irrevocably determined and ratified, and they ſhall never evade, Threat js ever Overcome. Vengean,
10 The Princes z of Judah þ' were + like them that we ed t move the bound k : therefore 1 will pour oat my wrath'f mo hi on them 1 like water m. | parks
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nours, who by the Law ofGad and Man ſhould have been t1 - tainers of Equity and Juftice among the People, þ Of the N"g"
of Fudah, or the two Tribes. # Have been, and now are, 11 the D3 I5 Cj of Abaz ; for to this Man's time the Prophet now pointeth. þ Tres acknow cient Bounds which limited every one, prevented Controver'e 8. afflitio Opprefſions of encroaching covetous Men. 1 hie Prophet I cues u Affe aims at reproving the Sin of theſe great ones in changing the LY b, be like a
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Religion, as well as altering the Bounds of Civil Rights, wheel encroaching upon Foreigners, and enlarging the Kingdom of 7%” entrenching on the Neighbom ing Kingdoms ; or, which 15 107, tain, by Injuftice and Voolence feizing what: was another | was Sin, and forbidden, Deur.19.1t4. 4 Yhis Prattice 1s Cv g- 27. 17. and God now will puniſh it. m Like an overtiow!ns mM i
11 Ephraim » is oppreſſed o, and broken 11 6 ment p - becauſe he q willingly walked ry afrer 1&0 mandment 5, - 7h
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7 conſume and rot as Wood doth by Worms; ſo God will puniſh both © Jactand Fudah, theſe ſhall be Forerunners and Preparatories to the ** final Deſolation of both z of the one by Aſſyria, and of the other by LY | B 4 h ylon.
IT the State of the two Tribes at that Day, ulcerous and full of Danger,
MW kindled, who hath threatned to extirpate them. o A Panther, ſay
V _-Y 1 The Subjefts of the Kingom of Iſrael, th2 ten Tribes, the Pro-
net reſumeth his Threat againſt them. o Suppoling, as well we Cy rhat this Prophecy reſpecteth Ahaz his time : it will appear that
haria, Shallum, Menahem, Pelabiah, and Pekab's Reigns were paſt, "hich were unjuſt, ſeclitious, bloody and tyrannical Times, 1n which Onpreſſions abounded ; and of which our Prophet now [peaketh. The ren Tribes are by Seditions,* 1vil Wars and bloody Conlpiracies eaten 1p already almoſt. But to thoſe God will add his Diſplealure, and the Aſſyrians ſhall be the Executlioners, and ſhall oppreſls Ephraim. pie. Through Fear of the Partiality of the Judge,though his Caule be equal and juſt, yet Money or Monies- worth 1s extorted, to prevent an un- 1}, or tO Procure a juſt Sentence z a known Courſe in ſuch Days as theſe the Prophet lived in, or as the Days of Martz and SyPz. q Epbra- im ſpoken of as if one Perſon, perhaps. to intimate the univerſal De- &tion. 7 It was not a Force upon them, they did willingly. Tho there was a, Law commanding, yet there was in the People a For-
which made Idolatry the Eftabliſhment in the ten Tribes. s To for- hear going to the Temple, and to worſhip the Calves at Dan and Be- rhel, as Feroboam Son of Nevat required.
12 Therefore t will ] be 4 unto Ephraim as a moth x : and tothe honſe of Judah y as || rottenneſs z.
; Or, and Heb. u I am, it is conciſe in the Hebrew, and might be thus expreſſed ;, Bur, or, and as for me ] am, and will be to the ten 7#bes, x Moths do leiſurely eat up and marr our Clothes, ſo God was chen, and had been, from Feroboam's Death to this Day, weak- ning the ten Tribes,their Seditions did eat them up. y The two Tribes who now with 4haz did as Ephraim, caft God off: + Shall ſecretly
13 When a Ephraim b ſaw his fickneſsc, and Judah d - ſaw his wound e, then went f Ephraim to * the Aſſyrian g, and ſent þ'j| to king Jareb 7 : yet could he not heal you k,
nor cure you / of: your wound mm. | 4 And Heb. after thar. 6 The King and Council, and Kingdom of { the ten Tribes, Menabem is ſurely meant, vid. 2 Kings 15, « Weak: neſs, like a Conſumption, threatning Death. Though Menahem had killed Shallum, and got into the Throne, yet he found himſelf unable to hold it againſt the oppoſite FaQion,and therefore ſent tor Aſſiſtance from Aſjyria, 2 Kings 15. 19. Or at leaſt purchaſed the Friendſhip of Pul, who was come out as an Enemy, 4d The other Kingdom of the two Tribes. e A deep and feſtering Wound 3 or a corrupting Im- poſthume, which needs be opened, cleans'd and bound up, ſuch was
for Ahax had done very wickedly, and wounded the Kingdom.. f Made Application. g Particularly to Pul,as 2 Kings 15. 19,20. Not one Word of their going to God, he was not in all their Thoughts : He did affi& leiturely that they might ſeek him, but they forgot him ſtil], h Ambaſſadors,and Preſents to entreat and procure his Help. # Whileft Interpreters agree not who this Fereb was, while ſome. will have it be 2a proper, others an appellative Name, of a Perſon or Place, I think twill be a ſurer Courſe to compare times, who was = of Aſſyria when Ephraim was ſick, and Fudah was wounded, and both felt it ; for whoever this will prove to be, he it is that is meant by Fareb. Pul in Menahem's Time, Tiglath Pileſer in Abaz's Time z or, what if Fa- reb be the Sum of what Ephraim and Fadah defired of this Aſſyrian King ? they complain'd of Wrong received, and ſent to this foreign King their Complaint, and requefted that he would judge, or in our modern Terms he Artibrator ; ſo the Word will bear. &k Ephraim's Sickneſs grew worſe by it, ſrael was ſicker for it. 1 Fudah, Ahaz, and his wounded State, m The Aſſyrian King was either unable, or an- willing to heal the Wound which he knew would as much profit him as hurt his Patient, |
14 For * 1 awill le unto Ephraim as a lion o, and as a young lion to the houſe of Judahp- I, even 1 will tear q and go away ; I will take away s, and none ſhall reſcue him t. 6
2 The Lord, whoſe Power is infinite, whoſe Wrath they have en-