of 6 6 │ 6 6│ 6 Jephthah │ │ Of Ibzan, Elon 25 25 │ 25 *15│ 25 and Abdon │ │ 6th SERVITUDE, 40 40 490│ *60 *20│ *60 (Samson) │ │ Critarchate of 40 *81 │ 40 40│ *80 Eli │ │ 7th SERVITUDE 20 *0 │ *0 *0│ *0 Cr. of Samuel 12 12 90│ *0 *0│ *20 Reign of Saul 40 *20 │ 40 40│ *20 Reign of David 40 40 │ 40 40│ 40 To the │ │ Foundation 3 3 70│ 3 4│ 3 of Solomon’s │ │ Temple │ │ ———— ———— ————│ ———— ————│ ———— 612 541 745│ 613 479│ 632 With regard to this much disputed period, the testimony of Josephus is, in several places of his works, highly satisfactory. _First_—In the title of the fifth book of his Antiquities, which records the history of the interval from the death of Moses to that of Eli, he states that it contains a period of 476 years; and in the title of the 6th book, which records the history of the interval from the death of Eli to that of Saul, he states that it contains a period of 32 years. These intervals taken together make a period of 508 years; to which, if we add the 40 years in the wilderness, the 40 years of David, and the three years of Solomon, we have 591 years; this period wants only about 20 years to make it correspond with the true chronology, and these 20 years appear to have been omitted in the Seventh Servitude; for the short period of 32 years is manifestly erroneous. The truth is, that the longer interval should be only 456 or 457 years, in order to correspond exactly with Acts xiii. 19, 20; and the shorter interval 72 years, in order to correspond with Acts xiii. 21, and 1 Samuel vii. 2.[87] These intervals would then make together 529 years; to which, if the numbers above mentioned be added, the true amount is 612 years, as in the Table. _Second_,—That 612 years is the true _Flavian Extent_ of the _Fourth age_ of the world is evident from the 20th book of the Antiquities x. 1, where the author says “but the number of the years which the thirteen [high priests] ruled, from the day our fathers left Egypt, Moses being leader, until the foundation of the temple which Solomon the king built in Jerusalem, was 612 years.”[88] From this distinct statement of the true extent of the _Critarchal age_, it is evident that the text of