The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

CHAP. XIV.

Noah in the blessing of his son Sem, maketh him in a special manner Lord of the Land of Canaan, Gen. 9. Hither therefore came Sem, and built a City, and called it after his own peaceable condition Salem: here he reigned as a King, but so quiet∣ly and retiredly as that he was a Priest also. In this sequestration of the father from worldly cares and affairs, Elam his eldest son and heir apparent, though he were seated far distant in the East, yet it concerneth him to have an eye to Canaan, and how matters go there, for the land by bequest of his grand-father Noah, descended to him as by the Common Law. This title bringeth Chedorlaomer an heir of Elam from Persia into Canaan, when the five Cities of the plain rebel. Into this war he taketh three partners younger brothers of the House of Sem, Amraphel of Arphaxad, King of Chaldea, Arioch of L••d, King of Ellasar bordering upon Babylonia, and Tidal of Assur King of Nations, and late built Niniveh. These four thus banded together, and all children of Sem, and all in claim of his land against the usurping Canaanites are resolved to march over and so they do, all that Country both within Jordan and without. Their first inrode is upon the Rephaims that lay most North and lay first in their way; and so over run, the Zuzims in Ammon, Emims in Moab, Horites or Hivites that were Troglodytes or dwelt in the rocky Caves of Mount Seir in Edom, as Jer. 49. 10. Obad. ver. 3. And all the Canaanites South-East and full South to Hazezon Tamar a point below the dead Sea: There they turn in to the land of Canaan properly so called, and as they had subdued all the Countries from North to South without Jordan, so now they intend to do from South to North within. And so they did: but when they were come to Dan the North out-going of the land, Abram overtaketh them and conquereth the conquerors, and now he is doubly titled to the land, namely by promise and by victory. This Sem or Melchizedeck observeth upon his return with triumph, and perceiveth that it was he and his posterity to whom the Lord had designed that Land in the prophetick spirit of Noah, and had refused the heirs that were more apparent in Common Law and reason: and therefore he bringeth forth bread and wine the best fruits of the land, and tenders them as livery and s••isin of it, to him, whom he perceived that God had chosen and pointed out for the right heir.