A N Univerfal History, FROM THE Earlieft AccOUNT of TIME. Compiled from ORIGINAL AUTHORS; AND Illuftrated with MAPS, CUTS, NOTES, &c. WITH A GENERAL INDEX to the Whole. *Ισορίας αρχαίας ἐξέρχεται μὴ κατανόει· ἐν αὐτοῖς γὰρ ευρήσεις Bafil. Imp. ad Leon. fil. VOL. IV. IN RECTO LONDON: Printed for T. OSBORNE, in Gray's-Inn; A. MILLAR, in MDCCXLV II AN Univerfal History, FROM THE Earliest Account of Time. VOL IV. BOOK I. The ASIATIC Hiftory to the Time of ALEXANDER the Great. CHAP. VII. SECT. VIII. The Hiftory of the Jews under the Judges; or, from the Death of Joshua, to Saul their first King, T HIS degenerated epoch is prefaced by the facred hiftorian, in more places than one, with words to this effect; In thofe days there was no king in Ifrael; but every man did what was good in his own eyes; and is indeed filled with little elfe than the most horrid apostasies and idolatries on the Ifraelites fide, and with the most severe punifhments inflicted on them by GOD on the other; to fay nothing of fome tranfactions mentioned in the five laft chapters of that book; though, in point of time, belonging rather to the beginning of it, during the time of its anarchy B 2 |