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 CHRON. XXXIII. from vers. 11. to the end. 2 KING. XXI. from vers. 17. to the end.

[Division 307] [Manasseh 26] THE wickedness of Manasseh doth in time bring him into chains in [Division 308] [Manasseh 27] Babel, they bring him to be humbled for his wickedness, and that [Division 309] [Manasseh 28] brings him into his throne again: Both his mind and his estate received a [Division 310] [Manasseh 29] great change and alteration; in what time of his reign he was carried to [Division 311] [Manasseh 30] Babel, and how long he continued there is undeterminable; but upon his [Division 312] [Manasseh 31] return to Jerusalem again he maketh a great reformation, and builded di∣vers [Division 313] [Manasseh 32] great buildings, and garrisoned the strong Cities of Judah.

[Division 314] [Manasseh 33] And now since the Assyrian Monarchy is ready to fall in the next Gene∣ration, [Division 315] [Manasseh 34] let us look back a little upon the growth and rise of it hitherto; [Division 316] [Manasseh 35] and upon the Syrian Kingdom which it hath a good while ago swallowed [Division 317] [Manasseh 36] up. Damaseus the head of Syria, Esay 7. 8. was extantin the days of Abraham, [Division 318] [Manasseh 37] Gen. 15. 2. but not mentioned of any great victoriousness till the days of [Division 319] [Manasseh 38] David, nor then the head of Syria neither; for then was Syria divided in∣to [Division 320] [Manasseh 39] several Kingdoms, as Aram Zobah, Aram beth-Rehob, Aram Naharaim, [Division 321] [Manasseh 40] and Aram Damaseus, 2 Sam. 8. 3. & 10. 8. The chief King among them in [Division 322] [Manasseh 41] those times was Hadadezer, the son of Rehob King of Zobah, and who [Division 323] [Manasseh 42] had now joyned Rehob and Zobah into one Kingdom, and had also [Division 324] [Manasseh 43] brought Aram Naharaim, or some good part of it into the same Monar∣chy. [Division 325] [Manasseh 44] Compare Psal. 60. the title, with 2 Sam. 8. 3. &c. Rezin a servant [Division 326] [Manasseh 45] of his runs away from him, and goes to be King of Damaseus, 1 King. [Division 327] [Manasseh 46] 11. 23. then that City began to peep up, and ere long to be head of all [Division 328] [Manasseh 47] Syria; and these Kings reigned there, Benhadad the son of Tabrimmon, [Division 329] [Manasseh 48] the son of Hezion, in the days of Asa, 1 King. 15. 18. Then Benhadad [Division 330] [Manasseh 49] the Son of this Benhadad in the days of Ahab, 1 King. 20. 134. and of [Division 331] [Manasseh 50] his son Joram, 2 King. 6. 24. Him Hazael one of his Commanders stifled, [Division 332] [Manasseh 51] and reigned in his stead, 2 King. 8. 15. and doth Israel much mischief, [Division 333] [Manasseh 52] 2 Kings 10. 32. Benhadad his son succeeded him, 2 King. 13. 24. and [Division 334] [Manasseh 53] after him reigned Rezin the last King of Syria captived by the Assy∣rian, [Division 335] [Manasseh 54] and Damaseus with him; and so is there an end of the Syrian power.

[World 3365] [Division 336] [Manasseh 55] Manasseh dieth.

Ammon reigneth two years; and is at last slain by his own servants, but his death avenged on those servants by the people of the Land. Whilest the Kingdom of Syria was in its power, the Assyrian Kingdom [World 3366] [Division 337] [Ammon 1] was obscure, and therefore very improperly made by some the first of the [World 3367] [Division 338] [Ammon 2] four Monarchies. No King of it mentioned in Scripture, till Pull in the time of Menahem King of Israel. Famous in Heathen Stories is Sardanapalus, the last King of that Kingdom, whilest it was obscure, and with whom it fell. Before his time it was that Jonah went to Ni∣niveh, and prophesied against it, some thirty or forty years before its fall. In new hands that City and Kingdom began to be great and vi∣ctorious: The first of the Kings of the new race was Pull, so potent that he pull'd a thousand Talents by way of tribute from the King of Israel, 2 King. 15. 19. After him came Tiglath-Pileser into the Assyrian Throne and conquered Syria, and added it to Assyria, 2 Kings 16. 9, 10. Next after him reigned Shalmanezer who captivated the ten Tribes, 2 King. 17. 3, &c. and after him Sennacherib the blasphemous, called also Sargon, as it is probable, Esay 20. 1. Esar-haddon succeeded Sennacherib, and he is the last Assyrian King mentioned, if Asnapper were not one, on that Throne, different from him. Then did Baby∣lon swallow up Niniveh, and Nebuchad-nezzar subdued it, and brought it under the subjection of Babylon, whereas Babel had been lately under the subjection of it.