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# Interpreters are not agreed in what Sence God faith, that the Kings Houſe of Judah was unto him as Gilead. k Or the Head of Le banon. Gilead was a Country fertile for Paſtures; upon which ac- count the Reubenites and Gadites being Men whoſe Eſtates lay in Cat« tz], begged it of Moſs for their Portion, Num. 32. 2. and Moſes gave it to the Sons of Manaſſes Verſe 40. It was alſo famous for Spicery; Balm, and Myrrhb, Gen. 37. 25. It had init a famous Mountain, Lzs banon alſo was a very pleaſant place, famous for Ceders,and indeed whatſoever cou'd gratifie the Senſes : they both were in the. Lot of Gad and Manaſſth. Some think God compareth the King of Judab's Houſe to theſe places, in regard of the Height and Nobleneſsofthe $eruQure; others, for the Pleaſantneſs and Delightfulneſs of ir. Others conſider Gilead as the principal part ef the Inheritance of the Ten Tribes, waſted by Tizlath Pilrzar, 2 Kings I5+ 29. and that God telleth them, by this Compariſen, that he would certainly des ſtroy them, and make them as Gilead, which was the Head of Leba- on, Though Jer:ſalem were 2 noble and pleafant place, yet they
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ed, and brought to Ruin. 1 So alſo Jeruſalem, formerly the Garden of Judea, and Joy of the whole Earth, ſhould be made a Wilderneſs, and the Cities of Judah ſhould not be inhabited. WS
7 And I will prepare deſtroyers againſt thee, every one with his weapons 7, and they ſhall cut down thy
choice cedars, and caſt them into the fire ». _
m They ſhall not only be edged with their own Luſts «nd Ma- lice, but commiſſionated and influenced by me, and ſha!l come ſufficiently prepared for their work. » And they ſhall cut down and burn rhy Buildings, which are made of goodly CeJars.. .
8 And many nations ſhall paſs by this city, and they ſhall ſay every man to his neighbour, wherefore hath
the LORD done thus to this great city s. | » According to God's Threatnings, Deut. 29. 24, 1 Kin. 9. 8. Though the Jews would not underſtand that there was a Cauſe, yet others would underſtand it, and enquire into 1. . . 5 Then they ſhall anſwer, Becauſe they have for- ſaken the covenant of the LORD their God p, and
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he ſhall return. no more, nor ſee his native country 7. r Not for Joſiah your dead Prince, for whom there was a great Mourning, 2 Chron. 35. 25» mentioned, Lech, 12+ 11. Jojiab is haps PY, you need not troubleyozr {elves for him ; bur weep for Je hrahaz, who is'to go, or 15 gone into. Captivity ; Jehoahaz was {ct up upen bis Father's Death by the People, 2 Kings 23. 30- 2 Chron, 36+ x. bur Verſe 3. put down within three Months, and car- ried into Egypt, Verſe 4. where he died, 2 Kings 23. 34- t Soas he no more returned into. Judas. The Participle being in the Preſent Tenſe, inclineth ime to think, that this Prophecy was long beforc that-in the former Chapter, ſoon after, the Death of Joſiah, upon the Peoples ſetting up of Jehoahox in his ſtead, or preſently after he . was carried away. . Some Interpret this. of the People that were ' dead, and thoſe that were goiog into Captivity 3 but the next Verſe
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Wnt vhoabats © ; | 3 4 pa ; Boer thus faith the LORD touching Shallum, the ſon' of Joſiah king cf Judah «, who reigned inſtead of Joſiah his father w, which went forth out of this place x,
he ſhall not return thither any more. / | ' u Who this Shallum was is a little deubted : Some think it was Jehiahax the Son of Joſiah, 1 Chron, 3. T5. called Johanan:, there is ilſo mentioned one Shallum, but he is there mentioned as the fourth Son of Jofzh. In the Book of Kings we read only of three Sons which Job had, wiz» Jeboahaz, Jehoiakim, and Zcdekiah. Moſt think that this Shallum was Jehoahaz or Johanan ( as ke is called 1 Chron. 3. 15 ) who was indeed the ſecond Son of Joſiah; for itis plain trom 2 Kings 23, 31. 16. that Jeboiakim was two Years older otterwile he could not have been 25 Years o!d when he began to reign, after Jehoahaz,, who began to reign at 23 Years of Age, and reigned but three Months : but 1 Chron. 3. 15. he is called Jofah's firſt-born, betauſe he wasfirſt made King zand here he1s called Shallum for the ſhortneſs of his Reign, in Derilion tothe Jews, who ſo called him, b- upon the account of their good hopes of Proſperity under him,and s in Alluſion to Shallum the.Son of Fabeſh, one of the laſt Kings of the TenTribes,mentioned 2King:15.13 who reigned but aMonth;tor this, as ſome think, could not be that Shallum mentioned after Zedckzak, as the fourth Son of Joſiah, 1 Chron. 3. 15. for that Shallum, they fay, never reigned, this as the Text ſaith, did reign three Months.w i-
from Jeruſalem preſently afrer he was ſer up, 2 Kings 23+ 31, 32, im- priſoned at Riblah, and Verſe 34 died in Egyp?. 12 But he (ball die in the place whither they have