**The Destruction** of the First Temple was on the ninth of Av in the reign of King Tzidkiyahu and the 19th of the year 50, when Yerushalayim was captured (through Nevuzaradan the chief executioner) [(Melachim II 24)]. And in Yuchsin it is written that from the death of Yehoshua the judge until this year was 850 years, and from the division of the land it was 830 years. From the Exodus from Mitzrayim to the building of the Temple was 480 years, the Temple stood 410 years, which totals 890 years [(Rambam in Avodat Kochavim chapter 1)].

In total, from the Exodus from Mitzrayim to the year of the destruction was 890 years [and the calculation, year 890 to the year of the Exodus, is 2448, totaling 3338 of creation, as appears (Divrei HaYamim II Sha'ar HaDorot)]. From the Exodus from Mitzrayim to the destruction was 890, lacking 5 to 895 [(Yerushalmi Ta'anit chapter 4)]. The first Temple stood for 410 years plus the 480 years until the building, and to this the year 2448 should be added, totaling the year 3338 of creation, the year the Temple was destroyed [(Sha'ar HaDorot 61:2)].

**This year** was the first year of the Shemitah (Sabbatical cycle).

**Sefer Melachim** (Book of Kings): From when Shlomo became king until the destruction was 432 years, 9 months, and 12 days. And in Sefer Yashen I found that it says 416 years, 6 months, and 12 days [(Sha'ar HaDorot section 69)]. It appears that from year 2964 when Shlomo became king, adding 432 years reaches year 3396, which is not year 3338, and even if we subtract 6 and say the destruction was in year 3332, this also does not match, since in the genealogy of year 2924, 6 months and 12 days had 432 years from the completion of the Temple building as mentioned [(Sha'ar HaDorot there)].

Year 3338 is calculated differently according to different opinions, see year 2924 [(Sha'ar HaDorot)].

**The First Temple** [our Sages said it stood 410 years (in the first chapter of Avodah Zarah and second chapter of Arakhin and Parshat HaZevachim)] and Rashi explained (Melachim II 14) that if not for the 15 years missing, etc. And the first Temple 410 years is the secret of the letter Tav (whose numerical value is 400) and the letter Yud (10), and Yitzchak was bound at the Akedah for all those who came from the male side are feminine, therefore the first Temple stood according to the secret of the feminine, 410 years.

In Ra'ya Mehemna Parshat Pinchas it says the first Temple was from the masculine side which is the feminine, and in Pirkei d'Rabbi Eliezer chapter 31 it says the Temple was built according to seven years, built on seven pillars, and 70 years it was desolate, and 70 elders mourned for it, and the first Temple stood 410 years as it says... [extensive kabbalistic discussion continues about the mystical significance of the Temple's duration and various calculations].

**And after** [that which I have arranged before you the order of the years according to the proof from the verses, you will see with your discerning eye that what is written above (year 319) in the name of Sha'ar HaDorot, some of it differs from what I wrote, and this is because in chronology there are several opinions... [The text continues with detailed chronological calculations and comparisons between different rabbinic sources regarding dating of biblical events, discussing various calculations about the years of the judges, kings, and the duration of the First Temple period. The author addresses apparent contradictions and provides reconciliations between different traditions.]