Jeroboam Dynasty (Jeroboam I, Nadab) Jeroboam I (933-911 B.C.) Evil I Ki. 12:25-14:20 Davidic Dynasty (All descendants of David) Rehoboam (933-915 B.C.) Evil I Ki. 14:21-31>>II Chr. 11:5-12:16 Abijah (Abijam) (915-913 B.C.) Evil I Ki. 15:1-8>>II Chr. 13:1-14:1 Asa (913-872 B.C.) (Coregency with his son, Jehoshaphat, 874-872 B.C.) Good I Ki. 15:9-24>>II Chr. 14-16 Nadab (911-910 B.C.) Evil I Ki. 15:25-31 Baasha Dynasty (Baasha, Elah) Baasha (910-887 B.C.) Evil I Ki. 15:32-16:7 Elah (887-886 B.C.) Evil I Ki. 16:8-14 Zimri Dynasty Zimri (886 B.C.) Evil I Ki. 16:15-20 Omri Dynasty (Omri, Ahab, Ahaziah, Joram) Omri (886-875 B.C.) Evil I Ki. 16:21-28 Ahab (875-854 B.C.) (Coregency with his son, Ahaziah, 855-854 B.C.) Evil I Ki. 16:29-22:40 (I Ki. 17, Ministry of Elijah begins) Jehoshaphat (874-850 B.C.) (Coregency with his father, Asa, 874-872 B.C.; and with his son, Jehoram, 855-850 B.C.) Good I Ki. 22:41-50>>II Chr. 17:1-21:1 Ahaziah (855-854 B.C.) (Coregency with his father, Ahab, 855-854 B.C.) Evil I Ki. 22:51-53; II Ki. 1 Joram (Jehoram) (854-843 B.C.) (Another son of Ahab, and the brother of Ahaziah) Evil II Ki. 2:1-8:15 (See also II Ki. 9:1-26 below) (II Ki. 2, Translation of Elijah; Ministry of Elisha begins) Jehoram (Joram) (855-843 B.C.) (Coregency with his father, Jehoshaphat, 855-850 B.C.; and with his son, Ahaziah, 844- 843 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 8:16-24>>II Chr. 21 Obadiah (c. 840 B.C.) Ahaziah (844-843 B.C.) (Coregency with his father, Jehoram, 844-843 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 8:25-29 II Ki. 9:1-26 (Joram, continued) II Ki. 9:27-29>>II Chr. 22:1-9 (Ahaziah, continued) Jehu Dynasty (Jehu, Jehoahaz, Jehoash, Jeroboam II, Zachariah) Jehu (843-816 B.C.) (Coregency with his son, Jehoahaz, 820-816 B.C.) Good II Ki. 9:30-10:36 Athaliah (Queen, usurps the throne) (843-837 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 11>>II Chr. 22:10-23:21 Jehoash (Joash) (837-803 B.C.) (Coregency with his son, Amaziah, 804-803 B.C.) Good II Ki. 12>>II Chr. 24 (The 40 years mentioned in II Chr. 24:1 probably include the six years Jehoash, the legitimate king, was hidden in the Temple, beginning 843 B.C.) Joel (c. 835 B.C.) Jehoahaz (820-804 B.C.) (Coregency with his father, Jehu, 820-816 B.C.; and with his son, Jehoash, 806-804 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 13:1-9 Jehoash (Joash) (806-790 B.C.) (Coregency with his father, Jehoahaz, 806-804 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 13:10-25 (Death of Elisha) Amaziah (804-775 B.C.) (Coregency with his father, Jehoash, 804-803 B.C.; and with his son, Uzziah, 787-775 B.C.) Good II Ki. 14:1-22>>II Chr. 25 Jeroboam II (790-749 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 14:23-29 Amos (c. 760 B.C.); Jonah (c. 760 B.C.) Uzziah (Azariah) (787-735 B.C.) (Coregency with his father, Amaziah, 787-775 B.C.; with his son, Jotham, 749-735 B.C.; and with his grandson, Ahaz, 741-735 B.C.) (For approximately six years, c. 741-735 B.C., the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, and Ahaz were contemporaneous) Good II Ki. 15:1-7>>II Chr. 26 Is. 1-6 (c. 735 B.C.) Zachariah (749-748 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 15:8-12 Last Kings (Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah, Hoshea) Shallum (748 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 15:13-15 Menahem (748-738 B.C.) (Pekah apparently usurps authority and reigns over Gilead, beginning c. 750 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 15:16-22 Pekahiah (Son of Menahem) (738-736 B.C.) (Pekah’s reign over Gilead continues) Evil II Ki. 15:23-26 Pekah (750-730 B.C.) (Apparently reigns over Gilead during reigns of Menahem and Pekahiah; assassinates Pekahiah in 736 B.C. and reigns over the entire kingdom) Evil II Ki. 15:27-31 Jotham (749-734 B.C.) (Coregency with his father, Uzziah, 749-735 B.C.; and with his son, Ahaz, 741-734 B.C.) Good II Ki. 15:32-38>>II Chr. 27 Micah (c. 740-690 B.C.) Ahaz (741-726 B.C.) (Coregency with his grandfather, Uzziah, 741-735 B.C.; and with his father, Jotham, 741-734 B.C.; sole-reign, 734-726 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 16>>II Chr. 28>> Is. 7 (c. 734 B.C.) (The phrase "began to reign" in "the seventeenth year of Pekah," II Ki. 16:1-2, refers to the beginning of Ahaz’s sole-reign in 734 B.C.; the 16 years total of his reign, v. 2, however, is reckoned from the beginning of his coregencies with Uzziah and Jotham in 741 B.C.) Is. 8-14 (c. 734-726 B.C.) Hoshea (730-721 B.C.) Evil Hosea (c. 760-710 B.C.) II Ki. 17 (Fall of Samaria to the Assyrians, 721 B.C.; Cessation of the Northern Kingdom) Hezekiah (726-697 B.C.) Good II Ki. 18:1-12>>II Chr. 29-31 Is. 15-35 (c. 726-713 B.C.) II Ki. 18:13-16 (c. 713 B.C.) (14th year of Hezekiah’s reign) (Sennacherib leads the Assyrian armies of his father, Sargon, in the first siege of Palestine and Jerusalem; the conflict is temporarily resolved by Hezekiah’s payment of tribute) II Ki. 18:17-19:37>>II Chr. 32:1-23>> Is. 36-37 (701 B.C., Sennacherib, having become king of Assyria in 705 B.C. upon the death of his father, Sargon, lays siege against Jerusalem the second time) II Ki. 20:1-19>>II Chr. 32:24-31>> Is. 38-39 (Hezekiah’s sickness, c. 712 B.C; embassy of Merodach-baladan to Hezekiah, c. 711 B.C.) Is. 40-66 (c. 701-695 B.C.) II Ki. 20:20-21>>II Chr. 32:32-33 Manasseh (697-642 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 21:1-18>>II Chr. 33:1-20 Amon (642-640 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 21:19-26>>II Chr. 33:21-25 Josiah (640-608 B.C.) Good II Ki. 22:1-2>>II Chr. 34:1-7 (c. 640 B.C.) Zephaniah (c. 632 B.C.) Jer. 1-6 (c. 627 B.C.) II Ki. 22:3-23:27>>II Chr. 34:8-35:19 (c. 622 B.C.) Nahum (c. 622 B.C.) Jer. 47:1-49:33 (Before 609 B.C.) II Ki. 23:28-30>>II Chr. 35:20-27 (c. 608 B.C.) Jehoahaz (Shallum) (Josiah’s third-born son) (608 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 23:31-34>>II Chr. 36:1-4 Jer. 22:1-12 Jehoiakim (Eliakim) (Josiah’s second-born son) (608-597 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 23:34-37>>II Chr. 36:4-5 (c. 608-605 B.C.) Jer. 26 (c. 608 B.C.) Jer. 7-20; 22:13-19 (c. 608-605 B.C.) Habakkuk (c. 607 B.C.) Jer. 25; 35-36; 45-46 (c. 605 B.C.) II Ki. 24:1-7>>II Chr. 36:6-8 (First Deportation, 605 B.C.; Daniel and others taken to Babylon) Jehoiachin (Jeconiah, Coniah) (Jehoiakim’s son) (597 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 24:8-9>>II Chr. 36:9 Jer. 22:20-30 (Jeremiah’s prophecy against Jehoiachin) II Ki. 24:10-16>>II Chr. 36:10>> Jer. 52:28 (Second Deportation, 597 B.C.; Jehoiachin, Ezekiel, and others taken to Babylon) Zedekiah (Mattaniah) (Josiah’s fourth-born son) (597-586 B.C.) Evil II Ki. 24:17-20>>II Chr. 36:11-13>> Jer. 37:1-2>>Jer. 52:1-3 (c. 597-588 B.C.) (Zedekiah’s rebellion against Nebuchadnezzar, c. 588 B.C.) Jer. 23-24; 27-29; 49:34-51:64 (Jeremiah’s prophecies prior to the Siege, c. 597-593 B.C.) Ezek. 1-23 (Ezekiel’s prophesying in Babylon prior to the Siege, c. 593-588 B.C.) II Ki. 25:1-2 Ezek. 24 (Siege of Jerusalem, beginning January 588 B.C.) Jer. 21; 37:3-38:28; Jer. 30-34 (c. 588-586 B.C.) Ezek. 25-32; (Prophecies against seven nations, c. 588-586 B.C.) Ezek. 33:1-20 II Ki. 25:3-21>>II Chr. 36:14-21>> Jer. 39>>Jer. 52:4-29 (Fall of Jerusalem, June 586 B.C.; Zedekiah captured and judged; Cessation of the Southern Kingdom. July 586 B.C., the Temple in Jerusalem burned; houses burned; walls torn down; the Third Deportation) Ezek. 33:21-33 (c. 586 B.C.) Lamentations (c. 586 B.C.) Gedaliah (Governor) (586 B.C.) II Ki. 25:22-26>> Jer. 40-44 (Jeremiah’s ministry to the rebellious remnant in Judah and Egypt) Jer. 52:30 (A Fourth Deportation, c. 582 B.C., possibly in response to the assassination of Gedaliah) Ezek. 34-48 (c. 586-573 B.C.) II Ki. 25:27-30>> Jer. 52:31-34 (Release of Jehoiachin in Babylon, c. 561 B.C.)