Davids thanksgiving and prayer.

Chap.vij.

His victories, and justice.

Hos. vi. 5.

15. Phil. x. 37-42.

16. That is, to be given by father to the children of the house.

17. This was begun in David as a figure, but according to him.

18. This is the law of man?

19. According to this law.

20. And of what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant.

Deut. x. 4-7.

1. O Israel.
2. And in exultation, happy in God.
3. From the Egyptians (their doles, etc.) He therefore said that God free election is the only cause, but the Israelites were chosen to be his people.

4. This is not according to the truth, but the church itself.
5. God's glory, &c.
6. The accountability of his homes.

7. The Lord found his heart despoiled.

8. Therefore he must be believed in that come to pass.

14. *I will be thy father, and thee shall be my sonne; and * if the sonne, I will chaisten him with the rod of men, and with the plagues of the children of men.

15. But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul whom I have put away before thee.

16. And thine house shall be stablished and thy king done for ever before thee, even thy throne shall be stablished for ever.

17. According to all these words, and according to all this vision, Nathan spake thus unto David.

18. Then king David went in, as late before the Lord, as I said, who am I, O Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

19. And this was yet a small thing in thy sight? O Lord God, therefore thou hast spoken also of thy servants house for a great while : but * doth this apperteine to b man, O Lord God?

20. And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant.

21. For thy words be false, according to thine own heart hast thou done all these great things, to make them known unto thy servant.

22. Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

23. *And what one people in the earth is like thy people, like Israel? whose God went to be redeemed them to him selfe, if they might be his people, and that hee might make him a name, and doe for i you great things, and terrible for thy land, O Lorde, even for thy people, whose thou redeemed is to thee out of Egypt, from the nations, and the peoples?

24. For thou haft m ordeined to thy selfe thy people Israel to be thy people for ever: and thou Lord art become their God.

25. Now therefore, O Lorde God, confirm me for ever the word that thou haft spoken concerning thy servant and his house, and doe as thou haft laid.

26. And let thy name be magnified for ever: for by them that shall say, The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel: * let the house of thy servant David be stablished before thee.

27. For thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, haft reveiled unto thy seruant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant bin bold to pray this prayer unto thee.

28. Therefore now, O Lord God, (for thou art God, and thy words be true, and thou haft told this goodnes unto thy servant)

29. Therefore now we let it please thee to blesse the house of thy seruants, if it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord God, haft spoken it: * let the house of thy seruant be blessed for ever, with thy blessing.

C H A P. VIII.

1. David unites himself to the Philistins, and other strange nations, and makes them tributaries to Israel.

After * this now, David smote y Philistins, and subdued them, & David tooke the bridle of bondage out of the hand of the Philistins.

2. And he smote Moab, and measured them to a cord, &c. as they came to the ground: he measured them with a two cords to put them to death, & with one ful corde to keepe them alive: so became the Moabites David's seruants, and brought giftes.

3. David smote also Hadadezer the sonne of Rehob King of Zobah as he went to re covering his border at the river Euphrates.

4. And David tooke of them a thousand and seven hundred men, twenty thousand footmen, and David destroyed al the characts, but hee reserved an hundredth char acts of them.

5. Then came the Aramites of Dâmelek to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, but David flewe of the Aramites two and twenty thousand men.

6. And David put a garison in Aram of Dimelek: and the Aramites became seruants to David, & brought giftes. And the Lord saued David wherefoever he went.

7. And David tooke the fields of gold that belonged to the seruants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

8. And out of Betah, and Berothai (cities of Hadadezer) King David brought exceeding much brasse.

9. Then King Toion of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the hoste of Hadadezer,

10. Therefore Toi lent Joram his sonne unto King David, * to salute him, & to reioyce with him because he had fought against Hadadezer, and beaten him ( for Hadadezer had warre with Toi) who brought with him beffels of silver, and beffels of gold and beffels of brasse.

11. And King David did dedicate them unto the Lorde with the silver and golde that he had dedicate of all the nations, which he had subdued:

12. Of Aram, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistins, and of Amalek, and of the spoyle of Hadadezer the sonne of Rehob King of Zobah.

13. So David gate a name after that he returned, and had slaine of the Aramites in the valley of salt eightene thousand men.

14. And he put a garison in Edom: throughout all Edom put he souldiers, and all the people of Edom became David's seruants: and the Lord kept David whitherfoever he went.

15. Thus David reigned ouer all Israel, and executed judgement and justice unto all his people.

16. And Joab the sonne of Zeruiah was duer of the holt, and Jo haphat the sonne of Ahilud was a recorder.

17. And Zadok the sonne of Ahitub, & Ahilneucheth the sonne of Abiathat, were Priestes, and Seriah the scribe.

18 And

Mephiboſheth Jonathans ſonne.

H. Samuel.

Davids ſeruants ill handled.

"Or, was ouer
the Cherethites
h The Cherethites & Deles
therefore as the kings
gard, and had
charge of his
person,

2 Because of
none orthe and
promises made
to Jonathan,
1, Lam. 20, 15.

b Such meſers,
are as halbe
acceptable to
God.
Chap. 44.

c Who was
also called E-
ham, the fa-
ther of Bath-
sheba, Davids
wife,

"Or, lands,

d Meaning,
a depited pet
ſon.

"Or, nephewe:

e That Mephi-
phiboheth
may have all
things at cou-
mandement
as before
a kings ſonne.

f That Mephi-
phiboheth
may have all
things at cou-
mandement
as before
a kings ſonne.

g, Chro. 19, 12.

18 And Benatahu the ſonne of Jehoiada" &
the b Cherethites and the Elethites, and
Davids ſonnes were chieſe rulers.

C H A P . I X .

21 David resteth all the lands of Saul to Mephiboheth the ſonne of Jonathan. 10 He appointeth Ziba to fee to the prieſor of his lands.

3 And David ſaid, Is there yet any man
left of his house of Saul, ? I may there
him mercy for ? Jonathan's ſake?

And there was of the houſholde of Saul a
ſeruant whose name was Ziba, and when
they had called him into David, the King
laid vnto him, Art thou Ziba? And he ſaid,
I thy ſeruant am he.

Then the King ſaide, Remaineth there yet
none of the houſe of Saul, on whom I may
the v that the b mercyp of God? Ziba the anſwe-
red the King, Jonathan hath yet a ſonne
* lame of his ſeete.

4 Then the King laid vnto him, Where is he?
And Ziba laid vnto the King, Behold, he is
in the houſe of Machir the ſonne of Ammi-
el of Lo-debar.

5 Then King David lent, and tooke him
out of the houſe of Machir his ſonne of c Am-
miel of Lo-debar.

6 Aowe when Mephiboſheth the ſonne of
Jonathan, his ſonne of Saul was come vnto
David, he ſel on his face, and did reuerence.
And David ſaide, Mephiboſheth ? And he
anſwered, Behold thy ſeruant.

7 Then David ſaid vnto him, ſeare not: fo:
I will surel ſhewe thee kindnes for: Jona-
than thy fathers ſake, & will reſtoze thee all
the fieldes of Saul thy father, & that hali
eat bread at my table continually.

8 And he bowed himselfe, and ſaid, What is
thy ſeruant, that thou houldest looke vpon
such a dead dog as I am?

9 The the King called Ziba Sauls ſeruant,
ſaide vnto him, I haue giuen vnto thy ma-
kers ſonne al that pertained to Saul and
to all his houſe.

10 Thou therefore e and thy ſonnes and thy
ſeruants ſhal till the land for him, and bring
in that thy maſters ſonne may haue food to
cate. And Mephiboſheth thy maſters ſonne
ſhal eat bread alway at my table (now Zi-
ba had ſiſtene ſonnes, & twenty ſeruants)

11 Then ſaid Ziba vnto the King, According
to all that my lord the King hath comman-
ded his ſeruant, so shall thy ſeruant do, that
Mephiboſheth may cate at my table, as one
of the Kings ſonnes.

12 Mephiboſheth also had a yong ſonne na-
med Micha, & all that dwelled in the houſe
of Ziba, were ſeruats vnto Mephiboſheth.

13 And Mephiboſheth dwelt in Jeruſalem:
for he did cate continually at the Kings ta-
ble, and was lame on both his ſeete.

C H A P . X .

4 The meſengers of David are viſibouſly entreated of the king of
Ammon. 7 Joab is ſent againſt the Ammonites.

1 After this, the * King of the children of
Ammon dyed, and Hanun his ſonne
reigned in his stead.

2 Then ſaid David, I will ſhow kindnes vnto Hanun the ſonne of Mahal, as his fa-

ther ſhewed kindnes vnto me. And David
a The childe
ſent his ſeruants to comſoſ him for his fa-
ther. So Dauſd ſeruantes came into the
land of the childeſ of Ammon.

And the prieſes of the childeſ of Ammon
laid vnto Hanun their lord, Thineſt thou
that David doth honour thy father, that he
hath ſent comſoſters to thee: hath not Da-
uid rather ſent his ſeruauantes vnto thee, b to
ſeare the citie, and to iepe it out, and to o-
uerthow it?

4 Wherſoſe Hamun tooke Dauſd ſeruants,
and ſhaued of the halſe of their beard, and
cut of their garmentes in the middle, euen
to their buttockes, and ſent them away.

5 When it was told vnto David, he ſent to
meete them ( for the men were exceeding
ly alhamed and the King ſaid, Tary at Je-
richo, vntill your beardes be growen, then
returne.

6 And when the childeſ of Ammon ſawe
that they e ſtanke in the fight of David, the
childeſ of Ammon ſent and hired the" Am-
ramites of the houſe of Rehob, and the A-
ramites of Zoba, twentie thouſand ſtoſe-
men, and of King Maacah a thouſand me.
and of Ith-tob twelve thouſand men.

7 And when David heard of it, he ſent Joab,
and al the hoſte of the ſtrong men.

8 And the childeſ of Ammon came out, and
put their armie in arap at the entring in of
the gate: and the Aramites of Zoba, e of
Rehob, e of Ith-tob, and of Maacah were
by themelues in the field.

9 When Joab ſawe that the front of the bat-
tel was againſt him before and behinde, he
chose of al the choſe of Israel, e put them in
aray against the Aramites.

10 And the reſt of the people he Delivered into
the hande of Abiſhai his brother, that he
might put them in aray against the childeſ
of Ammon.

11 And he ſaid, If the Aramites be ſtronger
then I, thou ſhalt helpe me, and if the chil-
dren of Ammon be to ſtrong for thee, I will
come and fuccour thee.

12 Be ſtrong e let vs be valiant for e our peo-
ple, and for the cities of our God, and let the
Lord do that which is good in his eyes.

13 Then Joab, and the people that was with
him, ioyned in battell with the Aramites,
who ſled before him.

14 And when the childeſ of Ammon ſawe
that the Aramites ſled, they ſled also before
Abiſhai, and entred into the citie. So Joab
returned from the childeſ of Ammon, and
came to Jeruſalem.

15 And when the Aramites ſaw that they
were ſmitten before Israel, they gathered
them together.

16 And "Hadarezer ſent, and brought out the
Aramites that were beyond the" River: e zer.
"Or, Expulſated
they came to Helam, and Shobach the cap-
taine of the hoſte of Hadarezer went before
them.

17 When it was theſwed David, then he ga-
thered

["David lyeth with Bath-sheba.", "Chap.xj.xij.", "Vriah is murdered.", "126", "f. Meaning, the greatest part.", "thered <sup>1</sup> all Israel together, and passed out of Jordan <sup>2</sup> to Telam: <sup>3</sup> the Aramites set themfelves in aray against David, and fought with him:", "1 Which <sup>4</sup> there was the chiefest <sup>5</sup> and most principal <sup>6</sup> in all the destroyed <sup>7</sup> cities, <sup>8</sup> as Chaldeans, <sup>9</sup> the Gileadites, <sup>10</sup> which were in <sup>11</sup> 2000 <sup>12</sup> charrettes.", "18 And the Aramites fled before Israel: and David destroyed <sup>13</sup> seven hundred <sup>14</sup> charrettes of the Aramites, and fourty thousand men: <sup>15</sup> and smote Shobach the capitaine of his host, who dyed there.", "19 And when al the Kings, that were fermants to Hadareer, <sup>16</sup>faw that they fell before Israel, they made peace with Israel, <sup>17</sup> served the <sup>18</sup> and the Aramites feared to helpe the children of Ammon any more.", "CHAP. XL", "1 The citie <sup>19</sup> Rabbah is beſtred. 4 David committedly abdicated. 17 Uziah is David. 27 David married Bath-sheba.", "2 The <sup>20</sup> were following as part of the King's <sup>21</sup> time. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21.", "3 WInteren <sup>22</sup> he <sup>23</sup> was to <sup>24</sup> eat <sup>25</sup> the <sup>26</sup> children, <sup>27</sup> as read <sup>28</sup> of <sup>29</sup> the <sup>30</sup> children <sup>31</sup> Chap. 47.", "4. Who <sup>32</sup> was not an Israelite but, <sup>33</sup> born, but connected <sup>34</sup> to the true <sup>35</sup> nation, <sup>36</sup> Gen. 12:19-21, 13:19.", "5 Learning <sup>37</sup> the <sup>38</sup> law <sup>39</sup> he <sup>40</sup> was <sup>41</sup> born <sup>42</sup> and <sup>43</sup> came <sup>44</sup> into the law.", "* David <sup>45</sup> thought that if <sup>46</sup> David <sup>47</sup> lay with his wife, <sup>48</sup> his <sup>49</sup> children might be <sup>50</sup> called.", "5 Uziah <sup>51</sup> was <sup>52</sup> then touch <sup>53</sup> David's <sup>54</sup> consences, <sup>55</sup> that <sup>56</sup> seeing the <sup>57</sup> children <sup>58</sup> and <sup>59</sup> relis <sup>60</sup> of him, <sup>61</sup> David <sup>62</sup> declared <sup>63</sup> himself to be <sup>64</sup> David <sup>65</sup> and <sup>66</sup> famous <sup>67</sup> so <sup>68</sup> he <sup>69</sup> was.", "", "1 And when the <sup>70</sup> pere <sup>71</sup> was <sup>72</sup> expired in the time when <sup>73</sup> Kinges <sup>74</sup> goe forth to battle, David <sup>75</sup> sent <sup>76</sup> Joab, and his fermants with him, and al Israel, who <sup>77</sup> destroyed the children of Ammon, and beſtred Rabbah: <sup>78</sup> but David remained in Jerusalem.", "2 And when it <sup>79</sup> was evening <sup>80</sup> tide, David <sup>81</sup> arose out of his <sup>82</sup> bed, and walked <sup>83</sup> upon the <sup>84</sup> roome of the Kinges palace: <sup>85</sup> from the <sup>86</sup> roome he <sup>87</sup> saw a woman <sup>88</sup> washing her self: and the woman <sup>89</sup> was very beautiful <sup>90</sup> to look upon.", "3 And David <sup>91</sup> sent and inquired what woman it <sup>92</sup> was: <sup>93</sup> one <sup>94</sup> sayd, <sup>95</sup> Is not this Bath-sheba the daughter of Eliam, wife to Uziah the <sup>96</sup> Hittite?", "4 Then David <sup>97</sup> sent messengers, and tooke her away: <sup>98</sup> and <sup>99</sup> she <sup>100</sup> came <sup>101</sup> into him and hee lay with her: <sup>102</sup> now <sup>103</sup> she <sup>104</sup> was <sup>105</sup> purified from her vncleannes) and <sup>106</sup> she <sup>107</sup> returned <sup>108</sup> into her house.", "5 And the woman <sup>109</sup> conceived: <sup>110</sup> therefore <sup>111</sup> she <sup>112</sup> sent and <sup>113</sup> told David, and said, <sup>114</sup> I am with childe.", "6 Then David <sup>115</sup> sent to Joab, <sup>116</sup> saying, <sup>117</sup> Sed me Uziah the Hittite. And Joab <sup>118</sup> sent Uziah to David.", "7 And when Uziah <sup>119</sup> came <sup>120</sup> into him, David <sup>121</sup> demaunded him how Joab <sup>122</sup> did, <sup>123</sup> howe the people fared, and how the warre prospered.", "8 Afterward David <sup>124</sup> faide to Uziah, <sup>125</sup> Go downe to thine house, <sup>126</sup> a wath thy feete. So Uziah <sup>127</sup> departed out of the Kinges palace, <sup>128</sup> to the King <sup>129</sup> sent a prefent after him.", "9 But Uziah <sup>130</sup> slept at the <sup>131</sup> door of the King's palace with all the fermants of his <sup>132</sup> lord, and <sup>133</sup> went not downe to his house.", "10 Then they <sup>134</sup> told David, <sup>135</sup> saying, <sup>136</sup> Uziah <sup>137</sup> wet not downe to his house: and David <sup>138</sup> said <sup>139</sup> into Uziah, Commest thou not from thy iourney? <sup>140</sup> why didst thou not go downe to thine house?", "11 Then Uziah <sup>141</sup> answered David, <sup>142</sup> The Arke and Israel, <sup>143</sup> a Judah dwell in tentes: <sup>144</sup> a my lord <sup>145</sup> Joab and the fermants of my lord abide in the open fields: <sup>146</sup> shall I then go into mine house to eat <sup>147</sup> a dinke, <sup>148</sup> a ye with my wife, <sup>149</sup> by thy life, and by the life of thy soule, <sup>150</sup> I will not do this thing.", "12 Then David <sup>151</sup> said <sup>152</sup> into Uziah, <sup>153</sup> Tary yet this day, and to morow <sup>154</sup> I will send thee a-", "way. So Uziah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morow.", "13 Then David <sup>155</sup> called him, and hee <sup>156</sup> did eate and drinke before him, and hee <sup>157</sup> made him a dinke: <sup>158</sup> and at euen he went out to lie on his couch with the fermants of his <sup>159</sup> lord, but went not downe to his house.", "14 And on the morow David <sup>160</sup> wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uziah.", "15 And he <sup>161</sup> wrote: <sup>162</sup> thus in the letter, <sup>163</sup> But ye Uziah in the fore front of the strength of the battel, and recule <sup>164</sup> yee <sup>165</sup> backe from him, that he may be smitten, and die.", "16 So when Joab beſtred the city, he <sup>167</sup> atſigned Uziah <sup>168</sup> unto a place, where he <sup>169</sup> knew that strong men were.", "He <sup>170</sup> made him dinke <sup>171</sup> more liberally than he <sup>172</sup> was wont to do, <sup>173</sup> thinking <sup>174</sup> here he <sup>175</sup> would have hen by his wife. The <sup>176</sup> beſtred. <sup>177</sup> Reçipt <sup>178</sup> continually <sup>179</sup> upbome <sup>180</sup> vs <sup>181</sup> with his muchie spirit, the most perfect <sup>182</sup> fall headlong into all vices <sup>183</sup> abomination.", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19", "20", "21", "22", "23", "24", "25", "26", "1", "Then Joab <sup>183</sup> sent and <sup>184</sup> told David all the things concerning the warre,", "19 And he <sup>185</sup> charged the messenger, <sup>186</sup> saying, <sup>187</sup> when thou haſt made an ende of telling all the matters of the warre <sup>188</sup> into the King,", "20 And if the Kinges anger arise, <sup>189</sup> so that hee <sup>190</sup> say <sup>191</sup> unto thee, <sup>192</sup> and hereafter <sup>193</sup> approached <sup>194</sup> ye into the citie to fight? <sup>195</sup> knewe <sup>196</sup> yee not that they would hurle from the wall?", "21 Who <sup>197</sup> move <sup>198</sup> Abimelech <sup>199</sup> lonne of <sup>200</sup> Jeruſa- <sup>201</sup> Uzeth? <sup>202</sup> did not a woman take a piece of a mil- <sup>203</sup> one <sup>204</sup> upon him from the wal, and he <sup>205</sup> died in Thebe? <sup>206</sup> why went you <sup>207</sup> the wal? <sup>208</sup> The <sup>209</sup> say <sup>210</sup> thou, <sup>211</sup> Thy fermant <sup>212</sup> Uziah the Hittite is also dead.", "22 So the messenger <sup>213</sup> went, and came <sup>214</sup> thew- <sup>215</sup> ed David all that Joab <sup>216</sup> had sent him for.", "23 And the messenger <sup>217</sup> said into David, Certeaely <sup>218</sup> the me <sup>219</sup> preuailed against vs, <sup>220</sup> a came out <sup>221</sup> into vs into the field, but we <sup>222</sup> purified them <sup>223</sup> into the entring of the gate.", "24 But the shooters <sup>224</sup> (not the wal) against the fermants, and some of the Kinges fermants <sup>225</sup> be dead: <sup>226</sup> and the fermant <sup>227</sup> Uziah) the Hittite is also dead.", "25 Then David <sup>228</sup> said into the messenger, <sup>229</sup> Thus <sup>230</sup> <sup>thou</sup> <sup>thou> said</sup> into Joab, <sup>231</sup> Let not this thing <sup>232</sup> trouble thee: <sup>233</sup> for the two de- <sup>234</sup> tureeth <sup>235</sup> one atwell as another: <sup>236</sup> make the battel more strong against the city <sup>237</sup> to destroy it, and encourage <sup>238</sup> thou <sup>239</sup> him.", "26 And when the wife of Uziah heard that her husband <sup>240</sup> Uziah was dead, <sup>241</sup> the mourned for her husband.", {"bbox": [449, 11

David reproued, repenteth. The

II. Samuel.

childe dyeth.

Salomon borne.

2 The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oren:

3 But the poor had none at all, saue one little sheepe which he had bought, and nourished vp; and it grew vp with him, and with his children also, and did eat of his owne morsels, and dianke of his owne cuppe, and slept in his bosome, and was vnto him as his daughter.

4 Now there came a "stranger vnto the rich mä, who" refused to take of his owne sheep, and of his owne oren to dresse for the stranger that was come vnto him, but tooke the poor mans sheepe, and dresse d for the mä that was come to him.

²Or, wayfaring man.

³Or, spared.

‡Or, the anger of David was kindled.

‡Or, is the child of death. Exod. 12:1.

5 Then Daud was exceeding worth with the man, and said to Nathan, As the Loide liueth, the man that hath done this thing, ‡ shall surely die,

6 And he shall restore the lambe * foure fold, because he did this thing, and had no pitce thereof.

7 Then Nathan faide to Daud, Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, * I anointed thee King ouer Israel, a de-luiered thee out of the hand of Saul,

8 And gaue thee thy lordes * houle, and thy lordes * wines into thy bosome, & gaue thee the house of Israel, and of Judah, & would moreover (if that had bene in his light) have thee * such and such things.

¹Sam. 16:17.

b For Daud increased. Dant my this kingdom.

c The Jews under Dant, this of Egypt and Michae, of Phisich.

d In Phisich.

e That is, greater things then the like: for God's love & benefits create toward his, if by their inclinacion they lay him not.

f Thou haſt molten crueltie given him into the hands of God's enemies.

Druc. 2:10.

chsp. 16:2.

g Meaning, opens, as at noone dapes.

Ezek. 47:11.

h For the Lord gefeeth but that the firmer would come to him. I. In fome, that the Lord hath appaied a wicker man to raine over his peple.

i To wit, to his prime chamber.

9 Wherefore haſt thou deuied the comma-dement of the Lord, to do euil in his light? thou haſt killed Uziah the Hittite with the sword, & haſt taken his wife to be thy wife, and haſt flaine him with the sworde of the children of Ammon.

10 Now therefore the sworde thal neuer de-parte fro thine house, because thou haſt de-fended mee, and taken the wife of Uziah the Hittite to be thy wife.

11 Thus faith the Lord. Behold, I will raiſe up euil against thee out of thine own house, and will * take thy wines before thine eies, and give them vnto thy neighbour, and hee shall lie with thy wines in the light of this * funne.

12 For thou diddest it secretly: but I will doe this thing before all Israel, and before the funne.

13 Then Daud laid vnto Nathan, * I haue finned against the Lord. And Nathan said vnto Daud, The Loide also hath * put away thy funne, thou haſt not die.

14 Howbeit because by this deede thou haſt caused the enemies of the Loide to * bla-cpheme, the child that is borne vnto thee thal surely die.

15 I So Nathan departed vnto his house: and the Lord stoke the childe that Uziah's wife bare vnto Daud, and it was fique.

16 David therefore befought God for the child, and faſt and went in, and lape all night upon the earth.

17 Then * Elders of his house arose to come vnto him, and to cause him to rise from the

ground: but he would not, neither did yee eat * meate with them.

18 So on the seuenth day the childe dyed: & the ſeruants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they faide. Be-hold, while the childe was alive, wee spake vnto him, and hee would not hearken vnto our boye: how then that we ſap vnto him. The childe is dead, * to vere him more?

19 But when David ſaw that his ſeruants whiſpered, Daud perceived that the childe was dead: therefore David ſaide vnto his ſeruants, *Is the child dead? And they ſaid, He is dead.

20 Then David arose from the earth, & wa-shed and anointed himſelfe, and chaunget his apparel, and came into the house of the Lord, & worſipped, & afterward came to his own house, & a bad that they should let bead before him, and he did eate.

21 Then ſayd * his ſeruants vnto him, What thing is this, that thou haſt done? thou diddest haſt and weepe for the child, while it was alive, but wherethan childe was dead, thou diddest rive bp, and eat meat.

22 And he ſaid, While the childe was yet a-thing, I faſt, and wept: for: I ſaid, who ca-tell whether God will have mercy on me, & the child may live?

23 But now being dead, wherefore should I now haſt? * Can I bring him againe any-more? I shall goe to him, but he shall not re-turne to me.

24 And Daud comfor ted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in vnto her, and lape with her, * and he bare a ſone, and * he called his name Salomon: also the Lord loued him.

25 For: the Lord had ſent * by Nathan * to Jez-diah, because the Lord loued him.

26 Then Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, & tooke the * city of the kingdome.

27 Therefore Joab sent messengers to Daud, laying, I haue fought against Rabbah, and haue taken the citie of waters.

28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, & believe the citie, that thou maist take it, least * the victory be attributed to me.

29 So Daud gathered all the people together, and went against Rabbah, and believed it, and tooke it.

30 * And he tooke their Kinges crowne from his head, (which wayed a * talent of golde, with precious stones) & it was set on Dauids head: and he brought away the spoile of the citie in exceeding great abundance.

31 And he carped away the people that was therein, and put them under * faſes, and under pron harrows, and under aces of pron, and caſt them into the tyle kilne: eucl thus did he with all the cities of the childe of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned vnto Jerusalem.

k Thinking by his own maner that God would have rettored his childe, but God had * therewiie be-torment.

l David, and he will do his handels.

l Sheuing that our lamesions ought not to be erres, but maner: a that we must naſe God in all his boinge.

m As they which came there not, that God grameth man things to the lottes and tears of the faithfull.

n 2 Cor. 15, 23. The consideration he appraised his tojowse.

1 Cor. 16:1.

o Titus, 1, 5.

p 1 Cor. 16:9.

q 1 Cor. 16:9.

r To call him Salomon.

s 1 Cor. 16:9.

t 1 Cor. 16:9.

u 1 Cor. 16:9.

v 1 Cor. 16:9.

w That is, the citie cup, and where all the communities are, is as good as that. If any name he called upon it.

1 Chr. 10:4.

x That is, the fleshe, and pound after the weight of the common taſtet.

y Signifying, that as they were maters and enemies of God, & trut thus did they with all the cities of the childe of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned vnto Jerusalem.

CHAP.

["Ammons inceſt with Tamar.", "Chap. xiiij.", "Abſalom layeth Amnon.", "127", "C H A P. XIII.", "14 Anion Amuus ſonne deſleth his lſter Tamar. 19 Tamar is caſuall by her brother Abſalom. 19 Abſalom therefore lſter Amnon.", "1", "Now after this to it was, that Abſalom the ſonne of David having a faire lſter, whose name was a Tamar, Amnon the ſonne of David loued her.", "a Tamar was David's sister, but his father, and mother, and Amnon heare by faſt.", "b And there ſo long in her father loued by his ſons were acuallained.", "", "And Amnon was so ſore bexed, that he ſelke ſo: for his lſter Tamar : for: he was a virgint, and it keemed hard to Amnon to do any thing to her.", "But Amnon had a friend called Jonadab, the ſonne of Shimeah Amuus brother: a Jonadab was a very subtle man.", "4", "Who ſaid vnto him, Whp art thou? Kings ſonne so leane from day to daye? wilt thou not tell me? Then Amnon anſwered him, I loue Tamar my brother Abſalom's lſter.", "c Where the ſee that there is in no enuironment, that canlend count to further.", "5", "And Jonadab ſaid vnto him, Lie downe on thy bed, and make thy ſelke ſicke : and when thy father shall come to ſee thee, laye vnto him, I play thee, let my lſter Tamar come, and giue mee meat, and let her deſelle meate in my fight, that I may ſee it, and eat it of her hand.", "6", "C So Amnon lay downe, as made himselfe ſicke: and when the King came to ſee him, Amnon ſaid vnto the King, I play thee, let Tamar my lſter come, and make me a couple of cakes in my fight, that I may receive meate at her hand.", "d Meddining, ſome detiare and drump meat.", "7", "Then Daud lent home to Tamar, laying, Go now to his brother Amnon's house, and deſelle him meat.", "Orgaſſe.", "8", "C So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house, and he lay down: and the tooke flowe, and knead it, and made cakes in his fight, as did bake the cakes.", "9 That is, the ſeruie of the house.", "c Say, who diuined are Almnon to vse poyſage man, which they are not Almnon in company in the light of God.", "10", "Then Amnon ſaide vnto Tamar, Biting the meat into the chamber, that I may eate of thine hand. And Tamar tooke the cakes which he had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.", "11", "And when he had let them before him to eate, he tooke her, and ſaid vnto her, Come he with me, my lſter.", "Lad. 18, 9.", "12", "But he anſwered him, Nay, my brother, do not ſoſce me: for no ſuch thing * ought to be done in Israel: commit not this ſoly.", "a Or, how shall I call my name?", "b As Almnon and David were", "13", "And I, whither shall I cause my ſtame to goe ? and thou ſhalt bee as one of the fooles in Israel: now therefore, I play thee, heake to the King, for: hee wil not deny mee vnto thee.", "14", "Howbeit he would not hearken vnto her boſce, but being ſtronger then shee, ſoſed her, and lay with her.", "15", "Then Amnon hated her exceedingly, so that the hatred wherewith hee hated her, was greater then the loue, where with hee had loued her: a Amnon ſaid vnto her, Up, get thee hence.", "a Or for this cause.", "16", "And he anſwered him, \" There is no cause:", "this eill (to put me away) is greater then the other that thou didst vnto me: but hee would not heare her,", "17", "But called his\" ſeruant that ſerued him, a Or, honyes, said, But this woman now out from mee, a locke the Doone after her.", "18", "And he had a garmet of diuers couleurs vpon her: for: with ſuch garments were the Kings Daughters that were virgins, appaſtelled) Then his ſeruaunt brought her out, and locked the Doone after her.", "b For that which was of diuers couleurs or pieces, in the boſes was had a greatl eſtuma tion, Gen. 37:3. and 38:5, 9.", "19", "And Tamar put alſes on her head, a rent the garment of diuers colours which was on her, a laied her hand on her head, a went her way crying.", "20", "And Abſalom her brother ſaide vnto her, Hath Amnon thy brother bene with thee? Now yet be still, my lſter: he is thy brother: let not this thing grieue thine heart. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Abſalom's house.", "c For though I be concerned to the vegeance in his heart, yet he diffuses it through cation, ſeru'd, and comforted his lſter.", "21", "But when King David heard all the ſe things, he was very wroth.", "22", "And Abſalom ſaid vnto his brother Amnon neither good no: bad: for: Abſalom had Amnon, because he had ſoſed his lſter Tamar.", "23", "And after the time of two yeres, Abſalom had theephehearers in \" Baal-hazor, which is beſide Ephraim, and k Abſalom called all the Kinges ſonnes.", "k Or, in the plane of Hazor, k Tow, to a banker, thins king therebore to fulfill his purgation.", "24", "And Abſalom came to the King and ſaid, Behold now, thy ſeruant hath theephehearers: I praye thee, that the King with his ſeruants would go with thy ſeruant.", "25", "But the King anſwered Abſalom, Nay, my ſonne, I pray thee, let vs not goe al, least we be chargeable vnto thee. Yet Abſalom lay ſoone vpon him: howbeit he would not goe, but k thanked him.", "k b. bleſſet.", "26", "Then ſaid Abſalom, But, I pray thee, thal not my brother1 Amnon go with vs? And the King anſwered him, Whp should he goe with thee?", "k Anſtending to the King, that Amnon toas moſt beare vnto him.", "27", "But Abſalom was inſant vpon him, and he ſent Amnon with him, and all the Kinges children.", "28", "Now had Abſalom commanded his ſeruants, laying, Harke now when Amnon heart is mery with wine, and when I lay vnto you, Smite Amnon, kiſh him, keare not, for: haue not m I commanded you: be bold therefore, and play the men.", "m Such is the place of the diuined mas, that in al there, which in al there, which in al

["The widowes parable.", "II. Samuel.", "Daudigraunteth her request.", "‡Ebr. because it was put in Ab- faloms mouth.", "†Or, take it to heart. ‡Or, but.", "Or, one after another.", "o That one<sup>1</sup> Ammon is dead.", "p So Maad<sup>2</sup> Ammon was the daughter of this Talmat, Chay, 2:3.", "a Or, cea'd.", "lord suppose that they haue slaine all the young men the kinges sonnes: for Amnon onely is dead, because Absalom had repor- ted so, since he forze'd his fother Tamar.", "33 Nowe therefore let not my lorde the King \"take the tying to grieuously, to thinke that all the Kings sonnes are dead\": for Amnon onely is dead.", "34 Then Absalom fled: and the yong man that kept the watch, lift vp his eies, and loo- ked, and beholde, there came much people by the way of the hilide behind him.", "35 And Jonadab said unto the King, Behold, the Kings sonnes come: as thy seruant said, so it is.", "36 And alloone as hee had left speaking, be- holde, the Kinges sonnes came, and lift vp their vopces, and wept: and the King also so all his seruantes wept exceedingly so.", "37 But Absalom fled away, went to Tal- mai the sonne of Ammihur king of Geshur: and David mourned for his sonne euerpe day.", "38 So Absalom fled, and went to Gelburi, was there three peeres.", "39 And King David desired to go forth by- to Absalom, because hee was pacified con- cerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.", "C. H. A. R.", "X. L. L.", "1 Absalom is reconciled to his father by the subtiltie of Joab. 24 The Absalom inap not fee the Kings face. 25 The beautie of Absalom. 26 He canlie Joabs come to be burrit, is brought to his fathers yeelde.", "1 Then Joab the sonne of Zeruah per- ceived that the Kings heart was to- ward Absalom,", "2 And Joab lent to Tekoah, and brought thence a subtile woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, kaine thy self to mourne, now put on mourning apparel, anoint not thy selfe with ople; but be as a woman that had now long time mourned for the dead.", "3 And come to the King, and speake on this maner unto him ( for Joab taught her what she should say)", "4 Then the woman of Tekoah speake vn- to the King, and fell dovon on her face to the ground, did obeisance, and said, Helpe, O King.", "5 Then the King said unto her, what alleth thee? And the answere, I am in deed a wic- dow, and mine huland is dead:", "6 And thine handmaid had two sonnes, & they two stroue together in the field: (and there was none to parte them) so the one smote the other, and flew him.", "7 And beholde, the whole familie is rilen a- gainst thine hainnaid, a they said, Deliver him smote his brother, wee may kill him for the soule of his brother whom he slev, that wee may destroy the heire also: so they shal quenche my sparkle which is left, shal not leaue to mine husband neither name no posteritie upon the earth.", "8 And the King said unto the woman, Go to thine houe, I will give a charge for thee.", "9 Then the woman of Tekoah said unto the King, By lond, O King, this trespasse be on", "me, and on my fathers house, and the King his thone be gilties.", "Or, innocent.", "10 And the king said, Bring him to mee that speaketh against thee, a hee shall touch thee no more.", "11 Then said I, I pray thee, let the king see meber the Lorde thy God, that thou woul- deft not luffer many reuengers of blood to destroy, left they slay my sonne. And hee answere, As the Lord lieth, there shall not one heare of the londe fall to the earth.", "I see that they that not reuenge the blood, which are ma in number, are not.", "12 Then a woman said, I pray thee, let thine hainnaid speake a word to my lond the king. And he sayd, Say on.", "13 Then the woman said, Therefore then haſt thou thought such a thing against the people of God: why doth the king, as one which is fauty, speake this thing, that hee wil not bring againe his banished?", "Who, had thou given me that word, ſentencor in the londe Absalom.", "14 So we must needs die, as we are as water spilt on the grounde, which cannot bee ga- thered vp againe: neither doth God spare any perſon, yet doth he appoint means, not to cast out from him, him that is expelled.", "Or, accerst.", "k God fay pluieuied waves (as hit curritures) to faue them of their own, whom man indigrey worthþ breath.", "15 Now therefore that I am come to speake of this thing vnto my londe, the cause is that the people haue made mee affraide: therefore thine handmaid said, Now wil I speake vnto the king: it may be that the king wil perfourine the request of his handmaid.", "I saw a man that speake, who would speake, and would speake, and would speake, and would speake,

Abfaloms returne. His ambition,

Chap.xv.

and treafon. David fleeth.

128

o. Conning hereby his af-
fection, and
the writing, come
part of his nature
to please his
people.

brought Abſalom to Jeruſalem.

24 And the King ſaid, Let him turne to his
owne house, and not ſee my face. So Ab-
ſalom turned to his owne house, and ſawe
not the Kings face.

25 Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praiſed for beautie as Abſalom: from the ſole of his ſoſte euen to the ſoppe of his head there was no blemiſe in him.

26 And when he polled his head, (for at eu-
ery peres end he polled it: because it was to
heauie for him, therefore he polled it) hee
weighed the heare of his head at two hun-
dreth ſe heels by the Kinges weight.

27 And Abſalom had three ſonnes, and one
daughter named Tamar, which was a
faire woman to looke upon.

28 So Abſalom dwelt ſpace of two peres
in Jeruſalem, and ſaw not the Kings face.

29 Therefore Abſalom ſent for Joab to ſend him to the King, but he would not come to him: as when he ſent againe, he would not come.

30 Therefore hee ſaid unto his ſeruants, Be-
hold, Joab hath a field by my place, that hath
barley therein: goe, and set it on fire: and
Abſalom's ſeruants let the field on fire.

31 Then Joab aroſe, that came to Abſalom into
his house, ſaſd into him. Wherefore haue
thy ſeruants burnt my field with fire.

32 And Abſalom anſwered Joab, Behold, I
ſent for thee, ſaying, Come thou hither. I
will ſend thee to the King for to ſay, where-
fore am I come from Gehur? I that had bene
better for me to haue bene there still: nowe
therefore let me ſee the Kings face : and if
there be any treſpalle in me, let him kiſſ me.

33 Then Joab came to the King, that ſolde him:
and he called for Abſalom, who came to the
King, and howed him ſelke to the grounde
on his face before the King, that the King kiſ-
ſed Abſalom.

C H A P . X V .

1 The 12 cities of Abſalom to appear to the kingdome. 14 David's his fee. 15 David's player. 16 Juhath to ſent to Abſalom to bilко
the preuilleقت.

After this, Abſalom prepared him cha-
quets and horses, and kiſſie men to a run
before him.

And Abſalom rose vp earely, a ſlood hard
by the entring in of the gate : that euery man
that had any matter, and came to the King
for iudgement, him did Abſalom call into
him, and ſaid, Of what citie art thou? And he
anſwered, Thy ſeruāt is of one of his tribes
of Israel.

3 Then Abſalom ſaid into him, See, thy mat-
ters are good and righteous, but there is no
man deputed of the King to heare thee.

4 Abſalom ſaid moſeuer, Of that I were
made iudge in the land, that every man which
hath any matter or controuſe, might come
to me, that I knowt doe him iustice.

5 And when anye man came nere to him, that
did him obeiſance, he put forth his hande, that
tooke him, and kiſſed him.

6 And on this maner did Abſalom to al J-
rael, that came to the King for iudgement:

to Abſalom. d. ſale the heartes of the men of Israel.

7 And after e fourty peres, Abſalom ſaid
unto the King, I pray thee, let me go to He-
bon, and tender my bowe which I have
bowed into the Lord.

8 For the ſeruant vowed a vow when I re-
mained in Gehur, in Aram, ſaying, If the
Lord shall bring me againe in deede to Je-
ruſalem, I will ſerve the Lord.

9 And the King ſaid into him, Go in peace.
So he aroſe, and went to Hebron.

10 Then Abſalom ſent spies throughout al
the tribes of Israel, ſaying, When ye heare
the ſound of the trumpet, yee ſhal ſay, Abſ-
alom reigneth in Hebron.

11 And with Abſalom went two hundred
men out of Jeruſalem, that were called : a
they went in their simplictie, knowing no-
thing.

12 Also Abſalom ſent for Abiſhophel the Gi-
lonite David's counſeller, from his citie Gi-
loh, while he offred ſacrifices : as the treaſon
was great : for the people were ſtrailed still
with Abſalom.

13 Then came a messenger to David, ſaying,
The hearts of the men of Israel are turned
after Abſalom.

14 Then David ſaſd into all his ſeruants
that were with him at Jeruſalem, Up, and
let his ſlee : for we shall not eſcape from Ab-
ſalom : make speede to depart, least he come
sodCommercially, and take us, bring euil upon us, and
ſinite the citie with the edge of the sword.

15 And the Kings ſeruants ſaid into him, Be-
hold, thy ſeruants are ready to do accoſding
to all that my lord the king shall appoint.

16 So the King departed and all his houſe-
hold after him, and the King left ten concu-
bines to keepe the houſe.

17 And the King went ſooth and all the
people after him, and taredied in a place
farre of.

18 And all his ſeruants went about him, and
all the k Cheriſthites and all the Delethites
and all the Gittites, euen six hundred men
which were come after him fro Gath, went
before the King.

19 Then ſaid the king to 1 Jttai the Gittite,
wherefore commest thou also with us? Re-
turne and abide with the king, for thou art
a stranger : departe thou therefore to thy
place.

20 Thou camet yeke day, that I cause
thee to wander to day and goe with us? I
will goe whither I can: therefore returne
thou, and cry againe thy children: mer-
cy and truth be with thee.

21 And Jttai anſwered the king, and ſaid, As
the Lord lieth, and as my lord the king li-
eth, in what place my lord the king shall be,
whether in death or life, euen there surely
will the ſeruant be.

22 Then David ſaid to Jttai, Come, and goe
forward. And Jttai y Gittite went, that his
men, and all the children that were with him.

W li.

23 And

d. As mitting
them out from
his father, to him
selfe.

e. Lamenting
from the tune
that the Alva-
ture had af-
fed a king of
Samuel.

f. Up offering
a peace offering
which was
lauful to do
in any place.

g. And bild to
his feal in
Hebron.

h. Whof his heart
he found that
Satan had do-
ſpelled, d. he
would keate no
mukchere, bu
attempted.

i. Ebr. chuse.

j. To the house.
To the house of
Jehu, and
Jehu of Israel.

k. There were
a the lingo
garde, of as
lome write his
concerleco.

l. Wath, as
wath, wath.
was the kings
foune of Car-
th.

m. God require
thee thy friend
thip and fide-
liuc.

The Arke returneth.

II. Samuel.

Shimei curfeth David.

O. To wit, the fire hundredth men.

Which was the charge of the kohas, hithes, Mont.

To stand by the Arke.

Or, his tabernacle.

The faithful in all their affectious theu thetheues to beient to God will.

f which affers and dunt in figure of fow, row,

The count of the craftie woollings both noite harme then the open force of the enemie.

Though Hulhai diuident fled here at the kungu reguer, per map we not, but this example to excite our diffusionation.

a Which was the full of as, lines, Chap. 25, 30.

23 And al the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people went forward, but the King passed ouer the booke Kidon: and all the people went ouer toward the way of the wildernes.

24 And lo, Zadok also was there, and al the Levites with him, bearing the Arke of the covenant of God: and they let downe the Arke of God, and Abiathar went up btil the people were all come out of the citie.

25 Then the king laid vnto Zadok, Cary the Arke of God againe into the citie: if J shall kinde favour in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me againe, and shew me both it, as the Tabernacle thereof.

26 But if he thus lay, I have no delite in thee, behold, here am I, let him do to me as leest meth good in his eyes.

27 The King laid againe vnto Zadok the Driek: Art not thou a Seer? returne into the citie in peace, your two Sonnes with you: to wit, Ahimaaz thy Sonne, and Jona than the Sonne of Abiathar.

28 Behold, I will tary in the fields of the wildernes, until there come some woode from you to be tolde me.

29 Zadok therfore and Abiathar caried the Arke of God againe to Jeruſalem, and they tarped there.

30 And David went vp the mount of Olives and wept as he went vp, as had his head covered, as went barefooted: and al the people that was with him, had euery man his head covered, and as they went vp, they wept.

31 Then one told David, saying, Abiathophel is one of them that haue conspired with Abiathal: and David faide, O Loide, I playe thee, turne the countell of Abiathophel into fooliſhnes.

32 Then David came to the top of the mount where he worlſhipped God: as behold, Hulhai the Archite came against him with his coat tome, and hauing earth vpon his head.

33 Unto whom David laid, If thou go with me, thou haſt be a burthen vnto me.

34 But if thou returne to the citie, lay vnto Abiathal, I will be thy seruát, D king, (as I haue bene in time past thy fathers seruát, so wil I now be thy seruát) then thou maſt bring me a counsel of Abiathophel to nought.

35 And haſt thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the Drieks? therefore what so euery thou haſt heare out of the Kinges house, thou haſt shew to Zadok and Abiathar the Drieks.

36 Beholde, there are with them their two Sonnes: Ahimaaz Zadoks Sonne, and Jona than Abiathars Sonne: by them also he shall me euery thing that he can heare.

37 So Hulhai Dauds friend went into the citie: and Abiathal came into Jeruſalem.

1 The infidelitie of Ziba. 2 Shimei curfeth David. 3 Hulhai cuneth to Abiathal.

16 Hulhai cuneth to Abiathal. 21 The countell of Abiathophel for the concubines.

W

hen David was a little past a top of the hil, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephiboheth mette him with

a couple of affers faſled, and vpon them two hundredth cakes of bread, and an hundredeth bunches of railins, and an hundredeth of a dike.

And the king laid vnto Ziba, what meaneſt thou by these? And Ziba laid, They be affers for the kings houſold to ride on, and a bread and dried figges for the young men to eat, and wine, that the faint may dike in the wildernes.

And the king laid, But where is thy maſters ſonne? The Ziba answere the king, Behold, he remaineth in Jeruſalem: for he laid, This day shall a house of Israel reste me the kingdoine of my father.

Then laid the King to Ziba, Behold, thine are al pertained vnto Mephiboheth. And Ziba laid, I befeeth thee, let me kind grace in thy sight, my Loide, D King.

And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the familie of a house of Saul, named Shimei the ſonne of Gera: as he came out, as cursed.

And he cast stones to David, and at al the ſeruants of king David: and all the people, and al the men of warre were on his right hand, and on his left.

And thus laide Shimei when hee cursed, Come forth, come forth thou murtherer, as wicked man.

The Lord hath brought vpon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whole stead thou haſt reignèd: as the Lord hath deliuered thy kingdom into the hand of Abiſalom thy ſonne: and behold, thou art taken in thy wickednes, because thou art a murtherer.

Then laid Abiſalom the ſonne of Zeruiah vnto the King, who doth this dead dogge curle my Loide the King: let me goe, I play thee, and take away his head.

10 But the King layd, What haue I to do to you, ye ſonnes of Zeruiah: for he curleth, euen because the Loide hath been hidden him curle David: who dare then lay, Wherof he haſt thou done so?

11 And David laide to Abiſalom, and to all his ſeruats, Behold, my ſonne which came out of mine owne bowels, keeketh my life: then how much more now may this ſonne of Jeuiniem? Suffer him to curle: for a Lord hath hidden him.

12 It may be that a Lord wil looke on mine affliction, and do me good for his curſing this day.

13 And as David a his men went by the way, Shimei went by the side of the mountaine ouer against him, and cursed as he went, as thew stones against him, and caſt duſt.

14 Then came the King a al the people that were with him wearie, and refreshed them ſelues there.

15 And Abiſalom, and all the people, the me of Israel came to Jeruſalem, and Abiathophel with him.

16 And when Hulhai the Archite Dauds friend was come vnto Abiſalom, Hulhai laid vnto

a figge cake.

Continueth there are no buler trattoys then they, which were pretence of friendlіſy acuile others.

Abbr. Iworish.

Which was a citie in the Tite of Betzum.

d That is, round about him.

e The man of blood. f The man of Belial.

g The joching him as though by his means he botheth and abner were done.

1.Sam. 14, 5, & chap. 1, 2.

f David fell that this was the unguement of God for his ſonne, and therefore hundeth hundeth to his rob.

g Or, my teares. h The teares, that the Lord will shed now for him who are opelled.

i Count, at 25Aurim.

Huhai dilembleth. Ahithophel.

Chap.xix.

Huhais counsel is preferred. 129

† Ehe. Let the king line.

Meaning, David.

unto Absalom, ‡ God faue the King, God faue the King.

17 Then Absalom said to Huhai: Is this thy kindnes to thy friend? And he wentest thou not with thy friend?

18 Huhai the answered unto Absalom, Hay, but whom the Lord, and this people, and all the men of Israel chuse, his will I bee, as with him will I dwell.

‡ But the second time.

19 And † moicouer unto whom shall I do service? not to his londe? as I served before thy father, so wil I before thee.

20 ¶ The spake Absalom to Ahithophel. Give counsel what we shall do.

¶ Subacting the change of the kingpoune, so to his owne countrymen, he might as counsel as might meet himber his father's eons, so also bate to the poune that Absalom was in his own ays.

21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in to thy fathers concubines, which he hath left to keepe the house: and when all Israel shall heare, that thou art abhored of thy father, the handles of all that are with thee, shall be strong.

22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon top of the house, a Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

23 And the counsel of Ahithophel which he counseled in those dayes, was like as one had asked¹ counsel at the ocele of God: so was al the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

¶ It was aferne to the end of the yeare, thereof.

### CHAP. XVII.

³ Ahithophel counsell is ouerthiown by Huhai. 14 The Lord had so oveuened. 19 The yettes lones are hid in the well. 22 David goeth ouer Jorden. 23 Ahithophel hangeth himselfe. 27 Thep byng butanes to David.

¶ Meouer Ahithophel said to Absal, † Let me chuse out now twelue thousand men, and I will bp and folowe after David this night,
And I wil come upon him: for he is weaue, and weake handed: so I wil feare him, and all the people that are with him, shall flee, and I will finite the King only,

† The whiched are precie to excite their justice, that man fues her the Sunne.

3 And I wil bring againe all the people unto thee, and when al shall returne, ⁶ the man whome thou keeft being flaine) al the people shall be in peace.

b. Meaning, David.

4 And the laying ‡ pleased Absalom well, as all the Elders of Israel.

† The was right in the eye of Absalom.

5 Then said Absalom, Call now Huhai the Archite also, ‡ let vs heare likewise ‡ what he sayeth.

† The, what is in his mouth.

6 So when Huhai came to Absalom, Absal spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath "spoken thus: shall we doe after his laying, or no?" tell thou.

⁵ Or, given such counsel.

7 Huhai then answered unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given, is not ′ good at this time.

c. Huhai (the) unto himselfe faunte in Da und, in that he reproueth this touched counsell for purpose.

8 For, said Huhai, thou knowest thy father, and his men, that they be strong men, and are chafed in mind as a beare robbed of her whelpes in the field: also thy father is a liaunt warrier, and will not ′ lodge with the people.

⁶ On my all begin.

9 Beholde, he is hid now in some cause, or in some place: and though some of them bee ouerthiown at the first, yet the people shall heare, and say, The people that follo w Absalom, † be ouerthiown.

¶ He have a breacher mine.

10 Then hee also that is valiant whole heart is as the heart of a lion, shall be jinke a faint: so all Israel knoweth, ‡ thy father is baltish, and they which be with him, skout men.

11 Therefore my counsel is, that all Israel be gathered up into thee, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba as the land of ′ sea in nomber, ‡ that thou go to battel in thine owne person.

12 So shall we come upon him in some place, where we shall find him, and " we will bp him as the dewe falleth on the grounde: ‡ of all the men that are with him, wee will not leaue him one.

13 Moicouer if he be gottë into a city, the that all the me of Israel bring ropes to that city, and wee will drawe it into the river, butill there be not one final stone found there.

14 ¶ Then Absalom ‡ all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Huhai the Archite is better, then the counsel of Ahithophel: so for the Lord had " determined to deстроpe the ′ good counsel of Ahithophel, that the Lord might ‡ bring euil upon Absalom.

15 Then said Huhai unto Zadok and to Abbiathar the Drellkes, Of this ‡ that manner did Ahithophel and the Elders of Israel counsel Absalom: and thus and thus have I counseled.

16 Now therefore tend quickly, and we he David, laying, Tarie not this night in the fields of the wildernes, but rather get thee † ouer, left the king be devoured and all the people that are with him.

17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaz abode by " En-rogel: (so they might not bee seene to come into the city) and a maid went, and told e them, ‡ they went and shewed king David.

18 Neuerthelesse a young man sawe them, ‡ tolde it to Absalom. therefore they both departed quickly, ‡ came to a mans houle in Bahurim, who had a well in his court, into the which they went downe.

19 And † the wife tooke and tied a couering on the welles mouth, and spred ground come thereon, that the thing should not bee knowne.

20 And when Absalom's seruantes came to the wife into the houle, they laide, where is Ahimaz and Jonathan? And the woman answered them, Thep bee gone ouer the brooke of water. And whé they had sought them, and could not find them, they returned to Jnfusalem.

21 And alloone as they were departed, the other came out of the well, and went ‡ told King David, ‡ said unto him, ‡ up, ‡ get you quickly over the water: so ‡ such counsell hath Ahithophel given against you.

22 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they went ouer Jorden † until the dawning of the day, so that there lacked not one of them, that was not come ouer Jorden.

23 ¶ Now when Ahithophel sawe that his counsel was not followed, hee fadd ed his affe.

Diii. and

‡ Ex. 1. 12. 13.

¶ Or, we will campe against him.

Or, command them, that counsell which fesued good at the finst to Absalom, ‡. e. For by the counsel of him that he went to the battel where he was deitroped,

That is, our Jorden. 1

Or, the well of Rogel.

¶ Meaning, the ineflage from their fanes.

The Chalke text reabeth, now thet he have palfed the Jorden.

¹ Co win, to purue tive with all gane.

Thep trasformed alight, as the mons had all their company pasfled ouer.

Dauids & Abfaloms armies meet.

II. Samuel.

Ablalom hanged and flaine.

n God, his
vengeance
in this life is
prowed on
them which
are even
traitours, or
per PETERS
of his
Church.

n. Who was
also called
that Was
was kayer.

o God sheweth
thy iniquitie
nof libet to
hust. When the
people to be
bustly delinire.

and aole, and he went home vnto his citie,
and put his household in order, and "hanged
him selfe, and died, and was buried in his
fathers graue.

24. Then David came to Mahanaim. And
Abalom paffed ouer Jozden, he, and all the
men of Israel with him.

25 And Abfald made Amasa captaine of the
hosee in Æstead of Joab: which Amasa was
a mans sonne named Jetha an Israelite, Æ
wet into Abigal the daughter of ⁹ Nahalh,
liffer to Zeruiah Joabs mother.

26 So Israel & Abalom pitched in the land
of Gilead.

27 And whé David was come to Maha-
naim, Shobi the sonne of Nahalh out of
Kabbah of 9 children of Ammon, & Machit
the sonne of Ammuel out of Lo-debar, and
Barzelai the Gileadite out of Rogel

28 Brought beds, and baulens, & earthen be-
lens, and wheat, and barly, and floure, and
parched come, and beanes, and lentiles, and
parched come.

29 And they brought hony, and butter, and
theepe, and cheele of kine for David and for
the people that were with him, to eate: for
they said, The people is hungryrie, and wea-
ry, and thirtie in the wildernes.

C H A P. XVII.

David deuitheth his armie into three parties. 9 Abfalom is hanged,
flame, and cast in a pit. 33 David lamenteth the death of Abfalom.

2 Fo: certain
of the Simeon
nites, Sabirees
and of the half
tribe, could
not beare the
influençe of
the sonne as
gainst the
father, and
therefore toms
nede with Da-
uid.

1 Then David a nombed the people that were vohim, a let ouer the captains of thousands a captaines of hundreths.
2 And David sent forth the third part of the people bnder the hand of Joab, & the thirde part bnder the hand of Abilhai Joabs borother the sonne of Zeruiah : and the other third part bnder the hand of Jttai the Sitite, and the king said vnto the people, I will go with you my selfe albo.

3 But the people answered, Thou haſt not go forthe: for if we flee away, they will not tegarde vs, neither will they palle for: vs, though halfe of vs were slaine : but thou b art now woth ten thousand of vs: therefor now it is better that thou succour vs out of the citie.

4 Then the king said vnto them, What see-
meth you best, that I will do. So the king
stooe by the gate slide, & all the people came
out by hundreths and by thousandes.

5 And the King commanded Joab and A-
bilhai, and Jttai, laying, Entreat the young
man Abfalom gently for my sake, and al the
people heard when the King gaue all the
captaines charge concerning Abfalom.

6 So the people went out into the fielde to
meete Israel, the battel was in the wood
of Ephraim:

7 Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruants of David: so there was a great slaughte that day, euen of twentye thousand.

8 C for the battel was scattred ouer all the
counrep; and the woode devoured much

more people that day, then did the sworde.

9 Now Abfalom met the seruants of Da-
uid, and Abfalom rode vp a mule, and the
mule came vnder a great thicke oke: and
his head caught hold of the oke, and he was
taken vp betweene the heauen and the
eath: and the mule that was vnder him
went away.

10 And one that saw it, told Joab, laying, Be-
hold, I saw Abfalom hanged in an oke.

11 Then Joab faide into the man that tolde
him, And haſt thou in deede seene? why the
dideſt not thou there ſmite him to ground,
and I would haue giuen thee ten * thekels
of ſuſer, and a girdle?

12 Then the man ſaid vnto Joab, Though I
should receive a thousand thekels of ſuſer
in mine had, yet would I not lay mine haſd
upon the Ringes sonne: for in our hearing
the King charged thee, & Abilhai, & Jttai,
laying, Beware, left any touch the young ma
Abfalom.

13 If I had done it, it had bene † the danger of
my life: for nothing can be hid from the king:
yea, thou thy selfe wouldest have bene a-
gainſt me.

14 Then ſaid Joab, I will not thus tary with
thee. And he tooke three darts in his hand,
and thrust them through Abſalom, while he
was yet aliuie in the middes of the oke.

15 And ten seruants that bare Joabs armour,
compafled about and finste Abſalom, and
ſlew him.

16 Then Joab dlewe the trumpet, and the
people returned kro purſuing after Israel:
for Joab held backe the people.

17 And they tooke Abſalom, and cast him in-
to a great pit in the wood, layed a migh-
ty great heape of stones vpon him: and all
Israel fled euery one to his tent.

18 Now Abfalom in his life time had taken
and reared him vp a piller, which is in the
*kings dale: for he ſaid, I have no *ſonne to
keepe my name in remembraunce. and hee
called the piller after his owne name, and
it is called vnto this day, Abſalom's place.

19 C the ſaid Ahimaz the ſonne of Zadok,
I pray thee, let me runne, & beare the King
tidings that the Lord hath *deliuered him
out of the hand of his enemies.

20 And Joab ſaid vnto him, Thou s haſt not
bee the messenger to dave, but thou haſt
beare tidings another time, but to day thou
s haſt beare none: for 9 kings ſonne is dead.

21 Then ſaid Joab to Cusdi, Go, tel the king,
what þ haſt seene. And Cusdi bowed him
ſelke vnto Joab, and raume.

22 Then ſaid Ahimaz the ſonne of Zadok
again to Joab, what, I pray thee, if I al
rune after Cusdi? And Joab ſaid, where-
ſoever now will thou rune, my ſonne, seeing
that thou haſt no tidings to bring?

23 Yet what if I rune? Then he ſaide vnto
him, Runne. So Ahimaz ran by the way
of the plaine, and ouer went Cusdi.

24 Now David ſate betweene two gates.

This is a
terrible crue-
le of God
beneath,
ne gat
that are rebe
of a bl
their
rents.

Jeh. weigh
on mine hand.

Jeh. a ye again
my ſoule,

Jeh. in the heere
of Abſalom,

Gen. 14:17.
F. It ſeemeth
that Soa haſt
pumſhed him,
in taking as
trap his chil-
dren, Chap. 14,
27.

Jeh. judged.

h. He ſate in
the gate of
the city of Ma-
hanant.

And

David mourneth for Absalom.

Chap. xix.

Dauids returne. 130

25 And the watchman Cryed, and tolde the King. And the King sayd, if he be alone, he ringeth tidings. And he came apace, and drew neere.

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And the watchman went to the top of the gate vpon the wall, and lift vp his eyes, and saw, a beholde, a man came running alone.

And the watchman Cryed, and tolde the King. And the King sayde, if he be alone, he ringeth tidings. And he came apace, and drew neere.

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And the watchman sawe another man running, a the watchman called vnto the porter, and layd, Beholde, another man runneth alone. And the King saide, He also ringeth tidings.

And the watchman sayd, We thinketh the running of the fo:moſte is like the running of Abimaaz the ſonne of Zadok. The the King ſaid, he is a good man, and commeth with good tidings.

27 And the watchman sayde, We thinketh the running of the fo:moſte is like the running of Abimaaz the ſonne of Zadok. The the King ſaid, he is a good man, and commeth with good tidings.

28 And Beholde, called, and layde vnto the King, Peace be with thee: and he ſel downe to the earth vpon his ſact before the King, and ſaid, Blesſed be the Lord thy God, who hath “hutte vp the men that lift vp they: hands against my lour the King.”

29 And the King ſayd, Is the yong man Absalom faſe? And Abimaaz anſwered, When Joad ſent the Kings * ſeruant, and he thy ſeruant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what.

30 And the King ſayd vnto him, Turne alide, and stand here, so he turned alide and stooſe still.

31 And the King ſayd vnto him, Turne alide, and stand here, so he turned alide and stooſe still.

32 And the King ſayd, When shall the judge be twu:der, both the judge and the king, the sonne of God against his sonne, a conde:ant, and other un:ſon:de his father, after the judge, to: ＿ his ſonne.

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Then the King ſaid vnto Cuthi, Is y: yong man Absalom faſe? And Cuthi anſwered, The enemies of my lour the King, and all that rile against thee to do thee hurt, he as that yong man is.

And the King was * mo:ed, a went vp to the chamber ouer the gate, and wept, and as he went, thus he ſayd, O my ſonne Ab:alom, my ſonne, my ſonne Absalom: would God I had dyed for; thee, O Absalom, my ſonne, my ſonne.

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Joaß encourages the King. 8 Dand is referred. 23 Shimei is pardoned. 24 Dephobolthe meeteth the King. 32 Bar: illai des partей. 41 Ja:aelleueneth with Judah.

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Ad it was told Joab, Behold, a king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom. Therefore the victory of that day was turned into mourning to all the people: for the people heard ſap that day, The King lowroweth for his ſonne.

And the people went that day into the ci: tie: secretly, as people confounded hide the ſelues when they flee in battell.

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So the King * hid his face, and the King tried with a loude bo:ee, O my ſonne Ab:alom, Absalom my ſonne, my ſonne.

Then Joab came into the house to the King and ſaide, Thou haſt ſhamed this day the faces of all thy ſeruants, which this day haue fauèd thy life, a the lues of thy ſonnes and of thy daughters, and the lues of thy

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wines, and the lues of thy concubines,

In that thou lovest thine enemies, and ha:teſt thy friends: for thou haſt declared this day, that thou regardest neither thy * prin:ces nor ſeruants: therefore this day I per:ceyue, that if Absalom had liued, and we all had died this day, that then it woulde haue *pleased thee well.

Nowe therefore *bp, come out, and speake * comfortably vnto thy ſeruants: for I ware by the Lorde, except thou come out, there will not tarie one man with thee this night: and that will be woule vnto thee, then all the euill that fell on thee from thy youth hi:therto.

Then the King aroſe, and ſate in the * gate: e Where the and they tolde vnto all the people, ſaying, Beholde, the King doth fit in the gate: and all the people came before the King: for J: Israel had fled euery man to his tent.

Then all the people were at * strike throughout all the tribes of Israel, ſaying, The King ſaued vs out of the hand of our e: nemies, and he delivered vs out of the hand of the Philistins, and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.

And Absalom, whom we anointed ouer vs, is dead in battell: therefore why are ye so flow to bring the King againe?

But King David ſent to Zadok and to A: biathar the * Priests, ſaying, Speake vnto the Elders of Judah, and ſay, Why are ye behinde to bring the King againe to his house, (for the ſaying of all Israel is come vnto the King, euen to his house)

Be are my diethen: my bones * my ſkelf are ye: wherefor then are ye the last that bring the King againe?

Allo ſaye ye to Amasa, Art thou not my bone and my ſkelf? God do so to me * more also, if thou bee not captaine of the houſe to me * euer in the * roume of Joab.

So he bowed the hearts of all the men of Judah, as of one man: therefore they ſent to the King, ſaying, Returne thou with all thy ſeruants.

So the King returned, * came to Jol: den. And Judah came to Gilgal, for: to goe to meete the King, and to conduct him ouer Jorden.

And * Shimei the ſonne of Gera, the ſonne of Jeini, which was of Bahurint, haſted and came downe with the men of Judah to meete King David,

And a thouſande men of Benjamin with him, and * Ziba the ſeruant of the houſe of Saul, and his kiſteene ſonnes and twentie ſeruants with him: * they went ouer Jol: den before the King.

And there went ouer a boat to carie ouer the Kings houſholde, * to do him pleasure.

Then Shimei the ſonne of Gera ſell before the King, when he was come ouer Jorden,

And ſaid vnto the King, Let not my lour impute * wickednes vnto me, nor reme:nter the thing that thy ſeruant did * wicked: to

P. viiiii.

Or, captaines.

E:lb:ene right in thine eyes.

E:lb: to the heart of thy ſeruants.

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That they should experience the neſtness of the Elders, feeling the prou:le: were to ſo: wuarde.

As this p:ol: i: c:ie: Daud thought that he winning of the caprani, he should have the hearts of all the people.

Who haſt before e: pul:ed J:nt, c:ha. 16, 13

Chap. 16, 15. h: 1:1 in his ab:nerliſt he was p:io: moſt cruel ene:unt, * a:u:u: in his pr:ap:es: rite: ke:ereth by flatter:er to e:pre:re into famous.

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Shimei pardoned, Mephibosheth.

II. Samuel.

Barzillai. Shebas rebellion.

ly when my lord the king departed out of
Jerusalem, that the King should take it to
his heart.

20 For thy servant doeth know, that I have
done an office : therefore beholde, I am the
first this day of all the house of Joseph, that
am come to go downe to meete my lord the
King.

21 But Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah answere, red, & saide, Shal not Shimei die for this, because he curled the Lords anointed?

22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that this day ye should be aduerfaries unto me? shall there any man die this day in Israel? for do not I know, if I am this day King ouer Israel?

23 Therefore the King said unto Shimei, Thou
halt not die, and the King knowe unto him.

24 And Mephibosheth the sonne of Saul
came downe to meete the King, a had neither walhed his feete, nor defled his beard, nor walhed his clothes fro the time of the King departed, but till he returned in peace.

25 And when he was come to Jerusalem,
and met the King, the King said unto him,
wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?

26 And he answered, My lord the King, my
feruant deceyued me: for thy feruant said, I
would haue mine asse falded to ride there-
on so to go with the King, because thy fer-
uant is lame.

27 And he hath accused thy feruant unto my
lord the King: but my lord the King is as an
Angel of God: do therefore thy pleasure.

28 For all my fathers house were" but dead
men before my lord the King, yet didst thou
let thy feruant among them that did eate at
thine owne table: what right therefore haue
I yet to crye any more vnto the King?

29 And the King said unto him, Why heakest
thou any more of thy matters? I haue said,
Thou, and Ziba deuide the landes.

30 And Mephibosheth said unto the King,
Dea, let him take al, seeing my lord the King
is come home in peace.

31 Then Barzillai Æ Gileadite came down
from Rogelim, and went ouer Jorden with
the king, to conduct him ouer Jorden.

32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even
soureſore yere old, and he had proued the
king of lusterence, while he lay at Maanaim:
for hee was a man of very great sublance.

33 And the king sayde unto Barzillai, Come
ouer with me, and I will feed thee with me
in Jerusalem.

34 And Barzillai said unto the King, How
long haue I to line, that I should goe vp
with the King to Jerusalem?

35 I am this day soureſore yere olde: and can
I dcerne betweene good or evil? Hath the
feruant any taffe in that I ate or in that I
drink? Can I heare any more the vorce of
singing men and women? wherefore then
should thy feruant be any more a burthen

unto my lord the king?

36 The feruant will go a little way ouer Joz-
den with the king, and whp will the king
recompence it me with such a reward?

37 I pray thee, let thy feruant turne backe a
gaine, that I may die in mine owne citie, as
be buried in the graue of my father and of
my mother: but behold thy feruant, Chish
ham, let him go with my lord the king, and
do to him what shall pleate thee.

38 And the king answered, Chisham shall
go with me, and I will do to him that thou
halt be content with: and whatsoever thou
halt require of me, that will I do for thee.

39 So al the people went ouer Jozden: and
the king paffed ouer: and the king kiffed
Barzillai, and blessed him, and he returned
unto his owne place.

40 C The the king went to Gilgal, a Chish-
ham went with him, and all the people of
Judah conducted the king, and also haſſe
the people of Israel.

41 And beholde, all the men of Israel came
to the king, and sayde unto the king, Why
haue our children the men of Judah fottlen
theree away, and haue brought the king and
his household, and al Dauids men with him
over Jozden?

42 And all the men of Judah answered the
men of Israel, Because the king is neere of
kunne to vs; and wherefore now be ye angry
for this matter: haue we eaten of the kings
coff, or haue we taken any bribes?

43 And the men of Israel answered the men
of Judah, and said, We haue ten partes in
the king, and haue also more right to Da-
uid then ye, why the did ye despise vs, that
our aduise shoulde not be first had in reſo-
ring our king? And the words of the men
of Judah were fiercer then the words of
the men of Israel.

CHAP. XX.

1 Sheba rapteth Israel against David, 10 Joho hilleth Amasa raie
teruand. 23 The head of Sheba is delivered to Joz. 24 Wainds
a prie officer.

T he there was come a thither a wicked
mâ (named Sheba Æ sonne of Bichri,
a man of Ieminij) as he blew the trüpet,
and said, We haue no part in b David, ne-
ther haue we inheritance in the sonne c of
Jesh: every man to his tent, D Israel.

So every man of Israel went from David
and followed Sheba the sonne of Bichri;
but the men of Judah clauoe fast unto their
king, from a Jozden euen to Jerusalem.
When David then came to his house to Je-
rusalem, the king tooke the ten women his
* concubines, that he had left behind him
as to keepe the house, and put them in warde,
and fed them, but lay no more with them:
but they were inclosed unto the day of their
death, living in widowwhode.

4 Then said the king to Amasa, Assem-
ble me the men of Judah within three daves,
and be thou here present.

So Amasa went to assemble Judah, but he
taried longer then the time which he had
appoii-

3 The sonne,

Or, hode kins
far well.

Where the
true of this
king taried
and came
reconcie him.

f Toch that
had taken
part
whe the king,

c. Towarde
Jerusalem.

Or, haue nor
we first fooke
to bring hane
to the King, verſ.

13 Joseph he meantly
Epstein,
J. Ananeth, &
J. Sammim
(where of he
was because
the three
were under
one land, and
Jomab, 2:18.)

k 26mp
hands, of due
ring my life,
as trade, 1.
King, 2:9.

1 When Me-
phibosheth lus-
ing at Jeruſa-
lem had met
the King.

Chap. 16:3.

m How for his
bundome to
nudge in all
matters.

n 10. How to
die for Sauls
cruelty to
ward thee.

o David did
kill him at
his land to
kill him before
he knew the
way, but much
wool that
knowing the
truth, he did
not reſolve
thein.

27. How many
daves are the
yeres of my life?

p The thought
it not meete to
receue hanes
firs of him to
kill him was
not able to do
feruence againe,

where the
tent trices con-
tended against
Judah.

b As they of
Judah cap.
by speaking
compeſtus
with the king to flurre
the people ras
ter to tins
on, by his
causing Jez-
ebel to depart,
thought that
ther of Judah
would haue
eſtelleemed
him.
d From Gal,
that is to
the gale, which
dan.

29. How was
his his chriſt
name Joz.
the name, reuise,
Chap. 16:3.

Joab's layeth Amafa traiterously.

Chap. xxj.

Sheba is beheaded.

121

appointed him.

6 Then David said to Absalom, Now we shall Sheba the sonne of Bichri doe vs more harme then did Absalom : take thou therefore thy *louds* ferdians & follow after him, left he get him walled cities, and escape vs. 7 And there went out after him Joabs men, and the *Cherethites* and the *Delethites*, and all the mightie men : and they departed out of Jerusalem, to follow after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.

8 When they were at the great stone, which is in Gibeon, Amafa went before them, and Joabs garment, that he had put on, was girded vnto him, and vpon it was a woode girded, which hanged on his lynes in the heath, and as he went, it bled to fall out.

9 And Joab laid to Amafa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab tooke Amafa by the beard with the right hand to kisse him.

10 But Amafa tooke no heede to the woode that was in Joabs hand : for there with him I smote him in the fist, rib, and shed out his bowels to the grounde, and I smote him not the seconde time: so he died. then Joab and Absalom his brother followed after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.

11 And one of Joabs men h stood by him, and said, He that fauoureth Joab, and he that is of Dauds part, let him go after Joab.

12 And Amafa wallowed in blood in the middes of the way : and when the man saw that all the people stode still, he remonded Amafa out of the way into the field, and cast a cloth vpon him, because he saw that euere one that came by him, stood still.

13 When he was remoued out of the way, euery man went after Joab, to follow after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.

14 And he went through all the tribes of Israel vnto Abel, and Betymaachah and all places of Berim: and they gathered together, and went also after him.

15 So they came, and belieged him in Abel, neere to Bethmaachah: and they cast vp a moat against the citie, and the people there of stode on the ramper, and all the people that was with Joab, k destroyed and cast downe the wall.

16 Then he ried a wife woman out of the citie, Heare, heare, I play you, lay vnto Joab, Come p hither, that I may speak with thee.

17 And when he came neere vnto her, the woman sayd, Art thou Joab? And he answere, Pea. And he laid to him, Heare the words of thine handmaid. And he answere, I do heare.

18 Then he spake thus, l They spake in the olde time, laying. They should ake of Abel, and so haue they continued.

19 I am m one of them, that are peaceable & faithfull in Israel: and thou goest about to destroy a citie, and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou deuoure the inheritance of the Lord?

20 And Joab answered, and said, God forbid,

God forbid it me, that I should deuoure, or destroy it.

21 The n matter is not so, but a man of mount n. hearing his father, he came to the gate, place to reasont, and required one by one, that was about the reasont.

22 Then the woman went vnto all the people with her wifedome, and they cut of the head of Sheba the sonne of Bichri, and cast it to Joab : then he blewe the trumpet, and t they retired from the citie, euere man to his tent : and Joab returned to Jerusalem vnto the King.

23 C *Then Joab was ouer al the hollie of Israel, t Benatiah the sonne of Jehoiada ouer the Cherethites and ouer the Delethites,*

24 And Adoram ouer the tribute, and Jolhaphat the sonne of Ahilud the recoster,

25 And Sheia was scribe, and Zadok and Jabiathar the Priests,

26 And also Jra the Jairite was c chiefe about David.

27 C *Ephraim his dígite, of his unicaltite.*

CHAP. XXI.

1 Three deare peres. 2 The vengeance of the times of Saul lighteth on his tenenues, which are hanged. 3 Four great battalions, which David had against the Philistines.

T hen there was a famine in the dayes of Daud, three peres t together : and David t asked counsel of the Lord, and the Lord answered, It is so, Saul, and for his bloodie houle, because he sleve the a Gibeonites.

Then the King called the Gibeonites, and said vnto them (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but *a remnant of the Amorites, vnto whom the children of Israel had twone : but Saul sought to slay them for his scalee towarde the children of Israel and Judah) And David laid vnto the Gibeonites,

b What shall I do for you, and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may blesse the inheritance of the Lord?

4 The Gibeonites then answered him, The will have no sluer nor golde of Saul nor of his houle, neither for vs that thou kill any man in Israel. And he laid, what ye shall say, that will I do for you.

Then they answered the King, The man that confumed vs and that imagined euill against vs, so that we are destroyed from remaying in any coast of Israel,

d G of Dauls kinmen. e Tovacite, the Lord.

f But the King had compassion on Mephibetheth the sonne of Jonathan the sonne of Saul, because of the *louds* othe, that was betwene them, euen betwene David and Jonathan the sonne of Saul.

g But the King tooke the two sonnes of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whome he bare vnto Saul, euen Armoni & Mephibobeth,

the. they were scattered.

Chap. 8. 16.

1 *Ephesith the sonne of Bichri, under Joab,*
2 *Daulis under Joab,*
3 *S. 1 Cor. 8. 25.*

4 *which was his coat, that he bled to beare in the warres.*

5 *Jehoapece.*

6 *Jehoab's double not his stroke,*

7 *He floud by Amafa at Jos his appanied man.*

8 *Unto the eis the sonne, which was neere to Amafa's houle.*

9 *Chas. he went about to overhouse it.*

10 *I believe that the culture was not befrom a citie, be four peace was after, Pent. 2.*
11 *I know that he spake in the name of the Lord.*

11 *Jeho: heere after yere.*
12 *Jehr. sought the face of the Lord.*

13 *Thinking to gratulate the people, because there were not of the kind of Israel.*

14 *Jeho, 9. 19. 10.*

15 *Wherebythiag may pour with be apyed, that thou not may plap this plague from his people.*
16 *Dauie out of Dauls nooke.*

17 *Sam. 3. 3. & 20.*
18 *2. 12. 1.*

["Dauidsvictories.", "II.Samuel.", "His long.", "f yere yDis\nchali named\nfor Merab\n2:20. and\n2:21. was\nas appeareth,\n1:Sam.18:19.\nfor Michal\nwas the\nwife of\nDavid, 1.\n2:17. and\n3:14. &\nnener had\nchide, 2:20.\n2:21.\n3:13. fell.", "g whuch was\nin the moneth\n2:1. and\n3:1. of\nwhich contem-\nned part of\nMarch and\npart of Apr-\n2:2. To make\nher a rent,\nwherein the\nmatch to God\n2:2. turne away\nhis sinth.\ni. Because\ndrought was\nthe cause of\nthis sinne,\nGod by lens\nding of rame\nflourished that\nhe was paci-\nfied.\n*Or,ref.", "1Sam.3:10.", "k. For where\nthe ma gather\nsuffreth faute\nunmather,\nthere, the\nplate of God\nlieth upon the\nland.", "1 That is, of\nthe race of Sp-\nans.\nm. which a\nmount to mine\npound three\nquarts.", "n. for the glas-\nry and weith\nof the countr\nlandeth in the\nJudaean\nJudaian\nof the goip\nmagistrate.\no. called So-\nzer, and Sav-\n1s called Dip-\nzai, 1:310.\n20.,", "p. That is,\nLainh the\nbrother of Go-\nhath, whom\nDavid fleur-\n1:310. 20. 5.", "1Sam.16:9.", "and the fine sonnes of אֶלֶף Michal, אֶלֶף daughter of Saul, whom the bare to Adriel the sonne of Barzillai the Meholathite.", "And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, which hanged them in the mountaime before the Lord: so they died al seuen together, and they were slaine in the time of haruest: in the s first dayes, and in the beginning of aaty haruest.", "10 Then Rizpah the daughter of Aliah tooke אֶל אֶל אֶל אֶל אֶל אֶל אֶ

Dauids worthies.

11. Samuel.

The people nombred.

Or, Gians.

I: King owners come with wearines and spirit.

k 2Isbeling his affection, also bring God not to be enough for that rath his serptylts.

9, Chro. 11, 20.

4: Chr. 11, 21.

10, Or, Ile-lhi.

a Or a comely man. 1 Which was big as a weare beame. 1, Chy. 11, 23.

m He was a male ballant then the 20. that folow, 4 not to ballant an other beare his fo: Clap. 2, 18.

2, Chro. 11, 27. 3 Or, Pelencite.

a Dunders of their had two names, as appeareth, 1, Chy. 11, 3 allo many more are there mentioned.

went down, and came to David in the hest time unto the cause of Adullam, and the hote of the Philistins pitched in the valley of Rephaim.

14 And David was then in an holde, and the garifon of the Philistins was then in Beth- lehem.

15 And David i longed, a layde, D, that one would give me to drinke of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate.

16 Then the three mightie brake into the hote of the Philistins, and drewe water out of the well of Beth-lehem that was by the gate, and tooke and brought it to David, who would not drinke thereof, but poured it for an offring unto the Lord,

17 And said, O Lord, be it farre from me, that I should do this. Is not this the blood of the men that went in icopardie of their lives? therefore he woulde not drinke it. These things did these three mightie men.

18 C And Abishai the brother of Joab, the sonne of Zeruiah, was chiefe among the throe, and hee liffed vp his speare agaynift three hundreth,† and flewe them, and he had the name among the throe.

19 For he was most excellent of the throe, and was their captaine, but he attained not to the first throe.

20 And Benaiah the sonne of Jehoiada the sonne of a valiant man, which had done many actes, and was of Kabzeel, flewe two strong men of Joab: he went doone also, and flewe a lion in the middes of a pit in the tune of snow.

21 And he flew an Egyptian a man of great nature, and the Egyptian had a 1 speare in his hand: but he went doone to him with a staffe, and plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand, and flew him with his own speare.

22 These things did Benaiah the sonne of Je- hoiada, and had the name among the throe worthies.

23 He was honorable among m thirtie, but he attained not vnto the first throe: and David made him of his counsell.

24 C Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirtie: Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Beth-lehem:

25 Shammah the Harodite: Elika the Ha- rodite:

26 Helez the * a Daltite: Ira the sonne of Jk- keh the Tekoite:

27 Abiezer the Anethothite: 

28 Zalmon an Ahohite: Maharai the Ne- tophathite:

29 Heled the sonne of Baanah a Netopha- thite: Ijta the sonne of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Beniamin:

30 Beniah the Pirathonite: Hiddai of the ruer of Gaal:

31 Abi-albon the Arbathite: Azmaueth the Barhumite:

32 Elihada the Shaalbonite : of the sonnes

of Jachen, Jonathani:

33 Shammah the Hararite : Ahiam the sonne of Sharar the Hararite:

34 Eliplelet the sonne of Ahafbai the sonne of Waachathi: Eliam the sonne of Ahithophel the Gilonite:

35 Hezrai the Carmelite: Daarai the Arbite:

36 Igal the sonne of Nathan of Zobah: Bani the Gadite:

37 Zelek the Ammonite : Nahrari the Bee- rothite, the armor beater of Joab the sonne of Zeruiah:

38 Ira the Ithrite: Gareb the Ithrite:

39 Uriiah the Hittite, 9 thirtie a seven in all.

C H A P. XXI. III.

a David caused the people to be nombred. 10 Be reprenteth, and chuseth to fall into Gods pands. 15 Deuertie thousandes perith with the petitiones.

A Ad the wath of 3 Lord was a againe a kindled against Israel, and he b moued David against them, in that he layde, c Go, nomber Israel and Judah.

d Before he were plaund with firening,

Chap. 2, 11.

e The knd permitted Saan, as a Chy. 21, 11.

For the King said to Joab the captaine of the hote, which was with him, Go, speedily now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan euen to Beer-sheba, and nomber ye the people, that I may know the nomber of the people.

And Joab layde vnto the King, The Lord thy God increase the people an hundred fold mo then they bee, and that the eies of my lord the King may fee it: but why Doeth my lord the King deuie this thing?

Not withstanding the Kings word prieat- led against Joab and against the captaines of the hote : therefore Joab and the cap- taines of the hote went out from the pre- fence of the King, to nomber the people of Israel.

C And they pasled ouer Jorden, and pit- ched in Aroer at the right side of the citie that is in the middes of the 2 valley of Gad and to ward Jazer.

Or, Oriters.

Then they came to Gilead, and to d Tal- tim-hodshi, lo they came to Dan Jaan, and lo about to Zidon,

Or, to the se- ther land nowe inhabited.

And came to the foxtrefle of e Tzus and to all the cities of the Huites and of the Ca- naanites, and went toward the South of Judah, euen to Beer-sheba.

Or, Oriters.

C So when they had gone about all the land, they returned to Jerufalem at the end of nine monethes and twentie dayes.

C And Joab deliuered the nomber and fumne of the people vnto the King : and there were in Israel d eight hundreth thou- lande strong men that dre we words, and the men of Judah were e five huidreth thou- land men.

d According to Joabs count for mal there were in the land hundred th thousand, 1, Chy. 21, 2.

e Concluding under them the Benias untes: for the threepo but foure hundred and four hundred thousand, 1, Chy. 21, 5.

10 Then Dauids heart imote him, after that he had nombred the people: a David layde vnto the Lord, I haue finned exceedingly in that I haue done therfore now, Lord. I be- leech thee, take away the trespasse of thy ser- iant: for I haue done very foolitly.

11 C And when David was vp in the mor- ning, the woode of the Loode came vnto the Prophet

Adonijahs treaſon vittered by Nathan.

1.Kings.

Salomon is anointed King.

7 *Ehr. his words were with Joab.*

8 *They tooke his part and followed pui.*

*Of, the foundaine.*

*As to the Chevrites and Peterites.*

2.Sam. 3:4

*Ezr. 2:10. Hos 2:11. Uth will be dropped thee and thy sonne, if he reigne.*

*h Ap declaration, such things, as may further the fame.*

i The king being gone away, come not unto the affairs of the realm, and also Adoniah had many flat terers which kept it from the king.

k End so put to death as wiles keb transligeels sra. *Ehr. finners.*

l 1. *Chaknoluedig* him to be the true & true king appointed of God as the figure of his Chyil.

1 And he tooke counsel of Joab the sonne of Zeriah, and of Abiathar the Priest: and they helped forward Adoniah.

2 But Zadok the Priest, and Benaiah the sonne of Jehoiada, and Nathan the Prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the men of might, which were with David, were not with Adoniah.

3 Then Adoniah sacrificed sheepe and oxen, and fat cattel by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by *En-togel, and called all his beethen the Kings Sonnes, and al the men of Judah the Kings seruants,*

10 But Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah, and the mightie men, and Salomon his brother he called not.

11 Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bath-sheba the mother of Salomon, laying, Haft thou not heard, that Adoniah the sonne of Haggith doeth reigne, and David our lord knoweth it not?

12 Now therefore come, and I will now give thee counsel, how to saue thine owne life, and the life of thy sonne Salomon.

13 Go, and get thee in unto King David, and say unto him, Didest not thou, my lord, D. King, weareth unto thine handmaid, saying, Affuredly Salomon thy sonne shall reigne after me, and he shall fit upon my throne? why is then Adoniah King?

14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the King, I also will come in after thee, and confirmeth thy words.

15 So Bath-sheba went in unto the King into the chamber, and the King was verie olde, and Abiathar the Shunammite minstred unto the King.

16 And Bath-sheba bowed and made obeience unto the King. And the King said, What is thy matter?

17 And he answered him, My lord, thou fwarest by the Lord thy God vnto thine handmaid, saying, Affuredly Salomon thy sonne shall reigne after me, and he shall fit upon my throne.

18 And behold, now is Adoniah king, a now, my lord, D. King, thou knowest it not.

19 And he hath offered many oxen, and fat cattel, and sheepe, and hath called all û fonnes of the King, and Abiathar the Priest, and Joab the captaine of the hofte: but Salomon thy seruant hath he not vidden.

20 And thou, my lord, D. King, knowest that the eyes of all Israel are on thee, that thou shouldst tell them, who should fit on the throne of my lord the King after him.

21 For els when my lord the King shall meepe with his fathers, I am my sonne Salomon shall be reputed a dile.

22 And lo, while he yet talked with the King, Nathan also the Prophet came in.

23 And they tolde the King, laying, Behold, Nathan the Prophet. And when he was come in to the King, he made obeience before the King upon his face to the ground.

24 And Nathan said, My lord, D. King, haſt

thou said, Adoniah shall reigne after me, as he shall fit upon my throne?

25 For he is gone downe this day, and hath flame many oxen, and fat cattel, and sheepe, and hath called all the Kings Sonnes, and the captaines of the hofte, and Abiathar the Priest: and beholde, they eate & dinke before him, and say, * God faue king Adoniah.*

26 But me thy seruant, and Zadok thy Priest and Benaiah the sonne of Jehoiada, as thy seruant Salomon hath he not called.

27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, as thou hast not ſhewed it unto thy seruant, who should fit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

28 Then king David answered, and said, Call me Bath-sheba. And the came into the kings preſence, and stooode before the king.

29 And the king fware, laying, As the Lord liueth, who hath redeemed my Soule out of all aduerſitie,

30 That as I fware unto thee by the Lord God of Israel, laying, Affuredly Salomon thy sonne shall reigne after me, and he shall fit upon my throne in my place, so will I certainly do this day.

31 Then Bath-sheba bowed her face to the earth, and did reverenceth to the king, and said, God faue my lord king David for euer.

32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah the sonne of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.

33 Then the king laid unto them, Take with you the ſeruants of your lord, and cause Salomon my sonne to ride vp mine own mule, and carie him downe to Gihon.

34 And let Zadok the Priest as Nathan the Prophet anoint him there king ouer Israel, and blowe ye the trumpet, and say, God faue king Salomon.

35 Then come vp after him, that he may come and fit upon my throne: and he shall be king in my steade: for I haue appointed him to be prince ouer Israel and ouer Judah.

36 Then Benaiah the sonne of Jehoiada anſwered the king, and ſaid, So be it, and the Lord God of my lord the king ratifie it.

37 As the Lord hath bene with my lord the king, to be he with Salomon, and exalt his throne aboue the throne of my lord king David.

38 So Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Benaiah the sonne of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Belothites went downe, and caused Salomon to ride upon king David's mule, that brought him to Gihon.

39 And Zadok the Priest tooke an home of people out of the Tabernacle, and anointed Salomon: and they blewe the trumpet, and all the people ſaid, God faue king Salomon.

40 And all the people came vp after him, and the

*Ehr. the king Adoniah lue.*

*Mehning, that he ought in such aſtates enter into nothing, except he had confuted with the lord.*

*Meaning, the kung feriauants and such as were of his garde.*

*Ehr. comman-ded.*

*Whereby they acceſſed to anoint the Prieths & the holy instruments, Esh. God, 30:1-3.*

Adonijah yeeldeth.

Chap.ij. Salomons charge.Dauid dieth. 134

1 He broke.

the people piped with pipes, and reioyced
with great ioye, so that the earth † rang
with the sound of them.

4.1 And Adoniah and all the gheftes that were with him, heard it: (as they had made an ende of eating) and when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he layde, what meaneth this noise and dproze in the citie?

4.2 And as he yet spake, beholde, Jonathan the sonne of Abiathar the Priest came: and Adoniah faide, Come in: for thou art a worthy man, and bringest a good tidings.

4.3 And Jonathan answered, and sayd to Adoniah, Uerely our lord King David hathe made Salomon King.

15 He a man of
power,
if the palfied
Jonathan
took to flunking to
have heard
comfortable
noakes,
God would not
bring
the things
con- trary to his
expectation,
so he heard
bome his
pyde.

4.4 And the King hath lent with him Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet, a Be- naiah the sonne of Jehoada, and the Che- rethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caued him to ride vpon the Kings mule.

4.5 And Zadok the Priest, and Nathan the Prophet have anointed him King in Gihon: and they are gone vp from thence with ioy, and the citie is moued: this is the noyle that ye have heard.

4.6 And Salomon alio sitteth on the thone
of the kingdome.

16 So Cloute
hum and to
pyge a paise
God for Jun.

4.7 And moeouer the Kings seruants came to blesse our lord King David, laying, God make the name of Salomon moze famous then thy name, and eralt his thone above thy thone: therefore the King worisipped vpon the bed.

17 We are God
thanks for the
good luccesse.

4.8 And thus saith the King alio, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who hath made one to fit on my thone this day, even in my fight.

4.9 Then al the gheftes that were with Adoniah, were afraide, and rose vp, and went euerie man his way.

50 And Adoniah fearing the pREFERENCE of Salomon, arose and went, and tooke hold on the homes of the * altar.

18 Which Das
ud his father
had built in the
flome of the Na
nollah, as, *dajn
24-25.

51 And one tolde Salomon, laying, Behold, Adoniah doeth feare King Salomon: for lo, he hath caught hold on the homes of the altar, laying, Let King Salomon weare vnto me this day, that he will not flap his seruant with the sword.

52 Then Salomon said, If he wil shew him selfe a worthy man, there shall not an heare of him fall to the earth, but if wickednes be found in him, he shall die.

53 Then King Salomon fent, & they brought him from the altar, and he came and did o- beilance vnto King Salomon. And Salomon said vto him, Go to thine house.

CHAP. II.

1 Daund erchoeth Salomon, and githen charge as concerning Joab, Barzillai, and Shunet. 10 The death of Daund. 17 Adoniah altherwyth to wife. 25 He is flame. 33 Zadok was placed in Abiah thate counte.

1 Then the days of Daund drewe were that he should dpe, and he charged Salomon his sonne, laying,

1 I am, readie to do, as all my minn. 2 I be the worthie how hard a thing it to gourne, and that none can do it, ey't, he opeth God.

2 I go the a way of all the earth: be strong therefore, and then thy selfe a man,

3 And take heede to the b charge of the Lord

thy God, to walke in his wayes, and keepe
his statutes, and his commandements, and
his judgements, and his testimonies, as it
is written in the Law of Moles, that thou
mavest *ª pister in all that thou doest, and
in euery thing whereunto thou turnest
thee,

4 That the Lord may confirme his wozde which he spake vnto me, laying, If thy sonnes take heede to their way, that they walke before me in trueth, with all their hearts, and with all their soules, * † thow shall not (said he) want one of thy posteritie vpon the thone of Israel.

5 Thou knowest alio what Joab the sonne of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captaines of the holltes of Israel, vnto * Abner the sonne of Aner, and vnto Amafa the sonne of Jether : whome he clewe, and a shed blood of battel in peace, and e put the blood of warre vpon his gide that was about his lynes, and in his fhoos that were on his feete.

6 Do therefore according to thy wildome, & let thou not his hoare head go down, to the graue in peace.

7 But theye kindnes vnto the sonnes of * Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among them that eate at thy table: f so for they came to me wher I led from Abklalom thy brother.

8 And beholde, with thee * is Shimei the sonne of Gera, the sonne of Jemini, of Ba- hurim, which curfed me with an hozible curte in the day when I went to Haha- naim: but he came downe to meete me at Jordan. g I ware to him by the Lord, lay- ing. * I wil not flap thee with the sword.

9 But thou shall not count him innocent: for thou art a wife man, a knowe what thou oughtest to do vnto him: therfore thou shall cause his hoare head to go down to þ graue with þ blood.

10 So * David clept with his fathers, a was buried in the citie of David.

11 And the days which David * reigned vp- on Israel, were fourtie yceres: seuen yceres reigned he in Hebron, and thirtie and three yeres reigned he in Jerusalemy.

12 C* Then late Salomon vpon the thone of David his father, and his kingdoin was stablished mightily.

13 And Adoniah the sonne of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother of Salomon: a the layde, h Commest thou peaceably? And he layd, Pea.

14 He said moeouer, I haue a lute vnto thee. And the layd, Sap ou.

15 Then he layde, Thou knowest that the kingdome was mine, and that al Israel set their faces on me. f I should reigne: how- be it that the kingdome is turned away, a is my brothers: for it came to him by the Lord.

16 Nowe therefore I alke thee one requell,

¶ refuse mee not. And the layde vnto him, Saye on.

Deut. 29:9,
Joth. 1:7.
Ori. wjelyf.

2 And with our pereitie,
Sam. 7:12.
3 Iha man shall not be cut of to thes from of the throne.

2Sam. 2:27.

2Sam. 20:10.

4 The heb his
blood in time
of peace, as if
there had bene
warre.

5 He put the bloodie fowd into his heath

2Sam. 19:31.

6 That is, they
beal merci-
fully with me.

2Sam. 16:5.

2Sam. 19:23.

g Let him be
punithed with
death: looke
her 146.

Adon. 29:29. and
2:35.

2Sam. 4:4 and

2Chro. 29:26,27

h For the fele
red, leaith he
would wakis
treason as
gaunt the
King.

i In the flome of
their favour
conſent.

j Ehe, he caueth me
my face to cause
a way.

Zit. 17 And

Salomons prouifion.

1.Kings.

Salomons wurdome. Hiram

Chap.5,14.

6 And Ahishat was ouer the household: and
*Adoniram the sonne of Abda was ouer the
tribute.

7 And Salomon had twelue officers ouer all Israel, which prouided vitailles for the King and his housholde : eche man had a moneth in the yere to prouide vitailles.

8 And these are their names:the sonne of Hue in mount Ephraim:

9 The sonne of Dekar in Makaz, & in Sha-albim and Beth-themeh, and "Elon and Beth-hanan :

*Or,Elon in
Beth-aaun.

10 The sonne of Heled in Aruboth, to whome perteined Sochoh, and all the lande of He-pher :

11 The sonne of Abinadab in all the region of Doz, which had Taphath the daughter of Salomon to wife.

12 Baana the sonne of Philud in Taanach, & Hegiddo, and in al Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Zreel, from Beth-shean" to Abel-meholah, even til beyond o-uer against Jokmeam :

*Or,5 to plaine.

13 The sonne of Geber in Ramoth Gilead, & his were the townes of d Jair, the sonne of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and under him was the region of Argob, which is in Bashan: threeofthe great cities with walles and barres of bialle.

d Which townes bare Jair's name, because they tooke them of the Canaanites, Bomb. 27-28.

14 Cabinadab the sonne of Iddo had to Ma-hanaim:

15 Ahimaaz in Naphtali, and he tooke Ba-math the daughter of Salomon to wife :

16 Baanah the sonne of Huhat in Ather and in Aloth :

e Salomon obferned not the benutition that Sohnia inuide, but be-wided it as might best serve for his purpose.

17 Jehoephaphat the sonne of Paruah in Je-sachar.

18 Shimei the sonne of Elay in Benjamin:

19 Geber the sonne of Uri in the countrey of Gilead, the lande of Sichon King of the Amorites, and of Og King of Bashan, & was officer alone in the land.

f They trued in al peace and securitie,
Ecclesi.47:15.

20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand of the sea in number, f eating, drinking, and making merie.

g Which is
Euphrates.

21 * And Salomon reigned ouer all king-domes, from the g Riuer vnto the lande of the Philistins, and vnto the bozder of E-gypt, and they brought presents, and serued Salomon all the dayes of his life.

Jehr,Corinn.

22 And Salomons vitailles for one day were thirtie measures of fine soudre, and threescore meaures of meale :

23 Ten fat oren, and twentie oren of the pa-tures, & an hundreth theepe, beſide hartes, and buckes, and bugles, and fat foule.

24 For he ruled in all the region on the other side of the Riuer, from Typhah even vnto "Azzah, ouer all the h Kings on ſ other side the Riuer: and he had peace round about him on euery side.

g O, Gaza.
h For they were all tributaries into him.

25 And Judah & Israel dwelt without feare, euery man under his vine, and under his figge tree, from i Dan, even to Beer-sheba, all the dayes of Salomon.

i Throughout
all Israel.

2. Chro.9:25.

26 And Salomon had * fourtie thousande

stalles of hozes for his charets, and twelue thousand hozemen.

27 And these officers prouided vitaille for King Salomon, and for all that came to King Salomons table, euery man his moneth, and they suffred to lacke nothing.

28 Barly also and strawe for the hozes and mules brought they vnto the place where the officers were, euery man according to his charge.

29 C And God gaue Salomon wurdome and understanding exceeding much, and k a large heart, euen as the lande that is on the sea shore.

Eccles. 67:4,15,
and 16.

30 And Salomons wurdome excelled his wurdome of all the children of the l Calt and al the wurdome of Egypt.

k Meaning, great unberstanding and able to come prehend all things.
I To wit, the physycians and aeronauts, who were under most wist.

31 For he was wifer then any man : yea, then were Ethan the Ezrahite, then Heimam, the Chalcol, then Darda the sonnes of Mahol: and he was famous throughout al nations round about.

32 And Salomon spake three thousand m'pizouerbes : and his songs were a thousande and five.

m Which for the most part are thought to have prouided in the captiues of Abadan.

33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon, even into the n hyslope that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of foules, and of creeping things, and of fikhes.

n From the heif to the lowest.

34 And there came of all people to heare the wurdome of Salomon, from all Kings of y earth, which heard of his wurdome.

C H A P . V.

1 Hiram beneth to Salomon, & Salomon to him, purporting to builde the house of Son. 6 He purporteth ruffe for the building. 13 The number of the workemen.

A And Hiram King of "Tyus sent his ſeruants vnto Salomon, (for he had hearde, that they had anoynted him King in the rowme of his father) because Hiram had euer loued David.

Or, Zor.

2 * Also Salomon sent to Hiram, saying, Thou knowest that David and my father could not buylde an houſe vnto the Name of the Lord his God, for; the warres which were about him on euery side, until the Lord had put them under the soles of his feete.

2. Chro. 1:15.

3 But now the Lord my God haty given me a reſt on euery side, so that there is neþer aduerſarie, nof euil to reſt.

Or, his enemys.

4 And beholde, I purpote to builde an houſe vnto the Name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spake vnto David my father, saying, Thy sonne, whome I wil let upon thy thone for thee, he shall builde an houſe vnto my Name.

A He declareth that he has bound to let forth God's gospit, for as much as the Lord had lent him reſt and peace.

2. Sam.7:15.

1. Chro. 21:10.

5 Now therefore commande, that they have me cedar trees out of Lebanon, & my ſeruants halve with my ſeruants, and vnto thee, wil I give the h hire for my ſeruants, according to all that thou shall appoint: for thou knowest that there are none among us, that can have timber like vnto the S-donians.

7 And when Hirain heard the words of Salomon, he reioyced greatly, and said, Blessed

b This was his equal, that he should receive a benefit from out ſour recompence.
c This was to confirm the vacation of the Gentiles, who they had built to the SPIRITUAL TEMPLE.

The building

I.Kings.

of the Temple.

the slooze to the walles, and he prepared a
place within it for the oracle, euen the most
holy place.

17 But the 'house, that is, the temple before it was fourtie cubites long.

i So when he
plake of
the house in
bele, he made
both the oja-
cie the Tem-
ple.
Or, wile euca-
mers.

18 And the cedar of y house within was car-
ued with " knops, & grauen with flowses;
all was cedat, so that no stone was seene.

19 Callo he prepared the place of the oracle in the mids of the k house within, to let the Arke of the couenant of the Lord there.

k That is, in
the most its
warde place of
the house.

20 And the place of the oracle within was twentie cubites long, and twentie cubites broade, and twentie cubites hye, and he couered it with pure golde, and couered the altar with cedat.

21 So Salomon couered the house within with pure gold: and he shut the place of the oracle with chaines of golde, and couered it with gold.

khe drewe
through chaines
of golde before.

22 And he ouerlaped al the house with golde, yuntill all the house was made perfite, alio he couered the whole altar, that was before the oracle, with gold.

1 Meaning,
the altar of its
cense, Exodus
30:2.

23 And within the oracle he made two Cherubins of " olive tree, ten cubites hye.

*Or, pine tree.

24 The wing also of the one Cherub was five cubites, and the wing of the other Cherub was five cubites: from the bitermost part of one of his winges unto the bitermost part of the other of his winges, were ten cubites.

25 Also the other Cherub was of ten cubites: both the Cherubins were of one measure and one hyle.

Exod. 21:20.
m For the as-
ther, which
slopes made
of beaten gold,
were taken as
wap with the
other wels
by their wels
mes, whome
God permit
ten ouerse
times to ouer
come them for
their great
meses.

26 For the heyght of the one Cherub was ten cubites, and so was the other Cherub.

27 And he put the Cherubims within the in-
ner house, * and the Cherubims inwreached
out their wings, so that the wing of the one
touched the one wall, and the wing of the
other Cherub touched the other wall : and
their other winges touched one another in
the middes of the house.

28 And he m'ouerlaid the Cherubims to gold.

THE TEMPLE COVERED.

WEST.

NORTH

EAST.

This figure representeth the great
court i parited into three partes,
whofe ieparation was made of
three orders of heven flone, and
one of cedar b-ardes.

A. The court of the Priefles next to the porch, called 'inner court,' for it was neerer the Temple then was the peoples. B. The atar of burnt faciices, which was much greater then Mofes was. For the length hereof was 20 cubites, and 5/8 breth of much, and 10-10 in height. C. Ten laues: 2-Chro.4:6. D. The 'fea. 2. Chro.4:2. E. The court of the people 2. Chro.4:9. & 6:12 which is called the great porch, & in A:2.11. the porch of Salomon. This court is often taken in the serpithes of the Newe Teffament for the Teple. Mat.2:13. & A:3.1. for the people did not palle vp fur-ther, but did worlip in this court. This is the place wherein Chrift & his Apoillis vied to preache, and whence Chrift did eal the hiers & fallers. F. A flage of brade wher-on Salomon prayed, that he might be better feen & heard of the peo-ple. It was fine cubites long, flue broad, & in lieghit three. Chro. 6:12. G. A gate on the Eaft, called the gate of Sur, or Seir. 2.King. 11:6. and the gate of the foun-dation. 2.Chro.2:3.5 It is alio beautiful. Act.1:2: for the Prince did only enter in therat, and not the people. Ezek.44:3. for the people entred in by the North gate and the South. Ezek.46:9.

29 And he carued all the walles of the house rounde about with grauen figures of Cherubims of Palme trees, & grauen flouris within and without.

30 And the slooze of the house he couered with gold within and without.

31 And in the entring of the oracle he made two doozes of olive tree: and the upper poſte and ſide poſtes were ſive ſquare.

32 The two doozes also were of olive tree, and he grauen them to grauing of Cherubims of palme trees, and grauen flowers, & couered them with gold, & layd " thin gold upon the Cherubims and vpon the palme trees.

33 And so made he for the dooz of the Tem-
ple, poſtes of olive tree foure ſquare.

n So that the
facion of the
carue doozes
might fill ap-
peare.

34 But the two doozes were of firre tree, the two ſides of the one dooz were round, and the two ſides of the other dooz were round.

Or, folding.

35 And he grauen Cherubims of palme trees, and carued floures and couered the carued wouke with gold, finely wionght.

36 And he built 7° court within threee rows of hewed stone, and one rowe of beames of cedar.

Where the
carue dooz were,
and was thus
called in re-
spect of the
great court,
which is cal-
led Act. 3:11,
the porche of
Salomon,
where the rea-
ple vied to
vap-
p. Which con-
teneth pair of
October and
part of aas
number.

37 In the fourth yeere was the foundation of the house of the Loide layed in the moneth of Zif.

38 And in the eleuenth yeere in the moneth of P. Bul. (which is the eight moneth) he finithed the house with all the furniture thereof, and in euery popnt : so was he seuen yeere in buypding it.

THE FIRST FIGURE OF THE KINGS HOVE IN THE WOOD OF LEBANON.

This figure is made without wallor porche, that the order of the pillers within mightbee seene. A.B. The length of an hundred cubites. B. C. the breadth of fitre. B.D. The height of the triche. E.F.G.H. The foure rowes of pillers. I. The three rowes of windowes. K. The porch or gallerie before the house.

THE SECOND FIGURE OF THE SAME HOVE.

This second figure showeth the manner of the house with, at the porch thereof, which was ſive cubits long. A.B. & thurse broad. C.D. The paucement. E. The windowes. F.

C H A P . V I I.

The building of the bounties of Salomon. 15 The excellent workman ship of Gruant in the pieces which he made for the Temple.

1 But Salomon was building his owne house * thirtene perees, and * finished all his house.
Chap. 10.
After he had built the Temple.

2 He

The building of Salomons house.

Chap.vij. The molten sea for the Têple. 137

b For he bea-
ture of the place
s great abus
bance of the
tray that we
to the building
thereof, it was
compared to
m the min
m 1 Esau: this
house he lived
in former for
pleasure, res
creation.

c There were
an amp, and
the proper
on the one side
as on the other
enriched in a
rowe one as
boue another.

d Before the
pilers of the
house.

e For fish-bone
which was at
Jerusalem.

Chap. x-xi.

°Orpævican.

f Which were
traces of
stones for
the beam
in the house.
°Orpævican.

g From the
house of
the Lord
upward.

h For the
house was
built, so
was
the inner
court of
Salomons
house, was bit
coated.

i When
the house
was built
for the
benefit of
the Lord
up and
up him
and gird
them
excellent
gifts for
the acco
mption of
the same.
Exod
2, 3.
Ezek. Second.

°Orpævican.

He buyt alſo an house b called the ſoſet of
Lebanon, an hundred cubits long, and fif-
tie cubites broad, and thirtie cubites he, bp-
on ſoure rowes of cedar pillars, and cedar
beames were laid upon the pillars.

And it was couered aboue with cedar bp
the beames, that lay on the fourtie and ſue
pillars, ſifteene in a rowe.

4 And the windows were in three rowes, a
window was c against window in ſide.
And al the doores, a the ſide portes with
the windows were ſoure ſquare, a window
was ouer against window in three ſankes.
And hee made a poſche of pillars, fifſtie cu-
bites long, and thirtie cubites bioade, and
the poſche was before d them, euen before
them were thirtie pillars.

Chc he made a poſh for his throne, where
he iudged, euſe a poſh of iudgemèt, a it was
ſleed to cedat from paumeſt to paumeſt.

8 And in his house, where he dwelt, was ano-
ther hall moſe inward the poſh which
was of the fame work. Alſo Salomò made
an house for Dharaohs daughter ("whome
he had taken to wife like unto this poſche.")

9 All theſe were of coſtly ſtones, he wed by
meaſure, & ſawed to ſawes within a with-
out, ſo þ fundatiò into þ ſtones of an "håd
breath, on the outside to the great court.

10 And the ſoundatiò was of coſtly ſtones, &
great ſones, euen of ſones of ten cubites,
and ſones of eight cubites.

11 8 Aboue alſo were coſtly ſtones, ſquared by
rule, and boardes of cedar.

12 And þ great court round about was to three
rowes of hewed ſtones, and a row of cedat
beames: Þo was it to þ inner court of þ house
of the Lord, and to the poſche of the house.

13 Then King Salomon ſent, and ſet one
Hiram out of "Tyus."

14 He was a widowes ſonne of the tribe of
Aphtali, his father beyng a man of Tyus,
& wouſt in braſſe: he was ſul of wurdom
and understanding, a knowledge to wouſe
all maner of worke in braſſe : who came to
King Salomon, & wouſt all his worke.

15 Lo: he cast two pillers of braſſe: þ height
of a piller was eightene cubits, a threeth of
twelve cubits did compaſſe either of þ pillers

16 And he made two chapiters of molte braſſe
to let on the tops of the pillars: the height of
one of the chapiters was ſue cubits, and the
height of the other chapiter was ſue cubits.

were on the top of the pillers, euſe ſeuen ſo: þ
one chapiter, ſeuen ſo for the other chapiter.

18 So he made the pillers and two rowes of
pomegranats round about in the one grate
to couer the chapiters that were upon the
top. And thus did he ſo: the other chapiter.

19 And þ chapiters þ were on þ top of þ pillers
were after lily work in þ poſh, four cubits.

20 And the chapiters bp the two pillers had
alſo aboue, "ouer agaynſt the bellie" within
the networke pomegranates: ſo two hum-
died pomegranates were in the two ſakes
about upon either of the chapiters.

21 And he let bp the pillers in the poſh of the
Temple. And when he had let bp the right
piller, he called the name thereof m Jachin:
and whé he had let bp the left piller, he cal-
led the name thereof "Boaz.

22 And bp þ top of þ pillers was work of lilies:
ſo was þ workmanship of þ pillers ſinſured.

23 And he made a molten o ſea ten cubites
wide from brim to brim, round in compaſſe,
and ſue cubites he, and a line of thirtie cu-
bites did compaſſe it about.

k At the
fire common
in brought in
rotue poſhes.
On round about
the midnes.
°On beyond.

Ezek. the second,

which was
in the inner
court between
the Temple s
the ador.
m That is, he
will be bluſh, to
wit, his pias
mes toward
this house.

a That is, the
strength: mea-
ning, the pow-
er thereof that
continue.

b Su called for
the buuges of
the bell.

A B ten cubites from
one: ſide to the o-
ther.

C D The height of
ſue cubites.

E F This veſſel was
in compaſſe thur-
s the cubites.

Q The two rowes,
which compaſſed
the veſſel about,
& were gamified
with bulb heads,
wherein were
pipes to auoide
the water.

The Seaor
great Caldron

24. And under the him of it were knops like
wild cucumers compaſſing it round about,
ten in one cubit, compaſſing the ſea " round
about : and the two rowes of knops were
cast, when it was molten.

25 It ſtoode on twelve bulles, threes looking
toward the North, a three toward þ heſel,
a three toward the South, a three toward
the East: a the ſea ſtoode aboue upon them,
and all their hinder parts were inward.

26 It was an håd briedth thick, and the him
thereof was like the worke of the him of a
cup with ſloures of lilies : it contained two
thousand þ Baths.

27 And he made ten bales of braſſe, one bale
was ſoure cubites long, and ſoure cubites
broad, and three cubites he.

28 And the worke of the bales was on this
maner, They had borders, and the borders
were betwene the ledges:

29 And on þ borders þ were betwene þ ledges
were liſs, bulles & Cherubims: a bp þ led-
ges ther was a bale aboue: a beneath þ liſs
& bulles, were addiſs made of thin work.

30 And every bale had ſoure braſſen wheeles,
and plates of braſſe: a the ſoure corners had
underſetters: under þ caldron were under-
letters molten at the ſide of every addition.

31 And a the mouth of it was within the cha-
piter and aboue to measure by the cubite:
for the mouth thereof was round made like

1-Chor.4-5

p Bath and
Ephah ſoone
ro be both one
measure, Es-
ek. 45, 11. ener-
2 Bath comers
nnd about tem
portela.

Ezek. the caldrons.
q The mouth
of the great
bale of frame
entred into the
chapter, en
pther that bale
by the caldron
a bale,

The ſonne of
the pilfer.

A B The height of a piller eightye eu-
bites : the compaſſe of a piller was
twelve cubites.

D E The height of the chapter or roſide
ball upon the piller of ſue cubiter
height.

F In the midſes were two rowes of pome-
granates: the reſt is the networke and
ſoure deliſes, or nolles.

°Or, eadeſſe
claiſes.

17 He made grates like network, a "wrethen
worke like chapues for the chapiters that

a bale,

The making of the vessels.

1. Kings.

The Arke placed in the Temple.

a bafe, and it was a cubite ≈ halfe a cubite: ≈ also upon the mouth thereof were grauen workes, whole bòders were foure square, and not round.

32 And under the bòders were four wheeles, and the axelrees of the wheeles ioyned to the bafe; and the height of a wheel was a cubite and halfe a cubite.

33 And the facion of the wheeles was like the facion of a charet wheele, their axelrees, and their naues and their felloes, and their spokes were all molten.

34 And foure underletters were upon the foure corners of one bafe: and the underletters thereof were of the bafe it selfe.

35 And in the toppe of the bafe was a rounde compasse of halfe a cubite he round about: and vpò the top of the bafe the ledges thereof of the bòders thereof were of the fame.

36 And upon the tables of the ledges thereof, on the bòders thereof he did graue Cherubins, lyons and palme trees, on the side of every one, and additions round about.

37 Thus made he the ten bales, they had all one casting, one measure, and one syle.

38 Then made he ten caldrons of braise, one caldron conteined fourtie Baths; and every caldron was foure cubites, one caldron was upon one bafe throughout the ten bales.

39 And he let the bales, fuee on the right side of the houe, and fuee on the left side of the houe. And he let the sea on the right side of the houe Eastward toward the South.

40 And Hiram made caldrons, ≈ belomes and baCONS, ≈ Hiram finished all the worke that he made to King Salomon for his house of the Lord.

41 To wit, two pillers and two bowles of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillers, and two grates to couer the two bowles of the chapiters which were upon the toppe of the pillers,

42 And foure hundreth pomegranates for the two grates, euen two towres of pomegranats for every grate to couer two bowles of the chapiters, that were vpò the pillers.

43 And the ten bales, and ten caldrons upon the bales,

44 And the sea, a twelue buls under that sea,

45 And pottes, and belomes and baCONS; and all these beffels, which Hiram made to King Salomon for the houe of the Loide, were of lyning braise.

Ostracodes.

which was called the pille, chapter, or small bafe, wherein the saibon flowed.

To keep waters for the life of theCCCristies.

To wit, of the Temple of Sanctuarie.

By this name also is the name of the King of Evias was called.

THE FORME OF THE CALDrons.

A B The bafe whereupon floode the caldrons which was foure cubites long.

B C Four cubites long.

D Three cubites high.

E The impoffement and figures of lions, bulles, Cherubins.

F The border of workmanship folding to and fro.

G The four wheeles, which had a cubite and an halfe of height.

H The four flayers or vpholders, which were upon the bafe whereupon the caldron floode.

I The Caldron.

46 In the plaine of Jorden did the King cast them in a 'clap betwene Succoth and Zarethan.

47 And Salomon left to weygh al the beffels because of the exceeding abundace, neither could the weight of the braise be counted.

48 So Salomon made all the beffels that perteyned vnto the houe of the Loide, the golden altar, and the golden table, whereon the she whead was,

49 And the casdleftickes, fuee at the right side, and fuee at the left, before the oracle of pure golde, and the floures, and the lampes, and the muffers of gold,

50 And the bowles, and the hookes, and the baCONS, and the Ipodes, and the alpappes of pure gold, and the hinges of golde for the doozes of the houe within, eué for the most holy place, and for the doozes of the houe, to wit, of the Temple.

51 So was finished all the worke that King Salomon made for the houe of the Loide, and Salomo brought in the things which David his father had dedicated: the fillet and the golde, the beffels, & laped them amond the treasures of the houe of the Lord.

Or, dieck earth.

This was done according to the writing of the Lord, which is written in the Old Testament.

Seue take this for home intrument of minuke.

C. Chro. 9, 1.

C H A P. VIII.

1 The Arke is borne into the Temple. 10 The cloud filledeth the Temple.

14 The King bleefeth the people.

Then *King Salomon assembled the Elders of Israel, euen all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel vnto him in Jerusalèm, for to bring vp the Arke of the covenant of the Lord from the citie of David, which is 16.

15 Salomon brought it from Sheredom and placed it in the Tabernacle which he had made for it. 16. Saum, 417.

17 The Concluding part of the Epistle, and part of the Epis. her, in which month they held three solemn feasts. John, 29, 1.

18 And all the Elders of Israel came and the Priests tooke the Arke.

19 They bare the Arke of the Lord, and they bare the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and al the holy beffels that were in the Tabernacle: those did the Priests and Leuites bring vp.

20 And King Salomon and all the Congregation of Israel, that were assembled vnto him, were with him before the Arke, offering sacrifice and offerings, which could not be told, nor nombred for multitude.

21 So the Priests brought the Arke of the covenant of the Loide vnto his place, into the oracle of the houe, into the most holy place, euen under the wings of the Cherubims.

22 For the Cherubims streatched out their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke, a the barres thereof aboue.

23 And they diewe out the barres, that the ends of the barres myght appeare out of the Sanctuarie before the oracle, but they were not feene without: and there they are vnto this day.

24 Nothing was in the Arke e faue the two tables of stone which Moltes had put there at Horeb, where the Loide made a couenaint with

Salomons prayer for the

1.Kings.

people. His offring.

hearts of all the children of men

40 That they may feare thee as long as they liue in the land, which thou gauest vnto our fathers.

p The meaneth such as thoubub be turned from their volatiles to true the true God.

41 Moreover as touching the strager that is not of thy people Israel, who shall come out of a farre countrey for thy names sake,

42 (Noh they shall heare of thy great Name, and of thy mightie hande, a of thy stretched out arme) a shall come a pray in this houfe,

43 Heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place, and doe according to all that the straunger calleth for vnto thee : that all the people of the earth may knowe thy Name, and feare thee, as do thy people Israel: and that they may know that thy Name is called vpon in this houfe which I haue built.

q That this is the true God and whereithen thou will be wouhipped.

44 When thy people shall go out to battell against their enemie by the way that thou hast sende them, and shall playe vnto the Loode * towarde the way of the citie which thou hast chosen, and toward the houfe that I haue built for thy Name,

45 Heare thou then in heauen their prayer & their supplication, and * judge their cause.

Dan.6:10.

46 If they finite agapynst thee ( * for there is no man that finite not ) and thou be an- grie with them, and deluer them vnto the enemies, so that they carry them away piti- oners vnto the lande of the enemies, either farre or neere,

q Or, maintainceth their right.
2. Chro. 6:16.
3. Eccles. 7:12.
4. John.1,8,10.

47 Bet * if they turne againe vnto their heart in the lande (to the which they be carped a- way captives) and returne and playe vnto thee * in the lande of them that carped them away captives,laying, we haue finned, we haue transgressed, and done wickedly,

q Or, if they re-pent.

r Though the Temple was the chief place of prayer, yet he feebly not then, that being let with necellenty call vpon him in other places,

f As Daniel
Dud, Dan.6:10.

48 If they turne agapny vnto thee with all their heart, and with all their soule in the lade of their enemies, which led them away captives, and playe vnto thee towarde * the way of their lande, which thou gauest vnto their fathers, & toward the citie which thou hast chosen, and the houfe, which I haue built for thy Name,

49 Then heare thou their prayer & their supplication in heauen thy dwelling place, and * judge their cause,

q Or, augeage their wrong.

r Be underdow by faith, that God, of his- enities would make friends vnto the that bid connect vnto him.

50 And be merciful vnto thy people that haue finned agapynst thee, and vnto all their ini- quities (wherein they haue transgressed a- gainst thee) and cause that they, which led them away captives, may * haue pitie and compassion on them:

51 For they be thy people, and thine inheri- tance, which thou broughtest out of Egypt from the middes of the ion fornace.

52 Let thine eyes bee open vnto the prayer of thy Sernant, and vnto the prayer of thy people Israel, to hearken vnto them, in all that they call for vnto thee.

53 For thou didst separate them to thee from among all people of the earth for an inheri- tance, as thou faidst by the hand of Males thy Sernant, when thou broughtest our fa- thers * out of Egypt, & Lord God.

Exod.19:6.

54 And when Salomon had made an end of praying all this " prayer & supplication vnto the Loode, he arose from before the altar of the Loode, from kneeling on his knees, and stretching of his hands to heauen,

q Salomon is a figure of Christ, who continually is the Mediator between God & his Church.

55 And stode and blessed all the Congregation of Israel with a lowde boصre, laying,

56 Blessed be the Loode that hath guen rest vnto his people Israel, according to al that he promised: there hath not failed one wold of all his good promise which hee promised by the hand of Males his Sernant.

57 The Lord our God be with vs, as he was with our fathers, that hee forfale his not, neither leane vs,

58 That he may * bowe our hearts vnto him, that wee may walke in all his wayes, and keepe his commandements, and his sta- tutes, and his lawes, which he commended our fathers.

59 And these my words, which I haue praied before the Lord, be neere vnto the Lord our God day a night, that he defend the cause of his Sernant, and the cause of his people Israel: alway as the matter requireth,

q Be echcheth that man of hundreth euen unto God, a that all bebebe to his lawes, and bebeeth of his more maris,

60 That all the people of * earth may know, that the Lord is God, and none other.

† Ebr. the thing of a day in his day.

61 Let your heart therfore be perfit with the Lord our God to walke in his statutes, and to keepe his commandements, as this day.

62 C * The King and all Israel with him offred sacrifice before the Lord.

63 And Salomon offred a sacrifice of peace offerings which he offred vnto the Loode, to wit, two and twentie thousand beues, and an hundreth and twentie thousand thesse: so the King and al the children of Israel dedicated the v house of the Lord.

y Before the as
of the King was.

64 The fame dave did the King halow e the middle of the court, that was before * houfe of * Lord: for there he made burnt offerings, and the meate offerings, and the fatte of the peace offerings, because the * hasen altar that was before the Lord, was to little to re- cciue the burnt offerings, and the meate of offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

2. Chro. 7:4.

65 And Salomon made at that time a feast a all Israel with him, a very great Congregation, even from the entring in of * Ha- math vnto the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, * feuen daves & feuen daves, even fourtene dayes.

z That is, from forth to Southamasing, all the countries. Seven daves for the dedication, and seven for the feast.
† Ebr. blessed.

66 And the ephgnt dave he sent the people a- way; and they * thaked the King and went vnto their tentes iopous a with glad heart, because of al the goodness that the Lord had done for David his Sernant, and for Israel his people.

C H A P . I X .

The Lord appeareth the face 10 time to Salomon. 11 Salomon gis- neth cities to Huram. 12 The Canaanites become tributaries. 13 He faineth forth a naue for gole.

W
hen * Salomon had finished the
buplding of the house of the Lord,
and the Kings palace, and all that
Salomon desired and minded to do,
Then the Loode appeared vnto Salomon
the

["Gods promifes and threatnings.", "Chap.x.", "The Queene of Saba.", "139", "Chap. 3.5.", "the second time, as he * appeared unto him at Gibeon.", "3 And the Lord sayd unto him, I haue heard thy player and thy supplication, that thou haſt made before me: I haue halowed this house (which thou haſt buylt) to * put my Name there for euER, a mine eyes, and mine heart halbe there perpetually.", "Chap. 3.9.\ndec. 12.11.", "2 Yes walke my meat, and walke from the house of the Lord, which is the house of the Lord.", "4 And a if thou wilt walke before me (as David thy father walked in pureneſſe of heart, and in righteouſnes) to doe according to all that I haue commanded thee, & keepe my statutes, and my iudgements,", "5 Then wil I stablish the thronè of thy king-dome upon Israel for euER, as I promuſed to David thy father, laying, *Thou haſt not want a man upon the thronè of Israel.", "3.Sam. 12.\nLev. 21:10.", "3. I. Chron. 12.\n2. I. Kings 12.\n3. I. Sam. 12.\n4. I. Chron. 12.\n5. I. Sam. 12.", "6 But if yee and your children turne away from me, and will not keepe my command-ements, & my statutes, (which I haue let before you) but goe a ſerue other gods, and wor-ship them,", "7 The wil I cut of Israel fro the land, which I haue giuen them, and the house which I haue halowed * for my Name, will I cast out of my light, a Israel halbe a pionerbe, and a common talke among all people.", "1 John 2:4.", "2 John 1:4.\n* The world shall make of you nothing but a nothing, and then you shall be nothing, and then you shall be a nothing, and

["idolatries: his aduerfaries, Hadad,", "Chap.xj. Rezon & Ieroboam. Ahijah.", "140", "6 So Salomon wrought wickednes in the fight of the Loide, but continued not to followe the Lord, as did David his father.", "a Thus the Scripture testifies, that David, the son of David, did this work, and that David, the son of David, did this work,

Rehoboam foloweth yong

1.Kings.

mens counfel. Ifsrael rebelth.

‡ Ebr. in all that thy fidele.

even as thine heart defireth, and halt be King ouer Israel.

38 And if thou hearken vnto all that I com- maund thee, and wilt walke in my wayes, and doe right in my fight, to keepe my ſta- tutes and my commandements, as David my ſernant did, then will I be with thy thee, a build thee a ſure house, as I built vnto Da- uid, and will giue Israel unto thee.

39 And I wil for this afflict the ſeed of Da- uid, but not for euer.

† For this do- laury that Sa- lomon heth committed, I for p. whole spiritual kings- dome was re- firmed in my Pef- fialy.

40 Salomon ſought therfore to kill Jero- boam, and Jeroboam aroſe, a ſled into E- ggypt vnto Shilhak King of Egypt, and was in Egypt vntil the death of Salomon.

41 And the rest of the wordes of Salomon, and all that he did, and his wiledome, are they not written in the booke of the actes of Salomon?

‡ Which booke as is thought, was loſt in their rapwip.

42 The time that Salomon reygned in Je- rufalem ouer all Israel, was * fourtie pere.

3, Chro. 9, 30.

43 And Salomon ſlept with his fathers and was buried in the citie of David his fa- ther: and Rehoboam his ſonne reigned in his ſteade.

CHAP. XII.

1 Rehoboam succereth Salomon. 8. Ije refaeth the counſell of the Ancient, so Jeroboam reigneth ouer Israel. 21. God commandeth Re- hoboam not to fight. 28 Jeroboam maketh golden colines.

2, Chro. 16: 1.

A d * Rehoboam went to Shechem: for al Israel were come to Shechem, to make him King.

2 And when Jeroboam the ſonne of Nebat heard of it ( who was yet in Egypt, * whi- ther Jeroboam had ſled from King Salo- mon, and " dwelt in Egypt)

Chap. 11, 40.

* Or, returned from Egypt.

3 Then they ſent a called him : a Jeroboam and all the Congregation of Israel came, a spake vnto Rehoboam, ſaying,

Chap. 47.

4 Thy father made our * poke grieuous: nowe therefore make thou the grieuous ſeruitude of thy father, and his toſe poke which he put vpon vs, a lighter, and we wil ſerue thee.

a Opiety ſus not with so great charges, which we are not able to ſu- ſeine.

And he ſaid vnto them, Depart yet for three dayes, then come agayne to mee. And the people departed.

6 And King Rehoboam tooke counſell with the olde men that " had stand before Salo- mon his father, while he yet liu'd, and ſaid, What counsel giue ye, that I may make an anſwere to this people?

* Or, had bene of his ancient cod- ſellers.

7 And they pake vnto him, ſaying, If thou be a ſeruant vnto this people this day, and ſerue them, and anſwere them, and pake kinde wordes to them, they will be thy ſer- uants for euer.

b They theſus ad him p there was no way to winne the peoples parts, but to grant them their uſt petition.

8 But he fortooke the counſell that the olde men had giuen him, and aſked counſell of the pong me that had bene brought vp with him, and wapted on him.

9 There is no thing harder for them, that are maudonſie, then to brie their aſſeings, a follow good counſell.

9 And he ſayde vnto them, * What counſell giue ye, that we may anſwere this people, which haue poken to mee, ſaying, Make the poke, which thy father did put vpon vs, lighter?

10 Then the pong men that were brought vp

with him, pake vnto him, ſaying, Thus halt thou pake vnto this people, that haue poken vnto thee, and ſaid, Thy father hath made our poke heauie, but make thou it lighter vnto vs : euen thus halt thou pake vnto them, My least part ishalbe d bigger then my fathers lynes.

11 Nowe where as my father did burden you with a grieuous poke, I wil yet make your poke heauier: my father hath chaſtled you with roddes, but I will correct you with eſcourges.

e Or, Ije ſinger. d I am much more able to kepe you in ſubfection the my father was.

e Or, eſcourges.

12 C Then Jeroboam e all the people came to Rehoboam the thirde daye, as the King had e appoynted, ſaying, Come to me a gaine the third day.

13 And the King anſWERED the people sharp- ly, and left the olde mens counſell that they gaue him,

14 And pake to them after the counſell of the pong men, ſaying, My father made your poke grieuous, and I wil make your poke more grieuous: my father hath chaſt- led you with roddes, but I wil correct you with eſcourges.

15 And the King hearkened not vnto the peo- ple: for e, it was the ordinance of the Loſde, that he might perſo me his ſaying, which p Lord had poken by e, that he had the Sibilonite vnto Jeroboam the ſonne of Nebat.

e Or, the Lord was the caſe.

Chap. 11, 11.

16 So when all Israel saw that the King re- garded them not, the people anſWERED the King thus, ſaying, What portion haue wee in ' David? we haue none in heritage in the ſonne of Jhaſt. To your tentes, O Israel: nowe fee to thine owne houſe, David. So Israel departed vnto their tentes.

f Chath they came where good, p et it is moſt hard for the people to bid their af- fections, as there vne ſo longs declare

17 Howbeit ouer the children of Israel, which dwelt in the cities of Judah, did Rehobo- am reigne still.

18 C How the King Rehoboam ſent Adjoam the recepuer of the tribute, e all Israel sto- ned him to death : then King Rehoboam * made ſpeede to get him vp to his charet, to ſee to Jeruſalem.

e Ebr. fire, the reaſon he ſelſe.

19 And Israel rebelled agaynst the house of David vnto this day.

g The inſt indeniment of God for Sales mons ſimmes,

20 C And whé all Israel had heard that Je- toboam was come againe, thep ſent a cal- led him vnto the asſembly, e made him king ouer all Israel: none followed the houſe of David, but the tríbe of Judah * onlyely.

Chap. 11, 15.

21 And when Rehoboam was come to Je- rufalem, he h gathered all the houſe of Ju- dah with the tríbe of Beniamin an hun- dieth and ſoure ſoſe thouande of choſen men (which were good warriours) to fight against the houſe of Israel, and to bring the kingdome agayne to Rehoboam the ſonne of Salomon.

h For as p et he perſeu'd not that the pape had was ap- pounted up.

22 * But the word of God came vnto She- matah the man of God, ſaying,

3, Chro. 11, 15.

i That is, the p[rophets].

23 Speake vnto Rehoboam the ſonne of Sa- lomon King of Judah, e vnto all the houſe of Judah and Beniamin, and the remnant of the people, ſaying,

24 Thus

Jeroãoam fetteth vp two kalues.

Chap.xij.

Jeroaoms dryed hand. 141

k. 10. do of this
11. until he met
12. he met him,
13. the lord, and
14. of his mercie
15. spare the m-
16. ancient people.

24. Thus faith the k Lord, he shall not go vp,
no: fight against you, beatieth the chil-
dren of Israel : returne every man to his
house: for this thing is done by mee. They
obeyed therefore the word of the Lord and
returned, and departed, according to the
word of the Lord.

25 Then Jeroboam buylt Shechem in
mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein, and
went from thence, and buylt Peniel.

26 And Jeroboam thought in his heart, Awe
shall the kingdome returne to the house of
David.

27 If this people go vp and do sacrifice in the
house of the Lord at Jeruſalem, then shall
the heart of this people turne agayne into
their Loſde, euen to the king of Ju-
DAH : so shall they kill me and goe agayne to
Rehoboam King of Judah.

28 Whereupon the King tooke counſell, and
made two calues of gold, and said vnto them,
"If it is to much for you to go vp to Jeruſa-
lem : beholde, D Israel, thy gods, which
brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt.

29 And he let the one in Beth-el, and the other
let him in.

30 And this thing turned to sinne : for the
people went ( because of the one ) euen to
Dan.

31 Also he made an n house of hyle places, and
made Priests of the lowest of the people,
which were not of the Sonnes of Leu.

32 And Jeroboam made a feast the ° fifteenth
day of the eight moneth, like vnto the feast
that is in Judah, and offered on the altar.
So did he in Beth-el, and offered vnto the
calues that he had made: and he placed in
Beth-el the Priests of the hie places, which
he had made.

33 And he offred vpon the altar, which hee
had made in Beth-el, the fifteenth daye of
the eight moneth ( euen in the moneth
which he had forged of his owne heart) and
made a Solemne feast vnto the childre of J-
El-RAEL : and he went vp to the altar, to burne
Incense.

CHAP. XIII.

1 Jeroboam is repriſehed of the Prophet. 4 This hand dyeth vp.
15 The Prophet is reduc'd, 4thuk is killed of a lyp. 33 The obliu-
narie of Jeroboam.

2 That is, a
Prophet.

b Not that he
was called
as in Mem-
um, but an
other of that
name.

1

2

2King 2:17.

3

4 And when the King had heard the laying
of the man of God, which hee had cryed a-
gaynſt the altar in Beth-el, Jeroboam stret-
ched out his hande from the altar, laying,
"Lay holde on him: but his hand which he
put forth against him, died vp, and he could
not pull it in againe to him.

4

The altar also claue aſunder, and the alſes
fell out from the altar, according to the ſigne,
which the man of God had given by the
commandement of the Lord.

Then the King anſwered, and layde vnto
the man of God, I beſeech thee, pray vnto
the Loſde thy God, and make intercession
for me, that mine hand may be reſtored vnto
mee. And the man of God befought the
Loſde, and the Kings hande was reſtored,
and became as it was aſſoſe.

Then the King layd vnto the man of God
Come home with mee, that thou mayſt
"dine, and I will give thee a reward.

But the man of God ſaid vnto the King, Jf
thou wouſتſt give me halſe thine houſe, I
would not goe in with thee, neyther would
I eat bread no: dinke water in this place.

For to was it charged me by the word of the
Lord, laying, †Eate no bread no: dinke
water, no: turne agayne by the same waye
that thou cameſt.

So he went another way, returned not
by the way that he came to Beth-el.

11 And an olde Prophet dwelt in Beth-el
and his ſonnes came, and toſde him all the
woonkes, that the man of God had done
that day in Beth-el, and the wordes which
hee had spoken vnto the King, toſde they
their father.

12 And their father layde vnto them, what
way went he? and his ſonnes † he wed him
what waye the man of God went, which
came from Judah.

13 And he ſaid vnto his ſonnes, Saddle me the
aſſe. Who ſadled him the aſſe, and he rode
thereon,

14 And went after the man of God, ſounde
him sitting vnder an oke: and he layd vnto
him, Art thou the man of God that cameſt
from Judah? And he layd, † Pea.

15 Then he ſaid vnto him, Come home with
me, and eate head.

16 But he anſwered, I may not returne with
thee, no: go in with thee, neither wil I eate
heade no: dinke water with thee in this
place.

17 For it was charged me by the word of the
Lord, laying, Thou hali eate no bread, no:
dinke water there, no: turne againe to goe
by the way that thou wenteſt.

18 And he layde vnto him, I am a Prophet
also as thou art, and an † Angel layde vnto
me by the word of the Loſde, laying, Bring
him againe with thee into thine houſe, that
he may eate bread and dinke water; but he
lyed vnto him.

19 So he went againe with him, and did eate
head in his houſe, and dranke water.

20 And as they fate at the table, the word of the
A. a. III. the

The wickeſt
rage against
a Prophet
of God, but the
beare their
Gods inſige-
ments.

‡ Ebr. mouth.

Though the
wickeſt jubile
thereſons for a
time, whether
thee God
indemnifyes get
after their re-
turne to their
old maſes, †
decare that
there then are
but litle hyppocrati-
s.

Or take faſſe-
nance.

Or, he charged
me: to wit an
Angel.
Seing he has
the eſtreme
word of God,
he ought not
to haſe decaſts
nied thereſo:
neither for the
perſection of
man no: 1ns
get.

Ebr. locked.

‡ Ebr. Iam.

This hee did
of a simple
munde, this
king it hys di-
py to declare
friendship to a
Prophet.

b His faſte is
here double:
but in that
that he kuf-
freeth not the
Prophet to
when God's en-
preſſe com-
maimement:
and next, that
he found to
have a reuela-
tion to the
contrary.

The man of God flayne.

1.Kings.

Ieroboams londe is sicke,

the Lorde came unto the *Diophete*, that brought him againe.

21 And hee cryed unto the man of God that came from Judah, laying, Thus layeth the Lorde, Because thou haft dibedebeyd the mouth of the Lorde, and haft not kept the commandement which the Lorde thy God commanded thee,

i God would reprieve his body by him, who was the occasion to bring him into error.

22 But camest backe agayne, and haft eaten bread & drunke water in the place (whereof he did fayl vnto thee, Thou haft eate no breade no: dinke any water) thy carkeis shall not come vnto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

23 And when he had eaten bread & drunke, he fadled him & alle, to wit, to the *Diophet* whom he had brought againe.

k This fearfull example God feterth forth, now his gerous as a thing it is for men to behane themfelscelys colding, on certeinly whereunto God hath calles them,

24 And when he was gone, k a Lyon met him by the way, & flew him, and his bodie was cast in the way, and the alle stooode thereby: the lion stooode by the corps alfo.

25 And beholde, men that paffed by, faue the carkeis cast in the waye, and the lion standing by the corps: and they came and tolde it in the towne where the olde *Diophet* dwelt.

26 And when the *Diophet*, that brought him backe againe fro the way, heard thereof, he fayd. It is the man of God, who hath bene dibedicient vnto the commandement of the *Lor d*: therefoe the *Lor d* hath deliuered him vnto the lion, which hath rent him & layne him, according to the word of the Lorde, which he spake vnto him.

27 And he spake to his fonnes, laying, Salade me the alle. And they fadled him.

28 And he went and founde his bodie cast in the way, and the alle and the lion stooode by the corps: and the lion had 1 not eaten the bodie, no: tome the alle.

l To declare that this was one help to judge ment of God: for if the Lyon had no life it for hunger, he would also haue beoumed the bodie.

29 And the *Diophet* tooke vp the body of the man of God, and layed it vpon the alle, and brought it againe, & the olde *Diophet* came to the citie, to lament and burye him.

m Which he had prepared for him selfe,

30 And he laid his body in his m'one graue, and they lamented ouer him, laying, Alas, my brother.

31 And when hee had burped him, hee chake to his fonnes, laying, When I am dead, butrie ye mee alfo in the sepulchre, wherein the man of God is buried: lay my bones beside his bones.

32 For that thing which he cryed by the word of the *Lor d* against þ' altar that is in Bethel, and against all the houfes of the hype places, which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to paffe.

n Howbeit after this, Jeroboam n'conuerued not fro his wicked way, but turned againe, a made of the lowest of the people Priests of the hype places. who would, might' consecrate him selfe, and be of the Priests of the hype places.

33
34 And this thing turned to-finne vnto the house of Jeroboam, euen to roote it out, and destroy it from the face of the earth.

CHAP. XIIIIL

1 Jeroboam fenderd his wife bifouled to Abiiah the *Diophet*, who berelayt vnto him the delitruction of his houle. 22 Judah is punyed by Shuithak.

A Thatyme Abiiah the sonne of Jeroboam fell sicke.

And Jeroboam fayd vnto his wife, Up, I pray thee, & dilguise thy selfe, that they knowe not that thou art þ' wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh: for there is Abiiah the *Diophet*, which tolde me *that I should be king ouer this people*.

And take with þ' thee ten loaves & 4 crackels, & a bottell of hony, & go to him: he shall tell thee what that shall become of the pong man.

4 And Jeroboams wife did so, and arole, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Abiiah: but Abiiah could not see, for his fight was decayed for his age.

Then the *Lor d* said vnto Abiiah, Beholde, the wife of Jeroboam commeth to afke a thing of thee for her sonne, for hee is sicke: thus and thus shall thou faye vnto her: for when theee commeth in, shee shall kypne her selfe to be e another.

Therefore when Abiiah heard the founde of her feete as shee came in at the doode, he laid, Come in, thou d wife of Jeroboam: why feynest thou thus thy selfe to be another? I am lent to thee with heauie tydings.

Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus fayth the Lorde God of Israel, For alway as I haue evalued e thee from among the people, and haue made thee prince ouer my people Israel.

And haue rent the kingdome a waye from the house of David, and haue given it thee, and thou hast not bene as my ferverant David, which kept my commandementes, and followed me with all his heart, and did only that which was right in mine eyes,

But haft done euil aboue all that were before thee (fo: thou haft gone and made thee other gods, and, molte images, to prouide me, and haft cast me behind thy backe)

10 Therefore beholde, I will bring euill vnto the house of Jeroboam, and wil cut off from Jeroboam him that * s pyleth agapunst the wal, alwel him that *h* is but vp, as him that is left in Israel, and will swcree away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a ma swcetheth away dung, till it be all gone.

11 The dogges shall eate him of Jeroboams flocke that dyeth in the citie, and the foules of the aire shall eate him that dyeth in the fielde: for the *Lor d* hath fayd it.

12 Up therefore and get thee to thine houle: for when thy feete enter into the citie, the childe shall dye.

13 And all Israel shall mourne for him, & burie him: for he onely of Jeroboam shall come to the graue, because in him there is founde k some goodnes towarde the Lor d God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

14 Mozourer, the Lorde shall stirre him vp a King ouer Israel, which shall destroye the house of Jeroboam in that day: 'what: yea, euen nowe.

This own e science bare him in times, þ' the *Diophet* of God would not latifie his affections which was a wicked man, Chap. 11, 21.

21 Ebr. in chuse hand.

22 According to the custome when their backe to after cometh of others.

23 San. 27, 28. Oryesters.

Ebr. cies fioode.

c Then a life of Jeroboam.

d For God of times bifles vnto his the craft and the craft of the wicked.

e Whach haft but a ferverant.

f To wive, twain calles.

Chap. 21, 27.
2 & 28, 2.
2 & 29, 1. In the fumiture of the bonts, 1, Sam. 26, 22.
21 To be well well him that is in the strong hold, as him that is as uod.

g Then shall backe the house of huryl in the tofe of godly matediction.

h For the mids of the wicked God hath none, on whom he beon be, now him uere cies.
The *Lor d* will rent to de from it out of hand.

15 Foi

anddyeth. Rehoboam.

Chap.xv.

Abijam. Afa. 142

m. Mbraning,
Esglathrs.

15 Fo: the LORD shall finite Israel, as when a reede is shaken in the water, and he shall weede Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the m Riiuer, because they have made them groues, prouoking the LORD to anger.

16 And he shall gine Israel bp, because of the sinnes of Jeroboam, who did sinne, and a made Israel to sinne.

n. The people
that not be ex-
cited, when
they do com al
the commu-
ment
of their gour-
nours.

17 And Jeroboams wife arose, and departed, a came to Tirzah, a when he came to the threithold of the house, þ pong man dyed,

18 And they buried him, and al Israel lamented him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Abiham the Pizphet.

19 And the rest of Jeroboams actes, how he warred, and how he reigned, beholde, they are written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

20 And the dayes which Jeroboam reigned, were two and twentie yere: and he e slept with his fathers, and Nadab his sonne reigned in his steade.

o. The LORD
sore hint
that he bep,
2:13,20.

21 Allo Rehoboam the sonne of Salomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was one and fourtie yere old, when he began to reigne, and reigned feuenteene þ yere in Jeruſalem the citie, which the LORD did chuse out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his Name there: and his mothers name was Maamah an Ammonite.

p. And he did be-
fore Jerobos
am about four
foures past.

22 And Judah wrought wickednes in the fight of the LORD: and they prouoked him moze with their sinnes, which they had committed, "then all that which their fathers had done.

q. Obesbes all
that their fa-
thers had done
by their finnes.

23 Fo: they allo made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and under euery greene tree.

r. Where doo
latter, reade,
albomble bis-
cles are com-
mitte, it at
length God
sult images
and detroppe
him upprep.

24 There were alio Sodomites i þ lande, they did according to all the abominations of the nations, which the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

25 And in the fit yere of King Rehoboam, Shibah King of Egypt came bp againſ Jeruſalem,

Chap. 10, 16.

26 And tooke the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the Kings house, and tooke away all: alio he caried away al the chieldes of gold * which Salomon had made.

27 And King Rehoboam made for them hagen chieldes, and committed them vnto the hands of the chiefe of the garde, which waited at the DOOZE of the KINGS houſe.

28 And when the King went into the house of the LORD, the garde bare them, a brought them againe into the garde chamber.

s. Which
bookes were called the booke of Jonaßah & Joab the Joyphters, 2:13, 22.
That is, an the dates of the srehoboams life.

29 And the rest of the actes of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in * the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.

30 And there was warre betwene Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

31 And Rehoboam flept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of David : his mothers name was Maamah an * Ammonite. And Abiham his sonne reigned in his steade.

C H A P . X V .

1 Abiham reigneth ouer Judah. 2 Afa succreeth in his ronne. 3 The batte] betwene Aa and Maathah. 4 Jeothaph that succreeth Afa.

25 Nadab succreeth Jeroboam. 38 Baalha killeth Nadab.

c. Whofe idos
latre thebo
boam her
sonne folowet

A Ad in the eightene yere of King * Jeroboam the sonne of Hebat, reigned Abiham ouer Judah.

2 Three yere reigned he in Jeruſalem, a his mothers name was Maachah the daugher of Abihamalom.

3 And he walked in all the sinnes of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfite with the LORD his God as the heart of David his father.

4 But for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a b light in Jeruſalem, a let by his sonne after him, a eſtablished Jeruſalem,

5 Because David did that which was right in the fight of the LORD, and turned from nothing that he commanded him, all the daies of his life, * faue onely in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

6 And there was warre betwene Rehoboam and Jeroboam as long as he liued.

7 The rest alio of the actes of Abiham, and al that he did, are they not written in þ *booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah ? there was alio warre betwene Abiham, & Jeroboam.

8 And Abiham flept with his fathers, a they buried him in the citie of David : and Afa his sonne reigned in his steade.

9 C And in the twentie yere of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Afa ouer Judah.

10 He reigned in Jeruſalem one and fourtie yere, a his c mothers name was Maachah, the daughter of Abihamalom.

11 And Afa did right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

12 And he tooke away the Sodomites out of the land, and put away al the idoles that his fathers had made.

13 And he d put down * Maachah his mother alio from her estate, because she had made an idole in a groue: and Afa destroyed her idoles, & burnt them by the brooke Kidion.

14 But they put not downe the hie places. Neuerthelesſe Aſa heart was e b right w the LORD all his dayes.

15 Allo he brought in the hol y beſels of his father, and the things that he had dedica ted vnto the houſe of the LORD, filuer, and golde and beſels.

16 And there was warre betwene Aſa and Baalha King of Israel all their daies.

17 Then Baalha King of Israel went bp againſ Judah, and built c Rainah, so that he would let none goe out oz in to Aſa king of Judah.

18 Then Aſa tooke all the filuer and the golde that was left in the treaſures of the houſe of the LORD, and the treaſures of the kings

A a. liii. houſe,

2. Chro. 12, 22.

a Some thinke
that he was
b Valbona Sa-
lomona sonne.

b Meaning, a
sonne to reign
ouer Judah.

2.Sam. 17:4
and 12:9.

2. Chro. 1, 3:3.

2. Chro. 14, 15.

c That is, his
grandmother,
as David is
of tines cal-
led father of
them, whole
grandfather
he was.

d Neither kureth not auoritie ought to be regarsed, when the blafheme God and beſome houſes, but wint be puniſhed.
2. Chro. 1, 16.
e For it that he suffered them to wouſhip God in other places, then he had appointed, it come of ignora nce and not of malice.

e Of the ſame
purpofe that
Jeroboam
did, because
the people
thouſold not go
up to Jeruſa
lem left they
would followe
Afa.

Iehošhaphat. Nadab. Baas̄ha.

1.Kings.

Elah. Zimri.

2. Chro. 16:2.

3. *Or, Syria.

4. And were there no longer.

5. *Or, made a proclamation. 2.Ezek. none in nor content.

h He had the goat and put his truil to the fire in the fire on them in the Lord, 2. Chro. 16:12. i This great grandfather.

16. So God first red by one transrant to punish the wickednes of another.

Chap. 14:10.

18. By causing the people to commit doles, fire with his catherines, and to poukning God to anger.

house, and delivered them into the hands of his seruants, and King Ala lent them to * Ben-hadad the sonne of Tabmon, the sonne of Hezion King of "Aram that dwelt at Damacus, laying,

19. There is a covenant betwene me and thee, and betwene my father and thy father: be-holde, I haue sent vnto thee a present of fil-uer and golde: come, beake thy covenant with Baas̄ha King of Israel, that he may s depart from me.

20. So Ben-hadad hearkened vnto King Ala, and lent the captaines of the hostes, which he had, against the cities of Israel, & smote Jion, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maa-chah, and all Cinneroth, with all the lande of Aphtali.

21. And when Baalša heard thereof, he left building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

22. The King Ala "assembled al Judah," none excepted, and they tooke the stones of Ra-mah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baalša had built, and King Ala built with them Geba of Beniamin and Mizpah.

23. And the rest of all the actes of Ala, and all his might and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Ju-dah? but in his olde age he was dikealed in his hª feete.

24. And Ala slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Da-uid his 'father. And Iehošhaphat his sonne reigned in his steade.

25. And Nadab the sonne of Jeroboam be-gan to reigne ouer Israel the second yere of Ala King of Judah, and reigned ouer I-rael two yere.

26. And he did euil in the fight of the Lord, walking in the way of his father, a in his sinne wherewith he made Israel to sinne.

27. And Baalša the sonne of Ahiah of the house of Iffachat conspired against him, a Baalša lewe him at Gibbethon, which be-longed to the Philistins: fo: Nadab and all Israel laid liege to Gibbethon.

28. Even in the third yere of Ala King of Ju-dah did Baalša slay him, and reigned in his steade.

29. And when he was King, he k smote al the house of Jeroboam, he left none aline to Je-toboam, vntil he had destroyed him, accor-ding to the * word of the Lord which he spake by his seruant Ahiah the Shilonite,

30. Because of the sinnes of Jeroboam which he committed, and wherewith he made I-e-rael to sinne, by his 'prouocation, where-with he poukned the Lord God of Israel.

31. And the residue of the actes of Nadab and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

32. And there was warre betwene Ala and Baalša King of Israel, all their daies.

ouer all Israel in m Tirzah, & reigned soure and twentie yeres.

34. And he did euil in the fight of the Lord, walking in the way of Jeroboam, a in his sinne, wherewith he made Israel to sinne.

CHAP. XVI.

1 Of Baalša, 6 Elah, 9 Zimri, 16 Omni, 31. Elah married Jezebel. 34 Jericho is built againe.

T. Then the word of the Lord came to Je-hu the sonne of Hanani against Baal-ša, laying,

a For aumuch as I eralted thee out of š duft, and made thee captaine ouer my people Israel, and thou haſt walked in the way of Jeroboam, a haſt made my people Israel to sinne, to prouoke me with their sinnes, Beholde, I wil take away the posteritie of Baalša, and the posteritie of his house, and wil make b thine house like the * house of Jeroboam the sonne of Ahab.

b Meaning, the house of Baalša. Chap. 14:12.

5 And the rest of the actes of Baalša a what he did, and his "power, are they not written in the book of the * Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

6 So Baalša slept with his fathers, a was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his sonne reig-ned in his steade.

7 And c also by the hand of Iehu the sonne of Hanani the Prophet, came the word of the Lord to Baalša, and to his house, that he should be like the house of Jeroboam, euen fo: al the wickednes that he did in the fight of the Lord, in prouoking him w the worke of his hands, and because he killed d him,

8 In the fix and twentie yere of Ala King of Judah began Elah the sonne of Baalša to reigne ouer Israel in Tirzah, and reigned two yere.

9 And his seruant Zimri, captaine of halfe his charets, conspired against him, as hee was in Tirzah e dunking, til he was dum-ken in the house of Arza stewarte of his house in Tirzah.

10 And Zimri came and smote him and kil-led him in þeuen and twentie yere of Ala King of Judah, and reigned in his steade.

11 And when he was King, and fate on his thone, he flew all the house of Baalša, not leauing thereof one to pille against a wall, neither of his kinkfolkes no: of his friends.

12 So did Zimri destroye all the house of Baalša, according to the word of the Lord which he spake against Baalša by the had of Iehu the c Prophet,

13 For all the sinnes of Baalša, and sinnes of Elah his sonne, which they linned a made Israel to sinne, a prouoked the Lord God of Israel with their vanities.

14. And the rest of the actes of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in þ booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

15 In the seuen and twentie yere of Ala King of Judah did Zimri reigne seuen daies

m Which was þ place where the Kings of Israel remaie sinne.

n Chus Quah. Iehu to Baalša in the Name of the Lord.

o Meaning, the house of Baalša. Chap. 14:12.

p Or, valiantes.

q That is, the Prophet bid his message.

r Meaning, Nadab, Jeroboam sonne.

s The Chalde tert bath thus, Drinking til he was dumsken in the truime of Asra, he did by his house in Tirzah.

t Both Plaanes, i his father s he were pious.

Omri. Ahab.

Chap.xvij.

Elias is fedde of rauens.

143

Isaiah 14:1-16
15:1-16 The Lord God of Israel, the God of all the earth, the God of theaanahs, the God of the horeb.

daies in Tirzah, and the people was then
in campe against Sibbethon, which belo-
ged to the Philistins.

16 And the people of ☿ hohe heard say, Zim-
ri hath conspired, and hath also slaine the
King. wherefore al Israel made Omri the
captaine of the hoſte, King ouer Israel that
ſame day, euen in the hoſte.

Isaiah 14:1-16
17:1-16 The Lord went by from Sibbethon, a all Israel with him, as they beſied h Tirzah.

17 The Omri went by from Sibbethon, a all Israel with him, as they beſied h Tirzah.

Isaiah 14:1-16
18 And when Zimri law, that the citie was taken, he went into the palace of the kings house, and burnt him ſelſe, and the Kings house with fire, and ſo dyed.

19 For his ſinnes which he ſinned, in doing ☿ which is euil in the light of ☿ Lord, in wal-
king in ☿ way of Jeroboam, as in his ſinnes
which he did, causing Israel to ſinne.

Isaiah 14:1-16
20 And the rest of the actes of Omri, and his treacon that he wouſt, are they not written in the booke of the Chironicles of the kings of Israel ?
21 Then were the people of Israel deuified into two partes: for 1 halke the people fol-

20 And the rest of the actes of Zimri, and his treacon that he wouſt, are they not written in the booke of the Chironicles of the kings of Israel ?
21 Then were the people of Israel deuified into two partes: for 1 halke the people fol-

22 Then were the people of Israel deuified into two partes: for 1 halke the people fol- lowed Tibni the ſonne of Sinath to make him King, and the other halke followed Omri.

Isaiah 14:1-16
23 But the people that followed Omri, pre-

22 But the people that followed Omri, pre- uated against the people that followed Tibni the ſonne of Sinath; to Tibni dyed, a Omri reigned.

23 In the one and thirtie pere of Ala King of Judah began Omri to reigne ouer Israel, and reigned twelue pere. Sip pere reigned he in Tirzah.

Isaiah 14:1-16
24 And he bought the mountaine Samaria of one Schemer for two talents of filuer, a built in the mountaine, a called the name of the citie, which he built, after the name of Schemer, lond of the mountaine Samaria.

25 But Omri did euil in the eies of the Lord, and did 1 wouſe then all that were before him.

Isaiah 14:1-16
26 For he walked in al the way of Jeroboam the ſonne of Jezebel, as in his ſinnes where- with he made Israel to ſinne in pronoking ☿ Lord God of Israel with their vanities.

27 And the reſt of the actes of Dirni, that he did, and his ſtrength that he ſlewed, are they not written in the booke of the Chioni- cles of the Kings of Israel?

28 And Omri ſlept with his ſathers, as was buried in Sainaria: and Ahab his ſonne reigned in his ſteade.

Isaiah 14:1-16
29 Now Ahab the ſonne of Omri began to reigne ouer Israel, in the eight and thirtie pere of Ala King of Judah: and Ahab the ſonne of Omri reigned ouer Israel in Sa- maria two and twentie pere.

30 And Ahab the ſonne of Omri did wouſe in the light of the Lord then all that were before him.

31 For was it a light thing for him to walke in the ſinnes of Jeroboam the ſonne of Jeze- bat, except he tooke Jezebel also the daugh- ter of Eth-baal King of the Zidonians to m wife, and went and ſerued Baal, and woshipped him?

32 Also he reared up an altar to Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Sa- maria.

33 And Ahab made a grove, and Ahab pROCEDED, and did pronounce the Lord God of Jc- rael more then all the Kings of Israel that were before him.

34 In his daies did Hiel the Bethelite builde
n Jericho: he layed the foundation thereof
in Abiram his eldest ſonne, and set up the
gates thereof in his yongest ſonne Segub,
according to the word of the Lord which he
lpaſte 2 by Joshua the ſonne of Ahm.
35 Ehe by the
hand of Jotha.

Ezekiel 43:2, 3, 4, 16, 17,
A That is,
whoon Jerns
b But as
that be declare k
by God's rea-
lation.

C H A P. XVII.

Ezekiah forewarneth of the famine so come. 4 He is fed of rauens.

9 He is true to Zarephath, where he reſueth his hoſtife ſonnes to life.

A Ad Eliah the Tihbite one of the it-
habitants of Gilead laid unto Ahab,
As the Lord God of Israel liueth,
before whom I stand, there shall be
ther dew not raine these peres, but accor-
ding to my word.

2 And the word of the Lord came into him, saying,

3 Go hence, and turne thee Eastward, and
hide thy ſelſe in the river Cherith, that is
ouer against Jorden,

4 And thou shall drinke of the river : and I
haue commanded the rauens to feede thee
there.

5 So he went and did according vnto the word of the Lord: for he went, and remained by the river Cherith that is ouer against Jorden.

6 And the rauens brought him bread & flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he dianke of the river.

7 And after a while the river died vp, because there fell no raine vpon the earth.

8 And the word of the Lord came into him, saying,

9 As up, and get thee to Zarephath, which is in Zidon, and remaine there: beholde, I haue commanded a widowe there to ſu- kiaine thee.

10 So he arose, and went to Zarephath: and when he came to the gate of the citie, be- holde, the widowe was there gathering sticks: and he called her, and faide, Bring me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drinke.

11 And as he was going to ſet it, he called to her, and laid, Bring me, I pray thee, a mo- ſel of bread in thine hand.

12 And he laid, As the Lord thy God liueth, I haue not a cake, but euen an handfull of meale in a barrel, and a little oyle in a crule: and beholde, I am gathering † a few sticks for to go in, and drelle it for me ‡ my ſonne, that we may eat it, and ‡ die.

13 And Eliah laid into her, † fear not, come, do as thou haſt laid, but make me thereof a little cake first of all, and bring it into me, a afterward make for thee, and thy ſonne.

14 For thus faith ☿ Lord God of Israel, ☿ the meale in ☿ barrel shall not be wonkled, neither shall the oyle in the crule be diminuited, into

Ochrooke.

Isaiah 43:2, 3, 4, 16, 17,
As the touse
bles of the
Sauities of
God are mas
me, to bo
meers euer
at hand to de
inner them.
Luke 4:25, 26.

As this was
to strengthe
the faith of
Eliah to the
ment that he
should boke
upon nothing
worth but
onebly truſt on
God your rea-
uerse.

Isaiah 43:2, 3, 4, 16,
no hope of as
up none finda-
nance.

Isaiah 43:2, 3, 4, 16,
God reçet
no bruc-
fce for the
of his, but be
pionneth a
noit auile
recompen-
ſe for the taue.

The widowes sonne raifed to life.

1.Kings.

Elias, Obadiah and Ahab.

unto the time that the Lo;o send came vp
the earth.

15 So he went, and did as Eliiah said, and
the d.d eat: to did he and her houle b for a
certaine time.

16 The barrel of the meale wasted not, no
the ople was spent out of the cruele, accor-
ding to the word of þ Lord, which he spake
by the hand of Eliiah.

17 And after these things, the sonne of the
wife of the houle fell sicke, and his sickness
was so forze, that there was no hreath left
in him.

18 And he laid vnto Eliiah, what haue I to
do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou
come vnto me to call my finne to remem-
brance, and to slap my sonne?

19 And he laid vnto her, Giue me thy sonne,
and he tooke him out of her bosome, and
caried him vpon a chamber, where he a-
bode, and laid him vpon his owne bed.

20 Then he called vnto the Lord, and said, O
Lord my God, haft thou k punished also this
widowe, with whome I toilourne, by kil-
ling her sonne?

21 And he stretched him selfe vpon the childe
three times, and called vnto the Lord, and
said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this
childes soule come into him againe.

22 Then the Lord heard the boye of Eliiah,
and the soule of the childe came into him a-
gaine, and he復uined.

23 And Eliiah tooke the childe, and brought
him down out of the chamber into þ house,
and deliuered him vnto his mother, and E-
liiah said, Beholde, thy sonne liueth.

24. And þ woman said vnto Eliiah, Now! I
know that thou art a man of God, and that
the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true.

CHAP. XVIII.

Eliiah is sent to Ahab; 1 Obadiah hidenh an hundred 3 Prophets.

40 Eliiah killeth all Baals 4 Prophets. 45 He obtaineth raine.

After many daies, the word of þ Lord
came to Eliiah, in the a third pere, lay-
ing, Go, theyo thy selfe vnto Ahab, and
I wil send raine upon the earth.

2 And Eliiah went to Shewe him selfe vnto
Ahab, and there was a great fainine in Sa-
maria.

3 And Ahab called Obadiah the gouvernour
of his houle: (and Obadiah b feared God
greatly)

4 For when Jezebel destroyed the Prophets
of the Lord, Obadiah tooke an hundred
Prophets, and hid them, by fiftie in a cause,
and he fed them with bread and water.

5 And Ahab said vnto Obadiah, Go into the
land, vnto all the fountaines of water, and
unto all the riuers, if it be that we may find
grasse to saue the horles and the mules a-
line, left we depize the land of the beafts.

6 And so they deuided the land betweene
them to walke through it. Ahab went one
way by him selfe, and Obadiah went ano-
ther way by him selfe.

7 And as Obadiah was in þ way, behold,
Eliiah c met him: and he knewe him, and

fell on his face, and said, Art not thou my
lord Eliiah?

And he answered him. Pea, go tel thy lord,
Beholde, Eliiah is here.

And he said, and that haue I finned, that thou
wouldest deliuer thy servant into the hand
of Ahab, to flap me?

As þ Lord thy God liueth, there is no na-
tion or kingdom, whither my lord hath not
sent to seeke thee: and when they saide, He
is not here, he tooke an otre of the kingdom
and nation, if they had not found thee.

And now thou saith, Go, tel thy lord, Be-
holde, Eliiah is here.

And when I am gone from thee, the Spi-
rit of the Lord shall carie thee into some
place that I do not know: so when I come
and tel Ahab, if he can not finde thee, then
will he kill me: But I thy servant d feare
the Lord from my mouth.

Was it not told my lord, what I did when
Jezebel clewe the Prophets of the Lord,
how I hid an hundred men of the Lo;des
Prophets by fiftie in a cause, and fed them
with bread and water?

And now thou kaiest, Go, tel thy lord, Be-
holde, Eliiah is here, that he may flap me.

And Eliiah said, As the Lord of hostes i-
eth, before whome I stand, I will surely
shew e my selfe vnto him this day.

C So Obadiah went to meete Ahab, and
tolde him: and Ahab went to meete Eliiah.

And whc þ Ahab saw Eliiah, Ahab said in-
to him, Art thou that troublceth Israel?

And he answered, I have not troubled Je-
rael, but þ thou, and his fathers houfe, in
that ye have forlaken the communde-
ments of the Lord, and thou hast followed
Baalim.

Now therefore send, and gather to me all
Israel vnto mount Carmel, and the pro-
phets of Baal foure hundred and fiftie, &
the prophets of the groues foure hundred,
which eate at Jezebels table.

C So Ahab sent vnto all the children of
Israel, and gathered the prophets together
unto mount Carmel.

And Eliiah came vnto all the people, and
said, How long s hait ye betwene two opi-
nions? If the Lord be God, followe him;
but if Baal be he, then go after him. And
the people answereed him not a word.

Then said Eliiah vnto the people, I onely
remaine a Prophet of the Lord: but Baals
prophets are foure hundred and fiftie men.

Let them therefore give vs two bullockes,
and let them chuse the one, and cut him in
pieces, and lay him on the wood, but put no
fire vnder, and I wil prepare the other bul-
locke, and lay him on the wood, and wil put
no fire vnder.

Then call ye on the name of your god, and
I wil call on the Name of the Lord: and the
the God that answereth b by fire, let him be
God. And al the people answere, and said,
It is wel spoken.

I am none of the wicked
perſoners,
that thou
houldst be
cure vnto me
uch blithe
sure, but true
God and fa-
nour his chil-
dren.

C As my pere
ace I will
be decarant
that thou haſt to
him the trueth.

The true miſer of God
ought not on-
not to ſuffer
God to be unmiſer
flambered, but
to repreſent
how he
wicked ſlam-
ders with
but repreſent
person.

Be comiant
in religion, and
make it not as
a thing unſer-
fentent whome
there ſhall be
of God or Saal,
or whether ye
be true God
who is in my
path, or The
Saphn. 1,5

As I rememb
vnto fire
from burnen
to burne the
farricke.

k That he
dread
i God would
tie whether
the hab lea
nd by his
merciful pio-
udence to
make him her
one? hap and
confort.

“O, that he
dread
i God would
tie whether
the hab lea
nd by his
merciful pio-
udence to
make him her
one? hap and
confort.

k Ye was as
fraight left gods
aame should
haue but blas-
phened and
his minuers
contemned,
except he find
haue continued
his mercies,
as he had bes-
gun them,
perſistance
while
he there re-
mained.

1 So hard a
thing it is to
dey end on
God, except
we be confiſ-
med by mira-
cles.

a After that he
departed from
the river Es-
rub.

k God had be-
gun to wade
his feare in
his heart, but
had nor yet
brought him
to that know
ledge, which is
also reuiquif
of the god.
that is, to pio-
felle his name
openly.

e God purieth
of times the
wicked for the
goodles take,
caueth Eliah
to meete with
Obadiah, that
the benefit
might be
knowne to be
granted for
Gods children
sake.

25 And

Baals prophets & Elias sacrifice.

Chap.xix.

Elias fedde by an Angel.

144.

25 And Eliiah saide unto & prophets of Baal, Chute you a bullocke, and prepare him fire, (so? ye are many) and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire vnder.

26 So they tooke the one bullocke, that was guen them, and they prepared it, and cal-
ed on the name of Baal, from morning to noone, laying, D Baal, heare vs; but there was no boice, no; any to answere; and they leapt upon the altar that was made.

27 And at noone Eliiah mocked them, and said, Crie loude: for he is a & god: either he talketh or purketh his enemies, or is in his journey, or it may be that he sleepeth, and must be awaked.

28 And they cried loud, and cut them selues as their maner was, with knives & launders, til the blood gulfed out upon them.

29 And when midday was pasted, and they had prophesied until the offering of the evening sacrifice, there was neither boice, nor one to answere, nor any that regarded.

30 And Eliiah said unto all the people, Come to me. And all the people came to him. And he repared the altar of the Lord that was broken downe.

31 And Eliiah tooke twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the宗ies of Jaakob, (unto whom the word of the Lord came, laying, * Israel (halbe thy name))

32 And with the stones he built an altar in the Name of the Lord: and he made a ditch round about the altar, as great as would lede two measures of leede.

33 And he put the wood in order, and he wod the bullocke in pieces, and laped him on the wood,

34 And said, fil foure barrels with water, a pouze it on & burnt offring & on the wood. Againe he said, Do so againe. And they did so the second time. And he said, Do it th' third time. And they did it the third time.

35 And the water ran round about the altar: and he filled the ditch with water alio.

36 And when they should offer the evening sacrifice, Eliiah the Prophet came, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Jezak and of J. Israel, let it be knowne this day, that thou art the God of Israel, that I am thy fervant, and that I haue done al these things at thy commandement.

37 Heare me, D Lord, heare me, and let this people know that thou art the Lord God, that thou haſt turned their heart against me at the last.

38 Then the fire of the Lord fell, and conſu-
med the burnt offering, and the wood, & the
stones, and the dust, and licked by the wa-
ter that was in the ditch.

39 And when all the people saue it, they fell
D Is God,
& prophets
scape. And
light them
in there.

41 And Eliiah layde vnto Ahab, Get thee bp, eate and drinke, so there is a found of much raine.

42 So Ahab went bp to eate and to drinke, and Eliiah went bp to the top of Carmel: and he crouched vnto the earth, and put his face betweene his knees,

43 And said to his seru't, Go bp now & looke toward the way of the Sea. And he went bp, and looked, and said, There is nothing. Againe he said, Go againe & seuen times.

44 And at the seuenth time he said, Beholde, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a mans hand. Then he said, Up, & lay vnto Ahab, Make readie thy charet, and get thee downe, that the raine stap thee not.

45 And in the meane while the heauen was blacke with cloudes and winde, and there was a great raine. Then Ahab went bp a came to Israel.

46 And the hand of the Lord was on Eliiah, and he girded bp his lopes, and ran before Ahab til he came to Israel.

C H A P . X I X

Eliiah fleering from Jezebel, is nourished by the Angel of God. He is commanded to anoint Hasael, Jehe, and Eliha.

47 Now Ahab tolde Jezebel all that E-
liiah had done, and how he had flame
all the & prophets with the word.

48 Then Jezebel sent a messenger vnto Eliiah, laying, The gods do so to me and more alio, if I make not thy life like one of their liues bp to morowe this time.

49 When he saw that, he arose, and went to his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which is in Judah, and left his fervant there.

50 But he went a daies iourny into the wildernes, & came a late downe under a luneper tree, and desired that he might die, and said, It is now enough: D Lord, take my soule, so I am no better then my fathers.

51 And as he lay and slept under the uniper tree, beholde now, an Angel touched him, and said vnto him, Up, and eat.

52 And when he looked about, beholde, there was a cake baked on the coles, and a pot of water at his head: so he did eate and drinke, and returned and slept.

53 And the Angel of the Lord came againe the second time, and touched him, and said, Up, and eat: so thou haſt a great iourny.

54 Then he arose, and did eate and drinke, and walked in the strength of that meate fourtie daies and fourtie nights, but he redb the mount of God.

55 And there he entred into a caue, and lodged there; and beholde, the Lord spake to him, and said vnto him, What doest thou here, Eliiah?

56 And he answered, I haue bene herie ie-
ious for the Lord God of hostes: so the chil-
dren of Israel haue foraken thy couenane,
boken downe thine altars, and flaine thy
Prophets with the word, * and Ionyl
am left, they seeke my life to take it away.

57 And he saide, Come out, and stand vpon
the mount before the Lord. And beholde,
the

p as God
prit movement
b to yar. so
was he frended
b theame, that he
was not fain,
but continued
full to the pas
obtained.
"Or, here and
there.

q he was so
strengthened
with God's
pition, that he
came fainer
then the pas
was able
to ruine.

a To wit of
Baal.

b Though the
wicked rage
against God's
chilidren, yet he
holpen them
bake that
they cannot
enquire their
mace.
"Orywhither
his mnde led
him.

c So hard a
thing it is to
bind one urs
paciene in
aaffliction, that
the fauants
could not be
wondered at
the name.

d he declared
that except
God had news
till ed in
initialement,
but had not bit
odible to
bun ta hae
gone thus
iourny.

e he complaine
that the
moge sealeus
p he hefet
a him gef to
maintame
Cohu glese,
the inno cras
eth wos be
perfecuted.
Rom 11:3.

God talketh with Elias. Eliſha.

1.Kings.

Ben-hadads crueltie. Deliverance.

the Lord went by, and a mightie strong
windie rent the mountaines, and brake the
roches before the Lord; but the Lord was
not in the windie; and after the wind came
an earthquake : but the Lord was not in
the earthquake:

12 And after the earthquake came fire: but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire came a still and soft boyce.

13 And when Eliah heard it, he couered his
face with his mantell, and went out, and
scodeo in the entring in of the caue: and de-
holde, there came a boyce into him, ſaid,
What doest thou here, Eliah?

14 And he anſwered, I haue bene very leous
for the Lord God of hostes, ſecause the
children of Israel haue forsaken the cou-
nant, cast downe thine altars, and ſaine thy
Diſphebers with the twoſd, and I onely am
left, and they ſeeke my life to take it away.

15 And the Lord said into him, Go, returne
by the wildernes into Damaseus, when
thou commest there, anoint Hazael King o-
uer Aram.

16 And Jehu the ſonne of Aimiſh chalt thou
anoint King ouer Israel: and Eliſha the
ſonne of Shaphat of Abel Meholah chalt
thou anoint to be Diſpheber in thy ſoune.

17 And * him that eſcapeth from the twoſd
of Hazael, chal Jehu ſlay: and him ſe eſcapeth
from the twoſd of Jehu, chal Eliſha ſlay.

18 Det wil * I Jeaue ſeuen thouland in Ira-
cl, euen h all the knees that haue not bowed
unto Baal, and euery mouth that hath not
killed him.

19 C So he departed thence, and found Eli-
ſha the ſonne of Shaphat who was plow-
ing with twelue yoke of oxen before him, ſ
was with the twelft: and Eliiah went to-
wards him, and cast his mantel upon him.

20 And he left the oren, and ran after Eliiah,
and ſaid, 'Let me, I pray thee, kille my fa-
ther and my mother, and then I will follow
thee. Who anſwered him, Go, returne : ſo
what haue I done to thee?

21 And when he went backe againe fro him,
he tooke a couple of oxen, and ſlewe them,
and ſod their flesh with the k instruments
of the oren, and gaue into the people, and
they did eate : then he arose and went after
Eliiah, and minuſtred into him.

C H A P . X X .

1 Hamaria is beſlieget. 12 The Lord moniſeth the viſitie to the hab by a Diſpheber. 13 The King of Israel made peace with Ben-hadad, and is reſponſed thereon by the Diſpheber.

1 T
hen Ben-hadad the King of "Aram
assembled all his armie, and two and
thietie a Kings with him, with hostes,
and charret, and went vp a beſlieget" Sa-
maria, and ſought againſt it.

2 And he ſent meſsengers to Ahab King of Israel into the citie,

3 And ſaid into him, Thus faith Ben-hadad,
Thy filuer and thy golde is mine: alio the
women, and thy faire children are mine.

4 And the King of Israel anſwered, ſaide,
My lord King, according to thy ſaying, b I

am thine, and all that Jhaue.

5 And when the meſsengers came againe,
they ſaid, Thus commandeth Ben-hadad,
and faith, when I shall ſend into thee, and
command, thou chalt deliver me the filuer
and thy golde, a thy women, a thy children,
Oels I will ſend my ſeruants into thee
by to mozo this time: and they shall search
thine houſe, and the houſes of thy ſeruants:
and whatſoever is pleasanſt in thine epeſ,
they chall take it in their handes, and bring
it away.

7 Then the King of Israel ſent for all the El-
ders of the land, ſayd, Take heede, I pray
you, and ſee howe he keeketh miſchicke: for he
ſent into me ſo my wines, and ſo my chil-
dren, and for my filuer, and for my gold, and
I denped him not.

8 And all the Elders, and all the people ſayde
to him, Heareken not into him, no: conſent.

9 Wherefore he ſaide into the meſsengers of
Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the King, All that
thou diſeſt ſend for: to thy ſeruant at the first
time, that I wil doe, but this thing I may
not doe. And the meſsengers departed, and
brought him an anſwere.

10 And Ben-hadad ſent into him, ſaid, The
gods doe to me and more also, if the e diſk
of Samaria be enough to al the people that
folow me, ſo every man an handfull.

11 And the King of Israel anſwered, and ſaid,
Tell him, Let not him that girdeth his har-
pecis, boast humſelſe, as he that *putteth toſ.

12 And whéhe heard that tidings, as he was
with the Kings drinking in the pavilions, he
aid into his ſeruants, *Bring forth your en-
gines, and they let them againſt the citie.

13 And beholde, there came a Diſpheber bu-
to Ahab King of Israel, ſaying, Thus faith
the Lord. Aha that thou seene at this great nu-
titude beholde, I will deliver it into thine
hand this day, that thou maist know, that
I am the Lord.

14 And Ahab ſaid, By whom? And he ſaid,
Thus faith the Lord, By the ſeruants of
the princes of the prouincees. He ſaid again,
who chail order the battel? And he anſme-
red, Thou.

15 Then he nombred the ſeruants of the
princes of the prouincees, as they were two
hundreth, two and thirtie: and after them
he nombred the whole people of all the chil-
dren of Israel, euen ſeuen thouland.

16 And they went out at noone: but Ben-ha-
dad did drinke til he was drinke[n] in the
tents, both he and the Kings : for two and
thirtie Kings helped him.

17 So the h ſeruants of the princes of the pro-
vicees went out first: and Ben-hadad ſent
out, and they ſhewed him, ſaying, There
are men come out of Samaria.

18 And he ſaid, Whether they be come out to
peace, take them alioine : or whether they be
come out to fight, take them yet alioine.

19 So they came out of the citie, to vic, the
ſeruants of the princes of the mountaines, a

c He heard not, accorſe, his anſwere, ey
crep he did out of hand, betteſt and
neuer after him, aſter he ſawed an ece-
tation, he then made to make him come
against him.

d The
thought it
their buries
after to
ter their li
then to ma
that thing
which was
not tafui
one to fa
ſie the luff
of a p[ar]ant.

e Matchle
thall he
that am
pray, that
is worth
any
thing, when
the Ihaſa is
anme.

f And
after
before
the
bites
to
the
bites
he got
them.

g Or, get your
refles in order.

h God
love about
the figues
a maſs
clea to put
the hah from
his impure,
and not
against
with his
bites and
fall viceroyes.

i Chafis,
long mira
trained in
fernice of
princes.

f For the ma-
ture of man 19
nor able to
come neere
unto God,
if the should
appear in his
litrity and
full matelike,
and therefore
of his mercie
he ſubminct
him ſelde to
our capacitie.

g We ought
to be a
kind of
the mult-
ade in main-
tenung. God
glorie, but be
cauſe our
bucate to rea
reth, we ought
to do, but.

° Syria.

2King. x. 13,
cclus. x. 28, 29.

Rom. 11:4.

h Mebrak
reth that wies
ed diſſeu-
bler and ido-
lators are not
his.

i Although this
natural affect
on is not to be
contemned,
yet it ought
to be in
conſion
as when God
saith to his
fereu him.

k He would
not flan
wood was
brought, to
great was his
belfere to folo-
with his
visitation.

° Syria.

a That is, gas
nemers, a the
ter of prouin-
ce.
b Or, Semeon,
and, Semeon.

d I am come
to obfer
pay tribute.

Naboth is flaine.

1.Kings.

Ahab reproued, repenteth.

in displeasure, because of the woode which Ahaboth the Israelite had spoke unto him. for he had layde, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers, and he lap b upon his bed and turned his face and would eat no bread.

Then Jezebel his wife came to him and faide unto him, Nohy is thy spirit to soad that thou eatest no bread.

6 And he laid unto her, Because I spake unto Ahaboth the Israelite, and laid unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money, or if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: but he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.

7 Then Jezebel his wife faide unto him, Doest thou now gouverne the kingdome of Israel ? vp, eat bread, a be of good cheere, I will give thee the vineyard of Ahaboth the Israelite.

8 So the wrote letters in Ahabs name, a sealed them with his keale, and sent the letters vnto the Elders, and to the nobles, that were in his citie dwelling with Ahaboth.

9 And the wrote in the letters, laying, Proclaime a fak, and set Ahaboth among the chiefe of the people,

10 And let two wicked men before him, let them witnes against him, laying, Thou didest blaspheme God and the King: then carie him out, a one him that he may die.

11 And the men of his citie, even the Elders and governours, which dwelt in his citie, did as Jezebel had sent vnto them: as it was written in the letters, which he had sent vnto them.

12 They proclaimed a fak, and set Ahaboth among the chiefe of the people,

13 And there came two wicked men, and kate before him: and the wicked men witnesed against Ahaboth in the presence of the people, laying, Ahaboth did blaspheme God and the King. Then they caried him away out of the citie, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

14 Then they sent to Jezebel, laying, Ahaboth is stoned and is dead.

15 And when Jezebel heard that Ahaboth was stoned and was dead, Jezebel faide to Ahab, Up, and take posſection of the vineyard of Ahaboth the Israelite, which he refuted to give thee for money: for Ahaboth is not alive, but is dead.

16 And when Ahab heard that Ahaboth was dead, he rose to go downe to y vineyard of Ahaboth the Israelite, to take posſection of it.

17 And the word of the Lord came vnto Eliah the Tifhite, laying,

18 Arife, go downe to meet Ahab King of Israel, which is in Samaria. lo, he is in the vineyard of Ahaboth, whither he is gone downe to take posſection of it.

19 Therefore halt thou lay vnto him, Thus faith the Lord, hest thou killed, and also gotten posſession. And thou hest speake vnto him, laying, Thus faith the Lord, b In

the place where dogs licked y blood of Ahaboth, hest dogs liceu euen thy blood also.

20 And Ahab laid to Eliah, Hest thou found me. O mine enemie? And he anſWERED, I hane found thee: for thou hast sold thy selfe to worke wickednes in the light of y Lord.

21 *Beholde, I will bring euil vpon thee, and will take away thy posteritie, and will eut of from Ahab him that * pitteth against the wall, as well him that is * shut vp, as him that is left in Israel,

22 And I will make thine house like the house of * Jeroboam the ſonne of Ahab, and like the house of * Baalha the ſonne of Abiath, for the prouocation whereuoth thou hast prouoked, and made Israel to time.

23 And alio of Jezebel layke the Lord, laying, * The dogges shall eate Jezebel, *bp the wall of Israel.

24 The dogges hal eat him of Ahab's stocke, that dyeth in the citie: and him that dyeth in the fields, hal the foules of the air eat.

25 But there was none like Ahab, who did sel him selfe, to worke wickednes in the light of the Lord: whom Jezebel his wife pronoued.

26 For he did exceeding abominably in following idoles, according to all that the Almores did, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

27 How when Ahab heard thate woode, he rent his clothes, and put fackecloth upon him and kafled, and lap in fackecloth and went k softl.

28 And the word of the Lord came to Eliah, the Tifhite, laying,

29 See that thou how Ahab is humbled before me: because he submitteth him selfe before me, I will not bring that euil in his dayes, but in his ſonnes daies will I bring euill upon his house.

### CHAP. XXII.

2 Jehoapharat and Ahab fight against the King of Syria. 15 Melechach theeth the king what he albe the Succeſſe of their enuerie. 24 Iehoapharat the faſte prophet mineth him. 34 Ahab is flame. 40 Ahabah his ſonne ſucceſſed. 41 The reigne of Jehoapharat, 30 Joam his ſonne.

A And they continued * three were with-ou' warre betwene Aram a Israel.

3 And in third were did Jehoapharat the King of Judah b come downe to the King of Israel.

3 (Then the King of Israel laid vnto his ceraants, Know ye not that Ramoth Gilead was ours? and we lay, and take it not out of the hand of the King of Aram?)

4 And he laid vnto Jehoapharat, vno't thou go with me to battel against Ramoth El-lead? And Jehoapharat laid vnto the King of Israel, d I am as thou art, my people as thy people, a mine hokes as thine hokes.

5 Then Jehoapharat laid vnto the King of Israel, e Alke counell, I prap thee, of the Lord to day.

6 Then the King of Israel gathered the * Prophets vpon a ſoure hundred men, and

ed it, not when Michah counell'd the counter, he would not obey. f Meaneing, the faſte Pioneers, which were datterers and ſenſers for there, who were Jezebel and al. Sembl'd and kept after the death of thate whoorne Elus flere.

ſaid

b Thus the twic'd counte of her not eath what is in * laws, but freer in * wardy, when they came there, but there is not any waye, ay, perſures anſw. d

c As though the faſt, thou knoweft not what it is to reigne in Comman, and, ntreareth not. d The lethe, heart be mercie.

e For then they leb'd to acquire of menfa fauere: for none could faire them that were notious unnerers.

f Thus the wailings of the Lord were in God. Sode com'mandement, who let them not to consent to the feeding of innocent blood, o'ther rather the wicked com'mandement of unces then the nit laws of God.

g Jheb-dlele.

h This his evan.gle of mon'tous cruels, and the holie God, leaue to us to the in'tent that we should abour all tip-tame, and specially in them, whom nature and kindne should move to be y'sitful and insidious to men.

i Deſt thou thinke to have and abuseth by mutts thering of an * unclean? h Thus was ſalued in Joan his ſonne as, 2. King, 9. 2526.

i Chap. 14, 10. k King, 25. 2.

l Sam. 25. 2.

m Chap. 14, 10.

n King, 9. 13. 6. o Or, fortels, or posſession.

o The twic'd counte of his wife, he became a hest dolester and euill murtris, as one that gave him selfe to ferne time.

p Elus his ſon.

q In token of morning, as some time, a bate, bare, founde.

r Meaning, in Joam's time, 2. King, 9. 26.

s Chas. 1. 2. a Ben-habad the King of Syria and 3. 4. b Ben-habad made a peace, which induced the warre, percaus.

t God, and euill him.

u The Kings of Syria kept Siamoth befor this league was made by Ken-habad: therefor he thought not euill bond thereup to reseruer.

v I am realde, and am wither, and all mine is at the commans doines, therefor I am ſenred that he would not go to the warre, euerrant.

w God, and euill him.

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Fyre from heauen. Iehoram.

Chap.ij.

Elias is taken vp. 147

man, and girded with a girdle of lether a-
bout his lynes. Then said he, It is Eliiah
the Tithy-bite.

Therefor e the King sent vnto him a cap-
taine ouer fiftie with his fiftie men, who
went vp vnto him: for beholde, he fale on a
top of a mountaine, and he said vnto him,
D man of God, the King hath commanded
that thou come downe.

9

10 But Eliah answere d, and said to the cap-
taine ouer the fiftie, If that I be a man of
God, let fire come downe from h, because
I deuoured thee and thy fiftie. s So fire came
downe from the heauen and deuoured him
and his fiftie.

11

Aigaine also he sent vnto him another cap-
taine ouer fifty, to his fifty. who pake, and
said vnto him, b D man of God, thus the
King commandeth, Come downe quickly.

12

But Eliah answere d, and said vnto them,
If I be a man of God, let fire come downe
from the heauen, and deuoured thee and thy
fiftie. So fire came down from the heauen,
and deuoured him and his fiftie.

13

I let againe he lent the third captaigne o-
uer fiftie with his fiftie. And the third cap-
taine ouer fiftie went vp and came, a fel on
his knees before Eliah, a beought him, and
said vnto him, D man of God, I pray thee,
let my k life and the life of these thy fiftie ser-
vants be k precious in thy fight.

14

14 Beholde, there came fire downe from the
heauen and deuoured the two former cap-
taines ouer fiftie with their fifties: therefore
let my life now be precious in thy fight.

15

And the Angel of h Lord said vnto Eliah,
Go downe with him, be m not afraide of his
prefence. So he arole, and went downe
with him vnto the king.

16

And he said vnto him, Thus faith the Lord,
Because thou haft sent messengers to in-
quire of Baal-zebub h god of Ekron, (was
it not because there was no God in Israel
to inquire of his word) therefore thou haft
not come downe of the bed, on which thou
art gone vp, but halt die the death.

17

17 So he died according to the word of the
Lord which Eliiah had hoken. And n Jeho-
tam began to reigne in his stead, in f second
pere of Jehoram the londe of Jehohaphat
king of Judah, because he had no londe.

18

Concerning the rest of the actes of Abaz-
ah, that he did, are they not written in the
booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Je-
tael?

CHAP. IL

3

Eliah bebe dieth the waters with his cloke. 11 He is taken vp into heauen. 13 Eliha taker his cloke and bebe dieth Jorden. 20 The bitter and benemious waters are heated. 23 The children that mocke Eliha, are rent in pieces with hearers.

1

A
sd when the Lord would take vp
Eliah into heauen by a whittle wind,
Eliah went with Elisha fro 2 Gilgal.
Then Eliah laid to Elisha, Tarie here, I
pray thee: for h Lord hath lent me to Beth-
el. But Elisha laid, As the Lord liueth, and
as thy soule liueth, I wil not leaue thee. So
they came downe to Beth-el.

f Colini, Car-
mel.

g The bebe diere
what power
God woyd
part in the
mouth of his
femant, who
thrap the
Gobah
manna against
the wicke.
h I pake
thus in moch
the, and the
fere pionoked
Gob wath
so much the
mum.
i Braing,
that God
wouleth thew
by eft, wher
the he was a
tre Paphper
u not.

k which hums
up the nayl of his
God and his
femant.
l That is, pake
my life and let
me not as
the other two.
m Thus the
Jod gith
holdes to his
that he fcarre
not the tylar
mungs of tps
rants, which
of their
thyn fues
are affain to
be God mes
fat.

n Jehohaphat
going to bat-
ter against the
Jehonan,
make him
Jehoam
King in the 17-
pere of his
reigne: and in
the ly, per
which was
the leond
pere of his
Jehoam.
n The
Jehoram, 3e
Jehohaphat
byd and the
londe of
Jehuah was
confirmed to
his londe.

a Which was
that where the chil
hen of Jael
were cireun
there he
came ouer
Jorden, s had
bene fiftie
pere in the
lounde, as
Joh 32.

3

And the b children of the Pjophets that
were at Beth-el, came out to Elisha, and
said vnto him, Knowest thou that the Lord
wil take thy master from c thine head this
day? And he said, Bea, I d know it: holde
ye your peace.

4

Aigaine Eliah laid vnto him, Elisha, tarie
here, I pray thee: for the Lord hath sent me
to Jericho. But he laid, As the Lord liueth,
and as thy soule liueth, I wil not leaue thee.
So they came to Jericho.

5

And the children of the pophets that were
at Jericho, came to Elisha, a said vnto him,
Knowest thou, that the Lord wil take thy
master from thine head this day? And hee
said, Bea, I know it: holde ye your peace.

6

Hozouever Eliah laid vnto him, Tarie, I
pray thee, here: for the Lord hath sent me to
Jorden. But he laid, As the Lord liueth, f
as thy soule liueth, I wil not leaue thee. So
they went both together.

7

And fiftie men of the londe of the Pjoph-
phets went and stode on the other side a-
farre of, and they two stode by Jorden.

8

I Then Eliah tooke his cloke, and wapt
it together, and smote the waters, a they
were deuied hither and thither, and they
twaime went ouer on the drie land.

9

Aow when they were palled ouer, Eliah
said vnto Elisha, Alke what I shall do for
thee before I be taken from thee. And Eli-
sha laid, I pray thee, Let thy Spirit s be
double upon me.

10

And he faide, Thou haft alked an harde
thing: yet if thou fee me when I am taken
from thee, thou halt haue it so: and if not,
it shall not be.

11

And as they went walking and talking,
beholde, there appeared a charret of fire, and
hozes of fire, a did separate them twaine.
*So Eliah went bp by a whirle winde in-
to h heauen.

12

And Elisha sawe it, and he cryed, As paf-
ther, my father, the charet of Israel, and the
hoſlemen thereof; and he saw him no moſe:
and he tooke his owne clothes, and rent
them in two pieces.

13

13 Che tooke bp albo the cloke of Eliah that
fel from him, and returned, and stode by
the banke of Jorden.

14

14 After, he tooke the cloke of Eliah, that fell
from him, and smote the waters, and said,
no here is the Lord God of Eliah, and hee
himselfe? Aigaine also he smote the waters,
and they were separated this way and that
way: and Elisha went ouer.

15

And when the children of the Pjophets,
which were at Jericho, sawe him on the o-
ther side, they laid, i The Spirit of Eliah
doeth rest on Elisha; and they came to meet
him, and fell to the ground before him,

16

And laid vnto him, Beholde now, there be
with thy fernaunts fiftie strong men : let
them go, we pray thee, a leeke thy k master,
if to be the Spirit of the Lord hath taken
him bp, and cast him vp some mountaine,

B b. lii.

22

So called be-
cante thep are
botten as it
were albo
by the heauene
bocrine.

c Tharis, frò
being au
more thine
head: for to
be as h head,
is to be the
maſter, as to
be at the ferre,
is to be a
ſcholer.
d For the lons
had reviuen-
it vnto junt,

e Not onely
at 2eth-el, but
at Jericho &
other places
were there
Pjophets,
which had
ſchollers,
whome they
instructed and
brought vp in
the true ſare
of God.

To wit, of
Jorden.

Let thy Sprit
hane bous
de for e me,
her aſe of
theie bauges
rour times:or
ter me bane
cuivit lo much
as the reſt of
the Pjophets
or thy ſpirit
being denubed
into three
parta, let me
panero two.

Eccle 4:8, 9.
1. mac. 2, 38.
2. Thus God
hath left a træ
ſumome in all
ages (both bes-
fore the Lawe,
in the Lawe,
s in the time of
the Goſpel) of
our reſtirreſts
vul.

The Spirit
of prophecie
is ginen to
hun, as it was
hie, Eliah.

k Meaning,
Eliah: for
they chouſet
huse borb hau-
be ne caſt in
ſome moun-
taine.

Water healed. lehoram, and

II. Kings.

Jehoſhaphat ouercome Moab.

¹ Because the fact was crraodmarie, they doubtles where he was become, but Elinha was allured that he was taken up to God.

²Orkilleth the inhabitants.

³ Thus God gaind, he is able to put power, even contrarie to nature, to make that uulter profitable for manu us, which before was hurtful.

⁴ Perceiving their manieous heart as gaind, the Lord and his word he believeth God to take vengence of that manie heart unto him.

⁵ Aske the annation in the ¹Chap. ⁵ ¹⁷.uer.

⁶ He sacrificed the golden cates, that Jeroboam had made.

⁷ This was done after that David had made the Moabites tributaries to his succoryes.

⁸ Cieader. Iuq. ²².⁴.

on into some valley. But he saide, ¹ Ye shall not send.

17 Yet they were instant vp him,til he was ashamed : wherefore he saide, Send. So thet lent fiktie me, which lought thcees daies, but found him not.

18 Therefore they returned to him, for he taied at Jericho) and he said vnto them, Did not I lay vnto you, Go not?

19 And the men of y citie laid vnto Elinha, Behold, we play thee : the situation of this citie is pleasant, as thou, my lord, keest, but the water is naught, ¤ the ground bare.

20 Then he laid, Bring me a new crue, ¤ put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

21 And he went vnto y spring of the waters, and cast there m thealte, and saide, Thus faith the Lord, I haue healed this water: death shall no more come thereof, neither barenesse to the ground.

22 So y waters were healed until this day, according to the word of Elinha which he had spoken.

23 And he went vp fröh thence vnto Betzel. And as he was going vp the way, little children came out of the citie, and mocked him, and said vnto him, Come vp, thou bald head, come vp, thou bald head.

24 And he turned backe, ¤ looked on them, ¤ flrved them in the name of the Lord. And two beares came out of the foest, and tare in pieces two ¤ fourtie children of them.

25 So he went from thçe to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.

C H A P. III.

¹ The raigne of Jehoram, ⁶ He and Jehoshaphat go to warre against Moab, which rebelled. ¹³ Elinha reponeth him, ¹⁷ And gurest their hole water. ²⁴ The Moabites are ouercome. ²⁷ Their king sacrificed his sonne.

1 Now Jehoram the sonne of Ahab began to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, ⁹ a eighteenth pere of Jehoshaphat

¹¹ a eighteenth pere of Jehoshaphat King of Judah, and reigned twelve yeres.

¹² And he wrought euil in the light of y Lord, but not like his father no like his mother: for he tooke away the image of Baal that his father had made.

¹³ Neuertheles, he cieaned vnto b funnes of Jeroboam, y sonne of Ahab, which made Israel to sinne, & departed not therefrom.

¹⁴ Then c He-sha King of Moab had stowe of sheepe, ¤ rendied vnto the King of Israel an hundred thousand lambes, and an hundred thousand rams with the wool.

¹⁵ But when Ahab was dead, the King of Moab rebelled against the King of Israel.

¹⁶ Therefore King Jehoram went out of Samaria the laime seald, and nombied al Israel,

¹⁷ And went, and lent to Jehoſhaphat King of Judah, laying, The King of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me to battel against Moab? And he anſWERED, I will go bp: for d I am, as thou art, my people, as thy people, and mine horses as thine horses.

¹⁸ Then said he, What way shall we go bp?

And he anſWERED, The way of the wilders of Edom.

19 So went the King of Israel ¤ the King of Judah, and the ¤ King of Edom, ¤ when they had compassed the way seuen dayes, they had no water fo: the hoſſe, no: fo: the cattel that ¤ followd them.

10 Therefore the King of Israel saide, Alas, ⁵ the Lord hath called thele three Kings, to giue them into the hand of Moab.

11 But Jehoſhaphat ſaid, Is there not here a Prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire of the Lord bp him? And one of the King of Iraelſers anſWERED, and ſaid, Here is Elinha the sonne of Shaphat, which ⁶ powred water on the hands of Elinah.

12 Then Jehoſhaphat ſaid, ⁸ The word of the Lord is with him. Therefore the King of Israel, and Jehoſhaphat, and the King of Edom went downe to him.

13 And Elinha ſaid vnto the King of Israel, What haue I to do with thee ¤ get thee to the Prophets of thy father and to the Prophets of thy mother. And the King of Israel ſaid vnto him, ⁹ Hay: for the Lord hath called thele three Kings, to giue them into the hand of Moab.

14 Then Elinha ſaid, As the Lord of hoſſes lieth, in whose light I stand, if it were not, that I regarde the pience of Jehoſhaphat the King of Judah, I would ¤ not haue iooed toward his, no: see hee.

15 Then Elinha ſaid, As the Lord of hoſſes lieth, in whose light I stand, if it were not, that I regarde the pience of Jehoſhaphat the King of Judah, I would ¤ not haue iooed toward his, no: see hee.

16 But now bring me a minſtel. And when the minſtel ¹¹ played, the hand of the Lord came vpon him.

17 And he ſaid, Thus faith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches.

18 For thus faith the Lord, He shall neither ſee winde no: ſee raine, yet the valley shall be filled with water, that ye may diuinke, both ye and your cattel, and your beaſts.

19 But this is a m small thing in y light of the Lord: for he wil give Moab into your hand.

20 And ye shall finite euery strong to wne and euery chief citie, ¤ y shall fel euery faire tree, ¤ shall stop all the fountaines of water, and ¤ marre euery good field with stones.

21 And in the morning when the meat of kring was offered, beholde, there came water by the way of Edom: and the country was filled with water.

22 And when all the Moabites heard that the Kings were come v p to fight against them, they gathered all that was able ¤ to put on harneis, and vpward, and siodde in their border.

23 And they rose early in the morning, when the sunne arose vpon the water, and the Moabites ſawe the water ouer against them, as red as blood.

24 And they laid, o This is blood: the Kings are surel y ſaine, and one hath iuitten another: now therefore, Moab, to the hoyle.

25 And when they came to the hoſſ of Israel, the Iraelites arose vp, and note the Moabites, lo that they fled before them, but they

That is, who was his first name.

11 The ⁵ lie able to inruct him, what he is in God will in this point,

12 He smurthe that this white hied king well haue, but bird his comil to the tree vnto turn, and therefore he undamed to anſWER him.

13 The wickie there nor the fermines of God, but, when they are damned by ber neceflicie and feare of God, God diſturbeth his word to be ared to the witch, be the cante of the

14 God diſturbeth his word to be ared to the witch, be the cante of the

15 The ⁶ god that are among them. I he ſang cenges in godly storie, and ſo continued v the ⁷ Prophets heart to pious hee.

16 He will not ungiueth you, lounely give you waters, but your enemies all you put vpon hand.

17 Though God behooves him benefits, for a time he perte, and he bath his feaſons, when he will take them away, for to intent then might he for his verance, which is pious, and vsed against them. Hee so a good man gild.

18 The ſolene of the wicke hed is but a precautious man, their defucle, the ton, which is at hand.

The oyle increaseth. The

Chap.iiiij. Shunammites ſonne dyeth.

148

P. Drawing, then followed them into the townes.

q Which was one of p[rophetic]icres of the P[rophets], wherein they left nothing, but the walls, p[rophets]e refrech the King of Edom, ſonne, whom he laye him selfe, but rather it seemed to be his own ſonne, whom he of[fered] to his gados to parifye them, which harsome cut[ure]s measured the Israelites parts of putre to depart.

q And Chap. 1-2.

h And therefore fail not into ver [prophets]es or p[rophets] galius, but by the p[ation] of the L[ord].

i Because I am p[oye] and not able to pay.

k The God ſaitheth his many times to be brought to extreme vewes, before he aconcur the, that aſſerts himself.

l The p[rophet]e prophesied here by him into her. p God ſaitheth that he may p[ay] his money.

q Condemn and increase in the deflours.

g God here bid not only p[oyes] but his ſeruant, that he may be paid, d. So he kept his doſes, tume s p[rofeſes] from him, but all to his wade a p[oyet].

h Which should be given from the r[est] of his house, that he might not commo[n]gely give himselfe to t[he] house.

12 And they destroyed the cities : and on all the good field euery man cast his ſone, and filled them, and they stopt al the fountaines of water, and ſelled all the good trees: only in 1 Kir-haraſeth left they the ſtones there- of: howbeit they went about it with flings, and sinote it.

25 And they destroyed the cities : and on all the good field euery man cast his ſone, and filled them, and they stopt al the fountaines of water, and ſelled all the good trees: only in 1 Kir-haraſeth left they the ſtones there- of: howbeit they went about it with flings, and sinote it.

26 And when the King of Moab lawe that the battreil was to ſore ſo: him, he tooke with him ſeuen hundreth men, d drew the s[word]e to heake through vnto the King of Edom: but they could not.

27 Then he tooke his eldest ſonne, that should haue reign'd in his steade, and e[offred] him ſo: a burnt offering vp the wall: so that J[er]ael was ſore griued, and they departed from him, and returned to their countrey.

## CHAP. III.

4 God increaseth the oyle to the p[oye] twowe by E[lisha]. 1-2 He obtained a [prophets]e grace at God's hande. 1-3 Who dying, 3-5 He r[es]aitheth him by againe. 4-6 He maketh twere the p[otage], 4-8 and multiplies the ſonnes.

A. And one of the wiuſes of the ſonnes of y Prophets cried vnto E[lisha], saying, Thy ſeruant mine husband is dead, I thou knowest, that thy ſeruant did keare the L[ord]: and the creditour is come to take my two ſonnes to be his c. bondmen.

Then E[lisha] ſaid vnto her, what Thal I do for thee? tell mee, what haſt thou at home? And the layde, Thine hand mayde hath no[thing] at home, ſaue a d. pitcher of ople.

And he layd, Goe, and boxe vnto thee vſeſſels abroade of all thy neighbours, empty vſeſſels, and p[are] not.

And who thou art come in, thou haſt but the doore vpon thee and vpon thy ſonnes, ſ powre out into c. all those vſeſſels and set a[ide] those that are full.

So thee departed from him, and chutte the doore vpon her, and vpon her ſonnes. And they brought to her, and she powre'd out.

And when the vſeſſels were full, thee layde vnto her ſonne, Bring mee yet a vſeſſel. And he layde vnto her, There is no moe vſeſſels. And the oyle e. ceased.

Then the came and tolde the man of God. And he layde, Go, and ſell the oyle, and pay them that thou art in debt vnto, e. like thou and thy children of the s. reſt.

And on a time E[lisha] came to Shunem, and there a woman of great estimation co[strained] him to eate bread: and as he p[alled] by, he turned in thither to eate bread.

And she layde vnto her husband, Beholde, I know now, that this is an holie man of God that p[alleth] by his continually.

10 Let vs make h[im] a little chamber, I p[ray]e thee, with walles, and let vs let him there a bed and a table and a stoole, and a candle-licke, that he may turne in thither what he conneth to be.

11 And on a d[ave], he came thither and tur- ned into the chamber, and lap therein,

12 And layde to E[lish]a his ſeruant, Call this Shunammite: and when he called her, the

ſtoode before him.

13 The he laid vnto him, Say vnto her now, Behold, thou haſt had al this great care for ſo: vs, 1 what that we do for: thee? Is there any thing to be spoken for thee to the King or to the captaine of the h[oe]? And he anſWERED, I k[ind] dwell among mine owne people.

14 Againe he layde, what is then to be done for her? The E[lish]a anſWERED, In deed ſhe hath 1 no ſonne, and her h[usband] is olde.

15 Then layde he, Call her. And he called her, and the ſtoode in the doore.

16 And he layd,* At this time appoynted, ac- cording to p[er] time of life, thou haſt embace a ſonne. And he laid, Oh my L[ord], thou man of God, do not lie vnto thine h[and]mayde.

17 So the woman conceiv'd, e bare a ſonne at that fame ſeason, according to the time of life, that E[lish]a had layd vnto her.

18 And when the child was growen, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father, and to the reapers.

19 And he layde to his father, m. Mine heade, mine head. who layd to his ſeruant, Beare him to his mother.

20 And he tooke him and brought him to his mother, and he late on her knees till noone, and dyed.

21 Then thee went vp, and layed him on the bed of the man of God, and chutte the doore vpon him, and went out.

22 Then thee called to her husband, a layd, Send with me, I p[ray] thee, one of the y[og] men and one of the affes: for I will haſte to the man of God, and come againe.

23 And he layde, wherefore wil thou goe to him to d[ave]? it is neپther n. ne we moone nor Sabbath day. And thee anſWERED, ۝۱ All halbe well.

24 Then thee ſadled an ſſſe, and layde to her ſeruant, Driue, and go for[ward]: p[ray] not for me to get vp, except I bid thee.

25 So thee went, and came vnto the man of God to mount Carmel. And when the men of God saw her "ouer agaynst him," he layde to E[lish]a his ſeruant, Beholde, the Shunammite.

26 Runne now, A, p[ray], to meete her, a lay vnto her, Art thou in health? is thine h[usband] in health? and is the childe in health? And thee anſWERED, he are in health.

27 And when thee came to the man of God vnto the mountayne, E[lish]a c[ought] him by his keete: and E[lish]a went to her, to thrust her away: but the man of God faſ[id], Let her alone: for her ſoule is ۝۱ bened within her, and the L[ord] hath hid it from me, and haſt not tolde it me.

28 Then the layd, Did I desire a ſonne of my L[ord]? did I not lay, Deceiue me not?

29 Then he layd to E[lish]a, Gird thy loy ſnes, and take my staffe in thine hande, and goe thy waye: p[er] that thou meete any, ſalute him not: and if any ſalute thee, anſWERed him not: and laye my staffe vpon the face of the childe.

1 Thus ſe ſeruants of God are not un- thankfull 10: a benefits thep recaue.

2 I am confet with that that God p[ath] lent me, I[ean] want not any more, but that his matter should p[ay] to God for her that the might be fruitfull, Gen. 8, 10.

B. iiiij. 30 And

Elis乎as pot of pottage.

II. Kings.

Naaman the Syrian & Elisa.

30 And the mother of the childe fayde, As the Lo'de liueth, and as thy loule liueth, I will not leave thee. Therefoe he arose, and followed her.

31 But Echazi was gone before them, a had layed the Staffe vpon the face of the childe, but he neither spake no heard: wherof he returned to meete him, a tode him, laying, The child is not waken.

32 The came Eliha into the house, and behold, a child was dead, a layed vp his bed.

33 He went in therefore, a shut the doore vpon them twoaine, and prayed vnto the Lord.

34 After he went vp, and lay vpon the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, a his eyes upon his eyes, a his hands vpon his hands, and stretched him selfe vpon him, and the flesh of the child waxed warme.

35 And he went from him, and walked vp a downe in the house, and went vp and layed him selfe vpon him : then the childe neefed ſeuen times, and opened his eyes.

36 Then he called Echazi, and said, Call this Shunamite. So he called her, which came in unto him. And he fayde vnto her, Take thy sonne.

37 And the came, a fel at his feete, and bowed her selfe to the grounde, and tooke vp her sonne, and went out.

38 Afterward Eliha returned to Gilgal, a famine was in the land, a the childre of the Prophets dwelt with him. And he laid vnto his seruant, Set on the great pot, a seethe pottage for the children of the Prophets.

39 And one went out into the field, to gather herbes, and found, as it were, a wide drie, a gathered therof, wilde gourds his garmet full, and came and layed them into the pot of pottage: for they knew it not.

40 So they powred out for the men to eate: and when they did eate of the pottage, they cryed out, a fayd, D thou mā of God, 'Death is in the pot : and they could not eat thereof.

41 Then he fayd. Bring meale. And he ealt it into the potte, and fayde, Powne out for the people, that they may eate: and there was none eull in the pot.

42 Then came a man from Baal-shalita, a brought the man of God bread of the firſt fruits, euen twentie loaes of barley, a full eares of eorne in þ hufke. And he fayd, Gue vnto the people, that they may eate.

43 And his seruant anſwered, How should I set this before an hundred men: He fayd a gaine, Gue it vnto þ people, that they may eate: for thus faith the Lord, Thee shall eat, and there x ſhal remaine.

44 So he let it before them, a they did eate, a left ouer, according to the word of the Lord.

C H A P . V.

1 Naaman the Syrian is healed of his lepſie. 16 Eliha reſuſeth his gifts. 27 Echazi to trikhen with his lepſie, because he tooke moun, and ranniment of Naaman.

1 Now was there one Naaman cap'taine of the host of the King of Aram, a great man, a honorable in the fight of his Lo'de, because that by him the Lo'de

had a delivered the Aramites. He also was a mightie man and valiant, but a leper.

2 And the Aramites had gone out by bands, and had taken a little mayde of the lande of Israel, and she ferved Naaman's wife.

3 And he laid vnto her muſtres, would God my Lo'de were with the b Prophet that is in Samaria, he woulde soone deliver him of his lepſie.

4 And he went in, and told his Lo'd, laying, Thus and thus layeth the mayde that is of the land of Israel.

5 And the King of Aram fayde, Go thy way thither, a I will ſend a letter vnto the King of Israel. And he departed, a tooke w with him ten talents of silver, a like thousand picces of gold, and ten change of rayments,

6 And brought the letter to the King of Iſrael to this effect, Aowe when this letter is come vnto thee, understand, that I haue ſent thee Naaman my seruant, that thou mayest heale him of his lepſie.

7 And when the King of Israel had read the letter, he rent his clothes, and fayde, Ain J God, to kill a to give life, that he doeth ſend to me, that I should heale a mā from his lepſie: wherefore consider, I pray you, a ee how he seeketh a quarell against mee.

8 But when Eliha the mā of God had heard that the King of Israel had reſt his clothes, he lent vnto the King laying, c Wherefore haſt thou rent thy clothes? Let him come now to me, and he haſ knowe, that there is a Prophet in Israel.

9 Then Naaman came with his hoſſes, a with his charets, and stoode at the doode of the house of Eliha.

10 And Eliha ſent a meſlenger vnto him, laying, Go a wash thee in Jorden ſeuen times, and thy flesh shall come againe to thee, and thou haſt beſtend.

11 But Naaman was wroth and went away, and ſaid, Behold, I thought with my ſelfe, He will ſurely come out, and stande, and call on the Name of the Lord his God and put his hande on the place, and heale the lepſie.

12 Are not Abanah and Pharpar, riuers of Damacus, better then al the waters of J Israel? may I not waſe mee in them, and be cleansed? So he turned, and departed in diſpleasure.

13 But his ſeruants came, a spake vnto him, a ſaid, a Father, if the Prophet had comman'd thee a great thing, woudeſt thou not haue done it? how much rather then, when he fayth to thee, waſhe, and be cleane?

14 Then went he downe, and * washed him ſelfe ſeuen times in Jorden, according to the laying of the man of God : a his ſelbe came agayne, like vnto the ſelbe of a little childe, and he was cleane.

15 And he turned agapne to a man of God, he, and all his companie, and came a stoode before him, and ſaid, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the world, but in Israel:

2 Here appears a among the deaſers of God that he hath his alia that the man, in elimination, which doth come to their cause.

3 Here he was

b Meaning, Eliha.

c That is, Naaman told it to the King of Epiра.

d To give this as a prent to the Prophet, J巴ban has had.

e The Prophet reuethed the King because he did nece c sioner that God woule me in his pioners. e Therefore woule not leave his Church, because of a pioner, who would come to the word of God, which is there contained.

g This declys that ſeueruants ought to reuerence s one other mas ſers as chilſen their ſa, there, a like woule maſter toward their ſeruants, must be affected as toward their children, Luſa:27.

q The like bid e. lay to the windows ſone at Saphea, a. kame, 17, 21, 22. Saint Paul, Act. 20, 10, flging the care ought to be in them, that there be no lepſie in the pittuität. r Meaning, oſtrenents.

t That is, in þ land of Israel.

u Which the p[]oſtaries call colloquium, a, a10 most behevement and dangerous in purging.

v They feared that then were p[]osited, b Caue of the butterne.

z This not the quantitie of bread that faſtichert, but the blinging that God giueth.

Chap.vj.

Elifhas prayer.

149

1. Elif-bil-fing

Israel: nowe therecfoze, I pray thee, take a
reward of thy seruant.

16 But he sayd, As the Lo'de liueth (before
whome I stand) I will not receive it. And
he would haue contrap'd him to receue
it, but he refused.

2. So the Lord commandeth that then that they receiveth the Lord unto himselfe also to be free.

17 Moreover Aaaman saith, Shal there not be given to thy seruant two mules loade of this earth? for thy seruant will henceforth offer neither burnt sacrifice, nor offering but to any other god, laue unto the Lo'd.

3. The God of thy
conscience
was in thy
mestry, and
therefore did
therein de-
rich God to
fugitive him,
left him to die,
and to be dev-
ing his life,
sought to die for
thy sake.
4. The Lord
saith, I will not
suffer any to
be taken away
from thee,
but the
true God,
and the true
King, shall
be your God,
and your King.

18 Herein the Lo'd be¹ merciful unto thy ser-
uant, that when my master goeth into the
house of Rimmun, to wooth, there, a lea-
ment on mine hand, I bowe my self in the
house of Rimmun: when I do bow down,
I say, in the house of Rimmun, the Lo'de be
merciful unto thy seruant in this popnit.

19 Unto whome he faid, k Go in peace. So he
departed from him about half a daies tour-
ney of ground.

20 And Gehazi the seruát of Eliha the man of God faid, Behold, my master hath spared this Aramite Aaaman, receiving not those things at his hand that he brought : as the Lo'd liueth, I will runne after him, as take somewhat of him.

1. Declaring
therein the
hymns of a
fashionable
place in the
world among
his maſters.

21 So Gehazi followed speedily after Aa-
man. And when Aaaman saw him rüning
after him, he light downe from the charret
to meete him, and laid. As all well?

22 And he answered, All is well: my master
hath sent me, laying, Behold, there be come
to me, euen now from mout Ephraim two
yong men of the children of the Diophletes:
give them, I pray thee, a talent of iluer, a
two change of garments.

2. On, or near
the place,
there is a
fence or
fence place.

3. Aaaman
furnishes.

23 And Aaaman layd, Pea, take two talents
and he compelled him, a bound two talents
of iluer in two bags, with two chaunge of
garments, a gaue them unto two of his ser-
uáts, that they might beare the th'e before him.
24 And when he came to 'the towe, he tooke
them out of their hands, and layed them in
the house, a lent away the men: and " they
departed.

4. And
so
it
is
so
in
prin
ce.

25 Then he went in, and koode before his
master. And Eliha layd unto him, whence
commeth thou, Gehazi? And he layde, Thy
seruant went no whither.

5. That is, I
now to be
so far
beyond
with
meaning,
that
it is not
possible
in the
case of
God to
have him
construe
my words
in such
a way
as he
brought
therein.

26 But he layde unto him, "I went not mine
heart with thee when I man turned againe
from his charet to meete thee? Is this a time
to take money, to receive garments, and
olives, and vineparde's, and sheepe, and oren,
and men seruants, and mayde seruants?"

27 The lepsoſe therefore of Aaaman shall cleane unto thee, and, to thy ſeede for ener. And he went out from his preſence a leper white as snowe.

C H A P . V L

Eliha maketh mon to fauimme about the water. 2 The buckloſeth the
king of Epipas confell to the King of Israel. 13 Who leving cers
to take him, where keur faſt in Samaria. 24 Samaria is beguiled
and euotherto eucrene ſamine.

1 A
And the children of the Diophletes layd
unto Eliha, Beholde, we pray thee,

the place where wee dwell with thee, is to
little for vs.

Let vs nowe goe to Jorden, that wee may
take theſe euery man a³ beame, a make vs
a place to dwell in. And he anſWERED, Goe,
And one laid, Aouchſake, I pray thee, to go
with thy ſeruáts, a he anſWERED, I will go.

4 So he went with them, a when they came to Jorden, they cut downe wood.

5 And as one was kelling of a tree, the "yron" fell into the water: then he cryed, and layd, Alas master, it was but boſowed.

6 And the man of God layde, Where fell it?
And he ſhewed him the place. Then he cut
downe a piece of wood, and cast in thither,
and he cauſed the yron to b² Twimme.

7 Then he layde, Take it by to thee. And he
stretched out his hand, and tooke it.

8 The King of Aram warred against J
tael and tooke counſell with his ſeruants,
and layde, In c² such and such a place ſhal
my campe.

9 Therefore the man of God lent unto the
King of Israel, laying, Beware thou goe
not ouer to such a place : for there the Ara-
mites are come downe.

10 So the King of Israel lent to the place
which the man of God tolde him, and war-
ned him of, a³ ſaue him ſelke from thence,
not once, no² twife.

11 And the heart of the King of Aram was
troubled for this thing: therefore he called
his ſeruáts and laid unto them. Will ye not
ſhow me, which of vs bewrayeth our counſel
to the King of Israel?

12 The one of his ſeruáts laid, Mone, my lord,
O King, but Eliha þ Diſphtoph þ is in Jfra-
el, telleth the King of Israel, euç the words
that thou speakeſt in thy c² priuie chamber.

13 And he laid, Go, a chiep where he is, that I
may ſend and fetch him. And one told him,
laying, Behold, he is in Dothan.

14. I. So he ſent thither hoſſes, a² charere, and
a³ might e hoſſe: and they came by mygt,
and compassed the citie.

15 And when the ſeruant of the man of God
arofe early to go out, beholde, an hoſſe com-
passed the citie with hoſſes and charereſ.
Then his ſeruant layd unto him, Alas ma-
ſer, how shall we do?

16 And he anſWERED, e² ſcare not: for they
that be with vs, are moe then they that be
with them.

17 Then Eliha played, and laid, Lo'de, I he-
ſeech thee, open his eyes, b³ that he may ſee
and the Lo'de opened the eyes of the ser-
uant, and he looked, and behold, the moun-
taine was full of hoſſes and charereſ of ſpe
round about Eliha.

18 So they came downe to him, but Eliha
played unto the Lo'd, and laid, Sntite this
people, I pray thee, with blindnes. And he
linote them with blindneſſe, according to
the word of Eliha.

19 And Eliha layd unto them, This is not y
way, neither is this the citie: ſolow me, and

a God a piece of
wood for to
build wry.

b Or, the
head.

b God wougt
the muriſh
loſſes to cons-
truie b² autours
of Eliha, to
whome he had
guitten ſuch a
bundance of
his Dunt.
14. Deaunng, d
he would lie in
ambuſh² he take
the Israelites
at unwarne.

d The wecketh
conſitue no
thing to Strau
in, but God of
reuerence ſte his
ſeruants and
cauſe their
conſitue to be
dickolos.

c There is no
thing to ferre
that thou can
go about, but
be knowrth it,
& diuocorrev
it unto his
king.

d Though it
had brie no
thing in man
induſation to
be taken as
Eliha, yet the
wicked euer
dos it, is this
they are never
able to topa
pother enough
though it be
him against
one, of a few.

e So it was
a² he was
a² of God
a² of Jeros
a² of Anger
a² of the
a² god is bel-
ing them.

f That he mag
behold howe
thou art, and
beare an al
my to reſe
the da.

g Meaning,
the Serauans
his enuſes,
which came
downe, this
king the diu
sures of him.

A

Incredulitie rewarded.

Chap.vijj.

Hazael. lehoram. 150

1 There are no mountains, but there are, but the rest are, and are contained with a fourth, and are the rest of the people.

2 Or, two hores of the charret, when were ac-<br>counted by the manes in the charret.

they are euen as al the multitude of Israel
that are left therein: beholde, I lay, they are
as the multitude of the Israelites that are
consumed, and we will to lee.

14 So they tooke two charrets of hozes, and
the King sent after their hoste of the Aramites,
saying, Go and see.

15 And they went after them into Jorden, a
loe, all the way was full of clothes and be-
fels which the Aramites had cast from the
in their hafte; and the messengers returned
and told the King.

16 Then the people went ond spoyled the
campe of the Aramites: to a meaure of fine
floure was at a shekel, and two meaures
of barly at a shekel, according to the wode
of the Lord.

17 And the King gaue the prince (on whole
hand he leaned) the charge of the gate, and
the people trode upon him in the gate, and
he dyed, as the man of God had said, which
spake it, where the King came downe to him.

18 And it came to palle, as the man of God
had spoken to the King, saying, Two mea-
lures of barley at a shekel, and a meaure of
fine floure shall be at a shekel, to moive a
baut this time in the gate of Samaria.

19 But the prince had answered the man of God, and layde. Though the Loide would make windowes in the heauen, could it come so to palle? And he layd, Behold, thou shall see it with thine eyes, but thou shall not eat thereof.

20 And so it came vnto him : for the people
trode upon him in the gate, and he dyed.

CHAP. VILLI.

1 Elisha prophesieth unto the Humannite the breath of seuen peere.
2 He prophesieth to Hazael that he shall be King of Syria.
3 He regneth after Aax-tad.
4 Jehoram reigneeth our Judah.
5 Es-
bom faltereth from Judah.
6 20 Elisha (because Elisha) is a father of Jehezuel.

I

T
hen spake Elisha vnto the woman,
* whose sonne hee had restored to lyfe,
saying, Up, ago, thou, and thine house,
and sofourne where thou a canst sofourne:
for the Lord hath called for a kamine, and it
commeth also vpon the land seuen yeres.

And the woman arose, and did after the lay-
ing of the man of God, and went both shee
and her household and sofourne in the land
of the Philistins seuen yeres.

And at the seuen yeres ende, the woman returned out of the land of the Philistins, and went out to call vpon the King so her house and for her land.

And the King talked with Gehazi the ser-
vant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I
pray thee, all the great actes, that Elisha
hath done.

And as he told the King, howe he had re-
forsaid one dead to life, beholde, the woman,
whose sonne he had raped to lyfe, called
upon the King for her house for her lande.
Then Gehazi layde, My lord, O King, this
is the woman, and this is her sonne, whom
Elisha restored to life.

And when the King asked the woman,
he told him: so the King appointed her an

Eunuche, saying, Restore thou all that are
hers, to all the fruits of her lands since the
day she left the land, even untill this time.

7 Then Elisha came to Damacus, and
Ben-hadad the King of Aram was lice-
and one tolde him, saying, The man of God
is come hither.

And the King layde vnto Hazael, Take a
preleut in thme hand, to go meete the man of
God, that thou mayest inquire of the Lord by
him, saying, Shal I recover of this dileafe?

9 So Hazael went to mete him, tooke
the preleut in his hand, and of every good
thing of Damacus, euen the burden of for-
tie camels, and came and kood before him,
and layde, Thy sonne Ben-hadad King of
Aram hath lent me to thee, saying, Shal I
recover of this dileafe?

10 And Elisha layde to him, Go, and lay vnto
him, Thou shall recover: howbeit the Loide
hath shewed me, that he shall surely dye.

11 And hee looked vpon him stedfastly tyll
Hazael was ashamed, and the man of God
wept.

12 And Hazael layd, who weepeth my Loide?
And he answered, Because I knowe the e-
 MILL
that thou hale doe vnto the children of
Israel : for their strong cities hale thou set
on fire, and their yong men hale thou slape
with the sworde, a hale dafse their infants
against the stones, a rent in pieces their wo-
men with childe.

13 Then Hazael said, What? is thy servant a
dog, that I should do this great thing? And
Elisha answered, The Loide hath shewed
me, that thou hale be King of Aram.

14 So he departed from Elisha, and came
to his master, who layd to him, what layd
Elisha to thee? And he answered, He tolde
me that thou shouldst recover.

15 And on the morow he tooke a thicke cloth
and dipt it in water, and spied it on his face,
and he dyed: and Hazael reigned in his stead.

16 C Now in the kift yeere of Jo am the
sonne of Ahab King of Israel, and of Je-
hoshaphat King of Judah, ¹ Jehozam the
sonne of Jehoshaphat King of Judah be-
gan to reigne.

17 He was two and thirtie yere old, when he
began to reigne: and he reigned eight yeere
in Jerusalem.

18 And he walked in the wayes of the Kings
of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the
Daughter of Ahab was his wife, & he did
kill in the fight of the Lord.

19 Yet the Loide would not destroy Judah,
for David his fernaüts fake, * as he had pro-
mised him to give him a light & to his chil-
dren for euer.

20 In those dayes Edam m rebelled from
bunder the hand of Judah, and made a King
ouer themelues.

21 Therefore Joam went to Zate, and al his
charets with him, and he arose by night, &
smote the Edomites which were about him
with the captaines of the charets, and the
people

a The King caused that so he might recover
the which was wrongfully holden from
her.

c All a chris-
ted a virgint
things of the
countrie.

d Meaning, &
he should recor-
der of this bis-
cle; but he
kneepen this
messer of the
a sael should
flap him to ob-
tene the kung-
vere.

g That I
hout be with
out al huma-
nitie a pire.

k Life was con-
flamed in his
kings after
his fauera-
brath.

l The hol
shoeth the
hereby what
banger it is to
tome with un-
derts.

2,Sam. 7:13.

m Which had
him inhtect of
Daunne time
until the rime
of Jehezau.

k which he
spake up the
month of Elis
ha, and 1.

19 As h people
were put out of
the gate to run
to the Syria
where
they had her
was meane,
a great hoyle
felt.

Chap. 4-JP

2 Where you
cant find a
commending
place to live
where as is
plague.

b That is, to
complaine on
the which had
fallen her po-
lice, while
she was absent.

c God doth
bless his
beneficial
workes, and
in this
that he can
be deliuered
to the care
of him,
volume before
the context.
& also here
they are an
entrance to
the same
blessed fure.

2

4

5

6

Ahaziah. Jehu is anoynted

II.Kings.

King. He goeth to Izreel,

This was a
come in Judah
guient to the
Levites, Joh.
11, 12. After
followed from
King Jehoã
because of his
divination.

2. Chro. 23.25.

Which is to
be underland,
that he was
made King,
when his fas-
ther resigned,
but after his
fathers death
he was confis-
ued King,
when he was
fourth two
pere olde, as
2. Chro. 10, 11.

Which was
a city in the
tribe of Sa-
beyond Joab.

This is a cit-
tie belonging
to the tribe of
Aholahar.

people fled into their tents.

22 So Ebdin rebelled from under the hande of Judah vnto this day. then a Libnah re-belied at that same time.

23 Concerning the rest of the actes of Jo'am and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chyronicles of the Kings of Judah?

24 And Jo'am fled with his fathers, and was burped with his fathers in the citie of David. And *Ahaziah his sonne reigned in his steade.

25 In the twelfth yere of Jo'am the sonne of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the sonne of Jehorä King of Judah begin to reigne.

26 Two and twenty yere old was Ahaziah when he began to reigne, and he repgned one yere in Jerusalem, and his mothers name was Athatiah the daughter of Omri King of Israel.

27 And he walked in the waye of the house of Ahab, and did euill in the light of the Lord, like the house of Ahab: for he was the sonne in law of the house of Ahab.

28 And he went with Jo'am the sonne of Ahab to warre against Hazael King of Aram in Ramoth Gilead, and the Aramites smote Jo'am.

29 And King Jo'am returned to be healed in Izreel of the wou'ds which the Aramites had giuen him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael King of Aram. And Ahaziah's sonne of Jehoram King of Judah wet downe to see Jo'am the sonne of Ahab in Izreel, because he was sicke.

CHAP. IX.

6 Jehu is made King of Israel, 24 And Killeth Jehoram the King thereof, 27 And Ahaziah, other wife called Ochosias, the King of Judah, 22 And caneth Jezebel to be called downe out of a wumbowe, and the dogges did eare her,

Then Elisah the Prophet called one of the children of the Prophets, and sayd vnto him, *A gird thy lopnes and take this bore of oyle in thine hand, and get thee to Ramoth Gilead.

And when thou commest thither, looke where is Jehu the sonne of Jehoßaphat, a sonne of Ainihi, and goe, and make him a- tile vp from among his brethren, and leade him to a secret chamber.

The take the bore of oyle, a powre it on his head, a lay, Thus layth the Lorde, I haue anoynted thee for King ouer Israel. then open the doore, a fée without any tarying.

So the Servant of the Prophet gate him to Ramoth Gilead.

And whé he came in, behold, the captaines of the armie were sitting. And he sayde, I haue a message to thee, O captaine. And Jehu sayde, Unto which of all vs? And he answered, To thee, O captaine.

And he arose, and went into the house, and he powred the oyle on his head, and sayde vnto him, Thus faith the Lorde God of Jefael, I haue anoynted thee for King ouer the people of the Lord, even ouer Israel.

And thouhalt smite the house of Ahab

thy master, that I may auenge the blood of my seruantes the Prophets, and the blood of al the seruants of the Lord's of the hand of Jezebel.

For whole house of Ahab shall be destroyed: *I wil cut off from Ahab, him that mayeth water againſt a wall, as wel him that is but vp, as him that is left in Israel.

And I wil make the house of Ahab like a house *of Jeroboam the sonne of Ahab, *like the house *of Baal a house of Ahtiah.

And the dogs shall eate Jezebel in the field of Izreel, and there shall be none to burpe her. And he opened the doore, and fled.

11 Then Jelu came out to the seruants of his lord. And one said vnto him, Is all wel? wherefore came this made fellowe to thee? And he said vnto them, I know the man, and what his talke was.

12 And they sayde, It is false, tell vs it nowe. Then he laid, Thus a thus say he to mee, saying, Thus faith the Lord, I haue anointed thee for King ouer Israel.

13 Then they made halle, and tooke euery man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the s kayles, and blewe the trumpet, saying, Jelu is King.

14 So Jelu the sonne of Jehoßahat the sonne of Ainihi compired againſt Jo'am (Nowe Jo'am kept Ramoth Gilead, he is al Israel because of Hazael King of Aram.

15 And *King Jo'am returned to be healed in Izreel of the wounDES, which the Aramites had giuen him, when he fought with Hazael King of Aram) and Jelu laid. It be your minDES, let no man depart a eape out of the citie, to go and tell in Izreel.

16 So Jelu gate vp into a charet, a went to Izreel: for Jo'ã lay there, *A Ahaziah king of Judah was come downe to see Jo'am.

17 And the watchman s toode in the towe in Izreel, vpped the company of Jelu as he came, and sayde, I see a companie. And Jefo'am layd, Take a hozeman and sende to meete them, that he may lay, Is it peace?

18 So there went one on hozeback to meete him, and sayde, Thus layth the King, Is it peace? And Jelu laid, What haſt thou to do with peace? *turne behinde mee. And the watchman tolde, saying, The meſsenger came to them, but he commeth not agayne.

19 Then he lent out another on hozebacke, which came to them, a laid, Thus layth the King, Is it peace? And Jelu answereD, What haſt thou to do with peace? *turne be- hind mee.

20 And the watchman told, saying, He came to them aſo, but commeth not againe, a the marching is like the marching of Jelu the sonne of Ainihi: for he marcheth *furiously.

21 Then Jehoram layd, Aske ready: and his charet was made ready. And Jehoram King of Israel *Aahaziah King of Judah wet out either of them in his charet againſt Jelu, and met him in the fielde of Aaboth the Ijreelite.

1. King. 21.
1. 2. 25.

1. King. 14. 20.
& 21. 24.

1. King. 14. 10.
21. 22.

1. King. 16. 11.

Chasie, *the rest of a ampr, who then he calls led before, as he be, but he, etc. 4. In this chilament the words haſt a carnet of god: notwith flanding fo as much as a houſe hafes under a number of the children of God (as they called a house of god a be- center) *and he had the braul) therefore they had not to be buſcuroed

2. Chro. 8. 29.

God had thus ordemb, as is read. 2. Chro. 22. 22, that this wickeſ s idolatrous king, who was more than a god, to graſtiched Jelu, then to ehe the wul of god, should pribil with him, bp whose means he thought to have bene pronger. 3. Chro. 10. 29.

As one thus
went earneſt
about his en-
terytik.

22 And

and playeth Ioram and Jezebel.

Chap.x.

Ahab fonnes flaine.

151

12 And when Jehezam saue Jehu, he layd, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What s peace, whiles the whoe domes of thy mothe r Jezebel, and her witchcrafts are yet in great nomer?

22
23 Then Jehezam turned his hand, and fled, and layde to Aha ziah, D Aha ziah, there is trea lom.

24 But Jehu tooke a bove in his hande, and Imote Jehezam betwene shoulders, that the aro we went through his heart: and he fell downe in his charet.

25 The laid Jehu to Bidkar a captaine, Take and cast him in some place of the fielde of Aaboth the Izreelite: for I remember that whé I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the Lo'd: layed this burden bp on him.

26 Surel y Aha have seene yesterda y the blood of Aaboth, the blood of his <sup>h</sup> fonnes, layde the Lo'd, and I will render it thee in this fielde, layeth the Lo'd: nowe therefore take and cast him in the fielde, according to the word of the Lo'd.

27 But when Aha ziah the King of Judah saue this, he fled bp the way of the garden houe: and Jehu purfued after him, a layd, Smite him also in the charet: & they imote him in the going bp to Gur, which is by J-bleam. And he fled to <sup>g</sup> Megiddo, and there dyed.

28 And his seruauts carved him in a charet to Jerualem, a burped him in his puleulche with his fathers in the citie of David.

29 And in the <sup>h</sup> eleuenth pere of Joam the fonne of Ahab, began Aha ziah to reygne o-uer Judah.

30 And when Jehu was come to Izreel, Je-zebel heard of it, and paynted her face, and tired her head, a looked out at a window.

31 And as Jehu entred at <sup>h</sup> gate, she laid, Had <sup>m</sup> Zimri peace, which flew his master?

32 And he lift bp his eyes to the windowe, a said, who is on my side, who? Then two or three of other <sup>g</sup> Eunuches looked unto him.

33 And he laid, Cast her downe: and they cast her downe, <sup>n</sup> and he sprinkled of her blood upon the wall, and upon the hozes, and he trode her vnder foote.

34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drinke, a laid, Uisite now yoder curfed wo-<sup>m</sup>, a bury her: for he is a <sup>g</sup> kings daughter.

35 And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her then the skull and the feete, and the palmes of her hands.

36 Wherefore they came agayne and told him. And he laid, This is the word of the Lo'd, which he spake: by his seruaut Eliah the Tishbite, laying, * In the fielde of Izreel that the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel.

37 And the carkeis of Jezebel laybe as doong upon the grounde in the fielde of Izreel, to that none lay, <sup>g</sup> This is Jezebel.

38 And he laid, Take them alive. And they tooke them alive, and flew them at the wel beide the house where <sup>h</sup> sheepe are thorne, euen two and fourtie men, and he <sup>l</sup> eft not one of them.

39 Jehueaueth the seuentie fonnes of Ahab to beflaine, <sup>h</sup> And as for that fourtie and two of Ahasziah bethren, <sup>g</sup> He killeth also <sup>h</sup> pils of Baal, <sup>g</sup> After his death his sonne reigneth in his lead.

Ahab had now seuentie <sup>a</sup> fonnes in Sa- maria. And Jehu wote letters, a Kent to Samaria into the rulers of Ize- re, & to the Elders, and to the bringers bp of Ahab children, to this effect,

Awe when this letter commeth to you, (fo ye haue with you your masters <sup>h</sup>onnes, ye haue with you both charets and hozes, and a defenced citie, and armour)

Consider therefoe which of your masters fonnes is best and most meete, and <sup>h</sup> let him on his fathers throne, and fight fo your masters houfe.

But thep were exceedingly afrayd, a layd, Beholde, two Kings could not stand before him, how shall we then stand?

And he <sup>h</sup> was gouvernour of Ahab house, and he that ruled the citie, a the Elders, and the bringers bp of the children Kent to J- he, laying, We are thy seruants, and wil do all that thouhalt bid bs: we will make no King: do what seemeth good to thee.

C Then he wote another letter to them, laying, If ye be mine, a will obey my boye, <sup>l</sup> take the heads of <sup>h</sup> men that are your ma- sters fonnes, a come to mee to Izreel bp to mo'ow this time. (Now the Kings fonnes, euen seuentie perlons were with the great men of the citie, which brought them bp)

And when the letter came to them, they tooke the Kings fonnes, a flew the seuentie perlons, a layed their heads in baskets, and lent them vnto him to Izreel.

C Then there came a messenger and told him, laying, They haue bought the heads of the Kings fonnes. And he laid, Let them lay them on two heapes at the entring in of the gate until the morning.

And when it was Day, he went out, a kood a laid to al the people, He bee <sup>d</sup> righteous: behold, I confired against my master, and ffele him: but who flew all these?

Know now that there shall fall into the earth nothing of the word of the Lo'd, which the Lo'd spake concerning the houle of Ahab: for the Lo'd hath brought to palle the thinges that hee spake: by his seruaut * Eliah.

11 So Jehu flew al <sup>h</sup> remained of the houle of Ahab in Izreel, and all that were great with him, and his familiars a his <sup>g</sup> pils, so that he let none of his remaine.

12 And he arose, and departed and came to Samaria. And as Jehu was in <sup>h</sup> way by an houle where the shepheardes did there,

13 He mette with the biethien of Aha ziah King of Judah, and laid, who are ye? And they answere, We are <sup>h</sup> bethien of Aha- ziah, and goe downe to falute the childre of the King and the children of the Quenee.

14 And he laide, Take them alive. And they tooke them alive, and flew them at the wel beide the house where <sup>h</sup> sheepe are thorne, euen two and fourtie men, and he <sup>l</sup> eft not one of them.

15 And when he was departed thence, hee met

The Scrip- ture death to call the fonnes which are eye- ther children, <sup>h</sup> nephtewes, <sup>g</sup> God in his own time, and then, <sup>h</sup> God is then

The wote this to pune them wherether they would take his part of no,

God as a sin- gude punis-eth the wies of the children of quicked pares, but the houre and forthwith ge- veration,

d He cannot until comen-ge in <sup>h</sup> kings drath, leing pe- hane done the like to his yor- her, for the Lo'd coni- maed her, a mos- ued you to re- cente this his inbarment,

1.King.21:29.

d Meaneing, which were the iudatious pils.

f The God- bengance is in them that bane any part as fankleth the wath <sup>h</sup> wicked

1 On,ofke this prophane a- gait him.

1a This place it is euen- bant, that Jes- ues was called by Aaboth <sup>h</sup> his fonnes <sup>h</sup> to be put to death, that he might euen- bap his times part more- quent for his children, he might haue claued pol- lition.

1k After that he had been in Danania he layd to Ahab's house, which was a citie of Judah.

1k Chats, ele- uem whole pere: for cha, k, before, when he layd, that he began to trighe the cunstere of Joam, he ras- hir part of <sup>h</sup> per for the whole.

1l A drawing of an adue is a small nature the wood full res- telle her pycnits rare and hight.

1m As though the wood lay, <sup>h</sup> as any at all, and that he against his luserio, hane good fice, <sup>h</sup>, ye, <sup>h</sup> R.

1n On,ofke fer-

1o Jehu did by the manne of the Spirit of Jesh, that her blonk thun, <sup>h</sup> hab the blonk of uncenters, to be a pectas- de <sup>h</sup> example of goddes- nents to all tyants.

1p Aubit of <sup>h</sup> King of <sup>h</sup> 2:6, 16, 17.

1q The by the hal- of <sup>h</sup> 2:11-12. <sup>h</sup> This God- indorments appear euen in his way against them, and that <sup>h</sup> fankleth his seruauts,

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["Baals priefts are flayne.", "II. Kings.", "Iehoahaz. Athaliah.", "g. Οὐ μὴ φασι-Σαμαν-δια-μαριανό-μαριανό-μαριανό-μαριανό-μαρ

Iehoash flayne. Iehoahaz.

II.Kings.

Iehoash. Elishe dyeth.

to be beffowed on workemen: for they deal faithfully.

16 The money of the tre浦salle offring and the money of þ linne offerings was not brought into the house of the Lo'de: for it was the Priestes.

17 Then came þ Hazael King of Aram, a fought against Gath and tooke it, a Hazael let his face to go up to Jerusalem.

18 And Jehoash King of Judah tooke all the halowed things that Jehoahaphat, a Je-horam, and Ahaziah his fathers Kinges of Judah had dedicated, and that he himselfe founde in the treasures of the house of the Lord and in the Kings house, and lent it to Hazael King of Aram, and he departed fro Jerusalem.

19 Concerning the rest of the actes of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

20 And his seruants arose and wrought trea-son, and flewe Joash in the house of Hil-lo, when he came downe to Silla:

21 Even a Jozachar the sonne of Shimeath, and Jejoabad the sonne of Shomer his seruants smote him, and he dyed: and they burped him with his fathers in the citie of David. And Amaziah his sonne reigned in his steade.

18 After a breath of Jehoahaz, Joash fell into solarie hertes, for God res-pecteth him, and diueth up his eunup against him, who he paried with the treasures of the house of God, for god would not be fe ned to his tooke givings, so that he lay in his Kinges heart was wicked.

k Because he had put Tar-charis b sonne of Jehoahaz to theLD, a Chy-24:11 l Ateade. 2 Sam. 5:9. m On Jehoabad.

1 Jehoahaz the sonne of Jehu is delivered into the hands of the Sera-riann, e the planeth unto God and is delivered. f Joash his sonne reigneth in his steade. 20 Eliza dyeth. 24 Hazael by deth.

1 In the threee and twentieth yere of Joash the sonne of Azaiah King of Judah. Je-hoahaz the sonne of Jehu began to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, and he reigned feuentenee yere.

2 And he did euill in the light of the Lo'de, a folowed the sinnes of Jeroboam the sonne of Ahabat, which made Israel to sinne, and departed not therefrom.

3 And the Lord was angry with Israel, and delivered them into þ hand of Hazael King of Aram, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the sonne of Hazael, all his dayes.

4 And Jehoahaz befought the Lord, and the Lo'de heard him: for he lawe the trouble of Israel, wherewith the King of Aram trou-bled them.

5 (And the Lord gave Israel a deliuerer, so that they came out from under the diuicri-on of the Aramites. And the children of J-fael d dwelt in their tentes as before time.

6 Neuer thelelle they departed not from the sinnes of þ house of Jeroboam which made Israel sinne, but walked in them. even the e grove also remained still in Samaria.)

7 For he had left of the people to Jehoahaz but sikke hozemen, and ten charets, and ten thouland footmen, because the King of Aram had destroped them, and made them like dust beaten to powder.

8 Concerning the rest of the actes of Jeho-ahaz and al that he did, a his valiant deede-s,

are they not written in the booke of þ Chro-nicles of the Kinges of Israel?

And Jehoahaz leapt with his fathers, and they burped him in Samaria, a Joash his sonne reigned in his steade.

10 In the leuen and thirtieth yere of Joash King s of Judah began Jehoah the sonne of Jehoahaz to reigne ouer Israel in Sa-maria, and reigned l'treue yere,

11 And did euill in the fight of the Lo'de: for he departed not from al the sinnes of Jero-boam the sonne of Ahab that made Israel to sinne, but he walked therein.

12 Concerning the rest of the actes of Joash and all that he did, and his valiant deede-s, and how he fought against Amaziah King of Judah, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kinges of Israel?

13 And Joash slept with his fathers, and Je-toboom fate vpon his feat: and Joash was burped in Samaria among the Kinges of Israel.

14 When Eliza fell sicke of his sickenes whereof he dyed, Joash the King of Israel came downe vnto him, a wept vpon his face, a sayd, h O mp father, my father, the charets of Israel, and the hozemen of the same.

15 Then Eliza sayd vnto him, Take a bove and arrowes. And he tooke vnto him bove and arrowes.

16 And he laid to þ King of Israel, Put thine hand vpon the bove. And he put his hands vpon it. And Eliza put his hands vpon the King's hands,

17 And sayd. Open the window, c Afteward. And when he had opened it, Eliza sayd. Shoote. And he dot. And he sayd, Beholde the arrowe of the Lo'des deliuerance a the arrowe of deliuerance agaynt Aram: for thou shalt smite the Aramites in Aphek, till thou haft consumed them.

18 Againe he sayde, Take the arrowes. And he tooke them. And he sayde vnto the King of Israel, Smite the ground. And he smote thylke, and ceaed.

19 Then the man of God was a angrie with him, and said, Thou shouldst have smitten five or six times, so thou shouldst have smitten ten Aram, til þ haddest consumed it, wherev-er now thou haft finite Aram but thylke.

20 Aso Eliza dyed, and they burped him. And certaine bands of the Hoabites came into the land that yere.

21 And as they were burying a man, beheld, they sawe the souldiers: therefore they cast the man into the epulche of Eliza. And when the man was down, and touched the bones of Eliza, *he1復used and stook up on his feete.

22 But Hazael King of Aram bered Israel all the dayes of Jehoahaz.

23 Therefore the Lord had mercye on them and pitied them, a had respect vnto the because of his couenant with Abraham, Jehaz, and Jaakob, and would not destrope them, ne-ther cast he them from him as m yet.

g His chiefe purpose to the children of Jezus, the children of Jezus, how God was affected, a was affected a to their greats. And he thought he had nowe bes generate proude, and he was then to be founde by Jezus. Proude and pride were then called on to be founde by Jezus.

h Thus he bid to the pichers and the butlers of Jezus, who God blesed his people, as he, and so to be confirmed, he was then called on to be founde by Jezus, and then his counte, then his face of Aramis.

i Chares, to warden Hsna, so that he did not knowe any where with works, but as so to be confirmed, he was then called on to be founde by Jezus, and then his counte, then his face of Aramis.

j Seeere he lived content in his house, and bicares to agalb the children of God so to wile on thylk, so God not a seueret in their hands, then continually so to befounde by Jezus, and then his counte, then his face of Aramis.

k Jezus, a. So this mi-che God can be founde in the an-tiquities of Jezus, a whole, whole crime in his life, after cons-tantly that then might treaue and amaze the same. m Chares, a, line till their diames were come to a stand, and then after, so no more help of amenders.

24 So

["Amaziah. Iehoash.", "Chap. xiiiij.", "Ieroboam. Azariah.", "153", "24. So Hazael the King of Aram dyed: and", "Ben-hadad his Sonne reigned in his steade.", "25. Therefore Jehoash the Sonne of Ieho-\n haz returned, and tooke out of the hande of\nBen-hadad the Sonne of Hazael the cities\nwhich he had taken awaye by warre out of\nthe hande of Jehoahaz his father: for three\ntimes did Joash beate him, and restored the\ncities vnto Israel.", "CHAP. XIII.", "1 Amaziah the King of Judah putther to death them that flew his father, and after him Edou. 15 Joab then, and Jeroboam his sonne increased him. 29 And after him reigneth Zachariah.", "2 Chron. 25.", "1 The second yeere of Joash Sonne of Ie-\n hoahaz King of Israel reigned *Ami-\n ziah y sonne of Joash King of Judah.", "2 He was five and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned nine and twentie yeere in Jerusalem, a his mothers name was Jehoadan of Jerusalem.", "a The he\nb The yeare\nc The yeare\n* The yeare\n* The ye

["Zachariah. Shallum.", "II.Kings.", "Menahem. Pekahiah. Pekah.", "C H A P . X Y .", "1", "2 Ebr. in 5 witen-\nnieth yere &c. &\neath yere.", "In the seven & twentieth yere of Jeroboam\nKing of Israel, began Azariah, sonne of\nAmaziah King of Judah to reigne.", "2", "Sixtene yere olde was he, when he was\nmade King, and he regned two and fiftie\nyere in Jerufalem : and his mothers name\nwas Jecholiah of Jerufalem.", "3", "a So long as he gave ear to\nZachariah the Proctor.", "And hee did a uprightly in the light of the\nLord, according to all that his father Ama-\nziah did.", "4", "But the hye places were not put away; for\nthe people yet offred, and burned incense in\nthe hye places.", "5", "b His father a\nhand father.\nwere flane by\ntheir infuecos\nand feutners,\n&c. he, because\nhe would be\nfrepb 9 Jnfrtis\noffice contrap-\nto God ojs\nnance, was\nfinterm unive-\nbrariu by the\nhand of God\nwith the lepors\nfrk, 2 chn. 26:21,\n&2 chn. 26:22,\non deputie to\nhis father.", "And the Lord b smote the King; and he was\na leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt\nin an house apart, and Jotham the Kings\nsonne governed the house, and c judged the\npeople of the land.", "6", "Concerning the rest of the actes of Azar-\niah, and all that he did, are they not written\nin the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings\nof Judah?\nSo Azariah slept with his fathers, & they\nburped him with his fathers in the citie of\nDaud, and Jotham his sonne regned in\nhis steade.", "7", "So Azariah slept with his fathers, & they\nburped him with his fathers in the citie of\nDaud, and Jotham his sonne regned in\nhis steade.", "8", "C In the eight and thirtieth yere of Azar-\niah King of Judah did Zachariah the Sonne\nof Jeroboam reigne ouer Israel in Sama-\nliake d monethys,", "9", "d he was the\nfourth in des-\ncent from Jehu,\nwho resigned\naccording to\ngodly promises,\nbut in him\nGod began to\nevaluate his\nwork against\nthe house of\nJehu.\n\ne Zachariah\nwas the last in\nIsrael, that\nhad the kings\nhouse by force\nreitten (fame ou-\npp. Pekahiah,\nthe sonne of\nMenahem)\nwho resigned\nbut two persons.\nChap. 10, 20.", "And did euill in the light of the Lo'de, as\ndid his fathers: for he departed not from\nthe sinnes of Jeroboam the sonne of Aef-\nbat, which made Israel to sinne.", "10", "And Shallum the sonne of Jabez csopt\nred against him, and smote him in the light\nof the people, and c killed him, and reigne\nin his steade.", "11", "Concerning the rest of the actes of Zacha-\niah, beholde, they are written in the booke\nof the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.", "12", "This was the word of the Lo'd, which he\nspake into Jehu, laying, Thp fonnes shall\nsit on h throne of Israel vnto the fourth ge-\nneration after thee. And it came so to palle.", "13", "CShallum the sonne of Jabez began to\nreigne in the nine and thirtieth yere of Uz-\ntah King of Judah : a he reigne the place\nof a moneth in Samaria.", "14", "For Menahem the sonne of Gadi went by\nfrom Tirzah, a came to Samaria, a smote\nShallum y sonne of Jabez in Samaria,\nand flewe him, and reigne in his steade.", "15", "Concerning the rest of the actes of Shal-\nlum, and the treason which he wrought, be-\nholde, they are written in the booke of the\nChronicles of the Kings of Israel.", "16", "C Then Menahem destroyed Tiphshah, a\nall that were therein, and the coastes there-\nof from Tirzah, because they opened not to\nhim, and he smote it, a ript by all their wo-\nmen with child.", "k which was a\ncitie of Jezel.\nthat would not\nreceive him\nto be King.", "17", "The nine and thirtieth yere of Azariah", "King of Judah, began Menahem the Sonne\nof Gadi to regne ouer Israel, and reigne\nten yeres in Samaria.", "18", "And he did euill in the light of the Lo'de,\nand departed not all his dayes from the sinne\nof Jeroboam the sonne of Aefbat, which\nmade Israel to sinne.", "19", "C Then Pul the King of Asfyrk came a-\ngainst the s land: and Menahem gaue Pul\na thoufand h talents of filuer, that his hand\nmight be with him, and eftablifhe the king-\ndome in his hand.", "20", "And Menahem exacted the money in Je-\nrael, that all men of substance shoulde give\nthe King of Asfyrk fiftie Sbekeis of filuer a\npiece: so the King of Asfyrk returned and ta-\nped not there in the land.", "21", "Concerning the rest of the actes of Mena-\nhem, and all that he did, are they not writ-\nten in the booke of the Chronicles of the\nKings of Israel?", "22", "And Menahem slept with his fathers, and\nPekahiah his sonne did reigne in his stead.", "23", "C In the fiftieth yere of Azariah King of\nJudah, began Pekahiah the sonne of Me-\nnahem to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria,\nand reigne two yere.", "24", "And he did euill in the light of the Lo'de:\nfor he departed not from the sinnes of Je-\nroboam the sonne of Aefbat, which made\nIsrael to sinne.", "25", "And Pekah the sonne of Remaliah, his\ncaptaine compited against him, and smote\nhim in Samaria in the place of the Kinges\npalace with Aergob and Arieth, & with him\nfiftie men of the Gileadites: so he killed him,\nand reigne in his steade.", "26", "Concerning the rest of the actes of Pe-\nkaiah, and all that he did, beholde, they are\nwritten in the booke of the Chronicles of\nthe Kings of Israel.", "27", "In the two and fiftieth yere of Azariah\nKing of Judah began Pekah the sonne of\nRemaliah to reigne ouer Israel in Sama-\nria, and reigne twentie yere.", "28", "And he did euill in the light of the Lo'de:\nfor he departed not from the sinnes of Je-\nroboam the sonne of Aefbat, that made Jc-\nrael to sinne.", "29", "In 5 dates of Pekah King of Israel came\nTiglath Pilefer King of Asfyrk, and tooke\nIon, and Abel, Beth-maachah, a Janoah,\nand Redelb, and Hazor, and Gilead, and\nSalilah, & all the land of Aaphtali, and ca-\nried them away to Asfyrk.", "30", "And Hoheba the sonne of Elah wrought\ntreason against Pekah the sonne of Rema-\niah, a smote him, and flew him, and reigne\nin his steade in the twentieth yere of Jo-\ntham the sonne of Uzziah.", "31", "Concerning the rest of the actes of Pekah,\nand all that he did, beholde, they are written\nin the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings\nof Israel.", "32", "C In the second yere of Pekah the sonne\nof Remaliah King of Israel, began Jotham\nsonne", "That is, of\nIsrael.\nJude 29, 30.\nJude 31, 32.\nJude 33, 34.\nJude 35, 36.\nJude 37, 38.\nJude 39, 40.\nJude 41, 42.\nJude 43, 44.\nJude 45, 46.\nJude 47, 48.\nJude 49, 50.\nJude 51, 52.\nJude 53, 54.\nJude 55, 56.\nJude 57, 58.\nJude 59, 60.\nJude 61, 62.\nJude 63, 64.\nJude 65, 66.\nJude 67, 68.\nJude 69, 70.\nJude 71, 72.\nJude 73, 74.\nJude 75, 76.\nJude 77, 78.\nJude 79, 80.\nJude 81, 82.\nJude 83, 84.\nJude 85, 86.\nJude 87, 88.\nJude 89, 90.\nJude 91, 92.\nJude 93, 94.\nJude 95, 96.\nJude 97, 98.\nJude 99, 100.\nJude 101, 102.\nJude 103, 104.\nJude 105, 106.\nJude 107, 108.\nJude 109, 110.\nJude 111, 112.\nJude 113, 114.\nJude 115, 116.\nJude 117, 118.\nJude 119, 120.\nJude 121, 122.\nJude 123, 124.\nJude 125, 126.\nJude 127, 128.\nJude 129, 130.\nJude 131, 132.\nJude 133, 134.\nJude 135, 136.\nJude 137, 138.\nJude 139, 140.\nJude 141, 142.\nJude 143, 144.\nJude 145, 146.\nJude 147, 148.\nJude 149, 150.\nJude 151, 152.\nJude 153, 154.\nJude 155, 156.\nJude 157, 158.\nJude 159, 160.\nJude 161, 162.\nJude 163, 164.\nJude 165, 166.\nJude 167, 168.\nJude 169, 170.\nJude 171, 172.\nJude 173, 174.\nJude 175, 176.\nJude 177, 178.\nJude 179, 180.\nJude 181, 182.\nJude 183, 184.\nJude 185, 186.\nJude 187, 188.\nJude 189, 190.\nJude 191, 192.\nJude 193, 194.\nJude 195, 196.\nJude 197, 198.\nJude 199, 200.\nJude 201, 202.\nJude 203, 204.\nJude 205, 206.\nJude 207, 208.\nJude 209, 210.\nJude 211, 212.\nJude 213, 214.\n

["Iotham. Ahaz:", "Chap.xvj.xvij.", "his idolatrie. Hofhea.", "154", "40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 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Ifraels captiuitie, & the caufe.

11. Kings.

Lions in Samaria.

b. For he had paid tribute for the space of eight yeres.

Chap. 18:10.

c. For at this time the Medes and Persians were subiect to the AsSEMBLY, of which the great King was the father, and after him, forth at length the cause of this great PLAGUE and PLAGIARISM, captiuitie, to allmouthly people and nations, to cleanse to the Lord God, &c. worthily him for fear of the just judgesment.

d. Dealing throughout al their houpers.

Duk. 18:19.

2 Thess. by the hand of. Iere. 18:11. & 15. 5:23. 15.

Douc. 22:17.

1 So that to alledge the authority of our fathers or great antiquities, except we can prove that thei were godly but to be clear that we are the children of the wicked.

Exod. 13:2.
1 King. 12:2.
5 That is, the children, the moone and starres, &c. 4:19.
2 I Preade chap. 16:2.
3 I Preade of this place, i. e. King. 2:10. & 35.

5

Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So King of Egypt, and brought no present to the King of Assur, as he had done before: therefore the King of Assur shut him up, and put him in prison.

Then the King of Assur came up through all the land, and went against Samaria, and besieged it three yere.

6 C. In the ninth yere of Hoshea, the King of Assur tooke Samaria, a caried Israel away into Assur, and put them in Halay, and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

7

For when the children of Israel d. Limited against the Lord their God, which had brought them out of the lande of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt, and feared other gods,

8 And walked according to the facions of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel, and after the manners of the Kings of Israel, which they vied,

9

And the children of Israel had done secreetly things that were not upright before the Lord their God, and throughout al their cities had built hie places, both from þ tower of the watch, to the defensed citie,

10 And had made them images and grooves upon every hie hill, and under every greene tree,

11 And there burnt incense in all the hie places, as did the heathen, whom the Lord had taken away before them, and brought wicked things to anger the Lord,

12 And served idoles: whereof the Lord had said unto them, *We shall do no such thing,

13 Not withstanding the Lord testified to Israel, and to Judah † by all the Prophets, & by all the Seers, saying, *Turne from your evil ways, & keepe my commandements and my statutes, according to all the Law, which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the Prophets.

14 Neuerthelesse they would not obey, * but hardened their neckes, like to the neckes of their †fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God.

15 And they refused his statutes and his covenant, that he made with their fathers, & his testimonies ( wherewith he witnessed unto them) and they followed vanitie, and became baine, ‡ followed the heathen that were round about them: concerning whom, þ Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

16 Finally they left all the commandements of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, * even two calues, and made a grove, and wroughtipped all the houste of heauen, and served Baal.

17 And thei made their sonnes ‡ their daughers h. palle through the fire, & vied witchcraft and inchantments, pèa, ‡ volde them felses, to do evil in the light of the Lord, to anger him.

18 Therefore the Lord was exceeding woth with Israel, and put them out of his light, and none was left but the tribe of Judah k. only.

19 Yet Judah kept not the commandements of the Lord their God, but walked according to þ facion of Israel, which they vied.

20 Therefore the Lord cast all the fesde of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of spoylers, until he had cast them out of his l. light.

21 m. For he cut of Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the sonne of Ahab King: and Jeroboam drew the Israel away from following the Lord, and made them linne a great linne.

22 For the children of Israel walked in all the linnes of Jeroboam, which he did, and departed not therefrom,

23 Until the Lord put Israel away out of his light, as he had faid † by all his servants the * Prophets, and caried Israel away out of their land to Assur into this day.

24 And the King of Assur brought folke from Babel, and from r. Cuthah, and from Aua, and from Hamath, ‡ from Sepharaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria in steade of the children of Israel: so they posſessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

25 And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they † feared not the Lord: therefore the Lord sent lons among them, which flew them.

26 Whereof they spake to the King of Assur, saying, The nations which thou haſt removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the maner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lons among them, and beholde, they flap them, because they know not the maner of the God of the land.

27 Then the king of Assur commanded, saying, Carie thither one of the Priests, whom ye brought thence, and let him go and dwel there, & teach them the maner of the God of the countrey.

28 So one of the Priests, which they had carried from Samaria, came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.

29 Howbeit every nation made their gods, & put them in the houses of the hie places, which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities, wherein they dwelt.

30 For þ men of Babel made 9 Succoth-Benon: and the men of Cuth made Aergal, & the men of Hamath made Asshima.

31 And the Auims made Nibaz, and Tak: and the Sepharuims burnt their children in the fire to Diammelech, & Inanmelech the gods of Sepharaim.

32 Thus they feared the Lord, and appointed out Priests out of them felses for the hie places, who prepared for them ſacrifices in the houles of the hie places.

k. And whole tribe was left but Judah, & the children and kinsmen which were named were Judah.

l. Out of the land where he dwelt the great ones of his province and fayne m. Har is, God cut off the ten tribes, King. 12:16.
20.

21. Exod. by the hand of. Iere. 25:9.

m. Of the ples came the Medanians, whereof manie is in much made in the Philistines with whom the Jews would have nothing to do, John 1:9. o. That is, they found him nor: therefore, let them should blasphemethim, as though there were no God, because he chalifieth the Asse. Therefore, he thynkseth his mighthe power as much as this brings them by this transpugnment,

p. That is, to be with him: but the Lord, rather than to take their censures, will change to all religions.

q. A meaning, that every country ſees and knowes that, which was most emerced in that place wherefore they came.

33 *Theyp

The brazen serpent broken.

Chap.xviiij.

Hezekiahs feare.

155

Ezek. 20:29.
2:1. That is, there had been a certain knowledge of God and fear of him, because of the punishment, but they considered ill doings as being the sins, which were both God and Israel's: but this not to fear God as absolutely true.

Jph. 1:10.
1. The manly display of the nations, to whom God had brought the commandments, etc.
2. Gen. 1:28, 21.
3. Gen. 6:10.
4. Ex. 10:13.

33 * They feared the Lord, but served their gods after the manner of the nations whom they carried thence.

34 Unto this day they do after the old manner: they neither fear God, neither do after their ordinances, nor after their commandments, nor after the Law, nor after the commandment, which the Lord commanded the children of Jaakob, *whome he named Israel,

35 And with whom the Lord had made covenant, a charged them, saying, *Fear not; other gods, nor bow you before them, nor fear them, nor sacrifice to them;

36 But fear the Lord which brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power, and a stretched out arm: he fear you, and worship him, and sacrifice to him.

37 Also keepe ye diligently the statutes & the ordinances, and the Law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, that ye do them continually, and fear not other gods.

38 And so get not the covenant that I have made with you, neither fear ye other gods,

39 But fear the Lord your God, and he will deliver you out of the hands of all your enemies.

40 Howbeit they obeyed not, but did after their old custom.

41 So these nations feared the Lord, & served their images also: so did their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, to do them unto this day.

C. I. R. P. E. V. II.

4 Hezekiah king of Judah naturally did the best he could, and did properly the things, & properly the things, 11 Israel is carried away captive, 10 The blabulousness of Saneherib.

That is, these strangers, who were sent into Saba, and made slaves by the Persians.

2. Gen. 12:27, and 12:1.

N Now in * the third yeare of Hoshea, sonne of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the sonne of Ahaaz king of Judah began to reigne.

2 He was fne and twentie yeare olde when he began to reigne, and reign'd nine and twentie yere in Jerusalem. His mothers name also was Abi the daughter of Zchariah,

3 And he did * uprightly in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.

4 He tooke away the he places, and brake the images, and cut downe the groves, and brake in pieces the * broken serpent that Males had made: so for unto those dayes the children of Israel did burne incense to it, & he called it * Achuzotan.

5 He trufted in the Lord God of Israel: so that after him was none like him among all the Kings of Judah, neither were there any such before him.

6 For he claued to the Lord and departed not from him, but kept his commandements, which the Lord had commanded Males.

7 So the Lord was with him, and he prope'red in all things, which he tooke in hande: also he rebelled against the King of Aelurie, and served him not.

8 He smote the Philistins unto Azzah, and the coastes thereof, * from the watch towne unto the defen'd citie.

9 * And in the fourth yeare of King Hezekiah (which was the seuenth yeare of Hoshea sonne of Elah king of Israel) Shalmaneser King of Aelurie came vp against Samaria, and beſieged it.

10 And after three yeres they tooke it, euen in the sixt yeare of Hezekiah: that is, the ninth yeare of Hoshea King of Israel was Samaria taken.

11 Then the King of Aelurie did carie away Israel unto Aelurie, and put them in Halah and in Habor, by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

12 Because they would not obey the bome of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant: that is, all that Males the servant of the Lord had commanded, & would neither obey nor do them.

13 C * Moreover, in the fourteenth yeare of King Hezekiah, Saneherib King of Aelurie came vp against all the strong cities of Judah, and tooke them.

14 Then Hezekiah King of Judah sent unto the King of Aelurie to Lachish, saying, * If he have offende: depart from me, and what thou layst upon me, I will fear it. And the King of Aelurie appointed unto Hezekiah King of Judah three hundred talents of silver, and three hundred talents of gold.

15 Therefore Hezekiah gave at the fulner that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the Kings house.

16 At the same time did Hezekiah pull of the plates of the doorez of the Temple of the Lord, and the pillers (which the said Hezekiah King of Judah had concured on) and gave them to the King of Aelurie.

17 And the King of Aelurie sent * Tartan, and Rab-taris, and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a great hofte against Jerusalem. And they went up, and came to Jerusalem, and when they were come up, they stooode by the euidite of the hyper poole, which is by the path of the fukers stelle,

18 And called to the King. Then came out to them Eliakim the sons of Hilkiah, which was steward of the houſe, and Sbehnai the changether, and Joah the sonne of Japhth the * recorder.

19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Tell ye Hezekiah, I pray you, Thus faith the great King, euen the great King of Aelurie, what confidence is this wherein thou truſſet?

20 Thou thinkeſt, Surely I have eloquence, * but countel and strengt are for the warre. On whom then doest thou truſſt, that thou rebelleſt against me?

21 Lo, thou truſſet now in this broken staffe of eede, to wit, on * Egypt, on which if a man leane, it will go into his hande, and yeare it: is so Dharaoth King of Egypt vn-to all that truſſt on him.

c Read as chay, 17:9.

Chap. 17:3.

2. Chro. 12:2.

1. 2 Sam. 1:19.

1 Cor. 4:18, 19.

d His this stede was before me, & his beares to me here let forth their name, who then alp in him fell.

e After certaine yeres when Hezekiah ceaſed to be king, the time ap. pointed by the King of the Alphians, he sent his crayes, came and came again to him.

f Or, writer of Chronicles, of secretarye.

g The taffe of the lippes.

h The taffe will come up.

i In three yeres or more, or more then an under.

j Egypt, that

k that he would be

l not to come again there,

m that thall be

22 But

Rabshakeh's blasphemie.

11.Kings.

God promiseth victorie.

22 But if ye say unto me, we trust in LORD our God, is not that he whose he places, a whole altars Hezekiah hath h taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jeruſalem, Be heall worſhip before this altar in Jeruſalem? i

23 Now therefore give h hostages to my LORD the king of Aſſur, a I will give thee two thouſand horſes, if thou be able to let riders upon them.

24 For how canst thou despiſe any captaine of the least of my maſters ſeruants, and put thy trust on Egypt for charretes & horſemen?

25 Am I now come vp without the k LORD to this place, to deſtroy it? the LORD said to me, Go vp againſt this land, and deſtroy it.

26 Then Eliakim the ſonne of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah said unto Rabshakeh, Speake, I pray thee, to thy ſeruants in the "Aramites language, for we w nderstand it, and talke not with vs in LORD Jewes tongue, in the audience of the people that are on the wall.

27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my maſter ſent me to thy maſter and to thee to speake these words, and not to the men which fit on the wall, that they may eate their owne doing, and dinke their owne piffe with you?

28 So Rabshakeh ſtoode and cried with a loude voce in the Jewes language, and spake, laying, Heare the words of the great King, of the King of Aſſur.

29 Thus faith the King, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliuer you " out of mine hand.

30 Neither let Hezekiah make you to trust in the Lord, laying, The Lord will ſurely deliver vs, a this citie shall not be giuen ouer into the hand of the King of Aſſur.

31 Hearken not unto Hezekiah: for thus faith the King of Aſſur, Make i appointment with me, and come out to me, that every man may eat of his owne vine, and euerie man of his owne figge tree, and dinke euen man of the water of his owne well,

32 Til I come, and bring you to a lande like your owne land, euen a land of wheat and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olives oyle, and honie that ye may liue a not die: and obey not Hezekiah, for he deceieth you, laying, The Lord wil deliver vs.

33 Hath anie of the gods of the nations deliuered his lande out of the hand of the King of Aſſur?

34 Where is the god of Hamah, and of Apad ? where is the god of Sepharuaim, Hena and Juah ? how haue they deliuered Samaria out of mine hand?

35 Who are they among all the gods of the nations, that haue deliuered their land out of mine hand, that the m LORD ſhoude deliuer Jeruſalem out of mine hand?

36 But þ people held their peace, a anſwered not him a word: for the Kings commandment was, laying, Anſwere ye him not.

37 Then Eliakim, the ſonne of Hilkiah which was ſteward of the house, and Shebnah the chancellor, and Joah the ſonne of Aſſur the recoſder came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and tolde him the words of Rabshakeh.

CHAP. XIX.

God promiseth by Jiahiah victorie to Hezekiah. 35 The Angel of the Lord killeth an hundred and four hundred and five thouſand men of the Amaziano. 37 Anſherherib is killed of his owne ſonne.

A Ad w`hen King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes & put on ſackcloth, & came into the house of the Lord,

And ſent Eliakim which was the ſteward of the house, and Shebnah the chancellor, & the Elders of the Dneſts clothed in ſackcloth & to Jiahiah the Dlophet the ſonne of Amoz.

And they ſaid unto him, Thus faith Hezekiah, This day is a day of tribulation and of rebuke, and blasphemie: for the children are come to the birth, a there is no strength to bring forth.

4 If so be the Lord thy God hath heard all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the King of Aſſur his maſter hath ſent to raile on the liuing God, and to reſpoe the him with words which þ Lord thy God hath heard, then lift thou vp thy pater for the " remnant that are left.

5 So the ſeruants of king Hezekiah came to Jiahiah.

6 And Jiahiah said unto them, So shall ye ſay to your maſter, Thus faith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou haſt heard, where with the ſeruants of the king of Aſſur haue blasphemed me.

7 Beholde, I will ſend a blast d upon him, & he shall heare a nopſe, and returne to his owne land: and I will cause him to fall by the word in his owne land.

8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Aſſur fighting against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed fro Lachish.

9 He heard also men ſay of Tirkahah king of "Ethiopia, 2 Beholde, he is come out to fight against thee: he therefore departed and ſent other meſsengers unto Hezekiah, laying,

10 Thus shall ye speake to Hezekiah king of Judah, and ſay, Let not thy s God deceive thee in whom thou truſſeſt, laying, Jeruſalem shall not be deliuered into the hand of the king of Aſſur.

11 Behold, thou haſt heard what the kings of Aſſur haue done to all lands, how they haue deſtroyed them: and that thou be deſtroyed?

12 Haue the gods of the heathen deliuered the which my fathers haue deſtroyed? as Soan, a Haran, an Bezeph, and the children of Eden, which were in Thelafar?

13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the citie of Sepharuaim, Hena and Juah?

14 So Hezekiah received the letter of the hand

1sa. 17, 2.

a To heare one new p[rophyle]ſe and to haue com for of him.

b The hangars are in great that we can beare asherne this blaschemie, not helpe one cluane, but then a wonk in per traueil.

c Meaning, of Jeruſalem, which only remained of al the cities of Judah.

d The Lord can with one blast blow as by all the strength of man's turne into diuil.

e That is, Hatherib. On blacke and white, as for the kings of Ethiopia and Egypt, they were together as gamt the king of Aſſur, a cause of the oppreſſion of other canne treys.

f The one more that the wicked are to their deſtruction, the steps of the blad p[er]heus.

h Thus the Rolatres thinke that God's religion to be broken, when they open their口 and tolalatres are reſonned. i Plaing, that it was left for him to peſt the King of Aſſur, to because his power was to small that he had not men to furniſt two thouſand horſes. k The wicked always in their p[er]ſence the latter than ſelues, that God doeth as our them. Thus he tyaseth to ſtare Hezekiah that he reſtning him, he hould reſt in God. l Or, Syrians.

Jehu, the water of their feete,

*Or, by his hand.

‡ The bleſſing: meaning the conſions of peace.

1 He maketh him ſelues to lure, that he will not grant them truce, except they render them cluues to him to be led alwaſt captives.

m This is an eſ receivable blaſp hemie as gannt the true God, to make him equal with þ doles of other natu- ous, therefore God did not ſharpely jus tily,

Hezekiah's prayer.

Chap.xx.

Saneheribs hofte destroyed. 156

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Jerusalem

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called the

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of Judah,

Jeh 23:12

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beaten, or

hand of the messengers, to read it: and He-
zekiah went up into the house of the Lord,
and Hezekiah spied it before the h Lord.

15 And Hezekiah played before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest betweene the Cherubims, thou art very God alone ouer all the kingdomes of the earth: thou hast made the heauen and the earth.

16 Lord, k bow downe thine eare, and heare: Lord open thy eyes and beholde, and heare the words of Saneherib, who hath sent to blaspheme the l living God.

17 Trueth it is, Lord, that the Kings of Al-
hur have destroped the nations and their
lands,

18 And haue let fire on their gods: for they
were no gods, but y worke of mans hands,
euen wood and stone: therefoze they de-
stroped them.

19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, I be-
feely thee, faue thou out of his hand, that
al the mkingdoms of the earth may know,
that thou, O Lord, art onely God.

20 Then Jfaiat the sonne of Aino sent to
Hezekiah, saying, Thus faith y Lord God
of Israel, I haue heard that which thou
hast prayed me, concerning Saneherib
King of Assur.

21 This is the word that the Lord hath spon-
ken against him, D uirgine, daughter of
Zion, he hath despised thee, and laughed
thee to stome: O daughter of Jerusalem,
he hath shaken his head at thee.

22 Whome haft thou railed on ? and whome
haft thou blasphemed: and against whome
haft thou eralted thy boyce, and lifted up
thine eyes on him ? euen o against the Holie
one of Israel.

23 By thy messengers thou haft railed on the
Lord, and faide, By y multitude of my cha-
rers I am come up to the top of the moun-
taines, by the fides of Lebanon, and will
cut downe the hie cedars therof, and y faire
fire trees thereof, and I will go into the
P loddings of his b otherwise
of his Carmel.

24 I haue digged, and drunke the waters of
others, and with the plant of my feete haue
I dried all the floods closed in.

25 Haft thou not heard, how I haue of olde
time made it, and haue formed it long ago?
and should I now bring it, that it should be
destroyed, and layed on ruinous heapes,
as cities defenfed?

26 Whole e inhabitants haue small power,
and are atraide, and confounded : they are
like the graffe of the field, and greene herbe,
or graffe on the house toppes, or as come
blasted before it be growen.

27 I know thy dwelling, yea, thy going out,
and thy comming in, and thy furie against
me.

28 And because thou ragest against me, and
thy tumult is come up to mine eares, I will
put mine hooks in thy nostrels, and my

hildie in thy lippes, and will bring thee back
againe the same way thou camest.

29 And this shall be a ligne unto thee, O He-
zekiah, Thou shall eat this yere such things
as growe of them felues, and the next yere
such as growe without sowing, a the third
yere growe ye and reape, a plant vineyards,
and eat the fruits thereof.

30 And the remnant that is escaped of the
house of Judah, shall againe take e route
downeward, and beare fruite upward.

31 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, a
fome that shall escape out of mount Zion;
the x zele of the Lord of hostes shall do
this.

32 Wherefore thus faith the Lord, concerning
the King of Assur, He shall not enter into
this citie, no: thoote an arowe there, no:
come before it with hielde, no: cast a moat
against it:

33 But he shall returne the way he came, and
shall not come into this citie, saitheth the
Lord.

34 For I will defend this citie to saue it for
mine owne sake, a for David my seruants
sake.

35 C And the same night the Angel of the
Lord went out and smote in the campe of
Assur an hundred foure score a five thou-
land: so when they rose early in the mo-
ning, behold, they were all dead copfes.

16. 23:16.

1. 23:1.

2. 23:24.

3. 23:41.

4. 23:49.

36 So Saneherib King of Assur departed,
and went his way, and returned, d dwele
in Hiniueh.

37 And as he was in the Temple worship-
ping Ailroch his god, Adzamelech and
Sharezer his sonnes clewe him with the
word: and they escaped into the lande of
Ararat, and Clarhaddon his sonne reigne
in his steade.

This was
the inf image
ment of God
for his blas
pity, that
he should be
flame before
his side, whom
he preferred to
the living
God, and by
them, by whos
he ought by
nature to hang
defended.

C H A P . X X .

Hezekiah is fleke, and receinteth the ligne of his health. 22 He recei-
ment rewarders of Aerobach, 23 Helewith his trealures, and is re-
prebended of Jfaiat, 22 he dury and jfanalech his lonne reigneier
in his labe.

A bout that time * was Hezekiah fleke
unto death: and the Prophet Jfaiat
the lonne of Ainoz came to him, and
said into him, Thus faith the Lord, But
thine house in an order: for thou hait die, &
not line.

Then he turned his face to the a wall, and
played to the Lord, saying,

I beleech thee, O Lord, remember now,
how I haue walked before thee in trueth
and with a perfite heart, and haue done
that which is good in thy light: and Heze-
kiah c wept soze.

4 And afore Jfaiat was gone out into the
middle of the court, the word of the Lord
came to him, saying,

Tuene againe, and tel Hezekiah the cap-
taine of my people, Thus faith the Lord
God of David thy father, I have heard thy
praier, and seene thy teares: behold, I have
healed thee, and the third day thou shall go
up to the c house of the Lord,

2. Chro. 12:24.

1. 23:1.

a. That his
middle might
not be tru
bed.

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without all
hypocrite
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for his stane
death, as to
fear that ibus
fattre should be
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which he had
destroped, and
so God

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from his

to his death,
and away
with it.

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Amon. Iofiah.

Chap. xxij.

The Lawe is found. 157

1. Dreaming of a death, which he must die, but cannot eat of the ciblets.

14.

And I will fornake the <sup>1</sup>restitant of mine
inheritance, and deliuer them into the hand
of their enemies, and they shall be robbed
and spoyled of all their aduerfaries,

15.

Because they haue done euill in my light,
and hane prouoked me to anger, ſince the
time their fathers came out of Egypt butill
this day.

16. The Ciblets, etc. were in the house of Jofiah, the Pious, and the Pious, who were his father, in law.

16.

Morover Manasseh hed <sup>2</sup> innocent blood
exceeding much, till he replenish'd Jerusa-
lem from corner to corner, before his ſinne
whereof he made Judah to ſinne, and to
do euill in the ſight of the Loode.

17.

Concerning the reſt of the Actes of Ma-
nasseh, and all that he did, and his ſinne that
he limned, are they not written in the booke
of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

18.

And Manasseh Slept with his fatherts, and
was buried in the garde of his owne house,
euen in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his
ſonne reigned in his ſteade.

19. Chroſs. 11-12.

19.

C *Amon was two and twenty yere olde,
when he began to reigne, and he reign'd
two yere in Jerusale[m] : his mothers name
also was M[eh]hulllemeth the Daugh[ter of
J]aruz of Jotbah.

20.

And he did euill in the ſight of the Lord, as
his father Manasseh did.

21.

For he walked in all the way, that his fa-
ther walked in, and ſerved the Idoles that
his father ſerved, and wor'thipped them.

22.

And he forbooke the Loode God of his fa-
thers, and walked not in the ſway of the
Lord.

23. Chroſs. 11-12. And the fentuantes of Amon conspired to agaſt him, and ſlewe the King in his owne house.

23.

And the ſentuantes of Amon conspired to
agāſt him, and ſlewe the King in his owne
house.

24.

And the people of the lande ſlewe all them
that had conspired against King Amon, and
the people made Jofiah his ſonne King in
his ſteade.

25.

Concerning the reſt of the actes of Amon,
which hee did, are they not written in the
booke of the Chronicles of the Kinges of
Judah?

26. Chroſs. 11-12. And "they buried him in his Epulcule in the garden of Uzza: and Jofiah his ſonne reigned in his ſteade."

26.

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27.

Jofiah reigned the Temple. 3 J[eh]iel ſubred the booke of the Loode, and euill (to be) preferred to Jofiah. 12 U[ha]n (to be) preferred to J[eh]udah the p[ro]phreſſe to inquir[e] the Loode will.

28. Chroſs. 14-15.

1.

J[eh]利亚 was * eight yere olde when he be-
gan to reigne, and he reigned one and
thirtie yeere in Jerusale[m]. His mothers
name al[so] was J[eh]edediah the daughter of A-
diah of Bozcath.

2. A his træle was p[ro]vocall ed of, and his name mentioned by J[eh]udah, the P[ro]phreſſe, who then their children were before him, and kindling but eight yere ol[so], he taught the God of his father Daun, 2 Chro. 1:1-3.

2.

And hee did pruightly in the ſight of the
Lord, and a walked in all the wayes of Da-
uid his father, a bowed neither to the right
hand, nor to the left.

3.

And in the eighteenth yeere of King Jo-
ſiah, the King ſent Shaphan the ſonne of
A]saliah the ſonne of M[eh]hullam the chan-
celler to the house of the Lord, lay[ing,

4. Chroſs. 11-12. Or, c[on]續, 9. ver[es] 9.

4.

Go vp to H[il]kiiah the h[ie] P[ri]eſt, that hee
maye * samme þi ſi]u[r] which is blonght into

the house of the Lord, which the keepers of
the <sup>1</sup>booke haue gathered of the people.

And let them <sup>2</sup> deliver it into the hand of
them that do the worke, and hane the over-
ſight of the house of the Lord: let them give
it to them that worke in the house of the
Lor[d], to repay the decayed places of the
house:

To wit, into the artificers and carpenters
and maſons, and to die timber, and heued
stone to repaire the house.

Howbeit let no reckoning be made with
them of the money, that is deliuered into
their hand: for they deale <sup>4</sup> faithfully.

And H[il]kiiah the h[ie] P[ri]eſt lay[de] into
Shaphan the chancell[ier], I haue found the
<sup>3</sup> booke of the Law in the house of the Lo[d];
and H[il]kiiah gaue the booke to Shaphat,
and he read it.

So Shaphan the chancell[ier] came to the
King, and brought him worde againe, and
faid, Th[ey] ſentuants <sup>5</sup> gathered the mo-
ne[py] that was found in the house, and hane
deliuered it vnto the handes of them that do
the worke, & hane the overſight of the house
of the Lord.

10.

Also Shaphan the chancell[ier] ſhowed the
King, lay[ing], H[il]kiiah the P[ri]eſt hath deli-
uered me a booke. And Shaphan read it
before the King.

11.

And when the King had heard the words
of the booke of the Lo[we], hee rent his
clothes.

12.

Therefore the King commanded H[il]kiiah
the P[ri]eſt, and H[il]kam the ſonne of Sha-
phan, a A]ch[ho]v the ſonne of D[ie]ch[ai]ah, and
Shaphan the chancell[ier], and A]s[ah]iah the
King[es] ſentuant, lay[ing,

13.

Go ye and <sup>6</sup> inquiro of the Lord for me, and
for the people, and for all Judah, concer-
ting the words of this booke that is found:
for great is the wath of the Lo[de] that is
kindled against vs, because our fatherts
have not obeyed the words of this booke,
to do according vnto all that which is witt-
ten therein for vs.

14.

C So H[il]kiiah the P[ri]eſt and H[il]kam, a
A]ch[ho]v and Shaphan, and A]s[ah]iah went
vnto H[ul]dah the p[ro]phreſſe the wife of
Shalim, the ſonne of T[ik]uah, the ſonne of
H[ar]athas keeper of the w[ard]robe: (and hee
dwelt in Jerusale[m] in the <sup>2</sup> colledge) <sup>3</sup> they
communed with her.

15.

And the anſWERed them, Thus lay[ph] the
Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that ſent
p[ou]t o[me],

16.

Thus laſt the Lord, Behold, I wil bring
euill upon this place, and on the inhabitants
thereof, euen all the wordes of the booke
which the King of Judah hath read,

17.

Because they haue forſaken me, and h[ae]e
burnt incenſe vnto other gods, to anger me
with all the <sup>8</sup> workeſ of their handes: m[y]
wrath also shall bee kindled against this
place, and that not be quenched:

18.

But to the King of Judah, who ſent you to
inquire

1. O[ne]yefell.

b Certaine of the P[ri]eſts were ap[pe]nſt to this aſſe, as Chap. 12:9.

c From the time of J[o]ſiah for the grace of 24 years.

d The temple[ers] maſt vnto our reparation through the negligence of the p[ri]eſts, this be[re]ſeſt that men that have a charge, and execute it not, eu[q]t to have it taken from them.

e So, God pr[ov]ided him of faithful ſentuants, ſong he went about to seasonall to let forth the work of God.

f This was the come that ſyndes left them, as ap[pr]eſt, etc.

g The <sup>14</sup>Th, which either by the negligence of the p[ri]eſts had bene lond, or else by the wickdines of ibolatrous kings had been abuſhene[d].

h Thea, melted.

i The booke a daſe trine which was vnto the Temple, a where the ſeare ſentuants to entreat the p[ri]eſt, etc. The p[ri]eſt, etc. of the p[ro]phreſſe.

k The booke of manna, vnto the h[ou]ſe of God, which are abuſomne in God's ſeruice.

The Lawe is read. Iofiahs

II.Kings.

zeale, and reformation.

inquire of the Lord, so shall ye say unto him, Thus sayth the Lord God of Israel, The wordes that thou hast heard, shall come to pafie.

But because thine heart did¹ melt, and thou hast humbled thy selfe before the Loide, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants of the same, to wit, that it should be destroyed and accursed, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me, I haue also heard it, sayeth the Lord.

Beholde therefore, I will gather thees to thy fathers, and thou shall be put in thy graue in² peace, and thine eyes shall not see all the cill, which I will bring upon this place. Thus they brought the King word before me.

¹ Meaning, that the did resent, as step that heor not represent, are said to have their heart, and so forth.

k Whereon we map gather that the anger of God is capable against the which, when God taketh his breath, and his breath out of this world,

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Jehiah readeth the Lawe before the people. 3 He maketh a cause that he shall be the Loide. 4 He puteth downe the ivoles, after he has killed their Prieita. 22 He kepteth Paffroner. 24 He defforeth the connoers. 29 He was killed in Jergundio, 30 And his fome Johana has reigneth in his Loide. 33 After he was taken, his fome Johania was made King.

Then *the King*¹ sent, and there gathered unto him all the Elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

And the King went vp into the house of the Loide, with all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, as the Priests and Prophets, and all the people both small and great : and hee read in their eares all the wordes of the booke of the covenant, which was found in the house of the Lord.

And the King stooode by³ the piller, and made a⁴ couenant before the Loide, that they should walke after the Lord, and keepe his commandements, and his testimonies, and his statutes with all their heart, and with all their soule, that they might accomplish the wordes of this couenant written in this booke. And all the people stooode to the couenant.

Then the King commanded Hilkiah the hie Prieft and the⁵ priests of the second order, and the keepers of the dozie, to bring out of the Temple of the Loide all the believes that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the hoste of heauen, and he burnt them without Jerusalem in the fields of Redion, and carried⁶ the powder of them into Beth-el.

And he put downe the⁷ Chemarins, who the Kings of Judah had founded to burne incense in the hie places, and in the cities of Judah, and about Jerusalem, and also the that burnt incense unto Baal, to the sunne and to the moone, and to the planets, and to all the hoste of heauen.

And he brought out the⁸ grove from the Temple of the Lord without Jerusalem into the valley Redion, and burnt it in the valley Redion, and stampt it to powder, and cast the dust thereof upon the⁹ graues of the children of the people.

And he brake downe the houses of the So-

domes, that were in the house of the Lord, where the women woee hangings for the grove.

Also he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the hie places where the priests had burnt incense, even from Geba to Beer-sheba, and defiled the hie places of the gates, that were in the entering in of the gate of Johua the governing of the citie which was at the left hand of the gate of the citie.

Neuerthelesse the priests of the hie places¹ came not vp to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, faue onely they did eate of the vintleauened bread among their bethen.

He defiled also¹ Topheth, which was in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man should make his fome or his daughter pafie through the fire to Moloch.

Hee put downe also the¹ hostes that the Kings of Judah had gwen to the sunne at the entring in of the house of the Loide, by the chamber of Methan-melech the eunuch, which was ruler of the suburbs, and burnt the charets of the sunne with fire.

And the altars that were on the top of the chamber of Abaz, which of the Kings of Judah had made, as the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courtes of the house of the Lord, did the king breake downe, and hasted thence, and cast the dust of them in the¹² hooke Redion.

Doizeouer the King defiled the hie places that were before Jerusalem as on the right hand of the¹³ mount of corruption (which * Salomon the King of Israel had built for A-beth-jeئeth the idole of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the idole of the Moabites, and for Milchom the abomination of the children of Ammon)

And he brake the images in pieces, and cut downe the groves as filled their places with the bones of men.

Furthermore the altar that was at Beth-el, and the hie place made by Jeroboam the sonne of A-beat, which made Israel to sinne, bothe this altar and also the hie place brake he downe, and burnt the hie place, and stampt it to powder and burnt the grove.

And as Josiah turned him selfe, he dyed the graues, that were in the mount, as sent and tooke the bones out of the graues, and burnt them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord that the man of God pronounced which cryed the same wordes.

Then he said, What title is that which I see? And the men of the citie said unto him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, as told these things that thou hast done to the altar of Beth-el.

Then sayd he, Let him alone : let none remaine his bones. So his bones were faued with the bones of the P. Prophet that came from Samaria.

Josiah also tooke away all the houses of the So-

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¹² Because that those that had taken the sabbath were not inserted into the instruction of others.

k Which was a valley were so Jerusalem, and sunning a tafet, beset by the children of the children of the sunne, where their children were burning, that should not be heard, heard, heard.

l 12:1, where after Josiah commandde carone to be cast in con-vertit thereon. The sabbath trange hings had debricate hoes and charis to the home there in carry a image thereon about as the heathen, so as to be a sacrifice them, as a sacrifice which is not agreeable to God.

l Or valley, 13:1, where the mount of olives, to carry the heaueles was full of olives.

l Which J. robam had built in Jere 11, 1, king. 13:1, 13:5.

l According to the provisions of Joddo, 1, King. 13:1.

¹³ Meaning, that which came after him, and caused him to eat contraries to the commandement of the Lord, which more both run but red more one graue, 1, king.

l 13:14.

1: Chro. 13:10.

2: Because lie faue the great plaques of God were there.

3: The children, he hirn to more forebeare way to and aduise them, then to take to God his res-pectance, which can not come but of faith, a faith by hearing of the word of God.

4: Where be the king had his place, Chap.

11:4, 11:7.

12: 4, 11:24.

23:15.

d Meaning, them which were next in duty to the hie Prieft.

e In contempt of that altar, which Jezroa an had there built to fa-ther his calsure.

f Meaning, the Priefts of 25aal, which were called Chemarins, either because they were blacke gare-mens, or els were inked with burning incense to doles.

g He remorsed the grove which dozias for brues kiau had plans to be there unto the Temple, courtane to the commanment of the Loide, Deut. 16: 21, of some read, the finnes Lube of a groane which was baud in the Temple.

h In konuenment of the dozias, and revyache of them which had toothings ped them in their limes.

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The Passeouer. Iosiahs death.

Chap.xxiiiij.

Eliakim. Iehoiachin. 158

the hie places, which were in the cities of Samaria, which the Kings of Israel had made to anger the Lord, and did to them according to all the facts that he had done in Beth-el.

20 And he sacrificed all the priests of the hie places, that were there vpon the altars, and burnt mens bones vpon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

21 Then the King commanded all the people,laying, *keepe the Passeouer vnto the Lord your God,* as it is written in the booke of this covenant.

22 And there was no Passeouer holden, like that from the dayes of the Judges that induced Israel, no: in all the dayes of the Kings of Israel, and of the Kings of Judah.

23 And in the eighteenth peere of king Joliah was this Passeouer celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem.

24 Joliah also tooke away them that had familiar spirits, and the lothefayers, and the images, and the idoles, and all the abominations that were eplied in the land of Judah, in Jerusalem, to performe the wordes of the *Lawe, which were written in the booke that Hilkiah the Driest found in the house of the Lord.

25 Like vnto him was there no king before him, turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his foule, & with all his might, according to al the Lawe of Males, neither after him arode there any like him.

26 Howto standing the Lo:de turned not from the *fiercencelle of his great worth wherewith he was angrie agaynst Judah, because of all the pronouncements wherewith Manasseh had p[]rouoked him.

27 Therefore the Lord said, I will put Judah also out of my fight, as I haue put away Israel, and will cast of this citie Jerusalem, which I haue chosen, and the house wherof I layd, *By Name shall be there.

28 Concerning the rest of the acts of Joliah, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kinges of Judah?

29 In his days Pharaoh Nechoh king of Egypt went vp against the king of Assur to the river Echath. And King Joliah wet against him, whome when Pharaoh saw, he flew him at Megiddo.

30 Then his seruants carried him dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, & buried him in his *done sepulchre. And the people of the land tooke Jehoahaz the sonne of Joliah, and anointed him, and made him king in his fathers stead.

31 * Jehoahaz was three: a twentie p[]erey olde, who he began to reigne, & reigned three moneths in Jerusalem. His mothers name also was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

32 And he did euil in the fight of the Lord, according to all that his *fathers had done.

33 And Pharaoh Nechoh put him in bondes

"at Riblah in the land of Hamath," while he reigned in Jerusalem, and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

34 And Pharaoh Nechoh made Eliakim & sonne of Joliah King in stead of Joliah his father, and turned his name to Iehoiakim, and tooke Iehoahaz away, which when he came to Egypt, died there.

35 And Iehoiakim gaue the silver & the golde to Pharaoh, & tayed the lad to give the money, according to the commandement of Pharaoh: he levied of every man of the people of the land, according to his value, silver and golde to give vnto Pharaoh Nechoh.

36 Iehoiakim was five and twentie p[]erey old, wher he began to reigne, and he reigned eleven p[]eres in Jerusalem. His mothers name also was Zebudah & daughter of Pedatah of Knaumah.

37 And he did euil in the fight of the Lo:de, according to all that his fathers had done.

CHAP. XXIII.

1 Iehoiakim made subject to Phebuchad-neszar rebelled. 2 The cause of his rime and all Judahs. 3 Iehoiachin reigned. 4 He and his people are carried vnto Babylon. 5 Zedekiah is made king.

Jehiah, & dayes came Phebuchad-neszar King of Babel vp, & Iehoiakim became his seruant three p[]ere: afterward he turned, and rebelled against him.

And the Lord sent against him bandes of the Caldees, and bandes of the Aramites, and bandes of the Moabites, and bandes of the Ammonites, and he sent them agaynst Judah, to destroy it,* according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by his seruants the Prophets.

Surely by the commandement of the Lord came this vpon Judah, that he might put them out of his light for the sinnes of Manasseh, according to all that he did,

And for the innocent blood that he shed, (for he killed Jerusalem w[]ith innocent blood) therefore the Lord would not pardon it.

Concerning the rest of the acts of Iehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the king[]s of Judah?

So Iehoiakim lept with his fathers, and Iehoiachin his sonne reigned in his stead.

And the King of Egypt came no more out of his land: for the King of Babel had taken from the river of Egypt, vnto the river *Pe-rath, all that perteyned to the *King of Egypt.

Jehoiachin was eightene p[]erey old, when he began to reigne, and reigned in Jerusalem three moneths. His mothers name also was Nechushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

And he did euil in the fight of the Lord, according to all that his father had done.

* In that time came the seruants of Phebuchad-neszar King of Babel vp against Jerusalem: so the citie was belieged.

And Phebuchad-neszar King of Babel came against the citie, and his seruants did beliege it.

1 Which was Ieniochia in Sipua, called alio Hamath. 2 Or, that he should not reigne.

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bis: 25:

a. Chro. 31,1.

b. Ieho: 1.

c. Ieho: 12,13.

d. Ieho: 16,2.

9 For the multineke anta, s[]ale of the people with the great pres- sation.

Levi: 20,7.

dnn: 11,11.

a. Because of the wicked heart of the people, which was not turne into Judah, by the pre許erance of the Lord.

1 King 19, 12 and

2 ch. 23, 11-7.

a. Chro. 3, 10-12.

a. Because he p[]alied through his countries, and he feared left behind him, and therefore with him, per his c[]uston, went into the land of Judah, and there was no king there.

a. Chro. 35,1, 2.

b. Phoenin, the wicked kings before.

In the end of the shurde p[]erey of his reign, and in the beginning of the fourth.

Chap. 20, 17.

d: 23, 27.

Though God wurd thek w[]icked rps. rants to reres c[]ute his ill judgements, p[]er p[]er a e not to he c[]ut to, because thek p[]roces p[]er p[]er of an illit[]ion and malice.

c. Not that he was bur. et with his fas- thers, but e breth monthe. w[]ar, as the[]r le[]d in i[]m p[]er v[]er to w[]arbe S[]abachin and J[]er. 22, 19. Or, Euphrates

Dan. 1, 6.

Dd.ii.

12 Then

Zedekiah taken prisoner.

II.Kings.

Jerusalem destroyed.

d That is, pelted hunner into hump the countell of Jerenne.

e In the reigne of the King of Isas bplon. Chap.20.17. ish.39.6.

2.Chro.15.10. and 15.11.

Iere.17.1 and 19.1.

f Out of Jeruſalem and Judah into Babelon.

1ere.19.1 and 19.2. a That is, of Zedekiah. b Uthrich the Edreus call Echet, and it foremeth part of December and part of Jarmie. c On a mount.

d In so much that the mos- thers did eate their children, Kallam.4.10.

e Which was a portherne boote of fome ferret gateto alue ant at.

1 Then Jehoiachin p king of Judah d came out againſt the king of Babel, he, e his mo- ther, and his ſeruants, and his princes, and his eunuches : and the king of Babel tooke him in the eight yere e of his reigne.

2 *And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, e the treasures of p kings house, and bake al the beſſels of gold, which Salomon king of Israel had made in the Temple of the Lord, as the Lord had laſt.

14. And he carried away al Jeruſalem, and all the princes, e all the strong men of warre, euen ten thouſand into captiutie, and al the woſkemen, and cunning men: ſo none re- mained fauing the pooſe people of the land.

15 *And he carried away Jehoiachin into Babel, and the kinges mother, and the kinges wifes, and his eunuches, and the mighty of the land caried he away into captiutie from Jeruſalem to Babel.

16 And all the men of warre, euen ſeuen thou- ſand, and carpenters, and lockeſmithes a thouſand : all that were ſtrong and apte for warre, did the king of Babel bring to Babel captiues.

17 C *And the king of Babel made Matta- niah his uncle king in his stead, and chaun- ged his name to Zedekiah.

18 Zedekiah was one and twentie yere old, when he began to reigne, and he reigned e- ſeuen peres in Jeruſalem. His mothers name alſo was Hamutal the daughter of Jeruſiah of Libnah.

19 And he did euill in the ſight of the Loide, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

20 Therefore certainly the wath of p Loide was againſt Jeruſalem and Judah vntill he caſt them out of his ſight. And Zede- kiah rebelled againſt the king of Babel.

C H A P . XXV.

1 Jeruſalem is briefled of Nebuchad- nezzar, e taken. 7 The ſonnes of Zedekiah are ſlame before his eire, and after are his olne eves put out. 21 Judah is brought to Babelon. 25 Sefalah is ſlair.

A And in the a ninth yeere of his reigne, the b tenth moneth and tenth day of the moneth, Nebuchad- nezzar king of Babel came, he, and al his hoſt againſt Je- ruſalem, and pitched againſt it, e they built "fortes againſt it round about it.

2 So the citie was beſieged vnto the eleuſt yere of king Zedekiah.

3 And the ninth day of the moneth the fa- mine was eore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

4 Then the citie was broken vp, and all the men of warre fled by night, by the way of p gate, which is betwene two walles that was by the kings garden now the Caldees were by the citie round about : and the King went by the way of the wildernes.

5 But the armie of the Caldees purſued af- ter the king, and tooke him in the deſertes of Jericho, and all his hoſte was scattered from him.

6 Then they tooke the king, and caried him up to the king of Babel to Riblah, where

the e gaue iudgement vpon him.

And they ſlew the ſonnes of Zedekiah be- fore his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zede- kiah, and bound him in chames, and caried him to Babel.

9 And in the fifth moneth, and ſeventh day of the moneth, which was the nuńteenth yere of King Nebuchad- nezzar king of Ba- bel, came Nebuzar- adan "chief ſteward and ſeruant of the king of Babel, to Jeruſalem, and burnt the house of the Loide, and the kinges house, and all the houſes of Je- ruſalem, and all the great houſes burnt hee with fire.

10 And all the armie of the Caldees that were with the chieſe ſteward, bake doſone the walles of Jeruſalem round about.

11 And the reſt of the people that were left in the citie, and that were ſled and ſal- len to the King of Babel, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar- adan chieſe ſteward carie away ſteward.

12 But the chieſe ſteward e left of the pooſe of the land to diſſe the vines, a to till the land.

13 *Allo the pillers of biaſſe that were in the house of the Loide, e the bales, and the bia- ſen Sea that was in the houſe of the Lord, did the Caldees brieake, e caried the biaſſe of them to Babel.

14 The pors h alſo and the beſomes, and the i instruments of muſſe, and the incense al- lyes, and all the beſſels of biaſſe that they minſtred in, tooke they away.

15 And the alſo the pannes, and the bafens, and al that was of gold, and that was of luſer, tooke the chieſe ſteward away,

16 With the two pillers, one Sea e the ba- ſes, which Salom's had made for: the houſe of the Loide : the biaſſe of all theſe beſſels was without weight.

17 *The height of the one piller was eightene cubiſes, and the chapiter thereon was biaſſe, and the height of the chapiter was with net- woke three cubiſes, and pomegranates vpon the chapiter round about, all of biaſſe : and likewise was the ſecond piller with the netwoke.

18 *The height of the one piller was eightene cubiſes, and the chapiter thereon was biaſſe, and the height of the chapiter was with net- woke three cubiſes, and pomegranates vpon the chapiter round about, all of biaſſe : and likewise was the ſecond piller with the netwoke.

19 And out of the citie he tooke an Eunuch that had the overſight of the men of warre, and k ſive men of them that were in the Kinges preſence, which were founde in the citie, and Sopher captaine of the hoſt, who muſtred the people of the lande, and three keſe men of the people of the land, that were found in the citie.

20 And Nebuzar- adan the chieſe ſteward tooke them, and brought them to the king of Babel to Riblah.

21 And the King of Babel ſmote them, e ſlew them at Riblah in the lande of Hamath. So Judah was carped away ſ captive out of his owne lande.

22 *Howbeit there remained people in the lande

e Condemn'd him for his pernity e treaſon, &c. 35.13.

f Jerome iuſteth Ch. 35.12, the tenth day, because the fire continued from the iuſteth day, to the tenth. *Of Captive of the gard.

Whitheth he lede iuſteth.

Chap.20.17. Iere.27.21.

h Of this read Gen. 27:4.

i King. 7:35. Iere.35.21. 2 Chr.3.35.

j That is, one appeared to ſuicidely iuſteth the pannes, the wares, if e ther he eſt al eſo otherwised. k Jeruſie. k. Nebuchadneſsas, the inſen- tion of ſuicidery, but here he ſpeaketh of them that were the chieſes, ſe.

The Kings of Edom.

I. Chron.

Judahs genealogie

the sonnes of Jokhan, Sheba, & Dedan.

33 And the sonnes of Midian were Ephah, & Ephar, and Henoch, and Abida, & Eldaah: * all these are the sonnes of Keturah.

34 *And Abraham begat Ishak: the sonnes of Ishak, Elau, and Israel.

Gen. 25:14.

Gen. 26:11.

i. The son were born of three brothers; Esor, Gen. 26:11; Gen. 26:12; Gen. 26:13.

k. Which was Esley, & consubine; read Gen. 26:12.

l. He is also called Sow the sonne, which is in the counten. mount Seer, Gen. 26:20.

be the maeth of the mention of the Kings that came of Elau, according to Sabs pioners made to * Abraham conserning him, that Kings should come of him. These eight Kings reign'd onwafer another in Edumea, into the time of David, who conquered their counten. Which was the principal citie of the Edomites.

"Or, Psa.

"Or, Achan.

Gen. 29:12, & 30. f. & g. 18. Gen. 31:18.

h. & i. 46. 1. 2. chap. 4:1.

a. Though Judah was not Jaakob's eldest sonne, but he first beget him, because he would come to the genealogie of Daun, of whom came Chyil.

35 The sonnes of Esau were: * Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

36 The sonnes of Eliphaz, Teman, & Omar, "Zephira, & Gatam, Kenaz, and" Timna, and Amalek.

37 The sonnes of Reuel, Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah.

38 And the sonnes of Heir, Lotan, & Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Diphon, & Ezer and Difan.

39 And the sonnes of Lotan, Hori, and Homan, and Timna. Lotans sister.

40 The sonnes of Shobal were Allan, & Mahath, and Ebal, Shephi, & Onam. And the sonnes of Zibeon, Aiah and Anah.

41 The sonne of Anah was Diphon. And the sonnes of Diphon, Amran, and Elyban, and Jethan, and Cheran.

42 The sonnes of Ezer were Bilhan, & Zaanian, & Jaakan. The sonnes of Diphon were Uz, and Aran.

43 And these were 7 Kings that reign'd in 7 land of Ed, before a king reign'd over the children of Israel, to wit, Bela 7 sonne of Beor, & the name of his city was Dinhabah.

44 Then Bela dyed, and Jodab the sonne of Zerah of Bozrah reign'd in his stead.

45 And whé Jodab was dead, Huhham of 7 land of the Temanites reign'd in his stead.

46 And whé Huhham was dead, Dadad the sonne of Bedad which smote Midian in the field of Hoab, reign'd in his stead, and the name of his citie was Auith.

47 So Dadad died, & Samlah of Mahathreah reign'd in his stead.

48 And Samlah died, & Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reign'd in his stead.

49 And whé Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the sonne of Aehboz reign'd in his stead.

50 And Baal-hanan died, & Hadad reign'd in his stead, and the name of his city was Dai, & his dwies name Mehetabel the daughter of Matred the daughter of Hezahab.

51 Hadad died also, & there were dukes in Edom, duke Timna, duke "Alliah, duke Jeith,

52 Duke Iholibamah, duke Clah, duke Pion,

53 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Nibzar,

54 Duke Magdiel, duke Jram: these were the dukes of Edom.

### CHAP. II.

1 The genealogie of Judah vito Jetha the father of Daun.

These are 7 sonnes of Israel, *Reuben, *Simeon, *Levi & Judah, *Jotham, *Simeon, *Jude, *Joffre, & Zedekin,

Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

*The sonnes of Judah, Er, & Onam, and Shelah. These three were bozne to him of

the daughter of Shua the Canaanite: but Er the eldest sonne of Judah was cull in the light of the Lord, and he flew him.

4 *And Thamar his daughter in lawe bare him Pharez, and Zerah: so al the sonnes of Judah were fue.

5 The sonnes of Pharez, Hezron & Hamul. Ruth, 18.

6 The sonnes also of Zerah were: "Zimri," & "Oz-Zedek."

7 And the sonne of Carmi, ** And Jchar that troubled Israel, transgreeing in the thing excommunicate.

8 The sonne also of Ethan, Azariah. And the sonnes of Hezron that were bozne unto him, Jerabineel, & Ram & Chelubai. e. Whom S. David, & Jere. Aram, J. Mat, & J. Phazr, is chief of the family.

9 And the sonne also of Ethan, Azariah.

10 And the sonnes of Hezron that were bozne unto him, Jerabineel, & Ram & Chelubai. e. Whom S. David, & Jere. Aram, J. Mat, & J. Phazr, is chief of the family.

11 And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz, & Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jeshua, & Joths.

12 And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jeshua, & Joths.

13 And Jetha begat his eldest sonne Eliab, & 1 Sam. 16:19, & Abinadab the second, & Shumma the third, & 1 Sam. 16:21.

14 Nathaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth.

15 Dzem the sixth, and David the seventh.

16 Whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sonnes of Zeruiah, Abilahai, & Joab, and Abahel.

17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jethro an Jethmelite.

18 And & Caleb the sonne of Hezron begat Jerioth of Azubah his wife, and her sonnes are these, Jethro, and Shobab, and Ardon.

19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb toke unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.

20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Beaz. 20. 1 Sam. 21:18.

21 And afterward came Hezron to the daughter of Machir the father of 1 Geliel, & tooke her when he was threee scoze yeere olde, and she bare him Segub.

22 And Segub begat Jair, which had threee and twentie cities in the land of Gilead.

23 And Gethur with Aram toke the townes of Jair from them, and Kenath and the townes thereof, euen three scoze cities. All these were the sonnes of Machir, the father of Gilead.

24 And after that Hezron was dead at 4 Called Hezron, the father of 1 Gedi, & tooke her when he was threee scoze yeere olde, and she bare him Segub.

25 And after that Hezron was dead at 4 Called Hezron, the father of 1 Gedi, & tooke her when he was threee scoze yeere olde, and she bare him Segub.

26 And after that Hezron was dead at 4 Called Hezron, the father of 1 Gedi, & tooke her when he was threee scoze yeere olde, and she bare him Segub.

27 And after that Hezron was dead at 4 Called Hezron, the father of 1 Gedi, & tooke her when he was threee scoze yeere olde, and she bare him Segub.

28 And the sonnes of Jerahmeel the eldest sonne of Hezro were Ram the eldest, then Bunah, and Ozen and Ozen and Aholah.

29 And the name of the wife of Abishur was called Abiahil, and she bare him Ayban and Molod.

30 The

31 And the sonnes of Ram the eldest sonne of Jerahmeel were Mazah, & Jamin & Char.

32 And the sonnes of Onam were Shammai & Jada. And the sonnes of Shammai, Nadab and Abiur.

10 The

["vnto Jshai.", "Chap.ijj.", "Davids genealogie. 160", "30 The fonnes also of Madab were Seled & Appaim: but Seled died without childien.", "31 And the tonne of Appaim was Jshi, & the tonne of Jshi, Sheshan, and the tonne of Sheshan, k Ahlai.", "32 And the fonnes of Jada the brother of Shammai were Jether & Jonathan: but Jether dyed without childien.", "33 And the fonnes of Jonathan were Peleth and Zasa. These were the fonnes of Je-rahmeel.", "34 And Sheshan had no fonnes, but daugh- ters. And Sheshan had a servant that was an Egyptian named Jarha.", "35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jar- ha his servant to wife, & the bare him Artai.", "36 And Artai begate Nathan, and Nathan begate Zabad,", "37 And Zabad begate Ephlal, and Ephlal begate Obed,", "38 And Obed begate Jehu, and Jehu begate Azariah,", "39 And Azariah begate Helez, and Helez be- gate Cleahah,", "40 And Cleahah begate Silamai, and Si- samai begate Shallunt,", "41 And Shallum begate Jeshamiah, & Je- kamiah begate Elishama.", "42 Also the fonnes of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mezha his eldest fonne, which was the ¹ father of Ziph: and the fonnes of Mareshah the father of Hebron.", "43 And the fonnes of Hebron were Kozah & Tappuah, and Rekem and Shema.", "44 And Shema begate Raham, father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begate Shammai.", "45 The tonne also of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.", "46 And Ephah a m concubine of Caleb bare Haran and Moza, and Gazez: Haran also begate Gazez.", "47 The fonnes of Jahdaí were Regem, and Jotham, and Gelhan, and Pelet, & Ephah, and Shaaph.", "48 Calebs concubine Maachah bare She- ber and Tirhanah.", "49 She bare also Shaaph, & father of Mad- manah, and Sheua the father of Mach- benah, and the father of Eidea. * And Ach- fah was Calebs daughter.", "50 These were the fonnes of Caleb the tonne of Hur the eldest tonne of Ephathah, Shobal the father of Kiriath-learim.", "51 Salma f father of Beth-lehem, and Ha- teph the father of Beth-gader.", "52 And Shobal the father of Kiriath-learim had fonnes, and hee ¹ was the ouerleer of halfe Hammenoth.", "53 And the families of Kiriath-learim were the Jtzites, & the Duthites, and the Shu- mathites, & the Milzhaites. of them came the Zarreathites, and the Ehtaulites.", "54 The fonnes of Salma of Beth-lehem, & the Metophathite, the ² crownes of ³ house of Joab, and ⁴ halfe the Manahthites and the Zorites.", "55 And families of the Scribes dwelling at Jabez, the Tirathites, the Shimnea- thites, ⁵ Shuchathites, which are the ⁶ Re- nites, that came of Hammath the father of the house of Rechab.", "C. H. A. P. III.", "The genealogie of Daud and of his posteritie into the fonnes of Joab.", "These also were the fonnes of ⁷ Daud, which were borne unto him in Hebron: the eldest Amnon of Ahinoam, the J- taelitelle: the second ⁸ Daniel of Abigail the Carmeliteſe.", "The third Absalom the ſonne of Maachah daughter of Talmai King of Eshur: the fourth Adoniah the ſonne of Haggith:", "The fifth Sephatiah of Abital: the first J- theam by Eglah his wife.", "These ſix were borne unto him in Hebron: and there hee reigned ſeuen yeere and ſire moneths: ⁹ in Jeruſalem hee reigned three and thirty yere.", "And there ſoure were borne unto him in Jeruſalem, Shimna, and Shobah, & Na- than, and ¹ Salomon of ² Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel:", "Jehat also, ³ Elishama, and Eliphalet, And Mogah, and Nepheg, and Japha, And Elishama, & Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine in nomber.", "These are all the ſonnes of Daud, beſides the ſonnes of the concubines, and Chamar their ſister.", "C And Salomons ſonne was Rehoboam, whose ſonne was Abiah, and Aka his ſonne, and Jehoshaphat his ſonne,", "11 And Joam his ſonne, and Azaiah his ſonne, and Joash his ſonne,", "12 And Amaziah his ſonne, and Azariah his ſonne, and Jotham his ſonne,", "13 And Azaiah his ſonne, and Hezekiah his ſonne, and Manasseh his ſonne,", "14 And Amon his ſonne, and Jofiah his ſonne,", "15 And of the ſonnes of Jofiah, the ⁷ eldest was ⁸ Johanan, the ſeconde Jehoakim, the thirde Zedekiah, and the fourth Shal- lum.", "16 And the ſonnes of Jehoakim were Jeco- niah his ſonne, and Zedekiah his ſonne.", "17 And the ſonnes of Jekoniah, Affir and Sheaitiel his ſonne:", "18 Maltchiram also and Pedaiah, & Shena- zar, Jecamiah, Holbama, and Medadiah.", "19 And the ſonnes of Pedaiah were ⁹ Zerub- babel, and Shimmei: & the ſonnes of Ze- tubabel were Melhullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their ſister,", "20 And Hahubah, & Ohel, and Berechiah, & Hazadiah, and Juhabheled, five in nomber.", "21 And the ſonnes of Hananiah were Dela- tiah, and Jefatah: the ſonnes of Rephaiah, the ſonnes of Arna, the ſonnes of Obadiah, the ſonnes of Shechaniah.", "22 And f ſonne of Shechaniah was Shema-iah: & the ſonnes of Shemaiah were Hat- tub and Jgeal, and Bariah, & Neariah & Shaphat, ⁸ lye.", "¹ When brethren of his fa- ther was alre and therefor he was called ² Jeshuah, ³ Jeshuah had his ſonnes.", "¹ Char is, the chieſe gueſer, a son of ⁵ Jezous, because the pume might be a pune father, and ⁶ Jefoshe, because the chieſe toward the pune people.", "h This diſſures the name of Jezous, because the ſonne and the Jocobane, that the ſonne was taken with certaine ſolemn ſities of maſsion, and therefor he chid the children, hende: the cos- rube had no ſolemnities in marriage, nor in the chidren, but had a portion of good, or a maſse, given them.", "¹ Or, hebat, fow the half, because the pune thought you were his ſubjects.", "a Meaning, the chieſe and pune, ⁵ Or, the ſonnes, the half of the Manahthites.", "a The returner to the genealogie of Daud, to the ſonnes of Dau- nus, to the ſonnes of the Carmeliteſe, to the ſonnes of the Carmelites.", "b Abiah, ⁷ Daniel, ⁸ Elisha, ⁹ Esau, ¹⁰ Esau, ¹ⁱ Esau, ¹² Esau, ¹³ Esau, ¹⁴ Esau, ¹⁵ Esau, ¹⁶ Esau, ¹⁷ Esau, ¹⁸ Esau, ¹⁹ Esau, ²⁰ Esau, ²¹ Esau, ²² Esau, ²³ Esau, ²⁴ Esau, ²⁵ Esau, ²⁶ Esau, ²⁷ Esau, ²⁸ Esau, ²⁹ Esau, ³⁰ Esau, ³¹ Esau, ³² Esau, ³³ Esau, ³⁴ Esau, ³⁵ Esau, ³⁶ Esau, ³⁷ Esau, ³⁸ Esau, ³⁹ Esau, ⁴⁰ Esau, ⁴¹ Esau, ⁴² Esau, ⁴³ Esau, ⁴⁴ Esau, ⁴⁵ Esau, ⁴⁶ Esau, ⁴⁷ Esau, ⁴⁸ Esau, ⁴⁹ Esau, ⁵⁰ Esau, ⁵¹ Esau, ⁵² Esau, ⁵³ Esau, ⁵⁴ Esau, ⁵⁵ Esau, ⁵⁶ Esau, ⁵⁷ Esau, ⁵⁸ Esau, ⁵⁹ Esau, ⁶⁰ Esau, ⁶¹ Esau, ⁶² Esau, ⁶³ Esau, ⁶⁴ Esau, ⁶⁵ Esau, ⁶⁶ Esau, ⁶⁷ Esau, ⁶⁸ Esau, ⁶⁹ Esau, ⁷⁰ Esau, ⁷¹ Esau, ⁷² Esau, ⁷³ Esau, ⁷⁴ Esau, ⁷⁵ Esau, ⁷⁶ Esau, ⁷⁷ Esau, ⁷⁸ Esau, ⁷⁹ Esau, ⁸⁰ Esau, ⁸¹ Esau, ⁸² Esau, ⁸³ Esau, ⁸⁴ Esau, ⁸⁵ Esau, ⁸⁶ Esau, ⁸⁷ Esau, ⁸⁸ Esau, ⁸⁹ Esau, ⁹⁰ Esau, ⁹¹ Esau, ⁹² Esau, ⁹³ Esau, ⁹⁴ Esau, ⁹⁵ Esau, ⁹⁶ Esau, ⁹⁷ Esau, ⁹⁸ Esau, ⁹⁹ Esau, 100", "¹ Ouelb Has Jemon was Daud, natiue ral ſonne, the other this were Buaiah, Jajam, Daud, made his by adaption, he that was beſotten in adult ſene and diu the eight yar, is not reigned among Dau- nus ſonnes.", "10 Catedra ala Bathlema the daughter of Elisha: ⁵ they gave ⁶ their names, ⁷ Elishama, ⁸ Elisha, ⁹ Eli, ¹⁰ Eli, ¹¹ Eli, ¹² Eli, ¹³ Eli, ¹⁴ Eli, ¹⁵ Eli, ¹⁶ Eli, ¹⁷ Eli, ¹⁸ Eli, ¹⁹ Eli, ²⁰ Eli, ²¹ Eli, ²² Eli, ²³ Eli, ²⁴ Eli, ²⁵ Eli, ²⁶ Eli, ²⁷ Eli, ²⁸ Eli, ²⁹ Eli, ³⁰ Eli, ³¹ Eli, ³² Eli, ³³ Eli, ³⁴ Eli, ³⁵ Eli, ³⁶ Eli, ³⁷ Eli, ³⁸ Eli, ³⁹ Eli, ⁴⁰ Eli, ⁴¹ Eli, ⁴² Eli, ⁴³ Eli, ⁴⁴ Eli, ⁴⁵ Eli, ⁴⁶ Eli, ⁴⁷ Eli, ⁴⁸ Eli, ⁴⁹ Eli, ⁵⁰ Eli, ⁵¹ Eli, ⁵² Eli, ⁵³ Eli, ⁵⁴ Eli, ⁵⁵ Eli, ⁵⁶ Eli, ⁵⁷ Eli, ⁵⁸ Eli, ⁵⁹ Eli, ⁶⁰ Eli, ⁶¹ Eli, ⁶² Eli, ⁶³ Eli, ⁶⁴ Eli, ⁶⁵ Eli, ⁶⁶ Eli, ⁶⁷ Eli, ⁶⁸ Eli, ⁶⁹ Eli, ⁷⁰ Eli, ⁷¹ Eli, ⁷² Eli, ⁷³ Eli, ⁷⁴ Eli, ⁷⁵ Eli, ⁷⁶ Eli, ⁷⁷ Eli, ⁷⁸ Eli, ⁷⁹ Eli, ⁸⁰ Eli, ⁸¹ Eli, ⁸² Eli, ⁸³ Eli, ⁸⁴ Eli, ⁸⁵ Eli, ⁸⁶ Eli, ⁸⁷ Eli, ⁸⁸ Eli, ⁸⁹ Eli, ⁹⁰ Eli, ⁹¹ Eli, ⁹² Eli, ⁹³ Eli, ⁹⁴ Eli, ⁹⁵ Eli, ⁹⁶ Eli, ⁹⁷ Eli, ⁹⁸ Eli, ⁹⁹ Eli, 100", "11 And Joam his ſonne, and Azaiah his ſonne, and Joash his ſonne,", "12 And Amaiah his ſonne, and Azariah his ſonne, and Jotham his ſonne,", "13 And Azaiah his ſonne, and Hezekiah his ſonne, and Manasseh his ſonne,", "14 And Amon

The genealogie of Judah, Caleb,

1.Chron.

Shelah, and Simeon.

23 And the Sōnes of Aariah were Eliqenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, threem.

24 And the Sōnes of Eliqenai were Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Delaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Delaiah and Anani, seuen.

CHAP. III.

1 The genealogie of the Sōnes of Judah, 9 Of Jabez and his pater, 11 Of Chelub, 24 And Pumcon:pric habitations, 32 And conquers.

a Theaning, the cause of Judah, as nes prhutres and kinunen: for one Pharees was his natu:ral sonne. Gen. 28:29, and 46:12 chap. 2:4.

b The first home of his mother, and not the elder sonne of his father.

c Otherwul called Sthnuel Judg. 1:13.

d Tris to be underande, where then he would accom:plish his home, which he made.

e The lord of that valley where the ar:ncener bid wukre. f Calld alfa Eklon.

g Or, the bare, meaning, the fe:cond wife of Ezar.

h Or, of whom he had Mered.

T he a Sōnes of Judah were *Pharez, Hezron, a Carim, f Hur, and Shobal. And Reaiah f Sōne of Shobal begate Jahath, g Jahath begat Ahumai, h Lahad: thes e are the families of the Zoreathites. - And thes e were of the father of Etam, Jre: el, and Ishma and Idbah; and the name of their Sifter was Hazelelponi.

4 And Penuel was the father of Gedoz, and Ezer the father of Hushah: thes e are the Sōnes of Hur h b eldest Sonne of Ephzatah, the father of Beth-lehem.

5 But Ahur the father of Tekoa had two wines, Heleah, and Naarah.

6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and He: pher, a Teinem and Haashtari: thes e were the Sōnes of Naarah.

7 And the Sōnes of Heleah were Zereth, Jezohar and Ethnan.

8 Alfo Coz begate Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the Sonne of Haru.

9 But Jabez was more honourable then his beithen : and his mother called his name c Jabez laying, Because I bare him in soow.

10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, laying, If thou wilt blesse me in deede, and enlarge my coasts, and d if thine hand bee with me, and thou wilt caule me to be deli:uered frd euill, that I be not hurt. And God graunted the thing that he aked.

11 C And Chelub the brother of Sbuaht be: gate Mech, which was f father of Eshton.

12 And Eshton begate Beth-rapha, and Pa: leah, and Tehinniah the father of the citie of Nahalh : thes e are the men of Rechah.

13 C And the Sōnes of Kenaz were Dthnuel and Zeraiah, and the Sonne of Othnuel, Ha: thath.

14 And Meonothai begat Ophiah. And Se: taiah) begate Joab the c father of the valley of crakeunen : for they were crakeuen.

15 C And the Sōnes of Caleb the Sonne of f Jephunneh were Iru, Elah, and Naam. And the Sonne of Elah was Kenaz.

16 And the Sōnes of Jehaleel were Ziph, g Ziphah, Tiria, and Alareel.

17 And the Sōnes of Ezrah were Jether and Hered, and Cypher, and Jalon, a he begate Miriam, and Shammai, and Ithbah the father of Ehtemoa.

18 Also his" wife Jehudiah bare Jered the father of Gedoz, g Heber the father of So: cho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah; g thes e are the Sōnes of Bitiah the daugh: ter of Pharaoh " which Hered tooke.

19 And the Sōnes of the wife of Hodiah, the Sifter of Naham the father of Keilah were

the Sarmites, and Ehtemoa the Ma: chathite.

20 And the Sōnes of Shimon were Annon and Rinnah, Ben-hanam and Telon. And the Sōnes of Ithi were Zoheth, and Beu: zoheth.

21 C * The Sōnes of Shelah, the Sonne of Judah were Er the father of Lerah, f La: zah the father of Marelah, and the fami: lies of the housholds of them that wought fine linnen in the house of Ashba.

22 And Jokim and the men of Choseba and Joash, and Saraph, which had the domi: nion in Moab, and h Jathudi Lehem. Thes e also are ancient things.

23 These were potters, g dwelt among plats and hedges : s there they dwelt with the King for his wouke.

24 * The Sōnes of Simeon were Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and h Shaul.

25 Whose Sonne was Shallum, and his Sonne, Pibdam, and his Sonne Milha.

26 And the Sōnes of Milhina, Hamuel was his Sonne, Zacchur his Sonne, and Shimei his Sonne.

27 And Shimei had lictene Sōnes, and lice daughters, but his beithen had not many children, neither was al their famile like to the children of Judah in multitude.

28 And they dwelt at i Beer-sheba, g at Mo: ladah, and at Hazar Shual,

29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at To: lad,

30 And at Bethuel, and at Hozimah, and at Zi:sklag,

31 And at Beth-marcaboth, g at Hazar Su: lim, at Beth-birei, and at Shaaraim. thes e were their cities into f reigne of k Daud.

32 And their townes were Etam, f Ein, Rim: mon, and Tochen, and Ahan, kive cities.

33 And all their townes that were round a bout these cities into Baal. These are their habitations and the declaration of their ge: nealogie,

34 And Mehobab and Jamlech, g Jolnah the Sonne of Amalnah,

35 And Joel and Jehu the Sonne of Joshibi: ah, the Sonne of Seraiah, the Sonne of Aiel,

36 And Elionai, and Jaakobah, g Jethoha: ah, and Asaiah, g Adiel and Jesimel and Benaiah,

37 And Ziza the Sonne of Shiphei, the Sone of Aallon, the Sonne of Jedaiah, the Sonne of Shumri, the Sonne of Shemaiah.

38 These were famous princes in their fami: lies, and increaled greatly their fathers houles.

39 And they i went to the entring in of Ge: doz, euen into the East side of the valley, to seeke paultre for their heepe.

40 And they found fat paultre and good, g a wide land, both quiet g fruitful: for they of Ham had dwelt there before.

41 And thes e described by name, came in the dayes of Hezekiah king of Judah, e inote their tents, and the inhabitants that were found

g Or, of thee-, habitants of Lehem.

g Thay were k ing Daud garriner, s and erud h in his wouke. Gen. 4:10, exd. 6:13. h His Sonne Olah, and he was priz: ourenub.

i Thes e citiés beuntoyd to the tride of Judah, Joh. 19:1, and were ginen to the tride of Simeon.

k Thes e So: und theye retoured them to the tride of Jolay.

l Sa: h tride of Simeon was to great in number, that in the time of Esheth hep tought not butlungs into God, which is in the tride of Dan.

The genealogies of Reuben, Gad, Chap. v. vj.

halfe Manasseh and Leui. 161

found there, ≈ destroyed them utterly into this day, and dwelt in their туmme, because there was pasture there for their sheep.

4. And besides these, five hundred men of the sonnes of Simeon were to mount Seir, and Pelatiah, & Neariah, and Rophaiah, and Uzziel the sonnes of Jethu were their captaines,

43. And the rest of Amalek that had ≈ escaped, and they dwelt there into this day.

C H A P. V.

1 The birthright taken from Reuben and given to the sonnes of Joseph, 1 The genealogie of Reuben, 11 And Gad, 23 And of the haile tribe of Janaub.

2 And were not called by the name of Japhet.

1 The sonnes also of Reuben the eldest sonne of Israel (for hee was the eldest, * but had defiled his fathers bedde, therefore his birthright was given into the * sonnes of Joseph the sonne of Israel, to the genealogie is not tekoned after his birthright.

2 For Judah pzeuailed aboue his birthen, and of him came b the prince, but the birthright was Joseph's)

3 * The sonnes of Reuben the eldest sonne of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.

4 The sonnes of Joel, Shemaiah his sonne, Gog his sonne, and Shimei his sonne,

5 Michael his sonne, Reaiah his sonne, and Baal his sonne,

6 Beerah his sonne: whome Tilgath Pilneefter king of Arthur carped away: he was a prince of the Reubenites.

7 And when his birthen in their families tekoned the genealogie of their generations, Jeiel and Zechariah were the chiefe,

8 And Bela the sonne of Azaz, the sonne of Shema, the sonne of Joel, which dwelt in * Aroer, even into Hebo and Baal-meon.

9 Also Eastward he inhabited into the entering in of the wilderness from the river * Parath: for they had much cattell in the land of Gilead.

10 And in the dayes of Saul they warred with the * Hagarims, which fell by their hands: and they dwelt in their tents in all the East partes of Gilead.

11 And the children of Gad dwelt ouer against them in the lande of Baal-hon, into Salchah.

12 Joel was the chiefest, and Shapham the leconde, but Jaanai and Shaphat were in Baal-hon.

13 And their biethen of the house of their fathers were Michael, and Melhullam, and Sheba, and Sozai, and Jacan and Zia, and Eber, seuen.

14 These are the children of Abihail, the sonne of Huri, the sonne of Jaroah, the sonne of Gilead, the sonne of Michael, the sonne of Jevidhail, the sonne of Jahdo, the sonne of Buz.

15 Ahi the sonne of Abdiel, the sonne of Guni was chieke of the housholde of their fathers.

16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Baal-hon, and

in the townes thereof, ≈ in all the suburbs of Sharon by their borders.

17 All these were tekoned by genealogies in the dayes of Jotham King of Judah, ≈ in the dayes of Jeroboam King of Israel.

18 C The sonnes of Reuben and of Gad, ≈ of halfe the tribe of Manasseh of those that were valiant men, able to beare his childe, and soilde, and to dawe a bowe, exercised in warre, were there and fourty thousand, seuen hundred and three score, that went out to the warre.

19 And they made warre with the Hagarims, with ≈ Jetur, and Naphtah, and Adab.

20 And they were h holpen against them, ≈ the Hagarims were delivered into their hand, and al that were with them: for they cryed to God in the battell, and hee heard them, because they trusted in him.

21 And they led away their cattel, even their camels kiffie thousand, ≈ two hundred, and kiffie thousand sheep, ≈ two thousand asses, and of ≈ persons an hundred thousand.

22 For many fel downe wounded, because the warre was of God. And they dwelt in their feades vntill the * captiuitie.

23 And the children of the halfe tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land, from Baal-hon vnto k Baal Hermon, ≈ Senir, ≈ vnto mount Hermon: for they increased.

24 And these were the heades of the house-holdes of their fathers, even Epher ≈ Jethi, and Eliel ≈ Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaiah, and Jahdiel, strong men, baliaunt and famous, heades of the house-holdes of their fathers.

25 But they transgresed against the God of their fathers, and wet a whooring after the gods of the people of the land, whome God had destroyed before them.

26 And the God of Israel stirred vp the spirit of David King of Israel, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneefter King of Israel, and hee carried them away: even the Reubenites, ≈ all indigent against all men, although they were less with malice and ambition.

g The children were p sonnes of Jymnae, Gen. 25. 15.
k To wit, by the 10th, that they gaue them the viceroy.

l And the foules of men.

m Meaning, the captiuitie of the ten tribes of Israel, and the 10th King of Israel.

n This God stirred up the wechid and vsed them as instruments to execute his wills, although they were less with malice and ambition.

Gen. 31. 22 & 49. 2.

a Berah were made two tribes, they had a bumble question.

b That is, he was the chiefest of all the tribes according to Jana-bobus, Japheth, & Gen. 2. 9.
c Because he should come of him.

d Gen. 6. 26.
e exod. 6. 14.
f nom. 26. 5.

g Caith, in the time of Uzah king of Israel, a king.

h These places were before Japheth, where the Cael the land quen to the Arueles mites.

i The Jymnae were 3 names of Japhet. The Japheth was the same.

j Both the whole courses of Japheth were called by his name Japheth.

C H A P. VI.

3 The genealogie of the sonnes of Keni, 31 Their order in the minis tric of the Cabernet. 49 Aaron and his sonnes piches. 54-57 Their habitations.

T he sonnes of Leui were Gershom, Ko-hath, and Merari.

4 And the sonnes of Kehath, Amram, Jezar, & Hebron and Uzziel.

5 And the children of Amram, Aaron, and Moles and Miriam. And the sonnes of Aaron, * Adab, and Abihu, and * Eleazar, & Jthamar.

6 And Eleazar begate Phinehas. Phinehas begate Abishua,

7 And Abishua begate Bukki, and Bukki begate Uzzi,

8 And Uzzi begate Zerahiah, & Zerahiah begate Meraioth.

9 Meraioth begate Amariah, and Amariah begate

The Leuites cities.

Chap.vij.

The genealogie of Iffachar. 162

⁹ G. J. Kleinon,
Joh. 21, 12.

her suburbs, and ⁹ Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs: all their cities were thirtene cities by their families.

¹⁰ That is, their gaue a portion to theHALFATHE, but they were the remnant of the tribe of Gad, and out of Esphain, and out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the haile tribe of Manasseh, and out of Esphain, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, by lot twelue cities.

61 And into the sonnes of: Klahath the remnant of the familie of the tribe, euen of the halfe tribe of the halfe of Hanasseh, by lot ten cities.

62 And to the sonnes of Gereshom according to their families out of þ tribe of Iffachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bajhan, thirtene cities.

63 Unto the sonnes of Merari according to their families out of the tribe of Reuben, a city out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, by lot twelue cities.

64 Thus the children of Israel gaue to the Leuites cities with their suburbs.

65 And they gaue by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which they called by their names.

66 And they of the families of the sonnes of Kohath, had cities and their coastes out of the tribe of Ephraim.

Ioh. 21, 12.

67 And they gaue into them cities of re-fuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim, a her suburbs, and Gezer and her suburbs,

68 Jokneam also and her suburbs, a Beth-horon with her suburbs,

69 And Aialon and her suburbs, and Gath Rummon and her suburbs,

70 And out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, "Aner and her suburbs," and "Bileam and her suburbs," for the families of the remnant of the sonnes of Kohath.

⁹ Or, Tanach,

Joh. 21, 15.

⁹ Or, Gath-rimmon.

f Who in the first verse 19 called also Gethron,

⁹ Or, Beelisheth,

Joh. 21, 27.

⁹ Or, Joknon,

Joh. 21, 32.

⁹ Or, Jarmuth,

Joh. 21, 39.

⁹ Or, Angamanin,

Joh. 21, 39.

⁹ Or, Helich,

Joh. 21, 31.

⁹ Or, Ammonoth,

Joh. 21, 32.

⁹ Or, Kartan,

Joh. 21, 32.

⁹ Or, Jokneam,

Joh. 21, 36.

Ioh. 22, 2 and

14:36.

71 Unto the sonnes of Gereshom out of the familie of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Go-lan in Bajhan, a her suburbs, a "Ahtaroth with her suburbs,

72 And out of the tribe of Iffachar, "Redesh a her suburbs, Daberath a her suburbs,

73 "Ramoth also and her suburbs, and "Al-nem with her suburbs,

74 And out of the tribe of Ather, Maalal and her suburbs, and Abdon and her suburbs,

75 And "Mukok and her suburbs, and Re-hob and her suburbs,

76 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Redesh in Galilea and her suburbs, and "Hammö and her suburbs, and "Kiriathaim and her suburbs,

77 Unto the rest of the children of Merari were giuen out of þ tribe of Zebulun, "Rimmon and her suburbs," Tabor and her suburbs,

78 And on the other side Joiden by Jericho, euen on the Eastide of Jorden, out of the tribe of Reuben, "Bezer in the wildernesse with her suburbs, and Jiahaz with her suburbs,

79 And Redemoth with her suburbs, a Me-phaath with her suburbs,

80 And out of the tribe of Gad Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,

81 And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Ja-azer with her suburbs.

### CHAP. VII.

¹ The genealogie of Iffachar, Semanum, 13 Naphtali, 14 Jana's, 15 Ephraim, 19 And Asher.

1 And þ sonnes of Iffachar were Tola a "Duah," a Jashub, a Shimro, koure, and the sonnes of Tola, Uzzi, a Re-phaish, and Jériel, and Jahmai, and Jib-kam, and Shemuel, heads in the houisholds of their fathers. Of Tola were baliant men of warre in their generatioss, b whose nom-her was in the dapes of David two þ twenty thousand, and fire hundredeth.

2 And the sonne of Uzzi was Ifraiah, and the sonnes of Ifraiah, Michael, and D-badiah, and Joel, and Illaiah, c fine men al-princes.

3 And with them in their generations af-ter the houholde of their fathers were bandes of men of warre for battell, fire and thirty thousand: for they had many wines and childrent.

4 And their "hiehren" among all the fami-lies of Iffachar were baliant men of warre, rekoned in all by their genealogies koure seque and seuen thousand.

5 C The sonnes of Béiamit were Bela, and Becher, and d Jédiael, e thée.

6 And the sonnes of Bela, Ezbon, and A-zi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, a Jri, fine heads of the houisholdes of their fathers, baliant men of warre, and were rekoned by their genealogies, two and twenty thousand and thirty and koure.

8 And the sonnes of Becher, Zemirah, and Joath, and Eliezer, and Elioenaï, a Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth: all these were the sonnes of Becher.

9 And they were nombred by their genea-logies according to their generations, and the chiefe of the houels of their fathers, baliant men of warre, twenty thousand and two hundredeth.

10 And the sonne of Jédiael was Bilhan, and the sonnes of Bilhan, Jeub, a Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Aylahahat.

11 All these were the sonnes of Jédiael, chiefe of the fathers, baliant men of warre, feuen-tene thousand and two hundredeth, marching in battell aray to the warre.

12 And Shuppim, a Shuppim were þ sonnes of "It, but Huhim was the sonne of another."

13 C The sonnes of Naphtali, Jahziel, a Gu-ni, and Jezer, and "Shallum of þ sonnes of Biljah.

14 The sonne of Manasseh was Aziel who the bare unto him, but his concubine of A-ram bare Machir the "father of Gilead."

15 And Machir toke to wife the sister of Hup pim and Shuppim, and the name of their sister was Maachah. And the name of þ le-

f Or, Phuah, a Who also is called Jab, Gen. 46, 13.

b Chas is, their number was foure thus great when Gauia remembred the people, a Ham 24, 1.

c Meaning, a foure sonnes of the father.

d Called also Uz, Jéhi, Gen. 46, 21, Amos. 26, 38.

e Which were the chiefe of the chiefe also there were fuenen in all, as appearreth, Gen. 46, 32.

f Or, Ieh.

g Dreaming that he was not the sonne of Benjamin, but of Dan, Gen. 46, 21, 32.

⁹ Or, of Aker,

⁹ Or, Shilom,

⁹ Gen. 46, 24.

h Theire raues of Dan and Japhett, which were the sonnes of Biljah. Gen. 46, 21, 26, 31.

i Nom. 16, 29, 31.

cond

Ephraims genealogie.

1. Chron.

Beniamins genealogie.

cond ſonne was Zelophephad, a Zelophe-
had had daughters.

*Ori, lezer,
Nom, 16, 10.

16 And Aaachah the wife of Machar bare a
ſonne, and called his name Dereh, and the
name of his brother was Sereh: and his
ſonnes were Ulain and Rakem.

17 And the ſonne of Talan was Bedan. These
were the ſonnes of Gilead the ſone of Ma-
chir, the ſonne of Manasseh.

a Meaning,
the filter of
Gilean.

18 And b his lffer Holecheth bare Ithod, &
Abiezer, and Mahalah.

19 And the ſonnes of Shemida were Ahian,
and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

20 C The ſones alſo of Ephraim were Shu-
thelah, and Bered his ſonne, a Tahath his
ſonne, and his ſonne Eladah, a Tahath his
ſonne,

21 And Z had his ſonne, and Shuthelathah
his ſonne, and Czer, and Elead : and the
men of Gath that were boze in the land,
ſlew them, because they came down to take
away their cattel.

a Which was
one of the ſee
principal ci-
ties of the
Philistins,
dere the E-
phanninere.
"Ori, kafolke.

22 Therefore Ephraim their father mourned
many dapes, and his children came to co-
fort him.

23 And when he went in to his wife, the con-
ciued, and bare him a ſonne, and hee called
his name Beriah, because affliction was in
his houſe.

24 And his daughter was Sherah, which
built Beth-hor on the nether, and the upper,
and Uzzet Sheerah.

*Ori, accce.

k To wit, of
Ephraim,

25 And Kephah was his k ſonne, and Be-
sheph, and Telah, a ſonne, and Tahah his
ſonne,

26 Laadan his ſonne, Ammudah his ſonne,
Eliahama his ſonne,

27 Non his ſonne, Jecholhua his ſonne.

28 And their poſſessions and their habita-
tions were Beth-el, and the villages thereof,
and Eastward aAaarant, and Westward
Gezer with the villages thereof, Shechem
alſo and the villages thereof, vnto Azzah,
and the villages thereof,

*Ori, Adaiah.

29 And by the places of the children of Ma-
nasseh, Beth-jeane her villages, Taanach
and her villages, Megiddo her villages,
Do, and her villages. In thole dwelt the
children of Joseph the ſonne of Israel.

Ge, 46, 17.

30 C * The ſonnes of Asher were Imnah, a
Jiah, and Jhuai, & Beriah, and Serah
their lffer.

31 And the ſonnes of Beriah, Heber, & Mal-
chiel, which is the father of Bzauith.

32 And Heber degate Japhlet, and Shomer,
and Hotham, and Shuah their lffer.

33 And the ſonnes of Japhlet were Paach,
and Bimhal, and Ašhuath: these were the
children of Japhlet.

*Ori, Kimbal.

34 And the ſonnes of Shamer, Ahi, a Roh-
gah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

35 And the ſonnes of his brother Helem
were Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh &
Amal.

36 The ſonnes of Zophah, Suah, and Har-
nepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,

37 Bezer and Hod, a Shamma, a Shillah, and Jtham, and Beer.

38 And the ſonnes of Jether, Jephunneh, a
Dipa and Ara.

39 And the ſonnes of Ulla, Harah, a Haniel,
and Rizia.

40 All these were the children of Ather, the
heades of their fathers houſes, noble men,
valiant me of warre and chieſe prynces, and
they were reſoned by their genealogies for
warre and for battel to the nomber of ſix
twenty thousand men.

C H A P . V I I I.

1 The ſonnes of Beniamin, 33 And race of Saul.

4 Beniamin alſo a begate Belah his eldeſt
Bonne, Aholbe the lecöd, and Abarah the
third,

5 Mahah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

6 And the ſonnes of Bela were Addar, and
Gera, and Abiud,

7 And Abiutha, and Paaman and Ahoah,
And Gera, a Shephuphan, and Huram.

8 And these are the ſonnes of Echud: these
were the chieſe fathers of thole that inhabi-
ted Seba: a b they were carped away cap-
tines to Donathah,

9 And Paaman, and Aiah, a Gera, he ca-
red them away captines: and c he begate
Uzza, and Ahiud.

a The conſ continues
b in the de-
cription of the
 children of Ben-
iamin, because
his purpose is
to for the genealogies
of Saul.

b Meaning,
the inhaba-
tions of the
citie Seba.

c To wit, e-
jub.

10 And the ſonnes of Belah, after he had sent away
Hushim and Baara his wines.

9 He begate J kape, of Hodesh his wife, Jo-
bad and Zibia, and Melba, a Malach,
10 And Jeuz and Shachia and Dirma:
these were his ſonnes and chieſe fathers.

11 And of Huhun he begate Ahtub and El-
paal.

12 And the ſonnes of Elpaal were Eber, and
Hilham and Shamed (which built Ono,
and Lod, and the villages thereof)

13 And Beriah and Shema (which were
the chief fathers among the inhabitants of
Alalon: they diaue away the inhabitaunts
of Gath)

14 And Ahio, Shahak and Jeruθoth,

15 And Sebadiah, and Arad, and Ader,

16 And Michael, a Jphah, a Joha, the ſonnes
of Beriah,

17 And Zevadiah, and Meshullam, a Hizki,
and Heber,

18 And Jhmerai and Jziah, a Joba, the
ſonnes of Elpaal,

19 Jakim alſo, and Zichri, and Sabdi,

20 And Elienai, and Zillethai, and Eliel,

21 And " Adaiah, and Beratah, & Shimrath
the ſonnes of Shimini,

22 And Jhpan, and Eber, and Eliel,

23 And Adbon, and Zichri, and Hanan,

24 And Hananiah, and Elam, a Antothish,

25 Jphedeiah and Penuel the ſonnes of Sha-
shak,

26 And Shamherai, and Shehariah, and
Athaliah,

27 And Jaarethiah, and Eliah, and Zichri,
the ſonnes of Jeroham.

d after he
had put away
his two
wines.

28 These

Dauids worthies,

Chap.xj.

and valiant men. 164

uid, Thou Shalt not come in hither. Neuer
theflese David tocke the tower of Zion,
which is the citie of David.

2 Sam. 1, 8.

6 And David said, * Whosoever smiteth the
Jebulites first, shall be the chief of captaine.
So Joab the sonne of Zeruiah went first
up, and was captaine.

7 And David dwelt in the tower: therefore
they called it the citie of David.

2 Sam. 2, 9.

8 * And he built the citie on every side, from
Millo euen round about: and Joab repai-
red the rest of the citie.

9 And David prospered, and grewe: for the
Lord of hostes was with him.

2 Sam. 2, 8.

10 C'hele also are the chiefe of the valiant
men that were with David, & ioyned their
force with him in his kingdome with al Jf-
tael, to make him King ouer Israel, accor-
ding to the word of the Lord.

11 And this is the number of the valiant men
whom David had, Jashobeam the sonne of
Hachmoni, the b chiefe among thirtie: he lift
up his speare against three hundred, whom
he flewe at one time.

1. This act is referred to 1 Sam. 2:1.
2. 1 Sam. 2:1, 11. With the name of the chief of the vinters, Or, his vices.

12 And after him was Cleazar the sonne of
"Dodo the Aholite, which was one of the
three valiant men.

13 He was with David at Pal-dammim, and
there the Philistins were gathered toge-
ther to battel: and there was a parcel of
ground full of barly, and the people fled be-
fore the Philistins.

14 And they stood in the middes of the field,
c and faued it, and flew the Philistins: so
the Lord gave a great victorie.

15 C'and three of the d thirtie captaines went
to a rocke to David, into the cause of Adul-
lam. And the armie of the Philistins cam-
ped in the valley of Rephaim.

e. This act is referred to 1 Sam. 2:1.
2. 1 Sam. 2:1, 11. With the name of the chief of the vinters, Or, his vices.
4. 1 Sam. 2:1, 11. With the name of the chief of the vinters, 2 Sam. 2:10.
5. 1 Sam. 2:1, 11. With the name of the chief of the vinters, 2 Sam. 2:15.

16 And when David was in the hold, the Phi-
listins garison was at Beth-lehem.

17 And David longed, & said, * Oh, that one
would give me to drinke of the water of f
well of Beth-lehem that is at the gate.

18 Then thesee three brake thoroow the hoste of
the Philistins, and drrew water out of the
well of Beth-lehem that was by the gate, &
tooke it and brought it to David: but Da-
uid would not drinke of it, but powred it
for an oblation to the Lord,

19 And said, Let not my God suffer me to do
this: Would I drinke the c blood of these
mens lives? for they haue brought it with
the icopardie of their lives: therefore he
would not drinke it: thesee things did these
three mightie men.

e. That is, this water, for the which they venturèd their blood.

20 C'and Abiha f brother of Joab, he was
chiefe of the three, and he lift up his speare
against three hundred, and flew them, and
had the name among the three.

21 Among the three he was more honorable
then the two, and he was their captaine :
* but he attained not unto the first three.

2 Sam. 2:19.

22 Beniah the sonne of Jehoiada (the sonne
of a valiant man) which had done manie
actes, and was of Kabzeel, he flewe two

"strong men of Moab: he went downe al-
so and flewe a lion in the middes of a pit in
time of sinowe.

Or, lions,

23 And he flewe an Egyptian, a man of great
stature, euen fiue cubites long, and in the
Egyptians hand was a speare like a wea-
uers beame : and he went downe to him
1 f h a staffe, and plucked the speare out of
the Egyptians hand, and flewe him with
his owne speare.

24 These things did Benaiah the sonne of
Jehoiada, and had the name among the
three worthies.

25 Behold, he was honorable among thirtie,
but he attained not unto f first three.* And
David made him of his counsel.

26 C'hele also were valiant men of warre,
Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the
sonne of Dodo of Beth-lehem,

27 E Shammoth the Harodite, Helez the Pe-
lonite,

28 Ira the sonne of Jkkelh the Tekoite, Abi-
jer the Antothite,

29 h Sibbecai the Hufathite, Jlai the Aho-
hite,

30 Maharai the Aetophathite, Heled the
sonne of Baanah the Aetophathite,

31 Jethai the sonne of Ribai of Sibcah of the
children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pira-
thonite,

32 Hurai of the riuers of Gaalh, Abiel the
Arbathite,

33 Azmaeth the Baharumite, Elihaba the
Shaalbonite,

34 The sonnes of Asheam the Gizonite, Jo-
nathan the sonne of Shageh the Harite,

35 Ahiam the sonne of Sacar the Hararite,
Eliphal the sonne of Ur,

36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahiah the Pe-
lonite,

37 Bezro the Carmelite, Naarai the sonne of
Ezbai,

38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the
sonne of Haggert,

39 Zelek the Ammonite, Nahai the Bero-
thite, the armour bearer of Joab, the sonne
of Zeruiah,

40 Ira the Ithrite, Garib the Ithrite,

41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the sonne of
Ahlai,

42 Adina the sonne of Shiza the Reubenite,
a captaine of the Reubenites, and thirtie
with him,

43 Hanan the sonne of Maachah, and Jo-
shaphat the Mithnite,

44 Uzia the Abiaterathite, Shama and Jeiel
the sonnes of Otham the Aroerite,

45 Jediael the sonne of Shimri, and Joha
his brother the Tizite,

46 Eliel the Mahauite, and Jeribai f Jotha-
uiah the sonnes of Einaam, and Ithmah
the Moabite,

47 Eliel f Obed, f Jaaaniel the Mesobaite.

f Meaning,
theke this
which
brought the
water to Da-
ub.
2 Sam. 2:3,23.

g Saited alia
Shemnoah,
2. Sam. 2:3,25.

h Deis alia
called Deis
bunai, 2.
2 Sam. 2:3,270.

CHAP. XIL

1. Who then were that went with David when he fled from Sam. 14
Their valiantnes. 23. Thep that came unto him vnto Hebjon out
of enerei tribe to make him king.

Ee.ii. I These

Thofe that ayded Dauid, &

1.Chron.

went to make him King.

a That is of the tribe of Benjamin, whereof Saul was, &c. where in were excellent showers with flogues, &c. 20, 21.

b That is of the tribe of Benjamin, whereof Saul was, &c. where in were excellent showers with flogues, &c. 20, 21.

c Or, Geuia.

d Or, buclier.

e Meaning, fierce and ferocious.

f Or, Mallman-baila.

g Which the Chieftain calls leofan oufain, concreuing halfe and half, and halfe and half, when Jorden was vnite to overflow his banks, readeth Joly, 3, 15.

h The life of boldness and courage mosted him to lyeaketh thus.

i When came help to helpe Dauid and not to succour of Philistins, which were menemous to their country.

I

1. Hele alfo are they that came to Dauid to a Zitlag, while he was yet kept close, because of Saul þ sonne of Kish: and they were among the valiant and helpers of the battel.

2. They were weaponed with bowes, & could vke the right and the left hand with stones and with arrowes and with bowes, and were of Sauls þ breath, even of Benjam.

3. The chieke were Ahiezer, & Joaht þ sonnes of Shemaah a Gibeathite, and Jeziel, and Delet the sonnes of Almaeth, Berachah & Jehu the Autothite,

4. And Ithmaiah the Gibeonite, a valiant man among thirtie, and above the thirtie, and Jeremiah, and Jehziel, & Johanan, and Jofabad the Sederathite,

5. Eluzai, & Jerimoth, & Bealiah, and Sheamiah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,

6. Elkanah, and Ithiah, and Azariel, & Joetz, Jashobeam of Hakohim,

7. And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sonnes of Jeroham of " God,

8. And of the Gadites there separated them fellues some vnto Dauid into the hold of the wilderness, valiant men of warre, and men of armes, and apt for battel, which couldle handle "speare and shield, and their faces were like the faces of " lyons, and were like the roes in the mountains in swoltnes,

9. Czer the chieke, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

10. " Hishmanah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,

11. Attai the first, Eliel the seuenth,

12. Johanan the eight, Elabad the ninth,

13. Jeremiah the tenth, Macbannai the eleventh,

14. These were the sonnes of Gad, captaines of the hofe : one of the least could refit an hundred, and the greatest a thousand.

15. These are they that went ouer Jorden in the fift moneth when he had filled ouer all his bankes, and put to flight all them of the valley, toward the East and the West.

16. And there came of the children of Beniamin, and Judah to the holde vnto Dauid,

17. And Dauid went out to meete them, and answere a faide vnto them, If ye be come peaceably vnto me to helpe me, mine heart halbe knit vnto you, but if you come to be-tray me to mine aduerfaries, seeing there is no wickednes in mine handes, the God of our fathers beholde it, and rebuke it.

18. And the e spirit came vpon Almasai, which was the chiefe of thirtie, and he said, Thine are we, Dauid, and with thee, D sonne of Jfhai. Peace, peace be vnto thee, and peace be vnto thine helpers: for thy God helpeth thee. Then Dauid received them, a made them captaines of the garison.

19. And of Manasseh some fell to Dauid, when he came with the Philistins against Saul to battel, but they helved them not: for the Princes of the Philistins * by aduiscement sent him away, laying, He wil fal

to his master Saul * for our heads.

20. As he went to Zitlag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Je-diael, and Michael, and Josabad, & Eliyu, and Ziltai, heads of the thoufandes that were of Manasseh.

21. And they helped Dauid againe as that bande : for they were all valiant men and were captaines in the hofe.

22. For at that time day by day there came to Dauid to helpe him, vntil it was a great hofe, like the hofe of " God.

23. And these are the nombers of the captaines that were armed to battel, and came to Dauid to Hebron to turne the KingDome of Saul to him, according to the word of the Lord.

24. The children of Judah that bare shielde & speare, were six thousand and eight hundred armed to the warre.

25. Of the children of Sinneon valiant men of warre, seuen thousand and an hundred.

26. Of the children of Levi soure thousand & six hundred.

27. And Jehotada was the chieke of them of Aaron: and with him three thousand and seuen hundred.

28. And Zadok a young man very valiant, & of his fathers houholde came two & twenty captaines.

29. And of the children of Benjamin the he-then of Saul three thousand : for a great part of them vnto that time kept the ward of the hofe of Saul.

30. And of the children of Epizaun twentie thousand, and eight hundred valiant men and famous men in the houholde of their fathers.

31. And of the halfe tribe of Manasseh eighteene thousand, which were appointed by name to come and make Dauid King.

32. And of the chiefe of Jilachar which were men that had understanding of the times, to knowe what Israel ought to do : the heads of them were two hundred, and all their brethren were at their commandement.

33. Of Zebulun that went out to battel, expert in warre, and in all instruments of warre, fiftie thousand " which could let the battel in aray : they were not of † a double heart.

34. And of Naphtali a thousand captaines, & with them with shielde and speare seuen a thirtie thousand.

35. And of Dan expert in battel, eight and twentie thousand, and six hundred.

36. And of Ather that went out to the battel and were trained in the warres, fourtie thousand.

37. And of the other side of Jorden of J Reubenites, and of the Gadites, and of the halfe tribe of Manasseh with all instruments of warre to fight with, an hundred & twenty thousand.

38. " All these men of warre " that could leade an armie, came with " a right heart to He-

Or on the parte of our heads.

b Meaning, mightie as strong: for so the Chieles lay thinges of God, when it is excellent.

c Or, buclier.

d That is the least which came by the count of Jezus.

e That is the greatest number, too, of Sauls part.

1. A me of good experience, which was at all times what was to be done.

f Or, if them felects in any, the heart and heart.

g So that all were there where the children and two hundred and twenty were.

h Or, right in their own.

i Or, a good cause.

["The Arke. Vzza flaine.", "Chap.xiiij.xiiij.", "The Philiftims destroyed. 165", "The rest of the Israelites.", "bron to make David King ouer all Israel: and all the rest of Israel was of one accord to make David King:", "39 And there they were with David three dates,eating and drinking: for their beatieth had prepared for them.", "40 Moreover they that were neere them built Jeshar, and Zebulun, and Naphtali brought bread upon asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oren, euen meat, flour, figges, and reifins, and wine and oyle, and beeues and sheepe abundantly: for there was love in Israel.", "CHAP. XIII.", "7 The Arke is brought againe from Kiriath-learim to Jerusalem. 9 Dizay d'erch because he touched it.", "And David counseled with the cap-tains of thouands and of hundredhs, and with all the gouernours.", "2 And David laid to all the Congregation of Israel, If it seeme good to you, and that it proceedeth of the Lord our God, we will send to and fro vnto our beatieth, that are left in all the land of Israel (for with them are the Priests and the Levites in the cities and their suburbs) that they may assemble themselves vnto vs.", "And we will bring againe the Arke of our God to vs: for we sought not vnto it in the daves of Saul.", "4 And all the Congregation ancluered, Let us do so: for the thing seemed good in the eyes of all the people.", "5 C *So David gathered all Israel together from a Shihor in Egypt, euen vnto the entring of Hamath, to bring the Arke of God from b Kiriath-learim.", "6 And David went vp a all Israel to \"Baal-lath, in Kiriath-learim, that was in Judah, to bring vp from thence the Arke of God the Lord that dwelleth betwene the Che-rubims, where his Name is called on.", "7 And they carried the Arke of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uz-3a and Ahio e guided the cart.", "8 And David and all Israel played before God with al their might, both with longs and with harpes, and with violes, with timbels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.", "9 And when they came vnto the threelijfing floore of c Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to holde the Arke, for the oren did shake it.", "10 But the Wath of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he laped his hand vpon the Arke: so he dyed there f before God.", "11 And David was angrie, because the Lord had made a breach in Uzza, and he called the name of that place Perez-uessa vnto this day.", "12 And David feared God that day, saying, How shall I bring in to me the Arke of God?", "13 Therefore David brought not the Arke to him into the citie of David, but caused it to turne into the house of e Obed Edom the Gittite.", "14 The Arke of God remained in þ house of Obed Edom, euen in his house three moneths : and the Lord blessed the house of Obed Edom, and all that he had.", "CHAP. XIII.", "1 Yiram (bneeth wood and workemen to David. 4 The names of his children. 8, 14 By the counsel of God he goeth against the Philistins, and oncometh with them. 15 God fighteth for him.", "1 Then * sent Hiram the King of Tyross meillengers to David, & cedar trees, with maions and carpenters to builde him an house.", "2 Therefore David knew that the Lord had confirmed him King ouer Israel, and that his kingdome was lift vp on hie, because of his a people Israel.", "3 Also David tooke mo wiues at Jerusale and David begate mo sonnes & daughters.", "4 And these are the names of the children which he had at Jerusalemin, Shammua, & Shobab, & Nathan, and Salomon,", "5 And Jhar, and Eliyha, and b Elpalet,", "6 And Hogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,", "7 And Elihama, and c Beeliada, and El-phalet.", "8 But when the Philistins heard that David was anointed King ouer Israel, all the Philistins came vp to seeke David. And when David heard, he went out against them.", "9 And the Philistins came, and layed them felues in the valley of Rephaim.", "10 Then David alked counsel at God, saying, Shall I go vp against the Philistins, and wilt thou deliuer them into mine hande? And the Lord kaid vnto him, Go vp: for I will deliuer them into thine hand.", "11 So they came vp to Baal-perazim & David smote them there: and David laid, God hath deuied mine enemies with mine hand, as waters are deuied: therefore they called y name of that place, c Baal-perazim.", "12 And there they had left their gods: and David laid, Let them euen be burnt with fire.", "13 Algaine the Philistins came a spied them felues in the valley.", "14 And when David alked againe counsel at God, God faide to him, Thou shall not go vp after them, but turne away from them, that thou maieft come vpon them ouer against the mulberie trees.", "15 And when thou hearest the nnyple of one going in the toppes of the mulberie trees, then go out to battel: for God is gone forth before thee, to smite the hoste of the Philistins.", "16 So David did as God had commanded him : and they smote the hoste of the Philistins from Gibeon euen to Gezer.", "17 And the fame of David went out into all lands and the Lord brought the keare of him vpon all nations.", "CHAP. XV.", "1 David pieareth an house for the Arke. 4 The nomber and order of the Levites. 16 The fingers are chosen out among them. 21 The Lord bring againe the Arke with tope. 29 David dauncing before it, is helped of his wife Dachal.", "2 Sam. x. 15.\n2 Sam. x. 20.\n2 Sam. x. 21.\n2 Sam. x. 22.\n2 Sam. x. 23.\n2 Sam. x. 24.\n2 Sam. x. 25.\n2 Sam. x. 26.\n2 Sam. x. 27.\n2 Sam. x. 28.\n2 Sam. x. 29.\n2 Sam. x. 30.\n2 Sam. x. 31.\n2 Sam. x. 32.\n2 Sam. x. 33.\n2 Sam. x. 34.\n2 Sam. x. 35.\n2 Sam. x. 36.\n2 Sam. x. 37.\n2 Sam. x. 38.\n2 Sam. x. 39.\n2 Sam. x. 40.\n2 Sam. x. 41.\n2 Sam. x. 42.\n2 Sam. x. 43.\n2 Sam. x. 44.\n2 Sam. x. 45.\n2 Sam. x. 46.\n2 Sam. x. 47.\n2 Sam. x. 48.\n2 Sam. x. 49.\n2 Sam. x. 50.\n2 Sam. x. 51.\n2 Sam. x. 52.\n2 Sam. x. 53.\n2 Sam. x. 54.\n2 Sam. x. 55.\n2 Sam. x. 56.\n2 Sam. x. 57.\n2 Sam. x. 58.\n2 Sam. x. 59.\n2 Sam. x. 60.\n2 Sam. x. 61.\n2 Sam. x. 62.\n2 Sam. x. 63.\n2 Sam. x. 64.\n2 Sam. x. 65.\n2 Sam. x. 66.\n2 Sam. x. 67.\n2 Sam. x. 68.\n2 Sam. x. 69.\n2 Sam. x. 70.\n2 Sam. x. 71.\n2 Sam. x. 72.\n2 Sam. x. 73.\n2 Sam. x. 74.\n2 Sam. x. 75.\n2 Sam. x. 76.\n2 Sam. x. 77.\n2 Sam. x. 78.\n2 Sam. x. 79.\n2 Sam. x. 80.\n2 Sam. x. 81.\n2 Sam. x. 82.\n2 Sam. x. 83.\n2 Sam. x. 84.\n2 Sam. x. 85.\n2 Sam. x. 86.\n2 Sam. x. 87.\n2 Sam. x. 88.\n2 Sam. x. 89.\n2 Sam. x. 90.\n2 Sam. x. 91.\n2 Sam. x. 92.\n2 Sam. x. 93.\n2 Sam. x. 94.\n2 Sam. x. 95.\n2 Sam. x. 96.\n2 Sam. x. 97.\n2 Sam. x. 98.\n2 Sam. x. 99.\n2 Sam. x. 100.\n2 Sam. x. 101.\n2 Sam. x. 102.\n2 Sam. x. 103.\n2 Sam. x. 104.\n2 Sam. x. 105.\n2 Sam. x. 106.\n2 Sam. x. 107.\n2 Sam. x. 108.\n2 Sam. x. 109.\n2 Sam. x. 110.\n2 Sam. x. 111.\n2 Sam. x. 112.\n2 Sam. x. 113.\n2 Sam. x. 114.\n2 Sam. x. 115.\n2 Sam. x. 116.\n2 Sam. x. 117.\n2 Sam. x. 118.\n2 Sam. x. 119.\n2 Sam. x. 120.\n2 Sam. x. 121.\n2 Sam. x. 122.\n2 Sam. x. 123.\n2 Sam. x. 124.\n2 Sam. x. 125.\n2 Sam. x. 126.\n2 Sam. x. 127.\n2 Sam. x. 128.\n2 Sam. x. 129.\n2 Sam. x. 130.\n2 Sam. x. 131.\n2 Sam. x. 132.\n2 Sam. x. 133.\n2 Sam. x. 134.\n2 Sam. x. 135.\n2 Sam. x. 136.\n2 Sam. x. 137.\n2 Sam. x. 138.\n2 Sam. x. 139.\n2 Sam. x. 140.\n2 Sam. x. 141.\n2 Sam. x. 142.\n2 Sam. x. 143.\n2 Sam. x. 144.\n2 Sam. x. 145.\n2 Sam. x. 146.\n2 Sam. x. 147.\n2 Sam. x. 148.\n2 Sam. x. 149.\n2 Sam. x. 150.\n2 Sam. x. 151.\n2 Sam. x. 152.\n2 Sam. x. 153.\n2 Sam. x. 154.\n2 Sam. x. 155.\n2 Sam. x. 156.\n2 Sam. x. 157.\n2 Sam. x. 158.\n2 Sam. x. 159.\n2 Sam. x. 160.\n2 Sam. x. 161.\n2 Sam. x. 162.\n2 Sam. x. 163.\n2 Sam. x. 164.\n2 Sam. x. 165.\n2 Sam. x. 166.\n2 Sam. x. 167.\n2 Sam. x. 168.\n2 Sam. x. 169.\n2 Sam. x. 170.\n2 Sam. x. 171.\n2 Sam. x. 172.\n2 Sam. x. 173.\n2 Sam. x. 174.\n2 Sam. x. 175.\n2 Sam. x. 176.\n2 Sam. x. 177.\n2 Sam. x. 178.\n2 Sam. x. 179.\n2 Sam. x. 180.\n2 Sam. x. 181.\n2 Sam. x. 182.\n2 Sam. x. 183.\n2 Sam. x. 184.\n2 Sam. x. 185.\n2 Sam. x. 186.\n2 Sam. x. 187.\n2 Sam. x. 188.\n2 Sam. x. 189.\n2 Sam. x. 190.\n2 Sam. x. 191.\n2 Sam. x. 192.\n2 Sam. x. 193.\n2 Sam. x. 194.\n2 Sam. x. 195.\n2 Sam. x. 196.\n2 Sam. x. 197.\n2 Sam. x. 198.\n2 Sam. x. 199.\n2 Sam. x. 200.\n2 Sam. x. 201.\n2 Sam. x. 202.\n2 Sam. x. 203.\n2 Sam. x. 204.\n2 Sam. x. 205.\n2 Sam. x. 206.\n2 Sam. x. 207.\n2 Sam. x. 208.\n2 Sam. x. 209.\n2 Sam. x. 210.\n2 Sam. x. 211.\n2 Sam. x. 212.\n2 Sam. x. 213.\n2 Sam. x. 214.\n2 Sam. x. 215.\n2 Sam. x. 216.\n2 Sam. x. 217.\n2 Sam. x. 218.\n2 Sam. x. 219.\n2 Sam. x. 220.\n2 Sam. x. 221.\n2 Sam. x. 222.\n2 Sam. x. 223.\n2 Sam. x. 224.\n2 Sam. x. 225.\n2 Sam. x. 226.\n2 Sam. x. 227.\n2 Sam. x. 228.\n2 Sam. x. 229.\n2 Sam. x. 230.\n2 Sam. x. 231.\n2 Sam. x. 232.\n2 Sam. x. 233.\n2 Sam. x. 234.\n2 Sam. x. 235.\n2 Sam. x. 236.\n2 Sam. x. 237.\n2 Sam. x. 238.\n2 Sam. x. 239.\n2 Sam. x. 240.\n2 Sam. x. 241.\n2 Sam. x. 242.\n2 Sam. x. 243.\n2 Sam. x. 244.\n2 Sam. x. 245.\n2 Sam. x. 246.\n2 Sam. x. 247.\n2 Sam. x. 248.\n2 Sam. x. 249.\n2 Sam. x. 250.\n2 Sam. x. 251.\n2 Sam. x. 252.\n2 Sam. x. 253.\n2 Sam. x. 254.\n2 Sam. x. 255.\n2 Sam. x. 256.\n2 Sam. x. 257.\n2 Sam. x. 258.\n2 Sam. x. 259.\n2 Sam. x. 260.\n2 Sam. x. 261.\n2 Sam. x. 262.\n2 Sam. x. 263.\n2 Sam. x. 264.\n2 Sam. x.

The song of Asaph, and

Chap.xvij.

his brethren. Nathan. 166

Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benatah, and
Obed Edom, even Jeiel with instruments,
violes and harpes, and Asaph to make
a sound with cymbales,

6 And Benatah and Jabaziel Prieſtes, with
trumpets continually before the Arke of the
convenant of God.

c David gaue
them this
Phalme to
pianie to Loide,
ſinging that
in all our eu
trumpets the
Name of God
might be
prais'd by cal
ts upon
Psal. 105, 11,
12, 13.
d This of his
in the chieſer
that he hath
chafen him ſer
a church to
call upon his
Name.

c 14 And in his
wonderful po-
uſurencty of
choſen a few
of the ſtock of as
heauen to be
his children.
15 The conuer-
ning of the
paracels
which
inſtigations
were declared
by God
month to
Holes.

16 Meaning
brothers of
prayers of ab-
option only
approveth to
the Church.
Gen. 12:17, 18
hah. 1, 7, 8, 10, 17.

1 Tho. 14,
wherefore the
particulars
of lands were
meaſured.

17 Meaning,
from the time
that Jaelan
sweared, into
a time, that Ja
aob went into
Egypt, to ſay
m. 18
19 To Jpharach
18 Thine hea
k. One eſter
people, 2 m
who in J a
Iane ſanctified.

1 To Juhome
God is declared
his und, and
they declared
it to their pos-
ters.

m This strong,
faith appea-
zenh becometh
though all the
people would
follow him,
perchance he would
clare to the
lauing God,

n Tremble thou,
before the name
of God.
o The choſteth
the diuine creas-
tures to re-
ioyce him in
conſuering
the greatnes of
the grace of God,

7 Then at that time David did e appoynt at
the beginning to give thankes to the Loide
by the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

8 *Praife the Loide & call upon his Name:
declare his d workes among the people.

9 Sing into him, sing praple into him, and
take of all his e wonderfull workes.

10 Reioyce in his holy Name: let the heartes
of them that seeke the Lord reioyce.

11 Seeke the Loide and his strength: seeke
his face continually.

12 Remember his maruelsouſ woorkes that
he hath done, his wonders, and the iudge-
ments of his mouth,

13 D feed of Israel his ſernant, O the children
of Jaakob his e choſen.

14 He is the Lord our God: his iudgementes
are throughout all the earth.

15 Remember his couenant for euer, and the
word, which he commanded to a thousand
generations:

16 Which he made with Abiham, and his
othe to Jhak:

17 And hath confirmed it to Jaakob ſo a
Lawe, and to Israel ſo an euerlasting co-
uenant,

18 Saying, To thee will I give the lande of
Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.

19 When ye were e ſewe in nomber, yea, a be-
ve ſewe, and strangers therein,

20 And walked about from nation to nation,
and from one ringdome to another people,

21 He luffred no man to doe them wrong, but
rebuked k Kings for their fakes, laying,

22 Touche not mine k anoynted, and doe my
Jpheters no harme.

23 *Sing into the Lord al the earth: declare
his ſaluation from day to day.

24 Declare his glorie among the nations,
and his woonderfull woorkes among all
people.

25 For the Lord is great a much to be prafied,
and he is to be feared aboue all gods.

26 For all the gods of the people are m idoles,
but the Lord made the heauens.

27 Praple and glore are before him : power
and beautite are in his place.

28 Giue into the Lord, ye families of the peo-
ple; giue into the Lord glore and power.

29 Giue into the Loide the glore of his
Name: bring an offering and come before
him, and worſhip the Loide in the glorious
Sanctuarie.

30 n Tremble yee before him, all the earth: lareely the worſde shall bee stable and not mooue.

31 Let the o heauens reioyce, and let the earth
beglad, and let them ſake among the nati-
ons, The Lord reigneth.

32 Let the sea roare, and all that therein is: let
the field be ioyfull and all that is in it.

33 Let the trees of the wood then reioyce at
the prieſence of the Lord: for he commeth to
 judge the earth.

34 Praple the Loide, for he is good, for his
mercie endureth for euer.

p To toſe all
things to their
estate.

35 And lay ye, Saue vs, God, our salutatiſ,
and gather vs, and deliuer vs from the hea-
then, that we may praple thine holy Name,
and a glore in thy praple.

36 Bleſſed be the Lord God of Israel for euer
and euer: and let all people ſake, r So be it,
and praiſe the Lord.

q He eſtethem
this to the
chieſet felicit
of man.
r He willeth al
a people both
in heart and
mouth to con-
fent to their
prayers.

37 Then he left there before the Arke of the
Lords couenant Asaph and his brethren to
miſifier continually before the Arke, that
which was to be done every day:

38 And Obed Edom and his brethren, thee
loſe and eight: and Obed Edom the ſonne
of Jeduthun, and Holah were porters.

39 And Zadok the Priſet and his brethren
the Priſettes were before the Tabernacle of
the Loide, in the hpe place that was at El-
beon,

40 To offer burnt offeringes into the Loide,
byon the burnt offering altar continually, in
the morning and in the euening, even ac-
cording into al that is written in the Lavo
of the Lord, which he commanded Israel.

41 And with them e were Heman, and Iedu-
thun, and the rest that were choſen (which
were appoyned by names) to praple the
Loide, because his mercyp endureth for euer.

With Zadok
s the reſt of the
Hueſtens.

42 Even with them were Heman and Iedu-
thun, to make a ſound with the comets and
with the cymbales, with excellent instru-
ments of muſike: and the ſonnes of Iedu-
thun were at the gate.

43 And all the people departed, euery man
to his house: and David returned to c bleſſe
his house.

g Declaiming
afer his butic
to God we are
chickes bounde
to our owne
house, for the
which as for
other things,
we ought to
lay into god
inſtuct our
familles to
praple his
Name.

C H A P . X V I I .

1 David is forſubſid to build an house vnto the Loide. 12 Chriſt is pio-
miſed under the figure of Halomon. 13 David giueth ſhankes, 23
And piapeſt vnto God.

N ODO *afterwards who David dwelt
in his house, he layde to Nathan the
Pjophet. Behold, I dwel in an houſe
of a cedar trees, but the Arke of the Loſdes
couenant remaineth under b curtains.

Then Nathan ſaid to David, Do e all that
is in thine heart: for God is with thee.

And the ſame c night euen the word of God
came to Nathan, laying,

Go, and tel David my ſernant. Thus faith
the Loide, Thou hali not buylde mee al
house to dwell in:

Foi I haue dwelt in no house, ſince the day
that I brought out the children of Israel
unto this daye, but I haue bene from e tent
to tent, and from habitation to habitation.

Nohere ſeuer ſhaue I walked to all Jfra-
el, ſpake I one word to any of the iudges of
Israel (whome I commanded to feede my
people) laying, Wht haue ye not buylt mee
an houſe of cedar trees?

1 Sgm. 7:2.
2 Mote the
hat, not ap
David, a
boult, not a
bushel, not
a carol.

A wel buyl
and ſaue.

2 That is, in
tentcs corroued
with kiſmes.

C As per God
had not reuе-
rited to the
Pjophet what he
purpofed con-
fering Da-
ubel therefore

confering God fa-
nour'd David,
he ſpake what
he thought.

After that
Nathan had
spoken to Da-
ub.

e That is, in a
tent which re-
ſonned to e ki-
ſer. Dreaming,
wherefore ſeuer
his Arke the weſ,
which was a
flame of his
prieſence.

E c. viii. 7 Now

["Nathans message to David. Dauids", "1.Chron.", "prayer. His victories.", "Now therefore thus shall thou say unto my servant David, Thus farth y God of hots, I tooke thee from the sheepecoat & & from following the sheepe, that thou shouldst be a prince ouer my people Israel.", "And I haue bene with thee whithersoever thou haſt walked, and haue destroyed all thine enemies out of thy fight, & haue \"made thee a name, like the name of the great men that are in the earth.\"", "(Also I will appoint a place for: my people Israel, & b will plant it, that they may dwell in their place, and inoue no more: neyther shall the c wicked people d here them any more, as at the beginning,", "And since the name that I commanded judges ouer my people Israel) And I will subdue all thine enemies: therefore I sape unto thee, that the Lo'de will e buylde thee an house.", "And when thy dayes shall be fulfilled to goe with thy fathers, then will I raple vp thy seede after thee, which shall be of the sonnes, and will stablish his kingdome.", "He shall buylde mee an house, and I will stablish his thron for euer.", "I will be his father, he shall be my sonne, and I will not take my mercie away from him, as I tooke it from him that was be- for e thee.", "But I will establiſh him in mine house, and in my kingdome for euer, as his throne shall be stablished for euer,", "According to all these words, and according to all this billion. So Nathan IpaKE to David.", "And David the King m went in a late before the Lord said, who am I, O Lord God, what is mine house, that thou haſt brought me n hitherto?", "Net thou esteeming this a small thing, O God, haſt also spoken concerning the house of thy ſeruant for a great while, and haſt regarded me according to the eſtate of a man of c hape degree, O Lord God.", "What can David desire more of thee for the honour of thy ſeruant? for thou knowest thy ſeruant.", "O Lord, for thy ſeruants sake, euem according to thine p heart haſt thou done all this great thing to declare all magnificence.", "Lorde, there is none like thee, neyther is there any God besides thee, according to all that we haue heard with our eares.", "Moreover what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whose God went to redeem them to be his people, and to make thy selfe a Name, and to do great & terrible things by caſting out natios from before thy people, who y haſt delivered out of Egypt?", "For thou haſt ordeined thy people Israel to be thine owne people for euer, and thou Lord art become their God.", "Therefore nowe Lorde, let the thing that thou haſt spoken concerning thy ſeruant as concerning his house, be confirmed for euer,", "and do as thou haſt said,", "And let thy Name be stable & magnified for ever, that it may be sayde, The Lo'de of hots, God of Israel, is the God of J. Israel, and let the house of David thy ſeruant be stablished before thee.", "For thou, O my God, haſt revealed unto the eare of thy ſeruant, that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy ſeruant haſt bene hold to pray before thee.", "Therefore now Lord (for thou art God, and haſt spoken this goodneſſe unto thy ſeruant)", "Now therefore, it haſt pleased thee to blesse the house of thy ſeruant, & it may be before thee for euer: for thou, O Lord, haſt blessed it, and it haſt blessed for euer.", "CHAP. XVIII.", "1 The battel of David against the Philistins, 2 And against Moab, 3 Zobah, 5 Jair, 11 And Eshon.", "And after this David smote the Philistins, and subdued them, and tooke a Gath, and the villages thereof out of the hand of the Philistins.", "And he smote Moab, & the Moabites became Dauids ſeruants, & brought gifts.", "And David smote Hadarezer King of Zobah unto Hamath, as hee went to stablish his border by the river Pherath.", "And David tooke from him a thouande charaes, and seuen thouand houſemen, and twentie thouland footemen, and * destroyed all the charaes, but he reſuered of them an hundredth charaes.", "Then came the Aramites of Damascus to succour Hadarezer king of Zobah, but David flewe of the Aramites two & twenty thouland.", "And David put a garison in Aram of Da'maſcus, and the Aramites became Dauids ſeruants, and brought gifts: and the Lo'de b preferred David whereof he went.", "And David tooke the shields of golde that were of the ſeruauantes of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jeruſalem.", "And from c Tibhath, and from Chun ( cities of Hadarezer) brought David exceeding much braise, wherewith Salomon made the braſen * Sea, and the pillers and the bessels of braise.", "Then Tou king of Hamath heard howe David had imitten all the houſe of Hadarezer king of Zobah:", "Therefore he sent d Hadzam his sonne to king David, to salute him, to reioye with him, because he had bought against Hadarezer, and beaten him ( for Tou had warre with Hadarezer) who brought all bessels of gold, and filuer and braise.", "And King David did dedicate them unto y Lord, with the filuer & gold that he brought from all the nations, from e Edom, & from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, & from the Philistins, and from Amalek.", "And Abihaſt the tōne of Zeruiah smote of Edom in the salt valley e eyghtene thoufand,", "That is be forward him life in the face to be their God, by delivering them from all gers, a pictures ungiueth them. That thou haſt declared him by the Lord the Prophit. That he hath found thee not breaſing pious", "a Which, b Saül, is called the his ble of hobag, because it was brought from, and brought the country round about in subduing it.", "c Sam. 8, 8, are called Herath & Bethel.", "d Sam. 8, 4, 8.", "e Or, Damneſt.", "b That is, in man that he enterpised.", "c Which, 1, Sam. 8, 8, are called Herath & Bethel.", "d Kin. 7, 22, e 1 Sam. 2, 20.", "e Called also Joz. 1, Sam. 8, 10.", "Because the Edomites s the Sennan owned their power targe e ex. it is in Moab, 2 Sam. 12, that the Edomites were brouſed, which brouſed beth and that Joab flewe from the thron of the house, and the Sennan the title of the three children, and the Sennan the rea.", "13 And", "a of a thefeard of the thepe I made the a then heare of men, in that thou canst not to this big mup though this ownes meues, but by my pure grace Or, gotten thee fame.", "k Maker them for that they shall not beoue.", "l T. J. J. J. J. J. J. J. J. J. J. J

["Hanuns villenie.", "Chap.xix.xx.", "He is ouercome.", "167", "13 And he put a garison in Edom, and all the Edomites became Dauids seruantes: and the Lorde preserued Dauid wherewithever he went.", "14 So Dauid reigned ouer all Israel, & erecuted judgement & justice to all his people.", "15 And Joab the sonne of Zeruah was ouer the hoſte, and Jehoahaphat the sonne of Alhillud recordet,", "16 And Zadok the sonne of Ahitub, and Abimelech & sonne of Abiachar were Priests, and Snaubah the Scribe,", "17 * And Benaiah the sonne of Jehoiada was ouer the & Cherethites and the Delethites: and the sonnes of Dauid were chieſe about the King.", "C H A P . X I X .", "4 Hanun king of the children of Ammon both great inuities to the ſeruants of Dauid, & he prepared a armie against Dauid, 15 And is ouercome.", "1 Or, Sennacherib.", "2 2 Sam. 17:18.", "3 2 Sam. 17:18.", "4 2 Sam. 17:18.", "ſet him ſelſe in aray to meete the Aramites.", "11 And the rest of the people he deliuered into the hande of Abiachar his brother, and they put themſelues in aray against the children of Ammon.", "12 And he ſaid, If Aram be to strong for me, then thouhalt succour mee; and if the children of Ammon prieuayle against thee, then I will succour thee.", "13 Be strong, and let vs theowe our ſelues baliant for our ſpeople, and for the cities of our God, and let the Lord do that which is good in his owne ſight.", "14 So Joab and the people that was with him, came neere before the Aramites into the battel, and they ſled before him.", "15 And when the children of Ammon ſawe that the Aramites ſed, they ſied also before Abiachar his brother, and entred into the citie: So Joab came to Jeruſalem.", "16 And when the Aramites ſaw that they were discomſited before Israel, they lent meſengers that caused the Aramites to come forth that were beyond the river: and Shophach the captaine of the hoſte of Hadarezer vvent before them.", "17 And when it was theowe Dauid, he gathered all Israel, and went ouer Jordan, & came into them, and put him ſelſe in araye against them: And when Dauid had put him ſelſe in battell araye to meete the Aramites, they ſought with him.", "18 But the Aramites ſed before Israel, and Dauid destroyed of the Aramites ſeuven thouande charets, and fourtie thouande footemen, a killed Shophach the captaine of the hoſte.", "19 And when the ſeruants of Hadarezer ſaw that they ſel before Israel, they made peace with Dauid, and ſerved him. And the Aramites woulde no moſe succour the children of Ammon.", "C H A P . X X .", "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

David cauſeth to nomber the people.

1.Chron.

The plague. David repeteth.

a Or, Raphaiah, or, the gyants.

b Keade, 2.Pam. 21.19.

c Meaning, that he had not a piece on hands &c. fere.

d He tempted David in fire, making before his eyes his ercels and gлыe, his power and butioneersrab, 2.Sam. 24.1. b That is, to South to Japhth.

e It was a thing inbifies rent & utaual number, but geane, but because he did it of an ambitious mind, as though his strength stode in his people, God punyphed him. f Joab partyl for grieue and varithrough negligence, gateth not the whole人民 but the whole人民 as it is here declared. g In Samuel 18 mention of thirteenth thousand more: which was also the last by toping to them some of a hundred tamirs, which were mured to Judah, 01, as the children were, here the children are left out. h Or, Prophet.

i Or, finite thee.

5

6

7

8

a David cauſeth the people to be nombed, 14 And there dpe ſeuentie thouſand men of the pellſence.

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3

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10

11

12

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children of *Haraphah, and they were subdued.

And there was yet another battel with the Philifing:and Ebanan the ſonne of Jair lewef c Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whole ſpeare ſtaffe was like a weavers beame.

And yet again there was a battel at Gath, where was a man of a great ſtature, & his fingers were by d fixes, even four ſtwentie, and was also the ſonne of Haraphah.

And when he revuiled Israel, Jehonathan the ſonne of Shimea Dauids brother dyd flap him.

These were done unto Haraphah at Gath, and fell by the hande of David: and by the hands of his ſeruants.

CHAP. XXI.

A Jordan a Satan stood vp against Israel, & πυουked Daud to nomber Israel. Therfore David laid to Joab, and to the rulers of the people, Go, & number Israel from b Beer-sheba even to Dan, and bring it to me, that I may knowe the nomber of them.

And Joab anſwered, The Lorde increasea his people an hundred tymes so manie as they be, D my lord the King: are they not al my lords ſeruants? wherefore doeth my lord require this thing: why should he be a cauſe of c treſpasse to Israel?

A neuerthelesſe the Kings word prenayled against Joab. And Joab departed a went through all Israel, a returned to Jeruſalæ. And Joab gaue the noſder & ſumme of the people vnto David: a all Israel were d eleuen hundred thouſande men that diere wold : and Judah was e ſoure hundred ſeuentie thouſand men that diere wold. But the Leuites and Beniamin counted he not among them : for the Kinges word was abominable to Joab.

C And God was diſpleaed w this thing: therefore he ſmote Israel.

Then David laid vnto God, I haue finned greatly, because I haue done this thing: but now, I beſeech thee, remoue the iniquitie of the ſeruant: for I haue done very foolishly.

And the Loide spake vnto Gad Dauids

Seer, saying,

Go and tell David, saying, Thus ſayth the Loide. I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it vnto thee.

So Gad came to David, ſayd vnto him, Thus ſayth the Lord, Take to thee

Either three peeres ſamine, or three moſets to be destroyed before thine aduerſaries, and the word of thine enemies to take thee, or els the word of the Loide and pellſence in the lande three dapes, that the Angel of the Lord may destroy throughout all the coaſtes of Israel: no[ther] therefore aduise thee, what word I hal bring againe to him that sent me.

And David ſayde vnto Gad, I am in a

wonderfull ſtraite. let me now fall into the hand of the Lord: for his mercies are exceeding great, and let me not fall into the hand of man.

14 So the Loide sent a pellſence in Israel, a there ſell of Israel ſeuentie thouſand men.

15 And God ſent the Angel into Jeruſalem to deſtroye it. And as he was deſtroying, the Lord beheld, and repented of the ill and ſayd to the Angel that deſtroyed, It is now enough, let thine hand cease. Then the Angel of the Loide stode by the thylſhing floode of Dman the Jeſuſite.

16 And David lift vp his eyes, and saue the Angel of the Lord stand betwene the earth and the heauen with his word drawn in his hande, & stretched out toward Jeruſalem. Then David and the Elders of Israel, which were clothed in ſacke, fell upon their faces.

17 And David ſayde vnto God, Is it not I comanded to nomber the people? It is euen I that haue finned a haue committed ill, but theſe theſee what haue they done? D Lord my God, I beſeech thee, let thine had be on mee and on my father's house, and not on h thy people for their deſtruction.

18 C Then the Angel of the Lord comanded Gad to ſay to David, that David thouſde go vp, and let bp an altar vnto the Loide in the thylſhing floode of Dman the Jeſuſite.

19 So David went vp according to the ſaying of Gad, which he had spoken in h name of the Lord.

20 And Dman turned about, and ſaw the Angel, and his ſoure ſonnes that were with him, hyd themſelues, and Dman thylſhed wheate.

21 And as David came to Dman, Dman looked and ſawe Daud, a went out of the thylſhing floode, ſbowed him ſelſe to David with his face to the ground.

22 And David ſayde to Dman, Gue mee the place of thy thylſhing floode, that I maye buypid an k altar therein vnto the Loide: gue it mee for ſuſcient moneyp, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

23 Then Dman ſayd vnto David, Take it to thee, a let my lord the King doe that which ſeemeth him good: lo, I gue thee bullockes for ſ burnt offrings, and thylſhing instruments for wood, and wheate for meat of offering, I gue it all.

24 And King David ſayd to Dman, Not to: but I wil bye it for ſuſcient moneyp: for I wil not take that which is thine for D Lord, no offer burnt offrings without coſt.

25 So David gaue to Dman for that place m ſire hundred ſkeles of golde by weight.

26 And David buypit there an altar vnto the Lord, and offred burnt offrings, and peace offrings, and called vpon the Loide, and he anſwered him by fire from heauen vpon the altar of burnt offering.

27 And wher the Lord had spoken to h Angel, he put vp his word againe into his theſeath.

a Keade, 2.Pam. 21.16. When God brought him back his plagues, he ſent him to expirabde Gen. 6.

b Or, Azarneh.

c Thus he both himselfe a true repreſence a faſt, there cauſes wath his pape, which he diſeath God a carre vnto a punyph and jus.

d If man hine himselfe at the flight of an Angel, which is a creature, hote much leſse is a ſinner able to expirabde before the face of God.

e Thus he did by D man, and committed diſeruial of God, as verbi. I ſa eba u it had bene abominable, except he had either God word, or renuſation. That is, as much as it is worth: for his uing enough for a pre to have a take of another manne goda, to offer vnto him, and not be bauſhed not accepatable to God.

f Or, Keade, 2.Pam. 21.24. God deſaithred D he heard his reuion in that he sent downe fire to heauen: for d thes might be no fire, but that which was to the fire then upon the altar, 6.12, and cam downe from heauen, kent. 9.24, as appereth by the puyuification of Adah and Mihim, Linit 10.1.

28 A

Salomons charge touching the

Chap.xxij. xxiiij.

Temple. Leuites nombred. 168

28 At that time when David saw that the
LoD had heard him in the threshing floor
of Oman the Jebulite, then hee sacrificed
there.

29 (But the Tabernacle of the LoDde which
Holes had made in the wildernes,and the
altar of burnt offering were at that season in
the hie place at Gibbon.)

30 And David could not go before it to arise
counsel at God: for he was a sprayde of the
Sword of the Angel of the Lord)

CHAP. XXII.

2 David prepared things necessary for the building of the Temple,
the commandment his Sonne Salomon to builde the Temple of the
LoDe, which thing he himselfe was to do before to do.
3 Under the name of Salomon Chyll is promised.

2 That is, the
place wherein
he will be looK-
happened.

And David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for the burnt offering of Israel.

2 And David commanded to gather together the 5 strangers that were in the lande of Israel, and he let matons to hewe and polish stones to build the house of God.

3 David also prepared much yon for the naples of the doones & of the gates, and for the iopnings, and abundance of biaffe pal sing weight.

4 And cedar trees without number: for the Zidonians and they of Tyros brought much cedar wood to David.

5 And David layde, Salomon my Sonne is
yong a tender, and we must build an house
for the LoDde, magnificall, excellent and of
great fame a dignitie throughout all coun-
tries. I will therefore nowe prepare for
him. So David prepared very much before
his death.

6 Then he called Salomon his Sonne, and
charged him to buyl d an house for the
LoD God of Israel.

7 And David said to Salomon, *My Sonne,
I purpoled with my selfe to builde an house
to the Name of the Lord my God,

8 But the world of the Lord came to me, lay-
ing, *d Thou haſt ſhed much blood, and haſt
made great battels: thou haſt not buyl d an
house into his Name: for thou haſt ſhed
much blood upon the earth in my light.

9 Behold, a sonne is born to thee, which shall be a man of rest, for I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: therefore his name is Salomon: and I will fende peace and quietnes vpon Israel in his dayes.

10 He shall buylde an house for my Name,
and he shall be my Sonne, and I will be his
father, and I will establish the thone of his
kingdome vpon Israel for ever.

11 Nowe therefore up Sonne, the LoD shall
with thee, and thou haſt a p[ro]ſper, and thou
halt buylde an house to the LoD thy God,
as he haſt spoken of thee.

12 Only the LoD give thee a wiledom and un-
derstand[ing], a giue thee charge ouer Israel,
euen to keepe the Law of the LoD thy God.

13 Then thou haſt p[ro]ſper, if thou take heede
to obferue the Statutes and the judgements
which the LoDde commended Holes for.

Israel: be strong and of good courage: keare not, neither be a sprayde.

14 For beholde, according to my ſ pouertie
haue I prepared for the house of the LoDde
an hundred thousand talents of golde, and
a thousand thousand talents of liluer, and
of biaſſe and of yon palling weyght: for
there was abundance: I haue also prepa-
red timber and stone, and thou mayest pio-
vide more thereto.

15 Moreover thou haſt wo: kemen with thee
ynough, 4 hewers of stone, a wo: kemen for
timber, and all men expert in euery wo: rk.

16 Of Golde, of liluer, & of biaſſe, and of yon
there is no number: 5 Up therefore, and be
doing, and the LoD will be with thee.

17 David also commanded all the princes of
Israel to helpe Salomon his Sonne, lay[ing].

18 Is not the LoDde your God with you, and
hath given you rest in euery side? for hee
hath given the inhabitants of the land into
mine hande, and the land is subdued before
the LoD and before his people.

19 Now let you heartes and your foules to
seeke the LoDde your God, and arple, and
buvde the Sanctuarie of the LoD God to
bring the Arke of the couenant of the LoD,
and the holie beſſels of God into the houſe
buvl it for the Name of the LoD.

For David
was your it
reuerent of
LoDnon.

*Or, ma[n]ors, and
carpenters.

b That is, go
about it
quickly.

CHAP. XXIII.

1 David being old, he cometh Salomon King: 2 he cometh the Levites to be nombed, 4 And amasse them to their offices. 13 Aaron and his Sonnes are for the he Piel, 14 The Sonnes of J. Moles.

S When David was olde and full of
dayes, *he made Salomon his Sonne
King ouer Israel.

2 And he gathered together all the princes of
Israel with the Priests and the Levites.

3 And the Leuites were nombred from the
age of thirtie yeere a aboue, and their nom-
ber according to their ſunne was epght a
thirtie thousand men.

4 Of these foure and twentie thouland were
ſet to a aduance the wo: rk of the house of
the LoDde, and fix thouland were ouerleers
and iudges.

5 And foure thouland were porters, and four
thouand prafated of LoD with instruments
which he made to p[ra]ſe the Lord.

6 * So David deuided offices vnto them, to
wit, to the Sonnes of Leu, to * Gershon, K[]o-
hath, and Merari.

7 Of the Gershonites were Laadan and Shimei.

‡ Ebr. I. made
meaning David.
Chap. 6.1.

8 The Sonnes of Laadan, the chieſe was Je-
hiel, and Zetham and Joel, three.

9 The Sonnes of Shimei, Shelomith, H[]a-
ziel, and Haram, three: theſe were the chieſe
fathers of Laadan.

10 Also the Sonnes of Shimei were J[eh]ath,
Zina, Jeuſh, and B[er]iah: theſe ſoure were
the Sonnes of Shimei.

11 And J[eh]ath was the chieſe, a Z[is]ah the
ſecond, but Jeuſh and B[er]iah had not ma-
nie Sonnes: therefore they were in the fami-
lies of their father, counted but as one.

12 The Sonnes of K[oh]ath were Imram,
I[sh]ar,

b Or, Z[is]na.

1 Meaning,
comming
out of
other nations
which
buit among
the Jews.

2 Go to,
which weight

3 Go to,
which weight

4 Go to,
which weight

5, 6, 7, 9.

The nations
round about.

For eſe he
knew the
God would
plague
them, and not
p[ro]ſper their
labours except
the p[ro]ſult
of their hea[re]ts
to the p[ro]ſult of his
glory.

2 Sam. 7:13.

Chap. 3.
d This bedels
rth house
grat God
betake himselfe
the f[ra]shing of
blood, feing
David for this
saue to be floued
to the Temple of
the LoD, altho[e he
emerged 110
years, but by
Gods chivalry
brlement and as
p[er]fect his mes-
unnes.

1 Sam. 7:13.

1 King. 9:5.

c The God which
that there can
be no p[ro]ſes
rrie, but when
the LoD is
with him,
there are on-
the means
the kings
in order there
subdued as
right, a w[er]mee
d to be p[er]ſonder
and flow[ing].

Of the Leuites, and

Chap. xxv. xxvj.

their offices. 169

20 And of þ sonnes of Leuï that remained of the sonnes of Amram, was Shubael, of the sonnes of Shubael, Iediah,

21 Of Rechabiah, euen of the sonnes of Rehaiah, the first Ishiyah,

22 Of Ishari, Shelomoth, of the sonnes of Shelomoth, Jahath,

23 And his sonnes Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jاهziel the third, and Jekamiah the fourth,

24. The sonne of Uzziel was Michah, þ sonne of Michah was Shamar,

25 The brother of Michah was Ishiyah, the sonne of Ishiyah, Zechariah,

26 The sonnes of Merari were Mahli and Mulhi, the sonne of Jaaziah was Beno,

27 The sonnes of Merari of Jاهaziah were Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur & Izb.

28 Of Mahli came Eleazar, which had no sonnes.

29 Of Kish, the sonne of Kish was Jerahmeel,

30 And the sonnes of c Mulhi were Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth: these were fones of the Leuites after the houyholde of their fathers.

31 And these also caſt lottes with their diethen the sonnes of Aaron before King David, and Zadok and Ahimelech and the chieſe fathers of the Diels, and of the Leuites, euen the chieſe of the families againſt their yonger diethen.

C H A P. XXV.

The fingers are appointed with their places and lots.

1

S Daud and the captains of the armie separated for the minifterie the sonnes of Akaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun, who should sing prophesies with harpes, with violes, and with cymbales, and their nomber was euen of the men for the office of their minifterie, to wit,

2 Of the sonnes of Akaph, Zaccur, and Joseph, and Methaniah, and Aharelah the sonnes of Akaph were under the hand of Akaph, which ſang prophesies by the commitment of the King.

3 Of Jeduthun, the sonnes of Jeduthin, Sedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshatiah, Ashabiah, and Hattithiah, b five, under the hands of their father: Jeduthun ſang c prophesies with an harpe, for to give thanks and to praise the Lord.

4 Of Heman, the sonnes of Heman, Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerunoth, Hananiah, Hanam, Eliathah, Eiddalti, and Romanti, ezer, Jolybekahah, Molloth, Hothit and Mahazioth.

5 All these were the sonnes of Heman the Kinges a Seer in the words of God to lift up the home ; and God gaue to Heman fourtene sonnes and three daughters.

6 All these were under the hand of their father, singing in the house of the Lord with cymbales, violes and harpes, for the ſervice of the house of God, and Akaph, and Jeduthun, and Heman were at the Kinges

† commandement.

‡Ebrhand,

So was their nomber with their diethes that were inſtruct in the ſongs of the Lord, euen of all that were cumming, two hundred foure ſtoze and eight.

And they caſt lottes, d charge against them, e well e ſinall as great, the cumming man as the schole.

And the first lot ſel to f Joseph, which was of Akaph, the ſeconde, to Gedaliah, who with his diethen and his ſonnes were twelue.

10 The third, to Zaccur, he, his ſonnes & his diethen were twelue.

11 The fourth, to Izri, he, his ſonnes and his diethen twelue.

12 The fifth, to Methaniah, he, his ſonnes and his diethen twelue.

13 The fifth, to Bukkiah, he, his ſonnes & his diethen twelue.

14 The ſeventh, to Jesharelah, he, his ſonnes and his diethen twelue.

15 The eight, to Jeshatiah, he, his ſonnes and his diethen twelue.

16 The ninth, to Mattaniah, he, his ſonnes and his diethen twelue.

17 The tenth, to Shumei, he, his ſonnes and his diethen twelue.

18 The eleuent, to Azareel, he, his ſonnes & his diethen twelue.

19 The twelft, to Ahabiah, he, his ſonnes & his diethen twelue.

20 The thirtenth, to Shubael, he, his ſones and his diethen twelue.

21 The fourteenth, to Mattithiah, he, his ſones and his diethen twelue.

22 The fifteenth, to Jerimoth, he, his ſonnes & his diethen twelue.

23 The sixtenth, to Hananiah, he, his ſonnes and his diethen twelue.

24. The ſevententh, to Jolybekahah, he, his ſonnes and his diethen twelue.

25 The eighteenth, to Hananu, he, his ſonnes and his diethen twelue.

26 The unneteth, to Molloth, he, his ſonnes and his diethen twelue.

27 The twentieth, to Eliathah, he, his ſones and his diethen twelue.

28 The one and twentieth, to Hothir, he, his ſonnes and his diethen twelue.

29 The two and twentieth, to Eiddalti, he, his ſonnes and his diethen twelue.

30 The three and twentieth, to Mahazioth, he, his ſonnes and his diethen twelue.

31 The foure and twentieth, to Romanti, ezer, he, his ſonnes & his diethen twelue.

C H A P. XXVI.

The ponters of the Temple are obſemed, euer man to the gate, which he should keep, 20 And ouer the treaſure.

d who should be in euer company and tourne.

e Without respect to age or cumming.

f So that he feruie in the first tourne, and the real euer one as his tourne followed udberep.

Or, the Zerites.

g Or, courſes and tourne.

Concerning the divisions of the potters, of the Korhites, Meshelemiah þ sonne of Kove of the ſonnes of a Akaph. And þ ſonnes of Meshelemiah, Zechariah the eldest, Jedael the second, Zevadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,

Elam þ first, Jehohanan the first, & Elieho

F i.

enai

This Akaph was not the notable maſſation, but amazement of that name called at to Jeshaph, Chap. 6:23, 17; § 9:19, and alio Ja apy,

The porters of the Temple.

1. Chron.

Ouerfeers of the treasures.

enait le seuenti.

4 And of the Sonnes of Obed Edom, She-
maiah the eldest, Jehozabad the second, Jo-
ah the third, and Sacar the fourth, &c.
thaneel the fifth,

5 Ammiel the sixth, Jachar the seuenti,
Deuthai the eight: for God had ♃ ble-
fed him.

6 And to Shemaiah his Sonne, were Sonnes
bome, that c ruled in the house of their
ther, for they were men of might.

7 The Sonnes of Shemaiah were Othni, א
Rephael, א Obed, Elzabad & his bethzen
strong men: Elihu also, and Semachiah.

8 All these were of the " Sonnes of Obed E-
dom, they and their Sonnes & their bethzen
mightie & strong to serve, euen three Sonne
and two of Obed Edom.

9 And of Meshelemaiah Sonnes and bethze,
eightene mightie men.

10 And of Hophah of the Sonnes of Merari, the
Sonnes were Shuri the chiefe, and (though
hee was not the eldest, yet his father made
him the chiefe)

11 Helkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, &
Zechariah the fourth: al the " Sonnes and
the bethzen of Hophah were thirtene.

12 Of these were the " Divinations of the porters of the chiefe men, having the charge: a gainst their bethzen, to serve in the house of the Lord.

13 And they cast lottes both small and great
for the house of their fathers, for euery
gate.

14 And the lot on the Eastside fel to " Shele-
miah : then they cast lottes for; Zechariah
his Sonne a wife counseler, and his lot came
out Northward :

15 To Obed Edom Southward, and to his
Sonnes the house of א Shuppim:

16 To Shuppim and to Holah Westward be
with the gate h of Shallecheth by the pa-
ned Streete that goth byward, ward ouer
againſt warde.

17 Eastward were ſite Leuites, and North-
ward be ſoure a day, and Southward be ſoure
a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.

18 In Barbar toward the West were ſoure
by the paued Streete, and two in Barbar.

19 These are the Divinations of the porters of the Sonnes of Koze, a of the Sonnes of Me-
tari.

20 C And of the Leuites. Ahiah was ouer
the treasures of the house of God, and ouer
the treasures of the dedicate things.

21 Of the Sonnes of Laadan the Sonnes of
the Gerunites descending of Laadā, the
chieſe fathers of Laadan were Gerhunni
and Jeheli.

22 The Sonnes of Jeheili vvere Zethan and
Joel his hother, appointed ouer ſtreatures
of the house of the Lord.

23 Of the ¹ Amranites, of the Ibarites, of
the Hebronites and of the Dzelites.

24 And Shebuel the Sonne of Gerhom, the
 Sonne of Moles, a ruler ouer the treasures.

25 And of his" bethzen which came of Elie-
zer, was Rehabiah his ſone, and Jelchiah
his ſonne, and Joam his ſonne, אֶצְח
his ſonne, and Shelomith his ſonne.

26 Which Shelomith and his bethzen were
ouer all the treasures of dedicated things,
which David the King, and the chieſe fa-
thers, the captaines ouer thousands, and
hundreths, and the captaines of the armie
had m dedicated.

27 (For of the battrels and of the spoiles they did dedicate to mainetaine the house of the
Lord)

28 And all that Samuel the Seer had de-
dicate, and Saul the Sonne of Kish a Abner
the Sonne of Aar, and Joab the Sonne of
Zeruiah, and whosoever had dedicate any
thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith,
and his bethzen.

29 Of the Ibarites was Chenaniah and his
Sonnes, for the buſines n without ouer Ira-
el, for officers and ſo iudges.

30 Of the Hebronites, Ahabiah and his beth-
zen, men of actiuitie, a thouſand, and de-
uen hundreth officers for Israel be-
yond Jorden Westward, in all the buſines
of the Loide, and for the seruice o the
King.

31 Among the Hebronites vvas J ediah the
chiefest, euen the Hebronites by his gene-
rations according to the families. And in
the fourtieth yeere of the reigne of Daud
they were ſought for; and there were found
among them men of actiuitie at Jazer in
Gilead.

32 And his p bethzen men of actiuitie, two
thouſand a ſeuen hundreth chieſe fathers,
whome King Daud made rulers ouer the
Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the haſe
tribe of Manasseh, for euery matter pertei-
ning to  God, and for the Kinges buſines.

1 Or, confus.

m According as the lawe comanched,
Amar, 1 Joh.

a Dreaming of things that
were out of the
hearts.

c That is, as
the kings
house.

p To the house of Jo
baan.

q Sooth in the
house of the
king.

C H A P . XXVII.

Of the princes and rulers that minitred into the King.

The children of Israel also after their
number, euen the chieſe fathers a cap-
taines of thouſands and of hundreths,
a their officers that ſerved the King by di-
uers courses, a which came in a went out,
moneth by moneth throughout all the mo-
neths of the yeere: in euery course vvere
four and twenty thouſand.

Ouer the first course for the first moneth
was Jathbeam the Sonne of Zabdiel: and
in his course were foure a twenty thouſand.
Of the Sonnes of Perez was the chieſe ouer
all the princes of the armies for the first
moneth.

4 And ouer the course of the second moneth
was Dodai, an Ahohite, and this was his
course, a Mikloth was b a captaine, a in his
course vvere foure and twenty thouſand.
The captaine of the third hoſte for the third
moneth was Benaiah the ſonne of Jeho-
da the chieſe Priſt: and in his course were
foure and twenty thouſand.

The divinations,
or bands.

a Which were
cured their
charge and ob-
sidy, which
ment by com-
ming in and
gouing out.

Chas.
Jehoshua
Lukan.

d In quing
hundreth
children.

c Or, like their
fathers houſe,
meaning, wu
the men, and
bland.

a Or, nepheles.

d And in uerte
to ſonne the
office of the
poſtership.

a Or, confus.

a Or, confus.

e According to
their turnes,
atwell the one
as the other.

a Or, Meshe-
mah.

f One eruert
and meete to
kepe that
gate.

g This was an
houſe, where
then ſuſed to
reſort to con-
ſult of things
concerning it.
Temple, as a
Conuocation
house.

h Duaarett
beu u'd to
call out the
ſich of the cis-
ſre.

i Dreaming,
two one day
two another.
k Which hua
an houſe wiper
in them kept
the instruments
of the Tem-
ple.

1 Christ also
had charge as
the treaures.

6 This

Rulers and officers appointed

Chap. xxviij.

to serve the King. 170

2 Sam. 13:29, 23, 27

6 This Benaiah was mighty amog' thirty
and aboue the thirty, and in his course was
Amizabad his sonne.

7 The fourth for the fourth moneth was A-sahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his sonne after him: and in his course were foure and twenty thousand.

8 The fifth for the fifth moneth was Prince Shabuth the Zrahite; and in his course foure and twenty thousand.

9 The sixth for the sixth moneth was Jra the
sonne of Jkehel the Tekoite: and in his
course foure and twenty thousand.

10 The seventh for the seventh moneth was Helez the Pelonite, of the sonnes of Ephraim: and in his course foure and twenty thousand.

11 The eight for the eight moneth was Sibbecat the Hulathite of the Zarites: and in his course foure and twenty thousand.

12 The ninth for the ninth moneth was Abiezer the Anethothite of the sonnes of Jemini: and in his course foure and twenty thousand.

*Oz, Benjamin.

13 The tenth for the tenth moneth was Barai, the Netophathite of the Zarites; and in his course foure and twenty thousand.

14 The eleventh for the eleventh moneth was Benaiah the Pirathonite of the sonnes of Ephraim: and in his course foure and twenty thousand.

15 The twelfth for the twelfth moneth was Hel-dai, the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course foure and twenty thousand.

c. Mannaing,
d. Hellesb, there
e. Rameses, the
f. Ramessus, the
g. Ramessus, the
h. Ramessus, the
i. Ramessus, the
j. Ramessus, the
k. Ramessus, the
l. Ramessus, the
m. Ramessus, the
n. Ramessus, the
o. Ramessus, the
p. Ramessus, the
q. Ramessus, the

16 MOizeout the rulers ouer the tribes of
Israel were these: ouer the Reubenites was
ruler, Eliezer the sonne of Zichri: ouer the
Shimeonites, Shephatiah the sonne of
Naachah:

17 Duer the Leuites, Dabah, Dabiah, the sonne of Renuel: ouer them of Baron, and Zedok:

18 Duer Judah, Elishu of the Bezethen of Daud: ouer Jastachar, Omri the sonne of Michael:

19 Duer Zebulun, Jhnaish the sonne of
Obadiah: ouer Naphtali, Jerueth the
sonne of Eliel:

20 Duer the sonnes of Ephzaim, Heshea the
sonne of Azaziah: ouer the halfe tribe of
Hananeth, Joel the sonne of Pedaziah:

21 Duer the d other halfe of Hananeth in Ge-
lead, Iddo the sonne of Zechariah: ouer
Benjamin, Jaafel the sonne of Abner:

22 Duer Dan, A, zariel the sonne of Jerohā.
these are the princes of the tribes of Israel.

23 C But Daud tooke not the number of
them from twenty yeere olde and under,
becauue the Loide had said that yee would
increase Israel like vnto the starres of the
heavens.

24 And * Joab the sonne of Zeruiah) began
to nomber: but he finished it not, * because
there came worth for it against Israel, ne-
ther was the number put into the ' Choni-

cles of King David.

25 And ouer the Kings treasuries was Azma-
uenh the sonne of Adiel: and ouer the trea-
sures in the fieldes, in the cities and in the
villages and in the towres was Jehonathä
the sonne of Uzziah:

26 And ouer the vorkemen in the fielde that
tilled the grounde, was Ezri the sonne of
Chelub:

27 And ouer them that dżelled the vines,
was Shimei, the Ramathite: and ouer
that which appertained to the vines, and
ouer the stóze of the wyne was Saddi the
Shiphmite:

28 And ouer the olive trees a mulberie trees
that were in the valléis, was Baal Hanan
the Sederite: over the stóze of the ople was
Joath:

29 And ouer the oren that kedde in Sharon,
was Shetrai the Sharonite: over the oren in the valléis was Shaphat the sonne of Adial:

30 And ouer the cameis was Obil the Jshma-
elite: and ouer the alles was Jehdeiah the
Meronothite:

31 And ouer the sheepe was Jaziz the Hage-
rite: all these were rulers of the substance
that was king Dauds.

32 And Jehonathan Dauds vncle a man of
counsel and of vnderstanding (for he was a
scribe) Jehiel the sonne of Hachinoni were
with the kings h sonnes.

33 And Ahitophel was the kinges counseler,
and Hulath the Archite the kings friend.

34 And after Ahitophel was Jehotada the
sonne of Benaiah and Abiathar: a captaine
of the kings armie was Joab.

CHAP. XXVIII.

Because Daud was forbidden to build the Temple, her winterh
Salomon and the people to perform it, 2 Exhorting him to
fear the Lord.

Now Daud assembled all the princes
of Israel: the princes of the tribes, a
the captaines of the báds that ferued
the king, and the captaines of thoulands a
the captaines of hundieths, and the rulers
of al the substance and posseſiò of the King,
and of his sonnes, with the "eunuches, and
the mighty, and all the men of power, vnto
Jerusalem.

And King David stooode vp on his feet,
and said, Heare ye me, my brethren and my
people: I purpòsed to have built an houre
of a rest for: the Arke of the covenant of the
Lord, a footstool of my God, and made ready for the building,

But God laid vnto me, * Thou haſt not
búylde an houre for my Name, because
thou haſt bene a man of warre, a haſt shed
blood.

Net as the Lord God of Israel chose mee
before all the houre of my father, to hee king
ouer Israel: euer (for in Judah would
he chuse a prince, and of the houre of b Ju-
dah is the houre of my father, and among
the sonnes of my father he delited in mee to
make me king ouer a Israel)

g That is a
man learned
in the word of
God.
h To be there
scholarmen
and tearees.
i. After that
Jehonath had
haged hunderf,
j. Jaua, 17:23.
k. Jehonah was
made couns
ler.

*Or, chief fer-
ants, Gen. 37.
36*

a Wives the
Arke should re-
maine and te-
noure no more
and so.
b. Phil. 9:5.

2 Sam. 7:5, 13,
chap. 22:8.

b According
to the sonne
of Jazeb, Gen.
19:8.

Jk. ii.

5 *So

Dauids exhortation.

1.Chron.

Giftes for the Temple.

Wd.9,7.

5

*So of all my sonnes for the Lo'de hath given me many sonnes) hee hath euen chosen Salomon my sonne to sitte vpon the thone of the kingdome of the Lo'de ouer Israel.

6

And he said but me, Salomon thy londe,
he shall builde mine house and my courtes:
for I haue chosen him to be my londe, and I
will be his father.

7

I will establish therefore his kingdome for
ener, if he induenour him selfe to doe my
commandements, and my judgements, as
this day.

8

Nowe therefore in the fight of all Israel
the Congregation of the Lo'de, & in the au-
dience of our God, keepe and seeke for all
the commandemts of the Lord your God,
that ye may posseſſe this good land, & leaue
it for an inheritance for your children after
you for ener.

9

And thou, Salomon my londe, know thou
the God of thy father, and serve him with
a perfite heart, and with a willing minde :
For the Lord searcheth al hearts, and un-
derstandeth all imaginations of thoughts :
if thou seeke him, he will be found of thee,
but if thou forſake him, hee will cast thee of
for ener.

10

Take heede now, for the Lord hath choſe
thee to build the house of the Sanctuarie :
be strong therefore, and do it.

11

Then David gaue to Salomon his
londe the paterne of the poiche and of the
houſes thereof, and of the cloſers thereof,
of the galeries therof, of the chabers ther-
of that are within, and of the house of the
mercileat,

12

And the paterne of all that he had in his
minde for the courts of the house of the Lo'de,
and for all the chambers round about, for the
treasures of the house of God, and for the
treasures of the dedicate things,

13

And for the courses of the Priestles, and of
the Leuites, and for all the woſke for the
ſeruice of the house of the Lo'de, and for all
the veffels of the minifterie of the house of
the Lo'd.

14

He gaue of gold by weight, for the veffels
of golde, for all the veffels of all maner of
ſeruice, and al the veffels of filuer by weight,
for all maner veffels of all maner of ſeruice.

15

The weight also of golde for the candle-
stickes, and golde for their lampes, with the
weight for euery candleſticke, and for the
lampes thereof, and for the candleſtixes of
filuer by the weight of the candleſticke, and
the lampes thereof, according to the vse of
euery candleſticke,

16

And the weight of the golde for the tables
of the webhead, for euery table, and filuer for
the tables of filuer,

17

And pure gold for the kelf) hooks, and the
bowles, and plates, and for baſens, golde
in weight for euery baſen, and for filuer ba-
ſins, by weight for euery baſen,

18

And for the altar of incense, pure golde by

c The contiſt
nue to keepe
my law and
depart not
the reſourſ, as
he worth his
choſer,

d To wait of
Canaan.

e he declar-
eth that he
bring canne-
parate them
from the cou-
modip of this
lond both to
themelues 4
their poſteri-
ty, but their
finner and un-
quitt.

1 Sam. 16, 7.
1 Sam. 17, 9, 10.
1 Sam. 11, 20. & 17.
1 Sam. 20, 12.

f Draining
for his londe.
g Plaſt in
ſeruicem.

h Ebr. that were
in his Spirit with
him.

k That is, the
ten candle-
stickes, 1. King.
7:49.

l *Of courting.

weight, and gold for the paterne of a
chaunt
ret of the Cherubs that spred them ſelues,
conuered the Arke of the couenant of the
Lo'd:

19 All, said he, by writing ſent to mee k by the
hande of the Lo'de, which made me under-
stand al the workemanship of the paterne.

20 And David adſe to Salomon his londe,
Be strong and of a baliant courage and do
it: keare not, nor bee afraid: for the Lo'de
God, euen my God, is with thee: he will not
leave thee not for take thee til thou haſt kiſ-
ſhed all the worke for the ſeruice of the house
of the Lo'd.

Behold also, the companies of the Priestles
& the Leuites for all the ſeruice of the house
of God, euen they shall be with thee for the
whole worke, with every free heart that is
kiſful in any maner of ſeruice. The princes
also and all the people will be wholey at thy
commandement.

C H A P . X X I X .

The offering of David of the princes for the building of the Temple,
10 David giuen thanks to the Lo'd. 20 He exhorteth the people to
doe the fireme. 23 Salomon is created king. 28 David bepeth, and
Salomon his ſonne reigneth in his land.

M OREOUER David the King layde vnto
al the Congregation, God hath cho-
ten Salomon mine only ſonne yong
and tender, and the woſke is great: for this
house is not for man, but for the Lo'd God.
Now I haue prepared with all my power
for the house of my God, golde for veffels of
golde, and filuer for them of filuer, a biaſſe
for things of biaſſe, yon for things of yon,
wood for things of wood, and ouri ſtones,
stones to be ſet, and carbuncle ſtones and of
diuers colours, and al precious ſtones, and
marble ſtones in abundance.

MOREOUER, because I have b delite in the
house of my God, I haue of mine owne golde
and filuer, which I haue giuen to the house
of my God, before all that I haue prepared
for the house of the Sanctuarie,

Even three thousand talents of golde of
the golde of Ophir, and feuen thousand ra-
leuts of fine filuer to ouer lay the walles of
the houſes.

The golde for the things of golde, and the
filuer for things of filuer, for all the woſke
by the hads of artificers: a who is a willing
*to fill his hand to dap vnto the Lo'd?

So the princes of the families, and the
princes of the tribes of Israel, and the cap-
tains of thouandands and of hundredths, with
the rulers of the Kinges woſke, offred wil-
lingly,

And they with what precious ſtones were
c founde, gaue them to the treaſure of the
house of the Lo'd, by the hand of Jeheil the
Gershunnite.

13 A command
of the mercur
gear which ca-
tured a fire
which was
called the cha-
ret brought the
land to the
unite there.
2 k was
left in
writing in the
booke of the
Luv. 13, 14.
2:46, which
book: the
king was
bouwd to put
in erection,
Deut. 17:19.

1 Christ is our
King, who will be
reuerent to help
them with which
he bathed
hath given
him.

2 Ebr. all thy
brothers.

3 I know these
brothers in my
brothers.

4 I give you
scale to take
the fireth
the fire of the
Temple made
hitherto to be
in expence,
but to be before
the one per-
cular treaſure
of his own
ſone for the
Lords land.

5 He was not
only in tibraal
humeſſe, but
pionerke as
there to be
with the
woſke of
God.
Org. offors.

6 I know them,
there that had
the house of the
Loud, by the hand of Jeheil the
Gershunnite.

9 And

Salomons prayer.

II. Chron.

Preparation for the Temple

C H A P . I.

6 The offering of Salomon at Gibeon, 3 The yarath into God to give him wifedom, 11 Wlich he giveth him and more, 14 The number of his charrets and hostes, 15 And of his riches,

1

On, established,
and strong, read
1. King 2:46.

Yen Salomon's sonne
of David was confirmed
in his kingdome:
and the Lorde his God
was with him, and magnified
him highly.

And Salomon spake
unto all Israel, to the

captains of thousands, and of hundreds; to the judges, and to all the governing nuns in all Israel, even the chiefe fathers.

So Salomon is at the Congregation with him went to the hie place that was at Gibeon: for there was the Tabernacle of the Congregation of God which Moles the Fernaunt of the Lo'd had made in the wilderness.

2 That is, he
2. pronounced a
solemnity, facti-
s, and com-
monly
that
all ye
at the fa-
ane.

b Bread 1, king.

3. So called,
4. because that
God thereby
threw certain
figures to the
congregation,
of his pies
fence.

d Which was
for the burnt
offences, Ero.

27. Exod. 38:1,2.

1. King, 3:4.

e. Personne
the pioniers
made to my
father, concer-
ning me.

f That I may
give you this
people, read
1. Chro. 27. 1.
§ 1. King, 3:7.

g That is, to
be revenged
on thine ene-
emi.

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

11

12

13

14.

hundreth charrets, a twelve thousand to le-
men, whome he placed in the charret cities,
and with the King at Jerusalem.

15

And the King gave silver and gold at Je-
rusalem as stones, and gave cedar trees as
the wilde figge trees, that are abundantly
in the plaine.

16

Alfo Salomon had horses brought out of Egypt as fine linen: the Kings matchets received the fine linen for a price.

17

They came vp also brought out of Egypt some charet, worth five hundreth thekels of silver, that is an horse for an hundred and fifty: and thus they brought horses to all the Kings of the Hittites, to the kings of Aram by their means.

C H A P . T I.

The number of Salomon's workmen to build the Temple, 3 as Solomon sendeth to Israel the King of Tyros for wood and wheat.

1

Yhen Salomon determined to build an house for the Name of the Lo'd, an house for his kingdome.

2

And Salomon told out twenty thousand that bare burdens, and foure score thousand men to hewe stones in the mountaine, and three thousand and a fire hundred to oversee them.

3

And Salomon sent to Huram the King of Tyrus, laying, As thou hast done to David my father, and, as diddest tend him, cedar trees to builde him an house to dwell in, to do me.

4

Beholde, I builde an house unto the Name of the Lo'de my God, to sanctifie it unto him, and to burne sweere incense before him, and so the continuall hewdew, and so the burnt offerings of the morning and evening, on the Sabbath days, and in the newe monethes, and in the solemn feastes of the Lo'de our God: this is a perpetuall thing for Israel.

5

And the house which I build, is great: so great is our God alone all gods.

6

Who is he then that can be able to builde
him an house, when the heane, and the hea-
uen of heauens cannot containe him? who
am I the that I should build him an house?
but I do it to burne incense before him.

7

Send me now therefore a cunning man that can worke in gold, in silver, in brass, and in yon, and in purple, and crimoin and blewe fuke, and that can graue in grauen worke with the cunning me that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, who David my father hath prepared.

8

Send me also cedar trees, firre trees and c' Algonnim trees from Lebanon: so I know that thy seruants can skill to hewe timber in Lebanon: and behold, my seruants shall be with thine,

9

That they may prepare me timber in a bu-
daunce: for the house which I doe builde, is
great and wonderful.

10

And beholde, I will give to the seruants
the cutters and the hewers of timber twen-
ty thousand measures of beaten wheat,
and twenty thousand measures of barley,
twentie

b Wlich here
is this ex-
prees
to I crie
and main
the charret.

c The rans
of great sum
that it hau
more then
then fume.

16. 19:9.
17. 20:7.
18. 10:28.

2. Halves.

* Or, Palæo.

a Which is
stand of all
officers and
officers were
the chiefe
officers were
but 3300 as
1. King, 3:6.
Or, Aram,
2. Sam. 2:11.

b That is, to
be the frame
which he build
and the frame
figueth that
none is able to
hewe and
give God in
that perfeu
on as his mas
the frame
of Israel.

c Some tab
of th. 1, in
the wood, cal
leb Cremini,
others fo
conall.
Or, Algonnim.

2. Chr. 2:10.

["Hurams workeman.", "Chap. iij. iiiij. The building of the Temple. 172", "twentie thouand baths of wine, and twentie thouand baths of oyle.", "10 Then Huram King of Tyros answered in writing which he sent to Salomão, Because the Lo'de hath loned his people, hee hath made thee King ouer them.", "11 Huram said mozouer, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which made the heauen and the earth, and that hath given vnto David the King a wife ſonne, that hath discretiſon, prudence and understanding to buylde an houſe for the Lo'de, and a palace for his kingdome.", "12 Now therefore I have ſent a wife man, and of understanding of my father Hurams,", "13 The ſonne of a woman of the Daughters of Dan; a his father was a man of Tyros; a he can kail to wouſe in golde, in filuer, in halle, in yon, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blew ſilke, and in fine linen and in crimofin, and can graue in al graue works, and boyder in all boydered wouſe that halle giuen him, with the cunning men, with the cunning men of my lo'de David thy father.", "14 Now therefore the wheatate and the barley, the oyle and the wine, which my lo'd hath poken of, let him ſend vnto his ſeruantes.", "15 And we will cut wood in Lebanon as much as thou ſhalt needle, and will bring it to thee in rakes by the sea to Japho, so thou maist take them to Jeruſalem.", "16 And Salomon nombred all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the nombing that his father David had nombred them: and they were found an hundred and three and fiftie thouand, and ſize hundred.", "17 And he let ſeventie thouand of them to the burden, ſoureſcoie thouand to hew ſlones in the mountaine, and three thouſande and ſize hundred ſ outerſers to cause the people to wouſe.", "### CHAP. III.", "1 The Temple of the Lo'd, and the poſt are builſed, with other things there belonging.", "1. King 6.", "1", "10 SO * Salomon began to build the house of the Lo'd in Jeruſalem, in mount Ptoleiah which had bin declared vnto David his father, in the place that David prepared in the threſhing ſloode of *Doman the Jeſuſite.", "2 Which of the mountain, cubit, and cubit, and cubit

Ornaments for the Temple.

II. Chron.

The Arke of the couenant.

*Or, *bore de-
licce.

d. In the first
book of kings,
Ch. 2, 26.

e. mention is
omitted as of
two thousand:
but the left
nonlicher was
taken there,
and here accor-
ing as the
measures pio-
ued afterward
is declared.

f. Even as
they should be
made.

f. Called also
the poite of
Salomon. Act.
1, 11. Jeis al-
so taken for
the Temple
where the chur-
ched peache,
Jeh. Mat. 2, 11.

g. *Or, caldrons,
*caldrons*.

h. Whom Da-
sonion reur-
ranced for the
gods that god
had given
Jum, as a fas-
ther: he had
the former name
also that yu-
rain the king
of Tyria, ha-
by his mother.
A Jewell
and his father
a Jewan.

i. Home rabe,
for his father,
the autour of
this wole.

j. In Eicluw,
the birth of
the faces, be-
came then
were let before
thee, king,
where
the Lord chrys-
rd his pies
fence.

*Or, in frummeis
of Muslike.

k. Chatis, co-
nered with
plates of gold.

partes were inwarde.

5 And the thickenesse thereof was an hand
headh, and the brim thereof was like the
wolke of the brim of a cup, with floures of
"lilies"; it conteyned "three thoufand baths."

6 The made also ten caldrons, and put fine
on the right hand, a fine on the left, to wash
in them, & to clene in them that which ap-
erteined to the burnt offrings; but the Sea
was for the Priests to wash in.

7 And he made ten candelsticks of golde
(according to their form) and put them in
the Temple, fine on the right hand, and fine
on the left.

8 And he made ten tables, and put them
in the Temple, fine on the right hand, a fine
on the left; and he made an hundred basens
of golde.

9 And he made the court of the Priests, and
the great court and doones for the court, a
outlayd the doones thereof with brasse.

10 And he let the Sea on the right side East-
ward toward the South.

11 And Huram made *pottes and besomes &
basens, and Huram finished the wole that
he should make for King Salomon for the
house of God,

12 To wit, two pillers, and the bowles and the
chapiters on the top of the two pillers, and
two grates to couer the two bowles of the
chapiters which were upon the toppe of the
pillers:

13 And four hundred pomegranates for the
two grates, two rowes of pomegranates
for every grate to couer the two bowles of
the chapiters, that were upon the pillers.

14. He made also bales, and made caldrons
upon the bales:

15 And a Sea, and twelve bulles under it:

16 Pottes also and besomes, and skiffhooes,
and all these beffels made Huram his fa-
ther, to King Salomon for the house of the
Lord, of shining brasse.

17 In the plaine of Jozden did the King call
them in clay betweene Succoth and Zere-
dathah.

18 And Salomon made all these beffels in
great abundance: for the weight of balle
could not be reckoned.

19 And Salomon made all the beffels that
were for the house of God: the golden altar
also to the tables, whereon the *b* shewhead
floode.

20 Moreouer the candlestickes, with their
lampes to burne them after the maner, be-
fore the oracle, of pure golde.

21 And the floures and the lampes, and the
snuffers of golde, which was fine golde.

22 And the hooke, & the basens, & the spones,
and the ashpannes of pure gold: the entry al-
so of the house and doones therof within, eue
of the most holy place: and the doones of the
house, to wit, of the Temple were *i* of gold.

CHAP. V.

1 The things dedicated by David, are put in the Temple. 2 The Arke is brought into the Temple. 10 What was within it. 12 The King statute to the gods.

1 S D was al the work finished that Sa-
lonion made for the house of the Lorde,
and Salomon brought in the things
that David his father had dedicated, with
the sluer and the gold, and al the beffels, &
put them among the treasures of the house
of God.

2 Then Salomon assembled the Elders of
Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the
chiefe fathers of the children of Israel vnto
Jerusalem to bring vp the Arke of the cou-
nant of the Lord from the *a* citye of David,
which is Zion.

3 And all the men of Israel assembled into
the King at the *b* feast: it was in the seventy
*cc* moneth.

4 And at the Elders of Israel came, and the
Leuites tooke vp the Arke.

5 And they carted by the Arke and the Ta-
bernacle of the Congregation : and all the
holy beffels that were in the Tabernacle,
those did the Priests and Leuites bring vp.

6 And King Salomon and all the Congree-
gatios of Israel *c* were assembled into him,
were before the Arke, offering Sheepe and
bullockes, which could not be fold no: nom-
bed for multitude.

7 So the Priests brought the Arke of the
couenant of the Lorde vnto his place, into
the Oracle of the house, into the most Ho-
ly place, euen under the wings of the Che-
tubins.

8 For the Cherubims stretched out their
winges over the place of the Arke, and the
Cherubims couerted the Arke & the barres
thereof aboue.

9 And they brought out the barres, that the
endes of the barres might be seene out of the
Arke before the Oracle, but they were not
seene *d* without: and there they are into
this day.

10 Nothing was in the Arke, *faue* *d* two Ta-
bles, which Holes gaue at Horeb, where *p*
Lord made a couenant with the children of
Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

11 And when the Priests were come out of
the Sanctuary (for all Priests that were
preſent, were *c* ſanctified and did not waite
by couple.

12 And the Leuites the Singers of all Singes,
as of Alaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun and of
their Sonnes and of their Children, being
clad in fine linen, Sood with cymbales, and
with violes and harpes at the East ende of
the altar, and with them an hundred and
twentie Priests blowing with trumpets:

13 And they were *as one, blowing trumpets,
and Singing, *a* made one founde to be heard
in praying and thanking the Lord, *a* when
they lift vp their boye with trumpets and
with cymbales, and with instruments of
muslike, and when they prayed the Lorde,
singing, *b* for he is good, because his mercie
lasteth for ever then the house, euen the house
of the Lord was filled with a cloud.

14. So that the Priests could not stand to
minister,

1. King J. J. K.
2. 1 Cor. 6, 11.

3. *Isaiah* 6, 11.

b When the
things were
brought into
the Temple,
c Callers in Es-
chim, counter-
ning part of
September, *c*
part of Gats
h, *d* which mis-
net *p* *Jehu*
called the first
month, *e* *be*
came there, *f*
that the wail
wascribely,
*g* that the
month was
multieth,
*h* and after
they came to
*i* Egypt
there
began
*j* the
Arke, *k*
became this
opium to be
*l* certaine,
*m* to make
*no* the
*nt* enter the
field,
*nt* as left
*nt* up
*nt* near
*nt* here
*nt* so
*nt* as
*nt* this
*nt* was
*nt* brought
*nt* to this
*nt* place.

d For Maras-
rod, *p* *Khan*
na were taken
before
it was brought
to this place.

*Or, wlich
the Oracle.*

e Where pirs
paid to leme
the *a* 4, 6, 8.

f The arche
is all in one
time.

g This was
the effect of
time longs.

Salomon prayeth God,

Chap.vj.

and prayeth for the people. 173

minister, because of the clouded: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.

C H A P . V J .

1 Salomon blessed the people, &c. *He prayeth for the Lord.* 14 He prayeth unto God for that which he prayeth in the Temple.

1

Then *Salomon sa yd, The Lord hath said that he would dwell in the dark clouded:

2 And I have built thee an house to dwell in, an habitation for thee to dwell in for ever.

3 And the King turned his face, and blessed all the congregation of Israel (for all the Congregation of Israel stood there)

4 And he sa y d, Blessed be the Lo r d God of J r a e l , who s pake with his mouth vnto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, s ay ing,

5 Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my Name might bee there, neither chose I any man to be a ruler ouer my people Israel:

6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, for my Name might be there, and have chosen David to be your people Israel.

7

* And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house vnto the Name of the Lord God of Israel,

8 But the Lo r d sa y d to D a u d my f ather, w here as it was in thine heart to build an house vnto my Name, thou didst well, that * thou w a s t so m i n d e d .

9 Notwithstanding thou shall not build the house, but thy sonne which shall come out of the loynes, he shall build an house vnto my Name.

10 And the Lo r d h a s t p e r f o r m e d h i s w o r d that he s pake : I am risen vp in the towne of David my father, I am set on the throne of Israel as the Lo r d p r o m i s e d , I ha u e b u i l t an h o u s e t o t h e N a m e o f t h e Lo r d E d o f J r a e l .

11 And I have set the Arke there, wherein is the *b* covenant of the Lo r d , that hee made with the children of Israel.

12 And the King *s*toode before the altar of the Lo r d , in the presence of all the Congregation of Israel, and stretched out his hands,

13 (For: Salomon had made a h a s e n s k a f s o l d e a n d s e t i t i n t h e m i dd l e s o f t h e c o u r t , o f k u e c u b i t es l o n g , a n d k u e c u b i t es h o u s e , a n d t h e e c u b i t es o f h e i g h t , a n d b u p t h e s t o o d , a n d k n e e d e d d o w n e p o n h i s k n e e s b efor e a ll t h e C o n g r e g a t i o n o f J r a e l , a n d *t h e s t r e t c h e d o u t h i s h a n d e s t o w a r d h e a u e n )

14 And sa y d , S. L o r d G o d o f J r a e l , *there is no God like thee in heauen nor in earth, which keepest covenant, and mercie vnto the seruants, that walke before thee with al their heart.

15 Thou that hast kept with thy seruant David my father, that thou hast promised him: for thou s pakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as appeareth this day,

16 Therefore now Lo r d G o d o f J r a e l , k e e p e w i t h t h e r e u n t A u d i t o m y f a t h e r , t h a t t h o u h a s t p r o m i s e d h u m , s a y i n g , T h o u s h a s t n o w a m a n i n m y s i g h t , t h a t s h a l l b u t o p t h e t h r o n e o f J r a e l : S o t h a t t h e y s o n n e s t a k e h e e d e t o t h e i r w a y e s , t o w a l k e i n m y L a w , a s t h o u s h a s t w a l k e d b efor e m e.

17 And now, S. Lo r d God of Israel, let thy w o r d be verified, which thou s pakest vnto thy seruant David.

18 (Is it true in deed & God will dwell with man on earth? beholde, the *heauens*, and the heauens of heauens are not able to containe thee : how much more vnable is this house, which I have built?)

19 But have thou respect to the prayer of thy seruant, and to his supplication, S. Lo r d my God, to heare the crie and prayer which thy seruant prayeth before me.

20 That thine eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place, whereof thou hast sa y d, that thou wouldest put the Name there, that thou mayst hearken vnto the prayer, which thy seruant prayeth in this place.

21 Weare thou therefore the supplication of thy seruant, and of thy people Israel, which they praye in this place: and heare thou in the place of thine habitation, even in heauens, and when thou hearest, be merciful.

22 C * when a man shall live agap ay n t h e i s 'neighbour, and he lay vpon him an othe to cause him to s weare, and the 's weare t h a l l come before thine altar in this house,

23 Then heare thou in heauen, and do, and judge thy seruants, in recompensing the wicke d to bring his way s vpon his head, and in justifying the righteous, to give him acco n t i d g i n g t o h i s r i g h t e o u l t s.

24 And when thy people Israel shall ouer-thyowne before the enemie, because they have sinned agap ay n thee, and turne againe, and *confesse thy Name, and pray, a make supplication before thee in this house,

25 Then heare thou in heauen, and be merciful vnto the sinne of thy people Israel, and bring them againe vnto the lande which thou gauest to them and to their fathers.

26 When heauen shall be shut vp, and there shall be no raine, because they have sinned agap ay n thee, and shall pray in this place, and confesse thy Name, and *turne from their sinne, when thou doest afflict them,

27 Then heare thou in heauen, and pardon the sinne of thy seruantes, and of thy people Israel ( when thou hast taught them the good way wherein they may walke) a give raine vpon thy land, which thou hast giuen vnto thy people for an inheritance.

28 C * when there shall be f am e i n t h e l a n d , w h e n t h e r e h a s t p e s t i l e n c e , b l a s t i n g , o r m i l d e w e , w h e n t h e r e h a s t b e g r a h o p p e r , o r c a t e r p i l l e r , w h e n t h e r e e n i m e s h a l l b e t t e g e t h e 's i n t h e c i t i e s o f t h e i r l a n d , o r a n p l a g u e o r a n s i c k n e s s l e ,

29 Then what prayer and supplication so ever shall be

E: a man shall not be cut off.

1 King. x. 37.

C: that their sinne declared in effect, that thou hast a continual care over this place.

1 King. x. 31.

E: retreating any thing from him, or else expelling him thence, or banishing him from his house.

E: meaning.

E: to give him that which he had before.

E: or,GRaia.

O: toward this place.

Chap. x. 39.

E: in the land of their gazaes.

1 King. x. 32.
2 A better that he should have the gaza of the Lord in the cloud.

E: or, power.

E: or, Temple.

E: 1 Sam. 7:5.

E: that, jehoshua is in thine heart.

E: * meaning, that the children in heaven are concerned in the effect of the covenant, that God made our fathers, &c. On a leaf of the *Jewish* that was made for that purpose, that he having for the toblet people might be heard of all, as 1. King. x. 32.

d. That to give thanks for the great benefits of God brought upon him, and also to pray for the perfections and mercies of his people.

E: Mac. x. 3.

* On the effect, or, by his power.

Salmons prayer for the people:

II. Chron.

His sacrifice, and feast

Shalbe made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when euery one shall knowe his owne plague, and his owne diſeale, and ſhal stretch forth his hands toward this house,

Heare thou then in heauen, thy dwelling place, and be mercieſull, and give euery man according unto all his wayes, as thou doest knowe his h heart (for thou onely knowest the hearts of the children of men)

That they may feare thee, and walke in thy wayes as long as they line in the lande which thou gaueſt unto our fathers.

Moreover, as touching the ſtraunger which is not of thy people Israel, who ſhall come out of a farre countrey for thy great names ſake, and thy mightie hand, and thy ſretched out arme: when they shall come to pray in this house,

Heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place, and do according to al that the ſtranger calleth for into thee, that all the people of the earth may know thy Name, and feare thee like thy people Israel, and that they may know, that thy Name is called upon in this house which I haue built.

When thy people shall go out to battel againſt their enemies, by the way that thou halt kende them, and they pray to thee, in the way toward this citie, which thou haſt chosen, euè toward the house which I haue built to thy Name,

Then heare thou in heauen their prayer & their ſupplication, and judge their caule.

If they ſinne againſt thee (*for there is no man that ſinneth not) and thou bee angry with them and deliuer them unto the enemies, and they take them and carie them away captive vnto a land farre oſneere,

If they turne againe to their heart in the land whether they be caried in captiues, and turne and pray vnto thee in the land of their captiuitie, laying, We haue ſinned, we haue transgressed and haue done wickedly,

If they turne againe to thee with all their heart, and with all their ſoule in the land of their captiuitie, whether they haue carried the captiues, or pray toward their lād, which thou gaueſt vnto their fathers, toward the city which thou haſt chosen, and toward the house which I haue built for thy Name,

Then heare thou in heauen, in the place of thine habitation their prayer and their ſupplication, and to judge their caule, to be mercieſull vnto thy people, which haue ſinned againſt thee.

Now my God, I beſeech thee, let thine eyes be open, and thine eares attent vnto the prayer that is made in this place.

Now therefore arise, O Lorde God, to come into thy rest, thou, and the Arke of thy strength: O Lord God, let thy Piestes be clothed with saluation, to let thy Saintes reioyce in goodnes.

O Lord God, refuse not the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies promiſed to David thy ſeruant.

h The deares that the virgins of thy parricids can not be heard, nor of any of them, which may be God with an unfamed faith, and in true reſentance.

i The Swith that before God there is no acceptance of penion, but all people that feareth him and waketh richteouſ, is accepted, Act. 1:10,11.

k Morning, that none ought to enſurable amaze, but at the Lorde's commandment, that is, which is lawfull by his word. Or, according to the maner of this cise. 1. King. 1:2. 2. 1. 1:10,11.

*Orepeſt.

*Omnineſting their right,

Psal. 1:12, 1. That is, into the Temple.

m Let them be welmeruſt in thy power & in the verſus & houſus. n Heare my prayer, which am thine as-

The fire confirmed the ſacrifice. 2 The glorie of the Lord ſiſteth the Temple. 3 He heareth his player, 4 And prouides to craft him and his epiſtle.

And when Salomon had made an end of praying, fire came down from heauen, and confirmed the burnt offering and the ſacrifices: and the glorie of the Lord filled the house,

So that the Piestes could not enter into the house of the Lorde, because the glorie of the Lord had filled the Loides house.

And when all the children of Israel saw the fire, and the glorie of the Lord come downe upon the house, they bowed them ſelues with their faces to the earth upon the pauent, and worſhipped and praisèd the Lorde, laying, For he is good, because his mercie laſeth for euèr.

Then the King and all the people offered ſacrifices before the Lord.

And King Salomon offered a ſacrifice of two and twentie thouand bullocks, and an hundred and twentie thouande theepe. So the King and all the people dedicated the house of God.

And the Priests wayted on their offices, and the Levites with the instruments of musike of the Lord, which King David had made to praise the Lord, Because his mercie laſeth for euèr: when David praisèd God by them, the Priests also blew trumpets ouer againſt them: and all they of Israel stood by.

Moreover Salomon halowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there had z prepared burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the braen altar which Salomon had made, was not able to receue the burnt offering, and the meat offering, and the fat.

And Salomon made a feast at that time of ſeuen dayes, to all Israel with him, a very great Congregation, from the entring in of Hamath, vnto the river of Egypt.

And in the eight day they made a ſolennie assemblie: for they had made the dedicatiſon of the altar ſeuen dayes, and the feast ſeuen dayes.

And the d three and twentieth day of the ſeventy moneth, he ſent the people away into their tentes, ioyous and with glad heart, because of the goodnes that the Lorde had done for David and for Salomon, and for Israel his people.

So Salomon finished the house of the Lorde, and the Kinges house, and all that came into Salomons heart to make in the house of f Lord: as he p[ro]p[er]ed in his house.

And the Lorde appeared to Salomon by night and ſayd to him, I haue heard thy prayer, and haue chofen this place for my ſelſe to be an house of ſacrifice.

If I but the heauen that there be no raine, or if I command the graſhopper to deuoue the lande, or if I ſend pestilence among my people,

If my people, among whom my Name is called

1. Mac. 1:10.

2. Ver. 1. God declared that he was plighted with the lomous p[ra]ſa[ur]t.

1. King. 1:11.

2. Ex. 1:11.

3. The ſeal of the Tabernacles which was kept in the ſeruity money.

4. They affeſtred to heare the way of God with after that they had resided ſeruie dayes in the heauens or in Tabernacles. 5. They had leaſen to part the two and twentie h[ap], 1. King. 6. 60, but they were not as they were in the next day. 1. King. 9.

Non. 1:12.

Gods promife. Salomons buildings: Chap.viiij. ix.

He offereth sacrifices. 174

called upon, do humble the selues, and pray, and feeke my prefence, and turne from their wicked wayes, then wil I heare in heaven, and be mercifull to theirime, ſ will ehe their land:

15 Then mine eies ſhall be open a mine eares attent unto the prayer made in this place.

16 For I have now chosen and fanctified this house, that my Name may be there for euer: and mine eves and mine heart ſhall be there perpetually.

17 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, to do according unto all that I have commanded thee, and ſhalt obſerve my Statutes and my judgements,

18 Then wil I ſtablish the throne of thy king-dome, according as I made the couenaint with David thy father, laying,*Thou ſhalt not want a man to be ruler in Israel.

19 But if ye turne away, and forſake my ſta-tutes and my commaundements which I have ſet before you, and all shall go and ſerve o-ther goddes, and worſip them,

20 Then will I pluck them vp out of my land, which I have giuen them, and this houſe which I have ſanctified for my Name, wil I call out of my ſight, and will make it to be a prouerbe and a common taſke among all people.

21 And this houſe which is moſt he, that he an aſtoniſhment to every one that palfeth by it, ſo that he ſhall lay, who hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this houſe?

22 And they that haſen were, Because they ſo-ſooke the Lord God of ier fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and haue taken holde on other gods, and haue worſhipped them, and ſerved them, therfore hath he brought all this euill upon them.

CHAP. VIII.

a The cities that Salomon built. 7 People that were made tributes unto him. 12 His ſacrifices. 17 His ſeniteth to Gypyr.

And *after* twentie yere when Salomon had built the houſe of the Loſde, and his owne houſe,

2 Then Salomon built the cities that Pu-ram b gaue to Salomo, and cauſed the chil-dren of Israel to dwell there.

3 And Salomon went to Hamath Zobah, and ouercame it.

4 And he built Tadmoir in the wildernes, as repayed all c the cities of ſtore which hee built in Hamath.

5 And he built d Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, cities defensed with walles,gates and barres:

6 Allo Baalath, and al the cities of ſtore that Salomon had, and all the charet cities, and the cities of the hoſlemen, ſ every plesant place that Salomon had a mind to build in Jerusalem, and in e Lebanon, and through-out all the land of his Dominion.

7 And al the people that were left of the Hit-tites, and the Amoites, and Perizites, and the Hiuites, a the Jebulites, which were not of Israel,

8 But of their children which were left after

them in the land, whom the children of Israel had not confined, euè them did Salomon make a tributaries until this day.

9 But of the children of Israel did Salomon make no ſeruantes for his worke: for they were men of warre, and his chieſe pinces, and the captaines of his charets and of his hoſlemen.

10 So these were a chief of the officers which Salomo had, euè two hundreth and fifty that bare rule ouer the people.

11 Then Salomon brought vp the daugh-ter of Pharaoh out of the citie of David, in-to the houſe that he had built for her: for yee layd, as my wife that he not dwell in the houſe of David King of Israel: for it is holp, because that the Arke of the Lord came vnto it.

12 Then Salomon offred burnt offrings vnto the Loſde, on the *altar of the Loſde, which he had built before the porch,

13 To offer according to the commande-ment of Holes* every day, in þ Sabbaths, and in the new moones, and in the Solemne feastes, e three times in the yeere, that is, in the feast of the Unleauened yeade, e in the feast of the Weekes, and in the feast of the Tabernacles.

14 And he ſet the courſes of the Priekſes to their offices, according to the order of Dauid his father, and the Leuites in their wat-ches, for to prayſe and minuſer before the Priekſs every day, and the porters by * their courſes, at euerie gate: for so was the com-mandement of David the man of God.

15 And they declined not from the comman-dement of the King, concerning the Priekſs and the Leuites, touching all things, a tou-ching the treaſures.

16 Now Salomon had made prouifion for all the h worke, from the day of the foundati-on of the houſe of the Lord, until it was fini-ſhed: for the houſe of the Lord was perſite.

17 Then went Salomon to Ezion-geber, and to Cloth by the seashide in the lande of Edom.

18 And Huram ſent him by the hands of his ſeruantes, hippeſ, and ſeruantes that had knowledge of the sea: and they went with the ſeruantes of Salomon to Dphir, and brought thence k ſoure hundreth and kikſt talents of golde, and brought them to King Salomon.

CHAP. IX.

9 The Queene of Sheba commerth to ſer Salomon and buingeth gilſes, 13 His preſer revenues. 30 The time of his reigne, 31 to Death.

And *when þ Queene of Sheba heard of the fame of Salomon, ſhe came to a proue Salomo with hard queſtions at Jeruſalem, with a verie great traine, and camels that bare weete odours and much golde, and precious stones: and when she came to Salomon, the communed with him of all that was in her heart.

And Salomo declared her al her queſtions, and there was b nothing hid from Salomo, which he declared not vnto her.

b There was no question in hard that he did not ſo.

Then the Queene of Sheba law the wife-dome

c Ibr. to come vp to tribute.

d For it in all there were 3300, but he he the meaneth of them that had the vnne prapare charge, read x. king. 9, 23.

e For it in all there were 3300, but he he the meaneth of them that had the vnne prapare charge, read x. king. 9, 23.

f Read Leuit. 33.

h But for the matter, a and he the wortenianship.

i Meaning the *du. hea.

k Which time is thought to be the time of the beginning of the hundredth year and the beginning of the new year made by the new moon, that is, the first of the month, which is called the first of the month, and the first of the year.

l King 10.1. matia 4.1. luk. 31. 2.

m There was no question in hard that he did not ſo.

e I will cause the pefſence to kee and deliſe, and hea the heart that heare that heart of fire from the earth, & land vaine in his Salomon.

Chap. viij. 16.

f Which thing did Salomon that God had no man respect to their ſaluation, then to b advances of his own glorie, and where as man an abuse that things, in which God hath appyed to let ſo let his prie, he borly with his graue soone hance.

g King 9.10. a Signifying that he was reneuerous vere in building them.

h That is, which he prynge gans against to Salomon before he sealed him: inst. there for called the Chuyt that in, bate of hyl, 1. King. 9.13. c Meaning of the minuſions and treasuries for the warres. d Chutis he repayed and ſatified them: for then were buile longe beles for hils and a noble manne of the trhebe of Epiua, 1. Chy. 6. 48. e Read Leuit. 7.2.

i King 10.1. matia 4.1. luk. 31. 2. a To know whether he wil come vnto us for great as he report was.

j Allo Baalath, and al the cities of ſtore that Salomon had, and all the charet cities, and the cities of the hoſlemen, ſ every plesant place that Salomon had a mind to build in Jerusalem, and in e Lebanon, and through-out all the land of his Dominion.

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["The Queene of Sheba.", "II.Cron.", "Salomons riches, and death.", "dome of Salomon, and the house that hee\nhad built,", "4 And the meate of his table, and the sitting of hisferuats, and the order of his wapters, and their apparel, and his butlers, and their apparel, & his\" burnt offerings which he of- fied in the house of the Loode, and he was \" greatly asboned.", "And he said to the King, It was a true wold\nwhich I heard in mine owne lande of the\n\" sayings, and of thy wurdome ;", "Howbeit I beleeued not their report, until I came, and mine eies had seene it: as beholde, the one halfe of thy great wurdome was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.", "Happie are thy men, and happie are these\nthy feruats, which stand before thee alway,\nand heare thy wurdome.", "8 Blessed be the Lord thy God, which loued thee, to set thee on his *chione as King, in the stead of the Lord thy God : because thy God loueth Israel, to establich it for ever, therfore hath he made thee King ouer them, to execute judgement and justice.", "9 Then the gaue the King six score talents of golde, and of sweet odours exceeding much and precious stones: neither was there such sweet odours since, as the Queene of She-ba gaue vnto King Salomion.", "10 And the feruants also of Huram, and the feruants of Salomon which brought golde from Dophir, brought ⁴ Algummim wood as precious stones.", "11 And the King made of the Algummim wood *staires in the house of the Lord, and in the Kings houe, and harpes and violes for fingers: and there was no such seene before in the land of Judah.", "12 And King Salomon gaue to the Queene of Sheba every pleafant thing that thee al-ked, beſtodes for: that which he had brought vnto the King: so he returned and went to her owne countrep, both she, and her feruants.", "13 Callo þ weight of gold that came to Sa-\nmon in one peere, was ſic hundreth three\nſcore and fire talents of golde,", "14 Beſtodes that which chapmen and marchants brought: and all the Kings of Arabia, and the princes of the countrep brought golde and filuer to Salomon.", "15 And King Salomon made two hundreth targets of beaten gold, & s ix hundreth the-kels of beaten gold went to one target,", "16 And three hundreth ſhields of beaten gold; three hundreth h ſh ekels of gold went to one shield, and the King put them in the house of the wood of Lebanon.", "17 And the King made a great chione of yu-\nrie and onerlayd it with pure gold.", "18 And the chione had ſir steppes, with a foot-stoole of gold: fastened to the chione, and stailes on either side on the place of the steate, and two lions standing by the staves.", "19 And twelve lions stooe there on the like", "steps on either side: there was not the like\nmade in any kingdome.", "20 And al King Salomons drinking beſſels were of golde, and all the beſſels of the house of the wood of Lebanon were of pure golde: for filuer was nothing esteemed in the daies of Salomon.", "21 For the Kings ships went to Tarthiſh with the feruants of Huram, euerie three yeere once came the ships of Tarthiſh, a brought golde, and filuer, yuorie, and apes, and pectokes.", "22 So King Salomon excelled all the Kings of the earth in riches and wurdome.", "23 And all the Kings of the earth fought the\npresence of Salomon, to heare his wurdome\nthat God had put in his heart.", "24 And they brought every man his present,\nbeſſels of filuer, and beſſels of gold, and rap-\nment, armour, and sweete odours, horſes,\nand mules, from yere to yere.", "25 And Salomō had *soure thousand stalles of horſes, & chartes, & twelve thousand horſe me, whom he beſtowed in the charet cities, and with the King at Jeruſalem.", "26 And he reignèd ouer all the Kings from the *Ruer euen vnto the lande of the Philibums, and to the border of Egypt.", "27 And the King gaue filuer in Jeruſale, as *stones, & gaue cedar trees as the wilde figge trees, that are abundant in the plaine.", "28 And they brought vnto Salomon houſes\nout of Egypt, and out of all landes.", "29 Concerning the rest of the actes of Salomon firſt a laste, are they not written in the booke of Nathan the Prophete, and in the piophite of Ahiah the Shilonite, and in the bifions of *Jee do the Seer *against Je-roboam the Sonne of Ahebat ?", "30 And Salomon reignèd in Jeruſalem ouer all Israel fourtie peres.", "31 And Salomon *lept with his fathers, and\nthey buried him in the citie of David his fa-\nther: and Rehoboam his ſonne reignèd in\nhis kead.", "C H A P . X .", "4 11. The rigour of Rehoboam, 13. He followeth lewbe counſell.", "16 The people rebell.", "17 Then Rehoboam went to Shechem: 2. King 11.\nfo: to Shechem came all Israel to\nmake him king.", "And when Jeroboam the ſonne of Ahebat heard it, (which was in Egypt, whether he had fled from the presence of Salomon the King) he returned out of Egypt.", "And they ſent and called him: so came Je-\nroboam and al Israel, and communed with\nRehoboam, laying,", "4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous seruitude of the father, and his ſone yoke, that he put upon vs, lighter, and we will terue thee.", "And he layde to them, Depart yet three\ndayes, then come againe vnto me. And the\npeople departed.", "6 And King Rehoboam tooke counſell with the olde men that had stande before Salomon,", "Which cometh to the bell\nout of the bell is\nthought to be\nCIL. 121, 122.\n1 King. 12:1.", "* Or, galleries\nwhereby he went\nup.\n12.ibr. there was\nno more spirit\nin her.", "Or, fakés.", "c. Theaunng, that the Jſtās were God's pereſt. ar people, and that kings are diſtinuènſons of God, which ought to grant unto him the ſupernotie, and the minuſtue of justice to all.", "d. Head of chap\n2, 8, 3, 1. King.\n10, 11.", "e. O millers: meeting, the garnifing & trimming of the tables of millers.", "f. That is,\nwhich þ king\ngaue her for\nrecompence\nof that treas-\nure which he\nbrought.", "g. Which\nof ſimme moun-\nreth to 2409\ncrystals of\nthe fine. Rua-\nbens be alde.\n1. O, psamme,\ntalled mine,\nwhereof every\none found to\nmake an hys\nbreth thekels.", "h. That is,\nthe preſent to\nthe foreittoole\nwere falten\nby d chone.\nk. Wm. the\ncomnury of\nknips.", "12. That is,\nten hoijes in\neuer flable,\nwhich in all\nmoumt to ſou-\nre thousand,\nas a. King. 16.", "Or, Euphrates.", "The almoſt\nſance of thre\ntempeſtall trea\nſures in Johe\nmons kine\nis almoſt\nof the\nſubtilitie trea\nſures, which\nthe eſter had\neuen in the\npeares un-\nfer the true\nSalomon\nEphes.", "Or, Iddo.", "o That is,\nwhich pious\nled against\nhim.", "1. King 11:18.", "Chas. 1. hanckd. 2. J. T. 3. 1. Sa. 4. 2. Sa. 5. 3. Sa. 6. 1. Sa. 7. Sa. 8. Sa. 9. Sa. 10. Sa. 11. Sa. 12. Sa. 13. Sa. 14. Sa. 15. Sa. 16. Sa. 17. Sa. 18. Sa. 19. Sa. 20. Sa. 21. Sa. 22. Sa. 23. Sa. 24. Sa. 25. Sa. 26. Sa. 27. Sa. 28. Sa. 29. Sa. 30. Sa. 31. Sa. 32. Sa. 33. Sa. 34. Sa. 35. Sa. 36. Sa. 37. Sa. 38. Sa. 39. Sa. 40. Sa. 41. Sa. 42. Sa. 43. Sa. 44. Sa. 45. Sa. 46. Sa. 47. Sa. 48. Sa. 49. Sa. 50. Sa. 51. Sa. 52. Sa. 53. Sa. 54. Sa. 55. Sa. 56. Sa. 57. Sa. 58. Sa. 59. Sa. 60. Sa. 61. Sa. 62. Sa. 63. Sa. 64. Sa. 65. Sa. 66. Sa. 67. Sa. 68. Sa. 69. Sa. 70. Sa. 71. Sa. 72. Sa. 73. Sa. 74. Sa. 75. 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["Rehoboam. Israel rebelth.", "Chap.xj.", "Ifraels idolatrie. 175", "mon his father, while he yet liued, laying,\nwhat counsel gue ye that I may answere\nthis people?", "7 And they lypake unto him, laying, If thou be kud to this people, and pleale them, and lypake louing wordes to them, they will be tip lervants for euier.", "8 But he left the counsell of the ancient men\nthat they had giuen him, and tooke counsel\nof the yong me that were brought vp with\nhim, and waited on him.", "9 And he laid vnto them, what counsel gue\nye, that we may answere this people, which\nhaue spoken to mee, laying, Make the yoke\nwhich thy father did put vpon vs, lighter?", "10 And the yong men that were brought vp\nwith him, lypake vnto him, laying, Thus\nhalt thou answere the people that lypake to\nthee, laying, Thy father made our yoke\nheauie, but make thou it lighter for vs; thus\nhalt thou mee vnto them, and d least parte\nhalbe bigger then my fathers loynes.", "11 Now where as my father did burden you\nwith a grieuous yoke, I will yet increale\npour yoke: my father hath chaifted you v\nrods, but I will correct you with your scourges.", "12 Then Jeroboam ≈ all the people came\nto Rehoboam the thirde daye, as the King\nhad appoynted, laying, Come againe to me\nthe third day.", "13 And the King answered them sharply: and\nKing Rehoboam left the counsel of the au-\ncient men,", "14 And lypake to them after the counsell of the\nyong men, laying, My father made your\nyoke grieuous, but I will increale it: my fa-\nther chaifted you with rods, but I will cor-\nrect you with scourges.", "15 So the King hearend not vnto the peo-\nple: for it was the ordinance of God that\nthe Lord might perfoine his laying, which\nhe had spoken by Abiiah the Shilonite to\nJeroboam the sonne of Eban.", "16 So when all Israel faue that the King\nwould not heare them, the people answered\nthe King, laying, What poition haue we\nin Daud: for we haue none inheritance in\nthe sonne of Ithai. D Israel, every man to\nyour terts: now fee to thine owne houle, Da-\nuid. So all Israel departed to their tentes.", "17 Howbeit Rehoboam reigned ouer the chil-\ndren of Israel, dwlet in cities of Judah.", "18 Then King Rehoboam sent Hadozam that\nwas ouer the tribute, and the chilidren of\nIsrael stoned him with stones, that he died:\nthen King Rehoboam made heede to get\nhim vp to his charet, to fée to Jerusalem.", "19 And Israel rebelled against the house of\nDavid vnto this day.", "C H A P . X L", "4 Rehoboam is forlwen to fight against Jeroboam, 5 cities which he builtp. 21 He hath eightene wines, and three scoe concubines, and by them eight and twenty loynes, and three scoe daughters.", "c God that sowed\nby him, that\n10, which were\nof the counsell\nand secræts.", "d Little sinne\nere meaning\nthat he was of\nf greater seuer\nthan then\nwas his faſ-\nter.", "e On, sorcions.", "c God will\nimplyeth luch\na neccesitate to\nh. 4. 2. 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. 2.

["The Temple spoyled.", "II. Chron.", "Rehoboam dyeth. Abijah.", "23 And he taught him: and disperſed all his ſonnes throughout all the countries of Ju-dah ſ Beniamin vnto euery strong citie: and he gaue them abundance of vitale, and h desired many wines.", "h The gane him ſelſe to hane unap ſwines.", "### CHAP. XII.", "1 Rehoboam forſeth the Loij and is puniſhed by Shilhak. 5 She maiah repreueth him. 6 He humbly ſelſe, 7 God ſendeth him ſuicur. 9 Shilhak taketh his ſtreatures, 13 his reigne and death, 16 Abiiah his ſonne ſuccedeth him.", "*Or, when the Loij had eſtablished Rehoboams kingdome.", "a For that is d incontinance of ſtreature, that for a moſt part they follow the vices of their gonerousnes.", "A\nAd when Rehoboam had eſtablished the kingdome and made it strong, hee forſooke the Lawe of the Loide, and a all Israel with him.", "Therefore in the ſift yeere of King Rehoboam, Shilhak the king of Egypt came vp a gaynſt Jeruſalem (because they had tranſgressed against the Loij)", "b Which were a people of AsaRA called the Agagobites, because they dwelled in hales.", "c Or, blacke diſores.", "d Signifying b no calanature can come vnto him, except we forſake the God, and that he never leaueth us til we have call him of.", "e And therefore, diuizitipally, put with you for your ſonnes.", "‡ Eb. drop down.", "e Ue theſwith that god, and in ſuflerings are not to be truſe his biotberly, but to chid him, to bring them to the knowlege of their ſelues and to know howe much better it is to ſerve god then man, Chag. 15,16.", "A duch which deſteth that God ſeeth not the death of a Gutsner, but his cationſion, Ezek. 18, 22, 31, 11, 2 Kings 11, 21, 22, 23, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 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["Ieroboam discomfited. Ala.", "Chap. xiiiij.xv. The Ethiopians destroyed. 176", "candlestickic of golde with the lampes ther-\no, to buene every euening: for we keepe the\nwatche of the Loode our God: but ye haue\nfor taken him,", "12 And behold, this God<sup>1</sup> is with us as a cap-\ntaine, & his Priests with the founding tru-\npets, to crye an alarme against you. D yee\nchildren of Israel, fight not against § Lord\nGod of your fathers: for ye shall not prosper.", "13 C Cleeming the god causeth for which came\nout of the Spirit of God, he thought to\nhave ouercome by pacit.", "14 Then Judah looked, and beheld, the bat-\ntell was before and behind them, and they\ncried unto the Lord, and the Priests blew\nwith the trumpets,", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19", "20", "21", "22", "And behold, this God<sup>1</sup> is with us as a cap-\ntaine, & his Priests with the founding tru-\npets, to crye an alarme against you. D yee\nchildren of Israel, fight not against § Lord\nGod of your fathers: for ye shall not prosper.", "13 C But Jeroboam caused an ambuſhment\nm to compasse, & come behind them, when\nthey were before Judah, and the ambuſh-\nment behind them.", "14. Then Judah looked, and beheld, the bat-\ntell was before and behind them, and they\ncried unto the Lord, and the Priests blew\nwith the trumpets,", "15 And the men of Judah gaue a ſhoute: and\neuen as the men of Judah ſhouted, God\n\" smote Jeroboam and alio Israel before\nAbiiah and Judah.", "16 And the children of Israel kledde before\nJudah, and God deliuered them into their\nhande.", "17 And Abiiah and his people ſlewe a great\nlaughter of them, to that there fell downe\nwounded of Israel ſue hundred thouand\nchoſen men.", "18 So the children of Israel were brought\nunder at that time: and the children of Ju-\ndah preuapled, n because they kayed upon\nthe Lord God of their fathers.", "19 And Abiiah purſued after Jeroboam, and\ntooke cities from him, even Beth-el, and the\n‡ villages thereof, and Jeſbanah with her\nvillages, and Ephron with her villages.", "20 And Jeroboam recovered no strength a-\ngaine in the dayes of Abiiah, but the Loode\nplagued him, and he dyed.", "21 So Abiiah waked myhtie, and married\nfourtene viues, and begate two & twentie\nfonnes, and ſixtene daughters.", "22 The rest of the acts of Abiiah and his ma-\nmers and his layings are written in the sto-\nte of the Prophet Juddo.", "C H A P. XIIIIL", "3 Ala deſtropeth idolatric, and commandeth his people to ſtrue the true God, 11 he prapteth into God when he should go to fight, 12 he obtaineth the diuocie.", "1", "S O * Abiiah flept with his fathers, and\nthey burped him in the citie of Dauid,\nand Ala his ſonne reigned in his ſtead:\nin whole dayes the lande was quiet tenne\npeere.", "2", "And Ala did that was good and right in\nthe eyes of the Lord his God.", "3", "4 For he tooke away the altars of the ſtrange\ngods and the hie places, and brake downe\nthe images, and cut downe the groues,", "5", "And commanded Judah to keeke the Loode\nGod of their fathers, and to do according to\nthe Lawe and the commandement.", "6", "And he tooke awaye out of all the cities of\nJudah the hie places, and the images: ther-\nfore the kiingdome was b quiet before him.", "7", "He buylt alio strong cities in Judah, be-\ncause the lande was in rest, and he had no", "7", "warte in those peres: for the Loode had ge-\nen him rest.", "Thereſo he ſayd to Judah, Let us builde\ntheſe cities and make walles about, and\ntowres, gates, and barres, whiles the land\nis before us: because we haue ſought the\nLord our God, we haue ſought him, and he\nhath guitten us rest on euery ſide: so they\nbuilt and propered.", "8 And Ala had an armie of Judah that bare\nſhieldes and speares, three hundred thou-\nland, and of Benjamin that bare fieldes, a\ndiew bowes, two hundred and ſoure ſoſe\ntousand: all theſe were valiant men.", "9 C And there came out aganſt them Ze-\nrah of Ethiopia with a hoſſe of ten hun-\ndreth thouſand, and three hundred charats,\nand came into ‚ Mareſhah.", "10 Then Ala went out before him, and they\nſet the battell in aray in ‚ valley of Zepha-\nthat beſide Mareſhah.", "11 And Ala cried unto the Lord his God, and\nkayd, Lord, * it is nothing with thee to help\nwith many, or with no power: helpe us, O\nLoode our God: for we rest on thee, and in\nthe name are we come against this multe-\ntude: O Loode, thou art our God, ‚ let not\nman prieuail against thee.", "12 C So the Lord smore the Ethiopians be-\nſore Ala and before Judah, and the Ethio-\npians kled.", "13 And Ala and the people that was with\nhim, purſued them onto Gerar. And the\nEthiopians hoſſe was ouerthoſen, so that\nthere was no ſlye in them: for they were\ndestroyed before the Loode and before his\nhoſſe: and they carried away a mighty great\nſpoyle.", "14 And they ſinote all the cities rounde a-\nbout Gerar: for the ‚ ſeare of the Loode\ncame upon them, and they ſpoſled all the\ncities: for there was exceeding much ſpoyle\nin them.", "15 Bea, and they ſinote the tents of cattel, and\ncaryed away plentie of theepe and camels,\nand returned to Jerusalem.", "C H A P. XV.", "1 The exhortation of Bariah. 3 Ala purgeth his countre of idolatric.", "2 He ſacrifieth with the people. 14 The ſware together to ſtrue the God, 16 he depoſeth his mother for her idolatric.", "1", "T henthe Spirit of God came hpo = A\nzariah the ſonne of Obed.", "And he went out to meete Ala, ſa laid\nunto him, O Ala, and all Judah, and Ben-\ntamin, heate ye me. The Lord is with you,\nwhile ye be with him : and if ye ſeeke him,\nhe will be found of you, but if ye forſake him,\nhe will forſake you.", "2", "3 Now for a long season Israel hath bin with-\nout the ‚ true God, and without Priest to\nteach and without Lawe.", "4", "5 But whoeuer returned in his affliction to\nthe Lord God of Israel, and ſought him, he\nwas found of them.", "6", "And in that time there was no peace to\nhim, that did go out and goe in : but great", "c Whiles we haue the full\ngovernement\nthereof.", "d The King of\nEthiopia v.\nEggt.", "e Which was\na citie in Ju-\nbay, Toſ, 1.\nf Where his\nchathe the\nPloyer was\nbouſe.", "1 Sam. 14, 6.", "2 O againſt ma-\nn, without\npower.", "3 Thys ‚ chil-\ndren of God\nneuer trueth\ntheir owne\npower or po-\nſence, neither\nfeareth ‚ God\nsubito of\ntheir enemies,\nbut confide a\ncause and fa-\nther to the lood\ntheir enterpises\ntende to Goda\nglone, ‚ there\nupon alure\nthem ſlues of\nthe viceroy by\nhim, which is\none, almoſt\nthe ‚ can turne\nall ſhele into\nbuit with\nthe breath of\nhis mouth.\nThe Loys\nhad striken\nthem ‚ fear.", "15", "Bea, and they ſinote the tents of cattel, and\ncaryed away plentie of theepe and camels,\nand returned to Jerusalem.", "a who was\ncalled Obed,\nas his father\nwas, ver. 3.\nb For the place\nof twelve\nperes under\nEgoboaom, ‚\nthe ‚ pereas bis-\nder Abiiah, tre-\nſection was nea-\nglected ‚ the\nlattre planted.\nc he theſeth,\nthat notwith-\nstanding the\nwickednes of\ntraptaires ‚ their\nrage, yet ‚on\nhath ‚wa\nhe heareth\nin their tribu-\ntion, as heve\ninuered his ‚on\nZerath ‚ing of\nthe Ethiopians.\nd Chap. 12, 9, 13,\n§ one of all ‚", "the dangerous, when they called upon the Lord.", "G g. ii.", "troubles", "A\n\nA\n\nA\n\nA\n\n

Ifraels couenant with God.

II. Chron. Hanani imprisoned. Jehoſhaphat.

troubles were to all the inhabitants of the
earth.

6. For nation was destroyed of nation, and citie of citie: for God troubled them with all aduerſitie.

7. We yee strong therefore, and let not your hands be weake: for your workes shall have a rewarde.

8. And when Asa heard these words, and the p[ropheticie] of Obed the Prophet, he was encouraged, and tooke away the abominations out of all the lande of Judah, and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken of mount E[ph]zaim, as he renewed the altar of the Lo[de], that was before the porche of the Lord.

9. And he gathered all Judah & Benjamin, & the Strangers with them out of E[ph]zaim, and Manasseh, & out of Simeon: for there fell manie to him out of Israel, when they saue that the Lord his God was with him.

10. So they assembled to Jerusalem in the thirde moneth, in the ſixteenth yere of the reigne of Asa.

11. And they offered unto the Lo[de] the fame time of the ſp[op]le, which they had brought, even ſeuen hundred bullockes, and ſeuen thouand beepe.

12. And they made a couenaitaun to feeke the Lo[de] God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their ſoule.

13. And s whosoever will not feeke the Lo[de] God of Israel, shall be flayne, whether hee were ſinall or great, man or woman.

14. And they ſware into the Lo[de] with a loude boyce, and with flouting and with trumpets, and with cornets.

15. And all Judah rejoiced at the othe: for they had twone vnto the Lord with all their heart, and ſought him with a whole defire, and he was found of them. And the Lord gaue them rest round about.

16. And King Asa depoſed *Maachah his mother from her regentie, because ſhe had made an idole in a grove: Asa brake down her idole, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brooke Kidron.

17. But the hie places were not taken away out of Israel : yet the heart of Asa was perfite all his dayes.

18. Also hee brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicate, and that he had dedicate, filuer, and golde, and heffels.

19. And there was no warre into the s[u]e and thirtieth p[ere] of the reigne of Asa.

CHAP. XVI.

2. Asa ſo farre of Baal-Asa king of Israel, maketh a couenaitaun with 25. Enhabad King of Aram. 7. He is reproued by the Prophet, 10. Whome he purteeth in prouison. 12. He purteeth his trust in the Philistines. 13. His death.

1. As he reign'd after Abadad p. 4. for the children of J[er]oe. 1. King. 15:12. 2. He is forſtified in prouison. 3. With mailes. 2. Birche: it was a citie in 25. senates, near to Gibbon.

and of the Kings house, and ſent to Benha-dad King of Aram that dwelt at "Damal-cus,"laying,

There is a couenant betwene me and thee, and betwene my father and thy father: be-hold, I haue ſent thee filuer and gold: come, beake thy league with Baal-Asa King of Israel that he may depart from me.

4. And Benha-dad hearekened vnto king Asa, and ſent the captaines of the armies which he had, against † cities of Israel. And they smote J[on], and Dan, and Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

5. And whé Baal-Asa heard it, he left building of Ramah, and let his workes cease.

6. Then Asa the king tooke all Judah, &ca-payed away the stones of Ramah & the tymber thereof, where with Baal-Asa did build, & he buylt therewith Geba and Dizpah.

7. And at that fame time Hanani the Seer came to Asa King of Judah, and ſayd into him, Because thou haſt reſteth vp the king of Aram, and not reſted in the Lo[de] thy God, therefore is the houſe of the king of Aram eſcaped out of thine hand.

8. * The Ethiopians and the Lubims, were they not a great houſe with charrets & houſemé, exceeding manie? yet because thou didst reſt vp on the Lo[de], he delivered them into thine hand.

9. * For the eyes of the Lo[de] beholde all the earth to ſhe ore him ſelfe strong with them that are of perſite heart toward him: thou haſt then done foolishly in this : therefore from henceforth thou haſt haue warres.

10. Then Asa was worth with the Seer, and put him into a pr[iso]n: for he was displeaſed with him, because of this t[ying]. And Asa oppressed certaine of the people at the fame time.

11. And beholde, the actes of Asa first and last, lo, they are wortit in the booke of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

12. And Asa in the nine and thirtieth yere of his reigne was diſealeſed in his ſecte, and his diſeale was extreme: yet hee ſought not † Lord in his diſeale, but to † p[h]ilosophers.

13. So Asa lept with his fathers, and dyed in the one and fourtieth yere of his reigne.

14. And they burnt him in one of his ſepulchres, which he had made for him ſelf in the citie of D]aud, and layd him in the bed, which he had filled with wocete odours and diuers kindes of spices, made by the art of the apotarie: and they burnt odours for him with an exceeding great fire.

CHAP. XVII.

5. Jehoſhaphat truening in the Lord p[ro]pheter in riches a honou. 6. The houſeth of the dolartie, 7. The houſeth the people to be brought, 11. The ccauſeth tribute of strangers. 13. His inuitions, and men of warre.

A. Ad Jehoſhaphat his ſonne reigned in his ſtead, a pieuayled aganſt Israel. And he put garifons in all the strong cities of Judah, and let bandes in the lande of Judah, in the cities of E[ph]zaim, which Asa his father had taken.

3. And the Lord was with Jehoſhaphat, becauſe

4. Your confidence is trust in God that not be fruitfull.

a. Called Sh[u]lan, containing part of Map and part of Time.

b. When they had taken of p[er]tithians, &c. Theie were the wunds of their couenait, which couenait had all bala-cers to be put to death accursing to God, of God, Deut. 13:9,15.

c. So long as they were not brought again, so long did he p[er]lerieue and p[ro]liver the Lord.

d. King. 15:12. 1. Grandmothers: † her: ‡ herem he theweth that he lachd seale: for the ought to haveuen h[o]lly by p[er]cos. 2. † by law of God: but he gave place to flowth p[ir]ie, ‡ flowth also keene after a font to fanifie the la[ve].

e. Which p[art]ie came though lack of scale in him, parting sp[on]gth, † neſuſigence of his officers, and partly by the ſupervision of † people, that all were not taken away.

f. Because that God was called to the God of Israel by the name of his women to J[eh]oſh[ab]. Therefore Israel ſon ſon t[ar]ken for Judah because of Judah was his chief people.

g. In reſpect of his p[er]ſures setſoffs.

a. The thought to repulſe him abuttering vp an bulleſhing that is by heing help of unſiſt as they that feele † the true amitie, thus king there to make them more strong.

b. Or, Proph. 14:9.

c. Mat. 5:16 and 12:22.

d. Ibr. pr[iso] house.

e. 4. Thus in the turning to God by reſpence, he his damned the ab- GLYPH<146> d[u]mion of a p[ro]lifer, † pa- h[u]l[er] him, as the wuſt d[u]m, when he be told of their faults.

f. Or, G[en]it, or

g. Ibr. 5:1.

h. Or, the top of his head. 1. God plaughe, † put in the reſt, ‡ put in the head.

i. The p[er]ſon of the King, † put in the reſt, ‡ put in the head, † put in the ſeate, ‡ put in the ſeate, † put in the ſeate, ‡ put in the whole fruit in him.

j. The thirteenth, † put in the ſeate, ‡ put in the ſeate, † put in the ſeate, ‡ put in the ſeate, † put in the ſeate, ‡ put in the whole fruit in him.

The Lawe is taught.

Chap.xviij.

Ahabs prophets.

177

a That is, his
berrings, before he
had cometh to
the Lord, as the
ahab and as
a gant hah.
c Hough not
help in any
range
gods.
d E. workes.

4

cause he walked in the a first wayes of his
father David, and sought not b Baalim,
But sought the Lo:de God of his father, a
walked in his commandements, and not
after the a trade of Israel.

5

Therefore the Lo:de stablished the king-
dome in his hande, and all Judah brought
prents to Jeho:haphat, to that hee had of
riches and honour in abundance.

6

And he e lift vp his heart unto the wayes of the
Lo:de, and he tooke away mo:licioner the
lie places and the groves out of Judah.

7

And in the thirde yeere of his reigne he
lent his princes, Ben-hail, and Obadiah,
and Zechariah, and Methaneel, and Mi-
chatah, that they should d teache in the cities
of Judah,

8

And with them Leuites, Sheinaiah, and
Aethaniah, and Zebadiah, & Asahel, and
Shemiramoth, and Je:nonathan, & Ado-
nitiah, and Tobiah, & Tob-adoniah, Le-
uites, and with them Eli:shama and Jeho-
ram Dneits.

9

And they taught in Judah, e had the booke
of the Lawe of the Lo:de with them, and
went about throughout al the cities of Ju-
day, and taught the people.

10

And the feare of the Lo:de fell upon all the
kingdomes of the landes that were rounde
about Judah, and they e sought not against
Jeho:haphat.

11

Allo some of the Philistins brought Jeho:
haphat gifts and tribute filuer, and the A-
rabians brought him flockes, seuen thou-
sand and seuen hundreth rams, and seuen
thouland and seuen hundreth he goates.

12

So Jeho: haphat prospered and grewe vp
on hee: and he buylt in Judah palaces and
cities of kore.

13

And he had great works in h cities of Ju-
day, and men of warre, and valiant men in
Jerusalem.

14

And these are the nombers of them after
the house of their fathers, In Judah were
captaines of thousands, Abna h captaine,
and w with him of valiant men threec hund-
dreth thouland.

15

And at his hande Jehohanan a captaine,
and with him two hundreth and foure score
thouland.

16

And at his h ad Amali:ah the sonne of Zi-
chi, which f willingly offred himfelfe into
the Lo:de, a with him two hundreth thou-
sand valiant men.

17

And of Benjamin, Eli:ada a valiant man,
and with him armed men with howe and
sheld two hundreth thouland.

18

And at his hand Jeho: abad, and with him
an hundreth and foure score thoulande ar-
med to the warre.

19

These s waited on the King, besides those
which the King put in the strong cities
throughout all Judah.

d ye hitherto it
was in wayne to proffetels rene,
but there are ap-
pointed which coulde not
the people in
fam, and had an
antre quite to
put away all
holanrie.

e Chus God
prophetheth al
fach that with
a pure heart
take his gory,
& kompet their
rames in
fere that they
cannot be al
excellent their
rage against
hem.

Whe in his hand

Opeet to him.

f Meaning,
which was a
Jehanan.

f Chais, there
loues his
omphalic gard.

1 Jeho: haphat waketh affinitie with Ahab, so foure hundreth Pro-
phets countecl Ahab to go to warre. 16 Micha:ah is against them.
2 Adiah (henee him). 25 The A:stig puteth him in pilson. 29 The
effet of his prophylactic.

1

Ad *Jeho: haphat had riches and ho-
nour in abunda:ce, but he was ioyned
in *affinitie with Ahab.

2

And after certa:ne b peres he went downe
to Ahab to Samaria: a Ahab clewe the:eepe
and oren for him in great nomber, a for the
people that he had with him, and entitled
him to go vp into c Ramoth Gilead.

3

And Ahab King of Israel layd vnto Jeho:
haphat King of Judah, Wilt thou go with
mee to Ramoth Gilead? And he answere d
him, I am as thou art, and my people as
thy people, and we will ioyne with thee in
the warre.

4

And Jeho: haphat layde vnto the King of
Israel, Aske counsel, I praye thee, at the
a word of the Lo:de this day.

5

Therefore the King of Israel gathered of
c Prophets soure hundreth men, and layde
unto them, Shal we go to Ramoth Gilead
to battel, or that I ceale? And they layd, Go
bp: for God shall deliuer it into the Kinges
hande.

6

But Jeho: haphat said, Is there here neuer
a Prophet more of h Lo:de that we might
inquire of him?

7

And the King of Israel said vnto Jeho:
haphat, There is yet one man, by whom we
may ake counsel of the Lo:de, but I hate
him: for he doeth not prophecie good vnto
me, but alway euil: it is Micha:ah the Sone
of Jmla. Then Jeho: haphat layd, Let not
the King lay so.

8

And the King of Israel called an eu:nu:che,
and said, Call quickly Micha:ah the Sone
of Jmla.

9

And the King of Israel, a Jeho: haphat
King of Judah late epher of them on his
throne clothed in their b apparel: they late
euen in the chelhing slooze at the entriny in
of the gate of Samaria: and all the Pro-
phets prophecied before them.

10

And Zid: kiah the sonne of Chenaanah
made him h homes of pron, and layd, Thus
faith the Lo:de, with theie that thou put h
Aramites vntill thou haſt continued their.

11

And all the Propheters prophecied so, lay-
ing, Go bp to Ramoth Gilead, and prophet:
for the Lo:de shall deliuer it into the handle
of the King.

12

And the messenger that went to cal
Micha:ah, hake to him, laying, Beholde, the
words of the Prophets declare good to the
King with one k accord: let thy word there-
fore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and
hpeak thou good.

13

And Michi:ah layde, As the Lord lieth,
whatso:ner my God layth, will I hpeak.

14

So he came to the King, and the King
said vnto him, Michi:ah, shall we go to Ra-
moth Gilead to battell, or shall I leave of
and he layde. 1 Go ye bp, and molper, and
they shall be delivered into your hand.

15

And the King said to him, How oft shall I
charge thee, that thou tell mee nothing but
the trueth in the Name of the Lo:de?

1.King 22:3.

a For Jotam
Jeho: haphat
foune marued
Ahabs daugh
ter.
b Chares, the
third pere.
c King 22:2.

d To recover it
out of the
hands of the
Phoenians.

d Bear the
aduie of some
Prophet, to
know whether
the god will,
Whic: then
the prophets of
Asa, liguify
ing that the
wurded femele
not but flutes
ters e such as
will beare with
there may ma
afterwons.

d yet the true
millers of
you ought not
to cease to
their diere,
though h wile
the magi
eat and drink
abide them to
breake the
fraelen.

d Meaning,
that he ought
to refille to
hare and that
was of God.

d Chat is, in
their mouthes,
& royal apparel.

d Chcave, 1, Knt.
2. Sdah.

d Thinking, a
whereas four
hundreth Pro-
phets had a:
greed one
thing, that he
being but one
man, e in real
effusion
bun not game
ap it.

d Iye ake tred
by derition of
the false Pro-
phets, as the
King well pess
coned.

E g. iii. 16 Then

["Michaiahs prophecie.", "II. Chron.", "Judges & minifters appointed.", "m the prophe-\nsion howe the\npeople thoude\nbe disperſed a\nJeha layne.", "n Meaning,\nhis Kingels.", "*Of decimation.", "o That is, the\nJohb.", "p To that chal-\nlon not helene\nb truer, Con-\nfemeth strong\nhelifion, that\nthen thoul should\nhelene lves,\n2 Tyef.2, 10.", "q As this cru-\ncitie his abu-\ntion a pyos-\ncrite was bis-\ncoueret : thus\nthe hypocrites\nhoast or a dyke\nrit which they\nhave not, and\ndeclare their\nmalice againt\nthe, in whome\nthe true Joh-\nrit is.", "r Keefe him\nfreightyn in\npilson and let\nhim kiſe thun-\nger and spirit.", "*Or, Michaiah.", "s The chiefe\nbiched chine\nby their owne\nfubilitie to\nescape Con-\ntingements,\nwhich he\npreatheth up\nhis word.", "t Ye chieſe to\nLord he are\nhustled being\nby a fit in go-\ning with this\nwicked king to\nwarre against\nthe sum of the\nLord by lins.\nDiotheſter, a al\nso he deſtring\nnercere for the\nfaiſt.\n# Ehr. in his ſom-\nplecitié, origo-\nnally.", "16 Then he said, I law all Israel scattered in the mountains, as theye that haue no shepherd: and the Lo'de layde, m These haue no maſter: let them returne euery maſ to his house in peace.", "17 And the King of Israel layde to Jeholha-\nphat, Did I not teil thee, that he would not\nprophecie good vnto me, but euil?", "18 Agayne he layde, Therefore heare ye the\nword of the Lord: I law the Lord ſit upon\nhis throne, and all the \"host of heauen stan-\nding at his right hand, and at his left.", "19 And the Lord said, Who shall \"perlswade\nAhab King of Israel, that he may goe vp a\nfall at Ramoth Gilead? And one spake and\nlayd thus, and another layd that.", "20 Then there came fo:th a spirit and ſtoode\nbefore þ Lord, ÿaid, I will perlswade him.\nAnd the Lord ſaid vnto him, Wherein?", "21 And he layde, I will goe out, and be a kalle\nspirit in the mouth of all his Prophets. And\no he ſaid, Thou shall perlswade, and shall al-\nſo penayle: go fo:th and do ſo.", "22 Nowe therefore beholde, the Lo'de hath\nput a kalle spirit in the mouth of these the\nProphets, and the Lo'de hath determined\neuill against thee.", "23 Then Zdktah the ſonne of Chenaanah\ncame neere, and smote Michaiah vpon the\ncheeke, and layd. By what way went the\nSpirit of the Lo'de from mee, to speake\nwith thee?", "24 And Michaiah layde, Beholde, thou shall\nlie that day whé thou shall go from cham-\nber to chamber to hide thee.", "25 And the King of Israel layd, Take ye Mi-\nchaiah, a carp him to Amon the governour\nof the citie, and to Joaſh the Kings ſonne.", "26 And lay, Thus layeth the King, Put this\nman in the pition house, and feede him with\nhead of ſaffiction and with water of ſaf-\nfiction vntill I returne in peace.", "27 And Michaiah layde, Ik thou returne in\npeace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And\n\"he said, Weare, all ye people.", "28 So the King of Israel a Jehohaphat the\nKing of Judah wet vp to Ramoth Gilead.", "29 And the King of Israel layde vnto Jeho-\nhaphat, I will change my ſelke, and enter\ninto the battel : but put thou on thine appa-\nrel. So the King of Israel chaged him ſelke,\nand they went into the battel.", "30 And the King of Aram had commaunded\nthe captaines of ÿ charets that were with\nhim, laying, Fight you not with small ſal\ngreat, but against the King of Israel onely.", "31 And when the captaynes of the charets\nſaw Jehohaphat, they layd. It is the King\nof Israel : and they compaſſed about him\nto fight. But Jehohaphat †cryed, and the\nLo'de helped him †mooved them to depart\nfrom him.", "32 For whé the captaines of the charets ſaw\nthat hee was not the King of Israel, they\nturned backe from him.", "33 Then a certaine man drew a bove †migh-", "tily, †snote the King of Israel betwene the\ntopntes\" of his brigandine: thereſoſe he ſaid\nto his charetman, Turne thine hande, and\ncarie me out of the hote: for I am hurt.", "34 And the battel increaſed that day: and the\nKing of Israel †ſtoode ſtill in his charet a\ngapnſt the Aramites vntill euen, and dyed\nat the time of the tunne going downe.", "CHAP. XIX.", "After Jehohaphat was reſumed by the Prophet, he called again\nthe people to the honouering of the Lord, he appointed him judges\nand miniters, a †nd exhorteth them to fear God.", "1 A nd Jehohaphat þ king of Judah re-\nturned †ſafe to his house in Jeruſalem.", "2 And the ſonne of Hanani the\nSeer went out to meete him, a ſaid to King\nJehohaphat, a Wouſtſt thou helpe the\nwicked, and loue them that hate the Lord?\ntherefore for this thing the Wath † of the\nLord is vpon thee.", "3 Neuertheles good things are found in thee,\nbecauce thou haſt taken awape the grouſes\nout of the lande, and haſt prepared thine\nheart to feeke God.", "4 L So Jehohaphat dwelt at Jeruſalem,\nand returned and went b through the peo-\nple from Beer-Heba to mount Ephraim, a\nbrought them agapne vnto the Lo'de God\nof their fathers.", "5 And he ſet judges in the lande throughout\nall the strong cities of Judah, citie by citie,", "6 And layd to the judges, Take heede what\npe do: for ye execute not the iudgements of\nman, but of the Lo'de, and he will be c with\nyou in the cauſe and iudgement.", "7 Whereofoſe nowe let the keare of the Lo'de\nbe vpon you : take heede, and dor it: for\nthere is no iniquitie with the Lo'de our\nGod, neither * respect of persons, no† reſec-\nting of reward.", "8 Moreouer in Jeruſalem did Jehohaphat\nſet of the Leuites, and of the Drieſts and of\nthe chieſe of the families of Israel, for the\niudgement and cauſe of the Lord: and they\n* returned to Jeruſalem.", "9 And he charged them laying, Thus ſhal ye\ndoe in the keare of the Lo'de faithfully and\nwith a perſit heart.", "10 And in euery cauſe that ſhal come to you of\nyour beſtchen that dwell in their cities, be-\ntwene † blood and blood, berwene law and\npiecept, ſtatutes and iudgementes, ye shall\niudge them, and admoniſe them that they\ntrepſasse not against the Lord, that † Wath\ncome not vpon you and vpon your methyl.\nThus ſhal do and trepſasse not.", "11 And behold, Amaariah the Prieſt (halbe the\nchieſe ouer you in all matters of the Lord, a\nZebadiah) the ſonne of Ithmael, a ruler of\nthe house of Judah, halbe for al the † King's\naſfaires, a the Leuites shall be officers † be-\nſoſe you. Be of courage, and doe it, and the\nLord halbe with the * good.", "CHAP. XX.", "Jehohaphat a the people vnto the Lo'd. a The maraſhals biſh\nſoſe b the I. d. gane him against his enemies. 30 his reſig as aces.", "1 After this also came the children of\nMoab a the children of Ammon, and\nwith-", "or, betweene the\nhaborge.", "a The diſtill\nbich bie hort,\nthat his busi-\nneſs are\nright\nfight\nmou\nconſionably.", "s Ibe, in peſon.", "a He beretha\nthat the wath\nof the iudgement\nof God is one\nall ſluch, that\nsuffort b bulle\nbith bith a\nb rather\nbriſch in\nbe that they\nare euernis\nas that as he\nthe laſt\nb the wath from\nthe Lord.", "a He biſhed all\nhis countrie a\nhange his\npeople from\nholatret to the\nkneurowle of\nthe true God.", "aeth\nirre pen, if\npen bee milly,\nib to punſh\npen, if you be\nthe contra.\nhe witbes\nbar he by\nthe charaue of\npuiuſhment,\nthat he harget\nall iniquitie,\nJeh. 10:17.", "10. 10. 10.", "10. 10. 10.", "10. 10. 10.", "10. 10. 10.", "10. 10. 10.", "10. 10. 10.", "a The diſtill\nbich bie hort,\nthat his busi-\nneſs are\nright\nfight\nmou\nconſionably.", {"

Jehošhaphats prayer.

Chap.xx

God fighteth for Judah 178

a That is, which causeth the Munamores in language.

b The hebrews tinker that they were the Smittures, but as many appear by the tent's bren, they were the 3 dimenions of mount Seir.

c The dead, where God restored the furries for fane.

d This becauseth what the fear of the god is, which is as a puch to fire them to pious e to depend on the Lord, he knoweth it, and it is the wuched either tokeke after man's means and policies, etc. to fall into help,air,

e He grows his yaps upon God's power, whereas he is able to help, and all on his mercies, which he will continue toward us, much as he hateth once thatch their 3 because they show his graces toward them.

f King 2. 27. ch. 28. 27. e Meaning, which commeth by God, and sufferings for our sinnes.

g That is, it is here called upon, but the becauseth their preference and fashion.

h Deut. 29. 2. 1. 1. 1.

i We only put our trust in true and righteoues our deliverednes from lieuenen.

j Which was moned by the Spirit of God in the Spirit.

k They seeth against God not against you; therefore he will fight for you.

with them of the a Ammonites against Je-
hošhaphat to battell.

Then there came that told Jehoſhaphat, saing, There commeth a great multitude against thee from beyond the b Sea, out of Aram: and behold, they be in Hazzon Tamar, which is En-gedi.

And Jehoſhaphat feared, and let him felle c to feeke the Loſde, and proclaimed a falt throughout all Judah.

And Judah gathered them ſelues together to alke counsel of the Lord: they came euen out of al the cities of Judah to inquire of the Lord.

And Jehoſhaphat ſtood in the Congregation of Judah and Jeruſalem in the house of the Lord before the new court,

And said, D. Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heauen? and repqneſt not thou on all the kiingdomes of the heathen? and in thine hande is power and might, and none is able to withstand thee.

Diddeſt not thou our God caſt out the inhabitants of this lande before thy people Israel, and d gaueſt it to the leede of Abraham thy friend for euer?

And they dwelt therein, and haue built thee a Sanctuarie therein for thy Name, saing,

* If euil come upon vs, as the e word of judgement, o peltiſence, o ſamine, we will stand before this house and in thy presence, (for thy Name is in this house) and will eue into thee in our tribulation, and thou wilt heare and helpe.

10 And nowe beholde, the children of * Am-
mon and Moab, and mount Seir, by who
thou wouldeſt not let Israel go, when they
came out of the lande of Egypt: but they
turned aside from them, and destroyed the
not:

11 Behold, I ſay, they reward vs, in coming to caſt us out of thine inheritance, which thou haſt cauſed vs to inheire.

12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for there is no streſſ in vs to stand before this great multitude that commeth against vs, neither do we know what to do : but our eyes are toward thee.

13 And all Judah ſtoode b before the Loſde with their pong ones, their wuues, a their children.

14 And Jahaziel the ſonne of Zechariah b ſonne of Benaiah, the ſonne of Jeiel, the ſonne of Mattaniah, a Leuite of the ſones of Alaph was there, upon whome came c the Spirit of the Lord, in the miſs of the Congregation.

15 And he kaide, hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jeruſalem, and thou, King Jehoſhaphat : thus faith b Lord into you, feare you not, neither bee aſtraide for this great multitude: for the battel is not yours, but Gods.

16 To moowe goe ye downe against them: beholde, they come vp by the cleft of Ziiz,

and ye shall find them at b end of the brooke before the wildernes of Jeruſel.

17 He shall not neede to fight in this battell :

* stand still, mone not, and beholde the " falſation of the Lord toward you: D Judah, and Jeruſalem, keare ye not, neither bee a ſtraide : to morow goe out against them, a the Lord wil be with you.

18 C Then Jehoſhaphat ¹ bowed downe with his face to the earth, a all Judah and the inhabitants of Jeruſalem ſell downe before the Lord, worſhipping the Lord.

19 And the Leuites of the children of the Ko-hathites and of the children of the Cozrites ſtoode vp to prieſe the Lord God of Israel with a loud boycce on hie.

20 And when they arose early in the moz-
ning, they went forth to the wildesternesse of
Tekoa: a as they departed, Jehoſhaphat
ſtood and said. Heare ye me, D Judah, and
ye inhabitants of Jeruſalem: put your trust
in the Lord your God, a ye ſhal be allured :
beleeue his m *Drophets, and ye chal p[ro]ſper.

21 And when he had consulted with the peo-
ple, and appointed ſingers into the Lo[rd],
and the that should p[ra]ſe him that is in the
beautiſh Sanctuarie, in going forth before
the men of armes, and saing, n P[ra]ſile ye
the Lo[rd], for his mercie laſeth for euer,

22 And when they began to ſhoute, and to p[ra]ſe, the Lo[rd] laied ambulym[ers] against the children of Ammon, Moab, and o moit Seir, which were come against Judah, a they ſlew one another.

23 For the childe of Ammon and Moab to p[ra]ſe against the inhabitants of mount Seir, to ſlape and to deſtroy them: and when they had made an ende of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to deſtroy another.

24 And when Judah came towarde Ziiz-
pah in the wildernes, they looked into the
multitude: and behold, the karkeſles were
fallen to the earth, and none ecaſped.

25 And when Jehoſhaphat and his people came to take away the p[o]ple of them, they found among them in abundance both of substance and alio of bodies laden with p[ri]cious jewels, which they tooke for them ſelues, till they could cary no more : they were threee dayes in gathering of the p[o]sie: for it was much.

26 And in the fourth day the 9 assembled them ſelues in the valley of Berachah: for there they bleſſed the Lo[rd] : therefore they called the name of that place. The valley of Berachah into this day.

27 Then every man of Judah and Jeruſale
returned with Jehoſhaphat their head, to
goe againe to Jeruſalem with top: for the
Lord had made them to reioyce ouer their
enemies.

28 And they came to Jeruſalem with boiels, and with harpes, and with trumpeſ, euen into the house of the Lo[rd].

29 And the keare of God was upon all the k[yn]gdomes of the earth, when they had heard

Exod. 14, 13, 14,
"Odelheruan[es]."

a M[ie]ne e[er]s
p[ite] to their
wobes and
dructus.

This was a
p[ra]ſile of
chathunings,
which they
had comuities
to sing wher
then they
plaited
the Lo[rd] for
his benefits,
& was made
by Damb,
P[ra]ſil.

136. 0, D[ar]an[ge],
the J[eh]u[n]es,
which dwelt
in moit Seir.

The Lo[rd] deſtroying to Jejoſhaphat p[ra]ſer declared into power, when he delivered his by cauſing their enemies to kill one another.

a To g[ive] thanks to the Lo[rd] for the beneficiaries and therefore the balleſ was called after the name of the ch[an], that us, bleſſing of thanks g[iv]ing which was also called the valley of Jejoſhaphat, Tool, 1. 3. 4. 12, because the Lo[rd] had made 9 enemies against Jejoſhaphat p[ra]ſer.

f The bedearteth hereunto, that the woſes of God being euen confoue of deliveredne to b[it], and keare of benemerit to his enemites

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["Athaliah flaine. Ioafh.", "II. Chron.", "Taxes. Zechariah stoned.", "To Jovie w\nher partie, and\nto mainline\nher authouritie.", "k That ch\nwould onely\nferue him and\nrenounce all\nidolatry.", "1 According to their covenant made to the Lord.\n2 As the Lord commanded in his Lawe both for the person and as to the citie, Deut. 1:9, 15 * Or, charge.", "Nom. 12:1.", "a Which was the principal gate, that the King might be here, and be here for the people.\n\nb For where a person and an idolater reigth, there can be no quarenes: for the plaques of God are ever among such people.", "c King. 12:1.", "2 a Who was a faithful countinger, and goaded him by the word of God.\n\n3 *Or, give him two wues.", "b He meane\nnot the ten\ntribes, but on\nthe two\ntribes of Is\niah and Ben-\njamin.", "c For he was\nthe he Pless.\nExod. 30:13.", "d The Scrip-\nture north\nferne fter\nthus, because\nthe was a,\ncruel murther\nof, and a blak\n& phantome ido\nfarre.", "nours of the hoſte, a laid unto them, Haue her forth of the ranges, and he that followeth her, let him die by the Word: for the Driekt had laid, Slap her not in the house of the Lord.", "15 So they laid hands on her: and when he was come to the entring of the hoſegate by the Kings house, they flew her there.", "16 C And Jehoiada made a k couenant be- twoene him, a al the people, and the King, that they would be the Lords people.", "17 And all the people went to the house of Baal, and I destroyed it, a blake his altars and his images, and clew e mattan the Driekt of Baal before the altars.", "18 And Jehoiada appointed officers for the house of the Lord, under the hands of the Priests and Levites, whom David had distributed for the house of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings unto J Lord, * as it is written in the Lawe of Moles, with reioycing and singing by the appointment of David.", "19 And he let porters by the gates of J house of the Lord, that none that was البclearne in any thing, should enter in.", "20 And he tooke the captaines of hundrethes, and the noble men, and the governing of the people, and all the people of the lande, and he caused the King to come downe out of the house of the Lord, and they went through a the he gate of the Kings house, and let the King upon the thone of the kingdome.", "21 Then all the people of the lande reioyced, a the citie was quiet, o after that they had blaine Athaliah with the sword.", "C H A P. XXIII.", "4 Joash repaireth the house of the Lord. 17 After the death of Je- hoaiada he falleth to idolatry. 21 Hefforth to death Zechariah the Prophet. 23 Joash is killed of his owne ferneuts. 27 After him reigneth Amaziah.", "1 Jash * was seuen pere olde, when he be- gan to reigne, and he reigned fourtie pere in Jeruſalem : and his mothers name was Zibiah of Beer- Sheba.", "2 And Joash did uprightly in the light of the\nLord, al the daies of a Jehoiada the Driekt.", "3 And Jehoiada tooke him two wues, and he begate onnes and daughters.", "4 And afterwarde it came into Joash a\nminde, to renew the house of the Lord.", "5 And he assembled the Priests and the Leuites, and laid to them, So out vnto the ciets of Judah, and gather of al Israel mo- ney to repaire the house of your God, from pere to pere, and haſte the thing : but the Levites haſted not.", "6 Therefore the King called Jehoiada, the c chieſe, and laid unto him, Why haſt thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and Jeruſalem * the tare of Mo- les the ſeruant of the Lord, and of the Con- gregation of Israel, for the Tabernacle of the Testimonie ?", "7 Fo: d wicked Athaliah, and her children\nbake vp the house of God: and all þ things\nthat were dedicated for þ house of the Lord,\ndid they deflowe upon Baalim.", "8 Therefore the King commanded, * and he made a chesl, and ſet it at the gate of the house of the Lord without.", "9 And they made proclamation through Ju- dah and Jeruſalem, to bring vnto the Lord * the tare of Moles the ſeruant of God, laid upon Israel in the wilderness.", "10 And all the princes and all the people reioyced, and brought in, and caſt into the chesl, until they had ſinnded.", "11 And when it was time, * they brought the chesl vnto the Kings officer by the hand of the Levites: and when they saw that there was much filuer, then the Kings Scribe (and one appointed by the he Driekt) came and emptied the chesl, and tooke it, a carried it to his place againe: thus they did day by day, and gathered filuer in abundance.", "12 And the King and f Jehoiada gaue it to such as did the labour and worke in f house of the Lord, and hired maſons and carpenters to repaire the house of the Lord : they gaue it alſo to workers of yon and blake, to repaire the house of the Lord.", "13 So the workemen wrought, & the workke amended through their hands: and they restored the house of God to his state, and strengthened it.", "14 And wher they had ſinnded it, they brought the reſt of the filuer before the King and Je- hoaiada, and he made thereof s beſſels for the house of the Lord, euen beſſels to minifter, both moſters and incenſe cuppes, and beſ- fels of golde, and of filuer : and they offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the dayes of Jehoiada.", "15 But Jehoiada wared olde, and was ſul of daies and dyed. An hundreth and thirtie yere olde was he when he dyed.", "16 And they buried him in the citie of Da- uid with the h Kings, because he had done good in Israel, and towarde God and his house.", "17 And after the death of Jehoiada, came the f princes of Judah, and did reuence to the King, and the King hearkened vnto them.", "18 And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and ſerved groues & idoles: and wrath came vpon Judah and Jeruſalem, because of this their treaſſale.", "19 And God ſent Prophets among them, to bring them againe vnto the Lo: d: and they k made protestation among them, but they would not heare.", "20 And the Spirit of God came vpon Zechariah the ſonne of Jehoiada the Driekt, which ſtoode a above the people, a laid vnto them, Thus faith God, Why tranſcresse ye the commandements of the Lo: d: ſurely ye shall not p[ro]ſe: because ye haue forlaken the Lord, he also hath forlaken you.", "21 Then they confpired against him and flo- ned him with stones at the m command- ment of the King, in the court of the hoſse of the Lord.", "To King 1:12.", "Exod. 10:23.", "a Such as were faithful men, to bring the King had appointed, that matter.", "15 For a medicine was upon the workes, mete, and wasPAR.", "16 For the truce of the King had been broken off. 17 At the time that Je- hoaiada had beſtrowed the beſt of the Temple, they turned him to the aid of their inſidie.", "18 A. Disjoing, that they could not have their houſe built.", "19 In the affairs of the com- ion wealth.", "20 Which were fatterres, and kiw in molten gold, that the King was beſtine of him who did watch as the King was, and that he might be heathen.", "21 In a place as he ſon e the proue, to p in ſide that he might be heathen.", "22 There is no ſage to crue the health of a man who hearts God hath barde, and is wised, and he be heare, he be heare, he be heare

["Joash flaine. Amaziah.", "Chap.xxv. He ouercometh the Edomites. 180", "22 Thus Joash the King remembered not the kindnes which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but flew his sonne. And when he dyed, he said, The Lord a) looke upon it, a require it.", "23 And when the Yere was out, the houle of Aram came vp against him, and they came against Judah and Jeruſalem, a deſtroyed al the prynces of the people from among the people, and ſent all the ſpoyle of them vnto the king of Damaziah.", "24 Though the armie of Aram came with a ſinall company of men, yet the Lord deliuered a very great armie into their hande, because they had forſaken the Lord God of their fathers: and thep o) gaue ſentence a) gainſt Joaſh.", "25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diſtresse) his own ſeruants conspired against him for: þ) blood of the þ) children of Jehoiada the Priest, and flew him on his bed, and he dyed, and they buried him in the citie of David; but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the Kings.", "26 And these are thep that conspired against him, Zabad þ) ſonne of Shunrath an Amoniſſelle, a Jehezabad þ) ſonne of Shimith with a Moabiſſelle.", "27 But þ) his ſonnes, a the ſumme of the tape gathered by him, and the r) ſundation of the houle of God, beholde, they are written in the ſtory of the booke of the Kings. And Amaziah his ſonne reigned in his ſteade.", "CHAP. XXV.", "1 Amaziah putteſt them to beath which flewe his father. 10 He ſenſeth backe them of Israel. 11 He ouercommeth the Edomites. 14 He ſeeth to Israel a divantrix. 17 And Joaſh King of Israel ouercommeth Amaziah. 27 He is ſaue by a compariſe.", "1", "A\n Maziah was ſue and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and he reigned nine and twentie yeere in* Je-ruſalem: and his mothers name was Jeho-addan, of Jeruſalem.", "And hee did b) prizely in the eyes of the\nLord, but not with a perſite heart.", "And when the kingdome was eſtablished\nvnto him, hee flewe his ſeruants, that had\nſaue the King his father.", "4 But hee flewe not their children, but did as it is wutten in the Law, & in the booke of Holes, where the Lorde commaunded, laying, * The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but euery man shall dye for his owne ſonne.", "And Amaziah asſsembled Judah, and made them captaines ouer thouſands, and captaines ouer hundredths, according to the houſes of their fathers, throughout all Ju-DAH and Benjamin: and he nombed them from c) twenty yere olde and aboue, and found among them þ) hundredth thouſand chosen men, to go forth to the warre, and to handle ſpeare and ſhield.", "He reiſred alio an hundredth thouſand baſiſt men d) out of Israel for an hundredeth ta-", "lents of filuer.", "But a man of God came to him, laying, O King, let not the armie of Israel go with thee: for the Lord is not e) with Israel, neither with all the house of Epiſhaim.", "If not, go thou on, do it, make thy ſelke strong to the battel, but God shall make thee fall before the enemie: for God hath power to helpe, and to caſt downe.", "And Amaziah ſaide to the man of God, What shall we do then for the hundredth taſents, which J haue giuen to þ) houle of J[eh]rael? Then the man of God anſwered, The Lord is able to e) giue thee more then this.", "So Amaziah ſeparated them, to wit, the armie þ) was come to him out of Epiſhaim to returne to their place : wherefore their wath was kindled greatly against Ju-DAH, and they returned to their places with great anger.", "Then Amaziah was encouraged, and led forth his people, and went to the salt valley, and ſmote of the children of h) Seir, ten thouſand.", "And other ten thouſand did the children of Judah take alive, and carried them to the toppe of a ¹) roche, and caſt them downe from the toppe of the roche, a they all burſt to pieces.", "But the men of the k) armie, which Amaziah ſent away, that they ſhould not go with his people to battel, ſell vpon the cities of Judah fro Samaria vnto Beth-horon, and ſmote thee thouſand of them, a tooke much ſpoyle.", "Now after that Amaziah was come from the ſlaughter of the Edomites, he hought the gods of the children of Seir, and let them up to be his gods, and ¹) woſt)lipped them, and burned incenſe vnto them.", "Wherefore the Lord was woth with Amaziah, a ſent vnto him a Prophet, which ſaide vnto him, Why haſt thou ſought the gods of the people, which were not able to m) deluer their owne people out of thine hand?", "And as he ſalked with him, n) he ſaide vnto him, Jhae they made thee the Kings counſeleſer ? ceaſe thou: why ſhould they o) ſmite thee? And the Prophet eracſed, but ſaide, I knowe that God hath determined to deſtroy thee, because thou haſt done this, and haſt not obeyed my counſel.", "Then Amaziah King of Judah tooke counsel, and ſent to Joaſh the ſonne of Je-hoahaz, the ſonne of Jehu King of Israel, laying, Come, p) let vs kee one another in the face.", "But Joaſh King of Israel ſent to Amaziah King of Judah, laying. The thistle that is in Lebation, ſent to the cedar that is in Lebon, laying, * Give thy daughter to my ſonne to wife: and the wilde beaſt that was in Lebonau went and trode downe the thistle.", "bp the cointrol of the Prophet, had deſtroyed certaines of the cities of Judah. King 14:2.", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "e And thereſe to hauethelme of them, who the Lord faſureth, n,er, to caſt downe the houle of the Lord. f If thou witt not give credie to my words,", "g The 16) that if we depe nd onely upb God, we haſt not need to be troubled with their woſt)lipping reſpects: to he wil gne at all rales that which thalbe neceſſar, if we obrer his word.", "", "h For the 16) canne whon J[eh]uah had brought to inſubtraction, reſtabelled under Judah. J[eh]uah bothahaphtas 10) 11) 12) 13) 14) 15) 16) 17) 18) 19) 20) 21) 22) 23) 24) 25) 26) 27) 28) 29) 30) 31) 32) 33) 34) 35) 36) 37) 38) 39) 40) 41) 42) 43) 44) 45) 46) 47) 48) 49) 50) 51) 52) 53) 54) 55) 56) 57) 58) 59) 60) 61) 62) 63) 64) 65) 66) 67) 68) 69) 70) 71) 72) 73) 74) 75) 76) 77) 78) 79) 80) 81) 82) 83) 84) 85) 86) 87) 88) 89) 90) 91) 92) 93) 94) 95) 96) 97) 98) 99) 100) 101) 102) 103) 104) 105) 106) 107) 108) 109) 110) 111) 112) 113) 114) 115) 116) 117) 118) 119) 120) 121) 122) 123) 124) 125) 126) 127) 128) 129) 130) 131) 132) 133) 134) 135) 136) 137) 138) 139) 140) 141) 142) 143) 144) 145) 146) 147) 148) 149) 150) 151) 152) 153) 154) 155) 156) 157) 158) 159) 160) 161) 162) 163) 164) 165) 166) 167) 168) 169) 170) 171) 172) 173) 174) 175) 176) 177) 178) 179) 180) 181) 182) 183) 184) 185) 186) 187) 188) 189) 190) 191) 192) 193) 194) 195) 196) 197) 198) 199) 200) 201) 202) 203) 204) 205) 206) 207) 208) 209) 210) 211) 212) 213) 214) 215) 216) 217) 218) 219) 220) 221) 222) 223) 224) 225) 226) 227) 228) 229) 230) 231) 232) 233) 234) 235) 236) 237) 238) 239) 240) 241) 242) 243) 244) 245) 246) 247) 248) 249) 250) 251) 252) 253) 254) 255) 256) 257) 258) 259) 260) 261) 262) 263) 264) 265) 266) 267) 268) 269) 270) 271) 272) 273) 274) 275) 276) 277) 278) 279) 280) 281) 282) 283) 284) 285) 286) 287) 288) 289) 290) 291) 292) 293) 294) 295) 296) 297) 298) 299) 300) 301) 302) 303) 304) 305) 306) 307) 308) 309) 310) 311) 312) 313) 314) 315) 316) 317) 318) 319) 320) 321) 322) 323) 324) 325) 326) 327) 328) 329) 330) 331) 332) 333) 334) 335) 336) 337) 338) 339) 340) 341) 342) 343) 344) 345) 346) 347) 348) 349) 350) 351) 352) 353) 354) 355) 356) 357) 358) 359) 360) 361) 362) 363) 364) 365) 366) 367) 368) 369) 370) 371) 372) 373) 374) 375) 376) 377) 378) 379) 380) 381) 382) 383) 384) 385) 386) 387) 388) 389) 390) 391) 392) 393) 394) 395) 396) 397) 398) 399) 400) 401) 402) 403) 404) 405) 406) 407) 408) 409) 410) 411) 412) 413) 414) 415) 416) 417) 418) 419) 420) 421) 422) 423) 424) 425) 426) 427) 428) 429) 430) 431) 432) 433) 434) 435) 436) 437) 438) 439) 440) 441) 442) 443) 444) 445) 446) 447) 448) 449) 450) 451) 452) 453) 454) 455) 456) 457) 458) 459) 460) 461) 462) 463) 464) 465) 466) 467) 468)

Amaziah & Ioas(h. Vzziah:

II. Chron.

His riches: he is leprous.

19. Thou thinkest: to, thou hast smitten Edom, and thine heart litieth thee vp to ragge: abide now at home : why doest thou puroke to thine hurt, that thou shouldst fall, and Judah with thee?

20. But Amaziah would not heare : for it was of God, that he might deliver them into his hand, because they had fought the gods of Edom.

21. So Joash the King of Israel went vp: and he, and Amaziah King of Judah faue one another in the face at Bethshemelh, which is in Judah.

22. And Judah was put to the work before Israel, as they fled every man to his tent.

23. But Joash the King of Israel tooke Amaziah King of Judah, the sonne of Joash, the sonne of Jehoahaz in Bethshemeth, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake downe the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of Esphaim unto the corner gate, foure hundred cubites.

24. And he tooke all the golde and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed Edom, and in the treasures of the Kings house, and the children that were in hostage, and returned to Samaria.

25. And Amaziah's sonne of Joash King of Judah liued after the death of Joash sonne of Jehoahaz King of Israel, sixteene yere.

26. Concerning the rest of the actes of Amaziah first a last, are they not written in the book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?

27. Now after the time that Amaziah did turne away from the Lord, they wrought treason against him in Jerusalem: when he was fled to Lachish, they sent to Lachish after him, and flew him there.

28. And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the citie of Judah.

a Thus God did tarry until they were gone, where men, wherein men must trust, to teach them to have their res course only to him; and to know his judgements, and month their hearts to follow that which they have their delusion.

1. Proverbs, the acceflions of God and Eternity: for the house bare the name of the Slick father.

2. King 14:19.

a King 14:21.

b Called also Baraiah.

c This was not that Eschariah that was the sonne of Jehoahaz, but some other Prophet of that name. d For God knew that he would not let him go, and therefore man is the cause of his own delusion.

e Thus was not that Eschariah that was the sonne of Jehoahaz, but some other Prophet of that name. f For God knew that he would not let him go, and therefore man is the cause of his own delusion.

1. Then all the people of Judah tooke a Uzziah, which was sixtene yere old, and made him King in the stead of his father Amaziah.

2. He built a Cloth, and restored it to Judah after that the King slept with his fathers. * Sixteene yere olde was Uzziah, when he began to reigne, and he reigned two and sixte yere in Jerusalem, and his mothers name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.

4. And he did highly in the light of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

5. And he fought God in the days of Eschariah (which underlie the vifions of God) and when as he fought the Lord, God made him to prosper.

6. For he went forth and fought against the Philistins and brake downe the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wal

of Ashdod, and built cities in Ashdod, and among the Philistins.

7. And God helped him against the Philistins, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal and Hammeimim.

8. And a Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah, and his name dyed to the entring in of Egypt: for he did most valiantly.

9. Moreover Uzziah built towres in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning, and made them strong.

10. And he built towres in the wildernes, and digged many cifernes: for he had much cattel both in the balleis and plaines, plowmen, and dresters of vines in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loued hulbandie.

11. Uzziah had also an hoste of fighting men that went out to warre by bandes, according to the count of their number under the hand of Jeiel the scribe, and Maaleah the ruler, and under the hand of Hananiah, one of the Kings captains.

12. The whole number of the chiefe of the families of the baliant men were two thousand and six hundred.

13. And under their hand was the armie for warre, three hundred and seven thousand, and five hundred that fought valiantly to help the King against the enemy.

14. And Uzziah prepared them throughout all the hoste, fieldes, speares, and helmets, and brigandines, and bowes, and stones to sling.

15. He made also very artificiall engins in Jerusalem, to be upon the towres and by the corners, to shoote arrowes and great stones: and his name dyed farre abroad, because God did helpe him marneplously, til he was mightie.

16. But whi he was strong, his heart was lift vp to his destruction: for he transgreffed against the Lord his God, and went into the Temple of the Lord to burne incense upon the altar of incense.

17. And Azariah the priest went in after him, with him fourestore Priests of the Lord, baliant men.

18. And they withstood Uzziah the King, and said unto him, * It pertaineth not to thee, Uzziah, to burne incense unto the Lord, but to the Priests the mones of Aaron, that are conferred: for to offer incense : k go forth of the Sanctuary: for thou hast transgressed, and thou halt have none honour of the Lord God.

19. Then Uzziah was woth, and had incense in his hand to burne it : and while he was woth with the Priests, the leprous role vp in his forehead before the Priests in the house of the Lord befide the incense altar.

20. And when Azariah the chiefe Priest with all the Priests looked upon him, he holde, he was leprous in his forehead, and they caused him hault to depart thence : and hee was

c That is, they pape their trunche in light of their trunche.

d No, 13:9, 24. The wall of Jerusalem.

e Orgiters.

g That is, in the name of the Lord God, and as the Lord God is, in the fruitfull fide, it is also taken for a green care of corn, when it is full, as Knt. 1:11.

h One of the chief officers of the Kings house, one of the raptures and transgressors for warre.

i Thus pape their trunche in light of their trunche.

j Though his scale ferum was. he was also his morn, but he caused them to be run over by the word of God, he was woched, and his house was also reflected upon also pumphi.

["Iotham. Ahaz.", "Chap. xxvij. xxviij.", "Ifraels crueltie reproued. 181", "2 King. xxi. 5.", "1 According to the commandment of the Lord, Israel.", "m And therefor was built a house in the land, but not in the same building.", "n King. xj. 5.", "21 And Uzziah the King was a leper unto the day of his Death, and dwelt as a leper in an house apart, because he was cut of from the house of the Loide : and Iotham his sonne ruled ouer the Kinges house, and induced the people of the land.", "22 Concerning the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Israiah the Prophete the sonne of Amoz write.", "23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial, which perteinced to the Kings: for they sayd, He m is a leper. And Iotham his sonne reigned in his steade.", "CHAP. XXVIII.", "1 Iotham reigneth, and overcometh the Ammonites, 3 his reigne and death.", "2 Itham* was five and twentye yere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yere in Jerusale, his mothers name was Jerusah the daughter of Zadok.", "3 And hee did bpightfully in the light of the Lord according to all that his father Uzziah did, saue that he entred not into y a Temple of the Lord, and the people did yet b coztupt their wayes.", "4 He built the hie gate of the house of the Lord, and he built very much on the wall of the castell.", "5 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the foyleth he built palaces and towres.", "6 And hee fought with the King of the children of Ammon, as preuailed against them. And the children of Ammon gaue him the same yere an hundeth talents of silver, and ten thouland measures of wheate, and ten thoulande of barly : this did the children of Ammon give him both in the seconde yere and the thirde.", "7 So Iotham became mightie d because he directed his way before the Loide his God.", "8 Concerning the rest of the acts of Iotham, and all his wayes and his wayes, lo, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel, and Judah.", "9 He was five and twentye yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned lixtene yere in Jerusale.", "10 And Iotham slept with his fathers, they buried him in the citie of David ; and Ahaz his sonne reigned in his steade.", "CHAP. XXVIII.", "1 Ahaz an idolater is giuen into the hands of the Hyrians, and the King of Israel.", "2 Judah is molified with enemes. 3 Ahaz increaseth his idolatry, so his death and succefullour.", "4 A was twentye yere olde when hee began to reigne, and reigned lixtene yeere in Jerusale, and did not bpightely in the light of the Loide, like David his \"father.\"", "5 But he walked in the wayes of the kings of Israel and made euen molten images for b Baalim.", "6 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of Ben-hinnom, and \"burnt his sonnes with\"", "fire, after the abominations of the heathen whome the Loide had cast out before the children of Israel.", "7 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the hie places, and on hilles, and under euere greene tree.", "8 Wherefore the Loide his God deliuered him into the hande of the King of the Aramites, and they sinote him, and tooke of his, many prisoners, and brought them to Daminus: and he was also deliuered into the hand of the King of Israel, which sinote him with a great laughte.", "9 Jo: Dekah the sonne of Remaliah slewe in Judah fire score thousand in one day, all valiant men, because they had forfaken the Lord God of their fathers.", "10 Jo: b. Jo: c. Jo: d. Jo: e. Jo: f. Jo: g. Jo: h. Jo: i. Jo: k. Jo: l. Jo: m. Jo: n. Jo: o. Jo: p. Jo: q. Jo: r. Jo: s. Jo: t. Jo: u. Jo: v. Jo: w. Jo: x. Jo: y. Jo: z. Jo: a. Jo: b. Jo: c. Jo: d. Jo: e. Jo: f. Jo: g. Jo: h. Jo: i. Jo: j. Jo: k. Jo: l. Jo: m. Jo: n. Jo: o. Jo: p. Jo: q. Jo: r. Jo: s. Jo: t. Jo: u.

["Ahaz idolatrie. Hezekiah.", "II. Chron.", "The Temple closed.", "1. 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Sacrifices. Praife & thanksgiving.

Chap. xxx.

Hezekiah's exhortation.

182

Or, table where the bread was let in order.

the Lord the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the *shewbzeade table, with all the vessels thereof:

19 And all the vessels which King Ahaz had cast aside when he reigned, and transtrefled, haue we prepared and sanctified: and beholde, they are before the altar of the Lord.

b. 23 This ma
ner of praife
theCURIES
aure a cer
tame diligence
and to do
when there is
no belay.
Leuit. 4:14

20 And Hezekiah the King rose early, and gathered the princes of the citie, and went up to the house of the Lord.

21 And they brought seven bullockes, and seven ramees, and seven lambes, and seven he goates, for a *sinne offering for the king-dome, and for the sanctuarie, and for Ju-dah. And he commanded the Driestes the fonnes of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the Lord.

c. 19 This ma
ner of praife
the CURIES
aure a cer
tame diligence
and to do
when there is
no belay.
Leuit. 4:14

22 So they flew the bullocks, and the Driests received the blood, and sprinkled it upon the altar: they flew also the rams and sprinkled the blood upon the altar, and they flew the lambes, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

d. 19 This ma
ner of praife
the CURIES
aure a cer
tame diligence
and to do
when there is
no belay.
Leuit. 4:14

23 Then they brought the he goates for the sinne offering before the King and the Congregation, and they layed their hands upon them.

24 And the Driests flew them, and with the blood of them they clened the altar to reconcile al Israel: for the King had commanded for all Israel the burnt offering and the sinne offering.

e. 19 This ma
ner of praife
the CURIES
aure a cer
tame diligence
and to do
when there is
no belay.
Leuit. 4:14

25 He appointed also the Leuites in the house of the Lord with cymbales, with violes, and with harpes, * according to the commandment of David, and Sad the Kings Seer, andathan the *Driopter: for the ¹coman-dement was by the hand of the Lord, and by the hand of his Driopters.

26 And the Leuites Goode with the instruments of David, and the Driests with the trumpets.

f. 19 With that
palmme where
of mentionis
make, 1. Epi-
ph. 16:8

27 And Hezekiah commaunded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar: and when the burnt offering began, the song of the ⁹Lor'd began with the trumpets, and the instruments ⁸ of David King of Israel.

28 And all the Congregation wor'ipped, singing a song, and they blew the trumpets: all this continued untill the burnt offering was finished.

29 And when they had made an ende of offering, the King and all that were present with him, bowed themselves, and wor'ipped.

30 Then Hezekiah the King and the princes commaunded the Leuites to playe the Lor'd with the *woodes of David, and of Alaph the Seer. So they praysed with top, and they bowed themselves, and wor'ipped.

g. 19 This ma
ner of praife
the CURIES
aure a cer
tame diligence
and to do
when there is
no belay.
Leuit. 4:14

31 And Hezekiah spake, and saide, Now ye come nere and bring the sacrifices and offerings of prayle into the house of the Lor'd.

And the Congregation brought sacrifices, and offerings of playles, and every man that was willing in heart, offered burnt offerings.

32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the Congregation brought, was sufficient bullockes, an hundred ramees, and two hundred lambes: all these were for a burnt offering to the Lord:

33 And so: P. sanctification is hundred bullockes, and three thousand sheep.

P. That is, for
the help of
fringes.

34. But the Driestes were to few, were not able to slay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brethren the Leuites did helpe them, till they had ended the work, and until other priests were sanctified: for the Leuites were ⁹more brought in heart to sanctifie them felues, then the Driests.

⁹ Meaning,
were more sea
long to let for
warde the re-
tention.

35 And also the burnt offerings were many with the *fat of the peace offerings and the dinke offerings for the burnt offering. So the service of the house of the Lor'd was let in order.

Leuit. 3:2,3.

36 Then Hezekiah reioyced all the people, that God had made the people so readied: for the thing was done loodely.

⁹ He theweth
their religion
can not pio-
reede except
God touch the
heart of the
people.

C H A P . X X X .

1, 13 The keeping of the Passover by the Kings commandment.
2, 14 The Passover in Israel to come to the house.
18 The piayment for the people.
27 The leuites bleie the people.

A And Hezekiah sent to all Israel, to Judah, also wrote letters to a Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keepe the Passover unto the Lord God of Israel.

And the King and his princes and all the Congregation had taken counsel in Jeru-salem to keepe the Passover in the ²leonde moneth.

2104

³ For they could not keepe it at this time, because there were not Driests pnowe sanctified, neither was the people gathered to Jerusalem.

b. Chorgh
they ought to
have done it
into the first mo-
ment, as Epi-
d. 12:18,19,20.
perif. and were
not cleane, or
elaph had a long
turnege: they
might before it
into the le-
cond money,
as Jonts.

And the thing pleated the King, and all the Congregation.

⁵ And they decreed to make proclamation throughout all Israel from *Beertheba eue to Dan, that they should come to keepe the Passover unto the Lor'd God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a great time, ⁴ as it was written.

c. From one ende of the land to the as-ther, 1. Koy, 6. Soth.

⁶ So the postes went with letters by the commission of the King, and his princes, throughout al Israel and Judah, with the commandement of the King, saping, He children of Israel, turne againe into the Lord God of Abraham, Ishak, and Israel, and he will returne to the remnant that are escaped of you, out of the hands of the Kings of Allhur.

d. In such sort
and perforation
as God had
apounted.

And be not ye like your fathers, and lyke your brethren, which trespafled against the Lord God of their fathers; and therefore he made them desolate, as ye see.

e. He will have
compation on
them, and plo-
fer the heim.

Be not ye now stiffnecked like your fathers, but give the hande to the Lor'd, and come into his sanctuarie, which he hath sanctified for euer, and serve the Lor'd your God, and

H. ii.

the

f. Habakk
your returne to
the land, and
rebel no in-
space.

["Tythes. Prouisjon for the Priests.", "Chap. xxxij.", "Saneheribs blasphemie. 183", "7 In the third moneth they began to lay the foundation of the heapes, and finished them in the seuenth moneth.", "8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came, and gave the heapes, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel.", "h Then PRAYE for the LORD, and PRAYE for all people to the LORD.", "9 And Hezekiah questioned with the Priests and the Levites concerning the heapes.", "10 And Asariah the chiefe Priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offrings into the house of the Lord, we have eaten and have bene fastified, and there is left in abundance: for the Lord hath blessed his people, and this abundance that is left.", "i. that which is given, and that which is not given.", "11 And Hezekiah commaunded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord: and they prepared them,", "12 And carried in the first fruits, of the thebes, and the dedicate things faithfully; and ouer them was Conaniah the Leuite, the chiefe, and Shimei his brother the second.", "2: By the hand", "13 And Jeziel, and Asariah, and Habath, and Azahebel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and E-iel, and Jsinachiah, and Mahath, and Bena-tah were overseers of the appointment of Conaniah, Shimei his brother, and by the comandement of Hezekiah the king, and of Asariah the chiefe of the house of God.", "14 And Koz the sonne of Imnah the Leuite porter toward the East, was ouer the things that were willingly offred unto God, to distribute the oblations of the Lorde, and the holy things that were confectrate.", "15 And at his hand were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and She-chaniah, in the cities of the Priests, to distribute with fidelitie to their brethren by courses, both to the great and small,", "k. who had also a position and allowance in the church.", "16 Their dayly portion: beſide their generation being males from three yeere olde and above, euen to all that entred into the house of the Lord to their office in their charge, according to their courses:", "17 Both to the generation of the Priests after the house of their fathers, and to the Levites from twentie yere olde and above, according to their charge in their courses:", "18 And to the generation of al their children, their wives, and their fonnes and their daugh-ters throughout all the Congregation: for by their fidelitie are they partakers of the holy things.", "l. Meaning, that either by the couthfull dilution of the officers euery one had their part in the things that were done, or else that their wnes a children were reſen'd, heare the keates were faithfull in their effect, so diucribed on them.", "19 Also to the fonnes of Aaron, the Priests, which were in the fields & suburbs of their cities, in euery citie the men that were appointed by names, should give portions to al the males of the Priests, and to all the generation of the Levites.", "20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout al J-udah, and did well, and pruightly, and truely before the Lord his God.", "21 And in all the workes that he began for the ſeruice of the house of God, both in the Law and in the commandements, to keeke his God, he did it with all his heart, and ploſered.", "1 Saneherib imadeth Judah. 2 Hezekiah prepareth for the warre, he chooseth the people to put their trut in the Lord. 3 Saneherib bialpheth with God, 4 Hezekiah priereth. 5 The Angel deſtroyeth the Aspirians, and the King isAME. 25 Hezekiah is not thankfull toward the Lord. 33 his heart.", "CHAP. XXXII.", "After these things faithfully deſcribed, * Saneherib King of Jallbut came and entered into Judah, and beſieged the strong cities, and thought to winne them for him ſelbe.", "When Hezekiah saw that Saneherib was come, and that his purpose was to fight against Jerusalem,", "Then hee tooke councell with his princes and his nobles, to ſtoppe the water of the fountaynes without the citie: and they did helpe him.", "So many of the people asſembled them- ſelues and stopt al the fountains, and the river that ran through the middes of the country, ſaying, O ye should be the Kinges of Jallhur come, and find much water?", "5 And he tooke courage, and built all the broken wall, and made by the towers, and another wall without, and repaid a Millo in the citie of Daud, and made many Dartes and yieldes.", "6 And he let captaines of warre ouer people and asſembled them to him in the broad place of the gate of the citie, and spake comfortably unto them, ſaying,", "Be strong and couragious: feare not, nei-ther be atraped for the King of Jallhur, neuer for all the multitude that is with him:", "* for there be mo with vs, then is with him. with him is an arme of flesh, but with vs is the Lord our God for to helpe vs, and to fight our battels. Then the people were confirmed by the wordes of Hezekiah King of Judah.", "* After this, did Saneherib King of Jallhur ſende his ſernantes to Jerusalem (while he was againſt Lachilh, & all his dominion to him) into Hezekiah King of Judah & vnto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, ſaying,", "10 Thus faith Saneherib the King of Jallhur, noherem do ye trutf, that ye will remaine in Jerusalem, during the liege?", "11 Doeth not Hezekiah entice you to giue ouer your ſelues vnto death by kamine and by thirt, ſaying, The Lorde our God shall deliver vs out of the hande of the King of Jallhur?", "12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his hie places and his altars, and coſtain'd Judah and Jerusalem, ſaying, We shall wotship before one altar, and burne incense upon it?", "13 Know ye not what I and my fathers hane done vnto all the people of other countries? were the gods of the nations of other lands able to deliver their land out of mine hand?", "14 Who is he of all the gods of those nations (that my fathers haue deſtroyed) that could deliver his people out of mine hande? that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?", "Mh. iii.", "15 Now", "1. The which he cut and put no difference be-cause true religion and faſis, God and the lawes, for Hezekiah enuie deſtroyed too-late and phas'd true religion, on, thus the Paphis flans der the ſeruants of God, for when they fee'd upon polarites, then ſare that they aboſe true religion.\n2. This is his blasphemie, that he will compare the Lining God to the inſolent ones.", "2. 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The Affyrians hoſte destroyed.

II. Chron.

Manasseh. His idolatry,

i When man
hath professed
the Lord, he fleeth
in pride & thin
thence himselfe
able to refit
and outreorge
the Lord God his
life.

k Herein we
see that when
the wicked
speaketh enl of
the ſeruants of
God, then care
not to blaf-
phemie God
hunſelſe; for if
they feared
God, they
would love his
ſeruants.

l Their words
are written,
2. Kg. 18, 19.

m Which
were united,
made and anſ-
toiled by man

n This thre-
ey what is
to be ſeenge
in all trembles
and dangers.

o To the name
of an un-
dertaken ſonſor
and fine thou-
ſand, as 2. Ira-
ms. 19, 25,
21, 25.
2Ebr. with ſhame
of face.

p Dreaming,
Adventaries, &
other ſeruants
of his
ſonner.

*Or governed.

q Thus after
trouble, God
ſeneth com-
fort to all then
that pattern
wait on him,
and contemn
put their trust
in his mercies.

r 2 Kg. 20:1.

s 2 Kg. 20:1.
t To confirm
his faith in
the dynamics,
who bequeſt
to him by his
brother that
his life should
be prolonged
fifteen years.
t he was liffed
by the pride of
his victor &
treasures, and
thirsted then
for an oſſentia-
sion to the am-
bassadours of
Habakk.

* Or, oranges, and
partitions.

2 Or, rakes.

15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceave
you, no; reduce you after this sort, neither be-
lieue him; for none of all the gods of any
nation or kingdome was able to deliuer his
people out of mine hand and out of the hand
of my fathers: howe much leſſe shall your
gods deliuer you out of mine hand?

16 And his ſeruants take yet more agaynſt
the Lord God, and agaynſt his † ſeruant He-
zekiah.

17 He wrote also letters, blaspheming the
Lorde God of Israel and speaking agaynſt
him, laying, As the gods of the nations of
other countries could not deliuer their peo-
ple out of mine hande, so shall not the God
of Hezekiah deliuer his people out of mine
hande.

18 Then thep † cryed with a loude boye in
the Jewes speache vnto the people of Jeru-
falem that were on the wall, to keare them
and to affoſh them, that they might take
the citie.

19 Chus they take agaynſt the God of Je-
rusalem, as agaynſt the gods of the peo-
ple of the earth, euen the " works of manu-
hands,

20 But Hezekiah the King, and the Prophet
Jehiah the ſonne of Amoz " played agaynſt
this and cryed to heauen.

21 And the Loide ſent an Angel which de-
ſtroyed all the valiant men, and the punces
and ° captaines of the hoſte of the King of
Azzur: to he returned ' with ſhame to his
owne lande. And when he was come into
the houſe of his god, they that came foſſy
of his' owne bowels, ſlewed him there with
the Word.

22 So the Loide ſaued Hezekiah and the in-
habitantes of Jeruſalem from the hande of
Saneherib King of Azzur, and from the
hand of all other, and" mainteined them on
euer ſide.

23 And many brought offrings vnto Ú Loide
to Jeruſalem, a prelents to Hezekiah King
of Judah, to that he was ' magnified in the
light of all nations from thence forſt.

24 * In those dayes Hezekiah was ſicke vnto
the death, and played vnto the Loide, who
take unto him, and gaue him a ſigne.

25 But Hezekiah did not render according to
the reward beſtowed vpon him: for his heart
was lift vp, and wath came vpon him, and
upon Judah and Jeruſalem.

26 Not withstanding Hezekiah humbled him
ſelſe (after that his heart was lifted vp) he
the inhabitants of Jeruſalem, the wath
of the Lord came not vpon them in Ú dayes
of Hezekiah.

27 Hezekiah also had exceeding much riches
and honour, and he gate him treasures af
ſiluer, and of golde, and of precious stones, of
all weſte odours, and of hieldes, and of all
plesant beſels :

28 And of ſtore houſes for Ú increase of wheat
and wine and oyle, and ſtalles for all beaſts,
and " rowes for the " stables.

29 And hee made him cities, and had poffet-
ſion of theepe and oren in abundance: for
God had giuen him subſtance exceeding
much.

30 This famous Hezekiah also stopped the ty-
per water ſprings of ' Gihon, and led them
freight underneath toward the citie of Da-
uid Westward, to Hezekiah propered in all
his workes.

31 But becauſe of the ambassadours of the
princes of Babel, which ſent vnto him to en-
quire of the wonder that was done in the
land, God left him to " trie him, and to know
all that was in his heart.

32 Concerning the rest of the actes of Heze-
kiah, and his goodneſſe, beholde, they are
written in the diſilion of Jehiah the Diſpht,
the ſonne of Amoz, in the booke of Ú Kings
of Judah and Israel.

33 So Hezekiah ſlept with his fathers, and
they buried him in the highelt ſepulchre of
the ſonnes of David: and al Judah and the
inhabitants of Jeruſalem did him honour:
at his death: and Manasseh his ſonne rei-
ned in his stead.

4 H. A. P. XXXVIII.

1 Manasseh an idolatrous, 2 He caused Judah to eue. 3 He is let away pufoner into Habakk. 4 He papeeth to the Lord, and is be- liuered. 5 He abaneth idolatry. 6 And leteth by truthe religion. 7 He dieth and Amen his ſonne Succedeth. 8 Whome his owne ſeruants flap.

M Manasseh was twelve yere olde,* when
he began to reigne, & he reigned ſwe
and kiftie pere in Jeruſalem:

And he did euill in the light of the Loide,
like the abominations of the heathen, * who
the Loide had cast out before the children of
Israel.

For he went backe and built the hie places,
* which Hezekiah his father had broken
downe: * and hee ſet vp altars for Baalum,
and made groves, and wouſhipped all the
hoſte of the heauen, and ſerved them.

Allo he built altars in the houſe of the Lord,
whereof the Lord had kafd, * In Jeruſalem
shall my name be for euer.

And he built altars for all the hoſte of the
heauen in the two courtes of the houſe of
the Loide.

a And he caused his ſonnes to paffe through
the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom: hee
gaue himselfe to witchcraft a to charming,
and to ſoſerie, and hee vſed them that had
familiar pirites, and ſoothſayers: hee did
berte much euill in the light of the Loide to
anger him.

He put alſo the karned image, which hee
had made, in the houſe of God: whereof God
had ſaid to David a to Salomon his ſonne,
* In this houſe and in Jeruſalem, which I
have chosen before al the tribes of Israel, will
I put my Name for euer,

Neither wil *I make the foote of Israel to
remoue any more out of the lande which I
have appointed for your fathers, to that they
take heed, and do all that I have commann-
ded them, according to the Law & ſtatures
and judgements by the hand of Moſes.

1 Which also
was called
Sicure, whereof
mention is
made, 1 Ja. 8, 5
Joh. 9:7.

u Here we fea-
the cauſe, who
the faithfull
are tempere,
which he
true whether
they haue faith
on me, and that
the pape for
the pape of
God, who laſ-
forth them not
to be outrege
by tuturings,
but in their
workares and
their ſtrenght.

2 Sam. 7:16.

b The charge
quen to J. Esa.

9 So

repentance, and death. Amon.

Chap. xxxiiiij.

Iofiah destroyeth idoles. 184

9

So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to erre, and to doe worse then the heathen, whome the Lorde had destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 And the Lord spake to Manasseh to his people, but they would not regard.

c Meaning, he the plus, phares, and carnes, were not to be let down to be let down and repent, without the which he was chiding of the word, take not no place.

11 Wherefore the Lorde brought upon them the captaines of the hoste of the King of Al-fur, which tooke Manasseh and put him in fetters, and bound him in chains, and carped him to Babel.

12 And when he was in tribulation, he prayed to the Lorde his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

d Thee afferme that thou gueth un beauteous: for he that has red God in his heart, know him well, and let him know he fees shortly unto him.

13 And played unto him: and God was treated of him, and heard his prayer, and brought him againe to Jerusalem into his kingdome: then Manasseh knewe that the Lord was God.

14 Now after this he built a wall without the citie of David, on the West side of Egeh in the valley, euè at the entry of the fifth gate, and compassed Ophel, and railed it very high, and put captaines of warre in all the strong cities of Judah.

e Read Chap. 33, 35.

15 And he tooke away the strange gods and the image out of the house of $\S$ Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lorde, and in Jerusaleme, and cast them out of the citie.

f Read Chap. 27, 31.

16 Also he prepared the $\S$ altar of the Lorde, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings, and of thanks, and commaunded Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.

g Which Sa- mon had caned to be made,

17 Neuerthelesse the people did sacrifice still in the hie places, but unto the $\S$ Lorde their God.

h Thee by me was made knowne then, quicning it was not thing to keep the altars, to that they were churped. God was also a God of worship, and so was the name then he beate appyed to.

18 Concerning the rest of the actes of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the Seers, that heake to him in the Name of the Lord God of Israel, be-holde, they are written in the booke of the kings of Israel.

i Which altho' it that is not concerned in the Church, yet because to here menno-red his writing in the book, the booke is called it in the end of this booke.

19 And his prayer how God was intreated of him, and all his sinne, and his trelpasse, and the places wherein he built his places, and set groves and images before he was humbled behold, they are written in the booke of the "Seers."

j O. Horn. k Because he had a harsbip offered as giant's death, they did not kurb him in the Eparchies of the kung, but of the gate of the houss.

20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. Amon his sonne reigned in his steade.

21 And he was two and twenty yere olde, when he began to reigne, and reigned two yere in Jerusaleme.

22 But he did evil in the light of the Lord, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed to all the images, which Manasseh his father had made, and served them,

23 And hee humbled not him selfe before the Lorde, as Manasseh his father had humbled him selfe: but this Amon trelpassted more a more.

24 And his ferdants conspired against him, and flewe him in his owne house.

25 But the people of the land flewe all them

that had conspired against King Amon: as the people of the land made Jofiah his sonne king in his steade.

C H A P. XXXIII.
Iofiah destroyeth the idoles. 8 And reuerend the Temple. 14 The host of the Kneve is found. 21 He came to the Temple. 27 The sonne of the Prophe- telle for countel. 27 God heareth his prayer. 31 He maketh a ces- sistant with God.

Jofiah was eight yere olde when hee began to reigne, as he reigned in Jerusaleme one and thirty yere.

And hee did pightely in the light of the Lord, and walked in the wayes of David his father, and bowed neither to the right hand nor to the left.

And in the eight yere of his reigne (when he was yet a child) hee began to seche after the God of David his father: and in the twelft yere he began to purge Judah, and Jerusaleme from the hie places, and the groves, and the earued images, and molten images:

4 And they brake downe in his fight the altars of Baalim, as he caused to cut downe the images that were on the y upon them: he brake all the groves, and the earued images, and the molten images, a stampt them to powder, and strowed it upon the graues of them that had sacrificed unto them.

Also hee burnt the bones of the Diocleses upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusaleme.

And in the cities of Manasseh, & Ephraim, and Simeon, euè untoaphralt, with their maules they brake al round about.

And when he had destroyed the altars and the groves, and had broken and stampered to powder the images, as had cut downe all the idoles throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusaleme.

C The in the eightenthi yere of his reigne when he had purged the land of the Temple, he sent Shaphan the sonne of Azaliah, and Manasseh the gouernour of the citie, and Joah the sonne of Joahaz the recorder, to repaire the house of the Lord his God.

And when they came to Hilkiah the hie Driest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doore, had gathered at the hand of Manasseh, and Ephraim, & of all the residue of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and "of the inhabitants of Jerusalem."

And they put it in the hands of them that should do the worke and had the oversight in the house of the Lorde: and they gave it to the workemen that wrought in the house of the Lorde, to repaire and amende the house.

11 Even to the workemen and to the builders were many portions and pieces anther to the Temple. 12 Meaning, that they were in such ckeste of their work, that they made none other things, but which they reuerend, King David.

12 And the men did the worke faithfully, for the overseers of them were Jahath and Dabadiah the Levites, of the children of Mezirati, and Zechariah, and Meschullam, of the children of

Himself.

Children.

24, 25.

a He followed David in all points that he followed the Lord.

b When he was but five years hee heareth himselfe prophesies of God so far as at thornhip were also he ablie thes his iotatryk as related the true religion, c Which they then did that he would see his former way his own epiæs.

23, 16.

c This great seal of this land King II. holdeth forth even an enigma, s patterne to show their things, to teach them what God requireth of them.

24, 23.

d Or, they reuerend to Jerusaleme, meaning, Shaphan, the children of

The Lawe is found.

11. Chron. Iosiahs covenant. The Passeouer.

children of the Kohathites to let it forward: and of the Levites al that could fulfil instruments of music.

13 And they were out the bearers of burdens, and them that let forward all the workemè in every worke: and of the Levites were scribes, and officers and porters.

14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of Jiah, Hilkiah the Priest found the booke of the Lawe of the Loide given by the hande of Moses.

15 Therefore Hilkiah answered and sayde to Shaphan the chaunceler, I haue founde the booke of the Lawe in the house of the Lord: and Hilkiah gaue the booke to Shaphan.

16 And Shaphan carped the booke to: the King, and brought the King workde againe, sayding, All that is committed to the hand of thy seruants, that do they.

17 For they have gathered the money that was founde in the house of the Loide, and have deliuered it into the hands of the ouerleers, and to the hands of the workemèn.

18 Also Shaphan the chaunceler declared to the King, saying, Hilkiah the Priest hath given me a booke, and Shaphan read it before the King.

19 And when the King had heard the words of the Law, he kare his clothes.

20 And the King commanded Hilkiah, & Abukam the sonne of Shaphan, & Abdon the sonne of Micah, and Shaphan the chancele, and Isaiah the Kings seruant, saying,

21 Goe and enquire of the Loide for mee, and for the rest in Israel and Judah, concerning the wordes of this booke that is found: for great is the wath of the Loide that is fallè upon vs, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do after all that is written in this booke.

22 Then Hilkiah and they that the King had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetesse the wife of Shallum, the sonne of Tokhath, the sonne of Nafrat keeper of the wardrobe (and shee dwelt in Jerusale[m within the college) and they communed hereof with her.

23 And she answered them, Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel, Tell ye the man that lent you to me,

24 Thus faith Jiah, Beholde, I will bring euill upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, euen all the curses, that are written in the booke which they have read before the King of Judah;

25 Because they have forfale me, and burnt incense unto other gods, to anger mee with all the workes of their hands, therefore shall my wath fall upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

26 But to the King of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, so shall mee say unto him, Thus faith the Loide God of Israel, The wordes which thou hast heard, shall

come to pafle.

27 But becaufe thine heart did melt, & thou didst humble thy selfe before God, when thou heardst his wordes against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbled thy selfe before me and tareft thy clothes, and weptest before mee, I haue also heard it, faith the Lord.

28 Behold, I wil gather thee to thy fathers, & thou haliot be put in thy graue in peace, & thine eyes shall not see all the eul, which I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. Thus they brought the king word againe.

29 Then the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusale[m].

30 And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusale[m], and the Briefs and the Levites, and all the people from the greatest to the least, and he read in their eares all the wordes of the booke of the couenant that was found in the house of the Lord.

31 And the king food by his piller, & made a covenant before the Lord, to walke after the Lord, and to keepe his commandemèts, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soule, & that he would accomplish the wordes of the covenant written in the same booke.

32 And he caused all that were found in Jerusale[m], and Beniamin to stand to it: and the inhabitants of Jerusale[m] did according to the couenant of God, euen the God of their fathers.

33 So Jiah tooke away al the abominations out of all the countries that perteneed to the children of Israel, & compelled all the were founde in Israel, to serve the Lord their God: so all his dayes they turned not backe from the Lord God of their fathers.

This declaration what is the cause of the exiles? I call not to remembra, and to remember the name of their deu徒 on.

It may be said that yes, if they were touched with true remembra, & that God spares them for a time, then the kings take.

So, as a sign of our love, and our honour, so may we be ex-empted from the covenants therefor, and so they did, for they were committed to God, and so has his burster to be it read to all, that eul, that eul one might have, and that eul would make them profane to the name of God.

As certain he had charges made against him, and so he was ex-empted from all that pertained to him, and so he was not made a profane to the name of God.

d Read 1. 1 Cor. 22:3.

i For the king was comansed to have continuall a copy of this booke, and to read therevay and might, Deut. 17:18.

k For so long as the way of God had bene so long fulfilled, and the people kept in ionas raiters, confirmed ring also the cures contained therewith as ganit the tranfegreers.

l Thus the godly do not yield launceit their owne lives, but alfo that their fasbers and ples becaufours house offended God. Or, Tikah. Or, Hahas. m Meaning, father of the Pniels auþas rell, or of the Kings.

n Strad herocf. 2. King 22:15, o That is to the King.

p This the way in which the children of the blest are to be contrarp to reason and have puce makerth that a god which they have made, and fraze[red with their owne hands,

CHAP. XXXV.

Jiah keepeth the Pafleouer. 2. Ye letterth fourth God's fereu.

10 He fighteth againe the King of Egypt, and dyeth. 24 The people be wallde him.

M Drouer * Jiah kept a Pafleouer. Unto the Lord in Jerusale[m], and they flew the Pafleouer in the fourtenth day of the first moneth.

And he appointed Dniests to their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord,

And he said unto Jiah, that taught all Israel & were sanctified unto the Lord. Put the holy Arke in the house which Salomon the sonne of David King of Israel did build: it shall be no more a burden vp your shoulders: serve now the Loide your God and his people Israel.

And prepare your feliues by the houses of your fathers according to your courtes, as *David the king of Israel hath written, and according to the writing of Salomon his sonne,

And stand in the Sanctuarie according to

1. King 22:11. The Hemijs were in the Lamb's places to cal the Lamb the Jiah, which was but the figure of the Jiah, they were called in all las: craniemès theignes, their names of the things which are ings, etc. So that the pniels charge was not only to serve in the cove, but also to use the people in the house of God.

2. Chro. 22:14.

3.

["The Kings of the North & South.", "Daniel.", "The Kings diſſembl.\n\nThe Kings diſſembl.", "After this his monar-\nch was deu\ned into ſource:\nfor Belenous\nhad Dua,\nAntigonus\nAelia mino,\nCaffanber\nthe kiingdome of\nPaeconia,\nand Ptole-\nmeus Egypt.\n\nh Thus God\nreunifyed\nthe rea\nanders an\nbition\nand craven\nin cating\nhow he\npovlered to\nmurthered,\npartp of the\nfathers chieſe\nſtrauſh, and\npartp one of\nanother,\n\na None of\nthe ſou\nhalbe able to\nbe compared\nto the power\nof Alexander.\n\nk That is, his\npovleric haf-\ning no part\nthereof.\n\nl To wit, Pto-\nlenemus King\nof Egypt.\n\nm That is,\nAniochus the\nloune of Se-\nlenus,\nand one of Alera-\nders princes\nhall be more\nrighte: for\nhe should haue\nboth Aelia and\nDua.\n\nn That to, be-\nrence the\ndaugher of\nProleneas\nPhiladelphus\nhaſte gien\nin marriage\nto Antiochus\nTheos, thun-\nking by this\naffinitie that\nDua and Es-\ngypt should haue\na conti-\nnual peace to-\ngethers.\n\no A hat ſone\nand strength\nshall not con-\ntrue: for ſon\nafter ſeance\nand her pong\nſonne after per\nhutbands\ndeath, was\nſaue of her\nſtepſonie\nHelenicus Ca-\nlinicus the\nloune of Ako-\ndes, the law,\nful wife of Aul-\ntichus, but\nput away for\nthis woman\nſale.\n\np Neither\nProleneus,\nnor Antio-\nchus.\n\nq Some reade,\nſeede, meaning\nthe childe be-\ngotten of Be-\nrence.\n\ns Some reade,\nthe that begate\nher, and there\nbp under\nher nurce, which\nbrought her ſo: to that all thep that were occation of this marriage\nwere deſtroyed.\n\nx Meaning, that Proleneus Cuergetes after the death of his\nfather Philadelphus haſte ſuſcure in the kiingdome being of the ſame ſtock that he\nrenewed was,\n\nr To reuengehis ſ filters deaſtly against Antiochus of Calixtus King\nrenewed was,\n\na For this Proleneus reigned ſee and fourtie peres.\n\nx Dea-\nſing, Helenus and Antiochus the Great, the ſonnes of Calixtus shall make warre a\nſainſt Proleneus Philopater the ſonne of Philadelphus.\n\ny For his elder bro-\nder Helenus dred, w, was ſame while the taures were preparing.\n\nz Philopater when he haſt for Antiochus to take great dominoes from him in Dua,\n\nd also reade to inuade Egypt.\n\na For Antiochus had de: thonand hoſſen and three\nſon ſon ſon ſon\nſon ſon ſon ſon\nſon ſon ſon ſon\nſon ſon

["The little helpe.", "Chap.xij.", "The generall resurrection. 358", "frighten, that it flangeth in the countreys of men, to bring them to pate, but not the pate itself, but the god that ruleth the Kings by a leet hool, that is not the god, but not what he is, but what he is, and so forth. This is the end of times.", "g Which is the God of the Jews in the lyving of Jesuethes, and the god that ruleth the Jews, and this is the god that ruleth the Jews, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and

Hofea's wife

Hofea.

and children.

i. Ælieanng, a long time, a longer time, and at length a thourgh time: figuwing that their troubles thynk haue an ende, k when the Church halbe scattered and diminished in luch, for as it shall reme to haue no powre, m.

liueth for euer, that it shall carrie for a time, two times and an halfe: and when he shall haue accomplished k to scatter the power of the holie people, all these things shall be finished.

8 Then I heard it, but I understood it not: then sayde I, O my Loode, what halbe the ende of these things?

9 And he sayde, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed vp, and sealed, til the ende of the time.

10 Hattie shall be purified, made white, and tried: but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall haue understan-

ding: but the wife shall understand.

11 And from the time that the l' dayly sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abominable desolation let vp, there m shall a thouande, two hundred and ninety dayes.

12 Blessed is he that wapeth and commeth to the thouande, three hundredth and n flue and thirtie dayes.

13 But go o thou thy way till the ende be: for thou shall rest and stand vp in thy lot, at the ende of the dayes.

n In this number he abeth a monthly and an halfe to the former number, figuwing that it is not in man to appoint the time of Churtes comming, but that they are set vp to that partement albe his appraying. o The Angel warneth the Prophet parce to abate, till the time appointed come, figuwing that he should depart this life, and rife again with the elect, when God had sufficienty humbled and purged his Church.

1 From the time that God was pleased to take away the sacrifice and the Church, the Church was set vp to the Church again, and so forth.

Hofea.

THE ARGVMENT.

After that the ten tribes had fallen away from God by the wicked and fubiletic counfle of Ieroboam the fonne of Nebat, and in flade of his true fervice commanded by his worde worphipped him according to their owne fantasies and traditions of men giving them- felues to moft vile idolatry and iuperfition, the Lord from time to time ſent them Prophets to call them to repentance but they gyve them of their ingrat tude: and where as they thought themfelues to be greatly in the favour of God, and to be his people, the Prophet calleth them baſtardes and children borne in adulerie: and therefore leweth them that God would take away their kingdome, and give them to the Aſſyrians to be led away captives. Thus Hofea faithfully executed his office for the face of Jeuſteneeies, though they remayned full in their vices and wickednes, and derided the Prophets, and contemned God's judgements. And because they thought neither be difcouraged with threatenings only, nor yet flatter themſelues by the sweetenes of God's promifes, he fereth before them the two principall parts of the Lawe, which are the promes of faluation, and the doſtine of life: for the firſt part he directeth the faithful to two principall Kings, and that he preaſcheth aboue the trueth of Jove.

1 The time wherein Hofea prophesied. 2 The idolatry of the people. 3 The calling of the Gentiles. 4 Christ is the head of all people.

He word of the Lord that came vnto Hofea the ſonne of Beert, in the dayes a of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahab, and Hezekiah b Kings of Judah, c in the dayes of Ieroboam the ſone of Joash King of Israel.

At the beginning the Loode spake by Ho-lea, and the Loode sayde vnto Hofea, Goe, take vnto thee a wife c of fornications, and children of fornications: for the lande hath committed great whoiedome, departing from the Lord.

So he went, a tooke d Somer, the daugh-ter of Diblaim, which conceyued and bare him a ſonne.

And the Lord said vnto him, Cal his name İzreel: for yet a little, and I will viſite the blood of İzreel vpon the house k of Jehu, a will cauſe to cease the kingdome of the house of Israel.

And at that d ayve will I allo breake the bove of Israel in the valley of İzreel.

She conceiued yet againe, d bare a daugh-ter, and God layd vnto him, Call her name

ter, and God layd vnto him, Call her name h Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more haue p[er]tie vpon the house of Israel: but I will be t[er]terly take them away.

Yet I will haue mercie vpon the house of Judah, and will k ſaue them by the Loode their God, and will not ſaue them by bove, nor by two d ayes nor battell, by hoſes, n[ot] by hoſlemen.

Now when he had wained Lo-ruhamah, he conceyued, and bare a ſonne.

Then layd God, Cal his name l Lo-ammi: for pee are not my people: therefore will I not be yours.

Yet the number of the m children of Ieruhaſhalbe as the land of the ſea, which can not be measured n[ot] toſde: a in the place where it was layd vnto them, He are not my people, it halbe layd vnto them, Ye are ſonnes of the liuing God.

Then shall the children of Judah, and the children of Ierurael bee n gathered together, and appoint them ſelues one head, and they shall come vp out of the land: for great is the c day of İzreel.

both of the J ewes, and the Gentiles, fom. 6, 7, n To wit, after the caputre of Ieruhaſhalbe when the J ewes were reſtored: but chriſt this is referred to the time of Joch, who then should be the heath both of the J ewes and Gentiles. o The calamintry and buſetion of Ieruhaſhalbe to great, that to reſore them halbe as a unacide,

CHAP. II.
1 The people is called to repentance. 2 We thelotheth their idolatry and their faitheth them ercept their repentent.

İzreel, and the children of Ieruhaſhalbe, are called together, and appointed them to the land of Canaan, which is the land of Canaanite, and the children of Canaan are called Canaanite, and the children of Canaan are called to the land of Canaan.

It remaineth that you encourage one another to imhace the fame, confirming the name of your children.

s Called also J[eh]uah, who being a leper was depoſed from his kings boves.

b Do that it may be gathe red by the reigne of these four Kings, that he preaſcheth aboue the trueth of Jove.

c That is, one of long time, that he hath ac-ruutned to play the harsel: not that he the[J]uſet bid this vning in effect, but he faueth this in a vifton, or els was commu[n]ed by God to fer fourth under this pavable [to] figure the idolatry of the Dnagogue, and of the people her children.

d Somer ſings, nufeth a consumption on corruption, e Diblaim cluſers of hagges, declaring, that they were al corrupt like rotten fingers.

e Meaning, that then should he no more called Iraclitres, of the which name they haſtold, because İzreel bid venalit with God: but that they were as hattardes, and therefore should be called Iraclitres, that is, scattered people, alluding to İzreel, which was the chiefe citie of the tenne tribes under Ahab, where Jehu thede to lo much bove, 2. Ring. 6, 8, 11. f I will be renengeth vpon Jehu for the bloud that he theſt in İzreel: for alheit God diſired him up to execute his uudgeritents, yet he diſed them for his own auu-rition, and not for the glorie of God, as the enuie declared: for he huiteth that Idaola-trie, which he had deſtroyed. g When the meaſure of their iniquitie is full, and I hal[ve] take vengeance and deſtrop all their policie and ſoſces.

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2 P[le]ad

Spiritual whoredome.

Chap. iij. iiiij.

Spiritual marriage.

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b God the Father said that the fault which is not in man but in man's own doings, and their doings, that he cannot make them, Sa. 1, 2, 3.

c For though this people were not in their land, but in their land, and in their doings, that they were not alchemists, but that they did not find of us, Sa. 1, 2, 3.

d For though this people were not in their land, but in their doings, that they were not alchemists, but that they did not find of us, Sa. 1, 2, 3.

e For though this people were not in their land, but in their doings, that they were not alchemists, but that they did not find of us, Sa. 1, 2, 3.

f For though this people were not in their land, but in their doings, that they were not alchemists, but that they did not find of us, Sa. 1, 2, 3.

g For though this people were not in their land, but in their doings, that they were not alchemists, but that they did not find of us, Sa. 1, 2, 3.

h For though this people were not in their land, but in their doings, that they were not alchemists, but that they did not find of us, Sa. 1, 2, 3.

i For though this people were not in their land, but in their doings, that they were not alchemists, but that they did not find of us, Sa. 1, 2, 3.

j For though this people were not in their land, but in their doings, that they were not alchemists, but that they did not find of us, Sa. 1, 2, 3.

k For though this people were not in their land, but in their doings, that they were not alchemists, but that they did not find of us, Sa. 1, 2, 3.

2

Plead with your mother: plead with her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband, but let her take away her fornifications out of her light, and her adulteries from between her breasts.

3

Adulter: I strip her naked, and let her as in the day that she was bare, and make her as a wildernelle, and leave her like a diye land, and lay her for thrust.

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And I will have no pitie upon her children: for they bee the children of fornifications.

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For their mother hath played the harlot: shee that conceived them, hath done shamefully: for shee layde, I will go after my louers that give me my bread and my water, my woollo and my slave, mine oyle and my drinke.

6

Therefore behold, I will stoppe thy way with thoynes, and make an hedge, that shee shall not finde her paths.

7

Though shee folowe after her louers, yet shall shee not come at them: though shee seeke them, yet shall she not finde them: then shall she say, I will goe and returne to my first husband: for at that time was I better then nowe.

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Nowe she did not know that I gaue her come, and wine, and oyle, and multiplied her filuer and golde, which they bestowed upon Baal.

9

Therefore wil I returne, take away my come in the tyne thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, as wil recover my woollo and my flaxe lent, to couer her shame.

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And now will I dilcouter me lewdnes in the light of her louers, and no man shall de-luier her out of mine hand.

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I will also cause all her mirth to cease, and her feast dayes, her newe moones, & her Sabathys, and all her solemne feasts.

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And I will destroy her vines and her figge trees, whereof she hath layd, These are my rewards that my louers have giuen mee: as I will make them as a fozeft, and the wilde beafts shall eate them.

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And I will vithele upon her the dayes of Baalim, wherin she burnt incense to them: and shee decked her selfe with her earnings and heriewels, as shee folowed her louers, and forgate me, layth the Lord.

14

Therefore behold, I will P allure her, and bring her into the wildernes, and speake friendly unto her.

15

And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Acho: for the doore of hope, as the halting there as in the dayes of her youth, and as in the day when she came vp out of the land of Egypt.

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And at that day, layth the Lord, thou shall mee: as Ithi, and halt call mee no moze Baali.

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For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall be no more remembered by their names.

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And in that day will I make a covenant for them, with the wilde beaftes, and with the foules of the heauen, and with that creepeth upon the earth: and I will brake the bowe, and the kworde and the battell out of the earth, and will make them to flee safe lyely.

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And I will marrie thee unto me for euery other, I will marrie thee unto mee in rightoulesnes, and in judgemèt, and in mercry and in compassion.

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I will euen marry thee unto me in faithfulness, and thou shall know the Lord.

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And in that day I will heare, layeth the Lord. I will euen heare the heauens, and they shall heare the earth,

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And the earth shall heare the come, and the wine, and the oyle, and they shall heare Israel.

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And I will sowe her unto me in the earth, and I will haue meere upon her, that was not pitied, as I will lay to them which were not my people, *Thou art my people. And they shall lay, thou art my God.

No: I volatolie: that once come into their mouth, but that which comes to my口, is not altho: Dreaming, that he will be a blefe them, that all creating shall cause their them,

With a cosuenant that neuer shall be broken.

Then shall the heauens beare name for the earth which shall bring forth for the vle of Ivan,

Rom. 15, 1-20.

### CHAP. III.

The dayes shall beare call of their volatolie, 5 Afterward they shall returne to the Lord.

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Then said the Lord to me, Go yet, and alone a woman (beloued of her husband, and was an harlot) according to the loue of the Lord toward the children of Israel: yet they looked to other gods, and loued the wine bottels.

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So I bought her to me for fifteene pieces of filuer, and for an homer of barley and an halfe homer of barley.

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And I layde unto her, Thou shall abdye with me many dayes: thou shall not play the harlot, and thou shall be to none other man, and I will be so vnto thee.

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For the children of Israel shall remaine many dayes without a King, and without a Prince, and without an offring, without an offering, and without an Ephod and without Teraphim.

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Afterward the children of Israel converted, as sheeke the Lord their God, and David their King, and shall feare the Lord, and his goodnes in the latter dayes.

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I will try this a long time as in thy wath, hope whether thou will be mine or no. I will earing, nor ore up at the time of their caputnute, but also unto Christ. That is, they should neither have policie nor religion, and their doles also wherein they put their confidence, they be de tropfed. g This is ment of Chyldes kingdome, which was promised vnto David to be eternall, Psa. 71, 17.

### CHAP. IIII.

In complaint against the people, and the Pritie of Israel.

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Hare the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controuerie with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor meanness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

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By wearing, and lying, and killing, and keealing, and whooring they keake out, and blood toucheth blood.

place appereth a libertie to most gauous beaues, so that one followeth in the necke of another.

### Therefore

["Like people, like Priest.", "Hofea.", "The Lord woundeth & healeth.", "C H A P . V .", "against the Priestes and rulers of Israel. 13 The heelye of man is in his bayne.", "O", "De Prieſtes heare this, and hearken O ye, D house of Israel, & give ye care, D house of the King : for udgement is towarde you, because you have beene a snare on Hizpah, and a nette spied upon Tabo.", "The diuines", "and prentie", "cared the\npeople\nof Israel\nas the\nfates\nbeyond\nthe fire\nand\nwater", "The diuines", "and prentie", "to come\ninto the\nhouse", "of the\nking", "3 Then", "Therefore ſhal the land mourne, and every one that dwelleth therin, halbe cut of, with the beaſts of the ſielde, and with the ſoules of the heauen, and also the ſihes of the ſea halbe taken away.", "Det c let none rebuke, noz repouſe another: for thy people are as they that rebuke the Driekt.", "Therefore ſhalt thou fall in the d dave, and the p[ro]phet shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.", "My people are destroyed for lacke of knowlege: because f thou hast refuted knowledge, I will also refuse thee, that thou that be no Driekt to mee: and seeing s thou hast forgotten the Lawe of thy God, I will also forget thy children.", "As they were h increased, so they stined a gainſt mee: therefore will I chaunge their glorie into chame.", "They eate vp the finnes of my people, and lift vp their mindes in their iniquitie.", "And there shall be like people, like k Driekt: for I will viſite their wayes vp the children, and reward them their deedes.", "For they shall eate, and not haue ynough: they shall commit aduiterie, and that not inereale, because they haue left of to take heed to the Lord.", "11 n Who[ed]ome, and wine, and newe wine take away their heart.", "12 My n people aſke counsel at their ſtocks, a their ſtaſſe teacheth them: for the c p[irit] of ſonifications hath cauſed ch to erre, a they haue gone a whozing ſro under their God.", "13 They sacrifice vp the toppes of the mountains, and burne incense vpon the hilles under the okes, and the poplar tree, and the elme, because the ch adowe the reof of is good: therefore pour daughters chalbe p harlots, and your ſpouses chalbe whores.", "14 I will not viſit your daughters wh they are harlots, no your ſpouses wh they are whores: for they theſelues are separated v[] harlots, a ſacrifice with whores: therefore the people f doeth not understand, hal fall.", "15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet c let not Judah ſume : come not yee vnto c Gilgal, neyther goe ye vp to c Beth-auen, nor weare, The Lord lieth.", "16 For Israel is rebellious as an unkrulp hefer. Nowe the Lo[de] will feede them as a \"lambe in a large place.", "17 Ephraim is ioyned to idoles: let him alone.", "18 Their dr[unk]ennes ſtinketh: they haue committed who[ed]ome: their rulers loue to ſay with chame, x Bring ye.", "19 The winde hath y bounds them vp in her wings, and they shall be al[ame]ſhed of their ſacrifices.", "As though", "the woude lap,", "that it were in", "baine to reſubuke them:", "for to na[]u", "can abide it:", "yea, they will", "beake against", "the P[ro]p[he]mers", "and J[ud]ica", "who[ne]e offe[ring]", "is chieſt to", "rebuke them,", "4 De that pe[]", "with al[ong]ers", "ther: the one,", "because he", "wonde not", "abide, and the", "other because", "he woude not", "admoniſh.", "c That is, the", "D[omi]n[ion]", "th[ey]e haſt", "of, because", "that for lacke", "of knowledge,", "they are not", {"bbox":

["A cake not turned.", "Chap.vij.viiij.", "The calfe of Samaria. 360", "c You came to have a cretenee\npounds of raiment\npounds of raiment, but\nupon your return\nfled, and as a morning\nclay, and as a morning\nclay.", "Then shall we have knowledge, and inde-\nnour our selues to knowe the Lord: his go-\ning fooeth is prepared as the morning, and\nhe shall come vnto us as a rayne, and as the\nlatter rayne vnto the earth.", "d Thee shall we have laboured by\nmy shepherds, and as it were,\nlaboured for you to as\nsustenance, but that was in\nhaste.", "Ephzaim, what that I do vnto thee? D\nJudah, howe thal I intreat thee? for e,\npour\ngoodnes is as a morning cloude, and as the\nmorning dewe it goeth away.", "Therfore have I cut downe by the Pro-\nphets: I haue flapne them by the words of\nmy mouth, and thy judgements were as\nthe light that goeth forth.", "e Thee doctrine\nwhich I taught\nthat was not eul-\nbrit.\n\nf Thee theretherto\nwhat scope\nhas doctrine\nthat they should\noppose the obes-\ndence of God,\nand the love of\ntheir neergohba-\ntum outward\nferehie.", "fof I defred <sup>f</sup>mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more then burnt of-\nfrings.", "g But they like men have tranſgreſſed the\ncouenait : there haue they trespasſed a-\ngainſt me.", "But they like men have tranſgreſſed the\ncouenait : there haue they trespasſed a-\ngainſt me.", "h That is, like\nlight, fire, and\nfury.", "hile is a citie of them that worke in-\nquitie, and is polluted with blood.", "i Which was\na place where\nthe fire burneth,\nwhich burneth\nhave them helθed in\nup\n\nj That is, both\nintimate the fire\nand fire of the\ntriges.", "And as theeues wapte for a man, so the co-\npanie of Pfeſtles murther in the wappe by\nconsent: for they worke miſchlieſe.", "I haue lecne vilenie in the house of Israel:\nthere is the whoe dome of Ephzaim: Israel\nis defiled.", "k What is, but\nthe fire of the\ntriges.", "II Yea, Judah hath set a plant for thee,\nwhiles I woule returne the capitie of\nmy people.", "CHAP. VII.", "1 Of the bicaes and wantonnes of the people. 12 Of their ynlicitment.", "l Meaning,\nthat there was\nno one kind of\nlance among\nthem, but that\nthey were filth-\nfer to all wres\nbites, both\nbeaten a omen.", "When I would have healed Israel,\nthe iniquitie of Ephzaim was\ndifcouered, and the wickednes of", "Samaria: for they haue dealt falſely : and\na the theſe commeth in, a the robber ſpo-\nletly without.", "m They came\ntheir twiched\nking Jerobok\nabove God,\nand die, but\nhave to flatter\nand pleye\nbut.", "And they consider not in their heartes,\nthat I remember al their wickednes: now their\nowne inventions haue beſet them about:\nthey are in my light.", "n The compa-\nrenth the rarge\nof the people\nto a burning\ncoun, which\nthe baker hea-\nthreutli\nhis drough tie\nburneth and\nrancels.", "They make the King glad with their wic-\nkednes, and the princes with their lyes.", "o They held al\nnot and reſcreele\nin their floaſt\nand diſturbeth\nthereby\n\np They held al\nnot and come\nin their fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nq They held al\nnot and come\nin their fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nr They held al\nnot and come\nin their fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\ns They held al\nnot and come\nin their fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nu They held al\nnot and come\nin their fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nv They held al\nnot and come\nin their fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nw They held al\nnot and come\nin their fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nx They held al\nnot and come\nin their fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\ny They held al\nnot and come\nin their fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nz They held al\nnot and come\nin their fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\na They held al\nnot and come\nin their fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb They held al\nnot and come\nin their fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\npet is, but as\na cake baked\non the one side\nand on the other\nthat is, rather\nthough he\nthoughe\nin his fire\nand burneth\nthereby\n\nb That is, he\ncounterſaitheth\nthe religion of\nthe Simeons,\nbut is not as\n

["Baal-Peor.", "Hofea.", "The calfe of Israel.", "1. That the dolarates count the word of God as a sign in respect of their own institutions.\n2. Hating that they offer it to the Lord, but he accepts no sacrifice, which he himself offers not appointed.", "3. For though all other people should eat, yet thou shall be punished.\n4. Thou shall be committet in dolatry in hope of excommunication, and to have thy barnes filled, therefor.\n5. For a bar of that had rather time to play thee then to be interrained of her own husband.", "6. Eye outward things that thou seest, thalbe taken from the other.\n7. All their doings both tending police and religion, thalbe reformed as things pertain to men.", "8. The meat offering which they offered for their fleshness.\n9. When the Lord shall take away all offices of living man, which shall be the most graces unto you, your captives, when thou shall be your slaves out of front of God.", "10. Though they come into the land of Egypt by floating the constructio out that is at bauh, yet that they be beetroles in the place whether they come to Egypt.", "11. Then they shall know that they were delivered by the will of God, and to them they come to be their judges and spiritual men.\n12. The judges are judges to be brought me to God, and not to be a snare to pull them from God.", "13. For this people to so related in their wickedness that they should be like to God, was not to be so.", "14. I meaning, that he so effects them and делtes in the.", "15. They were as abominable unto the, as their lourers the doles.\n16. Signifying, that God would destroy their children by these sad means, and so continue them by little and little.\n17. So then kept tender plantes in their pomes in Egypt to pertaine them from the colde apes of the sea, so was Ephraim at the first unto me, but now I will give him to the flaugher.", "of my Lawe : but they were counted as a strange thing.", "13. They sacrifice kieſe for the sacrifices of mine offrings, and eat it: but the Lord accepteth them not: nowe will he remember their iniquitie, and vistie their innes: they shall returne to Egypt.", "14. For Israel hath forgotten his maker, and buildeth temples, & Judah hath increased strong cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, & it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.", "### CHAP. IX.", "Of the hunger and captivity of Israel.", "1. Eciopce not, D'Israel for toye as other people : for thou haſt gone a whoring from the God : thou haſt loued a reward upon euery come floore.", "2. The floore, and the wine pessle shall not feede them, and the newe wine shall faple in her.", "3. They will not dwell in the Lords lande, but Ephraim will returne to Egypt, & they will eate vnicleane things in Ashur.", "4. They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall their sacrifices be pleafant unto him: but they shall be binto them as the bread of mourners : all that eate thereof, shall be polluted : for their bread for their foules, shall not come into the house of the Lord.", "5. What will ye do then in the solemnne dayes, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?", "6. For loe, they are gone from destruction: but Egypt shall gather them vp, and Memphis shall bury them: the nettle shall poffesse the pleasant places of their filuer, and the thorne shall be in their tabernacles.", "7. The dayes of visitation are come : the dayes of recompence are come : Israel shall knowe it: the Prophet is a fool: the rituall man is madde, for the multitude of the thine iniquitie : therefore the hatred is great.", "8. The watcheman of Ephraim should be with my God: but the Prophet is the snare of a fouler in al his wayes, & hatred in the House of his God.", "9. They are deeply let: they are corrupt as in the dayes of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquitie, he wil vistie their innes.", "10. I found Israel like grapes in the wilderines: I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the figge tree at her first time: but they wet to Baal-Deo, and separated themselves unto that name, and their abominations were according to their lourers.", "11. Ephraim their glorie shall flee away like a bird: from the birth\" and from the wombe, and from the conception.", "12. Though they bring vp their children, yet I will discipline them from beyng men: yea, wo to them, when I depart from them.", "13. Ephraim, as I lawe, is as a tree in Tynys.", "planted in a cottage : but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murtherer.", "14. D'Loode, give them: what wilt thou give them? give them a baren wombe and die beaſtes.", "15. All their wickedneſſe is in Gilgal: for there do I hate them: for the wickedneſſ of their inuentions, I will cast them out of mine House: I will love them no more: all their princes are rebels.", "16. Ephraim is ſinitten, their root is died vp: they can bring no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet wil I slay euen the deare of their bodie.", "17. By God will cast them away, because they did not obey him: and they shall wander among the nations.", "### CHAP. X.", "Against Israel and his doles.\n14. His destruction for the name.", "1. Israel is a empty vine, yet hath it brought forth fruite into it selfe, and according to the multitude of the fruit thereof he hath increased the altars : according to the goodneſſe of their lande they have made faire images.", "2. Their heart is deuided: nowe shall they be found faultie: he shall beake down their altars: he shall deltop their images.", "3. For nowe he shall ſay, We have no King because we feared not the Lord; and what should a King do to vs?", "4. They have spoken words, speaking fallily in making a covenant: thus judgement groweth as worme wood in the furrows of the fielde.", "5. The inhabitants of Samaria shall feare because of the calfe of Beth-auen: for the people thereof shall mourne ouer it, and the Chamearams thereof, that reoped on it for the gloze thereof, because it is departed from it.", "6. It shall be also brought to Ashur, for a present into King Jareb: Ephraim shall receive name, and Israel shall be alhamed of his owne counsel.", "7. Of Samaria, the King thereof is delroyed, as the same vpou the water.", "8. The hie places also of Auen shall bee deujoyed, euen the Sunne of Israel: the thorne & the thistle shall growe upon their altars, and they shall ſay to the mountains, \"Co-uer vs, and to the hilles, Fall upon vs.\"", "9. D'Israel, thou haſt finned from the dayes of Gibeah: there they ſtoode: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquitie did not touch them.", "10. It is my delight that I shoulde chaſſe them, & the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall gather themselves in their two furrows.", "11. And Ephraim is as an heifer ſled to de-lite in chelching : but I will paffe by her", "bales best thou as wicked as the Ebedutes, as God three partly declared: for the stellall of the god was not the god in eructing God's imudments, offering the one houſe haides as theirs.\n12. To wit: to fight, or the Jastreas remained in that chide demes as theirs.\n13. The Jastreas were not moved by their example to ceaſe from their god, but they were not so.\n14. Because they are so delicate, I will delight to deltop them.\n15. That is upon the ground, where they are to be gathered all their strength together, P. Wherein in praise, as in paying them they gathered all their strength together, P.\n\n9 faire", "1. The calfe of God to be the great plasma of

["God did beare Israel.", "Chap.xj.xij.xiij.", "Hope still in God.", "361", "¶ That lay\nin his pike upon\nher faire necke.", "9 faire necke: I wil make Ephraim to ride:\nJudah shal plowe, and Jaakob shal breake\nhis cloddes.", "12 Sowe to yourselues in righteousnes: reap\nafter the measure of mercie: hieke vp your\nfallowe grounde: for it is time to seeke the\nLord, till he come and rayne righteousneſſe\nupon you.", "13 But you haue plowed wickednes: pe haue\nreaped iniquitie: you haue eaten the frute of\nlies: because thon didest truut in thine owne\nwayes, & in the multitude of thy strong me,\n14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among the\npeople as al the munitions shal be destroyed,\nas Shalman destroyed Beth-ariel in the\nday of battell: the mother with the children\nwas dawed in pieces.", "15 So shal Beth-el do vnto you, because of\nyour malicious wickednes: in a morning\nshall the King of Israel be destroyed.", "", "CHAP. XI.", "The benefits of the Lord toward Israel. Their ingratuitude as\ngratuitum.", "When Israel a was a childe, then I\nloued him, b called my sonne out of\nEgypt.", "c They called them, but they went thus\nfrom them: they sacrificed vnto Baalim,\nand burnt incense to images.", "d I led Ephraim also, as one should beare\nthem in his arms: but they knew not that\nI healed them.", "e I led them with cordes of a man, euen\nwith bands of londe, and I was to them, as\nhe that taketh of the poke ke of their iawes,\nand I layd the meate vnto them.", "f He shall no more returne into the lande of\nEgypt: but Asur shall be his c king, be-\ncause they refused to convert.", "g And the two de shall fall on his cities, and\nhal continue his barres, and denoure them,\nbecause of their owne counsels.", "h And my people are bent to rebellion a\ngainst me: though e they called them to the\nmost hie, yet none at all would eralt him.", "i How shall I give thee vp, Ephraim? how\nshall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make\nthee, as Admah? how shall I let thee, as\nZeboim? mine heart is turned within me:\nmy repentings are tolled together.", "j I will not execute the fierceneſſe of my\nmath: I will not returne to Destrop E-\nphraim: for I am God, and not man, the ho-\nly one in the middles of thee, and I will not\nenter into the citie.", "10 They shall walke after the Lord: he shall\ntoare like a lion: when he shall toare, then\nthe children of the weft shall keare.", "11 k They shall keare as a sparrow out of E-\ngypt, and as a done out of the lande of Al-\nflur, and I will place them in their houſes,\nkeare the Lord.", "12 Ephraim compaſſeth me about with lies,\nand the house of Israel with deceit: but Ju-\ndah yet tuleth with God, and is faythfull\nwith the Saints.", "¶ And Jezz.", "¶ That is,\nShalmanas\nsaueth to\naffituation of\nthat cire. pas-\nred neither.\nKunde uot ag.", "¶ Whiles the\nJehares\nlere in Es-\ngupt and do\nnot pomebe\nmy sonne, his\nmales and in-\ngratias.", "¶ The rebele-\nled and went\na dinary way\nwhan the pio-\nspora called\nthem in repre-\nſance.", "¶ That is,\nJehusim and\nJehu and the\nJehusites.", "¶ Deming then\nconforme an\nto this obser-\nance, and\nthe ture\nof the cire\ninto the\nJehusite.", "¶ To wot, the\nJehusites.", "¶ God con-\ndureth vnto\nthee, and\nthat with a\nceremony, and\nhow to punj\nthou.", "¶ Which were\ntwo de that\nwere beateled\nwith Dovid,\nDeu-\n10:21.", "¶ A Meaning\nfor his lone under-\nwith the lio.\ncommeane,\nand the\nuncommeane\nin apperçance\nhis father\naffection, that\nis mercie, to\nhard his lio\nuncommeane\nin apperçance\nhis father\naffection, that\nis decla-\nreth in the\nnort h vorte.", "¶ The de-\nment that\nwill be\nthe childe to\npade and to\nmecte in\nthe ment of the\nsmall uniluer\nwith him.\nTo exerth\nthe lio.", "¶ The Cap-\nnets a lio-\nflourish and\nbe aldean\n& to be\nlond main-\ning his\npeople.", "¶ Couraghe", "¶ Couraghe", "their state according to God's word, and doth not degenerate,", "CHAP. XII.", "The admiſteth by Jaakobes example to truut in God, and not in man.", "1 E\nphraim is fed with the winde, f sol-\nloweth after the Cail wind: he encrea-\nſeth dailie lies and destruction, f they\ndo make a covenant with Asur, and d oyle\nis caried into Egypt.", "2 The Lord hath also a controuſerie with\nJuda h, and will bilite Jaakob, according\nto his wayes : according to his workes, wil\nhe recompence him.", "3 Hee tooke his brother by the heele in the\nwombe, and by his strength he had power\nwith God,", "4 And had power ouer the Angel, and pre-\nauaped: he wept and praved vnto him: he\nfound him in Beth-el, and there hee spake\nwith his.", "5 Hea the Lord God of hostes, the Lord is\nhumble his memorial.", "6 Therefore turne thou to the God: keepe\nmercie and udgement, and hope still in the\nGod.", "7 He is Canaan: the ballances of decit are\nin his hand: he louneth to oppiſe.", "8 And Ephraim layd, Nor withstanding I\nam rich, I haue founde me out riches in all\nmy labours: they shall finde none iniquitie\nin me, h that were wickednes.", "9 Though I am the Lord thy God, from the\nland of Egypt, yet wil I make thee to dwell\nin the tabernacles, as in the dayes of the\nJoleme leael.", "10 I haue also woken by the Prophets, and\nI haue multiplied vilions, and vled ſimili-\ntudes by the miniterie of the Prophets.", "11 Iſ there iniquitie in Gilead: surel they\nare banitie: they sacrifice bullocks in Gil-\ngal, and their altars are as heapes in the\nfurowes of the field.", "12 And Jaakob ſed into the countrep of\nAram, f Israel ſerued for a wife, and ſo a\nwife he kept Scheep.", "13 And by a m Prophete the Loode brought\nIsrael out of Egypt, and by a Prophet was\nhe referred.", "14 But Ephraim prouoked him with his pla-\nces : therefore shall his blood bee poied\nupon him, and his reproch shal his Lord re-\nwarde him.", "15 Wach your father who was a nove ſubitue and ſerant. m Echad,\nwhereby he appeareth, that whaſtuerer they haue, it commeth of God's free goodness,", "CHAP. XIII.", "1 The abominaſon of Israel, g And cause of their deſtruction.", "1 W\nhen Ephraim spake, there was\na trembling: he exalted him ſel\nin Israel, but hee hath finned in\nBaal, c and is dead.", "2 And now they linnne more and more, and\nhaue made them molten images of they:\nfiluer, and idoles according to their owne\nunderstanding: they were all the workes of\nthe craftſelsen : they laye one to another\nwhiles they sacrifice a man, Let them\nthe false\nprophets", "perſuaded the idolaters to offer their children after the example of 20 children, and he\nthereby how they would exhort one another to the fame, and to life and wortlie the\nsalues which were their idoles.", "Ppp.i", "Hillel", "¶ That is,\ndatest yet\nlife yet\nbaine canſe\ndence.", "b Meaning,\npicctures to get\nfriendlipp.", "¶ Whi: in\nthele penta-\nune like to\nEphraim, but\nnot in iolas\ntures.", "c Deing that\nGod did thus\nprefer Jaas\nhath their tas\nthe: Judah and\nthe was the more\nto be abouſo\nthe: Read Gen.\n12:20.", "d So found\nJaakob as he\nlie sleeping in\nBeth-el. Sen.", "e Read Gen.\n12:20. and\nfo spake with\nhunthere, that", "the frame of\nthe pape\nappecated an\nthe whole\nbe of the\npeople, where-\nthe.", "f As for E-\nphraim he is\nmore like the\nthe chedid Cana-\nnites, then\ngod p[er]ſuas\nham of Jaak-\nob.", "g Thus the\nwicked meate\nGod ſa\nhow尔 out by\nthe p[er]ſuas\nrers, and like\np[er]p[er]tures,\n cannot abu-\nthat am\nthey ſupreme\ntheir donig.", "h Swing thou\nwill not ac\nknowlege\nup benefits,\nI will bring\nthe same to\ndwell in the\ncena as in the fea\nthe Tabers\nnacres, which\nthey doel.", "i now continue,\nthe people\nthought that\nno man brought\nhaue broken\nagainst a\nbar, that hoſ\nplace, and get\nthe Prophet\nfaith, that all\ntheir religion\nwas but van-\ntie.", "j If you kant\nof your riches\nand nobilitie,\npe ferme to res", "k The admi-\nniring, Dodes,", "l Whereby he\nappeareth, that", "the father who was a nove ſubitue and ſerant. m Echad,\nwhereby he appeareth, that whaſtuerer they haue, it commeth of God's free goodness,", "¶ The heeth\nthe excellenc,\nand autho-\nre that this\ntribe had as\nbone all the\nre.", "b He made a\nking of his\nfertur.", "c The Ephra-\nites are not\nfarre from be-\nfrustion and\nbeneath their\npower and\nautbority.", "d The false\nprophets", "The\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

God is death vnto death.

Ioel.

Calues of the lippes.

kisse the calues.

3 Therefore they shall bee as the morning cloude, and as the morning dewe that paleseth away, as the chaffe that is druien with a whirlewind out of the slooie, and as the smoke that goeth out of the chimney.

4 Yet I am the Lord thy God: from the land of Egypt, a thou shall know no God but me: for there is no Sainout beside me.

5 I did know thee in the wildernes, in the land of drought.

6 As in their pastures, so were they killed: they were killed, and their heart was erald: therefore haue they forgotten me.

7 And I will be vnto them as a verie Iyon, and as a leopard in the way of Azzur.

8 I will meete them, as a beare that is robust of her whelpes, and I will brake the kall of their heart, and there wil I deuoure them like a Iyon: the wilde beaſt shall teare them.

9 D Israel, one hath destroyed thee, but in me is thine helpe.

10 I am: where is thy King, that shouldl helpe thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saideſt, Gue me a King, and princes?

11 I gaue thee a King in mine anger, and I tooke him away in my wyath.

12 The iniquitie of Ephzaim is h bounde bp: his linne is hid.

13 The sozowes of a travailing woman shall come vpon him: he is an vnwife lonne, eſſe would he not stand still at the time, euen at the breaking forth of the children.

14 I will redeem them from the power of the graue: I will deliver them from death: D death, I wil be thy death: D graue, I will be thy destruction: ¹repentance is hid from mine eyes.

15 Though he grew bp among his brethren, an Aſt winde shall come, euen the winde of the Lord: shall come bp from the wilder-

e He calleth them to repentance and exhorteth their ingrautebele.

f The defteres tia is certaine, and my beneſures towarde the decare that it cometh not of me:

g. therefore thine owne inlacie, adolartie and bauie conſidencie in men muſt needs be the cause thereof.

h. I am all one James 1:17.

i. I am surel laid vp to be punished, as Iere, 17:1.

j. I am surel come out of the woude, that is, out of the danger wherein he is, and not rarr to be rileſed.

k. I Meaning, that no poyer shall reſt God when he will helmer his but euem in death will he die.

l. Because they will not turne to me, I will not change my purpope.

nes, and die bp his beyne, as his fountaine halbe died bp: he shall spoyle the treaſure of al pleasant beſels.

### C H A P. XIIIL

The destruction of Samaria: he erchomet Israel to turne to God, who required plagues and rnaaknes.

1 Amania shall be delofate: for he hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the swoode: their infants shall daſhed in pieces, and their women with childe shall ript.

2 D Israel, a returne vnto D Lord thy God: for thou haſt fallen by thine iniquitie.

3 Take vnto you words, and turne to the Lord, and ſay vnto him, Take away all iniquitie, and receue vs graciously: so will we render the calues of our lippes.

4 Azzur shall d not faue vs, neither will we ride vpon hoſes, neither will we ſay anie more to the woode of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the katherleſſe kindeth mercie.

5 I will heale their rebellion: I will loue them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

6 I will be as the dewe vnto Israel: he shall growe as the lilie and faſſen his rootes, as the trees of Lebanon.

7 His branches shall pleyade, and his beautitie shall be as the olive tree, and his ſmell as Lebanon.

8 They that dwel under his ſhadow, shall returne: they shall reutue as the come, and ſonſtly as the bine: the ſent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

9 Ephzaim shall lay, what haue I to do any more with idoles? I haue heard him, and looked vpon him: I am like a greene firre tree: vpon me is thy frute found.

10 who is h wife, and hee shall understand these things ? and prudent, and hee shall know them: for the wapes of the Lord are righteous, and the inſt shall walkle in them: but the wicked shall fall therein.

a. he erchomet them to repentance, to be delofate, and to turne to God, who required plagues and rnaaknes.

b. he erchomet them to be delofate, and to be rade away by the wnde of their obediencie and reuerence.

c. he erchomet them to be delofate, and to be rade away by the wnde of their obediencie and reuerence.

d. he erchomet them to be delofate, and to be rade away by the wnde of their obediencie and reuerence.

e. he erchomet them to be delofate, and to be rade away by the wnde of their obediencie and reuerence.

f. he erchomet them to be delofate, and to be rade away by the wnde of their obediencie and reuerence.

g. he erchomet them to be delofate, and to be rade away by the wnde of their obediencie and reuerence.

h. he erchomet them to be delofate, and to be rade away by the wnde of their obediencie and reuerence.

i. he erchomet them to be delofate, and to be rade away by the wnde of their obediencie and reuerence.

j. he erchomet them to be delofate, and to be rade away by the wnde of their obediencie and reuerence.

## Ioel.

### THE ARGVMENT.

T He Prophet Ioel firſt rebuketh them of Judah, that being now puſhed with a great plague of ſamine, remaine ſoldiſtate. Secondlie he threatneth greater plagues, because they grewe dayly to a more hardnes of heart, and rebellion against God notwithſanding his puniſhments. Thirdly he exhorteth them to repentance, chewing that it muſt be earned, and proceede from the heart because they had grievouſly offende God. And ſo doing, he promiſeth that God will be mercieſt, and not forget his couenancie that he made with their fathers: but will ſende his Chriſt who ſhall gather the ſeaſered sheepe, and reſtore them to life, and libertie, though they ſeem'd to be dead.

### C H A P. I.

1 A p[rophetsie] againſt the Iesues. 2 He erchomet the people to p[ro]saie, and ſaſting for the miſerie that was at hand.

1

2 Signifying, the p[ro]saie, the p[ro]saie, and the gouers nours.

3 I. He calleth the Iesues to the consideracion of Sodas judgements, who had now plagues the ſauers of the ground: for the ſpace of ſoure p[er]ſes, which was for their inſures, and to call them to expence,

2

3

He wode of the Iode that came to Ioel the onne of Dethuel.

Heare ye this, D elvers, and hearken ye al inhabitants of the land, whether b such a thing hath bin in your dayes, or yet in the dayes of your fathers.

Tell you your children of it, and let your children shew to their children, and theye

children to another generation.

4 That which is left of the palmer woude, hath the graſhopper eaten, and the residue of the graſhopper hath the canker woude eaten, and the residue of the canker woude hath the caterpiller eaten.

5 A wake ye, c drunkardes, a weepe, a howle all ye drinkers of woude, because of the new woude: for it halbe pulled from your mouth.

6 Hea, a nation commeth vpon my land mightie, and without number, whole teeth are like the teeth of a Iyon, and hee hath the iawes of a great Iyon.

c. he erchomet the dayes of the new wnde, which was for their obediencie and reuerence.

7 He

Famine and drought.

Chap.ij.

Torent the heart.

362

7 He maketh my vine waste, and pilfereth of the barke of my figtree: he maketh it bare, and casteth it downe: the branches thereof are made white.

8 Mourne like a birgine girded with sack-cloth for the husband of her pouth.

9 The meate offering, and the drinke offering is cut of from the House of the Lord: the Priests the Lordes miniters mourne.

10 The field is walled: the land mourneth: for the come is destroied: the newe wine is dried vp, and the oyle is decayed.

11 Be ye ashamed, O husbandmen: howle, O ye vine dieffers for the wheate, and for the barly, because the haruest of the field is perished.

12 The vine is dried vp, and the figtree is decayed: the pomegranate tree and the palme tree, and the apple tree, euen all the trees of the field are withered: therefore the ivy is withered away from the sonnes of men.

13 Gird yourselues and lament, ye Priests: howle ye miniters of the altar: come, and lie all night in sackcloth, ye miniters of my God: for the meate offering, and the drinke offering is take away from the house of your God.

14 Sanctifie you a fast: tal a solemne assemblie: gather the Elders, and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and crie unto the Lord.

15 Alas: for the day, for the day of the Lord is at hand, and it commeth as a destruction from the Almightie.

16 Is not the meat cut of before our eyes? and ivy, and gladnes from the House of our God?

17 The leede is rotten under their cloddes: the garners are destroied: the barnes are broken downe, for the come is withered.

18 How did the beaſtes mourne: the herdes of cattell pine away, because they hane no pастure, and the flocks of theepe are destroied.

19 D. Lorde, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernes, as the flame hath burnt vp all the trees of the field.

20 The beaſts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried vp, and the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernes.

C H A P. II.

He p[rophets]eth of the coming and crueltie of their enemies. 13 An exhortation to move them to convert. 18 The love of God toward his people.

B. Low a the trumpet in Zion, and shout in mine holy Mountaine: let all the inhabitants of the lande tremble: for the day of the Lord is come: for it is at hand.

A. Day of darkenes, and of blackenes, a day of cloudes, and obſcuritie, as the moing hied upon the mountaynes, is there a great people, and a mightie: there was none like it from the beginning, neither shall be any more after it, into the peeres of ma[ing] generations.

A fire deuoureth before him, and behinde him a flame burneth vp: the lande is as the garden of Eden before him, and behinde him a desolate wildernes, so that nothing shall escape him.

4 The beholding of him is like the sight of houſes, and like the hoſemen, so shall they runne.

5 Like the noyle of sharets in the toppes of the mountaines shall they leape, like the noyle of a flame that deuoureth the stubble, and as a mightie people prepared to the battell.

6 Before his face shall the people tremble: all faces shall gather blackenes.

7 They shall runne like strong men, and go vp to the wall like men of warre, and euery man shall go forwarde in his wayes, and they shall not stay in their paths.

8 Neither shall one thrust another, but euere one shall walke in his path: and when they fall vpon the wode, they shall not be wounded.

9 They shall runne to and fro in the citie: they shall runne vpon the wall: they shall clime vp vpon the houſes, and enter in at the windowes like the thieſe.

10 The earth shall tremble before him, the heauens shall shake, the sunne and the moone shall be darke, and the starres shall withdraw their shining,

11 And the Lord shall better his booyce before his hofte: for his hofte is very great: for he is strong that doeth his wode: * for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible, and who can abide it?

12 Therefore also now the Lord faith, Turne you vnto mee with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weping, and with mourning,

13 And rent your heart, and not your clothes: and turne vnto the Lorde your God, for he is gracious, and mercifull, flow to anger, and of great kindnes, and repenteth him of the euill.

14 Who knoweth, if he will returne and re-pent and leane a bleſſing behind him, euen a meate offering, and a drinke offering vnto the Lord your God?

15 Blowe the trumpet in Zion, ſanctifie a fast, call a solemne assemblie.

16 Gather the people: ſanctifie the congregation, gather the elders: asſemble the children, and those that sucke the beaſts: let the bridegrome go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her bride chamber.

17 Let the Priests, the miniters of the Lord weepe betweene the poiche and the altar, as let them ſay, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage into reperte that the heathen shouldle rule ouer them.

*Wherefore shouldle thepape among the people, where is their God?

18 Then will the Lord bee ielous ouer his land and pate his people.

19 Bea, the Lord will anſoere and ſay vnto his

4 The enemy before the outlandish country, wherefore he cometh thereto.

e Chep the pale and blacke foode, ſcare, as a Album 2.10.

f For none shall be able to rive them.

g Head brie: 12.231. g. 13.10.ek.23.7. ch. 3. 15. nat. 24.29.

h The Lord shall runne vp the sullianes to execute his judgment. 20.207. amos. 2.16. zeph.11.13.

i Moſtifie and erue God with putenes of heart and not with cere monyes.

k He speaketh thus to fire vp their flouſes, ſulmes, a not that he dououre of God iners eyes, if they repent. How God reſenteth, read 12.18.

l That as all þaue miffe in all þaue, theu fourth digne of their repente, as men leing the childe, which are not fra from God, might be the more linely touched with the conſence of their oune digne.

m That he res pente, he theweth that God will pefterus and defende them with a most abeuen a[ct]ion.

n The res pente, he theweth that God will pefterus and defende them with a most abeuen a[ct]ion.

e Mournes growning as a want, which haueth the heart, to be two the barthe married in her pouth.

f The toſera of Saphar, and to the fire of the Trumpe, in a minch, goth gos[en] ſervice was a left of.

g The countesse and inſultance of nourithing is taken away.

h He theweth that the euip ment is as God wath, and to þaue all things wrouled is unfruited repente.

i He for his great pleasure that heere beſtructeth eu at hand.

k Thars, brought.

l He theweth of great inſtitutions of God which are at hand, except they represent.

m Of aſſerings 2 a[on]g a trumpe.

n Dreaming the trumpe.

Note

The day of the Lord.

Joel.

The harueft ripe.

his people, Beholde, I will send you come,
and wine, and oyle, and you shall be satisfied
therewith: and I will no more make you a
reproch among the heathen,

But I will remove farre of from you the
Northen armie, and I will give him into
a land, baren and desolate with his face to-
ward the East sea, and his ende to the ut-
most sea, and his stinke shall come bp, and
his corruption shall ascend, because he hath
exalted himselfe to do this.

Feare not, O land, but be glad, & reioice:
for the Lord will do great things.

Be not afrayed, ye beafts of the field: for
the pastures of the wildernes are greene:
for the tree beareth her frute: the figge tree
and the vine do give their force.

Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and re-
ioice in the Lord your God: for he hath gi-
en you the raine of righteouines, * and
hee will cause to come downe for you the
raine, even the first raine, & the latter raine
in the firſt moneth.

And the barnes shall be full of wheate, and
the pizeles shall abound with wine and oyle.

And I will render you the yeeres that the
gras hopper hath eaten, the cankered worme
and the caterpiller and the palmer worme,
my great hoste which I lent among you.

So you shall eate and bee satisfied and
playſe the Name of the Lord your God,
that hath deſt marneuilously with you: and
my people shall neuer be abhamed.

He shall also know, that I am in the mids
of Israel, , that I am the Lord your God
and none other , and my people shall neuer
be abhamed.

And after warde will I powre out my
Spirit upon all ſtyle: and your ſonnes and
your daughters shall prophemie: pour olde
men shall dreame, dreames, and your yong
men shall see billons,

And also upon the ſeruants, and upon
the maides in those daies will I powre my
Spirit.

And I will dew wodders in the heauens
and in the earth: blood and fire, and pillers
of smoke.

The ſunne shall be turned into darkenesſe,
and the moone into blood, before the great
and terrible day of the Lord come.

But whoſoever shall call on the Name
of the Lord, shall bee fauiled: for in mount
Zion, & in Jeruſalem shall deuiverance,
as the Lord hath ſaid, and in the ſenant,
whom the Lord shall call.

## CHAP. III.

Of the ſenment of God against the emerits of his people.

Beholde, in a those daies and in that
time, where I shall bring againe the cap-
tuitie of Judah and Jeruſalem,

I will also gather al nations, & will bring
them downe into the valley of Jeho-
phat, and will pleade with them there for
that great bie

a When I
shall deliver
im Church,
which God be
of the Jewes,
and of the
Gentiles.

b The prea-
beaſed
that he
albeeth to
that great bie
of Jeho-

my people, and for mine heritage Israel,
whom they have scattered among the nati-
ons, and parted my land.

And they have cast lottes for my people,
and have giuen the childe for the barlot,
and solde the girle for wine, that they might
dinke.

Pea, and a what haue you to do with me,
O Tyres and Zidon and all the coasts of
Paleſtina? will they render mee a recom-
pence? and if ye recompence me, Swifely
and ipeedily will I render your recompence bp
your head:

For ye have taken my iluer and my golde,
and have carried into your temples my god-
ly and pleafant things.

The children also of Judah and the chil-
dren of Jeruſalem haue you solde unto the
Eiecians, that ye might lende them farre
from their border.

Beholde, I will raise them out of the place
where ye have solde them, and will render
pour reward upon your owne head,

And I will fell your ſonnes and your
daughters into the hande of the children of
Judah, and the children shall fell them to the
Sabeans, to a people farre of: for the Loſe
hath spoken it.

Published this among the Gentiles: prepare
warre, wake bp the mightie men : let all
the men of warre draw neere and come bp.

Bakeakeantz plovdants into swoodes,
and your ſieths into ſpeares: let the weake
say, I am strong.

Assemble your ſelues, and come all ye hea-
then and gather your ſelues together round
about: there shall the Lord call downe thy
mightie men.

Let the heathen be wakened, & come bp
to the valley of Jehephaphat: for there will
I fit toudge at the heathen round about.

Put in your ſithes, for the harueſt is ripe:
come, get you downe, for the winepresse is
full: yea, the winepesses runne ouer, for
their wickednes is great,

A multitude, a multitude, come into the
valley of threſhing: for the day of the Lord
is neere in the valley of threſhing.

The ſunne and moone shall darkened,
and the ſtarres shall withdraw their light.

The Lord also shall roare out of Zion, &
bitter his boye from Jeruſalem, and the
heauens and the earth shall shake, but the
Lord will be the hope of his people, and the
strength of the children of Israel.

So shall ye know that I am the Lord
your God dwelling in Zion, mine holt
Mountaine: then shall Jerusalem be holp,
and there shall no strangers go through her
any more.

And in that daies shall the mountaunes
drop downe new wine, and the billies shall
flow with milke, & all the rivers of Judah
shall runne with waters, a fountaine shall
come ſoorth of the House of the Lord, and
shall water the valley of Shittim.

119 *Egypt*

Transgressions of Damascus,

Chap.j.ij.

Ammon, Judah, & Israel. 363

m The maculists
are not censured
in their own
parte of this
grace.

19 m Egypt halbe waste, and Edom halbe a desolate wilderness, for the injuries of the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

20 But Judah shall dwel for ever, and Je-
rufalem from generation to generation.

21 Fo. I will<sup>n</sup> closure their blood, that J have not closure, <sup>z</sup> the Lord will dwel in Zion.

I he had no closure for his Church, his Church to be in their fiefs, but now he will (get) to closure then and to make them pure vns to him.

Amos.

THE ARGUMENT,

A
mong many other Prophets that God rayed vp to admonish the Israelites of his plagues for their wickednes and idolatrie, he fir-
red vp Amos, who was an heardman or the heard of a poore towne, and gaue him both knowledge and confancie to reproue all
eftates and degrees, & to denounce Gods horrible judgements against them, except they did in time repent: flewing them, that if God
spare not the other nations about them, who had lued as it were in ignorance of God in respect of them, but for their finnes will punite
them, that they could looke for nothing, but an horrible destruction, except they turned to the Lord by vnfeined repentance, And finally,
he comforteth the godly with hope of the comming of the Messiah, by whom they should haue perfite delivrance and faluation.

C H A P . I .

The time of the viapheie of Amos, 1 The word of the Lord against Damascens, 2 The Philistins, Tyros, Pumnea and Ammon.

1

He words of Amos,
who was among the
heardm en <sup>a</sup> at Tecoa,
which he saw vpon Jf-
rael,in the daies of Je-
ziah King of Judah, <sup>z</sup>
in the dayes of <sup>b</sup> Jero-
boam the sonne of Jo-

ah King of Israel, two peere before the earthquake.

2 And he said, The Lord shall roare kro Zi-
on, <sup>c</sup> vther his vooyce from Jeruſalem, <sup>d</sup> the
dwelling places of the shepheardes shall pe-
riſh, and the top of <sup>d</sup> Carmel shall wither.

3 C Thus layth the Lord, Fo. <sup>c</sup> three tranſ-
gressions of Damascus, <sup>z</sup> for foure, I will
not turne to it, because they haue <sup>z</sup> chelched
Gilead with theſing instruments of yon.
4 Therefore will I ſend a fire into the house

of H zael, and it shall deuoure the s palaces
of Ben-hadad.

5 I will breake also the barres of Damascus,
and cut of the inhabitant of Bikeath-auen :
<sup>z</sup> him that holdeth the Scepter out of Beth-
eden, and the people of Aram shall go into
captiutie into <sup>h</sup> Kir, layth the Lord.

6 Thus layeth the Lord, For three tranſ-
gressions of Azzah, and for foure, I will not
turne to it, because they <sup>c</sup> carried away priso-
ners the whole captiutie to shut them vp in
Edom.

7 Therefore wil I ſend a fire vp to the walles
of Azzah, and it shall deuoure the palaces
thereof.

8 And I will cut of the inhabitant from Al-
dod, and him that holdeth the Scepter from
Alkelon, and turne mine hand to Ekron,
and the remnant of the Philistins <sup>h</sup>al pe-
riſh, layth the Lord God.

9 C Thus layth the Lord, for three tranſ-
gressions of Tyros, and for foure, I will not
turne to it, because they chut the whole cap-
tiutie in Edom, and haue not remembred
the <sup>h</sup> brotherly covenant.

10 Therefore will I ſend a fire vpon walles
of Tyros, and it shall deuoure the palaces
thereof.

11 C Thus layth the Lord, for three tranſ-
gressions of Tyros, and for foure, I will not
turne to it, because they chut the whole cap-
tiutie in Edom, and haue not remembred
the <sup>h</sup> brotherly covenant.

gressions of Edom, and for foure, I will not
turne to it, because he did pursue his bro-
ther with the wurd, and did <sup>c</sup> cast of all pi-
tie, and his anger spojled him euermose,
and his wath watched him <sup>l</sup> alway.

12 Therefore will I ſend a fire vpon Teman,
and it shall deuoure the palaces of Bozrah.

13 C Thus layth the Lord, for three tranſ-
gressions of the children of Ammon, and
for foure, I will not turne to it, because they
m<sup>l</sup> have ript vp the women with childe of
Gilead, that they might enlarge they<sup>l</sup> borde.

14 Therefore will I kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof, with chouting in the day of battell, and with a tempeſt in the day of the whirle- winde.

15 And their King shall go into captiutie, he
and his princes together, layth the Lord.

I he eceperuſhed his
compauſons.

I he was a
continual <sup>z</sup> name in me
pith.

m I he weth that
the great creneſtie of the
Ammonitians that pared
not the wome, but moſt
<sup>z</sup> amonantly to <sup>z</sup> the
Ammonitians that pared
and per the
Ammonitians
came of
not who
was of the
bouſhode of
<sup>z</sup> Ammon.

C H A P . II.

Againſt, A, D, J, U, B, and Israel.

T
hus layth the Lord, for three tranſ-
gressions of Moab, <sup>z</sup> for foure, I will
not turne to it, because it burnt the
<sup>z</sup> bones of the King of Edom into lme.

Therefore will I ſend a fire vpon Moab,
and it shall deuoure the palaces of Keriothi,
<sup>z</sup> Moab shall die with tumult, with chou-
ting, and with the found of a trumpet.

And I will cutte of the iudge out of the
middes thereof, and will flap al the princes
thereof with him, layth the Lord.

4 C Thus layth the Lord, for three tranſ-
gressions of Judah, and for foure, <sup>z</sup> I will
not turne to it, because they haue cast away
the Law of the Loide, and haue not kept
his commandements, and their lies caused
them to eere after the which their fathers
haue walked.

Therefore will I ſend a fire vpon Judah,
<sup>z</sup> it shall deuoure the palaces of Jeruſalem.

C Thus faith the Lord, for three tranſ-
gressions of Israel, and for foure, I will not
turne to it, because they sold the righteous
for filuer and the poore for <sup>d</sup> hooes.

They gape ouer the heade of the poore, in
the <sup>d</sup> dust of the earth, <sup>z</sup> peruert the wayes
of the meeke : and a man and his father
will go in to a mayde to diſhonour mine ho-
ly Name.

And they lie do vone vpon clothes layde to
P p.iii. pledge

2 For the Moabites
were to cruel
agamit the
king of Edom
the<sup>h</sup> er burne
his bones af-
ter that he
was dead:
which declar-
ed their bara-
baroune, and
they would reſige
the remeſt of the
dead.

b Daring the Gentiles that had not to far knowledge were thus puniſhed, Judah, which was to faitly mustrued of the Joab will, magit nor thinke to eſcap.

c If he space
not to Judo
unto whom
the promiſes
were made,
were made,
he will not
have this bro-
generate kings
dome.

d They eſtend
not more wite
hitherto, more
than they
were.

e When they
have people
hun to the
ground, they
have for
life.

None lamenteth Iofeph.

Amos.

Amaziah counsell and reward.

came to them.

2 Goe you vnto Calneh, and see: and from thence goe you to Hamath the great: then goe downe to Gath of the Philistins: be they better then these kingdoms? or the border of their lande greater then your border,

3 He that put farre away the d euil day, and approch to the steate of iniquitie?

4 They lye upon beddes of puerie, and stretch them selues vpon their beddes, and eat the lambes of the flocke, and the calues out of the stall.

5 They sing to the sound of the viol: they inuent to them selues instruments of muſike like c David.

6 They drinke wine in bowles, and anoint themselues with the chieſe oypnments, but no man is fony for the affliction of Iofeph. Thereſore now ſhall they go captive with the first that goe captive, and s the ſojowe of them that stretched them selues, is at hand.

7 H the Lord God hath sworne by him ſelke, ſayth the Loſde God of hostes, Jafhoze: the excellencie of Jaakob, and hate his paſaces: thereſore will I deliuer vp the citie with all that is therein.

8 And if there remaine ten men in one house, they ſhall dye.

9 And his vncle k shall take him vp a burne him to carry out the bones out of the house, and shall ſay vnto him, that is by the ſides of the house, Js there yet anp with thee? And he shall ſay, None. Then shall he ſay, m Holde thy tongue: for we may not remembe the Name of the Lord.

10 Fo beholde, the Lord commandeth, and hee will ſinite the great house with breaſches, and the little house with cleftes.

11 Shall hostes n runne vpon the rocke: or will one plow there with oren? for he haue turned judgement into gall, and the fruite of righteouſelle into o wormewood.

12 De reioyc e in a thing of nought: ye ſay, Haue not wee gotten h p hostes bp our owne strength?

13 But behold, I will raiſe bp against you a nation, O house of Israel, ſayth the Loſde God of hostes: and they shall affix you, from the entring in of q Hamath vnto the tiuer of the wilderneſse.

c If God kane deliroyd their excellent times in the diuision of the kingdoms, as in Jabblon, Hizyia, and of d Philistins, and bary brought their wine holders into a greater raſtines, then your p[er]pet are, think you to be better o to keane?

d He that continue full in p[er]tire wickedne and think that God's plaques are not at hand but give your selues to all hostes, waltonnes and riote.

e As he canſed diuerſe kindes of his ſtruments to be made to ferue God's glory, to the ſo, they did concord to inuent as many to ferue their wanton affections v ſtites.

f They pittad not their diethen.

g Whereof now many were flame and ca red away captive.

h Read Jere. xiv. 14.

i That is, the riches and youpe.

k The defluencie that he al to greaſt none shall almoſt be left to burp the dead, and therefore they shall burne them at home,

l to carry out the burnt alſes with moſe eate.

m Some read, the iop of the that stretch them selues, shall depart.

n Read Jere. xiv. 14.

o That is, to see neighbour, that diwellth round about.

p Then shall be so anons ſhed at this destruction, that they shall boaf no more of the name of God, and that

q They are his people: but then shall be dumne when they hear God's name, and abe haue it, as they that are delpeſer or remembare.

r He compeneth them to baren rocks whereupon it is in maine to heque labour: newing that God benefits can haue no place among them.

s Read Chap. 5:7. P That is, power and glole.

t From one corner of the country to another.

u They are his people: but then shall be dumne when they hear God's name, and abe haue it, as they that are delpeſer or remembare.

v They compeneth them to baren rocks whereupon it is in maine to heque labour: newing that God benefits can haue no place among them.

w They are his people: but then shall be dumne when they hear God's name, and abe haue it, as they that are delpeſer or remembare.

x They are his people: but then shall be dumne when they hear God's name, and abe haue it, as they that are delpeſer or remembare.

y God heluen certaine vifions, whereby he ſignifieth the deſtruction of the people of Israel. z The ſale accufation of Amaziah. y The deuision of the people of Israel.

z To demour the land: and he allueth to the mauding of the enues.

a They are his people: but then shall be dumne when they hear God's name, and abe haue it, as they that are delpeſer or remembare.

2 And when they had made an ende of eking the graſſe of the lande, then I faide, O Loſde God, spare, I beſeech thee: who shall raiſe vp Jaakob? for he is small.

3 So the Lord repented for this. It shall not be, faith the Lord.

4 C Thus alioth the Loſde God shewed vnto me, and behold, the Loſde God called to iudgement by fire, d and it deuoured the great deepe, and did eate vp a part.

5 Then said I, O Loſde God, cease. I beſeech thee: who shall raiſe vp Jaakob? for he is small.

6 So the Loſde repented for this. This alio shall not be, ſayth the Loſde God.

7 C Thus againe he shewed me, a beholde, the Loſde koobe vpon a wall made by line with a line in his hand.

8 And the Lord said vnto me, Amos, what feest thou? and I ſaid, A line. Then ſayde the Loſde, Beholde, I will set a line in the middes of my people Israel, and will paffe by them no more.

9 And the hie places of Iſhak shall be deliſate, and the temples of Israel shall be deſtroyed: and I will rie against the houſe of Jeroboam with the Sworde.

10 C Then Amaziah the Driest of Bethel ſent to Jeroboam King of Israel, ſaying, Amos hath compuſed against thee in the middes of the house of Israel: the lande is not able to beare all his woodes.

11 Fo thus Amos faith, Jeroboam shall die by the Sworde, and Israel shall be led away captive out of their owne land.

12 Allo s Amaziah ſayd vnto Amos, O thou the Seer, go, ſee thou away into the lande of Judah, and there eat thy bread and prophecie there.

13 But prophecie no more at Beth-el: for it is the Kings chappell, and it is the Kinges courte.

14 Then anſwered Amos, and ſaid to Amaziah, I, was no h Driſpht, neither was I a Driſphter ſonne, but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of wilde figges.

15 And the Loſde tooke me as I followed the kooſe, and the Lord ſaid vnto me, Go, prophecie vnto my people Israel.

16 Now therefore beare thou the word of the Loſde. Thou ſayſt, Driſphterie not a gainſt Israel, a ppeake nothing against the house of Iſhak.

17 Therefore thus ſayth the Loſde, i Thy wife shall bee an harlot in the citie, and thy ſonnes and thy daughters shall fall by the Sworde, and thy lande shall be deuied by line: and thou haliet die in a polluted land, and Israel shall ſurely goe into captiuitie foorth of his land.

C H A P . V I I I.

1 Against the ruiſers of Israel. 2 The Loſde weakeſt. 3 The ſa me of the word of God.

1 T hus hath the Loſde God shewed vnto me, and behold, a basket of sommer fruite.

2 And he ſaid, Amos, what feest thou? And Jlaſd,

Famine of the word.

Chap.ix.

Of the Mefiah.

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2. *Rachim finge* is the name of the types of men and women in the records of God's judgments.

3

I sayd, A basket of Sommer a fruite. Then said the Lord unto me, The ende is come upon my people of Israel, I will pass by them no more.

3

And theongs of the Temple shall be howlings in that day, faith the Lord God: many dead bodies shall be in euery place: they shall cast them forth with silence.

4

Heare this, O ye that shall allowe vp the pooie, that ye may make the needy of the land to faile,

5

Saying, When will the new moneth be gone, that we may fell come? as the Sabath, that we may set forth wheat, as make the Ephah final, and the shekel great, and fallifie the weights by deceit?

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That we may be the pooie so: siluer, and the needy for hooes: yea, and fell the reful of the wheat.

5

The Lord hath twone by the excellencie of Jaakob. Surely I will neuer forget any of their works.

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Shall not the land tremble for this, and euery one mourns, that dwelleth therein? and it shall rife vp wholly as a flood, and it shall bee cast out, and drowned as by the flood of Egypt.

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And in that day, faith the Lord God, I will even caute the sutfne to go downe at noone: and I will darken the earth in the cleare day.

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And I will turne your fealks into mourning, and all your longs into lamentation: and I will bring sacke cloth vp all loines, and baldnes vp euery head: and I will make it as the mourning of an onlyonne, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

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Beholde, the dayes come, faith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.

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And they shall wander from sea to sea, from the North even unto the East: shall they runne to and fro to seeke the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

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In that day hal the fayre dirgins and the young men perſhif so: thirst.

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They that weare by the ſinne of Sama, that lay, Thy God, O Dan, liueth, and the maner of Beer-theba liueth, euen they shall fal, and neuer rife vp againe.

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1

Theatnings against the Temple, 2 And against Israel. 11 The following of the Church.

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I sawe the Lord standing upon the alar, and he sayd, Smite the lintel of the doo: that the poſſes may shake: as cut them in pieces, euen the heads of them all, and I will flap the laſt of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them, shall not keepe away: and hee that eſcapeth of them, shall not be deliuered.

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2

Though they digge into the hell, thence shall mine hand take them: though they

clime vp to heauen, thence will I bring the downe.

And though they hide them ſelues in the toppe of Carmel, I will searche and take them out thence: and though they be hid from my ſight in the bottome of the sea, thence will I commande the serpent, and he shall bite them.

c The heijeweth that God built declare hum: selfe enpuy uns to them in all places, as that his elementa and all creaſures halbe enpuyes to deltreye eyem.

And though they goe into captiuitie before their enemies, thence will I command the kooide, and it shall flap them: and I will let mine eyes vpon them so: euill, and not for good.

And the Lord God of hoſtes shall touch the land, and it shall melt away, as all that dwell therein, shall mourne, and it shall rife vp wholly like a flood, and shall be drowned as by the flood of Egypt.

d The decaueth to the wonderfull power of God by the making of the heauen and the eſtremens that it is not poſſible for man to eſcap e his inſituations when he punieth.

He buildeth his spheres in the heauen, and hach laid the foundation of his globe of elements in the earth: he calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open earth: the Lord is his Name.

e Sun I one bound to per then to the thumpan of thumpanos. f Blacke eye: g Yet have I behooved vpon pon greater honours.

Are ye not as the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel, faith the Lord? have not I brought bp Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistins from Captoz, and Aram from Kir?

h Thekla Jer. 47:4. Though he betrop the earth, he beheluen multitudes, yet he will euer referre his remnant his Church to call upon his name.

Beholde, the eyes of the Lord God are vpon the unfull kingdome, and I will deſtroy it cleane out of the earth. Heuertheſſe I will not betterly s destroy the houſe of Jaakob, faith the Lord.

i Meaning, that the very enpuyes, as were the eſtremens and other ſonnes and others, should be joined with the Jees in one ſoſerie and body, whereof Christ should be the head.

For so: I will commande and I will kife the house of Israel among all nations, like as corne is ſitted in a ſieue: yet shall not the least stone fall vpon the earth.

j Meaning, that the very enpuyes, as were the eſtremens and other ſonnes and others, should be joined with the Jees in one ſoſerie and body, whereof Christ should be the head.

But all the sinners of my people shall dye by the kooide, which fayce, the euil shall not come, nor haſten for vs.

k Meaning, that there shall be great ſlence of all things, that when one kinde of fruites is rife, as neither they shall followe and euer one in corne, Ier. 16:11. l Bread, Joel 3:18.

In that day will I raiſe bp the tabernacle of David, that is fallen downe, and close vp the breaches thereof, and I will raiſe bp his ruines, and I will builde it, as in the dayes of olde,

That thep may poſſesse the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, because my Name is called upon them, faith the Lord, that doeth this.

m The acroſm pluie ment. Hereof is bis der Epiu, when then are planted in bis Church, out of the which they canne here puiſed, after they are once grafted therein.

Beholde, the dayes come, faith the Lord, that the plowman shall touch the mower, and the treader of grapes hund that soweth feede: and the mountaines shall droppe twcete wine, and all the hilles shall melt.

And I will bring againe the captiuitie of my people of Israel: and they shall build the waſſe cities, and inhabite them, and they shall plant vineyards, and diuine the wine thereof: they shall alſo make gardens, and eate the kruites of them.

n Bread, Joel 3:18.

o The acroſm pluie ment. Hereof is bis der Epiu, when then are planted in bis Church, out of the which they canne here puiſed, after they are once grafted therein.

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Obadiah,

b There shall he bare life to me: 4 5 6

c 25. Daring the ſale of kooide and necessary, which you haue goten into your ſowne hands, as for a cauſe, so to be fed quicke in that little that their have and at length for neceflity be become pone.

d When the bearers shall come, there were to getp of game in the land, and to be hounden into an houndreade unto them.

e 26. When the measure ſinal, and the place great.

f 27. Hates, the inhabitants of the land shall be diuonued, as diuonueri.

g The name when it is diueruend.

h In the end of diueruend.

i Rab. he heijeweth h: they shall not oneperſh in body, but also in failes for lacke of food, which is the fonde thereof. k For the idaues latter doth vfe to fure vp their hols: which here he callecteth their ſinne, as the Payples per doe be their. l That is, the common maſter of the churche, and the churche or truſangethere bade.

l Rab. which was at Jenaſalem: for the churche not in the dotatrous places of Agade. 12. And the chieſe of them also the common people.

Edoms crueltie.

Obadiah.

Fire,flame,and STubble.

Obadiah.

THE ARGUMENT,

The Idumeans, which came of Efau, were mortall enemies alwaye to the Ifaefites, which came of Jaakob, and therefore did not only vexe them continually with fundy kindes of crueltie, but also flirred vp others to fight againft them. Therefore when they were now in their greatest prope ritye, and did moft triumph against Iſrael, which was in great affliction and miserie, God raiſed vp his Prophet to comfort the Ifaefites, for as much as God had now determined to destroy their adueriaries, which did tofore vexe them, and to fende them such as should deliuer them, and ſet vp the kingdome of Mefliah, which he had promified.

I

He billion of Obadiah. Thus ſayeth the Lord God agaynſt Edom, a mee haue heard a runaway from the Loſde, and an ambaſſadour is ſent among the heathen : a-

rize, and b let vs rize vp against her to bat-
tell.

Beholde, I haue made thee small among
the heathen : thou art otterly despited.

The c pride of thine heart hath deceiued
thee : thou that dwellest in the cleftes of
the rocks, whole habitation is he, that
ſayeth in his heart, who shall bring mee
downe to the ground?

Though thou cralt thy ſelſe as the eglſe,
e make thy neſt among the starres, thence
will I bring thee downe, ſaith the Lord.

Came theieues to thee or robbers by night?
how wak thou brought to ſilence ? would
they not haue stollen, till they had ynough?
if the grapegatherers came to thee, would
they not leaue ſome grapes?

Howe are the things of Efau ſought vp,
and his treaſures ſearched?

All the men of thy confederacie e haue
druen thee to the borders : the men that
were at peace with thee, haue deceiued
thee, and pieuailed against thee : they that
eate thy bread, haue laped a wound brider
thee : there is none understanding in him.

Shall not J in that day, faith the Loſde,
euen deſtroy the wife men out of Edom, f
understanding from the mount of Efau?

And thy strong men, O Teman, shall bee
afrauded, because every one of the mount of
Efau ſhal be cut of bp ſlaughter.

For thy crueltie against thy s brother Ja-
akob, ſhame shall couer thee, and thou shalt
be cut of for ener.

When thou koodest b on the other ſide, in
the day that the strægers carped away his
substance, a strægers entred into his gates,
and cast lots upon Jeruſalem, euen thou
waſt as one of them.

But thou shouldst not hane beholden

the day of thy brother, in the day that hee
was made a stranger, neuer shouldſt
thou haue reioiced ouer the children of Ju-
dah, in the day of their deſtruction: thou
shouldſt not hane ſpoken proudly in the
day of affliction.

Thou shouldſt not hane entred into the
gate of my people in the day of their de-
struction, neither shouldſt thou hane once
looked on their affliction in the day of their
destruction, no: hane layed hands on their
subſtance in the day of their deſtruction.

Neither shouldſt thou hane stand in
the croſſe wayes to cut of them, that
should eſcape, neither shouldſt thou hane
hut bp the remnant thereof in the day of
affliction.

For the day k of the Loſde is neere, upon
all the heathen: as thou haſt done, it shall
be done to thee : thy rewarde shall re-
turne upon thine head.

For as ye haue drunke upon mine holy
Mointaine, ſo shall all the heathen drinke
continually : yea, they shall drinke a wal-
low vp, and they shall be m as though they
had not bene.

But upon moſt Zion ſhalbe deuiverace,
and it ſhal be holy, and the house of Jaakob
shall posſſe their posſeffions,

And the house of Jaakob shall be a fire,
and the house of Jofeph a flame, and the
house of Efau as kibble, and they hal ki-
dle in them a deuoure them : and there hal
be no remnant of the house of Efau : for
the Loſd hath spoken it.

And they shall posſſe the South ſide of
the e mount of Efau : and the plaine of the
Philiftims, as they shall posſſe the fieldes
of Ephraim, and the fieldes of Samaria,
and Beuamin shall haue Gilead.

And the captiuitie of this hoſt of the chil-
dren of Israel, which were amog the Cæ-
naanites, shall posſſe into Zarephath,
the captiuitie of Jeruſale, which is in Se-
pharad, shall posſſe the cities of South.

And they that shall ſaue, shall come vp to
Mount Zion to judge the mount of Efau,
and the kingdomes ſhal be the Loſds.

a. God hath certainly beene to his
Prophets that he will raise up the
heathen to deſtroy the
Ecdaniues,
whereof the
runout is
now published
Jere. 12:14.

b. Thus the
heathen en-
courage them
ſelects to rize
against Edom.

c. Which he de-
ſelect others
in reuerence of
tho ſelſe, and
yet are but an
bandish in
comparision of
others, and
art but bp as
mong h biller
as eparate
from the reft
of the world.

d. God will do
heftrop them
that he will
leaue none,
though

thieues when
they come,
ake but ril
tho hau is
nough as the
that gather
grape,ener
leaue ſome be
under them,
Jer. 49:9.

e. They in
whom thou
biddet truſt,
for to have
helpe a ſen-
ſor of them,
ſhal be the
neuues and
heftrop thee.

f. That is, the
familia-
ſenues and
guilea haue
in eſt reac
thee deſtroyed
tho.

g. The chelweth
the cauſe who
the Ecdaniues
were ſo barry
in pulueth: to
wit, because
they encre
therein
the churc
now he com-
forted bp pus-
ning their
enemys.

h. When he
huchab-nessar
came againſt
Teruſiaſt,
thou iomnedt

with him, and haddell parte of the people, and to biddet reuerence when my people
that is, the brother, were afflicted where as thou shouldst hane putied and holpen
the brother.

Wben he
God and
them of
their
fother beguil
and goe
them to the
cas
tried into cap-
ture.

a. When he
will huffum
at the heathen,
and then
be to de-
troy the
people.

Chas. 12.
13. and
trumpe
and
trumpe.

The Odo
niru haſe
biter bts.
and
bts.
and
put in dipe
of all the eues
my Jull
reuerent up
Church and
trumpe.

God ariu
biter bts.
and
bts.
and
put in dipe
of all the eues
my Jull
reuerent up
Church and
trumpe.

Fraunce, and by ſehuaraſt ſpaine. a Praning, that GOD will raſt up in his
Church ſuch as chalſt and gourne ſo the defence of the game, and ſtrument of
his enempe under Mefliah, whom the Prophets calleth þors the kag and þead of
his kingdome.

Jonah.

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["Caiting of lottes.", "Chap.j.ij.ijj.", "Jonah's prayer. 366", "Jonah.", "THE ARGUMENT.", "WHen Jonah had long prophecied in Israel and had little profit, God gaue him expresse charge to go, and der Certificate his Judge-ments against Nineue, the chiefe citie of the Afryians, becaule he had appointed, that they which were of the heathen, should conuerse with the mightie power of his word, and that within three dayes preaching, that Israel might fee how horribly they had prouo-ked Gods wrath, which for the face of so many cyeers, had not converted to the Lord for so many Prophets and so diligent preaching. He prophesied vnder loath, and Ierobom, as s.King. 1.4.35.", "3 Jonah fled when he was sent to preach.", "4 A tempest ariseth, and he is in the middle of the Sea for his diuision.", "5", "The word of J: Lord came also\nunto Jonah the sonne of A-\nmittai, saying,", "6", "A rife, and go to b Nineueh, c great citie, d crie against it: for their wickednes is come vp before me.", "7", "But Jonah rose up to d flee into Tarshish from the presence of J: Lord, e wet downe to f Ja-pho: he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he payed the fare thereof, g went downe in to it, that he might goe with them vnto Tarshish, from the presence of the Lord.", "8", "But the Lord lent out a great wind into the sea, that there was a mightie tempest in J: sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.", "9", "The y mariners were afraid, a cried euery man into his god, a cast h wares y were in the ship, into the sea to lighten it of the: but Jonah was gone downe with the sides of y ship, and he lay downe, a was cast a fleepe.", "10", "So the shipmaster came to him, and saide vnto him, What meaneth a, D sloper? A rife, call upon thy b God, if to be that God will thinke upon vs, that we perish not.", "11", "And they said euery one to his fellowe, Come, and let us cast i lottes, that we may knowe, for whole caule this euil is upon vs. So they cast lots, a the lot fel upon Jonah. Then said they vnto him, Tel vs for: whose caule this euil is upon vs: what is thine oc- cupation: a whence commest thou? which is the countrey: a of what people art thou?", "12", "And hee answered them, I am an E- brew, and I feare the Lord God of heauen, which hath made the sea, and the drie land.", "13", "Then were the men exceedingly atraide, and said vnto him, Why haft y done this? z for: the men knew, that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.", "14", "Then said they vnto him, No, what shall we do vnto thee, that we may be calme vnto vs? z for: the sea wrought a was troublous.", "15", "As one that would have call of this care, and sollicite by his foly, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ch

["Prophecie not.", "Chap.ij.ij.iiiij.", "Couetouſnes is cruel.", "367", "13. That flab, that chafeth bad, chafeth bad, chafeth bad, chafeth bad

["God will gather his. Of", "Micah.", "the Melissas.", "c Ye shepherds\nthat there is\nnot a true church\nbut where as\nthe people are\nsaught by\nGod's pure\nworld.", "d When his co-\nrections and\nthreatening\nhe will bring\nthe people into\nsubjection\nwhich are in\nthe境中 of co-\nners of the\nworld.", "e They shall\nabide from\nall evil doing,\nand eremite\nthem selves in\ngood times in\nwell doing to\nother.\nI see it. Is\n4.", "g Ye shepherds\nthat the yeas\nple of God\nought to re-\nmain constant\nin their re-\nligion, al-\nthough all\nthe world\nshould give\nthem selves to\ntheir duty.\nand do\nlie.\nI will say\nthat Israel,\nwhich is now\nas one same\nhalting, and so\nalmost deli-\nvor, shall live as\na gainst a enemy\ninto a great\npeople.", "i Meaning\nJerusalem,\nwhere the\nkings were ga-\nred.", "k The flout-\ning face of\nthe kingdom,\nas it was un-\nder David.\nSolomon,\nwhich thing\nwas accom-\nplished to the\nChurch by the\ncomming of\nChrist.", "1 In the mean\nway he shew\nthat there\nshould endure\ngreat trouble\n& remission\nwhen they\nfallen then\ntheir selves\nneither\nto have king\nno count.\nso ye, the shepherds\nthat the faiths\nwill ought not\nto measure\nGods sufferings\nby the\nbrawges and\nthreatnings of the wicked, but therebp are abnouched to lift up their hearts to God\nto call for deliverance.", "n God giveth his Church this victory to oft as he ouercometh their enemies: but the accomplishin of her of thine albe at th last coming of Christ.", "a Ye knowar-\nneith them of\nthe dangers\nthat that come,\nbefore the en-\nemy cometh\nup to com-\nfoirs, thewning\nthat abunantly\nas Jerusale-\num was acce-\nued with her\ngarifons to\ntrouble others\nthe lord wold\nnot have cau-\nther garifons\nto beare her,\nthat her\n", "2 The\nthat her\nkings should be\nin the face most\ncountenanciuom.\nb For so for the\nbroth of their\ncountry, that for\nevery throuande\nthere was a chiefie\ncaptaine : and becauſe\n25eth leem was not\nable to make a throuande,\nhe called it little,\nbut yet God will nappe\nby his captaines\n& governor\ntherein; and thus it\nis not the leal by reason\nof this bene-\nſite, as it is at 2, 6.\nc Ye knoweth that the\ncomming of Christ\nand all his wapés were\napoynted of God from all eſternitie.", "will teache his wapés, & we wil walke\nin his paths: for the Lawe shall goe forth of\nZion, & the word of Y Lord fro Jerusalem.", "And he shall judge among many people, and\nrebrute mightie nations a farre of, & they\nshall breake their wapés into mattocks, &\ntheir speares into &ethies: nation shall not\nlift vp a wode against nation, neither shall\nthey leare to fight any more.", "But they shall fit every man vnder his vine,\nand vnder his fig tree, and none shall make\nthem aſtayde: for the mouth of the Lord of\nhopes hath spoken it.", "For all people wil walke as every one in the\nname of his god, and we will walke in the\nName of the Lord our God, for ever & ever.", "At the same day, faith the Lord, will I ga-\nther her that halteth, and I wil gather her\nthat is cast out, & her that I haue afflicted.", "And I will make her & halted, a remnant,\n& her that was cast far of, a mighty nation:\nthe Lord shall reigne ouer them in Mount\nZion, from hence forth euen for ever.", "And thou, O towre of the flock, the strong\nhold of the daughter Zion, vnto thee shall\nit come, euen k the first dominion, and king-\ndom shall come to the daughter Jerusalem.", "How whp doest thou cry out with lamen-\ntation? is there no king in thee? is thy cou-\nseller perſhed? for so we hath taken thee,\nas a woman in trauaule.", "10 Sozow and mourne, O daughter Zion,\nlike a woma in trauaile: for now shall thou\ngo forth of the citie, and dwell in the field,\n& halt go into Babel, but there shall thou be\ndelivered: there the Lord shall redeem thee\nfrom the hand of thine enemies.", "11 Nowe also many nations are gathered a-\ngainst thee, saying, Zion shall be condem-\nned and our eye shall looke upon Zion.", "12 But they m knowe not the thoughts of the\nLord: they understood not his counsel, for he\nshall gather the as the sheaues in the barne.", "13 Arise, & zethiel, n O daughter Zion: for I\nwill make thine home ion, & I will make\nthine houes biaſſe, and thou shall breake\nin pieces many people: and I will eſticate\ntheir riches vnto the Loſde, and their sub-\nstance vnto the ruler of the whole worldle.", "1 Now allemand thy garifons, O daugh-\nter a of garifons : he hath layedlie\nagainst b : they shall smite the iudge\nof Israel with a rod vpon the cheeke.", "2 And thou Beth-leem Ephzathah art b little\nto be among the thouandeſ of Judah, yet\nout of thee shall he come forth vnto me, that\nshall be the ruler in Israel : whole c goings\nforth haue bene from the beginning & from\neuerlastling.", "3 The children be\nin the face most\nconcerning\nthe country, that for\nevery throuande\nthere was a chiefie\ncaptaine : and becauſe\n25eth leem was not\nable to make a throuande,\nhe called it little,\nbut yet God will nappe\nby his captaines\n& governor\ntherein; and thus it\nis not the leal by reason\nof this bene-\nſite, as it is at 2, 6.\nc Ye knoweth that the\ncomming of Christ\nand all his wapés were\napoynted of God from all eſternitie.", "Therefore will he give them vp, untill the\ntime that c thee which shall beare, shall tra-\nnaile: then the remnant of their biethes shall\nreturne vnto the children of Israel.", "And he shall stand, & feede in the strength\nof the Loſde, & in the maſtie of the Name\nof the Loſde his God, and they shall dwell\nstill: for nowe shall he be magnified vnto the\nendes of the worldle.", "And he shall be our peace when Aſſhur shall\ncome into our land: when he shall tarede in\nour palaces, then shall we rapſe against him\nſeven hepherds, and eight principal men.", "And they shall deſtroy e Aſſhur with the\nſword, and the land of Atrimod with their\nſwords: thus shall he b deuier vs from A-\nſhur, when he commeth into our lande, and\nwhen he shall tread within our boſders.", "And the remnant of Jaakob shall bee a\nmong manie people, as a dewe from the\nLoſde, and as the howres vpon the graſſe,\nthat waiteth not for man, nor hopeth in the\nlonnes of Adam.", "And the remnant of Jaakob chalbe among\nthe Gentiles in the middes of many people,\nas the ion among the beaſles of the ſoſet,\n& as the ionps whelpe among the flockes\nof cheepe, who when he goeth thowold, trea-\ndeth down and teareth in pieces, and none\ncan deuier.", "Thine hande shall be lift vp upon thine ad-\nuerlaries, & all thine enemies chalbe cut of.", "And it shall come to palle in that day, faith\nthe Loſde, that I will cut of thine houſes\nout of the middes of thee, and I wil deſtroy\nthy charets.", "11 And I will cut of the cities of thy land, and ouerhow all thy strong holdes.", "12 And I will cut of thine enchanters out of\nthine hande : and thou shall haue no more\nſonthlayers.", "13 Thine idoles also will I cut of, and thine\nimages out of the midds of thee: a thou shall\nno more worſhip the woule of thine hands.", "14 And I wil plucke vp thy groves out of the\nmiddes of thee: so wil I deſtroy thine ene-\nmies.", "15 And I wil execute a begeace in my wath\nand indignation vpon the heathen, which\nthey haue not heard.", "C H A P . V I .", "The honour to the banne creatures to heare the inſidie\nas gauſt Israel being vnbeinde, 6 What manner of\ninſidies do please\nGod.", "Hearken ye now what & Loſde faith,\n& Apple thou, and contende before the\nmountaines, and let the hilles heare\nthy boyle.", "Heare ye, O mountains, the Loſdes qua-\nrel, and ye mightie fundations of the earth:\nfor the Lord hath a quarell against his peo-\nple, and he wil pleade with Israel.", "O my people, what haue I done vnto thee?\no wherein haue I griuèd thee? testiſe a\ngainſt me.", "4 Surely I brought thee vp out of the land\nof Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the\nhouse", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15", "1", "2", "3", "4", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "1", "2", "3", "4", "I come to\nbe your\nbrothers,\nand friends,\nand children\nof your God,\nand of your\nGod the Father,\nand of your\nGod the Son,\nand of your\nGod the Spirit.", "Q\na\nto\ns\na\nm\no\nn\ne\na\nm\no\nn\ne\na\nm\no\nn\ne\na\nm\no\n

["What the Lord requireth.", "Chap. vij.", "Perillous times. 368", "house of seruants, and I haue sent before thee, Holes, Aaron, and David.", "6 D my people, remember now what Balak King of Moab had deuised, and what Baal-aaam the sonne of Beo; answered him, frô, Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the d righteoues of the Lord.", "7 Whereupon, &al I come before the Lord, & bowe my selfe before the he God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, & with calues of a pere olde?", "8 Will the Lord be pleased with thouandeas of rammes, or with ten thouand ruers of oyle? al I give my first boorne for my tras-grection, euen the fruite of my bodie, for the line of my soule?", "9 Hee hath the wewed thee, D man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: surely to do justly, and to loue mercie, and to humble his selfe, to walke with thy God.", "10 The Lordes boye crieth vnto the h citie, & the man of wisedome shall see thy name : Heare the rod, and who hath appoynted it.", "11 Are yet the treasures of wickednes in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure, that is abominable?", "12 Shall I justifie the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitfull weights?", "13 Fo: the rich men, therof are ful of crueltie, & the inhabitants of haue spoken lies, & their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.", "14 Thou hault eate and not be fatiull, and k the cating downe halbe in the middes of thee, and thou halt take hold, but hault not deliver: and that which thou deliuerest, wil I give vp to the word.", "15 Thou hault to we, but not escape: thou halt treade the olives, but thou halt not anoynt thee with oyle, and make sweete wine, but halt not drinke wine.", "16 Fo: the m statutes of Omri are kept, & all the maner of the house of Ahab, & ye walke in their counells, that I houlde make the walke, & the inhabitants thereof an hilling: therefore ye shall beare the repzoche of my people.", "17 Ch: of Jerualem.\n18 He shall be confirmed both inwardly and outwardly, that the citie should go about to fauor men, as then that lane walke on that which they woule pefere, n. 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Godsmightie power.

Nahum.

A bloodie citie.

THE ARGVMENT.

As they of Nineuch shewed themfelsc prompt & readie to receiue the word of God at Jonahs preaching, & to returned to the Lorde by repentance: so after a certeine time rather quiding themfelsc to worldly meanes to encreale their dominion, then seeking to continue m the feare of God, & trade wherein they had begun, they caft of the care of religion, & to returned to their vomite, & provoked Gods iust iudgement against them, in afflicting his people. Therefore his citie Nineuch was deftroyed, & Meroch-balad a king of Babel (or as some thinke Nebuchad-nezzar) enioyed the empire of the Assyrians. But becaufe God hath a continuall care of his Church he (iturreth vp his Prophet to comfort the godly, fhewing that the deftruction of their enemies should be for their conſolution. And as it ſeemeth, he propheſed about the time of Hezekiah, and not in the time of Manasseh his ſonbe, as the fewes write.

C H A R . I.

Of the destruction of the Assyrians, and of the deliverance of Israel.

a Great Jna.

13. 1.

b The vifion of reuclation, which God commanded Nahum to write concerning the Pissuens.

c That is, born in a poor vilſage in a tribe of Simeon.

d Drawing of his glorie.

e Wring his ſe to but anger for a time, but his anguer ſenera affwageth towarde the republade, though for a time he befer it.

f Thus the wickt hound would make Gods mercie an ordeation to time, but the Pissueth willleth them to confueth his force and multiſe.

g If all euen ſurces be at Godes commandement and none able to refiteth his wath, hal man flatter himselfe and thinke vp an angueres to eſtace when he pionoketh his God to an-ger.

h keak the faithful fullth he diſcouraſed by hearing the power of God, he theweth them that his mercies auantiquitie into them, and that he haueth care ouer them.

i Signifying, that God will ſubduely desſtrop Jnaſch, and the Asyrians, in ſuch ſort as hep that heſtife in perpetuall darkenes, and neuer recouer their strength againe.

k The heathen that the enters pufen of the Asyrians as grant, Tubal, & the Church, were againſt god, and there ſore he would be ſo deftrowne the at once, that he hould not need to return ſeconſt time.

l Though the Asyrians thinke themſelues like thomes that pick on all ſides, yet the Lorde will ſe re fire on them, and as drunken men are not able to stand againſt any ſorce, to then that he ſe not able to reſell him, m Which man may be truethful either of Saneherio, or a whole houſe of the people of Asuuen. n Though they think themſelues in moſt safety, and of great strength, yet when God that palle bp, he will eſtoreth them notwithſanding he confueth his Church, and pionifeeth to make an end of puiuſhing them bo the Asyrians. o Meaning Saneherth, who should hane no moſe children, but be flane in the house of his god, p. Iug. 19. 36, 37. 1a 2. 7. 10a 15. p Which peace the Jews should enjoy bp the death of Saneherio.

1

The burde of Nineuch. The booke of the viſio of Nahum the Elshahite.

God is telous, the Lorde reuengeth: the Lorde reuengeth: even the Lorde of anger, the Lorde will take vengeaſe on his adueriaries, and he reſueth wrath for his enemies.

The Lorde is flowt to anger, but he is great in power, a will not surely cleare the wicked: y Lorde hach his way in y whilhond, a y ſtorme, a the cloudes are y duſt of his feete.

He rebuketh the ſea, and diſeth it, and he dieth vp al the riuers: Sathan is wafed & Carinel, a the ſoule of Lebanon is wafed.

The mountaines tremble for him, and the hilles melt, a the earth is burnt at his fight, yea, the world, and all that dwel thereon.

s Who can stand before his wath: or who can abide in the ſtercenes of his wath? his wath is powred out like fire, a the rockes are broken by him.

The Lorde is good h & as a strong holde in the daye of trouble, and he knoweth them that truſt in him.

But paſſing ouer as with a flood, he will utterly deſtroy the place thereof, & darkenes hal purſue his enemies.

What do ye imagine against the Lorde? he will make an utter deſtruction: affliction hal not rife by the ſecond time.

For he shall come as unto thomes folden one in another, and as unto drunkardes in their drunkennes: they halbe deuoured as a bubble fully dried.

There cometh one out of thee, imagineth thee againſt y Lorde, euſ a wicked couſeller.

Thus layeth the Lorde, Though they bee quiet, and alſo many, yet thus hal they be cut of when he ſhal palle by: though he afflicted thee, I wil afflucthe thee no more.

For now I will breake his poke from thee, and will burst thy hondes in ſunder.

And the Lorde hathen a commandement concerning thee, that no more of thy name be ſown: out of the houſe of thy gods will I cut of y grauen, a the molten image: I will make it thy graue for thee, for thou art bile.

Beholde þó the mountaines tremble and the bowes: for the wicked shall no more palle through thee: he is utterly cut out.

C H A P . II.

He describes the vicieties of the Caldeans against the Assyrians.

The destroyer is come before the face: keepe the munition: looke to the way: make thy lopnes strong : increase thy strength mightily.

For the Lorde hath turned away the glory of Jaakob, as the gloie of Israel: for the emptyers haue emptyed them out, e marred their vaine branches.

The ſhield of his mighty men is made red: the valiant men are in scarlet: the chargets ſhalbe as in y fire & flames in the day of his pieparation, e the fire trees that tremble in the night.

The chargets that rage in y streets: they that runto e fro in the hie waies: they halfeeme like lamps: they ſhal hoot like y lightning: the fire that the firemen kindle up the streets, and the firemen burne up the streets.

The gates of the riuers ſhalbe opened, and the palace hal melt.

And Huzza hab the Queene halbe led away captive, and her maydes hal leade her as with the boyle of dones, smiting upon their breakefast.

But Nineuch is of old like a poole of water: yet they hal flee away. Stande, stand, hal they cry: but none hal looke backe.

b Spoyle vs the filuer, pople the golde: for there is none ende of the stowe, and gloie of all the pleafant beſels.

10 She is empty and boide and waſte, and the heart meithet, and the knees finite together, and ſo lowe is in all lopnes, and the faces of them all gather blackenes.

11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, a the paſture of the lions whelpes: where the lyp on, and the lionſelle walked, and the lypons whelpel, and none made them aſkyrd.

12 The lion did teare in pieces enough for his whelpes, a wozyd for his lionſelle, a kiſſed his holes with ppyar, a his demmes with ppyole.

13 Behold, I come into thee, faith the Lorde of hoſſes, a I will burne her chargets in the smoke, and the wode shall deuoure thy pong lions, a I wil cut of the ppyole from the earth, and the boyle of thy meſſengers shall be after this time.

1. Meaning Aineuch, whole inhabitants were cruel like the lions, and morrow the houſes, and all oppreſſion, and ipased no violence to remaunge to pionthe for their boones. 2. A biter, an oppreſſion, and ipased no violence to remaunge to pionthe for their boones. 3. A biter, an oppreſſion, and ipased no violence to remaunge to pionthe for their boones. 4. That is, as ſone as up which beginne to kittle. 5. Signifying the boones, which were accustomed to pionamine warre. Home reade of the guntars where with Aineuch was won to kittle the boones of the boones.

C H A R . I I.

1 Of the fall of Nineuch. 2 A power can eſcape the hand of God.

3 Bloodie citie, it is all full of lyes, and a robberie: a the ppyar departeth not: The noyſle of a whip, a the noyſle of the mouing of the wheeles, a the heating of the hoſſes, and the leaping of the chargets.

4 Their hoſſes halbe in beating the grounde when they come against the Asyrians,

3 The

["Repent before destruction.", "Zephaniah.", "The careleſſe citie.", "k Chep that truſted in their owne strength and contented the P[rophets] of God, lere.30,7. 2. 11. 2. 11. 2. 11. 2

The restoring of the Church.

Chap. ij.

A wall of fire. 372

Jerm. 1:12, 13. 1Cor. 1:8, 10. 1 John 1:12.

former *Prophets haue cried, saying, thus saith the Lord of hostes, Turne you nowe from your euil wayes, and from your wicke d workes: but they would not heare, no hearken vnto me, saith the Lord.

4 Your fathers, where e are they? and do the Prophets lie so euer?

6 But did not my wordes and my statutes, which I commaunded by my ferdants the Prophets, take hold of your fathers? and s they returned, and sayd, As the Loide of hostes hath determined to do vnto vs, ac cording to our owne wayes, and according to our workes, so hath he dealt with vs.

7 Upon the sdure and twentieth day of the eleuenty moneth, which is the moneth Shebat, in the secon d yere of Darius,

came the word of the Lord vnto Zechariah the sonne of Berechiah, the sonne of Jo do the Prophet, saying,

8 I law by night, and behold k a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the mirre trees, that were in a bottome, and he hinde him were there! red hostes speckeled and white.

9 Then said I, O my Lord, what are these? And the Angel that talked with me, faide unto me, I will hew thee what thet he be.

10 And the man that stood among the mirre trees, answere d and faide, These are they whome the Lord hath sent to go thotow d the world.

11 And they answere the Angel of the Lord, that stood among the mirre trees, and said, We haue gone thotowd the world : and be holde, all the worlde litteth still, and is at rest.

12 Then the m Angel of the Lord answere d and laid, O Lord of hostes, how long will thou be bumerical to Jeru salem, & to the cities of Judah, with whom thou hast bene displeased now these threecome & ten pere s?

13 The Lord answere the Angel that talked with me, with good word s and com fortable wordes.

14 So the Angel that communed with me, laid vnto me, Crie thou, and speake, Thus faith the Lord of hostes, I am n telous ouer Jeru salem and Zion with a great zeale,

15 And am greatly angrie against the careles heathen: for I was angrie but o a little, and they helped forward the affliction.

16 Therefore thus faith the Lord, I will re turne vnto Jeru salem with tender mercie : mine house shall be builded in it, faith § Lord of hostes, and a line P shall be stretched vpon Jeru salem.

17 Crie yet, and speake, Thus faith the Lord of hostes, Ap cities shall yet q be broken with plentie : the Lord shall yet comfor tZion, and shall yet chuse Jeru salem.

18

Then lift I by mine eyes and saue, and beholde, e foure hornes.

19 And I laid vnto the Angel that talked with me, what be these? And he answere d me, These are the hornes which haue se t ered Judah, Israel, and Jeru salem.

20 And § Lord the wed me soure carpenters.

21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he answere d, a faide, These are the hornes, which haue scattered Judah, so that a man durst not lift vp his head : but these are come to fray them, to caft out the hornes of the Gentiles, which lift vp their home o uer the land of Judah, to scatter it.

If none e nemies home so to lo r strong, but God ha sh an h ammer to b eake it m pieces.

C H A R. II.

The restoring of Jeru salem and Judah.

I lift vp mine eies againe and looked, and beholde, a a man with a mea lring line in his hand.

2 Then said I, Whither goeth thou? And he laid vnto me, To mea sure Jeru salem, that I may see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

3 And beholde, the Angel that talked with me, went forth: and another Angel went out to meete him,

4 And laid vnto him, Runne, speake to this

b pong man, and fay, c Jeru salem shall be in habited without walles, for the multitude of men and cattell therein.

5 For I, faith the Lord, will be vnto her a wall of d fire round about, and will e be the glory in the middes of her.

6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the North, layth the Loide : for I haue scattered you into the soure e windes of the heauen, faith the Lord.

7 Saue thy selfe, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babel.

8 For thus faith the Lord of hostes. After this, i gloze hath he lent me vnto the nations, which spoyled you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the k apple of his eye.

9 For beholde, I will lift vp mine hand h pion them : and m they shall be a spoyle to those that served them, and ye shall knowe, that the Lord of hostes hath n lent me.

10 Reoyce, and be glad, O daughter Zions, for lo, I come, and will dwell in the middes of thee, faith the Lord.

11 And many nations shall lyoned to the Lord in that day, & shall be my people: and I will dwell in the middes of thee, and thou shall know that the Lord of hostes hath sent me vnto thee.

12 And the Lord shall inhere it Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall chuse Je ru salem againe.

13 Let all flesh be still before the Lord: for he is raised vp out of his holy place.

From Babylon and comming to the Church, i Seeing that God hath begun to low his grace among you, by delivering you, the commen th the faime full toward you, and therefore (be it God) his Angel, and his Churth to defend you from pont enemies, that they shall not hurt you, neither by the way nor at home. k Fears to be but to God, that he can no more father your enemies to hurt you, then a man can abide to be thine in the epe. p al. 1, 7, 8. 1 Upon the heathen your enemies. m They shall be your pereans as you have bene theirs. n This must neer be fide lly to be understood of him, who being God equal with his Father, was lent as he was f. deviator to be in his Church, and to govern them.

A that is, the Angel who was Churth for the sake of his office he is of times called an Angel, but in respect of his own eternall ene. i s God and so called.

b Meaning pumpelese as chuan. c Signifying the pumpeal Jeru salem and Church under Churth, which the Lord be erenbed by the Soypell through allthow, and should be erenbed no material walles, no truith in any worlde.

d Signifying the pumpeal under Churth and Church under Churth, which the Lord be erenbed by the Soypell through allthow, and should be erenbed no material walles, no truith in any worlde.

e Signifying the pumpeal under Churth and Church under Churth, which the Lord be erenbed by the Soypell through allthow, and should be erenbed no material walles, no truith in any worlde.

f To defend the Lord against your enemies, and to defend the Lord against your enemies, and to defend the Lord against your enemies.

g To defend the Lord against your enemies, and to defend the Lord against your enemies.

h To defend the Lord against your enemies, and to defend the Lord against your enemies.

i The chelers to them, which partip so feare and partip for their owne care, remained full in captums, and in pyes ferred their owne pimate commodities to the benefits of God, and was milled in his Church.

j As it was i that scattered you, so have I pater to reſone you.

CHAP.

1 That though a time God deere his helpe and comfor t from his Church, yet this be therethat he loueth not full nor dereely, as a most merciful father his children, or an an d his wife, and volunt it is expedient for them, his helpe is euer readie. 2 In delivering the republike I thew my selfe but a little angrie toward my Church, but he would haue destroyed their alio, and confirmed not the end of my chasements. p To mo nite out the buildings. q The abundance that he so great that the places of office he shall not be able to containe the bieffings that God will send, but shall euen beake for filthes.

["Satanes tentation.", "Zechariah.", "The tinne flone.", "### CHAP. III.", "A pioushele of Chrit and of his kingdome.", "a The papeyd to Chrit the mes dianes for the building, a flate of the Church.", "b Which be, clareth that the faithfull have not only warre with feith & blood, but with Dae can pimelke and spirituall wickebnesse,", "c Eph. 6,7,8.\nd That is, Chrit papeys kest to God as the Mediator of his Church that he would res-buke Satane; and here he theweth hir selfe to be the continual pape-kester of his Church.", "e Meaning, that Jehohua was wonders full presiers ued in the capnitie, and now Satane kought to as-act and tourne him when he was doing his office.", "f In respect of the glorieous garments, and precions diones that the Piestes dibbe before the capnitie; and by this contemprible flate the Pape-piet gumenich that there final beginnings should be.", "g And he said, Let them set a fayre diademe upon his head. So they set a fayze diademe upon his head, and clothed him with garments, and the Angel of the Lord stood by.", "h In that day, faith the Lord of hostes, Jf thou will walke in my wayes, and keepe my watch, thou shall also judge mine House, and Chalt also keepe my courts, and I wil give thee place among these that stand by.", "i Heare now, O Jehohua, y he Drieft, thou and thy fellowes that sit before thee: for they are monstrous persons: but beholde, I wil bring forth the Branch my servant.", "j Fo' to the stone that I haue layde before Jehohua : upon one stone shall be leuen eyes : beholde, I will cut out the graving thereof, faith the Lord of hostes, and I wil take away the inquity of this land in one day.", "k In that day, faith the Lord of hostes, shall ye call euerie man his neighbour under the vine, and under the figge tree.", "l The pape of the spiritual reformation. g The papeyra pape that besides the pape, the Piest might also have prie for his head accordingly, that is, the digitie of the Piesthode might be perfect; and this was fulfilled in Chrit, who was bath Piest and pning; and here all such are condemned that can contemnethem with any uneane reformation in religion, being the pape before the reformation, and abrighemeth. h That is, haue rule and government in my Church as the priebelesse have hab. i Whereby he meaneth to have the whole charge and ministration of the Church, k That is, the Angels who represented the whole number of the faithfull, fignifying that all the godly should willingly receive him. l Because they follow my wode, they are confirmed in the wode, and esteemed as monstours. Jsa. 8, 12.\nm That is, Chrit, who did so humble pimelke, that not only he became the servant of God, but also the servant of men: and therefore in him they should have comfort, als though in the wode they were confirmed, Jsa. 1, 12, 13, 14, 15. e That is not things plesant to e pere. k That is, God hath leuen e pere, meaning a common wouldence, that neither Satane nor any power in the wode can go about to bring any thing to palle to hinder his woke, Chap. 2, 9. l Which were grace and full of e pere, that til the pere palled forth e pere into the Lampes, fignifying, that God will continually maintaine and prieferie his Church, and inure it til all abusance and perfection of graces.", "### CHAP. III.", "The vifion of the golden candletiche, and the evropitton thereof.", "a Which was euer in the middles of the Temple, fignifying that the graces of gods viuit floureth in him that in not only dance, and in at perfection.", "b Which con-續ed the pape that dropped", "c From the trees into the lampes, so that the light neuer failed: and this wold to confirme the faithfull that God had sufficient power in himselfe to continue his graces, and to bring his pionie to palle, though he had no help of man,", "A Ad he hewed me Jehohua the hie Drieft, a standing before the Angel of the Lord, and b Satan stood at his right hand to relift him.", "c And c Lord said unto Satan, The Lord reproue thee, D Satan: euen d Lord that hath chosen Jerualem, reproue thee. Is not this a d brand taken out of the fire?", "e Now Jehohua was clothed with filtheie garments, and stood before the Angel.", "f And he answered a pake vnto that stood before him, fayling, Take away the filtheie garments from him. And vnto him he said, Beholde, I haue caused thine inquity to depart from thee, and I wil clothe thee with change of rayment.", "g And I layd, Let them set a fayre diademe upon his head. So they set a fayze diademe upon his head, and clothed him with garments, and the Angel of the Lord stood by.", "h And the Angel of the Loode testified vnto Jehohua, fayling,", "I Thus faith the Lord of hostes, Jf thou will walke in my wayes, and keepe my watch, thou shall also judge mine House, and Chalt also keepe my courts, and I wil give thee place among these that stand by.", "j Heare now, O Jehohua, y he Drieft, thou and thy fellowes that sit before thee: for they are monstrous persons: but beholde, I wil bring forth the Branch my servant.", "k Fo' to the stone that I haue layde before Jehohua : upon one stone shall be leuen eyes : beholde, I will cut out the graving thereof, faith the Lord of hostes, and I wil take away the inquity of this land in one day.", "l In that day, faith the Lord of hostes, shall ye call euerie man his neighbour under the vine, and under the figge tree.", "right side of the bowle, and the other vpon the left side thereof.", "4 So I answered, and spake to the Angel that talked with me, fayling, what are these, my Lord?", "5 Then the Angel that talked with me, answered a faid vnto me, Knoweft thou not what these be? And I faid, A, my Lord.", "6 Then he answered and spake vnto me, fayling, This is the wode of the Loode vnto Zerubbabel, fayling, Neither by d an- amie nor strength, but by my Spirit, fayth the Lord of hostes.", "7 Who art thou, D great mountaine, before Zerubbabel: thou shall be a plaine, and the fiall bring forty the head stone thereof, with fhoutings, crying, Grace, grace vnto it.", "8 Moreover, the word of the Lord came br- to me, fayling,", "9 The hands of Zerubbabel haue layde the foundation of this houſe: his hands fiall also finish it, and e thou fiall know that the Lord of hostes hath lent me vnto you.", "10 Fo' who hath depifted the day of D fiall things ? but they fiall reioyce, and shall fee the stone of D tinne in the hand of Zerubbabel: k these leuen are the eyes of the Lord, which go thorow the whole wode. No", "11 Then answered J, a faid vnto him, What are these two olive trees vpon the right a vpon the left side thereof?", "12 And I spake moreover, and faid vnto him, What be these two olive branches, which thouowe the two golden pipes emptie them selues into the golde?", "13 And he answered me, and faide, Knoweſt thou not what these be? And I faid, A, my Lord.", "14 Then faide he, These are the two olive branches, that stand with the ruler of the whole earth.", "I would continue his grace and favour vnto the Temple. g Meaning, the pape, that I am Chrit, fide of my father, fide of my mother, that is, the dig- nitie of the Piesthode might be perfect; and this was fulfilled in Chrit, who was bath Piest and pning; and here all such are condemned that can contemnethem with any uneane reformation in religion, being the pape before the reformation, and abrighemeth. h That is, haue rule and government in my Church as the priebelesse have hab. i Whereby he meaneth to have the whole charge and ministration of the Church, k That is, the Angels who represented the whole number of the faithfull, fignifying that all the godly should willingly receive him. l Because they follow my wode, they are confirmed in the wode, and esteemed as monstours. Jsa. 8, 12.\nm That is, Chrit, who did so humble pimelke, that not only he became the servant of God, but also the servant of men: and therefore in him they should have comfort, als though in the wode they were confirmed, Jsa. 1, 12, 13, 14, 15. e That is not things plesant to e pere. k That is, God hath leuen e pere, meaning a common wouldence, that neither Satane nor any power in the wode can go about to bring any thing to palle to hinder his woke, Chap. 2, 9. l Which were grace and full of e pere, that til the pere palled forth e pere into the Lampes, fignifying, that God will continually maintaine and prieferie his Church, and inure it til all abusance and perfection of graces.", "### CHAP. V.", "The vifion of the flying booke, fignifying the curne of themes, g such as abufe the Name of God. h As the vifion of the mealtie is figs fied the hinging of Xudahs afflictions into Abapton.", "1 Then I turned me, and lifted by mine eyes and looked, and beholde, a flying booke.", "2 And he faide vnto me, What feelth thou? And I answere, I fee a flying booke: the length thereof is twentie cubites, and the breadth thereof ten cubites.", "3 Then faide he vnto me, This is the curne that goeth forth ouer the whole earth: for every one that b stealeth, thalbe cut of alwel on this side, as on that: and euerie one that d weareth, thalbe cut of alwel on this side, as on that.", "TheAME of the Caldeans their former enemies. b That is, God, who is the God of the world. c The transfiguration of the sunne, and then the sunne is made a fire, and then the fire is made

["Wickednes flut vp.", "Chap.vj.vij. The Branch. Hypocrites fafting. 373", "1", "I wil bring it forth, asith the Lord of hozes, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him, as falkely weareth by my Ame: and it shall remaine in the middes of his houle, and shall confume it, with the tumber thereof, and stones thereof. Then the Angell that talked with me, wet forth, and said vnto me, Lift vp nowe thine eies, and see what is this that goeth foothly. 6 And I said, what is it? And he said, This is an c Ephah & goeth forth. He faid moeuer, This is the light of them, through all the earth.", "7", "And beholde, there was lift vp a s talent of lead : and this is a h woman that lutteth in the middes of the Ephah.", "8", "And he said, This is a wickednes, and hee caft it into the middes of the Ephah, and hee caft a weight of lead vpon a mouth thereof.", "9", "Then lift J bp mine eyes, a looked : a beholde, there came out two k women, and the winde was in their wings (for they had wings like the wings of a ftoke) and they lift vp the Ephah betweene the earth and the heauen.", "10", "The said I to the Angel that talked with me, whither do these beare the Ephah ?", "11", "And he laide vnto me, 1 To builde it an house in the land of Shinar, it that halbe established and let there vpon her owne place.", "CHAP. VI.", "As the foure charctere the deare of the foure monarches.", "1", "A Gaine, I turned a lift bp mine eyes, and looked : and beholde, there came foure a charcters out fro betweene two mountains, and the mountains were mountains of hraffe.", "2", "In the first charet were c red hozes, and in the second charet d blacke hozes,", "3", "And in the third charet e white hozes, a in the fourth charet, hozes of f diuers colours, and reddish.", "4", "Then I anquered, and said vnto the Angell that talked with me, what are these, my Lord?", "5", "And the Angell anquered, and said vnto me, These are the foure spirits of the heauen, which go forth from standing with the Lord of all the earth.", "6", "That with the blacke hozie went forth into the lande of the North, and the white went out after the, a they of diuers colours went forth toward the h South countrie.", "7", "And the reddish went out, and required to go, and paffe through the world, and hee said, Go paffe through the worlde. So they went thorowe out the worlde.", "8", "Then cryed he vpon me, and spake vnto me, saying, Beholde, these that go towards the North countrie, have pacified my spirit in the North countrie.", "9", "And the word of the Lorde came vnto you, and vour plaques upon their enemies, as he dib in deftoring Ameine and Mabplan, and other their enemies. c Meaning, all the actions and motions of the Spirit, which according to his inchangeable counsel he caueth to apprare through all the world. d That is, forward Egypt, and other concreits there about. e That is, theuen of diuers colours, which he alane, to gize that Atha hath no powre to hurt of affect till God gue it him, Joh. i, 12, k bp pumghing the Caldeans, who are sealed, and you were deliquet.", "c Which was a measurement in dip, though coming agen to ten pors of rela.", "d That is, all the wickdnes of the luydes of J s in my God.", "e Which is, all the wickdnes of the luydes of J s in my God. is a measurement in dip, though coming agen to ten pors of rela.", "f That is, all the wickdnes of the luydes of J s in my God. is a measurement in dip, though coming agen to ten pors of rela.", "g That is, all the wickdnes of the luydes of J s in my God. is a measurement in dip, though coming agen to ten pors of rela.", "h That is, all the wickdnes of the luydes of J s in my God. is a measurement in dip, though coming agen to ten pors of rela.", "i That is, all the wickdnes of the luydes of J s in my God. is a measurement in dip, though coming agen to ten pors of rela.", "j Which is, all the wickdnes of the luydes of J s in my God. is a measurement in dip, though coming agen to ten pors of rela.", "k Which is, all the wickdnes of the luydes of J s in my God. is a measurement in dip, though coming agen to ten pors of rela.", "l Which is, all the wickdnes of the luydes of J s in my God. is a measurement in dip, though coming agen to ten pors of rela.", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19", "20", "21", "22", "23", "24", "25", "26", "27", "28", "29", "30", "31", "32", "33", "34", "35", "36", "37", "38", "39", "40", "41", "42", "43", "44", "45", "46", "47", "48", "49", "50", "51", "52", "53", "54", "55", "56", "57", "58", "59", "60", "61", "62", "63", "64", "65", "66", "67", "68", "69", "70", "71", "72", "73", "74", "75", "76", "77", "78", "79", "80", "81", {"bbox": [158, 1822, 171, 1842],

["The citie of trueth.", "Zechariah.", "The vocation of the Gentiles.", "k he sheweth, that they did not fall with a壟heart, but for all his parricide, and that it was not done of a pure religion, because that they lacked their offices of charity, which should have declared that they were godly, i. Pat.", "21. l And would not carp the Lord's burden, which was softe as eale, but would heare their dnowe, which was heau and greienons", "22. m Which beclereth, that then recheld not only as gaild the pious, but as gaild the fons of God that spake in them.", "23. n That is, as farre as they were caried captive, so as their fines where by the pious wereахed God's anger.", "", "a I loved my citie with a singular love, so that I could not as hide that any should see her any where.", "b Because the halbe faithfull, and loyal to warde me her huffand.", "c Theye their emperes and great moles and treuble them yet God would come and dwell as among them, and to prierise them so long as nature would order them to line, and encraise their children in great abundance.", "d I theselp wherein our faith standeth, that is, to be-lesse that God can performe that which he hath promised, though it come neuer from", "e And I will bring them, that they shall dwell in the middes of Jerusalem, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in trueth and in righteounes.", "f Thus faith the Lord of hostes, Let pour hands be strong, ye that heare in these dayes these words by the mouth of the pro-", "g Let neither respect of your private commodities, neither countell of others, nor fear of enemies disfavourage put in the going forwarde with the building of the Temple, but his countell and hepe the Prophets, which encourage you to performe.", "habited, and in prosperitie, and the cities thereof round about her, when the South and the plane was inhabited ?", "h And the word of the Loide came into Zechariah, saying,", "i Thus speaketh the Lord of hostes, saying, k Execute true judgement, as they mercie & compassion, euery man to his brother,", "l And oppresse not the widow, nor the fatherles, the stranger nor the poor, and let none of you imagine euill against his brother in your heart.", "m But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, & stopped their eares, that they should not heare.", "n Pea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, left they should heare the Law and the wordes which the Loide of hostes sent in his m spirit by the ministerie of the former Prophets ; therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hostes.", "o Therefore it is come to palle, that as hee cryed, and they would not heare, so they cryed, I would not heare, faith the Loide of hostes.", "p But I scattered them among all the nations, whome they knew not: thus the land was desolate after them, that no man palled through nor returned : so they layd the pleasant land waste.", "C H A P . VIII.", "1 Of the returne of the people into Jerusalem, and of theMERP of God toward them. 16 Of good works. 10 The calling of the Gentiles.", "A eane the word of the Lord of hostes came to me, saying,", "Thus faith the Loide of hostes, I was a eleous for: Zion with great ieioule, & I was eleous for her with great wrath.", "Thus faith the Lord, I will returne into Zion, and will dwell in the middes of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a citie of trueth, and the Mountaine of the Lord of hostes, the holy Mountaine.", "Thus faith the Lord of hostes, There shall yet olde men & olde women dwell in the streetes of Jerusalem, and euery man with his staffe in his hand for very age.", "And of streets of the citie halbe ful of boyes and girles, playing in the streetes thereof.", "Thus faith the Lord of hostes, Though it be unpossible in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these dayes, should it therefore be unpossible in my sight, layth the Lord of hostes?", "Thus faith the Lord of hostes, Behold, I will deliver my people from the East country, and from the West country.", "And I will bring them, that they shall dwell in the middes of Jerusalem, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in trueth and in righteounes.", "Thus faith the Lord of hostes, Let your hands be strong, ye that heare in these dayes these words by the mouth of the pro-", "phets, which were in the day, that the foundation of the House of God, Lord of hostes was layd, that the Temple might be builded.", "10 For before these dayes there was no fire for man no: any fire for beaue, neþether was there any peace to him that went out of: came in because of: affliction: for: I let al men, euery one against his neighbour.", "11 But now, I will not intreat the refundue of this people as afoetime, layth the Lord of hostes.", "12 For the feed halbe prosperous: the vine shall give her fruite, and the grounde shall give her increase, and the heauens shall give their dewe, and I will cause the remnant of this people to pallele al these things.", "13 And it hal come to palle, that as ye were a curle among the heathen, O houses of Judah, and house of Israel, so will I deliver you, and ye halbe a blessing: keare not, but let your hands be strong.", "14 For thus faith the Loide of hostes, As I thought to punish h you, when your fathers piouoked me into wrath, faith the Lord of hostes, and repented not,", "15 So againe have I determined in these dayes to do well into Jerusalem, to the house of Judah: keare ye not.", "16 These are the things that ye shall do. Speake mee euery man the trueth into his neighbour: execute judgement truely and uprightly in your gates,", "17 And let none of you imagine euill in your hearts against his neighbour, and loue no falfe othe: so all these are the things that I hate, faith the Lord.", "18 And the word of the Lord of hostes came into me, saying,", "19 Thus faith the Lord of hostes, The fast of the fourth moneth, & the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the k tenth, shall be to the house of Judah toge and gladnesse, and prosperous he keares: therefore loue the trueth and peace.", "20 Thus faith the Lord of hostes, That there shall yet come 1 people, & the inhabitants of great cities.", "21 And the that dwell in one citie, that hal go to another, saying, *up, let vs go and pray before the Lord, & seeke the Lord of hostes: I will go also.", "22 Pea, great people and mightie nations shall come to seeke the Loide of hostes in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.", "23 Thus faith the Loide of hostes, In those dayes shall ten men take holde out of all languages of the nations, euen take holde of the skirt of him that is a Jewe, and laye euie will goe with you: so we have heard, that God is with you.", "C H A P . IX.", "1 The threatening of the Gentiles. 9 The comming of Chis.", "1 The burden of the word of the Lord in: Wherein the manna is: the land of: a Hadnach: and Damaleus: halbe his best: when: & eyes of man, or his houres: so: then: & upon: the house of God: & the house of the Temple: not spare to much as that. 6 When the Jews shall convert and regre, then God will destrop their enemies.", "So God canne pour forth his heart, so he cannot be heard, so he cannot be

["## Prisoners of hope.", "Chap.x.", "## The corner, naile and bowe.", "374", "the Lord.", "1 That is, by\nDantaneue:\nmeaning that\njamamay o\nSanuchad:\nthat he be\nher news\nthe Gane,\nrod a plague,\nthe. iereru\nthe Gane\nof their\npallionment,\nbecame he\nbecame he\nbecame he\nafter other\nher craft a\nsubtletie,\nwhich he\nclotted with\nthe name of\ntoll doome.", "2 And Hamath also shall border a thereby: Tyus also and Zion, though they be thee wife.", "3 Fo: Tyus did builde her selfe a strong\nholde, and heaped vp filuer as the duft; and\ngolde as the myre of the streets.", "4 Behold, the Lord will spoyle her, he will\nunite her: power in the Sea, and the shall\nbe denoured with fire.", "5 Athkelon shall see it, and keare, and Azzah\nalso shall be very soiowfull, and Ekron: so\nher countenance shall be alhammed, and the\nking shall perish from Azzah, and Athkelon\nshall not be inhabited.", "6 And the stranger shall dwell in Abyd,\nI will cut off the pride of the Philistins.", "7 And I will take away his blood out of\nhis mouth, his abominations from betweene\nhis teeth: but he that remaineth, even he\nshalbe for our God, he shall be as a prince\nin Judah, but ! Ekron shall be as a Jeboite.", "8 Though\nshep of Tyus\nthinks he\nhas a manum-\nmum, and\ncide by rea-\nson of the fer,\nthat compa-\nteth for\nthe land,\nand\nput then shall\nher escape:\nGaba uudges\nthe, and\nthe, and\nM'adamin,\nthat all should\nbe destroyed\nfall on\nthe land\nof Ganda\nremain as\nstrangers.", "9 And I will campe about 4 mins Houle a\ngainst the armie, against him that palfeth\nby, and against him that returneth, no op-\npellerous shall come upon them any moe:\nfo: now haue I leene with mine eyes.", "10 Reioee greatly, O daughter Zion: thou\nfor to, O daughter Jerusalem: behold, the\nking cometh into thee: \" he is uill a\naflued himselfe, pooe and riding bp an \"affe,\nand upon a colte the sole of anaffe.", "11 And I will cut off the charets from Epha-\nim, the horse from Jerusalem: the bowe\nof the battell shall be broken, and he shall\nspeake peace unto the heathen, and his do-\nmition halbe from P lea bnto lea, and from\nthe River to the ende of the land.", "12 And I will take away his blood out of\nhis mouth, his abominations from betweene\nhis teeth: but he that remaineth, even he\nshalbe for our God, he shall be as a prince\nin Judah, but ! Ekron shall be as a Jeboite.", "13 Fo: Judah have I bent as a bow for me:\nEphrauns hand have I filled, and I have\ntailed vp thy lonaes, O Zion, against thy\nloues, O Grecia, and have made thee as a\ngaynts lwoode.", "14 And the Loide shall be seene ouer them, a\nhis arrow shall goe forth as the lightning:\nand the Loide God shall blow the trumpet,\nand shall come forth with the whirle winds\nof the South.", "15 And I will cut off the charets from Epha-\nim, the horse from Jerusalem: the bowe\nof the battell shall be broken, and he shall\nspeake peace unto the heathen, and his do-\nmition halbe from P lea bnto lea, and from\nthe River to the ende of the land.", "16 And I will cut off the pride of the Philistins.\nI will take away his blood out of\nhis mouth, his abominations from betweene\nhis teeth: but he that remaineth, even he\nshalbe for our God, he shall be as a prince\nin Judah, but ! Ekron shall be as a Jeboite.", "17 And the Lord shall be seene ouer them, a\nhis arrow shall goe forth as the lightning:\nand the Lord God shall blow the trumpet,\nand shall come forth with the whirle winds\nof the South.", "18 Thou also shall be faued through þ blood\nof the covenant. I have loved thy prisoners\nout of the pitte wherein is no water.", "19 Turke you to the strong holde, ye priso-\nners of hope: euen to day do I declare, that\nI will render the double unto thee.", "20 Thou also shall be faued through þ blood\nof the covenant. I have loved thy prisoners\nout of the pitte wherein is no water.", "21 Turke you to the strong holde, ye priso-\nners of hope: euen to day do I declare, that\nI will render the double unto thee.", "22 God haty\nnow feme the\ngodfathers and\nafflictions\nwhereunto\nwith them\nhave affected\nhis people.", "23 Fo: Judah have I bent as a bow for me:\nEphrauns hand have I filled, and I have\ntailed vp thy lonaes, O Zion, against thy\nloues, O Grecia, and have made thee as a\ngaynts lwoode.", "24 That is, he\nhath fighteth\nand safulation\nin him, faue to\nthe bte and\ncommoditie of\nhis Church,\na which des\nclereth a chep\nshould not\nlie for him\na ring as\nshould be as\nroses in the\nroses in man,\nand the\nroses, and ree\nin him, greeke hane all power to delver his: and this is meant of Chuff, a of Mat, 21. 5.\nthe power of man on creature that he able to let this kingdome of Chuff, and he\nthe peaceable governmente by his word. p That is, from the red tea, to the tea cals\nlesse, and by their place which the Jews knewe, he ment an infinite space\nand compaund of over the whole world. o That is, from Ephraies. . Meaneth, Je-\nraelam at the Church, which to faue by the blood of Chuff where the blood of the\nfieles in us as a fure, s is here called the comane of Church, because God made\nthat he delver his Church out of all other, so great is he, and so great is he,\ninto the holb land and the citre and the Temple are, where God will defend pon.\nA Meaning, the faithful, which for med to be in danger of their enemies on euery do,\nand in hope that God would reitrel the Church. x That is, doubtles hanes\nthe writing in respect of that which our fathers enjoyed from Daubis time to\nthe citre, y That make Judah and Ephann, that is, up whole Church, to the\nnon again all enemies, which he here meaneth by the Sicyonians. y The promittet\nthat the Chaffors shall delver their enemies and have abundance, s excelle of all things,\nand all abundance on the alar when the facctice is offered: which things are not\nto move the mind to intent peranct, but to godietie, and at hankfull remembrance of God's\ngreat liberality.", "25 And the Loide shall be seene ouer them, a\nhis arrow shall goe forth as the lightning:\nand the Lord God shall blow the trumpet,\nand shall come forth with the whirle winds\nof the South.", "26 And the Loide shall be seene ouer them, a\nhis arrow shall goe forth as the lightning:\nand the Lord God shall blow the trumpet,\nand shall come forth with the whirle winds\nof the South.", "27 The Lord of hokes shall defend them, and\nthey shall denouer them, a subdue the with", "28 In him, greeke hane all power to delver his: and this is meant of Chuff, a of Mat, 21. 5.\nthe power of man on creature that he able to let this kingdome of Chuff, and he\nthe peaceable governmente by his word. p That is, from the red tea, to the tea cals\nlesse, and by their place which the Jews knewe, he ment an infinite space\nand compaund of over the whole world. o That is, from Ephraies. . Meaneth, Je-\nraelam at the Church, which to faue by the blood of Chuff where the blood of the\nfieles in us as a fure, s is here called the comane of Church, because God made\nthat he delver his Church out of all other, so great is he, and so great is he,\ninto the holb land and the citre and the Temple are, where God will defend pon.\nA Meaning, the faithful, which for med to be in danger of their enemies on euery do,\nand in hope that God would reitrel the Church. x That is, doubtles hanes\nthe writing in respect of that which our fathers enjoyed from Daubis time to\nthe citre, y That make Judah and Ephann, that is, up whole Church, to the\nnon again all enemies, which he here meaneth by the Sicyonians. y The promittet\nthat the Chaffors shall delver their enemies and have abundance, s excelle of all things,\nand all abundance on the alar when the facctice is offered: which things are not\nto move the mind to intent peranct, but to godietie, and at hankfull remembrance of God's\ngreat liberality.", "29 And the Loide shall be seene ouer them, a\nhis arrow shall goe forth as the lightning:\nand the Lord God shall blow the trumpet,\nand shall come forth with the whirle winds\nof the South.", "30 The Lord of hokes shall defend them, and\nthey shall denouer them, a subdue the with", "sling stones, and they shall dinke, & make a\nnopye as thow we wine, and they shall fil-\nled like boles, & as þ hones of the altar.", "16 And the Loide their God shall deliver the\nin that day as the flocke of his people: for\nthey shalbe as the stones of the croydine life\ned by his land.", "17 That is, how great is his goodness! and how\ngreat is his beauty! come shall make þ young\nmen cheareful, and new wine the maydes.", "C H A P . X.", "1 The bautele of ibatariæ.", "2 The Loide promittet to bittes and com-", "s for the bontes of Iraak.", "A She you of the a Loide raine in the\ntime of the latter rayne: so shall the\nLoide make white clouds, & give you\nhowzes of raine, and to euery one graffe in\nthe field.", "Surely b the doles hane spoken bautele,\nthe fourthayers hane seene a lye, and the\ndreamers hane tolde a vainte thing : the\ncomfort in vaine: therefore: they went a\nway as sheep: they were troubled, because\nthere was no shepherd.", "My wath was kindled against the shep-\nherds, and I did viffite the d goates: but the\nLord of hokes will visit his flocke the house\nof Judah, and will make them as his bea-\ntifull horse in the battell.", "4 Out of him shall the corner come forth:\nout of him the nayle, out of him the bope of\nbattel, and out of him euery s appointer of\ntribute also.", "And they shall be as the mightie men,\nwhich treade downe their enemies in the\nmire of the streetes in the battell, and they\nshall fight, because the Lord is with them, &\nthe riders on hokes shall be confounded.", "And I will strengthe the house of Judah,\nand I will plesere the house b of Ioseph, c\nI will bring them againe, for þ pitie them:\nand they shall be as though I had not cail\nthem of: fo I am the Lord their God, and\nshall heare them.", "And thep of Ephaim shall be as a grant,\n& their heart shall reioyce as thow weine\npea, their chyldren shall fee it, and be glad:\nand their heart shall reioyce of the Lord.", "7 I will hille for them, and gather them:\nfo I haue redeemed them: and they shall\nencreale, as they hane encraeled.", "And I will kowe them among the peo-\nple, and they shall remember me in farre\ncountrieis: and they shall liue with their\nchyldren and turke againe.", "10 I will bring the againe also out of þ land\nof Egypt, & gather them out of Affur: and\nI will bring them into the land of Gilead, a\nLebanon, & place that shall not be found for the\n11 And he m shall go into the fea with afflic-\ntion, and shall finite the waues in the lea,\nand all the depths of the river shall die", "off", "The pio\npeter repre\nnerth b Jowes\nbecause up\ntheir owne to\nabdite thep\nput backe", "G-b piores\npromises, to\nlame came\nin God tult\nindument:\ntherein to\nanop the\nplague he wile\nlet them to\nturne to God,\nand to prie in\nfaith to him,\nand so he will\ngive them as\nabundance.", "I be callt to rememor-\nbance God's\npumilments\nout of him and so\nbecause thep\ntrued not in\nhim, but in\ntheir riods a\none who\nener decerned\nthem.", "I Charis, the\nJowes went\ninto captirup.\nI Meaning,\nthe cruel go-\nernour\nwhich did ap-\nprethe the\nthepe, Esh.", "14-17. I be will\nmercielful to\nbis Church\nand chert\nas a kung\nPrince,\nboth his bed\nhousethiwy\nhalbe for bis\nowne lie in\nthe warre.\nE out of", "of Jubat shall\nthe chere go\nernour pio\nceade, who shall\nbe as a co\nner to uphold\nthe building\nand as a nade\nto fasten it to\ngether.", "Guer their\npumpe.\nCharis, the\nten trithes,\nwhich should\nbe gathered\nunder Chy-\nt in the rei\nof the Church.\nI will bring\nbe derelict\nthe power of\nGod who hese\nbe not great\npieparation\nwhen he will\nbe delver his\nhane with a\nherd", "18 I will hille for them, and gather them:\nfo I haue redeemed them: and they shall\nencreale, as they hane encraeled.", "Guer their\npumpe.\nCharis, the\nten trithes,\nwhich should\nbe gathered\nunder Chy-\nt in the rei\nof the

["Two Itaues.", "Zechariah.", "The Spirit of grace.", "bp: a the pride of Arthur shall be cast down,\nand the kepter of Egypt shall depart away.", "12 And I will strengthen the in the Lo'de, a\nthey shall walk in his Name, faithful Lord.", "13 The destruction of Temple. 4 The care of the faithfull is com-  \nmitte to Church. 7 The generous will against Jerusalem & Judah.", "a Because he is\nJehovah.", "b thought him to\nflue to the Lord,\nup a reason\nof this moun-\ntain, but eno-\nmy could come\nto hurt them,\nthe Prophet\nheareth his\nGod felleth.", "3 God felleth, he\nshall felleth it\nshall felleth it\nfelle v. adp. to\nreceive them,\nb. Shewin g a\nif the strong\nmen were des-\ndroped, the\nweake r to\nnot able to\nrefill.", "4 c. Seeing that\nLebanon was\ndestroyed,\nwhich was the\nstrongest\nnation,\nby wea-\nker places\ncould not\nthink to hold\nout.", "d. That is,\nthe renowne\nof God and\nIsrael\nshould per-", "e. Which be-\ning now be-\nlieve to be\nflaine, were be-\nliued as out\nof the lons\nmout h.", "f. Their go-\nerners he-\ndrop them\nwithout ap-\nrenu re of\ncon fi dence, or\nper think ing\nthat they do\nkill.", "g. He noteth\nthe hoo poe-\nwhich ene\nhau e v. name\nof God in\ntheir mouth s,\nthough in\ntheir life and\ndoings of the\nbens God,\nattributing\ntheir game to\nGods bleifing,\nwhich com-", "h. In that day\nwill cause\none to delo p\nanother.", "i. Their aouers\nnours shall eye-\nsee crue lize\nouer them.", "k. That is, the\nfinal reme d,\nbut now he\nthought wot-\nth to the new\nmercy vnto.", "l. God heareth\nhis great be-\nliefs toward\nhis people to\ncommence them\nof greater\ningrains,\nwhich would", "m. Not know\nneither be re-\nsult to the\nblessing of the\nGod of his\npeople.", "n. In that day\nwill cause\none to delo p\nanother.", "o. Their aouers\nnours shall eye-\nsee crue lize\nouer them.", "p. That is, the\nfinal reme d,\nbut now he\nthought wot-\nth to the new\nmercy vnto.", "q. God heareth\nhis great be-\nliefs toward\nhis people to\ncommence them\nof greater\ningrains,\nwhich would", "r. Not know\nneither be re-\nsult to the\nblessing of the\nGod of his\npeople.", "s. Not know\nneither be re-\nsult to the\nblessing of the\nGod of his\npeople.", "t. Shewing that it was to little to pay his wages, which could\nfarre suffice to make a fewe trles for to cover v. Temple. c. Signifying, that then should\nhave a certaine kind of regiment, & outward hev of government: but in effect it build\nthe nightingale for the theynbe be wolnes, and denouncing beaks in read of shepherds,", "Open thy doones, D a Lebanon, and\nthe fire shall denoure thy cedars.", "O Houle, fbire trees: for the cedar\nis fallen, because at the mightie are destruy-\ned: houle ye, Okes of Baaljan, for the de-\nfensed forest is cut downe.", "There is the bovce of the houling of the\nshepherdes: for their d glory is destroyed:\nthe bovce of the roaring of lont whelpes:\nfor the pride of Jorden is destroyed.", "Thus faithful the Lord my God, feede the\nsheepe of the slaughter.", "They that posseffle them, flap them f and\nsinne not: a they that fell them, lay, s Ble-\nsed be the Lo'de: for I am riche, and their\nowne shepherdes spare them not.", "Surely I will no more space that\ndwell in the land, layth the Lo'de: but loe,\nh I will deliver the men cuery one into his\nneighbours hand, and into the hand of his\ni King: and they shall smite the land, e out\nof their hands I will not deliver them.", "fo? I fed the sheepe of slaughter, euen the\nk poore of the flocke, a I took vnto me' two\nsheaues: the one I called Beautie, and the o-\nther I called Bandes, and I fed the sheepe.", "m Three shepherdes also I cut of, in one\nmoneth, and my soule loeth n them, a their\nsoule abhored me.", "9 Then said I, I will not feede you: that\nthat dyeth, let it dye: a that that periltheth,\nlet it perish: a let the remnant eat, euery one\nthe kely of his neighbour.", "10 And I tooke my staffe, even Beautie, and\nbrake it, that I might dilanull my couenat,\nwhich I had made with all people.", "11 And it was broken in that day: and so the\npoore of the sheepe that waited upon me,\nknew that it was the word of the Lord.", "12 And I laid vnto them, If yce think: it\ngood, giue me p my wages: a if no, leave of:\nso they weighed for my wages thirtie pie-\nces of kiluer.", "13 And the Lo'de faide vnto me. Cauſt it vnto\nthe q potter: a goodly price, that I was ba-\nlued at of them. And I tooke the thirtie pie-\nces of kiluer, and caſt them to the potter in\nthe house of the Lo'd.", "14 Then brake I mine other staffe, even the\nBands, that I might dissolue the brother-\nhood betweene Judah and Israel.", "15 And the Lord said vnto me, Take to the\nyet the instruments of a foolish shepherde.", "led by his most beautiful order of government, neither continue in the banes of bis-\nther the vunt, and there faine he falleth, both the one and the other. Some reade, for\nBands, Delropers, but in the 16. befe the firſt reauing is confirmed,\nwhere he felleth his care and biligence that he would uſer them to have no enuillruler,\ncauſe then ſhould confirm his great lour. a I mean the people, because they would", "not acknowledge their great benefits of God.", "o. He felleth that the leaft part enter\ngainst God. b. Signifying that this is the leaſt part of God.", "c. Signifying that the leaſt part is the\nmost great part of God. d. Signifying that the\nmost great part is the leaſt part of God.", "d. Signifying that the leaſt part is the\nmost great part of God. e. Signifying that the\nmost great part is the leaſt part of God.", "16 For loe, I will raiſe vp a shepherd in the\nlande, which shall not looke for the thing,\nthat is lost, nor keeke the tender lambes, no:\nheale that that is hurt, nor feede that that\nfandeth bp: but he shall eat the kely of the\nfat, and teare their clawses in pieces.", "17 O dole shepherd that leaueth the kloſe:\nthe kely of the shall be vpon his arme, and vp\nhis right eye. His arme shall cleane dyed\nbp, a his right eye shall be utterly darkened.", "C H A P. XII.", "The burden of b word of the Lo'd vpon\na Israel, faith the Lo'd, which lyſed b\nheauens, a laid the foundation of b earth,\na formed the spirit of man within him.", "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a b cuppe\nof poyon vnto all the people round about:\nand also with Judah will he be, in the liege\nagainst Jerusalem.", "And in that day will I make Jerusalem\nan heaie stone for all people : all that lift it\nup, shall be to none, though all the people of\nthe earth be gathered together againſt it.", "In that day, faith the Lo'd, I will nittie\neuer horse with stonifment, a his rider\nwith madneſs, and I will open mine eyes\nvpon the house of Judah, and will nittie e-\nueruy horse of the people with blindneſſe.", "And the p[inces] of Judah shall lay in their\nhearts, The inhabitants of Jeruſal[em] shall\nmy strength in b Lord of hoffes their God.", "In that day will I make the p[inces] of\nJudah like coales of fire among the wood,\nand like a fire brand in the heaſe, and they\nshall devoure all the people round about on\nthe right hand, and on the left: and Jer-\nusalem halbe inhabited againe in her owne\nplace, euen in Jerusalem.", "The Lo'd also shall p[referue]e the d tent[s] of\nJudah, as afoſe time: thereſoſe the glo[ty] of\nthe house of David shall not boast, no: the\nglorie of the inhabitants of Jeruſal[em] a-\ngainſt Judah.", "In that day shall the Lo'd defend the in-\nhabitants of Jeruſalem, and he that is ſe[e]\nable among them, in b day halbe as David:\nand b house of David halbe as God's house\nand as the Angell of the Lo'd before them.", "And in that day will I feeke to deſtroy all\nthe nations that come against Jerusalem.", "10 And I will powre upon the house of Da-\nuid, and vpon the inhabitants of Jeruſalem\nthe Spirit of c grace a of compaſsion, a they\nshall looke vpon me, whom they haue p[ear]-\nced, and they shall lament for s him, as one\nmourneth for his only ſonne, and be for s:\nfor him as one is for s, his first boorne.", "11 In that day shall there be a great moun-\ntering in Jeruſalem, as the b mounthing of\ni Hadadimmon in b valley of Megiddon.", "12 And the k land shall be wailde by every familie\na part, y family of b house of David apart.", "fences against God. i Which was the name of a rotume and place where the God\nwhere Judah was baine, c. Eno. 35, 22. k That is, in all places where the J[ehu]s shall reigne. 1 Signifying that this is the name of God.\nb. Signifying that this is the name of the God of Israel.\nc. Signifying that this is the name of the God of Israel.\nd. Signifying that the name of the God of Israel is the same as the name of the God of Israel.\ne. Signifying that the name of the God of Israel is the same as the name of the God of Israel.\nf. Signifying that the name of the God of Israel is the same as the name of the God of Israel.\ng. Signifying that the name of the God of Israel is the same as the name of the God of Israel.\nh. Signifying that the name of the God of Israel is the same as the name of the God of Israel.\ni. Signifying that the name of the God of Israel is the same as the name of the God of Israel.\nj. Signifying that the name of the God of Israel is the same as the name of the God of Israel.\nk. 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["The fountaine opened.", "Chap.xiiij.xliij.", "Waters of life.", "1 Calles also suncent.\n2 To wit, which were after grace, and preferred from the common delectations on.", "3 He that would have the fruit of the ir reventance to wit, transition of finne, and the blood of Chuut, which halbe a countie, and the fountaine, and purge the en from alumn cleanes.", "4 The points that God will allo purge them from all sinne, and that there relligion, halbe pure.\n5 Meaning, the like Diophanters, & seamen, who are the corporters of the sea, who the pionet there calles from alumn cleanes.", "6 The points, who the shall prophecie lies, and make God under the name of the Lord.", "7 The tourb of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n8 The ewest what the seldp shall bay under the name of Chuut.", "9 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n10 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n11 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.", "12 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n13 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n14 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.", "15 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n16 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n17 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.", "18 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n19 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n20 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.", "21 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n22 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n23 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.", "1 The eruery the gild as gainst the great tentatisms, that they were before then purg'd.", "2 For I will gather all nations against Je-\ntusalem to battel, and the city halbe taken,\nand the houses popled, and the women de-\nfiled, and halfe of the citie shall go into cap-\ntuitie, and the residue of the people that not\nbe cut of from the citie.", "Know that thep were warned of them afore.", "and their wines apart; the family of þ house of Nathan apart, and their wines apart:", "13 The family of the house of Leut apart, and their wines apart: the family of þ Shemeint apart, and their wines apart:", "14 All the families that remaine, every fa-\nmily apart, and their wines apart.", "CHAP. XIIIL.", "1 Of the fountaine of grace. 2 Of the cleane rudiance of Idaurie.\n3 The seate of the godip against false prophets.", "1 In that day there a shall be a fountaine o'-pened to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jeruſalem, to ſiue and for uncleannes.", "2 And in that day, ſayth the Lord of hoffes, I will cut of the names of the idoles out of the lande: a they hal no more be remedied: and I will cause the c prophets, and the b cleane spirit to depart out of the land.", "3 And when any þall yet d prophecie, his fa-\nther a his mother that begate him, shall ſay\nunto him, Chou that not line: for þoth hea-\nkeſt lies in the Name of the Lord: and his\nfather a his mother that begate him, e shall\nthust him through, when he p[ro]phectieth.", "4 And in that day the p[ro]phets e be a-\nshamed every one of his vſion, when hee\nhath p[ro]phected: neither shall they weave a\ntough garment to deceyue.", "5 But he shall ſay, I am no e p[ro]phet; I am an husband man: for I manntaught me to bee an heardman from my pouſt vyb.", "6 And one hal ſay unto him, i hat that are theſe b woudes in thine hands? Then he shall anſwere, Thus was I wounded in þ house of my friends.", "7 A C rile, O zwoode, upon my i shepheard, and upon the man, that is my ſellowe, ſayth the Lord of hoffes: unite the p[ro]heard, and the heepe hal be scattered: and I will turne mine hande upon the little ones.", "8 And in all the land, ſayth the Lord, k two\npartes therein hal be cut of, and die: but the\nthird hal be left therein.", "9 And I will bring that third part thotowe the fire, and will fine them as the filuer is fined, and will trie them as golde is tried: they shall cal on my Ame, and I will heare them: I will ſay, It is my people, and they shall ſay, The Lord is my God.", "10 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n11 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n12 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n13 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n14 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n15 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n16 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n17 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n18 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n19 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n20 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n21 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n22 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n23 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n24 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n25 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n26 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n27 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n28 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n29 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n30 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n31 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n32 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n33 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n34 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n35 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n36 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n37 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n38 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n39 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n40 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n41 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n42 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n43 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n44 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n45 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n46 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n47 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n48 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n49 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n50 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n51 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n52 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n53 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n54 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n55 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n56 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n57 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n58 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n59 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n60 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n61 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n62 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n63 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n64 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n65 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n66 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n67 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n68 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n69 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n70 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n71 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n72 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n73 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n74 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n75 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n76 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n77 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n78 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n79 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n80 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n81 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n82 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n83 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n84 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n85 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n86 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n87 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n88 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n89 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n90 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n91 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n92 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n93 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n94 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n95 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n96 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n97 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n98 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n99 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n100 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n101 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n102 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n103 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n104 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n105 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n106 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n107 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n108 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n109 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n110 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n111 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n112 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n113 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n114 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n115 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n116 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n117 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n118 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n119 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n120 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n121 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n122 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n123 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n124 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n125 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n126 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n127 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n128 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n129 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n130 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n131 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n132 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n133 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n134 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n135 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n136 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n137 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n138 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n139 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n140 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n141 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n142 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n143 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n144 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n145 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n146 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n147 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n148 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n149 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n150 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n151 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n152 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n153 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n154 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n155 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n156 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n157 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n158 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n159 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n160 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n161 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n162 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n163 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n164 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n165 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n166 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n167 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n168 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n169 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n170 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n171 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n172 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n173 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n174 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n175 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n176 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n177 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n178 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n179 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n180 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n181 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n182 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n183 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n184 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n185 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n186 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n187 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n188 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n189 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n190 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n191 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n192 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n193 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n194 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n195 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n196 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n197 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n198 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n199 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n200 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n201 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n202 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n203 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n204 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n205 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n206 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n207 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n208 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n209 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n210 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n211 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n212 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n213 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n214 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n215 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n216 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n217 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n218 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n219 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n220 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n221 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n222 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n223 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n224 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n225 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n226 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n227 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n228 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n229 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n230 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n231 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n232 The bay of Chuut, a close thereunto.\n233 The bay of Chuut, a close 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["The Sinnes of the Priests,", "Malachi.", "and of the people.", "9 As the ex-\negyptians,\nwhich were\ngreater than\nus to true\nreligion, he\nmeant all\nthe Gentiles.", "Malachi.", "THE ARGUMENT.", "This Prophet was one of the three, which God rafped vp for the comfort of his Church after the capitulation, and after him there was no more vill John Baptist was sent, which was either a token of God's wrath, or an adionition that they should with more ferent defires looke for the comming of Melliham. He confirmeth the fame doctine, that the two former do, but chiefly he reproeth the Priests for their courteouſes, and for that they ferued God after their owne ſantſties, and not according to the preſcript of his word. He alſo noteth certaine peculiar finnes, which were then among them, as carrying of Idolatrous and many wiles, murmurings against God, impaciencie, and ſuch like. Notwithſtanding, for the comfort of the godly, he declareth that God would not forſer his promises made vnto their fathers, but would ſend Chriſt his meſſenger, in whom the cotenant should be accomplished, whose comming thouſe be ter- tible to the wicked, and bring all conſolation and joy vnto the godly.", "CHAP. I.", "A complaint against Jael and chiefest the Priests.", "a Head Jsa.\n2:14.", "He = burden of Æ world\nof the Lord to Israel\nby the minitference of\nMalachi.", "I haue loued you,\nſayeth the Lord : yet\npey ſay, b Wherein haliſ\nthou loued vs? was\nnot Efau Jaakobs brother, ſaith the Lord?\nyet I loued Jaakob,", "And I 'hated Efau, and made his moun-\ntaines wafe, and his heritage a wilderness\nfor dragons.", "Though Edom ſay, We are impoureſhed,\nbut we will returne and build the desolate\nplaces, yet ſayeth the Lord of hoffes, they\nthall builde, but I will deſtroy it, and they\nthall call them, The border of wickednes,\nand the people, with whom the Lord is\nangie for euer.", "And your eyes shall see it, and ye ſhal ſay,\nThe Lord will be magnified vpon the bor-\nder of Israel.", "A ſonne honoureth his father, and a ſer-\nuaſt his maſter. If the I be a father, where\nis mine honoure? a if I be a maſter, where is\nmy ſeaſe, ſaith the Lord of hoffes vnto you,\nd Priests, that deſpue my Name? a ye ſay,\ne wherein hane we deſpised thy Name?", "He offer = unclean hedeade vpon mine al-\ntar, and you ſay, wherein hane we pollu-\nted thee? In that yee ſaye the table of the\nLord is not to be regarded.", "And if ye offer the blinde for ſacrifice, it\nis h not euill: and if ye offer theAME and", "b Which de-\nClare their\ngreat mara-\ntrube that diu-\nnot acknow\nledge this loue\nwhich was for\nuendent: in\nthat the chofe\n20 Mahan is 20\nout of all the\nworld, 4 here\nchof: Jaakob\nthe pouuer\nbrother of\nwho n the\nname, and left\nClau the 3d.\nc For beſides\nthat the ſignes\nof mine hatre\nappear d es\nuen when he\nwas made\nferu but\nhis pouuer\nbrother, being\npet in his mas-\nthers bett.\nand also after.\nward in that\nhe was put\nfrom his birthe\nright, per euem\nnau before\nyour eyes the\nſignes hereof\nare euem: in\nthat that the\ncountrie leth\nwaſt, he shall\nneuer tetrine\nto enhabite it,\nwhere: a ye\nup people\nwhom the eme-\nnue hared\nmore þe em\nare þe in\ngrace a loue to\nward you des-\nchered, read\nMora 12.", "d. Deſuen the\nreſt of the\npeople he\nconſuryeth\nthe miffe, because the\npriests chieſh, because the\noffices chieſh, because the\nobſtacuſes against God, and\nnot haue hardeneſt them by their\nexample to greater euile,\ne if noteth their groſſ hypercitrile, which would not fee their ſaſtles, but moſt impuſ\nbeneath covered them, and to be blinde quideſ.", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "ſicke, it is not euill : offer it not vnto thy\nprinee: will he be content with thee, or ac-\ncept thy person, ſayth the Lord of hoffes?", "And now, I play you, 1 play before God,\nthat he may haue mercie vpon vs: this hath\nbene by your means: will you regard k your\nperſons, ſayth the Lord of hoffes?", "10 who is there euen among you, 1 that\nwould but the doores ? and kindle not fire\non mine altar in mine, I haue no pleasure\nin you, ſayth the Lord of hoffes, neither will\nI accept an offering at your hand.", "11 From the riling of the ſunne vnto the\ngoing downe of the ſame, my Name is\nm great among the Gentiles, and in euery\nplace incense halbe offered vnto my Name,\nand a pure offering : for my Name is great\namong the heathen, ſayeth the Loide of\nhoffes.", "12 But ye haue polluted it, in that ye ſay, The\ntable of the Loide is n polluted, and the\npeople, because\nfrute thereof, euen his meate is not to bee\nregarded.", "13 He laid also, Beholde, it is a worteneſſe,\nand ye haue huffed at it, ſayth the Lord of\nhoffes, and ye offered that which was tome,\nand the lame, and the ſicke : thys he offered\nan offering : hould you I accept this of your\nhand, faith the Lord?", "14. But curſed be the decepuer, which hath\nin his klocke = a male, and boweth, and fa-\ncreſceth vnto the Loide a corrupt thing;\nfo: I am a great King, ſayeth the Loide of\nhoffes, and my Name is terrible among the\nheathen.", "which thonth he under the Cofpe, when an end should he made to all the ſege of\nmenues by = chiltes vnto the fire. a Both the piche and the people were uncurſed\nthis error, that they pado not what was offered : fo their thought that God would\nwell content with the teame as with the fat: but in the meane time that they\nobedience to God, which he required, and to committed both sinne, which he deſtroyed\ntheir contempt of God, and courteouſes. o The Priests and people were before the fire\nwithفرing God, and pado not what man of fire or of firecraft and fire then came to\nfor that which was least profitable, was thought god enough for the Lord. That is,\nthat which was least profitable, was thought god enough for the Lord. That is

["The Priests charge.", "Chap.ij.ij.", "John and Chrift.", "376", "A", "Ad now, O ye Priektes, this com-\nmandement is for you.", "If ye will not heare it, nor consider it\nin your heart, to giue glorie b unto mp\nName, layth the Lord of hoftes, I will euen\nsend a curte vpon you, and will curte your\ncbleffings: yea, I have curfed them alrea-\ndie, because yee do not consider it in your\nheart.", "Beholde, I will co|ruct d your feede, and\ncast dague vpon your faces, euen the\ndongue of your solemne keafes, and you\nshalbe like vnto it.", "And ye shall know, that I have sent this\ncommandement vnto you, that my con-\nnant, which I made with Leu, might\nstand, layth the Lord of hoftes.", "My p[riektes] was with him of like and\npeace, and I gaue him keare, and he keare\nme, and was a[rap]de before my Name.", "The law of k trueth was in his mouth, a\nthere was no iniquitie found in his lippes:\nhe walked with mee in peace and equitie,\nand did turne many away from iniquitie.", "For the Priekts lippes should p[ri]ferue\nknouledge, and they should keeke the Law\nat his mouth: for he is the m messenger of the\nLord of hoftes.", "But ye are gone out of the way: ye haue\ncaused man to fall by the Lawe: ye haue\nbroken the couenant of Leu, layth the Lord\nof hoftes.", "Therefore haue I also made you to be de-\nspited, and bile before all the people, because\nye kept not my wapes, but haue bene par-\ntially in the Law.", "Hae wee not all one father? hath not\none God made us? why do we transgreffe\nevery one agaynt his brother, and b[ea]ke\nthe couenant of our fathers?", "Judah hath transgreffed, and an abomi-\nnation is committed in Israel and in Je-\nrusale[m]: for Judah hath defiled the holines\nof the Lord, which he loued, and hath mar-\ntred the daughter of a strange god.", "The Lord will cut off the man that doeth\nthis: both the master and the servant out of\nthe Tabernacle of Jaakob, a him that of-\nkeeth an offring vnto the Lord of hoftes.", "And this haue ye done againe, and con-\nred the altar of the Lord with teares, with\nweeping and with mourning: because the\noffring is no more regarded, neither recep-\nued acceptably at your hands.", "Yet ye say, w[herein] ? Because the Lord\nhath bene witneſſe betweene thee and the\nwife of thy youth, agaynt whom thou haſt\ntransgreſſed: yet is the thy companion,\nthe wife of thy u couenant.", "And did not x hee make one? yet had hee", "y abundance of spirit: and wherefore one\nbecause he sought a godly feede: therefore\nkeepe your ſelues in your spirit, a let none\ntrepace agaynt the wife of his youth.", "If thou hatest her, b put her away, layth\nthe Lord God of Israel, yet he couereth\nthe iniurie under his garment, layth the\nLord of hoftes: therefore keepe your ſelues\nin your spirit, and tranſgreſſe not.", "He haue d weared the Loide with your\nwords: yet ye say, wherein haue we wea-\ntred him? when ye say, euery one that doth\neuill, is good in the ſight of the Lord, and he\ndeliteth in them. O where is the God of\njudgement?", "Thou, which is the leſſe, e thinketh it insufficient to keepe his wife diſ, altho he take\nother, and to do it were correſtly his fault, d he marke a against God, because he\nheard not pot as foone as pee called, e In thinking that God fauoured the\nwinke, and hath no reſpect to them that ferne him, f Thus thy faith be blanched.\nIn concomming his power and inſtice, because he audged not according to ſpry faſſes.", "CHAP. III.", "1 The meſsenger of the Lord John 23 ap[pe]liſt, and of Jaakob's office.", "B eholde, I wil send my m[ess]enger, and\nhe shall prepare the way before me; and\nthe b Loide whome ye keeke, chal spec-\ndiely come to his Temple: euen the c messen-\nger of the couenant whom ye deſire: behold,\nhe shall come, layth the Lord of hoftes.", "But who d may abide the day of his com-\nming? and who shall endure, when he ap-\npeareth? for he is like a purging fire, and\nlike fullers ſope.", "And he shall ſit downe to trie and fine the\nſiluer: he shall euen fine the ſonnes of e Leu-\ni, and purifie them as gold and filuer, that\nthey may bring offrings vnto the Lord in\nrighteouſes.", "Then shall the offrings of Judah and Je-\nrusalem be acceptable vnto the Lord, as in\nold time and in the peeres afore.", "And I will come nere to you to iudgemet,\nand I will be a Swiſt witnes agaynt the\nfootflayers, and against the adulterers, e\nagainst falſe Swearers, and against that\none that wongfully keepe bak[e] the hirelings\nwages, and vexe the widow, f the father-\nles, and oppreſſe the ſtranger, and keare not\nme, layth the Lord of hoftes.", "For I am the Loide: I change not, and\npe ſonnes of Jaakob e are not conſumed.", "From the dayes of your fathers, ye are\ngone away from mine ordinances, e haue\nnot kept them: s returne vnto me, e I will\nreturne vnto you, layth the Lord of hoftes:\nbut ye ſay, wherein shall wee returne?", "Will a h man p[er]poye his gods? yet ye ha[ve]\nspoyled mee: but ye ſay, wherein haue we\nspoyled thee? In tithes, and offrings.", "He are curſed with a curſe: for yee haue\nspoyled me, euen this whole nation.", "Bung ye all the tythes into the stooſhouse\nthat there may be meat in mine Houſe, and\np[ious] me now here with, layth the Lord of\nhoftes, if I will not open the windowes of\nhauen vnto you, a powe you out a biſelling", "gods of their honour, o deale deſtfully with them, i Whereby the first\nnice of God should haue bene maſtered, and the P[riektes], and the P[ri]gges to\nliuſed.", "k without", "1 he ſpeake th[ey] to eu[n]t c[urte]s, h[is] b[eh]ind the\nconuenient the people al[so].", "2 he ſeurene according to his will.", "3 C[ha]tis, is the aduance of\nGod bene-", "4 pour boast of your pal[ities],\nacricines, and feaſt.", "5 but he layth vnto your\nhame, and be so uſt as doth\np[ri]the[ts]", "6 The Priekts obserued as\nsauiſt the p[ri]ſet that he\nconuenient p[ri]ſent them,\nbut he mutt speake agaynt\nGod and his ſonne before the\noffice reſilibited of\nGod bo[sp] p[ri]ſut, but he\nbeare not p[ri]ſent that the\noffice is n[am]ing flanſes\ndredd, when the\nconuenient and dague\nare call[ed] by their owne\nnaunces.", "7 The Priekts obserued as\nsauiſt the p[ri]ſet that he\nconuenient p[ri]ſent them,\nbut he mutt speake agaynt\nGod and his ſonne before the\noffice reſilibited of\nGod bo[sp] p[ri]ſut, but he\nbeare not p[ri]ſent that the\noffice is n[am]ing flanſes\ndredd, when the\nconuenient and dague\nare call[ed] by their owne\nnaunces.", "8 The p[ri]ſet w[or]k were: t[he] two conſitu-\nents of the cos[司]m, and the\ntribe with the trive\nof Leu, or\nGod p[er]sade,\nthat he would\nget her ſonne\nlong life and\nfancie, and\nan on their part,\nthat he would", "9 he would faith-\nfully ſauiſt him\naccompanying\nto his word.", "10 A p[ri]ſet\nbe]d Leu a cer-\ncer a lawe to ſene uſe.", "11 he ſeurene p[ri]ſut with all\nhummel and ſuſpicion.", "12 k he ſeeth w[he]th\nthat p[ri]ſet ought to haue\nhounds to m[il]l the\nword of the\nL[o]d.", "13 I he as the\nconuenient vnto the\nword of God\nand ought to\ngive to euer according\nto their ſeruice,\nand nat to\ntruthe it for\nhunſiſe.", "14 The p[ri]ſet, that w[he]th\ncure both not blare God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "15 A p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "16 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "17 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "18 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "19 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "20 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "21 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "22 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "23 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "24 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "25 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "26 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "27 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "28 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "29 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "30 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "31 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "32 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "33 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", "34 The p[ri]ſet accueth the\nconuenient, because that God\nwill, is not p[ri]ſut\nin his ſonne.", {"bbox": [89, 809, 165, 832], "category": "Footnote", "text

Apocrypha.

1. Eſdras.

Chap.ij.

27 I am not sent of the Lord God against thee; but my warre is upon Euphates, and nowe the Lord is with me, and the Lord halleth me forward: depart from me, and be not a-gainst the Lord.

28 But Jolias would not turne back his chariot from him, but prepared him selfe to fight with him, not regarding the words of Jeremias the Prophet by the mouth of the Lord.

29 But he let himself in battel aray against him in the field of Megeddo, & the Princes came downe to King Jolias.

30 And the King said to his ſeruants, Conuey me out of the battell, for I am very weake. And by and by his ſeruants brought him out of the battell.

31 So he gate vp on his ſecond chariot, being come againe to Jeruſalem he chaged his life, and was buried in his fathers graue.

32 And in al Judea was Jolias bewraped, p[er]a, Jeremias the Prophet did lamet for Jolias, and the gouernours and their winues did la-ment him vnto this day: and this was ordei-ned in all the kinded of Israel, to be done co-tinnually.

33 But these things are written in the booke of the Storics of the Kings of Judea, and every one of the actes that Jolias did, & his glozie, & his knowledge in the Lawe of the Loode, and the things which he did before, & the things nowe rehearsed are regitred in the booke of the Kings of Israel and Judea.

2.King.27.

30, & chro.

36,t.

34 Then thep of the nation tooke * Joachaz the ſonne of Jolias, and made him King in ſteade of his father Jolias, when he was three and twenty yeere olde.

35 And he reigned in Judea and in Jeruſalem three moneths: for the King of Egypt depo-ted him from reixning in Jeruſalem.

36 He tared also the people of an hundreth ta-lents of filuer, and one talent of gold.

37 And the King of Egypt made Joacim his brother King of Judea and Jeruſalem.

38 And he bound Joachaz with his gouernours: but when he had taken Zaraaces his brother, he led him away into Egypt.

39 Twentie and five yeere olde was Joacim, when he reigned in Judea and Jeruſalem, & he did cuill in the light of the Lord.

40 Wherefore against him came vp Aabuchо-donofoz king of Babylon, who when hee had bound him with a chaine of bzalle, lead him a-wayc into Babylon.

41 Then Aabuchodonofoz tooke of the holy beſels of the Lord, and caried them away, & let them in his temple at Babylon.

42 But al his actes, and his p[ro]phananation, and his rep[ro]che are written in the booke of the Chzoniels of the kings.

43 And Joacim his ſonne reigned for him: and when he was made king, hee was eighteene yeere olde.

44 And he reigned three moneths & ten daies in Jeruſalem, and he did cuill in the light of the Lord.

45 Csoa p[ere] after Aabuchodonofoz sent for

brought him to Babylon with the holy beſels of the Lord.

46 And he made Sedccias King of Judea and Jeruſalem, when he was one and twëtie yeere olde, and he reigned eleven peres.

47 And he did cuill in the light of the Loode, neither did he keare the words spoken *by Jeremias the Prophet from the mouth of the Lord.

48 For after that he was twozne to King Aa-buchodonofoz, hee forſware him ſelbe by the Name of the Lord and fell away, and hardene[d] his necke and his heart, and transſtrefled the Lawes of the Lord God of Israel.

49 Also the gouernours of the people, and the Priets committed many things against the Lawes, and pasſed all the pollutions of al na-tions, and polluted the Temple of the Loode, which was ſanctified in Jeruſalem.

50 Acuertheles the God of their fathers ſent his meſtenger to call them backe, because hee ſpared them and his olde Tabernacle.

51 But they derided his meſtengers, and in the day, that the Lord spake vnto them, they moe-ked his p[ro]phets.

52 So that he, being moued to anger against his people for their great wickednes, com-maunded the Kings of the Chaldeans to in-uaue them.

53 These killed their yong men with the twozde round about their holie Temple, neither did they spare yang man, nor maideu, neither olde man, nor childe among them.

54 But he delivered them all into their hands, and all the holy beſels of the Lord, both great and small with the beſels of the Treke of God: and they tooke, and caried away the Kings treasures into Babylon.

55 And they let ſpye in the houſe of the Loode, and dzake downe the walles of Jeruſalem, & burnt their towers with ſpye.

56 They consumed al the precious things thereof, and brought them to nought, & those that were left by the twozde, he caried away into Babylon.

57 And they were ſeruants to him, and to his children till the Persians reigned, to fulſull the word of the Lord by the mouth of * Jeremias,

58 And that the lande might inioy her Sabaths all the time, that it was delſolate, till ſeuente peres were accomplished.

CHAP. IL

1 *Cyrus gane leane to the Jewes to reurne. 10 He ſent the holie breith.

12 The names of them that returned. 16 Their aduanciers with their brepibding, and the Kings letters for the lande.

1 In *the first p[ere] of the reigne of C[yrus] King of the Persians, to fulfil the woode of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias.

2 The Lord raiſed vp the ſpirit of C[yrus] king of the Persians, and hee made p[ro]clamation throughout al his kingdome, euen by expeſelle letters,

3 Saping, Thus faith C[yrus] king of P[er]sians. The Lord of Israel, euen the moſt high Lord, hath made me king ouer P[er] whole world, And he hath commaunded me to buyl[]d him an houſe

Apocrypha.

Chap. iij.

an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.

If there be any therof of you of his people,
let the Lord, euen his Lord be with him, and,
let him go vp to Jerusalem, which is in Ju-
dea, and buylde the House of the Lord of Is-
rael: he is the Lord which dwelleth in Jeru-
salem.

6. All they then that dwell in the places round about, that he say, that are in his place, let them helpel him with golde and iluer,

7. With giftes, with horles and cattell, and o-
ther things, which halbe brought, according
to the bowes, into the Temple of the Loode,
which is in Jerusalem.

8. Then arose the chiefe of the families of
Judea, and of the tribe of Benjamin, and the
Ducleus and Leuites, and all whole minde the
Lord had moued to go vp, and buylde an House
to the Lord in Jerusalem.

9. And those that were about them, helped the
in all things with filuer and golde, horles, and
cattell, and with diuers bowes of many whole
minders were stirred vp.

10. Also King Cyprius brought out the holy beffels of the Lord, which hebuchodonosor had carped out of Jerusalem, and had consecrated them in the Temple of his idoles.

11. Nowe when Cyprius King of the Persians
had brought them out, he delivered them to
Mithridates his treasurer,

or, Shafthor,
betor or
Sanabbar.

12. By whom they were given to Abassar the
governour of Judea.

13. Whereof this was the number: a thousand
golden cuppes, and a thousand iluer cuppes,
basins of filuer for the sacrifices, nine & twen-
tie violes, of golde thirtie, and of iluer two
thousand, foure hysdeth and ten, and a thou-
land other beffels.

14. So all the beffels of golde and iluer, which
they caried away, were fucd thousand, foure
hundreth, three score and nine.

15. They were brought by Sanabassar with
them of the captivitie of Babylö to Jerusalem.

Erz. &c.
*Or, Bif-
chemius.

16. But * in the time of Artaxerres King of
the Persians "Selemus, and Mithridates,"
Tabellius, and Bathumus, & Breitcethmus,
and " Semellius the secretarie, and others
which were ioyned to these, dwelling in Sa-
maria in other places, wrote unto him this
epistle here following against the, that dwelt
in Judea and Jerusalem, TO THE KING
ARTAXERXES OVR LORD,

*Or, Shim-
ſhi.

17. Thy ſeruantes, Bathumus, the writer of
things that come to paſſe, and Semellius
the ſecretarie, and the rest of their counſell,
and the iudges which are in Coelophyria and
Phenice.

18. Be it now therefore knowne to our lord the
King, that the Jewes which came vp from
you, are come to be into Jerusalem, that re-
bellious & wicked citie, and buylde the mar-
ket places, and make vp the walles thereof, &
lay the foundations of the Temple.

19. Therefoze if this citie bee buylt, and the
walles be finished, they will not onely not in-
dure to pay tribute, but will also reſtift Kings,

20. And because the things, pertaining to the
Temple, go forward, we thought it not meete
to paſſe ouer ſuch a thing.

21. But to declare it to our lord the King, that if
it be thy pleasure, it may be sought out in the
bookes of thy fathers,

22. And thou shalt finde in the Chronicles the
writings concerning these things, and shall
knowe that this citie did always rebell, and
did trouble both Kings and cities,

23. And that the Jewes are rebellious, rayſing
always warres therein: for the which cause
also this citie was made desolate.

24. Now therefore, O lord the King, we declare
it, that if this citie bee buylt and the walles
thereof repared, you shall haue no more paſ-
fage into Coelophyria, nor Phenice.

25. Then the King wrote againe to Bathu-
mus, that wrote the things that came to
paſſe, and to Breitcethmus, and to Samellius
the ſecretarie, and to the rest of those that were
ioyned with them, & to the dwellers of Sa-
maria, Spria and Phenice, these things that
followe.

26. I haue read the epistle, which ye sent to me:
therefore I commaunded, that it should bee
sought out, and it was founde, that this citie
hath always practicet against kings,

27. And that the men thereof were given to re-
bellion and warres, and howe that mightie
Kings and flicre haue reign'd in Jerusalem,
which tooke tribute of Coelophyria, and Phe-
nice.

28. Now therefore I haue commaunded to for-
bid these men to buylp up the citie, and that it
be taken heede that no more be done,

29. And that those wicked things, which should
molest the King, go not forward.

30. Then when Bathumus, & Semellius the
ſecretarie, & the rest, which were ioyned with
them, had read the things, which King Art-
taxerxes had written, they moued their tents
with speede to Jerusalem with horles and
men in arap,

31. And began to let them which buylt, so that
the buyplding of the Temple in Jerusalem
ceased unto the second peere of the reigne of
Darius King of the Persians.

CHAP. III.

1 The kraft of Darius. 16 The three wks ſentencrs.

N
ow when Darius reign'd, hee made a
great kraft to all his ſubicetes and to all
those of his owne house, and to all the
Princes of Media and Persia,

And to all the governours and captaines,
and lieutenants that were with him, from
India vnto Ethiopia of an hundred and ſe-
uen and twentie provinces.

And when they had eaten and drunke, and
were ſatified, they departed, and King Da-
lius went into his chamber, and slept, till he
wakened againe.

C In the meane time three pong men of the
garde, keepers of the Kings body, layd one to
another,

Let euery one of vs speake a ſentenc e, and he
A, ii., that

Apocrypha.

1. Eldras.

Chap.iiiij.

that shall overcome, and whose sentence shall
appear wiser than the others, Darius the
King shall give him great gifts, and great
things in token of victorie,

6 As to weare purple, and to drinke in golde,
and to sleepe in golde, a chariot with bridles
of gold, and head type of fine linnen, a chaine
about his necke.

7 And he shall sit next to Darius for his wif-
dome, and shall be called Darius cousin.

8 Then euery man wrote his sentence and sealed
it, a put it under the pillowe of King Darius,

9 And said, when the King rose, they would
give him the writing, and whose sentence the
King and the three Princes of Persia should
judge to be w itself, to him should the victorie
be given, as it was appointed.

10 One wrote, The wine is strongest.

11 The other wrote, The King is strongest.

12 The other wrote, Women are strongest, but
truenh ouercommeth all things.

13 And when the King rose, they tooke the
writings and gave them to him, and he read
them,

14 And sent he called all the noble men of Per-
sia and of Media, and the gouernours the cap-
taines, and lieutenants, and the confuls,

15 And late him downe in the counsell, and the
writing was read before them.

16 Then he said, Call the pong men, that they
may declare their owne sentences. So they
called them, and they came in.

17 Then he laid downe to them, Declare unto vs
the writings. So the first began, which had
spoken of the strength of wine,

18 And faide on this maner, O ye men, howe
strong is wine ! it deceieth all men that
drinke it.

19 It maketh the minde of the King and of the
fatherles both one, of the bonde man and of
the free man, of the pooze man and of the riche
man,

20 It turneth also euerie thought into ioye and
gladnes, so that one remembereth no maner of
sozowe, noz dette.

21 It maketh euerie heart riche, so that one re-
membereth neither King noz governour, and
causeth to speake all things by talents.

22 When men haue drunkne, they haue no mind
to lone either friends or beþethen, and a little
after they drawe out wodes.

23 But when they are from the wine, they do
not remember what they haue done.

24 O ye men, is not wine strongest, which com-
pelth to doe luch things, and hee helde his
peace when he had thus spoken.

*Or, pounds*

CHAP. III.

Of the strength of a King. 13 Of the strength of women. 34 Of the strength of riche, which sentence is appoyed, 47 And his pention granted.

1 Then the second which had spoken of the
strength of the King, began to say,

2 O ye men, are not men strongest, which
beare rule by land and by sea, and ouer all things
which are in them?

3 But the King is yet greater: for he ruleth all
things, and is Lord of them, so that they do all

things which he commaundeth them.

4 If he did them make warre one against an-
other, they doe it: if he send them out against
the enemies, they go and break downe moun-
taines and walles and towers.

5 They kill and are killed, and do not pase the
tonnaundement of the King: if they ouer-
come, they bring all to the King, as well the
tpodies as all other things,

6 And those also which go not to warre and
battell, but till the earth: for when they haue
fowen it againe, they reape it, and bring it to
the King, and compel one another to pay tri-
bute to the King.

7 Yet he is but one man: if he bid, kill, they kill:
if he say, spare, they spare.

8 If he bid, smite, they smite: if he bid them,
make desolate, they make desolate: if he bid,
buyd, they buyd.

9 If he bid, Cut of, they cut of: if he bid, plant,
they plant.

10 So al his people and al his armies obey one
man: in the meane while he littleth downe, he
eateth, and drinketh and sleepeth.

11 For these keepe him round about: neither
can any one go and do his own busines, nel-
ther are they disobedient unto him.

12 O ye men, howe should not the King be stro-
gest, seeing he is thus obeyed! So he helde his
tongue.

13 Then the third which had spoken of wo-
men and of the trueth ( this was Zozobabel )
began to speake,

14 O ye men, neither the mightie King, nor ma-
ny men nor wine is strongest: who then eu-
leeth them or hath dominion over them are
they not women?

15 Women haue bozne the King as all the people
which beare rule by sea and by land.

16 Even of them were they bozne, and they nou-
trished them, which planted the vines, of which
the wine is made.

17 They also make mens garments and make
men honorable, neither can men be without
women.

18 And if they haue gathered together gold and
silver, or any goodly thing, do they not lone a
faire and beautifull woman?

19 Do they not leane all those things and give
them Kelues wholy unto her, and gape, and
gaze upon her, and all men desire her more
than golde, or silver, or any precious thing?

20 A man leaueth his owne father which hath
nourished him, and his owne countrey, and is
loved with his wife.

21 And for the woman he icopardeth his life,
and neither remembereth father nor mother
noz countrey.

22 Therefore by this p. may knowe that the
women beare rule ouer you: Do ye not labour
and traucell, and give and bring all to the wo-
men?

23 Pea, a man taketh his cwozd a goeth footh
to kill and to sfeale, and to sfeale upon the sea,
and upon rivers,

24 And he seeth a lion and goeth in darkenes,
and

Apocrypha.

I. Eſdras.

Chap.v.

61 So he tooke the letters and went out and came to Babylon, and telled all his bethzen.

62 And they bleſſed the God of their fatherts, because he had guen them freedome & libertie

63 To go vp and to buyld Jeruſalem, and the Temple, where his Name is renowned, and they reioyced with instruments of muſicke top, ſeuen daſes.

CHAP. V.

8 The number of them that returne from theaptiutie. 42 Their boones and ſacrifices. 54 The Temple is begun to be diuil. 66 Their enemes would craftup topne with thrym.

Ezra, 2, 1.

After these things, the chiche of the houſes of their fatherts were chosen after their tribes, and their wiuſes, and their ſonnes, and their daughterts, and their ſcruants, and their maides, and their cattell.

2 And Darius ſent with them a thouſande hozlemen, til they were restor'd to Jeruſalem in ſaſetie, and with muſicall instruments, with tabzets and flutes.

3 And all their bethzen plaied: thus they caused them to go vp together with them.

4 And theſe are the names of the men that went vp after their families, by their tribes, and after the order of their dignitie.

5 The Pricſtes. The ſonnes of Phinees, the ſonne of Aaron, Jefus ſonne of Jofred, ſonne of Saraias, Joacim the ſonne of Zozobabel, the ſonne of Salathiel of the house of David, of the kinred of Phares, of the tribe of Juda.
6 Who spake wile words to Darius the king of the Persians in ſecond pere of his reigne, in the moneth Ailan, which is the first moneth.

Or, Zora-
babel.

7 And theſe are they of Judea, which came out of the captiutie, where they dwelt, whom Jabuchodonofor King of Babylon had caſt away into Babylon,

8 And returned into Jeruſalem to the reaſt of Judea, euerp one into his owne citie: which came with Zozobabel, and Jefus, Aechemias, Zacharias, Reekaias, Eneius, Mardochaus, Beelſarus, Alpharatus, Reelius, Koimus and Baana their guides.

Or, Saraias.

9 The number of them of the nation and their governingrs: the ſonnes of Phares two thousand an huidzeth ſeuentie and two, the ſonnes of Saphat foure hundzeth, ſeuentie and two.
10 The ſonnes of Arcs ſeuen hundzeth, ſiſtie and iſr.

Or, Arheb.

11 The ſonnes of Phaath Moab, two thousand, eight hundzeth and twelue.

12 The ſonnes of Elam, a thouſand, two hundred, ſiſtie and foure: the ſonnes of Zathui nine hundred ſourtie and ſiue: the ſonnes of Lozbe ſeuen hundzeth and ſiue: the ſonnes of Bani ſix hundred, ſourtie and eight.

Or, Ribai.
Or, Argad.

13 The ſonnes of Bibe ſix hundred, twentie and thzee: the ſonnes of Sadas thzee thousand, two hundred, twentie and two.

14 The ſonnes of Adonikan, ſix hundred, ſiſtie and ſeuen: the ſonnes of Bagoi, two thousand, ſiſtie and iſr: the ſonnes of Adinu, ſoure hundred, ſiſtie and ſoure.

Or, Ater-
bergia.

15 The ſonnes of Ateriſias, ninctie and two: the ſonnes of Ceilan and Azotus, ſiſtie and

ſeuen: the ſonnes of Azucan foure hundzeth, thirtie and two.

16 The ſonnes of Ananias, an hundredeth and one: the ſonnes of Arom, and the ſonnes of Baſſa, thzee hundredeth, twentie and thzee: the ſonnes of Arithurith, an hundredeth and two. The ſonnes of Aron, and the ſonnes of Bethelomoi, an hundredeth, twentie and thzee.

17 The ſonnes of Meters, thzee thouſand ſiue: the ſonnes of Bethlomoi, an hundredeth, of Dafis, thzee thouſand, and the ſonnes of Bethlem.

18 They of Metophas, ſiſtie and ſiue: they of Inaboth, an hundredeth, ſiſtie and eight: they of Bethſamos, fourtie and two.

19 They of Cariathiarius, twentie and ſiue: they of Caphiras and Beroth, ſeuen hundred, fourtie and thzee: they of Piras, ſeuen hundredeth.

20 They of Chadias and Ammidiot, ſiue hundred, twentie and two: they of Cirama and Gabdes, ſix hundred, twentie and one.

21 They of Macalon, an hundredeth twentie and two: they of Betolins, ſiſtie and two: the ſonnes of Nephis, an hundredeth, ſiſtie and iſr.

22 The ſonnes of Calamolarius and Osius ſeuen hundred, twentie and ſiue: the ſonnes of Jerechus, thzee hundred, fourtie and ſiue.

23 The ſonnes of Ainaas, thzee thouſand, thzee hundred and thirtie.

24 The Prieſts, the ſonnes of Jeddu, the ſonne of Jefus, which are counted among the ſonnes of Sanafib, nine hundred, ſeuentie and two: the ſonnes of Meruth, a thouſand ſiſtie and two.

25 The ſonnes of Phatharon, a thouſand, fourtie and ſeuen: the ſonnes of Carme, a thouſand and ſeuentene.

26 The Leuites. The ſonnes of Jefue. Cadmiel, Bannu and Suin, ſeuentie and foure.

27 The ſonnes which were holſingers. The ſonnes of Alaph, an hundredeth, fourtie and eight.

28 The porters. The ſonnes of Salum, the ſonnes of Jatal, the ſonnes of Tolman, the ſonnes of Dacobi, the ſonnes of Teta, the ſonnes of Sami: al vvere an hundred, thirtie and nine.

29 The minifters of the Temple. The ſonnes of Efau, the ſonnes of Akipha, The ſonnes of Tabaoth, the ſonnes of Ceras, the ſonnes of Sud, the ſonnes of Phaleu, the ſonnes of Labana, the ſonnes of Agraba,

30 The ſonnes of Acrua, the ſonnes of Duta, the ſonnes of Cetab, the ſonnes of Agaba, the ſonnes of Subai, the ſonnes of Anan, the ſonnes of Cathua, the ſonnes of Geddu.

31 The ſonnes of Airus, the ſonnes of Dailan, the ſonnes of Aoeda, the ſonnes of Chateba, the ſonnes of Gazera, the ſonnes of Azias, the ſonnes of Phinees, the ſonnes of Alara, the ſonnes of Baſſhai, the ſonnes of Anſana, the ſonnes of Meani, the ſonnes of Aaphil, the ſonnes of Acub, the ſonnes of Acipha, the ſonnes of Auri, the ſonnes of Pharacim, the ſonnes of Baſaloth.

32 The ſonnes of Aeeda, the ſonnes of Colutha, the ſonnes of Lozea, the ſonnes of Charcus, the ſonnes of Aketar, the ſonnes of Tho moi, the ſonnes of Aalith, the ſonnes of Akipha.

33 The

Apocrypha.

1. Eldras.

Chap.vi.

trumpets, so that they were heard farre of.

66 Wherfore when the enemies of the tribes of Juda and Benjamin heard it, they came to knowe what noyse of trumpets it was,

67 And they knewe that they of the captiuitie built the Temple to the Lord God of Israel.

68 Wherfore they comming to Zorobabel, a Jefus, and the chiefe of the families, said unto them, Let vs build alld with you.

69 For we obey your Lord, as you do, and sacrifice unto him like the dapes of "Abrafareth king of Ællzziang, which brought vs hither.

70 Then Zorobabel, and Jefus, and the chiefe of the families of Israel said to them, It doth not apperteine to vs, and to you to build an house to the Lord our God.

71 For we alone will build it to the Lord God of Israel, as it becommeth vs, and as * Lyzus the king of the Persians bade vs.

Exra 4,3,4

*or, Afsachar, or, Afachadon.

72 Howbeit the people of the lande made them sluggish that were in Judea, and letted them to build the wozke, and by their ambushmëts and seditions & conspiracies hindered the finishing of the building,

73 All the time of king Lyzus life: so that they were lette from the building two yeere, vntill the reigne of Darius.

CHAP. VI.

Of Aggents and Zacharias. 1 The building of the Temple, 3 Silinnes would let them, 7 his Epitile to Darius, 23 The kings answere to the contrary.

Exra 5,1.

neh.1,1.

But * in the seconde peere of the reigne of Darius, Aggents & Zacharias þonne of Addo the Prophets prophecied to the Jewes, euen unto them that were in Judea & Jerufalem, in the name of the Loode God of Israel, which they called * upon.

1 Gre. upon

them.

2 Then Zorobabel sonne of Salathiel, & Jefus the sonne of Josedee stooe vp, and began to build the house of the Lord, which is in Jerufalem, the prophets of the Lord being with them, and helping them.

3 In that time Silinnes the gouvernour of Spria, a Phenice, a Sathrabouzanes with his companions came vnto them,

4 And faide vnto them, By whose commandement build you this house and this building, and enterprize all these other things, and who are the builders that enterprize such things?

5 But the Ancients of þ Jewes had grace of the Lord after that he had visited the captiuitie,

6 That they were not letted to build, vntill it was signified vnto Darius of these matters, and an answere was receinued.

7 The copie of þ Epitile, which he did write and tend to Darius, SISINNES gouvernour of Spria & of Phenice, & Sathrabouzanes, and their companions, prizcidentes in Spria and Phenice, salute king Darius.

8 It may please the king our master plainly to understand, that when we came to þ country of Judea, a centred into the citie of Jerufalem, we found in the citie of Jerufalem Æ Ancients of the Jewes that were of the captiuitie,

9 Building an house to the Loode, great and new, of hewen stones, & of great price, and the timber all readye layd vpon the walles,

10 And these workes are done with great speed, pea, and the wozke hath good luceelle in their hands, so that it will be finished with al glory and diligence.

11 Then we asked their Ancients, laying, By whose commandement build you this house, and lay the foundation of these workes?

12 We asked them these things to the intent to notifie them to thee, and to write to thee the men that governed it: thereforze we demanded the names of the gouvernours in witting,

13 But they answered, laying, We are the fereuats of the Loode, which hath created the heauen and the earth,

14 And * this house was built by many peeres ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.

1 King.8

15 But when our fathers, pzuoking God to wath, sinnd against þ Lord of Israel, which is in heauen, *he deliuered them into the hands of Abuchodonosor, king of Babylon of the Chaldeans,

16 Who brake downe the house and burnt it, & caried the people captiue to Babylon.

17 But in the first peere of the reigne of Lyzus ouer the countr of Babylon, king Lyzus wrote that this house should be built vp.

18 And the holp beffels of golde and of filur, which Abuchodonosor had carried out of the house at Jerufalem, and had dedicated them in his owne temple, Lyzus the king tooke out of the Temple at Babylon, & they were given to Zorobabel, and to "Sanaballarus ruler.

1 or, Highsor.

19 And a commandemèt was giuen vnto him, that he shoulde carry away those beffels, & put them in the Temple at Jerufalem, a that this Temple of the Loode shoulde be built in this place.

20 Then the same Sanaballarus, being come hither, laied the foundations of the house of the Lozd at Jerufalem, a since that time till now, it is in building, and is not finished.

21 Nowe thereforze if it pleace the king, let it be fought vp in the Kings libzaries concerning Lyzus.

22 And if it be founde that the building of the house of the Lozd at Jerufale hath bene done by the content of king Lyzus, and if it seeme good to the Lozd our King, let him make vs answere concerning these things.

23 Then king Darius commanded to searche in the kings libzaries, that were in Babylon, and there was found in Eebatane, which is a tower in the region of Media, a place where such things were layed vp for memorie.

24 In the first peere of the reigne of Lyzus, king Lyzus commanded the house of the Loode at Jerufalem to be builded, where they did sacrifice with the continuall fire.

25 Of the which þ eight should be of threecemoze cubits, the breadth of threecemoze cubites with threec rows of hewen stones, and one row of new wood of that countrie, and that the coles shoulde be payed out of the house of king Lyzus.

26 And that the holp beffels of the House of the

Apocrypha.

I.ESdras.

Chap.viii.

8. For Edias had gotten great knowledge, so that he would let nothing parrle that was in the Lawe of the Lord, and in the commandments, as he taught all Israel all the ordinances and judgements.

9. So he commissioned written by king Artaxerxes was given Edias the Priest and reader of the Law of the Lord: the copy thereof followeth.

10. King Artaxerxes to Edias the Priest, and reader of the Law of the Lord, Salutation.

11. For as much as I consider things with pitie, I haue commanded that they that will and desire of the nation of the Jews, & of the Priests & Levites, which are in our kingdome, should go with thee into Israel.

12. Therefore as many as be willing, let them depart together, as it hath seemed good to the and my seuen friends the counsellors,

13. That they may vifute the things that are in Judea and Jerusalem diligently, as it is confirmed in the Law of the Lord,

14. And earp the gifts to the Lord of Israel in Jerusalem, which I and my friends haue borrowed: also all the gold and silver, &c. which he found in the countrep of Babbló, apperteining to the Lord in Jerusalem,

15. With that which is given of the people to the Temple of the Lord their God, that it might be brought to Jerusalem, and all silver as gold, for bulles, and rams, and lambes, and things thereunto pertaining,

16. That they may offer sacrifices to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord their God, which is in Jerusalem.

17. And whatfoever thou and thy children will do with the gold or silver, accomplish it according to the will of thy God.

18. And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given thee for the use of the Temple of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, thou shall let beозe thy God in Jerusalem.

19. And what other things heuer thou shall remember for the use of the Temple of the Lord, thou shall give it out of the kings treasure.

20. And If a king Artaxerxes haue commanded the treasurers of Syria & Phenice, that whatfoever Edias, the Priest and reader of the Lawe of the highest God, shall tend for, they should give it him with all speed, even to the summe of an hundred talents of silver,

21. And likewise into an hundred cedis of orene, and an hundred pieces of wine and other things in abundance.

22. Let all things be done to the highest God according to the Lawe of God with diligence, that wrath come not upon the kingdome of the king and of his sonnes.

23. Also to you it is commanded, & of none of the Priests or Levites, or holy lingers, or posters or ministers of the Temple, or of the woozemen of this Temple, no tribute nor taxe be taken, nor that any haue power to take them in any thing.

24. Then also, Edias, according to the wisdom of God, or deme judges and governours, that they may judge in all Syria and Phenice all

those which are well instructed in the Lawe of the God, & teach those, which are not instructed.

25. And let all those which shall transgress the Law of God and the king, be diligently punished, either with death, or other punishment, either with penaltie of money, or banishment.

26. Then Edias the scribe, saide, Blessed be the only Lord God of my fathers, which hath put this in the heart of the king to gioue his house which is in Jerusalem,

27. And hath honoured me before the king, and the counsellors, and al his friends, and governing.

28. C. Therfore I was encouraged by his help of the Lord my God, and gathered men of Israel to go vp with me.

29. These are the guides after their families & order of dignities, which came vp with me out of Babbló in the reigne of Artaxerxes & king.

30. Of the sonnes of Phinees, Geron, of the sonnes of Jehamar, Gamael, of the sonnes of David, 

31. Of the sonnes of Sechenias, of the sonnes of Pheres, Zacharias, & with him were counted an hundred and fifty men.

32. Of the sonnes of Salomon, Abeliacnias the sonne of Zacharias, and with him two hundred men.

33. Of the sonnes of Zathoe, Sechenias the sonne of Jezolus, & with him three hundred men: of the sonnes of Adin, & twenty sonne of Jonathan, and with him two hundred and fifty men.

34. Of the sonnes of Elam, 

35. Of the sonnes of Saphatias, Zarias sonne of Michael, and with him feuentie men.

36. Of the sonnes of Joab, 

37. Of the sonnes of David, Abalomith sonne of Josaphias, and with him an hundred and three sonne men.

38. Of the sonnes of Babi, Zacharias sonne of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight men.

39. Of the sonnes of Abath, Johannes sonne of Acatan, and with him an hundred and ten.

40. Of the sonnes of Adonicam the laft and thefe are the names of them, Eliphalat, Jeouel, 

41. C. And I gathered them together to the flood called Theras, and pitched our tents there three daves, and numbed them.

42. But when I had founde there none of the Priests nor Levites,

43. I sent to Eleazar, and beholde, there came 

44. And I bade them to go to Daddeus the captain, which was in the place of the treasury,

45. With charge to bidde Daddens his children, and the treasurers that were there, to send

Apocrypha.

1. Esdras.

Chap. ix.

81 And now, O Lord, what shall we lap, having these things for us we have transgressed thy commandments, which thou hast given by the hands of the servants of the Prophets, saying,

Deut. 7:1. 82 Because the land, which ye go to inherit, is a land polluted by the pollutions of thefrangers of the lande, which have filled it with their filthiness,

83 Therefore now ye shall not toye their daughters with your fonnes, neither give your daughters to their fonnes,

84 Neither shall you desire to have peace with them for ever, that ye may be made strong, and make the good things of the lande, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

85 Therefore it is come to pass, was done for our wicked works, and for our great sinnes: yet, Lord, thou hast forborne our sinnes,

86 And hast given us such a root; but we againe have turned backe to transgress thy law, and to mix vs with the vnkleanneffe of the people of the lande.

87 Hightest thou not be angry with us to desplore us, so thou shouldst neither leave us rootes nor seede nor name?

88 But, O Lord of Israel, thou art true: for there is a root left, even unto this day.

89 Behold, we are now before thee with our iniquities, neither can we endure before thee for these things.

Ezek. 10:1. 90 And as Esdias were prayed and confessed and wept, and laye upon the grounde before the Temple, a very great multitude was gathered unto him out of Jerusalem of men and women, and young children: for there was great lamentation among the multitude.

1 Cor. 1:1. 91 Then Jejomas the sonne of Jeel of the fonnes of Israel, crying out said, Esdias, we have linned against the Lord God: we have taken in marriage strange women of the nations of the land.

92 And now be all Israel doubtful: therefore let us make an other concerning this to the Lord to put away all our wines, which are kraungers, with their children.

93 If it seeme good to thee, and to all them that obey the Law of the Lord, rise vp and put it in execution.

94 For to thee doeth it appear true, and we are with thee to make thee strong.

95 Then Esdias arose, and made all the chiefes of the families of the Priests and Levites of al Israel to weare, that they would do thus: and they were.

CHAP. IX.

9. After Esdias had read the lawes for the strange wines, 10. They promise to put them away.

Ezek. 10:6. 10 Then *Esdias' role from the court of the Temple, and went to the chamber of Joannan the sonne of Eliafig.

2 And being lodged there, he did eat no bread nor dranke water, but mourned for the great iniquities of the multitude.

3 And there was a proclamation in al Judea and Jerusalem, to all them that were of the captiuitie, that they should be gathered to Je-

And that all they which should be not meete there within two or three days, according to the ordinance of the Elders, which bare rule, should have their cattel conficate to the temple, and he cast out from among them of the captiuitie.

Then all they which were of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin, came together within three days into Jerusalem: this was the ninth moneth, and twentieth day of the moneth.

And all the multitude came in the broad plate of the Temple making, because of the extreme winter.

Then Esdias arose and laid to the Lord we have linned: for we have married strange wines, so that we have augmented the sinnes of Israel. Now therefore confelle and glorifi the Lord God of our fathers,

And do his will, and separate yourselues from the people of the land, from the strange wines.

10 Then all the multitude cried out and said with a loud voice, We will do so as thou hast said.

11 But because the multitude is great, and the time is winter, so that we can not stand without, and the winter is not of one day nor of two, seeing that manie of us have linned in this matter,

12 Let the chief men of the multitude, and al they which have strange wines of our families, tare:

13 And let the Priests and Judges come out of all places at the day appointed, till they have appeac'd the will of the Lord against us for this matter.

14 Then Jonathas Askales sonne, and *Ezekias' sonne of Thecan were appointed concerning these things, and Hosollam and Sabdaius did help them.

15 And they which were of the captiuitie, did after all these things.

16 Esdias the Priek albo chose him certaine men, chiefes of their families, all by name and they came together in the first day of the tenth moneth to examine this matter.

17 And they made an end of the things pertaining to them that had married strange wines in the first day of the first moneth.

18 And there were founde of the Priests, which had married strange wines,

19 Of the sonnes of Jeus, the sonne of Israel, and of his children, Mathelas, and Eleazar, and Jozibus, and Jonadan.

20 Who also gave their hands to cast out their wines, and offered a ram for their reconciliation in their purgation.

21 And of the sonnes of Emmer, Ananias, and Zabdeus, and Canes, and Sameius, and Hezekiel, and Azarias.

22 And of the sonnes of Phaitii, Ellionas, Hallias, Elmaelus, and Pathanael, and Dovid, and Talmes, and Jezous, and Jorobas.

23 And of the Levites, *Jozabadus, a Semite, and Colius, who was called Calitas, and Patheus, and Doudas, and Jonas,

24 Of

["Apocrypha.", "Chap. ix.", "7", "24 Of the holy singers, \"Eliazurus, Bacchurus, & Basur, & Salimun.\"", "25 Of the porters,\"Sallumus, and Tolbanes.\"", "26 Of them of Israel, of the sonnes of Phoous, \"Hiermas, et Eddias, et Melchias, et Maclus, et Eleazar, and Alibias, and \"Banaias.\"", "27 Of the sonnes of \"Ela, Matthanias, Zacharias, et Hiericlas, et Hieremoth, and Aedias.\"", "28 And of the sonnes of \"Zamoth, Eliadas, Elinimus, Othonias, Jarimoth, and Sabatus, and Sardus.\"", "29 Of the sonnes of \"Bebai, Joannes, and Anaias, and \"Jofabad, and Ematheas.\"", "30 Of the sonnes of \"Mani, Olamus, Mamuchus, Jedaias, Jabubus, Jafacl, et Jeremoth.\"", "31 And of the sonnes of \"Addi, Maathus, Woorias, Lacrunus, and Paidus, et Mathanias, and Sefchel, and Balnuus, and Manasseas.\"", "32 And of the sonnes of Annas, Elonas, and Aleas, et Melchias, et Sabbeus, and Simon a Chofamite.\"", "33 And of the sonnes of \"Asom, Altancus, and \"Matthias, and Bannaias, Eliphalat, et Manaias, and Scmei.\"", "34 And of the sonnes of \"Maani, Jeremias, Hordis, Dmatrus, Juel, Hamai, et Pachias, and Amos, Carabation and Euafibus, and Hannimatanaius, Eulafis, Tamus, Eliali, Samis, Selemias, Pathanias, and of the sonnes of Ozias, Selis, Ekril, Azailus, Samaaras, Sambis, Joliphus.\"", "", "35 And of the sonnes of Ethna, Mazitias, Zabadias, Ethes, Juel, Banaias.\"", "36 All these married strange wines, et put them away with their children.\"", "37 And the Prieles and the Leuites dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the countrep, the first day of the feenth moneth, and the children of Jetael in their olone houles.\"", "38 C * Then all the multitude assembled together with one consent into the bzoade place before the gate of the Temple toward Ú Ealf, and to the people, kaping, This day is haly to the Lord God of Jetael.\"", "39 And Ipaqe to Efdias the Prieſt, and reader, that he ſhould bring the Law of Hopes, which had bene giuen by the Lord God of Jetael.\"", "40 Then brought Efdias the chieſe Prieſt the law to al the multitude, both man a woman, et to all the Prieſtes, that they might heare the lawe the first day of the ſeenth moneth.\"", "", "41 And he read in the first broad place of the gate of the Temple, from morning to midday, before the men and the women, and al the multitude hearkened to the Law.\"", "42 So Efdias the Prieſt and reader of the law, ſtood upon a pulpet of wood that was piepated.\"", "43 And there ſtood by him \"Matgathias, Sammus, Ananias, Azarias, Durias, Ezzias, thias.\"", "44 And at his left hand \"Phaldaius, and Sail,\" on Pedais Melchias, Aothaſaphus, Nabarias.\"", "45 Then Efdias tooke the booke of the Lawe before the multitude (for he late honourably before them all).\"", "46 And they all ſtoode bpight when hee expounded the Law, and Efdias blessed Ú Lord the most hie GOD, the most mightie God of hostes.\"", "47 And the whole multitude ceryed, Amen.\"", "48 Then Jelus and \"Anus, et Sarabias, and \"or, Bend.\"", "49 And Ananias, Jacobus, Sabataias, Autanias, Maianias and Calitas, Azartas, et Joazabdus, and Ananias, and Biatas the Leuites lift vp their hands, et kel downe on the ground, and worſipped the Lord.\"", "50 And taught the Lawe of the Lord, and ſtood also earneſtely upon the reading.\"", "51 Goe therefore and eate the fat meates, and drinke the wvreete drinkeſ, and send prieſents to them that haue not.\"", "52 For this day is haly to the Lord, and be not ſorie: for the Lord God wil gloriſe you.\"", "53 So the Leuites commanded al these things to the people, kaping, This day is haly to the Lord: be not ſad.\"", "54 Then they departed all to eate, and drinke, and to reioyce, and to giue prieſents to them that had not, and to make good there.\"", "55 For they were pef filled to the words wherewith they were inſtructed, when they were assembled together.\"", "", "## II. Efdras.", "### CHAP. I.", "8 The people are reſonned for their unfaithfullneſſe, 30 God will have Ananias, if they will not be reſonned.\"", "I", "Ezek. 7:1.", "9 He ſecond booke of the Pzophet *Efdias, the ſonne of Saraias, the ſonne of Azarias, the ſonne of Helcias, the ſonne of Sadaniyas, the ſonne of Sadoc, the ſonne of Achitob.\"", "2 The ſonne of Achiſas, the ſonne of Phineſes, the ſonne of Heli, the ſonne of Amerias, the ſonne of Aſſie, the ſonne of Marimoth, Ú ſonne of Arua, Ú ſonne of Oziſas, the ſonne of Bozith, Ú ſonne of Abya, Ú ſonne of Abya, Ú ſonne of Abya, Ú ſonne

Apocrypha.

II. Eſdras.

Chap.ij.

in them, because they have forgotten me, and
have offered unto strange gods.

7 Haue not I brought them out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage; but they have prouoked me into wrath, and despised my counsels.

8 Pul thou of then the heare of thine head, and cast al curv upon them: for they have not bene obeyed unto my Law, but they are a rebellious people.

9 How long shall I forbear them, unto whom I have done so much good?

Exod.14,
28.

10 * Many Kings have I destroyed for their fakes: Pharaoh with his Servants and all his armie haue Smitten downe.

11 All the nations haue I destroyed before them:
* I haue destroyed the East, the people of the
two countries Tyros and Sidon, and haue
flaine all their enemies.

Nomb.21.
24. iohhu.
8.12.

12 Speake thou therefore unto them, saying,
Thus saith the Lord,

Exod.14.
2).
* *fl. ccc.
Exod.3.10
& 4.14.

13 * I haue led you through the sea, and have given you a sure way, since the beginning: *I gaue you Mopses for a guide, and Baron for aDUcK.

Exod.13.
21.

14 * I gaue you light in a piller of fire, & great wonders haue I done among you: yet haue ye forgotten me, saith the Lord.

15 Thus faith in al mightie Lord, The quails
* were a token unto you: I gaue you tentes
for safegarde, wherein ye murmured:

Exod.16.
13. psl.
104.40.

16 And ye triumphed not in my Name for the destruction of your enemies, but ye yet mumble still.

17 Where are the benefits, that I haue done for you, when ye were hungry in the wilderness, did ye not cry unto me?

Numb.
14-3.

18 Saying, Why hast thou brought us into this wilderness to kill us? It had bene better for us to have served the Egyptians, then to die in this wilderness.

19 I had pitie vp to your mournings, & gaue you
Wanna to eat: * so ye did eat Angels foode.

Wif.16.27
Num.20.
11. wif.
11.4.

20 * When ye were thristie, did not I cleane the stone, and waters did flow out to latifſe you from the heate I couered you with the leaues of the trees,

21 And I gaue you fat countries: I cast out the Canaanites, the PhereUTES, and Philistins before you. * What shall I do more for you, faith the Lord?

Isa.5.4.

22 Thus faith the al mightie Lord, * when ye
were in the wilderness at the bitter waters,
being a thrist, and blaspheming my Name,

Exod.15.
23.

23 I gaue you not fire for the blasphemies, but cast a tree into the water, and made the river sweete.

24 What shall I do unto thee, O Jacob, thou
*Juda Wouldst not obey: I will turne me to
other nations, and unto those will I give my
Name, that they may keepe my Lawes.

Exod.3;2.8

25 Seeing ye have forfaken me, I will also forſake you : when yeake mercie of me, I will not have pitie upon you.

26 * When ye cal upon me, I will not heare you:
for ye have defiled your hands with blood,

Isa.1.15.

and your feete are swift to commit murther,

27 Although ye have not forfaken me, but your
owne selues, faith the Lord.

28 Thus faith the al mightie Lord. Haue I not
prayed you, as a father his sonnes, and as a
mother her daughters, and as a nurse her
young babes,

29 That ye would be my people, as I am your God, and that ye would be my children, as I am your father.

30 * I gathered you together as an hêne gathe-
reth her chickens under her wings: but nowe
what shall I do vnto you? I will cast you out
from my light.

31 * When you bring giftes vnto me, I will turne my face from you: for your soleme naft dapes, pour new moones, and pour circumjurations haue I forfaken.

32 I sent vnto you my ſeruants the Prophets, whom ye haue taken and flaine, and toize their bodies in pieces, whole blood I will reuenge, faith the Lord.

33 Thus faith the al mightie Lord, your house
haibe defolate: I will cast you out as the wind
doeth the stubble.

34 Pour children shall not have generation: for
they have despised my commandement, and
done the thing, that I hate, before me.

35 Pour houſes will I give vnto a people to
come, who shall beleeue me though they beare
me not, and thep, vnto whom I neuer thewed
miracle, shall do the things that I commande
them.

36 Though they see no Prophets, yet shall they
hate their iniquities.

37 C I will declare the grace that I will do for
the people to come, whose children reioy in
gladneſſe, and though they haue not keene me
with bodily eyes, yet in heart they beleeue the
things that I lay.

38 Now therefore brother, behold what great
glorie, and kee the people that come from the
East.

39 Unto whom I will give for leaders, Abihaß,
Isaac, Jacob, Oeas, Amos, Micheas, Joel,
Abdias, Jonas,

40 Naum, Habacue, Sophonias, Aggeus, Za-
charias, and Malachias (which is called alio
the *messenger of the Lord.)

Mehl.
3.1.

CHAP. II.

The Knptnagogue findeth fault with her owne chyldren. 18 The Genitules are called.

1 Thus faith the Lord, I brought this people out of bondage: I gaue them also my commandements by my ſeruantes the Propheters, whom they Woule not heare, but despised my counsels.

The mother that bare the, faith vnto them,
So you away, O children: for I am a widd
dowe and forſaken.

I brought you vp with gladnes, but with
forowd and heavines haue I lost you: for ye
have finned against the Lord your God, and
done the thing that displeaseth him.

But what shall I now do vnto you? I am a
widdowe

Apocrypha.

Chap.ij.

8

widdowe and forfaken: go ye, O my children, andake mercie of the Lord.

5 And thee, O Father, I call for a witness for the mother of these children, which would not keepe my covenant,

6 That thou bring them to confusion, & their mother to a popule, that their kinred be not continued.

7 Let their names be scattered among the heathen: let them be put out of the earth, for they haue despiled my covenant.

8 Do unto thee, Altrur: for thou hidest the vnrighteous in thee: O wicked people, remember *what I did unto Sodom and Gomorrah,

9 Whose land is mixed with clouds of pitch & heapes of albes: so will I do unto them, that heare me not, faith the almightie Lord.

10 CThis saith the Lord unto Esdias: Tell my people, that I will give them the kingdome of Jerusalem, which I would have given unto Israel.

11 And I will get me glory by them, and give them the cuerlaking tabernacles, which I had prepared for thoe.

12 They shall haue at will the tree of life, sinfulling of ointment: they shall neither labour noth be wearie.

13 Go ye, and ye shall receive it: play that the time, which is long, may be shortened: the kingdom is alreadie prepared for you: watche.

14 Take heauen & earth to witnesses: for I haue abolished the civil, and elevated the good: for I live, faith the Lord.

15 Mother, embrace thy children, & bring them up with gladnesse: make their feet as fast as a piller: for I haue chosen thee, faith the Lord.

16 And those that be dead, will I raise up from their places, and bring the out of the graues: for I have knownen my name in Israel.

17 Fear not, thou mother of the children: for I haue chosen thee, faith the Lord.

18 I will send thee my servants Esau & Jeremie to helpe thee, by whose counsell I haue sanctified and prepared for thee twelve trees laden with ducers fruites,

19 And as many fountaines, flowing with milk and honey, & tenen nigrie mountains, whereupon there growe roes and lilies, whereupon I will fill thy children with love.

20 Execute justice for the widdowe: judge the cause of the fatherlelle: give to the pooore: defed the fatherlelle: clothe the naked.

21 Heale the wounded, and fice: laugh not a lame man to fonce: defende the creeple, and let the blinde come into the light of my cleareneffe.

22 Keefe the olde and the young that are with in thy walles.

Tob 17,1, 23
18,19.

23 Wherefore thou findest the dead, take them and bury them, and I will give thee the first place in my refurrection.

24 Abide still, O my people, and rest: for thy quictnes shall come.

25 Nourish the children, O thou good nurse: establish their feete.

26 None of the servants that I haue given thee,

shall perish: for I will seeke them from among the number.

27 Be not weary: for when the day of trouble and heauinelle commeth, other shall weepe and be sozowful, but thou shall be mercie and haue abundance.

28 The heathen shall enuie thee, and shall do nothing against thee, faith the Lord.

29 Mine hands shall cover thee, so that the children shall not see hell.

30 Be joyfull, O thou mother, with thy children: for I will deliver thee, faith the Lord.

31 Remember the children that keepe: for I will bring them out of the fides of the earth, and will they have mercie unto them: for I am merciful, faith the Lord almightie.

32 Embrace thy children, until I come & they have mercie unto them: for my fountaines are now ouer, and my grace shall not fayle.

33 Esdias received a charge of the Lord upon the mount Horeb, that I should go unto them of Israel, but when I came to them, they cast me of, and despised the commandement of the Lord.

34 And therefore I say unto you, O ye heathen, that heare a derkande, wait for your shepheard, who shall give you cuerlaking racc: for he is nere at hand, that shall come in the end of the worldde.

35 Be ready to the reward of the kingdome: for the cuerlaking light shall shine upon you, for evermore.

36 Flee the shadowe of this worlde: receive the iop of your glorie: I testifie my Sauour openly.

37 Receive the gift that is given you, & be glad, giving thanks unto him, that hath called you to the heauenly kingdome.

38 Arise, and stand up, and beholde the number of those that are sealed for the keast of the Lord,

39 Which are departed from the shadowe of the world, and have received glorious garments of the Lord.

40 Take thy number, O Sion, and shut up the that are clothed in white, which have fulfilled the Lawe of the Lord.

41 The number of the children whom thou longest for, is fulfilled: befoee the power of the Lord, that thy people which haue bene called from the beginning, may be sanctified.

42 * If Esdias kawe upon mount Sion a great people whom I could not number, and they all praisèd the Lord withongs.

43 And in the middes of them there was a young man hir in stature then them all, and upon euery one of their heads he kee crownes, and was hir then the others, which I much marued at.

44 So I asked the Angel, and faide, who are they, my Lord?

45 Who answere, and said unto me, These be they, that haue put of the mortal clothing, and haue put on the immortall, and haue confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive the palmes.

46 Then faide I unto the Angel, what yong man

Apocrypha.

II. Eſdras.

Chap. iij. iiiij.

man is it, that letcth crownes on them, and
geth them the palmes in their hands?

47 And he anſwered, and ſaid vnto me, Jt is the Sonne of God, whom they haue confessed in the worlde. Then began I greatly to com-mend them, that had stand to strongly for the Name of the Lord.

48 Then the Angel ſaid vnto me, Goe thy way,
& fell my people, what, & howe great wonders
of the Lord God thou haſt scene.

CHAP. III.

4 The wonderous workes, which God dib for þ people, are reſted. 3: Eſ
has maruereth that God ſinereth the Babylonians to have riche ouer
his people, which yet are ſim儿rs alſo.

1 A the thirtieth peere after the fall of the ci-
tie, as I was at Babylon, I lay troubled
upon my bed, and my thoughts came vp to
mine heart,

2 Because I saw the desolation of Sion, and
the welth of them that dwelt at Babylon.

3 So my SPIRIT was ſoie moued, so that I be-
gan to ſpeake fearful words to the moſt high,
and ſaid,

4 D. Lord, Lord, thou spaketh at the beginning
when thou alone plantedst the earth, & gaueſt
commandement vnto the people,

*And a body vnto Adam, without ſoule, who
was also the workemanship of thine hands, a
hast breathed in him the breath of life, to that
he lived before thee,

Gen.2.7. 5

6 And leddest him into Paradise, which thy
right hand had placted, or euer the earth brought
forth.

1or, vnto
forward.

7 Even then thou gaueſt him commandement
to loue thy way: but he transgressed it, & im-
mediatly thou appointedst death to him & his
generatiſt, of whom came nations, tribes, peo-
ple and kinreds out of number.

Gene.6.12 8

* And every people walked after their owne
will, and did wonderfull things before thee,
and deſpited thy commandements.

Gene.7.10 9

*But at the time appointed thou broughtest
the flood upon that dwelt in the worlde,
and destroyed them,

10 So that by the flood, that came to every one
of them, which came by death vnto Adam,

1.Pet.3.10 11

Yet thou leftest one, euem * Moc, to his hou-
hold, of whom came all righteous men.

12 And when they that dwelt upon the earth,
began to multiply, and the number of the chil-
dren, people and many nations were increased,
they began to be more vngodly then the first.

13 Now when they lived wickedly before thee,
& thou diddest choose thee a man from among

Gene.12.1

them, whose name was * Abiçaham.

Gene.17.5

14 Whom thou louedst, & vnto whom onely thou
weredeſt thy will,

15 And madest an euerlaffing concenant with
him, promising him that thou wouldest neuer
forſake his ſeede.

Gene.21. 16

*And vnto him thou gaueſt J[acob] Isaac,* vnto J-
[acob] also thou gaueſt J[acob] and Esau,* and
diddest choose J[acob], and call of Esau, and to
J[acob] became a great multitude.

Gene.25.

25. 16.

Malac.1

3. rom. 3

9.13.

17 And when thou leddest his ſeede out of E-
gypt,* thou broughtest the bp to mount Sina,

Exod.19.1

deut.4.10.

18 And enclinedſt the heauens; and bowed downe
the earth, and diddeſt mone ground, & cauſe
the deprys to shake, and diddeſt altonbe the
worlde.

19 And thy glory went thoroſowe foure gates of
ſyre, with earthquakes, winde and colde, that
thou mightest giue the Lawe vnto the ſeed of
J[acob], and that which the generation of J-
[rael] should diligently obſerve.

20 Yet tookſt thou not away from them the
wicked heart, that thy law might bring forth
fruite in them.

21 For *Adam first hauing a wicked heart, was
ing.3. overcome and vanquished, and all they that
are vaine of him.

22 Thus remained weakenes iopned with the
lawe in the hearts of the people, with þ wic-
kednes of the coote: so that the good departed
away, and the enuill abode still.

23 So the times palled away, and the perees
were brought to an end,*til thou diddeſt raiſe
thou by a feruant called David,

1Sam.13.

24 * whom thou commandſt to builde a citie
unto thy Name, to cal upon thee therein
incense and sacrifice.

1Sam.5.
27.13.

25 When this was done many perees, the inha-
bitants forſooke thee,

26 Following the wayes of Adam & all his ge-
neration: for they alſo had a wicked heart.

27 Therefore thou gaueſt thy citie ouer into the
hands of thine enemies.

28 But do they that dwel at Babyl6, any better,
that they should haue the dominion of Sion.

29 For when I came thither, and saw their wic-
ked deedes without number (for this is the
thirtieth peere that I see many trefpacing) I
was discouraged.

30 For J[acob] howe thou sufferedſt them that
linne, and ſpared the wicked doers, where
as thou hast destroyed thine owne people, and
preferred thine enemies, and thou hast not
thewed it.

31 I can not perceiue howe this commeth to
pale. Are the deedes of Babylon better then
they of Sion.

32 Or is there any other people that knoweth
thee besides Israel ? or what generation hath
beleued thy teſtimonies, as J[acob]?

33 And yet their reward appeareth not, & their
labour hath no fruite: for I haue gone here
and there thoroſowe out the heathen, and I ſee
them flozſhe, & thinke not upon thy command-
ments.

34 Whigh thou thersſe our wickednes now in
the balance, and theirs alſo that dwell in the
world, and no mention of thee ſhal be founde
but in J[rael].

35 Or when is it that they that dwel on the earth,
have not ſinned in the fight, or what people
hath so kept thy commandements?

36 Thou hait surely ſinde that J[rael] by name
hath kept thy precepts, but not the heathen.

CHAP. IIIII.

2 The angel reproueth E[ Israel] as, because he ſeeth to enter into the
world in uſenients of God.

And the Angel that was sent vnto me,
whose name was U[rael], anſwered,

2 And

Apocrypha.

Chap. iiiij.

2 And faide, Thine heart hath taken to much
upon it in this worlde, and thou thinkest to
comprehend the waves of the hieſt.

3 Then faide J, Hea, my Lord. And he anſwe-
red me, and said, I am sent to the weathe thee three
waves, and to let footh three similitudes be-
fore thee,

4 Whereof if thou canſt declare me one, I will
ſbe we thes also the way, þ thou deſtrefſ to ſee,
and I will weathe thee from whence the wic-
ked heart commeth.

5 And I laid, Tell on, my Lord. Then laid he
unto me, Go thy way: weigh me the weight of
the hyle, or measure me the blast of the wind, or
call me againe the day that is palt.

6 The anſwered J, I, said, what man is he, or
that can do that, which thou requireſt me, con-
cerning these things:

7 And he faide vnto me, If I should be aske thee
how deepe dwellings are in the middles of the
tea, or how great SPRINGS are in the beginning
of the depth, or how great SPRINGS are in the
stretching out of the heauen, or which are the
borders of Paradise,

8 Peraducenture thou wouldſt ſap vnto me, I
neuer went downe to the deepe, no? yet to the
hell, neither did I euer clime vp to heauen.

9 But nowe have I aſked thee but of fire and
winde, or of the day, whereby thou haſt paſſed,
and from the which things thou canſt not be
separatèd, and yet canſt thou give me none an-
were of them.

10 He faide moſeouer vnto me, Thine owne
things, and such as are growne vp with thee,
canſt thou not knowe:

11 Howe should I thy beſeil then be able to com-
prehende the waves of the hieſt, and now out-
wardly in the corrupt worlde, to understande
the corruption, that is evident in my ſight?

12 Then faide I vnto him, It were better that
we were not at all, then that we should line in
wickednes, and to suffer, and not to knowe
wherefore.

13 And he anſwered me, and ſaid, * I came to a
ſore in the plaine where the trees helde a
countell,

14 And faide, Come, let vs goe fight againſt the
ſea, that it may giue place to vs, and that we
may make vs moſe woodes.

15 Like wife the floods of the ſea tooke counſeil
and ſaid, Come, let vs go vp and fight againſt
the trees of the wood, that we may get an o-
ther country for vs.

16 But the purpose of the wood was haine: for
the hyle came and consumed it.

17 Likewise also the purpose of the floods of the
ſea: for the sand stood vp and stopped them.

18 If thou were indge betweene these two, who
wouldſt thou infiſe? or whom wouldſt thou
condeine?

19 I anſwered and faide, Werely it is a fooliſe
purpose, that they both haue deuiled: for the
ground is anſpurned for the wood, and the ſea
hath his place to beare his floods.

20 Then anſwered he me, and faide, Thou haſt
Luera a right iudgement: but why iudgest thou

not thy ſelſe also?

21 For like as the grounds are appointed for the
wood, and the ſea for his floods, to * they that
dwell upon earth, can understand nothing,
but that which is upon earth: and then that
are in the heauens, the things that are above
the height of the heauens.

22 Then anſwered J, and faide, I beſeech thee,
O Lord, let understanding be given me.

23 For I did not purpose to inquire of thine hie
things, but of such as we daily meddle with-
all, namely wherefore I fact is made a reproch
to the heathen, and for what cause the people,
whom thou haſt loued, is giuen ouer to wic-
ked nations, a why the law of our fathers is
abolished, a the written ceremonies are come
to none effect,

24 Why we are toſted to * fro through a worlde
as the graſhoppers, a our life is a vertie keare,
and we are not thought wortlie to obtaine
merciere.

25 But what will he doe to his name, which is
called upon ouer vs ? Of these things have I
asked the question.

26 Then anſwered he me, and faide, The moſe
thou searchest, the more thou haſt maruelles:
for the worlde haſeth faſt to palle away,

27 And cannot compreſhend the things, that are
promised to the righteous in time to come: for
this worlde is full of uprighteousneſſe and
weakenneſſe.

28 But to declare thee the things whereof thou
aſſest, the cuill is lowen, but the destruction
thereof is not yet come.

29 If the euil now that is lowen, be not turned
upde downe, and if the place where the cuill
is lowen, palle not away, then can not þ thing
come, that is lowen with good.

30 For the corner of euill ſcnde hath bene lowen
in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and
how much ungodineſſe hath he brought vp
vnto this time : and how much shall he bring
footh vntill the harvest come?

31 Ponder with thy ſelſe, howe much fruite of
wickednes Þ corner of euil feed bringeth forth,
and when þ staſkes Þalbe cut downe, which

32 And when þ staſkes Þalbe cut downe, which
are without number, howe great an harvest
must be prepared.

33 Then I anſwered, and ſaid, How, and when
shall these things come to palle : wherefore
are our peeres fewe and euill?

34 And he anſwered me, ſaping, Haste not to be
aboue þ most high: for thou labourest in vaine
to be aboue him, though thou indenouer neuer
ſo much.

35 Did not the ſoules also of the righteouſe aſſe
quicſtio of these things in their chambers, ſap-
ing, Howe long shall I thus hope, and when
commeth the fruite of my barne a our wages?

36 And upon this J[erem]iel the Archangel an-
ſwered, a ſaid, When the number of the ſeeds
is filled in you: for he hath weighed the world
in the balance.

37 The meaſure of the times is measured: the
ages are counted by number, and thep shall
not be moued or ſhaken, until the meaſure there-

B.iii.

of

Iude. 9, 2.
1. ch. 4.
25 v. 12.

Apocrypha.

II. Eldras.

Chap.v.

of be fulfilled.

38 Then answered J, and said, O Lord, Lord, we are all cuen full of sinne,

39 And for our sake peraduenture the harvest of the righteoues is not fulfilled, because of the sinne of them that dwell upon earth.

40 So he answered me, and said, Go, andake a woman with childe, when he hath fulfilled her nine moneths, if her wombe may keepe the birth any longer within her.

41 Then said J, Ho, Lord, she cannot. And he said unto me, In the graue the places of foules are like the wombe.

42 For as she is with childe, hasteth to cleape the necessitie of the traveile, so doe these places haſte to deliuer those things that are committed unto them.

43 That which thou desirest to see, shall be shown thee from the beginning.

44 Then answered J, and said, If I have found grace in thy light, and if it be possible, and if I be meete therefore,

45 She we me whether there be more to come then is past, or more things past, then are to come.

46 What is past, I know, but what is to come, I knowe not.

47 And he said unto me, Stad on the right side, and I will ex pound thee this by example.

48 So I stood, and behold, a hot e burning ouen passed before me: and when the flame was gone by, I looked, and behold, the smoke had the upper hand.

49 After this there passed before me a watrie cloud, a lent down much raine with a stozne: and when the stoznie raine was past, it dropped came after.

50 Then saide he unto me, Consider with thy selfe, as the raine is more then the drops, and as fire exceedeth the smoke, so the portion that is past, hath the upper hand. And the drops, and the smoke were much.

51 Then I pr ayed, and said, May I live, thinkest thou vntill that time, or what shall come to palle in those daies?

52 He answered me, A laid. Of the tokens whereof thou akcest me, I can tell thee a part: but I am not sent to the we of thee of thy life: for I do not knowe it.

CHAP. V.

1 In the latter times truly shall be hrd. 10 Rightoues are al wickelesse shall reigne in the world. 11 shall be reuered, and God delivereth thyne. 12 God doeth all thing in season.

1 N euothcleyſe concerning the tokens, beholde, the times shall come, þ they which dwell upon earth, shall be taken in a great number, and the way of the trueth shall be hid, and the land shall be barren from faith,

Mat.24.12 2

3 And *iniquitie shall be increased more the thou hast fecund now, or hast heard in time past.

4 And it shall come to palle, that one shall get in foote, & thou shall see the land desolate, which now reigneth.

5 Pea, if God graunt thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet, that the funne shall fuddainely shine againe in the night, and the moone three times a day,

6 Blood shall droppe out of the wood, and the stone shall glue his bope, and the people shall be moued.

5

7 And he shall rule, of whom they hope not that dwell upon earth, and the foules shall change place.

6

8 And the sea of Sodom shall cast out fire, and make a noyle in the night, which many shall not know, but they shall al heare the bope thereof.

8

9 And there shall be confusion in many places, and the fyre shall oft beake forth, & the wild beaks shall change their places, and menstruous women shall beare monsters,

10 And salt waters shall be found in the swamps, and al friendes shall fight one against another: then shall it hide it selfe, and understanding depart into his secret chamber.

9

11 It shall be sought of many, that yet not be found: then shall there be foureoules and voluptuoules haue the upper hand upon earth.

10

12 At the same time shall men hope, but not obteine: then shall labour, but their enterprizes shall not pizeper.

11

13 To theelect such tokens J have leane, and if thou wilt pray againe and weep as nowe, & fast thounken daies, thou shall heare yet greater things then these.

12

14 Then Iawaked, and a fearfullnes went through all my body, and my mind was feeble and fainted.

13

14

15 But the Angel that was come to talke with me, holde me, comforted me, and let me up upon my feete.

15

16 And in the seconde night, Salathiel the captaine of people came unto me, laying, and where haſt thou bene: and why is thy countenance so heauie?

16

17 Knowest thou not that Israel is committed unto thee in the lande of their captiuitie?

16

17

18 Up then and eat, and forſake vs not, as the shepherd that leaueth his flocke in the hands of the cruel wolues.

18

18

19 Then said I unto him, Go, thy wayes from me, and come not nere me: and when he heard it, he went from me.

19

20 And I fasted seven daies, mourning and weeping, as Ariel the angel had commanded me.

20

20

21 And after seven daies the thoughts of mine heart were very grievous unto me againe.

21

21

22 And I had a desire to reason againe, I began to talke with the most high againe,

22

22

23 And I had a desire to reason againe, I began to talke with the most high againe,

23

24 And said, O, Lord, Lord, of every koſt of the earth, and of all the trees thereof thou haſt chosen thee one only vineyard.

24

24

25 And of all lands of the world thou haſt chosen thee one pit, of all the flowres of the grounde thou haſt chosen thee one lily.

25

25

26 And of all the depths of the sea thou haſt led thee one river, and of al builded cities thou haſt lanctified Sion unto thy selfe.

26

27 And of all the foules þ are created, thou haſt named thee one done, of all þ that are made, thou haſt appointed thee one theree.

27

27 And

Apocrypha.

Chap. vj.

27 And among all the multitude of people thou hast gotten thee one people, and unto this people whom thou loudest, thou gauest a law, that is proued of all.

28 And now, O LORD, who hast thou given this one people ouer unto many - as upon one root thou hast set others, and hast scattered thine onely people among many.

29 They treade them down, which haue withstand thy promises, and beleeue not thy testimonies.

30 And if thou diddest so much hate the people, they should haue bene punished with thine owne hands.

31 Now when I had spoken these words, the Angel that came to me the night afore, was sent unto me,

32 And said unto me, Heare me, and I will teach thee, and hearken that I may instruct thee further.

33 And I said, Speake on, my LORD. The said he unto me, Thou art so free and troubled for Israel's sake. Loudest thou them better, then he doeth that made them?

34 And I said, No, LORD: but of very sozome haue I spoken: for my reines paine me euerie houe, while I labour to comprehend the way of the most High, and to seeke out part of his judgement.

35 And he said unto me, Thou canst not. And I said, Wherefore, LORD, wherefore was I bozne - or why was not my mothers wome then my grave: so had I not scene the trouble of Jacob, and the griefe of the stocke of Israel.

36 And he said unto me, A number unto me the things that are not yet come, or gather me the dropses that are scattered, or make me the withered flowers greene againe.

37 Open me the places that are closed, & bring me forth the winds, that are shut vp therein: give me the image of a boyle, and then will I declare thee the thing, that thou artkest and labourest to knowe.

38 And I said, O LORD, LORD, who can knowe these things, but he that hath not his dwelling with men?

39 But if that am ignorant, how can I speake of these things, whereof thou artkest me?

40 Then said he unto me, Like as thou canst do none of these things, that I haue spoken of, to canst thou not find out my judgement, nor the least benefite, that I haue promised unto my people.

41 The I said, Behold, O LORD, the last things are present unto thee, and what shall they do that haue bene before me, or we that be nowe, or they that shall come after vs?

42 And he said unto me. I will compare my judgement unto a ring: as there is no slacknes of the last, so is there no swiftnes of the first.

43 Then I answered, a laid, Couldst thou not make at once those that haue bene, those that are now, and those that shall come, that thou mightest shew thy judgement the sooner?

44 Then answered he me. The creature, said he, can not prieuent the Creator, neither can

the world holde them at once, that Ihalbe created therein.

45 And I said, As thou hast taught the fermant, that thou, which giuest strength to all, hast given life at once to all the workes created by thee, and hast sustained it, so might it now also continue all men at once.

46 And he said unto me, Aske the wome of a woman, and say unto her, What must thou have time before thou bringest forth - require her to bring forth ten at once.

47 And I said, Surely she can not, but by distance of time.

48 Then said he unto me, So haue I denided the number of the earth by times when see de is lowen upon it.

49 For as a pong childe beggetteth not that that belongeth to the aged, so haue I ordeined the time which I have created.

50 I asked againe, and laid. Seeing thou hast nowe shewed me the way, I will proceede to speake before thee: for our mother, whom thou hast told me is pög, draweth she the nere unto age.

51 He answered me, and laid. Aske a woma that trauaileth, and she will tell thee.

52 Sap unto her. Wherefore are not they (whom thou hast nowe brought forth) like those that were before thee, but lesse of nature?

53 And she shall answer thee. Some were bozne in the floure of youth, others were bozne in the time of age, when the Wombe kayled.

54 Consider now thy self, howe that ye are lesse of nature, then those that were before you,

55 And so are they that come after you, lesse they, as the creatures which nowe beginne to be olde, and haue passed ouer the strength of youth.

56 Then said I, LORD, I believe thee, if I haue found favour in thy light, shew thy fermant by whom doesl thou gourner the work of thy ship.

CHAP. VI.

Sed hath so far beene al things in this former countrell, and is auto thereof, and hath created them for his children.

A
ad he faide vnto me, In the beginning when the round world was made, & before the borders of the world were set, & before the winds blewe one against another:

2 Before the noyse of thunders founded, before the bright lightning did shine forth, before the foundations of Paradise were laid:

3 Before the faire flowers did appear, before the mowable powers were stablished, before the innumerable armies of Angels were gathered:

4 Before the heights of the aire were lifted vp, before the measures of the heauens were named, before the chimneys in Sion were hote: Before the prieient yeeres were sought out, & before the affections of them that nowe finite, were turned away, and they that haue laid vp the treasure of faith, were sealed,

5 Then did I purpose these things, and they were made by me alone, and by none other: by me also they Ihalbe ended, and by none other.

6 Then answered I, and said, What that Ihalbe the diffusion of times - or when Ihalbe the end of the first, and the beginning of it that followeth?

B, iii.

8 And

pocrypha.

II. Eldras.

Chap. vi.

8 And he said unto me, From Abzaham unto Isaac, whê Jacob & Esau were borne of him, & Jacobs hand helde first the heele of Esau.

Gen. 15:26

9 For Esan is the end of this world, & Jacob is the beginning of it that foloweth.

10 The hand of man is betwixt the heele & the hand. Other thing, Eldras, alke thou not.

11 I answered then, and said, O LORD, LORD, if I haue founde fanour in thy light,

12 I befeech thee, make an end to I speake thy feruant thy tokens, whereof thou I hewedst me part the last night.

13 So he answered me, & said, Stand up upon thy feete, & heare a mightie founding bovce.

14 There shall come as an earthquake, but the place where thou standest, shall not be moued.

15 And therefore whê he speaketh, be not afraid: for of the end shall be the word, & of the foundation of the earth shall it be understood.

16 Therefore while one speaketh of them, it trembleth and is moued: for it knoweth, that it must be changed at the end.

17 And when I had heard it, I stooed up upon my feete, and heartened, & behold, there was a bovce that spake, and the sound of it was like the sound of many waters:

18 And it said, Behold, the dapes come, that I will come and enquire of them that dwell upon the earth,

19 And when I begin to inquire of them, who by their vnrighteousnes haue hurt others, & when the affection of Sion shall be fulfilled,

20 And the world, that shall vanish away, shall be sealed, then will I see these lignes: the books shall be opened before the heauen, and they shall see all it together.

21 And the children of a yeere olde shall speake with their bovces: the women with childe shall bring forth untimely children of three or foure months olde, & they shall live & are tailed up.

22 Then suddenly shall the lowen places appeare as the lowden, & the full stooe houses shall suddenly be found empty.

23 And the trumpet shall sound, and all they that heare it, shall be suddenly arroyed.

24 At that time shall friends fight with friends, as with enemies, & the earth shall fear with them: the springs of the wells shall stand still, and in three hours they shall not runne.

25 Whosoever remaineth from all these things that I haue told thee, shall be saued and see my faluation, and the end of your world.

26 And the men that are recircued, shall see it: they that haue not tasted death from their birth, and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed, and turned to an other meaning.

27 For every shall be put out, and dectit shall be quenched,

28 But faith shall flourish: corruption shall be ordercome, and the truth which hath bene so long without fruit, shall come forth.

29 And when he talked with me, beheld, I looked a little upon him before whom I stood.

30 And these words laid he unto me, I am come to see thee the time of the night to come.

31 If thou wilt praye againe, & fast seven daies

more, I will tell thee more things, and greater then these, which I have heard in the day.

32 For thy bovce is heard before the Highest: surely the mightie hath seene thy righteous dealing: he hath seene also thy chalkeitie, which thou hast kept since thy youth.

33 Therefore hath he sent me to see thee all these things, and to say unto thee, Be of good comfort, and fear not,

34 And hast thou not in the vaine consideration of the first times, nor make hast to the latter times.

35 And after this I wept againe & fasted seven dayes in like maner, that I might fulfill the three weekes, which he had appointed me.

36 And in the eight night was mine heart bered within me againe, and I began to speake before the most High.

37 For my spirit was greatly set on thy, and my soule was in doubtrelese,

38 And I said, O LORD, thou spakst explicitly in the first creation (even the first day) & commended it* that the heauen and the earth should be made, and the wozke followed thy word.

Gen. 11:

39 And then was there the spirit, & the darknes was on every side with silence: there was no man in bovce as yet created of thee.

40 Then commandedst thou a bright light to come forth out of thy treasures, that it might give light to thy wozke.

41 Upon the second day thou commandedst the heauenip ape, and commandedst it, that, going betweene, it should make a division betweene the waters, that the one part might remaine above, and the other beneath.

42 Upon the third day thou commandedst, that the waters should be gathered together in the seventh part of the earth: fix parties diddest thou dye, and kept them to the intent that of these there should be that should serve thee, being found of God and tilled.

43 Alsoone as thy word went forth, the wozke was incontinently made.

44 For immediately great & innumerable fruite did spring vp, and many diverse pleasures for the taste, and flowers of vnchangeable colour, and odours of a most wonderful smell, & these things were created the third day.

45 * Upon the fourth day thou createdst light of the sunne, and of the moone, and the other of the stars,

Gen. 14:

46 And gauest them a charge, to do *seruice eué unto man that was for to be made.

Gen. 14:

15: dores.

47 And upon the fifth day thou fasted unto the seventh part * where the waters were gathered, that it should bring forth beafts, as foules and fishes; and it was so.

Gen. 15:

48 For the dome waters, & without life brought forth living things at the commandement of God, that the nations might praye to thy wonderful works.

49 Then didst thou prepare two living things: the one thou calledst Behemoth, and the other *Or Luch, ther thou calledst Leuathan,

16:

50 And diddest separate the one from the other: for the seventh part, where the water was gathered, could not holde them,

51 Uto

Apocrypha.

Chap. vij.

II

51 Unto Behemoth thou gaest one part, which
was dived by the third daye, that hee should
dwell in the same parte, wherein are a thou-
sand hilles.

52 But unto Leviathan thou gaest the seuenth part, that is worth, and hast prepared him to de-
 toward what thou wille, and when thou willest.

53 Upon the first day thou gaest commandment
unto the earth, that before thee it should bring
forth beaks, and twell and creeping things.

54 And before this Adam, whom thou madest
lord over all the works which thou hast crea-
ted, of him come we all, and the people also,
whom thou hast chosen.

55 All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord,
because I have created you world for our fakes.

56 As for the other people, which also come of
Adam, thou hast declared them that they are
nothing before thee, but be like unto spittle,
and hast compared their riches unto a droppe
that falleth from a bellfessel.

57 And now, O Lord, beholde, these heathen
which have bene reputed as nothing, have be-
gun to be lords over vs, and to denoure vs.

58 And we thy people (whom thou hast called
the first bozze, the only begotten, and thy fer-
uent ioner) are given into their hands.

59 If your world were created for our fakes, why
haue we not the inheritance thereof in posse-
SION : 02 how long shall we suffer these things?

CHAP. VII.

3 Without tribulation none can come to felicity. 12 God advertiseth in time.
43 The comming and death of Christ.
32 The resurrection a lait
indument.
42 The fire which all corruption shall create.
48 All that fell in Adam.
59 The true life.
62 The mercies and goodnes of God.

A
Ad when I had made an end of these
words, there was sent unto me an An-
gel, which had bene sent down to me the
nigheres afore.

2 And he said unto me, Up, Eldras, and heare
the words that I am come to tell thee.

3 And I said, Speake on, my God. Then said
he unto me. The sea is set in a wide place, that
it might be deepe and great.

4 But presuppose that the entrance thereof
were narrow, and like the rivers,

5 who could go into the sea to looke upon it, &
to rule it ? If he went not thowow the narrow,
how could he come into the broade?

6 There is also another thing: a citie is buil-
ded and set upon a broade fielde, and is full of
all good things:

7 The entrance thereof is narrowe and in a
dangerous place to fall, that there is fire at the
tight hand, and a deepe water at the left,

8 And there is but one path betwixt them, eue
betweene the fire and the water, so that there
could but one man go there.

9 If this citie were given unto a man so an in-
heritance, if he neuer went thoroowe the perill
before it, how could he receive his inheritance?

10 And I said, It is so, Lord. Then saide he,
So is the portion of Israel.

11 Surely for their fakes have I made the
world: and when Adam transgressed my fra-
tutes, then came this thing to palle.

12 Then were the entrances of the world made

narrow, full of sozowe a trauaile: they are but
fewe euil, a ful of perils, and very painefull.

13 For the entrances of the soze worlde were
wide and fure, and brought immortall fruite.

14 If then thep that are living, labour not to
center by these strait a little things, they can
not attaine to those things that are hid.

15 When then disquietest thou thy selfe, seeing
thou art corruptible, and why art thou mo-
ued, seeing thou art mortall?

16 And why hast thou not considered in thy
minde the things to come, rather then them
that are present?

17 The said J, O, Lord, Lord,* seeing thou hast
ordained in the law, that the righteous should
inhereite these things, and that the ungodly
should perish,

18 Should the righteous suffer straitnes in ho-
ping for large things? yet thep that have lived
ungodly and suffered straitnes, shall not kee
the large things.

19 Then he saide unto me, There is no indige
more tusk then God, and there is none more
wise then the most High.

20 For many perish in this life, because they de-
spite the Lawe of God that is appointed.

21 For God hath diligently admonished such
as came, so oft as they came, what they should
do to have life, and what they should obferue,
to auoide punishment.

22 Neuertheles, thep were not obedient unto
him, but spake against him, a imagined vaine
things.

23 And deceived themelues by their wicked
dedees, a denied the power of the most High,
and regarded not his wayes.

24 But thep despised his law, a refused his pro-
mises: they have unfaithfully broken his or-
dinances, a have not performed his works.

25 And therefore, Eldras, unto the empty are
emptie things, and to the full, full things.

26 Behold, the time shall come, that these tokes
which I have told thee, shall come to palle, and
the bride shall appeare, and she shall come forth,
and be seene that nowe is under the earth.

27 And whosoever shall escape these euil's, hee
shall see my wonders.

28 For my sonne Jesus shall appeare with those
that be with him, and they that remaine, shall
reiope within foure hundreth peres.

29 After these same peres shall my sonne Christe
die, and all men that have life.

30 And the world shall be turned into the olde
fide for seven days, as in the soze indgement,
so that no man shall remaine.

31 But after seven daies, the world that is yet
a sleepe, shall be raised vp: and that shall die,
that is corrupt.

32 Then the earth shall restore those, that have
slept in her, so shall the dust those that dwell
therein in silence, a the secret places shall deli-
ner the soules that were committed unto them.

33 And the most High shall appeare upon the
scate of indgement, and miseries shall banish
away, and long suffering shall have an end.

34 Justice onely shall continue : the tenth shall
remaine,

Apocrypha.

II. Eſdras.

Chap. viij.

remaine, and faith shall be strong.

35 The worke shall folow, & the reward shall be shewed: the good deceds shall be, & unrighteoues shall beare no moze rule.

Gen. 13:23

Exod. 32, 11.

33, 11.

37 And they that came after him, for Israel in the time of Achaz, and Samuel,

2, Sam. 24.

17.

2, Chro. 6.

14.

1, King. 17.

21, & 18.

42, 45.

2, King. 19.

15.

38 And David for the destruction, & Solomon for them that came into the Sanctuary,

39 And Elias for those that received raine, and for the dead that he might lie,

40 And Ezechias for the people in the time of Sennacherib, and diners others for many.

41 Even so now, seeing dice is increased, & wickednes aboundeth, and the righteous haue praped for the ungodly, wherefore shall not the fame effect follow also now?

42 Then he answered me, & said, This present life is not the end: oft times honor is received in it; therefore haue they praped for the weake.

43 But the day of judgement shall be end of this world, & the beginning of the immortallitie to come, wherein all corruption shall ceaste.

44 Intemperance shall paille away: insidetie shall be cut of: righteousnes shall grow vp, and the veritie shall piling vp.

45 Then shall no man be able to saue him that is destroyed, nor oppresse him that hath gotten the victorie.

46 I answered then, and said, This is my first and last saying, that it had bene better not to haue giuen the earth unto Adam, or when it was giuen him, to haue kept him that he should not haue sinned.

47 For what profite is it for men in this present life to be in heauines, and after death to feare punishment?

Rom. 5:18.

48 Adam, what haft thou done? for in that that thou haft sinned, thou art not fallè alone, but the fal also redoundeth unto vs that come of thee.

49 For what profite is it unto vs, if there bee promised an immortall life, when we doe the works that bring death?

50 And that an everlasting hope should be promised vs, seeing that wee beide our felues to deadly vanitye?

51 And that there should be appointed vs doubleings of health and safetye, if wee haue lived wickedly?

52 And that it glorie of the most High should be kept to defend them which haue lead a pacièt life, if we haue walked in the wicked ways?

53 And an eternal Paradox. should be shewed, whose fruit remaineth incorruptible, wherein safety is health, if we will not enter into it.

54 (For we haue bene conuerant in unpleasant places)

55 And that the faces of them, which haue absteined, should shine more then stars, if our faces be blacker then darkenes.

56 For while we lived, we did not remember when we did unrighteously, that we should suffer after death,

57 Then answered he me, & said, This is the maner of the battel, which man, that is born in the earth, shall fight,

58 That if he be overcome, he should suffer as thou hast said: but if hee get the victorie, he should receive the thing that I laid.

59 For this is the life, whereof Myles spake unto the people while he lived, saying, *Thy life thee life that thou maist live,

60 Neuertheles, they beleeued him not, neither the Prophletes after him, nor me also which haue said unto them,

61 That heauines should not be to their destruction, as it should come unto them, to whom saluation is perlwaded.

62 I answered then, & said, I know, Lord, that the most High is called mercifull, in that he hath mercie upon the, which are not yet come to that world,

63 And that he hath pitie on the that walke in his Lawe,

64 And that * he is pacient: for he long suffreth Rom. 10:25, those that haue sinned as his creatures,

65 And that he is liberall: for he will giue as much as needeth,

66 And that hee is of great mercie: for he ouercommeth in mercie those that are present, and that are past, and them which are to come.

67 For if he were not aboundat in his mercies, the world could not continue, nor they that haue the possession thereof.

68 He pardoneth also: for if he gaue not of his goodnes to them, which haue done euill, might be relièned from their wickednes, to ten thousand part of men should not remaine alway.

69 And if he, being iudge, forgaue not that he that healed with his word, and took away the multitude of sinnes,

70 There should peraduenture hee verie fewe left in an vnnumerable multitude.

CHAR. VIII.

1 The number of the godie is final, 6 The works of God are creaticl.

20 Eſdras prayer for him and for his people. 19 The pioners of faith to the nill. 55 The destruction of the nill.

A
And he answered me, saying, The most
High made this world for many, but the
world to come for fewe.

I will tell thee a fumitude, Eſdras. As when thou akeſt the earth, it shall lay unto thee, that it giuen much earthly matter to make pots, but little dust that gold commeth of, so is it with the worke of this world.

3 *There be many created, but few shall be fauued. Mat. 10:24.

4 Then ancluered J. & said, Then Swalowe vp the wit, O my soule, & deuoure understan'ding.

5 For thou haſt promised to heare, & thou will p[roph]siehe: for thou haſt no longer space, but the life giuen thee.

6 O Loſde, if thou suffer not thy ſeruant, that we may entreat thee, that thou maist giue feed unto our heart, and p[re]p[are] our understanding, that there may come fruit of it, whereby every one which is co[r]rupt, may lie, who can let him ſelſe for man?

7 For thou art alone, & we all are one worke, manhood of thine hands, as thou haſt said.

8 For when the bodie is fancted nowe in the
wombe,

Apocrypha.

Chap. viij.

wombe, and thou haſt giuen it members, thy
 creature is prieſueru'd bp fire and water, & the
 worke, created bp thee, doeth ſuffer nine mo-
 meths the creature, which is faconed in it.

9. But the thing that contemneth, & that which is conteined, shall both be prieſerued, & when time is come, the wombe, being prieſerued, de-luereth the things that grew in it.

10. For thou haſt commanded the members, euſe the beaſts, to giue milke vnto the kruite appointed to the beaſts,

11 That thing, which is created, may be nouriſed for a time, til it dispoſeth it to thy mercie.

12 Thou bringest it vp with thy righteouſnes,
nurturest it in thy Lawe, & reſoſest it with
thy judgement.

13 Thou nayſest it as thy creature, and giueſt it
life as thy worke.

14 Seeing then that thou deſtroiſeth him, which
with so great labours is faconed, it is an eſtie
thing to appoint by thy commandement, that it
thing also which is made, might be prieſerued.

15 Now therefore, O Lord, I will ſpeake (as
touching men in generall thou haſt rather
prouide) but concerning thy people, for whose
ſake I am forſie,

16 And for thine inheritanee, for whose cauſe I
mourneth: for Israel, for whom I am woful, &
for Jacob, for whose ſake I am grieu'd.

17 For them will I praye before thee, at well for
my ſelke, as for them: for I see our fautes that
dwell in the land.

18 But I haue heard the ſudden comming of
the inſuge, which is to come.

19 Therefore heare my voyce, and understand
my wordes, which I will ſpeake before thee.
The beginning of the wordes of Eſoías, be-
foze he was taken vp:

20 O Lord, that linest for euſer, which beholdeſt
from aboue that which is aboue, and in the
aze,

21 Whole thone is ineſtimable, and his glozic
incompzeheſible, before whom the host of the
Angels stand with trembling.

22 Whole keeping is turned in winde and kyze,
whole word is true, & layings ſtedfast, whole
comandemèt is strong, & governcemèt terrible,

23 Whole looke dieth bp the depths, & wath
maketh the mountains to melt away as the
thing beareth witness.

24 Heare the prayer of thy ſeruant, and receiue
into thine cares the petition of thy creature.

25 For while I lie, I will ſpeake, and so long
as I haue understanding, I will anſwere.

26 Looke not upon the ſinnes of thy people, ta-
ther then thy faithfull ſeruants.

27 Haue not respect vnto the wicked deedeſ of
men, rather then to them that haue thy testi-
monies in afflictions.

28 Thinke not upon those that haue walked
famously before thee, but remember them that
reuerence thy will.

29 Let it not be thy will to deſtroy them, which
haue lined like beaſts, but looke vpon them
that haue clearly taught thy Lawe.

30 Take not displeasure with them, which ap-


pare worke the beaſts, but loue them, & alway
put their trust in thy righteouſnes and glorie.

31 For we, & our fathers, haue all the same ſtite-
nes: but because of us, that are finances, thou
haſt be called mercieſull.

32 If therefore thou wilt haue mercie upon vs,
thou haſt bee called mercieſull towards us
which haue no workes of righteouſnes.

33 For the righteouſ, which haue laide bp ma-
ny good workes, let them receiue the reward of
their owne deedeſ.

34 But what is man, that thou shouldst take
displeasure at him? or what is this mortall
generation, that thou shouldst be so griuen
towards it?

35 * For they there is no man among them
that be boze, but he hath done wickedness, nor
any that doeth confesse thee, which hath not
done amisse.

36 For in this, O Lord, thy righteouſnes & thy
goodnes (halbe prou'd, if thou be mercieſull
unto them, which haue not the substance of
good workes.

37 Then anſwered he me, and faide, Some
things haſt thou spoken aright, and according
unto thy wordes it halbe.

38 For I will not bereip consider the workes of
them, before the death, before the inſuge,
before deſtruction:

39 But I will reioyc e in ſix waves of the righte-
ous, & I will remeber the pilgrimage, the lai-
nation and the tewarde that they haſt bayre.

40 Like as I haue ſpoken now, so haſt it come
to palle.

41 For as the husbandman soweth much ſeede
upon the ground, a planteth many trees, and
yet alway the thing that is lowen, cometh not
bp in time, neither yet doeth all that is plant-
ted, take root: so neither shall they al that are
brought into the world, be ſaueſt.

42 I anſwered then and faſt, If I haue found
grace, let me ſpeake.

43 Like as the hufbandmans ſeede perſiblith, if
it come not bp, & receiue not raine in due ca-
ſon, or if it be deſtroyed with too much raine:

44 So perſiblith man, which is created with
thine hands, and thou art called his paterne,
becauſe he is created to thine image, for whose
ſake thou haſt made all things, & it enced yont
unto the hufbandmans ſeede.

45 Be not wroth with vs, O Lord, but spare thy
people, & haue mercie upon thine inheritance:
for thou wilt be mercieſull vnto thy creature.

46 Then anſwered he me, & faſt, The things
preeſent are for the prieſent, and the things to
come for such as be to come.

47 For thou art kare of, that thou shouldst loue
my creature aboue me: but I haue oft times
drawn nere vnto thee and vnto it, but neuer
to the vnrighteous.

48 In this also thou art marneilous before the
Higheſt,

49 In that thou haſt humbled thy ſelſe, as it be-
commeth thee, and haſt not indged thy ſelſe
w orthy to boast thy ſelſe greatly among the
righteous.

50 Foſ

Apocrypha.

II. Esdras.

Chap.ix.

50 For many miseries and calamities remaine
for them that shall live in the latter time, be-
cause they shall walke in great pride.

51 But learne thou for thy selfe, and seeke out
the glorie for such as be like thee.

52 For unto you is paradise opened: the tree of
life is planted: y time to come is prepared, plé-
teoufnes made ready: the citie is builded, and that
is prepared, perſit goodnes & absolute wildo.

53 The roote of eulſ is sealed vp from you: the
weakenes and moth is destroyed from you, &
into hell fileth coſruption to be forſогotten.

54 Sozowes are vanifhed away, and in the end
is ſhewed the treaſure of immortallitie.

55 Therefore aske thou no more questions con-
cerning the multitude of them that perſib.

56 For when they had libertie, they deſpised the
moſt High: they contemned his Lawe & ſoſ-
looke his wayes.

57 Mo: couer, thep haue troden down his righ-
teons,

58 * Saying in their heart, that there was no
God, though they knew that they should die.

Psal. 14:1
& 53:1.

59 For as the thing þ I haue spoken of, is made
ready for you: so is thirti: a paine prepared for
them: for God would not þ man should perſib:

60 But thep, after that thep were created, haue
deliled the Name of him þ made them, & are
vnaſthankefull unto him, which prepared like
for them.

61 Therefore my iudgement is now at hande.

62 These things haue I not ſhewed unto al me,
but vnto thee, and to a fewe like thee: then I
anſwered, and ſaid,

63 Behold now, O Loſd: thou haſt ſhewed me
the many wonders, which thou art determined
to doe in the last time, but in what time,
thou haſt not ſhewed me.

CHAP. IX.

5 All things in this world haue a beginning and an end. 10 Tomentous for the wicked after this life, 11 The number of the wicked is woe then of the good. 12 The Jews in gratitude: 13 Therefore they perſil. 14 The veneration of a woman lauring.

1

H e anſwered me then, & faide, Heaſure
the time with it ſelſe, & when thou keſt
that one part of þ tokens come to paffe,
which I haue told thee before,

2 Then I haſt thou uſtendande, that it is the
time wherein the moſt High will beginne to
vbithe the world which he made.

Mat. 14:7.

3 Therefore when there halbe ſeeue an *earth-
quake in þ world, & an bpvpoare of the people,

4 Then I haſt thou uſtendande that the moſt
High ſpake of those things, fro the daies that
were before thee, eucln from the beginning.

5 For as all that is made in the world, hath a
beginning & an end, and the end is manifeſt,

6 So the times alio of the moſt High haue
plaine beginnings in wonders and lignes, &
end in effect and miracles.

7 And euery one that halſ escape ſake, and halſ
be delivered by his workes, and by the faith
wherein he haue beſeued,

8 Halbe prieruoced from the ſaid perils & hal
ſee my ſaluation in my land, & within my boz-
ders: for I haue kept me holy from the world.

9 Then I shall they haue pitie of them ſelues,
which now haue abuſed my wayes: and they

that haue cast them out despitefully, hal dwel
in paines.

10 For such as in their life haue received bene-
fites, and haue not knowne me,

11 But haue abhored my Lawe, while they
were yet in libertie, & when they had yet lea-
fure of amendment, & would not uſtand
but deſpised it,

12 The p must be taught it after death by paine.

13 And therefore be thou no more careful, to
know how the ungodly halbe punished, but
inquire how þ righteouſ halbe fauſed, & whole
the world is, and for whom it is, and when,

14 Then anſwered J, and ſaid,

15 I haue afore ſaid that which I ſay now, a wil
ſpake it hereafter, þ there be many mo of the
which perſib, then of them that halbe *fauſed,
Chap. 12, 13, 14, 15

16 As the flood is greater then a droppe.

17 And he anſwered me, kaping, As the field is,
ſo is alio the ſeede as the flowers be, so are the
colours alio: such as the Wozkeman is, such is
the woſke; and as the hukbandmās is, so is his
hukvandzie: for it was the time of the world.

18 Surelþ when I prepared the world, which
was not yet made for them to dwell in that
now liue, no man ſpake against me.

19 For then euery one obeyed, but now the ma-
ners of them that are created in this world,
that is made, are coſrupted by a perpetuall
ſeede, and by a Lawe, whereout they can not
rid them ſelues.

20 So I considered the world, & beholde, there
was perſil, because of the dcuiles, that were
ſprung vp into it.

21 Yet when I lawe it, I ſpared it greatly, and
haue kept me one grape of the cluster, and a
plant out of a great people.

22 Let therefore the multitude perſiſe, which
are born in vaine: & let my grape be kept, and
my plant, which I haue dzelled with great la-
bour.

23 Caevertheles, if thou wilt ecaſſe ſeu days
mo(but thou haſt not fast in them,

24 But I haſt go into a faire field, where no houſe
is buſylded, and I haſt eate onely of the flowers
of the field, and eate no ſelſe, nor dzinke wine,
but the flowers onely,

25 And pape vnto the moſt High continually)
then will I come, and talke with thee.

26 So I went my waye, as he had commanded
me, into the field, which is called Ardath, and
there I fate among the flowers, and did eate
of the herbes of the field, and the meate of the
lame fatiffied me.

27 And after ſeuen daies, as I fate bp þ graſſe,
& mine heart was bered within me, as afore,

28 I opened my mouth, and began to talke be-
fore the moſt High, and to ſay,

29 O Loſd, when thou wouldſt I ſbe the ſelſe
unto vs, *thou declaredſt the ſelſe vnto our fa-
thers in the wildernes, in a place where no
man dwelleth, in a baren place, when they
came out of Egypt,

30 And expeſtelp ſpakeſt vnto them, kaping,
Heare me, O Israel, and marke my workes,
thou ſeede of Jacob.

Exod. 18:1-2
& 18:1-2

31 Foi

Apocrypha.

II. Eldras.

Chap.xi.

that the most High may give thee rest and ease from thy labour.

25 And when I was talking with her, her face and beautie shined suddenly, and her countenance was bright, so that I was afrayd of her and mused what it might be.

26 And behold, immediately she cast out a great boye, berie fearfull, so that the earth shooke at the noyle of the woman.

27 And I looked, and beholde, the woman appeared unto me no more: but there was a citie builded, and a place was shewed from the ground & foundation. Then was I afrayd, and tricd with a loude boye, and said,

Chap.4.1. 28

Where is Ariel the Angel* which came to me at the first: for he hath caused me to come into many and decepe considerations, and mine end is turned into corruption, and my prayer to rebuke.

29 And as I was speaking these words, beholde, he came unto me, and looked upon me.

30 And lo, I lay as one dead, and mine understanding was altered, and he tooke me by the right hand and comforted me, and let me bp my feete, and laid unto me,

31 What apleth thee: and whp is thine understanding bened: and the understanding of thine heart: and wherefore art thou for?

32 And I said, Because thou hast forsoaken me, and I haue done according unto thy words: I went into the field, and there haue I seene things, and see that I am not able to expelle.

33 Then said he unto me, Stand vp manly, and I will give thee exhortation.

34 The said I, Speake unto me, my Lord, and forsoak me not, I die through rafines.

35 For I haue seene that I knewe not, & heare that I do not knowe.

Chap.5.20

36 Or is mine understanding deceased, or doeth my minde, being hautic, erre?

37 Nowe therefore I beseeche thee that thou witt shewe thy seruant of this wonder.

38 Then he answered me, and laid, Heare me, and I will informe thee, and tell thee wherefore thou art afrayd: for the most High hath revealed many secret things unto thee.

39 He hath seene thy good purpose, that thou art forze continually for thy people, and makest great lamentation for Sion.

40 This therefore is the understanding of the billion, which appeared unto thee a little while ago.

41 Thou fawest a woman mourning, and thou begannest to comfort her:

42 But now feest thou the likenes of the woma no more, but there appeared unto thee a citie built.

43 And where as the tolde thee of the death of her sonne, this is the solution,

44 This woman, which thou fawest, shee is Sion; and where as the tolde thee (euen shee which thou seest now as a citie builded)

45 And as touching that she said unto thee, that she was baren thirtie peres, this was concerning that, there was euen thirtie peres wherein there was no offering offered in her.

46 But after thirtie yeres, Salomon buylt the citie, and offered offrings: then bare the baren a foinne.

47 And where as he told thee, that she mourned him with labour, that was the inhabiting of Jerusalem.

48 But where as the tolde thee that her foinne, as his chance was, dyed when she came into her chamber, that is the fall that is come to Jerusalem.

49 And what thou safest her like one Æmourned for her foinne, thou begannest to comfort her: of these things which have chanced these are to be opened unto thee.

50 For now the most High seeth, that thou art forze in thy minde, and because thou suffer with all thine heart for her, he shewed thee the clearenes of her forze, and the fairenes of her beautie.

51 And therefore I bade thee remaine in the field where no house was buylt.

52 For I know that the most High would shew these things unto thee.

53 Therefore I commanded thee to go into the field, where no foundation no building is.

54 For the work of más building can not stand in that place where the citie of the most High should be shewed.

55 And therefore keare not, neither let thine heart be afrayd, but go in, and see the beautie and greatnes of Æ building as much as thou art able to see with thine eyes.

56 And after this I salt thou heare, as much as thine eares may comprechende.

57 For thou art blessed about many, & art called with the most High among the kewe.

58 But to morowe at night thou sallt remaine here,

59 And the most High shall shewe thee visions of high things, which the most High will doe unto them that dwell upon earth, in the last dayes. So I slept the same night as an other, as he had commanded me.

CHAP. XI.

1 The billion of an egle containing forth of the sea, and of her feathers.

2 Of a pion comming out of the forest.

1 Then I sawe I adizedame, and behold, there came vp from the sea an egle, which had twelue feathered wings a three heads.

2 And I saw and behold, the spied her wings ouer all the earth, and all the wyndes of the apye blewe on her, and gathered them selues.

3 And I beheld, and out of her feathers grewe out other contrarie feathers, and thep became little feathers and small.

4 But her heads remained still, and the head in the middes was greater the other heads, yet rested it with them.

5 Moreover, I sawe that the egle flewe with his feathers and reigned upon earth, & ouer them that dwell therein.

6 And I sawe that all things under heauen were subject unto her, and no man spake against her, no not one creature upon earth.

7 I sawe also that the egle stoope vp upon her claws, and spake to her feathers, laying, Watch not altogether: fleee euerp one in his

Apocrypha.

Chap. xij.

14

his own place, and watch by course.

9. But let the heads be preferred for the last.

10. Nevertheless, I saw that the doves were not out of her heads, but from the mids of her bodies.

11. Then I numbed her crotic feathers, and beheld there were eight of them.

12. And I looked, and beheld upon the right side there arose one feather, and reign'd over all the earth.

13. And when it had reign'd, the end of it came, and the place thereof appeared no more. So the next doves up, and reign'd: it continued a long time.

14. And when it had reign'd, the end of it came also, and as the first, so it appeared no more.

15. Then there came a doves into it, and said,

16. Heare thou that hast kept the earth so long: this I say unto thee, before thou beginnest to appear no more,

17. There shall none after thee attende unto thy time, neither to the half thereof.

18. Then arose the third reign'd as the other afore, and it appeared no more also.

19. So came it to all the others one after another, so that curore reign'd, and then appeared no more.

20. Then I looked, a behold in preface of time the feathers that followed, doode up on the right side, that they might rule also, and some of them ruled, but within a while they appeared no more.

21. For some of them were set up, but ruled not.

22. After this I looked a behold, the twelve feathers appeared no more, nor the two wings.

23. And there was no more upon the egles bodies, but two heads that rest'd, and the wings.

24. Then saw I also that two wings denud'd them felues from the air, and remained under the head, that was upon the right side: for the soure continued in their place.

25. So I looked, a behold, underwings thought to let up them felues, and to have the rule.

26. Then was there one set up, but shortly it appeared no more.

27. And I second were sooner gone then the first.

28. Then I beheld, and lo, the two that remained, thought also in them felues to reigne.

29. And when they so thought, beholde, there awaked one of the heads that were at rest, which was in the middles: for that was greater than the two.

30. And then I sawe, that the two heads were iopned therewith.

31. And behold, the head was turned with the, that were with it, and did cate vp the two underwings that would haue reign'd.

32. But this head put the whole earth in fear and bare rule in it, over all those that dwelt upon earth with much labour, and it had the governance of the world, more then all the wings that had bene.

33. After this I looked, a beholde, the head that was in the middles, suddenly appeared no more, as did the wings.

34. But the two heads remapned, which also ruled like those upon earth, and ouer those

that dwelt therein.

35. And I beheld, and lo the head upon the right side deuour'd it that was upon the left side.

36. Then I heard a doove which faide unto me, Looke before thee, and consider the thing that thou feest.

37. So I sawe, a behold as it were a Lyon that roareth, running hastly out of the wood: and I sawe that he lent out a más doove into the egg, and spake, and said,

38. Heare thou, I will talke with thee, and the most High shall say unto thee,

39. Art not thou that that of the soure beaks remainest, who I made to reigne in my world, that by them the end of times might come,

40. And the fourth is come, and hath ouercome all the beaks that were past, and hath power over the world with great fearfullnes, as once the whole copie of the earth with most riched oppression, and that diuelleth so long time in all the world with deceit?

41. For thou hast not udged the earth so truly.

42. Sceing thou hast troubled the meche, thou hast hurt the peaceable, and thou hast looke lyars, a destroyed the dwellings of them that brought forth fruite, and hast cast downe the walls of such as did thee no harme,

43. Therefore is thy wrongfull dealing come up unto the most High, and thy poyde unto the Rightie.

44. The most High also hath looked upon the poudre times, and behold, they are ended, and their abominations are fulfilled.

45. Therefore appeare no more, thou egg, no thine horrible wings, no thy wicked feathers, no thy malicious heads, and thy riched clavess, no all the vane body,

46. That all the earth may be reign'd, a some againe, as one delivered from the violence, and that the map hope for the judgement and mercie of him that made her.

CHAP. XII.

The declaration of the former willows.

A
And when the Lyon spake these words to the egg, I sawe,

And behold, the head that had the upper hand, appeared no more, neither did the soure wings appeare any more, that came to it, and set up them felues to reigne, whom king dome was small and full of hynoares.

And I sawe, and beholde, they appeared no more, and the whole bodye of the egg was burnt, so that the earth was in great fear. Then I awaked out of the trouble a trance of my minde, and from the great fear, and said unto my spirit,

Lo, this hast thou done unto me in that thou searchest out the wayes of the most High.

Lo, yet am I weary in my minde, and very weake in my spirit, a little strength is there in me, for I great fear I received this night.

Therefore nowe I will beare the most High that he will comfort me unto the end.

And I said, O Lord, Lord, if I haue founde grace before thy fight, and if I am sufficed with thee before many other, and if my prayer in deede be come up before thy face,

C. ii.

8 Com

Apocrypha.

II. Esdras.

Chap. xij.

8 Comfort me, for I know me thy servant the interpretation and difference of this hozible light, that thou mayst perfectly comfort my soul,

9 Seeing thou hast induced me worthy to show me the last times.

10 Then he said unto me, This is the interpretation of this vision,

11 The egle, whom thou sawest come up from the sea, is the * kingdome which was seene in the vision of thy brother Daniel.

12 But it was not expounded unto him: therefore now I declare it unto thee.

13 Behold, the dapes come, that there shall rise up a kingdome upon the earth, as it shall be seen above all kingdoms that were before it.

14 In it shall twelve Kings reigne one after another,

15 Whereof the second shall beginne to reigne, and shall have more time then the twelve.

16 And this do the twelve wings significeth which thou sawest.

17 As for the voyce that thou heardst I speak, as that thou sawest not goe out from the heads, but from the middles of the bodie thereof, this is the interpretation,

18 That after the time of that kingdome there shall arise great strike, and it shall be in danger to fall, but it shall not then fall, but it shall be restored againe to his beginning.

19 Concerning the eight underwings, which thou sawest hang unto her wings, this is the interpretation,

20 In him shall arise eight Kings, whose time shall be but small, and their yccres twitte, and two of them shall perish.

21 But when the middle time commeth, there shall be found kept a time, whiles his time beginneth to come, that it may be ended, but two shall be kept unto the end.

22 And where as thou sawest three heads standing, this is the interpretation,

23 In his last dates shall the most High raise up three kingdoms, and shall call againe many things into them, and they shall have the dominion of the earth,

24 And of those I dwel therein, with much grief above all those that were before them: therefore are they called the heads of the egle.

25 For they shall accomplish his wickednes, as shall finish his last end.

26 And where as thou sawest that I great head appeared no more, it significeth I one of them shall die upon his bed, and yet with paine.

27 For the two that remaine, the two that shall dieuourc them.

28 For the sword of the one shall deuoure the other: but at the last shall he fall in the sword himself.

29 And where as I sawest two underwings, that went toward the head, which was on the right side, this is the interpretation,

30 These are they whom the most High hath preferred for their end, whose kingdome is little, and full of trouble as thou sawest.

31 And the Lyon whom I sawest rising up out of the wood and roaring, as speaking unto the egle, and rebuking her for her vrighteousnes

with all the words that thou hast heard,

32 This is I winde which the most High hath kept for them, and for their wickednes unto the end, and he shall reproue them, and cast before them their poyles.

33 For he shall let them aline in the ind judgement, and shall rebuke them and correct them.

34 For he will deliver the refuse of my people by affliction, which are preferred upon my borders, and he shall make them full, until the coming of the day of ind judgement, whereof I have spoken unto thee from the beginning.

35 This is the dzeame that thou sawest, and these are the interpretations.

36 Thou only hast bene meete to knowe this secret of the most High.

37 Therefoze write all these things that thou hast seene, in a booke and hide them,

38 And teache thee the word of the people, whose heartes thou knowest may compre hende and keepe these ferrets.

39 But waite thou here yet seven dapes mo, that it may be shewed thee whatfoever it please the most High to declare unto thee: and with that he went his waye.

40 And when all the people were ended, that the seven dapes were past, I not come againe into the citie, they gathered them all together, from the least unto the most, and came unto me, and spake unto me, saying,

41 What haue we offended thee? or what cuill haue we done against thee, that thou tozakest us, and fittest in this place?

42 For of all the people thou only art left us as a grape of the vine, and as a candle in a darke place, and as an hauen oz' up preferred from the tempeft.

43 Are not the cuils which are come unto us, sufficient?

44 If thou then tozake us, howe much better had it bene for us, that we had bene burnt also as Sion was burnt?

45 For we are no better the the that died there: and they wept with a loude voice. Then answered I them, and said,

46 Be of good comfort, O Israel, and bee not heauy, thou house of Jacob.

47 For the most High hath you in remembrance, and the Al mightie hath not forgotten you in temptation.

48 As for me, I have not tozaken you, neither am I departed from you, but am come into this place to praye for the delolation of Sion, that I might seeke mercie for the lowe estate of your Sanctuarie.

49 And nowe goe your waye home every man, and after these dapes will I come unto you.

50 So the people went their waye into the citie, as I commanded them:

51 But I remainede til in the field seven dates, as he had commanded me, and did take only of the flowers of the field, and had my meat of the herbes in those dapes.

CHAP. XIII.

The vision of a winde coming forth of the sea, 3 Which became a man, as his properie power against his enemies, 21 The declaration of judgment.

1 And

Apocrypha.

Chap. xij.

1 A
And after the seven days I dreamed a
dream by night.

And behold, there arose a winde from the
sea, and it moured all the wanes thereof.

3 And I looked, & behold, there was a mighty man with the thousands of heauen: & when he turned his countenance to looke, al the things trembled that were scene under him.

4 And when the boyc went out of his mouth,
all they burned that heard his boyc, as the
earthly fire, when it feeleth the fire.

5 After these things I saw, and behold, there
was gathered together a multitude of me out
of number, from the foure windes of the heauen,
to fight against the man that came out from
the sea.

6 And I looked, & behold, he graued him selfe a
great mountaine, and flewe vp upon it.

7 But I would haue seen the countrep or place
whereout the hill was grauen, I could not.

8 I sawe after these things, & behold, all they
which came to fight against him, were soke a-
frained, and yet they durst fight.

9 Neuertheles, when he sawe the fiercenes of
the multitude that came, hee lifted not vp his
hand: for he holde no swoode nor any instru-
ment of warre,

10 But only, as I saw, he sent out of his mouth,
as it had bene a blast of fire, out of his lippes
the winde of the flame, and out of his tongue
he cast out sparkes and stozmes.

11 And they were all mirt together, even this
blast of fire, the winde of the flame, & the great
stozme, and fell with violence vpon the multi-
tude, which was prepared to fight, and burnt
them vp all, to that of the innumerable multi-
tude there was nothing scene, but only dust,
and smel of smoke. When I sawe this, I was
afraied.

12 Afterward he saw I the same man come
downe from the mountaine, and calling vnto
him another peaceable multitude.

13 And there came many vnto him, some with
loysfull countenance, and some with lad: some
of them were bound, a some brought of them
that were offred: and I was liche through
great fear, and awaked, and said,

14 Thou hast shewed thy servant these wonders
from the beginning, and hast confited me woz-
thy to receive my papper.

15 She we me nowe therefore the interprzetio
of this dzeame.

16 For thus I consider in mine understanding,
wo vnto them that shalbe left in those dayes,
and much more wo vnto them that are not
left behind.

17 For they were not left, were in heauines.

18 Now understand I the things that are laid
up in the latter dayes, which shall come both
unto them, and to those that are left behind.

19 Therefore are they come into great perils,
many necessities, as these dzeames declare.

20 Yet is it easier, that hee that is in danger,
should fall into these, and so fee the things to
come hereafter, then to palle away as a cloude
out of the world.

21 Then answered he me, and said, The inter-
pretation of the vifh would I shew thee, and I wil
open to thee the thing that thou hast required.

22 Where as thou hast spoken of them that are
left behind, this is the interpretation,

23 He that shall beare the danger in that time,
he shall keepe him selfe. They that be fallen in-
to danger, are such as hane works and faith
toward the most Mightie.

24 Knowe therefore, that they which be left be-
hind, are moze bleffed then they that be dead.

25 These are the meanings of the vifion, Where
as thou sawest a man comming vp from the
middes of the sea,

26 The same is he whom the most High hath
kept a great season, who by his owne selfe shall
deliver his creature, and he shall order them
that are left behind.

27 And where as thou sawest, that out of his
mouth there came as a blast of fire & storme,

28 And that he neither helde the swoode nor weap,
but that by his fiercenes he destroyed the whole
multitude, that came to fight against him, this
is the interpretation,

29 Behold, the dayes come that the most High
will beginne to deliver them that are upon
the earth:

30 And he shall astonish the hearts of them that
dwell upon the earth:

31 And one shall prepare to fight against an-
ther, citie against citie, & place against place,
*and nation against nation, and realme a-

Milt. 217.

32 When this commeth to palle, then shall the
tokens come, that I shewed thee before, and
then shall my Sonne be revealed, whom thou
sawest go vp as a man.

33 And when all the people heare his boyc, e-
uerie man shall in their owne land leaue the
battel that they haue one against another.

34 And an innumerable multitude shall ga-
thered as one, as they shall bee willing to come,
and to fight against him.

35 But he shall stand vp a top of mount Sion.

36 And Sion shall come, & shall be shewed to all,
being prepared & buupded, as thou sawest the
hill grauen forth without any hands.

37 And this my Sonne shall rebuke the wicked
inventions of those nations, which for their
wicked like are fallen in to the tempest,

38 And into tozmentes like to flame, whereby
they shall be tormented: and without any la-
bour will he destroy them, even by the Law,
which is compared vnto the fire.

39 And where as thou sawest that he gathered
another peaceable people vnto him,

40 Those are the ten tribes which were carved
away captives out of their owne land,* in the
time of Oeas the King, whom Salmanazar
the King of the Assyrians tooke captive, & ra-
tied them beyond the river: so were they
brought into another land.

41 But they tooke this counsell to them felues,
that they would leaue the multitude of the
heathen, and go forth into a further countrep,
where neuer mankinde dwelt,

C, iii.

42 That

Apocrypha.

II. Eſdras.

Chap. xiii.

42 That they might there keepe their statutes,
which they neuer kept in their owne land.

43 And they entred in at the narrow passages
of the river Euphrates.

44 For the most High then shewed them ſignes,
*and staped the ſprings of the cloud till they
were palled ouer.

Exod. 14.

21. 10th. 3.

15, 16.

45 For thow the countrep there was a great
tourney, euen of a yere and a half, and the fame
region is called "Akareth."

46 The dwelt they there vntill the latter time:
and when they come forthe againe,

47 The most High shall holde still the ſprings
of the river againe, that they may go thorow:
therefore lawest thou the multitude peaceable.

48 But they that be left behinde of thy people,
are thole that be found within my borders.

49 Nowe when he destroyed the multitude of
the nations that are gathered together, he shall
defend the people that remaine,

50 And the hal he shew great wöders vnto the.

51 Then said J, O Lord, Lozd, shewe me this,
wherefore haue I keene the man comming vp
from the middes of the sea?

52 And he faide vnto me, As thou canst neither
feeke out, nor knowe these things, that are in
the depe of the sea, so can no man vpon earth
fee my Sonne, or thole that be with him, but
in the time of that day.

53 This is the interpretation of the dicaame
which thou sawest, and whereby thou only art
lightened.

54 For thou haſt forsaken thine own Law, and
applied thy diligence vnto mine, I sought it.

55 Thy life haſt thou ordered in wisedome, and
haſt called understanding thy mother.

56 Therefore haue I shewed thee the rewards
With the most High: after three other dares
I will spake other things vnto thee, and will
decare vnto thee great and wonderous things.

57 Then went I forth vnto the field, gloriſing
and praiſing the most High for the Wonders
which he did in time,

58 Which he governing, ſuch things as come
in their seafons; and there I late three dares.

CHAP. XIIII.

3 HolY God appeared to Motes in the bushe. 10 All things decline to age.

15 The latter times wosse then the former. 29 The ungratitode of J.

rael. 35 The reſurreccion and judgement.

1 Vpon the third day I late vnder an oke, I
behold, there came forth a boye vnto me
out of the busb, and laid Eldras. Eldras.

2 And I laid, Here am I, Lord, and Stoode vp
vpon my feete.

Exo. 3, 2, 8.

3 Then said he vnto me, * In the bush I reuei-
led my ſelf, and I spake vnto Myles, when my
people ſerued in Egypt:

4 And I lent him, I led my people out of E-
gypt, and brought him vpon the mount Si-
nai, and I held him with me a long season,

5 And I told him many wonders, and thewed
him the secretes of the times and the end, and
commanded him, laying,

6 These words I haſt thou declare, and these
I haſt thou hide.

7 And now I lay vnto thee, that thou lay vp in
thine heart the ſignes that I haue shewed, I

the dicaemes that thou haſt ſeene, and the in-
terpretations which thou haſt heard.

For thou haſt be taken away from all, and
thou haſt remaine henceforth with my coun-
ſell, and with such as bee like thee, vntill the
times be ended.

For the world hath loſt his youth, and the
times beginne to wane olde.

10 For the world is divided into twelue parts,
and ten parts of it are gone already, and halfe
of the tenth part.

11 And there remaineth that which is after the
halfe of the tenth part.

12 Therefore let thine house in order, and re-
forme thy people, and comfort such of them as
be in trouble, now renounce the coorruption.

13 Let go from thee mostall thoughts: cast a-
way from thee the burdens of men, and put of
nowe the weake nature,

14 And let aside thy most grievous thoughts,
and haſe thee to departe from these times.

15 For greater euils then those, which thou haſt
ſene now, I haſt they commit.

16 For the weaker that the world is by reason
of age, the more I haſt the euils be increased vp
them that dwell therein.

17 For the truth is fled, farre awaye, and lies
are at hande: for nowe haſeth the vifion to
come, that thou haſt ſeene.

18 Then anſWERED J. and laid before thee,

19 Behold, O Lord, I will go as thou haſt com-
manded mee, and reſoone the people, which
are present: but they that I haſe boze after-
ward, who I haſt admonish them.

20 Thus the world is ſet in darkenes, and they
that dwell therein, are without light.

21 For thy Lawe is burnt, therefore no man
knoweth the things that are done of thee, or
the works that I haſe done.

22 But if I haue found grace before thee, Iuude
the holy Ghost into me, I will write all that
hath bene done in the worldde like the begin-
ning, which was written in thy law, that me-
may ſinde the path, and that they which will
line in the latter dares, may line.

23 And he anſWERED me, laying, Go, and gather
the people, and lay vnto them, that they feeke
thee not for fourtie dares,

24 But prepare thee many boye tables, I take to
thee these ſtue, Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Eta-
nus, & Aſiel, which are ready to write, Swiftp
and come hither, and I will light a candle of
understanding in thine heart, which I haſt not
be put out till the things be perſormed which
thou haſt beginne to write.

25 And come hither, and I will light a candle of
understanding in thine heart, which I haſt not
be put out till the things be perſormed which
thou haſt beginne to write.

26 And then I haſt thou declare some things
openly vnto the perfite men, and some things
I haſt thou I theſo secretly vnto the wife: to mo-
tow this houre I haſt thou beginne to write.

27 Then went I forth, as he commanded me, I
gathered all the people together, and layd,

28 Weare these words. O Israel,

29 * Our fathers at y beginning were straggers Gen-
in Egypt, from whence they were deliuered,

30 And receiued y Law of life, * which they kept Alwa-
not, which ye also haue transgresſed after the.

31 Then

Apocrypha.

II. Esdras.

Chap. xvi.

29 Where generations of dragons of Arabia
thal come out with many charret, and 3 mul-
titude of them shalbe caried as the wind upon
the earth, that all they which heare them, may
keare and tremble.
30 Even the Carmantians raging in wath, shal
go forth as the bores of the forest, thall come
with great power, and stande against them in
battel, and shal destroy a poition of the land of
the Assyrians.
31 But after this shal the dragons haue the
hyper hand, and remember their nature, and
shall tene about, and conspire to consume the
with a great power.
32 Then these shalbe troubled, keepe silence
by their power, and shall flee.
33 From the land of the Assyrians shall the ene-
mie beliege them, and consume some of them,
and in their hoste shalbe keare and dread, and
and strike among their kings.
34 Beholde cloudes from the East, and from the
North vnto the South, they are very hoz-
ible to looke upon, full of wath and storme.
35 They shall finite one upon another: and they
shall finite downe a great multitude of starres
upon the earth, even their owne starre, the
blood shalbe from the sword vnto the bellie,
36 And the tongue of man vnto the Camels
litter.
37 And there shalbe great kearefullnes and tre-
bling upon earth, and they that see the wath,
shalbe atrayed, and a trembling shal come vp-
on them.
38 And then there shall come great rozmes fro
the South, and from the North, part from
the West.
39 And from the East shal winds arise and shal
open it with the cloude, which he raised vp in
wath, and the starre, raised to keare the East
and West wind, shalbe destroyed.
40 And the great and mightie cloudes shall be
lift vp, full of wath, and the starre, that they
may make al the earth atrayed, and them that
dwell therein, and that they may powre out o-
uer enuerie he place, and lifted vp, an horzible
constellation,
41 As fire and hayle, and flying swords, many
waters, that all fieldes may be ful, all rivers
with the abundance of great waters.
42 And they shall breake downe the cities, and
walles, and mountaines, and hitles, and the
trees of the wood, and the graffe of the me-
dowes, and their corne.
43 And they shall goe with a freight course vn-
to Babylon, and make it atrayed.
44 They shall come to her, be liege her, and shall
powre forth the constellation, and al the wath
against her: then shall the dust and smoke goe
up vnto the heauen, and al they that be about
her, shall bewaile her.
45 And they that remaine under her, shall do ser-
 vice vnto them, that haue put her in keare.
46 And thou Asia, that art partaker of the
hope of Babylon, and the glozie of her per-
son,
47 Do vnto thee, O wraech, because thou haſt

made thy selfe like vnto her, and haſt deckt thy
daughters in whozédome, that they might
pleaue and glozie in their louers, which haue
alway deſyed to commit whozédome with
thee.
48 Thou haſt followed her that is hated in all
her workes, and in her inuentiones: thereſoſe
faith God,
49 I will ſende plagues upon thee, widowed,
pouertie, and kamine, and the sword, and pelli-
lence, to waste thine houſes with deſtruction
and death.
50 And the glozie of thy power shalbe dried vp,
as a flowrie when the heate richeſt, that is sent
upon thee.
51 Thou haſt be ſicke as a poore wife that is
plagued and beaten of women, so that the
mightie and the louers shall not be able to re-
ceive thee.
52 Woulde I thus hate thee, faith the Lord,
53 If thou haddest not alway ſlaue my choſen,
exalting the stroke of thine hands, and ſaid o-
uer their death, when thou wouldest drunken,
54 Set forth the beautie of thy countenancer
55 The reward of thy whozédome shalbe in thy
boſome: thereſoſe haſt thou receive a reward.
56 As thou haſt done vnto my choſen, faith the
Lord, so will God do vnto thee, and will deli-
uer thee vnto the plague.
57 And thy children shall die of hunger, and thou
haſt fall by the sword, and thy cities shalbe
broke downe, and all thy men haſt fal by the
sword in the field.
58 And they that be in the mountaines shall die
of hunger, and eat their owne fiche, and diuine
their owne blood for want of bread and thirſt
of water.
59 And thou, as vnappie, haſt come thogzowe
theſea, and receive plagues againe.
60 In the passage they shall cast downe the ſlaime
citie, and shall roote out one part of the lande,
and consume the poition of the glozie, that shall
returne to her that was destroyed.
61 When thou haſt be cast downe, thou haſt be
to them as stubble, and they shall be to thee as
fire.
62 And they shall destroy thee, and thy cities, thy
land, and thy mountaines: all thy woods and all
thy fruitefull trees shall they burne with fire.
63 Thy children shall they carry away captive,
and shall spoyle thy substance, and marre the
beautie of thy face.
CHAP. XVI.
1 Agaunst Babylon, Asia, and Egypt and Syria. 18, 53 Of the empires that
shall come vpon the world, with abmonition how to genereme them ſames
in afteruities. 54 To acknowledge their ſimes, and to commit them
ſames to the Lord. 55 Whole mightie yoybience and influence is to be re-
uerenced,
W D to thee, Babylon and Asia: woe to
thee, Egypt and Syria.
Gird your ſelues with ſaſſe: heare
cloth, and mourne your children, and be ſo:
for your deſtruction is at hand.
3 A sword is sent vnto you, a who will turne
it backe: a fire is sent among you, and who
will quench it.
4 Plagues are sent vnto you, a who can diuine
them away.

5 May

["Apocrypha.", "Tobit.", "Chap. 1.", "and righteousnes shall reigne among pou.", "45 Let not the sinner say, that he hath not sinned: for coles of tyne shall burne upon his head, which faith, I have not sinned before the Lord God and his glorie.", "Luk.16.16", "46 Behold, the Lord* knoweth all the works of men, their imaginations, their thoughts and their heartes.", "Gene.1.11.", "47 *For aldone as he said, Let Y earth be made, it was made: let the heauen be made, and it was created.", "Psal.147.4", "48 By his word were the starres established, and he * knoweth the number of them.", "49 He searcheth the depth, and the treasures thereof: he hath measured the sea, and what it contemneth.", "50 He hath but the sea in the middes of the waters, and with his word hath he hanged the earth upon the waters.", "51 He spreadeth out the heauen like a bawte: upon the waters hath he founded it.", "52 In the desart hath he made springs of water, and pooles upon the toppe of the mountaines, to powre out floods upon the hie rockes to water the earth,", "53 He made man, and put his heart in the mids of the bodie, and gave him heath, life and undertanding.", "54 And the Spirit of the almightie God, which made all things, and hath searched all the hid things in the secrets of the earth,", "55 He knoweth your inuentions, and what ye imagine in your heart when ye sinne a would hide your sinnes.", "56 Therefore hath the Lord searched a fought out al your works, that put you all to thame.", "57 And when your sinnes are brought forth befoe men, ye shall be confounded, and your owne sinnes shall stand as your accusers in that day.", "", "58 What will ye do, or holwe will ye hide your sinnes before God and his angels?", "59 Behold, God him selfe is a judge: fear him: cease from your sinnes, and forget your iniquities, and meddle no more from hence forthwith with them: so that God lead you forthwith, and deliver you from all trouble.", "60 For behold, the heathe of a great multitude is kindled against you, and they shall take away certaine of you, and shall slay you for meane to the idoles.", "61 And they shall consent unto them, that shall be had in derision & in reprouche, and troden under foote.", "62 For in euerie place and cities that are near, there shall be great in subsection against those that fear the Lord.", "63 They shall be like mad men: they shall spare none: they shall spoyle, and wade such as yet fear the Lord.", "64 For they then shall wade and spoyle their goods, and take them out of their houses.", "65 Then shall the trial of my broken appcare, as the golde is tried by the fire.", "66 Heare, O my beloved, faith the Lord: be-holde, the daires of trouble are at hand, but I will deliver you from them: be not ye afraid: doubt not, for God is your captain.", "67 Who so keepeth my commandements and precepts, faith the Lord God, let not your sinnes weigh upon you, and let not your iniquities like them slay you.", "68 And so doth then that are bounde with their sinnes, and conered with their iniquities, as a field is hedged in with bulles, and the path therof conered with thines, whereby no man may trauaile: it is that you, and is appointed to be denoured with fire.", "Tobit.", "CHAP. 1.", "Tobias parentace. 1 This gethune. 2 He is equite. 3 This charité and povission. 4 His flecth, and his goode are confuicate. 5 And after, reseeb.", "Tobias, hating capture, among the Gath, and now leave the way of truth.", "2 *or, Salomé, nafar.", "3. a. k. 17.", "1", "He booke of the wordes of Tobit sonne of Tobiel, the sonne of A-nancel, the sonne of Aduel, the sonne of Gabael, of fede of A-lael, a of the tribe of Nephthalim, who in the time of \" Enemellar King of the Allptians was * ledde away captive out of Thibe, which is at y right hand of thatitic, which is called properly Nephthalim, in Galilec aboue Aser.", "3", "I Tobit haue walked all my life long in the way of trueth & justice, and I did many things liberally to the biethen, which were of my nation, and came with me to Aincue into the land of the Allptians.", "4", "And when I was in mine owne countrie in the land of Israel, being but pong, al the tribe of Nephthalim my father fell fro the house of Jerufale, which was choſe out of all þribees of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, where the Téple of þtabernacle of the", "most High was consecrated, and built vp for all ages.", "*Now al the træbes, which fell from God, yea, *Jehu, and my father Nephtalims house offered to the heifer called Baal.", "But I (as it was ordered to al Israel by an eerclauing decree) went alone often to Jeru-salem, at the feasts. * bringing the first fruits, and the tenth of beafts, with that which was first hozne, and offered them at the altar to the Priests the children of Aaron.", "The first tenth part I gave to the Priests the sonnes of Aaron, which minifred in Jeru-falem: the other tenth part I fold, and came and beſowed it euer pere at Jeruſalem.", "The thirde tenth part I gave unto them to whome it was meete, as Deborá my fathers mother had commanded me: for my father left me as a pupil.", "C. furthermoze when I was come to the age of a man, I married Anna of *mine owne kinred, and of her I begate Tobias.", "10", "But whé I was ledde captive to Aincue all", "Tobias was aminers of all.", "5", "6", "7", "8", "The meates, and the bread, and the wine, and the fruit, and the fruit of the vine, and the fruit of the houſe, and the fruit of the field, and the fruit of the vine, and the fruit of the houſe, and the fruit of the field, and the fruit of the hou

Apocrypha.

Chap. ij.ijj.

18

all my bethzen, and thofe which were of my kinred, did eate of the * bread of the Scutilees.

Gen. 43-52

11 But I kept my selfe from eating,

12 Because I remembred God with all mine heart.

13 Therefoze the most High gaue me grace and fauour before Encmellar, so that I was his puruoper.

Re found
grace in the light of
Salutans
hym.

14 And I went into Media, I delivered ten talents of siluer to Sabael the *hrother of Gabziias* in the land of Media.

1on. sonne,
2on, in Ra-
gus, a citi-
ne of Media.

15 But whé Encmellar was dead, Sénachrib his sonne reigned in his steade: whole state be- cause it was troubled, I coude not go into Media.

16 or, Salma-
nar.
The chynges of To-
bus.

16 But in the time of Encmellar, I gaue ma- ny almes to my bethzen, and gaue my bread to them whieh were hungry,

17 And my clothes to the naked: and if I saue any of my kinred dead, or cast about þ walles of Aincue, I buried him.

18 And if the king Sennacherib had claine any, when he * was come and fled from Judea, I buried them priuily (foz in his wath he killed many) but the bodies were not founde when they were founde foiz of the king.

1 King. 19.

2. 35, 36, 37.

37, 38, 37.

39, 12, 12.

19 Therefoze when a certeine Aincuite had ac- cused me to the king, because I did bury them, I thd my selfe; because I knewe that I was fought to be claine, I ydewd my selfe foiz feare.

1 mac. 7.

41, 2, mac.
2, 19.

20 Tobit seeth from the face of the sonne, chrieth.

21 King. 2, 19.
2. King. 37.
3. 2, chron.
3, 21.

20 Then all my goods were spolped, neither was there any thing left me besides my wife Anna and my sonne Tobias.

21 Neuertheles * within five and fiftie dayes, two of his sonnes killed him, & they fled into the mountains of Arrarath, and Sarchedon- nus his sonne reigned in his steade, who ap- pointed ouer his fathers accompts and ouer all his domkeall affaires, Achiacharus my hrother Anaels sonne.

Tobit the
mumeth.

22 And when Achiacharus had made a request for me, I came againe to Aineue: now Achiacharus was cupbearer & keeper of the signet, and steward, ouerfaw the accompts: so Sarchedonus appointed him next unto him, and he was my brothers sonne.

CHAP. II.

1 Tobit reeth the faithfull to her table; 2. I leaue the feast to hirne the dead. 3. How he decanr blinde. 4. I his wife laboureth for perling.

14 She repretheth him bitterly.

1 Now when I was come home againe, 4 my wife Anna was restored unto me with my sonne Tobias, in the feast of Pentecoste, which is the holy feast of the seuen weekes, there was a great dinner prepared me, in the which I late downe to eat.

Tobit
nearly be-
to her
from
but
which
keeps God.

5 And when I saue abundance of meat, I laid to my sonne, Go, & bring what pooze man locer thou shall find of our bethzen which doth remember God, and loc I wil tary for thee.

6 But he came againe, and faide, Father, one of our nation is strangled, and is cast out in the market place.

Tobit: lea-
ume his
portio, fa-
eth in
the hea-
des into
his houſe
into his
burth it.

7 Then before I had taſted any meat, I start vp, and brought him into mine house until the going downe of the funne.

8 Then I returned I washed, and ate my meat in heauines,

Remembring that prophesie of Amos, which had faide, Poure solemne feasts, shalbe turned into mourning, and your toyes into wailing.

Amos.
10, 11, msc.
141.

Therefore I wept, after the going downe of the funne I went and made a graue and buried him.

But my neighbours mocked me, and faide, Doeth he not feare, to die for this cause, who * fled away, and yet loc, he buried the dead a gaine.

Tobit is
reburied of
his neigh-
bours.
Chap. 1, 19

9 The came night also whé I returned from þ burial, and slept at the wall of mine house be- cause I was polluted, having my face vnco- ered,

10 And I knew not that Sparrowes were in the wall, as mine eves were open, the Sparrowes cast downe warme dongue into mine eves, as a whitenes came in mine eyes, and I went to the Phylactios, but they helped me not. More- ouer Achiacharus did nouriſe me, until I went into Helinomis.

I he is
a chiefe
for an
ample of
pacture
in his por-
son.

11 And my wife Anna did take womens work to do.

The wife of
Tobit laboureth
for heliis-
ing.

12 And when she had sent them home to the owners, they paped the wages, and gaue a kid.

13 Which whé it was at mine houſe, and began to bleate, I laid unto her, from whéce is this kid: is it not stolen? render it to the owners: * for it is not lawfull to cate any thing that is stolen.

The in-
corner of
Tobit. 3

14 But she faide, It was giuen for a gifte more then the wages : but I did not beleeue, and bade her to render it to the owners, and I did bluſe, because of her. Furthermore she faide, * where are thine almes, thy tightcounſes? behold, they all nowe appeare in thec.

Deut. 12:1

Iol. 2, 29

CHAP. III.

1 The paper of Tobit. 2 Barra filiacens daughter, and the things þ came unto her, 12 her paper head. 19 The Angel Raphari lent.

T. Then I, being sozowful, did weepe, and in my sozowe played, laying,

D Lord, thou art just, and all thy works, and althwaies are mercie & trueth, and thou iudgest truely and justly for euer.

Remember me, and looke on me, neither pu- nish me according to my linnes or mine igno- taces or my fathers, which haue finned before thee.

15 For the the haue not obeyed thy commandements: wherefoze thou haſt delivered his * for 2 Deut. 18. 15:37.
a spille, and vnto captiuitie, and to death, and for a prouerbe of a repzoch to all them among whome we are diſpersed, and nowe "thou haue many and just causes,"

"or thy
injurious
are man,
and true.

2 To do with me according to my linnes, and my fathers, because we haue not kept thy commandements, neither haue walked in trueth before thee.

3 Now therefore deale with me as feemeth best unto thee, and commande my spirite to be taken from me, that I may be diſsolued, be- come earth: for it is better for me to die then to live, because I haue heard kallc repzoches, and am verpe sozowfull : commande there- foze that I may be diſsolued out of this di- stresse, and goe into the everlasting place: turne

Apocrypha.

Tobit.

Chap. iii.

turne not thy face away from me.

Sarra is
cherced
of her Mas
thers
map bes.

7. It came to pass the same day in Ecbata a city of Media, Sarra the daughter of Raguel was also repriocbed by her fathers maides.

8. Because she had bene married to Seuen hufbands, whom Almodens the eull spirite had killed, before that they had lien with her. Doest thou not knowe, faide they, that thou haest strangled thine hufbands: thou hast had nowe Seuen hufbands, neither wast thou named after any of them.

"or, when
she bear
them for
wher f. uls
they said.

9. Wherefoe does thou beate vs for them, if they be dead, go thy wayes heuce to them, that we may neuer see of thee either lonne or daughter.

10. When we heard these thinges, she was derie forowfull, so that she thought to have strangled her selfe. And she faide, I am the onely daughter of my father, if I do this, I shall flander him, and shall bring his age to þ graue with forowe.

Sar-a
plarich,
and fathet
that the
mas be
 delivered
to thaine.

11. Then she praped toward the windowe and faide, Bleffed art thou, O Lord my God, and thine holg and glorious Name is bleffed, and honizable for euer : let all thy workes praile thee for euer.

12. And nowe, O Loode, I set mine eyes, and my face toward thee,

13. And lay, Take me out of the earth, that I may heare no more any reproche.

The imme
lence of
Sarra.

14. Thou knowest, O Lord, that I am pure fro all line with man,

Her chas.
durie.

15. And that I haue neuer polluted my name, nor the name of my father in the lande of my captuitie: I am the onely daughter of my father, neither hath he any man child to be his heire, neither any † neere kinfman or childe bozne of him, to whome I may keepe my selfe for a wife: my Seuen huf bandes are nowe dead, why should I line? But if it please not thee that I should die, command to looke on me, and to pitie me that I doe no more heare reproche.

A Grek.
neere bro-
ther.

16. So the prapers of them both were heard before the maestie of the great God.

The man
era of To-
dit, & Dar-
are
heard both
at one.

17. And Raphael was sent to heale them both, that is, to take away the Whitenes of Tobit's eyes, to give Sarra the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the lonne of Tobit, to bind Almodens the eull spirite, because she beenged to Tobias by right. The selfe came time came Tobit home, and entred into his house, a Sarra the daughter of Raguel came downe from her chamber.

CHAP. III.

Precepts and erhotations of Tobit to his lonne.

Chap. I. 14

1. I that day Tobit remembered *the silver, which he had delivered to Sabac in Kages a citie of Media,

2. And faide with him selfe, Thane wifbed for death: wherefoe doe I not call for my lonne Tobias that I may admonishe him before he die.

Tobit's eyes
but for
to his sin,
when he
ought he
should die.

3. And when he had called him, he faide, My lonne, after that I am dead, butrie me, and de-

spite not thy mother, but *honor her all þ daps of thy life, and doe that which shal please her, and anger her not.

4. Remedy, my lonne, howe many dangers the sufficient when thou wast in her wombe, And when she dieth, bury her by me in the fame graue.

5. My lonne, let our Lord God always before thine eyes, and let not thy will be set to thine, to transgreue the commandementes of God. Do uprightly all thy life long, and follow not the wayes of vnrighte confines: for if thou deale trucly, thy doings shall p[ro]fiscrously succede to thee, and to all them which line unily.

6. Give almes, of thy substance; and when thou giuest almes, let not thine eye be enuious, neither turne thy face from any pooze, left that God turne his face from thee.

7. * Give almes according to thy substance : if thou haue but a little, be not alraide to give a little almes.

8. For thou lapeſt bp a good stooe for thy selfe against the day of necellitie,

9. *Because that almes doth deliuer fro death, and suffereth not to come into darkenes.

10. For almes is a good gifte before the moste high to all them which he it.

11. Beware of all * whoredome, my lonne, and chiefly take a wife of the feede of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife which is not of thy fathers stocke: for we are the children of the Propheters. Dae, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are our fathers from the beginning. Remember my lonne that they married boughs of their owne kinred, and were bleffed in their children and their feed shall inberite the land.

12. Now therefore, my lonne, loue thy brethren, and despife not in thine heart thy brethren, the sonnes and daughters of thy people, in not taking a wife of them: for in pride is delinquention, and much trouble, in ficiennes is fearerte and great pouertie: for seeenes is the mother of kamine.

13. Let not the * wages of any man, which hath wouought for thee, tarie with thee, but giue him it out of hande : for if thou serve GOD, he will also pap thee : be circumspect, my lonne, in all things that thou does, as be wel instructed in al thy conueration.

14. * Do that to no man which thou hatest: drinke not wine to make thee drunke, neither let drunkennesse goe with thee in thy journey.

15. *Gine of thy bzeade to the hungry, and of thy garments to them that are naked, and * of all thine abundance giue almes, as let not thine eye be enuious, when thou giuest almes.

16. "Powre out thy bread on the buriall of the just, but giue nothing to the wicked."

17. Aske counſel alway of the wife, and despife not any counſell that is profitable.

18. Bleſſe thy Loode God alway, as before of him that thy wayes may be made freight, and that all thy purposes, and counſels may profit: for cuery nation hath not counſel: but the Lord giueth all good things, and he bumaeth whom he wil, as he wil: now therefore, my lonne,

Apocrypha.

Chap. v. vj.

19

sonne, remember my commandements, neither
let them at any time be put out of thy minde.

Chap. vii. 14

20 *Furthermore I signifie this to thee, that I
deliuered ten talents to Gabriel the Sonne of
Gabrias at Rages in Media.

Tobias
with the
fear of
God.

21 And keare not, my Sonne, for as much as we
are made poore: for thou hast many things, if
thou keare God, and kee from all sinne, and doe
that thing which is acceptable unto him.

CHAP. V.

1 Tobias sent to Rages, 4 We conducteth with the Angel Raphael, which he did conduct him.

1 T
obias then answered, and said, Father,
I will do all things which thou hast com-
manded me.

2 But how can I receive the filuer, seeing I
know him not?

3 Then he gave him the hand writing, a faide
unto him, Seeke thee a man, which may goe
with thee, whiles I yet live, and I will give
him wages, and go and receive the moneyp.

4 Therfore when he was goneto seeke a man,
he found Raphael the Angel.

Tobias
sent by his
father to
Rages, see
let it be a com
pation,
therever
long was
that he
be homed to
his father.

5 But he knew not, and said unto him, May I
goe with thee into the lande of Media, and
knowešt thou those places well?

6 To whom the Angel faide, I will goe with
thee: for I haue remained with our brother
Gabael.

7 Then Tobias said to him, Tarie for me, till
I tell my father.

8 Then he faide unto him, Goe, and tarie not:
to he went in and said to his father, Behold, I
haue found one, which will go with me. Then
he said, Call him unto me, that I may knowe
of what tribe he is, and whether he be faithfull
to go with thee.

9 So he called him, and he came in, and they
saluted one another.

10 Then Tobit said unto him, Brother, thewe
me of what tribe and familie thou art.

11 To whom he said, Doct thou feeke a stocke
or familie, or an hired man to go with thy sonne.
Then Tobit said unto him, I woulde know,
brother, thy kynred and thy name.

12 Then he said, I am of the kinred of Azarias
and Ananias, the great, and of thy hzethen.

13 Then Tobit said, "Thou art welcome dzo-
thee, be not now angry with me, because I haue
enquired to know thy kinred, & thy family: for
thou art my brother of an honest & good stock:
for I know Ananias and Jonathan, sonnes
of that great Samaias: for we went together
to Jerusalem to worship, and offered the first
boone, & the tenth of the fruits, and they were
not deceiued with the error of our breathen:
my brother, thou art of a great stocke.

or, show
conuenient
happily.

14 But tell me, what wages shall I give thee?
will thou a groat a day and things necessarie,
as to mine owne sonne?

15 Hea, mozerour if he returne faſe, I will adde
some thing to the wages.

16 So they agreed. Then faide he to Tobias,
Preare the keſſe for the journey, & goe you on
Gods Name. And when his ſonne had prepa-
red all things for the journey, his father ſaid,
Go thou with this mſi, and God which dwel-

leth in heauen, prosper your journey, and the
Angel of God keepe you companie. So they
went forth both and departed, and the dogge
of the yong man with them.

17 But *Anna his mother wept, a faide to Tobit, who hast thou sent away our sonne, is he not the kaffe of our hand to minſer unto us?

Tobias
north
and
the
Angel
fere
thou
be
a
compau.
yis me
ther
wes
per.
Chap. 10. 4

18 Would to God we had not laied moneyp upon
money, but that it had bene cast away in re-
spect of our ſonne.

19 For that which GOD hath giuen vs to line
with, doeth suffice vs.

20 Then said Tobit, Be not carefull, my liker:
he that returne in kafetie, and thine eyes shall
fee him.

21 For the good Angel doeth keepe him compa-
nie, and his journey halbe p[ro]sperous, and he
shall returne kafe.

22 Then the made an ende of weeping.

CHAP. VI.

1 Tobias delivered from the filhe, 8 Raphael theweth him certeinne medias, 10 he conducted him toward Sarra.

A
sd as they went on their journey, they
came at night to the flood Tygris, and
there abode.

And when the young man went to wash him
ſelke, a ſiſhe leaped out of the riuer, and would
haue denoured him.

Tobias,
manner of
an, be
des
liued in
the
Angel.

Then the Angell faide unto him, Take the
ſiſhe. And the young man tooke the filhe, and
dzveo it to land.

To whom the Angel faide, Cut the ſiſhe, and
take the heart, and the liuer, and the gall, and
put them bp[re]fully.

So the young man did as the Angel com-
manded him: and when they had roſted a ſiſhe,
they ate it: then they both went on their way,
till they came to Ecbatane.

Then the young man faide to the Angell,
Brother Azarias, What auateth the heart, &
the liuer, and the gall of the ſiſhe?

And he faide unto him, Touching the heart
and the liuer, if a deuill oz an euil spirite trou-
ble any, We must make a perfume of this be-
foze the man oz the woman, and he halbe no
more duced.

As for the gall, anoint a man with white-
nes in his eyes, and he halbe healed.

And wh[ere] they were come nere to Rages,

10 The Angel ſaid to the young man, Brother,
to day we shall lodge with Raguel, who is thy
cousin: he also hath one only daughter named
Sarra: I will ſpeak for her that the map be
given theſe for a wife.

11 For to thee doeth * the right of her p[er]tenein,
seeing thou alone art the remnant of her kiu-
red,

12 And the maide is faise & wilemowe therefoſe
heare me, and I will ſpeak to her father, that
we may make the marriage when we are re-
turned from Rages: for I know that Raguel
cannot marrie her to another according to the
law of Moses: els he should defecue death, be-
cause the right doth rather apperteine to thee
then to any other man.

13 Then the p[ong] man anſwered the Angel, I
haue

D.i.

haue

Apocrypha.

Tobit.

Chap. viij. viij.

haue heard, brother Azarias, that this maid
hath bene giuen to euuen men, who all died
in the marriage chamber:

14 And I am the only begotten Sonne of my father, I am afraied, lest I go in to her, and die as the other before: for a wicked spirituall loueth her, which hurteth no bodie, but those which come in to her: wherefore I also feare least I die, and bring my father's and my mother's life because of me to the graue with sooth: for they have no other Sonne to bury them.

15 Then the Angel faide unto him, Dost thou not remember the preceptes which thy father gaue thee, that thou shouldst marrie a wife of thine owne kinred? wherefore heare me, O my brother: for the Sibyl be thy wife, neither be thou careful of the euill spiritre: for this fame might shall she be giuen thee in marriage.

16 And when thou Sibyl goe into the marriage
chamber, thou Sibyl take of the hote coles for
perfumes, and make a perfume of the heart,
and of the liuer of the Sibyl,

17 Which if the spiritre do smel, he wil flee away,
and neuer come againe any moze: but when
thou Sibyl come to her, rife vp both of you, I
praye to God which is merciful, who wil haue
pitie on you, and faue you: feare not, for she is
appointed vnto thee from the beginning, and
thou Sibyl keepe her, and she Sibyl go with thee:
moreouer I suppose that she shall beare thee
childen: now when Tobias had heard these
things, he loued her, and his heart was effec-
tually iopned to her.

CHAP. VII.

Tobias marrieth Sarra Raguelles daughter.

Haphaels 1
Tobias 2
come to
Raguel.

Ad when they were come to Ecbatane,
they came to the house of Raguel: Sarra
met them, after they had saluted one
another, she brought them into the house.

2 Then said Raguel to Edna his wife, Howe
like is this yong man to Tobit my cousin?

3 And Raguel asked, Whence are you, my brie-
then? To whom they faide, that they were of
the tribe of Nephthalim, and of the captives
that dwelt at Aineue.

4 Then he faide to them, Do ye knowe Tobit
our kinsman? And they said, We know him.
Then faide he, Is he in good health?

5 And they faide, He is both aliue, and in good
health: and Tobias said, He is my father.

6 Then Raguel leaped, and killed him, wept,

7 And blessed him, and faide vnto him, Thou
art the Sonne of an honest and good man : but
when he had heard that Tobit was blinde, he
was soorowfull and wept.

8 And likewife Edna his wife, and Sarra his
daughter wept. Moreouer thei receiued them
with a readie minde, and after that they had
killed a rame of the flocke, they set much meat
on the table. Then faide Tobias to Raphael,
Brother Azarias, put fooorth those things
whereof thou spakest in the way, that this bu-
fines may be difpatched.

9 So he communicated the matter with Ra-
guel, and Raguel faide to Tobias, Sate, and
Dinke and make merry.

Tobias
altherwia
guels
daughter
to wife.

10 For it is meete that thou shouldst marry my
daughter: neuerthelesse, I will declare unto
thee the trueth.

11 I haue giuen my daughter in marriage to fe-
uen men, who dyed ? might which they came
in vnto her: neuerthelesse, be thou of a good
courage and merry. But Tobias said, I will
eate nothing here, untill ye bring her hither,
betroth her to me.

12 Raguel said then, Marry her then according
to the cuitome: for thou art her cousin, and she
is thine. God which is mercifull, make this
proliferous to you in all good things.

13 Then he called his daughter Sarra, and she
came to her father, as he tooke her by the hand,
and gaue her for wife to Tobias, laying, Be-
hold, take her after the Lawe of Hopes, and
leade her away to thy father: and he blessed
them.

14 And called his wife Edna, as he tooke a booke
and wrote a contract, and sealed it.

15 Then they began to eate.

16 After, Raguel called his wife Edna, and said
unto her, Sittet, prepare another chamber, as
bizing her in thither.

17 Which when she had done, as he had didden
her, she brought her thither: then Sarra wept,
and her mother wiped away her daughters
teares.

18 And faide vnto her, Be of good comfort, my
daughter: the Lord of heauen and earth give
thee iope for this thy soorow: be of good comfort
my daughter.

CHAP. VIII.

Tobias diuithen away the euill spiritre, 4 The pleyeth to God with his lince,
1: Raguel pleyeth a graue for his Sonne in lause. 16 Raguel bleefling
the lince, 10

Ad when they had supped, they brought
Tobias in vnto her.

And as he went, he remembered ? words
of Raphael, and tooke coles for perfumes, and
put the heart and liuer of the Sibyl thereupon,
and made a perfume.

The which Smell when the euill spiritre had
smelled, he fled into the "untmost parties of
Egypt, whom the Angel bound.

And after ? they were both but in, Tobias
rose out of the bed, and faide, Sittet, aride a let
vs pray, that God would haue pitie on vs.

The began Tobias to say, Blessed art thou,
O God of our father's, as blessed is thine hole
a glorious Name for euery let the heauens bleſſe
thee, and all thy creatures.

Thou madest Adam, and gauest him * Eva
his wife for an helpe, and stap : of them came
mankind: thou haſt faide, It is not good, that
a man should be alone : let vs make vnto him
an ayde like vnto him ſelfe.

And now, O Lord, I take not this my lince
for forneation, but uprightly: therefore grauit
me mercie, that we may become aged toge-
ther.

8 And she said with him, Amen.

9 So they slept both that night, and Raguel
arose, and went and made a graue,

10 Saying, Is not he dead also?

11 But when Raguel was come into his house,
he was a man of great authority.

12 He puj

Apocrypha.

Tobit.

Chap.xij.xiii.

12 And when his eyes began to prieke, he rub-
bed them.

13 And the whitenes pilled away from the cos-
ters of his eyes, and when he sawe hisonne,
he fell upon his ncke,

14 And he wept and faide, Blessed art thou, O
Lord, and blessed be thy Name for euer, and
blessed be all thine holp Angels.

15 For thou haſt ſcourged me, and haſt had pitie on me : for beholde, I see my ſonne Tobias : and his ſonne, being glad went in, and tolde his father the great things that had come to paſe in Media.

16 Then Tobit wet out to meete his daughter
in lawe, reioycing a praping God to the gate
of Nineue; and thep which lawe him go, mar-
ueiled, because he had received his light.

17 But Tobit testified before them al, that God
had had pitie on him. And whé he came neere
to Sarra his daughter in lawe, he blessed her,
saying, Thou art welcome, daughter: God be
blessed, which hath brought thee onto vs, and
blessed be thy father: and there was great tope
among al his biethre which were at Nineue.

18 And Achiacharus & Malbas his brothers
ſonne came.

19 And Tobias marriage was kept ſeué daies
with great tope.

CHAP. XII.

2 Tobias declareth to his father the pleasures that Raphael had done him, 5. For which the brought recompense, 11. 15. Raphael declareth that he is an Angel sent of God.

1 T
hen Tobit called his ſonne Tobias, &
said unto him, Proude, my ſonne, wages
for the man, which went with thee, and
thou must giue him more.

2 And he faide unto him, O father, it shall not grieue me to giue him halke of those things which I haue brought.

3 For he hath brought me againe to thee in
faketie, and hath made whole my wife, and hath
brought me the money, and hath likewise hea-
led thee.

4 Then the olde man faide, It is due vnto him.

5 So he called the Angell, and ſaide vnto him,
Take halke of al that ye haue brought, and go
away in faketie.

6 But he tooke them both apart, and ſaid vnto
them, Praise God, and confelle him, a giue him
the glory, and praise him for the things which
he hath done vnto you before al the that line.
It is good to praise God, to craft his Name,
and to the we for the rest his cuident Workes with
honour : therefore be not wearpe to confelle
him.

7 It is good to keepe close the secretes of a
King, but it is honozable to reucile the Workes
of GOD : do that which is good, and no euil
thau touche you.

8 Prayer is good with faſſing, and almes, and
righteouſnes. A litie with righteouſinesſe is
better then much with vnrighteouſinesſe: it is
better to giue almes then to lape vp golde.

9 For almes doth deliuer from death, and doth purge all ſinne. Thoſe which exercise almes and righteouſnes, thal be filled with life.

10 But thep that ſinne, are enemies to their
owne life.

11 Surely I wil keepe close nothing from you:
neuertheleſse, I ſaid it was good to keepe close
the ferreſt of a King, but that it was honou-
rable to reucile the Workes of God.

12 Nowe therefore when thou diddeſt pray, and
Sarra thy daughter in lawe, I did bring to
memorie your praper before the Holie one; and
whé thou diddeſt burie the dead, I was with
thee likewife.

13 And when thou wail not grieued to rive vp,
a leaue thy diumer to burie the dead, thy good
deede was not hid from me : but I was with
thee.

14 And now God hath ſent me to heale thee, and
Sarra thy daughter in lawe.

15 I am Raphael one of the ſeuen holyp Angels,
which preſent the prayers of the Saints, and
which go forthe before his holy maiestie.

16 Then they were both troubled, and fell upon their face: for they feared.

17 But he ſaid vnto them, Feare not, for it shall go woe with you: prieſe God therefore.

18 For I came not of mine ownne pleasure, but
by the good will of your God: wherefore prieſe
him in all ages.

19 * All these daies I did appeare vnto you,
but I did neither eate noz drinke, but you kaw
it in vision.
Gentil and
ad. 19. and
ad. 20. and
ad. 21.

20 Now therefore giue God thanks: for I go
up to him that ſent me: but write all things
which are done, in a booke.

21 And when they toſe, they falme him no more.

22 Then they confell the great a wonderfull
worſes of God, and how the Angel of P Lord
had appeared to them.

CHAP. XIIIL

A thanke giuing of Tobit, who exhoueth all to prieſe the Lord.

T
hen Tobit wrote a praper of reioycing,
and ſaide, Blessed be God that liueth for
euer, and blessed be his kingdome.

* For he doeth ſcourge, and hath pitie: he lea-
deth to hell, and bringeth vp, neither is there
any that can auoide his hand.
Deut. 28. 10, 11,
Deut. 28. 12, 13,
Deut. 28. 14, 15.

Conſelle him before the Gentiles, ye children
of Israel: for he hath scattered you among
them.

There declare his greatnes, and extoll him
before all the living: for he is our Lord and
our God, and our Father for euer.

He hath ſcourged vs for our iniquities, and
will haue mercie againe, and will gather us out
of all nations, among whom we are scattered.

If you turne to him with your whole heart,
and with your whole minde, and deale vp-
rightly before him, the will he turne vnto you,
and wil not hide his face from you, but ye hal
see what he will do with you: therefore confelle
him with your whole mouth, a prieſe the Lord
of righteouſnes, and extoll the eueroſling
King. I wil confelle him in ſland of my capri-
uitie, and will deciare his power, and great-
nes to a finfull nation. O ye sinners, turne and
do iustice before him: who can tel if he will re-
ceue you to mercie, and haue pitie on you.

7 I will

Apocrypha.

Iudeth.

Chap. ii.

of in the foundation three-cube cubites,

4 And made the gates thereof, even gates that were lifted up on his leucie cubites, and the breadth of them fourtie cubites, for the going forth of his mightie armies, for the setting in array of his footemen).

5 Even in those days, king Nabuchodonozor made warre with king Arpharad in great field, which is the field in the coastes of Ragau.

6 Then came unto him all the people that dwelt in the mountaines, and all that dwelt by Euphrates, and Tygris and Hydaspes, and the country of Arioch the king of the Elymeans, and very many nations assembled them selfes to the battel of the sonnes of Chelod.

7 And Nabuchodonozor king of the Assyrians sent unto all that dwelt in Persia, and to all that dwelt in the West, to those that dwelt in Cilicia, and Damascus, and Libanus and Antilibanus, and to all that dwelt upon the sea coast,

8 And to the people, that are in Carmel, and Galaad, and the hier Galile, and the great field of Edzelam,

9 And to all that were in Hamaria, and the cities thereof, and beyond Jordan unto Jerusalem, and Betane, and Chellus, and Lades, and the river of Egypt, and Caphnes, and Ramesse and all the lande of Scelm,

10 Unto one come to Tanis, and Memphis, and to all the inhabitants of Egypt, to one come to the mountaines of Ethiopia.

11 But all the inhabitants of this country did not pass for the commandemèt of Nabuchodonozor king of the Assyrians, neither would they come with him to the battel: for they did not fear him: yea, he was before them as one man: therefore they sent away his ambassadors from them without effect, and with dishonour.

12 Therefore Nabuchodonozor was very angry with all his country, and ware by his throne and kingdome that he would surely be allowed upon all those coastes of Cilicia and Damascus, and Syria, and that he would slape with the sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all Judæa, and all that were in Egypt, till one come to the borders of the two seas.

13 Then he marched in battell array with his power against King Arpharad in the seuenth pere, and he prevailed in his battel: for he overthrew all the power of Arpharad, and all his horzemen, and all his chariots.

14 And he wanne his cities, and came unto Ecbatane, and tooke the towres, and spoyled the streets thereof, and turned the beautitie there of into thame.

15 He tooke also Arpharad in the mountaines of Ragau, and smote him through with his dartes, and destroyed him betterly that day.

16 So he returned afterward to Nineue, both he and all his company with a very great multitude of men of warre, and there he palled the time, and banked, both he, and his army, and hundred and twenty days.

CHAP. II.

5 Nabuchodonozor commanded the troops that all people should be brought into submission. 6 And to be destroyed that should be destroyed him. 7 The preparation of Gile Ades army. 8 The conquest of his enemies.

A And in the eighteenth pere, the two and twentieeth day of the first month, there was taken in the house of Nabuchodonozor king of the Assyrians, that he should be anenger him selfe on all the earth, as he had spoken.

So he called unto him all his officers and al his nobles, and communicated with them his ferreere counsell, and set before them with his owne mouth all the malice of the earth.

The they decreed to destroy al flesh, that had not obeyed the commandement of his mouth.

And when he had ended his counsel, Nabuchodonozor king of the Assyrians called Gile Ades his chiefe captaine, and which was next unto him, and said unto him,

Thus faith the great King, the lord of the whole earth, Beholde, thou shall go forth from my presence, and take with thee men that trust in their owne strength, of footemen, an hundred and twenty thouand, and the number of hours with their riders, twelve thouand,

And thou shall go against al the hoste country, because they did bepep my commandement. And thou shall declare unto them, that they prepare for me the lande and the water: for I will go forth in my strength against them, and will cacee the whole face of the earth with the feete of mine armie, and I will give them as a spoyle unto them,

So that their wounded shall fill their balleis, and their riuers, and the flood shall overflowe, being filled with their dead.

And I will bring their captiuitie to my bestow, partes of all the earth.

10 Thou therefore shall depart hence, and take up for me all their country; and if they peilde unto thee, thou shall reference them for me but till the day that I rebuke them.

11 But concerning them that rebel, let not thine eye spare them, but put them to death, and spoil them whereof ever thou goest.

12 For as I live, and the power of my kingdome, whatfoever I have spoken, that will I do by mine hande.

13 And take thou heed that thou transgress not any of the commandementes of the lord, but accomplish the them fully, as I have commanded thee, and deferre not to do them.

14 Then Gile Ades went forth from the presence of his lord, and called al the governors, and captaines, and officers of the armie of Arsur,

15 And he mustred the chosen men for the battel, as his lord had commended him, unto an hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on horsebacke.

16 And he let them in array according to the manner of setting a great armie in array.

17 And he tooke camels and alles for their burdens, a very great number, a thousand, and ten, and goates without number for their provision,

18 And vitale for every man of the armie, a very much golde and silver out of the Kings houze.

— 19 Then

Apocrypha.

Chap.ijj.ijij.

19 Then he went forth and al his power, to go before in the viage of King Habuchodonosor, and to cover all the face of the earth beforeward, with their charrets, and horzemen, and chosen footemen.

20 A great multitude also of sundrie sortes came with them like graalboppers, and like the grauell of the earth: for the multitude was without number.

21 And they went forth of Nineue three daves iourney towarde the countrep of Bectileth, a pitched from Bectileth nere the mountaine which is at the left hand of the upper Cilicia.

22 Then he tooke all his armie, his footemen and horzemen, and charrets, and went from thence into the mountaines,

23 And he destroyped Phud and Lud, and spoyled all the children of Rasses, and the children of Ismael, which were towarde the wildernes at the South of the Chelians.

24 Then he went ouer Suphates, and went through Hesopotamia, and destroyed all the hie cities that were upon the river of Arbo- nai, untill one come to the sea.

25 And he tooke the borders of Cilicia, and destroyed all that reuked him, & came to the borders of Japheth, which were towarde the South and ouer against Arabia.

26 Hee compassed also all the children of Ma-dian, and burnt vp their tabernacles, & spolied their lodges.

27 Then hee went downe into the countrep of Damascus, in the time of wheat haruest, and burnt vp all their fieldes, and destroyed their flockes and the herdes: he robbed their cities, and spoyled their countrep, and sinore al their pong men with the edge of the swode.

28 Therefore feare and trembling fell upon all the inhabitantes of the sea coast, which were in Sidon and Tyzus, and them that dwelt in Sur and Ocina, and all that dwelt in Jemnaan: and they that dwelt in Azotus, and Ascalon feared him greatly.

CHAP. IIL

The people subject to Dlofernes. 8 Thee dekroped their gods that Habuchodonosor might only be woude hipped.

1 SO they sent ambassadours to him with messages of peace, saying,

2 Behold, we are the seruants of Habuchodonosor the great King: we lie downe before thee: vse vs as alhe good in thy light.

3 Behold, our houres and al our places, and al our fieldes of wheat, and our flockes, and our heards, and all our lodges & tabernacles lie before thy face: vse them as it pleaseth thee.

4 Behold, euen our cities and the inhabitants thereof are thy seruants: come, and take the, as fecimeth good to thee.

5 SO the men came to Dlofernes, and declared unto them after this maner.

6 Then came he downe towarde the sea coast, both he and his armie, and set garisons in the hie cities, and tooke out of them chosen men for the warre.

7 So they and all the countrep round about received them, with crownes, with dances, & with timbzeis.

8 Pet hee brake downe all their borders, and cut downe their woodes: for it was mynmed him to destrope all the gods of the lande, that all nations should worship Habuchodonosor onely, and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as God.

9 Also he came against Esdraelon, nere unto Judea, ouer against the great krait of Judea,

10 And he pitched betweene Geba, & a citie of Scythians, and there he taried a moneth, that he might assemble all the baggage of his armie.

CHAP. III.

The Israelites were afraked and defuned their countrep. 6 Joacim the Priest w:terth to Bethulia, that they should forbe them leues. 9 They crped to the Lord, and jumbled them leues before him.

NDow the children of Israel that dwelt in Judea, heard all that Dlofernes' chief captaine of Habuchodonosor: King of the Aspyzians had done to the nations, and howe he had spoyled all their temples, and brought them to naught.

Therefoe they feared greatly his pizeence, and were troubled for Jerufalem, and for the Temple of the Lord their God.

For they were newly returned from the captuitie, and of late all the people was assembled in Judea, and the vellels and the altar of the House had bene sanctified because of the pollution.

Therefore they sent into all the coastes of Samaria, and the villages, and to Bethedoi, and Belmen, and Jericho, and to Chova, and Esora, and to the valley of Salem,

And tooke all the toppes of the hie mountains, and walled the villages that were in them, and put in vitailles for the provision of warre: for their fieldes were of late reaped.

Also Joacim the hie Priest which was in those daves in Jerufalem, wote to them that dwelt in Bethulia and Betomestham, which is ouer against Esdraelon towarde the open countrep nere to Dothaim.

Echozting them to keepe the pallasages of the mountaines: for by them there was an entrie into Judea, and it was easie to let them that would come vp, because the pallasage was streit for two men at the most.

And the children of Israel did as Joacim the hie Priest had commanded them with the Ancients of all the people of Israel, which dwelt at Jerufalem.

Then cryed euery man of Israel to God with great feruencie, and their soules with great affection.

Both they, and their wypes, and their children, and their cattell, and euery stranger, and hireling, and their bought seruants put lacke-cloth upon their lopnes.

Thus eucrie man and woman, and the children, and the inhabitantes of Jerufalem fell before the Temple, and sprieked albes upon their heads, and spred out their lacke-cloth before the face of the Lord: also they put lacke-cloth about the altar,

And cryed to the God of Israel, all with one consent most earnestly, that hee would not give their children for a piaye, and their

D. iiiij.

wines

Apocrypha.

Judeth.

Chap.v.vj.

wines for a people, and the cities of their inhe-
ritance to destruction, and the Sanctuarie
to pollution and repтоche, and vnto derision
to the heathen.

13 So God heard their prayers, a looked vpon
their affliction : for the people kast many
daves in all Judæa and Jeruſalem before the
Sanctuarie of the Lord almuſtie.

14 And Joacim the hie Driſt, a all the Priſtis
that kood before the Lord, and minſtred vn-
to the Lord, had their lopnes girt with ſacke-
cloth, and offred the continuall burnt offering,
with prayers and the free gifteres of the people,

15 And had albes on their mytres, and cryed
unto the Lord with all their power for grace,
and that he would looke vpon all the house of
Israel.

CHAP. V.
Achior the Ammonite both declare to Olofernes of, the manner of the
Israelites.

1 Then was it declared to Olofernes the
chieſe captaine of the armie of Allur, that
the children of Israel had prepared for
warre, and had ſbut the paſſages of the moi-
taines, and had walled al the toppes of the hie
hilles, a had layde impediments in the cham-
pion countrey.

2 Where with he was verie angrie, and called
all the princes of Moab, and the captaines of
Ammon, a all the governours of the sea coaſt.

3 And he laid vnto the, Shew me, O ye fonnes of Chanaan, who is this people y dwelleth in the mountaines? and what are the cities that they inhabite : and what is the multitude of their armie : and wherein is their strength a their power : and what King or captaine is tailed among them ouer their armie.

4 And why haue they determined not to come
to meete me, moze then all the inhabitantes of
the West?

Chap. II.
7-9.

5 Then * said Achiot the captaine of all the
fonnes of Ammo, Let my lord heare the word
of the mouth of his ſeruant, and I wil declare
vnto thee the trueth concerning this people,
that dwell in these mountaines, nere where
thou remainest: and there hal no lie come out
of the mouth of thy ſeruant.

6 This people come of the stocke of the Chal-
deans.

Gen. 12:32

7 And * they dwelt before in Aclopotamia, be-
cauſe they would not follow the gods of their
fathers, which were in the lande of Chaldea.

8 But they went out of the wapc of their anci-
eters and worſhipped the God of heauen, the
God whom they knewe : so they caſt them out
from the face of their gods, and they fled into
Aclopotamia, a ſoiourned there many daies.

Gen. 12:1.

9 Then * their God commanded them to de-
part from the place where they ſoiourned, a
to goe into the land of Chanaan, where they
dwelt, and were increased with golde and fil-
uer, and with very much cattel.

10 But when a ſamine couered all the lande of
Chanaan, they went downe into Egypt, and
dwelt there till they returned, a became there
a great multitude, so that one could not num-
ber their linage.

11 * Thereſoſe the King of Egypt roſe vp a Exod. 1,8,
gaſt them, and vded deced against them, and
brought them lowe with labouring in bizeke,
and made them ſlaues.

12 Then they cryed vnto their God, and hce
ſmote all the lande of Egypt with incurable
plagues: to the * Egyptians caſt them out of Exod. 11.
their fight.

13 And * God dzied the red Sea in their pſence, Exo. 14,21

14 And * brought them into mount Sina and
Cades barne, and caſt forth all that dwelt in
the wildernes.

15 So they dwelt in the land of the Amorites,
and they deſtroyed by their strength all them
of Eſchon, and paſſing ouer Jozdan, they in-
herited all the mountaines.

16 And they * caſt forſth before them the Chַ-  
naanites, and the Pheresites, and the Iju-  
fites, and them of Sichem, and all the Gerge-  
fites, and they dwelt in that countrey many  
daves.

17 And whples they ſinned not before their
God, the p[ro]ſcrod, because the God that ha-
ted iniquitie, was with them.

18 But * when they departed from the wapc
which he appointed them, they were deſtroyed
in many battels after a wonderfull toſke, and
were led captives into a lande that was not
theirs : and the Temple of their God was
cast to the ground, and their cities were taken
by the enemies.

19 But * nowe they are turned to their God, a Eternity
are come vp from the ſattering wherein they
were scattered, and haue poſſed Jeruſalem,
where their Temple is, a dwell in the moun-
taines which were desolate.

20 A nowe therefore, my loſde and governour, if
there be any ſaute in this people, so that they
have ſinned against their God, let vs consider
that this chalbe their ruine, and let vs go bp, so
we shall ouercome them.

21 But if there be none iniquitie in this people,
let my lord paſſe bp, least their Loſde defende
them, and their God be for them, and wee be-
come a repoche before all the world.

22 And when Achiot had ſinſhed these lay-
ings, all the people, standing round about the
tent, murmured: and the chieſe men of Olo-
fernes, and all that dwelt by the sea ſide and
in Moab, paſke that he should kill him.

23 Foſ, ay they, we feare not to meete the chil-
dren of Israel: for lo, it is a people that haue
no strength no[] power against a mightie armie.

24 Let vs therefore go vp, O Lord Olofernes, a
they chalbe meate for the whole armie.

CHAP. VI.
Olofernes blaſphemeth God whom Achiot confesſed. 14 Achiot is bis
intered into the hauDES of their of the Church, 18 The Berthullians crye
vnto the Lord.

A
d when the tumult of the men y were
about y counsel, was teacſed. Olofernes,
the chieſe captaine of the armie of Allur,
said vnto Achiot before all the people of the
strangers, and before all the children of Mo-
ab, and of them that were hired of Epiſiau,
Because thou haſt p[ro]phrſed among vs to
day, and haſt ſaide that the people of Jeruſaſſe
is able

Apocrypha.

Chap.vij.

Chap. 5:5,
21.

is able to fight, *because their God will defend them; and who is god but Aabuchodonosor?*
3 He will send his power, & will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God shall not deliver them; but we his servants will destroy them as one man: for they are not able to suferne the power of our hozes.

4 For wee will treade them vider feete with them, and their mountaines shalbe drunken with their bloud, and their fieldes shalbe filled with their dead bodies, and their footesteppes shall not be able to stande before vs: but they shall vetterly perisb.

5 The King Aabuchodonosor, lord of all the earth, hath laid, even he hath laid, none of my words shall be in vaine.

6 And thou Achiog an hireling of Ammon, because thou haſt spoken these words in the day of thine iniquity, thou haſt fee my face no more from this day untill I take vengeance of that people that is come out of Egypt.

7 And then shall the yron of mine armie, and the multitude of them that serue mee, palle through thy lides, and thou haſt fall among their flayne, when I haſt put them to flight.

8 And my seruauentes shall carie thee into the mountains, and they shall leaue thee at one of the hie cities: but thou haſt not perisb, til thou be destroyed with them.

9 And if thou perwade thy selfe in thy mynde, that they shall not be taken, let not thy countenance fall: I haue spoken it, and none of my words shall be in vaine.

10 Then commanded Dlofernes them concerning Achiog, that they should bring him to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.

11 So his seruantes tooke him, and brought him out of the campe into the plaine: and they went out from the middes of the plaine into the mountaines, & came vnto the fountaines that were vnder Bethulia.

12 And when the men of the citie sawe them from the toppe of the mountaine, they tooke their armour, and went footh of the citie vnto the toppe of the mountaine, euen al the throwers with flings, and kept them from coming vp, by casting stones against them.

13 But they went priuily under the hill, and bound Achiog, and left him lying at the foote of the hill, and returned to their lord.

14 Then the Israelites came down from their citie, and stooode about him, & loofed him and brought him into Bethulia, & presented him to the governours of their citie,

15 Which were in those dapes, Ozi as the sonne of Aetha, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabus the sonne of Gothoniel, and Charmis the sonne of Melchiel.

16 And they called together all the Ancients of the citie, & all their pouth ranne together, and their women to the assemblie: and they set Achiog in the middes of all their people. Then Ozi as aked him of that which was done.

17 And he answered and declared vnto them the words of the counsell of Dlofernes, and

all the words that hee had spoken in the middes of the princes of Allur, and whatsoeuer Dlofernes had spoken proudly against the house of Israel.

18 Then the people fell downe and worshipped God, and cryed vnto God, saying,

19 O Lord God of heauen, behold their pride, & haue mercie on the bafe nesse of our people, and behold this day the face of those that are lantedified vnto thee.

20 Then they comfozted Achiog, and praysed him greatly.

21 And Ozi as tooke him out of y assemblie into his house, and made a keast to the Elders, and they called on the God of Israel all that night for helpe.

CHAP. VII.

Dlofernes both beſtige Bethulia, & the counsell of the Thumnicans and other against the Joacure. 23 The Betulians turne against their governours for lache of water.

T
he next day, Dlofernes commanded all his armie and all his people, which were come to take his parte, þ they should remoue their campes against Bethulia, & that they should take all the crieues of the hill, & to make warre against the children of Israel.

2 Then their strong men remoued their capes in that daye, and the armie of the me of warre was an hundreth thousand & leucntic fooremen, and twelue thousand hozemen, beside the baggage and other men that were afoote among them, a very great multitude.

And they caped in the plaine neere vnto Bethulia, by the fountaine, and they spied abroad toward Dothaim vnto Belvain, & in length from Bethulia vnto Ciamon, which is ouer against Edzraelom.

Now the children of Israel, when they sawe the multitude, were greatly troubled, & faide every one to his neighbour. Now will they sput vp all the whole earth: for neither the hie mountaines nor the valletis, nor the hilles are able to abide their burden.

Then euery one tooke his weapés of warre, and burning fires in their towres, they remained and watched all that night.

But in the second dape, Dlofernes brought forth all his hozemen in the fight of the children of Israel, which were in Bethul, &

And bewed the pallages vp to their citie, & came to the fountaines of their waters, and tooke them and let garilons of men of warre ouer them, and remoued toward his people.

Then came vnto him all the chief of the children of Esau, and all the governours of the people of Moab, and all the captaines of the sea coast, and laid,

Let our captaine now heare a word, least an inconuenience come in thine armie.

For this people of the children of Israel doe not trust in their speares, but in the height of the mountaines, wherein they dwell, because it is not easie to come vp to the toppes of their mountaines.

Nowe therefore, my lorde, fight not against them in battell aray, & there shall not so much as one man of thy people perisb.

Remayne in thy camp e, and keepe all the men

Apocrypha.

Judeth.

Chap.viiij.

men of thine armie, and let thy men keepe still
the water of the courtrep, that commeth forth
at the foote of the mountaine.

13 For all the inhabitants of Bethulia haue their water thereof: so shall thirst kill them, & they shall give vp their citie: and we and our people will go vp to the toppes of the mountains that are neere, and will campe vpon them, & watche that none go out of the citie.

14 So they and their wines, and their children shall be consumed with famine, and before the land come against them, they shall be ouerthrown in the kreeetes where they dwell.

15 Thus shall thou render them an cuill reward, because they rebelled and obeied not thy person peaceably.

16 And these words pleased Dlofernes and all his kouldiers, and he appointed to doe as they had spoken.

17 So the campe of the children of Ammon departed, and with them five thousand of the Assyrians, and they pitched in the valley, and took the waters, and the fountaines of the waters of the children of Israel.

18 Then the children of Etan went vp with the children of Ammon, & camped in the mountains ouer against Dothaim, and they sent some of them selues toward the South, and toward the East, ouer against Rebecl, which is neere vnto Chul, that is vp the river Hochmur: and the rest of the armie of the Assyrians camped in the field, and couered the whole land: for their tents and their baggage were pitched in a wonderfull great place.

19 Then the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lord their God, because their heart layled: for all their enemies had compassed them about, and there was no waye to escape out from among them.

20 Thus all the companie of Asfyr remapned about them, both their footemen, chariots and horsemen, foure and thirtie dayes: so that even all the places of their waters failed all the inhabitants of Bethulia.

21 And the cisternes were empty, and they had not water enough to drinke for one daye: for they gaue them to drinke by measure.

22 Therefore their children swooned, and their wines and yong men failed for thirst, and fell downe in the kreeetes of the citie, and by the passages of the gates, & there was no strength in them.

23 Then all the people assembled to Dzias, and to the chiefe of the citie, both yong men and women, and children, and cryed with a loude boye, and layd before all the Elders,

24 The * Lord judge betweene vs and you: for you haue done vs great iniurie, in that ye haue not required peace of the children of Asfyr.

25 For now we haue no helper: but God hath solde us into their hands, that we should bee thrown downe before them with thirst and great destruction.

26 Nowe therefore call them together, and deliver the whole citie for a people to the people of Dlofernes, and to all his armie.

27 For it is better for vs to bee made a people vnto them, then to dpe for thirst: for we will be his seruants that we may line, and not see the death of our infants before our eyes, nor our wines, nor our children to dpe.

28 We take to witnesses against you the heauen and the earth, and our God and Lord of our fathers, which punisheth vs, according to our finnes and the finnes of our fathers, that hee lay not these things to our charge.

29 Then there was a great crye of all with one consent in the middes of the assemblie, & they cryed vnto the Lord God with a loude boye.

30 Then faide Dzias to them, Biethzen, be of good courage: let vs wayte yet five dayes, in the which place the Lord our God may turne his mercie toward vs: for he will not forake vs in the ende.

31 And if these dayes palle, and there come not helpe vnto vs, I will doe according to your word.

32 So he separated the people, every one vnto their charge, and they went vnto the walles and towres of their citie, & sent their wines and their children into their houses, and they were very low brought in the citie.

CHAP.VIII.

The parentage, life and concerning of Judeth. 1. She rebuketh the fainnes of the governours. 2. She the weath that they should not tempt God, but waye up on him for fucour. 3. Her enterpise against the enemies.

Now at that time, Judeth heard thereof, which was the daughter of Merari the sonne of Or, the sonne of Joseph, the sonne of Dziel, the sonne of Elcia, the sonne ofANA nias, the sonne of Sedeon, the sonne of Kaphaim, the sonne of Acito, the sonne of Eliu, the sonne of Eliab, the sonne of Pathanael, the sonne of Samael, the sonne of Salafadai, the sonne of Israel.

4 And Manasses was her hufbad, of her stock and kindred, who died in the barely harvest.

5 For as he was diligent ouer them that boffid the auces in the fielde, the heate came vpon his head, and he fell vpon his bed, and dyed in the citie of Bethulia, and they buried him with his fathers in the fielde betweene Dothaim and Balamo.

6 So Judeth was in her house a wurdowe three pereys and foure moneths.

7 And she made her a tent vpon her house, and put on lackecloth on her lopnes, and wate her widowes apparell.

8 And she fasted all the dayes of her widowehode, saue the daye before the Sabbath and the Sabbaths, and the daye before the newe moones, and in the feasts and solenne dayes of the house of Israel.

9 She was also of a goodly countenance and very beautifull to behold: and her hufbande Manasses had left her gold and silver, & men feruants, and maide feruants, and cattel, and postefions, where she remained.

10 And there was none that could bring an exuill report of her: for she feared God greatly.

11 Now when she heard the cuill wordes of the people against the governour, because they fainted for lacke of waters (for Judeth had heard

Apocrypha.

Judeth.

Chap.x.

their daughters to be captives, and all their spoiles for a booke to the children that thou lovest: which were moued with thy zeale, & abhorred the pollution of their blond, and called upon thee for aide, O God, O my God, heare me also a widdowe.

5 For thou haſt wionght the things afore, and these, and the things that shall be after, and thou confiderest the things that are preſent, & the things that are to come.

6 For the things which thou doest purpose, are preſent, and lay, Behold, we are here: for all thy wayes are ready, and thy judgements are foze knowen.

7 Behold, the Alpriās are multiplied by their power: they haue exalted themselves with horses & horsemen: they gloie in the strength of their footemen: they trust in shield, speare and bow, and ling, & do not knowe that thou art the Lord that breakest the battels: the Lord is thy Name.

8 Breakest thou their strength by thy power, & breake their force by thy Wizath: for they haue purpofed to defile thy Sanctuary, & to pollute & Tabernacle where thy glorious Name resteth, and to cast downe with weapons the hornes of the Altar.

9 Behold their pride, and send thy Wizath upon their heads: give into mine hand which am a wypdowe, the strength that I haue conceived.

Jude, 4, 21.
& 5, 26.

10 * Smite by the Deceit of my Lippes the Servant With the Prince, & the Prince with the Servant: abate their height by the hand of a woman.

Jude, 7, 2.
2. & 14.
11. & 16, 3.
& 10, 6.

11 * For thy power standeth not in the multitude, nor thy might in strong men: but thou, O Lord, art the helpe of the humble and little ones, the defender of the weak, and the protector of them that are forlaken, and the Saviour of them that are without hope.

12 Surely, surely thou art the God of my father, and the God of the inheritance of Israel, the Lord of heauen and earth, the creator of the waters, the King of all creatures: heare thou my prayer,

13 And grant me words & craft, and a wound, and a stroke against them that enterpize cruel things against thy covenant, & against thine holy House, and against the top of Sion, and against a house of the possession of thy children.

14 Shew eutently among all thy people, and all the tribes, that they may know that thou art the God of all power and strength, & that there is none other that defendeth the people of Israel, but thou.

CHAP. X.

1 Jude, decketh her selfe and goeth forth of the city. 11 She is taken of the watch of the Alpriās and brought to Alpfernes.

1 Now after she had ceased to crye unto the God of Israel, and had made an ende of all these Wordes,

2 She rose where shee had fallen downe, and called her mayde, and went downe into the house, in the which she abode in the Sabbath Dries and in the feast Dayes,

3 And putting away the lackeloth wherewith she was clad, and putting of the garments of

her widowehode, she washed her body with water, and anointed it with much oyntment, and drested the heare of her head, & put attire upon it, and put on her garments of gladnes, wherewith shee was clad during the life of Manasses her husband.

4 And the put flippers on her feete, and put on braclets, and fleeces, and rings, and carings, and all her ornaments, and she decked her selfe with aueelp to allure the eyes of all me that should see her.

5 Then shee gaue her maide a bottell of wine, and a potte of oyle, and filled a frippe with flowre, and with drie figges, and with fine bread: so she lapped vp all these things together and layde them upon her.

6 Thus they went forth to the gate of the citie of Bethulia, and found standing there Oziag, and the Ancients of the citie, Chabzis and Charmis.

7 And when they sawe her that her face was changed, and that her garment was changed, they maruicled greatiue at her wonderful beautie, and laid onto her,

8 The God, the God of our fathers give thee fauour, and accomplish the thine enterprizes to the glorie of the children of Israel, and to the exaltation of Jerusalem. Then they worshipped God.

9 And the laid onto the, Commande the gates of the citie to be opened onto me, that I may go forth to accomplish the things which you haue spoken to me. So they commanded the pong men to open unto her, as she had spoken.

10 And when they had done so, Jude went out, shee & her maide with her, and the men of the citie looked after her, untill she was gone downe the mountains, and till shee had palled the valley, and could see her no more.

11 Thus they went freight forth in the valley, and the first watche of the Alprians met her, and took her, and asked her, Of what people art thou, and whence commest thou, and whither goest thou? And she laid, I am a woman of the Chabzies, and am kied from them: for they albe given you to be confined.

12 And I come before Alpfernes, the chiefe captaine of your armie, to declare him true things, and I will knowe before him the waye whereby he shall go and winne all the mountains, without losing the bodie or life of any of his men.

13 Nowe when the men heard her Wordes, and behelde her countenance, they wondred greatly at her beautie, and laid unto her,

14 Thou haſt faueed thy life, in that thou haſt faueed to come downe to the presence of our Lord: nowe therefore come to his tent, and some of his shall conduct thee vntill they haue delivered thee into his hands.

15 And when thou standest before him, hee not afraide in thine heart, but hee unto him acording as thou haſt to laye, and hee will inure thee well.

16 Then they chose out of them an hundredth men, & prepared a chariot for her & her maide, and

Apocrypha.

Chap. xj.

and brought her to the tent of Dlofernes.

18 Then there was a running to a fro, through-out the campe: for her comming was bruted among the tents; and they came and stooode round about her: for shee stooode without the tent of Dlofernes until they had declared vnto him concerning her.

19 And they marueiled at her beautie, a wonder'd at the children of Israel because of her, and every one laid vnto his neighbour, who would despite this people, if haue amog them such women: surely it is not good that one man of the be left: for if they should remaine, they might deceive the whole earth.

20 Then Dlofernes garde went out, and al his seruants, and they brought her into the tent.

21 Nowe Dlofernes rested vpon his bed under a canopic, which was wouen with purple and gold and emeraudes, and precious stones.

22 So they shewed him of her, and he came footh vnto the entrie of his tent, and they carried lampes of lilyer before him.

23 And when Judeth was come before him, a his seruants, they all marueiled at the beautie of her countenance, and shee fell downe vpon her face, and did reverence vnto him, and his seruants tooke her vp.

CHAP. XI.

1 Dlofernes comforteth Judeth, 2 And alkep the cause of her comming.

3 The deceneth him by her faire words.

1 Then saide Dlofernes vnto her, Woman, bee of good comfort: fear not in thine heart: for I neuer hurt any that would serve Aabuchodonofor, y king of al the earth.

2 Now therefore if thy people that dwelleth in the mountains, had not despite me, I would not haue lifted vp my speare against them: but they haue procured these things to them felues.

3 But now fel me wherefore thou art fled from them, and art come vnto vs: for thou art come for safetye, bee of good comfort, thou shall live from this night, and hereafter.

4 For none shall hurt thee, but intcate thee well, as they do the seruants of King Aabuchodonofor, my lord.

5 Then Judeth saide vnto him, Recciuie the words of thy seruant, and suffer thine hand-maide to speake in thy presence, and I will declare no lie to my lord this night.

6 And if thou wilt followe the words of thine handmaide, God will bring the thing perfect into palie by thee, and my lord: shall not fail of his purpose.

7 As Aabuchodonofor, King of all the earth, Jueeth, and as his power is of force, who hath sent thee to eke me all persons, not only men, shall be made subiect to him by thee, but also the beaues of the fieldes, as the cattell, and the foules of the heauen shall live by thy power vnto Aabuchodonofor, and all his houfe.

8 For if we haue heard of thy wisedome and of thy prudent speire, it is declared through the whole earth, that thou only art excellent in al the kingdom; a of a wonderfull knowledge, and in states of warre marueilous.

9 Now as *as concerning the matter which A-

chio: did speake in thy counsel, we haue heard his words: for the men of Bethulia did take him, and he declared vnto them all that he had spoken vnto thee.

10 Therefore, O LORD, & governour, reiect not his word, but let it in thine heart, for it is true: for there is no punishment against our people, neither can the word prevaile against them, except theyinne against their God.

11 Now therefore least my LORD should be krushtate, and voyde of his purpose, & that death may fall upon them, and that they may be taken in their sinne whiles they pouke their God to anger, which is so oft times as they do that which is not befeeming,

12 (for that because their vitaines faile, and al their water is wasted, they haue determined to take their cattell, and haue purpoſed to consume all things that God had forbidden them to eate by his lawes;

13 Pca, they haue purpoſed to consume the first fruits of the wheat, & the tithes of the wine, & of the oile which they had reſerued and ſanctified for the Priests that serve in Jeruſalem before the face of our God: the which things it is not lawfull for any of the people to touch with their hands.

14 Moreover they haue sent to Jeruſalem, because they also that dwell there, haue done the like, such as should bring them licence from the Senate)

15 Nowe when they shall bring them words, they will do it, and they shall be given thee to be destroyed the same day.

16 Wherefore I thine handmaide, knowing all this, am fled from their presence, and God hath lent mee to wooke a thing with thee, whereof all the earth shall wonder, and who-foeuer shall heare it.

17 For thy seruant feareth God, and wotlip-peth the God of heauen daye and night, and now let me remaine with thee, my lord, and let thy seruant goe out in the night into the valley, and I will præve vnto God, that hee may reueile vnto me when they shall commit their linnen,

18 And I will come and shew it vnto the children thou shall goe forth with all thine armie; and there shall bee none of them that shall resist thee.

19 And I will leade thee through the middes of Judea, vntill thou come before Jeruſalem, and I will let thy throne in the middes thereof, and thou shall drize them as theepe that haue no bepheard, a dogge shall not barge with his mouth against thee: for these things haue bene spoken vnto me, and declared vnto mee according to my foreknowledge, and I am lent to shew thee.

20 Then her words pleaked Dlofernes, and all his seruants, and they marueiled at her wisedome, and layde,

21 There is not such a woman in all the world, both for beautie of face, a wisedome of words.

22 Likewise Dlofernes layde vnto her, God "hath done this, to send thee before the people, E. i. that

“Or, as he said, done well.

Chap. 5:5.

that

Apocrypha.

Judeth.

Chap.xij.xij.

that strength might be in our hands, and destruction upon them that despiſe my lord.

23 And nowe thou art both beautiſull in thy countenance, and wittie in thy words: pure ly if thou do as thou haſt ſpoken, thy God shall be my God, and thou haſt dwell in the house of Aabuchodonofoz, and thalt bee renowned throughout the whole earth.

CHAP. XII.

2 Judeth would not pollute her ſelfe with the meat of the Gentiles. 3 She maketh her request that she might go out by night to Jacob. 4 Aſter ſenes canleth her to come to the banket.

1 Then hee commaunded to bring her in where his treasures were laid, and bade that they should prepare ſoſ her of his owne meats, and that she should drinke of his owne wine.

Gen.43.
31, dan.1.8
tob.1.11

But Judeth ſaid, *I may not eat of the, least there should be an offence, but I can suffice my ſelfe with the things that I haue brought.

The Aſlofernes laid vnto her, If the things that thou haſt, should faile, howe ſhould weee give thee the like, for there is none with vs of thy nation.

Then ſaid Judeth vnto him, As thy soule lioeth, my lord, thine handmaide shall not spend those things that I haue, before the Lozde worke by mine hand the things that he hath determined.

Then the ſeruants of Aſlofernes brought her into the tent, and she slept untill midnight, and rose at the morning watch,

And lent to Aſlofernes, laying, Let my Lozde commade that thine handmaide may go forth vnto prayer.

Then Aſlofernes commad ed his garde that they should not stay her: thus she abode in the campe three daies, and went out in the night into the valley of Bethulia, and washed her ſelfe in a fountain, euen in the water by the campe.

And when ſhee came out, ſhee prayed vnto the Lozde God of Israel, that he would direct her waye to the erpaltation of the children of her people.

So she returned, and remained pure in the tent, untill she ate her meate at euening.

And in the fourth day, Aſlofernes made a feast to his owne ſeruants onely, and called none of them to the banket, that had the fairest in hand.

Then ſaide he to Bagoas the eunuch who had charge ouer all that he had, Goe and perfuade this Hebrewe woman, which is with thee, that she come vnto vs and eate, & drinke with vs.

For it were a thame for vs, if we should let ich a woman alone, & not talke with her, and if we do not allure her, she will mocke vs.

Then went Bagoas from the presence of Aſlofernes, and came to her, and ſaide, Let not this faire maide make difficultie to go in tomp Lozde, to be honoured in his presence, and to drinke wine with vs topfully, and to be entreated as one of the daughters of the children of Aabuchodonofoz.

The ſaid Judeth vnto him, who am I now, that I should gainſap my lord: Surely what ſoſuer pleaseth him, I will doe p[er]ſively, and it ſhal be my iop vnto the day of my death.

So ſhee arose and trimmed her with garments, and with all the ornamentals of women, and her maide went, and spied forouth her ſkinnes on the ground ouer against Aſlofernes, which ſhee had received of Bagoas for her dayly bſe, that she might ſit and eate upon them.

Nowe when Judeth came and fate downe, Aſlofernes heart was rauilbed with her, and his ſpirit was moued, and hee defred greatly her company: for ſhee had wapped for the time to deceiue her from the daye that he had keene her.

The ſaid Aſlofernes vnto her, Drinke now, and be mery with vs.

So Judeth ſaid, I drinke now, my Lozde, because my ſtate is erpalted this daye moze then euer it was since I was bozne.

Then the tooke, & ate and dranke before him the things, that her maide had prepared.

And Aſlofernes reſcoped because of her, and dranke much moze wine then he had drunken at any time in one day since he was bozne.

CHAP. XIII.

1 Judeth wayeth for strength. 2 She quicketh off Aſlofernes maide, to the returne to Bethulia, and repreeth her people.

Nowe when the euening was come, his ſeruants made haſte to depart, and Bagoas but his tent without, & dimified those that were p[er]ſent, from the p[er]ſence of his lord, and they went to their beddes: for they were all wearie, because the feast had bene long.

And Judeth was left alone in the tent, and Aſlofernes was stretched along vpon his bed: for he was filled with *wine.

Now Judeth had commanded her ſaide to stande without her chamber, and to wapte for her comming forth as she did daily: for she ſaid, She would goe forth to her prayers, & the spake to Bagoas according to ſame purpose.

So all went fourth of her p[er]ſence, and none was left in the chāber, neither little nor great: then Judeth standing by his bed, ſaide in her heart, O Lord God of alpower, behold at this p[er]ſent the workes of mine hands for the erpaltation of Jeruſalem.

For nowe is the time to helpe chine inheri tance, and to execute mine enterpises, to the destruction of the enemies which are then a gainſt vs.

Then he came to the post of the bedde which was at Aſlofernes head, and tooke downe his fauchin from thence.

And approach'd to the bed, and tooke hold of the heare of his head, and ſaide, Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel this day.

And ſhee ſmote twize upon his necke with all her might, and ſhee tooke away his head from him.

And voiled his bodie downe from the bedde, and pulled downe the canopy from the pil-lars, and anon after he went forouth, and gaue Aſlofernes

Echast.
40,45.

1516

Apocrypha.

Chap. xiiiij.

Dlofernes head to her maid,

10 And he put it in her scrippe of meate: so they twayne went together according to their custome unto praper, and prealling through the tentes, went about by that valley, and went up the mountaine of Bethulia, and came to the gates thereof.

11 Then said Judeth afarre of to the watchmen at the gates, Open nowe the gate: God, euen our God is with vs to shewe his power yet in Jerusale[m], & his fozze against his enemies, as he hath euen done this day.

12 Nowe when the men of her citie heard her bovce, they made halte to goe downe to the gate of their citie, and they called the Elders of the citie.

13 And they tanne all together both small and great: so it was above their expectation, that they should come. So they opened the gate and receivè her, and made a fire for a light, a stood round about them twaine.

14 Then the fayde to them with a loude bovce, Praise God, praise God: for he hath not taken away his mercie from the house of Israel, but hath destroyed our enemies by mine hands this night.

15 So we tooke the head out of the scrippe and shewed it, and faide unto them, Beholde the head of Dlofernes, the chiche captaine of the armie of Affur, and beholde the canopie, wherein hee did lie in his Dnkennes, and the Lo[de] hath smitten him by the hande of a woman.

16 As the Lord liveth, who hath kept me in my waye that I went, my countenance hath deene him to his destruccion, and he hath not committed sinne with me by any pollution of vilenie.

17 Then all the people were wonderfully asoiled, and bowed them sefues, and worisped God, and faide with one accord, Blessed bee thou, O our God, which hast this dape brought to naught the enemies of thy people.

18 Then said D[ias] unto her, O daughter, bleſſed art thou of the most he God above all the women of the earth, and blessed be the Lo[de] God, which hath created the heauens and the earth, which hath directed thee to the cutting off of the head of the chiche of our enemies.

19 Surely this thine hope shall neuer departe out of the heartes of men: for they shall remeber the power of God for euer.

20 And God turne these things to thee for a perticular praiſe, as vaine thee with good things, because thou haſt not spared thy life, because of the addiction of our nation, but thou haſt holpen our ruine, walking a freight way before our God. And all the people faide, So he it, to be it.

CHAP. XIIIL.

D[ias] canne th' to hang by the head of D[lo]fernes. 16 Achiot formerly himselfe to the people of God. 17 The Achiotes go out again the Amvians.

Then said Judeth into the, heare me also, my biethen, a take this head, and hang it upon the highest place of your walles.

2 And so loone as the morning shall appeare and the sunne shall come forth upon the earth, take you euery one his weapons, and goe foooth euerie valiant man out of the citie, and fet you a captaine ouer them, as though you would goe downe into the field, towarde the watche of the Assyrians, but goe not downe.

3 Then they shall take their armour, and Ihal goe into their campe, and raye vp the captaines of the armie of Affur, and they shall runne to the tent of Dlofernes, but shall no finde him: then keare shall fall upon them, and they shall fée before your face.

4 So you and all that inhabite the coastes of Israel, shall purſue them, a ouerthowe them as they goe.

5 But before you doe these things, call me Achiot the Ammonite, that he may fee, knowe him that despited the house of Israel, and that lent him to vs as to death.

6 Then they called Achiot out of the house of D[ias], and when he was come and sawe the head of Dlofernes in a certaine man's hand in the assemblie of the people, hee fell downe on his face, and his spighte failed.

7 But when they had taken him vp, hee fell at Judeths feete, and reverenced her, and faide, Blessed art thou in al the tabernacle of Juda, and in all nations, which, hearing thy name, thialbe aſtoniteth.

8 Nowe therefore tell me all the things, that thou haſt done in these daves. Then Judeth declared unto him in the middes of the people all that hee had done from the dape that hee went foooth, butill that houre hee pake into them.

9 And when he had left of speaking, the people reioyced with a great bovce, and made a noyfe of gladnes throughe their citie.

10 And Achiot, seeing all things that God had done for Israel, becalued in God vnto vnspenedly, and circumcised the fozekinne of his kley, and was iopned into the houſes of Israel into this dape.

11 A lloone as the morning aroſe, they had the head of Dlofernes out at the wall, and euery man tooke his weapons, and they went foooth by bandes into the straptes of the mountaine.

12 But when the Assyrians fadde them, they sent to their captaines, which went to the gobernours and chiche captaines, to all their rulers.

13 So they came to Dlofernes tent and said to him that had a charge of all his things, Da[en] our Lo[de]: for the flaues haue bene volde to come downe against vs to battell, that they may be deſtroped for euer.

14 Then went in Bagoas, and knocked at the door of the tent: for hee thought that he had leapt with Judeth.

15 But because none anſwered, hee opened it, and went into the chamber, and found him cast upon the floore, and his head was taken from him.

16 Therefore hee croyed with a loude bovce, E. ii. with

2. Macca.
11:35.

Apocrypha.

Iudeth.

Chap.xv.xvj.

with weeping and mourning, and a mighty
crye, and rent his garments.

17. Akter, he went into the tent of Judeth where he bled to remaine, and found her not: then he leaped out to the people and creped,

18 These slauces haue committed wickednes: one woman of the Hebrewes hath brought shame upon the House of King Abuchodonoz: for beholde, Dlofernes lieth upon the ground without an head.

19 When the captaines of the Assyrians armie heard these words, they rent their coates, and their heart was wonderfully troubled, and there was a cry a very great nogle throughout the campe.

CHAP. XV.

1 The Assyrians are affrayed and flee. 3 The Israelites purify them. 8 Joacim the hekist commends to Bezulla to see Judeth and to take God for her.

1 Ad when they that were in the tentes, heard, they were astonished at the thing that was done.

2 And fear and trembling fell upon them, to that there was no man that durst abide in the light of his neighbour: but altogether amazèd, they fled by every way of the plaine and of the mountaines.

3 They also that had camped in the mountaines round about Bethulia, were put to flight: then the children of Israel, every one that was a warriour among them, rushed out upon them.

4 Then sent Ozias to Bethomaathem, and to Bebai, and Chobai, and Chola and to all the coates of Israel, such as should declare unto them the things that were done, and that all should rush fooneth upon their enemies to decлыpe them.

5 Now when the children of Israel heard it, they all fell upon them together unto Choba: like wife also they that came from Jerusalem and from all the mountaines: for me had tolde them what things were done in the campe of their enemies, and they that were in Galatia and in Galile chased the with a great laughter until they came to Damascus and to the coates thereof.

6 And the residue that dwelt at Bethania, fell upon the campe of Asur and spojled them, and were greatly enriched.

7 And the children of Israel that returned from the slaughter, had the rest: and the villages and the cities that were in the mountaines in the plaine, had a great bootie: for the abundance was very great.

8 Then Joacim the hekist, and the Ancients of the children of Israel that dwelt in Jerusalem, came to confirm the benefits that God had shewed to Israel, and to see Judeth, and to fature her.

9 And when they came into her, they blessed her with one accord, and said unto her, Thou art the exaltation of Jerusalem: thou art the great glory of Israel: thou art the great復ing of our nation.

10 Thou hast done all these things by thine hand: then hast done much good to Israel, and God

is pleased therewith: blessed be thou of the almightie Lord for evermore: and all the people said, So be it.

11 And the people spojled the campe the space of thirtie dapes, and they gaue unto Judeth Dlofernes tent, and all his filuer and beddes, and basins, and all his stuele, and the tooke it a laid it on her mules, and made ready her charaets, and laied them thereon.

12 Then all the women of Israel came together to see her, and blessed her, and made a daunce among them for her, and she tooke blanches in her hand, and gaue also to the women that were with her.

13 They also crowned her with olives, and her that was with her, a shee went before the people in the daunce, leading all the women: and all the men of Israel followed in their armour, with crownes, and with songs in their mouthes.

CHAP. XVI.

Judebth ymperth God with a song. 19 She offereth to the Lord God feres sluke. 23 Her continence, life and death. 25 All Israel launders their her.

T
hen Judeth began this confession in all
Israel, and all the people sang this song
with a londe boyece.

And Judeth saide, Beginne unto my GOD with hymbels: king unto my Lord with hymbals: tune unto him a psalme: exalte his praise, and call upon his Name.

For God hatheth the battels, and pitched
his campe in the muddes of the people, and de-
liuered me out of the hand of the perſcuters.

Allus came from the mountaines foozth of
the North: he came with thousandes in his
armie, whose multitude hath flut up the
truers and their hozemen haue covered the
vallers.

He laid that he would burne by my bozders
and kill my pong men with the two'de, and
dash the slcking children against the ground,
and make mine infantes as a pray, a my bit-
gins a spole.

But the almightie Lord hath brought them
to naught by the hand of a woman.

For the mightie did not fal by the pong men,
neither did the konnes of Titan limite him,
noz the hie giants inuade him; but Judeth
the daughter of Hcrari did discomite him by
the beautie of her countenance.

For shee put of the garment of her wypdowe
hode, for the exaltation of thole that were up-
pastred in Israel, and anointed her face with
ointment, and bound up her heare in a coife, a
tooke a lince garment to decewe him.

Her slippers rauished his eyes: her beautie
tooke his minde prisoner, & the fanchin palled
through his flicke.

10 The Persians were astonished at her boldnes, and the Medes were troubled with her hardines.

11 But mine afflicted復oved, and mpreable
ones flouted their theres keard, they lifted up
their boye and turned backe.

12 The children of maides perced them, and wounded

Apocrypha.

Esher.

Chap. xij. xij. xijij.

then were ready to fight against the righteous people.

8 And the same day was full of darkenes and obscureitie, a trouble, a anguill: yea, a ducrersitie, and great affliction was upon the earth.

9 Foż then the righteous fearing their afflic-
tions, were amased, and being ready to dye,
cryed unto God.

10 And whome they were crying, the little well grewe into a great river, a flowed oner with great waters.

11 The light a the funne rose vp, and the lowly were exalted, and denoured the glorious.

12 Nowe when Mardocheus had scene this
dreame, he awoke a rose vp and thought in his
heart vntill the night, what God would do, a
so he desired to knowe all the matter.

CHAP. XII.

1 A
The same time dwelt Mardocheus in
the kings court with Bagathas, a Cha-
ta, the kings eunuches and keepers of
the palace.

*But when he heard their purpose, a their
imaginations, hee perceived that they went
about to lap their hands upon a King Artar-
erres, and so he certified the King thereof.

Then caused the King to examine the two
eunuches with torments, and when they had
confelled it, they were put to death.

This the King caused to be put in the Chzo-
nicles. Mardocheus also wrote a fame thing.

So the King commended that Mardocheus
should remaine in the court, and for the ad-
vertisement, he gave him a rewarde.

But Aman the tonne of Amadathus the A-
gagite, which was in great honour and repu-
tatio with the King, went about to hurt Mar-
docheus a his people, because of the two eu-
nuches of the King that were put to death.

CHAP. XIII.

1 The copie of the letters of Artaxerxes against the Jews, 8 The playe of Ma. Dacheus.

The copie of y letters was this, The great
King Artaxerxes writeth these things to
the princes & gouernours that are under
him from India vnto Ethiopia in an hysideth
and seuen and twentie prouinces.

2 When I was made Lord ouer many people,
and had subdued the whole earth vnto my do-
minion, I would not exalt my selfe by the rea-
son of my power, but purposed with equitie
alway and gentlenes to gouerne my subiects,
and wholy to set them in a peaceable life, and
thereby to bring my kingdome vnto tracuil-
litie, that men might safely goe thorowowe on e-
uerp side, and to renewe peace againe, which
all men desire.

3 Now whome I asked my counseleers how these
things might bee brought to palle, one that
was couerant with vs, of excellent wurdome,
and constant in good will, and fewwed him
selse to be of sure idelitie, which had the second
place in the kingdome, euen Aman,

Declared vnto vs, that in all nations there
was scattered abzoade a rebellious people,
that had lawes contrarie to all people, and
haue alway despised the commandements of

Kings, and so that this generall empire, that
we haue begonne, can not be gouerned with-
out offence.

Seeing nowe we perceive, that this people
alone are altogether contrarie vnto cuere
man, bling strange and other maner of lawes,
and hauing an euill opinion of our Dopngs,
and goe about to stablyshe wicked matters,
that our kingdome should not come to good
custace,

Therefoze haue wee commaunded, that all
they that are appointed in wyping vnto pou
by Aman (which is ordeined ouer p affaires,
and is as our second father) shall al with their
wines and children be destroyed and rooted
out with the swoode of their enemies without
all mercie, and that none be spared the four-
tenth dave of the twelfth month Adar of
this yere,

That they which of olde, and nowe also
haue euer bene rebellious, may in one dave
with violence be truust downe into the bell, to
the intent that after thisyme our affaires
may be without troubles, and well gouerned
in all pointes.

Then Mardocheus thought upon all the
workes and of the Lord, and made his prayer
unto him,

Saping, D. Lord, Lord, the King almightie
(for all things are in thy power) and if thou
hast appointed to haue Israel, there is no man
that can withstande thee.

10 Foż thou hait made heauen and earth, and al
the wonderous things under the heauen.

11 Thou art Lord of al things, and there is no
man that can refiſt thee, which art the Lord.

12 Thou knowest all things, a thou knowest,
Lord, that it was neither of malice, nor pre-
sumption, nor for any defice of glorie, I did
this, and not howe downe to proude Aman.

13 Foż I would haue bene content with good
will for theuation of Israel, to have built the
sole of his feete.

14 But I did it, because I would not preferre y
honour of a man aboute the glorie of God, and
would not worship any but only thee, my
Lord, and this haue I not done of pnde.

15 And therefore, O Lord God and King, haue mercie upon the people: for they imagine how they may bring us to naught, yea, they would destroy the inheritance, that hath bene thine from the beginning.

16 Despise not the poſtio, which thou haſt deſi-
uered out of Egypt for thine owne selfe.

17 Weare my prayer, and be mercifull vnto thy
portion: turne our sozowe into toye, that wee
may liue, O Lord, and praphe thy Name: but
not the mouthes of them that praphe thee.

18 All Israel in like maner cryed moſt earnest-
ly vnto the Loſde, because that death was be-
foze their eyes.

CHAP. XIII.

The playe of Gittor for the delitance of her, and his people.

Q
ueene Esther also, being in danger of
death, reoffited vnto the Lord,
And laid away her glories apparell,
put on the garments of lighting, a mourning.

In

Esher. 2.

21. & 6. 2.

Jotham.
antic. lii.

chap. 6.

In

Afocrypha.

Efther.

Chap.xvi.

10eph.
Antiq. 11.
chap. 6.

1 The great King Artaperres, which teig-
neth from India vnto Ethiopia,ouer an
hisieth and seuen and twentie prouin-
ces, lentheth vnto the princes and rulers that
haue the charge of our affaires,Salutation.

2 There be many that through the goodneſſe
of Princes and honour giuen vnto them, be-
come verie proude,

3 And indenour not only to hurt our ſubjects,
but not content to live in welth, do also ima-
gine deſtruction against those that doe them
good,

4 And take not onely all thankefulneſſe avow
from men, but in pride and piciuption, as
they ſhall be vnmindeful of benefits, they thinke
to eſcape the benceance of God, that leeth all
things, and is contrary to euill.

5 And oft times many, which be let in office,  
unto who their friends caules are committed,  
by baine entiſementes do wrap them in cala-  
mities, that ca not be rem died: for they make  
them partakers of innocent blood,

6 And decitfullyp abuse the simplicitie, and
gentlenes of Princes with lying tales.

7 This may be proued not onely by olde his-
tories, but also by those things ſhall be before our
eyes, and are wickedly committed of such pe-
filences as are not wort hy to beare rule.

8 Therefore we must take heed hereafter, that
We may make the kingdome peaceable ſo for all
men, what change ſo euerm shall come,

9 And disterne the things that are before our
eyes, to withstand them with gentlenes.

10 For Aman a Macedonian, ſonne of Ama-
dathus, being in deced a stranger from ſer-
lians blood, and farre from our goodness, was
teceived of vs,

11 And hath proued the friendlippe that we
beare toward all nations, so that he was called
our father, and was honoured of euery man,
as the next person vnto the king.

12 But he could not vse him kelſe soberlie in this
great dignitie, but went about to depriue vs
of the kingdome, and of our life.

13 With maniſolde decite also hath he deſired

to deſtroy Mardochus our prieſuer, which
hath done vs good in all things, and innocent
Efther partaker of our kingdome, with all
her nation.

14 For his minde was (when he had taken the
out of the way) to lay waite for vs, and by this
meanes to translate the kingdome of the Per-
ſians vnto them of Macedonia.

15 But we finde that the Jewes (which were
accused of this moſte wicked man that they
might be deſtroyed) are no euill doers, but vſe
moſte iust Lawes,

16 And that they be children of the most high &
almightie and everliuing God, by whom the
kingdome hath bene prieſerved vnto vs a our
progenitours in verie good order.

17 Wherefore we shall do well, if we do not put in
execution those letters, that Aman the ſonne
of Amadathus did write vnto you.

18 For he that inuented them, hangeth at Su-
fis before the gates with all his familie, and
God (which hath al things in his power) hath
speedily rewarded him after his deſeruing.

19 Therefore ye shall publifhe the copie of this
letter in all places, that the Jewes may freely
lie after their odonc Lawes.

20 And ye shall ayde them, that upon the thir-
teenth day of the twelfth moneth Adar they
may be auenged of them, which in the time of
their trouble would be haue oppreſsed them.

21 For al mightie God hath turned to iope the
day, wherein the chosen people should haue pe-
tilhed.

22 Moeoner, among other ſolennæ days ye
hail keepe this day with all gladnes,

23 That both nowe and in time to come this
day may be a remembrance of deliverance for
vs and all such as loue the ploſeritie of the
Perlians, but a remembrance of deſtruction
to those that be ſeditious vnto vs.

24 Therefore all cities and countries that doe
not this, that hozribly be deſtroyed with sword
and fire, and that not onely not be inhabited of
men, but be abhorred alcof the wilde beaſtles
and foules for euer.

The wildome of
Salomon.

CHAP. I.

1. Dovre we ought to searche and enquire after God. 2. When he that
beare him. 3. The holie Shol. 8. 11. Wee ought to ſerue from Buchaning
and mutinning. 12. Whereof beare commitment. 13. Rightouſonne and
unrightouneinſene.

1.King 3:3 I
ila.56.1.

Due* righteouſeſſe, ye that be
Judges of the earth: thanke ven-
tenantly of the Lord, and keeke him
in simplicitie of heart.

Deut. 4:29 2
2. chron.
15.4.

* For he will be founde of them that tempt him not, and appeareth vnto such as be not unfaithfull vnto him.

3 For wick ed thoughts ſeparate from GOD:
and his power when it is tried, reſpoucht the
unwife,

4 Batauſe woldome can not enter into a wic-
ked heart, no: dwell in the body that is ſubject
vnto him.

5 For the holie *Spirit of discipline fleeth from reme-
deeit, and withdratheth him kelſe from the 21
thoughtes that are without understanding,
and is rebuked when wickedneſſe commeth,
and is loing and Gal. 5:11

6 For the Spirit of wife dome is louing, and will not abſolve him, that maketh moneth with his lippes: for God is a wittieſſe of his remeſes, and a true beholder of his heart, and an hea- ter of the tongue.

7 For the Spirit of the Lord illeth at 3 would:
and the fame that mainteineth all thinges,
hath

Apocrypha.

Wildome of Salomon.

Chap. iiij. v.

and receiveth them as a perfect fruitive offering.
* And in the time of their vision they shall
shine, & runne thozowe as the sparkes among
the bubble.

Mat. 13:43 7

They * shall judge the nations, and haue dom-
minion ouer the people, and their Loſde shall
reigne for euern.

Mat. 19: 8

28. I. cor. 6.

They that truſt in him, ſhall understand the
trueth, and the faithful ſhal remaine with him
in loue : for grace and mercie is among his
Saints, and he regardeth his elect.

Mat. 25:41 9

*But the ungodly ſhalbe puniſhed according
to their imaginations : for they haue despised
the righteouſ, and for taken the Loſd.

Mat. 25:41 10

11 Who ſo despiseth wildome and discipline, is
miferable, and their hope is daine, and their
labours are kooliſh, and their workes vnpoſ-
table.

12 Their wines are vnſiſere, and their chil-
dren wicked: their offering is curſed.

Isa. 56:5.

13 Therefor the barren is bleſſed which is un-
deſſed, and knoweth not the ſinful bed : * ſhe
ſhall haue fruit in the viſitation of the ſoules,

14 And the eunuches, which with his hands hath
not wżought iniquitie, noż imagined wicked
things against God: for unto him ſhalbe given
the ſpeciall gift of faith, & an acceptable poſti-
on in the Temple of the Lord.

15 For glorious is the fruit of good labours,
and the roote of wildome ſhall neuer fade a-
way.

16 But the children of adulterers ſhall not be
partakers of the holy things, and the feede
of the wicked bed ſhalbe rooted out.

17 And though they liue long, yet ſhall they be
nothing regarded, & there last age ſhalbe with-
out honour.

18 If they dye haſtily, they haue no hope, nei-
ther comfort in the day of trial.

19 For horſible is the ende of the wicked gene-
ration.

CHAP. III.

Of vertue and the commo[n]tie thereof. 10 The death of the righteouſ, and
the conſemnation of the unfaithfull.

1 Better is barren[es] with vertue : for the
memorall thereof is immortall: for it is
knowne with God and with men.

2 When it is present, men take example there-
at, and it goe away, yet they deliſe it: it is al-
way crowned and triumpheth, and winneth
the battell and the undeſſed rewards.

3 But the multitude of the ungodly, which a-
bound in children, is vnprofitable: and the ba-
ſtarde plants ſhal take no deepe roote, noż lay
any fast foundation.

4 For though they budde foozth in the bran-
ches for a time, * yet they ſhalbe ſhaken with
the wind: for they stand not fast, & through the
vchemencie of the wind they ſhalbe rooted out.

Matth. 7.

19.

5 For the vnperfect branches ſhalbe broken,
and their fruite ſhalbe vnpoſtable and lowze
to cate, and meete for nothing.

6 For all the childre that are borne of the wic-
ked bed, ſhalbe wotnes of the wickednes a-
gainſt their parents when they be affed.

7 But though the righteouſ be preuſed with
death, yet ſhal he be in rest.

8 For the hono[able] age is not that which is
of long time, neither that which is measured
by the number of yeres.

9 But wildome is the gra[pe] heare, and an un-
deſſed life is the olde age.

10 He pleased God, and was beloved of him,
ſo that where as he liued among sinners, he
translaſted him.

11 He was taken away, left wickednes ſhoulde
alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his
minde.

12 For wickednes by bewitching obſureth the
things that are good, & the United fastneſſ of
compuſiſence peruerteth the ſimple minde.

13 Though he was soone dead, yet ſuſuſſed he
much time.

14 For his ſoule pleased God : therefore haſted
he to take him away from wickednes.

15 Yet the people ſee and uſtend and it not, and
confider no ſuch things in their hearts, home
that grace & mercie is upon his Saints, & his
pliουdence ouer the elect.

16 Thus the righteouſ that is dead, condemneth
the ungodly which are liuing : and the pouty
that is soone brought to an end, the long life of
the righteouſ.

17 For they ſee the ende of the Wifc, but they bun-
derhande not what God hath deuified for him,
and whereforo the Loſd hath p[re]ſerued him
in ſaſetie.

18 They ſee him and despise him, but the Loſde
will laugh them to ſoone.

19 So that they that fall hereafter without ho-
nour, and ſhall haue a ſhame among the dead
for euermoſe : for without any doore ſhall he
burſt them and cut them downe, and ſhake
them from the fundations, so that they ſhall
be butterly wafſed, and they ſhall be in ſozone,
and their memoriall shall perſive.

20 So they being aſraide, ſhall remember their
linnes, and their owne wickednes ſhall come
before them to comuince them.

CHAP. V.

1 The contanuities of the righteouſ before their perſeſtters. 14 The hope
of the unfaithfull in wane. 15 The biſh[ep]inſe of the Saints and godie,

2 Then ſhall the righteouſ stand in great
boldnes before the face of ſuch as haue
to[ment]ed him, and taken away his la-
bours.

3 When they ſee him, they ſhalbe bened with
horſible ſcare, and ſhalbe annaſed for his won-
derfull deliuerance,

4 And shall change their mindes, and cry for
grieſe of minde, and ſay within them ſelues,
This is he whom we sometime had in deriſ-
on, and in a parable of reſp[o]che.

* We fooles thought his life madnes, and
his ende without honour.

5 How is he counted among the children of
God, and his poſtion is among the Saints!

6 Therefore we haue erred from the wap[e] of
trueth, and the light of righteouſes hath not
ſhined vnto vs, and the lume of unden-
ding roſe not vpon vs.

7 We haue wearied our ſelues in the wap[e] of
wickednes and destru[ction], and we haue gone
through

["Apocrypha.", "Chap.vj.vij.", "30", "through dangerous waves: but we have not known the way of the Lord.", "8 What hath pride profited us or what pize hath the pompe of riches brought us?", "1.Chro.29 9\n15chap.1.", "All those things are * palled away like a shal-dowe, and as a poffe that palfeth by:", "10 As a bippe that palfeth ouer the waues of the water, which when it is gone by, the trace thereof can not be founde, neither the path of it in the floods:", "Pioneerb.\n30.19.", "11 Or as *a birde that fleeth thoroow in the aire, and no man can see any token of her passage, but only heare the noyse of her wings, bea-ting of light wind, parting * aire throughe the behememcy of her going, and fleeth on shaking her wings, whereas afterwarde no token of her way can be founde:", "12 Or as when an arrowe is shot at a marke, it parteth the aire, which immediately commeth together againe, so that a man can not knowe where it went thoroowe.", "13 Due so we, alloone as we were bozne, we be-gan to drawe to our ende, and haue shewed no token of vertue, but are consumed in our own wickednes.", "Job.8,9.\n Phil.1.4,8.\n 1 Cor.4.1.\n 10,15,&\n 11,7.i.1st.\n 10,11.", "14 For * the hope of the ungodly is like the dust that is blown away with the wind, and like a thinne come that is scattered abzoade with the stozme, and as the smoke, which is disper-sed with the wind, and as the remembriance of him palfeth, that varieth but for a day.", "15 But the righteous shall live for ever: their re-ward are also with * Lord, and the most High hath care of them.", "16 Therefore * shall they receive a glozious king-dome, and a beautifull crowne of the Lozdnes hand: for with his right hande shall he couer them, and with his arme * shall he defend them.", "17 He * shall take his icelouſe for armour, and * shall arme the creatures to be reuenged of the en-cmies.", "18 He * shall put on righteous ſtelle for a brea-plate, and take true iudgement in steade of an helmet.", "19 He * will take holines for an invin capable shield.", "20 He * will sharpen his ſicre wath for a wurd, and the world * shall fight with him against the biwife.", "21 Then * shall the thunder bolts go straight out of * lightnings, * shall flee to the marke as out of the bent rowe of the cloudes, and out of his anger * througth the ſtones, * shall thicke hail be cast, * the water of * sea shall be wroth against them, and the floods * shall mightily overflowe.", "22 And a mightie winde * shall stand vp againſt them, and like a stozme * shall scatter them a-broad. Thus iniquitie * shall bring al the earth to a wildernes, & wickednes * shall ouerthowe the thrones of the mightie.", "CHAP. VI.", "The callling of kings, princes and indiges, which are also exjoyned to search�ome.", "1", "Heare therefore, * ye Kings, and under-stand: learne, ye that be iudges of * ends of the earth.", "2 Give care, * ye that rule the multitudes and * lowy in the multitude of people.", "3 For * the rule * is given p[er] of the Lozd, and power by the most High, which will give your workes, and search out your imaginations.", "Kor.13.a", "4 Because that * ye being officers of his king-dome * have not iudged aright, * nor kept the Law, * nor walked after the will of God,", "5 Horribly and suddenly will he appeare vnto you: for an hard iudgement * shall he have that beare rule.", "6 For * he that is most lowe, is worthy mercie, but the mightie * shall be mightily to[mented].", "7 For * he that is Lozd ouer all, will spare no * person, neither * shall he keate any greatneſse: Deut.10. 17.2.chro. 10.7.iob. 34.19.c. 17.2.iob. 16.16.c.10. 34.rom.2. 11.gal.6. 10.1. 10.1. 10.1. 10.1. 10.1. 10.1. 10.

Apocrypha.

Widome of Salomon.

Chap.vij.

made of the earth.

And in my mothers wombe was I facioned
to be felfe in ten months: I was* brought
together into blood of the keede of man, and by
th: pleasure that commeth with fleepe.

1oh.10.12.
11.

And when I was borne, I received the common aire, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, crying and weeping at the first as all other do.

I was nourished in twadling clothes, and
with cares.

For there is no King that had any other beginning of birth.

1oh.1.21.
t.cim.6.7.

All* men then have one entrance vnto life,
and a like going out.

Wherefore I prayed, & understanding was
given me: I called, & the Spirit of widome
came vnto me.

I preferred her to fcepters and thrones, and
counted riches nothing in comparison of her.

1oh.2.15

*neither did I compare precious stones vnto her: for all golde is but a little grauell in respect of her, and filuer thalbe counted but clay before her.

I qued her aboue health and beautie, a pur-
poled to take her for my light: for her light can
not be quenched.

10

All * good things therefore came to me togeth
ther with her, & innumerable riches thotowe
her hands.

1. King.3.
13. match.
6. 33.

So I was glad in all: for widome was the
autor thereof, and I knewe not that she was
the mother of these things.

And I learned unfaindely, and communicated
without enuie, and I do not hide her riches.

For she is an infinite treasure vnto me, which
who doth, become partakers of ò loue of God,
and are accepted for the gifts of knowledge.

God hath graunted me to speake according
to my mund, & to judge wortlhip of the things,
that are ginen me: for he is ò leader vnto Wil-
dome, and the director of the wife.

For in his hand are both we and our words,
and all widome, and the knowledge of the
worlkes.

For he hath ginen me the true knowledge of
the things that are, so that I knowe how the
worlde was made, and the powers of the ele-
ments,

The beginning and the end, & the middles of
the times: how the times alter, & the change of
the leaſons.

The course of the yeere, the situation of the
starres,

The nature of living things, and the kuriouſes
of beaks, the power of the winds, and the
unaginations of men, the diuerſities of plants,
and the vertues of rootes.

And all things both secret and knowen do I
knowe: for woldome the worker of al things,
hath taught me it.

For in her is ò spirit of understanding, which
is òoly, the onely begotten, manifolde, subtil,
moneable, cleare, undefiled, evident, not hurte-
ful, louing the good, þarpe, which can not be
letred, domg good,

Courtous, stable, sure, without care, having
all power, circumſpect in all things, a paſſing
through all, intellectual, pure & subtil ſpirits.

For wifedome is nimbler then all nimble
things: the goeth thotow and attacineth to all
things, because of her purencs.

For she is the breath of the power of God, a
pure influence that floweth from the glorie of
the Almighty: therefore can no defined thing
come vnto her.

For it is the brightnesse of the euerlaſing
light, the undefiled mirrour of the maieſtie of
God, and the image of his goodnes.

And being one, he can do all things, and re-
maining in her self, cenueth all, and according
to the ages he entreth into the holy foules, a
maketh them the friends of God & Prophets.

For God loueth none, if he dwell not with
widome.

For she is more beautiful then the ſunne, and
is aboue all the order of the starres, and the
light is not to be compared vnto her.

For night conjunction upon it, but wickednesse
can not overcome wifedome.

CHAP. VIII.

The effects of wifedome.

He also reacheth from one end to another
mightily, and comely doeth the order all
things.

I have loued her, and sought her from my
youth: I defired to marp her, fuch loue had I
unto her beautie.

In that he is conuerſant with God, it com-
mendeth her nobilitie: yea, ò Lord of al things
loueth her.

For he is ò scholemiltres of the knowledge
of God, and the chooset out of his workes.

If riches be a posſession to be desired in this
life, what is richer then widome, that woz-
keth al things?

For if prudencie wozketh, what is it among
all things, that wozketh better then the:

If a man loue righteouſes, her labours are
vertuous: for the teacheth sobernes, and pru-
dencie, righteouſes and strength, which are
the most profitable things that men can haue
in this life.

If a man deuie great experience, he can tell
the things that are paſſ, and diſcerne thinges
to come: he knoweth the subtilties of words,
and the solutions of darke ſentences: the for-
feeth the ſignes and wonders, or cuer they
come to palle, and the successe of leaſons and
times.

Therefore I purpoled to take her vnto my
coſanie, knowing that I would counſell me
good things, & comfort me in cares & griefes.

For her sake shall I haue glorie among the
multitude, and honoue among the Elders
though I be yong.

I halbe found of sharp judgement, so that I
halbe maruerious in the fight of great men.

When I hold my tongue, they shall abide my
leature: when I speake, they shall heare bil-
gently, and if I take much, they shall lay their
hands vpon their mouth.

13 Moreouer,

Apocrypha.

Chap. ix.x.

13. Moreover, by her I shall obtaine immortali-
tie, and leaue a eucrastling memorial among
them that come after me.

14 I shall gourne the people, and the nations
shall be subdued vnto me.

15 Horible tprants halbe afraide when they
heare me: among þ multitude I shall be coun-
ted good, and mightie in battell.

16 When I come home, I shall rest with her: for
her copanie hath no bitternes, and her fellow-
ship hath no tedeouines, but myrth and toy.

17 Now when I considered these things by my
selfe, and pondered them in mine heart, howe
þ to be iopned vnto wurdome is immortaltie,
and great pleasure is in her friendship, and

18 And great pleasure is in her friendship, and
that in the works of her hands are infinite
riches, and that in the exercise of talking with
her is prudencie, and glorie by communing
with her, I wët about, seeking how I might
take her vnto me.

19 For I was a wittie childe, and was of a good
spirit.

20 Pea, rather being good, I came to an undel-
led bodie.

21 Acuerthicles, whi I perceived that I could
not enioy her, except God gaue her (and that
was a point of wurdome also, to knowe whose
gift it was) I went vnto the Lord, Æ be sought
him, and with my whole heart I said,

CHAP. IX.

A paper of Salomon to obtaine wurdome.

1

O God of Fathers, & Lord of mercyp, which
hast made all things with thy word,
And ordeined man through thy wurdome,

that he should have * dominion ouer the erca-
tures which thou haft made,

And gourne the world according to equitie
and righteousness, & execute iudgement with
an upright heart.

Gen. 1:15,
18.

Gie * me that wurdome, which litteth by thy
throne, & put me not out from among the chil-
dren.

1.King.3:9

For I thy *seruant, and loune of thine hand-
maide, am a feeble person, and of a short time,
and yet lesse in the understanding of iudgement
and the lawes.

Psal. 16:
16.

And though a man be neuer so perfite among
the children of men, yet if thy wurdome be not
with him, he halbe nothing regarded.

* Thon haft chose me to be a king of thy peo-
ple, and the iudge of thy sonnes & daughters.

1 Chron.
2:5,
2 Chron. 1:

Thon haft commanded me to build a temple
upon thine holp Mount, and an altar in the
citie, wherein thou dwellest, a likenes of thine
holp Tabernacle, which thou haft prepared
from the beginning,

9
9
9
9

And thy *wurdome with thee, which knoweth
thy works, which also was when thou madest
the world, and which knew what was accep-
table in thy light, and right in thy commande-
ments.

Prou. 8:12,
john. 1:1,
2:3,10.

10 Send her out of thine holp heauens, a lende her from the thone of thy maiestie þ she may be with me, a labour, that I may know what is acceptable in thy light.

11 For the knoweth & understandeth al things,

and she shall leade me soberly in my wurdkes,
and preferue me by her gloz.

12 So shall my works be acceptable, and then
shall I gourne thy people righteously, and be
meet for my fathers thone.

13 For * what man is he that can know þ coun-
sell of God, or who can thinke what the will
of God is?
Ia: 40, 17.
rom. 1:14
1 cor. 2:16.

14 For the thoughts of mortal men are fearful,
and our fozeafts are uncertaine,

15 Because a corruptible bodie is heauie vnto
the soule, & the earthly mansion keepeth down
the minde that is full of cares.

16 And hardly can we discerne the things that
are upon earth, and with great labour find we
out the things which are before vs: who can
then seeke out the things that are in heauen.

17 Who can know thy counsel, except thou give
him wurdome, and send thine holy Spirit fro
aboue?

18 For so the waves of them which are upon
carth, are reformed, and men are taught the
things that are pleasant vnto thee, and are
preferued through wurdome.

CHAP. X.

The deliverance of the righteous and destruction of the enemies counteneth
through wurdome.

S he preferued the first father of the world,
that was formed, and kept him when he
was created alone, and brought him out
of his offence,

And * gaue him power to rule all things,
* But the vnrighteous in his wrath depa-
ted from her, and perished by killing his bro-
ther in his furie.

2

Gen. 2:20.

Gen. 4:8.

For whose cause the * earth was ouerflowen,
but wurdome preferued it againe, governing
the tuft man by a little wood.

3

Gen. 7:21.

Moreover, * when the nations were iopned
in their malicious confederacies, the knew the
righteous, and preferued him fauteleſse vnto
God, and * kept him ſure, because he loued him
tenderely as a ſonne.

4

Gen. 7:1, 31 & 12:6.

She preferued the righteous, * when the vn-
godly perished, when he fled from the fire that
fell downe vpon the flue cities.

5

or kept
him strong
in his ten-
der love to
the sonne.

Gen. 19:16

Of whose wickednes þ waste land that en-
keth, yet giueth testimony, & the trees þ beare
fruite that neuer commeth to ripenes: and for
a remembraunce of the vnfaithfull soule, there
standeth a pillar of falte.

7

For all such as regarded not wurdome, had
not onely this hurt, that thep knewe not the
things which were good, but also left behinde
them vnto men a memorial of their foolitnes,
so that in the things wherein they finned, they
can not lie hid.

8

Gen. 8:5.

But wurdom deliuered them, that seruered her.
* When the righteous fled because of his bro-
thers withath, the led him the right way, thewed
him þ ringdome of God, gaue him knowledge
of holp things, made him riche in his labours,
and made his paines profitable.

10

11 Against the couctounſes ofuch as defrauded
him, the koode by him and made him rich.

12 She faued him from the enemies, and defen-
ded him from them, that laye in waite, and the

F.i. *gaue*

Apocrypha.

Wisdome of Salomon.

Chap.xj.xii.

gaue him the price in mightie battell, that he
might know that the feare of God is stronger
then all things.

Gen.37:12
& 39:7,10
7:10.

13 * When the righteous was solde, she sooketh him not, but deliuered him fro sinne: the went downe with him into the dungeon,

14 And failed him not in the bandes, till she had brought him the septer of the realme, and power against those that oppzessed him, and the that had accuted him, she declared to be liars, and gaue him perpetuall glory.

Exod.1:10
& 12:42.

15 * She delincred þ righteous people and kautles feed from the nations that oppzessed them.

16 She entred into the foule of the feruaint of the Lord, and stode * by him in wonders and lignes against the terrible Kings.

Exod.5:1.

17 She gaue the Saintes the rewarde of their labours, and led the forth a marveilous way: on the day time she was a shadow unto them, and a light of stars in the night.

Exod.1:14
& 12:2,11.
7:13.

18 * She brought them thorow the red sea, and caried them throughe the great water,

19 But she drowned their enemies, and brought them out of the bottome of the deepe.

20 So the righteous tooke the spopes of the ungodie, * and prapped thine holy Name, O Lord, and magnified thy victorious hande with one accord.

Exod.15:1

21 For wildome openeth þ mouth of the dombe, and maketh the tongues of babes eloquent.

CHAP. XI.

1 The ungodie dom for Israel, 13 The Vengance of sinnes. 18 The great power and mercie of God.

1 S he perspced their works in the hands of thine holy Prophet.

Exod.16:1 2

* They went through the wildernes that was not inhabited, and pitched their tents in places where there lay no way.

Exod.17:3
10:11.

* They stode against their enemies, & were anged of their aduerfaries.

No.10. 4
11.

* When they were thirtic, they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the tie tocke, and their thirt was quêched out of the hard Stone.

5 For by the things whereby their enemies were punished, by the same were the Israelites helped in their neede.

6 For in stead of a fountaine of running water, the enemies were troubled at þ corrupt blood, which was to rebuke the commandement of the killing of the children, but thou gauest unto thine owne abundance of water unlooked for,

7 Declaring by the thirt that was at that time * howe thou haddest punished thine aduerfaries.

Exod.7:20

8 For when they were tried and chaftifed with mercie, they knewe howe the ungodie were indged and punished in wath.

9 For these haſt thou ehrozted as a kather, and proued them: but thou haſt condemned the other as a righteouſ King, when thou diddest examine them.

10 Whether they were absent or present, their punishment was alike: for their grieke was double with mourning, and the remembiance of things paf.

11 For when they perceived that through their torments good came unto them, they felt the Lord.

12 And seeing the things that came to paf, at the last they wondered at him, whom afore they had cast out, denied and derided: for they had another thirt then the ist.

13 Because of the foolifhe deuiees of their wickednes wherewith they were deceived, and worshipped * serpentes, that had not the life of reason, and vile beaſ, thou kendist a multitude of vncreasonable beaſes upon them for a vengace, that they might know, that wherwith a man linneth, by the same also that he be punished.

14 For unto thine almightie hande, that made þ world of * naught, it was not unpossible to fende among them a multitude of * beares, or fierce Lyons,

15 Of furious beaſes newly created, and unknown, which should bzeathe out blaſſes of hye, and cast out smoke as a tempest, or boote hozible sparks like lightnings out of their eyes.

16 Which might not onely destrope them with hurting, but also kill them with their hozible fight.

17 Pea, without theſe might they haue bene taſt down with one wind, being perſecuted by the vengeance, a ſattered abroad through the power of the ſpirite: but thou haſt ordered all things in meaſure, number and weight.

18 For thou haſt euer had great strength and might, and who can withstand the power of thine armc:

19 For as the nal thing that þ balance weigheth, so is the world before thee, and as a drop of the morning dewe, that falleth downe upon the earth.

20 But thou haſt mercie upon all: for thou haſt power of all things, & makeſt as though thou lawest not the linnes of men, because they should amend.

21 For thou louest al things that are, and hateſt none of them whom thou haſt made: for thou wouldest haue created nothing that thou haddest hated.

22 And how might any thing endure, if it were not thy wil or how could any thing be preferred, except it were called of thee?

23 But thou spatest all: for they are thine, O Lord, which art the louer of foules.

CHAP. XII.

1 The mercie of God toward sinnes, 14 The work of God are unpreuines able. 19 God quietly t雨ure to repreint.

1 F or thine incoſruptible ſpirite is in all things.

2 Therfore þ chaſtneſt the meaſurably that go wron, and warneſt them by putting them in remembiance of the things wherein they haue offended, that leauing wickednes, they may becleue in thee, O Lord.

3 As for those oide inhabitants of the holy land, thou diddest hate them.

4 For they committed abominable works, as forgeries and wicked ſacrifices,

5 And slaying of their owne children without mercie,

Apocrypha.

Wildome of Salomon.

Chap.xiiiij.

is profitable for nothing (for it is a crooked piece of wood a full of knobbes) he garneth it diligently at his leaure, and according as he is expert in cunning, he gitteth it a proportion, and facioneth it after the similitude of a man,

14. Do maketh it like some vile beak, a straketh it ouer with red, and painteth it, a couereth eucerie spotte that is in it.

15 And when he hath made a convenient tabernacle for it, he sitteth it in a wall, and maketh it fast with pion,

16. Dzounding so for it, left it fall: so he knoweth that it can not helpe it selfe, because it is an image, which hath neede of helpe.

17. Then he prayeth for his goods, and for his marriage and for children: he is not alhammed to spake unto it, that hath no life.

18. He calleth on him that is weake for health: he prayeth unto him that is dead for life: he requireth him of helpe that hath no experience at all.

19. And for his journey, him that is not able to goe, and for gaine, and worke, and successe of his affaires he requireth furtherance of him, that hath no maner of power.

CHAP. XIIIIL

a The derelitation and abomination of images, b a curse of them, c of him that maketh them, d Whereof, dolatrie p經過ed, e What ensueth come of dolatrie.

1

A Gaine, another man purposing to faire, and intending to palle thorow a raging wane, calleth upon a stocke noize rotten then the shippe that carieth him.

For as for it, couetousnes of money hath founde it out, and the craftelein made it by cunning.

1 Cor. 12, 2

3

But thy prouidence, O father, governing it:
*for thou hast made a way, even in the sea, and a sure path among the waneis,

Exod. 14.

23.

4

Declaring thereby, that thou hast power to helpe in all things, yea, though a man went to the sea without meanes,

5

Anewer the thele thou Wouldest not, that the works of thy wisedome should be daine, and therefore do men commit their lives to a small piece of wood, and palle ouer the coaming sea in a shippe, and are luaned.

Gen. 6:4.

8. 7:10.

6

* For in the olde time also when the proude giants perilhed, the hope of the worlde went into a ship which was governed by thine had, and so left seede of generation vnto the world.

7

For blessed is the tree whereby righteousness commeth,

8

But that is cursed that is made with hands,
* both it, a he that made it: he because he made it, and it being a corruptible thing, because it was called god.

Psal. 115:2

Sanct. 6:3.

9

* For the ungodly, and his ungodlineſe are both like hated of God: so truly the worke and he that made it, halbe puniſhed together.

Psal. 5:5.

10 Therefore shall there be a visitation for the idoles of the nations: for of the creatures of God they are become abomination, a strumbling blockes vnto the foules of men, a share for the feete of the vnwife.

Ierem. 10.

Habac. 2.

18.

11. For the inuenting of idoles was the beginning of whozedome, and the finding of them

is the corruption of life.

12

For they were not from the beginning, neither shall they continue for ever.

13

The baine glorie of men brought them into the world: therefoe shall they come shortly to an ende.

14

When a father mourned grievously for his sonne that was taken away Cuddely, he made an image for him that was once dead, whom now he worships as a god, and is deified to his fervants ceremonies and sacrifices.

15

Thus by proces of time this wurded custome prieuailed, a was kept as a lawe, a idols were worshipped by the commandement of tyrants.

16

As for those that were so farre of that men might not worships them prieſently, they did counterfeit the viſage that was farre of, and made a gorgeous image of a king, whom they would honouer, that they might by all meanes flatter him that was absent, as though he had bene preſent.

17

Againe the ambition of the craſtlein man brought forwarde the ignoant to increase the Superſition.

18

For he peradventure willing to pleane a no-ble man, laboured with al his cunning to make the image of the best fashion.

19

And so through the beautie of the worke the multitude was allured, and so tooke him now for a god, which a little afore was but honoed as a man.

20

And this was a deceiving of man's life, when men, being in feruitude, through calamity a tyrianne ascribed vnto stones and stocks the name, which ought not to be communicate vnto any.

21

Moyeouer, this was not enough for the that they erred in their knowledge of God: but where as they liued in great warres of ignorance, those so great plagues calleded they peace.

22

For either * they flew their owne children in sacrifice, or vsed secrete ceremonies, or raging dissolutenes by strange vites,

Deut. 10:1

Ierem. 7:9, & 11:4

23

And so kept neither life nor marriage clean: but either one flew another by treason, or els vered him by adulterie.

24

So were al mirt together, blood, and slaugh-ter, theft and deceit, corruption, unfaithfulness, tumultues, perturbie,

25

Disquieting of good men, but unbeaſulneſse, dealing of ſoules, changing of birth, disorder in marriage, adulterie and uneleannes.

26

For the worshipping of idoles that ought not to be named, is the beginning of the cause and the ende of all euill.

27

For either they be mad when they be mercie, or prophetiche lies, or line vngodly, or els light-ly forswearc them ſclues.

28

For in so much as their trust is in the idoles, which have no life, though they weare falſely, yet they thinke to have no hurt.

29

Therefore for two causes shall they inflyl be punished, because they have an euill opinion of God, addicting them ſclues vnto idols, and because they weare vnſlip to deceiue, and despife holines.

30 Fo: 2

Apocrypha.

Chap. xv. xvj.

30 For it is not the power of them by whom they are made, but the vengeance of them that sinne, which punishment alwayses the offence of theungodlie.

CHAP. XV.

The doore of the faithfull, prouing the ingerie of God, by whose grace the
ferne not idoles.

1 But thou, O our God, art gracious and true, long suffering, and goучest all things by mercie.

2 Though we sinne, yet are we thine; for we know thy power: but we sinne not, knowing that we are counted thine.

3 For to know thee, is perſit righteousnesſ, and to knowe thy power is the roste of immoſtaliſtie.

4 For neither hath any wicked invention of men deceived, nor the unprofitable labour of the painters, nor an image spotted with diuers colours.

5 Whose ſlight stirreth up the desire of the inſoſat: so that he courteth the ſoſme that hath no life, or a dead image.

6 They that love such wicked things, are woz-
thie to haue such things to trust to, and they
that make them, are they that desire them, and
they that wozſhip them.

Rom. 9. 21. 7 The potter also tempereth soft earth, and factioneth euery vessel with labour to our use: but of the same clay he maketh both vessels, that serve to cleane vthes, and the contrarie likeſome: but whereof euery vessel SERUETH, the potter is the iudge.

8 So by his wicked labour he maketh a daine god of the fame clay: even he, which a little afoze was made of earth himſelſe, and within a little while after goeth thither againe where he was taken, * when he ſhall make account for the lone of his life.

Luk. 12. 20.

9. Nor withstanding he careth not for þor labour he taketh, nor that his life is soort, but he struceth with the goldsmithes, & filuer Smithes, & counterkeitheth the copersmithes, and taketh it for an honour to make deceivable things.

10 His heart is aſles, and his hope is moſt vile then earth, and his life is leſſe worthy of honoſ then clay.

11 For he knoweth not his owne maker, that gave him his ſoule, that had power and hceathed in him the breath of life.

12 But they count our life to be but a paltetine, and our conuerſation as a market, where there is gaine: for they lay we ought to be getting on euery ſide, though it be by euill meaties.

13 Nowe he that of earth maketh fraile vessels and images, knoweth him ſelſe to offende a-bone all other.

14 All the enemies of thy people, that holde the in subicction, are moſt unwife, and moſe miteable then the very fooles.

15 For they tudge all the idoles of the nations to be gods, which neither hane eye ſight to see, nor noſes to ſinell, nor eares to heare, nor ſingers of hands to grope, & their keete are ſlowe to goe.

16 For man made them, and he that hath but a bozowed ſpirite, factioned them: but no man

can make a god like unto him ſelſe.

17 For seeing he is but mortal him ſelſe, it is but mortall that he maketh vobrighteous hads: he him ſelſe is better then thep whom he wozhippeth: for he liued, but thep neuer liued.

18 Pea, thep wozſipped beaſts alſo, which are their moſt enemies, and which are the workſ, if thep be compared vnto others, because thep haue none vnderſanding.

19 Neither haue they any beautiue to be deſired in respect of other beaſts: for they are deſtitute of Gods prouil, and of his bielſing.

CHAP. XVI.

The puniſhment of idolaters. 20 The benefits vnto the faithfull.

1 Hereafter by such things they are woz-
thily puniſhed and*toſonmented by þ mul-
titude of beaſtes.

Chap. 3. 12

1. num.

2. 1. 6.

1 In steade of the which puniſhment thou haſt bene ſauourable to thy people, and to ſatiate their appetite, haſt prepared a meat of a strange taſte, euen * quailes,

Num. 11.

3 To the intent that thep that deſired meat, by the things which were ſhewed a ſent among them, might turne away their neceſsarie deſire, and that thep, which had kuffered penurie for a space, should alſo keele a newe taſte.

31.

For it was inequiiſte, that thep which ſbed
tyzaſnie, should fall into ertreeme pouertie: that
that to theſe onely it should be ſhewed, howe
their enemieſs were tormented.

* For when the cruell fiercenes of the beaſts came upon them, and thep were hurt with the things of cruell serpents,

Num. 21. 6

1. cor. 10. 9.

Chy wozath endured not perpetually, but
thep were troubled for a little featon, that thep
might be reſorued, hauing a *ſigne of fallati-
on, to remember the commaundement of thy
Lawe.

*The ſigne
of the bra-
ſen serpens.

Nom. 21. 9.

For he that turned towarde it, was not hea-
led by the thing that he ſawe, but by three, D
Sauour of all.

So in this thou ſhewedst our enemieſs, that
it is thou, which delinuerest from all euill.

* For the byting of graſhoppers and fire: 1. - Exo. 8. 14.
led them, and there was no remedie found for their life: for they were wozthy to be puniſhed by ſuch.

Exo. 8. 14.

R. 10. 4.

Ruel. 9. 7.

10 But þe teeth of the venemous dragons could not overcome thy childre: for thy mercie came to helpe them, and healed them.

11 For they were pricked, because they should
remember the wozdes, & were speedily healed,
least they should be fall into so deceve forgetful-
nes, that they could not be called backe by thy
benefite.

12 For neither herbe nor plaifter healed them,
but thy wozd, D. 10. 20, which healeth al things.

13 For thou haſt the power of life & death,* and
leadest downe vnto the gates of hell, and hiz-
gell vp againe.

Deu. 3. 32.

1. tam. 2. 6.

Tob. 13. 2.

14 A man in deede by his wickednes may slaye another: but when the ſpirite is gone forth, it turneth not againe, neither can he call againes the ſoule that is taken away.

15 But it is not possible to escape thine hand.

16 For the ungodly that would not knowe
thee,
Exod. 9. 23.

F. III.

Apocrypha.

Wildome of Salomon.

Chap.xvij.

thee, were punished by & strength of thine armes,
with strange raine and with hayle, and were
pursecued with tempest, that they could not a-
noide, and were consumed with fyre.

17 For it was a wonderous thing & fyre might
doe more then water, which quencheth all
things : but the worlde is the auenger of the
righteons.

18 For sometime was the fyre so tame, that the
beasts, which were sent against the ungodly,
burnt not : and that, because they should see
and know, that they were persecuted with the
punishment of God.

19 And sometime burne & fyre in the middes of
the water aboue the power of fyre, & it might
destroy the generation of the univest land.

20 Exod.16. 14.nom.
11 7.psal.
78. 25.john
6.31.
* In the steade whereof thou hast sedde thine
owne people with Angels foode, and sent the
bread readie from heaué without their laboz,
which had abundance of all pleasures in it
and was meete for all tastes.

21 For thy sustenance declared thy sweetessel
unto thy childre, which served to the appetite
of him, that tooke it, and was meete to that that
euer man would.

22 Exod.9.23 And because the * snowe & yce abode the fyre &
melted not, that they might know, that the fire
burning in the haile, & sparkeling in the raine,
destroyed the fruite of the enemies.

23 Againe it forgate his owne strength, that the
righteous might be nouribed.

24 For the creature that serueth thee which art
the maker, is fierce in punisding the vnrighte-
ous, but it is cale to do good unto such as put
their trust in thee.

25 Therefore was it changed at the same time
unto all facions to serue thy grace, which nou-
tilbeth all things, according to the desire of
them that had neede thereof,

26 That thy children who thou louest, O Lord,
might know,* & it is not the encreale of fruits
that feedeth me, but that it is thy word, which
pierceth through them that trust in thee.

Deut 8.2.
12.4.4

27 For that which could not be destroyed with
the fyre, being onely warmed a little with the
funne beames, melted,

28 That it might be knowen & we ought to pze-
uent & funne rising to give thanks unto thee,
and to salute thee before the day SPRING.

29 For the hope of the vnthankfull shall melte
as the winter yce, and flowe away as vnpo-
fitable waters.

CHAP. XVII.

The inb judgments of God against the wicked.

1 For thy judgements are great, and can not
be expreſsed : therefore men doe cree, that
will not be reſormed.

2 For when the vnrighteons thought to haue
thine holy people in subjection, they were
bounde with the bandes of darknes, and long
night, a being but vp under the roome, did lie
there to escape the enurolſing prouidence.

And while they thought to be hid in their
darke funnes, they were scattered abroad in
the darke concerning of forgetfulnes, fearing
hozribip and troubled with visions.

For the denne that hid them, kept them not
from feare: but the foundes that were about
them, troubled them, and terrible visions and
fozowfull ſights did appeare.

No power of the fire might give light, neither
might the cleare flames of the starres lighten
the horzible night.

For there appeared unto them only a sudden
fire, berie dreadfull: so & being aſfraide of this
vision, which they could not fee, they thought
the things, which they kave, to be worſe.

* And the illusios of the magical artes were
brought downe, and it was a mosthamfull
reproche for the boaking of their knowledge.

For they that promised to diuise away feare
and trouble from the fiche person, were fiche
for feare, and worthy to be laughed at.

And though no fearfull thing did feare the,
yet were they aſfraide at the beaſtes which paſ-
ſed by the, and at the hilling of the serpents: to
that they died for ſeare, and faide they kave
not the aire, which by no meanes can be auot-
ded.

For it is a fearfull thing, when malice is
condemned by her owne testimony: and a con-
science that is touched, doth euery ſoſeaf
cruel things.

For ſeare is nothing els, but a betrapping of
the succours, which reaſon offereth.

And the lelle that the hope is within, & more
doeth he effecte the ignoance of the thing,
that tomenteth him, great.

But they that did endure the night that was
intolerable, and that came out of the dangcon
of hell, which is infuppoitable, ſlept the ſame
ſleepe,

And sometimes were troubled of moſtruous
visions, a sometime they Cwooned, as though
their owne soule should betray them: for a ſu-
den ſeare not looked for, came upon them.

And thus, whoſoever kei down, he was kept
and flut in pruion, but without chameſ.

For whether he was an husbandman, or a
ſhepheard, or one that was let to work alone,
if he were taken, he must suffer this neceſſitie,
that he could not auoide:

17 For with one chaine of darkenefle where
they all bounde) whether it were an hilling
wind, or a weete ſong of the birds among the
thicke branches of the trees, or the bche men-
cie of haſtie running water,

18 Of a great nogle of & falling downe of stones,
or the running of kipping beaſtes, that could
not be ſene, or the nogle of cruel beaſtes, that
roared, or the founde that aueraeth againe
in the holow moſtaines: theſe ſeareful things
made them to Cwoone.

For all the worlde chined with cleare light, &
no man was hindeu in his labour.

20 Only upon them there fell an heauy night,
an image of that darkenes that was to come
upon them : pea, they were into them ſelues
more grieuous then darkenes.

CHAP. XVIII.

3 The fyre villar that the *Israelites had in Egypt.* 8 The deliverance of the faithful. 10 The Lord knaue the Egyptians. 20 The found of the prope in the wuiderneſte. 21 Aaron ſnoode betweene the luing and the brad with his crenel.

1 But

Apocrypha.

Chap.xviiij.xix.

34

Exo.10:31
*Or the E-
gyptians.

But thy Saints had a very great *light,
whoſe boſſce because" they heard, and law
not ? figure of them, they thought the bleſ-
ſed, because they also had not ſuffered the like.

2 And because they did not hurt them, which did hurt them aſſore, they thanked them, and asked pardon for their enmity.

*Therefore thou gaueſt a burning pil-
lar of ſpice to lead the in the unknownen way,
and made the kanne that it hurted not them
in their honourable tourney.

Exo.13:11
& 14:24.
pal.78:14.
& 105:39.

4 But they were worth to be depuſed of the
light, as to be kept in darkenes, which had kept
thy children shut vp, by whom the vncorrupt
light of the law should be given to the world.

Exod.1:16

*Where as they thought to flap the babes of
the Saintes, by one childe that was cast out,
and preferred to repone them, thou hast taken
away the multitude of their children and de-
ſiroed them al together in the mightie water.

6 Of þ night were our fathers certified aſſore,
that they knowing vnto what othes they had
given credit, might be of good chere.

Exo.14:34
25.

Thus thy * people received the health of the
righteous, but the enemies were destroyed.

8 For as thou hast punished the enemies, to
hast thou glorified vs whom thou hast called.

9 For the righteous children of the good men
offred fecretp, as made a Law of righteouſnes
by one consent, that the Saintes should re-
cieve good and enuill in like maner, and that
the fathers should keſſing praisſes.

10 But a disagreeing price was heard of the e-
nemies, and there was a lamentable noyſe for
the children that were bewailed.

Exod.11:5
& 12:19.

11 For the * master and the ſeruant were puni-
ſed with like puniſhment, and the common
people ſuſſed alike with the King.

12 So they all together had in aumerable that
died with one kind of death: neither were the
liring ſufficiét to burie them: for in the twinc-
kling of an epe the nobleſt okpling of them
was destroyed.

13 So they that could beleuee nothing, because
of the inchantements, confell'd this people to
be the children of God, in the deſtruction of
the firſt boze:

14 For while al things were in quiet ſilence, the
night was in the middes of her ſwift courtſe,

15 Thine almighty word alway down from hea-
uen out of thy rovall thronze, as a ſierce man
of warre in the middes of the lande that was
destroyed,

16 And brought thine vnkained comandement
as a harpe word, and stoope vp, and filled all
things with death, and being come downe to
the earth, it reached vnto the heauens.

17 Then the light of the ſcaringlees bered
them ſuſzenip, and ſcaringulnes came upon
them vnawares.

18 Then lay there one here, another there halſe
Dead, and theweth the cauſe of his death.

19 For the diſſions that bered them, theweth them
these things aſſore: so that they were not ig-
norant, wherefore they perſilſed.

20 Aowe tentation of death touched the righ-

tous also, and * among the multitude in the
Wildernes there was a plague, but the Wath
indured not long.

Num.16.1
46.

21 For the blameſſe man made haſſe, and de-
fended them, and tooke the weapons of his
ministration, euen præyer, and the reconcilia-
tion by the perfume, and let himselfe against
the Wath, so brought the miſerie to an ende,
declaring that he was thy ſeruant.

22 For he ouercame not the multitude with bo-
dulp powe, nor with force of weapons, but
with the word he subdu'd him that puniſhed,
alleadng the othes and couenant made on-
to the fathers.

23 For when the dead were fallen downe by
hapes one upon another, he stoope in the
middes, and cut of the Wath, and parted it
from coming to the lining.

24 For in the long garment was all the orna-
ment, a in the foure rowes of the stones was
the glozze of the fathers grauen with thy ma-
tleſſie in the diſeme of his head.

25 Unto these the deſtroyer came place, and was
afraid of them: for it was ſufficient, that they
had taſſed the Wath.

CHAP. XIX.

1 The death of the Egyptians, and the great ones of the Hebrews, 11 The meat that was quen at the bridle of the people, 17 And the elements are due to the wall of God.

A S for the vngodip, the Wath came upon
them without mercie but the ende: for
he knew what should come vnto them,

2 That they (when they had consented to let
them goe, a had lent them out with diligence)
would repent, and purue them.

3 For while yet forowe was before them, and
they lamented by the graues of the dead, they
duſed another foolibnes, to that they perſe-
cuted them in their face ng, whome they had
a cast out aſſore with præyer.

4 For the deſtene, whereof they were Woorz,
brought them to this ende, and caused them
to ſorget the things that had come to palle,
that they might accompithe the puniſhment,
which remained by tozmentes,

5 Both that thy people might tric a maruci-
lons paſſage, and that theſe might finds a
strange death.

6 For euery creature in his kinde was facio-
ned of neue, and ſerued in their owne offices
inioyned them, that thy children might bee
kept without hurt.

7 For the cloude ouerſhadowed their tentes,
and the dipe earth appeared, where aſſore
was water: to that in the red ea there was a
wave without impediment, a the great deepe
became a greene ſiſle.

8 Through the which all the people went that
were deſtined with thine hand, ſeeing thy wö-
derous maruiciles.

9 For they neyed like hozes, and leaped like
lambes, præaping thee, O Lord, which haddes
delinuered them.

10 For they were yet mindefull of those things
which were done in þ land where they dwelt,
howe the grounde brought forth a vorthives in
stead of cattell, and howe the epuer krau-
led with

That is,
the
bible
of
the
old
god
and
the
new
god
before
not
but
after
and
planted
to
go
there
wayes.

F. iiiii.

led with

13 But

Apocrypha.

Ecclesiasticus.

Chap.ijf.

cuer any confounded, that put his trust in the
Lord, or who hath continued in his care, and
was forsoaken or whome did he cuer despife,
that called upon him?

12 For God is gracious and merciful, and forgieth sinnes, and faueth in the time of trouble, [and is a defender for all them that seeke him in the truth.]

“Or double.

1.King.18.

21.

13 Wo unto them, that haue a “fearefull heart,
[and to the wicked lippes] and to the faint
hands, and to the linner that goeth two *ma-
ner of wapes.

14 Wo unto him that is faint hearted, for he be-
lieueth not: therefore shall he not be defended.

15 Wo unto you that haue lost pacience, [and
haue forsoaken the right wapes, and are tur-
ned backe into froward wapes:] for what wil
ye do when the Lord shall visit you?

16 They that feare the Lord, will not disobey
his word: and they that *loue him, will keepe
his wapes.

John.14.

23;24.

17 They that feare the Lord, will seeke out the things that are pleafant unto him: and they that loue him, shall be fulfilled with his Law.

18 They that feare the Lord, will prepare their hearts, and humble their foules in his fight.

19 [They that feare the Lord, keepe his commandments, and will be pacient till he see them,

20 Saping, If we do not repent] we shall fal into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men.

21 Yet as his greatnesse is, so is his mercie.

CHAP. III.

2 To our father, and mother ought we to give double honour. 10 Of the bleefing and curte of the father and mother. 22 So man ought ouer curiously to fearche out the secretes of God.

1 [The childre of wildome are the Church of the righteous, and their offaping is obedienc and loue.]

2 Heare your fatherts judgement, to children,
and doe thereafter, that ye may be fafe.

3 For the Lord will haue the father honoured of the children, and hath confirmed the authority of the mother ouer the children.

4 Who so honoureth his father, his sinnes shall be forgiuen him, [and hee shall abfteine from them, and shall haue his daily deemes.]

5 And he that honoureth his mother, is like one that gathereth treasure.

6 Who so honoureth his father, shall haue ioye of his one children, and when he maketh his prayer, he shall be heard.

7 He that honoureth his father, shall haue a long life, as he that is obedient unto the Lord, shall comfor his mother.

8 He that feareth the Lord, honoureth his parents, and doeth ſerviceto his parents, as unto lords.

Exo.20:12

deut. 5,16.

mac.1:4-5

ephe.6:1,2

“Or the bleſſing

ſing of men.

*Honour thy father and mother in decede and in word[and in all pacience,] that thou maist haue" Gods bleſſing, [and that his bleſſing may abide with thee in the end.]

10 For the bleſſing of the father establiſeth the houses of the children, and the mothers curſe rooteth out the foundations.

11 Reiope not at the dishonour of thy father: for it is not honour unto thee, but thame.

12 Seeing that man's glozie commeth by his
fathers honour, and the repreche of the mo-
ther is dishonour to the children,

13 My sonne, helpe thy father in his age, and
griene him not as long as he liueth.

14 And if his understanding faile, haue patience with him, and despife him not when thou art in the full strength.

15 For the good intreatic of thy father shall not be forgothen, but it shall be a forſtelle for thee against ſinnes, [a for thy mothers offee thou shall be recompencd with good, and it shall be founded for thee in rightcounſes.]

16 And in the day of trouble thou shall be re-
membred: thy ſinnes also shall melt away as
the pce in the faire weather.

17 He that forſaketh his father, shall come to
thame, and he that angreth his mother, is cur-
fed of God.

18 My sonne, perfourne thy doings with meekenes, so that thou be beloued of the that are approued.

19 The * greater thou art, the more humble thy
ſelf: [in all things.] and thou shall finde fauour
before the Lord.

20 Many are excellent and of renounie: but the secretes are reueiled unto the mecke.

21 For the power of the Lord is great, and he is honoured of the lowly.

22 * Seeke not out the things that are to hard for thee, neither fearche the things that help from thee.

23 [But] what [God] hath commanded thee, think upon that with reverencet, [and be not curious in manp of his workes:] for it is not needefull for thee to see with thine eyes the things that are secrete.

24 Be not curious in superfluous things: for many things are shewed unto thee aboue the capacitic of men.

25 The medling with such hath beguiled man, and an euil opinion hath decenued their judgement.

26 Thou canst not see without eyes: poffefle
not to knowledge therefore that thou hast not.

27 A stubberne heart shall fare euil at the last: as he that loueth danger, shall perish therein.

28 An heart *goeth two wapes, *shall not proſer; and he that is frowarde of heart, *shall flüe ble therein.

29 An obstinate heart shall bee laden with forrowes: and the Wicked man shall heape linne upon linne.

30 The persuation of the proude is without re-
medie, and his keppes shall be plucked vp: for
the plant of linne hath taken roote in him, [and
he shall not be esteemed.]

31 The heart of him that hath understanding, shall perceue the secreth things, and an attentive care is the defire of a wile man.

32 [An heart that is wife and understanding, will abfteine from linne, and shall prosper in the workes of rightcounſes.]

33 Water quencheth burning fire, *and almes
thaketh away linnes.

34 And he that rewardeth good deeds, will re-
member

Apocrypha.

Chap. iiiij. v.

member it afterward, and in the time of the fall, he shall find a stave.

CHAP. III.

1 Almies must he done with gentles, 2 The study of wurdome and her future, 3 Almies to be chosen of the elect, and to be good.

Deut. 15:7 I

M'Donne, de launde not the *pooze of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wepe long.

2 Make not an hungry soule sozowefull, neither beze a man in his neccesitie.

3 Trouble not the heart that is griuen, and deferre not the gift of the neede.

4 Refuse not the prayer of one that is in trouble: * turne not away thy face from the pooze.

Tobi. 4-7.

5 Turne not thine eyes alide [in anger] from the pooze, and give him none occasion to speake eull of thee.

6 For if hee curfes thee in the bitternes of his soule, his prayer shall bee heard of him that made him.

7 Be courtous unto the companye [of pooze, and humble thy soule] unto the Elder, & bowe downe thine head to a man of worship.

8 Let it not grieue thee to bowe downe thine care unto the pooze, [but pay thy dette,] and give him a friendip and were.

9 Deliver him that suffreth wrong, from the hand of the oppeller, and be not faint hearted * when thou indigest.

*Or, de-fund him.

10 Be as a father unto the fatherles, and as an husband unto their mother: so shall thou bee as the soune of the most Pigh: and he shall loue thee more then thy mother doeth.

11 Wurdome exalteth her children, and receieth them that feeleth, [and will goe before them in the waye of righteounes.]

12 He that koutheth her, koutheth life, and they that feeleth life in the morning, shall have great tope.

13 He that keepeth her, shall inherit glorie: for unto whom the entreath, him to Lord will blecke.

14 They that honour her, shall be the seruants of the Holie one, and them that loue her, the Lord doeth loue.

15 Who so giueth care unto her, shall judge the nations, and he that goeth unto her, shall dyel safely.

16 He that is faithfull unto her, shall haue her in postleffon, and his generation shall postleſſe her.

17 For first he will walke with him by crooked ways, and bring him unto feare, and dread, and torment him with her diſtipline until he haue trped his soule, & haue proued him by her judgements.

18 Then will he returne the freight way unto him, and comfort him, as hew him her secrets, [and heape upon him the treasures of knowledge, and understanding of righteounes.]

19 But if he go wrong, he will forſake him, and give him ouer into the hands of his deſstructio.

Rom. 11:9, 10.

1. the.5, 21
2. to be a man to take away from the God, the faith, to take him out of the truth, and to take away from the faith, to take away from him.

20 [C] By ſonne,] make much of time, and *cheweth the thing that is cuill.

21 And be not alhamed [to] lay the trueth] or thy life: for there is a [hame that bringeth time, and a hame that bringeth worſhip] & fanour.

22 Accept no person against thine owne conſience, that thou be not confounded to thine owne decaye, [and forſbear not thy neigh-

23 And keepe not backe counſell when it may be good, neither hide thy wurdome when it may be famous.

24 For by the talke is wurdome knowne, and learning by the words of the tongue, [and counſell, wurdome and learning by the talking of the wife, and ſtедſtines in the workes of righteouſes.]

25 In no wife speake against * word of trueth, but be alhamed of the lies of thine owne ignozance.

26 Be not alhamed to confesse thy ſinnes, and reſt not the course of the river.

27 Submit not thy ſelke unto a foolish man, neither accept the perſon of the mightie.

28 Strive for the trueth unto death, [and defende justice for thy life,] and the Lord God shall fight for thee [against thine enemies.]

29 Be not haſtie in thy tongue, neither ſlacke nor negligent in thy workes.

30 Be not as a Lyon in thine own houſe, neither beate thy ſeruants for thy ſantſie, [no oppeſſe them that are under thee.]

31 * Let not thine handle bee stretched out to receiue, and but when thou shouldst give.

CHAP. V.

1 In riches may we not put any confidence. 2 The vengeance of God ought to be feared, and repreſence may not be defrauded.

T. Trust not unto thy *riches, and lay not, I haue enough for my life: [for if I shall not help in the time of vengeance and inligation.]

2 Followe not thine own minde, & thy strength to walke in the wayes of thine heart:

3 Neither lay thou [How haue I had strength] on who will bring me under for my workes: for God the auenger will revenge the wrong done by thee.

4 And lay not, I haue finned, and what cuill hath come unto mee: for the Almightie is a pacient rewarder, but hee will not leaue thee unpunished.

5 Because thy ſinne is forgiuen, hee not without feare, to heape ſinne upon ſinne.

6 And lay not, The mercie of God is great: he will forgiue my maniſold ſinnes: for mercie & wraath come from him, and his indignation commeth downe upon ſinners.

7 Make no tarrying to turne unto the Lord, & put not of from day to day: for suddenly shall the wraath of the Lord break forth, and in thy ſecuritie thou shall be destroyed, & thou shall perish in time of vengeance.

8 Trust not in wicked riches: for they shall not help thee in the dape of punishment [and vengeance.]

9 Be not carped about with every wynde, and do not into every waye: for so doeth the ſinner that hath a double tongue.

10 Stand fast in thy ſure understanding [and in the waye and knowledge of the Lord] and haue but one manner of word, [and know the word of peace and righteouſes.

11 Be humble to heare the word of God, that thou mayst understand it, and make a true anſwere with wurdome.]

14 *Bc

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VI.", "1 It is the property of a maner to be euill tongued, & of friendlips, 33 Deare to be taught.", "Be not of a friend [thy neighbours] a enemy: for such shall haue an euil name, fame and repchoe, and he shall be in infamy as the wicked that hath a double tongue.", "1 a Fo that in any case the rule of charitie, which heareth all, &\n2 haue not a thing but one name, &\n3 be a bull to be euillNG a pong tree with his houres, &\n4 alloued in thine own wurdome & sinning in thine own concence, because of thy wort, the powert, or riches, should be from the Gile.", "Bee not proude in the denice of thine owne minde, least thy soule rent thee as a bull,", "And rate vp thy leanes, & destroy thy euinite, and so thou bee left as a drie tree [in the wildernes.]", "For a wicked soule deslrepeth him that hath it, and maketh him to be laughed to keozne of his encinies.[and bringeth him to the poſtion of the vngodie.]", "A twecte talke multieth the friends [and pacifieth them that be at varianc,] & a twecte tongue increaseth much good talke.", "Holde friendlips with many, neuertheles haue but one counseler of a thoutand.", "If thou gettest a friend, proue him first, and be not haſtie to credit him.", "For some man is a friend for his owne occasion, & will not abide in the day of thy trouble.", "And there is some friend that turneth to euinitie, and taketh part against thee, and in contention he will declare thy fame.", "Chap.37.5", "Again some * friend is but a companion at the table, and in the day of thine affliction hee continueth not.", "13 But in thy prosperity he will be as thou thy selfe, and will be libertie ouer thy seruants.", "12 If thou be brought lowe, he will be againſt thee, and will hide him ſelſe from thy face.", "13 Depart from thine enemies, and beware of thy friendes.", "14 A faithfull friend is a strong defence, and he that findeth such one, findeth a treasure.", "15 A faithfull friend ought not to bee changed for any thing, and the weight [ of golde and finner ] is not to be compared to the goodneſſe [of his faith.]", "16 A faithfull friend is the medicite of life [ and immortaltie, ] and thep that keare the Lord, shall finde him.", "17 Who so feareth the Lord, shall direct his friendlips aright, and as his own ſelſe, so shall his friend be.", "18 My ſonne, receive doctrine from the mouth of: so shall thou finde wurdome [ which shall", "indure] till thine old age.", "19 Go to her as one that ploweth, and soweth, and waype for her good fruits: for thou shall haue but little labour in her worke: but thou shall eate of her fruits right soone.", "20 Howe eceeding harpe is thee to the vnlearne: he that is without judgement, will not remaine with her.", "21 Unto such one thee is as a fine touchstone, & he casteth her from him without delay.", "22 For they have their name of wurdome, but there be but fewe that haue the knowledge of her.", "23 [For with them that know her, shee abideth unto the appearing of God.]", "24 Give care, my ſonne: receive my doctrine, & refuse not my counsel,", "25 And put thy feete into her linkes, and thy neeke into her chaine.", "26obo downe the shoulder unto her, & beare her, and be not wearie of her bands.", "27 Come into her with thy whole heart, and keepe her wayes with all thy power.", "28 Heeke after her, and search her, and the shall be shewed thee: and when thou hast gotten her, forake her not.", "29 For at the last thou shall finde rest in her, and that halbe turned to thy tope.", "30 Then shall her fetters bee a strong defence for thee, [and a sure foundation] & her chaines a glorious raiment.", "31 For there is a golden ornament in her, and her bandes are the laces of purple colour.", "32 Thou shall put her on as a robe of honour, and shall put her upon thee, as a crowne of tope.", "33 My ſonne, if thou wilt, thou shall be taught, and if thou wilt applie thy minde, thou shall be wittie.", "34 If thou loue to heare, thou shall receive [doCTRine,] and if thou delight in hearing, thou shall be wife.", "35 Stand with a multitude of the elders, which are wife, and toye with him that is wife.", "36 * Detre to heare all godly talke, & let not the geane sentences of knowledge escape thee.", "37 And if thou keſt a man of understanding, get thee soone unto him, & let thy foote weare the keppes of his boozes.", "38 Let thy minde bee upon the ordinances of the Lord, and be \"continually\" occupied in his commandementes : so shall hee stabiſhe thy heart, and give thee wurdome at thine owne desire.", "CHAP. 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Apocrypha.

Chap.vij.

37

he knoweth thine heart, ] a boast not thy wife
Dome in the presence of the King.

6 Seeke not to be made a judge, least thou bee
not able to take awaye inquity, least thou,
fearing the person of the mightie, shouldst com
mit an offence against thine vpightnes.

7 Offende not against the multitude of a citie,
and cast not thy selfe among the people.

Chap. 5. 8 * Binde not two sinnes together: for in one
linne shalt thou not be unpunished.

9 Say not, God will looke upon the multitude
of mine oblations, and wher he offer to the most
high God, he will accept it.

10 Be not Saint hearted, when thou makest thy
prayer, neither flacke in giuing of almes.

11 Laugh no man to fezze in the hauaines of
his soule: for [God which seeth all things] is
he * that can bing downe, and let vp againe.

1 Sam. 2. 7.
12 Sowe not a lie against thy brother, neither
do the same against thy friend.

13 Wile not to make any maner of lie: for the eu-
stome thereof is not good.

14 Make not many words when thou art a-
mong the Elders, neither * reprecat a thing in
thy prayer.

Mat. 6. 5, 7.

15 Haste not laborious * worke, neither the huf-
bandrie, which the most High hath created.

Rab. 12. 11.

16 Number not thy selfe in the multitude of the
wicked, but remember that vengeance will
not flacke.

17 Humble thy mynde greatly: for the vengence
of the wicked is fire and wozmes.

18 Gieue not ouer thy friende for any good, no
thy true brother for the golde of Ophir.

19 Depart not from a wife and good woman,
[that is fallen vnto thee] for thy poizion in the
feare of the Lord: for her grace is abone gold.

Leuit. 19.
13. chap.
31. 29. & 34
23.

20 C * where as thy servant wozketh truelip,
intreate him not euill, noz the hireling that be-
flowed himselfe wholy for thee.

21 Let thy soule loue a good servant, and de-
fraude him not of libertie, [neither leaue him a
pooze man.]

Deu. 25. 12. * If thou haue cattell, looke well to them, &
if they be for thy rozite, keepe them with thee.

Chap. 30. 11.
23 * If thou haue sonnes, instruct them, and hold
their necke from their youth.

24 If thou haue daughters, keepe their bodie,
and how not thy face cheereful toward them.

25 Marrie thy daughter, and so shalt thou per-
forzne a weightie matter: but give her to a ma
of understanding.

26 If thou haue a wife after thy minde, forake
her not, but comit not thy selfe to the hatefull.

Chap. 3. 9
tob. 4. 3.

27 * Honour thy father from thy whole heart, &
forget not the sozowes of thy mother.

28 Remember that thou wast boze of them, &
howe canst thou recompence them the things
that they haue done for thee?

29 C Feare the Lord with all thy soule, and ho-
nour his ministers.

30 Lo!e him that made thee, with al thy stregh,
* and forake not his seruants.

31 Feare the Lord with all thy soule, & honour
the Priefts, * and give them their poizion, as
it is commised thee, the first fruits, [and pu-

rifications ] & sacrifices for linne, & the offrings
of the shoulders, and the sacrifices of sanctifi-
cation, and the first fruits of the holy things.

32 Stretch thine hand vnto the pooze that tip
"blelling, [and reconciliation ] may be accom-
plished.

Or, Ulibera-
litie.

33 Liberalitie pleaseth all men luting, & from
the dead restraine it not.

Tob. 2. 4, 7
& 4. 17.

34 * Let not them that weepe, be without [com-
foz]: but mourne with such as mournur.

Rab. 12. 15.

35 * Be not slowe to visit the lice: for that fyal
make thee to be beloued.

36 Whatfoeuer thou takest in hand, remember
the end, and thou shall neuer do amisse.

CHAP. VIII.

We must take heede with whome we have to do.

Strive not with a mightie man, least thou
fall into his hands.

* Make not variace with a rich man, least
he on the other side weigh downe the weight:

* for golde [and silver] hath destroied many &
hath subuerted the hearts of Kings.

Strive not with a man that is ful of words,
and lap no stickes vpon his fire.

Play not with a man that is outaught, least
thy kintred be diſhonoured.

* Defile not a man that turneth himselfe a
way from linne, nor cast him not in the teeth
withall, but remember that We are all wozkyn
blame.

Galat. 6. 1.

* Dihonour not a man in his olde age: for
they were as we which are not olde.

We not glad of the death of thine enuie, but
remember that we must die all, [and so enter
into ioye.]

* Defile not the erhortion of the [Elders]
that be wile, but acquaint thy selfe with there
wile sentences: for of them thou shall leaue
wilde dome, [a the doctrine of understanding, ] &
how to serve great men [without complaint.]

Chap. 6. 35

Go not from the doctrine of the Elders: for
they haue learned it of their fathers, and of
them thou shall leaue understanding, and to
make answere in the time of neede.

Kindle not the coles of sinners, [when thou
rebukest them,] least thou be burnt in the fire
flames [of their sinnes.]

Rise not vp against him that doeth wrong,
that he lap not Waite as a pic for thy mouth.

12 * Lend not vnto him that is mightier then
thy selfe: for if thou lendeft him, count it but
lost.

Chap. 29. 4

13 Be not suretie aboue thy power: for if thou
be suretie, thinke to paye it.

14 Go not to lawe with the Judge: for they wil
give sentence according to his owne honour.

15 * Trauaille not by the way with him that is
rath, least he do thee iniurie: for hee followeth
his owne wilfulnes, and so shall thou perſbe
through his ſolie.

Gen. 4. 8.

16 * Strive not with him that is angrie, and
go not with him into the wildernes: for he
is as nothing in his light, and where there is
no helpe, he will ouerthowe thee.

Pro. 22. 24.

17 Take no counſell at a foole: for hee can not
keepe a thing close.

G. i. 18 D)

Apocrypha.

Ecclesiasticus.

Chap.ix.x,

18 Do no secret thing before a stranger : so thou canst not tell what he goeth about.

19 Open not thine heart unto every man, leavt he bee vnthankefull to thee, [and put thee to repose.]

### CHAP. IX.

Of ionouſe, 12 An olde friend is to be preferred before a new. 13 Frightens euery man he should be hidden to the table.

a] her he not haue rule ouer, 10 then built the carle unto her, take away the heart and strength, & bring there to a confitalion among the euery manes, as did Jehan to Adam, Deaſon to Adam, and strange women to Salemon, Gen. 6.1,2 & 34.2.
17:5,2.

2 Benot ionelous ouer thy wife of thy bosome, neither a teacher her by thy meanes an euil lesson.

3 Gine not thy life unto a woman, least she ouercome thy strength, [and so thou bee confounded.]

4 Mecte not an harlot, least thou fall into her snares.

5 Use not the company of a woman that is a finger.[and a dancer, neither heare her,] least thou be taken by her craftines.

6 Gaze not on a *maide, that thou fall not by that that is precious in her.

7 * Cast not thy minde upon harlots [in any maner of thing,] least thou deſtroy [both thy selfe and] thine heritage.

8 Go not about gazing in the streetes of the citie, neither wander thou in the secret places thereof.

Mat.5:28.

9 * Turne away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and looke not upon others beautie: so many * haue perſcribed by the beautie of women: so through it loue is kindled as a fire.

Gen.24:1, 2, 2.fam.11, 2. iudith.

10 [Euerie woman that is an harlot, shall bee troden under foote as a tongue, of euery one that goeth by the way.]

10:17,19.*
& 12:16,20

11 Many wondering at the beautie of a strange woman, haue bene cast out: so her words burne as a fire.]

12 Sit not at all with an other man's wife, [neither lie with her vp the bed,] nor banket with her, left thine heart incline unto her, and to through thy desire fall into deſtruction.

13 If that lake not an olde friend: so the newe shall not be like him: a newe friend is as new wine: when it is olde, thou shall drinke it with pleasure.

Iudg.9:3,
2.fam.15.
12.

14 Delite not in the thing that is vngodly haue pleasure in, but remember that they shall not be founde just unto their graue.

15 Keepe thee from the man that hath power to lype: so shall thou not doubt thy fear of death: and if thou come unto him, make no faute, least he take away thy life: remember that thou goest in the middes of snares, and that thou walkest upon the towres of the citie.

16 Tric thy neighbour as neere as thou canst, * and alke counſell of the wife.

17 * Let thy taffe be with the wife, as al thy communication in the Lawe of the most High.

Chap.6:36

38, & 8:8.
& 17, 22,4

18 Let itt men eate & drinke with thee, and let thy reioycing be in the fear of the Lord.

Deu.6:7.

11:19.

19 In" the hands of the craftſemen shall the works be commended, and the wife prince of the people by his Word, [and the Word by the wildome of the Elders.]

* Or, the workemans is prayed according to the work.

20 A man full of words is dangerous in his citie,

and he that is rath in his talking, shall be hated.

### CHAP. X.

1 Of kings and indeues.

7 Praise and courtesines are to be abhorred.]

23 Labour is pined.

A wife induge will instruct his people with diſeretion: the government of a prudent man is well ordered.

2 As the induge of the people is him ſelfe, so are his officers, and what maner of man the ruler of the citie is, ſuch are all they that dwell therein.

* An unwife King deſtropeth his people, but where they that be in authority, are men of understanding, there the citie pioſcreeth.

The government of the earth is in the hand of the Lord, and all iniquity of the nations is to be abhorred, and where time is, he will be p ſa profitable ruler ouer it.

5 In the hand of God is the pioſperitie of man, and upon the scribels will he lay his honour.

6 * Be not angrie for any wrong, with thy neighbour, and doe nothing by injurious practices.

7 Pide is hatefull before God and man, and by both doeth one commit iniquitie.

* Because of vnrighteous dealing & wrongs and riches gotten by deceit, the kingdome is translated from one people to another.

9 There is nothing worse then a couetous man: [why art thou proude, O Earth & alheere there is not a more wicked thing, then to love money?] for such one would euery ſel his ſoule, and for his life euery one is compelled to pull out his owne bowels.

10 [All tyrannie is of small induurance, and the diſeale that is hard to heale, is grieuous to the phylpition.]

11 The phylpition cutteth of the ſoſe diſeale, and he that is to day a King, to mozoowe is dead.

12 Why is earth and alheſ proude, leering that when a man dieth, he is the heire of serpents, beaſtes and wozmes?

13 The beginning of maſ pide, is to fall away from God, and to turne away his heart from his maker.

14 For pide is the original of linne, and he that hath it, shall powe out abomination, til at last he be ouerthowen: therefore the Lord bringeth the perſuasions [of the wicked] to diſhonour, and deſtropeth them in the end.

15 The Lord hath * cast downe the thrones of the proude] princes, and let vp the mecke in their ſteade.

16 The Lord piqueth bp the rootes of the [proude] nations, and plāteth the lowlie with glorie among them.

17 The Lord ouerthoweth the landes of the heathen, and deſtropeth them unto the foundations of the earth: he causeth the to wither away, and deſtropeth them, and maketh their memoriall to cease out of the earth.

18 [God deſtropeth the memoriall of the proude, and leaueth the remembrance of the humbleness.]

19 Pride was not created in me, neither was it in the generation of women.

20 There is a ſeede of man, which is an honouable

Apocrypha.

Chap. xj.

38

table feede: thehonorable feede are they that
feare the Lord: there is a feede of man, which
is without honour: the feed without honour,
are they that transgress the commandements
of the Lord: it is a feede that remaineth which
feareth the Lord, and a faire plant, that loue
him: but they are a feede without honour, that
despile the Lawe, and a deceivable feede that
breake the commandements.

21 He that is the chiefe among brethren, is hon-
nourable: so are they that fear the Lord in
his light.

22 The fear of the Lord causeth that the king-
dome faileth not, but the kingdome is lost by
crueltie and pride.

23 The fear of the Lord is the glorie as well of
the riche and the noble, as of the pooze.

24 It is not meete to despile the pooze man that
hath understanding, neither is it convenient
to magnify the riche that is a wicked man.

25 The great man and the indge and the man
of authority, areHonorable, yet is there none
of them greater, then hee that feareth the
Lorde.

Pro.17,1.
2.Sam. 12,
13.

26 Unto the seruant that is wife, shall thep that
are free, do seruice: * he that hath knowledge,
will not grudge when he is reformed, [and the
ignorant shall not come to honour.]

27 Seeme not eructes when thou shouldst doe
thy worke, neither be allamed therof through
pride in the time of aduerstite.

Pro.12,9.
11.

28 *Better is he that laboureth and hath plen-
teunnes of all things, then he that is gorze-
ous, and wanteth hreard.

29 By tonne, get thy selfe praple by meekenes,
and eftesme thy selfe as thou deferuest.

30 Who will count him tru that fineth against
himselfe or honour him, that dishonoureth
his owne foule?

31 The pooze is honoured for his knowledge
[and his feare,] but the riche is had in reputa-
tion because of his goods.

32 He that is honourable in pouertie, how much
more shall he be when he is riche, and he that
is unhonouring being riche, how much more will he
be so when he is in pouertie?

CHAP. XI.

1

The pape of humilitie. After the outward appearance ought we not to judge. * Or that which comes of God, 29. 31. men are not to be brought into crieue houle.

Gen.41,40
1
dan.6,3.

W
It does *lifteth up the head of him
that is lowe, and maketh him to sit a-
mong great men.

2 Commend not a man for his beautie, neither
despise a man in his better appearance.

3 The Bee is but small among the foules, yet
doeth her fruite palle in sweetenes.

Ac.12,31,
23.

Be not proude of clothing and raiment,*and
cralt not thy selfe in the dave of honour: for
the workes of the Lord are wonderfull, [and
glorious.] Secrete, [and unknowne] are his
workes among men.

5 Many tyants have sit downe vp the earth,
*and the unlikely hath worne the crowne.

1.Sam.15.
23. either. 6
6.10.

6 Many mightie men have bene brought to
dibourne, and the honourable have bene de-
liuered into other mens handes.

C *Blame [no man] before thou haue inquis-
red the matter: understand first, and then re-
foize [righteously].*

* Give no sentence, before thou haſt heard the
caufe, neither interrupt men in the middles of
their tales.

Deu.13,14
& 17-19,6.
Ioh.7,12.

Pro.18,13.

Striue not for a matter that thou haſt not to
do with, a lit not in the iudgement of sinners.

10 By tonne, meddle not with many matters:
* for if thou gaine much, thou haſt not bee
blameles, and if thou followe after it, yet haſt
thou not attaine it, neither haſt thou escape,
though thou flee from it.

Mat.19,22.
1.tcm.6-y.

11 * There is some man that laboureth and ta-
keth paine, and the moze he hafeth, the moze
he wanteth.*

Pro.10,3.*

12 Againe there is some that is flouthfull, and
* hath neede of helpe: for he wanteth strength,
and hath great pouertie, yet the cye of y Lorde
looketh upon him to good, and flecteth him vp
from his lowe estate,

Iob.42,10.

13 And hee lifteth vp his head: so that many
men marueile at him, [and give honour unto
God.]

14 * Prosperitie and aduerstite, life and death,
pouertie and riches come of the Lord.*
Iob.1,21.
eczk.2,8-4.

Iob.1,21.

15 Wildome and knowledge, and to understand
of the Lawe are of the Lorde: loue and
good workes come of him.

16 Error and darkenes are appointed for sinners, and they that exalt them selues in cuill, ware olde in euill.

17 The gilte of the Lorde remaineth for the
godlie, and his good will giueth prosperitie
for euier.

18 Some man is riche by his care a nigard-
ship, and this is the portion of his wages,

Luk. 12,19.

19 In that he faith, *I haue gotten rent, and
nowe wil I eate continually of my goods, yet
he considereth not, that the time draweth nere,
that he must leane all these things unto other
men, and die him selfe.

20 Stande thou in the state, and exercise thy
selfe therein, and remaine in thy worke unto
thine age.

21 Marueile not at the workes of sinners, but
trueth in the Lord, and abide in thy labour: for
it is an eale thing in the fight of the Lord, sud-
denly to make a pooze man riche.

22 The bleffing of the Lorde is in the wages of
the godly, and he maketh his p[ro]speritie soone
to flourib.

23 Sap not, what p[ro]site and pleasure shall
I haue, and what good things shall I haue
hereafter?

24 Againe faue not, I haue enough, and p[ro]llesse
many things, and what euill can come to me
hereafter?

25 * In thy good state remember aduerstite, and in aduerstite forget not p[ro]speritie.*

Ch.18,14

26 For it is an eale thing unto the Lord in the
day of death to rewarde a man according to
his wapcs.

27 The aduerstite of an houre maketh one to
forget p[le]asure; and in a man’s end, his worke
are discouered,

G.il.

28 Judg

Apocrypha.

Ecclesiasticus.

Chap.xij.xiiij.

28 Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be known by his children.

29 Bring not every man into thine house: for the deceitful have many traines. [and are like sto-maaknes that believe stinkingly.]

30 As a partridge is taken under a basket. [and the hinde is taken in the snare,] so is the heart of the pizoude man, which like a epic watcheth for thy fall.

31 For he lieth in waite and turneth good unto euill, and in things worthy praise he will find some faute.

32 Of one little sparke is made a great fire. [and of one deceitfull man is bloud increased: ] for a sinfull man layeth waite for bloud.

33 Beware of a wicked man: for he imagineth wicked things to bring thee into a perpetual shame.

34 Lodge a stranger, and he will destroy thee withiquetnes, and drive thee from thine owne.

CHAP. XII.

1 Unto whom we ought to do good, 10 Enemies ought not to be truethed.

1

When thou wilt doe good, knowe to whom thou doest it, so shall thou bee thanked for thy benefits.

Gala. vi. 10.
1. xim. 5, 8.

* Do good unto the righteous, and thou shall finde [great] reward, though not of him, yet of the most High.

3 He can not have good that continueth in euill, and giueth no almes: [for the most High hatheth the sinners, and hath mercie upon them that repent.]

4 Gine unto such as care God, and receive not a sinner.

5 Do wel unto him that is lowly, but giue not to the vngodly: hold backe thy bread, & giue it not unto him, least he overcome thee thereby: els thou shall receive twise as much euill for all the good that thou doest unto him.

6 For the most High hateth the wicked, & will repay vengeance unto the vngodly, & keepeth them against the day of horribile vengeance.

7 Gine unto the good, & receive not the sinner.

8 A friend can not bee knowne in prosperity, neither can an enciernie bee unknowne in aduertisic.

9 When a man is in wealth, it grieueth his enemies, but in heauines and trouble a mans berie friend will depart from him.

10 Trust neither thine enemi: for like as an iont trueth, so doeth his wickednes.

11 And though hee make much crouching and kneeling, yet aduise thy selfe, and beware of him, and thou shall be to him, as hee that willeth a glass, and thou shall know that all his trust hath not bene well wiped away.

12 Set him not by thee, least he destroy thee, & stand in thy place.

13 Neither let him at thy right hande, least he seeke thy roome, & thou at the last remember my words, and be pricked with my sayings.

Chap. 7. 8.
& 11, 12.

14 * Binde not two sinnes together: for there shall not one be unpunished.

15 If he will have pitie of the charmer, that is stung of the serpent: or of all such as come neere the beastes: so is it with him that kee-

peth companie with a wicked man, and zapeth him selfe in his sinnes.

16 For a season will he bide with thee: but if thou stumble, he tarieth not.

17 * An enemie is sweete in his lippes: he can make many good words, and speake many good things: yea, he can weep with his eyes, but in his heart he imagineth how to throwe thee into the pit: if he may finde opportunity, he will not be satisfied with bloud.

18 If a duerfitie come vp to thee, thou shall finde him there first, and though he pretend to help thee, yet shall he undermine thee: he will shake his head, and clap his hands, and will make many words, and disguise his countenance.

CHAP. XIII.

1 The companies of the pizoude and of the rich are to be scherbed. 1 The loue of God. 17 like do companie with their like.

H

E* that toucheth pitche, shall be defiled with it: and he that is familiar with the pizoude, shall be like unto him.

Burthe not thy selfe aboue thy power, whilest thou liest, and companie not with one that is mightier, and richer then thy selfe: for howe agree the kettle and the earthen pot together, for if the one bee smitten against the other, it shall be broken.

The rich dealeth rightly, and thatcatheth withall: but the pooze being oppreſsed must intreat: if the riche have done wyong, he must yet be intreated: but if the pooze have done it, he shall straight wayes be thretened.

If thou be for his pizoude, he befteth thee: but if thou have nothing, he will forake thee.

If thou have any thing, he will live with thee: yea, he will make thee a bare man, and will not care for it.

If he have neede of thee, hee will destraue thee, and will laugh at thee, and put thee in hope, and give thee all good words, and wayes, what wanteth thou?

Thus will he shame thee in his meat, until he have supe thee cleane vp twice or thrice, and at the last he will laugh thee to cornne: afterward, when he teeth thee, he will forake thee, and shake his head at thee.

[Submit thy selfe unto God, and waite up to his hand.]

Beware that thou bee not deceived in thine owne conceit and brought downe by the sinnes: [be not toumble in the wildome.]

11 If thou be called of a mightie man, absent thy selfe: so shall he call thee the more oft.

12 Deaffe not thou unto him, that thou be not but out, but go not thou farre of, least hee forget thee.

13 Withdraw not thy selfe from his speak, but believe not his many words: for with much communication will he tempt thee, & laughingly will he grope thee.

13 He is bottomfull, and keepeth not pomes: he will not spare to do thee hurt, and to put thee in prison.

14 Beware, a take good heed: for thou wakest in perill of thine ouerthowling: when thou hearest this, awake in thy sleep.

15 Loue

Apocrypha.

Ecclesiasticus.

Chap.xvj.

6 She shall cause him to inherit iope, and the crowne of gladnes, and an euerlasting name.

7 But foolish men will not take holde vp her: [but such as have understanding, will meete her: ] the sinners shall not see her.

8 For she is farre from pride [and deceit,] and men that lie, can not remember her: [but men of truth] shall haunt her, and shall prosper eue vnto the beholding of God.]

9 Praise is not keener in the mouth of the sinner: for that is not sent of the Lord.

10 But if praise come of wurdome, [and be plenteous in a faithfull mouth] then the Lord will prosper it.

11 Say not thou, It is through the Lord that I turne backe: for thou oughtest not to do the things that he hateth.

12 Say not thou, He hath caused me to erre: for he hath no neede of the sinfull man.

13 The Lord hateth al abominatio [of error]: and they that keare God, loue it not.

Gen.1. 27. 14 *He made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his counsel, [and gaue him his commandements and precepts.]

15 If thou wilt, thou shall obserue the commandements, and testifie thy good will.

16 He hath set water a fire before thee: stretche out thine hand vnto which thou wilt.

1ere.21. 8. 17 Before man is life and death, [good and euil: ] what him liketh, shall be given him.

18 For the wurdome of the Loode is great, and he is mightie in power, & beholdeth all things [continually.]

Psal.34.15. 19 *And the eyes [of the Loode] are upon them

16. liebr.4.

13.

that keare him, and he knoweth all the works of man.

20 He hath commanded no man to doe vngodlie, neither hath he given any man licence to sinne: [for he delireth not a multitude of infidels, and vnprofitable children.]

CHAP. XVI.

1 Unhappie, and wicked children. 17 No man can hide him selfe from God. 21 An exhortation to the receving of instruction.

1 Deseire not the multitude of vnprofitable children, neither delight in vngodly children: though they be many, reioyce not in them, exeept the keare of the Loode be with them.

2 Trust not thou to their life, neither rest vpon their multitude.

3 For one that is just, is better then a thousand such, and better it is to die without children, then to leane behinde him vngodly children.

4 For by one that hath understanding, shall the citie be inhabited: but the stock of the wriked shall be wasted incontinently.

5 Many such things haue I keene with mine eyes, a mine care hath heard greater things then these.

Chap.21. 6 *In the congregation of the vngodly shall a fire be kindled, and among vnfaithfull people shall the wath be set on fire.

Gen.6.4. 7 *He spared not the olde gyants, which were rebellious, trusting to their owne strength,

Gen.19. 8 *Neither spared hee where as Lot dwelt, those whom he abhorred for their pride.

He had no pitie vpon the people that were destroyed, and puffed vp in their sinnes.

10 *And so he preferred the six hundred threesixty and ten, and footemé, that were gathered in the hards of their heart, in afflicting them a pitting them, in smiting them and healing them, with mercie, and with chastissement.

11 Therefore if there be one sincked among the people, it is marvellie if hee escape unpunished: for mercie and wath are with him: he is mightie to forgive, & to powre out ditpleasure.

12 *As his mercie is great, so is his punisht yet also: he udgeth a man according to his works.

13 The vngodly shall not escape vith his dotle, and the pacience of the godly shall not be delayed.

14 He will give place to all good decrees, and euery one shall finde according to his works, [and after the understanding of his pilgerimage.]

15 The Lord hardened the harao, that he should not know him, and that his works should be knownen vpon the earth vnder the heauen.

16 His mercie is knowen to all creatures: hee hath separate his light from the darkenesse with an adamant.

17 Say not thou, I will hide my selfe from the Lord: for who will thinke vpon mee from above? I shall not be knownen in so great an heape of people: for what is my foule among such an infinite number of creatures?

18 Beholde, the heauen, and the *heauen of heauens, which are for God, the depth, and the earth, and all that therein is, shall be moued when he shall befit.

19 All the World which is created and made by his will, the mountaines also, and the foundations of the earth shall shake for fear, when the Loode looketh vpon them.

20 These things doeth no heart understand wot thynly, but he understandeth euery heart.

21 And who understandeth his wayes, and the stortme that no man can see: for the most part of his works are hid.

22 Who can declare the works of his righteousnes: or who can abide them: for his ordinance is farre of, and the trying out of all things faileth.

23 He that is humble of heart, will consider these things: but an vnwife and evrenous man can not be his minde vpon foolish things.

24 By sonne, hearken vnto me, a learner knowledge, and marke my words with thine heart.

25 I will declare thee weightie doctrine, and I will instruct thee: ex actly in knowledge.

26 The Lord hath set his works in good order from the beginning, a part of them hath he funded from the other: wbat he first made the.

27 He hath garnisbed his works for euer, and their beginnings so long as they shall indure; they are not hungry nor weared in their labours, nor cease from their offices.

28 One of the hundreth another, neither was any of them dissolved vnto his words.

29 After this the Loode looked vpon the earth and filled it with his good things.

30 With

Apocrypha.

Chap.xvij.xviij.

40

30 With all manner of living beastes hath he co-
cured the face thereof, and they returne into it
againe.

CHAP. XVII.

1 The creation of man, and the goodness that God hath done unto him.
2 Of alnes, 22 And repentance.

Gen. 2:7,
& 2:8, 2:9.
2:33, 2:7, 2:11.
6:1, cor. 11:1.
7:col. 10:10.

T
he Lord hath created man of the earth,
and turned him vnto it againe.
He gaue him the number of dayes v
erteine times, and gaue him power of ſ
that are upon earth.

He clothed them with strength, as they had need, and made them according to his image.

He made all fleshe to keare him, so that he had
the dominion ouer the beastes, and foules.

Gen. 2:22,
1:cor. 11:9.

5 [*He created out of him an helper like vnto him felfe,] and gaue them diſtriction ſtongue, and eyes, eares, and an heart to understand, and likely he gaue them a ſpirite, and ſeventhly he gaue them p[rae]cethe to declare his works.

And he filled them with knowledge of
understanding, and shewed them good and
cuill.

He set his eye upon their hearts, declaring
unto them his noble works,

And gaue them occasion to reioycy perpetu-
ally in his miracles, that they should prudent-
ly declare his works, and that the elect should
praise his holy Name together.

Before this, he gaue them knowledge, and
gaue the the Law of life for an heritage, that
they might now knowe that they were a mo-
tall.

10 He made an everlasting covenant with the,
and shewed them his indugements.

11 Their eyes kaw the maieſtie of his gloz[ry], and
their eares heard his glozious voypc.

12 And he said vnto the, Beware of all unrighteous things. * He gaue euery man alio a commandement concerning his neighbour.

13 Their wap[es] are euer before him, and are
not hid from his eyes.

14 Euery man from his youth is given to euill, and
their stonic hearts can not become fleshe.

15 He appointed a ruler upon euery people,
when he divided the nations of the whole earth.

16 *And he did chuse Israel, as a peculiar peo-
ple to him felfe, whom he nourilſeth with di-
cipline as his ſky[le] borne, and giueth him
most louing light, and doeth not forſake him.

17 All their woorke[s] are as the ſunne before
him, and his eyes are continually upon their
wap[es].

18 None of their unrighteouſelle is hid from
him, but all their finnes are before the Lord.

19 And as he is merciful, and knoweth his
woorke, he doeth not leave them no[] ſo[]fak[e]
them, but tpareth them.

Chap. 2:9,
13.

20 *The almes of a man, is as a thing sealed up before him, and he keepeth the good deeds of man as the apple of the eye, and giueth repence to their ſonnes, and daughters.

Mat. 12:35

21 *At the last shall he arise, a rewarder them, and shall repay their reward vpon their heads.

22 *But vnto them that will repent, he giueth
them grace to returne, and exhorteth such as

faile, with pacience, [and kendeth them the
portion of the veritie.]

23 *Returne then vnto the Lord, and forſake
thy finnes: make thy prayer before his face, &
take away the offence.

24 Turne againe vnto the most High: for hec
will bring thee from darkeneſſe to wholome
light: forſake thine unrighteouſnes, and hate
greatly all abomination.

25 [Know the righteouſnes and iudgements of God: Stand in the portion that is set forth for thee, and in the prayer of the most High God, and goe in the parties of the holy wurdie with such as be liuing and conſelle God.]

26 *Who can p[ra]ſale the moſt High in the hell,
as do all they that liue and conſelle him?

27 [Abide not thou in the error of the Ungodly,
but p[ra]ſale the Lord before death.]

28 Thankeſteneſſe perſibeth from the dead, as
though he were not : but the liuing, and he-
that is found of heart, p[ra]ſaleth the Lord, [and
reioyceth in his mercie.]

29 How great is the louing kindnes of the Lord
our God, and his compassion vnto such as
turne vnto him in holines!

30 For all things cannot be in men, because the
ſonne of man is not immortal, [and they take
pleasure in the vanitie of wickdones.]

31 What is moſe cleare then the finne? yet shall it faile.

32 So f[le]ſhe and blood that thinketh euill, [thall be reſprou[n]ed.]

33 He feeth the power of the high heauen, and al
men are but earth and albes.

CHAP. XVIII.

1 The marvellous woykes of God, 6, 7 The miſerie and wuietelities of man, 9 Against God ought we not to complain, 21 The perſonning of Dове.

H
es that liueth for[fo] euer,* made all things
togethether: the Lord who onely is iuſt, and
there is none other but he, [a he remat-
neth a victo[u]ous King for euer.]

He odereth the world with the power of his
hand, and all things obey his will: for he go-
uerneth al things by his power, and deueth
the holy things from the p[ro]phane.

To Whome hath he given power to expeſſe
his worke[s] : who will feeke out the ground of
his noble actes:

Who shall declare the power of his greatneſs:
oz who will take upon him to tell out his
mertie.

As for the wonderous woykes of the Lord,de,
there may nothing be tak[e] from them, neither
can any thing be put vnto them, neither
may the ground of them be found out.

But when a man hath done his beſt, he muſt
beginne againe, and when hee thinketh to
come to an ende, he muſt goe againe to his la-
bour.

What is man? whereto serueth he: what
good oz euill can he do?

8 *If the number of a manne dayes be an un-
dzeth p[re]ccre, it is much : and no man hath cer-
teine knowledge of his death.

As Droppes of raine are vnto the sea, and as
a granell stone is in comparacion of the ſande,
G.iii.

Apocrypha.

Ecclesiasticus.

Chap.xix.

2.Pet.3,8.

so are *athousand pectres to the dapes euclasi-
ing.

32

Take not thy pleasure in great doluptrououfes,
and intangle not thy selfe with such com-
panie.

10 Therefore is [God] patient with them, and
powreth out his mercie upon them.

33

Become not a begger by making bankets of
that that thou hast bezowed, and so leaue no-
thing in the purse:els thou shouldest flaunder-
ously lie in waite for thine owne life.

11 He gave and perceived, that [the arrogancie
of their heart, and their rime was cuill:there-
fore heaped he by his mercie upon them, & the-
wed them the way of rightcourtes.]

12 The mercie that a man hath, reacheth to his
neighbour: but the mercie of the Lord is upon
all his: he chasteth, and nurtureth, and teac-
cheth, and bringeth backe, as a sbeheard his
flocke.

CHAP. XIX.

2. Wine and whomehome bring men to poutertie. 6 In the wordeth his dierection. 22 The difference of the wordome of God and man. 27 Whereby thou mayst knowe that it is in man.

13 He hath mercie of them that receive disti-
pline, & that diligently seeke after his iudge-
ments.

A Labouring man that is giuen to drun-
kennes, shall not be rich: and he that con-
temneth small thinges, shall fall by little
and little.

14 By whom, when thou doest good, reprouze
not: and whatfoeuer thou giueth, vse no dif-
comforable words.

*Wine and women leade wife men out of
the way, [and put men of understanding to re-
pyeke.]

15 Shall not the dewe affwage the heat: so is a
word beeter then a gift.

And he that companieth adulterers, shall
become impudent: rottennes and wormes
shall haue him to heritage, & he that is to bold,
shall be taken away, and be made a publike ex-
ample.

16 Lo, is not a word better then a good gifte;
but a gratiou man giueth them both.

17 A foole will reprouche churlisbly, and a gift of
the enuious putteth out the eyes.

*He þ is hastie to giue credit, is light min-
ded, & he that creeth, sinneth against his owne
foole.

18 [Get thee righteousnes before thou come to
judgement:] learne before thou speake, and
be thyselfe or euere thou be sicke.

Who so reioyeth in wickednes, shall be puni-
shed: [he that hateth to be refoizmed, his life
shall be shorzened, and he that abhazeth bab-
bling of words, quencheth wicckedneſſe;] but
he that reſteth pleasures, crowneth his own
foole.

1.Corr.11.
31.

19 Examine thy selfe, before thou be judged,
and in the day of th' visitation thou shall finde
mercie.

He that refraineth his tongue, may line with
a troubleſome man, & he that hateth babbling,
shall haue lesſe euill.

20 Humble thy selfe before thou be sicke, and
whiles thou mayest yet live, we the thy con-
ference.

Reheare not to another, that which is tolde
unto thee: so thou shall not be hindeed.

21 Let nothing let thee to pape thy bown in time,
and deferre not unto death to be refoizmed: [for
the reward of God endureth for euere.]

Declare not other mens maners, neither to
friend noz koe: and if the linne apperteine not
unto thee, reueile it not.

22 Before thou prayest, prepare thy selfe, and be
not as one that tempteth the Lord.

For he will heatken unto thee, and marke
thee, and whé he findeth oppoſtunitie, he will
hate thee.

Chap.7.7
36.

23 Thinke upon the * wath, that balbe at the
cinde, & the houre of vengeance, when he shall
turne away his face.

10 *If thou hast hearede a word [against the
neighbour,] let it die with thee, and be sure, it
will not burst thee.

Chap.11.
25.

24 * When thou hast enough, remember þ time
of hunger: and when thou art riche, thinke bp-
on poutertie and neede.

11 A foole trauaileth when he hath hearede a
thing, as a woma that is about to bring forth
a childe.

25 From the moing untill the euening the
time is changed, and all such things are ſoone
done before the Lord.

12 As an arrowe that sticketh in ones thigh, so
is a word in a fooles heart.

26 A wife man feareth in all things, and in the
dapes of transgression he keepeth him selfe
from line: but the foole doeth not obferue the
time.

13 *Reprouze a friende left he doe euill, and if he
have done it, that he do it no more.

14 Reprouze a friende that he may kepe his
tongue: and if he haue spoken, that he say it no
more.

27 As every wife man knoweth wifedome, and
knowledge, a praiseth him that findeth her.

15 Tell thy friende his faute: for oft times a
flaunder is railed, and giue no credence to e-
uery word.

28 Thep that haue understanding, deale wistely
in words: [thev understand the trueth a righ-
teousneſſe.] A powre out with modestie graue
sentences for mans life.

16 A man falleth with his tongue, but not with
his will: * and who is he, that hath not often
DED in his tongue?

29 The chiche autoitic of speaking is of the
Lord alone: for a mortall man hath but a dead
heart.

17 Reprouze thy neighbour before thou hecaten
him, and being without anger, giue place to
the Lawe of the most High.

Rom.6,6
& 13,14.

30 Follow not thy lusts, but turne thee fro
thine owne appetites.

18 The feare of the Lord is the first degree to
be received of him, and wifedome obtaineth
his

31 For if thou giueth thy foule her desires, it shall
make thine enemies that enuie thee, to laugh
thee to rozne.

["Apocrypha.", "Ecclesiasticus.", "Chap.xxj.xxij.", "M* P[er]sonne, haſt thou finned: do so no more,\nbut pray for the ſone ſinnes [that they\nmay be forgiuen thee.]", "Chap.5.5.\npf.41.4.\nuk.15.21.", "5. Flee from finne, as from a serpent: for if thou\ncommest to neere it, it will bite thee: the teeth\nthereof are as the teeth of a Lyon, to slay the\nfoules of men.", "3. All iniquitie is as a two edged sworde, the\nwoundes thereof can not be healed.", "4. Strife and injuries waste riches: so the house\nof the p[]onde ſbalbe desolate.", "5. * The prayer of the pooze going out of the\nmouth, commeth unto the cares of the Lord,\nand justice is done him incontinently.", "Exod.3:9\n& 21,23", "6. Who so hateth to be reformed, is in the way\nof Sinners: but he that feareth the Lord, con-\nverteth in heart.", "7. An eloquent talker is knowne afarre of: but\nhe that is wife, perceieth when he falleth.", "8. Who so buildeth his house with other mens\nmonep, is like one þ gathereth stones to make\nhis graue.", "Chap.16.6 9", "9. * The congregation of the wicked is like\ntowe wrapped together: their end is a flame\nof fire to destroy them.", "10. The way of Sinners is made plaine with\nstones, but at the end thereof is hell, [darke-\nnes and paines.]", "*or, keepeth the under-\nflanding\nthereof.", "11. He that keepeth the Law of the Lord, \"ruleth\nhis owne affections thereby: as the increase of\nwisdome is the end of the feare of God.", "12. He that is not wife, will not suffer him selfe\nto be taught: but there is come wit that in-\ncreasth bitternes.", "13. The knowledge of the wife ſhal abound like\nwater that runneth ouer, and his counſell is\nlike a pure fountaine of life.", "Chap.33.5 14", "14. * The inner parties of a foolde are like a bor-\nken vessel: he can keepe no knowledge whiles\nhe lieth.", "15. When a man of understanding heareth a\nwife word, he will commend it, and increase\nit: but if an ignorant man heare it, he will dis-\nallow it, and cast it behind his backe.", "16. The talking of a foolde is like a burden in the\nway, but there is comelinesse in the talke of a\nwife man.", "17. They inquire at the mouth of þ wife man in\nthe congregatiode, as they ſhal ponder his words\nin their heart.", "18. As is an house that is destroyed, so is wif-\ndome into a foolde, and the knowledge of the\nunwife is as words without order.", "19. Doctrine into fooles is as fetters on þ feete,\nand like manicles vpon the right hand.", "Chap.19.\n27s18.", "20. * A foolde liketh vp his bopee with laughter,\nbut a wife man doeth feare smile secretly.", "21. Learning is into a wife man a ieWel of gold,\nand like a bracelet vpon his right arme.", "22. A foolish man mans foolde is soone in [his neigh-\nbour's] house: but a man of experience is alba-\nmed to looke in.", "23. A foolde will peee in at the dooze into the\nhouse: but he that is well nurtured, will stand\nwithout.", "24. It is the poput of a foolish man to hearken at", "the dooze: for he that is wife, will be griene\nwith such dihonour.", "25. The lippes of talkers will be telling such\nthinges as perteine not vnto the, but þ words\nof such as haue understanding, are weighed\nin the balance.", "26. The heart of fooles is in their mouth: but the\nmouth of the wife is in their heart.", "27. When the vnGodly curſeth Satan, he cur-\nſeth his owne soule.", "28. * A backebiter deſleth his owne soule, and\nChap.26,\nis hated whereſoever he is: [but he that hec-\npeth his tongue, and is disreſt, shall come to\nhonour.]", "CHAP. XXI.", "1. Of the fluggard. 12. Not to heare much to a fool, 16. As good confite\nkeareth not.", "A. Slouthfull man is like a filthie stone,\nwhich eucre man mocketh at for his\nhame.", "A slouthfull man is to be compared to the\ndongue of oren, as eucre one that taketh it vp,\nwill shake it out of his hand.", "An euill nurtured ſonne is the diſhonour of\nthe father: and the daughter is least to be eſſe-\nmed.", "A wife daughter is an heritage vnto her huſ-\nband, but she that liueth diſhonestely, is her fa-\nthers heauines.", "She that is bolde, diſhonoureth both her fa-\nther and her husbande, [and is not inferior to\nthe vnGodly,] but they both shall despise her.", "A tale out of time is as musike in mourning:\nbut wurdome knoweth the keafons of cozrecti-\non and doctrine.", "Who so teacheth a foolde, is as one that gle-\nworth a potheard together, and as he that wa-\nketh one that sleepeth, from a found sleepe.", "If children liue honestely, as haue wherewith,\nthey ſhall put away the fame of their parents.", "But if children be p[]zoud, with hauines and\nfoolishnesſe they deſple the nobilitie of their\nkindred.", "10. Who so telleth a foolde of wisedome, is as a\nman, which speaketh to one that is a sleepe:\nwhen he hath tolde his tale, he faith, what is\nthe matter?", "11. * Sleepe for the dead, for he hath lost the light: 16.\nso sleepe for the foolde, for he wanteth under-\nstanding: make small weeping for the dead,\nfor he is at rest: but the life of the foolde is wurd\nthen the death.", "12. Seven daies do men mourne for him that\nis dead: but the lamentation for the foolde, and\nvnGodly [should endure] all the daies of their\nlife.", "13. Talke not much with a foolde, and goe not to\nhim that hath no understanding: * be ware of\nhim, left it turne thee to patne, and left thou be\ndesfiled when he shaketh him ſelpe. Depart fro\nhim, and thou shalt finde rest, and that not re-\nceiue ſozowe vp his foolishnes.", "14. What is heauier then lead: and what other\nname should a foolde haue?", "15. * Sand and falte, and a lumpe of p[]azon is ca-\nſter to beare, then an vnwife, [foolilhe and vn-\ngodly man.]", "a. That\nin, as, as the\nhame, so, so\nthe, the\nhame, an\nthe, the

Apocrypha.

Chap.xxij.

42

16 As a frame of wood toyned together in a building can not be looked with ibaking, to the heart that is stablished by audivised counsel, shall fear at no time.

17 The heart that is confirmed by discrete wif-dome, is as a faire plaistering on a plaine wal.

18 As teeds that are let vp on his, can not abide the winde, so the fearfull heart with kooliue imagination can indure no feare.

19 That hurteth the eie, bringeth forz tharees, and he that hurteth the heart, bringeth forz the affection.

20 Who so canketh a stone at the birdes, feareth them away; and he that vpbizaydeth his kied, breaketh friendship.

21 Though thou diewest a sword at thy friend, yet delpaire not: for there may be a returning to favour.

22 If thou haue opened thy mouth against thy friend, keare not: for there may be a reconciliation, so that vpbizayding oz pride oz dist closing of secretes oz a tracterous wound do not let: for by these things euery friend will depart.

23 Be faithfull unto thy friende in his pouertie, that thou mayst reioyce in his pious pereitie. Al-bide stedfast unto him in the time of his trouble, that thou mayst be heire with him in his heritage: for pouertie is not alwapes to be contemned, nor the riche that is foolish, to be had in admiration.

24 As the vapour, and a noke of the chimney goeth before the fire, so euil words, [rebukes and thecatnings] goe before bloodsheading.

25 I will not be ashamed to defende a friende: neither will I hide my selfe from him, though he should do me harme: who soevener heareth it, shall beware of him.

Psal. 14:3

26 who shall get a watch before my mouth, and a scale of wifdome upon my lippes, that I fall not suddainly by them, and that my tongue destroy me not?

CHAP. XXII.

1 A paper of the autours, 12 Of others, blasphemous & unlimtis communication, 16 Of three kindes of linnes, 23 Many linnes proceede of adulterie, 27 Of the feare of God.

1

O
Lorde, father and gouernour of all my
whole life, leaue me not to their counsei,
and let me not fall by *them.

2. Who will correcte my thought, and put the doctrine of wifedome in mine heart, that they map not spare me in mine ignozance, neither let || their fautes palle.

3

Last mine ignozances increale, and my sinnes
abounde to my destruction, and left I fall before
mine aduerkarie, and mine enemies reioyce o-
uer me, whose hope is farre from thy mercie.

4 D. Lorde, Father and God of my life, [leaue me not in their imagination] neither gine me a proud looke, but turne away from thy seruants a skoute mind.

5 Case from me baine hope, a concupiscence,
and retaine him in obedience, that desireth con-
tinually to serue thee.

6 Let not the griedines of the bellie, not lust of the fleke holde me, and gine not me thy seruant ouer into an impudent minde.

7 Cheare, O ye children, the instruction of a

mouth that chal speake trueth: who so keepeth
it, shall not perish through his lippes, [no2 be
hurt by wicked workes.]
8

The inner shalbe taken by his owne lippeste
for the euil speaker and the proud do offend by
them.

* Accustome not thy mouth to swearing: [s20 in it there are many falles.] neither take up so a custome the naming of the Holie one: [s20 thou shtalt not be vnpunished for such things.]

For as aernaunt which is of punisbed, can not be without some fkarre, so he that swaceth, and nameth God continually, shall not be fautlesse.

11 A man that vseeth much swearing, shalbe fil-
led with wickednes, and the plague shal ne-
uer goe from his house: when he shall offend,
his faut shalbe upon him, and if he knowedge
not his sinne, he maketh a double offence: and
if he weare in baine, he shall not be innocent,
but his house shalbe full of plagues.

12 There is a worke which is clothed to death: God grauit that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob: but thep that keare God, eche we all such, and are not wrapped in sinne.

13 Use not thy mouth to "ignozant rashnes: for therein is the occasion of sinne.

14 Remember thy father & thy mother when
thou art set among great men, left thou be
gone in their light, and so through thy eu-
slome become a fool, and wist that thou had-
dest not bene bozne, a curse the day of thy na-
tiutie.

15 * The man that is accustomed to oppozi-
ous words, will never be refoemed at the daies
of his life.

16 There are two soztes [of men] that abound in sinne, and the third dzingeth وزeth and de-sfruction: a minde hote as fire, that can not be quenched till it be consumed: an adulterous man that giueth his body no test, till he haue kindled a fire.

17 (All bread is sweete to a whozemonger: he will not leaue of till he perill.)

18 A man that breaketh wedlocke, and thinketh thus in his heart, *Who seeth me ? I am com-passted about with darkencesse: the walles co-uer me: no body seeth me : whom neede I to keare ? the most High will not remember my sinnes.

19 Such a man onely keareth the eyes of men,
and knoweth not that the eyes of the Lorde
are tenne thouand times brighter then the
sinne, beholding all the wayes of men, [and
the ground of the deepe,] and considereth the
most secrete parties.

20 He knewe al things oz euer they were made,
after they be brought to palle also, he iooketh
upon them all.

21 * The fame ma shalbe punisbed in the streets of the citie, [a shalbe chafed like a pong hozze-foale,] and when hee thinketh not upon it, he shalbe taken: [ thus shall he bee put to shame of euery man, because he would not understond the keare of the Lorde.]
22 And thus shall it goe also with euery wife, þ leaetey

Exod. 20:7

chap. 27.

15 matr. 5.

33:34.

or, in vnoird.
nate vea-
ring.

2 Sam. 16.

1 Sa. 29:15.

Leuit. 20.
10. deut.
21, 21.

or, my
Lippes.

If that is,
of his
faghe
and Lippes

16 38

Apocrypha.

Ecclesiasticus.

Chap.xxiiiij.

1 Icau th her huſbande, and getteth inheritance
by another.

Exod. 20: 14.

23 * For he hath disobeyed the Law of the
most High, and secondly, the hath treepaced a-
gainst her owne huſband, and thirdly, the hath
plaped the whoze in adulterie, and gotten her
children by an other man.

24 She shall be brought out into the congregation, and examination shall be made of her children.

25 Her children shall not take roote, & her branches shall bring forth no fruite.

26 A namefull report shall the leaue, and her reacheth shall not be put out.

27 And thep that remaine, ſhal know that there
is nothing better then the feare of the Loſde,
and that there is nothing Sweeter then to
take heede vnto the commaundements of the
Loſde.

28 It is great glory to follow the Loſde, and to
be received of him is long life.

CHAP. XXIIIIL

1 A name as willedome proceeding, forth of the month of God. 6 Of her
woonkes and place where the reuerend. 10 She is given to the children of
God.

1 W
Ildome shall prayſe her ſelke, [and be
honoured in God.] and reioyce in the
middes of her people.

2 In the congregation of the most High shall
lie open her mouth, and triumphe before his
power.

3 [In the middes of her people ſhal the be exal-
ted, and wondered at in the holy allemblic.

4 In the multitude of the chosen ſhe shall be
commended, and among such as be bleſſed, ſhe
ſhal be praysed, and ſhall ſay.]

5 I am come out of ſ month of the most High,
[first borne before all creatures.

6 I caused the light that failleth not, to arise in
the heauen.] and couered the earth as a cloude.

7 My dwelling is above in the height, and my
throne is in the pillar of the cloude.

8 I alone haue gone round about the compaſſe
of heauen, and haue walked in the bottome of
the depth.

9 I posſessed the waues of the sea, and all the
carth, and all people, and nation, [and with
my power haue I troden downe the hearts of
all, both high and lowe.]

10 In al these things I sought reſt, and a dwel-
ling in some inheritance.

11 So the creator of all thingsinge gaue me a com-
mandement, and he that made me, appoypnted
me a tabernacle, and laid, Let thy dwelling be
in Jacob, and take thine inheritace in Israel,
and roote thy ſelke among my chosen.

Pro. 8:23.

12 * He created me from the beginning, and be-
fore the world, and I ſhal neuer faile.* In the

Exod. 31:3

holy habitation haue I ſerved before him, and
so was I established in Sion.

Psal. 32:8

13 * In the welbeloued citie gaue he me reſt,
and in Jerusalem was my power.

14 I tooke roote in an honoza ble people, euen
in the portion of the Lords inheritance.

15 I am fet vp on hie like a cedar in Libanus,
and as a cippes tree vpon t, e mountaines of

Hermon.

16 I am exalted like a palme tree * about the
bankes, and as a rose plant in Jericho, as a
faire olive tree in a plearant field, and am exal-
ted as a plane tree by the water.

17 I knelled as the cinnamum, as a bagge of
spices: I gaue a sweet odour as ÿ best myrthe,
as galbanum, and onix, and sweete stozar,
and perfume of incense in an houſe.

18 As the * terebinth, haue I stretched out my
branches, and my branches are the branches
of honour and grace.

19 * As the vine haue I brought forth [fruites]
of sweete fauour, as my flowres are the fruite
of honour and riches.

20 I am the mother of beautifull loue, and of
keare, and of knowledge, and of holy hope: I
give eternal things to all my children to who
God hath commanded.

21 [In me is all grace of life and trueth : in me
is all hope of life and vertue.]

22 Come vnto me all ye that be desirous of me,
and fill your ſelues with my fruites.

23 * For the remembra nce of me is Sweeter then
home, and mine inherita nce [Sweeter] then the
honie combe: [the remembra nce of me endu-
reth for evermo e.]

24 They that eat me, ſhall haue the moſt hun-
ger, and they that drinke me, ſhall thirst the
moſt.

25 Who so hearkeneth vnto me, ſhall not come
to confusion, and they that worke by me, shall
not offend: [they that make me to be knowlen,
ſhal haue euclafafting life.]

26 All these thinges are the booke [of life,] and
the covenant of the most high God, [and the
knowledge of the trueth,] * and the Law that
Moples [in the preceptes of rightou nces]
commanded for an heritage vnto the house of
Jacob, [and the p[ro]mixites pertaining vnto Is-
rae l.

Exod. 101

24:3

deut. 4:1

2:39

27 Be not Wearie to behaue your ſelues bali-
antlie with the Loſde, that he may also con-
ſirme you: cleaue vnto him: for the Loſde al-
mightie is but one God, & besides him there is
none other Sainou.

28 [Out of David his ſeruant he ordeined to
raife vp a most mightie King that should fit in
the thron e of honour for evermo e.]

29 He fillet all thingsinge with his wuledge, as
* Phylon, and as Tygris, in the time of the
neue fruites.

30 He maketh the understanding to abound like
Euphates and as * Jor den in the time of the
harvest.

31 He maketh the doctrine of knowledge to ap-
pare as the light, and ouerfloweth as Geon
in the time of the vintage.

32 The first man hath not knownen her perſect:
no noize shall the last ſecke her out.

33 For her considerations are more abundant
then the sea, and her counſell is profounder
then the great deepe.

34 I wildome [haue cast out flooded: I am as
an arme of the river: I eunne into Paradise
as a water conduite.

35 I laid,

Apocrypha.

Ecclesiasticus.

Chap. xxvij.

and marucile not if the trempasse against it; see.

12 As one that goeth by the way, and is thirstie, so shall the open her mouth, and drinke of euery next water : by eucrie hedge shall she sit downe, and open her quiner against eucrie arrowe.

13 The grace of a wife reioyceth her hufbande, as feedeth his bones with her understanding.

14 A peaceable woman and of a good heart is a gift of the Lord, and there is nothing so much worth as a woman well instructed.

15 A hamefaft and faithful woman is a double grace, and there is no weight to be compared unto her continent minde.

16 As the linne when it ariseth in the high places of the Lord, so is the beautie of a good wife the ornament of her house.

17 As the cleare light is upon the holy candle, sticke, so is the beautie of the face in a ripe age.

18 As the golden pillars are upon the sorkettes of filuer : so are faire keete with a constant minde.

19 [Perpetual are the foundations that be laid upon a strong rocke: so are the commandements of God in the heart of an holic woman.]

20 As the linne, keepe the strength of thy age stable, and give not thy strength to strangers.

21 When thou haft gotten a fruiteful possession through al the fieldes, sow it with thine owne seede, trusting in thy nobilitie.

22 So thy stocke that shall liue after thee, shall grow, trusting in great liberality of their nobilitie.

23 An harlot is compared to a sowe: but a wife that is married, is counted as a towe against death to her hufbande.

24 A wicked woman is giuen as a rewarde to a wicked man: but a godly woman is giuen to him that keareth the Lord.

25 A hamelelle woman contemneth hame: but a hamefaft woman will reverence her hufbande.

26 A hamelelle woman is compared to a dogge: but she that is hamefaft, reverenceth the Lord.

27 A woman that honoureth her hufband, shall be audged wife of all: but she that despiseth him, shall be blazed for her pride.

28 A lowde crying woman and a babbler let her be fought out to drinke away the enemies: the minde of eucri man that lieth with such, shall be conuerant among the troubles of warre.

29 There be two things that grieue mine heart, & the third maketh me angry: a man of warre that suffereth pouertie: and men of understanding that are not set by: and when one departeth from righteousnes vnto linne: the Lord appointeth such to the word.

30 [There be two things, which me thinke to be hard & perilous.] A marchane cannot lightly keepe him from wrong, and a vitailer is not without linne.

CHAP. XXVII.

1 Of the vge that would be rich, 5 The probation of the man that keareth God. 13 The buconflannes of a fool. 16 The secretes of friends are not to be broken. 26 The wicked imagines euill with whom euill himselfe.

1 Because of puerotic haue manie finned: as he that seeketh to be riche, turneth his eyes aside.

2 As a naple in the wall sticketh faft betweene the ioyntes of the stones, so doeth linne sticke betweene the selling and the bying.

3 If he holde him not diligently in the care of the Lord, his house shall soone be ouerhitten.

4 As when one licteth, the filthines remaineth in the linc, so the filth of man remaineth in his thought.

5 The fornace proueth the potters best: so doeth [tentation] tric mens thoughts.

6 * The fruite declareth if the tree haue bene trimmed: so the word [declare] what man hath in his heart.

7 Praise no man except thou haue heard his talke: for this is the play of men.

8 If thou followest righteousnes, thou shall get her, and put her on as a kapey garment, [and shall dwell with her, and the shall defend thee for euerc; and in þ day of knowledge thou shall find thy kapey kane].

9 The birdes resort unto their like: so doeth the trueth turne vnto them, that are practiced in her.

10 As the Lyon waiteth for þ beaft, so doth linne vnto them that do euill.

11 The talking of him þ keareth God, is al wife: as for a fool, he changeth as the moone.

12 If thou be among the vndifcrete, obferue the time, but haunt still the assemblie of them that are wife.

13 The talking of fooles is grieuous, and their sport is in the pleasure of linne.

14 * The talke of him that swareth much, maileth the heare to stande vp: and to strike with such stoppeth the eares.

15 The strike of the pouke is blood sfeading, and their feouldings are gricuous to heare.

16 * Who so discovereth secrets, loathe his credit, and findeth no friend after his will.

17 Loue thy friende, and be faithfull vnto him: but if thou bezayest his secrets, thou shall get him againe.

18 If so as a man destroyeth his enemie, so doeth thou destroy the friendlip of thy neighbour.

19 As one that letteth a birde go out of his hand, so if thou guee ouer thy friende, thou canst not get him againe.

20 Followe after him no more, for he is to faire of: he is as a roe escaped out of the snare: [for his soule is wounded.].

21 As for wounded, they may be bound by againe, and an euill word may be reconciled: but who so bewrayeth the secretes of a friend, hath lost all his credit.

22 * He that winketh with the eyes, imagineth euill: as he that knoweth him, will let him alone.

23 When thou art present, he will speake sweetly, and praise the words: but at the last he will turne his tale, and flander thy saying.

24 Many things haue I hated, but nothing to euill as such one: for the Lord also hateth him.

25 Who so casteth a stone on him, casteth it upon

Apocrypha.

Chap. xxviiij. xxix.

44.

upon his owne head: and he that smiteth with
gutile, maketh a great wounde.

Phil.7:15.
pro.16:17.
ecles.10.
8.

26 Who so * diggeth a pit, shall fall therein, [and he that laiceth a stone in his neighbours way,] shall stifle thereon, and he that layeth a snare for another, shall be taken in it him selfe.

27 He that worketh enill, shall be wrapped in e-
ails, and shall not knowe from whence they
come vnto him.

28 Mockerie and repтоche followe the proude,
and vengeance lurketh for them as a Lyon.

29 They that reioyce at the fall of p'tighteous,
shall be taken in the snare, and anguish shall con-
sume them before they die.

30 Defpite and anger are abominable things,
and the sinfull man is subiect to them both.

CHAP. XXVIII.

1 We ought not to defire vengeance, but to forgiue the offence. 13 Of the vices of the tongue, and of the dangers thereof.

Deut.32:
35,rom.12
19.

HE* that seeketh vengeance, shall finde
vengence of the Lord, and he will sure-
ly keepe his sinnes.

I Man ought not to anke
vengence

2 || Forgiue thy neighbour the hurt that he hath
done to thee, so shall thy sinnes be forgiuen
thee alfo, when thou prayest.

3 Should he a man bear his hatred against man, a
*delire forgiuencelle of the Lord?

4 He will shew no mercie to a man, which is like
him selfe: and will he aske forgiuencelle of his
owne sinnes:

5 If he that is but selfe, nourisheth hatred, [and
aske pardon of God,] who will intreate for his
sinnes.

6 Remember the ende, and let enimitie palle :—
Imagine not death and destruction to another
through anger, but perseuere in the comman-
dementes.

7 Remember the commandementes: so shall
thou not be rigorous against thy neighbour:
[consider diligently] the couenant of the most
High, and forgiue his ignorance.

Chap.8:1.

8 * Beware of strike, and thou shall make the sinnes fewer: for an angry man kindleth strike.

9 And the sinfull man disquieteth friendes, and
bringeth in false accusations among the that
be at peace.

Pro.26,11.

10 *As the matter of the fire is, so it burneth, and
mans anger is accozding to his power: and
accozding to his riches his anger increaseth,
and the more bechement the anger is, the more
is he inflamed.

11 An hastie drawling kindleth a fyre, and an
hastie fighting headeth blood: [a tongue that
beareth false witnesses, bringeth death.]

The *tongue*
Chap. 21.
28.

12 If thou blow the sparke, it shall burne: if thou
spit upon it, it shall be quenched, and both these
come out of the mouth.

a That is,
the tongue
to be
and in
the mouth
speaketh

13 || * Abhorrre the flaunderer and double ton-
gued: for such haue destroyed many that were
at peace.

one thing,
the mouth
is the
of their
owne
bane.

14 The a double tongue hath disquieted manie,
and dzinen them from nation to nation: strong
cities hath it broken downe, and ouerthowen
the houres of great men: the strength of p' peo-
ple hath it brought downe, and bene the decay

of mightie nations.]

15 The double tongue hath cast out many ver-
tuous women, and robbed them of their la-
bours.

16 Who so hearkeneth vnto it, shall neuer finde
rest, and neuer dwell quietly.

17 The stroke of the rodde maketh marks in
the selfe, but the stroke of the tongue beaketh
the bones.

18 There be many that haue perished by p' edge
of the sword, but not so many as haue fallen
by the tongue.

19 Hell is him that is kept from an enill tongue,
and commeth not in the anger thereof, which
hath not drawn in that poke, neither hath
bene bounde in the bandes thereof.

20 For the poke thereof is a poke of pion, and the
bandes of it are bands of bzaſſe.

21 The death thereof is an euil death: hell were
better then such one.

22 It shall not haue rule ouer them that keare
God, neither shall they be burnt with the flame
thereof.

23 Such as forſake the Lord, shall fall therein:
and it shall burne them, and no man shall be
able to quenche it: it shall fall vpon them as a
pon, and denoure them as a leopard.

24 Hedge thy posſession with thornes, and make
doozes and barres for thy mouth.

25 Binde vp thy kinner and gold, and weigh thy
wordes in a balance, and make a dooze and a
barre. [and a sure bridle] for thy mouth.

26 Beware that thou slide not by it, and so fall
before him that lieth in waite. [and thy fall be
incurable, cuen vnto death.]

CHAP. XXIX.

1 Do lend moner, and do alues. 15 Of a fathfull man anthering for his
friend. 14 The poore man sitte.

HE that will shew mercie, || lendeth to his
neighbour: and he that hath power once
him selfe, keepeth the commandementes.

|| Of twel
thoug.

2 *Lend to thy neighbour in time of his neede,
and paye thou thy neighbour againe in due
season.

Deut.15:7.
8, mat. 5:23
Luke.6:35.

Keepe thy word, and deale feithfully with
him, and thou shall alway finde the thing that
is necessary for thee.

Many when a thing was lent them, recke-
ned it to be founde, and griued them that had
helped them.

Till they receive, they kiffe his handes, and
for their neighbours good they humble their
boycot: but when they should pay againe, they
prolong the terme, & give a carkelle anfwere,
and make executes by reason of the time.

And though he be able, yet giueth he fearee
the halfe againe, and reckeneth the other as a
thing found: els he deceneth him of his money,
and maketh him an enemie without a cause:
he papeth him with curting and rebuke, and
guith him enill words for his good deede.
There be many which refuse to lend because
of this inconuenience, fearing to be defrauded
without cause.

Pet haue thou pacience with him that hum-
bleth him selfe, a deferre not mercie from him.

H.ii.

9 Helpe

Apocrypha.

Ecclesiasticus.

Chap.xxx.xxxj.

9. Helpe the pooze for the commaundementes fake, and turne him not away, because of his pouertie.

10. Lose thy money for thy brothers and neighbours fake, and let it not tust under a stone to thy destruuction.

Dan 4:24.
mat.6:20.
luke.11:41

and 12:33.
aft 10:4.

1. 1om.6:18
2. 19.

*origine
thine almes
secretye,
Tobit 4:8,
9,10,11,12.

2

11. *Bestow the treasure after the commandment of the most High, and it shall bring thee more profit then golde.

12. "Lay up thine almes in thy secrete chambers, and it shall keepe thee from all affliction.

13. [A man's almes is as a purse with him, & shall keepe a man's fauour as the apple of the eye, and afterward he shall it arise, and paye every man his reward upon his head.]

14. It shall fyght for thee against thine enemies, better then the shield of a strong man, or a speare of the mightie.

15. An honest man is a suretic for his neighbour: but he that is impudent, forlaketh him.

In the name
of the Lord.

16. Forget not the friend shippe of thy surety: for he hath lade his life for thee.

17. The a wicked depliseth the good deed of his suretie.

18. The wicked will not become suretie: and he that is of an unthankfull minde, forlaketh him that deliuered him.

19. [Some man promiseth for his neighbour: as when he hath lost his honestie, he will forlaketh him.]

20. Suretic ship hath destroyed many a rich man, and remoned them as the waves of the sea: mightie men hath it driven away from their houres, and caused them to wander among strange nations.

21. A wicked man transgressing the commandments of the Lord, shall fall into surety shippe: and he that medleth much with other mens busines, is intangled in controuersies.

22. & Helpe thy neighbour accozding to thy pleasure, and beware that thou thy selfe fall not.

Chap.19.
2:6.

23. *The chiefe thing of life is water, and bread, and clothing, and lodging to couer thy name.

24. || The pooze mans life in his owne lodge is better then delicate fare in another mans.

Pro.13:14.
& 23:13.

25. Be it little or much, holde thee contented, that the house thy selfe not cuill of thee.

26. for it is a miserable life to goe from house to house: for where thou art a stranger, thouUST not open thy mouth.

27. Thou shalt lodge and feed unthankful men, and after shall haue bitter wozdes for þe fame, saying,

28. Come, thou stranger, and prepare the table, and feede me of that thou hast toadie.

29. Gueve place, thou stranger, to an honourable man: my brother commeth to be lodged, and I haue neede of mine houſe.

30. These things are heauie to a man that hath understanding, the vpbraiding of the house, & the reproch of the lender.

CHAP. XX.

1 Of the correction of children. 14 Of the commoditie of health. 17 Death is better then a forowfull lyfe. 22 Of the love and follow of the heart.

Pro.13:14.
& 23:13.

He that loueth his londe, * causeth him oft to seele the rodde, that he may haue top of him in the ende.

He that chaufiseth his londe, shall haue tope in him, as shall reioyce of him among his acquaintance.

He that *teacheth his londe, grieueth the enemy, and bekoze his friendes: he shall reioyce of him.

Though his father dye, yet is he as though he were not dead: for he hath left one behinde him that is like him.

In his life he sawe him, and had tope in him, and was not sozie in his death, [neither was he albamed before his enemies.]

He left behind him an auenger against his enemies, and one that should thew fauour into his friendes.

He that flattereth his londe, bindeth up his wounds, & his heart is grieued at every cric.

An dntamed hozſe will be stubburne, & a wanton childe will be wilfull.

If thou bring up thy londe delicately, he shall make thee afteade: and if thou play with him, he shall bring thee to heauines.

Laugh not with him, left thou be sozie with him, and left thou gnaſt thy teeth in the end.

11 *Gue him no libertie in his youth, & winke not at his folie.

12. Bow downe his necke while he is pong, and beate him on the lides, while he is a childe, left he wade stubburne, & be dissobedient unto thee, and so bring sozowe to thine heart.

13. Chaſſiſe thy child, and be diligent therein, left his hame grieue thee.

14. C || Better is the pooze, being whole, & strong, then a riche man that is afflicted in his bodie.

15. Health and strength is aboue all golde, and a whole bodie aboue infinite treasure.

16. There is no riches aboue a found body, and no tope aboue the top of the heart.

17. Death is better then a bitter life, [and long rent, then continual lickneſtne.

18. The good things þ are powred on a mouth: but up, are as melles of meat set þo graue.

19. What good doth the offering unto an idole for he can neither eat, nor smell: so is he that is perfecuted of the Lord, [and beareth the reward of iniquitie.]

20. He seeth with his eyes, & groneth like * a gelled man, that lieth with a virgint and ligheth,

21. *Gue not ouer thy minde to heauinelle, and bere not thy selfe in thine owne counſel.

22. The tope of the heart is the life of man, and a mans gladnes is the prolonging of his dayes.

23. Lone thine owne loue, & comfort thine heart: drine sozowe farre from thee: for sozowe hath slaine many, and there is no profit therein.

24. Enuie and wizath (h)ozten the life, and careſulnes hzingeth age before the time.

25. A noble and good heart will haue consideraſtion of his meat and diet.

CHAP. XXXI.

Of courtesines. 2 Of them that take paine to gather riches. 3 The painſt of a rich man without a faute. 12 We ought to see jumhennes 9 followe ſoberneſſe.

Waking after *riches pineth away the body, and the care thereof of drineth away lcepe.

10. 1 Tim.6:9.

11. 1 Tim.6:9.

2 This

["Apocrypha.", "Chap. xxxiiij.", "2 This waking care breaketh the sleepe, as a great sickness breaketh the sleepe.", "3 The riche hath great labour in gathering riches together, and in his rest he is filled with pleasures.", "4 The pooze laboureth in living poozely, and when he leaueth of, he is still pooze.", "5 He that loueth golde, shall not be justified, and he that followeth coz ruptio, shall have ynough thereof.", "6 Man are destroyed by the reason of golde, and haue found their destruction before them.", "7 It is as a stumbling blocke unto them, if grace be unto it, and every foole is taken therewith.", "8 Blessed is the * riche which is founde without blemisbe, and hath not gone after golde, [noz hoped in money and treasures.]", "9 Who is he, and we will commend him for his wonderfull things he hath done among his people.", "10 Who hath bene tried thereby, and found perfect, let him be an example of glozey, who might offende, and hath not offended, or do cuill, and hath not done it.", "11 Therefoe shall his goods be established, and the congregation shall declare his almes.", "Temple\nfancie,", "12 If thou sit at a costlie table, || open not thy mouth wide upon it, | lay not, Beholde much meat.", "13 Remember that an cuill eye is a fhewe: and what thing created is work then a wicked eye: for it weepeth for every cause.", "14 Stretch not thine hand whereof ever it looketh, and thrust it not with it into the diſſe.", "15 Confider by thy ſelſe him that is by thee, and marke every thing.", "16ATE modellit that which is let before thee, and deuoure not, left thou be hated.", "17 Leave thou of ſpitt for your tourts take, and be not infafatible, left thou offende.", "18 When thou fittest among many, reach not thine hand out haſt of all.", "19 How little is sufficient for a man well taught, and thereupon he belcheth not in his chamber, [noz feeleth any paine.]", "20 A wholeſome sleepe commeth of a temperate bellie: he richeth vp in the morning, and is well at eate in him ſelſe: but paine in watching and cholcricke diſeales, and pangs of the belly are with an unfatible man.", "21 If thou haſt bene forced to eat, artife, go to that, a vomit, and the take thy rest: | so thou haſt bring no ſicknes vnto thy body.", "22 My ſonne, heare me, and despite me not, and at the last thou haſt finde as I haue told thee: in all thy woozles be quicke, so shall there no ſicknes come vnto thee.", "23 *Who so is || liberall in his meate, men shall bleſſe him : and the testimonie of his honefull albe beleeued.", "24 But against him that is a nigard of his meat, the whole citie shall murmur: the testimonies of his nigardines albe sure.", "25 Sheveth not thy valiantnes in wine: for wine hath destroyed many.", "1 This council upon coming to the health of the body, is here alway, raſh, for a remedy to help the biſchilion, to make the humour, then for an instruction to temperance, for the benefit of the body, then for an instruction to the body, then for a better life, then for a

Apocrypha.

Ecclesiasticus.

Chap. xxxiiij, xxxiiij.

17 They that fear the Lord, shall find that which is righteous, and shall kindle justice as a light.

18 In ungodly man will not be reformed, but findeth out excuses according to his will.

19 A man of understanding deepeth not count for: but a lewd and proud man is not tонed with fear, even when he hath done tably.

20 [By sonne, do nothing without aduise]: so shall it not repent thee after the deed.

21 Go not in the way where thou mayest fall; no where thou maist stuble amid the stones, neither trust thou in the way that is plain.

22 And beware of thine own children; [be take heede of them that be thine own household].

23 In every good woozke be of a faithful heart: for this is the keeping of the commandements.

“or the Law

24 Who so beliceth in the Lord, keeper the commandementes: and he that trusteth in the Lord, shall take no hurt.

CHAP. XXXII.IL

1 The deliuerance of him that feareth God, 4 The answeare of the wife.

12 Mary in the hand of God, as the clap is in the hand of the potter.

13 Enrichment.

|| The fear of God.

1 T here shall no cuill come unto him that feareth the Lord: but when he is in tension, he will deliver him againe.

2 A wife man hateth not the Lawe: but he that is an hypocrite therein, is as a lippe in a sozne.

3 A man of understanding walketh faithfully in the Law, and the Law is faithful unto him.

4 As the questio is made, prepare the answeare, and so shall thou be heard: be sure of the matter, and so answere.

Chap. xxi.

16.

5 The heart of the *foolishe is like a carte: wheele: and his thoughtses are like a rolling areltree.

6 As a wilde horse neveth under euery one that lutteth upon him, so is a coinefull friende.

7 Why doeth one dape excell another, seeing that the light of the dapes of the yeere come of the Sunne?

8 The knowledge of the Lord hath parted the atander, and he hath by them dispozed þ times and tolemme leastes.

9 Some of them hath he chosen and sanctified, and some of them hath he put among þ dapes to number.

Gen. xli. 10

2 & 7.

10 And all men are of the * grounde, and Adam was created out of the earth: but þ Lord hath divided them by great knowledge, and made their wapes diverse.

11 Some of them hath he blessed and eralted, and some of them hath he sanctified, and appropriate to him selfe: but some of them hath he cursed, and brought them lowe, and put the out of their estate.

12 *

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21.

12 * As the clap is in the potters hande, to order it at his pleasure, so are men alio in the hand of their Creator, so that he may reward them as liketh him best.

13 Against cuill is good, against death is life: so is the godly against the finner, and the ungodly against the faithfull.

14 So in all the workes of the most High thou maist see it, at there are euery two, one against

another.

15 I am awaked vp last of all, as one that ga-ethereth after them in the vilitage. In the bieſing of the Lord, I am increased, and have fill'd my winepelle, like a grape gatherer.

16 Behold, howe I have not laboured once for my selfe, but for all them that seeke knowledge.

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39.

17 I fear me, O ye great men of the people, and hearken with pour cares, ye rulers of the congregation.

18 Gue not thy sonne and wife, thy brother and friend, power ouer thee while thou livest, and gue not away thy substance to another, left it repet thee, and thou intreat for the same againe.

19 As long as thou livest, and hast breath, gue not thy selfe ouer to any person.

That is, let not man be there as funerall; when thou hast come into the ground into thy hands, thou

20 For better it is that thy children should pay unto thee, then that thou shouldest looke up to the hands of thy children.

21 In all thy works be excellent, that thy houde be neuer staynd.

22 At the time when thou shall end thy dayes, and finish thy life, distribute thine inheritance.

23 The fodder, the whippe and the burden be- long unto the aise: and meate, correction and worke, unto the servant.

24 If thou let thy servant to labour, thou shall finde rest: but if thou let him goe idle, he shall seeke liberty.

25 The yoke and the whippe bowe downe the hard neckes, to take thine cuill servant with the whippes and correction.

26 Sende him to labour, that he go not idle: for idlenes bringeth much cuill.

27 Set him to woozke, for that belongeth unto him: if he be not obedient, || put on more heauie fetters.

Gue
Fueri
bueri opere
rederi in eis
et ille.

28 But be not exrecline toward any, and with- out discretion do nothing.

29. * If thou haue a faithfull servant, let him be

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unto thee as thine own soule: for in blood haſt thou gotte him. If thou haue a servant, intreat him as thy brother: for thou haſt neede of him, as of thy selfe. If thou intreat him cuill, and he runne away, wilt thou seeke him?

CHAP. XXXIIIL.

1 Of drcames. 11 The pannage of them that carry God. 12 The offerings of the workes. 13 The bread of the nerbe. 27 God doeth not allow the woukres of an unfaithfull man.

1 T he hope of a foolishe man is vaine and falle, || and drcames make fooles to haue wings.

drcames.

2 Who so regardeth drcames, is like him that will take holde of a shadowe, and follow after the winde.

3 Even so is it with þ appearings of drcames, as the likenes of a facc is before another facc. Who can be clenched by the vncleanes? what trueth can be spoken of a liar?

4 South sayings, witchcraft, and drcaming is but vanity, and a mind þ is occupied with fan-tacies, is as a woman that trauleteth.

5 Where as such visions come not of the most High to trie thee, set not thine heart vp to them. For drcames haue deereuied many, and they haue