ERA 1000BC - 800BC
Bible Time Frame Archealogical and Historical
971 Solomon ascends the throne
966 Solomon begins to build the Temple in Jerusalem
945 -924r Sheshhonk ( Shishak)
1 Kings 11:40
- Pharaoh of Egypt; 22nd Dynasty; also called
- Sheshonq I; attacked Judah and Israel
1. Massive reliefs on temple of Amun at Karnak.
2. Mummy case in Cairo Museum.
3. Victory stele at Megiddo.
4. Gold bracelet found in tomb of grandson is inscribed with Shishaks name.
5. Chair of a seated statue found at Byblos bears Shishaks name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheshonk_I
https://www.christiananswers.net/q-abr/abr-a017.html
https://www.biblicalisraeltours.com/Arch/ArchaeologyMegiddo.htm
https://www.hshideaway.com/chap15.htm
https://www.truthnet.org/Biblicalarcheology/9/Unified-Kingdom.htm
932- 931 Rehoboam
1 Kgs 12:1-24
-King of Israel and Judah
- Son of Solomon
-His mother was Naamah the Ammonite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehoboam
931 -909 Jeroboam 1
1 Kgs 12:25-14:20
- Jeroboam rebels; sets Up a rival kingdom in the north
-Constant war with the house of Judah
-Did idolatry as a ruler to try to keep the people
https://www.biblehistory.net/King_Jeroboam.pdf
https://www.bible-history.com/isbe/J/JEROBOAM/
https://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/p135.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeroboam
911 -908 Abijah
1 Kgs 15:1-8//2
- 2nd King of Judah
-son of King Rehoboam and Micaiah
- war with Jeroboam
-Invasion of north; captured Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ophrah
https://www.bible-history.com/faussets/A/Abijah/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abijah_of_Judah
911 -870 Asa
1 Kgs 15:9-24
- King of Judah
- Baasha invades Judah. Asa is allied with and sends bribe to Ben-Hadad son of
Tab-rimmon, king of Damascus.
- Ben-Hadad attacks northern cities and Baasha
withdraws
https://www.bible-history.com/isbe/A/ASA/
909-907 Nadab
1 Kgs 15:25-32
- 2nd King of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel
-two year reign
-Nadab son of Jeroboam
-assassinated by Baasha, from the tribe of Issachar, while Nadab was besieging the
Philistines at Gibbethon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadab_of_Israel
https://www.bible-history.com/eastons/N/Nadab/
907 -883 Baasha
1 KINGS 15:33
-3rd King of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel
-Son of Ahijah
-Reign of twenty four years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baasha_of_Israel
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0003_0_01790.html
https://www.bible-history.com/links.php?cat=43⊂=1097&cat_name=Bible+Names+A-G&subcat_name=Baasha
900 Hezion
1 Kings 15:18
- Grandfather of Ben-hadad,
- king of Syria
- Father of Tabrimmon,
1:Stele found at Aleppo bears an Aramaic inscription that mentions
Barhadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion
900 Tabrimmon
1 Kings 15:18
- Father of Ben Hadad
1:Stele dedicated found at Aleppo bears an Aramaic
inscription that mentions Ben Hadad as son Tabrimmon, King of Damascus.
886 Elah becomes king of Israel
885 Zimri
1 Kgs 16:15-20
-King of Israel for seven days
-7 day rule ending in suicide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimri_%28king%29
885 -874 Omri
1 Kings 16:16
- 6th King of Israel
. - King of Israel c. 885–874 B.C.E. and the founder of the capital city of Samaria.
- He was the father of Israel's famous king Ahab
1. Mesha stele (Moabite stone) tells that Omri, King of Israel subjugated Moab.
2. Assyrian records refer to Israel as Omri-land or the house of Omri.
3. Black obelisk refers to Jehu, son of Omri.
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Omri
883 -859 Ashurbanipal II
-becomes king of Assyria
https://www.biblehistory.net/King_Jeroboam.pdf
https://www.bible-history.com/isbe/J/JEROBOAM/
https://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/p135.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeroboam
885 -870 Ben Hadad I
1 Kings 15:18
- Son of Tabrimmon, Son of Hezion, King of Syria (Aram)
1. Stone monument of treaty with King Pygmalion of Tyre.
2. Stele found at Aleppo bears an Aramaic inscription that
mentions Barhadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion, King of Aram.
https://www.bible-history.com/isbe/B/BENHADAD/
https://www.specialtyinterests.net/the_many_faces_of_ashurnasirpal_and_his_son.html
876 -871 Tibni
1 Kings 16:21, 22)
-Following the death of Zimri, a considerable number of the people chose Tibni
as monarch, and he contended for the throne against Omri over the next few
years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibni
873-853 Ahab
1 Kgs 16:28
- 8th King of Israel
- son of Omri
- - Married Phoenician princess Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, king of Tyre
- Did Wickedness as a Ruler
-Twenty years old when he became a King
1. Cuneiform tablets of Shalmaneser III's battle at Qarqar
2. Mesha Stela (Moabite Stone) refers to him as Omri's son
3:Seal of Jezebel
4:Kurkh Monolith names King Ahab
https://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2008/09/seal-of-jezebel-identified.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahab
874-853 Jezebel
1 Kings 16:31
- Wife of Ahab; wicked Baal worshiping queen
1:Fine seal in the Israel Museum has the name Jezebel.
873 Jehoshaphat
1 Kgs 15:24
-King of Judah
-fights Arameans with Ahab in 1 Kings 22
870 -842 Ben Hadad II
859 -824 Shalmaneser III
Numbers 22:5
- In 853 B.C.E., Shalmaneser crossed the Euphrates for the second time
and proceeded to the city of Pethor where he received
tribute from the north-Syrian kingdoms.
- Was king of Assyria and son of the previous ruler, Ashurnasirpal II
1:two of his monuments name Biblical figures. The Black Obelisk names Jehu
son of Omri and the Kurkh Monolith names king Ahab in reference to the Battle
of Karkar.
2:Statue of Shalmaneser III at Istanbul Archaeological Museums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalmaneser_III (Statue,Obelisk Museum Photos)
https://www.bible-history.com/archaeology/assyria/black-obelisk.html
https://truthmagazine.com/archives/volume45/V4501040106.htm?PHPSESSID=
6514f84e2187a551fd6b71d38497b893
https://creationwiki.org/Shalmaneser_III
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0018_0_18152.html
858 Elijah begins to prophesy
853 Mesha
2 Kings 3:4
- King of Moab
1:On Moabite stone, Mesha complains about having been oppressed by Omri,
King of Israel and boasts of driving Israel out.
853 Ahaziah becomes king of Israel
Jehoram becomes king of Judah
852 Joram becomes king of Israel
Elisha begins to prophesy
841 -806 Hazael
1 Kings 19:15
- Aramean king Syria
- Seized power (murdered) Ben-Hadad II(Hadadezer')
-Shalmaneser campaigned against Hazael, forcing him to
take refuge within the walls of his capital
1. Ivory inlay fragment found at Arslan Tash bears the name Hazael
2. Cuneiform inscriptions of Shalmaneser III military campaigns
3. Inscription on Tel Dan Stele mentions Barhadad II (Hadadezer)
4:The royal Stele of Zakkur (or Zakir) found in the territory of the ancient kingdom of
Hamath states written by Bar-Hadad, son of Hazael
https://www.bible-history.com/archaeology/israel/2-hazael-king-of-syria-bb.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazael
https://www.bible-history.com/isbe/B/BENHADAD/
https://bibleencyclopedia.com/hazael.htm
https://www.bible-history.com/isbe/H/HAZAEL/
807 - 780 Bar-Hadad III (Aram.)
II Kings 13:3
- or Ben-Hadad III
- King of Syria
-son of Hazael succeeded him after his death as king of Aram Damascus
- -defeated three times by Jehoash;
- recovered towns that Jehoahaz had lost to the Arameans
1:Stele of Zakkur mentions him as "Bar Hadad, son of Hazael"
2:Tell Al Rimah Stela
https://www.bible-history.com/isbe/B/BENHADAD/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hadad_III
https://bibleencyclopedia.com/hazael.htm
842 -814 Jehu
1 Kings 19:16
- 11th King of Israel
- Son of Jehoshaphat
1. Black obelisk of Shalmaneser III in British Museum depicts Jehu bowing and tells
of the "tribute of Jehu, son of Omri."
2. Cuneiform tablet of Shalmaneser III, also records receiving tribute from "Jehu."
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_10058.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Obelisk_of_Shalmaneser_III
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehu
Ahaziah becomes king of Judah
842 -841 Athaliah
2 Kgs 11:1-20//2
-seizes the throne of Judah
-kills many members of royal household; deposed and killed in bloody coup
837 -800 Jehoash becomes king of Judah
830 Joel prophecies
814-719 Jehoahaz
2Kgs 13:1-10
- 11th King of northern kingdom of Israel
-regned 17 yrs
- Son of King Jehu
-Seal with the inscription "[belonging] to Jehoahaz, son of the king"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehoahaz_of_Israel
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_10045.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=ojc4Uker_V0C&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117&dq=jehoahaz+seal+find&source=bl&ots=NNoPLvDQgI&sig=IQ_SQjpsENROy0q-L1XG9ODLaeg&hl=en&ei=1jROTevxCpGGvgOHpJD5Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwADgy#v=onepage&q&f=false
801 Benhadad II becomes king of Syria
801-785 Jehoash (Joash)
2 Kings 13:10
- 13th King of Israel; son of Jehoahuz
1:On a stele found at Tell al-Riman in 1967, Assyrian King Adad-Nirari III relates how
he received tribute from AJehoash the Samarian.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_10046.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehoram_of_Judah
https://cojs.org/cojswiki/Tel_Al_Rimah_Stele,_797_BCE