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.

VERS. VI.

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Now Iacob's well was there.

OF this Well doth Jacob seem to speak, in those last words of his about Joseph, Gen. XLIX. 22. Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a Well. For Joseph's Off-spring inceased to a Kingdom in Jeroboam, and that in Sichem hard by Jacob's Well. He adds 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 where if you will render 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the Enemy (as it is Psal. XCII. 11. and perhaps Psal. XVIII. 29.) for it is from the Chaldee only, that it signifies a wall; as Buxtorf tell us,] then, the words might be interpreted as a Pro∣phecy concerning those Daughters of Joseph at Shiloh, who passing over to the Enemy restored the hostile Tribe of Benjamin, that otherwise were likely to have perished for want of issue, Judg. XXI. 19, &c. I would render the words, the Daughters go over to the Enemy: and so in the verse are foretold two very signal events that should make

the off-spring of Joseph more peculiarly illustrious; partly that hard by that Well it should encrease into a Kingdom, and that the daughters of that Tribe should restore and re∣build a Tribe that had almost perisht in its hostility against them.

The Greek Interpreters and Samaritan both Text and Version instead of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 read 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, my youngest Son; whether on purpose, or through careles∣ness, I know not; so the Greeks instead of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 read as it should seem 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Turn thou unto me.