OCR Text |
Show Cuart8.§a, The fecond Booke ofthefirst part 424. eet skilfull hewing timberthanthe Ifraelites, may(as. thinke)beincluded. For Hiram caufedhis feruants to bring:down the Cedars.and Firres from Libanon to the fea, and thence fent theminraffes to Toppe,or the next port to Jerufalem. Forin the fecondof Chronicles the fecond Chapter,it is plaine, that all but the thirtie thoufand ( vaxpenters, andthe oner-feers,wereftrangers,andas it feemeth,the vaflals of Hiram,andof Vaphres King of Egypt. In recompenceofall this timberandftone, Salomon gaue Hiramtwen- tiethoufand meafures of wheate, andtwenty meafures of pure oyle yeerely.. Eufebing Gopie of Salomons Letter to Surom (which was the fame as Haram and Hiram) Kingof ]6 Ex SalomonSuroni, Tyri, Sydonis, atque Phanicie regi, Amico paternofalatem.Scia mea Deo magno Dauid patris meiregnum accepif[e,cumque mibi pater precepit templum a ‘ ‘ 6 ee 2 " Deo,gui terram creanit, condere, vt etiam ad te {criberempracepit > Scrivo igitur, &peto ate vt artifices atque fabros ad edificanduim TempluimDei mittere velis. K# é Salomonfo Kingg Suron, ofTyre,Sydon,and Phanicia King, and my udeth greeting. Tou may understand that Ihaue receiued ofthe great Godofmyfather Dauid, the Kingdome: andwhen my father commanded meto buildaT maple toGod which created heanen and earth, hee commanded alfothat I{bould write toyou: I writethereforeto : you,and befcech you,thatyou would be pleafed tofend me Artificers awaCarpenters to baila the Templeof God. To whichthe King Swro2 madethis anfwer. Vron, Tyr2, Sydonis, G Phenicic Rex , Salomoni Regi falutem. Leétis literis gratias egs Deo, quttibi regnumpatris tradidit.: C» quoniam[cribisfabros miniftrofq, adcondendum Tenplum effe tibi mittendos, mifi ad te millia hominum octoginta,cn Arcbitectum Tyrium be minem ex matre Inde, virumin rebus architelure mirabilews.. Curabis fetta Ub wece/fargs non ezeant, Templo Dei condito ad nos redeant. Ss' ronof Tyre,Sydon and Phenicia King, to Kinz Salomon greeting : Wher I read yoole ters, 1 gaue God thankes whohath tsflalledyouin your‘fathers Kingdome. Aad betas write, that Carpenters and workemen may befent to build Gods Temple, I banefent youjoure- feore thoufand men,and a Mafter-builder a Tyrian, borne ofa levifh woman,a man admirar , in building. Touwill be carefull that all neceffaries beprouidedfor theme, and whee the Tempe lofanel8.cor. Of Godis built, that they come home to vs. The Copiesofthefeletters were extant in Jofephus time,as himfelfeaffirmeth, andt be feene, faith he, Tam in noftris guain in Tyriorum annalibus, as wellin our owneas inthe Tyriav annals, But hedeliuereth them fomewhat in different termes,as the Re findeinhis Antiquities. But were this intercourfe betweene Salomon and Hirer by meflageor by writing, ic is fomewhat otherwife deliueredin the Scriptures, - from ther Enpolemus or Lofephusfer it downe, but fo, that in fubftance there is little d 21%9 betweenethe one andtheother. The like letterin effect Salomonis faid to haue written to Vaphres King ofEgypt was aniweredas from Hiram. ; 7 1 y But wheras fomeCommentors vpon Salomo nfinde that Hiram Kingof lye phres Kingof Egypt,gaue Salomon the n title of Rex x agnus,and cite Eupolemon in E I doenot findeany fuchaddition of magnus in Exfebins inthelalt chapterof that! neither is it in Jo/epbusinthe cight booke cond chapterofthe Iewes it being a vain title vfed by fome of the andfe Affyrian and Perfian Kings, aneV"" A0™ ile bythe Parthians,and manyother 1 after them.infomuchasin later times : common, and was vf{ilurped by meane perfons in refpect ofthe great Hermes : which was honoured iby that nameforhis noble qualities,as much or morethantaftor mightinefle. _ After the finifhing and dedication ofthe Templeand houfe ofthe Lord, Salome" titted Terufalem with atreble wall, and repaired Hazor which had beenethe ano Metropolis ofthe Canaanites,before lofna's time: fo. did he Gazaofthe Ph : dfvent. 8.» built Berothon ,Gerar,8 theMillo Of munition ofLerufaleta, For Pharaoh(as it see in'fauour-ofSalomon) came vp into the edge c ag 425 nd tooké Gera which place the\Canaanites yet held,and put themtothefi vord, and burnt their Citie; The place 8 Territorie he gaue Salomons wike for adowie, And itis probablethat becaufe Salomon was then bufied.in his magnificent buildings, and-could tot attend the war} that he en- treated hhis fatherin law torid himofthefe neighbours, which Pharagh performed. Bue heeshereby taught the Egyptianstovifitthofe parts againe befoiethev were fent for. and in:his fonne Reboboams time Shefbackt ordid fackelerufalemit elf, Salomon alfo built Megiddoin Manaffe, on this fide lordan, andBalak in Dan : alfo Thadmor,which maybe either Pro/s 1oronin the defart ofInd: ,0r Opus t0f1.8. Out of Expolemas in the ninth booke ofhis preparation, the laft Chapter, hath leftys4 Tyre in thefe words: ofthe Hiftorie ofhe Worl Cxar.i8. 9.3. yothinks) Palmyra in the defart of Syria, J ufeit food onthe ytmot borderof Salomens dominion to thenortl banus, and was of Dawids conquelt when he wan Damafcus; it may feeme that Salomon therfore beftovred theron the moft coft, andfortified it with the beft Art thatthat age ls this place'Th mora,by which name (faith he)giuenbys/omor,t! I lige booke of Hebrewplaces,calls it Thermeth. In i aa.the Emperour, it was honoured with his name, calle wilt hii A Hoth by. of this great charge of building Salomon raifedtrib fides an hundredand twentytalents of gold receiu offered Hiram twenty townesin or neere the vpper 20 anvnftuitfulland marith ground, Hiram refufed them, and called Chabul. Chefe townes, asit is fuppofed, lay in Galilee of the gentiles Won 91 bitaremt : fed quiafub ditione reg ilis erat, Not that it was ? er therule ofa King that was.a Gen it istrue that Sa/owox inthe 21 yeerefortified thofe places,w! er it Wer c refufed. Fur. ia Zobah,and . the firt andlatt } |eftablithed his tributes to - driuen tofight)that he made inperfon in alll his life, all ther, he made aii warre(ifin th Heeth thenvifi \ Mis dominions, pafsing from Thadmor to the North of Palmy 1,& foto the Defarts of Idumza,from whencehe vifited E iongaber & Eloth th ft place of the Southof all his territories, bordering"to 20 the red fea : which Cities haue defcribedin the Storie of Azofes. ---___, §. TIL. omons fending to Ophir, audof (omefecming contradiitions abort Salomon S riches, ana of Pinedas conceit of two firange paffages about Africke. e alomon prepared his Fleet of Ships for India,with whom lir & am ioyned in yage, and furnifhed himwith Mariners IPilots,the T rians being of | other the moft expeit fea-men. Fromthi rabia, which at this time ed to Edom, and was conquered by Dawid1, did he £ o the Eaft India, 1 Was not farre off, namelyto Ophir. one of the Ifl foluccas, a place tich in gold : witneffethe Spaniards, who nc 1g all the abunvhich they gather in Peru, doe yet plant in thofeIflands of 3tcat quantitie fromthence,and with leffe labour than recoucr ais > ‘cru, Or new Spaine, urne which was made bythefe Ships amount edto f id twenty ut in the fecond of Chrosicles theeight,it is written 450. xpence for the charge of the fleet,and wa; 1e and twenty hundred and twenty thoufand Cr: hofetwo places bereconciled. As forthe place 1. J ldred rot 306 -talents e clee res 14. which fixty and fixe talents of gold,that fumm ity is ofof Salomons which werey eerly,and which came to him befides thofe pto; is not Peruin at Indies with fomereafon why {peedy returne to Ierufalem from the Eat I harfis in Sct the at tl s haue times the in three €:)5-9308 32 Ocean, hath beene Silononice é ao 15, Only |