Kings of Israel is a board game taking place in Israel (the Northern Kingdom) during the reign of its kings up until Israel's destruction by Assyria. Players are on a team and each person represents a line of prophets that are trying to remove evil and idols from Israel, while building altars to help guide Israel in the upcoming difficult years. If the players are able to build enough altars before the game ends, they win. If the group runs out of sin cubes or idols, or if the timeline token reaches Assyria destroying Israel, the prophets lose.
King's Godliness Phase – During this phase, if a bad king is reigning over Israel the players must draw a Sin and Punishment card, which means bad things happen in Israel because of evil or in response to evil. If a good king is reigning over Israel, the starting player instead gets a blessing in the form of a Blessing card.
Sin Increases Phase – Location cards are drawn and sin increases at each location drawn. This can possibly cause idols to appear or sin to spread further if sin increases at a location already containing an idol.
Prophets Work Phase – In this phase each player gets to use four actions to accomplish their goals. They may use their actions to move, remove sin or idols, draw Resource cards, build an altar, make a sacrifice on an altar, or to give resources to another player. Each player may also play Blessing cards at this time if they have them.
End of Round Phase – The starting player changes to the next player clockwise, and the timeline token moves down to the next king chronologically. In the Easy game, any one who has made a sacrifice that turn would draw a Blessing card.