, gives a good
example of this; we at once pick out the terse )z ybnh wgw'' from
the barren diffuseness surrounding it.
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These valuable notes commence even with Solomon, though here they
are largely mixed with anecdotic chaff. They are afterwards found
principally, almost exclusively, in the series of Judah. Several
precise dates point to something of the nature of annals, /2/
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2. 5th of Rehoboam (1Kings xiv. 25); 23rd of Jehoash (2Kings xii,
6); 14th of Hezekiah (2Kings xviii. 13); 18th of Josiah (2Kings
xxii. 3); 4th and 5th of Solomon (1Kings vi. 37, 38). These
dates occur, it is true, partly in circumstantial Jewish
narratives, but these are intimately related to the brief notices
spoken of above, and appear to be based on them. It may be
surmised that such definite numbers, existing at one time in much
greater abundance, afforded the data for an approximate
calculation of the figures on which the systematic chronology is
built up. These single dates at any rate are not themselves
parts of the system. The same is true of the statements of the
age of the Jewish kings when they ascended the throne.
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