Notes on James Ussher, The
Annals of the World (1658).
1451 BC, 12th
month (Adar), 1st day: Moses climbs Mount Nebo, sees the Promised
Land, then dies (Num. 27:12-13; Dt. 3:23-29, 31;2-4, 7; 32:49-50, 34:1-5)
(P297).
The Israelites
mourned for Moses the rest of the month (Dt. 34:8) (P300). So ends the
Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, covering 2552 years of history
from the creation of the world to the eve of the entry of Yahweh’s people into
the land he promised their ancestors to give them. Joshua will lead them into
it this 41st year after the Exodus from Egypt (P301).
1451 BC, first
month (P302): Joshua sends two spies to Jericho. Rahab the prostitute protects
them (Josh. 2) (P303).
1451 BC, first month, tenth day
(Friday, April 30): the Israelites
cross the Jordan River and enter the
Promised Land (P307). Jericho falls (Josh. 6) (P312).
1451 BC, autumn: Israel stops
eating manna and starts farming the land. This year thus marks the first from
which future sabbatical and years will be reckoned (Ex. 23:10-11; Lev. 25:2-7;
Dt. 15:1-9, 31:10) (P321).
1446 BC: Joshua leads Israel against
Canaanites for six years (Josh. 11:1-18) (P322).
1445
BC: “The first Sabbatical year they kept was the seventh year from the
first year when they began tilling the ground in Canaan. Joshua, a type of
Jesus, had brought them into this place of rest, which was a type of that
Sabbath and rest which the true Jesus was to give to God's people (Heb. 4:9).
From this time is reckoned the years of Jubilee, which was every fifty years.
(Lev. 25:8-13)” (P333).
The Tent of
Meeting is set up in Shiloh and there the Ark of the Covenant remains for 328
years (Josh. 18:1) (P335).
About 450
years had passed from Yahweh’s choice of Isaac in Canaan to Israel’s rest (Josh.
21:43-44) in the Promised Land (Acts 13:17, 19, 20) (P337).
1443 BC: Joshua dies aged 110 as Joseph
had (Gen. 50:26; Josh 23:1, 24:29-30) (P340).
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