comparative kings

Good kings, in terms of religious leadership or reforms
Good political leaders, but faulted for lack of commitment to God
Kings that showed mixed traits, with some good actions yet significant failures
Especially bad kings, as either political or religious leaders, or both
Kings assassinated or deposed
Kings with too little information or not evaluated

Underlined names are active links to Old Testament History articles.

The United Monarchy
Dates (BC)	Kingdom of the Israelites
1020-1000	Saul
1000-961	David
961-922	Solomon
The Divided Kingdoms
Dates (BC)	Israel (Northern)			Judah (Southern)	Dates (BC)
922-901	Jeroboam I			Rehoboam	922-915
				Abijah	915-913
				Asa	913-873
901-900	Nadab
900-877	Baasha
877-876	Elah			Jehoshaphat	873-849
876	Zimri	Tibni
876-869	Omri
869-850	Ahab
850-849	Ahaziah			Jehoram	849-843
849-843	Joram (Jehoram)			Ahaziah	843
843-815	Jehu			Athaliah (non-Davidic Queen)	843-837
815-802	Jehoahaz			Joash	837-800
802-786	Jehoash (Joash)			Amaziah	800-783
786-746	Jeroboam II			Uzziah (Azariah)	783-742
746-745	Zachariah			Jotham (co-regent)	750-742
745	Shallum			Jotham (king)	742-735
745-737	Menahem
737-736	Pekahiah
736-732	Pekah			Ahaz	735-715
732-724	Hoshea
721	Fall of Samaria
				Hezekiah	715-687
				Manasseh	687-642
				Amon	642-640
				Josiah	640-609
				Jehoahaz	609
				Jehoikim (Eliakim)	609-598
				Jehoiachin (Jeconiah)	598-597
				Zedekiah (Mattaniah)	597-587
				Fall of Jerusalem	587

This chart is based on the chronology of John Bright (A History of Israel, 3rd edition, Westminster, 1981). There are other chronologies of the Israelite kings that differ in some details, for example, that of J. Maxwell Miller in Harper's Bible Dictionary.
The problem of OT chronology is complicated by various factors:

1) some biblical numbers are symbolic or schematized;
2) variant manuscript readings differ;
3) various date references are given in different portions of Scripture;
4) little external verification to cross check dates;
5) different systems of dating;
6) problem of transferring lunar dates into solar dates;
7) different methods of figuring the regnal years of kings;
8) possibility of co-regencies of kings (we know of only one, that of Uzziah and Jotham), etc.

All of these factors make figuring a chronology of the Israelite kings much less precise than we are accustomed.
The purpose here is not to solve the historical debates but to provide a general relative time frame of Old Testament events for the purposes of biblical interpretation.  The reader should be aware that these dates are not absolute, and could change in light of new evidence.