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TABLE 6.  Rabbinic View:
 the first Temple lasted 480 Years

 

KINGS OF ISRAEL & JUDAH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KINGS OF ISRAEL

 

 

 

 

Solomon after
founding temple


36

 

 

 

Jereboam

22

 

 

 

Nadab

2

 

 

 

Baasha

24

 

 

 

Elah

2

 

 

 

Zimri

7 days

 

 

 

Omri

12

 

 

 

Ahab

22

 

 

 

Ahaziah

2

 

 

 

Joram (Jehoram)

12

 

 

 

Jehu

28

 

 

 

Jehoahaz

17

 

 

 

Joash

16

 

 

 

Jereboam II

41

 

 

 

Zechariah

6 mo.

 

 

 

Shallum

1 mo.

 

 

 

Menahem

10

 

 

 

Pekahiah

2

 

 

 

Pekah

20

 

 

 

Hoshea’s 9th year

9

 

 

 

 

277

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KINGS OF JUDAH

 

 

 

 

After Hezekiah’s 6th year

23

 

 

 

(after Assyrian captivity)

 

 

 

 

Manasseh

55

 

 

 

Amon

2

 

 

 

Josiah

31

 

 

 

Jehoahaz

3 mo.

 

 

 

Jehoiakim

11

 

 

 

Jehoiachin

3 mo.

 

 

 

Zedekiah

11

 

 

 

(Temple destroyed)

 

 

 

 

 

133

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total period for temple

410

 

 

    Period without 1st temple

70

 

 

Total for 1st temple

480

 

 

 

 

 

Exodus to the Second Temple 480 + 480 Years?

The rabbinic view shows that Moses’ tabernacle lasted 480 years as in TABLE 4 (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. Seems strange that both lasted 480 years, until 520 BC, when the second temple was founded.

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

The rabbinic view subtracted 166 years from the BC dates after the first temple and overlooked the evidence that the kings of Israel sometimes overlapped other kings of Israel.

The rabbinic view added 166 years prior to the temple by choosing 479 years instead of 251 years between Exodus and the temple and by making the Adam-to-Exodus period 2448 years instead of 2510 years.

These changes prior to the temple amounted to 228 years minus 62 years equals 166 years.

43 Extra Years

Ussher’s Date for the Exodus is 1492 BC, and the temple was founded in 1012 BC, in Solomon’s 4th year. So, there were 480 years from the Exodus to the temple. 

In contrast, if the temple were actually founded in 968 BC, the Exodus would have been in 1448 BC.

Note that one version has Solomon bringing in the Ark in 1004 BC. One has David bringing the Ark to Jerusalem in 1004.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Draft notes on Code 251 discovered by Floyd R. Cox in 1980
Floyd R. Cox, 1721 Mason Dixon Dr., West Lafayette, IN, 47906

 

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