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Bible kings timeline3/14/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() On the surface this is a plain contradiction. There are a great many individual pieces of chronological data in the books of Kings and Chronicles, some of which are initially quite puzzling.įor instance, 2 Kings 8:26 says that Ahaziah was a son of 22 years old when he began to reign, while 2 Chronicles 22:2 says that Ahaziah was a son of 42 years when he began to reign. There is no summary statement of years for the period of the kings, so we are forced to add up the separate reigns of the kings in order to come to a total. And, as far as adding up the years is concerned, it does not make any difference. It would be nice to settle once and for all whether the years are counted from the spring lunar new year (month Nisan) or from the autumnal solar new year (month Tishri), but we simply are not told directly one way or another, and there is much debate about the matter. For this reason, we can assume when we come to the chronology of the kings of Judah and Israel that the writers of the narrative intend for us to understand the data they provide in a fairly straightforward manner. As we have seen in previous installments in this series, the Old Testament is quite concerned with chronology, and carefully records chronological data for our use. ![]()
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