The Age of

Divided Monarchy

931–722 BC

After Solomon the kingdom splits: Israel in the north under Jeroboam, Judah in the south under Rehoboam. This is the best-attested stretch of Israelite history, with Israelite and Judahite kings named in Assyrian royal inscriptions and the Moabite Mesha Stele. It ends with the Assyrian destruction of Samaria in 722 BC.


Around this time

  • 860 BCThe contest on Mount Carmel

Every place named in the Protestant Bible, indexed to the chapter, with a curated core of major sites carrying fuller detail. Place identifications, coordinates and references are drawn from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (CC BY 4.0); disputed identifications are shown with their alternatives.

Drawing the map

Loading terrain and placing the gazetteer.

Map key

Territory

  • Egypt
  • Philistia
  • Israel (northern kingdom)
  • Judah
  • Aram-Damascus
  • Moab
  • Ammon
  • Edom
  • Phoenicia
  • Neo-Assyrian Empire

Zones of control, not surveyed borders.

CertainProbableContestedConjectural
850 BCThe Divided Monarchy