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Show "GiijecndBakeofalifipar Cuisine ee es 504 fo the firteenth yeere of Ahbazmay have beene Concurrent, for the moft part, with the EZEKIA. . Befuppotine that Hefea began his kingdem,when the twelfth yeare of Ahax was almoft compleat,fome wouldfind the meanes howtodif-ioyne the firft of Hezekia from the fifteenth of 4bax, placing himyet one yearelater, of which yeare, Abaz may per haps haue lined not manydayes.But feeing that the fou reteenth and fifteenth yeeresof 1 Ki#.19-35- Exekia,may not be remoued out of theirplaces;it is vaine labour to alt er the fit ftycere, In the fourteenth yeere of Ezekia,Senacherib, inuading Inda and the Countries ad. ioyning, lofthis Armie bya miraculous {troake from Heauen, fled home, andwa flaine.The yeare followingit was that God added fifteene yeares to thelifeiof Exel, when he had alreadyreigned foureteenof his nine and twenty:and the fame yeere was that miracle feene ofthe Sunnes going backe ; of which wonder (as 1 heare ) one Bar. tholomew Scaltet,who ismuch commendedforskill in Aftronomie, hath bycalcula. on fourid the very day which anfwered vnto the twentyfift of Apri/,in the Julianyeate, being then Thurfday. Ihaue notfeene any workes of Sew/tet ; butfurely to = tion {oirregularand miraculous, it is neceffary that he produce fomerecord uation made atfucha time.Howfoeuer it be,the fifteenth yeare of Exekia agreed\ pon, and therefore we may notalter thefirft.As forthat faying, whichis vfuall in dike cafes, 2chreng8 -27- that Ahaz/leept with his Fathers, and Ezekia his Sonne reig nedin his ad,it doth no more proue that Exekia reigned notwith his Father,than thelike faying doth inferrethelike,, atthedeath of Jehofaphat, and fucceffion of schorams ; hereof, as c¢ yacerning the beginning ofthe Sonne to reigne whileft his Father lined, wee hauc already{aid eo : enough. Ofthis godly king Ezekias, we find, that his very begitining teftified his deuo- tion and zeale. For whetherit were fo,that his vnfortunateand vngracious Fathet(who had out-wornehis reputation)gaue way to his Sons proceedings, which perpapsit hy not inhimto hinder;or whether(as I rather thinke) the firft yeare and firft moneth of achios9%3. hisreigne,wherein Ezekias opened thedoores of the Tem ple,wereto be vnderftood a8 the beginning ofhis fole gouernment;weplainly find itto haue beene his firftworke, achtm3e thathe openedthe doores ofthe houfe ofthe Lord,which chazhad {hut vp, cleanted36 the Citic and kingdome ofthe Idols,reftored the Priefts to their offices & eftates,com- mandedthe Sacrifices to be offered which had bin for many yeares negleéted& brake downthe brafen Serpent ofazofés,becaufe the people burnt incenfe beforeit, &he cal- 2Kingi8. led it Wehufhten,which fignifictha lumpe ofbraffe.He did alfo celebrate the Paffe-oue with great magnificence, inuiting thereunto the Yraclites ofthe ten Tribes : many Be were,cuen out ofthofe Tribes,that camevp to Jerufalems, to thisfeaft. But the genet multitude of //rael did laugh the Meffengers ofExekia to {corne. ; hott Tt was notlong ere theythat {corned to folemnize the memorial! oftheir deliueranss out ofthe Egyptian feruitude, fellintoanew feruitude, out of which theyneutt Ho deliuered. For inthe fourth of Ezehia his teigne, Salmanaffar the Son of Tiglath me Son of Belochus, hearing that Hofea King of i/rael had practifed with See ai ‘ Egyytagaing him,inuaded Yracl,belieged Samaria,and inthe third yeare (after te _ habitants had enduredall forts of miferies) forcedit,and carriedthence the ten Ido trous Tribes into A//jrie and Media:among whomTobias,& his Sonofthe fame ee with Anzahis Wife,werefent to Ninene;in whofe Seates and Places the Apyrisns firangers.of other Nations,and among them many ofthe ancient Enemiesof theff lites,as thofe ofCutha, Ana,Hamah,and Spheraim,belides Babylonians: whole Placcs4 Nations I haue formerly defeujbedin the Treatife of the Holy Land. of Thefe later Affjrian: Kings, and thei Perfians, which followed them;-are-the firkts whomwefind mention srefore made both in Prophane and Sacred bookes, Thefe ther , ferue moft aptly to ioyne the times ofthe old World,/wheréof hers / none butthe agie haue written otherwife than fabuloufly ) with the Ages. following that wert be i knowne,and deferibedin courfe ofHiftory. Truc it is, that of Cyres and'fome o i Perfians, wefind in the Bible the fame names by which other Authors haue Ce them: but ofPhy/and Salmanaffarwithot lerAfjrian a sil hath bred queftion ofthe perfons. Therefore,whereas,ChaldeanKings,diuctlity the Scriptures dopare ie cal manalfar King ofdffur,who reigned in the time of Abaz. and Ezekia,kings ofHefeaking ofYrael, whom he Carried into captiuitie : and whereas ; ie ona 3 Po" a oath CuaP.25.Sor. ofthe Elifloty.of the World. 505 a eS mention of Wabena/far,fpeaking precifely of the tinte wherin He lined nentto fhew,that Salmanaffar and Nabonaffar were oneand the famem sItisivery pettia n. Thelikeregfonalforequireth, that it be fhewed ofNabachadnextar, that he w. asthe fame, whor Prolomy calleth wabopolaffar. } Of both thefe points Barhaleruehath well collectedfuff icient proofe fromthe exag calculations offundry good'Mathématicidns. For by themit appeares, that betweene Nabovafar.and the birth of Chrif; there paffed feuen- hundr ed forty-andfixe yeates #4 whichdiftance oftimethe r cigneofSalmanaffar was. One gtcatiproofe hereofis this: whichthe fame Bachelerus alleadgeth out ofEnci{reosRe inboldusinthe Pratenick Tables, to. Mardoccrnpadus King of Babylon-(v hom Ptolemy; {peaki g ofthree Eclipfes°6ft he Moone;whichwere imhis time; doth mention) was.the fame whom the Script ures call Merodach, who fent Eimbafladoursto Hezékia King of luda. Sotharif we reckon'back. wards tothe difference'oftime, betweene Merod zch and Salmagaffar, wethall finde it the fame which is betweene Mardo cempadus and Natonaffar, Likewife Funitins doth thew,that whereas fromthe deftruction ofSamaria, to the deftru dtion of terufalem >-in the nineteenth ofWabuchaduesz: e collecout of the Scriptures, the diftan ceof one hundred thirty and three yeares ; the felfe-fam e diftance oftime is found in Ptolomy,betweene Naboneffar and Nabopelaffar. For reas Ptolomy feemes to differ from this accompt,making Wsbowe/far moreahcient zo ftruction of Herufalem, Weare to vider ofhisreipne; fo thar thé fenen fore three, make the accompts ofthe Sei if nundred and fortyyeares, thanthe dé- that he tooke Samaria inthe eighth yeare saddedto thefe onehundred thirty‘and s fall cuen with thatof ‘Preloniy. ‘Prolasie computationis,that fromthefirft of Wabona/fdr,to thie one hundred twenty and'feuen yeares. Nowif feuen , thethirtecne enfuing ofWabachaduezza fifth ofNabopolaffar,there pafled we idde to thefe one hundred twenty rs yeaie, beforethe City' and Temple were déftroyed; we haue the fine ofone hundye andfor ty yeares. ‘In'‘plaine a are brough for all, that' Prolomy placeth the fir of Nabopolalfar-one t,ofwhichthis mayferue hundted twenty and two yeates , after the firt of Wabona/fer, which agreeth exadtly with the Scriptures. ‘To 30 thefcnotésare addédthe'confent ofall Mathe mat? fans': which in accomptof times-I hold more fure than the authority ofany Hiftory'; and theref ore Ithink? folly: to make doubt, wheieas Hiftorians aiid cafe no‘more proofes.até needeleffe,thotigh many Mathematicall'obferuatiotis doe fo throughly con- curte. : Yet forafmauch as that arsument of : the} by he proued Balg4es the Father of 240 {pare to lofea wordor two in giuing the R next obferuations ofthe heanenly Be j Nabonaffar, were in the reigne of A447 according to Prolomy, concurrent in part wit 4° the fecond ofthree dneien t Eclip fes which he ¢ » Was from 3 the bes i nning of , *y¢es,and eleanen houres:t dayof theE pptrae Moneth Thor, t ; this Eclipfe being fifty mimi tes | M oneth when thefirtt day thereofact difference L of time betw, according to the Egyptian ye: ‘rodach, wasthe§ : four, oranyy at Scaliger hirnfelfe did sfactior .,_Itis true, thar the tded, after the tithe of 1 yeare of whofe f ghe,is feuen of Wabopdffak. For? being inthe fecond-yéare of r twentyfenten yeares, feuennaffar,beginning at high-noon to the twentyfixtof Febywz- t,onthe eighteenth day ofthat neteenth ofFebrwary fo that the nalfarand Mardocempadus,is noted by doesthis proue , that 2¢erdecem-a, how dothit proue, that he w. s enough to fatisfie me, in this r y than the Sonne of #1 orthe Sonne- he " sur Countrie-tr ndthat both Torniellus, ¢ Mardocempadus to haue beene , ot Wabonaffar. Forif hee might be t perhaps beneither the one, nor the hath reprehended s¢aliger for chanwho followes Steliger herein, and Sérhud irawneinto forme of Cronology, that Jearned worke, ' De E- neaffertion, confounding Beladan with waas myleifure anddiligence could ed or Succeffion of thefetwo. Yet Ddd Cannot |