the names of the Dukes] From Kings they come down to Dukes againe, God having a power to advance, and depose Principalities; to set up, and pull downe, and to change not onely the Governours, but the manner of government as he pleaseth; for whose succession two hundred years or thereabouts (the length of Edoms regiment limited with Moses death, as by some it is) will be found too little, but after the government of Dukes Moses reckons eight Kings, and after them eleven Dukes again: See 1 Chron. 1. 51. for the King of Edom (it may be) he was degraded to a Dukedome, because of his hard hearted usage of his brother Israel returning out of Egypt, Numbers 20:14. 20. To which the Answer may be, that though the Kings succeeded one another, the eleven Dukes might be contemporaries all at once; or if they be accounted in successiō, Moses by the Spirit of Prophecie, as well foretels their names, and dignities which did succeed when he was dead, as reports precedent matters for many hundred yeares before his birth. To this may be added a third answer (which is yet not to be preferred before the former) viz. that this might be inserted by some such authour as made up the story of the book of Deuteronomie from the fifth verse to the end of the Chapter.