Table of Kings and Prophets in Israel and Judah
Table of Kings and Prophets in Israel and Judah
(the dates apply to the kings.)
IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
Prophets.b.c.Kings.Time of Reign.
Samuel.1095Saul,Reigned 40 years.
Gad.1055David,Reigned 40 years.
Nathan.1015Solomon,Reigned 40 years.
IN THE DIVIDED KINGDOM.
JUDAH.ISRAEL.
Began b.c.Kings.Reigned YearsProphets.Began b.c.Kings.Reigned YearsProphets.
975Rehoboam,17Shemaiah.975Jeroboam,22Ahijah.
958Abijah,3Iddo.
955Asa,41Oded.
Azariah.954Nadab,2
Hanani.953Baasha,24
930Elah,2
929Zimri,7 dys.
929Omri,12
918Ahab,22Elijah.
914Jehoshaphat,25Jehu.Micaiah.
898Ahaziah,2Elisha.
Jahaziel.896Joram,12
892Jehoram,8Eliezer.
885Ahaziah,1
884Athaliah,6884Jehu,28
878Jehoash,40
Zechariah, son of Jehoiada.856Jehoahaz,17Jonah. [?]
841Joash,16
839Amaziah,29
825Jeroboam II.,41
Hosea.
810Uzziah,52Zechariah,Amos.
2Ch 26:5.784Interregnum,11
773Zachariah,6 mo.
772Shallum,1 mo.
772Menahem,10
761Pekahiah,2
759Pekah,20
758Jotham,16Isaiah.
742Ahaz,16Micah.
739Anarchy,9Oded.
730Hoshea,9
726Hezekiah,29Nahum.
721The kingdom of Israel overthrown by the Assyrians and Samaria . destroyed.
698Manasseh,55Joel.
643Amon,2
641Josiah,31Jeremiah.
610Jehoahaz,3 mos.Habakkuk
610Jehoiakim,11Zephaniah.
599Jehoiachin,100 days.Ezekiel.
Daniel.
599Zedekiah,11Obadiah. [?]Persian Kings, after the Captivity.
588Jerusalem destroyed.
536 First year of Cyrus.
529 Cambyses.
Governors after the Captivity. 521 Darius Hystaspes.
486 Xerxes I.
536Zerubbabel, Haggai.478 Esther Queen.
457Ezra,Zechariah.465 Artaxerxes-Longimanus.
445Nehemiah,Malachi.424 Darius Nothus.
Contemporary with Rehoboam was Sesonchis of the 22d dynasty in Egypt; with Jehoshaphat, Mesha king of Moab, and Eth-baal king of Tyre: and with Athaliah, Dido, who founded Carthage. During Uzziah’s long reign the First Olympiad takes its rise: and Rome was founded (753) in the reign of Jotham.