Nor will it further extend the age of Ezra to show, that Ezra went into the Chamber of Johanan, and that he wrote the Books of the Chronicles in ⟨p. 39⟩Johanan's time. For Johanan, alias Jonathan, was the son of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib, the son of Joiakim, 1the son of Jeshua. Now admit each of these to be begotten in the thirtieth year of their fathers age, (observing what we spake before concerning Jeshua) then was Johanan borne in the fifth year of Artaxerxes Longimanus; and so Ezra might very well in the beginning of Artaxerxes his eighth year go into the chamber of Johanan, who was then about 2three years old. And what hinders but that he might write the sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, 3in the Book of the Chronicles, even until the days of Johanan, seeing he lived in the 20. of Artaxerxes, at which time Johanan was 15. years old?
Nor will it further extend the age of Ezra to shew, that Ezra went into the Chamber of Johanan, and that he wrote the Books of the Chronicles in ⟨p. 39⟩Johanan's time. For Johanan, alias Ionathan, was the sonne of Iehoiada, the sonne of Eliashib, the sonne of Ioiakim, 1the sonne of Ieshua. Now admit each of these to be begotten in the thirtieth yeere of their fathers age, (observing what we spake before concerning Ieshua) then was Iohanan borne in the fifth yeere of Artaxerxes Longimanus; and so Ezra might very well in the beginning of Artaxerxes his eighth yeere go into the chamber of Iohanan, who was then about 2three yeeres old. And what hinders but that he might write the sonnes of Levi, the chief of the fathers, 3in the Booke of the Chronicles, even untill the dayes of Iohanan, seeing he lived in the 20. of Artaxerxes, at which time Iohanan was 15. yeeres old?
- 1Neh. 12 v. v. 10 11.
- 2Ezra 10. v. 6.
- 3Neh. 12. v. 23.
