known to archaeologists as Iron Age IIA), King David’s kingdom, or the Davidic Kingdom, came to unite the middle eastern countries about the 10th century b.c. After Saul was King David, a man after God’s own heart. They asked God to give them a man who should be king, and God gave them Saul. Some 400 – 600 years after God commanded Moses to free the people of Israel from Egypt, the people wanted to establish a monarchy as their form of government. The Amarna Letters Is King Saul in the Amarna Letters? Tel Dan Stele Slab The Moabite Stone Priests During King David’s Reign King Solomon City of Tel Meggido City of Gezer Solomon’s Son- Rehoboam & Shishak’s Invasion Records Temple of Solomon – Ostracon Davidic Kingdom Administrations Royal Clay Seals King Uzziah’s Burial Plaque King Ahaz Bulla Assyrian Rise Sennacherib Prism End of Davidic Kingdom, Fall to Babylon References History of The Davidic Kingdom Confirmation of Hebrew Writings & Israel’s Kingdom at 1000 b.c.
