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ny Ant : 12 Kings, 20+ 1:2, $66,” W nn for Net S Sino becauls they oged him. in it, as they con- els.in the.-next-verſc- SEE NS, ; WO ETES 25 NotenhRanding:"Eletckiah humbled himſelf ____ for # the pride of hisheare ( 54th he and the inhabieancs f65. + of Jerufalem)-{o, that the wrath of the LORD came: lif:ing nor upoh them in the.days of 'Hezekialt : | 27 And Hezekiah had exceeding much''trches ant Honour £ 5nd he made” himfclf creafurics' for filver, and for gold, and for. precious ſtoncs, ang for ſpices, ard bv... for Fe? and for all manner of + picaſant jewe!s ; 45k 28 Store-houſes allo' for the increafe of corn, and -. wine, and oil ; and ſtalls for all manner-of beaſts, and Eotes for flocks. :
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o Heb; be made, &c. Either he purchaſed them ro himſelf by his Gold” or 'Silver: Or, he. repaired, and fortified, and beaurtified them- for the Honour and' Safery of his Kingdons, * But the former Sence ſe-ms to agree betrer with the following: Words.
- $9 .. This ſame 'Hezektah' alfo ftopped the; upper wa- ter-courfe of Gihon p, and brought ir ſtraight down q to.the weſt-fide of the city of David.. ;; And Hezekiah
proſpered in all his works. | 321d -. Þ A Riyulet near- Jer»/ales conſiſting of two Streams, the upper
#n1 rhe lower which was brought into anocher, called rhe lower Pool, Wa 22i'9. The former he diverted and brought: byſecrert Pipes in- ; to Feruſ:lem, which was x Work of great Arr and Labour, and , P9licy,-and therefore is here commended. q Whercas before it | f:rchcd a compaſs, and thereby might have bcen boaeficial to the hs Fe Atllyriza Hoſt, LE | | | | eres, 21 Howbeit, in the buſmeſs of the F embaſſadours of > Kings th2 pricices of Babylon, who * ſent unto him to en- 12. quire of the wonder that was done in the land, God -39- 1. left him » to try him, that he might know s all hat 2was 1n 13 heart. | 3 9 SW # To wit, to himſelf, and his own Impotency and Corruption. God wichdrew from him thoſe Supplies and Afſitances of his Spiric waict wou'd certainly and effeQually have kept him from that (in, and ſuff:red Satan ro tempc tim, and him to fall inro the fin of Pride and Oſt=ntation. 5s Either 1+ That God might kiow ir. So x. is ſpoken of God after the man ter of Men ; whereof we have had ” many inſtances. Or, 2+ That Hezekial might know that he had In- fic-nuties aad Sins as vel as V:rtucs 5 and therefore thar the great Mercies which he had reccived were not the Effefts of his own Me- rit2s, as he might bz prone to believe, bur of God's free Grace:
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8 days Hezekiah was ſick to the death, | Is and-prayed unto the LORD ; and heſ{g6#& unto him,
and for his mirgculous Reſtauration fiom; ;Szckneis, and the con- |
which was brought inta ons Pool, called the epper Pool, Ifa. 7. 3: |
Chap. XXX11 *| whereof the LORD had faid, * in Jeruſalem ſhal my « ,,, name be for ever. c vg
5 And he built altars for -all the hoſt of heaven, in * Deur. the two courts of the houſe of the LORD. 17. 3.
6 And he cavfed his chi'!dren to paſs throuph the | Deuraz, fire in the valley of the ſon of Hinnom :; alſo heobſery- z Kings 2 ed times, and uſed inchammients, and uſed witch. 29.&9g.. craft, and * dealt with a familiar ſpirit, and with wiz- ©b. 6.6, zards: he wrought muchevil inthe ſight of the LORD +» "Fragen to provoke him to anger. . . 8 21.Deur.
7 And he-fet a carved image ( the idol which he 28. 10. had made ) in the houſe of :God, of which God had ? gs, faid to David;- and to , Solomon his ſon, In * in this +3;p-- houſe, and-in Feruſfaletn, which I have choſen before +1. 6. - all-che tribes of Iſrael, will 1 put my Name for ever. *Pfalizzj 8 * Neicher will I any more .remove the foot of If 4+ raet-from out-of the land which .I have appointed for , \, your fathers+ fo that they will take heed to do all that 1-lhave commanded them, according to the whole law, and the ftatuces, and the ordinances by the hand of | Moſes. Eo | | | - 9 $0 Manaſſeh made Judah and the inhabicanits of Jeruſalem 'to-err,' «vd ro do worſe than the heathen, | Whom the LORD had deftroyed before the children of
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: Io And the LORD ſpake to Manaſſeh, and to his,
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-.-1t Wherefore the LORD brought, upon them thes ' captains of the hoft F of the king of Aſſyria, which + py, took Manaſſeh among the thorns b, and bound bim which vw; with || fetters, and carried him to Babylon c. the king,
b In ſome Thicket where ke thought to hide himſelf from the | Or, Affyrians till he conld make an eſcape, as the Ifraelires formecly chaing, Bled to do, 1 Sam 13. 6. Or, with hdoks; a Metaphorical Expreſſ® : on. Or, in his Forts, i. e, in one of them« c Either therefore Eſar=