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time the ark remained in Kirjathjearini. Here then are three 

 different systems, but subduct this twenty, with the 112 of 

 servitudes, and there remains 480, as before. 



He tells us, that Samuel died, at the period assigned in 

 Scripture, during the persecution of David, by Saul. (Lib. 

 6. 14.) after " ruling the people 12 years after the death of 

 Eli, and then 18 in conjunction with Saul;" and he repeats, 

 C. XV. " Saul reigned 18 in the life of Samuel, and 20 after 

 his death. I have already exposed the absurdity of this, 

 Avhen examining the reign of Saul, but I may add here, 

 this does not admit an Interregnum after Eli, it supposes 

 he immediately succeeded him, agreeably to our system, and 

 contrary to that of Vignoles. 



He acknowledges the account of Jephthah, computing 

 300 years from the conquest of the Ammoritcs to his time, 

 as in Scripture, which is, however, directly at variance with 

 his hypothesis, in reckoning the servitudes successively. 

 (Ant. 5. 9-) 



He reckons the jurisdiction of Sampson for 20 years, as 

 succeeding the 40 years oppression of the Philistines, con- 

 trary to the spirit and expression, both of his own proper 

 narrative, and of the testimony of Scripture. (Ant. 5. 10. 

 It should appear therefore, that the various corruptions which 

 meet in the chronology of Josephus, the inconsistency be- 

 tween his separate items and the aggregates he assigns, the 

 incompatible epochs he frequently delivers, and the different 



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