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A46811	Annotations upon the remaining historicall part of the Old Testament. The second part. to wit, the books of Joshua, Judges, the two books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, and the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther : wherein first, all such passages in the text are explained as were thought likely to be questioned by any reader of ordinary capacity : secondly, in many clauses those things are discovered which are needfull and usefull to be known ... and thirdly, many places that mights at first seem to contradict one another are reconciled ... / by Arthur Jackson.	Jackson, Arthur, 1593?-1666.	1646 (1646)	Wing J65; ESTC R25554	997,926	828

or else they were not seen without that is the staves were drawn out so little that in the most holy place they might be discerned or happely at the very doore where they went out of the most holy place into the Temple but further out in the Temple they could not be discerned Vers 9. There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone For though the pot of Manna Exod. 16.34 and Aarons rod Numb 17.10 and the book of the Law Deut. 31.26 were laid up before the ark yet they were not put into the ark as were the two tables of stone and accordingly we must understand that place Heb. 9.3 4. And after the second vail the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all Which had the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold wherein was the golden pot that had Manna and Aarons rod that budded and the tables of the covenant Vers 10. And it came to passe when the priests were come out of the holy place that the cloud filled the house of the Lord. When the priests had set the ark in his place and were come out immediately there were an hundred and twenty priests with trumpets and the Levite-singers standing at the east end of the altar with their Cymballs Psalteries and Harps appointed to sound forth the praises of God and whilest they were thus employed suddenly the house of the Lord was filled with a cloud so that the priests were not able to minister no not in the court where the brasen altar stood for thus it is expressed 2. Chron. 5.11 c. Vers 12. Then spake Solomon The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darknesse Solomon standing where he saw how on a sudden the house was filled with a cloud to wit upon the brasen scaffold that was built for him in the outward court which was therefore it seems right before the door of the priests court through which he might look 2 Chron. 6.13 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of five cubits long and five cubits broad and three cubits high and had set it in the midst of the court and upon it he stood c. apprehending rightly that it was sent of God as a signe of his presence in that rapture of his joy he brake forth into these following words the Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darknesse c. that is the Lord hath said he would appear in a cloud Levit. 16.2 I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat and by a cloud he hath usually testified his presence amongst his people as in the leading of the Israelites by a cloud Exod 13.21 in the thick cloud that was upon mount Sinai at the giving of the law Exod. 19 16. in the cloud that covered and filled the tabernacle so soon as it was reared up by Moses Exod. 40.34 and therefore saith Solomon doubtlesse by this cloud the Lord doth shew us that he hath favourably accepted our service in building this house and that he hath taken it to be the settled place wherein he will abide for ever Vers 14. And the king turned his face about and blessed all the congregation of Israel For hitherto he had stood with his face toward the altar observing what was done at the carrying in of the ark Vers 16. Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house c. See this more fully expressed 2. Chron. 6.5 6. Vers 18. Thou didst well that it was in thine heart See the notes 2 Sam. 7.5 6. Vers 22. And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord c. That is having turned himself from the people he stood upon the brasen scaffold with his face toward the altar and then kneeling down upon his knees as is expressed vers 54. and 2. Chron. 6.13 he lift up his hands towards heaven and so prayed unto the Lord. Vers 25. Therefore now Lord God of Israel keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him That is seeing thou hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him in raising me his son up to build a Temple for thee therefore now also keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him saying There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel c. Vers 27. Behold the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee See the note Deut. 10.14 Vers 30. And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant and of thy people Israel when they shall pray towards this place Or in this place as it is in the margin even herein as in other things was this Temple a type of Christ As the prayers of Gods people were the more accepted of God when they prayed in the Temple or but with their faces towards the Temple so are now the prayers of Gods righteous servants accepted of God because they are put up in Christs name with an eye of faith fixt upon him as their Mediatour Joh. 14.13 14. Whatsoever ye ask in my name that I will do c. And when thou hearest forgive This clause is added first because pardon of sin is the chief thing to be begged of God in all our prayers for hereby a way is made for the obtaining of other blessings and besides there is no true comfort in obtaining any blessing if our sins should still remain unforgiven and secondly because the best are subject to so many failings in prayer that should not the Lord pardon the sin of their prayers there would be no hope that any prayer of theirs should do them good Vers 31. If any man trespasse against his neighbour and an oath be laid upon him c. That is if a man be charged that he hath trespassed against his neighbour and be brought before the altar to clear himself by oath as in case where sufficient proof and witnesse was wanting they used to do Exod. 22.8.11 Numb 5.12.19 do thou accordingly deal with the man that takes the oath punishing him if he be faulty and acquitting him if he be innocent Vers 33. When thy people Israel be smitten and shall turn again to thee and confesse thy name c. To wit thy Justice by laying all the blame upon themselves acknowledging that they have deservedly suffered and thy mercy and power by seeking to thee for pardon and succour Vers 34. And bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers This may be meant either of those that were taken prisoners in battel to wit that upon the prayers of their brethren in the Temple or their own prayers towards the Temple the Lord would be pleased to bring them again into the land or else of those that by the enemy should be driven out of their dwelling places yet not out of the land of Canaan to

third chapters of this book Vers 44. And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treatreasures for the offerings for the first fruits c. Which the people had newly covenanted to bring in yearely according to the law for the priests and Levites Vers 47. And the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron That is the tithe of their tithes the Levites set apart for the priests CHAP. XIII Vers 1. ON that day they read in the book of Moses c. This I conceive hath not reference to that which is immediately before related concerning the dedication of the walls of Jerusalem for the walls were begun to be built within a while after Nehemiahs first coming to Jerusalem and were finished within two moneths or lesse chap. 6.15 nor is it likely that it was long after ere the walls were dedicated but rather to the day whereon they sealed the covenant whereof he had spoken before in the ninth and tenth chapters when upon reading of the law amongst other evils this also concerning their marriages with heathens and the joyning of their children to the congregation of the Lord was discovered and reformed by separating all the mixed multitude from the children of Israel as is noted before chap. 9.2 and here repeated again vers 3. and this as it seems by that which follows vers 4 5 6. was about the two and thirtieth yeare of Artaxerxes some twelve years after Nehemiahs first coming to Jerusalem when having been with Artaxerxes in Persia he returned again to Jerusalem and reformed such abuses as in the time of his absence were crept in amongst them see the note chap. 2.1 and chap. 5.14 And therein was written that the Ammonite and Moabite should not come into the congregation c. No nor their children unto the tenth generation Deut. 23.1.3 concerning which see the notes there And though there were many passages in Moses law that were against the polluting of the seed of Israel by mariages with the nations about them yet this is here alledged concerning the Ammonites and Moabites rather then any other because it did so expressely discover the great sinne of Eliashib mentioned afterwards vers 4.5 in joyning himself in affinity with Tobiah who is often called the servant the Ammonite yea and honouring him so farre as to allot him a chamber in the very Temple Vers 3. They separated from Israel all the mixed multitude This is added to aggravate the sinne of Eliashib the high priest related in the following verses who was so farre from a sincere desire to reform this abuse discovered by the law that notwithstanding the people did unanimously separate all the mixed multitude from the children of Israel yet he immediately after Nehemiah was gone into Persia which was vers 6. in the thirty second yeare of Artaxerxes reigne received Tobiah amongst them yea and gave him a lodging in the very Temple howeuer he had happely dissembled these his purposes so long as Nehemiah abode in Jerusalem Vers 4. And before this Eliashib the priest having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God was allied unto Tobiah That is before this reading of the law and the reformation thereupon following mentioned in the former verses Vers 5. And he had prepared for him a great chamber where afore time they laid the meat-offerings c To wit not when he was first allyed to Tobiah but long after when Nehemiah was gone into Persia vers 6. However he carried the matter when Nehemiah being then present upon the reading of the law the people separated from Israel all the mixed multitude vers 3. yet so soon as Nehemiah was gone into Persia in the thirty second yeare of Artaxerxes reigne Eliashib discovered himself preparing that is making ready and furnishing for his friend and ally Tobiah the Ammonite a great chamber even in the chambers of the Temple which was done it seems by laying many chambers into one the partitions being taken down as may be gathered from vers 9. where it is said that Nehemiah having cast out Tobiahs houshold-stuffe caused the chambers to be cleansed Vers 6. For in the two and thirtieth yeare of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king c. Twelve years after his first coming to Jerusalem which was in the twentieth yeare of Artaxerxes chap. 2.1 Vers 9. Then I commanded and they cleansed the chambers To wit by casting out the houshold-stuffe of Tobiah and happely by sprinkling them with the water of purifying because they had been polluted and profaned by the lodging of strangers therein that were not of the seed of Israel Vers 10. And I perceived that the portion of the Levites had not been given them The people had not long since by covenant with God bound themselves to the contrary chap. 10.35 c. but it seems out of indignation against Eliashib for lodging Tobiah in the treasuries of the Temple and because they feared thereupon that what they brought thither was diverted some other way and not imployed as it ought to be they wholly forbare to bring in the Levites portions as they had formerly done Vers 11. Then contended I with the rulers and said Why is the house of God forsaken They had said before when they made that solemn covenant with God We will not forsake the house of our God chap. 10.39 and now therefore Nehemiah upbraids them as it were with their own words and condemnes them out of their own mouthes Why is the house of God forsaken Vers 14. Remember me O my God concerning this and wipe not out my good deeds c. He brags not but prayes not claiming any thing of merit as due in justice but producing the good which through the grace of God he had done he beggs of God to remember him in goodnesse and mercy to accept of these his endeavours to serve him according to the sincerity of his heart and not to reject them because of his many failings as is more fully expressed vers 22. Remember me O my God concerning this also and spare me according to the greatnesse of thy mercy yea herein also he intimates that he knew well enough that perhaps from men he should have no thanks but he sought not the praise of men if it proved so he beseeched the Lord however to remember him and then he had his desire Vers 15. In those dayes saw I in Judah some treading winepresses on the sabbath c. Which was also contrary to their former promise when they solemnly renewed their covenant with God chap. 10.31 Vers 16. There dwelt men of Tyre also therein which brought fish and all manner of ware and sold on the sabbath c. Keeping their very markets upon the sabbath dayes and this they did too which is added in the last words as a great aggravation of their sinnes in Jerusalem that is even in the city Jerusalem which God had chosen to himself for his habitation Vers