Texts of Scripture Chaining the Holy Chronicle, Part 6
The burning of the Temple ſhewed in a viſion, and performedin ſtory: and the laſt captiuitie of. 50. yeeres.
1 THou ſonne of man, take thee a Bricke, and lay itEzek. 4▪ 1. 2. 3▪ 4. 5. 6 7. 8. 9▪ 10. 11, &. 12. verſes. before thee, and pourtrey vponupon it the citie, euen Ieruſalem, and lay ſiege againſt it, & buylde a fort againſt it, and caſt a mount againſt it: ſet the campe alſo agaynſt it, & lay engines of warre againſt it round about. Moreouer, take an yron pan, & ſet it for a wall of yron betweene thee and the citie, and direct thy face toward it, and it ſhal be beſieged, and thou ſhalt lay ſiege agaynſt it: this ſhalbe a ſigne vntounto the houſe of Iſrael. Sleepe thou alſo vponupon thy left ſide, and lay the iniquitie of the houſe of Iſrael vponupon it: according to the number of the dayes, that thou ſhalt ſleepe vponupon it, thou ſhalt beare their iniquitie. For I hauehave layde vponupon thee the yeeres of their iniquitie, according to the number of the dayes, euen three hundreth390. yeeres frō Ieroboam. 427. from the foundation of the temple. 40. yeres ſince Ieremy began in. 13. of Ioſias.. and ninetie dayes: ſo ſhalt thou beare the iniquitie of the houſe of Iſrael. And when thou haſt accomplyſhed them, ſleepe againe vponupon thy right ſide, and thou ſhalt beare the iniquitie of the houſe of Iudah fourtie dayes: I hauehave appoynted thee a day for a yeere, even a day for a yeere. Therefore thou ſhalt direct thy face towarde the ſiege of Ieruſalem, and thine arme ſhalbe vncouered, and thou ſhalt prophecie againſt it. And beholde, I wyl lay bandes vponupon thee, and thou ſhalt not turne thee from one ſide to another, tyll thou haſt ended the dayes of thy ſiege. Thou ſhalt take alſo vntounto thee Wheate, and Barley, & Beanes, and Lentiles, and Miller, and Fitches, and put them in one veſſell, and make thee bread thereof according to the number of the dayes, that thou ſhalt ſleepe vponupon thy ſide: euen three hundreth and ninetic dayes ſhalt thou eate thereof. And the meate whereof thou ſhalt eate, ſhalbe by weight, euen twentie fhekelles a day: and from time to time ſhalt thou eate thereof. Thou ſhalt drinke alſo water by meaſure, euen the ſixt part of an Hin: from time to time ſhalt thou drinke. And thou ſhalt eate it as Barly cakes, and thou ſhalt bake it in the doung that commeth out of man, in their ſight.
The ſtory of the Viſion.
2 ANd in the ninth yeere of Zedekiahs reigne, the2. King, 25. 1, 2. 3, 4. 5, 6 7. 8 9. 10. & 11 ver. tenth monethmonth and tenth day of the monethmonth, Nebuchad-nezer king of Babel came, he & all his hoſt againſt Ieruſalem and pitched agaynſt it, and they buylt fortes againſt it round about it. So the citie was beſieged vntounto the eleuenth yeere of king Zedekiah. And the ninth day of the month the famine was ſore in the citie, ſo that there was no bread for the people of the land. Then the citie was broken vp, and al the men of warre fled by nyght, by the way of the gate, which is betweene ye two walles that was by the kinges garden: now the Caldees were by the citie rounde about: and the king went by the way of the wilderneſſe. But the armie of the Caldees purſued after the king, and tooke him in the deſartes of Iericho, and all his hoſte was ſcattered from him. Then they tooke the king, and caried him vp to the king of Babel to Riblah, where they gaue iudgement vponupon him. And they ſlew the ſonnes of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chaynes, & caried him to Babel. And in the fift monethmonth, and ſeuenth day of the monethmonth, which was the ninteinth yere of king Nebuchadnezer king of Babel, came Nebuzar-adan chiefe ſtewarde and ſeruant of the king of Babel to Ieruſalem, and burnt the hauſe of the Lord, and the kinges houſe, and all the houſes of Ieruſalem, and all the great houſes burnt he with fire. And all the armie of the Caldees that were with the chiefe ſtewarde, brake downe the walles of Ieruſalem rounde about. And the reſt of the people that were left in the citie, and thoſe that were fled & fallen to the king of Babel, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan chiefe ſtewarde cary away captiue.
The laſt captiuitie of. 50. yeeres, complete.
3 THey that were left by the ſword, caried he away to2. Chro 36. 20. to the end. Babel, and they were ſeruantes to him and to his ſonnes, vntyll the kingdome of the Perſians had rule, to fulfill the worde of the Lord by the mouth of Ieremiah, vntyll the land had her fill of her Sabbathes: for all the dayes that ſhe lay deſolate, ſhe kept Sabbath, to fulfill ſeuentie yeeres.