History of Ancient Canaan - Early Iron Age Kingdoms of Israel, Judah, Moab, Ammon, Gilead and Edom 

Kingdom in 8th century Levant: *exists* Assyria: is for me?

This is my favourite history channel and in my top five favourite channels overall. Thank you for your work. Bronze age history is my favourite area of history to study but I struggle to find resources on it.

Between 2000BCE and say the first century AD there are so many interesting cultures countries and kings in that small area between the Mediterranean and Caspian. It’s a fascinating epoch which is sometimes only really fleshed out in the Old Testament. Keep up the good work

I absolutely love your videos and greatly appreciate you for making them. Rock on. ✊

Awesome! What an interesting and simple overview! Wish history classes were this easy to comprehend when I was in school.

This is the best summary of the Canaanite tribes from the biblical age, now I can finally truly tell the difference between them! Thanks!

I managed to read the old Hebrew scripts including the Mesha's one and I understood almost all of it as it was written today. Amazing.

Wow another great and super interesting video about a time period that has greatly impacted the world! Thanks

Thanks for your research, that was so informative & enjoyable at the same time👍

Cy I have subscribed to the Great courses! May the bless you for sharing this in depth blessing!

I learn something from Cy no matter how many times I play the same video. 🙂

Dude this is awesome. Great supplemental history to what's in the Bible and other historical sources

Wonderful of you to put so much work into your channel. I love the visuals of archaeologies discoveries that you show that make this interesting, and give the viewer ways to research even further. 🔆

14:00, Not only did Judah not provoke Assyria, Israel was attacking Judah for not joining in an anti-assyria alliance with them and so Judah sought relief from the Assyrians.

So great to see another of your well researched videos! The music in the background was a nice touch and didn't drown out your voice like most that attempt to do the mix! Why weren't classes in school like your teaching? I would've listened! Lol! Loved the references to the old testament too! Hope you and yours are well Cy! Thanks for the video! Hugs from Seattle! 🌲⛅💕

Yeah, Mazel Tov on the video. Your presentation was flawless.

Thank you for another fantastic video! In my recent learning about the historical kingdom of Israel, I've been interested in learning more about the peripheral states (Moab, Edom, etc.), and this overview video was a wonderful step a little bit deeper into those states. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

I’ve just binge watched this whole series in the middle of the night when I should be sleeping. Imma be so tired at work 🥺But it was worth it 💕💕💕

This is my new favorite channel.

What an incredibly insightful video. Very well made.

Thank you for all your hard work! This is very informative.

Beautiful presentation! Thanks!

Good series! Loved the medieval 2 total w a r music that started in the israel and judah section

Cy! This episode was soooooo good and a big help in developing some perspective as I read Holy Scripture. Thank you!

Well done bro!

This is getting better and better. Where do you get your sources from, did you eventually studied this?

Thank You CY for your impartial and objective relation of the spinous and troubled history of the kingdoms of Israel and Juda.

Listen, this was an awesome video and it's accurate. You keep up the good work.

Very interesting and informative - thanks!

Wow I love the Bible and your content bro bro 🙏🏾‼️

I really enjoyed this Canaan series, I was doing my own researh of Phoenicia and its cool to know what happened in the Levant.

It would be great to watch another video about the Philistines, Phoenicians and Aramaeans! Hope you'll do some day!

Well done my only complaint is not finding this channel sooner. As soon as you wrapped the proper video and started self promotion, done quickly and concisely thanks for not rambling with the instawhosits and the LegBooks, I was subbed. EDIT: I understand the social media need and I actually don't mind it at all as long as it isn't intrusive or holding the video hostage Good stuff

Good content bro

Awesome work. Stay safe! Love your videos ^__^

That wall of Canaanite script in the background was a nice touch. It occurred to me that someone providing subtitles in some form of Canaanite would be a good in-joke.

Loved this video.

Thank you for making these videos as you do an excellent job presenting the information. Can you do more videos about the Caananite kingdoms and the Cyclatic people of Greece. Thx.

Very good info, thank you Cy, Jesus bless you🌿🕊

New subscriber keep up the good work

Thanks Channel History.

Very good history. Thank you. ❤❤❤

I’ve been studying the Bronze Age collapse, this is a nice tie in video. Thanks

Thanks a lot for the great video! Love it so much!

you are my hero cy!

Great video Thankyou and god bless !

I am following your video from the Ntherlands. Verry Informative...PERRY TALLEDO.

So interesting ! Thanks!!

Thanks. It would be nice to have a book of dated maps such as those in your series.

Love biblical studies they are very applicable to scripture! I POST YOURS ON FACEBOOK! thanks alot bro! May the peace of yahushua hamachiyach be upon you!

i wonder how exotic the names of the places sound to most people it would be interesting to hear those names from an outsiders perspective

BRILLIANT!!! Absolutely BRILLIANT

Hey just fyi you say this is the fourth instalment in the series but i can only find 2 other videos. I recommend you link the other vids in your description in future as i think that will help people navigate your videos and get you more subscriber's. Also are you going to do a Phoenicia specific video? I was kinda waiting for that one, but this is all Judah peeps

How come you don't have many Subscribers ?? You deserve more subs.

Hey Cy. I didn't seem to get a notification ... Sorry I missed this ! Great as usual. Did RU-vid just add that timestamp note title? ...that seems like useful feature Yehu was quite the usurper, sheesh may have been one of the original "Red Wedding" style set up massacres in history to eliminate his political opponents

Edom is the town named after Esau. Edom translates to mean “fully” ( Strong’s Concordance 123) while Esau translates to “sensibly felt” and also “hairy” “red” (Strong’s Concordance 6215, Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Definitions BDB6437). Like Adam translates from Biblical Hebrew to show blood in the face, turn rosy, ruddy (Strong’s Concordance 119, 120, 121,122). The names are descriptive of their racial phenotype or characteristics. Just like modern names.. Love the videos!

hello how are you i really love history especially related to religious holy texts and religious figures and ancient world. in my view early Israelites were monotheist and they did worship Elohim, but they also worshipped other deities. I'm a broad-minded researcher who loves studying academic fields and different narratives.

What a detailed research! I love the work you do! It gives a reference to the Bible from historical and archeological perspective! Awesome!! Can you pls do Queen of Sheba and Solomon ?! Ethiopian Geneology traces back the Ethiopian Solomonic dynasty from that time.

I love hearing 'B.C.E.' instead of 'B.C.' It's how I know I'm listening to a legit history channel and I am really enjoying this one so far.

As I kid I learned about King David's conquests in school but somehow it never occurred to me that Gilead was a whole kingdom to the north-east. Because the name is also a Hebrew word (and a boy name in Modern Hebrew), I always thought it was a place somewhere in Israel...

For those interested, about 2-3 weeks ago, a new DNA paper (Agranat-Tamir et al) was released where they analysed 79 Canaanite samples (including 2 early Israelite samples).

Thank you! Can you make videos about the Philistia cities ? Or even the peoples of the sea

This historical depiction of this area and it's peoples fits together so much better than the biblical version. It is verifiable through many sources including archaeology. Dates and details are included that the bible lacks. Thank you for the true non-biased history.

fascinating

Hi Cy!

great info

Hi Cy, In the bible there are 3 different Darius' mentioned (i.e. Darius the Mede (62 at the time Babylon was conquered) , Darius the son of Ahasuerus (seed of the Medes), Darius the Persian (successor to Cyrus). Please can you delve into the Medians a little (I do know that Darius and Cyrus were blood relations and Medo-Persia was ruled by two kings up until the time of Alexander the Great)

Into interest and inquire, no part of history impassions me greater than the ancients. And it is no irony that our true knowledge about any of it is a kaleidoscope of wonder. During this rather unstable and tumultuous period of human societal creations,

Edom means 'red' named after their ancestor Esau as some commentors have already accurately stated, however in the spiritual realm it means the 'desires of the flesh' but in order to understand this from a spiritual perspective one must go into OT. Thanks for the upload.

Big like! one small correction: 14:45 the Hebrew script is backwards. It is חזקיהו

Great video! I do wonder why the Philistines weren’t talked about in greater detail though. As a non-Semitic sea people population living into the Iron Age they would be prime material for a video.

That was very interesting Cy, esp. the diff. between the state or kingdom of Israel and the earlier people that were called Israel and what is and is not known about them. This was a very fact filled and in formative vid. with what is so far known I enjoyed your info.

Sorry but i gotta point this out ... when you wrote out Hezekiah (חזקיהו) you accidentally wrote it backwards

Thank You ! Very accurate .

How did they fill in the missing parts of the Moab Stele? Was there another source?

About the Persian satrapy Eber-Nari! According to medieval Jewish scholars the word “Hebrew” is a geographical term and comes from the word Ever which means “Across” or “Beyond”. In Hebrew language it is עבר and in Arabic it is عبر Eber-Nari means “Beyond the River (Euphrates)” and was the Persian name for greater Syria, which we call today the Levant. It means Trans-river Province. In the Book of Ezra it has the Hebrew name “Ever-Nahara”. In the early chapters of Genesis, Abraham is called a Hebrew when he’s introduced, or Ivri It means he’s a man from Eber-Nari, the Trans-river Province. This is just passages before he travels to see his family in Haran, which is usually identified as northern Syria. So the word “Hebrew” can be translated as a term for any ancient Syrian or Levantine people

Ah still no comments arguing about modern Israel existence! I most be to early...

I love the Moabite stone. It's by default one of the more insightfull archeological testimony of the canaanite culture, and a first hand account of how the canaanites viewed their Baalim, their city gods. What is written in the stone about Kemosh is a perfect parallel to what the hebrews wrote about their God Yahweh Wich shows how the jewish religion evolved from the previous and contemporary canaanite polytheism. Because of these uncanny similarities, we can assume that all the canaanite kingdoms had a covenant with their baalim that was identical to the covenant the Hebrews had with Yahweh. The way Kemosh punished Moab by allowing the Israelites to conquer them, is exactly the same reason Israel was continuosly conquered by outsiders according to the Old testament. The only thing that changed with the Hebrews was the demonisation of the other common deities of the pantheon. And the abolition of human sacrifices. Obviously. But for the rest, it might have definitively been identical to the other religions of the levant This change might have happened because of Zoroastrian influence. Since many attributes of The wise Lord were eventualy given to Yahweh too. As well as the creation of a evil entity, enemy of God. Something that originaly did not exist. Yahweh was the source of both good and evil, since he's a perfect being. So yes. I am loving this series. Soon you'll have to talk about the canaanite religion, and the birth of the Cartaginian empire. And I can't wait for that

You had "Hezekiah" written backwards in hebrew. It's a common problem when you copy-paste Hebrew. It's written from right to left in the original, but when you paste it in it gets shifted around to left-to-right and the letters are in reverse order.

Cool vid :)

do you have information about the history of Ashkenazim (modern day israel)?

Great video as always, keep up the good work! Because most of the people use the biblical narrative. Also have you seen the latest DNA studies about the philistines? They appeared to be native to canaan “middle east in general” so they’re not from greece/southern Europe, in addition to DNA they worshipped the cannanite god, keep up the goos work bro.

Admit it, in school when your teacher said "Hittite's" you laughed

What other program? I want the history of Israel, circa 299 bce.

Nice

Question: how well does Biblical Jewish history compare with archaeology?

I dont know why but Tiglath-Pileser sounds cool

Do you have sources of Ramesis 2nd writings ?

Love the research and history but not the Annoying music, I wonder why always the Loud music.

Learned a bunch; good job. As info; * Edom = Esau, who was Jacob's brother. In fact, Esau was the one who sold his birthright. * Ammon and Moab are decendents of Lot through his daughters. Abdullah holds power by the Hashemites, who are Kings by Abraham through Hagar. Even, Ishmael, son of Abraham. However, the kingdom and territory he rules is approximately 50% Philistines, which could turn on him because of the coming events. Again; great presentation. I love maps and took many screenshots. :-)

I am impressed that you relied on archeology rather than mythology and legends when making this video. By the way, archeologist Israel Finklestein reports first evidence of Israel at ~1206 BCE, and first evidence of Judah in the 9th century BCE. When Israel was conquered, Israeli fugitives flocked to Judah and their traditions began to merge. Israel was older and polytheistic (like most of Canaan), while Judah was younger with a powerful sky god named YHWH.

There’s two theories of first man . Africa vs Mesopotamia . Which is correct ?

We gave everyone a hard time. Never went down without a fight. As a nation here we are today. The others are not.

Super!

I don't know how you managed to stay neutral LOL.. its a very controversial history but you still walked the tight rope successfully .. gr8 video and gr8 summary.

Edom means red named after their ancestor Esau, twin brother of Jacob, because of his skin.

12:40 2 Kings 17:23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day. 2 Kings 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelled in the cities thereof. 2 Kings 17:25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them. 2 Kings 17:26 Why they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which you have removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he has sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land. 2 Kings 17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land. 2 Kings 17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelled in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

Mount Seir is Esau ,Petra Was his Stronghold its Architecture predates Rome wherever you find this Architecture you will find Esau/ Edom .

I am Assyrian and read Assyrian

I’ve always wanted to learn about the Jewish kings of old besides the ones they talk about in the Bible