the Cittie fought but yet at last they lost Zedechias sonnes were kild he saw the wicked did so rout The Town and Temple was destroid and then his eyes thrust out ¶ The last and fourth book of the Kings the second some it call Is gone and past with matters hard in meeter for to fall The Crownicles the douts shall mend God let vs liue therto And send vs grace to doo the thing that we intend to doo ¶ Finis The first book of the Chronicles ¶ The i. chapiter ADam his ligne is héer exprest to Iacob and Esau Then haue you tolde what kings did rule the Edomites by law Eight kings they had before the time that Israel had a King What Dukes they had ye may haue there if you inquire the thing The ii Chapiter BEgin the second Chapter dooth with Iacob and his sonnes And then of Iudahs progeny it next in order comes Seauen were the sonnes that Isay had whose father was Obed And Dauid yungest was of them yet was he made their hed The iii. chapiter COncubines diuers Dauid had of sonnes he had ninetéen â—n Hebron sixe Hierusalem there had he iust thirtéen These by his wiues to him were born in whiche was Salomon The Kings that ruled after him the chapter telleth on The iiii chapiter DRawn out is then the ligne and stock of Iudah and his kin In wanting food to féed their shéep good pasture they did win Of Simions sonnes somewhat is said how valiantly they went They béeing few yet sped they wel and had their whole intent The v. chapiter EUil fauoured lust to fathers wife lost Ruben his birthright And Iosephs stock came in his roum a people ful of might Yet is his stock héer tolde and what a noble fight they fought A land they wan but after fel from God who draue them out The vi Chapiter FOlowing on of Leuies ligne expressed is at large Of whom came Aaron and his sonnes that had the préestly charge Citties they had of other tribes for refuge and besides For them and their posterities as lots to them were guides The vii Chapiter GOing on foorth by Israel to tel who came of him Of Izacar and Beniamin Manasses and Ephraim Then Ephraims stock by men of Gath were slain whiche made him sad His fréends did comfort him right wel and then a sonne he had The viii chapiter HEar more is tolde of Beniamin his sonnes by right discent How they begat from childe to childe and lineally foorth went Out of which tribe came foorth king Saul and of his sonnes by rowe As tolde and eke of valiant men that shot wel in a bowe The ix chapiter ISrael is now numbred in certain tribes by name The Leuites and the chéefest préestê that were of greatest fame The ouerséears of the woorks the porters in their charge The oyntment makers vessel kéepers are héer tolde out at large The x. chapiter KIng Saule is slain by Philistins and Ionathas his sonne His body stript his hed cut of after the féeld was wun The cause is tolde why he was slain by councelling with the Deuil And Dauid brought into his raign who rooted out muche euil The xi chapiter LIke as the Lord had promised by Samuel his man So Dauid now is chosen King Hierusalem he wan His noble men are tolde by name and eke their mightie actê He that wil read the chapter out shall hear of woorthy factê The xii chapiter MEn that of might were meruailous to Dauid now did flock And suche as knew the featê of warres came out of euery stock Out of eche tribe good souldiers their captains with their number Are héer so tolde and with suche hartê as might make Dauid wunder The xiii chapiter NOw Dauid héer dooth councel take the Ark first home to bring Whiche Saule did nothing care to doo as long as he was king And one was slain for touching it when as the Ark did shake So came it short to Sion hil it made the king to quake The xiiii chapiter OF woork men and of Ceder trées sent to him héer is tolde Wherby his kingdome stablished to say he durst be bolde His sonnes and wiues are then exprest the Philistines inuade With God he talkte whose wil obayd he flue them in a slade The xv chapiter PRepare did he a multitude for to fetche home the Ark The Leuites bare it on their backs plesantly sang eche clark With shouting noise and instruments and Dauid daunst his part The daintie damsel Michol then despisde him in her hart The xvi chapiter QUietly now the Ark is set the tabernacle vnder The préestê appointed to giue thanks according to their number A Psalme he made in praise of God to laud his holy name In the hundred and the fift Psalme there shall ye finde the same The xvii chapiter REfuse did God that Dauid should an house vnto him build But as before so would he stil dwel vnder tent in féeld But that a sonne of his should make a house he was content Then landed he the Lord therfore sitting within his tent The xviii Chapiter SUche battailes then as Dauid fought this chapter dooth declare The Philistines the Moabites they all subdued are The Edomites with other Kings did Dauid ouerthrowe And those that were his rulers chéef their names héer may ye knowe The xix chapiter THen Dauid sent of right good wil a new King for to gréet The messengers were madly shauen their cotes cut ful vnméet Suche wrath their maister took therfore that battail gan to broile The Moabites the Aramites they fled and had the spoile The xx chapiter WHen Princes vse in battaile ray their armies to set out Then Ioab went and wan a town and took a King ful stout Whose crown was set on Dauids head whiche waid a waightie waight Suche Giants then were ouerthrowne as lackt no strength nor height The xxi chapiter According as the Deuil did tempt Dauid did tel his flock Of thrée hard stripes the Pestilence he chose to be his stroke Thrée score and ten thousands of men the Angel did deuour The plague is ceast â–ª an aulter built vpon a threshing floure The xxii chapiter BEing at rest now in his seat all things he dooth prouide Wherwith to build to God an house at the apointed tide Good councel to his sonne he giues for to erect the same His noble men he dooth exhorte to help the woork to frame The xxiii Chapiter CHosen king was Salomon then by Dauid for to reign The préesthood eke of Leuies kinde was numbered again Then Aarons stock and Moyses ligne are pointed bothe as one Their names and eke their offices for them to wait vpon The xxiiij chapiter DEuision of Aarons séed the king by lot did make And so eche man that had his roum by lot he did it take Yet was there left of Amrams house whose names by course are tolde And lots were cast for equalnes betwixt the yung and olde The xxv chapiter EChe man that
people clean from filthines or spot No man to touche the holy place but he that was his lot The xx chapiter BEgin did Israel for to grudge they lacked drink to drink Out of a rock there gusht a stream that fild them to the brink The Edomites would not let passe the people through their land Then Aaron dide and in his roum Eleazar did stand The xxi chapiter CAptain Arad then came to fight and lost his Cittie and life Immediatly when they were come euen from the waters strife Then stung they were by serpentê great and heald by one on hie They kild two kings Schon and Og as Israel passed by The xxii chapiter DEuise did Balack for to curse the Israelites to hel â—nd sent for Balam in his fume his cursing for to tel â—e once denide and â—et he went his minde was set on gain He smote his Asse and shée denide his labour was in vain The xxiii chapiter Euen as Balack had then decréed so went he vp on hie And Balam talkt with God a while and spake thus by and by How shall I curse or els defie whom God dooth nothing so And them he blest and blest again or euer he did go The xxiiij chapiter FOorthe went Balam in parables declaring Israels hap And Balack angry with the thing his hands in one did clap When he had said then Balam tolde of Christes kingdome plain A Star and scepter vp shall rise in Iacob for to raign The xxv chapiter GOds people then did slip away and whordome did commit The Moabits in their seruice had tiste them vnto it Then God coÌ„maunded Moyses straight to hang the rulers all As two were dooing of the déed Phinches on them did fall The xxvi chapiter HOw many were the Israelites that Canaan should possesse The whole xij tribes are numbred all whom God did chuse and blesse He wild the land for to be delt by partê in forme equal The mo the more the few the lesse so that no one haue all The xxvii chapiter IN presence then came certain maidâ— inheritance to craue Euen so they had as next of blood successiuely must haue The land behest to Moyses shewd and tolde he is to die His prayer is heard and Iosue set his roum for to supply The xxviii chapiter KNowledge is giuen for euery day what offring they must vse A Lamb at morn and eke at euen vnspotted they must chuse The paske how that it should be kept the day is pointed out With all the order of the feast to put them out of dout The xxix chapiter LIke sacrifice as God did point this chapter dooth expresse And telles how all their meatê drinks in order they must dresse Eight dayes at once they must not ceace to offer sacrifise And woork no kinde of woork in them as God did them deuise The xxx chapiter MEn that vowed or sware an othe with promise to the Lord Must stand to it and not go back the scripture dooth accord But maid or wife that did the same without their heds consent They must go back if he denide for all their good intent The xxxi chapiter NExt then to that went Israel foorth the Madianites to kil And slue the males burnt their townes and led the rest at wil. The spoile was delt foorth equally the captaines were so good Saue certain things were giuen to God for sauing of their blood The xxxii chapiter OUer Iordane towards the East possession out was set For two whole tribes and halfe a one so that they would not let To go before their brethern all in harnes freshe and bright Against the land of Canaan to put them all to flight The xxxiii chapiter PErfourm did Moyses Gods precept Their iourneis he did write From place to place in wildernes and telles where they did light Then God did bid that they should kil the Cananites out right And ding their chappels all adown and burst their Idols quite The xxxiiii chapiter QUietly how they should possesse the land is tolde them plain The east the west the north the south where they should rule and reign Who should point out the land by lots the Lord did Moyses tel The heds should set out eche mans part where he should bide and dwel The xxxv chapiter REsight did God the Leuits lots the suburbs and their townes For refuge certain Citties set to kéep them in their boundes He that with wil a man did kil he must of right be slain One witnes may in no wise stand vnles that they be twain The xxxvi chapiter SUpplication then was made for maids that were vnwed Within their tribe then must they take â–ª their husband and their hed Euery tribe within his tribe must wed and take his wife Not one to mixe in others part for fear of bate and strife ¶ Now Numeri hath thus his end the fourth book it is set The fift in order ye shall haue If God giue vs no let Deuteronomium Not only so but also teache their children they are bod The Lords preceptê both all and some that they may knowe their God The vii chapiter GOd did forbid a league to make with gentiles in no wise They must destroy their Idols quite and all their Gods dispise He also saith that he wil blesse the kéepers of his wil And curse the rest and charge he gaue Idolatrers to kil The viii chapiter HOw maruaylously that God had deâ—â— with Israel fortie yéer In wildernes with benefits as plainly dooth appéere They are commaunded not to say their might did them defend But that the Lord did bring them foorth and gaue their foes their end The ix chapiter IN any cace they are forbod to trust in their owne strength For who so dooth him wil betide a faule to haue at length Moyses then a rehearsall made ful bréefly in a sum From time they had receiude the law til they to lust begun The x. Chapiter KNowe héer ye may of Israels walke whiles they in iourney went And how the tables were renued when they were broke and rent Nothing the Lord did then require for dooing them suche good But that they holde all his preceptê and set theron their mood The xi chapiter LOue they must now y e Lord his law stil Moyses gaue them charge With hart minde they must him serue that had set them at large To talke therof when that they rise or at their â—â—tting down Or els in iourney as they walke in féeld be it or town The xii chapiter MOyses once more so gaue them charge against Idolatrie It to suppresse and put it down and from the same to flée And blood to eat they are forbod in any manner wise And onely doo as God them bad and not what like their eyes The xiii chapiter NO Prophet false must bide on liue but must be made to die And wicked folke must not be heard though in thy brest they lie God for to trie the Israelites â–ª how strong they
twain The iiij Chapiter DEcrée did God that his good woork should not be out of minde And causd eche tribe to rear a stone as monumentê behinde And if their children art the cause why these twelue stones stood there Then should they tel what God had doon to make his name appéere The v. chapiter EEhe one of all the Cananites were fraid when they hard tel How Iordane brook did part in two whiles ouer went Israel Then God commaunded Iosue to circumcise them all And all the males w t sharp stone kniues were cut bothe great and small The vj. chapiter FEarful then were the Cananites of Israels power and might At seauen dayes end as God had said the walles did fall down quite Consumde was all with swoord and fire saue vessels few reserude And Rahab saued with all her kin whiche wel shée had deserude The vii chapiter GOd then was angry with his flock at Ai took they the foile Because that Acan Carmies sonne had borne away some spoile A garment gay with siluer muche a rung of golde therto Because it was forbid of God he had death with stones enow The viii chapiter HAue you no fear said God but go and fight against Ai Thou shalt it take and haue some spoile and all the rest destroy So Iosue went as God him bad and fought but fled a while The rest did set the town on fire so them they did begile The ix chapiter IMmediatly the Cananites with all the heathen Kinges They came to fight as soon as they of Iosua had tidings The Gabanites dissembling partê with Israel they did play Because the heads had sworne to them they were not made away The x. chapiter KIngs that were in number fiue with Israel they did fight At Gabaon siege with all their hostes there were they put to flight The Sun stood stil a whole day length and haile did beat them down Fiue kings were slain and hanged vp so wan they town by town The xi chapiter LIke hap had all the other kings and sudainly were slain And Hezor burnt and none but it that stood aboue the plain Not one woord then was left vndoon as Moyses had him wild But Iosua did fulfil it all were hée in town or field The xii chapiter MAny battails Israel fought ere Iordane they did passe To two whole tribes and halfe a one their land appointed was The kings are tolde and numbred all that Iosua did subdue Thirtie and one in number iust whom they bothe took and slue â–ª The xiii chapiter NOte out the land as Iosua wild by lots it to deuide He béeing agde so god him bad to set and point eche tribe Ruben and Gad and halfe the tribe of Manasses by name Were pointed plats for to posses by Moyses set in frame The xiiij chapiter OF Iosua Caleb did require the Cittie Hebron walld Whiche was possest by Enakes kinde a Giant was he calld Foure score yéeres and fiue he was when he requirde his ground And yet he said he was as strong as when the land he found The xv chapiter POinted out was Iuda his lot the Citties tolde ful straight The villages not named out but townes fiue score and eight For killing of a Giant great a man did mary a wife The Iebusites among the folke did stil lead on their life The xvj chapiter QUickly Ephraim so had his lot in length and bredth assignde Euen as a tribe he had his part according to his minde And tribute paid the Cananites and with them did they dwel Although the Lord had said afore that they should them expel The xvii chapiter RIght as afore that Ephraim had out his part of land Euen so Manasses had his lot where he and his should stand â–ª And certain women had likewise as they did it require And Iosephs house would haue more land but had not their desire The xviii chapiter SEuen tribes agréed to send their spies as Iosue had them wild Of eche tribe thrée went foorth to sée the Citties and the féeld And in a book in seuen partê writ to Iosua brought they woord And he apointed them their plats by lots afore the Lord. The xix chapiter TO Zabulon and Izachar and Aser béeing tenth To Nepthali and Dan the last was pointed bredthe and length â—o Iosua with Eleaser and all the Lords and heds Did make an end of casting lots and pointing out their stedes The xx chapiter WHen they had doon and cast their lots then God to Iosue said â—or him that killes a man vnwares point Citties for their aid And they therin to dwel and liue til the hie préest dooth die The swoord of blood not him to touche if thyther he doo flée The xxj chapiter ANd then the heads of the Leuites their porcion did require And so they had their whole request euen as they did desire Fortie and eyght in Citties iust their whole tale came therto â–ª As God them gaue the land and rest as he them plight to doo The xxii chapiter BOthe of the tribes and eke the 〈◊〉 yode back as they were sent Ruben Gad with Manasses to their possession went An aulter made and Israel fluckt against them for to fight When they heard tel why it was built they said the déed was right The xxiii chapiter CAst in age was Iosua tho and Israel he did call And shewed theÌ„ what the Lord had doon and tolde it to them all Muche more he said that God would doo if in his wil they bide If not he tolde them plain afore that they should be destroyd The xxiiii chapiter DEclare on forthe he did at large what God had for them wrought And bad them serue the Lord alone whiche thither had them brought So speke they did with often voice the only Lord to fear And Iosua dide and Iosephs bones were earth and buried there ¶ Iosua now is ended quite the book hath run his race The book of Iudges now beginnes in like to take his place Sophtim Iudicum Iudges The first Chapiter AHead to haue they did desire in Iosuas roum to be And Iuda to them pointed was who fought ful manfully Ierusalem they took and wan great Giants did they slay The Gentiles with them stil did dwel but tribute did they pay The ii chapiter BEcause they did not kil them all an Angel did them chide And Iosua dead they buried him down by his fathers side When that stock all was dead gone ful wicked were the next And serued Gods that were forbod whose names are in the text The iii. chapiter CErtain nations then are named that with them then did dwel But one them kild and bet them down named Othoniel Yet after that they were opprest but Ahud them did saue For in a parlour with the King his deaths wound he him gaue The iiii chapiter DEpart did yet the flock and went and serued Idols vain Of Iabin King of Canaan yéeres twentie were they slain And Debora then did them iudge whom