The Scriptures harmony

First, because the fourth year of Jehoiakim was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar; How then could Nebuchadnezzar ¹come up in the third of Jehoiakim? And to say that Nebuchadnezzar began to reign and came up in the end of the third of Jehoiakim, is contrary to the Text alleged, and also against reason; For what man can imagine, that Nebuchadnezzar should receive his Crown, raise immediately a mighty ⟨p. 23⟩host, subdue all Syria, march afterwards with an ²Army into Judea: (which is near 400. miles from Babylon) the very sight whereof caused Jehoiakim to become his servant, and all this to be done in the very ³end of the third of Jehoiakim?

First, because the fourth yeere of Iehoiakim was the first yeere of Nebuchadnezzar; How then could Nebuchadnezzar ¹come up in the third of Iehoiakim? And to say that Nebuchadnezzar began to reign and came up in the end of the third of Iehoiakim, is contrary to the Text alleadged, and also against reason; For what man can imagine, that Nebuchadnezzar should receive his Crowne, raise immediately a mighty ⟨p. 23⟩host, subdue all Syria, march afterwards with an ²Army into Iudea: (which is neere 400. miles from Babylon) the very sight whereof caused Iehoiakim to become his servant, and all this to be done in the very ³end of the third of Iehoiakim?

1. 1Jer. 25 v. 1.
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