brink of rain, ffezekiah's piety andlfaiah’s prayers were 
a means of preventing it : but under his fon Manaffeh, 
the Jews abandoned themfelves to the inoit horrid inipie- 
ties. To punifli them, Efarhaddon king of Affyria, about 
the zzd year of Manaifeh’s reign, invaded Judea, reduced 
the kingdom, and carried Manaffeh prifoner to Babylon ; 
lie alfo tranfported the remains or the Ifraelites to Media, 
and the countries adjacent. What has become of them 
fince, whether they removed eaftward with the Tartars, and 
partly palled over into America, or how far they mixed 
with the Jews when carried to Babylon, is not known. 
See a Kings i.-xxi, z Chron. xxi.-xxxiii. Amos ii.-ix. 
Hof. i.-xiii. Mic. i. ii. iii. vi. vii. If. i.-x. xvii. xxii. xxiv.- 
xxxi. xXxiii. xxxvi.-xXxix. 
Manaffeh repented, and the Lord brought him back to 
his kingdom, where he promoted the reformation of his 
fubjefts during the reft of his reign; but his fon Amon 
defaced all, and rendered matters as wicked as ever.- His 
fon Jofiah mightily promoted reformation, and brought 
it to fuch a pitch as it had never been fince the reign of 
David and Solomon; but the people were moftly hypo¬ 
critical in it ; and the Lord never forgave the nation the 
murders and. other wickednefs of Manaffeh, as to the ex¬ 
ternal punilhment thereof. After Jofiah was flain by 
Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, the kingdom of Judah re¬ 
turned to their idolatry ; and God gave them up to fer- 
vitdde, firft to the Egyptians, and then to the Chaldeans. 
The fate of their kings, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jechoiachin, 
and Zedekiah, -was unhappy; and fo was the cafe of their 
fubjecis during the twenty-two years of their reigns. It 
is ffiocking to think what famine, peftilence, and murder 
by the Chaldeans, happened among them. Provoked by 
Zedekiah’s treachery, Nebuchadnezzar invaded the king¬ 
dom, hacked and burnt the cities, murdered fuch multi¬ 
tudes, that, of a kingdom once conlifting of about lix 
millions of people under Jeholhaphat, no more than a few 
thoufands were left. Thus the kingdom of Judah was 
ruined, A. M. 34.16, about 388 years after its divilion 
from that of the ten tribes. See 1 Kings' xxi. 18. to the 
end of that book; and z Chron. xxxiii. 'iz. to xxxvi. 21. 
It will be feen by the foregoing abftraft, that the Ifra¬ 
elites had no king of their nation till Saul. Before him, 
they were governed, at firft by elders, as in Egypt; then 
by princes of God’s appointment, as Moles and Joftiua ; 
then by judges, fuch as Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Gideon, 
Jephthah, Samfon, Eli, Samuel ; and lalt of all by kings, 
as Saul, David, Solomon, Rehoboam, &c. We lhall there¬ 
fore, by way of recapitulation, fubjoin a lift of the judges 
and kings down to the captivity, introducing fome other 
particulars, in a chronological order, and beginning-from 
the death of Jolhua. The numbers prefixed denote the 
years of the world. 
Chronological Lift of the Judges. 
a570 The death of Joftiua. 
2585 The government of the elders for about fifteen years. 
2592 An anarchy of about feven years. The hiftory of 
Micah, the conqueft of the city of Lailh by part 
of the tribe of Dan, and the war undertaken by the 
eleven tribes againft Benjamin, are all referred to 
this time. 
2591 The firft fervitude under Cufnan-rifliathaim king of 
Mefopotamia began ; Unddafted eight years. 
.4599 Othniel delivered Ilrael in the 40th year after peace 
eftablilhed in the land by Jolhua. 
662 A peace of about fixty-two years, from the deliver¬ 
ance procured by Othniel, in 2599, to 2662, when 
the fecond fervitude under Eglon king of the Mo¬ 
abites happened. It lafted eighteen years. 
^679 Ehud delivers Ifrael. ’ After him Shamgar governed, 
and the land was in peace till the 80th year after 
the firft deliverance procured by Othniel.- / 
^699 The third fervitude under the Canaanites, which 
lailed tiVenty years. 
•2719 Deborah and Barak deliver the Ifraelites: from the 
E W. 
deliverance procured by Ehud to the end of De¬ 
borah and -Barak’s government, were forty years. 
2768 Abimelech, the natural fan of Gideon, is acknow¬ 
ledged kinej by the Shechemites. He died at the 
fiege of Thebez in Paleltine. 
2772 Tola after Abimelech governs for twenty-three 
years. 
2795 Jair fucceeds Tola, and governs twenty-two ye?rs. 
2799 The fifth fervitude under the Philiftines, which 
lafted eighteen years. 
2817 Jephthah is chofen head of the Ifraelites beyond Jor¬ 
dan, he defeated the Ammonites, who opprelfcd 
them. Jephthah governed fix years. 
2823 Ibzan governs feven years, from 2823 to 2830. 
2830 Elori fucceeds Ibzan. He governs ten years. 
2840 Abdon judges Ilrael eight years. 
2848 The fixth fervitude, under the Philiftines, which 
lafted forty years. 
2848 Eli the high-prieft, of the race of Ithamar, governed 
forty years, the whole time of the fervitude under 
the Philiftines. 
2849 The birth of Samfon. 
2887 The death of Samfon, who was judge of Ifrael dur¬ 
ing the judicature of Eli the high-prieft. 
2888 The death of Eli, and beginning of Samuel’-s go-. 
vermnent, who fucceeded him. 
2909 The election and anointing of Saul, firft king of the 
Hebrews. 
Lift of the Kings cf the Hebrews. 
2909 Saul, the firft king of the Ifraelites, reigned forty 
years. 
2949 Ilhbolheth the fon of Saul fucceeded him, and reigned 
fix or feven years over part of Ilrael. 
2956 David was anointed king by Samuel in the year of 
the world 2934, but did not enjoy the regalpow r er 
till the death of Saul in 2949, and was not ac¬ 
knowledged king of all Ifrael till after the death of 
Iflibolheth in 2956. He died in 2990 at the age of 
feven ty. 
2990 Solomon his fon fucceeded him ; he had received the 
royal unftion in the year 2989. He died in 3029. 
After his death, the kingdom was divided ; and, 
the ten tribes having chofen Jeroboam for their king, 
Rehoboam, the fon of Solomon, reigned only over 
the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. The kingdom 
of the Hebrews remained in an undivided ltateonly 
12.0 years. 
Kings of Ifrael. 
3029 Jeroboam reigned twenty-two years. 
3051 Nadab, one year. 
3052 Baaftia, twenty-two years. 
.3074 Elah, two years. 
3075 Zimri, feven days. 
3075 Omri, eleven years. He had a competitor Tibn? 
who fucceeded ; and died in what year we know 
not. 
3086 Ahab, twenty-one years. 
3107 ^-haziah, two years. 
3108 Jehoram, the fon of Ahab, fucceeded him in 3108. 
He reigned twelve years. 
3120 Jehu ufurped the kingdom in 3120, and reigned 
twenty-eight years. 
3148 Jehoahaz reigned feventeen years. 
3165 Joaflr reigned fourteen years. 
3179 Jeroboam II. reigned forty-one years. 
3220 Zachariah, twelve years. 
3233 Shallum, reigned a month. 
3233 Menahem, ten years’. 
3243 Pekahiah, two years. 
3245 Pekah, twenty years. 
3265 Iiolhea, eighteen years, from 3265 to 3283. Here 
the kingdom of Ifrael had an end, after a duration 
of 254 years. 
