I believe out of all the studies I've done, this has been the most frustrating, yet one of great joy in learning more of the great details that the Lord has put into His word that will give us just enough information to answer a question. My goal in this study was to create a chronology of time and having done that from Creation to Solomon and from Jesus to now, I had a problem with the kings of Israel and Judah. Reading the surface of the text one only comes out with a feeling of great biblical contradictions. Not believing that, I set out to do a study of the Kings.

This is a result of the study. I believe it to be accurate, but one must understand that every word in Scripture is pure and accurate. Which means that there are times when there will be more than one king on the throne. Sometimes the accession year of a king is counted and other times it isn't. Why this is so I believe depends on the scribe penning the word of God. What I mean is that the Egyptians counted accession years as year 1, yet the Syrians, Assyrians and the Babylonians didn't. Even within Israel and Judah there is a mix of usage. The only way to figure out the actual chronology is to make it a database. Put everyone in the years they belong in, the length of their reigns and any other information that is made available to help pin down their placement. I've gone through Scripture four times to create this database. I have a stack of printouts from various web sites, encyclopedias over two inches high!

I cannot stress the importance of keeping in mind the words of Scripture as being paramount in accuracy. I say this because if you ever decide to compare my study with one of your own, or someone else's, you'll come across tons of secular contradictions for one reason or another. Most of these contradictions stem from the fact that the "experts" are using men that made their chronology charts 400 years after most of these events. Out of 16 chronologists from 400 BC to 100 AD not one agrees with another. Yes, there are 1000s of stone tablets pointing to a specific year with astrological events, such as eclipses, yet none of them harmoniously encompass all data. After two years of this study, I chose to stick with Scripture as to the years of things.

One of the first things you may question me on is the year Cyrus captured Babylon. I place it in the year 538 BC instead of 539 BC because scripture says in Zachariah that the 2nd year of Darius was the 70th year since the temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. If the encyclopedias' length of reigns of the kings of Babylon are correct, you have 69 years instead of 70 (even if you count the current year as year one.) I'll stick with Scripture until a new archaeological dig confirms the Bible - again.

I have no dogmatic agenda here and the English years presented are not to me important, but the length of the years from Solomon to the death of Christ, which fit the years presented. I welcome suggestions if they are based on Scripture, logical rendering of scripture, and do not contradict other scriptures by "adjusting" a year of a king or event. For instance, counting or not counting an accession year changes the dates of other kings there by throwing off other scripture reference. See the example below.

I hope this will help to answer some questions you may have. It has been a real learning experience for me and gave me great insight to the mind of God in dealing with man.

The Kings

** Years From the death of Solomon		Jewish Year		BC Year
** 1	Jeroboam reigned 22 years I Kings 14:20	2798	Rehoboam was 41 and reigned 17 years I Kings 14:21	963 BC	These secular kings in this column have the year of accession added. The Jewish kings had no accession years added to their years, usually. This is very important to remember.
2	2	2799	2	962
3	3	2800	3	961
4	4	2801	4	960
5	5	2802	5	959	King Shishak of Egypt came and took the treasures of the Temple I Kings 14:25
6	6	2803	6	958
7	7	2804	7	957
8	8	2805	8	956
9	9	2806	9	955
10	10	2807	10	954
11	11	2808	11	953
12	12	2809	12	952
13	13	2810	13	951
14	14	2811	14	950
15	15	2812	15	949
16	16	2813	16	948
17	17	2814	17 **	947
18	18 I Kings 15:1	2815	**Abijam (Abijah) reigned 3 years II Chronicles 13:21 had 14 wives, 22 sons, 16 daughters	946	** Reheboam must of died just before his end of the year for Ajijah to have started to reign in Jeroboam's 18th year or some event took place that's not recorded as to why it wasn't immediate in his 17th year.
19	19 II Chronicles 13:17 500,000 men died under a single battle with Abijah	2816	2	945
20	20 I Kings 15:9	2817	3 Asa reigned 41 years 20th year of Jeroboam *	944	* The Jews didn't count accession years. No explanation for this count of the year, but if 2818 was the 2nd year of Asa then Nadab would have taken the throne while Jeroboam was still king. Something not impossible, but changing this affects other scripture references below.
21	21	2818	1 *	943
22	22 Nadab (reigned 2 years) 2nd year of Asa	2819	2 I Kings 15:25	942
23	2 Baasha killed Nadab & all the house of Jeroboam (reigned 24 years) 3rd year of Asa	2820	3 I Kings 15:28 , and I Kings 15:33	941	Jehu the prophet told Baasha he was evil and would end up like Jeroboam I Kings 16:1-7
24	2	2821	4	940
25	3	2822	5	939
26	4	2823	6	938
27	5	2824	7	937
28	6	2825	8	936
29	7	2826	9	935
30	8	2827	10	934
31	9	2828	11	933
32	10	2829	12	932
33	11	2830	13	931
34	12	2831	14	930
35	13	2832	15	929
36	14	2833	16	928
37	15	2834	17	927
38	16	2835	18	926
39	17	2836	19	925
40	18	2837	20	924
41	19	2838	21	923
42	20	2839	22	922
43	21	2840	23	921
44	22	2841	24	920
45	23	2842	25	919
46	24 Elah reigned 2 years 26th year of Asa	2843	26 I Kings 16:8	918
47	2 Zimri (ruled 7 days and was killed) Omri ruled in 27th year of Asa (6 years in Tirzah)	2844	27 I Kings 16:15	917
48	2 Tibni and Omri fought and Israel was split between them in a battle I Kings 16:21-23	2845	28	916
49	3	2846	29	915
50	4	2847	30	914
51	5 Omri (ruler alone in Israel) reigned 12 years (6 in Tijah after taking it) Omri was worse than all before him	2848	31 I Kings 16:23	913
52	6	2849	32	912
53	7	2850	33	911
54	8	2851	34	910
55	9	2852	35	909
56	10	2853	36	908
57	11	2854	37	907
58	12 Ahab reigned 22 years, worse even still than all before him and he rebuilt Jerico as prophecied according to Joshua 6:26	2855	38 I Kings 16:29	906
59	2	2856	39	905
60	3	2857	40	904
61	4 I Kings 22:41-42	2858	41 Jehoshaphat 35 years old, ruled 25 years in 4th year of Ahab	903
62	5	2859	1	902
63	6	2860	2	901
64	7	2861	3	900
65	8	2862	4	899
66	9	2863	5	898
67	10	2864	6	897
68	11	2865	7	896
69	12	2866	8	895
70	13	2867	9	894
71	14	2868	10	893
72	15	2869	11	892
73	16	2870	12	891
74	17	2871	13	890
75	18	2872	14	889
76	19	2873	15	888
77	20	2874	16	887
78	21 Ahaziah (in the 17th year of Jehoshaphat) ruled 2 years co-regent	2875	17 I Kings 22:51	886
79	22 Jehoram (18th year of Jehoshaphat) son of Ahab ruled because Ahaziah had no sons. also called Joram	2876	18 II Kings 3:1 32 years old ruled 12 years	885
80	2	2877	19	884
81	3	2878	20	883
82	4	2879	21	882
83	5 II Chronicles 21:15-20 because his father was ill in his bowels until he died 2 years later	2880	22 Jehoram II Kings 8:16 co-reigned with his father 32 years old ruled 8 years in 5th year Joram	881
84	6	2881	23 2	880
85	7	2882	24 3	879
86	8	2883	25 4 Jehoram a terrible king. Killed all his house but the Lord would not kill him without child for the promise God kept to David. He was the only king not buried in David's sepulchre.	878
87	9	2884	5	877
88	10	2885	6	876
89	11 II Kings 9:29, 11th year of Joram and began to rule as co-regent	2886	7 Ahaziah ruled with his ill father	875	Son-in-law of Ahab's house and his mother was daughter of Omri.
90	12 II Kings 8:25-26 , Jehu II Chronicles 22:7-12 and ruled 28 years after killing Ahabs 70 sons II Kings 10:1 including Joram II Kings 9:21-27 and Ahaziah	2887	8 Ahaziah 12th year of Joram II Chronicles 21:18-19, 22 years old, ruled 1 year, died and Athaliah his mother ruled. *	874	* The only woman ruler of Judah, daughter of Omri King of Israel, killed everyone but one, She ruled 6 years and was killed. II Kings 11:1-3, II Chronicles 22:10-12
91	2 Because Jehu the prophet did kill them God promised his family would rule up to 4 generations, but he served Baal instead!	2888	2	873	NOTE: No matter the problems of years before this year, everything is reset here because Jehu killed both the King of Israel and Judah.
92	3	2889	3	872
93	4	2890	4	871
94	5	2891	5	870
95	6	2892	6	869
96	7 II Kings 12:1	2893	Joash (Jehoash) ruled in the 7th year after the death of Athaliah by Jehoiada II Kings 11:4	868	7 years old and ruled 40 years, 7th year of Jehu, II Kings 11:21, II Chronicles 24:1
97	8	2894	2	867
98	9	2895	3	866
99	10	2896	4	865
100	11	2897	5	864
101	12	2898	6	863
102	13	2899	7	862
103	14	2900	8	861
104	15	2901	9	860
105	16	2902	10	859
106	17	2903	11	858
107	18	2904	12	857
108	19	2905	13	856
109	20	2906	14	855
110	21	2907	15	854
111	22	2908	16	853
112	23	2909	17	852
113	24	2910	18	851
114	25	2911	19	850
115	26	2912	20	849
116	27	2913	21	848
117	28	2914	22	847
118	Jehoahaz ruled 17 years in the 23rd year of Joash	2915	23 II Kings 13:1	846	Also the priests hadn't obeyed Jehoash's command to fix the breaches of the Temple by this time. II Kings 12:6
119	2	2916	24	845
120	3	2917	25	844
121	4	2918	26	843
122	5	2919	27	842
123	6	2920	28	841
124	7	2921	29	840
125	8	2922	30	839
126	9	2923	31	838
127	10	2924	32	837
128	11	2925	33	836
129	12	2926	34	835
130	13	2927	35	834
131	14	2928	36	833
132	15 Jehoash (Joash) ruled 16 years in the 37th year of Joash II Kings 14:1 and was co-regent	2929	37 II Kings 13:10	832
133	16 2 II Kings 14:1, II Chronicles 24:25, II Chronicles 25:1	2930	38 Amaziah 25 years old, ruled 29 years starting in the 2nd year of Jehoash	831	Joash was ill and Amaziah was co-regent
134	17 3	2931	39 2	830
135	4	2932	40 3	829
136	5	2933	4	828
137	6	2934	5	827
138	7	2935	6	826
139	8	2936	7	825
140	9	2937	8	824
141	10	2938	9	823
142	11	2939	10	822
143	12	2940	11	821
144	13	2941	12	820
145	14	2942	13	819
146	15	2943	14	818
147	16 Jeroboam II, II Kings 14:23 in the 15th year of Amaziah and ruled 40 years	2944	15 II Kings 14:17, II Chronicles 25:25	817	Amaziah lived 15 years after the death of Jehoash (Joash)
148	2	2945	16	816
149	3	2946	17	815
150	4	2947	18	814
151	5	2948	19	813
152	6	2949	20	812
153	7	2950	21	811
154	8	2951	22	810
155	9	2952	23	809
156	10	2953	24	808
157	11	2954	25	807
158	12	2955	26	806
159	13	2956	27	805
160	14	2957	28	804
161	15	2958	29	803
162	16 II Kings 14:21 (27th year of co-regent but 16th of solo reign) I believe this instead of an interregnum for Israel because if Azariah was too younge as some claim, why didn't he start when he was 8 years old as Josiah did? The answer, Jeroboam was consort with his father. Also to put an interregnum in Israel would have made the interregnum for Judah after Jeroboam 22 years instead of 11, which is still an amazing length of time. The problem is that scripture doesn't provide the age of Zachariah when he took the throne.	2959	Azariah (Uzziah) being 16 years old, ruled 52 years	802	This is the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam's partnership in the kingdom with his father, who made him consort at his going to the Syrian wars. It is the sixteenth year of Jeroboam's sole monarchy.
163	17	2960	2	801
164	18	2961	3	800
165	19	2962	4	799	Sometime in both kings reigns, Amos says there was an earthquake.
166	20	2963	5	798
167	21	2964	6	797
168	22	2965	7	796
169	23	2966	8	795
170	24	2967	9	794
171	25	2968	10	793
172	26	2969	11	792
173	27	2970	12	791
174	28	2971	13	790
175	29	2972	14	789
176	30	2973	15	788
177	31	2974	16	787
178	32	2975	17	786
179	33	2976	18	785
180	34	2977	19	784
181	35	2978	20	783
182	36	2979	21	782
183	37	2980	22	781
184	38	2981	23	780
185	39	2982	24	779
186	40	2983	25	778
187	41	2984	26	777
188		2985	27	776
189		2986	28	775
190		2987	29	774
191		2988	30	773
192		2989	31	772
193	Interregnum of 11 years	2990	32	771
194		2991	33	770
195		2992	34	769
196		2993	35	768
197	Power struggle? No mention in scripture except II Kings 15:8-17 when 3 kings reigned over a period of 7 months.	2994	36	767
198		2995	37	766
199	Zachariah (reigned only 6 months) in the 38th year of Azariah	2996	38 II Kings 15:8	765	The father of Abi, who was the mother of Hezekiah (II Kings 18:2).
200	Shallum (reigned only 1 month) Menahem ruled 10 years starting in the 39th year of Azariah Note: Shallum (reigned only 1 month) Menahem ruled 10 years starting in the 39th year of Azariah, II Kings 15:13, II Kings 15:17 Note: This is a perfect example where the counting of one's reign must be explained. To say that Menahem reigned 10 years might mean that he reigned 9.5 years to 10.5 years in one convention or it might even mean that he reigned 10 to 10.9 years in another convention. Similary the 39th year of Azariah might mean that Azariah had been reigning for slightly more than 38 years to slightly less than 39.0 years – at least this is how we would normally interpret the English (the first year being from 0 to 1, etc) and perhaps this is also true of the Hebrew. Similarly the 50th year of Azariah might mean that he had been reigning between 49 and 50 years. Therefore we can say that: 38.9 + 10.5 = 49.4 which is the 50th year. This problem is unavoidable with digital/approximate information and this is perhaps compounded by the fact that the spreadsheet is digital – for example the events between different rows on the spreadsheet would normally be taken to be spaced 1 year apart but in some cases (such as when a son takes over from his father) the events may only be one day apart but they nevertheless will occur is separate rows. Pul (or Tiglath-pileser?) king of Assyria lived during this time II Kings 15:19	2997	39 II Kings 15:13, II Kings 15:17	764	Pul (or Tiglath-pileser?) king of Assyria lived during this time II Kings 15:19
201	1	2998	40	763
202	2	2999	41	762
203	3	3000	42	761
204	4	3001	43	760
205	5	3002	44	759
206	6	3003	45	758
207	7	3004	46	757
208	8	3005	47	756
209	9	3006	48	755
210	10	3007	49	754
211	Pekahiah ruled 2 years in the 50th year of Azariah	3008	50 II Kings 15:23	753
212	2	3009	51	752
213	Peka ruled 20 year in the 52nd year of Azariah	3010	52 II Kings 15:27	751	II Kings 15:29 says Tiglathpileser king of Assyria came and took 7 cities and all Naphtali to Assyria - the start of the various exoduses.
214	2 II Kings 15:32-33	3011	Jotham, 2nd year of Peka, 25 years old, ruled 16 years	750
215	3	3012	2	749
216	4	3013	3	748
217	5	3014	4	747
218	6	3015	5	746
219	7	3016	6	745
220	8	3017	7	744
221	9	3018	8	743
222	10	3019	9	742
223	11	3020	10	741
224	12	3021	11	740
225	13	3022	12	739
226	14	3023	13	738
227	15	3024	14	737
228	16	3025	15	736
229	17 II Kings 16:1	3026	16 Ahaz 20 years old, ruled 16 years, in 17th year of Peka II Kings 15:32	735	II Kings 16:1-9, Isaiah 7:1 says King Rezin of Syria and Peka attacked Ahaz but couldn't take him, but Ahaz asked Tiglath to attack and he did killing Rezin.
230	18 Peka killed 150,000 in one day and took 200,000 back to Samaria II Chronicles 28:6, Oded the prophet told him to send them home, he did.	3027	2	734	Isaiah foretells the destruction of Ephraim Isaiah 7:1 fulfilled 62 years later when Esarhaddon King of Assur put people in Israel instead of the Jews (Ezra 4:2. Josephus says this came 140 years before the destruction of the Temple, Book 11, Chap 1, para 2 (6 years off, but then Josephus is wrong about a lot of numbers - compare scripture account of the returning people from Babylon and his numbers.)
231	19	3028	3	733
232	20	3029	4	732
233	Hoshea plotted against Peka and killed him, but didn't have the support to reign just yet.	3030	5 II Kings 15:30	731	20th year of since Jotham's reign
234		3031	6	730
235	Interregnum due to lack of support hence authority as king. This must be so because Peka ruled only 20 years and Hoshea killed him yet didn't (or couldn't) take the throne until Ahaz's 12th year.	3032	7	729
236		3033	8	728
237		3034	9	727
238		3035	10	726
239		3036	11	725
240	Hoshea gained the support and reigned 12th year of Ahaz, ruled 9 years	3037	12 II Kings 17:1	724
241	2	3038	13	723
242	3 II Kings 18:1, must have been at the very end of his 3rd year	3039	14 Hezekiah co-regent ruled 29 years at 25 years old in the 3rd year of Hoshea	722	Hezekiah had the priests cleanse the house of the Lord the 1st of Nisan and they finished on the 16th having sanctified the Temple in his 1st year.
243	4	3040	15 1 *	721	* This year is counted as year 1 because of II Kings 18:10 which links Hezekiah's 6th with Hoshea's 9th and last year.
244	5	3041	16 2	720
245	6	3042	3	719
246	7 II Kings 17:1-6 Shalmaneser made Hoshea servant because he had conspired with the king of Egypt	3043	4	718	II Kings 18:9-16 says Shalmaneser king of Assyria besieged Sameria for 3 years in the 4th year of Hezekiah which was the 7th year of Hoshea
247	8	3044	5	717
248	9 The last of Israel was all taken to Assyria.	3045	6	716	II Kings 18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
249	No more kings of Israel until Jesus came!	3046	7	715
250		3047	8	714	When Hezekiah calls Israel to join Judah in Jerusalem for the Passover, they came, but the priests were not ready so they kept the Passover in the 2nd month instead of Nisan, II Chronicles 30 because there were too few priests, of the remnant of Israel they should come, II Chronicles 30:6, II Kings 15:29
251	Judah was in doom of that of Israel, but Hezekiah asked the king of Assyria how much not to destroy them. Then Hezekiah gave him all the silver of the house of the Lord and cut off the gold from the Temple doors or pay him. II Kings 18:13-16	3048	9	713
252		3049	10	712
253		3050	11	711	Tirhakah king of Ethiopia ruled during this time II Kings 19:9
254		3051	12	710
255		3052	13	709
256	Sennacherib came and took many cities of Judah in the 14th year of Hezekiah, II Kings 18:9-15, Isaiah 36:1	3053	14	708
257	II Kings 19 and 20 have 3 very important issues: God did not wish the line of kings to continue but for Hezekiah's cry, He gave him 15 more years. This was also when the sun went back 10 degrees as a sign he'd be healed.	3054	15 * Sabbatical Year (II Kings 19:29)	707	* The King of Assyria told he'd destroy Jerusalem. Hezekiah ran to the Lord and Isaiah said God would defend Jerusalem for His sake, and killed 185,000 men of Assyria with an angel. II Kings 19:35-37, Isaiah 37:36-38, Sennacherib king of Assyria then left to go home and was murdered by his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer and they escaped to Armenia and Esarhaddon his son reigned. The army was destroyed 14 Nisan (During Passover) It is at the end of the "sign" time that I believe that the angle of the Lord killed the 185,000 men of war on 14 Nisan, Passover of Hezekiah's 15th year. The 15th year was the year of the sun going back 10 degrees and the year Hezekiah was healed by God of whatever fatal boil he had (cured by a fig paste), on the 13th of Nisan.
258		3055	16 Year of Jubilee (II Kings 19:29)	706	Encyclopaedia Britannica says 706 is the year in which for 9 months Marduk-Baladan ruled that mentioned the visitors from Babylon to Hezekiah and Isaiah's prophecy II Kings 20:16-19, Isaiah 39, Berodahbaladan son of Baladan king of Babylon heard Hezekiah was sick and sent him letters. Isaiah foretold Judah's future.
259	In the 17th year of Hezekiah, after being healed he had a son, Manasseh, the most evil king of all kings and God wanted to spare Judah this future mess.	3056	17	705
260		3057	18	704
261		3058	19	703
262		3059	20	702
263		3060	21	701
264		3061	22	700
265		3062	23	699
266		3063	24	698
267		3064	25	697
268		3065	26	696
269		3066	27	695
270		3067	28	694
271		3068	29 Manasseh, 12 years old, ruled 55 years, II Kings 21:1	693
272		3069	2	692
273		3070	3	691
274		3071	4	690
275		3072	5	689
276		3073	6	688
277		3074	7	687
278		3075	8	686
279		3076	9	685
280		3077	10	684
281		3078	11	683
282		3079	12	682
283		3080	13	681
284		3081	14	680
285		3082	15	679
286		3083	16	678
287		3084	17	677
288		3085	18	676
289		3086	19	675
290		3087	20	674
291		3088	21	673
292		3089	22	672
293		3090	23	671
294		3091	24	670
295		3092	25	669
296		3093	26	668
297		3094	27	667	Shamashshumukin king of Babylon (ruled 20 years) 667-648 BC
298		3095	28	666
299		3096	29	665
300		3097	30	664	Psammetichus I rules Egypt (664-610 BC) 54 years.
301		3098	31	663
302		3099	32	662
303		3100	33	661
304		3101	34	660
305		3102	35	659
306		3103	36	658
307		3104	37	657
308		3105	38	656
309		3106	39	655
310		3107	40	654
311		3108	41	653
312		3109	42	652
313		3110	43	651
314		3111	44	650
315		3112	45	649
316		3113	46	648
317		3114	47	647	Kandalanu king of Babylon (ruled 22 years) 647-626 BC
318		3115	48	646
319		3116	49	645
320		3117	50	644
321		3118	51	643
322		3119	52	642
323		3120	53	641	Without details, at some time in Manasseh's life, he was taken prisoner to Babylon by the captain of the guard of the king of Assyria. Manasseh cried to the Lord, humbled himself and he was let go to return to Israel to continue as king. This so he would know Who was God.