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Shealtiel was the sonne of Jeconiah by succession Salathiel begat Pedaiah Pedaiah begat Zerubbabel Now admit that Salathiel immediately after he succeeded Jeconiah begat Pedaiah and that Pedaiah at 24. yeeres also begat Zerubbabel which probably was not sooner then was Zerubbabel 18. yeeres old in the first yeer of King Cyrus and 48. when the Temple was finished in the reigne of Darius Hystaspes As to Jeshua He was the sonne of Jozadak alias Ezra 3. v. 2. 1 Chr. 6. v. 14 15. 2 K 25 v. 18. 21 Jehozadak the sonne of Seraiah the chiefe Priest who was slaine by Nebuchadnezzar Now admit that Jehozadak was ten yeeres old when he was carried into Captivity and that 30. yeeres after he begat Jeshua then was Jeshua 40. yeeres old in the first yeere of Cyrus and 70. when the Temple was finished As to Mordecai Admit that he was five yeeres Esth 2. v. 6. old when he was carried away Captive with Jeconiah then was he 122. yeeres old in the 12. yeere C. 3. v. 7. of Ahasuerus when the two daies of Purim were by the Decree of Queene Esther made feastivall after C. 9. v. 1. 32. which should he live eight yeeres he then died at the age of 130. which was not unlikely in those 2 Chr. 24. v. 15 times As to Ezra Admit that he was five yeeres old when his father Seraiah the chiefe Priest was slaine then was he 170. yeeres old in the 20. of Artaxerxes Longimanus when he read and instructed the people in Neh. 2. v. 1 c. 8. v. 3. 13. the words of the Law after which should he live ten yeers though peradventure he lived not one yeer he then died at the age of Isaac 180. yeers old And what unlikelihood is there but that God for the good of Gen. 35. v. 28. his Church might as well preserve Ezra unto this age as he did Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar to a far Moses Aegyptius in suo Misna ut citatur l. 2. chr Genebr greater whom the Jewes affirme to have lived 300. yeeres Nor will it further extend the age of Ezra to shew that Ezra went into the Chamber of Johanan and that he wrote the Books of the Chronicles in Johanan's time For Johanan alias Ionathan was the sonne of Iehoiada the sonne of Eliashib the sonne of Ioiakim Neh. 12 v. v. 10 11. the sonne of Ieshua Now admit each of these to be begotten in the thirtieth yeere of their fathers age observing what we spake before concerning Ieshua then was Iohanan borne in the fifth yeere of Artaxerxes Longimanus and so Ezra might very well in the beginning of Artaxerxes his eighth yeere go into the chamber of Iohanan who was then about Ezra 10. v. 6. three yeeres old And what hinders but that he might write the sonnes of Levi the chief of the fathers Neh. 12. v. 23. in the Booke of the Chronicles even untill the dayes of Iohanan seeing he lived in the 20. of Artaxerxes at which time Iohanan was 15. yeeres old But if Mr. Broughton may prevaile the said Priests shall be much more forward in procreation For he will allow but 87. yeeres from the Captivity of Zedekiah See Broughtons consent of Scripture unto the 7. of Artaxerxes Whence it follows that though ten yeeres be granted to Iehozadak at the time of Captivity yet every one of them must begin to beget children before 19. yeeres old otherwise Iohanan could not be borne when Ezra came to Ierusalem True it is Nehemiah saith that the Levites and Priests were recorded unto the reigne of Darius but by Neh. 12. v. 22. whom this was done he tels not it is plaine not by Ezra for he wrote but untill the dayes of Iohanan 1 Chr. 9. compared with Neh. 11. And though Nehemiah concludes these were in the daies of Joiakim and in the dayes of Nehemiah the Governour and of Ezra the Priest the Scribe yet it C. 12. v. 26. cannot be understood that they were all of them in every one of their daies for that is impossible but that all of them were in all their daies some in the daies of Joiakim some in the dayes of Ezra some in the daies of Nehemiah As to the age of Nehemiah Admit that he was 25. yeeres old when he came to Jerusalem and lived unto the end of the Persian Monarchy he was then Neh. 2. v. 11. 130. yeeres old when he died which is nothing unlikely Func fol 74. Thus we have the continuance of the Persian Kingdome unto 210. yeeres and probably the ages of Zerubbabel Ieshua Mordecai Ezra and Nehemiah without the diminution of the one or stretching of the other beyond reason The first Monarch of Grecia Alexander the Great after the full overthrow Justin l. 11. Bacholz pag. 53. of Darius reigned 7 yeeres Upon his death-bed he parted his Kingdome among 1 Mac. 1. v. 6. 9. Dan. 11. v. 5. to the 30. his servants such as were honourable who all after his death put Crownes upon themselves and soone fell into warres one against another Of whom the chiefest were foure Seleucus King of Syria Joseph Antiqu. l. 12. c 1. Justin l. 13. Sleidan l. 1. Dan. 7. v. 6 c. 8. v. 8. 21 22. c. 11. v. 3 4. Ptolomeus of Egypt Antigonus of Asia the lesse and Cassander of Macedon And of these the two former excelled in power between whom what leagues and conflicts should be Daniel foretold under the names of The King of the North and the King Dan. 11. of the South For Syria lieth Northward and Egypt Southward from Judea The whole chapter is paraphrased by Joseph Hall Bishop of Exceter Note That the Grecian Kingdome Func fol. 75. Bucholz pag. 56 so often mentioned in the Books of the Maccabees began 13 yeeres compleat after the death of Alexander the Great Antiochus sirnamed Epiphanes sonne of Dan. 8. v. 23. c 11. v. 21. 1 Mac. 1. v. 10. 2 Mac. 4. v. 7. Joseph Antiqu. l. 12 c. 5. Antiochus King of Syria a King of fierce countenance a vile person that wicked root after his brother Seleucus was dead began to reigne in the end of the 137 yeere of the Grecian Kingdome On the eighth day of the fifth moneth in the 141. Dan. 8. v. 11 12 13. 1 Mac. 1. v. 13 14. 15. 21. to the end of the ch c. 2. v. 6. to the 16. Joseph Antiqu. l. 12. c. 7 8. yeere the transgression of desolation began and the daily sacrifice decaied by the grosse idolatry of those who with the licence of Antiochus joyned themselves to the Heathen and were sold to do mischief And in the 143. yeere he took Jerusalem polluted the Sanctuary hindered and afterwards forbad the daily Sacrifice and compelled the Jewes to all manner of ambition Whom Mattathias the Priest for 1 Mac. 2. v. 1. 19 to the 48. v. 66. 70.
beginning of his 12. after he was confirmed in the Kingdome Ahaziah King of Iudah began to reigne Iehu 28. yeeres C. 10 v. 36 Iehoahaz 16. yeers C. 13. v. 1. He began to reign in the beginning of the 23. yeere of Ioash King of Iudah Note That the last yeere of Ieroboam Nadab Baasha Elah Omri Ahab and Iehoahaz is not accompted because they were slain or died in the beginning of the yeere as may appear by comparing with the yeers of the Kings of Iudah Ioash 16. yeeres 2 King 13. v. 10. He began to reigne neere the end of the 28. but in the 27. compleat of Joash King of Judah Ieroboam 41. yeers C. 14. v. 23 In the beginning of C. 15. v. 1. his 16. but in his 27. yeere accompting the 11. yeeres which Jeroboam reigned with his father began Azariah King of Judah to reigne From the beginning of the 27. of Azariah Compare c. 14 v. 23. with c. 15. vers 8. King of Iudah to the end of the 38. was 1â— yeeres there was a Vacancy in the Kingdome of Israel Zachariah Verse d. 6. moneths He began to reign in the very end of the 38. of Azariah Shallum 1. moneth Menahem 10. yeeres and Verse 13. 5. moneths Pekahiah 2. yeeres Compare v. 17. with vers 23. Pâ—kâ—h 20. yeeres He began to reign in the beginning 2 King 15. vers 27. of the 52. of Azariah Hoshea 19. yeeres He began to reign in the beginning of the fourth yeer Verse 30. of Ahaz K. of Iudah which was the beginning of the 20. after Iotham began And in the end of the 13. but in the 12. compleat of Ahaz Hoshea C. 17. v. 1. was confirmed in his Kingd After which he reigned 9 yeers In the end of the third of Hoshea began Hezekiah to reign C. 18. v. 1. In the beginning of the 4. of Hezekiah which was the beginning Ver. 9. 10. C. 17 v. 6. of the 7. of Hoshea Shalmaneser King of Assyria came up against Samaria and at the end of 3. yeers which was in the end of the 6. of Hezek and of the ninth of Hoshea Samaria was taken Here began the Captivity of Israel Ver. 18. 21 23 24. Note that Israel was then carried away into Assyria 1 K. 17. v. 6. c. 18. v. 11. and placed in Halath and in Habor by the river of Gozan and in the Cities of the Medes but 46. yeeres after they were driven thence dispersed and so broken that they were not a people As Isaiah foretold in the third yeere of Ahaz King of Iudah which Isa 7. v. 1. 8. was three score and five yeeres before it came to passe Manasseh 55 yeeres 2 K. 22. v. 1. 2 Chr. 33 v. 1. Amon 2 yeeres 2 K. 21 v 19. 2 Chr. 34 v. 21 Iosiah 31 yeeres 2 K. 21. v 1. 2 Chr. 33. v. 1. Iehoahaz alias Iohanan alias Shallum 2 K. 23. v 31. 1 Chr. 3. v 15. 2 Chr. 36. v 2. Jer. 22. v. 11. Comp. 2 Chr. 36. v. 2. with v 5. 3 moneths He is called the first borne because he first succeeded in the Kingdome but his brother Iehoiakim was the elder by two yeeres Iehoiakim alias Ioakim alias Eliakim 2 K. 23. v 34. 36 1 Chr. 3. v. 15. 2 Chr. 36. v. 4 5 11 yeeres Under Pharaoh Nechoh he reigned eight yeeres 2 K. 23. v 34. 35 c. 24. v. 1. Dan. 1. v. 1 2. Joseph Antiqu. l. 10. â— â— and under Nebuchadnez zar three yeeres but in the said third yeere which was the eleventh yeere of his reigne in Ierusalem he rebelled and the Lord gave him into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar 2 K. 24. v. 8. Iehoiachin alias Ieconiah alias Coniah 1 Chr. 3. v. 16. 2 Chr. 36. v. 9. Jer. 22. v 24. c. 37. v. 1. 3 moneths and 10 dayes To wit three moneths and ten dayes alone after his Comment vulg in 2 Chr. 36. v. 9. fathers death being then at the age of eighteene But with his father he reigned ten yeeres before and began his reigne at eight yeeres old Note that the Scriptures expresse Iehoiachins Jer. 52. v. 28. Captivity to be in the seventh yeere compleat of Nebuchadnezzars reigne or when the seventh yeere was 2 Chr. 36. v. 10 expired or in the beginning of his eighth yeere All 2 K. 24. v. 12. which point at one and the same time From his Captivity the Prophet Ezekiel takes his Ezek. 1. v. 2. c. 8. 20. 24. 26. 29. 31. 32. 40. v. 1. Ezek. 1. v. 1 2. 2 K. 22. v. 3 8. accompt The fifth yeere of his Captivity was the thirtieth yeere after the finding of the booke of the Law in the eighteenth of King Iosiah Zedekiah alias Mattaniah 11 yeers 2 K. 24. v. 17. 18. 2 Chr 36 v. 11. Jer. 52. v. 1. Jer. 37 v. 1. Jun. Trem. in 1 Chr. 3. v. 16. He is called the sonne of Ieconiah not by nature for he was his Unkle but by succession in the government So Ahab was sonne to Baasha 1 King 20. v. 34. Broughtons Advertisement pag. 51. 59. 61. compared with c. 15. v. 19 20. So Salathiel was sonne to Jeconiah 1 Chr. 3. v. 17. Matth. 1. v. 12. From the revolt of Ieroboam unto the siege of Ierusalem in the ninth yeere of Zedekiah are 390. 2 K. 25. v. â— yeers which were the yeeres of the iniquity of the house Ezek. 4. v. 5. of Israel for some of the Israelites who were mixed with the Tribe of Judah remained untill this time In the end of his reigne Jerusalem was taken 2 K. 25. v. 2. 3. 8. Here began the Captivity of Judah 2 K. 25. v. 4. to v. 22. 2 Chron. 36. v. 17. to v. 21. Jer. 1. v. 3. c. 52. v. 27. commonly called the Captivity of Babylon with the utter destruction of Ierusalem The said times accompted are 430 yeeres and 10 dayes Reasons why it cannot be admitted that the Captivity of Judah alias the 70 yeeres Captivity began in the third yeere of Iehoiakim First because the fourth yeere of Iehoiakim was the first yeere of Nebuchadnezzar How then could Nebuchadnezzar Jer. 25 v. 1. come up in the third of Iehoiakim And to say that Nebuchadnezzar began to reign and came up in the end of the third of Iehoiakim is contrary to the Text alleadged and also against reason For what man can imagine that Nebuchadnezzar should receive his Crowne raise immediately a mighty host subdue all Syria march afterwards with an Joseph Antiqu. l. 10. c. 7. Army into Iudea which is neere 400. miles from Babylon the very sight whereof caused Iehoiakim to become his servant and all this to be done in the very 2 K. 24. v. 1. end of the third of Iehoiakim Secondly because it is grounded upon nothing but figments and falsities As that
Jehoiakim was See Broughtons consent of Scriptures Mores Tables carried to Babylon and sent home againe * Read Jer. 22. v. 18. 19. That Daniel and the rest were carried away Captives in the first yeere of Nebuchadnezzar That Jehoiakim rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth yeere of his reigne That Nebuchadnezzar came not against him till five yeeres after That the Chaldean Kingdome continued but 70. yeeres Which they seeke to wrest from the words of Jeremiah but in vaine Jer. 25. for though in the fourth of Jehoiakim he prophesieth of the just continuance of the Chaldean Kingdome untill the end of the 70. yeeres Captivity yet he saith not that the 70. yeeres Captivity began in the fourth of Jehoiakim for the Scriptures declare that they began not till the end of the reigne of Zedekiah which was eighteene yeeres after the said prophecy Thirdly because the Captivity of Jehoiakim as also of his sonne was but a particular Captivity of some few though I grant many Nobles were then carried away But the Captivity of Judah or the 70. yeeres Captivity was not the Captivity of a few or only of the chief but of the whole Land of Judah of Prince and people with the utter destruction of Jerusalem in the end of the reigne of Zedekiah Of this Captivity it is said So Iudah 2 K. 25. v. 21. was carried away out of their Land And Jehozadak 1 Chr. 6. v. 15. compared with 2 K. 25 v. 18. the sonne of Seraiah went into Captivity when the Lord carried away Iudah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar Thus Iudah was carried away Captive out Jer. 52. v. 27. of his owne Land And the word of the Lord came unto Jer. 1. v. 1 2. Jeremiah in the dayes of Iehoiakim unto the end of eleventh yeer of Zedekiah unto the carrying away Ierusalem Captive in the fifth moneth What words can plainer expresse the time when the Captivity of Iudah began Them that had escaped from the sword carryed 2 Chr 36. v. 20. 21. he away to Babylon where they were servants to him and his sons untill the reigne of the Kingdome of Persia to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Ieremiah untill the Land had enjoyed her Sabbaths for as long as shee lay desolate she kept Sabbath to fulfill three score and tenne yeeres See here the 70. yeeres desolation must be fulfilled from this Captivity in the end of Zedekiah Fourthly because if Jehoiakim were carried away captive in his third yeere then must Jeconiah's Captivity be in the ninth yeere of Nebuchadnezzar For â— Chr. 36. v. 59. Jehoiakim reigned eight yeeres after that and his sonne Ieconiah three moneths and ten dayes But this is contrary to the Scriptures which say directly that Nebuchadnezzar tooke Iehoiachin alias Ieconiah 2 K. 24. v. 12. in the eighth yeere of his reigne And Ieremiah saies in the seventh yeere Jer. 52. v. 28. Fifthly because in the last chapter of Ieremiah where the severall Captivities are reckoned up there Jer. 52. v. 28 29 30. is no notice taken of the Captivity of Iehoiakim nor of the Captives at that time carried to Babylon being none but a few children chosen out of certaine of the children of Israel and of the Kings seed Dan. 1. v. 3. 4 and of the Princes such as had ability in them to stand in the Kings Palace and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans Whereas the Captivity of Zedekiah is there and also in the 39. Chapter and in the latter booke of the Kings and Chronicles largely related as being the grand and most remarkable Captivity The Captivity of Iudah From the beginning of the Captivity of Babylon unto the Commandement to restore and to build Jerusalem againe are 152. yeeres FOR 2 Chr. 36. v. 21 Jer 25. v. 11 c. 29. v. 10. Dan. 9. v. 2. The Captivity continued 70 yeeres The next yeere after being the first yeere of King Cyrus Israel returned from Captivity Ezra 1. v. 1 They began to build the Temple in the second Ezra 3. v. 8. yeere of the said Cyrus And it was finished in 29 yeeres after which was the sixth yeere of King Darius the son of Hystaspes C. 6. v. 15. Of this Temple it was prophecied that the glory thereof should be greater then of the former which was Hag. 2. v 9. not in respect of the beauty in building but because of the presence of the Messiah our Saviour who John 18. v 20. should teach therein Artaxerxes in the end of his seventh yeer which Ezra 7. v. 8. 11 was 52 yeeres after the finishing of the Temple sent Ezra and gave him Commission to restore and to build Jerusalem againe Here began the 70. weeks revealed by the Angel Gabriel unto Daniel Dan. 9. v. 21. 24 The said times accompted are 152 yeeres Reasons why it cannot be admitted that Daniels 70. weeks should be accompted from the first yeere of King Cyrus The one is because the Angel saith expressely that the 70. weeks must be accompted from the going forth of the Commandement to restore and Dan. 9. v. 25. to build Jerusalem which Commandement was not given forth by Cyrus for the Commission of Cyrus twice rehearsed by Ezra was onely Ezra 1. 6. to build the Temple And though it be also true that Cyrus gave Commandement to build Jerusalem yet Esa 44. v. 28. c. 45. v. 13. he gave not Commandement to restore Jerusalem Whereas that Commandement which the Angel spake of was both to restore and to build Jerusalem This was given forth by Artaxerxes in the seventh Ezra 7. v. 11. yeere of his reigne As may be seene by the tenour of Ezra his Commission For Ierusalem was then restored when the Lawes were taught and Religion established and it was then built when Magistrates and Iudges were set therein Without Religion Ierusalem could not be restored without Magistrates it could not be called a City To settle both these Ezra onely received authority and had Commandement The other reason is because the Assertors of this opinion when they come to particulars doe grossely rend in sunder all Histories especially of the Persian Monarchy and are forced to build on their own phansies As That Cyrus after he took Bahel Broughtons Advertisement of corruption pag. 11. See Mr. Mores Tables reigned but three yeeres Cambyses after his fathers death foure But Mr. More will have it that Cambyses reigned with his father sixe yeeres and one after his fathers death Both alike true For if Cyrus and Cambyses reigned so short a time how could Cambyses the Prince of the Kingdome of Persia withstand Dan. 10. v. 13. compared with v. 1. the building of the Temple 21. yeeres as the Scriptures affirme and are so understood even by Mr. Broughton himselfe Broughton ibid. That Darius the sonne of Hystaspes
sirnamed Ahasuerus hindered the building of the Temple who See Broughtons consent of Scripture Anno Mun. 3560. And Mr. Mores Tables is generally acknowledged to be the finisher * Joseph Antiqu l. 11 c. 4. Func fol. 65. Bucholz pag. 34 Sir W Ral Hist l. 3. c. 5. Sect. 3. Ezra 4. v. 6. therof and whose great favour and liberality unto the Jewes is not onely set forth in the Book ef Esther but also in prophane histories And though it be true that in the beginning of the reigne of Ahasuerus they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem yet this accusation was so farre from hindering the building of the Temple that it procured from Darius alias Ahasuerus a Decree for the speedy finishing thereof C. 6. v 1. unto v. 13. That Artaxerxes mentioned in the seventh of Ezra was the same Darius mentioned before in the Broughtens Advertisement and Consent sixth chapter in whose reigne the Temple was finished But this cannot be For Ezra ending his story of Darius in the sixth chapter begins his seventh thus Now after these things in the reigne of Artaxerxes King of Persia c. Which words shew plainly that he spake of another King and of things done long after Darius Besides in the seventh yeere of Artaxerxes Ezra had Commission to set Magistrates Ezra 7. v. 8. 25. and Iudges over the people which could not be the next yeere after the finishing of the Temple unlesse we will suppose that Zerubbabel the Governour and Hag. 1. v. 1. Zech 4. v. 6. Ieshua the High-Priest and the other Magistrates did all die together on a sudden as soon as the Temple was finished That Xerxes hindered the building of the Temple Broughtons Advertisement pag. 12. 13. That Artaxerxes Longimanus was brother to Xerxes whom all Histories with one consent declare to be his sonne That he reigned but 36. yeeres that Artaxerxes Mores Tables Mnemon reigned 11. yeeres with his father and 10. alone and infinite such like absurdities Neither can they excuse themselves because of the diversity of Writers touching the time of these Kings For the best and soundest Writers doe not differ and that which is and hath from time to time beene generally received must be taken for truth But Vincent Ler. contra Haeres c. 3. these follow none at all and cannot so much as find one pur-blind Author to countenance their inventions And therefore they doe cautiously omit the particular accompt of Daniels 70. weeks An Object But Mr. More tels us that Daniels 70. weeks must needs begin at the very end of their 70. yeeres captivity Mores Tables pag. 94 95. or else the analogie of their 70. yeeres captivity and 7. times 70. yeeres liberty could not stand and also the comfort were not so forcibly brought by the Angel if there were any meane time betweene the end of their captivity and the beginning of their liberty Resolved To resolve this we must know that An analogy is a proportion similitude or resemblance which one thing hath unto another Now that any intervenient time can destroy an analogie is a meere paradoxe For in matter of proportion and similitude neither time nor place are considerable Betweene the Paschall Exod. 12. v. 3. 21. Luke 23. v. 33. Lamb in the first Passeover and the passion of Christ the Lamb of God there was a true analogy yet there interceded 1552. yeeres Betweene the lifting up of the Serpent in the Wildernesse and the lifting up of the Sonne of man there was a true Numb 21. v. 9. John 3. v. 14. analogy yet there interceded 1512. yeeres Betweene Jonas his being three dayes and three nights Jona 1. v. 17. Matth. 12. v. 40 in the Whales belly and the Sonne of man his being three dayes and three nights in the heart of the earth there was a true analogy yet there interceded about 820. yeers Between Christs suffering and the signes now administred in the Lords supper there is a true analogy yet the time since He suffered is more then 1600. yeeres Therefore it is manifest that the analogy betweene Judah's 70. yeeres Captivity and Daniel's 70. weekes may well stand though the weeks doe not immediately begin in the end of the Captivity Nor does any meane time betweene the Jewes Captivity and their liberty diminish the comfort thereof more then the 46. yeeres till the Israelites were peaceably possessed of the Land of Canaan diminished their comfort of being freed from Egypt the house of bondage From the commandement to restore and to build Jerusalem againe unto the death and passion of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST are 490. yeeres FOR It is expressely declared unto Daniel that from Dan. 9 v. 25. the going forth of the Commandement to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah The Prince shall be 7 weeks so long it was before the Reformation could be fully perfected Religion established and 62 weeks which make 69. weeks and Verse 26. 27. after 62. weeks in the week following which added to the said 69. maketh full 70. weeks shall Messiah So Numb 14. v. 34. So Ezek. 4. v. 5 6. So Dan. 10. v 13 So Revel 2. v. 10. be cut off and He shall confirme the Covenant c. Now accompting each day for a yeere as the Scriptures doe frequently 70. weeks do amount unto 490 yeeres The full time from the Creation of Adam unto the death and passion Which Ezek. might happily intend by 4000 Cubites c. 47. v. 3 4 5. of our Lord and Saviour IESUS CHRIST is 4000 yeeres and 10 dayes A particular proofe of the times from the beginning of the Captivity of Babylon unto the death and passion of our blessed Saviour IESUS CHRIST whereby the former computation as also many places of the Scriptures are cleared The first Monarch of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar reigned 45 yeeres Comp. 2 K. 24. v 12. with c. 25 v. 27. Jer. 25. v. 1. He began to reigne in the end of the fourth yeere of Jehoiakim King of Judah In the beginning of his tenth yeere which was 2 K. 24. v 7. Dan. 2. v. 1. 28. 36. Joseph Antiqu. l. 10 c 7 11. the second yeere of his reigne after he vanquished Pharaoh Nechoh Daniel told and expounded his dreame The Captivity of the Jewes began in the beginning 2 K. 25 v. 8. Jer. 52 v. 12. 27 of the nineteenth yeere of his reigne or as it is Ier. 52. v. 29. in the end of the eighteenth yeere From the finding of the booke of the Law in the 2 K. 22. v. 3. 8. 18. of Iosiah unto the last carrying away of the Jewes into Captivity in the three and twentieth yeere Jer. 52. v. 30. of Nebuchadnezzar are 40. yeeres which was the Ezek 4. v. 6. time of the iniquity of the house of Iudah Evilmerodach reigned 30 yeeres Melancthon l. 2. Chron. de 1. Monarch