Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.

The Trauels of Ieroboam the second of that name King of Israel.

THis Ieroboam succeeded his father Ioas in the Kingdome of Israel, and began his raigne Anno mundi, 3123, and before Christ, 845, which according to the text of the Bible, happe∣ned about the 15 yeare of Amasia King of Iuda, and hee raigned 41 yeares, 2 Reg. 14. He kept his court at Samaria, where the Pro∣phet Ionas told him, that he should recouer not only the townes and cities of the land of Israel that had beene lost, but also the cities of Hemeth and Damascus: Wherefore he gathered a great army out of the citie of Samaria, and went thence vnto Hemeth or Antiochia in Syria, which was 248 miles. This Citie he con∣quered, and all the countrey thereabout; so that he recouered all the ancient Townes and Cities that belonged to Dauid and Saul, euen from Hemeth in Syria, to Soba in Armenia, with all the Cities, Townes, Castles, and Countries, neer adjoyning to them, 2 Reg. 14.

From Hemeth or Antiochia, he went to Damascus, which is 140 miles. This citie he also tooke, and all the countrie of Syria round about, he made tributary to him, 2 Reg. 14.

From Damascus he went to the Red sea, euen 320 miles: and also recouered all the South part, which in times past belonged vnto the kingdome of Israel, 2 Reg. 14.

After this, he returned to Samaria his owne countrey, which was 192 miles: where, in the 41 yeare of his raigne, he died, and was there buried. After his death, the kingdome of Israel was

oppressed with tyranny, vntill it was destroied by forreine nati∣ons: and for the space of 12 yeares there was no King that suc∣ceeded him. In the raigne of this king (a little before his death) there hapned an horrible earthquake; of which you may reade A∣mos 1. which without doubt did foreshew some eminent changes that should happen in that kingdome, as did afterward, Zac. 41.

So all the trauels of Ieroboam, (the second of that name) were 900 miles.