Nadab of Israel

For the son of Aaron, see Nadab and Abihu.

Nadab
Nadab from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum
King of Israel (Northern Kingdom)
Reign	910–909 BCE
Predecessor	Jeroboam
Successor	Baasha
Father	Jeroboam

Nadab (Hebrew: נָדָב Nāḏāḇ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the second king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel. He was the son and successor of Jeroboam.

Reign

Nadab became king of Israel in the second year of Asa, King of Judah, and reigned for two years.^[1][2] William F. Albright has dated his reign to 901–900 BCE, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 910–909 BCE.^[3]

In the second year of his reign, while they were besieging Gibbethon, a Philistine town in southern Dan, a conspiracy broke out in Nadab's army. He was slain by one of his own captains, Baasha, who then made himself king of Israel.^[2]

Having slain Nadab, Baasha put to death the remainder of the royal family (1 Kings 14:20, 15:25–29). This was consistent with the prophecy given via Ahijah the Shilonite concerning the extinction of the entire House of Jeroboam.^[2]

References

1. 1 Kings 15:25
2. "Nadav", Jewish Encyclopedia
3. Edwin Thiele, The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, (1st ed.; New York: Macmillan, 1951; 2d ed.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965; 3rd ed.; Grand Rapids: Zondervan/Kregel, 1983). ISBN 0-8254-3825-X, 9780825438257

Nadab of Israel Tribe of Ephraim Contemporary Kings of Judah: Asa
Regnal titles
Preceded by Jeroboam I	King of Israel 910–909 BCE	Succeeded by Baasha

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Nadab". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.