A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL TRANSACTIONS Related in THE BOOK OF GENESIS, ACCORDING TO THE COMPUTATION OF ArchBISHOP USHER, WHICH IS CHIEFLY FOLLOWED IN THE PRECEDING NOTES; SHOWING IN WHAT YEAR OF THE WORLD, AND. WHAT YEAR BEFORE CHRIST, EACH EVENT HAPPENED. THE reader will observe, from the chronological notes in the margin of the preceding work, that in a few instances I have departed from the Usherian computation, for which he will find my reasons in the notes. This table I have considerably enlarged by inserting the Edomitish kings and dukes, and a few other transactions of profane history contemporary with the facts mentioned by Moses, by which the reader will have a synopsis or general view of all the transactions of the first two thousand four hundred years of the world, which stand upon any authentic records. The first year of the world, answering to the 710th year of the Julian period, and supposed to be 4004 before the vulgar era of the birth of Christ. Sixth day: Beasts wild and tame, rep- to be a Sabbath, or day of rest for Tenth day The first woman sins, N. B. This opinion, though rendered 1290 2468 1656 2348 an obscure point. 4002 3875 3874 3769 3679 of Methuselah, aged 969 years, The general DELUGE, vii. Noah sends out a raven, viii. 7. – which returns the same day; after 3544 1657 Noah, his family, &c., leave the ark. He 2347 A. M. CHRONOLOGY TO GENESIS. Birth of Arphaxad, son of Shem, xi. 2346 1658 1693 1723 1757 1787 1816 his allies pursues Chedorlaomer, defeats him and the confederate kings delivers Lot and the other captives, 2247 2093 2217 2188 of Peleg, son of Eber, xi. 16. Building of the Tower of Babel, xi. 1–9. 1771 About this time Babylon was built by 2233 the command of Nimrod, Birth of Reu, son of Peleg, xi. 18. Commencement of the regal government of Egypt, from Mizraim, son of Ham. Egypt continued an independent kingdom from this time to the reign of Cambyses, king of Persia, which was a period of 1663 years, according to Constantinus Manasses. Birth of Serug, son of Reu, xi. 20. and is blessed by Melchizedek, king of Salem, xiv. God promises Abram a numerous pos- 1911 terity, xv. 1. About this time Bela, the first king of the Edomites, began to reign, .xxxvi. 32. 2107 God makes a covenant with Abram; 1897 gives him the promise of a son; changes his name into Abraham, and Sarai's into Sarah, and enjoins circumcision, xvii. 1, 5, 6, &c. Abraham entertains three angels on their way to destroy Sodom, &c., xviii. He intercedes for the, inhabitants; but as ten righteous persons could not be found in those cities, they are destroyed, xix. 23. Lot is delivered, and for his sake Zoar is preserved, ver. 19, &c. Abraham retires to Beer-sheba, afterwards sojourns at Gerar. Abimelech, king of Gerar, takes Sarah, in order to make her his wife, but is obliged to restore her, xx. 2083 Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, subdues the kings of the Pentapolis, Sodom, Gomorrah, &c., to whom they continued in subjection 12 years, xiv. 4. The calling of Abram out of UR of the Chaldees, where the family had been addicted to idolatry, Josh. xxiv. 2. He comes to Haran in Mesopotamia, Iwith Lot his nephew, Sarai his wife, and his father Terah, who dies at Haran, aged 205 years, xi. 31, 32. Abram comes to Canaan, when 75 years of age, Gen. xii. 4. From this period the 430 years of the sojourning of the Israelites, mentioned Exod. xii. 40, 41, is generally dated. 1921 2110 Abraham sends away Ishmael, xxi. 2239 2240 2242 2249 Naphtali is born, xxx. 7, 8. deans 224 years before the Arabs 2247 Issachar is born, xxx. 17, 18, Zebulun is born, xxx. 19, 20. 2250 Dinah is born, xxx. 21. 2259 Joseph is born, xxx. 23, 24. 2261 About this time Samlah, the fifth king of the Edomites, began to reign, xxxvi. 36. 2265 Jacob and his family, unknown to Laban, set out for Canaan. Laban, hearing of his departure, pursues him; after seven days he comes up with him at the mountains of Gilead; they make a covenant, and gather a heap of stones, and set up a pillar as a memorial of the transaction, xxxi. Jacob wrestles with an Angel, and has his name changed to that of Israel, xxxii. 24-29. = Esau meets Jacob, xxxiii. 4. Jacob arrives in Canaan, and settles among the Shechemites, xxxiii. 18. 2266 Benjamin born, and Rachel dies immediately after his birth, xxxv. 18. plenty. 2290 About this time was born Manasseh, 1714 1771 Joseph's first-born. 1770 2292 About this time was born Ephraim, Jo 1712 1769 seph's second son. 1768 2296 1765 2297 1767 1762 2298 2300 1757 1755 1754 2301 1739 2303 He sends them a second time, and with 2315 Jacob, having blessed his sons and the sons of Joseph, Ephraim, and Manasseh, dies, aged 147 years. He is embalmed and carried into Canaan, and buried in the cave of Machpelah, xlix. 1. PREFACE TO THE BOOK OF EXO DU S. THE name by which this book is generally distinguished is borrowed from the Septuagint, in which it is called Ecodos, ExODUS, the going out or departure; and by the Codex Alexandrinus, Esodos Ayunтov, the departure from Egypt, because the departure of the Israelites from Egypt is the most remarkable fact mentioned in the whole book. In the Hebrew Bibles it is called " ¡n ve-elleH SHEMOTH, these are the names, which are the words with which it commences. It contains a history of the transactions of 145 years, beginning at the death of Joseph, where the book of Genesis ends, and coming down to the erection of the tabernacle in the wilderness at the foot of Mount Sinai. In this book Moses details the causes and motives of the persecution raised up against the Israelites in Egypt, the orders given by Pharaoh to destroy all the Hebrew male children, and the prevention of the execution of those orders, through the humanity and piety of the midwives appointed to deliver the Hebrew women. The marriage of Amram and. Jochebed is next related; the birth of Moses; the manner in which he was exposed on the river Nile, and in which he was discovered by the daughter of Pharaoh; his being providentially put under the care of his own mother to be nursed, and educated as the son of the Egyptian princess; how, when forty years of age, he left the court, visited and defended his brethren; the danger to which he was in consequence exposed; his flight to Arabia; his contract with Jethro, priest or prince of Midian, whose daughter Zipporah he afterwards espoused. While employed in keeping the flocks of his father-in-law, God appeared to him in a burning bush, and commissioned him to go and deliver his countrymen from the oppression under which they groaned. Having given him the most positive assurances of protection and power to work miracles, and having-associated with him his brother Aaron, he sent them first to the Israelites to declare the purpose of Jehovah, and afterwards to. Pharaoh to require him, in the name of the Most High, to set the Israelites at liberty. Pharaoh, far from submitting, made their yoke more grievous; and Moses, on a second interview with him, to convince him by whose authority he made the demand, wrought a miracle before him and his courtiers. This being in a certain way imitated by Pharaoh's magicians, he hardened his heart, and refused to let the people go, till God, by ten extraordinary plagues, convinced him of his omnipotence, and obliged him to consent to dismiss a people over whose persons and properties he had claimed and exercised a right founded only on the most tyrannical principles. The plagues by which God afflicted the whole land of Egypt, Goshen excepted, where the Israelites dwelt, were the following: 1. He turned all the waters of Egypt into blood. 2. He caused come over the whole land. 3. He afflicted both man and beast with vermin. 4. Afterwards with a multitude of different kinds of insects. pestilence among their cattle. 6. Smote both man and beast with boils. innumerable frogs to immense swarms of. 5. He sent a grievous 7. Destroyed their |