The Rise of the Aranite Priests

The Davidic line so the royal line was lost and so here you have these prophets trying to tell you stuff but they just spent the last few generations promising that we will get back and it'll be great and it wasn't. So at some point it's like you know what guys? Let's listen to someone else and this is where you get the rise of the Aranite priests and moral instruction. You lose a monarchy government in the hands of priests and the Persians. When you lose a monarchy there's no clear target for prophetic condemnation. The movement wanes after the exile because the prophetic threats lose their impact.