- The Kingdoms of Judah and Israel to the Close of the Old Testament.
Relations
of the
Two
Kingdom
s to each
other.
Kingdom of
Judah.
B.C
.
Kingdom of
Israel.
Contemporane
ous Persons and
Events in
Heathen
Countries.
I. Mutual
hostility
from B.C.
976 to
B.C. 918.
Rehoboam.
Son of Solomon and
Naamah. Reigned 17 years.
976 Jeroboam.
Son of Nebat.
Reigned 22 years.
Prophet: Ahijah.
Land invaded and Jerusalem
plundered by Shishak, and
Rehoboam made tributary (1
Kings 14:25, 25).
Prophets: Shemaiah and
Iddo.
973 Shishak, king of
Egypt.
Abijah or Abijam.
Son of Rehoboam and
Maachah. Reigned 3 years (1
Kings 15:1, 2).
959
Asa (1 Kings 15:9).
Son of Abijah. Cushite
invasion. War with Zerah
the Ethiopian (2 Chronicles
14:9). Alliance with Ben-
hadad I. (1 Kings 15:18).
Reigned 41 years
Prophets: Oded, Azariah,
Hanani, and Jehu.
956
955 Nadab (1 Kings
15:25).
Son of Jeroboam.
Murdered by Baasha,
after a brief reign.
Osorkon II.
(= probably
Zerah), king of
Egypt, the
invader of Judah
(2 Chronicles
14:9).
953 Baasha (1 Kings
15:28).
Son of Ahijah of
Issachar, He
exterminated the
entire house of
Jeroboam (1 Kings
11:29-39; 15:29).
Reigned 24 years.
Prophet: Jehu
Ben-hadad I.,
king of Syria.
944 The poet Hesiod
in
Greece
