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SOLOMON began to build the temple in the fourth year of his reign,
on the second month, which the Macedonians call Artemisius, and
the Hebrews Jur, five hundred and ninety-two years after the Exodus
out of Egypt; but one thousand and twenty years from Abraham's coming out
of Mesopotamia into Canaan, and after the deluge one thousand four hundred
and forty years; and from Adam, the first man who was created, until Solomon
built the temple, there had passed in all three thousand one hundred and
two years. Now that year on which the temple began to be built was already
the eleventh year of the reign of Hiram; but from the building of Tyre
to the building of the temple, there had passed two hundred and forty years.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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