After the death of King Solomon, the united tribes of Israel split into 2 kingdoms - the kingdom of "Israel" (the ten tribes of Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Ephraim and Manasseh) under King Jeroboam with their capital up in Samaria, and the kingdom of "Judah" (the tribes of Judah and Benjamin) under King Rehoboam with their capital at Jerusalem. The tribe of Levi was distributed throughout the other tribes.