The Annals of the World, History 1 · Age of the world 5 · Period of the divided kingdom

The Annals of the World · History 1 · Age of the world 5 · Period of the divided kingdom

p. 40REHOBOAM. Year of the World 3030. a. reign of the King of Juda 1

p. 41The Priests and Levites, Year of the World b. and other Israelites, who feared God, falling off from Jeroboam to Rehoboam, mantained the kingdom of Juda three years. For so long walked they in the wayes of David and Solomon, [2 Chron. 11. 17.]

Rehoboam, Year of the World 3032. d. being once setled in his kingdom, forsook the Law of the Lord, and all Israel and Juda with him, [2 Chron. 12. 1.] For the Jews, who by their good example should have stirred up their brethren the Israelites to repentance, provoked the Lord with their own sins; wherein they offended beyond all that ever their forefathers had done. For they made also to themselves High-places, and Images, and Groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree, doing according to all the abominations of the Gentiles, which the Lord had therefore cast out before them, [1 Reg. 14. 22, 23, 24.]

In the 5 year of Rehoboam, Year of the World 3033. c. Sesak, p. 42King of Egypt, invited perhaps by Jeroboam, (who had formerly lived with him, as I noted before upon the year of the World, 3026.) led an Army of 120. Chariots, and 60000. Horse, with foot innumerable out of Egypt, of the Lubaeans, Succaeans, and Cusites, into the land of Iudea; and having won all the rest of their fenced cities, came at last before Ierusalem: where the King and his Princes, being drawn to repentance, by the preaching of Semaia the Prophet, received a gracious promise of their deliverance indeed: but at a dear rate; for they were to give up to the Egyptians all the treasure of the Temple, and of the Kings house, and all the sheildes of gold which Salomon had made, instead whereof Rehoboam made them as many brasse ones, [1 Reg. 14. v. 25. 2 Chron. 12. 2, 12.] reign of the King of Juda 6 reign of the King of Juda 7 reign of the King of Juda 8 reign of the King of Juda 9 reign of the King of Juda 10 reign of the King of Juda 11 reign of the King of Juda 12 reign of the King of Juda 13 reign of the King of Juda 14 reign of the King of Juda 15 reign of the King of Juda 16 reign of the King of Juda 17

Abijah the son of Rehoboam, Year of the World 3046 succeeded his father deceased, reign of the King of Juda 1 in the beginning of the 18 year of Jeroboams reign, and reigned 3 years, [1 Reg. 15. 1, 2. 2 Chron. 13. 1, 2.]

Abijah with an army of four hundred thousand men, Year of the World 3047 encountring with Jeroboam and his army, reign of the King of Juda 2 consisting of eight hundred thousand men, and having first placed his trust and confidence in God, obtained a notable victory against him, wherein he slew of his men, five hundred thousand; such a number as was never slain in any one battel before or since, and then pursuing his victory, he took Bethel, where one of the Calves was set up, and Jesana, and Hephravin, with the townes about them, [2 Chron. 13.] reign of the King of Juda 3

Asa, Year of the World 3049. c. in the very end of the 20 year of Jeroboams reign, reign of the King of Juda 1 succeeded his father Abia, deceased, in his kingdom, and reigned 41 years, [1 Reg. 15. 8, 9, 10.]

This year was the tenth Jubile. Year of the World 3050. d. reign of the King of Juda 2 p. 43Year of the World 3051. d. reign of the King of Juda 3 reign of the King of Juda 4

God now gave ten years peace without interruption to the land, Year of the World 3053. c. [2 Chron. 14. 1, 6.] even to the 15 year of king Asa his reign, reign of the King of Juda 5 or to the 35 year from the rent made of that kingdome from that other of Israel, [c. 15. 10, 19.] in which year, this godly king Asa put away all publick Idolatry, and reforming his kingdome, fortified the Cities of Judah against the invasion of enemies, reign of the King of Juda 6 [c. 14. 16.]

Jehosophat was born unto Asa, Year of the World 3055 by his mother Azuba, reign of the King of Juda 7 which afterward at 35 years of age, succeeded him in his kingdome, [1 Reg. 22. 42. 2 Chron. 20. 31.] reign of the King of Juda 8 reign of the King of Juda 9 reign of the King of Juda 10 reign of the King of Juda 11 reign of the King of Juda 12 reign of the King of Juda 13 reign of the King of Juda 14

In the beginning of Asa his reign, Year of the World 3063. c. Zerach the Ethiopian, reign of the King of Juda 15 with an innumerable army of his own Cushites (who as it seemeth came out of Arabia Petraea, and the desart) and ten hundred thousand of the Lubeans, besides those which fought aloft from the Chariots; invaded the land of Juda. These Asa met, with three hundred thousand men out of Juda, and two hundred and fourescore thousand out of the Tribe of Benjamin, and calling on the name of the Lord, routed and slew that vast army, and took the spoile of them: After which, being encouraged by Azaria the Prophet, he assembled all his own subjects, and very many also of the Israelites, which clave unto him, at Jerusalem, in the third month, in which the feast of Pentecost fell; where they sacrificed to God out of the spoile, which they had taken, seven hundred oxen, and of other cattle, seven thousand, and solemnely renewed their covenant with God; Asa also proceeding to the fuller reformation p. 44of his kingdom so well begun, removed Maacha his grandmother, a great patronesse of Idolatry, from the honour of Queen mother, and the things which his father and himself had consecrated to God, he brought into the temple, [2 Chron. 14. 9. chap. 15. 1, 10, 11, 12, 16. chap. 16. 8.] Year of the World 3064. c. reign of the King of Juda 16

Asa hired Benadad King of Syria to come and hinder the building of Rama, which he did; and Asa of the stones and timber which was provided for the building of Rama, built Geba and Mizpa. Also when Hanan the prophet reproved him, for craving aid of the king of Syria, he cast him into prison, and at the same time, vexed some of this people, [2 Chron. 16.] reign of the King of Juda 17 reign of the King of Juda 18 reign of the King of Juda 19 reign of the King of Juda 20 reign of the King of Juda 21 reign of the King of Juda 22 reign of the King of Juda 23 reign of the King of Juda 24 reign of the King of Juda 25 reign of the King of Juda 26 Year of the World 3074. d. Year of the World 3075. d. p. 45Year of the World 3077 reign of the King of Juda 28 reign of the King of Juda 29 Year of the World 3079. d.

Jehoram was born to Jehosaphat 132 years, Year of the World 3080. d. before his father took him into the consortship of his kingdom, reign of the King of Juda 32 [2 Reg. 8. 17. 2 Chron. 21. 20.] reign of the King of Juda 33 reign of the King of Juda 34 reign of the King of Juda 35 reign of the King of Juda 36 reign of the King of Juda 37 reign of the King of Juda 38 Year of the World 3086

Asa in the 39 year of his reign, Year of the World 3087 being diseased in his feet, reign of the King of Juda 39 sought for help, not from God, but from the Physicians, [2 Chron. 16. 12.] reign of the King of Juda 40 reign of the King of Juda 41

Asa in the end of the 41 year of his reign died, Year of the World 3090 and was buried in a roome, reign of the King of Juda 1 stuffed with Sweet odours, which he had prepared for himself, in the city of David, 2 Chron. 16. 13, 14.] This father was good, but a better son succeded him in his stead, called Jehosophat, who, in the very latter end of the fourth year of Achabs reign, coming to reign over Juda, held it 25 years, [1 Reg. 22. 41, 41. 2 Chron. 20. 31.] reign of the King of Juda 2 reign of the King of Juda 3

Jehosaphat being setled in his kingdom, Year of the World 3092 began with the taking away of the high places and the groves, and in the third year of his reign, took order that the Levites and other chief men, were sent about p. 46into all cities, to instruct the people, while God in the mean time kept off some of his enemies from invading him, and subdued others to him, [2 Chron. 17. 7.] reign of the King of Juda 4 reign of the King of Juda 5 reign of the King of Juda 6 reign of the King of Juda 7

Athalia the daughter of Achab, Year of the World 3097. d. King of Israel, being married to Iehoram the son of Iehosaphat King of Iuda (which is that affinity which the Scripture sayes Iehosaphat contracted with Achab) [2 Chron. 18. 2.] bare unto him a son Ahaziah, reign of the King of Juda 8 who at the age of 22. years, succeeded him in the kingdom, [2 Reg. 8. 18, 26, 17. 2 Chron. 22. with 21. 6.]

The eleventh Jubilie. Year of the World 3099. a. reign of the King of Juda 9 reign of the King of Juda 10 reign of the King of Juda 11 reign of the King of Juda 12 reign of the King of Juda 13 Year of the World 3103. c. reign of the King of Juda 14 Year of the World 3104. d. reign of the King of Juda 15 Year of the World 3105 reign of the King of Juda 16

p. 47Jehosaphat after the example of Ahab, Year of the World 3106 d. made Jehoram his son, Vice-Roy of the kingdom: whereupon it is that Jehoram the son of Achab, who succeeded his brother Achazia in the kingdom over the Israelites, in the 18. year of Jehosaphat, King of Juda, [2 Reg. 3. 1.] is said to have begun his reign, in the 2. year of Jehoram, the son of Jehosaphat, [2 Reg. 1. 17.]

Jehosaphat going to visit Achab in the third year of the peace which he had made with the As…yrians, Year of the World 3107 in the very end of the year; reign of the King of Juda 18 was invited by Achab, to go with him to the siege of Ramoth Gilead, and upon his entreaty he went: but escaped thence, not without extream danger of his life, [1 Reg. 22. 2. 2 Chron. 18.] At his return home, he was reproved by the Prophet Jehu, the son of Hanam, for aiding such a wicked King, [1 Reg. 19. 1, 2.]

When Jehosaphat had rigged his Navy, Year of the World 3108. a. to send it to Ophir for gold, and Achazia the wicked son of Achab, would needs go sharer with him in that voyage: at first, Jehosaphat would no, [1 Reg. 22. 49.] but at last, condescended thereto. And for so doing, God reproved him by the mouth of his Prophet Eliezer, the son of Dodona, and destroyed his Fleet, [2 Chron. 20. 35, 36, 37.] Year of the World b. reign of the King of Juda 19 Year of the World 3109. c. reign of the King of Juda 20 p. 48reign of the King of Juda 21 reign of the King of Juda 22

Jehosophat now growen old, Year of the World 3112. c. and desiring to settle his house, reign of the King of Juda 23 gave the rest of his son, reign of the King of Juda 1 many gifts, with fenced Cities in Judea; but his eldest son Jehoram (whom he had formerly imployed as his Vicegerent) he now joyned with himself, and made him his consort in the kingdome, in the fifth year of Jehoram king of Israel▪ which he held by the space of eight years, reign of the King of Juda 24 reign of the King of Juda 2 [2 Chron. reign of the King of Juda 25 reign of the King of Juda 3 21. 2, 3, 5, 20. [2 Reg. 8. 16, 17.]

When Jehosophat was dead and buried in the City of David, Year of the World 3115. c. [1 Reg. 2. 50. 2 Chron. 21. 5.] reign of the King of Juda 4 Jehoram, a detestable son, of a most blessed father, held that kingdom alone, by the space of 4 years, who being so setled in his kigdome, slew all his brethren, and many also of his other Princes of Israel, [2 Chron. 21.] And now the Edomites, which from the time of king David [2 Sam. 8. 14. had ever lived in subjection to the Tribe of Judah, fell off, and revolted from it: and although they had been smitten by Jehoram, yet, according to the foretelling of Isaac, [Gen. 27. 40.] they for ever after shook off his yoke; Libna also, a City of the Priests, in the Tribe of Juda, [Jos. 12. 13.] fell off from him at the same time, [2 Reg. 18. 20, 21, 22. 2 Chron. 21. 8, 9, 10.]

Jehoram following the counsel of his wicked wife Athaliah, Year of the World 3116. a. set up in Judah, and even in Jerusalem it felf, the idolatrous worship of Baal, after the fashion of his father in law Achab and his house: and compelled his subjects to do the like, for which he was reproved by a letter p. 49written, and left for him by the Prophet Elias, before his assumption, with a foretelling of all those calamities and punishments, which accordingly afterward fel upon him.

For first God stirred up against him the Philistines and Arabians, Year of the World c. which breaking in upon Judea, plundered, and carried away, what ever was found in the kings house, together with the persons of his sons and wives; so that all his other sons being slain, he had none left him, save only Jehoachaz, [2 Chron. 21.] who was also called Achazia, and Azaria, and who succeeded him in the kingdom, [ib. c. 22. 1, 6.]

After this God struck Jehoram with an incurable disease in the bowels, Year of the World 3117. c. which tormented him, reign of the King of Juda 6 two whole years, [2 Chron. 21. 15, 18, 19.]

Jehoram being thus afflicted with sicknesse, Year of the World 3118. d. made his son Ahazia, reign of the King of Juda 7 his Vice-roy, in the 11 year of Jorum the son of Achab, 2 Reg. 9. 29.]

Jehoram his bowels breaking out, Year of the World 3119 died a miserable death, reign of the King of Juda 81 and was buried in the city of David, but without all pompe, and not among the kings, 2 Chron. 25. 19, 20.] After whom succeeded his son Achazia, in the 12 year of Ioram the son of Achab, and reigned one year in Ierusalem; and he also, following the train of a wicked mother, Athalia, and of the house of Achab, set up, and maintained the worship of Baal, [2 Reg. 8. 25. 27. 2 Chron. 22. 1, 2, 3, 4.]

Achazia, had a son by Zibia of Beersheba, whose name was Ioash, who at the age of 7 years, was afterward proclaimed king, [2 Reg. 11. 21. 2 Chron. Year of the World 3120 24. 1.]

Achazia returning from the battle at Ramoth Gilead, against Hazael, after a while, went to Iezrael, to see Iehoram the king of Israel, lying sick of the wounds, which he had taken, where Iehu finding many of his blood, which there attended him, and sundry princes of Juda, he slew them also: and then searching for Achazia himself, who had gotten p. 50away, and was fled to Megiddo, and overtaking him afterward in the going up to Gur, which is in Jibleham, in the tribe of Manasses; caused him to be killed in his chariot. Who being taken and carried from thence by his servants, was buried with his forefathers in the city of David, [2 Reg. 9. 2. 2 Chron. 22.] Jehu also going on to Samaria, and meeting by the way with fourty two men of the blood of Achazia, who were going to Jezrael, there to salute the kings children, caused them every man to be butchered in the place, [2 Reg. 10. 13, 14.]

Athalia, the daughter of Achab, seeing her own son Achazia dead, reign of the King of Juda 1 destroyed all the race of the house of Juda, and possessed her self of the kingdom; but Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, and wife to Jehoida, the High Priest, took Joash, being then an infant, and son to her brother Ahazia, and him with his nurse, hid six years in the Temple, whiles Athalia ruled all, and so saved him from the butchery which was made of the rest of the blood-royal, [2 Reg. 11. 1, 2, 3. 2 Chron. 22. 10, 11, 12.] reign of the King of Juda 2 reign of the King of Juda 3 reign of the King of Juda 4 reign of the King of Juda 5 reign of the King of Juda 6

Jehojada the high Priest, reign of the King of Juda 1 brought out Joash, Year of the World 3126. c. being now seven years old, and anointed him king: caused Athalia to be slain, and restored the worship of the true God, destroying the house of Baal. and cammanding his priest Matthanes to be kisd before his altars, [2 Reg. 11. 4, 21. 2 Chr. 23. 1, 21.] Now Joash beginning his reign in the seventh year of Jehu, reigned 40 years in Jerusalem, [2 Reg. 12. 1. 2 Chron. 24. 1.] reign of the King of Juda 2 reign of the King of Juda 3 reign of the King of Juda 4 reign of the King of Juda 5 reign of the King of Juda 6 reign of the King of Juda 7 reign of the King of Juda 8 reign of the King of Juda 9 reign of the King of Juda 10 reign of the King of Juda 11 reign of the King of Juda 12 reign of the King of Juda 13 reign of the King of Juda 14 reign of the King of Juda 15

Amasia was this year born in Jerusalem, Year of the World 3140. d. being the son of Joash, and p. 51Jehodana, for he was 25 years old when he began to reign, [2 Reg. 14. 2. 2 Chron. reign of the King of Juda 16 25. 1.] reign of the King of Juda 17 reign of the King of Juda 18 reign of the King of Juda 19 reign of the King of Juda 20 reign of the King of Juda 21 reign of the King of Juda 22

Joas commanded the Prists to repaire the Temple of God, Year of the World 3147. d out of the pole-money gathered for that purpose, [2 Reg. 12. 2 Chron. 24.]

The twelfth Jubile.3148. ….

Joash seeing the Priests to go on very slowly in the repairing of the Temple in the 23 of his reign,…. committed the charge thereof to Jehojada, the chief priest and others, to compleat that work. reign of the King of Juda 24 reign of the King of Juda 25 reign of the King of Juda 26 reign of the King of Juda 27 reign of the King of Juda 28 reign of the King of Juda 29 reign of the King of Juda 30 reign of the King of Juda 31 reign of the King of Juda 32 reign of the King of Juda 33 reign of the King of Juda 34 reign of the King of Juda 35 reign of the King of Juda 36 reign of the King of Juda 27 reign of the King of Juda 38 Year of the World 3163. c.

Zacharias the Priest, Year of the World 1164. c. son of Jehojada, reign of the King of Juda 39 for reproving the Israelites back-sliding into Idolatrie, after Jehojada was dead, was stoned to death by the people, set on by the king, in the court of Gods house, [2 Chron. 24.]

The next year, Year of the World 3165 certain companies of Hazael, reign of the King of Juda 40 king of Syria, reign of the King of Juda 1 though small in number, yet fell upon Juda and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the chief of the people, and sent away all the spoyl of them, to their own king. But when they were gone, leaving him very sick, his own servants conspiring p. 52against him, in revenge of Zacharies death, and murdered him as he lay in his bed; in the beginning of the 40 year of his reign, [2 Chron. 24. 1, 23. &c. with 2 Reg. 12. 1, 17. &c.] whose successor Amasia in the later end of the second year of Joash king of Israel, reigned 29 years, [2 Reg. 14. 1, 2.] Who, so soon as he was quietly setled in his kingdom, put to death such of his servants, as had had a hand in the death of his father; yet spared their children, according to the law of God, delivered by Moses, [ib, v. 5, 6. 2 Chron. 25. 3, 4.] reign of the King of Juda 2 reign of the King of Juda 3 reign of the King of Juda 4 Year of the World 3168. c. reign of the King of Juda 5 reign of the King of Juda 6 reign of the King of Juda 7 reign of the King of Juda 8 reign of the King of Juda 9 reign of the King of Juda 10 reign of the King of Juda 11 reign of the King of Juda 12 reign of the King of Juda 13

Amasia the king had by Iecholia, Year of the World 3178 a woman of Ierusalem, reign of the King of Juda 14 a son called Uzziah, al. Azariah, who was 16 years of age, when he succeded his father in the kingdom, [2 Reg. 15. 2. 2 Chron. 26. 2.]

Amasia, growing proud upon a victory lately obtained against the Edomites, in this fourteenth year of his reign, as Josephus, lib 9. Antiquit. cap. 10. hath it, provoked Ioash king of the Israelites, to battail; and in a pitch-field at Bethshemish, was overcome and taken prisoner, and upon a great ransom, & hostages given, was let go again, reign of the King of Juda 15 [2 Reg. 14. 2 Chron. Year of the World 3179. c. 25.] p. 53reign of the King of Juda 16 reign of the King of Juda 17 reign of the King of Juda 18 reign of the King of Juda 19 reign of the King of Juda 20 reign of the King of Juda 21 reign of the King of Juda 22 reign of the King of Juda 23 reign of the King of Juda 24 reign of the King of Juda 25 reign of the King of Juda 26 reign of the King of Juda 27 reign of the King of Juda 28

Amasia, Year of the World 1194. c. finding a conspiracy made against him at Jerusalem, reign of the King of Juda 29 fled to Lachish: where he was murdered, and was from thence carried and buried in the city of David, [2 Reg. 14. 19, 20. 2 Chron. 25. 27, 28] after whom came Uzzia, or Azaria, in the 27 year of Jeroboam, King of Israel: reckoning from the time that he began to reign in consortship with his father, as before, in the year of the World, 3168. was said; and he reigned 52 years in Jerusalem, [2 Reg. 15. 1, 2.]

Under him did the kingdom of Juda flourish no lesse than that other of Israel did under Jeroboam the second; for so long as following the advice of the Prophet Zachary, he applied his minde to matters of piety and religion; so long, born up by the hand of God, he subdued the Philistines, and other bordering enemies of his; and grew mighty in his kingdom, as is at large expressed, [2 Chron. 26. from the 2. to the 16. verse.] reign of the King of Juda 2 reign of the King of Juda 3

Now was the 13 Jubilie held under two most flourishing Kings, Year of the World 3197. a. under whom also lived sundry great Prophets in either kingdom; reign of the King of Juda 4 as in Juda, that Evangelical Prophet, Esau, the son of Amotzus, [Esay 1. 1.] and Ioel, the son of Pethuel; who prophesied before Amos, as Codomanus conceiveth, because that in the end of his first chapter, he foretelleth of a drought to come, which Amos in his fourth chapter, complaineth to have come. But Amos living in Iudea, amongst the Heardsmen of Tekoa, was called and sent to be a Prophet to the p. 54kingdom of Israel, two years before the Earth-quake which fell out in the dayes of these two Kings Uzzia and Jeroboam the second, [Amos 1. 1. Zacha. 11. 5.] reign of the King of Juda 5 reign of the King of Juda 6 reign of the King of Juda 7 reign of the King of Juda 8 reign of the King of Juda 9 reign of the King of Juda 10 reign of the King of Juda 11 reign of the King of Juda 12 reign of the King of Juda 13 reign of the King of Juda 14 Year of the World 3207 reign of the King of Juda 15 reign of the King of Juda 16 reign of the King of Juda 17 Year of the World 3210 p. 55reign of the King of Juda 18 reign of the King of Juda 19

There was an Eclipse of the sun, reign of the King of Juda 20 of about 10. digits in the year after the Iulian Period, Year of the World 3213 3923. on the 24 day of Iune, in the feast of Whitsontide; and an other of almost 12 digits, eleven years after, according to the Iulian Period, an. 3943. upon the eighth of our November, in the dayes of the Feast of Tabernacles. And a third, of above 11. digits in the year following after the Iulian Period, 3944. our May 5. in the Feast of Unleavened bread: to which that prophesie of Amos, [Chap. 8. 8, 9, 10.] may seem to have reference, where he saith; In that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, the Sun shall set, at noon-day, and I will bring darknesse upon the earth in a clear day; and I will turn your festivals into mourning, and all your solemn songs into lamentations: which as in an allegorical sense, the fathers heretofore took as referring to that darknesse which fell in the Feast of Easter, at the passion of our Saviour. So in these three great Eclipses, falling upon those three great Feasts, at which all the Males of them were to be present at Ierusalem before the Lord, and bringing a darknesse those dayes, that prophesie may not without reason be thought to have been in a litteral sense fulfilled. That as among the Grecians, Thales was the first who by his knowledge in Astronomy; as I shall shew upon the year of the World, 3403. so among the Hebrews, Amos by a divine instinct and inspiration, may be deemed the first that ever fore-told the Eclipses of the Sun. reign of the King of Juda 21 reign of the King of Juda 22 reign of the King of Juda 23 reign of the King of Juda 24 reign of the King of Juda 25 reign of the King of Juda 26 Year of the World 3220

p. 56Uzzia king of Juda, had Jotham, by his wife Jer…sha, Year of the World 3221. c. the daughter of Zadoc: who when his father was striken with a leprosie, and secluded from the company of men, had the rule of the kings house, and judged the people: and after his death, succeeded him in the kingdom: being then but 25 years of age, (2 Reg. 15. 5, 33. 2 Chron. 26. 21. and c. 27. 1, 8.] From whence we may gather, that long after, when Menachem, got the kingdome of Israel into his hands, Uzzia then in his old age, adventuring to the Priests office, was striken with that plague of leprosie: contrary to what the Jewes, and Procopius Gazeus affirmes, upon the seventh chapter of Isaiah, that this leprosie befel him, about the 25 of his reign; and at the very time of the Earth quake, which happened in the dayes of Uzzia and Jeroboam, [Amos 1. 1. Zach. 11. 5.] for that it is manifest, that when Jeroboam died, Jotham was not yet born. reign of the King of Juda 29 reign of the King of Juda 30 reign of the King of Juda 31 reign of the King of Juda 32 reign of the King of Juda 33 reign of the King of Juda 34

From the summer of this year 3228, Year of the World 3228. c. begins the first olympiade of the Greek Chronologers, reign of the King of Juda 35 wherein Choraebus of Elis, wan the race; but of the Iphitean accompt, the 28. As Julius African…s sheweth out of the writings of Aristodemus Eleus, and Polybus (as in the Greek edition of Eusebius by scaliger, p. 13. & p. 216.) appeareth: And here also endeth that interval of time, which by that most learned Varro (as in Censorinus his book, de die natali, is reported) is termed foreign (i.e.) fabulous because many fabulous things are therein said to have happened, and withal beginneth that time which is called foreign: (i.e.) Historical, because from thence, things credible and true, begin to be recorded. p. 57reign of the King of Juda 36 reign of the King of Juda 37 reign of the King of Juda 38 Year of the World 3232. a.

Boccaris Saites, Year of the World 3233. c. reigned in Egypt 40 years, [Affrican.] p. 58reign of the King of Juda 41 reign of the King of Juda 42 reign of the King of Juda 43 Year of the World 3237 reign of the King of Juda 44 reign of the King of Juda 45 reign of the King of Juda 46 reign of the King of Juda 47 reign of the King of Juda 48

Achaz the son of Jotham, Year of the World 3242 was in this year born: reign of the King of Juda 49 for he was twenty years old, when he came afterward to reign, 2 Reg. 16. 2. 2 Chron. 28. 1. But because he reigned 16 years only; and after his decease, h…s son Esechias, is said to have been twenty five years old, when he began to reign, whereby Achaz could be but eleven years old, Year of the World 3243 when his son was borne, reign of the King of Juda 50 therefore Tremelius would have it understood that Achaz was twenty years old, not when himself, but when his father Jotham began to reign.

Habyattes the elder, Year of the World 3245 reigned in Lydia 14 years, reign of the King of Juda 51 Euseb. Chron.

p. 59The 14 Jubile, Year of the World 3246. a. in which the prophet Isaiah saw and beheld the glory of the Lord, sitting in his throne, and compassed about with a guard of Angels; singing, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth, the people of the Jews, growing from this time forward, more & more obdurate and blind every day than other; lest they should understand the words of the prophets, which were sent unto them, and should be converted and healed, [Esay 6. John. 12. 40, 41.]

This vision of the prophet Isaiah, befel in the last year of king Uzzia, [Esay 6. 7.] after whom being buried in the cities of David, and in the burying place of the kings; but a part from the rest, because of his leprosie, succeded his son Jotham, in the 20 year of Peka, king of Israel, and reigned 16 years in Jerusalem, [2 Reg. 15. 7. 32, 33. 1 Chron. 26. 23. and 27. 1. 8.]

Jotham, fought a battail against the Ammonites, and overthrew them, whereupon they became tributary to him, by the space of three years, [2 Chron. 27. 5.] under him and his two successors, Micah the Morashite, together with Isaiah, and Hosea, executed his prophetical function, [Mic. 1. 1.] In his time also, as Josephus lib. 9. Antiq. cap. 11. al. 12. affirmes, did Nahum the prophet foretel, the subversion of the Assyrians, and city of Ninive, which came to pass 100 and 15 years after, whereas by that reckoning, he should rather have gathered, that Nahum prophesied in the time of Achaz, the son of Jotham. reign of the King of Juda 2 reign of the King of Juda 3 reign of the King of Juda 4 reign of the King of Juda 5 reign of the King of Juda 6 reign of the King of Juda 7

In this year was Ezekias the son of Achaz, Year of the World 3252. c. born of Abiah, the daughter of Zacharia, reign of the King of Juda 8 for he was 25 years old when he began to reign, Year of the World 3254 [2 Reg. 18. 2. 2 Chron. reign of the King of Juda 9 29. 1.]

p. 60Rome, Year of the World 3256 according to the reckoning of Fabius Pictor, reign of the King of Juda 11 the most ancient of all Roman writers, and according to the accompt kept, of the secular games, of all others most religiously observed by the ancient Romans, began to be built by Romulus a little before the beginning of the 8 Olympiad, on the feast of their goddess Pales, upon the 10 day of April, though the feast of Pales, according to Varro his accompt, be ful five years more ancient than it is by Fabius, his saying; of which day, yet the Poet Ovid speaking, saith,

Vrbs oritur (quis tunc hoc ulli credere posset?)

Victorem t…rris impositura pedem.

Fal. 4. this is,

A Citie's born, (which who then would have thought)

That since, Year of the World 3257 the world hath in subjection brought.

p. 61Meles in Lydia reigned 12 years, reign of the King of Juda 13 [Euseb. reign of the King of Juda 14 Chron.] of whom more is to be seen in Herod. reign of the King of Juda 15 lib. reign of the King of Juda 16 1. cap. 84.

Achaz succeeding his father Jotham in the very end of the 17 year of Peka, Year of the World 3262. c. the son of Remalia, reign of the King of Juda 17 reigned 16. years in Ierusalem, [2 Reg. 16. 1, 2. 2 Chron. 28. 1.]

When, towards the end of the reign of Iotham, God began to stir up Resin the King of Syria, and Peka the son of Remalia against Iuda, [2 Reg. 15. 37.] The house of David, at the report of his approaching, with all the people of Iuda, were sorely affrighted; as apprehending a sudden and final destruction from them. But unto Achaz in his fear, God, by Esay the p. 62Prophet sent a gracious message, with a promise of deliverance to him, and destruction to his enemies: And for a sign of his deliverance (when the incredulous King, being bidden to ask what sign he would, would ask none) God made him a promise of a Virgin, that should bear Immanuel; who both in regard of his person, should be foreign, God and man: God with us, or dwelling in our flesh; and also in regard of his office, whereby, as the onelyonly Mediatour of God and man, [1 Tim. 2. 5.] he should bring to passe, that God should be with us, [Esay 8. 10.] gracious and propitious to us, and a very present help in trouble, [Psal. 46. 1, 2, 7. with Rom. 8. 31, 32.] which advertisement was most befitting the businesse then in hand, both in regard that all promises of God in Christ, are Yea and Amen, [2 Corin. 1. 20.] to be fulfiled generally in him, and for him: and besides, for that, the land of Judea, by a spec…al priviledge, was to be the land of this Immanuel, [Esay 8. 8.] wherein, as pertaining to the flesh, he was to be born, not onelyonly of the Jews, but also of the very house of David; and that, according to the foretell…ng of Jacob, [Gen. 49. 10.] before the Scepter should depart from Juda, (i.) before Judea should wholly leave off to be a Common-Wealth, ruled by a Kingly government; and therefore at that time, the destruction or abolishment of the house of David, or nation of the Jew, was not to be feared; which misery sixty five years after, betided the nation of the Ephraimites, as had been foretold them, by the Prophet Esay, [chap. 7. 8.]

As for the utter and final destruction of those Kings who had then banded themselves against him, the Prophet was commanded to foreshew it, by bringing forth Shear Jashub his son: and to tell him (after he had declared that great Mystery or Oracle of a God-bearing Virgin, by the motion of his finger, or some other gesture) that butter and honey he should eat, and be nourished thereby, until he came to such an age, as to know the good from the evil; for that before that time, both those Kings should be destroyed each out of his own land, [Esay 7. 3, 15, 16.] And whereas it fell out at the same time, that Esay his wife, a Prophetesse, bare him another son: by Gods appointment, his name was called Maher-shalal-hash-baz, importing, that the p. 63Assyrian should make haste, and take away the spoile: and should plunder both Syrians and Israelites, before the child should be able plainly to pronounce, My father, or My mother. And so the sons of the Prophets were made to serve for signs and documents from God to the Israelites, [Esay 8. 3, 4, 18.] After these prophesies uttered, Rezin and Peka, joyntly came up to besiege Jerusalem, wherein Achaz then was: but could not take it, as was told beforehand that they should not, [Esay 7. 1, 7. 2 Reg. 16. 5.] But this wicked Achaz, was no sooner delivered out of this imminent danger, but he forsook God his Deliverer: For he forthwith walked in the wayes of the Kings of Israel, and set up the Idolatrous worship of Baal; offered incense in the valley of Ben-Hinnon, and made his own son to passe thorough the fire, and offered sacrifice in the High places, and upon the Hills, and under every green tree, [2 Chron. 28. 2, 3, 4. 2 Reg. 16. 3, 4.]

So when Achaz forsook God, Year of the World 3263. c. God also forsook him: reign of the King of Juda 2 wherefore Rezin and Peka, dividing their forces, overcame him, which both joyned together, they could not do. For God gave him over both into the hands of the Syrians, who, having smitten him, carried away a great multitude of his people captive to Damascus, and also into the hands of the King of Israel, who made a great slaughter of his people, [2 Chron. 28. 5.]

At the same time, Rezin subdued Elath, which King Azarias, or Uzzias had recovered to Juda, and bu…lt it anew, and placed his Syrians therein to dwell, [2 Reg. 14. 22. 2 Chron. 26. 2. 2 Reg. 16. 2.]

Moreover the Edomites invaded Juda, Year of the World 3264. c. and carried from thence many Captives. reign of the King of Juda 3

The Philistines also whom King Uzzia, whiles he trusted in God, had subdued, [2 Chron. 26. 6, 7.] now brake in upon the cities of Juda, in the low countries and south parts thereof, and dwelt therein; for God gave them over to the spoile, for Achaz his sin: and because he had drawn away Juda, to forsake the Lord, [2 Chron. 28. 17, 18, 19.]

But Achaz took all the gold and silver, that was found in the Lords house, and in the Treasury of the Kings house, and sent it for a present to Tiglath-Pileser King of Assyria, desiring him to come and deliver p. 64him from the kings of Syria, & Israels hands: & he thereupon came and took Damascus, and carryed away all the inhabitants thereof to Ki…e, & put to death Rezin, the king of Syria, [2 Reg. 16. 7, 8, 9.] fulfilling therein the prophesie as well of Isaiah, [c. 7. 16. &c. 8. 4 &c. 9. 11.] as of Amos; who long before had fore-told the ruine of the kingdom of Damascus, in these words. I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, which shall consume the palaces of Benhadad, and I will break in pieces the bars of Damascus, and root out the inhabitants of the valley of Aven, and him that beareth the scepter out of the house of Eden, and the people of Syria shall be carryed away into Assyria, saith the Lord, [Amos 1. 4, 5.] And so the kingdom of Damascus, and with it, that of Hamath, of which, as then being in a most flourishing estate, mention is made, [Amos 6. 2. and of Aradus, Jer. 49. 23. Esay 10. 9. and 36. 19. and 37. 12, 13.] which was begun, in Rezon, [1 Reg. 11. 23, 24.] ended in this Rezin, which continued for ten generations, as Nicol. Damascenus, cited by Josephus, lib. 7. Antiquit. c. 6. affirmeth, see before upon the year of the world 2960.

But when Achaz went to meet Tiglath-pileazer at Damascus, and to congratulate him, for his great victory there obtained, he there saw the great altar; the fashion whereof he forthwith took, and sent to Uria, the priest, that he might make the like of it, in Jerusalem, on which, upon his return thither, he both offered himself, and also caused the people to offer their sacrifices, removing the brazen altar, a far off from the fore-part of the house, that it might not stand between his altar, and the house of the Lord, [2 Reg. 16.]

When Achaz had now made him self a servant to the K. of Assyria, Year of the World 3265. c. he then found, reign of the King of Juda 4 that he had received more hurt than help from him, [2 Chr. 28. 20, 21.] which the prophet a little before had …ntimated to him, by that allegory of this, saying, The Lord shal shave off the hair of thy head & feet, with an hired razor, from beyond the river, even the king of Assyria, and it shall also consume the beard, [Esay 7. 20.] wherefore also Achaz turned the entrie without, which led from the kings house to the house of the Lord, for fear of the king of Assyria, [2 Reg. 16. 18.] that is, as Tremelius understands it, for fear lest the king of Assyria, should assault p. 65him that way, and so break into his palace, and yet in the midst of all these his afflictions, he sinned still more and more against the Lord, 2 Chron. 28. 22.] reign of the King of Juda 5 reign of the King of Juda 6 reign of the King of Juda 7 reign of the King of Juda 8

Candaules, Year of the World 3269 whom the Greek Authors call, reign of the King of Juda 9 as Herodotus saith, reign of the King of Juda 10 Myrsylus, the son of Myrsus, the last of the stock of the Heraclydae, reigned in Lydia 17 years, Euseb. Chron.

Nadius, Year of the World 3271 or Nabius, foreign reigned over the Babylonians, 2 years, Ptol. in Reg. Canone. reign of the King of Juda 11 reign of the King of Juda 12

Chinzirus and Porus, Year of the World 3273. c. reigned over the Babylonians, five years, [Id. ib.] Year of the World 3274. c. reign of the King of Juda 13 Year of the World 3276. b. reign of the King of Juda 14

Achaz, Year of the World 3277. c. in the last year of his reign, reign of the King of Juda 1 joyned his son Ezekia within, reign of the King of Juda 16 in the kingdom, who from that time, being the later end of the third year of Hosea king of Israel▪ reigned 29 years in Jerusalem, [2 Reg. 18. 1, 2.]

Jugaeus or Ilulaeus, Year of the World 3278. a. reigned over the Babylonians 5 years, Ptol. Reg. Canon.

And in this year died Achaz: Year of the World b. and the Prophet Esay foretold the Philistines (who at that time, unjustly detained a part of Judea, as was shewed before, in the 3264. year of the world) of their destruction, [Es. 14 from the 28 verse to the end p. 66thereof: as likewise he forewarned the Moabites of a great calamity to befal them within three years after, [Esay 15. 1. and 16. 14.] of the fulfilling of which prophesies, look what we shall hereafter say, upon the years 3280. and 3284.

Achaz dying, was buried in the city of David, [2 Reg. 16. 20.] but not among the Kings, [2 Chron. 28. 27.]

Ezechias, Year of the World c. (his father being dead, and he now at his own disposing) toward the later end of the first year of his reign, in the first month. Abib, opened the doores of the Lords house, which his father had caused to be shut up, [2 Chron. 28. 24.] and commanded the Priests and Levits to sanctifie themselves, and then to cleanse the Temple, [2 Chron. 29. 3, 4.]

And they taking courage hereupon, upon the first day of the first monethmonth, (Apr. 21. upon the Sabbath-day) sanctified themselves. And the…, according to the Kings command, came to cleanse the house of the Lord; and upon the eighth day of the same monethmonth, (28 Apr. being also upon the Sabbath-day) entering into the porch of the Temple, they sanctified the ho…se of the Lord eight dayes; so that upon the sixteenth day of the first monethmonth ( … of our May, being Sunday) they finished that work, [2 Chron. 29. 15. 17.]

The next morning, King Ezechia, early in the morning, (May 6 being Munday) called together all the Rulers of the City, and went up into the house of the Lord; wherein, together with the people, by the ministery of the Priests and Levites, he offered many sacrifices upon the Altar of the Lord, with great joy and gladnesse, [2 Chron. 29. v. 20. 36.]

But because the Passeover could not be kept at the same time when that meeting and the cleansing of the Temple was appointed, because the number of the Priests then sanctified was not sufficient, and the people was not gathered together from all parts to Jerusalem, according to the law, [Numb. 9. 10, 11.] therefore was the Passeover appointed to be kept, in the second month, whereof notice …eing given to the people from Beersheba even to Dan; not onelyonly the Jewes, but some also out of the Tribes of Asher, Manasses and Zabulon, (the rest of the Tribes laughing at such warning given) came together in Jerusalem: p. 67where the Idol-altars, and altars of incense being demolished fi…st, and then thrown into the brook Kidron, they killed the Pascal lambs upon the 14. day of the second monethmonth (being on our third of June, falling upon a Sunday) then kept they the Feast of sweet-bred 7 days, offering their sacrifices of thanksgiving, and …inging praises to the God of their fore-fathers: to which in further testimony of their thankfulnesse unto God, they adde seven dayes more; all which they kept and celebrated with great glee and joy of heart, [2 Chron. 30. 23.]

And when they had finished all things, then all the Israelites, which were there present, about the end of the said second monethmonth, went forth throughout all the cities of Juda, and brake down the Images, & cut down the groves, and destroyed the High places and Altars, throughout the whole land of Juda and Benjamin, and even throughout Ephraim and Manasses, until they had finished the work they went about: which done, the Israelites returned every man to his own home, in their several countries [2 Chron. 31. 1.]

But Ezechia went further, and brake in pieces the very brazen Serpent, which Moses had set up, [Num. 2…. 9.] because unto those dayes the children of Israel had burnt incense to it; and in contempt thereof, by a diminutive terme, called it Necushtan, (i.) a little piece of bras…e. And in like manner, taking order that the Priests and Levites should serve every of them, in his office, and by turn; he also provided them of victuals and maintenance, by setting on foot again the law of first-fruits and tithes, [2 Chron. 31.]

Whereupon, in the third month, every man brought in, who should bring fastest, their first fruits and tithes, and delivered them to the Priests, [2 Chron. 31. 5, 6, 7.]

In the seventh monethmonth, Year of the World 3279. a. wherein the gathering of the fruits of the whole year was finished, [Exod. 23. 16.] the bringing in of the first fruits and tithes, was fully compleat and ended, [2 Chron. 31. 7.] and officers were appointed by Ezechia for the just distribution of them, [2 Chron. 31.] p. 68Year of the World b. reign of the King of Juda 3 Year of the World 3280 reign of the King of Juda 4 reign of the King of Juda 5

Mardocempadus began to reign in Babylon, Year of the World 3283 after the beginning of Nabonassers reign there 26 years: reign of the King of Juda 6 from the end thereof 12 years, as we find in Ptolomies, Reg. Canon. By the Prophet Isaiah, Merodac Baladan, is called the son of Baladan: [c. 39. 1.] as being Belesis, or the son, or according to a most usual Hebraisme, Nephew of Nabonasar, in this Mardocempadus his first year, the moon was eclipsed at Babylon, as Ptolomei in his 4 book of his great Syntaxis, c. 6. noteth, in the 27 of Nabonasar, 29 of the month Thoth, as the Egyptians call it, (to wit, toward the end of the 19 day of our March) two houres and an half before midnight.

p. 40JEROBOAM.The reigns of the Kings of Israel.

Jeroboam, the 15 day of the 8 monethmonth, reign of the King of Iſrael 1 (our Decemb. 6. Munday) at a feast of his own devising, somewhat resembling the feast of Tabernacles among the Jews, upon an Idolatrous altar, which he had built, at Bethel, offered sacrifice to his calf, [1 Reg. 12, 32, 33.] At what time, a p. 41certain Prophet sent by God out of Iury, foretold what judgement one of King Davids linage, Iosias by name, should one day execute upon the Altar, and the Priests that served at it: which Prophesie he then and there confirmed, by signs and prodigies shewed upon that Altar then standing, and upon the King himself, [1 Reg. 13. 2. Reg. 23. 16, 17.] From which beginning of this Idolatrous worship, and publick manifestation of Gods judgement thereupon; we are to reckon the 390. years of the iniquity of Israel, spoken of in [Ezek. 4. 5.]

This Prophet being deceived by another Prophet of Bethel, who abused the name of God unto him: did contrary to the expresse commandment of God to himself delivered, eat meat at Bethel; and was therefore in his return homeward met with and slaine by a Lion: whereof when tydings came to the Prophet which had deceived him, he took up the body, and honourably enterred it, assuring his sons, that what had been foretold by that other Prophet, should undoubtedly come to passe, [1 Reg. 13. with 2 Reg 23. 17, 18.]

Jeroboam persisting in his revolt, The Julian Period 3740 cast off the Priests that were of the linage of Aaron and the Levites, Year before Christ 974 and made Priests of the High places, men taken from among the common people, [1 Reg. 13. 33, 34. 2 Chron. 11. 14, 15. and chap. 13. 9.] whereupon the Priests and Levites, leaving their possessions which they formerly had in those parts; retired into Jury, and were followed thither, by all such out of every Tribe, as set their minds upon the true worship of God; and came to Jerusalem, there to do worship and to sacrifice to the God of their fore-fathers, [2 Chron. 11. 13, 14, 16. The Julian Period 3743 Year before Christ 971 p. 42reign of the King of Iſrael 6 reign of the King of Iſrael 7 reign of the King of Iſrael 8 reign of the King of Iſrael 9 reign of the King of Iſrael 10 reign of the King of Iſrael 11 reign of the King of Iſrael 12 reign of the King of Iſrael 13 reign of the King of Iſrael 14 reign of the King of Iſrael 15 reign of the King of Iſrael 16 reign of the King of Iſrael 17 reign of the King of Iſrael 18 The Julian Period 3756 Year before Christ 958 reign of the King of Iſrael 19 The Julian Period 3757 Year before Christ 957 reign of the King of Iſrael 20 reign of the King of Iſrael 21 The Julian Period 3759 Year before Christ 965 reign of the King of Iſrael 22 reign of the King of Iſrael 1 The Julian Period 3760 Year before Christ 954

Nadab in the second year of Asa, succeded his father Jeroboam deceased, in his kingdome, wherein he p. 43continued only the space of 2 years, [1 Reg. 15. 25.

Nadab, reign of the King of Iſrael 1 at the siege of Gibbethon of the Philistines, reign of the King of Iſrael 2 was slain by Baasa, The Julian Period 3761 a man of the Tribe of Issacar, Year before Christ 953 in the third year of the reign of Asa; and the same year, having made himself king over Israel, he utterly destroied all the race of Jeroboam, and reigned 24 years, [1 Reg. 15. 27, 28, 29, 33.] reign of the King of Iſrael 2 reign of the King of Iſrael 3 The Julian Period 3763 Year before Christ 951 reign of the King of Iſrael 4 reign of the King of Iſrael 5 The Julian Period 3765 Year before Christ 949 reign of the King of Iſrael 6 reign of the King of Iſrael 7 reign of the King of Iſrael 8 reign of the King of Iſrael 9 reign of the King of Iſrael 10 reign of the King of Iſrael 11 reign of the King of Iſrael 12 reign of the King of Iſrael 13 The Julian Period 3773 Year before Christ 941 p. 44The Julian Period 3774 Year before Christ 940

Baasa, reign of the King of Iſrael 14 when he saw Asa thus busie in restoring religion, and perceived that many of his subjects were fallen over to him; that they might partake of the covenant of God, [2 Chron. 15. 9.] never ceased to make war upon him all his dayes, [1 Reg. 15, 16, 32.] and pursuing his point, this year which was the 36 of Asa his reign, to wit, over the kingdom of Juda, as it stood divided from Israel, and which Asa then held, went up against Juda, and built Rama, that he might suffer no man to come out from, or go into Asa, king of Juda, [2 Chron. 16. 1.]

At the same time Benadad king of Syria, marched forth against the Cities of Israel, and destroyed Ijon, of the tribe of Asher, and Dan, of Dan, and Abeth-maacah of the tribe of Manasses, and all the coast of Cinnereth, with all the land of Nephthali, which made Baasa give over his building of Rama, and resided at Tirza, [1 Reg. 16. 20, 21. 2 Chron. 16. 4, 5. with Esay 9. 1.] Now this Benadad was son of Tabrimmon, the son of H…zion, [1 Reg. 15. 8.] or of Rezon the first king of Syria, of Damascus, from whom the name of Hadad, was derived to his posterity, in the kingdom, as Nicolaus Damascenus noteth, recorded by Josephus lib. 7. of his Antiquities, c. 6. …l. 5. where, when the said Nicolaus tells us, That the third of that name seeking to wipe of the blot of the overthrow, received in his grandfathers dayes, marched into Judea, and destroyed Samaria, Josephus understands it, of the invasion made upon Samaria, by Benhadad, in the time of Achab, reign of the King of Iſrael 15 see before in the year of the world, reign of the King of Iſrael 16 2960. and hereafter in the year 3103. reign of the King of Iſrael 17 reign of the King of Iſrael 18 reign of the King of Iſrael 19 reign of the King of Iſrael 20 reign of the King of Iſrael 21 reign of the King of Iſrael 22 reign of the King of Iſrael 23

Baasa dying, reign of the King of Iſrael 24 and being buried at Tizra, The Julian Period 3784 his son Ela succeeded in his roome. Year before Christ 930

In the second year of Ela, The Julian Period 3785 27 of Asa, Year before Christ 929 Ela with the whole race of Baasa, p. 45was rooted out by Zimri, who reigned in Tirza seven dayes. But the soldierie which then lay before Gibbethon, a town of the Philistins, made Omri, the General of the Army, king, who comming to besiege Tirza, Zimri, set fire on the kings palace, and consumed it and himself therein, [1 Reg. 16. 15, 16, 17, 18.]

The people of Israel falling in two factions, reign of the King of Iſrael 1 one part followed Thibni, the son of Ginath, the other adhered to Omri; but Omri his side was stronger of the two, [1 Reg. 16. 8, 21, reign of the King of Iſrael 2 22.]

Athalia the daughter of Achab the son of Omri, reign of the King of Iſrael 3 as it seemeth was borne 42 years before her son Ahazia reigned over Juda. reign of the King of Iſrael 4

Omri, reign of the King of Iſrael 5 his rival being now at Tibni, The Julian Period 3789 began to reign over Israel alone in the 31 year of king Asa. Year before Christ 925

When Omri had now reigned six years in Tirza, reign of the King of Iſrael 6 he then removed the seat of his kingdom from thence to Samaria, The Julian Period 3790 which he built in the hill of Somron, Year before Christ 224 a place which he had purchased of one Semor, [1 Reg. 16. 23, 24.] reign of the King of Iſrael 7 reign of the King of Iſrael 8 reign of the King of Iſrael 9 reign of the King of Iſrael 10 reign of the King of Iſrael 11 reign of the King of Iſrael 12

Omri dies, reign of the King of Iſrael 1 and was buried at Samaria, The Julian Period 3796 a bad father, Year before Christ 918 but Achab the son, that succeded him, was worse than he; who yet reigned after him 22 years, [1 Reg. 16. 28, 29.] reign of the King of Iſrael 2 The Julian Period 3797 Year before Christ 917 The Julian Period 3800 Year before Christ 914 reign of the King of Iſrael 6 reign of the King of Iſrael 7 The Julian Period 3802 Year before Christ 912 p. 46reign of the King of Iſrael 8 reign of the King of Iſrael 9 reign of the King of Iſrael 10 reign of the King of Iſrael 11 reign of the King of Iſrael 12 The Julian Period 3807 Year before Christ 907 reign of the King of Iſrael 13 The Julian Period 3808 Year before Christ 906 reign of the King of Iſrael 14 reign of the King of Iſrael 15 reign of the King of Iſrael 16 reign of the King of Iſrael 17 reign of the King of Iſrael 18

Benhadad, The Julian Period 3813 King of Asyria, Year before Christ 901 gathering all his together, with the assistance and attendance of 32 petty kings, besieged Samaria; but was faine to give it over and fled upon a great blow, which he received before, it, [1 Reg.]

About a year after, reign of the King of Iſrael 19 Benhadad came a second time up as far as Apseka, The Julian Period 3814 to make war upon the Israelites; Year before Christ 900 where upon a mighty overthrow received, he gave himself …p into Achabs hand. Achab received him with all curtesie and honour; and after a while, let him fairly go, having made a league of friendship with him: for which act of his, God forthwith denounced a judgement upon him by his Prophet, [1 Reg. 20.] Neverthelesse, upon this league made, there followed a three years cessation of armes, between the two Nations, [1 Reg. 22. 1.]

Achab, reign of the King of Iſrael 20 when he could not get Naboth to sell him his vineyard, The Julian Period 3815 grew sick upon it. Year before Christ 899 Jezebel his wife, gate Naboth by false witnesse to be condemned to death, and stoned; and so put him in possession of the vineyard. Whereupon the Prophet Elias, foretold him of destruction which was to befal him, and all his posterity: and upon Jezebel her self. Achab, trembling hereat, by a timely repentance, obtained a respit of this judgement, [1 Reg. 21.]

p. 47Achab in the 17. year of the reigne of Jehosaphat, joyned his son Achazia with him in the rule of the kingdom, or rather made him his Vice-Roy, [1 Reg. 22. 51.]

Achab, reign of the King of Iſrael 22 having gotten Jehosaphat to go along with him, The Julian Period 3817 went to besiege Ramoth Gilead. Year before Christ 897 But before he went, reign of the King of Iſrael 2 he asked counsel of 400. false Prophets; and withal of Micaiah, the true Prophet of God, what the issue and event of this war should be. They told him, all should do well: Micaiah foretold his overthrow, and according to his word, Achab, though in a disguised habit, was slain in the fight, and was buried in Samaria, [1 Reg. 22. 2 Chron. 18.]

So soon as he was dead, all the land of Moab fell away from the Israelites, [2 Reg. 1. 1. and chap. 3. 5.] which had continued in subjection to them, ever since King Davids dayes, [2 Sam. 8. 2.]

Achazia King of Israel, The Julian Period 3818 falling out of a grate of his Dining-room in Samaria lay sick of it, Year before Christ 896 and asked counsel of Baal-zebub, the god of the Ekronites, concerning his recovery. And the Prophet Elias, when two Captains over fifty men a piece, with their companies, were sent to apprehend and bring him to the King; destroyed them & their companies with fire called down from heaven upon them: and at last, going voluntarily with the third Captain that came for him, he told the King plainly, that he should die. [2 Reg. 1.] and accordingly die he did, after he had spent two years, partly with his father, partly by himself, in the administration of the kingdom, [1 Reg. 22. 51.]

When Achazias was dead, his brother Jehoram, the son of Achab succeeded him, in the later end of the 18 year of Jehosaphat, and reigned 12. years, [2 Reg. 3. 1.]

Elias was taken up into heaven in a fiery chariot, reign of the King of Iſrael 1 [2 Reg. 2.]

Three Kings, reign of the King of Iſrael 2 to wit, The Julian Period 3815 of Israel,…95. Juda, and Edom, (which Edom had hitherto continued in subjection p. 48to the kings of Juda) joined together to reduce the rebellious Moabites; in which war, E…izeus the Prophet, miraculo…sly furnished the army with water, and assured them of the victory over their enemies: Neverthelesse, Mesah king of the Moabites being shut up, in Kir-hareseth, with such small forces as he had left about him, and making a salley out, took prisoner the son of the king of Edom, being his first-born (and who was to have succeeded him in the kingdome, and is in that regard, by the Prophet Amos, [c. 2. 1.] stiled, king of the Edomites) and offered him for a whole burnt-offering upon the wall of the City, [2 Reg. 3.] reign of the King of Iſrael 3 reign of the King of Iſrael 4 reign of the King of Iſrael 5 The Julian Period 3822 Year before Christ 892 reign of the King of Iſrael 6 reign of the King of Iſrael 7 The Julian Period 3825 Year before Christ 889 reign of the King of Iſrael 8 p. 49reign of the King of Iſrael 10 The Julian Period 3827 Year before Christ 887 reign of the King of Iſrael 11 The Julian Period 3828 Year before Christ 886 reign of the King of Iſrael 12 The Julian Period 3829 Year before Christ 885

Iehoram king of Israel, The Julian Period 3830 and Achazia King of Iuda, Year before Christ 884 went out joyntly with their armies to Ramoth Gilead, against Hazael, who had newly succeded Benadad, in the kingdom of Syria, as Eliseus the prophet had foretold him. In that fight, Iehoram was grievously wounded by the Syrians, and he retired himself to Iezrael, there to be cured of his wounds, [2 Reg. 8.] mean while a certain son of the prophets sent by Eliseus the prophet, came to Ramoth, and there anointed Iehu, the son of Iehosaphat the son of Nimshi, king over Israel, and opened to him the will of God, for the rooting out of the house of Achab, who forthwith being proclaimed king, by the captains and officers of the Army, marched straight on to Iezrael, and there slew both Iehoram and Iezabel, p. 50[chap. 9.] and Eft-soons dispatched away letters to Samaria, and there caused the seventy sons of Achab to be slain, maintaining this act of his, by the foretelling and prophesie of Elias. Then taking with him Iehonadab, the son of Recab; he came himself to Samaria, and destroyed all the race of Achab, and all the priests of Baal; though having put down the worship of Baal, he departed not from the worship of Ieroboams golden calves, but maintained that inveterate Idolatry among the Israelites all the time of his reign, which was for eight and twenty years, [2 Reg. 10. 28, 29, 39.] reign of the King of Iſrael 1 reign of the King of Iſrael 2 reign of the King of Iſrael 3 reign of the King of Iſrael 4 reign of the King of Iſrael 5 reign of the King of Iſrael 6 reign of the King of Iſrael 7 reign of the King of Iſrael 8 reign of the King of Iſrael 9 reign of the King of Iſrael 10 reign of the King of Iſrael 11 reign of the King of Iſrael 12 reign of the King of Iſrael 13 reign of the King of Iſrael 14 reign of the King of Iſrael 15 reign of the King of Iſrael 16 reign of the King of Iſrael 17 reign of the King of Iſrael 18 reign of the King of Iſrael 19 reign of the King of Iſrael 20 reign of the King of Iſrael 21 The Julian Period 3850 Year before Christ 864 p. 51reign of the King of Iſrael 22 reign of the King of Iſrael 23 reign of the King of Iſrael 24 reign of the King of Iſrael 25 reign of the King of Iſrael 26 reign of the King of Iſrael 27 reign of the King of Iſrael 28 The Julian Period 3857 Year before Christ 857 The Julian Period 3858 Year before Christ 856

Jehochaz succeded his father Jehu, in the kingdom of Israel, in the 23 year of Joash, the son of Achazia: and reigned 17 years, [2 Reg. 13. 1.] during all which time, Hazael king of Syria lay heavy upon the Israelites, [Chap. 13. 3, 7, 22.] and exercised all the cruelty upon them, which Eliseus the prophet had foretold, he should, reign of the King of Iſrael 2 [Chap. 8. 12.] reign of the King of Iſrael 3 reign of the King of Iſrael 4 reign of the King of Iſrael 5 reign of the King of Iſrael 6 reign of the King of Iſrael 7 reign of the King of Iſrael 8 reign of the King of Iſrael 9 reign of the King of Iſrael 10 reign of the King of Iſrael 11 reign of the King of Iſrael 12 reign of the King of Iſrael 13 reign of the King of Iſrael 14 reign of the King of Iſrael 15 reign of the King of Iſrael 16

Joas the son of Jehoachaz, The Julian Period 3873 was taken into the consortship of this kingdom by his father, the later end of the 37 years of Joas king of Juda, Year before Christ 841 and reigned 16 years, reign of the King of Iſrael 17 [2 Reg. reign of the King of Iſrael 2 13. 10.]

Jehoachaz, reign of the King of Iſrael 3 the son of Jehu died, The Julian Period 3875 and was buried in Samaria, Year before Christ 839 when he had reigned 17 years, [2 Reg. 13. 1, 9.] but King Joaz, not long after the funeral of his father, went, as it seemeth, to visit Elizeus the prophet, then lying in his death-bed and with many tears, asking counsail of him, p. 52concerning the miserable distracted state of the kingdom, reign of the King of Iſrael 4 as then it stood; reign of the King of Iſrael 5 was foretold that he should obtain three victories over the Syrians, reign of the King of Iſrael 6 [ib from v. 14. to v. 20.]

Jeroboam the second, The Julian Period 3878 seemeth to have been taken into the consortship of the kingdom, Year before Christ 836 by his father Joash, going to war against the Syrians, in which war, he overthrew Benhadad, (who succeded his father Hazael in the kingdom of Syria) in three pitcht fields, and recovered out of his hands the cities, which Jehocahaz his father had lost) so that from hence we may gather, that Azarias king of …uda began his reign in the 27 year of this Jeroboam, [2 Reg. 15. 1.] reign of the King of Iſrael 7 reign of the King of Iſrael 8 reign of the King of Iſrael 9 reign of the King of Iſrael 10 reign of the King of Iſrael 11 reign of the King of Iſrael 12 reign of the King of Iſrael 13 reign of the King of Iſrael 14 reign of the King of Iſrael 15 reign of the King of Iſrael 16 The Julian Period 3888 Year before Christ 826

Joas having overcome and taken prisoner Amasia, king of Juda, brake down four hundred cubits of the wall of Ierusalem, even from the gate of Ephraim, to the corner gate; and so having gotten from him all the treasure both of the temple, and also of the kings own house, returned to Samaria, [2 2 Reg. 14. 13, 14. Chron. 25. 23, 24.]

But Ioash departing this life, reign of the King of Iſrael 1 15 years before the death of Amazia, Ieroboam his son succeding him, reigned in Samaria 41 years, [2 Reg. 14. 23.]

By this man, did God deliver Israel, having recovered Damascus and Hamath, both which apperteined by right to the Tribe of Iuda, [2 Sam. p. 538. 6. 2 Chron 8. 3.] and the old border thereof, [Numb. 13. 21.] from the entrance into Hamath, even to to the sea of the plaine; according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by the mouth of Jonas the Prophet, the son of Ammitthai, [2 Reg. 14. 25, 27, 28.] reign of the King of Iſrael 2 reign of the King of Iſrael 3 reign of the King of Iſrael 4 reign of the King of Iſrael 5 reign of the King of Iſrael 6 reign of the King of Iſrael 7 reign of the King of Iſrael 8 reign of the King of Iſrael 9 reign of the King of Iſrael 10 reign of the King of Iſrael 11 reign of the King of Iſrael 12 reign of the King of Iſrael 13 reign of the King of Iſrael 14 reign of the King of Iſrael 15 reign of the King of Iſrael 17 reign of the King of Iſrael 18 reign of the King of Iſrael 19 The Julian Period 3906 Year before Christ 808

At the same time, in the kingdom of Israel, prophesied Ionas the the son of Amitthai, and Hosea, the son of Beeri.

Ionas was of Gathe-Chepher, [2 Reg. 14. 25.] a town of the Tribe of Zebulon, [Joh. 19. 13.] in Galilei of the Gentiles, [Esay 9. 1.] which I note by the way, to meet with that of the Pharisees to Nicodemus, [Ioh. 7. 52.] where they say, p. 54[Search and know that out of Galilie, never arose any Prophet] for this man in the time of Ioash, as it seemeth, what time the Syrians oppressed Israel, and all lay open to their invasion, and they spoiled all, and there was none to deliver them; foretold that Ioash his son Ieroboam, should deliver Israel out of their hands, and avenge them of the wrongs they had endured, [2 Reg. 14. 25, 26.] and was afterward sent unto Ninive, the Metropolis or Head city of Assyria; and by his preaching brought both King and people there to repentance for their sins, [Jon. 3. Matth. 12. 41.]

Hosea, in the dayes of Ieroboam, under whom the kingdom of Israel principally flourish't; foretold the ruine and desolation of it: which also himself lived to see, as continuing in that function of prophesing, to the reign of King Hezekiah, [Hosea 1. 1.] In the sixth year of whose reign, that of Israel came to its final end, [2 Reg. 18. 10.]

To him we may adde a third, the Prophet Amos, who was taken from following his heard in Iudea, and sent to prophesie to the people of Israel, [Amos 1. 1. & 7. 14, 15.] For which cause being accused by Amasia the Priest at Bethel, before Ieroboam, and by him commanded to return into Iudea; he pronounced this heavy judgement against him. Thy wife, said he, shall play the where in the very city, and thy sons, and thy daughters shall fall by the sword; and thy land shall be divided by the cord, and thou thy self shalt die in a poluted land; (viz. of Assyria) when Israel shall be carried quite away, out of her own land, [chap. 7. 10, 12, 13, 17.] reign of the King of Iſrael 20 reign of the King of Iſrael 21 reign of the King of Iſrael 22 reign of the King of Iſrael 23 reign of the King of Iſrael 24 reign of the King of Iſrael 25 reign of the King of Iſrael 26 reign of the King of Iſrael 27 reign of the King of Iſrael 28

In Lydia, reign of the King of Iſrael 29 Ardysus of the race of the Heraclidae, The Julian Period 3917 reigned 36 years [Euseb. Year before Christ 797 Chron.] reign of the King of Iſrael 30 reign of the King of Iſrael 31

The kingdom of Macedon, reign of the King of Iſrael 32 was set up by Caranus, The Julian Period 3920 a man of the race of the Heraclidae. Year before Christ 794 p. 55reign of the King of Iſrael 33 reign of the King of Iſrael 34 reign of the King of Iſrael 35 The Julian Period 3923 Year before Christ 791 reign of the King of Iſrael 36 reign of the King of Iſrael 37 reign of the King of Iſrael 38 reign of the King of Iſrael 39 reign of the King of Iſrael 40

After Jeroboams death, reign of the King of Iſrael 41 under whom that kingdom came to its full heigth and growth of glory, The Julian Period 3930 all things declined, Year before Christ 784 and fell headlong to decay. When those tumults arose which were the fore-runners of the destruction, first of Jeroboams own house, and then of the whole kingdom; as was foretold in the [7. and 8. chapters of the prophesie of Amos] In which troubled and tempestuous state of things, all was reduced to a plain Anarchie among them: which lasted eleven years p. 56and a half, for in comparing the times of these two kingdomes, such an Interreg…um, or vacancie of a king, in the land of Israel we must make; that the six months of Zacharie the son of Jeroboam, may fall even with the thirty eighth year and the one monethmonth of Shallum, who slew him, with 39 year of Uzzia, or Azaria the king of Juda, [2 Reg. 15. 8, 13.] The Julian Period 3931 Year before Christ 783 reign of the King of Iſrael 3 reign of the King of Iſrael 4 reign of the King of Iſrael 5 reign of the King of Iſrael 6 reign of the King of Iſrael 7 reign of the King of Iſrael 8 reign of the King of Iſrael 9 The Julian Period 3938 Year before Christ 776 p. 57reign of the King of Iſrael 10 reign of the King of Iſrael 11 reign of the King of Iſrael 12

Zacharias the son of Jeroboam, reign of the King of Iſrael 1 the fourth and last of the race of Jehu, The Julian Period 3941 and was foretold from God; Year before Christ 773 began his reign in the 38 year of Azariah or Uzziah king of Juda, and reigned six months, [2 Reg. 15. 8. 12. with 10. 30.]

Now after the end of those six months, he was murthered by Shallum the sun o… Ja…esh, in the sight of all the people, [2 Reg. 15. 10.] after whose death, followed those direful calamities which were foretold by Amos the Prophet, c. 7. 9.] The High places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel made a wildernesse, when I shall arise with a sword against the house of Jeroboam.

Shallum the son of Jabesh, reigned one month in the 39 year of Uzzia king of Juda, [2 Reg. 15. 13.]

Menachem the son of Gad, going from Tirza to Samaria, slew Shallum, wasted Tipsach with the borders thereof, and ript up all the women that were great with child, [2 Reg. 15. 14, 16.]

This Menachem, is by Sulp…tius Severus in his 1 Book of his Histo. Sacra, termed here Manes; being the self-same name with Manes, or Manichaus, that grand heretique, in after times: the name of either importing as much as Parecletus, or a Comforter.

But whiles Menachem in these broiles, was tugging eleven months to hold the possession of the kingdome, God stirred up the spirit of Paul king of Assyria, to invade the land of Israel, [1 Chron. 5. 26. 2 Reg. 15. 19.]

This Pul seemeth to have been the father of Sardanapalus, who was from him called Sardan-pul. as Merodach king of Babylon, from Baladan his father, was called Merodach Baladan [Esai. 39. 1.] & is the same, whom Jul. African. calleth Acracarnes: Eusebius, Oceazapes: Stephanus Byzantinus, Cindaraxes: Strabo, Arrianus, and Suidas, Anacyndaraxes: and by other, (as we find in Atheneus, lib. 2. Deipnosoph.) Anabaxares, and moreover, considering well, the number of years assigned by Affricanus and Eusebius, to the reigns of him and his son, and reckoning the years backward, from the beginning of Nabonassar, and the end of Sardanapalus his reigne, (which I conceive to have been both at one and the same time) this Pul may well seeme to have been p. 58the self-same man, who was converted and brought to repentance by the preaching of the Prophet Jonas; so that here also the men of Ninive, may seem to have risen in judgment against this Nation: and that God here raised up a heathen man, repentant, to take vengeance of unrepenting Israel.

But Menachem gave him a thousand talents of …ilver, to help, settle and confirme him in his kingdom, [2 Reg. 15. 19, 20.] whereunto some refer that of [Hosea, 5. 1.] When Ephraim saw her disease, and Juda her sore, Ephraim went away to the Assyrian, and sent to the king of Jareb, or, to the king, that should defend, or uphold him.

Menachem being thus confirmed in the kingdome which he had gotten, began to reign quietly in the later end of the 39 year of Azaria, or Uzzia his reigne; and held the kingdome, by the space of ten years, [2 Reg. 15. 17.] reign of the King of Iſrael 2 reign of the King of Iſrael 3 reign of the King of Iſrael 4

Sardanapalus held the kingdome of the Assyrians, reign of the King of Iſrael 5 20 years, The Julian Period 3947 Jul. Year before Christ 767 Affrican. and Euseb. who in his Epitaph (which is to be read in Atheneus lib. 12. out of Cli…archus: and in Strabo, l. 14. & in Arrianus, l. 3. of the acts of Alexander) is said to have built two Cities in Cilicia, in one day, to wit, Anchialus and Tarsus. reign of the King of Iſrael 6 reign of the King of Iſrael 7 reign of the King of Iſrael 8 reign of the King of Iſrael 9 reign of the King of Iſrael 10 The Julian Period 3952 Year before Christ 762

Pekahia succeded his father Menachem, reign of the King of Iſrael 1 deceased in the 50 year of Azaria, The Julian Period 3953 or Uzzia, Year before Christ 761 k…ng o… Juda, and reigned two years, [2 R…g. …5. 2….]

Pekah, reign of the King of Iſrael 2 the son o… Remalia, The Julian Period 3955 …aving kil…ed Pekahia, Year before Christ 759 in Samaria, in his own palace, reigned in his stead 20 years, reckoning from the 52 years of Azaria, al. Uzzia King of Juda, [2 Chr. 15. 25, 27.] p. 59reign of the King of Iſrael 3 reign of the King of Iſrael 4 reign of the King of Iſrael 5 reign of the King of Iſrael 6 reign of the King of Iſrael 7 The Julian Period 3962 Year before Christ 752 reign of the King of Iſrael 9

Aradus, reign of the King of Iſrael 10 which is a verie small Iland, The Julian Period 3964 as Mela noteth, Year before Christ 750 and the whole circumference thereof, taken up with one town, and Cyzicum, in Propontis; were this year built.

Arbaces the Governour of Media, scorning the effeminacie of Sardinapalus, conspired with Belesus the Governour of Babylon, and arm…ed against him four hundred thousand men, of Medes, Persians, Babylonians and Arabians; And having been overthrown in three battails, p. 60yet in the fourth, the Bactrian souldiers falling over to him, he set upon his enemies by might, at unawares, and beat them out of their camp, and when Sardana palus put over all the command and charge of the army, into the hands of Salaemenus his wives brother, he also being twice routed by the conspirators, lost himself, and almost all his army. And when Ninive it self came to be besieged, Sardanapalus sent three of his sons and two daughters, with a great treasure into Paphlagonia, to one Cotta, Governour of that province; and withal, dispatched away messengers, and commissioners into all parts, to levy Souldiers, and provided all necessaries, reign of the King of Iſrael 12 to endare a siege, The Julian Period 3966 Diod. Sic. lib. Year before Christ 748 2.

In the third year of the siege of Ninive. The Julian Period 3966 the river overflowing with continual raines, Year before Christ 748 came up into a part of the city, and foundering the wall thereof 20 furlongs in length, bare it down; which Sardanapalus perceiving, caused a huge pile of wood to be made in his palace court, set it on fire, and therein consumed himself with his concubins and eunuchs, and all his riches, and the palace it self to ashes.

The conspirators entering, by the breach which the water had made, took the city, and proclaimed Arbaces for their king, Diod. lib. 2. and Athenae. lib. 12. out of Ctesias. And so the kingdom of the Assyrians came to destruction, when from the beginning of Ninus his reign, they had held all the upper Asia 520 years, as Herod. in his first book. c. 95. p. 61affirmeth. This kingdom therefore now falling to be divided; Arbaces, whom Strabo calleth Orbacus; but Velleius Paterculus nameth Pharnaces, having freed his country-men the Medes, from the Assyrian yoke, enabled them to live in after-times, according to their own laws; as Herodotus, in the book afore-mentioned, affirmeth. Belesis, who in holy writ, [Esay 39. 1. 2 Reg. 20. 12. is called Baladan: and by Agathias, lib. 2. Histo. out of Bion and Alex. Polyhist. Belessas, or Beleussus, and by Nicol. Damascenus, in his Eclogs, set forth by Hen. Valesius, Namnybrus; but by Hipparchus, Ptolomaeus, and Censorinus is called Nabonassarus, held the kingdom of Babylon 14 years.

Now from twelve a clock, of the first day of the Egyptian monethmonth Thoth, to wit, from the twenty sixth day of Feb. being with us Wednesday, evening, in the year 747. before our vulgar christian account, all Astronomers with one consent, deduce the Calender of Nabonassar.

Ninus the younger, held the kingdom of the Assyrians (reduced now to the old bounds, and the Empire thereof quite extinguished in Sardanapalus) 19. years: as Eusebius in his Greek Chron. out of Castor the Rhodian, who in many large Volumes explained, foreign, (i.) errours in Chronologie. This Ninus, for better lucks sake, seemeth to have assumed the name of the first founder of the Assyrian kingdom. His own, and original name being (as Eliam, lib. 12. Histor. Annal. telleth us) Thilgamus: and in the Scriptures, Thilgath-Pilneeser, [1 Chron. 28. 20.] and Tiglath-Pileser, [2 Reg. 15. 29. and chap. 16. 7. 10.] reign of the King of Iſrael 14 reign of the King of Iſrael 15 reign of the King of Iſrael 16 reign of the King of Iſrael 17 reign of the King of Iſrael 18 The Julian Period 3972 Year before Christ 740

p. 63Peka slew of the men of Juda, reign of the King of Iſrael 19 120. thousand in one day, The Julian Period 3973 all valiant men of war; Year before Christ 741 Zichi also a mighty man of the Tribe of Ephraim slew Maaseia the Kings son, and Azrikam, the Steward of the Kings house, and Elkana who was next the King in authority. The Israelites also carried away captive out of Juda and Jerusalem, two hundred thousand women, boyes, and maides, and made a vast spoile of their goods, and carried away all to Samaria: but, upon the counsel of Oded a Prophet of God, they released all that multitude of prisoners, and restored them their goods in the presence of their Princes and whole congregation of Samaria, who entreated them kindly, & caused them to be conveyed safe to their brethren at Jerico, reign of the King of Iſrael 20 [2 Chron. 28.]

When Achaz implored the aide of the kings of Assyria, (for so it is said, [1 Chron. 28. 16.] in the plurall number, by a usual enalage, or change of the number, Psal. 105. 30. Jer. 19, 3. p. 64and 25. 22. and 3 Esay. 1. 52.) against Peka, Tiglath Pileser, came up, and led away the people of Gilead or Peraea, to wit, the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses, unto Chabor and Haram, and Neher-gozan; And then passsing over Jordan, possessed himself of Galiee, and carryed away all the inhabitants of Nephthaly, which Ben-hadad had left, together with the men of Galilee into Assyria, [1 Chron. 5. 26. and 2 Reg. 15. 29.] which place compared with [1 Reg. 15. 20.] that place of [Esay 9. 1.] seemeth to be expounded.

Hosea, reign of the King of Iſrael 1 the son of Ela, The Julian Period 3975 having murdered Peka, Year before Christ 739 the son of Remalia, got the kingdom into his own hand, in the 20 year, from the time that Jotham began to reign over Juda, [2 Reg. 15.] that is, in the fourth year of the reign of Achaz, yet by reason of stirs and tumults, which arose thereupon, he could not presently enjoy it: but that state continued in confusion, and in a kinde of Anarchy, for the space of 9 years. p. 65reign of the King of Iſrael 2 reign of the King of Iſrael 3 reign of the King of Iſrael 4 reign of the King of Iſrael 5 The Julian Period 3979 Year before Christ 735 reign of the King of Iſrael 6 reign of the King of Iſrael 7 The Julian Period 3981 Year before Christ 733 reign of the King of Iſrael 8 reign of the King of Iſrael 9 The Julian Period 3983 Year before Christ 731

Hosea having composed all differences at home, reign of the King of Iſrael 1 began now quietly to reign in the later end of the 12 year of Achaz king of Juda. The Julian Period 3984 Year before Christ 730

Tiglath-pilezer, reign of the King of Iſrael 2 or Ninus the younger, The Julian Period 3986 when he had reigned 19 years, Year before Christ 728 as hath been noted out of Castor, dyed; and after him succeded Salmanasser, called Evemassar, in the Greek copie of Tobias, and this seemeth to be that Shalman, who in the prophesie of Hosea 10. 14. is said to have laid wast the house of Arbel, (famous afterward for the overthrow of Darius the Persian) in the day of battaile, to wit, the countrey of Arbela, in the land of Assyria, beneath Arpad; also against this Hosea, king of Israel, Salmanasar came up; and made him to serve him, and to pay him tribute, [2 Reg. 17. 3.]

Sabacon an Ethiopian, reign of the King of Iſrael 4 having taken Boccoris king of Egypt alive, The Julian Period 3987 burnt him in the fire, Year before Christ 727 and reigned in his place 8 years: [Assrica.]

p. 68Hosea the king of Israel, reign of the King of Iſrael 6 consulting before hand with Sous king of Egypt, The Julian Period 3989 refused to pay tribute any longer to Salmanasser, Year before Christ 725 [2 Reg. 17. v. 4.]

Which Sous or Sua, as Jerom calls him, seemeth to be none other, but Sabacon the Ethiopian.

Whence Chrysostome, in his 30 Homile upon John, saies that this Hosea confederated with the Ethiopians: and Severus Sulpicius, in his sacred History lib. 1. saith, that he drew into his side, the kings of the Ethiopians, who at that time, held the kingdom of Egypt.

Salmanasar, reign of the King of Iſrael 7 getting knowledg that Hosea, had confederated with the king of Egypt: first of all made sure of all the land of the Moabites, that he might leave no enemy on the back of him, to anoy him or his army, razing to the ground their two chief Cities, Are, and Kir-hasareth, according to the prophecie of Isaiah uttered three years before it came to passe, [Esai. 26. 1. and the last: with the notes of Tremellius thereupon:] and then he went through and wasted all the land of Israel: and then marching toward Samaria in the 4 year of Ezechia, and 7 of Hosea, in the beginning of each of them: besieged it three years, reign of the King of Iſrael 8 [2 Reg. 17. 4, 5. and c. 18. 9.]

Toward the end of the 3 year of the siege of Samaria: reign of the King of Iſrael 9 and 6 of the reign of Ezechia, The Julian Period 3993 and 9 of Hosea, Year before Christ 721 Salmanasar took Samaria, and carried away the Israelites, into his own Country, and planted them in Chalacho, Chabor, and Nehar-gosan: whether Tiglath-pilesar, had formerly transported the inhabitants of Perea, or the two Tribes and a half inhabiting on the other side Jordan, [1 Chron. 5. 26.] and in the Cities of Media, [2 Reg. 17. 6. and c. 8. 10. 11.] for the Anarchie, which there was, before the kingly power of Media was setled upon Deioces gave occasion to the Assyrian, to invade and take in that whole country, whence it was that Tobit or Tobias the elder, who saieth of himself, that he at this time, with Anna his wife, and his country men the Nepthalites, was carried away into the land of the Assyrians, and there made putveior or provider of corne and other victuals for Salmanasars houshold, and also that he was carried into media, and there placed in a principal City of Media, called Rages, and there deposited ten talents p. 69of silver, in the hand and trust of Gabel his near kinsman, and one that was carried away captive with him to the same place, [Tobit. 1.] And this was the end of the kingdome of Israel, when it had stood severed from the kingdom of Juda, by the space of two hundred fifty and four years.