Excerpt from Archaeographia: The Jewish Theocracy; The Scriptural Principles of the History and Chronology of the Jewish Theocracy, or Commonwealth

The first, or Mesopotamian servi tude, is accordingly dated at the in terval of a jubilean period, or forty nine years, from the first occupation of the promised land, in the margin of the English Bibles; although this obvious principle is departed from in the tables at the end, constructed by Bishop Lloyd from the system of Archbishop, Ussher, as well as in every other sys tem, both ancient and modern, that we at present recollect.

The time that Joshua survived the first rest from war and the division of the land is not stated in Scripture, but Caleb was his colleague in the spying out of the land, as well as on the di vision of it forty-five years afterwards, and both these leaders were of middle age at the date of the exode, and the only two such who were permitted to enter Canaan; and as Joshua was the general appointed by Moses against the Amalekites in the second month after the departure from Egypt, at which time Caleb was in his fortieth year, it is not likely that the ages of Joshua and Caleb were very diflerent. Hence, if from the full age of the former, one hundred and ten years, we deduct that of the latter, eighty-five, when the land was divided, we cannot much err in computing the survivorship of Joshua at twenty-five years. The six years of war which preceded, will suppose him to have lived thirty-one years in Canaan; and if to this we add the eighteen years which Josephus interposes between the death of Joshua and the first servitude, the jubilean period of forty-nine years will be complete.

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