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Show Thefecond Bokeofthefrit part Cy Ar.B.§'2, Cuars8.§.2.- ae §. If Of the King's of Tyre. begathetedadefcentoffome twenty Kings of the ‘Tysians; bur thefe Author s, though they both pretend to write out of Asenander Ephefins; decin no fort agree in thetimes of their raignes, norin otherparticulars, ; tobi} , : Abibalus isthe fit King ofthe Tyrians.that Tofephusand Theophilus vemember:,whom Theophilus calls Abemalus,:the {ame perchance thav the ‘fonne. of Sirach mentio nethin Vt whatfocuer-remaineth of the ftorie and Kings of Phoenicia(thebookes of Zeno, Sachoniatho, Adgafeas,and.others ofthat Nation,bein g no where found) the fameisto bee gathered out.of the Scriptures, /o/e_phus, and Theophilis Antivchenus. : gener lived at once with loft, towhomfucceeded Phenix,of whom thatpart of Canaan, and fo farre towards the North as Aradus, tookethe name of Phoenicia:wha King iucceeded Phenixit doch norappeare: butat fuch time as the Grxcians belieged Troy, Phafis gouerned Phoenicia. In Hieremies time, and while Jeboiakim ruled in Iuda, the Tyrians had a King apart: for Chap.27.3. Hieremie{peaketh ofthe Kings of Zidon, of Tyre, ofEdom, &c. as offeuerall Kings, 1n Xerxestime, and when he prepared thatincredible Armie wherewith hee inuaded Greece, Tetramzeflus ruled that part of Pheenicia,about Tyre, and Zidon: whocom manded,as fome writers affirme, Xerxes fleete, or rather, as I{uppofe, thofe 300. Gallies, which himfelfe brought to his aide : forat this time it feemeth, that the Phoenicians were Tributaries to the Perfian = for being brokeninto Reguli, and.pettie Kings in Hieremies time,they were fubiec&tedby Nabuchodonozer 3 Of whofe conquefts in the Chapter before remembred , Hieremie prophecied. Tennes, though not immediately, fucceeded Tetramnefius; remembred by D:Situlu in his 14. Booke. 0 Strato, his fucceffor, and King of Zidon, Alexander Afacedon dependancie vpon Darius, and that his Predeceflors had ferucdthrew out, becaufe ofhis the Fatt Empire againtt the Grecians. But divers Kings, ofwhom there is no memorie, and Strato. For there were.confumed130. yeeresand fomewhatcame betweene Teasts more between Xerxes and Alexander Macedon: And this man was by Alexander efteemed the more vaworthy of reftitution, becanfe (faith Curtins) hee rather fubmitted Athiaseagz, Higenit. * himfelfe by the inftigation of his Subieés (who forefaw their Vtterruine by refiftance) han that he had any dilpofitionthereunto, or bare any goodaffection Py towards the Macedonians. Ofthis Strato, atheneus outofT;heopommpus reporteth, and moft voluptuous; alfo that hee Appointed certainethat hee was amanofill living, games andprizes for Wome" dancers,and fingers, whom hee to this end chiefly inuit ed,and aflembled ;that having beheld the tmoft beautifull and liuely among them ,he might recouer themforhis owne vie and delights; Of the ftrangeaccidentabout the death of one Strate King of Coafts, S.Hierome and others make mention : who hauing jheardthat the Perfians thee ‘Deere him withan Armictoo weit waightyforhis little grace, becaufe of his falling away from ftrength,& finding that he was to hope fot that Empire,and his adhering to the Egy' tans ; he determiniag tokil l him felfc, butfainting in theexecution, his wife being pre {ent, wrelted the {word out ofhis hand andflew him : which done "thee alfo therewlt Pierced her owne body, and died. , After dlexander was polleftof ‘ me fe Zidon, andtl ne otherStrato driuen Kinedoi thence, He mero Hephe,tion, to difpoe Pe arta of: Who hauing receiued great entertaingaue tht ment 0 one ofthe Cirizens,in whofedilpole houfe he lodged, offered to recompence Pilinolis therewith; wen ite . = a willingly offered toeitablith him therein ; butthis Citizen Ps no leffeoovertuous that ap befired Heph eflion that this Honour might beinferred on fome one ofthe bloud : and prefented yato him Balozyns, whom Curtin cs Kings s.and Acient PG fusis a Arattomin lufline Abdolomiu Plutarch _Alymor eb : atthe very houre Lynomus: Who Was called ro this regall Eft: ‘ , ure that Mt kL: 7 ate, Was with m g in Sajie his tS Garden his owne-hands st y fel , fett inga. workin hearbs and rootes, for hi Steliefe and fuftenance: though otherwife a wife man andes! ceeding iuft, ‘ T ia Were the ancient Kingsof Zidon: whofeftate being afterward Sh : o1 cplee bytimes changed and turnesfubiected to the Emperour s ©ints the mut? there remaineth no farther memorie : ky: of them, ichis than that which is fformet ly dese ted in the Tribe of Affer. >than that whichis £ ' SoEne: ofTy: ¢,who they were before Samsue/s time, it doch not appeare: fp Sande CiChronicles the ma "ex: many things wherewithr hee garnifhed Ty: ronicles _ oe ry Ayan 3 : and qurof Jofephus, and Theophilu Beahis Ancqae s Antiochen usphere ma)pe ™? of the Hiftorie ofthe World. Cap. 46, his fourtie arid fixth' Chapter; {pcaking,of thePiinecsof. the Tyzians , ; Tothis Abibalus, Sdron {ucceeded, if he be norondand the fame with bcbale s, Danid (faith Eafebias out ofExpolemusj conftrained this Suron to pay /him/ Tribure;-of, whom oe 10 alfo Dawid complaineth, 2/4/83.) ch Hiram{uccecded Surdn, whom Lofeshys calls Irom, and Tiheophi lus fometime Hier oni. mus Someti me Hieromus, but Tatian and Zosaras sChiram,. Heeént rédintoa league with Danid,and fent him Gedars,with Malonsadd Carpent ers, to performe his builuings. in Hicrufalem, after he had beaten thence the Iebufitess The fame was he that fogrearly at filed Salomon: whomhe not onelyfurnithed with Cedars, and other Materials towards the raifing of the Temple, and with great fummies of money, buralfo he ioyned with him in his enterprize of the Eaft /zdia,and of Ophir.: and furnithed Salomon with Mariners and Pilots: the Tyrian s being ofall Nations the moft excellent Nauigators : and lent him120.talents of gold. Ofthis Hiram, there isnot oneli mention in diuers places of Scriptur e, but in Jo/ephus in his Antiquities the 7.and 8.chap.2.& 20 booke,in Tatéanus his Oration againft the Grcekes:and in Zonara3. in Theophélus his 34 = Sam.s.&ce} s,Tome the firft. This 7 Bead Princeifeemedto be véry mighty and magnificent, heédefpifed:th Salomon offered him : he defended himfelfe againft thatvictorious e-20. Townes.which : Chron. 4, King Damid:and gatie * Chron-28.5. hisdaughterin marriage to Salomon, called the Zidonian: for whofe fake he was cententedroworthip 4/ferot h, the Idoll of the Phcenicians.Hiras lined: 5 3.yeere s. Baleaftartus whom Theoph, Antiochenus calleth Bazorus, facckeded Hiram; King of Tyre and Zidon, and reigned 7.yeeres according to Jofephus . 7 Abdaftartas thecldeft fonne ofBaleafartus, gouerned 9.yeeres,-and lined but-so; yeeresaccording to Joféphus: bur after Theophilus hee reigned ,n2s:yeere,and:liued 546 whobeingflaine by the foure fonnes ofhis owne Nurfe; theeldeftiof theni held the 30 Kingdome 12.yeeresy Aflartus brotherto Abdafartus;tecouered the Kingdo mefrom this Vdurpersand reigned 12.yeares. Aftarimas, ox Atharimnsaftet Theophilussathird brother followed Aflartns; and. rins toferb.sql led 9.yeeres,andliued inall 54. Theoph.58, Phellesthe fourth fonne of Balea/ertits, and brothe rtothe thtee fotmer Kings, flew 7 beoph, Aftarimus, and reigned 8::none ths slined 5 o.yeeres. " Ithobalas ( ov luthobalus.in Theophilus fonneto. the third brotker 4farimas, who was the chiefe Prieft of the Goddey »Which wasadigniry next vptothe King, renenged the'death of his father, andflauchteredhis Vackle Phelles : and reigned 32, yeeres, Lofeph-3 2, 4° the fame which in thefirft of Kings,chap. 16. is called Ethbaal; whofe daughter Lezabel ; THbopt- 334 Achab matried. lezor Or Bazor the fontie of thvbalus or Ethba al,brothetto Jezabel, fatceeded hig 1 King. 16.31, -yeeres, and lived in all 45. Zoferh.6. yeeres <or,andreigned bur 9.yceres(faith Jofiphusjh E e had two fons, 2 Lofe 77%%/-** ‘28mai son anc Barca, and two daughters Eli/z and -Anna, a29» Theoph. Pygmal ion reigned after Mettimas his Father yecre of wholereigne,E/i/z failed irito Africa 49. yeeres, and Hiued'56. Inthe feuenth ; and built Carthage, 143, yecres and 8; moneths afterthe Temp!e of Sa/awon:-w hich by our accompr-was 289. yeeres Treytaken,and 143. before Kome: and theref ore that fiction by Virgil of ~Aneas after and $¢ Dido mutttbe be farre farr our off {quare. For-? ygmalion couctous of Sitheas hi Ss riches , who had married his fifter Elifa;flew himtraitero ufly as he accompani¢d him in haunting : of if we belecue /ufline and Virgil, acthe Altar : whereupon Elifa fearing tobe defpoiled of? her husbands tcalhre; fied by Seainro Mfrica ,as aforefaid: whom when Pygmalion pres pared to purf ¢ was by his mothers téares, and by threats . from the Oracle arrefted, i his fiftey fted her, in theerection ofCurthave + and from him 1¢ Barce in dfjrica, of which race defce nded maoy famous "ahh. Seruiusinterprets this name of Dido fc of her man-like a@ ‘others from /edidi a; 2 Jurname of Salomgn. by Virago, bes , Elulems |