We have made you a list of all Israel’s Kings in the Bible in their order, even the kings when Israel and Judah were separated.
Prominent Kings In The Bible In Order of Rulership
1. King Saul: King Saul was the first ever king to rule Israel, he was good to them for a period of time, but because he chose to disobey God, he was rejected by God (1 Samuel 15). As a result of that, David was chosen to be the next king (1 Samuel 16), Although, it took roughly ten years before David actually sat on the throne as King.
2. King David: King David became the second king to rule Israel after Saul. And he was specially anointed by God through which Jesus would come (Matt 1:6-17). King David grew to become Israel’s greatest earthly king, he also authored the Book of Psalms in the bible.
3. King Solomon: King Solomon, the son of David, became the next king after his father King David died. The downfall of his reign started when he started marrying foreign women who stole his attention from God into idolatry but he would later repent and wrote the greatest book of wisdom ever written; the Book of Proverbs as well as the wisdom literature of the Book of Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon.
Israel Divides
Just as prophesied by Ahijah (1 Kings 11:31-35), the house of Israel was divided into two kingdoms. This division, which took place approximately 975 B.C., after the death of Solomon and during the reign of his son, Rehoboam, came about as the people revolted against heavy taxes levied by Solomon and Rehoboam. During Rehoboam’s reign, the tribe of Judah and the majority of the tribe of Benjamin accepted Rehoboam as their king.
They became the kingdom of Judah, or the southern kingdom of Israel, with its capital at Jerusalem. The other 10 tribes and the remainder of the tribe of Benjamin – usually spoken of as the Ten Tribes – chose Jeroboam as their king. The collective Ten Tribes retained the title of Israel, and became known also as Ephraim, which was the dominant tribe. It became the northern kingdom, with headquarters at Shechem in Samaria.
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On the whole, Judah remained more faithful to Jehovah. Almost as soon as the northern kingdom of Israel was established, it went into apostasy. Although great prophets such as Elijah and Amos ministered in the kingdom, the people worshiped false gods and adopted many practices of Baalism.
Israel’s Kings In The Bible In Their Order
- King Jeroboam
- King Nadab
- King Baasha
- King Elah
- King Zimri
- King Omri
- King Ahab
- King Ahaziah
- King Jehoram
- King Jehu
- King Jehoahaz
- King Joash
- King Jeroboam II
- King Zachariah
- King Shallum
- King Menaham
- King Pekahiah
- King Pekah
- King Hoshea
This was the last king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel before they got into captivity for continually falling into idolatry. The nation of Israel or the northern ten tribes of Israel would disappear from history but not forever.
The Kings of Judah
King Rehoboam
King Rehoboam was not the king of Israel but of Judah since only the tribes of Benjamin and Judah were included but the Levites were among those staying loyal to King Rehoboam and the nation of Judah.
Other kings of Judah were:
- King Abijam
- King Asa
- King Jehoshaphat
- King Jehoram
- King Ahaziah
- King Athaliah
- King Joash
- King Amaziah
- King Uzziah
- King Jotham
- King Ahaz
- King Hezehiah
- King Manasseh
- King Amon
- King Josiah
- King Jehoahaz
- King Jehoiakim
- King Jehoiachin
- King Zedekiah
This was the last king of Judah before they fell into the captivity of the Babylonians and would remain there for seventy years as written about in the Book of Daniel.
