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Rh any one city whatſoever, as now happened in Jeruſalem.

Thus was Jeruſalem taken and utterly deſtroyed, in the ſecond year of Veſpaſian, and on the eighth day of the month Gorpieus; having been five times taken before, i. e. by Azchaeus king of Egypt: Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria; Pompey and Herod, with Sofius: who did all preſerve the city after it was taken. But Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, laid it waſte one thouſand three hundred and ſixty years, eight months, and ſix days, after the building of it.

The firſt founder of it was a Canaanitiſh prince called Melchizedec, which in the Hebrew language ſignifies a juſt king; for ſuch was he in an eminent manner. He firſt dedicated the city to God; erected a temple in it, and officiated in the quality of prieſt, giving it the name of Jeruſalem, which before was called Solyma.

When David, the king of the Jews, came afterwards to drive out the Canaanites, he planted his own people there. And in four hundred and ſeventy-ſeven years, and three months after this, it was laid waſte by the Babylonians.

From the reign of David there, to the deſtruction of the city by Titus, it was one thouſand one hundred and ſeventy-nine years; and two thouſand one hundred and ſeventy-nine from the foundation of it. But neither