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DETERMINING THE YEARS THAT KING SAUL RULED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Saul was a young man when he was chosen king:

1 Samuel 9:2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

Saul tells us that David was a young man when he killed Goliat:

1 Samuel 17:33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

1 Samuel 17:58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.

Because the difference of ages, David called Saul my father, and Saul called him my son:

1 Samuel 24 11: Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

1 Samuel 24:16 And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

Which means that Saul ruled many years:

1 Chronicles 8:33 And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Ish-baal.

1 Samuel 14: 49: Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-shua:

1 Chronicles 8:34: And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal begat Micah.

This Meri-baal, or Mephi-bosheth, was born 5 years before Saul died:

2 Samuel 4:4 And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephi-bosheth.

When Saul died, his younger son had 40 years, older that David:

1 Chronicles 10:2 And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

2 Sanuel 8: 8: But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

10: Ish-bosheth 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

This inner context confirms what it is recorded by the Christian apostle Saul:

Acts of the Apostle 13:21 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.

The unexplained 12 years

Josephus says that Solomon started building the temple 592 years after Exodus, and it took 7 years and some months, which leads to almost 600 years; but further he says that the temple was finished the year 612 after Exodus!

(From Exodus to Titus, 1790 years)

III Kings 11:11 And the days which David reigned over Israel were forty years: he reigned seven years in Chebron and thirty three years in Jerusalem

DETERMINING THE YEARS THAT KING SOLOMON RULED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

The New Septuagint

III Kings 11:42 And the days during which Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel were forty years

The New Hebraic Bible

1Chronicles9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

Antiquities of the Jews 8,8,8. (The Old Hebraic)

So Solomon died when he was already an old man, having reigned eighty years, and lived ninety-four

Both Saul and David were men of war from their youths, subjected to hard environment and situation that weakened the body with disease. For this reason, at his seventy years, king David seemed very old:

1 Kings 1:15 And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.

The sage Daniel was about 15-18 years old when was taken captive to Babylon. He lived exiled under the 70 years of the Babylonian Period, the 23 years king Darius, to the third year of king Cyrus. He lived more than 100 years. At that age he still fasted during 21 days:

10:1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

Daniel tells us that king Darius, being 62 years old, was a strong warrior:

5:31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

Solomon was a man of peace from childhood, living under a healthy environment. He was very young when David made him king:

1 Chronicles 22:5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

These words "young and tender" seem to be close to the 14 years (94-80) mentioned by Josephus, which is supported by the inner context of the Bible. David was 30 years old when he started ruling in Hebron. He was 37 years and 6 months old when started ruling in Jerusalem. He passed there at least a year, before he knew Bath-sheba:

2 Samuel 11:1 And it came to pass, after the year was expired

After he knew her, she was pregnant nine months: David was around 39 years old. Before Solomon, Bath-sheba gave three other sons to David:

1 Chronicles 3:4 These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.

5: And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel:

So, David had to have more than 40 years when he begot Solomon, who turned to his wives' gods only when he was old:

1 Kings 11:4. For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

Therefore it is not out of context that: "Solomon reigned 80 years and lived 94 years"

FINGERPRINT !

It is suspicious that in the New Hebraic and the New Septuagint, the formula "person was N years old when he began to reign" is not applied to king Saul and king Solomon, it seems to have been deleted intentionally

THE EVIL SCRIBES CHANGED THE TIME FROM EXODUS TO SOLOMON'S TEMPLE

The following four reports reflect the changes made by the lying pen of the scribes

Antiquities of the Jews,8,3 (Old Hebraic)

1 Solomon began to build the temple in the fourth year of his reign, on the second month, which the Macedonians call Artemisius, and the Hebrews Jur, five hundred and ninety-two years after the Exodus out of Egypt;

Against Apion 2:2. While still Solomon himself built that temple six hundred and twelve years after the Jews came out of Egypt. [Josephus mentions 612 in Antiquities 20,10,1]

Septuagint

III Kings 5:18 And they prepared the stones and the timber during three years. And it came to pass in the four hundred and fortieth year after the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the fourth year and second month of the reign of king Solomon over Israel

III Kings 6:1 In the fourth year he laid the foundation of the house of the Lord, in the month Ziu, even in the second month. In the eleven year, in the month Baal, this is the eighth month, the house was completed according to all its plan, and according to all its arrangement.

New Hebraic

1 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

37 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.

Acts of the Apostles 13:17

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it. And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. 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.

612

440

480

612(40+32+450+40+40+10)

Started: 4^th year and 2^nd months

Ended: 11^th year and 8^th months

The building of the temple lasted 7 years and 6 months

The following site shows some important changes made by the scribes

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jtigay/codetext.html

Besides the ancient manuscripts, the Talmud and other Rabbinic texts also quote scores of Biblical passages that differ in their wording or spelling from the MT.15 It is conceivable that some of these variants are due to the rabbis citing verses from memory, or from scribal errors in the copying of the rabbinic texts. But sometimes these variants agree with other ancient witnesses to the text, proving that they are based on actual texts of the Bible.16 And, most significantly, sometimes the Talmud bases laws on the spelling of particular words (e.g., the number of compartments in phylacteries),17 yet the spelling differs from that found in the MT. In such cases, the Talmudic rabbis were obviously confident of the accuracy of the reading, and none of their colleagues challenged it. This is an important fact: the Koren Bible and all other texts in use today contain readings that differ from spellings which the Talmud was confident were correct.18 As far as the number of letters and words in the Torah is concerned, it is also worth noting the following: a puzzling passage in the Babylonian Talmud states that according to the "first scholars," called soferim ("Scribes"), the middle letter in the Torah is a particular letter in Leviticus 11:42, and that the middle pair of words appears in Leviticus 10:16. However, in Koren and all the other texts used today, the middle letter appears 4830 letters earlier, in Leviticus 8:28, and the middle words appear 933 words earlier, in Lev. 8:15.19 Unless the Talmudic passage is based on erroneous calculations, it seems to have been based on a text of the Torah that was either shorter than today's text or had the pertinent passages in Leviticus in a different order than they are today.20
Jewish tradition acknowledges many such changes in the spelling and wording of the Torah. So, too, by the way, do many Orthodox scholars who are among the critics of the codes.21

Though some changes seem to be meaningless, they are not; for instance, the name Baal was changed to Bul, which is one of the deities united in one with two other deities, as you can consult in the following pages

Jah-Bul-On

Yah - the Moon

Yah, ancient Egyptian name for moon

In this last days there exist certain sects trying to introduce deceitfully the UL cult.

Even though Josephus was faithful to his Hebraic Source, the Hebraic source itself had been corrupted by the evil scribes.

DETERMINING THE PERIOD OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH

(Septuagint)

II Chronicles 12:13 So king Roboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: and Roboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, in the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of the children of Israel to call his name there: and his mother's name was Noomma the Ammanitess. 14 And he did evil for he directed not his heart to seek the Lord.

II Chronicles 13:1 In the eighteen year of the reign of Jeroboam Abia began to reign over Juda. 2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maacha, daughter of Uriel of Gabaon.

II Chronicles 15:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the fortieth year of his reign.

II Chronicles 20:31 And Josaphat reigned over Juda, being thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Azuba, daughter of Sali.

II Chronicles 21:5 When he was thirty and two years old, Joram succeeded to his kingdom, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

II Chronicles 22:2 Ochozias begin to reign when he was twenty years old, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: And his mother's name was Gotholia, the daughter of Ambri.

II Chronicles 22:12 And he was with him hid in the house of God six year; and Gotholia reigned over the land.

II Chronicles 24:1 Joas was seven year old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem.

II Chronicles 25: 1 Amasias began to reign when he was twenty and five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Joadaen of Jerusalem.

II Chronicles 26:3 Ozias began to reign at the age of sixteen years, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechlia of Jerusalem.

II Chronicles 27:1 Joatham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerusa, daughter of Sadoc.

II Chronicles 28:1 Achaz was five and twenty years old when he begat to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as David his father.

II Chronicles 29:1 And Ezequias began to reigned at the age of twenty -five years, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abia, daughter of Zacharias.

II Chronicles 33:1 Manases was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

II Chronicles 33:21 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

II Chronicles 34:1 Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

II Chronicles 36:2 Joachaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three month in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Amital, daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.

II Chronicles 36:5 Joachim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zechora, daughter of Nerias of Rama.

II Chronicles 36:9 Jechonias (Matthew uses this name) was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three month and then days in Jerusalem, and did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

II Chronicles 36:11 Sedechias was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem

II Chronicles 36:17 And he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and did not spare Sedekias, and had no mercy upon their virgin, and they led away their old men: he delivered all things into their hands. 18 And all the vessels of the house of God, the great and the small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and all the treasures of the king and the great men; he brought all to Babylon.

19 And he burnt the house of the Lord and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt its palaces with fire, and utterly destroyed every beautiful vessel. 20 And he carried away the remnant to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of the Medes (The Hebraic Bible says Persians, but Daniel affirms that Darius the Medes took Babylon, and after the Medes came the Persian)

Josephus' source, the New Septuagint and the the New and Old Hebraic Bible have the same years for the kings

Roboam 17	Abia 3	Asa 40	Josaphat 25	Joram 8	Ochozias 1	Athalia 6	Joas 40	Amasias 29	Uzziah 52		Joatham 16	Achaz 16
17	20	60	85	93	94	100	140	169	221		237	253
Ezekias 29	Manases 55	Amon 2	Josias 31	Joachaz 3month	Joachim 11	Jechonias 3 month	Sedechias 11	The temple destroyed		The queen Athalia was not Solomon seed: 3921/2-6=386 years
282	337	339	370	370	381	381 1/2	392 1/2	3921/2		The queen Athalia was not Solomon seed: 3921/2-6=386 years

Since the three source have in common the duration of these kings, let use to determine the best try:

Source	Desert	Joshua	Judges	Saul	David	Solomon			His sons	Athalia	Given
Josephus	40	25	440	2⁺	40	10		70	386	6
Accumulate		65	505	507	547	557	612	627	1.013	1.019	1.062*
New Septuagint	40	0	410	0	40	10		30	386	6	Josephus inner data don't agree with the amount he mentions, due to the changes made by the evil scribes.
Accumulate		40	450		490	500	440	530	916	922
New Hebraic	40	0	410	0	40	10		30	386
Accumulate		0	450		490	500	480	530	916	922
Apostle Paul	40	32	450	40	40	10		70*	386	6
Accumulate		72	522	562	602	612		682	1068	1.074*

* Paul and Josephus' data are closer

+ in order to be close to the 612, Saul years must be increase

Antiquities of the Jews 10,2, 2. At this time [Ezekias' sickness] it was that the dominion of the Assyrians was overthrown by the Medes; (6) but of these things I shall treat elsewhere.

Antiquities of the Jews, 11,1,2. This was known to Cyrus by his reading the book which Isaiah left behind him of his prophecies; for this prophet said that God had spoken thus to him in a secret vision: "My will is, that Cyrus, whom I have appointed to be king over many and great nations, send back my people to their own land, and build my temple." This was foretold by Isaiah [in the days of king Ezekias] one hundred and forty years before the temple was demolished.

Antiquities of the Jews 10,8, 4. And after this manner have the kings of David's race ended their lives being in number twenty-one until the last king who all together reigned five hundred and fourteen years and six months and ten days; of whom Saul who was their first king retained the government twenty years though he was not of the same tribe with the rest.

5...Now the temple was burnt four hundred and seventy years six months and ten days after it was built. It was then one thousand and sixty-two years six months and ten days from the departure out of Egypt; and from the deluge to the destruction of the temple the whole interval was one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven years six months and ten days; but from the generation of Adam until this befell the temple there were three thousand five hundred and thirteen years six months and ten days; so great was the number of years hereto belonging. And what actions were done during these years we have particularly related.

71/2 years of the building of the temple + 3921/2 of the sons of Solomon = 400 years

After Solomon built the temple, he lived 70 years; therefore, 400+70 = 470

(most of the time one discards the months and days)

Antiquities of the Jews 9,24, 1.... So the ten tribes of the Israelites were removed out of Judea nine hundred and forty-seven years after their forefathers were come out of the land of Egypt and possessed themselves of the country but eight hundred years after Joshua had been their leader and as I have already observed two hundred and forty years seven months and seven days after they had revolted from Rehoboam the grandson of David and had given the kingdom to Jeroboam

New Hebraic 2 King 17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. (6) In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. So, the kingdom of Israel ended eighteen years after Josephus' 240 (237+12+9=258). Judah was deported 134 later.
	Exodus-Temple	Temple - Jeroboam	Jeroboam - Israel removal	Israel	134	Judah
Septuagint	440	37	258	735		869
New Hebraic	480	37	258	775		909
Josephus' Old Hebraic	612	70	240	922		1056
Apostle Paul	612	70	258	940		1.074

Josephus' Old Hebraic Bible said that from the Exodus to the burning of the temple passed 1.062 years, and from the Exodus to the Israel removal passed 947 years, which yields 1.062-947=115 years from the removal of Israel to the deportation of Judah. Adding this to the 240 years mentioned by the Old Hebraic gives 355, being 37 years less than the 392 years of the kings of Judah, which clearly shows the changes made by the evil scribes enemies of God.

The dates given by Josephus were taken from the Old Hebraic Bible

The mismatching between the supplied data and the summation shows clearly the changes made by the evil scribes

2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.	2 Chronicles 22:2 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.	22:1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/dead_sea_scrolls/words_moses.shtml

The Words of Moses reworks material from Deuteronomy. This is not at all surprising, since much of the literature of this time (3rd century B.C.E. to 1st century C.E.) is based on older biblical texts. It was a common practice, as we can see from many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, to take passages from the Bible and rework them in some way for a particular religious purpose.

(see families of mss)

The Christian Evangelist Matthew Levi didn't see the kings Ochozias, Joas, and Amasias in the descendants of David. He went directly from Joram to Ozias:

8: And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;

9: And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;

"Joram begat Ozias" meaning that Ozias was born of the spermatozoid of Joram, which may suggest that Ochozias, Joas and Amasias were fabricated by the lying pen of the evil scribes

See fabrications of kings

An ostracon (piece of broken pottery) has turned up, seemingly out of nowhere, containing a receipt of 3 shekels offered to the "House of YHWH" (Yahweh/the LORD) by "Ashyahu the King". CNN Interractive reported the find as perhaps the earliest mention of Solomon's Temple beyond the pages of the Bible. A bracket chronology of the 9th - 7th centuries BCE was posited.

However, the authenticity of the ostracon has yet to be proved. The strange circumstances of its find, coupled with other epigraphical questions, lead toward a stance that the ostracon is a forgery.

A shekel is an Israelite coin of low cost. It is strange that a king gave 3 shekels to the house of YHWH, at least that it had a ritual o initiation value!

Antiquities of the Jews 5,8,9. And when Jephtha had taken immediate care of their affairs, he placed his army at the city Mizpeh, and sent a message to the Ammonite [king], complaining of his unjust possession of their land. But that king sent a contrary message; and complained of the exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt, and desired him to go out of the land of the Amorites, and yield it up to him, as at first his paternal inheritance. But Jephtha returned this answer: That he did not justly complain of his ancestors about the land of the Amorites, and ought rather to thank them that they left the land of the Ammonites to them, since Moses could have taken it also; and that neither would he recede from that land of their own, which God had obtained for them, and they had now inhabited [above] three hundred years, but would fight with them about it.