*************************************** 1.  Numbers of the kings of Judah from Solomon :  37+ 17+ 3 + 41 + 25 + 8 + 1 + 6 + 40 + 29 + 52 + 16 + 29 + 55 + 2 + 31 + 11 + 11=430 years.  Jehoahaz and Jechoiachin are not counted; if they are included and a year allowed for them, we must say 36 for Solomon.  Numbers of the kings of Israel from 1 Jeroboam:  22 + 2 + 24 +2+ 12 + 22 + 2+ 12 + 28 + 17 + 16 + 41 + 1 + 10 + 2 + 20 + 9.  The artificial relations of the numbers, as explained above, were communicated to me by Ernst Krey.  On the point that the synchronisms do not belong to the original arrangement, see Jahrb. fur Deutsche Theol., 1875, p. 607 seq.  The correct view of Ezekiel iv. was first published by Bernhard Duhm (Theol. dir Proph., p. 253).  The number 390, given in the Massoretic text in verse 5 for the duration of the captivity of the northern Israelites, is impossible.  For Ezekiel cannot mean that they have been 350 years in exile already, and on the other hand he cannot reckon the remaining period of their punishment at more than 40 years, because 40 years is his calculation of the period of exile of Judah, and the restitution of Israel and that of Judah are in his view to take place at the same time; and indeed that of Egypt as well, obviously because brought about by the same cause (xxix. 1 1-16), the fall of the Chaldeans, which may be expected to take place in 40 years.  The number 390 has got into verse 5 by mistake from verse 9, where it is used of a quite different subject, not the years of the exile, but the days of the last siege of Jerusalem.  The gloss verse 13 rests on a similar confusion.  The Septuagint correctly gives for the Israelite exile the number of 150 years, or 190, according as the last 40 years in which their punishment continued, along with that of Judah, were included or omitted.  It may be remarked that 390 = 240 + 150.  Compare further Robertson Smith, in the Journal of Philologie, vol x., p. 209-213. **********************************************

The great period thus marked off and artificially divided into subperiods, is surveyed and appraised at every important epoch in sermon-like discourses.  These are much more frequent in Kings than in Judges and Samuel.  It makes no difference whether the writer speaks in his own person, or by the mouth of another; in reviews of the past he speaks himself, 2Kings xvii.; in anticipations of the future he makes another speak (1Kings viii. ix.).  A few examples must be cited to show what we mean.

The great epoch of the work is the building of the temple.  On this occasion Solomon makes a great dedicatory oration, in which he entreats Jehovah to hear from heaven the prayer of those who shall seek Him in this place.  He concludes as follows:  “If they sin against Thee (for there is no man that sinneth not) and Thou be angry with them and deliver them to be carried away captive into the land of the enemy, far or near, if they then bethink themselves