ruſalem þ have yez ſold unto the +Grecians k,that ye might 41 remove them far from their border 1. . f g The Fews who dwelt in the Land. bh The Citizens of Feruſlem, or perhaps the young ones, Boys and Girls, as ver. 3. both of City a Country. 7 Tyrians, Zidonians, and Philiſtines, though Neighbour
and oftentimes befriended by the Fews, yet you have done this-
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Or >ons of Grecians, who either employed them as Slaves in G7 = wh If and G or elſe {61d them to other Nations for Slaves. ! That there migit Todl'sCon no Hope to theſe poor Captives ever to 1teturn to their Counts”; ſa '2 let
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— well, for as *twill. be ſtrange when done, lo it (hall EF Certainly, to your Joy, be done, O my People, and to the Afftonjlh- Z ment of your Enemies, # Awaken and raiſe them, though they lay E ſleeping, Or as dad Men ; I will ſtir up ſome ſhall befriend them. o Eulfilled when Alexander Magnus and his Succefſors, as Foſephus, lth, 12. cap. 5. reports 3 diſmiſſed all Fews that were Slaves in Greece, and oave them leave to return to their own Country. p And more than this, I will pay you in your own Coin, you ſhall read ard know your Sin in Four Puniſhment. ;
3 And] will fell q your Sons and your Daughters into the hand of th& children of Judah r, and they ſhall fell & them to the Sabeans 5s, toa people far off z;. for the LORD ” hath ſpoken ts. ( F q Give them up into the Hands of the Fews, who thereby ſhall have Opportunities of diſpoting of them as they ſee good ; ſo you did with my People, ſo 1 will recompence you. 7 To the Fews, the Po- ſerity and Kindred of thoſe you ſold, Þ Either as Fattors for Nebu- chadnezzar Or Alexander the Great and his Succefſors ; or elſe as Mer- chants trading on their own Account, ſhall make this one part of their Trade to ſell Grecians, Tyrians, &c. Now though we ſhould not have any particular Hiftory that relates the TranſaCtions of theſe People in this kind z ret we may reRt aſſur'd *twas done, fince God taid it ſhould he done: nor can we expett, or is it neceſſary It ſhould be, that the Fews ſhould by a Conqueſt of theſe People bring them Captives, and iell them: The Zidontans, Tyrians and Philiſiines did not ſo againft the Jews, but they bought particular Perſons out of the Hands of Sy- 7ians and Aſſyrians, who took the Jews Captives ; ſo when Tyre and Zidon, and the Philiſ:ines ſhall be captivated by the Bahyloniſh Power, or by the Grecian, theſe ihall [el] their Captives either into the Hands, or by the Hands of the Jews. s Sz5e.ns were a People in the Parts of Arabia moſt remote from Tyre and Zidon, they were accounted the Ends of the Earth ; Mat. 12. 42. and ſpread themſelves along by the Sea Coaſt on both Sides of the 4rabian Bay or Red Sea, and pals'd 0- ver that Sea, and planted in Africa, and were part of that Country which now doth, or lately did belong to the Emperor of Abaſſua, who (as the King of Spain in both dies) glorieth in being King of doth Sabeas, and Succeſſor to the Queen of 3h2b4z to one or both of theſe Sabeans did the Jewiſh Men-lellers diſpoſe of thoſe Slaves. # Ihis may be an elliptick Speech thus to be filled up, and the Sateans ſhall {ell them, (7. e. whom they bought of the Jews) unto another Nation far off from the Sabeans'z or elſe tisan additional Deſcription of this Peo- ple and their Country. # Then *rwas done, whether we know when, or by whom, or how many were fold or no, ;
9 © Proclaim x ye this y among the Gentiles z ; F pre- pare war a, wake up the mighty men þ, ler all the men of
war draw near c, let them come up d.
x Publiſh, or make known, as by Sound of Trumpet ; ſome ſay *tis an Irony, I rather think *tis a Declaration of what is to come to paſs through ſome Ages before the Coming of the Meſſiah, as will appear probable from' what followeth. y Or theſe things which IT am pur- poſed to do in retaliating to the Enemies of my People, proclaim Wars which may make Capt.vy2s for Sale under the Hand of my People. + 'The A{rians, 'Chaldeans, Babyloniins, and Grecians, ſucceſhvely. 4 Make ready for Wars againſt the Enemies of my People, who ſhall by theſe be correted, but their Enemies at laſt ſhall be deftroyed, 6 The valiant Men who dare atrempt any thing, and are of great
| Strength to execute what they attempt. ©c All the Captains and ex- $ Perienced Souldiers, let them appear at the Rendezvouz. d When & marſhall'd, let them march up on their Defign, toward the Seat of the War, which will now, for many Ages, be in or about the Valley of Viſion, the Church, the Valley of Judgment from the Lord.
& 10 * Beat your plow-ſhares into ſwords e, and your
& | pruning-hooks into ſpears f 3 * let the weak g ſay, |
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þ The ſeveral Nations in their appointed time, and perhaps the 4
7 Behold mn, | will raiſe » them out of the place whi- | 5,445 are fic to awake and Ri under Shatmaneſer, next under Sena-
cherib, both which came up againft this Valley of Jehoſhipiart. q By the Sins and Divitions of God's: own People, by their own ravenous anc turbulent Diſpotition, and by a ſecret Hand of Providence. r In ko- {tiie manner, cither againſt the Church and People of Go1, intended here ty this Valley, fo Seracherib-did in #:2ebiab's time. 5s In the midft of my People and Church. + To plcad with, condemn and puniſh by the Sword. u Not all the World, but all the Heathen round about Judea, which was opprefled by thoſe Heathens ; their God judg- ed Senackerib by his own Hand ; their God -puniſhed the Ep yptians by Nebuchainezzar, who defeated Necho. And within Sight of the Jews were all the Puniſhments God inflifted on the Aſſyrian, Batyl-niſh, Per- firn and Grecian Monarchies, executed ; and God all this while in midſt of his People preſerved them as a Buſh all in Flame, yet not conſum- ed, ſo did the Lord lead his mighbty ones, and limited their Power.
flow c, for their wickedneſs is great d.