Biblical Chronology Solved, Part IV, The Years of Sin

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Biblical Chronology Solved, Part IV, The Years of
Sin The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
To secure the chronology beyond all doubt, I
will now give an account of the 40 years for the
sin of Judah and the 390 years for the sin of
Israel. Earlier we used the 390 years as a
check on the years from the division of the
kingdom to the date of Ezekiel's vision. I said
then that this was not the primary significance
of the 390 years. That the 390 years run
from the division of the kingdom in 983 (and the
introduction of Jeroboam's sin to Israel) to the
date of the prophecy in 593 is a coincidence
clearly of the divine sort for the purpose of
fixing the chronology of the kings. However,
this coincidence is not the primary sense of the
text in the context of the prophecy.
The 390 years accounts for the years of sin
for Israel from the time they entered the land of
Canaan until the time they were exiled, and the
40 years accounts for just the sin of Judah after
Israel was exiled. This must be so, since the
prophet gives two separate figures. When
Israel was in the land, it must be understood
that the righteousness or wickedness of Judah was
not the factor that determined a year of "sin".
Rather it was the disposition of the majority of
the nation, which before 720 B.C. was not
determined by just the one tribe of Judah.
We will find the years of sin for Israel between
the entry into Canaan and their final exile in
720 B.C.
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Biblical Chronology Solved, Part IV, The Years of
Sin The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
We will find the years for the sin of Judah
after the Kingdom of Israel was exiled for only
then does the sin of Judah count independently.
Years of sin will be counted when the
scripture tells us that Israel or Judah was in
rebellion against God. We will locate these
years in the times of foreign oppressions during
the Judges, during the divided kingdom, and for
Judah during the reigns of Manasseh, Amon,
Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, and Jehoiachin, who was
exiled to Babylon in 597 B.C. We will find
that the ability to locate these years further
secures the correctness of the chronology beyond
contradiction. The sin years will establish
that it is correct to count 614 years from the
Exodus to the 4th year of Solomon, and correct to
date the division of the kingdom in 983 B.C.
We will also show that in these 390 years of
sin, and 40 years of sin are to be found all of
the fallow years that Israel and Judah did not
observeseventy to be exact. It was these
seventy years that served as the divine measure
for the 70 year exile of Judah. No
chronology except the correct divinely ordered
true and historical one can account for all the
data without contradiction and pass all these
tests. Give me a set of well drawn charts
and ten minutes with any other chronology and I
will give you a list of fatal errors, and most of
that time will be spent figuring out the chart
makers notational method.
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Biblical Chronology Solved, Part IV, The 40
Years of Sin The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
3444
1
696 B.C.
Manasseh reigned 55 years
3498
55
642 B.C.
3499
1
641 B.C.

• We now figure the 40 years
• Hezekiah was a righteous king so he is not
  included at the top
• We must delete Josiah because he was righteous.
• Manasseh repented in the middle of his reign so
  we count backwards to see how many sin years
  Manasseh had at the start of his reign.

3500
Amon reigned 2 years
2
640 B.C.
3501
1
639 B.C.
Josiah reigned 31 years
3531
31
609 B.C.
Jehoahaz reigned 3 months.
3532
608 B.C.
a
3533
1
607 B.C.
Jehoiakim reigned 11 years.
3543
11
597 B.C.
Jehoiachin reigned 3 months
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Biblical Chronology Solved, Part IV, The 40
Years of Sin The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
3444
1
696 B.C.
Manasseh reigned 55 years
?
3499
1
641 B.C.

• We now figure the 40 years
• Hezekiah was a righteous king so he is not
  included at the top
• We must delete Josiah because he was righteous.
• Manasseh repented in the middle of his reign so
  we count backwards to see how many sin years
  Manasseh had at the start of his reign.

3500
Amon reigned 2 years
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640 B.C.
Jehoahaz reigned 3 months.
3532

• The 3 months of Jehoiachin were in the same
  Tishri year as Jehoiakim's 11th year, so we count
  11 years.
• 2 months of Jehoahaz's reign and the accession
  year of Jehoiakim were in the same Tishri year.
  We count 1 year.
• The first month of Jehoahaz's reign was in its
  own Tishri year. We count 1 year.
• We count 2 years in the reign of Amon.

608 B.C.
a
3533
1
607 B.C.
Jehoiakim reigned 11 years.
3543
11
597 B.C.
Jehoiachin reigned 3 months
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Biblical Chronology Solved, Part IV, The 40
Years of Sin The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
3444
1
696 B.C.
Manasseh reigned 55 years
?
3499
1
641 B.C.
3500
Amon reigned 2 years
2
640 B.C.
11 years 1 year 1 year 2
years 15 years
Jehoahaz reigned 3 months.
3532
608 B.C.
a
3533
1
607 B.C.
Jehoiakim reigned 11 years.
3543
11
597 B.C.
Jehoiachin reigned 3 months
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Biblical Chronology Solved, Part IV, The 40
Years of Sin The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
3444
1
696 B.C.
Manasseh reigned 55 years
?
3499
1
641 B.C.
3500
Amon reigned 2 years
2
640 B.C.
11 years 1 year 1 year 2
years 15 years
All years are counted from Tishri 1, and a
partial year is counted as a whole year,
following the principle of inclusive counting.
Jehoahaz reigned 3 months.
3532
608 B.C.
a
3533
40 15 25 years sin for Manasseh
1
607 B.C.
Jehoiakim reigned 11 years.
3543
11
597 B.C.
Jehoiachin reigned 3 months
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Biblical Chronology Solved, Part IV, The 40
Years of Sin The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
3444
1
1
696 B.C.
Manasseh reigned 55 years
3468
?
25
672 B.C.
25
3499
1
11 years 1 year 1 year 2
years 15 years
All years are counted from Tishri 1, and a
partial year is counted as a whole year,
following the principle of inclusive counting.
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641 B.C.
3500
Amon reigned 2 years
2
640 B.C.
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28
Jehoahaz reigned 3 months.
3532
40 15 25 years sin for Manasseh
608 B.C.
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a
3533
1
Or we may allot each king a number of years,
rounding up to the whole number of years given in
the text 2 Amon, 1 Jehoahaz, 11 Jehoiakim, 1
Jehoiachin, and 25 left for Manasseh which must
be computed.
607 B.C.
30
Jehoiakim reigned 11 years.
3543
11
597 B.C.
40
Jehoiachin reigned 3 months
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Biblical Chronology Solved, Part IV, The 40
Years of Sin The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
1st year of Ahaz
3401
The Isaiah 78 prophecy matches the 4th year of
Ahaz (stated as the 20th year of Jotham, II Kings
1530) when Pekah (cf. Isaiah 716) was slain by
Hoshea.
1/17
739 B.C.
Between the fall of B.C. 673 and B.C. 672
Manasseh joined in a revolt against Assyria. He
was captured by Essarhaddon and taken to Babylon.
In 671 B.C. he repented, and was restored to
his throne. This is all according to George
Smith's reconstruction of the Assyrian Eponym
Canon and the Cylinder of Essarhaddon's military
expeditions. In the same war, the remnant of
the northern Kingdom of Israel left over from the
exile of Samaria was deported and immigrants
brought in so that Israel became "not a people"
fulfilling the 65 year prophecy of Isaiah 78.
3404
1
4/20
736 B.C.
3444
1
696 B.C.
Manasseh's 25 years of sin
3468
Ephraim broken the same year Manasseh captured,
so that the 65th year (Isaiah 78) matches the
25th year of Manasseh's sin.
65
?
25
672 B.C.
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Biblical Chronology Solved, Part IV, 390 Years
Sin for Israel The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
That's a very small number to worry about.
Only God knows exactly where they go, but I can
tell you range of years to look in. This is in
the 23 year interregnum between the death of
Jeroboam II in B.C. 792 and the short reign of
Zachariah in B.C. 770. The Scripture is
silent about the disposition of Israel at this
time, allowing for a short reformation. Factors
that would encourage a slight majority in Israel
to tip the balance to repentance at this time 1.
The repentance of Assyria under Jonah, 2. The
death of Jeroboam II. 3. Fear of the prophecy of
the 4th generation, so they made no new king, 4.
The powerful kingdom of Judah under Uzziah, 5.
Judah and Israel were allies at this time.
At least 374 sin years are explicitly accounted
for, but there are no more than 397 years
possible. The solution then is to omit just one
seven year period in the ambiguous 23 years.
The 390 years of sin for Israel (Ezekiel
45) falls in the period from the entry into
Canaan until their exile in B.C. 720. First
let's do some rough calculations. There were 134
years of Servitudes, when Israel was in rebellion
against the covenant. All the kings of the
northern ten tribes followed the sins of
Jeroboam. This period was from B.C. 983 720,
or a period of 263 years. Add 263 to 134 to get
397. That's really close to the mark.
Only seven years too many, and it is based only
on counting the time of the servitudes and the
rebellious kings of Israel after the division of
the kingdom. This demonstrates that any
attempt to shorten the periods beyond 7 years
will leave a deficit in the number of years
revealed to Ezekiel. Where then do we
delete the excess of seven years of sin?
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Biblical Chronology Solved, Part IV, 390 Years
Sin for Israel The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
It will appear that being able to find 390
years of Israel's sin is confirmation that the
kingdom was divided in 983 and that 134 years of
sin must be found in the period of the Judges.
As a result of the errant work of Edwin Thiele,
The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, the
date of the divided kingdom was lowered to B.C.
931 to accommodate fragmentary Assyrian Eponym
lists. This 52 year revision put the 390 years
of sin beyond recovery. Further, many
chronologists omit 20 years from the servitudes.
Both Martin Anstey and David Cooper missed I
Samuel 72-4, obtaining only 114 years instead of
the full 134. This also puts the 390 years
beyond recovery, as well as confusing the 450
years of Acts 1320. Trying to explain the
evidence after these errors is unparsimonious.
There was no doubt as to the solution to
the kings period before Thiele. Thiele just did
not like it. Willis Judson Beecher gave us the
solution in 1907.
In The Dated Events of the Old Testament,
Beecher shows the divided kingdom at the 983/982
year. Thiele was able to lose 52 years by
guessing at co-regencies. A co-regency is an
overlap between two kings, where the son of one
king begins his rule before the old king dies.
Thiele's subtractions from the chronology were ad
hoc, based on his extra-biblical opinions, and
violate the principle that biblical chronology
should be un-ambiguously solvable. What
reason would God so meticulously provide all the
data only to leave it to undocumented
co-regencies to void the absoluteness of the
solution? There is only 1 true co-regency in
biblical chronology, and it is explained in II
Kings 816. In two other cases, the reign total
is not a true co-regency since the co-regent
years are not numbered.
Two co-regencies, but the first year is just
another case of inclusive counting.
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Locating 70 Fallow Years Not Observed by Israel
and Judah The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
The first two fallow years that Israel did
not observe fall into the first servitude. 2569
divided by 7 367 remainder 0. So the seventh
year begins. The first servitude was 8 years and
includes 8 years of sin
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Locating 70 Fallow Years Not Observed by Israel
and Judah The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
In the second servitude Israel did not
observe three fallow years. The orange column in
the middle counts the 9th-26th years of sin.
The seventh years are counted 3,4,5 in the brown
boxes.
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Locating 70 Fallow Years Not Observed by Israel
and Judah The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
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Locating 70 Fallow Years Not Observed by Israel
and Judah The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
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Locating 70 Fallow Years Not Observed by Israel
and Judah The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
Three years of sin are counted under
Abimelech, but no seventh year fell during his
oppression.
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Locating 70 Fallow Years Not Observed by Israel
and Judah The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
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Locating 70 Fallow Years Not Observed by Israel
and Judah The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
During the first Philistine servitude,
Israel missed the 50th year also.
Samson judges "in the days of the
Philistines" so his years are not charted
separately.
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Locating 70 Fallow Years Not Observed by Israel
and Judah The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
The next slide covers all the kings of
Israel. When it starts to scroll, you can pause
the scrolling with a right mouse click.
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Locating 70 Fallow Years Not Observed by Israel
and Judah The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
The broken fallow years for Israel total 63. 7
more during Judah's 40 years to come.
B.C.
This interregnum in the northern kingdom is the
only place where a seven year reformation can
exist, which is necessary to keep the total of
sin years at 390.
Anno Creation
Sin years
Fallow cycles
We reach the end of the kingdom of Israel.
Sum of 70 Fallow years
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Locating 70 Fallow Years Not Observed by Israel
and Judah The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
We move on to the 40 years for the sin of
Judah. In the 25 years of Manasseh's rebellion,
fallow years 64-67 are neglected. Manasseh was
taken prisoner to Babylon by Essarhaddon between
the fall of 673 and 672. After repenting, he was
pardoned and restored.
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Locating 70 Fallow Years Not Observed by Israel
and Judah The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
Manasseh's successor, Amon, was wicked for the
two years of his reign. The 68th fallow year
fell in his regin.
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Locating 70 Fallow Years Not Observed by Israel
and Judah The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
A small part of Jehoahaz's reign falls in the
Tishri year previous to the end of his 3 month
reign. So that small part is the 28th year of
sin. The 29th year of sin falls at the end of
his reign and in the accession year of
Jehoiakim. Finally, we reach the 70th land
Sabbath (fallow) that Judah did not keep in the
40 years, and the 70 year exile comes immediately
after.
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The 390 years and the 40 yearsDiscussion The
Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
Many chronologists try to count the
oppressions in the during the righteous Judges
when the land had rest. This is simply not
possible for that very reason. Judges repeats
the refrain, "And the land had rest" for the
first four judges (311, 30 531 828). Gideon
clearly died before the usurper Abimelech, who is
introduced with Israel "turned again after
Baalim" Tola follows "after" him and "arose to
save Israel". Jair also "arose to save"
"after" Tola. The Ammonites are introduced with
"Israel did evil again". The Philistines are
introduced with, "Israel did evil again", and
during the last 20 years Israel was doing evil
(cf. I Sam. 72-4). It is always implied that
Israel was serving God during the life of the
judge except for Samson.
That 70 land sabbaths Israel did not observe
occur in the 390 years and 40 years is no
accident. These years were the score God was
keeping against Israel. The match confirms what
is implied in II Chronicles 3621, and Leviticus
2634-35, 46. It also secures the sum of 134
years of rebellion during the Judges separate
from the 480 years that Israel kept the
Exodus-Passover (a total of 614 years) and the
original 938-720 B.C. chronology of the northern
Kingdom before it was contaminated with the
errors of Assyriologists, who thought their
archaeological finds could hold a candle to the
Bible.
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Appendix A George Smith's Assyrian Eponym
Canon The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
The B.C. 697-642 dates are correct for
Manasseh's reign. The remnant of Israel was
carried away between the fall of B.C. 673 and
B.C. 672, Manasseh was taken prisoner to Babylon.
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Canon The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
Manasseh repented and was restored in B.C. 671,
the 26th year of his reign.
George Smith (1840-1876) became one of the
world's leading experts in Cuneiform. He
discovered the Gilgamesh Epic in the British
Museum, a corrupted Flood tradition, and
discovered more accounts excavating at Nineveh.
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Appendix A George Smith's Assyrian Eponym
Canon The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
Plate XCVI at the left is from Bible
Illustrations by Henry Frowde, 1896, Oxford
University Press. Manasseh had to pay tribute to
Assyria.
David L. Cooper in, Messiah His First
Coming Scheduled, quotes Smith with the
introduction, "Ephraim broken after 65 years from
prophecy of 738 737 B.C. (Isa. 78).
Esar-haddon transported immigrants from Babylonia
and Elam to Samaria (Ezra 42-9). King of
Assyria took Manasseh to Babylon (II Chron.
2311-13). The Lord providentially had latter
restored to his throne. 'In this war, B.C.
673-672, Esar-haddon carried the remnant of
Israel into captivity, and sent Manasseh, king of
Judah, to Babylon. In the following year, B.C.
671, Manasseh was pardoned and restored' George
Smith." This matches exactly with the 25 years
needed to complete the 40 years for the sin of
Judah.
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Appendix A George Smith's Assyrian Eponym
Canon The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
The kings of empires like Assyria
habitually erased or distorted their own records
and the records of their predecessors. Why were
Babylon and Persia exceptions? Probably because
they were influenced by the Jewish dispersion,
and notable examples are Jeremiah, Ezekiel,
Daniel, Mordecai, Ezra, and Nehemiah, who became
chief scribes and administrators. Assyrian
chronology was not confirmed by Ptolemy's Canon,
because where it agrees with Ptolemy's Canon, it
also agrees with the biblical chronology. So we
must say that the biblical chronology has
confirmed Ptolemy's Canon. But then where
biblical chronology disagrees with the results
that Assyriologists have put forth, we must defer
to the bible, which is history in the true sense.
We must resist all attempts to impute the
historical integrity of modern historians under
the influence of the Judeo-Christian worldview to
pre-Christian pagan Assyrian scribes.
I must include a note here on Assyrian
Chronology. Assyria cannot be said to have a
consistent history. In fact, the archaeological
remains cannot even qualify as history, certainly
not on the level of the archaeological remains
from Babylon and Persia. It's only value is
were it only confirms what we already know from
the biblical chronology. There is no carefully
tabulated Assyrian history because Assyrians were
not concerned with history or its accuracy. The
concern for accurate history in the modern age is
due to the influence of the Judeo-Christian world
view. During the biblical period, only the
prophets inspired by God were concerned with
keeping history straight. Left to man, there
would be no biblical history either. After the
biblical period, the concern for accurate history
among the nations was almost entirely due to
Christian authors inspired by the biblical
prophets.
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Appendix A George Smith's Assyrian Eponym
Canon The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
The collective actions of sinful man would
sooner destroy their own history than preserve
it. Assyria was an immoral imperialistic power
that existed on the prowess of its military
conquests. It's religion and propaganda were
much less influenced by the truth than say Soviet
Propaganda or Hitler's Propaganda, and those
nations had some Judeo-Christian influence to
straighten the record. The only reason
that Babylon and Persia can deliver us an
accurate chronology is that God intervened and
saw to it that they kept accurate records.
This was really the first intervention in history
were God set the bar, and the nations that came
afterward tried to imitate it, but even Greece
and early Rome let even there own basic
chronologies fall into uncertainties. As late as
44 B.C. the Roman calendar was in chaos, and the
Greek calendar as uncertain as a year either way.
When it comes to evaluating ancient
records of pagan nations, Christians are their
own worst enemies. For they give too much
credit to the morals of ancient scribes and kings
the way they would credit modern scholars with
Christian morals. Modern scholars only have
integrity because they value historical truth or
because they are made to by a culture and system
that was built by Bible believing people.
The validity of Assyrian chronology, such as it
is, must be evaluated from the biblical
chronology, and not the other way around. The
only reason that biblical chronology and history
exist at all is that God was continuously
intervening to see to it that events were
recorded the right way. This is what makes the
Bible superior in every way to contemporaneous
records.
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Appendix A George Smith's Assyrian Eponym
Canon The Real Bible Code Daniel Gregg
The Assyrian Eponym Canon is only valid
to within 2 years back to 747 B.C., since it
agrees to that extent with the Scripture and
Ptolemy's Canon. The main reason for this is
that Nineveh was destroyed and plundered in 612
B.C., 135 years from the point where Assyrian
Chronology begins to have gaping holes in it
according to the biblical testimony. One would
expect a single generation to be able to recall
its own chronology, but things in those days
naturally deteriorated, and the ability to record
or rightly remember three or four generations
back, without modern record keeping that itself
is the result of a biblical moral system, is too
much to ask. To this tendency, we can
bring the witness of the Scripture itself,
preserved by divinely inspired Prophets. How
long did it take Israel to forget the mighty
exploits of the LORD? How long did it take them
to fall into apostasy?

• Was it too much to ask Israel to listen to
  God's version of events for three generations?
  So with this preface, let us enumerate the
  problems with extending the Eponym Canon beyond
  747 B.C.
• It contradicts biblical chronology.
• It is only a list, not an historical narrative.
• It is compiled from broken fragments.
• There are obvious copy errors.
• There are added and omitted names.
• The 763 eclipse record is ambiguous.
• The generation Nineveh repented is omitted.
• Too many unbelieving Assyriologists are
  involved with the original data.
• The public reads an edited and interpolated
  translation of the lists which do not disclose
  that fact.
• The Assyrian records are compiled by the same
  parties that those records exalt and glorify.