a common Name to all the Sons of Foſah, and that Zedekiab is here called Jeho:akim, but I ſee no foundation for that eonjeQture from
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Thus ſaith che LORD of hoſts the God of Iſrael 4 Thus ſhall ye fay unto, your malters. |
d The Lord of Hofts, who hath therefore a power over all the Creatures 3 who though. he be a ſpecial ſenſe the God of Jſ-2e!, yer his Dominion is extended $0 your Maſters Countries, as well ag unto 1/rael. | Ig | Ep 5 I have made the earth, the man and the beaſt that are upon the ground by my great power, and by my out-ſtretched arm, and * have gzven it unto whor it ſeemed meet unto mee.
mindeth them, that he was the firit efficient cauſe of all the Cread tures, and made both all Men, and all Beaſts that are upon the
was at firſt the work of his hands, ard accordingly in the methods and workings of his Providence he did daily diipoſe of Kingdoms, and Nations according to his pleaſure without being for ſuch dit+ Poſal of them accountable unte any Perſon.
6 And now have I given all theſe lands into the
hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon my ſervant f,
and the * beaſts of the field have I given him alſo to
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bis Dominion, and right to diſpoſe of all Creatures, by theſe he authorizeth him to reveal his W1ll, concerning the diſpoſal of the ands of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Sidon, wiz. that hz had d poſed of them to Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon, whom he cal. leth his Servant. Becauſe he did the work which he would have him to do; though as God ſaid of the 4ſr1an.1ſa. 10.7, he meaned no ſo; he had nothing leſs in his thought than to obey any come mand of Gode Wicked Men being God's Servants, as the Hawtk, is the prudent Falconers Servant, who maketh uſe of the Ravenoug quality of the Hawk to get Game for him: Twice more at leaſt | we find Nebuchaduezzar thus called, Chap. 25. 9. and 43. 10. g God. | further adds, that the Bea#s ſhould ſerve him, by which he either means that rhe Cattel which were in the poſſ:ſfſidn of the Men of thoſe Nations ſhonld alfo come into his power 3 or that God had alſo given the Horſes and Oxen, and other Beaſts which he ſhould u'e in his Wars for Carrizges,or conveniercy,to him, ſo as they ſhould be really ſerviceable to him in his Conqueſts of choſe Countries. © | '7 And all nations ſhall ſerve him þ and his ſon and his ſons ſon 5, * until the very time of his land come &:
and they many nations and great kings ſhall ſerve them ſelves of him /. | |
h That is, all eheſe Nations; and ſome think that it is expreſſed Article uſed here demonſtratively, though nor ſo taken ny* rice of by our Tranſlators. i And Evi! Mcr?4ach his ſon, who ſuce ceeded him, Chap. 52. 31. and Beljhazzar his Grandchild, Dan. c. ', 11- k Until the period of his Kingdom ſhall come, ( for Nations
L ars, according to *ap. 29. 10. during which Years ſome tay four Princes ruled in 2s bylog, the Scriptures mention but three. / After that he ſhall bime ſelf ve Conquered, as it came to pats in Belſhazz.ar's rime, Dan 5 30, Darius the Emperour of the Medes taking his Kingdom. EF 8 And it (bail come to pals, that the nation . and kingdom which will not ſerve the fame Nebuchadnez- Zar king of Babylon mz, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, thac na- tion will T puniſh, faith the LORD, with the ſword, and with the famine, and with the peſtilence, until I have conſumed them by his hard ».
9 That is, that will not upon Nebu:hadnezzar's coming againſt them, freely, ſubmit to his power, and yie'd themſe}ves ro his Subs jection, n I will humble them by my fore Judgments of Sword Peſtilence and Famine; and make them yield, and they ſhall noe avoid what through their ſtyubborneſs they ſtudy to avoid, bur hill
Holy Writ. 2. Others think it isanerror in thoſe that copied out the Frogheties, bur it is dangerous to admit that. ' 3. Others think,
that the Prophecy came in the beginning of the Reign of 7eho:akim, | to your diviners p, nor to your [[ dreamers a, LOL tO
but was to be concealed until the Reign of Zedekiah, 4. I had ra- ther agree with thoſe who-think that this Command came to the Propher firſt in the time of Jehoiakim, but was to be repeated by the
at laſt be bron = under by his Power. wo | hi 9 Therefore hearken nor ye to your prophets o, nor
your inchanters, nor to your ſorcerersr, which ſpeak unto you, ſaying, Yg ſhall not ſerve the king Fr
Prophet often, and accordingly was ſo until, and in the rime of |DY1ON /.
Zed:high ; nor that he always went about with Bonds and Yokes
o Ir is uncertzin whether theſe words were part oC the Meſſage
abour his neck, but that by times he putthem on, and wentabourt which Jeremiah by Command from God, ſent to the Kings abwe
with them,as a Type of that Bondz ge,wh'ch the Fews were ſuddegly to indure.
2 Thus ſaith the LORD to me, Make thee: bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck 5;
þ God commanderh the Prophet to procure, either by his own fabour, or with his Money, ſome Yokes with Bonds to make
mentioned, or the Prophets words to the Jews, for as thoſ: Pagan | Nations, had Divine?s, Dreamers, Exch anters and Sorcer-r5; So the Jew: ' had them alfo, 7s. 47. 2, 13. the meaning is, hearken ro neng of them that pretend as from God to forere!l your eſcap2, from cthis Judgment, and not teing wo inte Szrvitude to the
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that therein he might be a Type both to his own People, and alfs the People afrerward mentioned, that they ſhould be in Bondage
ing of Babylm, and their Yoke ſhuuld be fo faſtned with Bonds, that they ſhould not be able to flip them, or get them from
3 And ſend them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and co the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the meſſengers, which come to Jeruſalem