Anno

ISR. 44,23. & 49. 13.

Jer. 51, 48.

21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like as chap 192 great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

64.

t Jer. 51, chap. 12, 8. & 16, 20.

Jer. 7, 34. & 16, 9. &

22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and Isa. 24, 8. of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;

25, 10.

Ezek. 26,13.

x Isa. 23, 8.

Jer. 7, 34.

& 16, 9. &

25, 10.

chap. 17, 2

y Jer. 51, 35, 49.

23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee : for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, chap. 17, 6. and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

a ch. 4, 11.

& 7, 10. &

12, 10.

b Deut. 32,

48.

17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the Jer. 129. flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for

1. Dan. 7,11. ch. 13, 12.

which he deceived them that had received the mark Mat 24, 24 of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. 16, 13, 14. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burn- & 20, 10.

5. And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.

6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great mulch. 1, 8. & titude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the 15, 17.& 12, voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia; for 422214 the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

4, 3. & 11,

&

g Mat. 22,

7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to 2.25, 10. him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his 2 Cor. 11,2. wife hath made herself ready.

Luke 14, 16.

Eph. 5, 32.

6 they blessed that have part therein....7 Satan let loose again....10 The devil cast into the lake of fire and brimstone. 11 The general resurrection.

AND I saw an angel come down from heaven,

having the key of the bottomless pit, and

great chain in his hand.

a

31.

a Luke 2, ch. 1, 18. & 9, 1, 11.

Jude 6.

2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old ser- b2 Pet 2,4 pent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him chap. 12, 2 a thousand years,

ch. 16, 14,

low-servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

9, 10, 11. &

they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 13, 12 5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

1 Pet. 2, 2.

6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the e Isa. 61 4 first resurrection: on such the second death hath no chat, 6. power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, 10.21 and shall reign with him a thousand years.

7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan

shall be loosed out of his prison,

2, & 5,

The last resurrection.

Anno DOMINI

96.

f Ezek.

ch. 16. 14.

g Dan. 7, 11. ch. 10,

9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

10 And the devil that deceived them was cast 11.19, 20. into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

h Dan. 2,35.

11h And I saw a great white throne, and him Peter 3. that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the chap. 12, 8. heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

10.

1 Exod. 32,

82.

& 69, 29.

& 32, 19.

12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand Pral 62, 13. before God: and the books were opened: and anJer 17, 10. other book was opened, which is the book of life: Pan. 7, 10. and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in 2 Cor. 5 10. it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which Philip. 13. were in them: and they were judged every man

Mat. 16, 27. Rom. 2, 6. & 14, 12.

1 Cor. 3, 8.

Gal. 6, 5

chap. 2, 23. & 3, 5. &

13, 8. & 21,

27. & 22, 12.

* 1 Cor. 15,

26, 54, 55.

chap. 2, 11.

& 21, 8.

AND! saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed

Cor. 2. away, and there was no more sea.

Gal. 4, 26.

Heb. 11, 10.

& 12, 12.

& 13, 14.

2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as

chap. 3, 12. a bride adorned for her husband.

& 21, 10.

Lev. 26,11.

C

3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven, sayFzek. 43, 7. ing, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and 2 Cor. 6, 16. he will dwell with them, and they shall be his peo& 55, 10. ple, and God himself shall be with them, and be

d Isa. 25, 8.

& 61, 3. &

65, 19.

1 Cor. 15,

26, 54.

& 20, 14.

their God.

4 dAnd God shall wipe away all tears from their

chap. 7,17. eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

• Isai. 43,

19.

2 Cor. 5, 17.

ch. 4, 2, 9. &

5° And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, 5,119,9. I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write; & 22, 6. for these words are true and faithful.

& 20, 21.

f Isa. 12, 3.

& 41, 4. &

6' And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha 44,6. & 55,1. and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst, of the fountain of the water of life freely.

John 4, 10,

14. & 7, 37.

16, 17. & 22, 15, 17.

g

7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and

Zech. 88. I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

Heb. 8, 10.

h John 3,

36.

8h But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have 1 Tim. 19. their part in the lake which burneth with fire and Hebo 14. brimstone: which is the second death.

1 Cor. 6, 9. Gal. 5, 21. Eph. 5, 5.

ch. 20, 14.

15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed n Ezek. 40, to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the Zech. 2, 1. wall thereof.

16° And the city lieth four-square, and the length o Eph. 3, 18. is as large as the breadth; and he measured the city with the reed, || twelve thousand furlongs. The That is, length, and the breadth, and the height of it are in compass, equal.

17 And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

500 leagues

Jobn 14, 2

19 And the foundations of the wall of the city plsa. 54, 11.

were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;

20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl; and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple of it. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did chap. 22, 5. lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

1, 6, 7. & 19, 7.

Heb. 12, 22.

plagues, and talked, with me, saying, Come hither,

k. Gal. 4, 26. I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. chap. 1, 10. 10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a 18827,2 great and high mountain, and shewed me that great

& 3, 11. &

2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

1.

chap. 4, 6.

Gen. chap 7

Ezek. 47,12 & 21, 21

AN

Genesis
XVII. 5.

1897.

Man falls from his first state, but is promised a Saviour of the seed of the

XVIIL

brother.

XIX.

XI. 15.

Enos, the third from Adam, dieth, aged 905 years.

1871.

XXIL

Cainan dieth, aged 910 years.

Mahalaleel, the fifth from Adam, dieth, aged 895 years.

Jared, the sixth from Adam, dieth, aged 962 years.
God commands Noah to preach repentance, and to build the ark 120 years
before the flood.

XXV. 24.

To Noah, aged 500 years, is born Japheth, and two years after, Shem.
Lamech, the ninth from Adam, dieth, aged 777 years. He is the first man
whom the Scriptures mention to have died a natural death before his father.
Methuselah dieth a little before the flood, in the 969th year of his age. He
was the oldest man.
The flood comes upon the earth in the 600th year of Noah's age.

The second Age of the World.

THE flood ceaseth, and Noah, with his family, and the creatures be carried
in with him, comes out of the ark, and offers a burnt-offering.

same time God raakes a covenant with Noah and his seed, promising never
more to destroy the world by water; as a token whereof he placeth the rainbow
in the cloud. The same year Noah. begins to plant vines, and is drunk.
Arphaxad born.

XXL. 2.

XXI. 9.

God maketh a covenant with Abram, and in token of a greater blessing chang-
eth his name into Abraham. As a seal of this covenant, circumcision is ordained
Sarai her name also is changed into Sarah, and she is blessed God promiseth
them a son, and commandeth that his name be called Isaac: in him God prom-
iseth to establish his covenant.

Abraham entertaineth three angels, who renew the promise to him of having
a son. God revealeth to Abraham the destruction of Sodom, with whom Abra-
ham intercedes for Lot and his family. See Gen. xix. 29.

Lot is commanded, for the preservation of himself and family, to get out of
Sodom, and to flee to the mountain; but by much entreaty he obtaineth leave
to go into Zoar Sodom, Gomorrah, and all the cities in the vale of Siadim,
with all the inhabitants of them, are for the most horrible sins destroyed by fire
and brimstone from heaven. The Dead Sea remains a morament thereof unto
this day. Lot's wife, for looking back upon Sodom, contrary to God's.com-
mand, is turned into a pillar of salt; and Lot himself, fearing to continue at
Zoar, leaves the plain country, and betakes himself to the mountain, carrying
his two daughters with him.

Isaac born in the 100th year of Abraham's age. Not long after, to Lot are
Hagar and Ishmael, at Sarah's request, are cast forth.

XIX. 86. born Moab and Ammon, his sons at the same time, and his grandsons
Salah, the fourth from Noah, dieth.

1773.

XXVIIL

ΧΧΙΧ.

1796.

1760.

XXV. 17.
XXVII.

THE

At the

Salah born.

Eber born.

Jacob, by his mother's instruction, obtaineth the blessing from Isnar his
father, which was designed for Esau. Upon which he is forced to face into
Mesopotamia, to shun his brother's rage. Upon the way are foretold unto him
in a vision the blessings of his posterity. At length he cometh to his uncle
Laban's house, and covenanteth to serve him seven years for his daughter
Rachel, bu: Laban deceiveth him with Leab; the marriage week being com-
pleted, Rachel also is given him to wife, upon condition of serving seven years

more.

Judah, from whom the Jews receive their denomination.

Rachel, baving been long barren, at length beareta Joseph: Jacob, desiring
to depart, is persuaded by Laban to serve six years more for some part of his
flock.

Jacob, after he had been twenty years in Mesopotamia, sets forward on his
journey homewards, without acquainting his father or his brothers-in-law.

XXXII. Rachel stealeth her father's gods, and is pursued by Laban. Jacob, by his
prudence, is reconciled to his brother Esau. He wrestleth with an angel at
Peniel, and is called Israel.

XXXIV.

About this time, Dinali, Jacob's daughter, is defloured by Sichem the son of
Hamor. Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, revenge their sister's quarrel, by
putting all the males of Sichem to the sword; for which thing Jacob reproveth
them.

XXXV.16. Rachel is delivered of Berjamin, on the way betwixt Beth-el, or Beth-lehom
and Ephrath, and dies in childbed. Some think that Job lived about this time
XXXVIII
Judah lieth with Tamar his daughter-in law in disguise.

16.

ancient kings.

Nahor, the ninth from Noah, dieth.

Sarai, Abram's wife, (called also Iscah) Haran, Abrain's brother's daughter,

born ten years after her husband.

1718.

Reu, the seventh from Noah, dieth.

XL.

Serug, the eighth from Noah, dieth.

About this time, Chedorlaomer king of Elam subdueth the kings of Sodorn,

Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela; who serve him 12 years.

Terah, with his family, leaveth Ur of the Chaldeans, and dwells at Haran.

Joseph is hated by his brethren, and is sold to merchantmen, Ishmaelites and
XXXVIL. Midianites, who carry him into Egypt, where he is sold to Potiphat, an officer
XXXIX.

2, 3.

XLII.

XLV.

XLVI.

XLVII.

XLVIII.

XLIX.

L.

of Pharaoh, and by him made overseer of his house.

Joseph resisteth the temptations of his master's wife; he is falsely accused hi
her, and cast into prison. He interpreteth the dreams of Pharaon's butler and
baker, which come to pass according to his interpretation.

Isaac dieth, aged 180 years, and is buried by bis sons, Jacob and Esau.
Joseph interpreteth Pharaoh's two dreams; he giveth Il'haraoh counsel, au
is made governor of the whole land of Egypt.

Here begin the seven years of plenty in the land of Egypt. About this tim
Manasseh and Ephraim, Joseph's two sons, are born of Asenath, the daughter o
Potipherah, priest of On

Here begin the seven years of famine.

Jacob sendeth his ten sons to buy corn in Egypt; they are imprisoned hi
Joseph for spies; but are set at liberty on condition of bringing Benjamin a
Simeon is kept as a pledge.

Jacob is with much difficulty persuaded to send Benjamin. Joseph maket
himself known to his brethren, and sendeth for his father by cominand fr
Pharaoh.

Jacob, having offered sacrifice to God for that his son Joseph is yet alivi
goes with all his family into Egypt, in the third year of the famine, and 1301
year of his age. He is seated in the land of Goshen.

Joseph getteth all the money, lands, and cattle of the Egyptians for brea
only the lands belonging to the priests he buyeth not.

Jacob adopteth Ephraim and Manasseh, and blesseth them, and all his som
prophesieth the descent of the Messiah frona Judab, and dieth, aged 147 year
seventeen whereof he lived in Egypt. He is with great pomp carried iul
Canaan, and buried in the sepulchre of his father.

Joseph on his death-bed prophesieth unto his brethren their return to Caье
takes an oath of them to carry his bones out of Egypt, and dieth, aged 110 yea
The book of Genesis endeth in the death of Joseph. cons. ining the history
2369 years: next to which in order of time the book of Job follows

The fourth Age.

Before

Exodus

Christ

VI. 16.

1. 8.

1619.

1577.

VII. 7.

1574.

1573.

I. 15, 22.

1571.

II. 1, 5,

Christ

Levi dieth in Egypt, aged 137 years; he was grandfather to Moses and Aaron. Before
Here begins the bondage of the children of Israel, when a king rose up in
Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

Aaron born three years before his brother Moses, 83 years before the departure
of the children of Israel out of Egypt.

Pharaoh having in vain commanded the Hebrew midwives to destroy all the
males of the Israelites, sets forth an edict, charging that they be all cast into the
river.

Moses is born, who, being hid in the fings by the river's side, is found by Pha-
raoh's daughter; and becomes her adopted son.

Moses, in the 40th year of his age, having slain an Egyptian, whom he saw
contending with a Hebrew, fleeth into Midian, where he marrieth Zipporah the
daughter of heuel, or Jethro, a priest, and liveth with him forty years.
Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, bort..

Whilst Moses keeps his father-in-law's sheep at mount Horeb, God appeareth
to hir in a burning bush, and sendeth him to deliver Israel.

Moses and Aaron having declared to 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 unto Pharaoh, where the magicians by their sorcery, imitating the
miracles of Aaron's rod turned into a serpent, make Pharaoh more obstinate

LXXVIII. than he was before. Wherefore God by the band ef Moses lays ten plagues
upon the Egyptians.
CV.

Upon the fifteenth of the same month, at midnignt, 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, reck-
oning from Abraham's departure out of Charran, take their journey, and march

Numbers away, being 600,000 men, besides children, and come to Rameses, from whence
XXXIII. 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 Jo-
seph's bones with them.

Exodus

XIV.

At the Red Sea Pharaoh with his host overtakes 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 follow,
they are all overwhelmed by the waters coming together at the dawning of the
day, whereby the Israelites are wholly freed from tue 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.

1490.

1471.

1452.

At Rephidim, which was the eleventh place of their encamping, the people
murmur for want of water; Moses gives them water by striking the hard rock
in Horeb with his rod.

The Amalekites falling upon the rear of the Israelites are discomfited by
Joshua, whilst Moses ho'ds up his hands to God in prayer.

God publisheth his Law, contained in the Ten Commandments, with a terrible
voice from mount Sinai.

The people being in great fear, God gives them sundry other laws, all which
being written in the book of the covenant, Moses proposeth them to the people
which done, rising early in the morning, he builds an altar at the foot of the
mountain, and sets up 12 statues, according to the 12 tribes of Israel, and sends
12 young men of the first-born, (whom the Lord hath consecrated to himself as mi-
nisters of those holy things, before the Levitical priesthood 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 12 statues representing them; and so
performs a solemn covenant between God and his people.

Numbers

The fourth Age.

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 prevailed
upon by Moses his prayers to spare them. Nevertheless he denounceth that all
who are now 20 years old and upward (except Caleb 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
command 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 37 years there are but 17 encampings mentioned.

To their long continuance in Kadesh, and the encampings from thence, all
XXXIII. that we find delivered in the zvth and four next ensuing chapters of Numbers,

33.

Numbers
XXII. 1, 2,

3.

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 asso-
ciates; and how the people, murmuring against Moses and Aaron for the ca-
lamity which had befallen their brethren, were destroyed by God to the num
ber of 14,700 men; and how 12 rods being brought by 12 princes, and laid in the
sanctuary, Aaron's rod only budded, and brought forth almonds, and was laid
up before the ark, for a memorial to those who should afterward be given to
rebellion.

In these 37 years, the Israelites, by 17 encampings, having compassed the
hill country of Seir and Edom, they come to the wilderness of Zin in the first
month of the 40th year after their departure out of Egypt.

Here Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron, diech.

The people again for want of water murmur against Moses and Aaron, whom
when God bad 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, unadvisedly with his lips, and strikes the
rock thrice with Aaron's rod, and thereby draws water from it; but for trans-
gressing God's command, they are both debarred from entering 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 serpents, whereof many die,
upon their repentance God commands that a brazen serpent be made and lifted
up upon a pole, that as many as look on it may live.

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 Bamoth, 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 Israelites.

After these victories the Israelites set forward, and encamp in the plains of
Moab.

Balak, king of Moab, considering what the Israelites had done to the Amor-
ites, fears, lest, under pretence of passing through his country, they should pos-
sess themselves of his whole kingdom, takes counsel with the princes of the
Midianites his neighbours, and sends for Balaam a soothsayer out of Mesopota-
mia to come and curse the Israelites, promising him great rewards for his labour;
purposing afterward to make war upon them.