Annotations upon the remaining historicall part of the Old Testament. The second part. to wit, the books of Joshua, Judges, the two books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, and the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther : wherein first, all such passages in the text are explained as were thought likely to be questioned by any reader of ordinary capacity : secondly, in many clauses those things are discovered which are needfull and usefull to be known ... and thirdly, many places that might at first seem to contradict one another are reconciled ... / by Arthur Jackson.

CHAP. XIIII.

Vers. 1. SO Abijah slept with his fathers, &c. and Asa his sonne reigned in his stead.] In the twentieth yeare of Jeroboam, 1. Kings 15.9. where al∣so are many severall Annotations that may serve for the explaining of severall passa∣ges in this chapter.

Vers. 9 And came unto Mareshah.] A city in Judah, Josh. 15.44.

Vers. 13. And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar.] Which was a city of the Philistines; whereby it seems very probably that they also joyned with the Ethiopians in invading the land of Judah; especially be∣cause it is expressely also said in the following verse, that they smote all the cities round about Gerar.

Vers. 15. They smote all the tents of cattell, &c.] That is, the tents of the Arabians, who indeed were wont to dwell in tents, and so to remove from place to place for the feeding of their cattell. It seems the Ethiopians passing through Ara∣bia,

the Arabians aided them in their invasions of the land of Judah; and so now Asa and his souldiers smote their tents and carryed from them abundance of cattel.