Jeroboam II
King of Israel · 826–784 BC
Also called Jeroboam
See him on the kings chart · On the timeline
His Reign
- Reigned
- forty and one years 2 Kings 14:23
- Began
- in Amaziah’s 15th year 2 Kings 14:23
- Before Him
- Jehoash
- After Him
- Zachariah
In the Sight of the LORD
“he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD” 2 Kings 14:24
Ussher’s Years
- King with His Father 836–826 BC
- “Jeroboam the second, seemeth to have been taken into the consortship of the kingdom”
- Began to Reign 826–784 BC
- “But Ioash departing this life, 15 years before the death of Amazia”
His father Joash took him into the kingdom before going to war with Syria; he reigned alone after Joash died, in Amaziah's fifteenth year (2 Kings 14:23).
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed.
