I.

Of Bahu

rim.

CHA P. II.

Of the Places mentioned in the fecond Book of Samuel, and yet fpoken of; that is, of the Places mentioned in the Hift of David, from the beginning of his Reign, to his appointi his Son Solomon to be anointed King.

TWO days after David was returned to Ziklag, fre

the flaughter of the Amalekites, news were broug him of the death of Saul, 2 Sam. i. 1, 2, &c. Hereupo by the direction of God, he removed to Hebron, and the was anointed King over the house of Judah, chap. ii. 1But Abner, captain of Saul's hoft, took Ifhbofheth the fon Saul, and brought him to Mahanaim, and made him Ki over the other tribes. After this there was long war b tween the house of Saul and the houfe of David. One fig near Gibeon is particularly related chap. ii. ver. 12, & - At length Abner, taking diftafte at Ifhbofheth, goes a makes his peace with David, upon condition he should brin David his wife Michal; which Abner did, her fecond hu band (to whom Saul had given her, after he had first give her to David) going with her as far as Bahurim. Th place is more remarkable, on account of Shimei's behaviou here towards David, when he fled from his fon Abfalom, which we read chap. xvi. ver. 5-14. It appears, from the ci cumftances taken notice of in the context, that Bahurim wa near the mount of Olives, and confequently not far from Je rufalem to the east, and fituated within the tribe of Benjamin Abner being flain by Joab, and Ifhbofheth by two Ben cient state of jamites of Beeroth, David was by the universal consent of al Jerufalem. the tribes anointed King over Ifrael, chap. v. ver. 3. Afte

2.

Of the an

which David went to Jerufalem, and took the ftrong hold Zion. And David dwelt in the fort, and called it, the city of David; and David built round about from Millo and inward and experienced and skilful carpenters and mafons, fent by Hi

ran

་་ སྣ་

II.

ram King of Tyre, built David an houfe, or royal palace. CHA P. Chap. v. ver. 6-11. I take this to be a proper place to speak of the ancient state of Jerufalem, or of the several places thereof, mentioned in the hiftory of the Old Teftament.

3.

In what

chifedek.

It is an opinion generally received, and not without much probability, that Jerusalem is the fame city which, Gen. xiv. fenfe the 18. is called Salem, and whereof Melchifedek is there faid to fame with Satem, the be King. Not that Salem, or the city of Melchifedek, was city of Melof equal extent with Jerufalem in after-times; but Jerufalem was no other than the city of Salem, enlarged and beautified by the Kings of all Israel, David and Solomon, and by fome of the fucceeding Kings of Judah, after the divifion of the twelve tribes into the two distinct kingdoms of Judah and Ifrael.

Of the name

laim.

The word Salem does in the Hebrew language fignify peace, as St. Paul obferves, Hebr. vii. 2. And as the city of Jerufalem, Melchifedek, called Salem, is probably thought to be the or Jerufafame with Jerufalem; fo it is certain, that Jerufalem was otherwise called Jebus; for we expressly read, Josh. xv. 8. that Jebufi, or rather Jebus, (compare 1 Chron. xi. 4.) was the same with Jerusalem. Now as Jerufalem preserves the name of Salem in the last part of it, so it is thought to preserve the name of Jebus in the former part of it, and to be nothing else than a name compounded of Jebus and Salem, and (for better found fake, by the change of one letter, and omiffion of another) foftened into Jerufalem, instead of Jebuffalem or Jebufalem. It is indeed true, that the word, which in the seventy Interpreters, and in others, and so in our English translation from them, is rendered Jerufalem, in the original or Hebrew text is most frequently, if not always, written Jerufalaim, as if it were a dual; whereby may probably be denoted, that the faid city did confift principally of two parts, one whereof was the old city, that was in the time of Melchifedek and of the Jebufites; and the other part was the addition, or new buildings added to the old city by King David and his fon Solomon, or their fucceffors, and which for its largeness might be esteemed as a new city, or new Jerufalem; and fo both thefe two parts together, the old city, or old Jerufalem, and

CHAP. the new city, or new Jerufalem, might give occasion to denote the whole city by the dual name of Jerufalaim.

II.

5.

Of the

Hierofoly

ma.

It is also further obfervable, that the Hebrew word Jerufalem is (I think) always rendered in the Septuagint translation of the Greek name Old Teftament, Jerousalem, or Jerufalem. But in the writings of the New Testament we find it rendered, not always by the forementioned name, but frequently by the name Hierofolyma. As for the latter part of the said name, we find it given (omitting the former part) not only to this city we are speaking of, but also to another in Pifidia or Lycia. Nay, we are told, that there was in Lycia, or more peculiarly in Pifidia, not only a city called Solyma, but also that all the Pifidians in general were formerly called Solymi. Whether the Pifidian city Solyma (from which likely the people took the name of Solymi) was originally called Salem, as well as the city of Judea we are speaking of; or whether the Greeks, as they turned the former part of the name Jerufalem, viz. Jeru, into a word of their own language fomewhat like it, viz. Hiero (i. e. sacred), fo turned also the latter part Salem into the Greek name Solyma, as fomewhat refembling it, is uncertain. But certain it is, that Hierofolyma (into which the Greeks, according to their usual fashion, moulded Jerufalaim or Jerusalem) does import as much as Sacred Solyma; and perhaps the Greeks were induced to use the forementioned word Hierofolyma, not as a fingular, but as a plural, in allufion to the He-. brew Jerufalaim, which feems to be not a fingular, but a dual; and to denote (as is above observed) the two principal parts, of which Jerufalem did confift in the times of the Kings, David and Solomon, and their successors, viz. the old city built before it was taken by David, and the new city added thereunto by David and the fucceeding Kings.

6.

Of the old

city, called by fome the

city of Melchifedek.

As to the old city, or more ancient part of Jerufalem (built before it was taken by David, and made his royal feat), it is ftyled by fome writers the city of Melchifedek; not that it is certain, that he was the founder thereof, nay, the contrary seems more probable; but because this was the city inhabited in the time of Melchifedek. It is fuppofed to have taken up the north or north-west part of Jerufalem.