1 Kings 6:1 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...

2 Chronicles 3:2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

Among chronologists there is a great diversity of opinion respect- ing the time of the building of the temple. The Septuagint has

440 years; Glycas,

330; Josephus and Moes-Linus,

592; Melchius Canus,

590; Sulpicius Severus,

588; Clemens Alexandrinus,

570; Dedrenus,

672, Codomus,

598; Vossius and Capellus,

580; Serarius,

680; Nicholas Abraham,

527; Petavius and Valtherus,

520. After all, that in the common Hebrew text is more likely to the true one, than any of the others.