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How for kings? If he died in Adar and a king took office in Adar it is counted as a year for both of them. Rebbi Jonah said, only if he reached Nisan. Otherwise like the following, he ruled one month in Samaria⁴⁵2K. 15:13. If he had ruled longer, it would have counted for a year.. You can determine the years of the kings of Israel only through the years of the kings of Jehudah, and you can determine the years of the kings of Jehudah only through the years of the kings of Israel⁴⁶Since there were overlapping years at the start and end of each reign, and there might have been shifts between Western counting from Nisan and Eastern counting from Tishre, the correspondences given in Kings are necessary to establish the correct correspondences. This leaves uncertainty for the days of the united monarchy.. It is written⁴⁷1K. 2:11.: And the time that David ruled over Israel was forty years, etc. And it is written⁴⁸2S.5:4. Then according to the rules given earlier, the reign should have been counted as 41 years. Cf. Babli Sanhedrin107a/b., in Hebron he ruled over Jehudah seven years and six months, etc. In total they are deficient and in detail excessive. Rebbi Isaac bar Qaṣaṣata in the name of Rebbi Jonah: they were thirty-two and a half years, but to honor Jerusalem he counts them as entire. The great Jehudah says, the greater number absorbs the lesser⁴⁹But according to our rules, the numbers should have been rounded up, not down.. ⁵⁰The following sentence is from Berakhot2:1 (Notes 66–67), also Mo`ed qatan3:7 (83d l.4). As answer to the problem of the excess 6 months it is unsatisfactory. Rebbi Samuel bar Naḥman said, when your days will be complete⁵¹2S. 7:12.. The Holy One, praise to Him, said to David: I am counting full days for you, I am not counting missing days for you. ⁵²Corrector’s addition from the parallels, where the added text represents the main argument. Here the addition is irrelevant.[Will not your son Solomon build the Temple to sacrifice? Law and justice that you are upholding is more to my liking than sacrifices, as it is said⁵³Prov. 21:3., upholding justice and law is preferred by the Eternal to sacrifice.] Rav Huna said, the entire six months during which David was in flight before his son Absalom, his sins would have been atoned for by a female goat as for a commoner⁵⁴This statement is from Horaiot3:3, Note 111. Since during Absalom’s revolt David was not ruling as a king, the 40½ years of his reign actually were only 40 years of rule.. Rebbi Yudan ben Rebbi Shalom said, it is written⁵⁵1K. 11:16., for six months dwelt there Joab and all of Israel. The Holy One, praise to Him, said to him: I did tell you, do not attack them⁵⁶Deut. 2:5., but you desired to attack them. By your life, they will not be counted for you⁵⁷Therefore the 41 years are recorded as 40..

One verse says, they abandoned their idols; David and his men carried them away¹⁰⁵2S. 5:21. The verse implies that the idols were a valuable part of the booty. According to the Mishnah the idols should have been brought to the Dead Sea, not to Hebron.. But another verse says, David gave orders and they were burned in the.fire¹⁰⁶1Chr. 14:12, another report about the same event.. Rebbi Yose [ben Rebbi] Ḥalafta¹⁰⁷This is the reading of ג, which agrees with the name of the Tanna in other sources. and the rabbis. Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Ḥalafta says, what was of metal, David and his men carried them away. And what was of wood, David gave orders and they were burned in the fire. But the rabbis say, what Itai from Gat¹⁰⁸They assume that he was a Gentile and therefore able to break the idols to remove the prohibition and turn them into valuable metal scrap. Babli 44a annulled, David and his men carried them away. And what he did not annul, David gave orders and they were burned in fire. How does Rebbi Yose [ben Rebbi] Ḥalafta confirm David and his men carried them away? They took them by their rims¹⁰⁹To grind them down as R. Yose prescribes in the Mishnah..