Sect. V. Of the taking of Troy, the wooden horse, the book of 458 Sect. VI. Of the distresses and dispersions of the Greeks return- Sect. II. Of Eli, and of the ark taken, and of Dagon's fall, and Sect. I. Of the deliberation to change the government into a Sect. II. Of the election of Saul. 475 with the Philistines and Amalekites, which caused his final re- 481 Sect. V. Of the occurrents between the rejection of Saul and his Sect. VI. Of such as lived with Samuel and Saul; of Hellen and Hercules, and of their issues : upon occasion of the Dores, 489 494 Sect. I. Of David's estate in the time of Saul. 498 501 503 of Jerusalem, with two overthrows given to the Philistines, and 504 507 Sect. VI. The war which David made Sect. VII. Of David's troubles in his reign, and of his forces. 512 522 527 533 Sect. I. Of the establishing of Salomon; of birthright, and of the cause of Adonijah's death, and of Salomon's wisdom. Sect. II. Of Salomon's buildings and glory. Sect. III. Of Salomon's sending to Ophir, and of some seeming contradictions about Salomon's riches, and of Pineda's conceit of two strange passages about Africk. Sect. IV. Of the fall of Salomon, and how long he lived. Sect. V. Of Salomon's writings. 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. Sect. II. Of Rehoboam's impiety, for which he was punished by Sesac; of his end and contemporaries. Sect. III. Of the great battle between Jeroboam and Abijah, with a corollary of the examples of God's judgments. Sect. IV. Of Asa and his contemporaries. Sect. V. Of the great alteration falling out in the ten tribes dur- Sect. VI. A conjecture of the causes hindering the reunion of Of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, and Abaziah. king Jehoshaphat to change his purpose often, in making his 584 the rebellion of Edom and Libna. Sect. IV. Of the miseries falling upon Jehoram, and of his Sect. V. Of the reign of Ahaziah, and his business with the king Sect. VI. How Ahaziah perished with the house of Ahab; and Of Athaliah, and whose son he was that succeeded anto her. Sect. I. Of Athaliah's usurping the kingdom, and what pretences Sect. II. How Jehu spent his time in Israel, so that he could not Sect. III. Of Athaliah’s government. Sect. IV. Of the preservation of Joash. §. 1. Whether Joash may be thought likely to have been the son §. 2. That Joash did not descend from Nathan. §. 3. That Joash may probably be thought to have been the son §. 4. Upon what reasons Athaliah might seek to destroy Joash, if he were her own grandchild. Sect. VI. A digression, wherein is maintained the liberty of using 612 Sect. VII. The conspiracy against Athaliah. Sect. VIII. The death of Athaliah, with a comparison of her and Of Joash and Amasia, with their contemporaries; where some- what of the building of Carthage. Sect. I. Of Joash's doings whilst Jehoiada the priest lived. Sect. II. The death of Jehoiada, and apostasy of Joash. Sect. III. The causes and time of the Syrians invading Juda in Sect. IV. How Zacharia was murdered by Joash. 628 Sect. V. How Joash was shamefully beaten by the Aramites, and Sect. VI. Of the princes living in the time of Joash; of the time 632 634 Sect. VIII. Of Amaziah's war against Edom; his apostasy, and Sect. IX. A discourse of the reasons hindering Joash from uniting Juda to the crown of Israel, when he had won Jerusalem, and held Amaziah prisoner. The end of Joash's reign. 643 Sect. X. The end of Amaziah's reign and life. Sect. XI. Of the interregnum or vacancy that was in the king- dom of Juda after the death of Amaziah. Sect. I. The prosperity of Uzziah, and of Jeroboam the second, who reigned with him in Israel. Of the anarchy that was in 658 Sect. II. The end of Uzziah's reign and life. Sect. III. Of the prophets which lived in the time of Uzziah ; and of princes then ruling in Egypt, and in some other coun, Sect. IV. Of the Assyrian kings descending from Phul; and whe- ther Phul and Belosus were one person, or heads of sundry fa- milies, that reigned apart in Nineveh and Babylon. Sect. V. Of the Olympiads, and the time when they began. 685 Sect. VI. Of Jotham and his contemporaries. Of the antiquities of Italy, and foundation of Rome in the time of Ahaz. 697 700 Sect. III. Of the ancient kings of the Latins until Æneas's Sect. IV. Of Æneas, and of the kings and governors of Alba. 706 Sect. V. Of the beginning of Rome, and of Romulus's birth and Of Ezekias and his contemporaries. Sect. I. Of the beginning of Ezekias, and of the agreeing of Pto- lomy's Nabonassar, Nabopolassar, and Mardocempadus, with Sect. II. Of the danger and deliverance of Judæa from Senna- cherib. 723 Sect. IV. The kings that were in Media during the reign of Eze- kias: of the difference found between sundry authors, in re- hearsing the Median kings. Other contemporaries of Ezekias : 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. are like to have belonged only to viceroys. An example proving this out of William of Tyre's History of the Holy War. 729 eighth from Osymandyas. Of Osymandyas and his tomb. 735 737 sundry authors, their times being not recorded. The kings of Egypt, according to Cedrenus. Of Vaphres and Sesac. 742 cited by Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, which reigned be- 745 Sect. VII. Of Sethon who reigned with Ezekias, and sided with |
