Chronology of Man

Chronology of Man

According to Scripture

by Bill Bonnett

Thanks first to the Lord for putting this into my heart.

Second, to my wife who continually helps and supports me, Gal. 2:18 & Pro. 31.

P R E F A C E

I was hesitant to attempt this study let alone put it into a book form. Part of me said it was prideful of me to write this assuming I could share a “new” thing, another part thought, “And who am I to speak on the Lord’s behalf?” I am writing this not to prove I am correct and everyone is wrong, but to challenge you to think how we got to this point in time and how many wonderful gems are in Scripture. I am a follower of Jesus the Christ, and since I have the Holy Spirit and a deep desire for the truth, He has guided me to do this work.

I saw a great movie about a bible professor that wanted to write a book. He never neglected the importance of a moral, but did not see the importance of including the Author, Jesus Christ, as the Authority, by which he spoke. Because of that, a colleague wanted to show him the consequence of this decision and the impact of teaching only morals. He sent the bible professor 100 years into the future. He was amazed not of the advancement of technology, but in how bored the church was, how acceptable sin had become, even to the point it was illegal to speak the Name of Jesus in a public school. That’s when I understood what I knew to already be true, that Jesus nor His word would require anyone to defend Them, but to speak only the truth. Therefore, the question is the same now as it was for Pilot, in John 18:38, “What is truth?” Do we hold scripture as truth? When you read that there is “…therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit,” do you believe it? When we tell our kids they should not steal or that they should not lie, by whose Authority do we speak? If you do not state the Author, then the words are meaningless. Why? Because if we are shown that there is an Authority, therefore we are held accountable. This is the very reason why people so blindly accept evolution over scripture. Because, if scripture says that there was a beginning, and the words are true, then the rest of scripture is true and therefore, we are dead in our sins, condemned, and there is NOTHING we can do about it. No one likes to be told the truth who has conviction in their heart, so if the Truth is removed, then there is no conviction to acknowledge, “…having their conscience seared with a hot iron...”

Life changes all around us continually; yet, because we are a part of it, we tend not to notice. Leave for a year and come back and you will see all the changes. This is true of sin as well. A “little” sin isn’t noticed so much, and if it is not challenged, then sooner or later, more slips in until you find yourself in a quagmire of unexplainable apathy. Psalms 139:23-24 cries out, “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” So subtle is sin, we require the Lord to point it out to us. Are you willing to listen? Are you willing to stand up against it? I’m certain you said, “Yes”, but when you witness sin, do you do anything about it? If a coworker uses the Lord’s Name in vain, do you say anything to them or are you quiet about it? What about that movie you watched last weekend that contained a murder scene, a risqué peak into a bedroom, or unbridled foul language; do you turn it off? It may seem I’m pointing fingers, but these issues are concerns I have to deal with myself. No one is immune to sin; we are commanded not to be slaves to sin. Edmund Burke is credited for writing, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” It is irrelevant whether he wrote this or not, the words echo truth. If you do nothing, sin will abound.

So again, I ask, do you hold Scripture as true when it contradicts history books, over what you learned in school, or even what you see, or hear, or even what you comprehend as truth? On what basis do you hold your understanding to be true? A case in point: Wikipedia, although popular, many people won't use it as a source because anyone can say anything, so by default the information is automatically suspect. As the movie stated, scripture is accurate, but when science contradicts scripture, the science is flawed. The Lord planted that in my heart many years ago and I still believe it today.

II Timothy 3:16-17 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”

Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

II Corinthians 4:3-6 “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”

Revelation 3:18 “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.”

Jesus brought truth and grace and fulfilled the law in the flesh.

John 1:17 "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."

Romans 8:3-4 "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

None of us can do that. As we were prisoners of the Law, Jesus made us prisoners of Righteousness. We are transformed from the enemy of God to the sons of God through Jesus. This is reiterated in the event of the Mount of Transfiguration.

Matthew 17:1-8 "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only."

Just in the name of those that attend is a great revelation:

Peter means Stone (the Law); James comes from Jacob which means the supplanter, i.e. replaces; and John means favored of God - grace. Just by their names, you can see the mission of the Lord here on earth:

Salvation comes by taking the law and replacing it with grace.

Peter, being so fearful, tried to honor the event by wanting to erect a monument to Moses, Jesus and Elijah. The problem was so severe that God the Father Himself spoke; affirming that Jesus was His Beloved and they were to listen to Him. Peter tried to lower Jesus and elevate the Law and the Prophets making them equal. But, Jesus came to fulfill the Law because the Law kills. Jesus gave the Law to Moses to show that man cannot keep the Law, even if they so wish to. So why would the Lord give an impossible law? The single most hated thing is self-righteousness.

Isaiah 64:6 “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”

“Filthy rags” in the Hebrew is menstrual rags. That’s how gross self-righteousness is in the eyes of God. In Exodus 19, Moses was called up to receive the Law verbally so he could rehearse it in the ears of Israel in Exodus 20. This is what they said:

Exodus 19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.”

Again the Lord asked if Israel would keep His Law, and they replied:

Exodus 24:3 “And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.”

Pride, arrogance, ignorance and self-righteousness reverberated throughout the camp, and they accepted God’s challenge instead of humbling themselves and asked for mercy. From the first Passover to Sinai, not one Israeli died even though all they did was murmur against Moses and God. As soon as they accepted the Law, Moses went up to get the tablets. While he tarried, they broke the first commandment –

Exodus 20:2-6 “I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”

Exodus 32:4 “And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.”

As soon as the Law was given, they sinned, and three thousand died! God showed their self-righteousness wasn’t enough and they died in their sins.

Knowing that not all are like those that left Egypt, the Lord would send His prophets that gave hope of another way. What is the thing that the devil and man succeeded in doing with the Law? Cheapen it and hold man hostage through condemnation and guilt. Even Christians today are filled with this same mentality as the Pharisees – knowing full well that no one can keep the Law, the Pharisees watered it down to a bunch of legalistic rituals. Where preachers are to teach grace, they teach “don’t do this” “don’t do that” “love God” – all impossibilities because it’s the Law repackaged for today’s legalistic rituals. Jesus came to change all that!

What was the first thing Jesus said after the Father said to listen to Him? "Arise, and be not afraid!"

The Pharisees cheapened the Law by making it "manageable" for man to think righteousness was obtainable. But under the Law, the judgment exceeds the sacrifice as is illustrated when Elijah fought with the prophets of Ba'al in I Kings 18. He had water poured onto the sacrifice. When God responded, not only was the sacrifice consumed, but the wood, stone alter, water and even the dust. When Jesus taught the Law this is what He said:

Matthew 5:27-29 "Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell."

Jesus restored the impossibility of keeping the Law back to its original intent. God never wanted the Israelites to accept the Law. From Abraham to Mount Sinai they lived under grace! No one died despite their murmurings and complaints. Yet, as soon as they arrogantly said they could keep the Law, they built an idol of gold and worshiped it. Three thousand died that day. Yet, after the death, burial and resurrection of the Lamb (Jesus Christ), fifty days later, on the same day Israel received the Law, the day of Pentecost, they received the Holy Spirit and three thousand were saved.

Acts 2:41 “Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.”

The Law kills, Grace gives life!

Where the Law, written on stone, revived sin which kills us, God calls it the ministry of death.

II Corinthians 3:6-11 "Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious."

The only thing written in stone was the Law - the Ten Commandments. If we could keep the Law, then why did Jesus have to come! Since this was one of my biggest issues with this correct thinking, I'm going to address the following:

Romans 8:1-2 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."

Prosperity preachers stop quoting this verse after they say "Christ Jesus", but the Spirit put it in there. I've even heard some say the next part of the verse was added by legalists. Yet, I contend that we are not the ones walking after Salvation, but the Spirit, therefore there is no condemnation which are in Christ Jesus. The Spirit wouldn't qualify that else we're back to the Law: do good get good; do bad get bad. Is it not the Spirit that quickens us?

Ephesians 2:5-7 "Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus."

Since we're dead, how can we be subject to sin?

Romans 6:1-2 "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?"

Understand God loves us personally, that we are dead to sin, and quickened to the life in Christ Jesus, there IS no more condemnation. There's no condition. We walk simply in faith just as we are saved by faith. Do you not understand that we are sheep and prisoners? What do they have in common? They both must be taken care of. The means to DO is not within them. They follow the Shepherd or the Warden.

Romans 4:13-16 "For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,"

This is a truth: if we are heirs of the world, now can we do that sickly or poor? It's the devil that steals these promises. If you don't believe that kind of thinking, then read this verse:

I John 4:17 "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world."

"...because as he is, so are we in this world"! This isn't a future promise, but one of His grace on us NOW, HERE on earth! Hallelujah! Glory to God! I have finally come to the understanding of what Paul meant in Romans seven. I wish to paraphrase first before you read the longest scripture reference of this study. The Law is righteous. But it demands righteousness from us. We don’t have it, so our punishment is death. Any offence, no matter the size, carries a minimum sentence of death! God in His love says, “Though the Law is right, there is no love.” Paul shows the war within each Christian: those things I don’t want to do, I do them, sin. The things I want to do, I don’t do them, do right. I know you’ve heard some preacher say “Love the Lord your God with all your heart mind and soul.” He was quoting Jesus. I can’t love myself that way, how can I possibly live that way towards someone I can’t see or feel or grasp!? Face it, Jesus was only elevating the Law back to its proper place – an impossibility. Yet over and over Christians become slaves to a lie that somehow if only they did this or did that they could obtain this status. If you can’t do anything to get saved, what makes you think you can do anything to live a saved life? It’s all self-righteousness and it stinks on high! The sentence Paul says shows the condition these preachers are suffering from and pass it on to their flocks: “I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.” And he clarifies it even one step more: “I see another law…warring against the law of my mind…bringing me into captivity to the law of sin…” Today we wake up, thank the Lord, praise Him, sing to Him in the shower, kiss the family good bye, and off to work we go. On the way to work some guy cuts you off almost causing an accident and out vomits angry profanity. All the joy you had earlier is swallowed up with a little whisper – not necessarily from the devil – but the Law within, taught in church, understood by misreading scriptures – whatever the case, you’re now devastated. You feel like a hypocrite, a phony. This is the war Paul is explaining. He finally cries out “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” Thankfully he answers his own question and ends this internal war – even after reading it, I couldn’t understand exactly what to DO.

“I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”

It boils down to one thing: right thinking, which leads to right doing.

You know the Law – or at least what your parents or pastors teach: don’t do this, don’t do that. What is it you want to do? Those things you’re told not to do. Why? That’s the sin within. When we’re saved, sin is not remove from our bodies, only the freedom from sin. I know, that doesn’t make sense. But it does. You see, Jesus lived in the flesh the lives He knows we cannot live in. We’re born into sin – it’s like trying to live without a heart. It cannot be done. Jesus, Who knew no sin, lived a life just like us, but without sin, and in the flesh won this conflicting war. Then He gave up His sinless life to become sin for us on the cross. He took our sin and we took His righteousness. Stop thinking of sin as a verb and see if for what it is, a noun. If you understand that when you call on the Name of Jesus to save you, you are no longer under the Law of sin!

I once had a debt of over $110,000 in credit cards and a mortgage of over $200,000. I only made $75,000 per year and had three growing kids. There was no hope for me. I prayed, surrendered the cards (I shredded them) and lived within the extreme limits of my salary – which to some was awesome. Even still, it’d be the rest of my life before I could get out of debt. Nothing I did would work. But!!! God heard me, blessed me, and now I have no debt and more funds than I need so I use it to help others. Do I ever want to go back into debt with all the pressures and worries that come with it? No way! My right thinking NOW keeps me from falling back into debt. When you believe you must “do” to be holy, you’ll only fall deeper into sin debt. Then because you are conscience of your deeds, you condemn yourself. Then because you feel so bad, you only want relief, so you take some false “joy” in sin (name your vice here – food, drugs, shopping, porn, etc.) and the cycle repeats. When you take hold of the thought that you are free from sin (though it still resides in your mortal body, that “old” man) your spirit and soul are free from sin, you focus on the wonderful gift the Lord has given you. Faith. Grace. More Faith. More Grace. That’s the correct cycle. So do we sin so grace can fix us? NO! Why would I want to go back into debt? When you sin, you repent – which means change your mind – and move on it was paid for before you were even born let alone the moment you committed it. So now read:

Romans 7:14-25 “For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”

God does not want behavioral modification; He wants right thinking, so you can have right living.

Introduction

I had never intended to undergo a project of this size, being outside my comfort zone and what I thought was above my educational level, but, as with erecting a huge building, you have to start with the foundation. To me the foundation of anything spiritual had to be Jesus Christ and the written Word of God He left for us over the span of Earth’s history.

But, I’m getting ahead of myself. I, like many Christians, like reading about the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. I bought a book about the end times and how Israel became a nation exactly so many days after the order to rebuild the city as prophesied by Daniel. Not one to let others do my homework; I decided to see if such a thing existed in the Bible. At first I thought, “How hard could it be?” Well let me tell you, I had to learn about the Jewish, the Roman, the Julian, and the Gregorian calendars. Then learn how to convert from one to another. Since I liked to program, I now had a project. The only algorithm I could find on the rules for the Jewish calendar was written in C++ code. I wasn’t very good with C++ but I did understand Visual Basic, so I converted the code. After pouring over the code, I found that they had an ingenious way of converting the dates, by using the Serial Day Number – also known as the Julian Day Number, defined as noon Universal Time (UT) Monday, January 1, 4713 BC in the Julian calendar. The date given in Gregorian, Julian or Jewish would be converted to that day number. That answer would then be translated into the desired calendar and then reversed. If the final answer was correct, then the resulting conversion was correct. Here’s an example:

Gregorian day (today’s calendar) of August 10, 2008 is converted to 2454689.5 in the Julian Day Number. That number is then converted from 2454689.5 to the Jewish calendar of Av 9, 5768 at noon. That date, Av 9, 5768, is then converted back to the Julian Day Number of 2454689.5. Next, it converts it from 2454689.5 to the Gregorian date of August 10, 2008. If this date matches the date entered, it is correct and “Av 9, 5768” is presented. I put this on my web site at http://www.abdicate.net/cal.aspx.

The reason for doing it this way is to increase the level of accuracy. If the calculations are incorrect, they would show up by presenting different dates. In addition to the process above, there is another step; it includes being converted into the Julian calendar and back as well. This is like taking pounds and changing it to kilograms and then to ounces and then to troy ounces and back to pounds. Each step requires a different mathematical conversion increasing the accuracy of the final product.

After working on it for a few months, I put in the dates the book stated and the number of days since the call to rebuild the city of Jerusalem and found that they were short an entire year by their standards and the rest of the “history” books. Well, I decided to find the date of the “…that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem…” (Daniel 9:25) I needed to do some more homework. This is where the foundation thought came to mind. If I was going to undertake finding this date, I had to put scripture above any history book. Did I truly believe II Timothy 3:16-17?

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works”?

It was then I decided that I would not eliminate any verse just because it did not “fit” into my chronology.

Finally, I wrestled with God on this project mostly because, who was I to dispute folks with PhD’s and other grandiose degrees when all I had was a two-year degree in Electrical Engineering Technology? Additionally, who was I to refute the tons of books out there on various subjects about the bible. As if the Lord was answering me directly, this verse popped into my mind:

I John 2:27 “But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.”

So again, which version of “scripture” do I use? I grew up and studied how the King James Bible was translated and have chosen to stick with it. Besides, I like the way it was translated, and clearly the Lord blessed it because it is still the number one book sold to date with over 6 billion in print throughout history (includes all English versions¹).

I want to point out that most people just accept information that is published or quoted by a source. This is how the United States came to think of our fore fathers as oppressive rich white slave owning deists. In the 1920’s many books were written concerning the birth of America and none of them quoted original sources. As a direct result, the attacks on these men, their very deep love for Jesus Christ and for the country, and thereby attacks on the Constitution changed our legal system from rule of law to rule of precedence and judicial law making. What does all this mean? We have rejected God and His Word from anything public – schools, workplace, federal lands and parks: all of which will be the undoing of America. The accepted norm is now abortion, sex, its perversion, murder, lying and cheating², and pornography is one of the biggest industries making over $12 billion in 2006³ and worth $56 billion worldwide⁴. America’s motto is no longer “In God we Trust” (which is under attack in the courts as I type) to “If it feels good, just do it!” I remember when I was just about to become a teenager; I overheard my aunt speaking with her brothers and sisters that very phrase. I didn’t understand it then, but I do now.

“Porn is being downloaded, ordered, rented and tuned in at startling rates across America. And, with millions of customers spending billions of dollars on pornography, corporate America is starting to compete for a piece of that pie. In 1999 pornography sales in the United States exceeded $10 billion -- a market so lucrative that even blue-chip companies such as General Motors Corp. (GM) and AT&T Corp. have jumped into the dirty game. These two Fortune 500 companies are piping pornography by cable and satellite feeds into American homes, providing distribution that porn producers require to increase their production of smut, perversion and filth.”
Porn 500, Insight on the News, Jan 8, 2001 by James Harder⁴

There is no end to the citations I can make. Don’t get me wrong there are good God-fearing people in America – their prayers are the only thing keeping God’s full wrath at bay. Nevertheless, unless we change as a society we will go the way of the unicorn.

See if these verses sound familiar in regards to today:

II Timothy 3:1-7 “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

How about these? It’s almost like listening to the news or reading it online.

Romans 1:18-32 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”

Psalms 9:17 “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”

Jeremiah 13:25 “This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”

Now I pray you see how very important it is to get the original source when gathering information. Because they don’t know better, concerning the English translated history books of old, they simply accept the data when they speak of the Julian dates of AD/BC or the Greek Olympiads. Though there is an accepted date conversion, I did not need them because I know from Scripture all the points from Adam to Jesus' ascension with the authority of Scripture. Since none of us since the 1750's experienced a change of the calendar, it would appear to be easy enough to fix points in time to another calendar. Yet, to complete accurately such a task, you must understand how the conversion was made de facto. That is where you'll run into roadblocks more than anything else. Once you find a source, you'll find another that says it's a year or two different than the other source. Even published encyclopedias cannot agree on dates. With all the technology we have today, it's harder than ever to find the original source. Once you find it, how can you translate it into English from ancient Greek, Latin, or Aramaic?

I wanted to find the conversion of an Olympiad to the Roman Julian dating system. I found a site that provided tables for the conversion. When I looked up their sources, they pointed me to another site⁵. Below is a fragment written in Greek translated into Latin and then into English.

⁵19a. Diodori Sicili Bibliothecae Historicae, Lib.XX, Cap.V, 5
"th d i steraia thlikauthn ekleiyin hliou sunebh genesqai, wste oloscerwV fanhnai nukta qewroumenwn twn asterwV pantacoi."

"[...] Agathocles etiam, quum jam ab hoste apprimeretur, nocte superveniente, quod minime sperasset, evadit. Postridie tantum fit solis eclipsis deliquum, ut stellis ubique apparentibus, omnio noctis instar esset. Quamobrem a naumine difficultatem sibi portendi Agathoclis milites rati, in majore super futuris anxietate erant."

"[...] However, Agathocles, who was already at the point of being overtaken and surrounded, gained unhoped for safety as night closed in. On the next day there occurred such an eclipse of the sun that stars appeared everywhere, it was like at a complete night. Agathocles soldiers, believing that the prodigy portended misfortune for them, fell into even greater anxiety about the future."
(Fotheringham; Newton, 1970, p.103-104; Stephenson, p.348-351)

The site that directed me to the quote above stated:

"The base synchronism is given by Diodorus Siculus, who dates his years according to the Athenian archons, the Roman consuls, and, every fourth year, by Olympiad. By this system, Diodorus 20.5.5 reports a solar eclipse in the year of the archon Hieronmenon, corresponding to Ol. 117.3, which must be that of 15 August 310. This gives us Ol. 117.3 = 310/09, from which Ol. 1.1 = 776/5. The resultant Olympic dates for well-known events, such as the death of Alexander III, dated to Ol. 114.1 = 324/3, shows strong consistency with this date."⁶

So now, I'm presented with the need to know if there were any other eclipses around this battle, when it was, and I need to research who "Agathocles" is and his story to find out where he was when this event happened. I could not locate the book cited in the English translation of the Latin verse from the Greek! So now, if I look up Diodorus Siculus, I find that he is a first century BC historian, but cannot find a collection of his books online. This is how researches need to work in order to get all their facts and assumptions straight. This is why it takes so long to put this in writing: it wasn't the fitting together of all the verses of Scripture, but the ability to accurately link Creation Years to a date we can understand today. It also didn't help I never lived anywhere near a major city to exploit their metropolitan libraries – not that I believe it would have helped. You'll see what I mean when you get to Herod the Great, his life and death. You have Josephus claiming a date, you find the eclipse mentioned, you determine it is visible in Jerusalem, you convert the date, and it doesn't match a lot of history books who cite the same source you used to find the dates. It's a vicious circle of just who do you believe; and if there is a consensus, how do you know the "scholars" picked the correct date to pin the conversion?

I am certainly not a scholar of Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek, but I might use them to stress a point. Learning Castilian Spanish helped me to understand that the nuances of a language sometimes require adding supporting words. This is why the authors of the King James Bible chose to italicize those supporting words – to show they did not exist in the original language. The written Word of God is so alive that it points any human, wherever they may be in their life, to Jesus. If you are slow to learn, it guides you simply to Jesus. If you’re an intellectual, or scholar, it will provide wonderful mysteries begging you to follow them to Jesus. Are you a math wizard? It will push you to Jesus. I challenge you to check out http://www.otherbiblecode.com – even if you’re not a math wizard, you’ll be amazed!

I had to do this study. Every time I put it down, I would “think” of something else and would have to check it out. After each discovery, another question would require more investigation and prayer. As with building a brick house, each brick was given to me; guided by the Holy Spirit. I started with the math; I then wanted to find the dates of Jesus. Satisfied with those, I went on to study the Kings of Israel and Judah, then the Judges. Once I got those done, I had to work on the prophecy of Daniel. When that was all done, I just counted how many one-thousand years there where in my study, (II Peter 3:8). When the fourth “day” ended with the start of Jesus’ ministry, I was amazed! Not only did each of these studies fit into place like a puzzle, I didn’t have to do any rework. So, no, I do not believe this to be inspired in the sense the Holy Spirit did the men of old (II Peter 1:21). I look at this as if I was given a raw stone. I simply cut out the extra information that didn’t deal with dates. This gem is a gift to me from the Lord, Proverbs 17:8 “A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.” The design was already there, I was just used to point it out. I wish to only know the truth and I am not out to find the end of the world or the “signs of the time” though they be right in front of me. Prophecy is just history waiting for time to catch up. Nothing I say or do will change prophecy, it will happen.

The more I learn about the world the more in awe I am at the marvelous work of the Lord. The more I read His written word, the more I learn of His marvelous work!

Job 5:9 “Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:”

I present my findings.

The Presentation

Though the entries presented here are for your benefit, it really doesn’t show the passage of time. The best way would be something similar to this:

Note	CY	Western Year (Julian)
Creation	0	*****
	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
	6

Table 1

After pages and pages of empty notes, it would become boring right off. I’ve created a graphical version on my web site at http://www.abdicate.net/chrontime.aspx which looks like Figure 1. The lines show the process of time and the bubbles contain the information presented here. Since we’re talking about 6000 entries, you can use the hyperlinks to jump from year to year. If the Creation year is speculated to show continuity, it is marked with an asterisk (*). “CY” is “Creation Year” and “WY” is the “Gregorian Western Year” even though it did not exist for the British Empire and the United States before 1752 AD, when it was adopted. “JY” is the Jewish Year calendar.

Figure 1

Creation to Noah

One of the few constants of the world throughout the ages has been games. It’s almost as if a gene residing in all of us to want to play games, and not just any games, puzzle games. Just in my lifetime, there have been great moves of people playing Rubik’s Cube, Tetris, crossword puzzles, Cryptoquip, and Sudoku. This isn’t limited to just games, but books, movies, and television shows; mysteries, intrigue, curiosity, they call to us.

The Scriptures are no different. They present sometimes a bit more of a challenge, but in the end there are great rewards. Genesis is one of my favorite books and I love Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” These ten words say it all. Since I love science and I love Scripture, this quote is fitting:

“In verse one of the Book, we can find all the elements of Science summed up in 10 words: (1) Time – Beginning, (2) Space – Heavens, (3) Motion – created, (4) Matter – the earth, (5) Energy – God created.” [The Book of Genesis, Bible Baptist Bookstore, copyright, 1969]

As I said, I love science and scripture. This seems to be mutually exclusive, but we are told to seek and search out wisdom. I say to you, I am an enigma. I believe that science and Scripture can mesh if science accepts Scripture!

Ecclesiastes 1:13-14 “And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.”

Not one to believe what I see, feel, or read at face value, I needed to understand and meditate on it for myself. To do my own homework as it were. There are gems that are lost in translation from Hebrew. The Hebrew alphabet does not contain vowels, just placeholders. They also read from right to left. See if you can understand the English sentence below:

L-v- th- L-rd y-r G-d w-th -ll y-r h-rt.

If you read:

Love the Lord your God with all your heart.

Then you can begin to see how it is the Jews read Hebrew. Today, they have dots and dashes to help foreigners learn Hebrew, but this wasn’t until the 600 AD to 1000 AD⁷.

The sixth letter of their alphabet called vav. Hebrew doesn't have numbers like the West; they use the letter to denote the number. Sort of like A=1 B=2 C=3 etc. Vav stands for the number six⁸ and two words: Nail and Hook. Vav is used to “hook” phrases and sentences together; like when we use the words “and”, “also”, and “so”. Psalms 119 is an alphabetic Psalm, i.e. each set of six verses is dedicated to a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Psalms 119:41-46 is dedicated to vav, so the first letter of each verse starts with the letter vav.

Hebrew is also written from right to left. The cool thing is the first time in Scripture uses vav is in the sixth Hebrew word of Genesis 1:1. Here’s the breakdown in Hebrew and highlighted in purple:

7	6	5	4	3	2	1
הָאָרֶץ	וְאֵת	הַשָׁמַיִם	אֵת	אֱלֹהִים	בָּרָא	בְּרֵאשִׁית
ha-a-retz	v-et	ha-sha-ma-yim	et	Elohim	bara	Beresheet
the earth	and	the heavens	-	God	created	In the beginning

The fourth word, highlighted in yellow, is pronounced “et” (אֵת), but the letters are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet: א - Alef having no sound, and ת – Tav, sounds like the letter "T" in time. There is no meaning for this word and is not translatable, however, it is used as the direct object to indicate Who (God) did the action (create) to what (heavens and the earth). The gem and Spiritual explanation isn’t really understood until you get to the book of Revelation when Jesus states He is the Alpha and Omega ΑΩ, being the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, the Beginning and the End. Alef and Tav are also the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. If you were in the Genesis 1:1 sentence looking at the reader, the אֵת is on the right hand of God! Who is seated on the right hand of God?^a Jesus, the Alpha and Omega, the Alef and Tav!

^aMark 16:19 "So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God."

Watch how this plays out:

· The letter vav appears in the Scriptures the first time in the sixth word of the first sentence.

· God created Man on the sixth day.

· Six stands for Man in the numerology of Scripture.

· Vav has the count value of six in Hebrew.

· First recorded sin of man (after the fall) is murder – the sixth commandment.^b

· What Man will connect the breach between man and God – Alpha and Omega/Aleph and Tav – Jesus!

· What connects "heavens" with "the earth" – the Man, Alef and Tav – וְאֵת – Jesus!

· Jesus is the Word of God and through Him speaking out, created all. So all is wrapped up in אֵת.^c,
d

^b Exodus 20:13 "Thou shalt not kill."

^c Proverbs 30:5 "Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him."

^dJohn 1:1-2 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God."

Furthermore, in this first verse of Genesis you see that “אֵת” surrounds the word for “Heavens” and there’s that vav in the second “אֵת” and is used as translated “and” because it “hooks” Heaven and Earth together. Jesus is the “Connector”, the vav, the Man, between Heaven and Earth, even testifying to the manner in how it would be done on the cross! Since God “spoke” everything into existence it’s an amazing picture image within the written text that Jesus, the Alef and Tav (Alpha and Omega), the Beginning and the End, is the Creator. It is the hint of what was to come when the Word would become flesh, indeed the Word of God made flesh. In Genesis 1:1, the letter vav combines with Alef and Tav to show the Sign of the Lord of History, the One Mediator, the Man Christ Jesus, the Living Word – to connect Heaven and Earth in the most literal sense. The culmination of all history revealed in the Final Book prophesied in the pattern of Hebrew letters in the first verse of the First Book! Cool huh? See Appendix G for more.

Creation of Adam - CY 0, dies CY 930

The First Adam
Creation Year: 0 Western Year: 3977 BC Generation: 1

Genesis 2:7 "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

Not knowing the age of Adam when he was created, (i.e. was he created with the age of a man being 20 years old?) For the sake of this study, these years are counted just as Scripture has it, the years Adam lived. Genesis 5:3-5 specifically states that Adam had lived 130 years when he begat Seth. This means that Adam's first year was as God had created him, a man.

Genesis 5:3-5 “And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.”

For more information on Creation vs. Evolution, see appendix A. Genesis chapter one is the culmination of the beginning, the Genesis.

So now, we have a man on the earth. The seventh day God rested. Why? Was He tired? No, He was being an example to the man, who does get tired. Work six days then rest one. In chapter 2 verse 7, God then reiterates what happened by explaining how Adam came to be.

Eve is formed... - CY 1*

*We don't know what year Eve was made, so I put her in the next year figuring that it took that time for Adam to name all the animals.

Genesis 2:19-20 “And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.”

Eve was formed from Adam's rib, not from his foot or from his head, but next to his heart – to be loved.

Genesis 2:21-23 “And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

Eve is tempted, Adam falls - CY 7*

*We don't know what year she was tempted so this is just to show the passage of time.

Genesis 3:6 “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”

Exiled from Eden - CY 7*

*We don't know what year they fell so this is just to show the passage of time.

Genesis 3:21-24 “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”

Cain and Abel are born - CY 9*

*We don't know what year Eve gave birth so this is just to show the passage of time.

Genesis 4:1 “And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.”

Genesis 4:2 “And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.”

Yes, I believe they were twins. In Hebrew, the first word of Genesis 4:2 is וַתֹסֶף (ve-to-ceph) meaning, to add or augment, to continue to do a thing.

Cain kills Abel - CY 36*

*We don't know what year this happened so this is just to show the passage of time.

Genesis 4:8 “And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.”

Seth is born - CY 130, dies CY 1042

Creation Year: 130 Western Year: 3847 BC Generation: 2

Adam's age at the birth of Seth is 130 years from the beginning of his existence.

Seth lived 912 years.

Genesis 5:6-8 “And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.”

Jewish Calendar Starts - CY 216 (WY: 3761 BC)

Why the difference in the Jewish calendar and the rendering of chronology according to Scripture?

While I struggled with this over the years, I waited on the Lord to show me the truth. The entire study, started in the year 2000, has been one in pursuit of the truth. To quote Pilate, "...What is truth?...” The answer is found in Psalms 119:160, "Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgment endureth for ever.” This is a prophecy of Jesus, "...the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us...full of grace and truth.” John 1:14.

So I say, can you put down your ideas, your dogma, your desires to hear truth? The more I learn about the Lord and read His word, I can only conclude what Enoch had said, "But without faith it is impossible to please him..." Hebrews 11:6. Once in the Old Testament and twice in the New Testament it states that the Just shall live by faith.

When we are faced with a dilemma of contradictory information, where do you decide to turn to for the truth? Scientists? Archeologists? Your pastor? I emphatically decided before I even started this study that it was to find out the truth. My foundation being Scripture; that no matter how much evidence there was in history or encyclopedias, Scripture would overrule any information if it was contradictory to what is written in the word of God, Matthew 4:4, Luke 4:4, Hebrews 4:12.

Therefore, when I came to the impossible task of explaining away why there was a difference in the Jewish calendar and the chronology presented in Scripture, I waited on the Lord. Two years after completing the study, I found the answer in Hebraic Literature. To quote Yoma, fol.9, col. 1.,

"What is the meaning where it is written (Ps. x. 27), 'The fear of the Lord prolongeth days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened;' 'The fear of the Lord prolongeth days' alludes to the four hundred and ten years the first Temple stood, during which period the succession of high priests numbered only eighteen. But 'the years of the wicked shall be shortened' is illustrated by the fact that during the four hundred and twenty years that the second Temple stood the succession of high priests numbered more than three hundred. If we deduct the forty years during which Shimon the Righteous held office, and the eighty of Rabbi Yochanan, and the ten of Rabbi Ishmael ben Rabbi, it is evident that not one of the remaining high priests lived to hold office for a whole year."

When I read this and other online sites on this topic, I realized that in order to cover up the dates of the Messiah, the calendar had to have been surreptitiously changed by the Jewish rulers of the time. Even before this action, the New Testament said they lied about Jesus' resurrection, knowing full well Who He was (Matthew 27:62-66) and they paid the Roman soldiers large sums of money to be quiet about what really happened (Matthew 28:11-15). These passages showed the length to which they were willing to go to hide the truth. Even today, as Scripture states, they believe Jesus' body was stolen by His disciples. They knew where and when Jesus was born (Matthew 2:1-8), they knew exactly who He was, Jesus told them (Luke 4:16-22)! Some of the rulers knew and accepted Him, (John 3) and defended Him (John 7:50) and cared for His body (John 19:38-42) after the crucifixion.

To further this, the "Tract Abuda Zara", (rules and regulations concerning transaction of business with heathens) Chapter 1, states,

"The disciples of Elijah taught: The world will continue for six thousand years, the first two thousand of which were a chaos (Tahu), the second two thousand were of Torah, and the third two thousand are the days of the Messiah, and because of our sins many years of these have elapsed, and still he has not come."

So if they believed this, then at 4000th year, the very year Jesus started His ministry they would have been on the lookout for the Messiah (Mark 1:15). They rejected Jesus, but accepted Barabbas and later Simon Bar Kokhba. The Talmud relates that Akiba ben Joseph credited Kokhba with the title "Messiah"! That is until he was killed by the Romans on the 9th of Av 135 AD. At his death they had to quickly correct themselves so they "declared Simon bar Kokhba a false messiah and renamed him Simon bar Kozeba ('Son of the lie')", TheFreeDictionary.com.

The Talmud, Sanhedrin, fol. 97, col. 1., states, "As the land of Canaan had one year of release in seven, so has the world one millennium of release in seven thousand years; for it is said (Isa. ii. 17), 'And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day;' and again (Ps. xcii. 1), 'A psalm or song for the Sabbath day,' which means a long Sabbatic period, and again (Ps. xc. 4), 'For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as the day of yesterday.'"

II Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

http://www.hakirah.org/Vol%203%20Epstein.pdf

For the sake of one righteous man the whole world is preserved in existence, as it is written (Prov. x. 25), "The righteous man is an everlasting foundation." This verse explains why the Rapture happens - that is, if you believe in one as I do. I'll speak more on this, but I believe that there are two yet to come.

The Jewish calendar is an algorithm created in 359 AD (c.) so the author "started" different than the actual start of "time" because he knew or didn’t know about the change in the calendar that happened around 136 AD. I put this information here because I wanted to show that though we count the Jewish calendar years, I worked backwards to this point to show the disparage between the “known” date and the actual passage of time according to Scripture. Until the time of Jesus, this recollection of time reflected accurately within five years of what is written in the Talmud. The large change in the date of the year does not reflect until after 135 AD. This also proves that what is written in the Talmud is not Scripture, inspired or not. Additionally, even the Jews do not know definitively the number of years of the Jewish calendar has today. In the book, Gates of the Seasons by the Central Conference of American Rabbis, in an article written by Alexander Guttmann on pages 7-10, he explains the origin and understanding of the present Jewish calendar.

“The Jewish tradition of counting years since the creation of the world has its roots in early Talmudic times, but it was not adopted authoritatively until several centuries later. In Biblical times, dates were referred to as being ‘two years before the earthquake, the year of the death of King Uzziah,’ etc. In Talmudic times, we find instances of dating from the creation of the world, but this was adopted as the Jewish method only much later as a response to Christian dating. It was in the eighth century that Christians began to date their documents generally as AD (Anno Domini, the year of the Lord), and so it is hardly a coincidence that in the eighth and ninth centuries we find more and more Jewish documents dated ‘since the creation of the world’ (sometimes referred to as AM, Anno Mundi, the year of the world). Obviously, calculating dates based on the Christian theological principles were not acceptable to Jews; nevertheless, it was not until the twelfth century that dating ‘since the creation’ was accepted by Jews universally.”

Table 1 is from A Y2K Solution to the Chronology Problem, page 77, written by Sheldon Epstein, Bernard Dickman and Yonah Wilamowsky, that shows the varying reasons for the error in the Jewish account of the chronology of time.

Also according to the August 2005 newsletter by Prophecy in the News, it shows that 154 years can be accounted for by the removal of the Persian chronology of several kings by Yose ben Halafta. “…[S]ometime between A.D. 135-160, Yose ben Halafta, student of Rabbi Akiva, and admirer of Bar Kokhbah, changed the dating so that Daniel’s seventy weeks would point to Bar Kokhbah as the predicted Messiah, rather than Jesus.”⁹

During this study, I will focus on the Creation Year and provide the Western Year since this is how the world currently counts. However the Jewish Year will be provided based on today’s count (12 Dec 2009=25 Kislev 5770).

Enos is born - CY 235, dies CY 1140

Creation Year: 235 Western Year: 3742 BC Generation: 3

The age of Seth when he had Enos.

Enos lived 905 years.

Genesis 5:11 “And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.”

Cainan is born - CY 325, dies CY 1235

Creation Year: 325 Western Year: 3652 BC Generation: 4

The age of Enos when he had Cainan.

Genesis 5:9-11 “And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan: And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.”

Cainan lived 910 years.

Genesis 5:14 “And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.”

Mahalaleel is born - CY 395, dies CY 1290

Creation Year: 395 Western Year: 3582 BC Generation: 5

The age of Cainan when he had Mahalaleel.

Genesis 5:12-14 “And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel: And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.”

Mahalaleel lived 895 years.

Genesis 5:17 “And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.”

Jared is born - CY 460, dies CY 1422

Creation Year: 460 Western Year: 3517 BC Generation: 6

The age of Mahalaleel when he had Jared

Genesis 5:15-17 “And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.”

Jared lived 962 years

Genesis 5:20 “And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.”

Enoch is born - CY 622, translated CY 987

Creation Year: 622 Western Year: 3355 BC Generation: 7

The age of Jared when he had Enoch.

Genesis 5:18-20 “And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.”

Enoch lived 365 years because the Lord took him in a rapture.

Genesis 5:22-24 “And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”

Hebrews 11:5 “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.”

Methuselah is born - CY 687, dies CY 1656 (year of the Flood)

Creation Year: 687 Western Year: 3290 BC Generation: 8

The age of Enoch when he had Methuselah

Genesis 5:21 “And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:”

Methuselah lived 969 years, the oldest in all of history, and died the year of the Flood in CY 1656.

Genesis 5:27 “And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.”

Lamech is born - CY 874, dies CY 1651

Creation Year: 874 Western Year: 3103 BC Generation: 9

The age of Methuselah when he had Lamech.

Genesis 5:25 “And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:”

Lamech lived 777 years.

Genesis 5:31 “And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.”

Adam Dies - CY 930

Creation Year: 930 Western Year: 3047 BC

Adam dies within a day.

Genesis 5:5 “And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.”

Genesis 2:17 “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

II Peter 3:8 “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

Enoch is Raptured - CY 987

Creation Year: 987 Western Year: 2990 BC

Enoch is raptured because he pleased God and he was a prophet.

Genesis 5:23-24 “And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”

Hebrews 11:5-6 “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

Jude 1:14-15 “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

End of day one - CY 1001

Creation Year: 1001 Western Year: 2976 BC

End of day one, beginning of day two.

II Peter 3:8 “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

Seth Dies - CY 1042

Creation Year: 1042 Western Year: 2935 BC

Genesis 5:8 “And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.”

Noah is born - CY 1056, dies CY 2006

Creation Year: 1056 Western Year: 2921 BC Generation: 10

The age of Lamech when he had Noah.

Genesis 5:28-31 “And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed. And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.”

Noah lived 950 years. Please see Appendix C to read the Gospel in the names of Genesis 5, Adam to Noah.

Genesis 9:29 “And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.”

Enos dies - CY 1140

Creation Year: 1140 Western Year: 2837 BC

Enos dies.

Genesis 5:11 "And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died."

Cainan dies - CY 1235

Creation Year: 1235 Western Year: 2742 BC

Cainan dies.

Genesis 5:14 "And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died."

Mahalaleel dies - CY 1290

Creation Year: 1290 Western Year: 2687 BC

Mahalaleel dies.

Genesis 5:17 "And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died."

Jared dies - CY 1422

Creation Year: 1422 Western Year: 2555 BC

Jared dies.

Genesis 5:20 "And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died."

Shem is born - CY 1558, dies CY 2158

Creation Year: 1558 Western Year: 2419 BC Generation: 11

The age of Noah when he had Shem. This is a pitfall if not careful. In Genesis 5:32 it states that Noah was 500 years old when he had Ham, Shem and Japheth. This is a generalized statement because later in Genesis 11:10 is says that Shem had his first son 2 years after the flood at the age of 100. The flood occurred in Noah's 600th year, Genesis 7:6.

602 - 100 = 502. Shem was born when Noah was 502 years old.

Genesis 5:32 “And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”

Genesis 11:10 “These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:”

Genesis 7:6 “And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.”

Shem lived 600 years.

Genesis 11:10-11 “These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.”

Lamech dies - CY 1651

Creation Year: 1651 Western Year: 2326 BC

Lamech dies.

Genesis 5:31 "And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died."

The Flood - CY 1656

Creation Year: 1656 Western Year: 2321 BC

Methuselah dies (Year of the Flood) Noah is 600 years old. Just over 33 Jubilees from creation.

Genesis 5:26-27 “And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.”

Notice God is long suffering. For 120 years, Noah preached and the oldest living person is the one named “his death shall bring” – awe, but to them, bring what? What Noah preached – the flood!!!! How very merciful is our God! Glory to Him!!!

Genesis 7:6 “And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.”

Noah lives another 350 years for a total of 950 years.

On 17 Heshvan 1440 Noah and his family went into the ark and that same day the floodwaters were broken up, Genesis 7:11-13, and it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, Genesis 7:17.

Another 150 days (Genesis 7:24, 8:3) the waters increased until 19 Nisan 1440 when they abated. It was on that day the waters "abated,” that is they started to recede. According to Genesis 8:4 the ark rested 2 days earlier on the 7th month, the 17th day (17 Nisan 1440). It is Nisan because it wasn't a leap year so there was no Adar II. The waters decreased (Genesis 8:5) until the 10th month when on the 1st day of the month (1 Tammuz 1440) the mountaintops could be seen - I imagine like little islands.

Noah waited 40 days (Genesis 8:6, 12 Av 1440) to send out the raven and the dove - the dove returned. Seven more days he sent out the dove, who had returned (19 Av 1440), and again the dove returned. Yet seven more days Noah waited and sent the dove out again, not to return (Genesis 8:12, 26 Av 1440).

Genesis 7:11-13 “In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;”

Genesis 7:17 “And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.”

Genesis 7:24 “And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.”

Genesis 8:3-5 “And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.”

Genesis 8:6 “And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:”

Genesis 8:12 “And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.”

Waters dried up... - CY 1657

Creation Year: 1657 Western Year: 2320 BC

Finally, in the 601st year of Noah's life, 1st month 1st day (Genesis 8:13, 1 Tishri 1441) the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, but it still took almost another two months to completely dry up the land.

They all possibly left the ark when the ground was dry on the 27th of Heshvan 1441 (Genesis 8:14), interestingly exactly 365 days, according to the dates provided in scripture, the serial day number, and the Jewish calendar.

Genesis 8:13-14 “And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.”

The Flood is one of several turning points for mankind. No longer is man allowed even close to live a full day, Genesis 2:17, Genesis 5:5, 2 Peter 3:8. I believe the Lord uses nature to fulfill His wishes. Before the Flood, there is no written evidence that it ever rained. In fact, Genesis 2:5-6 affirms there was a mist that watered the ground. If this assumption holds true all the way to Genesis 7:4 (the next mention of “rain” in scripture) when the Lord warned Noah that in seven days He would cause it to rain, then where did the rain come from?

According to an excellent book called “In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood”, deep holes, 5.6 to 7.5 miles, drilled by the Russians and the Germans found within crushed granite “hot flowing, mineralized water (including salt water” – twice as salty as the ocean waters). A theory, called The Hydroplate Theory, asserts that the Earth’s crust sat on a thin layer of very salty water through interconnecting caverns 10 miles deep. Due to an increase in extreme pressure, a rift in the Earth formed 46,000 miles long, from the north of Iceland to Antarctica then up to India splitting off and running under Australia over and up along South America north to Alaska. The extreme pressure shot up into the air this water which then rained down all over the Earth like never before. The “fountains of the great deep” erupted causing the worldwide flood, and because of the height of the geyser, it began to freeze in the northern and southern regions of the planet and when the nearly frozen water fell back to the Earth, froze animals, rivers, and such instantly.

Though this theory helps explain where some the water came from, it doesn’t explain why people no longer live to be 900 years old, or what the “windows of heaven” where that opened. It is my belief that some other event occurred changing the conditions under which mankind lived. Whatever it was, it must have shortened the lifespan of mankind. Though scripture shows that men lived well into their 900’s, what changed in order for David to write in Psalms 90:10 that we would live only to be 70-80 years old, on average? It is conceivable that the division of the “waters from the waters” in Genesis 1:6-7 was the creation of a type of water barrier that surrounded the earth, much like the ozone layer of today. Somehow, this barrier blocked the harmful radiation of the sun. Today the holes in the ozone you hear about on the news allow more harmful rays in, burning people with extreme UV rays, causing sunburn in the short-term and skin cancer with long-term exposures. The lowering of the water barrier allowed enough of the sun’s radiation to enter the atmosphere shortening our lifespan to 70-80 years, on average worldwide. I believe that this erupting of the fountains caused the windows of heaven to open, i.e. disrupting this barrier, and together, flooded the Earth. If it were just the fountains, then why bother mentioning “windows of heaven”? If you view the graphical version of the timeline on my web site, you’ll visually notice the average age drops dramatically for those born after the Flood. Because of the breakup of the fountains of the deep, and the windows of heaven opening, the Flood occurred and shortened mankind’s lifespan. So you ask, why would God do this? Genesis 6:5 – you’re going to have to look this one up. Think about it, man lives 70-80 years and does great evil; imagine 900 years to do even greater evil? These gems are all over scripture. God means what He says and says what He means and allows novices to see what the wise cannot, 1 Corinthians 1:25-29.

Figure 2

Below is a modified graph from my web site. The top bar graph shows the lifespan from Creation (the green vertical bar on the left of the graph) to the flood (the purple vertical bar on the right of the top graph). The blue horizontal lines represent the length of a person’s life. The bottom bar graph shows the lifespan after the flood (purple vertical bar on the left). As you can see in the bottom bar, the top blue line (under the green horizontal line) is Shem and the bottom blue line (above the word WY 2001 BC) is Abram. There is a dramatic drop in the age of those born before and after the flood. Even though Arphaxad was born 2 years after the flood, he still benefited from the “strength” of his father's DNA, allowing him to live 483 years, but still dying 62 years before his father Shem’s death. Shem even outlived Abraham by 35 years who died at a “…good old age…” of 175! (Genesis 25:8) The red asterisks in the bottom graph indicate their deaths. Notice too that Abraham was born before the death of Noah and according to extra-biblical books, lived with Noah after Nimrod wanted to kill him. Scripture bears this out.

The Flood to Abraham

Arphaxad is born - CY 1658, dies CY 2096

Creation Year: 1658 Western Year: 2319 BC Generation: 12

The age of Shem when he had Arphaxad.

Arphaxad lived 438 years.

Genesis 11:12-13 “And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.”

Salah is born - CY 1693, dies CY 2126

Creation Year: 1693 Western Year: 2284 BC Generation: 13

The age of Arphaxad when he had Salah.

Genesis 11:12 “And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:”

Salah lived 433 years.

Genesis 11:14-15 “And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.”

Eber is born - CY 1723, dies CY 2187

Creation Year: 1723 Western Year: 2254 BC Generation: 14

The age of Salah when he had Eber.

Genesis 11:16 “And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:”

Eber lived 464 years.

Genesis 11:16-17 “And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.”

Peleg is born - CY 1757, dies CY 1996

Creation Year: 1757 Western Year: 2220 BC Generation: 15

The age of Eber when he had Peleg.

Genesis 11:16 “And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:”

Genesis 10:25 states "...Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided..." the answer as to what was divided the following verses. I believe this was the time of the tower of Babel, Genesis 11:9.

Genesis 10:25 “And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.”

Genesis 10:32 “These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.”

Deuteronomy 32:8 “When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.”

Acts 17:26 “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;”

Genesis 11:9 “Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”

Peleg lived 239 years.

Genesis 11:18-19 “And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.”

Reu is born - CY 1787, dies CY 2026

Creation Year: 1787 Western Year: 2190 BC Generation: 16

The age of Peleg when he had Reu.

Genesis 11:18 “And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:”

Reu lived 239 years.

Genesis 11:20-21 “And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.”

Serug is born - CY 1819, dies CY 2049

Creation Year: 1819 Western Year: 2158 BC Generation: 17

The age of Reu when he had Serug.

Genesis 11:20 "And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:"

Serug lived 230 years.

Genesis 11:22-23 “And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.”

Nahor is born - CY 1849, dies CY 1997

Creation Year: 1849 Western Year: 2128 BC Generation: 18

The age of Serug when he had Nahor.

Genesis 11:22 “And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:”

Nahor lived 148 years.

Genesis 11: 24-25 “And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.”

Terah is born - CY 1878, dies CY 2083

Creation Year: 1878 Western Year: 2099 BC Generation: 19

The age of Nahor when he had Terah.

Genesis 11:24 “And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:”

Terah lived 205 years.

Genesis 11:26 “And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.”

Genesis 11:32 “And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.”

Abram to Exodus

Abram is born - CY 1948

Creation Year: 1948 Western Year: 2029 BC Generation: 20

The age of Terah when he had Abram. He is born no more than 18 months shy of the 39^th Jubilee since Creation. In 78 Jubilees (less 3 years) Israel "is born in a day!"

Genesis 11:26 “And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.”

Acts 7:2-4 “And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.”

Genesis 12:4 "So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran."

Abram was born to Terah in Terah's 70th year. This is a touchy subject because some believe Abram was born when Terah was 130 years; deduced by Abram leaving his father after his father died and Abram was 75 years old based on Acts 7:2-4. Terah lived 205 years so subtracting 75 would have made Terah 130 when he had Abram. However, that is not what I believe. This to me is another pitfall one must be careful. Scripture is specific when it says in Genesis 12:1-3 that Abram was to leave his father. This cannot be taken lightly if we are to believe that scripture is inerrant and that every word has a specific purpose. Chapter 11 says Terah died, so how could Abram leave his father? I believe chapter 11 is a summary account because Terah is no longer mentioned by name again in scripture until Joshua 24:2 and only when talking about idol worshipers, and in I Chronicles 1:26 and Luke 3:34 when discussing Abraham’s lineage. He is mentioned in passing in Acts 7:4, which we’ll discuss in a moment. Chapter 11 of Genesis discusses how Terah took his family to Haran from Ur of the Chaldees, and he dies there in Haran at 205 years of age. I have always wondered if his family was idol worshippers, then how did Abram learn the truth. In the timeline that I am going to present, Abram would have been alive when Noah was still alive. If we bump up the age of Terah to when he had Abram at 130, Noah would have been dead. Not only would this event have changed, but also the arrival date of Jesus in 7 BC would have been much later; His death would certainly have been in 82 AD! This isn’t possible, so something else must hold the answer. I believe the passage of time written in scripture is accurate to the letter, and I hope to show you how that’s possible even with this timeline thought of Terah being 70 when he had Abram.

I don’t like using extra biblical books, but when scripture isn’t clear, I believe they can be a tool to help look at things from a different angle. By using them, I do not endorse their writings, nor do I elevate them to the status of Scripture. Even using a dictionary can give you a better understanding of the truth without changing the truth. Since many studies include the historian Josephus who lived from 37 AD to ~100 AD (Wikipedia.com), I’ll mention what he wrote. He wrote several books in a collection called Antiquities of the Jews where he discusses the world’s history from a Jewish perspective. He does not match up with scripture very often for some reason, but many people use his writings almost as gospel. Nevertheless, in book 6, chapter 6, para 5, he states “…for Terah begat Abram in his seventieth year.” Sadly, this is not proof, because he goes on to say, “Arphaxad was the son of Shem, and born twelve years after the deluge.” Now you understand my hesitation when citing him as a source. We know from scripture that Arphaxad was born two years after the flood, not twelve. Since Abram was more important in Moses’ writing of Genesis, the Lord chose to put Abram first instead of Haran, his older brother. This assumption is made because in Genesis 20:12 when Abram explains why he lied about Sarai being his sister: “And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.” In support of this, in another extra biblical book called “Jasher” (mentioned in Joshua 10:13 and II Samuel 1:18) it states in chapter 9:4 “Haran was forty-two years old when he begat Sarai, which was in the tenth year of the life of Abram.” This would make Sarai Abram’s stepsister and niece. The Genesis account is of Abram, not Haran, and so when Moses states that Terah had Abram at 70, Terah had Abram at 70. Haran and Nahor’s age however are never mentioned in scripture, so this scenario is a possibility.

Another way to explain the account in Acts could be that the death of Terah could have been a sustained spiritual death. I mean, what if Abram was called out of Haran after his father rejected Abram’s faith and went back to idol worshipping and God called Abram to leave, knowing that there was no more hope for his father. Remember, what that one disciple that wanted to follow Jesus asked, “let me bury my father” and Jesus said, “let the dead bury their dead” even though the dead cannot really bury the dead, so Jesus conveys the meaning they are dead spiritually. (Mat 8:21-22, Luke 9:59-60, Mat 23:27). We are saved by faith, correct? Yes, Eph 2:8. That is how Abraham was saved. Wait! What do you mean, “he was saved by faith? It didn’t exist then!” Yes it did:

Galatians 3:6-9 “Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.”

Hebrews 11:8 “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.”

As Abraham was saved, looking forward to the cross (Gen 22:8) so we too look back to the cross for salvation. We are all saved by faith. (Hab 2:4; Joh 3:36; Rom 1:17, Gal 3:11; Php 3:9; Heb 10:38; 11:6-7) Though we do not have explicit scripture to help understand this one bump in the road, this would be a way of using scripture to understand scripture, as is my foundation, II Tim 2:15. I believe these pitfalls are necessary to weed out those that do not hold scripture as being inerrant. So now, bringing a New Testament principle back to the Old Testament as Galatians and Hebrews did, is it so hard to believe that Terah was 70 when he had Abram? This is why you must take into account all scripture and every word of scripture, for those seemingly insignificant words can change everything.

Still, Jasher also mentions that Abram was born to Terah when Terah was 70 years old (Jasher 7:51). The book goes on to say there was some celestial event that the sages of Nimrod interpreted as a sign that this newborn Abram “…will grow up and be fruitful, and multiply, and possess all the earth, he and his children for ever, and he and his seed will slay great kings, and inherit their lands.” Jasher 8:4. The next day these sages went and told the king what had happened. The king called Terah and made him surrender his newborn child to be killed. Terah took a son, born that day of one of his servants, delivered him instead, and sent his son, Abram, with his mother and nurse for 10 years into a cave for safekeeping. “And when Abram came out from the cave, he went to Noah and his son Shem, and he remained with them to learn the instruction of the Lord and his ways, and no man knew where Abram was, and Abram served Noah and Shem his son for a long time.” Jasher 9:5.

Additionally, in this chronology study I discovered that Jesus started His ministry at the end of day four, i.e. 4000 years from creation. I am no way usurping Acts by using the book of Jasher or because some “dates” line up to my advantage. I believe Acts 7:2-4 is 100% accurate and means what it says. So what else could it mean?

There is yet one more possibility to help smooth out this bump in the road. When the bible mentions that Abram left Haran when “his father was dead”, “his father” could actually have been referring to Noah. If the age of Noah is accurate in scripture, and we know it is, Abram was 58 when Noah died. Since Abram lived with Noah and learned the things of the Lord from him, it’s very conceivable that he called Noah “father”. I was shocked to find in Jasher this verse: “At that time, at the end of three years of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, in that year Noah died, which was the fifty-eighth year of the life of Abram; and all the days that Noah lived were nine hundred and fifty years and he died.” Jasher 13:9. I found this after I had done the math with my study to determine Abram’s age of 58. I lean towards this thinking, because Jasher says that Terah died when Isaac was 35 years old (Jasher 22:31), which would make him 205 just as the scriptures say. In fact, Jasher even says that Shem (Noah’s son – who died several years after Abraham died), Eber (Shem’s great-grandson), Terah and Nahor came for the weaning ceremony of Isaac. In fact, there is this verse from Genesis when the Lord appeared to Jacob:

Genesis 28:13 “And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;”

God calls Abraham the “father” of Jacob, when Abraham is really his grandfather. In fact, it is not a mistranslation because the word ba in Hebrew means “father” or “ancestor” according to Ben-Yehuda’s Hebrew-English dictionary. In Acts 7:4, the word grandfather in Greek is pathr and can mean “father or parent, literally or figuratively, near or more remote”, according to Strong’s numbers. Besides, if there are nine “fathers” between you and your great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great-grandfather do you think it would be written that way, other than here for emphasis? Therefore, there isn’t much of a stretch in reading Acts 7:4 that Abram’s "father" was referring to Noah since we have established the chronology with Genesis.

The difference is only 60 years. Why is this so important? All scripture leads to Jesus and even the Jewish oral tradition says in the Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin Folio 97a, “…in the seven year cycle at the end of which the son of David will come-in the first year…” II Kings 19:29 states that that year was a Sabbatical Year, corresponding to CY 3270, WY 707 BC, and the (modern reckoning) Jewish year of 3055. Jesus arrived in JY 3755, exactly 700 years later, a Sabbatical Year, and the first year of the 7-year cycle. It also states “The Tanna debe Eliyyahu teaches: The world is to exist six thousand years. In the first two thousand there was desolation; two thousand years the Torah flourished; and the next two thousand years is the Messianic era, but through our many iniquities all these years have been lost.” Here is the key point to the Jews; after four thousand years, the Messiah would come. He did, those of His household rejected Him and after 135 AD had to change the calendar to hide the mistake of Rabbi Akiva¹⁰ declaring Bar Kokhbah the Messiah and to prove false the growing “Christian” movement.

I believe scripture wants us to find Jesus and there are many references that Jesus’ arrival time, was at the appointed time, you just have to put the puzzle together: every piece.

Mark 1:15 “And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”

Daniel 9:25-26 “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.”

Galatians 4:4-5 “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.”

Ephesians 1:10 “That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:”

Jeremiah 33:15 “In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.”

Habakkuk 2:3 “For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”

The time was set and fulfilled. This is why these 60 years are so important.

From Jesus’ own words:

Luke 19:41-44 “And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.”

Abram lived 175 years.

Genesis 25:7 “And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.”

Sarai is born - CY 1958, dies CY 2085

Creation Year: 1958 Western Year: 2019 BC

Sarai is born (Abram's wife-to-be), deduced.

Genesis 17:15 "And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be."

Genesis 17:17 "Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?"

Genesis 23:1 "And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah."

Peleg dies CY 1996

Creation Year: 1996 Western Year: 1981 BC

Peleg dies.

Genesis 11:19 "And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters."

Nahor dies CY 1997

Creation Year: 1997 Western Year: 1980 BC

Nahor dies.

Genesis 11:25 "And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters."

End of day two - CY 2001

Creation Year: 2001 Western Year: 1976 BC

End of day two, beginning of day three.

II Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

Noah Dies - CY 2006

Creation Year: 2006 Western Year: 1971 BC

Noah died. He lived 12 Jubilees, then the Flood, and then lived seven more Jubilees.

Genesis 9:28-29 "And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died."

Abram leaves Haran - CY 2023

Creation Year: 2023 Western Year: 1954 BC

Abram leaves the city of Haran with Lot by the call of God.

Genesis 12:4 "So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran."

Acts 7:4 “Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.”

As you can see, though it’s some years later, Abram left his father, who still had many years left to live. The “father” in Acts 7:4, as we determined before, was Noah.

430-year Promise - CY 2023

Creation Year: 2023 Western Year: 1954 BC

Greatest promise given to Abram.

Genesis 12:1-3 "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."

This is the time of the sacrifices to God and God promises Abram an heir.

Genesis 15:1-5 “After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.”

Genesis 15:12-16 "And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."

Galatians 3:17 "And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect."

The promise of an heir and their affliction of 400 years begins. It is here I believe that the 430 years start not only because God Himself says 400 (from Isaac, his seed), and Exodus 12:40-41 says "...this selfsame day…", the Passover, which God made at Abram's sacrifice.

Exodus 12:40-41 “Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.”

Reu Dies - CY 2026

Creation Year: 2026 Western Year: 1951 BC

Reu dies.

Genesis 11:21 "And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters."

Abram takes Hagar - CY 2033

Creation Year: 2033 Western Year: 1944 BC

Abram takes Hagar, after 10 years in the land to be his wife and she becomes pregnant.

Genesis 16:3-4 "And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes."

Ishmael is born - CY 2034, dies CY 2171

Creation Year: 2034 Western Year: 1943 BC

Ishmael was born.

Genesis 16:15-16 "And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram."

Genesis 25:17 "And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people."

Abram is made Abraham - CY 2047

Creation Year: 2047 Western Year: 1930 BC

Abram's covenant with God. His name is changed to Abraham.

Genesis 17:1 "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."

Genesis 17:5 "Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee."

Promise of an heir by Abraham and Sarah.

Genesis 17:19 "And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him."

Genesis 17:21 "But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year."

Genesis 17:23-25 "And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him. And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin."

Sarah hears the promise herself.

Genesis 18:10 "And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him."

Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed. Genesis 19.

Isaac is born - CY 2048, dies CY 2228

Creation Year: 2048 Western Year: 1929 BC Generation: 21

Abraham's age at the birth of Isaac, Sarah is 90. Isaac is born two years shy of the 41^st Jubilee since Creation.

Genesis 21:5 "And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him."

Genesis 35:28 “And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.”

Serug Dies - CY 2049

Creation Year: 2049 Western Year: 1928 BC

Serug dies at 230.

Genesis 11:22-23 "And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters."

Isaac is weaned - CY 2053

Creation Year: 2053 Western Year: 1924 BC

Isaac is weaned. This is deduced from Genesis 15:12-16, Exodus 12:40-41, and Galatians 3:17.

Genesis 21:8 "And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned."

Genesis 15:12-16 “And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.”

Exodus 12:40-41 “Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.”

Galatians 3:17 “And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.”

Ishmael (19 years old) and Hagar are cast out.

This very year is thirty years since Abram's call by God and the promise of his seed being afflicted for 400 years. It is here that I break from tradition. From here on, you will need to pay attention to what scripture says. From here to the Exodus, Scripture is purposefully vague to weed out any who do not wish to know the truth. I choose this year because of Scripture. If you take all the information presented in Scripture and lay the information out in a spreadsheet, you’ll find the same results I present here. Scholars won’t agree with me because they do not hold Scripture to the infallible level I do. They “find” contradictory information and use it over what Scripture tells us. We are too far removed from these events in history to believe any book other than Scripture. No encyclopedia or history book agrees entirely with one another, so who do you choose to see the whole truth without bias? Even sixteenth century books do not agree with all the events as they’re written in Scripture. With every new archeological discovery comes a “new” understanding, which either proves Scripture correct, or contradicts the erroneous de facto beliefs, so the next history book printing is rewritten. This study is but a written document of what the Spirit has shown me through Scripture. Let His words speak.

Genesis 21:9-14 "And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba."

Terah dies - CY 2083

Creation Year: 2096 Western Year: 1894 BC

Terah dies.

Genesis 11:32 "And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran."

Sarah dies @ 127 years old - CY 2085

Creation Year: 2085 Western Year: 1892 BC

Sarah Dies (Abraham's Wife) at 127 years old.

Genesis 23:1-2 "And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her."

Isaac married Rebekah - CY 2088

Creation Year: 2088 Western Year: 1889 BC

Isaac married Rebekah.

Genesis 25:20 "And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian."

Arphaxad dies - CY 2096

Creation Year: 2096 Western Year: 1881 BC

Arphaxad dies at 438 years old, (son of Shem, son of Noah).

Genesis 11:12-13 “And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.”

Jacob and Esau are born - CY 2108

Creation Year: 2108 Western Year: 1869 BC Generation: 22

Jacob and Esau are born.

Genesis 25:26 "And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them."

Genesis 47:28 "And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years."

Abraham dies - CY 2123

Creation Year: 2123 Western Year: 1854 BC

Abraham dies, at 175 years old.

Genesis 25:7 "And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years."

Salah dies - CY 2126

Creation Year: 2126 Western Year: 1851 BC

Salah dies at 433 years old, (Son of Arphaxad, son of Shem, son of Noah).

Genesis 11:14-15 "And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters."

Esau married Judith - CY 2148

Creation Year: 2148 Western Year: 1829 BC

Esau married Judith.

Genesis 26:34 "And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:"

Shem dies - CY 2158

Creation Year: 2158 Western Year: 1819 BC

Shem dies, at 600 years old (Son of Noah).

Genesis 11:10-11 "These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters."

Ishmael dies - CY 2171

Creation Year: 2171 Western Year: 1806 BC

Ishmael dies, at 137 years old.

Genesis 25:17 "And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people."

Jacob works for Rachel - CY 2184

Creation Year: 2184 Western Year: 1793 BC

Jacob asks for Rachel's hand, but needs to work 7 years for her.

Genesis 29:18-21 "And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her."

I know the following seems incredible, but if you count the age of Joseph and the age of Jacob when they went to Egypt it is amazing that Jacob was so old when he took Rachel and Leah, Jacob was 76 years old!

Genesis 37:2-3 "These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours."

Eber dies - CY 2187

Creation Year: 2187 Western Year: 1790 BC

Eber dies, at 464 years old.

Genesis 11:16-17 "And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters."

(The last of the long lived – yet they all died within a "day".)

Jacob is tricked, marries Leah - CY 2191

Creation Year: 2191 Western Year: 1786 BC

Jacob is tricked and given Leah instead of Rachel, so he works another 7 years, Jacob marries Rachel a week later, but must work another 7 years for her, though they be married.

Genesis 29:25-30 "And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me? And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years."

During these next 7 years all 11 sons and 1 daughter are born to Jacob! The next page is a matrix of events.

Creation Year	Person	Jacob's Age	Notes		BC	Jewish Year
2184		76	Jacob asks for Rachel's hand, but needs to work 7 years for her.		-1793	1969
2185		77	1	1st year of work completed, 2nd year starting	-1792	1970
2186		78	2		-1791	1971
2187		79	3		-1790	1972
2188		80	4		-1789	1973
2189		81	5		-1788	1974
2190		82	6		-1787	1975
2191		83	7	Jacob is tricked and marries Leah a week later marries Rachel.	-1786	1976
2192	Reuben	84	1	Reuben is born to Leah.	-1785	1977
2193	Simeon	85	2	Simeon is born to Leah.	-1784	1978
2194	Levi	86	3	Levi is born to Leah.	-1783	1979
2195	Judah	87	4	Judah is born to Leah.	-1782	1980
2196		88	5	All the others were born during the next four years: in order, Dan to Bilhah, Naphtali to Bilhah, Gad to Zilpah, Asher to Zilpah, Issachar to Leah, Zebulun to Leah, Dinah (a daughter) to Leah, Joseph to Rachel.	-1781	1981
2197		89	6		-1780	1982
2198		90	7		-1779	1983
2199	Joseph	91	1	Joseph is born; Jacob asks to leave Laban, but stays for the cattle for 6 more years.	-1778	1984
2200		92	2		-1777	1985
2201		93	3		-1776	1986
2202		94	4		-1775	1987
2203		95	5		-1774	1988
2204		96	6	Jacob leaves Laban after completing 6 years of working for the cattle, sheep and goats, a total of 20 years.	-1773	1989
2205		97	Jacob leaves and God changes his name to Israel.		-1772	1990

Reuben is born to Leah - CY 2192

Creation Year: 2192 Western Year: 1785 BC

Reuben is born to Leah.

Genesis 29:32 “And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.”

Simeon is born to Leah - CY 2193

Creation Year: 2193 Western Year: 1784 BC

Simeon is born to Leah.

Genesis 29:33 "And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon."

Levi is born to Leah - CY 2194, dies CY 2331

Creation Year: 2194 Western Year: 1783 BC

Levi is born to Leah.

Genesis 29:34 "And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi."

Judah is born to Leah - CY 2195

Creation Year: 2195 Western Year: 1782 BC Generation: 23

Judah is born to Leah.

Genesis 29:35 "And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing."

Eight more children born over next four years - CY 2196

Creation Year: 2196 Western Year: 1781 BC

All the others were born during the next four years: in order, Dan to Bilhah, Naphtali to Bilhah, Gad to Zilpah, Asher to Zilpah, Issachar to Leah, Zebulun to Leah, Dinah (a daughter) to Leah, Joseph to Rachel.

Genesis 30:25 "And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country."

Genesis 30:27-28 "And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake. And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it."

Genesis 31:41 "Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times."

Joseph is born to Rachel - CY 2199, dies CY 2309

Creation Year: 2199 Western Year: 1778 BC

Joseph is born, Jacob asks to leave Laban, but stays for the cattle for 6 more years.

Genesis 30:25-34 "And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake. And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock: I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire. So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me. And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word."

Jacob stays and works for the cattle.

Genesis 31:41 "Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times."

This is the year of Joseph's birth instead of the year before because he was before Pharaoh at 30 years old (Genesis 41:46) to interpret Pharaoh’s dream. The next year was the start of the seven years of plenty, then the seven years of famine. In the second year of famine, Jacobs goes to Egypt, stays there 17 years (Genesis 47:28) and dies there at 147 years old.

147-17=130. Jacob goes it Egypt at 130 years old. Subtract 9 years (2^nd year of famine to the year Joseph is before Pharaoh)

130-9=121. Jacob is 121 years old when Joseph is before Pharaoh to interpret his dream.

121-30=91. Jacob was 91 years old when Joseph was born.

Jacob leaves Laban - CY 2204

Creation Year: 2204 Western Year: 1773 BC

Jacob leaves Laban after completing 6 years of working for the cattle, sheep, and goats, a total of 20 years.

Genesis 31:41 "Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times."

Jacob's name is Israel - CY 2205

Creation Year: 2205 Western Year: 1772 BC

Jacob's name is changed to Israel.

Genesis 32:28 "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed."

Benjamin is born - CY 2212*

Creation Year: 2212* Western Year: 1765* BC

*At some time, Benjamin is born and Rachel dies.

Genesis 35:17-20 "And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin. And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day."

Joseph is sold - CY 2216

Creation Year: 2216 Western Year: 1761 BC

Israel made Joseph a coat of many colors. Joseph sold into slavery by his brothers at the age of 17.

Genesis 37:2 "These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report."

Genesis 37:28 “Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.”

God blesses Joseph - CY 2217

Creation Year: 2217 Western Year: 1760 BC

God blesses Joseph and he works for Potiphar.

Genesis 39:1-6 "And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither. And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand. And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field. And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured."

Joseph is made ruler of Potiphar’s House - CY 2226

Creation Year: 2226 Western Year: 1751 BC

Joseph is made ruler of Potiphar's house.

Genesis 39:7-10 "And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her."

Joseph is jailed - CY 2227

Creation Year: 2227 Western Year: 1750 BC

Joseph is put into prison because of the lie of Potiphar's wife, but God is with him and helps him with interpreting dreams.

Genesis 40:5 "And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison."

God shows Joseph the meaning of the dreams, and he asked the butler to remember him to Pharaoh.

Genesis 40:14-15 "But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."

Joseph he is forgotten of for two years until the Lord gives Pharaoh a dream that needs interpreting.

Isaac dies @ 180 years - CY 2288

Creation Year: 2228 Western Year: 1749 BC

Isaac dies at 180 years old with Jacob at his side.

Genesis 35:27-28 "And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years."

Joseph before Pharaoh - CY 2229

Creation Year: 2229 Western Year: 1748 BC

Two years after being put into jail, Joseph is taken to Pharaoh to interpret his dream. Joseph is 30 years old when he stood before Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:46 "And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt."

Seven Years of Plenty - CY 2230

Creation Year: 2230 Western Year: 1747 BC

Genesis 41:26-27 "The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine."

So great did the Lord bless Joseph that he was ruler of all of Egypt save the throne of Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:39-40 "And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou."

Seven Years of Famine - CY 2237

Creation Year: 2237 Western Year: 1740 BC

Pharaoh's dream continues.

Genesis 41:25-32 “And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do. The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh. Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous. And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.”

Jacob goes to Egypt to live - CY 2238

Creation Year: 2238 Western Year: 1739 BC

Jacob goes to Egypt to live at 130 years old.

Genesis 46:6-11 "And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari."

Genesis 47:9 "And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."

Genesis 47:28 "And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years."

Jacob dies @ 147 years old - CY 2255

Creation Year: 2255 Western Year: 1722 BC

Jacob dies at 147 years old.

Genesis 47:28 "And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years."

Joseph dies @ 110 years old - CY 2309

Creation Year: 2309 Western Year: 1668 BC

Joseph dies at 110 years old.

Genesis 50:26 "So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt."

Levi dies @ 137 years old - CY 2331

Creation Year: 2331 Western Year: 1646 BC

Levi dies at 137 years old.

Exodus 6:16 "And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years."

Kohath, son of Levi, lived 133 years, but we have no reference as to how old his father was when he was born.

Exodus 6:18 "And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years."

Amram, son of Kohath, lived 137 years, the father of Moses and Aaron, Jochabed was their mother.

Exodus 6:20 "And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years."

Note: Moses was 80 when the Exodus took place, fulfilling prophecy as to Moses being the 4th generation of those strangers and afflicted and 430 years.

Exodus 7:7 "And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh."

Genesis 15:16 "But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."

The clock started with Isaac at 5 years old, when he was weaned and everyone rejoiced except for Ishmael who mocked the event. Sarah enraged asked Abraham to remove them from the family. God okayed it and they were thrown out. This was the start of the countdown.

When Jacob went into Egypt because of the famine and God's blessing to Joseph, they were the "thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs" but when Joseph died, they "shall serve them; and they shall afflict them". The hard part to understand is the phrase then that follows - "four hundred years."

Genesis 15:13 "And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;"

In order for all scriptures to match, including the times given and the generations mentioned this must be the solution to the puzzle. The time mentioned was an all-encompassing timeframe.

Jacob was the stranger, Levi, Kohath, Amram and Moses were the afflicted - the 4 generations - fulfilling Genesis 15:16.

Aaron is born - CY 2370

Creation Year: 2370 Western Year: 1607 BC

Aaron is born. The end year of the 430-years (The Exodus) minus 83 years, as Aaron was 3 years older than Moses, comes to this year.

Exodus 7:7 "And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh."

Moses is born - CY 2373, dies CY 2493

Creation Year: 2373 Western Year: 1604 BC

Moses is born and hid. He lived 120 years. (42 years after the death of Levi)

Deuteronomy 34:7 "And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated."

Joshua is born - CY 2413, dies CY 2523

Creation Year: 2413 Western Year: 1564 BC

Joshua is born, and lives 110 years, deduced by Joshua 14:7

"Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart."

Judges 2:8 "And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old."

The Exodus - CY 2453

Creation Year: 2453 Western Year: 1524 BC

· 430 Years from the Promise

· Moses is 80

14 Nisan, that evening, the Passover. On morning of the fifteenth of Nisan they leave Egypt, 430 years after Abram's sacrifice and God's promise ("...the selfsame day..."). Please see Appendix I for a list of fast, feasts, and festivals.

Exodus 12:41 "And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt."

Exodus 7:7 "And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh."

Though Josephus isn't one for accuracy, but in Book II, Chapter 15, para 2 he states: "They left Egypt in the month Xanthicus, on the fifteenth day of the lunar month; four hundred and thirty years after our forefather Abraham came into Canaan, but two hundred and fifteen years only after Jacob removed into Egypt. It was the eightieth year of the age of Moses, and of that of Aaron three more. They also carried out the bones of Joesph with them, as he had charged his sons to do." For once he's dead on.

· 6 Sivan 2237 (4 June 1524 BC, Julian) is the date it's believed the 10 Commandments were received.¹¹

· Joshua is 40

Joshua 14:7 "Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart."

The Curse of 9 Av

The spies give an evil report and everyone is forced to wander for 40 years.

Numbers 14:33 "And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness."

The Jewish Commentary, the Mishna, records that the people believed the evil report of the spies and mourned all night in fear. They turned against Moses and the two faithful spies, Joshua and Caleb (the only two from Egypt that entered the Promised Land). Ta'anit 29a says it happened on the ninth of Av.

Numbers 14:1-10 "And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel."

Numbers 14 just records the curse from the Lord and the revolt against Moses and not the date. This event started their 40-year wandering in the desert. Read about the amazing facts that happened on 9 Av throughout history in the Appendix B.

The First Passover

Exodus chapters 12 to 16 show that this day, 14 Nisan (also called Abib), was a Wednesday. The issue you must address when doing this is that you must start at the end and count back to the fourteenth of Nisan, which I’ll present in a calendar form after showing the chain of events.

Exodus 12:6 states that on the fourteenth of the month Nisan, Israel was to kill the Passover lamb, literally, “between the evenings” (הָעַרְבָּֽיִם - ha·'ar·ba·yim). In my studies, this is the time after sunset and before night – twilight in the Septuagint (Greek version of the Old Testament). I hope you will bear with me while I explain this. The importance of this will become clear when we come to the time Jesus died. You may not have ever noticed it, but nowhere in Scripture is the fifteenth of Nisan of any importance; it’s all about the Passover and the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Let’s read the commandments concerning the Passover.

· First, God changed the calendar so Nisan is the beginning of the year.

o Exodus 12:2 “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.”

· Every man shall take a lamb for his family on the tenth of the month.

o Exodus 12:3 “Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:”

· The lamb will be kept until the fourteenth when it is to be killed in the evening.

o Exodus 12:6 “And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.”

· The lamb must be eaten that night, nothing remaining until morning.

o Exodus 12:8-11 “And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.”

· The “passing over” will take place at midnight on this night, the fourteenth.

o Exodus 12:12 “For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.”

o Exodus 12:29 “And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.”

· This day shall be a memorial for generations

o Exodus 12:14 “And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.”

· All leaven removed from the house and unleavened bread eaten for seven days.

o Exodus 12:15 “Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.”

· The first and last of these seven days are Sabbaths.

o Exodus 12:16 “And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.”

· Just to be clear on this point, this will be from the fourteenth until the twenty-first of Nisan

o Exodus 12:18 “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.”

Now I part from tradition. They did not leave in the middle of the night of the fourteenth, but left on the morning of the fifteenth, after the Passover and the Sabbath rest. Now this sounds contrary to movies, history books, even against the entire country of Israel. The truth of the matter is that man got involved and changed His most important day. In fact, it’s so important that if someone is not ready, for very specific reasons, to celebrate the Passover in Nisan, they can keep it in the second month, Iyyar on the fourteenth day of the month. No other feast can be repeated if missed: seems like a very important feast! Hezekiah kept the Passover in the second month because they could not cleanse the temple in time for the fourteenth of Nisan.

Numbers 9:10-13 “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD. The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.”

II Chronicles 30:15 “Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.”

Numbers reiterates this date:

Numbers 28:16 “And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.”

Even later in Deuteronomy, it spells it out even clearer: Passover on the fourteenth, then six days of unleavened bread, which started on the morning of the fourteenth.

Deuteronomy 16:4 “And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.”

Deuteronomy 16:8 “Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.”

This cements the requirement to kill the lamb after the sun sets:

Deuteronomy 16:6 “But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.”

After Joshua entered the land of Israel, they had their first Passover and the manna stopped.

Joshua 5:10-12 “And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day. And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.”

Ezra kept the Passover on the fourteenth of Nisan when he arrived:

Ezra 6:19 “And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.”

And Ezekiel:

Ezekiel 45:21 “In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.”

The next time “Passover” is mentioned in scripture is Jesus’ last, Matthew 26:2.

All these verses show that they are to kill the lamb on the fourteenth, after sunset, which is the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread! The Scriptures clearly show that the Passover lamb is to be killed after the sunset on the fourteenth of Nisan. Remember the date changes at sunset. Sometime between Ezra’s time and Jesus’ visit to the earth, the leaders of Israel changed God’s day from the evening of the fourteenth – the beginning of a day – to the next beginning of a day, the fifteenth. Remember the date changes at sunset. Today, the Passover is killed before sunset on the fourteenth, and then eaten on the fifteenth! Unbelievably, Josephus has the answer:

“What I would now explain is this, that the Pharisees have delivered to the people a great many observances by succession from their fathers, which are not written in the laws of Moses; and for that reason it is that the Sadducees reject them, and say that we are to esteem those observances to be obligatory which are in the written word, but are not to observe what are derived from the tradition of our forefathers. And concerning these things it is that great disputes and differences have arisen among them, while the Sadducees are able to persuade none but the rich, and have not the populace obsequious to them, but the Pharisees have the multitude on their side.” ¹²

When I first read this, the first thing that came into my mind was Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof singing "Tradition!!!!! Tradition!!!" In fact, if you look up the word "tradition" in Scripture the first appearance is when the Pharisees ask Jesus why His disciples transgress the tradition of the elders (Mat 15:2).

Colossians 2:8 "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."

Now that we've established that the Passover is a Sabbath and the twenty-first day is a Sabbath, let’s reason this out. If the first day is a Sabbath (Passover), would God move them out of Egypt on the day of rest, breaking His own law not even a day after telling Moses what to do? Thus, I believe they rested the daylight hours after the Passover which is still the fourteenth of Nisan. After sunset, the beginning of the fifteenth, they began to pack up, the Egyptians were telling them to hurry up, and as Israel left in the morning of the fifteenth, the Egyptians saw Israel leave while Egypt buried their dead! The Egyptians even gave them spoils to Israel!

Exodus 12:33-36 “And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men. And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.”

With 600,000 men, their children, wives, any aged that survived, flocks and herds, simply cannot be put together in five hours! Yes, they left in haste, but they still had to pack up their belongings, get the spoils of Egypt, leaving the food preparation for last. Read scripture not Hollywood movies to get the truth.

The First Passover was on a Wednesday

Now I’ll show you how this first Passover was on a Wednesday. After sunset on the fifteenth, they packed up and left by morning – the actual Exodus – exactly 430 years after the night Abraham sacrificed unto the Lord for a covenant. "Morrow" is defined as "the next day", "the following day", or "the morning". Since the date changes at sunset, the "morrow" would have been the daylight hours of the fifteenth of Nisan! If you search for "how long is the Passover" you'll find two answers: seven days or eight days. The answers you will not get are six hours or eight hours. They treat the entire Feast of Unleavened Bread as Passover, all seven days, which also isn't right. You'll even find sources stating emphatically Passover starts on the fifteenth of Nisan! Willfully ignorant of the truth!

Numbers 33:3 "And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians."

They went from Rameses to Succoth. The Egyptian army pursued them (the time isn’t given, but because the feast of Unleavened Bread is seven days, it’s an assumption that they are by the sea a week after the Exodus on 21 Nisan). Moses raises his hands in obedience to the Lord and the sea splits. By the next morning, Israel was in the Sinai. Moses took them three days into the wilderness where there was no water. Next, they went to the wilderness of Sin. Exodus 16:1 is our anchor day:

Exodus 16:1 “And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.”

On this day (15 Iyyar), Moses explains that from now on it would rain bread every morning and that each day they were to go and gather a certain amount for that day. On the sixth day, they would gather double the amount because there would not be any bread on the seventh day. So that night (16 Iyyar) they received the quail and the next morning a small round thing, they called manna, was on the ground. They repeated this for six days, and on the seventh day, they disobeyed the Lord and went looking for manna, Exodus 16:27. That means this "seventh" day is a Sabbath (22 Iyyar), which makes the fifteenth a Sabbath as well. With all this information, we now have enough to put these markers into a calendar form. In today's calendar, Nisan is 30 days and Iyyar has 29 days. As you will see, counting backwards from the first Sabbath, a Saturday, and the six gatherings of the manna to the first time quail arrived a week earlier, you arrive at another Saturday – the fifteenth of Iyyar (the second month after departing Egypt). This sets the date of Nisan 14 as Wednesday!

See the next page for the calendar.

Nisan

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thr	Fri	Sat
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10 Lamb separated – Exo 12:3
11	12	13	14 Passover Lamb killed after sunset Exo 12:6 – Passover!!	15 Israel leaves Egypt Exo 12:29-36	16	17
18	19	20	21 End of Feast of Unleavened Bread Exo 12:16-17	22 Crossed the Red Sea Exo 14:24	23	24 Three days to the wilderness Exo 15:22
25	26	27	28	29	30

Iyyar

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thr	Fri	Sat
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15 Israel arrives in the Wilderness of Sin – Anchor date Exo 16:1
16 Quail arrive after sunset the 15th – Morning manna arrive Exo 16:13	17 Repeat gathering	18 Repeat gathering	19 Repeat gathering	20 Repeat gathering	21 Double gathering Exo 16:22	22 No manna – First Sabbath Exo 16:27 Now count backwards.
23/30	24	25	26	27	28	29

Now that we established that the first Passover was a Wednesday, (even with any calendar change because Nisan is always 30 days) we can see another parallel that Jesus accomplished. The only place, after taking the land, a Passover sacrifice can occur is in Jerusalem.

Deuteronomy 16:5-6 “Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.”

I Kings 9:3 “And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.”

Moses dies @ 120 years - CY 2493

Creation Year: 2493 Western Year: 1484 BC

Moses dies.

Deuteronomy 34:7-9 "And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended. And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses."

And the wandering years, 40 in all, are over and Joshua takes Israel into the promised land at age 80.

Numbers 32:13 "And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed."

4 days short of 40 years, Israel enters the land of milk and honey.

Joshua 4:19 "And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho."

Joshua to Saul (The Judges)

Canaan 5-Year War - CY 2493

Creation Year: 2493 Western Year: 1484 BC

Joshua leads Israel to war at 81 to age 85. These are the years of warring with the seven nations of Canaan.

Acts 13:19 "And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot."

Joshua 14:10 "And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old."

Joshua 14:15 "And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war."

The land had rest... The Time of the Judges - CY 2498

Creation Year: 2498 Western Year: 1479 BC

Joshua is 85 years old, and that it's been 45 years since they went into the land to spy it out.

And the land had rest from war.

Joshua 14:15 "And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war."

Judge Joshua - CY 2498

Creation Year: 2499 Western Year: 1478 BC

First year Joshua is a judge only, for the next 25 years, until his death at 110. This is almost (talking months here) of the 50^th Jubilee from Creation.

Joshua 24:29 "And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old."

Why do I make the distinction? Because this is the end of the 1st year Joshua as a Judge and the end of their journey to the promise land, and the warring to make a home for themselves. Their journey was over and they had rest. This is the start of the next clock.

I Kings 6:1 "And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD."

CY 2498 (when the wars ended and the land had rest) + 480 = CY 2978

See from here to Solomon's 4th year of reign is exactly 480 years. If you read I Kings 6:1 you'll see that it doesn't say from the Exodus to Solomon's 4th year, it says "...after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt...". You could take it as being from the Exodus, but when you read the chronologies of the Judges later in this study you'll see that it was closer to 590 years, again forcing you to choose to believe every word scripture or not.

Joshua dies - CY 2523

Creation Year: 2523 Western Year: 1454 BC

25th year of Joshua as Judge. Joshua dies at 110.

Judges 2:8 "And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old."

Servitude: Chushanrishathaim - CY 2524

Creation Year: 2524 Western Year: 1453 BC

Servitude: Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia

Until Samson, the times of the Judges is chronologically in order, but some do over lap, meaning having more than one judge at the same time. This will be pointed out when we get there.

Sadly, right after Joshua died, Israel didn't remove (utterly destroy) the inhabitants and some were found living among Israel, which lead them to going after strange gods, and to God's judgement.

Judges 2:11-12 "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger."

Therefore, God sold them into servitude. Judges chapter two is a summary of all the judges and the evils of Israel and their cycle of destruction.

This first servitude was for eight years.

Judges 3:8 "Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years."

Judge Othniel - CY 2532

Creation Year: 2532 Western Year: 1445 BC

Because of their cry, God raised up a judge to deliver them, the brother of Caleb. They had rest for 40 years.

Judges 3:9-11 "And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim. And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died."

Othniel dies - CY 2571

Creation Year: 2571 Western Year: 1406 BC

Othniel dies.

Judges 3:11 "And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died."

Servitude: Eglon - CY 2572

Creation Year: 2572 Western Year: 1405 BC

Servitude to Eglon, king of Moab

For 18 years they served Eglon.

Judges 3:12-14 "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD. And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees. So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years."

Judge Ehud - CY 2590

Creation Year: 2590 Western Year: 1387 BC

Ehud came to save Israel because they cried unto God.

Judges 3:15 "But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab."

Ehud dies - CY 2669

Creation Year: 2669 Western Year: 1308 BC

Ehud dies, however, Shamgar was also a deliverer at this time.

Judges 3:30-31 "So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years. And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel."

Servitude: Jabin - CY 2670

Creation Year: 2670 Western Year: 1307 BC

Servitude to Jabin, king of Canaan

Yet again and God sold them into the hands of Jabin.

Judges 4:1-3 "And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead. And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel."

Judge Deborah - CY 2690

Creation Year: 2690 Western Year: 1287 BC

A prophetess and a judge. Judged 40 years.

Judges 4:4 "And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.", Judges 5:31 "So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years."

Judge Deborah dies - CY 2729

Creation Year: 2729 Western Year: 1248 BC

Deborah dies.

Judges 5:31 "So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years."

Servitude: Medianites - CY 2730

Creation Year: 2730 Western Year: 1247 BC

Judges 6:1 "And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years."

Judge Gideon - CY 2737

Creation Year: 2737 Western Year: 1240 BC

Judge Gideon, judged 40 years and had 70 sons.

Judges 6:11-16 "And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man."

Judges 8:30 "And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives."

Israel asked Gideon (Jerubbaal) to be "ruler" as king over them, but he refused.

Judges 8:22 "Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian."

Judges 8:28 "Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon."

Judge Abimelech - CY 2777

Creation Year: 2777 Western Year: 1200 BC

Judge Abimelech

Gideon had a son to a concubine and named him Abimelech, Judges 8:31-33. Israel went out again after other gods. Now Gideon (Jerubbabel) had another son that his 70 sons rejected because he was the son of a concubine, so Abimelech had them all killed, but not until after they chose to accept him into their house. So the men of Shechem made Abimelech king over them.

Judges 8:31-33 "And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god."

Judged only 3 years.

Judges 9:22-24 "When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel, Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren."

Judge Tola - CY 2780

Creation Year: 2780 Western Year: 1197 BC

Judge Tola

Judges 10:1-2 "And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir."

Judge Jair - CY 2803

Creation Year: 2803 Western Year: 1174 BC

Judge Jair.

Judges 10:3 "And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years."

Eli is born - CY 2815, dies CY 2913

Creation Year: 2815 Western Year: 1162 BC

Eli is born, deduced by his age of death.

I Samuel 4:12-18 "And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head. And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out. And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli. Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see. And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son? And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken. And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years."

Servitude: Philistines - CY 2825

Creation Year: 2825 Western Year: 1152 BC

Servitude: Philistines and Amorites for 18 years, Judges 10:6-9, but this time when they prayed for a deliverer God told them to pray to their gods for deliverance, Judges 10:10-14.

Judges 10:6-9 "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him. And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon. And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed."

Judges 10:10-14 "And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim. And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines? The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand. Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more. Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation."

Judge Jephthah - CY 2843

Creation Year: 2843 Western Year: 1134 BC

Judge Jephthah. Judged 6 years Note: “about” 300 years since entering the promise land, Judges 11:26.

Judges 11:11 "Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh."

Judges 12:7 "And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead."

Judges 11:26 "While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?"

Moses died in CY 2793, they enter the promised land and had war for 5 years. From Moses' death to now is 350 years.

Judge Izban - CY 2849

Creation Year: 2849 Western Year: 1128 BC

Judge Izban, judged 7 years, and had 30 daughters and 30 sons and sent his daughters abroad and took 30 daughter from abroad.

Judges 12:8-10 "And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem."

Judge Elon - CY 2856

Creation Year: 2856 Western Year: 1121 BC

Judge Elon, judged 10 years.

Judges 12:11-12 "And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun."

Judge Abdon - CY 2866

Creation Year: 2866 Western Year: 1111 BC

Judges 12:13-15 "And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites."

Servitude: Philistines, Judge Eli, Samson, and part of Samuel ... - CY 2874

Creation Year: 2874 Western Year: 1103 BC

Servitude, Philistines, Judge Eli, Judge Samson, and part of Prophet Samuel.

Judges 13:1 "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years."

Here is another break from tradition. This is the last mention of anything concerning judges until I Samuel. From here to David, it can get rather muddy, but I believe that with the given evidence (scripture), this period matches Eli, Samson, Samuel and Saul. We've seen that judges can over lap and the fact that all these are mentioned, as well as the lack of time given leads to the idea that they are not connected to the other judges, other than Eli. What is given is that the ark is 20 years in Kirjathjearim, the age and death of Eli, the absence of the age of Saul and Samuel, and any dates linking them to David. Furthermore, I believe that to add Samson, Eli and the 40 years of the Philistines into 80 years on top of 40 years for Samuel, contradicts scripture. This method of linking them all to the same 40 years, at this time, is the only way ALL verses fit without disregard to other scriptures.

Note: Not all of Samuel's years are in with Eli's, just most. This entry is to show from Eli to David in summary.

Eli is judge for these next 40 years starting at age 58. Samson is deliverer during this timeframe for 20 years – just for your information, a deliverer and a judge are the same.

I Samuel 6:1 “And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.”

The ark is returned to Israel for the plagues that fell on the Philistines.

I Samuel 6:14 “And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.”

Because they looked into the ark, the Lord smote 50,070 men of Bethshemesh. They called the men of Kirjathjearim where it stayed for 20 years until David called for it.

I Samuel 7:1-2 “And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD. And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.”

I Samuel 7:15 “And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.”

Samuel anoints Saul as king.

I Samuel 10:24-25 “And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king. Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.”

Saul is made king.

I Samuel 11:15 “And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.”

Saul didn’t last long. He sins after two years in office by not obeying the Lord and wait for Samuel to make the burnt offering.

I Samuel 13:1 “Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,”

I Samuel 13:13-14 “And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever. But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.”

Saul sinned again by being disobedient and so the Lord repented He made Saul king. The Lord called on Samuel to go and anoint David to be king.

I Samuel 16:13-14 “Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah. But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.”

I Samuel 25:1 “And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.”

I Samuel 31:6 “So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.”

II Samuel 2:4 “And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul.”

II Samuel 2:10 “Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.”

All of this took place over twenty years. How do I know this? Remember when Eli died because the Philistines took the ark, returned it and then the ark was taken to Kirjathjearim and stayed there until David’s first year? All the years of Saul was the ark forgotten.

I Chronicles 13:3 “And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we inquired not at it in the days of Saul.”

I Chronicles 13:5-6 "So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim. And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubim, whose name is called on it."

I Samuel 7:2 "And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD."

Prophet Samuel - CY 2875*

Creation Year: 2875* Western Year: 1102* BC

Samuel is recognized by the people as a prophet.

Samuel serves with Eli.

I Samuel 2:18 "But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod."

I Samuel 2:26 "And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favor both with the LORD, and also with men."

Note: this is just a mention of activities and not intended to be attributed to this year. Scripture only mentions this event and not the timeframe.

Ishbosheth is born to Saul - CY 2894

Creation Year: 2894 Western Year: 1083 BC

Ishbosheth is born to Saul (Deduced by the year he took office as king of Israel.)

II Samuel 2:10 "Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David."

David is born - CY 2904

Creation Year: 2904 Western Year: 1073 BC

David is born (Deduced by his age at becoming king of Judah.)

Eli dies, the Ark is taken... - CY 2913

Creation Year: 2913 Western Year: 1064 BC

Eli dies and the ark is taken by the Philistines, at 98 years old.

This is the end of the judges. Total time: 415 years from Joshua's 5th year to this year.

End of Judges - CY 2914

Creation Year: 2914 Western Year: 1063 BC

The ark is seven months in Philistines and returned to Israel and put in Kirjathjearim for twenty years after the Lord sent them plagues and destroyed their god.

I Samuel 6:1 "And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months."

I Samuel 7:2 "And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD."

The Ark in Kirjathjearim - CY 2915

Creation Year: 2915 Western Year: 1062 BC

Twenty years until David called for the ark from Kirjathjearim in the first year of his reign.

I Samuel 7:2 "And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD."

Kings to Babylon

Saul anointed as King - CY 2924*

Creation Year: 2924* Western Year: 1053* BC

Note: this is just a mention of activities and not intended to be attributed to this year. Scripture only mentions this event and not the timeframe. Even Sir Isaac Newton attributes only ten years to Saul’s reign. (The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, Sir Isaac Newton, London, MDCCXXVIII)

At some time, Saul is anointed King, and then later becomes king, the Kingdom is taken away, and given to David, who is anointed, but not made King for a while. Like Saul, no dates are given in scripture.

Now I know of Acts 13:21, but remember Samuel's time is included and because of the ark being in Kirjathjearim for 20 years from Eli's death to David's reign, well that doesn't leave enough time for 40 years to pass to be attributed to Saul. In fact one Jewish site stated that Saul reigned only 2 years. The fact is, scripture doesn't say. Furthermore, since Josephus isn't scripture, he's not perfect, and is often wrong when dealing with numbers. I believe this is because even at his time he was influenced by the errors of Claudious Ptolomey.

I believe this because of the verse before it (Acts 13:20) states that the 450 years were "until Samuel," meaning that Samuel's years were not included in with the time of the Judges. I believe that the 40 years is attributed to Samuel, which overlaps Eli and Saul and David. I know that it's a stretch but Scripture is without error and to give Saul 40 years reign contradicts I Samuel 7:2 and I Chronicles 13:5-6 which shows that from the death of Eli to David's first year of reign were only 20 years.

Acts 13:20-21 "And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years."

I Samuel 7:2 "And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD."

David made king over Judah and gets the ark - CY 2934

Creation Year: 2934 Western Year: 1043 BC

Samuel dies, Saul dies, David made king over Judah at 30 years old, Ishbosheth is made king over Israel at 40.

II Samuel 2:4 "And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul."

II Samuel 2:8-10 "But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David."

David gets the ark out of Kirjathjearim.

Ishbosheth murdered, David is made king of Israel - CY 2941

Creation Year: 2941 Western Year: 1036 BC

Ishbosheth is murdered and David is made King over Israel also and ruled 33 more years.

II Samuel 5:1-5 "Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah."

David dies, Solomon made king - CY 2975

Creation Year: 2975 Western Year: 1003 BC

David dies and Solomon reigns in his stead. This year is count as the first year of Solomon. David’s 40^th year ended in CY 2974. Since we do not know the month, we are limited to splitting by years instead of by the actual months.

I Kings 2:12 "Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly."

This year is the "about" 530 years from the Exodus per the summary of Paul in Acts 13. The Exodus was in Creation Year 2453 to David's death in this year, Creation Year 2975, is 522 years.

The years of "about forty years" (Acts 13:18 "And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness."), "about the space of four hundred and fifty years" (Acts 13:20) and "by the space of forty years" (Acts 13:21) add up to "about" 530 years. Two "abouts" and 8 years difference, works for me.

Why does this work for me? Well, it's simple, if Paul didn't know the exact dates of each event mentioned, and scripture didn't spell it all out, the "abouts" is all we're going to get. With all the dates presented here stopping and starting in January, one must keep in mind that some events happen in quick secession and others take time to change. This "wiggle room" is a given, even in scripture, hence the usage of "about".

Though you may not agree with the individual judge times, or the length of the reign of Saul, to have all these verses agree shows that this scenario is very close to actual events. So now you understand why I chose to count from Joshua's 5th year (they rested from war - Acts 13:19 and Joshua 14:10) to the fourth year of Solomon. I believe I Kings 6:1 that it was 480 years, because it was, exactly, not "about". After resting in the land from war, Creation Year 2498, to Solomon's fourth year of reign, Creation Year 2978, equals 480 years exactly.

Acts 13:18-21 “And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot. And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.”

Be careful with the counts. The Exodus, the wanderings, the war, the judges, Samuel, Saul up to David come to 481 years (CY 2453 to CY 2934). Remember, Eli died when the ark was taken, stayed for 7 months with the Philistines, was returned to Kirjathjearim and stayed there 20 years until David was made king and he took it out. All the years of Saul it was neglected. So from the death of Eli to David’s first year was 20 years. I Kings 6:1 speaks from “out of the land of Egypt” it isn’t counting the years of wandering and the 5 years to war for the land with Joshua because from Joshua, all the judges, to Solomon’s fourth year is exactly 480 years (CY 2498 to CY 2978). From the day of the Exodus to the fourth year of Solomon is 525 years (CY 2453 to CY 2978). Scripture counts two ways: one from Exodus to Eli; the second from the end of the Joshua’s wars to Solomon’s fourth year.

Here’s the breakdown:

Exodus CY 2453 to Joshua’s fifth year CY 2498 (not counted): 45 years

                Joshua’s fifth year CY 2498 to Eli’s death: CY 2913:                                                     415 years
                CY 2914: 7 months with the Philistines, 20 years in Kirjathjearim: CY 2934:            20 Years + 7 months
                David made king and rules 40 years: CY 2934 to CY 2974:                                          40 Years
                Solomon made king CY 2975 to fourth year 2978:                                                            4 Years

415 + 20 + 40 + 4 + 7months = 479 years 7 months, from the rest from war and wandering CY 2498 to Solomon’s fourth year, CY 2978. Scripture does not provide enough information to fill in the missing four months. Four unspecified months spread over 480 years does not constitute a contradiction. So, what do you know, Scripture is correct, 480 years.

Solomon’s Fourth Year - CY 2978

Creation Year: 2978 Western Year: 999 BC

480 years from resting from the wars under Joshua to this year, Creation Year 2498, after the fifth year of Joshua, that year they rested from the wars.

Solomon starts to build the temple of God in the second month, which is Iyyar (or Ziv or Zif).

I Kings 6:37-38 "In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif: And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it."

Temple is completed - CY 2985

Creation Year: 2985 Western Year: 992 BC

The temple is completed in the month Bul, which is Heshvan, the eighth month.

I Kings 6:38 "And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it."

Temple is dedicated - CY 2986

Creation Year: 2986 Western Year: 991 BC

Solomon calls all the elders of Israel, etc., and they meet on the 9th of Tishri and celebrate the great Day of Atonement on the 10th, then Solomon dedicates the house of God on the Feast of Tabernacles, on the 15th of Tishri, the seventh month.

I Kings 8:1-2 "Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month."

The first seven days were occupied with the dedication (9th - 15th), and the other seven devoted to the Feast of Tabernacles on the 15th, (15th-22nd) and were told they could go on until the 23rd.

I Kings 8:65-66 "And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people."

II Chronicles 7:9-10 "And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had showed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people."

End of day three - CY 3001

Creation Year: 3001 Western Year: 976 BC

End of day three, beginning of day four.

II Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

Jeroboam King of Israel, Rehoboam King of Judah - CY 3014

Creation Year: 3014 Western Year: 963 BC

Jeroboam reigned 22 years.

I Kings 14:20 "And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead."

Rehoboam was 41 years old and reigned 17 years.

I Kings 14:21 "And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess."

Understanding... - CY 3014

These secular kings mentioned here have their year of accession added. The Jewish kings had no accession years added to their years, usually. This is very important to remember. This is seen much better in an Excel spreadsheet.

The Talmud states too in Yoma, fol. 38, col. 2, "If a king be crowned on the twenty-ninth of Adar (the last month of the sacred year), on the morrow--the first of Nissan--it is reckoned that he commences his second year, that being the new year's day for royal and ecclesiastical affairs."

Egypt takes treasures... - CY 3018

Creation Year: 3018 Western Year: 959 BC

King Shishak of Egypt came and took the treasures of the Temple.

I Kings 14:25 "And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:"

Abijah King of Judah - CY 3031

Creation Year: 3031 Western Year: 946 BC

I Kings 15:1 "Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah."

**Abijam (Abijah) reigned 3 years, King of Judah, had 14 wives, 22 sons, 16 daughters.

II Chronicles 13:21 "But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters."

** Reheboam must of died just before his end of the year for Ajijah to have started to reign in Jeroboam's 18th year or some event took place that's not recorded as to why it wasn't immediate in his 17th year.

I Kings 14:25 "And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:"

500,000 die in one battle - CY 3032

Creation Year: 3032 Western Year: 945 BC

500,000 men of Israel died in a single battle with Abijah.

II Chronicles 13:17 "And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men."

Asa King of Judah - CY 3033

Creation Year: 3033 Western Year: 944 BC

Asa reigned 41 years 20th year of Jeroboam.

The Jews didn't count accession years. No explanation for this count of the year, but if 2818 was the second year of Asa then Nadab would have taken the throne while Jeroboam was still king. Something not impossible, but changing this affects other scripture references below.

I Kings 15:9 "And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah."

Nadab King of Israel - CY 3035

Creation Year: 3035 Western Year: 942 BC

Nadab (reigned 2 years) second year of Asa.

I Kings 15:25 "And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years."

Baasha King of Israel - CY 3036

Creation Year: 3036 Western Year: 941 BC

Baasha killed Nadab and all the house of Jeroboam (reigned 24 years) third year of Asa.

I Kings 15:28 "Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead."

I Kings 15:33 "In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years."

Jehu the prophet told Baasha he was evil and would end up like Jeroboam.

I Kings 16:1-7 "Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins; Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat. Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead. And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him."

Jeroboam died in the second year of Asa; Nadab ruled 2 years; Baasha killed Nadab in the third year of Asa, yet Nadab ruled 2 years. The difference is that all events are shown from January to January instead of the more plausible May to Aug, etc.

Elah King of Israel - CY 3059

Creation Year: 3059 Western Year: 918 BC

Elah reigned 2 years the 26th year of Asa.

I Kings 16:8 "In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years."

Zimri King of Israel (7 days) - CY 3060

Creation Year: 3060 Western Year: 917 BC

Zimri ruled 7 days and was killed, in the 27th year of Asa.

I Kings 16:15-20 "In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp. And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died. For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin. Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"

Omri King of Israel - CY 3060

Creation Year: 3060 Western Year: 917 BC

Omri reigned 12 years the 27th year of Asa, but fought with Tibni for 3 years as co-King.

I Kings 16:21-23 “Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri. But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned. In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.”

Tibni co-King of Israel - CY 3061

Creation Year: 3061 Western Year: 916 BC

Tibni and Omri fought and Israel was split between them in a battle. Omri reigned 12 years the 27th year of Asa, but fought with Tibni for 3 years as co-King.

I Kings 16:21-23 "Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri. But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned. In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah."

Omri sole ruler of Israel - CY 3064

Creation Year: 3064 Western Year: 913 BC

Omri (ruler alone in Israel) reigned 12 years (6 years in Tirzah after taking it) Omri was worse than all before him.

I Kings 16:23 "In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah."

Ahab King of Israel - CY 3071

Creation Year: 3071 Western Year: 906 BC

Ahab reigned 22 years, worse even still than all before him and he rebuilt Jericho as prophesied according to Joshua.

Joshua 6:26 "And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it."

I Kings 16:29 "And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years."

Jehoshaphat King of Judah - CY 3074

Creation Year: 3074 Western Year: 903 BC

Jehoshaphat 35 years old, ruled 25 years in fourth year of Ahab.

I Kings 22:41-42 "And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi."

Ahaziah King of Israel (co-regent) - CY 3091

Creation Year: 3091 Western Year: 886 BC

Ahaziah (in the 17th year of Jehoshaphat) ruled 2 years co-regent.

I Kings 22:51 "Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel."

Jehoram King of Israel - CY 3092

Creation Year: 3092 Western Year: 885 BC

Jehoram (18th year of Jehoshaphat) son of Ahab ruled because Ahaziah had no sons. Also called Joram, 32 years old ruled 12 years.

II Kings 3:1 "Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years."

This is the 22nd year of Ahab and second year of Ahaziah co-reigning at this time.

Jehoram King of Judah (co-regent) - CY 3096

Creation Year: 3096 Western Year: 881 BC

Because his father was illness in his bowels, he co-reigned until his father died 2 years later.

II Chronicles 21:9-20 "Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots. So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers. Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto. And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself: Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day. Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians: And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons. And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two