Episode 17 The Fall of Israel

Published: Dec. 3, 2012, 8:26 a.m.

\u201cThen the King of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.\xa0 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the King of Assyria took Samaria.\u201d \u2013 II Kings 18:4\nToward the end of the eighth century BC, the Kushite priest-kings of Napata reunified Egypt under Nubian rule.\xa0 Sargon II continued to extend Assyrian domination over the Near East, even as Elamite armies bolstered Chaldean resistance in Babylonia.\xa0 And a desperate gambit by King Hoshea resulted in the destruction of the ancient state of Israel.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices