The "Golden Age" in Jerusalem is considered to be the time between David and Solomon's reign. Once Solomon dies, his son, Rehoboam, is the next in line to become King, but the North part of the Kingdom, Israel, doesn't want him to be their king unless he accepts their demands, which include lowering taxes. Rehoboam denies their demands, believing to assert his power, but the North decides to secede and Israel sets Jeroboam as their King. The North build shrines in their region, in Bethel and Dan, in order to prevent people from going to the temple in Jerusalem and the South also builds alternate shrines at Beer-Sheva and the Arad temple.
After the Kingdom became divided, the North and South sought help of greater, bigger nations to help defend their state from attacks. Some of the nations they sought help from included, Syria, Assyria, and Egypt. The Assyrian Empire grows in power and strength and in 721 BCE they take over the capital of Israel. Jerusalem saw expansion and growth because of the exiled people of Israel moving into the city. Assyria used public display of the people they killed in order to frighten people.
Once Hezekiah comes into power we see that he begins preparing for a rebellion against the Assyrian empire. He begins to fortify the city by building the "Broad" Wall." Next we see him also finding means of getting water into the city. He builds Hezekiah's tunnel to bring water into the city and the tunnel inscription, or grafitti text, describes the building of the of the tunnel during 710BCE. We also see that he built the"Israel" pool and Hezekiah's Pool to hold the water inside the city. During this time they also found LMLK, meaning "belonging to the the king," seal impressions on jars of grain in order to stock up on food. He did all of this to prepare in case once they rebelled that Assyria would block of all the food and water supplies outside of the city.
"Run Devil Run" by SNSD. Because Hezekiah and Jerusalem didn't run away from the Assyrians.
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