Later, Jehosophat's son and successor, Jehoram of Judah, married Ahab's daughter Athaliah, cementing the alliance.

The use of Omri's name to refer to the kingdom still survived, and was used by Sargon II in the phrase "the whole house of Omri" in describing his conquest of the city of Samaria in 722 BCE. Descriptions of the deportation of people from Reuben, Gad, Manasseh, Ephraim and Naphtali indicate that only a portion of these tribes were deported, and the places to which they were deported are known locations given in the accounts. Fulfillment: At first, the Seleucid king in Syria (“the North”) had been a subject of Ptolemy in Egypt (“the South”), but in time he actually became more powerful. Over the centuries, many other kings were defeated in turn by the Kings of Winter, including the Flints, Slates, Umbers, Lockes, Glovers, Fishers, and Ryders, all of whom would become vassals to the Starks. During the wedding feast for Ramsay Bolton and " Arya Stark" ( Jeyne Poole) at Winterfell, Lady Barbrey Dustin tells the captive Theon Greyjoy that Ramsay's father, Lord Roose, may aspire to become "King of the North.

Many of the Northern Tribes also fled south to the Kingdom of Judah; Jerusalem seems to have expanded in size five-fold during this period, requiring a new wall to be built, and a new source of water Siloam to be provided by King Hezekiah. For a 'middle of the road' approach suggesting a United Monarchy of larger territorial scope though smaller than the biblical description cf. The crown of the Kings of Winter was an open circlet of hammered bronze incised with runes of the First Men, surmounted by nine black iron spikes in the shape of longswords. There, Daniel says that “reports out of the east and out of the north” disturb the king of the north, who goes off in “a great rage.

Outraged by the imprisonment and then wanton execution of Robb's father Eddard by Robert's successor Joffrey Baratheon, the noble lords of the North openly rebelled against the Iron Throne. This messenger from God told Daniel, “Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision refers to many days yet to come” ( Daniel 10:14, emphasis added throughout). Daniel 11:21–24: “He will be succeeded by a contemptible person who has not been given the honor of royalty. Not only was the prophecy going to occur quite some time in the future from when Daniel received it, it was also primarily focused on what would happen to the Jewish people—Daniel’s people.

In Daniel 11:40 we read of “the king of the South” attacking “the king of the North” at “the time of the end. Robb Stark, the Young Wolf, the first King in the North and King of the Trident [26] after Aegon's Conquest, [4] who never lost a battle [46] but died in the Red Wedding.