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King Ahab and King Pekah ruled Israel for 20-22 years each. Both of them did what was displeasing to the LORD and did not depart from the sins which Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit. Also both of them committed a murder \u2013 Ahab against his citizen Naboth and Pekah against his king Pekahiah. But there was an important difference between these two kings. Ahab cooperated with the king of Judah against the king of Aram. Pekah cooperated with the king of Aram against the King of Judah.<\/span><\/p>\n

In response to Pekah’s cooperation with a foreign army against his brothers in Judah, King Ahaz of Judah did the same. Ahaz cooperated with the foreign King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria against King Pekah of Israel. King Tiglath-pileser came and captured Gilead, Galilee and Naphtali and he deported the inhabitants to Assyria. The northern and the eastern parts of Israel Kingdom were no longer Israelite.<\/span><\/p>\n

The historical lesson of this disastrous policy wasn’t learned. A few hundreds of years later Prince Judah Aristobulus the Second competed on the throne against his elder brother High Priest Prince John Hyrcanus the Second. After the two brothers had reached an agreement regarding giving the elder the High Priesthood and the younger the throne, the elder had second thoughts about it. John Hyrcanus the Second decided to cooperate with foreign armies \u2013 Idumaean, Nabataean and Roman \u2013 against his own brother. As a result the Edomites and the Nabataeans and the Romans took Judah’s territories, killed tens of thousands of Jews and put an end to the independence of Judah’s Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Will the lesson be learned in the future? Only time will tell.<\/span><\/p>\n

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