The Lantern

Chronicon · Book 1 translated from Armenian15

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This is Josephus' account.

[38] For this Chronology , the following table shows [the rulers and their reigns] from the building of the temple in the fourth year of Solomon to its destruction by the Babylonians 432 years later. Here are the figures:

1. Solomon, 37 years, including the additional three years

2. Rehoboam, 16 years

3. Abijam, 3 years

4. Asa, 41 years

5. Jehoshaphat, 25 years

6. Jehoram, 8 years

7. Ahaziah, 1 year

8. Athaliah, his mother, 7 years

9. Jehoash, 40 years [g182]

10. Amaziah, 28 years

11. Uzziah, 52 years. In his reign the Greeks established the first Olympic games [776 B.C.].

12. Jotham, 16 years

13. Ahaz, 16 years

14. Hezekiah, 29 years

15. Manasseh, 55 years

16. Amon, 2 years

17. Josiah, 31 years

18. Jehoahaz, 3 months

19. Jehoiakim, 11 years

20. Jehoiachin, his son, also called Jekhoniah, 3 months

21. Mattaniah, also called Zedekiah, 11 years

This makes a total of 432 years.

After this, during [the next] 70 years, the Babylonian captivity of the Jews occurred and the destruction of the [temple's] site. According to the Bible, this ended in the second year of King Darius of Persia, which was during the 65th Olympiad [B.C. 520-517].