A new history of the Holy Bible, from the beginning of the world, to the establishment of . joiirhey From the Upper Syria, one daysjourney fromthe Euphrates, and fix days journey from Babylon : And thereafon he gives why Solomon was inclined to build a city inthis place, was, becaufe in all the country round about, therewas no fuch thing as a well or fountain, but in this fpot only,to be found. If may guefs by the ruins, which later tfavei-Jers give us the defcripiltm of, this city was certainly one of thefinelt and moil magnificent in the eaft, and it is fornewhat fur-prifi
A new history of the Holy Bible, from the beginning of the world, to the establishment of . joiirhey From the Upper Syria, one daysjourney fromthe Euphrates, and fix days journey from Babylon : And thereafon he gives why Solomon was inclined to build a city inthis place, was, becaufe in all the country round about, therewas no fuch thing as a well or fountain, but in this fpot only,to be found. If may guefs by the ruins, which later tfavei-Jers give us the defcripiltm of, this city was certainly one of thefinelt and moil magnificent in the eaft, and it is fornewhat fur-prifing, that hiftory (hould ^ive us no account, either when orby whom it was reduced to the fad condition wherein it lies atthis day. But the trud reafon for his building this tovvn in fodefolaie a place, Was the commodioufnefs of its lituation, to cutrfl^all corntnerce between the Syrians and Mefopotamians, andto prevent their caballing and confpiring together a^ainft him,as they had done againil his father David ; Le Clercs the isader is defiroui to know the prefent (late of this ruin- I~Vi^-^-^i. */ ^>\ ^^^:^^ , 1,!?;^ ?:\T/ .\W^ ^,Hi <-^7ir^/ < ?? -A1,?•.? p4- Chap. I. from the building cf the Timple, isfe. 1 j the king of Egypt took from the Canaanites, and gave it A. dower with his daughter. He fortified all the cities ^oor, &c,which he made his magazines for corn, wijie, and oil, and ^ where his chariots and horfes were kept. He fubducd ^ ^^.^ ^ *^*all the Hittitcs, and Hivites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, iicinosviii,that any where remained in the land of Ifrael, and laid ono ^^f <^<ithem all the drudgery, and fervile labour : But * as for his ^-X^IC^own fubjecls, he appointed them either to be furveyors of his works, or guards to his pcrfon, or commanders in the ,^.army, or traders and merchants^ that fo he might makehis nation as famous, and as rich and flourifhing, as it waspoffible to be efFcdl:ed by human policy. But
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