CHRONOLOGY OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH. 261 



Manetho by the omission of 10 years for Nechoa II dislocated 

 all his dates from Dyn. XXIV to XXVI. He recovers his ten 

 years partly by counting the 6 years for Bocchoris twice over ; 

 once for Bokenranf himself and again in the 8 years of Sabacon 

 with whom he was contemporary : the other 4 years he gets by 

 counting the co-regnancy of Shabak and Shabatak twice over, 

 once for each king : this point is so important that I venture to 

 repeat a portion of the table with enlargements showing how 

 Manetho (as in Africanus) and the Chronicle (from whom 

 Eusebius must have obtained his version) derived their 

 numerical data. 



B.C. 



Afric. 





Euseb. 





725 









Zet : Shabak. 



721 







12 



Bokenranf : Shabak. 



717 



8 







Bokenranf : Shabak and Shabatak. 



715 







12 



Shabak and Shabatak. 



713 



14 







Shabatak. 



705 





L 2 1 





Shabatak and Taharqa. 



703 



18 



18 / 



20 ' 



Taharqa. 



Tabulation does not make easy reading, but it affords the 

 most convincing test for those who will take the trouble to 

 examine it. I therefore risk the charge of dulness by giving 

 yet another table of the accessions of the contemporary kintrs 

 for Judah, Israel, Egypt and Assyria mentioned in the Old 

 Testament : — 



B.C. 



Judah. 



Israel. 



Egypt. 



Assyria. 



978 







Shishak. 





961 



Rehoboam . . . 



Jeroboam 



dies 957. 





945 



Abijah. 









944 



Asa ... 





Zerah : cot em. 





902 





Ahab. 







885 









Shalmaneser. 



867 





Jehu. 







763 





Pekah. 







745 



Ahaz. 







Tiglath-pileser. 



743 







