Kings, Prophets and Empires

What you'll find

• Adams' original wording, transcribed with his own spelling
• King James quotations checked word for word (19 in this book)
• Enlarged details of the chart, each with its caption and explanation
• The books Adams relied on, identified and compared with his text
• The complete panel 6, ready to print at large size (9 sheets, US Letter or A4, about 55 x 62 cm once assembled)

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Use it beside the chart itself: Panel 6 on adamschart.org lets you zoom into every scene the book explains.

Contents

1. Kings, Prophets and Empiresp. 6
2. Reading across the centuriesp. 7
3. David faces Goliathp. 9
4. David and the Psalmsp. 10
5. Forty years as kingp. 11
6. War, rebellion and the altarp. 12
7. Solomon and the books of wisdomp. 13
8. Solomon’s templep. 14
9. The dimensions of the housep. 15
10. A temple built, restored and lostp. 16
11. Zerubbabel’s temple and Herod’s enlargementp. 17
12. The kingdom dividedp. 18
13. Israel: the first royal housesp. 19
14. Israel: Jehu to Hosheap. 20
15. Judah: Rehoboam to Athaliahp. 21
16. Judah: restoration and the templep. 22
17. Judah: the final kingsp. 23
18. Samuel, Kings and Chroniclesp. 24
19. Two lines from Davidp. 25
20. A genealogy and a royal successionp. 26
21. Hosea and Isaiahp. 27
22. The sign on Ahaz’s dialp. 28
23. Jonah, Joel and Amosp. 29
24. Micah and Nahump. 30
25. Zephaniah, Habakkuk and Obadiahp. 31
26. Jeremiah and Lamentationsp. 32
27. The successive deportationsp. 33
28. The end of the two kingdomsp. 34
29. Daniel and Ezekiel in exilep. 35
30. Nebuchadnezzar’s dreamp. 36
31. The kingdoms named beside the imagep. 37
32. A lion with eagle’s wingsp. 38
33. The image in the plain of Durap. 39
34. Belshazzar’s feastp. 40
35. How was the writing read?p. 41
36. The wording in Calmetp. 42
37. Cyrus and the returnp. 43
38. The prophets and the rebuildingp. 44
39. Samaria and the neighbours of the buildersp. 45
40. Ezra, Nehemiah and the continuationp. 46
41. At the continuation of the chartp. 47
42. Judah, Israel and Syriap. 48
43. Kingship and the high priestsp. 49
44. Engines before the wallsp. 50
45. The crow at the wallp. 51
46. The ram and the movable towerp. 52
47. A dictionary’s illustrationsp. 53
48. The kings of Babylonp. 54
49. Babylon: the printed datesp. 55
50. Babylon: the printed datesp. 56
51. The Scythians and Cyrusp. 57
52. Tyre and the Phoenician kingsp. 58
53. Damascus between Israel and Assyriap. 59
54. Seed beneath the ploughsharep. 60
55. Egypt from Shishak to Amasisp. 61
56. Psammetichus and the end of independent Egyptp. 62
57. Two histories of Assyria on one chartp. 63
58. The inscription-based royal listp. 64
59. The winged human-headed lionp. 65
60. Sennacherib on his thronep. 66
61. An archer and a second soldierp. 67
62. Books of clay at Calah and Ninevehp. 68
63. Biblical royal names in inscriptionsp. 69
64. The eclipse and the Assyrian canonp. 70
65. Zoroaster in competing chronologiesp. 71
66. From Media to Persiap. 72
67. Lydia, Sardis and the fall of Croesusp. 73
68. Solon and Aesop before Croesusp. 74
69. Sparta’s two royal housesp. 75
70. The Spartan senate: sixty or thirty?p. 76
71. Athens: kings and archonsp. 77
72. Draco, Solon and the Pisistratidsp. 78
73. Homer and the seven citiesp. 79
74. Greek weapons and the lawgiverp. 80
75. Counting by Olympiadsp. 81
76. Thales, Sappho and the smaller Greek noticesp. 82
77. The squares beside Pythagorasp. 83
78. Macedonia before the great expansionp. 84
79. Latium, Alba Longa and the Tiberp. 85
80. Romulus and Remusp. 86
81. Rome’s kings and the regal totalp. 87
82. Dido and the Carthaginian branchp. 88
83. China’s kings and the beginning of the annalsp. 89
84. The Chinese historian and philosophersp. 90
85. The temple of Diana at Ephesusp. 91
86. Aeschylus at the panel’s edgep. 92
87. The Chaldaeo-Babylonian branchp. 93
88. Babylon as a planned squarep. 94
89. The wheeled war chariotp. 95
90. A Persian soldier and a Median soldierp. 96
91. Belesis and the era of Nabonassarp. 97
92. The divided kingdomsp. 98
93. The ancestry and century rulerp. 99
94. Tyre and its rulersp. 100
95. Repeated royal chronology and Syrian noticesp. 101
96. Egyptian royal successionp. 102
97. Traditional Assyria and the later empirep. 103
98. Lydia and Croesusp. 104
99. Lydia and Croesusp. 105
100. Sparta and its two royal linesp. 106
101. Sparta and its two royal linesp. 107
102. Athens and the archonsp. 108
103. Athens and the archonsp. 109
104. Carthage and its foundationp. 110
105. Chinese rulers and annalsp. 111
106. Chinese rulers and annalsp. 112
107. The lower century labelsp. 113
108. Original readings: Second Samuel, David and Goliathp. 114
109. Original readings: The divided kingdoms — continuedp. 115
110. Original readings: The divided kingdoms — continuedp. 116
111. Original readings: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song — continuedp. 117
112. Original readings: Nahum and the northern kingdom’s end — continuedp. 118
113. Original readings: Jeremiah and the final kings of Judahp. 119
114. Original readings: The temple of Diana at Ephesusp. 120
115. Original readings: The ancestry and century rulerp. 121
116. Original readings: Machines used in siege warfarep. 122
117. Original readings: Repeated royal chronology and Syrian noticesp. 123
118. Original readings: War chariot and Assyrian drill plowp. 124
119. Original readings: Egyptian royal succession — continuedp. 125
120. Original readings: Assyrian kings from inscriptions — continuedp. 126
121. Original readings: Assyrian deity and Sennacheribp. 127
122. Original readings: Babylon and the Chaldaean empire — continuedp. 128
123. Original readings: Traditional Assyria and the later empire — continuedp. 129
124. Original readings: Kings of Israel and Judah: comparison list — continuedp. 130
125. Original readings: The Median succession — continuedp. 131
126. Original readings: Persia and Cyrus at the boundaryp. 132
127. Original readings: Athens and the archonsp. 133
128. Original readings: Athens and the archons — continuedp. 134
129. Original readings: Hesiod, Homer and the disputed birthplace — continuedp. 135
130. Original readings: Macedonian succession — continuedp. 136
131. Original readings: Rome’s foundation and kingsp. 137
132. Original readings: Rome’s foundation and kings — continuedp. 138
133. Original readings: Latium, Alba Longa and the boat — continuedp. 139
134. Original readings: Chinese rulers and annals — continuedp. 140
135. Original readings: The Chinese portraits and Sematsin — continuedp. 141
136. Original readings: The plan of Babylon across the boundaryp. 142
137. Original readings: The Babylonian list continuing from panel five — continuedp. 143
138. Books and editionsp. 144
139. Books and editionsp. 145
140. Books and editionsp. 146
141. Further referencesp. 147