Nadab of Israel

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Nadab was the son and successor of Jeroboam, the king of Israel (1 Kings 14:20). William F. Albright has dated his reign to 901 BCE-900 BCE, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 910 BCE-909 BCE. While engaged with his army in besieging Gibbethon, a town of southern Dan (Joshua 19:44), a conspiracy broke out in his army, and he was slain by Baasha (1 Kings 15:25-28), after a reign of two years. The assassination of Nadab was followed by that of his whole house, and so this great Ephraimite family became extinct (1 Kings 15:29).


Tribe of Ephraim
Preceded by:
Jeroboam I
King of Israel
Albright: 901 BC – 900 BC
Thiele: 910 BC – 909 BC
Galil: 909 BC – 908 BC
Succeeded by:
Baasha

This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.