Two kingdoms, one timeline · 1–2 Kings · 2 Chronicles
Time runs left to right; the two tracks are the two kingdoms. Each block is a reign, sized to its length and stamped at its left edge with the Deuteronomistic verdict — right, evil, or mixed (right, but the high places remained). Click a reign for its accession formula, the cross-kingdom synchronism the text itself states, and the chapters that carry it. The diamonds on the central spine are the events the reigns hang on.
The verdict
900 B.C.
800 B.C.
700 B.C.
600 B.C.
Israel — the NorthTen tribes · no Davidic king · every ruler "did evil"
Jeroboam I
Nadab
Baasha
Elah
Zimri
Omri
Ahab
Ahaziah
Joram (Jehoram)
Jehu
Jehoahaz
Jehoash (Joash)
Jeroboam II
Zechariah
Shallum
Menahem
Pekahiah
Pekah
Hoshea
Judah — the SouthDavidic line unbroken · the temple · verdicts run mixed
Rehoboam
Abijah (Abijam)
Asa
Jehoshaphat
Jehoram
Ahaziah
Athaliah
Joash
Amaziah
Azariah (Uzziah)
Jotham
Ahaz
Hezekiah
Manasseh
Amon
Josiah
Jehoahaz
Jehoiakim
Jehoiachin
Zedekiah
Click a block or an event on the spine for its detail.
A note on this edition. This edition runs the whole Divided Monarchy — all forty kings of both kingdoms, from the schism (931) to the fall of Samaria (722) and the fall of Jerusalem (586). Dates follow Thiele; where the text's regnal total counts a co-regency (Jeroboam II, Uzziah, Jotham, Manasseh) the block shows the sole reign and the note explains. The hardest stretch is Menahem–Pekah, where the synchronisms genuinely strain — Pekah's stated twenty years is the knot Thiele unties with a rival reign.