What was the length of time from the Exodus until Solomon’s Temple?

Full Question

Will you please en­lighten me on the length of years from the Exodus to the time when Solomon began to build the Temple.


Answer

The four hundred and eighty years from the Exodus to the fourth year of Solomon is made up as follows :-


Responses

P. H. Adams responded in The Testimony, Vol 5, No 49, January

  • "The Period from the time of the Exodus to the Building of Solomon's Temple" Question 24, October 1934 issue. The following further contribu­tion has been received.

    Beginning 'with Adam, and tracing the line from father to son, the Exodus will be found to have taken place in 2513 A.M. The births of Levi, Kohath and Amram (Ex. 6) are not given, but are correctly found by a simple manipu­lation of the years they lived years.