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The fourth Age.
Before) Joshua II. Joshua, being confirmed in his government by God, sends forth spies from Before
Shittim to the city of Jericho, who, being harboured by Rahab, are privily sent
away, when search is made for them.

INDEX TO THE HOLY BIBLE.

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IV.

Joshua V.

Upon the tenth day of the first month, (April 30) to wit, the same day that the
Paschal Lamb was to be chosen out of the flock, the Israelites under the con-
duct of Joshua, a type of Jesus Christ, go up out of the river Jordan into the
promised land of Canaan, a type of a more heavenly country. They pass through
the river on dry ground, the waters being for the present divided; for a memo-
rial of which miraculous passage, Joshua sets up 12 stones in the very channel
of Jordan, and taking 12 other stones out of the midst thereof sets them up at
Gilgal, the place where they next encamp.

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Judges

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from the top of mount Gerizim expostulates with them the wrong they had
done to his father's house; and by way of a parable foretells their ruin: which
done, he lies, and dwells quietly in Beer.

Abimelech, having reigned three years over Israel. Gaal a Shechemite con-
spires against him; which being discovered to him by Zebul, he utterly destroys
the city of Shechen, and puts all the inhabitants to the sword, and burns the
temple of their god Berith with fire; from thence he goeth and hyeth siege to
Thebez, where he is knocked on the head with a piece of a millstone, cast upon
him by a woman from the walls, and then killed outright by his armour-bearer.
Tola the son of Puah, after Abimelech, judgeth Israel 23 years.
Jair the Gileadite succeeds Tola, and judgeth Israel 22 years.

The Israelites, forsaking again the true God, fall to worship the gods of
several nations, and are given up into the hands of the Philistir.es and Ammon-
ites; which fifth thraldom lasteth 18 years. Upon their repentance, and aban-
doning their idols, at length they obtain mercy.

Jephthah the Gileadite, being made captain of the host of Israel, subdues the
Ammonites; before the battle he vows his daughter unawares to be offered in

XII. 6, sacrifice, and afterward performs it. He puts to the sword 42,000 Ephraimites,
who had behaved themselves insolently against him, and judgeth Israel 6 years
Ibzan the Bethlehemite succeeds Jephthah, and judgeth Israel 7 years.
Elon the Zebulonite succeeds Ibzan, and judgeth Israel 10 years.
Abdon the Ephraimite succeeds Elon, and judgeth Israel 8 years.

10,

The day following, Joshua renews the use of circumcision, which had been
omitted 40 years.
Upon the 14th day of the same month, in the evening, the Israelites celebrate
their first passover in the land of Canaan.

11, 12,

Next day after the passover manna ceaseth.

13.

Our Lord Jesus, Captain of his Father's host, appears to Joshua, the typical
Jesus, before Jericho, with a drawn sword in his hand, and promiseth there
to defend his people.

VI.

Jericho, the ark of the Lord having been carried round about it, is taken the
seventh day, the walls thereof falling down at the sound of the priests' trum-
pets; all the inhabitants are put to the sword, except Rahab and her family.

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The Israelites besiege Ai, and are smitten by their enemies, God having aban-
doned them for sacrilege committed by Achan: Achan's sin being discovered
by the casting of lots, and himself found guilty, he is stoned to death, and, to-
gether with his children and cattle, burned with fire. God being pacified here-
by, Ai is taken by ambushment and utterly destroyed.

On mount Ebal, according to the law made, is an altar erected, and the Ten
Commandments engraven on it; the blessings and cursings are repeated on
mount Ebal and mount Gerizim, and the book of the law read in the ears of the
people.

The kings of Canaan combine against Israel; only the Gibeonites craftily find
a way to save their own lives by making a league with them; but are after-
wards deputed to the servile offices of the house of God.

Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, with the kings of Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish,
and Eglon, hearing that Gibeon is fallen off froi them, join their forces together
and besiege it; but Joshua raiseth the siege, pursueth those five kings, and
smiteth them as far as Azekah, the Lord in the meanwhile killing more with
hailstones from heaven, than the Israelites with their swords. Joshua com-
mands the sun to stand still over Gibeon, and the moon over the valley of Ajalon,
by the space almost of one whole day, until the Israelites are fully avenged
of their enemies. The five kings hide themselves in a cave at Makkedah;
from whence they are brought forth, scornfully used, and hanged.

From the autumn of this year, wherein, after the falling of manna, they began
to till the ground, the rise of the sabbatical years is to be taken.

Joshua, now grown old, is commanded by God to divide all the land on the
west of Jordan among the nine tribes remaining, and the other half-tribe of
Manasseb. The Lord and his sacrifices are the inheritance of Levi.

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Eli the high priest (in whom the high priesthood was translated from the fam-
ily of Eleazar to Ithamar's) succeeds Abdon, and judgeth Israel 40 years. The
Israelites again provoke the Lord to anger, and he delivers them into the hands
of the Philistines. This sixth thraldom begins seven months after Eli's entering

XIII. 1, 2, upon the government, and lasteth 40 years, even till seven months after his

24.

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XV.

XVI.

death, when the ark was brought back again.

Samson the Nazarite, as an angel had foretold, is born at Zorah.

Whilst Eli the high priest executeth the office of a judge in civil causes
under the Philistines, Samson takes an occasion to quarrel with them, by mar-
rying a woman of Timnath; for having on the day of his betrothing propound-
ed a riddle to the Philistines, and laid a wager, his wife tells them the meaning
of it: enraged hereat, he goes and slays 30 men of Askelon, and gives them the
suits of raiment which he had stripped off their bodies, in performance of the
wager which he had lost, and returns home to his father.

Samson again in harvest-time goes to present his wife with a kid at her fath
er's house, but finds her given away in marriage to another man; Sainson re
solves to be revenged; he catches 500 foxes, and tying fire-brands to their tails,
turns them all into the corn-fields of the Philistines, and into their vineyards,
and olive-gardens, and sets them all on fire. The Philistines take Samson's
wife and father-in-law, and burn them; Samson in revenge slays a great inulti-
tude of them, and sits down upon the rock Etam, from whence being taken by
3000 of the Jews, and by them delivered into the hands of the Philistinos, be
slays of them a thousand men with the jaw-bone of an ass; in which place he is
miraculously refreshed, when thirsty and ready to faint.

Samson is betrayed by Delilah his concubine, bereaved of the hair of his Naz-
ariteship, and delivered to the Philistines, who put out his eyes and bind him
with chains of brass. The Philistines gather together to offer sacrifice to Dagen
their god, and Samson is brought to make them sport; whose hair being grown,
and his strength in a great measure restored, he takes hold of the two chief pil
lars whereon the house stood, (wherein were the princes of the Philistines, a d
a great multitude of people) and pulls down the house, killing more men at Lis
death, than he did in all his life-time. So he died, having judged Israel in the

1 Sam. IV. days of the Philistines 20 years.

XI.

The rest of the kings, with whom Joshua had waged war for six years, resolve
to set upon him with united forces: but Joshua comes upon them unawares,
slays them, and possesseth their countries.

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XV.

Joshua now roots out those giants, the Anakims, with their cities, out of the
hill-countries, out of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and generally out of all the
mountains of Judah and all Israel. Andhaving gotten the whole land into his
hands, he divides it among the children of Israel according to their tribes; and
the land rested from war.

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The first sabbatical year, or year of rest; from hence the year of Jubilee, oг
every fifty years' space, is to be reckoned.

XVIII.

The tabernacle is set up at Shiloh, (thought to be the same with Salem,)
where it continued 328 years.

XXII.

The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, with a blessing are
sent home to their possessions on the other side of Jordan.

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Joshua gathers together all Israel, exhorts them to obedience, briefly recites
God's benefits to them, reneweth the covenant between thent and God, and
dieth 110 years old.

After the decease of Joshua, and the elders who outlived him, and who re-
membered the wonders which God had wrought for Israel, there succeeds a
generation of men which forget God, and mingle themselves with the Canaan-
ites by marriage, and worship their idols. In this time of anarchy and confu-
sion, when every man did that which seemed right in his own eyes, ali those
disorders were committed, which are reported in the five last chapters of
the Book of Judges; to wit, the idolatry of Micah, and the children of Dan; the
war of the Benjamites, and the cause thereof. God, being highly provoked,
gives them up into the hands of Cushan, king of Mesopotamia; which first ca-
lamity of theirs holds them but eight years.

Othniel, the son of Kenaz, and son-in-law to Caleb, stirred up by God as a
judge and avenger of his people, defeats Cushan, and delivers the Israelites
out of bondage; and the land rested forty years after the first rest which Joshua
procured for them.

Othniel dying, the Israelites fell again to sin against God, and are given over
into the hards of Eglon king of Moab, who, joining with the Ammonites and
the Amalekites, overthrows the Israelites, and takes Jericho; and this second
oppression continueth 18 years.

Ehud the son of Gera is raised up by God to be an avenger of his people; for
feigning a message to Eglon, he runs him into the belly with his dagger; then
getting away, be gathers all Israel into a body on mount Ephraim, and slays
10,000 of the most valiant men of Moab: and the land resteth 40 years after the
former rest obtained by Othniel.

After him, Shamgar, the son of Anath, slayeth 600 Philistines with an ox-
goad, and he also avengeth Israel.

The Israelites, after the death of Ehud, returning to their old sin, are given
up by God into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan; and this thraldom of theirs
continueth 20 years.

Deborah, the wife of Lapidoth, a prophetess, who at this time judgeth Israel
in mount Ephraim, and Barak of the tribe of Naphtali, being made captain of
the host of Israel, in sight of Megiddo, overcomes Sisera, captain of Jabin's
army, whom Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite afterward kilis in her own tent.
For a memorial of which victory Deborah composeth a song; and the land
resteth 40 years after the former rest obtained by Ehud.

The Israelites sinning again are delivered into the hands of the Midianites;
which fourth thraldom lasteth 7 years. Hereupon they cry unto God for help,
and are reproved by a prophet. Then Gideon the son of Joash, of Manasseh, is
by an angel from God sent to deliver them. He first overturns the altar of
Baal and burns his grove, and is called Jerubbaal. He out of 32,000 men,
which came unto him, chooseth only (God so commanding) 300: but with
them he puts to flight all the host of the Midianites, whom the Ephraimites
afterward pursue, and slay their princes Oreb and Zeeb. Gideon having
pacified the Ephraimites, who complain that they were not called to the battle at
first, passeth the river Jordan, and defeats the remainder of the Midianitish
army; he chastiseth also the men of Succoth and Penuel, who had refused
him victuals in his journey; and slays the two kings of the Midianites, Zebah
and Zalmunna. After which great victories, the Israelites offering to settle
the kingdom upon him and his posterity, he refuseth it; but receiving their
golden ear-rings, he makes thereof an ephod, which afterward proves an occa-
sion of idolatry. The Midianites being thus vanquished, the land enjoys rest
40 years, after the former rest restored to them by Deborah and Barak.

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Gideon dieth, and the Israelites, falling back again to idolatry, worship Baal-
berith for their god.

Abimelech the son of Gideon (begotten upon his concubine) purposing to get
to himself the kingdom which his father had refused, slayeth 70 of his brothers
all upon one stone; and having by the he'p of the Shechemites got to be made
king, Jotham the youngest son of Gideon, who only escaped Abimelech's fury,

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The Israelites take up arms against the Philistines, but with very ill success
for they lose 4000 men in one battle. Then they send for the ark of the cove
nant from Shiloh, and cause it to be brought into the camp. The Philistines,
seeing now all lie at stake, encourage one another to behave themselves like
men that day; and so falling on, they slay of the Israelites 30,000 men. The ark
of God is taken, and Hophni and Phinehas, priests, and sons of Eli, are slain
Of all which, when tidings are brought to old Eii, frighted thereat, he falls from
his chair and breaks his neck, in the 98th year of his age.

The Philistines, having brought the ark into Ashdod, set it in the house of
Dagon their god. But when Dagon bad been found twoseveral times fallen grov-
elling before it, and broken in pieces, and the inhabitants of the place sorely
plagued, they remove it from thence to Gath, and from thence to Ekron. But
the same plagues and judgments following wherever it went, after 7 months, liv
the advice of their priests, they send home the ark again with presents and
gifts into the land of the Israelites, and it is brought to Beth-shemesh, where
50,070 men are smitten for looking into the ark. From hence it is carried to the
house of Abinabad in Kirjath-jearim, who sanctifieth his sou Eleazr to keep it.
After 20 years tl. Israelites, by Samuel's persuasion, solemnly repent at Wiz-
peh, and, upon their conversion, God by thunder from heaven delivers them
from the invasion of the Philistines, who are subdued, the hand of the Lord
being against them all the days of Samuel.

Samuel, being grown old, takes for his assistance in the government hus
sons; by whose ill management of affairs, the Israelites require a king to be
given them: whereupon God gives them a king in his wrath, to wit, Saul the
son of Kish, after Samuel had judged Israel 21 years. Saul is privately
anointed by Samuel, and afterward publicly proclaimed king at Mizpeh. Aben
a month after Jabesh-gilead is besieged by Nahash king of the Aminonites, and
the siege raised by Saul: whereupon the whole congregation of Israel, coming
together at Giigal, again proclaim Saul king.

David the son of Jesse the Ephrathite, born at Beth-lebem-judah 30 years
before he succeeded Saul in the kingdom. He was his father's youngest son.
God rejects Saul, and sends Samuel to Beth-lehem, there to anoint David
king, whom saul ever after extremely persecuteth:

Yet Jonathan, Saul's son, loveth him, and oftentimes rescueth him from Saul's
cruelty.

David, having Saul twice in his power, forbears to hurt him.
David, fearing he may some time or other fall into the hands of Saul, fies to
Gath unto king Achish, carrying with him 600 men, and having obtained of
him the town of Ziklag to dwell in, he continueth one year and four moils in
the land of the Philistines; from whence he invadeth the countries of the Gesh-
urites, Gezrites, and Amalekites, and puts to the sword all, both men and women.
not leaving one alive to carry the news thereof to king Achish.

Achish, proposing to make war upon the Israelites, takes David along with
him in that expedition, to whom, whilst he is won his march with his 600 men,
repair a great many others of the tribe of Manasseh, and join with him.

Saul, seeing the army of the Philistines, is in great fear, and (Samuel being
now dead) goes to En-dor to consult with a witch there; the woman raiseth an
apparition of Samuel, and Saul receives from it that dreadful doom, The Lord
wili deliver Israel, together with thyself, into the hands of the Philistines.

The princes of the Philistines growing jealous of David, he and his company
early the next morning leave the army, and return to Ziklag.

The armies join battle, and the Israelites are defeated; the three sons of Saul
are slain, and he himself falls on his own sword.

Three days after, an Amalekite brings Saul's crown, and the bracelet that
was upon his arm, and presents them to David, professing that, finding ho
fallen upon his sword, he had killed him outright, and taken the crown fror)
off his head: whereupon David causeth him to be put to death, for stretching
forth his hand to slay the Lord's anointed, and lamenteth the death of Sadat
Jonathan his son in a funeral song. David, having asked counsel of God, gas
up to Hebron with those that are about him, where he is anointed king by the
men of Judah, his own tribe, in the 30th year of his age; and there he ros
seven years and six months.

Abner, who was captain of the host of Saul, carries Isbosheth, Saul's son, to
Makanaim, and there makes him king over the rest of Israel.

After two years there arise frequent and mortal skirmishes between a part
of men on David's side, beaded by Joab, David's nephew, and another party or

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He comes to David, and is kindly received; returning, he is treacherously
murdered by Joab. David much laments his untimely death, and buries him at
Hebron.

IV. 2

Baanah and Rechab murder their lord and master Ishbosheth, as he lieth
resting himself upon his bed. They bring his head to David, who in detesta-
tion of their treason causeth them immediately to be put to death.

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The captains and elders of all the tribes coming to Hebroa, anoint David a
third time, and make him king over all Israel.

David with all Israel marcheth to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, and taketh
the fort of Zion, and calls it the city of David, and making Jerusalem the seat of
his kingdom, reigneth there over all Israel 33 years.

The ark of the covenant, which in the first sabbatical year was brought from
Gilgal to Shiloh, is this year, being also a sabbatical year, brought from Kir-
jath-jearim out of the house of Abinadab, and placed at Zion; 30,000 choice
men of Israel attending it, and singing the 60th Psalm.

David now dwelling in his house of cedar, which he had built, and living in
a full and perfect peace, imparteth to Nathan the prophet his purpose of building
a house for God; but is answered from God, that this was a work which should be
done, not by him, because he was a man of blood, and trained up in war; but

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which passeth from hence till the birth of Solomon is spent in wars; wherein
David subdues the Philistines, Edomites, Amalekites, Moabites, Ammonites,
and Syrians, and extends his kingdom to the utmost bound of that land which
had been promised to the seed of Abraham, and never possessed by any of them,
save only by David and his son Solomon.

At the end of this year Joab, going with the army against the Ammonites,
besiegeth Rabbah, the metropolis of Ammon, whilst David takes his ease at Je-
rusalem, and there commits adultery with Bathsheba the wife of Uriah the Hits
tite, who was then in the army, whom he also procures to be slain.

The child so gotten in adultery is born. David is convicted by Nathan the
prophet of his sin, and he repents; in testimony whereof be composeth the 51st
Psalm. The child dieth.

Bathsheba becomes now David's wife, and beareth him a son, unto whom, as
unto one who should prove a man of peace, God gives the name of Solomon;
and, as to one beloved of the Lord, the name of Jedidiah.

Amnon, David's eldest son, defloureth his sister Tamar.

Absalom avengeth his sister Tamar, and killeth his brother Amnon; for which
thing he fleeth to Geshur in Syria, where he continues three years with king
Talmai, his grandfather by the mother's side.

After three years exile he returns to Jerusalem, where he continues two
years, before the king his father admits him into his presence, and is reconciled
to him.

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David, tempted by Satan, commandeth Joab to number the people: God,
offended therent, sends a prophet to put three plagues to his choice, viz. the
famine, sword, or pestilence. David chooseth to fall into the hands of a merci-
ful God, rather than into the hands of men. So God sends a pestilence, whereof
70,000 men die in one day. The angel being about to destroy Jerusalem. God
bids him hold his hand; for he beholds David repenting in sackcloth, and en-
treating him to spare the innocent people, and to turn his hand upon himself,
and upon his father's house.

Rehoboam is born unto Solomon by Naamah, an Ammonitish woman.

David, being now 70 years of age, and broken with continual cares and wars,
grows so weak and feeble, that clothes can no longer preserve heat in hum.
Therefore Abishag, a young virgin, is appointed to keep him warm. Adonijah,
seeing his father thus declining, by the assistance of Joab and Abiathar, makes
himself king which David understanding, he presently commands Zadok the
priest, and Nathan the prophet, with other great men, to anoint Solomon king.
Adonijah hearing this, betakes himself to the sanctuary, and is pardoned.

David, having given instructions to his son Solomon, dieth; after he had
reigned in Hebron seven years and six months, and 33 years in Jerusalem over
all Israel.

Pharaoh, king of Egypt, gives his daughter in marriage to Solomon.
The Lord appears to Solomon in a dream, and bids him ask what he will, and
it shall be given hin. Solomor asketh wisdom; God gives him wisdom from
above, and adds thereunto riches and honour. Of this divine wisdom Solomon
makes an eminent manifestation in judging between two harlots.

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ΧΧ. 31.

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41 years.

The fifth Agt.

Asa in the twentieth year of Jeroboam succeeds his father Abijam, and reigna
Nadab in the second year of Asa succeedeth his father Jeroboam in the king.
dom of Israel, and reigneth not full two years.

Nadab at the siege of Gibbethon (a town of the Philistines) is slain by Baasha
of the tribe of Issachar in the third year of Asa; and the same year having
made bimself king over Israel, be utterly destroyeth the whole race of Jerobo
am, and reigneth 24 years. At this time lived the prophets Jehu, Hanani, and
Azarias.

Asa destroyeth idolatry, and, enjoying ten years of peace, strengthens his
kingdom with forts and a standing army.

Zerah the Ethiopian with an innumerable army invadeth Judah: Asa over-
comes him, sacrificeth to God of the spoil, and maketh a solemn covenant with
God. He also depõseth Maachah his grandmother, a great patroness of idol-
atry; bringeth into the temple those things which his father and himself had
consecreted unto God, and enjoys a long peace.

Elah the son of Baasha succeeds his father in the kingdom of Israel.

In the second year of his reign, and the twenty-seventh of Asa's, Zimri, one
of his captains, conspires against him, kills him, and reigueth in his stead. As
soon as he sits in the throne, he destroyeth the whole family of Baasha; but the
army which then lay before Gibbethon makes Omri their king, who presently
besiegeth Tirzah, and taketh it; which Zimri seeing, he sets on fire the king's
palace, and perisheth in the flames.

The people of Israel are now divided into two factions; one follows Tibni
the son of Ginath, and endeavours to make him king; the other adheres to Omri,
but Tibni dying, Omri reigns alone in the 31st year of Asa.

Omrı having reigned six years in Tirzah, removes the seat of his kingdom to
Samaria, a place which he himself had built.

Ahab succeeds his father in the kingdom of Israel, and reigneth 22 years in
Samaria. He did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.
Jehoshaphat succeedeth his father Asa in the fourth year of Ahab king of
Israel, and reigneth 25 years in Jerusalem.

Jehoshaphat being settled in his kingdom, and having demolished the high
places and groves, in the third wear of his reign he sends Levites with the
princes to instruct the people in the law. God in the meantime subdueth his
enemies under him.

Ben-hadad king of Syria layeth siege to Samaria, who by the direction of a
prophet is beaten off, and a vast number of the Syrians slain.

Ahab, not being able to persuade Naboth to sell him his vineyard, falls sick
upon it; Jezebel his wife, suborning false witnesses to accuse hini of blasphemy,
causeth Naboth to be stoned, and puts the king in possession of the vineyard.
Whereupon the prophet Elijah deuounceth judgments against Ahab and Jer-
ebel; wicked Ahab repenting, God defers the judgment.

Ahab in the seventeenth year of the reign of Jehoshaphat maketh his son
Ahaziah his associate in the government of his kingdom.

Jehoshapirat also maketh Jehoram his son copartner with him; whence it is,
that Jehoram the son of Ahab, who succeeded his brother Ahaziab in the king.
dom of Israel, in the 18th year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, is said to have
begun his reign in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat.

Ahab having got Jehoshaphat to assist him in the siege of Ramoth-gilend,
before he goes, he asketh counsel of 400 false prophets, who promise him vic
tory and success; but by Jehoshaphat's advice Micaiah, a true prophet of God.
is consulted, who foretells his overthrow; and according to his word Ahab is
slain at Ranoth-gilead, and buried at Samaria.

Ahab being dead, the Moabites revolt from Israel, who had continued in sub
jection ever since king David's days.

Abaziah king of Israel, lying ill of a fall, sends to consult Baal-zebub the god
of Ekron concerning his recovery. Elijah the prophet meeteth the messenger
2 Kings I. and telleth him Ahaziah sņall surely die; whereupon two captains over fifty

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Solomon's temple finished in the eleventh year of bis reign; having been
seven years and a half in building.

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Solomon this year (being the 9th Jubilee, and opening the fourth Millenary
of the world) with great magnificence celebrates the dedication of the temple.
at which time God giveth a visible sign of his favour.

Solomon having, as it is with reason believed, forsaken his lusts and vanities,
to which he had been too intemperately addicted, and written, as a testimony
of his repentance, his book called, The Preacher, dier. He reigned 40 years.
The Israelites assemble at Shechem to crown Rehoboam, Solomon's son,
king over all Israel. The people by Jeroboam sue unto him for a removal of
some grievances; to whom Rehoboam, by the advice of young men, returning
a harsh answer, alienates the hearts of ten tribes from him, who make Jeroboam
king over them, and fall at the same time from the house of David, and from
the true worship of God.

Jeroboam, in the beginning of his reign, repairs Shechem, destroyed by
Abimelech 258 years before, and there dwells; afterward going over Jordan he
builds Penuel, and at length makes Tirzah the seat of his kingdom. But fearing

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men apiece are sent to apprehend bim, and bring him before the king: Elijah
calleth for fire from heaven, and destroyeth both them and their companies. A
third captain with his fifty men being sent, and behaving himself submissively,
Elijah goes along with him; the prophet certifies the king that he shall not
come down from his bed alive. So Ahaziah dieth having governed (partly by
bimself, and partly together with his father) two years.

Jehoram succcedeth his brother Ahaziah in the kingdom of Israel in the latter
end of the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat, and reigneth twelve узаrs.
Elijah is taken up into heaven in a fiery chariot.

Jehoshaphat grown old gives to his sons many gifts with fenced cities in
Judea; but his eldest son Jehoram he now more absolutely investeth with the
throne of the kingdom in the fifth year of Jehoram king of Israel.

Jehoram now, by the death of his father, has the kingdom of Judah to him-
self, which he holds four years. He is no sooner settled in his throne, but he
puts all his brethren to the sword, with many of the princes of Israel. At this
time the Edomites, who ever since king David's time had lived in subjection to
Judah, revolt, and (as it was foretold by Isaac) they forever shake off his yoke,
Libnah also, a city of the priests in the tribe of Judah, falls off from him about
this time.

Jehoram following the counsel of his wicked wife Athaliah, the daughter of
Ahab king of Israel, sets up in Judah, and even in Jerusalem itself, the idolatrous
worship of Baal, and compels his subjects thereto; a letter which was left for
him by Elijah the prophet comes to his hands, which reproves him, and denoun-
ces all those calamities and punishments which afterward befell him.

Ahaziah succeeds his father in the kingdom of Judah (having had part of the
government bestowed upon him the year before) in the 12th year of Jehoram
king of Israel, and reigneth one year in Jerusalem.

Jehoram king of Israel, and Abaziah king of Judah, lead their armies to
Ramoth-gilead against Hazael, who had newly succeeded Ben-hadad in the
kingdom of Syria; Jehoram is dangerously wounded, and retires himself to
Jezreel to be cured. In the meantime Elisha sendeth a young prophet with
instructions to anoint Jebu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nishi, at Ra
moth-gilead, king over Israel, and to open to hím the will of God for the rooting
out of the house of Abab; who, being proclaimed king by the soldiers, marcheth
straight to Jezreel, killeth Jehoram in the field of Naboth, and causeth Jezebel
tobe castout at a window, where she is eaten by dogs. He despatcheth letters also
to Samaria, and causeth seventy of Ahab's children to be beheaded. Then taking
with him Jehonadal the son of Rechab, he comes himself to Samaria, and de
stroys the whole family of Ahab, and all the priests of Baal. Nevertheless, hav-
ing put down the worship of Baal, he departs not from the worship of Jero-
boam's golden calves, but maintains that idolatry all the time of his reign, which

was 28 years.

Jehu proceeds farther, and executes the divine vengeance upon the idola-
trous house of Judah, he pursues Ahaziah, who fled towards Megiddo, and over-
taking him at Gur, canseth him to be killed in his chariot. Going also to Sama-
ria, he mecteth with 42 of Ahaziali's kinsınen, whom he causeth to be slain.
Athaliah the daughter of Ahab, seeing her son Ahaziah dead, usurps the king-
dom, destroying those that had right to the succession, but Jehoshebe the uangh
ter of king Jehoram, and wife to Jehoiada the high priest, takes Jehoash, being
then an infant, and sou to her brother Ahaziah, and hides him in the temple,
and so saves him from that massacre which was made of the rest of the blood

971.

971.

XIV. 17.

XII. 26. lest his new subjects by going to Jerusalem to worship, may be induced to revolt
froin him, he deviseth a new form of religion, setting up two golden calves, the
one at Beth-el, the other at Dan, for the seduced people to bow down unto.
From the time of this dismal rent Rehoboam reigneth over Judah and Ben-
jamin 17 years, and Jeroboam over Israel, or the other ten tribes, 22 years.

XIV.
2 Chron.

XII.
XI. 17.

1 Kings
ΧΠ. 32.

XIII. 2.

XIV. 25.

2 Chron.

951.

1 Kings

XV.

2 Chron.

XIII.

The Priests and Levites, and other Israelites who feared God, stick to Reho-
boam, and maintain the kingdom of Judah three years; after which time Reho-
boom falls to idolatry, and waiketh no more in the ways of David and Solomon.
Jeroboam sacrificing to his calf at Beth-el, a prophet is sent unto him from
God, who foretells the judgment which should one day be executed upon that
alhar, and the priests (viz. those whom Jeroboam had made of the lowest of the
people) that served at it. Which prophecy then and there is confirmed by
signs and wonders upon the king himself, and upon the altar.

Shishak king of Egypt spoileth Jerusalem and the ton.ple; but the king and
the princes repenting at the preaching of Shemaiah the prophet, God gives
them not over to utter destruction.

Abijam the son of Rehoboam succeeds his father in the kingdom of Judah,
and reigns three years.

He obtains a great victory over Jeroboam, killeth 500,000 men in one battle,
and taketh Deth-el.

878.

857.

XI.

2 Chron.

XXII. 10.

2 Kings

XI.

2 Chron.
XXIII.

2 Kings
ΧΙΙ. 7.
XIII. 1.

royal.

Jehoiada the high priest brings out Jehoash, now seven years old, and anoints
him king; causeth Athalish to be stain, and restoreth the worship of the true
God, destroying the bouse of Baal, and commanding the idolatrous priest
Mattan to be killed before his altars. Jehoash, now beginning his reign in the

seventh year of Jehu, reigneth 40 years in Jerusalem.

Jehoash, in the 25d year of his reign, giveth order for the repair of the tem-
ple, committing the charge thereof to Jehoiada the high priest.
Jehoahaz succeedeth his father Jehu in the kingdons of Israel, and reigneth
17 years: during all which time Hazaeksking of Syria oppressarth him, and d
VIII. 12. erciseth all those cruelties upon the Israelites, which Elisha the prophet had

foretold.

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Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, is taken into the consortship of
that kingdom by his father in the 27th year of Jehoash king of Judah, and
reigneth 16 years.

Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the high priest, for reproving the people et
Judah that fall to idolatry after the decease of Jehoiada, is stoned to death in
the court of the house of the Lord by the commandment of king Jehoash, who
the next year after is murdered by some of his servants, as he lay in his bed;
and Amaziah his son succeedeth him.

Jehoahaz dieth, and Jehoash his son succeedeth in the kingdom of Israel.
Not long after his father's funeral he visits Elisha the prophet, then lying sick,
and with many tears asketh counsel of him, who promiseth him victory over the
Syrians. A dead man is brought to life by being laid in Elisha's grave.

Jeroboam the second is this year taken into the consortship of the kingdom
of Israel by his father Jehoash, going to war against the Syrians. This is gath-
ered from Azariah king of Judah's beginning his reign in the 27th year of this
Jeroboam.

Amaziah king of Judab, growing proud upon a victory obtained against the
Edomites th's 14th year of his reign, provoketh Jehoash king of Israel to battle.
Jehoash overcomes him, and takes him prisoner, breaks down 400 cubits of the
wall of Jerusalem, and having spoiled the temple and the king's house of a vast
treasure, returns to Samaria.

Jehoash dies fifteen years before Amazialı, and Jeroboam the second, his sou,
reignetli in Samaria 41 years.

Amaziah, finding a conspiracy against him at Jerusalem, flies to Lachish,
where he is murdered; after whom comes his son Uzziah, or Azariah, in the
27th year of Jeroboam the second, and reigneth 52 years in Jerusalem.

Now is held the 13th Jubilee under the two most flourishing kings; in whose
times live sundry great prophets in both kingdoms; Isaiah and Joel in Judah;
Jonas, Hosea, and Amos, in Israel.

Jonas of Gath hepher, a town belonging to the tribe of Zebulon in Galilee of
the Gentiles, (observe here the biindness of the Pharisees, John vii. 52.) wasaf-
terward sent into Nineveh, the metropolis of Assyria, where both king and peo-
pie at his preaching repented.

Jeroboam king of Israel (under whom that kingdom came to its full height
of glory) dieth; after his death all things fall into confusion, and the state is
reduced to a plain anarchy, which lasteth 11 years and a half; for such an in-
terregnum or vacancy the synchronism of Kings requires, that the six months
of Zachariah the son of Jeroboam may answer the 38 years and one month of
Shallum, who murdered him in the 39th year of Azariah, or Uzziah, king of Judah.
Zachariah the son of Jeroboam, the 4th and last of the race of Jehu (as was
foretoid) begins his reign over Israel in the Sath year of Azariah, or Üzziah,
king of Judah, and reigneth 6 months.

Shallum the son of Jabesh, at the end of 6 months, murders him in the sight
of the people, and reigns one month in the 59th year of Uzziah king of Judah.
After Zachariah's death follow those direful calamities foretold by Amos the
prophet.

Before
Christ

2 Kings

650.
624.

XXL 1.
2 Chron.

610.

609.

607.

606.

XV. 14,

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While Menahem in these broils iabours to get the possession of the kingdom,
Pul king of Assyria invadeth his country, to whom Menahem giveth 1000 tal-
ents of silver, and afterward reigueth quietly 10 years.

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Pekahiah succeedeth his father Menahem in the 50th year of Uzziah king of
Judah, and reigneth 2 years,

603.

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Pekah, one of his captains, kills him in his own palace at Samaria, and reign-
eth 20 years.

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Jotham succeedeth his father Uzziah in the kingdom of Judah at the age of
25 years, and reigneth 16 years in Jerusalem.

Jotham subdues the Ammonites, and makes them tributary for 3 years. Un-
der him and his two successors the prophets Micah and Hosea execute their
prophetical office. About this time lived the prophet Nahum, and prophesied
the destruction of Nineveh.

Ahaz succeedeth his father Jotham. in the 17th year of Pekah king of Israel,
and reigneth 16 years.

This year Rezin king of Syria and Pekah king of Israel are confederate
against Judah, which strikes a great terror into that netion; but unto Abaz,
God, by the prophet Isaiah, sends a gracious message, with a promise of deliver-
ance; for a sign whereof (when the incredulous king, being bid to ask a sign,
refused to do it) God gives him the promise of Immanuel to be born of a virgin.
Rezin and Pekah now lav siege to Jerusalem, and therein to Ahaz, but are beat-
en off; Ahaz is no sooner delivered from his enemies, but he forsakes God his
deliverer, and falls to idolatry. Wherefore God gives him over into the hands
of the king of Israel, who slays of the men of Judah 120,000 in one day, with a
great inany of the nobility, and carrieth away 200,000 captives; but these, by
the advice of the prophet Oded, are released and sent home.

Hoshea the son of Elah murders Pekah king of Israel, and gets the kingdom
into his own hands; it is said, in the 20th year of Jotham, that is, from the time
that Jotham first began to reign, which is the same with the 4th of Abaz bis
Hoshea, by reason of the tumuits and disorders which ensued, cannot be
said to have reigned till 9 years after, the state continuing all that time in great
confusion, without auy form of governinent.

son.

Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, comes up against Hoshea, and makes him to
serve him, and pay him tribute.

Hezekiah succeedeth his father Ahaz in the kingdom of Judah: he destroyeth
idolatry and prospers: he also celebrates a solemn passover, and reigneth 29
years in Jerusalem; his father had made him in the last year of his reign, his
assistant in the government.

Hoshea king of Israel, having consulted with So king of Egypt, refuseth to pay
tribute to Shalmaneser; provoked hereby, and jealous of some farther design
in that confederacy of Hoshea with the king of Egypt, Shalmaneser layeth siege
to Samaria, and toward the latter end of the third year taketh it, and carrieth
away the Israelites captive into his own country. This was the end of the king-
dom of Israel, when it had stood divided from the kingdom of Judah 254 years.
Sennacherib king of Assyria, coming up against Judah, besiegeth their fen-
ced cities, and taketh many of them, but is pacified by a tribute.

About this time Hezekiah falls sick, and is told by Isaiah that he shall die;
Isaiah
but pouring out his tears and prayers unto God, he recovereth his health, and
XXXVIII obtaineth a prolongation of his life and kingdom for 15 years. For a sign a here-
of the sun goes ten degrees backward.

2 Kings

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Isaialı

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Sennacherib, not observing the articles of peace, layeth siege to Jerusalem, and
sendeth a blasphemous letter to Hezekiab; which he opening, and spreading
before the Lord in the temple with many tears, craves assistance from God
against the Assyrians. Whereupon the prophet Isaiah assures him that God
will deliver hin, and defend that city. The self-same night an angel of the Lord
slays 185,000 men in the Assyrian army; and the next morning Sennacherib de-
parteth, and returns to Nineveh; where not long after, whilst he is worshipping
in the house of Nisroch his god, he

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2 Kings

ххий.

2 Chron.

XXXIV.

2 Kings

XXIII. 29.

Zechar.

XII. 11.

2 Chron.

XXXV.

25.
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This year he giveth order for the repair of the temple. Hilkian the high
priest, having found a book of the law, sends it to the king, who hears it read
all over to him; and thereupon asketh counsel of Huleah the prophetess, who
prophesieth the destruction of Jerusalem, but notin his days. Josiah calling to
him the elders of Judah and Jerusalem, with the priests and prophets, causeth
the book of the law to be read over before all the people, and reneweth the cov-
enant between God and
the altar at Beth-el, as was foretold; and keepeth a most solemn passover.
At this time a war breaks out between the king of Egypt and the king of As-
syria. Josiah unadvisedly engageth in this war against Necho king of Egypt,
and is slain in the valley of Megiddo. The good king being thus taken out of
the world, whose life only kept off the Babylonish captivity from that nation,
not only the people then living bewailed his death, but even in after time a pub-
lie mourning for him was kept. The propbet Jereiny also in remembrance
thereof composeth his Lamentations; wherein bewailing the calamities which
were shortly to befall that people, as present before his eyes, in a most compas-
sionate manner he points, as it were with his finger, at the death of Josiah as
the source and original of all those ensuing miseries.

After the death of Josiah, the people anoint Shallum, one of his younger sons,
to be their king. After three months reign he is deposed by Pharaoh Necho,
who makes Eliakim, his elder brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem, and
XXXVL changes his name into Jehoiakim; but Jeboahaz be carries along with him

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Dan. I. 2.

2 Chron.

XXXVI.

7..

2 Kings
XXIV. L

Dan. II.

2 Kings

XXIV. 2.

Jerem.

XXII. 18.

XXXVI.

30.

2 Kings
XXIV. 8.
2 Chron.

captive into Egypt, where he ends his days.

Jehoiakim, at 25 years of age, begins to reign, and he reigneth 11 years.
Uriah and Jeremiah prophesy against Jerusalem; the former is put to death,
the latter is acquitted, and set at liberty. About this time Habakkuk also
prophesieth.

This year is Nebuchadnezzar the great made by his father Nebopolazzar his
associate in the kingdom of Assyria and Babylon; into whose hands God de-
livers up Jehoiakim, who is put in chains to be carried to Babylon; but upon
bis submission and promises of obedience is left in his own house, where he
lives a servant to Nebuchadnezzar 3 years. Front which entering of the king
and people of the Jews into the subjection and service of Nebuchadnezzar are
the 70 years of the captivity of Babylon to be reckoned, which were foretold Ly
the prophet Jeremy.

Nebuchadnezzar gives order to Ashpenaz, master of the eunuchs, that he
shall carry from thence of the children of Israel, both of the blood royal (as was
foretold by the prophet Isaiah to Hezekiah) and also of the nobility the choicest
youths both for beauty and wit that he can find; who, being educated 3 years
in the language and sciences of the Chaldeans, may afterward he fit to serve
the king in his palace; among whom, of the tribe of Judah, are Damel, called
Belteshazzar; Hananiah, called Shadrach; Mishael, called Meshach; and Az-
ariah, called Abed-nego; their names being thus changed by the master of the
eunuchs.

Whilst Nebuchadnezzar pursues his victories over the king of Egypt, his
father dies; which coming to his knowledge, he gives order for the bringing
away of the captives, and posts with a small company the nearest way to Laby-
lon, where he is received as the lawful successor to his father's dominions. He
causeth to be brought to Babylon what he thinks fit of the vessels and furniture
of the temple, and placeth them in the house of his god, viz. Belus.

Jehoiakim, having lived 5 years in subjection to the king of Babylon, falls off.
and rebels against him.

This year (being the second of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, taking it as it began
at his father's death,) Daniel recovers Nebuchadnezzar's dream, and interprets
it to betoken the four chief monarchies; whereupon he and his companions
are highly advanced.

Nebuchadnezzar sends an army, consisting of Chaldeans, Syrians, Moabites,
and Ammonites, against Jehoiakim; these waste the whole country of Judea,
and carry away from thence 3023 captives: Jehoiakim also is taken prisoner;
whom they put to death, cause his carcass to be drawn out at the gate of Jer..
salem (as was foretold by the prophet Jeremiah) and leave it without the walls
unburied.

Jehoiachin (called also Conias and Jeconias) at 18 years of age succeeds his
father Jehoiakim, and reigns 3 months in Jerusalem.

Against him Nebuchadnezzar leads an army, and besiegeth Jerusalem; Jebor

XXXVI. Jiachin with all his kindred and courtiers come out to meet him. Nebuchadnez.
9.

zar makes them all prisoners, enters Jerusalem, and takes all the treasure he cat
Isaiah
find in the temple and the king's palace, breaking in pieces all the vessels of
XXXIX. gold and furniture which Solomon had made for the temple; he carrieth away

6.
Jerem.

XXIV. 1.
Ezekiel

XVII. 12.

1. 2, 3.
Baruch

VI.

2 Kings

XXIV. 17,

2 Chron.

XXXVI.

2 Kings
XXV.
Jer. I. 3.

XXXIX.

LIL

26.

2 Kings

XXV. 21.
Jerem.

XLIX. 7.

Ezekiel
XXV. 12.

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29, 33,

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Manasseh at 12 years of age succeedeth his tather Hezekiah, and reigneth 55
years. He setteth up idolatry, and sheddeth much innocent blood. Wherefore loman
God delivers him up into the hands of the Assyrians, who in the 22d year of his

captive to Babylon the king, his mother, wives, courtiers, magistrates, and
10,000 able men out of Jerusalem, leaving none behind bat the poorer sort of
people; and out of the country round about he carried also away 8000 artificers;
among the captives are Mordecai, and F.zekiel the priest; Ezekiel therefore in
his prophecy reckons the time all along from the beginning of this captivity
An epistle, said to be Jeremiah's, is now sent to the captives, admonishing thein
to beware of the idolatry which they shall see in Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar before his departure from Jerusalem makes Mattaniah, Jebo
iachin's father's brother, king, changing his name into Zedekiah.

Zedekiah, beginning his reign at 21 years of age, reigneth 11 years; be, by re
belling against Nebuchadnezzar, or rather by continuing in an open rebellion
(as his fathers had done) against God, brought upon Jerusalem and the whole
nation of the Jews those long-deserved calamities which Gou lind so often fors
warned them of by his prophets; for, in the latter end of the 11th year of 7 ede
kiah, Jerusalem, after a long siege, is taken by Nebuchadnezzar, and his Chal-
deans enter it. Zedekiah flees away by night, but, being pursued, is taken, and
brought prisoner to Riblah, Nebuchadnezzar's head quarters; there having first
seen his children slaughtered before his eyes, he has afterward those eyes put
out, and being loaden with chains, is carried away captive to Babylon. Abouta
month after the taking of the city, Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, sent by
Nebuchadnezzar, makes his entry into it, sets are to the temple, the king's palace,
and some noblemen's houses, and so layeth the whole city in ashes; the walls of
Jerusalem being razed to the ground, all that were left in the city, and those that
a little before had fallen to the Chaldeans, with what treasure he can find, doth
Nebuzar-adan carry with him into Babylon.

And thus was Judah carried out of her own land 466 years after David began
to reign over it, 388 years after the falling off of the ten tribes, and 134 years
after the destruction of the kingdom of Israel.

Obadiah the pre bet denounceth God's judgments against the Edomites, who
now insult over the calamity of the Jews. The same do Jeremy and Eze-
kiel, and the author of the 79th and 157th Psalnis, who wrote all about the
same time.

The sixth Age of the World.

NEBUCHADNEZZAR, proud of his victories over Egypt, and his conque

of Judea and other countries, and boasting the magnificence of his build-
ings, falls distracted, and is driven from the society of men.

After seven years spent among the beasts of the field, his understanding re-
turning to him, he humbly acknowledgeth the power of God, and his goodvess
toward him: and is restored to his kingdom. A few days after he dies, baving
reigned about 20 months together with his father, and 45 years by hiniseif.

2 Chron.

656.

643.

641.

XXXIII. reign carry him away captive to Babylon: but upon his repentance God restores

Judith

XIII.

2 Kings

XXI. 19.

2 Chror.
XXXIIL

21, 22,

him to his liberty and kingdom.

This year Nabuchodonosor king of Assyria, purposing to make himself uni-
versal monarch, sends Holofernes his general against Judea, who layeth siege
to Bethulia, and there hath his head taken off by Judith, a woman of the tribe

of Simeon.

Amon, aged 22 years, succeedeth his father Manasseh, and reigneth 2 yea
An idolater indeed, as his father, but no penitent: he is murdered by his own
servants.

Josiah, a child of 8 years old, succeedeth his father Amon, and reigneth 31
years. In his time lived Jeremiah and Zephaniah the prophets. and Huldah

the prophetess.

pire
562.

555.

2 Kings

XXV. 27.
Jer. LII.

31.
Daniel

VII. 1.

Evil-merodach his son succeeds him in the 37th year of the captivity of Je
hoiachin, or Jeconiah, who presently gives order for the enlargement of 2 ho
iachin, and two days after changeth his prison-clothes, sets him above all the
princes of his court, and causeth him to eat at his own table. Jehoiachin dịc
about two years after.

Belshazzar, having removed some persons who had murdered his father Feil-
merodach, and usurped his throne, succeeds in the kingdom of Babylon. lobe
first year of this king's reign Daniel has the vision of the four beasts, signu
the four monarchies of the worid, and of God delivering over all power and
sovereignty to the Son of man.

The sixth Age.

Bejue
Cars:

553.

Daniel

VIII. 1.

532.

v.

537.

586.

The

Per-

sian

Em-

pire

535.

Jerem.

Dan. V.

INDEX TO THE HOLY BIBLE.

In the third year of Belshazzar, Daniel receives the vision of the ram and he-
goat, betokening the destruction of the Persian monarchy, and the great misery
which Antiochus should bring upon the people of God.

This year Belshazzar makes a great feast for all his nobles, and causeth to
be brought forth all the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar
XXVII. 7. bis grandfather had brought away from Jerusalem, to the glory of his idols,
and dishonour of the true God. In the midst of all this jollity a hand appears
writing on the wall of the room in which the king and his numerous guests sit
drinking. The king, greatly terrified hereat, sends for his Chaldean astrologers
and wizards, and commands them to read the writing. and give him the inter-
pretation of it; but they not being able to do either, Daniel is sent for, who
reads the writing, and gives the king the interpretation of it: whereupon Dan-
iel is publicly proclaimed the third man in the kingdom. The same night Bel-
shazzar is slain, Babyion taken by Cyrus, and the empire translated to the
Medes and Persians, as had been sundry times foretold by the prophets.

Is. XIII.
Hab. II.
Jerem.

XXV. 12.

L. LL.

Dan. V. 31.
VI. 6.

IX.

Jerem.

XXIX. 10.
Dan. IX.

Cyrus having given the kingdom of Babylon to Darius the Mede, reserving
some palaces in the city for himself, he returns through Media into Persia.
Daniel's greatness raising envy in some principal courtiers and officers, these
contrive bis rain: but finding nothing in his managemer.t of affairs whereof to
accuse him, they resolve to order matters so, that Danil's piety toward God
shall become an offence worthy of death. They move the king to make a de-
cree, that for 30 days no petition shall be made to any god or man but to him-
self only. Which decree Daniel breaks by making supplication to his God, and
is for doing so cast into a den of lions: but being found to have received no
hurt there, Darius commands the conspirators to be cast into the same den, who
are presently devoured; and the king publisheth a decree, that all persons
throughout his donținions shall reverence and fear the God of Daniel.

Towards the end of the first vear of the reign of Darius the Mede, to be reck-
oned from the subversion of the Babylonish empire, begins the 70th year of the
captivity of the Jews, which, by Jeremiali's prophecy, was to be the last year of
their calamity. Upon consideration of which time so near at hand, Daniel
pours out most fervent prayers to God for the remission of his own sins, and
those of his people; and nd for that promised deliverance ou out of their captivity.
To whom the angel Gabriel brings an answer not only of this, but also of the
spiritual deliverance of the church by the death of the Messiah; uttering that
memorable prophecy of the seventy weeks.

Cyrus, his father Cambyses, and his father-in-law Cyaxares both dying, Persia
falls to him by inheritance, and Media by contract of marriage: and so he is
bossessed of the whole castern empire; frong which time both Xenophon (Inst.
lib. &.) reckons the 7 years of his reign, and the Holy Scripture out of the rec-
Ezr. 1. 2. ords of the Medes and Persians, reckons this his first year; for it teacbeth us,

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that in this year came forth that renowned edict of his, Thus saith Cyrus king
of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth,
and hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah, &c.
At which time the 70 years of the Labylonish captivity being expired, (as was
foretold by Isaiah and Jeremiah, the former making inention of Cyrus by name)
he gives leave to all the Jews, dwelling in all parts of his dominions, to return
nto their own country, and commands them immediately to fall in hand with
rebuilding of the temple.

He restoreth also all the vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar
had brought from thence; and contributes toward the building.

ΧΙΙΙ. 6.

The sixth Age

Before Neh. V.14. Nehemiah having governed Judea 12 years, returns to the king of Persia.
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This year is the 21st Jubilee, the last that ever the prophets of the Old Testa
ment saw: for that place in Nehemiah, chap. xii. 22, is not to be understood of
the last Darius, but of Darius Nothus, who now reigns in Persia; the full histo-
ty of Nehemiah ending with the time of Artaxerxes Longimanus father of this
Darius Nothus.

Hitherto (saith Eusebius in his Chronicle, to the 32d year of Artaxerxes) the
Divine Scriptures of the Hebrews contain the annals of the times. But those
things which were done among them afterward we must deliver out of the
books of the Maccabees, and out of the writings of Josephus, who have deliv-
ered a general history of the Jewish affairs from thence down to the times of
the Romans.

That Malachi, the last of the prophets, was conteraporary with Nehemiah,
appears from hence, that he nowhere exhorts the people to the building of the
temple, as Haggai and Zachary did; but, the temple heing now built, he reproves
those disorders, which Nehemiah at his second return with a new commission
from Babylon saith he found in bis absence to have crept in among the Jews;
as marriage with strange women, withholding of tithes, and abuses in the wor-
ship of God. And because a succession of prophets was not to be expected, as
before, he exhorteth the people constantly to adhere to the law of Moses, till
Christ the chief Prophet should appear; whose forerunner John the Baptist
should come in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers
unto their children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just. See 1 Mac.
iv. 46, and ix. 17.

A

LEXANDER the Great, king of Macedonia, passeth out of Europe into
Asia, and begins to lay waste the Persian Empire. Manasses, brother to
Jaddus the high priest, refusing to put away his strange wife, is driven from
the sacrifice: Sanaballath his father-in-law, governor of Samaria, revolteth
from Darius, obtains leave of Alexanderto build a temple on mount Gerizim,
ard makes Manasses high priest thereof; to which resort all such as are entan-
gled in unlawful marriage, with all such offenders as think themselves not safe
at Jerusalem. This was the rise of that schismatical conventicle of the Sama
ritans. See John iv. 20.-

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an

Em-

323.
320.

277.

The Jews therefore return into their own country; the poorer sort having pire
allowance made them to defray their charges upon the way. The number of
the children of the province, or Hebrews born in Chalder, which with their
captain Zerubbabel, and their high priest Jeshua, return out of captivity, is
42,360, besides proselytes, men-servants, and maid-servants, to the number of
7,387. Now the particular sums of Ezra's catalogue being cast up amount only
to 29,018; and those in Nehemiah's account make but 31,051, both which come
far short of that universal sum of 42,360, which at the bottom of each catalogue
is said to be the number of the whole congregation. Wherefore the He-
brews in the xxixth chapter of their great chronicle tell us, that to complete the
full sum 42,360, we must cast in those of the other ten tribes of Israel, who came
up out of the captivity with the Jews. For even till the last extirpation of the Jew-
ish state there remained some relics of the other ten tribes, not only in the dis-
persion, and at Jerusalem, and other cities of Judah; but also of those who kept
L.still in their own seats; for Shalmaneser swept not away all out of the whole ten
tribes, but left a remnant of them in their own country, who were afterward,
together with the Jews, Benjanites, and Levites, carried away by Nebuchad-
nezzar into Babylon, and are now dismissed and sent back again by Cyrus.

In the second year after their return from Babylon, in the second month, they
appoint Levites to oversee the work of the house of God, and lay the foundation
of the temple; the old men lamenting, who 53 years before had seen the old tem-
ple standing, and the younger sort rejoicing to see the new one going up.

The Samaritans by the means of certain courtiers about Cyrus, whom they
had bribed for that purpose, disturb the Jews in their work of the temple.
In the beginning of the reign of Artaxerxes (called in profane story Camby-
ses) the Samaritans, who, whilst Cyrus lived, had secretly undermined the Jews,
now openly frame a direct accusation in writing against the inhabitants of Ju-
dalı and Jerusalem, and present it to the king, who presently forbids the Jews
to proceed in the building.

In the second year of king Darius Hystaspes (the same with Ahasuerus) Ze-
rubbabel and Jeshua, incited by the prophets Haggai and Zechariah, set for-
ward the building of the temple.

Haggai prophesieth that the glory of this second temple shall be greater than
that of the former; not as being a more magnificent structure, but in regard the
blessed Messiah shall one day honour it with his presence, and from thence
propagate peace to all nations.

About this time Zechariah the prophet exhortesh the Jews to repentance.
Ahasuerus puts away queen Vashti his wife, and not long after espouseth Es-
ther, the niece of Mordecai the Jew.

In the sixth year of Barius, or Alhasuerus, the termple is finished; the dedica-
tion whereof is celebrated with great joy and abundance of sacrifices, the Priests
and Levites, every one in his place, attending on the ministry of the temple.
The passover also is celebrated.

Haman an Agagite, of the race of the Amalekites, a great favourite of king
Ahasuerus, offended at Mordecai, because he falls not down and adores him, as
others do, resolves to be revenged of the whole nation of the Jews, (which was
ever averse to his) and to root it out; for the executing of which purpose, that
he may find a successful time, he causeth Pur, that is, the lot, to be cast before
him, for to know the day and month wherein the Jews shall be destroyed, and
the lot falls on the 12th month Adar.

Haman obtains an edict from the king, that all Jews, without respect to sex
or age, upon the thirteenth day of the month Adar, be put to death in all the
provinces of the king's dominions. Hereupon Mordecai, Esther, and all the
Jews, humble themselves before the Lord by fasting and prayer.

Ahasuerus nearing it read in the chronicles, that a conspiracy had been discov-
ered to him by Mordecai, comminandeth that he be publicly honoured, and that
by Haman himself, his deadly enemy.

Esther, entertaining the king and Haman at the banquet, maketh suit for her
own life, and her peopie's, and accuseth Haman. The king, understanding that
Haman had provided a gallows for Mordecai, causeth him to be hanged thereon.
In memory of this great deliverance the two days of Purim are made festival.
Ezra the priest, a man skilled in the law of Moses, obtains a large commission
from king Artaxerxes, to settle the Jewish commonwealth, and to reform the
church at Jerusalem.

In the seventh year of Artaxerxes, Ezra, with a great multitude of Jews, sets
out from Babylon.
Ezra obligeth those who had takeu strangers to wife to send them back.
In the twentieth year of king Artaxerxes, Nehemiah a Jew, one of his cup-
bearers, being made governor of Judea, obtains leave to build the walls of Je-
filled before the passion of our Saviour

Dan. IX. rusalem, and finish that great work. Here begin Daniel's 70 wecks to bé ful-

24

Ptolemeus Philadelphus, son of Ptolemeus Soter, being a great favourer of
learning, builds a most magnificent library at Alexandria. Demetrius Phale
rius, to whom he had committed the care of procuring all sorts of books, and
out of all countries, persuades him to employ 72 Jews in translating the Holy
Scriptures out of the original Hebrew into the Greek tongue, which was done
in the seventh year of his reign. The king also dismisseth many captive Jewa
and dedicates many presents to the tearple of God at Jerusalem.

177. 2 Mac. III.) One Simon, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, governor of the temple, falling
out with Onias, the high priest, goes to Apollonius the governor of Celosyria, and
informs him that there is a vast treasure in the temple: Apollonius acquaints
king Seleucus his master with it, who presently sends his treasurer Heliodorns
to Jerusalem, to bring this money away. Heliodorus entering the temple, is by
angels struck down in the very place, and carried from thence half dead; bus
by the prayers of Onias he is soon after restored to his health. Returning to
Seleucus that sent him, he magnifies the holiness of the temple, and the power
of God dwelling in it.

176.

175.
172.

170.

168.

167.

166.

165.

Jos. Ant.
I. 12. c. 11.
164. 1 Mac. VI.
2 Mac.

Id. ibid.

Jos. Apt.

Alexander marcheth toward Jerusalem, intending to besiege it. Jaddus tire
1. 11. c. 8. high priest, hearing of it, putteth on his priestly ornamems, and accompanied
with the people all in white, goeth out to meet him. Alexander, seeing his
babit, falls prostrate before him, saying that, whilst he was in Macedonia, a
man appeared unto him in the very sarue habit, who invited him to come into
Asia, and promised to deliver the Persian Empire into his hands. After this
he goes to the temple, and offers sacrifice according to the high priest's dire
tion. They shew him the prophecy of Daniel, That a Grecian should come
and destroy the Persians; whereby he is mightily confirmed in his persuasion
that he himself is the man. Lastly, he bestoweth on the Jew's whatever favours
they desire, and departeth.

Daniel
VIII. 7.

ΧΙ.13.

Jos. Ant.

I. 12. c. 1.

1 Mac. I.

Jos. Aut.

L. 12. c. 1.

I. 12. c. 2.

The Persians are overcome, Darius slain, and Alexander remains universal
monarch of the eastern world.

Alexander, having reigned sıx years and ten months dieth; his army and do
minions are divided among his captains. Antigonus makes himself governor of
Asia; Seleucus of Babylon and the bordering nations; Lysimachus hath the Hel
lespont; Cassander, Macedon; and Ptolemeus, the son of Lagus, gets Egypt.

Ptolemeus, surnamed Soter, makes himself master of Jerusalem by a strata-
gem; for he enters the city on a sabbath-day under pretence of offering sacri-
fice; and whilst the Jews suspect nothing, but spend the day in ease and inle
ness, he surpriseth the city without resistance, and maketh the citizens captives
He sendeth several colonies of Jews into Egypt, and puts great confidence in

them.

1 Mac. I.
10.
2 Mac.

IV. 7.

23, 24,

27.

1 Mac. I.

21, 22.

2 Mac. V.

Jos. Ant.

I. 12. c. 7.

Daniel
ΧΙ. 28.
1 Mac.
VIII. 5.

I. 45.

11.

2 Mac. VL.

Jos. Ant.

I. 12. c. 8.

1 Mac. IIL

2 Mar.

VIII.

Jos. Ant.

1. 12. c. 9.

1 Mac. III.

Jos. Ant.

I. 12. c. 10.

1 Mac.
111. 13.
Joseph.

ut supra.
1 Mac.

111. 27.

IX. 9

Antiochus Epiphanes succeeds Seleucus in the kingdom of Syria, and reign
eth 11 years, and some months.

Jason, by corrupting king Antiochus, obtaineth the office of high priest.
Menelaus, brother to Simon the traitor, being employed by Jason to carry the
money to the king, promiseth 300 talents of silver above what Jason had sens
and getteth the priesthood to himself.

Menelaus, not paying the money he had promised the king at his admission,
is summoned to appear before Antiochus; he substituteth Lysimachus his brother
in his place.

Antiochus taketh Jerusalem, and sacking it, pillageth the temple, destroyeth
40,000 of the inhabitants, and selleth as many more. He endeavoureth also to
abolish the worship of God, and forceth many Jews to forsake their religion
The Samaritans now disown their relation to the Jews, to whom in prosperity
they pretended alliance, and consecrate the temple on mount Gerizim to Jupiter.
Perseus, having made war upon the Romans, is this year overcome by them,
and the kingdom of the Macedonians ends, when from Caranus it had stood
626 years. Nevertheless the relics of the Macedoniar empire, while that of the
Roman was rising, did yet survive in the Ptolemies of Egypt, and the kings of
Syria.

King Antiochus, by a public edict, commands all nations that are subject unto
him to observe the same way of divine worship, and laying aside their peculiar
customs, to profess the same religion with the Grecians; the punishment of
death being threatened unto such as shall be disobedient; and he appoints over-
seers over every people and nation who shall compel them hereunto. Of the
Jews, many choose rather to undergo the most crue torments, than to offer sacri-
fice unto idols; all which martyrices, with those glorious sufferings of the ser-
en Maccabean brethren, are recorded in the two Books of Maccabees.

Mattathias, a priest, with his five sons, slay those that are sent by king Antio
chus to compel them to offer abominable sacrifices, and after betake themselves
to the desert. They are followed by many others, of whom a great number are
stified in their caves, because they would not defend themselves on the sab-
beth-day. Mattathias abolisheth that superstition, and exhorts his sons to assert
their privileges, and deliver their country from bondage.

Mattathias dies, and Judas Maccabeas takes upon him the management of
this affair. He delivers his country, and purgeth it from the abominations
which had been committed in it.

Appollonius, governor of Samaria, having raised an army among the Gentiles
and Samaritans, falls upon the Jews; but is discomfited and slain by Judas
Maccabeus.

Seron also, governor of the lower Syria, musters up all the forces under als
command, and invades Judea; him Judas Maccabeus encounters, slays 800 of
his men on the place, and puts the rest to flight.

Judas Maccabeus defeats a great army, which Antiochus sent against the
Jews. Lysias returns with a greater power; Judas kills 5000 of his men, and
causeth him to retreat. He purifieth the temple, and setteth it in order, after it
had lain desolate three years; and buildeth a wall about Sion.

Antiochus is taken with a violent pain in his bowels, and such a rottenness
seizeth his flesh, that worms breed in it; he confesseth that he is plagued for
the wrong done to Jerusalem, and dieth in the 149th year of the kingdom of the

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1 Mac.

148.

146.

145

144

143.

142

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Id. ibid.

1 Mac.

X. 49, 50.

Joseph.

ubi supra.

1 Mac.

Χ. 51.

Jos. c. 7.

1 Mac.

Χ. 75.

Jos. Ant.

I. 13. c. 8.

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1 Mac.

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I. 13. c. 12.

1 Mac.
XIV. 18.
Jos. Ant.

139. 1. 13. с. 13.

138.

135.

I. 13. c. 12.

1 Mac.
XVI.
Jos. Ant.

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sets upon Jonathanst; Jonathan defeats him, and takes Joppe and
Azotus, and burns Dagon.

Ptolemeus Philof Egypt, comes to the relief of king Alexander
his son-in-law; Alcatefully sets Ammonius to lie in anibush to kill
him. The treache covered, Ptolemeus takes away his daughter
from Alexander, aper to Demetrius. Alexander having been driven
from Antioch, the if that place make offer of the kingdom to Ptole-
meus; but he refusersuadeth them to accept of Demetrius for their
king.

Alexander retureat army. Ptolemeus and Demetrius unite their
forces, and overcopitched battle; but Ptolemeus dies of the wounds
which he receivead seen the head of Alexander sent to him by
Zabdiel an Arabia onathan besiegeth the citadel at Jerusalem, held
by a garrison of Complaint hereof being made to Demetrius,
Jonathan appeaseresents, and obtaineth new favours for the Jews.
Demetrius incurred of bis soldiers by abridging their pay in time
of peace.

Tryphon, with ars that revolted from Demetrius, undertakes to
establish Antiochu Alexander Balas, in the kingdom of Syria.

Demetrius is va young Antiochus, and made to fly into Seleucia.
Great honours arous conferred on Jonathan, who assists him against
Demetrius.

Jonathan renewce with the Romans and Lacedemonians, and for-
Ufies Jerusalem.

Tryphon contri may quit himself of Antiochus, and reign in his
stead: but fearing opposition, he invites him to come to Ptolemais,
and bring with hy of his soldiers, promising to deliver that city into
his hands. Jonatting no treachery, comes only with 1000 men to
Tryphon at Ptoless soon as he is entered the city Tryphon com-
mands the gates tJonathan is taken prisoner, and all his men put to
the sword.

The Jews hererchoice of Simon Maccabeus for their general in
the place of his bithan. Tryphon leads an army against Simon. He
promiseth for 100silver to release Jonathan; the money being paid
him, he broaks hand puts Jonathan to death. Simon erects a state-
ly monument for ind his brethren.

Tryphon murdersing Antiochus, and puts the crown on his own head.
The Romans amnians renew their leagues with Simon, and write
them in tables of t

Simon has the and high priesthood settled on him and his heirs:
the Jews are by hscharged from all manner of tribute to any foreign
prince. He takesrtress of Jerusalem, drives out of the city all idola-
ters, clears the hor idols, and placeth in the city such as are true
worshippers of Ge

Tryphon's vices, so odious to his soldiers, that they submit them-
selves to Cleopatras's relict. She marrieth Antiochus Soter, Deme-
trius's brother, anan to be crowned king. Antiochus drives Tryphon
out of Syria, besie Dora, whence he flies to Apamea, where he is ta-
ken and slain.

Simon the high rsing the cities of Judea, and taking care for their
orderly governmenwn with his two sons, Mattathias and Judas, to
Jericho; Ptolemeof Abubus, Simon's son-in-law, invites them to a
castle which he ha called Dochus, and there, whilst he entertains
them at a banquet, y murders them. John Hircanus succeeds his fa-
ther in the high pr

Here ends the firsaccabees, containing the history of forty years.
John Hircanus tam, and demolisheth the temple on mount Gerizim
200 years after it hit by Sanaballat.

Judas, eldest sorus, otherwise called Aristobulus, and surnamed
Philelien, succeedsin the government and the high priesthood: he
was the first of ant the return from the captivity of Babylon, set a
crown upon his henged the state into a monarchy.

Anna the prophater of Puanuel, of the tribe of Asher, this year
becoming a widowat from the temple, but serveth God with fasting
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Herod the tetrarch casteth John the Baptist into prison for reprehending

incest with his brother Philip's wife, and other evils done by him.

Christ discovers himself to the woman of Samaria.

He goes throughout all Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, and working

miracles.

Matthew called to be a disciple.

The second passover of Christ's ministry, John v. 1. compared with iv. 3. 4. frow
which the second year of the seventieth week of Daniel begins.
ESUS comes up to Jerusalem at the time of the feast, and heals on the sab-
bath-day a mau that had an infirmity 38 years, lying at the pool of Bethesda.
He makes a most divine apology to the Jews that sought to kill han, because le
said that God was his Father.

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Mat. X. 1. Apostles: namely, Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew.
Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, Simon called Zelotes, Judas the bro her of
James, and Judas Iscariot. To these our Saviour chiefly directs his di course
in that glorious, full, and admirable sermon on the mount.

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way to Jerusalem: the disciples, desiring to call for fire from heaven to con-
sume them, are severely reprehended.

The seventy disciples are sent out by two and two to work miracle, and to

preach.

Christ teacheth bis disciples to pray.

Christ raiseth Lazarus, that had been buried four days.

Caiaphas, high priest of the Jews, prophesieth concerning the death of Christ.

Zaccheus a publican converted.

Christ restoreth to blind Bartimeus his sight.

Mary the sister of Lazarus anoints our Saviour's feet with costly spikenard,

and wipeth them with the hair of her head.

Christ rideth in triumph into Jerusalem; the multitude spread their garments
in the way, and cry, Hosanna to the Sor of David. Coming near the city he
weeps over it, and foretells its destruction. He enters the temple, and castein
out those that bought and suld there; and heals the blind and iame.

Ile curseth the fruitless fig-tree, and the next morning it is found dried pa

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