State · 930 – 586 BCE
Kingdom of Judah
A state of 930 – 586 BCE — 344 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) and Canaan. It was replaced by Yehud. The atlas records 25 things within it — wars and battles 4 · people 21. Its line of rulers holds 20 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 344 years
- 930 BCE – 586 BCE
- Rulers
- 20
- the King of Judah
- Most ground
- 4,400 km²
- in 800 BCE
- Within it
- 25
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) · replaces · 1050 – 930 BCE
- Canaan · replaces
After it
- Yehud · replaced by
Rulers
The line of King of Judah.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rehoboam | 931 BCE – 913 BCE | 18 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | |
| Abijah of Judah | 913 BCE – 911 BCE | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Asa of Judah | 911 BCE – 870 BCE | 41 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Jehoshaphat | 870 BCE – 848 BCE | 22 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Jehoram of Judah | 848 BCE – 841 BCE | 7 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Ahaziah of Judah | 841 BCE – 841 BCE | under a year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Athaliah | 841 BCE – 835 BCE | 6 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | parent |
| Jehoash of Judah | 835 BCE – 796 BCE | 39 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | grandchild |
| Amaziah of Judah | 796 BCE – 767 BCE | 29 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Uzziah | 767 BCE – 740 BCE | 27 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Jotham | 740 BCE – 732 BCE | 8 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Ahaz | 732 BCE – 716 BCE | 16 years | the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone | child |
| Hezekiah | 716 BCE – 687 BCE | 29 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Manasseh of Judah | 687 BCE – 643 BCE | 44 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Amon of Judah | 643 BCE – 641 BCE | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Josiah | 641 BCE – 609 BCE | 32 years | died in battleWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Jehoahaz of Judah | 609 BCE – 609 BCE | under a year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Jehoiakim | 609 BCE – 598 BCE | 11 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | sibling |
| Jeconiah | 598 BCE – 597 BCE | 1 year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Zedekiah | 597 BCE – 587 BCE | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone |
20 rulers, 20 with terms dated as terms, covering 931 BCE – 587 BCE. Median reign 13.5 years. 3 of 19 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
3,600 km² in 880 BCE, 4,400 km² in 705 BCE; at its largest 4,400 km² in 780 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flag or arms
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
seal, undatedLmlk-seal impression-h2d-gg22 2003-02-21 · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1000 BCE – 901 BCE3 rows
- Asa of Judah · ruler · 932 – 870 BCE
- Abijah of Judah · ruler · 950 – 911 BCE
- Jehoshaphat · ruler · 905 – 849 BCE
900 BCE – 801 BCE6 rows
- Athaliah · ruler · 898 – 835 BCE
- Ahaziah of Judah · ruler · 863 – 841 BCE
- Amaziah of Judah · ruler · 822 – 767 BCE
- Jehoram of Judah · ruler · 881 – 842 BCE
- Jehoash of Judah · ruler · 842 – 795 BCE
- Uzziah · ruler · 801 – 733 BCE
800 BCE – 701 BCE10 rows · 4 wars and battles
- Isaiah · religious leader · 766 – 686 BCE
- Daniel · religious leader · 701 – 601 BCE
- Hezekiah · ruler · 741 – 686 BCE
- Ahaz · ruler · 763 – 727 BCE
- Manasseh of Judah · ruler · 709 – 642 BCE
- Jotham · ruler · 783 – 732 BCE
- Assyrian siege of Jerusalem · battle · 701 BCE
- Syro-Ephraimite War · war · 736 – 732 BCE
and 2 more in the atlas.
700 BCE – 601 BCE6 rows
- Josiah · ruler · 648 – 609 BCE
- Jehoiakim · ruler · 634 – 598 BCE
- Zedekiah · ruler · 617 – 550 BCE
- Jeconiah · ruler · 616 – 561 BCE
- Amon of Judah · ruler · 664 – 640 BCE
- Jehoahaz of Judah · ruler · 633 – 609 BCE
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood344 years
stood longer than 77% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held4,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 9% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century0.3
had more wars on record per century than 90% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median16 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 51% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record20
has more rulers on record than 91% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 964 BCE – 552 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 800 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q48685 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.