SYNCHRONICAL TABLES OF THE KINGS OF
JUDAH AND ISRAEL.

THE most difficult part of sacred chronology is the period from the revolt of
the ten tribes to the destruction of Jerusalem. To harmonize the different reigns
of the kings of Judah and the kings of Israel has been a perplexing task with
chronologists. No man, perhaps, has devoted to this subject more careful and
critical study than Dr. Hales in his Anatysts. He speaks of it as the “ Gordian
knot’? of sacred chronology. He says that the difficulty of harmonizing the reigns
of the kings of Judah and Israel together has principally arisen: 1. From the
discordance of some of the correspondences in the years of their respective reigns,
with the direct lengths of these reigns; and 2. From not critically determining the
duration of the two interregnums or vacancies in the succession of the latter
kings, so as to make them correspond with the former throughout.

Dr. Hales has attempted, as he thinks, successfully, to adjust and harmonize the |
respective reigns of the two kingdoms. Without stating the principles on which
his adjustment is based, it will be sufficient to give the results of his critical labors
in the following tables:

 

 

 

 

KINGS OF JUDAH. KINGS OF ISRAEL.

Length | Begin- Length | Begin-

of ning of of ning of

reigns. | reigns. reigns. | reigns.
Yrs. | B.C. Yrs. | B.C.
Rehoboam............. 17 990 Jeroboam .... .....6.. 22 990
Abijah............008. 8 | 978 || Nadab.............0.. 2 | 968
ASA... 6. cee eee e eee eee 41 970 Baasha........... seed 28 966
Jehoshaphat........... 25 929 1): 1 943
Jehoram..... eee ee eeee 8 904. Omri. .... cee ee eee ee 11 942
Ahaziah.... .......... 1 896 Ahab. ............ ...| 22 931
Athaliah .............. 6 895 Ahaziah............... 2 909
Joash.........c. ceca 40 889 Jehoram .............. 12 907
Amaziah .............. 29 849 Jehu... ccc ee eee eee ee 28 895
Interregnum. .....06... 11 820 || Jehoahaz.............. 17 867
Uzziah................ 52 809 Jehoash............... 16 850
 Jotham............... 16. | 757 || Jeroboam II. ......... 41 834
Ahaz... ec. cece eee 16 741 1st Interregnum........ 22 793
Hezekiah.............. 29 725 Zechariah and Shallum. . 1 771
Manasseh.............. 55 696 Menahem.......:;...... 10 770
AMON. ..........cceeee 2 641 Pekahiah. ............. 2 760
JoSIah.. .. ce eee eee eee 31 639 Pekah................. 20 758
Jehoahaz............ .|3 mos. 2d Interregnum........ 10 738
Jehoiakim........... | 11 608 Hoshea............00. , 9 728
Jehoiakin.............. 3 mos. Samaria taken........ . 719

Zedekiah.............. 11 597
Jerusalem taken........ 586

The Babylonish captivity takes place The Ten Tribes carried captive into
ander the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. Assyria by Shalmaneser.