World English Bible · The divided kingdom
2 Chronicles 22
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The inhabitants of made his youngest son king in his place, because the band of men who came with the to the camp had slain all the oldest. So the son of king of Judah reigned. was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in . His mother's name was the daughter of . He also walked in the ways of house, because his mother was his in acting wickedly. He did that which was evil in sight, as did house, for they were his after the of his , to his . He also followed their , and went with the son of king of Israel to war against Hazael king of at ; and wounded . He returned to be healed in of the wounds which they had given him at , when he fought against Hazael king of . the son of , king of Judah, went down to see the son of in , because he was sick. Now the of was of , in that he went to ; for when he had come, he went out with against the son of Nimshi, whom had to house. When was executing on house, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brothers of , and killed them. He sought , and they caught him (now he was hiding in ), and they brought him to and killed him; and they , for they said, "He is the son of , who sought with all ." The house of had no to hold . Now when the mother of saw that her son was , she arose and destroyed all the royal of the house of Judah. But Jehoshabeath, the king's daughter, took the son of , and stealthily rescued him from among the king's sons who were slain, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King , the wife of the priest (for she was the sister of ), hid him from , so that she didn't kill him. He was with them hidden in house six years while reigned over the land.
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The world at this moment · The divided kingdom, 931 BC to 745 BC ›
Israel in the north and Judah in the south, often at odds, with Aram of Damascus as the immediate threat and Assyria growing in the distance.
- Aram of Damascus
- The immediate enemy for most of two centuries, close enough to raid every campaigning season and strong enough to take territory. Most of the wars in Kings that read like national emergencies are border wars with Damascus.
- Assyria
- Growing steadily in the distance. Shalmaneser III fights a coalition at Qarqar in 853 BC and his own inscription lists King Ahab of Israel among his opponents with two thousand chariots, the earliest Assyrian mention of an Israelite king. A later monument shows Jehu bowing and paying tribute. Assyria is not yet the destroyer, but it is already taking notes.
- Egypt
- Divided and unreliable, capable of the occasional raid, such as Shishak stripping the temple in Rehoboam's fifth year, but no longer an empire that governs the Levant.
- Further afield
- The Greeks adopt the alphabet, hold the first Olympiad by tradition in 776 BC, and begin to compose the Homeric poems. Rome is founded by tradition in 753 BC, a village of huts at this point. This is the century in which the classical world begins.