In continuation of discussion with Rabbi Shmary Brownstein regarding the timeline on post #38, concerning the period between the flood and the destruction of the first Temple of Solomon, by the army of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, here is a comment I received from the Rabbi about discordances of interpretations concerning to the timeline, based in the Tanach, as follow:
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Rabbi Shmary Brownstein | Chabad.org email_co6971198_6354161@chabad.org> Oct 22, 2025 10:38PM
ב"ה
Hi Oseas,
So I understand that you are now accepting the year 2023 (after Adam->highlight's mine) as the year of the Covenant between the Parts, which is very close to my calculation (based on the Rabbis). You add 430 years to get to the exodus (2453), which I agree with, and another 480 until Solomon’s Temple (2933), which again I accept (approximately). However, 480 is not correct for the length of time the Temple stood. It stood for 410 years. This can be determined by adding up the reigns of the kings until the destruction.
480 years after the exodus from Egypt, Solomon began building the Temple, which was the fourth year of his reign. Since he reigned for forty years, the Temple thus stood 36 years during his lifetime.
Rehoboam reigned for 17 years = 53
Aviyam reigned 3 years = 56
Assa 41 years = 97
Yehoshaphat 25 years = 122
Yehoram 8 years = 130
Ahazyahu 1 year = 131
Athalyah 6 years = 137
Yeho’ash 40 years = 177
Amatzyah 15 years = 192
Uziyahu 52 years = 244
Yotam 16 years = 260
Ahaz 16 years = 276
Hezekiah 29 years = 305
Menasheh 55 years = 360
Amon 2 years = 362
Yoshiyahu 31 years = 393
Yeho’ahaz <1 year = 393
Yehoyakim 11 years = 404
Yehoyakhin <1 year = 404
Tzidkiyahu 11 years = 415
There is some overlap among the years, as the commentaries explain, so that not all of these are full years, leaving us at 410. In any case, it is nowhere near 480. The destruction of the first Temple would have been in the year 3,338 after Creation, 662 years before the end of the fourth millennium. Add 70 years, and the Second Temple was built in 3,408 (this is actually when it resumed being built, after having been stopped by the enemies of the Jewish people). This would correspond with 353 BCE.
Up to this point, we can ascertain from the Tanakh. Afterwards, we have to work using other sources.
All the best,
Rabbi Shmary Brownstein
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Here's my answer to the Rabbi on his interpretations above posted, but the discrepances still remain, as is showed in my reply of October 28, 2025, 02:05AM, as follow:
Hello Rabbi Shmary Brownstein
In the name of the Lord
Thank you for your kind reply, it deserved the best of my attention.
OK, lets accept the interpretation above as correct, except 480 years of the length of time the Temple stood. You said: >>it stood for 410 years. This can be determined by adding up the reigns of the kings until the destruction<<.
First, there is an error in your table concerning "Amatzyah 15 years". -> The correct is 29 years, not 15.→ 2Kings 14:2→2Chronicles 25:1.
The second point is that based in your own interpretation time before→ (>>inauguration of the Temple would have been in year 2935<<), if we add 410 years, the destruction of the Temple is around 3335 after Adam, what is not correct, nor true. By the way, in year 3335 after Adam, the prophet Jeremiah still was not be born, so I think that your interpretation doesn’t fit with the reality.
In fact the destruction of the Temple occurred around year 3413, the destruction was prophesied by Jeremiah(3350-3413), and Daniel 1:1 confirms, that says: -> 1-In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim(3366 after Adam), king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
Then I concluded that the Temple would remain around 480 years until its destruction (2935-3413), not 410 (in year 3345: →see, in this case, Jeremiah was not born yet ), when Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah’s Kingdom->(3413 after Adam), and destroyed the wonderful Temple of Solomon as was prophesied by Jeremiah(3350-3413), and is described in 2Chronicles 36:19-21, as follow:
→19And they burned the House of God, and they demolished the wall of Jerusalem, and all its palaces they burned with fire, and destroyed all its precious vessels.
20And he exiled the survivors from the sword to Babylon, and they became vassals to him and to his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia(CYRUS-3441-3462 after Adam-Ezra 1-1-).
21To fulfill the Word of the LORD in the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land was appeased for its Sabbaths; [for] all the days of its desolation it rested until the completion of seventy years.
In my understanding it’s it.
That said, the second Temple also was destroyed around 657 years after destruction of the first Temple, in year 4070 after Adam, and after 1878 years of diaspora, was established the State of Israel(5948 after Adam). And now, after 78 years Israel’s state? What will happen now, in the turn from the sixth to the seventh and last God’s Day, the Lord’s Day and END of the Days, or the seventh and last millennium? Tanakh-The Hebrew Bible - Jeremiah 30:23-24, among many other Scriptures, reveal us. ->(Take a look)
Be prepared or else get ready
All the best,
Oseas (Hosea)
The one who cares with Truth
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Rabbi Shmary Brownstein | Chabad.org email_co6971198_6354161@chabad.org> Oct 22, 2025 10:38PM
ב"ה
Hi Oseas,
So I understand that you are now accepting the year 2023 (after Adam->highlight's mine) as the year of the Covenant between the Parts, which is very close to my calculation (based on the Rabbis). You add 430 years to get to the exodus (2453), which I agree with, and another 480 until Solomon’s Temple (2933), which again I accept (approximately). However, 480 is not correct for the length of time the Temple stood. It stood for 410 years. This can be determined by adding up the reigns of the kings until the destruction.
480 years after the exodus from Egypt, Solomon began building the Temple, which was the fourth year of his reign. Since he reigned for forty years, the Temple thus stood 36 years during his lifetime.
Rehoboam reigned for 17 years = 53
Aviyam reigned 3 years = 56
Assa 41 years = 97
Yehoshaphat 25 years = 122
Yehoram 8 years = 130
Ahazyahu 1 year = 131
Athalyah 6 years = 137
Yeho’ash 40 years = 177
Amatzyah 15 years = 192
Uziyahu 52 years = 244
Yotam 16 years = 260
Ahaz 16 years = 276
Hezekiah 29 years = 305
Menasheh 55 years = 360
Amon 2 years = 362
Yoshiyahu 31 years = 393
Yeho’ahaz <1 year = 393
Yehoyakim 11 years = 404
Yehoyakhin <1 year = 404
Tzidkiyahu 11 years = 415
There is some overlap among the years, as the commentaries explain, so that not all of these are full years, leaving us at 410. In any case, it is nowhere near 480. The destruction of the first Temple would have been in the year 3,338 after Creation, 662 years before the end of the fourth millennium. Add 70 years, and the Second Temple was built in 3,408 (this is actually when it resumed being built, after having been stopped by the enemies of the Jewish people). This would correspond with 353 BCE.
Up to this point, we can ascertain from the Tanakh. Afterwards, we have to work using other sources.
All the best,
Rabbi Shmary Brownstein
Chabad.org - Rabbis That Care
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here's my answer to the Rabbi on his interpretations above posted, but the discrepances still remain, as is showed in my reply of October 28, 2025, 02:05AM, as follow:
Hello Rabbi Shmary Brownstein
In the name of the Lord
Thank you for your kind reply, it deserved the best of my attention.
OK, lets accept the interpretation above as correct, except 480 years of the length of time the Temple stood. You said: >>it stood for 410 years. This can be determined by adding up the reigns of the kings until the destruction<<.
First, there is an error in your table concerning "Amatzyah 15 years". -> The correct is 29 years, not 15.→ 2Kings 14:2→2Chronicles 25:1.
The second point is that based in your own interpretation time before→ (>>inauguration of the Temple would have been in year 2935<<), if we add 410 years, the destruction of the Temple is around 3335 after Adam, what is not correct, nor true. By the way, in year 3335 after Adam, the prophet Jeremiah still was not be born, so I think that your interpretation doesn’t fit with the reality.
In fact the destruction of the Temple occurred around year 3413, the destruction was prophesied by Jeremiah(3350-3413), and Daniel 1:1 confirms, that says: -> 1-In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim(3366 after Adam), king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
Then I concluded that the Temple would remain around 480 years until its destruction (2935-3413), not 410 (in year 3345: →see, in this case, Jeremiah was not born yet ), when Nebuchadnezzar conquered Judah’s Kingdom->(3413 after Adam), and destroyed the wonderful Temple of Solomon as was prophesied by Jeremiah(3350-3413), and is described in 2Chronicles 36:19-21, as follow:
→19And they burned the House of God, and they demolished the wall of Jerusalem, and all its palaces they burned with fire, and destroyed all its precious vessels.
20And he exiled the survivors from the sword to Babylon, and they became vassals to him and to his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia(CYRUS-3441-3462 after Adam-Ezra 1-1-).
21To fulfill the Word of the LORD in the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land was appeased for its Sabbaths; [for] all the days of its desolation it rested until the completion of seventy years.
In my understanding it’s it.
That said, the second Temple also was destroyed around 657 years after destruction of the first Temple, in year 4070 after Adam, and after 1878 years of diaspora, was established the State of Israel(5948 after Adam). And now, after 78 years Israel’s state? What will happen now, in the turn from the sixth to the seventh and last God’s Day, the Lord’s Day and END of the Days, or the seventh and last millennium? Tanakh-The Hebrew Bible - Jeremiah 30:23-24, among many other Scriptures, reveal us. ->(Take a look)
Be prepared or else get ready
All the best,
Oseas (Hosea)
The one who cares with Truth