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22 A Commentary
Chapter redoced by Intercalations to the Solar Form. See
IV. Dr. Trideattx, St rip. Hi 'ft. Par. i. p. 281.
(_/"VsJ Ver. 5. Three hundred and ninety 'Days.'] The
Ver. 5. mo ft probable Computation of this time is, to date
its beginning from 'Jeroboam's firft fetting up
the Idolatrous Worfhip of the Golden Calves, to
the la ft Captivity of the Jews, in the Twenty
third Year of Nebuchadnezzar's Reign ; See Jer.
Mi. 30. This feems to have made an entire riddance
of the Natives of the Land, and confequently to
be the finifhing Stroke of the Jewifh Captivity.
Both Judah and Ifrael being now intirely carried
away, whereas before that time many of the Ten
Tribes lived in their own Habitations. See 2 Chron.
xxix. 14. xxxi. 11, 18. xxxii.}}. Ezra, vi. 17.
Ver. 6 Ver. 6. Thoujhak bear the Iniquity of the Houfe
of Judah Forty Days.] This Series of Time may
probably be computed from the Eighteenth Year
of Jofiah, at which time the King and People entred
into a folemn Covenant to ferve and worfhip
God, fo that the Idolatry they were afterward
guilty of received a new Aggravation, as being a
breach of this Solemn Covenant, the greater Part
of the People being ftill Idolatrous in their Hearts
See the Notes on Jeremiah iii. 6— 10. The Thirtieth
Tear mentioned in the beginning of this Prophecy
is fuppofed to take its Date from the Eighteenth
Year of Jofiah, which makes it probable
that the Prophet refers to the fame Mra in this
Place.
Scaliger and fome others begin thofe Forty
Years from Jeremiah's Midi on as a Prophet,
which was in the Thirteenth Year ofjofiah, from
which time till the laft Year of Zjdekiah, when the
City