A fruitfull commentarie vpon the twelue small prophets briefe, plaine, and easie, going ouer the same verse by verse, and shewing every where the method, points of doctrine, and figures of rhetoricke, to the no small profit of all godly and well disposed readers, with very necessarie fore-notes for the vnderstanding of both of these, and also all other the prophets. The text of these prophets together with that of the quotations omitted by the author, faithfully supplied by the translatour, and purged of faults in the Latine coppie almost innumerable, with a table of all the chiefe matters herein handled, and marginall notes very plentifull and profitable; so that it may in manner be counted a new booke in regard of these additions. VVritten in Latin by Lambertus Danæus, and newly turned into English by Iohn Stockwood minister and preacher at Tunbridge.

Vers. 4.

Thus also hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, and beh•••••• the Lord God called to iudgement by fire, and it deu••••red 〈◊〉〈◊〉 great deepe, and did eate vp a part.

* 1.1THe second vision, wherein the second punishment decreed ••∣gaynst the Israelites is shewed vnto the Prophet. And this 〈◊〉〈◊〉 shewed vnto him vnder the likenes of fire raging far abroad, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 deuouring a certaine great deepe, and land or possession: and ful∣ly in the forme of fire with great shaking, and crackling, and lab••••∣ring, getting the vpper hand of great masses and heapes of thi•••• that were in the way of it, or set agaynst it. Therefore this fire 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sayd to be called to iudge or contend, and to fight, because 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the matter layd agaynst it would not easily yeeld vnto it. This ••••∣fliction or punishment happened after the former already expo••••∣ded. And it was,* 1.2 when as Thelgat Phalnasar King of Assyria ca∣ried away two tribes: and the halfe tribe of Manasses the which were beyond Iordan, and a part of the Kingdome of Israel. Of th•••• history is mention 1. Chron. cap. 5. ver. 26. in these wordes. A•••• the God of Israel stirred vp the spirit of Pul King of Asshur, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneeser King of Asshur, and he carried them away euen the Reubenites and the Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manesse••

and brought them vnto Halah, and Habor, and Harah, and to the ri∣uer Gozan, vnto this day. See more hereof 2. King. cap. 15. ver. 29. and cap. 16. ver. 9. Of this also seemeth the Prophet Isai to meane cap. 9. ver. 1. where it is thus written: Yet the darkenes shall not bee according to the affliction, that it had when at the first hee touched lightly the land of Zebulun, and the land of Nepthali, nor afterwards when he was more grieuous by the way of the sea beyond Iordan in Ga∣lile of the Gentiles. For at that time that whole countrey and pos∣session, the which was as a deepe, as being seated in the valleyes and monnataines of Galaad, was consumed with fire, that is, affli∣cted, by reason of the most grieuous warres which were then, and the desolation, or wasting of the land, which was then brought in and made. Thus doth my friend Franciscus Iunius notably ex∣pound this place.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The second vi∣sion.
• * 1.2

  When this fire was, and what it may be vn∣derst••od to be.