ISRAEL (Northern Kingdom)
(See also Ephraim [Tribe]; Samaria [City]; Samaria [Land of Ten-Tribe Kingdom])
alliance with Syria: w13 11/15 16-17; w91 6/1 11-12
archaeological finds:
“King of Israel” inscription (Tel Dan): w96 10/15 30-31
Assyria conquers (740 B.C.E.): it-1 204; it-2 908; si 72, 296; gm 47-48; w88 2/15 26-27
Amos foretells: si 148-150; w89 4/1 22-23
“day of Jehovah”: w97 12/15 13
Hosea foretells: it-1 1148; w05 11/15 29-30; si 143-145; w88 2/15 26-27
Hoshea’s conspiracy triggers: it-1 1149
Isaiah foretells: it-1 62, 1187; it-2 296-297; ip-1 317-320
prophets foretell: it-2 846
Assyria invades:
Menahem buys withdrawal: it-2 371
Tiglath-pileser III: it-2 1101
Assyrian exile: it-1 62, 204, 415, 775, 1233; it-2 847; rr 130
locations: it-1 993, 1014, 1022, 1025, 1034
restoration from: rr 132; si 143
Baal worship: it-1 228, 230-231, 948; it-2 75; w05 12/15 24-29; si 47, 67-68, 143
Ahab promotes: it-1 59, 230, 1170; it-2 835; w92 4/1 16-17; w90 11/1 16-17
Jehu eradicates: it-1 230-231; it-2 23-24; w11 11/15 5; w05 12/15 27-29; w89 3/15 25
“limping between two different opinions” (1Ki 18:21): mwb22.09 9; it-2 191; w17.03 14-15; ia 86-87; w08 1/1 19
potsherds imply infiltration: it-1 153; w07 11/15 13; w90 11/1 16-17
beginning: it-1 947, 1232-1233; lfb 110-111; w08 8/15 3-4; my story 65; si 66, 285
Bible books addressed to: ct 139
calf worship: it-1 374, 393-394, 947-948
Bethel in Ephraim: it-1 296-297
Jehu allows: it-2 24
Jeroboam institutes: it-1 393-394, 1170, 1233; it-2 37; lfb 111; w08 8/15 5; w04 11/15 22
link with astrology: it-1 207
capitals: it-1 1233; w90 11/1 16
Samaria: it-2 554, 845; nwt 1710; w90 11/1 16
Shechem: it-1 1233; it-2 915; w90 11/1 16
Tirzah: it-2 554, 1109; w90 11/1 16
chronology: it-1 462-466; nwt 1745, 1747
duration of kingdom: it-2 908
compared with Judah (southern kingdom): it-2 127
composition: rr 130
decline and fall: it-2 164-165; w04 11/15 21-22
discussion: it-1 1232-1233; ct 139
Ephraim represents: it-1 754
Ezekiel’s 390-day “siege” of Jerusalem: it-1 462-463; rr 66-67; w07 7/1 12
false worship:
high places: it-1 1108
idolatry: it-1 1170
sacred poles: it-2 835
instability: it-2 157
kings: it-1 1233; it-2 156-157; si 66-68, 70-72
calf worship: it-2 24
charts: it-1 464-466; nwt 1745, 1747
chronology: mwb22.11 7
end prophesied (Ho 1:4, 5): it-2 77
idolatry: it-1 1170
kings by name:
Ahab: w21.10 2-3; it-1 59-60; it-2 845; w14 2/1 13-15; si 67-68
Ahaziah: it-1 62-63; si 70
Hoshea: it-1 1148-1149; si 72
Jehoahaz: it-1 1265; si 72
Jehoash (Joash): it-1 1266; si 72
Jehoram (son of Ahab): mwb22.11 7; it-1 1270; it-2 23; si 70
Jehu: mwb22.11 5; it-2 22-25; lfb 118-119; w11 11/15 3-5; w97 9/15 18-19; si 71-72
Jeroboam I: it-1 947; it-2 37-38; si 66-67
Pekah: it-2 594-595; si 72
Tibni: it-2 1100; si 67
Zechariah: it-2 1223-1224; si 72
Zimri: it-2 1235; si 67
“land of Omri”: it-2 554
maps: it-1 947; w08 8/15 5; jd 19
peoples moved in by Assyria: it-1 62, 204, 415, 758, 1233; it-2 847-848
Avvites: it-1 222
people of Cuth(ah): it-1 562
people of Erech: it-1 757
priest sent to teach worship: it-1 297; it-2 847-848
Sepharvites: it-2 896
prophecies concerning:
Amos: it-2 650; w07 10/1 12-14; w04 11/15 10-14, 17-25
drunkards of Ephraim (Isa 28): ip-1 287-288; w91 6/1 11-13
rebels (Isa 9:8–10:4): ip-1 133-143
why included with Judah after 740 B.C.E.: w07 3/15 9
prophets: it-1 296-297, 1233; ip-1 135
Ahijah: it-1 64
Amos: it-1 99-100; w14 6/15 29; jd 18; w04 11/15 10-11; si 148
chart showing kings and: it-1 464-466
Elijah: w24.02 5; it-1 710-713, 949-950; lfb 112-117; w14 2/1 12-15; ia 84-88, 90-91; w08 1/1 18-21
Elisha: it-1 714-718, 949-950; lfb 124-127
Hosea: it-1 1146; jd 18, 20-21; w05 11/15 17; si 143-144
Jehu: it-2 22
Jonah: it-2 98-99; lfb 130-131; ia 108-114, 116-117, 119-124; w09 1/1 25-28; w09 4/1 14-18; bm 16; jd 16-17; w03 3/15 16-18; si 153-154
Micaiah: it-2 393; w02 2/15 16-17
Oded: it-2 525
sent to condemn Jeroboam’s altar at Bethel: it-1 296; w17.01 22-23; w08 8/15 6, 8-11
rejected by Jehovah: w95 7/1 16-17
relationship with Judah:
alliances with Jehoshaphat: mwb23.05 2; it-1 60, 62-63, 1272; it-2 845, 933; w17.03 24-25; si 82
separation: w08 8/15 3-4; si 66, 81
separation ended after exile: it-1 417; rr 130, 132
represented by—
Oholah (Eze 23): it-2 545; rr 166; w88 9/15 20-21
stick “of Ephraim” (Eze 37:16): rr 130
Samaria: w90 11/1 16-17
ivories from: it-1 59, 100-101, 153, 180, 948; it-2 845; w90 11/1 17; si 149; w87 5/15 25
Simeon counted with: w05 12/1 20
spiritual prostitution: it-1 240
illustrated in Hosea’s wife: w18.12 13; it-1 1147; w16.03 27; w05 11/15 17-19, 25; si 144-145
Syria dominates: si 72
ten “lost” tribes: it-1 417, 1233; it-2 307; rr 116-117, 130, 132
belief that British peoples are: w19.04 26
wars: it-1 1233
civil wars: w22.10 29; it-1 174