Comparison of the Two Kingdoms.  Each kingdom had its advantages and its disadvantages. (1) The northern kingdom, from the material point of view, was far superior to the southern.  It had a larger and more fertile country.  It had three times as many people and a much better military equipment.  Ramah, Bether and Gilgal with their sites of their schools of the prophets were all in their borders.  Their country was also the scene of greatest prophetic activity and their cause was just.  But the kings were inferior and wicked.  Not a single one of the nineteen kings were godly.  They established idolatrous and abominable worship as a religion of the king.  This idolatry counterbalanced all the material advantages. (2) The Southern Kingdom was far superior from a spiritual point of view.  It possessed the religious capital of the nation with the temple as a center of Jehovah worship.  True it had only one third as many people, one half as much territory and that less fertile, and an inferior military equipment, but its superior spiritual power and its superior line of kings made it last 135 years longer than the northern kingdom.

The Kings of the Northern Kingdom.

1.  Jeroboam, 1 K. 12:20-14:20.  Reigned 22 years and died.

2.  Nadab, 1 K. 15:25-27.  Reigned 2 years and was slain.

3.  Baasha, 1 K. 15;27-16:6.  Reigned 24 years and died.

4.  Elah, 1 K. 16;6-10.  Reigned 2 years and was slain.

5.  Zimri, 1 K. 18:11-20.  Reigned 7 days and suicided.

6.  Omri, 1 K. 16:31-28.  Reigned 12 years and died.

7.  Ahab, 1 K. 16:29-22:40.  Reigned 22 years and was slain in battle.

8.  Ahaziah, 1 K. 22:51-2 K. 1:18.  Reigned 2 years and died from an accident.

9.  Jehoram, 2 K. 3:1-9:24.  Reigned 12 years and was slain.

10.  Jehu, 2 K. 9:1-10:36.  Reigned 28 years and died.

11.  Jehoahaz, 2 K. 13:1-9.  Reigned 17 years and died.

12.  Jehoash, 2 K. 13:10-14:16.  Reigned 16 years and died.

13.  Jeroboam II, 2 K. 14:23-29.  Reigned 41 years and died.

14.  Zechariah, 2 K. 15:8-10.  Reigned 6 months and was slain.

15.  Shallum, 2 K. 15:13-14.  Reigned 1 month and was slain.

16.  Menahem, 2 K. 15:14-22.  Reigned 10 years and died.

17.  Pekahian, 2 K. 15:23-26.  Reigned 2 years and was slain.

18.  Pekah, 2 K. 15:27-16:9.  Reigned 20 years and was slain.

19.  Hoshea, 2 K. 17:1-6.  Reigned 9 years and put in prison.

The Kings of Judah.

1.  Rehoboam, 1 K. 12:21-24; 14:21-31; 2 Chron. 11:1-12:16.  Reigned 17 years and died.

2.  Abijah, 1 K. 15:1-8; 2 Chron. 13:1-22.  Reigned 3 years and died.

3.  Asa, 1 K. 15:9-24; 2 Chron. 14:1-16:14.  Reigned 41 years and died.

4.  Jehoshaphat, 1 K. 13:24; 23:41-50; 2 K. 3:1-27; 2 Chron. 17:1-21:1 Reigned 25 years and died.

5.  Jeboram, 2 K. 8:16-24; 2 Chron. 21:1-20.  Reigned 8. years and died.