VI. the ancients, not only to these Arabians, but also to some in- CHAP. habitants in Africk, and Sarmatia or Scythia, who followed the like roving manner of life. 17. Of the Galatians, and Lastly, by the Galatians mentioned in 1 Macc. viii. 2. are to be understood, not the fame Galatians, to whom St. Paul wrote one of his Epiftles, and who lived in the Leffer Afia, Spain. but the European Galatæ, or Galatians, called by the Latins Galli; and the greatest part of whose country is now-a-days inhabited by the French: the rest being inhabited by those in the Netherlands, and Germany on the fouth and weft of the Rhine, as alfo by thofe of Lorrain, Switzerland, and Savoy. For the boundaries of Galatia, or old Gaul, were, befides the fea, the river Rhine, and the Varus, and the Pyrenean mountains; which last separated it from Spain, mentioned here by the writer of this hiftory, as conquered by the Romans, as well as the country of the Galatians. And thus I have gone through the history of the Maccabees, and fo through all the hiftorical books, making up, or appertaining to, the Old Testament. A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL, And fuch other more remarkable Particulars, as occurred within the Reigns of the faid Kings, and are mentioned in the Books of Samuel, of Kings, and the other following Books of the Old Teftament. N the Chronological Account, belonging to the first volume of this Hiftorical Geography of the Old Testament, (p. 351.) it has been obferved, that in fixing the chronology of such particulars, as are mentioned in the facred Hiftory between the Exodus (or the Ifraelites going out of Egypt) and Solomon's beginning to build the Temple, we must be guided by 1 Kings vi. I. where we are exprefsly told, that from the Exodus to the beginning to build Solomon's Temple, were four hundred and fourscore years. Agreeably hereunto it has been also there observed, that reckoning backwards from the beginning to build Solomon's Temple, and deducting from four hundred and eighty (which, the forecited facred text tells us, fell in with the fourth year of Solomon's reign) the three foregoing years of Solomon's reign, and the forty years of David's reign, and likewise the forty years of Saul's reign; it will follow, that the last year of the Judges, or the year before the first of Saul's reign, must fall in with the three hundred and ninty-fixth year after the Exodus. And because it is allo highly probable (as has been before observed, vol. i. P. 359.) |