"And Rehoboam slept with his fathers ... and Abijam his son reigned in his stead" (1 Kings xiv, 31). "Three years reigned he" (xv, 2). "And Abijam slept with his fathers ... and Asa his son reigned in his stead" (1 Kings xv, 8). "Forty and one years reigned he" (10). "And Asa slept with his fathers ... and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead" (1 Kings xv, 24). "And he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem" (xxii, 42). "And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers ... and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead" (1 Kings xxii, 50). "And he reigned eight years" (2 Kings viii, 17). "And Joram [Jehoram] slept with his fathers ... and Ahaziah reigned in his stead" (2 Kings viii, 24). "And he reigned one year" (26). "And he [Ahaziah] fled to Megiddo and died there" (2 Kings xi, 17). "And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. But Jehosheba took Joash the son of Ahaziah ... and he was with her [his nurse] hid in the house of the Lord six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land" (xi, 1-3). "They slew Athaliah" (2 Kings xi, 20). "And they brought down the king [Joash] from the house of the Lord.... And he sat on the throne of the kings" (19). "Forty years reigned he in Jerusalem" (xii, 1). "His servants smote him [Joash] and he died, ... and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead" (2 Kings xii, 21)--"and reigned twenty and nine years" (xiv, 2). "They made a conspiracy against him [Amaziah] ... and slew him" (2 Kings xiv, 19). "And all the people of Judah took Azariah ... and made him king instead of his father, Amaziah" (21). "And he reigned two and fifty years" (xv, 2). "So Azariah slept with his fathers ... and Jotham his son reigned in his stead" (2 Kings xv, 7). "And he reigned sixteen years" (33). "And Jotham slept with his fathers ... and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead" (2 Kings xv, 38)--"and reigned sixteen years" (xvi, 2). "And Ahaz slept with his fathers ... and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead" (2 Kings xvi, 10) "In the sixth year of Hezekiah ... Samaria was taken" (xviii, 10). From the division of the empire, then, to the conquest of Israel by the Assyrians, the reigns of Judah's kings were as follows: Rehoboam, seventeen years, Abijam, three years, Asa, forty-one years, Jehoshaphat, twenty-five years, Joram, eight years, Ahaziah, one years, Athaliah, six years, Joash, forty years, Amaziah, twenty-nine years, Azariah, fifty-two years, Jotham, sixteen years, Ahaz, sixteen years, Hezekiah, six years. Kingdom of Israel.