Obrazy na stronie
PDF
ePub

A

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

OF THE

KINGS OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL,

And fuch other more remarkable Particulars, as occurred within the Reigns of the faid Kings, and are mentioned in the Books of Samuel, of Kings, and the other following Books of the Old Testament.

IN the Chronological Account, belonging to the first. Volume of this Hiftorical Geography of the Old Testa- . ment, (Part II. Tab. I.) it has been observed, that in fixing the chronology of fuch particulars, as are mentioned in the facred History between the Exodus (or the Ifraelites going out of Egypt) and Solomon's beginning to build the Temple, we must be guided by 1 Kings vi. 1. where we are expressly told, that from the Exodus to the beginning to build Solomon's Temple, were four hundred and fourfcore years. Agreeably hereunto it has been also there observed, that reckoning backwards from the beginning to build Solomon's Temple, and deducting from four hundred and eighty (which, the forecited facred text tells us, fell in with the fourth year of Solomon's reign) the three foregoing years of Solomon's reign, and the forty years of David's reign, and likewise the forty years of Saul's reign; it will follow, that the last year of the Judges,

I 4

Judges, or the year before the first of Saul's reign, must fall in with the three hundred and ninety-fixth year after the Exodus. And because it is also highly probable (as has been before observed, last page but one of Vol. I.) that the battle recorded 1 Sam. vii. put an end to the forty years of fervitude mentioned Judg. xiii. 1. and that the said battle was fought in the three hundred and seventy-feventh year after the Exodus; it will follow, that the time from the said battle to Saul's being made King, were nineteen years, wherein Samuel judged Ifrael. When, or how long before the forementioned battle, Samuel began to judge Ifrael, cannot be determined from the facred History; and therefore I shall begin the following Chronological Table with the first year of Saul's reign, which, according to what is before obferved, must fall in with the three hundred and ninety-seventh year after the Exodus, and fo (according to the calculation in the first volume) fall in with the 1101ft year before Chrift, and the 2849th year of the world.

A CHRO

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

Years of the
World.

[blocks in formation]

mon Year from the REMARKABLE PARTICULARS. of Chrift's Exodus.

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

* It being evident from 1 Kings xv. 1. and other texts, that Jeroboam began his reign in the 981ft year before Chrift; and it being faid, 1 Kings xiv. 20. that Jeroboam reigned 22 years; it follows, that he died in the year (981-21, i. e.) 960 before Chrift. Wherefore this year falling in with the fecond year of Afa's reign, (1 Kings xv. 25.) and Nadab being flain in the third year of Afa, (1 Kings xv. 28.) it follows, that when it is faid, 1 Kings xv. 25. that Nadab reigned two years, thereby is meant, that he reigned part of two years, viz. he began his reign in

960

« PoprzedniaDalej »