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Table 4. Synchronisms, Judah to Israel.
More exact
Reference
King
began
in
Formula
date
1 K 15:1;2 Ch 13:1 Abijah
sole reign
18 (17) Jeroboam 931n - 914n = 17
914n/914t
1 K 15:9
Asa
sole reign
20 (19) Jeroboam 931n - 912n = 19
912t/911n
1 K 22:41
Jehosh.
sole reign
4 (3) Ahab
874n - 871n = 3
871t/870n
2 K 8:16
Jehoram
sole reign
5 (4) Joram
852n - 848n = 4
848n/848t
2 K 8:25
Ahaziah
sole reign
12 (11) Joram
852n - 841n = 11
841n/841t
2 K 9:29
Ahaziah
sole reign
11 Joram
852n - 841n = 11
841n/841t
2 K 9; 2 Ch 22
Athaliah
same time as Jehu
841n/841t
841n/841t
2 K 12:1
Joash
sole reign
7 (6) Jehu
841n - 835n = 6
835n/835t
2 K 14:1
Amaziah
sole reign
2 Jehoash
798n - 796n = 2
796n/796t
2 K 15:1
Uzziah
sole reign
27 (26) Jeroboam 793n - 767n = 26
767n/767t
2 K 15:32
Jotham
coregency
2 Pekah
752n - 750n = 2
750n/750t
2 K 16:1
Ahaz
coregency
17 Pekah
752n - 735n = 17
735n/735t
2 K 18:1
Hezekiah
coregency
3 Hoshea
732n - 729n = 3
729t/728n
2 K 18:9
Hezekiah 4 (3) = Hoshea 7
729t - 726t = 3
732n - 725n = 7
725n/725t
2 K 18:10
Hezekiah 6 (5) = Hoshea 9
729t - 724t = 5
732n - 723n = 9
723n/723t
2 K 14:17; 2 Ch 25:25 Amaziah outlived Jehoash 15 years
782n - 767n = 15
767n/767t
Column 5 has the years that elapsed for the Israelite king, giving the synchronism to Israel
provided by the court recorders of Judah. Although the court recorders would not have written
things in this fashion, the dates they used correspond to those displayed here in Nisan/Tishri
notation and their calculations correspond to those shown in column 5. By comparison with
column 4 and Table 1, it will be seen that the court recorders of Judah always used an official
starting year (a Nisan year) from Israel, and they were always exact in their calculation of the
synchronism.