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		251-yr. System
PRIOR TO THE OPPRESSIONS
Exodus & Wilderness			40
Joshua Joshua 13:29			7
Elders rule			36
			83

OPPRESSIONS
Cushan
Moabites
Jabin
Midianites
Ammonites
Philistines
			00

JUDGES
Othniel			40
Ehud			80
Shamgar			0
Deborah	The 479-year system		40
Gideon	allows the oppressions		40
Abimelech	to be during the times		3
Tola	of the judges as in the		45
Jair	31 years of Jephthah.
Jephthah	6		31
Ibsan	7
Elon	10
Abdon	8
Samson			20
Eli			40
			339

KINGS

Ark taken, Samuel rules alone			20
David rules in Jerusalem 33 years.			33
Solomon founds the temple in his 4^th year			4
			57

From the exodus to Solomon’s Temple			479

Exodus to First Temple
479 Years?

We have uncovered the 251-year pattern from the time of Adam down to the time the Exodus covering 2510 years.

Suddenly the rabbinic version diverts from the pattern and says there were 480 years from the Exodus to Solomon’s temple, and 480 more years down to the founding of the second temple.

This is based upon allowing the 111 years of oppressions to be absorbed by the 339 years of Judges. This actually defines the period from the Exodus to the temple as 479 years, not 480.

Again, the Judges and kings are counted as being consecutive, not contemporary at any time.

Rabbinic tradition has 20 years from the death of Eli (when the Ark went to the house of Abinadab) until David’ seventh year, when he brought the Ark from the house of Abinadab to Jerusalem.

This view overlooks the time Saul borrowed the Ark in I Sam. 14:18 and undoubtedly returned it before David’s time. The time was perhaps 57 years, not 20, a difference of 37 years.

David brought the Ark to Jerusalem in 1004 BC, but Archbishop James Ussher says Solomon brought the Ark into his new temple in 1004 BC, in his 12^th year.

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