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Show The fecond Bookeof thefirSt part ChePs.8.6 Cuars Giz Citiefocalled sand with him the King of Horma': to which place the: Ifraelites' purfued the Canaamites. And henameth them amongftthofe K ings, Which he vahquifhed, and pir roideath. 2G TUE sh sev ooNowafter this affaule and farptize by Arad, Mofes finding that all entrance on that fide was defended,he led the people Eaftward to compatfle /dwmeaand the Dead Sea, and this : But the Greeke Septuagint vary. FortheGreehe writes it to this eked 2 For thys itis faidineherodke: The warre ofthe Lord hath burar (or tiflamed)Zoob, and the brookes of <7Ar to make his entrance by 4raozand the Plaines of A4oa6, at that time in the pofleffionof "20%: Iumins forthe Red Seapwhioh is inthe Gexeviar ands"ulgar Edition namesthe Re the Amorites. But the Iffaelites, to whom the very name of a Defert was terrible, be. of * suph,a Countrey bordering the Dead Sea towards the Eaft, as he conicé ireth. Texthe readeth thus. Jdcives-dici foletinrecenfionebellorum lehoux, contra \ Regione Suph: & contra flumina famina Arnont, Therefo re ts it 16 attailes oflchouah,acain( Vaheb,tathe Coyatrey ofSuph:znd gan againe torebell againft their Leader; till God by a multitude of fiery Serpents, (chat is, by, thebytiag of Serpents, whofevenom inflamed them, and burntthem asfite) madethemknowtheir error,and afterward, accordingto his plentiful grace, cured them againe by theirbeholding an artificiall Serpent, by his Commandement{et vp. From the Aount Har, A4o/ésleauing the ordinary way which lyeth betweene the Rel Sea,and Celofyriasencamped at Zalmona : andthence hee remoued to Phunon, wherelice crected the Brazen Serpent ; making thefe iourneys by theedge of Zdwmea, bur without it. For Phynon was fometime a principall City of the Edomites.' Now whereitis, writ tenia Nuembers21.Verfeq. That from Mount Hor they departed by thewayof the Rede, which grieuedthe, peoplesic was not thereby meant that the Ifraelites turned back toward the Kea Sea ;neither didthey march ( according to Fonfeca) per viam que habet a later marerubrum By the waythat fidedthe Red Sea, butindeed they croft, and went athwat the common way from-Ga/aad, Traconitis, and the Countreysef Atvabs to. the Red Set," thatis, to Efiongaber, Eloth;and Adidian : which way,asitlay Northand South, fo Hrath to fhunne the border of Edo, and totake the vemott Eat part Atoad, ‘croft the coftmon Way towards the Eaft,and then they turned againetowardof s the North, as before. From PAwwon he went to Oboth s where they entredthe Territory of azosb, adioyning tothe Land of Arnon. In which words he vnderftands, that amonsf trhe w pofed for the goodofthe Iftaelites, there was in thofetimes a famous t mouth ofmoftien, concerning the Waite of Sehonagainit Vaheb , thet red and of his' winning the Countrey neéré 4rnon, out bites. Foi'this Yaheb was the itamediate predeceffourof oftl 1e pofle Balac, who! though it be written that this Be/ac was the fon of Zippor, and not (asit is plaitte inthe futceffion of the Edomites) that thele Kinodc Not fueceffine: And as Tuaiue itv this Tranflation vader ftandeth n the bateailes ofthe Lord:f orhets,as 7atablys in his Annotations,d place any-fpeciall Booke be meant; and ifany,whetherit be nora prediction of future ages,to be waged inthefe places,and to be writrenin ¢.46.tells vs plainely thatthofe battailes of the Lord were the Book of 2 fought by Zo/: (faith hebefore bina like tabim Sfor befought the battailes ofthe Lord.Bucfeeing ries ofthe Scripture elfewhere often pafle‘ouér matters of creat weightin f ferting the Reader to other Bookes, wiiteetof the famematteiat large:th meth probable, that {uch a Bookeas this there was); witéerein thefeuerall viGories racl obtained, andalfo of suph,a Countrey bordering on the Dead Segsand from thence to Abarim, therightand thirtieth Manfion, thatis, wherethe Mountaines | atd'areas yet but finall. Mountures of Hills, on the Eaftbo fcalled take beginning, rder:o f Moab, Fromthenc they reconered Dibon Gad, orthe River of Zared ,whic bia, and runneth towardsthe Dead Sea, notfarre from h rifeth in the mountaines ofAr Petra the Metropolis thereofbeing the aineand thirtieth Stations... And hauing paftthar Riuer, they lodged at-Dibon Gad? aad fromehence they keptthe Way to Diblathaim,one ofthe Cities ofMosbswhich Hitt mie the Prophet Chap.48s Verfex2, calleththe How/e ofDiblathaimche fame whichafterward wasdeftroyed among the reft: by Nabwc hadnészar. From thence they came to theRiuer of Arwonand encampedinthe mountaines of Abarim- though in the22, NumbersAdofes doth notremember Helos of ondiblatha im, but {peaketh ofhis remonefrom the Riuer of Zaredimmediately tothe other fide of -Arzow. calling 4rvonthe botdet of 4toab,bceweenc thearand:the Amorites: fpeaking;a s he found, the ftareofthe County atthattime., For drzon wasnot anciently the borde #ed fromthe Maabites, by Sebon;King ofthe Amori r of Moab, bur waslately congue: tes: cuen from Predecefloiiro Btla6 Pear. thenreigning,: From Dibla thain, Mofes fenemellengers to the schon, Kingof the*? Amorites,to defire.a paflagé throughhis Countrey.: which though he knew wouldbe Henied himnyet he defined to giue areafon tothe neigh bour Nations of the warreheva: dertooke, And though Edom had refufed him as Schon did, yetjhe had no warrant fiom Godtocnforcehim,, ofes alfoin fending meflengerstoS eho», obferued thie fate! Ceptwhichhe leftto his Pofterity andifieceffours , fora law of the s namely i sam Deyt.20.Verfe 10.in thefe words 3 ben thou conmeff necreuntoaaCitjawarre tofgcbs againpitt thou {hale "Ofst tt: perces which ifth docacceptof and open unto thpe then Lee all the pelein found therein be tributaries vatothee,and ferue thes but if it réfsfe ake thay fale foie? the males thereof withehaedce ofthe frord.: Whichordinan ge-all commanders of AY mies "Vr haueoblerued to this day, or oughtto haue,done, pierrene . se 4 1§EVTT: aybaeisig b Ofthe Booke ofthe batt sites ofth e Lord,mentionedin this Stary27d ofother Bankes mentione®' SR'Scripture, whith arelop. Nam.eary. % by: I 3151} i ¢) $D22 oe in eae £8 the Warre betweene Ural andbySehon;. Atofe s feemeth rorefent spe 4 kCat part ofthis Story s atts " . ; he booke that Booke invituledL/ber. bellorum-Dopsitig 106 . oO Gods bastasles : andthe . onermany encounters; and.othesthings Hefore pafleth cef \ ny menor F ofthe Hiftory ofthe World, A: memorable; with greareribreuity inthisplace. His words after the Ge 4 Tranflation areth{ex whereforeit (ballbefpokeninthd Booke of thebattailes ofthe Lord, what thi 125 he didinthe Rod Sea, dnd inthe Riners of Araon:The Valgur copie différerli not in fenfe trom vi@oriés of other Kings,making way for the good‘of the lites; were Particularly and largely written. AindtHatthe fame thould nowbe want s > itis not ftrange,feeing {o manyother Volumes, filled with diuine difcourfe,haue perifh oin thelong race oftime,or haue beenedett toyed bythe ignorantand malicious Heat] Magiftrate. For the Bookes ofHenoch, howfoeuer theyhaue beenein later hages corrupted, and theréfore now fufpeted, areremembred in an Epiftle of Thaddex4,andcited by Origet werderdy, zt che and by Tertalan. That workealfoof the Patriarch Abraham, ofFormation, which others beftow on Rabbi Achiba, is no where found: The Bookes remembred by ofuace10.v. 13. andin thefecorid of Samuel, ce. -v.18.called the Boake of Iafber;ox suftors is alfo loft; wherein theftay of the Sunne and Moone in the middeft Ta of the!Hee 1s is recorded, and how theyftood ftill till Mrael had auenged themfelucs of their enemics:outof which alfo De#idtookett 1¢ precept, of teaching the children of Juda, to exercife their bowes againft 40 their enemies. Somethinkethisto be the Booke of eternall Predef tination, in which the inft are Writren, according vatothe figty and ninth P/alme, Ver(e28. whereitis {aid ; Z et them bee pit out of the Rooke ofLife, either let thembee written with the vrighteor Hierome ; thinkes, that Dawid by this B ooke vnderftood thofe ofSamed. Rabbi s mon, tha the¢ Bookes of the L aw are thereby meant, in which the a@s of ‘the Sanh i RS eo iuft Abrapam, of laa; laceb,and Mofes, are written; of Exodus; Others as Theodoretws, that it wasaCo Ochers, that it was the Bo mmentary vpon Jo/aa, by an vnknowne Aus thour, Theboo kéof Chozai, concerning Manaffe,reme 50 mbred in the fecond of Chron:3 2. Aa g 7 16, Of this booke, alfo loft, Hicrome conceiues that the Prophet //ay-was the Authour. T : i{Chanc e came afwellto the Story ofSalomon, written by Ahia Silonites, croboam, and foretold him ofhis obtaining the Kingdome ofJ/rae/ from (0 the bookes Of Wathan the Prophet, and to thofe of /ecdarb e cond of Chrox. ¢.9.v.29. With thefe haue the bookes of sheremembred in the fecond ofChrozjc.¥4.0,1 5. perifhed : and tharof Hanani, of the aéts of lehofaphat, cited in the fecond' of Chroz: ¢.25, booke of Salomon whichthe Hebrewes write Hafttrim, Of 5000.verles s0% 257 |