![]() Of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. The long Exile began.Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director ![]() A few years later it was captured by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon, and this time the Temple itself was reduced to rubble.Ī large section of the Jewish population, including all the educated and wealthy people, was deported to Babylon. In 701BC Sennacherib of Assyria ‘came down like a wolf on the fold’, extracting heavy tribute from Jerusalem.Įight years later Jerusalem was laid waste and its king deported to Babylon. He built new fortifications and an underground tunnel in Jerusalem (see bottom right of map), bringing water from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam inside the city.ĭespite the new walls and the water supply, Hezekiah could not withstand real trouble when it came. The Temple was stripped of its treasures, including the Ark and the golden cherubim.Ībout two hundred years later Hezekiah became king of Judah. Then in about 922 BC the Egyptian Pharaoh Sheshonk I led a raid, capturing the city and sacking it. When Solomon died the ten northern tribes broke away, forming the kingdom of Israel. This is not a pretty, or indeed popular, period in Jerusalem’s history. The wife who bore his successor, Solomon, may have been a Jebusite – her remarkable story is at Bathsheba of Jerusalem. Wisely, David did not slaughter the inhabitants when he captured the city. an administrative center that you might if you were generous call a palace, and.At that stage it was only a fortress/settlement, not a city at all, with an estimated population of about two thousand people. Jebus was ideal, because it was in a neutral area without a history of its own. He wanted a fresh start, a new base of power free of associations with the old regime. ![]() What about David’s old capital, Hebron? It did not suit David’s purposes. David denied responsibility for the murder, executed the man who had done it, then assumed the throne and became king. Ishbaal in the north seemed to have the better position, but seven and a half years after Saul died in battle, Ishbaal was murdered by a henchman of David. Why did David choose this particular rocky site for his capital? It was of no great importance to anyone, but it lay in a strategic position between two rival kingdoms: Israel in the north, ruled by Ishbaal the successor of Saul, and Judah in the south which David, at that time just an outlaw chieftain, had recently conquered (see Map 6: the kingdoms of Israel and Judah at MAPS). You can see this at the bottom right of the diagram above: the little oblong was Jebus, a small walled fortress sitting on a spur of rock jutting out from the large rock plateau to its north. And the fortress was called Jebus, not Jerusalem. ![]() What did Jerusalem look like at the time of King David? When David arrived, it was more of a fortress than a city. ![]()
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