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Sect. V. Of the taking of Troy, the wooden horse, the book of
Dares and Dictys, the colonies of the relics of Troy. 458

Sect. VI. Of the distresses and dispersions of the Greeks return-

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489

Sect. VII. Of Homer and Hesiod, and many changes in the
world that happened about this age.

494

Sect. I. Of David's estate in the time of Saul.

498

Sect. II. Of the beginning of David's reign, and the war made
by Abner for Ishbosheth.

501

Sect. III. Of the death of Abner slain by Joab, and of Ishbosheth
by Rechab and Baanah.

503

Sect. IV. Of the flourishing time of David's kingdom, the taking
of Jerusalem, with two overthrows given to the Philistines, and
the conduction of the ark to the city of David.
Sect. V. The overthrow of the Philistines and Moabites.

504

507

Sect. VI. The war which David made upon the Syrians.

508

Sect. VII. Of David's troubles in his reign, and of his forces. 512
Sect. VIII. Of the last acts of David; Adonijah's faction; the

revenge upon Joab and Shimei.

522

Sect. IX. Of the treasures of David and Solomon.

527

Sect. X. Of the Philistines, whom David absolutely mastered;
and of sundry other contemporaries with David.

533

Of Salomon's successors until the end of Jehosaphat.

Sect. I. Of Rehoboam's beginnings: the defection of the ten
tribes, and Jeroboam's idolatry.

556

Sect. II. Of Rehoboam's impiety, for which he was punished by
Sesac; of his end and contemporaries.

560

Sect. III. Of the great battle between Jeroboam and Abijah, with
a corollary of the examples of God's judgments.

562

Sect. IV. Of Asa and his contemporaries.

564

Sect. V. Of the great alteration falling out in the ten tribes dur-
ing the reign of Asa.

567

Of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, and Ahaziah.

Sect. I. That Jehoram was made king sundry times.
Sect. II. Probable conjectures of the motives inducing the old

581

king Jehoshaphat to change his purpose often, in making his
son Jehoram king.

584
Sect. III. The doings of Jehoram when he reigned alone; and
the rebellion of Edom and Libna.

586

Sect. VI. A digression, wherein is maintained the liberty of using
conjecture in histories.

612

Of Joash and Amasia, with their contemporaries; where some-

what of the building of Carthage.

Sect. IV. How Zacharia was murdered by Joash.

628

Sect. VI. Of the princes living in the time of Joash; of the time
when Carthage was built; and of Dido.
632

Sect. VII. The beginning of Amaziah's reign. Of Joash king of
Israel, and Elisha the prophet.
634

Sect. VIII. Of Amaziah's war against Edom; his apostasy, and

overthrow by Joash.
637

Sect. I. The prosperity of Uzziah, and of Jeroboam the second,
who reigned with him in Israel. Of the anarchy that was in
the ten tribes after the death of Jeroboam. Of Zachariah, Sal-
lum, Menahem, and Pekahia.

658

Of the antiquities of Italy, and foundation of Rome in the time.

of Ahaz.

Sect. I. Of the old inhabitants, and of the name of Italy.

697

Sect. II. Of the aborigines, and other inhabitants of Latium, and
of the reason of the names of Latini and Latium.

700,

Sect. II. Of the danger and deliverance of Judæa from Senna-
cherib.

Sect. III. Of Ezekias's sickness and recovery; and of the Baby-
lonian king that congratulated him.
723

718

Of the kings that reigned in Egypt, between the deliverance of
Israel from thence and the reign of Ezekias in Juda, when
Egypt and Juda made a league against the Assyrians.

Sect. I. That many names of Egyptian kings, found in history,
are like to have belonged only to viceroys. An example proving
this out of William of Tyre's History of the Holy War. 729
Sect. II. Of Acherres, whether he were Uchoreus that was the
eighth from Osymandyas. Of Osymandyas and his tomb. 735
Sect. III. Of Cherres, Armeus, Ramesses, and Amenophis.
Myris, and the lake that bears his name.

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737

Sect. IV. Of kings that reigned in the dynasty of the Larthes. 739
Sect. V. Of Egyptian kings whose names are found scattering in
sundry authors, their times being not recorded. The kings of
Egypt, according to Cedrenus. Of Vaphres and Sesac. 742
Sect. VI. Of Chemmis, Cheops, Cephrenes, and other kings re-
cited by Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, which reigned be-
tween the times of Rehoboam and Ezekias.
745

Sect. VII. Of Sethon who reigned with Ezekias, and sided with

him against Sennacherib.

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