Host of Israel against whom Judah began his Conquest and slew the Canaanites and put Adonibeseck to flight but being sore pursued the Men of Judah took him and cut off both his thumbs and great toes which thing the Tyrant confessed himself by and by to be the just judgment of God for as he had done to others so had he worthily received again And so he was carried to Jerusalem and there dyed Adonibeseck the Lords Thunder Adramelech the Son of Senacherib King of Assyria 2 King 19â— with his Brother Saresa slew their Father in the Temple as he was worshipping his God Nisroch and fled into the Land of Armenia leaving Asarhaddon their other Brother to possess the Kingdom after their Father Adramelech the Kings Cloak or his Greatness or Power or the greatness of Counsel Aduram was Receiver of all Rehoboams Tribute and being sent in Commission to pacifie the People which were divided and fallen from the King 1 King 12. 2 Chron. 10. they for hatred they bare to Rehoboam took this Man and stoned him to death Aduram Their Cloak or their power or greatness Agag was a very fat Man 1 Sam. 15. and King of the Amalekites which Nation God had commanded to be utterly destroyed And because King Saul had reserved Agag alive and not killed him with the rest the Lord was grievously displeased with Saul and would not suffer Agag so to escape but sent Samuel to execute his judgment upon him who calling for Agag he came out unto him very pleasantly fearing nothing less but that all bitterness of death had been past but contrary to his expectation Samuel said unto him As thy sword hath made Women childless so shall thy Mother be childless among other women and with that he fell upon Agag and hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal Agag An House or cellar Agabus was a certain Prophet Act. 11.28 which came from Jerusalem to Antioch where he prophesied of a great dearth that should be thorowout all the World which came to pass as this Prophet had said in the Emperour Claudius's days Also while Paul lay at Cesarea in the House of Philip the Evangelist purposing to keep his Journey to Jerusalem Act. 21.10 this Prophet chancing to come thither took Pauls girdle and therewithall bound his own hands and feet saying Thus saith the Holy Ghost so shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the Man that oweth this girdle and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles Agabus A Grashopper Agar was Handmaid to Sarah Abraham's Wife Gen. 16. which Sarah being long barren and childless gave Agar her Maid unto Abraham to be his Wife who being conceived and feeling her self with Child began to despise and set light by Sarah her Mistress for the which Sarah complained to Abraham her Husband who giving her power to correct the Maid at her pleasure she began to deal so roughly with Agar that in no wise she would abide it but ran away into the Wilderness and sitting there beside a Fountain of Water not knowing whither to go an Angel appeared unto her and said Agar from whence comest thou and whither intendest thou to go I flee said Agar from Sarah my Mistress who dealeth so hardly with me that I am even weary of my life Well said the Angel return to thy Dame again and submit thy self under her hands for the Lord will so encrease thy seed that it shall not be numbred for multitude Thou art with child and shalt bear a Son whose Name shall be Ishmael Then Agar giving God thanks for his consolation in trouble returned home again to Sarah her Mistress submitting her self unto her and in process of time brought forth her son shmael as the Angel had said Gen. 21. But when it pleased God to visit Sarah that she conceived and brought forth Isaac a new contention arose between Sarah and Agar for their children for Sarah perceiving Ishmael to be a mocker and a despiser of Isaac would not suffer Ishmael to company with her Son Isaac but made her complaint to Abraham causing Him to put both Agar and her Son away which thing although it grieved Abraham so to do yet being comforted of God that he would multiply Ishmael because he was of his seed he obeyed the voice of Sarah his wife and with provision of victuals sent Agar away with her Son to shift for her self Then Agar being departed from Abraham gat her into the Forest of Beersheba where she wandred so long up and down till all her provision of Meat was spent and gone And when she saw no remedy but that both she and her child must needs perish for lack of sustenance she laid down the child behind a bush and went her self away because she would not see it dye and as she sat afar off mourning and weeping for her Son she was comforted again by the Angel of God who had so provided for her and her son that they were both relieved and lived together a long time after to her great joy and comfort Agar A Stranger Aggeus was one of the Twelve Prophets which prophesied in the time of Zorobabel 1 Esd 5. King of the Jews and rebuked them for that they were slack in the work of the Lord. Aggeus Solemn festival or winding and turning himself Agrippa was a certain King Act. 25. who as Paul reporteth had good knowledge in the Law and Prophets but understood not the true applying of the same Which King on a time came to Cesarea to see Festus and to welcome him into the Country who was then but newly entred into his office And being there a good while with Festus and hearing of him what a-do there was about Paul whom the Jews had accused unto him was much desirous to see the Man and to hear him speak Whereupon the next day following Paul was brought into the common Hall before Agrippa and other Magistrates of the City there assembled to hear his cause And when Festus had declared for what purpose he had brought forth Paul that after examination had he might have somewhat of certainty to write to Cesar 26 cap. to whom Paul had appealed Agrippa permitted the Prisoner to speak and to say what he could for himself Who then so approved his innocency by rehearsing his conversation before the audience that Agrippa interrupting him confessed and said unto Paul Thou hast almost perswaded me to become a Christian And when the Prisoner had ended his discourse the King arose and all the Court among whom was much secret talk of Paul and for a final sentence Agrippa said unto Festus I see no worthy cause of death or of bands in this Man but that he might have been loosed if he had not appealed to Cesar Agrippa is a Latine word and signifieth That which hardly laboureth or travelleth in childbearing or delivering Also he which at his birth cometh with his feet forward Ahaz the
of Shinar into a far Country where he inhabited which Countrey took its name of him and was called Assyria and there he builded a City which afterwards was called Niniveh Assur Blessed or Travelling Asubah 1. King 22.42 was Mother to Jehosaphat King of Juda and daughter to Shilhi 2 Chron. 20. Asubah Forsaken Asubah 1 Chron. 2.18 Wife to Caleb the Son of Hesron bare unto him three Sons Jesher Shobab and Ardon Athalia 2 King 11. 2 Chron. 22. Athalia in the 2 King ca. 8. is called both the daughter of Achab and the daughter of Amri which saith Lyra is meant thus After the death of Amri her natural Father she was brought up with Achab her Brother and so in process called his daughter or else by immitating his manners in all kind of Idolatry was the daughter of Amri and wife to Joram King of Juda. When Joram died her Son Ahaziah succeeded whom she enticed to all wickedness and after his death she ruled and killed all the rest of the seed of Joram only Joash excepted which was stollen away and hid from her And when she had ruled the Land most cruelly vi years In the vii year Joash was brought forth by Jehojada the Priest and proclaimed King She hearing that ran into the Temple of the Lord with her cloaths rent crying out treason treason But at the commandment of Jehojada the Captains and Souldiers took her out of the Temple and slew her Athalia Time for the Lord. Azariah the Son * 2 King 15.1 c. of Amaziah King of Juda began his reign in the xxvii year of Jeroboam King of Israel and was 16. years old when he was made King And so long as he gave ear to Zacharias the Prophet and walked uprightly so long did the Lord prosper him with great Victories both of the Philistines and Arabians and made the Ammonites also tributaries unto him He ‖ Azariah is in the same Chapter called also Vzziah repaired Jerusalem He loved husbandry well and had great plenty of Cattel At length he became so mighty that in his strength his heart arose to his destruction For in his pride he went into the Temple of the Lord to burn Incense which although he seemed to do of a zeal and good intent yet forasmuch as he usurped the Priests Office he was justly resisted of Azariah the Priest and plagued of God who smote him with such a Leprosie that he went out of the Temple a Leper and so remained all the days of his life He raigned LII years and was buried in a part of the same Field where his Predecessors lay but not in the same Sepulchres because he was a Leper Azaria Help of the Lord. B. BAAL the Son of Reaia was a Prince of the Reubenites 1 Chron. 5.5 and * In the days of Pekab King of Israel carried away with other his Kinred into the Land of Assyria by Tiglath Pileser King of the Assyrians Baal an Idol or a Ruler 2 Kings 15. Baanah with his Brother Rechab 2 Sam. 4. cap. the Sons of Rimmon were two Captains in the Host of Ishbosheth King of Israel who when Abner their chief Captain was dead went into the House of Ishbosheth seeming saith Lyra they had gone to fetch Wheat for the King saith he had great store of Wheat which he sold to Merchants a-far off wherefore these two disguised themselves like Merchants that came to buy and so entring into the House they found where their Lord and Master lay upon his Bed in the heat of the day fast a-sleep * There is nothing so vile and dangerous which the wicked will not enterprise in hope of lucre and favour and slew him and took his head and carried it to David thinking for the same to have had a great reward But for their most shameful and trayterous act they were both put to death and their Quarters hanged over the Pool in Hebron Baanah In affliction Baasha the Son of Ahijah 1 King 15.27 c. 16.1 c. conspired against Nadab King of Israel and reigned in his stead In the third year of Asa King of Judah began Baasha to reign over Israel and walked most wickedly in all the ways of Jeroboam 1 King 10.14 whose House and Posterity notwithstanding * God stirred up one Tyrant to punish the wickedness of another he utterly destroyed and left not one alive for so it was prophesied that God would stir him up one which was this Baasha for that purpose And now for as much as Baasha whom God had exalted even out of the dust would still maintain Jeroboam's Idolatry and cause his People to sin he sent him word by the Prophet Jehu that as he had rooted out the whole Posterity of Jeroboam so should his be served likewise Great War was between Baasha and Asa King of Juda. 2 Chron. 16. And for to stop the passage of Juda that none should pass out nor in safely Baasha went to build a strong hold called Rama which he was fain at length to leave unfinished and to lose all his cost and pains to go against Benhadad which had broken covenant with him He reigned xxiv years and was buried in Thirza which was a place where the King remained leaving Ela his Son to succeed him in whose days the foresaid Prophecy of the rooting out his Posterity took place Baasha in folding together or pressing together or to search out and take away Bachides 1 Mac. 7.9 cap. was a Man of great power in the Dominion of Demetrius the Son of Seleucus And being the Kings faithful friend he sent him with a great Host against Judas Machabeus to revenge him of the injury he had done unto his People and in the end slew him After whose death many of the wicked Jews turned to Bachides whereof he made some Lords and Rulers of the Land which of envy outed the friends of Judas and brought them into great vexation and trouble When Bachides had given this overthrow to Judas he sought how he might kill Jonathas also whom the Jews had appointed in his Brothers room And meeting with Jonathas about the border of Jordan there was a great Battel fought between them in the which Bachides lost a thousand of his men After which conflict Bachides by occasion of Alcimus the wicked Priests death departed for that time so that Jonathas lay at rest two years after till a sort of ungodly men conspired against him how they might bring Bachides upon him unawares which matter being between them and him concluded Bachides returned with a great power but ere he came Jonathas had gotten knowledge of the Treason and put certain of the chiefest Conspirators to death Then when Bachides came and had besieged the City of Bethbessen long and saw he was not able to resist the power of Jonathas he was marvellously displeased with those wicked counsellers which had caused him to travail
Land where she remained these seven years of dearth which being ended she returned home again And when she came to her House another having possession thereof withheld it from her wherefore she went to the King to make her complaint at which time it happened the King to be talking with Gehazi the servant of Eliseus the Prophet The Sbunamite is restored to her house and Land again who was declating unto the King what great and notable deeds his Master Eliseus had done and among all declared of a dead Body which he had raised up from death to life and as he was telling of these things unto the King the Woman came with her Son and required her House and Land again And when Gehazi saw the Woman he said O my Lord and King this same is the Woman that I told your Grace of even now and this is her Son that was raised from death Then the King commanded her House and Land to be restored her again with all the Rent and Profits thereof from the first day she left it till that present time Finally when the time drew nigh 2 King 13.14 c. that Eliseus the Prophet should dye Joash King of Israel came to visit him and as he stood before him and considered what a loss he should have of that good Man which had been so great a defence unto his Realm the tears ran down his cheeks and he said O my Father my Father the Chariot of Israel and the Horsemen of the same And when the Prophet saw the King he bad him take his Bow and Arrows in his hand and make him ready to shoot The Prophet put his hands upon the King's hand and caused a Window to be opened Eastward which was toward Syria and bad the King shoot and he shot The Arrow of the Lord's deliverance said Eliseus and the Arrow of deliverance from Syria For thou shalt smite Syria in Aphck till thou have made an end of them Now take thine Arrows in thine hand said the Prophet and smite the ground and he smote thrice and ceased Then was the Prophet angry that he had smitten the ground no oftner for if said he thou hadst smitten five or six times thou hadst smitten Syria until thou hadst made an end of them whereas now thou shalt smite them but thrice and so Eliseus dyed and was buried The same year came the Moabites into the Land of Israel and as some of the Israelites were burying of a Man and had spied the Souldiers they cast the Man into the Sepulchre where Eliseus the Prophet was buried and when the dead Man was let down and touched the Body of Eliseus he revived and stood up upon his Feet as lively as ever he was Elizabeth Luk. 1.24 c. was the Wife of Zachary the Priest and came of the Daughters and Posterity of Aaron She was long barren but at last she conceived by Zachary her Husband according as the Angel of God had said unto him And being great with Child Mary the Wife of Joseph which was also conceived by the Holy Ghost came to visit Elizabeth her Cousin who had no sooner heard the salutation of Mary the Mother of God but the Babe sprang in her Belly whereupon she was filled with the Holy Ghost and cried out with a loud voice saying Blessed art thou among Women and blessed is the fruit of thy Womb And whence happeneth this to me that the Mother of my Lord should come to me For behold as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears the Babe sprang in my Belly for joy And blessed is she that believed for those things shall be performed which were told her from the Lord. And when the time was come that Elizabeth should be delivered she brought forth a Son which her Neighbours and Kinsfolks would have named Zachary after his Father but Elizabeth would none of that but said his Name should be John Elizabeth the Oath of God or the fulness of God Elkanah the Son of Jeroham an Ephraite born 1 Sam. cap. 1. had two Wives the one named Hannah and the other Peninnah By his Wife Peninnah he had Children But by Hannah he had none It was his manner every Festival day to go up and pray and to offer unto the Lord of Hosts in Shilo where the Ark of the Lord was at that time And in one solemn Feast day among all other as he offered unto the Lord he gave unto Peninnah his Wife and to her Sons and Daughters portions but unto Hannah whom he loved he gave a worthy Portion And on a time when he saw his Wife Hannah weep in the House of the Lord for sorrow she could have no child he said Hannah why weepest thou and why is thy heart so troubled that thou canst not eat Am not I better to thee than ten Sons as though he should say Is it not enough for thee that I love thee no less than if thou hadst children This he said to comfort her And at the last God gave him a Son by her named Samuel after whose birth he went up to offer unto the Lord and to give him thanks But Hannah would not go with him until she had weaned her Son Elkanah the Zeal of God and the possession of God Epaphroditus Phil. 2.25 was a certain godly Brother whom the Philippians sent to Paul being in Bonds at Rome with their charitable relief Who being there ministred unto him in his need and was so faithful a fellow-souldier with Paul in setting forth the Gospel of Christ and put himself in such hazard that he fell sick and was like to have dyed Now Paul to comfort the Philippians which were full of sorrow and heaviness for Epaphroditus their Apostle because they heard he was sick was the more desirous after his recovery to send him home again in the company of Timotheus with his Epistle that they might be the less sorrowful and rejoyce the more at his coming willing them to receive him with a loving Christian affection in all joyfulness and not to make much on him only but on all such as were like unto him Epaphroditus Pleasant Epaphras Col. 4.12 was a faithful Servant by whose labour and preaching the Colossians heard the Gospel and believed it and being in Prison with Paul at Rome prayed for those Colossians that they might be perfect and filled in all the will of God after true knowledge He bare a fervent mind to them of Laodicea and them of Hierapolis Epaphras Frothing Epenetus Rom. 16.5 was the first that Paul brought to the Christian Religion among them of Achaia unto whom Paul had him saluted Epenetus Worthy of praise Ephraim Gen. 48. 〈◊〉 c. was the youngest Son of Joseph and born in Egypt His Mothers Name was Asuath the Daughter of Potipher Priest of On and his eldest Brother was Manasses which two being brought before their Grandfather Jacob to receive his blessing
from God that no admonition of the Prophets which were daily sent him could turn him And last of all when Zacharia the Son of Jehojadah came unto him to call him again unto the Lord he notwithstanding the great kindness and faithfulness of Jehojadah his Father before him caused Zacharia to be put to death for the which cause the Lord stirred up the Syrians against him which slew a great number of his People and in the end his own Servants conspired against him for his ingratitude and slew him upon his own Bed after he had reigned forty years and buried him in the City of David but not among the Kings Joash the Lords fire or the Lords oblation Joash 2 King 13.9 10 c. the Son of Jehoahas began his Reign over Israel in the xxxvii year of Joash King of Juda and did evil in the sight of the Lord grieving him with the sins of Jeroboam the Son of Nebat 2 Chron. 25.17 18 c. Of the great Victory the Lord gave Joash against Amasiah King of Juda read his story And how he visited Elizeus the Prophet in his sickness read the last end of his story also This King reigned xvi years and dyed leaving Jeroboam his Son to take his place Job Job 1. cap. was a perfect just Man dwelling in the Land of Hus and one that feared God who gave unto him seven Sons and three Daughters and also endued him with great riches His substance was 7000. sheep 3000. Camels 500. yoak of Oxen 500. she-Camels and a very great Houshold So that he was one of the most principal Men among all them of the East-Country He was so careful over his Sons lest in their banquetting they had committed some offence or been unthankful to God in their hearts that he daily would sanctifie them and offer for every one a burnt-offering unto the Lord he was a Man also replenished with such patience that Satan with all his temptations could not move him out of the same for when word was brought him how that the Sabeans had taken away his Oxen and slain his Servants and that the Lord had consumed all his Sheep with fire and that the Chaldees had taken away his Camels and how that all his Children were slain in their eldest Brother's house which the wind blew down upon them he made no more a do but said Naked came I out of my Mothers Womb and naked shall I return again The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away even as it hath pleased the Lord so is it come to pass 2. cap. blessed be the name of the Lord. Also when Satan by the permission of God had plagued Job with extreme sores even from the sole of the Foot to the crown of his Head so that he sat upon the ground in dust and ashes scraping off the filth of his sores with a Potsherd and being also inwardly afflicted with the sharp temptation of his Wife which tempted him to blaspheme God he took all in good part reproving his Wife for her foolish talking for shall we quoth he receive good at the hand of God and not receive evil not so I am as well content to suffer this adversity sent of the Lord as I was to receive the prosperity he gave me before And so Job continued in his uprightness Job 42. and was at the last restored to as many Children as he had before and to double riches He lived an hundred and forty years and saw his Childrens children to the fourth generation before he dyed Job Sorrowful or hated Jochebed Exod. 6.20 Num. 26.59 was the Daughter of Levy and * She was Amram's Father's Sister which kind of marriage was after in the Law forbidden Levit 18. born in Egypt Her Husband 's name was Amram to whom she bare three Children Aaron Moses and a Daughter called Miriam Jochebed Glorious Jokshan was the Son ‖ Gen. 25.2 1 Chron. 1.32 of Abraham begotten of his Wife Keturah his two Children were called the one Sheba and the other Dedan Jokshan Hardness or Offence Joel the Son of Phatuel was * Joel 1 2 3. cap. an holy Prophet and prophesied against the Jews exhorting the Priests to prayer and fasting for the misery that was coming at hand And giving them warning of the coming and cruelty of their enemies moved them to turn and convert And last of all he setteth out the Judgment of God against the enemies of his People Joel willing or beginning Johanan Jer. 40.13 the Son of Kareah Prophesied to Gedaliah whom Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon had made Governour over the People that he left at Jerusalem that Ishmael the Son of Nethaniah by the procurement of Baalis King of the Ammonites should kill him which came so to pass indeed as ye shall read in the story of Gedaliah After whose death 41. cap. 42. cap. Johanan with the rest of the Captains over the Jews persecuted Ishmael and recovered from him all the People which he had carried away and put Ishamael to flight Then Johanan fearing the Chaldees because of the death of Gedaliah consulted with the rest of the Captains and agreed to conveigh themselves all the People into Egypt and asked counsel of Jeremy the Prophet who had dwelt quietly in the Land under Gedaliah whether it were best so to do or no who made them answer that if they went into Egypt they should perish but if they tarried still in the Land God would surely so defend them 43.5 6 c. that the Chaldees should not hurt them yet they of a proud mind despising the counsel of Jeremy and taking his words for lies led the People away into Egypt to their utter destruction John Baptist the Son of Zachary Luk. 1. cap. was sanctified in the womb of Elizabeth his Mother and ordained of God to be an abstainer and to go before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elias to prepare his way and make ready a perfect People unto him thorow preaching the amendment of life Luk. 3.3 4 c. and baptizing in the water of repentance And was a Man of so great perfection and holiness of life that the People stood in a doubt whether that he were Christ or no. And being asked the question denied plainly that he was not Christ nor Elias neither that Prophet whom they dreamed so much upon but only the voice of a cryer in the Wilderness to make streight the way of the Lord. For I do Baptise saith John in water only but there is one now come among you who although he came after me was before me whose Shoo latchet I am not worthy to unloose and he it is that shall Baptise you with the Holy Ghost John was a constant Man and lived austerely His Garment was course Cloth made of Camels hair His Meat was Locusts and wild Hony He was a Prophet and as Christ reporteth more than a Prophet
with the Lord our God that should have any respect of Persons or take rewards Then he turned to the Levites and said Thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord faithfully and with a pure heart what cause soever come unto you of your Brethren between Bloud and Bloud Law and Commandment Statute and Ordinance ye shall warn them that they trespass not against the Lord that wrath come not upon you and upon your Brethren thus do and you shall not offend Take courage to you and do manfully and the Lord shall be with such as go about to maintain the Laws of the Lord. After this the Lord gave Jehosaphat a marvellous Victory against the Moabites and the Ammonites whose Armies fell at such strife and variance among themselves that one killed another and left not one alive undestroyed before Jehosaphat came at them And the fourth day after he had gathered up the spoil he assembled his People in the Valley of Blessing and went to Jerusalem with great triumph where he gave all praise and thanks to God for his miraculous Victory Finally he joyned himself with Ahaziah King of Israel and made ten Ships to go with his Ships to Tarshish for Gold And because he had * The true Christians ought not to joyn in society with Idolaters joyned himself with so wicked a Man the Lord brake his Ships and would not suffer them to go He reigned xxv years and was buried with his Fathers in the City of David leaving Joram his Son to occupy his place Jehosaphat the Lord's judgment or the judgment of the Lord. Joseph the Son of Jacob and Rachel Gen. 30.24.37 cap. was in his youth beloved of his Father above all other in so much that he made him a Coat of many colours But his Brethren hated him because his Dreams signified unto them that he should be Lord over them all and they his Servants And being at the age of xvii years he was sent to them with Victuals where they lay with their sheep at Dothan who seeing him come afar off began to deride and mock him saying Behold where the Dreamer cometh and counselled together to kill him but Reuben the eldest Brother would not consent to that Wherefore at his coming they stripped him out of his Coat and cast him into an empty Pit And as certain Ishmaelites passed by they sold Joseph to them for twenty pence of silver and took his Coat and dipt it in Goats bloud and had it home to their Father bearing him in hand they had found it by the way Then Jacob seeing his Son's Coat cryed out and rent his Garments for sorrow thinking surely that wild Beasts had devoured and torn Joseph in pieces But he being safe and sound carried into Egypt 39. cap. was there sold again to a certain great Lord of King Pharaoh's Court named Potiphar and became so lucky a Man with him by God's providence that his Master made him chief Ruler over all his House And so continued in great favour with his Lord until his Master's Wife began to cast her love upon him and would have had him to lye with her Then Joseph to disswade his Mistress from her inordinate love said Behold my Master knoweth not what he hath in the House with me but hath committed all things he hath into my hands There is no Man greater in this House than I neither hath he kept any thing from me save only thee because thou art his Wife How then can I do this great wickedness and so sin against God And thus he put her off and shunned her company from that day forth as much as he could possibly do But one day as Joseph entered into the House to do his business and finding his Mistress there by chance alone she caught him by the Cloak to have him lie with her which he denied and would not consent to her mind and when he saw her so importune upon him that he could not honestly part from her he wound himself out of his Garment and so departed Then she called to her Men declaring to them that Joseph would have ravished her and when I began to crie quoth she he left his Garment behind him for hast and ran away which tale being told to Potiphar at his coming home Joseph was cast in Prison where by God's provision he found such favour with the Keeper that he committed all things under his hand to do whatsoever he would Gen. 40. cap. Now in this Prison where Joseph was lay two of King Pharaoh's Officers The one his chief Baker and the other is Butler Which two Men chanced to dream both in one Night and telling their dreams to Joseph he told the Butler that within three days he should be restored to his Office again but the Baker should be hanged Wherefore he desired the Butler to think upon him to the King when he was restored who notwithstanding forgot Joseph 41. cap. and never remembred him till two years after that Pharaoh the King chanced to have certain Dreams which none could be found to tell him the meaning of and then the Butler calling Joseph to remembrance told the King all things of him who being sent for and come to the King he opened the Dreams declaring to Pharaoh the seven plentiful years that were to come and the seven barren and hard years which should ensue and consume the abundance of the years preceeding Then the King perceiving Joseph to be a Man endued with wisdom and knowledge made him Regent of his Realm and called him the Saviour of the World for by his politick provision Egypt was relieved in the hard and dear years and the King greatly enriched At this time was Joseph about the age of thirty years and took to Wife Asnath the Daughter of Potiphar Priest of On and had by her two Sons Manasses and Ephraim Now when the time of Dearth was come all Lands being sore oppressed with Famine sent into Egypt for Corn among the which Jacob sent ten of his Sons 42. cap. who at their coming before Joseph their Brother and Governour of Egypt fell down flat before him Then Joseph beholding his Brethren whom he knew very well but they not him demanded strangely from whence they came They said from the Land of Canaan Then Joseph remembring his Dreams spake roughly to them and said they were spies Nay my Lord quoth they we are all one Man's Sons and mean truly Nay nay quoth he your coming is for none other purpose but to spie out the Land where it is weakest Truly my Lord quoth they we are no Spies we are twelve Brethren the Sons of one Man and the youngest this day remaineth with our Father and one no Man woteth where he is Then I will prove you quoth he whether ye mean truly or no let one of you go fetch your youngest Brother hither for by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not depart till I see him
Fathers house and sent away to shift for themselves But nevertheless the Lord which had promised Abraham to bless encrease and multiply his Son Ishmael so preserved him that he became a great Archer and dwelt in the Wilderness of Pharan 25.12 c. and took him a Wife out of the Land of Egypt and begat twelve Princes so that the Lord made of him a great Nation He lived 137. years Ishmael God hath heard Of Ishmael the Son of Nethaniah which slew Gedaliah read the stories of Johanan and Gedaliah Ittai was a Gittite born 2 Sam. 15. and bare such love to David that he left his own Countrey to come and see him and the fashion of his Court Lyra saith that Ittai was the Son of Achish King of Gath. and as he continued there and saw into what danger Absalom had brought his Father David either to flee his Realm or to have lost all he would take no part with Absalom but sollowed David and lest him not in this extremity And when David saw him he said unto him why comest thou with me Ittai return I pray thee and abide with the King for thou art a stranger and come but yesterday and therefore I would be loth to disquiet thee Therefore return and carry again thy Brethren and the Lord shall shew thee mercy and truth Nay said Ittai as truly as God liveth and my Lord the King liveth in what place my Lord the King shall be whether in life or death even there also will thy servant be And so he went forward with David and had rule over the third part of David's Host in the suppression of Absalom Ittai Strong Iudah was the fourth Son of Jacob and Leah Gen. 29 ult 37.26 who would not consent to the death of Joseph his Brother but gave counsel to sell him saying What shall it avail us my Brethren to slay our Brother and to keep his bloud secret let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands upon him for he is our Flesh and Bloud After this 38. cap. he departed from his Brethren to a place called Adullam where he remained with a friend of his called Hirah and in process fell in love with a Man's Daughter called Shuah a Canaanite born and married her who in time brought him forth three Sons The first Er The second Onan and the third Shelah The two first one after another he married to a certain Woman called Thamar but for their horrible sin and wickedness the Lord slew them both Then Judah fearing to marry the third Son unto her lest he should dye also said to his Daughter in law Remain a Widow at thy Father's house till Shelah my Son be grown she did so during which time the daughter of Shuah died and Judah became a Widower Now when the days of mourning were ended he went to a place called Timnath taking his friend Hirah with him to see his Sheep-shearers Then Thamar hearing thereof and seeing Shelah not given her in marriage laid away her Widows Garment and disguising her self like a common Harlot went and sat her down in an open place by the High-ways side going to Timnath And as Judah passed that way and saw one sit muffled like an Whore went unto her and said Come I pray thee let me lye with thee What wilt thou give me then quoth she I will quoth he send thee a Kid from the Flock Then leave me a pledge quoth she till thou send it What pledge shall I leave quoth Judah Thy Signet quoth she upon thy Finger thy Cloak and thy Staff He did so and lay with her And coming to his Flock he took a Kid and sent it by his friend Hirah to receive his pledges again Who being come to the place and not finding the Woman he asked of the Men thereabout where the Whore was which sat in the way as they came They made him answer again there was no Whore there Then he returned to Judah and told him Well said Judah let her take it to her lest we be ashamed Now was Thamar conceived with Child and when she had gone three Moneths the thing was espied and told to Judah that his Daughter-in-law had played the Whore and was with Child Then bring her forth quoth he that she may suffer according to the Law And as she was led to the fire she sent the pledges to Judah her Father in law saying By the same Man to whom these things do pertain am I with Child Then Judah knowing his pledges said she is more righteous than I for she hath done this deed because I gave her not to Shelah my Son And so was the Woman delivered and brought him forth two Sons at one birth Gen. 49.10 Pharez and Zarah Of this Man Judah it was prophesied that the Scepter should not depart from him nor a Law-giver from between his feet until * which was Christ Shilo came Judah a Praising or Confession Iudas Machabeus the third Son of Mattathias the Jew was a valiant Man in his Faith 1 Mac. 2. and of an invincible courage In so much that he overcame Apollonius and Seron two mighty Princes of Syria 3. cap. which came against him And with three thousand Men he put Gorgias to flight which stole upon him by night and vanquished Lysias the Lieutenant of King Antiochus and his Sons and with them Forty Thousand Foot-men 4. cap. and seven thousand Horsemen and slew of them five thousand Afterward in Galilee 5. cap. he slew of the Host of Timotheus another of the King's Captains first three thousand and afterward eight thousand 7. cap. After that by a Valley called Adarsa he with a thousand fought with Nicanor a Captain of King Demetrius and nine thousand with him at the which Battel Nicanor was slain and of the nine thousand almost none escaped Finally 9. cap. too much trusting in his prosperity in Wars in going against Bachides a Captain of King Demetrius who had a great Host and taking with him but two thousand of which at the last remained with him but only viii hundred he fought till it was night and made a wonderful slaughter of enemies But while he forced himself to come to Bachides the which was on the right Wing of the Battel he fought so nobly that he escaped that Wing slaying many about him Finally being environed with the left Wing and stricken with many wounds he was slain with much difficulty Judas A praising c. Iudas 1 Mac. 16. the Son of Symon the Son of Mattathias did manfully assist John his Brother against Cendebeus Captain of Anticchus's Host and was at the same time sore wounded and afterward most traiterously murdered with Symon his Father at a Banquet which Ptolomy made them at his Castle called Doche. Iudas Luk 6 14-16 the Son of Alpheus and Brother to James is called in the tenth of S. Matthew Lebbeus and is
have taken of your Brethren or else shall the wrath of God be upon you Then certain which were the Heads of the Children of Ephraim being sorry for the great offence they had committed took the Prisoners and with the spoil clothed all that lacked shod them and fed them with Meat and Drink anointed the wounds of such as were hurt and the feeble they carried upon Asses and brought them to Jericho the City of Palm-Trees to their Brethren And leaving them there returned to Samaria again Oded bolding up or erecting Og Num. 21.33 Deu. 3.3.29.7 the King of Bashan was a mighty great Gyant whose Bed was made of Iron and in length nine Cubits that is thirteen foot and an half And four Cubits broad that is six foot This Og was next neighbour to Schon King of the Amorites And having knowledge of all that Moses had done to Schon his neighbour made out a great Army against Moses thinking to have overcome him in revenging his neighbours quarrel But when it came to trial he sped no better than his Neighbour had done before him Og a Cake or bread baked under the ashes Onan was the second Son of Juda Gen. 38.4 who after the death of Er his eldest Brother was married to Thamar his Brother's Wife to raise up Seed unto his Brother But when he perceived that the Seed should be none of his he practised such wickedness that the vengeance of God fell upon him and slew him Onan Sorrow or Iniquity Onesimus being in service with Philemon Col. 4.9 like an unfaithful Servant robbed his Master and ran away from him to Rome Where by hearing of Paul who at that time was in Bonds he received the Doctrine of the Gospel and served Paul in Prison and became so faithful a Souldier of Christ that Paul sent him with Tychicus to the Colossians with his Epistle commanding him unto them on this wise And with Tychicus Phile. cap. I have sent Onesimus a faithful and beloved Brother which is one of you Finally he sent him home to his Master again beseeching Philemon not to receive him now as a Servant but more than a Servant even as a faithful Brother and as his own Son whom he had in his Bands begotten to Christ offering himself surety to make good whatsoever hurt he had done him in time past Onesimus Apparel or a Garment Onesiphorus was a faithful godly Man 2 Tim. 1.16 and a great refresher of such as were in Bonds for the Doctrine of Christ as Saint Paul doth testifie of him saying The Lord give mercy unto the Houshold of Onesiphorus for he oft refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain But when he was at Rome he sought me out very diligently and sound me The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy with the Lord at that day and in how many things he ministred unto me at Ephesus thou knowest very well O Timothy Onesiphorus bringing profit Onias 2 Mac. 3. the High Priest among the Jews was a Man of such godliness and holiness of life that he always sought the honour of the Laws and wealth of the People of God By his prayer that wicked man Heliodorus was restored to his health but notwithstanding all his vertue and goodness 4. cap. yet had he enemies For Symon a Man void of all godliness never ceased with all slanderous and evil reports that he could devise to Seleucus the King to bring him out of favour which he could never do so long as the King lived But Seleucus being dead Onias was soon put out of office by the false deceit and means of his own Brother Jason and brought in such fear thorow him and Menelaus with other his enemies that he was sain to take sanctuary Where at the last by the counsel of Menelaus he was without all regard of righteousness most traiterously slain by the hands of Andronicus whose innocent death was so sore lamented both of the Jews and also of Antiochus the King himself that at his coming home he rewarded the Malefactor according to his deeds Onias the strength of the Lord. Oholiab Exod. 35.34 the Son of Achisamah of the Tribe of Dan was a Craftsman whom the Lord had endued with great cunning and appointed him to Moses for one of the chief Workmen for the finishing of the Temple Oreb and Zeeb Judg. 7. ult were two great Captains among the Midianites whom the Men of Mount Ephraim which had stopped the Waters from Bethbarah to Jordan took and smote off their Heads and sent them to Gideon on the other side of Jordan Oreb a Crow or sweet or a surety or evening time Ornan was a certain Jebusite 1 Chron. 21.15 18 c. unto whom the Lord commanded David after he had plagued him with Pestilence to go and rear up an Altar in his threshing floor At whose coming In the second Book of Sam. chap. 24. he is called Araunah Ornan fell down before him and said Wherefore is my Lord the King come to his servant I am come quoth he to buy thy threshing floor and to make an Altar unto the Lord that the Plague may cease from the People Ornan answered Let my Lord the King take and offer what seemeth him good in his eyes And moreover here be Oxen for burnt sacrifice and sleds with other instruments for wood take them all to thee as thine own David said Nay not so but I will buy it for sufficient money for I will not take that which is thine for the Lord nor offer burnt-offerings without cost And so David gave Ornan for that place six hundred sicles of gold by weight Ornan Rejoycing Orpah and Ruth Ruth 1 cap. were two Damosels of the Countrey of Moab which were married to the two Sons of Elimelech and Naomi strangers come out of the Land of Juda there to dwell Read the story of Naomi for the rest Orpah a Neck Osias the Son of Micha of the Tribe of Simeon Judith 6. was one of the principal Fathers and Rulers among the Israelites what time as Holofernes besieged the City of Bethulia This Man comforted Achior which had so boldly magnified and praised the great power and strength of God before Holofernes and took him into his house where he made him a great Supper to the which he called the Elders who all together praised God in him Also when the People came weeping and crying out unto him to give over the City into the hands of the Assyrians he said unto them Oh take good hearts unto you dear Brethren and be of good chear and let us wait yet these five days for mercy of the Lord 7. cap. peradventure he shall put away his indignation and give glory unto his Name But if he help us not after these five days be past we shall do as ye have said Which counsel of Osias pleased not Judith because he had set the mercy of God a
the Sons of Joseph Reuben seeing his son or the sight of his son Rufus was a vertuous and a Religious man Rom. 16.13 whom Paul remembred in his Epistle saying Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord and his Mother and mine Ruth Ruth 1. cap. and Orpah were two fair young Damosels born in the Countrey of Moab where by chance they married with the Sons of Elimelech and Naomi who were strangers come out of the Land of Juda there to inhabit and when both their Husbands were dead and their Mother-in-law a Widow also they forsook their own Countrey to go home with their Mother into the Land of Juda. And when they had gone a good way together Orpah not without great intreaty of her Mother-in-law turned home again but Ruth abode still Then said Naomi to Ruth Oh see my Daughter thy Sister-in-law is gone back again to her People and Goods return and go after her I pray thee said Ruth intreat me not to leave thee For whithersoever thou goest I will go with thee And where thou dwellest there will I dwell also Thy People shall be my People And thy God my God look where thou dyest there will I dye also and there will I be buried The Lord do so and so unto me if ought but death only part thee and me asunder And so went they forth till they came to Bethlehem Juda which was in the beginning of Barley Harvest Ruth 2. cap. And as Ruth went one day out a leasing among the Harvest folks she happened by the providence of God upon the Fields pertaining to Boaz who shewed her such kindness that she neither lacked Meat nor Drink neither yet Corn so long as Harvest lasted And when all Harvest was done Naomi said unto Ruth This Man in whose Field thou hast leased all this while Ruth 3. cap. is our nigh Kinsman therefore do now by my counsel This Night he winnoweth Barley in the Barn wash thy self therefore and anoint thee and put thy Raiment upon thee and get thee to the Barn and keep thy self close until he have left eating and drinking And when he goeth to sleep mark the place where he layeth him down And when he is a-sleep go and lift up the Cloaths softly at his Feet and lay thee down and he shall tell thee what thou shalt do So when Ruth had done all things according to her Mother-in-laws teaching Boaz about Midnight waked out of his sleep and feeling one lye at his Feet was afraid and groping with his Hand he asked who it was I am Ruth quoth she thine Handmaid spread therefore the Wing of thy Garment over thine Handmaiden for thou art next of my Kin. Now blessed art thou quoth Boaz for thou hast shewed more goodness in the latter end than at the beginning inasmuch as thou followedst not young Men were they poor or rich And now my Daughter fear not I will do unto thee all that thou requirest For thou art well known to be a Woman of vertue Howbeit there is one nearer of Kin to thee than I if he will do the Kinsman's part unto thee well let him do it If he will not then will I. And so in the Morning he gave her so much Corn as she could carry home And shortly after she became his Wife Ruth 4.13 and in process brought him forth a Son called Obed which was the Father of Jesse the Father of David Read the story of Boaz and Naomi Ruth watered or filled S. SADOK the Son of Ahitub 2 Sam. 8.17 was Father to Shallum and Ahimaaz and one of the Priests that governed the Ark of GOD which he carried out of Jerusalem with David what time as he fled from his Son Absalom 2 Sam. 15.24 c. And when Zadok had brought the King over the Brook Kidron he desired him to return again with the Ark into the City that from him and dbiathar he might have word of all things that Absalom and Achitophel determined against him And so he returned with the Ark to Jerusalem and there remained David's faithful man in all things that he had commanded him And when he had knowledge of Absalom's overthrow 2 Sam. 19.11 he then exhorted all Israel and Juda to remember the kindness of David their Soveraign Lord and King who had so many times delivered them out of the hands of their enemies that now like true faithful and obedient subjects they would fetch him home again and restore him to his kingdom By whose godly exhortation the hearts of all Juda were bowed to David even as the heart of one man 1 King 1.8 38 c. This Sadok was ever a faithful Priest and never swerved from David For in the end when Adonijah took upon him to reign as King his Father David being old and alive Zadok consented not unto him but according to David's will and commandment anointed Solomon King who afterward promoted him into the room of Abiathar which had the High Priests office Sadoch or Zadok 2.35 Justified or just Shallum the Son of Jabesh conspired against Zachariah 2 King 15.10 13. There is another of this name the Husband of Hulda the Propheress 2 King 22.14 and slew him and raigned in his stead In the xxxix year of Azariah King of Juda began Shallum his raign over Israel and had not raigned one Month but Menahem rose up against him and slew him in Samaria and reigned in his stead Shallum Peaceable Salmanasar 2 King 18.9 c. King of Assyria came in the seventh year of Hoshea King of Israel and besieged Samaria and in the third year which was the ninth year of Hoshea he wan it and took Heshea prisoner and carried him away into Assyria Salmanasar Peace bound Solomon 2 Sam. 12.24 the Son of Bathsheba was ordained to reign after his Father David and anointed King over Israel 1 King 1.30 39. by Sadok the Priest and Nathan the Prophet Who being stablished in his Kingdom began to minister Justice 2. cap. 25. first upon Adonijah his Brother which had aspired to the Kingdom ver 34. Secondly upon Joab which had slain Abner and Amasa and conspired with Adonijah ver ult Thirdly upon Shimei which had cursed David his Father 3. cap. This King was so dearly beloved of God that in a dream he appeared to him and bad him ask whatsoever he would and he should have it Then Solomon considering in himself that he was but young and that being called to the office of a King how hard a thing it was to govern the whole multitude of the People well desired of God to give him an understanding heart to judge the People and to discern between good and evil Which thing pleased the Lord so well that he gave him not only a wise and an understanding heart but also riches and honour wherein he excelled all other Kings that ever were before or after him And that he passed all
to speak until the day that these things be performed And so Zachary remained speechless until the time came that his Wife brought him forth a Son And when the Child should be circumcised great controversie was there about his name Some would have him called Zachary some by one name some by another and his Mother would have him called John but to that would none agree because there was none of the kindred so named Then they made signs to Zachary how he would have his Son called And he calling by signs for writing tables wrote therein His name is John Whereat they all marvelled And immediately the mouth of Zachary was opened so that he spake and said Praised be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his People c. Zachariah the Son of Jeroboam King of Israel 2 King 15.8 began his Raign in the eight and thirtieth year of Azariah King of Juda and walked in the sins of Jeroboam the Son of Nebat as did others before him He had not raigned six Months ere that Shallum conspired against him and slew him even in the face of the people raigned in his stead This Zachariah was the fourth and the last King of the generation of Jehu which the Lord had promised should sit on his seat after him when he said Thy Children unto the fourth generation after thee 10. cap. 30. shall sit on the seat of Israel Zarah Gen. 38.29.30 was one of the two Twins which Thamar bare unto Juda at one birth who proffering to come forth before his Brother put forth his hand and when the Midwife had tyed a red thread about it he pluckt in his hand again and then his Brother came out first whom they called Pharez and then he with the red thread about his hand whom they called Zarah Zachariah the Son of Jehojada 2 Chron. 24.20 was an holy Prophet This Prophet is also called the Son of Barachias Matth. 23.35 because his Progenitors were Iddo Barachiah and Jehosala And when he saw Joash King of Juda whom his Father had trained from his youth up in the fear of God with all his People declined from the Lord to the worshipping of Idols and would not hear the Lord's admonition sent by his Prophets to call them home again he stood up before the People and said Why transgress ye the Commandments of the Lord Surely it shall not prosper because ye have forsaken the Lord he also hath forsaken you For the which the King not regarding the kindness of Jehojada his Father commanded the People to stone him to death in the court of the house of the Lord. And as he suffered his Martyrdom he desired the Lord to revenge his death and to require his bloud at their hands Zaccheus Luke 19.2 3 c. was a Publican and chief receiver of the King's Tribute among them He was a very low man of stature And being much desirous to see Jesus what manner a Man he should be made great means to see him And when he saw the prease so great that he could not he ran before knowing which way he would come and climbed up into a wilde Figg-Tree And when Jesus saw him in the Tree he said Zaccheus come down quickly for to day I must abide at thy house And Zaccheus came down received him joyfully And shewing forth the true fruits of repentance said Behold Lord the half of my goods I give to the poor and if I have done any man wrong I restore him four-fold To whom Jesus said again This day is salvation come to this house forasmuch as thou art also become the Son of Abraham Zaccheus pure neat or clean Zerbiah 1 Chron. 2.16 was David's Sister Her three Sons were Joab Abishai and Asahel Zedekiah 2 King 24 17. cap. 25. the fourth Son of Josiah was one and twenty years old when Nabuchodonosor made him King of Juda in the stead of Jehojachin his Brother's Son And made him take an oath of the Lord faithfully and truly to serve the Chaldeans in token whereof he changed his name from Mataniah to Zedekiah This King suffered sin and wickedness so much to raign in his Land as well among the Head-Rulers and Priests as among the common sort that God was forgotten his Word despised and his Prophets misused Jer. 37. cap. Wherefore the Lord stirred up the Chaldeans with whom he had broke his League which came and destroyed the City of Jerusalem and the holy Temple of God with fire as the Prophet Jeremy had said and took Zedekiah the King his Army being dispersed in the plain of Jericho and brought him to the King of Babylon who first destroyed both his Sons before his face and then pulled out the eyes of Zedekiah and so carried him to Babylon bound with two Chains where he dyed his People remaining in bondage until the days of Cyrus which was about three-score and ten years Zedekiah the Justice of the Lord or the Lord's judgment Zedekiah 1 King 22.24 the Son of Chenaanah was one of the false Prophets which deceived Ahab And when Michajah the true Prophet of God spake against them this Zedekiah smote him on the Cheek saying When went the spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee Well said Michajah Thou shalt see in that day when thou shalt go from Chamber to Chamber to hide thee Zelophehad the Son of Hepher the Son of Gilead Numb 26.33 the Son of Machir the Son of Manasses the Son of Joseph had five Daughters who forasmuch as their Father dyed in the Wilderness without Male-issue and was none of those that rebelled against the Lord in the Congregation of Chore 27. cap. they required of Moses to have a possession among their Fathers brethren lest the name of their Father should be utterly taken away from among his kindred Whose request God allowed and bad Moses give them a possession among their brethren and to make a law that whosoever dyed without a Son his Inheritance should turn to his Daughter If he have no daughter to his brethren If he have no brethren to his Fathers brethren If his Father have no brethren then it should turn to the next of the kin Two of sundry Tribes And also to stablish their inheritance that it should not be removed through marriage into another Tribe should not marry together an order was taken that no Tribe should marry with another Tribe but every Tribe should marry with whom he list among his own Tribe and Kindred And so the Daughters of Zelophehad were married to their Father's Brothers Sons which were of the kindred of Manasses the Son of Joseph by which means their inheritance remained still in the Tribe and kindred of their Father Zenas was first an Interpreter of Moses Law Tit. 3.13 and afterward became an earnest Preacher of the Gospel of Christ Of whom Paul writeth to Titus Bishop of Crete
that curse thee and in thee shall all the Families of the Earth be blessed Abraham now having this promise made him of God departed out of Haran he and Sara his wife with Lot his Nephew and with all their substance that they had to go and to sojourn in the Land of Canaan And being there the Lord made a promise to Abraham that his Seed should possess that Land Whereupon soon after and in the same place where God spake thus unto him he made an Altar and offered Sacrifices thereon to the Lord. And so remaining in the Land there fell at the last so great a Famine that he was constrained to flie into Egypt where he fearing the Egyptians to be ungodly and vicious men feigned Sara to be his Sister Abraham taught the Egyptians Astronomy and Geometry Josephâ—â— thinking that if she were known to be his Wife they would for her beauty take her from him and put him in hazard of his life Then was it told to King Pharaoh what a beautiful Woman Abraham had brought with him into Egypt The King now knowing thereof commanded the Woman to be brought unto him and with all gentle entertainment received her into his house and intreated Abraham well for her sake But when he saw so many plagues fall on him and on all his hous-hold understanding that it was for with-holding another Mans wife from him he restored the Woman without dishonesty to Abraham her Husband again Giving also his Men a great charge concerning the Man and his Wife 13. cap. Then soon after Abraham returned from Egypt into the Country of Canaan where he had been afore And when he had lived some space in the Land there fell such a strife between the Herdmen of Abrahams Cattel and the Herdmen of Lots Cattel that Abraham was fain to divide the Land between his Nephew Lot and him and so they removed the one from the other Abraham had now been so long without issue 16. cap. that he took by consent and advice of Sarah one of his Maids named Agar to Wife who conceived and brought him forth a Son which was called Ishmael Abraham then being at the age of fourscore years and six 17. cap. And when he was come to the number of ninety and nine God gave unto him the covenant of Circumcision which he received first in himself and then made Ishmael and all the rest of his houshold to receive the same 21. cap. The next year after when Abraham was just an hundred years old Sarah conceived brought him forth his long promised Son named Isaac whom he circumcised the eighth day following would after that have offered him up in sacrifice 22. cap. but that God seeing his ready obedience staid his hand Finally after the death of Sarah 25. cap. Abraham took him another Wife called Keturah who bare unto him six Sons Which Children he would not suffer to remain and company with his Son Isaac Abrabam dyed before the Incarnation of Christ 1838. years but before he died sent them away with great Rewards and Gifts and made Isaac Heir of all his Goods He died at the age of an hundred seventy and five and was buried beside Sarah his Wife in the double Gave which he bought of Ephron the Hittite Look more in the histories of Lot Sarah and Melchisedeck Abraham a Father of a great multitude Absalom the son of David 2 Sam. 3. whom he begat on his wife Maacha the daughter of Thalmai King of Geshur was the goodliest personage in all Israel for as Scripture witnesseth God had so framed the form and ornaments of his body that from the soal of the foot to the crown of the head was no member amiss And yet among all the hair of his head excelled which so increased daily that the weight thereof compelled him at every years end to shave it off This Absalom had a brother named Amnon 2 Sam. 13. to whom he bare a privie grudge for defiling his sister Thamar And to be reveng'd on him for the same he invited all his brethren unto a banket made in the time of his sheep-shearing to the which banket Amnon came with the rest of his brethren and in the midst of their cheer Absalom killed Amnon and fled to the King of Geshur his Grandfather with whom he abode three years In the which space by mediation of friends 14. cap. he was at the last call'd home again and brought by Joab his Aunts son to Jerusalem where he remained two years after Then Absalom marvailing why Joab had not brought him to the King his Father in all that space sent once or twice for him to come and speak with him and when he saw that he came not he commanded his men to go and burn up the field of Barley which pertained to Joab and lay joyning to his ground Then Joab hearing thereof went to Absalom demanding wherefore his men had destroyed his Corn Because quoth Absalom I sent for thee twice and thou wouldest not come wherefore didst thou bring me from Geshur had it not been as good for me and better to have continued there still than here to lye so nigh the King my Father and cannot be suffered to see him then Joab considering the matter had him to the King where he was joyfully received After all this 15. cap. Absalom began certain practices to aspire to the kingdom wherein he prospered so far that at length he proclaimed himself King in Hebron Causing his Father for fear to flie out of his Realm against whom he called his counsel to devise what way he might best overcome his Father But God by whose providence all things are staid so wrought with his Counsellors 17. cap. that the success of his enterprise turned to his own destruction For when it came so to pass 18. cap. that both the armies were joyned in battel together Absaloms men had the worst and he himself a sudden mischance for as he rode on his Mule through the wood to have escaped Rebellion never escapeth Gods punishment a twist of an Oak caught him so fast in the hair of his head that it took him quite out of his Saddle And so he hang'd on the tree till Joab came with his spear and slew him whose Carcass after was taken down and cast into a pit and covered with an heap of stones Absalom A Father of Peace or the Fathers Peace or Reward Achan Josua 7. was the son of Charmy and of the Tribe of Juda who being at the winning of the City of Jericho and hearing Josua pronounce the City and all things therein to be excommunicate and accursed of the Lord took not withstanding certain jewels of the same and hid them privily under the ground in his tent Then after when Josua went about the taking of Hai and had sent three thousand souldiers to win it the men of Hai issued out of the city
Son of Jotham King of Juda 2 King 16. at the age of twenty years began his reign in the xvi 2 Chron. 28. year of Pekah King of Israel and did not walk in the ways of his godly Father but gave himself to all kind of Idolatry and abominations of the Heathen consecrating his Children in the fire and offering Incense on every Hill and Mountain For the which his wickedness the Lord forsook him and delivered him into the hands and power of Razin King of Syria and Pekah King of Israel which two Kings on the one side with the Edomites and Philistines invading his Land and spoiling his Cities and Towns on the other side brought him very low And yet in all his adversity would he not once list up his heart to call upon God for his aid and help but contrary to the Prophets admonition sought for the succour of Man spoiling the Temple of God Esay 7. and sending the Treasure thereof to Thiglath Pileser King of Assyria to come and deliver him out of trouble by whose coming Ahaz was nothing the more strengthned but rather troubled and hindered Then Ahaz measuring God's favour by the prosperity of his Enemies not considering how God oftentimes doth punish those whom he loveth and giveth to his Enemies good success for a time turned his heart wholly to the Syrians Gods who as he thought had plagued him And to the intent he might serve them and worship them in all things according as the Heathen did to have their help also he took the pattern of an Altar at Damascus the which he sent to * There is no Prince so wicked but he shall find flatterers and false Ministers to serve his purpose Uria his Priest to make him the like against his coming home who being such a Minister as was content to serve the King's turn made it with all speed on the which Altar the King at his coming home offered to those Idols abolishing all the holy Laws and Ordinances of God to stablish his own wicked and ungodly proceedings which turned to his utter confusion He reigned Sixteen Years and was buried in the City of David but not among the Sepulchres of Kings leaving Hezekia his godly Son to enjoy his place Ahas Taking or Possessing Ahazia the Son of Achab 1 King 22. 2 King 1. began his Reign over Israel in the xvii year of Jehosaphat King of Juda and followed the steps of that wicked Idolater Achab his Father in all things for the which the Lord punished him two manner of ways First the Moabites rebelled against him refusing to pay any tribute Secondly as he walked upon his House for his recreation he fell down at a grate of the same which was made to give light beneath And being sore bruised with the fall and in peril of death he sent to * Beclzebub was an Idol which the Philistines that dwelt at Ekron worshipped and signifieth the God of flies Thinking that he could preserve them from biting of flies or else he was so called because flies were ingendred in great abandance of the blood of the sacrifices that were offered to that Idol This note I find in the Bible Beelzebub the God of Ekron to enquire of him whether he should recover or no. And as the Messengers were going Elia the Prophet by the providence of God met them and said Is there no God in Israel to ask counsel at but your Master must send to Beelzebub return and tell him he shall not live The Messengers returned and told the King Who perceiving by all the marks and tokens of the Man that it was the Prophet Elia sent forth a Captain with Fifty Souldiers to bring him with violence if otherwise he would not come And when the Captain came to the Prophet he said Thou man of God come away the King hath sent for thee If I be the man of God quoth the Prophet Fire come down from Heaven and consume thee and all thy men which words were no sooner gone out of his mouth but Fire fell down from Heaven and destroyed them all The King sent again and they were likewise destroyed Then went the third who fell down before the Prophet and said O thou man of God let my life I pray thee and the life of these thy fifty servants be precious in thy sight With this Man the Prophet went boldly to the King and told him plainly he should not recover and so he dyed in the second year of his reign and for lack of issue his Brother Jehoram succeeded Ahazia The apprehending or possessing of the Lord or the vision or seeing of him Ahasuerus Esther 1. cap. otherwise called Artaxarxes King of Persia reigned over an hundred and * Daniel chap. 6. maketh mention but of six score leaving out the number that is imperfect as the Scripture in divers places useth twenty seven Provinces This King in the third year of his reign made a Feast-royal in the City of Susan to all his Princes and Nobles which continued an hundred and fourscore days And these days expired he made another feast to all the People great and small for the space of seven days and in the seventh and last day of the Feast the King being merry and pleasantly disposed sent divers of his Chamberlains to fetch the Queen named Vashti and to bring Her to Him with the Crown-Imperial upon her head that the People might see her beauty But for so much as she would not come at the King's commandment it was decreed that the King should put her away and take another at his pleasure And according to the same decree the King was divorced from Vashti and took Esther in her place for whose sake he shewed great kindness to her Nation the Jews promoting Mardocheus which had preserved him from the danger ger of Treason and put down Haman whom he had above all exalted Ahasuerus a Prince or Head Ahimaaz 2 Sam. 17. the Son of Sadock with Jonathas the Son of Abiathar stood waiting without the City of Jerusalem at the Well called Regell to bear such news to David as they should hear from their Fathers being within with Absalom And when they were instructed of all things by a certain Maid sent from their Fathers what they should do and say unto David they departed with speed But being espyed by a certain young Man who went and told it to Absalom Messengers were sent forth in post hast which followed them so sore that they were constrained to slip into a certain Mans house in Bahurim which had a Well in his Yard into the which they were conveighed and being hid in the Well the Wife of the House spred a Coverlet over the Wells mouth and strowed Corn thereon whereby the Well was not seen Then Absalom's Men coming into the House demanded of the Woman where the two men were which came in before them They be gone said she over the Brook of Water The
be Captain over his Host in the room of Joab which office he did not long enjoy for when Sheba the Son of Bichri had begun a new commotion and that David had sent Amasa to gather the Men of Juda together 20. c. and to bring them to him by the third day it chanced Joab to meet Amasa by the way which was somewhat after the time the King had appointed and saluting him with all gentleness he took him by the Chin with one hand to kiss him and with the other hand he smote him under the short Ribs with his Dagger and killed him Amasa Sparing the people Amasiah 2 King 14. the Son of Joash King of Juda began his Reign at the Age of xxv 2 Chron. 25. Years in the beginning whereof he did indifferently well observe the Laws of God but in the end he became an Idolater He prepared an Host of thirty thousand Men to go against the Edomites and yet to make himself the stronger he hired an hundred thousand more out of the ten Tribes of Israel for an Hundred Talents of Silver But as he was going with both the Hosts of Juda and Israel he was commanded by the Lord's Prophet to send the Host of Israel home again forasmuch as the Lord was not with them or else he should not stand before his enemies How then said the King shall I do for the hundred Talents which I have given for them Take no thought for that quoth the Prophet for the Lord is able to give thee as much more And so he sent the Host of Israel home again who for anger they were dismissed fell upon the Cities of Juda as they went and did much harm Then Amasias with his own Men set upon his Enemies and slew ten thousand and discomfited the rest After which Victory whereas he ought to have given all praise unto God for the same he fell from God and most vilely dishonoured him in worshipping the Idols of the Edomites despising the * This was Amos the Prophet whom Amasiah caused many times to be beat His Son caused 2 Nail to be thrust into his temples and being half dead he was carried into his own country where he soon after dyed Cooper Prophet's admonition sent unto him from the Lord. And so persisting in his obstinate mind and proud heart he wrote to Joash King of Israel commanding Him and his People by a Parable of the Cedar-tree and Thistle to be under his subjection But Joash after defiance gathered an Army and went against Amasiah whose Host being discomfited Amasiah was taken and brought to Joash who carried him to Jerusalem where notwithstanding the Gates being opened to him he caused four hundred Cubits of the Wall to be beaten down and entred into the City that way leading Amasiah with him as a Prisoner and took all the treasure of the Temple and of the Kings house caused it to be brought into Samaria Afterward being delivered his own People slew him He reigned xxix years and Azariah his Son succeeded Amasiah the Strength of the Lord. Amnon the Eldest Son of David had a fair Sister called Thamar 2 Sam. 3.14 cap. with whom he was so far in love that he could eat no meat that did him good but pined himself away marvellously for her sake Then Jonadab his Fathers Brothers Son a friend and familiar of his and a worldly wise man perceiving Amnon to be sore changed and every day more and more went to him and said How happeneth this Amnon that thou being the King's Son consumest thy self so away and dost not tell me Oh said Amnon I am in love with Thamar my Brother * Thamar was Absalom's Sister both by Father and Mother and Amnons by the Fathers side only Absalom's sister and except I may have her company I shall surely die Now to further this wicked purpose of Amnon here was a counseller ready at hand I will tell thee said Jonadsb what thou shalt do lay thee down upon thy Bed and feign thy self sick and when David thy Father cometh to visit thee desire him to let Thamar thy Sister come and dress thee such meat as thou hast a lust unto Amnon did so and when Thamar was come and had dressed him meat and brought it into his Chamber he commanded all to avoid and never rested until he had by force gotten his pleasure which done he fell into such an exceeding hatred of Thamar that he could not suffer her to be in his sight but caused his servant to thrust her out of his house and to bolt the doors after her For this shameful incest of Amnon Absalom two years after at a Banquet slew Him Amnon A People Lot had a Son called Ammon Gen. 19. which was born him of his youngest daughter and of him came the Ammonites Amon 2 King 21. the Son of Manasses was xxii years old when he began his reign over Juda 2 Chron. 33. and walked not in the ways of the Lord but gave himself more to wicked Idolatry and worshipping of stinking Idols than ever his Father did and would never turn unto God Wherefore at last certain of his own Men conspired against him and slew him which Conspirators the People of the Land notwithstanding put to death and made Josiah his Son King in his stead Amon Faithful Amos Amos 1.2 3 c. was an Herdman or Shepherd of a poor Town called Tekoa and one of the Twelve Prophets which God raised up to admonish the Israelites of their wickedness and Idolatry and to threaten them with his Plagues and Punishments if they did not repent Read of his death in the story of Amasiah Amos a Burden The Father of Jesse Esay 1. David's Father was called Amos and there the word signifieth Strong Amram Exod. 6. Numb 26. the Son of Caath the Son of Levy took Jochebed his Fathers * This kind of marriage was after in the Law forbidden Levit 18. Sister to Wife who bare unto him two Sons Aaron and Moses and also a Daughter called Miriam He lived an hundred and thirty eight years Amram a mighty or an high people or a band of them Amraphel Gen. 14. was King of Shinar and one of the four Kings which fought against five other Kings in the Valley of Siddim where he and his party had the Victory Amraphel Speaking destruction or speaking secrets Amri 1 King 16. was the Chief Captain and Governour of the whole Army of Elah the Son of Baasha King of Israel And lying at the siege of Gibbethon a City of the Philistines the whole Host there hearing of the death of Elah constituted Amri King in his stead But the residue of the Israelites which abode at home and were not with Amri at the siege made Tibni the Son of Ginath King So that the People were divided and in great contention for their King which continued for the space of three years till Tibni
such power and might that all Lands stood in awe of him And whereas no man durst presume to lay hands upon this King yet Apame sitting by his side upon the right hand took off his Crown from his Head and set it upon her own head and smote the King with her left hand who in the mean time did nothing but gape and look upon her if she laughed upon him he laughed if she were angry then he flattered to win her favour again Apame Expelling or driving forth Apelles Rom. 16.10 was a faithful Christian Brother and one as it seemeth that had sustained trouble for the Gospel sake For Saint Paul sending salutations to the Christians at Rome saith thus Salute Apelles approved in Christ Apelles Expelling or driving away Apollonius the Governour of Syria 1 Mac. 3. came against Judas Machabeus with a great Host of the Heathen and in the end was slain Whose Sword pleased Judas so well that he kept it for a memory and used it for his Weapon all the days of his life in time of War Apollonius Undoing or destroying Apollonius the Son of Thersa 2 Mac. 4. c. 5. Governour of Celosyria and Phinehas a Man set all upon Tyranny was sent to Jerusalem against the Jews whom he hated with an Army of twenty thousand Men and commanded by the King Antiochus to kill all that were of perfect age and to sell the Women Maidens and Children who at his first coming to the City made a shew of peace and lay still till the Sabbath-day And then knowing the Jews would not break their Law to make resistance he fell upon them and did his commission with all extremity Apollos was an eloquent man a Jew born at Alexandria Act. 18.24 and well instructed and had but as yet the first principles of Christian religion which was the Baptism or doctrine of John only The same being somewhat entred in the way of the Lord began to be fervent in the spirit and to speak boldly at Ephesus where Aquila and Priscilla chanced to hear Him and perceiving he was not fully instructed in the precepts of the Gospel they * This great learned and eloquent man disdained not to be taught of a poor Crastsman took him home with them and expounded unto him the way of the Lord more perfectly which was the way to salvation And when he was christened in the Name of Jesus and had received the Holy-Ghost he was desirous to go into Achaia where at Corinth he did valiantly set forth the Gospel confounding the Jews with plain evident Testimonies of Scriptures that Jesus was the same Messias whom the Jews had so many hundred years looked for Aquila was a certain Jew born in Pontus Act. 18. cap. lately come out of Italy with his Wife Priscilla to Corinth because the Emperour Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome His Craft was to sow together Skins to make Tents and Pavillions withal Paul who was of the same occupation when he came to Corinth lodged in this Man's house and wrought with him And after a year and a half they departed from Corinth and went together to Ephesus where Aquila and Priscilla made their aboad And remaining there behind Paul who had taken his Journey towards Jerusalem it fortuned Apollos an Alexandrian born an eloquent Man and well learned to come to Ephesus and preached Christ so much as he had learned of him by John's Baptism for more he knew not And when Aquila and Priscilla had heard his preaching and perceiving him not to be as yet fully instructed in the knowledge of Christ they took him home with them and severally taught him more perfectly the mysteries of the Gospel Aquila an Eagle Aran Gen. 11.28 was the Son of Terah Brother to Naher and Abraham and Father to Lot and the first Man that Scripture maketh mention of that by the course of nature died before his Father Aran an Hill or hilly Archelaus Matth. 2.22 was the Son of Herod King of the Jews In whose time Joseph * This King reigned ix years over the Jews and finally was banished into France through his insolency with Glafira his Brother Alexanders widow whom he had married Lanquet returned out of Egypt with the Child Jesus to go into the Land of Israel But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Jewry in his Fathers stead fearing left he had succeeded in his Fathers cruelness like as in his Kingdom durst not go thither but turned aside into the parties of Galilee and dwelt there in a City called Nazareth Archclaus a Prince of the People Archippus was the * Col. 4.17 Instructor of the Colossians and admonished by Paul to take diligent heed to the office which was committed unto him to perform it whereof he should yield an account to the Lord at the last day Archippus the Chief or Master of Horses Arefna look Ornan Arioch was King of Ellasar Gen. 14.1 9. and one of the four Kings that fought against Bera King of Sodom and other four more in the Vale of Siddim and the lesser number overcame the greater and so took all the spoil of Sodom and Gomorrha and went their ways But being pursued by Abraham and his Confederates they were all taken and slain Arioch Long or tall or fulness or the drunkenness or the lyar Arioch was Captain of Nabuchodonosor's Guard Danicl 2. and being sent by the King to destroy all the Wise men and Soothsayers in Babylon because they could not interpret his Dream Daniel went to Ariech and desired him a little to stay until he had obtained of the King some leisure to shew unto Him the Interpretation of his Dream Daniel's request being granted and the thing revealed unto him by God he after thanks given unto God for the same went to Arioch and said Destroy not the wise men of Babylon but bring me before the King and I shall shew him the Interpretation of his Vision Then Arioch brought Daniel before the King in all hast and said thus unto him I have found a Man among the children of Juda that were brought captives that will declare unto the King the Interpretation of his Dream And so the wise men of Babylon were saved Aristarchus Act. 19.29.20.4.27.2 Col. 4.10 was a Thessalonian born and one of Paul's companions and in great hazard of his Life with him at Ephesus through the sedition of Demetrius But that overcome he accompanied Paul into Asia and so forth to Rome where he was his Fellow-prisoner and never shrunk from him Aristarchus The best Prince Aristobulus â— Mac. 1. King Ptolomies Schoolmaster came of the Generation of the anointed Priests unto whom the Jews which dwelt at Jerusalem sent an Epistle exhorting all the Jews which dwelt in Egypt to give thanks and praises unto God for the death of Antiochus which had been so cruel unto them Aristobulus Rom. 16.10 of whom Paul maketh mention in
his Epistle Aristobulus The best Counseller or the best Counsel Arius 1 Mac. 12. was King of Sparta which People were come of the Generation of Abraham as the Jews were wherefore the Jews called them Brethren The Spartians came of Abrahams seed But in all the Wars the Jews had with the Heathen they never sought the Spartians help more than with Letters of Recommendation one from another of brotherly love glad of each others prosperity Arpharad Judith 1. cap. King of the Medes was so mighty a Prince Of Arphaxad the Son of Sem came the Chaldeans Lanquct that he subdued many People unto his Dominion He built a City called Ecbatane which for strength was thought unpossible to be won But at last he putting too much confidence in his own power was subdued of Nabuchodonosor King of the Assyrians in the X. Year of his reign Arphaxad That which healeth or saveth Arphaxad the Son of Shem Gen. 11.12 13. lived four hundred thirty eight years * This was a common name to the Kings of Persia as Pharaob was to the Kings of Egypt or Cesar to the Emperours Artaxerxes King of Persia 1 Esd 7. cap. licensed Esdras to take his Companions the Children of Israel with him 3 Esd 8. and to depart from Babylon to Jerusalem again commanding all his Officers in all places to aid Esdras not only with the King's Treasure but with whatsoever was needful to him for the re-edifying of the Lord's Temple Artaxerxes The light or maleaiction and curse He that causeth silence Also that maketh haste or speed also the earnestness of rejoycing Artaxerxes King of Persia 3 Esd 2. having a sore complaint made unto him by Belemus Mithridates Tabelius Rathumus Beeltethmus and Semellius the Secretary with other more against the Jews for building of the Temple wrote to them again on this wise I have read the Epistle which ye sent unto me therefore I commanded to make diligent search and have found that this City hath ever resisted Kings that the same People are disobedient and have caused much War and that mighty Kings have reigned in Jerusalem which also have raised up Taxes of Celosyria and Phenice wherefore I have commanded to forbid those Men that they shall not build up the City and heed to be taken that there be no more done in it and that they proceed no further in those wicked works for so much as it might be occasion of trouble unto Princes Artemas was one of Paul's Disciples Tit. 3.12 and lay with him at the City of Nicopolis what time as Paul sent to Crete for Titus to come unto him but not before he did send Artemas or Tychicus unto him to tarry in his stead lest that Crete should be destitute of an Overseer Asa 1. King 15.8 9. 2 Chron. 14 1 c. 15 cap. His Mother is called Maacha and is taken for his Grandmother was the Son of Abijah and began his reign over Juda in the xx year of the reign of Jeroboam He honoured God cleansed his Land of Whorekeepers Idols Images Groves and many other Abominations Yea he abhorred Idolatry so much that he would not suffer it unpunished in his own Mother but put her from her Estate because she had made an Idol in a Grove which he burnt and cast the Ashes into the Brook Cedron And for his upright heart the Lord sent peace and quietness in all his Land by the space of ten years In the which time of rest he built Cities and Holds and made his Realm very strong At last it fortuned the King of Ethiopia to come against him with an Host of ten hundred thousand and three hundred Chariots whereas the other had but half so many Then Asa putting his hope in God The Prayer of Asa made first his prayers to him on this wise O Lord it is no hard thing with thee to help either by many or by few help us therefore O Lord our God for we trust to thee and in thy name we go against this multitude thou art the Lord our God and no man shall prevail against thee And after he had ended his prayer he went and joyned battel with his enemies the Lord overthrew them and left not one undestroyed 2 Chron. 16. After this it chanced Baasha King of Israel to invade him of whom Asa was so afraid that he fetcht out of the House of the Lord much Treasure and sent it to Benhadad King of Syria desiring him to break his League with Baasha that he might depart out of his Land And when Baasha had broke up his Camp and was gone to resist Benhadad which had got divers of his Cities in Israel the Prophet Hanani came to Asa and said Forasmuch as thou hast trusted in the King of Syria and not in the Lord therefore is the Host of Syria escaped thee Had not the Ethiopians an exceeding great Host and yet because thou did'st put thy trust in God they were delivered into thy hand For the eyes of the Lord behold all the Earth to strengthen them that are of perfect heart towards him And now seeing thou hast done so foolishly thou shalt from henceforth have War The King hearing * Here we see that it is not enough for a man to begin well unless he continue to the end this was sore displeased with the Prophet and disdaining his admonition sent him to Prison He was before the Incarnation 973 years Cooper Wherefore the Lord to plague his rebellion smote him with a disease in his feet which could not be cured by any Physician whereof he dyed after he had reigned years forty one Asa a Physician Asahel was the Son of Zervia David's Sister 2 King 2. His Brethren were Joab and Abishai This man Asahel for his lightness on foot is compared to a Roe buck Read of his Death in the story of Abner Asahel God hath wrought Asaph the Son of Barachiah 1 Chron. 6.39.16.5 was one of the chief Singers among the Levites appointed by David in the House of the Lord. Asaph Gathering Ashur the Father of Tekoah was the Son of Hesron 1 Chron. 2.25.4.5 the Son of Phares the Son of Juda. His Mothers name was Abia he had two Wives and by them Children Asher was the Son of Jacob. Gen. 30.12 13 1 Chron. 7. Num. 1. His Mothers name was Silpah His brother of father and mother was Gad. He had four Sons and one Daughter of whom came many Noble men and Captains Asher Blessedness Asyncritus Rom. 16.14 was one of the faithful Congregation of Christ in Rome unto whom among other Paul sendeth salutations in his Epistle saying thus salute Asyncritus Asyncritus Peerless or without Comparison Assur was the Son of Sem. 1 Chron. 1.17 Lyra writeth upon Gen. x. That Assur because he would not rebel against God with Nimrod in the building of the Tower of Babel fled out of the Land
report to their Brethren of that good Land saying it was a Country of strong and fierce People and such a Land as did eat up the Inhabiters thereof and with like perswasions made them both astonished and afraid and to murmur and grudge against Moses and Aaron saying they would make them a Captain and go into Egypt again Then Caleb and Joshua seeing their Brethren so discomfited rent their cloaths for sorrow and said Oh dear Brethren be ye not discouraged at these false surmised tails neither yet rebel against the Lord for we have seen the Land as well as they that have discouraged you and know it to be a better Land than they report a Land that floweth with Milk and Hony And as for the People therein fear them not for they be but Bread for us their shield is departed from them and God is with us therefore pluck up your hearts and fear not With these and the like comfortable sayings Caleb and Jeshua withdrew the fury of the multitude which were ready to destroy them and also ceased their murmuring which murmuration of the People so grieved the Lord that he swore to Moses that not one of them all should see that good Land save Caleb and Joshua although their children should see it But first said God to Moses they shall wander in the Wilderness Forty Years and suffer for their Fathers * Which is their infidelity and disobedience whoredome until their Fathers Carkasses be wasted a Year for a Day according to the number of days in searching the Land which was forty days And because Caleb followed the Lord continually God swore to Moses that Caleb and his Seed should inherit that Land which came so to pass for after xlv years Josh 14 10 11. Caleb then being at the age of lxxxv years and as lusty as he was when Moses sent him first to search the Land required of Joshua his Heritage who appointed out unto him the City of Hebron with the Countries thereabout out of the which City he drove out the three Sons of Anak Joshua 15.14 Judg. 1.13 This Caleb had a younger Brother called Othoniel to whom he gave his Daughter Achsah to Wife for taking of a certain City called Kiriathsepher Caleb as a Hart. Carpus 2 Tim. 4.13 was a certain godly Man dwelling at Croada with whom Paul left his Cloak with certain Books which he desired Timothy to bring with him when he came to him again Carpus Fruit or fruitful Cendebius 1 Mac. 15. cap. 16. was Captain-General of Antiochus's Host And when he had done much harm in the Land of Jewry and built up Cedron and fortified it with Men of War he was at the last by the Sons of Simon discomfited and put to flight Cendebius Zeal or the possession of sorrow or grief Cereas was Brother to Timotheus 2 Mac. 10. and Captain of a strong Castle called Gazar into the which Timotheus being overcome of Judas Machabeus was fain to flie for succor Now Cereas and they that were with him in the Fort trusted so much to the strength of the place that they fell to railing and cursing of their Enemies without who notwithstanding set so manfully upon the Hold that at last they wan it and took the blasphemers and burnt them quick and slew this Cereas and his Brother Timotheus with another famous Captain called Apollophanes Cereas Glad or rejoycing Centura look Ketura Chedorlaomor look Kedorlaomor Cis was the Son of Abiel of the Tribe of Benjamin 1 Sam 9.1 c. and Father to King Saul Whose Asses on a time being strayed abroad he said unto Saul his Son Take one of the Lads with thee and go and seek out mine Asses that are lost This Cis is called also the Son of Ner 1 Chron. 8.33 Cis Hard or stubble or a place where Cucumbers are Cis The Son of Jehiel 1 Cor. 8.29 30.9.35 36. his Mother was called Maacah Cis the Son of Mahli Son to Merari 1 Chron. 23.21 His Brother's name was Eleazar Whose Daughters he being dead the Sons of this Cis took to their Wives Claudia was a certain godly Brother 2 Tim. 4.21 who being with Paul at Rome sent as many more did greetings to Timothy in Paul's Letter Claudia a proper name Act. 11.28 * He was poisoned of his Wife Agrippina that Nero her son might succeed in the Empire Claudius was an Emperour in whose time the fourth Year of his reign was a great Dearth thorowout all the World whereof Agabus the Prophet prophesied aforehand Claudius a proper name Cleopatra Cooper 1 Mac. 10. chap. 11. the Daughter of King Ptolomy was married to Alexander the Son of Noble Antiochus And again for displeasure taken from Alexander her lawful Husband and given to Demetrius the Son of Demetrius Cleopatra the Glory of the Country Cleophas Luk. 24.13.18 was the Husband of Mary Sister to Mary the Mother of Christ and one of the two Disciples which after the death of Christ went to the Town of Emaus talking and reasoning together of all things that had happened to Jesus and as they were reasoning the matter Jesus joyned himself personally with them as a wayfaring man desirous to know whereof they talked so sadly To whom Cleophas made answer and said Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem and hast not known the things which have chanced there of late What things said Jesus Of one Jesus of Nazareth which was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the People and how the chief Priests and our Rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and have crucified him but we trusted that it had been he that should have delivered Israel They understood not yet what was the deliverance that Jesus Christ purchased for us and besides all these things to day is the third day since they were done Then Jesus opened the Scriptures to Cleophas and the other and being known of them at the last by breaking of Bread they returned to the Apostles at Jerusalem and told them all what they had heard and seen of Jesus by the way to Emaus Cleophas All manner of glory Clement Philip. 4.3 was one of Paul's Fellow-labourers in the Gospel among the Philippians as Paul himself reporteth saying And I beseech thee faithful yoke-fellow help the Women which laboured with me in the Gospel with Clement also and with other my Fellow-labourers whose Names are in the Book of Life Clement Meek Crescens what time as Paul sent for Timothy 2 Tim. 4.10 was departed from Rome into Galatia for business he had there whereof he certifieth Timothy saying Crescens is gone to Galatia and Titus unto Dalmatia Crescens a Latine word Encreasing Crispus the chief Ruler of the Synagogue at Corinth Acts 18.8 after he had heard Paul's preaching believed in the Lord he and all his Houshold and were baptized in the Name of Christ Jesus Crispus a Latine word curled
arise and eat telling him that he had yet a great Journey to go then he arose and did eat again and with the strength of that Meat Elijah fasteth forty days and forty nights he walked Forty Days and Forty Nights till he came to Horeb the Mount of God and hiding himself in a Cave all Night the Voice of the Lord came to him and asked him what he did there I have said he been very jealous for the Lord God of Hosts For the Children of Israel have forsaken thy Covenant broken down thine Altars and slain thy Prophets with the Sword and I only am left and they seek my life to take it away Then the Lord commanded him to come out of the Cave and sent him to anoint Hazael King over Syria And Jehu King of Israel and Eliseus in his room Read more of this Prophet in the stories of these three aforesaid in Achab Ahazia and Obadiah and Eliseus Elijah God the Lord. Eliakim was the High Priest among the Jews Judith 4. cap. at what time Holofernes went about to subdue them who sent Letters all about to the Jews to take in the Mountains and to stop all the ways and passages to Jerusalem that their enemies the Assyrians might have no recourse thither That done he exhorted the People to earnest prayer and fasting assuring them that the Lord would hear their Petitions if they continued stedfast in the same and give them such power to overthrow the Assyrians as he gave to Moses the servant of God which overthrew the Amalekites trusting in their own strength not with weapon but with holy prayer Eliakim The Resurrection of God or Gods affirmation or the God of resurrection or the God of strength Elimelech was an Ephraimite born Ruih 1.1 2 c. dwelling in the City of Bethleem Juda in whose days there fell such a dearth in the Land of Juda that he with his Wife and two Sons the one Mahlon the other Chilion went into the Land of Moab where in process he and his two Sons died Elimelech My God the King or the counsel of God Eliphaz was the Son of Esau Gen. 36.4 and his Mothers name was Ada. Eliphaz the sight of God or his intent or endeavour Eliphaz the Temanite Job 2.11 was one of those that came to Job in his extream afflictions to comfort him Job 4. And yet notwithstanding he blamed Job for impatience injustice Job 15. and for the presumption of his own righteousness Also he reproved him Job 22. because he challenged wisdome and pureness to himself Affirming also that he was punished for his sins and accused him of unmercifulness and that he denied God's providence and therefore exhorteth him to repentance But the Lord was angry with Eliphaz Job 43.7 and with his other Companions because they had condemned Job by the outward afflictions and not comforted him with his mercy and therefore commanded them to take seven Oxen and seven Rams and to go and offer a burnt-offering for their offence and his servant Job should pray for them And they did as the Lord had commanded them Elisa 1 Chron. 1.7 was the Son of Javan his Brethren were Tharshish Kittim and Dodanim Elisa it is God or the Lamb of God or God that doth good Eliseus 2 King 19.19 was the Son of Shaphat And being at the Plough with Twelve Yoke of Oxen before him Elijah coming by him cast his Mantle over him and went his ways Then Eliseus being inspired with the Holy-Ghost left his Plough and ran after Elijah desiring him that he might first go home and take his leave of his friends and then he would come and follow him which thing being done he returned and ministred to Elijah and went with him to Bethel 2. King 2. and from thence to Jericho where the Children of the Prophets came to Eliseus and said Knowest thou not that the Lord will take thy Master from thine Head this day Yes quoth he I know it well hold ye your peace and be still And so forth from Jericho they went to Jordan where Elijah smote the Waters with his Mantle which divided themselves so that they two went over on dry Land The Waters divided And when they were on the other side of Jordan Elijah said to Eliseus Ask what I shall do for thee ere I be taken away from thee I pray thee quoth Eliseus let thy spirit be double upon me Thou hast asked quoth he an hard thing Yet if thou see me when I am taken from thee thou shalt have it so if not it shall not be And as they were walking and talking together Elijah is taken up in the fiery Chariot Elijah was taken up in a Whirlwind of Fire and in a Chariot of fiery Horses which sight Eliseus saw and cryed My Father my Father the Chariot of Israel and the Horsemen thereof and saw him no more Then Eliseus rent his own Cloak in two pieces and took up Elijah's Mantle which he had let fall from him and returned to the bank of Jordan and smote the Waters saying Where is the Lord God of Elijah and he himself and at the second smiting the Waters divided so that he went over on dry Land to the other side again Then the Children of the Prophets perceiving the Spirit of Elijah to be upon Eliseus came and fell down before him saying We doubt lest the Spirit of the Lord hath taken thy Master and cast him upon some Mountain therefore let us send forth our Men to go and seek him But Eliseus knowing assuredly that he was taken unto God willed them not to do so yet they not therewithall satisfied intreated him so much till he was ashamed and so let them go And when they had sought three days and three nights and could not find him they returned to Eliseus who said unto them Did not I say ye should not find him Now as the Prophet lay at Jericho the Men of the City came unto him saying Sir the situation of this City as thou seest is pleasant The Waters are healed but the Water is so evil and the ground so barren that it killeth the Inhabitants thereof Then said Eliseus bring me a Cruise and put Salt therein And when they had brought him the Cruise he took it and went unto the Spring of the Waters and cast the Salt therein saying Thus saith the Lord I have healed this Water death shall no more come thereof neither barrenness to the ground After he had thus healed the Water at Jericho 2 King 3. cap. and was departed thence to go to Bethel there came little Children out of the City who in mockery said unto him Come up thou bald head The Children for mocking the Prophet are devoured with Bears come up thou bald head The Prophet then turned back and beheld the Children and perceiving their malicious hearts he cursed them in the Name of the Lord which
he preferred * God preferreth that many times which Man despiseth and despiseth that which man alloweth Ephraim the younger before Manasses the elder yet putting Joseph their Father in comfort that Manasses should be great but Ephraim should be greater Of the Genealogy of Ephraim read 1 Chron. 7. Ephraim Fruitful or encreasing Ephron the Son of Zoar dwelt among the Hethites Gen. 23. cap. having a piece of Land which Abraham had a mind to buy to bury Sarah his Wife therein And when the matter was broken to Ephron by Abraham to sell his Ground for so much Money as it was worth Ephron willingly offered to give it him freely to bury his dead and to do withal what he would But notwithstanding Abraham forced him so much to know the price thereof that Ephron said My Lord the Land is worth four hundred * The common Sicle is about the value of twenty pence Sicles but what is that between thee and me take it freely I beseech thee and bury thy dead at thy pleasure And so he received of Abraham for his Land the Summ aforesaid Ephron Dust or low on the ground Er the Eldest Son of Judah the Son of Jacob Gen. 38.7 was married to a Woman called Thamar and for his great wickedness the Lord slew him Er VVatchful and making bare or pouring forth Erastus was the Chamberlain Act. 19.22 Rom. 16.23 2 Tim. 4.20 or Receiver of the City of Corinth and one of Paul's Ministers whom he sent from Ephesus into Macedonia with one Timotheus intending himself to follow after to gather Mens alms for the relieving of such as were needy and poor at Jerusalem Erastus Amiable Esay Esay 1.1.42.1.45 53. cap. the Son of * Amos the Father of Esay was Brother to Azariah King of Judab and Esay was Father-in-law to Manasses who put him to death Amos was an holy Prophet of the Tribe of Judah in whom was such abundance of the spirit of Prophecie that he prophesied so much of Christ that he seemed rather to be an Evangelist than a Prophet He was of such holiness that in the time of King Ezechias when a City was besieged he by his Prayer obtained of God that Water sprang up in little quantity so that the People did not perish for lack of Water and when the Enemies had won the City and besieged Seloum as often as the Jews came for Water the Water ran out of the Earth abundantly and they took Water But the strangers when they came could not find it This holy Man for his liberty of speech in rebuking of the sin of the Princes and the People and for the prophesying of the vengeance of God upon that Countrey and People was cut in two pieces with a Saw and buried under an Oke but asterward he was translated and buried by the Sepulchre of Kings He was before the coming of Christ 800. years Eliote Esay the health of the Lord. Esau Gen. 25.25 was the eldest Son of Isaac born with his Brother Jacob at one birth of their Mother Rebekah Jacob was smooth of body Of Esau came the Edomites Esau was called Edom that is red because he fold his birth-right for a mess of red Pottage and Esau rough and hairy who became a great hunter wherefore his Father loved him the better because now and then he did eat of his Venison On a time coming from hunting he was so weary and faint for hunger that he was almost dead And seeing his brother Jacob to have sod a Pot of Pottage he prayed him to give him a few thereof to eat Sell me now thy Birthright quoth he and I will Then Esau esteeming mere his Belly than the benefit of his Birth-right sold it to Jacob for a Mess of Pottage And when he had filled his Belly well he went his way and passed forth 26.34 till he came about the Age of Forty Years And then he took him two Wives the one Judith the Daughter of Beri and the other Bashemath the Daughter of Elon both which Women were disobedient to their Father and Mother-in-law 27. cap. After this his Father being old and blind for age he went out to kill some Venison for his Father that he might eat thereof and bless him before he died But when he had dressed it and brought it for his Father to eat Jacob had prevented Esau and gotten his blessing from him for the which he hated Jacob and threatned to kill him wherefore Jacob was sent away into Mesopotamia partly to avoid the malice of Esau 28.1 2 c. and partly to get him a Wife there because his Father would not have him marry with the Canaanites Then Esau perceiving that the Daughters of Canaan displeased Isaac he to please his Father took to Wife the Daughter of Ishmael Abraham's Son And so these two Brethren being thus separated the one from the other in process became both very rich And in the end when by the providence of God they met together again God had so altered and changed the mind of Esau that he most lovingly embraced his Brother Jacob ministring to him such kindness as though he had never born him any displeasure at all And so in fine departed as loving friends Jacob toward Succoth and Esau to Mount Seir his own possession Esau VVorking Eshcol was Brother to Mamre and Aner Gen. 14.13.24 which three were Abraham's confederates and his partakers in the rescuing of Lot his Brother out of the hands of Kedorlaomer Eshcol a Cluster Esdras the Son of Saraia 1 Esd 7.8 cap. was a notable Scribe in the Law of Moses and long in captivity at Babylon but at last by the licence of Artaxerxes he came from Babylon to Jerusalem again with the Jewes to repair the Law and City of God and to teach the People the right way of the Lord. He gathered and brought in order all the Books of the Laws of God which were by the Chaldees scattered and destroyed 9 and 10 cap. This Man's living was so upright and holy and so esteemed among the People that when they had offended the Lord in contracting themselves with the Gentiles at his godly preaching and counsel they repented and put away their strange Wives and turned to the Lord again Esdras an Helper Esther Esther 2 cap. the Daughter of Abian a Jew born was a goodly young Damosel and after the death of her Father and Mother nourished and brought up in the house of Mardocheus her Fathers Uncle During which time Vashti for her disobedience to Ahasuerus the King was deposed from her Princely state And then to have another placed in her room certain fair young Damosels and Virgins among which Esther was one were taken up by Commission and brought to the Court and there found at the King's charges for the space of xii Moneths with all manner of sumptuous Deckings to the end the King might choose one of them
sometime at liberty and that his familiars might freely repair unto him and bring unto him such things as he lacked It was not long after this before Felix being returned to Cesarea again with his wife Drusilla a Jew born called forth Paul being desirous to have further knowledge of him as concerning the Sect that he professed And as Paul preached unto him of Righteousness of Temperance and of Judgment to come Felix trembled for fear and sent him away for that time saying that at a convenient leisure he would send for him again This corrupt Magistrate gaped for bribes and rewards to loose Paul and therefore called him the oftner thinking that Paul would have given him a piece of money to be delivered but when he saw that none would come and Portius Festus was sent from Nero the Emperor to succeed him in his room than willing rather to shew the Jews a pleasure than to deliver Paul left him in prison bound Felix Happy Festus Asts 25. cap. Portius by Nero the Emperor was made President in the room of Felix Which Festus within three days after he came to his Province went up from Cesarea to Jerusalem where the High Priests and Elders of the Jews informed him of Paul desiring his favour against him and that he would send for him to have the matter pleaded there Whose request if Festus had granted they were fully bent to have slain Paul in the way coming to Jerusalem But Festus made answer that the prisoner should remain at Cesarea until his coming whither said he I intend shortly to repair and if there be any among you that is able to accuse him let them go down with me and they shall be heard And so when Festus was come to Cesarea the next day after he sate in judgment upon Paul Against whom the Jews laid many grievous complaints which they were not able to prove so long as Paul answered for himself Then Festus willing to do the Jews a pleasure said unto Paul Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem and there be judged of these things before me Then said Paul I see no cause wherefore I should go thither but may be judged as well here as there But forasmuch as the Jews seek my condemnation against all right and Justice I appeal to the Emperor Well said Festus thou hast appealed to the Emperour and to him shalt thou go Within a few days after this it chanced that King Agrippa with Bernice his wife came unto Cesarea to salute and welcome Festus the new President And during the Kings aboad there Festus on occasion rehearsed Pauls matter unto him saying Felix my Predecessor left here a certain man in hold whom the chief Priests and Elders of the Jews at Jerusalem complained of desiring me for their sakes to give sentence against him To whom I answered that it was not the custom of the Romans to give sentence against any man before his accusers were brought before him that he might make answer for himself And so when his accusers were come hither I on the next day sat in judgment and commanded the prisoner to be brought forth before me against whom his accusers brought no accusation of such things as I supposed they would have done but demanded certain questions of him concerning their own superstition and laying to his charge one Jesus which was dead whom he affirmed to be risen from death to life again And forasmuch as I wist not well what to say in this matter I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged And when he had refused that and appealed to Cesar I commanded him to be kept in prison until I might have occasion to send him to Cesar Then said the King to Festus I have heard much of that same Jesus and his Disciples and therefore am much desirous to hear the fellow speak my self before he go to Cesar Whereupon Festus on the next morrow brought forth Paul into the common hall before Agrippa the King saying on this wise King Agrippa and you all that be here present ye see this man whom all the Jews have complained on to me both at Jerusalem and here crying that he ought not to live any longer and yet have I made inquiry and can find nothing worthy of death that he hath committed nevertheless for as much as he hath appealed to the Emperour I am determined to send him thither and yet because I have no certain thing to write unto his Majesty I have brought him forth before you and specially to thee King Agrippa that after examination had I might have somewhat to write for me-thinks it standeth with no reason to send a prisoner and not to shew withal what is laid to his charge And when Agrippa saw Paul stand before him Act. 26. cap. he said thou art permitted to speak for thy self if thou hast any thing to say in thy defence say on Then began Paul to speak and made such a pithy declaration of his former life and of his calling to Christ that Festus which was not skilful in the Jews religion thought all his sayings to be but madness and cryed out with a loud voice saying that he was beside himself and that much learning had made him mad Then after sentence given by King Agrippa that Paul should be sent to the Emperor 〈…〉 Festus delivered him and certain other prisoners in bonds to the Emperours Centurion named Julius who conveyed them into Italy Festus Solemn or Holy-day Fortunatus was a faithful Soldier of Christ 1 Cor. 16.17 whom Paul sent in the company of Stephanus and Achaicus with his letters from Philippi to the Corinthians Fortunatus Lucky G. GABELUS Tobi. 1. c. was a certain man of the Kinred and Tribe of Tobias dwelling in the country of Media in a City called Rages And being fallen into poverty Tobias lent him ten Talents of silver upon a bill of his hand whereby Gabelus was greatly holpen 9. cap. and in process paid the same again to Tobie when he had need with great thanks Read Toby the younger Gabelus The end or border or threshold and entrance Gad the son of Jacob and Zilpah Gen. 30.11 Num. 32. cap. When the Tribe of Gad had long journeyed with the rest of the Israelites their brethren toward the land of Canaan Gad and Reuben with the half Tribe of Manasses desired of Moses to have their possession on this side of Jordan Eastward and not on the other side because it was a land meet for Cattle whereof they had great store To whom Moses answered saying Shall your brethren go harnessed before the Lord and ye sit still and do nothing wherefore will ye discourage the hearts of the people so did your Fathers when I sent them from Cadesh Barnea to search and see the land discouraging the hearts of the people reporting so much evil of the land that they were ready to return into Egypt whose doings did so
provoke the Lord to anger that he sware that none of them all should see that good land save Caleb and Joshua Therefore said he if ye do now leave your brethren and will not go harnessed before them until the Lord hath cast out their enemies ye do so much sin against the Lord that he will surely find it out And when they heard Moses say so they answered saying We do not intend to leave our brethren our meaning is nothing less than so to do but rather that we might be suffered to make in this place sheepfolds for our cattel and houses for our wives and children to leave them therein which being done we our selves will go forth before our brethren harnessed and will not return home to our houses until we have brought them to their places and that every one of them be possessed in his inheritance Then Moses contented with this answer granted their request And so they builded sheep-cotes for their Cattel and houses for their families wherein they left them and went forth with their brethren until they had performed their promise and then returned home again Joshua 22. cap. And when they had rested a while at home they went and built an Altar near Jordan and that a very great one And when the rest of the children of Israel heard that the children of Reuben Gad and Manasses had built them an Altar in * This country also was calied Canaan because the Amorites dwelling there were called Canaanites Gilead beside Jordan even on the same side that they were of in the land of Canaan they were sore offended and so angry that they gathered themselves together to battel against them And being ready prepared they sent Phinehas the son of Eleazar the Priest and with him ten Princes of every chief house one to know for what purpose they had made them an Altar and whether it were to rebel against the Lord or no. And when they had done their commission the other answered and said that God was their witness that they had done it for no evil purpose either to rebel against the Lord or to swerve from his laws and ordinances in any point but rather for this consideration to be a witness between us and you and our generations after us lest it should chance another day that your children should say unto ours what have ye to do with the Lord God of Israel ye children of Reuben and of Gad the Lord ye see hath made Jordan a border between us and you and therefore ye can have no part in the Lord with us and so should your children make our children cease from fearing the Lord. And therefore to prevent such an inconvenience we took advice and made this Altar that if any such kind of talk should be ministred of your children to ours in time to come that then our children might answer and say again Behold the fashion of the Altar of the Lord which our fathers made neither for burnt-offerings nor sacrifices but for a witness between us and you that our part is in the Lord as well as yours And when Phinehas and the other Princes had heard their answer they were well content and returned and so the matter ended They called the Altar Our witness that the Lord is God Gad a Band or Garison Gad the Prophet came to David lying in the land of Moab saying Abide not in hold 1 Sam 22.5 but depart and go into the land of Judah 2 Sam. 24.13 At another time when David had offended the Lord in numbring his people Gad was sent unto him to give him choice of three things whether he would have * Three years of famin were past for the Gibeonites matter and this was the fourth year to the which should have been added other three years â—1 Chron 21.11 12. seven years famin or three months to fly before his enemies or three days pestilence in the land Gaius a certain * Act. 19.29.20.4 faithful brother dwelling in Derbe was one of Pauls companions and in great jeopardy of his life at Ephesus thorow the sedition of Demetrius the Silversmith but after the business was ended he accompanied Paul into Asia To this man St. John wrote his third Epistle Gaius the Lord or Master of the tongue Gallio was Proconsul of Achaia to wit Act. 18 1â— c. the Lord Deputy under Cesar the Emperor in the Countrey of Achaia In this time it hapned the Jews which had made a conspiracy against Paul to bring him before the place of judgment where Gallio sate as Judge accusing Paul unto him of new doctrine But when Gallio perceived the controversie between the Jews and Paul was concerning Jewish Religion he sought to rid his hands of them and preventing Paul who was ready to speak in his own defence said O ye Jews if it were a matter of wrong or an evil deed reason would that I should hear you but if it be a question of words or names or of your law look unto it your self for I will be no Judge in such matters And so caused them to depart the place Gallio giving Milk or having Milk Gamaliel Act. 5.34 c. one of the ancient Pharisees was Pauls Shool master and in high estimation among the people both for his excellent knowledge in the law and for his singular wisdom When the Apostles were brought by some of the Council for preaching in the name of Christ whose lives he perceived the Council sought he desired that for a while the Apostles might depart out of the Council-house And when they were gone he said Ye men of Israel take heed to your selves what ye intend to do as touching these men for before these days rose up one Theudas boasting himself to whom resorced a number of men about 400. who was slain and they all which believed him were scattered abroad and brought to nought After this man rose up one Judas of Galilee in the time when Tribute began who drew away much people after him he also perished and all that obeyed him were scattered abroad And now I say unto you refrain your selves from these men and let them alone For if this Counsel or this work be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot destroy it lest ye be found to strive against God Gamaliel God's reward Gedaliah the Son of Ahikam 2 King 25.22 c. was a great Captain under Nabuchodonosor whom he made Governour of the Land of Judah to rule the People which he had left behind him at the destruction of Jerusalem Jer. 42. câ—â— who intreated the People so gently and so friendly that all the Jews which were scattered about in the Land hearing of his gentleness resorted unto Gedaliah and sound great favour at his hand for the which they bare unto him their hearty good wills Insomuch that when Baal King of the Ammonites had sent one Ishmael under
had judged them forty years he dyed leaving behind him 70. Sons for he had many Wives beside Abimelech which his Concubine bare unto him in the City of Sichem But when Gedeon was dead the Israelites turned from God again and went a whoring after Baalim and made Baal-berith their God forgetting the Lord their God which had delivered them out of the hands of their enemies neither shewed they mercy on the house of Jerubbaal according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto them But contrariwise like men unthankful and void of all faithfulness consented to the utter destruction of all his Posterity Gedeon a Breaker or destroyer Gehazi waited upon Eliseus the Prophet and was his servant 2 King 5. cap. On a time there came to his Master out of the Land of Syria a certain Prince named Naaman to be cured of his Leprosie The which Prince being restored to health offered to Eliseus a great reward which he refused And when Gehazi saw the Noble man gone and that his Master had received nothing he then being stricken with covetousness followed after Naaman And when the Prince saw the Prophets servant come running so fast after him he for the reverence he bare to his Master descended from his Chariot to meet him and asked of him if all were well with his Master or no. Yea said Gehazi all is well But even now there is come to my Master from Mount Ephraim two young Men of the Sons of the Prophets wherefore he hath sent me to desire thee to let him have one Talent of Silver and two change of Garments Then the Prince of his liberality gave him two Talents and made his Men to carry the Money and Stuff after Gehazi And when the Men had brought it nigh unto the place where he would have it he took it of their hands and let them depart and conveighed it privily into his own Chamber And as soon as Gehazi came into the presence of his Master he demanded where he had been No where quoth he No said Eliseus went not my heart with thee when the man turned again from his Chariot to meet thee Is it now a time to receive Money or Garments Well forasmuch as thou hast offended in this the Leprosie of Naaman shall cleave unto thee and to thy Seed for ever And so he went out from his Master a Leper as white as snow Read more of Gehazi in the Stories of Eliseus his Master Gehazi Vally of vision Gershon the Son of Moses had a Brother called Eliezar Exod. 2.22 18.2 Their Mothers name was Zipporah the Daughter of Raguel But of Gershon the Son of Levi came the Gershonites Exod. 6.17 Num. 3.17 26.57 who had the governance of the habitation within the tabernacle Gershon his banishment or the strangers change Gibeonites Joshua 9. The Gibeonites hearing of the great destruction that Joshua had made at Jericho and Ai were in such fear that they wist not how to save their lives but by this policy When they perceived Joshua to draw nigh unto Gibeon they chose out certain Men among them to send as Ambassadours to Joshua and made their provision of dry and mouldy Bread And put their Wine into old Bottles all rent and torn and shod themselves with old clouted shooes and put on their backs old garments and so sent them forth to Joshua to obtain peace And when Joshua looked upon them and beheld their simple state he asked what they were and from whence they came They answered from a far Countrey are thy Servants come because of the name of the Lord thy God for we have heard of his fame and power and what he did in the Land of Egypt and in all other places till now And long have we travailed to come hither as ye may see for this our food the day we came forth was hot our bottles shooes and garments all new and now are they old and torn and our Bread dry and mouldy wherefore we shall desire your favour and peace Then Joshua believing it had been so swore unto the Gibeonites and made a covenant of peace with them and let them go Within three days after it fortuned the Israelites to come to the City of Gibeon thinking to have destroyed it But when they saw that they were the People which a little before had obtained peace at their hands they would not slay them because of their oath but went to Joshua and told him Then Joshua sent for them demanded wherefore they had so deceived him They answered it was told us that God commanded Moses to give you this Land and to slay all the Inhabitants thereof and therefore were we sorced to make this provision for our lives And now we be in your hands to do with us as shall please you Well said Joshua for our oath sake ye shall have your lives But for as much as ye have so craftily deceived us the Lord hath determined that ye shall be in bondage under Israel all the days of your lives and be Hewers of Wood and Water-drawers for the Congregation and House of God continually And so the Israelites took their Cities but saved their lives After this Joshua 10.5 6 c. the Kings of the Amorites hearing how the Gibeonites had made peace with Israel came upon them and besieged Gibeon which was the greatest City in all the Kingdom of the Amorites whereupon the Gibeonites were constrained to send to Joshua for his aid who came from Gilgal and with a great power rescued them and took the Kings of the Amorites which were five in number and hanged them on five several Trees and destroyed all their People and Countries 2 Sam. 1 2 c. Thus the Gibeonites continued in Bondage under the Israelites with their lives until the time of King Saul who then for a zeal he had to the Children of Israel and Juda slew a great number of them which deed God punished in the days of King David at what time he sent a Famine upon the Land which continued for the space of three years for when David enquired at the Lord the cause of that Plague answer was made him by God that it was for Saul and his bloody house who had killed the Gibeonites which Gibeonites were none of the Seed of Israel but a remnant of the Amorites with whom the Children of Israel had made a bond of peace Then David asking the Gibeonites what he should do for them and wherewith he should recompence them they said we will neither have Silver nor Gold of Saul nor of his House nor that any Man of Israel be killed for our sakes but the Man that hath consumed us and imagined to bring us to naught him will we destroy Therefore let his seven Sons be delivered unto us that we may hang them up before the Lord. Then David caused the two Sons of Rizpah Saul's Concubine and the five Sons of * Here is Michol
taken for Merob which was Wafe to Adriel as appeareth 1 Sam. 18.19 For Michol was the Wife of Phalti and had never child as appeareth 1 Sam. 25.44 2 Sam. 6.23 Michol whom she bare to Adriel to be delivered unto the Gibeonites who took and hanged them upon an Hill before the Lord. And thus were the Gibeonites revenged on Saul Gilead was the ‖ Num. 26. Son of Machir and his Children were these Jeezer Helek Asriel Shechem Shemida and Hepher Gilead an heap of witness Godolia look Gedaliah Golias was a * 1 Sam. 17. mighty strong Gyant whom the Philistines had brought with them to Battel against the Host of Israel His stature was six cubits and a span His Helmet upon his head was of brass and the Boots on his Legs of the same His coat of Male weighed 5000. shekels of brass The shaft of his Spear which he bare in his hand was like a Weavers beam And the head upon the same weighed 600. shekels of Iron This man being thus armed came out from the Philistines one bearing his shield before him and standing between the two Hosts in a Valley he cryed to the Host of Israel saying Why are ye come to set your Battel in aray am not I a Philistine and you the servants of Saul choose you out a Man and let him come down to me And if he be able to fight with me and to kill me then will we be your servants and if I can overcome him and kill him then shall ye be our servants and serve us Thus came he day by day defying the whole Host of Israel for the space of forty days wherewith the Israelites were sore afraid and discomfited and durst not abide his sight But God who by his secret providence had appointed out a Man to match him caused Jesse to send his young son David to the Host of Israel to see his Brethren how they did And as he stood with them and heard the despitefull words of Golias which he spake against the holy Host of Israel The spirit of God even at that instant put such a courage into the heart of David that he slipt away from his Brethren unto the People whom he saw in great fear and said What shall be done to the Man that killeth this Philistine and taketh away the shame from Israel and what is this uncircumcised Heathen that he should thus revile the Host of the living God David uttering this bold manner of speech once or twice he was at the last brought before King Saul to whom he said on this wise Oh King let no Man's heart fail him or be afraid this day for I thy Servant will go and fight with yonder Philistine Thou art not able to stand in his hands quoth the King for he is a Man brought up all the days of his life in feats of War and thou art yet but a Child without experience or knowledge thereof Then David to strengthen the weak faith of the King said thus unto him As thy Servant was keeping his Father's Sheep there came a Lion and a Bear likewise and took a sheep out of the Flock Then I not fearing the force of these two cruel Beasts ran out first after the Lion and took the prey out of his mouth and in spite of his Beard I slew him Likewise I served the Bear Wherefore I have no doubt but as the Lord did aid me then so will he now against this bragging Philistine that hath so railed on the Host of the living God Then Saul perceiving the power of God to be with David put his Armour upon him But David not being wont to such put it off again and took him to his old accustomed Weapon which was his Sling And so having that in his hand and his Shepherds Bag about his Neck with a few little Stones provided therein he gat him down to the place where the Philistine stood waiting for a Man to encounter with him And as he saw David draw near and beholding the manner of his Weapon that he bare in his hand he disdained him greatly And cursing David by all his gods he said in a great fury Am I a Dog that thou comest to me with staves come hither my Child and I will give thy flesh to the Fowls of the Air and Beasts of the Field Nay quoth David thou comest to me with Sword Spear and Shield but I am come unto thee in the Name of the Lord of Hosts the God of the Host of Israel whom thou dost despise and blaspheme He shall this day deliver thee into my hands and I shall smite thee and take thy Head from thee and give the Carkasses of all your Host to the Fowls of the Air and Beasts of the Field to devour and eat that thou and all the World may know that there is a God in Israel The Philistine now was in such a chafe that he began to buckle him to his Weapon thinking to have dispatched David with no great ado But David having his Sling prepared ready in his hand slang out the stone at his Face the Lord directing the same and smote the Philistine so even and deep in his Forehead that he fell down groveling unto the Earth and then ran David and smote off his Head Thus was this monstrous Gyant confounded and all the Host of the Philistines put to flight and slain Golia a Departing or going away or a heaping together a turning or opening and detecting Gomer Hos 1.3 The Lord appearing to Hosea the Prophet said Go thy way and take an Harlot to thy Wife and get Children by her for the Land hath committed great whoredome against the Lord. So he went and took * Not that the Prophet did this thing in effect but he saw this in a Vision or else was commanded by God to set forth under this Parable or figure the Idolatry of the synagogue and of the people her children Gomer the Daughter of Deblaim who bare unto him two Sons and one Daughter The first Son was called Jesreel the Daughter Lo-ruhamah and the second son Lo-ammi Gomer a Consumer Gorgias a Man of great ‖ 1 Mac. 3. chap. 4. experience in War was Governour of Idumea and one among other Noble Captains whom Lysias the Overseer of all the Kings business sent against the Jews to destroy them And thinking by his policy to have stollen upon Judas Machabeus by night and so to have overcome him he was prevented so that he durst not meet Judas in the Field ‖ 2 Mac. 8. but fled into the Land of the Heathen And when Josephus and Azarias took upon them in the absence of Judas contrary to his commandment to go out against the Heathen to get them a name Gorgias issued * 1 Mac. 5. out of the City of Jamnia and slew two thousand of their men and chased Josephus and Azarias to the borders of Jewrie Finally after many conflicts with the Jewes
which unlawful marriage John Baptist spake so much to Herod's reproof that she fearing lest John would make Herod break off the incestuous marriage counselled her Daughter which danced before him to ask the Head of John Baptist And so by the wicked device of this unchast Woman John lost his Head Herodias signifieth that that the word Herod before doth Hesron Gen. 46.9 Num. 26.6 was the Son of Reuben and of him came the Kindred of the Hesronites Hesron the Arrow of rejoycing Hesron 1 Chron. 2.9 the Father of Caleb being come to the age of threescore years took to Wife the Daughter of Machir who bare unto him a Son called Segub Hezekiah 2 King 18. and 19. cap. the Son of Ahaz was xxv years of age when he began his reign over Juda. He was the godliest Prince that ever reigned before or after among the Kings of Juda. He cleansed his Country from all Idolatry and brake down the brasen Serpent which Moses had set up as soon as he saw it abused He brought in again the true honouring of God and renewed the Passeover He had such a sure trust and confidence in God that at his Prayer the Angel of the Lord slew in one Night of the Assyrians which were come to destroy Jerusalem an hundred fourscore and five thousand and smote the rest into such a fear 20. cap. that they ran away After this he fell sick and was admonished by the Prophet Esay to set his house in order for he should surely dye Then he turned his face to the wall and made his petition to God saying Oh Lord remember I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart have done that which is good in thy sight and speaking these words he * He wept not so much for his own death as for fear that Idolatry should be restored which he had destroyed wept very sore The Lord then moved with his tears returned the Prophet again to comfort him with these news that he should receive his health and be able the third day to go up to the House of the Lord and that he had added to his days xv years more and to assure him of this his promise he would cause the Sun to return his course ten degrees backward At this time Berodach sirnamed Baladad King of Babylon sent to Hezekiah Ambassadours to signifie unto him how glad and joyful he was of his recovery which kindness was so greatly esteemed of Hezekiah that he thought he could not do them too much pleasure but made them privy to all his treasure silver and gold and whatsoever he had in his House or in any other part of his Realm he * Because he was moved with ambition and vain glory and seemed also to rejoyce in the friendship of him that was God's enemy the Lord was displeased shewed it freely unto them Wherefore the Lord not content there with commanded Esay the Prophet to go and tell Hezekiah That forasmuch as he had made the messengers of Babylon privy to all the commodities of his Land The days should come that all things which he had in his House and whatsoever his Fathers had layed up in store before him should be carried to Babylon Then Hezekiah knowing the Prophet to be the true messenger of God humbled himself and said Thy word O Lord is welcome unto me but yet I shall desire thee not to send those evils in my days but rather peace and truth He raigned xxix years and died Hezekiah the strength of the Lord or the Lords holding Hymeneus 1 Tim. 1.20 after he had tasted of the word of God and been a Professor of the same he fell away and became an utter enemy and a spiteful railer against the Doctrine of the Gospel of Christ denying the chiefest point and foundation of the Gospel which is 2 Tim. 2.17 that the Resurrection is past wherewith he destroyed the Faith of many Persons For the which errour and other his railing and jestings against the truth of GOD's Word Paul excommunicated him that he thorow correction might be ashamed of his fault and turn again to Christ Hymeneus a Marriage-song or Bride-song Hiram 2 Sam. 5.11 King of Tyre favoured David so much that he hearing that David went about to build him an House sent him both Timber and Workmen to finish the same Also when Solomon after the death of David his Father sent to this King for Wood and Timber to build the Lord's Temple 1 King 5 cap. cap. 9.11 c. he praised God that had sent David so wise a Son to sit in his Seat and granted him Timber of Cedar Firr and other precious Wood so much as he would desire Wherefore Solemon to gratifie Hiram again sent him twenty thousand Quarters of Wheat and twenty Butts of Oyl and gave him also twenty goodly Cities which Cities Hiram called the Land of Cabul forasmuch as when he saw them they pleased him not After this Hiram gave to Solomon six-score Talents of Gold and sent him Ships and Men who had knowledge of the Sea to go with his Navy into the Countrey of Ophir which Ships brought unto Solomon * In the 2 Chron. 8.18 is mention made of 30. Talents more which seem to have been employed for their charges four hundred and twenty Talents of Gold Hiram The height of Life Hiram 1 King 7.13 This Man was a certain Widow's Son dwelling in the Countrey of Tyre and of the Tribe of Nepthali and did so excel in all manner of Workmanship that Hiram King of Tyre sent him to Solomon to work and finish all things that pertained to the Temple of the Lord which Solomon went about to edifie Hobab Num. 10 10. was the Son of Raguel whose * Some think that Raguel Jethro Hobab and Keni were all one Kimehi saith that Raguel was Jethro 's Father So Hobab was Moses Father in-law Company Moses his Father-in-law would so fain have had into the Land of Canaan that he intreated him on this wise saying We are now going to the place which the Lord said that he would give us therefore I pray thee go with us and we will do thee good for the Lord hath promised good unto Israel Then Hobab made answer saying I will not go but I will depart to mine own Countrey and Kindred Nay quoth Moses I pray thee forsake us not but go with us and be our guide for thou knowest our camping places in the Wilderness and whatsoever goodness the Lord shall shew unto us the same will we shew unto thee But all this could not move Hobab but that he would depart And so returned home into his own Countrey again Hobab Beloved Holofernes Jaâ—… 2. cap. was the Chief and most terrible Captain of all Nabuchodonosor's Host sent of him to subdue all the World Jaâ—â— 14 cap. And coming to the City of Bethulia where all
thine own Person For so shall we come upon him in one place or other where we shall find him and fall upon him as thick as the dew falleth upon the ground and of all the Men that are with him we shall not leave him one Moreover if he be gotten into a Town then shall all the Men of Israel bring Ropes to that Town or City and we will draw it into the River until there be not one stone sound there This Counsel of Hushai pleased Absalom and the People better than Achitophel's which was even the Lord's determination to destroy the good counsel of Achitophel that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom And so when Hushai had done according to David's request he caused Sadoc and Abiathar the Priests to send David word of all that was done whereby he escaped Hushai Sense or making hast or holding his peace I. JABES 1 Chron 4.9 was so named * This was Othonicl Caleb's Brother as Lyra reporteth of his Mother because she bare him in sorrow He being more honorable than the rest of his Brethren made a conditional Vow unto God saying ‖ Jacob made the like vow Read his story If thou wilt bless me indeed and inlarge my Coasts and if thine hand be with me and thou wilt cause me to be delivered from evil that I be not hurt Thus far goeth his request which was granted Jabes Sorrow Iabyn was the King of Canaan Judg. 4.2 whose Captain of War was Sisera Twenty Years he troubled Israel very sore But at the last he was overcome of the Israelites and brought to nought There was another King called Jabyn also whom Joshua slew and destroyed his City called * Which City being burnt of Joshua was afterward built again of the Canaanites Hazor as ye shall read in Joshua Chap. 11. Jabyn Understanding Iacob was the youngest Son of Isaac Gen. 25.26.27 cap. and Brother to Esau whose Birth right he bought for a Mess of Pottage and afterward by the counsel of Rebekah his Mother got away his blessing And then to avoid his Brothers displeasure Gen. 28. cap. he was sent into Mesopotamia to Laban his Mother Brother to get him a Wife And chancing to come to a place where he was benighted he took a stone and laid it under his Head and fell asleep And in his Dream he saw a * Christ is the Ladder whereby God and man are joyned together and by whom the Angels minister unto us all graces by him are given unto us and we by him ascend into Heaven Ladder stand upon the Earth reaching up to Heaven and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon it and God himself standing upon the Ladder said I am the Lord God of Abraham thy Father and the God of Isaac the Land which thou sleepest upon will I give to thee and thy seed and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth thou shalt spread abroad to the West to the East to the North and to the South And thorow thee and in thy seed shall all the Kinreds of the earth be blessed Behold I am with thee and will be thy keeper in all places where thou goest and will bring thee again into this Land neither will I leave thee until I have made good all that I have promised Then Jacob awaking out of sleep said Surely the Lord is in this place and I was not aware Oh how fearful is this place it is none other but the house of God and the gate of heaven Then Jacob gat him up early in the Morning and took the stone which he slept upon and set it up as a Pillar to be a remembrance of that Vision and poured oyl upon it and called the place Bethel which before was called Luz And before his departing he vowed saying If God will be with me and keep me in this Journey which I go and will give me Bread to eat and Cloaths to cover me so that I come again to my Fathers house in safety then shall the Lord be my God and this stone which I have set up for a Pillar shall be God's house and of all that thou givest me 29. cap. will I give the tenth unto thee And so Jacob going on his Journey came into the East Countrey where in beholding the Land he saw certain Herdmen lying with their Flocks of Sheep beside a Well at the which they commonly used to water their Sheep to whom he went demanded whence they were They said of Haran Do ye not know quoth he one Laban the Son of Nahor Yea said they we know him well He is in health And behold yonder cometh his Daughter Rachel to water her Father's sheep who was no sooner come but Jacob went to the Well and rolled away the stone from the Wells mouth and watered all her sheep Which done he kissed the Damosel and wept for joy And when the Maid had knowledge what he was she ran to her Father and told him who being joyful thereof went to the Man and brought him into his house Now when Jacob had opened the cause of his coming to Laban it was agreed that Jacob should serve Laban seven years for Rachel his Daughter But when the day of Marriage came Leah the elder was * The cause why Jacob was deceived was that in old time the Wife was covered with a Vail when she was brought to her Husband in sign of chastity and shamefastness Gen. 30 25 c. put in her stead for so much as it was not the custome that the younger should be first married as Laban alledged Then Jacob tarried seven days and took Rachel upon condition that he would serve other seven years for her which being fulfilled he desired Laban that he might depart with his Wives and Children into his own Country again Nay tarry said Laban for I perceive that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake appoint thy wages and I will give it thee Thou knowest quoth Jacob what service I have done thee and in what taking thy Cattel hath been under me for the little that thou hadst before my coming is now increased to a Multitude But when shall I make provision for mine own House also Well what shall I give thee said Laban Then Jacob having knowledge aforehand by the Angel of the Lord what his wages should be said Thou shalt give me nothing at all if thou wilt do this thing for me I will go again and feed thy sheep and keep them and will separate all the sheep of thy Flock one from another and so many as be black speckled or of party colour let that be my wages and whatsoever I take of the rest unspotted let that be counted theft with me Content quoth Laban Then went Jacob and took out all the Males and Females of the Sheep and Goats that were black spotted or of party colour and put them in the keeping of his Sons which lay
Israel that he stirred up a Man one Jephtah who by the power of God saved them Jair Lightened Iames the Son of Zebedee and Brother to John Matth. 4.21 Mark 3.17 He was put to death by Agrippa who was also called Herod Act. 12.2 Cooper was a poor Fisherman and being in the Ship with his Father mending of his Net Jesus came by and called him who immediately left his Ship his Father and all and went after Jesus and was one of his Apostles and received with his Brother the Name of Boanerges which is to say The Sons of Thunder James a Tripper or Deceiver An heel the sole of the foot a foot-step Iames the less Matth. 16.3 He suffered martyrdom in the vi year of Nero. was the Son of Alpheus and Mary Sister to Mary the Lord's Mother And being Bishop of Jerusalem he wrote to the Jews that were scattered abroad after the Persecution and death of Stephen Instructing them with sundry Precepts how to order their Lives Iannes 2 Tim. 3.8 Exod. 7.11 and Jambres were two false Soreerers of Egypt who in the time of Moses with their enchantments went about to put those miraculous wonders out of credence that Moses by the power of God did And even as they withstood Moses so do the Adversaries of the Gospel at this day and ever will resist the truth under a certain false pretence of godliness Iapheth Gen. 9. The Nations that came of his children Of Gomer came the Italians Of Magog the Scythians and of them the Turks Of Madai the Medes Of Javan the Greeks Of Tubal the Spaniards Of Mosoch the Moscovites and of Tiras the Thracians Lanquet was the youngest of Noah's three-Sons who being informed of his Fathers unseemly lying asleep in his Tent took a Garment and bare it between him and Shem on their shoulders and coming toward their Father ashamed to look on his nakedness turned their Faces backward and so covered their Father's privities For the which deed Noah having knowledge thereof blessed them saying to Japheth on this wise God shall enlarge Japheth and he shall dwell in the Tents of Shem and Canaan shall be their servant Japheth perswading or enticing Iairus was * Mark 5.22 one of the Rulers of the Synagogue among the Jews whose Daughter of the Age of twelve years lay sick and at the point of death And hearing of the fame of Jesus he went and fell down at his feet beseeching him that he would come home to his house lay his hand upon his Daughter that by the touching thereof she might be safe and live â— Luk 8 41. And while there was an occasion given whereby to strengthen the unperfect faith of the Ruler and that by the ensample of a Woman diseased with an issue of blood xii years there came certain Messengers from the Ruler's-House which said unto Him that his Daughter was dead wherefore it should not need to trouble the Master any further Then Jesus perceiving the Ruler to be as a Man in despair said unto him Be not afraid for although thy Daughter be dead indeed only believe and thy Daughter shall live And so Jesus went home to the Ruler's house and raised up his Daughter from death to life Jairus Lightning or being lightned Iared Gen. 5.15 c. was the Son of Mahalaleel who lived an hundred sixty and two years and then begat Henoch and lived after that eight hundred years and begat Sons and Daughters And when he had lived in all nine hundred sixty and two years he dyed Jared Commanding or descending Iason was a wicked Man and so desirous of honour 2 Mac. 4 cap. that he wrought his own Brother Onias out of the High Priest's office promising Antiochus the King to give him for the same three hundred and three-score Talents of Silver and of another rent four-score And also if the King would license him to set up a place for exercise and a place for the youth and to name them of Jerusalem Antiochians he promised an hundred and fifty Talents And when these things were granted to Jason and that he had got the superiority he began immediately to draw his Kinsmen to the customes of the Heathen abolishing the Laws and Priviledges of the Jews he brought in new statutes contrary to the Law of God So that thorow the exceeding wickedness of this ungodly man Jason the People had a great desire to follow the manners of the Gentiles The Priests also had no delight in serving the Lord but in casting the stone and such wanton sports Now after three years when Jason should pay the King his money which he had promised for his Brother's office he sent it by one whom he most trusted called Menelaus who gat the office from Jason as appeareth more plainly in his story Then Jason being thus deceived by Menelaus was fain to flie into the Land of the Ammonites remaining there till he might spy a time to be revenged And when he heard the rumour that went abroad of Antiochus death he gat him a Band of Men to the number of a Thousand or more and came suddenly upon the City killing and slaying his own Citizens without mercy regarding neither Kin nor Friend But nevertheless when he could not speed of his purpose he fled into the Land of the Ammonites again Where in the end it came to this point that he was accused to Areta King of the Arabians and so abhorred of all Men that he was pursued from City to City and driven into Egypt And going from thence to the Lacedemonians thinking by reason of Kinred to have had some succour of them he was not regarded but suffered to perish in a strange Land no Man mourning for him nor putting him into his Grave Jason He that maketh whole a Physician Jecksan look Jocsan Iehoahaz 2 King 23.31 c. the Son of Josias was xxiii years old when he began to reign over Juda and had not reigned three Moneths before Pharaoh Necho King of Egypt came and put him down and set up his Brother in his stead And put the Land to a tribute of an hundred Talents of Silver and one of Gold and carried Jehoahaz away into Egypt where he dyed Jehoahaz The possession of the Lord. Iehojakim 2 King 23.36.24.1 c. the Son of Josias was xxv years of age when he began to reign over Juda and did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. His name was changed from Eliakim to Jehojakim by Pharaoh Necho King of Egypt which came and deposed his Brother Jehoahaz and made him King in his stead and taxed the Land This King dyed in the way as they led him Prisoner into Babylon Read Jeremy 22.18 as before is said in Jehoahaz For the payment of which money Jehojakim taxed the Land and levied of every Man according to his ability and paid the money to Pharaoh After this came Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon and
Gilead considering Jephtah to be a strong and a valiant Man went to Tob where he lay to intreat him to be their Captain against the Ammonites How cometh this quoth Jephtah that ye come to me in the time of your trouble did ye not hate me and * Oftentimes those things which men reject God chooseth to do greater enterpriâ—es by expel me out of my Father's house Therefore said they are we turned to thee that thou mayest go with us and be our head and Ruler But will ye promise now quoth Jephtah that when the Lord shall deliver the Ammonites into my hand ye will make me then your Head and Governour They said yea And so he went with the Elders who brought him to Mizpah and being there made and confirmed their Head and Ruler he sent his Messengers to the King of Ammon demanding what cause he had to strive with Israel who answered and said Because they took away my Country when they came from Egypt which if they will now restore again I will cease from War Then Jephtah sent him word again that Israel took not his Land from him but coming from Egypt and passing through the Wilderness even to the red Sea they remained at Cadesh and sent to Sehon King of the Amorites to suffer them quietly to pass thorow his Country And because he would not shew them this kindness the Lord delivered both him and his Land into their hands and shall they dispossess themselves of that which the Lord hath given them Nay not so Look what People Chemosh thy God driveth out that Land possess thou whatsoever Nation the Lord our God expelleth that will we enjoy Art thou better than Balac King of Moab did he not strive with Israel and fight against them all the while they lay in Heshbon and thereabout 300. years and why didst thou not recover thy Land in all that space Thou dost me wrong to War against me for I have not offended thee and therefore the Lord be Judge between thee and me But when Jephtah perceived the Ammonites not to regard his words he prepared his Army to set upon them And before his going made this Vow unto the Lord That if he did deliver the Ammonites into his hand the first thing that met Him out of his Doors at his return home again should be the Lords and he would offer it up unto him for a burnt-offering And when he had subdued the Ammonites and was coming homeward to his house the first thing that met him out at his Doors was his own Daughter who for joy of her Father's Victory came to meet him with Timbrels and Dances Then Jephtab seeing his only Child come toward him with a company of Women after her he rent his Cloaths and said Alas my Daughter thou hast brought me low and art one of them that do trouble me for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord and cannot go back To whom she said Oh my Father if thou hast promised to the Lord then forasmuch as the Lord hath avenged thee and given thee victory over thine enemies do with me according to thy promise But yet this one thing I shall desire of thee to spare me for two Moneths that I may go down to the Mountains and there with my fellows * For it was counted as a shame in Israel to dye without children bewail my Virginity Which done she returned to her Father who did with her according as he had vowed unto the Lord. After this the Ephraimites fell at defiance with Jephtah because he had not called them to take his part against the Ammonites and for this matter was a Field pitched between them and the Gileadites and a great Battail fought in the which the Ephraimites were put to flight and seeking to have escaped over Jordan the Gileadites had prevented them and stopped the passage that no Ephraimite should escape that way And to know who was an Ephraimite and who was not the Gileadites used this policy if any pressed to go over the Water they would bid him say * Schibboleth signifieth the fall of waters or an car of corn Schibboleth and as many as could not say Schibboleth they slew him for by that they knew he was an Ephraimite for the Ephraimites could not sound nor say Schibboleth but Sibboleth And so were slain of the Ephraimites that Day two and twenty thousand Jephtah ruled Israel vi years and dyed Jephtah Opening Ieremy Jer. 1.1 was the Son of Hilkiah whom some think to be he that found out the Book of the Law and gave it to Josiah He was born in a City called Anathoth in the Country of Benjamin Epiphanius writeth that this Prophet Jeremy was slain of his People at a City in Egypt called Taphâ—â— and by the commandment of God began very young to prophesie that is in the xiii year of Josias and continued xviii years under the said King and three moneths under Jehoahaz and under Jehojakim xi years and three moneths under Jehojachin and under Zedekiah xi years unto the time they were carried away into Babylon So that the time amounteth to above forty years beside the time that he prophesied after the Captivity This story is drawn out of the Geneva Bible in the Argument before the Book of Jeremy the Prophet Jeremy the Majesty or highness of the Lord. Jerubbaal Judg. 6.32 is a Name which was given to Gedeon the Son of Joash after he had broken down the Altar of Baal and cut down all the Grove about it Jerubbaal That which resisteth an Idol a destroyer of Idols Read Gedeon Ieroboam was the Son of * Some say that Nebat and Shimei whom Solomon put to death were one person of whose death Zervah the Mother of Jeroboam put him oft in remembrance Nebat 1 King 11.26 c. and of the Tribe of Ephraim who being nourished and brought up of Zervah his Mother in her Widowhood after the death of his Father became King Solomon's Servant and was made Overseer of Solomon's Works for the Tribe of Ephraim and Manasses And on a time as he walked abroad in the Field alone the Prophet Ahijah came to him and said that after the death of Solomon he should Reign and be King over Ten Tribes of Israel which words of the Prophet did so animate Jeroboam that he began to murmur against King Solomon his Master who therefore sought to kill him but Jeroboam fled into Egypt where he remained with Shishak King of that Country until the death of Solomon Then being sent for he returned home again 12. cap. and had so much favour of the People that they all forsook Rehoboam save the Tribe of Juda and Benjamin and made Jeroboam their King Who being surely stablished in his Kingdom began to think thus in his heart If this People go up and do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem as they were wont to do then shall their
7.24 c. For John prophesied Christ to be come pointing him with his finger unto the People saying Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sins of the World whereas all the other Prophets did but prophesie of his coming long before he came Matth. 14.3 Finally John using his liberty in rebuking Vice without any accepting of Persons reproved King Herod for keeping his Brother Philip's Wife for the which he was cast into Prison and soon after lost his Head Read the story of Herod the Tetrarch and of Herodias John the Evangelist Matth. 4.21 was the Son of Zebedee and Brother to James and called from his Fisher-boat to be an Apostle of Christ John 13.23.19.26.21.20 and was of all other most entirely beloved of Jesus who commended his Mother unto him at the hour of his death He wrote his Gospel against Cerinthus and other Hereticks and chiefly against the Ebionites which did affirm that Christ was not before Mary whereby he was constrained to set forth the Divine Birth of Christ In the time of the Emperor Domitian he was exiled into an Isle called Patmos where he wrote the Revelation and after the death of Domitian in the time of Pertinax he returned to Ephesus remaining there till the time of Trajanus and did raise up and set in order many Churches in Asia and did three-score years after the death of Christ and was buried at Ephesus John Mark Act. 12. ult When Paul and Barnabas had been at Jerusalem to distribute the Alms sent by the Antiochians in their return they brought this Man John sirnamed Mark with them to Antioch And when the Holy Ghost had separated Paul and Barnabas from the other Disciples to the intent that they should go and spread abroad the Gospel among the Gentiles and those that were far off they took this John Mark with them to be their Minister and Companion who bare them company from Antioch until they came to Pamphilia Act. 13.5 c. and farther would he not go but left them there and returned to Jerusalem again notwithstanding the Apostes went forth and fulfilled their office And when it came in their minds to go and visit these places again wherein they had sowed the Word of God Barnabas gave counsel to take John with them which had been their Minister before to whose mind Paul would not consent forasmuch as John of his own accord had forsaken them at Pamphilia before they had finished their work And so reasoning and disputing about this matter the contention was so sharp between these two Holy-men that the one forsook the others company And so Barnabas taking John Mark with him sailed into Cyprus Jonadab was the Son of Shimeah David's Brother 2 Sam. 13.3 and a very subtil Man He loved Amnon his Unkle David's Son above the rest of all his Brethren Of the counsel he gave to Amnon concerning his Sister Thamar Read the story of Amnon Jonadab Voluntary or Willing Jonas the Son of Amittai was an holy Prophet Jonas 1. cap. 2 King 14.25 commanded of God to go to Niniveh that great City to tell the People of their wickedness who * The Mother of this Prophet was the poor Widow of Sarepta whose Meal and Oil Elias encreased and restored her Son from death to life again notwithstanding perswaded himself by his own reason that he should nothing profit there seeing he had so long Prophesied among his own Country-men the Jews and done no good at all Wherefore he minding to flye to Tarsus got him to Joppa where he found a Ship ready payed his fare and went with them And being on the Sea a tempest rose so vehemently that the Mariners were sore afraid crying every Man unto his God and to lighten the Ship they cast all the Wares into the Sea which nothing availed Then went the Master of the Ship down under the hatches and finding Jonas fast asleep awoke him saying O thou sleeper what meanest thou arise and call upon thy God that we perish not And when no remedy could be had they agreed to cast Lots that thereby they might know for whose cause they were troubled and so doing the Lot fell on Jonas They seeing that said Tell us for whose cause we are thus troubled And what thine occupation is And what thou art And whence thou comest and whither thou goest And what Country-man thou art of what Nation I am said Jonas an Hebrew born and fear the Lord God of Heaven which made both the Sea and dry Land and am fled from his presence And when they heard that they were more afraid than before and said what shall we do unto thee that the Sea may cease from troubling of us Take me quoth Jonas and cast me into the Sea and ye shall have rest for I wot it is for my sake that this evil is come upon you Nevertheless the Men being loth to commit such a deed assayed with rowing to bring the Ship to Land And when they saw the Sea so troublous against them that it would not be they cryed unto the Lord and said O Lord let us not perish for this Man's death neither lay thou innocent bloud unto our charge For thou O Lord hast done even as thy pleasure was And so they took Jonas and cast him into the Sea which incontinent was calm and still And a certain great Fish prepared of the Lord received Jonas and swallowed him up into his body where he lay in prayer three Days and three Nights And being then cast out again on dry Land The Lord commanded him straight-way to go to Niniveh and do as he had charged him And when he came to the City was entered a days Journey in the same he cryed out saying There are yet forty days and then shall Niniveh be overthrown But when his Prophecie came to none effect by reason of the Peoples great repentance he was sore displeased and in his prayer said O Lord was not this my saying I pray thee when I was yet in my Countrey and the cause of my flying to Tarsus that thou wast a merciful God full of compassion long suffering and of great goodness and wouldest repent thee of the evil And now O Lord forasmuch as I am found false in my sayings take I beseech thee my life from me for I had rather dye than live And so Jonas got him out of the City and made him a Booth on the East side thereof And as he sat under the shadow of his Booth to see what should become of the City the Lord caused a wild Vine to spring over his Head to give him more shadow to defend the heat of the Sun from him whereof Jonas was very glad But on the next morrow when he perceived the Vine withered away and that for lack of the shadow thereof he waxed faint thorow the fervent heat of the Sun which burned him so sore he wished in himself that he
the King of Juda and the King of Edom by whose help and chiefly Eliseus read the place in his story he overcame the Moabites Also the Syrians could lye no where but Joram had knowledge by Eliseus who told him of all their secret lurking places by which means Joram ever saved himself Wherefore the King of Syria sent and besieged the Town round about where the Prophet Eliseus lay And as his Servant was going forth in the Morning about his Master's business and saw the Town so compassed with enemies he ran ‖ in again crying Alas Master what shall we do for the Syrians are come upon us Fear not quoth Eliseus for they that be with us are more than they that be with them And by and by the eyes of his Servant were so opened that he saw the Mountains lye full of Horses and fiery Chariots to defend his Master And now when the Syrians were come to Eliseus and thought themselves surest of him they were at his prayer smitten with such blindness that they could not know the Prophet when he spake unto them saying that that was not the Town where the Man lay which they sought but follow me quoth he and I will bring you to the place where he is and so he led them forth and brought them into the City of Samaria where Joram lay who seeing now his Enemies to be in his power said to Eliseus Father shall I smite them No said he Smite those which thou takest with thine own Sword and Bow but rather set Bread and Water before them that they may eat and drink and so depart to their Master Then the King prepared a great refection for the Syrians and filled their Bellies well and sent them home again for the which gentle intreaty of Joram the King of Syria never troubled him more After this when Benhadad King of Syria had besieged Samaria so long till Women were constrained to eat their own Children Joram took such displeasure with Eliseus laying the cause upon him that in his fury he sent to take away his Head Which thing being revealed to the Prophet he said to his Friends that were with him in his House See ye not how this Mutherer's Son hath sent to take away my Head Take heed and be circumspect when the Messenger cometh and keep him at the Door for the sound of his Masters feet is behind him which was even so for the King's mind altered he followed the Messenger and came to the Prophet himself saying This evil is of the Lord and what more shall I look for of him 2 King 7 1 c. No more said the Prophet For to morrow this time shall a Bushel of fine Flowre be sold for a shekel and two Bushels of Barley for another shekel in the Gate of Samaria which came so to pass the next day for the great Host of the Syrians at the sound of the feet of four Lepers were run away and had left all their Tents behind them 9.24 c. Finally to fulfil the word of the Lord concerning the destruction of Ahab's Posterity Joram was slain with an Arrow shot by Jehu and his Body cast into a Plat of Ground that was Naboth the Jesraelite's after he had reigned twelve years Joram 2 King 8.16 2 Chron. 21. the Son of Jehosaphat was two and thirty years old when he began to reign over Juda. He married King Ahab's Daughter whose wicked steps he followed He slew all his own Brethren with divers of his Nobles The Edomites which had been subject from David's time hitherto rebelled now against Joram Also Libna which was a certain City in Juda given to the Levites Josh 21.13 would no more be under his hand because he had forsaken the Lord God of their Fathers Finally The Prophet's Letter the Prophet Eliseus to admonish him of his wickedness wrote to Joram on this wise The Lord saith because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehosaphat thy Father nor in the ways of Asae thy Grandfather but in the ways of the Kings of Israel and hast made Juda to go a whoring after the House of Ahab and hast also slain thy Brethren even thy Fathers house who were better Men than thy self Therefore with a great Plague will the Lord smite thy Folk thy Children thy Wives and all thy Goods And thou shalt be diseased in thy Bowels which day by day shall fall out of thy Body And so the Lord stirred up against Joram the Philistines the Arabians with the Ethiopians which wasted his Countrey and carried away his substance his Wives and all his Sons save Ahaziah the youngest and smote him with an incurable Disease in his Bowels which held him two years till all his Guts fell out and so he died after he had reigned eight years Joram the highness of the Lord. Jehosaphat the Son of Asa 1 King 15.24 began his Reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab King of Israel and walked in the old ways of his Father David and in the Commandments of God and not in the ways of Israel This godly King to have the fear of the Lord renewed among his People in the third year of his Reign sent certain of his Lords thorowout all his Realm and with them godly learned and ancient Fathers of the Levites with the Book of the Law whose Commission was to see all Idolatry and superstition suppressed and the Laws of God purely and sincerely taught and followed which was so diligently done that the fear of the Lord fell so upon all the Kingdoms round about him that no Man troubled him but presented him with gifts The Philistines with Tribute-money the Arabians with Cattel so that within a while he grew into great riches and honor And being thus endued with abundance of treasure and substance he joyned affinity with Ahab taking his part against the Syrians where notwithstanding the Lord preserved him and brought him safe home again But forsomuch as in his absence the People were somewhat swerved from the Lord the Prophet John came to him and said Because thou hast helped the ungodly and loved them whom the Lord doth hate the wrath of God is come upon thee nevertheless good things are found in thee because thou hast taken away the Groves out of the Land and hast prepared thine heart to seek God Then Jehosaphat fearing the Lord went about all his Realm to bring the People again unto the Lord And when he had set godly Judges and Levites in every City the one to judge in temporal causes and the other in matters of the Lord he gave to either of them his charge saying first to the Judges on this wise Take heed ye Judges what ye do for ye execute not the judgment of Man but of God which is with you in judgment wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you and take heed and be doing the thing that pleaseth him for there is no unrighteousness
and so kept them in ward three days And then considering with himself he agreed they should all go home again with food to their Father save one which should remain bound for the rest till they had brought their other Brother And at their going away commanded every Mans sack to be filled with Corn and every Mans money to be put into the Sacks mouth and so departed leaving Simeon behind them in pledge for them all Gen 43. Now being returned again with Benjamin their youngest Brother they were all had into Joseph's house and most gently entertained And when Joseph came in and saw all his Brethren he demanded saying Is your Father the old man of whom ye told me in good health and yet alive Yea quoth they thy servant is in good health and merry And is this your youngest Brother of whom ye told me God be merciful unto thee my Son quoth he and with that his heart began so to melt that he hasted into his Chamber and wept And coming forth again with a chearful countenance he went to Dinner with his Brethren commanding each one to be set down in order according to their ages whereat his Brethren within themselves marvelled And during the time of refection he sent to every one from his own Mess but most of all to Benjamin 44. cap. And when he had thus feasted his Brethren so long as pleased him the Night before their departing he commanded their Sacks to be filled with Corn and every Man's money put into his Sacks mouth as before and his Silver-Cup into Benjamin's sack And in the morning as they were departed a little out of the City a Messenger overtook them saying Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good Is not that the Cup in the which my Lord drinketh and in the which he doth Prophesie Ye have done evil in so doing The Men hearing this were marvellously astonied denying utterly that they ever thought any such deed against their Lord but when their Sacks were searched and the Cup found then they rent their Cloaths and yielded themselves and returned with the Messenger to the Governours house again and coming before him he looked angrily on them saying What an unkind deed is this ye have done Know ye not that such a Man as I can Divine and Prophesie And now when the Men had made the best excuse they could make Gen. 45. Joseph could no longer refrain but with weeping tears said to his Brethren I am Joseph Doth my Father yet live With that they were so astonied with his presence that they could not answer him one word I am Joseph your Brother quoth he whom ye sold into Egypt now therefore be not grieved with your selves that ye sold me hither for God did send me before you for your preservation for this is the second year of Dearth and five more are behind wherefore God sent me before you to make provision for you in this Land and to save your lives by a great deliverance So now it was not you that sent me hither but God who hath made me a Father unto Pharaoh and Lord of all his house and Ruler thorowout all the Land of Egypt Therefore now go and tell my Father and bid him come with all his Houshold to me Gen. 46. and I will make provision for him Thus when Joseph had received his Father into Egypt Gen. 50. and governed the Land fourscore years he dyed at the age of an hundred and ten years and was buried in Egypt whose Bones were afterward translated into the Land of promise as Joseph had bound them to do in his Death-bed Joseph Increasing Joseph the Son of Jacob the Son of Matthan Matth. 1.16 a poor honest Man and a Carpenter by his occupation was espoused to the Virgin Mary the Mother of Christ and dwelt in Nazareth a little City in Galilee and came of the same Tribe and Kinred that Mary came of that is to say of the Tribe of Judah and of the progeny and stock of David of whose Seed it was promised that Christ should be born 13. He had four Sons James Joses Symon and Judas which the Jews of ignorance called the Brethren of Christ Ioseph Matth. 27.57 a Man of honour and of great power and substance born in the City of Arimathea which was a Disciple of Jesus but not openly known because of the Jews which had made a Law that whosoever did openly confess him to be Jesus Disciple the same Person should be cast out of the Synagogue This Joseph came to Pilate and desired licence of him to take down the Body of Jesus from the Cross and to bury it and having obtained his petition he bought a fine piece of Linnen cloth and therein wrapped the Body and laid it in a new Sepulchre hewed out of the Rock and rolled a great stone before the Door of the Sepulchre and so went his way Iosephus 1 Mac. 5. the Son of Zachary and one Azarias were two Captains under Judas Machabeus which two Judas left in Jewry to keep and govern the remnant of the Host left there while he and Jonathas with Simon their Brother went into the parts of Galilee and Gilead to deliver their Brethren which were then besieged of their enemies giving them a great charge not to War with the Heathen but to lye still till he and his Brethren were returned home again But nevertheless when Josephus and Azarias had heard of all the great acts done by Judas and his Brethren they said one to another Let us go out and fight against the Heathen that lye round about us that we may get us a name also And being agreed they went out and pitched their Host before the City of Jamnia who had not lain there long or that Gorgias issued out of the City with his Men and joyn'd Battel with Josephus and slew of the Jews two thousand and chased Josephus and all the rest of his Company to the Borders of Jewry And thus Josephus and Asarias neglecting the commandment of Judas their Lord and Governour purchased in the stead of honour and fame great dishonour and shame Ioses a certain Levite born in the Countrey of Cyprus sold his Land there Act. 4.36 and brought the whole price thereof and laid it down at the Apostles feet of whom he was sirnamed Barnabas Joses going out or thrust out Iosias the Son of Amon being at the Age of eight years when he began his reign over Juda 2 King 22. cap. 2 Chron. 34. was a vertuous and just Prince for he sought the Lord God of his Father David even from his Childhood to the end of his life He caused the Book of the Law of Moses which had been long lost and found again by Hilkiah the Priest to be had in great reverence and diligently read unto the People He cleansed his Land from all witchcrafts and sorcery and from Idols Images and Groves He brake
down the Hill altars and burnt the Bones of the Priests of Baal and left no wicked thing undestroyed nor Monument standing in the Cities of Manasses and Ephraim or other places of his Realm where any abomination had been committed He kept a Passeover in the eighteenth year of his raign the like never seen and repaired the Temple Finally he made War upon the King of Egypt in the which he was wounded with a Dart at a place called Magiddo whereof he dyed Whose death was much lamented for like unto him was never none before nor after Jehoahaz his Son succeeded him Josias the Lord's Fire or the Lord burning Iotham 2 King 15.32 2 Chron. 27. the Son of Azariah or Uzziah at the age of xxv years began his Reign over Juda in the second year of Pekah King of Israel and did that which was right in the sight of the Lord in all points as did his Father Azariah save that * He went not into the Temple of the Lord to burn Incense as his Father did contrary to the word of God which is spoken to the commendation of Jothan he came not into the Temple of the Lord neither caused the Hill-Altars to be taken away by which occasion the People ceased not to do wickedly He builded the sumptuous Gate of the Temple and many Cities Castles and Towers in the Mountains of Juda and other places He subdued the Ammonites who payed him three years together an hundred talents of silver ten thousand quarters of Wheat and so much of Barley He reigned xvi years and was buried in the City of David leaving Ahaz his Son to enjoy his place Jotham Perfect Ioshua Num. 27.18 c. the Son of Nun was first called Osea which name Moses changed and called him Joshua who was Moses Minister and ordained of God to rule and govern the People after him Exod. 17.9 c. He discomfited King Amalek while Moses held up his hands and prayed He was one of those Searchers which were sent by Moses to search the Land of Canaan Num. 13. cap. 14.6 c. and to bring the People word again what manner of Countrey it was at whose return the People were ready to stone both him and Caleb for well reporting of that Land wherefore the Lord being angry with the People sware that none of them all should see that good Land but Joshua and Caleb After the death of Moses Joshua 1. cap. the Lord encouraged Joshua to invade the Land of promise and gave him commandment to exercise himself continually in reading the Book of the Law called Deuteronomy Which he duly observed and read it to the People that they thereby might the better learn to love and fear God and to obey him the Lord's Minister He destroyed the City of Jericho only reserving Rahab and her Houshold He burnt the City of Lodi and hanged the five Kings of the Ammorites on five Trees at whose discomfiting it rained stones from Heaven by the which more were slain than with the Sword and the Sun also stood still in his place and prolonged the day till Joshua had utterly discomfited his enemies He slew in all first and last xxxi Kings and brought the Children of Israel into the Land of promise and divided the Land to the Tribes of Israel He dyed at the age of an hundred and ten years in whose stead Juda was made Governour of the Lord's Army Joshua the Lord Saviour Isaac was the Son of Abraham by his Wife Sarah and a figure of Christ Gen. 21.2 3.22 cap. for when his Father went to * 26. cap. offer him up in sacrifice and coming to the Altar and place where he should dye he willingly offered himself to death that his Father might in him fulfil the Lord's will But being preserved of God till he came to the age of forty years he then took to Wise ‖ 25.20 Rebekah the Daughter of Bethuel his Fathers Brother who being long barren at the last by the pleasure of God brought forth Esau and Jacob at one birth After this * Some say that Isaac was sacrificed of his Father in the xiii year of his age but Josephus affirmeth it to be done in the xxv year there fell such a Dearth and Famine in his Country that he departed into the Land of the Philistines where Abimelech was King And as he remained in Gerar the Lord appeared to Isaac bidding him to remain still in that place and not to remove into Egypt and he would multiply his Seed as the Stars of Heaven and bring it so to pass that all Nations of the Earth should be blessed therein And so Isaac removed not But for so much as he doubted of the fear of God to be in that place he durst not avouch Rebekah to be his Wife but said she was his Sister Read the story of Abimelech King of the Philistines for the plainer declaration of this matter And now while Isaac remained in the Country of Gerar God so encreased him with abundance of Cattel and Riches that the Philistines began to envy and hate him and stopped all the Wells which his Father Abraham had made that he should have no commodity thereby But notwithstanding he digged up the Wells again and called them by the same names that his Father had given them before and became so mighty that Abimelech made a League with Isaac who feasted the King and departed friends 27.1 c. Finally with Age he became blind and so was deceived in giving his blessing to Jacob which he thought to have first bestowed on Esau but both by the will of God being blessed of their Father Isaac he fell sick and dyed at the age of an hundred and lxxx years and was buried in Hebron Isaac Laughter Ishbosheth 2 Sam. 2.10.4 cap. the Son of King Saul at the Age of forty Years began his Reign over Israel Whose only stay and upholder of his Kingdom was Abner after whose death two of his own Captains slew Ishbosheth by treason in his own house after he had reigned two years Read the story of Baanah Ishbosheth a Man of shame Ishmael Gen. 16.12 was the Son of Abraham and Agar and had his name given him of the Angel before he was born Of Ishmael came the Nation of the Ishmaclites which after were called Saracens For when his Mother Agar fled from Sarah her Mistress an Angel found her saying Return to thy Mistress again for thou art with Child and shalt bear a Son and because the Lord hath heard thy tribulation thou shalt call his name Ishmael He will be a wild Man and his hand will be against every Man and every Man's hand against his And so she returned and brought forth Ishmael at whose birth Abraham his Father was lxxxvi 17.23 years old And at the Age of xiii years was Ishmael circumcised and the year following both he and his Mother cast out of his
c. Then said Mary Behold the Handmaid of the Lord be it unto me according to thy Word Upon this she prepared her self with speed to go and visit her Cousin Elizabeth with whom she remained three Months and returned home again And shortly after went with Joseph her Husband from the City of Nazareth to the Land of Jewry to a City called Bethlehem there to be taxed according to the Emperour Augustus commandment because they were of the House and Lineage of David In the Book called Fasciculus temporum it is said that this Virgin was the Daughter of Joachim and Anna and was about the age of xvi years when she brought forth Christ. And being forced to lye in the stable for lack of room in the Inne her hour came to be delivered and there she brought forth Christ Jesus the Saviour of the World And when she was purified and had been at Jerusalem with her Child and performed all things there according to the Law she returned with Joseph her Husband home to the City of Nazareth again And being accustomed yearly she and her Husband to go up at the Feast of Easter to Jerusalem she chanced one time to leave her Son behind her and when she had turned back and sought him out and found him she said Son why hast thou thus dealt with us thy Father and I have sought thee with heavy hearts Another time as she was with her Son at a Marriage in Cana a Town in Galilee when the Wine failed at the Feast she told her Son that they lacked Wine and receiving his answer meekly bad the Ministers to do whatsoever he commanded them Finally as she stood by the Cross whereon her Son shed his bloud as well for her as all other Christians sorrow pierced her heart like a Sword according to Simeon's prophecie Mary the Wife of Cleophas was her sister Mary Mar. 15.40.16.1 Salome was a certain godly Woman who among other ministred of her substance to Jesus and followed him from Galilee and after he was crucified bought sweet odors to anoint his Body and was a Witness of his Resurrection Mary the Mother of John Mark Act. 12.12 into whose House Peter came after the Angel of God had delivered him out of Prison from the hands of Herod where many were gathered together in prayer Mary * Magdalen signifieth magnified or exalted Magdalene dwelt in Bethany John 12.12 Luk. 7.37 c. and was a sinful Woman And in token of her great repentance she went to Jesus as he sat at Meat in one of the Pharisees houses with a Box of Ointment in her hand falling down at his Feet weeping and washing them with the tears distilling down from her eyes and wiped them with the hairs of her head and also kissed them and anointed them with sweet Ointment Then Jesus seeing the great faith of the Woman said unto her Mary thy Faith hath saved thee go in peace Then Mary feeling her self much bound to Christ which had forgiven her so many sins fell in so great love Luk. 10. that all her whole meditation and study was upon him Insomuch that when Martha her Sister was cumbred about much serving of Christ at the Table Mary choosing the better part sat at Jesus feet to hear his Preaching And when he suffered his Passion John 19.25 she stood by the Cross with Mary his Mother to see the end And the morrow after the Sabbath-day when she came to the Sepulchre 20.1 2 c. and saw the stone taken away from the Tomb she ran to Peter and John and told them who ran to the Grave and tryed the matter and returned back again leaving Mary standing at the Grave weeping And as she bowed her self into the Grave she saw two Angels sitting in white clothing who said unto her Woman why weepest thou They have taken away my Lord quoth she and I know not where they have laid him And turning her self about she saw Jesus standing but knew him not to whom he said Woman why weepest thou whom dost thou seek She supposing it had been the Gardiner said Sir if thou hast born him hence tell me where thou hast laid him and I will fetch him Then said Jesus Mary with that she turned her self and said Rabboni which is to say Master and fell down to the ground to have kissed his Feet But to withdraw her from that Jesus said Touch me not but go and tell my brethren that I ascend to my Father and your Father to my God and your God Then went Mary to the Disciples and told them that she had seen the Lord and what things he had said unto her Read the story of Martha her Sister and of Lazarus her Brother Mark the Evangelist is thought to have been Peter's Disciple and to write his Gospel according as he heard Peter preach and shew every thing by mouth and to have planted the first Church in Alexandria where he died in the eighth year of the reign of Nero in whose place succeeded Anianus Of this Mark speaketh Peter in his first Epistle the fifth Chapter saying The Congregation of them which at Babylon are companions of your Election saluteth you and so doth Mark my Son Mark Filed or rubbed Mark Act. 12.12 otherwise called John the Son of Mary was Minister to Paul and Barnabas what time as they were sent by the Holy Ghost from Antioch to preach the Gospel unto the Heathen 14.21 which Mark at Pamphylia departed back from them again For the which cause Paul the next Journey that he and Barnabas made would not suffer Mark to go with them 15.37 c. wherefore Barnabas departed from Paul taking Mark who was his Sisters Son with him into Cyprus Martha Luke 10. and Mary Magdalene were two Sisters dwelling in the City of Bethany which two had a Brother named Lazarus This Martha on a time invited Jesus to dinner And being cumbred about much serving and seeing her Sister Mary sit still at Jesus Feet said unto him Dost thou not care that my sister hath lest me to minister alone Bid her come and help me To whom he answered Martha Martha thou carest and art troubled about many things verily one is needful Mary hath chosen the best part which shall not be taken from her On a time as Jesus was coming to Bethany to heal her Brother Lazarus she met him saying John 11 cap. Lord if thou hadst been here my Brother had not died Nevertheless now I know that whatsoever thou dost ask of God he will give it thee Then said Jesus Thy Brother shall rise again Yea quoth Martha I know that he shall rise again in the Resurrection at the last day I am said Jesus the Resurrection and the Life he that believeth on me yea though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall not dye Believest thou this Yea Lord quoth Martha I believe
took her from David and gave her to * Look in the history of Psaltei how he used Michal David's Wise Psaltei the Son of Lais to Wife with whom she remained till the death of Saul and then was restored again to David by Abner's means Finally when David came dancing before the Ark of God in his shirt to the City of David it chanced Michal to look out at a Window and beholding the King how he leaped and danced before the Ark she began to despise him in her heart and meeting him after all things were done she said O how glorious was the King of Israel this day which was uncovered to day in the eyes of the Maidens of his Servants as a Fool uncovereth himself And for thus despising of David the Servant of God the Lord plagued her with Barrenness that she never had Child Michal who is perfect Mephibosheth 2 Sam. 4.4 the Son of Jonathan was lame in his Feet by reason his Nurse by misfortune in his infancy let him fall to the Ground out of her Arms and was brought up and nourished after the death of his Father in the House of Machir 9. cap. 4 c. till David coming to his Kingdom took him from thence and restored him to all the Land of King Saul making Ziba his Servant chief Overseer and Receiver of the Lands and to see Micah his Master's Son well brought up and cherished for so much as Mephibosheth should remain with him and eat and drink at his own Board Now after this when David was brought into so great affliction trouble by reason of Absalom his Son Mephibosheth remained still at Jerusalem and never removed 2 Sam. 16.1 2 c. But Ziba his Servant went after David with a present and by false report of Mephibosheth his Master got his Land from him And when the King was returned and come to Jerusalem again 19.24 c. then Mephibosheth who had neither washed his Feet nor dressed his Beard nor washed his Cloaths from the time the King departed until he returned in peace went out to meet him and when the King saw him he said Wherefore wentest thou not with me Mephibosheth He answered My Lord O King my Servant deceived me for thy Servant said I would have mine Ass sadled to ride thereon for to go with the King because thy Servant is lame Therefore Ziba hath falsly accused thy Servant to my Lord the King but my Lord the King is as an Angel of God Do therefore what it pleaseth thee for all my Fathers House were but dead Men before my Lord the King and yet didst thou set thy Servant among them that did eat at thine own Table What right have I to cry any more unto the King Then said David why speakest thou yet in thine own cause I have said Thou and Ziba divide the Land between you Yea said Mephibosheth let him take all seeing my Lord the King is come home in peace Mephibosheth shame or confusion from the mouth Mephibosheth 2 Sam. 21.8 the Son of Rizpah King Saul's Concubine was by the Gibeonites with his Brother Armoni hanged for their Father's offence Miriam Exo. 6.20 was the Daughter of Amram and Jochebed and Sister to Aaron and Moses When her Brother Moses had brought the Children of Israel thorow the red Sea Exo. 15.20 Miriam the Prophetess took a Timbrel in her hand with other Women following in like sort and began joyfully to sing and dance Their Song was this Sing ye unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously The Horse and his Rider hath he overthrown in the Sea After this she grudged against Moses Num. 12.1 10. because he had taken an Ethiopian Woman to his Wife wherefore the Lord smore her with Leprosie Then Moses partly for pity and partly at the intercession of Aaron his Brother besought the Lord to heal her who made him answer saying If her Father in anger had spit in her Face should she not have been ashamed seven days Let her be shut out of the Host seven days which being done she was restored and received in again Finally when Moses and the Children of Israel were come to Kadesh Num. 20.1 there she died and was buried Miriam exalted or reaching Meshach first called Mishael Dan. 1.7.3 cap. was one of Daniel's Companions and one of the three which was cast into the hot burning Furnace and miraculously preserved Meshach prolonging or drawing to him or compassing the waters or hedging Mithridates was King Cyrus's Treasurer 3 Esd 2. at whose commandment he delivered all the holy Vessels of Gold and Silver pertaining to the House of the Lord to Salmanassar the Deputy in Jewry The number of which Vessels was five thousand eight hundred and three score Mithridates dissolving the law Mnason was a certain godly Man Act. 21.16 and a Cyprian born who had of long time believed the Gospel in whose House Paul was lodged at Jerusalem Mnason a searcher out or promising or remembring Moses the Son of Amram and Jochebed Exod. 2. cap. was miraculously preserved at his birth For whereas Pharaoh the King of Egypt had straitly commanded the Midwives Moses signifieth preserved from the water that whensoever they saw an Hebrew bring forth a Man-child they should cast it into the River yet Moses being born and a proper Child was notwithstanding the King's Commandment kept secretly three Months And when his Parents could hide him no longer they closed him in a Basket made of Reed or Bulrushes dawbed with slime and pitch and laid him in the River And as the Child's sister stood looking what should become of him it came to pass that King Pharaoh's * Her name was Termuth Daughter came a walking by the River side who seeing the Basket floating upon the River caused one of her Folks to take it up And when she had opened the Basket and saw the Child she had pity upon it and caused the Maid his sister to fetch her a Nurse who went and brought his own Mother And so the Child being nursed and brought up in Pharaoh's house was instructed from his Childhood in all manner of cunning and wisdom of the Egyptians and became mighty in words and deeds saving in his speech he had an impediment And when he was full forty years old it came in his heart to go and visit his Brethren the Children of Israel whom Pharaoh vexed without all measure And as he saw an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew How that Moscs's impedment of speech came The King on a time for his Daughter's sake took the Child in his arms and set the Crown upon his Head which Moses as it were childishly playing hurled to the ground and with his Foot spurned it At the which the Priest cried out saying that this was he of whom it was prophesied that he should destroy Egypt Then Termuth excused the Child alledging his infancy and lack of
second year of his reign as he was laying siege to a City of the Philistines called Gibbethon Baasha conspired against him and slew him Taking upon him to reign in his stead Nadab a Prince or liberal Nahash 1 Sam. 11. Judg 11. cap. was King of the Ammonites And as his Predecessors afore time had made a claim to the Land of Israel so he now purposing the same went and besieged the City of Jabesh in Gilead And when the Men of Jabesh perceived themselves in great danger of their lives they desired the King to make a covenant with them and they would be his Servants Then said Nahash If ye will suffer me to thrust out all your right eyes to bring Israel to shame I shall be content to make peace with you Then said they Give us respite seven days and if none do come to help us in that space we will come out unto thee Then Nahash thinking that none durst come to aid them against him granted their request Upon the which they sent Messengers into all the Coasts of Israel which News was so heavy tidings to them that they fell a weeping And as they were mourning and lamenting their case it chanced Saul by the providence of God to come out of the Field following the Cattel And beholding the People what a do they made he demanded wherefore they mourned And when they had told him the tidings of the Men of Jabesh his heart was so moved by the spirit of God that he took out two of his Oxen and hewed them in pieces and sent them thorow all the Coasts of Israel saying whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and Samuel so shall his Oxen be served And the People were stricken in such a fear that they came out to Saul as they had been but one Man to the number of three hundred thousand of Israel beside thirty thousand of the Men of Judah And then Saul sent word by the Messengers to the Men of Jabesh that the next morrow they should have help They being glad of that sent word unto Nahash saying To morrow we will come forth unto you and ye shall do unto us whatsoever pleaseth you And so on the morrow Saul came upon the Ammonites and slew them Nahash a Snake or Serpent or guessing or divining Nahor when he was nine and twenty years of age Gen. 11.24 25. begot Terah And lived after he had begotten him an hundred and twenty years Nahor Hoarse or Angry Naomi was the Wife of a certain Man called Elimelech Ruth 1. cap. dwelling in the Land of Juda in a City called Bethlehem And because of the present Dearth which was over all the Land of Juda She went with her Husband and her two Sons into the Countrey of Moab to sojourn Where in process her Husband died And her two Sons being married to two of the Moabitish Damosels died there also So that Naomi which had dwelt in the Land of Moab ten years was left desolate both of her Husband and of her Sons Then Naomi hearing how the Lord had visited her Countrey again with plenty returned from Moab homewards again her two Daughters-in-law bringing her on the way And when she saw they had gone a good way with her and coveted not to return she said unto them Go now my Daughters and return each of you unto your Mothers House and the Lord deal as kindly with you as ye have dealt with the dead and with me And the Lord give you that ye may find rest either of you in the House of her Husband and so kissed them to have bid them farewel But when she saw that they would not depart from her she said unto them again Return my Daughters I pray you for what cause will ye go with me Are there any more children within my womb to be your husbands Turn again therefore I say for I am too old to have an Husband And if I did take one this Night and had already born Children would ye tarry for them till they were grown and refrain from taking Husbands so long Not so my Daughters it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me Then they wept all together and Orpha kissed her Mother-in-law and returned into her own Land again but Ruth abode still And so when they came to Bethlehem Juda which was about the beginning of Barley-harvest the Women which saw Naomi said Is not this Naomi Nay said she call me not Naomi which is as much to say as beautiful but call me Mara that is to say bitter for the Almighty God hath made me very bitter I went out full and the Lord hath brought me again empty why then call ye me Naomi seeing the Lord hath humbled me and the Almighty hath brought me unto adversity And so Naomi remained in Bethlehem Juda where ere it were long God gave her a Son by the Womb of Ruth her Daughter-in law who was married to Boaz a Kinsman of Naomi's which Child being born the Women said unto Naomi Blessed be the Lord the which hath not left thee without a Kinsman to have a name in Israel and that shall bring thy life again and cherish thine old age for thy Daughter-in-law which loveth thee hath born unto him and she is better unto thee than seven Sons And Naomi took the Child and laid it in her Lap and became Nurse unto it being glad that a Son was born unto her in her old days Naomi Fair or comely or provoking much Nathan 2 Sam. 7.4 c. the Prophet at what time King David was minded to build God an House to dwell in was sent of the Lord to forbid him to meddle with it for Solomon his Son should do it Again at what time David had committed Adultery with Uriah's Wife Nathan came to him and said 12. cap. There were two Men in one City the one Rich and the other Poor The rich man had exceeding many Sheep and Oxen but the poor had none at all save one little Sheep which he had bought and nourished up And it grew up with him and with his Children also and did eat of his own Meat and drank of his own Cup and slept in his bosome and was unto him as his Daughter Now there came a stranger unto the rich man who refused to take of his own Sheep and Oxen to dress for the stranger but took the poor Man's sheep and dressed it for the Man that was come to him Then David was exceeding wroth with the Man and said As surely as the Lord liveth he that hath done this thing shall surely dye He shall restore the Lamb four-fold because he did it without pity Then said the Prophet Thou art the Man Thus saith the Lord God of Israel I anointed thee King over Israel and delivered thee out of the hands of Saul and gave thee thy Lord's house and his Wives into thy bosome and gave thee the house
Arimathea to take down the Body of Jesus and wound it in Linnen cloaths with the odours as the manner of the Jews was to bury and laid him in his Sepulchre Nicodemus Innocent bloud Nicolas a Convert of Antioch Act. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5. was one of the seven Deacons ordained in the Congregation to do service in necessary things of the Body His Heresie was this That every Man might lawfully use every Woman that he lusted after that the Apostles might wait only upon the Word of God who notwithstanding fell into a foul Heresie which S. John in his Book of the Revelation 2d Chapter reproveth Nicolas the victory of the common people Nimrod was the Son of Gush Gen. 10.8 Son of Cham the second Son of Noah He was the first that took on him to reign over Men and became a cruel Oppressor and Tyrant He was called a mighty Hunter for that he was a Deceiver of Souls and Oppressor of Men. Gen. 11.4 He attempted to build the great Tower of Babel intending to have raised it above the Clouds thinking thereby to have escaped if any Floud should again have happened Nimrod Rebellious Noah was the Son of Lamech Gen. 5.29 not and five hundred years of age before he begat Shem Ham and Japhet And being a just and perfect Man he found such favour in the eyes of God 6. cap. that when all flesh had so corrupted his way upon Earth that God threatned the destruction of the World yet to save Noah and to declare it unto him 120. years before it came he bad him prepare an Ark of Pine-Trees which should contain in length three hundred Cubits in breadth fifty Cubits and in deepness thirty Now when Noah had made the Ark and was six hundred years of age the Lord told him that after seven days the Deluge should fall wherefore Noah at the Lord's commandment got him into the Ark 7. cap. with his Wife and three Sons with their Wives providing in the mean space all things necessary for them And when Noah was in the Ark suddenly by the power of God and not of Man's bringing there came into the Ship two and two together of every kind of Beast and Foul the male and the female And when they were all in the Lord shut the Door of the Ark and opened the Windows of Heaven so that the Rain fell continually forty Days and forty Nights whereupon the Waters prevailed and rose above all Mountains fifteen Cubits So that all living Creatures dyed except Fish and such as might endure in the Bowels of the earth And after the Waters had prevailed a hundred and fifty days They decreased again 8. cap. and in the seventh day of the seventh Month which was October the Ark stuck upon the Mountains of Ararat Then Noah opened a Window and sent forth a Crow which returned not again After seven Days he put forth a Dove which came again at Night bringing a branch of Olive with green Leaves in her mouth Nevertheless he remained seven other days and put forth the Dove again which never returned Then Noah after he had continued one Year in the Ark and sell the Earth drie he at the commandment of God issued out of the Ark and incontinent builded an Altar whereupon he offered a Sacrifice unto the Lord of every clean Beast and of every clean Fowl which Sacrifice was a sweet smell unto the Lord and pleased him so well that he made a promise to Noah that he would never more destroy the world with water Gen. 9.8.9 c. and for the confirmation thereof gave the Rainbow for a sure token between him and man Noah was the first inventer of Wine and therewithal was made drunk He lived after the Flood 350. years Noah Rest. O. OBED Ruth 4.17 the Son of Boaz and Ruth begat Jesse the Father of King David Obed Edom 1 Chron. 46.37 2 King 6.10.11 c. the Son of Jeduthun had the Ark of God remaining in his house three Months for the which the Lord blessed him and all his house And when it was told to David that the house of Obed Edom was blessed because of the Ark of God he removed it thence and brought it into the City of David with great triumph and ordained Obed Edom and his Brethren which were Levites to keep the Door of the Ark. Obed Edom the servant of Edom or a servant Edomite Obediah 1 King 18.3 4 c. notwithstanding he was Chief Governour of all King Ahab's house yet he was a Man that feared God greatly Insomuch that when Jezebel destroyed the Prophets of the Lord he took an hundred Prophets and hid them fifty in one Cave and fifty in another providing all things necessary for them On a time as Obediah was going about the Land at Ahab's commandment to search for Water and Grass for their Cattel which were almost overcome with drouth he chanced to meet Elijah the Prophet And when he saw him he sell down and said Art not thou my Lord Elijah yea quoth he go tell thy Lord that I am her O quoth Obediah what have I sinned that thou wouldest deliver thy Servant into the hands of Ahab to be slain As truly as the Lord thy God liveth there is no Nation or Kingdom whither my Lord hath not sent to seek thee And when they said he is not here he took an oath of the Kingdom and Nation if they had not found thee And now thou sayst go tell thy Lord that Elijah is here And when I am gone from thee the spirit of the Lord shall carry thee into some place that I do not know and so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find thee then will he kill me But I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth Was it not told my Lord what I did when Jezebel slew the Prophets of the Lord how I hid an hundred Men of the Lord's Prophets by fifties in a Cave and fed them with Bread and Water And now thou sayst go and tell thy Lord behold Elijah is here that he may slay me Well said Elijah as truly as the Lord of Hosts liveth before whom I stand I will shew my self unto him this day Then Obediah hearing him say so went to Ahab and told him Obediah servant of the Lord. Oded 2 Chron. 28.9 c. when Pekah King of Israel had taken so many Captives of the Children of Juda and carried them to Samaria the Lord sent this Prophet unto him saying Behold because the Lord God of your Fathers is wroth with Juda he hath delivered them into your hands and ye have slain them in your cruelness that reacheth unto Heaven and now ye purpose to keep under the Children of Juda and Jerusalem as Bond-men and Bond-women And do ye not lade your selves with sin in the sight of the Lord your God Now therefore hear me and deliver the Captives again which ye
he set two Crowns upon his Head the Crown of Egypt and Asia Then Alexander who at that time lay in the Countrey of Cilicia hearing of all that his Father-in-law had done returned home and made War against him But Ptolomy being the stronger chased him into the Countrey of Arabia where the King of that Land smote off his Head and sent it to Ptolomy which pleasure he did not long enjoy for within three days after Ptolomy dyed himself After whose death his Men of War which he had left in the Cities were all slain Ptolomy 1 Mac. 16. the Son of Abobus married with the Daughter of Symon Brother to Machabeus And being made Captain of the Host at Jericho he began thorow his great abundance of Gold and Silver to wax proud and high-minded imagining how he might destroy Symon his Father-in-law and his Sons and so to conquer the Land And being in this mind it chanced Symon as he was going thorow the Cities of Jewry and caring for them to come down to Jericho with Mattathias and Judas his Sons where this Ptolomy received him under the colour of great friendship into a strong Castle of his named Douch and in the same made him a great Banquet at the which he most traiterously slew Symon his Father-in-law with both his Sons This done he wrote to Antiochus to send him an Host of Men and he would deliver the Land of Jewry into his hand And further he sent certain Men to Gaza to kill John the third Son of Symon and wrote to the Captains to come unto him and he would reward them with Silver and Gold But John having knowledge of all the Treason slew the Messengers which came from Ptolomy and so disappointed him of all his purpose Ptolomie sirnamed Macron being made a Ruler 2 Mac. 10. purposed to do Justice unto the Jews for the wrongs that had been done unto them and went about to behave himself peaceably with them for the which he was accused of his friends to Eupator and was called oft-times Traytour because he had left Cyprus that Philometor had committed unto him and came to Antiochus Epiphanes Therefore seeing that he was no more in estimation he was discouraged and poisoned himself and dyed Publius Act. 28.7 8 c. was a certain Man dwelling in the Isle called Melitus and the chiefest Man in all the Isle who received Paul with all the rest that had escaped the Seas very gently and lodged them three days in his House whose Father which lay sick of an Ague and of a bloudy flux Paul healed Publius a Latine word Putiphar Gen. 39.1 c. was a great Lord in the Land of Egypt and Steward of King Pharaoh's house He bought Joseph of the Ishmaelites and found him a lucky Man And when he saw that God did prosper all things under his hand he made him Ruler and Governour of all that he had and God did bless his house for Joseph's sake But in the end thorow the false accusation of his Wife he cast Joseph in Prison R. RACHEL Gen. 30.22 c. 31.19 c. the youngest Daughter of Laban the Son of Nahor was a beautiful young Woman and Jacob's Wife She being long barren at the last brought forth a Son and called his Name Joseph And at her departing from Laban her Father with Jacob her Husband into the Land of Canaan she stole away her Fathers * Not to worship them but to withdraw her Father from Idolatry Images from him for the which he made no little ado with Jacob whom he followed and overtook at Mount Gilead And when her Father had searched Jacob's Tents and could not find his Idols he came into Rachel his Daughters Tent who had hid them in the Camels litter and sat upon them And as her Father was rifling about the place where she sat she said O my Lord be not angry that I cannot rise up before thee for the custome of Women is come upon me and so the thing was not known Finally Rachel in travailling of her second Son whom she called Ben-Oni the Son of my sorrow dyed and was buried in the way to Ephrath which is Bethlchem where Jacob caused a stone to be set upon her Grave which was called Rachels grave-stone Rachel a Sheep Raguel Tob. 6 7. was a certain Man dwelling at Rages a City of the Medes whose Sister was Wife to old Toby This Raguel had a Daughter called Sarah which had been married to seven Men one after another which Men were all slain the first Night of their marriage by the Devil dsmodius To this Sarah God had appointed young Toby which feared God to be her Husband and made his holy Angel Raphael to bring him to Rages and so to Raguel's house his Mother's Brother where they were joyfully received And when Raguel had looked upon young Toby and beheld him well he said unto his Wife how like is this young Man to my Sisters Son And then to know who they were he said whence be ye my good Brethren We be said they of the Tribe of Nephtali and of the captivity of Niniveh Know ye said he Tobias our Kinsman Yea said they we know him well and this young man said the Angel is his Son With that Raguel bowed himself and with weeping eyes took him about the Neck and kissed him and bad his Wife prepare in all hast for Dinner Nay said Toby I will neither eat nor drink here this day except thou grant me my Petition and promise to give me thy Daughter Sarah Then was Raguel fore astonied and began to fear lest it should happen unto him as it did to the other seven And while he stood in doubt what answer to make the Angel said Fear not to give him thy Daughter for unto this Man that feareth God belongeth she and to none other I doubt not said Raguel but God hath accepted my prayers and tears in his sight and I trust he hath caused you to come unto me for the same intent that this Daughter of mine might be married in her own Kindred according to the Law of Moses And now doubt thou not my Son but I will give her unto thee And with that he took the right hand of his Daughter and gave her into the right hand of Toby saying the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob be with you joyn you together and fulfil his blessing in you And when the Marriage all was ended Raguel brought his Daughter into her Chamber and said Be of good cheer my Daughter the Lord of Heaven give thee joy for the heaviness that thou hast suffered and so went to rest Then in the morning about the Cock-crowing Raguel supposing all things to have happened to Toby as it did to the other seven before called up his Men and went and made ready his Grave which being done he bad his Wife send one of her Maidens to
that whensoever Zenas departed from him he should bring him on his Journey with all diligence and that nothing should be lacking unto him His words to Titus were these Bring Zenas the Lawyer and Apollos on their Journey diligently that nothing be lacking to them Zenas Living Zipporah Exod. 2.21 c. was the Daughter of Raguel Priest of Madian and Wife to Moses by whom she conceived and bare him two Sons Eleazer was not circumcised therefore GOD was angry with Moses saith Lyra. The one Gerson and the other Eleazer And as she went with Moses her Husband toward the Land of Egypt by the way in her Inne she took a sharp Knife and cut away the foreskin of her Son and cast it at his feet saying Thou art indeed a bloudy husband unto me she said a bloudy husband because of the circumcision Zipporah A mourning Zibah 2 Sam. 9. was one of King Saul's old Servants after whose death he belonged to Mephibosheth the Son of Jonathan and had the oversight of all his Master's Lands which David had restored unto him and the governance also of Micha his Master's Son 16.1 2 c. This Ziba intending to deceive his Master what time as David fled from Absalom his Son and was a little past the top of Mount Olivet met him with a couple of Asses sadled and upon them two hundred loaves and one hundred bunches of Raisins and an hundred of dryed Figgs and a bottel of Wine And when the King saw him he said What meaneth thou with these Ziba They be quoth he Asses for the King's Houshold to ride on and Bread and Fruit for the young Men to eat and Wine that such as be faint in the Wilderness may drink Then said the King where is thy Master Mephibosheth Zaba said behold he tarrieth still at Jerusalem for he said This day shall the house of Israel restore me the Kingdom of my Father Then said David to Ziba Behold all are thine that pertained to Mephibosheth Then said Ziba I do homage unto thee I beseech thee I may find grace in thy sight my Lord O King Thus Ziba deceived his Master and got his Land from him But when the King was returned again to Jerusalem and perceived by Mephibosheth that Ziba had wrongfully accused him he commanded the Land to be divided between them Ziba Fulness or an Oath Zimri was the servant of Ela the Son of Baasha King of Israel and Captain of half his Chariots who 1 King 16.9.10 c. or his Master had reigned full two years conspired against him and slew him as he was in Tirzah drinking till he was drunken in the house of Arza Steward of his House in Tirzah And raigned in his stead in the time of whose reign which was but seven days he slew all the house of Baasha leaving neither Kinsman nor friend of his alive At this time had Ela the King an Host of Men lying at the siege of Gibbethon a City of the Philistines And when they heard of the Treason of Zimri and that he raigned in the stead of Ela they with one consent made Amri their Captain King who then went and besieged Zimri where he lay in the City of Tirzah And when Zimri saw that the City must needs be won then he lest they should take him alive and put him to a shameful death burnt himself and the King's house with fire and so dyed Zimri a singing or making melody Zorobabel Esdras 3. 4. cap. the Son of Salathiel with all the Jewes which were delivered from Babylon by Cyprus returned to Jerusalem where they repaired again the City and Temple of God and renewed their Laws though they were sometime hindred and lett by their enemies about them Zorobabel Free from confusion or strange FINIS