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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			8
Moabites			18
Jabin			20
Midianites			7
Ammonites			18
Philistines			40
			111

JUDGES
Othniel			40
Ehud			80
Shamgar			0
Deborah			40
Gideon	111		40
Abimelech	339		3
Tola	Acts 13:20-- 450		23
Jair			22
Jephthah			6
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			590

Exodus to First Temple 590 Years?

We have uncovered the 251-year pattern from the time of Adam down to the time the Exodus. Does the pattern continue after the Exodus and after David and Solomon?

Difficulty in finding the answers has stemmed from the period of the judges and kings of Israel and Judah.

As the legacy goes, there were perhaps 590 years from the Exodus to Solomon’s temple. This is based upon 111 years of oppressions and 339 years of Judges, which makes 450 years as in Acts 13:20. This defines the period from the Exodus to the temple as 590 years.

Josephus said there were 2510 years from Adam to the Exodus and 592 years from the Exodus to the temple. The Classical writers often said the Exodus was 590 years before the temple, when the Hyksos were driven from Egypt.

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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