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passages of Judges arc to be reconciled with the computation 

 of tlie first book of Kings : but the very passage in which 

 he assigns the interval from the exod to the foundation of the 

 temple, is important, as atibrding us some argument for our 

 system and supposition: the passage states, the foundation 

 of the temple, was laid " in the fourtii 3'ear of Solomon, the 

 second month, which the Macedonians call Arteraisiuni, the 

 Hebrews Jar, in the 592d year, after tiie Israelites departed 

 out of Egypt; 1022 years after the vocation of Abraham; 

 1440 after the deluge; and 3l02d year of the world." The 

 surplus is 112 years above that in the book of Kings, which 

 is properly supplied by the servitudes, amounting exclimvehj 

 to 11 1 years, so that it was in the second month, or beginning 

 of the 1 12th year. 



If we subduct .the 592 from 1022, the difference is 430 

 years, from the vocation of Abraham to the exod, as assigned 

 in Scripture, and in Josephus himself before. (Antiq. 2. C. 6.) 

 So that it should seem that the number 59'-^, was intended by 

 the historian; but if we subduct 1022 from 1440, the difference, 

 418, is the interval from the deluge to the vocation of Abra- 

 ham; a number not agreeing with either Scripture or Josephus, 

 whether we consider his separate items, or his aggregates: 

 (Ant. 1. 7.) the latter of which is conformable to the Hebrew, 

 (292 years,) whereas again subducting the 1022 from the 

 years of the world, 3102, there remains 2080, nearly, accord- 

 ing (within three years) to the Hebrew. Again, if we subduct, 



1440 from 



