The consent of time disciphering the errors of the Grecians in their Olympiads, the vncertaine computation of the Romanes in their penteterydes and building of Rome, of the Persians in their accompt of Cyrus, and of the vanities of the Gentiles in fables of antiquities, disagreeing with the Hebrewes, and with the sacred histories in consent of time. VVherein is also set downe the beginning, continuance, succession, and ouerthrowes of kings, kingdomes, states, and gouernments. By Lodovvik Lloid Esquire.

CHAP. IIII.

Of the third change of the common wealth of the Hebrewes, first from Oligarchia vnder the Patriarchs: secondly from Aristo∣cratia vnder the Iudges, now to a Monarchie vnder Kings, which Israel cried out and neuer ceased vntill they had a king.

NOw Saul was king of Israel in the begin∣ning * 1.1 of the 7. Iubile, at what time Tineus gouerned the Assyrians, and Melanthus gouerned Athens: for though Saul & Sa∣muel gouerned together 40. yeeres, yet Saul gouerned as a king (as both Iosephus and Ruffinus affirmed) not ten yeeres. He had good successe in the beginning of his warres, for God gaue him the spirit of strength and courage against the Moabites, Edomites, Ammonites, and against the Philistines, till Saul disobeied God in sparing of Agag, for the * 1.2 which Samuel reprooued Saul, and the lord reiected Saul, and his kingdome was gluen to Dauid. For after the great victo∣ries of Saul of those afore rehersed nations, he was comman∣ded by Samuel to take armes against the Amalekites, & to spare neither man, woman, or child, cattell or beasts: but for sa∣uing of Agag the king, and few of the fattest beasts for sacri∣fice, Saul lost his kingdome: disobedience was the cause thereof.

Some may thinke the cause to be small that Saul did, to be reiected from his kingdome, the sparing of a kings life: So * 1.3 likewise may they iudge of the men of Bethshemesh, who be∣cause they had looked into the Arke of the Lord, he slew 50. thousand, three score and ten men: for it was not lawfull for any either to touch the Arke, or to looke within it, saue only

to Aaron the high priest: and to difobey GOD, and to breake Gods commaundement, is a thing most terrible. Now though Saul spared Agag, disobeying God, yet Sa∣muel * 1.4 most zealously without any further delay hewed him in pieces.

After this, Samuel returned to his house to Bethleem, where he was commaunded to annoint one of the sonnes of Ishai king of Israel: and hauing all the seuen sonnes of Ishai before him, saue the yongest which was Dauid, who kept his fathers sheepe in the fieldes, Samuel commaunded Dauid to be sent for: at whose comming the Lord said to Samuel, Arise, an∣noint him: for this is hee. And Samuel tooke the horne of * 1.5 oile, and annointed him king in the middest of his brethren, and the spirite of the Lord came vpon Dauid from that time forward, and the spirite of the Lord departed from Saul. And now though Dauid was annointed king by Samuel the Prophet, yet GOD would haue Dauid to be exercised in many things before hee should haue the vse of the king∣dome.

After this Samuel went to Ramah to his house, and came no more to see Saul vntill Saul died. Samuel loued Saul much, and mourned much for him, and God therefore reprooued Samuel. Samuel was a godly Iudge ouer Israel, who with great care and diligence serued God, and gouerned his people, keeping his circuite once euery yeere, from Bethel to Gal∣gala, and from Galgala to Masphat, and from Masphat to all townes vpon his wayes to Ramah, where Samuel dwelt, and there hee set vp an altar vnto the Lord and iudged Is∣rael. Euen so did Debora sit vnder a Palme tree betweene * 1.6 Ramah and Bethel, iudging and determining causes of the people.

This Prophet gouerned Israel fortie yeeres. Saul be∣ing deposed and throwen from his kingdome, hee fell vn∣to great melancholie, imagining how he might compasse and bring things to passe with troubled minde: for the e∣uill spirite of the Lord came vpon him, that hee often∣times

was molested and vexed with troublesome thoughts. And to ease the king of these agonies, instruments of Mu∣sike, with all kind of harmonie were thought very neces∣sarie of his counsell. Dauid was called and sent for by Saul * 1.7 to plaie vpon the harpe before Saul: for hee was skilfull in Musike: so Saul loued Dauid and made him his armour bearer.

While Saul was in this melancholie moode, the Phili∣stines were againe in armes against Israel, wasted their coun∣trey, destroyed their Cities, and prouoked the Hebrewes to warre. Saul made readie his hoste: but while yet they were preparing for the battell, Goliah a mightie huge man, a great Giaunt, vaunted forward from the hoste of the Philistines * 1.8 by himselfe, cried and called for a combate, if any one man of the Hebrewes durst, defying Israel, and blaspheming their God.

But GOD prepared Dauids heart mightie and vali∣ant, * 1.9 and with a sling to bee able to ouerthrowe this Gi∣ant: for Dauid by the experience which hee had in time past by Gods helpe, nothing doubteth the danger of Goli∣ah, sithence hee killed a Lion and a Beare before this time, being but a shepeheard in the field. Hee was fullie per∣swaded by Gods spirite to haue the victorie ouer Goliah, being mooued with a feruent zeale to be reuenged vpon this blasphemer.

But true it is, Comes virtuti inuidia. Here Saul began to * 1.10 enuie Dauid, and to laie snares to kill him: for great acti∣ons are full of dangers. But there is no danger where God defendeth and saueth: the vertues of Dauid purchased much enuie, much daunger, which Dauid escaped by the proui∣dence of God. But Saul still deuised his destruction, vsing all policies, and inuenting many stratagemes to ouerthrow Dauid, promising Dauid his daughter Michol to wife, see∣king at Dauids handes nothing but valiant courage and ser∣uice agaynst the Philistines. But the more victories Dauid wanne, the more danger ensued him: the greater seruice

he did, the more he was enuied and hated: for Saul feared Dauid seeing the Lord was with him, and Ionathan the sonne of Saul told Dauid the wicked purpose of his father, so that Dauid was driuen to flee from Saul, and to hide himselfe in a Caue.

Samuel the Prophet about this time died, and was buried * 1.11 in Ramah his owne citie. Dauid being still persecuted of Saul, wandred and fled from Saul to Achis king of Gath, where hee should haue a charge vnder the king to fight against Israel, which troubled him not a litle: yet such was the infirmitie of Dauid, that he durst not denie the king. Now Saul all this * 1.12 while following his wicked purpose, consulted with a witch to know of Samuels spirite the successe of his kingdome, by whom, I meane not Samuels spirit, but the spirit of Satan, he was fully certified of his ruine and of the end of his kingdom which happened to Saul and to his children: for it fell out that Saul killed himselfe, and his children were slaine in the * 1.13 battell, a cruell life hath a desperate end.

After, the Philistines found Saul, Ionathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua his three sonnes lying dead in mount Gilboa after the victorie, and the Philistines cut off Sauls head, and stripped him out of his armour, and they laied vp his armour in the house of Ashtaroth their idole, and hanged his bodie on the wall of Bethshan in token of victorie and triumph. Saul died after the deliuerance of Israel from Egypt 473. yeeres, after the calling of Ioseph into dignitie in Egypt 660. yeeres, and after the flud 1234. yeeres.

Thus the wicked in their pompe and pleasure consider not the iudgement of God. During this time raigned Dir∣cillus ouer the Assyrians, the 31. king, and Aeneas Siluius the 4. king of the Latines. In Athens this time raigned Codrus the last king of the Athenians, betweene whom and the Peloponesians grew great warres, and continued vnto the last destruction of all Greece. In the time of Saul certaine people were driuen out of Thessalia called Boeotij: they found a land to inhabite, which at this day is called Boeotia, before named Cadmeia. The

The kings of Sicyonum, called otherwise Peloponesus, ended in Sauls dayes, euen when Israel began their kingdom.

About this time the kingdom of Lacedemonia began, where first raigned Euristhenes, of whom descended Leonidas and Cleomenes, two valiant captains, which ouerthrew the Persi∣ans in the great battell at Thermophila. About this time de∣scended the stocke of Heraclides into Peloponesus. Read of this further in Herodotus. Homerus surnamed Chius, a great Magi∣tiā, flourished in Sauls time, the kingdom of Corinth together with the Lacedemonians began a litle before the eight Iubi∣lee, in the yeere of the world 2865.

But to goe forward in the historie, Saul being dead, and * 1.14 Dauid the last time annointed, the kingdome of Israel not yet came to Dauids handes: for some of Sauls sonnes liued and withstood Dauid, as heires to Saul, and held all the tribes of Israel saue the tribe of Iuda, ouer whom Dauid was the second time annointed king, and Dauid dwelt in Hebron 7. yeeres: Ishboseth the sonne of Saul was likewise annointed king ouer the house of Israel: hence grew great warres betweene the house of Saul and the house of Dauid: for Abner the chiefe captaine of Saul, and the master of Sauls horses, thought it not fit that any should gouerne Israel but Sauls sonne, who was right heire to the kingdome, perswading the people thereunto, and gathering force together, and would by the sword make Ishboseth king of Israel, who kept then his court at Manahim, vnder whom all the Hebrewes sauing the tribe of Iuda were ruled.

Dauid this time lying in Hebron, and hearing of Abners pre∣paration to warres, consulted with the Lord, and sollicited * 1.15 his owne cause carefully: he appointed Ioab to be his Lieute∣nant. These two great captains Abner and Ioab, full of indig∣nation, and willing to trie the kingdome by battell, they met by the poole of Gibeon where Abner and Ioab fell to the sword, and the battell was exceeding sore that same day. But Abner and the men of Israel fell before Ioab, so that 360. men were slaine. Thus God would confirme Dauid in his kingdome by

ouerthrowing of his aduersaries. These warres continued long, for Abner made all his power for the house of Saul.

But God wrought otherwise to bring his purpose to passe: while Saul liued, hee had a concubine named Rizpha, with whom Abner kept companie, and consumed more time with Rizpha then he did in the seruice of Ishboseth. The king being moued with some choler, charged Abner with his fault con∣cerning his fathers concubine: this checke could not be wel disgested of Abner, and therefore he communed with the el∣ders of Israel, and perswaded them to take Dauid for their king: and after that, Abner went to Hebron to Dauid, and pro∣mised him that he would bring all Israel vnder his gouern∣ment: and all this Abner did rather for malice & hatred that he bare to Ishboseth, then for any good will he bare to Dauid. Notwithstanding, Dauid accepted in good part his cōming to him, thogh Ioab would haue had the king to slay Abner for his priuate grudge, which was the killing of Asahel Ioabs bro∣ther, which within a while after Ioab reuenged, for he killed Abner vnknowing to Dauid, whose deth Dauid lamēted much. * 1.16

When these newes came to Sauls sonne that Abner was dead in Hebron, he was discouraged, and all Israel was afraid * 1.17 with him, and so within a while after he was slaine by Banah and Rechab, two men that were captaines of bands: this they both did in hope of lucre and fauour with Dauid, and they were rewarded, as he that slew Saul: for in as much as neither the example of him, nor dutie to their master, nor innocen∣cie of the person, nor the reuerence of the place did feare them, they died for it. Now Dauid was made king ouer all Is∣rael, after he had raigned seuen yeeres ouer Iuda in Hebron: he went with all his armie to Ierusalem vnto the Iebusites the in∣habitants of the land at that time, and tooke the forte of Zi∣on, and dwelt there, and builded round about it. Hiram king * 1.18 of Tyrus sent Cedar trees, and carpenters and masons, they builded a house for Dauid. Againe, the Philistines came vp a∣gainst Dauid, and he smote them from Geba to Gazer. The arke was not yet come from the house of Abinadab in Gibeah, whi∣ther

Dauid with 3000. chosen men of Israel went, to bring * 1.19 the arke to the citie of Dauid.

When Dauid had subdued the Iebusites, Philistines, & other diuers nations, as the Syrians, Phoenicians, Edomites, Ammonites, Moabites, and Mesopotamia, vntill the riuer of Euphrates, so that Dauids fame spred farre, his kingdome prospered, his people grew strong, and himselfe in all his enterprises most happy: Then Dauid ruled and raigned ouer all Israel, and executed iudgement and iustice to his people. And being at rest from his enemies with great quietnes in Ierusalē, behold, both his * 1.20 fortune and his great fame forsooke him: for he committed adulterie with Bethsabe Vrias wife, and wrote his letters to Ioab * 1.21 his lieutenant, with Vrias in this sort. Put Vrias in the forefront of the battell, and cause the souldiers to recule backe from V∣rias, that he may be smitten and die. Which being done, the king was glad, and tooke Vrias wife to his house, and maried her: but the Lord was angry with Dauid, and sent Nathan to * 1.22 accuse him of adulterie and murther. What grew of this? cru∣ell dissention betweene Dauid and his children. God gaue o∣uer Dauid to be afflicted and tormented on both sides, inward and outward. For Amnon defiled his sister Tamar, and Absalon killed Amnon: such was the wrath of God vpon the house of Dauid, that one wickednesse fell on the necke of another: Ab∣salon fled vpon the killing of his brother, and went to Geshur, and then Absalon practised to aspire to the kingdom, and laid snares to entrap his father the king. Absalon gathered force to dispossesse Dauid, for Achitophels councell is alwayes readie * 1.23 in matters of treason.

Now Dauid felt the anger of God for sinne, hee confessed that he had deserued this plague: for Dauid was faithful and obedient to God, and shewed himselfe contented with these afflictions. Absalon goeth forward with his armie, and Dauid fled ouer Iordan to Mahanaim: Absalon passeth likewise ouer Iordan and followed fast, as Achitophel had councelled him: so Israel and Absalon pitched in the land of Gilead. God raised fa∣uorers vnto Dauid in euery place where he came: for certain

of the Reubenites and Gadites could not beare the insolencie of the sonne against the father, and therefore with all the power they had, they ioined with Dauid, and the battell be∣gan, so there was a great slaughter of Absalons side, to the nū∣ber of 2000. Israel fled before Ioab, and Absalon was caught by the haire of his head vnder a bough of an oke, where he han∣ged till Ioab came and killed him, and so Dauid againe was re∣stored * 1.24 to his kingdom, being persecuted of Achitophel for his counsell, of Semei for his threatning and cursing, and of Ab∣salon for his treason.

Now this warre being ended, new warres againe began betweene Iuda and the tenne tribes of Israel, more cruel then the warres of Absalon: for Sheba a man of Ephraim, he now a∣gain raised Israel against Dauid, and made the Israelites to for∣sake Dauid, and to follow Sheba: but his head was caried by Ioab to Dauid. After this, Dauid had foure great battels with * 1.25 the Philistines, slew them, and subdued them vnto the last.

Thus was Dauid deliuered by God from all daungers, ty∣rannie and treason, and saued from Saul, Absalon and many o∣thers. When Dauid had gotten by the sword peace and qui∣etnesse, and brought all nations subiect vnto him, hee tooke his rest and thanked God in Psalmes, Hymnes, Odes & Ver∣ses, which Dauid sang vnto God in praise of victories which God gaue him. But yet more troubles came on Dauid: The Lord so suffered Satan to tempt him, that Dauid commaun∣ded * 1.26 Ioab to number all Israel and Iuda, from Dan to Beersheba, which Ioab did: the people were in number of able fighting men, 1100000. Gods wrath was kindled against Israel, so that much it offended God that Dauid should trust in mē, sithence onely God had oftentimes deliuered him: and the Lord sent Gad, Dauids seer, with three things to take his choise: Pesti∣lence, * 1.27 Famine, or Warre. Dauid chose rather to fal to Gods mercy, then to trust to man. Then fell pestilence in Israel from the one side of the countrey to the other, and there di∣ed 70000. men.

Now after this, Dauid waxed old, and hee caused Salomon

his sonne to bee annointed king before he died, whom hee charged to walke before God vprightly, exhorting him to serue God, to vse iustice and iudgement in Israel. Dauid com∣manded * 1.28 Salomon his sonne to kill Ioab for his murthering of Abner and Amasa, and to take the like punishment of Semei which railed & cursed me, when (saith he) I was at the worst. Dauid left to his sonne more welth in Israel to build a temple to the Lorde, then Alexander the great had in Babylon by the conquest of Darius: for Iosephus doth write, that Hircanus the high priest a 1000. & odde yeeres after Dauids death, opened the graue of Dauid, and brought 3000. talents to satisfie the rage of Antiochus Demetrius sonne, who laying siege to Ierusa∣lem, was contēted to returne with some of these talents with∣out any harme done. And Dauid died being 70. yeres of age, * 1.29 after he had bene 40. yeeres king of Israel: seuen in Hebron, and 33. in Ierusalem. Dauid died 803. yeres after the death of Abra∣hā, after the death of Adam 2000. after the birth of Christ 1070.

During this time of Dauid, raigned in Assyria Eupales the 32 king, in Lacedemonia Argis the second king of the Lacedemoni∣ans. Now failed the state of kings in Athens, and there began a new forme of common wealth gouerned by Iudges, which * 1.30 now began by Codrus sonne named Medon, after whose name they were named afterward, Medontidae for a while. Latinus Sylaius raigned the 6. king ouer the Latines, & in Corinth raig∣ned Ixeon the second king of Corinth. About Dauids time there was builded in Asia a citie called Magnesia, and another in I∣talie called Misene, now called Cuma.

Salomon the sonne of Dauid, & the third king of Israel, of the * 1.31 tribe of Iuda, a man endued with singular wisdome, & in great fauour with God, as soone as he had sit on his fathers throne, he remembred the words of Dauid, and with care and zeale he followed his fathers steps in seeking to please the Lord Not∣withstanding, the Israelites being froward and stubborne, e∣uer reuolting from their GOD, were alwayes forgetfull of Gods benefites, as after the death of Dauid fell out: for in Dauids time, Israel flourished, and all things prospered in Iuda.

But scant had Salomon bene annointed king, but Adoniah Sa∣lomons * 1.32 brother aspired to the kingdome secretly and subtil∣lie, seeking the good will of Bethsheba Salomons mother, and by her meanes to haue Abishag, which Dauid his father loued tenderly, to wife. But his craft was found out, and his preten∣sed treason spied by Nathan the prophet, and by Salomon him∣selfe: who perceiuing that Adoniah was the elder brother, and * 1.33 had Abiathar the priest on his side, and Ioab who tooke Adoni∣ahs part when he would haue vsurped the kingdome: Salomon hereby was mooued to make sure waies, and remembring his fathers charge before he died concerning Ioab and Semei, he executed iustice first vpon Adoniah, afterward commaunded * 1.34 Benaiah to fall vpon Ioab for the murthering of Abner Sauls * 1.35 chiefe captaine, and Amasah a nigh kinseman of Dauid, who enuying their fauour & credite with the king, slew them, and was now iustly punished for sheading of bloud.

Now Adoniah and Ioab two great enimies of the king, be∣ing * 1.36 dead, Salomon banished Abiathar the priest, and called to be a priest Sadock in the roome of Abiathar: & so the office of the high priest was taken away from the house of Eli, and re∣stored to the house of Phineas. After that, Salomon called She∣mei, * 1.37 and charged him with the breaking of his othe in passing ouer the riuer of Cedron being forbidden by the king, & char∣ged him further with wickednesse against his father Dauid, in reuiling and cursing of him, and he was likewise slaine by the sonne of Iehoida called Benaia. By this meanes the kingdome of Israel was established in Salomons hands, and Salomon obeied * 1.38 God in all things, and then he taketh Pharaoes king of Egypts daughter to wife.

Iosephus in his eight booke and 2. chapter, saieth: that the kings of Egypt were al called Pharaones from Minaeus time that builded Memphis, vntil the time of Salomon, which was 1300. yeeres: for Minaeus raigned in Egypt many yeeres before Abra∣ham came to Egypt, & this is the cause why Herodotus doth o∣mit the names of the kings of Egypt, euen 330. kings. Salomon repaired the wals of Ierusalē, and went to Gibeon, to sacrifice:

for there their tabernacle was at that time, there was no tem∣ple yet builded to the Lord in Ierusalem. In Gibeon the Lord appeared by dreame to Salomon, and gaue him wisedom more * 1.39 then any prince of the world had, as by his sentence vpō the two harlots appeared.

Salomon flourished and prospered, and farre excelled all the kings of the world: for his wisedom was so abundant, as the sand that is on the sea shore: No Philosopher, no Astro∣loger, no Chaldean magi, no Egyptian priest might apprehend Salomons iudgement, for God was his schoolemaster. Salomon was famous throughout the whole world: hee wrote 3000. * 1.40 Prouerbes, and bookes of Odes and Verses 1000. and made fiue and twentie songs which perished in Ierusalem when Is∣rael was taken captiue vnto Babylon, the temple then being burned, and the citie destroyed. He wrote of all kind of trees, * 1.41 from the Cedar tree that is in Libanon, vnto the Hysope that groweth on the wall. He spake of beastes, fowles and fishes: He wrote of incantations and of other secret artes, which Io∣sephus affirmeth at large. And there came of all countries to heare the wisedome of Salomon, and all the kings about him sent vnto him and sought his fauour.

Now coucerning the princes, rulers and officers which were vnder Salomon, the purueiance for victuals, the number of his horses, and the order of his house, they were almost vn∣credible, were it not written in sacred histories. Salomon raig∣ned ouer all kingdomes from the riuer of Euphrates vnto the * 1.42 land of the Philistines, and vnto the border of Egypt. And to speake of the hospitalitie of Salomon, and to set it downe as it is in the Bible read, it exceeded: for euery day he had 30. mea∣sures of fine floure, and 60. measures of meale for bread: he had ten fat oxen, and 20. oxen of the pastures, and one hun∣dred sheepe, besides Hartes, Buckes, and other diuers fat foules. Salomon had 4000. stalles of horses & chariots, in eue∣rie * 1.43 stall tenne horses, which in all amount to 40000. and he had 12000. horsemen. This blessing had Salomon at Gods * 1.44 hand: for the which benefits he was much bound to set foorth * 1.45

Gods glory, which had giuen him such wisedom to gouern, such rest and peace in his gouernment, that he sent to Hiram king of Tyrus an old friend of Dauid his father for Cedar trees and Firre trees to build a temple to the Lord his God, & Hi∣ram * 1.46 satisfied Salamon to his full desire. Salomon had 7000. men that bare burdens, & 80000. masons in the mountaine, and he had three thousand and sixtie, whom Salomon appointed officers and vnder officers of the worke. As for the forme and frame of the Temple, the height, the bredth, the length, and the deepe foundation thereof, with al things belonging thereunto, as Cherubins, caldrons, bases, cups, pillars, can∣dlesticks, pots, vessels, altars, tables, bowles and basons, it is in order written in the kings. The Temple being fini∣shed, the Arke was brought to the Temple, where the tenne Commaundements were written where Salomon made his praiers to God, to accept their sacrifice, to sanctifie the tem∣ple, and to continue with Israel for euer. Salomon all this while * 1.47 followed the Lord, and therefore God appeared vnto him the second time, as he appeared vnto him first at Gibeon, pro∣mised him that hee would establish the throne of Israel, and defend his people for euer, if they would walke in his wayes: in token whereof the glory of God filled the temple, fire came downe from heauen and consumed their sacrifice, and Gods presence was with Salomon. * 1.48

Now the renowne of Salomon went farre, so that Saba Queene of Aethiope came to Ierusalem to heare Salomon, and to see his porte: but after, Salomon fell from God, hee loued many outlandish women which were idolaters, he followed the women of Moab, of Edom, and of Ammon, and of Sy∣don, that hee had 3. hundred Queenes and Princes that were * 1.49 his wiues, and 700. concubines: these women turned Salo∣mons heart from GOD after the gods of the Gentiles, so that hee worshipped Ashtaroth and Milcom, the gods of the Ammonites, his God forsooke him therefore, and raised vp * 1.50 aduersaries, euen Ieroboam a seruaunt of Salomon, but an o∣uerseer of his worke, whom Salomon sought by diuers

meanes to kill. But Ieroboam fled to Egypt, where he kept him∣selfe till Salomon died. Thus Salomon, whom God with so many blessings had exalted aboue all the kings of the world, left to his sonne Rehoboam whom he loued best, the kingdom of Israel to gouerne: after he had raigned in Israel 40. yeeres, he died before the natiuitie of Christ 1000. yeeres, before the * 1.51 birth of Romulus the first king of Rome, 231. before Alexander raigned king in Macedonia, 666. and before the last destructi∣on of Hierusalem by Titus Vespasian, 1070.

While Salomon gouerned Israel, Laostanes the 33. king of the Assyrians raigned in Niniuie, Labotes raigned in Lacedemo∣nia, * 1.52 and Agesilaus in Corinth. This time gouerned the Atheni∣ans, Agastus the second Iudge of Athens, and Alba Syluius raig∣ned ouer the Latines the 7. king. In Salomons time was Ephesus builded by Andronicus, as Eusebius affirmeth, and in Egypt go∣uerned Simendes called in the scripture Sisac, to whom Ierobo∣am (as you heard) fled from Salomon for feare in the 21. Dina∣steia of the Egyptians. The sonne of Hiram called Baleastartus succeeded in Tyrus, and liued but 7. yeeres. Sadock and Ahiah * 1.53 were now prophets in Israel. Salomon began his kingdome in the yeere of the world, 2930. After the going of Israel out of Egypt 480. yeeres, 12. yeeres before the beginning of the 9. Iubilie, Salomon began to build the temple in the 4. yeere of his raigne, before the building of Rome, 300. yeeres, after the calling of Abraham from Chaldea, 910. yeeres. Salomon buil∣ded to himselfe in Libanon a house for his pleasure, and this was in making 13. yeeres, and was finished 20. yeeres after the building of the Temple, before the monarchie of Ma∣cedonia gotten by Alexander the great, 700. yeeres, and before Augustus Caesars empire 1000. yeeres. Salo∣mon died before Romulus birth, 231. yeeres be∣fore Christ, 1000. yeeres, and before the last destruction of Ierusalem vnder Titus Vespasian. 1070.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Saul was cho∣sen king of Is∣rael.
• * 1.2

  Saul spared Agag, and was reprooued by Samuel.
• * 1.3

  50000. Beth∣shemites slain forlooking in∣to the Arke of the Lord.
• * 1.4

  Samuel hewed Agag.
• * 1.5

  The first a∣nointing of Dauid king of Israel.
• * 1.6

  Deb•…•…ra.
• * 1.7

  Dauid sent for by Saul.
• * 1.8

  Goliah.
• * 1.9

  Dauid slue the great Giant Goliah.
• * 1.10

  Sauls enuie to Dauid.
• * 1.11

  Samuel died at Rama in his own City.
• * 1.12

  1. Sam. 2. 8.
• * 1.13

  Saul killed himselfe iu Gilboa. 1. Sam. 31. 2890 The triumph of the Phili∣stines ouer Saul.
• * 1.14

  Dauid the last time after Sauls death a∣nointed king ouer all Israel. 2. Sam. cap. 5.
• * 1.15

  A battaile be∣tweene Abner the chiefe captaine of Saul, and Ioab the chiefe captaine of Dauid.
• * 1.16

  Ioab killeth Abner.
• * 1.17

  2. Sam. cap. 3.
• * 1.18

  The Moabites and the Phi∣listines are o∣uerthrown by Dauid, and are tributaries to Israel.
• * 1.19

  2. Sam. cap. 8.
• * 1.20

  2 Sam. 11. 12.
• * 1.21

  Ioab was sisters sonne to Da∣uid.
• * 1.22

  Nathan the Prophet sent to accuse Da∣uid of adultery and murther.
• * 1.23

  A•…•…hitophels councell.
• * 1.24

  Absalon killed.
• * 1.25

  Foure battels with the Phi∣listines.
• * 1.26

  Ioab nombred all Israel by the comman∣dement of Dauid. 2. Sam. 24. Troubles in Israel againe.
• * 1.27

  Gad the pro∣phet sent to Dauid.
• * 1.28

  Dauids coun∣sell to Salomon.
• * 1.29

  Dauid dieth.
• * 1.30

  The kings of Athens en∣ded.
• * 1.31

  Salomons raigne.
• * 1.32

  Adoniah Salo∣mons elder brother aspi∣red to the kingdome.
• * 1.33

  Salomons sen∣tence vpon Adoniah.
• * 1.34

  Adoniah slaine
• * 1.35

  Ioab slayne.
• * 1.36

  Abiathar the priest bani∣shed.
• * 1.37

  The office of the high Priest was ta∣ken from E∣lies house.
• * 1.38

  Salomon mari∣ed the daugh∣ter of Pharaoh.
• * 1.39

  Salomon flori∣shed.
• * 1.40

  Salomon wrote 3000. pro∣uerbs and pa∣rables.
• * 1.41

  He wrote of trees from the highest to the lowest, Ioseph. lib. 8. cap. 2.
• * 1.42

  1. Reg. cap. 4.
• * 1.43

  40000. horses.
• * 1.44

  2. Cron. 9.
• * 1.45

  The hospitali∣tic of Salomon.
• * 1.46

  The building of the Tem∣ple. 1. Reg. cap. 7.
• * 1.47

  The Lord ap∣peared to Sa∣lomon the se∣cond time.
• * 1.48

  Saba.
• * 1.49

  Salomon had 300. wiues, 700. concu∣bines.
• * 1.50

  Salomon an Idolater.
• * 1.51

  Salomon died.
• * 1.52

  What kings raigned in o∣ther coun∣treis.
• * 1.53

  Salomon be∣gan his king∣dome in the yere of the world, 2930.