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A45340	Samaria's downfall, or, A commentary (by way of supplement) on the five last verses of the thirteenth chapter of Hosea wherein is set forth, Ephraim's dignity, duty, impenitency, and downfall : very suitable to, and seasonable for, these present times, where you have the text explained, sundry cases of conscience cleared, many practical observations raised (with references to such authors as clear any point more fully) : and a synopsis or brief character of the twenty kings of Israel, with some useful inferences from them / by Thomas Hall ...	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing H440; ESTC R18060	150,640	184

first The Lord threatned to avenge the blood of Iezreel upon the house of Iehu Hos. 1. 4. and now about one hundred years after Zachariah the last of Iehu's race is slain Though God defer long yet hee comes at last though his mill grinde slow yet it is alwaies sure 3 Still see how wicked Parents bring a curse upon their children Iehu's sin helps to cut off his Son Zachariah suddenly for he reigned but six months 16 Shallum a man of a new stock having slain Zachariah reigns in his stead one month so quickly doth the hand of justice finde out bloody Usurpers and retaliate their sins for as hee slew Zachariah so Menahem slaies him As men mete to others so usually God metes to them again Mat. 7. 2. 17 Menahem slaies Shallum and reigns ten years in his stead 1 Hee was an obstinate Idolater for hee walkt in the Idolatrous steps of his predecessors whom God had punisht before him and his own hands had been the executioner of Gods wrath upon one of them 2 King 15. 18. 2 Hee was cruel to all that submitted not to him Hee came to Tiphsah a City situate in the way to Tirzah demands admit●ance which being denied to him an Usurper in his wrath hee puts all to the sword without distinction of old or young male or female and which adds to his cruelty hee ript up the women with childe 2 King 15. 16. Now if Menahem do thus to those that withstand and oppose him a Tyrant wha● shall bee done ●o Me●ahem who opposed God and seduced his people from him to Idols Quest But why did the people oppose Menahem Answ. They knew him to bee a Tyrant and bloody Usurper and came to the Kingdome by murder and therefore the people are not to bee blamed for shutting their gates against him till they had better satisfaction about his ti●le to the Crown and if Mena●em had been an ingenuous valiant spirit indeed hee would have loved them the better for their fidelity and constancy supposing they would have been as faithful to him when hee had been setled amongst them but men that are void of prudence piety and true valour are satisfied with nothing but blood None so cruel as the cowardly Tyrant when hee conquers 3 Hee was Tyrannical Hee exacted by force no less than a thousand talents of silver which was three hundred seventy and five thousand pounds to give to Pull the King of Assyria that so hee might settle the Kingdome faster on himself Hee came to the Crown by Treason Murder and Usurpation and having a guilty conscience hee feared lest some might rise up against him as hee had done against others and therefore hee ●abours by might and main to secure the Kingdome to himself Usurpers fear shadows many times Iudg. 9. 36. They fear where there is no cause of fear This Menahem saith Iosephus was a Captain and great Commander in King Zachariah's army hee hearing that Shallum had slain his Master came with the army and destroi●s Shallum as Omri destroyed Zimri and succeeded him in the Throne Obs. 1 Tyrants and Traitors seldome live to bee old In the space of one year there are four Kings of Israel succeeding one another viz. Ieroboam Zachariah Shallum and Menahem Abimelech an usurping Tyrant reigns but three years and then is killed by a woman Iudg. 9. 22 53. The Popes of Rome how quickly were many of them cut off Some reigned not a year others not a quarter othe●s a month others a week and some but a few daies How many Popes did Queen Elizabeth out-live though they curst her with Bell Book and Candle So true is that of Solomon Prov. 28. 2. For the transgressions of a Land many are the Princes thereof 1 There are many striving at the same time one against another for the Crown Or 2 There are many in a short time succeeding one another such sudden changes are hurtful both to Prince and people and are apt to raise tumults and insurrections because a people are unacquainted with the men and their manners When people do wickedly both they and their Kings do perish 1 Sam. 12. 25. 2 Tyrants have more care of themselves than of the people Good Rulers are men of publick spirits they serve not themselves but their Generation Act. 13. 36. But tyrannical Menahems tax and pole fleece and slay not for their peoples good but to settle the Kingdome on themselves 3 God wants not Rods to punish a perverse people When the Syrians have done with Israel now hee raiseth up the Assyrians who distressed them more than the former till they were totally ruined 2 King 17. 6. When lesser Rods do not mend a people then come greater yea rather than fail one wicked man shall bee executioner to another as wee see in these wicked Kings 4 See here how misery still attends Idolatry at the heels Menahem walkt in the Idolatrous waies of Ierob●am and the King of Assyria presently falls on him So 1 Chron. 5. 25 26. 5 Idolaters are barbarous bloody men Who ever saw an Idolater that was not cruel Idolatrous Menahem what cruelty doth hee exercise on all sorts and sexes Hee kills his King and now murders the people Tyrants are like dropsie-men the more blood they drink the more thirsty they are The cruelty of Papists in notoriously known to the world Ask England Scotland Ireland France Germany Savoy Poland and all Protestant Nations and they will ●ell you of many thousands that have been most inhumanly slain by that man of sin No less than thirty thousand Protestants were slain at the Parisian Massac●e 1572. in a months space Go to the Indians and they will tell you sad stories of the butchery and barbarous murders committed by the Papists there 6 Idolaters usually are great oppressors They impose heavy burdens upon their people so did Menahem here and so did Solomon before him when hee fell to Idolatry and Rehoboam his Son adds to their burdens 1 King 12. 4 11. It is just with God when men will not serve him with gladness of heart in the abundance of all things and submit to his easie yoak then to put an Iron yoak of oppression upon them that they may know the difference between his service and the service of Idols Deut. 28. 47 48. 2 Chron. 12. 8. Hos. 5. 11. Such as can so easily part with spirituals shall lose their temporals Those that will not have grace shall not have riches long 18 Pekahiah succeeds his Father and therein is more happy than his Father who gained the Kingdome by murder Hee reigned two years and did evil in the sight of the Lord as his predecessors had done before him and therefore hee hath the common brand set upon him 2 King 15. 22 23 24 25. Pekah the son of Remaliah a Captain of his own conspires against him and slaies him in his Royal Palace at Samaria Argob and Arieh with fifty of the Gileadites