Friday, April 8, 2016

Judges of Israel, Kings of Israel and Judah

Doing some research lately on the pre-exilic and exilic periods of the Old Testament (building on what I wrote on this blog four years ago), I searched for a list that I used to have, with the rulers and kings of Israel and later Judah. I can't find that list now; it's around her somewhere. Luckily, I found several references online, so I'll save them here for future reference. Perhaps there is someone who is such a Bible scholar as to have all these long names and references memorized, but I'm not one!

Here is a discussion and map of the settlement of the tribes of Israel:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/tribes.html

Here is a chart of the judges of Israel, along with the peoples who threatened Israel:
http://www.bible-history.com/old-testament/judges.html

Here is a list of the judges, with the biblical references:
http://jesusalive.cc/ques349.htm

Here is a good chart with the Bible references along with approximate dates, the character of each monarch, AND the prophets associated with the different kings:
https://craigtowens.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/kings-of-israel-judah2.jpg

Also: https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2014/08/chart-of-israels-and-judahs-kings-and-prophets/

Here is another, without the references, but which is also helpful:
http://www.ldolphin.org/kings.html

And yet another:
http://www.biblestudy.org/prophecy/israel-kings.html

And...
https://www.vtaide.com/gleanings/Kings-of-Israel/kings.html

It would be interesting to print out all these charts and to see different interpretations of the approximate years of each monarch along with the prophets. Some prophets are easier to locate in history than others; the book of Joel, for instance, has little or no internal indication of the writing's circumstances, and so to position Joel historically is conjectural. Also, Daniel narrates exilic circumstances but was written many years later.


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