About 2000 BC, that is, more than 400 years ago, God called Abraham to leave the Mesopotamian plain, cross the Euphrates River and Jordan River from city of ur in the two river basins, and reach a promised land-Canaan (now called Palestine). Therefore, Abraham is called Hebrew (the man on the other side of the river). Abraham's old wife Sarah was barren, so she asked her handmaid Hagar to give her a son Ishmael, the ancestor of the Arabs. The Bible predicts that this son will be like a wild donkey, hostile to people everywhere. People should also be hostile to him. He wants to be isolated from his relatives and live alone. According to the Bible, barren Sarah also gave birth to her son Isaac at the time promised by God. God asked Abraham to give Isaac to himself, so Abraham took his son up Mount Moriah. When he raised a knife to kill his son, God stopped him and sacrificed a sheep instead of Isaac. God bless Isaac. The Koran records Abraham's gift to Ishmael.
Later, Isaac gave birth to twins Esau and Jacob, and Jacob changed the name of his eldest son with a bowl of red bean soup (one day, Jacob was cooking red bean soup, and Esau came back from hunting, hungry and wanted to drink. Jacob took the opportunity to say, then give me the name of the firstborn. Brother replied: I'm starving, what's the use of my eldest son! ), and got his father's blessing with trickery, so he was chased by his brother, hiding in his uncle's house and being calculated by his uncle everywhere. One night, Jacob wrestled with God and got a new name "Israel", which means "one who wrestles with God" (Gen. 32:28). Twelve sons were born to Israel, that is, the later twelve tribes of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi (this tribe is a priest elected by the Lord and supported by other tribes, so it does not participate in land distribution), Judah (both King David and Jesus belong to this tribe), Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar of Issachar, Zebulun of Zebulun. Therefore, these two and a half tribes also participated equally in the distribution of land), and finally Benjamin (from whom the apostle Paul came). The suspicious and treacherous character of Jews probably comes from the cunning of their ancestor Jacob.
Because his son, Yue Se, became the Prime Minister of Egypt, Israel and his family moved from Canaan to ancient Egypt and were treated well. But a hundred years later, the Egyptian dynasty changed and the children of Israel became slaves. Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt and came to Canaan, driving out the Canaanites and occupying the land of Canaan. That is to say, about 4000 years ago, the ancestors of the Jews got this land through fighting.
The twelve tribes of Israel kept giving birth to children, so they changed from one family to one nation, and defeated other nations in the land of Canaan to take their place. That is, in the 10 century BC, KingDavid, the greatest king of Israel, emerged from the tribe of Judah and established a powerful state of Israel with Jerusalem as its capital. King David robbed his man's wife and gave birth to King Solomon, the most wise king in human history. After Solomon succeeded to the throne, it took ten years to build the magnificent "Solomon Temple" or "First Temple". Judaism regards Jerusalem as the holy city, and the Temple Mount where the Temple is located is the holy land.
However, after the death of King Solomon, the second emperor succeeded to the throne. The second generation of emperor met people who were uncomfortable, made friends carelessly, and only knew how to collect money. Jeroboam, Solomon's servant, was dissatisfied with the new king's exorbitant taxes and levies, and led ten northern tribes to revolt. Israel, the founding country, competes with it, because in the north, it is also called the "northern country" and its capital is Samaria. The two remaining tribes in the south (Judah and Benjamin) are called "Judah" or "Nandi", and Israel is divided into two. Northland has been intermarried with other nationalities, influenced by his wife, and followed his wife to believe in gods other than God, which was quickly destroyed by Assyria. The conquered Israelis were gradually assimilated by foreigners, and finally they lost their Israeli identity because they couldn't figure out who their parents were.
Although southern Judah was occupied and ravaged by Babylon, Macedonia and Rome for more than 500 years from the 6th century BC, the temple was burned down by the Babylonians. However, Nehemiah, a Jew, was a red man around the Persian emperor and was responsible for pouring wine for the emperor. Therefore, with the support of the Persian emperor, the Jews rebuilt the temple, thus creating the "Second Temple Period". The good times didn't last long. After being colonized by Rome, Judah became a Roman province from a big country of Judah. Jews, which is the fuel-efficient lamp? The Zionist movement keeps rising, just like China's anti-Qing movement. Finally, in A.D. 135, the Roman Empire couldn't bear it, suppressed the last Jewish uprising, destroyed the temple by the way, took away the gold wares, and ordered all Jews to be deported. In order to make Jews forget their hometown, Judas province was renamed "Palestine" and Jerusalem was renamed "AeliaCapitolina", and even Jews were forbidden to enter the city for fear that they would restore the country (see Masaadeh for details). At this point, the Jews lost their motherland and became a conquered nation, scattered all over the world.
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