He burned the house of the Lord— Josephus tells us, that the temple was burned four hundred and seventy years, six months, and ten days after the building of it; one thousand and sixty years, six months, and ten days from the time of the Israelites' coming out of the land of Egypt; one thousand nine hundred and fifty years, six months, and ten days from the deluge; and three thousand five hundred and thirty years, six months, and ten days from the creation;* and he mentions it as a very remarkable circumstance, that the second temple was burned by the Romans in the same month: and on the very same day of the month, that this was set on fire by the Chaldeans; and, as some of the Jewish rabbis say, when the Levites were singing the very same passage; the 23rd verse of the 94th Psalm. See Antiq. lib. 10: cap. 11.
* Archbishop Usher's chronology does not here agree with that of Josephus.