God's ppl remain whole- no Israel-Judah split

[Melvin Loh]

WI the Jews hadn't split into the northern and southern kingdoms during OT times ?

[Nicole]

Both get screwed over by Assyria, most likely... It's said that Judah's relative poverty and lack of strategic location saved it from Israel's fate, if they were united...

Which house rules it- the OTL Davidic line or the Israeli line?

[MerryPrankster]

Both get screwed over by Assyria, most likely... It's said that Judah's relative poverty and lack of strategic location saved it from Israel's fate, if they were united...

Which house rules it- the OTL Davidic line or the Israeli line?

Probably the Davidic line, since the immediate cause of the split was Solomon's son Rehoboam being overbearing.

[Smaug]

Either way....Assyria wasn't known for government by consensus. The people would have been scattered, and Assyrians moved in, or some other states dispossessed.

[Ecthelion]

There is no archaeological (or historical, if you exclude the Hebrew Bible) evidence that the United Monarchy every existed.

[Flocculencio]

There is no archaeological (or historical, if you exclude the Hebrew Bible) evidence that the United Monarchy every existed.

Generally, in cases like this, in order to avoid rehashing long and passionate discussions about this that have been done to death, I find the best and most polite solution is to assume the existence of said state as part of the POD.

[Grimm Reaper]

A larger nation is even less likely to grovel and beg before Assyria which destroys all of them.

[Anthony Appleyard]

OTL the first time Assyria nosed about westwards, an alliance of western powers (Israel, Syria, Hamath, etc) defeated the Assyrian army at Karkor. That made Assyria less confident for a while.