amounted to seven thousand one hundred talents, which CHAP. VI. comes in our money, fays Dr. Heylin, to one million three hundred thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds. This alfo was the Craffus, that made up the triumvirate with Julius Cæfar and Pompey.

1.

Canaan re

quifite to be here

CHAP. VII.

Of the Land of Canaan, from the firft Plantation thereof after the Flood, to Abraham's coming thereto; as also of the Inhabitants of the adjacent Countries, at the time of Abraham's coming into Canaan.

HAVING followed the feries of the facred hiftory, fo The land of far as to Abraham's leaving his native place, in order to come into the land of Canaan; before we proceed to fpoken of. fpeak of Abraham's fojourning therein, it seems very requifite to give an account of the state of the promised Land, from the first plantation of it after the Flood by Canaan, and his defcendants, till Abraham's coming to fojourn therein,

2.

Canaan

how fituated.

Upon the dispersion of mankind, the country lying on The land of the east and fouth-east of the Mediterranean fea fell to the fhare of Canaan, one of the immediate fons of Ham: fo that he was feated between the nation of Aram, an immediate fon of Shem, to the north and eaft; and the nation of Cush, an immediate fon of Ham, and fo his own brother, to the fouth and fouth-eaft; and the nation of the Mizraim, another of his own brothers, to the fouth-west: his western boundary was the Mediterranean fea.

3.

The de

His defcendants are thus reckoned up by Mofes, Gen. x. fcendants 15-18. Canaan begat Sidon his firfi-born, and Heth, and of Canaan. the Jebufite, and the Amorite, and the Girgafite, and the

4.

Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. These were the feveral families of the nation of Canaan; the fituation of which we must the more particularly enquire into, as being of great use to the clearer understanding of the sacred history, wherein there is frequent mention made of moft of them.

But before we enter upon a particular enquiry after the Of the ori- fituation of each family, it is proper to observe in general,

ginal settle

that

VII.

all the de

that fome of these families feem to have, in process of CHAP. time, fettled themselves without the original bounds of the portion of the earth that upon the firft divifion fell ments of to the lot of Canaan. This feems to be what Mofes inti- fcendants mates in the latter part of the eighteenth verfe and the of Canaan. nineteenth verfe of Gen. x. For ver. 19. Mofes feems to defign to tell us what was the original extent of the land of Canaan: The border, fays he, of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comeft to Gerar, unto Gaza; and as thou goeft unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. Whereby Mofes accurately defcribes the four angles, wherein the four borders of the land of Canaan met; as may be reprefented in grofs by the adjoining diagram.

But now we find fome of the families of Canaan feated without these bounds, in procefs of time, especially to the north; where in the fequel of the sacred history we meet with the Arvadite, and the Hamathite; and in other ancient writings find the footsteps of other Canaanitifh families. And this feems to be no other, than what Mofes defigned to intimate to us, in the latter part of v. 18. where he says, and afterward (i. e. not at first, but in process of time) were the families of the Canaanites Spread abroad, namely, beyond their original bounds; which he then proceeds to inform us of, v. 19. The border (i. e. the original border) of the Canaanites was from Sidon, &c. where the verb [was] plainly confirms the interpretation I give the forecited texts. And having premised thus much concerning the families of the Canaanites in general, I now defcend to the particular fituation of each

PART I. family; and I fhall take them in the order they are mentioned by Moses.

5.

The fitua

tion of Si

firft-born

The fituation then of the family of Sidon, the first-born of Canaan, is evidently marked out to us by the famous don, the city of that name. I have largely spoken of it in my of Canaan, Geography of the New Testament, Part I. chap. vi. §. 3. I fhall only add here, that though Tyre is celebrated by the poets for its antiquity, and the Tyrians themselves were wont to boaft thereof, as may be gathered from Ifa. xxiii. 7. Is this your joyous city, whofe antiquity is of ancient days? yet it is not to be doubted, but Sidon was more ancient; fince in the forecited chapter of Isaiah, ver. 12. Tyre is expressly styled, the daughter of Sidon; by which expreffion is meant, that the Tyrians were a colony of the Sidonians. The fame may also be confirmed from this, that though the Tyrians at length became more confiderable than the Sidonians; yet it is apparent, both from the facred and old writers, that the Sidonians were, in the more early ages of the world, much more confiderable than the Tyrians. As for Tyre, we find no mention made of it in Scripture before the reign of David, except in Josh. xix. 29. But in the foregoing verse, Sidon is expressly ftyled the Great, as being then the chief city of those parts. In like manner it is obfervable, that old Homer never fo much as once mentions Tyre; but a often makes mention of the Sidonians; and not only fo, but gives them the character of Toλudaídaλo, that is, of being ingenious in feveral arts. And agreeably hereto, all good fashions in drefs, all good workmanship in making veffels for ufe, and also all pretty contrivances in toys, are afcribed, by the forementioned old poet, to the ingenuity and induftry of the Sidonians.

6.

The fecond family of Canaan mentioned by Mofes, is The fitua- that of Heth, whofe defcendants are frequently styled in Hittites. Scripture, the children of Heth, or in fhort Hittites. As

tion of the

a Iliad. xxii. ver. 743. et Iliad. vi. ver. 289. Odyff. xv. ver. 114. et Odyff. iy. ver. 54. >

VII.

Sidon planted himself in the north of the land of Canaan, CHA P. fo Heth planted himself in the fouthern parts thereof, about Hebron. For thus we read, Gen. xxiii. 3. that when Sarah was dead at Hebron, Abraham Spake to the fons of Heth about the purchase of a burying-place; to which when they readily agreed, it is faid, ver. 7. that Abraham ftood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth. In like manner we read, Gen. xxvi. that during Ifaac's dwelling at Beersheba, another city in the fouth of the land of Canaan, his son Efau took two Hittite women to him for wives. So that it may be reasonably inferred, that the family of Heth settled itself in the parts about Hebron, between this and Beersheba, that is, in the fouthern part of the land of Canaan, and more particularly in the mountainous part thereof, or hill country as it is termed, Luke i. 39. Agreeably hereto, Josh. xi. 3. the Hittite is mentioned dwelling in the mountains, as well as the Jebufite, of whom we are to speak next.

the Jebu

This family was feated about Jerufalem, which was 7. originally called Jebus, as we are exprefsly told, 1 Chron. Situation of xi. 4. And David and all Ifrael went to Jerufalem, which fites. is Jebus; where the Jebufites were, the inhabitants of the land. Where, by this laft clause, the inhabitants of the land, feems to be plainly denoted this, that the Jebufites were the original inhabitants of this tract of the land of Canaan, from the firft plantation after the Flood. So that the Jebufites adjoined on to the Hittites, in the mountains towards the north.

3.

8.

the Amo

As the Hittites and Jebufites, fo alfo the Amorites dwelt in the mountainous or hilly part of the land of Ca- Situation of naan, as is intimated in the forecited Jofh. xi. and is rites. exprefsly afferted, Num. xiii. 29. where the men, that were sent to search out the land, give this account of it to Mofes, and their brethren the Ifraelites, as to the fituation of the feveral families of the Canaanites: The Hittites, and the Jebuftes, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the fea, and by the

coaft