As the _Chaldæan_ Astronomers counted the Reigns of their Kings by the years of _Nabonassar_, beginning with the month _Thoth_, so the _Jews_, as their Authors tell us, counted the Reigns of theirs by the years of _Moses_, beginning every year with the month _Nisan_: for if any King began his Reign a few days before this month began, it was reckoned to him for a whole year, and the beginning of this month was accounted the beginning of the second year of his Reign; and according to this reckoning the first year of _Jehojakim_ began with the month _Nisan_, _Anno Nabonass._ 139, tho' his Reign might not really begin 'till five or six months after; and the fourth year of _Jehoiakim_, and first of _Nebuchadnezzar_, according to the reckoning of the _Jews_, began with the month _Nisan_, _Anno Nabonass._ 142; and the first year of _Zedekiah_ and of _Jeconiah_'s captivity, and ninth year of _Nebuchadnezzar_, began with the month _Nisan_, in the year of _Nabonassar_ 150; and the tenth year of _Zedekiah_, and 18th of _Nebuchadnezzar_, began with the month _Nisan_ in the year of _Nabonassar_ 159. Now in the ninth year of _Zedekiah_, _Nebuchadnezzar_ invaded _Judæa_ and the cities thereof and in the tenth month of that year, and tenth day of the month, he and his host besieged _Jerusalem_, 2 _Kings_ xxv. 1. _Jer._ xxxiv. 1, xxxix. 1, and lii. 4. From this time to the tenth month in the second year of _Darius_ are just seventy years, and accordingly, _upon the 24th day of the eleventh month of the second year of _Darius_, the word of the Lord came unto _Zechariah_,--and the Angel of the Lord said, Oh Lord of Hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on _Jerusalem_, and on the cities of _Judah_, against which thou hast had indignation, these threescore and ten years_, _Zech._ i. 7, 12. So then the ninth year of _Zedekiah_, in which this indignation against _Jerusalem_ and the cities of _Judah_ began, commenced with the month _Nisan_ in the year of _Nabonassar_ 158; and the eleventh year of _Zedekiah_, and nineteenth of _Nebuchadnezzar_, in which the city was taken and the Temple burnt, commenced with the month _Nisan_ in the year of _Nabonassar_ 160, as above. By all these characters the years of _Jehoiakim_, _Zedekiah_, and _Nebuchadnezzar_, seem to be sufficiently determined, and thereby the Chronology of the _Jews_ in the Old Testament is connected with that of later times: for between the death of _Solomon_ and the ninth year of _Zedekiah_ wherein _Nebuchadnezzar_ invaded _Judæa_, and began the Siege of _Jerusalem_, there were 390 years, as is manifest both by the prophesy of _Ezekiel_, chap. iv, and by summing up the years of the Kings of _Judah_; and from the ninth year of _Zedekiah_ inclusively to the vulgar _Æra_ of _Christ_, there were 590 years: and both these numbers, with half the Reign of _Solomon_, make up a thousand years.