Premise: But with his death the empire collapsed, and the Israelite kingdom was divided into two separate, impoverished, often warring  Israel, with its capital at Shechem in the north, ruled by a series of northern dynasties; and the smaller kingdom of Judah, with its capital at Jerusalem, from which the Davidic dynasty continued to rule.

Hypothesis: The divide between the two kingdoms was simply too great to bridge.
Relation: neutral