Posted by Navah on May 29, 2016 in The Book Reckoning of Time
From the Book Reckoning of Time The opinion of this author is that the period from the reign of King Yoshiyahu to the reign of the last king of Yehudah, Tzidqiyahu, is the most obscured and thus challenging to decipher and because of and in order to come as close as possible to the correct chronology of the kings of Yehudah the Babylonian Chronicles will be used since they give a most detailed picture of the events surrounding the later years of the kingdom. Here is the...
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Posted by Navah on May 29, 2016 in The Book Reckoning of Time
From the Book Reckoning of Time After we have established the reigns of the kings of Israel and Yehudah, we may proceed to find any sabbatical and jubilee years in that period of time which will help us draw a conclusion whether this reckoning is correct or not. There are two key points in the chronology of the kings of Yehudah as described in the Biblical text (more specifically in the reigns of King Hizqiyahu and King Tsidqiyahu) that define the Sabbatical and Jubilee...
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Posted by Navah on May 29, 2016 in The Book Reckoning of Time
From the Book Reckoning of Time 1. Rehavam (3010-3026), the First King. King Shlomo was succeeded by his son, Rehavam (1Ki_11:43) in year 3010. Upon his elevation to the throne a deputation of his countrymen waited upon him, requesting relief from oppressive taxation. He forsook the counsel of the old men and followed the counsel of the young men, and refused to grant their request (1Ki_12:1-15; 2Ch_10:1-15). His ungenerous treatment caused ten of the tribes to rebel...
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Posted by Navah on May 29, 2016 in The Book Reckoning of Time
From the Book Reckoning of Time From here we can proceed with the chronology of the kings of Israel and later Yehudah according to the records in the books of Kings and Chronicles, and also according to the annals of the Babylonian Chronicles. The Babylonian Chronicles is a set of clay tablets listing in an annalistic (year-by-year) fashion the key events of each year, such as the accession and deaths of kings, major military events, and notable religious occurrences. It...
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Posted by Navah on May 29, 2016 in The Book Reckoning of Time
From the Book Reckoning of Time The Biblical accounts of 1Ki_6:1 and 2Ch_3:2 say that 480 years after Israel had come out of Egypt, King Shlomo began to build the Temple in the second month in the fourth year of his reign in Yerushalayim on Mount Moriah, where YHVH had appeared to his father David, the place which David had prepared, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite (2Ch_3:1). And it came to be, in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel...
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Posted by Navah on May 29, 2016 in The Book Reckoning of Time
From the Book Reckoning of Time We came to year 2507 when the land was inherited and year 2514 when the first Sabbatical year was celebrated in the land. Seven years later, in year 2521, Yehoshua son of Nun died at the age of 110 (Jdg_2:8, Jos_24:29) when the second Sabbatical year was observed (Seder ‘Olam R., ed. Ratner, xi. 24b-25b, xxx. 69b, Wilna, 1895). Little is known about the period of the Judges as far as the chronology is concerned with the exception of the...
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Posted by Navah on May 29, 2016 in Bible Study
A Mind Twister We are justified by works and not by faith only (Jas 2:24), but by the works of the Law no flesh shall be justified (Rom_3:20), but the doers of the Law of God are justified (Rom 2:13, Jas 1:22-23) (Paul and James said that?) Yet, a man is not justified by works of the Law (Gal 2:16) and those who are of the works of the law are under curse (Gal 3:10). But, if by works of the Law no flesh shall be declared right before Him, how come by the Law is the...
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Posted by Navah on May 27, 2016 in The Book Reckoning of Time
From the Book Reckoning of Time THE FIRST MONTH OF THE YEAR Day 1, year 2494. And after the death of Mosheh YHVH spoke to Yehoshua to pass over the Yarden River and take the land from the wilderness and Lebanon as far as the Euphrates River and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun (Jos 1:1-4); within three days Israel was to pass the river to go to possess the land (Jos 1:11). Insert: The story of the destruction Sodom and Gomorrah in the Valley of Siddim does...
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Posted by Navah on May 27, 2016 in The Book Reckoning of Time
From the Book Reckoning of Time Numbers 33 lists forty-two camps Israel visited during the forty-year journey in the wilderness. Notice that not every campsite visited by the children of Israel is listed in the itinerary in Exodus and Numbers. So, why were these journeys recorded? Probably to inform us that although Elohim issued a decree that they would not enter the Promised Land for their distrust, but they would move around from place to place wandering in the desert,...
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Posted by Navah on May 27, 2016 in The Book Reckoning of Time
From the Book Reckoning of Time THE FIRST MONTH OF THE YEAR And they departed from Etsyon Gever and camped again in the Wilderness of Tsin, which is Kadesh (Num 33:36). Israel came into the Wilderness of Tsin in the first month thirty-eight years later until all the generation of the men of battle was consumed from the midst of the camp (Deu 2:14). In Qadesh Miryam died and was buried there (Num 20:1-2). There was no water there and the people assembled against Mosheh and...
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Posted by Navah on May 27, 2016 in The Book Reckoning of Time
From the Book Reckoning of Time THE FIRST MONTH OF THE YEAR Day 1, the first month, year 2455. The Tabernacle was raised up for the first time and anointed (Exo_40:17-21, Num_7:1) and YHVH called to Mosheh and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting (Exo_40:34-38). The seven days of consecration for Aharon and his sons began. They remained in the Tabernacle for seven days, until the days of their ordination were completed (Lev_8:1-36). Day 8. The priests were anointed and the...
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Posted by Navah on May 26, 2016 in The Book Reckoning of Time
From the Book Reckoning if Time Let us recapitulate the first two months of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt in 2454 (refer to the chart below): 1. The first month of the year, the month of the Aviv, which the Creator established for His children began on the 5th day of the week. 2. On the 10th day of the month, which was a Sabbath, the Israelites took the Passover lamb home to observe it for four days to the Passover. 3. On the 14th day, which was the 4th day of the week,...
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