Part C: The Untold Stories of the Lowlands and its History

At the end of the 7th century BCE, after the Assyrian withdrawal from the area west of the Euphrates, Judah established its renewed hold on the lowlands, which became an integral part of the kingdom’s territories, and an important component of its economy. In the light of this reality, the history of the lowlands was described since the days of the conquest of the land, as an area that is part of the territory of the Kingdom of Judah and its population is part of the tribe of Judah.
Was this also the case in ancient times? Were those who lived in the lowlands at the end of the second millennium BCE and throughout the days of the First Temple Period an inseparable part of the tribe of Judah? Were Jerusalem and the Temple always th...