Quoting%20commentary for Zevachim 236:22

הני עשרים שנה עשר שנה שמלך שמואל בעצמו ושנה שמלך שמואל ושאול ושתים שמלך שאול ושבע דדוד

Moses made the Tabernacle; in the second the Tabernacle was set up, and Moses sent out the spies.' That of Gilgal was fourteen years, [viz. ,] the seven [years] of conquest and the seven of division.' How do we know it? - Because Caleb said: Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him back word as it was in my heart; and it is written, and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Josh. XIV, 7, 10. - 'This day' means when they started dividing the country.');">²⁴</span> How old was he when he crossed the Jordan? Seventy eight years;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the spies were not sent out at the beginning of the second year, but some months later.');">²⁵</span> and he said, '[I am this day] fourscore and five years old': thus [you have] seven years for the conquest. And how do we know the seven years of division? - I can say, since the conquest took seven [years], the dividing too took seven years. Alternatively, because [otherwise] we cannot explain [the verse] In the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezek. XL, 1. According to the Talmud ('Ar. 12a) , this was a jubilee year, while the Release years (shemittoth) and Jubilee years did not commence until the land had been divided. The calculation is then as follows: The Temple was built four hundred and eighty years after the Exodus, which was four hundred and forty years after their entry into Eretz Israel. The Temple stood four hundred and ten years, making a total of eight hundred and fifty years from their entry until its destruction, which is thirty-seven Jubilees. Deducting fourteen years for conquest and division, as these did not count for Jubilee, we find that it was destroyed fourteen years before a Jubilee year, and therefore the fourteenth year after its destruction was a Jubilee year. (The Talmud deduces that this was a Jubilee year independently of this calculation.)');">²⁶</span> 'The Tent of Meeting at Nob and Gibeon lasted fifty-seven years. How do we know it? - Because it is written, And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, [that he fell from off his seat. and died].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Sam. IV, 18. This refers to Eli the priest.');">²⁷</span> Now it was taught: When Eli the priest died, Shiloh was destroyed and they repaired to Nob; when Samuel the Ramathite died, Nob was destroyed and they went to Gibeon. And it is written, And it came to pass, front the day that the ark abode in Kiriath-jearim, that the time was long, for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel yearned after the Lord.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. VII, 2. The Ark was placed in Kiriath-jearim when it returned from the land of the Philistines, where it had been four months.');">²⁸</span> These twenty years [were made up as follows]: Ten years during which Samuel ruled alone,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As judge.');">²⁹</span> one year that Samuel and Saul ruled [together],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., Saul ruled with the advice of Samuel. Sh.M. reads: the eleven years that Samuel ruled, and deletes one . . together'.');">³⁰</span> two years that Saul reigned,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Ibid. XIII, 1. Rashi maintains that the first year, when he ruled with Samuel, is not counted.');">³¹</span> and the seven which David reigned [in Hebron],

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