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A57230	Choice observations and explanations upon the Old Testament containing in them many remarkable matters, either not taken notice of, or mistaken by most, which are additionals to the large annotations made by some of the Assembly of Divines : to which are added some further and larger observations of his upon the whole book of Genesis perused and attested by the Reverend Bishop of Armagh, and Mr. Gataker Pastor of Rederith / by ... John Richardson ...	Richardson, John, 1580-1654.; Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.; Westminster Assembly (1643-1652)	1655 (1655)	Wing R1385; ESTC R3676	529,737	519

though in that favour and of that power ch 45. 19. yet would not do it without the Kings expresse consent Goshen See Annot. on ch 45. 10. for every shepherd See Annot. on ch 43. 32. CHAP. XLVII Verse 1. GOshen See Annotat. on chap. 45. 10. 46. 28. V. 2. Five men Not set down which five and therefore guesses here are but idle and curious V. 3. Occupation Ch. 46. 33. Jonah 1. 8. 2 Thes. 3. 10. Good Magistrates inquisitive against idlen●sse as the bane of a Common-wealth shepherds Every one a shepherd v 6. ch 46. 34. V. 4. To sojourne For a time duri●g the famine This likely their intent at first and not to leave Canaan Though afterwards for Josephs sake and his great accommodations afforded them they continued their abode there And afterwards the following Kings against the Lawes of Hospitality kept them as bond slaves no pasture It failed sooner in Canaan then in Egypt and Goshen Canaan being an higher land let thy servants dwell Pharaoh made a frank offer ch 45. 18 20. Joseph intended this place for them ch 45. 10. His brethren here requested it and no doubt by Josephs direction ch 46 34. Thus by this meanes Joseph in his modesty would gaine Pharaohs ●onsent to this particular place V. 6. Of Activity Men of fit and able parts are to be chosen to places and offices Jacob blessed Pharaoh Saluted him with prayer for his welfare and thanks and praise for his bounty to Joseph to him and his children 2 Kings 4. 29. Numb 6. 23 24. Mat. 26. 26. with Luke 22. 19. so again when Jacob left Pharaoh v. 10. V. 9. Of my pilgrimage Pilgrims here seeking after a better countrey an heavely Heb. 11. 9 13. 13. 14. 1 Chron. 29. 15. Psal. 39. 12. 119. 19. Jacobs flittings from Labai roi to Gerar to the valley of Gerar to Rehoboth to Beersheba to Bethel to Haran in Mesopotamia to Gilead to Mahanaim to Succoth to Shalem in Sechem to Bethel to Ephrath to Mamre to Beersheba to Egypt to Pharaohs Court one hundred and thirty yeares Therefore Jacob was ninety when Joseph was borne and seventy six when he came to Laban v 28. and have not attained Abraham lived to one hundred seventy five Isaac to one hundred and eighty V. 11. Ramases Exod. 12. 37. The City built after by the Israelites Exod. 1. 11. After the Israelites multiplied and spread further and had Egyptian families among them and about them whence their doores were distinguished by the blood Exod. 12 7 23. and v. 35 37. they soon borrowed jewels of them V. 12. According As a child is nourished by the nurse ch 45. 11. 49. 24. 50. 21. lovingly tenderly carefully V. 13. Fainted Yet now among strangers God satisfies his Church with fulnesse V. 14. All the money into Pharaohs house His treasury Josephs fidelity V. 15. Money failed Generally for the most part ●almost totally give us bread Yet ask it in an humble manner v. 17. 18 19 25. V. 18. The second yeare Namely after their cattel was sold which seemes to have been the sixth yeare of the famine the second of their extremity V. 19. And our land Die become desolate As trees while they bear fruit are said to live when not to die so may the ground and give us seed This is the seventh year of the famine V. 21. He removed them So to gain the right of propriety and possession from the people to Pharaoh The people mutinie not in all these extremities nor break open the granaries of Pharaoh but by Josephs prudence and Gods over-ruling Providence keep their loyalty and obedience Thus Chams posterity was brought into bondage ch 9. 25. V. 22. Only the land of the Priests Or Princes Pharaohs chief Officers and Lords as ch 41. 45. See Annos on that place ch 14. 18. if it be here understood of Priests as the Chaldee and LXX translate it This shews Pharaohs care not Josephs for he favoured not idolatrous Priests to preserve their rights and revenues to save their lands from alienation to maintain them so Jezabel 1 King 18. 19. These shall rise up in judgement against many Christian Kings and people who neglect the maintenance of the Ministers of the Gospel V. 24. The fifth part He might have required the halfe or have allowed them but the fifth part Here then he deales not with them injuriously or uncharitably making his best advantage of their necessity But mercifully as themselves confesse v. 25. and yet faithfully as became the steward of Pharaoh whose corne he sold. This fifth part was no more then was laid up in the yeares of plenty ch 41. 44. V. 25. Pharaohs servants His Farmers and Tenants V. 27. Multiplied exceedingly So God fulfilled his Promise ch 46. 3. V. 28. Seventeen yeares So long Joseph nourished his father in Egypt as his father had nourished him at home V. 29. Thy hand under my thigh See Annot on ch 24 2. Jacob requires this oath not so much doubting Josephs obedience herein but that he might alledge it to Pharaoh ch 50. 5. and so decline the envy of the Egyptians and their surmising of his scorning their land and that it might be a testimony of his faith in Gods Promises for possessing the land of Canaan that as a type of Heaven Heb. 11. 9 10 14 15 16. and for a strengthening of the faith of his seed that they should return thither And for this also Joseph layes his bones as it were at stake ch 50. 25. Heb. 11. 22. Thus being dead they teach and preach faith to them V. 30. But I will lie Lie down and sleep Such is death lie in burial with my fathers Abraham and Isaac See v. 29. V. 31. Bowed himself Unto God with thankfulnesse Heb. 11. 21. His religious thoughts now near his end took up his minde with matter of praying to God and praising of God And though weak and bed●id yet he would not do it without some outward expression of devout reverence This bowing then was not to Joseph ch 48. 12. nor yet towards the East or Canaan but to God so David 1 Kings 14. upon the beds head The LXX read it leaning upon the top of his staffe The Hebrew word without pricks or vowels serves both Mittch is a bed Matteh is a staffe The LXX sure had a copy without pricks The Apostle follows the LXX in Heb. 11. 21. See Annot. on ch 46. 27. and on ch 11. 12. Jacob turning his face to the bed and so rearing himself upon the boulster at his beds head he then bowed himself and worshipped the Lord ch 48. 2. 1 Kings 1. 47 48. And it well may be that to help himselfe herein in his great weaknesse he might leane upon the top of his staffe which he had in his hand being an old man and the Apostle knowing this also to be true did not therefore stick to alledge the place according to the Translation of the LXX CHAP. XLVIII Verse

8. Psal. 113. 7 8. V. 42. Took off his ring An Ensigne of honour and authority Esther 3. 10. and 8 2. Luke 15. 22. Hereby to publish under the Kings seale such Orders and Commands as Joseph would of fine linnen Egypt was famous for fine linnen Prov. 7. 16. Ezech. 27. 7. it signifies also bysse or silk Ex. 25. 4. Apoc. 19. 8 14. The weare of great personages Prov. 31. 22. Ezech. 16. 10. Luke 16. 19. a gold chaine Prov. 1. 9. Ezech. 16. 11. Thus Dan. 5. 7 16 29. V. 43. Second chariot 2 Chron. 35. 24. As Mordecai riding on the Kings horse Esther 6. 8. Thus Joseph the second man in the Kingdome Daniel made the third Dan 5. 29. Bow the knee Abrech kneel down as to the father of the King ch 45. 8. V. 44. I am Pharaoh I am King and will be and assure as I am Pharaoh so sure without thee thy advice and authority not the least thing shall be done in matter of Government no man shall do anything or go any whither V. 45. Zaphnath-Paaneah A Revealer of secrets Dan. 1. 7. Gen. 17. 5. of Poti-pherah Priest of Ou To distinguish him from that Potiphar ch 37. 36. 39. 1. who dwelt in Memphis the royal City Priest Or Prince Exod. 2. 16. 18. 1. Both offices concurred in one person as was the manner of those times and places See Annotat. on chap. 14. 18. This name given to the sonnes of David 2 Sam. 8. 18. and expounded 1 Chron 18. 17. of Ou Called also Aven Ezech. 30 17. in Greek Heliopolis the City of the Sun perhaps now Damiata Josephs marriage here cannot be an example or rule to us except where all reasons and circumstances and warrants are alike by reason of the prohibitions and perils set down in Scripture The Israelites forbidden to marry with the Canaanites Exod. ●4 16. Deut. 7. 3 4. 1 Rings 11. 1. Nehem. 13. 26. Forbidden to Christians 2 Cor. 6. 14 c. But for Joseph there was no other in the land and he might not desert his charge and dignity whereto God had called him for the preservation of his Church to go seek a wife elsewhere neither know we what instinct or dispensation he might have from God As the like might be in Esthers marrying with Ahashuerus V. 46. Thirty yeares old At this age Jesus Christ entered into his publick Ministery so John Baptist so the Levites Numb 4. 3. And David began his reign but not Ezekiel his Prophecie This notation of Josephs age here gives much light to many passages in this history of Jacob and his sonnes there are thirteen yeares since he was sold ch 37. 2. V 51. And all my fathers house My injuries and molestations there not his filial affection whereby he might haply privily enquire in the thirteen yeares afore and afterwards also of his fathers welfare ere his brethren came down and yet wait for the most fit opportunity of fulfilling the dream V. 54. In all lands Round about as Canaan Arabia c. So Luke 2. 1. V. 55. Cried to Pharaoh As the woman 2 Kings 6 26. Joseph would do but as Pharaoh directed V. 56. Sold Prov. 11 26. V. 57. And all countreys Neighbouring to Joseph Ch. 45. 5. 50. 20. Psal 105. 16 17. CHAP. XLII Verse 1. SAw Heard v. 2. so the people saw the voices Exod. 20. 18. Jacob was as much assured of it as if he had seen it And one eye-witnesse is of more credit then many eare-witnesses And likely he saw it too by many Canaanites that bought and brought co●ne out of Egypt Acts 7. 12. corac The word for corne signifies also breaking why So negligent or as men amazed helplesse Acts 7. 11. gaze as men destitute of counsel Famine is a terrible thing 2 Kings 6. 25. Deut. 28. 57. Lam. 4. 10. Esay 9. 20. A famine in Canaan in the dayes of Abram ch 12. 10. of Isaac ch 26. 1. and now in Jacobs time and Acts 11. 28. Gods servants subject to common calamities yet God provides for them Psal. 37. 19. V. 2. Get you down Egypt lay lower then Canaan ch 45. 13 9. V. 4. But Benjamin ●h 37. 3. 35. 18. 42. 38. V. 6. Governour Ps. 105. 22. Of the Hebrew word Shallet and Shil●on is made in Arabick Sultan a title whereby the chief Governours of Egypt and Babylon are still called and he it was that sold Likely his Officers to the Natives But himself to Forreigners that by sifting them he might informe himself of any danger to the land to prevent it of any meanes of good to the land to advance it bowed down So fulfilling his Prophetick dream ch 37. 7 8 9. So ch 43. 26 28. 44. 14. 50. 18. V. 7. He knew them but For many good reasons he yet dissembles that he knew them and yet discovers not himself unto them to prevent sundry inconveniences and to further good intents and purposes towards them spake roughly They deserved no better of him Though Joseph did it in a good intent to a good purpose V. 9. Remembred the dreams So he did before But now more usefully he saw the time for the fulfilling of them spies to see the nakednesse Exod. 32. 25. Not by way of lying he speaks thus but by way of questioning and examining to bolt out other matters to other good purposes so v. 12. as a severe Inquisiter V. 11. All one mans sons And therefore not likely to be spies The spies were sent one of a tribe Numb 13. 2. And they dispersed themselves in all likelihood and reason V. 13. One is not Is dead ch 44. 20. 37. 30. Not in this world ch 5. 24. Heb 11. 5. V. 14. This is it that I spake This discovers it pretending another brother or why should he alone be left behinde This not likely and being false in this ye are but spies sure V. 15. By the life of Pharaoh Pharaoh liveth a kinde of oath or swearing as the like phrase importeth Jer. 5. 2 But more properly a kinde of vehement Asseveration as Ezech 33. 11. 1. Sam 1. 26. 17. 55. 20. 3. 25. 26. and 2 Sam 15. 21. 2 Kings 2. 2 4. Or it may be a wish Let or so let Pharaoh live as c. No sufficient ground to charge upon Joseph a sinful oath by the life of Pharaoh yea a grievous sin Deut. 6. 13. compared with Mat. 4. 10. Jer. 5. 7. Ye Ye all v. 16. ye shall not If ye go The words are suspensive implying a curse so ch 14. 23. V. 17. Into ward God calls them by tribulation to repentance for their sin Heb 12. 10. V. 18. I feare God Chap. 20. 11. Nehem. 5. 15. Prov. 16. 6. V. 20. Your youngest brother unto me Cares most for him and hopes his father will conceive no hurt towards him by his bountiful dealing with them V. 21. And they said one to another In the absence or out of the hearing of the Interpreter guilty Affliction as a rack

Hoshea truly began in the fourth of Ahaz which was the twentieth from the time that Jotham began to reigne not that Jotham reigned twenty years till Hoshea began And Hoshea had reigned nine years in the twelfth of Ahaz And these first nine years the Sacred story passeth over in silence He having done nothing remarkable or memorable in them His later nine years are storied on t thus That the first of them begins in the twelfth of Ahaz 2 King XVII 1. That in the third of them which was the last of Ahaz Hezekiah began to reigne 2 King XVIII 1. That in the seventh of them and fourth of Hezekiah Shalmanezar came and besieged Samaria 2 King XVIII 9. That in the ninth and last of them and sixth of Hezekiah Shalmanesar took Samaria and carried all captives into Assyria and finaly extinguished that Kingdome of Israel 2 King XVIII 10 11. The Names then and the Numbers of the years of the Reignes of the Kings of Judah and of Israel in this II. Book of Kings are as followeth viz. of Judah years Iehoram as viceroy 4 In all 12. Imperfect Joynt King with his father Iehoshaphat 2 Sole King after his fathers death 6 Ahaziah 1 imperfect Athaliah 6 Ioash 40 Amatziah 17 Vzziah 52 Iotham 15 Ahaz 14 Hezekiah 29 Manasseh 55 Amon 2 Iosiah 31 Iehoachaz   Iehojakim 11 Iehoachin   Zedekiah 11 Thence to Iehoiachins advancement 26 Kings of Israel years Ahaziah 1 Iehoram 11 Iehu 28 Iehoahaz 15 Ioash or Iehoash 16 Ieroboam 41 Zechariah   Shallum   Menachem 10 Pekahiah 2 Pekah 20 Hoshea 18 See my Annotations on Hos. I. 1. If thou see me chapter II verse 10 This signe was of Gods appointment And the thing done on the East-side of Iordan a Minstrel To quiet chapter III verse 15 quicken and compose his spirit his eldest sonne The King of Edoms eldest son verse 27 taken by the King of Moab in this eruption See Amos II. 1. and the Annotations there Shunem A Citie in the Tribe of Issachar chapter IV verse 8 Iosh. XIX 18. And hath in the same Tribe standing from it Iezreel towards the South Mount Gilboa towards the South-East The river Kishon on the East and Mount Tabor towards the North-North-East in the Confines of the Tribe of Zebulon In Shunem the Philistines pitched against Saul in Gilboa 1 Sam. XXVIII 4. Here was borne Abishag that fair Virgin that lay in Davids bosome to cherish him as a wife-nurse in his decreped age And was afterwards sought for in marriage by Adonijah but to the losse of his life in the State-wisdome of Solomon 1 King I. and II. chapters And here dwelt this great and good woman that made these accommodations for the Prophet Elishah and upon his Prophetical promise obtained a sonne and had him miraculously raised from death of life againe by Elishah coming from Mount Carmel hither as is in this IV. Chapter And further upon this accompt after her seven years absence on the Prophets direction by reason of the Famine to ensue during that time she returning out of the Land of the Philistines had her house lands and profits of her estate restored to her by Iehoram King of Israel 2 King VIII Gilgal Of this see the Annotations on Hos. IV. 15. verse 38 twenty loaves of barley This was more then the bread of his first fruits came to verse 42 King of Syria This was Benhadad the son of Benhadad chapter V both Kings of Syria verse 5 1 Kings XV. 18 19 20. and XX. 1. 34. 2 King VI. 24. and VIII 7. 2. Chron. XVI 2. The father was the sonne of Tabrimon the sonne of Hezion King of Syria 1 King XV. 18. This the sonne slew Ahab at Ramoth-Gilead 1 King XXII 35 37. Who contrary to Gods command had saved him 1 King XX. 42. And besieging Samaria he brought it to that extreme famine 2 King VI. 24 25. And after at Ramoth-Gilead he wounded Jehoram the son of Ahab 2 King VIII 28 29. Whence returning to Jezreel to be healed of his wounds he was slaine by Jehu 2 King IX 24. And this son died 2 King VIII 15. A third Benhadad King of Syria was the son of Hazael 2 King XIII 3 24. Benhadad signifies the son of Hadad And Hadad was a name very common among the Kings of Edom or Idumea Gen. XXXVI 35. 1 Chron. I. 50. 1 King XI 14 but afterwards grew more common with the Kings of Syria insomuch as Benhadad may seeme a name common to the Kings of Syria See Jer. XLIX 27. Amos I. 4. And take here a Catalogue of the Kings of Syria as we finde them in Scripture thus Omitting Chushan-Rishathaim who was King of Aram-Naharaim or Syria between the two rivers that is Tigris and Euphrates or of Mesopotamia Judg. III. 10. We finde these Kings of Syria properly so called whereof Damascus was the chief Citie viz. Hadadezer or Hadarezer in Davids time 2 Sam. VIII 5 6 13. and X. 6 8 16. Rezon in the dayes of Solomon 1 King XI 23 24 25. Benhadad the son of Tabrimon the son of Hezion in the dayes of Asa 1 King XV. 18 19 20. Benhadad the son of Benhadad in the dayes of Ahab and of Elias and Eliseus And Nahaman was the Captain of his hoast 1 King XX. 1 20 26 32 34. and XXII 3. and 2 King V. 1 2 6 7. and chap. VI. 8 12 23 24. and chap VII 4. 16. Hazael in the dayes of Joram Jehu Iehoahaz 1 King XIX 15. 2 King VIII 7 8 13. and X. 32. and XII 17. and XIII 3 22. Benhadad the son of Hazael in the dayes of Iehoash ● King XIII 24 25. Rezin in the dayes of Pekah and of Ahaz 2 King XVI 5. Esay VII 1. 16. and VIII 4. Talents See my Observations on Exod. XXXVIII 24. Go in peace A fare-well phrase verse 19 a friendly dismission with little or no relation to what Nahaman had said as little minding it and of smal concernment to the greater engagements that then lay upon him which kinde of Answers are not unusual The Leprosie Yet King Jehoram holds conference with Gehazi afterwards verse 27 2 King VIII 4. as upon sundry grounds and occasions incident in a right manner well he might are come down chapter VI verse 9 Here the holy Pen-man useth a word of the Syrian language Dothan In the Tribe of Ephraim verse 13 about mid-way between Samaria and Shechem Here Joseph findes his brethren feeding their flocks Gen. XXXVII 13 17. This is not the way No verse 19 nor the place or Citie whereby and wherein to effect your purpose came no more Not these Bands verse 23 nor in this maner making inrodes or laying ambushes nor any at all of a long time after till Benhadad came with all his hoast ver 24. a Cab Is a Hebrew measure verse 25 Of this see my Observations on Gen. XVIII 6. of Doves dung Or of the corne found in the crop she flying into the Citie out of

and all for his own safety 1 King XII 27. And to gaine their possessions making Priests of the lowest of the people which were not of the sonnes of Levi 2 Chron. XIII 9. A practise well beseeming Rebels Devils Idols here so called verse 15 in the way of David verse 17 and Solomon This charitably implies the Repentance of Solomon as well as his Ecclesiastes doth in his last dayes though haply he could not reforme all Idolatry as neither Manasseh could after his repentance 2 Chron. XXXIII 7. and dispersed As Gen. verse 23 XXV 5 6. 2 Chron. XXI 3. Israel Put and meant for Judah chapter XII chap. XV. 17. See the Observations on 2 Chron. XXI 2. against Jerusalem After this Jerusalem was taken about tenne times verse 9 one and fourty Therefore borne in the first year of the reigne of his father King Solomon verse 13 four hundred thousand Huge are the armies of the Jews chapter XIII 1200000 Jewes in those armies of Abijah and Jerrboam Wherein slaine on Jeroboams side five hundred thousand verse 3 much more then every one his man the greatest number that ever we read slaine in any battel v. 17. In the reigne of Asa he had out of Judah and Benjamin an army of 500080. And he fought against an army of Zerah the Ethiopian of a thousand thousand and three hundred Charets likely meaning three hundred thousand Charets 2 Chron. XIV 8 9. the greatest army that we read of And in Jehoshapha's time he had men of warre waiting on him 1160000. besides those whom he put in the fenced Cities throughout all Judah 2 Chron. XVII 14 19. children of Belial i. e. without yoake verse 7 or without profit as the word signifieth Deut. XIII 13. Such as Judg. XIX 22. 1 Sam. II. 12. and X. 27. and XXV 17. 1 King XXI 13. This title doth Shimei give falsely to David 2 Sam. XVI 7. But is truly given to the Devil 2 Cor. VI. 15. was young Not in age but in experience and policy being then as was said fourty one years old fourteene wives Fourteene wives in his life-time verse 21 for his reigne was but short even three years ver 2. ten years Yet likely some small skirmishes there were chapter XIV verse 1 1 King XV. 16 32. Mareshah A Citie in the North-West part of the tribe of Judah Josh. verse 10 XV. 44. There Michah the Prophet was borne Michah I. 1. And here as we see in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah Asa overthrew the hugest hoast that ever we read of Xerxes army not excepted of Zerah the Ethiopian Gerar Gerar anciently a Citie and Kingdome of the Philistines verse 13 whose Kings seeme all to be called Abimelechs where Abraham and Isaac a while lived both offending in denying their wives Gen. XX. and XXVI Isaac leaving the Citie dwelt in the valley of Gerar. Gen. XXVI 17. a most fruitful valley ver 12. as it were the Granarie of Canaan when famine was elsewhere in the Land ver 1. Here Isaac digged againe the Wells of water digged by Abraham and stopped by the Philistines And he digged others new After Gerar fell to the tribe of Simeon And hither as we see Asa pursued the Ethiopians and smote all the Cities round about Gerar. long season Thirty or thirty one years chapter XV verse 3 conceiving this to be in the eleventh year of Asa at the end of those ten years chap. XIV 1. Israel The ten tribes under Jeroboam Nadab and Baasha did turne We read not of their turning in those thirty years verse 4 This then may be taken by way of supposition If they had turned God would have been found of them Or else Israel in the former verse may relate to all Gods people and comprehend in it also former times even the times of the Judges themselves Be ye strong Ye of Judah and Benjamin verse 7 ver 2. Oded See the Annotations on this verse verse 8 Both sonne ver 1. and father here might prophesie renewed the Altar And likely that whole Court whereunto that chap. XX. 5 seems to have reference strangers Those Israelites out of the ten tribes verse 9 that fell to Judah are here called strangers third moneth Likely at the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost verse 10 fifteenth year This may seeme a second and more through Reformation four or five years after his victory against Zerah Or else that victory must be reduced to this fifteenth year of Asa. And till that time they had had rest and no warre which fifteenth of Asa was the thirty five in his reigne i. e. since the Kingdome of Judah was divided from the Kingdome of Israel ver 19. viz. 17. of Rehoboam three of Abijah and these fifteen of Asa. six and thirty It is clear that this well may chapter XVI verse 1 and needs must be understood likewise of that Kingdome wherein Asa was now King For Baasha began to reigne in the third year of Asa 1 King XV. 28. And reigning twenty four years ver 33. he must needs die in the twenty seventh of Asa or twenty six complete And so we finde it 1 King XVI 8 And therefore this thirty sixth wherein Baasha waged warre with Asa must needs be meant of the Kingdome of Judah that is since the first division of the two Kingdomes And so reckoning the seventeen years of Rehoboams reigne and three of Abijah we finde this thirty sixth to be the sixteenth of Asa the next year after that full Reformation mentioned 2 Chron. XV. 10. And to be the thirteenth year of the reigne of Baasha See a like passage 2 Chron. XXII 2. Ramah Ramah of Benjamin bordering upon Judah Josh. XVIII 25. See the Annotations on Hos. V. 8. Hanani The father of the Prophet Jehu verse 7 chap. XIX 2. 1 King XVI 1. of Syria escaped Which God might and would otherwise have delivered into his hand as he did the Ethiopians if Asa had not prevented the occasion and opportunity thereof by his foolish sending to and for Benhadad to aide him and break his League with Baasha and so shewing thereby that he relied not upon the Lord but upon Benhadad for which he is justly reproved and punished a very great burning Greeks and Romanes of old used to burne their dead bodies verse 14 specially of their Great ones with a great deale of cost burning huge piles and curious fabricks of timber together with abundance of odoriferous spices at their Funerals gathering their ashes into an Urne and so layed up in their Monuments And among the Jewes we read something like viz. of Burning at the Exequies of their Kings so here and Jer. XXXIV 5. of such of them at least as lived beloved and died desired which was to others denied 2 Chron. XXI 19. Jer. XXII 19. and XXXVI 30. But we read not That this Burning was of their Bodies but of sweet Odours only at and in their Sepulchers taught in Judah The Priests and Levites did so chapter XVII