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A33322	The life & death of Nebuchadnezzar, the Great, the first founder of the Babylonian Empire, represented by the golden head of that image, Dan. 2. 32., and by the lion with eagles wings, Dan. 7. 4. as also of Cyrus, the Great, the first founder of the Empire of the Medes and Persians, represented by the breast, and arms of silver in that image, Dan. 2. 32., and by a bear, Dan. 7. by Sa. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1664 (1664)	Wing C4530; ESTC R15232	35,680	56

his Army he marched strait into Judea where the amazed King made so little resistance the Egyptians having left him as it were in a dream that Nebuchadnezzar entred Jerusalem laid hands on Jehoiakim whom at first he bound intending to send him to Babylon but his mind changing he caused him to be slain in that place and gave him the Burial of an Ass to be devoured by Beasts and ravinous Birds according to the former Prophesie Leaving in his place his Son Jehoiakim or Jeconia whom yet after three moneths and ten days he deposed and sent him Pisoner to Babylon together with Esekiel Mordecay and Josedech the High Priest The Mother of Jeconias together with his Servants Eunuches and all the ablest men and best Artificers in the Land were also then carried away Captives This Jechonias following the Counsel of the Prophet Jeremy made no resistance but submitted himself to the Kings will wherein he both pleased God and did that which was most profitable for himself though at the present it might seem otherwise to such as considered the evil that befell him rather than the greater evill that he thereby avoided This only particular act of his is recorded in Scriture which was good But it seems that he was at least a partaker in his Fathers sins if not a provoker which was the cause that though he submitted himself to Gods will yet did he not preserve his estate For so it is said That he did evil in the sight of the Lord according to all that his Father had done In his stead Nebuchadnezzar set up Mattania his Uncle making him King of Judea and called him Zedechias For like as Necho King of Egypt had formerly displaced Jehoahaz after he had slain his Father Josias and set up Jehoiachim the Son by another Mother So Nebuchadnezzar slew Jehoiakim who depended on the Egyptians and carrying his Son Jeconias Prisoner to Babylon he gave the Kingdom to this Zedechias who was whole Brother to that Jehoahaz whom Necho took with him into Egypt and from Zedechias he required an Oath for his loyalty and faithfull subjection which Zedechias gave him and called the living God to witness in the same that he would remain assured to the Kings of Chaldea 2 Chron. 36. 13. Esek 17. 13 14 18. In the first year of Zedechias Jeremy saw and expounded the vision of the ripe and rotten Figs the one signifying those that were already carried away Captives the other signifying those Jews that yet remained and were afterwards destroyed Jer. 29. 17. In the fourth year of Zedechias Jeremy wrote in a Book all the evil which should fall upon Babylon which Book or Roul he gave to Seriah when he went with King Zedechias to Babylon to visit Nebuchadnezzar willing him first to read it to the Captive Jews and then to binde a stone to it and cast it into Euphrates pronouncing these words Thus shall Babel be drowned and shall not rise from the evil which I will bring upon her This journey of Zedechias to Babylon is probably thought to be in way of a visit and to carry some presents to Nebuchadnezzar But yet its likely he had some suit to make which his Lordly Master refused to grant and sent him away discontented For at his return all the bordering Princes sent Messengers to him inciting him as it seems to those unquiet courses from which the Prophet Jeremy dehorted both him and them About which time the Prophet by Gods appointment made bonds and yokes one of which he wore about his own neck others he sent unto the five Kings of Edom Moab Ammon Tyre and Zidon by those Messengers which came to visit Zedechias making them know that if they and the King of Juda continued in subjection to Babylon they should then possess and enjoy their own Countries If not they should assuredly perish by the Sword by Famine and by Pestilence He also foretold them that those Vessels which yet remained in Jerusalem should be carried after the other to Babylon yet at length should be restored again The same year Ananias the false Prophet took off the Woodden yoke which Jeremy did wear as a sign of the Captivity of the Jews and brake it Vaunting that in like manner after two years God would break the strength of Babel and the yoke which he laid on all Nations and that he would restore Jeconias and all the Jews with the Vessels and Riches of the Temple and put an end to all these troubles But Jeremy instead of his Woodden Yoke wore a Coller of Iron and in sign that Ananias had given a false and deceitfull hope to the People he foretold the Death of this false Prophet which accordingly came to pass in the seventh Moneth After this when Zedechias had wavered long between Faith and Passion in the eight year of his Raign he practiced more seriously against Nebuchadnezzar with his Neighbours the Edomites Ammonites Moabites Tyrians and others who were promised great aides by the Egyptians in confidence of whose assistance he resolved to shake off the Babylonian Yoke whereof when Nebuchadnezzar was informed he marched with his Army in the dead of Winter towards Jerusalem and besieged it Jeremy perswaded Zedekias to render the City and himself to him But Zedechias being confident of help from Egypt and being perswaded by his Princes and false Prophets that it was impossible that the Kingdom of Judah should be extirpated untill the coming of Shilo according to Jacobs Prophesie Gen. 49. 10. he dispised the counsell of Jeremy and imprisoned him For Jeremy had told the King that the City should be taken and burnt that the King should not escape but be taken Prisoner and brought to the presence of Nebuchadnezzar That he should not perish by the Sword but being carried to Babel should there die a naturall Death The following year Jerusalem was surrounded and more strictly besieged by Nebuchadnezzars Army whereupon the King of Egypt Pharaoh Hophra entred into Judea with his Army to succour Zedekias of whose revolt he had been the principall Authour But Jeremy gave the Jews faithfull counsel willing them not to have any trust in the succours of Egypt for he assured them that they should return back again and in no sort relieve them And it fell out accordingly For when the Chaldeans removed from Jerusalem to encounter the Egyptians these bragging Patrones abandoned their enterprise and taking Gaza in their way homewards returned into Egypt as if they had already done enough leaving the poor People in Jerusalem to their destinied miseries Jer. 34. 11 22. In the mean while the Jews who in the time of their extremity had released their Hebrew Bondmen and Bond-women according to the Law in the year of Jubile and made them free thereby to encourage them to fight did now upon the breaking up of the Chaldean

work For he sent a peremptory message to Jehoiakim requiring him not to stand upon any nice points but presently to acknowledge himself his Subject and to pay him Tribute Adding thereunto such terrible threatnings as made the poor Judaean lay aside all thoughts of adhearing unto Pharaoh and to yield to do as the more powerful would have him Thus he continued in Obedience to Nebuchadnezzar three years During which time the Prophet Jeremia cryed out against the impiety of the Jews puting them in mind that he had now for three and twenty years exhorted them to repentance But because they had stopped their ears against him and the rest of the Prophets he now foretold that their Captivity was at hand and that they should bear the yoak of Bondage for seventy years The same calamity he threatned to all the Neighbouring Nations to the Egyptians Moabites Ammonites Idumaeans and the rest foretelling that they should all drink out of the Babylonian Cup the Wine of his fury whom they had forsaken and that after the seventy years should be expired the Babylonians themselves should tast of the same Cup and be utterly subverted by the Medes and Persians by which means the Jews should be permitted to return into their own Country and Cities The first imprisonment of the Prophet Jeremy seems to have been in the fourth year of this Jehoiakim at which time Baruch the Scribe wrote all his Prophesies from his mouth whom he sent to read them unto the People and afterwards to the Princes who presented them to the King But fearing the Kings fury they had first set Jeremy at liberty and advised him and Baruch to hide themselves Jeremiah 36. ●9 c. Jehoiakim having heard part of it read to him and perceiving the ill news contained therein he made no more ado but cut the Book in pieces and cast it into the fire All which Jeremy caused to be new written with this addition that the dead Body of Jehoiakim should be cast out being exposed in the Day to the heat and in the night to the frost and that there should be none of his seed to sit upon the Throne of David Times thus runing on Jehoiakim thought himself secure from all danger as being Tributary to the Babylonian and yet withall well thought on by the Egyptian About which time the mighty City of Tyre opposed it self against Nebuchadnezzar and upon just confidence of her own strength despised all preparations that could be made against her Now for as much as the tearm of seventy years was prescribed for the desolation as well of Tyre as of Jerusalem and other places and Countries its apparent that they that refer the winning of this City to the ninteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar have good ground and warrant for it For the Siege thereof began in the seventh year of his Raign and lasted thirteen years Here it will not be amiss to insert a brief note concerning the beginning of this great Princes Rule The third year of Jehoiakim was the last of Nabul●sser who being freed from other cares and businesses took notice of such as had revolted from him to Pharaoh Necho and sent this Noble Prince his Son with an Army into Syria to reclaim them In this expedition was Daniel carried to Babylon who therefore makes mention of it Dan. 1. 1. The year next following being the fourth of Jehoiakim was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar which Jeremy affirmeth in express words Jer. 25. 1. And from this we must reckon all his time and actions which follow to be spoken of In his three and twentieth year he conquered Egypt and then began his great Empire there being none lest that durst offend or oppose him The second from this year it was wherein Daniel saw that vision of the Image consisting of sundry mettals which prefigured the succession of great Kingdoms that should Rule the World before the coming of Christ. But to return to the Siege of Tyre which began in the seventh year of his Raign The Stately City of Tyre covered all the ground of an Island that was divided from the Continent by a deep and broad Channel of the Sea The Chaldaeans had no Fleet of Ships neither were they Seamen the Tyrians excelled all other Nations in multitude of goodly Ships and skill to use them and every Wind from one part or other brought in all needfull provisions to the City Wherefore neither force nor Famine could greatly hurt the place whereof nevertheless the Judgements of God denounced against it by Isay Jeremy and Esekiel had threatened the destruction and the obstinate resolution of Nebuchadnezzar had fully determined to accomplish it This haughty King impatient of resistance undertook a vast piece of Work which was to fill up that part of the Sea which divided the Island from the continent The City of old Tyre that stood opposite to the New upon the firm Land and the Mountain of Libanus near adjoyning that was loaden with stately Cedars and abundance of other Trees furnished him with materials to effect it Thirteen years were spent in this difficult and hopeless undertaking which need not seem strange if we consider that Alexander working upon that foundation which was remaining of Nebuchadnezzars Peer and being withall assisted with a strong Fleet was yet seven moneths ere he could make way into the City Wherefore if the raging of the Sea was able to carry away that wherewith Alexander laboured to cover a Shelve with much more violence could it overturn and as it were consume the work of Nebuchadnezzar who laid his foundation in the bottom of the deep Striving as it were to fill the empty Belly of this greedy Cormorant whereas the Macedonian did only stop the throat of it All may know that God could easily have accomplished his own threatnings against this place though it had not pleased him to use either a Miracle or such of his more immediate Engins as are Earthquakes c. by making at least the Seas calm and adding the favourable concurrence of all second helps But so it pleaseth him oft times in chastising the Pride of man to use the hand of man even the hand of man striving as it may seem against all resistance of nature and providence So that by this excessive labour of the Chaldeans that Scripture was fulfilled that every Head should be made bald and every Shoulder should be made bare Esek 29. 18. Yet would not Nebuchadnezzar give over till he was master of the Town When he was entred upon this desperate undertaking whether it were by some losses received or some Mutany in his Army or some glorious rumour of the Egyptians strength his evil willers took courage to rebell against him and amongst them Jehoiakim renounced his subjection and began to hope for the contrary which soon after fell out For Nebuchadnezzar gave him no leasure to do much hurt But with part of

Gods goodness and a willing advancer of his Kingdom upon earth which must last for ever Cyrus had Issue two Sons Cambyses and Smerdis and three Daughters Atossa Meroe and Artistoua At his Death he bequeathed his Empire to his Eldest Son Cambyses appointing Smerdis his younger Son to be Satrapa or Leiutenant of Media Armenia and Cadusia He reigned about one and thirty years and died aged The Greek Historians wholly ascribe the Conquest of Babylon to Cyrus because that he commanded the Army in Chief yet the Scriptures attribute it to Darius King of the Medes whose General Cyrus was For when Babylon was taken and Belshazzar slain It s said Dan. 5. 31. that Darius the Median took the Kingdom being about sixty two years old It was Darius also that placed Officers over the severall Provinces thereof as we read Dan. 6. 1 2. It pleased Darius to set over the Kingdom a hundred and twenty Princes which should be over the whole Kingdom and over these three Presidents of whom Daniel was the first c. And thus was it Prophesied by Isay long before Behold I will stir up the Medes against them c. and by the Prophet Jeremy The Lord hath raised up the Spirit of the King of the Medes for his device is against Babylon c. Jer. 55. 11. And again verse 28. Prepare against her the Nations with the Kings of the Medes the Captains thereof and all the Rulers thereof and all the Land of his Dominion But certain it is that the Honour of that great Victory over Babylon was wholly given to Cyrus who was the Instrument preordained and forenamed by God himself not onely for this Action but also for the delivery of his Church Yet Daniel makes it plain that himself not onely lived a great Officer under King Darius but that he continued in that estate to the first year of Cyrus which was not long after which also was the year of Daniels Death As for the age of Cyrus we are beholding to Tully for it who in his first Book de Divinatione Cites it out of one Dionysius a Persian Writer in this manner The Sun saith Dionysius appeared unto Cyrus in his sleep standing at his feet which when Cyrus thrice endeavoured to take in his hands the Sun still turned aside and went away and the Magi who were the most learned men amongst the Persians said that by his thrice offering to take hold of the Sun was portended to him that he should raign thirty years which came to pass accordingly For he lived to the Age of seventy years and began not to raign till he was forty In the first year of Belshazzar Daniel had the Vision shewed him of the four Beasts signifying the four Monarchies and of God delivering over all power and Sovereignty to the Son of man Dan. 7. In the third year of Belshazzar the Vision of the Ram and Goat foreshewing the destruction of the Persian Monarchy by Alexander the Great and the great misery which Antiochus should bring upon the People of God was shewed to Daniel living then at Susa in the Province of Elam upon the bank of the River Vlai which environed the Castle of Susa and parted the Provinces of Susa and Elemais Dan. 8. whence we may collect that at that time the Province of Susa was not in the hands of the Medes and Persians but of the Babylonians under whom Daniel then lived Darius the Mede son of Cyaxares or Ahasuerus the Son of Adyages took upon him the Kingdom which was delivered over to him by Cyrus the Conquerer Dan. 5. 31. 9. 1. The Angel in this first year of his Raign is said to have confirmed and strengthened him in his Kingdom Dan. 11. 1. After which he raigned two years Towards the end of the first year of Darius the Mede the seventy years of the Babylonish Captivity expired which began under Jehoiakim in the first year of Nebuchadnezzar at which time God promised that they should return into their own Country Jer. 29. 10. Thus saith the Lord that after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you and perform my good Word towards you in causing you to return to this place Upon consideration of which very time now so neer approaching it was that Daniel powred out that most fervent Prayer for the Remission of his own sins and of his Peoples and for that promised deliverance out of their Captivity Whereupon the Angel Gabriel brought him an answer not onely concerning this but also for the spiritual deliverance of the Church to be wrought at last by the Death of the Messias uttering that most famous and memorable Prophesie of the seventy Weeks Dan. 9. 12 c. The Samaritans by the means of some Courtiers about Cyrus whom they had bribed for that purpose distributed the Jews in their building of the Temple Ezra 4. 5. Whence proceeded that three weeks mourning of the Prophet Daniel which Fast he begun about the third Day of the first Moneth in the third year of Cyrus Dan. 10. 1. 4. After which upon the four and twentieth Day of the first Moneth that vision of the Kings of Persia of Alexander the Great and his Successours and their Kingdoms was shewed and revealed unto Daniel as he stood upon the bank of Hiddikel or Tygris All which is contained in the three last Chapters of Daniel which as may be collected out of the close thereof was the last Vision that ever he had and that but a little before his Death FINIS Courteous Reader be pleased to take notice that these Books following are Printed for and sold by William Miller at the Gilded Acorn in St Pauls Church-yard near the little North Door Hick●s Revelation Revealed Folio Clares Martyrology Compleat with the Persecutions of England to the end of Queen Maries Reign Folio Lives of ten Eminent Divines some being as follow Bishop Vsher Dr Gouge Dr Harris Mr Gataker Mr Whittaker c. and some other famous Christians Life of Christ 4º Life of Herod the Great 4º A Prospect of Hungary and Transylvania together with an account of the qualities of the Inhabitants the Commodities of the Countries the Chiefest Cities Towns and Strong-holds Rivers and Mountains with an Historycal Narration of the Wars amongst themselves and with the Turks continued to this year 1664. 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