Kings Timeline

Evil

Divided the kingdom

Evil

Defeated Jeroboam I

Good

Removed idols; alliance with Aram

Good

Righteous; yet alliance w/ Ahab

Evil

Married Athaliah; Baal worship

Evil

Killed by Jehu the "Baal Killer"

Evil

Queen Mother; tried to usurp throne

Good

7 year old king; protected by his aunt and the priest

Good

Defeated the Edomites, not Israel (victory and defeat)

Good

"Golden Age" - pride led to leprosy

Good

Did right; Pekah/Rezin began to come against Judah

Good

Angel struck 185,000 Assyrians

Evil

Trusted Assyria - not God; build Damascus altar

Evil

More evil than Canaanite nations; repented in Babylon

Evil

Not humbled - murdered

Good

Found the Law; wiped out idolatry

Evil

3 moths; exiled to Egypt

Evil

Rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar, "burial of a donkey"

Evil

Taken to Babylon; same time as Ezekiel

Evil

Last king; eyes gouged out; taken to Babylon

Samaria, capital of the Northern Ten Tribes,
falls to Assyrian King Shalmaneser V.

The Israelites
go as captives to Assyria

Jerusalem falls at the hands of
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar captures
Judah's Jehoiachin, who,
as prisoner, goes to Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar sets up
Zedekiah as the last king of Judah.

Nebuchadnezzar lays siege to Jerusalem.
He destroys the city and burns its temple.

The destruction of the temple was started on the 9th of Ab (Hebrew month) and completed on the 10th. The 9th of Ab is also the day Jerusalem's SECOND temple (Herod's temple) is also completely destroyed in 70 A.D.