924
Lectures Watched
Since January 1, 2014
Hundreds of free, self-paced university courses available:
my recommendations here
Peruse my collection of 275
influential people of the past.
View My Class Notes via:
Receive My Class Notes via E-Mail:

VIEW ARCHIVE


Contact Me via E-Mail:
edward [at] tanguay.info
Notes on video lecture:
The Omride Dynasty
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Elisha, foreign, dogs, military, Jehoram, chariot, obligated, Davidic, consolidated, Damascus, Judahite, authorize, Davidic, vassal, Phoenicia, Omri, queen, bloody, northern, lost, Moabite, Omride, vilified, Ahab, map, Samaria
•
Biblical authors
•
wrote from a southern                  perspective
•
had little to say about the                  kingdom's cultural, military and political achievements
•
although they give glimpses of it
•
in contrast to the single,                dynasty of Judah, Israel witnesses a succession of dynasties
•
each lasted only two or three generations
•
the              dynasty
•
most successful dynasty
•
this was most                  dynasty by the Biblical authors
•
they are writing from a Judahite perspective and they are hostile t the northern kingdom
•
founded by          who died in 875
•
the father of         
•
succession: Omri, Ahab, Joram
•
these were the three men who originally placed Israel on the       , not Saul, David, and Solomon
•
they were the once who                          the northern kingdom of Israel
•
developed
•
infrastructure
•
building program
•
bureaucratic organization
•
international diplomacy
•
standing, professional army
•
               divisions
•
Assyrian source says he "provided 2000 chariots"
•
developed from citizen soldiers to a state-organized military
•
chariots represent an organized military as opposed to a citizen army
•
Omride rulers exerted their                  might
•
build new capital at               
•
extended territory from the Ephraim hill country to Jezreel valley and into Galilee
•
even pushed into                territory across the Jordan
•
constructed cities
•
Judah seemed to be a              of the Omrides
•
some sources say that the Judah kings simply collaborated with the Northern kings, e.g. 2 Kings 3:4-8
•
historically it was probably the case that the Judahite kings were                    to join the Omride kings since they were the Omride kings' vassals
•
influence of Omrides over Judah
•
Athaliah, a woman from the Omride household reigned as            for six years in Judah
•
was deposed and a                king was reinstated
•
established cosmopolitan kingdom
•
many ties to various economic centers
•
Ahab marries Jezebel from                   
•
Phoenicia is an economic center known for its trade
•
you can find the influence of Phoenicia in Israel e.g. in the ivory carvings
•
the Omride dynasty ended in a              putsch
•
undertaken by Jehu
•
Jehu has Jezebel thrown from window where she is devoured by         
•
brought together the descendants of Omri and massacred them (2 Kings 9-10)
•
this massacre was said to have been authorized by a prophet of Yahweh,             
•
reasons were that Ahab was
•
worshiping false gods
•
bringing                influences into Israel
•
Jehu kills Ahab's son,               , after he had been wounded in battle with Damascus
•
although in another source, the king of                  claims to have killed Jehoram
•
but Judahites needed Jehu to be the one to wipe out the house of Omri and hence the story that he killed Jehoram
•
there had to be "divine punishment" in order to absolve,                   , and venerate the massacre
•
Jehu can them more easily establish himself as the future king
•
reign of Jehu
•
much of what the Omrides had achieved was          during the reign of Jehu
•
the territories in Galilee and in the Transjordan

People:

######################### (930-874 BC)
The seventh king of Israel, the son of Omri according to the Hebrew Bible
  • reigned for 22 years
  • most probably fought in the Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records
  • in the Biblical text, Ahab has five important encounters with prophets
######################### (920-842 BC)
King of the northern Kingdom of Israel, son of Ahab and Jezebel, and brother to King Ahaziah, and grandson of Omri
  • Jehoram worshiped Baal
  • author of Kings speaks of both Jehoram of Israel and Jehoram of Judah in the same passage, which can be confusing
######################### (900-836 BC)
Daughter of Omride King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, became queen consort of Judah as the wife of King Jehoram, a descendant of King David, and later queen regnant for six years.
  • worshiped Baal, tolerated by Jehoram who worshipped YHWH
  • after Jehoram's death, Ahaziah became king of Judah, and Athaliah was queen mother
  • she and her family were exterminated by Jehu which ended Omride rule
######################### (875-815 BC)
Tenth king of Israel, noted for exterminating the house of Ahab at the instruction of Yahweh
  • ruled from 842–815 BC
  • principal source for the events of his reign comes from 2 Kings 9-10

Spelling Corrections:

worshipping ⇒ worshiping
The Merneptah Stele: The Oldest Reference to Israel
Canaan as Outback between Mesopotamia and Egypt Civilization Centers
The Three Centers of Early Jewish History
The Amarna Letters and Egypt's Presence in Canaan During the New Kingdom
The End of Egyptian Imperial Control
Maps of Historical Biblical Regions
Interview with Bill Deaver
Israel, Judah, and the Campaign of Shishak
The Omride Dynasty
725 BC: The Fall of Israel to Assyria
The Kingdom of Judah and Sennacherib
The Fall of Judah
The History of Israel According to Genesis and Exodus
Archaeological Theories on the History of Israel
The Rise of the Iron Age Kingdoms
Bronze Age vs. Iron Age Material Culture
History of the Central Highland States
Judah After the Babylonian Conquest
Factors Leading to the Depopulation Of Israel
The Elephantine Papyri
Judahite Communities in Babylon
Ezra-Nehemiah and Haggai on Temple Rebuilding
The Biblical Project
From the Bible to the Sumerian King List
Genesis Chapter 26: Isaac, Abimelek and Rebekah
The Biblical Authors' Portrayal of Women and Heroism
The Bible's Treatment of Heroic Death
Portrayal of Death in the Bible