xi,e, Of them who conſtantly attended upon the Kings Perſon, captain of ſee 1 Kings 10. 8. Eſth. 1. 14. Objet#. Theſe were ſeven, Jer. 52, 25+ the lf. Anſ. Either five were firſt taken, and two after them : Or two of the ſeven were of an inferiour rank, who therefore are here omit- ted. » Who had been moſt forward or aftive in the Rebellion.
29 And .Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard, took theſe, and brought chem to che King of Babylon, to Riblah.
21 And the King of Babylon ſmote them, and ſlew them at R3blah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land. |
22 Q * And as for the people that remained in the * Jer, a {| land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon 5,9 Þ. had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the ſon of _ Ahikam, the ſon of Shaphan z, ruler.
z A righteous and good Man, and a Friend to the Prophet 7e- remiah, Jer, 26. 24. |
23 And when all the* captains of the armies a, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governour, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, ?ven Iſhmael the ſon of Nethaniah, and Johanan the ſon of Careah, and Seraiah the ſon of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the ſon of a Maackhathite, they, and theic men.
a Whicheſcaped away when Zedekiah was taken. See above, v. 4, 5-
24 And Gedaliah ſware to them, and totheirmen 6, and ſaid unto them, Fear not to be ths ſervants of the Caldees: dwell in the land, and ſerve the king of Ba- bylon, and it ſhall be well with you.
b Aſſured them by his Promiſe and Oath, that they doing whathe required, ſhould be kepr from the Evils which they fearcd. This he might ſafely ſwear, becauſe he had nor only the King of B-bylov's
Promiſe and Iatereſt too, but alſo Gods Promiſe for their Indem« nity, deliver'd by Ferewiah.
25 But ic came to paſs in the ſeventh month, that Iſhmael the ſon of Nethaaniah, the ſon of Eliſhama, of +4! the ſeed | royal c, came, and cen men d with him, and $194"
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26 And all the people both ſmall and great, and the {r43-4- captains of che armies aroſe, and * came to Egypt : for they were afraid of the Caldees.
27 © And ir came to paſs in the ſeven and thirtieth ; 'ear ofthe captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the ſeven and twentieth day e of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began” to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of priſon.
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flt ſeems though the Power'of theſe Kings was taken away, yet | ſome Honour and ReipeCt was given to them, even in the place of their Captivity, and to Jehorachin more than to any of the reſt.
29 And changed his priſon-garments : and he did eat bread continually before him yg all the days of his life.
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F added by ſome other Prophets ; I Boeks is, to compleat the Hiſtory in the Books of Samuel and Kings, an ro alogies : b, ſes, | Family, of which he was to be born. ngs ings © , | » 3 And whereas many things 1n theſe Genealogies to us are obſcure 2.21 moſt Importance. CHAPEL 29, | Adam's Line to Noah, 1———4. Noah's Poſterity by Japheth, gn, By Ham, 8 16. By Shem to Abraham, 17 27. Hu Poſterity: by = I Tſbmael, 28 31 By Keturah ; and Iſaac, 32———34. His Poſterity ; Ty
by Eſau : the Kings and Dukes of Edom, 35 —— 54.
DAM, * Sheth «, Enoſh, | mY a i. 8. Adambegat Sheth: And fo in the following 19, Particulars. For brevity ſake he only mentions their
Yr Names ; but the reſt is eaſily underſtood out of the
WT former Books, and from rhe nature of the thing; and
Ich, from ſome following Paſſages where the Senic is compleated.
the 2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
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Mt 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth 56.
he oft b Formerly he mentions only one Son,but here he names and treats
tain of of Noai/'s three Sons, partly becaule they were all the Founders of
of. the New World ; and partly becauſe the Accompliſhmeant of Noah's Famous Prophecy, Gen. g. 25, 26, 27. could not otherwiſe appear, bur by the account of their ſeveral Poſteriries.
a.to, 5 * The ſons of Japheth z Gomer, and Magog, and
Madai, and Javin, and Tubal, and Meihech, and Tiras. 6 And the ſons of Gomer ; Aſhchenaz, and || Rip- ky, hath e, and Togarmah. | tim c Or, Dtphath: For thoſe two Hebrew Letters which anſwer to R(ipies, our D and R, being very like, are oft confounded and exchanged, | as V. 7.41, 46, 50. Jer. 7 And the ſons of Javan ; Eliſbah, and Tarſhiſh, 9, ” Kittim, and |} Dodanim. an 3 The ſons of Ham ; Cuſh, and Mizraim, Put, and 7, Canaan, | | 9 And the fons of Cuſh ; Sheba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabtecha : and the ſons of Raa- mah ; Sheba and Dedan. 10 And Cuſh* begatNimrod : he began tobe mighty upon the earth. 11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphruhim, 12 And Pathruſim, and Caſluim, ( of whom came the {Philiſtines d, ) and * Caphthorim. da Of which ſcc the Notes on Gen. 10. 14. 13 And* Canaan begar Zidon his tirſt-born, and Heth,
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