(a) Ezekiel prophefie:h against Tyre. [Ch. 19 xxvi and xxvii.] He upbraideth the then King, Ithobal] Ch. xxviii. 10 He prophefieth against Zidon. [ver. 21.] alfo against Pharao, and the Egyptians. [Ch. xxx. and xxxi.] --N. B. DANIEL's Wisdom was now fo tamed, as to be proverbially spoken of. [ch. xxviii. 3.] ---Now in the 11th of Zed. the City was broken up. [2 Ks. xxv. 4.] Ab 7th. The Temple and City were burnt. [ver. 8.]-Gedaliah was left Governour. But foon after he was kill'd by Ifhmael; who fled for it. The refidue of the Jews fearing the King of Babylon because of the murder of Gedaliah ftole away into Egypt, against the word of the Lord to them by Jeremiah: [ch. xlii.] to their utter deftruction there after, And as for the very few that still kept in Judaa, to them. In this,

Kings of

Babylon.

Ithobal.

Can. Nebuchadnezzar the Son after his father's death.

Scrip

4ture. The Years of his reign reckoned from his reigning two Years in conjunction with his father before his death.

Judah.
Captivity of
ings of
Fudah. Zedekiah.

teconiah.
Captivity of

II

12

12

34

13

14

(d) While Nebuchadnezzar lay at this fiege 23 was the laft carrying away of the Jews by NeBuxaradan. [Jer. lii. 30.] The Defolation of the Land being now fully compleated, therein were fulfilled the Prophefies of Ifaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, relating thereunto: in particular that of Ezekiel ch. iv. 1---8, God's Forbearance of the Houfes of Ifrael, and fudah being now abfolutely at an an end.] See Prid. Con. Hift. p. 88. See also above p. 70, &c.]

Kings of

Babylon.

18

11 581

1927 25 12 580
20 2826 13 579
29 27
3028

Can. Nebuchadnezzar the fon after his father's death,

Scrip

37, 35

ture. The Years of his reign reckon'd from his reigning two Years in conjunction with his father before his death

Judah.

Captivity of

Feconiah.

Captivity of

24

25

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22

26

27 28

29

21

30

31

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32

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(a) Pala-Tyrus, or old Tyre after a 13 Years fiege was now taken by Nebuchadnezzar, in the 19th of King Ithobal, who was flain in the conclufion of this War. [Ezek. xxviii. 8----10.] The Inhabiants removing to an Ifland about half a mile diftant from the Shore, built there the City afterward fo famous by that Name.

34

Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar the son after his father's death.

SCRIPTURE CHRONOLOGY,

Years before

Kings of

Chrift.

Babylon.

Tyre.

Feconiah.

Scripture.

Can.

Ptol.

Captivity of

Captivity of

Judah.

4.0

32

41

42

34

(b) Next his Son Evil-merodach reigned. 46
N. B. In the 37th of Jeconiah's Captivity, in the
twelfth month, the 27th day of the month.
[2 Kings xxv. 27.] whereby we are brought down
into this year being the firft of Evil-merodach, he
releafing feconiah out of prifon fhew'd him fingu-
lar favours. [ver. 32.] See above t. 68, &c. where it
is fhewn from the exprefs teftimony of Jofephus
that now [and not 20 years before, as Mr. L.
hath imagin'd, but] AFTER Nebuchadnezzar's
death, Ev--mer. forthwith gave Jeconiah his
Enlargement.

985

(d) Died Niricaffolaffarus, or Nerigliffar SI
bravely fighting with victorious Cyrus. His
Son Laborofuarchod, fucceeding reigned 9 months
from his father's death in the beginning of
Spring: But thofe 9 months being after the Thoth
of that Year, and having their end, before another
Year began, the whole of that year is reckoned in
to the laft of Nirigliffar, and therefore Laborofoar-
chod is not in the Canon of Ptolemy. [it being the
way in that Canon not to give any King a place
in it, who had no first of Thoth (*) but to give it
to his Predeceffor.]

2560

559 (6)

558 6 556(d)

5 557

N: B. The first month of the Egyptian Year was called Thoth from whence as the beginning of the Egyptian Year Ptolemy dates the beginning of Kings reigns.

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