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. II. Ver. 11. to the end. And CHAP. III. to Ver. 11.

[Othniel 28] WHEN these stories are read, the story returns to Chap. 2. 11. and rela∣teth [Othniel 29] the spreading of Idolatry over all the Tribes, as it had done over [Othniel 30] that of Dan, and how mixt marriages with cursed Canaanites undo Israel; their [Othniel 31] first afflicter is Cushan Rishathaim a Mesopotamian: he oppressed them eight [Othniel 32] years: it is like he broke in upon the Tribes that lay on the other side Jordan, [Othniel 33] as those that lay nearest to his own Country, and there got possession for so [Othniel 34] many years together, and incroached upon them within Jordan by degrees, as [Othniel 35] he found strength and opportunity: but Othniel of Judah maketh good the [Othniel 36] Prophecy of Judahs being a Lions whelp, &c. and so the tents of Cushan come in∣to [Othniel 37] affliction, &c. Hab. 3. 7. The consideration and observing that the first forain [Othniel 38] oppressor of all others that troubled Israel in their own land, was a man of [Othniel 39] Aram Naharaim, or a Mesopotamian; it cannot but call to mind the dealing of Laban with Jacob in that place: and it is a matter of question and some strange∣ness,

how and why a man of that Country of all others should thus op∣press theirs.