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* Solomon was associated with his father in the kingdom three years before his death; he laid the foundaton of the Temple in the second month after his father's death; the fourth year of his reign, if computed from the time of his association, the first of his reign alone.

THE YEARS.

AGE

5th. From the Foundation of the Temple to the Return from the Babylonian Captivity, 1st year of the reign of Cyrus, 482 years, are computed as follows:

Solomon reigned

after the Foundation of the Temple.
The kingdoms of Juda and Israel from the
separation to the Assyrian Captivity
From the Assyrian Captivity to the Babylo-
nian Captivity, in the 11th of Sedecias,
when the remnant of Juda was carried
into captivity

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260 years.

From the 11th of Sedecias to the 1st of

Cyrus, the termination of the 70 years'
captivity, which commenced the 4th of
Joakim

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[Note.]-3269, date of the Assyrian Captivity, which terminated the Kingdom of Israel after thad lasted 260 years, having been separated from that of Juda by Jeroboam in the reign of Hoboam, the son and successor of Solomon.

* Joram was associated with his father in the kingdom between two and three years; as leduced from 4 Kings iii. 1; and 4 Kings viii. 16, 25.

+Ezechias reigned six years before the captivity and twenty-three after, in all twenty-nine

years.

KINGS OF JUDA AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SEPARATED KINGDOM OF ISRAEL.

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* 3402 A.M. In this year almost all the people of Juda, who had escaped on former occasions, were carried captive to Babylon.

YEARS.

The Sixth Age includes the reigns of the kings from the first year of the reign of Cyrus to the 20th of Artaxerxes, when the 70 weeks [of years] foretold by Daniel commence, according to the more common and more probable opinion. Sixty-nine of these weeks, that is 483 years, appear to have elapsed from this time to the Baptism of Christ, which took place when he was thirty years of age.

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