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years added to Joshua, and the two added to Othniel (if the 

 solution in the last observ^ation is admitted) to complete his 

 50 above the 40 of repose, and the 8 of the first servitude 

 will grant us the 4 years of Jair deficient ; so that adopting 

 those amendments, we might read in the catalogue of Cle- 

 mens, instead of " the Ammonites 18 years," " Jair 22 years," 

 and the totals would remain unvaried. 



4. He evidently agrees Avith the Scripture and our calculus, 

 in accounting the years of Sampson contemporary to the 5th 

 oppression of the Philistines, since he omits his years. 



5. It is clear he does not reckon any interregnum between 

 the conclusion of the jurisdiction of Eli, and the commence- 

 ment of that of Samuel, and thereby considerably strengthens 

 our arguments on this epoch, against the authority of Vignoles 

 and his followers. 



6. Since Clemens does not admit this interregnum, and (as 

 amended by Vignoles) allots only 20 years and 7 months to 

 the administration of Samuel ; he grants a great degree of 

 versimilitude to my conjectures on the text (Saml. 7- 2.) on 

 •which so much stress has been laid, and shews us it was prob- 

 ably in the second or third year of Saul, the ark was brought 

 back to Shiloh. 



7. Admitting the correction of Vignoles in the point of 

 Samuel's government, and adding the twenty years of Sau} 

 .after the renewal of the kingdom, we derive 40 years and 

 7 months for the duration of the authority of both, agree- 

 ably 



