By B. M. PICKERING With the fall of Samaria in 722 B.C. the northern kingdom, Israel, had come to an end. Henceforth the southern kingdom, Judah, is the guardian of the religion of the Hebrew tribes as God’s Chosen People. Judah alone was left to carry on the religious traditions and supply the means of spiritual development to which God had called His people out of Egypt. When the northern kingdom collapsed the king of Judah was Hezekiah, who preserved the independent existence of his kingdom