What happened when the israelites did not listen to the prophets?

Answer 1

The prophets were often sent to rebuke the people for any weakening in the service of God. They spotlighted any faults and castigated the people mercilessly. They railed against idolatry, against the false prophets, against complacency, against false piety, against injustice. They warned ceaselessly concerning the First Destruction, contradicting the prevaricators who predicted that no destruction would happen.

In brief, the prophets carried a message that was not easy to swallow, and this led some of the people to oppose them.

Answer 2

A:It is easy to forget that books are written as books, then to think of books such as the Book of Kings (originally a single book, but now 1 Kings and 2 Kings) almost as if it was written a few lines at a time and then passed on to the next generation to add a few more lines, and so on. The real history of the Deuteronomic History (Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings and 2 Kings) is that it was written by an anonymous source (now known as the Deuteronomist) in the seventh century BCE, during the reign of King Josiah of Judah and long after time events described. The Deuteronomist must have relied on oral traditions and possibly some written sources, but he did not and could not have known the details of events from centuries earlier. However, he did have his own political and religious agenda, as did the redactors who later improved on these books until they reached more or less the form we know today. When the Deuteronomist talks of the early Israelite kings being warned by the prophets but ignoring them, he was emphasing the new monotheism that Josiah had introduced as part of his Deuteronomistic reforms.

Robert P. Carroll (The World of Ancient Israel: Sociological, Anthropological and Political Perspectives, Prophecy and society) says that with regard to the biblical text we can never be sure how much of the story of the prophets is Propaganda and the manipulation of information and how much was untainted by editorial control. He explains that the legends of the prophets in the History may come from any period of Israelite history, post-Exilic or otherwise, and therefore may only be used with great caution, if at all, for any reconstruction of the history, structure or nature of biblical prophecy. Even the accounts of the latter prophets have been edited so that, although scholars accept the primary data, any and every account of prophecy is open to serious objections as to matters of fact.

For ancient Israel, polytheism was normal and had always been normal, and any prophet in history who warned against it would have been greeted with scorn. However, this was not an acceptable record of history once the Jews had adopted monotheistic beliefs, so the record had to tell of one God who was the God of Israel and Judah, and whose prophets struggled against occasional backsliding.

Answer 3

The prophets were often sent to rebuke the people for any weakening in the service of God. They spotlighted any faults and castigated the people mercilessly. They railed against idolatry, against the false prophets, against complacency, against false piety, against injustice. They warned ceaselessly concerning the First Destruction, contradicting the prevaricators who predicted that no destruction would happen. In brief, the prophets carried a message that was not easy to swallow, and this led some of the people to oppose them.

See also the Related Links.

Link: Why did the Prophets rebuke people?

Link: Purpose of the Prophets

Link: Jewish history timeline

Answer 4

They were punished by God, they would be taken captives to far of lands, like Egypt, Babylon and so on.