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The Kings of Judah were the monarchs who ruled over the ancient Kingdom of Judah. According to the biblical account, this kingdom was founded after the death of Saul, when the Tribe of Judah elevated David to rule over it. After seven years, David became king of a reunited Kingdom of Israel. However, in about 930 BC the united kingdom split, with ten of the twelve Tribes of Israel rejecting Solomon's son Rehoboam as their king. The Tribes of Judah and Benjamin remained loyal to Rehoboam, and reformed the Kingdom of Judah, while the other entity continuing to be called the Kingdom of Israel, or just Israel. The capital of the Kingdom of Judah was Jerusalem. All of the kings of Judah lived and died in Judah except for Ahaziah (who died at Megiddo in Israel), Jehoahaz (who died a prisoner in Egypt) and Jeconiah and Zedekiah who were deported as part of the Babylonian captivity. Judah existed until 586 BC, when it was conquered by the Babylonian Empire under Nebuzaradan, captain of Nebuchadnezzar's body-guard. With the deportation of most of the population and the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, the demise of the Kingdom of Judah was complete. The Davidic dynasty began when the tribe of Judah made David its king, following the death of Saul. The Davidic line continued when David became king of the reunited Kingdom of Israel. When the united kingdom split, the tribes of Judah and Benjamin continued to be loyal to the Davidic line, which ruled it until the kingdom was destroyed in 586 BC. However, the Davidic line continued to be respected by the exiles in Babylon, who regarded the exilarchs as kings-in-exile. A more complete biography of the Kings of Judah than that of the Hebrew Bible were written by Iddo the Seer and in the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah, both of which are mentioned in the Bible. However, both of these works have been lost. ==List of Kings== Most modern historians follow either the older chronologies established by William F. Albright or Edwin R. Thiele,〔Edwin Thiele, ''The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings'', (1st ed.; New York: Macmillan, 1951; 2d ed.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965; 3rd ed.; Grand Rapids: Zondervan/Kregel, 1983). ISBN 0-8254-3825-X, 9780825438257〕 or the newer chronologies of Gershon Galil and Kenneth Kitchen,〔''On the Reliability of the Old Testament'' (2003) by Kenneth Kitchen. Grand Rapids and Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8028-4960-1.〕 all of which are shown below. All dates are BCE. {| class="wikitable" style="align: center;" |- !Common/Biblical name ! style="width:7%;"|Albright ! style="width:7%;"|Thiele ! style="width:7%;"|Galil ! style="width:7%;"|Kitchen !Regnal Name and style ! style="width:25%;"|Notes |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:center;"| 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kings of Judah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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