The kingdom divides

When did it happen?

Modern reckoning

931 BC

Traditional reckoning

975 BC

How it's dated

the Bible's numbers + Assyrian records

Thiele's 931/930 BC works back from Assyrian dates for Ahab (853 BC) and Jehu (841 BC).

Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.

Sources: Theographic event 164; Thiele (1983).

Where is it in the Bible?

• 1 Kings 11:43
• 1 Kings 12:19

Who was there, and where?

• Solomon

Where: Jerusalem.

Which verses connect to 1 Kings 12:19?

The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).

1. 2 Kings 17:214 votes

   When the LORD had torn Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam led Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin.

2. 2 Chronicles 10:192 votes

   So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.

3. Joshua 4:91 vote

   Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.

4. 1 Samuel 10:191 vote

   But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”

5. 2 Chronicles 13:5–71 vote

   Do you not know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt? Yet Jeroboam son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master. …

6. 2 Chronicles 13:171 vote

   Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.