KING OF ISRAEL · TWO KINGDOMS

Nadab. Two years, ended by a soldier's coup at Gibbethon.

REIGNEDi

2 years c. 910–909 BC (dates vary)

CAPITAL

Not stated

HOUSE

House of Jeroboam 2nd of 19 in Israel

VERDICT

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

PROPHETS

Ahijah the Shilonite

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

ACCESSION

How Nadab came to power

  • “Nadab his son reigned in his stead” when Jeroboam died. 1 Kings 14:20

SUCCESSION

The two kingdoms

THE VERDICT

How Scripture judges the reign

“he did evil in the sight of the LORD”

1 Kings 15:26 (KJV) →

“walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin”

1 Kings 15:26 (KJV) →

BUT ALSO

  • Baasha's slaughter of Jeroboam's whole house is said to fulfil Ahijah's word, “because of the sins of Jeroboam”. 1 Kings 15:29–30

ISRAEL (THE NORTH): 19 RULERS

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

THE KINGDOM

The places Scripture names

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

EVENTS

Wars, works and turning points

Each mark sits at the year of the reign the Bible gives for it.

UNDATED IN SCRIPTURE

THE NATION

What the nation did

  • He kept to his father's way, “his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin”. 1 Kings 15:26

PROPHETS

Prophets of the reign

  • Ah Ahijah the Shilonite His earlier word against Jeroboam's house was fulfilled when Nadab and the whole house were killed.

ON THE WORLD STAGE

The powers of the day

PHILISTIA

DATES DIFFER

When was it?

THIELE, AS REVISED BY MCFALL AND YOUNG

c. 910–909 BC[1]

910/909 to 909/908 BC

ALBRIGHT (1945)

c. 901–900 BC[24]

Printed form: c. 901–900 (p. 20); 2 years (last digit partly lost in the scan's gutter, read from the next reign's start).

TRADITIONAL (USSHER, 1658)

954–953 BC[2]

Years of the world 3050–3051 (Annals, pp. 42–43)

IN SCRIPTURE

Every passage

CHAPTERS · 2

1 Kings 14 1 Kings 15

PASSAGES · 2

1 Kings 14:20 1 Kings 15:25–31

WHAT SCRIPTURE DOES NOT SAY

  • Scripture gives no age, no mother's name and no burial for Nadab.
  • Chronicles does not mention him.

IDENTIFICATIONS THIS PAGE RELIES ON

  • From the textNadab son of Jeroboam; not Nadab the son of Aaron (Exodus 6:23), who shares the name.

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).
  • R. W. Rogers, Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament (1912), p. 304 (Black Obelisk, with Rogers's note 2 on “mar Humri”).
  • 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).
  • S. R. Driver, Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Books of Samuel (Appendix: the Inscription of Mesha) (1890), pp. lxxxvii–lxxxviii (translation), lxxxix and xciv.
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  • A. K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles, Chronicle 1 (facts only; copyrighted, read in Livius's reproduction) (1975), Chronicle 1, column i, lines 27–28.
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