Why did Assyrians and Chaldeans want to control the land belonging to the Israelites

The main reason for the conquest of Israel by the Assyrians and the Chaldeans was the territorial expansion, economic domination and strategic base to face rival powers.

The Assyrian Empire was characterized as one of the most advanced in its time in the use of weapons and war tactics. They were one of the first peoples to dominate the use of iron (originally developed by the Hittites), cavalry with cars or without them, and stood out for the construction and use with great skill of their curved arches.

The base territory of his empire was strengthened more and more by the conquest and annexation to the empire of a succession of discontinuous territories whose population was subject to tribute and was often deported and transferred to other conquered territories or to the base area of the empire, especially to its aristocratic elites and artisans, originating a great cultural exchange and miscegenation. In case of not seeing the subjugation of the populations, they destroyed them and destroyed them in order to eliminate any danger of revelion.

The period of greatest expansion of the empire was accompanied by a new tool of war that consisted of a car with very heavy metal wheels that carried a ram with which destroyed the walls of the cities located, which allowed them to dramatically accelerate the site time and conquest of the cities.

They managed to conquer Syria (from where they obtained great amounts of iron) next to important Phoenician towns (base of exit to the Mediterranean Sea) and considered like serious rivals of danger to the Hitita Empire of Anatolia and the Egyptian empire, in that moment quite debilitated. They also managed to conquer the territory of the Philistines (called peoples of the Sea) that came from Balkan villages.

The territory of Israel (along with other kingdoms of the Mediterranean Levante area) was the necessary step to consolidate the dominion of the region and advance on the conquest of Egypt, an issue that was a great historical achievement once it happened.

The Chaldeans belonging to the Babylonian Empire competed with the Assyrian Empire for decades and were responsible for carrying out the deportation of Judah two centuries before the deportation and dispersal of the 10 lost tribes of the territory of Israel by the Assyrians.

After the death of Solomon the Israelites were divided in two tribes, and there was a lot of fighting between the two. The Assyrians and Chaldeans wanted to invade all the lands belonging to the Israelites because they wanted to control the lucrative and numerous trade routes going through Israel. These control would allow them to gain economic power and that was very desirable at the time.

At the same time, Chaldeans and Assyrians did not want the Jews to control Judah. Also, the Assyrians had a policy of destroying populations so the could controlled them. By doing this they wanted to prevent future rebellions. The Chaldeans also, practice this way of thinking.

A combination of all these factors provoked the invasion of Israel.