Josiah 31 31 31 31 Jehoahaz 0¼ 0¼ 0¼ 0¼ Jehoiakim 11 11 *12 *12 Jehoiachin 0¼ 0¼ 0¼ 0¼ Zedekiah *11 *11 420 *11 *11 ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— FIFTH AGE 470 445 420 442 442 The principal errors of Josephus in this age, are his addition of 40 years to the reign of Solomon, and his omission of the interregnum between Amaziah and Uzziah. The former error appears to have been peculiarly his own; the latter he seems to share in common with most, if not all, the ancient chronographers. In his Antiquities, Book x. 8, 5, he says, “the temple was burned 470 years 6 months and 10 days after its foundation;”[111] and this period is clearly made out from the summation of the years of the reigns of the kings of Judah as laid down by him, in Books Eighth, Ninth and Tenth. Moreover, these books contain the history of the Jews from the accession of Solomon to the end of the Babylonish captivity; but we find, by the summation of the titulary periods prefixed to them, that the whole amount of this period is only 502½ years; and, deducting from this amount, the first 3 years of Solomon’s reign and the 70 years of the Captivity, we have 429½ years for a remainder, which is a totally different result. In order to arrive at the proper explanation of the difference between this number and the former, we shall exhibit the comparison of the summation of his periods and his reigns in these Books with the true chronology in the form of a table; premising, that the history of the VIIIth Book extends from the accession of Solomon to the death of Ahab, in the 19th year of _Jehoshaphat’s_ reign; of the IXth Book, from the same year to the Captivity of the Ten Tribes of Israel, in the 6th year of _Hezekiah’s_ reign; and of the Xth Book, from this same year to the end of the Babylonish _Captivity_. In the following Table, the first column exhibits the _periods_ announced in the titles of the different books, the second the amount of the years of the different reigns they contain, and the third the amount of the same years according to the _true_ chronology: