Zevachim 119A

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דכתיב: ״והימים אשר מלך דוד על ישראל ⁠– ארבעים שנה; בחברון מלך שבע שנים [וגו׳]״.

As it is written: “And the days that David reigned over Israel were 40 years: 7 years he reigned in Hebron, and 33 years he reigned in Jerusalem” (I Kings 2:11). In the 1st year that David reigned in Jerusalem he brought the Ark there from Kiriath Jearim. The Ark was therefore in Kiriath Jearim for 20 years. When the 33 years of David’s reign in Jerusalem are added to these, there are a total of 53 years from the destruction of Shiloh. During all of these years, and at the beginning of Solomon’s reign, the Tabernacle was in Nov and Gibeon (see I Kings 3:4).

ובשלמה כתיב: ״ויחל לבנותו בשנת ארבע למלכותו״. נשתיירו לשילה שלש מאות ושבעים חסר אחת.

And with regard to the construction of the Temple in the time of Solomon, it is written: “And he began to build it in the 2nd day of the 2nd month, in the 4th year of his reign” (II Chronicles 3:2), which was the 480th year following the Exodus (see I Kings 6:1). When the 40 years in the wilderness, the 14 years that the Tabernacle stood in Gilgal, and the 57 years that the Tabernacle stood in Nov and Gibeon, which totals 111 years, are subtracted from the 480, there remain for Shiloh 370 less one years in which the Tabernacle stood there.

באו לנוב וגבעון [וכו׳]. מנא הני מילי? דתנו רבנן: ״כי לא באתם עד עתה אל המנוחה ואל הנחלה״;

§ The Mishnah teaches that when Shiloh was destroyed and they arrived at Nov and Gibeon, private altars were permitted and offerings of lesser sanctity could be eaten in any city in Eretz Yisrael. The Talmud asks: From where are these matters derived? they are derived as A baraita states: The Jewish people were told that when they enter Eretz Yisrael they would be permitted to sacrifice on private altars, “for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance” (Deuteronomy 12:9), during which time those altars would be prohibited.

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