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Judah cheered when Israel fell
Israel's destruction brought open schadenfreude in Judah, visible in the Palace History and in early prophecies promising salvation through the rival's ruin.
The Bible grew from rivals who later became one people.
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The next 135 years produced two kinds of writing: texts by survivors of the defeated North and texts written for the Judean court. Their very different answers to what makes a people give the Bible its depth.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 98–99
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