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Solomon's temple Dedication

Solomon sacrificed a very large number of animals at his temple dedication. Those counts seem to point across the age. This report shows the math.

Background

During the dedication, Solomon sacraficed 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep.¹

Curiously, Solomon does not give us the year of the dedication, only the month. This implies that this may not have happened "when it should" and we must pick a start date from the specific history of the temple itself. For our purposes here, the last year of the 20 year interval when the temple was being built was the 10000, and then only for one month in this year. We will presume that the dedication happened before it went into service in the year 10000, so we will use a start date of 10000/1/1.

The following query takes these animal counts and runs out the prophetic dates implied by this data.

Solomon's temple Dedication A
Day	Bible Date	Modern Date	Roman Date	Number
Fri	10000/1/1 AA	11 Sep -988 NS	12 Nov 314 BAUC	AA:3647611
	500/1/1 FE	20 Sep -988 OS	12 Nov 1067 BC	JD:1360454
22,000 Cattle2
Thu	10060/4/11 AA	5 Dec -928 NS	3 Mai 241 BAUC	AA:3669611
	560/4/11 FE	14 Dec -928 OS	3 Mai 994 BC	JD:1382454
120,000 sheep3
Wed	10389/4/11 AA	24 Jun -599 NS	25 Sep 138 AUC	AA:3789611
	889/4/11 FE	30 Jun -599 OS	25 Sep 616 BC	JD:1502454
Days(2550 years) = 930240 days
Sat	12939/4/11 AA	22 May 1948 NS	9 May 2701 AUC	AA:4719851
	3439/4/11 FE	9 May 1948 OS	9 May 1948 AD	JD:2432694
Days(40 years) = 14550 days
Wed	12979/2/11 AA	23 Mar 1988 NS	10 Mar 2741 AUC	AA:4734401
	3479/2/11 FE	10 Mar 1987 OS	10 Mar 1988 AD	JD:2447244

The Northern kingdom left the promised land early, for our purposes here probably at the end of the 22,000 days. At that point the 2550 years out began, which would then be followed by the number of days in 390 years. The following charts this sequence across the same interval.

Solomon's temple Dedication B
Day	Bible Date	Modern Date	Roman Date	Number
Fri	10000/1/1 AA	11 Sep -988 NS	12 Nov 314 BAUC	AA:3647611
	500/1/1 FE	20 Sep -988 OS	12 Nov 1067 BC	JD:1360454
22,000 Cattle4
Thu	10060/4/11 AA	5 Dec -928 NS	3 Mai 241 BAUC	AA:3669611
	560/4/11 FE	14 Dec -928 OS	3 Mai 994 BC	JD:1382454
Days(2550 years) = 930240 days
Sun	12610/4/11 AA	3 Nov 1619 NS	24 Oct 2372 AUC	AA:4599851
	3110/4/11 FE	24 Oct 1619 OS	24 Oct 1619 AD	JD:2312694
Days(390 years) = 142230 days
Thu	13000/3/11 AA	2 Apr 2009 NS	20 Mar 2762 AUC	AA:4742081
	3500/3/11 FE	20 Mar 2008 OS	20 Mar 2009 AD	JD:2454924

The terminal date on this sequence is the 7X point of the account of Jehu killing off the kings with one dying at meggido.

This is probably telling us the date for the Northern Kingdom's return to Palastine, just like the southern kingdom return date was also given in this sequence. It is also confirmed through the history of this period, on the day-for-a-year system.

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¹First Kings 8:63    
²First Kings 8:63 At 1 per day   
³First Kings 8:63 At 1 perday   
⁴First Kings 8:63 At 1 per day