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Show 24 t Ao Thefecond Booke of thefirst par\ Cuar Sigh Ca mpaaStd. and end mieerg the Dead Sea : and. the Mountainesof luda, which begin to rife by Evharts beatentheMoabites outofthe plaine Countries; betweene Abarim and tordan, and dri- Tavhna,andthefe part Iuda from Dan and Simeon.Of others which ftand fingle,therdig !Angels that of Hebron,at the foot whereof wasthat Oake of Mambre, where the three Hierominloc: appeared to <Abrahamswhich S.Hierome callethia Fir-tree, and {aith, that it flood till the Hebe quell sime ofCon/tantine the younger. Thereis alforharMountaine called Collis Achillz,of Hebr, Tofep.14.Aat. the South of Ziph : on thetop whereofthe great Herod, inclofing the old) Gaftle, eredted neithein frotaiHesben oueti draon'yand this happened norlong before:-Asofes arrivall vp~ of tharborderswhen "asebgouetned the Moabites}Fothee tharriled wtozb when 10/es paft Arion, was Hot the fonneof: /ahebybuvhisinamenwas Balzcthe fone of Zippor. And irmay berlrarchofe Kings weresclecihesashe Edymaans aricientlyvere. Wowizalbthat part of: A4oab, betweene Arnon anddordanyas farte Northas Effebonwas inhabited by Xeabers Anidwhen d/ratlacriuedthere onvof Egyp2,it was in the poffe fidn'ofsehow, ofthe race ofCazaan by =Amoreus ‘and therefore did Jephtah the Juded of by. fenathas Macchabens,and called Maflada,garnithedit witha 7,bigh and (trong Tow, ers and therein left Armour and furniture for.an hundred thonfand men: being. 45 it €.204 feemeth a place vnacceffible, and of incomparable ftrength. lee rf nukrye Inthe Valley afterward called the Dead Seayorthe lake A fphaltitis,this Countriehad y foure Cities; Adama,Sodom, Scboim;and Gomorra,deftroyed with fire from Heanen ifraelinttly defend the regaining ofthofe Countriesagaintt the ‘claime of the Ammopo nites «| becaufe (ashe alleaged): 140/¢s foundthem inthe pofleffion of the Amorites, ‘and not inthe handsof A¢oahor Ammon : who (faith lephrab)had 3 00.yeares time to tecoued pydcx them,and didnot: whenceheinferreth,that they ought not toclaime chem now! for their ynnaturall finnes, THE TRIBE OF REVBEN and his Borderers. the Ifraelives poffe fled) wasby him orhis‘Anceflors gor from the' Ammonites, asmuch x of sehows was from the Atoabites, #6 --And.asthe GanaaniveNations werefeared fo confufedly together, that ir was hard roi The feates and bounds of Midian, MMoabyand dmmon,part whereofthe Reubénites mann diftingnifhehem foalfowere the fonnes ofA10ab and 4minon, Midtanjamalek and imal N the otherfide of the Dead Sea, Reber the eldeft of Jacobs fonnes inhabited; the Soueraigntie s and-againe, thatone parrof the Land which Gadsheld) namely: within Yetthereafon feemeth plainé cnough why cé#mon commanded ‘iw chiefe, in-Jevhrabs time; for fomerime the'one Nation; fometime the other of all thofeborderers. acquired from Schon King of Hesbor. () of whofe children there were numbred at Mount Sizaz 4.6000. who dying with the mountaines ofGa/aad, or Gilhead, andas farre South as Arroer, belongedtothe Am: 1 the reftin the Defarts,there remained to. poffefle the, Land promifed 4379 bearing armes. But before we {peake of thefe ortliereft that inhabited the Ealt fide of monites.' And'therefore taking aduantage ofthetimeythey then foughtto recouer! it a-! Tordan, fomething oftheir borderers:to wit,Midian,Moab,and Ammon, whole landin our writers are confufedly defcribed, and noteafily diftingnifhed,..: And firt wee areto remember , that out of 4brabamskindred came mighty Families :. as by //aacand {4c0h 4) gaine. Yet dt‘fuch timeas:AZo/er ouerthrew: Sehon atabaz,the Ammonites had loitrothe Amoritesyall thar part of their poflefiion which layabout:etrrecr; and betweene. it:and Labor : Sehonand Oz, twwoKings of the Amorités haning:difplaated Both aLocb 8iamniog 30 0fall withinshe Mountaines. ‘For itis written in the one andtwentitth of. Wamb, wah) chat #/rae/ conquered the Land of sehom from: Arnon vino Jaboc,euem wate the childie ofAmmon §fo:as at thistime the Riuer of Vaboc was the South botnd ofAmmon ith? &), in the Motintdines;when as anciently theyhad alfo poflefiions ondryubec;whichat lengthén L the Gadires poffeftasin thex3:.chaprerofvo/wa. verf-25 .atappeates: oe the Nation called Iffacl,and afterward lewes:by E/an or Edom the Idumeans: by Jfimae! the eldeft fonne of _-4braham,the Ifmaelites: and by Keturah his laft wife the Midianites. Andagaine by Zot, 4brahams brothers fonne, thofe two valiant Nations of the Moabites and Ammonites: all which being but {trangers inthe Land of Canaan(formerly polel by the Canaanites; and by the Families of them defcended ) thefe iffues and alliance of ee all but ace', whofe children were bred in Egypr, inhabited the frontier places adioyning. He 4s Of the memorableplaces of the Redbenites. Efau he his fonnes held Idumza,which boutded Canaan onthe South, 2/maél rooke from the South-eaft part ofthe Dead Seas. ftretchinghis, pofleffion ouer all AxabiaPa: ‘trea, anda part of Arabia the Defart,as farre as the Kiner of Tigris,fromSurto Hauilali4! Atoab tookethe reft of the coaftofthe dead Sea, leauing apartto Midian, and palits otiet Arnon, inhabited rhe plaines berweene lordan and the Hillsof Abarim or Ain0%s Tolua.'r3, as farte North as Effebon, or Ghesbon. Ammon fate downe.onthe Norzh-catt fide of Arnonand pofleft the Tra from Rabba afterward Philadelphia,both within the Mountains of Gilhead,and without thems a ea forth as Aroer though in 44o/es timehe had nothing left him in all that Valley. ;,f08 the ‘ Gen, 14: ee And leftanyfhouldmaruell why the Atimonitesin vephtahs time fhould makeclaime tothefe: Countries : whereds AZo/es imthe place Wan2b;21. 0. 26.ratheraccounts thenrro haue beene the ancienepoffefiian ofthe Moabites,vhan ofthe Ammonites: itis tobe noredithat Dest. 11. whentris faidthatthe Iron bed of Ogwasto'be feene at Rabbath, the chiefe Citieofithe Ammonites; it isalfo fignified,that mach ofthe Land of 02, which §. TIL Tek of thestdiftorie ofthe Wemld } Atnoriteshad thrutt him ouer the River of laboc,as they hadidone)4zoab ouerArnomAs thefe Nations compaffed fundry parts of Canaan, fo the border betweene the Rivet % Taboc and Damafcus was held by the Amorites themf{clues,with other mixt Nations? which Territorie on the Eaft fide offordan, and onthe Raft fide of the Dead wn granted by Azo/esto the Tribes of Reuben, Gad, and halfe Manaffe;, whereof Se that pa Which 44oab had, wasfirft pofleft by the Emims.a Nation of Giants weakened & broke by Chedorlahomer, after repulfedby the Moabites » as before remembred. That whic the Ammonites held, was the Territorie and ancient poffeffion of the Zannzumninisas: Zarai, who were alfo beaten atthe fame time by Chedorlahomer, Avrapheland the 1" and by them an eafic way of conquelt was prepared for the Ammonites. dete Now whereit is writcen that Arnon was the border of Moab,the fameis to bevaer ee As to thetime : when Ada/és wrote. For then. had Sebo or, his _ ceftot foodaccording 4o He chiefe Cities belonging to Reabex were the le;Kedemoth;for whichthe Vulgar; without any fhew of warrant,readeth Jeth/onis The Vulgar) or Hierome followed "of2-37. the Septuagintythofe\rwo ver/es 3 6cand-3.7x in Jo/.22sbeing wanting, inthe old Hebrew Copies; andthe sep/wagint reade Kedfon for Kedmoth, which: Kedfon by waiting flipt into Jeth/on. This City which they.gaue tothe Leunites, imparts her name tothe De/art adioynine? poy; from whence A4o/esfent his Embaflagerassehon. Inthe fame place:of Jo/wa: where this 1 Kedemoth is mentioned, the Zylzarfor Betfer @° villa cins,xeades bofir in. folitudine atifor,,§ withoutany ground fromthe Hebrew.swhence Adriohoisivs makesa' Towne called a7. , for inthe border betweene:Réahen and.Gado Farther from Kedemorhneere|the Déadsea;' (for the Countrie betweene: being-Mountainous:hath few. Cities). they place two nga, 50 Townesof ‘note, La/z or Lefbafbjok which Gese(is :a\werfea 9: The Gteekes calhit \ea/- whi lirhoe : neere which there isa Hilkfromavhencethere flaweth Springs botlrof horand"<P? intothe cold, bitter and {weet water :albwhichfoone aftcr.their-rifing,-being »ioyned-in‘one ini Ts Mite ly ftreame, doemakea very wholefome Bathycefpecially for all contraction of finewes : -& Hieron. to which' Herod theelder, when hee.was.defperate; :of<alf other +helpe; repaired, ‘but ;,? 10 vaine. Orhers fay thatthefe Springsarife ontof the hills of: Atacherusy in this Tribe. Acoitat.3: The like fountaines are foundin the Ryreayes : and in Pera, called: the paths of the Inga's i rr - o or Kings, ‘Theother towncis Aachernusythenext betweene Lafa and Jordan: of all that ¢.10.¢ part of the worldthe ftrengeft In-land Citieand Caftle; ftanding vpon'a Mountaine Lofep- belie kt cucry """ < |