The Annals of the World, History 1 · Age of the world 2
The second Age of the World.
IN the 601 year of the life of Noah, Year of the World 1657. a. upon the first day of the first month (Octob. 23. being our friday,) the first day, as first of the new world, so now of this new year; when the surface of the earth was now all dry, Noah took off the covering of the Ark, [Gen. 8. 13.]
Upon the 27 of the second month, (Dec. 18 falling upon thursday,) when the earth was wholy dry, by the commandment of God, Noah went forth with all that were with him in the Ark, [c. 8. v. 14. 19.
Being gon forth, Noah offered unto God sacrifices, for such his preservation: and God restored the nature of things destroyed by the flood: he permitted unto men the eating of flesh for their food; and gave the rainbow for a signe of the covenant, which he then made with man, [c. 8. & 9.]
The years of mans life, were now made as it were, half shorter than they were before.
Arphaxad, Year of the World 1658. d. was now born to Se…, The Julian Period 2368 being 100 years old; Year before Christ 2346 two years after the flood ceased, [c. 11. v. 10.]
Salah was born when his father Arphaxad, Year of the World 1693. d. had lived 35 years, The Julian Period 2403 [c. Year before Christ 2311 11. v. 12.
Heber was born, Year of the World 1723. d. when Salah his father had lived 30 years, The Julian Period 2433 [c. Year before Christ 2281 11, v. 14.]
When Heber had lived 34 years, Year of the World 1757. d. he had a son born, The Julian Period 2467 whom he named Phaleg, Year before Christ 2247 [c. 11. 16.] because in his days the earth was divided, [c. 10. v. 25. and 1 Chron. 1. v. 19.] which if understood for the day of his birth, then it seemeth that at what time Phaleg was born, Noah, who formerly knew the places which were now overspread with bushes and thornes, made a division of the land among his grandchildren; and that done, that they then went from those eastern parts (whither they first repaired from the mountains of Ararat) unto the valley of S…nnar. [Gen. 11. v. 2.] where the people impiously laid their heads together, as we find in the book of wisdome, [10. v. 5.] to hinder this dispersion of them commanded by God, and began by Noah (as may be gathered out of [Gen. 11. v. 4, 6, 8, 9.] compared together) and went in hand to build the city and tower of Babylon: which purpose of theirs being frustrated by the confusion of languages, sent among them, (from whence it took the name of Babel, c. 11. v. 9.) the dispersion of Nations followed; divers companies and colonies, sitting them down in several places, as they agreed best each with other in that diversity of language. Captains and conductors, of which several companies; among others, the 13 sons of Joctan, the brothers of Phaleg, are recorded to have been, [Gen. 10. v. 26.] all which, certainly, at what time their Uncle Phaleg was born, were not come into the world. For seeing that Heber was but 34 years old, when Phaleg was born unto him, though we should suppose, that Joctan was born, when Heber was but 20 years of age, and that Joctans eldest son was born to him, when he was likewise but twenty years old, yet still it appears, that, that eldest son of Ioctan, must be six years younger than Phaleg, so that at least the younger crew of those 13 sons of Ioctan, to wit, Iohab, and three other brothers of his mentioned next before him, and which left their names, upon those golden countreys, Sheba, [Psal. 72. v. 15. Ophir. 1 Reg. 9. v. 28. & Havilah. Gen. 2. v. 11.] could not till some years after Rehu were born to Phaleg, be capable of such an imployment, as to conduct colonies by reason of their so tender age.
The years of mans age were again cut shorter by one half, than earst they were.
From hence to the taking of Babilon by Alexander the Great, Year of the World 1771. a. are reckoned 1903 years: The Julian Period 2480 which calculation and number of years made according to Astronomical observations Porphyrie, Year before Christ 2234 as we find in Simplicius, in his second book de Coelo, affirmeth to have been transmitted into Greece from Babylon, by Chalisthenes, at Aristotles sute, whence it appears that the Babylonians gave themselves to the knowledg of Astronomy, even from the very days of Nimrod, from whom all that region took the name of the Land of Nimrod, [Mich. 5. v. 6.] Forasmuch as both Babylon it self was by his perswasion begun to be built, as Ioseph. l. 1. Antiq. c. 5. reporteth, and for that there the royal seat of that kingdom was placed, as Moses [Gen. 10. 10] affirmeth, & from him Babylon it self; [Ier. 5. 15.] took her first celebrity & opinion of Antiquity.
But to return to where we left; Year of the World 1787. a. Rehu or Ragau, The Julian Period 2497 was born when Phaleg his father was 30 years old, Year before Christ 2217 [Gen. 11. v. 18.]
That the Egyptian sovereignty & regal power over the subject, Year of the World 1816. d. lasted full out 1663 years, The Julian Period 2526 is testified by Constantinus Manasses, Year before Christ 2188 which being reckoned backward from the time that Cambyses K. of Persia conquered Egypt, lead us just to this accompt, about which time Misraim the son of Cham carried his colony into Egypt, which from thence was called sometime the land of Misraim, sometime of Cham, [Psal. 105. 23, 27. Ps. 106. 21. 22.] From whence it was that the Pharasees afterward boasted, that they were the sons of ancient kings, [Esa. 19. 11.]
Serug, Year of the World 1819. d. or Saruch, The Julian Period 2529 was born when Ragau had lived 32 years, Year before Christ 2185 [Gen. 11. v. 20.]
Nachor was born when Saruch his father had lived 30 years, Year of the World 1849. d. [Gen. The Julian Period 2559 11. Year before Christ 2155 22.]
Terach or Tharah was born when Nachor his father was 29 years of age. Year of the World 1878. d. The Julian Period 2588 Year before Christ 2126
At this time Egialeus K. of the Sicyonians in Peloponesus began his reign 1313 years before the first Olympiade, Year of the World 1915. c. Euseb. The Julian Period 2625 Chron. Year before Christ 2079
And a nation out of Arabia bordering upon Egypt, Year of the World 1910. c. called by the Egyptians Hicsi, The Julian Period 2630 and signifie kingly Shepheards, Year before Christ 2084 brake into Egypt, and took Memphis, and possessed themselves wholy of the lower Egypt bordering upon the mediterranean sea; which Salatis their first K. held by the space of 19 years, as Iosep. in this 1 book cont. Appionem reports out of Manetho.
Beon their second King reigned 44 years, Year of the World 1939. c. [Manetho.]
Now when Tharah had lived 70 years, Year of the World 1948. d. there was born unto him the eldest of his three sons, The Julian Period 2658 [Gen. Year before Christ 2021 11. v. 26.] and he, not Abram (who as we shall see anon, came not into the world till 60 years after) but Haran, father-in-law afterward of the third brother Nachor, for this man, before ever his father Tharah left Vz of the Chaldeans, died, and left a daughter named Milcam, which was married to his uncle Nachor, [Gen 11. v. 28, 29.]
At this time reigned Apachnas in Egypt, Year of the World 1983. c. and continued 36 years, The Julian Period 2693 7 months, Year before Christ 2021 [Manetho.]
Phaleg the sixth from Noah, Year of the World 1996. d. died 200 and 9 years after the birth of Ragau, [Gen. 11. v. 19.]
Nachor the 9 from Noah, Year of the World 1997. d. died 119 years after the birth of his son Tharah, The Julian Period 2707 [Gen. Year before Christ 2007 11. 25.]
Noah, Year of the World 2006. d. died when he had lived 950 years, The Julian Period 2716 350 years after the deluge, Year before Christ 1998 [Gen. 9. 28, 29]
In the year 2008 of the world, Year of the World 2008. c. was Abram born; The Julian Period 2718 for he was 75 years old, The Julian Period 2996 when Tharah his father died at the age of 205 years, [Gen. 11. 32. and Gen. 12. 1, 4. with Acts 7. 4.]
Sarai, Year of the World 2018. c. who was also called Iscah the daughter of Haran, The Julian Period 2728 Abrahams brother, [Gen. The Julian Period 2986 11. 29. 30.] was born, being ten years younger than her husband Abraham, [Gen. 17. 17.]
Apophis reigned in Egypt 61 years, Year of the World 2020. b. [Manetho.] The Julian Period 2730 Year before Christ 1984
Rehu or Ragau the 7 from Noah, Year of the World 2026. d. died 207 years after the birth of Saruch, The Julian Period 2736 Gen. Year before Christ 1978 11. 21.
Serug or Saruch, Year of the World 2049. d. the 8 from Noah, The Julian Period 2059 Year before Christ 1955 died 200 years after the death of Nachor, [Gen. 11. 23.]
Near about this time it was, Year of the World 2079. b. that Chedorlaomer K. of Elam, The Julian Period 2089 The Julian Period 1925 or Elimais, situate between Persia and Babylon, subdued the Kings of Pentapolis, to wit, Sodome, Gomorrah, Adma, Seboim and Bela, or Zoar, all which served him twelve years, [Gen. 14. 1, 2, 4.]
Ianias reigned in Egypt 50 years, Year of the World 2081. b. and one month, The Julian Period 2791 (Manetho. Year before Christ 1923)
God called Abraham out of Uz, Year of the World 2083. a. of the Chaldeans, to go into the land that he should shew him, [Gen. 15. 7. Ios. 24. 2, 3. Neh. 9. 7. Acts 7. 2, 3, 4.] Now this Vz, which besides Stephen the Proto-martyr, Abarbenel also, upon [Gen. 11.] placeth in Mesopotamia, was the habitation of the Priests and Mathematicians, who from their art, were stiled by the name of Chaldeans; by which name also; even in Chaldaea it self, those Genethliaci, or casters of nativities were distinguished, and known from the rest of the Magi, or wise men of that country, as we find in [Dan. 2. v. 2, 10. c. 4. v. 7. c. 5. v. 11.] and from these it was, that Terach and his sons learned their Idolatry, [Ios. 24. 2.] This Terach therefore took Abram his son, and Lot his nephew, the son of H…ran and Sarai his daughter in law, Abrams wife, and taking their journey together from Vz of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, came to Carran, in the same country of Mesopotamia: and there made their abode, by reason of the great infirmity and sickness of Terach, Year of the World c. and when Terach had fulfilled 205 years, The Julian Period 2793 he died in Carran, Year before Christ 1921 [Gen. 11. v. 31, 32.]