It is remarkable that about this time great revolutions were accomplishing in the earth. Rome, the mistress of the world as she afterwards became, was about this period built by Romulus, of whom profane historians speak so largely; and which indeed I should not have mentioned in this place, but for the part which the church of God in the days of our Lord had to do with it. Rome at this time begun in its infancy. Seven hundred years after she was arrived at her plenitude, when the Lord Jesus Christ was born.
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2 Chronicles 32:9
9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,