DIAGRAM XVII The Books of the Kings Contents of chapters (1 Kings) 12- (2 Kings) 17, are suggested as follows: 14 Jeroboam's wife and Ahijah 15 Asa's reformation 12 Rehoboam's little finger 13 The rent altar 18 Elijah and the prophets of Baal 17 Elijah and the barrel of meal 20 Ahab and Benhadad of Syria 19 Elijah and the juniper tree 16 Zimri and Omri 21 The Naboth tragedy 22 Micaiah and Ahab Here begins 2 Kings 2 The "chariots of fire" 3 The valley of trenches 4 The pot of oil 8 Elisha's visit to Damascus 6 The siege of Samaria 7 The four lepers 5 Naaman the Syrian 9 The death of Jezebel 10 Jehu and Jehonadab II Jehoiada and Joash I Baalzebub 12 The temple restored 16 Ahaz and Tiglath-pileser 14 Jeroboam II and Jonah 17 The downfall of Samaria 15 The period of anarchy 13 Joash and Elisha Contents of chaps. 18-25 18 Sennacherib 20 Merodach baladan 23 Josiah's reformation 25 Capture of Jerusalem Compare Diagram XVI DIAGRAM XVIII Designed to give, from the standpoint of Assyrian history, a general view of the Third Principal Division of the Old Testament History of Abraham and His Posterity, which is the Period of National Declination. (Compare Diagram III) DIAGRAM XIX Designed to show the relation of the Kings of the North (Israel) as distributed into Dynasties, to the Kings of the South (Judah) 975 (?) B. C. 722 B. C. The Kingdom of Israel lasted about 250 years, coming to an end in the destruction of its capital, Samaria, by the One may be helped by thinking of the Kingdom of Israel in four periods. Speaking only approximately the Kingdom lasted 250 |