made an end of diuiding the Land by lotte to euerie one by their tribes the children of Israel gaue possession to Iosue the sonne of Nun in the middes of them †according to the commandement of our Lord the citie which he requested Thamnath Saraa in mount Ephraim and he built the citie and dwelt in it †These are the possessions which Eleazar the priest and Iosue the sonne of Nun and the princes of the families and of the tribes of the children of Israel diuided by lotte in Silo before our Lord at the doore of the tabernacle of testimonie and they parted the Land CHAP. XX. Six cities of refuge for such as commit casual manslaughter are named 6 in which remayning til the death of the high priest they may then returne to their proper dwelling place and be safe AND our Lord spake to Iosue saying Speake to the children of Israel and say to them †Separate the cities of the fugitiues of the which I spake to you by the hand of Moyses †that he may flee to them whosoeuer shal strike a soule vnwitting and may escape the wrath of the nigh kinseman which is the reuenger of bloud †when he shal be fled to one of these cities he shal stand before the gate of the citie and shal speake to the ancientes of that citie those thinges that may proue him selfe innocent and so they shal receiue him and geue him place to inhabite †And when the reuenger of the bloud shal pursew him they shal not deliuer him into his handes because he stroke his neighbour by ignorance neitheir is he proued to be his enemie two or three dayes before †And he shal dwel in that citie til he stand before iudgement rendring a cause of his fact and the high priest die which shal be at that time then shal the manslaer returne and enter into the citie and his house out of the which he had fled †And they appointed Cedes in Galilee of the mount of Nepthali and Sichem in the mount of Ephraim and Cariatharbee the same is Hebron in the mount of Iuda †And beyond Iordan against the East quarter of Iericho they appointed Bosor which is situated in the champaine wildernes of the tribe of Ruben and Ramoth in Galaad of the tribe of Gad and Gaulon in Basan of the tribe of Manasses †These cities were appointed to al the children of Israel and to the strangesrs that dwelt among them that he might flee to them which vnwittingly had striken a soule and might not die in the hand of the kinseman coueâ—ing to reuenge the bloud shed vntil he might stand before the people to declare his cause CHAP. XXI Cities with suburbes are assigned to the tribe of Leui. 4. To the sonnes of Caath by the line of Aaron being priestes thirtenne 5. to the rest of Caaths progenie being Leuites tenne 6. To the sonnes of Gerson Leuites thirteâ—ne 7. To the sonnes of Merari Leuites 34. of a lower degree twelue 9. with the names of al the cities 39. in al fourtie eight 41. So Gods promise is fully performed hauing geuen the whole Land to Israel in peaceable possession AND the princes of the families of the Leui came to Eleazar the priest and Iosue the sonne of Nun and to the chief of the kinredes in euerie tribe of the children of Israel †and they spake to them in Silo of the Land of Chanaan and said Our Lord commanded by the hand of Moyses that cities should be geuen vs to inhabite and their suburbes to feede cattel †And the children of Israel gaue of their possessions according to the commandement of our Lord cities and their suburbes †And the lotte came forth vnto the familie of Caath of the children of Aaron the priest out of the tribe of Iudas and Simeon and Beniamin thirtene cities †And to the rest of the children of Caath that is to the Leuites which remayned out of the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the halfe tribe of Manasses ten cities †Moreouer to the children of Gerson came forth a lotte that they should take of the tribes of Issachar and Aser and Nephthali and the halfe tribe of Manasses in Basan cities in number thirtene †And to the sonnes of Merari by their kinredes of the tribe of Ruben and Gad and Zabulon twelue cities †and the children of Israel gaue to the Leuites cities and their suburbes as our Lord commanded by the hand of Moyses geuing to euerie one by lotte †Of the tribes of the children of Iudas and Simeon Iosue gaue cities whose names be these †to the children of Aaron by the families of Caath of the Leuitical stocke for the first lotte came forth to them †Cariatharbe the father of Enac which is called Hebron in the mountaine of Iudas and the suburbes therof round about †But the fieldes and the townes therof he had geuen to Caleb the sonne of Iephone to possesse †He gaue therfore to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron a citie of refuge and the suburbes therof Lobna with the suburbes therof †and Iether and Estemo †and Holon and Dabir †and Ain and Ieta and Bethsames with the suburbes therof nine cities of two tribes as hath bene said †And of the tribe of the children of Beniamin Gabaon and Gabae †and Anathoth and Almon with their suburbes foure cities †Al the cities together of the children of Aaron the priest thirtene with their suburbes †But to the rest by the families of the children of Caath of the Leuitical stocke was geuen this possession †Of the tribe of Ephraim the cities of refuge Sichem with the suburbes therof in the mountayne of Ephraim and Gazer †and Cibsaim and Beth horon with the suburbes therof foure cities †Of the tribe of Dan also Eltheco and Gabathon †and Aialon and Gethremmon with the suburbes therof foure cities †Moreouer of the half tribe of Manasses Thanac and Gethremmon with their suburbes two cities †Al the cities ten and their suburbes were geuen to the children of Caath of the inferiour degree †To the children of Gerson also of the Leuitical stocke he gaue of the half tribe of Manasses the cities of refuge Gaulon in Basan and Bosram with their suburbes two cities †Moreouer of the tribe of Issachar Cesion and Dabereth †and Iaramoth and Engannim with their suburbes foure cities †And of the tribe of Aser Masal and Abdon †and Helcath and Rohob with their suburbes foure cities †Of the tribe also of Nephthali the cities of refuge Cedes in Galilee and Hammoth Dor and Carthan with their suburbes three cities †Al the cities of the families of Gerson thirtene with their suburbes †And to the children of Merari Leuites of the inferiour degree by their families was geuen of the tribe of Zabulon Iecnam and Cartha †and Damna and Naalol foure cities with their suburbes †Of the tribe
of Basan vnto Baal Hermon and Sanir and mount Hermon for the number was great †And these were the princes of the house of their kinred Epher and Iesi and Eliel and Esriel and Ieremia and Odoia and Iediel most valiant men and mightie and renowned princes in their families †But they forsooke the God of their fathers and fornicated after the goddes of the peoples of the land whom God tooke away before them †And the God of Israel raysed vp the spirit of Phul king of the Assyrians and the spirit of Thelgathphalnasar king of Assur and he transported Ruben and Gad and the halfe tribe of Manasses and brought them into Lahela and into Habor and to Ara and to the riuer of Gozan vntil this day CHAP. VI. The genealogies of Leui 4. with the right line of Aaron by Eleazar to Iosadech high priest in the captiuitie of Babylon 16. other progenies of his three sonnes Gerson Caath and Merari 31. with their offices in the temple 49. only Aarons sounes admitted to priesthood 54. Particular possessions of the Leuites dwelling amongst the other tribes THE sonnes of Leui Gerson Caath and Merari †The sonnes of Caath Amram Isaar Hebron and Oziel †The children of Amram Aaron Moyses and Maria. The sonnes of Aaron Nadab and Abiu Eleazar and Ithamar †Eleazar begat Phinees and Phinees begat Abisue †and Abisue begat Bocci Bocci begat Ozi †Ozi begat Zaraias and Zaraias begat Maraioth †Moreouer Meraioth begat aMARIAS and Amarias begat Achitob †Achitob begat Sadoc and Sadoc begat Achimaas †Achimaas begat Azarias Azarias begat Iohanan †Iohanan begat Azarias the same is he that executed the priestlie office in the house which Salomon built in Ierusalem †And Azarias begat Amarias and Amarias begat Achitob †and Achitob begat Sadoc and Sadoc begat Sellum †Sellum begat Helcias and Helcias begat Azarias †Azarias begat Saraias and Saraias begat Iosedec †Moreouer Iosedec went forth when our Lord transported Iuda and Ierusalem by the handes of Nabuchodonosor †The sonne then of Leui Gerson Caath and Merari †And these be the names of the sonnes of Gerson Lobni and Semei †The sonnes of Caath Amram and Isaar and Hebron and Oziel †The sonnes of Merari Moholi and Musi And these are the kinredes of Leui according to their families †Gerson Lobni his sonne Iahath his sonne Zamma his sonne †Ioah his sonne Addo his sonne Zara his sonne Iethrai his sonne †The sonnes of Caath Aminadab his sonne Core his sonne Asir his sonne †Elcana his sonne Abiasaph his sonne Asir his sonne †Thahath his sonne Vriel his sonne Ozias his sonne Saul his sonne †The sonnes of Elcana Amasai and Achimoth †and Elcana The sonnes of Elcana Sophai his sonne Nahath his sonne †Eliab his sonne Ieroham his sonne Elcana his sonne †The sonnes of Samuel the first begotten Vasteni and Abia. †And the sonnes of Merari Moholi Lobni his sonne Semei his sonne Oza his sonne †Sammaa his sonne Haggia his sonne Asaia his sonne †These are they whom Dauid appointed ouer the singing men of the house of our Lord since the Arke was placed †and they ministred before the tabernacle of testimonie singing vntil Salomon built the house of our Lord in Ierusalem and they stood according to their order in the ministerie †And these are they which aslisted with their sonnes of the sonnes of Caath Hemam singing man the sonne of Ioel the sonne of Samuel †the sonne of Elcana the sonne of Ieroham the sonne of Eliel the sonne of Thohu †the sonne of Suph the sonne of Elcana the sonne of Mahath the sonne of Amasai †the sonne of Elcana the sonne of Iohel the sonne of Azaries the sonne of Sophonias †the sonne of Thahath the sonne of Asir the sonne of Abiasaph the sonne of C'ore †the sonne of Isaar the sonne of Caath the sonne of Leui the sonne of Israel †And his brother Asaph who stood on his right hand Asaph the sonne of Barachias the sonne of Samaa †the sonne of Michael the sonne of Basaia the sonne of Melchia †the sonne of Athanai the sonne of Zara the sonne of Adaia †the sonne of Ethan the sonne of Zamma the sonne of Semei †the sonne of Ieth the sonne of Gerson the sonne of Leui. †And the children of Merari their brethren on the left hand Ethan the sonne of Cusi the sonne of Abdi the sonne of Maloch †the sonne of Hasabia the sonne of Amasia the sonne of Helcias †the sonne of Amasai the sonne of Boni the sonne of Somer †the sonne of Moholi the sonne of Mosi the sonne of Merari the sonne of Leui †Their brethren also the Leuites which were ordained for al the ministerie of the tabernacle of the house of our Lord. †But Aaron and his sonnes burnt incense vpon the altar of holocaust and vpon the altar of incense for euerie worke of Sancta Sanctorum and to pray for Israel according to al thinges which Moyses the seruant of God had commanded †And these are the sonnes of Aaron Eleazar his sonne Phinees his sonne Abisue his sonne †Bocci his sonne Ozi his sonne Zarahia his sonne †Meraioth his sonne Amarias his sonne Achitob his sonne †Sadoc his sonne Achimaas his sonne †And these are their habitations by the townes and confines to witte of the sonnes of Aaron according to the kinredes of the Caathites for they were fallen to them by lotte †They gaue therfore to them Hebron in the Land of Iuda and the suburbes therof round about †but the fieldes of the citie and the townes to Caleb the sonne of Iephone †Moreouer to the sonnes of Aaron they gaue cities to flee vnto Hebron and Lobna and the suburbes therof †Iether also and Esthemo with the suburbes therof yea Helon and Dabir with their suburbes †Asan also Bethsemes their suburbes †And of the tribe of Beniamin Gabee and the suburbes therof Almath with the suburbes therof Anothoth also with the suburbes therof al the cities thirtene by their kinredes †And to the children of Caath the residue of their kinred they gaue of the halfe tribe of Manasses in possession ten cities †Moreouer to the children of Gerson by their kinredes of the tribe of Issachar of the tribe of Aser and of the tribe of Nephthali and of the tribe of Manasses in Basan thirtene cities †And to the sonnes of Merari by their kinredes of the tribe of Ruben and of the tribe of Gad and of the tribe of Zabulon they gaue by lot twelue cities †Also the children of Israel gaue to the Leuites cities and their suburbes †and they gaue by lot of the tribe of the children of Iuda of the tribe of the children of Simeon and of the tribe of the children of Beniamin these cities which they called by their names †and to them that were of
returned cried to thee thou heardest from heauen and deliueredst theÌ„ in thy mercies manie times †And thou didst admonish them that they should returne to thy law But they did proudly heard not thy coÌ„mandmentes and sinned in thy iudgementes which a man should do and shal liue in them and they gaue the reuolting shoulder and hardned their necke neither did they heare †And thou didst prolong manie yeares ouer them and didst testefie to charge them in thy spirit by the hand of thy Prophetes and they heard not and thou didst deliuer them into the hand of the peoples of the nations †But in thy very many mercies thou madest them not consumption neither didst thou forsake them because a God of compassions and gratious art thou †Now therfore O our God great strong and terrible keeping couenant and mercie turne not away from thy face al the labour which hath found vs our Kinges and our Princes and our Priests and our Prophetes and our fathers and al the people from the daies of the king of Aâ—â—ur vntil this day †And thou art iust in al thinges that haue come vpon vs because thou hast done truth but we haue done wickedly †Our Kinges our Princes our Priestes and our fathers haue not done thy law and haue not attended thy commandmentes and thy testimonies which thou hast testified among them †And they in their reignes and in thy manifold goodnes which thou gauest them and in the land most large and fatte which thou didst deliuer in their sight serued not thee nor returned from their most wicked deuises †Behold we our selues this day are bondmen and the land which thou gauest our fathers that they should eate the bread therof and the good thinges that are therof and our selues are seruantes in it †And the fruites therof are multiplied to the kinges whom thon hast sette ouer vs for our sinnes and they haue dominion ouer our bodies and ouer our beastes according to their wil and we are in great tribulation †Therfore vpon al these thinges we our selues make a couenant and write and our Princes our Leuites and our Priestes signe it CHAP X. Mâ—nie in name of al subscribe to the couenant made with God 30. Namely not to marrie with strangers 31. to keepe the Sabbath day and the seuenth yeare 32. To pay oblations 35. First fruites 38. and Tithes AND the subscribers were Nehemias Athersatha the sonne of Hachelai and Sedecias †Saraias Azarias Ieremias †Pheshur Amarias Melchias †Hattus Sebenia Melluch †Harem Merimuth Obdias †Daniel Genthon Baruch †Mosollam Abia Miamin †Maazia Belgai Semeia these were Priestes †Moreouer Leuites Iosue the sonne of Azanias Bennui of the children of Henadad Cedmihel †And their bretheren Sebenia Odaia Celita Phalaia Hanan †Micha Rohob Hasebia †Zachur Serebia Sabania †Odaia Bani Baninu †The heades of the people Pharos Phahathmoab Aelam Zethu Bani †Bonni Azgad Bebai †Adonia Begoai Adin †Ater Hezecia Azur †Odaia Hasum Besai †Hareph Anathoth Nebai †Megphias Mosollam Hazir †Mezsibel Sadoc Iedua †Pheltia Hanan Anai †Osee Hanania Hasub †Alohes Phalea Sobec †Rehum Hasebna Maasia †Echaia Hanan Anan †Melluch Haran Baana †And the rest of the people Priestes Leuites Porteres and singing men Nathineites and al that seperated themselues from the peoples of the landes to the law of God their wiues their sonnes and their daughters †Al that could vnderstand promising for their bretheren their princes and they that came to promise and sweare that they would walke in the law of God which he gaue in the hand of Moyses the seruant of God that they would do kepe al the coÌ„mandments of the Lord our God and his iudgementes and his ceremonies †And that we would not geue our daughters to the people of the land and their daughters we would not take to our soÌ„nes †The people 's of the land which bring in things to sel al thinges to be vsed to sel them on the Sabbath day we wil not take it of them in the Sabbath and in the sanctified day And we wil let passe the seuenth yeare and the exaction of euerie hand †And we wil ordayne preceptes vpon ourselues to giue the third part of a sicle euerie yeare to the worke of the house of our God †to the loaues of proposition and to the continual sacrifice and for a continual holocaust in the Sabbathes in the Calendes in the Solemnities and in the sanctified and for sinne that propitiation may be made for Israel and vnto al vse of the house of our God †We therfore did cast lotes concerning the oblation of wood betwen the Priestes and the Leuites and the people that it should be brought into the house of our God by the houses of our fathers at set times from yeare to yeare that it might burne vpon the altar of the Lord our God as it is written in the law of Moyses †And that we would bring the first borne of our land and the first fruites of al the fruite of euerie tree from yeare to yeare in the house of our Lord. †and the first fruites of our sonnes and of our cattel as it is written in the law and the first fruites of our oxen and of our sheepe that they might be offered in the house of our God to the Priestes which minister in the house of our God †And the first fruites of our meates and of our libamentes and the fruites of euerie tree of vintage also and of oyle we wil bring to the Priestes vnto the treasurie of our God and the tenth part of our land to the Leuites The Leuites themselues shal receiue the tithes out of al the cities of our works †And the Priest the sonne of Aaron shal be with the Leuites in the tythes of the Leuites and the Leuites shal offer the tenth part of their tythe in the house of our God to the treasurie in the treasure house †For the children of Israel and the children of Leui shal carie to the treasurie the first fruites of corne of wine and of oyle and the sanctified vessels shal be there and the Priestes and singing men and porters and ministers and we wil not leaue the house of our God CHAP. XI New inhabitantes of Ierusalem are recited 20. likwise who dwelt in other cities of Iuda AND the princes of the people dwelt in Ierusalem but the rest of the people cast lottes to take one part of ten that should dwel in Ierusalem the holie citie and nine partes in the cities †And the people blessed al the men that had voluntarily offered them selues to dwel in Ierusalem †These therfore are the princes of the prouince which dwelt in Ierusalem and in the cities of Iuda And euerie one dwelt in his possession in their cities Israel the Priestes the Leuites the Nathineites and the children of the
vncitcumcised in hart vncircumcised in flesh shal not enter into my sanctuarie euerie strange child that is in the middes of the children of Israel †Yea and the Leuites that haue reuolted farre from me in the errour of the children of Israel haue erred from me after their idols and haue borne their iniquitie †they shal be officers in my sanctuarie and porters of the gates of the house and ministers of the house they shal kil the holocausts and the victimes of the people and they shal stand in their sight to serue them †For that they haue serued them in the sight of their idols and were made to the house of Israel a scandal of iniquitie therfore haue I lifted vp mine hand vpon them saith our Lord God and they shal beare their iniquitie †and they shal not approch to me to doe the function of priesthood vnto me neither shal they approche to al my sanctuarie by Sancta Sanctorum but they shal beare their confusion and their wicked abominations which they haue done †And I wil make them porters of the house in al the ministerie therof and in al thinges that shal be done therin †But the priests Leuits the sonnes of Sadoc which kept the ceremonies of my sanctuarie when the children of Israel erred from me they shal approach to me to minister vnto me they shal stand in my sight to offer me the fatte and the bloud saith our Lord God †They shal enter into my sanctuarie and they shal approch to my table to minister vnto me and to keepe my ceremonies †And when they shal enter into the gates of the inner court they shal be clothed with linnen garments neither shal anie wollen thing come vpon them when they minister in the gates of the inner court within †There shal be linnen mitres on their heades and there shal be linnen breeches on their loynes and they shal not be girded in swette †And when they shal goe out to the vtter court vnto the people they shal put of from them their vestiments wherin they had ministered and shal lay them vp in the vesterie of the sanctuarie they shal cloth themselues with other garments they shal not sanctifie the people in their vestures †And they shal not shaue their head nor nourish their heare but powling they shal powle their heades †And no priest shal drinke wine when he is to enter into the inner court †And widow and her that is diuorced they shal not take for wiues but virgins of the seede of the house of Israel but a widow also which hath bene the widow of a priest they shal take †And they shal teach my people what is betwen a holie thing and polluted and betwen cleane and vncleane they shal shew to them †And when there shal be a controuersie they shal stand in my iudgements shal iudge my lawes my preceptes in al my solemnities shal they keepe and my sabbathes they shal sanctifie †And to a dead man they shal not enter in lest they be polluted but to father and mother sonne and daughter and brother and sister which hath not had an other husband in which they shal be contaminated †And after that he is clensed seuen daies shal be numbred to him †And in the day of his entering into the sanctuarie to the inner court to minister vnto me in the sanctuarie he shal offer for his sinne sayth our Lord God †And there shal not be inheritance to them I am their inheritance and possession you shal not geue them in Israel for I am their possession †The victime both for sinne and for offence they shal eate and euerie vowed thing in Israel shal be theirs †And the first fruits of al the first borne al the libaments of al thinges that are offered shal be the priests the first fruits of your meates you shal geue to the priest that he may lay vp a blessing for thy house †Al carren and thing taken by a beast of birdes and of cattel the priests shal not eate CHAP. XLV In distribution of the land after the captiuitie seueral portions are assigned for the Priestes the Leuites the Citie and the Prince the rest was for the people 9. Rulers are admonished to obserue iust measures 15. and to offer due sacrifices AND when you shal begin to diuide the land by lot seperate ye first fruits to our Lord a peece sanctified of the land in length twentie fiue thousand and in bredth tenne thousand it shal be sanctified in al the border therof round about †And it shal be sanctified on euerie side by fiue hundred and fiue hundred foure square round about and of fiftie cubits for the suburbs therof round about †And from this measure thou shalt measure the length of fiue and twentie thousand and the bredth of tenne thousand in it shal be the temple and sanctum sanctorum †The sanctified peece of the land shal be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuarie which approch to the ministerie of our Lord and it shal be a place to them for houses and for the sanctuarie of holines †And fiue and twentie thousand of length tenne thousand of bredth shal be for the Leuits which minister in the house they shal possesse twentie celles †And the possession of the citie you shal geue fiue thousand of bredth and of length fiue and twentie thousand according to the seperation of the sanctuarie to al the house of Israel †To the prince also on this side and on that side according to the separation of the sanctuarie and according to the possession of the citie against the face of the seperation of the sanctuarie and against the face of the possession of the citie from the side of the Sea euen to the Sea and from the side of the East euen to the East And the length according to euerie part from the West border to the East border †Of the land shal he haue possession in Israel and the princes shal no more spoile my people but the land they shal geue to the house of Israel according to their tribes †Thus saith our Lord God Let it suffice you ô princes of Israel intermitte ye iniquitie and robberies and doe iudgement and iustice seperate your confines from my people saith our Lord God †Iust balance and a iust ephi and a iust bat shal be to you †The ephi and the bat shal be equal and of one measure that the bat may take the tenth part of a core the ephi the tenth part of a core according to the measure of a core shal be the equal balassing of them †And a sicle hath twentie obolos Moreouer twentie sicles fiue and twentie sicles and fiftene sicles make Mnam †And these are the first fruits which you shal take the sixth
earthlie things depended much vpon diuine wil and powre But bauing forsaken God Almightie the onlie maker and conseruer of al they begane to imagine and serue false goddes both famous dead men which had prospered in this world and diuers other things by which they receiued commoditie or feared damage Hence therfore rose the third principal Sect called Grecisme beginning also in this second age as the same S. Epiphanius writeth For Ninus the first king of the Assirian great Monarchie brought to passe that his father Belus Iupiter was estemed and worshipped for the onlie great God by the Assirians To him the Babylonians erected first Temples Altares and Statuas Nemrod also by the name of Saturnus as the progenitor of Belus and first great King or Tyrant of Babylon was accounted a god and the father of goddes About this time likwise begane the Dinastae among the Aegyptians and not sowner as they vainly brag to haue benne before the floud yea much longer then in deede the world hath benne Moreouer the Chaldees worshipped the fire Others the sunne the moone and innumerable other feaned goddes Against al which and likwise against al heresies are two special arguments First that they were not from the beginning as the true God and al truthes are knowne and receiued by continual Tradition but brought in afterwards by men and comonly by il men Secondly they are not accepted and esteemed for goddes or truthes in al places but with great diuersitie and disâ—ention one sort allowing that others despice as holie Athanasius notably writeth in his oration against Idols in these wordes Quot sunt gentes totidem deorum genera confinguntur c. How manie nations saith he so manie kindes of goddes are feaned Also the same countrie the same citie dissenteth within it selfe in superstition of Idols The Phenicians certes acknowledge not the Egiptians goddes neither doe the Egiptians adore the same Idols with the Phenicians Nor the Scithians receiue the goddes of the Persians nor the Persians of the Scithians The Pelasgies refuse the Thrasian goddes the Thrasians know not the Thebians The Indians are against the Arabians the Arabians against the Aethiophians and in like sorte the Aethiopians differ in their religious affaires from the Arabians The Syrians worship not the goddes of the Cilicians and the nations of Capadocia besides al these haue goddes of other names The Bithinians also feaâ—ed diuers goddes the Armenians againe diuers from them What nede we manie wordes Those that are in the continent honour other goddes from the Iland-people In briefe ech citie and eech village not knowing the goddes of their neighboures setteth forth their owne estemeth them only in place of goddes Thus farre S. Athanasius Name we like countries prouinces cities and townes in these partes of Europe where Luthers scholars haue set their feete consider the forme of Religion and opinions which they hold and we shal see as vnorderlie beginnings and as horrible dissentions in heresies which S. Hierom calleth the Idols of the New Testament as the ancient fathers haue discryed in Paganisme For Lutherans or Protestants hauing no lawful generation but proceding of bastards race vpstartes of vnknowne progenie are no lesse at discordes among them selues only al agreing against Catholiques like syncretisantes against their coÌ„mon enimies or Herod Pilate the Iewes against Christ And in England alone are diuers Sectes without possible meanes to agree in one For albeit the ciuil state endeuoreth prudently and seriously to bring al to vniformitie at least in publique shew yet they are but like manie faces vnder one hood euerie sorte keping their owne opinions yea almost euerie preacher and meane scholar to say nothing of artificers and common ministers arrogating to be his owne Iudge contemneth to stand to Luther or Caluin to Geneua or Parlament to Conuocation or Synod of their owne but to his owne only vnderstanding and interpretation of holie Scripture Nor yet to that alwayes for when he is pressed with that he once said he wil forgete it or eate his owne word if he haue not written it or that you haue readie witnes against him so hard it is to make a deceiued Protestant or Puritan confesse that he is conuinced except by very pregnant meanes you can first cast out of him or bind fast the spirite of presumption dissention and contention wheras the simpliest Catholique in the world hath the selfe same faith in al points with the whole Church in which he remaineth and vpon whose iudgement he dependeth To returne therfore from whence we are not vnnecessarily digressed we conclude with S. Augustin VVhen Moyses had shewed the beginning and progresse of Nemrods earthlie citie leauing it in Babylon that is confusion as needles to prosecute it futher he returneth to declare the pertual succession of the Citie of God the Church as before the floud from Adam to Noe by the line of Seth so after the floud from the same Noe by the line of Sem Arphaxad Sale Heber Phaleg Reu Sarug Nachor Thare and Abraham The rest of Sems children and al the progenies of lapheth and Cham as not pertaining to this purpose omitted so connecting those in order of generations by whom the succession is directly brought to Abraham Prince of the elected people a most special Patriarch to whom new and great promisses are made of multiplication of his seede and possession of the land of Chanaan but especially of Christ our Redemer and the same manie waies confirmed as wil appeare in the next age CHAP. XII Abram commanded by God to leaue his countrie with promise to be blessed in his Seede 5. taking his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot 6. wandreth in the land of Chanaan 7. erecteth an Altar in Sichem 8. an other in Bethel 10. Thence by occasion of famine passeth into Aegipt 14. where his wife called his sister is taken into the kings house 19. but vntouched is restored to him AND our Lord said to Abram Goe forth of thy countrie and out of thy kinred and out of thy fathers house and come into a land which I wil shew thee †And I wil make thee into a great nation and I wil blesse thee and magnifie thy name and thou shalt be blessed †I wil blesse them and blesse thee and cursse them that cursse thee and IN THEE shal al the kindreds of the earth be blessed †Abram therfore went out as our Lord had commanded him and with him went Lot seauentie fiue yeares old was Abram when he went forth out of Haran †And he tooke Sarai his wife and Lot his brothers sonne and al the substance which they had possessed and the soules which they had gotten in Haran and went forth to goe into the land of Chanaan And when they were come into it †Abram passed through the countrie vnto the place Sichem as farre as the noble vale and
eaten therof Moreouer the Hebrew word Hotsi brought forth is a word pertayning to Sacrifice as in the 6. chap of Iudges v. 18. and 19 and importeth that the bread and wine were first offered in Sacrifice and then doubtles they did participat though they wanted not other fufficient corporal foode Againe the wordes folowing For he vvas the Priest of God most hiegh can haue no other sense but that he did the function of a Priest in the bread wine which he brought otherwise if the only cause of bringing that prouision had benne to releue the campe with victuals the reason would rather haue benne yelded because he was a bountiful King a liberal Prince a special freind to Abraham as in deede he was but none of these reasons or the like fitted this purpose so wel nor touched the cause of bringing forth bread and wine as to signifie that he was a Priest whose office is to offer Sacrifice Here againe some Protestants take exception against the Latin text that the causual coniunction Enim for is not agreable to the Hebrew but should be the copulatiue Et and which is a meere wrangling For the lerned know wel ynough that the Hebtew particle is better expressed in such places by Enim or quia for or because then by And so the English Bible printed in the yeare of our Lord. 1552. readeth Melchisedech king of Salem brought forth bread and vvine for he vvas the Priest of the most hieghest God The latter Editions also in like places haue not the copulatiue And but some other word as the sense requireth Gen. 20. v. 3. Thou art but a dead man for the vvomans sake vvhich thou hast taken for she is a mans vvife where the Hebrew phrase is And she is maried to a husband Gen. 30. v. 27. they read thus For I haue proued that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake where precisly construing the Hebrew they should say I diuined or coniectured and the Lord blessed me for thy sake Likewise Esaie 64. v. 5. they read But Loe thou hast bene angrie for vve offended the Hebrew is thus Loe thou art angrie and vve haue sinned In the same place they translate Yet shal vve be saued vvhich the Hebrew expresseth by the copulatiue And we shal be saued So when they thinke it conuenient they translate the Hebrew particle For that yet which strictly signifieth And. Now let vs also see the original in this place In the Hebrew it is thus VMALCHI TSEDEC MELEC CHALEM HOTSI LECHEM VAIAIIN VEHV COHEN LEEL ELION VAIE VARECHEHV c. In English word for word thus And Melchisedech king of Salem brought forth bread and vvine And he the priest to God most hiegh And he blessed him c. where albeit the causual word For is not expressed yet these wordes And he the priest further declaring that besides the office and dignitie of a King which was said before Melchisedec was also a Priest must nedes signifie that he did something about the bread and wine belonging to a Priests office And what that something was perhaps the Vniuersitie of Cambridge wil testifie whose late professor of Diuinitie teacheth plainly that Melchisedech offered Sacrifice and was therin a figure of Christ Pag. 6. Reprehen Sacerdotes saith he ij vere proprie sunt qui sacrificia faciunt qualis fuit Aaron Aaronis silij Melchisedechus quem illi adumbrabant Christus Priestes truly and properly are they that offer sacrifices such as vvas Aaron and the sonnes of Aaron and Melchisedech and Christ vvhom they prefigured If then both Aaron Melchisedech were truly and properly Priests because they offered sacrifices according to this Professors definition and both were figures of Christ it must needes be granted that as Christ fulfilled the figure of Aarons bloudie sacrifices in offering him selfe vpon the Crosse so he also fulfilled the figure as wel of vnbloudie sacrifices of Aaron as especially of Melchisedechs Sacrifice in some other besides that on the Crosse seeing the prophet Dauid and S. Paul say Christ is a Priest not according to Aarons order for that was to haue an end but For euer according to the order of Melchisedech And what other Sacrifice did our Sauiour offer to remaine perpetual but of his owne bodie bloud in vnbloudie maner vnder the formes of bread and wine with commandment to his Apostles and Priests to do the same til the end of the world Let the indifferent reader weigh it wel And whosoeuer is not very proud wil for his better instruction or confirmation esteme the vniforme iudgement of manie ancient godlie and lerned Fathers writing vpon this place VVe wil only recite their wordes without other deduction for breuitie sake S. Clemens Alexandrinus li 4. Strom. versus finem writeth thus Melchisedech king of Salem Priest of God most hiegh gaue wine bread santified nutriment in type of the Eucharist S. Cyprian Epist 63. ad Caecilium Christ is Priest for euer according to the order of Melchisedech which order is this coming from that Sacrifice and thence descending that Melchisedech was Priest of God most hiegh that he offered bread wine that he blessed Abraham For who is more a Priest of God most hiegh then our Lord Iesus Christ who offered Sacrifice to God the Father and offered the same which Melchisedech had offered bread and wine to wit his owne bodie and bloud And a litle after That therfore in Genesis the blessing might be rightly celebrated about Abraham by Melchisedec the Priest the image of Christs Sacrifice coâ—sisting in bread and wine went before which thing our Lord perfecting and performing offered bread and chalice mixt with wine and he that is the plenitude fulfilled the veritie of the prefiguted image Eusebius Cesariensis li 5. Demonst Euang. c. 3. Euen as he who was Priest of Nations was neuer sene to offer corporal sacrifices but only bread wine when he blessed Abraham so first our Lord Sauiour him selfe then priests that come from him exercising the spiritual office of Priesthood in al nations after the Ecclesiastical ordinances do represent the mysteries of his bodie and healthful bloud in bread wine which mysteries Melchisedech knew so long before by diuine spirite and vsed as representations of things to come S. Ambrose li. 5 de Sacramen c. 1. VVe know the figure of the Sacraments went before in Abrahams times when Melchisedech offered Sacrifice Idem in cap. 5 Heb. It is clere that oblations of cattle are vanished which were in Aarons order but Melchisedechs institution remayneth which is celebrated al the world ouer in administration of the Sacraments S Hierom. Epist ad Marcellamo vt migret Bethleem Haue recourse to Genesis and you shal find Melchisedech king of Salem prince of this citie who euen then in figure of Christ offered bread and wine and dedicated the Christian mysterie in our Sauiours bodie and bloud Idem Epist
which may consume you and your cattaile and may bring al thinges to a smal number and that your waies may be made desert †And if you wil neither so receiue discipline but walke rather contrarie to me †I also wil goe opposite against you and wil strike you seuen times for your sinnes †and I wil bring in vpon you the sword a reuenger of my couenant And when you shal flee into the cities I wil send the pestilence in the middest of you and you shal be deliuered in the handes of the enemies †after I shal haue broken the staffe of your bread so that tenne wemen shal bake your breades in one ouen and shal render them by weight and you shal eate and shal not be filled †But if you wil neither by these meanes heare me but walke against me †I also wil goe against you in contrarie furie and wil chastice you with seuen plagues for your sinnes †so that you shal eate the flesh of your sonnes and of your daughters †I wil destroy your excelses and breake your idols You shal fal among the ruines of your idols and my soule shal abhorre you †in so much that I wil bring your cities into a wildernesse and I wil make your Sanctuaries desert neither wil I receiue any more the most sweete odour †And I wil distroy your land and your enemies shal be astonied vpon it when they shal be inhabitants therof †And you I wil disperse into the Gentiles and wil draw out the sword after you and your land shal be desert and your cities destroied †Then shal the land take pleasure in her sabbathes al the daies of her desolation when you shal be †in the enemies land she shal sabbatize and rest in the sabbathes of her desolation because she did not rest in your sabbathes when you dwelt in it †And they that shal remaine of you I wil put feare in their hartes in the countries of their enemies the sound of a flying leafe shal terrifie them and they shal flie it as it were a sword they shal fal when no man pursueth †and they shal euerie one fal vpon their brethren as flying from warres none of you shal be so hardie as to resist your enemies †You shal perish among the Gentiles and the enemies land shal consume you †And if of them also some remaine they shal pine away in their iniquities in the land of their enemies and for the sinnes of their fathers and their owne they shal be afflicted †vntil they confesse their owne and their auncetours iniquities wherby they haue preuaricated against me and walked contrarie vnto me †I also therfore wil walke against them and bring them into their enemies land vntil their vncircumcised mind be ashamed then shal they pray for their impieties †And I wil remember my couenant that I made with Iacob and Isaac and Abraham Of the land also I wil be mindful †which when it shal be left of them shal take pleasure in her sabbathes being desolate for them But they shal pray for their sinnes for that they reiected my iudgementes and dispised my lawes †Howbeit euen when they were in the land of their enemies I did not cast them of altogether neither did I so dispise them that they should be consumed and I should make my couenant with them frustrate For I am the Lord their God †and I wil remember mine old couenant when I brought them out of the Land of Aegypt in the sight of the Gentiles for to be their God I the Lord. These are the iudgementes and precepts and lawes which our Lord gaue betwen him self and the children of Israel in Monnt Sinai by the hand of Moyses CHAP. XXVII How some vowes of diuers persones may be redemed but some may not be changed 28. Al one way or other must be discharged 30. Tithes also must be payed either the same that are due or more AND our Lord spake to Moyses saying †Speake to the children of Israel and thou shalt say to them The man that shal haue made a vow and bound his soule to God by estimation he shal geue the price †If it be a man from the twenteth yeare vntil three score he shal geue fiftie sicles of siluer after the measure of the Sanctuarie †if a woman thirtie †But from the fift yeare vntil the twenteth a man shal geue twentie sicles a woman tenne †From one moneth vntil the fift yeare for a man shal be geuen fiue sicles for a woman three †One that is three score and aboue a man shal geue fiftene sicles a woman tenne †if he be poore and not able to pay the estimation he shal stand before the priest and as much as he shal esteme and see him able to pay so much shal he geue †But the beast that may be immolated to the Lord if a man doe vow it shal be holie †and can not be changed that is to say neither a better for a bad nor a worse for a good and if he change it both it self that was changed and that for the which it was changed shal be consecrated to the Lord. †The vncleane beast which can not be immolated to the Lord if anie man vow it shal be brought before the priest †Who iudgeing whether it be good or euel shal set the price †which if he that offereth wil geue he shal adde aboue the estimation the fift part †If a man vow his house and sanctifie it to the Lord the priest shal consider it whether it be good or bad and according to the price which he shal appoint it shal be sold †But if he that had vowed wil redeme it he shal geue the fift part of the estimation besides and shal haue the house †And if he vow the field of his possession and consecrate it to the Lord the price shal be estemed according to the measure of the seede If the ground be sowed with thirtie bushels of barly let it be solde for fiftie sicles of siluer †If he vow his field immediatly from the yeare of Iubilee that is beginning how much it can be worth at so much it shal be estemed †but if sometime after the priest shal account the money according to the number of yeares that remaine vntil the Iubilee and there shal be diminished of the price †And if he that had vowed wil redeme his field he shal adde the fift part of the estemed money and shal possesse it †And if he wil not redeme it but it be sould to any other man he that had vowed it can redeme it no more †for when the day of Iubilee commeth it shal be sanctified to the Lord and the possession consecrated pertaineth to the right of the priestes †If the field be bought and being not of his auncetors possession be sanctified to the
the reuenge of our Lord on the Madianites †Let a thousand men of euerie tribe be chosen of Israel to be sent to the warre †And they gaue a thousand of euerie tribe that is to say twelue thousand wel appointed to fight †whom Moyses sent with Phinees the sonne of Eleazar the priest and the holie vessel and the trumpettes to sound he deliuered to him †And when they had fought against the Madianites and had ouercome al the men they slew †and their kinges Eui and Recem and Sur and Hur and Rebe fiue princes of the Nation Balaam also the sonne of Beor they killed with the sword †And they tooke their wiues and litle ones and al their goodes whatsoeuer they had bene able to make they spoiled †as wel cities as townes and castels the fire did consume †And they tooke the praye and al thinges that they had taken as wel of men as of beastes †and they brought them to Moyses and Eleazar the priest and to al the multitude of the children of Israel but the rest of the implementes they caried to the campe in the champion countries of Moab beside Iordan against Iericho †And Moyses and Eleazar the priest went forth and al the princes of the synagogue to meete them without the campe †And Moyses being angrie with the princes of the hoste the tribunes and the centurions that were come from the battle †said Why haue you reserued the wemen †Are not these they that deceiued the children of Israel at the suggestion of Balaam and made you preuaricate against our Lord vpon the sinne of Phogor whereupon also the people was stroken †Therfore kil al whatsoeuer is of the male sexe among the litle ones also and the wemen that haue knowne men in carnal copulation slea ye †but the gyrles and al the wemen that are virgins reserue to you †and tarying without the campe seuen dayes He that hath killed a man or touched him that is killed shal be expiated the third day and the seuenth †And of al the praye whether it be garment or vessel and some thing prepared for implementes of goates skinnes and heare and wood shal be expiated †Eleazar also the priest spake to the hoste that had fought in this maner This is the precept of the law which our Lord hath commanded Moyses †Gold and siluer and brasse and yron and leade and tinne †and al that may passe through the fyre shal be purged by fyre but whatsoeuer can not abide the fire shal be sanctified with the water of expiation †and you shal wash your garmentes the seuenth day and being purified afterward you shal enter into the campe †And our Lord said to Moyses †Take the summe of those thinges that were taken from man vnto beast thou and Eleazar the priest and the princes of the multitude †and thou shalt diuide the praye equally betwene them that fought went forth to the warre and betwen the rest of the multitude †and thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that fought and were in the battle one soule of fiue hundred as wel of mankind as of oxen and asses and sheepe †and thou shalt geue it to Eleazar the priest because they are the first fruites of the Lord. †Out of the halfe part also of the children of Israel thou shalt take the fiftith head of mankind and of oxen and asses and sheepe and of al beastes and thou shalt geue them to the Leuites that watch in the custodies of the tabernacle of the Lord. †And Moyses and Eleazar did as our Lord commanded †And the praye which the hoste had taken was of sheepe six hundred seuentie fiue thousand †of oxen seuentie two thousand †of asses sixtie one thousand †The soules of the folkes of the female sexe that had not knowne men thirtie two thousand †And the halfe part was geuen to them that had bene in the battle of sheepe three hundred thirtie seuen thousand fiue hundred †of the which for the portion of our Lord were reckened sheepe six hundred seuentie fiue †And of the thirtie six thousand oxen oxen seuentie and two †of the thirtie thousand fiue hundred asses asses sixtie one †of the soules of mankind sixtene thousand there fel to the portion of our Lord thirtie two soules †And Moyses deliuered the number of the first fruites of our Lord to Eleazar the priest as it had bene commanded him †of the halfe part of the children of Israel which he had separated to them that had bene in the battle †But of the halfe part that had chanced to the rest of the multitude that is to say of the three hundred thirtie seuen thousand fiue hundred sheepe †and of the thirtie six thousand oxen †and of the thirtie thousand fiue hundred asses †and of the sixtene thousand of mankind †Moyses tooke the fiftith head and gaue it to the Leuites that watched in the tabernacle of our Lord as our Lord had commanded †And when the princes of the hoste were come to Moyses and the tribunes and centurions they said †We thy seruantes haue reckened the number of the warryers which we had vnder our hand and not so much as one verily was lacking †For this cause we offer in the donaties of our Lord euerie one that which we could finde in the praye of gold garters and tablettes ringes and braceletes and cheynes that thou maiest pray to our Lord for vs. †And Moyses and Eleazar the priest receiued al the gold in diuerse formes †in weight sixtene thousand seuen hundred fiftie sicles of the tribunes and of the centurions †For that which euerie one had spoiled in the praye was his owne †And that which was receiued they brought into the tabernacle of testimonie for a monument of the children of Israel before our Lord. CHAP. XXXII The children of Ruben and Gad demanding to haue inheritance on that side Iordan where they yet are 7. Moyses iustly rebuketh them 16. yet vpon condition that they wil march first ouer Iordan and remaine the first in battle til the land be subdued to the children of Israel 28. he granteth to them and the halfe tribe of Manasses that which they request AND the children of Ruben and Gad had much cattel and they had in beastes an infinite substance And when they had seene Iazer and Galaad fitte countries for to feede cattel †they came to Moyses and Eleazar the priest and the princes of the multitude and said †Ataroth and Dibon and Iazer and Nemra Hesebon and Eleale and Sabam and Nebo and Beon †the land which our Lord smote in the sight of the children of Israel is of a verie plentiful soile for the feeding of beastes and we thy seruantes haue very much cattel †and we pray thee if we haue found grace before thee that thou geue vs thy
Hesebon the Amorrheite and beginne to possesse his land and make warre against him †This day wil I beginne to send thy terrour and feare vpon the peoples that dwel vnder the whole heauen that hearing thy name they may quake and tremble after the manner of wemen in trauel and be pinched with sorow †I sent therfore messengers from the wildernes of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable wordes saying †We wil passe through thy land we wil goe the common high way we wil not decline neither to the right hand not to the left †Sel vs meates for money that we may eate Geue vs water for money and so we wil drinke Onlie this that thou wilt graunt vs passage †as the children of Esau haue done that dwel in Seir and the Moabites that abide in Ar vntil we come to Iordan and passe to the Land which the Lord our God wil geue vs. †And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not geue vs passage because the Lord thy God had indurated his spirit and hardened his hart that he might be deliuered into thy handes as now thou seest †And our Lord said to me Behold I haue begunne to deliuer Sehon vnto thee and his land beginne to possesse it †And Sehon came forth to meete vs with al his people to battel in Iasa †And the Lord our God deliuered him to vs and we smote him with his sonnes and al his people †And al his cities we tooke at that time killing the inhabiters therof men and wemen and litle ones we left nothing among them †Except the cattel which came to their portion that tooke prayes and the spoyles of the cities which we tooke †from Aroer which is vpon the banke of the torrent Arnon a towne that is situated in a valley as farre as Galaad There was not a village or citie that escaped our handes the Lord our God deliuered al vnto vs. †Except the land of the children of Ammon to the which we approched not and al that adioyne to the torrent Ieboc and the cities on the mountaine and al the places from which the Lord our God prohibited vs. CHAP. III. The victorie against Og king of Basan of the giants stock is repeted 12. Ruben Gad and halfe tribe of Manasses haue possession on the other side Iordan from their brethren 23. Moyses praying that he may goe ouer Iordan for the sinnes of the people is denied THERFORE turning we went vp by the way of Basan and Og the king of Basan came forth to meete vs with his people to fight in Edrai †And our Lord said to me Feare him not because he is deliuered into thy hand with al his people and his land and thou shalt doe to him as thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrheites that dwelt in Hesebon †Therfore the Lord our God deliuered into our handes Og also the king of Basan and al his people and we stroke them to vtter destruction †waisting al his cities at one time there was not a towne that escaped vs sixtie cities al the countrie of Argob the kingdome of Og in Basan †Al the cities were fensed with verie high walles and with gates and barres beside innumerable townes that had no walles †And we destroyed them as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon destroying euerie citie and men and wemen and children †but the cattel and the spoyles of the cities we tooke for our praye †And we tooke at that time the land out of the hand of two kinges of the Amorrheites that were beyond Iordan from the torrent Arnon vnto the mountaine Hermon †which the Sidonians cal Sarion and the Amorrheites Sanir †al the cities that are situated in the plaine and al the Land of Galaad and Basan as farre as Selcha and Edrai cities of the kingdome of Og in Basan †For onlie Og the king of Basan remayned of the stocke of giantes his bed of yron is shewed which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon hauing nine cubites in length and foure in breadth after the measure of the cubite of a mans hand †And we possessed the Land at that time from Aroer which is vpon the banke of the torrent Arnon vnto the halfe part of mount Galaad and the cities therof I gaue to Ruben and Gad. †And the other part of Galaad and al Basan of the kingdome of Og I deliuered to the halfe tribe of Manasses al the countrie of Argob and al Basan is called the Land of giantes †Iair the sonne of Manasses possessed al the countrie of Argob vnto the borders of Gessuri and Machati And he called Basan by his owne name Hauoth Iair that is to say the townes of Iair vntil this present day †To Machir also I gaue Galaad †And to the tribes of Ruben and Gad I gaue of the Land of Galaad as farre as the Torrent Arnon halfe of the torrent and the confines vnto the torrent Ieboc which is the border of the childrē of Ammon †and the plaine of the wildernesse and Iordan and the borders of Cenereth vnto the sea of the desert which is most salt at the foote of mount Phasga against the east †And I commāded you at that time saying The Lord your God geueth you this land for an inheritance goe wel appointed before your brethren the children of Israel al you strong men †except your wiues and litle ones and your cattel For I know you haue much cattel they must remaine in the cities which I haue deliuered you †vntil our Lord geue rest to your brethren as he hath geuen to you and they also possesse the Land which he wil geue them beyond Iordan then shal euerie man returne to his possession which I haue geuen you †Iosue also at that time I commanded saying Thyne eyes haue seene what the Lord your God hath done to these two kinges so wil he doe to al the kingdomes to the which thou shalt passe †Feare them not for the Lord your God wil fight for you †And I prayed our Lord at that time saying †Lord God thou hast begonne to shew vnto thy seruant thy greatnes and most mightie hand for neither is there other God either in heauen or in earth that is able to doe thy workes and to be compared to thy strength †I wil passe ouer therfore and wil see this excellent Land beyond Iordan and this goodlie mountaine and Libanus †And our Lord was angrie with me for you and heard me not but said to me It sufficeth thee speake no more to me of this matter †Goe vp to the toppe of Phasga and cast thine cies round about to the west and to the north and the south and the east and behold it for thou shalt not passe this Iordan †Command Iosue and encourage and strenghen him for he shal goe before
and the stranger and pupil and widow which abide with you in the place which our Lord thy God shal choose that his name may dwel there †and thou shalt remember that thou wast a seruant in Aegypt and thou shalt keepe and doe the thinges that are commanded †The solemnitie also of Tabernacles thou shalt celebrate seuen daies when thou hast gathered thy fruite of the barne floore and the presse †and thou shalt feast in the festiuitie thou thy sonne and thy daughter thy man seruant and woman seruant the Leuite also and stranger and pupil and widow that are within thy gates †Seuen daies shalt thou celebrate the feastes to our Lord thy God in the place which our Lord shal choose and our Lord thy God wil blesse thee in al thy fruites and in euerie worke of thy handes and thou shalt be in ioye †Three times in a yeare shal al thy male appeare in the sight of our Lord thy God in the place which he shal choose in the solemnitie of Azymes in the solemnitie of weekes and in the solemnitie of Tabernacles There shal not appeare before our Lord any emptie †but euerie one shal offer according to that he hath according to the blessing of our Lord his God which he shal geue him †Iudges and maisters shalt thou appoynt in al thy gates which our Lord thy God shal geue thee in euerie of thy tribes that they may iudge the people with iust iudgement †and not decline to either part Thou shalt not accept person nor giftes because that giftes blinde the eies of the wise and change the wordes of the iust †Iustly shalt thou pursew that which is iust that thou mayest liue and possesse the Land which our Lord thy God shal geue thee †Thou shalt plante no groue nor any tree neere the altar of our Lord thy God †Neither shalt thou make nor sette to thy self a statue which thing our Lord thy God hateth CHAP. XVII Perfect hostes not mamed nor defectiue must be offered to God Idolaters stoned to death 8. VVhen inferior iudges differ the cause must be decided by the High Priest in consistorie Who is warranted not to erre therin and al are bound to obey his sentence 14. The dutie also of a king Whom in future time God wil condescend to geue them is described with special charge to receiue the law of God at the Priestes handes THOV shalt not immolate to our Lord thy God a sheepe and an oxe wherein there is blemish or any fault because it is abomination to our Lord thy God †When there shal be found with thee within one of thy gates which our Lord thy God shal geue thee man or woman that do euil in the sight of our Lord thy God and transgresse his couenant †that they goe and serue strange goddes and adore them the sunne and the moone and al the hoste of heauen which thinges I commanded not †and this is told thee and hearing it thou hast inquired diligently and found it to be true and the abomination is committed in Israel †thou shalt bring forth the man and the woman that haue committed that most heynous thing to the gates of thy citie and they shal be stoned †At the mouth of two or three witnesses shal he perish that is to be slaine Let no man be killed one onlie geuing testimonie against him †The hand of the witnesses shal be first to kil him and the hand of the rest of the people shal be layd on last that thou mayest take away the euil out of the middes of thee †“ If thou perceiue that the iudgement with thee be hard and doubtful betwen bloud and bloud cause and cause leprosie and not leprosie and thou see that the wordes of the iudges within thy gates doe varye arise and goe vp to the place which our Lord thy God shal choose †And thou shalt come to the priestes of the Leuitical stocke and to the iudge that shal be at that time and thou shalt aske of them “ who shal shew thee the truth of the iudgment †And thou shalt do whatsoeuer they that are presidentes of the place which our Lord shal choose shal say and teach thee †according to his law and thou shalt folow their sentence neither shalt thou decline to the right hand nor to the left hand †But “ he that shal be proude refusing to obey the commandement of the Priest which at that time ministreth to our Lord thy God and the decree of the iudge that man shal die and thou shalt take away the euil out of Israel †and the whole people hearing shal feare that none afterward swel in pride †When thou art entred the Land which our Lord thy God wil geue thee and doest possesse it and dwellest in it and sayest I wil sette a king ouer me as al nations haue round about †him shalt thou sette whom our Lord thy God shal choose of the number of thy brethren A man of an other nation that is not thy brother thou canst not make king †And when he is made he shal not multiplie to him selfe horses nor lead backe the people into Aegypt taking high courage for the number of his horsemen especially whereas our Lord hath commanded you that in no case you returne any more the same way †He shal not haue manie wiues that may allure his minde nor huge weightes of siluer and gold †And after he shal sitte in the throne of his kingdome he shal copie to him selfe the Deuteronomie of this Law in a volume taking the copie of the priestes of the Leuitical tribe †and he shal haue it with him and shal reade it al the dayes of his life that he may learne to feare our Lord his God and keepe his wordes and ceremonies that are commanded in the law †And that his hart be not lifted vp into pride ouer his brethren nor decline to the right side or the left side that he may reigne a long time and his sonnes ouer Israel ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XVII 8. If the iudgement be hard For a ful and assured decision of al controuersies God here instituted to his people a supreme Tribunal that in case inferior Iudges varied in iudgement recourse might be had to the Councel of Priestes where one chiefe Iudge the High Priest was appointed to geue sentence and al others commanded to receiue and obey the same 9. vvho shal shevv the truth God so assisted this consistorie with his spirite of truth that their sentence was infallible though otherwise they might erre either in life or in priuate opinion VVherfore our Sauiour distinguishing betwen their publique doctrin and their workes taught the people that for somuch as the Scribes and Pharisees sate in Moyses chaire and yet transgressed Gods commandmentes euerie one should obserue and doe as they saide but not doe according to their
which fighteth against thee CHAP. XXI How to seeke out a secrete murtherer 10. wemen taken in battel may be maried and afterwardes can not be sold nor made bond wemen 15. The eldest sonne may not be depriued of his birthright for hatred of his mother 18. A stubburne sonne must be stoned to death 22. VVhen one is hanged on a gibbet he must be taken downe the same day and buried VVHEN there shal be found in the Land which our Lord thy God wil geue thee the corps of a man slaine and he that is guiltie of the murder is not knowne †thy ancientes and iudges shal goe forth and measure from the place of the corps the distance of euerie citie round about †and which they shal perceiue to be neerer then the rest the ancientes of that citie shal take an heifer out of the heard that hath not drawen yoke nor ploughed the ground †and shal bring her to a rough and stonie valley that neuer was ploughed nor receiued seede and in it they shal strike of the necke of the heifer †and the priestes the sonnes of Leui shal come whom our Lord thy God hath chosen to minister to him and to blesse in his name and at their word euerie matter dependeth and whatsoeuer is cleane or vncleane must be iudged †And the ancientes of that citie shal come to the slaine person and shal wash their handes ouer the heifer that was strooken in the valley †and shal say Our handes did not sheede this bloud nor our eies seee it †be merciful to thy people Israel whom thou hast redemed o Lord and impute not innocent bloud in the middes of thy people Israel And the guilte of bloud shal be taken from them †and thou shalt be free from the innocents bloud that was shed when thou shalt haue done that which our Lord hath commanded thee †If thou goe forth to fight against thyne enemies and our Lord thy God deliuer them in thy hande and thou leade them away captiue †and seest in the number of the captiues a beautiful woman and louest her and wilt haue her to wife †thou shalt bring her into thy house who shal shaue of her hare and payre her nailes †and put of the rayment wherein she was taken and sitting in thy house shal mourne her father and mother one moneth and afterward thou shalt enter vnto her and shalt sleepe with her and she shal be thy wife †But if afterward she content not thy mynde thou shalt let her goe free neither canst thou sel her for money nor oppresse her by might because thou hast humbled her †If a man haue two wiues one beloued and the other hated and they haue begotten children by him and the sonne of the hated be the firstborne †and he meaneth to diuide his substance among his sonnes he can not make the sonne of the beloued the first borne and preferre him before the sonne of the hated †but the sonne of the hated he shal acknowledge for the first borne and shal geue to him of those thinges which he hath al duble for this is the beginning of his children to this are dew the first brith rightes †If a man begette a stubbourne and froward sonne that wil not heare the commandementes of his father and mother and being chastened contemneth to be obedient †they shal take him and bring him to the ancientes of his citie and to the gate of iudgement †and shal say to them This our sonne is froward and stubborne he contemneth to heare our admonitions he geueth himself to comessation and to ryote and banketinges †the people of the citie shal stone him and he shal die that you may take away the euil out of the middes of you and al Israel hearing it may be afrayde †When a man hath offended so that he is to be punished by death and being condemned to die is hanged on a gybbet †his bodie shal not remaine vpon the tree but the same day shal be buried because he is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree and thou shalt not contaminate thy Land which our Lord thy God geueth thee in possession CHAP. XXII Pietie towardes neighboures 5. neither sexe may vse the apparel of the other 6. crueltie to be auoided euen towardes birdes 8. batlement about the roofe af a house 9. Things of diuers kindes not to be mixed 12. cordes in the hemes of a cloke 13. Trial and punishment of adulterie and of deflowring virgines 30. the sonne may not marie his stepmother THOV shalt not see thy brothers oxe or sheepe straying and passe by but shalt bring it backe to thy brother †although thy brother be not nigh and thou know him not thou shalt bring them vnto thy house and they shal be with thee vntil thy brother seeke them and receiue them †In like manner shalt thou doe with his asse and with his rayment and with euerie thing of thy brothers that shal be lost if thou finde it neglect it nor as perteyning to an other †If thou see thy brothers asse or oxe to be fallen in the way thou shalt not contemne it but shalt list it vp with him †A woman shal not be clothed with mans apparel neither shal a man vse womans apparel for he is abominable before God that doeth these thinges †If walking by the way thou finde a birdes nest in a tree or on the ground and the damme sitting vpon the young or the egges thou shalt not hold her with her young †but shalt let her goe taking the young and holding them that it may be wel with thee and thou mayest liue a long time †When thou buildest a new house thou shalt make a batlement to the roofe round about lest bloud be shed in thy house and thou be guiltie an other slipping and falling headlong †Thou shalt not sowe thy vineyard with diuerse seede lest both the seede which thou didst sow and the thinges that grow of the vineyard be sanctisied rogether †Thou shalt not plough with an oxe and asse together †Thou shalt not weare a garment that is wouen of wolle and linnen †Thou shalt make litle cordes in the hemme at the foure corners of thy cloke wherwith thou shalt be couered †If a man marrie a wife and afterward hate her †and seeke occasions to put her away obiecting vnto her a verie il name and say I tooke this wife and compayning with her I found her not a virgin †her father and mother shal take her and shal carie with them the signes of her virginitie to the ancientes of the citie that are in the gate †and the father shal say I gaue my daughter vnto this man to wife whom because he hateth †he layeth vnto her a verie il name so that he sayeth I found not thy daughter a virgin and behold these are the signes of my
the long circuites of the way †who were al circumcised But the people that was borne in the desert †during the fourtie yeares of the iourney in the wide wildernes was incircumcised til they were consumed that had not heard the voice of our Lord and to whom he had sworne before that he would not shew them a land flowing with milke and honie †The children of these succeded in the place of the fathers and were circumcised of Iosue for they were in the prepuce euen as they were borne neither had any circumcised them in the way †And after that they were al circumcised they abode in the same place of the campe vntil they were whole †And our Lord said to Iosue This day haue I taken away the reproch of Aegypt from you And the name of that place was called Galgal vntil this present day †And the children of Israel abode in Galgal they made the Phase the fourtenth day of the moneth at euen in the champion of Iericho †and they did eate of the corne of the Land the next day azyme loaues and poleÌ„t of the same yeare †And Manna failed after they did eate of the corne of the Land neither did the children of Israel vse that meate any more but they did eate of the corne of the present Land of Chanaan †And when Iosue was in the field of the citie of Iericho he lifted vp his eies and saw a man standing against him holding a drawen sword and he went to him and said Art thou ours or our aduersaries †Who answered No but I am a prince of the host of our Lord and now I come †Iosue fel flatte on the ground And “ adoring he said What speaketh my Lord to his seruant †“ Loose sayth he thy shoe from thy feete for the place wherein thou dost stand is holie And Iosue did as it was commanded him ANNOTATIONS CHAP. V. 15. Adoring Iosue knowing that the person which appeared was an Angel and not God nor a man neither adored him with godlie honour for that had bene idolatrie nor with ciuil for that perteineth to wordlie and temporal excellencie and is not competent to sacred thinges especialy to immortal and glorious spirites and therfore the honour he did to this Angel was religious honour infinitly inferior to diuine and yet much greater then ciuil 16. Loose thy shoe The Angel did not only accept of the honour donne vnto him but also required more shewing that the verie place was holie for his presence being otherwise the common field of Iericho CHAP. VI. Some priestes carying the arke others sounding Iubilee trumpetes â—râ—ed mâ—â— going before and the rest of the people folowing goe euerie day once six dayes together and the seuenth day seuen times round about Iericho 16. at last al making a great shoote the walles fal downe and they entering 〈◊〉 kil and destroy al 22. sauing Rahab and her kinred The gold siluer brasse and iron are brought into the treasurie 26. And he is cursed that shal build the citie againe AND Iericho was shut and â—ensed for feare of the children of Israel and no man durst goe out or come in †And our Lord said to Iosue Behold I haue geuen into thy handes Iericho and the king therof and al the valiant men †Goe round about the citie al you that be men of warre once a day so shal you doe six daies †And the seuenth day the priestes shal take vp the seuen trumpettes which are vsed in the Iubilee and shal goe before the arke of the couenant and you shal goe about the citie seuen times and the priestes shal sound with trumpetes †And when the voice of the trumpet shal sound in length and with a broken tune and shal sound in your eares al the people shal crie together with a verie greate shoote and the walles of the citie shal fall to the ground and they shal enter in euerie one at the place against which they shal staÌ„d †Iosue therfore the sonne of Nun called the priestes and said to them Take vp the arke of the couenant and let seuen other priestes take vp the seuen truÌ„peâ—tes of the iubilees and march before the arke of our Lord. †To the people also he said Goe and coÌ„passe the citie the armed going before the arke of our Lord. †And when Iosue had ended his wordes and the seuen priestes sounded with seuen trumpettes before the arke of the couenant of ouâ— Lord †and al the armed hoste went before the rest of the commoÌ„ people folowed the arke and al places sounded with the trumpettes †But Iosue had commanded the people saying You shal not crie neither shal your voice be heard nor any word goe out of your mouth vntil the day come wherin I shal say to you Crie and shoote †Therfore the arke of our Lord went about the citie once a day and returning into the campe abode there †Iosue therfore rysing in the night the priestes tooke the arke of our Lord †and seuen of them seuen trumpettes which are vsed in the iubilee and they went before the arke of our Lord walking and sounding and the armed people went before them and the rest of the common people folowed the arke and they sounded with trumpettes †And they went round about the citie the second day once and returned into the campe So did they six daies †But the seuenth day rysing vp early they went about the citie as it was ordained seuen times †And when in the seuenth going about the priestes sounded with the trumpettes Iosue said to al Israel Make a shoote for our Lord hath deliuered to you the citie †and let this citie be anathema and al thinges that are in it to our Lord. onlie Rahab the harlot let her liue with al that be with her in the house for she hidde the messengers whom we sent †But you beware you touch not ought of those rhinges that are commanded and be guiltie of preuarication and al the campe of Israel be vnder sinne and be trubled †But whatsoeuer gold or siluer there shal be and of brasen vessels and yron let it be consecrated to our Lord layd vp in his treasures †Therfore al the people making a shoote and the trumpettes sounding after that the voice and the sound thundred in the eares of the multitude the walles forthwith fell and euerie man went vp by the place that was against him and they tooke the citie †and killed al thinges that were in it from man to woman from the infant to the old man The oxen also and sheepe and the asses they stroke in the edge of the sword †But to the two men that had bene sent for spies Iosue said Goe into the house of the woman the harlotte and bring her forth and al thinges that be hers as you assured her by oath †And the young men
the men of warre with him to goe vp into Hai and thirtie thousand chosen valiant men he sent in the night †and commanded them saying Lay ambushmentes behinde the citie neither retyre you farre of and you shal al be readie †But I and the rest of the multitude which is with me wil goe vp on the contrarie side against the citie And when they shal issue out against vs as we did before we wil flee and turne our backes †til pursewing they be drawen forward farre from the citie for they wil thinck that we flee as before †We therfore fleeing and they pursewing you shal rise out of the ambushmentes and shal waist the citie and our Lord your God wil deliuer it into your handes †And when you shal take it burne it and you shal doe al thinges so as I haue commanded †And he dismissed them away and they went on to the place of the ambushment and sate betwen Bethel and Hai at the West side of the citie of Hai. But Iosue that night stayed in the middes of the people †and rysing early he mustered his soldiars and went vp with the ancientes in the fronte of the hoste enuironed with the ayde of the fighting men †And when they were come and were gone vp directly against the citie they stoode on the North side of the citie betwen which and them was a valley in the middes †And fiue thousand men had he chosen and sette in the embushmentes betwen Bethel and Hai on the West side of the same citie †but al the rest of the hoste went in battel aray on the North side so that the last of the multitude did reach to the West side of the citie Iosue therfore went that night and stoode in the middes of the valley †Which when the King of Hai had seene he made hast in the mourning and issued forth with al the host of the citie and bent his armie toward the desert being ignorant that there lay embushmentes secretly behind his backe †But Iosue and al Israel gaue backe feyning feare and fleeing by the way of the wildernes †But they cried alowde together and encouraging one an other pursewed them And when they were gone from the citie †and not one remained in the citie of Hai and Bethel that pursewed not Israel euen as they had rushed out leauing the townes open †our Lord said to Iosue Lift vp the shield that is in thy hand against the citie of Hai for I wil deliuer it to thee †And when he had lifted vp his shield against the citie the embushementes that lay hidde rose vp immediately and going to the citie tooke and burnt it †And the men of the citie that pursewed Iosue looking backe and seeing the smoke of the citie rise vp euen to heauen they could no more flee hither and thiâ—her especially whereas they that had feyned running away and went toward the wildernes most valiantly resisted against the purseweâ—s †And Iosue and al Israel seeing that the citie was taken and the smoke of the citie rose vp returning he stroke the men of Hai. †For they also that had taken and burnt the citie issuing out of the citie against their owne men beganne to strike the enemies in the middes of them When the aduersaries therfore were slaine on both sides so that none of so great a multitude was saued †they tooke the King of the citie of Hai aliue and presented him to Iosue †Therfore al being slaine that had pursewed Israel fleeing to the desertes and falling by the sword in the same place the children of Israel returning stoke the citie †And there were that fel that same day from man vnto woman twelue thousand men al of the citie of Hai. †But Iosue plucked not in his hand which he had strethched forth on high holding the shield til al the inhabitantes of Hai were slaine †And the cattel and the praye of the citie the children of Israel diuided among them as our Lord had commanded Iosue †Who burnt the citie and made it a heape for euer †the king also therof he hong on a gibbet vntil euening and the going downe of the sunne And he commanded and they tooke downe his corps from the gibbet and threw it in the verie entring of the citie heaping vpon it a great heape of stones which remaineth vntil this present day †Then Iosue built an altar to our Lord the God of Israel in mount Hebal †as Moyses the seruant of our Lord had commanded the children of Israel and it is written in the volume of the law of Moyses an Altar of vnhewed stones which yron hath not touched and he offered vpon it holocaustes to our Lord and immolated pacifique victimes †And he wrote vpon stones the Deuterenomie of the law of Moyses which he had ordered before the children of Israel †And al the people and the ancientes and the princes and iudges stoode on both sides of the arke in the sight of the priestes that caried the arke of the couenant of our Lord as wel the stranger as also the man of the same countrie the half part of them beside mount Garizim and halfe beside mount Hebal as Moyses the seruant of our Lord had commanded And first in deede he blessed the people of Israel †After this he reade al the wordes of the blessing the cursing and al thinges that were written in the volume of the law †Nothing of those thinges which Moyses had commanded did he leaue vntouched but he repeated al thinges before al the multitude of Israel the wemen and children and strangers that dwelt among them CHAP. IX Other nations fearing Israel ioyne their forces to fight against them 3. but the Gabaonites send embassadors feyning craftily to come farre of 14. with whom Iosue and the ancientes of Israel make league binding it by oath 16. within three dayes they are detected to be nere inhabitantes VVherupon the people murmur against their princes VVho yet for their oath let the Gabaonites liue 20. only making them and their progenie perpetual seruantes to cutte wood and carie water VVHICH thinges being heard al the kinges beyond Iordan that dwelt in the mountaines and champion countries in the places by the sea side and the shore of the great sea they also that dwelt beside Libanus the Hetheite and Amorreite the Chananeite the Pherezeite and the Heueite and the Iebus eite †were gathered to fight against Iosue and Israel with one minde and one sentence †But they that dwelt in Gabaon hearing al thinges that Iosue had done to Iericho and Hai †subtelly deuising tooke prouision for them selues laying old sackes vpon their asses and bottels of wine rent and sowed againe †and shoes very old which for a shew of oldenesse were clouted with speckes putting on them old garmentes the loaues also which they caried for prouision by the way
had commanded him †Except the cities that were situated on hilles and higher ground the rest Israel burnt one onlie Asor verie wel fensed he consumed with fyre †And al the praye of these cities and the cattel the children of Israel diuided among them selues al the men being slaine †As our Lord had commanded Moyses his seruant so did Moyses command Iosue and he accomplished al thinges he ommitted not of al the commandementes not so much as one word which our Lord had commanded Moyses †Iosue therfore tooke al the hillie countrie and south and the land of Gosen and plaine and the West quarter and the mountaine of Israel and the champaine countrie therof †and the part of the mountaine that goeth vp to Seir as farre as Baalgad by the plaine of Libanus vnder mount Hermon al their kinges he tooke stroke and slew †A great time did Iosue fight against these kinges †There was not a citie that did deliuer it selfe to the children of Israel except the Heueite which dwelt in Gabaon for he tooke al by fight †For it was the sentence of our Lord that their hartes should be indurate and they should fight against Israel and fall and should not deserue anie clemencie and should perish as our Lord had commanded Moyses †At that time Iosue came and slew the Enacimes of the mountaines of Hebron and Dabir and Anab and from al the mountaine of Iuda and Israel and destroyed their cities †He leift not any of the stocke of Enacimes in the Land of the children of Israel sauing the cities of Gaza and Geth and Azotus in the which onlie they were leift †Iosue therfore tooke al the Land as our Lord spake to Moyses and deliuered it in possession to the children of Israel according to their partes and tribes and the Land rested from battels CHAP. XII Besides Sehon and Og kinges of Hesebon and Basan slaine by Moyses 7. are reckened thirtie one kinges slaine by Iosue THESE are the kinges which the children of Israel stroke and possessed their Land beyond Iordan toward the rysing of the sunne from the torrent Arnon vnto mount Hermon and al the East part that looketh toward the wildernes †Sehon the king of the Amorrheites which dwelt in Hesebon had dominion from Aroer which is situated vpon the banke of the torrent Arnon and of the middel part in the valley and of halfe Galaad as farre as the torrent Iaboc which is the border of the children of Ammon †and from the wildernes vnto the sea of Ceneroth against the East and vnto the Sea of the wildernes which is the most salt sea on the East side by the way that leadeth to Besimoth and on the South side which lyeth vnder Asedoth as farre as Phasga †The border of Og the king of Basan of the remnant of the Raphaims who dwelt in Astaroth and in Edrai and had dominion in mount Hermon and in Salecha and in al Basan vnto the borders †of Gessuri and Machati and of the halfe part of Galaad the borders of Sehon the king of Hesebon †Moyses the seruant of our Lord and the children of Israel stroke them and Moyses deliuered their Land in possession to the Rubenites and Gadites and the half tribe of Manasses †These are the Kinges of the Land whom Iosue stroke and the children of Israel beyond Iordan on the West side from Balaalgad in the field of Libanus vnto the mount part wherof goeth vp into Seir and Iosue deliuered it in possession to the tribes of Israel to euerie one their portions †as wel in the mountaines as in the plaine and champaine countries In Asedoth and in the wildernes and in the south was the Hetheite and the Amorrheite the Chananeite and the Pherezeite the Heueite and the Iebuseite †The king of Iericho one the king of Hai which is on the side of Bethel one †the king of Ierusalem one the king of Hebron one †the King of Ierimoth one the King of Lachis one †the King of Eglon one the King of Gazer one †the King of Dabir one the King of Gader one †the King of Herma one the King of Hered one †the King of Lebna one the King of Adullam one †the King of Maceda one the King of Bethel one †the King of Taphua one the King of Opher one †the King of Aphec one the King of Saron one †the King of Madon one the King of Asor one †the King of Semeron one the King of Acsaph one †the King of Thenac one the King of Mageddo one †the King of Cades one the King of Iachanan one †the King of Carmel one the King of Dor and of the prouince of Dor one the King of the Nations of Galgal one †the King of Thersa one al the Kinges thirtie one CHAP. XIII God commandeth Iosue to diuide the land describing the limites therof amongst nine tribes and a half 8. with a recapitulation of the partes already geuen on the other side Iordan to the other two tribes and a half The tribe of Leui v. 14. 33. hath their prouision in other maner IOSVE was old and striken in age and our Lord said to him Thou art old and of a great age and there is a verie large countrie left which is not yet diuided by lotte †to witte al Galilee Philisthijm and al Gessuri †From the trubled riuer that watereth Aegypt vnto the borders of Accaron against the North the Land of Chanaan which is diuided vnto fiue Lordes of the Philisthiimes the Gazeites the Azotians the Ascalonites the Getheites and the Accaronites †But on the South side are the Heueites al the Land of Chanaan and Maara of the Sidonians as farre as Apheca and the borders of the Amorrheite †and his confines The countrie also of Libanus against the East from Baalgad vnder mount Hermon til thou enter into Emath †Of al that dwel in the mountaine from Libanus vnto the Waters Maserephoth and al the Sidonians I am he that wil destroy them from the face of the children of Israel Let it come therfore into a portion of the inheritance of Israel as I haue commanded thee †And now diuide the Land in possession to the nine tribes and to the half tribe of Manasses †with the which Ruben Gad haue possessed the Land which Moyses the seruant of our Lord deliuered to them beyond the streames of Iordan on the east side †From Aroer which is situate on the banke of the torrent Arnon and in the middes of the valley and al the champayne of Medaba as farre as Dibon †and al the cities of Cehon the King of the Amorrheite which reigned in Hesebon vnto the borders of the children of Ammon †And Galaad and the border of Gessuri and Maccati and al mount Hermon and al Basan as farre as Salecha †al the Kingdome of
Gabaa of Beniamin with my wife and there I tooke my lodging †and behold the men of that citie by night besette the house wherein I taried meaning to kil me and vexing my wife with incredible furie of lust finally she died †Whom being taken I did cutte into peeces and sent the partes into al the borders of your possession because neuer was there so heinous an offense and so greate an abomination done in Israel †You are al present the children of Israel determine what you ought to doe †And al the people standing answered as it were by the word of one man we wil not depart into our tabernacles neither shal any man enter into his house †but this wil we doe in common against Gabaa †Let ten men be chosen of an hundred out of al the tribes of Israel and an hundred of a thousand and a thousand of ten thousand to bring victuals for the armie and that we may fight against Gabaa of Beniamin render to it for the wicked fact which it deserueth †And al Israel assembled to the citie as it were one man with one minde and one counsel †and they sent messengers to al the tribe of Beniamin which should say Why is there soe great abomination found in you †Deliuer the men of Gabaa that haue committed this heinous fact that they may die and the euil may be taken away out of Israel Who would not heare the commandment of their brethren the children of Israel †but oâ—â— of al cities which were of their lotte they assem 〈…〉 Gabaa to avde them and to fight against aâ— the 〈…〉 †â—nd there were found fiue and twentie thousand of Beniamin of them that drew sword beside the inhabitantes of Gabaa †which were seuen hundred most valiant men so fighting with the left hand as with the right and so directly casting stones with â—â—inges that they could strike a heare also and the stroke of the stone should not be caried awry on either part †Of the men of Israel also beside the children of Beniamin were found foure hundred thousande of them that drew swordes were prepared to fight †Who rising came into the house of God that is into Silo and they consulted God and said Who shal be in our armie general of the battel against the children of Beniamin To whom our Lord answered Let Iudas be your captayne †And forth with the children of Israel arysing in the morning camped beside Gabaa †and thence proceeding to fight against Beniamin beganne to assault the citie †And the children of Beniamin issuing out of Gabaa slew of the children of Israel that day two and twentie thousand men †Agayne Israel hauing confidence in their strength and number sette the armie in aray in the same place wherein they had fought before †yet so that they did first goe vp and weepe before our Lord vntil night and consulted him and said Shal I procede any more to fight against the children of Beniamin my brethren or not To whom he answered Goe vp to them and enter battel †And when the children of Israel the next day had proceded against the children of Beniamin to battel †the children of Beniamin brake forth out of the gates of Gabaa and meeting them they raged with so great a slaughter against them that they ouerthrew eightene thousand men that drew swotd †For the which thing al the children of Israel came into the house of God and sitting wept before our Lord and they fasted that day vntil euening and offered to him holocaustes and pacifique victimes †and asked him concerning their state At that time the arke of the couenant of our Lord was there †and Phinees the sonne of Eleazarus the sonne of Aaron prouost of the house They therfore consulted our Lord and said Shal we goe forth any more to fight against the children of Beniamin our brethren or rest To whom our Lord said Goe vp for to morrow I wil deliuer them into your handes †And the children of Israel sette ambushmentes round about the citie of Gabaa †and the third time as once and twise they brought forth their armie against Beniamin †But the children of Beniamin also issued forth boldly out of the citie and pursewed a long way the aduersaries fleeing so that they wounded of them as the first day and the second and slew them turning their backes by two wayes wherof the one went into Bethel and the other into Gabaa and ouerthrew about thirtie men †for they thought to kil them after their accustomed maner Who feyning artificially as though they fled tooke aduise to draw them away from the citie as it were fleing to bring them to the pathes aforesayd †Therfore al the children of Israel rysing out of their seates sette their armie in battel aray in the place which is called Baalthamar The ambushmentes also which were about the citie began by litle and litle to open them selues †and to proceede from the West part of the citie Yea and other ten thousand men of al Israel prouoked the inhabitantes of the citie to skit mishes And the battel grew sore against the children of Beniamin and they vnderstoode not that on euerie side destruction hong ouer them †And our Lord stroke them in the sight of the children of Israel and they slew of them in that day fiue and twentie thousand and an hundred men al warryers and that drew sword †But the children of Beniamin when they saw them selues to be inferiour beganne to flee Which the children of Israel seing gaue them place to flee that they might come to the ambushmentes prepared which they had sette neere the citie †Who when they had sodenly risen out of their dennes and Beniamin turned their backes to the sleaers they entred the citie and stroke it in the edge of the sword †And the children of Israel had geuen a signe to them whom they had laid in the ambushementes that after they had taken the citie they should kindle a fire that the smoke ascending on high they might shew that the citie was taken †Which when the children of Israel saw being in the verie fight for the children of Beniamin thought that they fled and pursewed more instantly hauing slaine thirtie men of their armie †and they saw as it were a piller of smoke to rise vp from the citie Beniamin also looking backe when he saw the citie taken and the flames caried on high †they that before had feyned as if they fled turning their face resisted more manfully Which when the children of Beniamin had sene they were turned into flight †and beganne to goe the way of the desert the aduersaries pursewing them thither also But they also that had fyred the citie mette them †And so it came to passe that on both sides they were slaine of the enemies neither was there any rest of
him bread to eate and water to drink †and also a peece of a masse of drie figges and two bunches of resinnes Who when he had eaten his spirite returned and he was refreshed for he had not eaten bread nor drunken water three daies and three nightes †Dauid therefore sayd to him Whose art thou or whence and whither goest thou who sayd I am a yong man of Aegypt the seruant of an Amalacite and my maister hath leift me because I began to be sicke three daies agone †For we brake forth at the south side of Cerethi and against Iuda and at the south of Caleb and burnt Siceleg with fire †And Dauid sayd to him Canst thou bring me to this companie Who sayd Sweare to me by God that thou wilt not kil me nor deliuer me into the handes of my lord and I wil bring thee to this companie And Dauid sware to him †Who when he had brought them behold they sate vpon the face of al the earth eating and drinking and as it were keping festiual day for al the praye and spoiles which they had taken out of the Land of the Philistijms and out of the Land of Iuda †And Dauid stroke them from euening vntil the euening of the next day and there escaped not anie of them but foure hundred yong men which had gotten vpon camels and were fled †Dauid therefore reskewed al thinges that the Amalecites had taken and he reskewed his two wiues †Neither was there anie wanting from litle to great as wel of their sonnes as of their daughters and of the spoiles and what thinges soeuer they had taken Dauid brought al againe †And he tooke al the flockes heardes and draue them before his face and they sayd This is the praye of Dauid †And Dauid came to the two hundred men which being wearie had staied neither were able to folow Dauid and he had bidden them to rest in the Torrent Besor who came forth to meete Dauid and the people that were with him And Dauid coming to the people saluted them peaceably †And euerie naughtie and wicked felow of the men that had gone with Dauid answering sayd Because they came not with vs we wil not geue them anie thing of the praye which we haue recouered but let their wife and children suffice euerie man whom when they haue receiued let them depart †But Dauid sayd You shal not doe so my brethren of these thinges which our Lord hath deliuered to vs and hath kept vs and hath geuen the theeues that were broken out against vs into our handes †neither shal anic man heare you vpon this talke For there shal be equal portion of him that went downe into battel and of him that abode at the baggage they shal diuide alike †And this hath beene downe from that day and euer after it was decreed and ordained as a law in Israel †Dauid therefore came into Siceleg and sent giftes of the praye to the ancientes of Iuda his neighboures saying Take a benediction of the praye of our Lords enemies †To them that were in Bethel and that were in Ramoth toward the South and them that were in Gether †and them in Aroer and them in Sephamoth and them in Esthamo †and them in Rachal and them in the cities of Ierameel and them in the cities of Semi †and them in Harama and them in the lake of Asan and them in Athach †and them in Hebron and to the rest that were in those places in the which Dauid had taried and his men CHAP. XXXI Saul with his sonnes are slaine in battel 7. The Philistijms possesse the place and hang the dead bodies on a wal 11. but valiant men of Iabes Galaad take them away and burne them burie their bones and fast seuen dayes AND the Philistijms fought against Israel and the men of Israel fled before the face of the Philistijms and fel being slaine in mount Gelboe †And the Philistijms fel vpon Saul and vpon his sonnes and they stroke Ionathas and Abinadab and Melchisua the sonnes of Saul †and the whole weight of the battel was turned vpon Saul and the archers ouertooke him and he was sore wounded of the archers †And Saul sayd to his esquier Drawe out thy sword and strike me lest perhaps these vncircumcised come and kil me mocking me And his esquier would not for he was frighted with exceding feare Saul therefore caught his sword and fel vpon it †Which when his esquier had seene to wit that Saul was dead himselfe also fel vpon his sword and died with him †Saul therefore died and his three sonnes his esquier and al his men in that day together †And the children of Israel that were beyond the valley and beyond Iordan seing that the men of Israel were fled and that Saul was dead and his sonnes they left their cities and fled and the Philistijms came and dwelt there †And when the next day was come the Philistijms came to spoile them that were slaine and they found Saul and his three sonnes lying in mount Gelboe †And they did cut of Saules head and spoiled him of his armour and sent into the land of the Philistians round about that it should be declared in the temple of their Idols and among their people †And they did put his armour in the temple of Astaroth but his bodie they hung on the wal of Bethsam †Which when the inhabiters of Iabes Galaad had heard whatsoeuer the Philistijms had done to Saul †al the most valiant men arose walked al the night and tooke the bodie of Saul and the bodies of his sonnes from the wal of Bethsam and they came to Iabes Galaad and burnt them there †and they tooke their bones and buried them in the wood of Iabes and fasted seuen daies THE ARGVMENT OF THE SECOND BOOKE OF KINGES BESIDES a great part of the first booke and beginning of the third this second booke is wholly of King Dauid VVhos 's manie laudable Actes as also his faultes which were fewer with his true repentance and punishment are related not in such method as may easily be diuided into distinct partes in order of the chapters but according to the distinction of thinges conteined his succession to the royal crowne first in Iuda and after in al Israel with the declination and death of his competitour Isboseth are recorded in the 2. 3. 4. and 5. chapters His vertues and praises to wit his solemne mourning for Saul and that familie his deuotion fortitude pietie and gratitude are specially touched in the 1. 6 7. 8. 9. and 10. chapters His sinnes of adulterie with Bethsabee of killing her husband Vrias of pride in numbering his people with his hartie repentance and temporal punishment for the same are written from the 11. chapter to the 21 together with the 24. The 22. and 23. chapters
wiues before thine eies and geue them to thy neighbour and he shal slepe with thy wiues in the sight of this Sunne †For thou hast done it secretly but I wil doe this word in the sight of al Israel and in the sight of the Sunne †And Dauid sayd to Nathan I haue sinned to our Lord. And Nathan sayd to Dauid Our Lord also hath taken away thy sinne thou shalt not die †Neuertheles because thou hast made the enemies of our Lord to blaspheme for this thing the sonne that is borne to thee dying shal dye †And Nathan returned into his house Our Lord also stroke the child which the wife of Vrias had borne to Dauid and he was past hope †And Dauid besought our Lord for the child and Dauid fasted a fast and going in aside lay vpon the ground †And the ancientes of his house came being earnest with him that he would rise from the ground who would not neither did he eate meate with them †And it chanced the seuenth day that the infant died and the seruantes of Dauid feared to tel him that the child was dead For they sayd Behold when the child yet liued we spake to him and he heard not our voice how much more if we shal say The child is dead wil he afflict him self †When Dauid therfore sawe his seruantes muttering he vnderstood that the infant was dead and he sayd to his seruantes Is the child dead Who answered him He is dead †Dauid therfore rose from the ground and was washed and annoynted and when he had changed his garment he entered into the house of our Lord and adored and came into his owne house and he called for bread and he did eate †And his seruantes sayd vnto him What thing is this that thou hast done for the infant when he yet liued thou didst fast and weepe but the child being dead thou didst rise vp and hast eaten bread †Who sayd For the infant whiles he yet liued I fasted and wept for I sayd Who knoweth if perhaps our Lord wil geue him to me and the infant may liue †But now because he is dead why do I fast Shal I be able to cal him againe any more I shal go to him rather but he shal not returne to me †And Dauid comforted Bethsabee his wife and going in vnto her slept with her Who bare a sonne and he called his name Salomon and our Lord loued him †And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophete and called his name Amiable to our Lord because our Lord loued loued him †Ioab therfore fought against Rabbath of the children of Ammon and wonne the kinges citie †And Ioab sent messengers to Dauid saying I haue fought against Rabbath and the Citie of waters is to be taken †Now therfore gather the rest of the people and besiege the citie take it lest when the citie shal be wasted of me the victorie be ascribed to my name †Dauid therfore gathered al the people and went forth against Rabbath and when he had fought he tooke it †And he tooke the crowne of their king from his head in weight a talent of gold hauing most pretious stones and it was put vpon Dauids head Yea the praye of the citie he caryed away exceding much †bringing forth also the people therof sawed them and drewe round about ouer them chariotes shod with yron and he diuided them with kniues and drew them through in forme of brikes so did he to al the cities of the children of Ammon and Dauid returned and al the armie into Ierusalem CHAP. XIII Amnon rauisheth Thamar 20. For which Absalom killeth him 37. and flyeth into Gessur AND it came to passe after these thinges that Amnon the sonne of Dauid loued the sister of Absalom the sonne of Dauid being very beautiful called Thamar †and was fond on her excedingly so that for the loue of her he was sicke because wheras she was a virgin it semed vnto him had hard to doe any thing vnhonestly with her †But Amnon a freind named Ionadab the sonne of Semmaa Dauids brother a very wise man †Who sayd to him Why art thou so worne away with leanenes the kinges sonne day by day Why doest thou not tel me And Amnon sayd to him I loue Thamar the sister of my brother Absalom †To whom Ionadab answered Lye vpon thy bed and fayne sickenes and when thy father shal come to visite thee say to him Let my sister Thamar I pray come to me to geue me meate and to make me broth that I may eate of her hand †Amnon therefore lay downe and began as it were to be sicke and when the king came to visite him Amnon sayd to the king Let Thamar my sister come I besech you that she may make in my sight two litle suppinges and I may take meate of her hand †Dauid therfore sent home to Thamar saying Come into the house of Amnon thy brother make him broth †And Thamar came into the house of Amnon her brother and he lay who taking meale tempered it and resoluing it in his sight she made suppinges †And taking that which she had boyled she powred it out and set it before him and he would nor eate and Amnon sayd Put forth al from me And when they had put forth al †Amnon sayd to Thamar Bring in the meate into the parler that I may eate of thy hand Thamar therfore tooke the suppinges which she had made and caryed it in to Amnon her brother in the parler †And when she had offered him the meate he caught her and sayd Come lie with me my sister †Who answered him Doe not so my brother doe not rauish me for this is not lawful in Israel Doe not this folie †For I shal not be able to beare my reproch and thou shalt be as one of the foolish in Israel but rather speake to the king and he wil not denie me to thee †But he would not rest at her petitions but preuayling by force raui hed her and lay with her †And Amnon hated her with exceding great hatred so that the hatred was greater wherewith he hated her then the loue with the which before he loued her And Amnon said to her Arise and goe †Who answered him This euil which now thou doest against me expelling me is greater then that which thou didst before And he would not heare her †but calling the seruant that ministred to him he said Thrust this woman our from me and shut the doore after her †Who was clothed with a garment downe to the foote for the kinges daughters that were virgins vsed such kinde of garmentes His seruant therfore thrust her out and shut the doore after her †Who sprinkling ashes on her head renting her long garment and her handes vpon her head went going on and crying †And Absolon her brother sayd to
he destroyed her denne and brake the most filthie idol and burnt it in the torrent cedron †but the excelses he did not take away Otherwise the hart of Asa was parfect with our Lord al his daies †and he caried in those thinges which his father had sanctified and vowed into the house of our Lord siluer and gold and vessels †And there was warre betwen Asa and Baasa the king of Israel al their daies †Baasa also the king of Israel went vp into Iuda and built Rama that no man might go out or come in of Asaes side the king of Iuda †Asa therfore taking al the siluer and gold that remained in the treasures of the house of our Lord and in the treasures of the kinges house gaue it into the handes of his seruantes and he sent to Benadad the sonne of Tabremon the sonne of Hezion the king of Syria which dwelt in Damascus saying †There is a league betwen me and thee betwixt my father and thy father therfore I haue sent thee giftes siluer and gold and I desire thee that thou come and make void the league that thou hast with Baasa the king of Israel and he may retire from me †Benadad agreing to king Asa sent the princes of his armie into the citiees of Israel and they stroke Ahion and Dan and Abeldomum of Maacha and al Cenneroth to witte al the Land of Nephthali †Which when Baasa had heard he intermitted to build Rama and returned into Thersa †But king Asa sent word into al Iuda saying Let no man be excused and they tooke stones from Rama and the timber therof wherwith Baasa had built and Asa of it built Gabaa Beniamin and Maspha †But the rest of al the wordes of Asa and al his forces and al that he did the cities that he built are not these written in the Booke of the words of the dayes of the kinges of Iuda How beit in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feete †And he slept with his fathers was buried with them in the citie of Dauid his father And Iosaphat his sonne reigned for him †But Nadab the sonne of Ieroboam reigned ouer Israel the second yeare of Asa the king of Iuda and he reigned ouer Israel two yeares †And he did that which is euil in the sight of our Lord and walked in the waies of his father and in his sinnes wherwith he made Israel to sinne †And Baasa the sonne of Ahias of the house of Issachar lay in wayte against him and stroke him in Gebbethon which is a citie of the Philistimes for Nadab and al Israel besieged Gebbethon †Baasa therfore slew him in the third yeare of Asa the king of Iuda and reigned for him †And when he reigned he stroke al the house of Ieroboam he leaft not so much as one soule of his seede til he destroied him according to the word of our Lord which he had spoken in the hand of Ahias the Silonite †for the sinnes of Ieroboam which he had sinned and wherwith he had caused Israel to sinne and for the offence wherwith he prouoked our Lord the God of Israel †But the rest of the wordes of Nadab and al that he wrought are not these thinges written in the Booke of the wordes of the daies of the kinges of Israel †And there was warre betwen Asa and Baasa the king of Israel al their daies †In the third yeare of Asa the king of Iuda reigned Baasa the sonne of Ahias ouer al Israel in Thersa foure and twentie yeares †And he did euil before our Lord walked in the waies of Ieroboam and in his sinnes wherwith he made Israel to sinne CHAP. XVI Iehu for prophecying the destruction of Baasa and his house 7. is slaine 8. yet his sonne Ela reigneth tvvo yeares 9. Then Zambri rebelleth killeth Ela and reigneth 16. Part of the people choosing Amri prince of the armie their king 18. Zambri desperatly burneth himselfe and the kings palace 21. an other part folow Thebni as king til his death 23. Amri reigneth tvvelue yeares vvickedly 29. His sonne Achab succedeth marieth Iezabel and serueth Baal 34. In the meane time Hiel repairer◠Iericho AND the word of our Lord came to Iehu the sonne of Hanani agaynst Baasa saying †For so much as I haue exalted thee out of the dust sette thee duke ouer my people Israel but thou hast walked in the way of Ieroboam and hast made my people Israel to sinne that thou mightest anger me with their sinnes †behold I wil cut downe the posteritie of Baasa and the posteritie of his house and I wil make thy house as the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat †Whosoeuer of Baasa shal die in the citie him shal the dogges eate and whosoeuer of his shal die in the countrie him shal the fowles of the ayre deuoure †But the rest of the wordes of Baasa and whatsoeuer he did and his battels are not these things written in the Booke of the wordes of the daies of the kinges of Israel †Baasa therfore slept with his fathers and was buried in Thersa and Ela his sonne reigned for him †And when the word of our Lord came in the hand of Iehu the sonne of Hanani the prophete agaynst Baasa and agaynst his house and agaynst al the euil that he had done before our Lord to anger him in the workes of his handes that it should be made as the house of Ieroboam for this cause he slew him that is to say Iehu the sonne of Hanani the prophete †In the sixe and twenteth yeare of Asa the king of Iuda reigned Ela the sonne of Baasa ouer Israel in Thersa two yeares †And his seruant Zambri rebelled agaynst him the captayne of the halfe part of the horsemen and Ela was in Thersa drinking and dronken in the house of Arsa the gouernour of Thersa †Zambri therfore rushing in stroke and slew him in the seuen and twenteth yeare of Asa the king of Iuda he reigned for him †And when he teigned and sate vpon his throne he stroke al the house of Baasa and he leaft not of it one that could pysse agaynst a wal his kinsfolke and frendes †And Zambri destroyed al the house of Baasa according to the word of our Lord that he had spoken to Baasa in the hand of Iehu the prophet †for al the sinnes of Baasa and the sinnes of Ela his sonne who sinned and made Israel to sinne prouoking our Lord the God of Israel in their vanities †But the rest of the wordes of Ela and al that he did are not these writen in the Booke of the wordes of the daies of the kinges of Israel †In the seuen and twenteth yeare of Asa the king of Iuda reigned Zambri seuen daies in Thersa moreouer the armie besieged Gebbethon a citie of the Philisthines †And
the priestes did sacrifice from Gabaa vnto Bersabee and he destroyed the altars of the gates in the entrance of the doore of Iosue chief of the citie which was on the left hand of the gate of the citie †Howbeit the priestes of the excelses went not vp to the altar of our Lord in Ierusalem but only they did eate azimes in the middes of their brethren †He contaminated also Topheth which is in the Valley of the sonne of Ennom that no man should consecrate his sonne or daughter by fyre to Moloch †He tooke away also the horses which the kinges of Iuda had geuen to the Sunne in the entrance of the temple of our Lord beside the chamber of Nathanmelech the eunuch who was in Pharurim and the chariotes of the Sunne he burnt with fire †The altars also that were vpon the roofes of the vpper chamber of Achaz which the kinges of Iuda had made and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courtes of the temple of our Lord the king destroyed and he ranne from thence and sprinkled the ashes of them into the Torrent cedron †The excelses also that were in Ierusalem on the right side of the Mount of offence which Salomon the king of Israel had built to Astaroth the idol of the Sidonians and to Chamos the scandal of Moab and to Melchom the abomination of the children of Ammon the king destroyed †And he brake in peces the statues and cut downe the groues and he filled their places with the bones of dead men †Moreouer the altar also that was in Bethel and the excelse which Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat had made who made Israel to sinne and that altar and excelse he destroyed and burnt and brake into powder and the groue also he burnt †And Iosias turning saw there sepulchres that were in the mount and he sent and tooke the bones out of the sepulchres and burnt them vpon the altar and polluted it according to the word of our Lord which the man of God spake who had foretold these thinges †And he sayd What title is that which I see And the citizens of that citie answered It is the sepulchre of the man of God which came from Iuda and foretold these thinges which thou hast done vpon the altar of Bethel †And he sayd Let him alone let no man moue his bones And his bones remayned vntouched with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria †Moreouer al the temples of the excelses which were in the cities of Samaria which the kinges of Israel had made to prouoke our Lord Iosias tooke away and he did to them according to al the workes which he had done in Bethel †And he slew al the priestes of the excelses that were there vpon the altars and he burnt mens bones vpon them turned into Ierusalem †And he commanded al the people saying Make a Phase to our Lord your God according as it is writen in the booke of this couenant †For there was not such a Phase made from the daies of the Iudges which iudged Israel and of al the daies of the kinges of Israel and of the kinges of Iuda †as in the eightenth yeare of king Iosias this Phase was made to our Lord in Ierusalem †Yea and the Pythones and Southsayers and the images of idols and the filthes and the abominations that had bene in the land of Iuda and Ierusalem Iosias tooke away that he might establish the wordes of the law that were writen in the Booke which Helcias the priest found in the temple of our Lord. †There was no king before him like to him that returned to our Lord in al his hart in al his soule and in al his powre according to al the law of Moyses neither after him did there arise the like to him †But yet our Lord was not auerted from the wrath of his great furie wherwith his furie was wrath agaynst Iuda for the prouocations wherwith Manasses had prouoked him †Our Lord therfore sayd Iuda also wil I take away from my face as I haue taken away Israel and I wil reiect this citie which I chose Ierusalem and the house wherof I sayd My name shal be there †But the rest of the wordes of Iosias and al that he did are not these thinges writen in the Booke of the wordes of the daies of the kinges of Iuda †In his dayes came vp Pharao Nechao the king of Aegypt agaynst the king of Assyrians to the riuer Euphrates and Iosias the king went to meete him and was slaine in Mageddo when he had seene him †And his seruantes caried him dead from Mageddo they brought him into Ierusalem and buried him in his sepulchre And the people of the land tooke Ioachaz the sonne of Iosias and they anoynted him and made him king for his father †Three and twentie yeares old was Ioachaz when he began to reigne and he reigned three 〈…〉 in Ierusalem the name of his mother was A 〈…〉 the daughter of Ieremie of Lobna †And he did euil before our Lord according to al thinges which his fathers had done †And Pharao Nechao bound him in Rebla which is in the land Emath that he should not reigne in Ierusalem and he lette a penaltie vpon the land an hundred talentes of siluer and a talent of gold †And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim king the sonne of Iosias for Iosias his father and turned his name Ioakim Moreouer he tooke Ioachaz and brought him into Aegypt and he died there †And Ioakim gaue the siluer and the gold to Pharao when he had taxed the land vpon euerie man that it might be payd according to the precept of Pharao and he exacted of euerie man according to his abilitie as wel siluer as gold of the people of the land to geue vnto Pharao Nechao †Fiue and twentie yeares old was Ioakim when he began to reigne and he reigned eleuen yeares in Ierusalem the name of his mother was zebida the daughter of Phadaia of Ruma †And he did euil before our Lord according to al thinges which his fathers had done CHAP. XXIIII Ioakim serueth the king of Babylon three yeares 2. Manie rouers infest his countrie 5. He dieth and his sonne Ioachim reigneth 10. The king of Babylon carieth king Ioachim and al the chief persones and treasures into Babylon 17. appointing Matthanias whom he nameth Sedecias king of Iuda 20. VVho reuolâ—eth from the king of Babylon IN his daies came vp Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon and Ioakim was made his seruant three yeares and he rebelled agaynst him againe †And our Lord senr in vpon him the rouers of the Chaldees and the rouers of Syria and the rouers of Moab the rouers of the children of Ammon and he sent them into Iuda to destroy it according to the word of our Lord which he had spoken by his seruantes
the prophetes †And this by the word of our Lord was done against Iuda to take it away before him for al the sinnes of Manasses which he did †and for the innocent bloud that he had shed filled Ierusalem with the bloud of innocentes for this thing God would not be made propitious †But the rest of the wordes of Ioakim and al that he did are not these thinges writen in the Booke of the wordes of the daies of the kinges of Iuda And Ioakim slept with his fathers †and Ioachin his sonne reigned for him †And the king of Aegypt added no more to come out of his countrie for the king of Babylon had taken al that had beene the kinges of Aegypt from the riuer of Aegypt vnto the riuer Euphrates †Eightene yeares old was Ioachin when he began to reigne and he reigned three monethes in Ierusalem the name of his mother was Nohesta the daughter of Elnathan of Ierusalem †And he did euil before our Lord according to al thinges which his father had done †At that time came vp the seruantes of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon into Ierusalem and the citie was compassed with fortes †And Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came to the citie with his seruantes to assault it †And Ioachin the king of Iuda went forth to the king of Babylon he and his mother and his seruantes and his nobles and his eunuches and the king of Babylon receiued him the eight yeare of his reigne †And he brought forth from thence al the treasures of the house of our Lord and the treasures of the kinges house and he cut in peces al the golden vessel which Salomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of our Lord according to the word of our Lord. †And he transported al Ierusalem and al the princes and al the strong men of the armie ten thousand into captiuitie and euerie artificer and incloser and nothing was left sauing the poore sorte of the people of the land †He transported also Ioachin into Babylon and the kinges mother and the kinges wiues and his eunuches and the iudges of the land he led into captiuitie from Ierusalem into Babylon †And al the strong men seuen thousand and the artificers and inclosers a thousand al valiant men and warries and the king of Babylon led them captiues into Babylon †And he appointed Matthanias his vncle for him and called his name Sedecias †One and twentie yeares old was Sedecias when he began to reigne and he reigned eleuen yeares in Ierusalem the name of his mother was Amital the daughter of Ieremie of Lobna †And he did euil before our Lord according to al thinges which Ioakim had done †For our Lord was wrath against Ierusalem and against Iuda til he cast them away from his sace and Sedecias reuolted from the king of Babylon CHAP. XXV Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon beseiging Ierusalem two yeares the souldiars pressed with famine flee away King Sedecias also fleeth 5. is taken and brought before Nabuchodonosor 7. Al his sonnes are slaine in his sight his eyes are put out and he is caried into Babylon the Temple the kinges palace and other houses burned the walles destroyed the people caried captiue 12. except poore husbandmen 13. Al vessel of brasse siluer and gold broken and transported 18. Saraias high priest and other principal men are slaine 22. Godolias made gouernernour 25. is slaine by Ismael 27. Ioachin is deliuered from prison and exalted by a new king of Babylon AND it came to passe in the ninthe yeare of his reigne the tenth moneth the tenth day of the moneth came Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon himselfe and al his armie vnto Ierusalem and they besette it and built rampires rond about it †And the citie was shut vp trenched about vntil the eleuenth yeare of king Sedecias †the ninth day of the moneth and there was a sore famine in the citie neither was there bread for the people of the land †And a breach was made into the citie and al the men of warre fled in the night by the way of the gate which is betwen the duble wal toward the kinges garden moreouer the Chaldees besieged the citie round about Sedecias therfore fled by the way that leadeth to the champayne of the wildernes †And the armie of the Chaldees pursewed the king and ouertooke him in the plaine of Iericho and al the warriers that were with him were dispersed and forsooke him †They therfore hauing taken the king brought him to the king of Babylon into Reblatha who spake iudgement with him †And he slewe the sonnes of Sedecias before his face and he put out his eies and bound him with cheynes and brought him into Babylon †The fifth moneth the seuenth day of the moneth that is the ninetenth yeare of the king of Babylon came Nabuzardan the General of the armie the seruant of the king of Babylon into Ierusalem †And he burnt the house of our Lord the kings house and the houses of Ierusalem euerie house he burnt with fyre †And al the armie of the Chaldees which was with the General of the souldiars destroyed the walles of Ierusalem round about †And Nabuzardan the General of the armie transported the remnant of the people that remained in the citie and the fugitiues that were fled to the king of Babylon and the rest of the comon people †And of the poore of the land he leift dressers of vineyardes and husbandmen †And the brasen pillers that were in the temple of our Lord and the feete and the sea of brasse which was in the house of our Lord the Chaldees brake and transported al the brasse into Babylon †The pottes also of brasse and masars and forkes with three teeth and cuppes and litle mortars and al the vessel of brasse in the which they ministred they tooke away †Moreouer also the censars and phials those that were of gold and that were of siluer the General of the warfare tooke †that is two pillers one sea and the feete which Salomon had made in the temple of our Lord there was no weight of the brasse of al the vessels †One piller had eightene cubites in height and the litle head of brasse vpon it was three cubites in height and the nette and the pomegranates vpon the litle head of the piller al of brasse the second also had the like adorning †Also the general of the armie tooke Saraias the chiefe priest and Sophonias the second priest and three porters †And of the citie one Eunuch which was captayne ouer the men of warre and fiue men of them that wayted before the king whom he found in the citie and Sopher the captaine of the armie who proued the yong souldiars of the people of the land and threescore men of the common people which were found in the citie â€
ouer the loaues of proposition to prepare alwaies new euerie Sabbath †These are the chief of the singing men by the families of the Leuites which abode in the chambers that they might day and night continually serue in their ministerie †The heades of the Leuites princes in their families taried in Ierusalem †And in Gabaon abode Iehiel the father of Gabaon and the name of his wise Maacha †His first begotten sonne Abdon and Sur and Cis and Baal and Ner and Nadab †Gedor also and Ahio and Zacharias and Macelloth †Moreouer Macelloth begat Samaan these dwelt ouer agaynst their brethren in Ierusalem with their brethren †And Ner bagat Cis and Cis begat Saul end Saul begat Ionathas and Melchisua and Abinadab and Esbaal. †And the sonne of Ionathas Meribbaal and Meribbaal begat Micha †Moreouer the sonnes of Micha Phithon and Molech and Tharaa and Ahaz †And Ahaz begat Iara and Iara begat Alamath and Azmoth and Zamri And Zamri begat Mosa †And Mosa begat Banaa whose sonne Raphaia bepat Elasa of whom was borne Asel †Moreouer Asel had six sonnes of these names Ezricam Bochru Ismael Saria â—bdiâ— Hanan these are the sonnes of Asel CHAP. X. King Saul with his three sonnes are slaine by the Philistians 8. who spoiâ—e the armie and carie 〈◊〉 ay Souls head 11. The men of Iabes Galaad â—â—rie his bodie and his sonnes fasting for them seuen daies And the kingdom is translated to Dauid AMD the Philistijms fought agaynst Israel and the men of Israel fled from the Palesthines and they fel wounded in mount Gelboe †And when the Philisthians were come nere pursewing Saul and his sonnes they stroke Ionathas and Abinadab and Melchisua the sonnes of Saul †And the battel grewc sore agaynst Saul and the archers found him and wounded him with arrowes †And Saul sayd to his esquyer Draw thy swoord and kil me lest perhaps these vncircumcised come and deride me But his harnes bearer would not being frighted with feare Saul therfore caught his sword and fel vpon it †Which when his harnes bearer had seene to witte that Saul was dead him self also fel vpon his sword and died †Saul therfore died and his three sonnes and al his house fel together †Which when the men of Israel had sene that dwelt in the châ—inpayne they fled and Saul and his sonnes being dead they forsooke their cities and were dispersed hither and thither and the Philisthijms came and dwelt in them †The next day therfore the Philisthijms taking away the spoiles of them that were stayne found Saul and his sonnes lying on mount Gelboe †And when they had spoyled him and cut of his head and stripped him of his armour they sent into their land that it should be caried about and should be shewed in the temples of the Idols and to the people †and his armour they dedicated in the temple of their god and the head they nailed vp in the temple of Dagon †When the men of Iabes Galaad had heard this to witte al thinges that the Philistijms had done vpon Saul †euerie one of the valiant men arose and tooke the bodies of Saul and of his sonnes and brought them into Iabes and buried their bones vnder an oke that was in Iabes and they fasted seuen daies †Saul therfore died for his iniquities for that he transgressed the commandement of our Lord which he had commanded and kept it not yea and besides also consulted the Pythonesse †and trusted not in our Lord for the which he slewe him and transferred his kingdome to Dauid the sonne of Isai CHAP. XI Dauid is elected and annointed king 5. He ouerthroweth the Iebusites taking the towre of Sion in Ierusalem and prospereth 10. His valiant men and their heroical actes are recited 17. He desiring water from the cisterne of Bethleem wil not drink it but offereth it in sacrifice because it is brought with danger of his valiant mens liues 20. Other valiant men of the second order are likewise recited AL Israel therfore was gathered together to Dauid in Hebron saying We are thy bone and thy flesh †Yesterday also and the day before when Saul as yet reigned thou wast he that didst leade out and leade in Israel for to thee our Lord thy God sayd Thou shalt feede my people Israel and thou shalt be prince ouer it †Al the ancientes therfore of Israel came to the king into Hebron and Dauid entred into a league with them before our Lord and they annoynted him king ouer Israel according to the word of our Lord which he spake in the hand of Samuel †Dauid also went and al Israel into Ierusalem this is Iebus where the Iebuseites were the inhabiters of the land †And they that dwelt in Iebus sayd to Dauid Thou shalt not come in here Moreouer Dauid tooke the towre of Sion which is the Citie of Dauid †and he sayd Euerie one that shal among the first strike the Iebuseite shal be the prince and chiefe captayne Ioab therfore the sonne of Saruia went vp first and was made the prince †And Dauid dwelt in the towre and therfore it was called the Citie of Dauid †And he built the citie round about from Mello vnto a round compasse and Ioab built the rest of the citie †And dauid ptospered going and increasing and the Lord of hostes was with him †These are the princes of the valiant men of Dauid which holpe him to be made king ouer al Israel according to the word of our Lord which he spake to Israel †And this is the number of dauids strong ones Iesbaam the sonne of Hachamoni prince among thirtie this man lifted vp his speare vpon three hundred wounded at one time †And after him Eleazar his vncles sonne an Ahohite who was among the three mighties †This was with Dauid in Phesdomim when the Philisthijms were gathered to that place into battel and the field of that countrie was ful of barley and the people was fled from the face of the Philisthimes †These stood in the middes of the fielde and defended him and when they had striken the Philistheans our Lord gaue great health to his people †And there went downe three of the thirtie princes to a rocke wherin Dauid was to the caue of Odollam when the Philisthijms had camped in the Vale raphaim †Moreouer dauid was in a hold and the ward of the Phelisthimes in Bethlehem †Dauid therfore desired and sayd O that some man would giue me water of the cesterne of Bethlehem which is in the gate †These three therfore went forward through the middes of the campe of the Philisthimes and drewe water of the cesterne of Bethlehem which was in the gate and brought it to Dauid to drinke who would not but tather offered it to our Lord †saying God forbid that in the sight of my God I should doe this and should
for Tou was aduersarie to Adarezer †But al the vessel also of gold and siluer and brasse king Dauid consecrated to our Lord with the siluer and gold which he had taken out of al the nations as wel of Idumea and Moab the children of Ammon as of the Philisthijms and Amalec †And Abisai the sonne of Saruia stroke Edom in the Vale of salt pittes eightene thousand †and he appoynted a garryson in Edom that Idumea should serue Dauid and our Lord saued Dauid in al thinges to which he went †Dauid therfore reigned ouer al Israel did iudgement and iustice to al his people †Moreouer Ioab the sonne of Saruia was ouer the armie and Iosaphat the sonne of Ahilud commenter †And Sadoc the sonne of Achitob Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar Priestes and Susa Scribe †Banaias also the sonne of Ioiada ouer the legions Cerethi and Phelethi moreouer the sonnes of Dauid the chief at the kinges hand CHAP. XIX The king of Ammon euil intreating king Dauids men whom he had curteously sent to condole the death of his father is ouerthrowen in battel 16. with the Assyrians his hyred confederates AND it chanced that Naas the king of the children of Ammon died and his sonne reigned for him †And Dauid sayd I wil do mercie with Hanon the sonne of Naas for his father hath done me pleasure And Dauid sent messengers to confort him vpon the death of his father Who when they were come into the land of the children of Ammon to confort Hanon †the princes of the children of Ammon fayd to Hanon Thou thinkest perhaps that Dauid for honour sake toward thy father hath sent some that should comfort thee neither markeâ—t thou that his seruantes are come to thee to espie and seeke out and searche thy land †Therfore Hanon made the seruantes of Dauid balde and shaued them and cut away their cotes from the buttockes to the feete and sent them away †Who when they were gone and had sent word to Dauid he sent to meete them for they had susteyned great reproch and commanded them to tarie in Iericho til their beard grewe and then they should returne †And the children of Ammon seing that they had done iniurie to Dauid as wel Hanon as the rest of the people they sent a thousand talents of siluer to hyre them chariotes and horsemen out of Mesopotamia and from Siria Maacha and from Soba †And they hyred two and thirtre thousand chariotes and king Maacha with his people Who when they were come camped ouer agaynst Medaba The children of Ammon also being gathered together out of their cities came to the battel †Which when Dauid had heard he sent Ioab and al the host of valiant men †and the children of Ammon issuing forth put their armie in aray beside the gate of the citie and the kinges that were come to ayde him stood apart in the field †Ioab therfore vnderstanding that battel was made agaynst him before and behind chose the most valiant men of al Israel and marched on against the Syrian †And the rest of the people he gaue vnder the hand of Abisai his brother and they went forth agaynst the children of Ammon †And he sayd If the Syrian shal ouercome me thou snalt ayde me and if the children of Ammon shal ouercome thee I wil ayde thee †Take courage and let vs play the men for our people and for the cities of our God and our Lord wil doe that which is good in his sight †Ioab therfore matched on and the people that were with him agaynst the Syrian to battel and he put them to flight †Moreouer the childen of Ammon seing that the Syrian was fled themselues also fled from Abisai his brother and went into the citie and Ioab also returned into Ierusalem †But the Syrian seing that he was fallen before Israel sent messengers and brought the Syrian that was beyond the riuer and Sophach the General of Aderezeâ—s warre was their captayne †Which when it was told Dauid he gathered together al Israel and passed Iordan and fel vpon them and directed his armie agaynst him they fighting on the contrarie part †And the Syrian fled from Israel and Dauid slewe of the Syrians seuen thousand chariotes and fourtie thousand footemen and Sophach General of the armie †And the seruantes of Adarezer seing themselues to be ouercome of Israel fled to Dauid serued him and Syria would no more giue ayde to the children of Ammon CHAP. XX. King Dauid prospereth in Warre agaynst the Ammonites 4. and Philisthims 6. among Whom Ionathan Dauids nephew by his brother killeth a monfiruous giant Which had twelue fingers and twelue toes AND it came to passe after the compasse of a yeare at such time when kinges are wont to goe forth to battel Ioab gathered together the armie and force of warre and spoyled the land of the children of Ammon and went on and besieged Rabba Moreouer Dauid taried in Ierusalem when Ioab stroke Rabba and destroyed it †And Dauid tooke the crowne of Melchom from his head and found in it a talent weight of gold and most precious pearles and he made himself therof a diademe he tooke also the spoiles of the citie very much †And the people that was therin he brought forth and he made harrowes and sleddes and chariotes shod with Iron to passe ouer them soc that they were cut in sunder broken in peces so did Dauid to al the cities of the children of Ammon he returned with al his people into Ierusalem †After these thinges there was warre begunne in Gazer agaynst the Philisthians in which Sobachai the Husathite stroke Saphai of the kinred of Raphaim humbled them †An other battel also was fought agaynst the Philistheans wherein Adeodatus the sonne of Saltus a Bethlehemite stroke the brother of Goliath the Getheite the staffe of whose speare was as it were a weauers beame †But an other battel also happened in Geth wherin there was a verie long man hauing fingers and toes by six and six that is together foure and twentie who also was borne of the stocke of Rapha †This man blasphemed Israel and Ionathan the sonne of Samaa the brother of Dauid stroke him These be the children of Rapha in Geth which fel by the hand of Dauid and of his seruantes CHAP. XXI Dauid sinneth in numbring his people 8. repenteth and prayeth yet is punished many dying of the plague 15. til God shewing mercie spareth the rest 16. Dauid accusing himselfe and excusing the people is commanded by the Angel to offer sacrifice which he 22 bying ground for an altar 26. performeth BVT Satan rose agaynst Israel and moued Dauid to number Israel †And Dauid sayd to Ioab and to the princes of the people Goe and number Israel from Bersabee vnto Dan and bring me the number that I may know †And Ioab answered
first fruites of corne of wine and of oyle of honie also and of al thinges which the ground bringeth forth they offered tithes †Yea and the children of Israel and Iuda that dwelt in the cities of Iuda offered tithes of oxen and sheepe and tithes of sanctified thinges which they had vowed to our Lord their God and carying them al made manie heapes †The third moneth they began to lay the fundations of the heapes and in the seuenth moneth they finished them †And when Ezechias and his princes came in they saw the heapes and blessed our Lord and the people of Israel †And Ezechias asked the Priestes and the Leuites why the heapes lay so †Azarias the high Priest of the stocke of Sadoc answered him saying Since first fruites began to be offered in the house of our Lord we haue eaten and haue bene ful and very much hath remayned because our Lord hath blessed his people and of the remaynes this is the abundance which thou seest †Fzechias therfore commanded that storehouses should be prepared in the house of our Lord. Which when they had done †they brought in as wel the first fruites as the tithes and watsoeuer they had vowed faythfully And the ouerseer of them was Chonenias a Leuite and Semeihis brother the second †after whom Iahiel and Azarias and Nahath and Asael and Ierimoth Iosabad also and Eliel and Iesmachias and Mahath and Banaias ouerseers vnder the hand of Chonenias and Semei his brother by the commandment of Ezechias the king and Azarias the high Priest of the house of God to whom al thinges apperteyned †But Core the sonne of Iemna a Leuite and porter of the east gate was ouerseer of those thinges which were voluntarily offered to our Lord and of the first fruites and the thinges consecrated for Sancta sanctorum †And vnder his charge Eden and Beniamin Iesue and Semeias Amarias also and Sechenias in the cities of the Priestes that they should faithfully distribute to their brethren portions to the lesser and greater †sauing the men children from three yeares and aboue to al that entered into the temple of our Lord and whatsoeuer day by day was profitable in the ministerie and the obseruances according to their diuisions †to the Priestes by families and to the Leuites from the twentith yeare and vpward by the orders and companies †and to al the multitude as wel their wiues as their children of both sex meaâ—es were geuen faithfully of these thinges that had bene sanctified †Yea and of the children of Aaron by the fildes and the suburbes of euerie citie there were men ordayned that should distribute portions to al the male sexe of the Priestes and the Leuites †Ezechias therfore did al thinges which we haue sayd in al Iuda and wrought good and right and truth before our Lord his God †in al the seruice of the ministerie of the house of our Lord according to the law and the ceremonies willing to seeke his God in al his hart and he did it and prospered CHAP. XXXII Sennacherib king of Assyria inuading Iuda king Ezechias encorageth the people and prouideth to defend the countrie 9. the Assyrians threaten the people and blaspheme God 20. Ezechias and Isaias pray 21. An Angel destroyeth the Assyrians armie so their king retiring home is slayne in his idols temple by his owne sonnes 22. Ezechias reigneth in peace 24. falleth into deadlie sicknes but miraculously recouereth offendeth in pryde and repenteth 27. is exceding rich which he imprudently sheweth to strangers 32. dieth and Manasses succedeth AFTER which thinges and this maner of truth came Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians and entering into Iuda besieged the fensed cities desirous to take them †Which when Ezechias had sene to witte that Sennacherib was come and the whole force of the battel to be turned agaynst Ierusalem †taking counsel with the princes and the most valiant men to stoppe vp the heades of the fountaynes that were without the citie and the sentence of them al decreing this †he gathered a very great multitude they stopped vp al the fountaynes and the riuer that ranne in the middes of the land saying Lest the kinges of the Assyrians come and finde abundance of waters †He built also doing industriously euerie wall that had bene destroyed and built towers vpon them and an other wall without and he repayred Mello in the citie of Dauid and made armour and shildes of al sortes †And he appointed princes of warryers in the armie and he called them al together in the streate of the gate of the citie and spake to their hart saying †Doe manfully and take courage feare not neither dread ye the king of the Assyrians and al the multitude that is with him for there are manie moe with vs then with him †For with him is an arme of flesh with vs the Lord our God which is our helper and fighteth for vs. And the people was encouraged with these maner of wordes of Ezechias the king of Iuda †Which thinges after they were done Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians sent his seruantes to Ierusalem for himself with al his armie beseiged Lachis to Ezechias the king of Iuda to al the people that was in the citie saying †Thus sayth Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians In whom hauing affiance doe you sitte besieged in Ierusalem †Hath Ezechias deceiued you to deliuer you to death in hunger and thirst affirming that the Lord your God can deliuer you from the hand of the king of the Assyrians †Why is not this Ezechias that hath destroyed his excelses and altars and hath commanded Iuda Ierusalem saying Before one altar you shal adore and on it you shal burne incense †Are you ignorant what thinges I haue done and my fathers to al the peoples of the landes haue the goddes of nations and of al landes bene able to deliuer their countrie out of my hand †Who is there of al the goddes of the nations which my fathers wasted that could deliuer his people out of my hand that your God also can deliuer you out of this hand †Let not therfore Ezechias deceiue you nor delude you with vayne persuasion neither beleue ye him For if no god oâ— al nations and kingdomes could deliuer his people out of my hand and out of the hand of my fathers consequently neither shal your God be able to deliuer you out of my hand †Yea and manie other thinges did his seruantes speake agaynst our Lord God and agaynst Ezechias his seruant †Letters also he wrote ful of blasphemie against our Lord the God of Israel and he spake agaynst him as the goddes of their nations could not deliuer their people out of my hand so the God also of Ezechias can not deliuer his people out of this hand †Moreouer also with a lowd crie in the Iewes tongue he sounded against the people
that sate on the walles of Ierusalem that he might terrifie them and take the citie †And he spake agaynst the God of Ierusalem as agaynst the goddes of the peoples of the earth the workes of mens handes †Ezechias therfore the king and Isaias the prophet the sonne of Amos prayed agaynst this blasphemie and cried out euen to heauen †And our Lord sent an Angel which stroke euerie strong man and warryer and prince of the armie of the king of the Assyrians and he returned with ignominie into his countrie And when he was entered into the house of his God his sonnes that were come forth of his wombe slewe him with the sword †And our Lord saued Ezechias and the inhabitantes of Ierusalem out of the hand of Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians and out of the hand of al gaue them rest round about †Manie also brought hostes and sacrifices to our Lord into Ierusalem and giftes to Ezechias the king of Iuda who was exalted after these thinges before al nations †In those daies Ezechias was sick euen to death and he prayed our Lord and he heard him and gaue him a signe †But not according to the benefites which he receiued did he recompense because his hart was eleuated and wrath came agaynst him and agaynst Iuda and Ierusalem †And he was humbled afterward because his hart had bene exalted both he and the inhabitantes of Ierusalem and therfore the wrath of our Lord came not vpon them in the daies of Ezechias †And Ezechias was rich and glorious excedingly and gathered to himself great treasures of siluer and of gold and of pretious stone of spices and of armour of al kinde and of vessels of great price †Storehouses also of corne of wyne and of oyle and stalles of al beastes and foldes of cattel †and six cities he built to him self for he had flockes of sheepe and of heardes innumerable because our Lord had geuen him substance exceding much †The same is Ezechias that stopped the vpper fountaine of the waters of Gihon and turned them away vnderneth toward the West of the Citie of Dauid in al his workes he did prosperously what he would †But yet in the embassie of the princes of Babylon that were sent to him to aske of the wonder that had chanced vpon the earth God leift him that he might be tempted and al thinges might be made knowen that were in his hart †But the rest of the wordes of Ezechias and of his mercies are writen in the vision of Isaias the sonne of Amos the prophete and in the booke of the kinges of Iuda Israel †And Ezechias slept with his fathers and they buried him in the chiefe sepulchres of the children of Dauid and al Iuda celebrated his funeralles al the inhabitantes of Ierusalem and Manasses his sonne reigned for him CHAP. XXXIII Manasses for his manifold wickednes is led captiue into Babylon 12. repenteth in prison is restored to his kingdom and destroyeth idolatrie 18. dieth 21. Amon succeding 24. is slayne by his seruantes and Iosias reigneth TWELVE yeares old was Manasses when he began to reigne and he reigned fiftie fiue yeares in Ierusalem †And he did euil before our Lord according to al the abominations of the nations which our Lord ouerthrew before the children of Israel †and being turned he reedified the excelses which Ezechias his father had destroyed and he built altars to Baalim and made groues and he adored al the host of heauen and worshipped it †He built also altars in the house of our Lord wherof our Lord had sayd In Ierusalem shal my name be for euer †And he built them to al the host of heauen in the two courtes of the house of our Lord. †And he made his sonnes to passe through fyre to the Valebenennom he obserued dreames folowed southsayings gaue him self to magike artes he had with him magicians inchaunters and he wrought manie euils before our Lord to prouoke him †Also a grauen and a molten signe he put in the house of God wherof our Lord spake to Dauid and to Salomon his sonne saying In this house and in Ierusalem which I haue chosen al the tribes of Israel Wil I put my name for euer †And I wil not make the foote of Israel to moue out of the land which I haue deliuered to their fathers yet so if they shal obserue to doe that I haue commanded them and al the law and the ceremonies and iudgementes by the hand of Moyses †Manasses therfore seduced Iuda and the inhabitantes of Ierusalem that they did euil aboue al the nations which our Lord had ouerthrowen before the face of the children of Israel †And our Lord spake to him and to his people and they would not attend †Therfore he brought vpon them the princes of the host of the king of the Assyrians and they tooke Manasses led him bound with chaynes and fetters into Babylon †Who after that he was in distresse prayed our Lord his God and did penance excedingly before the God of his fathers †And he desired him and besought him earnestly and he heard his prayer and brought him agayne to Ierusalem into his kingdom and Manasses knew that our Lord he was God †After these thinges he built a wal without the citie of Dauid on the west of Gihon in the valley from the entrance of the fish gate round about vnto Ophel and raysed it excedingly and he appoynted princes of the host in al the fensed cities of Iuda †and he tooke away strange goddes and the idol out of the house of our Lord the altars also which he had made in the mount of the house of our Lord and in Ierusalem and he threw al without the citie †Moreouer he reedified the altar of our Lord and immolated vpon it victimes and pacifiques and prayse and he commanded Iuda to serue our Lord the God of Israel †Neuerthelesse as yet the people immolated in the excelses to our Lord their God †But the rest of the actes of Manasses and his obsecration to his God the wordes also of the Seers that spake to him in the name of our Lord the God of Israel are conteyned in the wordes of the kinges of Israel †His prayer also and his obtayning and al his sinnes and contempt the places also wherein he built excelses and made groues and statues before he did penance are writen in the wordes of Hozai †Manasses therfore slept with his fathers and they buried him in his house his sonne Amon reigned for him †Ammon was two and twentie yeares old when he began to reigne and he reigned two yeares in Ierusalem †And he did euil in the fight of our Lord as Manasses his father had done and he immolated to al the idols which Manasses his father had made and serued them †And he did not reuerence
consecrated and in al wherein there was offered voluntarily a gift to our Lord. †From the first day of the seuenth moneth they began to offer holocaust to our Lord moreouer the temple of God was not yet founded †And they gaue money to hewers of sâ—ones and to masons meate also and drinke and oyle to the Sidonians and Tyrians that they should bring ceder trees from Libanus to the sea vnto Ioppe according to that which Cyrus the king of the Persians had commanded them †And in the second yeare of their coming to the temple of God in Ierusalem the second moneth began Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel and Iosue the sonne of Iosedec and the rest of their brethren the Priestes and the Leuites and al that were come from the captiuitie into Ierusalem and they appoynted Leuites from twentie yeares and vpward that they should hasten forward the worke of our Lord. †And Iosue stood and his sonnes and his brethren Cedmihel and his sonnes and the children of Iuda as it were one man that they might be instant vpon them that did the worke in the temple of God the sonnes of Henadad and their sonnes and their brethren Leuites †The temple therfore of our Lord being founded by the masons the Priestes stood in their attyro with trumpettes and the Leuites the children of Asaph in cymbals to prayse God by the handes of Dauid the king of Israel †And they sang together in hymnes and confession to our Lord Because he is good because his mercie is for euer vpon Israel Al the people also made a shoute with a lowde crie in praysing our Lord because the temple of our Lord was founded †Verie manie also of the Priestes and the Leuires and the princes of the fathers the ancients that had seene the former temple when they saw this temple founded they wept with a lowd voyce and manie shouting in ioy lifted vp their voyce †Neither could anie man discerne the voice of the crie of them that reioyced and the voice of the weeping of the people for one with an other the people â—howted with alowd crie and the voice was heard far of CHAP. IIII. The schismatical Samaritanes because they are not admitted to communicate With the lewes endeuour to hinder the building of the Temple 5. Which neuertheles procedeth al the dayes of king Cyrus 7. but is hundered by Artaxerxes til the second yeare of Darius BVT the enemies of Iuda and Beniamin heard that the children of the captiuitie built a temple to our Lord the God of Israel †And coming to Zorobabel and the princes of the fathers they sayd to them Let vs build with you because euen as you so do we seeke your God Behold we haue immolated victimes from the dayes of Asor Haddan the king of Assur which brought vs hither †And Zorobabel sayd to them and Iosue and the rest of the princes of the fathers of Israel It is not for you and vs to build a house to our God but we our selues alone wil build to the Lord our God as Cyrus the king of the Persians hath coÌ„manded vs. †It came to passe therfore that the people of the land hindred the handes of the people of Iuda and trubled them in building †And they hyred counselers agaynst them to destroy theyr counsel al the dayes of Cyrus the king of the Persians vntil the reigne of Darius theking of the Persians †And in the reigne of Assuerus in the begining of his reigne they wrote an accusation against the inhabitantes of Iuda and Ierusalem †And in the dayes of Artaxerxes Bâ—selam Mitridates Thabeel the rest that were in theyr counsel writ to Artaxcrxes king of the Persians and the epistle of the accusation was writen in Syriake and was read in the Sirian language †Reum Beelreem and Samsai scribe wrote one epistle from Ierusalem to Artaxerxes the king of this tenure †Reum Beelteem and Samsai scribe and the rest of their counselers the Dineites and the Apharsathaceites the Terphaleites the the Apharseiâ—es the Erchueites the Babylonians the Susanecheites the Dieuites and the Aelamites †and the rest of the Gentiles which Asenaphar the great and glorious transported and made them dwel in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the countries beyond the Riuer in peace †this is the copie of the epistle which they sent to him To Artaxerxes the king thy seruantes the men that are beyond the Riuer send greeting †Be it knowen to the king that the lewes which came vp from thee to vs are come into Ierusalem a rebellious and naughtie citie which they build making the rampyres thereof and repayring the walles †Now therfore be it knowen to the king that if that citie shal be built and the walles therof repayred they will not geue tribute and tolle yearly rentes and this damage wil come euen to the kinges †But we mindful of the salt that we haue eaten in the palace and because we count it heynous to see the kings harmes therfore we haue sent and certified the king †that thou recount in the bookes of the histories of thy fathers and thou shalt finde writen in the commentaries and shalt know that that citie is a rebellious citie and hurtful to the kinges and prouinces and battels are raysed in it of old time for the which cause also the citie it selfe was destroyed †We certifie the king that if that citie shal be built and the walles therof repayred thou shalt haue no possession beyond the Riuer †The king sent word to Reum Beelteem and Samsai scribe and to the rest that were in their counsel inhabitantes of Samaria and to the rest beyond the Riuer sending greeting and peace †The accusation which you haue sent to vs was openly read before me †and I gaue commandment and they recounted and haue found that that citie of old time rebelleth agaynst the kinges and seditions and battels are raysed in it †For there haue beene also most valiant kinges in Ierusalem which also had dominion ouer al the countrie that is beyond the Riuer They tooke also tribute and rolle and rentes †Now therfore heare the sentence Prohibite ye those men that that citie be not built til it perhaps shal be commanded by me †See that you doe not negligently accomplish this thing and by litle there grow euil agaynst the kinges †Therfore the copie of the edict of Attaxerxes the king was read before Reum Beelteem and Samsai the scribe and their counselers and they went in hast into Ierusalem to the Iewes prohibited them with arme and strength †Then was the worke of the house of our Lord in Ierusalem intermitted and was not done vntil the second yeare of the reigne of Darius the king of the Persians CHAP. V. By the exhortation of Aggaeus and Zacharias the people procede in building the semple 3. VVhich their enimies
seruants of Salomon †And in Ierusalem there dwelt of the children of Iuda and of the children of Beniamin of the children of Iuda Athaias the sonne of Aziam the sonne of Zacharias the sonne of Amarias the sonne of Saphatias the sonne of Malaleel of the children of Phares †Maasia the sonne of Baruch the sonne of Cholhoza the sonne of Hazia the sonne of Adaia the sonne of Ioiarib the sonne of Zacharias the sonne of a Silonite †Al these the childeren of Phares which dwelt in Ierusalem foure hundred sixtie eight valiant men †And these are the childeren of Beniamin Sellum the sonne of Mosollam the sonne of Ioed the sonne of Phadaia the sonne of Colaia the sonne of Masia the sonne of Etheel the sonne of Isaia †and after him Gebbai Sellai nine hundred twentie eight †and Ioel the sonne of Zechri the ouerseer of them and Iudas the sonne of Senua second ouer the citie †And of the Priestes Idaia the sonne of Ioarib Iachim †Saraia the sonne of Helcias the sonne of Mosollam the sonne of Sadoc the sonne of Meraioth the sonne of Achitob the prince of the house of God †and their bretheren that doe the workes of the temple eight hundred twentie two And Adaia the sonne of Ieroham the sonne of Phelelia the sonne of Amsi the sonne of Zacharias the sonne of Pheshur the sonne of Melchias †and his bretheren the princes of the fathers two hundred fourtie two And Amassai the sonne of Azreel the sonne of Ahazi the sonne of Mosolamoth the sonne of Emmer †and their bretheren exceding mightie an hundred twentie eight and their ouerseer Zabdiel sonne of the mightie ones †And of the Leuites Semeia the sonne of Hasub the sonne of Azaricam the sonne of Hasabia the sonne of Boni †and Sabathai and Iozabed ouer al the workes that were without the house of God of the princes of the Leuites †And Mathania the sonne of Micha the sonne of Zebedei the sonne of Asaph prince to prayse and to confesse in prayer and Becbecia second of his bretheren and Abda the sonne of Samua the sonne of Galal the sonne of Idithum †Al the Leuites in the holie citie two hundred eightie foure †And the porters Accub Telmon and their bretheren which kept the dores an hundred seuentie two †And the rest of Israel the Priestes and the Leuites in al the cities of Iuda euerie man in his possession †And the Nathineites that dwelt in Ophel and Siaha and Gaspha of the Nathineites †And the ouerseer of the Leuites in Ierusalem Azzi the sonne of Bani the sonne of Hasabia the sonne of Mathania the sonne of Micha Of the childeren of Asaph the singing men in the ministerie of the house of God †For the kings commandment was vpon them and an order among the singing men day by day †And Phathahia the sonne of Mesezebel of the childeren of Zara the sonne of Iuda in the hand of the king according to euerie word of the people †and in the houses through al their countries Of the children of Iuda there dwelt in Cariatharbe in her daughters and in Dibon and in her daughters and in Cabseel and in the villages thereof †and in Iesue and in Molada and in Bethphaleth †and in Hasersual and in Bersabee in her daughters †and in Siceleg and in Mochona and in her daughters †and in Remmon and in Saraa and in Ierimuth †Zanoa Odollam and in their townes Lachis and in her countries Azeca and in her daughters And they abode in Bersabee vnto the vale of Ennom †And the childeren of Beniamin of Geba Mecmas and Hai and Bethhel and her daughters †in Anathoth Nob Anania †Asor Rama Gethaim †Hadid Seboim and Neballac Lod †and Ono the valley of artificers †And of the Leuites were portions of Iuda and Beniamin CHAP. XII The names and offices of Priestes and Leuites which came with Zorobabel and Iosue to Ierusalem 27. with great solemnitie of thanksgeuing 31 watchmen are oppoynted on the new walles 45. and Kâ—peres of the holy treasure AND these are the Priestes and Leuites that came vp with Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel and Iosue Saraia Ieremias Esdras †Amaria Melluch Hattus †Sebenias Rheum Merimuth †Addo Genthon Abia †Miamin Madia Belga †Semeia and Ioiarib Idaia Sellum Amoc Helcias †Idaia These are the Princes of the Priestes and their bretheren in the daies of Iosue †Moreouer the Leuites Iesua Bennui Cedmihel Sarebia Iuda Mathanias ouer the hymnes they their bretheren †And Becbecia and Hannia and their bretheren euerie one in his office †And Iosue begatte Ioacim and Ioacim begate Eilasib and Eliasib begate Ioiada †and Ioiada begate Ionathan and Ionathan begate Ieddoa †And in the daies of Ioacim the Priestes and Princes of the families were Of Saraia Maraia Of Ieremias Hanania †Of Esdras Mosellam and of Amaria Iohanan †Of Milicho Ionathan o Sebenia Ioseph †Of Haram Edna Of Maraioth Helci †Of Adaia Zacharia Of Genthon Mosollam †Of Abia Zechri Of Miamin and Moadia Phelti †Of Belga Sammua of Semaia Ionathan †Of Ioiarib Mathanai of Iodaia Azzi †Of Sellai Sellai Of Amoc Heber †Of Helcias Hasebia Of Idaia Nathanael †The Leuites in the daies of Eliasib and Ioaiada and Iohanan and Ieddoa written Princes of the families and the Priestes in the reigne of Darius the Persian †The children of Leui Princes of the families written in the booke of Cronicles of daies and vnto the daies of Ionathan the sonne of Eilasib †And the Princes of the Leuites Hasebia Serebia and Iosue the sonne of Cedmihel their bretheren by their courses to praise and confesse according to the precept of Dauid the man of God and to waite equally in order †Mathania and Becbecia Obedia and Mosollam Telmon Accub keepers of the gates and of the entrances before the gates †These were in the daies of Ioacim the sonne of Iosue the sonne Iosedec and in the daies of Nehemias the duke and of Esdras the Priest and Scribe †And in the dedication of the wal of Ierusalem they sought Leuites out of al other places to bring them into Ierusalem and to make the dedication and ioy in geuing of thankes and songue and in cimbales psalteries and harpes †And the children of the singing men were gathered together out of the champaine about Ierusalem and out of the townes Nethuphati †and from the house of Galgal and from the countries of Geba and Azmaueth because the singing men did build them selues villages round about Ierusalem †And the Priestes and Leuites were cleansed and they cleansed the people and the gates and the wall †And I made the Princes of Iuda goe vp vpon the wal and I sette two great quyers of them that should praise And they went on the right hand vpon the wal to the gate of the dunghil †And
forth to the people †and sayd One Hebrewe woman hath made confusion in the house of king Nabuchodonosor for behold Holofernes lyeth vpon the ground and his head is not vpon him †Which when the princes of the power of the Assyrians had heard they al rent their garmentes and intollerable feare and dread fel vpon them and theit mindes were trubled excedingly †And there was made an incomparable crie in the middes of their campe CHAP. XV. The Assyrians flee for feare 3. the Hebrewes pursue them 7. and are enriched by the spoyles 9. The high priest with others come from Ierusalem and prayse Iudith 14. The goodes of Holofernes are genen so her AND when al the armie heard that Holofernes was beheaded courage and counsel fel from them and being shaken with trembling onlie and feare they helpe them selues by flight †so that none spake with his neighbour but hanging the head al thinges leaft behind they made hast to escape the Hebrewes whom they heard to come armed vpon them fleing by the waies of the fieldes and the pathes of the hilles †The children of Israel therfore seing them fleing folowed them And they went downe sounding with trumpettes and shouting after them †And because the Assyrians were not vnited together they went headlong into flight but the children of Israel pursewing in one companie discomfited al that they could find †Ozias therfore sent messengers through al the cities and countries of Israel †Euerie countrie therfore and euerie citie sent chosen youth armed after them and they pursewed them in the edge of the sword vntil they came to the extremetie of their borders †And the rest that were in Bethulia entered into the campe of the Assyrians and tooke away the praye which the Assyrians fleing had leaft and were loden excedingly †But they that were returned conquerers to Bethulia tooke away with them al thinges that were theirs so that there was no number in cattel and beastes and al their moueables that from the leaft vnto the greatest al were made rich of their prayes †And Ioachim the high Priest came from Ierusalem into Bethulia with al his ancientes to see Iudith †Who when she was come out to him they al blessed her with one voyce saying Thou art the glorie of Ierusalem thou the ioy of Israel thou the honour of our people †because thou hast done manfully and thy hart was strengthened for that thou hast loued chastirie and after thy husband not knowne any other therfore also the hand of our Lord hath strengthened thee and therfore shalt thou be blessed for euer †And al the people sayd So be it so be it †And for thirtie daies scarse were the spoyles of the Assyrians gathered of the people of Israel †Moreouer al thinges that were proued to be the peculiar goodes of Holofernes they gaue to Iudith in gold and siluer and garmentes and pretious stones and al stuffe and al the thinges were deliuered her of the people †And al the people reioysed with wemen and virgins and yongmen on instrumentes and harpes CHAP. XVI Iudith singeth a canticle of thanks geuing to our Lord. 22. The people goe to Ierusalem and offer sacrifices 25. She in great honour liueth a widow til her death in good old age 30. the people haue long peace and a feaâ—â—â—ual day is instituted in perpetual memorie of her fact THEN sang Iudith this song to our Lord saying †Beginne ye to our Lord in timbrels sing ye to our Lord in cymbals tune to him a new psalme reioyse and inuocate his name †Our Lord confoundeth battels Lord is his name †Who hath set his campe in the middes of his people that he might deliuer vs from the hand of al our enemies †Assur came out of the mountaynes from the North in the multitude of his strength whose multitude stopped vp the torrentes and their horses couered the valles †He said that he would set my borders on fyre and kil my yongmen with the sword to geue my infantes into praye and virgins into captiuitie †But our Lord omnipotent hath hurt him and hath deliuered him into the hands of a woman and hath pearsed him †For not by yongmen is their mightie one fallen neither haue the sonnes of Titan strooken him neither did the high giantes set them selues vpon him but Iudith the daughter of Merari in the beautie of her face dissolued him †For she put from her the garmentes of widowhood and put on her the garmentes of ioy in the reioysing of the children of Israel †She anoynted her face with oyntment and tyed together her lockes with a crowne she tooke a new stole to deceiue him †Her sandals rauished his eies her beautie made his soule captiue she with a sword cut of his head †The Persians did quake at her constancie and the Medes at her boldnesse †Then did the campe of the Assyrians howle when my humble ones appeared withering in thirst †The sonnes of yongwemen haue pearsed them and they haue killed them as boyes fleing away they haue perished in battel before the face of the Lord my God †Let vs sing an hymne to our Lord let vs sing a new hymne to our God †Adonai ô Lord great art thou and noble in thy power and whom no man can ouercome †Let euerie creature of thyne serue thee because thou saydst and they were made thou didst send thy spirit and they were created and there is none that can resist thy voyce †The mountaynes with the waters shal be moued with the foundations the rockes shal melt as waxe before thy face †But they that feare thee shal be great with thee in al thinges †Wo be to the nation that ryseth vp vpon my kinred for our Lord omnipotent wil be reuenged on them in the day of iudgement he wil visite them †For he wil geue fyre and wormes into their flesh that they may be burnt and may feele for euer †And it came to passe after these thinges al the people after the victorie came into Ierusalem to adore our Lord and forthwith as they were purified they al offered holocaustes and vowes and their promises †Moreouer Iudith offered for an anathema of obliuion al the instrumentes of warre of Holofernes which the people gaue her and the canopie that her self had taken away out of his chamber †And the people was pleasant according to the face of sainctes and for three monethes the ioy of this victorie was celebrated with Iudith †And after those daies euerie man returned into his house and Iudith was made great in Bethulia and she was more glorious to al the land of Israel †There was also chastitie ioyned to her vertue so that she knew not man al the daies of her life “ after that Manasses her husband was dead †And on festiual daies she came forth with great glorie â€
remembred that God is their helper and the high God is their redemer †And they loued him with their mouth and with theirtongue they did lie to him †But their hart was not right with him neither were they counted faithful in his testament †But he is merciful and wil be propicious to their sinnes and he wil not destroy them And he abunded to turne away his wrath and he kindled not al his wrath †And he remembred that they are flesh spirit going and not returning †“ How often haue they exasperated him in the desert prouoked him to wrath in the place without water †And they returned and tempted God and the holie one of Israel they exasperaed †They did not remember his hand in the day that he redemed them from the hand of the afflicter †As he put his signes in Aegypt and his wonders in the filde of Tanis †And he turned their riuers into bloude their showers that they might not drinke †He sent vpon them a swarme of flies and it eate them and the frogge and it destroyed them †And he gaue their fruites to the blast and their labors to the locuste †And he killed their vineyeardes with haile and their mulberie trees with horefrost †And he deliuered their beast to haile and their possession to fire †He sent vpon them the wrath of his indignation indignation wrath and tribulation immissions by euil angels †He made a way to the path of his wrath he spared not their liues from death and their cattel he shut vp in death †And he stroke al the first borne in the land of Aegypt the first fruites of al their labors in the tabernacles of Cham. †And he tooke away his people as sheepe and led them as a flock in the desert †And he brought them forth in hope and they feared not and the sea couered their enemies †And he brought them into the mount of his sanctification the mount which his right hand purchased And he cast out the gentiles from their face and by lot he diuided the land of them in a corde of distribution †And he made the tribes of Israel to dwel in their tabernacles †And they tempted and exasperated God the highest and they kept not his testimonies †And they turned away themselues kept not the couenant euen as their fathers they were turned as a crooked bow †They incensed him to wrath in their hilles and in their grauens they prouoked him to emulation †God heard and contemned and he brought Israel to nothing excedingly †And he reiected the tabernacle of Silo his tabernacle where he dwelt among men †And he deliuered their force into captiuitie and their beautie into the hands of the enemie †And he shut vp his people in the sword and he dispised his inheritance Fyre deuoured their young men and their virgins were not lamented †Their Priestes fel by the sworde and their widowes were not wept for †And our Lord was raised vp as one that sleepeth ◠as a mightie man hauing surfited of wine †And he stroke his enimies on the hinder partes an euerlasting reproch he gaue to them †And he reiected the tabernacle of Ioseph and the tribe of Ephraim he chose not †But he chose the tribe of Iuda mount Sion which he loued †And he built his sanctuarie as of vnicornes in the land which he hath founded for euer †And he chose Dauid his seruant and tooke him from the flockes of sheepe from after the ewes with yong he tooke him To feede Iacob his seruant and Israel his inheritance †And he fedde them in the innocencie of his hart and in the vnderstandings of his hands he conducted them ANNOTATIONS PSALME LXXVII 40. How often haue they exasperated Moyses Deu. 9. v. 7. repeting what had passed in the desert chargeth the people that they had stil prouoked our lord to wrath from the day that they came out of Egypt and alwayes contended aganst him And our lord himself expostulating their ingratitude often murmuring saith Num. 14. v. 22. in the beginning of the second yeare that they had then tempted him tenne times either by this certaine number signifying an vncertaine or els chiefly tenne times for so often we find recorded that they tempted him and murmured within that smal time more notorionly First nere vnto the redde sea Exod. 14. v. 11. where seing the Egyptians pursuing them they murmured against Moyses for bringing them out of Egypt saying It had benne much better to haue serued the Egyptians then to die in the wildernes Secondly for want of swete water Exod. 15. v. 24. Thirdly for lack of meate Exod. 16. v. 3. Fourtly keeping Manna for the next day contrarie to Gods commandment ibid. v. 20. Fiftly going on the Sabbath day also contrarie to Gods commandment together Manna Ibid. v. 27. Sixtly for want of water in Raphidim Exod. 17. v. 2 Num. 26. v. 2 Seuently in Horeb adoring a calfe the image therof Exod. 32 Eightly repyning for their trauels in the wildernes Nu 11. v. 1. Nintly loathing Manna and burning with desire to eate flesh Ibid. v. 4. 5 6. Tently desparing to possesse the promised land of Chanaan after that the discouerers had reported the difficulties with the force of the people and of the cities against which they must fight Nu. 14. v. 1. Al which and the rest saith S. Paul happened to them in figure of vs and are written for our correption or admonition that we murmur not as they did 1. Cor. 10. PSALME LXXVIII The Prophet in person of the Church lamenteth the crueltie of persecutors both in the old and new testament 5. prayeth for release with iust reuenge against Gods enimies that blaspheme his name 3. and promiseth to be gratful in diuine praises A Psalme to Asaph O God the Gentiles are come into thine inheritance they haue polluted thy holie temple they haue made Ierusalem as a watch toure of fruits †They haue made the carcases of thy seruants meats for the foules of the aire the flesh of thy sainctes for the beastes of the land †They haue poured out their bloude as water round about Ierusalem and there was none to burie them †We are become a reproch to our neighboures a scorne and mocke to them that are round about vs. †How long ô Lord wilt thou be angrie for euer shal thy zele be kindled as a fire †Poure out thy wrath vpon the Gentiles that haue not knowne thee vpon the kingdomes that haue not inuocated thy name †Because they haue deuoured
bene long a seiourner †With them that hated peace I was peaceable when I spake to them they impugned me without cause PSALME CXX The iust reioyce that their prayer is heard and that God continually protecteth them A gradual Canticle I HAVE lifted vp mine eies vnto the mountaines from whence helpe shal come to me †My helpe is from our Lord who made heauen and earth †Geue he not thy foote to be moued neither doe he slumber that keepeth thee †Loe he shal not slumber nor sleepe that kepeth Israel †Our lord kepeth thee our Lord is thy protection vpon thy right hand †By day the sunne shal not burne thee nor the moone by night †Our Lord doth kepe thee from al euil our Lord kepe thy soule †Our Lord kepe thy coming in and thy going out from hence forth now and for euer PSALME CXXI Vnder the figure of returne to Ierusalem vehemently desired by the Iewes in captiuitie the Psalmist describeth the desire and hope of the iust â—o possesse heauen A gradual Canticle I REIOYCED in these thinges which were sayd to me We shal goe into the house of our Lord. †Our feete were standing in thy courtes ô Ierusalem †Ierusalem which is built as a citie whose participation is together in it self †For thither did the tribes ascend the tribes of our Lord the testimonie of Israel to confesse vnto the name of our Lord. †Because seates sate there in iudgement seates vpon the house of Dauid †Aâ—ke ye the thinges that are for the peace of Ierusalem and abundance to them that loue thee †Peace be made in thy strength and abundance in thy towers †For my bretheren and my neigbours sakes I spake peace of thee †For the house of our Lord God I haue sought good thinges to thee PSALME CXXII A feruent and attentiue prayer to be deliuered from captiuitie or anie other affliction A gradual Canticle TO thee haue I lifted vp mine eies which dwellest in the heauens †Behold as the eies of seruantes are on the handes of their masters As the eies of the handmaide on the handes of her mistresse so are our eies to our Lord God vntil he haue mercie on vs. †Haue mercie on vs ô Lord haue mercie on vs because we are much replenished with contempt Because our soule is much replenished reproch to them that abund and contempt to the prowde PSALME CXXIII The whole Church and euerie iust person gratfully confesseth that by Gods protection they are secure without which none could escape ruine A gradual Canticle BVT that our Lord was in vs let Israel now say †but that our Lord was in vs When men rose vp against vs †perhaps they had swalowed vs aliue When their furie was angrie against vs †perhaps water had swalowed vs. †Our soule hath passed through a torrent perhaps our soule had passed through an intolerable water †Blessed be our Lord which hath not geuen vs for a pray to their teeth †Our soule as a sparow is deliuered from the snare of the fowlers The snare is broken and we are deliuered †Our helpe is in the name of our Lord who made heauen and earth PSALME CXXIIII The Church and holie members therof are alwayes protected by God 5. The wicked being suffered for a while are at last punished A gradual Canticle THEY that trust in our Lord as mount Sion he shal not be moued for euer that dwelleth †in Ierusalem Mountaines round about it and our Lord round about his people from hence forth now and for euer †Because our Lord wil not leaue the rod of sinners vpon the lote of the iust that the iust reach not their handes to iniquitie †Doe wel ô Lord to the good and right of hart †But those that decline into obligations our Lord wil bring with them that worke iniquitie peace vpon Israel PSALME CXXV Isralites released from captiuitie of Babylon much more the blessed both of the old and new testament deliuered by Christ from captiuitie of sinne de reioyce 5. Who neuertheles must passe through tribulation to eternal felicitie A gradual Canticle VVHEN our Lord turned the captiuitie of Sion we were made as men comforted †Then was our mouth replenished with ioy and our tongue with exultation Then shal they say among the Gentiles Our Lord hath done magnifically with them †Our Lord hath done magnifically with vs we are made ioyful †Turne our captiuitie ô Lord as a torrent in the South †They that sow in teares shal reape in ioyfulnesse †Going they went and wept casting their seedes †But coming they shal come with exultation carying their sheaues PSALME CXXVI Neither house nor citie can be built or kept without Gods special prouidence and helpe 3. those that trust in him shal prosper in their endeuours A gradual Canticle of Salomon VNLESSE our Lord build the house they haue laboured in vayne that build it Vnlesse our Lord kepe the citie he watcheth in vayne that kepeth it †It is vaine for you to rise before light rise ye after ye haue sitten which eate the bread of sorow †When he shal giue sleepe to his beloued behold the inheritance of our Lord are children the reward the fruite of the wombe †As arrowes in the hand of the mightie so are the children of them that are shaken †Blessed is the man that hath filled his desire of them he shal not be confounded when he shal speake to his enemies in the gate PSALME CXXVII Happines both of this life and of the next is obtayned by fearing and sincerely seruing God A gradual Canticle BLESSED are al that feare our Lord that walke in his wayes †Because thou shalt eate the labours of thy handes blessed art thou and it shal be wel with thee †Thy wife as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house Thy children as young plantes of oliuetrees round about thy table †Behold so shal the man be blessed that feareth our Lord. †Our Lord out of Sion blesse thee and that thou mayst see the good thinges of Ierusalem al the dayes of thy life And that thou mayst see thy childrens children peace vpon Israel PSALME CXXVIII The Church often 3. and much impugned is not ouercome 4. Her persecuters are destroyed 6. contemned 8. and cursed A gradual Canticle OFTEN haue they impugned me from my youth let Israel now say †Often haue they impugned me from my youth but they haue not preuailed against me †Sinners haue builded vpon my
hart is delighted with oyntement and diuers odours and with the good counsels of a frend the soule is sweetned †Thy frend and thy fathers frend do not leaue and goe not into thy brothers house in the day of thyne affliction Better is a neighbour neere thene a brother far of Studie wisedom my sonne make my hart ioyful that thou maist make answer to the vpbrayder †The subtel man seeing euil hideth himself litle ones passing through haue susteyned euil detriments †Take his garment that hath bene suretie for a stranger and for alienes take from him a pledge †He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice rising in the night he shal be like him that curseth †Dropping through in the day of cold and a brawling woman are compared together †He that reteyneth her as he that should hold the winde and shal cal in the oyle of his right hand †Iron is sharpened with iron and a man sharpeneth the face of his frend †He that kepeth the feegtree shal eate the frute therof and he that is the keper of his master shal be glorified †As in waters the countenance of them that looke therin shyneth so the hartes of men ate manifest to the prudent †Hel and perdition are neuer filled in like maner also the eies of men are vnsatiable †As siluer is tried in the forge and gold in the fornace so a man is proued by the mouth of him that praiseth The hart of the wicked seeketh after euils but the righteous hart seeketh after knowlege †If thou shalt bray a foole in a morter as when a pestle striketh vpon prisane his follie shal not be taken from him †Know diligently the countenance of thy cattel and consider thy flockes †For thou shalt not haue power always but a crowne shal be geuen into generation and generation †The medowes are open and the grene herbes haue appeared and the grasse is gathered out of the mountaines †Lambes for thy garment and kiddes the price of the filde †Let the milke of the goates suffice thee for thy meates and for the necessities of thy house and for victual to thy handmaides CHAP. XXVIII THE impious fleeth no man pursewing but the iust confident as a lyon shal be without terrour †For the sinnes of the land the princes therof shal be manie for the wisedom of a man the knowlege of those thinges that are said the life of the prince shal be longer †A poore man calumniating the poore is like a vehement showre wherby famine is gotten †They that forsake the lawe praise the impious they that kepe it are set on fire against him †Euil men thinke not on iudgement but they that seeke after our Lord marke al thinges †Better is a poore man walking in his simplicitie then the rich in crooked wayes †He that kepeth the law is a wise sonne but he that feedeth gluttons shameth his father †He that heapeth together riches by vsuries and ocker gathereth them for him that is liberal to the poore †He that turneth away his eares from hearing the law his prayer shal be execrable †He that deceiueth the iust in a wicked way shal fal into his destruction and the simple shal possesse his goodes †The rich man seemeth to him self wise but the poore man being prudent shal searche him †In the exultation of the iust there is much glorie when the impious reigne ruines of men †He that hideth his wicked deedes shal not be directed but he that shal confesse and shal forsake them shal obtayne mercie †Blessed is the man that is alwayes fearful but he that is of an obstinate mynde shal fal into euil †A roaring lyon and hungrie beare an impious prince ouer the poore people †A prince lacking prudence shal oppresse many by calumnie but he that hateth auarice his dayes shal be made long †A man that doth calumniat the bloud of a soule if he shal flee into a lake no man abideth †He that walketh simply shal be saued he that goeth peruerse wayes shal fal once †He that tilleth his ground shal be filled with breads but he that purseweth idlnesse shal be replenished with pouertie †A faithful man shal be much praysed but he that hasteneth to be rich shal not be innocent †He that knoweth a person in iudgement doth not wel this man euen for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth †A man that hasteneth to be rich and enuyeth others is ignorant that pouertie shal come vpon him †He that rebuketh a man shal afterward find fauour with him more then he that by flatteries of tongue deceiueth †He that pilfereth any thing from his father and from his mother saith this is no sinne is the partaker of a mankiller †He that exalteth and dilateth himselfe rayseth brawles but he that trusteth in our Lord shal be healed †He that hath confidence in his owne hart is a foole but who so walketh wisely shal be saued †He that geueth to the poore shal not lacke he that despiseth him that asketh shal susteyne penurie †When the impious shal rise men shal be hid when they shal perish the iust shal be multiplied CHAP. XXIX THE man that with stiffe necke contemneth him that rebuketh soden destruction shal come vpon him and health shal not folow him †In the multiplication of iust men the common people shal reioyce when the impious shal take princedom the people shal mourne †A man that loueth wisedom maketh his father glad but he that maintaineth harlots shal destroy his substance †A iust king setteth vp the land a couetous man shal destroy it †A man that with fayre and fayned wordes speaketh to his frend spreadeth a nette to his steppes †A snare shal intangle the wicked man sinning and the iust shal praise and reioyce †The iust knoweth the cause of the poore the impious is ignorant of knowlege †Pestilent men dissipate a citie but the wise turne away furie †A wise man if he contend with a foole whether he be angrie or whether he laugh shal not finde rest †Men of bloud hate the simple but iust men seeke his soule †A foole vttereth al his spirit a wiseman differreth and reserueth til afterward †A prince that gladly heareth wordes of lying hath al his seruants impious †The pooreman and the creditour haue mette one an other our Lord is illuminatour of both †The king that iudgeth the poore in truth his throne shal be replenished for euer †Rod and rebuke geueth wisedom but the childe that is left to his owne wil confoundeth his mother †In the multiplication of the impious wickednes shal be multiplied and the iust shal see
to stand vpright and his lacke of reuerence is the stopping of the eares †Sheding of bloud is in the brawling of the proud and their cursing is a greeuous hearing †He that discloseth the secrete of a freind loseth credite and he shal not finde a freind to his minde †Loue thy neighhour and be ioyned with him in fidelitie †But if thou discouer his secrets thou shalt not pursew after him †For as a man that loseth his freind so also he that loseth the freindshipe of his neigbbour †And as he that letteth a bird goe out of his hand so hast thou leaft thy neighbour shalt not take him †Folow him not because he is far absent for he is fled as a doe out of the snare because his soule is wounded †Thou canst no more blinde him and of a curse there is reconciliation †but to disclose the secrets of a freind is the desperation of an vnhappie soule †He that winketh with the eie forgeth wicked thinges and no man wil cast him of †in the sight of thyne eyes he wil sweete his mouth and wil be in admiration vpon thy wordes but at the last he wil peruert his mouth and in thy wordes he wil lay a scandal †I haue heard manie thinges haue not esteemed them equal to him and our Lord wil hate him †He that casteth a stone on high it wil fal vpon his head and the deceitful stroke wil diuide the woundes of the deceitful †He that diggeth a pit shal fal into it and he that setteth a stone for his neighbour shal stumble on it he that layeth a snare for an other shal perish in it †To a man that doth most wicked counsel it shal be turned vpon himself and he shal not know from whence it cometh to him †Derision reproch of the proud and vengeance as a lyon shal lie in waite for him †They shal perish in a snare that are delighted with the fal of the iust and sorow shal consume them before they die †Anger and furie both are execrable and the sinful man shal be subiect to them CHAP. XXVIII Abstaine from reuenge 8. and strife 15. from making debate 28. from hearing and speaking euil HE that wil be reuenged shal finde reuenge of our Lord and keepeing he wil keepe his sinne †Forgeue thy neighbour hurting thee then shal thy sinnes be loosed to thee when thou prayest †Man to man reserueth anger and doth he seeke remedie of God †He hath not mercie on a man like vnto himself and doth he intreate for his owne sinnes †Himself whereas he is flesh reserueth anger and doth he aske propitiation of God Who by prayer shal obteyne for his sinne †Remember the last thinges cease to be at enmitie †for consumption and death are imminent in his commandmentes †Remember the feare of God and be not angrie with thy neighbour †Remember the testament of the High contemne the ignorance of thy neigbour †Refraine thyself from strife and thou shalt diminish thy sinnes †for an angrie man kindleth strife and a sinful man wil truble his freindes and in the middes of them that are at peace he wil cast in enmitie †For according to the wood of the forest so the fire burneth and according to the power of a man so shal his anger be and according to his substance he wil increase his anger †Hastie contention kindleth a fire and hastie strife shedeth bloud and an il testifying tongue bringeth death †If thou blow vpon a sparck it wil burne as a fire and if thou spitte thereon it shal be quenched both procede out of the mouth †The whisperer duble tounged is accurst for he hath trubled manie that were at peace †A third tongue hath moued manie and dispersed them from nation into nation †It hath destroyed the walled citie of the rich and hath digged downe the houses of great men †It hath cut the forces of peoples and vndone strong nations †A third tongue hath cast out manlie wemen and depriued them of their labours †He that regardeth it shal not haue rest neither shal he haue a freind in whom he may repose †The stroke of a whippe maketh a blew marke but the stroke of the tongue wil breake the bones †Manie haue fallen by the edge of the sword but not so as they that haue perished by their tongue †Blessed is he that is couered from a wicked tongue that hath not passed into the anger therof and that hath not drawen the yoke therof and hath not bene tyed in the bandes therof †for the yoke of it is a yoke of yron and the band of it is a band of brasse †The death of it is a most wicked death and hel is more profitable then it †The continuance of it shal not be permanent but it shal obteyne the waies of the vniust and it shal not burne the iust in the flame therof †They that forsake God shal fal into it and it shal burne in them and shal not be quenched and it shal be sent in vpon them as a lion and as a leopard it shal hurt them †Hedge thine eares with thornes and heare not a wicked tongue and make doores to thy mouth and locks †Lay together thy siluer and make balance to thy wordes and right bridles to thy mouth †and take heede lest perhaps thou slippe in thy tongue fal in the sight of the enemies that lie in wayte for thee and thy fal be vncurable vnto death CHAP. XXIX Lend charitably 3. and restore faithfully 10. For the fault of il debters omitte not to helpe the honest 12. rather geue almes where nede is 19. Be thankful for suretiship 28. Liue frugally 32. Goe not a ghestning for delicate chere HE that lendeth to his neighbour doth mercie and he that preuayleth with hand keepeth the commandments †Lend to thy neighbour in the time of his necessitie and againe repay thy neighbour in his time †Confirme thy word and doe faithfully with him thou shalt finde at al time that which is necessarie for thee †Manie haue esteemed a thing lent as a thing found and haue geuen molestation to them that did helpe them †Til they receiue they kisse the handes of the lender and in promises they humble their voice †and in the time of repaying they wil aske a time and wil speake wordes of tediousnes and murmurings and wil make the time an excuse †and if he be able to pay he wil resist he wil pay scarse halfe of the whole and wil account it as a thing found †but if not he wil defraude him of his money and possesse him an enemie without cause †and wil repay him reproches and curses and for honour and benefite wil repay him contumelie †Manie
the law multiplieth oblation †It is an holsome sacrifice to attend to the commandments and to depart from al iniquitie †To depart from iniquitie is a thing that pleaseth our Lord wel and to depart from iniustice is an intreating for sinnes †Thou shalt not appeare before the sight of our Lord emptie †For al these thinges are done because of the commandment of God †The oblation of the iust maketh a fatte altar and is an odour of sweetenes in the sight of the Highest †The sacrifice of the iust is acceptable and our Lord wil not forget the memorie thereof †Render glorie to God with a good minde and diminish not the first fruites of thine handes †In euerie gift make thy countenance chereful and in ioyfulnes sanctifie thy tithes †Geue to the Highest according to his gift and with a good eie doe according to the abilitie of thine handes †because our Lord is a rewarder and wil repay thee seuen times so much †Offer not wicked giftes for he wil not receiue them †And looke not vpon an vniust sacrifice because our Lord is iudge and there is not with him the glorie of person †Our Lord wil not accept person against the poore and he wil heare the prayer of him that is hurt †He wil not despise the prayers of the pupil nor the widow if she power out speach of mourning †Do not the widows teares runne downe to the cheeke her exclamation vpon him that causeth them to runne †For from the cheeke they goe vp euen to heauen and our Lord the hearer wil not be delighted in them †He that adoreth God in delectation shal be receiued his petition shal approch euen to the cloudes †The prayer of him that humbleth himself shal penetrate the cloudes and til it approch he wil not be comforted and he wil not depart til the Highest behold †And our Lord wil not be long but wil iudge the iust and wil do iudgement and the strongest wil not haue patience in them that he may crush their backe †and he wil repay vengeance to the Gentiles til he take away the multitude of the proude breake the scepters of the vniust †til he reward men according to their doings and according to the workes of man and according to his presumption †til he iudge the iudgement of his people and shal delight the iust with his mercie †The mercie of God is beautiful in the time of tribulation as a cloude of raine in the time of drught CHAP. XXXVI A prayer for conuersion of al nations 14. and for conseruation of the Israelites 20. Discretion is necessarie in al actions and desires HAVE mercie vpon vs ô God of al and respect vs and shew vs the light of thy mercies †and send in thy feare vpon the nations that haue not sought after thee that they may know that there is no God but thou and that they may shewforth thy glorious thinges †Lift vp thy hand ouer the strange Nations that they may see thy might †For as in their sight thou art sanctified in vs so in our sight thou shalt be magnified in them †that they may know thee as we also haue knowen that there is no God beside thee ô Lord. †Renewe signes and change meruels †Glorifie thy hand and thy right arme †Raise vp furie and power out wrath †Take away the aduersarie and afflict the enemie †Hasten the time and remember the end that they may declare thy meruels †Let him that is saued be deuoured in the wrath of flame and let them that euil intreate thy people finde perdition †Breake the head of princes of the enemies that saie There is none other beside vs. †Gather together al the tribes of Iacob and let them know that there is no God but thou that they may declare thy great workes thou shalt inherite them as from the beginning †Haue mercie on thy people vpon which thy name is inuocated and vpon Israel whom thou hast made equal to thy first begotten †Haue mercie on the citie of thy sanctification Ierusalem the citie of thy rest †Replenish Sion with thy wordes that can not be vttered thy people with thy glorie †Geue the testimonie to them that are thy creatures from the beginning and raise vp the prophecies which the former prophets spake in thy name †Geue reward to them that patiently expect thee that thy prophets may be found faithful and heare the prayers of thy seruants †according to Aarons benediction of thy people and direct vs into the way of iustice and let al knowe that inhabite the earth that thou art God the beholder of the worldes †The bellie wil eate al meate and one meate is better then an other meate †The iawes taist venison the wise hart lying wordes †A peruerse hart wil geue sorow and a cunning man wil resist it †Some woman wil receiue euerie man and one daughter is better then an other daughter †The beautie of a woman chereth the face of her husband and increaseth the desire aboue al mans concupiscence †If there be a tongue of curing there is also of mitigating and of mercie her husband is not according to the sonnes of men †He that possesseth a good woman beginneth riches she is an helpe like vnto him a piller as rest †Where there is no hedge the possession shal be spoiled and where there is no wife he mourneth wanting Who doth credite him that hath no nest and turning aside wheresoeuer it waxeth darke as a robber girded leaping from citie to citie CHAP. XXXVII Beware of a feaned loue à sure freind 7. consult with the wise trustie 15. and vertuous 19. especially relying vpon God 21. The tongue is cause of much good or much euil 30. Be temperate in diet EVERIE freind wil say I also haue ioyned freindshipe but there is a freind in name only a freind Doth there not sorow remaine euen to death †But a companion and freind wil be turned to enmitie †O most wicked presumption whence wast thou created to couer the drie land with malice and with the deceitfulnes thereof †A companion is pleasant with his freind in delectations and in the time of tribulation he wil be an aduersarie †A companion is sorie with his freind for his bellies sake and he wil take a shield against the enemie †Forgete not thy freind in thy minde and be not vnmindeful of him in thy riches †Consult not with him which betraieth and hide thy counsel from them that enuie thee †Euerie counseler vttereth counsel but there is a counseler in him selfe †From such a counseler keepe thy soule First know what his necessitie is for he wil deuise to his owne minde †lest perhaps he thrust a sharpe
the Chaldees and thou shalt not escape their handes but thou shalt be taken in the hand of the king of Babylon and he shal burne this citie with fire †Sedecias therefore said to Ieremie Let none know these wordes and thou shalt not dye †But if the princes shal heare that I haue spoken with thee and shal come to thee and say to thee Tel vs what hast thou spoken with the king conceale not from vs and we wil not kil thee †Thou shalt say to them I did prostrate my prayers before the king that he would not command me to be caried backe into the house of Ionathan there dye †Al the princes therefore came to Ieremie and asked him and he spake to them according to al the wordes that the king had commanded him and they left him for nothing had bene heard But Ieremie remained in the entrie of the prison vntil the day that Ierusalem was taken and it came to pasle that Ierusalem was taken CHAP. XXXIX Ierusalem after two yeares siege is taken by the Chaldees 4. king Sedecias with others fleing by a posterne gate is taken brought to the king of Babylon al his sonnes are slaine his eyes put out and so led into Babylon 8. The kinges palace and the towne house are burned the walles of the citie destroyed the people caried captiue only the poorest left to til the ground 11. Ieremias is deliuered 15. And Abdemelech is saued from danger IN THE ninth yeare of Sedecias the king of Iuda the tenth moneth came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon and al his armie to Ierusalem and they besieged it †And in the eleuenth yeare of Sedecias the fourth moneth the ninth of the moneth the citie was opened †And al the princes of the king of Babylon went in and sate in the midle gate Neregal Sereser Semegarnabu Sarsachim Rabsares Neregel Serezer Rebmag and al the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon †And when Sedecias the king of Iuda and al the men of warre had seene them they fled and they went forth in the night out of the citie by the way of the kinges garden and by the gate that was betwen the two walles and they went out to the way of the desert †But the host of the Chaldees pursued them and they tooke Sedecias in the field of the desert of Iericho and being taken they brought him to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon into Reblatha which is in the Land of Emath and he spake vnto him iudgements †And the king of Babylon killed the sonnes of Sedecias in Reblatha before his eies and the king of Babylon killed al the nobles of Iuda †The eies also of Sedecias he plucked out and bound him with fetters to be led into Babylon †The kinges house also and the house of the common people the Chaldees burnt with fire and they ouerthrew the wal of Ierusalem †And the remnant of the people that remayned in the citie and the fugitiues that were fled to him and the rest of the people that remained Nabuzardan the prince of the soldiars transported into Babylon †And the poore people that had nothing at al Nabuzardan the master of the soldiars let alone in the land of Iuda and he gaue them vineyards and cesternes in that day †But Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had commanded Nabuzardan the prince of the soldiars concerning Ieremie saying †Take him and set thine eies vpon him and doe him no euil but as he wil so doe to him †Nabuzardan therefore the prince of the warfare sent and Nabusezban also and Rabsares and Negerel Sereser and Rebmag and al the nobles of the king of Babylon †sent and tooke Ieremie out of the entrie of the prison and deliuered him to Godolias the sonne of Ahicam the sonne of Saphan that he might enter into the house dwel among the people †But to Ieremie the word of our Lord was made when he was shut vp in the entrie of the prison saying Goe and tel Abdemelech the Aethiopian saying †Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel Behold I wil bring my wordes vpon this citie vnto euil and not vnto good and they shal be in thy sight in that day †And I wil deliuer thee in that day saith our Lord and thou shalt not be deliuered into the handes of the men whom thou fearest †but deliuering I wil deliuer thee and thou shalt not fal by the sword but thy life shal be to thee vnto saluation because thou hast had confidence in me saith our Lord. CHAP. XL. Ieremie being permitted to goe whither he wil 6. repayreth to Godolias gouernour of the countrie 7. To whom also manie Iewes come from sundrie places 13. Godolias warned of danger doth not beleue it THE word that was made to Ieremie from our Lord after that he was dismist of Nabusardan master of the warre from Rama when he tooke him bound with cheynes in the middes of al that went in transmigration of Ierusalem and Iuda and were led into Babylon †The prince therefore of the warre taking Ieremie said to him The Lord thy God hath spoken this euil vpon this place †and hath brought it and the Lord hath done as he hath spoken because you haue sinned to the Lord and haue not heard his voice this word is fallen to you †Now then behold I haue loosed thee this day from the cheynes that are on thy handes if it please thee to come with me into Babylon come and I wil set myne eies vpon thee but if it please thee not to come with me into Babylon tarrie behold al the land is in thy sight that which thou shalt choose and whither it shal please thee to goe thither goe †And come not with me but dwel with Godolias the sonne of Ahicam the sonne of Saphan whom the king of Babylon hath appointed chiefe ouer the cities of Iuda dwel therefore with him in the cities of Iuda dwel therefore with him in the middes of the people or whither soeuer it shal please thee to goe goe The Master of the warre gaue him victuals also and giftes and dismissed him †And Ieremie came to Godolias the sonne of Ahicam into Masphath and dwelt with him in the middes of the people that was left in the land †And when al the princes of the armie that were dispersed through the countries they and their companions had heard that the king of Babylon had made Godolias the sonne of Ahicam gouernour of the countrie and that he had committed vnto him men wemen and children those of the poore of the land that had not bene transported into Babylon †Then came to Godolias into Masphath both Ismahel the sonne of Nathanias and Iohanan and Ionathan the sonnes of Caree and Sareas the sonne of Thanehumeth and the children of Ophi that were of Netophathie and Iezonias the sonne of
they had taken the king they brought him to the king of Babylon into Reblatha which is in the land of Emath and to him iudgements †And the king of Babylon killed the sonnes of Sedecias before his eies yea and al the princes of Iuda he slew in Reblatha †And he plucked out the eies of Sedecias and bound him with fetters and the king of Babylon brought him into Babylon and he put him in the prison house euen to the day of his death †And in the fifth moneth the tenth of the moneth the same is the ninetenth yeare of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came Nabuzardan the prince of the warfare who stood before the king of Babylon in Ierusalem †And he burnt the house of our Lord and the kings house and al the houses of Ierusalem and euerie great house he burnt with fire †And al the host of the Chaldees that was with the prince of the warfare destroyed al the wall of Ierusalem round about †But of the poore of the people and of the rest of the vulgar sorte which remayned in the citie and of the fugitiues that were fled to the king of Babylon and the rest of the multitude Nabuzardan the prince of the warfare transported †But of the poore of the land Nabuzardan the prince of the warfare left some to be dressers of vineyards and husbandmen †The brasen pillers also that were in the house of our Lord and the feete and the sea of brasse that was in the house of our Lord the Chaldees brake and they tooke al the brasse of them into Babylon †And the kettles and the fleshhookes and the psalteries and the phials and the litle mortars and al the brasen vessels that had bene in the ministrie they tooke †and the water pottes and the censars and the pitchers and the basins and the candlestickes and the mortars the gobblets as manie as of gold of gold and as manie as of siluer of siluer did the prince of the warfare take †and two pillars and one sea twelue oxen of brasse that were vnder the feete which king Salomon had made in the house of our Lord there was no weight of the brasse of al these vessels †And concerning the pillars there were eightene cubits of height in one pillar and a corde of twelue cubits did compasse it about moreouer the thicknes thereof of foure fingers and within it was holow †And the litle heads of brasse vpon both the height of one litle head of fiue cubits and the litle nettes and the pomegranates vpon the crowne round about al of brasse Likewise of the second piller and the pomegranates †And there were nintie six pomegranates hanging downe and al the pomegranates an hundred were compassed with litle nettes †And the master of the warefare tooke Saraias the chiefe priest and Sophonias the second priest and the three kepers of the entrie †And of the citie he tooke one eunuch that was chiefe ouer the men of warre and seuen men of them that saw the kings face that were found in the citie and a scribe the captayne of the souldiars who tryed the yong souldiars and three score of the people of the land that were found in the middes of the citie †And Nabuzardan the prince of the warfare tooke them and he brought them to the king of Babylon into Reblatha †And the king of Babylon stroke them and he killed them in Reblatha in the land of Emath and Iuda was transported from his land †This is the people which Nabuchodonosor transported In the seuenth yeare Iewes three thousand and twentie three †In the eightenth yeare of Nabuchodonosor from Ierusalem soules eight hundred thirtie two †In the three and twentith yeare of Nabuchodonosor Nabuzardan the prince of the warefare transported of the Iewes seuen hundred fourtie fiue soules al the soules therfore were foure thousand six hundred †And it came to passe in the seuen and thirtith yeare of the transmigration of Ioachin the king of Iuda the twelfth moneth the fiue and twentith of the moneth Euilmerodach the king of Babylon lifted vp in the very yeare of his reigne the head of Ioachin the king of Iuda and he brought him out of the prison house †And he spake with him good thinges and he sette his throne aboue the thrones of the kinges that were after himself in Babylon †And he changed his prison garments and he did eate bread before him alwaies al the daies of his life †And his allowance of meate a continual prouision of meate was geuen him by the king of Babylon euerie day a certaine euen vnto the day of his death al the daies of his life THE ARGVMENT OF IEREMIES LAMENTATIONS THESE Lamentations in Greeke called Threni and by the Hebrew Rabhins intituled Cinoth were written by Ieremie before the greatest part of his oâ—her prophecies as semeth most probable to S. Ierom and were first songue at the death of Iosias king of Iuda Againe when king Sedecias with manie others were taken captiues manie also slaine and the Temple and citie of Ierusalem destroyed But most especially he prophecieth the Iewes miserable estate and iust cause of Lamentation after Christs coming and their reiecting him And therfore his Church singeth the same in the Aniuersarie or Commemoration of his Passion and Death and most piously inuiteth al sinners both Iewes and Gentiles to returne vnto Christ our Redemer saying Ierusalem IERVSALEM conuertere ad Dominum Deum tuum In this litle booke the diligent reader wil easely obserue manie doleful patheticalspeaches powred out from a pensiue hart as in great calamities it commonly happeneth with litle connexion of sentences but otherwise foure whole chapters are very artificially compiled in verse not by number of times with measure of long and short syllables as the Grekes and Latines vse but after the Hebrew maner obseruing number of syllables and beginning euerie verse with a distinct letter from the first to the last in order with some smal varietie of the Hebrew Alphabet Doubtles with great mysteries as S. Ierom iudgeth and therfore explicateth the significations and certains connexions of the two and twentie Hebrew letters as we haue noted vpon the 118. Psalme but aboue the capacitie of our vnderstanding In the last chapter the Prophet omitting the obseruation of Initial letters in twentie two verses prayeth lamentably as the whole people shal pray in captiuitie THE THRENES that is to say THE LAMENTATIONS OF IEREMIE THE PROPHET And it came to passe after that Israel was brought into captiuitie and Ierusalem was desolate Ieremie the prophete sate weeping and he mourned with this lamentation vpon Ierusalem and with a pensiue mind sighing and wayling he sayd CHAP. I. HOW doeth the citie ful of people sitte solitarie how is the ladie of the Gentiles become as a widow the princesse of prouinces is made tributarie Weeping she
my hil a blessing and I wil bring downe the showere in his time there shal be raynes of blessing †And the tree of the filde shal geue his fruite and the earth shal geue her spring and they shal be in their land without feare and they shal know that I am the Lord when I shal haue broken the cheynes of their yoke and shal haue deliuered them out of the hand of those that rule ouer them †And they shal be no more for a spoile in the Gentiles neither shal the beastes of the earth deuoure them but they shal dwel confidently without any terrour †And I wil raise vp vnto them a bud of name and they shal be no more diminished for famine in the land neither shal they beare anie more the reproch of the Gentiles †And they shal know that I the Lord their God with them and they my people the house of Israel saith our Lord God †And you my flockes the flockes of my pasture are men and I the Lord your God saith our Lord God CHAP. XXXV An other prophecie against the Idumeans 5. because they afflicted the Israelites AND the word of our Lord was made to me saying †Sonne of man set thy face against mount Seir and thou shalt prophecie of it and shalt say to it †Thus saith our Lord God Behold I to thee mount Seir and I wil stretch forth my hand vpon thee and wil make thee desolate and desert †Thy cities I wil destroy and thou shalt be desert and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. †For that thou hast bene an euerlasting enemie and hast shutvp the children of Israel into the handes of the sword in the time of their affliction in the time of extreme iniquitie †Therfore liue I saith our Lord God that I wil deliuer thee vnto bloud bloud shal persecute thee wheras thou hast hated bloud bloud shal persecute thee †And I wil make mount Seir desolate and desert and I wil take from it the comer and goer †And I wil fil his mountaines with his slaine in thy hilles and in thy valleis and in the torrents shal the slaine with the sword fal †Into euerlasting desolations wil I deliuer thee and thy cities shal not be inhabited and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God †For that thou hast said The two nations and the two landes shal be mine and I wil possesse them by inheritance wheras our Lord was there †Therfore liue I saith our Lord God that I wil doe according to thy wrath and according to thy zele which thou hast vsed hating them and I wil be made knowne by them when I shal haue iudged thee †And thou shalt know that I the Lord haue heard al thy reproches that thou hast spoken of the montaines of Israel saying They are desert they are geuen vnto vs to deuoure †And you rose vp vpon me with your mouth haue derogated your wordes against me I heard it †Thus saith our Lord God Al the earth reioycing I wil bring thee into a wildernes †As thou hast reioyced vpon the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was dissipated so wil I doe to thee Thou shalt be dissipated mount Seir and al Idumea and they shal know that I am the Lord. CHAP. XXXVI The Iewes shal be reduced from captiuitie 13. their maners amended 16. which are enormious 22. by special grace of God for the glorie of his name 25. fulfilled by Christs baptisme AND thou sonne of man prophecie concerning the mountainnes of Israel and thou shalt say Mountainnes of Israel heare ye the word of our Lord †Thus saith our Lord God For that the enemie hath sayd of you Aha the euerlasting heightes are geuen to vs for an inheritante †therfore prophecie say Thus saith our Lord God For that you haue bene desolate and troden downe round about and made an inheritance to the rest of the Gentils and haue ascended vpon the lippe of the tongue the reproche of the people †therfore ye mountaines of Israel heare the word of our Lord God Thus sayth our Lord God to the mountaines and hilles to the torrents and valleis the deserts and broken walleis to the cities forsaken which are spoiled scotned of the rest of the Nations round about †Therfore thus saith our Lord God Because in fyre of my zele I haue spoken of the rest of the nations and of al Iduma which haue geuen my land to themselues for an inheritance with ioy and with al their hart and with the minde and haue cast it forth to waste it †therfore prophecie concerning the ground of Israel and thou shalt say to the montaines hilles to the hiltoppes and valleis Thus saith our Lord God Behold I haue spoken in my zele in my furie because you haue susteyned the confusion of the Gentiles †Therfore thus sayth our Lord God I haue lifted my hand that the Gentiles which are round about you they may beare their confusion †But you ô mountaines of Israel may shoote forth your boughes and bring forth your fruite to my people of Israel for he is at hand to come †Because loe I to you and I wil turne to you and you shal be ploughed and shal take seede †And I wil multiplie in you men al the house of Israel and the cities shal be inhabited and the ruinous places shal be repayred †And I wil replenish you with men and with beasts and they shal be multiplied and increase and I wil make you dwel as from the beginning and wil endewe you with greater giftes then you haue had from the beginning and you shal know that I am the Lord. †And I wil bring men vpon you my people Israel and they shal possesse thee by inheritance and thou shalt be for an inheritance to them and thou shalt adde no more to be without them †Thus saith our Lord God For that they say of you A deuourer of men thou art and one that doest suffocate thy nation †Therfore thou shalt eare men no more and thy nation thou shalt kil no more saith our Lord God †neither wil I make the confusion of the Gentils to be heard in thee anie more and the reproch of the people thou shalt not beare and thy nation thou shalt lose no more saith our Lord God †And the word of our Lord was made to me saying †Sonne of man the house of Israel dwelt in their ground and polluted it in their wayes and in their studies according to the vncle anes of a menstruous woman was their way made before me †And I haue powred out mine indignation vpon them for the bloud which they haue shed vpon the land and in their idols haue polluted it †And I haue dispersed them into the Gentils and they are scattered into the landes according to their
to haue in length on the north quarter foure thousand fiue hundred reedes vvith the same length on the vvest quarter and consequently on the east and south that is nine thousand passes or nine myles on euerie side in al the circuite thirtie six myles Of vvhich greatnes it is certaine the temple and citie neuer were No not after the temple vvas augmented by Herod Ascoloâ—ites vvherof Iosephus writeth li. 15. c. 14. Antiq. Iudâ—icarum Neither vvere there anie such waters issuing from the material temple nor such trees on the bankes therof bringing forth fruites euerie moneth as are described ch 47. v. 1. 12. Al vvhich vvith other like dissonances considered the later Iewes confessing that this prophecie is not hitherto fulfilled say that their Messias whom they expect shal builde such a terrestrial citie and temple with al the appertinances as are shewed in this vision Reiecting therfore these Iewish errors and ridiculous imaginations Richardus de Sancto Victore Hugo Cardinalis Nicolaus Lyranus and some other Christian Doctors suppose that God in dede conditionally according to his antecedent wil promised al these thinges euen as the letter soundeth to the Iewes if after their deliuerie from captiuitie they should sincerely serue him vvalke rightly in his wayes and perfectly kepe his commandmentes And that besides this supposed literal sense al the same should more excellently be performed in the mystical temple and citie of God our Sauiour Christ and his Church But for so much say these Doctors as the Iewes performed not that which vvas required of their part in perfect life and due seruice of God this vision was not fulfilled but only in some part according to the vertues and merites of the better sorte of that people by the restauration of the citie temple and other thinges as in the bookes of Esdras that lastly for their general reuolt from Christ persecuting him to death their temple and citie were againe destroyed the people slaine dispersed reiected except only the few reliques conuerted to Christ In vvhom with the multitude of Gentiles the vvhole vision hath ful effect This opinion albeit grounded in probabilitie yet semeth not so certaine nor in dede so probable as the iudgement of S. Ierom S. Theodoret in their commentaries as also of S. Gregorie in his homiles vpon Ezechiel and of manie others both ancient and late writers VVho not finding hovv to applie this vision in al partes to the state of the old testament neither that promise of such a huge great temple and citie with the rest vvere agreable to Gods vvisdome do only expound this vision to perteine in some partes to the Iewes reduced from temporal captiuitie as in figure of al mankind redemed by Christ and of his Church gathered of al nations enriched and adorned vvith al spiritual graces vertues and powre Neither yet expounding al of the militant Church but some part of the triumphant only as surpassing the perfectest state of this transitorie life Vve therfore out of their large discourses shal abridge a fevv and brief marginal notes for some light of vnderstanding the text and entrance into the spiritual sense principally intended by the Holie Ghost CHAP. XL. In a vision the prophet seeth the reedisication of Ierusalem 5. with the measures of diuers partes therof 47. and of the court and entrie of the temple IN the fiue and twentith yeare of our transmigration in the beginning of the yeare the tenth of the moneth the fourtenth yeare after the citie was strooken in this self same day the hand of our Lord was made vpon me and he brought me thither †In the visions of God he brought me into the Land of Israel and left me vpon a mountaine exceding high vpon which there was as it were the building of a citie bending toward the south †And he brought me in thither and behold a man whose forme was as the forme of brasse and a linen corde in his hand and a reede of measure in his hand he stood in the gate †And the same man spake to me Sonne of man see with thine eyes and heare with thine eares and set thy hart on al thinges which I wil shew thee for thou art brought hither that they may be shewed to thee declare al thinges that thou seest to the house of Israel †And behold a wal on the out side round about the house and in the mans hand a reede of measure of six cubits a palme he measured the breadth of the building with one reede the height also with one reede †And he came to the gate that looked to the way of the east he ascended by the steppes therof he measured the threshold of the gate with one reede the bredth that is one threshold with one reede in bredth †and a chamber with one reede in length and one reede in bredth and betwen the chambers fiue cubites †and the threshold of the gate by entrie of the gate within with one reede †And he measured the entrie of the gate of eight cubites and the front therof of two cubites and the entrie of the gate was within †Moreouer the chambers of the gate to the way of the East three on this side and three on that side one measure of the three and one measure of the fronts on both partes †And he measured the bredth of the threshold of the gate of tenne cubits and the length of the gate of thirtene cubits †and the border before the chambers of one cubite and one cubite the end on both sides and the chambers were of six cubites on this side and that side †And he measured the gate from the roofe of the chamber euen to the roofe therof the bredth of fiue and twentie cubits doore against doore †And he made fronts by sixtie cubits to the front the court of the gate on euerie side round about †And before the face of the gate which raught euen to the face of the entrie of the inner gate fiftie cubits †And oblique windowes in the chambers and in their fronts which were within the gate on euerie side round about and in like maner there were also in the entries windowes round about within and before the fronts the picture of palme trees grauen †And he brought me out to the vtter court and behold celles and the pauement paued with stone in the court round about thirtie celles in the compas of the pauement †And the pauement in the front of the gates according to the length of the gates was beneath †And he measured the bredth from the face of the lower gate euen to the front of the inner court without an hundred cubits to the East and to the North. †The gate also that looked to the way of the North of the vtter court he measured as wel in length as in bredth â€
and twentie thousand and toward the Sea of bredth ten thousand Yea and toward the East of bredth ten thousand and toward the South of length fiue and twentie thousand and the sanctuarie of our Lord shal be in the middes therof †The sanctuarie shal be for the priests of the sonnes of Sadoc which kept my ceremonies and erred not when the children of Israel erred as the Leuites also erred †And for them shal be the first fruits of the first fruits of the land holie of holies by the border of the Leuites †Yea and to the Leuites in like maner by the borders of the priests fiue and twentie thousand of length and of bredth tenne thousand Al the length of fiue and twentie thousand the bredth of tenne thousand †And they shal not â—el therof nor change neither shal the first fruits of the land be transported because they are sanctified to our Lord. †But the fiue thousand that remaine in the bredth against the fiue twentie thousand shal be the profane partes of the citie for habitation and for the suburbs and the citie shal be in the middes therof †And these are the measures therof to the North quarter fiue hundred and foure thousand and to the South quarter fiue hundred and foure thousand and to the East quarter fiue hundred and foure thousand and to the West quarter fiue hundred and foure thousand †And the suburbs of the citie shal be to the North two hundred fiftie and to the South two hundred fiftie and to the East two hundred fiftie and to the Sea two hundred fiftie †And that which shal be residue in length according to the first fruits of the sanctuarie ten thousand toward the East and ten thousand toward the West shal be as the first fruits of the sanctuarie and the fruits therof shal be for bread to them that serue the citie †And they that serue the citie shal worke of al the tribes of Israel †Al the first fruits of fiue and twentie thousand answering to fiue twentie thousand foure square shal be seperated according to the first fruits of the sanctuarie and to the possession of the citie †And that which shal be left shal be the princes of euerie part of the first fruits of the sanctuarie and of the possession of the citie ouer against the fiue and twentie thousand of the first fruits vnto the East border Yea and to the sea ouer against the fiue and twentie thousand vnto the border of the Sea likewise it shal be in the portions of the prince and the first fruits of the sanctuarie and the sanctuarie of the temple shal be in the middes therof †And of the possession of the Leuites and of the possession of the citie in the middes of the princes portions shal be to the border of Iuda and to the border of Beniamin shal also perteine to the prince †And to the rest of the tribes from the East quarter to the West quarter for Beniamin one †And against the border of Beniamin from the East quarter to the West quarter for Simeon one †And vpon the border of Simeon from the East quarter to the West quarter for Issachar one †And vpon the border of Issachar from the East quarter to the West quarter for Zabulon one †And vpon the border of Zabulon from the East quarter to the quarter of the Sea for Gad one †And vpon the border of Gad to the South quarter toward the South and the border shal be from Thamar euen to the waters of contradiction of Cades the inheritance against the great sea †This is the land which you shal diuide by lot to the tribes of Israel and these are the portions of them saith our Lord God †And these are the goings out of the citie from the North quarter thou shalt measure fiue hundred and foure thousand †And the gates of the citie according to the names of the tribes of Israel three gates on the North side the gate of Ruben one the gate of Iuda one the gate of Leui one †And to the East quarter fiue hundred and foure thousand and three gates the gate of Ioseph one the gate of Beniamin one the gate of Dan one †And to the South quarter thou shalt measure fiue hundred foure thousand and three gates the gate of Simeon one the gate of Issachar one the gate of Zabulon one †And to the West quarter fiue hundred and foure thousand and their gates three the gate of Gad one the gate of Aser one the gate of Nephthali one †Round about eightene thousand and the name of the citie from that day Our Lord there THE ARGVMENT OF DANIELS PROPHECIE DANIEL of the tribe of Iuda royal bloud about the age of tenne yeares was caried into Babylon with other children for hostage when Nabuchodonosor inuaded the kingdom of Iuda in the third yeare of king Ioakim His whole life in al about an hundred and tenne yeares was most pious with such zele of Gods honour and common good of his countrie that he was called by an Angel vir desiderioruÌ„ the man of godlie desires whom also Ezechiel elder in yeares prophecying part of the same time ioyned with Noe and Iob for example of holie men recounting him also the most renowmed of his time for wisdom VVhose loyal fidelitie towards the king of Babylon was so clere that his malignant enimies said expresly of him f We shal not find against this Daniel anie occasion vnles perhaps in the law of his God His booke as wel in respect of various important narrations of thinges done as of most hiegh diuine Mysteries is very excellent but withal very obscure for that manie thinges here inserted seme hardly to agree with other authentical histories some thinges also are intricate in themselues nor placed in order of time as they happened and manie thinges so briesly related that they can not be vnderstood without the knowledge of prophane histories As S. Ierom affirmeth Epist 103. But as for an other difficultie which some make denying the Prayer of Azarias with the Hymne folowing the histories of Susanna Bel and the Dragon to be Canonical Scripture it is partly solued already in the Annotations before the Booke of Tobie where is shewed that it is no iust exception against these and other partes of holie Scripture of the old Testament because they are not in the Hebrew Edition being otherwise accepted for Canonical by the Catholique Church And further it is very probable that these parcels were sometimes either in the Hebrew or Chaldee tongue in which two languages part in one part in the other the rest of this booke was written For from whence els could the Septuagint Interpreters Theodotion Symmachus and Aquila translate them In whose Editions S. Ierom found the same But S. Ierom some wil say calleth these
and the halfe part of the citie shal goe forth into captiuitie and the rest of the people shal not be taken away out of the citie †And our Lord wil goe forth and wil fight against those nations as he fought in the day of conflict †And his feete shal stand in that day vpon the mount of oliues which is against Ierusalem toward the East and the mount of oliues shal be clouen by the halfe part therof to the East to the Weast with a stiepe rupture exceding great and halfe of the mountayne shal be seperated to the North halfe therof to the South †And you shal flie to the valley of those mountaynes because the valley of the mountaynes shal be ioyned euen to the next and you shal flee as you fled from the face of the earthquake in the dayes of Ozias king of Iuda and our Lord my God shal come and al the saintes with him †And it shal be in that day there shal be no light but cold and frost †And there shal be one day which is knowen to our Lord not day nor night in the time of the euening there shal be light †And it shal be in that day liuing waters shal issue forth out of Ierusalem halfe of them to the East sea and halfe of them to the last sea in summer in winter shal they be †And our Lord shal be king ouer al the earth in that day there shal be one Lord his name shal be one †And al the land shal returne euen to the desert from the hil of Remmon to the South of Ierusalem and it shal be exalted and shal dwel in her place from the gate of Beniamin euen to the place of the former gate and euen to the gate of the corners from the towre of Hananeel euen to the kings presses †And they shal dwel in it and there shal be anathema no more but Ierusalem shal sit secure †And this shal be the plague wherwith our Lord shal strike al nations that haue fought against Ierusalem the flesh shal pine away of euerie one standing vpon his feete and his eyes shal weare away in their holes their tongue shal consume away in their mouth †In that day there shal be a great tumult of our Lord among them and a man shal take the hand of his neighbour and his hand shal be clasped vpon his neighbours hand †Yea and Iudas shal fight agaynst Ierusalem and the riches of al nations round about shal be gathered together gold and siluer and garments exceding manie †And so shal there be ruine of horse and mule and camel and asse and of al the beasts that shal be in those tents as is this ruine †And al that shal be left of al Nations that came against Ierusalem shal goe vp from yeare to yeare to adore the King the Lord of hosts and to celebrate the festiuitie of tabernacles †And it shal be he that shal not ascend of the families of the land to Ierusalem to adore the King the Lord of hosts there shal be no showre vpon them †Yea and if the familie of Aegypt shal not ascend and shal not come neither vpon them shal it be but ruine shal be wherwith our Lord wil strike al Nations that wil not ascend to celebrate the festiuitie of tabernacles †This shal be the sinne of Aegypt and this the sinne of al Nations that wil not ascend to celebrate the festiuitie of tabernacles †In that day shal that which is vpon the bridle of the horse be holie to our Lord and the caudrons in the house of our Lord shal be as the phials before the altar †And euerie caudron in Ierusalem and Iuda shal be sanctified to the Lord of hosts and al that immolate shal come and take of them and shal sethe in them there shal be merchant no more in the house of the Lord of hosts in that day THE PROPHECIE OF MALACHIE MALACHIE whom S. Ierom and some others thinke to be Esdras prophecied last of the twelue after that the Temple was reedified He reprehendeth both Priestes and people for that they did not offer their sacrifices with sinceritie foresheweth the reiection of the Iewes and calling of the Gentils by Christ. Before whose first coming shal be one Precursor and an other before his last coming to iudge CHAP. I. God shewed his especial loue towards the Iewes in that he choise their progenitor Iacob rather then Esau 7. Priestes are reprehended for not offering the best thinges in sacrifice 10. The old sacrifices shal be reiected and new farre more excellent shal be offered in al nations THE burden of the word of our Lord to Israel in the hand of Malachie †I haue loued you sayth our Lord you haue sayd Wherin hast thou loued vs Was not Esau brother to Iacob sayth our Lord and I loued Iacob †but hated Esau and I layd his mountaines into a wildernes his inheritance vnto the dragons of the desert †But if Idumea shal say We are destroyed but returning we wil build the thinges that are destroyed thus sayth the Lord of hosts These shal build and I wil destroy and they shal be called the borders of impietie and the people with whom our Lord is angrie for euer †And your eyes shal see and you shal say Our Lord be magnified vpon the border of Israel †The sonne honoureth the father and the seruant his lord if then I be the father where is my honour and if I be the Lord where is my feare sayth the Lord of hosts †To you ô priests that despise my name haue sayd Wherin haue we despised thy name You offer vpon myne altar polluted bread and you say Wherin haue we polluted thee In that you say The table of our Lord is contemptible †If you offer the blind to be immolated is it not euil and if you offer the â—ame and the â—eble is it not euil offer it d to thy prince if it shal please him or if he wil receiue thy face sayth the Lord of hosts †And now besech ye the face of God that he may haue mercie on you for by your hand hath this bene done if by any meanes he wil receiue your faces saith the Lord of hosts †Who is there among you that wil shut the doores wil kindle fire on my altar for naught “ I haue no wil in you sayth the Lord of hosts and gift I wil not receiue of your hand †For from the rising of the sunne euen to the going downe great is my name among the Gentils “ in euerie place there is sacrificing and there is offered to my name a cleane oblation because my name is great among the Gentils sayth the Lord of hosts †And you haue polluted it in that you say The
vp by him in towres he came nere to them anathematized them burnt their towres with fyre with al that were in them †and he passed to the children of Ammon and found a strong band and a copious people and Timothee their captaine †he made manie battels with them and they were discomfited in their sight and he stroke them †and he tooke Gazer the citie her daughters and returned into Iewrie †And the Gentils that are in Galaad gathered together agaynst the Israelites that were in their costs to dispatch them and they fled into the fortresse of Batheman †And they sent letters to Iudas his bretheren saying The heathen round about are gathered together against vs to dispatch vs †and they prepare to come and to occupie the fortresse into which we are fled and Timothee is the captayne of their host †Now therfore come deliuer vs out of their handes because a multitude of vs is fallen †And al our bretheren that were in the places of Tubin are slaine they led away their wiues captiues and the children and the spoiles and they haue slaine there almost a thousand men †And the epistles were yet in reading and loe other messengers came our of Galilee their coates rent reporting according to these wordes †saying that there were assembled against them from Ptolemais and Tyre and Sidon and al Galilee is replenished with alienes to consume vs. †And as Iudas and the people heard these wordes a great assemblie assembled together to consider what they should doe for their bretheren that were in tribulation and were expugned of them †And Iudas sayd to Simon his brother Choose thee men and goe and deliuer thy bretheren in Galilee and I and my brother Ionathas wil goe into the countrie of Galaad †And he left Ioseph the sonne of zacharie and Azarias captaynes of the people with the residue of the armie in Iurie to keepe it †and he commanded them saying Be ye ouer this people make no battel against the heathen til we returne †And there were parted to Simon three thousand men to goe into Galilee but to Iudas eight thousand to goe into the countrie of Galaad †And Simon went into Galilee and made manie battels with the heathen the heathen were discomfited before his face and he pursewed them euen to the gate of Ptolemais †And there fel of the heathen almost three thousand men he tooke the spoiles of them †and he toke them that were in Galilee in Arbatis with their wiues and children al thinges that they had and he brought them into Iurie with great ioy †And Iudas Machabeus and Ionathas his brother passed ouer Iordan and went three dayes iorney through the desert †And the Nabutheians mette them and receiued them peaceably and told them al thinges that had happened to their bretheren in the countrie of Galaad †and that manie of them were comprehended in Barasa and Bosor and in Alimis and in Casphor and Mageth and Carnaim al these cities fensed and great †Yea and in the rest of the cities of Galaad they are held captiue on the morow they appoynted to remoue the armie nere to these cities and to take them to dispatch them in one day †And Iudas turned and his armie the way into Bosor sodenly and tooke the citie and he slew euerie male in the edge of the sword and tooke al their spoiles and burnt it with fire †And they arose thence by night and went euen to the fortresse †And it came to passe early in the morning when they had lifted vp their eyes and behold much people wherof there was no number carying ladders and engins to take the fortresse and they expugned them †And Iudas saw that the battel began and the crie of the battel ascended to heauen as a trumpet and a great crie out of the citie †and he sayd to his host Fight ye to day for your bretheren †And he came with three rankes behind them and they cried out with trumpets and cried in prayer †And the campe of Timothee vnderstood that it was Machabeus and they fled backe from his presence and they stroke them with a great plague and there fel of them in that day almost eight thousand men †And Iudas turned aside into Maspha and expugned and tooke it and he slew euerie male therof and he tooke the spoiles therof and burnt it with fyre †From thence he marched and tooke Casbon and Mageth and Bosor and the rest of the cities of Galaad †But after these wordes Timothee gathered an other armie camped against Raphon beyond the torrent †And Iudas sent to vewe the armie and they reported vnto him saying That al the nations that are round about vs are assembled against vs an armie exceding great †and they haue hyred the Arabians to helpe them and they haue camped beyond the torrent being readie to come vnto thee into battel And Iudas went to meete them †And Timothee sayd to the princes of his armie When Iudas shal approch and his armie to the torrent of water if he passe ouer vnto vs first we shal not be able to sustaine him because preuayling he wil preuaile against vs. †but if he be afrayd to passe ouer and campe without the riuer let vs passe ouer to them and we shal preuaile against him †But as Iudas approched to the torrent of water he set the scribes of the people by the torrent and commanded them saying Leaue not a man but let al come into the battel †And he passed ouer to them first and al the people after him and al the heathen were discomfited at their presence and they threw away their weapons and fled to the temple that was in Carnaim †And he tooke the citie itself and the temple he burnt with fire with al thinges that were therein Carnaim was subdewed and could not stand against the face of Iudas †And Iudas gathered together al the Israelites that were in the countrie of Galaad from the least euen to the greatest and their wiues and children and an armie exceding great to come into the land of Iuda †And they came as far as Ephron and this citie was great situate in the entrance fenced excedingly and there was no meanes to decline from it on the right hand or on the left but the way was through the middes †And they that were in the citie shut in themselues and stopped the gates with stones and Iudas sent to them in peaceable wordes †saying Let vs passe through your land and goe into our countrie and no man shal hurt you onlie on foote we wil passe And they would not open vnto them †And Iudas commanded proclamation to be made in the campe that they should approch euerie man in the place wherein he was
†And they diswaded him saying We are not able but let vs saue our liues now and returne to our brethren and then we wil fight against them and we are few †And Iudas sayd God forbid we should doe this thing to flee from them and if our time be neere let vs dye manfully for our bretheren and let vs not stayne our glorie †And the armie moued out of the campe and they stood to meete them and the horsemen were diuided into two parts and the slingers and the archers went before the armie and of the foreward al mightie †And Bacchides was in the right wing and the legion approched on two sides and they sounded with trumpets †and they also cried out that were on Iudas side euen they also and the earth was moued at the voice of the armies and the battel was fought from morning euen vntil the euening †And Iudas saw that the stronger part of the armie was on the right hand al the stout of hart came together with him †and the right side was discomfited of them and he pursewed them euen to the mount of Azotus †And they that were in the left wing saw that the right wing was discomfited and they folowed after Iudas and them that were with him at the backe †and the battel grew sore and there fel manie wounded of these and of them †And Iudas was slaine and the rest fled †And Ionathas and Simon tooke Iudas their brother and buried him in the sepulcher of their fathers in the citie Modin †And al the people of Israel lamented him with great lamentation and they mourned manie dayes †and sayd How is the mightie fallen that saued the people of Israel †And the rest of the wordes of Iudas battels and of the valient acts that he did and of his greatnes are not described for they were exceding manie †And it came to passe after the death of Iudas there came forth the wicked men in al the costs of Israel and there arose al that wrought iniquitie †In those dayes was made an exceding great famine and al their countrie with themselues yelded to Bacchides †And Bacchides chose the impious men and appointed them lords of the countrie †and they sought out and searched for the freindes of Iudas and brought them to Bacchides and he tooke reuenge on them scorned them †And there was made great tribulation in Israel such as was no◠since the day that there was no prophete seene in Israel †And al the freinds of Iudas gathered and sayd to Ionathas †Since thy brother Iudas died there is not a man like vnto him to goe forth against the enemies Bacchides them that are the enemies of our nation †Now therfore thee haue we chosen this day to be for him our prince and captayne to wage our battel †And Ionathas tooke vpon him at that time the princedom and arose in the place of Iudas his brother †And Bacchides vnderstood it and sought to kil him †And Ionathas vnderstood it Simon his brother and al that were with them and they fled into the desert of Thecua and they pitched by the water of the lake Asphar †And Bacchides vnderstood it and in the day of the Sabbaths came him self and al his armie ouer Iordan †And Ionathas sent his brother captayne of the people to desire the Nabutheians his freindes that they would lend him their prouision which was copious †And the children of Iambri issued forth of Madaba and tooke Iohn and al thinges that he had and went away hauing them †After these wordes it was told Ionathas and Simon his brother that the children of Iambri make a great mariage and bring the bride out of Madaba the daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan with great pompe †And they remembred the bloud of Iohn their brother and they went vp and hid them selues vnder the couert of the mountayne †And they lifted vp their eyes and saw and loe a tumult and great preparation and the bridegrome came forth and his freindes and his bretheren to meete them with timbrils and musical instruments and manie weapons †And they rose vpon them out of the embushement and slew them and there fel manie wounded the rest fled into the mountaines and they tooke al the spoiles of them †the mariage was turned into mourning and the voice of their musical instruments into lamentation †And they tooke reuenge of the bloud of their brother they returned to the banke of Iordan †And Bacchides heard it and he came on the day of the Sabbaths euen to the brinke of Iordan with a great powre †And Ionathas sayd to his companie Let vs arise and fight against our enemies for it is not to day as yesterday and the day before †For loe battel directly against vs and the water of Iordan on this side and on that side bankes and marrises and forests and there is no place to turne aside †Now therfore crie ye vnto heauen that you may be deliuered out of the hand of your enemies And battel was ioyned †And Ionathas stretched forth his hand to strike Bacchides and he turned aside from him backwards †And Ionathas lept aside and they that were with him into Iordan and they swame ouer Iordan to them †and there fel of Bacchides part that day a thousand men and they returned into Ierusalem †and built fensed cities in Iurie the fortresse that was in Iericho and in Ammaum in Bethoron and in Bethel and Thamnata and Phara and Thopo with high walles and gates and lockes †And he placed a garrison in them that they might exercise emnities against Israel †and he fensed the citie Bethsura and Gazara and the castel and set garisons in them and prouision of victuals †and he tooke the sonnes of the princes of the countrie for hostages put them in the castel in Ierusalem into ward †And in the yeare an hundred fiftie three the second moneth Alcimus commanded the walles of the inner holie house to be destroyed and the workes of the prophets to be destroyed and he began to destroy †In that time was Alcimus strooken and his workes were stayed and his mouth was stopped and he was dissolued with the palsey neither could he speake a word any more and geue commandement touching his house †And Alcimus died at that time with great torment †And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead and he returned to the king and the land was quiet for two yeares †And al the wicked thought saying Behold Ionathas and they that are with him dwel in silence securely now therfore let vs bring Bacchides and he shal take them al in one night †And they went and gaue him counsel †And he arose to come with a great armie and he sent secretly
he went to Azotus as making iorney and immediatly he went forth into the plaine because he had a multitude of horsemen and he trusted in them And Ionathas pursewed him vnto Azorus and they ioyned battel †And Apollonius left in the campe a thousand horsemen behinde them secretly †And Ionathas vnderstood that there was an embushement behind him and they compassed his campe and they threw dartes vpon the people from morning euen vnto euening †But the people stood as Ionathas had commanded and their horses laboured †And Simon put forth his armie and ioyned it against the legion for the horsemen were wearied and they were discomfited by him and fled †And they that were scattered by the playne fled into Azotus and entered into Bethdagon their idol house there to saue them selues †And Ionathas burnt Azorus and the cities that were round about it and he tooke the spoiles of them and the temple of Dagon and al that fled into it he burnt with fire †And there were that were slayne by the sword with these that were burnt almost eight thousand men †And Ionathas remoued the campe from thence and brought it to Ascalon and they went out of the citie to meete him in great glorie †And Ionathas returned into Ierusalem with his companie hauing manie spoiles †And it came to passe as Alexander the king heard these wordes he added yet to glorifie Ionathas †And he sent him a cheyne of gold as the custome is to be geuen to the cosins of kings And he gaue him Accaron and al the borders therof in possession CHAP. XI Ptolomeus king of Aegypt deceiptfully coming into Syria 8. surpriseth certaine cities taking his daughter from Alexander geueth her to Demetrius 15. Alexander flying away 17. is treacherously slaine 18. Ptolomeus dyeth the third day and Demetrius reigneth 20. Ionathas besiegeth the fortresse which resisted him in Ierusalem 24. obtayneth of Demetrius remission of tributes and other priuilegies 38 Demetrius dismissing his armie the souldiars conspire with Tryphon against him 43. Ionathas aydeth him with three thousand men who kil an hundred thousand mutiners 53. Demetrius breaking league with Ionathas is ouerthrowen by Tryphon 57 Young Antiochus reneweth league with Ionathas and he 65. as likewise his brother Simon prospereth 67. in great danger prayeth and preuaileth AND the king of Egypt gathered an armie as the sand that is about the sea shore and manie shippes and he sought to winne the kingdom of Alexander by guile and to adde it to his owne kingdom †And he went out into Syria with peaceable wordes and they opened to him the cities and mette him because Alexander the king had commanded them to goe forth to meete him for that he was his father in law †But when Ptolomee entered the cities he put garrisons of souldiars in euerie citie †And as he approched to Azotus they shewed him the temple of dagon burnt with fyre and Azotus and the rest therof throwen downe and the bodies cast forth and the graues of them that were slaine in the battel which they had made neere the way †And they told the king that Ionathas did these thinges to raise enuie against him and the king held his peace †And Ionathas came to meete the king into Ioppe with glorie and they saluted one an other and they slept there †And Ionathas went with the king euen to the riuer that was called Eleutherus and he returned into Ierusalem †And king Ptolomee obteyned the dominion of the cities euen to Seleucia by the sea side and he purposed euil purposes against Alexander †And sent legates to Demetrius saying Come let vs make a league betwen vs and I wil geue thee my daughter that Alexander hath thou shalt reigne in the kingdom of thy father †For it repenteth me that I haue geuen him my daughter for he hath sought to kil me †And he disprased him for that he coueted his kingdom †and he tooke away his daughter gaue her to Demetrius and alienated him self from Alexander and his emnities were made manifest †And Ptolomee entered into Antioch he put two crownes vpon his head of Egypt of Asia †But Alexander the king was in Cilicia at that time because they rebelled that were in those places †And Alexander heard it and came to him into battel and Ptolomee the king brought forth an armie and mette him with a strong power and put him to flight †And Alexander fled into Arabia there to be protected and king Ptolomee was exalted †And Zabdiel an Arabian tooke of Alexanders head sent it to Ptolomee †And king Ptolomee died the third day and they that were in the fortresses perished by them that were within the campe †And Demetrius reigned the yeare an hundreth sixtie seuen †In those dayes Ionathas gathered together them that were in Iurie to winne the castel in Ierusalem and they made engins against it †And certaine that hated their owne nation wicked men went to king Demetrius and told him that Ionathas besieged the castel †And as he heard it he was wrath and forth with he came to Pâ—olemais and wrote to Ionathas that he should not besiege the castel but should meete him to talke together in hast †But as Ionathas heard it he bade them besiege it and he chose of the ancients of Israel and of the priests and put himself in hazard †And he tooke gold and siluer and rayments and manie other presents and went to the king to Pâ—olomais and he found grace in his sight †And certaine wicked men of his nation solicited against him †And the king did to him as they had done to him which had bene before him and he exalted him in the sight of al his freinds †and he established to him the chiefe priesthood and whatsoeuer other thinges he had before precious and he made him the chiefe of his freindes †And Ionathas requested of the king that he would make Iurie free and the three toparchies Samaria the confines therof and he promised him three hundred talents †And the king consented and he wrote to Ionathas epistles of al these thinges conteyning this tenure †KING Demetrius to his brother Ionathas greeting to the nation of the Iewes †A copie of the epistle which we haue writen to Lasthenes our parent concerning you we haue sent to you that you might know it †KING Demetrius to Lasthenes his parent greeting †We haue determined to do good to the nation of the Iewes our freinds that keepe the thinges that are iust with vs for their gentlenes which they beare towards vs. †We haue ordayned therfore vnto them al the coasts of Iurie the three cities Apherema Lyda Ramatha which are added to Iurie of Samaria al their confines to be sequestred to al them that sacrifice in Ierusalem for these thinges
receiue the right handes and he gaue it them and he cast them out from thence and clensed the castel from the contaminations †and they entered into it the three and twentith day of the second moneth the yeare an hundreth seuentie one with prayse and boughes of palme trees and harpes and cymbals nables and hymnes and canticles because the great enemie was destroyed out of Israel †And he ordayned that euerie yeare these dayes should be kept with gladnes †And he fortified the mount of the temple that was by the castel and he dwelt there him self and they that were with him †And Simon saw Iohn his sonne that he was a valient man of warre he made him captayne of al the hosts and he dwelt in Gazara CHAP. XIIII Demetrius inuading Media is taken captiue 4. and Iurie is in peace 14. Simon cherisheth the godlie and punisheth the wicked 16. receiueth freindlie letters from the Romanes and Spartiates 20. vvherof the copie is recited 24. sendeth a legate to Rome with a present 25. And is established highpriest and gouernour by publique consent IN THE yeare an hundreth seuentie two king Demetrius gathered his armie and went into Media to get him aydes to expugne Tryphon †And Arsaces the king of Persia and Media heard that Demetrius was entered his confines and he sent one of his princes to take him aliue †And he went and stroke the campe of Demetrius and tooke him and brought him to Arsaces and he put him into ward †And al the land of Iuda was at rest al the dayes of Simon and he sought good to his nation and his powre and his glorie pleased them al dayes †And with al his glorie he tooke Ioppe for an hauen and made it an entrance vnto the iles of the sea †And he enlarged the borders of his nation and obteyned the countrie †And he gathered a great captiuitie and had the dominion of Gazara and of Bethsura and of the castle and tooke away the vncleanes out of it and there was none that resisted him †And euerie man tilled his land with peace the land of Iuda yelded her fruites and the trees of the fildes their fruit †The ancients sate al in the streetes and treated of the good thinges of the land the yongmen did on them glorie and the stoles of warre †And he gaue victuals to the cities and he appointed them that they should be vessels of munition til the name of his glorie was renowmed euen to the end of the earth †He made peace vpon the land Israel reioyced with great ioy †And euerie man sate vnder his vine and vnder his fig-tree and there was none to make them asrayd †There was none left that impugned them vpon the earth kinges were discomfited in those dayes †And he confirmed al the humble of his people and sought the law and tooke away euerie wicked and euil man †he glorified the holies and multiplied the vessels of the holie places †And it was heard at Rome that Ionathas was dead and euen vnto the Spartiats and they were very sorie †But as they heard that Simon his brother was made the high priest in his place and he obteyned al the countrie and the cities therein †they wrote to him in brasen tables to renew the amities and societie which they had made with Iudas with Ionathas his bretheren †And they were read in the sight of the church in Ierusalem And this is a copie of the epistles that the Spartiates sent †THE PRINCES and the cities of the Spartians to Simon the grand priest and to the ancients and the priests and the rest of the people of the Iewes their bretheren greeting †The legates that were sent to our people haue told vs of your glorie and honour and ioy and we reioyced at their entrance †And we wrote that which was sayd of them in the counsels of the people thus Numenius the sonne of Antiochus and Antipater the sonne of Iason legates of the Iewes came to vs renewing with vs old amitie †And it pleased the people to receiue the men gloriously and to put a copie of their wordes in the seuered booke of the people to be for a memorie to the people of the Spartiats And a copie of these we haue writen to Simon the grand priest †And after these thinges Simon sent Numenius to Rome hauing a great buckler of gold of the weight of thousand poundes to establish amitie with them But when the people of Rome had heard †these wordes they sayd What thankes geuing shal we render to Simon and his children †For he hath restored his bretheren and hath expugned the enemies of Israel from them they decreed him libertie and registred it in tables of brasse and put it in titles in mount Sion †And this is a copie of the wriring THE EIGHTENTH day of the moneth Elul in the yeare an hundreth seuentie two the third yeare vnder Simon the grand priest in Asaramel †in a great assemblie of the priests of the people and the princes of the nation and the ancients of the countrie these thinges were notified that there haue often bene battels made in our countrie †But Simon the sonne of Mathathias of the children of Iarib and his bretheren put themselues in danger and resisted the aduersaries of their nation that their holies and law might stand with great glorie haue they glorified their nation †And Ionathas gathered together his nation and was made their grand priest and he was layd to his people †And their enemies would conculcate and destroy their countrie and extend their handes against the holies †Then Simon resisted and fought for his nation and bestowed much money and armed the valient men of his nation gaue them wages †and he fortified the cities of Iurie and Bethsura that was in the borders of Iurie where the armour of the enimies was before and he placed there Iewes for a garrison †And he fortified Ioppe which was by the sea and Gazara which is in the borders of Azotus wherin the enemies dwelt before and he placed Iewes there and whatsoeuer was fitte for their correption he put in them †And the people saw the fact of Simon and the glorie that he meant to doe to his nation they made him their duke and grand priest for that he had done al thes◠thinges and for the iustice and fayth which he kept to his nation for that he sought by al meanes to aduance his people †And in his dayes it prospered in his hands so that the heathen were taken away out of their countrie and they that were in the citie of of Dauid in Ierusalem in the castel out of which they came forth and contaminated al thinges that were round about the holies they brought great plague vpon chastitie †he placed in it
hundred †But Timothee fled into Gazara a strong hold wherof Chaereas was the captaine †And Machabeus and they that were with him ioyfully besieged the hold foure dayes †But they that were within trusting to the place blasphemed aboue measure cast forth abominable wordes †But when the fifth day appeared twentie yong men of them that were with Machabeus incensed in their mindes because of the blasphemie went manfully to the wal and with fierce conrege going on they scaled to the top †Yea and the others also mounting vp attempted to set the towres and the gates on fire and to burne the blasphemers themselues aliue †And the hold being sacked for two dayes together they slewe Timothee that was found hyding himself in a certaine place and his brother Chaereas and Apollophanes they killed †Which thinges being done they blessed our Lord in hymnes and confessions who did great thinges in Israel and gaue them the victorie ANNOTATIONS CHAP. X. 8. They decreed Beza in his Annotations in Ioan. 10. v. 22. set forth in English in the yeare 1603. confesseth that the feast vvhich our Sauiour obserued vvas instituted by Iudas Machabius and his bretheren after the restoring of Gods true religion by easting out Antiochus his garrison It is also cleare that this feast vvas in vvinter ibidem agreable to the text in the moneth of Casleu which is Nouember vvheras the feast of tabernacles vvas in September before vvinter and the feast of restauration of the temple after the captiuitie of Babylon vvas in Adar 1. Esd 6. vvhich is Februarie betwen vvhich time and middes of March vvas not competent space for those thinges vvhich Christ did after this feast before his Passion And therfore it is very strange that Beza or other Protestantes vvil denie these bookes to be Canonical vvhich haue so excellent a testimonie by the Euangelist of our Sauiours ovvne fact CHAP. XI Lysias supposing with his armie of fourescore thousand footemen a great band of horsemen to subdue Ierusalem 6. Iudas with his few praying God and going to fight an Angel in forme of an horsemen goeth before them 10. so they setting vpon the enemies kil manie the rest flee 13. Lysias perceiuing Gods powre offereth to procure peace 22. Wherto the king agreeth writting to him 27. and to the Iewes 34. The Romanes also write to the Iewes BVT a litle after Lysias the kings procuratour and cosin and chiefe ouer the affayers being greatly offended with these thinges that had hapened †hauing gathered foure score thousand and al the horsemen came against the Iewes thincking that taking the citie he should make it an habitation for the Gentiles †and he should haue the temple to make gayne of money as the rest of the temples of the Gentiles and euerie yeare the priesthood to be sold †neuer recounting the powre of God but furious in minde he trusted in the multitude of foote men and thousandes of horsemen and in foure score elephants †And he entred into Iurie and approching to Bethsura which was in a narrow place from Ierusalem the space of fiue furlongs he expugned that hold †But as Machabeus and they that were with him vnderstood that the holdes were ex pugned they besought our Lord with weeping and teares and al the multitude together that he would send a good Angel to the sauing of Israel †And Machabeus him self first taking weapons exhorted the rest together with him to aduenture and to geue ayde to their bretheren †And when they went forth together with prompt corege at Ierusalem there appeared going before them an horseman in white clothing with armour of gold shaking a speare †Then al they together blessed our merciful Lord and tooke great corege being readie to penetrate not only men but also most fierce beastes and walles of yron †They went therfore promptly hauing an helper from heauen and our Lord hauing pitie vpon them †And like lyons running violently vpon the enimies they ouerthrew of them eleuen thousand footmen and of horsemen a thousand six hundred †and they put to flight al very many of them being wounded scaped a way naked Yea and Lysias him selfe shamefully fleeing escaped †And because he was not senselesse recounting with him selfe the diminution made on his side and vnderstanding the Hebrewes to be inuincible because they rested vpon the help of the almightie God he sent vnto them †and promised that he would consent to al thinges that are iust and that he would force the king to be their freind †And Machabeus granted to Lysias requestes in al things hauing respect to the commonwealth and whatsoeuer Machabeus wrote to Lysias concerning the Iewes the king granted it †For there were epistles written to the Iewes from Lysias conteyning this tenure LYSIAS to the people of the Iewes health †Iohn and Absalom that were sent from you deliuering the wrytings requested that I would accomplishe those thinges which by them were signified †Therfore whatsoeuer might be brought to the king I declared vnto him and that which the matters permitted I granted †If therfore you kepe fideletie in the affayres hence forward also wil endeuour to be a cause of doing you good †And concerning the rest word for word I haue geuen commandement both to theise and to them that are sent of me to commune with you †Fare ye wel In the yeare an hundred fourtie eight of the moneth Dioscorus the foure twenteth day †But the kings epistle conteyned these thinges King Antiochus to Lysias his brother health †Our father being translated amongst the goddes we being willing that they that are in our kingdome should liue without truble and employ diligence to their owne matters †we haue heard that the Iewes consented not to my father to turne to the rite of the Greekes but that they would keepe their owne institution and therfore that they request vs their rites to be granted them †Being therfore desirouse that this nation also be quiet oradyning we haue decreed that the temple be restored vnto them that they might doe according to the custome of their ancestours †Thou shalt do wel therfore if thou send to them geue the right hand that our pleasure being knowen they may be of good cheere looke to their owne commodities †But to the Iewes the kings epistle was in this manner KING Antiochus to the senate of the Iewes and to the rest of the Iewes health †If you fare wel you are so as we would yea our selues also fare wel †Menelaus came to vs saying that you would come downe to your countrie men that are with vs. †To them therfore that come and goe vntil the thirtith day of the month Xanthicus we geue the right handes of securitie †that the Iewes may vse their owne meates and their owne lawes as also before and that none of them by any meanes
manie whose minde was stirred vp with many vowes †And Cyrus the king brought forth the sacred vessels of our Lord which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon transported out of Ierusalem and consecrated them to his Idol †And Cyrus the king of Persians bringing them forth deliuered them to Mithridatus who was ouer his treasures †And by him they were deliuered to Salmanasar president of Iurie †And of these this was the number Cuppes for libamentes of siluer two thousand foure hundred basens of siluer thirtie phials of gold thirtie also of siluer two thousand foure hundred and other vessels a thousand †and al the vessels of gold and siluer were fiue thousand eight hundred sixtie †And they were numbered to Salmanasar together with them that came out of the captiuite of Babylon into Ierusalem †But in the times of Artaxerxes king of the Persians there wrote to him of them that dwelt in Iurie and Ierusalem Balsamus and Mithridatus and Sabellius and Rathimus Balthemus Sabellius scribe and the rest dweling in Samaria and other places the epistle folowing to king Artaxerxes †SIR thy seruantes Rathimus ouer occurrentes and Sabellius the scribe and the other iudges of thy court in Caelesyria and Phenice †And now be it knowen to our Lord the king that Iewes came vp from you to vs coming into Ierusalem a rebellious very naughty citie do build the fornaces thereof and set vp the walles and rayse the temple †And if this citie and the walles shal be finished they wil not onlie not abyde to pay tributes but also wil resist the kinges †And because that is in doing about the temple we thought it should doe wel not to neglect this same thing †but to make it knowen to our Lord the king that if it shal seme good ô king it may be sought in the bookes of thy fathers †and thou shalt find in the recordes thinges writen of these and thou shalt know that this citie hath bene rebellious and trubling kinges and cities †and the Iewes rebelles making battels in it from time out of mind for the which cause this citie was made desolate †Now therfore we doe thee to vnderstand Lord king that if this citie shal be built and the walles therof shal be erected there wil be no comming downe for thee into Caelesyria Phenice †Then wrote the king to Rathimus the writer of the occurrentes and to Balthemus and to Sabellius the scribe and to the rest ioyned with them and to the dwellers in Syria and Phenice as foloweth †I haue read the epistle that you sent me I commanded therfore search to be made it was found that the same citie is from the beginning rebellious to kinges †and the men rebelles and making battels in it there were most valient kinges ruling in Ierusalem and exacting tributes in Caelesyria Phenice †Now therfore I haue geuen commandment to forbid those men to build the citie and to stay them that nothing be done more then is †and that they proceede not farder wherof are euils so that there may be truble brought vpon the kinges †Then these things being read which were writen of king Artaxerxes Rathimus and Sabellius the scribe and they that were apointed with them ioyning together in hast came to Ierusalem with a troupe of horsemen and multitude companie †and they begane to forbid the builders and they ceased from building of the temple in Ierusalem til in the second yeare of the reigne of Darius king of the Persians CHAP. III. After a solemne supper made to al the court and chief princes king Darius sleeping 4. three esquires of the bodie keeping watch proposed the question 10. Whether wine or a King or wemen or the truth doth excel 17. The first prayseth wine KING Darius made a great supper to al his domestical seruantes and to al the magistrates of Media and Persia †and to al that were purple and to the praetors and consuls and liuetenantes vnder him from India vnto Aethiopia an hundred twentie seuen prouinces †And when they had eaten and drunken and returned ful then Darius went vp into his chamber and slept and awaked †Then those three youngmen kepers of his bodie which garded the kings bodie sayd one to an other †Let euerie one of vs say a word that may excel whose word soeuer shal appeare wiser then the others to him wil king Darius geue great giftes †to be couered with purple to drinke in gold and to sleepe vpon gold a chariote with a bridle of gold a bonet of silke and a cheyne about his necke †and he shal sit in the second place next Darius for his wisdome And he shal be called the cosin of Darius †Then euerie one writing his word signed it and they put it vnder the pillow of Darius the king †and they sayd When the king shal rise we wil geue him our writinges and which soeuer of the three the king shal iudge and the magistrates of Persia that his word is the wiser to him shal the victorie be geuen as is writen †One wrote Wine is strong †An other wrote a King is stronger †The third wrote Wemen are more strong but aboue al thinges truth ouercometh †And when the king was risen they tooke their writinges and gaue him and he read †And sending he called al the Magistrates of the Persians and the Medes and them that weare purple and the pretors and the ouerseers †and they sate in the councel and the writinges were read before them †And he sayd Cal the youngmen and they shal declare their owne wordes And they were called and went in †And he sayd to them Declare vnto vs concerning these thinges which are writen And the first began he that had spoken of the strength of wine †and sayd O ye men how doth wine preuaile ouer al men that drinke it seduceth the minde †And also the mind of king and orphane it maketh vaine Also of the bondman and the free of the rich man and the poore †and euerie mind it turneth into securitie and pleasantnes and it remembreth not any sorow and dewtie †and al hartes it maketh honest and it remembreth not king nor magistrate and it maketh a man speake al thinges by talentes †And when they haue drunke they remember not frendship nor brotherhood yea and not long after they take swordes †And when they are recouered and risen from the wine they remember not what they haue done †O ye men doth not wine excel who thinketh to doe so And hauing sayd this he held his peace CHAP. IIII. The second prayseth the excellencie of a king 13. The third which is Zorobabel commendeth wemen 33. but preferreth truth aboue al 41. which is so approued and he is rewarded 42. The king moreouer at his request restoreth the holie vessels of the
that with sorowes haue kept thy testimonies †Neither thinke thou of them that in thy sight haue conuerst falsly but remember them that according to thy wil haue knowen thy feare †Neither be thou willing to destroy theÌ„ that haue had the maners of beastes but respect them that haue taught thy law gloriously †Neither haue indignation towards them which are iudged worse then beastes but loue them that alwayes haue confidence in thy iustice and glorie †Because we and our fathers languish with such diseases but thou for sinners shalt be called merciful †For if thou shalt be desirous to haue mercie on vs then thou shalt be called merciful to vs hauing no workes of iustice †For the iust which haue manie workes layd vp of their owne workes shal receiue reward †For what is man that thou art angrie with him or the corruptible kinde that thou art so bitter touching it †For in truth there is no man of them that be borne which hath not done impiously and of them that confesse which haue not sinned †For in this shal thy iustice be declared and thy goodnes ô Lord when thou shalt haue mercie on them that haue no substance of good workes †And he answered me and sayd Thou hast spoken somethinges rightly and according to thy wordes so also shal it be done †because I wil not in dede thinke vpon the worke of them that haue sinned before death before the iudgement before perdition †but I wil reioyce vpon the creature of the iust and I wil remember their pilgrimage also and saluation and receiuing of reward †Therfore as I haue spoken so also it is †For as the husbandman soweth vpon the ground manie seedes and planteth manie plantes but not al which were sowen in time are preserued nor yet al that were planted shal take roote so they also that are sowen in the world shal not al be saued †And I answered and sayd If I haue found grace let me speake †As the seede of the husbandman if it come not vp or receiue not the rayne in time if it be corupted with much rayne perisheth †so likewise also man who made with thy handes and thou named his image because thou art likened to him for whom thou hast made al thinges and hast likened him to the seede of the husbandman †Be not angrie vpon vs but spare thy people and haue mercie on thy inheritance And thou hast mercie on thy creature †And he answered me and sayd The thinges that are present to them that are present and that shal be to them that shal be †For thou lackest much to be able to loue my creature aboue me and to thee often times euen to thyselfe I haue approched but to the vniust neuer †But in this also thou art meruelous before the Highest †because thou hast humbled thyself as becometh thee hast not iudged thyself that among the iust thou maist be very much glorified †For which cause manie miseries and miserable thinges shal be done to them that inhabite the world in the later dayes because they haue walked in much pride †But thou for thyselfe vnderstand for them that are like vnto thee seeke glorie †For to you paradise is open the tree of life is planted time to come is prepared abundance is prepared a citie is builded rest is approued goodnes is perfited perfit wisdome †The roote of euil is signed from you infirmitie and mothe is hid from you corruption is fled into hel in obliuion †Sorowes are past the treasure of immortalitie is shewed in the end †Adde not therfore inquiring of the multitude of them that perish †For they also receiuing libertie haue despised the Highest and contemned his lawe and forsaken his wayes †Yea and moreouer they haue troden downe his iust ones †and haue sayd in their hart that there is no God and that knowing that they dye †For as the thinges aforesayd shal receiue you so thirst and torment which are prepared shal take them for he would not man to be destroyed †But they them selues also which aâ—e created haue deâ—yled his name which made them haue bene vnkinde to him that prepared life †Wherfore my iudgement now approcheth †Which thinges I haue not shewed to al but to thee to few like vnto thee And I answered and sayd †Behold now Lord thou hast shewed me a multitude of signes which thou wilt beginne to doe in the latter times but thou hast not shewed me at what time CHAP. IX Certaine signes shal goe before the day of iudgement 14. More shal perish then be saued 25. Prayer with other good workes are meanes to saluation AND he answered me and sayd Measuring measure thou the time in it selfe and it shal be when thou seest after a certaine part of the signes which are spoken of before shal passe †then shalt thou vnderstand that the same is the time wherin the Highest wil beginne to visite the world that was made by him †And when there shal be sene in the world mouing of places and truble of peoples †then shalt thou vnderstand that of these spake the Highest from the dayes that were before thee from the beginning †For as al that is made in the world hath a beginning and also a consummation and the consummation is manifest †so also the times of the Highest haue the beginning manifest in wonders and powers and the consummations in worke and in signes †And it shal be euery one that shal be saued and that can escape by his workes and by fayth in which you haue beleeued †shal be leaft out of the foresayd dangers and shal see my saluation in my land and in my costes because I haue sanctified my â—elfe from the world †And then shal they be in miserie that now haue abused my wayes and they that haue reiected them in contempt shal abide in torments †For they that knew not me hauing obtained benefits when they liued †and they that loathed my law when they yet had libertie †and when as yet place of penance was open to them vnderstoode not but despised they must after death in torment know it †Thou therfore be not yet curious how the impious shal be tormented but inquire how the iust shal be saued and whose the world is and for whom the world is and when †And I answered and sayd †I haue spoken hertofore and now I say and hereafter wil say that they are moe which perish then that shal be saued †as a floud is multiplied aboue more then a droppe †And he ansvvered me and sayd Like as the field so also the sedes and as the flovvers such also the colours and as the workeman such also the worke and such as the husbandman such is the husbandrie because it was the time of the world †And
that Asa made this lake when he built Maspha 3 Râ—g 15. v. 22. :: This Iohanan and his felowes rose vp against Ismahel lest otherwise they might haue bene iudged to haue bene of the same conspiracie against Godolias being fugitiues as Ismael was :: This consultation was piously begune seeking to know Gods wil by his prophet but the same people erred greuously in not folowing his direction as he forsaw they would not v. 21 And he further recordeth that they rebelliously opposed against him ch 43. v. 2. * the thing :: VVhether it seme to bring prosperitie or aduersitie :: An othe of execration as Isa 65. v. 15. :: It was a dul le fault in that they neither obeyed God speaking by his prophet not stood to their owne promise v. 5. :: Sinful people are easily changed to worse and worse from their good motions For this insolent calumniation is farre from their promise ch 42. v. 5. 6. :: The obstinate people forced also Ieremie and Baruch to goe vvith them into Aegypt :: Vvhere both by wordes and other signes he prophecieth that the king of Babylon wil build his palace in the chief citie of Aegypt and in signe therof layeth great stones as the fundation of the same As els where he prophecied by factes ch 19. v. 10 c. 27. v. 2. c. 32 v. 7. :: It is a very couenient motiue ought to be effectual vnto sinful natio â—s to see their neighboures fallen into Heresie Turâ—isme or Paganisme for their obstinacie in other sinnes Amos 9. :: Not al absolutely but the greatest part and wel nere al for some shal flee from thence v 14. 28. Ch. 42. v 18. :: They reputed the moone as queene and the sunne as king of the starres more peculiarly men did sacrifice to the sunne and wemen to the moone but so that al did cooperate in both For the children gathered stickes the fathers kindled the fire and the vvemen tempered the dough and made cakes vnto the queene of heauen ch 7. v. 18. 4. Reg. 23. v. 5. :: Baruch seing the people much afflicted and vnderstanding by Ieremies prophecie that they should yet be more punished lamented the same :: God granted not his prayer for the people but for himself only :: As partly before so more especially in the chapters folowing the prophet foresheweth the punishment of diuers gentils which were the chiefest enimies to the Iewes :: It is the common maner of Prophetes to speake in the pretertence of thinges to come for the infallible certaintie therof :: Aegypt accounted itself inuincible and so the prophet ironiously calleth it the virgin daughter as in this whole passage he speaketh by the same figure ironia willing them to doe those thinges which should nothing helpe nor profite them as appea reth by the next wordes Thou doest in vaine multiplie medicines or remedies and v. 5. 10. 16. * as â—h 25. v. 38. :: Seing God wil reduce the Aegyptians from captiuitie much lesse nede the Israelites to feare Gods promise that he wil restore them being his owne peculiar people Iâ—a 43. 44. Iere 30. Isa 14. 21. :: Babylon which is northward from Palestina Isa 15. 16. :: Nabo a chief citie of Moab as also Medaba Isa 15. and Cariathaim Hesebon Oronaim and the rest v. 18 c. shal be destroyed Iere. â—â— :: A great idol of the Moabites Num 21. v. 29. 3. Reg. 11. v. 7 33 44. Reg. 23. v. 13. shal be ouerthrowne to shew the vanitie in trusting to false goddes :: The kingdom of the tenne tribes trusted as vainly in their calf sette vp by Ieroboam in Bethel 3. Reg. 12. :: Moabites descending from Lot Abrahams nephew derided their kinred in miseries and are therfore more seuerely punished :: Men that bragge of more strength then they haue are resembled to an earthen wall v. 36. Isa 16. Isa 15. Ezech. 7. :: Amongst the Iewes and others in those partes cutting of their heare was a signe of mourning but with the Romanes contrariewise mourners suffered their heare grow long Cicero Orat. pro Pub-Sestio pro On. Plancio Isa 34. Num. 21 :: Al Nations shal be conuerted to the Church of Christ For other conuersion of Moab Ammon Aelam or the like is not recorded in holie scripture nor other historie :: VVhen the tenne tribes were caried into captiuitie the Ammo â—ites possessed the inheritance of Gad by intrusion as next neighboures and of their kinred as though al the Israelires had bene vtterly destroyed :: And therfore God expostulateth this iniurie and absurditie that the people of Melchom the idol of the Ammonites 4. Reg. 23. should inuade the inheritance of his owne people :: The Idumeans were worldly wise but became foolish in the way of serning God Abdiâ— v. 1. Abd. v. 4. :: As excessiue merueling at strange and vnexpected euents maketh men to be astonied so if the same do please them they hisse therat signifiying contempt Termes often vsed by this prophet Gen. 19. Iere. 50. Iob. 41. :: This prophecie perteineth to Syria whereof Damascus is the chief citie Isa 7. v. 8. :: Cedar was one of Ismaels sonnes and Aâ—or the chief citie of the Agarens to whom this prophecie perteineth :: The Aelamites inhabiting in a part of Persia did assist the Chaldees against the Iewes and therfore were punished :: This and the like prophecies are vnderstood of the conuersion of the Gentiles to Christ begune to be fulfilled when the Holie Ghost descended Act 2 v. 7. :: Babylonians and other Chaldees the greatest enimies of the Iewes were at last ouerthrowne by the Medes and Persians Isa 13. 21. :: Bel and Merodoch greatest idols of the Chaldees could neither saue their â—henâ—s nor them selues :: The Iewes Returning from captiuirie wept for ioy as Ioseph did seing his bretheren Gen. 42. 43. 45. :: The Medes and Persians dwelling on the North to Babylon ouerthrew al Chaldea :: The whole countrie of Chaldea is made a praye to the spoylers :: God resembled to a doue in meeknes is seuere when he punisheth enormious sinners ch 25. v 38 46. v. 16. Or the king of Babylon is resembled to a doue for his swiftnes :: The Assirians ledde the tenne tribes into captiuitie 4. Reg. 18. and the Chaldees the two tribes 4. Reg. 25. :: Al the Iewes of both kingdomes being holden captiues in strong handes :: VVere redemed by a stronger arme by God him self Gen. 19. :: As the king of Babylon like a lion destroyed and deuoured others so at last others destroyed him and al his forces coÌ„ming sodenly vpon him :: As when â—oâ—dâ—â— swelling ouerfloweth the land Iob. 4â— Apoc. 16. :: In al this chapter the prophet amplifieth the same he writte in the chapter precedent of the vtter destruction of Babylon * a coate of male 2. Cor. 6. Isa 21. Apoc. 14. Amos. 6. :: Cal together al nations by publique proclamation to fight against
this water the third day and the seuenth and so shal be cleansed If he were not sprinkled the third day the seuenth day he can not be clensed †Euerie one that toucheth the dead corps of mans soule and is not sprinkled with this commistion shal pollute the tabernacle of the Lord and shal perish out of Israel because he was not sprinkled with the water of expiation he shal be vncleane and his filthinesse shal remaine vpon him †This is the law of the man that dieth in a tabernacle Al that enter into his tent and al the vessel that are there shal be polluted seuen daies †The vessel that hath no couer nor bynding ouer it shal be vncleane †If any man in the field touch the corps of a man that was slaine or that died of himself or his bone or graue he shal be vncleane seuen daies †And they shal take of the ashes of combustion and of sinne and shal powre liuing water vpon them into a vessel †in the which when a man that is cleane hath dipped hyssope he shal sprinkle therwith al the tent and al the implementes and the men polluted with such contagion †and in this maner he that is cleane shal purge the vncleane the third and seuenth day And being expiated the senenth day he shal wash both himself and his garmentes and be vncleane vntil euening †If anie man be not expiated after this rite his soule shal perish out of the middes of the Church because he hath polluted the Lordes Sanctuarie and is not sprinkled with water of lustration †This precept shal be an ordinance for euer He also that sprinkleth the waters shal wash his garmentes Euerie one that toucheth the waters of expiation shal be vncleane vntil euen †Whatsoeuer he toucheth that is vncleane he shal make it vncleane and the soule that toucheth anie of these thinges shal be vncleane vntil euen CHAP. XX. ariâ— the sister of Moyses dieth 2. The people murmure for lack of water 7. Moysâ—s and Aaron being commanded to draw some out of a rock do it doutfully 12. and for the same are foretold that they shal die in the desert 14. Not obtaining licence to passe through Edom 22. they come into Mount Hor where Eleazar is ordained hiegh Priest Aaron dieth and is mourned by the people thirtie daie AND the children of Israel and al the multitude came into the desert Sin the first moneth and the people abode in Cades And Marie died there and was buried in the same place †And when the people lacked water they came together against Moyses and Aaron †and being turned into sedition said Would God we had perished among our brethren before our Lord. †Why haue you brought forth the Church of our Lord into the wildernesse that both we and our cattel should die †Why did you make vs ascend out of Aegypt and haue brought vs into this exceding naughtie place which can not be sowed which bringeth forth neither figge nor vines nor pomegranates moreouer also hath no water for to drinke †And Moyses and Aaron the multitude being dismissed entring into the tabernacle of couenant fel flatte vpon the ground and cried to our Lord and said Lord God heare the crie of this people and open vnto them thy treasure the fountaine of liuing water that being satisfied their murmuring may cease And the glorie of our Lord appeared ouer them †And our Lord spake to Moyses saying †Take the rodde and assemble the people together thou and Aaron thy brother and speake to the rocke before them and it shal geue waters And when thou hast brought forth water out of the rocke al the multitude shal drinke and their cattel †Moyses therfore tooke the rodde which was in the sight of our Lord as he commanded him †the multitude being assembled before the rocke and he said to them Heare ye rebellious and incredulous Can we out of this rocke bring you forth water †And when Moyses had lifted vp his hand stricking the rocke twise with the rodde there came forth great plentie of water so that the people drunke and their cattel †And our Lord said to Moyses and Aaron Because you haue not beleued me to sanctifie me before the children of Israel you shal not bring in these peoples into the land which I wil geue them †This is the water of contradiction where the children of Israel quarelled against our Lord and he was sanctified in them †In the meane time Moyses sent messengers from Cades to the King of Edom which should say Thus thy brother Israel biddeth vs to say Thou knowest al the labour that hath taken vs †in what maner our fathers went downe into Aegypt and there we dwelt a great time and the Aegyptians afflicted vs and our fathers †and in what maner we cried to our Lord and he heard vs and sent an Angel that hath brought vs out of Aegypt Loe being presently in the citie of Cades which is in thy vttermost borders †we besech thee that we may haue licence to passe through thy countrie We wil not goe through the fieldes not through the vineyardes we wil not drinke the waters of thy welles but we wil goe the common high way declining neither to the right hand nor to the left til we be past thy borders †To whom Edom answered Thou shalt not passe by me otherwise I wil come armed against thee †And the children of Israel said We wil goe by the beaten way and if we and the cattel drinke thy waters we wil geue thee that which is iust there shal be no difficultie in the price only let vs passe speedely †But he answered Thou shalt not passe And immediatly he came forth to meete them with an infinitie multitude and a strong hand †neither would he condescend to them desiring to grant them passage through his borders For the which cause Israel turned an other way from him †And when they had remoued the campe from Cades they came into the mountaine Hor which is in the borders of the land of Edom †Where our Lord spake to Moyses †Let Aaron sayeth he goe to his people for he shal not enter to the Land which I haue geuen the children of Israel for that he was incredulous to my mouth at the Waters of contradiction †Take Aaron and his sonne with him and thou shalt bring them into the mountaine Hor. †And when thou hast vnuested the father of his vesture thou shalt reuest therewith Eleazar his sonne Aaron shal be gathered and die there †Moyses did as our Lord had commanded and they went vp into the mountaine Hor before al the multitude †And when he had spoyled Aaron of his vestimentes be reuested Eleazar his sonne with them †After that he was dead in the toppe of the mountaine he went downe with Eleazar †And al the multitude seeing that Aaron
was dead mourned vpon him thirtie daies throughout al their families CHAP. XXI Israelites at the first encounter with the Chananeites hauing the worse after their vow kil the King of Arad and destroy his cities 4. The people againe murmuring are stricken with firie serpents 7. but confessing their fault Moyses by Gods commandment setteth vp a brasen serpent for a remedie 10. They march through diuers places 17. and sing a Canticle at a wel which God gaue them 21. They kil Sehon King of the Amorreites and conquer his land 33. Likwise Og King of Basan VVHICH when the Chananeite king of Arad who dwelt toward the south had heard to wit that Israel was come by the way of the spies he fought against them and being victour he tooke the pray of them †But Israel binding himself by vow to our Lord said If thou wilt deliuer this people into my hand I wil destroy their cities †And our Lord heard the prayers of Israel and deliuered the Chananeite whom they slew ouerthrowing their cities and they called the name of that place Horma that is to say Anathema †And they marched also from the mountaine Hor by the way that leadeth to the Redde sea that they might compasse the land of Edom. And the people began to be wearie of the iourney and labour †and speaking against God and Moyses they said Why didst thou bring vs out of Aegypt to die in the wildernesse There wanteth bread waters there are none our soule now lotheth at this most light meate †Wherfore our Lord sent vpon the people firie serpentes at whose plagues and the deathes of verie manie †they came to Moyses and said We haue sinned because we haue spoken against our Lord and thee Pray that he take from vs the serpentes And Moyses prayed for the people †and our Lord spake to him Make a brasen serpent and sette in for a signe he that being striken looketh on it shal liue †Moyses therfore made A BRASEN SERPENT and set it for a signe whom when they that were striken looked on they were healed †And the children of Israel marching camped in Oboth †Whence departing they pitched their tentes in Ieabarim in the wildernesse that looketh toward Moab against the east part †And remouing from thence they came to the Torrent Zared †Which they forsaking camped against Arnon which is in the desert standeth out in the borders of the Amorrheite For Arnon is the border of Moab diuiding the Moabites the Amorrheites †Wherof it is said in the booke of the warres of our Lord As he did in the Redde sea so wil he doe in the streames of Arnon †The rockes of the torrentes were bowed that they might rest in Ar and lie in the borders of the Moabites †From that place appeared the wel wherof our Lord spake to Moyses Gather the people together and I wil geue them water †Then Israel sang this verse Arise the wel They sang therto †The wel which the princes digged and the captaines of the multitude prepared in the law geuer and in their staues And they marched from the wildernesse to Mathana †From Mathana vnto Nahaliel from Nahaliel vnto Bamoth †From Bamoth is a valley in the countrie of Moab in the toppe of Phasga which looketh toward the desert †And Israel sent messengers to Sehon King of the Amorrheites saying †I besech thee that I may haue licence to passe through thy land we wil not goe aside into the fieldes and the vineyardes we wil not drinke waters of the welles we wil goe the kinges high way til we be past thy borders †Who would not grant that Israel should passe by his borders but rather gathering an armie went forth to meete them in the desert and came vnto Iasa and fought against them †Of whom he was strooken in the edge of the sword and his land was possessed from Arnon vnto Ieboc and to the children of Ammon for the borders of the Ammonites were kept with a strong garrison †Israel therfore tooke al his cities and dwelt in the cities of the Amorrheite to wit in Hesebon and the villages therof †The citie Hesebon was Sehons the king of the Amorrheite who fought against the king of Moab and tooke al the land that had bene of his dominion as farre as Arnon †Therfore it is said in the prouerbe Come into Hesebon let the citie of Sehon be built and erected †A fire went forth from Hesebon a flame from the towne of Sehon and deuoured Ar of the Moabites and the inhabitantes of the high places of Arnon †Wo to thee Moab thou art vndone people of Chamos He hath geuen his sonnes into flight and his daughters into captiuitie to Sehon the King of the Amorrheites †Their yoke is perished from Hesebon vnto Diboâ— they came wearie into Nophe and vnto Medaba †Israel therfore dwelt in the Land of the Amorrheite †And Moyses sent some to take a view of lazer Whose villages they tooke and possessed the inhabitantes †And they turned them selues and went vp by the way of Basan and Og the King of Basan came against them with al his people to fight in Edrai †And our Lord said to Moyses Feare him not for into thy hand I haue deliuered him and al his people and land and thou shalt doe to him as thou didst to Sehon the King of the Amorrheites the inhabiter of Hesebon †They therfore smote him also With his sonnes and al his people vnto vtter destruction and they possessed his land CHAP. XXII Balac King of Moab fearing the Israelites sendeth for Balaam a southsâ—â—â—r to curse them 8. VVho consulting his false god is forbid by God almightie to goe and so excuseth him self 15. Balac sendeth againe offering greater reward 19. he againe consulteth and God biddâ—th him goe 〈◊〉 but sendeth an Angel to meete him in the way whom his asse seing huâ—neth three times and so often he beateth her 28. then she speaketh expostulating his hard vsage 31. he also seeth the Angel 35. and is chargeg â— speake nothing but that the Angel shal suggest AND marching forward they camped in the champion countrie of Moab where Iericho is situated beyond Iordan †And Balac the sonne of Sephor seeing al thinges that Israel had done to the Amorrheite †and that the Moabites were in greate feare of him and could not susteyne his assault †he said to the elders of Madian So wil this people destroy al that dwel in our coastes as the oxâ— is wont to eate the grasse vnto the verie rootes And he was at the same time King in Moab †He sent therfore messengers to Balaam the sonne of Behor a Southsayer who dwelt vpon the riuer of the land of the children of Ammon to cal him and to say Behold a people is come out of Aegypt that hath couered the face of the earth sitting against me
into the campe of Galgal †For the fiue kinges were fled and had hid themselues in a caue of the citie of Maceda †And it was told Iosue that the fiue kinges were found lying hid in a caue of the citie of Maceda †Who commanded them saying Rowle great stones into the mouth of the caue and sette industrious men which may keepe them shut in †and stand not you stil but pursew the enemies and kil al the hindermost of them that flee neither let them enter into the â—ortes of their cities whom our Lord God hath deliuered into your handes †The aduersaries therfore being slaine with a great slaughter and almost consumed to vtter destruction they that could escape from Israel entered into fensed cities †And al the hoste returned to Iosue in Maceda where then the campe was safe and the ful number and no man durst once mutter against the children of Israel †And Iosue commanded saying Open the mouth of the caue and bring forth to me the fiue kinges that lie hid therin †And the ministers did as it was commanded them and they brought to him the fiue kinges out of the caue the king of Ierusalem the king of Hebron the king of Ierimoth the king of Lachis the king of Eglon. †And when they were brought forth to him he called al the men of Israel and said to the princes of the hoste that were with him Goe and sette your feete vpon the neckes of these kinges Who when they had gone and troden with their feete the neckes of them lying vnder †againe he said to them Feare ye not neither dread take courage and be strong for so wil our Lord doe to al your enemies against whom you fight †And Iosue stroke and slew them and hanged them vpon fiue gibbettes they hung vntil euening †And when the sunne was downe he commanded the soldiars to take them downe from the gibbettes Who cast them being taken downe into the caue wherin they had lyen hid put on the mouth therof great stones which continew vntil this present †The same day Iosue tooke Maceda and stroke it in the edge of the sword killed the king al the inhabitantes therof he left not in it so much as smâ—le reliques And he did to the king of Maceda as he had done to the king of Iericho †and he passed with al Israel from Maceda vnto Lebna and fought against it †which our Lord deliuered with the king therof into the handes of Israel and they stroke the citie in the edge of the sword and al the inhabitantes therof they left not in it anie remaines And they did to the king of Lebna as they had done to the king of Iericho †From Lebna he passed vnto Lachis with al Israel and placing the hoste round about assaulted it †And our Lord deliuered Lachis into the handes of Israel and he tooke it the day folowing and stroke it in the edge of the sword and euerie soule that was in it as he had done to Lebna †At that time went vp Horam the king of Gazer to ayde Lachis whom Iosue stroke with al his people to vtter destruction †And he passed from Lachis vnto Eglon and compassed it †and wonne it the same day stroke in the edge of the sword al the soules that were in it according to al thinges that he had done to Lachis †He went vp also with al Israel from Eglon vnto Hebron and fought against it †tooke it and stroke it in the edge of the sword the king also therof and al townes of that countrie al the soules that remained in it he left not therein anie remaynes as he had done to Eglon so did he also to Hebron al thinges that he found in it consumning with the sword †Thence returning vnto Dabir †he tooke it and wasted it the king also therof and al the townes round about he stroke in the edge of the sword he left not in it anie remaines as he had done to Hebron and Lebna and to their kinges so did he to Dabiâ— and the king therof †Iosue therfore stroke al the hillie countrie and south and champaine and Asedoth with their kinges he left not in it anie reliques but euerie thing that could breath he slew as our Lord the God of Israel had commanded him †from Cadesbarne vnto Gaza Al the Land of Gosen vnto Gabaon †and al their kinges and countries he tooke and wasted at one assault for our Lord the God of Israel suoght for him †And he returned with al Israel to the place of the campe in Galgal CHAP. XI Iabin a more principal king somoneth other kinges to ioyne with him against Israel 6. Iosue animated with Gods promise of victorie 7. ouerthroweth them al. 16. Subdueth their countries 12. killeth also manie of the giantes stocke VVHICH thinges when Iabin the king of Asor had heard he sent to Iobab the king of Madon and to the king of Semeron and to the king of Achsaph †to the kinges also of the North that dwelt in the mountaines and in the plaine against the south side of Ceneroth in the champaine also and countries of Dor by the sea side †the Chananeite also on the East and West and the Amorrheite and Hetheite and Pherezeite Iebuseite in the mountaines the Heueite also which dwelt at the foote of Hermon in the Land of Maspha †And they issued forth al with their troupes a people exceeding manie as the sand that is in the shore of the sea their horses also and chariottes of passing great multitude †And al these kinges assembled together in one at the Waters of Merom to fight against Israel †And our Lord said to Iosue Feare them not for to morrow this selfe same houre wil I deliuer al these to be wounded in the sight of Israel their horses thou shalt hoghsinew and their chariottes thou shalt burne with fire †And Iosue came and al the hoste with him against them to the Waters of Merom sodenly and ranne in vpon them †and our Lord deliuered them into the handes of Israel Who stroke them and pursewed them as farre as great Sidon and the Waters of Maserephoth and the field of Masphe which is on the East side therof Therfore he stroke al so that he leâ—t no reliques of them †and he did as our Lord had commanded him their horses he hoghsinewed and their chariottes he burnt †And returning immediatly he tooke Asor and the king therof he stroke with the sword For Asor in old time among al these kingdomes held the principalitie †And he stroke al the soules that abode there he left not in it anie remaines but to vtter destruction he wasted al thinges and the citie it selfe he destroyed with fyre †And al the cities round about their kinges also he tooke stroke destroyed as Moyses the seruant of God
leprosie for the which he had bene cast out of the house of our Lord. Moreouer Ioathan his sonne gouerned the kinges house and iudged the people of the land †But the rest of the wordes of Ozias the first and the last wrote Isaias the sonne of Amos the prophet †And Ozias slept with his fathers and they buried him in the kings sepulchres field because he was a leper and Ioathan his sonne reigned for him CHAP. XXVII Ioathan a godlie king 5. preuaileth in battel against the Ammonites 7. dieth and his sonne Achaz succedeth FIVE and twentie yeares old was Ioathan when he began â—o reigne and he reigned sixtene yeares in Ierusalem the name of his mother was Ierusa the daugter of Sadoc †And he did that which was right before our Lord according to al thinges which Ozias his father had done sauing that he entered not into the temple of our Lord and as yet the people did sinne †He built the high gate of the house of our Lord and in the wal of Ophel he built manie thinges †Cities also he built in the mountaynes of Iuda and castelles and towres in the forrestes †He fought agaynst the king of the children of Ammon and ouercame them and the children of Ammon gaue him at that time an hundred talentes of siluer and tenne thousand cores of wheate and as manie cores of barley the children of Ammon gaue him these thinges in the second and third yeare †And Ioathan was strengthened because he had directed his waies before our Lord his God †But the rest of the wordes of Ioathan and al his battels and workes are writen in the Booke of the kinges of Israel and Iuda †He was fiue and twentie yeares old when he began to reigne and he reigned sixtene yeares in Ierusalem †And Ioathan slept with his fathers and they buried him in the Citie of Dauid and Achaz his sonne reigned for him CHAP. XXVIII For his great wickednes Achaz is taken in battel his countrie spoyled and manie â—â—â—yne by the kinges of Syria and Israel 9. yet God suffereth not the kingdom to be subdued 16. Then requiring helpe of the Assyrians 17 is spoyled by the Idumeans Philisthians and Assyrians 22. After al which plâ—â—nes he committeth more idolatrie 26. dieth and his sonne Ezechias reigneth TWENTIE yeares old was Achaz when he began to reigne he reigned sixtene yeares in Ierusalem he did not right in the sight of our Lord as Dauid his father †but walked in the wayes of the kinges of Israel moreouer also he did cast statues to Baalim †He it is that burnt incense to the Valebenennom and he consecrated his sonnes in fire according to the rite of the nations which our Lord slewe in the coming of the children of Israel †He sacrified also burnt incense in the excelses on hilles and vnder euerie tree ful of grene leaues †And our Lord his God deliuered him into the handes of the king of Syria who stroke him and tooke a great praye out of his kingdom brought into Damascus to the handes also of the king of Israel was he deliuered and striken with a great plague †And Phacee the sonne of Romelia slewe of Iuda an hundred twentie thousand in one day al men of warre for that they had forsaken our Lord the God of their fathers †At that time Zechri a mightie man of Ephraim slewe Maasias the kinges sonne and Ezricam the gouernour of his house Elcana also second from the king †And the children of Israel tooke of their brethren two hundred thousand of wemen of boyes and of wenches and an infinite praye and they brought it into Samaria †At that time there was a Prophete of our Lord named Oded who going forth to meete the armie coming into Samaria sayd to them Behold our Lord the God of your fathers being angrie against Iuda hath deliuered them into your handes and you haue slayne them cruelly so that your crueltie did reach to heauen †Moreouer the children of Iuda and Ierusalem you wil subdue vnto you for bondmen and bondwemen which nedeth not to be done for you haue sinned hereupon to our Lord your God †But heare ye my counsel and carie backe the captiues that you haue brought of your brethren because the great furie of our Lord hangeth ouer you †There stood therfore princes of the children of Ephraim Azarias the sonne of Iohanan Barachias the sonne of Mosollomoth Ezechias the sonne of Sellum and Amasa the sonne of Hadali against them that came out of the battel †and they sayd to them You shal not bring in the captiues hither lest we sinne to our Lord. Why wil you adde vpon our sinnes and heape vp old offences for it is a great sinne and the anger of the furie of our Lord hangeth ouer Israel †And the men of warre dismist the pray al the thinges that they had taken before the princes and al the multitude †And the men whom we mentioned aboue stood and taking the captiues and al that were naked they clothed and shod them with the spoyles and when they had clothed and refreshed them with meate and drinke and annoynted them because of their labour and had looked carefully to them as manie as could not walke and were of a weake bodie they set on beastes and brought them to Iericho the Citie of palme trees to their brethren and themselues returned into Samaria †At that time king Achaz sent to the king of the Assyrians asking helpe And the Idumeans came and stroke manie of Iuda and tooke a great praye †The Philisthijms also were spred abroad by the cities of the champayne and toward the South of Iuda and they tooke Bethsames Aialon and Gaderoth Socho also Thamnan and Gamzo with their villages and dwelt in them †For our Lord had humbled Iuda because of Achaz the king of Iuda for that he had made it naked of helpe and had contemned our Lord. †And he brought agaynst him Theglathphalnasar the king of the Assyrians who also afflicted him and spoyled him no man resisting †Therfore Achaz spoyling the house of our Lord and the house of the kinges and of the princes gaue giftes to the king of the Assyrians and yet it did nothing profite him †Moreouer also in the time of his distresse he increased contempte agaynst our Lord king Achaz himself by himself †immolated victimes to the goddes of Damascus that stroke him and sayd The goddes of the kinges of Syria doe helpe them whom I wil pacifie with hostes and they wil ayde me wheras on the contrarie part they were his ruine and al Israels †Achaz therfore hauing spoyled al the vessels of the house of God and broken them shut the gates of the temple of God and made him altars in al the corners of Ierusalem †In al the cities also of Iuda he built altars to burne frankincense and
he prouoked to wrath our Lord the God of his fathers †But the rest of his wordes al his workes the first and the last are writen in the Booke of the kinges of Iuda and Israel †And Achaz slept with his fathers and they buried him in the Citie of Ierusalem for they receiued him not into the sepulchres of the kinges of Israel And Ezechias his sonne reigned for him CHAP. XXIX Ezechias repayreth the Temple and diuine seruiee 5. zelously exhorteth offenders to repentance 12. the Temple is purified in sixtene daies 18. the king and nobles offer hostes which the Priestes immolate 25. with solemne musick ordained by king Dauid and great ioy of al the people THERFORE Ezechias began to reigne when he was fiue and twentie yeares old and he reigned nine and twentie yeares in Ierusalem the name of his mother was Abia the daughter of Zacharias †And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of our Lord according to al thinges that Dauid his father had done †He in the first yeare and moneth of his reigne opened the doores of the house of our Lord and repayred them †And he brought the Priestes and the Leuites and assembled them in the East streate †And he sayd to them Heare me ye Leuites and be sanctified cleanse the house of our Lord the God of your fathers and take away al vncleannes out of the Sanctuarie †Our fathers haue sinned and done euil in the sight of our Lord God forsaking him they haue turned away their faces from the tabernacle of our Lord and geuen the backe †They haue shut the doores that were in the porch and put out the lampes and haue not burnt incense and haue not offered holocaustes in the Sanctuarie of the God of Israel †Therfore was the furie of our Lord stirred vp vpon Iuda and Ierusalem and he hath deliuered them into commotion and into destruction to be hissed at as your selues see with your eyes †Behold our fathers haue fallen by the swordes our sonnes and our daughters and wiues are led captiue for this wickednesse †Now therfore it pleaseth me that we make a couenant with our Lord the God of Israel and he wil turne away the furie of his wrath from vs. †My children be not negligent our Lord hath chosen you to stand before him and to minister to him and to worshipe him and to burne incense to him †The Leuites therfore arose Mahath the sonne of Amasai and Ioel the sonne of Azarias of the children of Caath moreouer the children of Merari Cis the sonne of Abdi and Azarias the sonne of Ialaleel And of the children of Gerson Ioah the sonne of Zemma and Eden the sonne of Ioah †But of the children of Elisaphan Samri and Iahiel Also of the children of Asaph Zacharias and Mathanias †Moreouer also of the children of Heman Iahiel Semei yea and of the children of Idithun Semeias and Oziel †And they gathered together their btethren and were sanctified and went in according to the commandment of the king and the precept of our Lord to purge the house of God †The Priestes also going into the Temple of our Lord to sanctifie it brought out al vncleannes which they sound within the entrance of the house of our Lord which the Leuites tooke and caried to the Torrent cedron without †And they began to clense it the first day of the first moneth and in the eight day of the same moneth they entred into the porche of the temple of our Lord and they purged the temple in eight dayes and in the sixtenth day of the same moneth they accomplished that which they began †They entered in also to Ezechias the king and sayd to him We haue sanctified al the house of our Lord and the altar of holocaust and the vessels therof moreouer also the table of proposition with al the vessels therof †and al the furniture of the temple which king Achaz in his reigne had polluted after that he transgressed and behold al thinges are set forth before the altat of our Lord. †and Ezechias the king rising early assembled al the princes of the citie and went vp into the house of our Lord †and they offered together seuen oxen and seuen rammes seuen lambes and seuen buckgoates for sinne for the kingdom for the sanctuarie for Iuda and he sayd to the Priestes the children of Aaron that they should offer them vpon the altar of our Lord. †They killed therfore the oxen and the Priestes tooke the bloud and powred it vpon the altar they killed also the rammes and their bloud they powred also vpon the altar and they immolated the lambes and powred the bloud vpon the altar †They brought the buckgoates for sinne before the king and the whole multitude and they put their handes vpon them †and the Priestes immolated them and sprinkled their bloud on the altar for an expiation of al Israel for the king had commanded for al Israel that holocaust should be made and for sinne †He appoynted also the Leuites in the house of our Lord with cymbals and psalteries and harpes according to the disposition of Dauid the king and of Gad the Seer and of Nathan the Prophete for it was the precept of our Lord by the hand of his prophetes †And the Leuites stoode holding the instrumentes of Dauid and the Priestes trumpettes †And Ezechias commanded that they should offer holocaustes vpon the altar and when holocaustes were offered they began to sing prayses to our Lord and to sound with trumpettes and on diuerse instrumentes which Dauid the king of Israel had prepared for to sound †And al the multitude adoring the singing men and they that held the trumpettes were in their office whiles the holocaust was accomplished †And when the oblation was ended the king bowed and al that were with him and adored †And Ezechias and the princes commanded the Leuites that they should prayse our Lord in the wordes of Dauid and Asaph the Seer who praysed him with great ioy and bowing the knee adored †But Ezechias added these wordes also You haue filled your handes to our Lord come and offer victimes and prayses in the house of our Lord. Al the multitude therfore offered hostes and prayses and holocaustes with a deuout minde †Moreouer the number of the holocaustes which the multitude offered was thls oxen seuentie rammes an hundred lambes two hundred †And they sanctified to our Lord oxen six hunered sheepe three thousand †But the Priestes were few neither could they suffise to draw of the skinnes of the holocaustes wherfore the Leuites also their brethren holpe them til the worke was accomplished and the Priestes were sanctified for the Leuites are sanctified with an easier rite then the Priestes †There were holocaustes therfore verie many the fatte of pacifiques and the libamentes of the holocaustes and the seruice of the house of
also varied on me †And I sayd I wil not feede you that which dieth let it dye and that which is cut of be it cut of and let the rest deuoure euerie one his neighbours flesh †I tooke my rod that was called beautie and I cut it of to make voyd my couenant which I made with al peoples †And it was made voyd in that day and so the poore of the slocke that keepe for me vnderstood that it is the word of the Lord †And I sayd to them If it be good in your eyes bring hither my hyre and if not be quiet And they weighed my hyre thirtie peeces of siluer †And our Lord sayd to me cast it forth to the statuarie a goodlie price that I was priced at by them And I tooke the thirtie peeces of siluer I threw them into the house of our Lord to the statuarie †And I cut of my second rod that was called Corde that I might dissolue the brotherhood betwen Iuda and Israel †And our Lord sayd to me As yet take to thee the vessels of a foolish pastour †Because loe I wil rayse vp a pastour in the land which shal not visite thinges forsaken the thing dispersed he shal not seeke and the broken he shal not heale that which standeth he shal not nourish and he shal eate the flesh of the fat ones and their hoofes he shal dissolue †O pastour and idol leauing the flocke the sword vpon his arme vpon his right eye his arme shal be dried with withering and his right eye waxing darke shal be obscured CHAP. XII The Iewes persecuting Christ and his Church shal be sore afflicted 6. The Church stil prospering 11. the incredulous shal be condemned THE burden of the word of our Lord vpon Israel Sayth our Lord extending the heauen founding the earth forming the spirit of man in him †Behold I wil make Ierusalem a lintel of surfet to al peoples round about yea Iuda shal be in the siege against Ierusalem †And it shal be In that day I wil make Ierusalem a stone of burden to al peoples al that shal lift it shal be torne with tearing and al the kingdoms of the earth shal de gathered agaynst her †In that day sayth our Lord I wil strike euerie horse into astonishment and his rider into madnes and vpon the house of Iuda I wil open mine eyes and euerie horse of the peoples I wil strike with blindnes †And the dukes of Iuda shal say in their hart Let the inhabitants of Ierusalem be strengthened for me in the Lord of hosts their God †In that day I wil make the dukes of Iuda as a furnace of fyre amongst stickes and as a brand of fire in hay and they shal deuoure to the right hand to the left al people round about and Ierusalem shal be inhabited agayne in her place in Ierusalem †And our Lord shal saue the tabernacles of Iuda as in the begynning that the house of Dauid glorie not magnifically and the glorie of them that inhabite Ierusalem agaynst Iuda †In that day shal our Lord protect the inhabitants of Ierusalem and he that offended of them in that day shal be as Dauid and the house of Dauid as of God as an Angel of our Lord in their sight †And it shal be in that day I wil seeke to destroy al Nations that come against Ierusalem †And I wil powre out vpon the house of Dauid vpon the inhabitants of Ierusalem the spirit of grace and of prayers and they shal looke toward me whom they pearced and they shal lament him with lamentation as it were vpon an only begotten and they shal sorow vpon him as the maner is to be sorowful in the death of the first begotten †In that day shal be great lamentation in Ierusalem as the lamentation of Adadremmon in the filde of Mageddon †And the land shal lament families and families apart the families of the house of Dauid apart and their wemen apart †the families of the house of Nathan apart and their wemen apart the families of the house of Leui apart and their wemen apart the families of Semei apart and their wemen apart †Al the rest of the families families and families apart and their wemen apart CHAP. XIII In the Church of Christ al idolatrie shal be abolished 6. In his passion his Apostles shal be dispersed and they and others shal be proued by tribulations IN that day shal be a fountayne lying open to the house of Dauid and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem for the ablution of the sinner and of the menstruous woman †And it shal be in that day sayth the Lord of hosts I wil destroy the names of idols our of the earth they shal be remembred no more and the false prophetes and the vncleane spirit I wil take away out of the earth †And it shal be when any man shal prophecie any more his father his mother that begot him shal say to him Thou shalt not liue because thou hast spoken a lie in the name of our Lord. And his father his mother his parents shal strike him when he shal prophecie †And it shal be in that day the prophets shal be confounded euerie one by his owne vision when he shal prophecie neither shal they be couered with cloke of sackcloth to lie †But he shal say I am no prophet an husbandman am I because Adam my example from my youth †And it shal be sayd to him What are these wounds in the middes of thy handes And he shal say With these was I wounded in the house of them that loued me †Sword be thou raysed vp vpon my pastour and vpon the man that cleaueth to me sayth the Lord of hosts Strike the pastour and the sheepe shal be dispersed and I wil turne my hand to the litle ones †And there shal be in al the earth sayth our Lord two parts in it shal be destroyed and shal fayle and the third part shal be left in it †And I wil bring the third part through fyre and wil burne them as siluer is burnt and I wil trie them as gold is tried They shal cal my name and I wil heare them I wil say Thou art my people and they shal say Our Lord my God CHAP. XIIII Ierusalem shal be destroyed manie Iewes slaine the rest made captiues 3. Christs Church shal florish 8. especially in the Gentils 12. Persecuters shal be finally punished 20. and the godlie procede in grace BEHOLD the dayes of our Lord shal come and thy spoyles shal be diuided in the middes of thee †And I wil gather together al nations to Ierusalem into battel and the citie shal be taken and the houses shal be wasted and the wemen shal be defiled