An harmonie vpon the second booke of Samuel wherein according to the methode and order obserued vpon the first booke, these speciall things are obserued vpon euerie chapter. The diuers readings compared, doubtfull questions explaned, places of Scripture reconciled, controversies briefly touched, and morall collections applyed. VVherein neere fowre hundred theologicall questions are handled, with great breuitie, and much varietie, by the former author of Hexapla on Genesis and Exodus.

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An harmonie vpon the second booke of Samuel wherein according to the methode and order obserued vpon the first booke, these speciall things are obserued vpon euerie chapter. The diuers readings compared, doubtfull questions explaned, places of Scripture reconciled, controversies briefly touched, and morall collections applyed. VVherein neere fowre hundred theologicall questions are handled, with great breuitie, and much varietie, by the former author of Hexapla on Genesis and Exodus.
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Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.
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1614.
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Bible. -- O.T. -- Samuel, 2nd -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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"An harmonie vpon the second booke of Samuel wherein according to the methode and order obserued vpon the first booke, these speciall things are obserued vpon euerie chapter. The diuers readings compared, doubtfull questions explaned, places of Scripture reconciled, controversies briefly touched, and morall collections applyed. VVherein neere fowre hundred theologicall questions are handled, with great breuitie, and much varietie, by the former author of Hexapla on Genesis and Exodus." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15403.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.

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13. Quest. v. 16. Of Harapha the father of Ishibenob.

1. The most thinke, and so read, that Harapha was the proper name of the gyant, father vnto those fowre gyants here named: Ar. Pag. Lat. 2. But it seemeth rather to be a common name, signifying a gyant, as the Chald. and Sept. sic Iun. Vatab. as Deut. 2.20. the Zamzummims are called Rephaim Gyants. 3. There was then yet remai∣ning a generation of those gyants, and men of great stature, that were before the flood: as Plinie also writeth, that in his time he sawe a man called Gabbara, brought out of Arabia, vnder the Empire of Claudius, who was 9. foot and nine inches high: he hath also a stranger report of a man found in Creta, in the opening of a monument by an earthquake, that was 46. cubites long: ex Borrh. And as some men exceede in stature, so others haue beene found as little, as Borrh. in the same place maketh menti∣on of a perfit man, that was but a cubite, that is, halfe a yard high, that was carried a∣bout in a parrets cage. 4. But let it be further obserued, that these gyants for the most part, were found among the vncircumcised nations, that were enemies to Gods peo∣ple, both that God might shew his power in beating downe the pride of such as vaun∣ted themselues in their owne strength, and that his owne people should not haue any confidence in flesh and blood. 5. Beside herein Dauid was a type of Christ, who en∣countred with the spirituall gyants, the principallities and powers of darkenes. Borr.

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