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THE
WORKS
OF
SIR WALTER RALEGH, KT.
NOW FIRST COLLECTED:
TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED
THE LIVES OF THE AUTHOR,
BY OLDYS AND BIRCH.
IN EIGHT VOLUMES.
VOL. V.
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
BOOKS III. IV.
OXFORD,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
MDCCCXXIX.
OF the time passing between the destruction of Jerusalem and
the fall of the Assyrian empire.
P. I
Sect. I. Of the connection of sacred and profane history.
Sect. II. A brief rehearsal of two opinions, touching the begin-
ning of the captivity, with an answer to the cavils of Porphyry,
inveighing against St. Matthew and Daniel, upon whom the
later of these opinions is founded.
3
Sect. III. That the seventy years of captivity are to be numbered
from the destruction of Jerusalem, not from the migration of
Jechonia.
6
Sect. IV. Sundry opinions of the kings which reigned in Babylon
during the seventy years.
8
Sect. V. A more particular examination of one opinion touching
the number, persons, and reigns of the Babylonian kings. 14
Sect. VI. What may be held as probable of the persons and times
of Nabuchodonosor's successors. 19
Sect. VII. Of the victories which Nabuchodonosor obtained be-
tween the destruction of Jerusalem and conquest of Egypt. 23
Sect. VIII. That Egypt was conquered, and the king therein
reigning slain by Nabuchodonosor, contrary to the opinion of
most authors; who following Herodotus and Diodorus, relate
it otherwise.
27
Sect. IX. How Egypt was subdued and held by Nebuchadnez-
zar.
31
Sect. X. Of the sundry accounts drawn from sundry acts of Ne-
buchadnezzar, and of the destruction of Nineveh by him; the
time of which action is uncertain.
34
Sect. XI. Of the later time of Nebuchadnezzar; his buildings,
madness, and death.
Sect. XII. Of Evilmerodach.
36
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