The year 2990.
David dieth, being seventy years of age; not any other of all the Kings of Judea lived so long.
The harmony of the Old and New Testament and the obscure texts explained with a relation especially to the times that preceded Christ and how they meet in him, his genealogie and other mysteries preparatory to his first coming / written in French by John d'Espagne ... ; and published in English by his executor.
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- The harmony of the Old and New Testament and the obscure texts explained with a relation especially to the times that preceded Christ and how they meet in him, his genealogie and other mysteries preparatory to his first coming / written in French by John d'Espagne ... ; and published in English by his executor.
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- Espagne, Jean d', 1591-1659.
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- 1682.
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"The harmony of the Old and New Testament and the obscure texts explained with a relation especially to the times that preceded Christ and how they meet in him, his genealogie and other mysteries preparatory to his first coming / written in French by John d'Espagne ... ; and published in English by his executor." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38607.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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How came it to pass, that those Kings, whom God had established, had so short a life? That the people of God might aspire unto the Kingdom of the Messias, 'Twas necessary that the temporal King∣dom of Judah should be of a short con∣tinuance, and in the shortness thereof, God would have a great diversity, both of Kings and of Events, to be seen, and that for divers reasons. That diversity had not been so great, nor so abundant, if there had been but a small number of Kings; and there number had been very few, if every one of them had lived a long time; for three or four had filled all the time of the duration of that Kingdom. 'Twas therefore expedient, that one should soon give place unto another. And this is the reason why their lives were so short, in comparison of many other men who were their Con∣temporaries, as Barzillai, and Jehoiadah, 2 Sam. 19. 2 Chron. 24.
In that same year 2990, Solomon be∣gins his Reign; he and his race possessed the Kingdom of Juda to the year 3420, which ended in Zedekia; this was 430 years, a number of the same length of time as that which passed from the Pro∣mise to the Law.