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. XXI. to Vers. 15.

[David 36] THree years famine lye upon the Land for the offence of Saul: He in a [David 37] zeal to Israel and Judah would expel the Amorites and destroy them [and [David 38] with them all Wizards and Witches] and with them he also falls upon the Gi∣beonites and destroyeth them, though Joshua had made a Covenant with them: That these three years famine began the next year after the year of Absaloms rebellion the Text seemeth to hint in the phrase 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in vers. 1. The year after that year: for in all the Scripture wherein mention of famine is made, it only saith, There were seven years famine, or ten years famine, &c. and that is enough, and is used constantly, to denote that there was famine so many years together, and it never telleth that there was famine so many years year after year. And therefore this expression here seemeth rather to joyn the three years of famine to the story before, then to one another: However, we shall find a passage in the story of Davids numbring the people, that directs us very well about the time of these years.