And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
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Bede
AD 735
Where it says, “in the fourth year in the month of Zio, which is the second month of the reign of Solomon over Israel,” the intended order is, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon in the month of Zio, that is, the second month. He calls the second month May, for April, in which the Pasch, the principal feast among the Hebrews, is held, was the first month of the year. From this it is quite clear that later when the Pasch was over, he began to build a house for the Lord, and after they had been consecrated by the mystical solemnity, the people set their hands to the mystical task. A commemoration is made of the exodus from Egypt when work began on the building of the tabernacle so that the reader may be made aware what a period of time had passed between the building of both houses and learn the spiritual mystery attaching to this period of time. For four times 120 make 480; now four is very appropriate to evangelical perfection on account of the actual number of the Evangelists; ...
Eightieth year. This chronology meets with the approbation of most people. See Usher. (Chap. xii.) Some, however, find a difficulty in reconciling it with Acts xiii. 20., which seems to attribute 450 years to the government of the judges. (Calmet)
Septuagint have 440; Josephus 592, though Ruffin neglects the 90 in his version; Petau 520; Severus 582; Clement of Alexandria 566; Vossius 580; Cano 590; Serarius 680.
Houbigant would read 350 in the Acts. But Capellus would add 100 here (Haydock)
Second of the sacred year, corresponding with our April. Syriac, Chaldean styles it "of the splendour of flowers. "(Menochius)
The Hurons, and other nations of America, call this "the moon of plants "the Flemings, "the month for mowing "Grasmaand. Our Saxon ancestors gave descriptive names to the months. See Verstegan. (Haydock)
At first, the Hebrews only described the months by their order; "first, second "In Solomon's time we begin to find other names, taken from the Phenicians, (Scaliger) C...
