After Rehoboam
After Rehoboam reigned three years (1 Chronicles 11:17), the kingdom was divided in two - the northern kingdom of Israel with its capital, first in Shechem (Nablus), then Tirzah, and finally Samaria, and ruled by a series of dynasties beginning with Jeroboam; and the southern kingdom of Judah with its capital still at Jerusalem and still ruled by the House of David. The following list contains the kings of Judah with the kings of Israel in the summaries:
- King Abijah c. 915 – 913 BCE
- King Asa - under whose reign, the following were kings in Israel: *Nadab, Baasha, Elah, Zimri, Omri, and Ahab.
- King Jehoshaphat - under whose reign, Ahaziah and Yehoram reigned in Israel.
- King Yehoram ben Yehoshaphat
- King Ahaziah ben Yehoram - under whose reign, Jehu ruled in Israel.
- King Athaliah
- King Yehoash - under whose reign, Yehoahaz and another Yehoash ruled in Israel.
- King Amaziah - under whose reign, Jeroboam II ruled in Israel.
- King Uzziah - under whose reign, the following ruled over Israel: Zachariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, and Pekah.
- King Yotam
- King Ahaz - under whose reign, Hoshea ruled as the last king of Israel.
- King Hezekiah - under his reign, the Assyrian Empire conquered and destroyed the northern kingdom 722 BCE leaving only the southern kingdom of Judah.
- King Manasseh
- King Amon
- King Josiah
- King Yehoahaz
- King Yakim
- King Yachin
- King Zedekiah - last king to rule over, and in, Judah. Overthrown by Babylonia (which succeeded Assyria) and exiled, along with most of the rest of the population, to that kingdom, where he was executed.
- Gedaliah became governor over the remnant of Judah in their homeland. He was assassinated the next year.
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