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However, Nebuchadnezzar’s seven years of madness began in 569 BC, one
Jubilee before 520. King Jeconiah was released from prison in 562, when
Nebuchednezzar died. So, the Jubilee in 574 BC (in Ezekiel 40:1) is in the
set of Sabbaticals shown in the right column of TABLE 9. In the Rabbinic view, a Jubilee was in 408 (574) BC, 14
years after the temple burned in 422. The Jubilee is sounded on the tenth day
of the seventh month, on the day of Atonement. More research is needed to determine
if Ezekiel 1:1 is on the 10th day of the first month, in the
spring. (Allegedly, Jeconiah’s reign ended, and his captivity began, on the
10th day of the first month, not in the fall.) Actually, Darius II decreed to build the temple, and Darius III was defeated by Alexander. Darius II’s first year was in 521 BC, and Alexander defeated Darius III in 331 BC, but the rabbinical date is 321 BC (521-321= 200 yrs). |
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TABLE 10. Alternative
Solution Using Sabbaticals
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251-Year System with
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Rabbinic
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Shem to the flood |
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98 |
= 7x14 |
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Flood to the exodus |
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854 |
= 7x122 |
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BC |
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BC |
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Exodus |
2509 |
1256 |
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2448 |
1312 |
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+252 |
-252 |
= 7x36 |
+479 |
-480 |
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David captures Jerusalem |
2761 |
1004 |
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+35 |
-35 |
= 7x5 |
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First temple founded |
2796 |
969 |
2761
+ 166 = 2927 |
2927 |
832 |
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7 |
7 |
= 7x1 |
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First temple finished |
2803 |
962 |
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252 |
252 |
= 7x36 |
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Sabbatical before jubilee |
3055 |
710 |
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TABLE 10 illustrates
an alternative view tracing the sabbaticals from Shem down to 1256 (the year
before the exodus) on through 1004 (the capture of Jerusalem) to 710 BC, when
Isaiah announced a sabbatical and jubilee for 710-709 BC (Isa. 37:30).
Another sabbatical cycle evidently began when 10 tribes of Israel split from
Judah in 931 BC, 210 yrs (7x30) before the Assyrian captivity of Israel (in
721). Evidently, Hezekiah hid Moses’ scroll from the Assyrian invaders, and
lost track of the sabbaticals after 710, until the scroll was found in 623 BC
(721-98) in Josiah’s 18th year. |
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