Migration and Trade in the Kingdom of Israel

Israel is first noted for its success and trade in the first two centuries of the Iron Age II (the reign of the Kings famously starting with Solomon) when its population expanded and disseminated with Samaria as its capital. It was during these years, too, that the country, although divided into rwo kingdoms, generally banded together in caring for its civic needs and were interdependent on each other in defending themselves from outsiders.

Some of the nations that the Israelites traded with included the Phoenicians, Assyrians, and Egyptians and yet, despite their migration and encounter with other nations, the Israelites became more interdependent one on the other leaning together rather than falling apart.

Their interdependence was all the more closely seen during the conspicuous time of King Solomon when the country received a reputation for its habit of cohesion and pattern of...
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