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TABLE 2. Eusebius Said the First Temple Lasted 502 Years
*KINGS OF ISRAEL & JUDAH*


		KINGS OF JUDAH
		Solomon after founding temple 36
		Rehoboam		17
		Abijah		3
		Asa		41
		Jehoshaphat		25
		Jehoram (Joram)		8
		Ahaziah		1
		Athaliah		6
		Joash		40
		Amaziah		29
		Uzziah		52
		Jotham		16
		Ahaz		16
		Hezekiah’s 6^th yr.		6
		(Assyrian captivity)
				296

		KINGS OF JUDAH
	After Hezekiah’s 6^th year			23
	(after Assyrian captivity)
		Manasseh		55
		Amon		2
		Josiah		31
		Jehoahaz	3 mo.
		Jehoiakim		11
		Jehoiachin		3
		Zedekiah		11
		(Temple destroyed)
				136

	Total period for 1^st temple			432
Years until 2^nd temple founded					70
Total for 1^st temple				502

First Temple lasted 502 years?

TABLE 2 suggests there is a 251-year pattern from the time of Adam down to Herod’s temple in 18 BC.

Eusebius, in his Chronicle of 324 AD, page 123, says, “…from Solomon and the first building of the temple until the second year of Darius and the rebuilding of the temple, is 502 years (251 x 2)”. “From that time [from the reign of Darius] onwards, the Jews remained without their own kings.”

The legacy is that the tabernacle in the wilderness lasted 251 years, and the first temple lasted 502 years, until the second temple was founded in 520 BC, 502 years before Herod’s temple in 18 BC.

Herod captured Jerusalem in 37 BC and divulged his plans for remaking the second temple in 19 BC, 46 years before Christ’s ministry in 27 AD (John 2:20). He hired 18,000 workers to begin in 18 BC, 502 years after it was founded in 520 BC.

Therefore, we have evidence for a 251-year pattern in the following eras of the world: Adam, fall of Babel, birth of Abraham, birth of Joseph, the Exodus, Solomon’s temple, second temple down to the beginning of Herod’s temple, and books of the Bible, like Genesis, Exodus, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 2 Chronicles and Nehemiah begin or end with the 251 year pattern.

Nevertheless, Eusebius’ 251-year pat-tern is based upon the first temple (1022 BC), second temple (520 BC) and Herod’s temple (18 BC), not upon the era of Jerusalem (1004 BC), era of Rome (753 BC), Nehemiah’s wall (502 BC) and Christian Era (1 AD).

Herod also built Caesarea, and Eusebius was Bishop of Caesarea in 324 AD with access to its large library.

It becomes evident that previous chronographers have toyed with the idea that the 251-year pattern had existed from antiquity that even the books of the Bible fit into the pattern.

Considering the relationship between Herod and Rome and between Eusebius and Rome, it would seem appropriate that a descendant of Joseph of Arimathea, King Arthur (y-dna haplotypes j-j1-j2) and the Church of England should set the record straight

(http://asis.com/users/stag/royalty.html).

In contrast, the rabbinic view shows that Moses’ tabernacle lasted 480 years (I Kings 6:1), and the temple lasted 480 years. The kings of Israel were counted down to the Assyrian captivity and then the kings of Judah were counted after that as in TABLE 6.

In both cases, the judges and kings were counted in a consecutive manner with no overlapping reigns.