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 * Israel was founded by the three kings Solomon, David, and Saul. There two most prosperous kingdoms were the kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah which were Iron Age kingdoms for they produced iron tools. The earliest religion of ancient Israel was a polytheism were there was a chief god, El, his wife Asherah, their seventy divine children including Baal, Astarte, Anat, Resheph, their sun-goddess Shapshu, their moon-god Yerak, and Yahweh, the head helper of their divine household Kothar wa-Hasis, and the servants that will later be called angels in the Hebrew Bible.**