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Show jai po en 2nll OER Tbesirjt Booke of thefirst part Cwar.8.§ 12.434 Cua P.3.§.12.4.5.6.7. of the Firforie ofthe Weld, or Hit. -ophefecond fatine of Canaan Was Heth or Cethas ! ofwhom came the He thites bites one of tHofetenen principall Nations(Commianders of Canaanappointed by God ke Neve! Gabe rooted out? nately the Gergélites the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizxites, the Ge#.I0.19+ Gen.23+ GeD27hS, 4-Kine7,6. Hesires and the Febufites.1Nie Hittitesinhabited about Berfabe, and towards Heb romneere the Torrent Befor avid about Gerar; which'Mofes maketh the vtternoft limit of Canady, fading the Defart of Pharam'to the Southrfor about Berfabe(other wile Pateus saramenh) foure milesfromGasa dwelt Herb and his Pofterity,as far to the Northeaft as Hebron ~Mioreand ofEvbraim there did Abrabam buythefield of Sarabs buriall.O fwhich Nation Rebeeca bewailed her felfé to H/aac, faying, Thatfhe was wearyofher life forthe A Daughters ofUcth.The Giants Anakin were of thefe Hittites, aftrong & fierce Nation, "loteatertaiiment by thé kings ofYael againft thémthe Syrians greatly' feared:asin thefourthofthe Kings ; rac! bath hired avainft us the Kings\of the Hittites. Of Sini and Avtadi. -- the eight fon, Hiero/olymitanusfets at Caparorfa,which Ptolemyfindes in lade, not farre fromJebus; tothe South thereof, faith Juvias.But it is more probable shal Sineus founded Siz, whichS. Hieromecalls Sim: Ptolomy; Sitayra s Meleand Pliny sii ‘us: Brachard:, Sycon, (called Symachz:)neere Arca, Pererius thinkes that Sineus inhabined Jefarts of'Sénaz,or thereabout ; but hereofthere is no other certainty than the es rachard,whotooke view. ofall. thefeplaces,atfirming,that Sizens built feast ie as Zidon built Zidom.There isalfo another Nation Ofciv (written with the leew ay IO port or wile Keni) who-defcendediof Hobab the fon of Ragael the Madtaaite who ait nd J in their conduction thtoughthe Wildernes of PharanBut thee Giz ei ~ a admitted among the //rae/ites, and hadaiportion of Landwith the Nephtaliins "belid > rations withthe Amalekites: againgt thele Cinei, Balaam prophecied th it he Bee tel LT. Ofthe Tebufites ana Amorites. Ebufens,thethird fonne of Canaan,of whom camethe sebufites,and whofe principall feat was Iebus,(afterward Hierufalem)were alfo a valiant and ftubborne Nation , and heldtheir City andthe Country neereit, till fuch timeas Dauéd by Gods affiftance tc coueredboth: yet were notthe Jebufites extinguifhed,but were Tibutaries to Salomot ~ Amoreus was the fourth fonne of Cawaan,ofwhomthe Amorites tooke name, who i0habited that Landto the Eaft of Iordam belowthe Seaof Galilee, hauing Arzonat Mountaints of Ga/aad'on thie Eaft,and Jordan onthe Weft: ofwhomO¢(King o and Sihon (ouerthrowrie by Mees) were Princes. \ The Amorites had alfo many other habitations difperfed within the bounds of édeftroyedby the Afjrians. Nwmy in the Mountaines of Judas and in Jdumea neere the Metropolis thereof, called Du taxAnd hereof ivcame that all the Canaanites were fometime called 4morites: 1510 Géncfis, the fiftechth «Fer ithe wickedneffe of the Amorites isnotyet full. And that this was alfo.a powerfull Nation, wee finde in the Prophet -4mos: Tet deflreyed 11h0? oe beforethem,\ whofe heighth was like the heighth of a Cedar, and he wasfirong the Oake, i oh eee 4.0001 Ofthe Gergefites ,Heuitesand Havkites. TH fift fonne of Canaan was Gergefeus or Gergefion, (otherwife Girgaft) who inhabi ted on the Eaft fide of the Lake of Tiberias, or the Sea ofGalilee, where Prolomy{es the City Gera/a , which Jofephus cals Geféra,in the Territory of Decapolis, Here it WS that Chrift difpoffeft the poffeffed with Diuels,and the Gergefites defired him to depat'# their Coafts:becaufe their Swine,filled with the euill {pirits,drownedthemfelues inthe Sea of Galilee. Gergefews alfo built Beritus ({ometime Geris) afterward Felix Ialia,thiet miles from the Riuer Adonis in Phanicia : in which the Romans held a'Garrifon.: and 1 whichAnga/las gaue manylarge priuiledges. j Heuews the fixth fonne,andFather of the Henites,inhabited vnder Libanus neex Emtl Thefe Henites howfocuerthe Caphthorimcxpelled a good part ofthem(as in Dewter"e my thefecondis remembred)yet manyofthem remainedall the warre of Lofise, 2! jak terwatdtothe time ofSaloman,.For God was not pleafedvtterly to rootoutth ninth fonne was .Aradews or Aruadeus;whointhe Ile of Aradus built tl de City Aue Gul Tyr. Pitre ar hs OfZemati. eus, or Zemari, the tenth fonne,thereate diuers opinions. Some think that ed in Cele/pria at Ede/fa,and founded Samaraim,which in Iofwa is placed . Thereis alfo Samaraym (of the fame Orthography) ee the Mountains of rv aitm({aith Beroaldys)mentioned in the fecond of Chrowicle: e Sige Beroal.i# Chro hthe Lativze conuerteth amiffe (faith he) by Semceros. The Hterofolymitan Paraphr sft oe Ssre Samareus (of whom werethe Perizzites)theparent of the Emiffani fan » Which Pliny 3 See eis. 7 ait jemi, i 1Ca efyria irfl } itrati ; andit may fie be thatt it was theirfi rft habita tion, and that ls inhabited thofe other places before remem bred.But that they founded t, both the Hebrew Orthographic; and this place in the firft Kivos /Tpeo tiingyxiy 16.28 (peak the firft of of Kings accin ve. a rer bag, ba al ve Ane be bon at the ] Loans axing Samer ia a Snemeron of one Sheme r, ver , and built iw the Mountaine ; and called the name of the City which the mame of Shemer, Lord of the Monntaine, Samaria. But of alf thefe [{peake more at large int jueft of the holy Land, bythe child ren of vhomfocuerthe Samaritanes we defcended,fure I am, thar tl Pen 3] ae Icy Were cuer tion.and bale:for as longas the ftate of the ewes ftood vp, they alwaies Fee scare ; j eee sha fileteA orActinnba soe es :curhen when itit fuffered fanke.th y then vtte rly denied to be of thar ; yr at f timeas they were returned from their. firtt captinitie ao 1¢ 2 mixt Nation ; partly of the Colonies of the Affyria nsandpartlyof the VLitL Of Hamarhi. written, Judges thethird: They remainedto prone Ucael by them, whether they would obey wards Arachis: 36 7 (hi Lemae wt) & in this He preachedthe Gofpell; and founded a.Ghuich in honourof our Lady wee finde no{uch workeof his.in.the 4@s ofthe Apottles Both thefetwo were very famous,andplaces ofskilfull Sea-men .: whom Ezechiel oda -:_ propheciesagaintt the Tyrians:The iahabitantsof Zidon and Aru ad were ¢ pot cons, but they were lometimes made Tributariesto the Ifreelites, and at other, tM ferued (in their falling awayfrom the true worthip of God) to afAia them: for asi? ? Commandements of God. " : The feuenth fonne was Araceus or Harki, who between the footeef Libanas andth Mediterran Sea, (ouler again Tripolis) built the City ‘ofArchas, Arce, or Arc4, BO abe ¥ Jo ita s soppofite againft which Iland on the Maine of Phenicia, they founded anothc¢ ofthat name, which for oppofition was. afterwardsicalled Antaradus. Loithis City aSbehitide Libanas in theedge of Celefjriajor Syria Libanica. They had alfo their being Deut.r) hay is t Hamath, Antioch KA Hamatheus,or according to the Hebrew) Hamathi, of which (theafpiration taken away)the fameis pros nt.lofephus 8 Saint Hieromé confound £- ich ftandeth on the Riuer Orontes; onthe frontic? sirh dthe Dy, Prouince of 2 Picria, and Sclencis A lenativs Were borne. , 5 hftandeth berweene Apames |