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Israelite Kings Date Chart

This document presents a chart summarizing the chronology of the Israelite kings based on the work of John Bright. It lists the kings of both the united kingdom of Israel and the later divided kingdoms of Israel (north) and Judah (south) with their approximate reign dates. The document notes that while this chronology is based on Bright's work, other scholars have differing views due to various complicating factors in constructing an accurate Old Testament chronology from biblical sources.

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Israelite Kings Date Chart

This document presents a chart summarizing the chronology of the Israelite kings based on the work of John Bright. It lists the kings of both the united kingdom of Israel and the later divided kingdoms of Israel (north) and Judah (south) with their approximate reign dates. The document notes that while this chronology is based on Bright's work, other scholars have differing views due to various complicating factors in constructing an accurate Old Testament chronology from biblical sources.

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Israelite Kings Date Chart

(Based on the chronology of John Bright)

Dennis Bratcher

The United Monarchy


Dates (BC) Kingdom of the Israelites
1020-1000 Saul
1000-961 David
961-922 Solomon

The Divided Kingdoms


Dates Israel Judah Dates
(BC) (Northern) (Southern) (BC)
Rehoboam 922-915
922-901 Jeroboam I Abijah 915-913

901-900 Nadab Asa 913-873


900-877 Baasha
877-876 Elah
876 Zimri Tibni
Jehoshaphat 873-849
876-869 Omri
869-850 Ahab
850-849 Ahaziah Jehoram 849-843
Joram
849-843 Ahaziah 843
(Jehoram)
Athaliah (non- 843-837
843-815 Jehu
Davidic Queen)
815-802 Jehoahaz Joash 837-800
802-786 Jehoash (Joash) Amaziah 800-783
Uzziah
786-746 Jeroboam II 783-742
(Azariah)
Jotham (co-
746-745 Zachariah 750-742
regent)

745 Shallum
745-737 Menahem Jotham (king) 742-735
737-736 Pekahiah
736-732 Pekah
732-724 Hoshea Ahaz 735-715
721 Fall of Samaria
Hezekiah 715-687
Manasseh 687-642
Amon 642-640
Josiah 640-609
Jehoahaz 609
Jehoikim
609-598
(Eliakim)
Jehoiachin
598-597
(Jeconiah)
Zedekiah
597-587
(Mattaniah)
Fall of
587
Jerusalem
This chart is based on the chronology of John Bright (A History of Israel, 3rd
edition, Westminster, 1981). There are other chronologies of the Israelite
kings that differ in some details, for example, that of J. Maxwell Miller
in Harper's Bible Dictionary.

The problem of OT chronology is complicated by various factors:

1) some biblical numbers are symbolic or schematized;


2) variant manuscript readings differ;
3) various date references are given in different portions of Scripture;
4) little external verification to cross check dates;
5) different systems of dating;
6) problem of transferring lunar dates into solar dates;
7) different methods of figuring the regnal years of kings;
8) possibility of co-regencies of kings (we know of only one, that of Uzziah
and Jotham), etc.

All of these factors make figuring a chronology of the Israelite kings much
less precise than we are accustomed.

The purpose here is not to solve the historical debates but to provide a
general relative time frame of Old Testament events for the purposes of
biblical interpretation. The reader should be aware that these dates are not
absolute, and could change in light of new evidence.

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