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and the exodus was four hundred and thirty years after. For, by the consent of all the chronologers, the four hundred and thirty years began when the patriarch, at the divine call, left his land and kindred. And Paul corroborates this in his statement that the law came four hundred and thirty years after the promise. (Gal. iii. 17.) This interpretation is strengthened by the particular reading of the Septuagint in Ex. xii. 40, this translation adding, after the words "who dwelt in Egypt," the words " and in Canaan."

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The chronology of this period, then, according to the Septuagint, is the same as in the Hebrew, viz. : —

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This period is shorter according to the Septuagint than it is according to the Hebrew, and that whether we determine the duration by the single text, I Kings vi. 1, or by the details of the current history. In 1 Kings vi. I, it is said that the temple was begun four hundred and forty years after the chil

*Five MSS. collated by Holmes and the Compl. Ed. have four hundred and eighty in 1 Kings vi. 1.

dren of Israel came out of Egypt, and in the current history only twenty years are assigned to Eli instead of forty, as in the Hebrew. In all other respects the details are the same in both. And both are alike indefinite in regard to the time of Joshua and the Elders, and that of Samuel and Saul.

The duration of this period, then, according to the Septuagint, if we adopt the present reading of 1 Kings vi. 1, is four hundred and forty years; but if we adopt the details in the current history, giving to Joshua twenty-seven years, according to the ancient chronologers generally, and to Samuel and Saul forty, according to Paul (Acts xiii. 18-21), it is six hundred years, as follows:

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* Clinton (Fasti Romani, vol. ii., Append. p. 226) says the details from which the chronology of the period is determined are precisely the same in the LXX as in the Hebrew; and he presents the details in parallel columns in which forty years are assigned to Eli in the LXX. Parker (in a recent elaborate work on Chronology) says the same.

See next note.

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PERIOD V. FROM THE FOUNDATION OF SOLOMON'S TEM PLE TO ITS Destruction BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR.

There are some difficulties in the chronology of this period on account of discrepancies in the sacred

* This is forty in the Complut. Aldine and Georg. Slav. editions of the LXX, and some two or three MSS., as noted by Holmes. But all our present editions have twenty.

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text; but these discrepancies are the same in the Septuagint as in the Hebrew, and the details in regard to numbers upon which the duration of the period rests are precisely the same in both, as fol

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A close examination of the history of the period shows that the numbers of some of the reigns should be reduced by one to denote complete years. Such we regard the third, sixth, and thirteenth reigns. The grounds for this conclusion will be seen on comparing 1 Kings i. 1 and i. 10, 2 Kings viii. 16 and viii. 25, and xvi. 1 and xvii. 1. We have put down the time of those reigns accordingly.

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PERIOD VI. FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE BY Nebuchadnezzar to the Birth of Jesus CHRIST.

The duration of this period cannot be determined by any scriptural data alone. For its commencement and chronological details we have to resort to profane history. In reference to this point, the Septuagint and the Hebrew occupy the same ground. For, as we have before intimated, all essential difference between the two is confined to the first two periods, or the patriarchal ages, there being only a slight discrepancy afterward, viz., in the fourth period, the years of Eli or the statement in 1 Kings vi. 1. Since, then, our object is to give the chronology of the Septuagint, we, without discussion, remark that the destruction of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar has been fixed by means of Ptolemy's canon at about B. C. 586, by the ablest chronolo

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