PROPHETS PROPHETS
OF JUDAH KINGS OF JUDAH KINGS OF ISRAEL OF ISRAEL
Reigned B.C. 1 Kings B.C. Reigned
Shemaiah Rehoboam [17 years] 975 14.20,21 975 Jeroboam [22years] The man of
Iddo Abijam [3 years] 958 15.1 God from
Azariah, Asa [41 years] 955 -- 9 Judah
son of Ahijah
Oded -- 25 954 Nadab [2 years]
Hanani -- 33 953 Baasha [24 years]
16.8 930 Elah [2 years]
-- 10 929 Zimri [7 days]
-- 16 929 Omri [12 years] Elijah
Jehu, son -- 29 918 Ahab [22 years] Micah, son
of Hanani Jehoshaphat [25years] 914 22.41 of Imlah
-- 52 897 Ahaziah [2 years] Elisha
Jahaziel, 2 Kings
the Levite 3.1 896 Joram [12 years]
Eliezer, Jehoram [8 years] 892 8.16
son of Ahaziah [1 year] 885 -- 25
Dodavah Athaliah 884 10.36 884 Jehu [28 years]
Zechariah Jehoash [40 years] 878 12.1
son of 13.1 856 Jehoahaz[17 years] Jonah
Jehoiada -- 10 841 Jehoash [16 years]
Un-named Amaziah [29 years] 839 14.1
prophet -- 23 825 Jeroboam [41 years] Hosea
(2 Chron. 784 Interregnum [11 years] Amos
25.15) 773 Zachariah
Zechariah Uzziah, or [52 years] 810 -- 21 [6 months]
(2 Chron. Azariah 15.8 772 Shallum [1 month]
26.5) -- 13 772 Menahem [10 Years]
-- 17 761 Pekahiah [2 years]
-- 23 759 Pekah [20 years]
Isaiah -- 27 Oded
Micah Jotham [16 years] 758 -- 32 739 (Anarchy of 9 Years) (2Chron.
Ahaz [16 years] 742 16.1 730 Hoshea [9 years] 28.9)
Nahum Hezekiah [29 years] 727 18.1 721 Shalmaneser, king of Assyria. Puts
an end to the kingdom of Israel by
Joel Manasseh [55 years] 698 21.1 taking Samaria, in the ninth year of
Amon [2 years] 643 -- 19 Hoshea, and carries away the people
Jeremiah Josiah [31 years] 641 22.1 to Assyria.
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Habakkuk Jehoahaz [3 months] 610 23.31 THE CAPTIVITY
Zephaniah Jehoiakim [11 years] 610 -- 36 606 Nebuchadnezzar reigns, at first con-
Ezekiel Jehoiachin, or Jeconiah jointly with Nabopolassar -- and
Daniel [3 months, 10 days] 599 24.8 carries away the Jews to Babylon.
Obadiah -- 1 The 'times of the Gentiles' com-
Zedekiah [11 Years] 599 -- 18 mence. Beginning of the 70 years' cap-
tivity in Babylon.
Jerusalem taken; de- 588 25. 604 Nebuchadnezzar reigns alone.
struction of the temple 588 Nebuchadnezzar completely destroys
Jerusalem, city and temple.
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GOVERNORS OF JERUSALEM 538 Cyrus, King of Persia. captures Bab-
AFTER THE CAPTIVITY ylon: Reign of Darius the Mede.
Dan. 5.31.
Haggai Zerubbabel 536 Ezra 1.11
Zechariah Ezra 468 -- 7.1 536 Cyrus reigns there, and in the first
Malachi Nehemiah 455 Neh. 1.1 year of his reign decrees a party un-
der Zerubbabel to go and rebuild the
temple at Jerusalem. (End of cap-
tivity of 70 years.) Ezra 1.8-10.
Birth of the MESSIAH 5
529 Cambyses (son of cyrus) (called Ahasuerus). Ezra 4.6.
522 Smerdis (called Artaxerxes). Ezra 4.7.
521 Darius Hystaspes (called Darius). Ezra 4.24; Hag. 1.1; Zech. 1.1.
485 Xerxes (son of Darius Hystaspes) (called Ahasuerus). Esther 1.1.
474 Artaxerxes I, Longimanus (son of Xerxes) (called Artaxerxes). Ezra 7; Neh 2.
468 Return of Ezra from Babylon.
455 This twentieth year of Artaxerxes I (Longimanus) when the order was given through Nehemiah
to rebuild the city of Jerusalem, is the starting-point of the 'seventy weeks' of Dan. 9. Neh. 2.1.