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A46811	Annotations upon the remaining historicall part of the Old Testament. The second part. to wit, the books of Joshua, Judges, the two books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, and the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther : wherein first, all such passages in the text are explained as were thought likely to be questioned by any reader of ordinary capacity : secondly, in many clauses those things are discovered which are needfull and usefull to be known ... and thirdly, many places that mights at first seem to contradict one another are reconciled ... / by Arthur Jackson.	Jackson, Arthur, 1593?-1666.	1646 (1646)	Wing J65; ESTC R25554	997,926	828

the commonwealth of Israel namely four hundred and fourscore years and how this summe agrees with the severall years of the government of such Judges and Kings as had since that time ruled over Israel we may see in the notes upon Josh 24.29 three years and upward had been spent in settling the affairs of the kingdome against the opposition of those that looked with a malignant eye upon Solomons advancement to the crown and in taking order for making such further provision as was necessary besides what David had prepared both for the Temple and for his own palace and now in the fourth yeare the foundations of the Temple were laid in 2. Chron. 3.1 the place is also expressed where the Temple was built to wit that it was at Jerusalem in mount Moriah the very place in which Abraham was commanded to sacrifice his sonne Gen. 22.2 where the Lord appeared unto David his father in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floore of Ornan the Jebusite Now both the place and the time when the foundation of this house was first laid are thus punctually expressed not onely because it was indeed the most glorious and sumptuous building that ever was in the world but also especially because it was the house of the Lord as it is here called the place which he chose for his settled habitation amongst the children of Israel and so was a type or figure first of Christ for in him dwelleth al the fulnesse of the God-head bodily Col. 2.9 secondly of every true Christian and that because God dwells in them by his holy spirit Know ye not that your bodie is the Temple of the holy Ghost which is in you 1. Cor. 6.19 and thirdly of the Church of Christ Ye also as living stones saith Peter are built up a spiritual house to offer up spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ 1. Pet. 2.5 but especially of the Church triumphant in heaven for indeed as the tabernacle did principally signifie the Church in her militant condition when she is in an unsettled restlesse estate travelling up and down in the world towards the heavenly Canaan so the Temple did chiefly signifie the Church in her rest when she comes to be settled in heaven whence it was also that the Temple was farre larger and farre more magnificent then was the tabernacle to signifie that the glory of the Church there should wonderfully exceed that she hath here even then when she is in her greatest glory Vers 2. The length thereof was threescore cubits c. Here the dimensions of the Temple are set down first the length thereof threescore cubits that is the length of the whole Temple containing both the holy and the most holy place which is therefore called the length by cubits after the first measure 2. Chron. 3.3 for first they measured out sixty cubits of ground for the whole house and then afterwards divided it assigning twenty cubits to the oracle or the most holy place and fourty to the Temple before it as vers 17. so that the Temple therefore was double the length of Moses tabernacle for that was but thirty cubits long see Exod. 26.18 secondly the breadth thereof twenty cubits which was also double the breadth of the tabernacle for that was but ten cubits broad Exod. 26.24 and thirdly the height thereof thirty cubits that is at least on the outside for some gather from vers 20. that the most holy place was but twentie cubits high within and it is most likely that the roof of the whole house was of the same height so that by this it might appear that the Temple was on the inside twice as high also as was the tabernacle for that was but ten cubits high Exod. 26.16 and on the outside thrice as high see the note vers 20. and all this was thus ordered by Gods direction 2. Chr. 3.3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God c. Vers 3. And the porch before the Temple of the house twenty cubits was the length thereof c. This was joyned to the house in the front thereof 2. Chron. 3.4 whence is that Joel 2.17 Let the priests the ministers of the Lord weep between the porch and the altar and let them say Spare thy people O Lord c. there is mention of a porch called Solomons porch wherein Christ and his Apostles and the people did so usually meet Joh. 10.23 24. and Acts 3.11 and 5.12 but that porch was neither built by Solomon for Solomons Temple was burnt by the Chaldeans nor was it in the same place for this joyned to the Temple within the priests Court whither none but the priests might come as for the dimensions of this porch first twenty cubits was the length according to the breadth of the house that is from north to south for though the length of the rest of the Temple is counted from east to west yet because this porch was larger from north to south then from east to west therefore this is counted the length of it secondly ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house the breadth therefore of this porch being added to the length of the Temple the whole house porch and all was threescore and ten cubits long how high this porch was it is not here expressed but 2. Chron. 3.4 that is added to wit that it was one hundred and twenty cubits high so that it was as a tower to the rest of the house Vers 4. And for the house he made windows of narrow lights That is broad within and narrow without or else as some conceit broad both without and within but narrowed in the midst of the wall some Expositours understand by the house in this place only the holy place concluding that the most holy place had no windows but there is no great waight in any of the reasons they give to prove this for considering first the thicknesse of the wall secondly the fashion of the windows above described purposely no doubt so made both to keep out birds and the gazing in of any that should attempt to looke in at them and thirdly the place where these windows were made which was toward the roof of the house at least above fifteen cubits high in the wall for so high the chambers were built on the outside of the wall and there were three stories of chambers one over the other verse 8. and verse 10. and fourthly that the Tabernacle had no windows at all neither in the holy nor in the most holy place since it is expresly said that in this house which Solomon built he made windows for the house I see no reason why it should be restrained only to the holy place Vers 5. And against the wall of the house hee built Chambers round about c. That is westward northward and southward round about the house he built Chambers for on the east side before

Academiae Cantabrigiensis Liber TO THE Right worshipfull Mr. Augustine Philips Master Mr. Clement Cooley Mr. George Reinolds Mr. Thomas Stevenson and Mr. Edmond Clark Wardens Together with the rest of the Assistants of the Company of the CLOTH-WORKERS My very loving and much honoured friends Right worshipfull HAving but a very few years since published for the good of those that desire to reade the Scripture with understanding Certain short Notes of Exposition upon the five books of Moses and finding that they have been entertained by many with farre greater esteem and approbation then ever I expected or they deserved I have now adventured to send forth the rest after them which I had then lying by me to wit the like Notes upon the remaining historicall part of the old Testament and indeed I did then in a manner engage my self by promise that if those found welcome these ere long should follow after and having been often since pressed to make good that promise by the importunity of many Christian friends but especially those of my reverend brethren in the Ministery whose judgement I prized above mine own there lay an obligation upon me for the satisfying of their desires which I could not gainsay Now as the first part of these Annotations I did then dedicate to that particular congregation which the Lord hath been pleased to commit to my care so this second part I now make bold to present unto you who above twenty years since were also pleased to choose me to dispense the word of grace unto you at some set times of your solemn meetings and whom in many other respects I have great cause to love and honour It were indeed engagement enough if there were nothing else to endear my affections to this worthy Society that my dear father whose memory is precious with me and both his brothers were whilest they lived members of this Company and in their times too honoured with those places of credit and trust which since your selves have severally born But besides this it is well known how much I owe you and I willingly thus declare it that this may remain as a publick testimony of my thankfulnesse to you not onely for the great love and respect you have ever shown to me upon all occasions but also especially for the bounteous support which for divers years you have been pleased to afford to one of mine for my sake Adde therefore I beseech you to your former favours the gracious acceptance of this piece of my labours and the God of all grace improve it to you for your spirituall advantage Histories of former times have been ever acknowledged both most pleasant and most profitable if a faire prospect from a high hill be so pleasing to the eye how pleasant must it needs be to the mind of man to have the memorable passages of ancient times presented to our view in a fair prospect of History as if we had then lived to see those things done But above all it must needs be thus in the History of the Scripture both because this chiefly acquaints us with the dispensations of Gods providence towards his Church the dearly beloved of his soul in comparison of whom the rest of the world is not worth the regarding and likewise because this was written by the unerring pen of men inspired by the holy Ghost and that purposely too as the Apostle saith for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope But what need I commend to you the usefulnesse of any part of Gods word which I hope you esteem with David above thousands of Gold and silver If these Annotations shall afford any help for the understanding of such passages in these books as may seem at first somewhat intricate and obscure I have my desire My prayer shall ever be for this worthy Company that the word of Christ may dwell in you richly in all wisdome and that God would still raise up many amongst you that may be to others patterns of piety and zeal for Gods truth in this honourable City and so I rest Your Worships ever ready to do you any service I am able ARTHUR JACKSON The Preface to the READER Christian Reader WHat I prefixed by way of Preface before my Annotations upon the five books of Moses may serve also for these upon the remaining Historicall part of the old Testament these being carried on in the same manner and with respect unto the same ends as the other were Onely one thing I thought good to adde here which is this that there are some Expositions which as I went along I met with so often in so many severall places such as that where men desperately wicked are termed children of Belial and that where the Church is called the Lords portion and the Lords inheritance and some other of the like nature that I was at last wearied with referring the Reader so often to those places where I had formerly given the grounds of those expressions and so resolved to avoid the tedium of such reiterated references rather to leave every man by himself to consider where the like expression was formerly used which by the help of a Concordance at least may be easily found that so there he might seek for satisfaction herein Further then this I have not at present to advertise you concerning these Notes but am onely now to desire your favourable acceptance of what is here published Indeed when the late Annotations came forth upon the whole Bible composed by divers worthy Divines authorized thereto by command of Parliament I did at first question whether there would now be any need of these But considering with my self first that those for the most part are very brief as being at first intended onely for marginall notes secondly that there are very few Expositours that have written upon this part of the Bible and therefore a supply of further help herein could not be thought altogether uselesse and thirdly that I was in some sort already engaged by promise for these Annotations which I formerly made known were then collected I did at last in these regards determine to proceed in my former resolutions Whether I shall ever go on any further in this way the Lord onely knows the infirmities of age grow so fast upon me that I may well fear I shall not And besides there is little encouragement for any work of this nature in these contentious times There are some we see risen up amongst us that are not afraid to deny the Scriptures to be Gods word which must needs be the ruine of religion and open a doore to all profanenesse and Atheisme should it be suffered in the land But we trust the Magistrate whom God hath so highly honoured will be so zealous for the honour of God as ere long to stop the mouthes of such blasphemers and in the mean season none but those that are given up of God to believe lies will

the porch where was the court of the priests there could be no chambers built and because these chambers were built up close to the house on the outside of the walls so that the beams of the upper floores of these Chambers were laid on that side towards the Temple upon the very wall of the Temple therefore it may be well said that these Chambers were built against the wall of the house that is close adjoyning thereto or as it is in the margin upon the wall of the house there were of these Chambers three stories or rows each above the other and each of them five Cubits high verse 10. and they were doubtlesse provided for the lodging of the priests for the laying up of the holy things of the Temple and such other uses for of these partly is that spoken 1 Chro. 28.11 12. Then David gave to Solomon his sonne the pattern of the porch and of the houses thereof and of the treasuries thereof and of the upper Chambers thereof and of the inner parlours thereof and of the place of the mercy seat And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit of the Courts of the house of the Lord c. Vers 6. For without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about c. This is added to shew how it came to passe that the middle Chambers were broader than the undermost and the third loft broader by a Cubit than the middle ones the reason was because to the end that the beams might not be fastened in the wall of the Temple but might be only laid upon the outlets of the wall and so if occasion were might be removed without any dammage to the wall at every five Cubits high for that was the height of the Chambers verse 10. he narrowed the Temple walls a cubit in breadth as suppose the wall was at the ground six cubits broad according to that Ezek. 41.5 He measured the wall of the house six cubits when they had built it five cubits high there they narrowed the wall a cubit in breadth and built it up five cubits broad and on that outlet of the wall was the beams of the first floore laid and by that means the Chambers there were a cubit broader than those beneath and so likewise it was againe at the third floore there they left a cubit space for the beams of the third floore to rest upon and built up the wall but foure Cubits broad and so those Chambers were seven Cubits broad Vers 7. There was neither hammer nor axe nor any toole of Iron heard in the house while it was in building To wit because all the stones and timber were hewed and fitted for the building before they were brought to the the place where the Temple was built and this was done partly out of a reverent respect to the ends for which the house was built and partly to signifie first that in the Church the house of God all should be carried on in a peaceable way without any of those jarres and tumults that are in the world secondly to signifie the everlasting peace of the Church in heaven whereof the Temple was especially a type here the best are sometimes at variance but there they shall live in perfect peace here they are hewed and squared and fitted for the Temple of God in heaven partly by the word I have hewed them by the Prophets saith the Lord Hos 6.5 and partly by afflictions which is for paring away their corruptions but when they come to be joyned to the Church triumphant in heaven there will be no need of any such thing Vers 8. The doore for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house c. That is in the south side for that in the Scripture is called the right side of the world as is evident Psalm 89.12 where that which is translated the North and the South thou hast created them is in the Originall the North and the right side thou hast created them and the right side of the Temple to wit as they came out of the Temple with their faces eastward It seemes therefore that in the side of the Temples wall either in the holy place or else rather in the porch there was a doore whereby they turned into the lowest floore of the chambers built on the outside of the house from whence they went up with winding staires which were happely in the thicknesse of the Temples wall into the middle chamber that is the middle story which was divided doubtlesse into severall chambers and so out of the middle into the third now if there were no other doore with staires to goe up but this on the south it must needs be yielded that from hence they went to the furthest chambers on the North side and that by some void place after the manner of a cloyster below and galleries above that went round about the house between the chambers and the wall of the Temple but indeed the most that have written concerning the fabrick of the Temple hold that there was another doore also with winding staires going up on the North side though it be not here expressed which they would also prove by the description of the doores that led to these chambers Ezek. 41.11 Vers 9. So he built the house and finished it c. To wit the bulk and body of the house for it was not yet cieled and boarded c. Vers 10. And they rested on the house with timber of Cedar That is the side chambers See the note above verse 6. Vers 12. Concerning this house which thou art in building if thou wilt walke in my Statutes c. When Solomon had only yet set up the frame or body of the house the Lord spake to him either by some revelation or by the ministery of some Prophet thereby to encourage him the better to goe on in the work and assured him that he would performe the word which he spake unto David to wit in making that house his settled dwelling place and in settling him and his posteritie to sit on the throne of Israel onely withall he added this condition If thou wilt walk in my Statutes and execute my judgements and keep all my commandments thereby giving him to understand that however glorious the work was which he had in hand for the service of God yet it would be of no avail to him except he were carefull to live holily and righteously in all other respects Vers 15. And he built the walls of the house within with boards of Cedar both the floore of the house and the walls c. That is the whole wall from the floore to the cieling as it is in the margin or else the meaning is that both floore and roof and all was on the outside cedar for though it is manifest that the holy place was cieled with boards of firre 2. Chron. 3.5 And the greater house he cieled with firre