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Thiele's assumptions above regarding this last point has been almost universally followed by those who have accepted his scholarship as offering the best solution to the chronological puzzle of the divided monarchies. Among these were Leslie McFall, whose 1991 ''Bibliotheca Sacra'' article established him as the chief living authority in developing further the Thiele tradition. However, in August 2008, McFall stated on [http://www.btinternet.com/~lmf12/ his Web site] that he was adopting a refinement to the regnal years of Solomon that showed that each kingdom fully used its own chronological system (and not that of the other kingdom) when referring to their kings, instead of the half-measure assumed by Thiele.<ref>http://www.btinternet.com/~lmf12/HebrewKingsRevised.pdf</ref> A necessary consequence of this adjustment is that when Temple construction began in the spring of the fourth year of Solomon (1 Kings 6:1), the BC year was 967 instead of the 966 that is usually given by those who follow Thiele's chronology. The Exodus, 479 years earlier according to the Hebrew text of this same verse, would have been in Nisan of 1446 BC.

Thiele's assumptions above regarding this last point has been almost universally followed by those who have accepted his scholarship as offering the best solution to the chronological puzzle of the divided monarchies. Among these were the late Leslie McFall (died November 2015), whose 1991 ''Bibliotheca Sacra '' article<ref>Leslie McFall, “A Translation Guide to the Chronological Data in Kings and Chronicles,” ''Bibliotheca Sacra'' 148 (1991), pp. 3-45.</ref> established him as the chief authority in developing further the Thiele tradition. However, in August 2008, McFall stated on his Web site that he was accepting a refinement to Thiele’s regnal years of Solomon initially proposed in a 2003 paper by Rodger Young,<ref>Rodger C. Young, “When Did Solomon Die?” ''Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society'' 46:4 (December 2003), pp. 589–603,</ref> and he used this refinement in subsequent writing.<ref>Leslie McFall, “Do the Sixty-Nine Weeks of Daniel Date the Messianic Mission of Nehemiah or Jesus?” “Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society“ 52:4 (December 2009), p. 690,  n. 43.</ref><ref>McFall, “The Chronology of Saul and David,” ''Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society'' 53:3 (September 2010), p. 533 (chart).</ref> The refinement showed that each kingdom fully accepted the chronological system of the other kingdom when referring to the other kingdom’s kings, instead of the half-measure assumed by Thiele. The modification requires that the reigns of the monarchs of Judah, Solomon through Athaliah, must be dated one year earlier than in Thiele’s system, thereby correcting an error that Thiele recognized but never successfully resolved. A necessary consequence of this adjustment is that when Temple construction began in the spring of the fourth year of Solomon (1 Kings 6:1), the BC year was 967 instead of the 966 that is usually given by those who follow Thiele's chronology. The Exodus, 479 years earlier according to the Hebrew text of this same verse, would have been in Nisan of 1446 BC.

== Successes of Thiele's Biblical chronology in correcting secular chronology ==

== Successes of Thiele's Biblical chronology in correcting secular chronology ==