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# Thiele calculated that the 41-year reign of Jeroboam II (2 Kings 14:23) was measured from his appointment as coregent, while Ussher preceded these 41 years with an 11-year coregency, thus making a total of 52 years for Jeroboam in Ussher's system.

# Thiele calculated that the 41-year reign of Jeroboam II (2 Kings 14:23) was measured from his appointment as coregent, while Ussher preceded these 41 years with an 11-year coregency, thus making a total of 52 years for Jeroboam in Ussher's system.

# Thiele’s chronology has no need of the two interregna immediately following the deaths of Jeroboam II and [[Pekah]]. The first of Ussher's interregna is unnecessary and the second is in conflict with 2 Kings 15:30, as described above.

# Thiele’s chronology has no need of the two interregna immediately following the deaths of Jeroboam II and [[Pekah]]. The first of Ussher's interregna is unnecessary and the second is in conflict with 2 Kings 15:30, as described above. These interregna cannot be supported by a literal and faithful reading of the two Scriptures involved, as mentioned above.

 

These interregna cannot be supported by a literal and faithful reading of the two Scriptures involved, as mentioned above.

# Thiele determined, following some previous scholarship, that Pekah and [[Menahem]] began their reigns together and that Pekah simply wiped out the short-lived "House" of Menahem after building a rebel power base for twelve of the twenty years he is supposed to have reigned.

# Thiele determined, following some previous scholarship, that Pekah and [[Menahem]] began their reigns together and that Pekah simply wiped out the short-lived "House" of Menahem after building a rebel power base for twelve of the twenty years he is supposed to have reigned.