448 Chag.17. An Expofition upon the Book of J 0B. Verf. 6 Plage Zeda- 14.a tangant te,flt frater t.5' femur Zcde- ka.Vatab. the mifery which fell upon the Moabites by that War was put intoVerfe, and pallid into a Proverb, Numb.21.27, 28, 29, 30. Wherefore they thatfpkeakinProverbsfay, Come intoHeJbt bon, let the City ofSihon be built andprepared: For thereis a firegone out of Hefhbon, aflamefrom the City ofSibon,&c.That is, A fierce hot War is made, which hath conftimed ar ofMo- ab, and the Lords of the highplaces of Arnon. Holy David met with this meafure from men in the day of his forrows, Pfal. 069.1o,1.r. When I wept and chaftnedmy foul witbfafling, that was to my reproach, I made Sackcloth my Garment, I became a Proverb ( or a by- word, 'tis job's language ) to them: In the next Verfe he tells us who did this, by way of diftribution, They that fit in the Gate (that is, Great ones )fpeakagainfi me, andI was the Songofthe Drunkard, that is Of the common fort. When thofe falfe Prophets, Ahab and Hezekiah (whQ, toput the Jews into a hopeofa fpeedy return from their Cap. tivity in Babylon,Prophetied the fpeedy ruine ofBabylon it [elf, when, I fay, thofe falte=Prophets ) fhould be cruelly put to death by the command of the King of Babylon, according to thePrediecion ofthe Prophet Jeremiah , then the fame Pro- phet foretells alto, that this judgement ofGodupon them for e their lyes , fhould be made a By-word , and their names a curie, fer. 29, 21,22. And ofthemfhall be takenup a curfe, by all the Captivity offndah, which are in Babylon, Saying,Tbe Lordmake thee like Zedekiah, and like Ahab, whom the King of Babylon raffedin the fire. That fignal ViF oryof Gideon over the Midianites became a proverb in Ifrael, Ifa. 9. 4. As in the day ofMidian. And the Lord promifes his people, that the fall of the King ofBabylon (hall be to notorious, that they [hall take up this proverb, and fay, Hew bath the oppref- for ceafed ? Thegolden City ceared, Ifa. 14. q., The Prophet Habakkuk4 fured them that this fhould be, while he Paid, Chap.6. SR not all Chef e ( certainly they fhali) take up aPa- rable agairljt him; andfay, Wo tohim that encreafeth that which ír not his ; bow long? And to him that ladeth himfelfwith thick ;Clay. Secondly, Obferve. It is agreat buden to be made a difgraceful byword, Thus God threatned to his own people, and numbred it at mong the forefi punifhments of their difobedience, Deut, 28. 37'
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