They came, with many otherpersons, to live at Jerusalem, and chose Rehoboam for their king. And theymade his kingdom greater and stronger by coming becau
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