THE ASSYRIAN CAPTIVITY: KINGS OF ISRAEL & JUDAH

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. The Assyrian Captivity 

a) Of all the Times of Israel, the seventh — EXILE AND SCATTERING — is probably the saddest. We have seen the kingdom divided, and that was sad. But worse still, we now see the beginning of the captivities — as the larger kingdom (Israel) falls to Assyria and its people are taken away to foreign lands.

2. Kings Of Israel And Judah

a) The table below shows the kings who reigned in Israel and Judah. The chart covers three of the Times of Israel (Kingdom, Division, and Exile). The period in focus in this lesson starts at the flag marked ISRAEL EXILED. Note that the reigns of kings in each kingdom often overlap because of rivalry or of co-regency.

KINGS ISRAEL		PROPHETS
Saul
David		Nathan
Solomon
KINGDOM DIVIDED
KINGS ISRAEL	KINGS JUDAH	PROPHETS
Jeroboam	Rehoboam	Ahijah
Nadab	Abijam
Baasha	Asa	Jehu
Elah
Zimri		Elijah
Omri
Ahab	Jehoshaphat
Ahaziah
		Elisha
Jehoram	Jehoram
Jehu	Ahaziah
	(Athalia)
	Joash
Jehoahaz
		Jonah?
Jehoash	Amaziah	Joel?
		Amos
Jeroboam II	Uzziah	Isaiah
Zachariah		Hosea
Shallum	Jotham	Isaiah
Menahem		Micah
Pekahiah
Pekah
Hoshea	Ahaz	Isaiah
ISRAEL EXILED
	KINGS JUDAH	PROPHETS
	Hezekiah
	Manasseh
	Amon	Nahum
	Josiah	Habakkuk
	Zephaniah
		Jeremiah
	Jehoahaz
	Jehoiakim	Daniel
	Jehoiachin  (Coniah)
JUDAH EXILED
	KINGS JUDAH	PROPHETS
	Zedekiah	Daniel
		Obadiah
		Haggai
		Zechariah
		Malachi

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