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How many years elapsed from day 1 of the exodus to Solomon's 4th year reign?

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1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
From the time the people of Israel came out of Egypt to the time of Solomon's 4th-year reign was 480 years.

X1 = 480

But then, Paul spoke in Antioch in Ac 13:

16b “Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen. 17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. 18 And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
The Israelites came out of Egypt and spent 40 years in the wilderness.

19 And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance. 20 All this took about 450 years.
40 + 450 = 490 years

That's already more than 480.

And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
490 + 40 = 530

22 And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
Let D1 = the number of years David reigned after Saul.

According to Paul X1 = 534 + D1 which is > 490.

What is the true value of X1?

I don't know. However, 12*40 = 480 in 1K 6:1 was probably a rough and symbolic number. The true value may be 574.
 
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