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The United Kingdom of Israel
(
Hebrew
:
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) was an ancient
Israelite
kingdom during the
Iron Age
.
It was a kingdom in which all the
tribes of Israel
were united under one rule in the
Land of Israel
, and it existed for about a hundred years, from the anointing of
Saul
as king until the division of the kingdom after the death of Solomon into two separate kingdoms:
Israel
and
Judah
.
Borders according to the Tanakh
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According to the
Tanakh
, the
Kingdom of Israel
in the days of Saul stretched from the
Negev
to the
Golan
and included most of the coastal plain (except for the southern part that was in the hands of the
Philistines
), the cities of
Judea and Samaria
(with the exception of
Jerusalem
and
Beit Shan
which were only conquered during the time of David), and areas past the eastern Jordan that are in the territory of the modern
Kingdom of Jordan
.
In the days of David and
Solomon
, the influence of the
Kingdom of Israel
expanded and it included the
Kingdom of Aram Zoba
to the north and the kingdoms of
Ammon
,
Moab
and
Edom
to the east, some under its direct control and some as proteges. The northern border of the kingdom passed through the
city of Passover
, located on the west bank of the Euphrates River in the territory of modern
Syria
.
