...Well, your alternative version is grammatical, but it is still entirely speculative. You have no way of telling how long before the establishment of the northern kingdom these events happened - even assuming they are historical when you assume that most of the rest of Judges etc is not. I also note that you depend on a doubtful reading M$H, Moses in Judges 18:30 where the Masoretic text has MN$H, Manasseh, and assume that BEN means "son" rather than "descendant". But if you make similar assumptions with other genealogical texts you get a very different chronology.
This would have been not to long prior to the establishment of the
northern kingdom itself.
george
gfsomsel
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My apologies -- that should have read "This would have been not too long
prior to . . . "
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