Kings Ladder
Every king from Saul to Zedekiah: the united kingdom, Israel in the north, and Judah in the south. Climb each kingdom's ladder in order, judge each king as the Bible does, match the prophets, and line the two kingdoms up side by side. Or study them all on a timeline.
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Saul is at the top and Zedekiah at the bottom. After the kingdom divides, Israel is on the left and Judah on the right. Two blocks side by side in one kingdom are a co-reign (a father and son reigning together) or a rival king. Very short reigns, like Zimri's seven days, are drawn bigger so you can tap them. Tap any king to learn about him.
Facts retell Kings and Chronicles in plain words; anything in quotation marks is from the King James Version. Lengths of reign are the Bible's own figures. Keys: 1–6 answer, R / E / B for Right, Evil, or Right but, Enter or Space goes on; on a king card, ← and → go to the previous or next king and Esc closes the card. v1.2 From Memorize-the-Bible.com.
BC dates follow Edwin R. Thiele, The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings. These dates are one scholar's widely-adopted reckoning; other scholars date some reigns a few years differently. Where two kings' years overlap, the son reigned alongside his father for a time (a co-reign) or a rival held part of the land. Thiele's reckoning begins at the division of the kingdom in 931 BC, so the dates for Saul, David and Solomon are the usual estimates counted back from it. Hezekiah's dates follow Leslie McFall's correction of Thiele (Did Thiele Overlook Hezekiah's Coregency?, 1989): Hezekiah reigned with his father Ahaz from 729 BC, which fits 2 Kings 18:1, 9–10. Thiele had judged those verses, and 2 Kings 17:1, to be mistakes.