Kings of Judah
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The Kings of Judah were the monarchs who ruled over the ancient Kingdom of Judah, which was formed in about 930 BC, according to the Hebrew Bible, when the United Kingdom of Israel split, with the peo
The breakup of the united Kingdom of Solomon
Rehoboam
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Rehoboam was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the last monarch of the United Kingdom of Israel, though his reign over the unified state was brief; after the Northern and Southern kingdoms were divided,
Kings of Judah
…in about 930 BC, according to the Hebrew Bible, when the United Kingdom of Israel split, with the people of the northern Kingdom of Israel rejecting Rehoboam as their monarch, leaving him as solely the King of Judah. The capital of the Kingdom of Judah was Jerusalem. All of the kings of Judah lived and died…
Rehoboam, on a fragment of a mural by Hans Holbein the Younger kept at the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland
Rehoboam and Abijah, from the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
David, Solomon, and Rehoboam, by Lucas van Leyden
The Arrogance of Rehoboam, drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger