For further arguments I must refer to my paper.


[APPENDIX IV]

DATES OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH, AS GIVEN BY KITTEL AND OTHER MODERN CRITICS[920]

Israel
b.c.
Ahaziah855-854
Jehoram854-842
Jehu842-814
Jehoahaz814-797
Joash797-781
Jeroboam II.781-740
Zachariah740
Shallum740
Menahem740-737
Pekahiah737-735
Pekah735-734
Hoshea734-725

Judah
b.c.
Jehoram ben-Jehoshaphat851-843
Ahaziah ben-Jehoram843-842
Athaliah842-836
Joash ben-Ahaziah836-796
Amaziah796-783
Amaziah-Uzziah783-737
Jotham737-735
Ahaz735-715
Hezekiah715-686
Manasseh686-641
Amon641-639
Josiah639-608
Jehoahaz608
Jehoiakim608-597
Jehoiachin597
Zedekiah597-586

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Rawlinson, Kings of Israel and Judah, p. 86. "The name of Ahaziah ('the Lord taketh hold'), like that of all Ahab's sons, testifies to the fact that the husband of Jezebel still worshipped Jehovah. Among the names of the judges and kings before Ahab in Israel, and Asa in Judah, scarcely a single instance occurs of names compounded with Jehovah; thenceforward they became the rule" (Wellhausen, Israel and Judah, Es. 1, p. 66).

[2] 1 Kings xxii. 47; 2 Kings iii. 9: comp. viii. 20.

[3] 2 Sam. viii. 2. On the ethics of these wars of extermination, such as are commanded in the Pentateuch, and were practised by Joshua, Samuel, Saul, David, and others, see Josh. vi. 17; 1 Sam. xv. 3, 33; 2 Sam. viii. 2, etc., and Mozley's Lectures on the Old Testament, pp. 83-103.