sicknesses and all maner plagues whiche are not written in the booke of this lawe wyll the Lorde bryng vpon thee vntyll he bryng thee to naught 62 And ye shal be lefte fewe in number where before ye were as the starres of heauen in multitude because thou wouldest not hearken vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God 63 And it shall come to passe that as the Lord reioyced ouer you to do you good and to multiplie you euen so he will reioyce ouer you to destroy you to bring you to naught and ye shal be wasted from of the lande whyther thou goest to enioy it 64 And the Lord shal scatter thee among all nations from the one ende of the worlde vnto the other and there thou shalt serue straunge gods whiche thou nor thy fathers haue knowen euen wood and stone 65 And among these nations thou shalt finde no ease neither shall the sole of thy foote haue rest But the Lorde shal geue thee there an vnquiet heart and dasing eyes and sorowe of minde 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee and thou shalt feare both day and nyght and shalt haue none assuraunce of thy lyfe 67 In the morning thou shalt say would God it were nyght And at nyght thou shalt say would God it were mornyng for feare of thyne heart whiche thou shalt feare and for the sight of thyne eyes whiche thou shalt see 68 And the Lorde shall bryng thee into Egypt agayne with shippes by the way whiche I sayde to thee thou shalt see it no more againe And there ye shal be solde vnto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen and no man shall bye you ¶ The .xxix. Chapter 2 The people are exhorted to obserue the commaundementes 10 The whole people from the hyest to the lowest are comprehended vnder Gods couenaunt 19 The punishment of hym that flattereth hym selfe in his wickednesse 24 The cause of Gods wrath agaynst his people 1 THese are the wordes of the couenaunt which the Lorde commaunded Moyses to make with the children of Israel in the lande of Moab besyde the appoyntment which he made with them in Horeb. 2 And Moyses called all Israel sayde vnto them Ye haue seene all that the Lorde did before your eyes in the lande of Egypt vnto Pharao and vnto all his seruauntes and vnto all his lande 3 The great temptations which thine eyes haue seene those great miracles and wonders 4 And yet the Lorde hath not geuen you an heart to perceaue and eyes to see and cares to heare vnto this day 5 And I haue led you fourtie yeres in the wildernesse and your clothes are not waxed olde vpon you and thy shoe is not waxed olde vpon thy foote 6 Ye haue eaten no bread nor drunke wine or strong drynke that ye myght knowe howe that I am the Lorde your God 7 And ye came vnto this place and Sehon the kyng of Hesbon and Og the kyng of Basan came out agaynst vs vnto battayle and we smote them 8 And toke their lande and gaue it for an inheritaunce vnto the Rubenites and Gadites and to the halfe tribe of Manasse 9 Kepe therfore the wordes of this couenaunt and do them that ye may vnderstande all that ye ought to do 10 Ye stande this day euery one of you before the Lorde your God your captaynes your tribes your elders your officers and all the men of Israel 11 Your childreÌ also your wiues and the straunger that is in thine hoast from the hewer of thy wood vnto the drawer of thy water 12 That thou shouldest go into the couenaunt of the Lorde thy God and into his othe which the Lorde thy God maketh with thee this day 13 For to make thee a people vnto hym selfe and that he may be vnto thee a God as he hath sayde vnto thee and as he hath sworne vnto thy fathers Abraham Isahac and Iacob 14 I make not this bonde and this othe with you only 15 But both with hym that standeth here with vs this day before the Lorde our God and also with hym that is not here with vs this day 16 For ye knowe howe we haue dwelt in the lande of Egypt and howe we came through the myddes of the nations which ye passed by 17 And ye haue seene their abhominations and their idols wood and stone siluer and golde which were among them 18 Lest there be among you man or woman kinrede or tribe whose heart turneth away this day from the Lorde our God to go and serue the gods of these nations and lest there be among you some roote that beareth gall and wormewood 19 So that when he heareth the wordes of this othe he blesse hym selfe in his heart saying I shall haue peace I wyll walke in the meanyng of myne owne heart to put the drunken to the thirstie 20 And so the Lorde wyll not consent to be mercifull vnto hym but then the wrath of the Lorde and his gelousie shall smoke agaynst that man and all the curses that are written in this booke shall lyght vpon hym and the Lorde shal do out his name from vnder heaueÌ 21 And the Lorde shall seperate hym vnto euyll out of all the tribes of Israel accordyng vnto all the curses of the couenaunt that are written in the booke of this lawe 22 So that the generatioÌ to come of your children that shall ryse vp after you and the straunger that shall come from a farre lande shall say when they see the plagues of that lande and the diseases wherwith the Lorde hath smitten it 23 Howe all the lande is burnt vp with brimstone and salt and that it is neither sowen nor beareth nor any grasse groweth therin lyke as in the place of y e ouerthrowyng of Sodome Gomor Adama and Zeboim which the Lorde ouerthrewe in his wrath and anger 24 Euen then shal all nations say Wherfore hath the Lord done on this fashion vnto this lande O howe fierse is this great wrath 25 And men shall say Because they haue forsaken the couenaunt of the Lorde God of their fathers which he made with them when he brought them out of the lande of Egypt 26 For they went and serued straunge gods and worshipped them gods which they knewe not and which had geuen them nothyng 27 And the wrath of the Lorde waxed hot agaynst this lande to bryng vpon it all the curses that are written in this booke 28 And the Lorde cast them out of their lande in anger wrath and great indignation and cast them into a straunge lande as this day beareth witnesse 29 The secretes of the Lorde our God are opened vnto vs and to our children for euer that we may do all the wordes of this lawe The .xxx. Chapter 1 Mercie shewed when they repent 6 The Lorde doth circumcise the heart 11 All excuse of ignoraunce is taken away
yere and as lylies by the riuers of water like as the brauÌches vpon the mount Libanus in the time of summer 9 As a fire and incense that is kindled lyke as an whole ornament of pure gold set with all maner of precious stones 10 And as an Oliue tree that is fruiteful and as a Cypres tree which groweth vp an hye 11 When he put on the garment of honour and was clothed with al beawtie when he went to the holy aulter he made the garment of holynes honorable 12 When he toke the portions out of the priestes hande he him selfe stoode by the hearth of the aulter and his brethren rounde about in order as the braunches of Cedar tree vpoÌ the mount Libanus so stoode they rounde about him 13 And as the braunches of the Oliue tree so stoode all the sonnes of Aaron in their glory and the oblations of the Lorde in their handes before al the congregation of Israel 14 And that he might sufficiently perfourme his seruice vpon the aulter and garnishe the offering of the highest god 15 He stretched out his hande and toke of the drinke offering and powred in of the wine so he poured vpon the bottome of the aulter a good smell vnto the highest prince 16 Then began the sonnes of Aaron to sing and to blow with trumpettes and to make a great noyse for a remembraunce and prayse vnto the Lorde 17 Then al the people together were hasted and fell downe to the earth vpon their faces to worship the Lorde their God to geue thankes to the almightie God 18 They song goodly also with their voyces so that there was a pleasaunt noyse in the great house of the Lorde 19 And the people in their prayer besought the Lorde the highest that he would be mercifull tyll the honour of the Lorde were perfourmed and they had ended their ministration and seruice 20 Then went he downe and stretched out his handes ouer the whole multitude of the people of Israel that they shoulde geue prayse and thankes out of their lippes vnto the Lorde and to reioyce in his name 21 He began yet once also to pray that he might openly shewe the thankesgeuing before the highest 22 Namely thus O geue prayse and thankes all ye vnto the Lord our God which hath euer done noble and great thinges which hath increased our dayes from our mothers wombe and dealt with vs according to his mercie 23 That he wyll geue vs the ioyfulnes of heart and peace for our time in Israel 24 Which faithfully kepeth his mercie for vs euermore and alway deliuereth vs in due season 25 There be two maner of people that I abhorre from my heart as for the third whom I hate it is no people 26 They that sit vpon the mountaine of Samaria the Philistines and the foolishe people that dwelt in Sichimis 27 I Iesus the sonne of Sirach Eleazarus of Hierusalem haue tokened vp these informations and documentes of wysdome and vnderstanding in this booke and poured out the wysdome of my heart 28 Blessed is he that exerciseth him selfe therein who so taketh such to heart shal be wyse for euer 29 If he do these thinges he shal be strong in all for the lyght of the Lorde leadeth him which geueth wysdome to the godlie The Lorde be praysed for euermore so be it so be it ¶ The .lj. Chapter The prayer of Iesus the sonne of Sirach 1 I Wyll thanke thee O Lorde and king and prayse thee O God my sauiour I wyll yeelde prayse vnto thy name 2 For thou art my defender and helper and hast preserued my body from destruction from the snares of trayterous tongues and from the lippes that are occupied with lyes 3 Thou hast ben my helper from such as stoode vp against me and hast deliuered me after the multitude of thy mercie and for thy holy names sake from the roring of them that prepared them selues to deuour me out of the handes of such as sought after my lyfe from the multitude of them that troubled me 4 And from them that went about to set fyre vpon me on euery side so that I am not brent in the middest of the fyre 5 From the deepe of hell from an vncleane tongue from lying wordes from false accusation to the king and from an vnrighteous tongue 6 My soule shall prayse the Lorde vnto death for my lyfe drewe nye vnto hell downewarde 7 They compassed me round about on euery syde and there was no man to helpe me I loked about me if there were any man that would succour me but there was none 8 Then thought I vpon thy mercie O Lorde and vpon thy actes that thou hast done euer of olde namely that thou deliuerest such as put their trust in thee and riddest them out of the handes of the heathen 9 Thus lyft I vp my prayer from the earth and prayed for deliueraunce from death 10 I called vpon the Lorde the father of my Lorde that he would not leaue me without helpe in the day of my trouble and in the time of the proude 11 I wyll prayse thy name continually yeelding honour and thankes vnto it and so my prayer was heard 12 Thou sauedst me from destruction and deliueredst me from the vnrighteous time therefore wyll I acknoweledge and prayse thee and magnifie the name of the Lorde 13 When I was yet but young or euer I went astray I desired wysdome openly in my prayer 14 I came therfore before the temple and sought her vnto the last then florished she vnto me as a grape that is soone rype 15 My heart reioyced in her then went my foote the right way yea from my youth vp sought I after her 16 I bowed downe myne eare and receaued her I founde me much wysdome and prospered greatly in her 17 Therfore wyll I ascribe the glory vnto him that geueth me wysdome 18 For I am aduised to do thereafter I wyll be gelous to cleaue vnto the thing that is good so shall I not be confounded 19 My soule hath wrestled with her and I haue ben diligent to be occupied in her I lift vp myne handes on hye then was my soule lightened through wysdome that I knowledged my foolishnes 20 I ordered my soule after her she and I were one heart from the beginning and I found her in cleannesse and therfore shall I not be forsaken 21 My heart longed after her and I gat a good treasure 22 Through her the Lorde hath geuen me a new tongue wherewith I wyll prayse him 23 O come vnto me ye vnlearned and dwell in the house of wysdome 24 Withdrawe not your selues from her but talke commune of these thinges for your soules are very thirstie 25 I opened my mouth and spake O come and bye wysdome without money 26 Bowe downe your necke vnder her yoke and your soule shall receaue wysdome she is harde at hande and is content to be founde 27 Beholde with your eyes
whiche was the sonne of Asaac which was the sonne of Abraham whiche was y e sonne of Thara which was the sonne of Nachor 35 Which was y e sonne of Saruch which was the sonne of Ragau whiche was the sonne of Phaleg which was y e sonne of Heber which was the sonne of Sala 36 whiche was the sonne of Arphaxad whiche was the sonne of Sem whiche was the sonne of Noe whiche was the sonne of Lamech 37 Whiche was the sonne of Mathusala whiche was the sonne of Enoch which was the sonne of Jared whiche was the sonne of Maleleel whiche was the sonne of Cainan 38 Which was the sonne of Henos which was y e sonne of Seth which was y e sonne of Adam which was the sonne of God ¶ The .iiij. Chapter ¶ 1 The temptation and fastyng of Christe 13 he ouercommeth the deuyll 16 he teacheth at Nazareth with great admiration of the people 24 A prophete is despysed teaching in his owne countrey 33 He healeth the man possessed with a deuill 34 the deuill confesseth him to be Christe 38 he healeth Peters wyues mother 40 he healed many of diuers diseases 41 the deuyls confesse Christe and are of hym reproued 43 and he preacheth through the cities 1 IEsus being full of the holy ghost returned from Iordane was ledde by the spirite into wyldernesse 2 And was fourtie dayes tempted of the deuyll and in those dayes dyd he eate nothyng And when they were ended he afterwarde hungred 3 And the deuyll sayde vnto hym If thou be the sonne of God commaunde this stone that it be made bread 4 And Iesus aunswered hym saying It is written that man shall not lyue by bread only but by euery word of god 5 And the deuyll toke hym into an hye mountayne shewed hym all the kingdomes of y e worlde in a moment of time 6 And the deuyl saide vnto hym all this power wyll I geue thee euerywhyt the glory of them for that is deliuered vnto me and to whomsoeuer I wyll I geue it 7 If thou therfore wilt fall downe before me worship me they shal be all thine 8 Iesus aunswered sayde vnto hym Hence from me Satan For it is writteÌ Thou shalt worship the Lorde thy God and hym only shalt thou serue 9 And he caryed hym to Hierusalem set hym on a pinacle of the temple and sayde vnto him If thou be the sonne of God cast thy selfe downe from hence 10 For it is written that he shall geue his Angels charge ouer thee to kepe thee 11 And in their handes they shall beare thee vp that thou dasshe not thy foote at any tyme agaynst a stone 12 And Iesus aunswered and sayde vnto hym It is sayde Thou shalt not tempt the Lorde thy God 13 And assoone as all the temptatioÌ was ended the deuyll departed from hym for a season 14 â And Iesus returned by the power of the spirite into Galilee there went a fame of hym throughout all the region rounde about 15 And he taught in their synagogues was commended of all men 16 And he came to Nazareth where he was nursed and as his custome was he weÌt into the synagogue on the Sabboth day and stoode vp for to reade 17 And there was deliuered vnto hym the booke of the prophete Esaias And wheÌ he had opened the booke he founde the place where it was written 18 The spirite of the Lord vpon me because he hath annoynted me to preache the Gospel to the poore he hath sent me to heale the broken hearted to preache deliueraunce to the captiue recouering of syght to the blynde freely to set at libertie them that are bruised 19 And to preache the acceptable yere of the Lorde 20 And he closed the booke and gaue it agayne to the minister and sate downe And the eyes of all them that were in y e synagogue were fastened on hym 21 And he began to say vnto theÌ this day is this scripture fulfilled in your eares 22 And all bare him witnesse wondred at y e gratious wordes whiche proceaded out of his mouth â And they sayde is not this Iosephes sonne 23 And he saide vnto them Ye wyll vtterly say vnto me this prouerbe phisition heale thy selfe â Whatsoeuer we haue heard done in CapernauÌ do y e same here lykewyse in thine owne countrey 24 And he saide Veryly I say vnto you no prophete is accepted in his owne countrey 25 But I tell you of a trueth many wydowes were in Israel in the dayes of Elias when heauen was shutte three yeres sixe monethes when great famishment was throughout all y e lande 26 And vnto none of theÌ was Elias sent saue vnto Sarepta a citie of Sidon vnto a woman that was a wydowe 27 And many lepers were in Israel in the tyme of Elizeus the prophete and none of them was clensed sauyng Naaman the Syrian 28 And all they in the synagogue when they hearde these thynges were fylled with wrath 29 And rose vp and thrust hym out of the citie and led hym euen vnto the edge of the hyll wheron their citie was built y e they might cast him downe headlong 30 But he passyng through the myddes of them went his way â 31 â And came downe to Capernaum a citie of Galilee and there taught them on the Sabboth dayes 32 And they were astonyed at his doctrine For his preachyng was with power 33 And in the synagogue there was a man which had an vncleane spirite of a deuyll and cryed with a loude voyce 34 Saying Oh what haue we to do with thee thou Iesus of Nazareth Art thou come to destroy vs I knowe who thou art euen the holy one of God 35 And Iesus rebuked hym saying Holde thy peace and come out of hym And when the deuyll had throwen him in the middes he came out of hym and hurt hym not 36 And feare came on them all and they spake among them selues saying What maner a thyng is this For with auctoritie and power he commaundeth the foule spirites and they come out 37 And the fame of hym spread abrode throughout euery place of the countrey rounde about â 38 â And when he was risen vp and come out of the synagogue he entred into Simons house And Simons wiues mother was taken with a great feuer they made intercession to hym for her 39 And he stoode ouer her and rebuked the feuer and the feuer left her And immediatly she arose and ministred vnto them 40 When the Sunne was downe all they that had sicke taken with diuers diseases brought them vnto hym And he layde his handes on euery one of them and healed them 41 And deuyls also came out of many crying saying Thou art that Christe the sonne of God And he rebuked theÌ and suffred them not to speake For they knewe that he was Christe 42 As soone as it was
and in the market dayly with them that came vnto hym by chaunce 18 Then certaine philosophers of the Epicures and of the Stoickes disputed with hym And some saide What wyll this babler say Other some he seemeth to be a setter foorth of newe gods because he preached vnto them Iesus and the resurrection 19 And they toke hym and brought him into Marce streate saying Maye we not knowe what this newe doctrine wherof thou speakest is 20 For thou bryngest certaine straunge thinges to our eares We would knowe therfore what these thynges meane 21 For all the Athenians and straungers which were there gaue them selues to nothing els but either to tell or to heare some newe thyng 22 Then Paul stoode in the myddes of Marce streate and sayde ye men of Athens I perceaue that in all thynges ye are to superstitious 23 For as I passed by and behelde the maner howe ye worship your gods I founde an aulter wherin was written vnto the vnknoweÌ god Whom ye then ignorauntly worship him shewe I vnto you 24 God that made the worlde all that are in it seing that he is Lorde of heaueÌ and earth dwelleth not in temples made with handes 25 Neither is worshipped with mens handes as though he needed of any thing seing he him selfe geueth life and breath to all euery where 26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all y e face of the earth hath determined the tymes before appoynted and also the boundes of their habitation 27 That they shoulde seke the Lorde yf perhappes they myght haue felt and founde hym though he be not farre froÌ euery one of vs. 28 For in hym we liue and moue haue our beyng as certaine of your owne poetes sayde for we are also his ofspryng 29 Forasmuch then as we are the ofspring of God we ought not to thynke that the Godhead is lyke vnto golde siluer or stone grauen by art and mans deuice 30 And the tyme of this ignoraunce God wyncked at but nowe byddeth all men euery where to repent 31 Because he hath appoynted a day in the which he wyll iudge the worlde in ryghteousnesse by that man by whom he hath appoynted and hath offered fayth to all men in that he hath raysed hym from the dead 32 And when they hearde of the resurrection from the dead some mocked and other sayde we wyll heare thee agayne of this matter 33 So Paul departed from among them 34 Howe be it certaine men claue vnto hym and beleued among the whiche was Denys Areopagita and a woman named Damaris other with them ¶ The .xviij. Chapter 3 Paul preacheth at Corinth 19 Paul goeth agayne into Syria and commeth to Ephesus and Antioche 24 Of Apollos 26 Aquila and Priscilla 1 AFter these thynges Paul departed froÌ Athens came to Corinth 2 And found a certaine Iewe named Aquila borne in Ponthus lately come froÌ Italie with his wyfe Priscilla because that Claudius had commaunded all Iewes to depart from Rome and he came vnto them 3 And because he was of the same craft he abode with them and wrought for their craft was to make tentes 4 And he disputed in the synagogue euery Sabboth and exhorted the Iewes and the Grekes 5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come froÌ Macedonia Paul was constrayned by the spirite to testifie to the Iewes that Iesus was Christe 6 And when they sayde contrary and blasphemed he shoke his rayment said vnto them Your blood be vpon your owne heades From hencefoorth wyll I go blamelesse vnto the gentiles 7 And he departed thence and entred into a certaine mans house named Iustus a worshipper of God whose house ioyned harde to the synagogue 8 And one Crispus the chiefe ruler of the synagogue beleued on the Lorde with all his housholde and many of the Corinthians hearyng beleued and were baptized 9 Then spake the Lorde to Paul in the nyght by a vision Be not afrayde but speake and holde not thy peace 10 For I am with thee and no man shal inuade thee to hurt thee For I haue much people in this citie 11 And he continued there a yere and sixe monethes and taught the word of God among them 12 And when Gallio was the deputie of Achaia the Iewes made insurrection with one accord against Paul brought hym to the iudgement seate 13 Saying This felow counselleth men to worship God contrary to the lawe 14 And when Paul nowe was about to open his mouth Gallio sayde vnto the Iewes Yf it were a matter of wrong or an euyll deede O ye Iewes reason woulde that I shoulde beare with you 15 But yf it be a question of wordes and names or of your lawe loke ye to it your selues for I wyll be no iudge of such matters 16 And he braue them froÌ the iudgement seate 17 Then all the Grekes toke Sostenes the chiefe ruler of y e synagogue smote hym before the iudgement seate And Gallio cared for none of those thinges 18 And Paul after this taried there yet a good whyle and then toke his leaue of the brethren sayled thence into Syria Aquila Priscilla accompanying him And he shore his head in Cenchrea for he had a vowe 19 And he came to Ephesus and left theÌ there but he hym selfe entred into the synagogue reasoned with y e Iewes 20 When they desired him to tary longer tyme with them he consented not 21 But bade them farewell saying I must needes at this feast that commeth be in Hierusalem but I wyll returne agayne vnto you yf God wyll And he sayled from Ephesus 22 And wheÌ he was come vnto Cesarea and ascended vp saluted the Churche he went to Antioche 23 And wheÌ he had taried there a while he departed and went ouer al the countrey of Galatia and Phrygia by order strengthyng all the disciples 24 And a certaine Iewe named Apollos borne at Alexandria came to Ephesus an eloquent man and myghtie in the scriptures 25 The same was infourmed in the way of the Lorde and spake feruently in the spirite taught diligently the thynges of the Lorde and knewe but the baptisme of Iohn only 26 And the same began to speake boldly in the synagogue Whom when Aquila and Priscilla had hearde they toke him vnto them and expounded vnto him the way of God more perfectly 27 And when he was disposed to go into Achaia the brethreÌ wrote exhorting the disciples to receaue hym Which when he was come helped them much which had beleued through grace 28 For he ouercame the Iewes myghtilye and that openly shewyng by the scriptures that Iesus was Christe ¶ The .xix. Chapter 3 Of baptisme 6 Of the holy ghost geuen by Paules handes 9 The Iewes blaspheme the doctrine of Paul 13 The punyshment of the coniurers 24 Demetrius rayseth sedition 41 God delyuereth his and appeaseth the sedition
Ionathas was dearely beloued of Dauid in signe of friendship he gaue to Dauid his apparell and deliuered him from his fathers ire for he knew that he was elected kyng by God Dauid loued his sonne Miphiboseth and did mercifully with him as he promised to Ionathas for he set him at his table 2. Reg. 9. at last was slayne of the Philistines 2. Reg. 22. ãâã or Yshai is the sonne of Obed who was the father of Dauid this Obed was sonne to Booz to Noema Ruth 4â This is Iesse or Yshai of whom Esaias the prophete wryteth cap. â1 There shall come a sprigge foorth of the stemme of Yshai whiche is Christ and a young shoote shall growe out of his roote the spirite of the Lorde shall rest vpon hym c. In the time of Dauid Ioab the sonne of Seruia was lieftenaunt vpon the armie Iosaphat secretari that is wryter of the actes Sadoch and Abiathar priestes Saraias scribe that is chancelor Banaias ouerseer of Celetie and Pheleti whiche were of the garde to Dauids person Nathan and Gad were prophetes in his time Dauid had eyght wyues Egla Abigal Bethsabe Ager Maacha Abigail Achidoc which were mothers of these children in order as they go beside other concubines and other children many Nathan is he whom Dauid adopted vnto his sonne he was not NathaÌ the prophet By the counsel of this Ionadab Amon did defloure his sister 2. Reg. 13. A Amasa was lieftenaunt ouer the battayles of Dauid whom Ioab slue deceytfully vnder the colour of imbrasing hym .2 Regum 20. B This Azael was a man very swift in running whom Abner the sonne of Ner did kill whervpon him selfe also was slayne 2. Regum 2. C This Ioab was Dauids seruaunt whoÌ he mayntayned in hie dominion against all men whiche killed Abner the sonne of Ner the chiefe of Sauls hoast 2. Regum 2. D Abisai went with Dauid when he toke away the speare and pitcher of water from the head of Saul in his sleepe whom he would haue killed but Dauid woulde not suffer him 2. Reg. 23. E By this Ietran or Natan the sonne of Dauid the virgine descended as appeareth beginning from him so goyng downe to Marie in the right line Christes line IESSE DAVID Solomon 7 Christes lyne Abigail Sisters to Dauid Saruia Sammaa Nathan Ionadab Amasa A Azael Ioab C Abisai D Ietran or Natan E 6 Saphasias 5 Eliab Amsnadab Abiathar Achitob Adonias F 4. Absolon G 3 Celaab 2. Amon the first sonne H Sadoch ãâã the sonne of Iesse of Bethleem the youngest of his brethren elected of the Lord to be king and ãâã by Samuel annoynted 1. Reg. 16. after that in Ebrân he was made king vpon the tribe of Iuda seuen yeres and syxe monethes thirdly vpon aâ Israel thirtie and three yeres He with his harpe dyd mitigate the furie of Saul theâby the killing of Goliath wan Ionathas heart vnto hym he was made the sonne in lawe to the king and hauing commendation of the virgins in their songues aboue Saule suffred much enuie of hym was pursued diuersly by him to death but was deliuered by the fauour of God In Nobe he did eate the breades appoynted for the priestes and counterfeted a madnesse before Achis king of Geth he scaped from the handes of Saule when the Philistines came vpon him and when Saule persecuted him Dauid cut the hem of his cloke in the caue that he was in he maried Abigail the wyfe of Nabol the foolish after his death he toke priuily away the speare and pitcher of water which was at Saules head After Saul was dead comming from Achis in Sichelech slue the Amalechites the messenger that slue Saule he executed making a morning song for hym after whom Solomon his sonne succeeded in his kingdome 3. Reg. 1.2 cap. Here returneth the priesthood to the children of Eleasar in the time of Solomon who dyd reiect Abiathar which was of the children of Ithamar and restored to Sadoch the priesthood whiche was of the sonnes of Eleasar Solomon was constituted king of Israel of his father Dauid who slue his brother Athonias and Ioab and Semei receiued of God the gyft of wysedome gaue a notable iudgement of the harlottes children made the temple by the helpe of Hyram in seuen yeres and seuen monethes and the tenth day of September dyd consecrate it brought the arke of God into the teÌple receaued honorably the queene of Saba and at the last he filed his olde age by the loue of women and by the worshipping of idoles therfore the Lord swore that he would deuide his kingdome from the hande of his sonne and after he had raigned fourtie yeres he was buried in the citie of Dauid 3. Reg. 11. cap. In the time of Solomon Banaias the sonne of Ioiada was ruler ouer the hoast Sadoch and Azarias were priestes Heliot and Haia children of Sessa were scribes Iosaphat was recorder Azarias sonne of Nathan was set ouer them which assisted the king Yssuar stuard of y e house AduraÌ set ouer the tributes 3. Re. 4. F Adonias was deposed by Dauid because he woulde raigne and dyd appoynt Solomon who slue him because he dyd aske Abisaak the Sunamite to wyfe 3. Reg. 2. G Absolon was a very fayre man he slue his brother Amon he had the fauour of the people he toke from his father his kingdome lay with his concubines at last was slayne with three speares 2. Regum 18. H Amon did defile his sister Thamar in his fayned sickenesse doyng him seruice by the counsell of Ionadab and therfore was slayne by Absolon who fled from his father and by sute of Ioab was reconciled 2. Reg. 13. Bâhops ãâ¦ã Crisâine Prohetes that were in the tymes of the kinges of Iuda in this second lyne Achias Azarias Abdo Semâias Ichu Zacharias Elieser Oziel In this lyne on the right hânde âe put the kinges of Iuda raigning ouer two tribes of whom the first was Roboam for the three kinges before named Saul Dauid and Solomon had the rule of all Israel A Roboam despising the counsel of the seniors and folowing the aduice of the younger men did much trouble gods people by hys rashnesse he retayned two tribes with y e leuitical tribe it was called the kingdome of Iuda he vpon y e demerite of his sonnes did suffer the inuasion of Susar king of Egypt who toke away the targettes of gold put brasen in y e same place .3 Re. 14 B Abia. folowed y e sinnes of his father Roboam who gathered together .900 souldiers and dyd obreyd Ieroboam of his idolatrie and the lorde delyuered Israel into y e handes of Iuda and after 5000. of the people of Israel wer slaine ⪠Ieroboam fled Abia after his death was buried in the citie of Dauid in his time Azarias liued in the temple of Solomon 3. Reg. 15. C Assa did right before y e lorde he suppressed the stues and at the counsell of Azarias the prophete he destroyed all the idols
draw water and drew for all his Camelles 21 And the man wondred at her but held his peace to witte whether the Lorde had made his iourney prosperous or not 22 And as the Camelles had left drinking the man tooke a golden earring of halfe a sickle wayght and two bracelettes for her handes of ten sickles wayght of golde 23 And sayde whose daughter art thou tell me I pray thee is there rowme in thy fathers house for vs to lodge in 24 She aunswered hym I am the daughter of Bethuel the sonne of Milcha whiche she bare vnto Nachor 25 And said moreouer vnto him we haue litter and prouender ynough and also rowme to lodge in 26 And the man bowed hym selfe and worshipped the Lorde 27 And sayde blessed be the Lorde God of my maister Abraham whiche hath not left destitute my maister of his mercye and trueth for when I was on my iourney the Lorde brought me to my maisters brothers house 28 And the damsell ranne and told them of her mothers house these thinges 29 And Rebecca had a brother called Laban and he ranne out vnto the man euen to the well 30 For assoone as he had seene the earerynges and the bracelettes in his sisters hande and hearde the wordes of Rebecca his sister saying thus sayde the man vnto me he went out vnto the man and lo he stoode with the Camelles by the well syde 31 And he sayde come thou blessed of the Lord wherfore standest thou without I haue dressed the house rowme for thy Camelles 32 And then the maÌ came into the house and he vnharnessed the Camelles and brought lytter and prouender for the Camelles and water to wash his feete the mens feete that were with him 33 And there was set meate before hym to eate but he sayd I wyll not eate vntyll I haue sayde myne arande And he sayd say on 34 And he sayde I am Abrahams seruaunt 35 And God blessed my maister merueylously that he is become great and hath geuen him sheepe and oxen siluer and golde men seruauntes and mayde-seruauntes camelles and asses 36 And Sara my maisters wyfe bare hym a sonne when she was olde and vnto him hath he geueÌ all that he hath 37 And my maister made me sweare saying thou shalt not take a wyfe to my sonne amongest the daughters of the Chanaanites in whose lande I dwell 38 But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house and to my kinred and take a wife vnto my sonne 39 And I sayde vnto my maister peraduenture the woman wyll not folowe me 40 And he answered me the Lord before whom I walke wyll sende his angell with thee and prosper thy iourney and thou shalt take a wyfe for my sonne of my kinred and of my fathers house 41 Then shalt thou be free from this othe made to me when thou commest to my kinred and yf they geue not thee one thou shalt be free from this othe made to me 42 And so I came this day vnto the wel and sayde O Lorde the God of my maister Abraham if it be so nowe that thou makest my iourney whiche I go prosperous 43 Beholde I stande by the well of water and when a virgin commeth foorth to drawe water and I say to her Geue me I pray thee a little water of thy pitcher to drinke 44 And she say to me Drinke thou and I wyll also drawe for thy Camelles let the same be the woman whom the Lorde hath prepared for my maisters sonne 45 And before I had made an ende of speakyng in myne heart beholde Rebecca came foorth and her pitcher on her shoulder and she went downe vnto the well and drewe water and I sayde vnto her Geue me drinke I pray thee 46 And she made haste and toke downe her pitcher from her shoulder and said Drinke and I wyll geue thy Camelles drinke also So I dranke and she gaue the Camelles drinke also 47 And I asked her saying whose daughter art thou She answered the daughter of Bethuel Nachors sonne whom Milcha bare vnto hym and I put the earring vpon her face and the bracelettes vpon her handes 48 And I bowed my selfe and worshipped the Lorde and blessed the Lorde God of my maister Abraham whiche had brought me the ryght way to take my maisters brothers daughter vnto his sonne 49 Nowe also if he wyll consent to deale mercyfully and truely with my maister tel me and if not tel me also that I may turne me to the ryght hande or to the left 50 Then aunswered Laban and Bethuel saying This saying is proceeded euen of the Lorde we can not therefore say vnto thee eyther good or bad 51 Beholde Rebecca is before thee take her and go that she may be thy maisters sonnes wife euen as god hath sayde 52 And when Abrahams seruaunt heard theyr wordes he worshipped the Lord bowyng hym selfe towarde the earth 53 And the seruaunt toke foorth iewelles of syluer and iewelles of golde and rayment and gaue them to Rebecca and to her brother and to her mother he gaue costly gyftes 54 And they did eate and drinke both he and the men that were with hym and taried all night and when they rose vp in the mornyng he said let me depart vnto my maister 55 Her brother and her mother aunswered let the damsell abyde with vs and it be but euen ten dayes and then shall she go 56 He sayde vnto them hynder me not beholde the Lorde hath prospered my iourney sende me away therefore that I may go to my maister 57 And they sayde we wyll call the damsell and enquire at her mouth 58 And they called foorth Rebecca and sayde vnto her wylt thou go with this man And she aunswered I wyll go 59 So they let Rebecca theyr sister go and her nurse Abrahams seruaunt and his men 60 And they blessed Rebecca and sayde vnto her thou art our sister growe into thousande thousandes and thy seede possesse the gate of his enemies 61 And Rebecca arose and her damselles and gat them vp vpon the Camelles and folowed the man and the seruaunt toke Rebecca and went his waye 62 And Isahac was commyng from the waye of the well of the lyuyng and seeyng me for he dwelt in the South countrey 63 And Isahac was gone out to pray in the fielde at the euentide and he lift vp his eyes and saw the Camelles commyng 64 And Rebecca lyft vp her eyes when she sawe Isahac she lyghted of the Camell 65 For she said vnto the seruaunt what man is this that commeth walkyng against vs in the fielde And the seruaunt sayd it is my maister therfore she toke her vayle and couered her 66 And the seruaunt tolde Isahac all thinges that he had done 67 And Isahac brought her into his mother Saraes tent and toke Rebecca and she became his wife and he loued her and so Isahac
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Chapter 1 Ioseph commaundeth his cuppe to be put in the sacke of Beniamin 4 The cuppe is attached in the sacke of Beniamin 13 Ioseph accuseth his brethren of theft 18 The oration of Iudas vnto Ioseph 1 AND he commaunded the ruler of his house saying fill the mens sackes with foode as much as they can cary put euery mans mony in his sackesmouth 2 And put my cup my siluer cup in the sackes mouth of the youngest and his corne money also And he did according to the worde that Ioseph had saide 3 And in the morning assoone as it was lyght the men were let go they and their asses 4 And when they were out of the citie and not yet farre away Ioseph sayde vnto the ruler of his house vp and folowe after the men when thou doest ouertake them thou shalt say vnto them wherfore haue ye rewarded euyl for good 5 Is not that the cuppe in the whiche my Lord drinketh and for the which he consulteth with the propheciers Ye haue euill done that ye haue done 6 And when he ouertoke them he sayd the same wordes vnto them 7 And they aunswered him wherfore sayeth my Lorde suche wordes God forbid that thy seruauntes should do so 8 Beholde the money which we founde in our sackes mouthes we brought agayne vnto thee out of the land of Chanaan howe then shoulde we steale out of thy Lordes house eyther siluer or golde 9 With whomsoeuer of thy seruauntes it be founde let him dye and we also wyll be my Lordes bondmen 10 And he said Nowe also let it be according vnto your wordes he with whom it is founde shal be my seruaunt and ye shal be blamelesse 11 And at once euery man toke downe his sacke to the ground and euery man opened his sacke 12 And he searched and began at the eldest and left at the youngest and the cuppe was founde in Beniamins sacke 13 Then they rent theyr clothes and laded euery maÌ his asse and went againe vnto the citie 14 And Iuda and his brethren came to Iosephes house for he was yet there and they fell before him on the ground 15 And Ioseph sayde vnto them what deede is this that ye haue done Wote ye not that suche a man as I do consult with propheciers 16 Then saide Iuda what shall we say vnto my lorde What shall we speake or howe shall we cleare our selues God hath founde out the wickednes of thy seruauntes beholde we are my lordes seruauntes both we yea and he also with whom the cup is founde 17 And he aunswered God forbid that I shoulde do so but the man with whoÌ the cup is found he shal be my seruaunt and get ye hence vp in peace vnto your father 18 Then Iuda went vnto him and said Oh my lorde let thy seruaunt I pray thee speake a worde in my lordes eares and be not inflamed with wrath agaynst thy seruaunt for thou art euen as Pharao 19 My lorde asked his seruauntes saying haue ye a father or a brother 20 And we aunswered my lorde we haue a father that is olde and a young lad which he begat in his age and the brother of the sayd lad is dead and he is all that is left of his mother and his father loueth him 21 And thou saidest vnto thy seruauntes bryng him vnto me that I may set my eyes vpon him 22 And we aunswered my Lorde that the lad could not go from his father for if he shoulde leaue his father he were but dead 23 Then saydest thou vnto thy seruauntes except your youngest brother come with you loke that ye see my face no more 24 And when we came vnto thy seruaunt our father we shewed hym the wordes of my Lorde 25 And our father sayde vnto vs go agayne and bye vs a litle foode 26 And we aunswered we can not go downe neuerthelesse if our youngest brother be with vs then wyll we go downe for we may not see the mans face except our youngest brother be with vs. 27 And thy seruaunt our father sayd vnto vs ye knowe that my wyfe bare me two sonnes 28 And the one went out from me and I sayd of a suretie he is torne in peeces and I sawe him not since 29 And if ye take this also away from me and destruction come vnto him ye shall bryng my gray head with sorowe vnto the graue 30 Nowe therefore when I come to thy seruaunt my father and the lad be not with vs seing that his life hangeth by the laddes life 31 Then shall it come to passe that assoone as he seeth that the lad is not come he wyll dye so shall we thy seruauntes bryng the gray head of thy seruaunt our father with sorowe vnto the graue 32 For I thy seruaunt became suretie for the lad before my father and saide If I bryng hym not vnto thee agayne I shal beare the blame vnto my father all my lyfe long 33 Nowe therefore I pray thee let me thy seruaunt byde here for the lad and be my lordes bondman and let the lad go vp with his brethren 34 For howe can I go vp to my father if the ladde be not with me vnlesse I woulde see the wretchednesse that shall come on my father ¶ The .xlv. Chapter 1 Ioseph yeldeth him selfe to be knowen of his brothers 5 He comforteth them 8 Ioseph by the will of God beyng sent into Egypt is made gouernour ouer Egypt and sendeth for his father 15 He kysseth his brethren weepyng 16 Pharao commaundeth Iacob to be brought into Egypt 21 Ioseph geueth gyftes vnto his brethren 24 He exhorteth them vnto loue 26 It is tolde Iacob that his sonne Ioseph lyueth 1 IOseph coulde no longer refrayne before all theÌ that stoode by hym wherefore he cryed cause euery man to auoyde And there remayned no man with him whyle Ioseph vttered hym selfe vnto his brethren 2 And he wept aloude and the Egyptians and the house of Pharao heard 3 And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren I am Ioseph doth my father yet lyue And his brethren could not aunswere him they were so abashed at his presence 4 And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren come neare to me I pray you And they came neare And he said I am Ioseph your brother whoÌ ye solde into Egypt 5 Nowe therefore be not greeued herewith neither let it seeme a cruel thing in your eyes that ye solde me hyther for God did sende me before you to preserue lyfe 6 For this is the seconde yere of dearth in the lande and fiue more are behinde in the whiche there shall neyther be earyng nor haruest 7 Wherfore God sent me before you to preserue you a posteritie in the earth and to saue your liues by a great deliueraunce 8 So nowe it was not ye that sent me hyther but God
wyll be glad in his heart 15 Therfore thou shalt speake vnto him and put these wordes in his mouth and I wil be with thy mouth and with his mouth and wyll teache you what you ought to do 16 And he shal be thy spokesman vnto the people and he shal be euen he shal be to thee in steade of a mouth and thou shalt be to him in steade of God 17 And thou shalt take this rodde in thy hande wherewith thou shalt do miracles 18 Therfore Moyses went and returned to Iethro his father in law againe and said vnto him Let me go I pray thee nowe and turne agayne vnto my brethren which are in Egypt and see whether they be yet aliue And Iethro said to Moyses go in peace 19 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses in Madian Go and returne agayne into Egypt for all the men are dead whiche went about to kill thee 20 And Moyses toke his wyfe and his sonnes and put them on an asse and went agayne to Egypt And Moyses toke the rodde of God in his hande 21 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses When thou art entred and come into Egypt agayne see that thou do all the wonders before Pharao whiche I haue put in thy hand but I wyll hold his heart he shal not let the people go 22 And thou shalt saye vnto Pharao Thus sayeth the Lorde Israel is my sonne euen my first borne sonne 23 And I sayde vnto thee that thou let my sonne go that he may serue me And if thou refuse to let him go beholde I do slay thy sonne euen thy first borne 24 And it came to passe by the way in the Inne that the Lorde met hym and woulde haue kylled hym 25 And Sephora toke a stone and cut away the foreskin of her sonne and cast it at his feete and sayd a blooddy husbande art thou vnto me 26 Then he let him go and she sayde a blooddy husbande because of her circumcision 27 Then said the Lorde vnto Aaron go meete Moyses in the wyldernesse And he went and met him in the mounte of God and kissed him 28 And Moyses tolde Aaron all the wordes of the Lorde whiche had sent him and all the signes whiche he had charged him withall 29 So went Moyses and Aaron and gathered all the elders of the chyldren of Israel 30 And Aaron told all the wordes which the Lord had spoken vnto Moyses and did y e miracles in the sight of the people 31 And the people beleued And when they hearde that the Lorde had visited the children of Israel and had looked vpon their tribulation they bowed theÌ selues and worshipped ¶ The .v. Chapter 1 Moyses and Aaron go vnto Pharao 15 The gouernours ouer Israel crye out vnto Pharao 20 Moyses and Aaron accused of the people 22 Moyses complayneth to God 1 MOyses and Aaron went in afterward and told Pharao Thus sayeth the Lorde God of Israel let my people go that they maye holde a feast vnto me in the wyldernesse 2 And Pharao sayde who is the Lorde that I shoulde heare his voyce and let Israel go I knowe not the Lorde neyther wyll I let Israel go 3 And they sayde The God of the Hebrewes is called ouer vs let vs go we pray thee three dayes iourney into the desert and do sacrifice vnto the Lorde our God lest he smyte vs with pestilence or with the sworde 4 Then saide the kyng of Egypt vnto them wherfore do ye Moyses and Aaron let the people from their workes get you vnto your burthens 5 And Pharao sayde furthermore beholde there is much people nowe in the lande and you make them leaue theyr burthens 6 And Pharao coÌmaunded the same day y e taskmaisters which were amongest the people and the officers saying 7 Ye shall geue the people no more strawe to make brycke withal as ye did in tyme passed let them go and gather them strawe them selues 8 And the number of bricke which they were wont to make in tyme passed lay vnto their charges also and minishe nothing therof for they be idell and therfore crye saying we wyll go and do sacrifice vnto our God 9 They must haue more worke layed vpon them that they may labour therin and not regarde vayne wordes 10 Then went the taskemaisters of the people and the officers out and tolde the people saying Thus sayeth Pharao I wyll geue you no more strawe 11 Go your selues and gather you straw where ye can finde it yet shall none of your labour be minished 12 And so were the people scattered abrode throughout all y e land of Egypt for to gather stubble in steade of strawe 13 And the taskemaisters hasted them forwarde saying fulfyll your worke your dayly taskes in their due tyme as if you had strawe 14 And the officers of the children of Israel which Pharaos taskemasters had set ouer them were beaten And they sayde vnto them wherfore haue ye not fulfilled your taske in makyng of brycke both yesterday and to day as well as in tymes past 15 The officers also of the children of Israel came complayned vnto Pharao saying Wherfore dealest thou thus with thy seruauntes 16 There is no strawe geuen vnto thy seruauntes and they say vnto vs make brycke and thy seruauntes are beaten and the fault is thyne owne people 17 He sayde you are idle idle are you and therfore you say we will go and do sacrifice vnto the Lorde 18 Go therfore nowe worke and there shall no strawe be geuen you yet shall ye deliuer the whole tale of bricke 19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in worse case after it was sayde ye shall minishe nothyng of your brycke of your dayly taske in due tyme 20 And they met Moyses and Aaron which stoode in their way as they came out from Pharao 21 And saide vnto them The Lorde looke vpon you iudge you which hath made the sauour of vs to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharao and in the eyes of his seruauntes and haue put a sworde in their hande to slay vs. 22 Moyses returned vnto the Lorde and sayd Lorde wherfore hast thou so euyll intreated this people And wherfore hast thou sent me 23 For since I came to Pharao to speake in thy name he hath fared foule with this folke and yet thou hast not deliuered thy people at all ¶ The .vj. Chapter 1 God remembreth his promisses 5 God promiseth deliueraunce and the land of Chanaan 9 The people of Israel be not contented with the warninges of Moyses 10 Moyses and Aaron are sent to Pharao 14 The descentes of Ruben 16 The descent of Leui. 20 Amram the father of Moyses and Aaron 23 Aaron the father of Nadab and Abiu 25 Eleazer father of Phinees 29 Moyses is commaunded to speake to Pharao 1 THen the Lorde sayde
shall dye and the ryuer shall corrupt and it shall greeue the Egyptians to drinke of the water of the ryuer 19 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses say vnto Aaron Take thy rodde and stretche out thyne hand ouer the waters of Egypt ouer their streames ouer their riuers and pondes and all pooles of water whiche they haue that they may be blood and that there may be blood throughout all y e lande of Egypt both in vesselles of wood also of stone 20 And Moyses and Aaron did euen as the Lorde commaunded and he lyfte vp the rodde and smote the waters that were in the ryuer in the sight of Pharao and in the sight of his seruauntes and all the water that was in the ryuer turned into blood 21 And the fishe that was in the ryuer dyed and the ryuer corrupted and the Egyptians coulde not drinke of the waters of the ryuer and there was blood throughout all the lande of Egypt 22 And the enchaunters of Egypt dyd lykewyse with their sorceries and he heardened Pharaos heart neyther did he hearken vnto them as the Lorde had sayde 23 And Pharao turned him selfe and went agayne into his house and set not his heart thervnto 24 And the Egyptians dygged rounde about the ryuer for water to drinke for they coulde not drinke of the water of the ryuer 25 And it continued seuen dayes after that the Lorde had smyten the ryuer ¶ The .viij. Chapter 2 Frogges 8 Pharao prayeth Moyses to pray for hym 12 Moyses prayeth for Pharao 15 Pharao is hardened 16 Lyce in man and beast 20 Flyes or all kynde of wylde fierce and noysome beastes 25 Pharao intreateth Moyses to pray for hym 32 Pharao is hardened 1 THE Lorde spake vnto Moyses go vnto Pharao tell hym Thus sayeth the Lord Let my people go that they may serue me 2 And if thou refuse to let them go beholde I wyll smyte all thy borders with frogges 3 And the riuer shall scraule with frogges whiche shall go vp and come into thine house and into thy priuie chaumber where thou slepest and vpon thy bed into the house of thy seruauntes and vpon thy people and into thyne ouens and vpon al thy vitayles in store 4 And the frogges shall come vp vppon thee and on thy people and vpon all thy seruauntes 5 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses say vnto Aaron stretch foorth thyne hande with thy rod ouer the streames ouer the ryuers and ouer the pondes and cause frogges to come vp vpon the lande of Egypt 6 And Aaron stretched his hande ouer y e waters of Egypt the frogges came vp and couered the lande of Egypt 7 And the sorcerers did likewise with their sorcerie and brought frogges vp vpon the lande of Egypt 8 Then Pharao called for Moyses and Aaron and sayde pray ye vnto the Lorde that he maye take away the frogges from me and from my people and I will let the people go that they may do sacrifice vnto the Lorde 9 And Moyses sayde vnto Pharao glory herein because of me and appoynt when I shall pray for thee and for thy seruauntes and for thy people to dryue away the frogges from thee and thy houses and they may remayne but in the ryuer onlye 10 He sayd to morowe And he sayde euen as thou hast said that thou mayest knowe that there is none like vnto the Lorde our God 11 And so the frogges shall depart from thee and from thy houses from thy seruauntes and from thy people and shall remayne in the ryuer onlye 12 Moyses and Aaron went out from Pharao and Moyses cryed vnto the Lorde as touching the frogges whiche he had brought against Pharao 13 And the Lorde dyd accordyng to the saying of Moyses and the frogges dyed out of the houses out of the courtes and fieldes 14 And they gathered them together vppon heapes and the lande had an euill smell through them 15 But when Pharao sawe that he had rest geuen him he hardened his heart and hearkened not vnto them as the Lorde had sayde 16 And the Lord sayd vnto Moses Say vnto Aaron Stretche out thy rod and smyte the dust of the lande that it may be turned to lyce throughout all the lande of Egypt 17 And they did so for Aaron stretched out his hande with his rodde and smote the dust of the earth whiche turned to lyce in man and beast so that all the dust of the lande turned to lyce throughout all the lande of Egypt 18 And the enchaunters assayed likewise with their enchauntmeÌtes to bring foorth lyce but they coulde not and the lyce were both vpon men beastes 19 Then said the enchaunters vnto Pharao this is the finger of God And Pharaos heart remayned obstinate and he hearkened not vnto them euen as the Lorde had sayde 20 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses ryse vp early in the mornyng and stand before Pharao lo he wyll come foorth vnto the water and thou shalt say vnto him Thus sayeth the Lorde Let my people go that they may serue me 21 Els if thou wylt not let my people go behold I will send all maner of flyes both vpon thee and thy seruauntes and thy people into thy houses and the houses of the Egyptians shal be full of flyes and the ground wheron they are 22 And the land of Gosen where my people are will I cause to be wonderfull in that day so that there shal no flyes be there wherby thou shalt know that I am the Lorde in the myddest of the earth 23 And I will put a diuision betweene my people and thine and euen to morowe shall this miracle be done 24 And the Lord dyd euen so there came an intollerable swarme of flyes into the house of Pharao and into his seruauntes houses and into all the land of Egypt and the land was corrupt with these flyes 25 And Pharao called for Moyses and Aaron and sayd Go and do sacrifice vnto your God in this lande 26 And Moyses aunswered It is not meete that we so do for we must offer vnto the Lorde our God that which is an abhomination vnto the Egyptians Lo if we sacrifice that which is an abhomination vnto the Egyptians before theyr eyes wyl they not stone vs 27 We wyll go three dayes iourney into the desert and sacrifice vnto the Lorde our God as he hath coÌmaunded vs. 28 And Pharao sayd I will let you go that ye may sacrifice vnto the Lorde your God in the wyldernesse but go not farre away pray for me 29 And Moyses sayd beholde I will go out from thee and pray vnto the Lord that the flyes may depart from Pharao and from his seruauntes and from his people to morowe but let Pharao from hence foorth deale deceiptfully no more that he wyll
Egypt foure hundreth and thirtie yeres 43 The maner of celebratyng the Passouer 1 AND the Lorde spake vnto Moyses and Aaron in the lande of Egypt saying 2 This moneth shal be vnto you y e begynnyng of monethes and the first moneth of the yere shall it be vnto you 3 Speake ye vnto all the congregation of Israel saying In the tenth daye of this moneth euery man take vnto hym a lambe according to y e house of the fathers a lambe throughout euery house 4 If the houshold be to litle for y e lambe let hym take his neyghbour whiche is next vnto his house accordyng to the number of the soules euery one of you accordyng to his eatyng shal make your compt for a lambe 5 And let the lambe of yours be without blemishe a male of a yere olde whiche ye shal take out from among the sheepe and from among the goates 6 And ye shall kepe hym in vntyll the fourteenth day of the same moneth and euery assemble of the congregation of Israel shall kyll hym about euen 7 And they shall take of the blood and stryke it on the two syde postes and on the vpper doore post euen in the houses where they shall eate hym 8 And they shall eate the fleshe the same nyght rost with fire and with vnleauened bread and with sowre hearbes they shall eate it 9 See that ye eate not therof rawe nor sodden with water but roste with fire the head feete and purtenaunce therof 10 And ye shall let nothyng of it remayne vnto the morning That which remayneth of it vntyll the morowe shall ye burne with fire 11 Of this maner shall ye eate it with your loynes girded and your shooes on your feete and your staffe in your hand and ye shall eate it in haste for it is the Lordes passouer 12 For I wyll passe through the lande of Egypt this same nyght and wyll smyte all the first borne of Egypt from man to beast and vpon all the gods of Egypt I wyll execute iudgement I am the Lorde 13 And the blood shal be vnto you a token in the houses wherin you are and wheÌ I see the blood I wyll passe ouer you and the plague shall not be vpon you to destroy you when I smyte the lande of Egypt 14 And this day shal be vnto you a remeÌbraunce and you shall kepe it an holy feast vnto the Lorde throughout your generations ye shall kepe it holy for an ordinaunce for euer 15 Seuen dayes shal ye eate vnleauened bread so that euen the first day ye put away leauen out of your house For who so euer eateth leauened bread from the first daye vntyll the seuenth daye that soule shal be rooted out of Israel 16 The first day shal be a holy conuocation and the seuenth day shal be an holy conuocation vnto you there shal be no maner of worke done in theÌ saue about that only which euery man must eate that only may ye do 17 And ye shal obserue the feast of vnleauened bread for this same day haue I brought your armies out of the lande of Egypt therefore ye shall obserue this day and all your chyldren after you by an euerlastyng decree 18 The first moneth and the fourteenth daye of the moneth at euen ye shall eate vnleauened bread vnto the .xxi. day of the same moneth at euen againe 19 Seuen dayes shal ther be no leauened bread founde in your houses and whosoeuer eateth leauened bread that soule shal be rooted out from the congregatioÌ of Israel whether he be straunger or borne in the lande 20 Ye shall eate nothyng leauened but in all your habitations shall ye eate vnleauened bread 21 Moyses called for the elders of Israel and sayde vnto them Choose out and take you to euery housholde of you a lambe and kyll the passouer 22 And take a bunche of Isope and dip it in the blood that is in the bason strike the vpper post of the doore and the two syde postes with the blood that is in the bason none of you go out at the doore of his house vntyll the mornyng 23 For the Lord wyll passe ouer to smyte the Egyptians and when he seeth the blood vpon the vpper doore post and the two syde postes he wyll passe ouer the doore and wyll not suffer the destroyer to come into your house to plague you 24 Therfore shall ye obserue this thyng for an ordinaunce to thee thy sonnes for euer 25 And when ye be come to the lande whiche the Lorde wyll geue you accordyng as he hath promised ye shall kepe this seruice 26 And when your chyldren aske you what maner of seruice is this ye do 27 Ye shall saye it is the sacrifice of the Lordes passouer whiche passed ouer the houses of the chyldren of Israel in Egypt and he smote the Egyptians and saued our houses And the people bowed them selues and worshipped 28 And the chyldren of Israel went and dyd as the Lorde hadde commaunded Moyses and Aaron euen so dyd they 29 And at mydnyght the Lorde smote the first borne in the lande of Egypt froÌ the first borne of Pharao that sate on his seate vntyl the first borne of the captiue that was in prison and all the firste gendred of cattell 30 And Pharao rose in the nyght he and his seruauntes and all the Egyptians and there was a great crye in Egypt for there was not a house where there was not one dead 31 And he called vnto Moyses and AaroÌ by nyght saying Ryse vp and get you out from amongst my people both you and also the chyldren of Israel and go and serue the Lorde as ye haue sayde 32 And take your sheepe and your droues with you as ye haue sayde and depart and blesse me 33 And the Egyptians were fierce vpon the people that they myght sende them out of the lande in haste for they sayde we be all but dead men 34 And the people toke there dowgh before it was sowred whiche they had in store being bounde in clothes vpon their shoulders 35 And the chyldren of Israel dyd accordyng to the saying of Moyses and they borowed of the Egyptians iewels of siluer and iewels of golde and rayment 36 And the Lord gaue the people fauour in the syght of the Egyptians so that they graunted such thynges as they required And they robbed the Egyptians 37 And the children of Israel toke their iourney from Rameses to Suchoth sixe hundred thousand men of foote besyde chyldren 38 And a great multitude of sundry other nations weÌt also with them and sheepe and oxen and exceedyng much cattell 39 And they baked vnleauened cakes of the dowgh whiche they brought out of Egypt for it was not sowred For they were thrust out of Egypt and could not tary nether had they prepared for them selues any prouision of meate 40 The dwellyng of the chyldren of Israel which they dwelled in Egypt
and with thy sheepe seuen dayes it shal be with the damme the eyght day thou shalt geue it me 30 Ye shal be an holy people vnto me neither shall ye eate any fleshe that is torne of beastes in the fielde but shall cast it to a dogge ¶ The .xxiij. Chapter 1 A lye 2 An vpright Iudge 3 and 6 A poore person 7 An innocent 8 Gyftes 9 A pilgrime 12 The sabboth of the seuenth day 15 The feast of the passeouer in Marche 16 The feast of the fiftith day of tabernacles in September 18 Blood 19 Fyrst fruites 20 The Angell leadyng the people of Israel 24 Straunge gods not to be prayed vnto 25 To serue God blessing infirmitie 26 The baren 29 Wherefore God dyd cast out the Chanaanites by litle and litle 1 THou shalt not haue to do with any false report neither shalt thou put thine hand with the wicked to be an vnrighteous witnesse 2 Thou shalt not folow a multitude to do euill neither shalt thou speake in a matter of iustice according to the greater number for to peruert iudgement 3 Neither shalt thou esteeme a poore man in his cause 4 If thou meete thyne enemies oxe or asse goyng astray thou shalt bryng them to him agayne 5 If thou see the asse of him that hateth thee sincke vnder his burthen thou shalt not passe by and let him alone but shalt helpe hym to lyft hym vp agayne 6 Thou shalt not hinder the right of thy poore in his suite 7 Kepe thee farre from a false matter and the innocent and righteous see thou slay not for I wyll not iustifie the wicked 8 Thou shalt take no gyftes for gyftes blinde the seyng and peruert the wordes of the righteous 9 Thou shalt not oppresse a straunger for ye know the heart of a straunger seyng ye were straungers in the lande of Egypt 10 Sixe yeres thou shalt sowe thy lande and gather in the fruites therof 11 And the seuenth yere thou shalt let it rest and lie styll that the poore of thy people may eate And what they leaue the beastes of the fielde shall eate In lyke maner thou shalt deale with thy vineyarde and thyne oliue tree 12 Sixe daies thou shalt do thy worke and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest that thyne oxe and thyne asse may rest and the sonne of thy mayde and the straunger may be refreshed 13 In all thinges that I haue saide vnto you be circumspect and make no rehearsall of the names of straunge gods neither let it be hearde out of thy mouth 14 Three feastes thou shalt holde vnto me in a yere 15 Thou shalt kepe the feast of vnleauened bread thou shalt eate vnleauened bread seuen daies long as I commaunded thee in the tyme appoynted of the moneth Abib for in that moneth ye came out of Egypt and see that no man appeare before me emptie 16 And the feast of haruest when thou reapest the first fruites of thy laboures whiche thou hast sowen in the fielde And the feast of in gathering whiche is in the end of the yere when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field 17 These three times in the yere shall all thy men chyldren appeare before the Lorde God 18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice vpon leauened bread neither shall the fat of my feast remayne vntyll the mornyng 19 The first of the first fruites of thy land thou shalt bryng into the house of the Lorde thy God thou shalt not seethe a kydde in his mothers mylke 20 Behold I sende an angell before thee to kepe thee in the way and to bryng thee into the place whiche I haue prepared 21 Beware of hym and heare his voyce and resist him not for he wyll not spare your misdeedes and my name is in him 22 But and if thou shalt in deede hearken vnto his voyce do al that I speake I wylbe an enemie vnto thyne enemies an aduersarie vnto thine aduersaries 23 For myne angell shall go before thee and bryng thee in vnto the Amorites and Hethites and Pharezites Chanaanites Heuites and Iebusites and I shall destroy them 24 Thou shalt not bowe downe to their gods neither serue theÌ neither do after y e workes of them but ouerthrowe theÌ and breake downe the images of them 25 And ye shall serue the Lord your God and he shall blesse thy bread and thy water and I wyll take all sicknesses away from the middest of thee 26 There shall no woman haue any vntymely byrth nor be vnfruitefull in thy lande the number of thy dayes I wyll fulfill 27 I will sende my feare before thee and wyll destroy all the people whyther thou shalt go I wyll make all thine enemies turne theyr backes vnto thee 28 And I wyll sende hornettes before thee which shall driue out the Heuites the Chanaanites and the Hethites before thee 29 Neuerthelesse I wyll not cast them out before thee in one yere lest the land growe to a wyldernesse and the beast of the fielde multiplie agaynst thee 30 By litle and litle I wyll dryue them out before thee vntyl thou be increased and inherite the lande 31 And I wyll make thy coastes from the red sea vnto the sea of the Philistines and from the desert vnto the riuer For I wyll deliuer the inhabitours of the lande into thyne hand and thou shalt driue them out before thee 32 Thou shalt make no couenaunt with them nor with theyr gods 33 Neither let them dwell in thy lande lest they make thee sinne against me for if thou serue their gods it wyll surely be thy decay ¶ The .xxiiii. Chapter 1 Moyses is commaunded to go vp vnto the mounte 4 Moyses wryteth the wordes of God into one volume and readeth them vnto the people 1 ANd he said vnto Moyses Come vp vnto the Lorde thou and Aaron Nadab and Abihu the threscore and ten elders of Israel and ye shall worship a farre of 2 And Moyses hym selfe alone shall go vnto the Lorde but they shall not come nygh neither shall the people go vp with hym 3 And Moyses came and tolde the people all the wordes of the Lorde and all the iudgementes And all the people aunswered with one voyce and sayde All the wordes whiche the Lorde hath sayde wyll we do 4 And Moyses wrote all the wordes of the Lord and rose vp early and set him an aulter vnder the hill and .xii. stones according to the .xii. tribes of Israel 5 And sent young men of the children of Israel whiche brought burnt offeringes and offered peace offeringes of oxen vnto the Lorde 6 And Moyses toke halfe of the blood and put it in basins and the other halfe he spinckled on the aulter 7 And he toke the booke of the couenauÌt read it in the
the holy day of the Lorde 6 And they rose vp in the mornyng and offered burnt offeringes and brought peace offeringes also and the people sat them downe to eate and drinke and rose vp agayne to play 7 And the Lord sayd vnto Moyses Go get thee downe thy people which thou broughtest out of the lande of Egypt hath marred all 8 They are turned quickly out of the way whiche I commaunded them for they haue made them a calfe of moulten mettall and haue worshipped it and haue offred thervnto saying These be thy goddes O Israel whiche haue brought thee out of the lande of Egypt 9 And the Lorde sayd vnto Moyses I haue seene this people and beholde it is a styfnecked people 10 And nowe suffer me that my wrath may waxe whot against them and consume them and I wyll make of thee a mightie people 11 And Moyses besought the Lorde his God and sayd O Lord why doth thy wrath waxe whot agaynst thy people whiche thou hast brought out of the lande of Egypt with great power and with a mightie hande 12 Wherfore should the Egyptians speake and say For a mischiefe dyd he bryng them out euen for to slay them in the mountaynes to consume them from the face of the earth Turne from thy fierce wrath and repent of this euyll deuise agaynst thy people 13 Remember Abraham Isahac and Israel thy seruauntes to whom thou swarest by thy owne selfe and saydest vnto them I wyll multiplie your seede as the starres of heauen and all this lande that I haue spoken of wyll I geue vnto your seede and they shall inherite it for euer 14 And the Lorde refrayned hym selfe from the euill whiche he sayd he would do vnto his people 15 And Moyses turned his backe went downe from the hyll the two tables of the testimonie were in his hande 16 And the same tables were written in both the leaues euen on the one side on the other were they written And these tables were the worke of God and the writing was the writing of God grauen in the tables 17 And when Iosuah hearde the noyse of the people as they showted he sayde vnto Moyses there is a noyse of warre in the hoast 18 And he aunswered It is not the crie of them that haue the masterie nor of theÌ that haue the worse but I do heare the noyse of them that sing 19 And assoone as he came nigh vnto the hoast he sawe the calfe and the daunsing and Moyses wrath waxed whot and he cast the tables out of his handes and brake them beneath the hyll 20 And he toke the calfe whiche they had made and burned it in the fire stampt it into pouder strawed it in the water made the childreÌ of Israel drinke of it 21 And Moyses said vnto Aaron What did this people vnto thee that thou hast brought so great a sinne vpon them 22 And Aaron aunswered Let not the wrath of my Lorde waxe fierce thou knowest the people that they are euen set on mischiefe 23 For they sayde vnto me Make vs goddes to go before vs for we wote not what is become of Moyses the man that brought vs out of y e land of Egypt 24 And I said vnto them Let them that haue gold plucke it of And thei brought it vnto me and I did cast it into the fire and therof came out this calfe 25 Moyses therfore sawe that the people were naked and that Aaron had made them naked vnto their shame amongest their enemies 26 And Moyses stode in the gate of the hoast and sayd Who pertayneth to the Lorde let hym come vnto me And all the sonnes of Leui gathered theÌselues together vnto hym 27 And he said vnto them Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel Put euery maÌ his sworde by his side and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the hoast and slay euery man his brother euery man his companion and euery man his neighbour 28 And the chyldreÌ of Leui dyd as Moyses had said And there fel of the people y e same day about three thousande men 29 And Moyses sayd Fill your handes vnto the Lord this day euery man vpoÌ his sonne vpoÌ his brother that there may be geuen you a blessing this day 30 And on the morowe Moyses said vnto y e people Ye haue sinned a great sinne And nowe I will go vp vnto the Lord peraduenture I may purchase an attonement for your sinne 31 Moyses therefore went agayne vnto the Lorde and sayde Oh this people haue sinned a great sinne and haue made them gods of golde 32 And nowe forgeue them their sinne or if thou wylt not wype me I pray thee out of thy booke whiche thou hast written 33 And the Lorde sayd vnto Moyses I wyll put hym out of my booke that hath sinned agaynst me 34 And nowe go thou bryng the people vnto the place whiche I said vnto thee behold mine angell shal go before thee Neuerthelater in that day when I visite I wyl visite their sinne vpoÌ them 35 And the Lorde plagued the people because they made the calfe whiche Aaron made ¶ The .xxxiii. Chapter 1 God geueth the people an angell to guyde them 3 God refuseth to go vp with his people 4 The people mourneth 7 The tabernacle of the congregation or of the couenaunt 9 Moyses talketh with God familiarly 12 He requireth God to be with him in reducing the people and the way to be shewed him To finde grace before God 17 Moyses is mercyfully hearde 18 He desireth to see the glory of God 22 He is bydden to stande in a rocke 1 AND the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses Depart and go vp hence thou and the people whiche thou hast brought out of the lande of Egypt vnto the land which I sware vnto Abraham Isahac Iacob saying vnto thy seede wyll I geue it 2 And I will send an angell before thee and I wyll cast out the Chanaanites the Amorites the Hethites the Pherezites the Heuites and the Iebusites 3 Vnto a lande that floweth with mylke and hony For I wyll not go amongest you my selfe for ye are a styfnecked people lest I consume thee in the way 4 And when the people hearde this euil tidinges they sorowed and no man dyd put on his best rayment 5 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses Say vnto the chyldren of Israel ye are a styfnecked people I must come once sodaynly vpon you and make an ende of you therefore nowe put thy goodly rayment from thee that I may wyt what to do vnto thee 6 And the children of Israel layde their goodly rayment from them euen by the mount Horeb. 7 And Moyses toke the tabernacle and pitched it without the hoast a farre of from the hoast and called it the tabernacle of the congregation And so it came to passe that euery one whiche woulde pray vnto the Lorde went out
vnto the tabernacle of the congregation whiche was without the hoast 8 And when Moyses went out vnto the tabernacle all the people rose vp and stode euery man at his tent doore and loked after Moyses vntill he was gone into the tabernacle 9 And assoone as Moyses was entred into the tabernacle the cloudie piller descended and stode at the doore of the tabernacle and he talked with Moyses 10 And all the people sawe the cloudie piller stand at the tabernacle doore and they rose vp and worshipped euery man in his tent doore 11 And the Lord spake vnto Moyses face to face as a man speaketh vnto his freende And he turned agayne into the hoast but the young man Iosuah his seruaunt the sonne of Nun departed not out of the tabernacle 12 And Moyses said vnto the Lord See thou sayest vnto me Leade this people foorth thou hast not shewed me whoÌ thou wylt send with me And thou hast sayd moreouer I knowe thee by name thou hast also found grace in my sight 13 Nowe therfore if I haue founde fauour in thy sight then I pray thee shew me thy way that I may know thee and that I may finde grace in thy sight and consider also that this nation is thy people 14 And he said My presence shall go with thee and I wyll geue thee rest 15 He sayd vnto hym If thy presence go not with me cary vs not hence 16 For howe shall it be knowen here that I and thy people haue founde fauour in thy sight but in that thou goest with vs If thou goest with vs shall not I and thy people haue preeminence before all the people that are vpon the face of the earth 17 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses I wyll do this also that thou hast sayd for thou hast founde grace in my sight and I knowe thee by name 18 And he sayde I beseche thee shewe me thy glorie 19 Who aunswered I wyll make all my good go before thee I wyll call in the name of Iehouah before thee and wyl shewe mercy to whom I wyll shewe mercy and wyll haue compassion on whom I wyll haue compassion 20 And he said furthermore Thou mayest not see my face for there shall no man see me and lyue 21 And the Lorde sayd Beholde there is a place by me and thou shalt stande vpon a rocke 22 And whyle my glory goeth foorth I wyll put thee in a clyft of the rocke and will put my hand vpon thee while I passe by 23 And I wyll take away myne hande and thou shalt see my backe partes but my face shall not be seene The .xxxiiij. Chapter 1 God byddeth Moyses to prepare newe tables 6 The names of God 8 Moyses entreateth God to go with the people commendyng Gods mercy 11 God promiseth the lande of Chanaan 12 Company kepyng with the Gentiles and idolatrie is forbidden 17 goddes made of mettall 18 The solemnitie of sweete bread 19 Of the first borne 21 The Sabboth 22 The feast of Pentecoste and of tabernacles 26 The first fruites 28 The fast of Moyses The ten wordes 29 The face of Moyses horned 33 A vayle ouer the face of Moyses 1 ANd the Lord saide vnto Moyses hewe thee two tables of stone like vnto the first and I wyll wryte vpon these tables y e wordes that were in the first tables whiche thou brakest 2 And be redy in the morning and come vp early vnto the mount of Sinai and thou shalt stande there for me in the top of the mount 3 There shall no man come vp with thee neither let any man be seene thorowout al the mount neither let sheepe nor oxen feede before the hyll 4 And Moyses hewed two tables of stone like vnto the first and rose vp earlye in the mornyng and went vp vnto the mount Sinai as the Lorde had commaunded hym toke in his hande the two tables of stone 5 And the Lord descended in the cloude and stode with him there and he called vpon the name of the Lorde 6 And the Lorde passed by before hym and cryed Lorde Lorde God strong mercyfull and gracious long suffering and aboundaunt in goodnes trueth 7 And kepyng mercy in store for thousandes forgeuing wickednes vngodlynes and sinne and not leauing one innocent visiting the wickednes of the fathers vpon the chyldren and vpon the chyldrens chyldren euen vnto the third and fourth generation 8 And Moyses made haste and bowed hym selfe to the earth and worshipped 9 And sayd If I haue founde grace in thy sight O Lorde then let my Lorde I pray thee go in the middest of vs for it is a styfnecked people and thou shalt haue mercy vpon our wickednes and our sinne and shalt take vs for thine inheritaunce 10 And he said Beholde I make a couenaunt before all thy people I will do meruayles such as haue not ben done in all the worlde neither in all nations all the people amongest whiche thou art shall see the worke of the Lorde for it is a terrible thyng that I wyll do with thee 11 Kepe diligently those thinges that I commaunde thee this day Beholde I cast out before thee the Amorites Chanaanites Hethites Pherezites Heuites and Iebusites 12 Take heede to thy self lest thou make any compact with the inhabitours of the lande whyther thou goest lest they be cause of ruine amongest you 13 But ouerthrowe their aulters and breake their images and cut downe their groues 14 Thou shalt worship no straunge God for the Lorde is called ielous because he is a ielous God 15 Lest if thou make any agreement with the inhabitours of the lande and they go a whoring after their gods and do sacrifice vnto their gods they call thee and thou eate of theyr sacrifice 16 And thou take of their daughters vnto thy sonnes and their daughters go a whoryng after their gods and make thy sonnes go a whoryng after their gods also 17 Thou shalt make thee no gods of mettall 18 The feast of vnleauened bread shalt thou kepe Seuen daies thou shalt eate vnleauened bread as I commaunded thee in the tyme of the moneth Abib for in the moneth Abib thou camest out of Egypt 19 All that openeth the matrice is myne and al that breaketh the matrice amongest thy cattell if it be male whether it be oxe or sheepe 20 But the firstling of the asse thou shalt bye out with a lambe and if thou redeeme hym not thou shalt breake his necke All the first borne of thy sonnes thou shalt redeeme see that no man appeare before me emptie 21 Sixe dayes thou shalt worke and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest both from earyng and reapyng 22 Thou shalt obserue the feast of weekes with thy first fruites of wheate haruest and the feast of ingatheryng at the yeres ende 23 Thryse in a yere shall all your men chyldren appeare before the Lorde Iehouah God of Israel 24 For I
from among their people 30 Therefore shall ye kepe myne ordinaunces that ye commit not one of these abhominable customes whiche were committed before you and that ye defile not your selues therein I am the Lorde your God ' ¶ The .xix. Chapter ' 1 A repetition of lawes pertaynyng to the ten commaundementes 9 A consideration for the poore 26 Witchcraft is forbidden ' 1 AND the Lorde spake ' vnto Moyses saying 2 Speake vnto all the congregation of y e chyldren of Israel and say vnto them Ye shal be holy for I the Lorde your God am holy 3 Ye shall feare euery man his mother and his father kepe my Sabbathes I am the Lorde your God 4 Ye shal not looke vnto idols nor make you moulten goddes I am the Lorde your God ' 5 If ye offer a peace offering vnto the ' Lorde ye shall offer it at your pleasure 6 It shal be eaten the same day ye offer it and on the morowe And if ought remayne vntyll the thirde day it shal be burnt in the fire 7 And if it be eaten the thirde day it is ' vncleane and not accepted ' 8 Therfore he that eateth it shall beare his sinne because he hath defiled the halowed thing of the Lord and that soule shal be cut of from among his people 9 When ye reape the haruest of your land thou shalt not thorowly reape the corners of the fielde neither shalt thou gather the gleaninges of thy haruest 10 Thou shalt not dishonest thy vineyarde neither gather in thorowly the grapes of thy vineyarde but thou shalt leaue them for the poore and straunger I am the Lorde your God 11 Ye shall not steale neither deale falselye ' neither lye one to another ' 12 Ye shall not sweare by my name falsely neither shalt thou defile the name of thy God I am the Lorde 13 Thou shalt not do thy neighbour wrong neither rob hym neither shall the workmans hyre abyde with thee vntyll the mornyng 14 Thou shalt not despise the deafe neither put a stumblyng blocke before the blynde but shalt feare thy God I am the Lorde 15 Ye shall do no vnrighteousnesse in iudgement thou shalt not fauour the person poore nor honour the person mightie but in righteousnes shalt thou iudge thy neighbour 16 Thou shalt not go vp and downe with tales among thy people neither shalt thou stande agaynst the blood of thy neighbour I am the Lorde 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thyne heart but shalt in any wyse rebuke thy neighbour suffer not sinne vpon hym 18 Thou shalt not auenge nor wayte to do displeasure agaynst the chyldren of thy people but shalt loue thy neighbour euen as thy selfe I am the Lorde 19 Ye shal kepe mine ordinaunces Thou shalt not let cattell gender with a contrary kinde neither sow thy fielde with mingled seede neither shalt thou put on any mingled garment of linnen and wollen 20 Whosoeuer lieth and medleth with a woman that is a bondmayde betrothed to a husbande but not redeemed nor freedome geueÌ her she shal be scourged but they shall not dye because she was not free 21 And he shall bryng for his trespasse vnto the Lorde before the doore of the tabernacle of y e congregation a Ramme for a trespasse offering 22 And the priest shall make an attonement for hym with the Ramme which is for the trespasse before the Lord concernyng his sinne whiche he hath done and the sinne which he hath done shal be forgeuen him 23 When ye come to the lande and haue planted all maner of trees conuenient to be eaten of ye shall counte the fruite thereof as vncircumcized euen three yere shall they be vncircumcized vnto you and shall not be eaten of 24 But in the fourth yere all the fruite of them shal be holy and commendable to the Lorde 25 In the fifth yere shall ye eate of the fruite thereof that it may yeelde vnto you the encrease thereof I am the Lorde your God 26 Ye shall not eate vpon blood neither shall ye vse witchcraft nor obserue tymes 27 Ye shall not rounde the corners of your heades neither shalt thou marre the tuftes of thy bearde 28 Ye shall not rent your fleshe for any soules sake nor print any markes vpon you I am the Lorde 29 Thou shalt not make thy daughter common that thou wouldest cause her to be an whore lest the lande also fall to whoredome and become ful of wickednesse 30 Ye shall kepe my Sabbathes feare my sanctuarie I am the Lorde 31 Ye shall not regarde them that worke with spirites neither seeke after soothsayers to be defiled by them I am the Lorde your God 32 Thou shalt ryse vp before the hore head and reuerence the face of the olde man and dreade thy God I am the Lorde 33 If a straunger soiourne with thee in your lande ye shall not vexe hym 34 But the straunger that dwelleth with you shal be as one of your owne nation and thou shalt loue hym as thy selfe for ye were straungers in the lande of Egypt I am the Lorde your God 35 Ye shall do no vnrighteousnesse in iudgement in metyarde in wayght or in measure 36 True balaunces true wayghtes a true Epha and a true Hin shal ye haue I am the Lorde your GOD whiche brought you out of the lande of Egypt 37 Therfore shall ye obserue all my ordinaunces and al my iudgementes and do them I am the Lorde ¶ The .xx. Chapter ' 2 They that geue of their chyldren to Moloch shall dye therfore 6 Against suche as seeke after Soothsayers 19 Of incest ' 1 AND the Lorde spake ' vnto Moyses saying 2 This shalt thou say to the chyldren of Israel whosoeuer he be of the chyldren of Israel or of the straungers that dwell in Israel that geueth of his chyldren vnto Moloch let hym be slayne the people of the lande shall ouerwhelme hym with stones 3 And I wyl set my face agaynst that man and wyll cut hym of from among his people because he hath geuen his chyldren vnto Moloch for to defile my sanctuarie to pollute my holy name 4 And though that the people of the lande hyde their eyes from the man that geueth his chyldren vnto Moloch and kyll hym not 5 I wyll put my face agaynst that man and agaynst his kynred and wyll cut hym of and all that go a whoring after hym to commit whordome with Moloch from among their people 6 If a soule turne hym selfe after suche as worke with spirites and after soothsayers to go a whoring after them I wyll put my face agaynst that soule and wyll cut hym of froÌ among his people ' 7 Sanctifie your selues therefore and ' be holy for I am the Lorde your God 8 Kepe ye myne ordinaunces and do them I am the Lorde whiche sanctifie you 9
blasphemed the name of the Lorde and cursed and they brought hym vnto Moyses His mothers name was Selomith which was the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan. 12 And they * put hym in warde that the minde of y e Lorde might be shewed theÌ 13 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses saying 14 Bryng the cursed speaker without the 46 And ye shall take them as inheritauÌce for your children after you to possesse them for an inheritaunce they shal be your bondmen for euer but ouer your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule one ouer another cruelly 47 If a soiourner or straunger waxe riche by thee and thy brother that dwelleth by hym waxe poore and sell hym selfe vnto the straunger or soiourner by thee or to the stocke of the straungers kinne 48 After that he is solde he may be redeemed agayne one of his brethren may redeeme hym 49 Either his vncle or his vncles sonne may bye hym out or any that is nye of kinne vnto hym of his kinred may redeeme hym either yf his hande can get so much he may be bought out 50 And he shall recken with hym that bought hym from the yere that he was solde in vnto the yere of Iubilee and the price of his beyng shal be accordyng vnto the number of yeres according to the tyme of an hired seruaunt shall he be with hym 51 If there be yet many yeres behynde accordyng vnto them let hym geue againe for his deliueraunce of the money that he was bought for 52 If there remayne but fewe yeres vnto the yere of Iubilee let hym count with hym agayne and accordyng vnto his yeres geue hym agayne for his redemption 53 And he shal be with hym yere by yere as an hired seruaunt and the other shal not raigne cruelly ouer him in thy sight 54 If he be not redeemed thus he shall go out in the yere of Iubilee both he and his children with hym 55 For vnto me the children of Israel are seruauntes they are my seruauntes which I brought out of the lande of Egypt I am the Lorde your God ¶ The .xxvj. Chapter 3 They are blessed that kepe those thynges that God biddeth 14 A curse to them that breake them 1 YE shall make you no idols nor graueÌ image neither reare you vp any piller neither shall ye set vp any image of stone in your lande to bowe downe vnto it for I am the Lorde your God 2 Ye shall kepe my Sabbathes and reuerence my sanctuarie for I am the Lorde 3 If ye walke in my ordinaunces and kepe my commaundementes do theÌ 4 I wyll sende you rayne in due season and the lande shall yeelde her increase and the trees of the fielde shall geue their fruite 5 And your thresshyng shal reache vnto the vintage the vintage shall reache vnto sowyng tyme and ye shall eate your bread in plenteousnesse and dwell in your lande safely 6 And I wyll sende peace in the lande and ye shall lye downe without any man to make you afrayde And I wyll ridde euyll beastes out of the lande and there shall no sworde go throughout your lande 7 And ye shall chase your enemies and they shal fall before you vpon y e sworde 8 And fiue of you shall chase an hundred and an hundred of you shall put ten thousande to flight your enemies shall fall before you vpon the sworde 9 For I wyll haue respect vnto you and make you increase and multiplie you and set vp my couenaunt with you 10 And ye shall eate olde store and cary out olde because of the newe 11 And I wyll make my dwellyng place among you and my soule shal not lothe you 12 I wyll walke among you and wil be your God and ye shal be my people 13 I am the Lorde your God which brought you out of the lande of Egypt that ye shoulde not be their bondmen and I haue broken the chaynes of your yoke and made you go vpright 14 But and if ye wyll not hearken vnto me nor wyll not do after these commaundementes 15 And yf ye shall dispise myne ordinaunces either if your soule abhorre my lawes so that ye wyll not do all my commaundementes but breake my couenaunt 16 I also wyll do this vnto you For I wyll bryng vpon you fearefulnesse consumption and the burnyng ague to consume your eyes and gender sorowe of heart And ye shall sowe your seede in vayne for your enemies shall eate it 17 And I wyll set my face agaynst you ye shall fall before your enemies they that hate you shal raigne ouer you and ye shall flee wheÌ no man foloweth you 18 And yf ye wyl not yet for all this hearken vnto me then wyll I punishe you seuen tymes more for your sinnes 19 And wyll breake the pride of your power and I wyll make your heauen as iron and your earth as brasse 20 And your labour shal be spent in vayne for your lande shall not geue her increase neither shall the trees of the lande geue their fruites 21 And if ye walke contrarie vnto me and wyll not hearken vnto me I wyll bryng seuen tymes mo plagues vpon you accordyng to your sinnes 22 I wyll also sende in wylde beastes vpon you which shall robbe you of your children and destroy your cattell and make you fewe in number and cause your hye wayes to be desolate 23 And if ye may not be refourmed by these thynges but shall walke contrary vnto me 24 Then wyll I also walke contrarie vnto you and wyl punishe you yet seuen tymes for your sinnes 25 And I wyll sende a sworde vpon you that shall auenge my couenaunt And when ye are gathered together within your cities I wyll sende the pestilence among you and ye shal be delyuered into the hande of the enemie 26 And wheÌ I haue broken the staffe of your bread ten wyues shall bake your bread in one ouen and they shall deliuer you your bread agayne by wayght ye shall eate and not be satisfied 27 And if ye wyl not yet for all this hearken vnto me but walke agaynst me 28 I wyll walke contrary vnto you also in indignation and wyll chastise you seuen tymes more for your sinnes 29 And ye shall eate the fleshe of your sonnes and the fleshe of your daughters shall ye deuour 30 I wyll destroy your hye places and cut away your images and cast your carkasses vpon y e bodyes of your idols and my soule shall abhorre you 31 And I wyll make your cities desolate and bring your sanctuarie vnto naught and wyll not smell the sauour of your sweete odours 32 I wyll bryng the lande vnto a wildernesse and your enemies which dwell therin shall wonder at it 33 And I wyll strowe you among the heathen and wyll drawe out a sworde after you and your lande shal be waste and your cities desolate 34 Then shall the lande enioy
you take ought from it that ye may kepe the coÌmaundementes of the Lord your God which I commaunde you 3 Your eyes haue seene what y e Lorde dyd agaynst Baal Peor for all the men that folowed Baall Peor the Lorde thy God hath destroyed from among you 4 But ye that cleaue vnto the Lord your god are aliue euery one of you this day 5 Beholde I haue taught you ordinaunces and lawes such as the Lorde my God coÌmaunded me that ye should do euen so in the lande whither ye go to possesse it 6 Kepe them therfore and do them for that is your wisdome and vnderstandyng in the syght of the people that they may heare all these ordinaunces and say Surely it is a wise and vnderstandyng people it is a great nation 7 For what other nation is so great that gods come so nye vnto as the Lorde our God is nye vnto vs in all thinges as oft as we call vnto hym 8 Yea and what nation is so great that hath ordinaunces lawes so righteous as all this lawe which I set before you this day 9 Take heede to thy selfe therefore and kepe thy soule diligently that thou forget not the thynges which thyne eyes haue seene and that they depart not out of thy heart all the dayes of thy life but teache them thy sonnes thy sonnes sonnes 10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lorde thy God in Horeb when the Lorde sayd vnto me Gather me the people together I wyll make them heare my wordes that they may learne to feare me all the dayes that they shall lyue vpon the earth and that they may teache their children 11 Ye came and stoode also vnder the mountayne and the mountayne burnt with fire euen vnto the middes of heauen and there was darknesse cloudes and mist 12 And the Lorde spake vnto you out of the middes of the fire and ye hearde the voyce of the wordes but sawe no similitude saue hearde a voyce only 13 And he declared vnto you his couenaunt which he commaunded you to do euen ten commaundementes which he wrote vpon two tables of stone 14 And the Lorde commaunded me that same season that I shoulde teache you ordinaunces lawes which ye ought to do in the lande whyther ye go to possesse it 15 Take therfore good heede vnto your selues as pertaynyng vnto your soules for ye sawe no maner of image in the day that the Lorde spake vnto you in Horeb out of the middes of fire 16 Lest ye marre your selues make you a grauen image picture of any maner of figure whether it be the likenesse of man or woman 17 The likenesse of any maner of beast that is on the earth or the likenesse of any maner fethered foule that fleeth in the ayre 18 Or the likenesse of any maner worme that creepeth on the earth or the likenesse of any maner fishe that is in the waters beneath the earth 19 Yea and lest thou lift vp thyne eyes vnto heauen and when thou seest the sunne the moone and the starres with all the hoast of heauen shouldest be driuen to worship them serue them and shouldest worship and serue the thynges which the Lorde thy God hath made to serue all nations vnder the whole heauen 20 But the Lorde hath taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace euen out of Egypt to be vnto hym a people inheritaunce as ye be this day 21 Furthermore the Lorde was angry with me for your wordes and sware that I shoulde not go ouer Iordane and that I shoulde not go in vnto that good lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee to inheritaunce 22 But I must dye in this lande and shal not go ouer Iordane But ye shall go ouer and possesse that good lande 23 Take heede vnto your selues that ye forget not y e appoyntment of the Lorde your God which he made with you that ye make you no grauen image or likenesse that the Lorde thy God hath forbidden thee 24 For the Lorde thy God is a consumyng fire and a ielous God 25 When thou shalt beget children and thy children beget children and shalt haue remayned long in the lande ye do wickedly make any maner of grauen * image and worke euyll in the sight of the Lorde thy God to prouoke hym to anger 26 I call heauen and earth to recorde agaynst you this day that ye shall shortly perishe from of y e lande whervnto you go ouer Iordane to possesse it Ye shall not prolong your dayes therin but shall vtterly be destroyed 27 And the Lord shall scatter you among the people and ye shal be left fewe in number among the nations whyther the Lorde shall bryng you 28 And there ye shall serue gods which are the worke of mans hande wood and stone which neither see nor heare nor eate nor smell 29 If from thence thou shalt seke the Lorde thy God thou shalt finde hym if thou seke hym with all thy heart and with all thy soule 30 When thou art in tribulation when all these thynges that be here spoken of are come vpon thee euen in the latter dayes yf thou turne to the Lorde thy God shalt be obedient vnto his voyce 31 For the Lorde thy God is a mercifull God he wyll not forsake thee neither destroy thee nor forget the appoyntment of thy fathers which he sware vnto them 32 For aske of the dayes that are past which were before since the day that God created man vpon the earth and aske from the one side of heauen vnto the other if euer there came to passe such a great thyng or whether any such lyke thyng hath ben hearde as this 33 Dyd euer any people heare the voyce of God speakyng out of the middes of a fire as thou hast hearde and yet lyued 34 Or hath God assayed to go and take hym a people from among nations by temptations by signes by wonders by warre by a mightie hand by a stretched out arme by great sightes accordyng vnto all that the Lorde your God dyd vnto you in Egypt before your eyes 35 Vnto thee it was shewed that thou mightest knowe that the Lord is God and that there is none other but he 36 Out of heauen he made thee heare his voyce that he might instruct thee vpon earth he shewed thee his great fire and thou heardest his worde out of the middes of the fire 37 And because he loued thy fathers he chose their seede after them brought thee out in his sight with his mightie power out of Egypt 38 To thrust out nations great and mightier then thou before thee and to bryng thee in and to geue thee their lande to inheritaunce as it is come to passe this day 39 Vnderstande therfore this day and consider it in thine heart that
flockes of thy sheepe in the lande which he sware vnto thy fathers to geue thee 14 Thou shalt be blessed aboue all nations there shal be neither man nor woman vnfruitfull among you nor any of your cattell shal be barren 15 Moreouer the Lorde wyll take away from thee all maner infirmities wyll put none of the euyll diseases of Egypt which thou knowest vpon thee but wil sende them vpon all them that hate thee 16 Thou shalt consume all the nations which the Lorde thy God shall deliuer thee thine eye shall haue no pitie vpon them neither shalt thou serue their gods for that shal be thy decay 17 If thou say in thine heart these nations are mo then I howe can I cast them out 18 Thou shalt not feare them but remember what the Lorde thy God dyd vnto Pharao and vnto all Egypt 19 The great temptations which thine eyes sawe and the signes wonders and the mightie hande and stretched out arme wherby the Lorde thy God brought thee out euen so shall the Lord thy God do vnto all nations of whom thou art afrayde 20 Moreouer the Lorde thy God wyll sende hornets among them vntil they that are left and hide them selues from thee be destroyed 21 Thou shalt not feare theÌ for the Lord thy God is among you a mightie God and a terrible 22 For the Lorde thy God wyll put out these nations before thee by a litle and a litle thou mayest not consume them at once lest the beastes of the fielde increase vpon thee 23 But the Lorde thy God shall geue them ouer before thee and shall destroy them with a mightie destruction vntyll he haue brought them to naught 24 And he shall deliuer their kynges into thine hande and thou shalt destroye their name from vnder heauen There shall no man be able to stande before thee vntyll thou haue destroyed them 25 The graueÌ images of their gods shalt thou burne with fire and couet not the golde and siluer that is on them nor take it vnto thee lest thou be snared therin for it is an abhomination before the Lorde thy God 26 Bryng not therfore abomination into thine house lest thou be a cursed thyng as it is but vtterly defie it and abhorre it for it is a cursed thyng ⧠The .viij. Chapter 2 God humbleth the Israelites to trye what they haue in their heart 5 God chastiseth them as his children 14 The heart ought not to be proude for Gods benefites 19 The forgetfulnesse of Gods benefites causeth destruction 1 ALl the commaundementes which I commaunde thee this day shal ye kepe for to do theÌ that ye may liue and multiplie and go in and possesse the lande which the Lorde sware vnto your fathers 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lorde thy God led thee this fourtie yeres in the wildernesse for to humble thee to proue thee and to knowe what was in thine heart whether thou wouldest kepe his coÌmaundementes or no. 3 He humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger fed thee with Manna which neither thou nor thy fathers knewe of to make thee knowe that a man doth not lyue by bread only but by euery worde that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lorde doth a man lyue 4 Thy rayment waxed not olde vpon thee neither dyd thy foote swell these fourtie yeres 5 This also shalt thou consider in thine heart that as a man chastiseth his sonne euen so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee 6 Therefore shalt thou kepe the commaundementes of the Lorde thy God that thou walke in his wayes and feare hym 7 For the Lorde thy God bryngeth thee into a good lande a lande in the whiche are riuers of water and fountaines and deapthes that spring out of valleys and hylles 8 A lande wherin is wheate and barlie vineyardes fightrees pomgranates a lande wherein is oyle oliue and honie 9 A lande wherin thou shalt eate bread without scarcenes neither shalt thou lacke any thyng a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hylles thou shalt digge brasse 10 When thou hast eaten therfore filled thy selfe thou shalt blesse the Lorde thy God for the good lande whiche he hath geuen thee 11 Beware that thou forget not the Lorde thy God that thou wouldest not kepe his coÌmaundementes his lawes and his ordinaunces whiche I commaunde thee this day 12 Yea and when thou hast eaten and filled thy selfe and hast buylt goodly houses and dwelt therein 13 And when thy beastes and thy sheepe are waxen many and thy siluer and golde is multiplied and all that thou hast is encreased 14 Then beware lest thyne heart ryse and thou forget the Lorde thy God whiche brought thee out of the lande of Egypt and from the house of bondage 15 And whiche was thy guyde in the great and terrible wyldernesse wherein were firie serpentes scorpions and drouth without any water But he brought out water for thee euen out of the rocke of flint 16 He fed thee in the wyldernesse with Manna which thy fathers knewe not euen for to humble thee and to proue thee and that he might so do thee good at thy latter ende 17 Lest thou shouldest say in thine heart my power and the myght of myne owne hande hath prepared me this aboundaunce 18 But remember the Lorde thy God for it is he whiche geueth thee power to get substaunce for to make good the promise whiche he sware vnto thy fathers as appeareth this day 19 And if thou forget the Lord thy God and walke after straunge gods and serue them and worship them I testifie vnto you this day that ye shal surely perishe 20 As the nations whiche the Lorde destroyed before your face euen so ye shall perishe because ye woulde not be obedient vnto the voyce of y e Lord your God ¶ The .ix. Chapter 4 God doeth them not good for their owne righteousnesse but for his owne sake 7 Moyses putteth them in remembraunce of their sinnes 17 The two tables are broken 26 Moyses prayeth for the people 1 HEare O Israel thou passest ouer Iordane this day to go in and possesse nations great and mightier then thy selfe cities great and walled vp to heauen 2 A people great tall euen the children of the Anakims whiche thou knowest of of whom thou hast heard say who wyll stand before the children of Anac 3 Vnderstande therefore this day that the Lorde thy God is euen he whiche goeth ouer before thee as a consuming fire he shall destroy them and he shall bryng them downe before thy face So thou shalt caste them out and bryng them to naught quickly as the Lorde hath sayde vnto thee 4 Speake not thou in thyne heart after that the Lorde thy God hath cast them out before thee saying for my ryghteousnesse the Lorde
iustifie the righteous condemne the vngodly 2 And if any man be vngodly and worthy of strypes then let the Iudge cause him to lye downe and to be beaten before his face accordyng to his trespasse vnto a certayne number 3 Fourtie stripes he shall geue hym and not passe lest if he shoulde exceede and beate hym aboue that with many stripes thy brother should appeare despised and vile before thyne eyes 4 Thou shalt not moosell the oxe that treadeth out the corne 5 If brethren dwell together and one of them dye and haue no chylde the wyfe of the dead shall not marry without vnto a straunger but his kinsman shall go in vnto her take her to wife and occupie the rowme of his kinsman 6 And the eldest sonne whiche she beareth shall succeede in the name of his brother whiche is dead that his name be not put out of Israel 7 And if the man wyll not take his kinswoman then let her go vp to the gate vnto the elders and say My kinsman refuseth to stirre vp vnto his brother a name in Israel neither wyll he marry me 8 Then the elders of his citie shall call hym and commune with hym and if he stande and say I wyll not take her 9 Then shall his kinswoman come vnto hym in the presence of the elders and loose his shoe of his foote and spit in his face and aunswere and say So shal it be done vnto that man that doth not buylde vp his brothers house 10 And his name shal be called in Israel the vnshodhouse 11 If when men striue together one with another the wife of the one drawe neare for to ryd her husbande out of the handes of hym that smyteth hym and put foorth her hande and take hym by the secretes 12 Thou shalt cut of her hande and let not thyne eye pitie her 13 Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge two maner of wayghtes a great and a small 14 Neither shalt thou haue in thine house diuers measures a great and a small 15 But thou shalt haue a right and iust waight and a perfect and a iust measure shalt thou haue that thy dayes may be lengthed in the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee 16 For all that do such thynges and all that do vnright are abhomination vnto the Lorde thy God 17 Remember what Amalech dyd vnto thee by the way when ye were come out of Egypt 18 Howe he met thee by the way and smote the hyndmost of you all that were feeble and came behynde when thou wast faynted and weerie and he feared not God 19 Therfore when the Lorde thy God hath geuen thee rest from all thine enemies rounde about in the lande which the Lord thy God geueth thee to inherite and possesse see that thou put out the remembraunce of Amalech from vnder heauen and forget not ⧠The .xxvj. Chapter 3 The offering of the first fruites 5 What they must protest when they offer them 12 The tithe of the thirde yere 13 Their protestation in offering it 19 To what honour God preferreth them whiche acknowledge him to be their Lorde 1 WHen thou art come into the lande which the Lord thy God geueth thee to inherite and hast enioyed it dwellest therin 2 Take of the first of all the fruite of the earth and bryng it out of the lande that the Lorde thy God geueth thee and put it in a basket and go vnto the place whiche the Lorde thy God shall chose to set his name in it 3 And thou shalt come vnto the priest that shal be in those dayes and say vnto hym I knowledge this day vnto the Lorde thy God that I am come vnto the countrey whiche the Lorde sware vnto our fathers for to geue vs. 4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thyne hande and set it downe before the aulter of the Lorde thy God 5 And thou shalt aunswere and say before the Lorde thy God The Syrians went about to destroy my father and he went downe into Egypt and so soiourned there with a fewe folke and grewe there vnto a nation great mightie and full of people 6 And the Egyptians vexed vs and troubled vs and laded vs with most cruel bondage 7 And when we cryed vnto the Lorde God of our fathers the Lorde hearde our voyce and loked on our aduersitie labour and oppression 8 And the Lorde brought vs out of Egypt in a mightie hand and a stretched out arme and in great terriblenesse and signes and wonders 9 And he hath brought vs into this place and hath geuen vs this lande that floweth with mylke and hony 10 And nowe lo I haue brought the first fruites of the lande whiche thou O Lord hast geuen me And thou shalt set it before the Lorde thy God and worship before the Lorde thy God 11 And reioyce in all the good thynges whiche the Lorde thy God hath geuen vnto thee and vnto thyne house thou and the Leuite and the straunger that it among you 12 When thou hast made an ende of tithing all the tithes of thyne encrease the thirde yere which is the yere of tithing thou shalt geue it vnto the Leuite the straunger the fatherlesse and the wydowe that they may eate within thy gates and fill them selues 13 And thou shalt say before the Lord thy God I haue brought the halowed thinges out of thine house and haue geuen them vnto the Leuite the straunger the fatherlesse and the wydowe according to all thy commaundementes whiche thou hast commaunded me I haue not transgressed thy commaundementes nor forgotten them 14 I haue not eaten thereof in my mournyng nor suffred ought to perishe thorowe vnclennesse nor geuen ought therof for the dead but haue hearkened vnto the voyce of the Lorde my God and haue done after all that thou hast commaunded me 15 Loke downe therfore from thy holy habitation euen from heauen and blesse thy people Israel and the lande which thou hast geuen vs as thou swarest vnto our fathers a land that floweth with mylke and honye 16 This day the Lord thy God hath commaunded thee to do these ordinaunces and lawes kepe thou them do them with all thine heart and all thy soule 17 Thou hast set vp the Lord this day to be thy God to walke in his wayes and to kepe his ordinaunces his commaundementes and his lawes and to hearken vnto his voyce 18 And the Lorde hath set thee vp this day to be a seuerall people vnto hym as he hath promised thee and that thou kepe his commaundementes 19 And to make thee hye aboue all nations whiche he hath made in prayse in name and honour and that thou mayest be an holy people vnto the Lord thy God as he hath sayde The .xxvij. Chapter 2 They are commaunded to wryte the lawe vpon stone
this day 22 And in like maner they that were of the house of Ioseph went vp to Bethel and the Lorde was with them 23 And the house of Ioseph searched out Bethel whiche before time was called Luz 42 And the spyes sawe a man come out of the citie they sayd vnto him Shewe vs we pray thee the way into the citie and we will shewe thee mercy 25 And when he had shewed them the way into the citie they smote it with the edge of the sworde but let the man and all his housholde go free 26 And the man went into the land of the Hethites and buylt a citie and called the name therof Luz whiche is the name therof vnto this day 27 Neither did Manasses expell Bethsean with her townes Thanach with her townes the inhabitours of Dor with her townes the inhabitours of Ieblaam with her townes neither the inhabitours of Magiddo with her townes but the Chanaanites were bolde to dwell in the lande 28 But it came to passe that assoone as Israel was waxed mightie they put the Chanaanites to tribute and expelled them not wholly 29 In lyke maner Ephraim expelled not the Chanaanites that dwelt in Gazer but the Chanaanites dwelt still in Gazer among them 30 Neither dyd Zabulon expell the inhabitours of Ketron neither the inhabitours of Nahalol but the Chanaanites dwelt among them and became tributaries 31 Neither did Aser cast out the inhabitours of Acho neither the inhabitours of Zidon and of Ahalab Aczib Helbah Aphek nor of Rohob 32 But the Aserites dwelt among the Chanaanites the inhabitours of the lande for they dyd not dryue them out 33 Neither dyd Nephthalim dryue out the inhabitours of Bethsames nor the inhabitours of Bethanath but dwelt amongest the Chanaanites the inhabitours of the lande Neuerthelesse the inhabitours of Bethsames and of Bethanath became tributaries vnto them 34 And the Amorites droue the children of Dan into the mountayne and suffered them not to come downe to the valley 35 And the Amorites were content to dwell in mount Heres in Aialon and in Salabim And the hande of Ioseph preuayled so that they became tributaries 36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the goyng vp to Acrabim from the rocke vpwarde The .ij. Chapter 2 The Angel rebuketh the people because they had made peace with the Chanaanites 11 The Israelites fel to idolatrie after Iosuahs death 14 They are deliuered into the enemies handes 16 God deliuereth them by Iudges 22 Why God suffred idolaters to remayne among them 1 ANd the angel of the Lorde came vp from Gilgal to Bochim and sayde I made you to go out of Egipt haue brought you vnto the lande whiche I sware vnto your fathers And I sayde I will neuer breake myne appoyntment that I made with you 2 And ye also shall make no couenaunt with the inhabitours of this lande but shall breake downe their aulters Neuerthelesse ye haue not hearkened vnto my voyce why haue ye this done 3 Wherfore I haue lykewyse determined that I will not cast them out before you but they shal be as thornes vnto you and their goddes shal be a snare vnto you 4 And when the angel of the Lord spake these wordes vnto all the children of Israel the people cryed out and wept 5 And called the name of the sayd place Bochim offered sacrifices vnto the Lorde 6 And wheÌ Iosuah had sent the people away the children of Israel went euery man into his inheritaunce to possesse the lande 7 And the people serued the Lorde all the dayes of Iosuah all the dayes of the elders that outlyued Iosuah had seene al the great workes of the Lorde that he dyd for Israel 8 And Iosuah the sonne of Nun the seruaunt of the Lorde died when he was an hundreth and ten yeres olde 9 Whom they buried in the coastes of his inheritaunce euen in Thimnath Heres in mount Ephraim on the northside of the hil Gaas 10 And euen so all that generation were put vnto their fathers and there arose another generation after them which neither knewe the Lorde nor yet the workes whiche he had done for Israel 11 And then the children of Israel dyd wickedly in the sight of the Lorde and serued Baalim 12 And forsoke the Lord God of their fathers whiche brought them out of the lande of Egypt and folowed straunge goddes euen of the goddes of the nations that were rounde about them and bowed them selues vnto them and angred the Lorde 13 They forsoke the Lorde and serued Baal and Astharoth 14 And the wrath of the Lord waxed hot agaynst Israel and he deliuered them into the handes of raueners that spoyled them solde them into the handes of their enemies rounde about them so that they had no power any longer to stande before their enemies 15 But whythersoeuer they went out the hand of the Lord was sore against them euen as the Lord promised them and as he sware vnto them And he punished them sore 16 Neuerthelesse the Lorde raysed vp iudges which deliuered them out of the handes of their oppressers 17 And yet for all that they woulde not hearken vnto their iudges but rather went a whoring after straunge goddes and bowed them selues vnto them and turned quickly out of the way whiche their fathers walked in obeying the coÌmaundementes of the Lorde But they dyd not so 18 And when the Lorde raysed them vp iudges he was with the iudge and deliuered them out of the handes of their enemies all the dayes of the iudge * for the Lord had compassion ouer their sorowinges whiche they had by the reason of them that oppressed them vexed them 19 Yet for all that assoone as the iudge was dead they returned and dyd worse then their fathers in folowing straunge goddes to serue them worship them and ceassed not from their owne inuentions nor from their malitious way 20 And the wrath of the Lorde was moued against Israel and he sayde Because this people hath traÌsgressed myne appoyntment whiche I commaunded their fathers and haue not hearkened vnto my voyce 21 I will hencefoorth not cast out before them one man of the nations whiche Iosuah left when he dyed 22 That through them I may proue Israel whether they wil kepe the way of the Lorde and walke therin as their fathers dyd or not 23 And so the Lorde left those nations and droue them not out immediatly neither deliuered them into the hande of Iosuah The .iij. Chapter 1 The Chanaanites were left to trye Israel 9 Othoniel deliuereth Israel 21 Ahud killeth king Eglon. 23 Samgar killeth the Philistines 1 THese are the nations whiche the Lorde left that he might proue Israel by them euen as many of Israel as had not knowen al the warres of Chanaan 2 Onely for the learning of the generations of
God heard the voyce of Manoah and the angel of God came agayne vnto the wife as she sate in the felde but Manoah her husbaÌd was not with her 10 And the wife made haste and ranne shewed her husbande sayde vnto him behold the man appeared vnto me that came vnto me to day 11 And Manoah arose went after his wife and came to the man and sayde vnto him Art thou the maÌ that spakest vnto the woman And he sayde I am 12 Manoah sayde Nowe let thy saying come to passe Howe shall we order the childe and do vnto him 13 And the angell of the Lord sayd vnto Manoah The woman must absteyne from all that I sayde vnto her 14 She may eate of nothing that coÌmeth of the vine tree nor drinke wine or strong drinke nor eate any vncleane thing but must obserue all that I bad her 15 Manoah sayde vnto the angell of the Lorde I pray thee let vs retayne thee vntill we haue made redy a kyd before thee 16 And the angel of the Lord sayde vnto Manoah Though thou make me abide I wil not eate of thy bread And if thou wilt offer a burnt offering thou must offer it vnto the Lorde For Manoah wist not that it was an angell of the Lorde 17 And Manoah sayde agayne vnto the angell of the Lord What is thy name that when thy saying is come to passe we may do thee worshippe 18 And the angel of the Lorde sayde vnto him * Why askest thou thus after my name which is secrete And so Manoah toke a kyd with a meat offring and offred it vpon a rocke vnto the Lorde And the angell did wonderously Manoah and his wife lokyng vpon 20 And wheÌ the flambe came vp toward heauen from the aulter the angell of the Lorde ascended vp in the flambe of the aulter And Manoah and his wyfe loked vpon it and fell on their faces vnto the grounde 21 But the angel of the Lord did no more appeare vnto Manoah and his wyfe And then Manoah knewe that it was an angel of the Lorde 22 And sayd vnto his wyfe We shal surely dye because we haue seene God 23 But his wyfe sayde vnto him Yf the Lord would kyll vs he would not haue receaued a burnt offering and a meate offering of our handes neither woulde he haue shewed vs al these thinges nor woulde nowe haue tolde vs any suche 24 And the wyfe bare a sonne and called his name Samson And y e ladde grewe and the Lorde blessed him 25 And the spirite of the Lorde began to strengthen him in the hoast of Dan betweene Zaraah and Esthaol The .xiiii. Chapter 2 Samson desireth to haue a wyfe of the Philistines 6 He killeth a Lion 12 He propoundeth a riddle 19 He killeth thirtie 20 His wyfe forsaketh him and taketh another 1 SAmson went downe to Thamnath and sawe a womaÌ in Thamnath of the daughters of the Philistines 2 And he came vp and told his father and his mother said I haue sene a woman in Thamnath of the daughters of the Philistines nowe geue me her to wyfe 3 Then his father and mother sayd vnto him Is there neuer a woman among the daughters of thy brethren among al my people but that thou must go and take a wyfe of the vncircumcised Philistines And Samson sayd vnto his father Geue me this woman for she pleaseth me well 4 But his father and mother wist not that it was the Lordes doyng and that he sought an occasion against the Philistines for at that time the Philistines raigned ouer Israel 5 Then went Samson and his father his mother downe to Thamnath and came to the vineyardes of Thamnath and beholde a young Lion roared vpon him 6 And the spirite of the Lord came vpoÌ him and he tare him as he would haue rent a kydde and yet had nothing in his hande neither tolde his father and mother what he had done 7 And he went downe talked with the woman whiche seemed well fauoured in the sight of Samson 13 They aunswered him saying No but we will bynde thee delyuer thee vnto their handes but we wyll not kyll thee And they bounde hym with two new cordes and brought him from the rocke 14 And when he came to Lehi the Philistines showted agaynst him And the spirite of the Lord came vpon him and the cordes that were vpon his armes became as flaxe that was burnt with fire for the bandes loosed from of his handes 15 And he founde a newe iawe bone of an Asse put foorth his hande and caught it and slue a thousande men therwith 16 And Samson sayde With the iawe of an Asse heapes vpon heapes with the iawe of an Asse haue I slayne a thousande men 17 And when he had left speakyng he cast away the iawe bone out of his hande and called the place Ramath Lehi 18 And he was sore a thyrst and called on the Lord and sayde Thou hast geuen this great victory in the hande of thy seruaunt and nowe I must dye for thirst and fall into the handes of the vncircumcised 19 But God brake a great tooth that was in the iawe there came water therout and when he had drunke his spirite came agayne he was refreshed wherfore the name thereof was called vnto this day The well of the caller on which came of the iawe 20 And he iudged Israel in the dayes of the Philistines twentie yeres The .xvj. Chapter 1. Samson carieth away the gates of Azzah 18. He was deceaued by Delila 30. He pulleth downe the house vpon the Philistines and dyeth with them 1 THen went Samson to Azzah and sawe there an harlot and went in vnto her 2 And it was tolde the Azathites saying Samson is come hyther And they went about and layde a wayte for hym there all nyght in the gate of the citie and were styll all the nyght saying In the mornyng whan it is day we shall kyll hym 3 And Samson toke his rest tyll mydnyght and arose at mydnyght and toke the doores of the gate of the citie and the two postes and rent them of with the barre and all and put them vppon his shoulders and caryed them vp to the top of an hyll that is before Hebron 4 And after this he loued a woman by the ryuer of Sorek whose name was Dalila 5 Vnto whom came the lordes of the Philistines and sayde vnto her Perswade him and see wherin his great strenght lyeth and by what meanes we may ouercome him that we may bynde him and punishe hym and euery one of vs shall geue thee a leuen hundred siluer lynges 6 And Dalila sayde to Samson Oh tell me where thy great strength lyeth and how thou myghtest be bounde and brought vnder 7 Samson aunswered vnto her Yf they binde me with seuen greene wythes that were neuer dryed I
Lord all night 12 And wheÌ Samuel rose early to meete Saul in the morning it was tolde Samuel that Saul was come to Carmel and beholde he hath made him there a place and is returned and departed and gone downe to Gilgal 13 And Samuel came to Saul Saul said vnto him Blessed be thou in the Lorde I haue fulfilled the coÌmaundement of the Lord. 14 Samuel sayde What meaneth then the bleating of the sheepe in mine eares and the lowing of the oxen which I heare 15 Saul aunswered They haue brought them from the Amalekites For the people spared the best of the sheepe and of the oxen to sacrifice them vnto the Lorde thy God and the remnaunt haue we destroyed vtterlie 16 Samuel said to Saul Let me tell thee what the Lorde hath saide to me this night And he sayd vnto him saye on 17 Samuel said When thou wast litle in thyne owne sight wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel and the Lorde annoynted thee kyng ouer Israel 18 And the Lorde sent thee on a iourney and said Go and vtterly destroy those sinners the Amalekites fight against them vntyll thou destroy them 19 And wherfore hast thou not hearkened vnto the voyce of the Lorde but hast turned to the praye and hast done that which is wicked in the syght of the Lorde 20 And Saul sayde vnto Samuel Yea I haue hearkened vnto the voyce of the Lorde and haue gone the way which the Lord sent me vnto haue brought Agag the kyng of Amalek and haue destroyed the Amalekites 21 But the people toke of y e spoyle sheepe oxen and the chiefest of the thynges whiche shoulde haue ben destroyed to offer vnto the Lord thy God in Gilgal 22 And Samuel sayde Hath the Lorde as great pleasure in burnt sacrifices and offerynges as when the voyce of the Lorde is obeyed Beholde to obey is better then sacrifice and to hearken is better then the fat of rammes 23 For rebellion is as the sinne of witchcraft and stubbernnesse is as the wickednes of idolatrie Because thou hast cast away the worde of the Lorde therefore he hath cast away thee also from being king 24 And Saul sayde vnto Samuel I haue sinned For I haue gone farther then the saying of the Lorde and thy wordes because I feared the people and obeyed their voyce 25 Now therfore I pray thee take away my sinne and turne agayne with me that I may worship the Lorde 26 And Samuel sayde vnto Saul I wyll not returne with thee For thou hast cast away the worde of the Lorde and the Lord hath cast away thee that thou shalt not be kyng ouer Israel 27 And as Samuel turned hym selfe to go away he caught the lappe of his coate and it rent 28 And Samuel sayde vnto hym The Lorde hath rent the kyngdome of Israel from thee this day and hath geuen it to a neighbour of thine that is better then thou 29 The strength of Israel wyl not beguyle nor repent for he is not a man that shoulde repent 30 He sayde I haue sinned But nowe honour me before the elârs of my people and before Israel and turne againe with me that I may worship the Lord thy God 31 And so Samuel turned againe and folowed Saul and Saul worshipped the Lorde 32 Then sayde Samuel Bryng you hyther to me Agag the kyng of the Amalekites And Agag came vnto hym dilicately and Agag sayde Truely the bitternesse of death is past 33 And Samuel sayde As thy sworde hath made women chyldlesse so shall thy mother be chyldlesse aboue other women And Samuel hewed Agag in peeces before the Lorde in Gilgal 34 And then Samuel departed to Rama and Saul went home to his house to Gibea Saul 35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul vntyll the day of his death Neuerthelesse Samuel mourned for Saul and the Lorde repented that he had made Saul kyng ouer Israel The .xvi. Chapter 1 Samuel is reproued of God and is sent to annoynt Dauid 7. God regardeth the heart 13 The spirite of the Lorde commeth vpon Dauid 14. The wicked spirite is sent vpon Saul 19. Saul sendeth for Dauid 1 THE Lorde sayd vnto Samuel Howe long wilt thou mourne for Saul seing I haue cast him away from raigning ouer Israel Fill thyne horne with oyntment and come that I may send thee to Isai the Bethlemite for I haue prouided me a king among his sonnes 2 And Samuel sayd How can I go For if Saul heare it he will kill me The Lord aunswered Take an heyfer with thee and saye I am come to offer to the Lorde 3 And call Isai to the offering and I will shewe thee what thou shalt do And thou shalt annoynt vnto me him whom I name vnto thee 4 And so Samuel did as the Lord bade him and came to Bethlehem and the elders of the towne were astonyed at his comming and saide * Commest thou peaceably 5 He aunswered Yea I am come to offer vnto the Lorde Sanctifie your selues and come with me to the offering And he sanctified Isai and his sonnes and bade them to the offering 6 And when they were come he loked on Eliab saide Surelye the Lordes annoynted is before him 7 But the Lorde sayde vnto Samuel Loke not on his fashion or on y e height of his stature because I haue refused him For God seeth not as man seeth For man loketh on the outward appearaunce but the Lorde beholdeth the heart 8 Then Isai called Abinadab made him come before Samuel and he sayd Neither hath the Lorde chosen this 9 Then Isai made Samma come and he sayd Neither yet hath the Lorde chosen him 10 Againe Isai made seuen of his sonnes to come before Samuel and Samuel sayd vnto Isai The Lorde hath chosen none of these 11 And Samuel sayde vnto Isai Are heare all thy children He sayde There is yet a litle one behind that kepeth the sheepe And Samuel said vnto Isai Sende and fet him for we will not syt downe till he be come hyther 12 And he sent and brought him in And he was ruddie and of an excelleÌt beawtie and wel fauoured in sight And the Lorde said Aryse annoynt him For come downe to see the battel 29 And Dauid sayde And what haue I nowe done is there not a cause 30 And he departed from him into the presence of another and spake of the same maner and the people aunswered him againe as before 31 And they that heard the wordes which Dauid spake rehearsed them before Saul which caused him to be fet 32 And Dauid sayde to Saul Let no mans heart fayle him because of him Thy seruaunt will go and fight with yonder Philistine 33 And Saul sayde to Dauid againe Thou art not able to go against yonder Philistine to fight with him For thou art but a childe but he is
litle past the toppe of the hill beholde Ziba the seruaunt of Miphiboseth mette him with a coople of asses sadled vpon them two hundred loues of bread one hundred bunches of resinges and an hundred of dried figges a bottel of wyne 2 And the king sayde vnto Ziba What meanest thou with these And Ziba sayde They be Asses for the kinges houshold to ryde on and bread and fruit for the young men to eate and wine that such as be faynt in the wildernesse may drinke 3 And the king sayde Where is thy maisters sonne Ziba aunswered vnto the king Behold he tarieth still at Hierusalem For he sayde This day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdome of my father 4 Then sayd the king to Ziba Behold thyne are all that pertayned vnto Miphiboseth And Ziba sayde I humbly beseche thee that I may finde grace in thy sight my lorde O king 5 And when king Dauid came to Bahurim beholde thence came out a man of the kinred of the house of Saul named Semei the sonne of Gera and he came out cursing 6 And he cast stones at Dauid and at all the seruauntes of Dauid And all the people and al the men of warre were on his right hande and on his left 7 And thus sayd Semei when he cursed Come foorth come foorth thou bloodsheder and thou man of Belial 8 The Lord hath brought vpon thee all the blood of the house of Saul in whose steade thou hast raigned and the Lorde hath deliuered the kingdome into the hande of Absalom thy sonne And beholde thou art come to thy mischiefe because thou art a bloodsheder 9 Then sayde Abisai the sonne of Zaruia vnto the king Why doth this dead dogge curse my lord the king let me go nowe and take of the head of him 10 And the king sayde What haue I to do with you ye sonnes of Zaruia for he curseth euen because the Lord hath bidden him curse Dauid Who dare then say Wherfore hast thou done so 11 And Dauid sayde to Abisai and to all his seruauÌtes Behold my sonne which came of myne owne bowels seketh my lyfe How much more then may this sonne of Iemini do it Suffre him to curse for the Lorde hath bidden him 12 It may be that the Lorde will loke on myne affliction and do me good for his cursing this day 13 And as Dauid and his men went by the way Semei went along on the hilles syde ouer against him cursed as he went and threwe stones at him and cast duste 14 And the king and all that were with him came weery and refreshed them selues there 15 And Absalom al the people the men of Israel came to Hierusalem and Ahithophel was with him 16 And assoone as Husai the Arachite Dauids frend was come vnto AbsaloÌ Husai sayde vnto Absalom God saue the king God saue the king 17 And Absalom sayde to Husai Is this the kindnesse to thy frende Why wentest thou not with him 18 Husai aunswered vnto Absalom Nay not so But whom the Lorde and this people and all the men of Israel choose his will I be with him wil I dwell 19 And moreouer vnto whom shal I do seruice not to his sonne And as I was seruaunt before thy father so will I before thee 20 Then spake Absalom to Ahithophel Geue counsel what we shall do 21 And Ahithophel said vnto Absalom Get thee in vnto thy fathers coÌcubines whiche he hath left to kepe the house and all Israel shal heare that thou art abhorred of thy father then shall the haÌdes of al that are with thee be strong 22 And so they spread Absalom a tent vpon the toppe of the house and Absalom went in vnto his fathers concubines in the sight of all Israel 23 And the counsel of Ahithophel whiche he counseled in those dayes was as a man had asked counsel at the oracle of God euen so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with Dauid and with Absalom The .xvii. Chapter 7 Ahithophels counsel is ouerthrowen by Husai 14 The Lorde had so ordeined 19 The priestes sonnes are hid in the wel 22 Dauid goeth ouer Iordane 23 Ahithophel hangeth him selfe 27 They bring vittayles to Dauid 1 AHithophel also said vnto Absalom Let me choose out now twelue thousand men and I wil vp and folowe after Dauid this night 2 And I wil come vpoÌ him whyle he is weery and weake handed and will feare him And all the people that are with him shall flee and so will I smite the king only 3 And wil bring againe all the people vnto thee and when al shall returne the man whom thou sekest beyng slayne all the people shal be in peace 4 And the saying pleased Absalom wel and al the elders of Israel 5 Then sayde Absalom Cal nowe Husai the Arachite also and let vs heare lykewyse what he sayth 6 When Husai was come to Absalom Absalom spake vnto him saying Ahithophel hath geuen such counsel Shal we do after his saying or no tell thou 7 Husai aunswered vnto Absalom The counsel that Ahithophel hath geuen is not good at this time 8 For sayde Husai thou knowest thy father his men howe that they be strong men and they be chafed in their mindes and are euen as a Beare robbed of her whelpes in the fielde Thy father is a man also practised in warre and wil not lodge with the people 9 Behold he is hyd nowe in some caue or in some other place And though some of his men be ouerthrowen at the first brunt yet they that heare it will say The people that foloweth Absalom be put to the worse 10 And he also that is valiaunt whose heart is as y e heart of a LioÌ shal shrink and faynt For all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mightie man and they which be with him are stout men 11 Therfore my counsell is that al Israel be gathered vnto thee froÌ Dan to Beerseba as the sande of the sea in numbre and that thou go to battayle in thyne owne person 12 For so shall we come vpon him in one place or other where we shal finde him and we wil fal vpon him euen as thicke as the deawe falleth on y e ground And of al the men that are with him we shal not leaue him one 13 Moreouer if he be gotten into a towne then shall al the men of Israel bring ropes to that citie and we will drawe it into the riuer vntil ther be not one small stone founde there 14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel sayde The counsel of Husai the Arachite is better then the counsell of Ahithophel For it was euen the Lordes determination to destroy the good counsell of Ahithophel that the Lorde might bring euyll vpon Absalom 15 Then sayde Husai vnto Sadoc
out of the lande of Egypt 10 And it fortuned that when the priestes were come out of the holy place the cloude filled the house of the Lorde 11 That the priestes could not stand and minister because of the cloude for the glory of the Lorde had filled the house of the Lorde 12 Then spake Solomon The Lorde saide that he would dwell in the darke cloude 13 I haue built thee an house to dwell in an habitation for thee to abyde in for euer 14 And the king turned his face and blessed all the congregation of Israel and all the congregation of Israel stoode still 15 And he saide Blessed be the Lorde God of Israel which spake with his mouth vnto Dauid my father hath with his hand fulfilled it saying 16 Sence the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt I chose no citie of all the tribes of Israel to build an house that my name might be therein But I haue chosen Dauid to be ruler ouer my people of Israel 17 And it was in the heart of Dauid my father to build an house for the name of the Lorde God of Israel 18 And the Lorde saide vnto Dauid my father Whereas it was in thyne heart to build an house vnto my name thou diddest well that thou wast so minded 19 Neuerthelesse thou shalt not build the house but thy sonne that shall come out of thy loynes he shall build the house vnto my name 20 And the Lorde hath made good his word that he spake and I am rysen vp in the roome of Dauid my father and sit on the seate of Israel as the Lorde promysed and haue built an house for the name of the Lorde God of Israel 21 And I haue prepared therein a place for the arke wherein is the couenaunt of the Lorde which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the lande of Egypt 22 Solomon stoode before the aulter of the Lorde in the sight of all the congregation of Israel and stretched out his handes toward heauen and sayde 23 Lord God of Israel there is no God like thee in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath thou that kepest couenaunt mercy for thy seruauntes that walke before thee with all their heart 24 Thou that hast kept with thy seruauÌt Dauid my father that thou promisedst him Thou spakest also with thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with thyne hand as it is come to passe this day 25 Therfore now Lorde God of Israel keepe with thy seruaunt Dauid my father that thou promisedst him saying Thou shalt not be without a man in my sight to syt on the seate of Israel so that thy childreÌ take heede to their way that they walke before me as thou hast walked in my sight 26 And now O God of Israel let thy word be verified which thou spakest vnto thy seruaunt Dauid my father 27 Wyll God in deede dwell on the earth Beholde the heauens and heauens of all heauens are not able to contayne thee and how should then this house do it that I haue builded 28 Haue thou therefore respect vnto the prayer of thy seruaunt and to his supplication O Lorde my God to heare the crye and prayer which thy seruaunt 4 And if thou wilt walke before me as Dauid thy father walked in purenes of heart and in righteousnes to do all that I haue commaunded thee and wilt kepe my statutes and my lawes 5 Then will I stablishe the seate of thy kingdome vpon Israel for euer as I promised to Dauid thy father saying Thou shalt not be without a maÌ vpon the seate of Israel 6 But and if ye and your children turne away from me and will not kepe my commaundementes and my statutes whiche I haue set before you but go and serue other gods worship them 7 Then will I weede Israel out of the lande which I haue geuen them and this house which I haue halowed for my name will I cast out of my sight and Israel shal be a prouerbe and a fable among all nations 8 And this house shal be taken away so that euery one that passeth by it shal be astonied and shall hysse and they shall say Why hath the Lord done thus vnto this lande and to this house 9 And they shal aunswere Because they forsoke the Lorde their God whiche brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and haue taken hold vpon other gods and haue worshipped them and serued them therfore hath the Lorde brought vpon them all this euyll 10 And it fortuned that at the ende of twentie yeres when Solomon had finished the buylding of the two houses that is to wyte the house of the Lorde and the kinges palace 11 And Hiram the king of Tyre brought Solomon timbre of Cedar firre trees golde and whatsoeuer he desired Then Solomon gaue Hiram twentie cities in the lande of Galilee 12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities whiche Solomon had geuen hym and they pleased him not 13 And he sayde What cities are these which thou hast geuen me my brother And he called them the lande of barren vnto this day 14 And Hiram sent the king sixe score talentes of gold 15 And this is the summe whiche king Solomon raysed for a tribute when he buylded the house of the Lorde and his owne house and Millo and the wall of Hierusalem and Hazor and Megeddo and Gazer 16 For Pharao king of Egypt went vp and toke Gazer and burnt it with fire and slue the Chanaanites that dwelt in the citie and gaue it for a present vnto his daughter Solomons wyfe 17 And Solomon buylt Gazer Beth-horon the neather 18 And Baalath and Thamar in the wildernesse in the lande 19 And all the treasure cities that Solomon had and cities for his charettes and cities for his horsemen and all that Solomon desired and woulde buyld in Hierusalem in Libanon and in all the lande of his dominion 20 And al the people that were left of the Amorites Hethites Pherezites Heuites and Iebusites whiche were not of the children of Israel 21 Their children that were left after them in the lande whom the children of Israel also were not able to destroy those dyd Solomon compell to bring tribute vnto this day 22 But of the children of Israel dyd Solomon make no bondmen But they were men of warre his ministers his lordes his captaynes and rulers of his charettes and his horsemen 23 And these were the lordes that were set ouer Solomons worke euen fiue hundred were they and fiftie and they ruled the people that wrought y e worke 24 And Pharaos daughter came vp out of the citie of Dauid vnto her house which Solomon had buylt for her and then dyd he also buylde Millo 25 And thryse a yere did Solomon offer burnt offringes peace offringes vpon the aulter whiche he buylt vnto the Lorde and he burnt
he began to raigne he raigned seuenteene yeres in Hierusalem the citie which the Lorde did choose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there His mothers name was Naama an Ammonite 22 And Iuda wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde and angred him in mo thinges then their fathers dyd in their sinnes which they sinned 23 For they also made them hie places images and groues on euery hie hill and vnder euery thicke tree 24 And there was a stewes of male children in the lande and they did according to all the abhominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel 25 And it fortuned that in the fift yere of king Rehoboam Sisac king of Egypt came vp against Hierusalem 26 And toke away the treasures of the house of the Lorde and the treasures of the kings house spoyled all that was to be had And he toke away all the shieldes of golde which Solomon had made 27 In whose steade king Rehoboam made brasen shieldes and committed them vnto the handes of the keping of the captaynes of the garde which wayted at the doore of the kinges house 28 And when the king went into the house of the Lorde they of the garde bare them brought them againe into the garde chamber 29 The rest of the wordes that concerne Rehoboam and all that he did are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Iuda 30 And there was warre betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam all their lyues 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buryed besyde his fathers in the citie of Dauid His mothers name was Naama an Ammonite And Abiam his sonne raigned in his steade ¶ The .xv. Chapter 1 Abiam raigneth ouer Iuda 9 Asa succeedeth in his roome 16 The battel betweene Asa and Baasa 24 Iehosaphat succeedeth Asa 25 Nadab succeedeth Ieroboam 28 Baasa killeth Nadab 1 IN the eighteenth yere of king Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat raigned Abiam ouer Iuda 2 Three yeres raigned he in Hierusalem and his mothers name was Maacha the daughter of Abisalom 3 And he walked in all the sinnes of his father which he had done before him and his heart was not perfect with the Lorde his God as the heart of Dauid his father 4 Neuerthelesse for Dauids sake did the Lorde his God geue him a lyght in Hierusalem that he set vp his sonne after him and stablished Hierusalem 5 Because Dauid did that which was right in the sight of the Lord and turned from nothing that he commaunded him all the dayes of his lyfe saue onely in the matter of Vrias the Hethite 6 And there was warre betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam as long as he lyued 7 The rest of the wordes that concerne Abiam and all that he did are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Iuda And there was warre betweene Abiam Ieroboam 8 And Abiam slept with his fathers they buried him in the citie of Dauid and Asa his sonne raigned in his steade 9 In the twentith yere of Ieroboam king of Israel raigned Asa ouer Iuda 10 Fourtie one yeres raigned he in Hierusalem and his mothers name was Maacha the daughter of Abisalom 11 And Asa did that seemed ryght in the eyes of the Lorde as did Dauid his father 12 And he toke away the male stewes out of the lande and put away all the abhominable idols that his fathers had made 13 And he put downe Maacha his mother from bearing rule because she had made an idoll in a groue And Asa destroyed her idoll and burnt it by the brooke Cedron 14 But the hie places were not put so Thibin dyed and Amri raigned 23 In the thirtie and one yere of Asa king of Iuda began Amri to raigne ouer Israel twelue yeres Sixe yeres raigned he in Thirza 24 He bought the hill Schomron of one Schemar for two talents of siluer and buylt in the hill and called the name of the citie which he buylt after the name of Schemar which had ben owner of the hill Schomron 25 But Amri wrought that which is euil in the eyes of the Lorde and did worse then all that were before him 26 For he walked in all the way of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat and in his sinnes that made Israel sinne to anger the Lorde God of Israel with their vanities 27 The rest of the wordes that concerne Amri al that he did and his strength that he shewed are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Israel 28 And so Amri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria Ahab his sonne raigned in his steade 29 In the thirtie and eyght yere of Asa king of Iuda began Ahab the sonne of Amri to raigne ouer Israel the same Ahab the sonne of Amri raigned ouer Israel in Samaria twentie and two yeres 30 And Ahab the sonne of Amri did euill in the sight of the Lorde aboue all that were before him 31 For it seemed vnto him but a light thing to walke in the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat He toke Iezabel also the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonites to wyfe and went and serued Baal and worshipped him 32 And he reared vp an aulter for Baal in the temple of Baal which he had builded in Schomron 33 And Ahab made a groue and proceeded further in angring the Lorde God of Israel then all the kinges of Israel that were before him 34 In his dayes did Hiel of Bethel build Iericho He layde the foundation therof in Abiram his eldest sonne and set vp the gates thereof in his youngest sonne Segub according vnto the word of the Lorde which he spake by Iosuah the sonne of Nun. ¶ The .xvii. Chapter 1 Elias forewarneth of the famine to come 4 He is fed of rauens 9 He is sent to Zarphath where he restoreth his hoastesse sonne to lyfe 1 ANd Elias y e Thesbite which was of the inhabiters of Gilead sayde vnto Ahab As the Lorde God of Israel lyueth before whom I stande there shal be neither deawe nor rayne these yeres but according to my worde 2 And the worde of the Lorde came vnto him saying 3 Get thee hence turne thee eastward and hide thy selfe in the brooke Cherith that is it that lyeth before Iordane 4 Thou shalt drinke of the ryuer and I haue commaunded the rauens to feede thee there 5 And so he went and did according vnto the word of the Lorde for he went and dwelt by the brooke Cherith that is before Iordane 6 And the rauens brought him bread and fleshe in the morning and likewyse bread and fleshe in the euening and he drancke of the brooke 7 And it chaunced after a while that the brooke dryed vp because there fell no rayne vpon the
was not the king of Israel they turned backe from him 34 And a certayne man drewe a bowe ignorantly smote the king of Israel betweene the ribbes and his harnesse Wherfore he sayd vnto the driuer of his charettes Turne thy hand and cary me out of the hoast for I am hurt 35 And the battel encreased that day and the king stoode still in his charet against the Syrians and died at euen And the blood ran out of the wounde into the middes of the charet 36 And ther weÌt a proclamation throughout the hoast about the goyng downe of the sunne saying Euery man to his citie and to his owne countrey 37 So the king died and was brought to Samaria and they buried the king in Samaria 38 And one washed the charet in the poole of Samaria the dogges licked vp his blood and they washed his armour according vnto the worde of the Lorde whiche he spake 39 The rest of the wordes that concerne Ahab and all that he did and the iuorie house whiche he made and all the cities that he buylded are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Israel 40 And so Ahab slept with his fathers Ahazia his sonne raigned in his steade 41 Iehosaphat the sonne of Asa began to raigne vpon Iuda in the fourth yere of Ahab king of Israel 42 And Iehosaphat was thirtie and fiue yeres old when he began to raigne and raigned twentie and fiue yeres in Hierusalem His mothers name was Azuba the daughter of Silhi 43 And he walked in all the wayes of Asa his father and bowed not therefrom but dyd that whiche was right in the eyes of the Lorde Neuerthelesse the high places were not taken out of the way for the people offred and burnt incense yet in the high places 44 And Iehosaphat made peace with the king of Israel 45 The rest of the wordes that concerne Iehosaphat the might that he vsed howe he warred are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Iuda 46 And the remnaunt of the stewes of the males which remayned in the dayes of his father Asa he put cleane out of the lande 47 There was then no king in Edom the deputie was king 48 And Iehosaphat made shippes in the sea to come through Tharsis to Ophir for golde but they went not for the shippes brake at Ezion Gaber 49 Then sayd Ahazia the sonne of Ahab vnto Iehosaphat Let my seruauÌtes go with thy seruauntes in the shippes But Iehosaphat woulde not 50 And Iehosaphat dyd sleepe with his fathers was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid his father And Iehoram his sonne raigned in his steade 51 Ahazia the sonne of Ahab began to raigne ouer Israel in Samaria the seuenteenth yere of Iehosaphat king of Iuda raigned two yeres ouer Israel 52 But he did euyl in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father in the way of his mother in the way of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat whiche made Israel to synne 53 For he serued Baal worshipped him and prouoked the Lorde God of Israel vnto wrath according vnto all that his father had done The ende of the third booke of the kinges after the reckening of the Latinistes whiche the Hebrues call the first booke of the kinges ⧠The fourth booke of the Kinges after the Latinistes which booke and the third together is but one with the Hebrues ¶ The first Chapiter 2 Ahazia by a fall falleth sicke and consulteth with Beelzebub 3 He is reproued by Elias 10 The captaines ouer fiftie were sent to Elias whereof two were burnt with fire from heauen by his prayer 17 Ahazia dyeth and Iehoram his brother succeedeth him 1 THen Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab 2 And Ahazia fell through a lattesse wyndowe of his vpper chamber that he had in Samaria and while he was in his sickenesse he sent messengers and saide vnto them Go and enquire of Beelzebub the god of Ekrom whether I shall recouer of this my disease 3 But the angell of the Lorde spake to Elias the Thesbite Arise and go vp against the messengers of the king of Samaria and say vnto them Is there not a God in Israel that ye go to aske counsel at Beelzebub the God of Ekrom 4 Wherefore thus saith the Lorde Thou shalt not come downe froÌ the bed on which thou art gone vp but shalt die the death And Elias departed 5 And when the messengers turned backe againe vnto him he saide vnto them Why are ye now come againe 6 They aunswered him There came a man vp against vs and sayde vnto vs Go turne againe vnto the king that sent you and saye vnto him thus saith the Lorde Is there not a God in Israel that thou sendest to enquyre of Beelzebub the God of Ekrom Therefore thou shalt not come downe from the bed on which thou art gone vp but shalt dye the death 7 And he said vnto them What maner of man was that which came vp and met you and tolde you these wordes 8 And they aunswered him It was an heery man and girt with a girdell of leather about his loynes And he saide It is Elias the Thesbite 9 Then the king sent vnto him a captayne ouer fiftie with his fiftie men which came to him and beholde he sat on the top of an hill And he spake vnto him Thou man of God the king hath saide come downe 10 Elias aunswered and saide to the captaine ouer the fiftie If I be a man of God let fyre come downe from heauen consume thee thy fiftie And there came fyre from heauen and consumed him and his fiftie 11 Againe also he sent vnto him an other captaine ouer fiftie with his fiftie And he spake and saide vnto him O man of God thus hath the king saide Make haste and come downe 12 Elias aunswered saide vnto them If I be a man of God let fyre come downe from heauen and consume thee and thy fiftie And there came fyre of God from heauen and consumed him and his fiftie 13 And the king yet againe sent the third captaine ouer fiftie with his fiftie men And the third captaine ouer fiftie went vp and came and fell on his knees before Elias and besought him sayde vnto him Oh man of God I pray thee let my lyfe and the lyfe of the fiftie thy seruauntes be precious in thy sight 14 Beholde there came fyre downe from heauen and burnt vp the two fore captaines ouer fiftie with their fifties therfore let my lyfe now be precious in thy sight 15 And the angell of the Lorde saide vnto Elias Go downe with him and be not afrayde of him And he arose and went downe with him vnto the king 16 And he saide vnto him thus saith the Lorde Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to aske counsell at
away and saide Beholde I thought with my selfe he would surely come out and stande and call on the name of the Lord his god put his hand on the place that he may heale the leprosie 12 Are not Abana and Pharphar riuers of Damasco better then all the waters of Israel If I washe me also in them shal I not be cleansed And so he turned him and departed with displeasure 13 And his seruauntes came and communed with him and saide Father if the prophet had byd thee do some great thing oughtest thou not to haue done it How much rather then when he saith to thee washe and be cleane 14 Then went he downe washed him selfe seuen tymes in Iordane according to the saying of the man of God and his fleshe came againe lyke vnto the fleshe of a litle childe and he was cleansed 15 And he turned againe to the man of God he and al his company and stoode before him and saide Behold I know nowe that there is no God in all the worlde but in Israel Now therfore I pray thee take a blessing of thy seruaunt 16 But he saide As the lorde lyueth before whom I stande I wyll receaue none And when the other would haue constrayned him to receaue it he would not 17 And Naaman saide Shall there not be geueÌ to thy seruaunt as much of this earth as two mules may beare For thy seruaunt wyll hencefoorth offer neither burnt sacrifice nor offering vnto any other God saue vnto the Lorde 18 But herein the Lorde be mercyfull to thy seruaunt that when my maister goeth into the house of Rimmon for to worship there and leaneth on my hand and I bowe my selfe in the house of Rimmon when I do bowe downe I say in the house of Rimmon the Lorde be mercyfull vnto thy seruaunt because of this thing 19 Vnto whom he saide Go in peace And when he was departed from him as it were a furlong of grounde 20 Gehezi the seruaunt of Elisa the man of God said Beholde my maister hath spared Naaman this Syrian that he would not receaue at his hande those thinges that he offered As the Lorde lyueth I wyll runne after him take some what of him 21 And so Gehezi folowed Naaman And when Naaman saw him running after him he light downe from the charet to meete him and saide Is all well 22 He aunswered All is well Beholde my maister hath sent me saying See there be come to me euen nowe from mount Ephraim two young men of the children of the prophetes Geue them I pray thee one talent of siluer and two chaunge of garmentes 23 And Naaman said With a good will take two talentes And he constrained him bounde two talentes of siluer in two bagges with two chaunge of garmentes and laide them vpon two of his seruauntes to beare them before him 24 And when he came to the lower place he toke them from their hand and bestowed them in the house and he let the men go and they departed 25 But he went in and stoode before his maister And Elisa said vnto him wheÌce commest thou Gehezi He saide Thy seruaunt went no whyther 26 But he saide vnto him went not myne heart with thee when the man turned againe from his charet to meete thee Is it now a tyme to receaue money to receaue garmentes olyue trees vnieyardes sheepe and oxen men seruauntes and mayde seruauntes 27 The leprosie therefore of Naaman shal cleaue vnto thee and vnto thy seede for euer And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snowe The .vj. Chapter 6 Elisa maketh iron to swimme aboue the water 8 He discloseth the king of Syrias counsel to the king of Israel 13 Who sending certaine to take him were kept faste in Samaria 24 Samaria is besieged and endureth extreme famine 1 THe children of the prophetes saide vnto Elisa Beholde we pray thee the place where we dwell with thee is to litle for vs 2 Let vs go we pray thee vnto Iordane take thence euery man a beame build vs a place to dwel in And he aunswered Go. 3 And one saide Be content I pray thee and come with thy seruauntes And he aunswered I wyll come 4 And so he went with them And when they came to Iordane they cut downe wood 5 But it fortuned that as one was felling downe of a tree the axe head fell into the water And he cryed and saide Alas maister it was lent me 6 And the man of God saide Where fell it And he shewed him the place And he cut downe a sticke and cast it in thyther and immediatly the iron did swymme 7 Therfore sayde he Take it vp And he stretched out his hand and toke it vp 8 But the king of Syria warred against Israel and toke counsell with his seruauntes and sayde In such and such a place shal be my campe 9 And the man of God sent vnto the king of Israel saying Beware that thou go not ouer to such a place for there the Syrians are lurkyng 10 Therfore the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God tolde him and warned him of and saued him selfe from it not once nor twyse 11 And the heart of the king of Syria was troubled for this thing and he called for his seruauntes and said vnto them Wil ye not shewe me whiche of our men betrayeth me to the king of Israel 12 And one of his seruauntes sayde None my lorde O king But Elisa the prophet that is in Israel telleth the king of Israel yea euen the wordes that thou speakest in thy priuie chamber 13 He sayde Go and spie where he is that I may sende and fet him And one told him saying Behold he is in Dothan 14 Therefore sent he thyther horses and charets and a mightie hoast and they came by night and compassed the citie about 15 And when the seruaunt of the man of God rose vp early to go out beholde there was an hoast rounde about the towne with horses charets And his seruaunt sayde vnto him Alas maister what shall we do 16 He aunswered Feare not for they that be with vs are mo then they that be with them 17 And Elisa prayed and sayd Lord I besech thee open his eyes that he may see And the Lorde opened the eyes of the young man and he loked and beholde the mountayne was full of horses and charets of fire round about Elisa 18 And when they came downe to him Elisa prayed vnto the Lord and sayde Smyte this people I pray thee with blindnesse And he smote them with blindnesse according to the worde of Elisa 19 And Elisa sayd vnto them This is not the way neither is this the towne folowe me I will bring you to the man whom ye seke But he led them to Samaria 20 But it fortuned that when they were come to Samaria Elisa sayde
offering and the kinges burnt sacrifice and his meate offring with the burnt offering of all the people of the lande and their meate offring and their drinke offringes and powre thereby al the blood of the burnt offring and all the blood of the sacrifice and the brasen aulter wyll I come and see 16 And Vria the priest did according to al thinges as king Ahaz commaunded him 17 And king Ahaz brake the sydes of the botomes and toke the lauer from of them toke downe the lauatorie from of the brasen oxen that were vnder it and put it vpon a pauement of stones 18 And the vayle for the Sabbath that they had made in the house and the kinges entrie without turned he to the house of the Lorde for feare of the king of Assyria 19 The rest of the wordes that concerne Ahaz what he did are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Iuda 20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid Hezekia his sonne raigned in his steade ¶ The .xvii. Chapter 5 Hosea king of Israel is taken 4 And he and al his realme brought to the Assyrians 18 for their idolatrie 24 Lions destroy the Assyrians that dwelt in Samaria 29 Euery one worshipped the god of his nation 35 contrary to the commaundement of God 1 IN the twelfth yere of Ahaz king of Iuda began Hosea the sonne of Elah to raigne in Samaria vpon Israel nine yeres 2 And did that which was euill in the sight of the Lorde but not as the kinges of Israel that were before him 3 And Salmanasar king of Assyria came vp against him and Hosea became his seruaunt and gaue him presentes 4 And the king of Assyria founde treason in Hosea for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and brought no present vnto the king of Assyria from yere to yere and therefore the king of Assyria shut him vp and bounde him in the pryson house 5 And then the king of Assyria came vp throughout all the lande and gat vp against Samaria and besieged it three yeres 6 In the ninth yere of Hosea the king of Assyria toke Samaria and carryed Israel away vnto Assyria put them in Hala in Habor by the ryuer of Goza and in the cities of the Medes 7 For it came to passe that the children of Israel sinned against the Lord their God which had brought them out of the land of Egypt from vnder the hand of Pharao king of Egypt and feared other gods 8 And they walked in the ceremonies of the heathen whom the Lorde cast out before the children of Israel and in the ceremonies which the kinges of Israel had made 9 And the children of Israel went about to hide those thinges that were not wel from the Lorde their God And they buylt them hygh places in all their cities both in the towres where they kept watch and also in the strong townes 10 And they made theÌ images groues in euery hye hill vnder euery thicke tree 11 And there they burnt incense in all the hygh places as did the heathen whom the Lord caryed away before them and wrought wicked thinges to anger the Lorde withall 12 For they serued most vile idols wherof the Lorde had sayd vnto them Ye shall do no such thing 13 And the Lorde testified in Israel and in Iuda by all the prophetes and by all the sears saying Turne from your wicked wayes and kepe my commaundementes and my statutes according to all the law which I commaunded your fathers and which I sent to you by my seruauntes the prophetes 14 Nothwithstanding they woulde not heare but rather hardened their neckes lyke to the stubburnesse of their fathers that dyd not beleue in the Lorde their God 15 For they refused his statutes and his appoyntment that he made with their fathers and the witnesses wherwith he witnessed vnto them and they folowed vanitie and became vayne and went after the heathen that were round about them concerning whom the Lorde had charged them that they shoulde not do lyke them 16 But they left al the commaundemeÌtes of the Lord their God and made them images of metal euen two calues and made idol groues worshipped all the hoast of heauen and serued Baal 17 And they sacrificed their sonnes and their daughters in fire and vsed witchcraftes enchauntmentes euen selling them selues to worke wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde and to anger him 18 And the Lorde was exceeding wroth with Israel put them out of his sight that there was left but the tribe of Iuda onely 19 Neuerthelesse Iuda also kept not the commaundementes of the Lorde their God but walked in the ceremonies of Israel whiche they made 20 And the Lord cast of all the seede of Israel and vered them deliuered them into the handes of spoylers vntil he had cast them out of his sight 21 For he cut of Israel from the house of Dauid and made them a king euen Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat And Ieroboam drewe Israel away that they shoulde not folowe the Lorde and made them sinne a great sinne 22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sinnes of Ieroboam whiche he dyd and departed not therfrom 23 Vntill the Lord put Israel away out of his sight as he had sayd by all his seruauntes the prophetes And so was Israel caried away out of their owne land to Assyria euen vnto this day 24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon from Cutha froÌ Aua from Hamath and from Sepharuaim and put them in the cities of Samaria in steede of the children of Israel and they possessed Samaria and dwelt in the cities therof 25 And it fortuned that at the beginning of their dwelling there they feared not the Lorde and the Lorde sent lions among them which slue them 26 Wherfore they spake to the king of Assyria saying The nations which thou hast translated put in the cities of Samaria knowe not the lawe of the God of the lande therefore he hath sent lions vpon them and behold they slay them because they knowe not the maner of worshipping the God of the lande 27 Then the king of Assyria commaunded saying Cary thyther one of the priestes whom ye brought thence and let hym go and dwell there and teache them the fashion how to serue the God of the countrey 28 And then one of the priestes whom they had caried from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel and taught them howe they shoulde feare the Lorde 29 Howebeit euery nation made them gods of their owne and put them in the houses of the hygh places whiche the Samaritans had made euery nation in their cities wherin they dwelt 30 The men of Babylon made Socoth Benoth the men of Cuth made Nergal the men of Hamath made Asima
31 The Auites made Nibbaz and Tharthak And the Sepharuites burnt their children in fire for Adramelech and Anamelech the gods of Sepharuaim 32 And so they feared the Lorde made them priestes of the basist of them which sacrifised for them in the houses of the hygh places 33 And so they feared the Lord and serued their owne gods after the maner of the people whom they caryed thence 34 And vnto this day they do after the olde maner and neither feare God neither do after their ordinaunces and customes and after the lawe commaundement which the Lorde commaunded the children of Iacob whom he called Israel 35 And the Lorde made an appoyntment with them and charged them saying Feare none other gods nor bowe your selues to them nor serue them nor sacrifice to them 36 But feare the Lorde whiche brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power a stretched out arme him feare and to him bow and to him do sacrifice 37 The statutes ordinaunces lawe and commaundement whiche he wrote for you see that ye be diligent to do for euermore and feare not any other gods 38 And the appoyntment that I haue made with you see ye forget not and feare none other gods 39 But the Lord your God ye shal feare he shall deliuer you out of the handes of all your enemies 40 Howebeit they dyd not hearken but did after their olde custome 41 And so these nations feared the Lord and serued their images also like as did their children and their childrens children Euen as dyd their fathers so do they vnto this day The .xviii. Chapter 4 Hezekia king of Iuda putteth downe the brasen serpent and destroyeth the idols â and prospereth 11 Israel is caried away captiue 30 The blasphemie of Sennacherib 1 IN the thirde yere of Hosea sonne of Ela king of Israel it came to passe that Hezekia y e sonne of Ahaz king of Iuda did raigne 2 Twentie and fyue yeres olde was he when he began to raigne and raigned twentie and nine yeres in Hierusalem His mothers name also was Abi y e daughter of Zacharia 3 And he dyd that whiche is right in the sight of the Lord according to al as did Dauid his father 4 He put away the high places brake the images and cut downe the groues and all to brake the brasen serpent that Moyses had made For vnto those dayes the children of Israel dyd burne sacrifice to it and he called it Nehustan 5 He trusted in the Lorde God of Israel so that after him was none lyke him among all the kinges of Iuda neither were there any such before him 6 For he claue to the Lorde and departed not from him but kept his commaundementes which the Lorde commaunded Moyses 7 And the Lorde was with him so that he prospered in all thinges whiche he toke in hande And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and serued him not 8 He smote the Philistines euen vnto Azza the coastes therof both castels where they kept watches and strong cities 9 * And in the fourth yere of king Hezekia whiche was the seuenth yere of Hosea sonne of Ela king of Israel it fortuned that Salmanazar king of Assyria came vp against Samaria and besieged it 10 And after three yeres they toke it euen in the sixth yere of Hezekia that is to say the nynth yere of Hosea king of Israel Samaria was wonne 11 And the king of Assyria dyd cary away Israel vnto Assyria put them in Halah and in Habor by the riuer of Gozan and in the cities of the Medes 12 Because they woulde not hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord their God but transgressed his appoyntment and all that Moyses the seruaunt of the Lorde commaunded and would neither heare them nor do them 13 Therfore in the fourteenth yere of king Hezekia did Sennacherib king of Assyria come vp against all the strong cities of Iuda and toke them 14 And Hezekia king of Iuda sent to the king of Assyria to Lachis saying I haue offended depart from me and all that thou puttest on me that will I beare And the king of Assyria appoynted vnto Hezekia king of Iuda three hundred talentes of siluer and thirtie talentes of golde 15 And Hezekia gaue him all the siluer that was founde in the house of the Lorde in the treasures of the kinges house 16 At the same season dyd Hezekia rent of the doores of the temple of the Lorde and the pillers whiche the sayde Hezekia king of Iuda had couered ouer and gaue them to the king of Assyria 17 And the king of Assyria sent Tharthan and Rabsaris Rabsakeh from Lachis to king Hezekia with a great hoast against Hierusalem And they went vp and came to Hierusalem and gat them vp and stoode by the conduite of the vpper poole whiche is in the way of the fullers fielde 18 And when they had called to the king there came out to them Eliakim the sonne of Elkia which was stewarde of the houshold and Sobna the scribe and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder 19 And Rabsakeh sayd vnto them Tell ye Hezekia I pray you thus sayth the great king euen the king of Assyria what confidence is this that thou hast 20 Thou thinkest surely I haue eloqueÌce but counsell and strength are for the warre On whom then doest thou trust that thou rebellest against me 21 Doest thou trust to the staffe of this broken reede Egypt on which if a man leane it will go into his hande pearse it Euen so is Pharao king of Egypt vnto all that trust on hym 22 If ye say vnto me we trust in the Lorde our God Is not that he whose hygh places and whose aulters Hezekia hath put downe and hath sayd to Iuda and Hierusalem ye shall worship before this aulter here in Hierusalem 23 Nowe therfore I pray thee geue hostages to my lorde the king of Assyria and I will deliuer thee two thousande horses if thou be able to set ryders vpon them 24 Why thinkest thou scorne at the presence of one of the least Dukes of my maisters seruauntes and trustest to Egypt for charets and horsmen 25 Moreouer am I come nowe without the bidding of the Lorde to this place to destroy it The Lord said to me Go vp to this lande and destroy it 26 And Eliakim the sonne of Helkia and Sobna Ioah sayde vnto Rabsakeh Speake I pray thee to thy seruauntes in the Syrians language for we vnderstande it and talke not with vs in the Iewes tongue in the eares of this people that are on the wall 27 And Rabsakeh sayde vnto them Hath my maister sent me to thy maister and thee to speake these wordes Hath he not sent me because of the men which sit on the wall that they may eate their owne dongue drinke their owne pisse with you 28 And so Rabsakeh stoode
goyng in and thy fury against me 28 And because thou ragest against me thy tumult is come vp to myne eares I will put my hoke in thy nostrels and my byt in thy lippes and wil bring thee backe againe the same way thou camest 29 And this shal be a signe vnto thee O Hezekia Ye shall eate this yere of such thinges as grow of themselues and the next yere such as come vp of those that dyd growe of their owne accorde and the thirde yere sowe ye and reape plant vineyardes and eate the fruites therof 30 And it that is escaped and left of the daughter of Iuda shall yet againe take roting downewarde and beare fruite vpwarde 31 For out of Hierusalem shall go a remnaunt and a number that shall escape out of mouÌt Sion The zeale of the lord of hoastes shal bring this thing to passe 32 Wherfore thus sayth the Lord concerning the king of Assyria he shall not come to this citie nor shote an arrowe into it nor come before it with shielde nor cast a banke against it 33 But shall go backe againe the way he came and shall not come into this citie sayth the Lorde 34 For I will defende this citie to saue it for myne owne sake and for Dauid my seruauntes sake 35 And it came to passe that the selfe same night the angell of the Lorde went out and smote in the hoast of the Assyrians an hundred fourescore fyue thousand And when the remnaunt were vp early in the morning beholde they were all dead coarses 36 And so Sennacherib king of Assyria auoyded and departed and went againe and dwelt at Niniue 37 And it fortuned that as he was in a temple worshipping Nisroch his God Adramelech Saresar his owne sonnes smote hym with the sworde And they escaped into the lande of Armenia and Asarhaddon his sonne raigned in his steade The .xx. Chapter 1 Hezekia is sicke and receaueth the signe of his health 12 He receaueth rewardes of Berodach 13 sheweth his treasures and is reprehended of Isai 22 He dieth and Manasse his sonne raigneth in his steade 1 ABout that time was Hezekia sicke vnto the death And the prophete Isai the sonne of Amoz came to him and sayde vnto him Thus saith the Lord Put thine houshold in an order for thou shalt dye and not lyue 2 And Hezekia turned his face to the wal and prayed vnto the Lord saying 3 I beseche the O Lorde remember now how I haue walked before thee in trueth and with a perfect heart haue done that whiche is good in thy sight And Hezekia wept sore 4 And it fortuned that afore Isai was gone out into the middle of the court the word of the Lorde came to him saying 5 Turne againe and tell Hezekia the captayne of my people thus sayth the Lorde God of Dauid thy father I haue hearde thy prayer and seene thy teares and beholde I will heale thee so that on the thirde day thou shalt go vp into the house of the Lorde 6 And I wil adde vnto thy dayes yet fifteene yeres I will deliuer thee this citie out of the hand of y e king of Assyria will defende this citie for myne owne sake for Dauid my seruauntes sake 7 And Isai sayd Take a lumpe of dried figges And they toke and layed it on the sore and he recouered 8 And Hezekia sayde vnto Isai What shal be the signe that the Lorde will heale me and that I shal go vp into the house of the Lorde the thirde day 9 Isai aunswered This signe shalt thou haue of the Lord that the Lord will do that he hath spoken Shall the shadowe go forwarde ten degrees or go backe againe ten degrees 10 Hezekia aunswered It is a light thing for the shadowe to go downe ten degrees I desire not that but let the shadowe go backwarde ten degrees 11 And Isai the prophete called vnto the Lord and he brought the shadowe ten degrees backwarde by whiche it had gone downe in the dyall of Ahaz 12 The same season Berodach Baladan the sonne of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a present vnto Hezekia for he had hearde howe that Hezekia was sicke 13 And Hezekia was glad of them and shewed them all his treasure house siluer golde odours precious oyntment all the house of his armory and all that was found in his treasures There was nothing in his house in all his realme that Hezekia shewed them not 14 And Isai the prophete came vnto king Hezekia and sayd vnto him What sayde these men and from wence came they to thee And Hezekia sayde They be come from a farre countrey euen from Babylon 15 And he sayde againe What haue they seene in thy house Hezekia aunswered All y e thinges that are in my house haue they seene there is nothing among my treasures that I haue not shewed theÌ 16 And Isai sayde vnto Hezekia Heare the word of the Lord 17 Beholde the dayes come that all that is in thy house and whatsoeuer thy fathers haue layde vp in store vnto this day shal be caryed into Babylon and nothing shal be left sayth the Lorde 18 And of thy sonnes that shall proceede out of thee and which thou shalt beget shall they take away and they shal be chamberlaynes in the palace of the king of Babylon 19 And Hezekia sayde vnto Isai Welcome be the worde of the Lorde whiche thou hast spoken And he sayde Shall there not be peace trueth in my dayes 20 The remnaunt of the wordes that concerne Hezekia and all his power and howe he made a poole and a conduite brought water into the citie are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Iuda 21 And Hezekia slept with his fathers Manasse his sonne raigned in his steade The xxi Chapter 3 King Manasse restoreth idolatrie 16 And vseth great crueltie 18 He dieth and Amon his sonne succeedeth 23 who is killed of his owne seruauntes 26 After him raigneth Iosia 1 MAnasse was twelue yeres old when he began to raigne and raigned fyftie and fyue yeres in HierusaleÌ his mothers name also was Hephziba 2 And he did euil in the sight of the Lord euen after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lorde cast out before the children of Israel 3 For he went and buylt vp the hygh places whiche Hezekia his father had destroyed and he reared vp aulters for Baal and made idol groues as dyd Ahab king of Israel and worshipped all the hoast of heauen and serued them 4 And he buylt aulters in the house of the Lord of which the Lorde sayde in Hierusalem will I put my name 5 And he buylt aulters for all the hoast of heauen euen in two courtes of the house of the Lorde 6 And he offred his owne sonne in fire and gaue heede vnto witchcraft and sorcery and mainteyned
workers with spirites and tellers of fortunes and wrought much wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde to anger him 7 And he put an image of a groue that he had made euen in the temple of which the Lord had sayd to Dauid and Solomon his sonne in this house and in Hierusalem which I haue chosen out of all tribes of Israel will I put my name for euer 8 Neither will I make the feete of Israel moue any more out of the lande which I gaue their fathers so that they will obserue and do all that I haue commaunded them and according to all the law that my seruaunt Moyses commaunded them 9 But they hearkened not and Manasse led them out of the way to do more wickedly then dyd the heathen people whom the Lorde destroyed before the children of Israel 10 And the Lord spake by his seruauntes the prophetes saying 11 Because Manasse king of Iuda hath done such abhominations and hath wrought more wickedly then all the Amorites whiche were before him dyd and hath made Iuda sinne also with his idols 12 Therfore thus sayth the Lord God of Israel Behold I will bring such euyll vpon Hierusalem and Iuda that whoso heareth of it both his eares shal tingle 13 And I will stretche ouer Hierusalem the squaryng line of Samaria the plummet of the house of Ahab And I will wype out Hierusalem as a man wypeth a dishe and when he hath wyped it turneth it vp syde downe 14 And I will leaue the remnaunt of myne inheritaunce and deliuer them into the hand of their enemies and they shal be robbed and spoyled of all their aduersaries 15 Euen because they haue done euyll in my sight and haue angred me sence the time their fathers came out of Egypt vnto this day 16 And Manasse shed innocent blood exceeding much till he replenished Hierusalem from corner to corner besyde his sinne wherwith he made Iuda to sinne and to do euyll in the sight of the Lorde 17 The rest of the wordes that concerne Manasse and all that he dyd and his sinne that he sinned are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Iuda 18 And Manasse slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his owne house euen in the gardeÌ of Vzza Amon his sonne raigned in his steade 19 Amon was twentie and two yeres olde when he began to raigne and he raigned two yeres in Hierusalem His mothers name also was Mesullemeth the daughter of Harus of Iotba 20 And he dyd euyll in the sight of the Lord as his father Manasse dyd 21 And walked in al the way that his father walked in and serued the idols that his father serued and worshipped them 22 And he forsoke the Lord God of his fathers and walked not in the way of the Lorde 23 And the seruauntes of Amon conspired against hym slue the king in his owne house 24 And the people of the land slue al them that had conspired against king Amon and the people made Iosia his sonne king in his steade 25 The rest of the wordes that concerne Amon what thinges he dyd are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Iuda 26 And they buryed him in his sepulchre in the garden of Vzza Iosia his sonne raigned in his steade The .xxii. Chapter 4 Iosia repaireth the temple 8 Helkia findeth the booke of the law and causeth it to be presented to Iosia 14 who sendeth to Hulda the prophetisse to inquire the Lordes will 1 IOsia was eight yeres olde when he began to raigne he raigned thirtie one yeres in Hierusalem His mothers name also was Iedida the daughter of Adaia of Bozcath 2 He dyd that which is right in the sight of the Lorde walked in all the wayes of Dauid his father and bowed neither to the right hande or to the left 3 And it came to passe that in the eyghtteenth yere of the raigne of king Iosia the king sent Saphan the sonne of Azalia the sonne of Mesulam the scribe to the house of the Lord saying 4 Go vp to Helkia the hye priest that he may summe the siluer whiche is brought into the house of the Lorde which the kepers of the porche haue gathered of the people 5 And let them deliuer it into the hande of them that do the worke and that haue the ouersight of the house of the Lord and let them geue it to them that worke in the house of the Lorde to repaire the decayed places of the temple 6 Euen vnto carpenters and masons and workers vpon the walles and for to bye tymber and free stone to repaire the temple 7 Howbeit let no reckenyng be made with them of the money that is deliuered into their hande for their vse is to deale faithfully 8 And Helkia the hie priest said vnto Saphan the scribe I haue founde the booke of the lawe in the house of the Lorde And Helkia gaue the booke to Saphan and he read in it 9 And Saphan the scribe came to the king and brought him worde againe and sayde Thy seruauntes haue gathered the money that was founde in the temple and haue deliuered it vnto them that do the worke and that haue the ouersight of the house of the Lorde 10 And Saphan the scribe shewed the king saying Helkia the priest hath deliuered me a booke And Saphan read in it before the king 11 And it fortuned that when the king had hearde the wordes of the booke of the lawe he rent his clothes 12 And the king commaunded Helkia the priest and Ahikan the sonne of Saphan and Achbor the sonne of Michaia and Saphan the scribe and Asahia a seruaunt of the kinges saying 13 Go ye and enquire of the Lord for me and for the people and for al Iuda concerning the wordes of this booke that is founde For great is the wrath of the Lord that is kyndled against vs because our fathers haue not hearkened vnto the wordes of this booke to do according vnto al that which is written therin for vs. 14 So Helkia the hye priest and Ahikam Achbor and Saphan and Asahia went vnto Hulda the prophetisse the wyfe of Sallum the sonne of Thikua the sonne of Harhas keper of the wardrope which prophetisse dwelt in Hierusalem in the house of the doctrine they communed with her 15 And she aunswered them thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel Tell the man that sent you to me 16 Thus sayth the Lorde Behold I wil bring euyll vpon this place and on the inhabiters therof euen all the wordes of the booke whiche the king of Iuda hath read 17 Because they haue forsaken me and haue burnt incense vnto other gods to anger me with all the workes of their handes My wrath also shal be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched 18 But to the king of Iuda whiche sent you
Obed Edom Ieiel and Azaiahu played vpon harpes an eyght aboue with courage 22 And Chenaniahu the chiefe of the Leuites was maister of the song for he taught other to sing because he was a man of vnderstanding 23 Bereâhia and Elcana kept the doore of the arke 24 And Sebaniahu Iehosaphat Nathanael Amasai Zachariahu Banaiahu and Eliezer the priestes did blowe with trumpettes before the arke of God And Obed Edom and Iehia were kepers of the doore of the arke 25 And Dauid and the elders of Israel and the captaynes ouer thousandes went to fet the arke of the appoyntmeÌt of the Lorde out of the house of Obed Edom with gladnesse 26 And when God helped the Leuites that bare the arke of the appoyntment of the Lorde they offered seuen oxen and seuen rammes 27 And Dauid had on him a linnen garment lyke as had also all the Leuites that bare the arke so had the singers and Chenania the ruler of the songe with the singers and Dauid had vpon him an Ephod of linnen 28 And al they of Israel brought the arke of the Lordes couenaunt with showting and blowing of the shawme and trumpettes making a noyse with cymbales psalteries and harpes 29 And as the arke of the appointment of the Lorde came into the citie of Dauid Michol the daughter of Saul looking out at a windowe sawe king Dauid daunsing and playing and she despised him in her heart ¶ The .xvj. Chapter 1 The arke being placed they offer sacrifices 4 Dauid ordaineth Asaph and his brethren to minister before the Lorde 8 He appoynteth a notable psalme to be song in prayse of the Lorde 1 SO they brought in the arke of God and set it in the middest of the tent that Dauid pitched for it And they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offringes before God 2 And when Dauid had made an end of offring the burnt offringes and peace offringes he blessed the people in the name of the Lorde 3 And he dealt to all Israel both man and woman a cracknel of bread and a good peece of fleshe and a flacket of wine 4 And he appoynted certaine of the Leuites to minister before the arke of the Lord and to repeate and to thanke and prayse the Lorde God of Israel 5 And Asaph was the chiefe and nexte to him Zacharia Ieiel Semiramoth Iehiel Mathathia Eliab Benaia Obed Edom Ieiel with instruments psalteries harpes But Asaph made a sounde with cymbales 6 Banaia and Iahaziel priestes blewe with trumpettes continually before the arke of the couenaunt of God 7 And that same tyme Dauid did appoynt chiefely to thanke the Lorde by Asaph and his brethren 8 Confesse you it vnto God call vpon his name cause the people to vnderstande his deuises 9 Sing vnto him sing psalmes vnto him talke you of all his wonderous workes 10 Glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them reioyce that do seeke God 11 Seeke God and his strength seeke his face euermore 12 Remember the marueylous workes that he hath done his wonders and the iudgementes of his mouth 13 O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt ye his chosen children of Iacob he is God our Lorde his iudgementes are in all the earth 14 He hath ben mindfull alwayes of his couenaunt for he promysed a word to a thousande generations euen of his couenaunt that he made with Abraham and of his othe vnto Isaac 15 And he appoynted the same vnto Iacob for a law and to Israel for an euerlasting couenaunt 16 Saying vnto thee I wyll geue the lande of Chanaan the lot of your inheritaunce 17 When they were a fewe men in number and had ben straungers but a litle while in it and when they went from one nation to another from one kingdome to another people 18 He suffred no man to do them wrong yea he reproued euen kinges for their sakes 19 Touche not myne annoynted and triumph not ouer my prophetes 20 Sing vnto the Lorde all the earth and shewe from day to day his saluation 21 Tell of his glory among the heathen his wonderfull deedes among all natitions 25 For great is the Lorde and worthy to be praysed exceedingly he is to be feared aboue all gods 26 For all the gods of the people are but idoles but the Lorde made heauen 27 Prayse and honour are in his presence strength and gladnesse are in his place 28 Asscribe vnto the Lord ye kinredes of people Asscribe to the Lorde glorie and dominion 29 Asscribe vnto the Lord the glorie due vnto his name bring sacrifices and come before him and worship the Lord in his glorious sanctuarie 30 Let all the earth feare him surely the world shal be stable and not moue 31 Let the heauens reioyce and let the earth be glad and let men tel among the nations that the Lorde is king 32 Let the sea rore the fulnesse thereof let the fieldes reioyce all that is therin 33 Then shall the trees of the wood reioyce at the presence of the Lord because he commeth to iudge the earth 34 O geue thankes vnto the Lorde for he is good for his mercie endureth euer 35 And say ye saue vs O God our saluation gather vs together and deliuer vs from among the heathen that we may geue thankes to thy holy name and triumph in the prayse of thee 36 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for euer and euer let all people say Amen and prayse the Lorde 37 And so he left there before the arke of the lordes couenaunt Asaph his brethren to minister before the arke continually in such thinges as were to be done day by day 38 And Obed Edom and his brethren threescore and eyght and Obed Edom the sonne of Ieduthun and Hosa were appoynted to be porters 39 And Zadoc the priest his brethren the priestes were before y e tabernacle of the lord in the hie place that was at Gibeon 40 To offer burnt offeringes vnto the Lorde vpon the burnt offering aulter perpetually in the morning and euening according to all that which is written in the lawe of the Lorde whiche he commaunded Israel 41 And with them were Heman and Ieduthun and other that were chosen whose names were expressed to geue thankes to the Lorde That his mercie lasteth euer 42 And with them dyd Heman an Ieduthun sing with the trumpets and cymbales making a sweete melodie with instrumentes of musicke godly songues And the sonnes of Ieduthun were porters 43 And al the people departed euery man to his house Dauid returned to blesse his house The .xvii. Chapter 3 Dauid is forbidden to buylde an house vnto the Lord. 12 Christ is promised vnder the figure of Solomon 18 Dauid geueth thankes 23 and prayeth vnto God 1 AND it fortuned that when Dauid dwelt in his house he sayde to Nathan the prophete Lo I dwel in an house of Cedar tree but the arke of the lordes
whosoeuer is wylling may this day consecrate his hande vnto the Lorde 6 And so the auncient fathers and the lordes of the tribes of Israel the captaynes of thousandes and hundredes with the lordes that were rulers ouer the kinges worke were willing 7 And gaue for the seruice of the house of God fiue thousand talentes of golde and ten thousand peeces of golde and ten thousand talentes of siluer eyghtteene thousand talentes of brasse and one hundred thousand talentes of iron 8 And they with whom precious stones were founde gaue them to the treasure of the house of the Lord by the hand of Iehiel the Gersonite 9 And the people reioyced when they were so wylling to geue their goodes and with a perfect heart they offered wyllingly to the Lord And Dauid the king reioyced with great gladnesse 10 And Dauid blessed the Lorde before all the congregation and sayde Blessed be thou Lorde God of Israel our father from euer and for euer 11 Thyne O Lorde is greatnesse and power glory victorie and prayse for all that is in heauen and in earth is thyne and thyne is the kingdome O Lorde and thou excellest aboue all euen as the head of all 12 And richesse and honour come of thee and thou raignest ouer all and in thyne hande is power strength and in thyne hand it is to make great and to geue strength vnto all 13 And nowe our God we thanke thee and prayse thy glorious name 14 But who am I and what is my people that we should enforce our selues to geue these thinges so willingly But all thinges come of thee of that which we receaued at thyne hand we haue geuen thee 15 For we be but straungers before thee and soiourners as were al our fathers Our dayes on the earth also are but as a shadowe and there is none abiding 16 O Lorde our God all this stuffe that we haue prepared to builde thee an house for thy holy name commeth of thyne hand and is all thyne 17 I wot also my God that thou tryest the heartes and hast pleasure in vnfaynednesse in the vnfaonednesse of myne heart I haue wyllingly offered al these thinges And now haue I seene thy people which are founde here to offer vnto thee wyllyngly and with gladnesse 18 O Lorde God of Abraham Isahac and of Israel our fathers keepe this for euer in the desire of the thoughtes of the heart of thy people prepare their heartes vnto thee 19 And geue vnto Solomon my sonne a perfect heart to keepe thy commaundementes thy testimonies thy statutes and to do all and builde the house for the which I haue made prouision 20 And Dauid saide to all the congregation Now blesse the Lorde your God And all the congregation blessed the Lorde God of their fathers and bowed downe their heades and worshipped the Lorde and the king 21 And they offered offringes vnto the Lorde And on the morowe after the saide day they offred burnt offringes vnto the Lorde euen a thousand young oxen a thousand rammes and a thousand sheepe with their drinke offrings Many sacrifices offred they for all Israel 22 And did eate drinke before the Lord the same day with great gladnesse And they made Solomon the sonne of Dauid king the second time and annoynted him prince before the Lorde and Zadoc to be the hie priest 23 And Solomon sate on the seate of the Lorde and was king in steade of Dauid his father and prospered and all they of Israel obeyed him 24 And all the lordes and men of power and all the sonnes of king Dauid submitted them selues were vnder king Solomon 25 And the Lorde magnified Solomon in dignitie in the sight of all them of Israel and gaue him so glorious a kingdome as no king had before him in Israel 26 And so Dauid the sonne of Isai raigned ouer all Israel 27 And the space that he raigned ouer Israel was fouretie yeres Seuen yeres raigned he in Hebron and thirtie and three yeres raigned he in Hierusalem 28 And he dyed in a good age ful of dayes riches and honour and Solomon his sonne raigned in his steade 29 The actes of Dauid the king first and last beholde they are written in the booke of Samuel the sear and in the booke of Nathan the prophete and in the booke of Gad the sear 30 With all his kingdome and power and times that went ouer him ouer all Israel and ouer all the kingdomes of the earth ⧠The end of the first booke of the Chronicles otherwyse called the first booke of Paralipomenon ⧠The second booke of the Chronicles which in the Hebrue is one with the first ¶ The first Chapter 6 The offering of Solomon at Gibeon 8 He prayeth vnto God to geue him wysedome 11 which he geueth him and more 14 The number of his charets and horses 15 and of his riches 1 ANd Solomon the sonne of Dauid waxed strong in his kingdome and the Lord his God was with him and magnified him in dignitie 2 And Solomon spake vnto all Israel to the captaynes ouer thousandes to the captaynes ouer hundredes to the iudges and to euery officer in all Israel and to the auncient fathers 3 And so Solomon and all the congregation with him went to the hie place that was at Gibeon for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God which Moyses the seruaunt of the Lorde made in the wyldernesse 4 But the arke of God had Dauid brought from Kiriathiarim into the place which Dauid had prepared therfore For he had pitched a tent for it at Hierusalem 5 Moreouer the brasen aulter that Bezaleel the sonne of Vri the sonne of Hur had made was there before the tabernacle of the Lorde And Solomon and the congregation went to visite it 6 And Solomon gat vp there before the Lord to the brasen aulter that was before the tabernacle of the congregation and offered a thousand burnt sacrifices vpon it 7 And the same night did God appeare vnto Solomon and said vnto him Aske what I shall geue thee 8 And Solomon saide vnto God Thou hast shewed great mercie vnto Dauid my father and hast made me to raigne in his steade 9 Now therefore O Lorde God let thy promise which thou madest vnto Dauid my father be true For thou hast made me king ouer a people which is lyke the dust of the earth in multitude 10 Wherefore geue me now wysedome and knowledge that I may be able to go in and out before this people for who els can iudge this people that is so great 11 And God saide to Solomon Because this was in thyne heart and because thou hast not asked treasure and riches and honour the liues of thyne enemies neither yet long lyfe but hast asked wysedome and knowledge for thy selfe to iudge my people ouer which I haue made thee
may knowe thy name and feare thee as doth thy people Israel and that they may knowe how that in this house whiche I haue buylt thy name is called vpon 34 If thy people go out to warre against their enemies by the way that thou shalt sende them and they pray to thee in the way towarde this citie whiche thou hast chosen euen toward the house which I haue buylt for thy name 35 Then heare thou from heauen their supplication and prayer and helpe them in their right 36 If they sinne against thee as there is no man but he doth sinne and thou be angry with them and deliuer them ouer before their enemies and they take them and carie them away captiues vnto a lande farre or neare 37 Yet if they repent in their heart in the lande where they be in captiuitie and turne and pray vnto thee in the land of their captiuitie saying We haue sinned we haue done euyll and wickedly 38 And turne againe to thee with all their heart and all their soule in the lande of their âaptiuitie where they kepe them in bondage and so pray towarde their land whiche thou gauest vnto their fathers euen toward the citie which thou hast chosen toward the house whiche I haue buylt for my name 39 Then heare thou from heauen euen from thy dwelling place their supplication and their prayer and iudge their cause and be mercifull vnto thy people which haue sinned against thee 40 Now my God let thine eyes be open and thyne eares attent vnto the prayer that is made in this place 41 Nowe vp O Lorde God into thy resting place thou and the arke of thy strength O Lorde God let thy priestes be clothed with health let thy sainctes reioyce in goodnesse 42 O Lord God turne not away the face of thyne annoynted remember the mercies whiche thou hast promised to Dauid thy seruaunt The .vii. Chapter 1 The fire consumeth the sacrifice 2 The glorie of the Lorde filleth the temple 12 He heareth his prayer 17 and promiseth to exalt him and his throne 1 ANd when Solomon had made an ende of praying there came downe fire from heauen and consumed the burnt offring and the sacrifices the house was filled with the glorie of the Lorde 2 And the priestes coulde not go into the house of the Lorde because the glorie of the Lord had filled the lordes house 3 And when al the children of Israel saw howe the fire and the glorie of the Lord came downe vpon the house they fell downe flat vpon their faces to the earth vpon the pauement and worshipped and confessed vnto the lord That he is gracious and that his mercie lasteth euer 4 And the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lorde 5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twentie and two thousande oxen and an hundred and twentie thousande sheepe and so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God 6 And the priestes wayted on their offices the Leuites had the instrumentes of musicke of the Lord which king Dauid had made to confesse vnto the Lord that his mercie lasteth euer Dauid praysing God by theÌ And the priestes blew with trumpettes before them and all they of Israel stoode 7 Moreouer Solomon halowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lorde for there he offred burnt offringes the fat of the peace offringes because the brasen aulter which Solomon had made was not able to receaue the burnt offringes and the meate offringes and the fat 8 So at the same time Solomon kept a feast of seuen dayes and al they of Israel with him an exceeding great congregation euen from the entring in of Hamath vnto the riuer of Egypt 9 And in the eyght day they made an assemblie For they kept the dedication of the aulter seuen dayes the feast seuen dayes â0 And the three and twentie day of the seuenth moneth he let the people depart into their tentes glad and mery in heart for the goodnesse that the Lorde had shewed to Dauid and to Solomon and to Israel his people 11 And so Solomon finished the house of the Lorde and the kinges house and all that came in his heart to make in the house of the Lorde in his owne house went prosperously forwarde 12 And the Lorde appeared to Solomon by night and sayd to him I haue heard thy petition and haue chosen this place for my selfe to be an house of sacrifice 13 If I shut vp heauen that there be no rayne or if I commaund the locustes to deuour the lande or if I sende pestilence among my people 14 And if they that are of my people among whom my name is called vpon do humble them selues and make intercession and seke my presence and turns from their wicked wayes then will I heare from heauen and be mercifull to their sinne and will heale their lande 15 And from hencefoorth myne eyes shal be open and myne eares attent vnto the prayer that is made in this place 16 And therfore nowe I haue chosen and sanctified this house that my name may be there for euer and myne eyes and myne heart shal be there perpetually 17 And if thou wilt walke before me as Dauid thy father walked to do all that I haue commaunded thee and shalt obserue my statutes and my lawes 18 Then will I stablishe the seate of thy kingdome according as I made the couenaunt with Dauid thy father saying Thou shalt not be without a man to be ruler in Israel 19 But and if ye turne away and forsake my statutes my commaundementes which I haue set before you and shall go and serue other gods and worship them 20 Then will I plucke them vp by the rootes out of my lande whiche I haue geuen them and this house whiche I haue sanctified for my name will I cast out of my sight and will make it to be a prouerbe and a iest among all nations 21 And this house whiche is most high shal be an astonishement to euery one that passeth by and shal say Why hath the Lorde dealt on this fashion with this lande and with this house 22 And they shal aunswere Because they forsoke the Lorde God of their fathers which brought them out of the lande of Egypt and caught holde on other gods and worshipped them and serued them euen therefore hath he brought all this euyll vpon them The .viii. Chapter 2 The cities that Solomon buylt 7 People that were made tributarie vnto him 12 His sacrifices 17 He sendeth to Ophir 1 ANd it fortuned that after twentie yeres when Solomon had buylt the house of the Lorde and his owne house 2 He buylt the cities that Hiram gaue hym and put of the children of Israel in them 3 And Solomon went to Hamath Zoba and strengthed it 4 And he buylt Thadmor in the
Zebadia the sonne of Ismael a ruler of the house of Iuda for all the kinges matters There be officers of the Leuites also before you Take courage to you therfore and be doyng manfully and the Lorde shal be with such as be good The .xx. Chapter 3 Iehosaphat and the people pray vnto the Lorde 22 The marueylous victorie that the Lorde gaue him against his enemies 30 His raigne and actes 1 AFter this also it fortuned that the children of Moab and the children Ammon with them other of the Ammonites came against Iehosaphat to battell 2 And there came some that told Iehosaphat saying There commeth a great multitude against thee from the other side of the sea and out of Syria and behold they be in Hasason Thamar which is Engadi 3 And Iehosaphat feared set him selfe to seke the Lorde and proclaymed fasting throughout all Iuda 4 And they that were in Iuda gathered theÌ selues together to aske counsel of the Lord And they came out of al the cities of Iuda to make intercession to y e lord 5 And Iehosaphat stoode betweene the congregation of Iuda Hierusalem in the house of y e Lord before the new court 6 And sayd O Lord God of our fathers art not thou God in heauen and raignest not thou on all the kingdomes of the Heathen and in thyne hande is power and might and there is no man that is able to withstande thee 7 Art not thou our God whiche diddest cast out the inhabiters of this lande before thy people Israel gauest it to the seede of Abraham thy louer for euer 8 And they dwelt therin and haue buylt thee a teÌple therin for thy name saying 9 If euyll come vpon vs as the sword of iudgement pestilence or hunger then if we stande before this house in thy presence for thy name is in this house and crye vnto thee in our tribulation heare thou and helpe 10 And nowe beholde the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir by whom thou wouldest not let them of Israel go when they came out of the lande of Egypt but they departed from them and destroyed them not 11 See howe they rewarde vs to come for to cast vs out of thy possession whiche thou hast geuen vs to inherite 12 O our God wilt thou not iudge them for we haue no might against this great companie that commeth against vs neither wote we what to do but our eyes be vnto thee 13 And all Iuda stoode before the Lorde with their young ones their wiues and their children 14 And there was Iahaziel the sonne of Zacharia the sonne of Banaia the sonne of Iehiel the sonne of Matthania a Leuite of the sonnes of Asaph vpon hym came the spirite of the Lorde euen in the middes of the congregation 15 And he sayd Hearken all Iuda and ye inhabiters of Hierusalem and thou king Iehosaphat thus sayth the Lorde vnto you Be not afrayd nor faynt hearted by reason of this great multitude for the battell is not yours but Gods 16 To morow go ye downe against them behold they come vp by the clift of Ziz and ye shall finde them at the ende of the brooke before the wildernesse of Ieruel 17 Ye shall not neede to fight in this battell but steppe foorth and stand and beholde the helpe of the Lorde whiche is with you feare not nor let your heartes fayle you O ye of Iuda and of Hierusalem To morowe go out against them for the Lord wil be with you 18 And Iehosaphat bowed his face to the earth and all Iuda and the inhabibiters of Hierusalem fel before the Lord worshipping the Lorde 19 And the Leuites of the children of the Caathites of the children of the Corahites stoode vp to prayse the Lorde God of Israel with a loud voyce on hie 20 And when they arose early in the morning they gat them out vnto the wildernesse of Thekoa and as they went out Iehosaphat stoode and sayd Heare me O Iuda and ye inhabiters of Hierusalem Put your trust in the Lorde your God that ye may be founde faythfull Geue credence to his prophetes and so shall ye prosper 21 When he had consulted with the people and set some to sing vnto the Lorde and to prayse him in the beautie of holinesse and to go out before the armie and to say Prayse the Lorde for his mercie lasteth euer 22 And when they began to shout and to prayse the Lord layde ambushementes against the children of Ammon Moab and mount Seir whiche were come against Iuda And they were ouerthrowen with strokes among theÌselues 23 For the children of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabiters of mount Seir and they slue and destroyed them And when they had made an end of the inhabiters of Seir euery one helped to destroy another among them selues 24 And when Iuda came towarde Mispah in the wildernesse they loked vnto the multitude and beholde they were dead carcasses fallen to the earth and none escaped 25 And when Iehosaphat and his people came to take away the spoyle of them they founde among them aboundaunce of goods rayment pleasaunt iewels which they toke for them selues more then they could cary away so that they were three dayes in gathering of the spoyle it was so much 26 And the fourth day they assembled in the valley of blessing for there they blessed the Lord And therfore they called the name of the same place the valley of blessing vnto this day 27 And so all the men of Iuda and HierusaleÌ returned with Iehosaphat their head for to go againe to Hierusalem with gladnesse for the Lord had made them to reioyce ouer their enemies 28 And they came to Hierusalem with psalters and harpes shawmes euen vnto the house of the Lorde 29 And the feare of God fell on the kingdomes of all landes when they had heard that the Lorde fought against the enemies of Israel 30 And so the realme of Iehosaphat was in tranquillitie and his God gaue him rest on euery side 31 And Iehosaphat raigned vpon Iuda and was thirtie fiue yeres olde when he began to raigne he raigned twentie and fiue yeres in Hierusalem And his mothers name was Azuba the daughter of Silhi 32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father and bowed not therfrom doyng that which was right in the sight of the Lorde 33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away for the people had not yet prepared their heartes vnto the God of their fathers 34 The rest of the actes of Iehosaphat first and last behold they are written among the sayinges of Iehu the sonne of Hanani which noted them in the booke of the kinges of Israel 35 After this did Iehosaphat king of Iuda ioyne himselfe with Ahaziahu king of Israel whose mind was to do wickedly 36 He coupled him selfe with him to make shippes to go to Tharsis And they made the shippes in Ezion Gaber
Abia the daughter of Zachariahu 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lorde in all poyntes as did Dauid his father 3 He opened the doores of the house of the Lorde in the first yere and first moneth of his raigne and repaired them 4 And he brought in the priestes and the Leuites and gathered them together into the east streate 5 And saide vnto them Heare me ye Leuites and now be sanctified and halow the house of the Lorde God of your fathers bring filthynesse out of the holy place 6 For our fathers haue trespassed and done euill in the eyes of the Lorde our God and haue forsaken him and turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord and turned their backes on it 7 And beside that they haue shut vp the doores of the porche and quenched the lampes and haue neither burnt incense nor offered burnt offringes in the holy place vnto the God of Israel 8 Wherefore the wrath of the Lorde fell on Iuda Hierusalem and he hath brought them to trouble to be wondred on to be hissed at euen as ye see with your eyes 9 For loe our fathers were ouerthrowen with the sword and our sonnes our daughters and our wyues were caried away captiue for the same cause 10 And now it is in myne heart to make a couenaunt with the Lord God of Israel that he may turne away his heauy indignation from vs. 11 Now therefore my sonnes be not negligent for the Lorde hath chosen you to stande before him and for to minister and serue him and to burne incense 12 Then the Leuites arose Mahath the sonne of Amasai and Ioel the sonne of Azariahu of the children of the Caathites And of the sonnes of Merari Cis the sonne of Abdi and Azariahu the sonne of Iahalelel And of y e sonnes of the Gersonites Ioah the sonne of Simma and Eden the sonne of Ioah 13 And of the sonnes of Elizaphan Simri and Iehiel And of the sonnes of Asaph Zechariahu and Matthamahu 14 And of the sonnes of Heman Iehiel and Simer And of the sonnes of Ieduthun Semaia and Vzziel 15 And they gathered their brethren and purified them selues and came according to the commaundement of the king and the wordes of the Lord for to clense the house of the Lorde 16 And the priestes went into the inner partes of the house of the Lord to clense it and brought out all the vnclennesse that they founde in the temple of the Lorde into the court of the house of the Lorde And the Leuites toke it to cary it out into the brooke Cedron 17 They began the first day of the first moneth to purifie and the eyght day of the moneth came they to the porche of the Lorde So they sacrified the house of the Lorde in eyght dayes and in the sixteenth day of the first moneth they made an end 18 And they went in to Hezekia the king and saide We haue clensed all the house of the Lorde the aulter of burnt offring with all his vessels and the shew bread table with all his apparell 19 And all the vessels which king Ahaz did cast aside when he raigned transgressed them we haue prepared and sanctified and beholde they are before the aulter of the Lorde 20 And Hezekia the king rose earlye and gathered the lordes of the citie and went vp to the house of the Lorde 21 And they brought seuen oxen seuen rammes seuen sheepe and seuen hee goates to be a sinne offring for the kingdome for the sanctuary and for Iuda And he commaunded the priestes the sonnes of Aaron to offer them on the aulter of the Lorde 22 And they slue the oxen and the priestes receaued the blood and sprinckled it on the aulter likewyse when they had slaine the rammes they sprinckled the blood vpon the aulter They slue also the sheepe and they sprinckled the blood vpon the aulter 23 And then they brought foorth the hee goates for the sinne offering before the king and the congregation put their handes vpon them 24 And the priestes slue them and with the blood of them they clensed the aulter to make satisfaction for all Israel for the king coÌmaunded that the burnt offering and the sinne offering shoulde be made for all Israel 25 And set the Leuites in the house of the Lorde with cymbales psalteries and harpes according to the commaundement of Dauid and of Gad the kinges sear and Nathan the prophete For so was the commaundement of the Lord through the hande of his prophetes 26 And the Leuites stoode hauing the instrumentes of Dauid and the priestes helde the trumpettes 27 And Hezekia commaunded to offer the burnt offring vpon the aulter And when the burnt offring began the song of the Lorde began also and the trumpettes with the instrumentes that were ordayned by the hand of Dauid king of Israel 28 And all the congregation worshipped singing a song and blowyng with the trumpettes and all this continued vntill the burnt offring was finished 29 And when they had made an end of offering the king and all that were present with him bowed them selues and worshipped 30 And Hezekia the king and the lordes spake to the Leuites to prayse the Lord with the wordes of Dauid of Asaph the sear And they sang prayses with gladnesse and the other bowed them selues and worshipped 31 And Hezekia aunswered and saide Now ye haue consecrated your handes to the Lorde go to therefore and bryng the sacrifices and thanke offeringes into the house of the Lorde And the congregation brought in the sacrifices thank offeringes and burnt offringes as many as were of a free liberall heart 32 And the number of the burnt offringes which the congregation brought was threescore and ten oxen an hundred rammes two hundred sheepe which were all for the burnt offering of the Lorde 33 And there were dedicated sixe hundred oxen and three thousand sheepe 34 And the priestes were to fewe to flay al the burnt offringes but their brethren the Leuites did helpe them till they had ended the worke vntil the priestes were sanctified For the Leuites were purer hearted to be sanctified then the priestes 35 And therto y e burnt offringes were many with the fat of the peace offringes the drinke offringes that belong to the burnt offring And so the seruice parteyning to the house of the Lorde was finished 36 And Hezekia reioyced and all the people that God had made the folke so readie that the thing was so soone done ¶ The .xxx. Chapter 1 The keping of the passouer by the kinges commaundement 6 He exhorteth Israel to turne to the Lorde 18 He prayeth for the people 24 His oblation and the princes 27 The Leuites blesse the people 1 AND Hezekia sent to all Israel and Iuda and wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasse that they shoulde come to the house of the lorde at Hierusalem and
offer passouer vnto the Lorde God of Israel 2 And the king helde a counsell with his lordes and all the congregation of Hierusalem to kepe the feast of passouer in the second moneth 3 For they coulde not kepe it at that time because the priestes were not sanctified sufficiently neither was the people gathered together to Hierusalem 4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation 5 And they decreed that it shoulde be proclaymed throughout all Israel from Beerseba to Dan that they shoulde come holde the feast of Passouer vnto the Lord God of Israel at Hierusalem For they had not done it of a great season as it was written 6 So the postes went with letters of the king and of his lordes throughout all Israel Iuda and at the commaundement of the king they sayde Ye children of Israel turne againe vnto the Lorde God of Abraham Isahac and Israel and he wyll returne to the remnaunt that are escaped of you out of the hande of the kinges of the Assyrians 7 And be not ye lyke your fathers and your brethren which trespassed against the Lorde God of their fathers which gaue them vp to be destroyed as ye see 8 And now be not ye stiffe necked lyke as were your fathers but yeelde your selues vnto the Lord and enter into his holy place which he hath sanctified for euer and serue the Lord your God and the fiercenesse of his wrath shall turne away from you 9 For if ye turne againe vnto the Lorde then shall your brethren and your children finde compassion in the presence of them that toke them captiue and they shall come againe vnto this lande For the Lorde your God is gratious and mercifull and wyll not turne away his face from you if ye conuert vnto him 10 And so the postes went from citie to citie in the lande of Ephraim Manasse euen vnto Zabulon but they laughed them to scorne and mocked them 11 Neuerthelesse yet diuers of Aser Manasse and of Zabulon submitted them selues and came to Hierusalem 12 And the hande of God was in Iuda and he gaue them one heart to do the commaundement of the king and of the rulers according to the worde of the Lorde 13 And there assembled to Hierusalem much people and there was present a mightie great congregation to hold the feast of sweete bread in the second moneth 14 And they arose and remoued the aulters that were in Hierusalem And all the aulters for incense did they away and cast them into the brooke Cedron 15 And they slue Passouer the foureteenth day of the second moneth And the priestes and Leuites which were ashamed sanctified them selues and brought in the burnt offringes into the house of the Lorde 16 And they stoode in their office after their maner and according to the lawe of Moyses the man of God And the priestes sprinckled the blood which they receaued of the hande of the Leuites 17 For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified and therefore the Leuites had the charge of the killing of the Passouer for euery one that was not cleane to sanctifie him vnto the Lorde 18 For many of the people and very many out of Ephraim Manasse Isachar and Zabulon ⪠were not clensed and yet did eate Passour against the lawe appoynted but Hezekia prayed for them saying The good Lorde be mercifull toward euery one 19 That prepareth his heart to seeke the Lorde God the God of his fathers though he be not clensed accordyng to the purification of the sanctuarie 20 And the Lorde heard Hezekia and healed the people 21 And the children of Israel that were present at Hierusalem held the feast of sweete bread seuen dayes with great gladnes and the Leuites the priestes praysed the Lorde day by day singing with loude instrumentes vnto the lord 22 And Hezekia spake comfortablie vnto all the Leuites that had good knowledge to sing vnto the Lorde and they did eate throughout that feast seuen dayes long and offered peace offringes and thanked the Lorde God of their fathers 23 And the whole assemblie toke counsel to do so other seuen dayes they helde those seuen dayes with gladnesse 24 For Hezekia king of Iuda did geue to the congregation a thousand young oxen and seuen thousand sheepe And the lordes gaue out to the congregation a thousand oxen ten thousand sheepe and a great number of the priestes were sanctified 25 And all the congregation of Iuda with the priestes Leuites and all the congregation that came out of Israel the straungers that came out of the lande of Israel that dwelt in Iuda reioyced 26 And there was great gladnesse in Hierusalem For since the time of Solomon the sonne of Dauid king of Israel there was no such ioy in Hierusalem 27 And the priestes and the Leuites arose and blessed the people and their voyce was heard of the Lorde and their prayer came vp vnto heauen his holy dwelling place ¶ The .xxxi. Chapter 1 The people destroy idolatrie 2 Hezekia appoynteth priestes and Leuites 4 and prouideth for their liuing 13 He ordayneth ouerseers to destribute to euery one his portion 1 AND when all these thinges were finished all they of Israel that were present in the cities of Iuda went out and brake the images and cut downe the idol groues and all to brake the high places and aulters throughout al Iuda and Beniamin in Ephraim also and Manasse vntil they had vtterly destroyed them all And all the children of Israel returned euery man to his possessions and to their owne cities 2 And Hezekia appoynted sundry companies of the priestes and Leuites after the diuersitie of their ministrations euery man according to his office both priestes and Leuites for the burnt offering and peace offringes to minister and to geue thankes and praise in the gates of the hoast of the Lorde 3 And the kinges portion of his substaunce that he gaue were dayly burnt offringes in the morning and euening and burnt offringes for the Sabbath dayes newe moones solempe feastes according as it is written in the lawe of the Lorde 4 And he bade the people that dwelt in Hierusalem to geue a parte to the priestes and Leuites that they might substancially applie them selues to the lawe of the Lorde 5 And assoone as the kinges commaundement came abrode the children of Israel brought abouÌdance of first fruites of corne wine oyle hony and of all maner of fruites of the fielde the tythes of all maner of thinges brought they in plenteously 6 And the children of Israel and Iuda that dwelt in the cities of Iuda they also brought in the tithes of oxen and sheepe other holy tithes which were consecrate vnto the Lorde their God they did offer and brought them all by heapes 7 In the third moneth they began to lay the heapes in maner of a foundation and finished them in the
againe with shame towarde his owne lande And when he was come into the house of his god they that came of his owne body slue him therewith the sworde 22 And so the Lorde saued Hezekia and the inhabiters of Hierusalem out of the hand of Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians and from the hande of all other and mayntayned them on euery side 23 And many brought offeringes vnto the Lorde to Hierusalem and presentes to Hezekia king of Iuda so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thence foorth 24 In those dayes Hezekia was sicke to the death and prayed vnto the Lorde which aunswered him and shewed him a wonderfull miracle 25 But Hezekia dyd not againe vnto God according to it that he had shewed him for his heart arose there came wrath vpon hym and vpon Iuda and Hierusalem 26 Notwithstanding Hezekia submitted him selfe after that his heart was risen vp he and the inhabiters of Hierusalem and the wrath of the Lorde came not vpon them in the dayes of Hezekia 27 And Hezekia had exceeding much riches and honour And he gat him treasures of siluer and gold pretious stones and spices shieldes and of all maner pleasaunt iewels 28 And made store houses for the fruites of corne for wine and oyle and stalles for all maner of beastes and foldes for sheepe 29 And he made him cities had of sheepe and oxen great aboundaunce For God had geuen him substaunce exceeding much 30 This same Hezekia stopped the vpper water springes of Gihon and brought them downe to the west side of the citie of Dauid And Hezekia prospered in all his workes 31 And when the princes of Babylon sent vnto him ambassadours to enquire of the wonder that chaunced in the lande God left him to trye him and that all that was in his heart might be knowen 32 The rest of the deedes of Hezekia and his goodnes beholde they are written in the vision of Esai the prophet the sonne of Amoz in the booke of the kinges of Iuda and Israel 33 And Hezekia slept with his fathers and they buried hym in the most worthy place of the sepulchres of the sonnes of Dauid and all Iuda and the inhabiters of Hierusalem dyd him worship at his death and Manasse his sonne raigned in his steade The .xxxiii. Chapter 1 Manasses an idolater 9 He causeth Iuda to erre 11 He is led away prisoner into Babylon 12 He prayeth to the Lorde and is deliuered 15 He abolisheth idolatrie 16 and setteth vp true religion 20 He dieth and Amon his sonne succeedeth 24 whom his owne seruauntes slay 1 MAnasse was twelue yeres olde when he began to raigne and he raigned fiftie and fiue yeres in Hierusalem 2 But dyd euyll in the sight of the Lorde like vnto the abhominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel 3 For he went to and buylt the high places whiche Hezekia his father had broken downe And he reared vp aulters for Baalim and made groues and worshipped all the hoast of heauen and serued them 4 And he buylt aulters in the house of the Lorde where as the Lord yet had sayd In HierusaleÌ shal my name be for euer 5 And he buylded aulters for all the hoast of heauen in the two courtes of y e house of the Lorde 6 And he burnt his children in fire in the valley of the sonne of Hinnon He was a sorcerer he regarded the crying of birdes vsed inchauntmentes and mayntayned workers with spirites and sears of fortunes and wrought much euyll in the sight of the Lorde to anger hym withall 7 And he put the carued image and an idol whiche he had made in the house of God Of which house God had sayd to Dauid and to Solomon his sonne In this house and in Hierusalem whiche I haue chosen afore all the tribes of Israel will I put my name for euer 8 Neither will I make the foote of Israel to remoue any more out of the land whiche I haue ordeyned for your fathers yf so be that they wil be diligent and do all that I haue commaunded them in all the law and statutes and ordinaunces by the hande of Moyses 9 And so Manasse made Iuda and the inhabiters of Hierusalem to erre and to do worse then the heathen whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel 10 And the Lord spake to Manasse and to his people but they woulde not regarde 11 Wherfore the Lord brought vpon them the captaynes of the hoast of the king of the Assyrians whiche toke Manasse in holde and bounde him with chaynes and caried him to Babylon 12 And when he was in tribulation he besought the Lord his God and humbled him selfe exceedingly before the God of his fathers 13 And made intercession to him and God was intreated of him and hearde his prayer and brought him againe to Hierusalem into his kingdome and then Manasse knewe that the Lorde was God 14 After this he buylt a wall without the citie of Dauid on the west side of Gion in the valley as they came to the fishe gate and round about Ophel brought it vp of a very great heyght and put captaynes of warre in all the strong cities of Iuda 15 And he toke away straunge gods and images out of the house of God and all the aulters that he had buylt in the mount of the house of God and Hierusalem and cast them out of the citie 16 And he prepared the aulter of the Lord and sacrifised thereon peace offeringes and thanke offeringes and charged Iuda to serue the Lorde God of Israel 17 Neuerthelesse the people dyd offer stil in the high places howbeit vnto the Lorde their God only 18 The rest of the actes of Manasse and his prayer vnto his God the wordes of the sears that spake to him in the name of the Lorde God of Israel behold they are written in the sayinges of the kinges of Israel 19 And his prayer and howe that he was hearde and all his sinnes and his trespasse and the places where he made high places and set vp groues and images before he was meekened beholde they are written among the sayinges of the sears 20 And Manasse slept with his fathers they buried him in his owne house and Amon his sonne raigned in his roome 21 Amon was two and twentie yeres old when he began to raigne and raigned two yeres in Hierusalem 22 But he did euill in the sight of the Lord like as dyd Manasse his father for Amon sacrifised to all the carued images whiche Manasse his father had made and serued them 23 And submitted not him selfe before the Lorde as Manasse his father had meekened him selfe but Amon trespassed greatly 24 And his owne seruauntes conspired against him and slue him in his owne house 25 But the people of the lande slue al them that had conspired against king Amon
59 The children of Sephatiath the childreÌ of Hattil the children of Phochereth of Sabaim the children of Amon. 60 All these Nethinims and the children of Solomons seruauntes were three hundred ninetie and two 61 And these went vp also from Thelmela Thelharsa Cherub Addon and Immer but they could not shew their fathers house nor their seede and that they were of Israel 62 The children of Dalaiah the children of Tobia and the children of Necoda sixe hundred fourtie and two 63 And of the priestes the children of Habaiah the children of Haccos the childreÌ of Barzillai which toke one of y e daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wyfe and was named after their name 64 These sought their writing in the register of their generation but they were not founde therfore they were put from the priesthood 65 And Athirsatha saide vnto them that they shoulde not eate of the most holy tyll there came vp a priest which should were Vrim and Thummim 66 And so the whole congregation together was fourtie and two thousande three hundred and threescore 67 Beside their seruauntes and maydens of whom there were seuen thousand three hundred thirtie and seuen And they had two hundred fourtie and fiue singing men and women 68 Their horses seuen hundred thirtie and sixe and their Mules two hundred fourtie and fiue 69 The Camels foure hundred thirtie and fiue sixe thousand seuen hundred and twentie Asses 70 And certaine of the auncient fathers gaue vnto the worke Athirsatha gaue to the treasure a thousand peeces of golde fiftie basons fiue hundred and thirtie priestes garmentes 71 And some of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the treasure of the worke twentie thousand peeces of gold two thousand and two hundred pounde of siluer 72 And the other people gaue twentie thousand peeces of golde and two thousand pound of siluer and threescore and seuen priestes garmentes 73 And the priestes and Leuites the porters and the singers and the other of the people and the Nethinims and all Israel dwelt in their cities And wheÌ the seuenth moneth came the children of Israel were in their cities The .viij. Chapter 2 Esdras gathereth together the people and readeth to them the law 12 They reioyce in Israel for the knowledge of the word of God 15 They keep the feaste of tabernacles or boothes 1 ANd all the people gathered them selues together as one man in the streete that was before the water gate and they saide vnto Esdras the scribe that he should fetch the booke of the law of Moyses which the Lorde commaunded to Israel 2 And Esdras the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men women and all that could vnderstand did hearken vnto it vpon the first day of the seuenth moneth 3 And he read therein in the streete that was before the water gate from the morning vntill the noone day before men and women that did hearken to it and the eares of all the people were inclined vnto the booke of the law 4 And Esdras the scribe stoode vpon a pulpet of wood which they had made for the preaching and beside him stoode Mathathia Sema Anaiah Vriah Helkia Maaseiah on his right hande and on his left hand stoode Pedaia Misael Melchia Hasum Hasabadana Zachari and Mesullam 5 And Esdras opened the booke before all the people for he stoode aboue al the people and when he opened it all the people stoode vp 6 And Esdras praysed the Lorde the great God And all the people aunswered Amen AmeÌ lifting vp their handes and bowed them selues and worshipped the Lord falling downe vpon their faces to the grounde 7 And Iesua Bani Serebiah Iamin Accub Sebbethai Hodaia Maasia Celita Azariah Iozabad Hanan Pelaiah the Leuites caused the people to geue heede vnto the law and the people stoode in their place 8 And they read in the booke of the lawe of God distinctly and gaue the sense and caused them to vnderstand the reading 9 And Nehemia which is Athirsatha and Esdras the priest and scribe and the Leuites that caused the people to take heede said vnto al the people This day is holy vnto the Lorde your God be not ye sory and weepe not For all the people wept when they heard the wordes of the lawe 10 And he saide vnto them Go your way and eate the fat and drinke the sweete and send part vnto them also that haue not prepared for them selues for this day is holy vnto our Lorde be not ye sory therefore for the ioy of the Lorde is your strength 11 And the Leuites stilled all the people and saide Holde your peace for the day is holy be not sad therefore 12 And all the people went their way to eate and to drinke to sende part vnto other and to make great mirth because they had vnderstand the wordes that were declared vnto them 13 And on the next day were gathered together the chiefe fathers among all the people and the priestes and leuites vnto Esdras the scribe that they might vnderstand the wordes of the law 14 And they founde written in the lawe which the Lorde had commaunded by Moyses that the children of Israel should dwell in boothes in the feast of the seuenth moneth 15 And that they should cause it to be declared and proclaymed in all their cities and throughout Hierusalem saying Go foorth vnto the mount and fetch Olyue brauÌches Pine braunches Myrtel braunches Palme braunches braunches of the thicke tree to make boothes as it is written 16 And so the people went foorth and fet them and made them boothes euery one vpon the roofe of his house and in their courtes and in the courtes of the house of God and in the streete by the water gate and in the streete of the port of Ephraim 17 And all the congregation of them that were come againe out of the captiuitie made boothes sat vnder the boothes for since the time of Iosua the sonne of Nun vnto this day had not the children of Israel done so And there was very great gladnesse 18 And euery day from the first day vnto the last read Esdras in the booke of the lawe of God And seuen dayes held they the feaste and on the eyght day they gathered together according vnto the maner ¶ The .ix. Chapter 1 The people repent and forsake their straunge wyues 5 The Leuites exhort them to prayse God 6 declaring his wonders 26 and their ingratitude 30 and Gods great mercies toward them 1 IN the twentie and fourth day of this moneth came the children of Israel together againe with fasting and sackeclothes and earth vpon them 2 And they that were of the seede of Israel were separated from all the straunge children and stoode knowledged their sinnes the wickednes of their fathers 3 And stoode vp in their place read in the booke of the law of the Lorde their God foure times on the day and they
knowledged and worshipped the Lord their God foure times on the day 4 Then stoode vp vpon the stayres of the Leuites Iesua Bani Cadmiel Sabaniah Bunni Serebiah Bani and Chanani and cryed loude vnto the Lorde their God 5 And the Leuites Iesua and Cadmiel Bani and Hasabnia Serebiah and Hodia Sebania and Phathahia sayde Stand vp and prayse the Lorde your God for euer and let thankes be geueÌ vnto the name of thy glory which excelleth all thankes geuing and prayse 6 Thou art Lorde alone thou hast made heauen and the heauen of all heauens with all their hoast the earth and all thinges that are therein the sea all that is therin thou preseruest them al the hoast of heauen worshippeth thee 7 Thou art O Lorde the God that hast chosen Abraham and broughtest him out of Vr in Chaldea * and calledst him Abraham 8 And foundest his heart faithfull before thee madest a couenaunt with him to geue vnto his seede the lande of the Chanaanites Hethites Amorites Pherezites Iebusites and Gergesites and hast made good thy wordes for thou art righteous 9 And hast considered the miserie of our fathers in Egypt and heard their complaynt by the red sea 10 And shewed tokens and wonders vpon Pharao and all his seruauntes and on all the people of his lande For thou knowest that they were presumptuous and cruell against them and so madest thou thee a name as it is this day 11 And the red sea diddest thou deuide in sunder before them so that they went through the middest of the sea drye shod and their persecuters threwest thou into the deepe as a stone in the mightie waters 12 And leddest them on the day time in a cloudie piller and on the night season in a piller of fyre to shewe them light in the way that they went 13 Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai and spakest vnto them from heauen and gauest them right iudgementes true lawes good commaundementes and statutes 14 And declaredst vnto them thy holy Sabbath and commaundedst them preceptes ordinaunces and lawes by the hande of Moyses thy seruaunt 15 And gauest them bread from heauen when they were hungry and broughtest foorth water for them out of the rocke when they were thirstye and promysedst them that they should go in and take possession of the lande ouer which thou haddest lyft vp thyne hand for to geue them 16 But they and our fathers were proud and hardnecked so that they folowed not thy commaundementes 17 And woulde not obey neither were mindeful of the wonders that thou diddest for theÌ but hardened their neckes and had in their heades to returne to their bondage by their rebellion But thou O God of mercies gracious and full of compassion of long suffering and of great mercie yet forsookest them not 18 Moreouer when they had made them a moulten calfe and saide This is thy God that brought thee out of the lande of Egypt and did blasphemies 19 Yet forsookest thou them not in the wildernesse according to thy great mercies And the cloudy piller departed not from them on the day time to leade theÌ the way neither the piller of fire in the night season to shewe them light in the way by which they should go 20 And thou gauest them thy good spirite to enfourme them and withheldest not thy Manna from their mouth and gauest them water when they were thirstie 21 Fourtie yeres long didst thou feede them in the wildernesse so that they lacked nothing their clothes waxed not olde and their feete swelled not 22 And thou gauest them kingdomes and nations and scatteredst them into corners so they possessed the lande of Schon and the lande of the king of Hesebon and the lande of Og king of Basan 23 And their children multipliedst thou as the starres of heauen and broughtest them into the lande whereof thou haddest spoken to their fathers that they should go into it and haue it in possession 24 And the children went in and possessed the lande and thou subduedst before them the inhabiters of the lande euen the Chanaanites and gauest them into their handes with their kinges and the people of the lande that they might do with them what they would 25 And they wanne their strong cities and a fat lande and toke possession of houses that were full of all maner of goodes welles digged out vineyards oliue gardens many fruiteful trees and they did eate and were filled and became fat and liued in pleasure through thy great goodnesse 26 Neuerthelesse they were disobedient and rebelled against thee and cast thy law behinde their backes slue their prophetes which exhorted them earnestly that they might bring them againe vnto thee and did great blasphemies 27 Therefore thou gauest them ouer into the hand of their enemies that vexed them And in the time of their trouble wheÌ they cryed vnto thee thou heardest them from heauen and through thy great mercie thou gauest them sauiours which helped them out of the hande of their enemies 28 But when they came to rest they turned backe againe to do euill before thee therefore leftest thou them in the hande of their enemies so that they had the dominion ouer them And when they conuerted cryed vnto thee thou heardest them from heauen and many times hast thou deliuered them according to thy great mercie 29 And testifiedst vnto them that thou mightest bring them againe vnto thy lawe Notwithstanding they were proude and hearkened not vnto thy commaundementes but sinned in thy lawes which if a man do he shall lyue in them and turned the shoulder away and were stiffenecked and would not heare 30 Yet many yeres diddest thou forbeare them and testifiedst vnto them through thy spirite euen by the hand of thy prophetes and yet would they not heare therefore gauest thou them into the hand of the nations of the landes 31 And for thy great mercies sake thou hast not vtterly consumed them neither forsaken them for thou art a gratious and mercifull God 32 Now therfore our God thou great God mightie and terrible thou that kepest couenaunt and mercie regarde not a litle al the trauaile that hath come vnto vs and our kinges our princes our priestes our prophetes and our fathers and all the people since the time of the kinges of Assur ⪠vnto this day 33 And truely thou art iust in al that thou hast brought vpon vs for thou hast done right As for vs we haue ben vngodly 34 And our kinges and our princes our priestes and our fathers haue not done thy lawe nor regarded thy commaundementes and thy earnest exhortations wherewith thou hast exhorted them 35 And they haue not serued thee in their kingdome and in thy great goodnesse that thou gauest them and in the large and plenteous lande which thou gauest before them and haue not conuerted from their
God and eschued euill 2 And he had seuen sonnes and three daughters 3 His substaunce also was seuen thousand sheepe and three thousand camels fiue hundred yoke of oxen and fiue hundred shee asses and a very great householde so that he was one of the most principall men among all them of the east countrey 4 And his sonnes went and banquetted in their houses euery one his day and sent for their three sisters to eate and drinke with them 5 And when the dayes of their banquetting were gone about Iob sent and sanctified them and gat vp early and offered for euery one a burnt offring For Iob saide It may be that my sonnes haue done some offence haue ben vnthankfull to God in their heartes Thus did Iob euery day 6 And vpon a day when the children of God came and stoode before the lord Satan came also among them 7 And the Lorde saide vnto Satan Whence comest thou Satan aunswered the Lorde and saide From compassing the earth to and fro from walking through it 8 And the Lorde saide vnto Satan Hast thou not considered my seruaunt Iob how there is none lyke him in the earth a perfect and a iust man one that feareth God and eschueth euill 9 Satan aunswered and saide vnto the Lorde Doth Iob feare God for naught 10 Hast thou not preserued him and his house and al that he hath on euery side Thou hast blessed the worke of his handes and his possession is encreased in the lande 11 But laye thyne hand now vpon him and touche all that he hath and he shall curse thee to thy face 12 And the Lorde saide vnto Satan Lo all that he hath be in thy power only vpon him selfe see that thou lay not thine hand And Satan went foorth from the presence of the Lorde 13 And vpon a certayne day when his sonnes and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house 14 There came a messenger vnto Iob and sayde The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside them 15 And the Sabees came violently and toke them away yea they haue slayne thy seruauntes with the edge of the sword and I only am escaped alone to tell thee 16 While he was yet speaking there came another and sayde The fire of God is fallen from heauen and hath brent vp thy sheepe and seruauntes and consumed them and I only am escaped alone to tell thee 17 And whyle he was yet speaking there came another and sayde The Caldees made out their bandes and fel vpon the camels and haue caried them away yea and slayne thy seruauntes with the sworde and I only am gotten away alone to tell thee 18 And whyle he was yet speaking there came an other and sayde Thy sonnes and thy daughters were eating and drincking wine in their eldest brothers house 19 And behold there came a mightie great wind from beyond the wildernesse and smote the foure corners of the house whiche fell vpon thy children and they are dead and I am gotten away alone to tell thee 20 Then Iob stoode vp and rent his clothes shaued his head fell downe vpon the ground worshipped 21 And sayde Naked came I out of my mothers wombe naked shall I turne thyther againe The Lorde gaue the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lorde 22 In all these thinges dyd Iob not offende nor charged God foolishly The .ii. Chapter 6 Satan hath permission to afflict Iob 9 His wyfe tempteth him to forsake God 11 His three friendes visite hym 1 AND on a day the children of God came and stoode before the Lorde and Satan came also among theÌ and stoode before the Lorde 2 And the Lorde sayde vnto Satan From whence commest thou Satan aunswered the Lorde and sayd I haue gone about the lande walked thorow it 3 And the Lorde sayde vnto Satan Hast thou not considered my seruaunt Iob howe there is none like vnto hym in the earth a perfect and a iust man one that feareth God and eschueth euil continueth still in his vprightnesse although thou mouedst me against hym to destroy him without cause 4 And Satan aunswered the Lord and sayd Skinne for skinne yea a man wil geue al that euer he hath for his life 5 But lay thyne hande nowe vpon hym and touch once his bone and his fleshe and he shall curse thee to thy face 6 And the Lord sayde vnto Satan Lo he is in thyne hand but saue his lyfe 7 So went Satan foorth from the presence of the Lorde and smote Iob with sore byles from the sole of his foote vnto his crowne 8 And he toke a potsharde to scrape hym and he sat downe among the asshes 9 Then sayd his wyfe vnto him Doest thou continue yet in thy perfectnesse curse God and dye 10 But he sayde vnto her Thou speakest like a foolish woman shal we receaue good at the hande of God and not receaue euyll In all these thinges did not Iob sinne with his lippes 11 Nowe when Iobs three friendes heard of all the trouble that came vpon him they came euery one froÌ his owne place namely Eliphas the Themanite Bildad the Suhite and Zophad the Naamathite for they were agreed together to come to shewe their compassion vpon him and to comfort hym 12 So when they lift vp their eyes a farre of they knew him not then they cryed and wept and euery one of them rent his clothes and sprinckled dust vpon their heades in the ayre 13 They sate them downe by him also vpon the grounde seuen dayes seuen nightes and none spake a worde vnto him for they sawe that his greefe was very great The .iii. Chapter 1 Iob complayneth and curseth the day of his byrth 11 He desireth to dye as though death were the end of all mans miserie 1 AFter this opened Iob his mouth and cursed his day 2 And Iob aunswered and sayde 3 Let the day perishe wherin I was borne and the night in the whiche it was sayd There is a man childe conceaued 4 The same day be turned to darknesse and not regarded of God from aboue neither let the light shyne vpon it 5 But let it be stayned with darknesse and the shadowe of death let the dimme cloude fall vpon it whiche may make it terrible as a most bitter day 6 Let the darke storme ouercome that night and let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yere nor counted in the number of the monethes 7 Desolate be that night and without gladnesse 8 Let them that curse the day and that be redy to rayse vp mourning geue it also their curse 9 Let the starres of that night be dimme thorowe darkenesse of it let it loke for light but haue none neither let it see the dawning of the day 10 Because it
howe wonderfull art thou in thy workes thorow the greatnes of thy power thyne enemies shal be founde liers vnto thee 3 For all they of the worlde shall worship thee and sing psalmes vnto thee they shall sing psalmes vnto thy holy name Selah 4 Come hither and beholde the workes of the Lorde howe wonderfull he is in his doing towarde the chyldren of men 5 He turneth the sea into drye lande so that they went thorowe the water on foote there dyd we reioyce in him 6 He ruleth with his power for euer his eyes beholdeth the gentiles such as be rebels shal not come to promotion Selah 7 O ye people blesse your Lorde and make the voyce of his praise to be heard 8 Who preserueth our soule in life and suffereth not our feete to slip 9 For thou O Lord hast proued vs thou hast tryed vs like as siluer is tryed 01 Thou broughtest vs into the snare and layde trouble vpon our loynes 11 Thou sufferedst men to ride ouer our heades we went through fire and water and yet thou broughtest vs out into a pleasaunt place 12 I wyll go into thy house with burnt offeringes and I wyll pay thee my vowes whiche I promised with my lippes and spake with my mouth when I was in trouble 13 I wyll offer vnto thee fat burnt sacrifices with the incense of rammes I will offer bullockes and goates Selah 14 O come hither hearken and I wil tell all you that feare the Lorde what he hath done for my soule 15 I called vnto hym with my mouth and I exalted him with my tongue 16 If I had inclined vnto wickednes in my heart the Lorde woulde not haue hearde me but the Lorde hath hearde me considered the voyce of my prayer 17 Blessed be the Lorde which hath not reiected my prayer nor turned his mercye from me The argument of the .lxvii. psalme ¶ The prophete in the name of the people of Israel besecheth God of his fauour and mercy that his commaundementes may be published to the whole world so that by that meanes God might be praysed and all people blessed ¶ To the chiefe musition vpon Neginoth a psalme whiche is a song 1 THe Lord be mercyfull vnto vs and blesse vs and cause the light of his couÌtenaunce to shine vpon vs. Selah 2 That thy way may be knowen vpon the earth thy saluation among all nations 3 Then wyll the people prayse thee O Lorde yea all the people wyll prayse thee 4 The Gentiles will reioyce triumph for thou wylt iudge the people and gouerne the gentiles vpon the earth according to equitie Selah 5 The people will prayse thee O Lord all the people wyll prayse thee 6 Then shall the earth bryng foorth her increase and the Lorde our Lord will geue vs his blessing 7 The Lorde will blesse vs and all the endes of the worlde shall feare him ¶ The argument of the .lxviij. Psalme ¶ Dauid after some notable victorie thanketh God who is and hath ben through his mightie power a present helpe and comfort to the afflicted to orphans widdowes and prisoners that sit in darknesse who also ouerthroweth with his mightie arme all wickednesse and his agaynesayers and maketh them his subiectes for euer to the great ioy of the godly ¶ To the chiefe musition a psalme of Dauid which is a song 1 IN case the Lorde woulde aryse his enemies woulde be scattered and they that hate hym woulde flee from his face 2 Lyke as the smoke vanisheth so wylt thou cause them to vanishe away and lyke as water melteth at the fire so wyll the vngodly perishe at the presence of the Lorde 3 But the ryghteous must be glad and reioyce before the Lorde they shall not stande styll for myrth 4 Syng vnto the Lorde syng psalmes vnto his name magnifie hym that rideth vpon the heauens as it were vpon an horse in his name euerlastyng and reioyce before his face 5 He is a father of the fatherlesse and the iudge of widdowes he is the Lord in his holy habitation 6 He is the Lord that maketh those that dwell alone to haue a familie and bryngeth prisoners out of the stockes 7 But rebelles did inhabite a dry ground O Lorde when thou wentest foorth before the people when thou wentest through the wyldernesse Selah 8 The earth shoke and the heauens dropped at the presence of the Lorde euen Sinai it selfe shoke at the presence of the Lorde Lorde of Israel 9 Thou O Lorde dydst cause rayne to fall at thy gratious pleasure and when thine inheritaunce was weery thou dydst hearten it 10 Thy flocke dwelleth there for thou O Lorde doest of thy goodnesse prepare for the poore 11 The Lorde gaue the worde great was the company of the preachers 12 Kynges with their armies dyd flee they dyd flee and the ornament of an house deuided the spoyle 13 Though ye haue lyen among the pottes yet shall ye be as the wynges of a doue that is couered with siluer and hath her fethers as yelowe as golde 14 When the almightie scattered kynges in it it was as whyte as snowe in Salmon 15 As the hyll of Basan so is Gods hill euen an hygh hyll as the hyll of Basan 19 Why skyp you so ye high hylles this is the Lordes hyll in the which it pleaseth hym to dwell yea God wyll abyde in it for euer 17 The charettes of y e Lorde are twentie thousande euen thousandes of angels and the Lorde is among them in holy Sinai 18 Thou wenst vp on high thou hastled * captiuitie captiue thou hast receaued gyftes for men yea euen for those that be disobedient that God the Lorde myght dwell among them 19 Blessed be the Lorde who day by day powreth his benefites vpon vs and is God of our saluation Selah 20 The Lorde is our Lorde for to saue * vs and all maner of wayes for death pertayneth to God the Lorde 21 God wyll wounde the head of his enemies and the heary scalpe of hym who goeth on styll in his wickednesse 22 The Lorde hath sayde I wyll bryng my people agayne out from Basan I wyll bryng them agayne out from the deepe of the sea 23 That thy footes and the tongue of thy * dogges may be made redde in the blood of the enemies by his meanes 24 They do well see O Lorde thy goynges thy goynges in the sanctuarie my Lorde and kyng 25 The singers go before the minstrelles folowe after in the myddest are the damselles playing with the timbrelles 26 In the congregations they do blesse the Lorde the God of the fountayne of Israel 27 There is litle Beniamin their ruler the princes of Iehuda their counsell the princes of Zabulon and the princes of Nepthali 28 Thy Lord hath ordeyned thy strength establishe the thing O Lorde that thou hast wrought in vs. 29 For thy temple sake at Hierusalem
that call vpon thee 6 Geue eare O God vnto my prayer and be attentiue vnto the voyce of my humble petitions 7 I call vpon thee in the day of my trouble for thou hearest me 8 Among the gods there is none like vnto thee O Lorde there is not one that can do as thou doest All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship thee O Lorde and shall glorifie thy name 10 For thou art great and doest wonderous thinges thou art God alone 11 Teache me thy way O God and I wyll walke in thy trueth make my heart all one with thyne that it may feare thy name 12 I wyll acknowledge thee O Lorde my God with all my heart and I wyl glorifie thy name for euer 13 For great is thy mercy towarde me and thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest part of hell 14 O God the proude are rysen against me a companie of outragious naughtipackes haue sought after my soule and haue not set thee before their eyes 15 But thou O Lorde art a God full of compassion and mercy long yer thou be angry plenteous in goodnes and trueth 16 Turne thy face vnto me and haue mercy vpon me geue thy strength vnto thy seruaunt and helpe the sonne of thine handmayde 17 Shewe some good token of thy fauour towardes me that they whiche hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou God hast helped me and comforted me The argument of the .lxxxvij. psalme ¶ The prophete commendeth Sion the citie of God of the holy religion that is in it of the sitation of the great loue that God beareth to it of the noble actes done in it and in auauncing it aboue all the kingdomes of the earth ¶ A psalme the song of the sonnes of Corach 1 GOD loueth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellynges of Iacob for her foundations are vpon the holy hilles 2 Very excellent thinges are spoken of thee O thou citie of God Selah 3 I wyll make mention amongst those that knowe me of Egypt and Babylon behold also of Palestina and Tyre with Ethiopia and it shal be sayde suche a man is borne there 4 But of Sion it shal be reported that very many be borne in her and the most highest him selfe shall establishe her 5 God wyll number in the register of the people euery one that is borne there Selah 6 And the singers aswell as the players of instrumentes yea al my fountaines are in thee ¶ The argument of the .lxxxviij. psalme ¶ The prophete after a most lamentable sort desireth God to heare his prayers He complayneth of his great calamities and extreme perilles wherin he was wrapt by sicknes by ieoperdie of death and by the losse of his frendes as one forsaken of God and without al comfort He is loth to die for that then he can not prayse God with the faythful ¶ A song the psalme of the sonnes of Corach to the chiefe musition vpon Mahalath Leannoth a wise instruction of Heman the Ezrahite 1 O God the Lorde of my saluation I crye day and night before thee let my prayer enter into thy presence encline thyne eare vnto my crying 2 For my soule is full of miserie and my life toucheth the graue 3 I am counted as one of them that go downe vnto the pit and I am nowe become a man that hath no strength 4 I am free among the dead like such as beyng kylled lye in a graue whom thou remembrest no more and are cut away from thy hande 5 Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit in darknes and in deepenes 6 Thyne indignation sore presseth me and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes Selah 7 Thou hast put away myne acquaintaunce farre fro me and made me to be abhorred of them I am shut vp I can not get foorth 8 My sight fayleth through my affliction O God I haue called dayly vpon thee I haue stretched out mine handes vnto thee 9 Wylt thou worke a miracle amongst the dead or shal the dead rise vp againe and acknowledge thee Selah 10 Shall thy louing kindnes be talked of in the graue or thy faythfulnes in destruction 11 Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke and thy righteousnes in the lande of forgetfulnes 12 But vnto thee do I crye O God and my prayer commeth early in the morning before thee 13 O God why abhorrest thou my soule and why hidest thou thy face from me 14 I am in miserie I labour euen from my youth with the panges of death I haue suffered thy terrours and I am styll in doubt 15 Thyne indignation hath gone ouer me and thy terrours haue vndone me 16 They came rounde about me dayly lyke water and compassed me altogether on euery syde 17 Thou hast put a way farre from me my frende and neighbour thou hast hid mine acquaintaunce out of sight The argument of the .lxxxix. psalme ¶ The prophete prayseth the inspeakable goodnes of God for the couenaunt made to him and to the elect people of God for euer He prayseth his great power goodnes and iustice He declareth what promise God hath made to hym of his kingdome and posteritie He complayneth of the great spoyling of his kingdome and of his people He desireth God for his couenauntes sake to deliuer hym out of affliction vpon the consideration that mans life is very short ¶ A wyse instruction of Ethan the Ezrachite 1 I Wyll sing alwayes of the mercy of God with my mouth I wyll make knowen thy trueth from one generatioÌ to another 2 For I sayde mercy shall for euer endure thou hast established thy trueth in the heauens 3 I haue made a couenaunt with my chosen I haue sworne vnto Dauid my seruaunt 4 I wyll establishe thy seede for euer and buylde vp thy throne from generation to generation Selah 5 O God the very heauens shall confesse thy wonderous workes and thy trueth in the congregation of saintes 6 For who is he in the cloudes that shal matche God and who is like vnto God amongst the children gods 7 God is very terrible in the assemblie of saintes and to be feared aboue al them that are about him 8 O God Lorde of hoastes who is like vnto thee a most mightie Lorde and thy trueth is on euery side thee 9 Thou rulest the ragyng of the sea when her waues aryse thou delayest them 10 Thou hast brought Egypt in so bad a case as if it were wounded thou hast scattered thyne enemies abrode with thy mightie arme 11 The heauens are thine the earth also is thine thou hast layde the foundation of the rounde worlde and of all the plentie that is therin 12 Thou hast made the north and the south Tabor and Hermon do reioyce in thy name 13 Thou hast a mightie arme thy hand is strong and thy right hand is exalted 14 Iustice and iudgement is the foundation of thy throne
it be with me 6 The dayes are comming that Iacob shall take roote Israel shal be greene and florishe and the world shal be filled with fruite 7 Hath he smitten hym as sore as he did the other that smote hym Or is he slayne with so sore a slaughter as they that slue hym 8 Thou wylt punishe it in the braunches yet not beyonde measure for in the day that the east winde bloweth sore it taketh away the fruites 9 By this meanes therfore shall the iniquitie of Iacob be purged and this is all the fruite namely the taking away of his sinne if he make all the stones of the aulter of idols as chalke stones that are beaten in sunder that their groues and images ryse not vp agayne 10 Els shall the strong citie be desolate and the habitation forsaken and left like a wildernesse there shall the Calfe feede and there shall he lye and eate vp the graffes therof 11 When the braunches of it are drye they are broken of the women come and set them on fire for it is a people of no vnderstanding and therfore he that made them shall not fauour them and he that created them shall geue them no grace 12 And in that day shall the Lorde make a threshing from the middest of the riuer Euphrates vnto the riuer of Egypt and ye chyldren of Israel shal be gathered together one to another 13 In that day shall the great trumpe be blowne so that they which were lost in the lande of Assyria and they that were banished in the lande of Egypt shall come and worship the Lorde in the holye mount of Hierusalem The .xxviij. Chapter 1 Against the pride of Ephraim 9 and against false priestes and preachers 1 WO be vnto the crowne of pryde euen to the drunken people of Ephraim whose great pompe is as a floure that fadeth away vpon the head of the valley of suche as be in wealth and are ouerladen with wine 2 Behold there commeth a vehement and sore day from the Lord like an vnmeasurable hayle and perillous tempest euen like the force of mightie and horrible waters that violently beareth downe all thinges 3 The crowne of the pryde of the drunken Ephraemites shal be troden vnder foote 4 So that the floure of his fayrenesse and beautie whiche is in the head of the valley of fatnesse shall fade away as doth an vntimely ripe figge before haruest whiche when a man espieth he loketh vpon it and whyle it is yet in his hande he eateth it vp 5 In that day shal the Lord of hoastes be the crowne of glory and diamonde of beautie vnto the residue of his people 6 He wylbe also a spirite of perfect knowledge to him that sitteth in iudgement and strength vnto them that turne away the battayle to the gate of the enemies 7 But they are out of the way by reason of wine yea farre out of the way are they thorowe strong drinke The priest also and the prophete are gone astray by the meanes of strong drinke they are drunken with wine they go amisse thorowe strong drinke they fayle in propheciyng and stumble in iudgement 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthynesse that no place is cleane 9 Whom then shall suche one teache knowledge and whom shall he make to vnderstande the thing that he heareth for they are as ignoraunt as young chyldren that are taken from the milke and are weaned 10 For they that be suche must take after one lesson another lesson after one commaundement another commaundement for one rule another rule after one instruction another instruction there a litle and there a litle 11 For he that speaketh vnto this people is euen as one that vseth rudenesse of speache and a straunge language 12 If any man say vnto them lo this is the rest wherewith ye may ease hym that is weerie this is the refreshing they wyll not hearken 13 Therfore shall the word of the Lord be vnto them lesson vpon lesson commaundement vpon commaundement rule vpon rule instruction vpon instruction there a litle and there a litle that they may go on and fall backwarde be brused tangled and snared 14 Wherfore heare the word of the Lord ye mockers ye that haue rule of this people whiche is at Hierusalem 15 Because ye haue sayd We haue made a couenaunt with death and with hell are we at agreement and though there go foorth a sore plague it shall not come vnto vs for we haue made falsehood our refuge and vnder vanitie are we hid 16 Therfore thus saith the Lorde God Beholde I lay in Sion for a foundation a stone euen a tryed stone a precious corner stone a sure foundation who so beleueth let hym not be to hastie 17 Iudgement also wyll I laye to the rule and righteousnesse to the balaunce so that the hayle shall sweepe away as a broome your vayne confidence and the priuie place of your refuge shall the waters runne ouer 18 And thus the couenaunt that ye made with death shal be disanulled and your agreement that ye made with hell shall not stand yea when the sore plague goeth foorth ye shal be troden downe vnder it 19 From the tyme that it goeth foorth it shall take you away for early in the morning euery day yea both day and night shall it go thorowe and when the noyse thereof is perceaued it shall gender vexation 20 For the bed is narrowe and not large and the couering so small that a man can not winde him selfe vnder it 21 For the Lord shall stand as in mount Perazim and shal be wroth like as in the valley Gibeon that he may do his worke his straunge worke and bryng to passe his acte his straunge acte 22 Nowe therefore see that ye be no mockers lest your punishment increase For I hearde of the Lorde of hoastes that there shall come a short ende vpon the whole earth 23 Heare ye then and hearken vnto my voyce consider and ponder my speache 24 Doth not the husbandman plowe all the day and openeth and breaketh the clottes of his grounde that he may sowe 25 When he hath made it playne wyll he not spreade abrode the fitches and sowe comin and cast in wheate by measure and the appointed barlye and rye in their place 26 God wyll instruct hym to haue discretion euen his God wyll teache hym 27 For fitches shall not be threshed with an harrowe neither shall a cart wheele be brought thorowe the comin but the fitches are beaten out with a staffe and comin with a rodde 28 But the seede that bread is made of is threshed though it be not alway a threshing and the cart wheele must be brought ouer it lest he grinde it with his teeth 29 This also commeth of the Lorde of hoastes which worketh with wonderfull wysdome and bringeth excellent workes to passe The .xxix. Chapter 1 A prophecie against Hierusalem 13 and
rusty with the fatnesse and blood of lambes and goates with the fatnesse of the kidneys of weathers For the Lord shall kyll a great offering in Bozra and a great slaughter in the lande of Idumea 7 There shall the vnicornes fall with them and the bulles with the giauntes and their lande shal be throughly soked with blood and their grounde corrupt with fatnesse 8 For it is the day of Gods vengeaunce and the yere of recompence for the reuenge of Sion 9 And his fluddes shal be turned to pitch and his earth to brimstone and therewith shall the lande be kindled 10 So that it shall not be quenched day nor nyght but smoke euermore and so foorth lye waste and no man shall go through it for euer 11 But Pellicanes Storkes great Owles and Rauens shall haue it in possession and dwell therin for God shall spreade out the line of desolation vpon it and the stones of emptinesse 12 Her nobles shall call and there is no kyngdome and all her princes shal be nothyng 13 Thornes shall growe in their palaces nettles thistles in their strong holdes that the dragons may haue their pleasure therin and that they may be a court for Estriches 14 There shall straunge visures monsterous beastes meete one another and the wylde kepe company together there shall the Lamia lye and haue her lodgyng 15 There shall the Owle make her nest builde be there at home bryng foorth her young ones there shall the Kytes come together eche one to his lyke 16 Seke through the booke of the Lorde and reade it there shall none of these thynges be left out there shall not one nor such lyke fayle for his mouth commaundeth and that same doth his spirite gather together or fulfyll 17 He hath cast the lot for them and to those beastes hath his hande deuided it by the line therfore those shall possesse it for euer from generation to generation shall they dwell therin ¶ The .xxxv. Chapter 1 Of the tyme and kyngdome of Christe 1 BVt the desert wildernesse shall reioyce the waste ground shall be glad and florishe as the Lilie 2 She shall florishe pleasauntly and be ioyfull and euer be geuing thankes more and more For the glorie of Libanus the beautie of Charmel and Saron shal be geuen her These shall knowe the honour of the Lorde the maiestie of our God 3 And therfore strength the weake handes and comfort the feeble knees 4 Say vnto them that are of a fearfull heart be of good cheare and feare not beholde your God commeth to take vengeaunce and you shall see the rewarde that God geueth God commeth his owne selfe and wyll delyuer you 5 Then shall the eyes of the blynde be lyghtened and the eares of the deaffe opened 6 Then shall the lame men leape as an Hart the dumbe mans tongue shall geue thankes for in the wildernesse there shall welles spryng and fluddes of water in the desert 7 The drye grounde shal turne to riuers and the thirstie to sprynges of water wheras dragons dwelt afore there shal growe sweete flowres greene russhes 8 There shal be foote pathes common streetes this shal be called the holy way no vncleane person shall go through it for the Lorde hym selfe shall go with them that way and the wayfayrer nor ignoraunt shall not erre 9 There shal be no lion no rauishyng beastes shall come therin nor be there but men redeemed shall go there free and safe 10 And the redeemed of the Lorde I say shall conuert and come to Sion with thankesgeuyng euerlastyng ioy shall they haue pleasure and gladnesse shal be among them and as for all sorowe and heauinesse it shall vanishe The .xxxvj. Chapter 1 Hierusalem is besieged by Sennacherib in the tyme of kyng Hezekias 1 IN the foureteenth yere of king Hezekias came Sennacherib kyng of the Assyrians downe to lay siege vnto all the strong cities of Iuda to conquer them 2 And the kyng of the Assyrians sent Rabsakeh from Lachis towarde Hierusalem agaynst Hezekias with an exceedyng hoast which set hym by the conduite of the ouer poole in the way that goeth through the fullers lande 3 And so there came foorth vnto hym Eliakim Helkias sonne the chiefe ouer the householde Sobâa the scribe and Ioah Asaphs sonne the secretarie 4 And Rabsakeh sayde vnto them Tell Hezekia that the great kyng saith thus vnto hym What presumption is this that thou trustest vnto 5 I sayde surely that thou trustest in vayne wordes when counsayle and strength are necessarie to battayle but nowe wherto trustest thou that thou rebellest agaynst me 6 Lo thou puttest thy trust in a broken staffe of reede I meane Egypt which he that leaneth vpon it goeth into his hande and shooteth it through euen so is Pharao the kyng of Egypt vnto all them that trust in hym 7 But if thou wouldest say vnto me We trust in the Lorde our God Is not he that God whose hygh places aulters Hezekia toke downe and commaunded Iuda and Hierusalem to worship only before this aulter 8 Nowe therfore deliuer hostages that thou rebell no more agaynst my Lorde the kyng of the Assyrians and I wyll geue thee two thousande horses yf thou be able to set men vpon them 9 Howe darest thou resist the power of the smallest prince that my Lorde hath howe darest thou trust in the charrets and horsemen of Egypt 10 Moreouer thinkest thou that I am come vp hyther to destroy this lande without the Lordes wyll The Lorde sayd vnto me Go vp agaynst this lande and destroy it 11 Then sayd Eliakim Sobna Ioah vnto Rabsakeh Speake to vs thy seruauntes we pray thee in the Syrians language for we vnderstande it well and speake not to vs in the Iewes tongue lest the folke heare which lyeth vpon the wall 12 Then aunswered Rabsakeh Hath my maister sent me to speake this only to thy maister and thee hath he not sent me to them also that lye vpon the wall that they may be compelled to eate their owne dunge and drinke their owne stale with you 13 And Rabsakeh stoode stiffe and cryed with a loude voyce in the Iewes tongue and sayde Nowe take heede howe the great kyng of the Assyrians geueth you warnyng 14 Thus saith the kyng Let not Hezekia deceaue you for he shall not be able to deliuer you 15 Moreouer let not Hezekia comfort you in the Lorde when he saith The Lorde without doubt shall defende vs and shall not geue ouer this citie into the handes of the king of the Assyrians 16 Hearken not to Hezekia for thus saith the kyng of Assyria Obtayne my fauour encline to me so may euery man enioy his vineyardes and figge trees and drynke the water of his cesterne 17 Vnto the tyme that I come my selfe and bryng you into a lande that is lyke your owne wherin is wheate wine which is both sowen with
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Chapter 1 Idolatrie is reproued 3 The health that commeth by Christe is prophesied 1 BEl is fallen Nabo is broken downe whose images were a burthen for the beastes and cattell to ouerlade them and to make them weerie 2 They are sunke downe and fallen together for they may not ease them of their burthen therfore must they go into captiuitie 3 Hearken vnto me O house Iacob and all ye that remaine yet of the house of Israel whom I haue borne from your mothers wombe and brought you vp from your byrth 4 It is euen I whiche shall beare you vnto your last age I haue made you I wyll also norishe you beare you and saue you 5 whom wyll ye make me lyke or to whom wyll ye make me equall or compare me that I shoulde be like him 6 Take out siluer and gold out of your purses and way it and hyre a goldesmith to make a god of it that men may kneele downe and worship it 7 Yet must he be taken on mens shoulders and borne and set in his place that he may stande and not moue out of his place And if one crye vnto hym he geueth no aunswere and deliuereth not the man that calleth vpon hym from his trouble 8 Consider this well and be ashamed go into your owne selues 9 Remember the thinges that are past since the beginning of the worlde that I am God and that there is els no God yea and that there is nothing like vnto me 10 In the beginning of a thing I shewe the ende therof I tell before thinges that are not yet come to passe My deuise standeth stedfastly stablished and I fulfill all my pleasure 11 I call a byrde out of the east and the man by whom my counsayle shal be fulfilled out of straunge countreys as I haue spoken so wyll I bryng to passe assoone as I thinke to deuise a thing I do it 12 Heare me O ye that are of an hye stomacke but farre from righteousnesse 13 I shall bryng foorth my righteousnesse it is not farre and my health shall not tary long away I wyll lay health in Sion and in Israel my glory ¶ The .xlvij. Chapter 1 The worde of the Lorde against Babylon 1 BVT as for thee O daughter thou virgin Babylon sit thou downe in the dust sit vpoÌ the ground there is no throne O thou daughter of Caldea for thou shalt no more be called tender and pleasaunt 2 Bryng foorth the querne and grinde meale vntrusse thy broydred heere put of thy shoes make bare thy knees and wade thorowe the water riuers 3 Thy filthynesse shal be discouered and thy priuities shal be seene for I wil auenge me of thee and wyll shewe no mercy to thee as I do to other men 4 Our redeemer is called the Lorde of hoastes the holy one of Israel 5 Sit still holde thy tongue get thee into some darke corner O daughter Caldea for thou shalt no more be called lady of kyngdomes 6 I was so wroth with my people that I punished myne inheritaunce and gaue them into thy power neuerthelesse thou shewedst them no mercy but euen the very aged of them diddest thou oppresse right sore with the yoke 7 And thou thoughtest thus I shal be lady for euer and beside all that thou hast not regarded these thinges neither remembred what was the ende of that citie Hierusalem 8 Heare nowe therefore thou delicate one that sittest so carelesse and speakest thus in thyne heart I am alone and without me is there none I shal neuer be widowe nor desolate agayne 9 And yet both these thinges shal come to thee vpon one day in the twinckeling of an eye namely widowhood and desolation they mightyly fall vpon thee for the multitude of thy witches and for the great heape of thy coniurers 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickednesse and hast said No man seeth me thine owne wisdome and cunning hath deceaued thee in that thou hast sayd in thyne heart I am alone and without me there is none 11 Therefore shall trouble come vpon thee and thou shalt not knowe from whence it shall arise Mischiefe shall fal vpon thee which thou shalt not be able to put of a sodayne vtter destruction shall come vpon thee or euer thou be ware 12 Nowe go to thy coniurers and to the multitude of thy witches with whom thou hast weeryed thy selfe from thy youth if thei may helpe thee or strength thee 13 Thou hast hitherto had many counsayles of them So let the heauen gasers and the beholders of starres and moone prophetes come on now and deliuer thee yea and let them shew when these new thinges shal come vpon thee 14 Beholde they shal be lyke strawe whiche if it be kindeled with fire no man may rid it for the vehemencie of the flambe and yet it geueth no sinders to warme a man by nor cleare fire to sit by 15 Thus are they with whom thou hast weeried thy self and thus are thy marchauntes that haue ben with thee from thy youth euery one hath taken his owne way and none of them shall defende thee The .xlviij. Chapter 1 The hypocrisie of the Iewes is reproued 11 The Lorde alone wyll be worshipped which hath chosen vs 20 and which succoureth vs for his owne sake 1 HEare this O thou house of Iacob ye that are called by the name of Israel are come out of one stocke with Iuda whiche sweare by the name of the Lorde and beare witnesse by the God of Israel but not with trueth and ryght 2 For they are named of the holy citie and are grounded vpon the God of Israel whose name is the Lorde of hoastes 3 The thynges that I haue shewed you euer since the begynnyng haue I not brought them to passe immediatly as they came out of my mouth and declared them and they are come 4 Howbeit I knowe that thou art obstinate and that thy necke hath an iron sinowe and that thy browe is of brasse 5 Neuerthelesse I haue euer since the begynnyng shewed thee of thynges for to come and declared them vnto thee or euer they came to passe that thou shouldest not say myne idoll hath done it my carued or molten image hath shewed it 6 Thou heardest it before and beholde it is come to passe And shall not ye your selues shewe foorth or confesse the same But as for me I tolde thee before at the begynnyng newe and secrete thynges which thou knewest not of 7 And some done of olde tyme wherof thou neuer heardest before they were brought to passe that thou canst not say beholde I knewe of them 8 Moreouer there be some wherof thou hast neither heard nor knowen neither haue ben opened vnto thyne eares afore tyme For I knewe that thou wouldest malitiously offende therfore haue I called thee a transgressour euen from thy mothers wombe 9 Neuerthelesse for my names sake I wyll withdrawe my wrath and
of the trumpet but they say we wyll not take heede 18 Heare therefore ye gentiles and thou congregation shalt know what I haue deuised for them 19 Heare thou earth also behold I wyll cause a plague to come vpon this people euen the fruite of their owne imaginations for that they haue not ben obedient vnto my wordes and to my lawe but abhorred them 20 Wherefore bryng ye me incense from Saba and sweete smelling calamus from farre countreys your burnt offeringes displease me and I reioyce not in your sacrifices 21 And therefore thus saith the Lorde Beholde I wyll lay stumbling blockes among this people and there shall fall at them the father with the chyldren one neighbour shall perishe with another 22 Thus saith the Lorde Beholde there shall come a people from the north and a great people shal arise from the endes of the earth 23 With bowes and with dartes shall they be weaponed it is a rough and fearce people an vnmercifull people their voyce roareth like the sea thei ride vpon horses well appointed to the battaile against thee O daughter Sion 24 The fame of them haue we hearde our armes are feeble heauinesse and sorowe is come vpon vs as vpon a woman trauayling with chylde 25 Let no man go foorth into the fielde let no man come vpon the hye streete for the sworde and feare of the enemie is on euery side 26 Wherfore gyrde a sackcloth about thee O thou daughter of my people sprinkle thy selfe with ashes mourne and weepe bitterly as vpon thyne onlye beloued sonne for the destroyer shall sodainly fall vpon vs. 27 Thee haue I set for a strong towre O thou prophete and a well fensed wall among my people to seeke out and to trye their wayes 28 For they are all stubborne apostates and fallen away walking deceiptfully they are cleane brasse and iron for they hurt and destroy euery man 29 The bellowes are brent in the fire the leade is not moulten the melter melteth in vayne for the euill is not taken away from them 30 Therefore do they call them naughtie siluer because the Lorde hath cast them out The .vij. Chapter 2 Ieremie is commaunded to shewe vnto the people the worde of God which trusteth in the outwarde seruice of the temple 13 The euils that shall happen to the Iewes for the despising of their prophetes 21 Sacrifices doth not the Lord chiefly require of the Iewes but that they shoulde obay his worde 1 THese are the wordes that God spake vnto Ieremie saying 2 Stande vnder the gate of the Lordes house crye out these wordes there with a loude voyce and say Heare the word of the Lorde all ye of Iuda that go in at this doore to worship the Lorde 3 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel Amende your wayes and your counsels and I wyll let you dwell in this place 4 Trust not in false lying words saying Here is the temple of the Lord here is the temple of the Lord here is the temple of the Lorde 5 But rather in deede amende your wayes and counsels and iudge right betwixt a man and his neighbour 6 Oppresse not the straunger the fatherlesse and the widowe shed not innocent blood in this place cleane not to straunge gods to your owne destruction 7 Then wyll I let you dwell in this place yea in the land that I gaue afore tyme to your fathers for euer 8 But take heede ye trust in lying tales that beguile you and do you no good 9 For when ye haue stollen murthered committed adultrie and periurie when ye haue offered vnto Baal folowing straunge and vnknowen gods shall ye be vnpunished 10 Yet then come ye and stande before me in this house whiche hath my name geuen vnto it and say tushe we are absolued quite though we haue done all these abhominations 11 What thinke you this house that beareth my name is a denne of thieues And yet I see what you thinke saith the Lorde 12 Go to my place in Silo wherevnto I gaue my name aforetyme and looke well what I did to the same place for the wickednesse of my people of Israel 13 And now seing ye haue done all these deedes saith the Lorde and I my selfe rose vp euer betimes to warne you and to commune with you yet would ye not heare me I called ye would not aunswere 14 Therefore euen as I haue done vnto Silo so wyll I do to this house that my name is geuen vnto and that you put your trust in yea vnto the place that I haue geuen to you and your fathers 15 And I shal thrust you out of my sight as I haue cast out all your brethren the whole seede of Ephraim 16 Therfore thou shalt not pray for this people thou shalt neither geue thankes nor bid prayer for them make thou no intercession for them for in no wise will I heare thee 17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Iuda and in the streetes of Hierusalem 18 The chyldren gather stickes the fathers kindle the fire the womeÌ kneade the dough to bake cakes for the queene of heauen they powre out drinke offeringes vnto straunge gods to prouoke me vnto wrath 19 Howbeit they hurt not me saith the Lord but rather confounde and shame them selues 20 And therefore thus saith the Lorde God Beholde my wrath and indignation shal be powred out vpon this place vpon men and cattell vpon trees in the fielde and fruite of the lande and it shall burne so that no man may quench it 21 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel Heape vp your burnt offeringes with your sacrifices and eate the fleshe 22 For when I brought your fathers out of Egypt I spake no worde vnto them of burnt offeringes and sacrifices 23 But this I commaunded them saying Hearken and obay my voyce and I shal be your God and ye shal be my people so that ye walke in al the wayes whiche I haue commaunded you that ye may prosper 24 But they were not obedient they inclined not their eares therevnto but went after their owne imaginations and after the motions of their owne wicked heart and so turned them selues away and conuerted not vnto me 25 And this haue they done from the tyme that your fathers came out of Egypt vnto this day Neuerthelesse I sent vnto you all my seruauntes the prophetes I rose vp early and sent you worde 26 Yet woulde they not hearken nor offer me their eares but were obstinate and worse then their fathers 27 And thou shalt nowe speake all these wordes vnto them but they shall not heare thee thou shalt crye vpon them but they shall not aunswere thee 28 Therefore shalt thou say vnto them This is the people that neither heareth the voyce of the Lorde their God nor receaueth his correction faythfulnesse and
trueth is cleane rooted out of their mouth 29 Wherefore cut of thine heere O Hierusalem and cast it away take vp a complaint on hye for the Lorde hath cast away and forsaken the people that he is displeased withall 30 For the chyldren of Iuda haue done euyll in my sight saith the Lorde they haue set vp their abhominations in the house that hath my name and haue defiled it 31 They haue also buylded an aulter at Topheth whiche is in the valley of the chyldren of Hennom that they might burne their sonnes and daughters in fire whiche I neuer commaunded them neither came it euer in my thought 32 And therfore beholde the dayes shall come saith the Lorde that it shall no more be called Topheth or the valley of the chyldren of Hennom but the valley of slaughter for in Topheth they shall be buried because they shall els haue no roome 33 Yea the dead bodyes of this people shal be eaten vp of the foules of the ayre and wylde beastes of the earth and no man shall fray them away 34 And as for the voyce of mirth and gladnesse of the cities of Iuda and Hierusalem the voyce of the bridegrome and of the bride I wyll make them ceasse for the lande shal be desolate The .viij. Chapter 1 The destruction of the Iewes 4 The Lorde moueth the people to amendement reckening vp their sinnes 10 He reprehendeth the lying doctrine of the prophetes and priestes 1 AT the same tyme saith the Lorde the bones of the kinges of Iuda the bones of his princes the bones of the preachers and prophetes yea and the bones of the citizens of Hierusalem shal be brought out of their graues 2 And layde against the sunne the moone all the heauenly hoast whom they loued whom they serued whom they ranne after whom they sought and worshipped they shall neither be gathered together nor buried but shall lye as dunge vpon the earth 3 And all they that remaine of this wicked generation shal desire rather to die then to line whersoeuer they remaine and where as I scatter them saith the Lorde of hoastes 4 Thus shalt thou say vnto them also Thus saith the Lorde Do men fall so that they arise not vp againe or if Israel repent wyll not God turne againe to them 5 Wherefore then is this people of Hierusalem gone so farre backe that they turne not againe They are euer the longer the more obstinate and wyll not be conuerted 6 For I haue loked and considered but there is no man that speaketh a good worde there is no man that taketh repentaunce for his sinne that wyll so muche say what haue I done but euerie man turneth to his owne course like a fierce horse headlong to the battaile 7 The Storke in the ayre knoweth his appointed tyme the Turtle doue the Swallowe and the Crane consider the tyme of their trauayle but my people wyll not knowe the tyme of the punishment of the Lorde 8 Howe dare ye say then we are wyse we haue the lawe of the Lorde among vs Truely in vayne hath he prepared his penne and vainely haue the writers written it 9 Therefore shall the wyse be confounded they shal be afraide and taken for lo they haue cast out the worde of the Lorde what wisdome can then be among them 10 Wherfore I wyl geue their wiues vnto aliauntes and their fields to destroyers For from the lowest vnto the hyest they folowe filthy lucre and from the prophete vnto the priest they deale all with lies 11 Neuerthelesse they heale the hurt of my people very slenderly saying peace peace where there is no peace at all 12 Fye for shame howe abhominable thinges do they and yet they be not ashamed yea they knowe of no shame Wherefore in the tyme of their visitation they shal fal among the dead bodies and be ouerthrowne saith the Lorde 13 Moreouer I wyll consume them in deede saith the Lorde so that there shall not be one grape vpon the vine neither one figge vpon the figge tree and the leaues shal be pluckt of and the thing that I haue geuen them shal be taken from them 14 Why prolong we the time Let vs gather our selues together and go into the strong citie there shall we be in rest for the Lorde our God hath put vs to scilence and geuen vs water mixt with gall to drinke because we haue sinned against hym 15 We loked for peace and we fare not the better we wayted for the tyme of health and lo âre is nothing but trouble 16 The noyse of his horses is heard from Dan the whole lande is afraide at the neighing of his strong horses for they are come in and haue deuoured the lande withall that is in it the cities and those that dwell therin 17 Moreouer I wyll sende cockatrices and serpentes among you whiche wyl not be charmed and they shall bite you saith the Lorde 18 I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe but sorowe is come vpon me and heauinesse vexeth my heart 19 For lo the voyce of the crying of my people is hearde for feare of them that come from a farre countrey Is not the Lord in Sion Is not her king in her Wherefore then haue they greeued me shall the Lorde say with their images and foolishe straunge fashions of a forraine god 20 The haruest is gone the sommer hath an ende and we are not helped 21 I am sore vexed because of the hurt of my people I am heauie and abashed 22 Is there not triacle at Gilead Is there no phisitioÌ there why then is not the health of my people recouered The .ix. Chapter 1 The complaint and bewayling of the prophete 3 the malice of the people 24 In the knowledge of God ought we onlye to reioyce 26 The vncircumcision of the heart 1 O Who wyll geue my head water inough and a wel of teares for mine eyes that I may weepe night and day for the slaughter of my people 2 Woulde God that I had a cottage somewhere farre from folke that I might leaue my people and go from them for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort 3 They bend their tongues like bowes to shoote out lyes they waxe strong vppon earth As for the trueth they may nothing away withall in the worlde for they go from one wickednes to another and wyll not knowe me saith the Lorde 4 Yea one must kepe hym selfe from another no man may safely trust his owne brother for one brother vndermindeth another one neighbour beguileth another 5 Yea one dissembleth with another and they deale with no trueth They haue practised their tongues to lye and taken great paynes to do mischiefe 6 Thou sittest in the middes of a deceiptfull people which for very dissembling falshood wyll not knowe me saith the Lorde 7 Therefore thus saith the Lorde of hoastes Beholde I wyll melt them and trye them
broken my chyldren are gone fro me can no where be founde Nowe haue I none to spreade out my tent nor to set vp my hanginges 21 For the heardmen are become foolishe and they haue not sought the Lorde therefore haue they dealt vnwisely with their cattell and all are scattered abrode 22 Beholde the noyse is harde at hande and great sedition out of the north to make the cities of Iuda a wildernesse and a dwelling place for dragons 23 Nowe I knowe O Lord that it is not in mans power to order his owne wayes or to rule his owne steppes and goinges 24 Therefore chasten thou me O Lord but with fauour and not in thy wrath lest thou bring me vtterly to naught 25 Powre out thyne indignation vpon the gentiles that knowe thee not and vpon the people that call not vpon thy name and that because they haue consumed deuoured and destroyed Iacob and haue made his habitation waste The .xj. Chapter 1 A curse to them that obay not the worde of Gods promise 10 The people of Iuda folowing the steppes of their fathers worshippeth straunge gods 15 The Lord saith that he wyll not heare the Iewes and forbiddeth also Ieremie to pray for them 1 THis is a sermoÌ which the Lorde commaunded Ieremie for to preache saying 2 Heare the wordes of this couenaunt and speake vnto the men of Iuda and to all them that dwell at Hierusalem 3 And say vnto them Thus saith the Lord God of Israel Cursed be euery one that is not obedient vnto the words of this couenaunt 4 Whiche I commaunded vnto your fathers what time as I brought them out of Egypt from the iron furnace saying Be obedient vnto my voyce and do according to all that I commaunde you so shall ye be my people and I will be your God 5 And wyll kepe my promise that I haue sworne vnto your fathers namelye that I woulde geue them a lande whiche floweth with milke and honie as ye see it is come to passe vnto this day Then aunswered I and sayde Amen let it be euen so Lorde as thou sayest 6 Then the Lord sayd vnto me againe Preache this in the cities of Iuda and rounde about Hierusalem say Heare the wordes of this couenaunt and kepe them 7 For I haue diligently exhorted your fathers euer since the tyme that I brought them out of the lande of Egypt vnto this day I gaue them warning be times saying hearken vnto my voyce 8 Neuerthelesse they would not obey me nor encline their eares vnto me but folowed the wicked imaginations of their owne heartes and therefore I haue brought vpon them al the wordes of this couenaunt that I gaue them to kepe which they notwithstanding haue not kept 9 And the Lorde sayde vnto me it is founde out that whole Israel and all these cities of Hierusalem are gone backe 10 They haue turned them selues to the blasphemies of their forefathers which had no lust to heare my wordes Euen lykewyse haue these also folowed straunge gods and worshipped them The house of Israel and Iuda haue broken my couenaunt whiche I made with their fathers 11 Therefore thus saith the Lorde beholde I will send a plague vpon them whiche they shall not be able to escape and they shall crye vnto me and I wyl not heare them 12 Then shall the townes of Iuda and the citizens of Hierusalem go and call vpon their gods vnto whom they made their oblations but they shall not be able to helpe them in tyme of their trouble 13 For as many cities as thou hast O Iuda so many gods hast thou had also and loke howe many streetes there be in thee O Hierusalem so many shameful aulters haue ye set vp aulters I say to offer vpon them vnto Baal 14 Therfore pray not thou for this people byd neither prayse nor prayer for them for though they crye vnto me in their trouble yet wil I not heare them 15 What part hath my beloued in my house seing he hath worked abhomination seruing many gods The holy fleshe offeringes in the temple are gone from thee O Iuda and thou when thou hast done euyll makest thy boast of it 16 The Lord called thee a greene oliue tree a faire one a fruitefull one a goodlye one but with great clamour hath the enemie set fire vpon it the braunches of it are destroyed 17 For the Lorde of hoastes that planted thee hath deuised a plague for thee O thou house of Israel and Iuda for the euyll that ye haue done to prouoke hym to wrath in that ye dyd seruice to Baal 18 This O Lorde haue I learned of thee and vnderstande it for thou hast shewed me their imaginations 19 But I am as a meeke lambe an oxe that is caryed away to be slayne not knowing that they had deuised suche a counsell against me saying We wyll destroy his meate with wood and driue him out of the lande of the liuing that his name shall neuer be thought vpon 20 Therfore I wyll beseche thee nowe O Lorde of hoastes thou righteous iudge thou that tryest the raynes and the heartes let me see thee auenged of them for vnto thee haue I committed my cause 21 The Lorde therfore spake thus of the citizens of Anathoth that sought to slay me saying Preache not vnto vs in the name of the Lorde or els thou shalt dye of our handes 22 Thus I say spake the Lorde of hoastes Beholde I will visit you your young meÌ shal perishe with the sworde your sonnes and your daughters shall vtterly dye of hunger 23 So that none shall remaine for vpon the citizens of Anathoth wyll I bring a plague euen the yere of their visitation The .xij. Chapter 1 The prophete marueyleth greatly at the prosperitie of the wicked although he confesse God to be righteous 7 The Iewes are forsaken of the Lord. 1â He speaketh agaynst curates and preachers that seduce the people 14 The Lord threatneth destruction vnto the nations that bordered vpon Iurie which troubled and vexed it 1 O Lorde thou art more righteous then that I shoulde dispute with thee neuerthelesse let me talke with thee in thynges reasonable Howe happeneth it that the way of the vngodly is so prosperous and that it goeth so well with them which without any shame offend and liue in wickednesse 2 Thou plantest them they take roote they growe and bryng foorth fruite they boast much of thee yet art thou farre from their raynes 3 But thou Lorde to whom I am well knowen thou that hast sene and proued my heart take them away like as a flocke is caryed to the slaughter house appoynt them for the day of slaughter 4 Howe long shall the lande mourne and all the hearbes of the fielde perishe for the wickednesse of them that dwell therin The cattell and the birdes are gone yet say they tushe
vpon hym say they and we wyll tell his tale Yea all myne owne companions and suche as were conuersaunt with me lay in wayte for my halting saying peraduenture he wylbe deceaued and so shall we preuayle against hym and be auenged of hym 11 But the Lorde stoode by me lyke a mightie giaunt therefore my persecutours fell and coulde do nothing they shal be sore confounded for they haue done vnwisely they shall haue an euerlasting shame which shall neuer be forgotten 12 And nowe O Lorde of hoastes that triest the righteous which knowest the raynes and the very heartes let me see them punished for vnto thee I haue declared my cause 13 Sing vnto the Lord and prayse hym for he hath deliuered the soule of the oppressed from the hande of the violent 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was borne vnhappy be the day wherein my mother brought me foorth 15 * Cursed be the man that brought my father the tidinges to make hym gald saying Thou hast begotten a sonne 16 Let it happen vnto that man as to the cities whiche the Lorde turned vpsidedowne and repented not Let hym heare crying in the morning and at noone day lamentable howling 17 Why sluest thou not me assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe or that my mother had ben my graue her selfe that the byrth might not haue come out but remayned still in her 18 * Wherefore came I foorth of my mothers wombe to haue experience of labour and sorowe and to leade my lyfe with shame The .xx. Chapter 5 He prophecieth that Zedekias shal be taken and the citie burned 1 THese are the wordes that the lord spake vnto Ieremie * what time as kyng Zedekias sent vnto him Phashur the sonne of Melchias Sophonias the sonne of Maasias priest saying 2 Aske counsayle at the Lorde we pray thee on our behalfe for Nabuchodonozor the king of Babylon besiegeth vs if the Lorde peraduenture wyll deale with vs according to his maruaylous power and take hym from vs. 3 Then spake Ieremie Geue Zedechias this aunswere 4 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel Beholde I wyll turne backe the weapons that ye haue in your hands wherwith ye fight against the king of Babylon and the Chaldees whiche besiege you rounde about the walles and I wyll bryng them together into the middest of this citie 5 And I my selfe will fight against you with an outstretched hande and with a mightie arme in great displeasure and terrible wrath 6 And wyll smite them that dwell in this citie yea both men and cattell shall dye of a great pestilence 7 But after this saith the Lorde I shall deliuer Zedekias kyng of Iuda and his seruauntes his people and such as are escaped in the citie from the pestilence sworde and hunger into the power of Nabuchodonozor kyng of Babylon yea into the handes of their enemies into the handes of those that folowe vpon their liues whiche shall smite them with the sworde they shall not pitie them they shal not spare them they shall haue no mercy vpon them 8 And vnto this people thou shalt say thus saith the Lorde Beholde I lay before you the way of life and death 9 Whoso abideth in the citie shall perishe either with the sworde with hunger or pestilence but whoso goeth out to holde on the Chaldees part that besiege it he shall saue his lyfe and shall winne his soule for a pray 10 For I haue set my face against this citie saith the Lorde to plague it and to do it no good it must be geuen into the hande of the kyng of Babylon and be brent with fire 11 And vnto the house of the king of Iuda say thus Heare the worde of the Lorde 12 O thou house of Dauid thus saith the Lorde Minister righteousnesse and that soone deliuer the oppressed from violent power or euer my terrible wrath breake out lyke a fire and burne so that no man may quenche it because of the wickednesse of your imaginations 13 Behold saith the Lord I wyll come vpon thee that dwellest in the valleys rockes and fieldes and say tushe who will make vs afraide or who wil come into our houses 14 For I wyll visite you saith the Lord because of the wickednesse of your inuentions and wyll kindle suche a fire in your wood as shall consume all that is about you ¶ The .xxij. Chapter 2 He exhorteth the kyng of Iuda to iudgement and righteousnesse 9 Why Hierusalem is brought into captiuitie 11 The death of Sellum the sonne of Iosua is prophecied 1 THus saith the Lord Go downe into the house of the kyng of Iuda and speake there these wordes 2 And say Heare the worde of the Lorde thou king of Iuda that sittest in the kyngly seate of Dauid thou and thy seruauntes and thy people that goeth in and out at these gates 3 Thus the Lord coÌmaundeth Kepe equitie and righteousnesse deliuer the oppressed from the power of the violent do not greeue nor oppresse the straunger the fatherlesse nor the widowe and shed no innocent blood in this place 4 And if ye kepe these thinges faythfullye then shall there come in at the doore of this house kinges to sit vpon Dauids seate they shal be caried in charrets and ride vpon horses both they and their seruauntes and their people 5 But if ye wyll not be obedient vnto these commaundementes I sweare by mine owne selfe saith the Lord this house shal be waste 6 For thus hath the Lorde spoken vppon the kynges of Iuda Thou Gilead art vnto me the head of Libanus Shall I not make thee so waste as the cities that no man dwell in 7 I wyll prepare a destroyer with his weapons for thee to hewe downe thy especiall Cedar trees and to cast them in the fire 8 And all the people that go by this citie shall speake one to another Wherfore hath the Lorde done thus vnto this noble citie 9 Then shall it be aunswered Because they haue broken the couenaunt of the Lorde their God and haue worshipped and serued straunge Gods 10 Mourne not ouer the dead and be not wo for them but be sorie for hym that departeth away for he commeth not agayne and seeth his natiue countrey no more 11 For thus saith the Lorde as touching Sellum the sonne of Iosias kyng of Iuda whiche raigned after his father When he is caried out of this place he shall neuer come hyther agayne 12 For he shall dye in the place wherevnto he is led captiue and shall see this lande no more 13 Wo worth hym that buyldeth his house with vnrighteousnesse and his parlours with the good that he hath gotten by violence which neuer recompenceth his neighbours labour nor payeth hym his hyre 14 Who thinketh in hym selfe I wyll buylde me a wyde house and gorgious parlours who causeth windowes to be hewen therin and the seelinges and ioystes maketh he of
And go not after straunge gods serue them not worship them not and anger me not with the workes of your owne handes then wyll I not punishe you 7 Neuerthelesse ye woulde not heare me saith the Lorde but haue prouoked me to anger with the workes of your handes to your great harme 8 Wherefore thus saith the Lorde of hoastes Because ye haue not hearkened vnto my worde 9 Lo I wyll sende out and call for all the people that dwell in the north saith the Lorde and wyll prepare Nabuchodonozar the kyng of Babylon my seruaunt and wyll bryng them vppon this lande and vpon all that dwell therin and vpon all the people that are about them and wyll vtterly roote them out I wyll make them amased a mockage and a continuall desert 10 Moreouer I wyll take from them the voyce of gladnesse and solace the voyce of the bridegrome and the bride the noyse of the milstones and the light of the cressets 11 And this whole lande shall become a wildernesse and astonished and these nations shal serue the king of Babylon threscore yeres and ten 12 When the threscore and ten yeres are expired I wil visite all the wickednesse of the kyng of Babylon and his people saith the Lorde yea and the lande of the Chaldees and wyll make it a perpetuall wildernesse 13 And wyll fulfill all my wordes vpon that lande whiche I haue deuised against it yea all that is written in this booke whiche Ieremie hath prophecied of all people 14 So that they also shal be subdued vnto diuers nations and great kynges for I will recompence them according to their deedes and workes of their owne handes 15 For thus hath the Lorde God of Israel spoken vnto me take this wine cup of indignation fro my hande that thou mayest cause all people to whom I sende thee for to drinke of it 16 That when they haue drunken therof they may be madde and out of their wittes when the sworde commeth that I wyll sende among them 17 Then toke I the cuppe from the Lordes hande and made all people to drinke thereof vnto whom the Lorde had sent me 18 But first the citie of Hierusalem and all the cities of Iuda their kinges and princes to make them desolate amased despised and hissed at and cursed according as it is come to passe this day 19 Yea and Pharao the kyng of Egypt his seruauntes his princes and his people altogether one with another 20 And all kinges of the lande of Hus all kinges of the Philistines lande Ascalon Azah Accaron and the remnaunt of Asood 21 The Edomites the Moabites and the Ammonites 22 All the kinges of Tyrus and Sidon the kinges of the Isles that are beyonde the sea 23 Dedan Thema Buz and all them that dwell in the vttermost partes of the worlde 24 All the kinges of Arabia and generally all the kinges that dwell in the desert 25 All the kinges of Zimri al the kinges of Elam all the kinges of the Medes 26 All the kinges towarde the north whether they be farre or nye euery one against his neighbour yea and all the kyngdomes that are vpon the whole earth and the kyng of Sesach shall drinke also after them 27 Therfore say thou vnto them This is the commaundement of the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel Drinke and be drunken spewe and fall that ye neuer arise and that thorowe the sworde whiche I wyll sende among you 28 But yf they wyll not receaue they cup of thy hande and drynke it then tell them thus doth the Lorde of hoastes threaten you Drynke it you shall and that shortly 29 For lo I begyn to plague the citie that my name is geuen vnto thinke ye then that I will leaue you vnpunished ye shall not go quite for why I call for asworde vpon all the inhabitours of the earth saith the Lorde of hoastes 30 Therfore tell them all these wordes and say vnto them The Lorde shall crye from aboue and his voyce shal be hearde from his holy habitation with a great noyse shal he crie from his court regall he shall geue a great voyce like the grape gatherers and the sounde therof shal be hearde vnto the endes of the worlde 31 For the Lorde hath a iudgement to geue vpon all people and wyll holde his court of iustice with all fleshe and wyll deliuer the vngodly to the sworde saith the Lorde 32 For thus saith the Lorde of hoastes Beholde a miserable plague shall go from one people to another and a great stormie water shall arise from all the endes of the earth 33 And the same day shall the Lord him selfe slay them from one ende of the earth to another there shal no mone be made for any of them none gathered vp none buryed but shall lye as dunge vpon the grounde 34 Mourne O ye sheepheardes and crye sprinckle your selues with asshes O ye rammes of the flocke for the tyme of your slaughter and breache is fulfylled and ye shall fall lyke vessels that were much set by 35 The sheepheardes shall haue no way to flee and the rammes of the flocke shall not escape 36 Then shall the sheepheardes crye horribly and the rammes of the flocke shall mourne for the Lorde hath consumed their pasture 37 And their best fieldes lye dead because of the horrible wrath of the Lorde 38 They haue forsaken their foldes like as a lion for their lande is waste because of the spoylers furious crueltie and of his fearefull indignation ¶ The .xxvj. Chapter 2 Ieremie moueth the people to amendement 7 He is taken of the prophetes and priestes and brought to iudgement 23 Vrias the prophete is kylled of Iehoakim contrary to the wyll of God 1 IN the begynnyng of the raigne of Iehoakim the sonne of Iosias kyng of Iuda came this worde from the Lorde saying 2 Thus saith the Lord Stande in the court of the Lordes house speake vnto al them which out of the citie of Iuda come to do worship in the Lordes house all the wordes that I commaunde thee to say loke that thou kepe not one worde backe 3 If peraduenture they wyll hearken and turne euery man from his wicked way that I may also repent of the plague which I haue determined to bryng vpon them because of their wicked inuentions 4 And after this maner shalt thou speake vnto them Thus saith the Lord If ye wyll not obey me to walke in my lawes which I haue geuen you 5 And to heare the wordes of my seruauntes the prophetes whom I sent vnto you risyng vp tymely and styll sendyng yet you haue not hearkened 6 Then wyll I do to this house as I did vnto Silo and wyll make this citie to be abhorred of all the people of the earth 7 And the priestes the prophetes and all the people hearde Ieremie preache these wordes in the house of the Lorde 8 Nowe when he had
Lorde 17 Moreouer Idumea shal be a wyldernesse whoso goeth by it shal be abashed and wonder at all her miserable plagues 18 Like as Sodom Gomor and the cities that lay there about were turned vpside downe saith the Lorde so shall no body dwell in Idumea and no man shall haue his habitation there 19 Beholde lyke as the lion so shall a destroyer come vp from the pleasaunt medowes of Iordane vnto the strong dwelling place when I haue made hym quiet I wyll make hym to flee from her and all chosen men wyll I set in aray against her Who is lyke vnto me what is he that wyll striue with me what sheephearde may stande in my handes 20 Therefore heare the counsell of the Lorde that he hath taken vpon Idumea and his purpose that he hath deuised vpon the citizens of Theman The least of the flocke shall trayle them and looke what fayre habitation they haue they shall make it waste and them selues also 21 At the noyse of their fall the earth shall quake the crye of their voyce shal be hearde vnto the red sea 22 Beholde the enemie shall come and flee vp hyther lyke as it were an Egle and spreade his winges vpon Bozrah then shall the heartes of the worthyes in Edom be as the heart of a woman trauayling of chylde 23 Vpon Damascus Hemath and Arphad shall come confusion for they shal heare euyll tidinges they shal be tossed to and fro like the sea that can not stand styll 24 Damascus shal be sore afraide and shal flee trembling commeth vpon her sorowe and payne shall ouertake her as a woman trauayling of chylde 25 But howe happeneth it that the famous citie the citie of my ioy is not spared 26 Her young men shal fal in the streetes and all her men of warre shal be taken away in that tyme saith the Lorde of hoastes 27 I wyll kindle a fire in the walles of Damascus whiche shall consume the palace of Benhadad 28 As for Cedar and the kyngdome of Hazor whom Nabuchodonozor the kyng of Babylon smote the Lord hath spoken thus vpon them Aryse and get you vp vnto Cedar and destroy the people towarde the east 29 Their tentes and their flockes shall they take away yea their hanginges and their vessels their camels also shall they cary away with them they shall crye to them feare is on euery syde 30 Flee get you farre away creepe into caues that ye may dwell there O ye inhabiters of Hazor saith the Lorde for Nabuchodonozor the kyng of Babylon hath holden a counsell concerning you and concluded his deuice against you 31 Aryse and get you vp against yonder ryche and carelesse people saith the Lorde whiche haue neither gates nor doore barres but dwell alone 32 Their camels shal be a pray and the droues of their cattell driuen awaye Moreouer those wil I scatter towarde all the wyndes and to the farthest partes of the worlde yea from all the sides therof will I bryng their destruction saith the Lorde 33 Hazor also shal be a dwelling for dragons and an euerlasting wyldernesse so that no body shall dwell there and no man shall haue there his habitation 34 These are the wordes that the Lord spake to the prophete Ieremie concerning Elam in the beginning of the raigne of Zedekias kyng of Iuda 35 Thus saith the Lord of hoastes Beholde I wyl breake the bowe of Elam their principall strength 36 And vpon Elam I wyll bryng the foure windes from the foure quarters of heauen and wyll scatter them against the same foure wyndes and there shal be no people but some of Elam shall flee vnto them 37 For I wyll cause Elam to be afraide of their enemies and of them that seeke their liues and wyll bryng vpon them a mischiefe euen my wrath saith the Lorde And I wyll persecute them with the sworde so long tyll I haue brought them to naught 38 I wyll set my throne in Elam I wyll destroy both the kyng and princes from thence saith the Lorde But in processe of tyme I wyll bryng Elam out of captiuitie agayne saith the Lorde The .l. Chapter 1 He prophecieth the destruction of Babylon and the deliueraunce of Israel whiche was in captiuitie 1 THE wordes that the Lorde spake vnto the prophete Ieremie coÌcerning Babylon and the lande of the Chaldees 2 Preache among the gentiles let your voyce be hearde make a token crye out kepe no scilence but say Babylon is wonne Bel is confounded and Merodach is ouercome yea their gods be brought to shame and their images burst in peeces 3 For out of the north there doth come a people against her which shall make her lande so waste that no body shall dwell therin neither man nor beast for they shall flee and depart from thence 4 In those dayes and at that tyme saith the Lorde the chyldren of Israel shall come they and the children of Iuda weeping and making haste and shal seeke the Lorde their God 5 They shall aske the way to Sion thither shall they turne their faces saying Come and we wyll cleaue to the Lorde in a couenaunt that neuer shal be broken 6 My people haue ben a lost flocke my sheepheardes haue deceaued them and haue made them go astray vpon the hylles they haue gone from the mountayne to the litle hyl and forgotten their folde 7 All they that came vpon them haue deuoured them and their enemies said We haue made no fault agaynst them for they haue displeased the Lorde yea euen the Lorde which is the habitation of their righteousnesse and the hope of their fathers 8 Flee from Babylon and depart out of the lande of the Chaldees and be ye as the rammes that go before the flocke 9 For lo I wyll wake vp an hoast of people from the northren lande bryng them vpon Babylon these shal lay siege to it and winne it their arrowes shall not misse like as a cunnyng archer shooteth not wrong 10 And the Chaldees shal be spoyled and all they that spoyle them shal be satisfied saith the Lorde 11 Although ye were so chearfull glad to treade downe myne heritage and fulfylled your pleasures as the calues in the grasse and triumphed ouer them like bulles when ye had gotten the victorie 12 Your mothers shal be sore confounded and they that bare you shall come to shame she shal be the least set by among the nations voyde wasted dryed vp 13 No man shal be able to dwell there for the feare of the Lorde but she shal be whole desolate all they that go by Babylon shall stande styll be abashed and shall wonder at all her plagues 14 Go foorth in your aray agaynst Babylon rounde about all ye that can handle bowes shoote at her spare no arrowes for she hath sinned agaynst the Lorde 15 Crye out agaynst her rounde about she shall yelde her selfe her foundations shall fall
Sabbathes and of the newe Moones 8 Through which doores they must go in or come out of the temple 1 THus saith the Lorde God The gate of the inner court towarde the east shal be shut the sixe working dayes but in the Sabbath in the day of the new moone it shal be opened 2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porche of the gate without and shall stande by the poste of the gate and the priestes shal make his burnt offring and his peace offringes and he shall worship at the thresholde of the gate go foorth and the gate shall not be shut till the euening 3 On the same maner shall the people of the lande also do their worship before the Lorde at the doore of this gate vpon the Sabbathes and new moones 4 The burnt offring that the prince shal bring vnto the lorde vpon the Sabbath shal be sixe lambes without blemish and a ramme without blemishe 5 And the meate offring shal be an Ephah for a ramme and the meate offring for the lambes a gift of his hande and a Hin of oyle to an Ephah 6 In the day of the new moneth it shal be a young bullocke without blemishe and sixelambes and a ramme also without blemishe 7 With the bullocke he shall geue an Ephah with the ramme an Ephah also for a meate offring but to the lambes according as his hande shal take and a Hin of oyle to an Ephah 8 And when the prince shall enter he shall go in by the way of the porche of that gate he shall go foorth by the way thereof 9 But when the people of the lande come before the Lorde in the hie solempne feast as many as come in by the north gate to do worship shal go out againe at the south gate and they that come in at the south gate shall go foorth againe at the north gate there shall none returne by the gate where he came in but shall go right foorth ouer on the other side 10 And the prince he shall go in the midst of them when they go in and so come foorth when they come foorth 11 Vpon the solempne hie feast dayes this shal be the meate offring an Ephah to a bullocke an Ephah to a ramme and to the lambes the gift of his hande and a Hin of oyle to an Ephah 12 Nowe when the prince shall make a free burnt offring or peace offringes freely vnto the Lord one then shal open him the gate that turneth toward the east and he shal make his burnt offeringes and his peace offeringes as he did on the Sabbath day after he shall go foorth and when he is gone foorth one shall shut the gate 13 Thou shalt dayly make a burnt offering vnto the Lorde of a lambe of one yere without blemishe thou shalt do it euery morning 14 Thou shalt prepare a meate offering for it euery morning the sixt part of an Ephah and the third part of a Hin of oyle to mingle with the fine floure this meate offering shal be continually by a perpetuall ordinaunce vnto the Lorde 15 Thus shal they prepare the lambe the meate offering oyle euery morning for a continuall burnt offering 16 Moreouer thus saith the Lorde God If the prince geue a gift vnto any of his sonnes the inheritaunce thereof shal be his sonnes their possession shal be by inheritaunce 17 But if he geue a gift of his inheritaunce to one of his seruauntes then it shal be his to the yere of libertie and then returne to the prince but the inheritaunce thereof is his sonnes and shal be theirs 18 The prince also shall take none of the peoples inheritaunce nor put them from their possession but to his sonnes shall he geue his owne possession that my people be not scattered abrode euery man from his possession 19 And he brought me through the entraunce at the side of the gate to the holy chambers of the priestes which stoode toward the north beholde there was a place vpon the west side of them 20 Then saide he vnto me This is the place where the priestes shall seethe the trespasse and sinne offringes and bake the meate offringes that they neede not beare them into the outward court and to sanctifie the people 21 So he brought me into the vtter court caused me to go by the foure corners of the court and beholde in euery corner of the court there was a court 22 In the foure corners of the court there were courtes ioyned of fourtie cubites long and thirtie broade these foure corners were of one measure 23 And there went a wall rounde about them euen about those foure and vnder the walles there were kitchins made rounde about 24 Then saide he vnto me These are the cookes houses where the ministers of the house shall boyle the sacrifice of the people The .xlvij. Chapter 1 The vision of the waters that came out of the temple 13 The coastes of the lande of promise and the deuision thereof by tribes 1 AFterwarde he brought me againe vnto the doore of the house and beholde there gushed out waters from vnder the thresholde of the house eastwarde for the forefront of the house stoode toward the east the waters ran downe from vnder the right side of the house which lyeth to the aulter southwarde 2 Then led he me out to the north gate and led me about by the way without vnto the vtter gate by the way that turneth eastward and behold there issued foorth waters from the right side 3 Now when the man that had the line in his hande went foorth eastward he measured a thousand cubites and then he brought me through the waters the waters were to the ancles 4 So he measured yet a thousande and brought me through y e waters the waters were to the knees yet measured he a thousand and brought me through the waters were to the loynes 5 After this he measured a thousand againe then was it such a riuer that I might not wade through it the waters was risen the waters did flowe as a riuer that might not be waded ouer 6 And he saide vnto me Hast thou seene this O thou sonne of man and with that he brought me and caused me to returne to the riuer banke againe 7 Now when I returned beholde at the bancke of the riuer were very many trees on the one side and on the other 8 Then saide he vnto me These waters flowe out toward the east countrey and runne downe into the plaine come into the sea which when it commeth into the sea the waters shal be holsome 9 Yea all that liue and moue whereunto this riuer commeth shall liue and there shal be a very great multitude of fishe because these waters shal come thither for they shal be holsome and euery thing shall liue whyther the riuer commeth 10 By this riuer
better with me then nowe 8 And she dyd not knowe that I gaue her corne and wine and oyle and multiplied her siluer and golde which they bestowed on Baal 9 Therefore wyll I returne and take away my corne in the tyme thereof and my wine in the season thereof and fet agayne my wooll and my flaxe whiche I gaue her to couer her shame 10 And nowe wyll I discouer her shame euen in the sight of her louers and no man shall deliuer her out of my handes 11 Moreouer I wyll take away all her myrth her holy dayes her newe moones her Sabbathes and all her solempne feastes 12 I wyll destroy her vineyardes and figtrees whereof she sayde These are my rewardes that my louers haue geuen me I wyll make them as a wood and wylde beastes shall eate them vp 13 I wyll visite vpon her the dayes of Baal wherein she burned incense to hym and decked her selfe with eareringes and iewels she folowed her louers and forgate me saith the Lorde 14 Wherefore beholde I wyll allure her and bryng her into the wildernesse and speake frendly vnto her 15 From thence wyll I geue her her vineyardes agayne yea and the valley of Achor for an entry of hope and she shall sing there as in the dayes of her youth and as in the day when she came vp out of the lande of Egypt 16 And at that day saith the Lord thou shalt call me O my husbande and shalt call me no more Baal 17 For I wyll take away those names of Baal from her mouth yea she shall neuer remember their names any more 18 Then wyll I make a couenaunt for them with the beastes of the fielde with the foules of the ayre and with euery thing that creepeth vpon the earth As for bowe sworde and battayle I wyll destroy out of the lande and wyll make them to sleepe safely 19 And I wyll marry thee vnto myne owne selfe for euer yea euen to my selfe wyll I marry thee in righteousnes in iudgement in louing kindnesse and mercy 20 In faythfulnesse also wyll I marry thee vnto my selfe and thou shalt know the Lorde 21 At the same tyme wyll I shewe my selfe gratious vnto the heauens saith the Lorde and the heauens shall helpe the earth 22 And the earth shall helpe the corne wine and oyle and they shall helpe Iezrahel 23 And I wyll sowe her for my selfe in the earth and wyll haue mercy vpon her that had not obtayned mercy And to them whiche were not my people I wyll say Thou art my people and they shall say Thou art my God ¶ The .iii. Chapter 1 The Iewes shal be cast of for their idolatrie 5 Afterwarde they shall returne to the Lorde 1 THen sayd the Lorde to me Go yet and loue a woman beloued of her husbande and yet an adultresse according to the loue of the Lorde towarde the chyldren of Israel and yet they haue respect to straunge gods and loue the wine pottes 2 So I gat her for fifteene siluerlinges and for an homer and an halfe of barley 3 And sayde vnto her Thou shalt bide with me a long season thou shalt not play the harlot thou shalt be to no oother man and I wyll be so vnto thee 4 For the chyldren of Israel shall sit a great whyle without kyng without prince without sacrifice without image without Ephod and without Theraphim 5 But afterward the chyldren of Israel shal be conuerted and seeke the Lord their God and Dauid their kyng and in the latter dayes they shall worship the Lorde and his louing kindnesse ¶ The .iiij. Chapter A complaynt against the people and the priestes of Israel 1 HEare the worde of the Lorde O ye chyldren of Israel for the Lord hath a controuersie with the inhabitauntes of the lande for there is no trueth there is no mercy there is no knowledge of God in the lande 2 But swearing lying manslaughter theft and adulterie hath gotten the ouer hande and one bloodgiltinesse foloweth another 3 Therfore shall the lande mourne and all they that dwell therein shal be rooted out the beastes of the fielde the foules of the ayre and the fisshes in the sea shal be consumed 4 Yet let no man rebuke or reproue another for thy people are as they that are at controuersie with the priest 5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day tyme and the prophete with thee in the night and I wyll bryng thy mother to destruction 6 My people perishe for lacke of knowledge because thou hast refused knowledge therfore wyll I refuse thee also so that thou shalt no more be my priest and forsomuche as thou hast forgotten the lawe of thy God I wyll also forget thy chyldren 7 The more they increased in multitude the more they sinned against me therfore wyll I chaunge their honour into shame 8 * They eate vp the sinnes of my people and encourage them in their wickednesse 9 Thus the priest is become lyke the people Wherfore I wyll punishe them for their wicked wayes and rewarde them according to their owne imaginations 10 They shal eate and not haue inough they haue vsed whordome but shall not prosper they haue forsaken the Lorde and not regarded him 11 Whordome wine and newe wine take the heart away 12 My people aske counsell at their stockes and their staffe teacheth them for the spirite of fornication hath caused them to go astray and they haue committed fornication against their God 13 They make sacrifices vpon the tops of the mountaines and burne their incense vpon the hilles yea vnder the okes poplars and elmes for there are good shadowes therfore your daughters are become harlots and your spouses haue broken their wedlocke 14 I wyll not punishe your daughters for beyng defiled and your spouses that became whoores seeing the fathers themselues haue medled with harlots and sacrificed with whoores but the people that wyll not vnderstande must be punished 15 Though thou Israel play the harlot yet let not Iuda sinne come not ye vnto Gilgal neither go ye to Bethauen neither sweare ye The Lorde liueth 16 For Israel is rebellious like an vnrulye heyffer nowe the Lorde wyll feede them as a lambe in a large place 17 Ephraim is become partaker of idols let hym alone 18 Their drunkennesse stinketh they haue committed whordome their rulers loue to say with shame Bryng ye 19 The winde hath bounde them vp in her winges and they shall be ashamed of their sacrifices ¶ The .v. Chapter 1 Against the priestes and rulers of Israel 13 The helpe of man is in vayne 1 O Ye priestes heare this take heede O thou housholde of Israel geue eare O thou house of the king for iudgement is against you because you are become as a snare on Mizphah and a spread net vpon the mount of Thabor 2 They kyll sacrifices by heapes and turne
come foorth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet 17 Let the priestes the Lordes ministers weepe betwixt the porche the aulter and let them say Spare thy people O Lord and geue not ouer thine heritage to reproche that the heathen shoulde rule ouer them Wherfore shoulde they say amongst the heathen Where is their God 18 And then the Lorde wyll be ielous ouer his lande wyll spare his people 19 Yea the Lorde wyll aunswere and say to his people Beholde I wyll sende you corne and wine and oyle and wyll satisfie you therwith and wyll not geue you ouer any more to be a reproche among the heathen 20 And I wyll remoue farre of from you the northen armie and I wyll driue him into a lande barren and desolate with his face towardes the east sea and his hinder partes towardes the vttermost sea and his stinch shall arise and his corruption shall ascende because he hath exalted him selfe to do this 21 Feare not O thou lande be glad and reioyce for the Lorde wyll do great thinges 22 Be not afrayde ye beastes of the fielde for the fruitfull places of the desert are greene for the tree beares her fruite the figge tree and the vine yeelde their strength 23 Be glad then ye children of Sion and reioyce in the Lorde your God for he hath geuen you moderate rayne he wyll sende downe for you the rayne euen the first rayne the latter rayne in the first moneth 24 And the barnes shal be fylled with corne and the presses shall ouerflowe with wine and oyle 25 And I wyll restore to you the yeres which the grashopper the canker worme the locust and the caterpiller haue deuoured my great armie which I sent amongst you 26 And you shall eate in plentie and be satisfied and shall prayse the name of the Lorde your God which hath dealt wonderously with you and my people shall not be ashamed any more 27 And you shall knowe that I am in the middle of Israel and that I am the Lorde your God and none but I and my people shall neuer be ashamed 28 And it shall come to passe after this I wyll powre out my spirite vpon all fleshe and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecie your olde men shall dreame dreames your young men shall see visions 29 Also in those dayes vpon the seruauntes and vpon the handmaydens wyll I powre out my spirite 30 And I will shewe wonders in heauen and in earth blood and fire and pillers of smoke 31 The sunne shal be turned into darknesse and the moone into blood before that great and terrible day of the Lord come 32 But whosoeuer shall call on the name of the Lord shal be saued for there shal be deliueraunce in mount Sion and in Hierusalem as the Lord hath promised and also in the remnaunt whom the Lorde shall call The .iij. Chapter Of the iudgement of God agaynst the enemies of his people 1 FOr beholde in those dayes and in that time when I shall bryng agayne the captiuitie of Iuda Hierusalem 2 I wyll also gather all the gentiles and cause them to come into the valley of Iehosaphat and I will pleade with them there for my people and heritage Israel which they haue scattered amongst the nations and haue parted my lande 3 And thei haue cast lottes for my people and chaunged the boy for an harlot and solde the gyrle for wine that they might drynke 4 And what haue you to do with me O Tyre and Sidon and all the coastes of Palestine wyll ye render me recompence and if you recompence me I shal swiftly and speedyly returne your recompence vpon your owne heades 5 For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde my pleasaunt pretious thinges haue caryed them into your temples 6 You haue solde also the children of Iuda and the children of Hierusalem to the Gretians that you might send them farre from their owne countrey 7 Beholde I will rayse them out of that place whither you haue solde them and wyll returne your recompence vpon your owne heades 8 And I wyll sell your sonnes and your daughters into the handes of the children of Iuda and they shall sell them vnto the Sabeans to a nation that dwelleth farre of for the Lorde hath spoken it 9 Publishe this thyng among the gentiles proclayme warre wake vp the mightie men let all the men of warre drawe neare and come vp 10 Breake your plowe shares into swordes and your sithes into speares let the weake say I am strong 11 Assemble your selues and come all you heathen and gather your selues together rounde about there shall the Lord cast downe thy mightie men 12 Let the heathen arise and come vp to the valley of Iehosaphat for there will I sit to iudge all nations rounde about 13 Put in your sithes for y e haruest is ripe come ye and descende for the wine presse is full yea the presses ouerflowe for their wickednesse is multiplied 14 O people people come into the valley of finall iudgement for the day of the Lorde is at hande in the valley of finall iudgement 15 The sunne and the moone shal be darkned and the starres shall withdrawe their light 16 The Lord also shall rore out of Sion and out of Hierusalem shall he geue his voyce the heauens and the earth shall shake but the Lorde wyll be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel 17 So shall you knowe that I am the Lorde your God dwellyng in Sion my holy mountayne then shall Hierusalem be holy and there shall no straungers passe through here any more 18 And in that day shall the mountaynes drop downe sweete wine and the hylles shall flowe with mylke all the riuers of Iuda shall runne with water and a fountayne shall come out of the house of the Lorde and shall water the valley of Sittim 19 Egypt shal be waste and Edom shal be a desolate wildernesse for the iniuries done to the children of Iuda because they haue shed innocent blood in their lande 20 But Iuda shal dwel for euermore and Hierusalem from generation to generation 21 I wil also clense the blood of them that I haue not clensed and the Lord dwelleth in Sion ⧠The booke of the prophete Amos. The first Chapter 1 The condition and state of Amos and the time of his prophecie 3 The worde of the Lorde against Damascus the Philistines ⪠Cyrus Idumea and Ammon 1 THe wordes of Amos who was among the sheepheardes at Thecua whiche he sawe vpon Israel in the dayes of Ozia king of Iuda and in the dayes of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas king of Israel two yere before the earth quake 2 And he sayde The Lord shal roare out of Sion and vtter his voyce from Hierusalem and the dwelling places of the sheepheardes shall mourne the top of Charmel shall
hoastes Consider your owne wayes in your heartes 8 Get you vp to the mountayne and fetche wood and buyld this house I wil take pleasure in it and I wil be glorified sayth the Lorde 9 Ye loked for much and lo it came to litle and when ye brought it home I dyd blowe vpon it and why sayth the Lord of hoastes because of my house that is waste and you run euery man into his his owne house 10 Therfore vpon you the heauen is stayed from deawe the earth is stayed from yeelding her increase 11 And I haue called for a drought vpon the land and vpon the mountaynes and vpon the corne vpon the wine and vpon the oyle and vpon al that the ground bringeth foorth vpon men vpon cattel and vpon all the labour of the handes 12 When Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel and Iosua the sonne of Iosedech the hye priest with all the remnaunt of the people hearde the voyce of the Lorde their God and the wordes of the prophete Haggeus as the Lorde their God had sent him then the people dyd feare before the Lorde 13 Then Haggeus the Lordes messenger sayd in the Lordes message vnto the people saying I am with you saith the Lorde 14 And the Lorde stirred vp the spirite of Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel a prince of Iuda and the spirite of Iosua the sonne of Iosedech the hie priest and the spirite of all the people they came and dyd the worke in the house of the Lorde of hoastes their God The .ii. Chapter 1 He sheweth that the glorie of the seconde temple shall exceede the first 1 IN the twentie and fourth day of the sixt moneth in the seconde yere of king Darius 2 In the seuenth moneth in the twentie and one day of the moneth came the worde of the Lord by the ministerie of the prophete Haggeus saying 3 Say nowe to Zorobabel the sonne of Salathiel prince of Iuda and to Iosua the sonne of Iosedech the hie priest and to rest of the people saying 4 Who is among you left whiche sawe this house in her first glorie and howe do you see it now Is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing 5 Yet nowe be of good cheare O Zorobabel sayth the Lord and be of good comfort O Iosua thou hye priest sonne of Iosedech and be strong all ye people of the lande sayth the Lorde and worke for I am with you sayth the Lorde of hoastes 6 According to the worde that I couenaunted with you when ye came out of Egypt and my spirite shall remayne with you feare ye not 7 For thus sayth the Lorde of hoastes Yet a litle whyle and I will shake the heauens and the earth and the sea and the drie lande 8 And I will moue all nations and the desire of all nations shall come and I will fill this house with glorie sayth the Lorde of hoastes 9 The siluer is myne and the golde is myne sayth the Lorde of hoastes 10 The glorie of the seconde house shal be greater then the glorie of the first sayth the Lorde of hoastes and in this place will I geue peace sayth the Lorde of hoastes 11 In the twentie and fourth day of the nynth moneth in the second yere of king Darius came the word of the Lord vnto the prophete Haggeus saying 12 Thus sayth the Lord God of hoastes Aske nowe ye priestes concernyng the lawe saying 13 If one beare holy fleshe in the skirt of his coate with his skirt do touche the bread potage wine oyle or any other meate shall it be holy And the priestes aunswered and sayde No. 14 And Haggeus sayd If a polluted person touche any of these shall he not be polluted And the priestes aunswered and saide He shal be polluted 15 Then Haggeus aunswered and sayde So is this people and so is this nation before me sayth the Lord and so is al the worke of their handes that which they offer there is vncleane 16 And nowe consider I pray you in your mindes from this day and vpward before there was layed one stone vpon an other in the house of the Lorde 17 Before these thinges were done when one came to a heape of twentie measures there were but ten so who came to the wyne presse for to drawe out fiftie vessels of wyne out of the presse there were but twentie 18 I smote you with blasting and with mildeawe and with hayle in all the worke of your handes and you turned not vnto me sayth the Lorde 19 Consider nowe in your mindes from this day and afore from the foure and twentie day of the nynth moneth vnto the day that the foundation of the lordes temple was layde consider it in your mindes 20 Is the seede yet in the barne as yet the vines and the figge tree and the pomegranate the oliue tree hath not brought foorth from this day will I blesse you 21 And againe the worde of the Lorde came vnto Haggei in the foure twentie day of the moneth saying 22 Speake to Zorobabel the prince of Iuda and say I will shake the heauens and the earth 23 And I will ouerthrow the throne of kingdomes I wil destroy the strength of the kingdomes of the heathen and I will ouerthrowe the charettes and the sitters thereon and the horse and the riders shall fall downe euery one by the sworde of his brother 24 In that day saith the Lord of hoastes will I take thee Zorobabel my seruaunt sonne of Salathiel sayth the Lord will make thee as a signet for I haue chosen thee sayth the Lorde of hoastes ⧠The booke of the prophete Zacharias The first Chapter 1 He moueth the people to returne to the Lord and eschewe the wickednesse of their fathers 36 He prefigureth Christe and his Apostles 1 IN the eyght moneth of the seconde yere of king Darius came the worde of the Lord vnto Zacharias the sonne of Barachias the sonne of Addo the prophete saying 2 The Lorde hath ben sore displeased with your forefathers 3 And say thou vnto them thus sayth the Lorde of hoastes Turne you vnto me saith the Lord of hoastes I wil turne vnto you sayth the Lord of hoastes 4 Be ye not like your forefathers vnto whom prophetes cryed saying thus sayth the Lorde of hoastes Turne you from your euyl wayes and from your wicked imaginations But they woulde not heare nor regarde me sayth the Lorde 5 What is nowe become of your forefathers do the prophetes liue for euer 6 But did not my wordes and statutes whiche I commaunded by my seruauntes the prophetes take hold of your forefathers and they returned sayde Like as the Lorde of hoastes determined to do vnto vs according to our owne wayes and imaginations euen so hath he dealt with vs. 7 Vpon
be no more destruction but Hierusalem shal be safely inhabited 12 This shal be the plague wherewith the Lorde wyll smyte all people that haue fought against Hierusalem Their fleshe shall consume away though they stand vpon their feete their eyes shal be corrupt in their holes and their tongue shall consume in their mouth 13 In that day shall the Lorde make a great sedition among them so that one man shall take another by the hande and laye his handes vpon the handes of his neighbour 14 Iuda shall fight against Hierusalem and the armies of al the heathen shal be gathered together rounde about with golde and siluer and a very great multitude of apparell 15 And this plague shall go ouer horses mules cammels asses all the beastes that shal be in the hoast like as yonder plague was 16 Euery one that remayneth then of all the people which came against Hierusalem shall go vp early to worship the king euenâ the Lorde of hoastes and to kepe the feast of tabernacles 17 And loke what generation vpon the earth goeth not to Hierusalem for to worshippe the king the Lorde of hoastes vpon the same shall come no rayne 18 If the kindred of Egypt go not vp and come not it shall not rayne vpon them This shal be the plague wherewith the Lorde wyll smyte all the heathen that come not vp to kepe the feast of tabernacles 19 Yea this shal be the plague of Egypt and the plague of all people that go not vp to kepe the feast of tabernacles 20 At that time shall the ryding geare of the horses be holy vnto the Lorde the kettels in the lordes house shal be lyke the basons before the aulter 21 Yea all the kettels in Hierusalem and Iuda shal be holy vnto the Lorde of hoastes and al they that slay offringes shall come and take of them and seethe therein And at that time there shal be no mo Chanaanites in the house of the Lorde of hoastes ¶ The booke of the prophete Malachias ¶ The first Chapter A complaint against Israel and chiefely the priestes 1 THe burthen of the word of the Lorde to Israel by the ministerie of Malachi 2 I haue loued you saith the Lord yet ye say wherein hast thou loued vs Was not Esau Iacobs brother saith the Lorde yet loued I Iacob 3 And I hated Esau made his mountaynes waste and his heritage a wildernesse for Dragons 4 Though Edom say We are impouerished but we wil returne and builde the desolate places yet saith the Lorde of hoastes They shal builde but I wil destroy they shal cal them The border of wickednes the people with whom the Lorde is angry for euer 5 And your eyes shall see and you shal say The Lorde wylbe magnified vpon the borders of Israel 6 A sonne honoureth his father and a seruaunt his maister If then I be a father where is myne honour if I be a maister where is my feare Saith the Lorde God of hoastes to you O ye pristes that despise my name and ye say Wherein haue we despised thy name 7 Ye offer vpon myne aulter vncleane bread and say Wherein haue we polluted thee In that ye say The table of the Lorde is not to be regarded 8 When ye bring the blinde for sacrifice you say it is not euil and when ye bring the lame and sicke you say it is not euil offer it nowe to thy prince wyll he be content with thee or accept thy person saith the Lorde of hoastes 9 And now I pray you pray before God that he may haue mercie vpon vs this euill hath ben done by your meanes wyll he regarde your persons saith the Lorde of hoastes 10 Who is there euen among you that would shutte the doores and kindle not fire on myne aulter in vaine I haue no pleasure in you saith the Lorde of hoastes neither wyll I accept an offering at your hande 11 From the rysing of the sunne vnto the going downe of the same my name is great among the gentiles and in euery place incense shal be offred to my name a pure offering for my name is great among the very heathen saith the Lord of hoastes 12 But ye haue polluted it in that ye say The table of the Lord is polluted the fruite thereof euen his meate is not to be regarded 13 And ye saide beholde it is a weerynesse and you haue snuffed at it saith the Lorde of hoastes and ye haue offered the stolne and the lame and the sicke ye haue offered an offering shoulde I accept this of your handes saith the lorde 14 Cursed be the deceitfull which hath in his flocke a male and voweth and sacrificeth a corrupt thing to the Lorde because I am a great king saith the lord of hoastes and my name is fearefull among the heathen ¶ The .ij. Chapter Threatninges against the priestes being seducers of the people 1 ANd now O ye priestes this coÌmaundement is for you 2 If ye wyl not heare it nor regard it to geue the glory to my name saith the Lorde of hoastes I wyll sende a curse vpon you and wyll curse your blessinges yea I haue cursed them alredie because ye do not consider it in your heart 3 Beholde I wyll corrupt your seede and cast doung on your faces euen the doung of your solempne feastes you shal be like vnto it 4 And you shall know that I haue sent this coÌmaundement vnto you that my couenaunt which I haue made with Leui might stand saith the Lorde of hoastes 5 My couenaunt was with him of lyfe and peace and I gaue them him for the feare wherwith he feared me and was afrayde before my name 6 The lawe of trueth was in his mouth and there was no iniquitie found in his lippes he walked with me in peace and in equitie and he turned many from their iniquitie 7 For the priestes lippes shall kepe knowledge and they shall seeke the lawe at his mouth because he is the messenger of the Lorde of hoastes 8 But ye haue gone out of the way ye haue caused many to fall by the lawe ye haue corrupted the couenaunt of Leui saith the Lorde of hoastes 9 Therefore haue I also made you despised and vyle before all the people because you kept not my wayes but haue ben parciall in the lawe 10 Haue we not all one father hath not God made vs al why then is euery one deceaued of his brother to violate the couenaunt of our fathers 11 Iuda hath offended abhomination is committed in Israel and in Hierusalem for Iuda hath defiled the holynesse of the Lorde which he loued and hath maried the daughter of a straunge God 12 The Lorde wyll destroy the man that doth this both the rayser vp and the aunswerer out of the tabernacle of Iacob and him that offereth an offering vnto the Lorde of hoastes 13
the booke of the lawe before the whole multitude for he was the principall and had in most honour of them all 46 And when he expounded the lawe they stoode all straight vpon their feete So Esdras praysed the Lord the most hye God the almightie God of hoastes 47 And al the people aunswered Amen 48 And Iesus Anus Sarabias Adimus Iacobus Battaias Autamas Maâanias Calitas Azarias Iohasabdus Anatnas and Biatas the Leuites lyft vp their handes and fell downe on the grounde and worshipped the Lord 49 And taught the lawe of the Lord and were earnestly occupied together in the reading thereof 50 Then spake Atharates vnto Esdras the hye priest and reader and to the Leuites that taught the multitude saying 51 This day is holy vnto the Lord and all when they hearde the lawe wept 52 So Esdras sayde Depart your way therfore and eate the fat meates and drinke the sweete drinkes and sende gyftes vnto them that haue nothing 53 For this day is holy vnto the Lorde and be not ye sory for the Lorde wyll bryng you to honour 54 So the Leuites published all these thinges to the people saying This day is holy to the Lorde be not sory 55 Then went they their way euery one to eate and drinke and were mery and sent presents to them that had nothing and made very good cheare 56 For they were as yet filled with the wordes that had ben taught them and for the whiche they had ben assembled ¶ The ende of the thirde booke of Esdras ⧠The fourth booke of Esdras ¶ The first Chapter 8 The people is reproued for their vnthankefulnes 30 God wyll haue another people if these wyll not be refourmed 1 THE second booke of the prophete Esdras the sonne of Saraias the sonne of Azarias the sonne of Helchia the sonne of Sadanias the sonne of Sadoc the sonne of Achitob 2 The sonne of Achia the sonne of Phinees the sonne of Heli the sonne of Amerias the sonne of Aziei the sonne of Marimoth the sonne of Arna the sonne of Ozias the sonne of Borith the sonne of Abisei the sonne of Phinees the sonne of Eleazar 3 The sonne of Aaron of the tribe of Leui whiche Esdras was prisoner in the lande of Medes in the raigne of Artaxerxes kyng of Persia 4 And the worde of the Lord came vnto me saying 5 Go thy way and shewe my people their sinnefull deedes and their chyldren their wickednesses whiche they haue done against me that they may tell their chylders chyldren the same 6 For the sinnes of their fathers are increased in them And why they haue forgotten me and haue offered vnto straunge gods 7 Am not I euen he that brought them out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage But they haue prouoked me vnto wrath despised my counsels 8 Pull thou out than the heere of thy head and cast all euyll vpon them for they haue not ben obedient vnto my lawe But it is a people without learning and nurture 9 Howe long shall I forbeare them vnto whom I haue done so muche good 10 Many kynges haue I destroyed for their sakes Pharao with his seruauntes and all his power haue I smitten downe and slayne 11 All the nations haue I destroyed and rooted out before them and in the cast haue I brought two landes and people to naught euen Tyre and Sidon and haue slayne all their enemies 12 Speake thou therfore vnto them saying Thus saith the Lord 13 I led you thorowe the sea and haue geuen you sure streetes since the beginning I gaue you Moyses to be your captayne and Aaron to be the priest 14 I gaue you light in a piller of fire and great wonders haue I done among you yet haue ye forgotten me saith the Lorde 15 Thus saith the almightie Lord The quayles were as a token for you I gaue you tentes for your succour neuerthelesse in them ye murmured 16 And ascribed not the victory of your enemies vnto my name but euer to this day do ye yet murmure 17 Where are the benefites that I haue done for you When ye were hungry in the wyldernesse dyd ye not crye vnto me 18 Saying why hast thou brought vs into this wyldernesse to kill vs It had ben better for vs to haue serued the Egyptians then to die in this wyldernes 19 Then had I pitie vpon your mourninges and gaue you Manna to eate so ye dyd eate angels foode 20 When ye were thirstie dyd not I cleaue the rocke waters flowed out to satisfie you withall For the heate I couered you with the leaues of the trees 21 A good pleasaunt fat lande gaue I you I cast out the Chanaanites the Pherezites and Philistines before you What shall I do more for you saith the Lorde 22 Thus saith the almightie Lorde When ye were in the wyldernesse in the water of the Amorites beyng athirst and blaspheming my name 23 I gaue you not fire for your blasphemies but cast a tree into the water and made the riuer sweete 24 What shal I do vnto thee O Iacob Thou Iuda wouldest not obay me I will turne me to other nations and vnto those wyll I geue my name that they may kepe my statutes 25 Seyng ye haue forsaken me I wyll forsake you also When ye desire me to be gratious vnto you I shall haue no mercy vpon you 26 When ye call vpon me I wyll not heare you For ye haue defiled your handes with blood and your feete are swyft to commit manslaughter 27 Ye haue not as it were forsaken me but your owne selues saith the Lorde 28 Thus saith the almightie Lorde Haue I not prayed you as a father his sonnes as a mother her daughters and as a nurse her young babes 29 That ye woulde be my people and I shoulde be your God that ye would be my chyldren I should be your father 30 I gathered you together as an hen gathereth her chickens vnder her winges But nowe what shall I do vnto you I wyll cast you out from my face 31 When you offer vnto me I wyl turne my face from you for your solempne feast dayes your newe moones your circumcisions haue I forsaken 32 I sent vnto you my seruauntes the prophetes whom ye haue taken and slayne and torne their bodies in peeces whose blood I wyll require of your handes saith the Lorde 33 Thus saith the almightie lord Your house shal be desolate I wyll cast you out as the winde doth stubble 34 Your chyldren shall not be fruitefull for they haue despised my commaundement and done the thing that is euyll before me 35 Your houses wyll I geue to a people that shall come whiche not hauyng hearde of me yet shall beleue me to whom I haue shewed no signes yet they shall do that I haue commaunded them 36 They haue
earth shal be left waste and the fieldes thereof shall waxe olde and her wayes and all her pathes shall growe full of thornes because no man shall trauayle there through 34 The virgins shall mourne hauing no bridegromes the women shall make lamentation hauing no husbandes their daughters shal mourne hauing no helpers 35 In the warres shall their bridegromes be destroyed their husbandes shall perish of hunger 36 But ye seruauntes of the Lord heare these thinges and marke them 37 Behold the worde of the Lorde O receaue it beleue not the gods of whom the Lorde spake 38 Behold the plagues drawe nie and are not slacke in tarying 39 Like as a trauayling woman whiche in the nynth moneth bringeth foorth a sonne when the houre of the byrth is come an houre two or three afore that the paynes come vpon her body when the childe commeth to the byrth they tary not the twinckling of an eye 40 Euen so shall not the plagues be slacke to come vpon the earth and the worlde shall mourne and sorowes shall come vpon it on euery side 41 O my people heare my worde make you redy to the battayl and in al euill be euen as pilgrimes vpon earth 42 He that selleth let him be as he that fleeth his way and he that biâth as one that will leese 43 Who so occupieth marchaundise as he that winneth not and he that buyldeth as he that shall not dwell therin 44 He that soweth as one that shall not reape he that cutteth the vineyarde as he that shall not gather the grapes 45 They that mary as they that shall get no children and they that mary not as the widdowes 46 And therfore they that labour labour in vayne 47 For straungers shall reape their fruites and spoyle their goodes ouerthrough their houses and take their children captiue for in captiuitie and hunger shall they get children 48 And they that occupie their marchaundise with robberie the more they decke their cities their houses their possessions and their owne persons 49 The more will I punishe them for their sinnes sayth the Lorde 50 Like as an whore enuieth an honest and vertuous woman 51 So shal righteousnesse hate iniquitie when she decketh her selfe and shall accuse her to her face when he commeth that shall bridle the auctour of all sinne vpon earth 52 And therfore be not ye like therevnto nor to the workes therof 53 For or euer it be long iniquite shal be taken away out of the earth and righteousnesse shall raigne among you 54 Let not the sinner say that he hath not sinned for coles of fire shall burne vpon his head which sayth Before the Lord God and his glorie I haue not sinned 55 Beholde the Lorde knoweth all the workes of men their imaginations their thoughtes and their heartes 56 For he spake but the worde Let the earth be made and it was made Let the heauen be made and it was created 57 In his worde were the starres made and he knoweth the number of them 58 He searcheth the grounde of the deepe and the treasures therof he hath measured the sea and what it conteyneth 59 He hath shut the sea in the middest of the waters and with his worde hath he hanged the earth vpon the waters 60 He spreadeth out the heauen like a vaut vpon the waters hath he founded it 61 In the desert and drye wildernesse hath he made springes of water and pooles vpon the top of the mountaynes that the fluddes might poure downe from the stony rockes to water the earth 62 He made man and put his heart in the middes of the body gaue him breath life and vnderstanding 63 Yea and the spirite of the almightie God which made all thinges and hath searched the ground of al the secretes of the earth 64 He knoweth your imaginations and inuentions and what ye thincke when ye sinne and woulde hyde your sinnes 65 Therfore hath the Lorde searched and sought out all your workes and he shall bewray you all 66 And when your sinnes are brought foorth ye shal be ashamed before men and your owne sinne shal be your accusers in that day 67 What will ye do Or how will ye hyde your sinnes before God and his angels 68 Behold God him selfe is y e iudge feare him leaue of from your sinnes and forget your vnrighteousnesses and meddle no more with them so shall God leade you foorth and deliuer you from al trouble 69 For beholde the heate of a great multitude is kindled ouer you and they shal take away certayne of you and shal slay for meate to the idols 70 And they that consent vnto them shal be had in derision laughed to scorne and troden vnder foote 71 For there shal be in euery place and in the next cities a great insurrection vpon those that feare the Lorde 72 They shall be like mad men they shal spare no man they shall spoyle and wast such as yet feare the Lorde 73 For their goods shall they take from them and shut them out of their houses 74 Then shall it be knowen who are my chosen and they shal be tryed as the golde in the fire 75 Heare O ye my beloued sayth the Lorde behold the dayes of trouble are at hande but I will deliuer you from the same 76 Be not ye afrayde dispaire not for God is your captayne 77 Who so kepeth my commaundementes and preceptes sayth the Lorde God let not your sinnes waygh you downe and let not your vnrighteousnesse be lift vp 78 Wo be vnto them that are bound with their sinnes and couered with their wickednesse lyke as a fielde is hedged in with bushes and the path therof couered with thornes that no man may trauayle through it is shut vp and is cast into the fire for euer to be consumed therewith The ende of the fourth booke of Esdras The booke of Tobias The firste Chapter 1 Tobias parentage 3 His golines 6 His equitie 8 His charitie and prosperitie 23 He fleeth and his goodes are confiscate 25 and after restored 1 TObias was of the tribe citie of Nepthali which lyeth in the hye countreys of Galilee aboue Naasson beside y e way that leadeth to the west hauyng the citie of Sephet vpon the left side 2 Though he was taken prisoner in the dayes of Salmanasar king of the Assyrians neuerthelesse beyng in captiuitie he forsoke not the way of trueth 3 In so much that whatsoeuer he might get he parted it dayly with his felowe prisoners and brethren that were of his kinred 4 And though he were younger then al in the tribe of Nephthali yet did not he behaue him selfe childyshly in his workes 5 And when all the other went to the golden calues whiche Ieroboam the king of Israel had made he alone fled al their companies 6 And gat him to Hierusalem vnto the temple of the Lorde and there worshipped the Lord God of Israel faythfully offering of al his first
2 Thinkest thou Gabelus is dead and no man wyll geue him the money 3 Thus began he to be very sorowfull he and Anna his wyfe with him and began to weepe both together because their sonne was not come againe vnto them at the day appoynted 4 As for his mother she wept with discomfortable teares and saide Wo is me my sonne Oh what ayled vs to send thee away into a strauÌge countrey thou light of our eyes thou staffe of our age thou comfort of our life thou hope of our generation 5 Seing all the thinges that we haue are onely in thee we shoulde not haue sent thee away from vs. 6 Then Tobias comforted her ⪠and saide Holde thy peace be not discomforted our sonne is whole and sounde the man that we sent him withall is faithfull inough 7 Neuerthelesse she might in no wyse be comforted but dayly went out loked about and went about all the streates whereby she thought he should come againe that if it were possible she might see him comming a farre of 8 But Raguel saide vnto his sonne in lawe O tary here and I shall send a messenger vnto thy father Tobias to tell him that thou art in good health 9 Tobias saide vnto him I am sure that my father and my mother count euery day and that their heartes are sorye 10 So when Raguel had prayed Tobias with many wordes and he woulde in no wyse heare him he deliuered Sara vnto hym the halfe part of all his good in seruauntes and handmaydens in sheepe in camels and in kyne much money and so sent him away from him with health and ioy 11 And said The holy angel of the Lord be with you in your iourney and bring you foorth safe and sounde that ye may finde all thinges in good case with your elders that myne eyes may see your children afore I dye 12 So the elders embraced their daughter kissed her and let her go 13 Exhorting her to honour her father mother in law to loue her husband to rule well her housholde to keepe her house in good order and to shewe her selfe faultlesse ¶ The .xj. Chapter 1 The returne of Tobias to his father 11 How he was receaued 15 His father hath his sight restored and prayseth the Lorde 1 AS they nowe were going homeward againe vpon the eleuenth day they came to Charran which lyeth in the halfe way towarde Niniue 2 And the angell saide Brother Tobias thou knowest how thou hast left thy father 3 Therfore if it please thee we two wyl go before and let the housholde with thy wyfe the cattaile come faire and softly after vs. 4 And when Tobias was content that they should go before Raphael said vnto him Take of the gal of the fishe with thee for it shall be necessary So Tobias toke of the gall and they went their way 5 But Anna the mother of Tobias sate dayly by the way side vpon the toppe of an hill from whence she might see farre about her 6 And whyle she was wayting there for his comming she loked a farre of and anone she perceaued her sonne comming and ranne and tolde her husband saying beholde thy sonne commeth 7 And Raphael saide vnto Tobias Assoone as thou commest into the house immediatly worship the lorde thy God and geue thankes vnto him then go to thy father and kisse hym 8 And straight wayes strike his eyes ouer with the gall of the fishe that thou hast brought with thee For be sure that his eyes shall straight way be opened and thy father shall see the light of heauen and shal reioyce at the sight of thee 9 Then the dogge that had ben with them in their iourney ranne before and came as a messenger and wagged his tayle for gladnesse 10 So the blynde father arose and began to runne and stumbled with his feete and gaue a seruaunt his hand ranne to meete his sonne 11 Receaued him and kissed him he and his wyfe and they both began to weepe for ioy 12 Now when they had worshipped and thanked God they sat downe 13 Then tooke Tobias of the fishes gall and annoynted his fathers eyes 14 And taryed halfe an houre and then began the blemishe to go out of his eyes lyke as it had ben the white skinne of an egge 15 Which Tobias tooke and drew from his eyes and immediatly he receaued his sight 16 Then they praysed God he and his wyfe and all they that knew him 17 And Tobias saide O Lorde God of Israel I geue thee prayse thankes for thou hast chastened me made me whole And lo nowe do I see my sonne Tobias 18 After seuen dayes came Sara his sonnes wyfe also whole and sound with all the housholde and cattaile with camels much money of his wyues and with the money that he had receaued of Gabelus 19 And he tolde his father and his mother all the benefites which God had done for him by the man that led him 20 Achior also and Nabath Tobias sister sonnes came and were glad and reioyced with him by reason of all the good thinges that God had shewed vnto him And so for the space of seuen dayes they made mery and were right ioyfull euery one ¶ The .xii. Chapter 2 Tobias declareth to his father the pleasures that Raguel had done him 5 the which he would recompence 11 Raphael declareth that he is an angell sent of God 1 THen Tobias called his sonne vnto him sayd What may we geue this holy man that went with thee 2 Tobias aunswered his father and sayde Father what rewarde shall we geue him or what thing can deserue his benefites 3 He hath ben my guyde and brought me safe againe He receaued the money from Gabelus he caused me to get my wyfe he droue the euill spirite from her he hath ben an occasion of gladnesse to her father and mother he delyuered me that I was not deuoured of the fishe he hath made thee to see the light of heauen yea we all haue receaued great good of him 4 Howe shoulde we worthyly deserue these thinges vnto him But I pray thee my father that thou wilt desire him if happyly he wil vouchsafe to take with him the halfe of all that we haue brought 5 So the father the sonne called him toke him asyde and began to pray him that he woulde be content to take in good worth the halfe part of all that they had brought 6 Then saide he secretly vnto them Prayse ye the God of heauen and geue thankes vnto him before al men lyuing for he hath shewed his mercy vnto you 7 It is good to hide the kinges secrete but to shewe and to prayse the workes of God it is an honorable thing 8 Prayer is good with fasting and mercie is better then to hoorde vp treasures of golde 9 For mercie delyuereth from death clenseth sinne causeth to finde mercie and lyfe euerlasting 10 But they
that do sinne and vnrighteousnesse are the enemies of their owne soule 11 Wherefore I tell you the trueth and wyll hide no secret saying from you 12 When thou prayedst with teares and buriedst the dead and leftest thy dynner and hyddest the dead in thyne house vpon the day time that thou mightest bury them in the night I offred thy prayer before the Lorde 13 And because thou wast accept and beloued of God it was necessary that temptation should trye thee 14 And nowe hath the Lorde sent me to heale thee and to delyuer Sara thy sonnes wyfe from the euill spirite 15 For I am Raphael an angell one of the seuen that stande before the Lorde 16 When they heard this they were sore afrayde and trembled and fell downe vpon their faces vnto the grounde 17 Then saide the angell Peace be with you feare not 18 For where as I haue ben with you it is the wil of God geue prayse thankes vnto him 19 You thought that I did eate drinke with you but I vse meate that is inuisible and drinke that can not be seene of men 20 Now therfore is the time that I must turne againe vnto him that sent me but be ye thankefull vnto God and tell out all his wonderous workes 21 And when he had spokeÌ those wordes he was taken away out of their sight so that they could see him no more 22 Then fell they downe flat vpon their faces by the space of three houres and praysed God and when they rose vp they tolde all his wonderous workes ¶ The .xiii. Chapter A thankes geuing of Tobias who exhorteth all to prayse the Lorde 1 THen olde Tobias opened his mouth praysed the Lorde sayde Great art thou O lord for euermore and thy kingdome world with out end 2 For thou scourgest and healest thou leadest vnto hell bringest out againe and there is none that may escape thyne hande 3 O geue thankes vnto the Lorde ye children of Israel and prayse him in the sight of the heathen 4 For among the heathen which knowe him not hath he scattered you to the intent that ye should shew forth his marueilous workes and cause them for to knowe that there is none other God almightie but he 5 He hath chastened vs for our misdeedes for his owne mercie sake shall he saue vs. 6 Consider then how he hath dealt with you and prayse him with feare dread and magnifie the euerlasting king in your workes 7 I wyll prayse him euen in the lande of my captiuitie for he hath shewed his maiestie vnto a sinfull people 8 Turne you therfore O ye sinners and do righteousnesse before God and be ye sure that he wyll shew his mercy vpon you 9 As for me and my soule we wyll reioyce in God 10 O prayse the Lorde all ye his chosen hold the dayes of gladnesse be thankefull vnto him 11 O Hierusalem thou citie of God the lorde hath punished thee for the workes of thyne owne handes 12 O prayse the Lord in thy good thinges geue thankes to the euerlasting God that he may build vp his tabernacle againe in thee that he may call againe vnto thee all such as be in captiuitie and that thou mayest haue ioy for euermore 13 With a faire light shalt thou shyne and all the endes of the worlde shall honour thee 14 The people shall come vnto thee from farre they shall bring giftes and worship the Lorde in thee and thy land shal they haue for a sanctuary for they shall call vpon the great name in thee 15 Cursed shall they be that despise thee and all that blaspheme thee shal be condempned But blessed shall they be that builde thee vp 16 As for thee thou shalt reioyce in thy children for they all shal be blessed and gathered together vnto the Lorde 17 Blessed are all they that loue thee and that be glad of thy peace 18 Prayse thou the Lorde O my soule for the Lorde our God hath deliuered his citie Hierusalem from all her troubles 19 I wyll count my selfe happy if my seede remayne to see the clearenes of Hierusalem 20 The gates of Hierusalem shal be builded with Saphir and Smaragde and all the compasse of her walles with precious stones 21 All her streates shal be paued with white and fayre stone and in all streates shall Halleluia be song 22 Praysed be the Lorde which hath exalted her that his kingdome may be vpon her for euermore Amen The .xiiii. Chapter 5 Lessons of Tobias to his sonne 6 He prophecieth the destruction of Niniue 7 And the restoring of Hierusalem and the temple 13 The death of Tobias and his wyfe 16 Tobias the younger his age and death 1 ANd so Tobias made an end of speaking And after that Tobias had gotten his sight againe he lyued fouretie two yeres sawe his childers children 2 Nowe when he was an hundred and two yeres olde he dyed and was buried honorably in Niniue 3 For when he was sixe and fiftie yeres of age he lost the sight of his eyes and when he was three score yeres olde he gate his sight againe 4 The residue of his lyfe led he in ioy and increased well in the feare of God and departed in peace 5 But in the houre of his death he called vnto him his sonne Tobias and seuen young springaldes his sonnes children and saide vnto them 6 The destruction of Niniue is at hand for the word of the Lord can not fayle and our brethren that are scattered out of the lande of Israel shall come thyther agayne 7 And the whole lande of it that hath ben waste shall be filled and the house of God that was brent in it shal be builded againe and all such as feare God shall returne thyther 8 The heathen then also shall forsake their idols and come to Hierusalem and dwell there 9 And all the kinges of the earth shal be glad in her and worship the Lord God of Israel 10 And therefore my children heare your father serue the Lorde in the trueth seeke after his wyll to do the thing that pleaseth him 11 Commaunde your children that they do right geue almes be mindefull of God and euer to be thankefull vnto him in trueth and with all their power 12 Heare me now therefore my children and abyde not here but in what day so euer ye haue buryed your mother by me in one sepulchre get you from hence 13 For I see that the wickednesse of it shall bring it to destruction and end 14 After the death of his mother Tobias departed away from Niniue with his wife and children and with his childers children and came againe to his father and mother in lawe 15 And founde them whole and in a good age and toke the care of them and he closed their eyes and was heyre vnto all Raguels goodes and sawe the fyft generation and his childers children 16 And ninetie and nine yeres beyng ended
the whole multitude of his hoast to be gathered together The .iiii. Chapter 1 The Israelites were afrayde and defended their countrey 5 Eliacim the priest wryteth to Bethulia that they shoulde fortifie them selues 8 They cried to the Lorde and humbled them selues before hym 1 WHen the children of Israel that dwelt in Iurie heard this they were sore afrayde of him 2 There came such trembling also feare vpon them lest he shoulde do vnto the citie of Hierusalem and the temple of the Lord as he had done to other cities and their temples 3 So they sent into all Samaria rounde about vnto Iericho toke in and occupied all the toppes of the mountaynes 4 And made fast the townes with walles and prepared corne for them against the battayle 5 Eliacim also the priest wrote vnto all them that dwelt towarde Esdrelon which lieth ouer against the great fielde by Dothain vnto all those by whom men might haue passage vnto them 6 That they shoulde take in the wayes of the mountaynes whereby there might be any way and passage to Hierusalem and that they shoulde holde diligent watch where any strayte was betwixte the mountaynes 7 And the children of Israel dyd as Eliacim the priest of the Lorde had commaunded them 8 And all the people cryed vnto the Lord earnestly and humbled their soules with fasting and prayers they their wiues 9 The priestes put on heery clothes and layed the young babes before the temple of the Lord and couered the aulter of the Lorde with an heery cloth 10 And with one accorde they cryed vnto the Lorde God of Israel that their children should not be geuen into a pray and their wiues into a spoyle that their cities should not be layed waste and that their sanctuarie shoulde not be vnhalowed and so they to be a shame and rebuke vnto the heathen 11 Then Eliacim the hye priest of the Lord went rounde about al Israel and spake vnto them 12 Saying Be ye sure that the Lord will heare your petitions if ye continue stedfast in fastinges and prayers in the sight of the Lorde 13 Remember Moyses the seruaunt of the Lorde which ouerthrewe the Amalechites that trusted in their might and power in their hoast in their shieldes in their charets and horsemen not with weapons but with holy prayers 14 Euen so shall all the enemies of Israel be if ye continue in this worke that ye haue begun 15 So vpon this exhortation they continued in prayer before the Lorde 16 In so much that they whiche offered burnt sacrifices vnto the Lord offred the offringes vnto the Lorde beyng arayed in heery clothes and had asshes vpon their heades 17 And they all besought God from their whole heart that he woulde visite his people of Israel The .v. Chapter 1 Achior the Ammonite doeth declare to Holophernes of the maner of the Israelites 1 AND worde came to Holophernes y e prince of the warre of the Assyrians that the children of Israel prepared them selues to make resistaunce and howe they had stopped the wayes betwixte the mountaynes 2 Then was he exceeding wroth and called all the princes of Moab and the captaynes of Ammon 3 And sayde vnto them Tell me what people is this that kepeth in the mountaynes Or what maner and how great cities theirs are What is their power Or what maner of hoast haue they who is their captayne 4 And why do they despise vs more then all those that dwell in the east and come not foorth to meete vs that they might receaue vs with peace 5 Then Achior the captayne of al the Ammonites aunswered and sayde Syr if it please thee to heare I will tell the trueth before thee concerning this people that dwel in the mountaynes and there shall no vntrueth go out of my mouth 6 This people is of the generation of the Chaldees 7 They dwelt first in Mesopotamia for they woulde not folowe the gods of their fathers that were in the lande of the Chaldees 8 And so forsoke they the custome of their forefathers which had many gods and worshipped one God that made heauen and earth whiche also commaunded them that they shoulde go from thence and dwell at Charan 9 Nowe when there came a dearth into the whole lande they went downe to Egypt and there they dwelt foure hundreth yeres in the whiche they multiplied greatly that their hoast might not be numbred 10 And when the king of Egypt oppressed them and yoked them in buylding of his cities with making of clay and brycke they cryed vnto God their Lord which punished the whole lande of Egypt with diuers plagues 11 And when the Egyptians had cast them out the plague ceassed from them and they folowing after them to take them to bring them againe into their bondage 12 Whyle they were flying away the God of heauen opened the sea so that the waters stoode fast vpon both the sides as a wall and these went through the botome of the sea drye shod 13 In the whiche place when an innumerable people of the Egyptians folowed vpon them they were so ouerwhelmed with the waters that there remayned not one to tell them that came after how it happened 14 So when this people was passed through the red sea they came into the wildernesse of mount Sina where neuer man might dwell afore and where the sonne of man had neuer rested 15 There were the bitter waters made sweete for them that they might drinke and fourtie yeres had they meate from heauen 16 Whersouer they went without bow and arrow without buckler or sworde their God fought for them and caused them to haue the victorie 17 Yea no man was able to hurt this people except it were when they departed vnfaythfully from the worshipping of the Lorde their God 18 But as ofte as they worshipped any other beside their God he gaue them ouer to be spoyled to be slayne and to be put to confusion 19 Neuerthelesse as ofte as they were sory for their departing from the worshippe of their God the same God of heauen gaue them power strength to withstande their enemies 20 Moreouer they slue the king of the Chanaanites Iebusites Pherezites Hethites Heuites and Amorites and al the mightie in Hesebon and toke their landes and cities in possession 21 And so long as they sinned not in the sight of their God it went well with them For their God hateth vnrighteousnesse 22 For in times past when they went out of the way which God had geuen them that they shoulde walke in it they were destroyed in diuers battaylles of many nations and many of them were caried away prisoners vnto a strange countrey 23 But now lately they haue turned them selues agayne vnto the Lord their God and are come together agayne out of the countreys where they were scattred abrode and thus haue they conquered these mountaynes and dwel therin and as for Hierusalem where their sanctuarie is
wrapped in the blood feare fulnesse shall fall vpon them 5 And when ye perceaue that they flee folowe them without all care for God shall delyuer them vnto you to be destroyed 6 Then Achior seing the power of God which he had shewed vnto the people of Israel fell of from his heathenishe beliefe and put his trust in God and let him selfe be circumcized and so was he numbred among the people of Israel he and all his posteritie vnto this day 7 Now assoone as it was day they stickt vp Holophernes head vpon the walles and euery man tooke his weapon and so they went out with an horrible crye 8 When the spies saw that they ranne vnto Holophernes tent 9 And they that were within the tent came before his chamber and made a great russhing by art that Holophernes might awake not by stirring him vp but by their noyse 10 For there durst not one of the Assyrians knocke go in or open 11 But when the captaynes and princes and all the chiefe in the king of the Assyrians hoast came together they said vnto the chamberlaynes 12 Go your way in and wake him vp for the myce are crept out of their holes and dare prouoke vs vnto battayle 13 Then went Vagao into his chamber stoode before the bed and clapped with his handes for he thought he had ben sleeping with Iudith 14 But when he hearkened perfectly with his eares and coulde perceaue no stirring he went nyer to the bed and lift it vp and when he sawe the dead body of Holophernes lying there without a head weltred in his blood vpon the earth he cryed with a loude voyce and with weeping rent his clothes 15 And went into Iudiths tent and founde her not 16 And so he lept out vnto the people and saide One woman of the Iewes hath brought al Nabuchodonosors people to shame For lo Holophernes lyeth vpon the grounde and hath no head 17 When the chiefe of the Assyrians hoast heard that they rent their clothes and there fell an intollerable feare and tremblyng vpon them so that their mindes were sore afrayd 18 And there was an exceeding great crye in the whole hoast ¶ The .xv. Chapter 1 The Assyrians are afrayd and flee 6 The Israelites pursue them 9 Ioachim the hie priest commeth to Bethulia to see Iudith and to prayse God for her 1 NOw when al the hoast heard that Holophernes was beheaded their minde counsell fel from them and being amased with feare onely and trembling they saued them selues by fleeing away 2 One spake not to another but hanged downe their heades left all behinde theÌ and made haste to escape from the Hebrues for they heard that they were hasting to come after with their weapons and so they fled by the wayes of the fieldes and through all the foote pathes of the dales 3 And when the children of Israel saw that they fled they folowed vpon them and went downe with trumpettes blowyng and making a great crye after them 4 As for the Assyrians they had no order and kept not them selues together but fled their way Neuerthelesse the children of Israel fell vpon them with one company and order and discomfited as many as they might get 5 And Osias sent messengers vnto all the cities and countries of Israel 6 So all the regions and euery citie sent out their best men after them in harnesse and smote them with the sworde till they came to the vttermost parte of their borders 7 And the other that were in Bethulia came into the tentes of the Assyrians and tooke all that they which were fled had left behinde them so they founde great good 8 And they that came againe to Bethulia from the battaile tooke with them such thinges as had ben theirs there was no number of the cattaile and of all costly iewels so that from the lowest vnto the hiest they were all made rich of the spoyles of them 9 And Ioachim the hie priest came from Hierusalem to Bethulia with al the elders that they might see Iudith 10 Now when she came out vnto them they began all to prayse her with one voyce saying Thou worship of the citie of Hierusalem thou ioy of Israel thou honour of our people 11 Because thou hast done manly and thy heart is comforted for that thou hast loued clenlinesse and chastitie and hast knowen no man but thyne owne husband therefore hath the hand of the Lorde comforted thee and blessed shalt thou be for euer 12 And all the people saide So be it So be it 13 In thirtie dayes coulde the people of Israel scarse gather vp the spoyles of the Assyrians 14 But all that belonged vnto Holophernes and had ben his specially whether it were of golde of siluer precious stone clothing and all ornamentes they gaue it vnto Iudith and it was deliuered vnto her of the people 15 And all the people reioyced both women maydens and young people with pipes and harpes ¶ The .xvi. Chapter 1 Iudith prayseth God with a song 23 She offereth to the Lorde Holophernes stuffe 26 Her continencie life and death 29 All Israel lamenteth her 1 THen sang Iudith this song vnto the Lorde saying 2 Beginne vnto the Lorde vpon the tabrettes sing vnto the Lorde vpon the cymbales O sing vnto him a newe song of thankes geuing be ioyfull and call vppon his name 3 It is the Lord that destroyeth warres euen the Lorde is his name 4 Which hath pitched his tentes in the middest of his people that he might deliuer vs from the hand of al our enemies 5 Assur came out of the mountaines of the north in the multitude of his strength his people stopped the water brookes and their horses couered the valleyes 6 He purposed to haue brent vp my land and to slay my young men with the sword 7 He woulde haue caried away my children and virgins into captiuitie but the almightie Lorde hindred him and deliuered him into the handes of a woman which brought him to confusion 8 For their mightie was not destroyed of the young men it it was not the sonnes of Titan that slue him neither haue the great giauntes set them selues against him but Iudith the daughter of Merari with her faire beautie hath discomfited him and brought him to naught 9 For she layed away her wydowes garment and put on the apparell of gladnesse to the reioycing of the children of Israel 10 She annoynted her face with oyntment bounde vp her heere in a coyffe and tooke a newe stole to beguile him 11 Her slippers rauished his eyes her beautie captiuated his minde with the sword smote she of his necke 12 The Persians were astonied at her stedfastnesse the Medes at her boldenesse 13 Then howled the armies of the Assyrians when my simples appeared drye of thirst 14 The sonnes of the daughters haue pearsed them through and slaine them as fugitiue children they perished in the battaile
that all they that are appointed in wrytyng and shewed vnto you by Aman whiche is ordayned and set ouer all our landes and the most principall next vnto the kyng and in maner as a father shall with their wiues and chyldren be destroyed rooted out with the sworde of their enemies and aduersaries and that there shal be no mercy shewed and no man spared And this shal be done the fourteenth day of the moneth called Adad of this yere 7 That they whiche of olde and nowe also haue euer ben rebellious may in one day with violence be thrust downe into the hell to the intent that after this maner our empire may haue peace and tranquilitie 8 But Mardocheus thought vpon all the workes noble actes of the Lorde and made his prayer vnto him 9 Saying O Lorde Lorde thou valiaunt and almightie king for all thinges are in thy power and if thou wilt helpe and deliuer Israel there is no man that can withstande nor let thee 10 For thou hast made heauen and earth and what wonderous thing soeuer is vnder the heauen 11 Thou art Lorde of all thinges and there is no man that can resist thy maiestie O Lorde 12 Thou knowest all thinges thou wotest Lorde that it was neither of malice nor presumption nor for any desire of glory that I would not bow downe my selfe nor worship yonder proude presumptious Aman 13 For I woulde haue ben content and that with good wyll if it might haue done Israel any good to haue kist euen his footesteppes 14 But that I did it because I woulde not set the honour of a man in the steede of the glory of God because I would worship none but only thee my Lorde and this haue I done in no pryde nor presumption 15 And therfore O Lord thou God and kyng haue mercy vpon thy people for they imagine howe they may bring vs to naught yea their minde and desire is to destroy and to ouerthrowe thy people that hath euer ben thyne inheritaunce of olde 16 O despise not thy portion which thou hast deliuered brought out of Egypt for thyne owne selfe 17 Heare my prayer and be mercifull vnto thy people whom thou hast chosen for an heritage vnto thy selfe Turne our complaynt and sorow into ioy that we may liue O Lorde and prayse thy name O Lord suffer not the mouthes of them that praise thee to be destroyed 18 All the people of Israel in like maner cryed as earnestly as they coulde vnto the Lorde for their death and destruction stoode before their eyes ¶ The .xiiij. Chapter ¶ The prayer of Hester for the deliueraunce of her and her people 1 QVeene Hester also beyng in the battayle of death resorted vnto the Lorde 2 Layde away her glorious apparell and put on the garmentes that serued for sighing and mourning In the steede of precious oyntment she scattered ashes and dounge vpon her head and as for her body she humbled it with fasting and brought it very low All the places where she was wont to haue ioy afore those filled she with her owne heere that she pluckt of 3 She prayed also vnto the Lorde God of Israel with these wordes O my Lorde thou only art our kyng helpe me desolate woman whiche haue no helper but thee 4 For my miserie and destruction is harde at my hande 5 Fro my youth vp I haue hearde out of the kinred of my father that thou tokest Israel from among all people and so haue our fathers of their fore elders that they shoulde be thy perpetuall inheritaunce and looke what thou didst promise them thou hast made it good vnto them 6 Nowe Lorde we haue sinned before thee therefore hast thou geuen vs into the handes of our enemies 7 Because we worshipped their gods Lorde thou art righteous 8 Neuerthelesse it satisfieth them not that we are in bitter and heauie captiuitie and oppressed among them but thou hast layde their handes vpon the handes of their gods 9 So that they begin to take away the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordayned and appoynted to destroy thine inheritaunce to shut and to stop the mouthes of them that prayse thee to quench the glory and worship of thy house and thyne aulter 10 And to open the mouthes of the heathen that they may prayse the power and vertue of the gods and to magnifie the fleshly kyng for euer 11 O Lorde geue not thy scepter vnto them that be nothing lest they laugh vs to scorne in our miserie and fall but turne their deuice vpon them selues and punishe hym that hath begun the same ouer vs and set hym to an example 12 Thinke vpon vs O Lord and shewe thy selfe vnto vs in the tyme of our distresse and of our trouble strength me O thou kyng of Gods thou Lorde of all power 13 Geue me an eloquent and pleasaunt speache in my mouth before the lion Turne his heart into the hate of our enemies to destroy him and all such as consent vnto him 14 But deliuer vs with thy hande and helpe me thy handmayde which haue no defence nor helper but onlye the Lorde 15 Thou knowest all thinges thou wotest that I loue not the glory and worship of the vnrighteous and that I hate and abhorre the bed of the vncircumcised and of all heathen 16 Thou knowest my necessitie that I hate the token of my preeminence and worship which I beare vpon my head what tyme as I must shewe my selfe and be seene and that I abhorre it as an vncleane cloth and that I weare it not when I am quiet and alone by my selfe 17 Thou knowest also that I thy handmayden haue not eaten at Amans table and that I haue had no pleasure nor delight in the kinges feast that I haue not drunke the wine of the drinke offeringes 18 And that I thy handmayden haue no ioy since the day that I was brought hyther vnto this day but only in thee O Lorde O thou God of Abraham 19 O thou mightie God aboue all heare the voyce of them that haue no other hope and deliuer vs out of the hande of the wicked and deliuer me out of my feare The .xv. Chapter 1 Mardocheus moueth Hester to go in vnto the kyng and make intercession for her people 9 And she perfourmed his request 1 MArdocheus also bade Hester go in vnto the kyng and pray for her people and for her countrey 2 Remember saith he the dayes of thy lowe estate how thou wast nourished vnder my hande For Aman whiche is next vnto the kyng hath geuen sentence of death against vs 3 Call thou therefore vpon the Lorde and speake for vs vnto the king and deliuer vs from death 4 And vpon the thirde day it happened that Hester layde away the mourning garmentes and put on her glorious apparell 5 And deckt her selfe goodly after that she had called vpon God whiche is the beholder and sauiour of all thinges and toke two maydens with her
men might knowe that thankes ought to be geuen vnto thee before the sunne ryse and that thou oughtest to be worshipped before the day spring 29 For the hope of the vnthankfull shall melt away as the winter yse and flowe away as vnprofitable water ¶ The .xvij. Chapter ¶ The iudgementes of God against the wicked 1 FOr great are thy iudgmentes O Lorde and can not be expressed therefore men do erre that wyll not be refourmed by thy wysdome 2 For when the vnrighteous thought to haue thy holy people in subiection they were bounde with the bandes of darknesse and long night shut vp vnder roofes and lay there to escape the eternall prouidence 3 And whyle they thought to be hyd in the darknesse of their sinnes they were scattered abrode in the very middest of the darke couering of forgetfulnesse put to horrible feare and wonderouslye vexed 4 For the corner where they lay hyd might not kepe them from feare because the soundes came rounde about them and vexed them yea many terrible and straunge visions appeared vnto them 5 No power of the fire might geue them light neither might the cleare flambes of the starres lighteÌ the horrible night 6 But there appeared vnto them a sodayne fire only very dreadfull At the which sight wherin they sawe nothing throughly they were so afrayde that they thought the thing whiche they sawe to be the more fearefull 7 As for the illusions of the magicall art they came to naught and it was a most shamefull reproche of the pryde that they had of their owne wysdome 8 For they that promised to driue away the feares and troubles from the sicke soule were sicke them selues with feare worthy to be laughed at 9 For though no terrible thing did feare them yet were they afrayde at the beastes whiche passed by them and at the hissing of the serpentes 10 Insomuch that with trembling they sowned and sayde they sawe not the ayre whiche no man yet may escape 11 For malice is a dreadfull thing that is condempned by his owne witnesse and beyng pressed with conscience it euer suspecteth cruel thinges 12 For feare is nothing els but a betraying of the succours whiche reason offereth 13 And looke howe muche the lesse his hope is within the greater doth he recount his ignoraunce of that cause that bryngeth the torment 14 But they that dyd indure the night that in deede was intollerable and that came from the dungeons of intollerable hell sleping the same sleepe 15 Were somtimes chased with monsterous apparitions and sometymes they sowned as their owne soules had betrayed them for an hastie feare that was not looked for came vpon them 16 And thus whosoeuer was there fallen he was in pryson but without chaines 17 For whether a man had occupied husbandrie or had ben an heardman or labourer in the woods if he were taken he suffred intollerable necessitie 18 For they were all bounde with one chayne of darknesse whether it were a blasing winde or a sweete song of the byrdes among the thicke braunches of the trees or the vehemencie of hastie running water 19 Or great noyse of the falling downe of stones or the runnyng of playing beastes whiche they sawe not or the mightie noyse of roaring wilde beastes or the sounde that aunswered agayne in the holonesse of mountaynes these terrible thinges made them sowne for very feare 20 For all the earth shined with cleare light and no man was hindered in his labour 21 Onlye vpon them there fell a heauie night an image of darknesse that was to come vpon them Yea they were vnto them selues more heauie then darknesse ¶ The .xviij. Chapter 3 The firie piller that the Israelites had in Egypt 8 The deliueraunce of the faythfull 10 The Lorde smote the Egyptians 20 The sinne of the people in the wyldernesse 21 Aaron stoode betweene the liuing and the dead with his censure 1 NEuerthelesse thy saintes had a very great light whose voyce they hearing and not seeing their figure for that they suffred not the same thinges they thought them blessed 2 And for that they dyd not hurt them nowe of whom they had ben wronged before they thanked them besought them pardon of that they had ben enemies 3 Therfore thou gauest them a burning piller of fire to leade them in the vnknowen way and the sunne not to hurt them in their honourable iourney 4 But reason it was that they shoulde leese the light and be put in the pryson of darknesse whiche had kept thy chyldren shut vp by whom the vncorrupt light of the lawe was to be geuen vnto the worlde 5 After when they thought to slay the babes of the saintes one chylde beyng cast out and preserued to reproue them thou tokest away the whole multitude of their chyldren and destroyedst them altogether in a mightie water 6 Of that night were our fathers certified afore that they knowing vnto what othes they had geuen credence might be of good cheare 7 Thus thy people receaued the health of the righteous but the vngodly were destroyed 8 For like as thou hast reuenged our enemies so hast thou promoted vs whom thou hast called 9 For the righteous chyldren of the good men offred secretely and made a godly lawe with one consent that the saintes should in like maner receaue together both good and euil and that the fathers nowe should first sing prayses 10 But there was hearde a disagreing voyce of the enemies and there was a miserable lamentation for children that were bewayled 11 The maister and the seruaunt were punished after one maner and lyke as the king so suffred the common people 12 So they had innumerable that dyed with one kinde of death altogether neither were the liuing sufficient to bury the dead for in the twinckling of an eye the noblest ofspring of them was destroyed 13 For whereas they woulde discredite all thinges by reason of the inchauntmentes in the destruction of the first borne they acknowledged that this people was the chyldren of God 14 For whyle all thinges were styl in scilence and when the night was in the middest of her course thy almightie worde O Lorde lept downe from heauen out of thy royall trone 15 As a rough man of warre in the middest of the land that was destroyed 16 And brought thyne vnfayned commaundement as a sharpe sworde and standing vp filled all thinges with death yea it stoode vpon the earth and reached vnto the heauen 17 Then the sightes of the euyl dreames vexed them sodainly and fearefulnesse came vpon them vnawares 18 Then lay there one here another there halfe dead halfe quicke and shewed the cause of his death 19 For the visions that vexed them shewed them these thinges afore that they might not be ignoraunt wherefore they perished 20 Yea the temptation of death touched the righteous also and among the
together from the east and west reioycing in the worde of the holy one vnto the honour of God The .v. Chapter 1 Hierusalem is moued vnto gladnesse for the returne of her people and vnder the figure therof the church 1 PVT of thy mourning clothes O Hierusalem and thy sorow decke thee with the worship honour that commeth vnto thee from God with euerlasting glorie 2 God shal put the garment of righteousnesse vpon thee set a crowne of euerlasting worship vpon thyne head 3 For vpon thee will God declare his brightnesse that is vnder the heauen 4 Yea an euerlasting name shall be geuen thee of God with peace of righteousnesse and the honour of gods feare 5 Arise O Hierusalem stande vp on hye loke about thee towarde the east and beholde thy children gathered from the cast vnto the west whiche reioyce in the holy worde hauing God in remembraunce 6 They departed from thee on foote and were led away of their enemies but now shall the Lorde bring them caryed with honour as chyldren of the kingdome 7 For God is purposed to bring downe al stout mountaynes yea all hie rockes to fill the valleys and so to make them euen with the ground that Israel may be diligent to liue vnto the honour of God 8 The woods all pleasaunt trees shall ouershadowe Israel at the commaundement of God 9 For hyther shal God bring Israel with ioyfull mirth and in the light of his maiestie with the mercie and righteousnesse that commeth of him selfe The .vi. Chapter A copie of the epistle that Ieremie sent vnto the Iewes whiche were led away prisoners by the king of Babylon wherin he certifieth them of the thing that was commaunded him of God 1 BEcause of the sinnes that ye haue done against God ye shal be led away captiue vnto Babylon euen of Nabuchodonozor the king of Babylon 2 So when ye be come into Babylon ye shall remayne there many yeres and for a long season namely seuen generations and after that will I bring you away peaceably from thence 3 Nowe shall ye see in Babylon gods of golde of siluer of wood and of stone borne vpon mens shoulders to cast out a fearfulnesse before the heathen 4 But loke that ye do not as the other be not ye afraide let not the feare of them ouercome you 5 Therfore when ye see the multitude of people worshipping them behynde and before say ye in your heartes O Lorde it is thou that oughtest only to be worshipped 6 Myne angell also shal be with you and I my selfe will care for your soules 7 As for the timber of those gods the carpenter hath pullished them yea gilted be they and layed ouer with siluer yet are they but vayne thinges and can not speake 8 Like as a wench that loueth paramours is trimly dect euen so are these made and hanged with golde 9 Crownes of golde veryly haue their gods vpon their heades so the priestes them selues take golde and siluer from them and put it to their owne vses 10 Yea they geue of the same vnto harlottes trimme their whores withall againe they take it from the whores and decke their gods therwith 11 Yet can not these gods deliuer them selues from rust and mothes 12 When they haue couered them with clothing of purple they wype their faces for the dust of the temple whereof there is much among them 13 One hath a scepter in his hande as though he were iudge of the countrey yet can he not slay such as offende hym 14 An other hath a sworde or an axe in his hand for al that he is neither able to defende hym selfe from battayle nor from murtherers 15 By this ye may vnderstande that they be no gods therefore see that ye neither worship them nor feare them 16 For like as a vessell that a man vseth is nothing worth when it is broken euen so is it with their gods When they be set vp in the temple their eyes be ful of dust thorowe the feete of those that come in 17 And like as the doores are shut in round about vpon hym that hath offended the king or as it were a dead body kept beside the graue Euen so the priestes kepe the doores with barres lockes lest their gods be spoyled with robbers 18 They set vp candels before them yea veryly and that many whereof they can not see one but euen as blockes so stande they in the temple 19 It is sayd that the serpentes wormes whiche come of the earth gnawe out their hartes eating them their clothes also and yet they feele it not 20 Their faces are blacke thorowe the smoke that is in the temple 21 The owles swalowes and byrdes flee vpon them yea and the cattes run ouer their heades 22 By this ye may be sure that they are not gods therfore feare them not 23 The golde that they haue is to make them beautifull for all that except some body dight of their rust they wil geue no shine and when they were cast into a fourme they felt it not 24 They are bought for money and haue no breath of lyfe within them 25 They must be borne vpon mens shoulders as those that haue no feete wherby they declare vnto men that they be nothing worth confounded be they then that worship them 26 For if they fall to the ground they can not rise vp againe of them selues Yea though one helpe them vp and set them right yet are they not able to stande alone but must haue proppes set vnder them like dead men 27 As for the thing that is offred vnto them their priestes sell it abuse it yea the priestes wyues take thereof but vnto the sicke poore they geue nothing of it 28 The women with childe and the menstruous lay handes of their offringes By this ye may be sure that they are no gods therefore be not ye afrayde of them 29 From whence commmeth it then that they be called gods the women sit before the gods of siluer golde and wood 30 And the priestes sit in their temples hauing open clothes whose heades and beardes are shauen and haue nothing vpon their heades 31 Roaring and crying vpon their gods as men do at the feast when one is dead 32 The priestes also take away the garmentes of the images and decke their wyues and children withall 33 Whether it be good or euyll that any man do vnto them they are not able to recompence it they can neither set vp a king nor put him downe 34 In like maner they may neither geue riches nor rewarde euyll though a man make a vow vnto them and kepe it not they will not require it 35 They can saue no man from death neither deliuer the weake from the mightie 36 They can not restore a blind man to his sight nor helpe any man at his neede 37 They can shewe no mercie to the
turned againe in all the haste and the elders that is the principall heades saide vnto him Come sit downe here among vs and shewe vs this matter seeing God hath geueÌ thee as great honour as an elder 51 And Daniel saide vnto them put these two asyde one from an other and then shall I examine them 52 When they were put asunder one from an other he called one of them and saide vnto him O thou olde cankarde carle that hast vsed thy wickednes so long thyne vngratious deedes which thou hast done afore are now come to light 53 For thou hast geuen false iudgementes thou hast oppressed the innocent and letten the giltie go free where as yet the Lorde saith The innocent and righteous see thou slay not 54 Well then if thou hast seene her tel me vnder what tree sawest thou them companying together He aunswered vnder a Mulbery tree 55 And Daniel saide Very well nowe thou lyest euen vpon thyne head lo the messenger of the Lorde hath receaued the sentence of him to cut thee in two 56 Then put he him aside and called for the other and saide vnto him O thou seede of Chanaan but not of Iuda fairenes hath deceaued thee and lust hath subuerted thyne heart 57 Thus dealt ye afore with the daughters of Israel and they for feare consented vnto you but the daughter of Iuda would not abide your wickednes 58 Now tel me then vnder what tree diddest thou take them companying together He aunswered vnder a Pomegranate tree 59 Then saide Daniel vnto him Very well nowe thou lyest also euen vpon thyne head the messenger of the Lord standeth wayting with the sword to cut thee in two and slay you both 60 With that all the whole multitude gaue a great shoute and praysed God which alway deliuered them that put their trust in him 61 And they came vpon the two elders whom Daniel had conuict with their owne mouth that they had geuen false witnesse 62 And dealt with them euen lykewyse as they woulde haue done with their neighbours yea they did according to the law of Moyses and put them to death Thus the innocent blood was saued the same day 63 Then Helcias and his wyfe praysed God for their daughter Susanna with Ioacim her husband and al the kinred that there was no dishonestie founde in her 64 From that day foorth was Daniel had in great reputation in the sight of the people 65 And king Astyages was layde with his fathers and Cyrus of Persia raigned in his steede ¶ The ende of the story of Susanna ¶ The story of Bel and of the Dragon which is the fourteenth Chapter of Daniel after the Latine 1 DAniel did eate at the kinges table and was had in reuerence aboue all his friendes 2 There was at BabyloÌ an image called Bel and there were spent vpon him euery day twelue cakes fourtie sheepe and sixe great pottes of wine 3 Him did the king worship him selfe and went dayly to honour him but Daniel worshipped his owne God And the king saide vnto him why doest not thou worship Bel 4 He aunswered and saide * Because I may not worship thinges that be made with handes but the liuing God which made heauen and earth and hath power vpon all fleshe 5 The king said vnto him Thinkest thou not that Bel is a lyuing God or seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh euery day 6 Daniel smyled and saide O king deceaue not thy selfe for this is but made of clay within and of brasse without neither eateth he euer any thing 7 Then the king was wroth and called for his priestes and saide vnto them If ye tell me not who is this that eateth vp these expences ye shall dye 8 But if ye can certifie me that Bel eateth them then Daniel shall dye for he hath spoken blasphemie against Bel. And Daniel said vnto the king Let it so be according as thou hast saide 9 The priestes of Bel were threescore and ten besides their wyues and children And the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel. 01 So Bels priestes saide Lo we wyl go out set thou the meate there O king and poure in the wine then shut the doore fast and seale it with thyne owne signet 11 And to morowe when thou commest in if thou findest not that Bel hath eaten vp all we wyll suffer death or els Daniel that hath lyed vpon vs. 12 The priestes thought them selues sure inough for vnder the aulter they had made a priuy entraunce and there went they in euer and did eate vp what there was 13 So when they were gone foorth the king set meates before Bel Now Daniel had commaunded his seruauntes to bring asshes these he sifted throughout all the temple that the king might see then went they out and sparred the doore scaling it with the kinges signet and so departed 14 In the night came the priestes with their wyues and children as they were wont to do and did eate and drinke vp all 15 In the morning betimes at the breake of the day the king arose and Daniel with him 16 And the king said Daniel are the scales whole yet He aunswered yea O king they be whole 17 Now assoone as he had opened the doore the king loked vnto the aulter cryed with a loude voyce Great art thou O Bel and with thee is no deceite 18 Then laughed Daniel and held the king that he should not go in and saide Beholde the pauement marke well whose footesteps are these 19 The king saide I see the footesteps of men women and children 20 Therefore the king was angry and toke the priestes with their wyues and children and they shewed him the priuie doores where they came in and dyd eate vp such thinges as were vpon the aulter 21 For the which cause the king slue theÌ and deliuered Bel into Daniels power which destroyed him and his temple 22 And in that same place there was a great Dragon which they of Babylon worshipped 23 And the king said vnto Daniel Sayest thou that this is but a god of brasse also Lo he lyueth he eateth drinketh so that thou canst not say that he is no lyuing God therfore worship him 24 Daniel saide vnto the king I wyll worship the Lorde my God * he is the true lyuing God as for this he is not the God of lyfe 25 But geue me leaue O king and I shal destroy this Dragon without sworde or staffe The king said I geue thee leaue 26 Then Daniel toke pitch fat and heary wooll and did seeth them together and made lumpes thereof this he put in the Dragons mouth and so the Dragon burst in sunder And Daniel saide Lo there is he whom ye worshipped 27 When they of Babylon heard that they toke great indignation and gathered them together against the king saying The king is become a Iewe and he hath
Nicanor goeth about to come vpon Iudas on the Sabbath day 5 The blasphemie of Nicanor 14 Machabeus expounding vnto the Iewes the vision boldeneth their heartes 21 The prayer of Machabeus 30 After the hoast of Nicanor is once ouercome Machabeus commaundeth his head his handes to be cut of and his tongue to be geuen vnto foules 1 NOwe when Nicanor knew that Iudas and his company were in the countrey of Samaria he thought with al his power to strike a fielde with him vpon a Sabbath day 2 Neuerthelesse the Iewes that were compelled to go with him saide O do not so cruelly and vnkindly but halowe the Sabbath day and worshippe him that seeth all thinges 3 For all this yet saide the vngratious person Is there a mightie one in heauen that commaunded the Sabbath day to be kept 4 And when they saide yea the lyuing God the mightie Lord in heauen commaunded the seuenth day to be kept 5 He saide And I am mightie vpon earth to commaunde them for to arme them selues to perfourme the kinges busynesse Notwithstanding he might not haue his purpose 6 Nicanor had deuised with great pride to ouercome Iudas and to bring away the victory 7 But Machabeus had euer a fast confidence and a perfect hope in God that he would helpe him 8 And exhorted his people not to be afrayde at the comming of the heathen but alway to remember the helpe that had ben shewed vnto them from heauen yea and to be sure now also that almightie God would geue them the victorie 9 He spake vnto them out of the lawe and prophetes putting them in remembraunce of the battailes that they had striken afore and made them to be of good courage 10 So when their heartes were pluckt vp he shewed them also the deceitefulnesse of the heathen and how they woulde kepe no couenaunt nor oth 11 Thus he weaponed them not with the armour of shielde and speare but with wholsome wordes and exhortations he shewed them a dreame also wherethrough he made them all glad 12 Which was this He thought that he saw Onias which had ben hie priest a vertuous and louing man sad and of honest conuersation well spoken and one that had ben exercised in godlines from a childe holding vp his handes toward heauen and praying for his people 13 After this there appeared vnto him another man which was aged honorable and glorious 14 And Onias saide This is a louer of the brethren and of the people of Israel this is he that prayeth much for the people and for all the holy citie Ieremie the prophete of God 15 He thought also that Ieremie helde out his right hande and gaue vnto Iudas a sword of golde saying 16 Take this holy sworde a gift from God wherwith thou shalt smite downe the enemies of the people of Israel 17 And so they were well comforted through the wordes of Iudas whiche were very sweete and able to stirre vp their courage and toke courage vnto them so that the young men were determined in their mindes to fight and to abide stifly at it insomuch that in the thinges which they toke in hande their boldnesse shewed the same because the holy citie the sanctuary and the temple were in perill 18 For the which they toke more care then for their wyues children brethren and kinsfolkes 19 Againe they that were in the citie were most carefull for those which were to fight 20 Now when they were all in a hope that the iudgement of the matter was at hande and the enemies drue nye the hoast being set in aray the Elephantes and horsemen euery one standing in his place 21 Machabeus considering the coÌming of the multitude the ordinaunce of dâuers weapons the cruelnes of ãâã beastes helde vp his handes towâ heauen calling vpon the Lorde that doth wonders which geueth not the victory after the multitude of weapons and power of the hoaste but to them that please him according to his owne wyll 22 Therefore in his prayer he saide these wordes O Lorde thou that diddest send thyne angell in the time of Ezekiah king of Iuda and in the hoast of Sennacherib sluest an hundred fourscore and fiue thousand 23 Send now also thy good angel before vs O Lorde of heauens in the fearefulnesse and dreade of thy mightie arme 24 That they which come against thy holy people to blaspheme them may be afrayd And so he made an ende of his wordes 25 Then Nicanor they that were with him drue nye with trumpettes showtinges for ioy 26 But Iudas and his company with prayer and calling vpon God encountred with the enemies 27 With their handes they smote but with their heartes they prayed vnto the Lorde and slue no lesse then thirtie and fiue thousand men For through the present helpe of God they were gloriously comforted 28 Now when they left of and were turning againe with ioy they vnderstoode that Nicanor him selfe was slaine with the other for all his armour 29 Then they gaue a great shout and a crye praysing the almightie Lorde in their owne language 30 And Iudas which was euer redie to spend his body and lyfe for his citezins coÌmaunded to smite of Nicanors head with his arme and hande and to be brought to Hierusalem 31 When he came there he called all the people the priestes to the aulter with those that were in the castle 32 And shewed them Nicanors head and his wicked hande which he had presumptuously holden vp against the temple of God 33 He caused the tongue also of that vngodly Nicanor to be cut in litle peeces and to be cast to the foules and that cruel mans hande to be hanged vp before the temple 34 So euery man gaue thankes vnto the Lorde saying Blessed be he that hath kept his place vndefiled 35 As for Nicanors head he hanged it vp vpon the hie castle for an euident and playne token of the helpe of God 36 And so they agreed al together to kepe that day holy namely the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar 37 Which in the Syrians language is called the next day before Mardocheus day 38 Thus was Nicanor slaine and from that time foorth the Iewes had the citie in possession and here wyll I nowe make an ende 39 If I haue done well and as the storie required it is the thing that I desired but if I haue spoken sclenderly barely I haue done that I coulde 40 For as it is hurtfull to drinke wine alone and then againe water as wine tempred with water is pleasaunt deliteth the taste so the setting out of the matter delighteth the eare of them that reade the story And here shal be the ende ¶ The ende of the second booke of the Machabees J. N. ¶ The description of the holy lande conteyning the places mentioned in the foure Euangelistes with other places about the sea coastes wherein may be seene the wayes and iourneyes of
24 and wylleth the hearers of his worde to be doers of the same 1 IVdge not that ye be not iudged 2 For with what iudgement ye iudge ye shal be iudged And with what measure ye meate it shal be measured to you agayne 3 Why seest thou a mote in thy brothers eye but perceiuest not the beame that is in thyne owne eye 4 Or howe sayest thou to thy brother suffer me I wyll plucke out a mote out of thyne eye and beholde a beame is in thyne owne eye 5 Thou hypocrite first caste out the beame out of thine owne eye and then shalt thou see clearely to plucke out the mote out of thy brothers eye 6 Geue not that which is holy vnto dogges neyther caste ye your pearles before swyne lest they treade them vnder their feete and turning agayne all to rent you 7 Aske and it shal be geuen you seke and ye shall fynde knocke and it shal be opened vnto you 8 For he that asketh receaueth and he that seketh fyndeth and to hym that knocketh it shal be opened 9 Is there any among you which yf his sonne aske hym bread wyll geue hym a stone 10 Or yf he aske fyshe wyll he geue hym a serpent 11 If ye then beyng euyll knowe to geue your chyldren good gyftes howe much more shall your father which is in heauen geue good thynges to them that aske hym 12 Therfore all thynges whatsoeuer ye woulde that men shoulde do to you do ye euen so to them For this is the lawe and the prophetes 13 Enter in at the strayte gate For wyde is the gate and brode is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in therat 14 Because strayte is the gate and narowe is the way which leadeth vnto lyfe and fewe there be that fynde it 15 â Beware of false prophetes which come to you in sheepes clothyng but inwardly they are rauenyng woolfes 16 Ye shall knowe them by theyr fruites Do men gather grapes of thornes or fygges of thystles 17 Euen so euery good tree bryngeth foorth good fruite But a corrupt tree bryngeth foorth euyll fruite 18 A good tree can not bryng foorth bad fruite neither can a bad tree bryng foorth good fruite 19 Euery tree that bryngeth not foorth good fruite is hewen downe and cast into the fyre 20 Wherfore by theyr fruites ye shall knowe them 21 Not euery one that sayeth vnto me Lorde Lorde shall enter into the kyngdome of heauen but he that doeth the wyll of my father which is in heauen 22 Many wyll say to me in that day Lorde Lorde haue we not prophesied thorowe thy name and thorowe thy name haue cast out deuyls done many great workes thorowe thy name 23 And then wyll I confesse vnto them I neuer knewe you Depart from me ye that worke iniquitie 24 Therfore whosoeuer heareth of me these sayinges and doeth the same I wyll lyken hym vnto a wyse man which buylt his house vpon a rocke 25 And the rayne descended and the fluddes came and the wyndes blewe and beat vpon that house and it fell not because it was grounded on a rocke 26 And euery one that heareth of me these sayinges and doeth them not shal be lykened vnto a foolyshe man which buylt his house vpon the sande 27 And the rayne descended and the fluddes came and the wyndes blewe and beat vpon that house and it fell and great was the fall of it 28 And it came to passe that when Iesus had ended these sayinges the people were astonied at his doctrine 29 For he taught them as one hauyng power and not as the Scribes ⧠The .viij. Chapter ¶ 2 Christe clenseth the leper 5 healeth the captaynes seruaunt and many other diseases 14 helpeth Peters mother in lawe 24 stylleth the sea and the wynde 28 and dryueth the deuyls out of the possessed into the swyne 1 WHEN he was come downe froÌ the mountayne great multitudes folowed hym 2 And beholde there came a leper and worshipped hym saying Lorde yf thou wylt thou canst make me cleane 3 And Iesus put foorth his hande and touched hym saying I wyll be thou cleane And immediatlye his leprosie was clensed 4 And Iesus sayth vnto hym See thou tell no man but go and shewe thy selfe to the priest and offer the gift that Moyses commaunded for a witnes vnto them â 5 â And when Iesus was entred into Capernaum there came vnto hym a Centurion besechyng hym 6 And saying Lorde my seruaunt lyeth at home sicke of the paulsie greeuously payned 7 And Iesus sayth When I come I wyll heale hym 8 The Centurion aunswered sayde Lorde I am not worthy that thou shouldest come vnder my roofe but speake the worde only my seruaunt shal be healed 9 For I also my selfe am vnder aucthoritie and haue souldiers vnder me and I say to this man go and he goeth and to another come and he commeth and to my seruaunt do this and he doth it 10 When Iesus hearde him he marueyled sayde to them that folowed him Veryly I say vnto you I haue not founde so great fayth in Israel 11 I say vnto you that many shall come from the east and west and shall rest with Abraham and Isaac Iacob in the kyngdome of heauen 12 But the chyldren of the kyngdome shal be caste out into vtter darcknesse there shal be wepyng and gnashyng of teeth 13 And Iesus sayde vnto the Centurion Go thy way and as thou hast beleued so be it vnto thee And his seruaunt was healed in the selfe same houre 14 And when Iesus was come into Peters house he sawe his wyues mother layed and sicke of a feuer 15 And he touched her hande and the feuer left her and she arose and ministred vnto them 16 When the euen was come they brought vnto hym many that were possessed with deuyls and he cast out the spirites with a worde and healed all that were sicke 17 That it myght be fulfylled which was spoken by Esayas the prophete saying He toke on hym our infirmities and bare our sicknesses 18 When Iesus sawe great multitudes about hym he commaunded that they shoulde go ouer the water 19 And a certayne Scribe came sayde vnto hym Maister I wyll folowe thee whyther soeuer thou goest 20 And Iesus sayth vnto hym The foxes haue holes and the birdes of the ayre haue nestes but the sonne of man hath not where to rest his head 21 And another of the number of his disciples sayde vnto hym Lorde suffer me first to go and bury my father 22 But Iesus sayde vnto hym Folowe me and let the dead bury theyr dead 23 â And when he entred into a shippe his disciples folowed hym 24 And beholde there arose a great tempest in the sea in so much that the shippe was couered with waues but he was a slepe 25
into a shippe and to go before hym vnto the other syde whyle he sent the people away 23 And when the people were sent away he went vp into a mountayne alone to pray And when nyght was come he was there hym selfe alone 24 But the shippe was nowe in the middes of the sea was tost with waues for it was a contrary wynde 25 And in the fourth watch of the nyght Iesus went vnto them walkyng on the sea 26 And when the disciples sawe hym walking on the sea they were troubled saying it is a spirite and they cryed out for feare 27 But strayght way Iesus spake vnto them saying be of good cheare it is I be not afrayde 28 Peter aunswered hym and sayde Lorde yf it be thou byd me come vnto thee on the water 29 And he sayde come And when Peter was come downe out of the shippe he walked on the water to go to Iesus 30 But when he sawe a myghty wynde he was afrayde And when he began to sincke he cryed saying Lorde saue me 31 And immediatly Iesus stretched foorth his hande and caught hym and sayde vnto hym O thou of litle fayth wherefore diddest thou doubt 32 And when they were come into the shippe the wynde ceassed 33 Then they that were in the shippe came and worshypped hym saying of a trueth thou art the sonne of God 34 And when they were gone ouer they came into the lande of Gennezaret 35 And when the men of that place had knowledge of hym they sent out into all that countrey rounde about and brought vnto hym all that were sicke 36 And besought hym that they myght touche the hemme of his garment only And as many as touched it were made whole ¶ The .xv. Chapter ¶ 3 Christe excuseth his disciples and rebuketh the Scribes and Pharisees for transgressyng Gods commaundement through their owne traditions is the thyng that goeth into the mouth defyleth not the man 22 he delyuereth the woman of Cananees daughter 30 healeth the multitude 36 and with seuen Ioaues and a fewe litle fisshes feedeth foure thousande men besyde women and chyldren 1 THen came to Iesus Scribes and Pharisees which were come from Hierusalem saying 2 Why do thy disciples transgresse the traditions of the elders for they washe not their handes when they eate bread 3 But he aunswered and sayde vnto them why do ye also transgresse the commaundement of God by your tradition 4 For God coÌmaunded saying honour father and mother and he that curseth father or mother let hym dye the death 5 But ye say whosoeuer shall say to father or mother by the gyft that is offered of me thou shalt be helped 6 And so shall he not honour his father or his mother And thus haue ye made the commaundement of God of none effect by your tradition 7 Hypocrites full well dyd Esayas prophecie of you saying 8 This people draweth nye vnto me with their mouth and honoureth me with their lippes howbeit their hearts are farre from me 9 But in vayne do they worshippe me teachyng doctrine preceptes of men 10 And he called the people to hym and sayde vnto them heare vnderstande 11 That which goeth into the mouth defyleth not the man but that which commeth out of the mouth defyleth the man 12 Then came his disciples and sayde vnto hym knowest thou not that the Pharisees were offended after they hearde this saying 13 But he aunswered and sayde Euery plantyng which my heauenly father hath not planted shal be rooted vp 14 Let them alone they be the blynde leaders of the blynde If the blynde leade the blynde both shall fall into the dytche 15 Then aunswered Peter and sayde vnto hym Declare vnto vs this parable 16 Iesus sayde Are ye also without vnderstandyng 17 Do not ye yet vnderstande that whatsoeuer entreth in at the mouth goeth into the belly and is cast out into the draught 18 But those thynges which proceade out of the mouth come foorth from the heart and they defyle the man 19 For out of the heart proceade euyll thoughtes murders adulteries whordomes theftes false witnesse blasphemyes 20 These are the thynges which defyle a man But to eate with vnwasshen handes defyleth not a man â 21 â And Iesus went thence and departed into the coastes of Tyre and Sidon 22 And beholde a woman of the Chananites which came out of the same coastes cryed vnto hym saying Haue mercie on me O Lorde thou sonne of Dauid My daughter is greeuously vexed with a deuyll 23 But he aunswered her not a worde and his disciples came and besought hym saying sende her away for she cryeth after vs. 24 But he aunswered and sayde I am not sent but vnto the lost sheepe of the house of Israel 25 Then came she and worshipped him saying Lorde helpe me 26 He aunswered and sayde it is not meete to take the chyldrens bread and to cast it to litle dogges 27 She aunswered and sayde trueth Lorde and yet litle dogges eate of the crummes which fall froÌ their maisters table 28 Then Iesus aunswered and sayde vnto her O woman great is thy fayth be it vnto thee euen as thou wylt And her daughter was made whole euen from that same tyme. â 29 And Iesus went from thence and came nye vnto the sea of Galilee and went vp into a mountayne and sate downe there 30 And great multitudes came vnto him hauyng with them those that were lame blynde dumbe maymed other many and cast them downe at Iesus feete And he healed them 31 In so much that the people wondred when they sawe the dumbe speake the maymed to be whole the lame to walke and the blynde to see And they glorified the God of Israel 32 Then Iesus called his disciples vnto hym and sayde I haue compassion on the people because they continue with me nowe three dayes and haue nothing to eate and I wyll not let them depart fastyng lest they faynt in the way 33 And his disciples say vnto hym whence shoulde we get so much bread in the wyldernesse as to suffise so great a multitude 34 And Iesus sayeth vnto them howe many loaues haue ye And they say seuen and a fewe litle fisshes 35 And he commaunded the people to sit downe on the grounde 36 And toke the seuen loaues and the fisshes and after that he had geuen thankes he brake them and gaue to his disciples and the disciples gaue them to the people 37 And they dyd all eate and were suffised And they toke vp of the broken meate that was left seuen baskets full 38 And yet they that did eate were foure thousande men besyde women and chyldren 39 And he sent away the people and toke shippe and came into the parties of Magdala ⧠The .xvj. Chapter ¶ 1 The Pharisees require a token 6 Iesus warneth his disciples of the Pharisees doctrine 16 The confession of Peter 19 the keyes of heauen 24 the faythfull must
Ananias with Saphyra his wyfe solde a possession 2 And kept away part of the price his wyfe also beyng of counsell and brought a certayne part and layde it downe at the Apostles feete 3 But Peter sayde Ananias howe is it that Satan hath fylled thyne heart that thou shouldest lye vnto the holy ghost and kepe away part of the price of the lande 4 Whyles it remayned was it not thyne owne And after it was solde was it not in thyne owne power Why haste thou conceaued this thyng in thyne heart Thou hast not lyed vnto men but vnto God 5 When Ananias hearde these wordes he fell downe and gaue vp the ghost And great feare came on all them that hearde these thynges 6 And the young men rose vp and put hym a part and caryed hym out and buryed hym 7 And it came to passe that as it were about the space of three houres after his wyfe came in ignoraunt of that which was done 8 And Peter sayde vnto her Tell me Solde ye not the lande for so much And she sayde Yea for so much 9 Then Peter sayde vnto her Why haue ye agreed together to tempt the spirite of the Lorde Beholde the feete of theÌ which haue buried thy husbande are at the doore and shall cary thee out 10 Then fell she downe strayghtway at his feete and yelded vp the ghost And the young men came in and founde her dead and caryed her out and buryed her by her husbande 11 And great feare came vpon all the Churche and vpon as many as hearde these thynges 12 And by the handes of the Apostles were many signes wonders shewed among the people And they were all together with one accord in Solomons porche 13 And of other durst no man ioyne hym selfe to them neuerthelesse the people magnified them 14 The number of them that beleued in the Lorde both of men and women grewe more and more 15 In so much that they brought the sicke into the streates layde theÌ on beddes and couches that at the least way the shadowe of Peter when he came by myght shadowe some of them 16 There came also a multitude of the cities rounde about vnto Hierusalem bryngyng sicke folkes and them which were vexed with vncleane spirites And they were healed euery one 17 Then the chiefe priest rose vp and all they that were with hym which is the sect of the Saducees and were full of indignation 18 And layed handes on the Apostles and put them in the common prison 19 But the Angel of the Lorde by nyght opened the prison doores and brought them foorth and sayde 20 Go and stande speake in the temple to the people all the wordes of this lyfe 21 And when they hearde that they entred into the temple early in y e mornyng and taught But the chiefe priest came and they that were with hym called a counsayle together and all the elders of the chyldren of Israel and sent to the pryson to fet them 22 But when the officers came founde them not in the pryson they returned and tolde 23 Saying The pryson truely founde we shut with all diligence the kepers standyng without before the doores But when we had opened we founde no man within 24 Then when the chiefe priest and the ruler of the temple and the hye priestes hearde these thynges they doubted of them whervnto this woulde growe 25 Then came one and shewed them saying Beholde the men that ye put in pryson stande in the temple and teache the people 26 Then went the ruler of the temple with the officers and brought them without violence For they feared the people lest they should haue ben stoned 27 And when they had brought them they set them before the counsell And the chiefe priest asked them 28 Saying dyd not we strayghtly commaunde you that ye shoulde not teache in this name And beholde ye haue fylled Hierusalem with your doctrine and intende to bryng this mans blood vpon vs. 29 Then Peter and the other Apostles aunswered and sayde We ought more to obey God then men 30 The God of our fathers raysed vp Iesus whom ye slewe hanged on tree 31 Hym hath God lyft vp with his ryght hande to be a prince and a sauiour for to geue repentaunce to Israel and forgeuenesse of sinnes 32 And we are recordes of these thynges which we say so is also the holy ghost whom God hath geuen to them that obey hym 33 When they hearde that they claue a sunder and sought meanes to slea theÌ 34 Then stoode there vp one in the counsell a pharisee named Gamaliel a doctour of lawe had in reputation among all the people and commaunded the Apostles to go asyde a litle space 35 And sayde vnto them Ye men of Israel take heede to your selues what ye entende to do as touchyng these men 36 For before these dayes rose vp one Theudas boastyng him selfe to whom resorted a number of men about a foure hundred which was slayne and they all which beleued hym were scattered abrode and brought to naught 37 After this man arose vp one Iudas of Galilee in the dayes of tribute and drewe away much people after hym He also perished and all euen as many as hearkened to hym were scattered abrode 38 And nowe I saye vnto you refrayne your selues froÌ these men and let them alone For yf this counsell or this worke be of men it wyll come to naught 39 But and yf it be of God ye can not destroy it lest haply ye be founde to stryue agaynst God 40 And to hym agreed the other And when they had called the Apostles they beat them and commaunded that they shoulde not speake in the name of Iesu and let them go 41 And they departed from the counsell reioycing that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his name 42 And dayly in the temple and in euery house they ceassed not to teach preach Iesus Christe ¶ The .vj. Chapter 3 Seuen deacons are ordeyned in the Churche 11 Steuen is accused 1 AND in those dayes when the number of y e disciples grewe there arose a grudge among the Grekes agaynst y e Hebrues because their wydowes were despysed in the dayly ministerie 2 Then the twelue called the multitude of the disciples together and sayde It is not good that we shoulde leaue the worde of God and serue tables 3 Wherfore brethren loke ye out among you seuen men of honest report full of the holy ghost and wysedome to whoÌ we may commit this busynesse 4 But we wyll geue our selues continually to prayer and to the ministerie of the worde 5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude And they chose Steuen a man full of fayth and of the holy ghost and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor Timon and Permenas and Nicolas a conuert of Antioche 6 These they set before the apostles and
prepared to go into Macedonia beyng certified that y e Lorde had called vs for to preache the Gospel vnto them 11 When we loosed foorth then from Troada we came with a strayght course to Samothracia and the next day to Neapolis 12 And from thence to Philippos which is the chiefe citie in the partes of Macedonia and a free citie And we were in that citie abydyng certayne dayes 13 And on the day of the Sabbothes we went out of the citie besydes a ryuer where prayer was wont to be made And we sate downe and spake vnto the women which resorted thyther 14 And a certayne woman named Lydia a seller of purple of the citie of the Thyatirians which worshipped God gaue vs audience Whose hearte the Lorde opened that she attended vnto the thynges which Paul spake 15 And when she was baptized and her householde she besought vs saying Yf ye haue iudged me to be faythfull to the Lorde come into my house and abyde there And she constrayned vs. 16 And it came to passe as we went to prayer a certayne damsell possessed with a spirite of southsaying met vs which brought her maisters much vantage with southsaying 17 The same folowed Paul and vs and cryed saying These men are the seruauntes of the most hye God which shewe vnto vs the way of saluation 18 And this dyd she many dayes But Paul not content turned about sayde to the spirite I commaunde thee in the name of Iesu Christe that thou come out of her And he came out the same houre 19 And when her maisters sawe that the hope of their gaynes was gone they caught Paul Silas and drewe them into the market place vnto the rulers 20 And brought them to the officers saying These men trouble our citie being Iewes 21 And preache ordinaunces which are not lawfull for vs to receaue neither to obserue seeyng we are Romanes 22 And the people ran agaynst them and the officers rent their clothes and commaunded them to be beaten with roddes 23 And when they had beaten them sore they cast them into pryson commaundyng the iayler of the pryson to kepe them diligently 24 Which when he had receaued such commaundement thrust them into the inner pryson and made their feete fast in the stockes 25 And at mydnyght Paul and Silas prayed and lauded God And the prysoners hearde them 26 And sodenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundation of the pryson was shaken and immediatly all the doores opened and euery mans bandes were loosed 27 When the keper of the pryson waked out of his sleepe and sawe the pryson doores open he drewe out his sworde and woulde haue kylled hym selfe supposyng that the prysoners had ben fled 28 But Paul cryed with a loude voyce saying Do thy selfe no harme for we are all here 29 Then he called for a lyght and sprang in and came tremblyng and fell downe before Paul and Silas 30 And brought them out sayde Syrs what must I do to be saued 31 And they sayde beleue on the Lorde Iesus Christe and thou shalt be saued and thy householde 32 And they spake vnto hym the worde of the Lorde and to all that were in his house 33 And he toke them the same houre of the nyght and wasshed their woundes and was baptized hym selfe all they of his householde strayghtway 34 And when he had brought them into his house he set meat before them and ioyed that he with all his householde beleued on God 35 And when it was day the officers sent the sergeauntes saying Let these men go 36 And the keper of the pryson tolde this saying to Paul the officers haue sent worde to loose you Nowe therfore get you hence and go in peace 37 Then sayde Paul vnto them They haue beaten vs openly vncondempned beyng Romanes and haue cast vs into pryson and nowe woulde they thrust vs out priuily Nay veryly but let them come them selues and fet vs out 38 And the sergeaunts tolde these wordes vnto the officers and they feared when they hearde that they were Romanes 39 And they came and besought them and brought them out and desired theÌ to depart out of the citie 40 And they went out of the pryson and entred into the house of Lydia when they had seene the brethren they comforted them and departed ⧠The .xvij. Chapter 1 Paul commeth to Thessalonica where the Iewes set the citie in an vprore 15 Paul escapeth to Athens where he preacheth the vnknowen God 1 AS they made their iourney thorowe Amphipolis and Apollonia they came to Thessalonica where was a synagogue of the Iewes 2 And Paul as his maner was went in vnto them and three Sabboth dayes disputed with theÌ out of the scriptures 3 Openyng and alleagyng that Christ must needes haue suffred and rysen agayne from the dead and that this is Christe Iesus which I preache to you 4 And some of them beleued and ioyned with Paul and Silas and of the deuout Grekes a great multitude and of the chiefe women not a fewe 5 But the Iewes whiche beleued not moued with enuie toke vnto them certaine vagaboundes and euyll men and gathered a companie and set all the citie on a rore and made assault vnto the house of Iason sought to bryng them out to the people 6 And when they founde them not they drewe Iason and certaine brethren vnto the heades of the citie crying these that trouble the world are come hyther also 7 Whom Iason hath receaued priuily And these al do contrary to the decrees of Caesar saying that there is another kyng one Iesus 8 And they troubled the people and the officers of the citie when they hearde these thynges 9 And when they were sufficiently aunswered of Iason and of the other they let them go 10 And the brethren immediatlye sent away Paul Silas by nyght vnto Berea Which when they were come thyther they entred into the synagogue of the Iewes 11 These were the noblest of birth among them of Thessalonica which receaued the worde with all redynesse of mynde and searched the scriptures dayly whether those thynges were so 12 Therfore many of them beleued Also of honest women which were Grekes and of men not a fewe 13 But when the Iewes of Thessalonica had knowledge that y e worde of God was preached of Paul at Berea they came thyther and moued the people 14 And then immediatly the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea but Silas Timotheus abode there styll 15 And they that guyded Paul brought hym vnto Athens and receaued a commaundement vnto Silas Timotheus for to come to hym with speede went their way 16 Whyle Paul wayted for them at Athens his spirite was moued in hym when he sawe the citie geueÌ to worshippyng of idoles 17 Therfore disputed he in the synagogue with the Iewes and with the deuout persons
This saith Amen the faythfull and true witnesse the begynnyng of the creatures of God 15 I knowe thy workes that thou arte neither colde nor hotte I woulde thou were colde or hotte 16 So theÌ because thou art luke warme and neither colde nor hotte I wyll spewe thee out of my mouth 17 Because thou sayest I am riche and increased with goodes and haue neede of nothyng knowest not howe that thou art wretched and miserable and poore and blynde and naked 18 I counsel thee to bye of me gold tryed in the fyre that thou mayest be riche and whyte rayment that thou mayest be clothed that thy fylthie nakednesse do not appeare and annoynt thyne eyes with eye salue that thou mayest see 19 As many as I loue I rebuke and chasten Be feruent therfore repent 20 Beholde I stande at the doore and knocke If any man heare my voyce and open the doore I wyll come in to hym and wyll suppe with hym and he with me 21 To hym that ouercommeth wyll I graunt to sitte with me in my throne euen as I ouercame and haue sitten with my father in his throne 22 Let hym y t hath an eare heare what the spirite sayth vnto the Churches ¶ The .iiij. Chapter 1 The vision of the maiestie of God 2 He seeth the throne and one syttyng vpon it 8 and .xxiiii. seates about it with .xxiiii. elders syttyng vppon them and foure beastes praysyng God day and nyght 1 AFter this I loked and beholde a doore was open in heaueÌ and the first voyce which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me which saide Come vp hyther and I wyll shewethee thynges which must be fulfylled hereafter 2 And immediatly I was in the spirite and behold a throne was set in heauen and one sate on the throne 3 And he that sate was to loke vppon like vnto a Iasper stone and a Sardine stone and there was a raynebowe about the throne in sight like to an Emeralde 4 And about y e throne were .xxiiij. seates and vpon the seates .xxiiij. elders sitting clothed in whyte rayment and had on their heades crownes of golde 5 And out of the throne proceaded lightnynges and thundrynges and voyces and there were seueÌ lampes of fire burnyng before the throne whiche are the seuen spirites of God 6 And before the throne there was a sea of glasse lyke vnto cristall and in the myddest of the throne rounde about the throne were foure beastes full of eyes before and behynde 7 And the first beast was lyke a Lion and the seconde beast lyke a Calfe the thirde beast had a face as a Man and the fourth beast was like a fleyng Egle. 8 And the foure beastes had eche one of them sixe wynges about hym and they were full of eyes within and they had no rest day neither night saying Holy holy holy Lorde God almightie which was and is and is to come 9 And when those beastes gaue glorie and honour and thankes to hym that sate on the throne which lyueth for euer and euer 10 The xxiiij elders fell downe before him that sate on the throne and worshipped hym that lyueth for euer and cast their crownes before the throne saying 11 Thou art worthy O Lord to receaue glorie and honour and power for thou hast created all thynges and for thy pleasures sake they are were created ¶ The .v. Chapter 1 He seeth the lambe openyng the booke 8.14 and therfore the foure beastes the xxiiii elders and the angels prayse the lambe and do hym worship 9 for their redemption and other benefites 1 ANd I sawe in the right hande of hym that sate on the throne a booke written within and on the backe syde sealed with seuen seales 2 And I sawe a strong angell whiche preached with a loude voyce Who is worthy to open the booke and to loose the seales therof 3 And no man in heauen nor in earth neither vnder the earth was able to open the booke neither to loke theron 4 And I wept muche because no man was founde worthy to open to reade the booke neither to loke theron 5 And one of the elders sayde vnto me wepe not behold a Lion of the tribe of Iuda the roote of Dauid hath obteyned to open the booke and to loose the seuen seales therof 6 And I behelde and loe in the middes of the throne and of the foure beastes and in the middes of the elders stoode a lambe as though he had ben kylled hauyng seuen hornes seuen eyes whiche are the seuen spirites of God sent into all the worlde 7 And he came and toke the booke out of the right hande of him that sate vpon the throne 8 And when he had taken the booke the foure beastes and .xxiiij. elders fell downe before the lambe hauyng euery one of them harpes and golden vyals full of odours which are the prayers of saintes 9 And they song a newe song saying Thou art worthy to take the booke and to open the seales therof for thou wast kylled and hast redeemed vs to God by thy blood out of al kinrede and tongue and people and nation 10 And hast made vs vnto our God kinges and priestes and we shall raigne on the earth 11 And I beheld and I heard the voyce of many angels about the throne and about the beastes and the elders and hearde thousande thousandes 12 Saying with a loude voyce Worthy is the lambe that was kylled to receaue power and richesse and wisedome and strength and honor and glorie and blessyng 13 And all the creatures whiche are in heauen and on the earth and vnder the earth and in the sea and all that are in them hearde I saying Blessyng honour glorie and power be vnto hym that sitteth vpon the throne and vnto the lambe for euermore 14 And the foure beastes sayde Amen And the .xxiiij. elders fell vpon their faces and worshipped hym that lyueth for euermore ¶ The .vj. Chapter The lambe openeth the fire seales and many thynges folowe the openyng therof so that this conteyneth a generall prophesie to the ende of the worlde 1 AND I sawe when the lambe opened one of the seales and I heard one of the foure beastes say as it were the noyse of thunder come and see and I sawe 2 And behold there was a whyte horse and he that sate on hym had a bowe a crowne was geuen vnto hym and he went foorth conqueryng and for to ouercome 3 And when he had opened the seconde seale I hearde the seconde beast saye come and see 4 And there went out another horse that was redde and power was geuen to him that sate theron to take peace from the earth and that they should kyll one another and there was geuen vnto hym a great sworde 5 And when he had opened the thirde seale I hearde the third beast say come and see And I behelde and loe a blacke horse and he
for it is geuen vnto the gentiles and the holy citie shall they treade vnder foote fourtie and two monethes 3 And I wyl geue power vnto my two witnesses and they shall prophesie a thousande two hundred and threescore dayes clothed in sackcloth 4 These are two oliue trees and two candle stickes standyng before the God of the earth 5 And yf any man wyll hurt them fyre shal proceade out of their mouthes coÌsume their enemies And if any man wil hurt them this wyse must he be kylled 6 These haue power to shut heauen that it rayne not in the dayes of their prophesiyng and haue power ouer waters to turne them to blood and to smite the earth with all maner plagues as often as they wyll 7 And wheÌ they haue finished their testimonie the beast that commeth out of the bottomlesse pit shall make warre against them and shal ouercome them and kyll them 8 And their bodyes shall lye in y e streates of the great citie which spiritually is called Sodome and Egypt where our Lorde was crucified 9 And they of the people and kinredes and tongues and they of the nations shall see their bodyes three dayes and an halfe shall not suffer their bodyes to be put in graues 10 And they that dwell vpon the earth shal reioyce ouer them and be glad and shall sende gyftes one to another for these two prophetes vexed them that dwelt on the earth 11 And after three dayes and an halfe the spirite of lyfe commyng from God shall enter into them And they shall stande vp vpon their feete great feare shall come vpon theÌ which sawe them 12 And they shall heare a great voyce from heauen saying vnto them come vp hyther And they shall ascende vp to heauen in a cloude and their enemies shall see them 13 And the same houre shall there be a great earthquake and the tenth part of the citie shall fall and in the earthquake shal be slaine names of men seuen thousande and the remnaunt shal be afraide and geue glorie to the God of heauen 14 The seconde wo is past and beholde the thirde wo wyll come anone â And the seuenth angell blewe there were made greate voyces in heauen saying the kyngdomes of this worlde are our Lordes and his Christes and he shall raigne for euermore 16 And the .xxiiii. elders which sit before God on their seates fel vpon their faces and worshipped God 17 Saying we geue thee thankes O Lorde God almyghtie which art and wast and art to come for thou hast receaued thy great myght hast raigned 18 And the nations were angrie and thy wrath is come and the tyme of the dead that they shoulde be iudged and that thou shouldest geue rewarde vnto thy seruauntes the prophetes and saintes and to them that feare thy name small and great and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth 19 And the temple of God was opened in heauen and there were seene in his temple the arke of his testament and there folowed lyghtninges and voyces and thundringes and earthquake and much hayle ¶ The .xij. Chapter 1 There appeareth in heauen a woman clothed with the sunne 7 Michael fyghteth with the Dragon which persecuteth the woman 11 The victorie is gotten to the comfort of the faythfull 1 AND there appeared a great wonder in heauen A woman clothed with the sunne the moone vnder her feete and vpoÌ her head a crowne of twelue starres 2 And she was with chylde and cryed trauaylyng in birth and payned redy to be delyuered 3 And there appeared another wonder in heauen for beholde a great redde dragon hauing seuen heades and tenne hornes and seuen crownes vpon his heades 4 And his tayle drue the thirde part of the starres of heauen and cast them to the earth And the dragon stoode before the woman which was redie to be deliuered for to deuoure her chylde assoone as it were borne 5 And she brought foorth a man chylde which shoulde rule all nations with a rodde of yron And her sonne was taken vp vnto God and to his throne 6 And the woman fled into wildernesse where she had a place prepared of God that they should feede her there a thousande two hundreth and threscore days 7 And there was a battayle in heauen Michael and his angels fought with the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels 8 And preuayled not neither was their place founde any more in heauen 9 And the great dragon that olde serpent called the deuyll Satanas was cast out which deceaueth all the world And he was cast into the earth and his angels were cast out with hym 10 And I hearde a loude voyce saying in heauen Nowe is made saluation strength the kingdome of our God the power of his Christ For the accuser of our brethren is cast downe which accused them before our God day nyght 11 And they ouercame hym by the blood of the Lambe and by the worde of their testimonie and they loued not their lyues vnto the death 12 Therfore reioyce heauens and ye that dwell in them Wo to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea for the deuyll is come downe vnto you which hath great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short tyme. 13 And when the dragon sawe that he was cast vnto the earth he persecuted the woman which brought foorth the man chylde 14 And to the woman were geuen two winges of a great Egle that she myght flee into the wildernesse into her place where she is norished for a tyme tymes and halfe a tyme from the presence of the serpent 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water after the woman as it had ben a fludde that he myght cause her to be caryed away of the fludde 16 And the earth holpe the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swalowed vp the ryuer which the dragon cast out of his mouth 17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went and made warre with the remnaunt of her seede which kepe the commaundementes of God haue the testimonie of Iesus Christe 18 And I stoode on the sea sande The .xiij. Chapter 1.8 The beast deceaueth the reprobate 2.4.12 and is confirmed by another 17 The priuiledge of the beastes marke 1 AND I sawe a beast ryse out of the sea hauing seuen heades and ten hornes vpon his hornes ten crownes and vpon his head the name of blasphemie 2 And the beast which I sawe was like a Leoparde and his feete were as the feete of a Beare and his mouth as the mouth of a Lion And the dragon gaue hym his power and his seate and great aucthoritie 3 And I sawe one of his heades as it were wounded to death and his deadly wounde was healed And all the world wondred after the beast 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beast and they worshipped the beast saying Who is lyke
thou sawest vpon the beast are they that shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eate her fleshe and burne her with fire 17 For God hath put in their heartes to fulfyll his wyll and to do with one consent for to geue their kyngdome vnto the beast vntyll the wordes of God be fulfylled 18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great citie which raigneth ouer the kynges of the earth ⧠The .xviij. Chapter â The louers of the worlde are sory for the fall of the whore of Babylon 4 An admonition to the people of God to flee out of her dominioÌ 20 But they that be of God haue cause to reioyce for her destruction 1 AND after that I sawe another angell come from heauen ⪠hauyng great power and the earth was lyghtened with his glorie 2 And âe tryed myghtyly with a strong voyce saying Great Babylon is fallenâs fallen and is become the habitation of deuyls and the holde of all foule spirites and a cage of âll vncleane and hatefull byrdes 3 For all nations haue dronken of the wine of the wrath of her fornication the kinges of the earth haue committed fornication with her the marchauntes of the earth are waxed riche of the aboundaunce of her pleasures 4 And I hearde another voyce from heauen say Come awaye from her my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receaue not of her plagues 5 For her sinnes are gone vp to heauen and God hath remembred her wickednesse 6 Rewarde her euen as she rewarded you and geue her double accordyng to her workes and powre in double to her in the same cuppe which she fylled vnto you 7 And as much as she glorified her selfe lyued wantonly so much powre ye in for her of punishement sorowe for she said in her heart I sit being a queene and am no wydowe and shall see no sorowe 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day death and sorowe and hunger and she shal be brent with fire for strong is the Lorde whiche shall iudge her 9 And they shal bewayl her the kinges of the earth shall lament for her which haue committed fornication with her haue lyued wantonly with her when they shal see the smoke of her burnyng 10 And shall stande a farre of for feare of her punishment saying Alas alas that great citie Babylon that myghtie citie for at one houre is thy iudgement come 11 And the marchauntes of the earth shall wepe and wayle ouer her for no man wyll bye their ware any more 12 The ware of golde and siluer and precious stones neither of pearle raynes and purple and sylke and skarlet and all thinne wood and all maner vessels of yuorie and all maner vessels of most precious wood and of brasse and yron and marble 13 And synamon and odours and oyntmentes and frankensence and wine and oyle and fine floure and wheate beastes and sheepe and horses charrets and bodies and soules of men 14 And the apples that thy soule lusted after are departed from thee and all thynges which were daintie and had in price are departed from thee and thou shalt fynde them no more 15 The marchauntes of these thynges whiche were waxed ryche shall stande a farre of froÌ her for feare of the punishment of her wepyng and waylyng 16 And saying Alas alas that great citie that was clothed in raynes and purple and skarlet and decked with golde and precious stones and pearles 17 For at one houre so great ryches is come to naught And euery shippe gouernour all they that occupie shippes and shippemen which worke in the sea stoode a farre of 18 And cryed when they sawe the smoke of her burnyng saying what citie is lyke vnto this great citie 19 And they cast dust on their heades cryed wepyng waylyng and saying Alas alas that great citie wherein were made riche all that had shippes in the sea by reason of her costlynesse for at one houre is she made desolate 20 Reioyce ouer her thou heauen and ye holy apostles and prophetes for God hath geuen your iudgement on her 21 And a myghtie angell toke vp a stone lyke a great mylstone and cast it into the sea saying With suche violence shall that great citie Babylon be cast shal be founde no more 22 And the voyce of harpers and musitions of pypers and trumpetters shall be heard no more in thee and no craftes man of whatsoeuer craft he be shall be founde any more in thee and the sounde of a myll shall be heard no more in thee 23 And the lyght of a candle shall shyne no more in thee and the voyce of the brydegrome and of the bryde shall be hearde no more in thee for thy marchaunts were the great men of y e earth and with thyne inchauntment were deceaued all nations 24 And in her was founde the blood of the prophetes and of the saintes and of all that were slayne vpon the earth ¶ The .xix. Chapter 1 Prayses are geuen vnto God for iudgyng the whore and for auengyng the blood of his seruauntes 10 The angell wyll not be worshipped 17 The fowles byrdes are called to the slaughter 1 ANd after that I heard a great voyce of much people in heauen saying Alleluia Saluation and glory and honour and power be ascribed to the Lorde our God 2 For true and ryghteous are his iudgementes for he hath iudged the great whore which dyd corrupt y e earth with her fornication and hath auenged the blood of his seruauntes of her hande 3 And agayne they sayde Alleluia and her smoke rose vp for euermore 4 And the xxiiij elders the foure beastes fell downe worshipped God that sate on the throne saying Amen Alleluia 5 And a voyce came out of the throne saying Praise our Lord God all ye that are his seruauntes ye that feare hym both small and great 6 And I hearde the voyce of much people euen as the voyce of many waters and as the voyce of strong thundringes saying Alleluia for the Lorde our God omnipotent raigneth 7 Let vs be glad reioyce geue honor to hym for the mariage of the lambe is come his wyfe made her selfe redy 8 And to her was graunted that she should be arayed with pure and goodly raynes For the raynes is the ryghteousnes of saintes 9 And he sayde vnto me write Happy are they which are called vnto the supper of the lambes mariage And he said vnto me These are the true sayinges of God 10 And I fell at his feete to worship him And he saide vnto me See thou do it not for I am thy felowe seruaunt and of thy brethren euen of them that haue the testimonie of Iesus Worship God For the testimonie of Iesus is the spirite of prophesie 11 And I sawe heauen open beholde a white horse and he that
sheddyng of blood is here spoken of his Godhead because of the communion of the properties and vnion of two natures in one person (c) Through their ambitioÌ which is mother of all sectes heresies â Cor. xi â Gene. iii â i Cor ix b. ii Thes iii. b â Actes xx c. Actes xx g Actââi d. ãâ¦ã Ioel. ii g. Actes ix c. ii Cor. xi â Math. vi b. Actes ix â (a) This Iames was the Lordes brother y e sonne of Marie which was the sister of the blessed virgin which Iames afterward was bishop of Hierusalem Num. vi a. (b) Paul yeldynge to this ceremonie ⪠offended as sore as Peter did when he was reproued of Paul for abtayning from meates in presence of the Gentiles not withstandyng through the feruencie of his zeale he dyd âeoparde much to wyn thousandes of the Iewes for the saluation of whom he wyâshed hym selfe to be separated froÌ Christe Act. xiiii d. Actes xx b ii Tim. iiii d (c) God often times appoynteth his magistrates to deliuer his faithfull ministers from al daungers of their enemies Actes ix b. and .xxii. a. Actes xi f. Actes ix b. and .xxi. g. Actes v. f. Actes ix b. and .xxi. g. Actes v. f. ãâ¦ã b. Actes ix a. (a) Iesus was nowe in heauen and coulde not be persecuted of Paul But y e persecution whiche Paul exercised agaynst the faythfull being his members Christe counted it as done to hym selfe Actes ix c. Rom. x. c. Acteâ ãâ¦ã Act. xiii d. Galath i. d (b) He was not borne at Rome but at Tarsus the citezins wherof enioye the priuilege of y e citie of Rome ⪠were counted as Romanes Act. xxii b Actes 34. d (a) Paul doth not curse the hye priest but denounce sharplie the punishment of God which shoulde âyght vpon hym in the way of prophesiyng Deu. xvii d Ioâ xviii d (b) It is thought that Paul in mockerie thus excused him self as though thus he should say I see nothyng in this man worthie the office of y e hygh priest Philip. iii. a Act. xxiii e. Philip. iii. a Act. xxiii e. Mat. xxii c. Mark xii b. Luk. xx c. Act· xvi b. Actes 27. b. (c) The word properly signifieth cursing as when a man either sweareth voweth or wisheth hym selfe to dye or to be geuen to the deuyll except he bryng his purpose to passe Actes xx f. Act. xxii g Act. xxv e. Deut. xvii a Act. xxv d. (a) Felix by his diligence had taken Eleazarus y e captayne of y e murderers and put the Egyptians to flyght which raysed vp tumultes in Iurie For these the oratour praysed hym otherwayes he was both cruell and couetous Actes xxi c Act· xxv b. No maruayle though in our tyme Gods true religion be called heresie ãâã so it was counted of the wicked euen in the begynnyng of Christes kingdome Act. xxiii a. Rom. xv f. Act. xi d. (c) These accusers spake but vpon false reportes which the belowes of Satan had bloweÌ abrode and durst not for shame appere them selues Act. xxiii a. Iere. 39. c. Act. xxvii a (d) Such is the might and force of Gods heauenlye worde that it causeth the very wicked to tremble and quake Act. xxv d. (a) Whyles Paul lyued vnder y e lawe lyke other Iewes his conuersation was perfect and notable and after his conuersion vnto Christe he became a more notable example of innocencie but it is a coÌmon case that the seruauntes of God are euyll spoken of for their well doyng (b) The iniquitie of the iudge who contrarye to equitie wyllyng to pleasure the Iewes deuised howe to betray Paul draue Paul to appeale which is the vttermost remedie for such as by wrong iudgement are oppressed and this appellation by Gods prouidence was a meane that Paul shoulde testifie of Christe at Rome also Act. xxiii f (a) He knew much but he fayled in the ryght applying of his knowledge as they do which be wise in their owne conceiptes onlye and haue the zeale of God but not accordyng to knowledge (b) He taketh the sect of the pharisees to be perfectest because their doctrine was better theÌ the other sectes The Saducees denyed y e resurrection of the dead The Esseis glorying in strayghtnesse of life litle regarded true doctrine Actes viii a. i Cor. xv b. Galath ii c. Actes ix a. and .xxii. c. (c) Festus beyng much troubled with Paules declaration and hauyng nothyng to say agaynst it yet woulde not yelde vnto it but clamoruslye condempned it as wicked superstitious for worldlynges are loth to be cumbred with Godly matters count all such foolish that trouble them selues therwith (d) He sawe a litle lyght but it was soone out like vnto those that hearyng a Sermon are for the tyme well mynded but after returne to their olde trade Col. iiii a. Iere. 39 c. Act. xxiiii c () Or Creta which was an hygh hyll of Candie Act. xxv c. (a) The graces and blessinges which God geueth to his chyldren profite many tymes the enemyes which are vnworthie to receaue y e fruite thereof (b) Paul woulde vse such meanes as God had ordeyned lest he shoulde seeme to haue tempted hym (c) By this hebrue speach is meant that they shoulde be in all pointes safe and sounde 1 Tim. iiii a. Act. xxvii c (a) Such is the peruerse iudgement of men that they condempne them whom they see in any affliction (b) By this miracle God perfourmed his promise made to his disciples that neither Serpentes nor poyson shulde hurt them and also by the same was confirmed the Gospel of his sonne Iesus Christ which Paul preached vnto the world (c) Beholde the extremitie of infidels for after any rage and errour they fal forthwith into the contrarie (c) Those the Panims fayned to be Iupiters chyldren Gods of the sea Act. xxiii c Act. xxiii c. (d) ãâ¦ã for Ieâs Christes ãâã whom they had long ãâã ⪠for to be the redemer of the worlde Luk â Act. xvii a. Esaias vi e. Math. xiii b Mark iiii b. Luk. viii b. Iohn xii f. Herodes Anâipas Math. viii Mark vi Luke ix Steuen was stoned this yere Eusebius Carion Pilate was president full ten yeres Iosephus In this yere all thyngs pertayninge to this formermer Her dâ was geuen to this Herode Agrippa Of whom reade Actes xii Iosephus Eusebius In these yeeres were Cipers Pamphylia Pisidia and Licaonâ conuerted Prophesied by Agabus was y t death this yere as Eusebius Orosius and Beda affirmeth Iosephus saith that the deaâth was in this yere He commeth to Corinth Agrippa of whom reade Actes xxvi He commeth to Ephââiâs Two yeres he remayneth in free pryson ⪠The begynnyng of the first vniuersal persecution of Christians theâr yere of âerâ (a) By this he declareth that he came not into the office of the apostleship by his owne arrogancie but by the callyng of God wherby he differeth from the false Apostles Math. i. a. (b) The maner of wayes Paul sheweth here christ to