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Event · Israel and Judahc. 933 BC

The ten tribes break away from Rehoboam

Range across sources: 975–933 BC

True span4004 BC – AD 100
Beginnings · 4004 BC – 1996 BC · 12 eventsBeginnings4004 BC – 1996 BCThe Patriarchs · 1996 BC – 1635 BC · 34 eventsPatriarchs1996 BC – 1635 BCEgypt and the Exodus · 1635 BC – 1451 BC · 19 eventsExodus1635 BC – 1451 BCConquest and Settlement · 1451 BC – 1400 BC · 7 eventsConquest1451 BC – 1400 BCThe Judges · 1405 BC – 1095 BC · 13 eventsJudges1405 BC – 1095 BCThe United Kingdom · 1095 BC – 975 BC · 38 eventsUnited Kgdm1095 BC – 975 BCIsrael and Judah · 933 BC – 721 BC · 27 eventsIsrael & Judah933 BC – 721 BCJudah Alone · 721 BC – 586 BC · 22 eventsJudah alone721 BC – 586 BCThe Exile · 586 BC – 538 BC · 7 eventsExile586 BC – 538 BCReturn and Restoration · 538 BC – 400 BC · 13 eventsReturn538 BC – 400 BCBetween the Testaments · 400 BC – 4 BC · 8 eventsBetween400 BC – 4 BCThe Life of Jesus · 6 BC – AD 33 · 42 eventsJesus6 BC – AD 33The Apostles and the Early Church · AD 30 – AD 100 · 29 eventsThe ChurchAD 30 – AD 100933 BC — The ten tribes break away from Rehoboam929 BC — Shishak of Egypt plunders the temple842 BC — Jehu is anointed; Jezebel and Ahab's house fall745 BC — Tiglath-pileser carries off Galilee and Gilead743 BC — Amos and Hosea preach in the northern kingdom740 BC — Isaiah sees the Lord in the year King Uzziah died726 BC — Hezekiah becomes king in Judah721 BC — Samaria falls; Israel is carried into AssyriaJeroboam sets up calves at Bethel and Dan — placed by its order in the narrativeAbijah defeats Jeroboam at Mount Zemaraim — placed by its order in the narrativeAsa purges the idols from Judah — placed by its order in the narrativeZerah the Ethiopian is routed at Mareshah — placed by its order in the narrativeOmri buys the hill of Samaria and builds his capital — placed by its order in the narrativeAhab marries Jezebel and serves Baal — placed by its order in the narrativeElijah shuts the sky; the widow of Zarephath — placed by its order in the narrativeElijah and the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel — placed by its order in the narrativeElijah at Horeb; the still small voice — placed by its order in the narrativeNaboth's vineyard and Elijah's word against Ahab — placed by its order in the narrativeMicaiah's warning; Ahab dies at Ramoth-gilead — placed by its order in the narrativeElijah is taken up; Elisha receives his cloak — placed by its order in the narrativeElisha and the widow's oil; the Shunammite's son — placed by its order in the narrativeNaaman the Syrian is cleansed in the Jordan — placed by its order in the narrativeThe Syrian siege of Samaria breaks overnight — placed by its order in the narrativeAthaliah seizes the throne; Joash is crowned — placed by its order in the narrativeJoash repairs the house of the LORD — placed by its order in the narrativeJonah is sent to Nineveh — placed by its order in the narrativeUzziah burns incense and is struck with leprosy — placed by its order in the narrative
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1 Kings 12:1–24Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.2 Chronicles 10:1–19Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

RehoboamJeroboamShechem ›
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How we know the date

ISBE reckons back from the fixed date of Samaria's fall and the Assyrian king-lists; Ussher reckons forward from the Bible's own numbers. From here on the timeline follows ISBE, which is the source that dates the later kings against Assyrian and Babylonian records. ISBE's Old Testament chronology (1915) gives 933 BC; Ussher's Annals (1650) gives 975 BC (its year of the world 3029 c). The sources differ by 42 years; the year shown (933 BC) is the one this timeline follows through this stretch, from ISBE (1915).

Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation

The sources, word for word

“So we place the accession of Shishak about 950, his invasion of Judah in 929, and the Disruption in 933 BC.”

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT · gives 933 BC

“3029. c. … Rehoboam, Salomonis filius, Sichcmum convenientc toto Israele ad constituendum eum regem, duro responso decem tribus a se alienat: que, aecersitum cx A gypto, Jeroboam Ephraimitam Nebati filium regem sibi prefieiunt; eoquc duee, et a domo Davidis (Adoramo Rehoboami legato interfeeto) et a vero Dei cultu pariter defi-”

Ussher, Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650), Latin text in The Whole Works of James Ussher, vols. VIII–XI (Dublin, 1864) · vol. VIII, AM 3029 c · gives 975 BC

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