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F 'p-4 A 13:3, VXX - E b-4 E M "aki chrongh by the continued Violence of Engines, and by the Af- ulrs of the Souldiers. d See wer. 13. let k. e Being the chief City where King and Councilsfat, whence Orders ſhould be given, whither a1! Intelligences were brought ; all ſhould be ſo bad abroad, that no- thing bur Fears and Diſtreſſes fill rheir Ears, Mouths and Hearts, be- (ide rhe Wants thitt would increaſe daily on them. BE} 17 The young men f of || Aven g and of |j Pi-beſeth 5, (ha!l fall by the ſword : and theſe ciries 3 ſhall go into 2623 Captivity #. . —_ | 7 'Tis probable theſe might be aſele& Army of valiant Youths in one Body, colie&ed out of theſe two Cities that reſolved to break the Chal. ican Army .or fall in the Enterpriſe ; or elſe that they did to rhe ut- moſt d:fend the Walls, and were pur to the Sword when the City was takenby Afffſult. g Bethfhemeſh and Hel:opolis an 1dolatrous City that worthipp'd the Sun, and in which was a ſtately Temple built ro the Sun ; its Greatnefs was 150 Furlongs, 6 Miles, and 3 quarters in com- pals, 2 very vain and finful City, as its name Aver intimates. þ Buba- /15, and ſfomerime called Fepheſtus, no inconſiderable Place, and I believenotfar from Aven ; it ſhould ſeem to be ſome convenient Paſs , as I conjeEure. # The Citizens, Cities put for Citizens. k Some of the firſt, ir may be the very firſt which put Mc»phis, at Report of it, into aiick Fir, with great pain ; this being the firſt Fruits ofthe fad coming Harveſt. : *, 18 At Tehaphnehes / alſo the day ſhall be || dark- WE. 1d », when I ſhall break » there the yokes o of Egypt : #:.10d the pomp p of her ſtrength {hall ceaſe in herq : as for ” her, a cloud 7 ſhall cover her, and her daughters s ſhall go intO Captivity. | | A grear and good!y City of Ezy9: ; Tachapanes, Tachpanes, Tahapa- nos, Tahpanes, Chanes, and Hanes, Ifa. 30. 4. aygnames given it, and ' this from a Queen of Fgypr of that name in Solomon's time, 1 K?ngs 11.19,20 It ſtood not tar from Sin or Peluſtum, and by the Greeks a: litcle foftning the Name, call'd Daphne Pelaſisca; 'twas a Royal City, | in it Pharaoh had a Houle, to it many Jews fled , when forbidden of the Lord by the Prophet Feremy, ch. 44. *twas one of the firſt Cities | you come to out of the Deſert of $:n, and was one of the Keys of Egyp:. | -m A Night ſhall come upon ir, and ſuch a Night of Sorrow as ſhall: grow darker and darker, till the Day, z. e. their Day be Darkneſs, or elſe word for word, Darkneſs ſhall be che Day; and may bear this Senſe, ” ſhall be more welcome, more uſeful, more deſired than the Day whoſe . , Light would diſcover their Flight, which the Night concealed. » As: | ' IntoShivers. o The Scepters ; for there was one of Pharaoh's Houſes, | and/probably ſome Scepter, and other Regal Ornaments; or the Bars, which kept Enemies out, and ſecured the Citizens and Country ; ſuch was this Frontier Town ; or when by giving this ſtrong Place into : | Nbounadnezzar's Hand, I ſhall break the Kingdom of Egypt thatir no ; | more oppreſs with Yokes, 7.e. Burdens. p The Beauty and Goodli- | neſs with which the Strength of this City was ſet outin her Buildings, . * Towers, Forts, 9 ſhallbe buried in her own Ruines. y Sorrow by tie Succeſs of the Chaldears againſt her, compared often to a Cloud. + - Lither metaphorically, i. e. the Townsand Villages about her, or /iteral- {z, her Children, her Daughters only mentioned, becauſe her Sons were deftroyed and lain. : 2 9 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt : and they . ME ' {ball know that I 22 the LORD.
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2 15p'1es, fo that with Strength from God he ſhal] proceed. e His Scameh ſha!; have a Weapon ſured and proportion'd to it , and what wi!l be harg L where God's Sword and his Strength are engaged to effef it? f Hphra. Z Notonly as the ſtouteſt muſt, when Nature breaks. bur cry our, and ſigh or how}, nor becoming a brave Man, + King of Pnbylcy. 5 who hath given him his deadly Wound,under which he roars while he hath any Strength, and groans when his Voice fails him. Ic ſpeaks fore Griefs and deep Senſe? of them, as Exod, 2. 24. Judg-2. 26, Fib. 24. 12,
26 And I will ſcatter the Egyptians among the nations, and diſperſe them among the countries, and they ſhall know that 1 az the LORD.
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CH AP. XXXI. The Prophet ſheweth unto Pharaoh the glory of Aria, 1t—— 9, foretellerh their ruins for their pride, 10 17. and 362 like deſolation falleth 072 im and his people, 18 — 32.
1 A ND it came to paſs in the eleventh 2 year , in the third month b, in the firſt Jay of the month c bat the word of the LORD came unto me ;, ſaying, | |
& As ch. 20. ver. 20, let. ft, 6 Our June, 26th Day Old $:ile, the 16:h Day New Stile ; juft one Month and eight Days before the taking Calwiſins, | of the City on the 27:4 of 5uly, wete Sil. but 19:h of July, New Stile, Huſſeric:, Cc Tamu%. | 2 Son of man, ſpeak unto Pharaoh 4 King of Egyper and to his multitude e, * greatneſs f ?
' 4Apries or Hophra. e His numerous Subje&s, with the Power and Riches they glory in. f Bethink thy ſelf, whar King of all beiore thee art thou equal with, or elſe greater? On what ſurer and more immo- vable Foundation doth thy Greatneſs ſtand, that chou drezmesſt of a perpetual Quiet and flourithing State in the midft of all thy Sins aid Wickedneſles ?
3 © Behold, the Afyrian g was a cedar 6 in Lecba. non z - with fair branches &, and witha ſhadowing / fl;roud.... . hb. and of an high ſtature »-, and his top was among the thick 177*-757
ef branches. z boughs. g Kingdom and its Kings were the greateſt the World ere knew be.
. . 3 * Yer. 1s, Whom art thou like in thy