my shepe and wil deliuer them out of all places where thei haue bene scattered in the cloudie darke daie 13 And I wil bring them out from the people and gather them from the countreis and wil bring them to their owne lād and fede them vpon the mountaines of Israél by the riuers and in all the inhabited places of the countrey 14 I wil fede them in a good pasture and vpō the hie mountaines of Israél shal their folde be there shal theilie in a good folde in fat pasture shal they fede vpō the moun taines of Israél 15 I wil fede my shepe bring them to their rest saith the Lord God 16 I wil seke that 〈◊〉 was lost and bring againe that which was driuen awaie and wil binde vp that which was broken and wil strengthen the weake but I wil destroy the fat and the strong and I wil fede thē with iudgement 17 Also you my shepe thus saith the Lord God Beholde I iudge betwene shepe and shepe betwene the rams and the goates 18 Semeth it a smale thing vnto you to haue eaten vp the good pasture but ye must tread downe with your fete the residue of your pasture and to haue dronke of the depe waters but ye must trouble the residue with your fete 19 And my shepe eat that which ye haue troden with your fete and drinke that which ye haue troubled with your fete 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God vnto them Beholde I euen 〈◊〉 wil iudge betwe ne the fat shepe and the leane shepe 21 Because ye haue thrust with side and with shulder and pusht all the weake with your hornes til ye haue scattred them abroade 22 Therefore wil I helpe my shepe and thei shal nomore be spoiled and I wil iudge betwene shepe and shepe 23 And I wil set vp a shepherd ouer them and he shal fede them euen my seruant Dauid he shall fede them and he shal be their shepherde 24 And I the Lord will be their God and my seruant Dauid shal be the prince among them I the Lord haue spoken it 25 And I will make with them a couenant of peace and wil cause the euil beasts to cease out of the land and they shal dwell safely in the wildernes and slepe in the woods 26 And I will seke them as a blessing euen rounde about my mountaine and I wil cause raine to come downe in due season and there shal be raine of blessing 27 And the tre of the field shall yelde her frute and the earth shal giue her frute and they shal be safe in their land and shal know that I am the Lorde when I haue broken the cordes of their yoke and deliuered them out of the hands of those that serued them selues of them 28 And they shall no more be spoyled of the heathen nether shall the beasts of the land deuoure them but they shal dwel safely and none shal make them afraied 29 And I will raise vp for them a plant of renoume and they shal be no more consumed with hungrie in the land nether beare the reproche of the heathen anie more 30 Thus shal they vnderstand that I the Lord their God am with them ād that they euē the house of Israél are my people saith the Lord God 31 And ye my shepe the shepe of my pasture are men and I am your GOD sayth the Lord God CHAP. XXXV 2 The destruction that shall come on mount Seir because they troubled the people of the Lord. 1 MOreouer the word of the Lord came vnto me saying 2 Sonne of man set thy face against mount 〈◊〉 and prophecie against it 3 And saie vnto it Thus saith the Lord God Beholde ô mount Seir I come againste thee and I will stretche out myne hand against thee and I wil make thee desolate and waste 4 I wil laie thy cities waste and thou shalt be desolate and thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord. 5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred and hast put the childrē of Israél to flight by the force of the sworde in the time of their cala mitie when their iniquitie had an end 6 Therefore as I liue saith the Lord God I wil prepare the vnto blood and blood shall pursue thee except thou hate blood euen blood shal pursue thee 7 Thus will I make mount Seir desolate and waste and cut of from it hym that passeth out and him that returneth 8 And I wil fill his mountaines with his slayne men in thine hils and in thy valle is and in all thy riuers shall they fall that are slaine with the sworde 9 I wil make thee perpetual desolations and thy cities shall not returne and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord. 10 Because thou hast said These two nacions and these two countreis shal be mine and we will possesse them seing the Lorde was there 11 Therefore as I liue saith the Lord God I wil euen do accordyng to thy wrath and according to thine indignation which thou hast vsed in thine 〈◊〉 against them and I will make my selfe 〈◊〉 among them when I haue iudged thee 12 And thou shalt knowe that I the Lord haue heard all thy blasphemies whiche thou haste spoken against the mountaines of Israel saying they lye waste they are giuen vs to be deuoured 13 Thus with your mouthes ye haue boasted against me and haue multiplied your wordes against me I haue heard them 14 Thus saith the LORD God So shal all the worlde reioyce when I shal make thee desolate 15 As thou didest reioyce at the inheritance of the house of Israél because it was desolate so wil I do vnto thee thou shalt be desolate ô mount Seir and all I dumea wholly ād they shal knowe that I am the Lord. CHAP. XXXVI 8 He promiseth to deliuer Israel from the Gentiles 22 The 〈◊〉 done vnto the Iewes are to be ascribed to the mercie of God and not vnto their deseruings 26 God 〈◊〉 our hearts that we maie walke in his commandements 1 ALso thou sonne of man prophecie vnto the * mountaines of Israél and saie Ye mountaines of Israél heare the worde of the Lord. 2 Thus sayth the LORDE God Because the enemie hathe sayd agaynst you Aha euen the hie places of the worlde are ours in possession 3 Therefore prophecie and saie Thus sayth the Lord God Because that they haue made you desolate and swallowed you vp on euerie syde that ye myght be a 〈◊〉 vnto the residue of the heathen and ye are come vnto the lippes and tongues of men and vnto the reproche of the people 4 Therefore ye mountaines of Israél heare the worde of the Lord God Thus saith the Lord God to the mountaines and to the hilles to the riues and to the valleis and to the waste and desolate places and to the cities that are forsaken whiche are spoiled
O Lord our God we haue sinned we haue done wickedly we haue offended in all thine ordinances 13 Let thy wrath turne from vs 〈◊〉 for we are but a fewe left among the heathen where thou hast scatred vs. 14 Heare our praiers ô Lord our peticiōs and deliuer vs for thine owne sake and giue vs fauour in the sight of them which ha ue led vs away 15 That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God and that thy Name is called vpon Israél and vpon their posteritie 16 Therefore loke downe from thine holy Temple and thinke vpon vs encline thine eare ô Lord and heare vs. 17 * Open thine eyes and beholde for the 〈◊〉 that are in the graues and whose 〈◊〉 sou les are out of their bodies 〈◊〉 giue vnto the Lord nether praise nor righteousnes 18 But the soule that is vexed for the greatnes of sinne 〈◊〉 he that goeth crokedly and weake and the eyes that faile and the hungrie soule wil giue thee praise and righ teousnes ô Lord. 19 For we do not require me 〈◊〉 in thy sight ô Lord our God for the righteousnes of our fathers or of our Kings 20 But because thou hast sent out thy wrath and indignacion vpon vs as thou hast spoken by thy seruants the Prophetes saying 21 * Thus saith the Lord Bowe downe your shulders and serue the King of Babylon so shal ye remaine in the land that I gaue vnto your fathers 22 But if ye wil not heare the voyce of the Lord to serue the King of Babylon 23 I wil cause to cease in the cities of Iuda and in Ierusalém I wil cause to cease the voyce of mirthe and the voyce of ioye and the voyce of the bridegrome and the voyce of the bride and the land shal be desolate of inhabitants 24 But we wold not hearken vnto thy voyce to serue the King of Babylon therefore hast thou performed the wordes that thou spakest by thy seruants the Prophetes namely that the bones of our Kings and the bones of our fathers shulde be caryed out of their places 25 And lo they are cast out to the heat of the day and to the colde of the night and are dead in great miserie with famine with the sworde and in banishment 26 And the Temple wherein thy Name was called vpon thou hast broght to the state as appeareth this day for the wickednes of the house of Israél and the house of Iuda 27 O Lord our God thou hast intreated vs ac cording to equitie and according to all thy great mercie 28 As thou spakest by thy seruant Moyses in the day when thou didest command him to write thy Lawe before the childrē of Israel saying 29 * If ye wil not obey my voyce then shal this great swarme and multitude be turned into a verie fewe among the nacions where I wil scaterthem 30 For I knowe that they wil not beare me for it is a stifnecked people but in the land of their captiuitie they shal remember them selues 31 And knowe that I am the Lord their God then wil I giue them an heart to vnderstād and eares 32 And they shal heare and praise me in the land of their captiuitie 〈◊〉 thinke vpon my Name 33 Then shal they turne them from their har de backes and from their euil workes for they shal remēber the way of their fathers which sinned before the Lord. 34 And I wil bring them againe into the land which I promised with an othe vnto their fathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob they shal be lords of it and I wil increase them and they shal not be diminished 35 And I wil make an euerlasting couenant with them that I wil be their God they shal be my people and I wil no more driue my people of Israél out of the land that I haue giuen them CHAP. III. 1 The people continueth in their praier begon for their de liuerance 9 〈◊〉 praiseth wisdome vnto the people 〈◊〉 that so great aduersities came vnto them for the despising thereof 36 Onely God was the 〈◊〉 of wisdome 37 Of the incarnacion of Christ. 1 OLord almightie ô God of Israel the soule that is in trouble and the spirit that is ve xed cryeth vnto thee 2 Heare o Lord and haue mercie for thou art merciful and haue pitie vpon vs because we haue sinned before thee 3 For thou endurest for euer and we vtterly perish 4 O Lord almightie the God of Israel heare now the prayer of the dead Israelites and of their children which haue sinned before thee and not hearkened vnto the voyce of thee their God wherefore these plagues hāg vpon vs. 5 Remēber not the wickednes of our fathers but thinke vpon thy power and thy Name at this time 6 For thou art the Lord our God and thee ô Lord wil we praise 7 And for this cause hast thou put thy feare in our hearts that̄ we shulde call vponthy Name and praise thee in our captiuitie for we haue considered in our mindes all the wickednes of our fathers that sinned before thee 8 Beholde we are yet this day in our captiuitie where thou hast scatered vs to be a reproche and a curse and subiect to payments according to all the iniquities of our fathers which are departed from the LORD their God 9 O Israel heare the commandements of life hearken vnto them that thou maiest learne wisdome 10 What is the cause ô Israél that thou art in thine enemies land and art waxen olde in a strange countrey 11 And art defiled with the dead and art counted with them that go downe to the graues 12 Thou hast forsaken the fountaine of wisdome 13 For if thou hadest walked in the way of GOD thou shuldest haue remained safe for euer 14 Learne where is wisdome where is strēght where is vnderstāding that thou maist know also from whence cometh long continuance and life and where the light of the eyes and peace is 15 Who hathe found out her place or who ha the come into her treasures 16 Where are the princes of the heathen and suche as ruled the beasts vpon the earth 17 They that had their pastime with the soules of the heauen that hoorded vp siluer and golde wherein mē trust and made none end of their gathering 18 For they that coyned siluer and were so care ful of their worke and whose inuētion had none end 19 Are come to naught and gone downe to hel and other men are come vp in their steades 20 When thei were yong they sawe the light dwelt vpon the earth but they vnderstode not the way of knowledge 21 Nether perceiued the paths thereof nether haue their children receiued it but they were farre of from that way 22 It hathe not bene heard of in the land of Chanaan nether hathe it bene sene in Theman 23 Northe Agarines that soght after wisdome vpon the earth nor the marchans
1 He describeth the 〈◊〉 of the faithful in their afflictions 4 And desireth their welth 5 And the destructiō of the wicked ¶ A song of degrees 1 THei that trust in the Lord shal be as mount Ziôn which can not be remoued but remaineth foreuer 2 As the mountaines are about Ierusalém so 〈◊〉 the Lord about his people from hence for the and for euer 3 For the rod of the wicked shal not rest on the lot of the righteous lest the righteous put forthe their hand vnto wickednes 4 Do wel ô Lord vnto those that be good true in their hearts 5 c But these that turne aside by their croked waies them shal the Lord leade with the workers of iniquitie but peace shal be vpon Israél PSAL. CXXVI 1 This Psalme was made after the returne of the people frō Babylon and sheweth that the meane of their 〈◊〉 was wonderful after the seuentie yeres of captiuitie 〈◊〉 respoken by Ieremie chap. 25 12. and 29. 10. ¶ A song of degrees or Psalme of Dauid 1 WHen the Lord broght againe the captiuitie of Zión we were like them that dreame 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with ioye then said they among the heathen The Lord hathe done great things for them 3 The Lord hathe done great things for vs whereof we reioyce 4 O Lord bring againe our captiuitie as the riuers in the South 5 They that sowe in teares shal reape in ioye 6 They went weping and caried precious sede but they shal returne with ioye and bring their sheaues PSAL. CXXVII 1 He sheweth that the whole estate of the worlde both do mestical and political standeth by Gods mere prouidence and blessing 3 And that to haue children wel nurtred is an especial grace and gift of God ¶ A song of degrees or Psalme of Salomón 1 EXcept the Lord buylde the house they labour in vaine that buylde it except the Lord kepe the citie the keper watcheth in vaine 2 It is in vaine for you to rise early to lye downe late and eat the bread of sorow but he wil surely giue rest to his beloued 3 Beholde children are the inheritance of the Lord and the frute of the wombe his rewarde 4 As are the arrowes in the hand of the strōg man so are the children of youth 5 Blessed is the man that hathe his quiuerful of them for they shal not be ashamed when they spake with their enemies in the gate PSAL. CXXVIII 1 He sheweth that blessednes apperteineth not to all vniuersally but to them onely that feare the Lord and walke in his wayes ¶ A sing of degrees 1 BLessed is euerie one that feareth the Lord and walketh in his wayes 2 When thou eatest the labours of thine hāds thou shalt be blessed and it shal be wel with thee 3 Thy wife shal be as the fruteful vine on the sides of thine house and thy children the oliue plants round about thy table 4 Lo surely thus shal the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. 5 The Lord out of Zión shal blesse thee and thou shalt se the welth of Ierusalém all the dayes of thy life 6 Yea thou shalt se thy childrens childrē peace vpon Israél PSAL. CXXIX 1 He admonisheth the Church to reioyce thogh it be affli cted 4 〈◊〉 by the righteous Lord it shal be deliuered 6 And the enemies for all their glorious shewe shal sudden ly be destroyed ¶ A song of degrees 1 THey haue often times afflicted me from my youth may Israél now say 2 They haue often times afflicted me from my youth but they colde not preuaile against me 3 The plowers plowed vpon my backe and made long forowes 4 But the righteous Lord hathe cut the cor des of the wicked 5 They that hate Zion shal be all ashamed and turned backwarde 6 They shal be as the grasse on the house top pes which withereth afore it cōmeth forthe 7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand ne ther the glainer his lap 8 Nether they whiche go by say The blessing of the Lord be vpon you or We bles se you in the Name of the Lord. PSAL. CXXX 1 The people of God from their bottomles miseries do crie vnto God and are heard 3 They confesse their sinnes flee vnto Gods mercie ¶ A song of degrees 1 OVt of the depe places haue I called vnto thee ô Lord. 2 Lord heare my voyce let thine eares attend to the voice of my prayers 3 If thou ô Lord straitly markest iniquities o Lord who shal stand 4 But mercie is with thee that thou maiest be feared 5 I haue waited on the Lord my soule hathe waited and I haue trusted in his worde 6 My soule waiteth on the Lord more thē the morning watche watcheth for the morning 7 Let Israél waite on the Lord for with the Lord is mercie and with him is great redemption 8 And he shal redeme Israél from all his iniqui ties PSAL. CXXXI 1 Dauid charged with ambitiō and gredie desire to reigne protesteth his humilitie modestie before God and teacheth all men what they shulde do ¶ A song of degrees or Psalme of Dauid 1 LOrd mine heart is not hawtie nether are mine eyes 〈◊〉 nether haue I walked in great matters and hid from me 2 Surely I haue behaued my self like one wained from his mother and kept silence I am in my self as one that is wained 3 Let Israél waite on the Lord from hence forthe and for euer PSAL. CXXXII 1 The faithful grounding on Gods promes made vnto Da uid desire that he wolde establish the same bothe as touching his posteritie and the buylding of the Temple to praye there as was fore spoken Deut. 12 5. ¶ A song of degrees 1 LOrd remēber Dauid with all his afflictiō 2 Who sware vnto the Lord vowed vnto the mightie God of Iaakób saying 3 I wil not enter into the tabernacle of mine house not come vpon my palet or bed 4 Nor suffer mine eyes to slepe nor mine eye lids to slumber 5 Vntil I fiade out a place for the Lord an ha bitacion for the mightie God of Iaakób 6 Lo we heard of it in Ephráthah found it in the fields of the forest 7 We wil entre into his Tabernacles and worship before his fotestole 8 Arise ô Lord to come into thy rest thou and the Arke of thy strength 9 Let thy Priests be clothed with righteousnes and let thy Saintes reioyce 10 For thy seruant Dauids sake refuse not the face of thine Anointed 11 The Lord hathe sworne in trueth vnto Dauid and he wil not shrinke from it saying Of the frute of thy bodie wil I set vpon thy throne 12 If thy sonnes kepe my couenant and my te stimonies that
all in our innocencie the heauen and earth shal testifie for vs that ye destroy vs wrongfully 38 Thus thei gaue thē the battel vpon the Sabbath and slewe bothe men and cattel their wiues and their children to the nomber of a thousand people 39 ¶ When Mattathias and his friends vnderstode this thei mourned for them greatly 40 And said one to another If we all do as our brethrē haue done and fight not against the heathen for our liues and for our Lawes thē shal thei incontinently destroy vs out of the earth 41 Therefore they concluded at the same time saying Whosoeuer shal come to make battel with vs vpon the Sabbath daye we wil fight against him that we dye not all as our brethren that were murthered in the secret places 42 Then came vnto them the assemblie of the Asideans which were of the strongest men of Israél all suche as were wel minded toward the Law 43 And all they that were fled for persecucion ioyned them selues vnto them and were an helpe vnto them 44 So they gathered a power and smote the wicked men in their wrath and thevngodlie in their angre but the rest fled vnto the heathen and escaped 45 Then Mattathias and his friends wēt about and destroyed the altars 46 And circumcised the children by force that were vn circumcised as manie as they foūde within the coasts of Israél 47 And they pursued after the proude men this acte prospered in their hands 48 So they recouered the Law of the hand of the Gentiles and out of the hand of Kings and gaue not place to the wicked 49 Now when the time drewe nere that Mattathias shulde dye he said vnto his sonnes Now is pride and persecucion increased the time of destruction and the wrath of indignacion 50 Now therefore my sonnes be ye zealous of the Law and giue your liues for the couenant of our fathers 51 Call to remembrance what actes our Fathers did in their time so shall ye receyue great honour and an euerlasting name 52 * Was not Abraham founde faithful in tētacion and it was imputed vnto hym for righteousnes 53 * Ioseph in the time of his trouble kept the commandement and was made the Lord of Egypt 54 * Phinees our father because he was zealous and feruent obteined the couenāt of the euerlasting priesthode 55 * Iesus for fulfilling the worde was made the gouernour of Israel 56 * Caleb because he bare witnes before the congregacion receiued the heritage of the land 57 * Dauid because of hys mercie obteyned the throne of the kingdome for euermore 58 * Elias because he was zealous and feruēt in the Law was taken vp euen vnto heauē 59 * Ananias Azarias and Misael by theyr faith were deliuered out of the flame 60 * Daniel because of his innocencie was deliuered from the mouth of the lyons 61 And thus ye maye consider thorowe out all ages that whosoeuer put their truste in him shal not want strength 62 Feare not ye then the wordes of a sinfull mā for his glorie is but dongue wormes 63 To day is he set vp and to morow he shall not be found for he is turned into his dust and his purpose perisheth 64 Wherefore my sonnes take good hearts and shewe your selues men for the Law for by it shal you obteine glorie 65 And beholde I knowe that your brother Simon is a man of counsell gyue eare vnto him alway he shal be a father vnto you 66 And Iudas Maccabeus hathe bene mightie and strong euen from his youth vp let him be your captaine and fight you the battel for the people 67 Thus shal ye bring vnto you all those that obserue the Law and shal aduenge the iniuries of your people 68 Recompense fully the heathen and giue your selues to the commandement of the Law 69 So he blessed them and was laied with his fathers 70 And dyed in the hundreth fortye and six yere and his sonnes buryed him in his Fathers sepulchre at Modin and all Israel made great lamentacion for him CHAP. III. 1 Iudas is made ruler ouer the Iewes 11 He killeth Apollonius and Seron the princes of Syria 44 The considence of Iudas towarde God 55 Iudas determineth to fight against Lysias whome Antiochus had made captaine ouer his hoste 1 THen Iudas his sonne called Maccabeus rose vp in his place 2 And all his brethren helped him and all they that helde with his father and foght with courage the battel of Israel 3 So he gate his people great honour he put on a brestplate as a gyant and armed him self and set the battel in array and defended the campe with the sworde 4 In his actes he was like a lyon and as a lyons whelpe roaring after the pray 5 For he pursued the wicked and soght thē out and burnt vp those that vexed his people 6 So that the wicked fled for feare of him all the workers of iniquitie were put to trouble saluacion prospered in his hand 7 And he grieued diuers Kings but Iacob reioyced by his actes and his memorial is blessed for euer 8 He went also thorowe the cities of Iuda and destroyed the wicked out of them and turned away the wrath from Israel 9 So was he renoumed vnto the ends of the earth he assembled together those that were readie to perish 10 ¶ But Apollonius gathered the Gentiles and a great hoste out of Samaria to fight against Israel 11 Whiche when Iudas perceiued he went forthe to mete him and smote him and slue him so that many fel downe slaine and the rest fled 12 So Iudas toke their spoiles and toke also Apollonius sworde and foght with it all his life long 13 ¶ Now whē Seron a prince of the armie of Syria 〈◊〉 that Iudas had gathered vnto him the congregacion and Churche of the faithfull and went forthe to the warre 14 He said I will get me a name and will be glorious in the realme for I will go sight with Iudas thē that are with him which haue despised the Kings commandement 15 So he made him readie to go vp and there went with him a mightie hoste of the vngodlie to helpe him and to be aduenged of the children of Israel 16 And whē he came nere to the going vp of Bethoron Iudas went forthe to met him with a smale companie 17 But when they sawe the armie coming against them they said to Iudas How are we able being so fewe to fight agaīst so great a multitude and so strong seyng we be so wearie and haue fasted all this day 18 Then said Iudas It is an easie thing for many to be shut vp in the hands of fewe there is no difference before the God of heauen to deliuer by a great multitude or by a smale companie 19 For the victorie of the battel stādeth not in the multitude of the hoste but the strēgth cometh from
Simon and the cubbert of golde and siluer pla te and so great preparacion he was astonished and tolde him the Kings message 33 Then answered Simon and said vnto him We haue nether taken other mens lands nor with holden that which apperteineth to others but our fathers heritage which our enemies had vnrighteously in possession a certeine time 34 But when we had occasion we recouered the in heritance of our fathers 35 And whereas thou requirest Ioppe and Gazara they did great harme to our people and through our countrey yet wil we giue an hundreth talens for thē But Athenobius answered him not one worde 36 But turned againe angrie vnto the King tolde him all these wordes and the dignitie of Simon with all that he had sene and the King was verie angrie 37 ¶ in the meane time 〈◊〉 Tryphon by shippe vnto Orthosias 38 Then the King made Cendebeus captaine of the sea coast and gaue him bandes of fote men and horsemen 39 And commanded him to remoue the hoste towarde Iudea and to buylde vp Cedron to fortifie the gates and to warre against the people but the King pursued Tryphon 40 So Cendebeus came vnto Iamnia and began to vexe the people and to inuade Iudea and to take the people prisoners and to slay them 41 And he buyltevp Cedron where he set horsemen and garisons that they might make outrodes by the waies of Iudea as the King had commanded him CHAP. XVI 1 Cendebeus 〈◊〉 captaine of Antiochus hoste is put to flight by the sonnes of Simon 〈◊〉 Prolemeus the sonne of Abobus killeth Simon and his two sonnes at a banketh 23 Iohn killeth them that lye in waite for his life 1 THen came Iohn vp from Gazara tolde Simon his father what Cendebeus had done 2 So Simon called two of his eldest sonnes Iudas and Iohn and said vnto them I my brethren and my fathers house haue euer from our youth vnto this day foghtē against the enemies of Israel and the matters haue had good successe vnder our hands and we haue deliuered Israel often times 3 But I am now olde and ye by Gods mercie are of a sufficiét age be ye therefore in stead of me and my brother and go forthe fight for our nacion and the helpe of heauen be with you 4 So he chose twentie thousand fighting men of the countrey with the horsemen which went forthe against Cendebeus and rested at Modin 5 In the morning thei arose and went into the plaine field beholde a mightie great hoste came against them bothe of fotemen 〈◊〉 semen but there was a riuer bet wixt them 6 And Iohn rāged his armie ouer against him and when he sawe that the people was afrayed to go ouer the riuer he wēt ouer first him self and the men seing him passed through after him 7 Then he deuided his men and set the horsemen in the middes of the fotemen 8 For their enemies horsemen were verie manie but when they blewe the trumpets Cēdebeus fled with his hoste whereof manie were slayne and the remnant gate them to the forteresse 9 Then was Iudas Iohns brother woūded but Iohn followed after them til he came to Cedron which Cendeleus had buylt 10 Also thei fled vnto the towres that were in the fields of Azotus and those did Iohn bur ne with fyre thus were there slaine two thou sand men of them so he returned peaceably into the land of Iuda 11 ¶ Now in the field of Iericho was Ptolemeus the sonne of Abubus made captaine and he had abundance of siluer and golde 12 For he had maried the daughter of the hie Priest 13 Therefore he waxed proude in his minde and thoght to rule the land thoght to slay Simon and his sonnes by deceit 14 Now as Simon went about thorowe the ci ties of the countrey studieth carefully for them he came downe to Iericho with Matta thias and Iudas his sonnes in the hundreth seuentie and seuen yere in the eleuenth moneth which is the moneth Sabat 15 Then the sonne of Abubus receiued them by treason into a litle holde called Dochus which he had buylte where he made them a great banket and had hid men there 16 So when Simon and his sonnes had made good chere Ptolemeus stode vp with his mē and toke their weapons and entred in to Simon in the banket house slewe him with his two sonnes and certeine of his seruants 17 Whereby he committed a great vilenie and recompensed euil for good 18 Then wrote Ptolemeus these things sent to the King that he might send him an hoste to helpe him and so wolde deliuer him the countrey with the cities 19 He sent other men also vnto Gazara to take Iohn and sent letters vnto the captaines to come to him and he wolde giue them siluer and golde and rewardes 20 And to Ierusalém he sent other to take it and the mountaine of the Temple 21 But one 〈◊〉 before and tolde Iohn an Gazara that his father and his brethren were slaine and that Ptolemeus had sent to slay him 22 When he heard this he was sore astonished and laid hāds of them that were come to slay him and slewe them for he knewe that they went about to kill him 23 Concerning other things of Iohn bothe of his warres and of his noble actes wherein he behaued him self manfully of the buylding of walles which he made and other of his dedes 24 Beholde they are writen in the chronicles of his priesthode from the time that he was made high Priest after his father THE SECONDE BOKE of the Maccabees CHAP. I. 1 An epistle of the Iewes that dwelt at Ierusalem sent vnto them that dweltin Egypt wherein they exhorte them to giue thankes for the death of Antiochus 19 Of the fyre that was hid in the pitte 24 The prayer of Neemias 1 THE brethrē the Iewes which be at Ierusalem and they that are in the countrey of Iudea vnto the brethren the Iewes that are thorow out Egypt send salutation prosperitie 2 God be gracious vnto you and remember his couenant made with Abraham and Isaac and Iacob his faithful seruants 3 And giue you all an heart to worship him and to do his wil with a whole heart with a willing minde 4 And open your hearts in his Law and commandements and send you peace 5 And heare your prayers and be reconciled with you and neuer forsake you in time of trouble 6 Thus now we praye here for you 7 When Demetrius reigned in the hundreth threscore and nine yere we Iewes wrote vnto you in the trouble and violēce that came vnto vs in those yeres after that Iason and his companie departed out of the holie land and kingdome 8 And burnt the porche and shed innocent blood Then we praid vnto the Lord and were heard we offred sacrifices and fine flou re and lighted the lampes and set forthe the bread 9 Now
things from the beginning to write vnto thee there of from point to point 4 That thou mightest acknowledge the certeintie of those things whereof thou hast bene instructed 5 IN the time of Herode King of Iudea there was a certeine Priest named Zacharias of the course of Abia and his wife was of the daughters of Aarō and her name was Elisabet 6 Bothe were iust before God and walked in all the commaundements and ordinances of the Lord without reprofe 7 And thei had no childe because that Elisabet was barren and bothe were wel strickē in age 8 And it came to passe as he executed the Priests office before God as his course came in order 9 According to the custome of the Priests office his lot was to burne incense when he went into the Temple of the Lord. 10 And the whole multitude of the people were without in prayer * while the incēse was burning 11 Then appeared to him an Angel of the Lord standing at the right side of the altar of incense 12 And whē Zacharias sawe him he was trou bled and feare fel vpon him 13 But the Angel said vnto him Feare not Zacharias for thy prayer is heard and the wife Elisabet shal beare thee a sonne and thou shalt call his name Iohn 14 And thou shalt haue ioye and gladnes and many shal reioyce at his birth 15 For he shal be great in the sight of the Lord and shal nether drinke wine nor strong drinke and he shal be filled with the holie Gost euen from his mothers wombe 16 * And many of the children of Israel shal he turne to their Lord God 17 * For he shal go before him in the spirit power of Elias to turne the hearts of the Fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdome of the iust men to make readie a people prepared for the Lord. 18 Then Zacharias said vnto the Angel 〈◊〉 shall knowe this for I am an olde mā and my wife is of a great age 19 And the Angel answered and said vnto him I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of God and am sent to speake vnto thee and to 〈◊〉 thee these good tidings 20 And beholde thou shalt be 〈◊〉 and not be able to 〈◊〉 vntil the day that these things be done because thou beleuedst not my wordes whiche shal be fulfilled in their season 21 Now the people waited for Zacharias and marueiled that he taried so long in the Tēple 22 And when he came out he colde not speake vnto them then they 〈◊〉 that he had sene a vision in the Temple for he made signes vnto them and remained domme 23 And it came to passe when the dayes of his office were fulfilled that he departed to his owne house 24 And after those dayes his wife Elisabet cōceiueth hid her self fiue moneths saying 25 Thus hathe the Lord dealt with me in the dayes wherein he loked on me to take frō me my rebuke among men 26 ¶ And in the sixt moneth the Angel Gabriel was sent from God vnto a citie of 〈◊〉 named Nazaret 27 To a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Ioseph of the house of Dauid and the virgins name was Marie 28 And the Angel went into her said Haile thou that art freely beloued the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women 29 And when she sawe him she was troubled at his saying and toght what maner of saluta cion that shulde be 30 Then the Angel said vnto her Feare not Marie for thou hast founde fauour with God 31 * For lo thou shalt conceiue in thy wombe and beare a sonne and shalt call his name IESVS 32 He shal be great and shal be called the Sonne of the moste High and the Lord God shal giue vnto him the throne of his Father Dauid 33 * And he shal reigne ouer the house of Iacob for euer of his kingdome shal be none end 34 Then said Marie vnto the Angel How shal this be seing I know no man 35 And the Angel ans 〈◊〉 and said vnto her The holie Gost shal come vpon thee the power of the most High shal ouer shadowe thee 〈◊〉 also that yholie thing which shal be borne of thee shal be called the Sonne of God 36 And beholde thy cousin Elisabet she hath also cōceiued a sonne in her olde age this is her sixt moneth which was called barren 37 For with God shal nothing be vnpossible 38 Then Marie said Beholde the seruant of the Lord be it vnto me according to thy worde So the Angel departed from her 39 ¶ And Marie arose in those dayes and went into the hill countrey with haste to a citie of Iuda 40 And entred into the house of Zacharias saluted Elisabet 41 And it came to passe as Elisabet heard the saluaciō of Marie the babe sprāg in her bel lie Elisabet was filled with the holie Gost. 42 And she cryed with a loude voyce and said Blessed art thou among women because the frute of thy wombe is blessed 43 And whence cometh this to me that the mother of my Lord shulde come to me 44 For lo assone as the voyce of thy salutation sounded in mine eares the babe sprang in my bellie for ioye 45 And blessed is she that beleued for those things shal be performed which were tolde her from the Lord. 46 Then Marie said My soule magnifieth the Lord 47 And my spirit reioyceth in God my Sauiour 48 For he hathe loked on the poore degre of his seruant for beholde from hence forthe shal all ages call me blessed 49 Because he that is mightie hathe done for me great things and holie is his Name 50 And his mercie is from generacion to generacion on them that feare him 51 * He hathe shewed strenght with his arme * he hathe scattered the proude in the imagination of their hearts 52 He hathe put downe the mightie frō their seates and exalted them of lowe degre 53 * He hathe filled the hungrie with good things and sent away the riche emptie 54 * He hathe vpholden Israel his seruāt being mindeful of his mercie 55 * As he hathe spokē to our fathers to wit to Abraham and his sede for euer 56 ¶ And Marie abode with her about thre mo neths after she returned to her owne house 57 ¶ Now Elisabets time was fulfilled that she shulde be deliuered and she broght forthe a sonne 58 And her neighbours and cousins heard tel how the Lord had shewed his great mercie vpon her and they reioyced with her 59 And it was so that on the eight day they came to circumcise the babe and called him Zacharias after the Name of his Father 60 But his