The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

SECTION IV.

From the coming of Israel out of Egypt, to the laying of the foundation of Solomons Temple, were 480 years, 1 King. 6. 1. and seven years was it in building, ver. 38.

SO that joyn these 487 that passed from the coming out of Egypt to the finishing of the Temple, to the 2513 years, of which age the world was when they came out of* 1.1 Egypt, and it will appear that Solomons Temple was finished exactly in the three thou∣sandth year of the World.

This sum is made up of these many parcels.

• Israel in the Wilderness 40 years.
• Joshua ruled 17 years.
• Othniel judged 40 years, Judg. 3. 11.
• Ehud judged 80 years, Judg. 3. 30.
• Deborah, &c. 40 years, Judg. 5. 31.
• Gideon, 40 years, Judg. 8. 28.
• Abimelech, 3 years, Judg. 9. 22.
• Tolah, 23 years, Judg. 10. 2.
• Jair, 22 years, Judg. 10. 3.
• Jephtah, 6 years, Judg. 12. 7.
• Ibsan, 7 years, Judg. 12. 9.
• Elon Judged 10 years, Judg. 12. 11.
• Abdon, 8 years, Judg. 12. 14.
• Sampson, 20 years, Judg. 15. 20. & 16. 31.
• Eli, 40 years, 1 Sam. 4. 18.
• Samuel and Saul, 40 years, Acts 13. 21.
• David, 40 years, 1 King. 2. 11.
• Solomon, 4 years, 1 King. 6. 1.

Total 480. Now among all these parcels, there is no number that hath not a Text to warrant it, but only the date of the Government of Joshua, which yet cannot be doubt∣ed of to have been seventeen years; seeing that so many years only are not specified by express Text of all the 480 mentioned, 1 King. 6. 1. And here also may the reader observe that the years that are mentioned in the book of Judges, for years of Israels oppression, as Judg. 3. 8, 14. &c. are not to be taken for a space of time distinct from the time of the Judges, but included in the sum of their times.

Now it thus falling out, as it is more then apparent, that Solomons Temple was finish∣ed and perfected in the year of the world 3000. This belike hath helped to strengthen that Opinion that hath been taken up by some, That as the World was six days in creating so shall it be six thousand years in continuance, and then shall come the everlasting Sabbath. And indeed the observation could not but please those that were pleased with this opinion: for when they found that the first three thousand years of the World did end, in the

perfecting of the earthly Temple, it would make them to conclude the bolder, that the other three thousand should conclude in the consummation of the spiritual.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Solomons Tem∣ple finished, Anno mundi▪ 3000.