Which tribes formed the Northern Kingdom of Israel?
My husband has been a Bible scholar for years. I type as he dictates: “When Solomon died, the twelve tribes actually split because of Jeroboam’s rebellion. Rehoboam took the two tribes, Judah and Benjamin, but Jeroboam reigned over the other ten in the north. Because the Temple was in Jerusalem, in the territory of Judah and Benjamin, many of the Levites others associated with the worship practices stayed in the south. While the tribe of Simeon is to the south-west of Judah, the ten tribes were not all strictly to the north, as the formed a virtual U shape (upside down) around Judah and Benjamin. Although Philistia was separating Simean from the other northern tribes, they were technically simply the bottom of the western part of the U. They followed the north. However, that having been said, we find an interesting situation as we look at the book of Chronicles. In 2 Chronicles 15, we find the good king of Judah, Asa, removed all the idols out of the land and from the cities which he h
