by! | ae ue if] xecute Puniſhments. k Murders committed are in Scripture ex- akes' preſſed thus by B1ood ; here are particularly megat the Slaughters made n 0 ROY Fcbs's Hand, or by his Order, 2 Kings 9. 10, 11. and 10. I, 2,3, 4, "ear WS! ©: 7+ in Fexreel, where he did with a treacherous Nind, and aiming 5 at his own Greatneſs, deſtroy Abab's Houle, and flew Abaziab King ot
Fulah alſo. This was the juft Judgment of God upon that wicked I ouſe by Fehu executed, but he did it not with that Mind Gol re- uir'd. I The Town which Abb choſe above others to dwell in ; where
11 the the Dogs lick*d up ' Abeb's Blood, when his Chariot was waſh'd and
r with Cleans'd of the Blood of that ſlain King, and where Dogs did eat Fez-
ur of bel, as the Prophet threatned, 1 Kings 21. 23. 1m Which had now
(peas Polſeſſed the Throne (Febu uſurp'd) through the Reigns of Feboabax,
| Vide Feboaſh and Feroboam 3 but the Uſurper and his Foccoiions adhering to
f 0 the Idolatry of Feroboams the Son of Nebar, and adding other Sins to it,
ophet ad now provoked God to declare a ſudden Extirpation of the Family,
a 1a Which God will in his juft Revenge make as like to Feroboam's Family
z 13 p as 4bab's, and they had made themſelves like them in Sin ; al} which
01.110 ame to paſs when Shatlum conſpiring againſt Zechariah, flew him. | the
2 Kings 15, 10, # Not immediately, but ſoon: after the Death of 9*cbertgh the Kingdom of 1/7ael did ceaſe firſt to be free, for Mena- | = *N made it tributary to ſtrengthen himſelt z ſo it is like it conti- Ut Med for ten Years during his Life, and two Years during his Son *ctabiab's Reign + after him Pebab the Conſpirator and Murderer
HOSE A.
done it without this particular Dirction, now the Scan- d it is very fit God be obeyed, and the Prophet may
and marry one known to be a lewd Whore. t An a notorious one, ſo the Heb, Phrale, Wife of 2 Man of Bloods, or Man of Sorrows ; a Woman of and a very lively Emblem of Idolatrous J/rae!. born of ſuch a Mother, are, as ſhe, addifted to Lewd- with the Mother made his Wife, he is to receive and hitdren ſhe had by her Adulterers.And thus underſtood, "Thoughts to God's rich Mercy towards their Anceſtors, braham himſelf not excepted) Idolaters when they dwelt on the other ſide the River, Foſh. 24+ 2, 3- yet God took them, and
took..a Gomer b the daughter of
Wrnukt take this Name for a made Name; affurted for its Signification 3/
was this here ſpoken of, for in ſix Months after Feroboam's Death |
Tiplath Pileſer ; to be ſure Hoſea was ſo, and in is ninth Year this Word was fulfill in the Letter of it, . the Kingdom of J/7ae! after one and forty Years tottering, fell to utter Ruine, and hath ſo continu- ed to this day. o Or the ten Tribes divided trom the Houſe of David,
.5 And it ſhall come ro paſs p at that day 9, that I wi break r the bow s of Iſrael t in the valley of Jez- reet a. |
p Moſt certainly this ſhaſl be effeted. q When my Vengeance hath overtaken the Houſe of Feb::, when his great great Grandſon ſhall be {lain., r Weaken, and by degrees quite break, 7. e. by the Conſpira- cies, Seditions and Civil Wars which will ariſe among themſelves. S This was a warlike Weapon they much uſed and were skilful in : this one' Weapon put for all their warlike Proviſion, Power and Skill ; pol- fibly it may allude to the Bow of Fehu who ſlew Foram with an Arrow, nd uſurp'd hisThrone,but now the Bow of theHoule ofFeha andof 1/rae3 ſhall be broken. t See.ver.4..ler. 0. u Next to Semaria, Fezreel was chiet F-Y of the ten Tribes, a very ſtrong and fortified Town, and both fi- uated in the large afid pleaſant Valley that hath from Foſhua's time been known by this Name, Valley of Fezreel, Foſh. 17+ 16. In this Valley it is probable the bloodieft Battels in the Civil Wars were | (onght betercen Zechariah and Shallum, 2 Kings 15. 10. and between
Shakin and Menabem, 2 Kings 15, 14. between Pekabiab and Pekab, 2 Kings 15.25. and Pekab and Zoſhez: the Reaſon whereof probably might be this, becauſe whoever carried the Vidtory in this Place, pers. oh Maſters of Samaria and Fexreel, and conſequently cartied he Kingdom to0. | rig: | 6 E And ſhe x conceived again y, -and bare a davgh-
rubamah b - for + I will no more' have mercy c upon the houſe of Ifrael d : || but I will ntterly rake them a- WAY.e, | —_—
| "x Gomer, the Hieroglyphick Wife, who was to be a Sign to Jrael. y'Whether viſionaſly or really, it comes to one. 3. Which is to. be a
obtained Mercy.
wil] not 4d1 any
1 Sign too, as was her Mother, It is too nice which &:bers obſerves, 997% #0. i| Or, that
the weaker Sex. This Daughter was fit to be an Emblem, and there- 7 ſ99uld al-
that the State grew- weaker, as appear'd by bringing forth of one of
fore *tisa:Daughter rather than a Son, though 'twill be next a Son #9gether and no Daughter. © But Lo-rubamab is. Feminine, and in congruity Þ4740n 'of Speech it muſt be a Female who bears this Name. 4 As before them. God impoſed, ſo now. again he impoſeth a Name, ſignifying what .he would do with 1/Feel. Though God dirett what it ſhall be, the Pro- 'phet.-is to give the Name. 6 Nor pitied. Jſrae's Name had been thronga many Ages Rubamab, i. e. pitied. God had with marvelous. Patience-forborn them, and with tender Bowels pitied them, and [ſaved them from Enemies, but now Jſr7ac} ſhould be no more pitic as faxmerly, God would throw them-up fo the Rage of Uſurpers, and to the mercileſs Hands of proſperous. Conſpirators; ſo Menahens mercileſs rip'd up'Wormen with Child in Tiphſab, 2 King. 15.164 And :God gave up this bloodyTyraat into theHand of 7iglath Pileſer, c T was , wont to. add Mercy unto Mercy for //7ael,I was never weary of ſhewing 'them.Mercy, but 1 wilt do-no more lo for them ; my Pity ſaved them in, Feraboam's time, and raiſed them to 2 great Height and Glory, but now they ſhall unpitied by me, fink lower and lower z Reftraints of Divine Pity are ſure Forerunners of Deftrution, Fer. 13..:14. \4 This to me ſeems a qualifying of the former Threat ; though the ' Hogſe of J/rael as a Body politick, as a Kingdom under this Charadter, ſhall no more be as it hath been pitied, yet many among them may
' obtain Mercy in the Days of Goſpel-Grace,and many of them had Mer- cy ſhew'd to them by the Lord, when they join'd with Fudab in the \return from Babylon's Captivity ; but the whole Houſe,the Families of the ten Tribes, united in a Kingdom, ſhall no 'more be to God Ruha-