People - Kings

Kings ruled Israel from the time Samuel annointed Saul King of Israel until Israel went into exile.

Initially there was one kingdom where all the tribes of Israel lived.
Israel
Saul - first king of Israel.
David - killed Goliath and defeated the Philistines. Returned the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem.
Solomon - son of David. Built the first temple

The Divided Kingdom
The kingdom split after the death of Solomon. The tribe of Judah followed the house of David, while the other tribes choose their own kings.
IsraelJudah
Jeroboam - was warned by a prophet that Josiah of the house of David would sacrifice the priests of the high places on their own altar. Rehoboam, Solomon's son.
Abijah
Asa - did right in God's eyes. When he was old his feet were diseased
Nadab
Baasha killed Nadab
Elah
Zimri - killed Elah and reigned for seven days
Omri
Ahab - did more evil than all the kings before him. He married Jezabel.
Jehoshaphat - did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.
Joram - son of Ahab
Jehoram - son of Jehoshaphat
Ahaziah - son of Jehoram
Jehu - killed Ahab's family and Ahaziah
Athialiah - mother of Ahaziah
Joash - son of Ahaziah. Made king when seven years old. Repaired the temple. Did right in the eyes of the Lord
Jehoahaz - Jehu's son
Jehoash- Jehoahaz's son
Amaziah - son of Joash
Jeroboam II - son of Jehoash
Azariah - son of Amaziah. Did right in the eyes of the Lord. He had leprosy, so his son Jotham governed the people,
Zechariah - son of Jeroboam. Did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
Shallum - assassinated Zechariah.
Menahem - assassinated Shallum.
Pekahiah - son of Menahem.
Pekah - assassinated Pekahiah. Lost territory to the king of Assyria.
Jotham - son of Uzziah. Did right in the eyes of the Lord.
Ahaz - son of Jotham. Did evil, even sacrificing his son.
Hosea - last king of Israel. Captured by the king of Assyria. Israel deported to Assyria.
Hezekiah - son of Ahaz. Did right in the eyes of the Lord. Broke the bronze snake that Moses had made. Defeated the Philistines. Asked the prophet Isaiah to pray for the remnant when the King of Assyria's army invaded Judah. The angel of the Lord Killed 185,000 of the Assyrian army.
Manasseh - son of Hezekiah. Did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
Amon - son of Manasseh. Did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
Josiah - son of Amon. Did right in the eyes of the Lord.
Jehoahaz - son of Josiah. Did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
Eliakim - son of Josiah. Pharoah changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim and made king by Pharoah.
Jehoiachin - son of Jehoiakim
Mathaniah - uncle to Jehoiachin, name changed to Zedekiah and made king by the Nebuchadnezzar. Rebelled, leading to the fall of Jerusalem and the exile of Judah to Babylon.


There is a final king, descended directly from King David - Jesus who re-united the two kingdoms and added non-Jews (gentiles) to his kingdom (Matthew chapter 1).

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