Eleazar







(Eli)

HIGH PRIEST LINEAGE
Aaron

Phineas
Abishua
Bukki
Uzzi
Zerahiah
Meraioth
Amariah
Azariah

'There was a long war between the House of Saul and the House of David' (2 Sam.3:1).

Ahijah

David
son of Jesse
rules over all Israel for 33 years

Abiathar
(Eli's line ends)

Zadok
(2 Sa.15:27)
Ahimaaz
Azariah

Solomon
son of David & Bathsheba

Azariah

Jeroboam I
son of Nebat & Zeruah

Rehoboam
son of Solomon & Naamah the Ammonite

Nadab
son of Jeroboam &

Abijah/Abijam
son of Rehoboam & Maacah/Micaiah, daughter of Absolom/Abishalom/Uriel

Basha
son of Ahijah &

Elah
son of Baasha & 

Omri
son of 

Jehoshaphat
son of Asa & Azuba, daughter of Shilhi

Ahab
son of Omri & 

Ahaziah
son of Ahab & Jezebel

Jehoram/Joram
son of Ahab & Jezebel

Jehoram
son of Jehoshaphat & 

Jehu

Jehoahaz/Ahaziah
son of Jehoram & Athaliah daughter of Ahab

Jehoiada

Jehoahaz
son of Jehu

Joash/Jehoash
son of Ahaziah & Zibiah of Beersheba,
on his childhood survival hinged the survival of the Davidic Dynasty and fulfillment of it's messianic prophecies. (rescued by Jehoshabeath, daughter of Jehoram and wife of High Priest Jehoiada).
Assassinated by palace officials Jozacar and Jehozabad (2 Kg.12:21).

Joash/Jehoash
son of Jehoahaz

Amaziah
son of Joash & Jehoaddin of Jerusalem
Later, executes the assassins
Flees to Lachish but is assassinated there.

Jeroboam II
son of Joash & 

Azariah/Uzziah
son of Amaziah & Jecoliah of Jerusalem,
married Jerusha (daughter of Zadok).

Zechariah
son of Jeroboam & 
assassinated by Shallum

A leper living in quarantine until his death
Jotham his son acts as regent.

Shallum
son of Jabesh & 

Jotham
son of Azariah & Jerusha, daughter of Zadok
his kingdom begins to be raided by Pekah of Israel & Rezin of Syria

Menahem
son of Gadi & 
committed atrocity at Tiphsah
buys off Assyrian invaders

Ahaz
son of Jotham & 
sacrifices his son as an offering (2 Kg.16:3).
Pekah of Israel & Rezin of Syria invade Judah & beseige Jerusalem
Edomites supplant Judah at Elath on the Red Sea gulf of Aqaba

Pekahiah
son of Menahem & 
assassinated by Pekah

Temple treasure used to bribe the Assyrians to attack Syria.

Pekah
son of Remaliah
Assyria invades and deports
assassinated by Hoshea

Oded
(2 Chron.28:9)

Hezekiah
son of Ahaz & Abi, daughter of Zechariah
in his sixth year Israel is deported
in his 14th year Sennacherib of Assyria invades Judah
Hezekiah at death's door is given another 15 years.

Azariah
(2 Chron.31:10)

Hoshea
son of Elah &
child sacrifice continues

Manasseh
son of Hezekiah & Hephzibah

Shalmaneser of Assyria invades
and deports the population Assyria imports a new population.

Amon
son of Manasseh &

Josiah
son of Amon &

Huldah
Jeremiah

Hilkiah

Jehoahaz
son of Josiah &

Jehoiakim
born Eliakim, son of Josiah & Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah

Jehoiachin
son of 

Maaseiah

Zedekiah
son of 

Pashur
Jehoiada
Seraiah

Uriah





Eliashib

'Now after these things,
in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia,
Aaron
Eleazar,
Phinehas,
Abishua,
Bukki,
Uzzi,
Zerahiah,
Meraioth,
Azariah,
Amariah,
Ahitub,
Zadok,
Shallum,
Hilkiah,
Azariah,
Seraiah,
Ezra
(Ez.7:1-5).

Annas
Caiaphas