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And because <n>Freely, and not because they deserved it.</n> he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;


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To thrust out nations greater and mightier then thou, before thee, to bring thee in, and to giue thee their land for inheritance: as appeareth this day.


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Vnderstande therefore this day, and consider in thine heart, that the Lord, he is God in heauen aboue, and vpon the earth beneath: there is none other.


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Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may <n>God promises reward not for our merits, but to encourage us, and to assure us that our labour will not be lost.</n> go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong [thy] days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.


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That the slayer should flee thither, which had killed his neighbour at vnwares, and hated him not in time past, might flee, I say, vnto one of those cities, and liue:


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That is, Bezer in the wildernesse, in the plaine countrey of the Reubenites: and Ramoth in Gilead among the Gadites: and Golan in Bashan among them of Manasseh.


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These [are] the <n>The articles and points of the covenant.</n> testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,


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On this side Iorden, in the valley ouer against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon King of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come out of Egypt:


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And they possessed his land, and the lande of Og King of Bashan, two Kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Iorden towarde the sunne rising:


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And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto <n>That is, the salt sea.</n> the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.


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Then Moses called all Israiel, and saide vnto them, Heare, O Israel, the ordinances and the lawes which I propose to you this day, that yee may learne them, and take heede to obserue them.


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The LORD <n>Some read, God made not this covenant, that is, in such ample forth and with such signs and wonders.</n> made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here alive this day.


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The LORD talked with you <n>So plainly that you do not need to doubt it.</n> face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,


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(At that time I stoode betweene the Lorde and you, to declare vnto you ye word of the Lord: for ye were afraid at the sight of the fire, and went not vp into the mount, and he said,


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I am the Lorde thy God, which haue brought thee out of the lande of Egypt, from the house of bondage.


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Thou shalt have none <n>God binds us to serve him only without superstition and idolatry.</n> other gods before me.


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Thou shalt make thee no grauen image or any likenesse of that that is in heauen aboue, or which is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters vnder the earth.


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Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a <n>That is, of his honour, not permitting it to be given to others.</n> jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me,


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And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that <n>The first degree to keep the commandments, is to love God.</n> love me and keep my commandments.


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Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lorde will not holde him giltlesse that taketh his Name in vaine.


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Six days <n>Meaning, since God permits six days for our labours, we should willingly dedicate the seventh to serve him wholly.</n> thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:


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But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not doe any worke therein, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man seruant, nor thy mayd, nor thine oxe, nor thine asse, neither any of thy cattel, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy man seruant and thy mayde may rest aswell as thou.


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For, remember that thou wast a seruant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lorde thy God brought thee out thence by a mightie hand and a stretched out arme: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to obserue the Sabbath day.


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<n>Not for a show, but with true obedience, and due reverence.</n>Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.


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Neither shalt <n>He not only speaks of that resolute will, but that there should be no motion or affection.</n> thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour's.


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These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mount from the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he <n>Teaching us by his example to be content with his word, and add nothing to it.</n> added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them to me.


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And when ye heard the voyce out of the middes of the darkenes, (for the mountaine did burne with fire) then ye came to me, all the chiefe of your tribes, and your Elders:


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And ye sayd, Beholde, the Lord our God hath shewed vs his glory and his greatnes, and we haue heard his voyce out of the middes of the fire: we haue seene this day that God doeth talke with man, and he liueth.


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Now therefore, why should we dye? for this great fire wil consume vs: if we heare ye voyce of the Lord our God any more, we shall dye.


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For what flesh was there euer, that heard the voyce of the liuing God speaking out of the middes of the fire as we haue, and liued?


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Go thou neere and heare all that the Lord our God saith: and declare thou vnto vs all that the Lorde our God saith vnto thee, and we will heare it, and doe it.


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Then the Lorde heard the voyce of your wordes, when ye spake vnto me: and the Lorde sayd vnto me, I haue heard the voyce of ye wordes of this people, which they haue spoken vnto thee: they haue well sayd, all that they haue spoken.


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O <n>He requires nothing but obedience from us, showing also that we ourselves are the unveiling of it.</n> that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!


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But stand thou here with me, and I wil tell thee all the commaundements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which thou shalt teach them: that they may doe them in the land which I giue them to possesse it.


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Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not <n>You shall neither add nor take away, (Deu_4:2).</n> turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


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Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may <n>In the same way that God, by way of our obedience, gives us all happiness: so from disobeying God proceed all our miseries.</n> live, and [that it may be] well with you, and [that] ye may prolong [your] days in the land which ye shall possess.


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These now are the commandements, ordinances, and lawes, which the Lorde your God commanded me to teach you, that ye might doe them in the land whither ye go to possesse it:


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That thou mayest <n>A reverent face and love for God is the first beginning to keeping God's commandments.</n> fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.


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Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, <n>Which has an abundance of all things needed for man's life.</n> in the land that floweth with milk and honey.


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And thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy might.


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And thou shalt <n>Some read, «You shall whet them upon your children»: that is, that they may imprint them more deeply in their memory.</n> teach them diligently to thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. {(teach: Heb. whet, or, sharpen)}


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And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes.


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And thou shalt write them upon the <n>That when you enter in you may remember them.</n> posts of thy house, and on thy gates.


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And when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into the land, which he sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob, to giue to thee, with great and goodly cities which thou buildedst not,


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And houses full of all maner of goods which thou filledst not, and welles digged which thou diggedst not, vineyards &amp; oliue trees which thou plantedst not, and when thou hast eaten and art full,


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<n>Do not let wealth and ease cause you to forget God's mercies, by which you were delivered out of misery.</n>[Then] beware lest thou shouldest forget the LORD, who brought thee forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. {(bondage: Heb. bondmen or, servants)}


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Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt <n>We must fear God, serve him only and confess his Name, which is done by swearing lawfully.</n> swear by his name.


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(For the Lorde thy God is a ielous God among you:) least the wrath of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from the face of the earth.


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Ye shall not <n>By doubting his power, refusing lawful means, and abusing his graces.</n> tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.


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But ye shal keepe diligently the commandements of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his ordinances which he hath commanded thee,


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And thou shalt do [that which is] right and good in the <n>Here he condemns all of man's good intentions.</n> sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to thy fathers,


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[And] when <n>God not only requires that we serve him all our lives, but also that we see that our posterity sets forth his glory.</n> thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What [mean] the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?


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Then shalt thou say vnto thy sonne, We were Pharaohs bondmen in Egypt: but the Lord brought vs out of Egypt with a mightie hand.


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And the Lord shewed signes and wonders great and euill vpon Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his housholde, before our eyes,


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And he <n>Nothing should move us more to true obedience than the great benefits which we have received from God.</n> brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.


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Therefore the Lord hath commanded vs, to doe all these ordinances, and to feare the Lord our God, that it may goe euer well with vs, and that he may preserue vs aliue as at this present.


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And it shall be our <n>Because no one can fully obey the law, we must turn to Christ to be justified by faith.</n> righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.


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When the Lorde thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possesse it, and shall roote out many nations before thee: the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, seuen nations greater and mightier then thou,


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And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them <n>Into thy power.</n> before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:


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Neither shalt thou make marriages with them, neither giue thy daughter vnto his sonne, nor take his daughter vnto thy sonne.


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For they wil cause thy sonne to turne away from me, and to serue other gods: then will the wrath of the Lord waxe hote against you and destroy thee suddenly.


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But thus shall ye deal with them; <n>God would have his service pure without idolatrous ceremonies and superstitions. (Deu_12:3).</n> ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.


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For thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, the Lorde thy God hath chosen thee, to be a precious people vnto himselfe, aboue all people that are vpon the earth.


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The Lord did not set his loue vpon you, nor chose you, because ye were mo in number then any people: for ye were the fewest of all people:


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But because the LORD <n>Freely, finding no cause in you more than in others so to do.</n> loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.


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Know therefore <n>And so put difference between him and idols.</n> that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;


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And repayeth <n>Meaning revealed, or in this life.</n> them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.


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Keepe thou therefore the commaundements, and the ordinances, and the lawes, which I commaund thee this day to doe them.


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Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the <n>This covenant is grounded in his free grace: therefore in recompensing their obedience, he respects his mercy and not their merits.</n> mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:


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And he wil loue thee, and blesse thee, and multiplie thee: he will also blesse the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy land, thy corne and thy wine, and thine oyle and the increase of thy kine, and the flockes of thy sheepe in the land, which he sware vnto thy fathers to giue thee.


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Thou shalt be blessed aboue all people: there shall be neither male nor female barren among you, nor among your cattell.


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Moreouer, the Lorde will take away from thee all infirmities, and will put none of the euill diseases of Egypt (which thou knowest) vpon thee, but wil send them vpon all that hate thee.


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And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; <n>We should not be merciful when God commands severity.</n> thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee.


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The great tentations which thine eyes sawe, and the signes and wonders, and the mighty hand and stretched out arme, whereby the Lorde thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do vnto all ye people, whose face thou fearest.


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Moreover the LORD thy God will send the <n>There is not a creature so small, that I will not arm it to fight on your side against them.</n> hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.


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And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the <n>It is to your advantage that God does not accomplish his promise as soon as you would wish.</n> beasts of the field increase upon thee.


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But the Lord thy God shall giue them before thee, and shall destroy them with a mightie destruction, vntill they be brought to naught.


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And he shall deliuer their Kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from vnder heauen: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, vntill thou hast destroyed them.


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The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou <n>And be enticed to idolatry.</n> be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God.


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Bring not therefore abomination into thine house, lest, thou be accursed like it, but vtterly abhorre it, and count it most abominable: for it is accursed.


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All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe <n>Showing that it is not enough to hear the word, unless we express it by the example of our lives.</n> to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.


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And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to <n>Which is declared in afflictions, either by patience, or by grudging against God's visitation.</n> prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.


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And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by <n>Man does not live by meat only, but by the power of God, who gives it strength to nourish us.</n> bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.


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Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot <n>As those that go barefoot.</n> swell, these forty years.


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Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God <n>So that his affliction are signs of his fatherly love toward us.</n> chasteneth thee.


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Therefore shalt thou keepe the commaundements of the Lorde thy God, that thou mayest walke in his wayes, and feare him.


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For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land in the which are riuers of water and fountaines, and depthes that spring out of valleis and mountaines:


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A land of wheate and barley, and of vineyards, and figtrees, and pomegranates: a land of oyle oliue and hony:


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A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it; a land <n>Where there are mines of metal.</n> whose stones [are] iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.


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When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt <n>To receive God's benefits and not be thankful, is to despise God in them.</n> bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.


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Beware that thou forget not the Lorde thy God, not keeping his commandements, and his lawes, and his ordinances, which I commaunde thee this day:


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And thy beastes, and thy sheepe are increased, and thy siluer and golde is multiplied, and all that thou hast is increased,


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Then thine heart <n>By attributing God's benefits to your own wisdom and labour, or to good fortune.</n> be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;


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Who was thy guide in the great and terrible wildernes (wherein were fierie serpents, &amp; scorpions, and drought, where was no water, who brought forth water for thee out of ye rock of flint:


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Who fed thee in the wildernesse with MAN, which thy fathers knewe not) to humble thee, and and to proue thee, that he might doe thee good at thy latter ende.


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Beware least thou say in thine heart, My power, and the strength of mine owne hand hath prepared me this abundance.


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But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for [it is] he that <n>If things concerning this life proceed only from God's mercy, how much more do spiritual gifts and everlasting life.</n> giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day.


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And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I <n>Or take to witness the heaven and the earth, as in (Deu_4:26).</n> testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.


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As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before you, so ye shall perish, because ye woulde not be obedient vnto the voyce of the Lord your God.


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Hear, O Israel: Thou [art] to pass over Jordan <n>Meaning shortly.</n> this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,


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A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and [of whom] thou hast <n>By the report of the spies. (Num_13:26).</n> heard [say], Who can stand before the children of Anak!


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Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God [is] he which <n>To guide you and govern you.</n> goeth over before thee; [as] a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.


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Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my <n>Man by himself deserves nothing but God's anger, and if God spares anyone it comes from his great mercy.</n> righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.


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For thou entrest not to inherite their lande for thy righteousnesse, or for thy vpright heart: but for the wickednesse of those nations, the Lord thy God doth cast them out before thee, and that he might performe the worde which the Lord thy God sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iacob.


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Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou [art] a <n>Like stubborn oxen who will not endure their masters yoke.</n> stiffnecked people.


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Remember, [and] forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: <n>He proves by the length of time, that their rebellion was great and intolerable.</n> from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.


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Also in Horeb ye prouoked the Lorde to anger so that the Lord was wroth with you, euen to destroy you.


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When I was gone vp into the mount, to receiue the tables of stone, the tables, I say, of the couenant, which the Lord made with you: and I abode in the mount fourtie daies &amp; fourtie nights, and I neither ate bread nor yet dranke water:


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And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the <n>That is, miraculously, and not by the hand of men.</n> finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.


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And when the fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes were ended, the Lorde gaue me the two tables of stone, the tables, I say, of the couenant.


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And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have <n>As soon as man declines from the obedience of God, his ways are corrupt.</n> corrupted [themselves]; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.


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Furthermore, the Lord spake vnto me, saying, I haue seene this people, and beholde, it is a stifnecked people.


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<n>Demonstrating that the prayers of the faithful are a bar to restrain God's anger so that he does not consume all.</n>Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.


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So I returned, and came downe from the Mount (and the Mount burnt with fire, and ye two Tables of the couenant were in my two handes)


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And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the <n>That is, from the Law: in which he declares what the cause of our punishment is.</n> way which the LORD had commanded you.


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Therefore I tooke the two Tables, and cast them out of my two handes, and brake them before your eyes.


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And I fell downe before the Lorde, fourtie dayes, and fourtie nightes, as before: I neither ate bread nor dranke water, because of al your sinnes, which ye had committed, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lorde, in that ye prouoked him vnto wrath.


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(For I was afraide of the wrath and indignation, wherewith the Lord was mooued against you, euen to destroy you) yet the Lord heard me at that time also.


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And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have <n>By which he shows the danger they are in who have authority and do not resist wickedness.</n> destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.


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And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the <n>Horeb, or Sinai.</n> mount.


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Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye <n>At the return of the spies.</n> rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.


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Thus I fell down before the LORD <n>By which is signified that God requires earnest continuance in prayer.</n> forty days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.


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And I prayed vnto the Lorde, and saide, O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatnesse, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt by a mightie hand.


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<n>The godly in their prayers ground on God's promise, and confess their sins.</n>Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:


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Lest the countrey, whence thou broughtest them, say, Because ye Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, or because he hated them, he caried them out, to slay them in the wildernesse.


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Yet they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mightie power, and by thy stretched out arme.


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In the same time the Lord said vnto me, Hewe thee two Tables of stone like vnto the first, and come vp vnto me into the Mount, and make thee an Arke of wood,


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And I will write vpon the Tables ye wordes that were vpon the first Tables, which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the Arke.


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And I made an ark [of] <n>Which is a wood of long endurance.</n> shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.


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And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the <n>When you were assembled to receive the Law.</n> assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.


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And I departed, and came downe from the Mount, and put the Tables in the Arke which I had made: and there they be, as the Lorde commanded me.


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And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to <n>This mountain was also called Hor, (Num_20:28).</n> Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.


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At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to <n>That is, to offer sacrifice, and to declare the Law to the people.</n> minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.


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Wherefore Levi hath no part nor <n>So God turned the curse of Jacob to a blessing (Gen_49:7).</n> inheritance with his brethren; the LORD [is] his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.


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And I taried in the mount, as at ye first time, fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, and the Lorde heard me at that time also, and the Lorde would not destroy thee.


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But the Lord said vnto me, Arise, goe forth in the iourney before the people, that they may goe in and possesse the land, which I sware vnto their fathers to giue vnto them.


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And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God <n>For all our sins and transgressions God requires nothing but to turn to him and obey him.</n> require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,


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That thou keepe the commaundements of the Lord, and his ordinances, which I commaunde thee this day, for thy wealth?


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Beholde, heauen, &amp; the heauen of heauens is the Lords thy God, and the earth, with all that therein is.


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<n>Although he was Lord of heaven and earth, he chose no one but you.</n>Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, [even] you above all people, as [it is] this day.


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<n>Cut off all your evil affections, (Jer_4:4).</n>Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.


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For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lordes, a great God, mightie and terrible, which accepteth no persons nor taketh reward:


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Who doeth right vnto the fatherlesse and widowe, &amp; loueth the stranger, giuing him foode and rayment.


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Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and <n>Read (Deu_6:13).</n> swear by his name.


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He is thy praise, and hee is thy God, that hath done for thee these great &amp; terrible things, which thine eyes haue seene.


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Thy fathers went downe into Egypt with seuentie persons, and now the Lord thy God hath made thee, as ye starres of ye heauen in multitude.


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Therefore thou shalt loue the Lord thy God, and shalt keepe that, which he commandeth to be kept: that is, his ordinances, and his lawes, and his commandements alway.


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And <n>You who have seen God's graces with your eyes should be moved, rather than your children who have only heard of them.</n> know ye this day: for [I speak] not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,


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And his signes, and his actes, which hee did in the middes of Egypt vnto Pharaoh the King of Egypt and vnto all his land:


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And what he did vnto the hoste of the Egyptians, vnto their horses, and to their charets, when he caused the waters of the red Sea to ouerflowe them, as they pursued after you, and the Lord destroied them vnto this day:


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And <n>As well concerning his benefits, as his corrections.</n> what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;


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And what he did vnto Dathan &amp; Abiram the sonnes of Eliab ye sonne of Reuben, when the earth opened her mouth, &amp; swallowed them with their housholds and their tents, and all their substance that they had in the middes of al Israel.


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Therefore shall ye keep <n>Because you have felt both his chastisement and his benefits.</n> all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;


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Also that ye may prolong your daies in the land, which the Lorde sware vnto your fathers, to giue vnto them and to their seede, euen a lande that floweth with milke and honie.


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For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, [is] not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst [it] with thy <n>By making gutters for the water to come out of the Nile river to water the land.</n> foot, as a garden of herbs:


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But the land whither ye goe to possesse it, is a land of mountaines and valleis, and drinketh water of the raine of heauen.


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This land doth the Lord thy God care for: the eies of the Lord thy God are alwaies vpon it, from the beginning of the yeere, euen vnto the ende of the yeere.


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If yee shall hearken therefore vnto my commaundements, which I commaund you this day, that yee loue the Lorde your God and serue him with all your heart, and with all your soule,


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That I will give [you] the rain of your land in his due season, <n>In the seed time, and toward harvest.</n> the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.


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Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not <n>By devising foolish devotions according to your own fantasies.</n> deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;


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And so the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and he shut vp the heauen, that there be no raine, and that your lande yeelde not her fruit, and yee perish quickly from the good land, which the Lord giueth you.


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Therefore shal ye lay vp these my words in your heart and in your soule, and binde them for a signe vpon your hand, that they may be as a frontlet betweene your eyes,


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And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them, whe thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest downe, and when thou risest vp.


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That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as <n>As long as the heavens and earth endure, (2Pe_3:10, 2Pe_3:12).</n> the days of heaven upon the earth.


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For if ye keepe diligently all these commandements, which I command you to doe: that is, to loue the Lord your God, to walke in all his waies, and to cleaue vnto him,


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Then will the Lorde cast out all these nations before you, and ye shall possesse great nations and mightier then you.


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Every place whereon the soles of <n>This was accomplished in David and Solomon's time.</n> your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost <n>The Mediterranean.</n> sea shall your coast be.


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No man shall stande against you: for the Lorde your God shall cast the feare and dread of you vpon all the land that ye shal treade vpon, as he hath said vnto you.


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And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not <n>He reproves the malice of men who leave that which is certain to follow that which is uncertain.</n> known.


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When the Lord thy God therefore hath brought thee into ye lande, whither thou goest to possesse it, then thou shalt put the blessing vpon mount Gerizim, and the curse vpon mount Ebal.


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[Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by the way <n>Meaning, in Samaria.</n> where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?


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For yee shall passe ouer Iorden, to goe in to possesse the land, which ye Lorde your God giueth you, and ye shall possesse it, &amp; dwell therein.


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Take heede therefore that ye doe all the commaundements and the lawes, which I set before you this day.


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These [are] the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God <n>By which they are admonished to seek no other God.</n> of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.


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Yee shall vtterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shal possesse, serued their gods vpon the hie mountaines and vpon the hilles, and vnder euery greene tree.


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And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their <n>In which they sacrificed to their idols.</n> groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.


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But ye shal seeke the place which the Lord your God shall chose out of all your tribes, to put his Name there, and there to dwell, and thither thou shalt come,


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And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave <n>Meaning, the first fruits.</n> offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:


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And there ye shall eat <n>Where his Ark shall be.</n> before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.


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Ye shall not do after all [the things] that we do <n>Not that they sacrificed after their fantasies, but that God would be served more purely in the land of Canaan.</n> here this day, every man whatsoever [is] right in his own eyes.


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But [when] ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and [when] he giveth you <n>It was not enough to conquer unless God maintained them in rest under his protection.</n> rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;


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When there shalbe a place which the Lord your God shall chose, to cause his name to dwell there, thither shall yee bring all that I commaund you: your burnt offrings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the offring of your hands, and all your speciall vowes which ye vowe vnto the Lord:


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And ye shall reioyce before the Lord your God, yee, and your sonnes &amp; your daughters, and your seruaunts, and your maidens, and the Leuite that is within your gates: for hee hath no part nor inheritance with you.


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But in the place which the LORD shall <n>As was declared ever by the placing of the ark in Shiloh 243 years, or as some write more that 300 years, and in other places till the temple was built.</n> choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.


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Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the <n>As God has given you power and ability.</n> blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, <n>Everyone may eat equally at home the beast appointed for sacrifice and the other.</n> as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.


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Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the <n>Meaning, whatever was offered to the Lord, may not be eaten, except where he had appointed.</n> tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:


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But thou shalt eate it before the Lorde thy God, in the place which the Lorde thy God shall chuse, thou, &amp; thy sonne, &amp; thy daughter, &amp; thy seruat, and thy maid, and the Leuite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt reioyce before the Lord thy God, in all that thou puttest thine hand to.


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When the Lorde thy God shall enlarge thy border, as hee hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I wil eate flesh, (because thine heart longeth to eate flesh) thou maiest eate flesh, whatsoeuer thine heart desireth.


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If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his Name there, be farre from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy bullockes, and of thy sheepe which the Lorde hath giuen thee, as I haue commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates, whatsoeuer thine heart desireth.


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Euen as the roe bucke, and the hart is eaten, so shalt thou eat them. both the vncleane and the cleane shall eate of them alike.


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Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood <n>Because the life of beasts is in their blood.</n> [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.


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Thou shalt not eat it, that it may go wel with thee; and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt doe that which is right in the sight of the Lord:


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Only thy <n>That which you will offer in sacrifice.</n> holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:


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And thou shalt make thy burnt offerings of the flesh, and of the blood vpon the altar of the Lorde thy God, and the blood of thine offerings shall bee powred vpon the altar of the Lorde thy God, and thou shalt eate the flesh.


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Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go <n>God by promise binds himself to do good to those who obey his word.</n> well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest [that which is] good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.


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When the Lorde thy God shall destroy the nations before thee, whither thou goest to possesse them, and thou shalt possesse them and dwell in their lande,


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Take heed to thyself that thou be not <n>By following their superstitions and idolatries, and thinking to serve me by it.</n> snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.


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Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have <n>They held nothing too dear to offer to their idols.</n> burnt in the fire to their gods.


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Therefore whatsoeuer I command you, take heede you doe it: thou shalt put nothing thereto, nor take ought therefrom.


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If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of <n>Who says that he has things revealed to him in dreams.</n> dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,


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And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, <n>He shows that to which the false prophets tend.</n> Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;


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Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God <n>God ordains all these things that his may be known.</n> proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


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Yee shall walke after the Lorde your God and feare him, and shall keepe his commaundements, and hearken vnto his voyce, and yee shall serue him, and cleaue vnto him.


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And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be <n>Being convicted by testimonies, and condemned by the judge.</n> put to death; because he hath spoken to turn [you] away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.


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If <n>All natural affection must give place to God's honour.</n> thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which [is] as thine own <n>Whom you love as your life.</n> soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;


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Any of the gods of the people which are round about you, neere vnto thee or farre off from thee, from the one ende of the earth vnto ye other:


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Thou shalt not cosent vnto him, nor heare him, neither shall thine eye pitie him, nor shewe mercie, nor keepe him secret:


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But thou shalt surely kill him; <n>As the witness is charged.</n> thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.


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And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he dye (because he hath gone about to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of ye land of Egypt, from ye house of bondage)


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If thou shalt heare say (concerning any of thy cities which the Lord thy God hath giuen thee to dwell in)


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Wicked men are gone out from among you, &amp; haue drawen away the inhabitants of their citie, saying, Let vs go and serue other gods, which ye haue not knowen,


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Then shalt <n>Which are appointed to see faults punished.</n> thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, [if it be] truth, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought among you;


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Thou shalt euen slay the inhabitants of that citie with the edge of the sworde: destroy it vtterly, and all that is therein, and the cattel thereof with the edge of the sworde.


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And <n>Signifying that no idolatry is so detestable, nor more grievously to be punished, than of those who once professed God.</n> thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.


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And there shall cleave nought of the <n>Of the spoil of that idolatrous and cursed city, read (Deu_7:26; Jos_7:11).</n> cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;


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When thou shalt obey the voyce of the Lord thy God, and keepe all his commandements which I command thee this day, that thou do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.


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Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Ye shall not cut yourselues, nor make you any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead.


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For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a <n>Therefore you should not follow the superstition of the Gentiles.</n> peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth.


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<n>This ceremonial Law instructed the Jews to seek a spiritual pureness, even in their meat and drink.</n>These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,


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The hart, and the roe buck, and the bugle, and the wilde goate, and the vnicorne, &amp; the wilde oxe, and the chamois.


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And euery beast that parteth ye hoofe, and cleaueth the clift into two clawes, and is of the beasts that cheweth the cudde, that shall ye eate.


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But these ye shall not eate, of them that chew the cud, and of them that deuide and cleaue the hoofe onely: ye camell, nor the hare, nor the cony: for they chewe the cudde, but deuide not ye hoofe: therefore they shall be vncleane vnto you:


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Also the swine, because he deuideth the hoofe, and cheweth not the cud, shalbe vncleane vnto you: ye shal not eate of their flesh, nor touch their dead carkeises.


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Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that <n>Because their blood was not shed, but remains in them.</n> dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the <n>Who is not of your religion.</n> stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.


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Thou shalt truly <n>The tithes were ordained for the maintenance of the Levites, who had no inheritance.</n> tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.


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And thou shalt eate before the Lorde thy God (in the place which he shall chose to cause his Name to dwell there) the tithe of thy corne, of thy wine, and of thine oyle, and the first borne of thy kine and of thy sheepe, that thou maiest learne to feare the Lord thy God alway.


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And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; [or] if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, <n>When he shall give thee abilities.</n> when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:


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Then shalt thou make it in money, and take the money in thine hand, and goe vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chose.


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And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: <n>After the Priest has received the Lord's part.</n> and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,


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And the Leuite that is within thy gates, shalt thou not forsake: for he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee.


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At the end of three years thou shalt <n>Besides the yearly tithes that were given to the Levites, these were laid up in store for the poor.</n> bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay [it] up within thy gates:


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Then ye Leuite shall come, because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherlesse, and the widowe, which are within thy gates, and shall eate, and be filled, that the Lord thy God may blesse thee in al the worke of thine hand which thou doest.


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And this [is] the manner of the release: Every <n>He shall only release his debtors, who are not able to pay for that year.</n> creditor that lendeth [ought] unto his neighbour shall release [it]; he shall not exact [it] of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.


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Of a stranger thou mayest require it: but that which thou hast with thy brother, thine hand shall remit:


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<n>For if your debtor is rich, he may be forced to pay.</n>Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess it:


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So that thou hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God to obserue and doe all these commandements, which I commande thee this day.


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For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee, as he hath promised thee: and thou shalt lend vnto many nations, but thou thy selfe shalt not borow, and thou shalt reigne ouer many nations, &amp; they shall not reigne ouer thee.


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If one of thy brethren with thee be poore within any of thy gates in thy land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poore brother:


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Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thine heart, to say, The seuenth yeere, the yeere of freedome is at hand: therefore it grieueth thee to looke on thy poore brother, and thou giuest him nought, and he crie vnto the Lorde against thee, so that sinne be in thee:


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Thou shalt giue him, and let it not grieue thine heart to giue vnto him: for because of this the Lord thy God shal blesse thee in al thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand to.


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<n>To try your charity, (Mat_26:11).</n>For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt <n>You shall be liberal.</n> open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.


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If thy brother an Ebrewe sell himselfe to thee, or an Ebrewesse, and serue thee sixe yeere, euen in the seuenth yeere thou shalt let him goe free from thee:


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Thou shalt <n>In token that you acknowledge the benefit which God has given you by his labours.</n> furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: [of that] wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.


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And remember that thou wast a seruant in the land of Egypt, &amp; the Lord thy God deliuered thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.


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And if he say vnto thee, I will not go away from thee, because he loueth thee &amp; thine house, and because he is well with thee,


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Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust [it] through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant <n>To the year of Jubile, (Lev_25:40).</n> for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.


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It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double <n>For the hired servant served but three years, and he six.</n> hired servant [to thee], in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.


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All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: <n>For they are the Lords.</n> thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.


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Thou shalt eate it before the Lord thy God yeere by yeere, in the place which the Lord shall chose, both thou, and thine household.


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But if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or haue any euill fault, thou shalt not offer it vnto the Lord thy God,


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Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean [person shall eat it] alike, <n>You will eat them, as well as the roe buck and other wild beasts.</n> as the roebuck, and as the hart.


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Observe the month of <n>Read (Exo_13:4).</n> Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.


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Thou shalt therefore <n>You shall eat the Easter lamb.</n> sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.


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Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, [even] the bread of <n>Which signified the affliction which you had in Egypt.</n> affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.


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And there shalbe no leauen seene with thee in all thy coastes seuen dayes long: neither shall there remaine the night any of the flesh vntil the morning which thou offeredst ye first day at euen.


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Thou mayest <n>This was chiefly accomplished, when the temple was built.</n> not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:


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But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the <n>Which was instituted to remind them of their deliverance our of Egypt and to encourage them in the hope of Jesus Christ, of whom this lamb was a figure.</n> passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.


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And thou shalt roste &amp; eate it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and shalt returne on the morowe, and goe vnto thy tentes.


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Six daies shalt thou eate vnleauened bread, and ye seuenth day shall be a solemne assemblie to ye Lord thy God thou shalt do no worke therei n.


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Seven weeks shalt thou <n>Beginning the next morning after the Passover, (Lev_23:15; Exo_13:4).</n> number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from [such time as] thou beginnest [to put] the sickle to the corn.


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And thou shalt keepe the feast of weekes vnto the Lord thy God, euen a free gift of thine hand, which thou shalt giue vnto the Lorde thy God, as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.


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And thou shalt reioyce before the Lord thy God, thou and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy seruant, and thy maide, and the Leuite that is within thy gates, &amp; the stranger, &amp; the fatherles, and the widowe, that are among you, in the place which the Lorde thy God shall chuse to place his Name there,


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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a seruant in Egypt: therefore thou shalt obserue and doe these ordinances.


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And thou shalt reioyce in thy feast, thou, and thy sonne, and thy daughter, and thy seruant, &amp; thy maid, &amp; the Leuite, &amp; the stranger, &amp; the fatherlesse, and the widow, that are wtin thy gates.


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Seuen daies shalt thou keepe a feast vnto the Lorde thy God in the place which the Lorde shall chuse: when the Lord thy God shall blesse thee in all thine increase, and in all the workes of thine hands, thou shalt in any case be glad.


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Three times in the yeere shall all the males appeare before the Lorde thy God in the place which he shall chuse: in the feast of the vnleauened bread, and in the feast of the weekes, and in the feast of the Tabernacles: and they shall not appeare before the Lord emptie.


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Every man [shall give] as he is <n>According to the ability that God has given him.</n> able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.


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<n>He gave temporary authority to the people to choose magistrates for themselves.</n>Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.


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Wrest not thou ye Law, nor respect any person, neither take rewarde: for the reward blindeth ye eyes of the wise, &amp; peruerteth ye worde of ye iust.


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That which <n>The magistrate must constantly follow the tenor of the law, and in noting decline from justice.</n> is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.


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Thou shalt plant thee no groue of any trees neere vnto the altar of the Lorde thy God, which thou shalt make thee.


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Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any] bullock, or sheep, wherein is <n>You shall not serve God for selfish means as the hypocrites do.</n> blemish, [or] any evilfavouredness: for that [is] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.


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If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or <n>Showing that the crime cannot be excused by the frailty of the person.</n> woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,


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And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not <n>By which he condemns all religion and serving of God which God has not commanded.</n> commanded;


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And it be tolde vnto thee, and thou hast heard it, then shalt thou inquire diligently: and if it be true, and the thing certaine, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,


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Then shalt thou bring foorth that man, or that woman (which haue committed that wicked thing) vnto thy gates, whether it be man or woman, &amp; shalt stone them with stones, til they die.


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At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he that is woorthie of death, die: but at the mouth of one witnesse, he shall not die.


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The hands of the <n>By which they declared that they testify the truth.</n> witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the <n>To signify a common consent to maintain God's honour and true religion.</n> people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.


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If there rise a matter too harde for thee in iudgemet betweene blood &amp; blood, betweene plea and plea, betweene plague and plague, in the matters of controuersie within thy gates, then shalt thou arise, and goe vp vnto the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse,


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And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the <n>Who will sentence as the priests counsel him by the Law of God.</n> judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:


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And thou shalt do according to that thing which they of that place (which the Lorde hath chosen) shewe thee, and thou shalt obserue to doe according to all that they informe thee.


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According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, <n>You shall obey their sentence that the controversy may have an end.</n> thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, [to] the right hand, nor [to] the left.


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And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to <n>So long as he is the true minister of God, and pronounces according to his word.</n> minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.


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Whe thou shalt come vnto ye land which the Lorde thy God giueth thee, and shalt possesse it, and dwell therein, if thou say, I will set a King ouer me, like as all the nations that are about me,


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Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: [one] from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a <n>Who is not from your nation, lest he change true religion into idolatry, and bring you to slavery.</n> stranger over thee, which [is] not thy brother.


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But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to <n>To avenge their injuries and to take their best horses from them; (1Ki_10:28).</n> Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.


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Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart <n>From the Law of God.</n> turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.


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And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this <n>Meaning, Deuteronomy.</n> law in a book out of [that which is] before the <n>He shall cause it to be written by them, or he shall write it by their example.</n> priests the Levites:


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And it shall be with him, and he shall reade therein all daies of his life, that he may learne to feare the Lord his God, &amp; to keepe all ye words of this Lawe, and these ordinances for to doe them:


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That his heart be not lifted up above his <n>By which is meant that kings should love their subjects as nature causes one brother to love another.</n> brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, [to] the right hand, or [to] the left: to the end that he may prolong [his] days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.


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The priests the Levites, [and] all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and his <n>That is, the Lord's part of his inheritance.</n> inheritance.


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Therefore shall they haue no inheritance among their brethren: for the Lorde is their inheritance, as he hath sayd vnto them.


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And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether [it be] ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the <n>The right shoulder, (Num_18:18).</n> shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.


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The first fruites also of thy corne, of thy wine, and of thine oyle, and the first of the fleece of thy sheepe shalt thou giue him.


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For the Lorde thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stande and minister in the Name of the Lord, him, and his sonnes for euer.


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And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with <n>Meaning, to serve God whole heartedly, and not to seek ease.</n> all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;


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He shall then minister in the Name of the Lorde his God, as all his brethren the Leuites, which remaine there before the Lord.


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They shall have like portions to eat, <n>Not forced to live from himself.</n> beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.


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When thou shalt come into ye land which the Lorde thy God giueth thee, thou shalt not learne to do after ye abominatios of those nations.


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There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to <n>Signifying they were purged by this ceremony of passing between two fires.</n> pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,


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For all that doe such things are abomination vnto the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lorde thy God doeth cast them out before thee.


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For these nations which thou shalt possesse, hearken vnto those that regarde the times, and vnto sorcerers: as for thee, the Lorde thy God hath not suffred thee so.


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The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a <n>Meaning, a continual succession of prophets, till Christ, the end of all prophets, comes.</n> Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;


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According to al that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, in the day of the assemblie, when thou saidest, Let me heare the voice of my Lorde God no more, nor see this great fire any more, that I die not.


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I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his <n>A promise not only made to Christ, but to all that teach in his name, (Isa_59:21).</n> mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.


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And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will <n>By executing punishment on him.</n> require [it] of him.


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But the prophet that shall presume to speake a worde in my name, which I haue not commanded him to speake, or that speaketh in the name of other gods, euen the same prophet shall die.


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When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing <n>Under this sure note he comprises all the other tokens.</n> follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.


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When the Lorde thy God shall roote out the nations, whose lande the Lorde thy God giueth thee, and thou shalt possesse them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses,


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Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the middes of thy lande which the Lorde thy God giueth thee to possesse it.


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Thou shalt <n>Make an open and ready way.</n> prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every <n>Who killed against his will, and bore no hatred in his heart.</n> slayer may flee thither.


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This also is ye cause wherfore the manslaier shal flee thither, and liue: who so killeth his neighbor ignorantly, and hated him not in time passed:


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As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he <n>That murder not be committed on murder.</n> shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:


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Least the auenger of the blood followe after the manslaier, while his heart is chafed, and ouertake him, because the way is long, and slaie him, although he be not worthy of death, because he hated him not in time passed.


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And if the LORD thy God <n>When you go over Jordan to possess the whole land of Canaan.</n> enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;


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(If thou keepe all these commaundements to doe them, which I commaund thee this day: to wit, that thou loue the Lord thy God, and walke in his waies for euer) then shalt thou adde three cities moe for thee besides those three,


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That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance, and <n>Lest you be punished for innocent blood.</n> [so] blood be upon thee.


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But if a man hate his neighbour, and lay waite for him, and rise against him, and smite any man that he die, and flee vnto any of these cities,


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Then the <n>The magistrates.</n> elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.


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Thine <n>Then whoever pardons murder, goes against the word of God.</n> eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away [the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.


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Thou shalt not remooue thy neighbours marke, which they of olde time haue set in thine inheritance, that thou shalt inherite in the lande, which ye Lorde thy God giueth thee to possesse it.


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One witnes shall not rise against a man for any trespasse, or for any sinne, or for any fault that hee offendeth in, but at the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses shall the matter be stablished.


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Then both the men, between whom the controversy [is], shall stand before the <n>God's presence where his true ministers are assembled.</n> LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;


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And the Iudges shall make diligent inquisition: and if the witnesse be found false, and hath giuen false witnes against his brother,


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Then shall yee doe vnto him as hee had thought to doe vnto his brother: so thou shalt take euil away forth of the middes of thee.


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And the rest shal heare this, and feare, and shall henceforth commit no more any such wickednes among you.


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Therefore thine eye shall have no compassion, but life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foote for foote.


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When <n>Meaning, upon just occasion: for God does not permit his people to fight every time it seems good to them.</n> thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.


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And when ye are come nere vnto the battel, then the Priest shal come forth to speake vnto the people,


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And shal say vnto them, Heare, O Israel: ye are come this day vnto battell against your enemies: let not your heartes faynt, neither feare, nor be amased, nor adread of them.


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For the LORD your God [is] he that <n>Is present to defend you with his grace and power.</n> goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.


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And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man [is there] that hath built a new house, and hath not <n>For when they first entered to dwell in a house, they gave thanks to God, acknowledging that they had that benefit by his grace.</n> dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.


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And what man [is he] that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not [yet] <n>The Hebrew word signifies to make common or profane, (Lev_19:25)</n> eaten of it? let him [also] go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.


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And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and returne againe vnto his house, lest he die in the battell, and another man take her.


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And let the officers speake further vnto the people, and say, Whosoeuer is afrayde and faynt hearted, let him go &amp; returne vnto his house, least his brethrens heart faynt like his heart.


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And after that the officers haue made an ende of speaking vnto the people, they shal make captaines of the armie to gouerne the people.


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And it shall be, if it make thee answer of <n>If it accept peace.</n> peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, [that] all the people [that is] found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.


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And the Lord thy God shall deliuer it into thine handes, and thou shalt smite all the males thereof with the edge of the sworde.


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Onely the women, &amp; the children, &amp; the cattel, &amp; all that is in the citie, euen all the spoyle thereof shalt thou take vnto thy selfe, and shalt eate the spoyle of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath giuen thee.


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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are] very far off from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these <n>For God had appointed the Canaanites to be destroyed, and made the Israelites the executers of his will, (Deu_7:1).</n> nations.


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But of the cities of this people, which the Lorde thy God shall giue thee to inherite, thou shalt saue no person aliue,


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But shalt vtterly destroy them: to wit, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, &amp; the Perizzites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee,


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That they teache you not to doe after all their abominations, which they haue done vnto their gods, &amp; so ye should sinne against the Lorde your God.


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When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the <n>Some read: For man shall be instead of the tree of the field, to come out in the siege against you.</n> tree of the field [is] man's [life]) to employ [them] in the siege:


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Onely those trees, which thou knowest are not for meate, those shalt thou destroy and cut downe, &amp; make fortes against the citie that maketh warre with thee, vntil thou subdue it.


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If [one] be found <n>This law declares how horrible murder is, seeing that because of one man a whole country will be punished, unless remedy is found.</n> slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be not known who hath slain him:


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Then thine Elders &amp; thy Iudges shal come forth, and measure vnto the cities that are round about him that is slayne.


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Aud let ye Elders of that citie, which is next vnto the slaine man, take out of the droue an heifer that hath not bene put to labour, nor hath drawen in the yoke.


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And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough <n>That the blood shed of the innocent beasts in a solitary place, might make them abhor the fact.</n> valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:


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Also the Priests the sonnes of Leui (whom the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister, &amp; to blesse in the name of the Lorde) shal come forth, &amp; by their word shal all strife &amp; plague be tried.


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And all the Elders of that citie that came neere to the slayne man, shal wash their hands ouer the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:


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Be merciful, <n>This was the prayer, which the priests made in the audience of the people.</n> O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.


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So shalt thou take away the cry of innocet blood from thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.


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Whe thou shalt go to warre against thine enemies, &amp; the Lord thy God shal deliuer them into thine hands, &amp; thou shalt take the captiues,


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And shalt see among the captiues a beautifull woman, and hast a desire vnto her, &amp; wouldest take her to thy wife,


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Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; <n>Signifying that her former life must be changed before she could be joined to the people of God.</n> and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;


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And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, <n>As having renounced parents and country.</n> and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy <n>This was only allowed in the wars, otherwise the Israelites could not marry strangers.</n> wife.


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And if thou haue no fauour vnto her, then thou mayest let her go whither she will, but thou shalt not sell her for money, nor make marchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.


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If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another <n>This declares that the plurality of wives came from a corrupt affection.</n> hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the firstborn son be hers that was hated:


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Then when the time commeth, that hee appointeth his sonnes to be heires of that which he hath, he may not make the sonne of the beloued first borne before the sonne of the hated, which is the first borne:


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But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated [for] the firstborn, by giving him a <n>As much as to two of the others.</n> double portion of all that he hath: for he [is] the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn [is] <n>Unless he is unworthy, as Reuben, Jacob's son, was.</n> his.


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If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his <n>For it is the mother's duty also to instruct her children.</n> mother, and [that], when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:


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Then shall his father and his mother take him, &amp; bring him out vnto the Elders of his citie, &amp; vnto the gate of the place where he dwelleth,


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And shall say vnto the Elders of his citie, This our sonne is stubburne and disobedient, and he wil not obey our admonition: he is a ryotour, and a drunkard.


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And all the men of his city shall <n>A death which was also appointed for blasphemers and idolaters: so that to disobey the parents is most horrible.</n> stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.


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If a man also haue committed a trespasse worthy of death, and is put to death, &amp; thou hangest him on a tree,


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His body shall not remain <n>For God's law is satisfied by his death, and nature abhors cruelty.</n> all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.


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Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and <n>As though your did not see it.</n> hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.


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And if thy brother [be] not <n>Showing that brotherly affection must be shown, not only to those who dwell near to us, but also to those who are far off.</n> nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.


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In like manner shalt thou do with his <n>You are bound to do much more for your neighbour.</n> ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.


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Thou shalt not see thy brothers asse nor his oxe fal downe by the way, and withdrawe thy selfe from them, but shalt lift them vp with him.


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The <n>For that alters the order of nature, and shows that you despise God.</n> woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.


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If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, [whether they be] young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, <n>If God detests cruelty done to little birds, how much more to man, made according to his image?</n> thou shalt not take the dam with the young:


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But shalt in any wise let the damme go, &amp; take the yong to thee, that thou mayest prosper and prolong thy dayes.


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When thou buildest a newe house, thou shalt make a battlemet on thy roofe, that thou lay not blood vpo thine house, if any man fal thence.


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Thou shalt not <n>The tenor of this law is to walk in simplicity and not to be curious about new fads.</n> sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.


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Thou shalt make thee fringes vpon the foure quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou couerest thy selfe.


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And give <n>That is, be an occasion that she is slandered.</n> occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:


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Then shal the father of the mayde and her mother take and bring the signes of the maydes virginitie vnto the Elders of the citie to the gate.


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And the maydes father shall say vnto the Elders, I gaue my daughter vnto this man to wife, and he hateth her:


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And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the <n>Meaning, the sheet, in which the signs of her virginity were.</n> cloth before the elders of the city.


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And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father <n>For the fault of the child becomes the shame of the parents: therefore he was recompensed when she was faultless.</n> of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.


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Then shall they bring forth the mayde to the doore of her fathers house, &amp; the men of her citie shal stone her with stones to death: for shee hath wrought follie in Israel, by playing ye whore in her fathers house: so thou shalt put euill away from among you.


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If a man be found lying with a woman marryed to a man, then they shall dye euen both twaine: to wit, the man that lay with the wife, &amp; the wife: so thou shalt put away euil from Israel.


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Then shall yee bring them both out vnto the gates of the same citie, and shall stone them with stones to death: the mayde because she cried not, being in the citie, &amp; the man, because he hath humbled his neighbours wife: so thou shalt put away euill from among you.


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But if a man finde a betrothed mayde in the field, and force her, and lye with her, then the man that lay with her, shal dye alone:


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But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so <n>Meaning, that the innocent cannot be punished.</n> [is] this matter:


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Then the man that lay with her, shall giue vnto the maydes father fiftie shekels of siluer: and she shalbe his wife, because he hath humbled her: he can not put her away all his life.


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A man shall not <n>He shall not lie with his stepmother, meaning by this all other variations forbidden in (Lev. 18:1-30).</n> take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.


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He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, <n>Either to bear office, or to marry a wife.</n> shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.


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<n>This was to cause them to live chastely, that their posterity might not be rejected.</n>A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.


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The Ammonites and the Moabites shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord: euen to their tenth generation shal they not enter into the Congregation of the Lord for euer,


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Because they <n>By this he condemns all who do not aid the children of God in their calling.</n> met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.


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Neuerthelesse, the Lorde thy God would not hearken vnto Balaam, but the Lord thy God turned the curse to a blessing vnto thee, because the Lord thy God loued thee.


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Thou <n>You shall have nothing to do with them.</n> shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.


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Thou shalt not abhorre an Edomite: for he is thy brother, neither shalt thou abhorre an Egyptian, because thou wast a strager in his land.


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The children that are begotten <n>If the fathers have renounced their idolatry, and received circumcision.</n> of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.


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But at euen he shall wash him selfe with water, and when the sunne is downe, he shall enter into the hoste.


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And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and <n>Meaning by this that his people should be pure both in body and soul.</n> cover that which cometh from thee:


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For the Lord thy God walketh in the mids of thy campe to deliuer thee, and to giue thee thine enemies before thee: therefore thine hoste shalbe holy, that he see no filthie thing in thee and turne away from thee.


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Thou shalt not <n>This is meant of the heathen, who fled because of their masters' cruelty, and embrace the true religion.</n> deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:


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He shall dwell with thee, euen among you, in what place he shal chuse, in one of thy cities where it liketh him best: thou shalt not vexe him.


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There shalbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, neither shal there be a whore keeper of the sonnes of Israel.


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Thou shalt not bring the <n>Forbidding that any income gained from evil things should be applied to the service of God, (Mic_2:7).</n> hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.


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Thou shalt not giue to vsurie to thy brother: as vsurie of money, vsurie of meate, vsurie of any thing that is put to vsurie.


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Unto a <n>This was permitted for a time because of the hardness of their hearts.</n> stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may <n>If you show charity to your brother, God will declare his love toward you.</n> bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.


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When thou shalt vowe a vowe vnto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not be slacke to paye it: for the Lorde thy God will surely require it of thee, and so it should be sinne vnto thee.


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That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt <n>If the vow is lawful and godly.</n> keep and perform; [even] a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.


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When thou comest into <n>Being hired for labour.</n> thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put [any] in thy <n>To bring home to your house.</n> vessel.


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When thou commest into thy neighbours corne thou mayest plucke the eares with thine hand, but thou shalt not moue a sickle to thy neighbours corne.


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When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: <n>By this God does not approve light divorcement, but permits it to avoid further inconvenience; (Mat_19:7).</n> then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.


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And if the latter husband hate her, &amp; write her a letter of diuorcement, &amp; put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, or if the latter man die which tooke her to wife:


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Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is <n>Seeing that by divorcing her he judged her to be unclean and defiled.</n> defiled; for that [is] abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.


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When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, <n>That they might learn to know one another's conditions, and so afterward live in godly peace.</n> neither shall he be charged with any business: [but] he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.


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No man shall take the nether or the upper <n>Not anything by which a man gets his living.</n> millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.


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If any man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh marchandise of him, or selleth him, that thiefe shal die: so shalt thou put euil away from among you.


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Take heede of the plague of leprosie, that thou obserue diligently, and doe according to all that the Priestes of the Leuites shall teach you: take heede ye doe as I commanded them.


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When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go <n>As though you would appoint what to have, but shall receive what be may spare.</n> into his house to fetch his pledge.


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But thou shalt stand without, and the man that borowed it of thee, shall bring the pledge out of the doores vnto thee.


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In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee <n>Though he would be unthankful, yet God will not forget it.</n> before the LORD thy God.


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Thou shalt not oppresse an hyred seruant that is needie and poore, neyther of thy brethren, nor of the stranger that is in thy land within thy gates.


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Thou shalt giue him his hire for his day, neither shall the sunne goe downe vpon it: for he is poore, and therewith susteineth his life: lest he crye against thee vnto the Lorde, and it be sinne vnto thee.


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The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children put to death for the fathers, but euery man shalbe put to death for his owne sinne.


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Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the <n>Because the world valued these people least, therefore God has most care over them.</n> stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:


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But remember that thou wast a seruant in Egypt, and howe the Lorde thy God deliuered thee thence. Therefore I commaund thee to doe this thing.


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When thou cuttest downe thine haruest in thy fielde, and hast forgotten a sheafe in the fielde, thou shalt not goe againe to fet it, but it shalbe for the stranger, for the fatherles, &amp; for the widowe: that the Lorde thy God may blesse thee in all the workes of thine hands.


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When thou beatest thine oliue tree, thou shalt not goe ouer the boughes againe, but it shalbe for the stranger, for the fatherlesse, and for the widowe.


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When thou gatherest thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather the grapes cleane after thee, but they shalbe for the stranger, for the fatherlesse, and for the widowe.


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And thou shalt remember that thou wast <n>God judged them not mindful of his beasts, unless they were beneficial to others.</n> a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.


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If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, <n>Whether there is a plaintiff or not, the magistrates should try our faults, and punish according to the crime.</n> that [the judges] may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.


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And it shall be, if the wicked man [be] worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, <n>When the crime does not deserve death.</n> and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.


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<n>The superstition Jews later removed one, (2Co_11:24).</n>Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not exceed: lest, [if] he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.


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If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her <n>Because the Hebrew word does not signify the natural brother, and the word that signifies a brother, is taken also for a kinsman: it seems that it does not mean that the natural brother should marry his brothers wife, but some other kindred that was in the degree that might marry.</n> husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.


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And the first borne which she beareth, shall succeede in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.


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And if the man will not take his kinsewoman, then let his kinsewoman goe vp to the gate vnto the Elders, and say, My kinsman refuseth to rayse vp vnto his brother a name in Israel: hee will not doe the office of a kinsman vnto me.


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Then the Elders of his citie shall call him, and commune with him: if he stand and say, I wil not take her,


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Then shall his kinswoman come vnto him in the presence of the Elders, and loose his shooe from his foote, and spit in his face, and answere, and say, So shall it be done vnto that man, that will not buylde vp his brothers house.


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<n>This law imputes that godly shamefacedness is preferred: for it is a horrible thing to see a woman past shame.</n>When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:


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But thou shalt haue a right &amp; iust weight: a perfite and a iust measure shalt thou haue, that thy dayes may be lengthened in the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.


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For all that doe such things, and all that doe vnrighteously, are abomination vnto the Lord thy God.


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How he met thee by ye way, &amp; smote ye hindmost of you, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast fainted &amp; weary, &amp; he feared not God.


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Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess it, [that] thou shalt blot out the <n>This was partly accomplished by Saul, about 450 years later.</n> remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget [it].


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Also when thou shalt come into the lande which the Lord thy God giueth thee for inheritance, and shalt possesse it, &amp; dwell therein,


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<n>By this ceremony they acknowledged that they received the land of Canaan as a free gift from God.</n>That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put [it] in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to <n>To be called upon, served and worshipped spiritually, (Deu_12:5).</n> place his name there.


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And thou shalt come vnto the Priest, that shall be in those dayes, and say vnto him, I acknowledge this day vnto the Lord thy God, that I am come vnto the countrey which the Lorde sware vnto our fathers for to giue vs.


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Then the Priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, &amp; set it downe before the altar of the Lord thy God.


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And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A <n>Meaning, Jacob, who served 20 years in Syria.</n> Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, <n>Only by God's mercy, and not by their father's deserving.</n> and populous:


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And when we <n>Alleging the promises made to our fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.</n> cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:


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And the Lord brought vs out of Egypt in a mightie hande, and a stretched out arme, with great terriblenesse, both in signes and wonders.


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And he hath brought vs into this place, &amp; hath giuen vs this land, euen a lande that floweth with milke and hony.


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And now, behold, I have <n>In token of a thankful heart, and mindful of this benefit.</n> brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:


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And thou shalt rejoice in every good [thing] which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine <n>Signifying that God does not give us goods for ourselves only, but to be used also by those who are committed to our charge.</n> house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that [is] among you.


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When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tythes of thine increase, the thirde yeere, which is the yeere of tithing, and hast giuen it vnto the Leuite, to the stranger, to the fatherlesse, &amp; to the widowe, that they may eate within thy gates, and be satisfied,


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Then thou shalt <n>Without hypocrisy.</n> say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of [mine] house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not <n>Of malice and contempt.</n> transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten [them]:


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I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away [ought] thereof for [any] unclean [use], nor given [ought] thereof for the dead: [but] I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, [and] have done <n>As far as my sinful nature would allow: or else as David and Paul say, there is not one just, (Psa_14:3; Rom_3:10).</n> according to all that thou hast commanded me.


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Looke downe from thine holy habitation, euen from heauen, and blesse thy people Israel, &amp; the lande which thou hast giuen vs (as thou swarest vnto our fathers) the land that floweth with milke and hony.


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This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with <n>With a good and simple conscience.</n> all thine heart, and with all thy soul.


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Thou hast set vp the Lorde this day to be thy God, and to walke in his wayes, and to keepe his ordinances, and his commandements, and his lawes, and to hearken vnto his voyce.


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<n>Signifying that there is a mutual bond between God and his people.</n>And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that [thou] shouldest keep all his commandments;


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And to make thee high aboue al nations (which he hath made) in praise, &amp; in name, and in glory, &amp; that thou shouldest be an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, as he hath said.


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And Moses with the elders of Israel <n>As God's minister and charged with the same.</n> commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.


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And when ye shal passe ouer Iorden vnto the lande which the Lorde thy God giueth thee, thou shalt set thee vp great stones, and playster them with plaister,


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<n>God would have his law set up in the borders of the land of Canaan, that all that looked on it might know that the land was dedicated to his service.</n>And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.


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Therefore when ye shal passe ouer Iorden, ye shal set vp these stones, which I command you this daye in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.


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And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up [any] <n>The altar should not be curiously wrought, because it would continue but for a time: for God would have only one altar in Judah.</n> iron [tool] upon them.


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Thou shalt make the altar of the Lord thy God of whole stones, and offer burnt offerings thereon vnto the Lord thy God.


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And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law <n>That everyone may well read it, and understand it.</n> very plainly.


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And Moses &amp; the Priestes of the Leuites spake vnto all Israel, saying, Take heede &amp; heare, O Israel: this day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God.


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Thou <n>This condition has bound you to it, that if you will be his people, you must keep his laws.</n> shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.


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These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and <n>Meaning, Ephraim and Manasseh.</n> Joseph, and Benjamin:


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And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to <n>Signifying, that if they would not obey God out of love, they would be made to obey out of fear.</n> curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.


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Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten <n>Under this he contains all the corruptions of God's service, and the transgression of the first table.</n> image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth [it] in [a] secret [place]. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.


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Cursed [be] he that <n>Or, condemns; and this applies to the second table.</n> setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed [be] he that removeth his neighbour's <n>He condemns all injuries and extortions.</n> landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed [be] he that maketh the <n>Meaning, that does not help and counsel his neighbour.</n> blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that hindreth the right of the stranger, the fatherles, and the widow: And all the people shal say: So be it.


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Cursed [be] he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's <n>In committing wickedness against him, (Lev_20:11; Deu_22:30; Eze_22:10)</n> skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that lyeth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother: And all the people shal say: So be it.


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Cursed [be] he that lieth with his <n>Meaning, his wife's mother.</n> mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed [be] he that smiteth his neighbour <n>For God that sees in secret, will avenge it.</n> secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.


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Cursed be he that taketh a reward to put to death innocent blood: And all the people shal say: So be it.


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Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the wordes of this Law, to do them: And all the people shal say: So be it.


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And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will <n>He will make you the most excellent of all people.</n> set thee on high above all nations of the earth:


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And all these blessings shall come on thee, and <n>When you think you are forsaken.</n> overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.


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Blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the <n>You will live richly.</n> city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.


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Blessed [shall be] the fruit <n>Your children and succession.</n> of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.


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Blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou <n>All your enterprises will have good success.</n> comest in, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.


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The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee <n>Meaning many ways.</n> seven ways.


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The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine <n>God will bless us, if we do our duty and are not idle.</n> hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.


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The Lorde shal make thee an holy people vnto himself, as he hath sworne vnto thee, if thou shalt keepe the commandements of the Lord thy God, and walke in his wayes.


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And all people of the earth shall see that thou art <n>In that he is your God, and you are his people.</n> called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.


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And the Lord shal make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruite of thy body, and in the fruite of thy cattell, and in the fruite of thy grounde, in the land which the Lorde sware vnto thy fathers, to giue thee.


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The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the <n>For nothing in the earth is profitable but when God sends his blessings from heaven.</n> heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.


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And the Lord shal make thee the head, &amp; not the tayle, &amp; thou shalt be aboue onely, and shalt not bee beneath, if thou obey the commandements of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to keepe and to do them.


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But thou shalt not decline from any of the wordes, which I command you this day, either to the right hand or to the left, to goe after other gods to serue them.


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But if thou wilt not obey the voyce of the Lord thy God, to keepe &amp; to do all his commandementes and his ordinances, which I command thee this day, then al these curses shal come vpon thee, and ouertake thee.


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Cursed shall be the fruite of thy body, and the fruite of thy land, the increase of thy kine, &amp; the flockes of thy sheepe.


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The Lorde shall sende vpon thee cursing, trouble, &amp; shame, in all that which thou settest thine hand to do, vntil thou be destroyed, and perish quickely, because of the wickednesse of thy workes whereby thou hast forsaken me.


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The Lord shall make the pestilence cleaue vnto thee, vntill he hath consumed thee from the land, whither thou goest to possesse it.


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The Lorde shall smite thee with a consumption, and with the feuer, and with a burning ague, and with feruent heate, &amp; with the sworde, and with blasting, and with the mildew, &amp; they shal pursue thee vntill thou perish.


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And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be <n>It will give you no more moisture than if it were of brass.</n> brass, and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron.


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The Lorde shal giue thee for the rayne of thy land, dust &amp; ashes: euen from heauen shal it come downe vpon thee, vntil thou be destroyed.


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The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be <n>Some read, you shall be a terror and fear, when they hear how God has plagued you.</n> removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.


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And thy <n>You will be cursed both in your life and in your death: for the burial is a testimony of the resurrection a sign you will lack because of your wickedness.</n> carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray [them] away.


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The Lord wil smite thee with the botch of Egypt, &amp; with the emeroids, &amp; with the skab, and with the itche, that thou canst not be healed.


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And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the <n>In things most evident and clear you will lack discretion and judgment.</n> blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].


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Thou shalt betroth a wife, &amp; another man shal lye with her: thou shalt builde an house, and shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not eate the fruite.


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Thine oxe shalbe slayne before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eate thereof: thine asse shall be violently taken away before thy face, and shal not be restored to thee: thy sheepe shalbe giuen vnto thine enemies, and no man shal rescue them for thee.


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Thy sons and thy daughters [shall be] given unto another people, and thine eyes <n>When they will return from their captivity.</n> shall look, and fail [with longing] for them all the day long: and [there shall be] no might in thine hand.


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The fruite of thy land and all thy labours shall a people, which thou knowest not, eate, and thou shalt neuer but suffer wrong, and violence always:


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The Lord shal smite thee in the knees, and in the thighes, with a sore botche, that thou canst not be healed: euen from the sole of thy foote vnto the top of thine head.


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The LORD shall bring thee, and thy <n>As he did Manasseh, Joiakim, Zedekiah and others.</n> king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.


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And thou shalt be a wonder, a prouerbe and a common talke among all people, whither the Lord shall carie thee.


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Thou shalt carie out much seede into the fielde, and shalt gather but litle in: for the grashoppers shall destroy it.


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Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dresse it, but shalt neither drinke of the wine, nor gather the grapes: for the wormes shall eate it.


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Thou shalt haue Oliue trees in all thy coastes, but shalt not anoynt thy selfe with the oyle: for thine oliues shall fall.


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Thou shalt beget sonnes, and daughters, but shalt not haue them: for they shall goe into captiuitie.


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All thy trees and fruit of thy land <n>Under one kind he contains all the vermin, which destroy the fruit of the land: and this is an evident token of God's curse.</n> shall the locust consume.


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The straunger that is among you, shall clime aboue thee vp on hie, and thou shalt come downe beneath alow.


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Moreouer, all these curses shall come vpon thee, and shall pursue thee and ouertake thee, till thou be destroyed, because thou obeyedst not the voyce of the Lorde thy God, to keepe his commaundements, and his ordinances, which he commanded thee:


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Because thou seruedst not the Lorde thy God with ioyfulnesse and with a good heart for the abundance of all things.


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Therefore thou shalt serue thine enemies which the Lord shal send vpon thee, in hunger &amp; in thirst, and in nakednesse, and in neede of all things? And he shall put a yoke of yron vpon thy necke vntill he haue destroyed thee.


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The Lord shall bring a nation vpon thee from farre, euen from the ende of the world, flying swift as an Egle: a nation whose tongue thou shalt not vnderstand:


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A nation of a fierce countenance, which will not regarde the person of the olde, nor haue compassion of the yong.


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The same shall eate the fruit of thy cattell, and the fruite of thy land vntill thou be destroyed, and he shall leaue thee neyther wheate, wine, nor oyle, neither the increase of thy kyne, nor the flockes of thy sheepe, vntill he haue brought thee to nought.


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And he shall besiege thee in all thy cities, vntill thine hie and strong walles fall downe, wherein thou trustedst in all the lande: and hee shall besiege thee in all thy cities throughout all thy lande, which the Lorde thy God hath giuen thee.


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And thou shalt eate the fruite of thy bodie: euen the flesh of thy sonnes and thy daughters, which the Lorde thy God hath giuen thee, during the siege &amp; straitnesse wherein thine enemie shall inclose thee:


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So that the man (that is tender and exceeding deintie among you) shalbe grieued at his brother, and at his wife, that lieth in his bosome, and at the remnant of his children, which hee hath yet left,


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For feare of giuing vnto any of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eate, because he hath nothing left him in that siege, and straitnesse, wherewith thine enemie shall besiege thee in all thy cities.


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The tender and delicate <n>As came to pass in the days of Joram king of Israel, (2Ki_6:28) and when the Romans besieged Jerusalem.</n> woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,


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And toward her <n>Hunger will so bite her, that she will be ready to eat her child before it is delivered.</n> young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.


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If thou wilt not observe to do <n>For he that offends in one, is guilty of all, (Jam_2:10)</n> all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;


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The the Lord wil make thy plagues wonderfull, and the plagues of thy seede, euen great plagues and of long continuance, and sore diseases, and of long durance.


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Moreouer, he will bring vpon thee all the diseases of Egypt, whereof thou wast afraide, and they shall cleaue vnto thee.


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Also every sickness, and every plague, which [is] not <n>Declaring, that God has infinite means to plague the wicked, besides those that are ordinary or written.</n> written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.


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And ye shall be left few in nomber, where ye were as the starres of heauen in multitude, because thou wouldest not obey the voyce of the Lord thy God.


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And as the Lord hath reioyced ouer you, to doe you good, and to multiply you, so he will reioyce ouer you, to destroy you, and bring you to nought, and ye shalbe rooted out of the land, whither thou goest to possesse it.


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And the LORD shall <n>Signifying that it is a singular gift from God to be in a place where we may worship God purely and declare our faith and religion.</n> scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, [even] wood and stone.


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Also among these nations thou shalt finde no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foote haue rest: for the Lord shal giue thee there a trembling heart, and looking to returne till thine eyes fall out, and a sorowfull minde.


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And thy life shall hang before thee, and thou shalt feare both night and day, and shalt haue none assurance of thy life.


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In the morning thou shalt say, Woulde God it were euening, and at the euening thou shalt say, Would God it were morning, for ye feare of thine heart, which thou shalt feare, and for the sight of thine eyes, which thou shalt see.


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And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with <n>Because they were unmindful of that miracle, when the sea made room for them to pass through.</n> ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [you].


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These [are] the <n>That is, the articles, or conditions.</n> words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in <n>At the first giving of the law, which was forty years earlier.</n> Horeb.


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And Moses called all Israel, and said vnto them, Ye haue seene all that the Lorde did before your eyes in the lande of Egypt vnto Pharaoh and vnto all his seruantes, and vnto all his lande,


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The <n>The proofs of my power.</n> great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:


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Yet the LORD hath not <n>He shows that it is not in man's power to understand the mysteries of God if it is not given to him from above.</n> given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.


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And I haue led you fourty yere in the wildernesse: your clothes are not waxed olde vpon you, neyther is thy shooe waxed olde vpon thy foote.


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Ye have not eaten <n>Made by man's art, but manna, which is called the bread of angels.</n> bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God.


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After, ye came vnto this place, and Sihon King of Heshbon, and Og King of Bashan came out against vs vnto battell, and we slewe them,


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And tooke their lande, and gaue it for an inheritance vnto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the halfe tribe of Manasseh.


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Keepe therefore the wordes of this couenant and doe them, that ye may prosper in all that ye shall doe.


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Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your <n>Who knows your hearts, and therefore you may not think to conceal from him.</n> God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the men of Israel,


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Your children, your wiues, and thy stranger that is in thy campe from the hewer of thy wood, vnto the drawer of thy water,


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That thou shouldest <n>Alluding to them, that when they made a sure covenant, divided a beast in two, and past between the parts divided, (Gen_15:10).</n> enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:


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For to establish thee this day a people vnto him selfe, and that he may be vnto thee a God, as he hath said vnto thee, and as he hath sworne vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob.


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But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with [him] <n>Meaning, their posterity.</n> that [is] not here with us this day:


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For ye knowe, how we haue dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we passed thorowe the middes of the nations, which ye passed by.


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And ye haue seene their abominations and their idoles (wood, and stone, siluer and golde) which were among them,


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Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go [and] serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you <n>Such sin, as the bitter fruit of it might choke and destroy you.</n> a root that beareth gall and wormwood;


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And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add <n>For as he that is thirsty desires to drink much so he that follows his appetites seeks by all means and yet cannot be satisfied.</n> drunkenness to thirst:


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The Lord will not be mercifull vnto him, but then the wrath of the Lorde and his ielousie shall smoke against that man, and euery curse that is written in this booke, shall light vpon him, and the Lorde shall put out his name from vnder heauen,


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And the Lord shall separate him vnto euil out of all the tribes of Israel, according vnto all the curses of the couenant, that is written in the booke of this Lawe.


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So that the <n>God's plagues on those who rebel against him will be so strong, that all ages will be astonished.</n> generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;


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(For all that land shall burne with brimstone and salt: it shall not be sowen, nor bring forth, nor any grasse shall growe therein, like as in the ouerthrowing of Sodom, and Gomorah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord ouerthrewe in his wrath and in his anger)


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Then shall all nations say, Wherefore hath the Lorde done thus vnto this lande? how fierce is this great wrath?


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And they shall answere, Because they haue forsaken the couenant of the Lorde God of their fathers, which he had made with them, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,


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And went and serued other gods and worshipped them: euen gods which they knewe not, and which had giuen them nothing,


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Therefore the wrath of the Lorde waxed hot against this land, to bring vpon it euery curse that is written in this booke.


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And ye Lord hath rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and hath cast them into another land, as appeareth this day.


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The <n>Moses by this proves their curiosity, who seek those things that are only known to God: and their negligence who do not regard that which God has revealed to them, as the law.</n> secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that [we] may do all the words of this law.


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And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt <n>By calling to mind both his mercies and his plagues.</n> call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,


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And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine <n>In true repentance there is no hypocrisy.</n> heart, and with all thy soul;


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Then the Lord thy God wil cause thy captiues to returne, and haue compassion vpon thee, and wil returne, to gather thee out of all the people, where the Lord thy God had scattered thee.


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If [any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of <n>Even to the worlds end.</n> heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he <n>And bring you into your country.</n> fetch thee:


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And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, &amp; thou shalt possesse it, and he will shewe thee fauour, and will multiplie thee aboue thy fathers.


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And the LORD thy God will <n>God will purge all your wicked affections, a thing that is not in your own power to do.</n> circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.


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And the Lorde thy God will lay all these curses vpon thine enemies, and on them, that hate thee, and that persecute thee.


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<n>If we will have God work in us with his Holy Spirit, we must turn again to him by repentance.</n>And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.


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And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again <n>He does not mean that God is subject to these passions, to rejoice, or to be sad: but he uses this manner of speech to declare the love that he has for us.</n> rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:


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Because thou shalt obey the voyce of the Lord thy God, in keeping his comandements, and his ordinances, which are written in the booke of this Law, when thou shalt returne vnto the Lord thy God with all thine heart &amp; with al thy soule.


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For this commandment which I command thee this day, it [is] <n>The law is so evident that no one can pretend ignorance.</n> not hidden from thee, neither [is] it far off.


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It is not in heauen, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go vp for vs to heauen, &amp; bring it vs, and cause vs to heare it, that we may doe it?


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Neither [is] it beyond the <n>By heaven and the sea he means places most far distant.</n> sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?


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But the <n>Even the law and the gospel.</n> word [is] very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest <n>By faith in Christ.</n> do it.


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In that I command thee this day <n>So that to love and obey God, is only life and happiness.</n> to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest <n>He adds these promises to signify that it is for our profit that we love him, and not for his.</n> live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.


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But if thine heart turne away, so that thou wilt not obey, but shalt be seduced and worship other gods, and serue them,


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I pronounce vnto you this day, that ye shal surely perish, ye shall not prolong your dayes in the lande, whither thou passest ouer Iorden to possesse it.


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I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore <n>That is, love and obey God; which is not in man's power, but only God's Spirit works it in his elect.</n> choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:


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By louing the Lorde thy God, by obeying his voyce, and by cleauing vnto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy dayes: that thou mayest dwell in the lande which the Lorde sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iaakob, to giue them.


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And he said unto them, I [am] an hundred and twenty years old this day; I <n>I can no longer execute my office.</n> can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.


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The Lord thy God he will go ouer before thee: he will destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt possesse them. Ioshua, he shall goe before thee, as the Lorde hath said.


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And the Lord shall doe vnto them, as he did to Sihon and to Og Kings of the Amorites: and vnto their lande whome he destroyed.


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And the LORD shall give them up <n>Into your hands.</n> before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.


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Plucke vp your hearts therefore, and be strong: dread not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lorde thy God him selfe doeth goe with thee: he will not faile thee, nor forsake thee.


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And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and <n>For he that must govern the people, must be valiant to repress evil, and constant to maintain virtue.</n> of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.


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And the LORD, he [it is] that doth <n>Signifying that man can never be of good courage, unless he is persuaded of God's favour and assistance.</n> go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.


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And Moses wrote this Lawe, and deliuered it vnto the Priestes the sonnes of Leui (which bare the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde) and vnto all the Elders of Israel,


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And Moses commanded them, saying, Euery seuenth yeere when the yeere of freedome shalbe in the feast of the Tabernacles:


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When all Israel is come to appear <n>Before the Ark of the covenant, which was the sign of God's presence, and the figure of Christ.</n> before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.


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Gather the people together: men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may heare, and that they may learne, and feare the Lorde your God, and keepe and obserue all the wordes of this Lawe,


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And [that] their children, which <n>Who were not born when the law was given.</n> have not known [any thing], may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.


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Then the Lorde saide vnto Moses, Beholde, thy dayes are come, that thou must die: Call Ioshua, and stande ye in the Tabernacle of the Congregation that I may giue him a charge. So Moses and Ioshua went, and stoode in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.


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And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a <n>In a cloud that was fashioned like a pillar.</n> cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.


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And the Lorde said vnto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleepe with thy fathers, and this people will rise vp, and goe a whoring after the gods of a strange land (whither they goe to dwell therein) and will forsake me, and breake my couenant which I haue made with them.


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Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will <n>That is, I will take my favour from them; as turning his face toward us shows his favour.</n> hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God [is] not among us?


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But I will surely hide my face in that day, because of all the euill, which they shall commit, in that they are turned vnto other gods.


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Now therefore write ye this <n>To preserve you and your children from idolatry, by remembering God's benefits.</n> song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.


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For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; <n>For this is the nature of flesh, no longer to obey God, than it is under the rod.</n> then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.


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And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall <n>That these evils are come upon them, because they have forsaken me.</n> testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.


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And God gaue Ioshua the sonne of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong, and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the lande, which I sware vnto them, and I will be with thee.


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And when Moses had made an ende of writing the wordes of this Lawe in a booke vntill he had finished them,


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Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a <n>Of your infidelity, when you turn away from the doctrine contained in it.</n> witness against thee.


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For I knowe thy rebellion and thy stiffe necke: beholde, I being yet aliue with you this day, ye are rebellious against the Lorde: howe much more then after my death?


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Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your <n>As governors, judges and magistrates.</n> officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.


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For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt [yourselves], and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the <n>By idolatry, and worshipping images, which are the work of your hands.</n> work of your hands.


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Thus Moses spake in the audience of all the congregation of Israel the wordes of this song, vntill he had ended them.


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Give ear, O ye <n>As witness of this people's ingratitude.</n> heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.


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My <n>He desires that he may speak to God's glory and that the people, as the green grass, may receive the dew of his doctrine.</n> doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:


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[He is] the <n>Or mighty God; noting that only God is mighty, faithful and constant in his promise.</n> Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his ways [are] judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right [is] he.


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They haue corrupted them selues towarde him by their vice, not being his children, but a frowarde and crooked generation.


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Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not <n>Not according to the common creation, but he has made you a new creature by his Spirit.</n> made thee, and established thee?


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Remember the dayes of olde: consider the yeeres of so many generations: aske thy father, and he will shewe thee: thine Elders, and they will tell thee.


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When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the <n>When God by his providence divided the world, he lent for a time that portion to the Canaanites, which would later be an inheritance for all his people Israel.</n> people according to the number of the children of Israel.


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He found him in ye land of ye wildernes, in a waste, &amp; roaring wildernes: he led him about, he taught him, and kept him as ye apple of his eye.


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As an eagle stirreth up her nest, <n>To teach them to fly.</n> fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:


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He made him ride on the high places of the <n>Meaning, of the land of Canaan, which was high in respect to Egypt.</n> earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck <n>That is, abundance of all things even in the very rocks.</n> honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;


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Butter of kine, and milke of sheepe with fat of the lambes, and rammes fed in Bashan, and goates, with the fat of the graines of wheat, and the red licour of the grape hast thou drunke.


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<n>He shows what is the principal end of our vocation.</n>But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.


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They provoked him to jealousy with <n>By changing his service for their superstitions.</n> strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.


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They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to <n>Scripture calls new, whatever man invents, be the error ever so old.</n> new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.


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And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his <n>He calls them God's children, not to honour them, but to show them from what dignity they are fallen.</n> sons, and of his daughters.


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And he said, I will hide my face from the: I will see what their ende shalbe: for they are a frowarde generation, children in who is no faith.


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They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a <n>Which I have not favoured, nor given my law to them.</n> people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.


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For fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burne vnto the bottome of hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountaines.


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They shalbe burnt with hunger, and consumed with heate, and with bitter destruction: I will also sende the teeth of beastes vpon them, with the venime of serpents creeping in the dust.


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The sword <n>They shall be slain both in the field and at home.</n> without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.


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Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should <n>Rejoicing to see the godly afflicted, and attributing to themselves that which is wrought by God's hand.</n> behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.


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O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would <n>They would consider the happiness that was prepared for them, if they had obeyed God.</n> consider their latter end!


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How should one chase a thousand, &amp; two put ten thousande to flight, except their strong God had sold the, &amp; the Lord had shut them vp?


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For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the vines of Gomorah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters be bitter.


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Their <n>The fruit of the wicked are as poison, detestable to God, and dangerous for man.</n> wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.


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Vengeance and recompence are mine: their foote shall slide in due time: for the day of their destruction is at hand, and the things that shall come vpon them, make haste.


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For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and [there is] none <n>When neither strong nor weak in a manner remain.</n> shut up, or left.


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Which did eate the fat of their sacrifices, &amp; did drinke the wine of their drinke offring? let them rise vp, &amp; help you: let him be your refuge.


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Behold now, for I, I am he, and there is no gods with me: I kill, and giue life: I wound, and I make whole: neither is there any that can deliuer out of mine hand.


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For I <n>That is, I swear, read (Gen_14:22).</n> lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.


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If I whet my glittering sworde, and mine hand take holde on iudgement, I will execute vengeance on mine enemies, and will rewarde them that hate me.


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I will make mine arrowes drunke with blood, (&amp; my sword shal eate flesh) for the blood of the slaine, and of the captiues, when I beginne to take vengeance of the enemie.


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Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: for he will avenge the <n>Where the blood of God's people is shed for their sins or trial of their faith, he promises to avenge it.</n> blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, [and] to his people.


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Then Moses came and spake all ye words of this song in the audience of the people, he and Hoshea the sonne of Nun.


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Then hee said vnto them, Set your heartes vnto all the wordes which I testifie against you this day, that ye may commande them vnto your children, that they may obserue and doo all the wordes of this Lawe.


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For it [is] not a <n>For I will perform my promise to you, (Isa_55:10).</n> vain thing for you; because it [is] your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong [your] days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.


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Goe vp into the mountaine of Abarim, vnto the mount Nebo, which is in the lande of Moab, that is ouer against Iericho: and beholde the lande of Canaan, which I giue vnto the children of Israel for a possession,


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And die in the mount which thou goest vp vnto, and thou shalt be gathered vnto thy people, as Aaro thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered vnto his people,


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Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye <n>You were not earnest and constant to maintain my honour.</n> sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.


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Thou shalt therefore see the lande before thee, but shalt not go thither, I meane, into the land which I giue the children of Israel.


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And this [is] the <n>This blessing contains not only a simple prayer, but an assurance of the effect of it.</n> blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.


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And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten <n>Meaning, infinite angels.</n> thousands of saints: from his right hand [went] a fiery law for them.


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Yea, he loved the people; <n>Hebrew, his saints, that is, the children of Israel.</n> all his saints [are] in thy hand: and they sat down at <n>As thy disciples.</n> thy feet; [every one] shall receive of thy words.


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Moses commanded us a law, [even] the <n>To us and our successors.</n> inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.


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Then he was among the righteous people, as King, when the heades of the people, and the tribes of Israel were assembled.


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Let <n>Reuben will be one of the tribes of God's people, though for his sin his honour is diminished, and his family but small.</n> Reuben live, and not die; and let [not] his men be few.


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And this [is the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be <n>Signifying, that he would barely obtain Jacob's promise, (Gen_49:8).</n> sufficient for him; and be thou an help [to him] from his enemies.


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And of Leui he said, Let thy Thummim and thine Vrim be with thine Holy one, whome thou diddest proue in Massah, and didst cause him to striue at the waters of Meribah.


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Who said unto his father and to his mother, <n>He preferred God's glory to all natural affection, (Exo_28:30).</n> I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.


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They shall teach Iaakob thy iudgements, &amp; Israel thy Lawe: they shall put incense before thy face, and the burnt offring vpon thine altar.


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Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite <n>He declares that the ministers of God have many enemies, and therefore need to be prayed for.</n> through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.


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[And] of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall <n>Because the temple would be built in Zion, which was in the tribe of Benjamin, he shows that God would dwell with him there.</n> dwell in safety by him; [and the LORD] shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.


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And of Ioseph hee sayde, Blessed of the Lord is his land for the sweetenesse of heauen, for the dewe, and for the depth lying beneath,


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And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and [for] the good will of him that dwelt in the <n>Which was God appearing to Moses, (Exo_3:2).</n> bush: let [the blessing] come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him [that was] separated from his brethren.


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His beautie shalbe like his first borne bullock, &amp; his hornes as the hornes of an vnicorne: with them hee shall smite the people together, euen the endes of the world: these are also the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasseh.


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And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy <n>In thy prosperous voyages on the sea, (Gen_49:13).</n> going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.


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They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for <n>The tribe of Zebulun.</n> they shall suck [of] the abundance of the seas, and [of] treasures hid in the sand.


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Also of Gad he said, Blessed be hee that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, that catcheth for his praye the arme with the head.


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And he provided the first part for himself, because there, [in] a portion of the <n>So the portion of the Gadites, and others on this side of the Jordan was God's, though it was not so known.</n> lawgiver, [was he] seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.


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And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou <n>Meaning, near the sea.</n> the west and the south.


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And of Asher he saide, Asher shalbe blessed with children: he shalbe acceptable vnto his brethren, and shall dippe his foote in oyle.


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Thy shoes [shall be] <n>You will be strong or, your country full of metal. It seems that Simeon is left out, because he was under Judah, and his portion of his inheritance, (Jos_19:9).</n> iron and brass; and as thy days, [so shall] thy strength [be].


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There is none like God, O righteous people, which rideth vpon the heauens for thine helpe, and on the cloudes in his glory.


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The eternall God is thy refuge, and vnder his armes thou art for euer: hee shall cast out the enemie before thee, and will say, Destroy them.


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Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: <n>Who was plentiful in issue as a fountain.</n> the fountain of Jacob [shall be] upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.


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Happy [art] thou, O Israel: who [is] like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who [is] the sword of thy excellency! and <n>Your enemies for fear shall lie and pretend to be in subjection.</n> thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.


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And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of <n>Which was a part of mount Abarim, (Num_27:12).</n> Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,


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And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost <n>Called Mediterranean.</n> sea,


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And the Lord said vnto him, This is the lande which I sware vnto Abraham, to Izhak and to Iaacob saying, I will giue it vnto thy seede: I haue caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not goe ouer thither.


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So Moses the seruant of the Lord dyed there in the land of Moab, according to the worde of the Lord.


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And <n>That is, the angel of the Lord, (Jud_1:9).</n> he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto <n>That the Jews might not have opportunity to commit idolatry by it.</n> this day.


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Moses was nowe an hundreth and twentie yeere olde when hee died, his eye was not dimme, nor his naturall force abated.


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And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plaine of Moab thirtie dayes: so the dayes of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.


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And <n>By this the favour of God is demonstrated, in that he does not leave his Church destitute of a governor.</n> Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew <n>To whom the Lord revealed himself so plainly as in (Exo_33:11).</n> face to face,


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In all ye miracles &amp; wonders which ye Lord sent him to do in ye land of Egypt before Pharaoh &amp; before all his seruantes, and before al his land,


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And in all that mighty <n>Meaning, the power of God working by Moses in the wilderness.</n> hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.


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Now after the <n>The beginning of this book depends on the last chapter of Deuteronomy which was written by Joshua as a preparation to his history.</n> death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, <n>The Argument - In this book the Holy Spirit sets most lively before us the accomplishment of God's promise, who as he promised by the mouth of Moses, that a prophet would be raised up to the people like him, whom he wills to obey, (Deu_18:15): so he shows himself true to his promise, as at all other times, and after the death of Moses his faithful servant, he raises up Joshua to be ruler and governor over his people, that they should neither be discouraged for lack of a captain, nor have reason to distrust God's promises later. So that Joshua might be confirmed in his calling, and the people also might have no opportunity to grudge, as though he were not approved by God: he is adorned with most excellent gifts and graces from God, both to govern the people with counsel, and to defend them with strength, that he lacks nothing which either belongs to a valiant captain, or a faithful minister. So he overcomes all difficulties, and brings them into the land of Canaan: which according to God's ordinance he divides among the people and appoints their borders: he established laws and ordinances, and put them in remembrance of God's revealed benefits, assuring them of his grace and favour if they obey God, and of his plagues and vengeance if they disobey him. This history represents Jesus Christ the true Joshua, who leads us into eternal happiness, signified to us by this land of Canaan. From the beginning of Genesis to the end of this book is 2567 years. For from Adam to the flood are 1656, from the flood to the departure of Abraham out of Chaldea 423, and from then to the death of Joseph 290. So that Genesis contains 2369, Exodus 140, the other three books of Moses 40, Joshua 27. So the whole makes 2576 years.</n>


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Moses my seruant is dead: nowe therefore arise, go ouer this Iorden, thou, and all this people, vnto the lande which I giue them, that is, to ye children of Israel.


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From the <n>Of Zin, called Kadesh and Paran.</n> wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the <n>Meaning, the whole land of Canaan.</n> Hittites, and unto the great <n>Called Mediterranean.</n> sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.


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There shall not a man be able to withstande thee all the dayes of thy life: as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leaue thee, nor forsake thee.


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Be strong and of a good courage: for vnto this people shalt thou deuide the lande for an inheritance, which I sware vnto their fathers to giue them.


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Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it [to] the right hand or [to] the left, that thou mayest <n>He shows where true prosperity consists, even to obey the word of God.</n> prosper whithersoever thou goest.


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This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and <n>Showing that it is not possible to govern well, without the continual study of God's word.</n> night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.


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Haue not I commanded thee, saying, Be strong and of a good courage, feare not, nor be discouraged? for I the Lord thy God will be with thee, whithersoeuer thou goest.


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Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for <n>Meaning, from the day that this was proclaimed, (Jos_3:2).</n> within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.


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And vnto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to halfe the tribe of Manasseh spake Ioshua, saying,


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Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this <n>Which belonged to Sihon the king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan.</n> land.


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Your wiues, your children, and your cattell shall remaine in the land which Moses gaue you on this side Iorden: but ye shall goe ouer before your brethren armed, all that be men of warre, and shall helpe them,


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Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as [he hath given] you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant <n>By your request, but yet by God's secret appointment, (Deu_33:21).</n> gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.


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Then they answered Ioshua, saying, Al that thou hast commaunded vs, we will doe, and whithersoeuer thou sendest vs, we will goe.


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According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, <n>They not only promise to obey him as long as God is with him: but to help punish all who rebel against him.</n> so will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.


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Whosoeuer shall rebell against thy commaundement, and will not obey thy wordes in all that thou commaundest him, let him bee put to death: onely be strong and of good courage.


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And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of <n>Which was in the plain of Moab near Jordan.</n> Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.


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Then report was made to the King of Iericho, saying, Beholde, there came men hither to night, of the children of Israel, to spie out the countrey.


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And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, <n>Though the wicked see the hand of God on them, they do not repent, but seek how they may by their power and policy resist his working.</n> Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country.


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(But ye woman had taken the two men, and hid them) Therefore saide she thus, There came men vnto me, but I wist not whence they were.


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And when they shut the gate in the darke, the men went out, whither the men went I wote not: followe ye after them quickly, for ye shall ouertake them.


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But she had brought them up to the <n>Meaning, on the house: for then their houses were flat above, so that they might do their business on it.</n> roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.


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And certaine men pursued after them, the way to Iorden, vnto the foordes, and as soone as they which pursued after them, were gone out, they shut the gate.


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And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your <n>For so God promised, (Deu_28:7; Jos_5:1).</n> terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.


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For we haue heard, howe the Lord dried vp the water of the redde Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt, and what you did vnto the two Kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Iorden, vnto Sihon and to Og, whom ye vtterly destroyed:


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And as soon as we had heard [these things], our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for <n>In this the great mercy of God appears, that in this common destruction he would draw a most miserable sinner to repent, and confess his Name.</n> the LORD your God, he [is] God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.


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Now therefore, I pray you, sweare vnto me by the Lord; that as I haue shewed you mercie, ye will also shewe mercie vnto my fathers house, and giue me a true token,


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And that yee will saue aliue my father and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they haue: and that yee will deliuer our soules from death.


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And the men answered her, <n>We warrant you on pain of our lives.</n> Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.


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Then she let them downe by a corde thorowe the windowe: for her house was vpon the towne wall, and she dwelt vpon the wall.


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And she said unto them, Get you to the <n>which was near to the city.</n> mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.


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And the men said unto her, <n>We will be released from our oath if you perform this condition that follows for so shall you and yours be delivered.</n> We [will be] blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.


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Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this cord of red threde in the window, whereby thou lettest vs downe, and thou shalt bring thy father and thy mother, and thy brethren, &amp; all thy fathers houshold home to thee.


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And it shall be, [that] whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, <n>He shall be guilty of his own death.</n> his blood [shall be] upon his head, and we [will be] guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head, if [any] hand be upon him.


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And if thou utter this our <n>So that others should think to escape by the same means.</n> business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.


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And she answered, According vnto your wordes, so be it: then she sent them away, &amp; they departed, &amp; she bound the red cord in ye window.


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And they departed, and came into the mountaine, and there abode three dayes, vntil the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but founde them not.


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So the two men returned, and descended from the mountaine, and passed ouer, and came to Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and tolde him all things that came vnto them.


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Also they saide vnto Ioshua, Surely the Lorde hath deliuered into our handes all the lande: for euen all the inhabitants of the countrey faint because of vs.


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And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to <n>Which according to the Hebrews was in March, about 40 days after Moses' death.</n> Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.


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And it came to pass after <n>Which was given to prepare food (Jos_1:11).</n> three days, that the officers went through the host;


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And commanded the people, saying, When ye see the Arke of the couenat of the Lord your God, and the Priestes of the Leuites bearing it, ye shall depart from your place, and goe after it.


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Yet there shalbe a space betweene you and it, about two thousande cubites by measure: ye shall not come neere vnto it, that ye may knowe the way, by the which ye shall goe: for ye haue not gone this way in times past.


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(Nowe Ioshua had saide vnto the people, Sanctifie your selues: for to morowe the Lord will doe wonders among you)


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Also Ioshua spake vnto the Priestes, saying, Take vp the Arke of the couenant, and goe ouer before the people: so they tooke vp the Arke of the couenant, &amp; went before the people.


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Then the Lorde saide vnto Ioshua, This day will I begin to magnifie thee in the sight of all Israel, which shall knowe, that as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee.


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And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still <n>Even in the channel where the stream had run, (Jos_3:17)</n> in Jordan.


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Then Ioshua said vnto the children of Israel, Come hither, and heare the wordes of the Lord your God.


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And Joshua said, <n>By this miracle in dividing the water.</n> Hereby ye shall know that the living God [is] among you, and [that] he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.


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Now therefore take you <n>Who would set up twelve stones in remembrance of the benefit.</n> twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.


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And assoone as the soles of the feete of the Priestes (that beare the Arke of the Lorde God the Lorde of all the worlde) shall stay in the waters of Iorden, the waters of Iorden shall be cut off: for the waters that come from aboue, shall stande still vpon an heape.


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Then when the people were departed from their tentes to goe ouer Iorden, the Priestes bearing the Arke of the Couenant, went before people.


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And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his <n>Because the river was accustomed at this time to be full, the miracle is so much greater.</n> banks all the time of harvest,)


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Then the waters that came downe from aboue, stayed and rose vpon an heape and departed farre from the citie of Adam, that was beside Zaretan: but the waters that came downe towarde the Sea of the wildernes, euen the salt Sea, failed, and were cut off: so the people went right ouer against Iericho.


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And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood <n>Either tarrying till the people were past, or as some read, sure, as though they had been on dry land.</n> firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.


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And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood <n>As in (Jos_3:17).</n> firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the <n>Meaning, the place where they would camp.</n> lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.


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And Ioshua said vnto them, Go ouer before the Arke of the Lorde your God, euen through the middes of Iorden, and take vp euery man of you a stone vpon his shoulder acccording vnto the nomber of the tribes of the children of Israel,


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That this may be a sign among you, [that] when your <n>God commands that not only we ourselves profit by this wonderful work, but that our posterity may know the cause of it, and glorify his Name.</n> children ask [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What [mean] ye by these stones?


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Then ye may answere them, That the waters of Iorden were cut off before the Arke of the couenant of the Lord: for when it passed through Iorden, the waters of Iorden were cut off: therefore these stones are a memoriall vnto the children of Israel for euer.


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Then ye children of Israel did euen so as Ioshua had commanded, &amp; tooke vp twelue stones out of the mids of Iorden as ye Lord had said vnto Ioshua, according to the nomber of the tribes of the children of Israel, &amp; caried them away with them vnto the lodging, &amp; layd them down there.


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And Joshua set up <n>Besides the twelve stones that were carried by the tribes and set up in Gilgal.</n> twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.


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So the Priests, which bare ye Arke, stoode in the middes of Iorden, vntill euery thing was finished that ye Lorde had comanded Ioshua to say vnto the people, according to all that Moses charged Ioshua: then the people hasted &amp; went ouer.


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And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, <n>Meaning, in the presence or sight of the people.</n> in the presence of the people.


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And the sonnes of Reuben, &amp; the sonnes of Gad, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh went ouer before the children of Israel armed, as Moses had charged them.


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That day the Lord magnified Ioshua in the sight of all Israel, and they feared him, as they feared Moses all dayes of his life.


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Command the priests that bear the <n>Because the ark testified God's presence, and the tables of the Law contained in it signified God's will toward his people.</n> ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.


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And when the Priests that bare the Arke of the couenant of ye Lorde were come vp out of the middes of Iorden, and assoone as the soles of the Priests feete were set on the dry land, the waters of Iorde returned vnto their place, &amp; flowed ouer all the bankes thereof, as they did before.


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And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth [day] of the <n>Called Abib or Nisan, containing part of March and part of April.</n> first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.


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And he spake vnto ye childre of Israel, saying, When your children shall aske their fathers in time to come, &amp; say, What meane these stones?


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That all the people of the <n>God's benefits serve as a further condemnation to the wicked, and stir up his own to reverence and obey him.</n> earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it [is] mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.


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And it came to pass, when all the kings of the <n>The Amorites were on both sides of Jordan, of which two kings were slain already on the side toward Moab.</n> Amorites, which [were] on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.


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At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, <n>For now they had left it off, about 40 years.</n> and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.


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And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at <n>Gilgal was so called, because they were there circumcised.</n> the hill of the foreskins.


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And this is the cause why Ioshua circumcised all the people, euen the males that came out of Egypt, because all the men of warre were dead in the wildernesse by the way after they came out of Egypt.


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Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people [that were] born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, [them] they had <n>For they looked daily to move at the Lord's command, which they who were newly circumcised could not do without great danger.</n> not circumcised.


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For the children of Israel walked fourtie yeres in the wildernes, till all the people of the men of warre that came out of Egypt were consumed, because they obeyed not the voyce of the Lord: vnto whome the Lord sware, that he would not shewe them the lande, which the Lorde had sworne vnto their fathers, that he would giue vs, euen a land that floweth with milke and hony.


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And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the <n>By bringing you into this promised land, contrary to the wicked opinion of the Egyptians or the foreskin by which you were like the Egyptians.</n> reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.


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So the children of Israel abode in Gilgal, and kept ye feast of the Passeouer the fourteenth day of the moneth at euen in ye plaine of Iericho.


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And they did eat of the corne of the land, on the morow after the Passeouer, vnleauened breade, and parched corne in the same day.


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And the MAN ceased on the morowe after they had eaten of the corne of the land, neither had the children of Israel MAN any more, but did eate of the fruite of the land of Canaan that yeere.


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And when Ioshua was by Iericho, he lift vp his eyes and looked: and behold, there stood a man against him, hauing a sword drawen in his hand: and Ioshua went vnto him, and said vnto him, Art thou on our side, or on our aduersaries?


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And he said, Nay; but [as] captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and <n>In that Joshua worships him, he acknowledges him to be God: and in that he calls himself the Lord's captain he declares himself to be Christ.</n> did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?


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And the captaine of ye Lords host said vnto Ioshua, Loose thy shoe of thy foote: for ye place wheron thou standest, is holy: and Ioshua did so.


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And the Lorde saide vnto Ioshua, Behold, I haue giuen into thine hand Iericho and the King thereof, and the strong men of warre.


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And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of <n>That the conquest might not be assigned to man's power, but to the mercy of God, which with most weak things can overcome that which seems most strong.</n> rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.


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And when they make a long blast with the rams horne, and ye heare the sound of the trumpet, al the people shal shoute with a great shoute: then shall the wall of the citie fall downe flat, and the people shall ascend vp, euery man streight before him.


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Then, Ioshua the sonne of Nun called the Priests &amp; said vnto them, Take vp the Arke of the couenant, and let seuen Priests beare seuen trumpets of rams hornes before the Arke of the Lord.


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And he said unto the people, <n>This is chiefly meant by the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.</n> Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.


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And when Ioshua had spoken vnto the people, the seuen Priestes bare the seuen trumpets of rams hornes, and went foorth before the Arke of the Lorde, and blew with the trumpets, &amp; the Arke of the couenant of ye Lord followed them.


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And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the <n>Meaning, the gathering host, in which was the standard of the tribe of Dan, (Num_10:25).</n> rereward came after the ark, [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets.


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(Nowe Ioshua had commaunded the people, saying, Ye shall nor shout, neither make any noyse with your voyce, neither shall a worde proceede out of your mouth, vntill the day that I say vnto you, Shout, then shall ye shoute)


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So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about [it] <n>For that day.</n> once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.


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And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the <n>The tribe of Dan was so called, because it marched last and gathered up whatever was left of others.</n> rereward came after the ark of the LORD, [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets.


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And the second day they compassed the citie once, and returned into the host: thus they did sixe dayes.


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And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner <n>Beside every day once for the space of six days.</n> seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.


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And when the Priests had blowen ye trumpets the seuenth time, Ioshua said vnto ye people, Shoute: for the Lord hath giuen you the citie.


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And the city shall be <n>That is appointed wholly to be destroyed.</n> accursed, [even] it, and all that [are] therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that [are] with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.


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Notwithstanding, be ye ware of the execrable thing, lest ye make your selues execrable, and in taking of the execrable thing, make also the hoste of Israel execrable, and trouble it.


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But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, [are] <n>And therefore cannot be put to any private use, but must be first molten, and then serve for the Tabernacle.</n> consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.


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So the people shouted, whe they had blowen trumpets: for when the people had heard the sound of the trumpet, they shouted with a great shoute: and the wall fel downe flat: so the people went vp into the citie, euery man streight before him: and they tooke the citie.


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And they vtterly destroyed all that was in the citie, both man and woman, yong, and olde, and oxe, and sheepe, and asse, with the edge of the sword.


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But Ioshua had said vnto the two men that had spied out the countrey, Go into the harlots house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware to her.


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And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them <n>For it was not lawful for strangers to dwell among the Israelites, till they were purged.</n> without the camp of Israel.


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And they burnt the city with fire, and all that [was] therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the <n>Meaning, the tabernacle.</n> house of the LORD.


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And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she <n>For she was married to Salmon prince of the tribe of Judah, (Mat_1:5).</n> dwelleth in Israel [even] unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.


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And Joshua adjured [them] at that time, saying, Cursed [be] the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: <n>He will build it to the destruction of all his stock, which was fulfilled in Hiel of Beth-el, (1Ki_16:34).</n> he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest [son] shall he set up the gates of it.


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But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the <n>In taking that which was commanded to be destroyed.</n> accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.


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And Joshua sent men from Jericho to <n>This was a city of the Amorites: for there was another so called among the Amorites, (Jer_49:3). The first Ai is called Aiah, (Isa_10:28).</n> Ai, which [is] beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.


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And returned to Ioshua, and saide vnto him, Let not al the people go vp, but let as it were two or three thousand men go vp, and smite Ai, and make not al the people to labour thither, for they are fewe.


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So there went vp thither of the people about three thousande men, and they fledde before the men of Ai.


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And the <n>God would by this overthrow make them more earnest to search out and punish the sin committed.</n> men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them [from] before the gate [even] unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.


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Then Ioshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth vpon his face before the Arke of the Lord, vntill the euentide, he, and the Elders of Israel, and put dust vpon their heads.


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And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the <n>This infirmity of his faith shows how we are inclined by nature to distrust.</n> other side Jordan!


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For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear [of it], and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great <n>When your enemies will blaspheme you and say that you were not able to defend us from them.</n> name?


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Israel hath sinned, and they haue transgressed my couenant, which I commanded them: for they haue euen taken of the excomunicate thing, and haue also stollen, and dissembled also, and haue put it euen with their owne stuffe.


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Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, [but] turned [their] backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye <n>Then to allow wickedness unpunished, is to refuse God willingly.</n> destroy the accursed from among you.


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Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [There is] an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the <n>Meaning, the man that took of the thing forbidden.</n> accursed thing from among you.


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In the morning therefore ye shall come according to your tribes, and the tribe which the Lord taketh, shal come according to the families: and the familie which the Lorde shall take, shall come by the housholds: and the houshold which the Lord shall take, shall come man by man.


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And it shall be, [that] he that is <n>That is found guilty, either by lots, or by the judgment of Urim. (Num_27:21).</n> taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.


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So Ioshua rose vp earely in the morning and brought Israel by their tribes: and the tribe of Iudah was taken.


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And he brought the families of Iudah, and tooke the familie of the Zarhites, and he brought the familie of the Zarhites, man by man, and Zabdi was taken.


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And he brought his houshold, man by man, and Achan ye sonne of Carmi, the sonne of Zabdi, the sonne of Zerah of the tribe of Iudah was take.


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And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and <n>By declaring truth: for God is glorified when the truth is confessed.</n> make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide [it] not from me.


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And Achan answered Ioshua, and saide, In deede, I haue sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus, and thus haue I done.


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When I saw among the spoils a goodly <n>Such a rich garment as the states of Babylon wore.</n> Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they [are] hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.


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Then Ioshua sent messengers, which ran vnto the tent, and beholde, it was hid in his tent, and the siluer vnder it.


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Therefore they tooke them out of the tent, and brought them vnto Ioshua, and vnto all the children of Israel, and layd them before the Lord.


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And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the <n>Some read a plate: others, a rod, and some a tongue.</n> wedge of gold, and his <n>This judgment belonged only to God, and to whom he will reveal it. He had commanded man not to punish the child for the father's sins, (Deu_24:16).</n> sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.


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And Joshua said, <n>He declares that this is God's judgment because he had offended, and caused others to be slain.</n> Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.


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And they cast vpon him a great heape of stones vnto this day: and so the Lord turned from his fierce wrath: therefore hee called the name of that place, The valley of Achor, vnto this day.


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After, the Lord saide vnto Ioshua, Feare not, neither bee thou faint hearted: take all the men of warre with thee and arise, go vp to Ai: beholde, I haue giuen into thine hand the King of Ai, and his people, and his citie, and his land.


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And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city <n>Meaning on the west side, as in (Jos_8:9).</n> behind it.


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Then Ioshua arose, and all the men of warre to goe vp against Ai: and Ioshua chose out thirtie thousand strong men, and valiant, and sent them away by night.


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And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye <n>God would not destroy Ai by a miracle, as Jericho, so that other nations would fear the power and policy of his people.</n> shall lie in wait against the city, [even] behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:


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And I and all the people that are with me, will approche vnto the citie: and when they shall come out against vs, as they did at the first time, then will we flee before them.


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For they wil come out after vs, till we haue brought them out of the citie: for they will say, They flee before vs as at the first time: so we will flee before them.


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Then you shall rise vp from lying in waite and destroy the citie: for the Lord your God wil deliuer it into your hand.


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And when ye haue taken the citie, ye shall set it on fire: according to the commandement of the Lord shall ye do: behold, I haue charged you.


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Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night <n>With the rest of the army.</n> among the people.


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And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and <n>That is, viewed or mustered them and set them in array.</n> numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.


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Also all the men of warre that were with him went vp and drewe neere, and came against the citie, and pitched on the Northside of Ai: and there was a valley betweene them and Ai.


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And he took about five thousand men, <n>He sent these few, that the others who lay in ambush might not be discovered.</n> and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.


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And when they had set the people, [even] all the host that [was] on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the <n>To the intent that they in the city more easily discover his army.</n> midst of the valley.


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And when the King of Ai sawe it, then the men of the citie hasted and rose vp earely, and went out against Israel to battell, hee and all his people at the time appointed, before the plaine: for he knew not that any lay in waite against him on the backeside of the citie.


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And Joshua and all Israel <n>As they who pretended to flee for fear.</n> made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.


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And all the people of the citie were called together, to pursue after them: and they pursued after Ioshua, &amp; were drawen away out of the city,


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So that there was not a man left in Ai, nor in Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the citie open, and pursued after Israel.


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And the LORD said unto Joshua, <n>Or, lift up the banner to signify when they should invade the city.</n> Stretch out the spear that [is] in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that [he had] in his hand toward the city.


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And they that lay in wait, arose quickly out of their place, and ranne as soone as he had stretched out his hand, and they entred into the citie, and tooke it, and hasted, and set the citie on fire.


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And the men of Ai looked behinde them, and sawe it: for loe, the smoke of the citie ascended vp to heauen, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: for the people that fled to the wildernesse, turned backe vpon the pursuers.


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When Ioshua and all Israel sawe that they that lay in waite, had taken the citie, and that the smoke of the citie mounted vp, then they turned againe and slewe the men of Ai.


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And the <n>Who came out of the ambush.</n> other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.


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And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and <n>For the fire, which they had before set in the city, was not to consume it, but to signify to Joshua that they had entered.</n> smote it with the edge of the sword.


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For Ioshua drewe not his hande backe againe which he had stretched out with the speare, vntill hee had vtterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.


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Onely the cattell and the spoyle of this citie, Israel tooke for a praye vnto themselues, according vnto the worde of the Lorde, which hee commaunded Ioshua.


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And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for <n>That it could never be built again.</n> ever, [even] a desolation unto this day.


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And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded <n>According as it was commanded, (Deu_21:23).</n> that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, [that remaineth] unto this day.


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As Moses the seruant of the Lord had commaunded the children of Israel, as it is written in the booke of the Lawe of Moses, an altar of whole stone, ouer which no man had lift an yron: and they offered thereon burnt offrings vnto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.


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And he wrote there upon the stones a <n>Meaning, the ten commandments, which are the sum of the whole Law.</n> copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.


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And all Israel (and their Elders, and officers and their iudges stoode on this side of the Arke, and on that side, before the Priestes of the Leuites, which bare the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde) as well the stranger, as he that is borne in the countrey: halfe of them were ouer against mount Gerizim, and halfe of them ouer against mount Ebal, as Moses the seruant of the Lorde had commaunded before, that they should blesse the people of Israel.


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Then afterwarde hee read all the wordes of the Lawe, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the booke of the Lawe.


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There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the <n>So neither young nor old, man nor woman, were exempted from hearing the word of the Lord.</n> women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.


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And it came to pass, when all the kings which <n>In respect to the plain of Moab.</n> [were] on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the <n>The main sea called the Mediterranean.</n> great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard [thereof];


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They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and <n>Because they were all worn.</n> bound up;


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And olde shoes and clouted vpon their feete: also the raiment vpon them was old, and all their prouision of bread was dried, and mouled.


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So they came vnto Ioshua into the hoste to Gilgal, and said vnto him, and vnto the men of Israel, Wee be come from a farre countrey: nowe therefore make a league with vs.


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And the men of Israel said unto the <n>For the Gibeonites and the Hivites were all one people.</n> Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?


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And they said vnto Ioshua, We are thy seruants. Then Ioshua saide vnto them, Who are ye? And whence come ye?


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And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of <n>Even the idolaters for fear of death will pretend to honour the true God, and receive his religion.</n> the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,


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And all that he hath done to the two Kings of the Amorites that were beyonde Iorden, to Sihon King of Heshbon, &amp; to Og King of Bashan, which were at Ashtaroth.


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Wherefore our elders, and all the inhabitants of our countrey spake to vs, saying, Take vitailes with you for the iourney, and go to meete them, and say vnto them, Wee are your seruants: now therefore make ye a league with vs.


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This our <n>The wicked lack no art, nor spare no lies to set forth their policy, when they will deceive the servants of God.</n> bread we took hot [for] our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:


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Also these bottels of wine which we filled, were newe, and lo, they be rent, and these our garments and our shooes are olde, by reason of the exceeding great iourney.


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And the <n>Some think that the Israelites are of their victuals, and so made a league with them.</n> men took of their victuals, and asked not [counsel] at the mouth of the LORD.


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So Ioshua made peace with them, &amp; made a league with them, that he would suffer them to liue: also the Princes of the Congregation sware vnto them.


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But at the end of three dayes, after they had made a league with them, they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.


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And the children of Israel <n>From Gilgal.</n> journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.


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And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation <n>Fearing lest for their sin the plague of God would have come on them all.</n> murmured against the princes.


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Then all the Princes said vnto all the Congregation, We haue sworne vnto them by the Lord God of Israel: nowe therefore we may not touch them.


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This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the <n>This does not establish rash oaths, but shows God's mercy toward his, who would not punish them for their sin.</n> oath which we sware unto them.


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And the Princes sayd vnto them againe, Let them liue, but they shall hewe wood, and drawe water vnto all the Congregation, as the Princes appoint them.


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Ioshua then called them, and talked with them, and sayd, Wherefore haue ye beguiled vs, saying, We are very farre from you, when ye dwel among vs?


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Now therefore ye [are] cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for <n>For the use of the tabernacle and the temple when it will be built.</n> the house of my God.


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And they answered Ioshua, and sayd, Because it was tolde thy seruants, that the Lord thy God had commanded his seruant Moses to giue you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land out of your sight, therefore we were exceeding sore afraid for our liues at the presence of you, and haue done this thing:


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And beholde nowe, we are in thine hand: doe as it seemeth good and right in thine eyes to doe vnto vs.


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And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the <n>Who were minded to put them to death for fear of God's wrath.</n> hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.


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And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the <n>That is, for the service of the temple, as in (Jos_9:23).</n> altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.


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Now when Adoni-zedek King of Ierusalem had heard how Ioshua had taken Ai and had destroyed it, ( for as he had done to Iericho and to the King thereof, so he had done to Ai and to the King thereof) and howe the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,


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Then they feared exceedingly: for Gibeon was a great citie, as one of the royall cities: for it was greater then Ai, and all the men thereof were mightie.


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Wherefore <n>That is, «Lord of justice», so tyrants take for themselves glorious names, when indeed they are the very enemies of God and all justice.</n> Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,


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Come vp vnto me, and helpe me, that we may smite Gibeon: for they haue made peace with Ioshua and with the children of Israel.


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Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made <n>So envious the wicked are, when any depart from their hand.</n> war against it.


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And the men of Gibeon sent vnto Ioshua, euen to the hoste to Gilgal, saying, Withdrawe not thine hand from thy seruants: come vp to vs quickly, and saue vs, &amp; helpe vs: for all the Kings of the Amorites which dwell in the mountaines, are gathered together against vs.


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And the LORD said unto Joshua, <n>Lest Joshua should have thought that God had sent this great power against him for his unlawful league with the Gibeonites, the Lord here strengthens him.</n> Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.


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And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth vp to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah and to Makkedah.


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And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, [and] were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: [they were] more which died with <n>So we see that all things serve to execute God's vengeance against the wicked.</n> hailstones than [they] whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.


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Then spake Ioshua to the Lord, in the day when the Lord gaue the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he sayd in the sight of Israel, Sunne, stay thou in Gibeon, and thou moone, in the valley of Aialon.


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And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. [Is] not this written in the book of <n>Some read, the book of the righteous, meaning Moses: the Chaldea text reads, in the book of the Law, but it is likely that it was a book thus named, which is now lost.</n> Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.


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And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD <n>By taking away the enemies hearts and destroying them with the hail stones.</n> fought for Israel.


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Then Ioshua said, Roule great stones vpon the mouth of the caue, and set men by it for to keepe them.


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But stand ye not still: followe after your enemies, and smite all the hindmost, suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the Lorde your God hath giuen them into your hand.


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And when Ioshua and the children of Israel had made an ende of slaying them with an exceeding great slaughter till they were consumed, and the rest that remained of them were entred into walled cities,


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And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in <n>Or in safety, so that none gave them as much as an evil word.</n> peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.


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After, Ioshua sayd, Open the mouth of the caue, and bring out these fiue Kings vnto me forth of the caue.


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And they did so, &amp; brought out those fiue Kings vnto him forth of the caue, euen the King of Ierusalem, the King of Hebron, ye King of Iarmuth, the King of Lachish, and the King of Eglon.


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And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the <n>Signifying what would become of the rest of God's enemies, seeing that kings themselves were not spared.</n> necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.


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And Ioshua sayd vnto them, Feare not, nor be faint hearted, but be strong and of a good courage: for thus will the Lord doe to all your enemies, against whome ye fight.


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So then Ioshua smote them, and slewe them, and hanged them on fiue trees, and they hanged still vpon the trees vntill the euening.


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And at the going downe of the sunne, Ioshua gaue commaundement, that they should take them downe off the trees, and cast them into the caue (wherein they had bene hid) and they layde great stones vpon the caues mouth, which remaine vntill this day.


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And that same day Ioshua tooke Makkedah &amp; smote it with the edge of the sword, and the King thereof destroyed he with them, and all the soules that were therein, he let none remaine: for hee did to the King of Makkedah as he had done vnto the King of Iericho.


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And the Lorde gaue it also and the King thereof into the hand of Israel: and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the soules that were therein: he let none remaine in it: for he did vnto the King thereof, as he had done vnto the King of Iericho.


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And Ioshua departed from Libnah, and all Israel with him vnto Lachish, and besieged it, and assaulted it.


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And the Lord gaue Lachish into the hand of Israel, which tooke it the second day, &amp; smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the soules that were therein, according to all as he had done to Libnah.


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Then Horam King of Gezer came vp to helpe Lachish: but Ioshua smote him and his people, vntill none of his remained.


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And from Lachish Ioshua departed vnto Eglon, and all Israel with him, &amp; they besieged it, and assaulted it,


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And they tooke it the same day, &amp; smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the soules that were therein he vtterly destroyed the same day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.


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And when they had taken it, they smote it with the edge of the sword, &amp; the King thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the soules that were therein: he left none remaining, according to all as he had done to Eglon: for he destroyed it vtterly, and all the soules that were therein.


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And when he had taken it, and the King thereof, and all the citie thereof, they smote them with the edge of the sword, and vtterly destroyed all the soules that were therein, he let none remaine: as he did to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the King thereof, as he had also done to Libnah, and to the King thereof.


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So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the <n>Some read, Ashedoth, which signifies the descents of the hills.</n> vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.


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And Ioshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea euen vnto Azzah, and all the countrey of Goshen, euen vnto Gibeon.


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And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at <n>In one battle.</n> one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.


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And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to <n>Where the ark was, there to give thanks for their victories.</n> Gilgal.


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And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard [those things], that he <n>The more God's power appears, the more the wicked rage against it.</n> sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,


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And to the kings that [were] on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of <n>Which the evangelists call the lake of Gennesaret, or Tiberias.</n> Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,


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[And to] the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and [to] the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and [to] the Hivite under <n>Which was mount Sion, as in (Deu_4:48).</n> Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.


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And they came out &amp; all their hostes with them, many people as the sande that is on the sea shore for multitude, with horses and charets exceeding many.


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So all these Kings met together, and came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, for to fight against Israel.


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And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt <n>That neither they should serve to the use of war, nor the Israelites should put their trust in them.</n> hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.


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Then came Ioshua and al the men of warre with him against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell vpon them.


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And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto <n>Which signifies hot waters, or according to some, brine pits.</n> Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.


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And Ioshua did vnto them as the Lorde bade him: he houghed their horses, &amp; burnt their charets with fire.


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At that time also Ioshua turned backe, and tooke Hazor, &amp; smote the King thereof with the sword: for Hazor before time was the head of all those kingdomes.


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And they smote all the <n>Both men, women and children.</n> souls that [were] therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying [them]: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.


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So all ye cities of those Kings, &amp; all the kings of them did Ioshua take, &amp; smote them with the edge of the sword, and vtterly destroyed them, as Moses the seruant of the Lord had commaunded.


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But [as for] the cities that stood still in their <n>Which were strong by situation and not hurt by war.</n> strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; [that] did Joshua burn.


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And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every <n>All mankind.</n> man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.


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As the Lorde had commaunded Moses his seruant, so did Moses commande Ioshua, and so did Ioshua: he left nothing vndone of all that the Lord had commaunded Moses.


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So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the <n>That is, Samaria.</n> mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;


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[Even] from the mount <n>So called, because it was bare and without trees.</n> Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.


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Neither was there any citie that made peace with the children of Israel, saue those Hiuites that inhabited Gibeon: all other they tooke by battell.


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For it was of the LORD to <n>That is, to give them over to themselves: and therefore they could not but rebel against God and seek their own destruction.</n> harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, [and] that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.


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And that same season came Ioshua, and destroyed the Anakims out of the mountaines: as out of Hebron, out of Debir, out of Anab, and out of all the mountaines of Iudah, and out of all the mountaines of Israel: Ioshua destroyed them vtterly with their cities.


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There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, <n>Out of which came Goliath, (1Sa_17:4).</n> in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.


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So Ioshua tooke the whole land, according to all that the Lorde had saide vnto Moses: and Ioshua gaue it for an inheritance vnto Israel according to their portion through their tribes: then the land was at rest without warre.


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Now these [are] the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the <n>From Gilgal where Joshua camped.</n> other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:


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Sihon King of the Amorites, that dwelt in Heshbon, hauing dominion from Aroer, which is beside the riuer of Arnon, and from the middle of the riuer, and from halfe Gilead vnto the riuer Iabbok, in the border of the children of Ammon.


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And from the plaine vnto the sea of Cinneroth Eastward, and vnto the Sea of the plaine, euen the salt sea Eastward, the way to Beth-ieshimoth, and from the South vnder the springs of Pisgah.


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They conquered also the coast of Og King of Bashan of the remnant of the gyants, which dwelt at Ashtaroth, and at Edrei,


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And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, vnto the border of the Geshurites, and the Maachathites, and halfe Gilead, euen the border of Sihon King of Heshbon.


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Moses the seruant of the Lord, and the children of Israel smote them: Moses also the seruant of the Lorde gaue their land for a possession vnto the Reubenites, and vnto the Gadites, and to halfe the tribe of Manasseh.


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And these [are] the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount <n>Read (Jos_11:17).</n> Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel [for] a possession according to their divisions;


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In the mountaines, and in the valleys, and in the plaines, and in the hill sides, and in the wildernes, and in the South, where were the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites.


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Now Joshua was old [and] <n>Being almost a hundred and ten years old.</n> stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old [and] stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be <n>After the enemies are overcome.</n> possessed.


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From Nilus which is in Egypt, euen vnto the borders of Ekron Northward: this is counted of the Canaanites, euen fiue Lordships of the Philistims, the Azzithites, and the Ashdodites, the Eshkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, and the Auites:


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From the South, all the land of the Canaanites, and the caue that is beside the Sidonians, vnto Aphek, and to the borders of the Amorites:


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And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunne rising from Bahal-gad vnder mount Hermon, vntil one come to Hamath.


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All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto <n>Read (Jos_11:8).</n> Misrephothmaim, [and] all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.


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Nowe therefore deuide this lande to inherite, vnto the nine tribes, and to the halfe tribe of Manasseh.


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For with halfe therof the Reubenites &amp; the Gadites haue receiued their inheritance, which Moses gaue them beyond Iorden Eastward, euen as Moses the seruant of the Lord had giuen them,


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From Aroer that is on the brinke of the riuer Arnon, &amp; from the citie that is in the mids of the riuer, &amp; all the plaine of Medeba vnto Dibon,


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And all the cities of Sihon King of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, vnto the borders of the children of Ammon,


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And Gilead, and the borders of the Geshurites and of the Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, with all Bashan vnto Salcah:


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All the kingdome of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei: (who remained of the rest of the gyants) for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.


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Nevertheless the children of Israel <n>Because they had not destroyed all as God had commanded they that remainder were snares and pricks to hurt them, (Num_33:35; Jos_23:13; Jdg_2:3).</n> expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.


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Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are] <n>Levi will live by the sacrifices, (Num_18:21).</n> their inheritance, as he said unto them.


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And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the brinke of the riuer Arnon, and from the citie that is in the middes of the riuer, and all the plaine which is by Medeba:


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Heshbon with all the cities thereof, that are in the plaine: Dibon and Bamoth-baal, &amp; Bethbaal-meon:


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And all the cities of the plaine: and all the kingdome of Sihon King of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whome Moses smote with the Princes of Midian, Eui, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the countrey.


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<n>So that both they who obeyed wicked counsel and the wicked counsellor perished by the just judgment of God.</n>Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.


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And the border of the children of Reuben was Iorden with the coastes. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, with the cities and their villages.


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Also Moses gaue inheritance vnto ye tribe of Gad, euen vnto the children of Gad according to their families.


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And their coastes were Iazer, and all the cities of Gilead and halfe the lande of the children of Ammon vnto Aroer, which is before Rabbah:


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And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and [his] border, [even] unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the <n>That is, in the land of Moab.</n> other side Jordan eastward.


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This is the inheritance of the children of Gad, after their families, with the cities, and their villages.


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Also Moses gaue inheritance vnto the halfe tribe of Manasseh: and this belonged to the halfe tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.


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And their border was from Mahanaim, euen all Bashan, to wit, all the kingdome of Og King of Bashan, and all the townes of Iair which are in Bashan, threescore cities,


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And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, [were pertaining] unto the <n>Meaning, his nephews and posterity.</n> children of Machir the son of Manasseh, [even] to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.


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These are the heritages, which Moses did distribute in the plaine of Moab beyond Iorden, toward Iericho Eastward.


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But vnto the tribe of Leui Moses gaue none inheritance: for the Lorde God of Israel is their inheritance, as he said vnto them.


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These also are the places which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the Priest, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun and the chiefe fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,


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By the lot of their inheritance, as the Lord had commaunded by the hande of Moses, to giue to the nine tribes, and the halfe tribe.


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For Moses had given the inheritance of <n>As Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh, (Num_32:33).</n> two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.


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For the children of Joseph were <n>So though Levi lacked, yet were there still twelve tribes by this means.</n> two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell [in], with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.


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Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and <n>Which was that only those two should enter into the land, (Num_14:24).</n> thee in Kadeshbarnea.


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Fourtie yeere olde was I, when Moses the seruant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espie the land, and I brought him word againe, as I thought in mine heart.


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Nevertheless my <n>Which were the ten other spies.</n> brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.


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Wherefore Moses sware the same day, saying, Certainely the land whereon thy feete haue troden, shalbe thine inheritance, &amp; thy childrens for euer, because thou hast followed constantly the Lord my God.


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Therefore beholde nowe, the Lorde hath kept me aliue, as he promised: this is the fourtie and fift yeere since the Lord spake this thing vnto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wildernes: and nowe loe, I am this day foure score and fiue yeere olde:


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And yet am as strong at this time, as I was when Moses sent me: as strong as I was then, so strong am I nowe, either for warre, or for gouernment.


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Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims [were] there, and [that] the cities [were] great [and] fenced: <n>This he spoke out of modesty, and not from doubting.</n> if so be the LORD [will be] with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.


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Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh the Kenezite, vnto this day: because he followed constantly the Lord God of Israel.


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And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba; [which Arba was] a <n>Either for his power or person.</n> great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.


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This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Iudah by their families: euen to the border of Edom and the wildernesse of Zin, Southward on the Southcoast.


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And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the <n>The Hebrew word signifies tongue, by which it means either the arm of the sea that comes into the land, or a rock, or cape that goes into the sea.</n> bay that looketh southward:


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And it went out on the Southside towarde Maaleth-akrabbim, and went along to Zin, and ascended vp on the Southside vnto Kadesh-barnea, and went along to Hezron, and went vp to Adar, and fet a compasse to Karkaa.


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From thence went it along to Azmon, and reached vnto the riuer of Egypt, and the end of that coast was on the Westside: this shall be your South coast.


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And the east border [was] the salt sea, [even] unto the <n>Meaning the mouth of the river where it runs into the Salt sea.</n> end of Jordan. And [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:


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And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the <n>Which was a mark to part their countries.</n> stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:


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Againe this border goeth vp to Debir from the valley of Achor, and Northwarde, turning toward Gilgal, that lyeth before the going vp to Adummim, which is on the Southside of the riuer: also this border goeth vp to the waters of En-shemesh, and endeth at En-rogel.


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Then this border goeth vp to the valley of the sonne of Hinnom; on the Southside of the Iebusites: the same is Ierusalem. Also this border goeth vp to the top of the mountaine that lyeth before the valley of Hinnom Westward, which is by the end of the valley of ye gyants Northward.


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So this border compasseth from the top of the mountaine vnto the fountaine of the water of Nephtoah, &amp; goeth out to the cities of mount Ephron: and this border draweth to Baalah, which is Kiriath-iearim.


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Then this border compasseth from Baalah Westward vnto mount Seir, and goeth along vnto the side of mount Iearim, which is Chesalon on the Northside: so it commeth downe to Bethshemesh, and goeth to Timnah.


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And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the <n>Meaning, toward Syria.</n> sea.


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And the Westborder is to the great Sea: so this border shalbe the bounds of the children of Iudah round about, according to their families.


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And vnto Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh did Ioshua giue a part among the children of Iudah, as the Lord commanded him, euen Kiriath-arba of the father of Anak, which is Hebron.


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And Caleb <n>This was done after the death of Joshua, (Jdg_1:10, Jdg_1:20).</n> drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.


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And he went vp thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before time was Kiriath-sepher.


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Then Caleb sayd, He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, euen to him wil I giue Achsah my daughter to wife.


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And Othniel, the sonne of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb tooke it: and he gaue him Achsah his daughter to wife.


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And it came to pass, as she came [unto him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: <n>Because her husband tarried too long.</n> and she lighted off [her] ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?


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Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; <n>Because her country was barren, she wanted a field that had springs from her father. (Jdg_1:14-15).</n> give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.


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And the vtmost cities of the tribe of the children of Iudah, toward the coastes of Edom Southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Iagur,


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And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all these cities are twentie and nine with their villages.


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Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the <n>Meaning, the Nile (Jos_13:3).</n> river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border [thereof]:


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And Dannah, and <n>Which is also called Kirjath-sepher, (Jos_15:15).</n> Kirjathsannah, which [is] Debir,


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And Nibshan, and the <n>Of this city the salt sea has it's name.</n> city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages.


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As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them <n>That is, utterly, though they slew the most part, and burnt their city, (Jdg_1:8).</n> out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.


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And the lot of the <n>That is, to Ephraim and his children: for Manasseh's portion follows.</n> children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,


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And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out <n>Of their inheritance.</n> thereof are at the sea.


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So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, <n>Severally, first Ephraim, and then Manasseh.</n> took their inheritance.


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Also the borders of the children of Ephraim according to their families, euen the borders of their inheritance on the Eastside were Atroth-addar, vnto Beth-horon the vpper.


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And this border goeth out to the Sea vnto Michmethah on the Northside, and this border returneth Eastward vnto Taanathshiloh, and passeth it on the Eastside vnto Ianohah,


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And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, <n>For so far the coasts reach.</n> and went out at Jordan.


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And this border goeth fro Tappuah Westward vnto the riuer Kanah, and the endes thereof are at the Sea: this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.


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And the <n>Because Ephraim's tribe was far greater than Manasseh, therefore he had more cities.</n> separate cities for the children of Ephraim [were] among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.


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And they cast not out the Canaanite that dwelt in Gezer, but the Canaanite dwelt among the Ephraimites vnto this day, and serued vnder tribute.


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This was also the lot of the tribe of Manasseh: for he was the first borne of Ioseph, to wit, of Machir the first borne of Manasseh, and the father of Gilead: nowe because he was a man of warre, he had Gilead and Bashan.


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There was also [a lot] for the <n>For the other half tribe had their portion beyond Jordan.</n> rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these [were] the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.


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But Zelophehad the sonne of Hephir, the sonne of Gilead, the sonne of Machir, ye sonne of Manasseh, had no sonnes, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah:


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And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our <n>Among them of our tribe.</n> brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.


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And there fell ten portions to <n>In the land of canaan: five to the males: and other five to the daughters of Zelophehad.</n> Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which [were] on the other side Jordan;


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Because the daughters of Manasseh did inherite among his sonnes: and Manassehs other sonnes had the land of Gilead.


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So the borders of Manasseh were from Asher to Michmethah that lieth before Shechem, and this border goeth on the right hand, euen vnto the inhabitants of En-tappuah.


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And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim [are] among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also [was] on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the <n>That is, toward the main sea.</n> sea:


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And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher, Beth-shean, and her townes, and Ibleam, and her townes, and the inhabitants of Dor with ye townes thereof, and the inhabitants of En-dor with the townes thereof, and the inhabitants of Thaanach with her townes, and the inhabitants of Megiddo with the townes of the same, euen three countreis.


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Yet the children of Manasseh <n>For at first they lacked courage, and later agreed with them on condition, contrary to God's commandment.</n> could not drive out [the inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.


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And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me [but] one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I [am] a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath <n>According to my father Jacob's prophecy, (Gen_48:19).</n> blessed me hitherto?


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And Joshua answered them, If thou [be] a great people, [then] get thee up to the wood [country], and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, <n>If this mount is not large enough, why do you not get more by destroying God's enemies, as he has commanded.</n> if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.


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Then the children of Ioseph saide, The mountaine will not be ynough for vs: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the lowe countrey haue charets of yron, aswell they in Beth-shean, and in the townes of the same, as they in the valley of Izreel.


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And Ioshua spake vnto the house of Ioseph, to Ephraim, and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power, and shalt not haue one lot.


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But the mountain shall be thine; for it [is] a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: <n>So that you shall enlarge your portion by it.</n> for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, [and] though they [be] strong.


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And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the <n>For they had now removed it from Gilgal, and set it up in Shiloh.</n> tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.


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And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, <n>As Eleazar, Joshua, and the heads of the tribes had done to Judah, Ephraim, and half of Manasseh.</n> which had not yet received their inheritance.


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Therefore Ioshua said vnto the children of Israel, Howe long are ye so slacke to enter and possesse the land which the Lord God of your fathers hath giuen you?


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Give out from among you three men for [each] tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to <n>That is, into seven portions, one to every tribe.</n> the inheritance of them; and they shall come [again] to me.


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And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall <n>For these had their inheritance already appointed.</n> abide in their coasts on the north.


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Ye shall therefore describe the land [into] seven parts, and bring [the description] hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the <n>Before the ark of the Lord.</n> LORD our God.


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But the Levites have no part among you; for the <n>That is, the sacrifices and offerings, (Jos_13:14).</n> priesthood of the LORD [is] their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.


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And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to <n>By writing the names of every country and city.</n> describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.


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So the men departed, and passed through the lande, and described it by cities into seuen partes in a booke, and returned to Ioshua into the campe at Shiloh.


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And Joshua <n>That everyone should be content with God's appointment.</n> cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.


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And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth <n>Their inheritance bordered on Judah and Joseph.</n> between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.


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And their coast on the Northside was from Iorden, and the border went vp to the side of Iericho on the Northpart, and went vp through the mountaines Westward, and the endes thereof are in the wildernesse of Beth-auen:


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And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which [is] <n>Which was in the tribe of Ephraim: another Bethel was in the tribe of Benjamin.</n> Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that [lieth] on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.


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So the border turneth, and compasseth the corner of the Sea Southward, from the mount that lyeth before Beth-horon Southward: and the endes thereof are at Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-iearim) a citie of the children of Iudah: this is the Westquarter.


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And the Southquarter is from the ende of Kiriath-iearim, and this border goeth out Westward, and commeth to the fountaine of waters of Nephtoah.


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And this border descendeth at the ende of the mountaine, that lyeth before the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is in the valley of the gyants Northward, and descendeth into the valley of Hinnom by the side of Iebusi Southwarde, and goeth downe to En-rogel,


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And was drawn from the north, and went forth to <n>Which is in the tribe of Ephraim.</n> Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which [is] over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,


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And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south <n>To the very straight, where the river runs into the Salt sea.</n> end of Jordan: this [was] the south coast.


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Also Iorden is the border of it on the Eastside: this is the inheritance of the children of Beniamin by the coastes thereof rounde about according to their families.


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Nowe the cities of the tribe of the children of Beniamin according to their families, are Iericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,


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And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which [is] <n>Which was not completely in the tribe of Benjamin, but part of it was also in the tribe of Judah.</n> Jerusalem, Gibeath, [and] Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This [is] the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.


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And the second lot came forth to Simeon, [even] for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was <n>According to Jacob's prophecy that he would be scattered among the other tribes.</n> within the inheritance of the children of Judah.


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And all the villages that were round about these cities, vnto Baalathbeer, &amp; Ramath Southward: this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.


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Out of the portion of the children of Judah [was] the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too <n>But this large portion was given them by God's providence to declare their increase in time to come.</n> much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.


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Also the third lot arose for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the coastes of their inheritance came to Sarid,


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And their border went up <n>Or, westward, toward the great sea.</n> toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that [is] before Jokneam;


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And turneth from Sarid Eastward towarde the sunne rising vnto the border of Chisloth-tabor, and goeth out to Daberath, and ascendeth to Iaphia,


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And from thence goeth along Eastwarde towarde the sunne rising to Gittah-hepher to Ittah-kazin, and goeth foorth to Rimmon, and turneth to Neah.


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And this border compasseth it on ye North side to Hannathon, and the endes thereof are in the valley of Iiphtah-el,


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And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and <n>There was another Bethlehem in the tribe of Judah.</n> Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.


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This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families: that is, these cities and their villages.


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And Remeth, and <n>There was another city of this name in the tribe of Judah: for in various tribes certain cities had the same name, and were distinguished by the tribe only.</n> Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez;


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And this coast reacheth to Tabor, &amp; Shahazimath, and Beth-shemesh, and the endes of their coast reach to Iorden: sixteene cities with their villages.


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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families: that is, the cities, and their villages.


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And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth to <n>Joins to the tribe of Zebulun, which lay more to the east.</n> Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,


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And [then] the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city <n>Which was Zoar, a strong city at the sea.</n> Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:


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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families: that is, these cities and their villages.


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The sixt lot came out to the children of Naphtali, euen to the children of Naphtali according to their families.


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And their coast was from <n>These cities were in the country of Zaanannim.</n> Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan:


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So this coast turneth Westwarde to Aznoth-tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the Southside, and goeth to Asher on the Westside, and to Iudah by Iorden toward the sunne rising.


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And the fenced cities [are] Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and <n>Of which the lake of Gennesaret had its name.</n> Chinnereth,


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And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, &amp; Beth-anah, and Beth-shemesh: nineteene cities with their villages.


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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families: that is, the cities and their villages.


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And the coast of the children of Dan went out [too little] for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to <n>According as Jacob had prophesied in (Gen_49:17).</n> fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.


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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the childre of Dan according to their families: that is, these cities and their villages.


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When they had made an ende of deuiding the lande by the coastes thereof, then the children of Israel gaue an inheritance vnto Ioshua the sonne of Nun among them.


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According to the worde of the Lord they gaue him the citie which hee asked, euen Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and hee built the citie and dwelt therein.


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These are ye heritages which Eleazar the Priest, and Ioshua the sonne of Nun, &amp; the chiefe fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel deuided by lot in Shiloh before the Lorde at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: so they made an ende of deuiding the countrey.


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Speake to the children of Israel, and say, Appoint you cities of refuge, whereof I spake vnto you by the hand of Moses,


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That the slayer that killeth [any] person <n>At unawares and bearing him no grudge.</n> unawares [and] unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.


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And he that doeth flee vnto one of those cities, shall stand at the entring of the gate of the citie, and shall shewe his cause to the Elders of the citie: and they shall receiue him into the citie vnto them, and giue him a place, that hee may dwell with them.


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And if the <n>That is, the nearest kinsman of him that is slain.</n> avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.


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And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for <n>Till his cause was proved.</n> judgment, [and] until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.


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Then they appointed Kedesh in Galil in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba, (which is Hebron) in the mountaine of Iudah.


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And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the <n>Out of the half tribe of Manasseh beyond the Jordan.</n> tribe of Manasseh.


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These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth [any] person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the <n>Before the Judges.</n> congregation.


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Then came the principall fathers of the Leuites vnto Eleazar the Priest, and vnto Ioshua the sonne of Nun, and vnto the chiefe fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel,


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And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded <n>By Moses, by whose ministry God showed his power.</n> by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.


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So the children of Israel gaue vnto the Leuites, out of their inheritance at the commaundement of the Lord these cities with their suburbes.


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And the lot came out for the families of the <n>He means those that were priests: for some were but Levites.</n> Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, [which were] of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, <n>Every tribe gave more or fewer cities according to the size of their inheritance, (Num_35:8).</n> thirteen cities.


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And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, tenne cities.


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Also the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, &amp; out of the tribe of Asher, and out of ye tribe of Naphtali, and out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteene cities.


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The children of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelue cities.


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So the children of Israel gaue by lot vnto the Leuites these cities with their suburbes, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.


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And they gaue out of the tribe of the children of Iudah, &amp; out of the tribe of the children of Simeo, these cities which are here named.


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Which the children of <n>For Aaron came from Kohath, and therefore the priests office remained in that family.</n> Aaron, [being] of the families of the Kohathites, [who were] of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.


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So they gaue them Kiriath-arba of the father of Anok (which is Hebron) in the mountaine of Iudah, with the suburbes of the same round about it.


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(But the lande of the citie, and the villages thereof, gaue they to Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh to be his possession)


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Thus they gave to the <n>That is, the priest of the family of the Kohathites, of whom Aaron was chief.</n> children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,


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And Ain with her suburbes, and Iuttah with her suburbes, Beth-shemesh with her suburbes: nine cities out of those two tribes.


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And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her <n>The suburbs were a thousand cubits from the wall of the cities round about, (Num_35:4).</n> suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,


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And the families of the children of Kohath, <n>That were not priests.</n> the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.


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For they gave them <n>Hebron and Shechem were the two cities of refuge under the Kohathites.</n> Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,


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And out of the <n>Who dwelt in Canaan.</n> half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.


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And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the [other] half tribe of Manasseh [they gave] <n>Golan and Kedesh were the cities of refuge under the Gershonites.</n> Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.


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And out of the tribe of Naphtali, the citie of refuge for the slaier, Kedesh in Galil with her suburbes, and Hammoth-dor with her suburbes, and Kartan with her suburbes: three cities.


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Al the cities of the Gershonites according to their families, were thirteene cities with their suburbes.


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And unto the families of the children of Merari, the <n>They are here called the rest, because they are last numbered, and Merari was the younger brother, (Gen_46:11).</n> rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,


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And out of the tribe of Reuben, <n>Bezer and Ramoch were the cities of refuge under the Merarites and beyond Jordan, (Jos_20:8).</n> Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,


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And out of the tribe of Gad they gaue for a citie of refuge for the slaier, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbes, and Mahanaim with her suburbes,


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So all the cities of the children of Merari according to their families (which were the rest of the families of the Leuites) were by their lot, twelue cities.


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All the cities of the Levites <n>Thus according to Jacob's prophecy they were scattered throughout the country, which God used so that his people might be instructed in the true religion by them.</n> within the possession of the children of Israel [were] forty and eight cities with their suburbs.


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These cities lay euery one seuerallie with their suburbes round about them: so were all these cities.


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So the Lord gaue vnto Israel all ye land, which hee had sworne to giue vnto their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.


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Also the Lorde gaue them rest rounde about according to all that hee had sworne vnto their fathers: and there stoode not a ma of all their enemies before them: for the Lorde deliuered all their enemies into their hand.


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There failed nothing of all the good things, which the Lord hath sayde vnto the house of Israel, but all came to passe.


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Then <n>After that the Israelites enjoyed the land of Canaan.</n> Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,


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And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD <n>Which was to go armed before their brethren, (Num_32:29).</n> commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:


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You haue not forsaken your brethren this long season vnto this day, but haue diligently kept the commandement of the Lord your God.


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And nowe the Lorde hath giuen rest vnto your brethren as he promised them: therefore nowe returne ye and goe to your tentes, to the land of your possession, which Moses the seruant of the Lord hath giuen you beyond Iorden.


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But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to <n>He shows where fulfilling the Law consists.</n> love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.


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So Joshua <n>He commended them to God, and prayed for them.</n> blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.


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Nowe vnto one halfe of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had giuen a possession in Bashan: and vnto the other halfe thereof gaue Ioshua among their brethren on this side Iorden Westwarde: therefore when Ioshua sent them away vnto their tents, and blessed them,


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And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your <n>Who remained at home and did not go to the war, (Num_31:27; 1Sa_30:24).</n> brethren.


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So the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel from Shiloh (which is in the land of Canaan) to goe vnto the countrey of Gilead to the land of their possession, which they had obteyned, according to ye word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.


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And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that [are] in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built <n>That is, beyond Jordan: for sometime the whole country on both sides of Jordan is referred to as Canaan.</n> there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.


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When the children of Israel heard say, Beholde, the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh haue built an altar in the forefront of the lande of Canaan vpon the borders of Iorden at the passage of the children of Israel:


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And when the children of Israel heard [of it], the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up <n>Such was their zeal, that they would rather lose their lives, that allow the true religion to be changed or corrupted.</n> to war against them.


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Then the children of Israel sent vnto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to ye halfe tribe of Manasseh into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest,


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And with him ten princes, of euery chiefe house a prince, according to all the tribes of Israel: for euery one was chiefe of their fathers housholde among the thousands of Israel.


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So they went vnto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the halfe tribe of Manasseh, vnto the land of Gilead, and spake with them, saying,


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Thus saith <n>Not only of the princes, but also of the common people.</n> the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass [is] this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?


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[Is] the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not <n>Meaning, God is not fully pacified, in that no punishment can be sufficient for such wickedness and idolatry.</n> cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,


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Ye also are turned away this day from the Lord: and seeing ye rebell to day against ye Lord, euen to morowe he will be wroth with all the Congregation of Israel.


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Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession [be] <n>In your judgment.</n> unclean, [then] pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but <n>To use any other service than God has appointed is to rebel against God, (1Sa_15:23).</n> rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.


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Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man <n>Signifying, that if many suffered for one man's sin, for the fault of many, all should suffer.</n> perished not alone in his iniquity.


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Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh answered, and saide vnto the heads ouer the thousands of Israel,


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The Lorde God of gods, the Lorde God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel himselfe shal know: if by rebellion, or by transgression against ye Lord we haue done it, saue thou vs not this day.


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That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD <n>Let him punish us.</n> himself require [it];


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And if we haue not rather done it for feare of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might say vnto our children, What haue ye to doe with the Lord God of Israel?


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For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children <n>Or, to turn back from the true God.</n> cease from fearing the LORD.


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Therefore we said, We will nowe go about to make vs an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice,


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But it shall be a witnesse betweene vs and you, and betweene our generations after vs, to execute the seruice of the Lorde before him in our burnt offerings, and in our sacrifices, and in our peace offerings, and that your children should not say to our children in time to come, Ye haue no part in the Lord.


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Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should [so] say to us or to our <n>They signify a wonderful care that they bore toward their posterity, that they might live in the true service of God.</n> generations in time to come, that we may say [again], Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it [is] a witness between us and you.


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God forbid, that we should rebell against the Lord, and turne this day away from the Lorde to builde an altar for burnt offering, or for meate offering, or for sacrifice, saue the altar of the Lord our God, that is before his Tabernacle.


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And when Phinehas the Priest, and the princes of the Congregation and heads ouer the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the wordes, that the children of Reuben, and children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spake, they were well content.


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And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD [is] <n>By preserving and governing us.</n> among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have <n>Whom if ye had offended; he would have punished with you.</n> delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.


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Then Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest with the princes returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, vnto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them answere.


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And the saying pleased the children of Israel: and the children of Israel blessed God, and minded not to goe against them in battell, for to destroy the land, wherein the children of Reuben, and Gad dwelt.


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Then the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witnesse betweene vs, that the Lord is God.


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And a long season after that the Lord had giuen rest vnto Israel from all their enemies round about, and Ioshua was olde, and stricken in age,


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Then Ioshua called all Israel, and their Elders, and their heads, and their iudges, and their officers, and said vnto them, I am old, and stricken in age.


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And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations <n>Your eyes bearing witness.</n> because of you; for the LORD your God [is] he that hath fought for you.


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Beholde, I haue deuided vnto you by lot these nations that remaine, to be an inheritance according to your tribes, from Iorden, with all the nations that I haue destroyed, euen vnto the great Sea Westward.


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And the LORD your God, he shall expel <n>Which yet remain and are not overcome, as in (Jos_13:2).</n> them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.


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Be ye therefore of a valiant courage, to obserue and doe all that is written in the booke of the Lawe of Moses, that ye turne not therefrom to the right hand nor to the left,


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That ye come not among these nations, these that <n>And not yet subdued.</n> remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, <n>Let not the judges admit an oath which any shall swear by their idols.</n> nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:


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For ye Lorde hath cast out before you great nations and mightie, and no man hath stand before your face hitherto.


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One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God, he fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.


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Els, if ye goe backe, and cleaue vnto the rest of these nations: that is, of them that remaine with you, and shall make marriages with them, and goe vnto them, and they to you,


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Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out [any of] these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your <n>Meaning, they will be a continual grief to you, and so the cause of your destruction.</n> eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.


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And, behold, this day I [am] <n>I die according to the course of nature.</n> going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your <n>Most certainly.</n> hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, [and] not one thing hath failed thereof.


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Therefore as all good things are come vpon you, which the Lorde your God promised you, so shall the Lord bring vpon you euery euill thing, vntill he haue destroyed you out of this good land, which ye Lord your God hath giue you.


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When ye have <n>He shows that no evil can come to man, except he offend God by disobedience.</n> transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.


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And Joshua gathered all the <n>That is, the nine tribes and the half.</n> tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before <n>Before the ark which was brought to Shechem, when they went to bury Joseph's bones.</n> God.


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And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the <n>Euphrates in Mesopotamia, (Gen_11:26).</n> flood in old time, [even] Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.


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And I tooke your father Abraham from beyond the flood, and brought him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seede, and gaue him Izhak.


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And I gaue vnto Izhak, Iaakob and Esau: and I gaue vnto Esau mount Seir, to possesse it: but Iaakob and his children went downe into Egypt.


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I sent Moses also &amp; Aaron, and I plagued Egypt: and when I had so done among them, I brought you out.


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So I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and ye came vnto the Sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with charets and horsemen vnto the red sea.


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And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a <n>Even forty years.</n> long season.


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After, I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt beyond Iorden, and they fought with you: but I gaue them into your hand, and ye possessed their countrey, and I destroyed them out of your sight.


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Also Balak the sonne of Zippor King of Moab arose and warred against Israel, and sent to call Balaam the sonne of Beor for to curse you,


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And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the <n>Because it was the chief city, under it he contains all the country: else they of the city fought not.</n> men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.


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And I sent hornets before you, which cast them out before you, euen the two kings of the Amorites, and not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.


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And I haue giuen you a land, wherein ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and yee dwell in them, and eate of the vineyards and oliue trees, which yee planted not.


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Now therefore <n>This is the true use of God's benefits, to learn by it to fear and serve him with an upright conscience.</n> fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.


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And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: <n>This teaches us that if all the world would go from God, yet every one of us particularly is bound to cleave to him.</n> but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.


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Then the people answered and saide, God forbid, that we shoulde forsake the Lord, to serue other gods.


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For the Lorde our God, he brought vs and our fathers out of the lande of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and he did those great miracles in our sight, and preserued vs in all the way that we went, and among all the people through whome we came.


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And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: [therefore] will we also serve the LORD; <n>How much more are we bound to serve God in Christ, by whom we have received the redemption of our souls.</n> for he [is] our God.


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And Ioshua saide vnto the people, Ye can not serue the Lorde: for he is an holie God: he is a ielous God: hee will not pardon your iniquitie nor your sinnes.


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If yee forsake the Lorde and serue strange gods, then he will returne and bring euill vpon you, and consume you, after that hee hath done you good.


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And Joshua said unto the people, Ye [are] witnesses <n>If you do the contrary, your own mouths will condemn you.</n> against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, [We are] witnesses.


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Now therefore put away, [said he], the strange <n>Out of your hearts and otherwise.</n> gods which [are] among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.


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So Joshua <n>By joining God and the people together: also he repeated the promises and threatenings out of the Law.</n> made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.


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And Ioshua wrote these woordes in the booke of the Lawe of God, and tooke a great stone, and pitched it there vnder an oke that was in the Sanctuarie of the Lord.


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And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it <n>So that man's deception should not go unpunished, the dumb creatures will cry for vengeance.</n> hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.


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And after these things Ioshua the sonne of Nun, the seruaunt of the Lord died, being an hundreth and ten yeeres olde.


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And they buried him in ye border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the Northside of mount Gaash.


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And Israel <n>Such are the people commonly as their rulers are.</n> served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.


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And the bones of Ioseph, which the children of Israel brought out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem in a parcell of ground which Iaakob bought of the sonnes of Hamor the father of Shechem, for an hundreth pieces of siluer, and the children of Ioseph had them in their inheritance.


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Also Eleazar the sonne of Aaron died, whome they buried in the hill of Phinehas his sonne, which was giuen him in mount Ephraim.


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Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel <n>By the judgment of Urim; Read (Exo_28:30; Num_27:21; 1Sa_28:6)</n> asked the LORD, saying, <n>Who shall be our captain?</n> Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?


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And Judah said unto Simeon his <n>For the tribe of Simeon had their inheritance within the tribe of Judah, (Jos_19:1).</n> brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.


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Then Iudah went vp, and the Lorde deliuered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands, and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.


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And they founde Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and slewe the Canaanites, and the Perizzites.


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But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and <n>This was God's just judgment, as the tyrant himself confesses, that as he had done, so did he receive, (Lev_24:19-20).</n> cut off his thumbs and his great toes.


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And Adoni-bezek said, Seuentie Kings hauing the thumbes of their hands &amp; of their feete cut off, gathered bread vnder my table: as I haue done, so God hath rewarded me. so they brought him to Ierusalem, and there he died.


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Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the <n>Which was later built again, and possessed by the Jebusites, (2Sa_5:6).</n> city on fire.


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Afterwarde also the children of Iudah went downe to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountaine, and towarde the South, and in the lowe countrey.


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And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba:) and they slew <n>These three were giants, and the children of Anak.</n> Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.


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And from thence hee went to the inhabitantes of Debir, and the name of Debir in olde time was Kiriath-sepher.


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And Caleb saide, He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, euen to him wil I giue Achsah my daughter to wife.


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And Othniel the sonne of Kenaz Calebs yonger brother tooke it, to whome hee gaue Achsah his daughter to wife.


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And it came to pass, when she came [to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: <n>Read (Jos_15:18).</n> and she lighted from off [her] ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?


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And shee answered him, Giue mee a blessing: for thou hast giuen me a South countrey, giue me also springs of water: and Caleb gaue her the springs aboue and the springs beneath.


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And the children of the <n>This was one of the names of Moses father in law, read (Num_10:29).</n> Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which [lieth] in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.


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But Iudah went with Simeon his brother, and they slewe the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and vtterly destroied it, and called the name of the citie Hormah.


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Also Judah took <n>These cities and others were later possessed by the Philistines, (1Sa_6:17).</n> Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.


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And the Lord was with Iudah, and he possessed the mountaines: for he could not driue out the inhabitantes of the valleis, because they had charrets of yron.


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And they gaue Hebron vnto Caleb, as Moses had saide, and hee expelled thence the three sonnes of Anak.


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And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that <n>For after the tribe of Judah had burnt it, they built it again.</n> inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.


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And the spies sawe a man come out of the citie, and they saide vnto him, Shewe vs, we praie thee, the way into the citie, and we will shewe thee mercie.


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And when hee had shewed them the waie into the citie, they smote the citie with the edge of the sworde, but they let the man and all his housholde depart.


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Then the man went into the lande of the Hittites, and built a citie, and called the name thereof Luz, which is the name thereof vnto this daie.


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Neither did Manasseh drive out [the inhabitants of] Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: <n>Wherefore God permitted the Canaanites to still dwell in the land, read (Jdg_3:5).</n> but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.


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Neuerthelesse when Israel was strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute, and expelled them not wholly.


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Neither did <n>That is, the tribe of Zebulun as is also to be understood of the rest.</n> Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.


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Neither did Asher cast out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob,


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But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them <n>But made them pay tribute as the others did.</n> out.


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Neither did Naphtali driue out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but dwelt among the Canaanites the inhabitants of the lande: neuerthelesse the inhabitantes of Beth-shemesh, and of Beth-anath became tributaries vnto them.


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And the Amorites droue the children of Dan into the mountaine: so that they suffered them not to come downe to the valley.


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But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the <n>Meaning, when he was stronger than they.</n> hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.


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And the coast of the Amorites [was] from the going up to Akrabbim, from the <n>Or Selah, which was a city in Arabia.</n> rock, and upward.


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And an <n>That is, messenger, or prophet, as some think, Phinehas.</n> angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.


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Ye also shall make no couenant with the inhabitants of this land, but shall breake downe their altars: but ye haue not obeyed my voyce. Why haue ye done this?


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Wherefore, I sayd also, I wil not cast them out before you, but they shalbe as thornes vnto your sides, &amp; their gods shalbe your destruction.


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And when the Angel of the Lorde spake these wordes vnto all the children of Israel, the people lift vp their voyce, and wept.


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And when Joshua had <n>After that he had divided to every man his portion by lot, (Jos_24:28).</n> let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.


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And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great <n>Meaning, the wonders and miracles.</n> works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.


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But Ioshua the sonne of Nun the seruant of the Lord dyed, when he was an hundreth and ten yeeres olde:


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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in <n>Heres, by turning the letters backward is Sereh, as in (Jos_24:30).</n> Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.


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And so all that generation was gathered vnto their fathers, &amp; another generation arose after them, which neither knewe the Lord, nor yet the works, which he had done for Israel.


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And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served <n>That is, all manner of idols.</n> Baalim:


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And forsooke ye Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the lande of Egypt, &amp; followed other gods, euen the gods of the people that were round about them, &amp; bowed vnto them, and prouoked the Lord to anger.


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And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and <n>These were idols, which had the form of a ewe or sheep among the Sidonians.</n> Ashtaroth.


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And the wrath of the Lorde was hote against Israel, &amp; he deliuered them into the hands of spoylers, that spoyled them, and he sold them into the handes of their enemies rounde about them, so that they could no longer stande before their enemies.


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<n>In all their enterprises.</n>Whithersoever they went out, the <n>The vengeance.</n> hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.


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And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the <n>Meaning, from the true religion.</n> way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; [but] they did not so.


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And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings <n>Seeing their cruelty.</n> by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.


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Yet when the Iudge was dead, they returned, and did worse then their fathers, in following other gods to serue them and worshippe them: they ceased not from their owne inuentions, nor from their rebellious way.


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I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the <n>As the Hivites, Jebusites, Amorites, etc.</n> nations which Joshua left when he died:


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So the Lorde left those nations, and droue them not out immediately, neither deliuered them into the hand of Ioshua.


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Now these [are] the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, [even] as many [of Israel] as had not known all the <n>Which were achieved by the hand of God, and not by the power of man.</n> wars of Canaan;


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Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew <n>For they trusted in God and he fought for them.</n> nothing thereof;


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Fiue princes of the Philistims, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, &amp; the Hiuites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon vntill one come to Hamath.


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And these remayned to proue Israel by them, to wit, whether they would obey the commandements of the Lorde, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.


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And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, &amp; the Amorites, and the Perizzites, &amp; the Hiuites, and the Iebusites,


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And they took <n>Contrary to God's commandment, (Deu_7:3).</n> their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.


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And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the <n>Or Ashteroth, trees or woods erected for idolatry.</n> groves.


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Therefore the wrath of the Lorde was kindled against Israel, and he solde them into the hand of Chushan rishathaim King of Aram-naharaim, and the children of Israel serued Chushan rishathaim eyght yeeres.


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And when the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lorde, the Lord stirred vp a sauiour to ye children of Israel, &amp; he saued them, euen Othniel the sonne of Kenaz, Calebs yonger brother.


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And the <n>He was stirred up by the Spirit of the Lord.</n> Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.


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And the land had rest <n>That is, 32 under Joshua and 8 under Othniel.</n> forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.


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And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD <n>So that the enemies of God's people have no power over them, but by God's appointment.</n> strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.


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And he gathered vnto him the children of Ammon, and Amalek, &amp; went and smote Israel, and they possessed the citie of palme trees.


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But when the children of Israel cried vnto the Lorde, the Lorde stirred them vp a sauiour, Ehud the sonne of Gera the sonne of Iemini, a man lame of his right hande: and the children of Israel sent a present by him vnto Eglon King of Moab.


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And Ehud made him a dagger with two edges of a cubite length, and he did gird it vnder his rayment vpon his right thigh,


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But he himself turned again from the <n>Or, as some read from the places of idols.</n> quarries that [were] by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep <n>Till all be departed.</n> silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.


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Then Ehud came vnto him. (and he sate alone in a sommer parler, which he had) and Ehud said, I haue a message vnto thee from God. Then he arose out of his throne,


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And Ehud put forth his left hand, &amp; tooke the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his bellie,


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So that the hafte went in after the blade, and the fatte closed about the blade, so that he could not drawe the dagger out of his bellie, but the dirt came out.


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And when he was gone out, his seruantes came: who seeing that the doores of the parler were locked, they sayd, Surely he doeth his easement in his sommer chamber.


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And they taryed till they were ashamed: &amp; seeing he opened not the doores of the parler, they tooke the key, and opened them, &amp; behold, their lord was fallen dead on the earth.


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And when he came home, he blew a trumpet in mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel went downe with him from the mountaine, and he went before them.


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Then said he vnto them, Follow me: for the Lorde hath deliuered your enemies, euen Moab into your hand. So they went downe after him, &amp; tooke the passages of Iorden towarde Moab, and suffred not a man to passe ouer.


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And they slewe of the Moabites the same time about ten thousand men, all fed men, &amp; all were warriours, and there escaped not a man.


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So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the <n>Meaning, the Israelites.</n> land had rest fourscore years.


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And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox <n>So that it is not the number, nor the means that God regards, when he will get the victory.</n> goad: and he also delivered Israel.


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And the children of Israel began againe to do wickedly in the sight of the Lorde when Ehud was dead.


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And the LORD sold them into the hand of <n>There was another Jabin, whom Joshua killed and burnt his city Hazor, (Jos_11:13).</n> Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host [was] Sisera, which dwelt in <n>That is in a wood, or strong place,</n> Harosheth of the Gentiles.


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Then the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lord: (for he had nine hundreth charets of yron, and twentie yeeres he had vexed the children of Israel very sore)


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And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she <n>By the spirit of prophesy resolving controversies and declaring the will of God.</n> judged Israel at that time.


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And this Deborah dwelt vnder a palme tree, betweene Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel came vp to her for iudgement.


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And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel <n>And revealed to me by the spirit of prophecy.</n> commanded, [saying], Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?


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And I wil drawe vnto thee to the riuer Kishon Sisera, the captaine of Iabins armie with his charets, and his multitude, and wil deliuer him into thine hand.


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And Barak said unto her, <n>Fearing his own weakness and his enemies power, he desires the prophetess to go with him to assure him of God's will from time to time.</n> If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, [then] I will not go.


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Then shee answered, I will surely goe with thee, but this iourney that thou takest, shall not be for thine honour: for the Lord shal sell Sisera into the hand of a woman; Deborah arose &amp; went with Barak to Kedesh.


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And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and he went vp on his feete with ten thousand men, and Deborah went vp with him.


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Now Heber the Kenite, [which was] of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent <n>Meaning, that he possessed a great part of that country.</n> unto the plain of Zaanaim, which [is] by Kedesh.


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And Sisera called for all his charets, euen nine hundreth charets of yron, and all the people that were with him from Harosheth of the Gentiles, vnto the riuer Kishon.


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And Deborah said unto Barak, <n>She still encourages him to this enterprise by assuring him of God's favour and aid.</n> Up; for this [is] the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.


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And the Lorde destroyed Sisera and all his charets, &amp; al his hoste with the edge of the sword before Barak, so that Sisera lighted downe off his charet, and fled away on his feete.


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But Barak pursued after the charets, and after the hoste vnto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the hoste of Sisera fel vpon the edge of the sworde: there was not a man left.


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And Iael went out to meete Sisera, &amp; sayd vnto him, Turne in, my lord, turne in to me: feare not; when he had turned in vnto her into her tent, she couered him with a mantell.


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And he said vnto her, Giue me, I pray thee, a litle water to drinke: for I am thirstie; shee opened a bottel of milke, and gaue him drinke, and couered him.


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Then Jael Heber's wife took a <n>That is, the pin or stake, by which it was fastened to the ground.</n> nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.


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And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her [tent], behold, Sisera lay <n>So he saw that a woman had the honour, as Deborah prophesied.</n> dead, and the nail [was] in his temples.


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And the hande of the children of Israel prospered, and preuailed against Iabin the King of Canaan, vntill they had destroyed Iabin King of Canaan.


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Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the <n>That is, the two tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali.</n> people willingly offered themselves.


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Heare, ye Kings, hearken ye princes: I, euen I will sing vnto the Lord: I will sing praise vnto the Lord God of Israel.


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Lorde, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou departedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heauens rained, the cloudes also dropped water.


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In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were <n>For fear of the enemies.</n> unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.


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[The inhabitants of] the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a <n>Miraculously stirred up by God to pity them and deliver them.</n> mother in Israel.


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They chose new gods; then [was] war in the gates: was there a <n>They had no heart to resist their enemies.</n> shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?


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Mine heart is set on the gouernours of Israel, and on them that are willing among the people: praise ye the Lord.


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Speak, ye that ride on <n>You governors.</n> white asses, ye that sit <n>Or by Middin, as in danger of your enemies.</n> in judgment, and walk by the way.


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For the noyse of the archers appaised among the drawers of water: there shal they rehearse the righteousnesse of the Lorde, his righteousnesse of his townes in Israel: then did the people of the Lord goe downe to the gates.


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Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead <n>That is, they who kept your people in captivity.</n> thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.


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For they that remaine, haue dominio ouer the mightie of the people: the Lorde hath giuen me dominion ouer the strong.


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Out of Ephraim <n>Joshua first fought against Amalek, and Saul destroyed him.</n> [was there] a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.


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And the princes of Issachar [were] with Deborah; even <n>Even the whole tribe.</n> Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben [there were] great <n>They marvelled that they did not cross the Jordan to help them.</n> thoughts of heart.


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Why abodest thou among the sheepefolds, to heare the bleatings of the flockes? for the diuisions of Reuben were great thoughts of heart.


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<n>She reproves all those who did not come to help their brethren in their time of need.</n>Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his <n>Either by hearing of the sea, or by mining,</n> breaches.


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But the people of Zebulun and Naphtali haue ieopard their liues vnto the death in the hie places of the field.


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The kings came [and] fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of <n>They won nothing, but lost all.</n> money.


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The river of Kishon <n>As a broom does to the filth of the house.</n> swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.


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Curse ye <n>It was a city near Tabor, where they fought.</n> Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.


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Iael the wife of Heber the Kenite shall be blessed aboue other women: blessed shall she be aboue women dwelling in tentes.


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He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth <n>Some read churned milk in a great cup.</n> butter in a lordly dish.


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She put her hand to the naile, &amp; her right hand to the workemans hammer: with the hammer smote she Sisera: she smote off his head, after she had wounded, and pearsed his temples.


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He bowed him downe at her feete, he fell downe, and lay still: at her feete hee bowed him downe, and fell: and when he had sunke downe, he lay there dead.


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The mother of Sisera looked out at a windowe, and cryed thorowe the lattesse, Why is his charet so long a comming? why tary the wheeles of his charets?


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Her wise ladies answered her, yea, <n>That is, she comforted herself.</n> she returned answer to herself,


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Have they not sped? have they [not] divided the prey; to every man a damsel [or] two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, [meet] <n>Because he was chief of the army.</n> for the necks of [them that take] the spoil?


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So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but [let] them that love him [be] as the <n>Shall grow daily more and more in God's favour.</n> sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.


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Afterwarde the children of Israel committed wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and the Lorde gaue them into the handes of Midian seuen yeres.


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And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: <n>For fear of the Midianites, they fled into the dens of the mountains.</n> [and] because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which [are] in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.


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When Israel had sowen, then came vp the Midianites, the Amalekites, &amp; they of the East, and came vpon them,


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And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto <n>Even almost the whole country.</n> Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.


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For they went vp, and their cattel, &amp; came with their tentes as grashoppers in multitude: so that they &amp; their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.


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And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the <n>This is the purpose of God's punishments, to call his to repentance, that they may seek help from him.</n> children of Israel cried unto the LORD.


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The Lord sent vnto the children of Israel a Prophet, who sayd vuto them, Thus sayth the Lord God of Israel, I haue brought you vp from Egypt, and haue brought you out of the house of bondage,


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And I haue deliuered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and haue cast them out before you, and giuen you their land.


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And I sayde vnto you, I am the Lord your God: feare not the gods of the Amorites in whose lande you dwell: but ye haue not obeyed my voyce.


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And the Angell of the Lord came, and sate vnder the oke which was in Ophrah, that perteined vnto Ioash the father of the Ezrites, and his sonne Gideon threshed wheate by the winepresse, to hide it from the Midianites.


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Then the Angel of the Lord appeared vnto him, and said vnto him, The Lord is with thee, thou valiant man.


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And Gideon said unto him, <n>This came not from distrust, but from weakness of faith, which is in the most perfect: for no man in this life can have a perfect faith: yet the children of God have a true faith, by which they are justified.</n> Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where [be] all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.


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And the <n>That is, Christ appearing in visible form.</n> LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy <n>Which I have given to you.</n> might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?


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And he answered him, Ah my Lord, whereby shal I saue Israel? beholde, my father is poore in Manasseh, and I am the least in my fathers house.


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Then the Lord sayd vnto him, I wil therefore be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites, as one man.


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And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me <n>So that we see how the flesh is the enemy of God's calling, which cannot be persuaded without signs.</n> a sign that thou talkest with me.


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Depart not hence, I pray thee, vntil I come vnto thee, and bring mine offring, and lay it before thee; he sayde, I will tary vntill thou come againe.


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And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an <n>Of Ephah, read (Exo_16:36).</n> ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought [it] out unto him under the oak, and presented [it].


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And the Angell of God saide vnto him, Take the flesh and the vnleauened bread, and lay them vpon this stone, and powre out the broth: and he did so.


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Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that [was] in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire <n>By the power of God only, as in the sacrifice of Elijah, (1Ki_18:38).</n> out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.


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And when Gideon perceiued that it was an Angel of the Lord, Gideon then sayde, Alas, my Lord God: for because I haue seene an Angell of the Lord face to face, I shall die.


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Then Gideon made an altar there vnto the Lord, and called it, Iehouah shalom: vnto this day it is in Ophrah, of the father of the Ezrites.


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And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock <n>That is, as the Chaldea text writes, fed seven years.</n> of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that [is] by it:


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And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the <n>Which grew about Baal's altar.</n> grove which thou shalt cut down.


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Then Gideon tooke tenne men of his seruants, and did as ye Lord bade him: but because he feared to doe it by day for his fathers housholde, and the men of the citie, he did it by night.


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And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that [was] by it, and the <n>Meaning, the fat bull, which was kept to be offered to Baal.</n> second bullock was offered upon the altar [that was] built.


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Therefore they saide one to another, Who hath done this thing? and when they inquired &amp; asked, they saide, Gideon the sonne of Ioash hath done this thing.


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Then the men of the citie said vnto Ioash, Bring out thy sonne, that hee may dye: for he hath destroyed the altar of Baal, and hath also cut downe the groue that was by it.


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And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? <n>Thus we ought to justify those who are zealous of God's cause, though all the multitude are against us.</n> he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst [it is yet] morning: if he [be] a god, let him plead for himself, because [one] hath cast down his altar.


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And in that day was Gideon called Ierubbaal, that is, Let Baal pleade for himselfe because he hath broken downe his altar.


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Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and they of ye East, were gathered together, aud went and pitched in the valley of Izreel.


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But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and <n>The family of Abiezer, of which he was.</n> Abiezer was gathered after him.


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And he sent messengers thorowout al Manasseh, which also was ioyned with him, and he sent messengers vnto Asher, and to Zebulun and to Naphtali, and they came vp to meete them.


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And Gideon said unto God, <n>This request proceeds not from infidelity, but that he might be confirmed in his calling.</n> If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,


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Beholde, I wil put a fleece of wooll in the threshing place: if the dewe come on the fleece onely, and it be drie vpon all the earth, then shall I be sure, that thou wilt saue Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.


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And so it was: for he rose vp earely on the morow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, and filled a bowle of water.


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Againe, Gideon sayde vnto God, Be not angry with me, that I may speake once more: let me prooue once againe, I pray thee, with the fleece: let it now be drie onely vpon the fleece, and let dewe be vpon all the ground.


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And God did so that night: for it was <n>By which he was assured that it was a miracle of God.</n> dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.


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Then Ierubbaal (who is Gideon) rose vp early, and all the people that were with him, and pitched beside the well of Harod, so that the hoste of the Midianites was on the Northside of them in the valley by the hill of Moreh.


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And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that [are] with thee [are] too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel <n>God will not that any creature deprive him of his glory.</n> vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.


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Now therefore proclaime in the audience of the people, and say, Who so is timerous or fearefull, let him returne, and depart earely from mount Gilead; there returned of the people which were at mount Gilead, two and twentie thousand: so ten thousand remayned.


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And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people [are] yet [too] many; bring them down unto the water, and I will <n>I will give you a proof to know those who will go with you.</n> try them for thee there: and it shall be, [that] of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.


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So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; <n>Let them depart as unfit for this enterprise.</n> likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.


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And the nomber of them that lapped by putting their handes to their mouthes, were three hundreth men: but all the remnant of the people kneeled downe vpo their knees to drinke water.


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And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the [other] <n>That is, the 31,000 and 700. See (Jdg_7:3,6).</n> people go every man unto his place.


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So the people tooke vitailes with them, &amp; their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel, euery man vnto his tent, and reteined the three hundreth men: and the hoste of Midian was beneath him in a valley.


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And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, <n>Thus the Lord by various means strengthens him, that he faint not in so great an enterprise.</n> get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.


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And thou shalt hearken what they say, and so shal thine handes be strong to go downe vnto the hoste. Then went he downe and Phurah his seruant vnto the outside of the souldiers that were in the hoste.


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And the Midianites, and the Amalekites and all they of the East, lay in the valley like grashoppers in multitude, and their camels were without nomber, as the sande which is by the sea side for multitude.


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And when Gideon was come, behold, [there was] a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a <n>Some read, a trembling noise of barley bread: meaning, that one of no reputation would make their great army tremble.</n> cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.


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And his fellow answered, and sayde, This is nothing els saue the sworde of Gideon the sonne of Ioash a man of Israel: for into his hande hath God deliuered Midian and all the hoste.


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And it was [so], when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he <n>Or, gave God thanks, as it is in the Chaldea text.</n> worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.


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And he divided the three hundred men [into] three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps <n>These weak means God used to signify that the whole victory came from him.</n> within the pitchers.


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And he sayd vnto them, Looke on me, and do likewise, when I come to the side of the hoste: euen as I do, so do you.


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When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that [are] with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, <n>That is, the victory shall be the Lord's and Gideon's his servant.</n> [The sword] of the LORD, and of Gideon.


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So Gideon and the hundreth men that were with him, came vnto the outside of the hoste, in the beginning of the middle watche, and they raised vp the watchmen, and they blew with their trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their handes.


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And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow [withal]: and they cried, The <n>Shall destroy the enemies.</n> sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.


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And they stoode, euery man in his place round about the hoste: and all the hoste ranne, and cryed, and fled.


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And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his <n>The Lord caused the Midianites to kill one another.</n> fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, [and] to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.


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Then the men of Israel being gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, pursued after the Midianites.


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And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the <n>Meaning, the passages or the fords so they could not escape.</n> waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.


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And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at <n>These places got their names from the acts that were done there.</n> the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.


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And the men of Ephraim said unto him, <n>They began to object, because he had the glory of the victory.</n> Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.


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And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of <n>Who have slain two princes, Oreb and Zeeb.</n> you? [Is] not the <n>This last act of the whole tribe is more famous, than the whole enterprise of one man of one family.</n> gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?


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God hath deliuered into your handes the princes of Midian, Oreb &amp; Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? &amp; when he had thus spoken, then their spirits abated toward him.


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And Gideon came to Iorden to passe ouer, hee, and the three hundreth men that were with him, weary, yet pursuing them.


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And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, <n>Or, some small portion.</n> loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they [be] faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.


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And the princes of Succoth said, [Are] the <n>Because you have overcome a handful, do you think to have overcome the whole?</n> hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?


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Gideon then sayde, Therefore when the Lorde hath deliuered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, I will teare your flesh with thornes of the wildernes and with breers.


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And he went vp thence to Penuel, and spake vnto them likewise, and the men of Penuel answered him, as the men of Succoth answered.


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And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again <n>Having gotten the victory.</n> in peace, I will break down this tower.


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Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were] <n>A city east of Jordan.</n> in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand [men], all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.


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And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in <n>He went by the wilderness where the Arabians dwelt in tents.</n> tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.


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And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, hee followed after them, and tooke the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the hoste.


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And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle <n>Some read, the sun being yet high.</n> before the sun [was up],


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And tooke a seruant of the me of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he wrote to him the princes of Succoth and the Elders thereof, euen seuentie and seuen men.


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And he came vnto the men of Succoth, &amp; sayd, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, by whome ye vpbrayded me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah &amp; Zalmunna already in thine hands, that we should giue bread vnto thy weary men?


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Then he tooke the Elders of the citie, and thornes of the wildernes &amp; breers, &amp; did teare the men of Succoth with them.


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Then saide he vnto Zebah &amp; Zalmunna, What maner of men were they, whom ye slew at Tabor? and they answered, As thou art, so were they: euery one was like the children of a King.


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And he said, They [were] my brethren, [even] the <n>We all came from the same womb: therefore I will be revenged.</n> sons of my mother: [as] the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.


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Then he sayde vnto Iether his first borne sonne, Vp, &amp; slay them: but the boy drew not his sword: for he feared, because he was yet yong.


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Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for <n>Meaning, that they would be freed from their pain at once, or else have a valiant man put them to death.</n> as the man [is, so is] his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that [were] on their camels' necks.


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Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy <n>That is, thy posterity.</n> son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.


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And Gideon sayde vnto them, I will not reigne ouer you, neither shal my childe reigne ouer you, but the Lord shal reigne ouer you.


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And Gideon said unto them, <n>His intent was to show himself thankful for this victory by restoring religion, which because it was not according to God's command, turned to their destruction.</n> I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they [were] Ishmaelites.)


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And they answered, Wee will giue them; they spred a garment, and did cast therein euery man the earings of his pray.


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And the weight of the golden earings that he required, was a thousande and seuen hundreth shekels of golde, beside collers and iewels, and purple rayment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the cheynes that were about their camels neckes.


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And Gideon made an <n>That is, such things as pertained to the use of the tabernacle. See ephod, (Exo_28:4, Exo_28:6; Jdg_17:5; 1Sa_2:18; 2Sa_6:14).</n> ephod thereof, and put it in his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.


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Thus was Midian brought lowe before the children of Israel, so that they lift vp their heads no more: and the countrey was in quietnes fourtie yeeres in the dayes of Gideon.


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And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in <n>A city belonging to the family of the Ezrites.</n> Ophrah of the Abiezrites.


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And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made <n>That is, Baal, to whom they had bound themselves by covenant.</n> Baalberith their god.


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And the children of Israel remembred not the Lord their God, which had deliuered the out of the hands of all their enemies on euery side.


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Neither <n>They were unmindful of God and unkind to him, by whom they had received so great a benefit.</n> shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, [namely], Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.


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And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his <n>To practice with his kinsfolk for attaining the kingdom.</n> mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,


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Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether [is] better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, [which are] threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I [am] your <n>Of your kindred by my mother's side.</n> bone and your flesh.


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Then his mothers brethren spake of him in the audience of all the men of Shechem, all these wordes: and their hearts were moued to followe Abimelech: for sayd they, He is our brother.


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And they gaue him seuentie pieces of siluer out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vayne and light fellowes which followed him.


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And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and <n>Thus tyrants to establish their usurped power, spare not the innocent blood, (2Ki_10:7; 2Ch_21:4).</n> slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, [being] threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.


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And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of <n>Which was as the town house, or common hall, which he calls the tower of Shechem in (Jdg_9:49).</n> Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that [was] in Shechem.


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And when they told it to Iotham, he went and stoode in the top of mount Gerizim, &amp; lift vp his voyce, and cryed, &amp; sayd vnto them, Hearken vnto mee, you men of Shechem, that God may hearken vnto you.


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<n>By this parable he declares that those that are not ambitious, are most worthy of honour and that the ambitious abuse their honour both to their own destruction and others.</n>The trees went forth [on a time] to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.


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But the oliue tree said vnto them, Should I leaue my fatnes, wherewith by me they honour God &amp; man, &amp; go to aduance me aboue ye trees?


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But the fig tree answered them, Should I forsake my sweetenesse, and my good fruite, and goe to aduance me aboue the trees?


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But the Vine sayde vnto them, Should I leaue my wine, whereby I cheare God and man, and goe to aduance me aboue the trees?


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And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, [then] come [and] put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let <n>Abimelech will destroy the nobles of Shechem.</n> fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.


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Now therefore, if ye doe truely and vncorruptly to make Abimelech King, and if ye haue delt well with Ierubbaal and with his house, and haue done vnto him according to the deseruing of his handes,


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(For my father fought for you, and aduentured his life, and deliuered you out of the handes of Midian.


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And yee are risen vp against my fathers house this day, and haue slayne his children, about seuentie persons vpon one stone, and haue made Abimelech the sonne of his mayde seruant, King ouer the men of Shechem, because hee is your brother)


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If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, [then] <n>That he is your king, and you his subjects.</n> rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:


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But if not, let a fire come out from Abimelech, and consume the men of Shechem and the house of Millo: also let a fire come foorth from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and consume Abimelech.


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And Iotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there for feare of Abimelech his brother.


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Then God <n>Because the people consented with the king in shedding innocent blood, therefore God destroys both one and the other.</n> sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:


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That the crueltie toward the seuentie sonnes of Ierubbaal and their blood might come &amp; be laide vpon Abimelech their brother, which had slayne them, and vpon the men of Shechem, which had ayded him to kill his brethren.


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So the men of Shechem set men in wayte for him in the toppes of the mountaines: who robbed all that passed that way by them: and it was tolde Abimelech.


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Then Gaal the sonne of Ebed came with his brethren, and they went to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.


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And they <n>Before they were afraid of Abimelech's power, and did not dare go out of the city.</n> went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode [the grapes], and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.


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Then Gaal the sonne of Ebed sayde, Who is Abimelech? and who is Shechem, that wee should serue him? Is he not the sonne of Ierubbaal? and Zebul is his officer? Serue rather the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serue him?


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And would to God this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. And he said to <n>Braggingly, as though he had been present, or to his captain Zebul.</n> Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out.


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And when Zebul the ruler of the citie heard the wordes of Gaal the sonne of Ebed, his wrath was kindled.


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Therefore he sent messengers vnto Abimelech priuily, saying, Beholde, Gaal the sonne of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem, and beholde, they fortifie the citie against thee.


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Now therefore arise by night, thou &amp; the people that is with thee, and lye in wayte in the fielde.


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And rise early in the morning as soone as the sunne is vp, and assault the citie: and when he and the people that is with him, shall come out against thee, doe to him what thou canst.


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So Abimelech rose vp, and all the people that were with him by night: and they lay in wayte against Shechem in foure bandes.


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Then Gaal the sonne of Ebed went out &amp; stood in the entring of the gate of the citie: and Abimelech rose vp, and the folke that were with him, from lying in waite.


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And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the <n>You are afraid of a shadow.</n> shadow of the mountains as [if they were] men.


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And Gaal spake againe, and said, See, there come folke downe by the middle of the land, and another bande commeth by the way of the plaine of Meonenim.


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Then sayd Zebul vnto him, Where is now thy mouth, that said, Who is Abimelech, that we should serue him? Is not this the people that thou hast despised? Go out now, I pray thee, and fight with them.


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But Abimelech pursued him, and he fledde before him, and many were ouerthrowen and wounded, euen vnto the entring of the gate.


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And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: &amp; Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren that they should not dwell in Shechem.


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And he took the <n>Which were in his company.</n> people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people [were] come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.


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And Abimelech, and the bandes that were with him, russhed forwarde, and stoode in the entring of the gate of the citie: and the two other bandes ran vpon all the people that were in the fielde and slewe them.


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And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with <n>That it should be unfruitful and never serve to any use.</n> salt.


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And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard [that], they entered into an hold of the house of the god <n>That is, of Baniberith, as (Jdg_8:33).</n> Berith.


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And Abimelech gate him vp to mounte Zalmon, hee and all the people that were with him: and Abimelech tooke axes with him, and cut downe boughes of trees, and tooke them, and bare them on his shoulder, and sayde vnto the folke that were with him, What ye haue seene me doe, make haste, and doe like me.


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And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put [them] to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem <n>Meaning, that all were destroyed as well as those in the tower.</n> died also, about a thousand men and women.


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But there was a strong towre within the citie, and thither fledde all the men and women, and all the chiefe of the citie, and shut it to them, and went vp to the toppe of the towre.


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And Abimelech came vnto the towre and fought against it, and went hard vnto the doore of the towre to set it on fire.


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Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man <n>Thus God by such miserable death takes vengeance on tyrants even in this life.</n> thrust him through, and he died.


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And when the men of Israel sawe that Abimelech was dead, they departed euery man vnto his owne place.


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Thus God rendred the wickednes of Abimelech, which he did vnto his father, in slaying his seuentie brethren.


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And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the <n>For making a tyrant their king.</n> curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.


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After Abimelech there arose to defend Israel, Tola, the sonne of Puah, the sone of Dodo, a man of Issachar, which dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.


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And he had thirty sons that <n>Signifying, they were men of authority.</n> rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which [are] in the land of Gilead.


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And the children of Israel wrought wickednesse againe in the sight of the Lord, and serued Baalim and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistims, and forsooke the Lord and serued not him.


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Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he solde them into the hands of the Philistims, and into the handes of the children of Ammon:


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And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, <n>As the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.</n> all the children of Israel that [were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead.


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Moreouer, the children of Ammon went ouer Iorden to fight against Iudah, and against Beniamin, and against the house of Ephraim: so that Israel was sore tormented.


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And the children of Israel <n>They prayed to the Lord, and confessed their sins.</n> cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.


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And the LORD <n>By stirring them up some prophets, as in (Jdg_6:8).</n> said unto the children of Israel, [Did] not [I deliver you] from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?


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The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites did oppresse you, and ye cryed to me and I saued you out of their hands.


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And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, <n>That is, from this present danger.</n> this day.


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And they put away the strange gods from among them, and <n>This is true repentance, to put away evil, and serve God aright.</n> served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.


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Then the children of Ammon gathered themselues together, and pitched in Gilead: and the children of Israel assembled themselues, and pitched in Mizpeh.


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And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, Whosoeuer will beginne the battell against the children of Ammon, the same shal be head ouer all the inhabitants of Gilead.


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And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou [art] the son of a <n>That is, of a harlot as in (Jdg_11:1).</n> strange woman.


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Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of <n>Where the governor of the country was called Tob.</n> Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and <n>Joined with him, as some think, against his brethren.</n> went out with him.


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And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the <n>Or, ambassadors, sent for that purpose.</n> elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:


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And they said unto Jephthah, <n>Men are often forced to ask for help from them, whom before they refused.</n> Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.


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And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and <n>Often those things which men reject, God chooses to do great enterprises by.</n> expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?


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Then the Elders of Gilead saide vnto Iphtah, Therefore we turne againe to thee now, that thou mayest goe with vs, and fight against the children of Ammon, and bee our head ouer all the inhabitants of Gilead.


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And Iphtah said vnto the Elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home againe to fight against the children of Ammon, if the Lord giue them before me, shall I be your head?


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And the Elders of Gilead saide to Iphtah, The Lorde be witnesse betweene vs, if we doe not according to thy wordes.


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Then Iphtah went with the Elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captaine ouer them: and Iphtah rehearsed all his wordes before the Lorde in Mizpeh.


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Then Iphtah sent messengers vnto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to doe with me, that thou art come against me, to fight in my lande?


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And the King of the children of Ammon answered vnto the messengers of Iphtah, Because Israel tooke my lande, when they came vp from Egypt, fro Arnon vnto Iabbok, &amp; vnto Iorden: now therefore restore those lands quietly.


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And said vnto him, Thus saith Iphtah, Israel tooke not the lande of Moab, nor the lande of the children of Ammon.


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But when Israel came vp from Egypt, and walked through the wildernesse vnto the redde Sea, then they came to Kadesh.


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And Israel sent messengers vnto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, goe thorowe thy lande: but the King of Edom woulde not consent: and also they sent vnto the King of Moab, but he would not: therefore Israel abode in Kadesh.


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Then they went through the wildernesse, and compassed the lande of Edom, and the lande of Moab, and came by the Eastside of the lande of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, and came not within the coast of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.


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Also Israel sent messengers vnto Sihon, King of the Amorites, the King of Heshbon, and Israel said vnto him, Let vs passe, we pray thee, by thy lande vnto our place.


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But Sihon <n>He trusted them not to go through his country.</n> trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.


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And the Lorde God of Israel gaue Sihon and all his folke into the handes of Israel, &amp; they smote them: so Israel possessed all the lande of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that countrey:


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And they possessed all the coast of the Amorites, from Arnon vnto Iabbok, and from the wildernesse euen vnto Iorden.


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Nowe therefore the Lorde God of Israel hath cast out the Amorites before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possesse it?


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Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the <n>For we should believe and obey God more than you your idols.</n> LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.


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And art thou nowe farre better then Balak the sonne of Zippor King of Moab? did he not striue with Israel and fight against them,


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While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that [be] along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover <n>Meaning their towns.</n> [them] within that time?


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Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge <n>To punish the offender.</n> be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.


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Then the <n>That is, the spirit of strength and zeal.</n> Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the children of Ammon.


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And Jephthah <n>As the apostle commends Jephthah for his worthy enterprise in delivering the people, (Heb_11:32) so by his rash vow and wicked performance of the same, his victory was defaced: and here we see that the sins of the godly do not utterly extinguish their faith.</n> vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,


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Then that thing that commeth out of the doores of mine house to meete me, when I come home in peace from the children of Ammon, shall be the Lordes, and I will offer it for a burnt offering.


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And so Iphtah went vnto the children of Ammon to fight against them, and the Lord deliuered them into his handes.


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And he smote them from Aroer euen till thou come to Minnith, twentie cities, and so foorth to Abel of the vineyardes, with an exceeding great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were humbled before the children of Israel.


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And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with <n>According to the manner after the victory.</n> timbrels and with dances: and she [was his] only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.


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And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he <n>Being overcome with blind zeal, and not considering whether the vow was lawful or not.</n> rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.


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And she said vnto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth vnto the Lorde, doe with me as thou hast promised, seeing that the Lorde hath auenged thee of thine enemies the children of Ammon.


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And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and <n>For it was counted as a shame in Israel, to die without children, and therefore they rejoiced to be married.</n> bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.


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And he sayde, Goe: and he sent her away two moneths: so she went with her companions, and lamented her virginitie vpon the moutaines.


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And after the ende of two moneths, she turned againe vnto her father, who did with her according to his vowe which he had vowed, and she had knowen no man; it was a custome in Israel:


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And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went <n>After they had passed Jordan.</n> northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call <n>Thus ambition envies God's work in others as they did against Gideon, (Jdg_8:1).</n> us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.


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And Iphtah said vnto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon, and when I called you, ye deliuered me not out of their handes.


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And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, <n>That is, I ventured my life, and when man's help failed, I put my trust only in God.</n> I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?


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Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim <n>You ran from us, and chose Gilead, and now in respect to us you are nothing.</n> among the Ephraimites, [and] among the Manassites.


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Also the Gileadites tooke the passages of Iorden before the Ephraimites, and when the Ephraimites that were escaped, saide, Let me passe, then the men of Gilead said vnto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay,


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Then said they unto him, Say now <n>Which signifies the fall of waters, or an ear of corn.</n> Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.


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And after him <n>Some think that this was Boaz the husband of Ruth.</n> Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.


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Who had thirtie sonnes and thirtie daughters, which he sent out, &amp; tooke in thirtie daughters from abroade for his sonnes; he iudged Israel seuen yeere.


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And he had fourty sonnes and thirtie nephewes that rode on seuentie assecoltes: and he iudged Israel eight yeeres.


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Then dyed Abdon the sonne of Hillel the Pirathonite, &amp; was buryed in Pirathon, in ye lande of Ephraim, in the Mount of the Amalekites.


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And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name [was] Manoah; and his wife [was] <n>Signifying that their deliverance came only from God, and not by man's power.</n> barren, and bare not.


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And the Angel of the Lorde appeared vnto the woman, and said vnto her, Beholde nowe, thou art baren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceiue, and beare a sonne.


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And nowe therefore beware that thou drinke no wine, nor strong drinke, neither eate any vncleane thing.


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For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a <n>Meaning he should be separate from the world, and dedicated to God.</n> Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.


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Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance [was] like the countenance of an angel of God, very <n>If flesh is not able to endure the sight of an angel, how much less the presence of God?</n> terrible: but I asked him not whence he [was], neither told he me his name:


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But he saide vnto me, Beholde, thou shalt conceiue, and beare a sonne, and nowe thou shalt drinke no wine, nor strong drinke, neither eate any vncleane thing: for the childe shalbe a Nazarite to God from his birth to the day of his death.


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Then Manoah <n>He shows himself ready to obey God's will, and therefore desires to know more.</n> intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.


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And God heard the voyce of Manoah, and the Angel of God came againe vnto the wife, as she sate in the fielde, but Manoah her husbande was not with her.


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And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the <n>It seems that the angel appeared to her twice in one day.</n> [other] day.


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And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the <n>He calls him man, because he so seemed, but he was Christ the eternal word, which at his appointed time became man.</n> man, and said unto him, [Art] thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I [am].


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Then Manoah sayde, Nowe let thy saying come to passe: but howe shall we order the childe and doe vnto him?


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And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the <n>Showing that he did not seek his own honour but God's, whose messenger he was.</n> LORD. For Manoah knew not that he [was] an angel of the LORD.


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So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered [it] upon a rock unto the LORD: and [the angel] did <n>God sent fire from heaven to consume their sacrifice, to consume their faith in his promise.</n> wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.


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For when the flame came vp toward heauen from the altar, the Angel of the Lorde ascended vp in the flame of the altar, and Manoah and his wife behelde it, and fell on their faces vnto the grounde.


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(So the Angel of the Lorde did no more appeare vnto Manoah and his wife.) Then Manoah knewe that it was an Angel of the Lord.


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But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a <n>These graces that we have received from God, and his accepting of our obedience, are sure tokens of his love for us, so that nothing can hurt us.</n> burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these [things], nor would as at this time have told us [such things] as these.


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And he came vp and told his father and his mother and saide, I haue seene a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistims: now therfore giue me her to wife.


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Then his father and his mother said unto him, [Is there] <n>Though his parents justly reprove him, yet it appears that this was the secret work of the Lord, (Jdg_14:4).</n> never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.


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Then went Samson and his father and his mother downe to Timnath, and came to ye vineyardes at Timnath: and beholde, a young Lyon roared vpon him.


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And the Spirit of the LORD <n>By which he had strength and boldness.</n> came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and [he had] nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.


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And within a fewe dayes, when he returned to receiue her, he went aside to see the karkeis of the Lion: and behold, there was a swarme of bees, and hony in the body of the Lyon.


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And he tooke therof in his handes, and went eating, and came to his father and to his mother, and gaue vnto them, and they did eate: but hee told not them, that he had taken the hony out of the body of the lyon.


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And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find [it] out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty <n>To wear at feasts, or solemn days.</n> change of garments:


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But if you cannot declare it mee, then shall yee giue mee thirty sheetes and thirtie change of garments; they answered him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may heare it.


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And he sayd vnto them, Out of the eater came meate, and out of the strong came sweetenesse: and they could not in three dayes expound the riddle.


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And it came to pass <n>Or as the seventh day drew near, for it was the fourth day.</n> on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? [is it] not [so]?


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And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the <n>To those who are of my nation.</n> children of my people, and hast not told [it] me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told [it] my father nor my mother, and shall I tell [it] thee?


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And she wept before him the <n>Or, to the seventh day beginning at the fourth.</n> seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.


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And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What [is] sweeter than honey? and what [is] stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, <n>If you had not used the help of my wife.</n> If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.


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And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down <n>Which was one of the five chief cities of the Philistines.</n> to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.


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But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will <n>That is, I will use her as my wife.</n> go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.


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And her father sayde, I thought that thou hadst hated her: therefore gaue I her to thy companion. Is not her yonger sister fayrer then shee? take her, I pray thee, in stead of the other.


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And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more <n>For through his father-in-law's actions, he was moved again to take vengeance on the Philistines.</n> blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.


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And Samson went out, and tooke three hundreth foxes, and tooke firebrands, and turned them taile to taile, and put a firebrand in ye middes betweene two tailes.


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And when he had set the brands on fire, he let [them] go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the <n>Or, that which was reaped and gathered.</n> shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards [and] olives.


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Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the <n>Or, the citizen of Timnath.</n> Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and <n>So the wicked do not punish vice for love of justice, but for fear of danger, which also might come to them.</n> burnt her and her father with fire.


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And Samson saide vnto them, Though yee haue done this, yet wil I be auenged of you, and then I wil cease.


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So hee smote them hippe and thigh with a mightie plague: then hee went and dwelt in the top of the rocke Etam.


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And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To <n>And so being our prisoner to punish him.</n> bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.


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Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines [are] rulers over us? <n>Such was their gross ignorance, that they judged God's great benefits to be a plague to them.</n> what [is] this [that] thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.


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Againe they sayd vnto him, Wee are come to binde thee, and to deliuer thee into the hande of the Philistims; Samson sayde vnto them, Sweare vnto me, that yee will not fall vpon me your selues.


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And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and <n>Thus they would rather betray their brother than use the means that God had given for their deliverance.</n> deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.


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When hee came to Lehi, the Philistims shouted against 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 his handes.


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And he found a <n>That is, of an ass recently slain.</n> new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.


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Then Samson sayd, With the iaw of an asse are heapes vpon heapes: with the iawe of an asse haue I slaine a thousand men.


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And when he had left speaking, hee cast away the iawebone out of his hande, and called that place, Ramath-Lehi.


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And he was sore athirst, and <n>By which it appears that he did these things in faith, and so with a true zeal to glorify God, and deliver his country.</n> called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?


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Then God brake the cheeke tooth, that was in the iawe, and water came thereout: and when he had drunke, his Spirit came againe, and he was reuiued: wherefore the name therof is called, Enhakkore, which is in Lehi vnto this day.


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Then went Samson to <n>One of the five chief cities of the Philistines.</n> Gaza, and saw there an harlot, <n>That is, he lodged with her.</n> and went in unto her.


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And it was tolde to the Azzahites, Samson is come hither. And they went about, and laied wayte for him all night in the gate of the citie, &amp; were quiet all the nyght, saying, Abide till the morning earely, and we shall kill him.


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And Samson slept till midnight, and arose at midnight, and tooke the doores of the gates of the citie, and the two postes and lift them away with the barres, and put them vpon his shoulders, and caried them vp to the top of the mountaine that is before Hebron.


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And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength [lieth], and by what [means] we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred <n>Of the value of a shekel, read (Gen_23:15).</n> [pieces] of silver.


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And Delilah saide to Samson, Tell mee, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest bee bound, to doe thee hurt.


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Samson then answered vnto her, If they binde mee with seuen greene cordes, that were neuer dryed, then shall I bee weake, and be as an other man.


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And the princes of the Philistims brought her seuen greene cordes that were not dry, and she bound him therewith.


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Now [there were] <n>Certain Philistines in a secret chamber.</n> men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when <n>When fire comes near it.</n> it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.


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And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now <n>Though her deceit threatened his life, yet his affection so blinded him, that he could not beware.</n> tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.


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Then he answered her, If they binde mee with newe ropes that neuer were occupied, then shal I be weake, and be as an other man.


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Delilah therefore tooke newe ropes, and bounde him therewith, and saide vnto him, The Philistims be vpon thee, Samson: (and men lay in wayte in the chamber) and hee brake them from his armes, as a threede.


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And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. <n>It is impossible if we give place to our wicked affections, for eventually we will be destroyed.</n> And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.


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And she fastened it with a pinne, and saide vnto him, The Philistims be vpon thee, Samson; he awoke out of his sleepe, and went away with the pinne of the webbe and the woufe.


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And she said unto him, How canst thou say, <n>For Samson used to say «I love you».</n> I love thee, when thine heart [is] not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength [lieth].


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And because shee was importunate vpon him with her wordes continually, and vexed him, his soule was pained vnto the death.


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That he told her all his <n>Thus his immoderate affections toward a wicked woman caused him to lose God's excellent gifts, and become a slave to those whom he should have ruled.</n> heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I [have been] a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any [other] man.


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And when Delilah sawe that he had tolde her all his heart, she sent, and called for the Princes of ye Philistims, saying, Come vp once againe: for he hath shewed mee all his heart. Then the Princes of the Philistims came vp vnto her, and brought the money in their handes.


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And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went <n>Not for the loss of his hair, but for the contempt of the ordinance of God, which was the reason God departed from him.</n> from him.


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Then she said, The Philistims be vpon thee, Samson; hee awoke out of his sleepe, and thought, I will go out now as at other times, and shake my selfe, but he knewe not that the Lorde was departed from him.


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Therefore the Philistims tooke him, and put out his eyes, and brought him downe to Azzah, and bounde him with fetters: and hee did grinde in the prison house.


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Howbeit the hair of his head began to <n>Yet he did not regain his strength, till he had called on God and reconciled himself.</n> grow again after he was shaven.


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Then the Princes of the Philistims gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice vnto Dagon their god, and to reioyce: for they said, Our god hath deliuered Samson our enemie into our handes.


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Also when the people saw him, they praysed their god: for they sayde, Our god hath deliuered into our hands our enemie and destroyer of our countrey, which hath slayne many of vs.


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And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he <n>Thus by God's just judgments they are made slaves to infidels if they neglect their calling to defend the faithful.</n> made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.


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Then Samson saide vnto the seruant that led him by the hande, Lead me, that I may touch the pillars that the house standeth vpon, and that I may leane to them.


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(Nowe the house was full of men and women, and there were all the princes of the Philistims: also vpon the roofe were about three thousande men and women that behelde while Samson played)


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And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once <n>According to my calling which is to execute God's judgments on the wicked.</n> avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.


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And Samson layd hold on the two middle pillars whereupon the house stood, and on which it was borne vp: on the one with his right hand, and on the other with his left.


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And Samson said, <n>He does not speak out of despair, but humbling himself for neglecting his office and the offence thereby given.</n> Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that [were] therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than [they] which he slew in his life.


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Then his brethren, and all the house of his father came downe and tooke him, and brought him vp and buryed him betweene Zorah &amp; Eshtaol, in the sepulchre of Manoah his father: nowe he had iudged Israel twenty yeeres.


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And there <n>Some think this history was in the time of Othniel, or as Josephus writes, immediately after Joshua.</n> was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name [was] Micah.


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And he saide vnto his mother, The eleuen hundreth shekels of siluer that were taken from thee, for the which thou cursedst, and spakedst it, euen in mine hearing, beholde, the siluer is with me, I tooke it. Then his mother saide, Blessed be my sonne of the Lorde.


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And when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels] of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a <n>Contrary to the commandment of God and true religion practised under Joshua, they forsook the Lord and fell into idolatry.</n> graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.


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And when he had restored the money vnto his mother, his mother tooke two hundreth shekels of siluer, and gaue them to the founder, which made thereof a grauen and molten image, and it was in the house of Michah.


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And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an <n>He would serve both God and idols.</n> ephod, and <n>By Teraphim some understand certain idols, having the likeness of a man, but others understand by it all manner of things and instruments belonging to those who sought an answer at God's hands, as in (Jdg_18:5-6).</n> teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.


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In those days [there was] no <n>For where there is no Magistrate fearing God, there can be no true religion or order.</n> king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.


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And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah <n>Which Bethlehem was in the tribe of Judah.</n> of the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.


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And the man departed out of the citie, euen out of Beth-lehem Iudah, to dwell where he coulde finde a place: and as he iourneyed, he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Michah


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And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, <n>For in those days the service of God was corrupt in all estates and the Levites were not looked to.</n> I [am] a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place].


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Then Michah said vnto him, Dwell with me, and be vnto me a father and a Priest, and I will giue thee ten shekels of siluer by yeere, and a sute of apparell, and thy meate and drinke. So the Leuite went in.


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And the Levite was <n>Not considering that he forsook the true worship of God to maintain his own belly.</n> content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.


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Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me <n>Thus the idolaters persuade themselves of God's favour, when indeed he detests them.</n> good, seeing I have a Levite to [my] priest.


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In those days [there was] no <n>Meaning, no ordinary magistrate to punish vice according to God's word.</n> king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day [all their] inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.


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And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, <n>For the portion which Joshua gave them, was not sufficient for all their tribe.</n> Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.


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When they [were] by the house of Micah, they knew the <n>They knew by his speech that he was a stranger there.</n> voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this [place]? and what hast thou here?


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Againe they said vnto him, Aske counsell nowe of God, that we may knowe whether the way which we goe, shalbe prosperous.


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And the priest said unto them, <n>Thus sometimes God grants the idolaters requests to the destruction of those who delight in errors.</n> Go in peace: before the LORD [is] your way wherein ye go.


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Then the fiue men departed and came to Laish, and sawe the people that were therein, which dwelt carelesse, after the maner of the Zidonians, quiet and sure, because no man made any trouble in the lande, or vsurped any dominion: also they were farre from the Zidonians, and had no businesse with other men.


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So they came againe vnto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren saide vnto them, What haue ye done?


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And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it [is] very good: and <n>Would you lose this good opportunity because of your laziness?</n> [are] ye still? be not slothful to go, [and] to enter to possess the land.


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(If ye will goe, ye shall come vnto a carelesse people, and the countrey is large) for God hath giuen it into your hande. It is a place which doeth lacke nothing that is in the worlde.


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Then there departed thence of the familie of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, sixe hundreth men appointed with instruments of warre.


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And they went vp, and pitched in Kiriath-iearim in Iudah: wherefore they called that place, Mahaneh-Dan vnto this day: and it is behinde Kiriath-iearim.


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Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, <n>Because before they had had good success, they wanted their brethren to be encouraged by hearing the same tidings.</n> Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.


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And they turned thitherward &amp; came to the house of the yong man the Leuite, euen vnto the house of Michah, and saluted him peaceably.


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And the six hundreth men appointed with their weapons of warre, which were of the children of Dan, stoode by the entring of the gate.


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And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, [and] came in thither, [and] took the <n>Superstition blinded them so that they thought God's power was in the idols, and that they would have good success because of them, though they took them away by robbery and violence.</n> graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men [that were] appointed with weapons of war.


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And the other went into Michahs house and fet the grauen image, the Ephod, and the Teraphim, and the molten image. Then saide the Priest vnto them, What doe ye?


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And they answered him, Holde thy peace: lay thine hande vpon thy mouth, and come with vs to be our father and Priest. Whether is it better that thou shouldest be a Priest vnto ye house of one man, or that thou shouldest be a Priest vnto a tribe and to a familie in Israel?


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And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the <n>With the six hundred men.</n> people.


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So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage <n>Suspecting them that pursued them.</n> before them.


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When they were farre off from the house of Michah, the men that were in the houses neere to Michahs house, gathered together, and pursued after the children of Dan,


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And cryed vnto the children of Dan: who turned their faces, and said vnto Michah, What ayleth thee, that thou makest an outcrie?


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And he said, Ye have taken away my <n>This declares the opinion the idolaters have of their idols.</n> gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what [is] this [that] ye say unto me, What aileth thee?


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And the children of Dan sayde vnto him, Let not thy voyce be heard among vs, least angrie fellowes runne vpon thee, and thou lose thy life with the liues of thine housholde.


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So the children of Dan went their wayes: and when Michah saw that they were too strong for him, hee turned, and went backe vnto his house.


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And they took [the <n>Meaning, the idols, as in (Jdg_18:18).</n> things] which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people [that were] at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.


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And there was none to helpe, because Laish was farre from Zidon, and they had no businesse with other men: also it was in the valley that lyeth by Beth-rehob. After, they built the citie, and dwelt therein,


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And called the name of the citie Dan, after the name of Dan their father which was borne vnto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the beginning.


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And the children of Dan set up the <n>Thus instead of giving glory to God, they attributed the victory to their idols, and honoured them therefore.</n> graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the <n>That is, till the Ark was taken, (1Sa_5:1).</n> captivity of the land.


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So they set them vp the grauen image, which Michah had made, all the while the house of God was in Shiloh.


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Also in those dayes, when there was no king in Israel, a certaine Leuite dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, and tooke to wife a concubine out of Beth-lehem Iudah,


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And his concubine played ye whore there, and went away from him vnto her fathers house to Beth-lehem Iudah, and there continued the space of foure moneths.


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And her husband arose and went after her, to speake friendly vnto her, and to bring her againe: he had also his seruant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him vnto her fathers house, and when the yong womans father sawe him, he reioyced of his coming.


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And his father in lawe, the yong womans father reteined him: &amp; he abode with him three dayes: so they did eate &amp; drinke, &amp; lodged there.


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And when the fourth day came, they arose earely in the morning, and he prepared to depart: then the yong womans father said vnto his sonne in lawe, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and then go your way.


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And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the <n>That is, his concubines father.</n> damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.


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And when the man rose vp to depart, his father in lawe was earnest: therefore he returned, and lodged there.


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And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's father said, <n>Meaning, that he should refresh himself with food, as in (Jdg_19:5).</n> Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.


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And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go <n>That is, to the town or city where he lived.</n> home.


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But the man would not tarry, but arose &amp; departed, and came ouer against Iebus, (which is Ierusalem) and his two asses laden, and his concubine were with him.


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When they were neere to Iebus, the day was sore spent, and the seruant said vnto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let vs turne into this citie of the Iebusites, and lodge all night there.


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And his master said unto him, <n>Though in these days there were most horrible corruptions, even necessity could not compel them to associate with those who did not profess the true God.</n> We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that [is] not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.


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And he said vnto his seruant, Come, and let vs drawe neere to one of these places, that wee may lodge in Gibeah or in Ramah.


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So they went forward vpon their way, and the sunne went downe vpon them neere to Gibeah, which is in Beniamin.


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Then they turned thither to goe in and lodge in Gibeah: and when he came, he sate him downe in a streete of the citie: for there was no man that tooke them into his house to lodging.


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And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which [was] also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place [were] <n>Or, the children of Jamini.</n> Benjamites.


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And when he had lift vp his eyes, he sawe a wayfairing man in the streetes of the citie: then this olde man sayde, Whither goest thou, and whence camest thou?


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And he said unto him, We [are] passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence [am] I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I [am now] going to the <n>To Shiloh of Mizpeh where the ark was.</n> house of the LORD; and there [is] no man that receiveth me to house.


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Although we haue straw and prouader for our asses, and also bread and wine for me &amp; thine handmayde, and for the boy that is with thy seruant: we lacke nothing.


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And the olde man sayde, Peace bee with thee: as for all that thou lackest, shalt thou finde with me: onely abide not in the streete al night.


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[Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, [and] <n>In an attempt to break it.</n> beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.


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And this man the master of ye house went out vnto the, &amp; said vnto them, Nay my brethre, do not so wickedly, I pray you: seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this villenie.


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Behold, [here is] my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, <n>That is, abuse them, as in (Gen_19:8).</n> and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.


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But the men woulde not hearken to him: therefore ye man tooke his concubine, &amp; brought her out vnto them: and they knewe her and abused her all the night vnto the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her goe.


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Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and <n>She fell down dead, as in (Jdg_19:27).</n> fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord [was], till it was light.


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And her lorde arose in the morning, and opened the doores of the house, and went out to goe his way, and beholde, the woman his concubine was dead at the doore of the house and her handes lay vpon the thresholde.


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And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her [up] upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his <n>Meaning, home to mount Ephraim.</n> place.


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And whe he was come to his house, he took a knife, and laid hand on his concubine, and deuided her in pieces with her bones into twelue parts, and sent her through all quarters of Israel.


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And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no <n>For this was like the sin of Sodom for which God rained down fire and brimstone from heaven.</n> such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak [your minds].


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Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as <n>That is, all with one consent.</n> one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the <n>To ask counsel.</n> LORD in Mizpeh.


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And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that <n>Meaning, men able to handle their weapons.</n> drew sword.


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(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then <n>To the Levite.</n> said the children of Israel, Tell [us], how was this wickedness?


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And the same Leuite, the womans husband that was slaine, answered and saide, I came vnto Gibeah that is in Beniamin with my concubine to lodge,


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And the men of Gibeah arose against me, and beset the house round about vpon mee by night, thinking to haue slaine me, and haue forced my concubine that she is dead.


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And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent <n>That is, her pieces, to every tribe a piece, (Jdg_19:29).</n> her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.


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And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any [of us] go to his tent, neither will we any [of us] turn into his <n>Before we have avenged this wickedness.</n> house.


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And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch <n>Only these would be charged to provide food for the rest.</n> victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.


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And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the <n>That is, every family of the tribe.</n> tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is done among you?


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Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of Belial, which [are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin <n>Because they would not allow the wicked to be punished, they declared themselves in agreement with their evil, and therefore all were justly punished.</n> would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:


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But ye children of Beniamin gathered them selues together out of the cities vnto Gibeah, to come out and fight against the children of Israel.


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And ye children of Beniamin were nombred at that time out of the cities sixe and twenty thousand men that drewe sworde, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were nombred seuen hundreth chosen men.


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Of all this people were seuen hundreth chosen men, being left handed: all these could sling stones at an heare breadth, and not faile.


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Also the men of Israel, beside Beniamin, were nombred foure hundreth thousande men that drew sword, euen all men of warre.


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And the children of Israel arose, and went up <n>That is, to the ark, which was in Shiloh some think in Mizpeh, as in (Jdg_20:1).</n> to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah [shall go up] first.


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And the men of Israel went out to battell against Beniamin, &amp; the men of Israel put themselues in aray to fight against the beside Gibeah.


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And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day <n>This God permitted because by this means he would punish their sins, by the strength of the Israelites.</n> twenty and two thousand men.


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And the people, the men of Israel plucked vp their hearts, and set their battel againe in aray in the place where they put them in aray the first day.


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(For the children of Israel had gone vp and wept before the Lord vnto the euening, and had asked of the Lorde, saying, Shall I goe againe to battel against the children of Beniamin my brethren? and the Lord said, Go vp against them)


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Also the second day Beniamin came forth to meete them out of Gibeah, and slewe downe to the grounde of the children of Israel againe eighteene thousand men: all they could handle the sword.


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Then al the children of Israel went vp and all the people came also vnto the house of God, and wept and sate there before the Lord &amp; fasted that day vnto the euening, and offred burnt offrings and peace offrings before the Lord.


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And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God [was] <n>That is, in Shiloh.</n> there in those days,


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And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, <n>Or, served in the priest's office in those days: for the Jews write that he lived three hundred years.</n> stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.


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And the children of Israel went vp against the children of Beniamin the third day, and put theselues in aray against Gibeah, as at other times.


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And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, [and] were <n>By the policy of the children of Israel.</n> drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, [and] kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.


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And the children of Benjamin said, They [are] smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the <n>Meaning, crossways or paths to various places.</n> highways.


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And all the men of Israel rose vp out of their place, and put themselues in aray at Baal-tamar: and the men that lay in wayte of the Israelites came forth of their place, euen out of the medowes of Gibeah,


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And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that <n>They did not know that God's judgment was at hand to destroy them.</n> evil [was] near them.


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And the Lord smote Beniamin before Israel, and the children of Israel destroyed of the Beniamites the same day fiue and twenty thousand and an hundreth men: all they could handle the sword.


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So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel <n>Retired to draw them after.</n> gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.


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And they that lay in wait hasted, and brake forth toward Gibeah, &amp; the ambushment drewe themselues along, and smote all the citie with the edge of the sword.


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Also the men of Israel had appoynted a certaine time with the ambushmentes, that they should make a great flame and smoke rise vp out of the citie.


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And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to <n>For they had grown bold because of the two former victories.</n> smite [and] kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as [in] the first battle.


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But when the flame bega to arise out of the citie, as a pillar of smoke, the Beniamites looked backe, and behold, the flame of the citie began to ascend vp to heauen.


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And when the men of Israel turned <n>And withstood their enemies.</n> again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.


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Therefore they turned [their backs] before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which [came] out of the cities they destroyed <n>For they were surrounded from every side.</n> in the midst of them.


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Thus they compassed the Beniamites about, and chased them at ease, and ouerranne them, euen ouer against Gibeah on the Eastside.


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And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they <n>They slew them one by one, as they were scattered abroad.</n> gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.


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So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were <n>Besides eleven hundred that had been slain in the previous battles.</n> twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these [were] men of valour.


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But sixe hundreth men turned and fled to the wildernesse vnto the rocke of Rimmon, and abode in the rocke of Rimmon foure moneths.


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And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of [every] city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the <n>If they belonged to the Benjamites.</n> cities that they came to.


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Now the men of Israel had <n>This was a rash oath, and not from judgment: for they later broke it, showing secretly the means to marry certain of their daughters.</n> sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.


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And the people came vnto ye house of God and abode there till euen before God, and lift vp their voyces, and wept with great lamentation,


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And sayde, O Lorde God of Israel, why is this come to passe in Israel, that this day one tribe of Israel should want?


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And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an <n>According to their custom, when they would consult the Lord.</n> altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.


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Then the children of Israel said, Who is he among all the tribes of Israel, that came not vp with the Congregation vnto the Lorde? For they had made a great othe concerning him that came not vp to the Lord to Mizpeh, saying, Let him die the death.


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And the children of Israel <n>Or, were sorry that they had destroyed their brethren, as it appears in (Jdg_21:15).</n> repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.


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How shal we do for wiues to them that remaine, seeing we haue sworne by the Lorde, that we will not giue them of our daughters to wiues?


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And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of Israel that <n>Condemning them as lovers of evil, who would not punish it.</n> came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.


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Therefore the Congregation sent thither twelue thousande men of the most valiant, and commaunded them, saying, Goe, and smite the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, both women, and children.


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And this is it that ye shall do: ye shall vtterly destroye all the males and all the women that haue lien by men.


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And they found among the inhabitants of Iabesh Gilead foure hundreth maides, virgins that had knowne no man by lying with any male: and they brought them vnto the hoste to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.


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And the whole congregation <n>That is, about four months after the punishment, (Jdg_20:47).</n> sent [some] to speak to the children of Benjamin that [were] in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.


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And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet <n>For they were short two hundred.</n> so they sufficed them not.


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Therefore the Elders of the Congregation said, How shall we doe for wiues to the remnant? for the women of Beniamin are destroyed.


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And they said, [There must be] <n>Benjamin must be preserved to have the twelfth portion in the inheritance of Jacob.</n> an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.


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Howbeit we may not giue them wiues of our daughters: for the childre of Israel had sworne, saying, Cursed be he that giueth a wise to Beniamin.


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Then they said, Behold, [there is] a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly [in a place] which [is] on the <n>He describes the place where the maids used to dance yearly, and sing psalms and songs of God's works among them, as the custom was then.</n> north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.


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Therefore they commaunded the children of Beniamin, saying, Goe, and lye in waite in the vineyardes.


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And when ye see that the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catche you euery man a wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and goe into the land of Beniamin.


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And it shall be, <n>Though they attempted to convince man that they had kept their oath, before God it was broken.</n> when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, [that] ye should be guilty.


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And the children of Benjamin did so, and took [them] wives, according to their <n>Meaning, two hundred.</n> number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.


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So the children of Israel departed thence at that time, euery man to his tribe, and to his familie, and went out from thence euery man to his inheritance.


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Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the <n>In the land of Canaan.</n> land. And a certain man of <n>In the tribe of Judah, which was also called Bethlehem Ephrathat, because there was another city so called in the tribe of Zebulun.</n> Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. <n>The Argument - This book is called Ruth, who is the main person spoken of in this writing. In which also the state of the Church is set forth figuratively, being subject to many afflictions and yet eventually God gives good and joyful offspring, teaching us to abide with patience till God delivers us out of troubles. In this also it is described how Jesus Christ, who according to the flesh came from David, proceeded by Ruth, of whom the Lord Jesus promised to come, nonetheless she was a Moabite of base condition, and a stranger to the people of God; declaring to us by it that the Gentiles would be sanctified by him, and joined with his people, and that there would be one sheepfold, and one shepherd. It would appear that this account belongs to the time of the judges.</n>


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And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi: and the names of his two sonnes, Mahlon, and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem Iudah: and when they came into the land of Moab, they continued there.


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And they took them wives of the <n>By this wonderful providence of God Ruth became one of God's household, of whom Christ came.</n> women of Moab; the name of the one [was] Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.


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And Mahlon and Chilion dyed also both twaine: so the woman was left destitute of her two sonnes, and of her husband.


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Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had <n>By sending them plenty again.</n> visited his people in giving them bread.


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Wherefore shee departed out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her, and they went on their way to returne vnto the land of Iudah.


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Then Naomi saide vnto her two daughters in lawe, Goe, returne eche of you vnto her owne mothers house: the Lord shew fauour vnto you, as ye haue done with the dead, and with me.


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The LORD grant you that ye may find <n>By this it appears that Naomi by dwelling among idolaters, had become cold to the true zeal of God, having more respect for the comfort of the body than the comfort of the soul.</n> rest, each [of you] in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.


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But Naomi saide, Turne againe, my daughters: for what cause will you go with me? are there any mo sonnes in my wombe, that they may bee your husbands?


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Turne againe, my daughters: go your way: for I am too olde to haue an husband. If I should say, I haue hope, and if I had an husbad this night: yea, if I had borne sonnes,


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Would yee tarie for them, till they were of age? would ye be deferred for them from taking of husbands? nay my daughters: for it grieueth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lorde is gone out against me.


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And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah <n>When she took leave and departed.</n> kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.


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And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: <n>No persuasion can convince them to turn back from God, if he has chosen them to be his.</n> return thou after thy sister in law.


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And Ruth answered, Intreate mee not to leaue thee, nor to depart from thee: for whither thou goest, I will goe: and where thou dwellest, I will dwell: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.


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Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. the Lord do so to me and more also, if ought but death depart thee and me.


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So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was <n>By which it appears that she was of a great family of good reputation.</n> moved about them, and they said, [Is] this Naomi?


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And she answered them, Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara: for the Almightie hath giuen me much bitternes.


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I went out full, and the Lorde hath caused me to returne emptie: why call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath humbled me, and the Almightie hath brought me vnto aduersitie?


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So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of <n>Which was in the month of Nisan, that is, part March and part April.</n> barley harvest.


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And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of <n>Or power, both in virtue, authority and riches.</n> wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name [was] Boaz.


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And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and <n>Her humility declares her great love for her mother in law, for she spared no hardship to get both their livings.</n> glean ears of corn after [him] in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.


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And she went, and came and gleaned in the fielde after the reapers, and it came to passe, that she met with the portion of the fielde of Boaz, who was of the familie of Elimelech.


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And behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and saide vnto the reapers, The Lord be with you: and they answered him, The Lord blesse thee.


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And the seruant that was appointed ouer the reapers, answered, and said, It is the Moabitish maide, that came with Naomi out of the countrey of Moab:


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And shee saide vnto vs, I pray you, let mee gleane and gather after the reapers among the sheaues: so shee came, and hath continued from that time in the morning vnto now, saue that she taried a litle in the house.


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Then said Boaz vnto Ruth, Hearest thou, my daughter? goe to none other fielde to gather, neither goe from hence: but abide here by my maydens.


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<n>That is, take notice of what field they reap.</n>[Let] thine eyes [be] on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of [that] which the young men have drawn.


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Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I [am] a <n>Of the Moabites, who are enemies of God's people.</n> stranger?


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And Boaz answered, &amp; said vnto her, All is told and shewed me that thou hast done vnto thy mother in lawe, since the death of thine husband, and how thou hast left thy father &amp; thy mother, and ye land where thou wast borne, &amp; art come vnto a people which thou knewest not in time past.


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The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose <n>Signifying, that she would never lack anything, if she put her trust in God, and lived under his protection.</n> wings thou art come to trust.


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Then she saide, Let me finde fauour in thy sight, my lord: for thou hast comforted mee, and spoken comfortably vnto thy mayde, though I be not like to one of thy maydes.


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And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched [corn], and she did eat, and was sufficed, and <n>Which she brought home to her mother in law.</n> left.


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And when she arose to gleane, Boaz commanded his seruants, saying, Let her gather among the sheaues, and doe not rebuke her.


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Also let fall some of the sheaues for her, and let it lie, that she may gather it vp, &amp; rebuke her not.


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So she gleaned in the fielde vntill euening, and she thresshed that shee had gathered, and it was about an Ephah of barly.


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And she took [it] up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she <n>That is, from her bag, as it is in the Chaldee text.</n> brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.


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Then her mother in lawe saide vnto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he, that knewe thee; she shewed her mother in lawe, with whome she had wrought, and saide, The mans name, with whom I wrought to day, is Boaz.


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And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed [be] he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the <n>To my husband and children, when they were alive, and now to us.</n> dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man [is] near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.


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And Ruth the Moabitesse said, He said also certainely vnto mee, Thou shalt be with my seruants, vntill they haue ended all mine haruest.


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And Naomi answered vnto Ruth her daughter in lawe, It is best, my daughter, that thou goe out with his maides, that they meete thee not in an other fielde.


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Then she kept her by the maides of Boaz, to gather vnto the end of barly haruest, and of wheate haruest, and dwelt with her mother in lawe.


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Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek <n>Meaning that she would provide her with a husband, with whom she might live peacefully.</n> rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?


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Now also is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maides thou wast? beholde, he winoweth barly to night in the floore.


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Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: [but] make not thyself known unto the <n>Boaz, nor yet any other.</n> man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.


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And when he shall sleepe, marke the place where he layeth him downe, and go, and vncouer the place of his feete, and lay thee downe, and he shall tell thee what thou shalt doe.


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And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his <n>That is, he had refreshed himself among his servants.</n> heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.


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Then he sayd, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmayd: spread therefore the wing of thy garment ouer thine handmayd: for thou art the kinsman.


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And he said, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD, my daughter: [for] thou hast <n>You showed yourself repeatedly to be more virtuous.</n> shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.


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And now, my daughter, feare not: I will doe to thee all that thou requirest: for all the citie of my people doeth knowe, that thou art a vertuous woman.


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Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, [that] if he <n>If he will take you to as his wife because of his relation by marriage, according to God's law, (Deu_25:5).</n> will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, [as] the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.


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And she lay at his feete vntill the morning: and she arose before one could know another: for he sayd, Let no man knowe, that a woman came into the floore.


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Also he sayd, Bring the sheete that thou hast vpon thee, and holde it; when she helde it, he measured sixe measures of barly, and layde them on her, and she went into the citie.


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And when she came to her mother in law, she said, <n>Believing by her returning home that he had not taken her as his wife, she was astonished.</n> Who [art] thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.


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And said, These sixe measures of barly gaue he me: for he sayd to me, Thou shalt not come emptie vnto thy mother in lawe.


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Then sayd she, My daughter, sit still, vntill thou knowe how the thing will fall: for the man wil not be in rest, vntill he hath finished the matter this same day.


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Then went Boaz up to the <n>Which was the place of judgment.</n> gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, <n>The Hebrews here use two words which have no proper meaning, but serve to denote a certain person, as we would say, «Ho, so-and-so».</n> Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.


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And he said vnto ye kinsman, Naomi, that is come againe out of ye countrey of Moab, wil sell a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelechs.


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And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy [it] before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem [it], redeem [it]: but if thou wilt not redeem [it, then] tell me, that I may know: for [there is] none to redeem [it] <n>For you are the next of kin.</n> beside thee; and I [am] after thee. And he said, I will redeem [it].


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Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy [it] also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his <n>That his inheritance might bear his name that is dead.</n> inheritance.


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And the kinsman answered, I can not redeeme it, lest I destroy mine owne inheritance: redeeme my right to thee, for I can not redeeme it.


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Now this [was the manner] in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave [it] to his neighbour: and this [was] a <n>That he had resigned his right, (Deu_25:9).</n> testimony in Israel.


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And Boaz sayd vnto the Elders &amp; vnto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I haue bought all that was Elimelechs, and all that was Chilions and Mahlons, of the hand of Naomi.


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Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his <n>Or, of the city where he remained.</n> place: ye [are] witnesses this day.


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And all the people that [were] in the gate, and the elders, said, [We are] witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in <n>Ephratah and Bethlehem are both one.</n> Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:


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And that thine house be like the house of Pharez ( whom Thamar bare vnto Iudah) of the seede which the Lord shall giue thee of this yong woman.


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So Boaz tooke Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in vnto her, the Lorde gaue that she conceiued, and bare a sonne.


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And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed [be] the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that <n>He shall leave continual posterity.</n> his name may be famous in Israel.


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And he shall be unto thee a restorer of [thy] life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than <n>Meaning, many sons.</n> seven sons, hath born him.


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And the women her neighbours gaue it a name, saying, There is a childe borne to Naomi, and called the name thereof Obed: the same was the father of Ishai, the father of Dauid.


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Now these [are] the generations of <n>This genealogy is brought in to prove that David by succession came from the house of Judah.</n> Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,


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Now there was a certain man of <n>There were two Ramatus, so that in this city in mount Ephraim were Zophim, that is, the learned men and prophets.</n> Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name [was] Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: <n>The Argument - As God had ordained in (Deu_17:14), that when the Israelites entered the land of Canaan, he would appoint a king for them: so here in the first book of Samuel the state of the people under their first king Saul is declared. Not content with the order that God had temporarily appointed for the government of his Church, they demanded a king, so that they might be as other nations. As well they thought they would be better off, not because they could serve God better by it, but because they would be under the safeguard of him who represented Jesus Christ the true deliverer. Therefore God gave them a tyrant and a hypocrite to rule over them, so that they might learn that a king is not sufficient to defend them, unless God by his power preserves and keeps them. Therefore he punishes the ingratitude of his people, and sends them continual wars both at home and abroad. Also, because Saul, whom God had given to the honour of a king out of nothing, did not acknowledge God's mercy to him, but rather disobeyed the word of God and was not zealous of his glory, he was removed from his estate by God, and David the true figure of Messiah was placed in his stead. His patience, modesty, constancy, persecution by open enemies, feigned friends, and deceitful flatterers, is left to the Church and to every member of it, as a pattern and example of their state and calling.</n>


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And he had two wiues: the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.


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And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in <n>For the ark was there at that time.</n> Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, [were] there.


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And on a day, when Elkanah sacrificed, he gaue to Peninnah his wife and to all her sonnes and daughters portions,


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But unto Hannah he gave a worthy <n>Some read, a portion with a hearty cheer.</n> portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.


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And her aduersarie vexed her sore, forasmuch as she vpbraided her, because the Lorde had made her barren.


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(And so did he yeere by yeere) and as oft as she went vp to the house of the Lord, thus she vexed her, that she wept and did not eate.


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Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? [am] not I better to thee than ten <n>Let this comfort you, that I love you no less than if you had many children.</n> sons?


