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The genealogy of the kings of Judah, along with the kings of Israel.. The Kings of Judah were the monarchs who ruled over the ancient Kingdom of Judah, which was formed in about 930 BC, according to the Hebrew Bible, when the United Kingdom of Israel split, with the people of the northern Kingdom of Israel rejecting Rehoboam as their monarch, leaving him as solely the King of Judah.
Zedekiah. Zedekiah[a] (/ zɛdɪˈkaɪə /) was the twentieth and final King of Judah before the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. His birth name was Mattaniah/Mattanyahu (Hebrew: מַתַּנְיָהוּ, Mattanyāhū, "Gift of God "; Greek: Μαθθανίας; Latin: Matthanias). After the siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC ...
Thiele's reckoning is based on the presentation of Zedekiah's reign on an accession basis, which was used for most but not all of the kings of Judah. In that case, the year that Zedekiah came to the throne would be his first partial year; his first full year would be 597/596 BCE, and his eleventh year, the year Jerusalem fell, would be 587/586 BCE.
The Hebrew calendar (Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי, romanized: halLūaḥ hāʿĪḇrī), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel. It determines the dates of Jewish holidays and other rituals, such as yahrzeits and the schedule of ...
6th-year of seven-year cycle Jehoahaz is made king of Judah, but after reigning for 3 months he is deposed by Pharaoh Necho and is taken down to Egypt. [187] Jehoiakim (also known as Eliakim) is made king of Judah. [188] Reigned 11 years. [189] 444 BCE: Sabbatical year 443 BCE: 1st-year of seven-year cycle 442 BCE: 2nd-year of seven-year cycle
The simple addition of the reigns of Judah's kings results in a total of 430 years, but by positing a few overlapping reigns, Ussher shortened this to 424 years: 1012 to 588 BC. After reckoning the years from creation to the last kings of Judah, Ussher used 2 Kings 25:27 to establish the length of time from the creation to the accession of ...
According to McFall's revision of Thiele's chronology, the phrase "second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah" in 2 Kings 1:17 is the period of "co-regency" on the throne of Judah with his father Jehoshaphat, [10] who was then in his 18th year of sole reign as noted in 2 Kings 3:1.
Judah. Aristobulus I. King and High Priest of Judaea. The first leader from the Hasmonean lineage to call himself king, and also the first of any Judean king to claim both the high priesthood and kingship title. 103–76 BCE. Jonathan Yannai. Alexander Jannaeus. King and High Priest of Judaea. 76–67 BCE.