KING OF ISRAEL · TWO KINGDOMS

Jehoahaz. Seventeen years under Hazael's oppression.

REIGNEDi

17 years c. 814–798 BC (dates vary)

CAPITAL

Samaria

HOUSE

House of Jehu 11th of 19 in Israel

VERDICT

✕ Did evil “he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD”

PROPHETS

Elisha

ISRAEL (THE NORTH): 19 RULERS JEROBOAM I → HOSHEA

ACCESSION

How Jehoahaz came to power

  • “Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.” 2 Kings 10:35

SUCCESSION

The two kingdoms

THE VERDICT

How Scripture judges the reign

“he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD”

2 Kings 13:2 (KJV) →

“followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom”

2 Kings 13:2 (KJV) →

BUT ALSO

  • Even after relief, “they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam ... and there remained the grove also in Samaria”. 2 Kings 13:6

ISRAEL (THE NORTH): 19 RULERS

✓ Did right ✕ Did evil ◐ Mixed ● No verdict formula

THE KINGDOM

Samaria and the places of the reign

Israel (the north). Only places Scripture names are shown, each where the Atlas puts it.

EVENTS

Wars, works and turning points

UNDATED IN SCRIPTURE

THE NATION

What the nation did

  • The sins of Jeroboam continued, and “the grove” remained in Samaria. 2 Kings 13:6

PROPHETS

Prophets of the reign

  • El Elisha Elisha had wept before Hazael, foreseeing “the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel”.

ON THE WORLD STAGE

The powers of the day

ARAM (SYRIA) OF DAMASCUS

Hazael · Ben-hadad son of Hazael

DATES DIFFER

When was it?

THIELE, AS REVISED BY MCFALL AND YOUNG

c. 814–798 BC[1]

814/813 to 798 BC

ALBRIGHT (1945)

c. 815–801 BC[24]

Printed form: c. 815–801 (p. 21); printed as Joahaz; 15 years against the Hebrew text's 17.

TRADITIONAL (USSHER, 1658)

856–839 BC[2]

Years of the world 3148–3165 (Annals, p. 51)

IN SCRIPTURE

Every passage

CHAPTERS · 2

2 Kings 10 2 Kings 13

PASSAGES · 3

2 Kings 10:35 2 Kings 13:1–9 2 Kings 13:22–23

WHAT SCRIPTURE DOES NOT SAY

  • Scripture does not name the “saviour” of 2 Kings 13:5.
  • Scripture gives no age or mother's name for Jehoahaz, and Chronicles does not mention him.

IDENTIFICATIONS THIS PAGE RELIES ON

  • From the textJehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel; not Jehoahaz (Shallum) son of Josiah, king of Judah (2 Kings 23:30).

SOURCES

Where this page comes from

  • Rodger C. Young, Chronological tables: Table 1, Chronology of the Kings of Israel; Table 3, Synchronisms, Israel to Judah (Thiele's system as revised by McFall and Young; dates cited as facts only) (undated web tables, read 2026-10-07), Tables 1 and 3.
  • James Ussher, The Annals of the World (English translation of the Annales) (1658), The fifth Age of the World, pp. 40–69 (read from the page scans).
  • D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, vol. 1 (Shalmaneser III to Tiglath-pileser III) (1926), §594 (the Monolith Inscription from Kurkh) and §611, p. 223.
  • D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, vol. 1 (Shalmaneser III to Tiglath-pileser III) (1926), §553 (the Black Obelisk) and §590, p. 211.
  • D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, vol. 1 (Shalmaneser III to Tiglath-pileser III) (1926), §672, p. 243 (annals, 18th year).
  • D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, vol. 1 (Shalmaneser III to Tiglath-pileser III) (1926), §§732, 739–740, pp. 260–263 (Adad-nirari III: reign dates; the slab from Calah).
  • D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, vol. 1 (Shalmaneser III to Tiglath-pileser III) (1926), §772, p. 276 (Tiglath-pileser III, annals).
  • D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, vol. 1 (Shalmaneser III to Tiglath-pileser III) (1926), §779, pp. 279–280 (Tiglath-pileser III).
  • D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, vol. 1 (Shalmaneser III to Tiglath-pileser III) (1926), §§815–816, p. 293 (Tiglath-pileser III, fragmentary annals text).
  • D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, vol. 2 (Sargon onward) (1927), §4, p. 2 (Sargon's annals, year 1).
  • D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, vol. 2 (Sargon onward) (1927), §55, p. 26 (Sargon's display inscription).
  • D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, vol. 2 (Sargon onward) (1927), §1198, p. 437 (eponym list with notes, years 727–723).
  • R. W. Rogers, Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament (1912), p. 296 (Monolith, Qarqar).
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  • R. W. Rogers, Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament (1912), p. 308 (Tiglath-pileser and “Pulu”).
  • R. W. Rogers, Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament (1912), p. 316 (Tiglath-pileser's annals, line 150).
  • R. W. Rogers, Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament (1912), pp. 319–321 (Tiglath-pileser on Pekah and Hoshea).
  • R. W. Rogers, Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament (1912), pp. 323, 326 and 331 (Sargon and the fall of Samaria).
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