fame is to be faid of the 24 years attributed to Baafha How to reconcile thefe Dif. ferences. §. 3. There is no better way to reconcile the Chronological Differences about the Kings of Fudah and Ifrael, than by making a due Comparifon betwixt the Synchronisms and Combinations of years of the feveral Kings of both thefe Kingdoms. The following two, Tables exhibit at the fame inftant the mutual Connection of the Reigns of thefe Kings, according to the Te nure nure of the Sacred Scriptures: But because the years of their Reigns are not always correfpondent to this Connection, I have added thofe other years, which, by by reason of their usefulness in reconciling thefe differences, I have called the Chronological years. 232 23 i Kings XV. 33. I II 19 I 1 2 12 28 14 15 I Kings XVI. 8. 1 Kings XXII.52. 2 Kings VIII. 16. 2 Kings XI. 1, 2, 3. C. 16. V. 36. 2 Kings XIII. 1. 2 Kings XIV. I. 52 I о 2 Kings XV. 1. 2 Kings XV. 8. 2 Kings XV. 23. II 2 Kings XV. 17. 22 Kings XV. 23. 28 12 Kings XV. 27. An Of the Epocha of the Temple of SOLOMON. RULES. 1. The exact time of the building of the Temple of Solomon must be determined according to the Sacred History, where we read these following Words, 1 Kings 6.v.1, 10. And it came to pafs in the four hundred and fourfcore year after the Children of Ifrael were come out of the Land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's Reign over Ifrael, in the Month Zif, which is the fecond Month, that he began to build the House of the Lord. 2. The Interval betwixt the departure of the Ifraelites from Egypt, and the time of David (on which depends the Computation of the Epocha of the Temple, as being the fourth year of the Reign of Solomon) ought to be regulated according to the Genealogy of David, described in Ruth 4.20. & feq. 1 Chron. 11. 11. Matth. 1. 5. where it is faid, that Nafhon who lived and died whilft the Ifraelites were in the Defart Numb. 1. v. 7. c. 7. V. 12. begat Salmon, Salmon begat Boatz, Boatz begat Obed, Obed begat Jeffe, and Jeffe David. 3. This Interval ought also to be regulated in fuch a manner as not to be contradictory to the Words of Jephtha, Judg. 11. V. 26. Whilst frael dwelled in Hefhbon and her Towns, and in Aroer and her Towns; and in all the Cities that be along by the Coasts of Arnon three hundred years; why therefore did you not recover them within that time? Which Computation of Jephtha |