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Man falls from his first state, but is promised a Saviour of the seed of the woman.
About this time Cain and Abel offer sacrifice,
and Abel is murdered by his brother.
is called the land of Ham, and the Egyptian Pharaohs boasted themselves to be the sons of ancient kings.
Abram born; he was 75 years of age when his father Terah died, aged 205 years; so that Te- rah begat not Abram in the 70th year of his age, but Nahor and Haran, and in the 130th year of his age begat Abram, See Acts vii. 4.
Sarai, Abram's wife, (called also Iscah,) the daughter of Haran, Abram's brother, born ten years after her husband.
Reu, the seventh from Noah, dieth. Serug, the eighth from Noah, dieth. About this time Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, subdueth the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Ad- mah, Zeboiim, and Bela; who serve him twelve years.
Terah, with his family, leaveth Ur of the Chaldeans, and dwells at Haran.
The Third Age of the World. XII. 1, 2, ABRAM, after his father's deccase, in the 75th year of his age, is commanded by God to enter upon the land of Canaan, which God promiseth to give unto his seed, and that in seed (viz Chus our Lord) all the families of the earth should be blessed.
VIII. 18, THE flood ceaseth, and Noah (with his family, and the creatures he carried in with him,) comes out of the ark, and offers a burnt-offering. 20. At the same time God makes a covenant with Noah and his seed, promising never more to de- stroy the world by water; as a token whereof, he placeth the bow in the cloud. The same year Noah begins to plant vines, and is drunk. Arphaxad born.
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In the year following a famine in the land of Canaan forceth Abram with his family to go in- to Egypt. From this first coming into Egypt, to the departure of the children of Israel out of it, are reckoned 430 years.
Abram and Lot, in the same year, return into Canaan; but the land not being sufficient for both their flocks, they part asunder. Lot goeth to Sodom. God reneweth his promise to Abram; he removeth to Hebron, and there buildeth an altar.
Bera, the king of Sodom, with four other kings, rebel against Chedorlaomer, but are over- come by him in the valley of Siddim. Lot being taken prisoner, Abram rescueth him, slayeth Chedorlaomer and his confederates, and in his return is blessed by Melchizedek king of Salem, 20. and priest of God, to whom Abram gives tithe. The rest of the spoils, his partners having had their portions, he restoreth to o the king o of Sodom. Abram complaineth for want of an heir: God promiseth him a son, and a multiplying of his seed. Canaan is promised again, and confirmed by a sign.
Sarai, being barren, giveth Hagar her hand- maid to Abram.
Ishmael, Hagar's son, born.
Arphaxad, the third from Noah, dieth.. God maketh a covenant with Abram, and in token of a greater blessing changeth his name in- to Abraham. As a seal of this covenant, circum- cision is ordained. Sarai her name also is chan- ged into Sarah, and she is blessed. God prom seth them a son, and commandeth that his name be called Isaac; in him God promiseth to esta blish his covenant.
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Rachel is delivered of Benjamin on the way XXXV. 16. betwixt Beth-el, or Beth-lehem, and Ephrath,
and dies in child-bed. Some think that Job lived about this time.
Judah lieth with Tamar his daughter-in-law in disguise.
Joseph is hated by his brethren, and is sold to merchantmen, Ishmaelites and Midianites, who carry him into Egypt, where he is sold to Poti phar an officer of Pharaoh, and by him made overseer of his house.
Joseph resisteth the temptations of his mas ter's wife; he is falsely accused by her, and cast into prison. He interpreteth the dreams of Pharaoli's butler and baker, which come to pass according to his interpretation.
Isaac dieth, aged 180 years, and is buried by his son's Jacob and Esau.
Joseph interpreteth Pharaoh's two dreams he giveth Pharaoh counsel, and is made gove nor of the whole land of Egypt.
Here begin the seven years of plenty in t land of Egypt. About this time Manasseh a Ephraim, Joseph's two sons, are born of Asenal the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. Here begin the seven years of famine. Jacob sendeth his ten sons to buy corn Egypt; they are imprisoned by Joseph for spi but are set at liberty on condition of bring Benjamin; and Simeon is kept as a pledge Jacob is with much difficulty persuaded send Benjamin. Joseph maketh himself kn to his brethren, and sendeth for his father command from Pharaoh.
Jacob, having offered sacrifice to Ged for his son Joseph is yet alive, goes with all his f ly into Egypt in the third year of famine, 130th year of his age. He is seated in the of Goshen.
Joseph getteth all the money, lan lands, and of the Egyptians for bread; only the land longing to the priests he buyeth not.
Jacob adopteth Ephraim and Manasseh blesseth them, and all his sons; prophesiet descent of the Messiah from Judah, and d aged 147 years; 17 whereof he lived in Eg He is with great pomp carried into Car and buried in the sepulchre of his father. Joseph, on his deathbed, prophesieth unt brethren their return to Canaan; takes an of them to carry his bones out of Egypt, dieth, aged 110 years.
The book of Genesis endeth in the death Joseph, containing the history of 2369 ye next to which, in order of time, the boo Job follows, written (as it is generally belier by Moses,
Levi dieth in Egypt, aged 137 years; he grandfather to Moses and Aaron.
Here begins the bondage of the childre Israel, when a king rose up in Egypt whol not Joseph.
Aaron born three years before his bro Moses, 83 years before the departure of children of Israel out of Egypt.
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Whilst Moses keeps his father in-law's sheep at mount Horeb, God appeareth unto him in a burning bush, and sendeth him to deliver Israel. Moses and Aaron, having declared Pharaoh the message on which they are sent unto him from God, are charged by him as heads of a mutiny, and sent away with many bad words; and more grievous labours are forthwith laid upon the Israelites.
Moses, being now 80, and Aaron 83 years of age, urged thereunto by God, return again to Pharaoh, where the magicians, by their sorcery, imitating the miracle of Aaron's rod turned into a serpent, make Pharaoh more obstinate than he was before. Wherefore God, by the hand of Moses, lays ten plagues upon the Egyptians.
The Fourth Age of the World. 491. Exod. XII.11, UPON the fourteenth day of the first month, (which was May the 4th, upon Monday with us,) in the evening, the passover is insti-
Upon the fifteenth of the same month, at mid- night, the first-born of Egypt being all slain, Pharaoh and his servants make haste to send away the Israelites; and they, the self-same day wherein they were let go out of bondage, being the complete term of 430 years from the first pilgrimage of their ancestors, reckoning from Abraham's departure out of Charran, take their journey, and march away, being 600,000 men, besides children, and come to Rameses, from whence, by several encampings, they come to the Red sea, the Lord conducting them in a pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. They carry Joseph's bones with them.
At the Red sea Pharaoh with his host over- takes them; Moses divides the waters with his rod, and the children of Israel pass through on dry ground unto the desert of Etham; whom when Pharaoh and his army would needs fol- low, they are all overwhelmed by the waters coming together at the dawning of the day, whereby the Israelites are wholly freed from the bondage of the Egyptians; whose carcases when they see floating all the sea over, and cast upon the shore, they sing a song of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
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twelve young men of the first-born, (whom the Lord had consecrated to himself as ministers of those holy things, before the Levitical priest- hood was ordained,) which offer sacrifice, first for sin, and then for thanksgiving, to the Lord: and, when Moses had read the book of the covenant, he takes the blood of the calves and goats so offered, and with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, sprinkles the book therewith, and all the people, or those twelve statues repre- senting them; and so performs a solemn cove- nant between God and his people.
Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and 70 men of the elders of Israel, go up into the mount, and there behold the glory of God: the rest returning, Moses, with his servant Joshua, abides there still, and waits six days, and upon the seventh day God speaks unto him, and there he continues 40 days and 40 nights, (reckoning those six days which he waited for the appear- ance of the Lord,) eating no meat all that while, nor drinking water, (Deut. ix. 9.) where he receives God's command touching the frame of the tabernacle, the priests' garments, their con- secration, sacrifices, and other things comprised in this and the six following chapters.
At the end of 40 days God gives Moses the two tables of the law in stone, made by God's own hand, and written with his own finger; bidding him withal quickly to get him down, for that the people had already made to themselves a molten calf to worship. Moses, by prayer, pa- cifieth God, and goes down from the mount, and seeing the people keeping a festival in honour of their idol in the camp, be breaks the tables of the law at the foot of the mount: for which the Jews keep a solemn fast unto this day.
Moses, having burnt and defaced the idol, puts 3000 of the idolaters to death by the hands of the Levites.
God commands Moses to frame new tables of stone, and to bring them with him into the mount: Moses brings them the next morn- ing; and, whilst he stands in the cleft of a rock, God passeth by, and sheweth him a glimpse of his glory.
God renews his covenant with his people, and, upon certain conditions, gives them his laws again.
In the first six months of this year, the taber- nacle, the ark of the covenant, covenant, the altar, the table of shew-bread, the priests' garments, the holy ointments, the candlestick, and other uten- sils and vessels belonging to the sacrifices, are finished in the desert at mount Sinai, and are brought unto Moses.
The tabernacle is set up, and anointed with holy oil: Aaron and his sons are consecrated for the priesthood.
Nadab and Abihu, for offering strange fire, are struck dead in the place by fire from heaven.
The princes of the tribes present their offer- ings toward the dedication of the tabernacle. God speaketh to Moses from the mercy-seat. The second passover is instituted.
Jethro, who is also called Hobab, brings his Exod. XVIII. daughter Zipporah, with her two sons, Ger- shom and Eliezer, which were left with him, to his son-in-law Moses; and, having congratu- lated his and the whole people of Israel's de- liverance out of bondage, he openly declares his faith and devotion toward the true God. By his advice Moses imparts the government of the people to some others, and ordains ma- gistrates for the deciding of lesser causes.
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his charge, gives him for assistance the court of seventy elders.
The people lust for flesh: God gives them quailsin wrath; and sends withała most grievous plague among them.
God rebukes the sedition of Miriam and Aaron, and maintaineth Moses' right.
From the wilderness of Paran, near Kadesh- barnea, twelve men are sent (among whom are Caleb and Joshua) to discover the land of Ca- naan. Returning, they bring with them a branch of a vine, with a cluster of grapes upon it; ten of the twelve so sent speak ill of the country, declare it barren, and magnify the cities for their strength, and the giantly stature of the in- habitants.
The people, terrified with this relation, are about to return into Egypt, from which Caleb and Joshua endeavouring to dissuade them, are like to be stoned. At this God is so provoked that he threatens to destroy them; but is pre- vailed upon by Moses' prayers to spare them. Nevertheless he denounceth that all who are now twenty years old and upward (except Ca- leb and Joshua) shall die in the wilderness. The men who raised the evil report are all destroyed by sudden death. Some endeavouring to enter upon the promised land, contrary to the com- mand of God, are smitten by the Amalekites and Canaanites.
In this place, viz. Kadesh-barnea, the Israelites continue many days; but that in some places they continued many years appeareth; for that in the space of thirty-seven years there are but seventeen encampings mentioned.
To their long continuance in Kadesh, and the encampings from thence, all that we find deli- vered in the xvth and four next ensuing chap- ters of Numbers seems to refer; as how Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, for raising a mutiny against Moses and Aaron, were swallowed alive into the earth, and 250 of their associates; and how the people, murmuring against Moses and Aaron for the calamity which had befallen their brethren, were destroyed by God, to the num- ber of 14,700 men; and how twelve rods being brought by twelve princes, and laid in the sanc- tuary, Aaron's rod only budded, and brought forth almonds, and was laid up before the ark, for a memorial to those who should afterwards be given to rebellion.
In these thirty-seven years the Israelites, by seventeen encampings, having compassed the hill-country of Seir and Edom, they come to the wilderness of Zin in the first month of the fortieth year after their departure out of Egypt. Here Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron,
The people again, for want of water, murmur against Moses and Aaron, whom when God had commanded to call water out of the rock only by speaking to it, Moses, being moved in his mind through impatience and diffidence of the thing, speaks something, whatever it was, un- advisedly with his lips, and strikes the rock twice with Aaron's rod, and thereby draws 12, water from it, but for transgressing God's command, they are both debarred from enter- ing into the land of Canaan.
In the fifth month of this year Aaron dieth at Mosera, on the top of mount Hor, at the age of 123 years, leaving his son Eleazar his successor in the high priesthood.
The people murmuring are plagued with fiery John III. 14. serpents, whereof many die; upon their repent- ance God commands that a brazen serpent be
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About the latter end of this year, all those who at Kadesh-barnea mutinied against God being wholly extinct and dead, the Israelites pass over Zared, and come to the borders of Moab at Ar, and at length they arrive at Ba- moth, a valley in the country of the Moabites, and pitch at mount Pisgah.
Sihon king of the Amorites, refusing them passage through his country, is slain, and the Israelites possess his land.
Og the king of Bashan, coming out against Israel, is destroyed with all his people, not one left alive, and his country possessed by the Is- raelites.
After these victories the Israelites set forward, and encamp in the plains of Moab.
Balak king of Moab, considering what the Is- raelites had done to the Amorites, fears, lest, under pretence of passing through his country, they should possess themselves of his whole king- dom, takes counsel with the princes of the Mi- dianites his neighbours, and sends for Balaam, a soothsayer, out of Mesopotamia, to come and curse the Israelites, promising him great rewards for his labour; purposing ing afterwards to make war upon them.
Balaam, forewarned of God, refuseth at first to come; but being sent for a second time, he importuneth God to let him go, and goes with a purpose indeed to curse Israel; but God, of- fended thereat, makes the dumb ass of this wi- zard, on which he rode, speaking in a man's voice, to reprove his folly.
Balaam twice offers sacrifice, and would fain have cursed Israel, to gratify Balak therein; but being forced thereto by the Spirit of God, instead of cursing, he blesseth them altogether; fore telling what felicity attended them, and what calamities should befall their enemies.
By his advice the women of Moab and Midian are set on work to turn the Israelites away to idolatry. Wherefore God commands Moses first to take all the ringleaders of this disorder, and to hang them up before the sun, and then gives order to the judges to put to death all such as had joined themselves to Baal-peor. Last of all God sends a plague upon the people, whereof die 23,000 men in one day; which, bich added to them which were hanged and killed with the sword, amount in all to 24,000.
Phinehas the son of Eleazar, by killing Zimri, the chief of his father's family, and Cozbi the daughter of Zur, a prince of the Midianites, ap- peaseth the wrath of God, and the plague ceaseth. God therefore settleth the high priesthood for ever upon the house of Phinehas, and commands that war be made upon the Midianites.
Moses and Eleazar, by God's command, in the plain of Moab, near unto Jordan, over against Jericho, number the people from twenty years old and upwards, and find them to be 601,730 men, besides the Levites, whose number, reckon ing them from one month old and upwards, come to 23,000; and then Moses receives com mand for the parting of the land of promise among the Israelites.
The daughters of Zelophehad have their fa ther's land parted among them for want of issue male; this occasions the law for succession in heritages to be made.
God signifies to Moses that he shall die; and Joshua thereupon is declared to be his successor, upon whom Moses lays his hands, and gives him instructions. Several laws are made.
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The lands which belonged to Sihon and Og, namely, all from the river Arnon to mount Her- mon, Moses divides, and gives to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manas- seh; so that their possessions lay on this side Jor- dan; nevertheless they assist the rest of the tribes in all their wars, till they have subdued the Ca- naanites, and possessed the promised land.
Moses commands the people, that, in their passage over Jordan, they shall set up great stones, and engrave the Ten Commandments on them, with the form of blessing upon mount Gerizim, and of cursing on mount Ebal; ex- horting them to observe the law of God, by setting before their eyes the benefits that would ensue thereon.
He also renews the covenant made by God with them and their children on mount Horeb, and again persuades them to keep that covenant, by all the blessings and curses which would un- doubtedly follow the keepers or breakers of it: yet with a promise of pardon and deliverance, if at any time, having broken it, they shall re- pent them of their sin; and tells them further, that God had therefore thus declared his will unto them, to the end that none hereafter of- fending shall pretend ignorance.
Moses, having written this law, delivers it to the priests, the sons of Levi, and the elders of the people, to be kept; the same day also he writes his most excellent song, and teaches the same to the children of Israel to be sung; and, having finished the book of the law, he takes order to have it laid up in the side of the ark,
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stones out of the midst thereof, sets them up at Gilgal, the place where they next encamp. The day following Joshua renews the use of circumcision, which had been omitted 40 years. Upon the fourteenth day of the same month, in the evening, the Israelites celebrate their first passover in the land of Canaan.
Next day after the passover manna ceaseth. Our Lord Jesus, Captain of his Father's host, appears to Joshua, the typical Jesus, before Jericho, with a drawn sword in his hand, and promiseth there to defend his people.
Jericho, the ark of the Lord having been car- ried round about it, is taken the seventh day, the walls thereof falling down at the sound of the priests' trumpets; all the inhabitants are put to the sword except Rahab and her family.
The Israelites besiege Ai, and are smitten by their enemies, God having abandoned them for sacrilege committed by Achan. Achan's sin being discovered by the casting of lots, and himself found guilty, he is stoned to death, and, together with his children and cattle, burnt with fire. God being pacified hereby, Ai is taken by ambushment, and utterly destroyed.
On mount Ebal, according to the law made, is an altar erected, and the Ten Command- ments engraven on it; the blessings and cursings are repeated on mount Ebal and mount Geri- zim, and the book of the law read in the ears of the people.
The kings of Canaan combine against Israel; only the Gibeonites craftily find a way to save their own lives, by making a league with them; but are afterwards deputed to the servile offices of the house of God.
Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem, with the kings of Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon, hearing that Gibeon is fallen off from them, join their forces together, and besiege it; but Joshua raiseth the siege, pursueth those five kings, and smiteth them as far as Azekah, the Lord in the meanwhile killing more with hail- stones from heaven, than the Israelites with their swords. Joshua commands the sun to stand still over Gibeon, and the moon over the val- ley of Ajalon, by the space almost of one whole day, until the Israelites are fully avenged of their enemies. The five kings hide themselves in a cave at Makkedah; from whence they are brought forth, scornfully used, and hanged.
From the autumn of this year, wherein, after the failing of manna, they began to till the ground, the rise of the Sabbatical years is to be taken.
Joshua, now grown old, is commanded by God to divide all the land on the west of Jor- dan among the nine tribes remaining, and the other half-tribe of Manasseh. The Lord and his sacrifices are the inheritance of Levi.
The rest of the kings, with whom Joshua had waged war for six years, resolve to set up- on him with united forces; but Joshua comes upon them unawares, slays them, and possess- eth their countries.
Joshua now roots out those giants the Ana- kims, with their cities, out of the hill countries, out of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and, general- ly, out of all the mountauis of Judah and all Israel. And, having gotten the whole land into his hands, he divides it among the children of Israel according to their tribes; and the land rested from war.
The first Sabbatical year, or year of rest; from hence the year of jubilee, or every 50 years' space, is to be reckoned.
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