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Show "294. ie ThefecondBoke of thefirstpart, Guar.7.:4.+.5.6) = Cuar sor.7, 64.4510) ory ofthe World. etnanenamofthe nnnHlifl tac ig ry aid Ch.math Indeyaswehaue noted', 2 Keg: 24. Secondly, be- rhe {fecond place thus: Se they went up, and. [earched 295. the wilderne/fe fie ofaholy fthe holy i Land,isOras placedtoo neerethe \\ eft cornerjte be ont the Lazafrom Y ; y of Sin, Aunto Rehgh "1 che litewtien theald cake the togoe to Hamath : Then in Exekeel, The. Weftpart ali was Zedekias broughy prifoner,after his fitrprize in the fields of terechos Nabachedonofor :whotobe auenged of ‘Zedekia's infidelity, beyond and deliueredro Bi VeMs, $2 3% the proportion of ¢ piety,firft caufed the Princeshis children to.beflainein his prefenc e: and to theend that.a OrKedefh, Hor, Num,34.7.) and beyond Hernioa enc this aan beethe Weft border from. the Southermoft partof nd-fo _ Naud wh. Zde themoft remembred, he commanded both his eyes prefently ro be thraft out: and bin- isn 1ds4u6: ding caule Num. 24,8. and alfo Exchiel 47.10, Chamath in the North Ide ¥ North border whichbegins eae Shiehoe Hafd y oat bee the great Seafrom the border, tilla man Anas i lace Eaftward along all thé breadth of the ho! i < t Land Seteecn Me ame forforhey expound Mount O#¢7 acain|t Hamathxhat isthe coaft ofthe Sea thall fide, they make himto Aamedivers Townes, firt Ghamath, then . acome direétly ou . edad, Tien Ziph om, and laftly, Ghat{a-beran, a thing moft the holy Land, till you j ome dite ye eragaintt ynlikely: feeing irae! had little or noching Baftward beyond Hamath Northward : from whenceif a line bee Hermon. Therefore: we muft needs expound Hor to bee one' of drawneto the Sea,it willtouch the walls of Zidrs the Hills neere Side, and {o thofe Townes, as they are: named toliein order on the North fide of afber,Nepbtbilim, anda. Which is © the Northweft corner of the holy Land. waffes : and in ke manner thofe in Exehiel: firft, Chec'o7, then Nowthat this Hawath or Hammeath, which Jo fs Chamath, and {o in order, Berotha; Sibraim, Tledad > Chakran, Chatfar-bensn. c. Of which lof: 19..3§..d\Which' Rebob; \or alfo made the confine of the holy Land, ds that of Rechobyin Iofua 9.28. is placedin Afher towards Zidoz, in the Nephthalim, both the reference which. it hath to confines of Nephthalina, the Weft Sea,and the City of 4 Rehab adioyning prooueit : the other Hamath or Emath ( being farre remoued and beyond the forenamed mountaines, which inclofeall thofe Lands which Jrae/ euer had pofleffion afopair Emath, whichis alfo called /turea, witnefle © Stelaend Laicflan ; and not of) is thet that in Neph terLaictian, talim, where € lonathas Macchabaws attended the Amny of Demetriv s, who-fied from insheic Tables him, and remoued by night. of the holy Tesi. Forthough Tracomitis be comprehended within Jurea (and thereforeit is faid to bees) £ lofeph. Ant, finimita Galilee Gentinm) yetit hath beginning ouer the. mountaines Tracons, and{o a ftretchethinto the plaines ofthe Territory of Ttureaswhence Philip the brother of it Herid Was Tetrarch or Prefident both ofItwrea and Trachonitis: both which are ouer Jordan towards the Eaft. But Chemath in Nephtalim,is on the Welt fide oflordan cowards the Me. * That itdoth Hiterran Sea, properly belog" "The Countrey /turea was {0 called of sethuro Ymaelsionne, The people /twraé wereValiant and warlike men, andex nameofletur tic bounds of Calefyria and Arabia * the Defarr.ne ofthe fonnes of/imael,it is placedia to Arabia, the cellent Archers : Of whom whofe iffue Firgil; ferledin the A. rabiaes, may in art giue wit- a ca Alfothe 5 Se ge 8. aeSt Of Eughthe stureans bowes were made. conhirmes i . named among y ' This City Chamath or Hamsathin Nephtalim feemesto haue beeneas ancient 28 the o- gainwhem ‘erin Leurea, both built by Amathens the cleuenth fon ofCanaan. Whether the Aubenites. Of Dawid, this,or the other had Tabs for King,i isnot certaine, for Hamath inthetime or Emathbe& padites yond the Mountaines,and Hammath in Nephttalim, were both neighbours to Dama/ made war, and : e : m: f whofe coun. Of Whofe fubiugation Tobureio yced, becaufe Hadadefer whom the Damafeeni camet0 trie they pot. ofhisawas hisenemy.. This Toba fearing the ftrength and profperity felt in the time helpe, toach of Dawid, hearing! ds hi . pEOTpen ity . oftevoboam, ag 0. 4 nd iPProach towards his Territory, bought his36peace with many rich prefents, their fore-fa- With'many 4 ancient yeflels of gold,filuer, and braffe. inthetimeot ¢ outfeemet that Deaid in fuch great fucceffe would not haue had peace with Tom Saul afcer his if he fad beene hKing ofany place in Nephtalim, and thereforeitis probable that henule cemgipetine . a which City Salomon after his Eathers death made himfelfe Matter of,asa patt© chro'nscap. 5. UX 40S in the larger and conditionall promife ) allotted by Godto the. children of ; x ~ > 5 , . . > . ver. cowhere Urael, gliaeo, _ay .ht ofNephtalim,in the end, and after diuers mutations and.chaoges BalkoGilead, OWVOT nameand fortune, being. asit hath beenefai iochus EEpip "Othe lie. WaScalled Epiphania, piphanes Li aid,poflefled by atiochus ger promife Thi . : Cauhen, While Saint ¥ fromelined,it remain ed aCi well he Syrists by 1.qewhere £x- the Name Amathe, and to the Greekes by Eephan SnPfebiciabanwne plrates inna. touted med forane of the hounds; -~ {oe cAporeg§.a, th Vv Il eer role st Of Reblatheand Rama, ahd dide ] him in'Tron chaineés, he wasled.aflaue to Babylon, an which eftate : _ hee endedhis life. coe eS : " : . Of which feldome-exempled calamit‘ y; though not inexpre 72 whicirio/.! fle words, phet fore-told him in Hiernfalem not long before: But Ezechie/ thus Hieremi. ethe Pro«219.20.:i8.called diredtly {peaking in Xifvion. theperfon of:God, /wiltbring himtoBabeltothe Land of the Chaldeans, petfoalthe notfee xane 0 it, though he fhall die therein. ; } . tilea, x Chron, Thereate befides thefebe fore remembred, many other ftrong Cities in Nepbrhalin, 67% Tof. 12.22; as that which is called *-Cedes: there aretwo otherofthe fame name, one in © Sache ie 2 2 Ag, 15.293 another 1h Zedayof which foft'5.23), and theteforeto diftinguifhir,itis knowae by. the () See in gerd / addition of * "Wephtalimyas taaysas Ieis feared onahighhill, whence Jof-2 0.7 «Kedeflyin P72»and in Galilea in monte Nephrati: lofephus caltsit Cedefis,andin Saint Hieromes time it was called *Ocka Cities Cidiffins. Belforeft greatly tniftakesthis €edes, and confoundsit with Cades in the Defare therewere.of of Pharan: ‘ (wheeieee After the Kingthereofamong otheriof the Canasnites perithed by the handof fo/wayit muchas domue was madea City-of refuge, and giuen tothe Leuites, He rein was Barac- borne; who.q-/0) 4that.in 20 uerthrewche Armieof the fecond 7ebi# of Hazor »atthe R 3 lid, z Kin14. Mount, Tabor, ; It was{ometime ig.where i¢w) soafh pofleftby Teglatphalafer, when he waftedall 2 Vephtalim': afterwa rd. y the Komans, and iting o:theren numbred for one ofthe ten Cities of the Decapolitan Region : When it had imbraced cane the Chriftian faith, it was honoured witha Bifhops{eate, but in into the power Of the Saracens and Turkes,and by them it was time it fell with the reft of Inda, of demolifhed. 2 lan Ap8 From Cedes fome foureItalian niles towards the South-weft, ftandeth Sephet, othere place, iof.21, wile Zepher, which wasalfo oneof theten Decapolitan Cities: a place excceding ftrong, 16-0 1 sam. and for many yearesthe inexpugnable Fortieffe of the chrifftans, and afterward OF theci :sz59.,3. Saracens ; for from hencetheycot iquerediall the neighbour Cities ofthofe regions,both Athird as it In-land and Maritimatencereit: Touching #ama of Nephtalim,feated North-ward neere bonne aie 39 Sep' ; this istobe noted: thatthereare() diuers places of this namein Paleftine, all fi- whichioat? tuate on Hills #and therefore called Rama ( Rama Tturays Taxi torquentir in arces, place of the where jerur is this miferable {pe@acle mightbe the laftithareuer he thould beholdin this world;a rs ober Toypxes, Ntheborder.of Hamath Or Eniith pOwards Jord ‘ an ftan the Citie Reblaths,0t Rib Watered from tandedeth nto rom thethe founraine Dépl Sal th the nis: which fallethinto the lake of Aderom. Hero brewes is high.) Alfothat fromthis Ranma lof. 9.36Hebreis excelfisms Ramath with the He: Since .theyreade Arama, making the article prea ¢whichithathin the Hebrewas beingia name ofdiuers Town es)to bea pattofthe word: much as ciub. whence cafting away the afpiration, they read 4rema .. From Sephet towards the Weft ihe theyplace*'Beth/émes,ofwhich Tof19.3 8iwhichdefendedit felfe again it Wepbtalin, liad. 4 9 ie appt arg 1-3 ;-but paid rhent tributes' On the other ephet towards the Eaft was Bethawath, by comparing fide Who allokeprtheir Citiefidmthe Nephtalimsof S, be'st , laf anal Adioyning to which ftandech Carthas ¢ or Kiriathaima Citie of the Lewites,notfarte 1 Chr. 6 ftom the Monntaine outof Which the {prings of Caph arnaumarile,called Adons Chriffisa On dd 40 placeby ourSauiour often frequented;asal fo chen whencalling his Difciples together, clfewh ére de= he madechoife of twelue, which he talled and orda of which place or the aéts'therein done,there is ined tobe his Apofiles or Meflengeis: eee By che oftenmentionin the ¢ Euaugilits. cikedegooF Adioyning to thefe are Magdalet.a place offtrength ,fand A4e/alath,of which we reade one: althougt that it was foreéd by Beechides in thetims oft he Macchabees : alfa (according to sadri- seare chomius ) oneoft the two Berothaes of ta Nephtalim. For'<drichom nemein, this Tribe, * oneneere Chamathi n the North borde k iat maketh two Of this another Kiriag r, of which Ezek.47. 6.:a heimofiniwhich no. ben, Red ther vpon a'weake conieMare out of ofeph.ant.l.5.¢.2¢) heth : . erefore placethin thistraé io7's3 . 19, neer e the watets of Adcrom sbecaufe : the Kings that ioyried with /abin again ft Jofua;which ¢ Marke 3. incamped at the waters of Merom, sfof-11. 5. are by Lofephus {aid tohaue incampediat the "440.1% 3° Citic Berathe in Galilee »not fatre'from Cedefafuperiour, which is al fo in Galilee: allwhich ath 5. 67. maybetrue of that Bersthaofewhich Ezek: feeing itis inthat Galilee whichis called the F i1% an Vpper Galslee or Galiled of the Geatiles: The fare «Adrichomins placeth the RégionofBe- E Serathina™ vem necre Abela( of which Abéld oftbel-beth Mahaca h we haue |pokenalreadie)this he ! tolaman in fiz doth vponaconie@ture touchin g the place 2 Sém.20.14.wher e fomereade Abel o Betheienian: mabacal cy omtia loca Ber ings but rhe better reading is,c omnes Berim,that is,with al the dem cya herds Beret: for Shebah being Of Besiansin(in which Tribe al{o there is a Citie called Berotha or atld e: Bteresh } dvew the men of that Civie afrer_ him. Toth North of serethsof Nephs alin frandeth Sebarin dexeris, 2 Satm vndex Libanws,remermbred by net tke" |