{"id":7151,"date":"2023-01-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:30:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:30:36","slug":"111-inventing-god-and-law-israel-destroyed-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=7151","title":{"rendered":"111. Inventing God and Law: Israel Destroyed. Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Constitutional Law<\/p>\n

Part 2: \u201cWhat Were They Thinking?\u201d<\/p>\n

Digression: \u201cA History of Government in 6 Revolutions: From the Paleolithic to Philadelphia\u201d<\/p>\n

111. Inventing God and Law: Israel Destroyed. Now What?<\/p>\n

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Title: Part E: Assyria Destroys Israel. Now What?<\/p>\n

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Panel 1: A map of the fertile crescent. The Neo-Assyrian Empire is colored bluish-green, with its provinces Israel and Yehudah colored pink and orange, respectively. The empire\u2019s capital of Nineveh is marked with a red star. Jerusalem is marked with a small brown dot.<\/p>\n

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NARRATION (pointing towards Nineveh):<\/p>\n

By this time, Yahweh\u2019s part of the world was controlled by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Both Israel and Yehudah had sworn covenants of mutual alliance with the empire, as its vassal provinces.<\/p>\n

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NARRATION (pointing to Israel):<\/p>\n

But then Israel allied itself with Egypt against<\/strong> Assyria.<\/p>\n

Assyria felt betrayed\u2026<\/p>\n

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NINEVEH VOICE:<\/p>\n

You\u2019re supposed to be my buffer<\/strong> against Egypt, not its buddy!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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NARRATION:<\/p>\n

\u2026and responded as you might expect.<\/p>\n

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Panel 2: A pair of well-armed Assyrian charioteers patrol beside a long road along which clustered groups of people are walking. A road side points to the left saying \u201cSamaria 162,\u201d and to the right saying \u201cNineveh 836.\u201d<\/p>\n

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NARRATION:<\/p>\n

So in a series of sieges and deportations that continued through 722 B.C., Assyria wiped Israel off the map.<\/p>\n

FOREVER.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CHARIOTEER:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the civilized way!<\/p>\n

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Panel 3: A photograph of a pencil drawing of a map of Judah and Israel. Jerusalem is marked by a star. The entirety of Israel has been scrubbed off the paper by an eraser. An artist\u2019s pencil and a white rubber eraser are also in the picture.<\/p>\n

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NARRATION:<\/p>\n

The south was shocked.<\/p>\n

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JERUSALEM VOICE 1:<\/p>\n

Holy shit.<\/p>\n

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JERUSALEM VOICE 2:<\/p>\n

How?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Panel 4: Three Yehudan men react to the erasure of Israel. One is preachy, one is unnerved, one is dismayed.<\/p>\n

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NARRATION:<\/p>\n

The answer was obvious.<\/p>\n

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PREACHY MAN:<\/p>\n

The answer is obvious.<\/p>\n

The Israelites clearly hadn\u2019t done right by their gods.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So their gods stopped protecting<\/strong> them.<\/p>\n

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DISMAYED MAN:<\/p>\n

But that would mean-<\/p>\n

Holy shit!<\/p>\n

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UNNERVED MAN:<\/p>\n

What?<\/p>\n

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DISMAYED MAN:<\/p>\n

If the Israelites\u2019 rites were wrong, what about ours?<\/p>\n

What if we\u2019re<\/strong> no longer doing right by our<\/strong> gods?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t wanna get erased.<\/p>\n

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