and parted my land o, D 7 f Inthe Type it is not ſimply all Nations, but all thoſe Nations Y that have with hoftile Minds oppreſſed and ſcattered Fudzh ; inthe = 2 Antitype, *tis all Nations that have been Enemies to Chrift and the HR" Church. g This is ſpoken with reſpett to the low Situation of the Z (] Place, being a Valley, and we deſcend into low Parts ; ſo here they are E FE cauſed to go down. h Much Difhculty Interpreters find in explaining ca this ; we muſt took to it as a Type to ſomewhat ſignified by it, and f6 0: apply, The Valley of Bleſſing, where Fehoſhzphar, 2 Chron. 20. 22, th &c. diſcomfited mighty and numerous Enemies, and then triumpt'a Sit in God with Praiſes to him : So the whole Church may be this Valley of Bleſſing, and in this God will judg the Enemies of his People, and th give them Occaſions of praiſing God for his righteous Judgments,and Feruſalem his Church s$hall ſee this; as the Inhabitants of Feruſalen th might ſee what is done in the Valley of Fehoſhaphar, if they would be hai at a little Pains to go out of the City. 7 After the manner of a juft q and impartial Judg I will declare my People's Cauſe, and dothem hay right. & In the midſt of my Church henified by the Valley of Feho. wit ſhaphar, the Valley of the Judgment of God, 1 Fudab two Tribes, but ſer as in their Hiftory bearing a Type of the Church of Chriſt, n cha Purchaſed and poſſeſſed by me ever fince they were brought out of Z. char gypt ; tho many times invaded and injured by their unjuſt Neighbours, Trac who were ſo much their Enemies, becauſe they were my peculiar Peo- any | ple, and kept to my Worship. = Either by Force driving them out of this | their Habitations, or elſe carrying them into Captivity, and diſperſed he d them after their inſolent Humour, of which Diiperſioa more folloys, Few, ver. 3,6, 8% 0 Divided among themſelves the Land I gave to my fell t] People to hold immediately of me, ſo *twas my Land that they divid- the ed, their Robbery and Spoil was Sacrilege : Such is the Injuftice and NY Opprefſon of Perſecutors of the Church now, and ſo God will judg Zidon them in due time. or by 3 And they have caſt lots for my People p, and have = . . . rabi, given a boy for an harlot q, and ſold a girl r for wine, uy that they might drink s. Sea C It was cuſtomary with Conquerors to divide the Captives by Lot, E verth and ſo did theſe Enemiesof the Fews, Obad. ver. 11. and fodid the © which Chaldeans on the captive Ninevites, Nah. 3. 10. though this was grie- # Cas the vous, yet *twas the common Lot of Captives. q Either procured a Sabeas, Boy to beſtow on ſome Harlot or other which they kept, or gave aBoy Sabeans inſtead of Money, the Price of an Harlot, to be enjoyed by lewd Soul- be an e diers. r A young Girl, which being captive, fell to their Lot, they them, ( have valued at a baſe, low Price, and (old her for Wine. 5 So much off from as at one Sitting one cf them could drink z or perhaps for one Draught ple and | of Wine when the barbarous Souldier was dry,or minded to be drunk, orby w] 4 Yea, and what have yeto do with met, O Tyres 90 and Zidon x, and all the coaſts of Paleſtine y ? will ye ren» pare w;: der me a recompence 7 ? and if ye recompenſe me, ſwift- war dr; ly and ſpeedily 4a will I return your recompence upon x Publ your own head b, a, t What juſt Cauſe of Quarrel have you againſt me ? Have I done "fobatle you any Wrong which now you avenge upon my People ? Or do you noſed to begin to violate the Laws of Neighbourhood and Friendship, and which ma think to eſcape ? Do ye think you have to do with my poor oppreſs4 The fi People, and I nothing concerned at it ? u A great Mart Town which wrt was Neighbour to the Fews, and ought to be Friends, either joined by theſe b Forces with the Enemy againſt them, or retaining Friendſhip with the The valia Enemy, bought the Fcws for Slaves, and ſold them again to Strangers, | Strength t to Grecians ; this in his Man-Trade Tyre was accuſtomed to, Ezek. 27. . Wn perienced 13- x Zidona famous antient Empory, whoſe Merchants alſo bought marſhall'q, up captive Fews at cheap rates of theſe barbarous Souldiers. y Which the War lay along the midland Sea, among which were Towns of Trade, nd of Viſion, | Merchants that bought and ſold theſe Captives. x Do ye this by way 0 * of Repriſal? Havel or my People ſo dealt with you or yours? 41 [orual will, tince you dealt ſo with my People, and with me, certainly and || Pruning ſpeedily avenge my ſelf and my People on you. 6 As you have uled Wi 4 [tron them they ſhall uſe you. It is probable this may refer to the Aſris BR. CHere js Invaſion, when Senacherib took all the fenced Cities of Fudah, and ome Inter;
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might ſell the Captives ; or to Shalmaneſer's time, when he captivated the ten Tribes ; or it may be a Fredifion of what Tyre and Ztdon, an theſe Cities of Paleſtine would do in the Babylonifh Syccefſes ; and # Threat what God would do againſt them for it : but to whatever par- ticular Hiſtory it refer, who lees not this in it, that God will plead the Caule of his oppreſſed Church, and avenge it as his own Caule ?
5 Becauſe ye have taken c my tilver and my gold d, and
have carried into your Temples e my goodly - pleaſant; 11 Ae things f. #908 *"d pathe c You Trizns, Zidonians, and Philiſtines, have received at the Fands ther } | C of thoſe you confederated with, you have taken them either as part 0 LORD ” the Spoil, or as part of your Pay. 4 Silver and Gold Veſſels dedicated b The w to my Service in the Temple, and about the Altar. e And 1n col. ſten to th , tempt of me with proud Inſulting have preſented them in your Tem nd hat : ples to your Idols, as if they were mightier and more glorious than 1 moſt Ls n ſo did the Philiſtines carry the Ark into Dagon's Temple, but it ©O Fudeg oY Dagon his Head, 1 Sam. 5. 4. and Nebuchadnezzar carried away the {a 4 ang "_ cred Veſſels when he ſpoiled the Temple. f God ſpeaks of thele ate lead —_ the manner of Man, and ſo accounteth of thele things. 09 the, n 6 The children aJſfo of Judah g, and the children of Je- 8a hered aph