81 



7 years deficient, in the account of the Eastern Jadges. 

 3623 Saul, first King over all the tribes, after Samuel's go- 

 vernment of 16 years. 



Thus it appears, he calculates the interval between Joshua 

 and the beginning of Saul, 356 years, to which if we add the 

 40 years of Moses' government in the desert, tlie 80 years of 

 Saul and David, and the four first years of Solomon, agreea- 

 ble the passage, 1 Kings, 6-1. we shall have precisely 480 

 years, as in the disputed text. 



From 3623 beginning of Saul, 

 Subduct 3267 Joshua. 



Remains, 356 Interval between them. 

 Add, 40 of Moses in the desert. 



— 80 of David and Saul, 40 years each. 



— 4 of Solomon. 



Sum, 480 years from the exod to the foundation of the 

 temple. - 



It is evident, then, that the principle both of Usher and 

 of Marsham, which originally Avas invented or introduced 

 by Eusebius, in his Chronicle secundum Judaeorum tradi- 

 tiones,* as he says, appears satisfactorily to solve the diffi- 

 culty, at least so far as to agree with the -sacred Iristorian, ia 



M 2 reckoning 



• The Chronicon Paschale also, in the case of Othniel, to *hom it attributes 32 years, 

 reinarks, " that the 8 ytars of the preceding oppression are to be inchided, x«t« t»5 Tv^ko" 

 r«(iiibni5."— p. 78. Edit. Du Cange 



