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Abijam
Abijam, also called Abijah, was the son of Rehoboam and second king of Judah after the kingdom divided, reigning in Jerusalem around 913 to 911 BC.
Ahaz
Ahaz, also known as Jehoahaz II, was king of Judah in the 8th century BC, son of Jotham and father of Hezekiah, who made Judah an Assyrian vassal.
Ahaziah of Israel
Ahaziah of Israel (Hebrew אֲחַזְיָה), son of Ahab and Jezebel, was king of Israel for about two years in the mid-9th century BC, dying after a fall in Samaria.
Ahaziah of Judah
Ahaziah of Judah, also called Jehoahaz, was a king of Judah who reigned less than a year and was killed in Jehu's coup in 841 BC.
Amaziah of Judah
Amaziah of Judah was a king of Judah, son of Joash, who defeated the Edomites, lost a war against Israel, and was assassinated at Lachish.
Baasha (king of Israel)
Baasha, son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar, was king of the northern kingdom of Israel, reigning about 24 years after assassinating King Nadab at Gibbethon.
Elah (king of Israel)
Elah was the fourth king of Israel, son and successor of Baasha, who reigned two years at Tirzah before being murdered while drunk by Zimri.
Hamutal
Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, was a queen consort of Judah, wife of King Josiah and mother of the kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah in the late seventh century BC.
Hephzibah
Hephzibah, also spelled Hepzibah, was a queen of Judah in the late 8th century BC, remembered only as the wife of King Hezekiah and the mother of King Manasseh.
Hoshea
Hoshea, son of Elah, was the last king of the northern kingdom of Israel, reigning about 732–724 BC; he rebelled against Assyria, and Samaria fell, ending the kingdom.
Jehoahaz of Israel
Jehoahaz of Israel, also known as Jehoahaz ben Jehu, was king of Israel c. 814–800 BC, reduced to vassalage by Aram-Damascus under Hazael and Ben-Hadad III.
Jehoahaz of Judah
Jehoahaz of Judah, also called Shallum, was a son of Josiah who reigned three months in 609 BC before Pharaoh Necho II deposed him and took him to Egypt.
Jehoash of Israel
Jehoash, also called Joash, was king of the northern kingdom of Israel from about 798 to 782 BC, defeating Ben-hadad of Aram and Amaziah of Judah.
Jehoiachin
Jehoiachin, also known as Jeconiah or Coniah, was a king of Judah who reigned three months in 598/597 BC, surrendered to Nebuchadnezzar II, and spent 37 years in Babylon.
Jehoiakim
Jehoiakim, born Eliakim and renamed by Pharaoh Necho II, was king of Judah from about 609 to 598 BC, serving Egypt and then Babylon before rebelling.
Jehoram of Israel
Jehoram, also known as Joram, was a 9th-century BC king of Israel, son of Ahab and Jezebel, who reigned about twelve years before Jehu killed him.
Jehoram of Judah
Jehoram of Judah, also called Joram, was a king of Judah who reigned eight years in the 9th century BC and married the Omride princess Athaliah.
Joash of Judah
Joash of Judah, also called Jehoash, was a king of Judah who reigned forty years, dated 835–796 BC, and funded repairs of the Temple in Jerusalem.
Jotham
Jotham (Hebrew Yotam, also rendered Joatham) was a king of Judah in the eighth century BC, the son and successor of Uzziah and father of Ahaz, credited with building the Temple's upper gate.
Maacah (queen mother of Judah)
Maacah, also spelled Maakah, was a wife of King Rehoboam of Judah, mother of Abijam, and queen mother in the early tenth century BC until Asa deposed her.
Malchishua
Malchishua, in Hebrew Malkishua, was a son of King Saul and Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The Philistines killed him at Mount Gilboa alongside Saul, Jonathan, and Abinadab.
Menahem (king of Israel)
Menahem, also known as Menahem ben Gadi, was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel in the mid-8th century BC who seized the throne by assassinating his predecessor Shallum.
Nadab of Israel
Nadab (Hebrew נָדָב) was the second king of the northern kingdom of Israel and son of Jeroboam I, reigning about two years before being assassinated by Baasha at Gibbethon.
Nehushta
Nehushta (Hebrew נְחֻשְׁתָּא) was a queen of Judah, wife of King Jehoiakim and mother of King Jehoiachin, whom she accompanied into Babylonian exile in 597 BC.
Pekah
Pekah (Hebrew פֶּקַח), son of Remaliah, was king of Israel from about 735 to 732 BC, taking the throne by murdering Pekahiah and later killed by Hoshea.
Pekahiah
Pekahiah was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel, son and successor of Menahem, who reigned in Samaria about two years before being assassinated by his officer Pekah.
Shallum (king of Israel)
Shallum, son of Jabesh, was king of the northern kingdom of Israel for one month around 752 BC, having murdered King Zechariah before being killed by Menahem.
Tibni
Tibni, son of Ginath, was a rival of Omri for the throne of the northern kingdom of Israel around 885 BC, mentioned only in 1 Kings 16.
Zechariah (king of Israel)
Zechariah, son of Jeroboam II, was the fourteenth king of Israel and last ruler of Jehu's dynasty, assassinated by Shallum after a six-month reign in 753 BC.
Zibiah
Zibiah (Hebrew צִבְיָה, probably "gazelle") was a 9th-century BC Judahite royal woman from Beersheba, known from the Hebrew Bible as the mother of King Joash of Judah.