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.

Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675., G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696., Strype, John, 1643-1737.

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CHAP. I.

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VERS. 11.

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And Iosias begat Iechonias.

THE Sons of Josias were these: The first born Jochanan, the second Joachim, the third Zedechiah, the fourth Shallum, 1 Chron. III. 15. Who this Shallum was the Jeru∣salem Talmudists do dispute. aR. Jochanan saith, Jochanan, and Jehoachaz were the same. And when it is written, Jochanan the first born, it means this, That he was the first born to the Kingdom: that is, He first Reigned. And R. Jochanan saith, Shallum and Zedekias are the same. And when it is written, Zedekias the third, Shallum the fourth; he was the third in birth, but he reigned fourth. The same things are produced in the Tract bSotah. But R. Chimchi much righter: cShallum, saith he, is Jechonias, who had two names, and was reckoned for the Son of Josias, when he was his Grandchild, (or the Son of his Son.) For the Sons of Sons are reputed for Sons. Compare Jer. XXII. vers. 11. with 24. and the thing it self speaks it. And that which the Gemarists now quoted, say, Zedekiah was also called Shallum,〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉Because in his days Shalmah, an end, was put to the Kingdom of the Family of David: This also agrees very fitly to Jechonias, Jer. XXII. 28, 29, 30.

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