Kings and Prophets
Submitted by tcblack on Sat, 06/14/2008 - 8:55am
This simple chart will help clear up a ton of Old Testament confusion.
From the top to bottom it is a time line starting with the kingship of Saul, David and Solomon. Then the kingdom splits. Judah's kingdom is represented on the left while Israel's 10 tribes are represented on the right.
Next to each king is the length of his reign. The darkened squares indicate kings who for good or evil greatly influenced the course of the nation.
Next to many of the kings you will see the names of the prophets - this is to indicate when and to which kingdom the prophet primarily served.
Finally on the right you see a continuum of the four historical books of the kings indicating in a very rough manner where the kings in question are discussed.
The genesis of this chart came from Paul Benware's Old Testament Survey class at Moody Bible Institute way back in 1992. Thanks Dr. Benware for clearing up the OT!
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Comments
Very nice chart
This really does help withthe big picture... I only wish it would should the overlaps... (Co-Regencies and such....) Thanks!
God Bless,
John
I've had this chart since
I've had this chart since 1992 and I keep meaning to revamp it to show more detail. In the mean time here it is. It does bring a question, what else SHOULD it show?
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My ideas
I would include co-regencies, and mark good and bad kings by color coding, with extreams being a darker shade...
I think chapters markers would get too busy...
A fun project might be to create hyperlinks behind names in the chart for more information, such as chapter markers, maps showing borders during each reign, timelines in Libronix, etc... ;)
God Bless,
John
Great ideas John. One thing
Great ideas John.
One thing I noticed today as I was reading through Chronicles is the amazing number of color gradients I'd have to use. If I colored good kings green and evil kings red I've have green fading to red for a number of kings including Josiah and others. Plus I'd have to take "most evil" Manasseh and code him from red to green. What a wild looking chart that would be.
On the more serious side It was disconcerting to note just how many kings started out well and then crashed and burned.
Good kings turn bad...
Yeah, it is very disappointing how many kings did not finish well... It just goes to prove we must stay on guard, no matter how much good we have done in the past, no matter how old we are, no matter what we think we know...
God Bless,
John