“So Azariah slept with his fathers ... and Jotham his son reigned in his stead” (2 Kings xv, 7). “And he reigned sixteen years” (33).

“And Jotham slept with his fathers ... and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead” (2 Kings xv, 38)—“and reigned sixteen years” (xvi, 2).

“And Ahaz slept with his fathers ... and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead” (2 Kings xvi, 10) “In the sixth year of Hezekiah ... Samaria was taken” (xviii, 10).

From the division of the empire, then, to the conquest of Israel by the Assyrians, the reigns of Judah’s kings were as follows:

Rehoboam,seventeenyears,
Abijam,three
years,
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Asa,forty-one
years,
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Jehoshaphat,twenty-five
years,
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Joram,eight
years,
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Ahaziah,one
years,
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Athaliah,six
years,
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Joash,forty
years,
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Amaziah,twenty-nine
years,
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Azariah,fifty-two
years,
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Jotham,sixteen
years,
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Ahaz,sixteen
years,
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Hezekiah,six
years.
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Kingdom of Israel.

“They ... made him [Jeroboam] king over all Israel” (1 Kings xii, 20). “And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years” (xiv, 20).

“And he [Jeroboam] slept with his fathers and Nadab his son reigned in his stead” (1 Kings xiv, 20)—“and reigned over Israel two years” (xv, 25).

“And Baasha smote him [Nadab] ... and reigned in his stead” (1 Kings xv, 27, 28)—“twenty and four years” (33).