Moving on to King Solomon, this famous monarch resembles his father, David, and is more extravagant than the former. The importance of Jerusalem to the Jews, to the Christians, and to the ****** was largely cemented by Solomon.

For this king Solomon did one thing, and that was to build the temple as mentioned earlier. This earthly dwelling place of God will cause countless bloodsheds for the next 3,000 years. Of course, we will never know what the temple built by Solomon was like, and not only for religious reasons, but also because of the fact that the original temple site was not allowed to be excavated. What's more, the excavations probably won't dig anything up, as the temple has been destroyed at least twice, one of which has been flattened to the cornerstone.

One thing is certain, however, that Solomon's temple was not as grand or magnificent as the Bible describes. Moreover, in addition to being God's dwelling place on earth, this temple is also a five-star service enterprise. With hundreds of barbers and a branch of temple prostitutes, yes, comrades, you read that right, Solomon's temple did also run a skin and meat business, and that business was the main source of income for the temple. All in all, this is a strange religious building that has left us stunned in modern times.

It has to be said that the Jews were too good at business, and this will carry through their course for the next 3,000 years. However, this is not a good thing, for two reasons, the first is that excessive affluence is easy to attract the covetousness of neighbors. And Israel's military might, hey, if the Jews were half as strong as the Bible boasts, wouldn't be that bad. All in all, Israel is a furry child. And he has a lot of money in his hands. Who wouldn't want to swallow this piece of fat?

As for the second reason. Being able to do business does bring great wealth, which is a good thing. But it is undeniable that businessmen or businessmen always think that everything in the world is valuable and can be traded, and that wealth can bring them everything they want. Moreover, rich people spare their lives, and in order to preserve their wealth, it is difficult for them to have the determination and will to die to those evil neighbors who covet their wealth.

That is to say, rich Israelis lack the will to resist, and their wealthy upper echelons are increasingly corrupt. Becoming more and more incompetent, in the face of the enemy, the first thing they will always think of is not how to resist, but to break the fortune and avoid disaster.

This also applies to the Son of David. Rich for only three generations, King David was still able to fight, and in Solomon's day, business and wealth were all that the Jews had. And Solomon's son is even more sloppy, and he can't even keep the country left by his grandfather.

Solomon's exploitation was unbearable for the Jews, but the remnants of Solomon and David remained, and the Jewish revolt was quickly suppressed. But when Solomon died. The north of Israel rebelled, and they asked Jeroboam to tell Solomon's son, Rehoboam, the third king of Israel. They will not be putting up with high taxes.

Rehoboam, on the other hand, thought that he was God's chosen king to rule over Israel, and he did not take the words of the north seriously at all, but threatened the Jews of the north. The result was that Israel was divided again, with Rehoboam ruling the perimeter of Jerusalem and Jeroboam occupying the northern region.

Not only were the Jews divided internally, but new foreign enemies were also coming to the door, and the Egyptian pharaoh Shezonchi led his army to Jerusalem and humiliated the two kingdoms of Israel. In the end, Rehoboam, the grandson of the "valian" David, could only send the Egyptians with the gold in the temple.

So how much gold is in this batch? Shortly after blackmailing Israel, Shezonchi died. And his heir, Osorcon, donated three hundred and eighty-three tons of gold to the temple! It is said that this amount of gold was extorted from Israel.

It is very likely that the three hundred and eighty-three tons of gold were not the entire harvest that Shesunchi extorted from Israel, because Pharaoh could not have donated all the harvest to the temple, and he had to leave a part for himself. Of course, even just 383 tons of gold is staggering enough. This gold was a huge amount of money in all its years, and to put it mildly, 99% of the world's countries did not have that much money in their coffers.

From this, we can also deduce how rich the Israelites were, and how Solomon exploited his people, knowing that he and his old man were only two generations, and two generations could make so much money, and their means of making money were really amazing.

It's just that the great wealth does not bring peace and tranquility to Israel, on the contrary, it brings endless nightmares. First the Assyrian Empire ravaged Israel, then Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar was remembered by the Jews for a long time. Don't be in a hurry, it's not over yet, after Babylon the Persians came again, then Alexander and Macedonians. It was not until the appearance of Judas with the Iron Hammer (164 B.C.) that the freedom of the Jews was largely restored.

Note that this was not the end, only a hundred years later, the Romans once again put dog chains on the Jews, and Solomon's temple was razed to the ground by Titus a few decades after Jesus' return.

Throughout this period of history, what can Li Xiaofeng see? The bloody tragedy of the Jews? Or is it the tragic situation of small and weak countries struggling to survive in the cracks of the great powers? I'm sorry, Li Xiaofeng didn't see this, but mourned!

Jews have always sought balance and space to survive among their powerful neighbors, and they like to use their strength to maintain their own security. But what makes people always puzzled is that they are very good at running and making money, but this wealth does not improve their national power. It won't be settled for decades, and a catastrophe will bring them back to their original shape. And then for thousands of years, they have been repeating this process so constantly, and they have never seen a time when they have solved the problem of survival independently.

Especially from the Persian Empire, whether the Jews could have a better time depends on the mood of their rulers, such as Cyrus of the Persian Empire, who was so good to the Jews that the prophets of the Jews considered Cyrus to be the Messiah; Another example is Antiochus the Great of Macedonia, who was also the savior of the Jews.

So much so that the Jews later always prayed for mercy from their alien masters, who had loosened their dogs' chains. And they were thankful to Dade. Contrarily. In addition to scolding a couple of sentences or using a pen to hack the opponent. There is no other way.

Truth be told, this phenomenon is quite strange. On the one hand, the Jews have always been able to pass on their religion and maintain their national traditions. But on the other hand, these national cohesions do not allow them to be truly independent, and they change hands from one master to another, constantly changing hands like a small commodity. It is very difficult for them to truly earn a place in the world on their own, and this phenomenon has not changed even in the 21st century, in a sense. The nation of Israel today, like the kingdom of Israel 3,000 years ago, exists only by the breath of men.

I have to say that this is really a big tragedy. It is simply inconceivable that a nation has not improved for 3,000 years, and has always been doing repetitive movements like a set program. What's wrong with this clever Israelis? It's not as good as those who don't have as many IQs as they do!

Li Xiaofeng believes that the root cause of Israel's ill is in its elites, and that it is the class that controls the Jewish mind that has caused all this tragedy. Why? This is because the state structure of the Jews is still relatively special, and there are two dominant groups. One is the royal family, that is, the king; The other is sacrifice. Together, these two nuclei dominated all affairs of Jewish society.

There is a problem with this style of leadership. Take, for example, the dispute between Saul and David. Fundamentally, it is quite possible that it is a collision between kingship and divine power. As a result, Saul failed. His failure to reconcile the two powers has resulted in Jewish society remaining a dualistic leadership structure.

The problems with this structure are obvious. Once the kingship and the divine power were not in harmony or there were contradictions and confrontations, then the Israelites fell into civil strife and could not form a unified joint force. And from the perspective of later Israeli history, internal power struggles have always been an important reason for their enslavement.

The corruption and infighting of the royal family and the high priests accompanied the history of the Jews, a problem that the Jews later recognized and wanted to change, most notably Christ Jesus.

However, in Li Xiaofeng's view, Jesus is not a Triune God, and his divinity is quite questionable (this is not nonsense, the debate on the divinity of Jesus in early Christianity can break the brain, it is simply a struggle between life and death. However, there are indeed a group of sects that believe that Jesus is not divine, and even if these sects are eradicated as heretics, they still have a great influence in the East, and directly give ****** a considerable influence on religion. ）。

In the biblical story, Jesus is imaged divine, born divine, Messiah and Savior. But in real history, I'm afraid that's not the case.

First of all, let's talk about Catholicism with Jesus as the Lord, in the general impression, everyone thinks that Jesus broke through the rules and regulations of Judaism and single-handedly created a new sect. But that's not the case with history, at least when Jesus was alive, there was never any Catholicism or Christianity. Jesus was a Jew all along, and he did not recognize himself as a heretic.

What Jesus believed and wanted to do from the beginning to the end was actually a bottom-up struggle within Judaism, and the struggle was against the aforementioned high priests of Judaism (including the royal family, since many royal families also served as high priests). Why did Jesus want to start such a struggle, or to use it at the time, a reform of Judaism?

The problem lies in the bad state of Judaism, when the Jewish king was King Herod, and the Herod family actually borrowed the power of the Romans.

According to the orthodox concept of Israel, the throne of Israel should belong to the Maccabee family, and there may be comrades who do not know the origin of this Maccabee family, which is actually quite strong and belongs to the rare iron-blooded strongmen in Israel.

The story begins with Antiochus the Great of Macedonia, who was very tolerant of the Jews, and during his reign, the Jews lived well. But the good times did not last long, and after the death of Antiochus the Great, the nightmare of the Jews began again.

Antiochus the Younger, the son of Antiochus the Great, or Antiochus the Manifest (nickname), was a new master who did not like the Jews at all, much less the religion of the Jews. This man destroyed the walls of Jerusalem. Kill thousands of Jews. It is forbidden to perform any sacrifices and worship in the temple. It was also strictly forbidden for Jews to keep the Sabbath, and to abolish Jewish law and circumcision. What is even more terrifying is that this man also desecrated the temple with pork, and later directly dedicated the temple in Jerusalem to Zeus.

What punishment will the Jews suffer if they do not give in? Jews who could have been crucified (this was the ancient Greek penal code, and Jesus was not the first to be put to death in this way), Jews who did not eat pork, and who were circumcised were thrown from the walls of Jerusalem and thrown to their deaths. Moreover, the younger Antiochus also publicly tore up the Torah and confiscated all the Torah, and even declared that anyone who owned it would be put to death.

In Jewish parlance, Antiochus was the second abomination after Nebuchadnezzar to commit destruction.

As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance. In the village of Mordin, near Jerusalem, an old priest named Mattathia was ordered to offer sacrifices to Antioch to prove that he was no longer a Jew. But the old man flatly refused, saying, "Even if all the nations under the king's rule are subject to his commands, my son and I will still carry out the covenant of our ancestors." ”

Enraged by a spineless Jew offering sacrifice to Antiochus, the old man drew his sword and killed the apostate, then fled into the mountains with his five sons. The old man died, but his third son, Judas (not Jesus' disciple), organized an army of rebels. Defeated Antioch's troops three times in succession. And thus earned himself the name of a hero, and this name is the hammer!

It may be strange to have comrades. Hammer has a hairy relationship with the aforementioned Maccabi family? Well, the Latin word for hammer is pronounced Maccabees. And this hammer Judas also started a dynasty, the Maccabees of Israel. This dynasty won Israel almost a hundred years of independence.

Going back to the House of Herod, this family was originally a courtier of the Maccabees, and in the late Maccabees, after the death of Queen Salome, the queen's two sons fought for the throne. Among them, the little friend of the eldest Sicarus is called Antipater, and this treacherous villain is the ancestor of the Herod family.

At the instigation and aid of Antipater, Sicarus defeated his brother Aristobulus II and became king of Israel. However, this did not help, because Aristoporos II did not give in, and by this time the Romans had already risen, the famous Gnaeus. Pompeii ended the Seleucid kingdom and annexed Syria, and then he began to mediate between the two Maccabeean successors.

It's just that Aristobrus II was a little arrogant, and he didn't understand the strength of the Romans at all, and refused to accept Pompeii's mediation, and as a result, Jerusalem was captured by the Romans, and Aristobrus II was deposed. Pompey then appointed Sicarus as the Jewish High Priest and Antipater as the High Priest of Judea.

Then Caesar came, the future supreme fell into the quagmire of Egypt (for Cleopatra is also a hard fight), at the critical moment Antipater saw the opportunity, decisively speculated on Caesar, and led the troops to support Caesar. After Cleopatra was restored, Caesar gave Antipater all the power of Jerusalem and made Antipater's son the prince of Israel, and the one who ruled Galilee was the later king of Herod.

In the period of struggle between the post-Roman triumvirate. The future King Herod, that is, the little Herod, supported Antony at first, and with Antony's support, Herod got the right to rule Judea, and the original Maccabee Sicarus was completely hollowed out.

Herod's political tactics were also quite clever, and he married a Maccabee princess (daughter of Sicarus), which laid the foundation for him to replace the Maccabees in the future (although the marriage was a real nightmare).

Soon the Parthians invaded Syria, and the nephew of Sicarus, the Maccabian prince Antigonus (son of Aristobulus II), gave the Parthians 1,000 tarrants and 500 beauties in exchange for his own dominion over Jerusalem (see no, the merchant nature of the Jews is exposed).

The Jews did not like the Roman lackey Herod and his brother Passel, and the two brothers were soon killed by the Parthians. For a time, the Maccabee dynasty was restored. Antigonus took revenge on his enemies by cutting off the ears of Bethesicarus, making him no longer eligible to be a priest, and Herod's brother Passel was killed.

Under extremely unfavorable circumstances, Herod fled overnight and went to Egypt to seek Antony's help. Herod's original plan was to install Jonathan, the younger brother of his fiancée, the prince of Maccabee, as a puppet king. But Antony was not optimistic about Jonathan's hairy boy, and instead thought that Herod, a ruthless fellow, was the lackey he needed to rule Israel.

Later, with the help of Antony, the restored Antigonus was defeated and beheaded. Then Herod eliminated forty-five of the seventy-one members of the Sanhedrin. Then Herod became the new king of Israel.

It is clear that the House of Herod was the lackeys of Rome in the eyes of ordinary Jews, and it was the family's father-son toss-up that led to the end of the Maccabeean dynasty. Ordinary Jews did not like Herod's rule. This desire was actually expressed in the priesthood, where the high priests followed the House of Herod, while the lower priests were very much reminiscent of Israel's former glory...... (To be continued.) )

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