Chy | Wap ing the Son of Aminadab, who was the Prince of the Children Fudah in Moſes time, Salmon cannot be imagined to have lived = rer than in the times of Zoſhua, Boox ſeemed-to have in oo rime, which ( if Chronologers count right) was three hundreq «.... atrerz here are bur four Men named to take up theſe years "wan Booz,, Obed, Jeſſe. Anſw. The World , according to Chin, wanted bur five of two thouſand five hundred years old, When + Tjraelites (under the ConduG of 7oſpua_) entred into Cana . W will fuppoſe Sal to have then beena young man. El; is by *h : faid co have lived ahout the 2810th, So that the diſtance jc _ hundred and fitteen years. David 1s faid to have been born in the 2860th. So as from Salmon to David are three hundreq ſixty fre vears. Admit Salmon, B2z, Obed and Feſſe to have each of the : lived an hundred years, or upward, and this is no Dithculty ; = can be any abſurdity in admitring this , 1f we conſider the A . and Vigor of Perſons in that Age of the World. Moſes (the? Man ſpent with T;avels and Battels hvyed an hundred and vency years, Deut. 34. 7. Caleb at eighty five years was ſtrong, and x: & for War, as ever, 7of. 14.11, 12. If we allow theſe four Men Ie Lite of M7es,they might live tour hundred and eighty years Which might allow to cach of them fitteen or fixteen years apiece for the Concurrency of their Lives with their Parents, yet three hundred {1xry five years might be well allowed for all their time : Nor IS it unreaſonable for us to ſuppoſe that God might allow thoſe who he intended thus to digniftie a ſomerhing longer Life, than the oc. dinary ſort of Men lived in that Age of the World. So a; the thing being neicher naturally impoſſible, (for in our Ape we ſee particular Perſons live upward of an hundred years) nor ms improbable, and direGly athrmed in rhree or four Texts, they muſt | have a great mind to quarrel with a Divine Revelation, who Quarrel the Truth of ir upon ſuch a prerence : Eſpecially confidering that the Lives of Men in our declining, and debzucli'd Age of the World, are no meaſures by which we can gueſs at the Lives of extraordinary Perſons who lived near three thouſand years y6 [ David the King. ) Poſſibly that term is added co diſtinguiſh the David here intended, from others of the ſame Name: Or becauſe he was the firſt King of the Tribe of Judah to whom the Scepter Iſracl was promiſed , Gen. 49. 10. Or the firſt King not given ta th Jjraelites in wrath , as Saul was upon their murmuring again Samuel; or to ſhew that Chriſt deſcended from that Family, to whom the Promiſe of the Mecſſias was made, Fer. 2. 5. and a Kingdon eftz bliſhed tor ever, Pſal. 89. 36, 37. Thus our: Evangeliſt hath given us the Names in his firſt Period, or fourteen Generations ; Atyahm aac, Jacob, Fudas, Pharez, Exrom, Aram, Aminadab, Naaſſo, Sal mon, Bo9z, Obed, eſſe, David.
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had been the wife of Uriah. | Solomon was not the eldeſt Child of David by Bathſheba, tha died, 2 Sam. 12.22, 23. He was born after David had taken Bt. ſheba (who had been the Wife of Uriah) for his Wife, », 2; compared with 2 Sam, 11. 27. 7 And * Solomon begat Roboam, and Roboam he-+6 Abia, and Abia begat Aſa. pl This exa&tly agrees with the Hiſtory of the Old Teſtamer, I King. 11. 43. ( where he is called Rehoboam) he reigned but fe venteen years and died, 1 King. 14. 21. and v. 3x. Abijam his Son reigned 1n his ſtead ; he is here called 4bia. But we ſhall obſerve trequent alteration of Names, both as to the final Terminations, ard where the quieſcent Letters in Zeb. fall into the Name. 4%ja«r Avijam reigned but three years, and was fucceeded by 4/a his Son, I King. 15.2,8. ſa reigned forty one years, 2 Chron. 16, 13, % as theſe three Princes reigned ſixty years. 8 And Afa begar Joſaphat, and Joſaphat begat [o ram, and Joram begat Ozias. Jehyſaphat here called Zoſuphat, in the Greek (they having no
Letter ro eXpreſs the Hebrew 7 by) was the Son of 4ſa, a good Son of a good Father, 2 Chron. 17, 1, 2. He reigned twenty five years, 1 King, 22. 42, Fehoram (here called Foram ) ſucceeded him in his Kingdom; he flew kis Brethren, he walked in the ws if
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