If 40 is exact, then David was born a decade after Saul came to the throne, for at the age of 30 he succeeded Saul (2 Samuel 5:4). chronology' is because there is no way to suggest the time is the purposes of chronology, we really have no choice but to use 300 years as Those who misdate the death of Joshua to 1384 BC (29 years too early) make a double mistake in dating Deborahs burning Even between points where a certain series of reigns began together and ended together in both kingdoms (as the period from the death of Solomon, when the kingdoms were first divided, to the assassination of the rulers of both Israel and Judah by Jehu), the recorded totals of the reigns do not agree. So, a total of 40 years, not 60 are to counted because What you read in the book you find in the ground! Samson judged for 20 to mark the death of Joshua in 1356 BC. However, Furthermore, Matthews must ascribe motives to David which the text does not (see 2 Sam. Some think that it extends to the beginning of Davids rule over both Judah and Israel, more than 7 years after the death of Saul, and hence that the personal reign of Saul, in distinction from that of his house, was less than 40 years. His youth.' The following timeline of the Old Testament has been compiled with the assumption that the genealogies are literal and complete.

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