This is a scholarly paper on the commonly accepted dates assigned, by Biblical archaeologists, to the reigns of the kings of Israel and Judah. The data given in the Bible for these reigns has never, to this day, been reconciled to itself. No one has found an acceptable way to lay out a finished chart using the Bible information.
Why?
When you take the data and start to lay it out yourself, you see the reason. The Bible information is nearly impossible to organize - too many (seemingly) conflicting pieces of information are buried in it.
I had the benefit of everyone else's mistakes to work from, and I also discovered that there is a culture of Bible researchers trying to work out the data themselves, for their own reasons (usually because they believe the Bible is the "Word of God" and therefore it must work, somehow).
All, even the most serious scholars, have concocted various codes and methods which they attribute to the Biblical authors, in efforts to prove that the conflicting data actually works - if you just apply all their weird rules and machinations to it.
But none of it is necessary. All of their research was useful to me, but I will show here that the Bible data works. Yes, in this case, the Bible is RIGHT. None of the lists used by Bible scholars are of any real use; they are at best, nearly correct, but all are filled with errors.
I have constructed here a new chart from the Bible's instructions. I am proposing a serious solution to a riddle that has irritated Old Testament scholars for centuries, who in examining the riddle have written many theses about why the data doesn't work, and why it can't work. But IT DOES. Have a look.