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1978 Regit, the seventh from Noah, died, aged 239years.
1955 Serug, the eighth from Noah, died, aged 230 years.
1925 About this time Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, sub-dued the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah,Zeboiim, and Bela, all whom served him twelveyears. .
1921 Abram, 75 years old, departs out of the land ofiiaran, which begins the 430 years of Abram andhis posterity’s sojourning in a strange land.
Terah, the father of Abram, died, aged 205 years.
1913 The buttle of the four kings with five, Gen. xiv.
1912 Abram’s victory over the kings of Canaan, Gen. xiv.
1910 lshmael, the son of Abram, born when his father was86 years old.
1908 Arphaxad, the third from Noah, died, aged 438years.
1897 The rite of circumcision instituted. Abraham inter-cedes with God to spare Sodom. Sodom andGomorrah for their horrible sins destroyed by fireand brimstone from heaven.
1896 Isaac born when his father Abraham was 100 yearsold, and his mother Sarah 90.
1878 Salah, the fourth from Noah, died, aged 433 years.
1871 About this time Abraham, at the command of God,offered up his son Isaac.
1859 Sarah, Abraham’s wife, died at the age of 127 years.
1856 Isaac married Kebekah when he was 40 years old.
About this time began the kingdom of the Argivi inPeloponnesus, 1080 years before the first olym-piad, according to Eusebius. Inacluis was the. first monarch, who reigned 50years.
1846 Shem, the son of Noah, died, aged 600 years.
1836 The birth of Esau and Jacob, when their father Isaacwas 60 years old.
1831 Abraham died, aged 175 years.
1827 Eher, the iiftli from Noah, died, aged 464 years.
This man lived the longest of any upon recordthat was horn after the flood.
1796 Esau, being 40 years old, married two wives, Judith,the daughter of Beeri, and Bashemath, the daugh-ter ofElon, both Ilittites.
About this time the deluge of Ogyges is recorded tohave happened, which laid waste the whole land ofAttica.
1786 Amenophis reigned in Egypt about this time.
1773 lshmael, Abraham’s son, died, aged 137 years.
1762 Evechous reigned in Chaldea about this time.
1760 Isaac blesseth his sons Jacob and Esau, and pro-phesies what will hefal their posterity.
1759 Reuben, Jacob’s eldest son, horn.
1758 Simeon, Jacob’s second son, born.
1757 Levi, Jacob’s third son, horn.
1756 Judah, Jacob’s fourth son, born.
1746 The birth of Joseph, Jacob’s eleventh son.
1744 Mephres reigned in Egypt about this time.
1730 Jacob privately steals away from Laban hisuncle, andgoes into the land of Canaan with all his familyand substance.
1728 Joseph, when "17 years of age, was sold by hisbrethren to the Islnneclites, who carried himdown intc» Egypt) and there sold him for a slaveto Potiphav, captain of the guard to Pharaoh.
1717 Joseph, when confined in a prison in Egypt, inter-prets the dreams of the chief butler ami baker o!the king of Egypt, who happened also to he im-prisoned with him in the same ward.
1716 Isaac, Abraham’s son, died, aged ISO years.
1715 Joseph interprets the dreams of Pharaoh, king ofEgypt; which interpretation pleasing Pharaohami his servants weli, Joseph is immediately ad-vanced by the king to the high office of firstgovernor of the kingdom. The seven vears ofplent , begin, as Joseph had interpreted to Pharaoh.
1714 About this time was born Manasseh, Joseph’s first-born.
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2292 1712 About this time was born Ephraim, Joseph’s second son.
2296 1708 The seven years of famine begin.
2297 1707 Jacob sent ten of his sons to buy corn in Egypt,
the famine being very sore in the land of Canaan,
2298 1706 Jacob, 130 years eld, went down into Egypt with
all his family.
2303 1701 The end of the seven real's of famine.
2315 1689 Jacob upon his death-bed, having called his twelve
sons together, prophesies to them what shall befaltheir posterity, and dies in the I4?lh year ofhis age.
2369 1635 Joseph died, aged 110 years.
2385 1619 Death of Levi, Jacob’s third son, in the 137th year of
his age.
2426 1578 Harnesses reigned in Egypt about this time.
2430 1574 Aaron born three years before his brother Moses,
83 years before the departure of the children ofIsrael out of Egypt.
2433 "1571 Moses, the Jewish law-giver, born.
2448 1556 Cecrops founded the kingdom of the Athenians.
2465 1539 The Chaldeans waged war against the Phcenician?
in the 18th year of king Cecrops.
2466 1538 The Chaldeans being subdued, the Arabians reigned
in the country ot Babylon.
2473 1531 Moses, in the 40th year of his age, killed an Egyptian
whom he found smiting a Hebrew, which comingto the ears of Pharaoh, Moses escaped for his lifeinto the land of Madian, where taking to wifeZipporah, the wife of Jethro, he there spent otherforty years of his life.
2494 1510 Ramesses Miamim, king of Egypt, died about this
time in the 67th year of hisYeigu.
2513 1491 The departure ot the children of Israel out of Estypt,
which ends the 430 years of sojourning. TheEgyptian army drowned in the Red sea when inpursuit of the Israelites.
2520 1484 JEgyptus calls the land .Eria by his-own name.
2522 1482 JEgyptus, after nine years spent in foreign expeditions,returns to Pehisium.
2530 1474 The fifty sons of king JEgyptus slain by the fifty
daughters of his brother’ Danaus, Lynceus onlyexcepted, who reigned after him.
2549 1455 Cadmus and Phenix, going from Thebais in Egypt
into Syria, erected a kingdom in Tyre andSidon.’
2552 1452 Aaron, the brother of Moses, died on the top of
mount Ilor, anti was succeeded by his son Eiea-zar in the high-prieslhood.
2553 1451 Moses died on mount Nebo in the 120th year of his
age. 'Lite Israelites mourned for Moses in theland of Moab 30 days. Moses is succeeded inthe office of governor of the Israelites by Joshua.Lpon the 10th day of the first month, answeringto our April 30, the Israelites, under Joshua,went up out of the river Jordan into the promisedland ot Canaan, a type of that heavenly countrythey passed through the river on dry land, theriver being for that time divided, and that at a.season when it usually overflowed its banks ; fora memorial of which miraculous passage Joshua,set up twelve stones in the channel of Jordan, andtaking up twelve other stones out of the midst ofit, set them up in the place where they next en-camped, at Gilga!.
'Plie sun and moon stood still at the command of.Joshua.
2560 1444 The first sabbatical year kept bv the Israelites.
From this time begin the supputation of the year*,of Jubilee. J
2561 1443 Death of Joshua in the 110th year of his a<*e.
2591 1413 I he Israelites fortheii great wickedness delivered into
the hands of Cushun, king of Mesopotamia, foreight years.
2599 1405 Othmel the son of Kenaz, and son-in-law to Joshua,.
being stirred up by God as a.judge and avenger
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