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The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings (1951) [1] is a reconstruction of the chronology of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah by Edwin R. Thiele.The book was originally his doctoral dissertation and is widely regarded as the definitive work on the chronology of Hebrew Kings. [2]
By Albright's calculations, Jehu's initial year was 842 BC; and between it and Samaria's destruction the Books of Kings give the total number of the years the kings of Israel ruled as 143 7/12, while for the kings of Judah the number is 165. This discrepancy, amounting in the case of Judah to 45 years (165−120), has been accounted for in ...
King of the United Monarchy: r. 970–931 BCE: Absalom: Jeroboam King of Israel: r. 931–910 BCE: Rehoboam King of Judah: r. 931–913 BCE: Uriel: Nadab King of Israel: r. 910–909 BCE: Baasha King of Israel: r. 909–886 BCE: Maacah Queen Mother of Judah: r. 910–895 BCE: Elah King of Israel: r. 886–885 BCE? Abijam King of Judah: r. 913 ...
"To Hezekiah, son of Ahaz, king of Judah" – royal seal found at the Ophel excavations in Jerusalem. As was customary in the ancient Near East, a king (Hebrew: מלך, romanized: melekh) ruled over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The national god Yahweh, who selects those to rule his realm and his people, is depicted in the Hebrew Bible as ...
By Albright's calculations, Jehu's initial year is 842 BCE, 120 years earlier, but between that and Samaria's destruction, the total number of years of the kings of Israel in II Kings, is 143 7/12. For the kings of Judah, the number is 165.
In the Jewish custom of recollecting regnal years of kings, the 1st day of the lunar month Nisan marks a New Year for kings, meaning, from this date was calculated the years of the reign of Israelite kings; thus if a king was enthroned in the preceding month, Adar, he begins his second year of reign in the next lunar month, following the 1st of ...
In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah. [13] Parallel: 1 Kings 15:1 [14] "In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam": in Thiele's chronology, [15] Abijah became king between April and September 913 BCE, at an unknown age. [16] This is the only recorded synchronism with the northern kingdom in the Chronicles. [17]
The Book of Kings (Hebrew: סֵפֶר מְלָכִים, Sēfer Məlāḵīm) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Kings) in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It concludes the Deuteronomistic history , a history of ancient Israel also including the books of Joshua , Judges , and Samuel .