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INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH
Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3374. Year of the Julian Period, 4084. Year since the Flood, 1718. Year from the vocation of Abram, 1291. Year from the foundation of Solomons temple, 382. Year since the division of Solomons monarchy into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 346. Year since the conquest of Coroebus at Olympia, usually called the first Olympiad, 147. Third year of the thirty-seventh Olympiad. Year from the building of Rome, according to the Varronian computation, 124. Year of the era of Nabonassar, 118. Year since the destruction of the kingdom of Israel by Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 92. Year before the birth of Christ, 626. Year before the vulgar era of Christs nativity, 630. Cycle of the Sun, 24. Cycle of the Moon, 18. Eighteenth year of Phraortes, king of Media. This monarch is supposed by some to have been the same with the Arphaxad of the Apocrypha. Eleventh year of Philip I., king of Macedon. 1493 Twenty-second year of Archidamus, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Proclidae. Fifteenth year of Eurycrates II., king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Eurysthenidae. Twenty-ninth year of Cypselus, who had seized upon the government of Corinth. Forty-second year of Psammitichus, king of Egypt, according to Helvicus. Tenth year of Kiniladachus, king of Babylon, according to the same chronologer. This monarch was the immediate predecessor of Nabopolassar, the father of Nebuchadnezzar. Second year of Sadyattes, king of Lydia. Eleventh year of Ancus Martius, the fifth king of the Romans. Twelfth year of Josiah, king of Judah.
THIS WAS CLIPPED FROM ADAM CLARK'S COMMENTARY, VOLUME 4.
MR. CLARKS COMMENTARY IS A PUBLIC DOMAIN DOCUMENT.