The "Lo-AMI" Periods 

"Call his name LO-AMMI, for ye are not My people."  Hosea 1:9

   When Israel was regarded by Jehovah as "Lo-Ammi", i.e. Not My People (cf. Hos 1:8, 2:1) then, Jehovah dealt with them on a different principle in recording time.  During these periods their national history years are omitted from the years of the world's lifetime. 

   When they were Lo-Ammi, the events recorded in the Scriptures, were recorded according to a reckoning we have termed Anno Dei (in GOD'S year) and not according to Anno mundi (in the year of the world) reckoning. 

   Herein is the key to a right understanding of Biblical Chronology; and it will be found, when rightly applied to unlock many "difficulties" and to remove many supposed "discrepancies" between certain passages in Scripture.  

1).  Between the year of the Entry into the Land, (1451 B.C.) & the end of Samuel's Judgeship - and the beginning of the Kingdom - there are 5 Lo-Ammi periods, during which Jehovah "sold" His People into the hand of their enemies.  These periods are as follows, (see  also 50.IV):

Mesopotamia 8 years,           
Moab 18,                              
Canaan 20,                           
Midian 7,                              
Philistine 40                            

=  93 years      

Althaliah's 6 years of usurpation.
The "gap" of 13 y. between Amaziah & Uzziah,
The "gap" of 1 year, shown by the "interlocking" regnal years

 =  20 years         

3).  The Lo-Ammi Babylonian Servitude Period. [between Uzziah and Jotham]. This is from the 4th of Jehoiakim = 1st of Neb., till the decree of Cyrus (426)

 = 70 years (*)     

To this must be added the years between the decree of Cyrus, and the dedication of the Temple, (405 B.C.) and the restoration of the Temple worship at the Passover in the 7th y. of Darius Hyst. in 404. (Ezr.6.15-19),viz:

 = 21 years        

TOTAL: = 204 years        

(*) But note Ezek 11:16

     Through taking the 480th y. of 1K.G.1., as an Anno Mundi date, instead of as it is - on Anno Dei reckoning; confusion has resulted all down the line, and many interesting and important facts escape notice in consequence.  For instance, David's First anointing took place c.1067 B.C., on supposed Anno Mundi reckoning; but the real Anno Mundi date is given in Chart 50 V. viz: 974 B.C., when David was 16 y. old, 917 years after Isaac became "The Seed" of Abraham, through whom was to come "THE SEED", and 1000 years from the "anointing" of Christ at the Jordan.  A.D.26.

By noting the "LO-AMMI" periods, many other important details will come to light.