In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:1Ki 6:1 2Ch 3:2
Among chronologists there is a great diversity of opinion respect- ing the time of the building of the temple. The Septuagint has 440 years; Glycas, 330; Josephus and Moes-Linus, 592; Melchius Canus, 590; Sulpicius Severus, 588; Clemens Alexandrinus, 570; Dedrenus, 672, Codomus, 598; Vossius and Capellus, 580; Serarius, 680; Nicholas Abraham, 527; Petavius and Valtherus, 520. After all, that in the common Hebrew text is more likely to the true one, than any of the others.

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