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 proper name in the Protestant Bible, indexed to the chapter: places and the gates, pools and halls within them, every person, every people and sect, the provinces and regions. A curated core carries fuller detail and witnesses from outside the Bible. Place identifications, coordinates and references are drawn from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (CC BY 4.0); personal names, ancient-language forms and family relations from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Disputed identifications are shown with their alternatives.

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  • 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