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upon E Z EKIEL ^
an Expedition to Syria and Phoenicia, he died in a Chapter
Ihort time after. .
Villalpandus in like manner makes this Computation
to commence from the beginning of Nabupo-
laffars Reign : See his Commentary upon Ezek. xl.
i. He allows 19 Years for his Reign diftin&from
that of his Son, and fuppofes Nebuchadnezzar to
reign two Years with his Father ^ which indeed agrees
with the Scripture Computation. See the
Note on Jer. xxv. 1. But according to that very
Account, the 5th Year of Jehoiakhis Captivity will
be coincident with the 13th Year of Nebuchad?iezzars
Reign. For the 19th Year of the fame Reign
is affigned for the Deftru&ion of Jerufalem^ Jer.
lii. 12. which was about fix Years afterwards. So
this Computation will make Jehoiakinis Captivity
to have happened not in the 30th, but in the 32d.
Year, reckoning fromthe beginning of Nabu/olajfar's
Reign.
A more probable Anfwer to this difficulty is
that which the Chaldee Paraphrajl, Arch-Bifhop
Ufber A. M. 3409. Dr. VrideauxzA an. A. C. 594.
and other Learned Men follow, viz, that thefe
Thirty Years are to be reckoned from the time
when Jofiah and all the People of Judah entred
into that folemn Covenant mentioned^ 2 Kings xxii.
3. which was in the 18th Year of Jofiah, Ibid,
from which time the fame Learned Writers compute
the 40 Years of Judah's Tranfgrellion, men-
tioned Chap. iv. 6.
Ibid. As I was among the Captives by the River
Chebai] Thofe which were carried away with Jehoiakin,
King of Judah ^ fee the next Verfe. Thefe
were placed in Towns or Villages that lay upon
the River Chebar in Mefopctamia^ called by Ptolemy
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