Timeline of the Bible · The United Kingdom
Solomon Begins the Temple
Event · 1012 BC
What the Bible Says
- “in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt” 1 Kings 6:1
- “in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel” 1 Kings 6:1
Each year here fits these numbers, as the years between the points they count from.
The Years
- The Year 1012 BC
- “IN the year 480. from the coming of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of King Solomon”
The four hundred and eightieth year is 479 whole years after the Exodus, as Ussher reckons it from the months and days the text gives (Numbers 33:3; 1 Kings 6:1).
Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.
