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.

2 KINGS XVIII. ver. 1. 2, 3. 2 CHRON. XXIX.

[World 3281] [Ahaz 14] [Hezekiah 1] [Hoshea 3] [Division 252] HEZEKIAH reigneth in the third year of Hoshea, and so first it is evi∣dent that he reigned in his fathers life time; for if Hoshea began in the twelfth of Ahaz as he did, 2 King. 17. 1. and Hezekiah began in the third of Hoshea, as he did 2 King. 18. 1. then doth it follow inevitably that Hezekiah began his Reign in the fourteenth of Ahaz, and said to reign sixteen years, 2 King. 16. 2. The reason of this is also resol∣ved out of that observation before, about Shalmanezers first expe∣dition against Samaria, and his then expedition against Jerusalem, for he had subdued and deposed Ahaz, and made him to become as a private man, and set up Hezekiah on the Throne in his stead, whom God had reserved for the benefit of his people, and for an instrument of much glory to himself out of the bloody sacrifices of Ahaz to Molech, and out of the massacring hand of the enemy that slew some of his sons. See 2 Chron. 28. 3. 7. It is said in 2 King. 18. 7. That Hezekiah rebelled against the King of Assyria and served him not; intimating that he had been under the Assyrian homage, but he would bear it no longer, and that in time provoked Sennacherib against him. Secondly, Observe how very young Ahaz was when he begat Hezekiah: He was twenty years old when he began to reign, 2 King. 16. 2. and in the fifteenth year of his reign his son Hezekiah begins to reign, being then five and twenty years old cur∣rent, 2 King. 18. 2. and so was born when Ahaz was but ten years old: the like not to be parallelled again in all the Scripture, unless it was in the very young age of Judah, when he begat his eldest son Er, Gen. 38.