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Show Ti ‘i eu i}: 54.0 ee - aenee. Lhefecond ‘Booke of the firSt part Cuap,28. §3 greater punifhment than verbal anger, due to them, if hey thould a Sohe depar. tedycarrying along withihim into Egypt the vnfortunate king /ehoabaz, who diedin his og see ne of Zeboahaz was included in the end of his Fathers laft yeare ; otherwife jt would hardly be found, that /ehoiakim, his fucceffour, did reigne ten whole yearess wheras the Scriptures giue him eleuen,that arecurrentand incomplete. Ifany manwill rather caft the three moneths of this fhortreigae,into thefirft yeare of the brother,than into the fatherslaft;the fame arguments that hall maintaine his opinion,will alfo proue ca the matter to be vnworthy of difputation ;and fo Ileaucit. reboiakim in impiety waslike his brother, in faction he was altogether Egyptian , ag 20 hauing receiued his Crowne at the hand of Pharao, The wickednefle of thele laft kings, being expreffed in Scriptures none otherwife,than by generall words, with referenceto all the euillthat their Fathers had done ; makes itapparant, that the poyfon wherewith Abazand Manaffes had infected the Land, was not fo expelled by the zealous goodnes 2 chron.36. 14. OfJofis, but thatit ftill cleaued vnto the chiefe of the people, Yea vatethe Priefis alfos and therefore itwas not ftrange, that the Kings hadtheirparts therein. The Royall authority was much abafed by the dangers wherein the Country ftood, in this troublefome age : the Princes did in amanner what they lifted ; neither would the Kings for-' beare to profelfe, that they could deny themnothing. ‘Yet the begin ning of Ieboiakim had the countenance of the Egyptian to grace it, which made him infolentand cruell,?? aswe finde by thatexampleof his dealing withthe Prophet : thonghherein al- fo the Princes doe appeareto haue been inftigators. ‘This holy man denounced Gods iudgements againft the City and Temple, in like fort as other Prophets had formerly done, anddid inthe fame age. The King withiall the men of power, andallthe Princes,hearing ofthis,determinedto put him to death. Hereuponthepoore man fled into of the Fliftorie ofthe World, the Scriptures. io yet is he named by good confentof Authors, and "2 rence to haue bee i length ofhis Reigne is gath fomuchremaineth ofthe timethat paffed betweencthe bes his Nephewes Reignes (whichis a knowne futhme) dedu@ine t and ofhis fonne Nabulaffar.. This(as I takeit) was he that had M leafed him. He {pedill in Sytia , where P/ammiticus, ; fromallpriuiledge. Itconcerned Pharaoto giueall contentment poffible to sehoiakime : for the Aflyrian Lyon,that had notftirred in many yeares,began about thefe times, to roare fo loud vp- onthebankes ofEuphrates , that his voice was heard vnto Nilus, threatning tomake himfelfe Lord ofall the Forreft.: The caufes that hitherto had withdrawnethe houfeof Merodach, from oppofing the Egyptianin his conqueft of Syria, require our confidera- e of his Merc Greekes,did muchpreuaile. This may haue been fome caufe that herelea fed Adava/fes and did put into his hands fome part more of the Kingdo me ofSamaria: whichis ade probable by circumftances alleadged before Nabulafjar that reignedin Babylon z s father Ben Merodach liad crea 20 in his owne Kingdome,than wor 1imto look oad ¢ infom t thoughtto haue been agreat negligence orouer- fight of P/ammiticus a co,that did noc occupy Lome goodpart of his Dominions beyond Eupht Fort was inhis That City (as Herodot reports inuaded Aflyria, and b of Naz balalfa r, but cc it) hauing ofall her dependants.yer remained in This makesit plain, thachowfoeu tiomin this places before we proceed to committhem together at Charchemifh,where d Nineue : fi fucl been a Saueraighe Lady,was not forfaken perog ix? that ofher felfe the was well enough. rodach had gotten pofleffion ofthis imperialf eat, and made it fubieétas wasthe reft ofthe Country; yet it found thé meanesto fet it el Catliberty : asafter this againe he did, when it had been regaine d by Nabulaffar his fhortly after this,theglory ofEgyptistofall. Grand-childe. 49 Erodach the fone ofBaladan, who taking the aduentagethat Seanacheribsmilwiththe diffention betweenehis children pte death, together Miers fented,madeand himfelfe king ofBabylon, was elcuen years troubled witha pe erfull Enemy 4/ar haddonthe fonne of senvacherib ,-teigning ouer the: Affyrians inNt neue ; from whomwhileft he could not any other way-diuert his cares, he was tae to omitall bufineffe in Syria, and(as hath beene formerly fhewed) to make ouervate Ezeksa fome partof the Kingdome ofthe.ten Tribes..From-this moleftation,the death of Afarhaddon did not only. fechim free, but gauc vato him fome part of Aflyn4 ifnot (as is commonly,but leffe probably thought) the whole Kingdome. How-gte#) this was to the liking ofthe Affyrians, Iwill nothere ftand to enquire : his long relgo® following,&hislittle intermeddling in matters ofSyria,makeit plain,thathe had wot enoughat home,eitherin defending orin eftablifhing that which he had gotten. 44 vpon fome capitulation: ane [jes Prifoner,ane laying hold vponall tha Lordthip that they held in Afi lyafore-hand,howth : with hopes ofconqueri gA 30 Phraortes, the fonne of Detoce g of the Medes, hauing by manyviGories enlatged his Dominions, conceived at lengch a faire pomibility of making himfelfe Lord of Nineue, ; : al 31 = ty of {ich inhumane ctimes,as for the generall good of mankinde fhould be exempted phus zines himthe honourof hauing wonne Nineueit felfe, which we maybeleeuc;>¥ furely he did not hold it long. For in the times foone following, that great City ¥® my parts; as long as the Iewes werehisfriends I the tians, that maligned the Northerne Empire, held themfelues quiet at ho which was vntil! the time af Pfammiticus,about theend of this Kings Reigne,orthe be inningofh is fon, P oa Ben Meroaach the fon and {ucceffourofthis Kir xis not me ) ed in the comming ofthe Scy fadour,andfent backeto the death ; contrary to the cuftome vfed, both in thofe daies, & finceamongall ciuill Nations,of giuing refuge vntoftrangers, that are notheldguil- §.LLI. Ofthe Kings ofBabylon.and Media.How it cametopalfe that the Kinzs of Babel could notgine attendance on their bufineffein syrias which caufed themto lofe that Pronince. SAL and refufed afterwards to contintie fubied,whenthe Kings, being of theChald "an race. > preferted Babylon before it. 7 Somethinkthat this was the Affyrian King; whofe Captaines tooke Mfanaffes prifonet; but I rather belecue thofe that hold the contrary ; for wl [have giuenrf my reaq fons in due place. Tofay trurh,] findelittle caufe why Merodac hfhould haue looked into thofe time, that Paraortes King of the M whence he was notrepelled by Egypt: but fuch regard was had vntoJehoiekim,that Vria was delivered vntohis Embal- free, and vanquifhed Phraortes the Median. Perhapsit yeelded Cuar28.§ 3. Sharpe warre, and the very noueltyof fuddaine violenc * e, vieto difmay any State or 40 Country > fot inuredto the like : but cuftome ofdangerharde neth euenthofe that are ee Nineue had been thePalace of mat y valiant Kings latelyreigning therein; thefoaueredand refifted,all the fury, wherewith either Domefticall thmults between » 8 Seanacherib,or forreigne warof the bylonians, could affiG@it + and thereantiga Wonderfull, that Phraortes did {peed fo ill in his tourneyagainft ‘it-He cling hee a Army perifhed in that expedition : whereof I finde no particular needfully, Tei tia he vadetualuedth : d broughta leffe power than was Puee: he oo nereimn ee may belecue PIErUngLa ys = ? Sichatae. eae of Phraortes,a brauerman of warthanhis Father, wan'as much of vpon the » fromtheRiner ofHalys ; heefought reuenge SOAflyriais fcke 2 ene eden Fhatierinee ofh . het,&befieged Nineue it felfe,hauit ‘ 6 it than Servidetu j rs, peri: Phathee Tokee vee City 2 -o Wis Sicslf anciin > Thit ate Stythiaz Armycam s before Ss it. Por nei ee _ whileft heelay yethauine> abe By e@ contradiGory (asBy) ebius though far later than Herodotes, readingtheredo I ho : uthors that are now loft,it is to be valued according to his great att A 1oldit bet, eld vnto'thebeft likelihoods. ethat the Scythians came vpon Cyaxares,whileft helay before Nineue,were to accufehimof improuidence, than ought to be fufpected in one commended #54 00d Souldi steater et Butto {ippofethat he was fainéto leauethe Towne, when a Warre'' i, |