the Worid. | Es CHAP XX. Zhe Captivity of Egypt and Ethiopia repreſented : to take of the Jews from ſeeking to them for help, 1——6. N the year that * Tartan @ came unto Aibded 8, ( when Sargon c the king of Aſlyria ſent him ) and
# Kings fought againſt Aſhdod and took is : : r8; 27. a A great commander in Sennecherib's Army, 2 Kings 1$« 17+ 6b
An eminent and ftrong City of the Phil/ſfins, Jof: 13. 3. 1 Som: 5. 1+ in che armoſt part of the Land of Canaan, towards Exypre c What King of 4ſjria this was, is much diſputed. Ir is well known, and confciled, that one and the ſame Perfon hath frequente ly ſeveral Names, both in Scripture, as hath been obſerved again and again, and in other Authors. And therefore this may be either, s. Sa.mancſer, who wten he took Samaris, might alſo by Tartan take this Place ; or, 2.Semacherib, who, before he came to Jcruſalem, came up againft avd took all the fenced cities of Judah, 2 Kings 18. 13, of which 4(b4ed might be reckoned one, as being in the Tribe of Judah, Joſs 13. 3- & 15e 47- and taken by Hezekiah fiom the Philitines, as it ſenms very probable from that pafſage, 2 Krngs 18. 8. He ſmote the Piiliſtins even unto Gaza, aud the borders thereof, from ehe tower of the watch-mcn t9 the fenced ciry ; Or, 3. Eſarhaddon, Smna- cherib'sSon;,, who, by cutting of the firſt Lerter, is called Sarcheaen, Febit F.2T, and rhence poſholy, by abbreviation, Sargon *: Who
it was almoft incompaſſed with the Midland Sea on one fide, and with the dead Sea, and the Sea of Galilee or Tiberias and Jordan on the other ſide ; or becauſe, as liles are. ſeparated from other Lands by the Sea,ſothis Land and People were ſeparated from all the ref ofthe World by God's ſpecial providence,and Preſence,and worſhip. þ So vann is our hope placed upon ſuch a people as are unable to de« liver themſelves, and much more to deliver us. 4 Ts whom we now and uſually truſt : for this was the common diſeaſe of the Peo« ple of 1/rcl, although Herekiah was ina good meaſure free from it, as weread 2 Kings 18. 5. r Either by their help, who cannot defend themſelves: or, by our own ſtrength; ſeing they wko were much - more potent than we are, could nor eſcape.
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and Perfeans, 1 4. be mecketh Babel 5 9* Edom [carning
the Prophet is called to Repentance, I1, 82. the $114 of Arab i calamity
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4 Of Babylon, as is evident both from her deſtroyers, the Medians, v. 2, and eſpecially from v: 9, where ſhe is named. She ſeems to be called Deſorr Propherically, to intimate, that although ſhe was now a moſt Pupulous City and Kingdom, yet ſhortly ſhe ſhouls
be turned into a Defolate Wilderneſs, as was threatned,c/:13 19,0,
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learned Interpreter hath obſerved,
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ward frm Judea, where there were many and great Deſerts, in which rhe Winds have greater force, See Job 1: 19; Fer: 4: 11+ c As meeting with no ſtop or oppoſition. 4 The burden or Judge- men”, Or, he, the Median, as it is in the next Verfe. e From Mein and Perſia; thus exprefled, either becauſe thoſe Countries were full of Vefarts;z or becauſc a great Deſart lay between them ar. d Chal izs, as Geographers 2nd Hiſtorians report. f From the Medes, a warlike and formidable People, as appears both from Sacr- ed and Prophane Writers.
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ſpoileth 4: * Go up z, O Elam &; Beliege /, O Media; all the ſighing thereof wm have I made to ceaſe.