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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 6, Podcast 52, Isaiah 7:1-16, “Shall Call His Name Immanuel.”
Description: Season 6, Podcast 52, Isaiah 7:1-16, “Shall Call His Name Immanuel.”This is a time of enormous turmoil for the Jews. Shortly after the death of King Solomon, about 930 BC, due to heavy taxes, the ten northern tribes under the leadership of Jeroboam I rejected Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, and formed their own kingdom, known as the Northern Kingdom. The Northern tribes consisted of Reuben, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Ephraim, and Manasseh. The Southern Kingdom, consisting of Judah and Benjamin, remained in Jerusalem. About 200 years later the Northern Kingdom was conquered by Assyria, arou...