J.-6 Bible Chronology

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Divided Kingdom

					22		46	47	4½		<Tibni	59				81					93				121		138			154				195		207		217	219				239		248			257
Northern Kingdom					22		24		7d.	< Zimri		12				22					12				28		17			16				41		12		10	2				20		9			9
	Jeroboam I					Baasha		Omri					Ahab				Jehoram (Joram)					Jehu				Jehoahaz		Jehoash (Joash)			Jeroboam II				Interregnum		Menahem		P.	Pekah				Interregnum		Hoshea
				Nadab, ½				1¼	< Elah							2	<Ahaziah												10¾ as viceroy, 41¼ as sole king									Pekahiah
	The divided kingdoms of Israel (north) and Judah (south)
		17		20									61						86		91		98				138					166							218		234						250		278		333	335			366			377		388
Southern Kingdom		17		3									41						25	Ahaziah			7				40					29							52		16						16		29		55	2			31			11		11
	Rehoboam		Abijam		Asa									Jehoshaphat							1½	Athaliah		Joash (Jehoash)									Uzziah (Azariah)							Jotham		Ahaz								Manasseh			Josiah			Jehoiakim			Zedekiah
															(as viceroy) =	Jehoram, 6		Jehoram, 8									Amaziah																				Hezekiah				Amon			Jehoahaz, ¼			Jehoiachin, ¼

6. The overall length of the kingdom of Judah: 387, or 394?

a. Are the kings of Judah to be counted as a linear sequence of 393½ years or are there overlaps, which give an ultimate total of 387 years? (about 7 years difference are involved here) 2 Chronicles 1-36—see Bible timeline,

http://creation.com/images/pdfs/other/timeline_of_the_bible.pdf

for specific references—and 21:19-20, chapter 22, and 26:21.

b. Ussher uses the following references in 1 and 2 Kings to show the relationships between the Northern and Southern Kingdoms. His presuppositions are that there are no gaps in the southern kingdom, and that some modest overlaps are likely.

c. The verses:

1 Kings 15:1...................18^th year of Jeroboam, Abijam became king

1 Kings 15:9...................20^th year of Jeroboam, Asa began to reign

1 Kings 15:25.................Nadab became king in the 2^nd year of Asa

1 Kings 15:33.................3^rd year of Asa, Baasha became king

1 Kings 16:8...................26^th year of Asa, Elah became king

1 Kings 16:15.................27^th year of Asa, Zimri reigned for 7 days

1 Kings 16:23.................31^st year of Asa, Omri became (sole) king

1 Kings 16:29.................Ahab became king in the 38^th year of Asa

1 Kings 22:41.................Jehoshaphat became king in the 4^th year of Ahab

1 Kings 22:51.................Ahaziah [NK] became king in the 17^th year of Jehoshaphat

2 Kings 3:1.....................Jehoram [NK] became king in the 18^th year of Jehoshaphat

2 Kings 1:17...................Jehoram [NK] became king in [Ahaziah’s NK] place in the 2^nd
                                       year of Jehoram [SK, as viceroy]

2 Kings 8:16..................5^th year of Joram [NK] Jehoshaphat being then king, Jehoram
                                       [SK] became king

2 Kings 9:29..................11^th year of Joram [NK], Ahaziah [SK] became king

2 Kings 8:25..................12^th year of Joram [NK], Ahaziah [SK] began to reign

2 Kings 12:1..................7^th year of Jehu, Jehoash became king

2 Kings 13:1..................23^rd year of Joash, Jehoahaz became king

2 Kings 13:10................37^th year of Joash, Jehoash became king

2 Kings 14:1..................2^nd year of Joash [NK], Amaziah [SK] became king.

2 Kings 14:23................15^th year of Amaziah, Jeroboam became king

2 Kings 14:17................Amaziah [SK] lived 15 years after the death of Jehoash [NK]

2 Kings 15:1-2...............27^th year of Jeroboam, Azariah (Uzziah) became king

2 Kings 15:8..................38^th year of Azariah, Zechariah became king for 6 months

2 Kings 15:13, 17..........Shallum (and Menahem) became king in the 39^th year of Uzziah

2 Kings 15:23................50^th year of Azariah, Pekahiah became king

2 Kings 15:27................52^nd year of Azariah, Pekah became king

2 Kings 15:32................2^nd year of Pekah, Jotham became king

2 Kings 16:1..................17^th year of Pekah, Ahaz became king

2 Kings 15:30................Hoshea killed Pekah in the 20^th year of Jotham [and became
                                       king later]

2 Kings 17:1.................12^th year of Ahaz, Hoshea became king

2 Kings 18:1.................3^rd year of Hoshea, Hezekiah became king

2 Kings 18:9.................4^th year of Hezekiah with was the 7^th year of Hoshea

2 Kings 18:10...............6^th year of Hezekiah was the 9^th year of Hoshea

2 Kings 18:13...............14^th year of Hezekiah, Sennacherib came up against Judah


2 Chronicles 26:21-23..[Possible overlap here?]

Daniel 1:1.....................3^rd year of Jehoiakim, Nebuchadrezzar beseiges Jerusalem

Jeremiah 25:1...............4^th year of Jehoiakim = 1^st year of Nebuchadnezzar

2 Kings 24:12...............8^th year of Nebuchadnezzar, Jehoiachin taken captive

Jeremiah 32:1...............10^th year of Zedekiah = 18^th year of Nebuchadnezzar

2 Kings 25:1-2..............9^th to 11^th year of Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar beseiged Jerusalem

2 Kings 25:8-9.............19^th year of Nebuchadnezzar, the Temple was burned


My view:

d. Ussher’s modest overlaps seem to be driven more by the chronological alignments of the two kingdoms (as shown in the above references) than by any direct references to the overlaps, so the overlaps are implicit rather than explicit. However, it seems reasonable that an outgoing king, if he were incapacitated by disease, etc., would probably put the succeeding king in place before he actually died.

e. I think that Ussher’s view here is very plausible. For simplicity I hold the Kingdom of Judah to 390 years and am willing to say that any amount of years from 387 to 394 is biblically defensible. I think that an interregnum in Judah, to be justified, would have to be explicit.

f. See the sidebar index, -10 Ussher’s gap, for a continuation of the Babylonian Captivity problem.

http://www.box.net/shared/03pt6lni9y
- 2010E--Paul's updated 3942 BC--English version--Rev.01--8.pdf

http://www.box.net/shared/bvvqoxmqb8
- 2006E--Paul's post-Ussher 3942 BC--English version--Rev01.pdf

http://www.box.net/shared/s4gvmfjk81
- 2005E--Ussher's 4004 BC--English version--Rev06--With Luke's List.pdf

http://www.box.net/shared/etkhpuubb9
- 1980E--Paul's original 4100 BC--English version--Rev07.pdf