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.

ESAY X, XI, XII, XIII, & XIV. to ver. 28.

AND the same observation also helpeth to methodize these Chap∣ters in Esay, and to remove that doubt that ariseth by comparing Esay 10. ver. 9. 11. with Chap. 14. 28. together, for the former place speaketh of the subduing of Samaria by the Assyrian [which was not till some years after Ahaz his death] and yet the latter speaks but of the the year in which Ahaz died: yet is there no dislocation at all in this, but that taking of Samaria, that Chap. 10. 9. speaketh of was in this first expedition of Shalmaneser against Hoshea, before the twelfth of Ahaz, when he subdued Samaria and her Idols, and brought that King∣dom under tribute. In Esay 10. he threatens to do the like to Jerusa∣lem, and indeed he doth it: He came up to Ajath, passed to Migron, laid up his Carriages at Micmash, lodged at Geba, Cities within Ahaz his do∣minion, and came over the passage, that had been straitly kept as a Fron∣tier between the Kingdom of Samaria and the Kingdom of Judah, &c. and indeed came up to Jerusalem and subdued Ahaz: These were those strong waters that over flowed Judah and Emanuels land in Ahaz his time, Esay 8. 8. and the bitter days that he saw, the like not seen since the ten Tribes revolt, Esay 7. 17. Of these days it is that Hezekiah speaketh, in the very next year, or fourteenth of Ahaz, Our fathers have fallen ••y the sword, and our sons, and daughters, and wives are in cap∣tivity, 2 Chron. 29. 9. And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord, and the Lord gave them up to desolation, as you see 2 Chron. 30. 7. This coming up of the Assyrian King against Jerusalem, was the occasion of Ahaz his spoiling the things of the Temple, his cutting off the borders and bases, and removing the laver and sea, and the covert for the people to stand under on the Sabbath, and his turning away his own entry aside from the house of the Lord, 2 King. 16. vers. 17, 18. Because of the King of Assyria, as saith the Text, either to bestow those things that he thus cut off upon the King, or for fear the King should see too much of the true Religion there, but that Ahaz might shew himself a worshipper of strange gods as well as the King. These sad times, and this expedition the Prophet speaketh of in that

tenth Chapter, but in the eleventh and twelfth he again comforts the house of David with the vertue of the anointing, or with the operation of the promise to the Throne of David: that his lamp should not go quite out till the Branch of the root of Jesse should bud, and a King from thence should bear rule over all Nations. And in Chap. 13. & 14. he Prophesieth against the Kingdom of Babilon, which indeed was but now newly sprung: that this stock of Jesse should out-wear both Assyria and it; and that the anointing or de∣cree that God had made concerning Davids everlasting Throne should be their ruine that strove against it.