92 The Nile is the Nahal Mitzraim, 



phraies ; and, as it is defcribed in the latter, to be the Caufe 

 of great Plenty and Abundance ; agrees in every Circumftance 

 with the iV/Ze", and confequently cannot, with any Propriety, 

 be afcribed to that little, obfcure, infignificant Torrent at 

 Rh'mocorura\ provided there was, in Fad:, any fuch Thing. 

 noShefame ^^ ^^^^^ thctt, in thcfe Texts, appears to be no other River 

 Boundary. ^-^^^ ^^q Ntk, thtxQ is fufficicnt Rcafon to take it for the 

 fame, wherever and as often foever as it may occur in the H. 

 Scriptures. And of this, I prefume, the following Texts will 

 be a fufficient Proof and Demonftration. For i Chron,!-^. s. 

 where Damd is faid to gather all Ifrael together, from Sihor 

 of Egypt, even unto the entering in of Hamath\ Solomon, in 

 the parallel Texts, i Kings 8. 65-. and zChron. 7. 8. is faid to 

 have kept a great Feaft and all Ifrael with him, from the en- 

 tering in ofHamath unto the River of Egj/pt. Sihor of Egypt 

 and The River of Egypt therefore, appear from thefe Texts, to 

 be indifputably one and the fame River. 

 Ihlmilfnefs We meet with the fame Thrafeology, defcriptive likewife, 

 Sw'^rt^heas it appears to be, of the Extent of the Land of Tromife, in 

 ^"'' the Prophet y4mos (6. 14-.) where it is faid, they fij all affiidt you 

 from the entering in of Hamath unto the River of the Wilder- 

 nefs. Which may further confirm what has been hinted at 

 already, that The River of the Wildernefs, or, as it may be 

 otherwife rendered. The Weftern River, w^as another Name 

 only for the Nile, or The River of Egypt. 

 wer^e^^af one Thc Promifc theu which God made to Abraham, that he 

 theMn^pJf-^^^^'^^^'^^^'' hl^ Seed the Land, from the River of Egypt , (i.e. 

 Se^w^^^"^ ^^yp^ itfelf, as Jofephus ' underftood it, AntiqA. 8. c. x.) 

 efPromife. ^^fQ fjjQ j^iqjer Euphrates, was either fulfilled by his Servant 

 Jofhua, or afterwards by David and Solomon, i Kings 9. 10. 

 X Chron. 8. 7. &c. And though fome Part or other of This 

 promifed Land, either as it bordered upon the Euphrates, the 

 Kile, or the entring in of Hamath % might not always con- 

 tinue in the PolTeffion of the Ifraelttes ; yet it is fufficient, in 



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 S^wMoa. f^^i Til« fCiyj<7tvai, l^mpp^oi' 'mti-yovTi! aiim tfogfus 7m^ rav t^vav. 



2 Hamath, the Seat ofthe Hamathite, was fituated about twelve Leagues to the Eaft- 

 ward of thelUandof^r/'/W : and is called, at prefent, Hamab or El Hatnmah, being the 

 Apamea, or rather the Epiphan'ta of the profane Geography, (vid. Map. of Syria &c. Trav. 

 p. 321.) Tlje entering in of Hamath will therefore denote, that the Ifraelttes were Mailers 

 of ail the Parts ofSjria to the Southward ^ viz. of the fine extenfive Plain, called the Jeune, 



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