Person
Nadab נדב
second king of Israel; killed at the siege of Gibbethon
Nadab son of Jeroboam reigned two years and held to his father's way. While Israel's army was besieging Gibbethon, a Philistine town, Baasha of the tribe of Issachar conspired against him and killed him at the walls (1 Kings 15:27).
Once king, Baasha struck down the whole house of Jeroboam, "leaving not a soul"—according to the word of the prophet Ahijah of Shiloh, spoken while Jeroboam still lived. So the north's first dynasty ended with its second king; in two hundred and forty years none would last more than four generations.
On the timeline
2965 · 796 BCEJeroboam ben Nebat and the Golden Calves2988 · 773 BCEThe House of Jeroboam Cut Off: Nadab and Baasha
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Tanakh
- Melachim I (1 Kings) 15:25–31 — the two-year reign, Baasha's conspiracy, and the destruction of Jeroboam's house
Chazal: Mishnah, Talmud, midrash, Zohar
- Seder Olam Rabbah — the count of the regnal years of both kingdoms, on which the whole chronology of the First Temple rests
Basis: stated in the Tanakh.