From the Founding of SOLOMON's Temple till the Deftruction of it by NERUCHADNEZZAR 423 Years. 952 3 xv. 28,33. BAASHA (d) 23 929 26 xvi. 8. ELAH (e) I 952 929 928 27 xvi. 10, 15, ZIMRI 7 days 928 928 27. (f) xvi. 23. OMRI (g) 11 928 (a) Solomon laid the foundation of the Temple in the 4th year of his reign; and after that year he reigned 36 years. (b) 17th Compleat. (c) Nadab reigned two parts of 2 years, which together made 1 year. (d) The latter part of Baasha's first year is laid to Nadab's fecond year. (e) Part of two years, or one compleat. (f) To preferve a confiftency with the Chronology of the kings of Ifrael, we muft fuppofe, that Omri reigned with Tibni 4 years, 1 Kings xvi. 21, 22, begining in the 27th year of Afa: that after Tibni's death he reigned alone & years, or 7 compleat, begining at 31A of Afa. For fo the text, 1 Kings xvi. 22, 23. may be read-so Tibni died, and Omri reigned alone in the 31ft year of Afa king of Judah. Omri reigned in all twelve years in Tirzah he reigned fix years. the year T (g) Eleven years compleat. When it is faid, that he reigned twelve years, part of a year is counted for a whole year. (B) Abab reigned but twenty years compleat. See the corresponding part of the oppofite column. (i) This was the third year compleat. (According to Sir ISAAC NEWTON. (n) Or Foram, he reigned eleven years compleat. () Eleven years compleat. (r) The fixth year compleat. (k) About this time Elijah, the Prophet, appeared. (m) Ahaziah reigned one year with his father, and one year alone. (o) Or Joram. It is fuppofed he reigned four years with his father. According to Sir ISAAC NEWTON. (s) Twenty-fecond compleat. (1) The thirty feventh of Joah of Judah is the year in which Joash of Ifrael began to reign with his father; with whom he is fuppofed to reign two years. But thofe two years are not taken into the account, which must be reckoned from the fortieth, or thirty ninth year compleat, when Joah of Ifrael reigned alone. f) Or Joafb. He reigned two years with his father, in all fixteen years. (x) Thofe two years he reigned with his father; and therefore they are not taken in (y) Fourteen years compleat. (x) Jonah, in his younger days, perhaps about twenty eight, might begin to prophefy about this time. (a) Or Uzziah, 2 Chron. xxvi. 1. Ifai. i. 1. vi. 1. Amos i. 1. (b) Amaziab reigned twenty nine years, namely, fourteen years before Jeroboam II. began to reign, and fifteen years after he began to reign. How then could his fon Azariah, or Uzziah, fucceed him in the twenty feventh year of Jeroboam If, when Jeroboam had reigned but fifteen years when Amaziah died? Anf. If Azariah was fixteen, in the twenty feventh of Jeroboam (2 Kings xv. 2.) then he was born in the eleventh year of Jeroboam, and fo was but a minor of four years old in the fifteenth of Jeroboam, when his father Amaziah died. It may therefore be fuppofed, that he was not inaugurated, or crowned king till twelve years after, when he was fixteen years of age in the twenty feventh of Jeroboam: the government in the mean while, being in the hands of a regency. But to preferve the truth of the Chronology, the twelve years of his minority are included in the fifty two years, which he is faid to have reigned. Which twelve years are to be deducted out of the twenty feven of Jeroboam's reign; and fo he will be confidered as fucceeding his father in the fifteenth year of Jeroboam. Thus all will stand right. As the regency governed and tutored the young king exceeding well, the people were in no hafte to have him crowned. (4)About this time Jonah, advanced in years, might prophefy against Nineveh, in the reign of Pul, who foon after invaded the land of Ifrael, 2 Kings xy. 19; but it doth not appear, that he had any defign to conquer it. fe) About this time Ifaiah began to prophefy, Ifai. i. 1. and it is fuppofed, continued to the latter end of Hezekiah's reign. (f) This number is found by fubtracting 52, the years of Azariah, or Uzziah's reign, from 810, which is the year before Christ, when he began to reign. (g) Sixteen compleat, (i) Five compleat. 1.. Fer. i. 2, 3. HI. Captivity of Ifrael by Efarhaddon *] (b) Twenty eight compleat. (k) King Hofbea and his people, the ten tribes were now carried into Affyria by Shalmanefer, king of Affyria, who dwelt at (1) In this year Jeremiah began, and continued till the eleventh year of Zedekiah, Fer. i. 2, 3. Habakkuk and Zephaniah were pro- D |