Divided Kingdom

One kingdom tears into two, and prophets rise like watchmen: Elijah at Carmel, Amos and Hosea in the north, Isaiah and Jeremiah in the south, while Assyria and then Babylon close in.

• 975 BCThe kingdom divides; Jeroboam's golden calves
• ·Shemaiah stops war between Judah and Israel
• ·Priests and Levites leave Israel for Judah
• ·The altar at Bethel condemned
• ·Ahijah foretells the fall of Jeroboam's house
• 971 BCShishak of Egypt plunders Jerusalem
• ·Abijah defeats Jeroboam
• ·Asa cries to the LORD against the Cushite army
• ·Asa removes idols and renews the covenant
• ·Asa relies on Aram and imprisons the prophet
• ·Baasha destroys the house of Jeroboam
• ·Zimri's seven-day reign ends in fire
• ·Omri builds Samaria as Israel's capital
• ·Ahab and Jezebel establish Baal worship
• ·Hiel rebuilds Jericho at the cost foretold
• ·Elijah announces drought and raises a widow's son
• ·Obadiah hides one hundred prophets
• ·Elijah and the prophets of Baal on Carmel
• ·Rain returns after the drought
• ·Elijah hears the gentle whisper at Horeb
• ·Elisha leaves his plow to follow Elijah
• ·Ahab defeats Ben-hadad but spares him
• ·Naboth's vineyard seized
• ·Jehoshaphat delivered without fighting
• 897 BCAhab falls at Ramoth-gilead; Micaiah vindicated
• ·Ahaziah seeks Baal-zebub instead of the LORD
• 896 BCElijah taken up in the whirlwind
• 895 BCElisha's ministry begins with a double portion
• ·Jericho's waters healed
• ·Water supplied in the campaign against Moab
• ·A widow's oil fills every vessel
• ·The Shunammite woman's son restored
• ·Elisha makes the poisoned stew safe
• ·Elisha feeds one hundred men
• ·Naaman washed and healed in the Jordan
• ·Gehazi lies for Naaman's gifts
• ·The borrowed axe head floats
• ·The Aramean army led blind into Samaria
• ·Samaria's siege suddenly lifted
• ·The Shunammite woman's land is restored
• ·Hazael becomes king of Aram
• ·Jehoram leads Judah into unfaithfulness
• ·Jehu is anointed king of Israel
• ·Jehu kills Joram; Jezebel dies at Jezreel
• ·Jehu destroys Ahab's house and Baal's temple
• ·Athaliah's usurpation; Joash preserved and crowned
• ·Joash repairs the temple
• ·Zechariah is stoned in the temple court
• ·Hazael attacks Jerusalem; Joash is assassinated
• ·Jehoahaz seeks the LORD under Aramean oppression
• ·Elisha gives Joash the sign of the arrows
• ·A dead man revives at Elisha's tomb
• ·Joash defeats Aram three times
• ·Amaziah dismisses hired troops and defeats Edom
• ·Amaziah defeated after exalting himself
• ·Jeroboam II restores Israel's borders
• ·Jonah preaches to Nineveh
• 808 BCJoel calls Judah to return to the LORD
• ·Amos confronts prosperous Israel
• ·Hosea's household becomes a sign to Israel
• ·Israel's kings fall in rapid succession
• ·Uzziah strengthens Judah and becomes powerful
• ·Uzziah's pride leads to leprosy
• ·The year King Uzziah died; Isaiah's vision
• ·Jotham strengthens Judah
• ·Rezin and Pekah attack Judah
• ·Oded persuades Israel to release Judean captives
• ·Isaiah gives the sign of Immanuel
• ·Micah warns Jerusalem and promises a ruler from Bethlehem
• 721 BCSamaria falls; Israel carried to Assyria
• ·Assyria resettles Samaria
• ·Hezekiah removes the high places
• ·Hezekiah reopens the temple and keeps Passover
• ·Hezekiah restores priestly service and offerings
• ·Hezekiah strips the temple to pay Assyria
• ·The Rabshakeh challenges Jerusalem
• 713 BCHezekiah prays; the LORD delivers Jerusalem
• ·Hezekiah healed; the shadow moves backward
• ·Hezekiah displays his treasures to Babylon
• ·Manasseh fills Jerusalem with idolatry and bloodshed
• ·Manasseh's captivity and repentance
• ·Amon assassinated; Josiah made king
• ·Josiah begins seeking God and purging idolatry
• 629 BCThe call of Jeremiah
• ·Zephaniah announces the day of the LORD
• 626 BCNineveh falls, as Nahum foretold
• ·The Book of the Law found; Huldah consulted
• ·Josiah destroys Jeroboam's altar at Bethel
• 623 BCJosiah keeps the great Passover
• ·Josiah killed at Megiddo
• ·Pharaoh Neco removes Jehoahaz from Judah's throne
• ·Jehoiakim serves Babylon and then rebels
• ·Habakkuk wrestles with Babylon's rise
• ·Jeremiah warns at the temple gate
• ·Jeremiah visits the potter and breaks the jar
• ·The Rechabites remain faithful to their father's command
• 607 BCDaniel taken to Babylon; the first deportation
• ·Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah's scroll
• 599 BCJehoiachin deported; Ezekiel among the captives
• ·Jeremiah writes to the exiles in Babylon
• ·Hananiah breaks Jeremiah's yoke
• 595 BCEzekiel's vision by the Chebar canal
• ·Nebuchadnezzar begins the final siege of Jerusalem
• ·Judah frees Hebrew slaves and then enslaves them again
• ·Jeremiah buys a field during the siege
• ·Jeremiah rescued from the cistern
• 586 BCJerusalem falls; the temple burned