. ſe Speculations. Ahaziah was the Son of 7Jehoram | nine years of Ape, 1 Chron. 24. v. 2. Feh1thaz ( or Fohanan ) his wade 4 _ Aon of Ahab, re iby 21. 6. 7oaſh ne eldeſt Son Polls... him art —_ ni y pn, = to he ar be b &- _— th her Great Grand-child, Now God had curſed the | born when 7oſizh was fixreen years of Age. 7ehnachim began ro _ {> of Avab, and rhreatned to root our al] his Houſe, 1 King. 21; | Reign ar twenty five years of Age. Zedekiah at one ard twenty, Hou hk (@'is ſuppoſed ) made the Evangelijt, who was neceſ- | as appeareth trom 2 Chron. 36. 1,5, 11. So that Zedebi:h muſt be _ 4 ro leave out three to bring the Generaticns ro fourteen, ra- | but about nine years old when his Father died, which was noc m— chuſe ro leave our theſe Princes, who were of Ahab's half | ewelve years betore Zehoj.:chim was carried into B.cbyln, as appear- = 1. than any cthers. It any ſay, why then did he nor leave our | eth by che Hiſtory, 2 Chron. 36. Thus, the Perſons in this Perid, Þ130Gs Beſides; thar he was nor obliged any other way (chan as | ( which was the iouriſhing time of the Kingdom ct Fudah are me wal keep to his number to leave our theſe ) he knew God's | fourteen, Solomon, Rehoboarn, Abia, Aſs, Felſaphat, Joram, Uzziah, hrs zs of Children, tor che fins of Parents, uſually terminate | Fotham, Ahax, Hezekiah, Manaſſes, Amon, Joſiah, Fehj..ch;m ; only _ chird and fourth Generation, . here 15 no mention made of 7en24haz his Reign, who was Foſiah
| Pg f, Ye o And Ozias begar Joarham, and Joatham begat either, beoarſe. Febrjerdin (ore called Fanacd es AchaZz. and IT TReneans. NO RP on - the ſame Farther ; w_ regard of his ſhore Reign, ( icr it was Mar Fratham ſucceeded his Father 07148, and Reigned H1xree ur three Months and odd Days, ) cr it may be, becaute in all pro- FD ——_ wich 2 Chron. 26. 23. And that Ahax his Son ſuc- babilicy he was Tumulcuocutly ter up by . Pcopie, and nct reid "ceded? him, agreeth with 2 Chron. 28, 1. He alfo Reigned fixteen | jn his Throne, before he was turned our by the Conguerer Pha- ©irs, Herebi:th his Son Reigned in his ſtead, 2 Chron, 23. 27. Some | 45h Nechy; nor do we read of any Sons ke left : To be ture he letr here have cavilled at che Truth of the Hiſtory of Holy writ, be- | none who could ſucceed him 1n the Throne, f:r Jeh;zrchim was caule it appearerh from 2 King. 16, 2. thar Aba died ar thirty tix | ſer up, and his Sn Febyj.chin ſucceeded fhim, as the tiſtcry rel vears of Aze, and that Hezckiah began to Reign ar rwenty five | lerh us, years Of age, GY car from 2 Chron, 29. 1- Whenceitap- | 12 Andafter they were bronght to Babylon, * Jeco- * 2 king, YWeth chat” Zeze/s 3 | : Let 7 avebinke . 6, Ly Aze, which they think improbable : Bur thoſe who will me begat Saearnes, ane IUUIE bega p 3 Lorobabe L the 3-20 "eeſtion the Truth of whar we have ſo gocd a Proot of, as the Re- Py his 70S Cn iy _ ro be fehojakin the wo of 7e- yolation of H»ly writ is, are obliged nor only to tell us of things in —_ Po pu - Gy - Feconiah, 1 Chron. 3. me as well as Jeb9).ikin, ir chat are improbable to their apprehenſions, bur eirher in Narure | © horas — ye C fer. Fo = = - ot ee rhe _ ot impoſſible, cr at leaſt inconfiſtenc wich ſome other piece of Divine Jena *_h , gu C w_ _ P _—_— ww hop ONE SOR mh whey Revelation. Of che latrer ſcrt, we hear of nothing objeRed in this 3 gaffe - wk 5 Pe Cen ES this Jecmah, Caſe, Now tho' wich us it be ncr ordinary for Perfons ar that Age Þ - Freu wo > / tes = b THY OR 7 = gs childlejs ; How to beer Children, yer that ic is nor impotlible in Nature, nor more _ OT m_ —_ 1; Col mes "—_ pr cd , tor o-_ than hach happened in the World tfametimes, Spanhemius harh b=x % Im whe” I bon _— -— A. ST Jon pen agey 6 _ larzely proved in his Dubiz Evangelica, Dub. 5. and thar by no leſs | 77 s a Man that ſha —_ W w Y 2 xy ; / ” ho fan of his ſee athoricies than thoſe of Hierme amongſt the Ancients, and the | 4 wig » fill _ y 4 - Ir Wes of ) _ 3 "ft | 7 hee Br 4 kan learned Scalizer amongſt the more Modern Writers, it is what may Fs af ; SO as nar TEXT 15 platuly ©O DE UNderiood witione @ Chile ; bh : n 1. | That ſhall aQually ſicceed 1n the Crown ; tor the Text ic felt ſuppo- be. The Scripture telleth us ic was ſo, that is enough for us, tho Cools Chae hes MN v7 os td ark - ee nota thg very ordinary ſh chr he hol re fn, tee NS 0 al 2 1anat{i- . ; p —_— 3 10 And * Ezekias begat Manaſles, and Manaſfes 2 Chron, 3s. juſtifierh ; tor che King of Bzby/on ſer up Zedebiah his begat Amon, and Amon beegat Joftah. Uncle in his ſtead, who was the laſt King in Zudab; in the eleventh All this exaQly agreeth with the Scriptures of the Old Teſta- | year of whoſe Reign the Zews were all carried Captive. This 7e- ment, theſe three Princes in a lineal Deſcent immediately ſuccecd- | coniah had eight Sons, as we read 2 Chron. 3. 17, 18. Salathiel is ed each other, Manaſſeth Reigning fifcy five, Amon two, and 7oſtah | there reckoned as ais ſecond Son, ( poſſibly Aſſir died young, or ar thirty one years, all rogecher eighty erght years, | leaſt Childleſs, ) 10 as the Righr of the Crown was in Salathiel, who
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