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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

and forty years by himself alone Whilst Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon raged in Judea God prepared a worm which in due time should eat out this spreading Tree by reason of the cry of his poor People which entred into his ears According to that of the Psalmist Psal. 137. 8 9. O Daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones For in this very year was Cyrus the Perso-Median born whose Father was a Persian and his Mother a Mede of whom this very Nebuchadnezzar at the hour of his Death uttered this Prophesie There shall come a Persian Mule who shall make use of your Devils as his fellow-Souldiers to bring you into Bondage He calls Cyrus a Mule because he was to be born of a Father and Mother of two divers Nations FINIS THE LIFE DEATH OF CYRUS the Great THE FIRST FOUNDER of the EMPIRE OF THE MEDES PERSIANS Represented by the Breast and Arms of Silver in that Image Dan. 2. 32. and by a Bear Dan. 7. 5. and by a Ram with two Horns Dan. 8. 3 20. And the deliverer of the Israelites out of Babylon the seventy years of their Captivity being Expired Whereby much light is given to many of the Prophesies of Isay Jeremy Esekiel and Daniel By Sa. Clarke sometime Minister in St Bennet Fink London LONDON Printed for William Miller at the Gilded Acorn in St Pauls Church-yard near the little North Door 1664. THE LIFE DEATH OF CYRUS the Great The first Founder of the PERSIAN EMPIRE CYRVS was the Son of Cambyses King of Persia by Mandanes the daughter of Astyages King of Media He was so named by the Prophet Isay almost two hundred years before he was born Isay 45. 1 4. Thus saith the Lord unto Cyrus his annointed c. Cyrus his first Education was under his Father Cambyses with whom he lived till he was twelve years old and somewhat more at which time he was sent for together with his Mother Mandanes by his Gandfather Astyages into Media In Media he served Astyages first as one of his Halberdiers and then as one of his Armour-bearers till he was called home into Persia by his Father Cambyses when as yet he had one year to spend at School and when he had spent seventeen years at School amongst Boys he spent ten years more amongst youths When Cyrus was now almost sixteen years old Evilmerodach the King of Assyria being about to marry a wife called Nicotris made an in-rode with a great Army of Horse and Foot into the borders of Media there to take his pleasure in hunting and harrassing of the Country against whom Astyages and Cyaxares his Son and Cyrus his Grand child who then first began to bear Arms being but about fifteen or sixteen years old marched out met with him and in a great Battel overthrew him and drave him out his borders Indeed the Death of Nebuchadnezzar the Father of Evilmerodach gave courage to those that had found him a troublesome neighbour to stand upon prouder tearms with the Babylonians than in his flourishing estate they durst have used But Evilmerodach being too proud to digest this loss which he had received by the Medes and their Allies the Persians under Cyrus he drew unto his party the Lydians and all the People of the lesser Asia with great gifts and strong perswasions hoping by their assistance to overwhelm his enemies with a strong invasion whom in vain he had sought to weary out by a lingring War The issue of these great preparations made by Evilm●r●●ach against the Medes was such as opened the way to the fulfilling divers Prophesics which were many years before uttered against Babel by Isay and Jeremy For the Babylonians and their Confederates who trusting in their numbers thought to have buried the Medes and Persians under their thick showers of Arrow and Darts were encountered with an Army of stout and well trained men weightily Armed for close fight by whom they were beaten in a great Battel wherein Evilmerodach was slain After which that great Empire that was raised and upheld by Nebuchadnezzar was grievously shaken and enfeibled under his unprosperous Son and left to be sustained by his Grand-child Belshazzar a man more like to have overthrown it when it was greatest and strongest than to repair it when it was in a way of falling Xenophon relates the matter thus When the Babylonian had enlarged his Empire with many Victories and was become Lord of all Syria and many other Countries he began to hope that if the Medes could be brought under his Subjection there would not then be left any Nation adjoyning able to make head against him For the King of the Medes was able to bring into the Field sixty thousand Foot and ten thousand Horse to which the Forces of Persia being joyned made an exceeding great Army Considering therefore the strength of such a neighbour he invited Craesus King of Lydia a Prince very mighty both in men and Treasure and with him other Lords of Asia the less to his assistance alleadging that those Eastern Nations were very powerfull and so firmly conjoyned by League and many Alliances that it would not be easie no nor possible for any one Nation to resist them With these suggestions backed with rich Presents he drew to himself so many adherents as he compounded an Army of two hundred Thousand Foot and sixty thousand Horse Of which ten thousand Horse and forty thousand Foot were brought by Craesus who had great cause of enmity against the Medes for that they had made great Wars against his Father Allyattes Whereupon Cyrus was by his Father Cambyses and the Council of the Kingdom made Generall of the Persian Army and sent away into Media with thirty Thousand Souldiers and one Thousand Commanders all of equall Authority under him and when he came thither he was also made by his Uncle Cyaxares who had sent for him Generall of the Median Forces and the management of the War against the Babylonian was wholly comitted to him With this Army he marched against Evilmerodach and his associates and in a very bloody Bartell overthrew them In which defeat Evilmerodach King of Babylon being slain so many of his Subjects revolted that Babylon it self could no longer be secured but by the help of Mercenaties waged with great sums of money out of Asia the less Egypt and other Countries which new leavied Forces were also defeated and scattered by Cyrus who following his advantage possessed himself of a great part of the lesser Asia Those Persians which followed Cyrus and were by him levied are reckoned to be thirty thousand Foot of which one thousand were Armed Gentlemen the rest of the common sort were Archers and such as used the Dart or Sling Craesus notwithstanding the men lost and the