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And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he [is] a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, [or] peradventure he sleepeth, and must be <n>He mocks their beastly madness, who think that by any instance or suit, the dead and vile idols can help their worshippers in their necessity.</n> awaked.


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And they cryed loude, and cut them selues as their maner was, with kniues and launcers, till the blood gushed out vpon them.


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And when midday was passed, &amp; they had prophecied vntil the offring of the euening sacrifice, there was neither voyce, nor one to answere, nor any that regarded.


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And Eliiah said vnto all the people, Come to me; all the people came to him; he repayred the altar of the Lorde that was broken downe.


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And Eliiah tooke twelue stones, according to the nomber of the tribes of the sonnes of Iaakob, (vnto whome the worde of the Lord came, saying, Israel shalbe thy name)


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And with the stones he buylt an altar in the Name of the Lorde: and he made a ditch round about the altar, as great as woulde conteine two measures of seede.


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And said, Fill foure barrels with water, and powre it on the burnt offring and on the wood. Againe he said, Doe so againe; they did so the second time; he sayde, Doe it the third time; they did it the third time.


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And the water ran round about the altar; and he <n>By this he declared the excellent power of God, who contrary to nature could make the fire burn even in the water, so that they should have no opportunity to doubt that he is the only God.</n> filled the trench also with water.


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And when they should offer the euening sacrifice, Eliiah the Prophet came, and sayd, Lord God of Abraham, Izhak and of Israel, let it be knowen this day, that thou art the God of Israel, and that I am thy seruant, and that I haue done all these things at thy commandement.


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Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou [art] the LORD God, and [that] thou hast turned their heart back <n>Though God permits his to run in blindness and error for a time, yet eventually he calls them home to him by some notorious sign and work.</n> again.


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Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt offring, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked vp the water that was in the ditche.


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And when all the people sawe it, they fell on their faces, and saide, The Lord is God, the Lord is God.


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And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not <n>He commanded them that as they were truly persuaded to confess the only God: so they should serve him with all their power, and destroy the idolaters his enemies.</n> one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.


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So Ahab went vp to eate and to drinke, and Eliiah went vp to the top of Carmel: and he crouched vnto the earth, &amp; put his face betweene his knees,


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And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, [There is] nothing. And he said, Go again <n>As God's spirit moved him to pray, so was he strengthened by the same that he did not faint, but continued still till he had obtained.</n> seven times.


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And at the seuenth time he sayd, Behold, there ariseth a litle cloude out of the sea like a mans hand. Then he sayd, Vp, and say vnto Ahab, Make readie thy charet, and get thee downe, that the raine stay thee not.


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And in the meane while the heauen was blacke with cloudes and winde, and there was a great rayne. Then Ahab went vp and came to Izreel.


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And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran <n>He was so strengthened by God's spirit that he ran faster than the chariot was able to run.</n> before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.


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And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the <n>That is, of Baal.</n> prophets with the sword.


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Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, <n>Though the wicked rage against God's children, yet he holds them back so they cannot execute their malice.</n> So let the gods do [to me], and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.


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When he sawe that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which is in Iudah, and left his seruant there.


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But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, <n>It is so hard to control our impatience in affliction, that the saints could not overcome the same.</n> take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers.


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And as he lay and slept vnder the iuniper tree, behold now, an Angel touched him, and said vnto him, Vp, and eate.


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And when he looked about, behold, there was a cake baken on the coles, and a pot of water at his head: so he did eate and drinke, and returned and slept.


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And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise [and] eat; because <n>He declares that unless God had nourished him miraculously it would have been impossible for him to have gone on this journey.</n> the journey [is] too great for thee.


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Then he arose, and did eate and drinke, and walked in the strength of that meate fourtie dayes and fourtie nights, vnto Horeb the mount of God.


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And there he entred into a caue, &amp; lodged there: and beholde, the Lorde spake to him, and said vnto him, What doest thou here, Eliiah?


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And he said, I have <n>He complains that the more zealous he was to maintain God's glory, the more cruelly he was persecuted.</n> been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.


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And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; [but] the LORD [was] <n>For the nature of man is not able to come near God, if he appeared in his strength and full majesty, and therefore he mercifully submits himself to our limitations.</n> not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; [but] the LORD [was] not in the earthquake:


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And after the earthquake came fire: but the Lorde was not in the fire: and after the fire came a still and soft voyce.


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And when Eliiah heard it, he couered his face with his mantel, and went out, and stoode in the entring in of ye caue: and behold, there came a voyce vnto him, and sayd, What doest thou here, Eliiah?


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And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: <n>So should not depend on the multitude in maintaining God's glory, but because our duty requires us to do it.</n> because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.


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And the Lord said vnto him, Goe, returne by the wildernes vnto Damascus, and when thou commest there, anoint Hazael King ouer Aram.


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And Iehu the sonne of Nimshi shalt thou anoynt King ouer Israel: and Elisha the sonne of Shaphat of Abel Meholah shalt thou anoynt to be Prophet in thy roume.


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And him that escapeth from the sworde of Hazael, shall Iehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Iehu, shall Elisha slay.


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Yet I have left [me] seven thousand in Israel, <n>He declares that wicked deceivers and idolaters are not his.</n> all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.


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So he departed thence, and found Elisha the sonne of Shaphat who was plowing with twelue yoke of oxen before him, and was with the twelft: &amp; Eliiah went towards him, and cast his mantel vpon him.


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And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, <n>Though this natural affection is not to be contemned, yet it should not move us when God calls us to serve him.</n> Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and [then] I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?


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And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the <n>He would not stay till wood was brought, so great was his desire to follow his calling.</n> instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.


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And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and [there were] thirty and two <n>That is, governors and rulers of provinces.</n> kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.


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And sayd vnto him, Thus sayth Ben-hadad, Thy siluer &amp; thy golde is mine: also thy women, and thy fayre children are mine.


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And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, <n>I am content to obey and pay tribute.</n> I [am] thine, and all that I have.


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And when the messengers came againe, they said, Thus commandeth Ben-hadad, &amp; saith, When I shal send vnto thee, and command, thou shalt deliuer me thy siluer and thy golde, and thy women, and thy children,


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<n>He would not accept his answer unless he out of hand delivered whatever he asked, for he sought an opportunity to make war against him.</n>Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, [that] whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put [it] in their hand, and take [it] away.


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Then the King of Israel sent for all the Elders of the land, &amp; sayd, Take heede, I pray you, and see how he seeketh mischiefe: for he sent vnto me for my wiues, and for my children, and for my siluer, and for my golde, and I denyed him not.


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And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken <n>They thought it their duty to risk their lives, rather than grant that thing which was not lawful, only to satisfy the lust of a tyrant.</n> not [unto him], nor consent.


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Wherefore hee sayde vnto the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lorde the King, All that thou didddest sende for to thy seruant at the first time, that I will doe, but this thing I may not do; the messengers departed, and brought him an answere.


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And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the <n>Much less will there be found any prey that is worth anything, when they are so many.</n> dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.


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And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell [him], Let not him that girdeth on [his harness] boast himself as he that <n>Do not boast before the victory is won.</n> putteth it off.


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And when he heard that tidings, as he was with the Kings drinking in the pauilions, he sayd vnto his seruants, Bring forth your engines, and they set them against the citie.


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And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know <n>Before God went about with signs and miracles to pull Ahab from his impiety, and now again with wonderful victories.</n> that I [am] the LORD.


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And Ahab sayd, By whome? And he sayde, Thus sayth the Lord, By the seruants of the princes of the prouinces. He sayde againe, Who shall order the battel? And he answered, Thou.


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Then he nombred the seruantes of the princes of the prouinces, and they were two hundreth, two and thirtie: and after them he nombred the whole people of all the children of Israel, euen seuen thousand.


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And they went out at noone: but Ben-hadad did drinke till he was drunken in the tentes, both he and the Kings: for two and thirtie Kings helped him.


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And the <n>That is, young men trained in the service of princes.</n> young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.


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And he sayde, Whether they be come out for peace, take them aliue: or whether they bee come out to fight, take them yet aliue.


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So they came out of the citie, to wit, the seruants of the princes of the prouinces, and the hoste which followed them.


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And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the <n>They who were appointed for the preservation of his person.</n> horsemen.


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And the King of Israel went out, &amp; smote the horses and charets, and with a great slaughter slew he the Aramites.


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(For there had come a Prophet to the King of Israel, and had sayd vnto him, Goe, be of good courage, and consider, and take heede what thou doest: for when the yeere is gone about, the King of Aram wil come vp against thee)


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And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their <n>Thus the wicked blaspheme God in their fury, who nonetheless he does not permit to go unpunished.</n> gods [are] gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.


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And nomber thy selfe an armie, like the armie that thou hast lost, with such horses, &amp; such charets, &amp; we wil fight against them in the plaine, and doubtlesse we shall ouercome them: and he hearkened vnto their voyce, and did so.


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And after the yeere was gone about, Ben-hadad nombred the Aramites, and went vp to Aphek to fight against Israel.


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And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all <n>All those who were in the battle of the previous years, (1Ki_20:15).</n> present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.


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And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD [is] God of the hills, but he [is] not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that <n>Who has the same power in the valley as on the hills and can also destroy a multitude with few as with many.</n> I [am] the LORD.


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And they pitched one ouer against the other seuen dayes, &amp; in the seuenth day the battel was ioyned: and the children of Israel slew of the Aramites an hundreth thousand footemen in one day.


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But the rest fled to Aphek into the citie: &amp; there fel a wall vpon seuen and twentie thousand men that were left: and Ben-hadad fled into the citie, and came into a secret chamber.


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And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel [are] merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our <n>In sign of submission and that we have deserved death, if he will punish us with rigour.</n> loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.


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Then they gyrded sackecloth about their loynes, &amp; put ropes about their heads, and came to the King of Israel, and sayd, Thy seruant Ben-hadad sayth, I pray thee, let me liue: and he sayd, Is he yet aliue? he is my brother.


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Now the men did diligently observe whether [any thing would come] from him, and did hastily catch [it]: and they said, Thy brother <n>He is alive.</n> Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.


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And [Benhadad] said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in <n>You shall appoint in my chief city what you will, and I will obey you.</n> Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then [said Ahab], I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.


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And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the LORD, <n>By this external sign he would more likely touch the king's heart.</n> Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.


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Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall <n>Because you have transgressed the commandment of the Lord.</n> slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.


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Then he founde another man, and sayde, Smite mee, I pray thee; the man smote him, and in smiting wounded him.


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So the Prophet departed, &amp; wayted for the King by the way, &amp; disguised himselfe with ashes vpon his face.


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And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, <n>By this parable he makes Ahab condemn himself who made a covenant with God's enemy, and let him escape whom God had appointed to be slain.</n> Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.


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And as thy seruant had here and there to do, he was gone: And the King of Israel said vnto him, So shall thy iudgement be: thou hast giuen sentence.


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And hee hasted, and tooke the ashes away from his face: and the King of Israel knewe him that he was of the Prophets:


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And he said vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast let goe out of thine handes a man whom I appoynted to dye, thy life shall goe for his life, and thy people for his people.


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After these things Naboth the Izreelite had a vineyarde in Izreel, hard by the palace of Ahab King of Samaria.


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And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, <n>Though Ahab's tyranny is condemned by the Holy Spirit, yet he was not so rigorous that he would take from another man his right without full recompense.</n> Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it [is] near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; [or], if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.


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And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down <n>Thus the wicked do not consider what is just and lawful, but fret inwardly when they cannot have their inordinate lusts satisfied.</n> upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.


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Then Iezebel his wife came to him &amp; said vnto him, Why is thy spirit so sad that thou eatest no bread?


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And he said vnto her, Because I spake vnto Naboth the Izreelite, &amp; sayd vnto him, Giue me thy vineyard for money, or if it please thee, I will giue thee another vineyard for it: but he answered, I wil not giue thee my vineyarde.


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And Jezebel his wife said unto him, <n>As though she said, «You do not know what it means to reign. Command and do not beg».</n> Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, [and] eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.


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So she wrote letters in Ahabs name, and sealed them with his seale, and sent the letters vnto the Elders, and to the nobles that were in his citie dwelling with Naboth.


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And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a <n>For then they used to enquire of men's faults: for no one could truly fast if he was a notorious sinner.</n> fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:


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And set two wicked men before him, &amp; let them witnesse against him, saying, Thou diddest blaspheme God and the King: then cary him out, and stone him that he may dye.


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And the <n>Thus the worldlings contrary to God's commandment, who does not consent to the shedding of innocent blood, would rather obey the wicked commandments of princes than the just laws.</n> men of his city, [even] the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, [and] as it [was] written in the letters which she had sent unto them.


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And there came two wicked men, &amp; sate before him: &amp; the wicked men witnessed against Naboth in the presence of the people saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the King. Then they caried him away out of the citie, and stoned him with stones, that he dyed.


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And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, <n>This example of monstrous cruelty the Holy Spirit leaves to us, to the intent that we should abhor all tyranny, and especially in those whom nature and kind should move to be pitiful and inclined to mercy.</n> Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead.


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And when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he rose to go downe to the vineyard of Naboth the Izreelite, to take possession of it.


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Arise, goe downe to meete Ahab King of Israel, which is in Samaria. loe, he is in the vineyarde of Naboth, whither he is gone downe to take possession of it.


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And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, <n>Do you think to have an advantage by murdering an innocent?</n> Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, <n>This was fulfilled in Joram his son (2Ki_9:25-26).</n> In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.


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And Ahab sayd to Eliiah, Hast thou found mee, O mine enemie? And he answered, I haue found thee: for thou hast solde thy selfe to worke wickednes in the sight of the Lord.


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Beholde, I will bring euill vpon thee, and wil take away thy posteritie, and wil cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, as well him that is shut vp, as him that is left in Israel,


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And I wil make thine house like the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the sonne of Ahiiah, for the prouocation wherewith thou hast prouoked, and made Israel to sinne.


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The dogs shall eate him of Ahabs stocke, that dyeth in the citie: and him that dyeth in the fieldes, shall the foules of the ayre eate.


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But there was none like unto Ahab, which did <n>By the wicked counsel of his wife he became a vile idolater, and cruel murderer, as one that gave himself wholly to serve sin.</n> sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.


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For he did exceeding abominably in following idoles, according to all that the Amorites did, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.)


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And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went <n>In token of mourning, or as some read, barefooted.</n> softly.


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Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: [but] in his <n>Meaning, in Joram's time, (2Ki_9:26).</n> son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.


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And they continued <n>Ben-hadad the king of Syria, and Ahab made a peace which endured three years.</n> three years without war between Syria and Israel.


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And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah <n>To see and visit him.</n> came down to the king of Israel.


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And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that <n>The kings of Syria kept Ramoth before this league was made by Benhadad: therefore he did not think he was bound by it to restore it.</n> Ramoth in Gilead [is] ours, and we [be] still, [and] take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?


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And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, <n>I am ready to join and go with you, and all of mine is at your command.</n> I [am] as thou [art], my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.


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And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, <n>He seemed that he would not go to war unless God approved it, yet when Michaiah advised the opposite he would not obey.</n> Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.


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Then the king of Israel gathered the <n>Meaning the false prophets, who were liars and served for money whom Jezebel had assembled and kept after the death of those whom Elijah slew.</n> prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.


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And Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the <n>Jehoshaphat did not acknowledge the false prophets to be God's ministers, but contemned them.</n> LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?


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And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but <n>By which we see that the wicked cannot abide to hear the truth, but hate the prophets of God and molest them.</n> I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.


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Then the king of Israel called an <n>Read (Gen_37:36).</n> officer, and said, Hasten [hither] Micaiah the son of Imlah.


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And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their <n>In their kingly apparel.</n> robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.


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And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him <n>The true prophets of God were accustomed to use signs for the confirmation of their doctrine, (Isa_20:2; Jer_7:2) in which the false prophets imitated them, thinking by it to make their doctrine more believable.</n> horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.


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And all the prophets prophecied so, saying, Goe vp to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliuer it into the Kings hand.


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And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets [declare] good unto the king with <n>This is the common argument of the wicked, who think that no one should speak against anything if the majority approves of it, be they ever so ungodly.</n> one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak [that which is] good.


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So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, <n>He speaks this in derision, because the king attributed so much to the false prophets, meaning that by experience he should discern that they were liars.</n> Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.


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And the King said vnto him, How oft shall I charge thee, that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the Name of the Lord?


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And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, <n>It is better for them to return home than to be punished and scattered because they go to war without God's counsel and approval.</n> These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.


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(And the King of Israel saide vnto Iehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee, that he would prophecie no good vnto me, but euill?)


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And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the <n>Meaning, his angels.</n> host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.


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And the Lord sayd, Who shall entise Ahab that he may go and fall at Ramoth Gilead? And one said on this maner, and another sayd on that maner.


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And there came forth a spirit, and <n>Here we see that though the devil is always ready to bring us to destruction, yet he has no more power than God gives him.</n> stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.


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And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a <n>I will cause all his prophets to tell lies.</n> lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade [him], and prevail also: go forth, and do so.


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Now therefore behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirite in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath appoynted euill against thee.


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But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, <n>Thus the wicked would that none were in the favour of God but they, and that God has given his graces to none so much as to them.</n> Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?


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And Michaiah saide, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt goe from chamber to chamber to hide thee.


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And the King of Israel sayd, Take Michaiah, and cary him vnto Amon the gouernour of the citie, and vnto Ioash the Kings sonne,


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And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the prison, and feed him with <n>Let him waste away with hunger and be fed with a small portion of bread and water.</n> bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.


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And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, <n>That when you see these things come to pass you may give God the glory, and know that I am his true prophet.</n> Hearken, O people, every one of you.


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And the King of Israel sayde to Iehoshaphat, I will change mine apparell, and will enter into the battell, but put thou on thine apparell; the King of Israel changed himselfe, and went into the battel.


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And the King of Aram commaunded his two and thirtie captaines ouer his charets, saying, Fight neither with small, nor great, saue onely against the King of Israel.


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And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it [is] the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat <n>That is, to the Lord for help.</n> cried out.


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And when the captaines of the charets saw that he was not the King of Israel, they turned backe from him.


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Then a certaine man drewe a bow mightily and smote the King of Israel betweene the ioyntes of his brigandine. Wherefore he sayde vnto his charet man, Turne thine hand and cary me out of the hoste: for I am hurt.


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And the battle increased that day: and the <n>That is, Ahab, king of Israel.</n> king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.


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And there went a proclamation throughout the <n>Of the Israelites.</n> host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.


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And one washed the charet in the poole of Samaria, and the dogs licked vp his blood (and they washed his armour) according vnto the word of the Lord which he spake.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Ahab and all that he did, and the yuorie house which he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


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And Iehoshaphat the sonne of Asa began to reigne vpon Iudah in the fourth yeere of Ahab King of Israel.


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Iehoshaphat was fiue and thirty yere olde, when he began to reigne, and reigned fiue and twentie yeere in Ierusalem; his mothers name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.


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And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless <n>Meaning, that he was led with an error, thinking that they might still sacrifice to the Lord in those places, as they did before the temple was built.</n> the high places were not taken away; [for] the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Iehoshaphat, and his worthy deedes that he did, and his battels which he fought, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?


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[There was] then no king in Edom: a <n>In the time of this king, Idumea was subject to Judah, and was governed by whom they of Judah appointed.</n> deputy [was] king.


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Jehoshaphat made ships of <n>By Tharshish the scripture means Cilicia and all the Mediterranean Sea.</n> Tharshish to go to <n>Josephus writes that Ophir is in India, where the Egyptians and Arabians traffic for gold.</n> Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.


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Then sayde Ahaziah the sonne of Ahab vnto Iehoshaphat, Let my seruants goe with thy seruants in the ships, But Iehoshaphat would not.


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And Iehoshaphat did sleepe with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid his father, and Iehoram his sonne reigned in his stead.


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Ahaziah the sonne of Ahab began to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, the seuenteenth yeere of Iehoshaphat King of Iudah, and reigned two yeeres ouer Israel.


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But he did euill in the sight of the Lorde, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne.


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For he serued Baal and worshipped him, and prouoked the Lorde God of Israel vnto wrath, according vnto all that his father had done.


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Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. <n>The Argument - This second book contains the acts of the kings of Judah and Israel: that is, of Israel, from the death of Ahab to the last king Hoshea, who was imprisoned by the king of Assyria, and his city Samaria taken, and the ten tribes led into captivity by the just plague of God for their idolatry and disobedience to God. Also of Judah, from the reign of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat to Zedekiah, who for contemning the Lord's commandment by his prophets, and neglecting his many admonitions by famine and other means was taken by his enemies, saw his sons most cruelly slain before his face, and his own eyes put out, as the Lord had declared to him before by his prophet Jeremiah. By the just vengeance of God for contempt of his word Jerusalem was destroyed, the temple burnt, and he and all his people were led away captives into Babylon. In this book are notable examples of God's favour toward those rulers and people who obey his prophets, and embrace his word: and contrariwise of his plagues on those who neglect his ministers, and do not obey his commandments.</n>


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And <n>So that he was punished for his idolatry in two ways: for the Moabites which were wont to pay him tribute rebelled and he fell out a window which was high in his house to give light beneath.</n> Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that [was] in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of <n>The Philistines who lived at Ekron worshipped this idol, the god of flies, thinking that he could preserve them from the biting of flies: or else he was so called, because flies were drawn in great abundance by the blood of the sacrifices that were offered to that idol.</n> Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.


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But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, <n>He shows that idolaters do not have the true God, or else they would seek none but him alone.</n> [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?


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Wherefore thus saith the Lorde, Thou shalt not come downe from the bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt die the death. So Eliiah departed.


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And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, <n>Ignorance is the mother of error and idolatry.</n> [Is it] not because [there is] not a God in Israel, [that] thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.


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And he saide vnto them, What maner of man was he which came and met you, and tolde you these wordes?


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And they answered him, [He was] an <n>Some think that this meant his garments, which were rough and made of hair.</n> hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It [is] Elijah the Tishbite.


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Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top <n>That is, Carmel.</n> of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.


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And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I [be] a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. <n>He declares the power God's word has in the mouth of his servants, when they threaten God's judgments against the wicked.</n> And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.


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Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, <n>He spoke this in mockery, and therefore provoked God's wrath so much more.</n> O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.


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And Elijah answered and said unto them, <n>Meaning, that God would show by effect whether he was a true prophet or not.</n> If I [be] a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.


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And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my <n>Which humble myself before God and his servant.</n> life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be <n>That is, spare my life, and do not let me die as the other two.</n> precious in thy sight.


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Beholde, there came fire downe from the heauen and deuoured the two former captaines ouer fiftie with their fifties: therefore let my life nowe be precious in thy sight.


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And the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be <n>Thus the Lord gives boldness to his, that they fear not the threatenings of tyrants, who otherwise of themselves are afraid to do God's message.</n> not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.


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And he saide vnto him, Thus saith the Lorde, Because thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, (was it not because there was no God in Israel to inquire of his worde?) therefore thou shalt not come downe off the bed, on which thou art gone vp, but shalt die the death.


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So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And <n>Jehoshaphat going to battle against the Syrians, made his son Jehoram king in the 17th year of his reign: and in the 18th year which was the second year of his son, Jehoram the son of Ahab reigned in Israel: and in the fifth year of this Jehoram Jehoshaphat died, and the kingdom of Judah was confirmed to his son.</n> Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.


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And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from <n>Which was the place where the children of Israel were circumcised after they came over Jordan and had been forty years in the wilderness, (Jos_5:9).</n> Gilgal.


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Then Eliiah saide to Elisha, Tarie here, I pray thee: for the Lorde hath sent me to Bethel. But Elisha said, As the Lord liueth, and as thy soule liueth, I will not leaue thee. So they came downe to Beth-el.


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And the <n>So called, because they are begotten anew as it were by the heavenly doctrine.</n> sons of the prophets that [were] at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from <n>That is, from being your head any more: for to be as the head, is to be the master, as to be at the feet, is to be a scholar.</n> thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I <n>For the Lord had revealed it to him.</n> know [it]; hold ye your peace.


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Againe Eliiah saide vnto him, Elisha, tarie here, I pray thee: for the Lorde hath sent me to Iericho: But he said, As the Lorde liueth, and as thy soule liueth, I will not leaue thee. So they came to Iericho.


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And the sons of the prophets that [were] at <n>Not only at Bethel, but at Jericho and other places were there prophets, who had scholars, whom they instructed and brought up in the true fear of God.</n> Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know [it]; hold ye your peace.


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Moreouer Eliiah saide vnto him, Tarie, I pray thee, here: for the Lorde hath sent me to Iorden. But he saide, As the Lorde liueth, and as thy soule liueth, I will not leaue thee. So they went both together.


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And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped [it] together, and smote the <n>That is, of Jordan.</n> waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.


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And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, <n>Let your spirit have double force in me, because of these dangerous times: or let me have twice as much as the rest of the prophets: or if your spirit were to be divided into three parts, let me have two.</n> let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.


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And he saide, Thou hast asked an hard thing: yet if thou see me when I am taken from thee, thou shalt haue it so: &amp; if not, it shal not be.


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And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into <n>Thus God has left a testimony in all ages (both before the law, in the law and in the gospel).</n> heaven.


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And Elisha saw it, and he cryed, My father, my father, the charet of Israel, and the horsemen thereof: and he sawe him no more: and he tooke his owne clothes, and rent them in two pieces.


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After, he tooke the cloke of Eliiah, that fell from him, and smote the waters, and sayde, Where is the Lord God of Eliiah? And so he also, after he had striken the waters, so that they were deuided this way and that way, went ouer, euen Elisha.


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And when the sons of the prophets which [were] to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The <n>The Spirit of prophecy was given to him as it was to Elijah.</n> spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.


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And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, <n>Because the fact was extraordinary, they doubted where he had gone, but Elisha was assured that he was taken up to God.</n> Ye shall not send.


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Yet they were instant vpon him, til he was ashamed: wherefore he saide, Sende. So they sent fiftie men, which sought three dayes, but founde him not.


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Therefore they returned to him, (for he taryed at Iericho) and he said vnto them, Did not I say vnto you, Goe not?


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And the men of the citie saide vnto Elisha, Beholde, we pray thee: the situation of this citie is pleasant, as thou, my lorde, seest, but the water is naught, and the ground baren.


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And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast <n>Thus God gave him power, even contrary to nature, to make the water profitable for man's use, which before was hurtful.</n> the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren [land].


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And he went vp from thence vnto Beth-el; as he was going vp the way, litle children came out of the citie, and mocked him, and saide vnto him, Come vp, thou balde head, come vp, thou balde head.


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And he turned back, and looked on them, and <n>Perceiving their malicious heart against the Lord and his word, he asks God to avenge the injury done to him.</n> cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.


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Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the <n>Read the annotation in (2Ki_1:17).</n> eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.


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And he wrought euill in the sight of the Lorde, but not like his father nor like his mother: for he tooke away the image of Baal that his father had made.


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Nevertheless he cleaved unto the <n>He sacrificed to the golden calves that Jeroboam had made.</n> sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.


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And <n>This was done after David had made the Moabites tributaries to his successors.</n> Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.


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And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: <n>Read (1Ki_22:4).</n> I [am] as thou [art], my people as thy people, [and] my horses as thy horses.


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So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the <n>Meaning the viceroy, or lieutenant of the king of Judah, (1Ki_22:47).</n> king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.


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Therefore the King of Israel sayde, Alas, that the Lord hath called these three Kings, to giue them into the hand of Moab.


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But Jehoshaphat said, [Is there] not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may enquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here [is] Elisha the son of Shaphat, which <n>That is, who was his servant.</n> poured water on the hands of Elijah.


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And Jehoshaphat said, <n>He is able to instruct us what God's will is in this point.</n> The word of the LORD is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.


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And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, <n>He knew that this wicked king would have but used his counsel to serve his turn, and therefore, he disdained to answer him.</n> What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, <n>The wicked do not esteem the servants of God unless they are driven by every necessity and fear of the present danger.</n> Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.


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And Elisha said, [As] the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would <n>God suffers his word to be declared to the wicked because of the godly that are among them.</n> not look toward thee, nor see thee.


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But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel <n>He sang songs to God's glory, and so stirred up the prophets heart to prophecy.</n> played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.


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For thus saith the Lorde, Ye shall neither see winde nor see raine, yet the valley shalbe filled with water, that ye may drinke, both ye and your cattel, and your beastes.


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And in the morning whe the meat offring was offred, beholde, there came water by the way of Edom: and the countrey was filled with water.


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And when al the Moabites heard that the Kings were come vp to fight against them, they gathered all that was able to put on harnesse, &amp; vpwarde, and stood in their border.


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And they rose earely in the morning, when the sunne arose vpon the water, and the Moabites saw the water ouer against them, as red as blood.


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And they said, <n>The sudden joy of the wicked is but a preparation for their destruction, which is at hand.</n> This [is] blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.


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And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in <n>Which was one of the principle cities of the Moabites, in which they left nothing but the walls.</n> Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about [it], and smote it.


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And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a <n>Thus God permits his to be brought many times to extreme necessity, before he helps them, that afterward they may praise his mercy even more.</n> pot of oil.


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And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into <n>The Prophet declares by this to her, that God never fails to provide for his servants, their wives and children, it they trust in him.</n> all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.


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And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, [There is] not a vessel more. And the oil <n>Or ceased to increase.</n> stayed.


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Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the <n>God here not only provided for his servant, that his debts should be paid and so kept his doctrine and profession without slander, but also for his wife and children.</n> rest.


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And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; <n>Thus the servants of God are not unthankful for the benefits they receive.</n> what [is] to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I <n>I am content with what God has sent me, and can lack nothing that one can do for another.</n> dwell among mine own people.


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And he said, At this time appointed, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a sonne; she sayd, Oh my Lorde, thou man of God, doe not lye vnto thine handmayd.


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So the woman conceiued, &amp; bare a sonne at that same season, according to the time of life, that Elisha had sayd vnto her.


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And he said unto his father, <n>His head was hurt badly and therefore he cried.</n> My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.


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Then she called to her husband, &amp; sayd, Send with me, I pray thee, one of the yong men and one of the asses: for I will haste to the man of God, and come againe.


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And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? [it is] neither <n>For at such times the people were wont to resort to the prophets for doctrine and consolation.</n> new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, [It shall be] well.


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Then she sadled an asse, and sayde to her seruant, Driue, and goe forward: staye not for me to get vp, except I bid thee.


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So she went, and came vnto the man of God to mount Carmel; when the man of God sawe her ouer against him, he sayd to Gehazi his seruant, Beholde, the Shunammite.


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Runne nowe, I say, to meete her, and say vnto her, Art thou in health? is thine husband in health? and is the child in health? And she answered, We are in health.


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And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she <n>In token of humility and joy that she had met with him.</n> caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul [is] vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid [it] from me, and hath not told me.


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Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: <n>Make such speed that nothing may stop you in the way, (Luk_10:4).</n> if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.


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And the mother of the childe sayde, As the Lorde liueth, and as thy soule liueth, I will not leaue thee. Therefore he arose, and followed her.


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But Gehazi was gone before them, &amp; had layed the staffe vpon the face of the childe, but he neither spake nor heard: wherefore hee returned to meete him, and told him, saying, The childe is not waken.


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And he went up, and <n>Elijah did the same to the widow's son at Zarephath (1Ki_17:21) and Paul in (Act_20:10) signifying the care that should be in them, who bear the word of God and are distributors of spiritual life.</n> lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.


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Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed <n>Meaning, often.</n> seven times, and the child opened his eyes.


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Then he called Gehazi, and sayd, Call this Shunammite. So he called her, which came in vnto him; he said vnto her, Take thy sonne.


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And she came, and fell at his feete, and bowed her selfe to the ground, and tooke vp her sonne, and went out.


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And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a dearth in the <n>That is, in the land of Israel.</n> land; and the sons of the prophets [were] sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.


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And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a <n>Which the apothecaries call colloquintida, and is most vehement and dangerous in purging.</n> wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred [them] into the pot of pottage: for they knew [them] not.


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So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O [thou] man of God, [there is] <n>They feared that they were poisoned because of the bitterness.</n> death in the pot. And they could not eat [thereof].


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Then he said, Bring meale; hee cast it into the potte, and sayd, Powre out for the people, that they may eate: and there was none euill in the pot.


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Then came a man from Baal-shalisha, &amp; brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, euen twenty loaues of barley, and full eares of corne in the huske; hee saide, Giue vnto the people, that they may eate.


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And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and <n>It is not the quantity of bread that satisfies, but the blessing that God gives.</n> shall leave [thereof].


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Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given <n>Here it appears that among the infidels God has his, and also that the infidels esteem those who do good to their country.</n> deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, [but he was] a leper.


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And the Aramites had gone out by bands, and had taken a litle mayde of the land of Israel, and shee serued Naamans wife.


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And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord [were] with the <n>Meaning Elisha.</n> prophet that [is] in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.


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And <n>That is, Naaman told it to the king of Syria.</n> [one] went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that [is] of the land of Israel.


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And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and <n>To give this as a present to the prophets.</n> took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold, and ten changes of raiment.


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And brought the letter to the King of Israel to this effect, Now when this letter is come vnto thee, vnderstand, that I haue sent thee Naaman my seruant, that thou maiest heale him of his leprosie.


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And when the King of Israel had read the letter, he rent his clothes, and sayde, Am I God, to kil and to giue life, that hee doth send to mee, that I should heale a man from his leprosie? wherfore consider, I pray you, and see howe he seeketh a quarel against me.


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And it was [so], when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, <n>The prophet rebukes the king because he did not consider that God was true in his promise, and therefore would not leave his Church destitute of a prophet, whose prayers he would hear, and to whom others could have recourse for comfort.</n> Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.


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Then Naaman came with his horses, and with his charets, and stoode at the doore of the house of Elisha.


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And Elisha sent a messenger vnto him, saying, Go and wash thee in Iorden seuen times, and thy flesh shall come againe to thee, and thou shalt be clensed.


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But Naaman was <n>Man's reason murmurs when it considers only the signs and outward things, and has no regard for the word of God, which is contained there.</n> wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.


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Are not Abanah and Pharpar, riuers of Damascus, better then all the waters of Israel? may I not washe mee in them, and bee cleansed? so hee turned, and departed in displeasure.


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And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, <n>This declares that servants should reverence and love their masters as children their fathers, and likewise masters toward their servants, must be affectioned as toward their children.</n> My father, [if] the prophet had bid thee [do some] great thing, wouldest thou not have done [it]? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?


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Then went he downe, and washed him selfe seuen times in Iorden, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came againe, like vnto ye flesh of a litle child, &amp; he was cleane.


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And hee turned againe to the man of God, hee, and all his companie, and came and stood before him, and sayd, Behold, now I knowe that there is no God in all the world, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a reward of thy seruant.


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But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take [it]; <n>So the Lord commands that they that receive freely, should also give freely.</n> but he refused.


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Moreouer Naaman sayde, Shall there not be giuen to thy seruant two mules loade of this earth? for thy seruant will henceforth offer neither burnt sacrifice nor offring vnto any other god, saue vnto the Lord.


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In this thing the LORD <n>He feels his conscience is wounded by being present at idols service, and therefore desires God to forgive him, lest others by his example might fall to idolatry: for as for his own part he confesses that he will never serve any but the true God.</n> pardon thy servant, [that] when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.


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And he said unto him, <n>The prophet did not approve his act, but after the common manner of speech he bids him farewell.</n> Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.


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And Gehazi the seruant of Elisha the man of God sayde, Beholde, my master hath spared this Aramite Naaman, receiuing not those things at his hand that he brought: as the Lord liueth, I will runne after him, and take somewhat of him.


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So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw [him] running after him, <n>Declaring by it, the honour and affection he bore to the prophet his master.</n> he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, [Is] all well?


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And he answered, All is well: my master hath set me, saying, Behold, there be come to me, euen nowe from mount Ephraim two yong men of the children of the Prophets: giue them, I pray thee, a talent of siluer, &amp; two change of garmets.


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And Naaman saide, Yea, take two talents: and he compelled him, and bound two talents of siluer in two bagges, with two change of garments, and gaue them vnto two of his seruants, that they might beare them before him.


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And when he came to the tower, he took [them] from their hand, and bestowed [them] in the house: and he let the men go, and <n>Naaman's servants.</n> they departed.


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Then he went in, and stoode before his master; Elisha said vnto him, Whence commest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy seruant went no whither.


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And he said unto him, <n>Was I not present with you in spirit?</n> Went not mine heart [with thee], when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? [Is it] a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and <n>That is, money to buy possessions with: meaning that it is detestable in the servants of God to have covetous minds.</n> oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?


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The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy <n>To be an example to all, by whose covetousness God's word might be slandered.</n> seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.


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And the children of the Prophets saide vnto Elisha, Behold, we pray thee, the place where we dwell with thee, is too litle for vs.


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Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a <n>Or a piece of wood fit to build with.</n> beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.


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And as one was felling of a tree, the yron fell into the water: then he cryed, and said, Alas master, it was but borowed.


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And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast [it] in thither; and the iron did <n>God wrought this miraculously to confirm the authority of Elisha, to whom he had given such abundance of his Spirit.</n> swim.


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Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In <n>Meaning, that he would lie in ambush and take the Israelites unawares.</n> such and such a place [shall be] my camp.


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Therefore the man of God sent vnto the King of Israel, saying, Beware thou goe not ouer to such a place: for there the Aramites are come downe.


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And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and <n>The wicked conspire nothing so craftily, but God can reveal it to his servants, and cause their counsel to be disclosed.</n> saved himself there, not once nor twice.


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And the heart of the King of Aram was troubled for this thing: therefore he called his seruants and saide vnto them, Will ye not shewe me, which of vs bewrayeth our counsel to the king of Israel?


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And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that [is] in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy <n>There is nothing so secret that you can go about, but he knows it, and reveals it to his king.</n> bedchamber.


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And he said, Goe, and espie where he is, that I may sende and fetch him; one tolde him, saying, Beholde, he is in Dothan.


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Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a <n>Though it was nothing in man's judgment to have taken Elisha, yet the wicked doubt, and think they are never able to prepare enough power, though it be but against one or a few.</n> great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.


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And when the seruant of the man of God arose earely to goe out, beholde, an hoste compassed the citie with horses and charets. Then his seruant sayde vnto him, Alas master, howe shall we doe?


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And he answered, <n>For he was assured of God's help, and that millions of angels camped about the godly to deliver them.</n> Fear not: for they that [be] with us [are] more than they that [be] with them.


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And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, <n>That he may behold how you have prepared an army to rescue us.</n> that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.


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And when <n>Meaning the Syrians his enemies, who came down thinking themselves sure of him.</n> they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.


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And Elisha said unto them, This [is] not the way, neither [is] this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led <n>Thus he did being led by the Spirit of God, and not because he sought his own revenge, but only to set forth the glory of God.</n> them to Samaria.


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And when they were come to Samaria, Elisha saide, Lorde, open their eyes that they may see; the Lorde opened their eyes, and they saw, &amp; beholde, they were in the mids of Samaria.


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And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, <n>The wicked use reverent and grave words toward the servants of God, when they think to have any blessing from them, though in their heart they cannot abide them.</n> My father, shall I smite [them]? shall I smite [them]?


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And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: doest thou not smite them that thou hast taken with thy sworde, and with thy bowe? but set bread and water before them, that they may eate and drinke and goe to their master.


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And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no <n>For this gentle intreaty and the miracle wrought by the prophet, did more for peace than if they had been overcome in battle for they did not return at that time to fight against Israel, or in that king's days.</n> more into the land of Israel.


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And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was [sold] for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's <n>The Hebrews write, that they burned it in the seige for lack of wood.</n> dung for five [pieces] of silver.


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And as the King of Israel was going vpon the wall, there cryed a woman vnto him, saying, Helpe, my lord, O King.


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And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the <n>Meaning, any kind of food as corn and wine.</n> barnfloor, or out of the winepress?


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Also the King said vnto her, What ayleth thee? And she answered, This woman sayde vnto me, Giue thy sonne, that we may eate him to day, and we will eate my sonne to morowe,


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So we sod my sonne, and did eate him: &amp; I saide to her the day after, Giue thy sonne, that we may eate him, but she hath hid her sonne.


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And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, [he had] sackcloth within <n>Thus hypocrites when they feel God's judgments think to please him with outward ceremonies whom in prosperity they will not know.</n> upon his flesh.


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And he saide, God doe so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the sonne of Shaphat shall stande on him this day.


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But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a <n>Meaning, Jehoram Ahab's son, who killed the prophets and caused Naboth to be stoned.</n> murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: [is] not the sound of his master's feet behind him?


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And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the LORD; what <n>So the wicked fall into a rage and desperation, if they do not find a quick remedy for their afflictions.</n> should I wait for the LORD any longer?


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Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, <n>The godly are always assured of God's help in their necessity, but the times and hours are only revealed by God's Spirit.</n> To morrow about this time [shall] a measure of fine flour [be sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.


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Then a lord on whose hand the king <n>To whom the king gave the charge and oversight of things as in (2Ki_7:17).</n> leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make <n>He mocked at the prophets words saying, that if God rained down corn from heaven, yet this could not come to pass.</n> windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes, but shalt not <n>Your infidelity will be punished in this when you see this miracle, and yet not partake of it.</n> eat thereof.


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And there were four leprous men at the <n>For it was commanded in the law that they should dwell apart, and not among their brethren, (Lev_13:46).</n> entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?


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If we say, We will enter into the citie, the famine is in the citie, and we shall die there: and if we sit here, we dye also. Nowe therefore come, and let vs fall into the campe of the Aramites: if they saue our liues, we shall liue: and if they kill vs, we are but dead.


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So they rose vp in the twilight, to goe to the campe of the Aramites: and when they were come to the vtmost part of the campe of the Aramites, loe, there was no man there.


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For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a <n>Thus God needs no great preparation to destroy the wicked. Though they are many he can scatter them with a small noise, or shaking of a leaf.</n> noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, [even] the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.


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Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it [was], and <n>The wicked need no greater enemy than their own conscience to pursue them.</n> fled for their life.


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And when these lepers came to the vtmost part of the campe, they entred into one tent, and did eate and drinke, and caryed thence siluer and golde, and raiment, and went and hid it: after they returned, and entred into another tent, and caryed thence also, and went and hid it.


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Then saide one to another, We doe not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we holde our peace. If we tary till day light, some mischiefe will come vpon vs. Nowe therefore, come, let vs goe, and tell the Kings housholde.


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So they came, and called vnto the porters of the citie, and tolde them, saying, We came to the campe of the Aramites, and loe, there was no man there, neither voyce of man, but horses tyed and asses tyed: and the tents are as they were.


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And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, <n>He mistrusted the prophets words, and therefore could believe nothing, as they who are more prudent than godly always cast more doubt than is needed.</n> I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we [be] hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.


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And one of his servants answered and said, Let [some] take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they [are] as all the <n>There are no more left, but they, or the rest are consumed by the famine, as the rest of the people.</n> multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, [I say], they [are] even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.


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So they tooke two charets of horses, and the King sent after the hoste of the Aramites, saying, Goe and see.


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And they went after them vnto Iorden, and loe, all the way was full of clothes and vessels which the Aramites had cast from them in their hast: &amp; the messengers returned, and told ye King.


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And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, <n>Which he spoke by the mouth of Elisha, (2Ki_7:1).</n> according to the word of the LORD.


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And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people <n>As the people pressed out of the gate to run to the Syrian's tents, where they had heard meat and great spoil was left.</n> trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.


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And it came to passe, as the man of God had spoken to the King, saying, Two measures of barley at a shekel, and a measure of fine floure shall be at a shekel, to morowe about this time in the gate of Samaria.


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But the prince had answered the man of God, and saide, Though the Lorde would make windowes in the heauen, coulde it come so to passe? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof.


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Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou <n>Where you can find a convenient place to dwell, where there is plenty.</n> canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.


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And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God, and went both shee and her housholde and soiourned in the lande of the Philistims seuen yeeres.


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And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth <n>That is, to complain of them who had taken her possessions while she was absent.</n> to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.


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And the King talked with Gehazi the seruant of the man of God, saying, Tell mee, I pray thee, all the great actes, that Elisha hath done.


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And it came to pass, as he was telling <n>God's wonderful providence appears in this, that he caused the king to desire to hear him, whom before he contemned and also hereby prepared an entrance to the poor widows suit.</n> the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this [is] the woman, and this [is] her son, whom Elisha restored to life.


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And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that [was] hers, and all the <n>The king caused that to be justly restored which was wrongfully withheld from her.</n> fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.


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Then Elisha came to Damascus, and Ben-hadad the King of Aram was sicke, and one told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.


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And the king sayd vnto Hazael, Take a present in thine hande, and goe meete the man of God, that thou mayest inquire of ye Lord by him, saying, Shall I recouer of this disease?


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So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every <n>Of all the chiefest and precious things of the country.</n> good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?


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And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly <n>Meaning that he would recover of this disease: but he knew that this messenger Hazael would slay him to obtain the kingdom.</n> recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.


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And Hazael sayde, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I knowe the euill that thou shalt do vnto the children of Israel: for their strong cities shalt thou set on fire, and their yong men shalt thou slay with the sworde, and shalt dash their infantes against the stones, and rent in pieces their women with child.


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And Hazael said, But what, [is] thy servant <n>That I should be without all humanity and pity.</n> a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou [shalt be] king over Syria.


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So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him, What saide Elisha to thee? And he answered, Hee tolde mee that thou shouldest recouer.


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And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped [it] in water, and <n>Under pretence to refresh or ease him, he suffocated him with his cloak.</n> spread [it] on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.


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And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat [being] then king of Judah, <n>Read (2Ki_1:17).</n> Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.


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He was two and thirtie yere olde, when he began to reigne: and hee reigned eight yeere in Ierusalem.


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And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the <n>The Holy Spirit shows by this the danger of joining with infidels.</n> daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.


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Yet the Lord would not destroy Iudah, for Dauid his seruants sake, as he had promised him to giue him a light, and to his children for euer.


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In his days Edom <n>Which had been subject from David's time until this time of Jehoram.</n> revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.


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Therefore Ioram went to Zair, and all his charets with him, and he arose by night, &amp; smote the Edomites which were about him with the captains of the charets, and the people fled into their tents.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Ioram and all that hee did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?


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And Ioram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid; Ahaziah his sonne reigned in his stead.


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In the twelft yere of Ioram the sonne of Ahab King of Israel did Ahaziah the sonne of Iehoram King of Iudah begin to reigne.


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<n>Which is to be understood, that he was made king when his father reigned, but after his father's death he was confirmed king when he was forty-two years old, as in (2Ch_22:2).</n>Two and twenty years old [was] Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.


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And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did euill in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Ahab: for hee was the sonne in law of the house of Ahab.


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And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in <n>Which was a city in the tribe of Gad beyond Jordan.</n> Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.


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And king Joram went back to be healed in <n>This is a city belonging to the tribe of Issachar.</n> Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.


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And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, <n>Prepare yourself to go diligently about your business for in those countries they used long garments which they tucked up when they went about earnest business.</n> Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:


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And when thou commest thither, looke where is Iehu ye sonne of Iehoshaphat, the sonne of Nimshi, and go, and make him arise vp from among his brethren, and leade him to a secret chamber.


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Then take the boxe of oyle and powre it on his head, and say, Thus sayth the Lorde, I haue anointed thee for King ouer Israel. Then open the doore, and flee without any tarying.


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And when he came in, behold, the captaines of the armie were sitting; he sayde, I haue a message to thee, O captaine; Iehu sayd, Vnto which of all vs? And he answered, To thee, O captaine.


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And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have <n>This anointing was for kings, priests and prophets which were all figures of Messiah, in whom these three offices were accomplished.</n> anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, [even] over Israel.


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And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may auenge the blood of my seruants the Prophets, and the blood of al the seruants of the Lord of the hand of Iezebel.


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For the whole house of Ahab shalbe destroied: and I will cut off from Ahab, him that maketh water against the wall, as well him that is shut vp, as him that is left in Israel.


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And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the sonne of Ahiiah.


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And the dogges shall eate Iezebel in the fielde of Izreel, and there shalbe none to burie her; he opened the doore, and fled.


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Then Jehu came forth to the <n>That is, the rest of the army, whom he called his brethren before, (2Ki_9:2).</n> servants of his lord: and [one] said unto him, [Is] all well? wherefore came this <n>The world always holds the ministers of God is this estimation and has always slandered the children of God (they called the Son of God a deceiver, and said he had the devil) therefore they should not be discouraged.</n> mad [fellow] to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.


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And they sayde, It is false, tell vs it nowe. Then he sayd, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saieth the Lorde, I haue anointed thee for King ouer Israel.


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Then they made haste, and tooke euerie man his garment, and put it vnder him on the top of the staires, and blewe the trumpet, saying, Iehu is King.


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So Iehu ye sonne of Iehoshaphat the sonne of Nimshi conspired against Ioram: (Now Ioram kept Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael King of Aram.


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And King Ioram returned to bee healed in Izreel of the woundes, which the Aramites had giuen him, when hee fought with Hazael King of Aram) and Iehu sayde, If it be your mindes, let no man depart and escape out of the citie, to goe and tell in Izreel.


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So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And <n>God had thus ordained as in (2Ch_12:7), that this wicked and idolatrous king, who was more ready to please wicked Joram than to obey the will of God, would perish with him, by whose means he thought to have been stronger.</n> Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.


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And the watchman that stoode in the towre in Izreel spyed the companie of Iehu as hee came, &amp; sayd, I see a companie; Iehoram said, Take a horseman and send to meete them, that hee may say, Is it peace?


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So there went one on horseback to meete him, and sayde, Thus sayth the King, Is it peace? And Iehu sayd, What hast thou to do with peace? Turne behinde me; the watchman tolde, saying, The messenger came to them, but he commeth not againe.


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Then hee sent out another on horsebacke, which came to them, and sayde, Thus sayth the King, Is it peace? And Iehu answered, What hast thou to doe with peace? turne behinde me.


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And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving [is] like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth <n>As one that went earnestly about his business.</n> furiously.


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Then Iehoram sayd, Make ready: and his charet was made ready; Iehoram King of Israel and Ahaziah King of Iudah went out eyther of them in his charet against Iehu, and met him in the fielde of Naboth the Izreelite.


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And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, [Is it] <n>Meaning, since God is their enemy because of their sins, he will always stir up someone to avenge his cause.</n> peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts [are so] many?


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But Iehu tooke a bowe in his hande, and smote Iehoram betweene the shoulders, that the arowe went through his heart: and he fell downe in his charet.


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Then said Iehu to Bidkar a captaine, Take, and cast him in some place of the fielde of Naboth the Izreelite: for I remember that when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the Lorde layed this burden vpon him.


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Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his <n>By this it is evident that Jezebel caused both Naboth and his sons to be put to death, that Ahab might enjoy his vineyard more quietly: else his children might have claimed possession.</n> sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take [and] cast him into the plat [of ground], according to the word of the LORD.


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But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw [this], he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. [And they did so] at the going up to Gur, which [is] by Ibleam. And he fled to <n>After he was wounded in Samaria, he fled to Megiddo, a city of Judah.</n> Megiddo, and died there.


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And his seruants caried him in a charet to Ierusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the citie of Dauid.


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And in the <n>That is, eleven whole years: for in (2Ki_8:25) when he said he began to reign in the twelfth year of Joram, he takes a partial year for a whole.</n> eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.


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And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of it]; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and <n>Being of a harsh and cruel nature, she would still retain her royal state and dignity.</n> looked out at a window.


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And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, [Had] <n>As if to say, «Can a traitor or anyone who rises against his superior succeed?», see (1Ki_16:10).</n> Zimri peace, who slew his master?


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And he lift vp his eyes to the windowe, and sayd, Who is on my side, who? Then two or three of her Eunuches looked vnto him.


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And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: <n>This he did by the moving of the Spirit of God, that her blood would be shed, who had shed the blood of innocents, to be a spectacle and example of God's judgment for all tyrants.</n> and [some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.


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And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed [woman], and bury her: for she [is] a <n>That is, of the king of Zidon, (1Ki_16:31).</n> king's daughter.


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And they went to burie her, but they foud no more of her, then the skull and the feete, and the palmes of her handes.


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Wherefore they came agayne and tolde him; he said, This is the worde of the Lorde, which he spake by his seruant Eliiah the Tishbite, saying, In the fielde of Izreel shall ye dogs eate the flesh of Iezebel.


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And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; [so] that they shall not say, <n>Thus God's judgments appear even in this world against those who suppress his word and persecute his servants.</n> This [is] Jezebel.


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And Ahab had seventy <n>The Scripture calls them sons who are either children or nephews.</n> sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's [children], saying,


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Nowe when this letter commeth to you, (for ye haue with you your masters sonnes, yee haue with you both charets and horses, and a defenced citie, and armour)


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Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and <n>He wrote this, to prove them whether they would take his side or not.</n> set [him] on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.


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But they were exceedingly afraid, and saide, Behold two Kings coulde not stande before him, how shall we then stand?


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And he that was gouernour of Ahabs house, and he that ruled the citie, and the Elders, &amp; the bringers vp of the children sent to Iehu, saying, We are thy seruants, and will doe all that thou shalt bid vs: we will make no King: do what seemeth good to thee.


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Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye [be] mine, and [if] ye will hearken unto my voice, <n>God as a just judge punishes the wicked children of wicked parents to the third and fourth generations.</n> take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, [being] seventy persons, [were] with the great men of the city, which brought them up.


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And when the letter came to them, they tooke the Kings sonnes, and slewe the seuentie persons, and layde their heads in baskets, and sent them vnto him to Izreel.


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Then there came a messenger and tolde him, saying, They haue brought the heads of the Kings sonnes; he sayd, Let them lay them on two heapes at the entring in of the gate vntil the morning.


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And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye [be] <n>You cannot justly condemn me for the king's death, seeing as you have done the same to his posterity: for the Lord commanded me, and moved you to carry out his judgment.</n> righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?


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Knowe nowe that there shal fall vnto the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the Lorde hath brought to passe the things that hee spake by his seruant Eliiah.


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So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his <n>Meaning, the idolatrous priests.</n> priests, until he left him none remaining.


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And he arose, and departed and came to Samaria. And as Iehu was in the way by an house where the shepheards did shere,


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He met with the brethre of Ahaziah king of Iudah, and sayd, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah, and goe downe to salute the children of the King and the children of the Queene.


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And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, [even] two and forty men; <n>Thus God's vengeance is on them who have any part or familiarity with the wicked.</n> neither left he any of them.


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And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab [coming] to meet him: and he <n>For he feared God, and lamented the wickedness of those times: therefore Jehu was glad to join with him: of Rechab read (Jer_35:2).</n> saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart [is] with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give [me] thine hand. And he gave [him] his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.


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And he sayde, Come with me, and see the zeale that I haue for the Lord: so they made him ride in his charet.


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And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained vnto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the worde of the Lord, which he spake to Eliiah.


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And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served <n>Here Baal is taken for Ashtaroth the idol of the Zidonians, who Jezebel caused to be worshipped, as it is also so used in (1Ki_22:53).</n> Baal a little; [but] Jehu shall serve him much.


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Now therefore call vnto me all ye prophets of Baal, all his seruants, &amp; all his priests, &amp; let not a man be lacking: for I haue a great sacrifice for Baal: whosoeuer is lacking, he shal not liue. But Iehu did it by a subtiltie to destroy ye seruats of Baal.


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So Iehu sent vnto all Israel, and all the seruants of Baal came, and there was not a man left that came not; they came into the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was full from ende to ende.


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Then he said vnto him that had the charge of the vestrie, Bring forth vestments for al the seruants of Baal; he brought the out vestments.


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And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the <n>Thus God would have his servants preserved and idolaters destroyed, as in his law he gives express command, (Deu_13:5).</n> servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.


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And when they went in to make sacrifice and burnt offering, Iehu appoynted foure score men without, and sayd, If any of the men whome I haue brought into your hands, escape, his soule shalbe for his soule.


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And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, [and] slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast [them] out, and went to the <n>Which was near Samaria.</n> city of the house of Baal.


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And they destroyed the image of Baal, and threwe downe the house of Baal, &amp; made a iakes of it vnto this day.


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But fro the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat which made Israel to sinne, Iehu departed not fro them, neither from the golden calues that were in Beth-el and that were in Dan.


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And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing [that which is] right in mine eyes, [and] hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that [was] in mine heart, thy <n>Thus God approves and rewards his zeal, in executing God's judgment, though his wickedness was later punished.</n> children of the fourth [generation] shall sit on the throne of Israel.


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But Iehu regarded not to walke in the law of the Lorde God of Israel with all his heart: for hee departed not from the sinnes of Ieroboam, which made Israel to sinne.


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From Iorden Eastward, euen all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, &amp; them that were of Manasseh, from Aroer (which is by the riuer Arnon) and Gilead and Bashan.


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And Iehu slept with his fathers, and they buryed him in Samaria, and Iehoahaz his sonne reigned in his stead.


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And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the <n>Meaning, all the posterity of Jehoshaphat, to whom the kingdom belonged: thus God used the cruelty of this woman to destroy the family of Ahab.</n> seed royal.


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But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, <n>The Lord promised to maintain the family of David, and not to quench the light of it, therefore he moved the heart of Jehosheba to preserve him.</n> took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons [which were] slain; and they hid him, [even] him and his nurse, in <n>Where the priests slept.</n> the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.


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And the seventh year <n>The chief priest, Jehosheba's husband.</n> Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.


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And he commanded them, saying, This [is] the thing that ye shall do; A third part of <n>Of the Levites, who had charge of the keeping of the temple, and kept watch by course.</n> you that enter in on the sabbath shall <n>That no one should come on them, while they were crowning the king.</n> even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;


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And a third part [shall be] at the gate of <n>Called the east gate of the temple, (2Ch_23:5).</n> Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down.


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And two parts of all you that <n>Whose charge is ended.</n> go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.


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And ye shal compasse the King rounde about, euery man with his weapon in his hande, and whosoeuer commeth within the ranges, let him be slayne: be you with the King, as he goeth out and in.


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And the captains over the hundreds did according to all [things] that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the <n>Read (2Ki_11:5, 2Ki_11:7).</n> sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.


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And to the captains over hundreds did the <n>That is, Jehoiada.</n> priest give king David's spears and shields, that [were] in the temple of the LORD.


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And the garde stoode, euery man with his weapon in his hande, from the right side of the house to the left side, about the altar and about the house, round about the King.


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And he brought forth <n>That is, Joash, who had been kept secret six years.</n> the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and [gave him] <n>Meaning, the law of God, which is his chief charge, and by which only his throne is established.</n> the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.


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And when Athaliah heard the noyse of the running of the people, shee came in to the people in the house of the Lord.


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And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a <n>Where the king's place was in the temple.</n> pillar, as the manner [was], and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.


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But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that <n>To take her part.</n> followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.


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Then they laid hands on her, and she went by the way, by the which the horses goe to the house of the King, and there was she slaine.


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And Jehoiada made a <n>That both the king and the people should maintain the true worship of God and destroy all idolatry.</n> covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the <n>That he should govern and they obey in the fear of God.</n> king also and the people.


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And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the <n>Even in the place where he had blasphemed God, and thought to have been helped by his idol, there God poured his vengeance on him.</n> altars. And the <n>That is, Jehoiada.</n> priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.


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Then he tooke the captaines of hudreths, and the other captaines, and the garde, and all the people of the lande: and they brought the King from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the garde to the Kings house: and he sate him downe on the throne of the Kings.


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And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: <n>Who by his cruelty and persecution had troubled the whole land.</n> and they slew Athaliah with the sword [beside] the king's house.


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And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein <n>As long as rulers give ear to the true ministers of God, they prosper.</n> Jehoiada the priest instructed him.


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And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, [even] the money of every one that passeth [the <n>That is, the money of redemption (Exo_30:12), also the money which the priest valued the vows at (Lev_27:2), and their free gift.</n> account], the money that every man is set at, [and] all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,


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Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore <n>He takes from them the ordering of the money, because of their negligence.</n> receive no [more] money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.


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But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the <n>That is, on the south side.</n> right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money [that was] brought into the house of the LORD.


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And when they sawe there was much money in the chest, the Kinges Secretarie came vp and the hie Priest, and put it vp after that they had tolde the money that was found in the house of the Lord,


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Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked therein: and there remained the <n>In which they committed their idolatry, and which the Lord had commanded to be destroyed (Deu_16:21).</n> grove also in Samaria.)


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Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of <n>That is, Hazael and Benhadad his son, (2Ki_13:3). Of Hazael read (2Ki_13:22).</n> Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Iehoahaz and all that he did, and his valiant deedes, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


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And Iehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Ioash his sonne reigned in his steade.


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In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king <n>His chief purpose is to describe the kingdom of Judah, and how God performed his promise made to the house of David: but in the process he shows how Israel was afflicted and punished for their great idolatry, who though they had now degenerated, yet God both by sending them many prophets and various punishments, called them to him again.</n> of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years.


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And did euil in the sight of the Lorde: for he departed not from all the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat that made Israel to sinne, but he walked therein.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Ioash and all that he did, and his valiant deedes, and how he fought against Amaziah King of Iudah, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


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And Ioash slept with his fathers, and Ieroboam sate vpon his seate: and Ioash was buryed in Samaria among the Kings of Israel.


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Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, <n>Thus they used to call the prophets and servants of God, by whom God blesses his people, as in (2Ki_2:12) meaning that they prospered their country more by their prayers than by force of arms.</n> O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.


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And he sayde to the King of Israel, Put thine hand vpon the bowe; he put his hand vpon it; Elisha put his hands vpon the Kings hands,


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And he said, Open the window <n>That is, toward Syria: so that he not only prophesied with words but also confirmed him by these signs that he would have the victory.</n> eastward. And he opened [it]. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed [them].


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Againe he said, Take the arrowes; he tooke them; he sayde vnto the King of Israel, Smite the ground; he smote thrise, and ceased.


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And the man of God was <n>Because he seemed content to have victory against the enemies of God two or three times but did not have the zeal to overcome them continually, and to destroy them completely.</n> wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed [it]: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria [but] thrice.


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And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band [of men]; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he <n>By this miracle God confirmed the authority of Elisha, whose doctrine in his life they contemned, that at this sight they might return and embrace the same doctrine.</n> revived, and stood up on his feet.


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And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as <n>That is, until their sins were come to a full measure and there was no more hope of amendment.</n> yet.


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Therefore Iehoash the sonne of Iehoahaz returned, and tooke out of the hand of Ben-hadad the sonne of Hazael the cities which he had taken away by warre out of the hand of Iehoahaz his father: for three times did Ioash beate him, and restored the cities vnto Israel.


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The second yeere of Ioash sonne of Iehoahaz King of Israel reigned Amaziah the sonne of Ioash King of Iudah.


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He was fiue and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned nine and twentie yeere in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Iehoadan of Ierusalem.


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And he did [that which was] <n>In the beginning of his reign he seemed to have an outward show of godliness, but later he became an idolater and worshipped the idols of the Idumeans.</n> right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.


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Notwithstanding the hie places were not taken away: for as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense in the hie places.


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And when the kingdome was confirmed in his hand, he slewe his seruants which had killed the King his father.


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But the children of the murderers he <n>Because they neither consented nor were partakers with their fathers in that act.</n> slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.


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He slew of <n>For the Idumeans, whom David had brought to subjection, rebelled in the time of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat.</n> Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.


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Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, <n>Let us fight hand to hand, and try it by battle, and not destroy one another's cities.</n> let us look one another in the face.


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And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that [was] in Lebanon sent to the <n>By this parable Jehoash compares himself to a cedar tree, because of his great kingdom over ten tribes and Amaziah to the thistle because he ruled over but two tribes and the wild beasts are Jehoash's soldiers, that spoiled the cities of Judah.</n> cedar that [was] in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that [was] in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.


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Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: <n>Brag of the victory, so that you stay at home and do not provoke me.</n> glory [of this], and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou shouldest fall, [even] thou, and Judah with thee?


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But Amaziah would not heare: therefore Iehoash King of Israel went vp: and he and Amaziah King of Iudah sawe one another in the face at Beth-shemesh which is in Iudah.


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But Iehoash King of Israel tooke Amaziah King of Iudah, the sonne of Iehoash the sonne of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Ierusalem, and brake downe the wall of Ierusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, foure hundreth cubites.


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And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and <n>That is, which the Israelites had given to them from Judah for an assurance of peace.</n> hostages, and returned to Samaria.


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Concerning the rest of the acts of Iehoash which he did and his valiant deedes, and how he fought with Amaziah King of Iudah, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?


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And Iehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried at Samaria among the Kings of Israel: and Ieroboam his sonne reigned in his stead.


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And Amaziah the sonne of Ioash King of Iudah, liued after the death of Iehoash sonne of Iehoahaz King of Israel fifteene yeere.


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Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to <n>Which Rehoboam built in Judah for a fortress, (2Ch_11:9).</n> Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.


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And they brought him on horses, and he was buried at Ierusalem with his fathers in the citie of Dauid.


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And all the people of Judah took <n>Who is also called Uzziah, (2Ch_26:1).</n> Azariah, which [was] sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.


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He built <n>Which is also called Elanon or Eloth.</n> Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.


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In the fifteenth yeere of Amaziah the sonne of Ioash King of Iudah, was Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash made King ouer Israel in Samaria, and reigned one and fourtie yeere.


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And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the <n>Because this idolatry was so vile and almost incredible, that men should forsake the living God, to worship calves, the work of man's hands, therefore the Scripture often repeats it in the reproach of all idolaters.</n> sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.


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He restored the coast of Israel, from the entring of Hamath, vnto the Sea of the wildernesse, according to the worde of the Lorde God of Israel, which he spake by his seruant Ionah the sonne of Amittai the Prophet, which was of Gath Hepher.


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For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, [that it was] very bitter: for [there was] not any <n>Read (1Ki_14:10).</n> shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.


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Yet the Lord had not decreed to put out the name of Israel from vnder the heauen: therefore he preserued them by the hand of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash.


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Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and <n>Which was also called Antiochia of Syria or Riblah.</n> Hamath, [which belonged] to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?


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So Ieroboam slept with his fathers, euen with the Kings of Israel, and Zachariah his sonne reigned in his steade.


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In the seuen and twentieth yeere of Ieroboam King of Israel, began Azariah, sonne of Amaziah King of Iudah to reigne.


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Sixteene yeere olde was he, when he was made King, and he reigned two and fiftie yeere in Ierusalem: and his mothers name was Iecholiah of Ierusalem.


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And he did [that which was] <n>As long as he listened to Zachariah the prophet.</n> right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;


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But the hie places were not put away: for the people yet offered, and burned incense in the hie places.


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And the LORD <n>His father and grandfather were slain by their subjects and servants, and he because he would usurp the priest's office contrary to God's ordinance was smitten immediately by the hand of God with the leprosy, (2Ch_26:21).</n> smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son [was] over the house, <n>As viceroy or deputy to his father.</n> judging the people of the land.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?


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So Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buryed him with his fathers in the citie of Dauid, and Iotham his sonne reigned in his stead.


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In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six <n>He was the fourth in descent from Jehu, who reigned according to God's promise, but in him God began to execute his wrath against the house of Jehu.</n> months.


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And did euill in the sight of the Lorde, as did his fathers: for he departed not fro the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne.


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And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and <n>Zachariah was the last in Israel, that had the kingdom by succession, save only Pekahiah the son of Menahem, who reigned only two years.</n> slew him, and reigned in his stead.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.


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This was the word of the Lord, which he spake vnto Iehu, saying, Thy sonnes shall sit on the throne of Israel vnto the fourth generation after thee; it came so to passe.


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Shallum the sonne of Iabesh began to reigne in the nine and thirtieth yeere of Vzziah King of Iudah: and he reigned the space of a moneth in Samaria.


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For Menahem the sonne of Gadi went vp from Tirzah, &amp; came to Samaria, &amp; smote Shallum the sonne of Iabesh in Samaria, &amp; slew him, and reigned in his stead.


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Then Menahem smote <n>Which was a city of Israel that would not receive him as their king.</n> Tiphsah, and all that [were] therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not [to him], therefore he smote [it; and] all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.


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The nine and thirtieth yeere of Azariah King of Iudah, beganne Menahem the sonne of Gadi to reigne ouer Israel, and reigned ten yeeres in Samaria.


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And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde, and departed not all his dayes from the sinne of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne.


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[And] Pul the king of Assyria came against the <n>That is, of Israel.</n> land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand <n>Instead of seeking help from God, he went about by money to purchase the favour of this king being an infidel and therefore God forsook him, and Pul soon afterward broke his promises, destroyed his country and led his people away captive.</n> talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.


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And Menahem exacted the money in Israel, that all men of substance shoulde giue the King of Asshur fiftie shekels of siluer a piece: so the king of Asshur returned and taried not there in the land.


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In ye fiftieth yere of Azariah king of Iudah, began Pekahiah the sonne of Menahem to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, &amp; reigned two yere.


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And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde: for he departed not from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne.


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But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with <n>Which were of the same conspiracy.</n> Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.


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In the two and fiftieth yere of Azariah King of Iudah began Pekah the sonne of Remaliah to reigne ouer Israel in Samaria, and reigned twentie yeere.


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And he did euil in the sight of the Lord: for he departed not from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, that made Israel to sinne.


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In the days of Pekah king of Israel <n>For God stirred up Pul and Tiglathpileser against Israel for their sins, (1Ch_5:26).</n> came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.


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And Hoshea the sonne of Elah wrought treason against Pekah the sonne of Remaliah, and smote him, and slewe him, and reigned in his stead in the twentieth yeere of Iotham the sonne of Vzziah.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Pekah, &amp; all that he did, behold, they are written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.


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In the second yere of Pekah the sonne of Remaliah King of Israel, began Iotham sonne of Vzziah King of Iudah to reigne.


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And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD: he did according <n>He shows that his uprightness was not such, but that he had many great faults.</n> to all that his father Uzziah had done.


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But the hie places were not put away: for the people yet offered and burnt incense in the hie places: he buylt the hyest gate of the house of the Lord.


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In <n>After the death of Jotham.</n> those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and <n>Who in one day slew 120,000 of Judah's fighting men (2Ch_28:6), because they had forsaken the true God.</n> Pekah the son of Remaliah.


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And Iotham slept with his fathers, &amp; was buryed with his fathers in the citie of Dauid his father, &amp; Ahaz his sonne reigned in his steade.


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In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah <n>This was a wicked son of a godly father, as of him again came godly Hezekiah, and of him wicked Manasseh, save that God in the end showed him mercy. Thus we see how uncertain it is to depend on the dignity of our fathers.</n> Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.


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Twentie yeere olde was Ahaz, when hee began to reigne, and he reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem, and did not vprightly in the sight of the Lord his God, like Dauid his father:


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But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to <n>That is, offered him to Molech or made him pass between two fires, as the manner of the Gentiles was, (Lev_18:21; Deu_18:10).</n> pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.


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Also he offred and burnt incense in the hie places &amp; on the hilles, &amp; vnder euery greene tree.


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Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome <n>For the Lord preserved the city and his people for the sake of his promise made to David.</n> [him].


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At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered <n>Which Azariah had taken from the Syrians and fortified, (2Ki_14:22).</n> Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.


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So Ahaz sent <n>Contrary to the admonition of the prophet Isaiah, (Isa_7:4).</n> messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.


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And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the <n>Thus he did not spare the temple of God from being spoiled to gain help from men and would not once lift his heart to God to desire his help or hear his prophet's counsel.</n> house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent [it for] a present to the king of Assyria.


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And the King of Asshur consented vnto him: and the King of Asshur went vp against Damascus; when he had taken it, he caryed the people away to Kir, and slew Rezin.


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And King Ahaz went vnto Damascus to meete Tiglath Pileser King of Asshur: and when King Ahaz sawe the altar that was at Damascus, he sent to Vriiah the Priest the paterne of the altar, and the facion of it, and all the workemanship thereof.


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And Urijah the priest built an altar <n>We see that there is no prince so wicked that he cannot find liars and false ministers to serve his purposes.</n> according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made [it] against king Ahaz came from Damascus.


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And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered <n>Either offerings for peace or prosperity, or thanksgiving as in (Lev_3:1) or else meaning the morning and evening offering, (Exo_29:38; Num_28:3) and thus he contemned the means and the altar which God had commanded by Solomon, to serve God after his own fantasy.</n> thereon.


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And hee burnt his burnt offering, and his meate offring, and powred his drinke offring, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offrings besides the altar,


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And he brought also the brasen altar, which [was] before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the <n>That is, at the right hand, as men went into the temple.</n> north side of the altar.


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And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the <n>Here he establishes by commandment his own wicked proceedings, and abolishes the commandment and ordinance of God.</n> brasen altar shall be for me to enquire [by].


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And King Ahaz brake the borders of the bases, and tooke the caldrons from off them, and tooke downe the sea from the brasen oxen that were vnder it, and put it vpon a pauement of stones.


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And the <n>Or tent, in which they lay on the sabbath, who had served their week in the temple and so departed home.</n> covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD <n>Either to flatter the king of Assyria, when he should thus see him change the ordinance of God or else that the temple might be a refuge for him if the king should suddenly assault his house.</n> for the king of Assyria.


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And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buryed with his fathers in the citie of Dauid, and Hezekiah his sonne reigned in his steade.


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And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, <n>Though he invented no new idolatry or impiety as others did, yet he sought help from the Egyptians, whom God had forbidden.</n> but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.


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And Shalmaneser king of Asshur came vp against him, and Hoshea became his seruant, and gaue him presents.


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And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, <n>For he had paid tribute for eight years.</n> as [he had done] year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.


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In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the <n>For at this time the Medes and Persians were subject to the Assyrians.</n> Medes.


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And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower <n>Meaning, throughout all their borders.</n> of the watchmen to the fenced city.


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And there burnt incense in all the hie places, as did the heathen, whom the Lord had taken away before them, and wrought wicked things to anger the Lord,


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Notwithstanding the Lord testified to Israel, and to Iudah by all the Prophets, &amp; by all the Seers, saying, Turne from your euill wayes, and keepe my commandements &amp; my statutes, according to all the Lawe, which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my seruants the Prophets.


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Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their <n>So that to allege the authority of our fathers or great antiquity, except we can prove that they were godly, is but to declare that we are the children of the wicked.</n> fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.


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And they refused his statutes and his couenant, that he made with their fathers, &amp; his testimonies (wherewith he witnessed vnto them) and they followed vanitie, and became vaine, and followed the heathen that were round about them: concerning whome the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.


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And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the <n>That is, the sun, moon and stars, (Deu_4:19).</n> host of heaven, and served Baal.


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And they caused their sons and their daughters to <n>Read (2Ki_16:3).</n> pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and <n>Read of this phrase in (1Ki_21:20, 1Ki_21:25).</n> sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.


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Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah <n>No whole tribe was left but Judah, and they of Benjamin and Levi who remained were counted with Judah.</n> only.


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And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his <n>Out of the land where he showed the greatest tokens of his presence and favour.</n> sight.


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<n>That is, God cut off the ten tribes, (1Ki_12:16, 1Ki_12:20).</n>For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.


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And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and from <n>Of these people came the Samaritans, of which mention is so often made in the gospel, and with whom the Jews would have nothing to do, (Joh_4:9).</n> Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.


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And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, [that] they <n>That is, they served him not: therefore, lest they should blaspheme him, as though there were no God, because he chastised the Israelites, he shows his mighty power among them by this strange punishment.</n> feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew [some] of them.


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Wherefore they spake to the King of Asshur, saying, The nations which thou hast remoued, and placed in the cities of Samaria, knowe not the maner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and behold, they slay them, because they knowe not the maner of the God of the land.


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Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God <n>That is, how to worship him: thus the wicked rather than losing their conveniences will change to all religions.</n> of the land.


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So one of the Priestes, which they had caryed from Samaria, came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they shoulde feare the Lorde.


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Howbeit euery nation made their gods, &amp; put them in the houses of the hie places, which the Samaritanes had made, euery nation in their cities, wherein they dwelt.


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And the men of Babylon made <n>Meaning that every country served the idol that was most esteemed in the place to which they came.</n> Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,


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And the Auims made Nibhaz, and Tartak: and the Sepharuims burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech, and Anammelech the gods of Sepharuaim.


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Thus they feared the Lorde, and appoynted out Priestes out of them selues for the hie places, who prepared for them sacrifices in the houses of the hie places.


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They <n>That is, they had a certain knowledge of God, and feared him because of the punishment, but they continued to be idolaters as do the papists who worship both God and idols: but this is not to fear God, as appears in (2Ki_17:34).</n> feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.


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Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after <n>He means by this the Israelites to whom God had given his commandments.</n> their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;


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And with whom the Lord had made a couenant, and charged them, saying, Feare none other gods, nor bowe your selues to them, nor serue them, nor sacrifice to them:


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But feare the Lorde which brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power, and a stretched out arme: him feare ye, and worshippe him, and sacrifice to him.


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Also keepe ye diligently the statutes and the ordinances, and the Lawe, and the commandement, which he wrote for you, that ye do them continually, and feare not other gods.


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So these <n>That is, these strangers who were sent into Samaria by the Assyrians.</n> nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.


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Now in the third yeere of Hoshea, sonne of Elah King of Israel, Hezekiah the sonne of Ahaz king of Iudah began to reigne.


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He was fiue and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned nine and twenty yeere in Ierusalem. His mothers name also was Abi the daughter of Zachariah,


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And he did [that which was] <n>Although they of Judah were given to idolatry and impiety, as they of Israel were, yet God for the sake of his promise was merciful to the throne of David, and yet by his judgment toward the other, provoked to repentance.</n> right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.


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He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it <n>That is «a piece of brass»: thus he calls the serpent by contempt, which even though it was set up by the word of God, and miracles were wrought by it, when it was used for idolatry this good king destroyed it, not thinking it worthy to be called a serpent, but a piece of brass.</n> Nehushtan.


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He trusted in the Lorde God of Israel: so that after him was none like him among all the Kings of Iudah, neither were there any such before him.


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For he claue to the Lord, and departed not from him, but kept his commaundements, which the Lord had commaunded Moses.


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So the Lord was with him, and he prospered in all thinges, which he tooke in hande: also he rebelled against the King of Asshur, and serued him not.


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He smote the Philistines, [even] unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, <n>Read (2Ki_17:9).</n> from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.


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And in the fourth yere of King Hezekiah, (which was the seuenth yeere of Hoshea sonne of Elah King of Israel) Shalmaneser King of Asshur came vp against Samaria, and besieged it.


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And after three yeeres they tooke it, euen in the sixt yeere of Hezekiah: that is, the ninth yeere of Hoshea King of Israel was Samaria taken.


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Then the King of Asshur did carry away Israel vnto Asshur, and put them in Halah and in Habor, by the riuer of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,


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Because they woulde not obey the voyce of the Lord their God, but transgressed his couenant: that is, all that Moses the seruant of the Lord had commanded, and would neyther obey nor doe them.


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Moreouer, in the fourteenth yeere of King Hezekiah, Saneherib King of Asshur came vp against all the strong cities of Iudah, and tooke them.


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And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, <n>As his zeal was before praised, so his weakness is here set forth, that no one should glory in himself.</n> I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.


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Therefore Hezekiah gaue all the siluer that was found in the house of the Lorde, and in the treasures of the Kings house.


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At the same season did Hezekiah pul off the plates of the doores of the Temple of the Lord, and the pillars (which the sayd Hezekiah King of Iudah had couered ouer) and gaue them to the King of Asshur.


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And the king of Assyria sent <n>After certain years, when Hezekiah ceased to send the tribute appointed by the king of the Assyrians, he sent his captains and army against him.</n> Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which [is] in the highway of the fuller's field.


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And called to the King. Then came out to them Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah, which was steward of the house, and Shebnah the chanceller, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder.


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And Rabshakeh sayde vnto them, Tell ye Hezekiah, I pray you, Thus saith the great King, euen the great King of Asshur, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?


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Thou sayest, (but [they are but] vain words,) [I have] <n>You think that words will serve to persuade your people, or to move my master.</n> counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?


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Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, [even] upon <n>Egypt will not only be unable to help you, but will be a detriment to you.</n> Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.


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But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is] not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath <n>Thus the idolaters think that God's religion is destroyed, when superstition and idolatry are reformed.</n> taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?


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Now therefore, I pray thee, give <n>Meaning, that it was best for him to yield to the king of Assyria because his power was so small that he did not have men to care for two thousand horses.</n> pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.


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For how canst thou despise any captaine of the least of my masters seruants, and put thy trust on Egypt for charets and horsemen?


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Am I now come up without the <n>The wicked always flatter themselves in their prosperity, that God favours them. Thus he speaks to scare Hezekiah into thinking that by resisting him he would be resisting God.</n> LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.


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Then Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Ioah said vnto Rabshakeh, Speake I pray thee, to thy seruants in the Aramites language, for we vnderstand it, and talke not with vs in the Iewes tongue, in the audience of the people that are on the wall.


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But Rabshakeh saide vnto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master &amp; to thee to speake these words, and not to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eate their owne doung, and drinke their owne pisse with you?


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So Rabshakeh stoode and cryed with a loude voyce in the Iewes language, and spake, saying, Heare the wordes of the great King, of the king of Asshur.


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Thus sayth the King, Let not Hezekiah deceiue you: for he shall not be able to deliuer you out of mine hand.


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Neither let Hezekiah make you to trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliuer vs, and this citie shall not be giuen ouer into the hand of the king of Asshur.


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Hearken not vnto Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Asshur, Make appointment with me, and come out to me, that euery man may eate of his owne vine, &amp; euery man of his owne figge tree, and drinke euery man of the water of his owne well,


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Until <n>He makes himself so sure, that he will not grant them a truce, unless they give themselves to him to be led away as captives.</n> I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.


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Where is the god of Hamah, and of Arpad? where is the god of Sepharuaim, Hena and Iuah? how haue they deliuered Samaria out of mine hand?


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Who [are] they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the <n>This is an execrable blasphemy against the true God, to make him equal with the idols of other nations: therefore God sharply punished him.</n> LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?


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But the people helde their peace, and answered not him a worde: for the Kings commandement was, saying, Answere ye him not.


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Then Eliakim, the sonne of Hilkiah which was steward of the house, and Shebnah the chanceller, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and tolde him the wordes of Rabshakeh.


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And when King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes and put on sackecloth, and came into the house of the Lord,


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And he sent Eliakim, which [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, <n>To hear some new prophecy and to have comfort from him.</n> to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.


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And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to <n>The dangers are so great, that we can neither avenge this blasphemy, or help ourselves any more than a woman in labour.</n> the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.


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It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the <n>Meaning, for Jerusalem which only remained of all the cities of Judah.</n> remnant that are left.


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And Isaiah said vnto them, So shall ye say to your master, Thus sayeth the Lorde, Be not afraide of the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the seruants of the king of Asshur haue blasphemed me.


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Behold, I will send a blast <n>The Lord can with one blast blow away all the strength of man, and turn it into dust.</n> upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.


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So Rabshakeh returned, and founde the King of Asshur fighting against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.


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And when <n>That is, Sennacherib.</n> he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, <n>For the kings of Ethiopia and Egypt joined together against the king of Assyria because of his oppression of other countries.</n> Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,


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Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy <n>The closer the wicked are to their destruction, the more they blaspheme.</n> God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.


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Beholde, thou hast heard what the Kings of Asshur haue done to all landes, how they haue destroyed them: and shalt thou be deliuered?


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Haue the gods of the heathen deliuered them which my fathers haue destroyed? as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which were in Thelasar?


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Where is the King of Hamath, &amp; the King of Arpad, and the King of the citie of Shepharuaim, Hena and Iuah?


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And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the <n>Before the Ark of the covenant.</n> LORD.


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And Hezekiah <n>He shows what the true refuge and help is in all dangers, that is, to flee to the Lord by earnest prayer.</n> prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest [between] the cherubims, thou art the God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.


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LORD, <n>Show by effect that you will not allow your Name to be blasphemed.</n> bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the <n>By this title he discerns God from all idols and false gods.</n> living God.


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And haue set fire on their gods: for they were no gods, but the worke of mans hands, euen wood and stone: therefore they destroyed them.


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Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the <n>He shows the reason the faithful desire God to deliver them: that is, that he may be glorified by their deliverance.</n> kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD God, [even] thou only.


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Then Isaiah the sonne of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I haue heard that which thou hast prayed me, concerning Saneherib King of Asshur.


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This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The <n>Because as yet Jerusalem had not been taken by the enemy therefore he calls her virgin.</n> virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.


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Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] <n>God counts that as an injury done to him, and will avenge what is done to any of his saints.</n> against the Holy [One] of Israel.


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By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the <n>Meaning Jerusalem, which Isaiah calls the height of his borders, that is, of Judah, (Isa_37:24).</n> lodgings of his borders, [and into] the forest of his Carmel.


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I haue digged, and drunke the waters of others, and with the plant of my feete haue I dried all the floods closed in.


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Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it, [and] of ancient times that I have formed it? <n>He declares that as he is the author and beginning of his Church, he will never allow it to be completely destroyed, as other cities and kingdoms.</n> now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities [into] ruinous heaps.


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Therefore their <n>Thus he describes the wicked, who flourish for a time, and later fade and decay like flowers.</n> inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up.


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Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my <n>I will bridle your rage, and turn you to and fro as it pleases me.</n> hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.


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And this [shall be] a <n>God not only promised him the victory, but gives him a sign to confirm his faith.</n> sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.


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And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take <n>The Lord will multiply in great number that small remnant of Judah that escaped.</n> root downward, and bear fruit upward.


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For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the <n>The love, that God has for his Church will overcome the counsels and enterprises of men.</n> zeal of the LORD [of hosts] shall do this.


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Wherefore thus saith the Lorde, concerning the King of Asshur, He shall not enter into this citie, nor shoote an arrowe there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a mount against it:


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And the same night the Angell of the Lorde went out and smote in the campe of Asshur an hundreth foure score and fiue thousande: so when they rose earely in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.


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And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons <n>This was the just judgment of God for his blasphemy, that he would be slain before the idol that he preferred to the living God, and by those who should by nature have needed his defence.</n> smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.


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About that time was Hezekiah sicke vnto death: and the Prophet Isaiah the sonne of Amoz came to him, and said vnto him, Thus saith the Lorde, Put thine house in an order: for thou shalt die, and not liue.


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Then he turned his face to the <n>That his mind might not be troubled.</n> wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,


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I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a <n>Meaning, without all hypocrisy.</n> perfect heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And Hezekiah <n>Not so much for his own death, as for fear that idolatry would be restored which he had destroyed, and so God's Name be dishonoured.</n> wept sore.


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Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy <n>Because of his true repentance and prayer, God turned away his wrath.</n> prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the <n>To give thanks for your deliverance.</n> house of the LORD.


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And I wil adde vnto thy dayes fiftene yere, and wil deliuer thee &amp; this citie out of the hand of the King of Asshur, and will defende this citie for mine owne sake, &amp; for Dauid my seruats sake.


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And Isaiah said, Take a <n>He declares that though God can heal without other medicines, he will not have these inferior means contemned.</n> lump of figs. And they took and laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered.


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For Hezekiah had saide vnto Isaiah, What shalbe the signe that the Lorde will heale me, and that I shall goe vp into the house of the Lorde the thirde day?


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And Isaiah answered, This signe shalt thou haue of the Lorde, that the Lorde will doe that he hath spoken, Wilt thou that the shadowe goe forwarde ten degrees, or go backe ten degrees?


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And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow <n>Let the sun go so many degrees back, that the hours may be fewer in the king's dial.</n> return backward ten degrees.


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And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the <n>Which was set at the top of the stairs that Ahaz had made.</n> dial of Ahaz.


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At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a <n>Moved by the favour that God showed to Hezekiah, and also because he had declared himself an enemy of Sennacherib who was now destroyed.</n> present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.


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And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and [all] the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his <n>Being moved by ambition and vain glory, and also because he seemed to rejoice in the friendship of him who was God's enemy and an infidel.</n> dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.


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Then Isaiah the Prophet came vnto King Hezekiah, and saide vnto him, What saide these men? and from whence came they to thee? And Hezekiah said, They be come from a farre countrey, euen from Babel.


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Then saide he, What haue they seene in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house haue they seene: there is nothing among my treasures, that I haue not shewed the.


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Beholde, the dayes come, that all that is in thine house, and what so euer thy fathers haue layed vp in store vnto this day, shall be caryed into Babel: Nothing shall be left, saith the Lorde.


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And of thy sonnes, that shall proceede out of thee, and which thou shalt beget, shall they take away, and they shalbe eunuches in the palace of the King of Babel.


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Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which thou hast <n>He acknowledges Isaiah to be the true prophet of God and therefore humbles himself to his word.</n> spoken. And he said, [Is it] not [good], if <n>Seeing that God has shown me this favour to grant me quietness during my life: for he was afraid lest the enemies would have had opportunity to rejoice if the Church had decayed in his time, because he had restored religion.</n> peace and truth be in my days?


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Manasseh was twelue yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned fiftie and fiue yeere in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Hephzi-bah.


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For he went backe and built the hie places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed: and he erected vp altars for Baal, and made a groue, as did Ahab King of Israel, and worshipped all the hoste of heauen and serued them.


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And he made his son <n>Read (2Ki_16:3).</n> pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.


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And he set the image of the groue, that he had made, in the house, whereof ye Lord had saide to Dauid &amp; to Salomon his sonne, In this house and in Ierusalem, which I haue chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my Name for euer.


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Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will <n>Therefore seeing they did not obey the commandment of God, they were justly cast from the land which they had only on condition.</n> observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.


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Yet they obeyed not, but Manasseh ledde them out of the way, to doe more wickedly then did the heathen people, whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.


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Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall <n>Meaning, that whoever hears of this great plague, will be astonished.</n> tingle.


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And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line <n>As I have destroyed Samaria and the house of Ahab so will I destroy Judah.</n> of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as [a man] wipeth a dish, wiping [it], and turning [it] upside down.


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And I will forsake the <n>Meaning, Judah and Benjamin, which were the only ones left of the rest of the tribes.</n> remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;


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Because they haue done euil in my sight, and haue prouoked mee to anger, since the time their fathers came out of Egypt vntill this day.


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Moreover Manasseh shed <n>The Hebrews write that he slew Isaiah the prophet, who was his father-in-law.</n> innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Manasseh, and all that hee did, and his sinne that he sinned, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?


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And Manasseh slept with his fathers, &amp; was buried in the garden of his own house, euen in the garden of Vzza: and Amon his sonne reigned in his steade.


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Amon was two and twentie yere olde, when he began to reigne, and hee reygned two yeere in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Iotbah.


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For hee walked in all the way that his father walked in, and serued the idoles that his father serued, and worshipped them.


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And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the <n>That is, according to his commandment.</n> way of the LORD.


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And the people of the land slewe all them that had conspired against King Amon, and the people made Iosiah his sonne King in his steade.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Amon, which he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?


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Iosiah was eight yeere olde when he beganne to reigne, and hee reigned one and thirtie yeere in Ierusalem. His mothers name also was Iedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozcath.


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And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and <n>His zeal was prophesied of, and his name mentioned by Iddo the prophet, more than 300 years before, (1Ki_13:2) and being but eight years old, he sought the God of his father David, (2Ch_34:3).</n> walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.


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And in the eighteenth yeere of King Iosiah, the King sent Shaphan the sonne of Azaliah the sonne of Meshullam the chanceller to ye house of the Lord, saying,


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Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the <n>Certain of the priests were appointed to this office, as in (2Ki_12:9).</n> door have gathered of the people:


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And let <n>From the time of Joash for the space of 244 years, the temple remained without repairs through the negligence of the priests. This shows that they who have a charge and do not execute it should have it taken from them.</n> them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which [is] in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,


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To wit, vnto the artificers and carpenters &amp; masons, and to bye timber, and hewed stone to repaire the house.


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Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt <n>So God provided him with faithful servants, seeing he went about so zealously to set forth the work of God.</n> faithfully.


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And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the <n>This was the copy that Moses left them, as it appears in (2Ch_34:14), which either by the negligence of the priests had been lost, or else by the wickedness of idolatrous kings had been abolished.</n> book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.


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So Shaphan the chanceller came to ye King, and brought him word againe, and saide, Thy seruants haue gathered the money, that was found in the house, and haue deliuered it vnto the hands of them that doe the worke, and haue the ouersight of the house of the Lord.


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Also Shaphan the chanceller shewed the King saying, Hilkiah the Priest hath deliuered me a booke; Shaphan read it before the King.


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Therefore the King commaunded Hilkiah the Priest, &amp; Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan, and Achbor the sonne of Michaiah, and Shaphan the chanceller, and Asahiah the Kings seruant, saying,


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Go ye, <n>Meaning, to some prophet to whom God reveals the knowledge of things, as in (Jer_21:8), though at other times they enquired the Lord by Urim and Thummim.</n> enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.


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So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the <n>Or the house of doctrine, which was near the temple, and where the learned assembled to search the scriptures and the doctrine of the prophets.</n> college;) and they communed with her.


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Thus sayth the Lorde, Behold, I wil bring euill vpon this place, &amp; on the inhabitants thereof, euen al the words of the booke which ye King of Iudah hath read,


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Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the <n>The works of man's hand here signifies all that man invents beside the word of God, which are abominable in God's service.</n> works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.


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But to the King of Iudah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, so shal ye say vnto him, Thus sayeth the Lorde God of Israel, The wordes that thou hast heard, shal come to passe.


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Because thine heart was <n>Meaning, that he repented as they that do not repent are said to harden their heart, (Psa_95:8).</n> tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard [thee], saith the LORD.


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Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in <n>Upon which we may gather that the anger of God is ready against the wicked when God takes his servants out of this world.</n> peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.


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And the king <n>Because he saw the great plagues of God that were threatened, he knew no more speedy way to avoid them, than to turn to God by repentance which cannot come but from faith, and faith by hearing the word of God.</n> sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.


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And the King went vp into the house of the Lord, with all the men of Iudah and all the inhabitants of Ierusalem with him, and the Priests &amp; Prophets, and all the people both smal and great: and he reade in their eares all the wordes of the booke of the couenant, which was found in the house of the Lord.


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And the king stood by <n>Where the king had his place, (2Ki_11:14).</n> a pillar, and made a <n>As Joshua did, (Jos_24:22, Jos_24:25).</n> covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all [their] heart and all [their] soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.


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And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the <n>Meaning, they who were next in dignity to the high priest.</n> priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried <n>In contempt of the altar Jeroboam had built there to sacrifice to his calves.</n> the ashes of them unto Bethel.


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And he put down the <n>Or Chemarims, meaning the priests of Baal who were called Chemarims either because they wore black garments or else were smoked with burning incense to idols.</n> idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.


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And he brought out the <n>He removed the grove which idolaters for devotion had planted near the temple, contrary to the commandment of the Lord, (Deu_16:21), or as some read, the similitude of a grove which was hung in the temple.</n> grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped [it] small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the <n>Both in contempt of the idols and reproach of them who had worshipped them in their lives.</n> graves of the children of the people.


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And hee brake downe the houses of the Sodomites, that were in the house of the Lord, where the women woue hangings for the groue.


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Also he brought all the priests out of the cities of Iudah, and defiled the hie places where the Priests had burnt incense, euen from Geba to Beer-sheba, and destroyed the hie places of the gates, that were in the entring in of the gate of Ioshua the gouernour of the citie, which was at the left hand of the gate of the citie.


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Nevertheless the priests of the high places <n>Because they who had forsaken the Lord to serve idols, were not fit to minister in the service of the Lord for the instruction of others.</n> came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.


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And he defiled <n>Which was a valley near to Jerusalem, and signifies a tabret because they smote on the tabret while their children were burning, that their cry should not be heard, (Lev_18:21), after which Josiah commanded trash to be cast in contempt of it.</n> Topheth, which [is] in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.


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And he took away the <n>The idolatrous kings had dedicated horses and chariots to the sun, either to carry about the image of it as the heathen did, or else to sacrifice them as a most agreeable sacrifice.</n> horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which [was] in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.


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And the altars that were on the top of the chamber of Ahaz, which the Kings of Iudah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord did the King breake downe, and hasted thence, &amp; cast the dust of them in the brooke Kedron.


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And the high places that [were] before Jerusalem, which [were] on the right hand of the <n>That was the mount of olives, so called because it was full of idols.</n> mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.


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And he brake the images in pieces, &amp; cut downe the groues and filled their places with the bones of men.


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Moreover <n>Which Jeroboam had built in Israel, (1Ki_12:28-29).</n> the altar that [was] at Bethel, [and] the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, [and] stamped [it] small to powder, and burned the grove.


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And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that [were] there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned [them] upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the <n>According to the prophecy of Iddo, (1Ki_13:2).</n> man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.


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Then he sayde, What title is that which I see? And the men of the citie sayd vnto him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Iudah, and tolde these things that thou hast done to the altar of Beth-el.


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And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the <n>Meaning, the prophet who came after him, and caused him to eat contrary to the command of the Lord, who were both buried in the same grave, (1Ki_13:31).</n> prophet that came out of Samaria.


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Iosiah also tooke away all the houses of the hie places, which were in the cities of Samaria, which the Kings of Israel had made to anger the Lord, and did to them according to all the factes that he had done in Beth-el.


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And he sacrificed all the Priests of the hie places, that were there vpon the altars, and burnt mens bones vpon them, &amp; returned to Ierusalem.


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Then the king commanded all the people, saying, Keepe the passeouer vnto the Lorde your God, as it is written in the booke of this couenant.


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Surely there was not holden <n>For the multitude and zeal of the people with the great preparation.</n> such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;


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Iosiah also tooke away them that had familiar spirits, and the soothsayers, and the images, and the idoles, and al the abominations that were espied in the lande of Iudah and in Ierusalem, to performe the wordes of the Lawe, which were written in the booke that Hilkiah the Priest found in the house of the Lord.


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Like vnto him was there no King before him, that turned to the Lord with al his heart, and with all his soule, and with all his might according to all the Lawe of Moses, neither after him arose there anie like him.


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Therefore the Lorde saide, I will put Iudah also out of my sight, as I haue put away Israel, and will cast off this citie Ierusalem, which I haue chosen, and the house whereof I said, My name shalbe there.


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In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah <n>Because Pharaoh passed through his country, he was afraid Pharaoh would have done him harm and would have stopped him, yet he did not consult the Lord, and therefore was slain.</n> went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.


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Then his seruants caryed him dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Ierusalem, and buried him in his owne sepulchre; the people of the lande tooke Iehoahaz the sonne of Iosiah, and anointed him, and made him King in his fathers steade.


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And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his <n>Meaning, the wicked kings before.</n> fathers had done.


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And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands <n>Which was Antiochia in Syria, also called Hamath.</n> at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.


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And Pharaoh Nechoh made Eliakim the sonne of Iosiah King in steade of Iosiah his father, and turned his name to Iehoiakim, and tooke Iehoahaz away, which when he came to Egypt, dyed there.


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And Iehoiakim gaue the siluer and the golde to Pharaoh, and taxed the land to giue the money, according to the commadement of Pharaoh: he leuyed of euery man of the people of the lande, according to his value, siluer and golde to giue vnto Pharaoh Nechoh.


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And the Lorde sent against him bandes of the Caldees, and bands of the Aramites, &amp; bands of the Moabites, and bandes of the Ammonites, and he sent them against Iudah to destroy it, according to the worde of the Lord, which he spake by his seruants the Prophets.


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Surely at the <n>Though God used these wicked tyrants to execute his just judgments, they are not to be excused, for they proceeded from ambition and malice.</n> commandment of the LORD came [this] upon Judah, to remove [them] out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;


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So Jehoiakim <n>Not that he was buried with his fathers, but he died in the way, as they let him prisoner toward Babylon, see (Jer_22:19).</n> slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.


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And Jehoiachin the king of Judah <n>That is, yielded himself to him by the counsel of Jeremiah.</n> went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year <n>In the reign of the king of Babylon.</n> of his reign.


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And he caryed out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lorde, &amp; the treasures of the Kings house, and brake all the vessels of gold, which Salomon King of Israel had made in the Temple of the Lorde, as the Lord had saide.


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And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the <n>Which was a back door, or some secret gate to leave by.</n> gate between two walls, which [is] by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city round about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain.


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And burnt the house of the Lord, and the Kings house, and all the houses of Ierusalem, and all the great houses burnt he with fire.


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And the sons of <n>He is also called Seir the Horite, who inhabited mount Seir, (Gen_36:20).</n> Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.


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The sonnes of Shobal were Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam; the sonnes of Zibeon, Aiah and Anah.


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Now these [are] the <n>He makes mention of the kings that came from Esau according to God's promise made to Abraham concerning him, that kings would come from him. These eight kings reigned one after another in Idumea to the time of David who conquered their country.</n> kings that reigned in the land of Edom before [any] king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city [was] Dinhabah.


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And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of <n>Which was the principal city of the Edomites.</n> Bozrah reigned in his stead.


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And when Hussham was dead, Hadad the sonne of Bedad which smote Midian in the fielde of Moab, reigned in his steade, and the name of his citie was Auith.


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And Baal-hanan dyed, and Hadad reigned in his stead, and the name of his citie was Pai, &amp; his wiues name Mehetabel the daughter of Matred the daughter of Mezahab.


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The sons of <n>Though Judah was not Jacob's eldest son, yet he first begins with him, because he would come to the genealogy of David, of whom came Christ.</n> Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: [which] three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.


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And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and <n>Of these read (1Ki_4:31).</n> Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.


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The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and <n>Whom Matthew calls Aram, (Mat_1:3).</n> Ram, and Chelubai.


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And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, <n>That is, chief of the family.</n> prince of the children of Judah;


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And <n>Who was called Chelubai the son of Hezron, (1Ch_2:9).</n> Caleb the son of Hezron begat [children] of Azubah [his] wife, and of Jerioth: her sons [are] these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.


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And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of <n>Who was prince of mount Gilead, (Num_32:40).</n> Gilead, whom he married when he [was] threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.


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And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, <n>That is, the Geshurites and Syrians took the towns from Jair's children.</n> from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, [even] threescore cities. All these [belonged to] the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.


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And after that Hezron was dead in <n>Which was a town named for the husband and wife, also called Bethlehem Ephratah.</n> Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the <n>Meaning, the chief and prince.</n> father of Tekoa.


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And ye sonnes of Ierahmeel the eldest sone of Hezron were Ram the eldest, then Bunah, and Oren and Ozen and Ahiiah.


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And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; <n>Who died while his father was alive, and therefore it is said in (1Ch_2:34) that Sheshan had no sons.</n> Ahlai.


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And the sonnes of Iada the brother of Shammai were Iether and Ionathan: but Iether dyed without children.


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Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel [were], Mesha his firstborn, which was the <n>That is, the chief governor or prince of the Ziphims, because the prince should have a fatherly care and affection for his people.</n> father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.


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And Ephah, Caleb's <n>The difference between the wife and the concubine was that the wife was taken with a ceremony of marriage and her children inherited, while the concubine had no marriage ceremony, neither did her children inherit, but had a portion of goods or money given to them.</n> concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.


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She bare also Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, and Sheua the father of Machbenah, &amp; the father of Gibea. And Achsah was Calebs daughter.


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These were the sonnes of Caleb the sone of Hur the eldest sonne of Ephrathah, Shobal the father of Kiriath-iearim.


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And the families of Kiriath-iearim were the Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and ye Mishraites of them came the Zarreathites, and the Eshtaulites.


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The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the <n>The chief and principle of the house of Joab.</n> house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.


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And the families of the <n>Who were men learned and expert in the law.</n> scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, [and] Suchathites. These [are] the <n>Read (Num_10:29; Jdg_1:16).</n> Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.


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Now these were the sons of <n>He returns to the genealogy of David, to show that Christ came from his stock.</n> David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second <n>Who in (2Sa_3:3) is called Chileab, born of her that was Nabal's wife the Carmelite.</n> Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:


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The third Absalom the sonne of Maachah daughter of Talmai King of Geshur: the fourth Adoniiah the sonne of Haggith:


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These sixe were borne vnto him in Hebron: and there hee reigned seuen yeere and sixe moneths: and in Ierusalem he reigned three &amp; thirtie yeere.


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And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of <n>Called also Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam: for they gave them various names.</n> Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel:


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Ibhar also, and <n>Elishama, or Elishua, (2Sa_5:15) and Eliphelet died, and David named those sons who were born next by the same names; in the book of kings his living children are mentioned and here both they that were alive and dead.</n> Elishama, and Eliphelet,


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And Salomons sonne was Rehoboam, whose sonne was Abiah, and Asa his sonne, and Iehoshaphat his sonne,


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And the sons of Josiah [were], the <n>So called because he was preferred for the royal dignity before his brother Jehoiakim who was the elder.</n> firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.


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And the sons of Pedaiah [were], <n>Matthew says that Zerubbabel was the son of Shealtiel, meaning that he was his nephew according to the Hebrew speech: for he was Pedaiah's son.</n> Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:


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And the sonnes of Hananiah were Pelatiah, &amp; Iesaiah: the sonnes of Rephaiah, the sonnes of Arnan, the sonnes of Obadiah, the sonnes of Shechaniah.


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And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, <n>So that Shemaiah was Shechaniah's natural son, and the other five his nephews and in all there were six.</n> six.


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And the sonnes of Elioenai were Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Iohanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seuen.


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The <n>Meaning, they came from Judah, as nephews and kinsmen: for only Pharez was his natural son.</n> sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.


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And Reaiah the sonne of Shobal begat Iahath, and Iahath begate Ahumai, and Lahad: these are the families of the Zoreathites.


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And these were of the father of Etam, Izreel, and Ishma and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi.


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And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These [are] the sons of Hur, the <n>The first born of his mother, and not the eldest of his father.</n> firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.


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And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name <n>Otherwise called Othniel, (Jdg_1:13).</n> Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.


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And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and <n>It is to be understood that then he would accomplish his vow which he made.</n> that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep [me] from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.


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And Eshton begate Beth-rapha, &amp; Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of the citie of Nahash: these are the men of Rechah.


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And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the <n>The Lord of the valley where the artificers worked.</n> father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.


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And the sons of Caleb the son of <n>Called also Esrom.</n> Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz.


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And the sonnes of Ezrah were Iether and Mered, and Epher, and Ialon, and he begate Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.


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Also his wife Iehudiiah bare Iered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, &amp; Iekuthiel the father of Zanoah: and these are the sonnes of Bithiah ye daughter of Pharaoh which Mered tooke.


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And the sonnes of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham the father of Keilah were the Garmites, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.


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And the sonnes of Shimon were Amnon &amp; Rinnah, Ben-hanam &amp; Tilon; the sonnes of Ishi were Zoheth, and Benzoheth.


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The sonnes of Shelah, the sonne of Iudah were Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, &amp; the families of the householdes of them that wrought fine linnen in the house of Ashbea.


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And Iokim and the men of Chozeba and Ioash, and Saraph, which had the dominion in Moab, and Iashubi Lehem. These also are auncient things.


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These [were] the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: <n>They were David's gardeners and served him in his works.</n> there they dwelt with the king for his work.


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The sons of Simeon [were], Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, [and] <n>His son Obed is omitted here.</n> Shaul:


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And Shimei had sixteene sonnes, and sixe daughters, but his brethren had not many children, neither was all their familie like to the children of Iudah in multitude.


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And they dwelt at <n>These cities belonged to Judah, (Jos_19:2), and were given to the tribe of Simeon.</n> Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,


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And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These [were] their cities unto the reign of <n>Then David restored them to the tribe of Judah.</n> David.


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And all their townes that were rounde about these cities vnto Baal, These are their habitations and the declaration of their genealogie,


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And Ziza the sonne of Shiphei, the sonne of Allon, the sonne of Iedaiah, the sonne of Shimri, the sonne of Shemaiah.


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And they <n>For the tribe of Simeon was so great in number, that in the time of Hezekiah they sought new dwellings to Gedor, which is in the tribe of Dan.</n> went to the entrance of Gedor, [even] unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.


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And they found fat pasture and good, and a wide land, both quiet and fruitfull: for they of Ham had dwelt there before.


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And these described by name, came in the dayes of Hezekiah king of Iudah, &amp; smote their tents, and the inhabitants that were found there, and destroyed them vtterly vnto this day, and dwelt in their roume, because there was pasture there for their sheepe.


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And besides these, fiue hundreth men of the sonnes of Simeon went to mount Seir, and Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rophaiah, and Vzziel the sonnes of Ishi were their captaines,


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And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were <n>And were not slain by Saul and David.</n> escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.


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Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he [was] the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the <n>Because they were made two tribes, they had a double portion.</n> sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.


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For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him [came] <n>That is, he was the chiefest of all the tribes according to Jacob's prophecy, (Gen_49:8), and because Christ would come from him.</n> the chief ruler; but the birthright [was] Joseph's:)


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Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria <n>That is, in the time of Uzziah king of Israel, (2Ki_15:23).</n> carried away [captive]: he [was] prince of the Reubenites.


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And when his brethren in their families rekoned the genealogie of their generations, Ieiel and Zechariah were the chiefe,


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And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in <n>These places were beyond Jordan toward the east in the land given to the Reubenites.</n> Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon:


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And in the days of Saul they made war with the <n>The Ishmaelites who came from Hagar Abraham's concubine.</n> Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east [land] of Gilead.


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And their brethren of the house of their fathers were Michael, and Meshullam, &amp; Sheba, and Sorai, and Iacan, and Zia and Eber, seuen.


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These are the childre of Abihail, the sonne of Huri, the sonne of Iaroah, the sonne of Gilead, the sonne of Michael, the sonne of Ieshishai, the sonne of Iahdo, the sonne of Buz.


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And they dwelt in Gilead in <n>Both the whole country and one particular city were called Bashan.</n> Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.


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All these were rekoned by genealogies in the dayes of Iotham King of Iudah, and in the dayes of Ieroboam King of Israel.


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The sonnes of Reuben and of Gad, and of halfe the tribe of Manasseh of those that were viliant men, able to beare shield, and sworde, and to draw a bowe, exercised in warre, were foure &amp; fourtie thousand, seuen hundreth and three score, that went out to the warre.


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And they made war with the Hagarites, with <n>These twelve were the sons of Ishmael, (Gen_25:15).</n> Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.


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And they were <n>That is, by the Lord who gave them the victory.</n> helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that [were] with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.


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And they led away their cattel, euen their camels fiftie thousand, and two hundreth, &amp; fiftie thousand sheepe, and two thousand asses, and of persons an hundreth thousand.


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For there fell down many slain, because the war [was] of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the <n>Meaning, the captivity of the ten tribes under Tiglath Pileser.</n> captivity.


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And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto <n>Otherwise called Baal-gad.</n> Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.


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And these were the heads of the housholds of their fathers, euen Epher and Ishi, and Eliel &amp; Azriel, and Ieremiah, and Hodauiah, and Iahdiel, strong men, valiant and famous, heades of the housholdes of their fathers.


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But they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the lande, whome God had destroyed before them.


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And the God of Israel <n>Thus God stirred up the wicked and used them as instruments to execute his just judgment against sinners, although they were led by malice and ambition.</n> stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.


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And the children of Amram, Aaron, and Moses &amp; Miriam; the sonnes of Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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And Ahitub begat <n>Who was high priest after Abiathar was deposed, according to the prophecy of Eli the priest, (1Sa_2:31, 1Sa_2:35).</n> Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,


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And Johanan begat Azariah, (he [it is] that executed the <n>And valiantly resisted king Uzziah, who would have usurped the priest's office (2Ch_26:17-18).</n> priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)


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And <n>That is, he was led into captivity with his father Seraiah the high priest, (2Ki_25:18).</n> Jehozadak went [into captivity], when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.


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And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn <n>Who is also called Joel, (1Sa_8:2; 1Ch_6:33).</n> Vashni, and Abiah.


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And these [are they] whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had <n>After it was brought to the place where the temple would be built and was no longer carried to and fro.</n> rest.


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And they ministred before the Tabernacle, euen the Tabernacle of the Congregation with singing, vntill Salomon had built ye house of the Lord in Ierusalem: then they continued in their office, according to their custome.


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And these ministred with their children: of the sonnes of Kohath, Heman a singer, the sonne of Ioel, the sonne of Shemuel,


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But Aaron and his sonnes burnt incense vpon the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all that was to do in the most holy place, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the seruant of God had commaunded.


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And they gave them <n>Which was also called Kirjatharba, (Gen_23:2; Jos_21:11).</n> Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.


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And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, [namely], Hebron, [the city] of <n>That he that had killed a man might flee to it for help till his case was tried, (Deu_19:2).</n> refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,


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And <n>Which Joshua called Holon, (Jos_15:51, Jos_21:15).</n> Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,


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And they gaue by lot out of the tribe of the children of Iudah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Beniamin, these cities, which they called by their names.


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And they of the families of the sonnes of Kohath, had cities and their coastes out of the tribe of Ephraim.


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And they gaue vnto them cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim, and her suburbes, and Gezer and her suburbes,


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And out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Aner and her suburbes, and Bileam and her suburbes, for the families of the remnant of the sonnes of Kohath.


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Now the sons of Issachar [were], Tola, and Puah, <n>Who also is called Job, (Gen_46:13).</n> Jashub, and Shimron, four.


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And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, [to wit], of Tola: [they were] valiant men of might in their generations; <n>That is, their number was found to be this big when David counted the people, (2Sa_24:1).</n> whose number [was] in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.


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And the sonnes of Becher, Zemirah, and Ioash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Ierimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth: all these were the sonnes of Becher.


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And they were nombred by their genealogies according to their generations, and the chiefe of the houses of their fathers, valiant men of warre, twenty thousand and two hundreth.


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And the sonne of Iediael was Bilhan, and the sonnes of Bilhan, Ieush, and Beniamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, &amp; Tharshish, and Ahishahar.


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And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a sonne, and called his name Peresh, and the name of his brother was Sheresh: and his sonnes were Vlam and Rakem.


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And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of <n>Which was one of the five principal cities of the Philistines and who slew the Ephraimites.</n> Gath [that were] born in [that] land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.


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And when he went in to his wife, she conceiued, and bare him a sonne, and he called his name Beriah, because affliction was in his house.


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And Rephah [was] his <n>That is, of Ephraim.</n> son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,


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And their possessions and their habitations were Beth-el, &amp; the villages thereof, &amp; Eastward Naaran, and Westwarde Gezer with the villages thereof, Shechem also and the villages thereof, vnto Azzah, and the villages thereof,


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And by the places of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and her villages, Taanach and her villages, Megiddo and her villages, Dor and her villages. In those dwelt the children of Ioseph the sonne of Israel.


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And the sonnes of Iaphlet were Pasach, &amp; Bimhal, and Ashuath: these were the children of Iaphlet.


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All these were the children of Asher, the heads of their fathers houses, noble men, valiant men of warre and chiefe princes, and they were rekoned by their genealogies for warre and for battell to the nomber of sixe and twentie thousand men.


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Now Benjamin <n>He continues in the description of the tribe of Benjamin, because his purpose is to set forth the genealogy of Saul.</n> begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,


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And these [are] the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and <n>Meaning, the inhabitants of the city of Geba.</n> they removed them to Manahath:


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And Shaharaim begat [children] in the country of Moab, after he had sent them <n>After he had put away his two wives.</n> away; Hushim and Baara [were] his wives.


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And the sonnes of Elpaal were Eber, and Misham and Shamed (which built Ono, and Lod, and the villages thereof)


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And Beriah and Shema (which were the chiefe fathers among the inhabitants of Aialon: they draue away the inhabitants of Gath)


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These [were] heads of the <n>The chief of the tribe of Benjamin, who dwelt in Jerusalem.</n> fathers, by their generations, chief [men]. These dwelt in Jerusalem.


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And Mikloth begate Shimeah: these also dwelt with their brethren in Ierusalem, euen by their brethren.


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And <n>Who in (1Sa_9:2) is called Abiel.</n> Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and <n>He is likewise called Mephibosheth, (2Sa_9:6).</n> Eshbaal.


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And the son of Jonathan [was] <n>He is also called Mephibosheth, (2Sa_9:6).</n> Meribbaal; and Meribbaal begat Micah.


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And Ahaz begate Iehoadah, &amp; Iehoadah begate Alemeth, and Azmaueth, and Zimri, and Zimri begate Moza,


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And Azel had sixe sonnes, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: all these were the sonnes of Azel.


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And the sonnes of Eshek his brother were Vlam his eldest sonne, Iehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.


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And the sonnes of Vlam were valiant men of warre which shot with the bow, and had many sonnes and nephewes, an hundreth and fiftie: all these were of the sonnes of Beniamin.


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So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they [were] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, [who] were <n>Until now he has described their genealogies before they went into captivity, and now he describes their history after their return.</n> carried away to Babylon for their transgression.


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Now the first inhabitants that [dwelt] in their possessions in their cities [were], the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the <n>Meaning, the Gibeonites, who served in the temple, read (Jos_9:23).</n> Nethinims.


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And in Ierusalem dwelt of the children of Iudah, and of the children of Beniamin, &amp; of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh.


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Vthai the sonne of Amihud the sonne of Omri, the sonne of Imri, the sonne of Bani: of the children of Pharez, the sonne of Iudah.


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And of the sonnes of Beniamin, Sallu the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Hodauiah, the sonne of Hasenuah,


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And Ibneiah the sonne of Ieroham, and Elah the sonne of Vzzi, the sonne of Michri, and Meshullam the sonne of Shephatiah, the sonne of Reuel, the sonne of Ibniiah.


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And their brethren according to their generations nine hundreth, fiftie and sixe: all these men were chiefe fathers in the housholdes of their fathers.


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And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the <n>That is, he was the high priest.</n> ruler of the house of God;


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And Adaiah the sonne of Ieroham, ye sonne of Pashhur, the sonne of Malchiiah, and Maasai the sonne of Adiel, the sonne of Iahzerah, the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Meshillemith, the sonne of Immer.


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And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the <n>To serve in the temple, every one according to his office.</n> work of the service of the house of God.


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And of the Leuites, Shemaiah the sonne of Hasshub, the sonne of Azrikam, the sonne of Hashabiah of the sonnes of Merari,


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And Bakbakkar, Heresh &amp; Galal, &amp; Mattaniah the sonne of Micha, the sonne of Zichri, the sonne of Asaph,


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And Obadiah the sonne of Shemaiah, the sonne of Galal, the sonne of Ieduthun, and Berechiah, the sonne of Asa, the sonne of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.


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And the porters were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, &amp; their brethren: Shallum was the chiefe.


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Who hitherto [waited] in the <n>So called because the king came into the temple by it, and not the common people.</n> king's gate eastward: they [were] porters in the companies of the children of Levi.


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And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, [were] over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the <n>Their charge was that no one should enter those places, which were only appointed for the priests to minister in.</n> tabernacle: and their fathers, [being] over the host of the LORD, [were] keepers of the entry.


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Zechariah the sonne of Meshelemiah was the porter of the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.


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All these were chosen for porters of the gates, two hundreth &amp; twelue, which were nombred according to their genealogies by their townes. Dauid established these and Samuel the Seer in their perpetuall office.


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So they &amp; their children had the ouersight of the gates of the house of the Lord, euen of the house of the Tabernacle by wardes.


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And their brethren, [which were] in their villages, [were] to come after <n>They served weekly, as in (Exo_29:30).</n> seven days from time to time with them.


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For these foure chiefe porters were in perpetuall office, and were of the Leuites and had charge of the chambers, and of the treasures in the house of God.


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And they lay rounde about the house of God, because the charge was theirs, and they caused it to be opened euery morning.


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And certaine of them had the rule of the ministring vessels: for they brought them in by tale, and brought them out by tale.


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[Some] of them also [were] appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine <n>Of which the meat offering was made, (Lev_2:8).</n> flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.


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And Mattithiah one of the Leuites which was the eldest sonne of Shallum the Korhite, had the charge of the things that were made in the frying panne.


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And other of their brethren the sonnes of Kohath had the ouersight of the shewbread to prepare it euery Sabbath.


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And these [are] the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, [who remaining] in the chambers <n>But were continually occupied in singing praises to God.</n> [were] free: for they were employed in [that] work day and night.


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These were the chiefe fathers of the Leuites according to their generations, and the principall which dwelt at Ierusalem.


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And Mikloth begate Shimeam: they also dwelt with their brethren at Ierusalem, euen by their brethren.


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And Ner begate Kish, and Kish begate Saul, and Saul begate Ionathan and Malchishua, and Abinadab and Eshbaal.


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And Ahaz begat <n>Who was also called Jehoiada, (1Ch_8:36).</n> Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;


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And Azel had sixe sonnes, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ismael, &amp; Sheariah, and Obadiah, &amp; Hanan: these are the sonnes of Azel.


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Then the Philistims fought against Israel: &amp; the men of Israel fled before the Philistims, and fell downe slaine in mount Gilboa.


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And the Philistims pursued after Saul and after his sonnes, &amp; the Philistims smote Ionathan, and Abinadab, &amp; Malchishua the sonnes of Saul.


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Then sayde Saul to his armour bearer, Drawe out thy sworde, and thrust me thorowe therewith, lest these vncircumcised come and mocke at me: but his armour bearer would not, for he was sore afraid: therefore Saul tooke the sword and fell vpon it.


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And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley, sawe how they fledde, and that Saul and his sonnes were dead, they forsooke their cities, and fled away, and the Philistims came, and dwelt in them.


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And on the morrowe when the Philistims came to spoyle them that were slaine, they found Saul and his sonnes lying in mount Gilboa.


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And when they had stript him, they tooke his head and his armour, and sent them into the land of the Philistims round about, to publish it vnto their idoles, and to the people.


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And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of <n>Which was the idol of the Philistines, and from the belly downward had the form of a fish, and upward of a man.</n> Dagon.


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Then they arose (all the valiant men) and tooke the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sonnes, and brought them to Iabesh, and buryed the bones of them vnder an oke in Iabesh, and fasted seuen dayes.


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So Saul dyed for his transgression, that he committed against the Lord, euen against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and in that he sought &amp; asked counsel of a familiar spirit,


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And asked not of the Lorde: therefore he slewe him, and turned the kingdome vnto Dauid the sonne of Ishai.


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Then all Israel <n>This was after the death of Ishbosheth Saul's son, when David had reigned over Judah seven years and six months in Hebron, (2Sa_5:5).</n> gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh.


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And in time past, euen when Saul was King, thou leddest Israel out &amp; in: and the Lord thy God sayde vnto thee, Thou shalt feede my people Israel, and thou shalt be captaine ouer my people Israel.


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So came all the Elders of Israel to the King to Hebron, &amp; Dauid made a couenant with them in Hebron before the Lord; they anoynted Dauid King ouer Israel, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Samuel.


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And Dauid and all Israel went to Ierusalem, which is Iebus, where were the Iebusites, the inhabitants of the land.


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And the inhabitants of Iebus said to Dauid, Thou shalt not come in hither. Neuertheles Dauid tooke the towre of Zion, which is the city of Dauid.


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And Dauid sayd, Whosoeuer smiteth the Iebusites first, shalbe the chiefe and captaine. So Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah went first vp, and was captaine.


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And he built the citie on euery side, from Millo euen round about, and Ioab repaired the rest of the citie.


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These also are the chiefe of the valiant men that were with Dauid, &amp; ioyned their force with him in his kingdome with al Israel, to make him King ouer Israel, according to the worde of the Lorde.


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And this [is] the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the <n>Meaning, the most excellent and best esteemed for his valiantry: some read, the chief of the princes.</n> chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain [by him] at one time.


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He was with Dauid at Pas-dammim, and there the Philistims were gathered together to battel: and there was a parcell of ground full of barley, &amp; the people fled before the Philistims.


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And they set themselves in the midst of [that] parcel, <n>This act refers to Shammah, (2Sa_23:11), who it seems was the chiefest of these.</n> and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved [them] by a great deliverance.


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Now three of the <n>That is, Eleazar and his two companions.</n> thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.


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And Dauid longed, and said, Oh, that one would giue me to drinke of the water of the well of Beth-lehem that is at the gate.


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Then these three brake thorowe the hoste of the Philistims, and drewe water out of the wel of Beth-lehem that was by the gate, and tooke it and brought it to Dauid: but Dauid would not drinke of it, but powred it for an oblation to the Lord,


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And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the <n>That is, this water, for which they risked their lives.</n> blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with [the jeopardy of] their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.


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And Abishai the brother of Ioab, he was chiefe of the three, &amp; he lift vp his speare against three hundreth, and slew them, and had the name among the three.


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Among the three he was more honourable then the two, and he was their captaine: but he attained not vnto the first three.


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Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada (the sonne of a valiant man) which had done many actes, and was of Kabzeel, he slewe two strong men of Moab: he went downe also and slewe a lion in the middes of a pit in time of snowe.


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And he slewe an Egyptian, a man of great stature, euen fiue cubites long, and in the Egyptians hand was a speare like a weauers beame: and he went downe to him with a staffe, and plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand, and slewe him with his owne speare.


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Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the <n>Meaning, those three who brought the water to David.</n> [first] three: and David set him over his guard.


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These also were valiant men of warre, Asahel the brother of Ioab, Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Beth-lehem,


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Now these [are] they that came to David to <n>To take his part against Saul: who persecuted him.</n> Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they [were] among the mighty men, helpers of the war.


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[They were] armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in [hurling] stones and [shooting] arrows out of a bow, [even] of Saul's <n>That is, of the tribe of Benjamin, of which Saul was, and in which were excellent throwers with slings, (Jdg_20:16).</n> brethren of Benjamin.


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The chiefe were Ahiezer, and Ioash the sonnes of Shemaah a Gibeathite, and Ieziel, and Pelet the sonnes of Asinaueth, Berachah and Iehu the Antothite,


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And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a valiant man among thirtie, and aboue the thirtie, and Ieremiah, and Iehaziel, and Iohanan, and Ioshabad the Gederathite,


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And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, [and] men of war [fit] for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces [were like] the faces of <n>Meaning, fierce and terrible.</n> lions, and [were] as swift as the roes upon the mountains;


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These were the sonnes of Gad, captaines of the hoste: one of the least could resist an hundreth, and the greatest a thousand.


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These [are] they that went over Jordan in the <n>Which the Hebrews called Nisan, or Abib, containing half March and half April, when Jordan was wont to overflow its banks, read (Jos_3:15).</n> first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all [them] of the valleys, [both] toward the east, and toward the west.


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And Dauid went out to meete them, and answered and sayde vnto them, If yee be come peaceably vnto me to helpe me, mine heart shall be knit vnto you, but if you come to betray me to mine aduersaries, seeing there is no wickednes in mine handes, the God of our fathers beholde it, and rebuke it.


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Then the <n>The spirit of boldness and courage moved him to speak thus.</n> spirit came upon Amasai, [who was] chief of the captains, [and he said], Thine [are we], David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace [be] unto thee, and peace [be] to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.


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And there fell [some] of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they <n>They came only to help David, and not to help the Philistines, who were enemies of their country.</n> helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to [the jeopardy of] our heads.


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As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Iozabad, and Iediael, and Michael, and Iozabad, and Elihu, and Ziltai, heads of the thousands that were of Manasseh.


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And they helped David against the <n>That is, of the Amalekites who had burned the city of Ziklag, (1Sa_30:1, 1Sa_30:9).</n> band [of the rovers]: for they [were] all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.


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For at [that] time day by day there came to David to help him, until [it was] a great host, like the host of <n>Meaning, mighty or strong, for the Hebrews say a thing is of God when it is excellent.</n> God.


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And these are the nombers of the captaines that were armed to battell, and came to Dauid to Hebron to turne the kingdome of Saul to him, according to the worde of the Lord.


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The children of Iudah that bare shield and speare, were sixe thousand and eight hundreth armed to the warre.


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And Jehoiada [was] the leader of the <n>Of the Levites who came by the descent of Aaron.</n> Aaronites, and with him [were] three thousand and seven hundred;


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And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had <n>That is, the greatest number took Saul's side.</n> kept the ward of the house of Saul.


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And of the children of Issachar, [which were men] that had understanding of the <n>Men of good experience, who knew at all times what was to be done.</n> times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them [were] two hundred; and all their brethren [were] at their commandment.


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Of Zebulun that went out to battel, expert in warre, and in all instruments of warre, fiftie thousande which could set the battell in aray: they were not of a double heart.


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<n>So that his whole host were 322,222.</n>All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel [were] of one heart to make David king.


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And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their <n>The rest of the Israelites.</n> brethren had prepared for them.


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Moreouer they that were neere them vntill Issachar, and Zebulun, and Naphtali brought bread vpon asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, euen meate, floure, figges, and reisins, and wine and oyle, and beeues and sheepe abundantly: for there was ioy in Israel.


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And Dauid counselled with the captaines of thousandes and of hundreths, and with all the gouernours.


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And Dauid said to all the Congregation of Israel, If it seeme good to you, and that it proceedeth of the Lorde our God, we will sende to and fro vnto our brethren, that are left in all the lande of Israel (for with them are the Priests and the Leuites in the cities and their suburbes) that they may assemble them selues vnto vs.


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And let us bring again the <n>His first concern was to restore religion, which had in Saul's day been corrupted and neglected.</n> ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.


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And all the Congregation answered, Let vs doe so: for the thing seemed good in the eyes of all the people.


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So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from <n>That is, from Gibea, where the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim had placed it in the house of Abinadab, (2Sa_6:3).</n> Kirjathjearim.


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And Dauid went vp and all Israel to Baalath, in Kiriath-iearim, that was in Iudah, to bring vp from thence the Arke of God the Lorde that dwelleth betweene the Cherubims, where his Name is called on.


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And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio <n>The sons of Abinadab.</n> drave the cart.


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And David and all Israel played before <n>That is, before the Ark, where God showed himself: so that the sign is taken for the thing signified, which is common to all sacraments both in the old and new testaments.</n> God with all [their] might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.


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And when they came unto the threshingfloor of <n>Called also Nachon, (2Sa_6:6).</n> Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.


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And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died <n>Before the Ark for usurping that which did not belong to his calling: for this charge was given to the priests, (Num_4:15), so that here all good intentions are condemned, unless they are commanded by the word of God.</n> before God.


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And Dauid was angrie, because the Lorde had made a breach in Vzza, and he called the name of that place Perez-vzza vnto this day.


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So David brought not the ark [home] to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of <n>Who was a Levite, and called Gittite, because he dwelt at Gath.</n> Obededom the Gittite.


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So the Arke of God remained in the house of Obed Edom, euen in his house three moneths: and the Lorde blessed the house of Obed Edom, and all that he had.


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Then sent Hiram the King of Tyrus messengers to Dauid, and cedar trees, with masons and carpenters to builde him an house.


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And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his <n>Because of God's promise made to the people of Israel.</n> people Israel.


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And these are the names of the children which he had at Ierusalem, Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Salomon,


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But when the Philistims heard that Dauid was anointed King ouer Israel, all the Philistims came vp to seeke Dauid; when Dauid heard, he went out against them.


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Then Dauid asked counsel at God, saying, Shall I goe vp against the Philistims, and wilt thou deliuer them into mine hande? And the Lorde saide vnto him, Goe vp: for I will deliuer them into thine hande.


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So they came up to Baalperazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place <n>That is, the valley of divisions, because the enemies were dispersed there like waters.</n> Baalperazim.


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And when Dauid asked againe counsell at God, God said to him, Thou shalt not goe vp after them, but turne away from them, that thou mayest come vpon them ouer against the mulberie trees.


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And when thou hearest the noyse of one going in the toppes of the mulberie trees, then goe out to battel: for God is gone foorth before thee, to smite the hoste of the Philistims.


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So Dauid did as God had commaunded him: and they smote the hoste of the Philistims from Gibeon euen to Gezer.


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And the fame of Dauid went out into all landes, and the Lorde brought the feare of him vpon all nations.


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And [David] made him houses in the <n>That was in Zion (2Sa_5:7,9).</n> city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.


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Then Dauid saide, None ought to carie the Arke of God, but the Leuites: for the Lorde hath chosen them to beare the Arke of the Lord, and to minister vnto him for euer.


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And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the <n>From the house of Obed Edom, (2Sa_6:10, 2Sa_6:12).</n> ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.


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Of the sons of <n>Who was the son of Uzziel, the fourth son of Kohath, (Exo_6:18, Exo_6:22; Num_3:30).</n> Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:


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And said unto them, Ye [are] the chief of the fathers of the Levites: <n>Prepare yourselves and be pure, abstain from all things by which you might be polluted, and so not able to come to the tabernacle.</n> sanctify yourselves, [both] ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto [the place that] I have prepared for it.


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For because ye [did it] not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due <n>According as he has appointed in the law.</n> order.


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So the Priestes and the Leuites sanctified them selues to bring vp the Arke of the Lorde God of Israel.


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And the sonnes of the Leuites bare the Arke of God vpon their shoulders with the barres, as Moses had commanded, according to the worde of the Lorde.


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And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren [to be] the singers with <n>These instruments and other ceremonies which they observed, were instructions of their infancy, which continued to the coming of Christ.</n> instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.


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So the Leuites appointed Heman the sonne of Ioel, and of his brethren Asaph the sonne of Berechiah, and of the sonnes of Merari their brethren, Ethan the sonne of Kushaiah,


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And with them their brethren of the <n>Which were inferior in dignity.</n> second [degree], Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.


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And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on <n>This was an instrument of music or a certain tune, to which they sang psalms.</n> Alamoth;


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And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the <n>Which was the eighth tune, over which he that was most excellent had charge.</n> Sheminith to excel.


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And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, <n>That is, to appoint Psalms and songs to them that sang.</n> [was] for song: he instructed about the song, because he [was] skilful.


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And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah [were] doorkeepers <n>With Berechiah and Elkanah, (1Ch_15:23).</n> for the ark.


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So Dauid and the Elders of Israel and the captaines of thousandes went to bring vp the Arke of the couenant of the Lord from the house of Obed Edom with ioye.


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And it came to pass, when God <n>That is, gave them strength to execute their office.</n> helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered <n>Besides the bullock and the fat beast which David offered at every sixth pace, (2Sa_6:13).</n> seven bullocks and seven rams.


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And David [was] clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also [had] upon him an <n>Read (2Sa_6:14).</n> ephod of linen.


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Thus all Israel brought vp the Arke of the Lordes couenant with shouting and sounde of cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbales, making a sound with violes and with harpes.


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And it came to pass, [as] the ark of the <n>It was so called because it reminded the Israelites of the Lord's covenant made with them.</n> covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.


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So they brought in the Arke of God, and set it in the middes of the Tabernacle that Dauid had pitched for it, and they offred burnt offrings and peace offrings before God.


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And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he <n>He called upon the Name of God, desiring him to prosper the people, and give good success to their beginnings.</n> blessed the people in the name of the LORD.


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And he dealt to euery one of Israel both man and woman, to euery one a cake of breade, and a piece of flesh, and a bottel of wine.


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And he appointed [certain] of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to <n>That is, God's benefits to his people.</n> record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:


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Asaph the chiefe, and next to him Zechariah, Ieiel, and Shemiramoth, and Iehiel, &amp; Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed Edom, euen Ieiel with instruments, violes and harpes, and Asaph to make a sound with cymbales,


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And Benaiah and Iahaziel Priestes, with trumpets continually before the Arke of the couenant of God.


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Then on that day David <n>David gave them this Psalm to praise the Lord, signifying that in all our enterprises the Name of God should be praised and called upon.</n> delivered first [this psalm] to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.


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Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his <n>Of which this is the chiefest, that he has chosen himself a Church to call upon his name.</n> deeds among the people.


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Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his <n>Who of his wonderful providence has chosen a few of the stock of Abraham to be his children.</n> wondrous works.


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Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the <n>In overcoming Pharaoh, which judgments were declared by God's mouth to Moses.</n> judgments of his mouth;


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O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his <n>Meaning by this that the promise of adoption only belongs to the Church.</n> chosen ones.


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When ye were but <n>Meaning, from the time that Abraham entered, to the time that Jacob went into Egypt for famine.</n> few, even a few, and strangers in it.


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He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved <n>As Pharaoh and Abimelech.</n> kings for their sakes,


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[Saying], Touch not mine <n>My elect and those whom I have sanctified.</n> anointed, and do my <n>To whom God declared his word and they declared it to their posterity.</n> prophets no harm.


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For all the gods of the people [are] <n>His strong faith appears in this, though all the world would follow idols, yet he would cleave to the living God.</n> idols: but the LORD made the heavens.


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Giue vnto the Lorde ye glory of his Name: bring an offring and come before him, and worship the Lorde in the glorious Sanctuarie.


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<n>Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God.</n>Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.


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Let the <n>He exhorts the dumb creatures to rejoice with him in considering the greatness of the grace of God.</n> heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let [men] say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.


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Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to <n>To restore all things to their estate.</n> judge the earth.


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And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, [and] <n>He esteems this to be the chiefest happiness of man.</n> glory in thy praise.


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Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, <n>He wills all the people both in heart and mouth to consent to those praises.</n> Amen, and praised the LORD.


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Then he left there before the Arke of the Lordes couenant Asaph and his brethren to minister continually before the Arke, that which was to be done euery day:


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And Obed Edom and his brethren, three score and eight: and Obed Edom the sonne of Ieduthun, and Hosah were porters.


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And Zadok the Priest and his brethren the Priestes were before the Tabernacle of ye Lorde, in the hie place that was at Gibeon,


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To offer burnt offrings vnto the Lord, vpon the burnt offring altar continually, in the morning and in the euening, euen according vnto all that is written in the law of the Lord, which hee commaunded Israel.


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And with <n>With Zadok and the rest of the priests.</n> them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy [endureth] for ever;


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Euen with them were Heman &amp; Ioduthun, to make a sound with the cornets and with the cymbales, with excellent instruments of musicke: and the sonnes of Ieduthun were at the gate.


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And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to <n>Declaring that after our duty to God we are chiefly bound to our own house, for which as for all other things we should pray to God, and instruct our families to praise his Name.</n> bless his house.


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Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of <n>Well built and fair.</n> cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD [remaineth] under <n>That is, in tents covered with skin.</n> curtains.


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Then Nathan said unto David, Do <n>As yet God had not revealed to the prophet what he purposed concerning David, therefore seeing God favoured David, he spoke what he thought.</n> all that [is] in thine heart; for God [is] with thee.


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And it came to pass the same <n>After Nathan had spoken to David.</n> night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,


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Goe, and tell Dauid my seruant, Thus saith the Lorde, Thou shalt not buylde me an house to dwell in:


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For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from <n>That is, in a tent which moved to and fro.</n> tent to tent, and from [one] tabernacle [to another].


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Wheresoever I have <n>Meaning, wherever his ark went, which was a sign of his presence.</n> walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?


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Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, <n>Of a shepherd of sheep I made you a shepherd of men: so that you did not come to this dignity through your own merits, but by my pure grace.</n> [even] from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:


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And I haue bene with thee whithersoeuer thou hast walked, and haue destroyed all thine enemies out of thy sight, and haue made thee a name, like the name of the great men that are in the earth.


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Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will <n>Make them sure that they will not move.</n> plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,


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And since the time that I commanded judges [to be] over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will <n>Will give you great posterity.</n> build thee an house.


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And when thy dayes shalbe fulfilled to go with thy fathers, then will I rayse vp thy seede after thee, which shalbe of thy sonnes, and will stablish his kingdome.


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He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for <n>That is, to the coming of Christ: for then these figures would cease.</n> ever.


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I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took [it] from [him] that was before <n>Which was Saul.</n> thee:


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But I wil establish him in mine house, and in my kingdome for euer, and his throne shalbe stablished for euer,


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And David the king <n>He went into the tent where the Ark was, showing what we should do when we receive any benefits from the Lord.</n> came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who [am] I, O LORD God, and what [is] mine house, that thou hast brought me <n>Meaning to this kingly estate.</n> hitherto?


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And [yet] this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast [also] spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of <n>You have promised a kingdom that will continue to me and my posterity and that Christ will proceed from me.</n> high degree, O LORD God.


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O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own <n>Freely and according to the purpose of your will, without any deserving.</n> heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all [these] great things.


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Lorde, there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that we haue heard with our eares.


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Moreouer what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whose God went to redeeme them to be his people, and to make thy selfe a Name, and to doe great and terrible things by casting out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast deliuered out of Egypt?


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For thou hast ordeined thy people Israel to be thine owne people for euer, and thou Lord art become their God.


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Therefore nowe Lorde, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy seruant &amp; concerning his house, be confirmed for euer, and doe as thou hast sayd,


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Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts [is] the God of <n>That is, he shows himself indeed to be their God, by delivering them from dangers, and preserving them.</n> Israel, [even] a God to Israel: and [let] the house of David thy servant [be] established before thee.


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For thou, O my God, hast <n>You have declared to me by Nathan the prophet.</n> told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found [in his heart] to pray before thee.


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Now therfore, it hath pleased thee to blesse the house of thy seruant, that it may bee before thee for euer: for thou, O Lord, hast blessed it, and it shalbe blessed for euer.


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Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took <n>Which (2Sa_8:1) calls the bridle of bondage, because it was a strong town and kept the country around it in subjection.</n> Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines.


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And Dauid smote Hadarezer King of Zobah vnto Hamath, as he went to stablish his border by the riuer Perath.


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And Dauid tooke from him a thousand charets, and seuen thousand horsemen, and twentie thousand footemen, and destroyed all the charets, but he reserued of them an hundreth charets.


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Then came the Aramites of Damascus to succour Hadarezer King of Zobah, but Dauid slewe of the Aramites two and twentie thousand.


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Then David put [garrisons] in Syriadamascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, [and] brought gifts. Thus the LORD <n>That is in all things that he attempted.</n> preserved David whithersoever he went.


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And Dauid tooke the shieldes of gold that were of the seruants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Ierusalem.


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Likewise from <n>Which in (2Sa_8:8) is called Betah and Berothai.</n> Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.


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He sent <n>Called also Joram (2Sa_8:10).</n> Hadoram his son to king David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;) and [with him] all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.


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Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all [these] nations; from <n>Because the Edomites and the Syrians joined their power together, it is said, (2Sa_8:12) that the Amramites were spoiled.</n> Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.


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Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt <n>Which is understood that Joab slew 12,000 as is in (Psa_60:1) and Abishai the rest.</n> eighteen thousand.


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And he put a garison in Edom, and all the Edomites became Dauids seruantes: and the Lord preserued Dauid wheresoeuer he went.


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And Zadok the sonne of Ahitub, and Abimelech the sonne of Abiathar were the Priests, &amp; Shausha the Scribe,


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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the <n>Read (2Sa_8:18).</n> Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David [were] chief about the king.


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And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his <n>Because Nahash received David and his company, when Saul persecuted him he would now show pleasure to his son for the same.</n> father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.


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But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to <n>Thus the malicious always interpret the purpose of the godly in the worst sense.</n> spy out the land?


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Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and <n>They shaved off half of their beards, (2Sa_10:4).</n> shaved them, and cut off their <n>To put them to shame and villany, while the ambassadors should have been honoured: and because the Jews used to wear side garments and beards, they thus disfigured them, to make them odious to others.</n> garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.


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And there went certaine and tolde Dauid concerning the men: and he sent to meete them (for the men were exceedingly ashamed) and the King saide, Tarie at Iericho, vntill your beardes be growen: then returne.


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And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out of <n>Which were five in all.</n> Zobah.


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So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before <n>Which was a city of the tribe of Reuben beyond Jordan.</n> Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.


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And the children of Ammon came out, and set their battell in aray at the gate of the citie; the Kings that were come, were by them selues in the fielde.


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When Ioab saw that the front of the battel was against him before and behinde, then he chose out of all the choyse of Israel, and set him selfe in aray to meete the Aramites.


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And he saide, If Aram be too strong for me, then thou shalt succour me: and if the children of Ammon preuaile against thee, then I wil succour thee.


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Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our <n>He declares that where the cause is evil, the courage cannot be valiant, and that in good causes men should be courageous, and commit the success to God.</n> people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do [that which is] good in his sight.


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So Ioab and the people that was with him, came neere before the Aramites vnto the battel, and they fled before him.


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And when the children of Ammon sawe that the Aramites fled, they fled also before Abishai his brother, and entred into the citie: so Ioab came to Ierusalem.


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And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that [were] beyond the <n>That is, Euphrates.</n> river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer [went] before them.


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And when it was shewed Dauid, he gathered all Israel, and went ouer Iorden, and came vnto them, &amp; put him selfe in aray against them: And when Dauid had put him selfe in battel aray to meete the Aramites, they fought with him.


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But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians <n>For this place, read (2Sa_10:18).</n> seven thousand [men which fought in] chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.


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And when the seruants of Hadarezer sawe that they fell before Israel, they made peace with Dauid, and serued him; the Aramites would no more succour the children of Ammon.


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And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out [to battle], Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged <n>Which was the chief city of the Ammonites.</n> Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.


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And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a <n>Which mounts about the value of seven thousand and seventy crowns, which is about 60 pound weight.</n> talent of gold, and [there were] precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city.


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And he caryed away the people that were in it, and cut them with sawes, and with harowes of yron, and with axes: euen thus did Dauid with all the cities of the children of Ammon. Then Dauid and all the people came againe to Ierusalem.


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And after this also there arose warre at Gezer with the Philistims: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slewe Sippai, of the children of Haraphah, and they were subdued.


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And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew <n>Read (2Sa_21:19).</n> Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff [was] like a weaver's beam.


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And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, whose fingers and toes [were] four and twenty, <n>Meaning that he had six apiece on hands and feet.</n> six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]: and he also was the son of the giant.


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And <n>He tempted David, in setting before his eyes his excellency and glory, his power and victories, see (2Sa_24:1).</n> Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.


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And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they [be]: but, my lord the king, [are] they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of <n>It was a thing indifferent and usual to number the people, but because he did it for ambitious reasons, as though his strength stood in his people, God punished him.</n> trespass to Israel?


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And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [they of] Israel were <n>Joab partly for grief and partly through negligence gathered not the whole sum as it is here declared.</n> a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] <n>In Samuel 30,000 more are mentioned, which was either by joining to them some of the Benjamites who were mixed with Judah, or as the Hebrews write, here the chief and princes are left out.</n> four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.


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Then Dauid saide vnto God, I haue sinned greatly, because I haue done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, remooue the iniquitie of thy seruant: for I haue done very foolishly.


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Goe and tell Dauid, saying, Thus saith the Lorde, I offer thee three thinges: choose thee one of them, that I may doe it vnto thee.


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Either three yeeres famine, or three moneths to be destroyed before thine aduersaries, and the sworde of thine enemies to take thee, or els the sworde of the Lorde and pestilence in the lande three dayes, that the Angel of the Lorde may destroy throughout all the coastes of Israel: nowe therefore aduise thee, what word I shal bring againe to him that sent me.


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And Dauid said vnto Gad, I am in a wonderfull strait. Let me nowe fall into the hande of the Lorde: for his mercies are exceeding great, and let me not fall into the hande of man.


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And Dauid lift vp his eyes, and sawe the Angel of the Lorde stande betweene the earth and the heauen with his sworde drawen in his hand, and stretched out towarde Ierusalem. Then Dauid and the Elders of Israel, which were clothed in sacke, fell vpon their faces.


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And David said unto God, [Is it] not I [that] commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but [as for] these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on <n>Thus he both shows a true repentance and a fatherly care toward his people, who desire God to spare them, and to punish him and his.</n> thy people, that they should be plagued.


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Then the Angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to Dauid, that Dauid should goe vp, and set vp an altar vnto the Lord in the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite.


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And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him <n>If man hides himself at the sight of an angel who is a creature, how much more as a sinner able to appear before the face of God?</n> hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.


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And as Dauid came to Ornan, Ornan looked and sawe Dauid, and went out of the thresshing floore, and bowed himselfe to Dauid with his face to the grounde.


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Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of [this] threshingfloor, that I may build an <n>This he did by the command of God, (1Ch_21:18), or else it would have been abominable, unless he had either God's word, or revelation.</n> altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.


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Then Ornan saide vnto Dauid, Take it to thee, and let my lord the King do that which seemeth him good: loe, I giue thee bullockes for burnt offrings, and thresshing instruments for wood, and wheat for meate offring, I giue it all.


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And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full <n>That is, as much as it is worth: for having enough of his own, and yet to have taken of another man's goods to offer to the Lord would had been theft and not acceptable to God.</n> price: for I will not take [that] which [is] thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.


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And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he <n>God declared that he heard his request, in that he sent down fire from heaven for they could use no fire in sacrifice but that which was reserved still upon the altar, (Lev_6:13) and came down from heaven, (Lev_9:24) as appeared by the punishment of Nadab and Abihu, (Lev_10:1).</n> answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.


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At that time when Dauid sawe that the Lorde had heard him in the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite, then he sacrificed there.


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(But the Tabernacle of the Lorde which Moses had made in the wildernesse, and the altar of burnt offring were at that season in the hie place at Gibeon.


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And Dauid could not go before it to aske counsel at God: for he was afraide of the sworde of the Angel of the Lorde.)


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Then David said, This [is] the <n>That is, the place in which he will be worshipped.</n> house of the LORD God, and this [is] the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.


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And David commanded to gather together the <n>Meaning, cunning men of other nations who dwelt among the Jews.</n> strangers that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.


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And David prepared iron <n>That is, which weighed fifty shekels of gold, (2Ch_3:9).</n> in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;


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And cedar trees without nomber: for the Zidonians and they of Tyrus brought much cedar wood to Dauid.


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And Dauid saide, Salomon my sonne is yong and tender, and we must builde an house for the Lorde, magnificall, excellent and of great fame and dignitie throughout all countreyes. I will therefore nowe prepare for him. So Dauid prepared very much before his death.


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And Dauid said to Salomon, My sonne, I purposed with my selfe to builde an house to the Name of the Lorde my God,


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But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, <n>This declares how greatly God detests the shedding of blood, seeing David for this cause is prevented from building the temple of the Lord, though he enterprised no war, but by God's command and against his enemies.</n> Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.


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Beholde, a sonne is borne to thee, which shalbe a man of rest, for I will giue him rest from all his enemies rounde about: therefore his name is Salomon: and I will sende peace and quietnes vpon Israel in his dayes.


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Hee shall builde an house for my Name, and he shalbe my sonne, and I will be his father, and I will establish the throne of his kingdome vpon Israel for euer.


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Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and <n>He shows that there can be no prosperity, but when the Lord is with us.</n> prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.


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Only the LORD give thee <n>These are only the means by which kings govern their subjects correctly, and by which the realms prosper and flourish.</n> wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.


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Then thou shalt prosper, if thou take heede to obserue the statutes and the iudgements which the Lorde commanded Moses for Israel: be strong and of good courage: feare not, neither bee afraide.


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Now, behold, in my <n>For David was poor in respect to Solomon.</n> trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a million talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.


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Moreouer thou hast workmen with thee enough, hewers of stone, and workemen for timber, and all men expert in euery worke.


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Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, [there is] no number. <n>That is, go about it quickly.</n> Arise [therefore], and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.


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[Is] not the LORD your God with you? and hath he [not] given you rest on every side? for he hath given the <n>The nations round about.</n> inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.


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Now set <n>For else he knew that God would plague them, and not prosper their labour, unless they sought with all their hearts to set forth his glory.</n> your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.


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And the Leuites were numbred from ye age of thirtie yeere and aboue, and their nomber according to their summe was eight &amp; thirtie thousand men.


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Of these foure and twentie thousande were set to aduance the worke of the house of the Lord, &amp; sixe thousand were ouerseers and iudges.


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And foure thousand were porters, and foure thousande praised the Lorde with instruments which he made to praise the Lord.


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The Sonnes of Shimei, Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haram, three: these were the chiefe fathers of Laadan.


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Also the sonnes of Shimei were Iahath, Zina, Ieush, and Beriah: these foure were ye sonnes of Shimei.


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And Iahath was the chiefe, and Zizah the seconde, but Ieush and Beriah had not many sonnes: therfore they were in the families of their father, counted but as one.


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The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should <n>That is, to serve in the most holy place, and to consecrate the holy things.</n> sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.


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Now [concerning] Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the <n>They were but of the order of the Levites and not of the priests as Aaron's sons.</n> tribe of Levi.


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And the sons of Eliezer [were], Rehabiah the <n>The scripture calls him chief or first born even though he is alone and there is no one born after him, (Mat_1:25).</n> chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.


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The sonnes of Hebron were Ieriah the first, Amariah the second, Iahaziel the third, and Iekamiam the fourth.


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And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their <n>Meaning their cousins.</n> brethren the sons of Kish took them.


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These [were] the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; [even] the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of <n>David chose the Levites twice, first at the age of thirty as in (1Ch_23:3) and again afterward at twenty as the office required: at the beginning they had no charge in the temple before they were twenty-five years old, and had none after fifty, (Num_4:3).</n> twenty years and upward.


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For Dauid sayde, The Lord God of Israel hath giuen rest vnto his people, that they may dwell in Ierusalem for euer.


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Therefore according to the last wordes of Dauid, the Leuites were nombred from twentie yeere and aboue,


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Because their office [was] to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the <n>In washing and cleansing all the holy vessels.</n> purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;


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Both for the shewbread, and for the fine floure, for the meate offring, and for the vnleauened cakes, and for the fryed things, and for that which was rosted, and for all measures and cise,


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And to offer all burnt offrings vnto the Lorde, in the Sabbaths, in the moneths, and at the appointed times, according to the nomber and according to their custome continually before the Lorde,


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And that they should keepe the charge of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the charge of ye holy place, &amp; the charge of ye sonnes of Aaron their brethren in the seruice of ye house of the Lord.


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These are also the diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron: The sonnes of Aaron were Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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But Nadab and Abihu died <n>While their father yet lived.</n> before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.


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And Dauid distributed them, euen Zadok of the sonnes of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sonnes of Ithamar according to their offices in their ministration.


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And there were found mo of the sonnes of Eleazar by the number of men, then of the sonnes of Ithamar; they deuided them, to wit, among the sonnes of Eleazar, sixteene heads, according to the houshould of their fathers, and among ye sonnes of Ithamar, according to the housholde of their fathers, eight.


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Thus they distributed them by lot the one from the other, and so the rulers of the Sanctuarie and the rulers of the house of God were of the sonnes of Eleazar and of the sonnes of Ithamar.


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And Shemaiah the sonne of Nethaneel the scribe of the Leuites, wrote them before ye King and the princes, and Zadok the Priest, and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar, and before ye chiefe fathers of the Priests and of the Leuites, one familie being reserued for Eleazar, and another reserued for Ithamar.


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Now the first <n>This lot was ordained to take away all occasion of envy or grudging of one against another.</n> lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,


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The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to <n>Zachariah the father of John the Baptist was of this course or lot of Abia, (Luk_1:5).</n> Abijah,


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These [were] the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under <n>By the dignity that God gave to Aaron.</n> Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.


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And of the sonnes of Leui that remained of the sonnes of Amram, was Shubael, of the sonnes of Shubael, Iedeiah,


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The sons also of <n>Who was the second son of Merari.</n> Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These [were] the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers.


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These likewise cast <n>That is, every one had that honour which fell to him by lot.</n> lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.


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Moreover David and the captains of the host <n>The singers were divided into 24 courses, so that every course or order contained twelve, and in all there were 288, as in (1Ch_25:7).</n> separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:


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Of the sonnes of Asaph, Zaccur, and Ioseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah the sonnes of Asaph were vnder the hand of Asaph, which sang prophesies by the commission of the King.


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Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, <n>Of which one is not here numbered.</n> six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who <n>Meaning, psalms and songs to praise God.</n> prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.


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Of Heman, the sonnes of Heman, Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Vzziel, Shebuel, and Ierimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Ioshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.


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All these were the sonnes of Heman, the Kings Seer in the wordes of God to lift vp the horne: and God gaue to Heman fourtene sonnes and three daughters.


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All these were vnder the hande of their father, singing in the house of the Lorde with cymbales, violes and harpes, for the seruice of the house of God, and Asaph, and Ieduthun, and Heman were at the Kings commandement.


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So was their nomber with their brethre that were instruct in ye songs of the Lord, euen of al that were cunning, two hundreth foure score &amp; eight.


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And they cast lots, <n>Who should be in every company and course.</n> ward against [ward], as well the <n>Without respect to age or cunning.</n> small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.


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Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to <n>So that he served in the first turn and the rest every one as his turn followed in order.</n> Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons [were] twelve:


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Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites [was] Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of <n>This Asaph was not the notable musician, but another of that name also called Ebiasaph in (1Ch_6:23, 1Ch_6:37, 1Ch_9:19) and also Jasaph.</n> Asaph.


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And the sonnes of Meshelemiah, Zechariah the eldest, Iediael the seconde, Zebadiah the third, Iathniel the fourth,


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And the sonnes of Obed Edom, Shemaiah the eldest, Iehozabad the second, Ioah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fift,


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Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God <n>In giving him many children.</n> blessed him.


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Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that <n>Or, like their father's house, meaning, worthy men and valiant.</n> ruled throughout the house of their father: for they [were] mighty men of valour.


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The sonnes of Shemaiah were Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad and his brethren, strong men: Elihu also, and Semachiah.


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All these of the sons of Obededom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for <n>Fit to serve the office of the portership.</n> strength for the service, [were] threescore and two of Obededom.


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And of Hosah of the sonnes of Merari, the sonnes were Shuri the chiefe, and (though he was not the eldest, yet his father made him the chiefe)


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Helkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, &amp; Zechariah the fourth: all the sonnes &amp; the brethren of Hosa were thirteene.


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Among these [were] the divisions of the porters, [even] among the chief men, [having] wards one <n>According to their turns as well the one as the other.</n> against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.


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And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, <n>One expert and fit to keep that gate.</n> a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.


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To Obededom southward; and to his sons the house of <n>This was a house where they used to resort to consult things concerning the temple, as a convocation house.</n> Asuppim.


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To Shuppim and Hosah [the lot came forth] westward, with the gate <n>At which they used to cast out the filth of the city.</n> Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.


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Eastward [were] six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim <n>Meaning two one day and two another.</n> two [and] two.


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At <n>Which was a house in which they kept the instruments of the temple.</n> Parbar westward, four at the causeway, [and] two at Parbar.


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And of the Leuites. Ahiiah was ouer the treasures of the house of God, and ouer the treasures of the dedicate things.


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Of the sonnes of Laadan the sonnes of the Gershunnites descending of Laadan, the chiefe fathers of Laadan were Gershunni &amp; Iehieli.


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The sonnes of Iehieli were Zethan &amp; Ioel his brother, appoynted ouer the treasures of the house of the Lord.


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Of the <n>These also had charge over the treasures.</n> Amramites, [and] the Izharites, the Hebronites, [and] the Uzzielites:


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And of his brethren which came of Eliezer, was Rehabiah his sonne, &amp; Ieshaiah his sonne, and Ioram his sonne, and Zichri his sonne, and Shelomith his sonne.


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Which Shelomith and his brethren [were] over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had <n>According as the Lord commanded, (Num_31:28).</n> dedicated.


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And al that Samuel the Seer had dedicate and Saul the sonne of Kish and Abner the sonne of Ner, &amp; Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah, &amp; whosoeuer had dedicate any thing, it was vnder the hand of Shelomith, and his brethren.


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Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons [were] for the outward business <n>Meaning of things that were out of the city.</n> over Israel, for officers and judges.


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[And] of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, [were] officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of <n>That is, for the king's house.</n> the king.


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Among the Hebronites was Iediiah the chiefest, euen the Hebronites by his generations according to the families; in the fourtieth yere of the reigne of Dauid they were sought for: and there were founde among them men of actiuitie at Iazer in Gilead.


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And his brethren, men of valour, [were] two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to <n>Both in spiritual and temporal things.</n> God, and affairs of the king.


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Now the children of Israel after their number, [to wit], the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, <n>Who executed their charge and office, which is meant by coming in and going out.</n> which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course [were] twenty and four thousand.


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Ouer the first course for the first moneth was Iashobeam the sonne of Zabdiel: and in his course were foure and twentie thousand.


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And over the course of the second month [was] Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course [was] Mikloth also the <n>That is, Dodais lieutenant.</n> ruler: in his course likewise [were] twenty and four thousand.


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The captaine of the thirde hoste for the third moneth was Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada the chiefe Priest: and in his course were foure and twentie thousand.


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This Benaiah was mightie among thirtie and aboue the thirtie, and in his course was Amizabad his sonne.


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The fourth for the fourth moneth was Asahel the brother of Ioab, &amp; Zebadiah his sonne after him: and in his course were foure &amp; twentie thousand.


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The fift for ye fift moneth was prince Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course foure and twentie thousand.


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The sixt for the sixt moneth was Ira the sonne of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course foure and twentie thousand.


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The seuenth for the seuenth moneth was Helez the Pelonite, of the sonnes of Ephraim: and in his course foure and twentie thousand.


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The eight for the eight moneth was Sibbecai the Hushathite of the Zarhites: and in his course foure and twentie thousand.


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The ninth for the ninth moneth was Abiezer the Anethothite of the sonnes of Iemini: &amp; in his course foure and twentie thousand.


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The tenth for the tenth moneth was Maharai, the Netophathite of the Zarhites: &amp; in his course foure and twentie thousand.


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The eleueth for the eleuenth moneth was Benaiah the Pirathonite of the sonnes of Ephraim: and in his course foure and twentie thousand.


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The twelft for the twelft moneth was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: &amp; in his course foure and twentie thousand.


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Furthermore <n>Meaning besides those twelve captains.</n> over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites [was] Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:


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Ouer the sonnes of Ephraim, Hoshea the sonne of Azazziah: ouer the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Ioel the sonne of Pedaiah:


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Of the <n>Which is beyond Jordan in respect to Judah, also one captain was over the Reubenites and the Gadites.</n> half [tribe] of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:


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But Dauid tooke not the nober of them from twentie yeere olde and vnder, because the Lord had sayde that he would increase Israel like vnto the starres of the heauens.


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Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, <n>The commandment of the king was abominable to Joab, (1Ch_21:6).</n> because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the <n>The Hebrews make both these books of Chronicles but one, and at this verse make the middle of the book concerning the number of verses.</n> chronicles of king David.


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And ouer the Kings treasures was Azmaueth the sonne of Adiel: and ouer the treasures in the fieldes, in the cities &amp; in the villages &amp; in the towers was Iehonathan the sonne of Vzziah:


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And ouer them that dressed the vines, was Shimei the Ramathite: and ouer that which apperteined to the vines, and ouer the store of the wine was Sabdi the Shiphmite:


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And ouer the oliue trees &amp; mulberie trees that were in the valleys, was Baal Hanan the Gederite: and ouer the store of the oyle was Ioash:


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And ouer the oxen that fed in Sharon, was Shetrai the Sharonite: and ouer the oxen in the valleyes was Shaphat the sonne of Adlai:


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And ouer the sheepe was Iaziz the Hagerite: all these were the rulers of the substance that was King Dauids.


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Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counsellor, a wise man, and a <n>That is, a man learned in the word of God.</n> scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni [was] with the king's <n>To be their schoolmasters and teachers.</n> sons:


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And <n>After Ahithophel hanged himself, (2Sa_17:23), Jehoiada was made counsellor.</n> after Ahithophel [was] Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army [was] Joab.


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Nowe Dauid assembled all the princes of Israel: the princes of the tribes, and the captaines of the bandes that serued the King, and the captaines of thousands and the captaines of hundreths, and the rulers of all the substance &amp; possession of the King, and of his sonnes, with the eunuches, and the mightie, and all the men of power, vnto Ierusalem.


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Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: [As for me], I [had] in mine heart to build an house of <n>Where the ark would stay and no longer move to and fro.</n> rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:


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But God sayde vnto me, Thou shalt not buylde an house for my Name, because thou hast bene a man of warre, and hast shed blood.


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Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah [to be] the ruler; and of the house of <n>According to the prophecy of Jacob, (Gen_49:8).</n> Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make [me] king over all Israel:


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So of all my sonnes (for the Lord hath giuen me many sonnes) he hath euen chosen Salomon my sonne to sit vpo the throne of the kingdome of the Lord ouer Israel.


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And he sayd vnto me, Salomon thy sonne, he shall build mine house and my courtes: for I haue chosen him to be my sonne, and I will be his father.


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Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at <n>If he continues to keep my law as he does now and doesn't depart from it.</n> this day.


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Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this <n>That is, of Canaan.</n> good land, and leave [it] for an inheritance for your children after you <n>He declares that nothing can separate them from the conveniences of this land, both for themselves and their posterity except for their sins and iniquity.</n> for ever.


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And thou, Salomon my sonne, know thou the God of thy father, and serue him with a perfit heart, and with a willing minde: For the Lorde searcheth all hearts, and vnderstandeth all the imaginations of thoughts: if thou seeke him, he will be found of thee, but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for euer.


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Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build <n>Meaning, for his ark.</n> an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and <n>Put it in execution.</n> do [it].


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Then Dauid gaue to Salomon his sonne the paterne of the porch and of the houses thereof, and of the closets thereof, and of the galleries thereof, and of the chambers thereof that are within, and of the house of the mercieseate,


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And the paterne of all that he had in his minde for the courtes of the house of the Lorde, and for all the chambers round about, for the treasures of the house of God, and for the treasures of the dedicate things,


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And for the courses of the Priestes, and of the Leuites, and for all the woorke for the seruice of the house of the Lorde, and for all the vessels of the ministerie of the house of the Lord.


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He gaue of golde by weight, for the vessels of gold, for all the vessels of all maner of seruice, and all the vessels of siluer by weight, for all maner vessels of all maner of seruice.


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Even the weight for the <n>That is, the ten candlesticks, (1Ki_7:49).</n> candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, [both] for the candlestick, and [also] for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick.


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And the weight of the gold for the tables of shewbread, for euery table, &amp; siluer for the tables of siluer,


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And pure golde for the fleshhookes, and the bowles, and plates, and for basens, golde in weight for euery basen, and for siluer basens, by weight for euery basen,


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And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of <n>Meaning, of the mercy seat that covered the ark, which was called the chariot, because the Lord declared himself there.</n> the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out [their wings], and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.


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All [this, said David], the LORD made me understand in writing <n>For all this was left in writing in the book of the Law, (Exo_25:40), which the king was bound to put in execution, (Deu_17:19).</n> by [his] hand upon me, [even] all the works of this pattern.


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And Dauid said to Salomon his sonne, Be strong, and of a valiant courage and doe it: feare not, nor be afraide: for the Lorde God, euen my God is with thee: he will not leaue thee nor forsake thee till thou hast finished all the worke for the seruice of the house of the Lord.


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And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, [even they shall be with thee] for all the service of the house of God: and [there shall be] with thee for all manner of workmanship <n>That is, everyone will be ready to help you with those gifts that God has given him.</n> every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people [will be] wholly at thy commandment.


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Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, [is yet] young and tender, and the work [is] great: for the palace [is] not for man, but for the <n>Therefore it should be excellent in all points.</n> LORD God.


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Now I haue prepared with all my power for the house of my God, golde for vessels of golde, and siluer for them of siluer, and brasse for things of brasse, yron for things of yron, &amp; wood for things of wood, and onix stones, and stones to be set, and carbuncle stones and of diuers colours, and all precious stones, and marble stones in aboundance.


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Moreover, because I have set my <n>His great zeal for the furtherance of the temple made him spare no expenses, but to bestow his own peculiar treasure.</n> affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, [which] I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,


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[Even] <n>He shows what he had of his own store for the Lord's house.</n> three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses [withal]:


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The gold for [things] of gold, and the silver for [things] of silver, and for all manner of work [to be made] by the hands of artificers. And who [then] is <n>He was not only liberal himself but provoked others to set forth the work of God.</n> willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?


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So the princes of the families, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captaines of thousands and of hundreths, with the rulers of the Kings worke, offred willingly,


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And they gaue for the seruice of the house of God fiue thousande talents of golde, and ten thousand pieces, and ten thousand talents of siluer, and eighteene thousand talents of brasse, and one hundreth thousand talents of yron.


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And they with whom [precious] stones were <n>Meaning, they who had any.</n> found gave [them] to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.


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Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with <n>That is, with good courage and without hypocrisy.</n> perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.


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Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed [be] thou, LORD God of <n>Who revealed yourself to our father Jacob.</n> Israel our father, for ever and ever.


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Thine, O Lord, is greatnesse &amp; power, and glory, and victorie &amp; praise: for all that is in heauen and in earth is thine: thine is the kingdome, O Lord, and thou excellest as head ouer all.


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Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest ouer all, and in thine hand is power and strength, and in thine hande it is to make great, and to giue strength vnto all.


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But who [am] I, and what [is] my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things <n>We gave you nothing of our own, but that which we have received from you: for whether the gifts are corporal or spiritual, we receive them all from God, and therefore must give him the glory.</n> [come] of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.


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For we [are] <n>Therefore we have this land loaned to us for a time.</n> strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.


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O Lorde our God, all this abundance that we haue prepared to buylde thee an house for thine holy Name, is of thine hand &amp; all is thine.


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I knowe also, my God, that thou tryest the heart, and hast pleasure in righteousnesse: I haue offred willingly in the vprightnesse of mine heart all these things: now also haue I seene thy people which are found here, to offer vnto thee willingly with ioy.


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O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the <n>Continue then in his good mind, that they may serve you willingly.</n> imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:


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And giue vnto Salomon my sonne a perfit heart to keepe thy commaundements, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to doe all things, and to builde the house which I haue prepared.


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And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the <n>That is, revered the king.</n> king.


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And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, [even] a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, [and] a thousand lambs, with their <n>Meaning, all kinds of liquor which they mingled with their sacrifices, as wine, oil, etc.</n> drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:


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And they did eate and drinke before the Lord the same day with great ioy, and they made Salomon the sonne of Dauid King the seconde time, and anoynted him prince before the Lord, and Zadok for the hie Priest.


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Then Solomon sat on the <n>This declares that the kings of Judah were figures of Christ, who was the true anointed, and to whom God gave the chief government of all things.</n> throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.


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And all the princes and men of power, and all the sonnes of King Dauid submitted them selues vnder King Salomon.


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And the Lord magnified Salomon in dignitie, in the sight of all Israel, and gaue him so glorious a kingdome, as no King had before him in Israel.


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And the space that he reigned ouer Israel, was fourtie yeere: seuen yeere reigned he in Hebron, and three and thirtie yeere reigned he in Ierusalem:


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And he dyed in a good age, full of dayes, riches and honour, and Salomon his sonne reigned in his steade.


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Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they [are] written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of <n>The books of Nathan and Gad are thought to have been lost in the captivity.</n> Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,


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With all his reign and his might, and the <n>Meaning the troubles and griefs.</n> times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.


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And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God [was] with him, and magnified him exceedingly. <n>The Argument - This second book contains in brief the contents of the two books of the kings: that is, from the reign of Solomon to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian captivity. In this story some things are told in more detail than in the books of the kings and therefore help greatly in the understanding of the prophets. Three things are chiefly to be considered here: First, that when the godly kings saw the plagues of God prepared against their country for sin, they turned to the Lord and by earnest prayer were heard, and the plagues removed. Secondly, while the good rulers always loved the prophets of God and were zealous to set forth his religion throughout their dominions, it offended God greatly that the wicked hated his ministers, deposed them and set up idolatry and attempted served God according to the fantasy of men. Thus we have the chief acts from the beginning of the world to the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the 32nd year of Darius, in total 3568 years and six months.</n>


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Then Solomon <n>That is, he proclaimed a solemn sacrifice and commanded that all should attend.</n> spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.


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So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that [was] at <n>Read (1Ki_3:4).</n> Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle <n>So called, because by it God showed signs of his presence to the congregation.</n> of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.


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But the Arke of God had Dauid brought vp from Kiriath-iearim, when Dauid had made preparation for it: for he had pitched a tent for it in Ierusalem.


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Moreover the <n>Which was for the burnt offerings, (Exo_27:1).</n> brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.


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And Salomon offred there before the Lord vpon the brasen altar that was in the Tabernacle of the Congregation: euen a thousand burnt offrings offred he vpon it.


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And Salomon sayde vnto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy vnto Dauid my father and hast made me to reigne in his stead.


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Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be <n>Perform your promise made to my father concerning me.</n> established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.


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Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may <n>That I may govern this people, (1Ch_27:1; 1Ki_3:7).</n> go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, [that is so] great?


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And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the <n>That is, to be avenged on your enemies.</n> life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:


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Wisdome and knowledge is granted vnto thee, and I will giue thee riches and treasures and honour, so that there hath not bene the like among the Kings which were before thee, neither after thee shal there be the like.


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Then Salomon came from the hie place, that was at Gibeon, to Ierusalem from before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and reigned ouer Israel.


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And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the <n>Which were cities appointed to keep and maintain the chariots.</n> chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.


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And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem [as plenteous] as <n>He caused so great plenty that it was valued no more than stones.</n> stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the vale for abundance.


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And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: <n>Read (1Ki_20:28).</n> the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.


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They came vp also and brought out of Egypt some charet, worth sixe hundreth shekels of siluer, that is an horse for an hundreth and fiftie: and thus they brought horses to all the Kings of the Hittites, and to the Kings of Aram by their meanes.


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And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and <n>Which is to be understood of all sorts of officers and overseers: for else the chief officers were but 3300 as in (1Ki_5:16).</n> six hundred to oversee them.


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And Salomon sent to Huram the king of Tyrus, saying, As thou hast done to Dauid my father, and didst sende him cedar trees to buylde him an house to dwell in, so do to me.


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Behold, I buylde an house vnto the Name of the Lord my God, to sanctifie it vnto him, and to burne sweete incense before him, and for the continuall shewbread, and for the burnt offrings of the morning and euening, on the Sabbath dayes, and in the new moneths, &amp; in the solemne feastes of the Lorde our God: this is a perpetuall thing for Israel.


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But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn <n>That is, to do the service which he has commanded, signifying that no one is able to honour and serve God in the perfection his majesty deserves.</n> sacrifice before him?


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Sende me nowe therefore a cunning man that can worke in golde, in siluer, &amp; in brasse, and in yron, &amp; in purple, and crimosin &amp; blue silke, &amp; that can graue in grauen worke with the cunning men that are with me in Iudah &amp; in Ierusalem, whom Dauid my father hath prepared.


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Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and <n>Some take it for Brazil, or the wood called Ebenum, others for coral.</n> algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants [shall be] with thy servants,


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That they may prepare me timber in abudance: for the house which I doe buylde, is great and wonderfull.


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And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty <n>Of «bath» read (1Ki_7:26). It is also called ephah, but an ephah measures dry things as a bath is a measure for liquids.</n> thousand baths of oil.


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Then Huram King of Tyrus answered in writing which he sent to Salomon, Because the Lorde hath loued his people, he hath made thee King ouer them.


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Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a <n>The very heavens confessed that it was a singular gift of God when he gave to any nation a king that was wise and of understanding, though it appears that this Hiram had the true knowledge of God.</n> wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.


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The son of a woman of the <n>It is also written that she was of the tribe of Naphtali, (1Ki_7:14) which may be understood that by reason of the confusion of tribes which then began to be, they married in various tribes so that by her father she might be of Dan and by her mother of Naphtali.</n> daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.


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Now therefore the wheate and the barley, the oyle and the wine, which my lorde hath spoken of, let him send vnto his seruants.


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And we wil cut wood in Lebanon as much as thou shalt neede, and will bring it to thee in raftes by the sea to Iapho, so thou mayest cary them to Ierusalem.


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And Salomon nombred al the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the nombring that his father Dauid had nombred them: &amp; they were found an hundreth and three &amp; fiftie thousand, and sixe hundreth.


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And he set seuentie thousande of them to the burden, and fourescore thousande to hewe stones in the mountaine, and three thousande and sixe hundreth ouerseers to cause the people to worke.


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Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount <n>Which is the mountain where Abraham was thought to have sacrificed his son, (Gen_22:2).</n> Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.


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And he beganne to buylde in the seconde moneth and the second day, in the fourth yeere of his reigne.


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Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first <n>According to the whole length of the temple,</n> measure [was] threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.


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And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the <n>It contained as much as the breadth of the temple did, (1Ki_6:3).</n> breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an <n>From the foundation to the top: for in the book of the kings mention is made from the foundation to the first stage.</n> hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.


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And the greater house he sieled with firre tree which he ouerlayd with good golde, &amp; graued thereon palme trees and chaines.


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And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold [was] gold of <n>Some think it is Peru.</n> Parvaim.


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The house, I say, the beames, postes, and walles thereof &amp; the doores thereof ouerlayde he with gold, &amp; graued Cherubims vpon the walles.


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He made also the house of the most holy place: the length thereof was in the front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, &amp; the breadth thereof twentie cubites: and he ouerlayde it with the best golde, of sixe hundreth talents.


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And the weight of the nayles was fiftie shekels of golde, and hee ouerlayde the chambers with golde.


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And in the house of the most holy place he made two Cherubims wrought like children, and ouerlayd them with golde.


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And the winges of the Cherubims were twentie cubites long: the one wing was fiue cubites, reaching to the wall of the house, and the other wing fiue cubites, reaching to the wing of the other Cherub.


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Likewise the wing of ye other Cherub was fiue cubites, reaching to the wall of the house, &amp; the other wing fiue cubites ioyning to the wing of the other Cherub.


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The wings of these Cherubims were spread abroade twentie cubites: they stoode on their feete, and their faces were toward the house.


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And he made the <n>Which separated the temple from the most holy place.</n> vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.


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Also he made before the house two pillars of <n>Every one was eighteen cubits long, but the half cubit could not be seen, for it was hid in the roundness of the chapiter, and therefore he gives to every one only 17 and a half.</n> thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits.


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And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put [them] on the heads of the pillars; and made an <n>For every pillar a hundred, read (1Ki_7:20).</n> hundred pomegranates, and put [them] on the chains.


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And he set vp the pillars before the Temple, one on the right hande and the other on the left, and called that on the right hand Iachin, &amp; that on the left hand Boaz.


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And hee made an altar of brasse twentie cubites long, and twentie cubites broade, and ten cubites hie.


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Also he made a molten <n>A great vessel of brass, so called because of the great quantity of water which it contained, (1Ki_7:24).</n> sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.


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And under <n>Meaning, under the brim of the sea, (1Ki_7:24).</n> it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: <n>In the length of every cubit were ten heads or knops which in all are 300.</n> ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast.


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It stoode vpon twelue oxen: three looked toward the North, and three looked towarde the West, and three looked towarde the South, and three looked towarde the East, and the Sea stoode about vpon them, and all their hinder parts were inwarde.


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And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; [and] it received and held <n>In the first book of the kings, (1Ki_7:26), mention is only made of 2000, but the lesser number was taken there, and here according as the measures proved afterwards, is declared.</n> three thousand baths.


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He made also ten caldrons, and put fiue on the right hand, and fiue on the left, to wash in them, and to clense in them that which apperteined to the burnt offrings: but the Sea was for the Priests to wash in.


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And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to <n>Even as they should be made.</n> their form, and set [them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.


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And he made ten tables, &amp; put them in the Temple, fiue on the right hand, &amp; fiue on the left: and he made an hundreth basens of golde.


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Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great <n>Called also the porch of Solomon, (Act_3:11). It is also taken for the temple where Christ preached, (Mat_21:23).</n> court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.


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And Huram made pottes and besoms and basens, and Huram finished the worke that hee shoulde make for King Salomon for the house of God,


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To wit, two pillars, and the bowles &amp; the chapiters on the top of ye two pillars, &amp; two grates to couer the two bowles of the chapiters which were vpon the toppe of the pillars:


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And foure hundreth pomegranates for the two grates, two rowes of pomegranates for euery grate to couer the two bowles of the chapiters, that were vpon the pillars.


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The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram <n>Whom Solomon reverenced for the gifts that God had given him, as a father; he had the same name as Huram the king of Tyrus, his mother was a Jewess, and his father a Tyrian. Some read, for his father, the author of this work.</n> his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.


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And Salomon made al these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of brasse could not be rekoned.


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And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the <n>In Hebrew, the bread of the faces because they were set before the ark, where the Lord showed his presence.</n> shewbread [was set];


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Moreouer the candlestickes, with their lampes to burne them after the maner, before the oracle, of pure golde.


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And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, [of] pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy [place], and the doors of the house of the temple, [were <n>That is, covered with plates of gold.</n> of] gold.


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So was all the worke finished that Salomon made for the house of the Lord, and Salomon brought in the things that Dauid his father had dedicated, with the siluer and the golde, and all the vessels, and put them among the treasures of the house of God.


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Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the <n>Read (2Sa_6:12).</n> city of David, which [is] Zion.


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Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the <n>When the things were dedicated and brought into the temple.</n> feast which [was] in the seventh <n>Called in Hebrew Ethanim, containing part of September and part of October, (1Ki_8:2), which moves the Jews called the first month, because they say that the world was created in that month, and after they came from Egypt, they began at March: but because this opinion is uncertain, we always make March the first as the best writers do.</n> month.


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And they caried vp the Arke and the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle, those did the Priests and Leuites bring vp.


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And King Salomon &amp; all the Congregation of Israel that were assembled vnto him, were before ye Arke, offring sheepe &amp; bullocks, which could not be told nor nobred for multitude.


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So the Priests brought the Arke of the couenant of the Lord vnto his place, into the Oracle of the house, into the most Holy place, euen vnder the wings of the Cherubims.


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For ye Cherubims stretched out their wings ouer the place of the Arke, and the Cherubims couered the Arke and the barres thereof aboue.


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And they drewe out the barres, that the endes of the barres might bee seene out of the Arke before the Oracle, but they were not seene without: and there they are vnto this day.


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And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy [place]: (for all the priests [that were] present were <n>Were prepared to serve the Lord.</n> sanctified, [and] did not [then] wait by course:


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And the Leuites the singers of all sortes, as of Asaph, of Heman, of Ieduthun, and of their sonnes and of their brethren, being clad in fine linen, stoode with cymbales, and with violes and harpes at the East ende of the altar, and with them an hundreth and twentie Priestes blowing with trumpets:


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It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers [were] <n>They all played the same tune.</n> as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up [their] voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, [saying], <n>This was the effect of their songs, (Psa_118:1, Psa_136:1).</n> For [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: that [then] the house was filled with a cloud, [even] the house of the LORD;


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Then <n>After he had seen the glory of the Lord in the cloud.</n> said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.


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And the King turned his face, and blessed all the Congregation of Israel (for all the Congregation of Israel stoode there )


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And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who spake with his mouth vnto Dauid my father, &amp; hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,


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Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no citie of al the tribes of Israel to buylde an house, that my Name might be there, neyther chose I any man to be a ruler ouer my people Israel:


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But I haue chosen Ierusalem, that my Name might be there, &amp; haue chosen Dauid to be ouer my people Israel.


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And it was in the heart of Dauid my father to builde an house vnto the Name of the Lord God of Israel,


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But the Lorde sayde to Dauid my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to buylde an house vnto my Name, thou diddest well, that thou wast so minded.


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And the Lorde hath performed his worde that he spake: and I am risen vp in the roume of Dauid my father, and am set on the throne of Israel as the Lord promised, &amp; haue built an house to the Name of the Lord God of Israel.


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And in it have I put the ark, wherein [is] the <n>Meaning the two tables, in which is contained the effect of the covenant that God made with our fathers.</n> covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.


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And <n>On a scaffold that was made for that purpose, that he praying for the whole people might be heard by all, as in (1Ki_8:22).</n> he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:


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For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and <n>Both to give thanks for the great benefits of God bestowed on him, and also to pray for the perseverance and prosperity of his people.</n> spread forth his hands toward heaven,


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And sayd, O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heauen nor in earth, which keepest couenant, and mercie vnto thy seruants, that walke before thee with all their heart.


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Thou that hast kept with thy seruant Dauid my father, that thou hast promised him: for thou spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as appeareth this day.


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Therefore now Lord God of Israel, keepe with thy seruant Dauid my father, that thou hast promised him, saying, Thou shalt not want a man in my sight, that shall sit vpon the throne of Israel: so that thy sonnes take heede to their wayes, to walke in my Lawe, as thou hast walked before me.


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And now, O Lorde God of Israel, let thy worde be verified, which thou spakest vnto thy seruant Dauid.


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(Is it true in deede that God will dwell with man on earth? beholde, the heauens, and the heauens of heauens are not able to conteine thee: how much more vnable is this house, which I haue buylt?)


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But haue thou respect to the prayer of thy seruant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to heare the crye and prayer which thy seruant prayeth before thee,


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That thine <n>That you may declare in effect that you have a continual care over this place.</n> eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.


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Heare thou therefore the supplication of thy seruant, and of thy people Israel, which they pray in this place: and heare thou in the place of thine habitation, euen in heauen, and when thou hearest, be mercifull.


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If a man sin against his <n>By retaining anything from him, or by denying that which he has left him to keep, or do him any wrong.</n> neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;


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Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way <n>Meaning, to give him that which he has deserved.</n> upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.


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And when thy people Israel shalbe ouerthrowen before the enemie, because they haue sinned against thee, and turne againe, and confesse thy Name, and pray, and make supplication before thee in this house,


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Then heare thou in heauen, and be mercifull vnto the sinne of thy people Israel, and bring them againe vnto the land which thou gauest to them and to their fathers.


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When heauen shall be shut vp, and there shalbe no rayne, because they haue sinned against thee, and shall pray in this place, and confesse thy Name, and turne from their sinne, when thou doest afflict them,


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Then heare thou in heauen, and pardon the sinne of thy seruants, and of thy people Israel (when thou hast taught them the good way wherein they may walke) and giue rayne vpon thy lande, which thou hast giuen vnto thy people for an inheritance.


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When there shalbe famine in the land, when there shalbe pestilence, blasting, or mildew, when there shall be grashopper, or caterpiller, when their enemie shall besiege them in the cities of their land, or any plague or any sickenesse,


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Then what prayer and supplication so euer shalbe made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, whe euery one shall knowe his owne plague, and his owne disease, and shall stretch forth his hands toward this house,


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Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose <n>He declares that the prayers of hypocrites cannot be heard, nor of any but of them who pray to God with a true faith and in true repentance.</n> heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)


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That they may feare thee, and walke in thy wayes as long as they liue in the land which thou gauest vnto our fathers.


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Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and <n>He shows that before God there is no deception of person, but all people who fear him and work righteousness are accepted, (Act_10:35).</n> pray in this house;


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Heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place, and doe according to all that the stranger calleth for vnto thee, that all the people of the earth may knowe thy Name, and feare thee like thy people Israel, and that they may knowe, that thy Name is called vpon in this house which I haue built.


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If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that <n>Meaning, that no one should enterprise any war, but at the Lord's command, that is, which is lawful by his word.</n> thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;


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If they sinne against thee ( for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them and deliuer them vnto the enemies, and they take them and cary them away captiue vnto a land farre or neere,


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If they turne againe to their heart in the lande whither they be caryed in captiues, and turne and pray vnto thee in the lande of their captiuitie, saying, We haue sinned, we haue transgressed and haue done wickedly,


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If they turne againe to thee with all their heart, and with all their soule in the land of their captiuitie, whither they haue caryed them captiues, and pray toward their land, which thou gauest vnto their fathers, &amp; toward the citie which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I haue built for thy Name,


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Then heare thou in heauen, in the place of thine habitation their prayer and their supplication, and iudge their cause, and be mercifull vnto thy people, which haue sinned against thee.


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Nowe my God, I beseech thee, let thine eyes be open, &amp; thine eares attent vnto the prayer that is made in this place.


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Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy <n>That is, into your temple.</n> resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with <n>Let them be preserved by your power, and made virtuous and holy.</n> salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.


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O LORD God, turn not away the face of <n>Hear my prayer, I who am your anointed king.</n> thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.


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Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the <n>By this God declared that he was pleased with Solomon's prayer.</n> fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.


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So that the Priestes could not euter into the house of the Lorde, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lordes house.


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And when all the children of Israel saw the fire, and the glory of the Lord come downe vpon the house, they bowed themselues with their faces to the earth vpon the pauement, and worshipped and praysed the Lord, saying, For he is good, because his mercy lasteth for euer.


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And King Salomon offered a sacrifice of two and twentie thousand bullockes, and an hundreth and twentie thousand sheepe. so the King and all the people dedicated the house of God.


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And the Priests waited on their offices, and the Leuites with the instruments of musicke of the Lorde, which King Dauid had made to praise the Lord, Because his mercy lasteth for euer: whe Dauid praysed God by them, the Priestes also blewe trumpets ouer against them: and all they of Israel stoode by.


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Moreouer Salomon halowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord: for there hee had prepared burnt offerings, and the fatte of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Salomon had made, was not able to receiue the burnt offering, and the meate offring, and the fat.


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Also at the same time Solomon kept <n>The feast of the tabernacles which was kept in the seventh month.</n> the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.


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And in the eighth day they <n>They assembled to hear the word of God, after they had remained seven days in the booths or tabernacles.</n> made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.


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And on the <n>They had permission to depart on the 22nd day, (1Ki_8:66) but they did not leave till the next day.</n> three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.


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So Salomon finished the house of the Lorde, and the Kings house, and all that came into Salomons heart to make in the house of the Lorde: and he prospered in his house.


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And the Lord appeared to Salomon by night and said to him, I haue heard thy prayer, and haue chosen this place for my selfe to be an house of sacrifice.


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If I shut the heauen that there be no raine, or if I commaunde the grashopper to deuoure the lande, or if I sende pestilence among my people,


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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will <n>I will cause the pestilence to cease and destroy the beasts that hurt the fruit of the earth, and send rain in due season.</n> heal their land.


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For I haue nowe chosen and sanctified this house, that my Name may be there for euer: and mine eyes &amp; mine heart shalbe there perpetually.


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And if thou wilt walke before me, as Dauid thy father walked, to doe according vnto all that I haue commanded thee, and shalt obserue my statutes and my iudgements,


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Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdome, according as I made the couenant with Dauid thy father, saying, Thou shalt not want a man to be ruler in Israel.


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But if ye turne away, and forsake my statutes and my commandements which I haue set before you, and shall goe and serue other gods, and worshippe them,


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Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have <n>Declaring that God had more concern for their salvation than for the advancement of his own glory: and where men abuse those things which God has appointed to set forth his praise, he withdraws his graces.</n> sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it [to be] a proverb and a byword among all nations.


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And this house which is most hie, shall be an astonishment to euery one that passeth by it, so that he shall say, Why hath the Lorde done thus to this lande, and to this house?


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And they shall answere, Because they forsooke the Lorde God of their fathers, which brought them out of the lande of Egypt, and haue taken holde on other gods, and haue worshipped them, and serued them, therefore hath he brought all this euill vpon them.


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And it came to pass at the end of <n>Signifying that he was 20 years in building them.</n> twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,


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That the cities which Huram had <n>That is, which Hiram gave again to Solomon because they did not please him and therefore called them Cabul, that is, dirt or filth, (1Ki_9:13).</n> restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.


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And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the <n>Meaning of munitions and treasures for the war.</n> store cities, which he built in Hamath.


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Also he built <n>That is, he repaired and fortified them, for they were built long before by Sherah a noble woman of the tribe of Ephraim, (1Ch_6:68, 1Ch_7:24).</n> Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;


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Also Baalath, and al the cities of store that Salomon had, and all the charet cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and euery pleasaunt place that Salomon had a minde to builde in Ierusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the lande of his dominion.


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And all the people that were left to ye Hittites, and ye Amorites, and Perizzites, and the Hiuuites, and the Iebusites, which were not of Israel,


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But of their children which were left after them in the lande, whome the children of Israel had not consumed, euen them did Salomon make tributaries vntill this day.


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But of the children of Israel did Salomon make no seruantes for his worke: for they were men of warre, and his chiefe princes, and the captaines of his charets and of his horsemen.


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And these [were] the chief of king Solomon's officers, [even] <n>For in all there were 3300 but here he means of them who had the principal charge, (1Ki_9:23).</n> two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.


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Then Salomon brought vp the daughter of Pharaoh out of the citie of Dauid, into the house that he had built for her: for he saide, My wife shall not dwel in the house of Dauid King of Israel: for it is holy, because that the Arke of the Lorde came vnto it.


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Then Salomon offered burnt offrings vnto the Lord, on the altar of the Lorde, which he had built before the porche,


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Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, <n>Read (Lev. 23:1-44).</n> three times in the year, [even] in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.


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And he set the courses of the Priestes to their offices, according to the order of Dauid his father, and the Leuites in their watches, for to praise and minister before the Priestes euery day, and the porters by their courses, at euery gate: for so was the commandement of Dauid the man of God.


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And they declined not from the commandement of the King, concerning the Priests and the Leuites, touching al things, and touching the treasures.


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Now all the <n>Both for the matte and also for the workmanship.</n> work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. [So] the house of the LORD was perfected.


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Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the <n>Meaning, the Red Sea.</n> sea side in the land of Edom.


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And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence <n>Which is thought to amount to 3,600,000 crowns, for here mention is made of 30 more than are spoken of, (1Ki_9:28).</n> four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought [them] to king Solomon.


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And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to <n>To know whether his wisdom was as great as the report was.</n> prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.


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And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was <n>There was no question so hard that he did not resolve.</n> nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.


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And the meate of his table, and the sitting of his seruants, and the order of his wayters, and their apparel, and his butlers, and their apparel, &amp; his burnt offrings which he offred in the house of the Lorde, and she was greatly astonied.


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And she saide to the King, It was a true worde which I heard in mine owne lande of thy sayings, and of thy wisedome:


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Howbeit I beleeued not their report, vntil I came, and mine eyes had seene it: &amp; beholde, the one halfe of thy great wisedom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.


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Happie are thy men, and happie are these thy seruants, which stande before thee alway, and heare thy wisedome.


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Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his <n>Meaning, that the Israelites were God's peculiar people, and that kings are the lieutenants of God, who ought to grant to him the superiority and administer justice to all.</n> throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.


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Then she gaue the King sixe score talents of golde, and of sweete odours exceeding much &amp; precious stones: neither was there such sweete odours since, as the Queene of Sheba gaue vnto King Salomon.


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And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought <n>Read (2Ch_2:8, 1Ki_10:11).</n> algum trees and precious stones.


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And the king made [of] the algum trees <n>Or pillars: meaning the garnishing and trimming of the stairs or pillars.</n> terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.


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And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, <n>That is, which the king gave her for recompense of the treasure which she brought.</n> beside [that] which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.


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Besides that which chapmen and marchants brought: and all the Kings of Arabia, and the princes of the countrey brought golde and siluer to Salomon.


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And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: <n>Which amounts to 2400 crowns of the sun.</n><n>Or pounds, called mina, of which every one seemed to make a hundred shekels.</n> six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.


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And three hundreth shieldes of beaten golde: three hundreth shekels of golde went to one shielde, and the King put them in the house of the wood of Lebanon.


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And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, [which were] <n>That is, the steps and the footstool were fastened to the throne.</n> fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the <n>Upon the pommels or knops.</n> stays:


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And twelue lyons stoode there on the sixe steps on either side: there was not the like made in any kingdome.


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And all King Salomons drinking vessels were of golde, and all the vessels of the house of the wood of Lebanon were of pure gold: for siluer was nothing esteemed in ye dayes of Salomo.


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For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of <n>Which is thought by the best writers to be Cilicia, (1Ki_10:22).</n> Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.


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And all the Kings of the earth sought the presence of Salomon, to heare his wisedome that God had put in his heart.


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And they brought euery man his present, vessels of siluer, and vessels of golde, and raiment, armour, and sweet odours, horses, and mules, from yeere to yeere.


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And Solomon had <n>That is, ten horses in every stable, which in all amounts to 40,000 as in (1Ki_4:26).</n> four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.


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And he reigned ouer all the Kings from the Riuer euen vnto the land of the Philistims, and to the border of Egypt.


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And the king made silver in Jerusalem <n>The abundance of those temporal treasures in Solomon's kingdom is a figure of the spiritual treasures which the elect will enjoy in the heavens under the true Solomon, Christ.</n> as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the low plains in abundance.


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Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, [are] they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer <n>That is, who prophesied against him.</n> against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?


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And Salomon slept with his fathers, and they buryed him in the citie of Dauid his father: and Rehoboam his sonne reigned in his steade.


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And Rehoboam <n>After the death of Solomon.</n> went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.


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And when Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat heard it, (which was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Salomon the King) he returned out of Egypt.


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Thy father <n>That is, handled us rudely, it seems that God hardened their hearts, so that they murmured without cause, which declares also the inconstancy of the people.</n> made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.


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And King Rehoboam tooke counsel with the olde men that had stande before Salomon his father, while hee yet liued, saying, What counsell giue ye that I may answere this people?


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And they spake vnto him, saying, If thou be kinde to this people, and please them, and speake louing words to them, they will be thy seruants for euer.


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But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that <n>Or, that stood by him, that is, which were of his counsel and secrets.</n> stood before him.


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And he sayd vnto them, What counsel giue ye, that we may answere this people, which haue spoken to mee, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put vpon vs, lighter?


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And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My <n>Or, little finger, meaning that he was of far greater power than his father was.</n> little [finger] shall be thicker than my father's loins.


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Now whereas my father did burden you with a grieuous yoke, I will yet increase your yoke: my father hath chastised you with roddes, but I will correct you with scourges.


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Then Ieroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the King had appointed saying, Come againe to me the third day.


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And spake to them after ye counsell of the yong men, saying, My father made your yoke grieuous, but I wil incease it: my father chastised you with rods, but I will correct you with scourges.


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So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the <n>God's will overrides all so that nothing can be done but according to the same, and yet man's will works by itself, so that he cannot use the excuse that his deed was of God's ordinance.</n> cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.


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So when all Isarael sawe that the King would not heare them, the people answered the King, saying, What portion haue we in Dauid? for we haue none inheritance in the sonue of Ishai. O Israel, euery man to your tents: now see to thine owne house, Dauid. So all Israel departed to their tents.


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Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was ouer the tribute, and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died: then King Rehoboham made speede to get him vp to his charet, to flee to Ierusalem.


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And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and <n>That is, the half tribe of Benjamin for the other half went after Jeroboam.</n> Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen [men], which were warriors, to fight against <n>Meaning the ten tribes who rebelled.</n> Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.


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Speake vnto Rehoboam, the sonne of Salomon King of Iudah, and to all Israel that are in Iudah, and Beniamin, saying,


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Thus sayth the Lorde, Ye shall not goe vp, nor fight against your brethren: returne euery man to his house: for this thing is done of me. They obeyed therfore the word of the Lord, and returned from going against Ieroboam.


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And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and <n>Or, repaired them and made them strong to be more able to resist Jeroboam.</n> built cities for defence in Judah.


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And he repaired the strong holdes and put captaines in them, and store of vitaile, and oyle and wine.


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And in all cities he put shieldes &amp; speares, and made them exceeding strong: so Iudah and Beniamin were his.


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And the Priests and the Leuites that were in all Israel, resorted vnto him out of all their coastes.


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For the Leuites left their suburbes &amp; their possession, and came to Iudah and to Ierusalem: for Ieroboam and his sonnes had cast them out from ministring in the Priestes office vnto the Lorde.


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And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the <n>Meaning idols, (Isa_44:15).</n> devils, and for the calves which he had made.


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And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their <n>Who were zealous of true religion and feared God.</n> hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.


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So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they <n>As long as they feared God, and set forth his word, they prospered.</n> walked in the way of David and Solomon.


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And Rehoboam loued Maakah ye daughter of Absalom aboue all his wiues and his concubines: for he tooke eighteene wiues, and three score concubines, and begate eyght and twentie sonnes, and three score daughters.


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And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he <n>He gave himself to have many wives.</n> desired many wives.


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And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and <n>For such is the inconstancy of the people, that for the most part they follow the vices of their governors.</n> all Israel with him.


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Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my <n>He shows that God's punishments are not to utterly destroy his, but to chastise them, to bring them to the knowledge of themselves, and to know how much better it is to serve God than tyrants.</n> service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.


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Then Shishak King of Egypt came vp against Ierusalem, and tooke the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the Kings house he tooke euen all, and hee caried away the shields of golde, which Salomon had made.


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And when he <n>Which declares that God does not seek the death of a sinner, but his conversion, (Eze_18:32).</n> humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy [him] altogether: and also in Judah things went well.


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So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam [was] one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned <n>That is, twelve years after he had been overcome by Shishak, (2Ch_12:2).</n> seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.


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The actes also of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the booke of Shemaiah the Prophet, and Iddo the Seer, in rehearsing the genealogie? and there was warre alway betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam.


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And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid, and Abiiah his sonne reigned in his stead.


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Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over <n>He means Judah and Benjamin.</n> Judah.


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He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] <n>Or Maacah, (1Ki_15:2).</n> Michaiah the daughter of <n>Called also Absalom, for Absalom was her grandfather, (1Ki_15:2).</n> Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.


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And Abiiah set the battel in aray with the armie of valiant men of warre, euen foure hundreth thousand chosen men. Ieroboam also set the battell in aray against him with eight hundreth thousande chosen men which were strong and valiant.


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And Abijah stood up upon mount <n>Which was one of the peaks of mount Ephraim.</n> Zemaraim, which [is] in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;


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Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to <n>Therefore whoever usurps it or takes it from that stock transgresses the ordinance of the Lord. Thus like a hypocrite he alleges the word of God for his advantage.</n> David for ever, [even] to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?


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And Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat the seruant of Salomon the sonne of Dauid is risen vp, and hath rebelled against his lord:


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And there are gathered unto him <n>This word in the Chaldee tongue is Racha, which our saviour uses, (Mat_5:22).</n> vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was <n>Meaning, in heart and courage.</n> young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.


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Now therefore ye thinke that yee be able to resist against the kingdome of the Lorde, which is in the handes of the sonnes of Dauid, and ye bee a great multitude, and the golden calues are with you which Ieroboam made you for gods.


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Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of [other] lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a <n>He shows the nature of idolaters who take no trial of the calling, life and doctrine of their ministers, but think the most vile and greatest beasts sufficient to serve their turn.</n> young bullock and seven rams, [the same] may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.


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But wee belong vnto the Lorde our God, and haue not forsaken him, and the Priestes the sonnes of Aaron minister vnto the Lord, and the Leuites in their office.


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And they burn unto the LORD every <n>As it was appointed in the law, (Exo_29:39).</n> morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also [set they in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.


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And, behold, God himself [is] <n>Because their cause was good and approved by the Lord, they did not doubt the success and victory.</n> with us for [our] captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.


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But Jeroboam caused an ambushment <n>Contemning the good counsel which came from the Spirit of God, he thought to have overcome by deceit.</n> to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment [was] behind them.


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Then Iudah looked, and beholde, the battel was before and behinde them, and they cried vnto the Lorde, and the Priests blewe with the trumpets,


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And the men of Iudah gaue a shoute: and euen as the men of Iudah shouted, God smote Ieroboam and also Israel before Abiiah and Iudah.


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And Abiiah and his people slewe a great slaughter of them, so that there fel downe wounded of Israel fiue hundreth thousand chosen men.


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Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, <n>He shows that the stay of all kingdoms and assurance of victories depends on our trust and confidence in the Lord.</n> because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.


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And Abiiah pursued after Ieroboam, and tooke cities from him, euen Beth-el, and the villages thereof, and Ieshanah with her villages, and Ephron with her villages.


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And Ieroboam recouered no strength againe in the dayes of Abiiah, but the Lorde plagued him, and he dyed.


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So Abiiah waxed mightie, and marryed foureteene wiues, and begate two and twentie sonnes, and sixteene daughters.


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The rest of the actes of Abiiah and his maners and his sayings are written in the storie of the Prophet Iddo.


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So Abiiah slept with his fathers, and they buryed him in the citie of Dauid, and Asa his sonne reigned in his steade: in whose dayes the lande was quiet ten yeere.


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For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the <n>Which were planted contrary to the Law, (Deu_16:21).</n> groves:


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And commanded Iudah to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, and to doe according to the Lawe and the comandement.


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Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was <n>He shows that the rest and quietness of kingdoms stands in abolishing idolatry and advancing true religion.</n> quiet before him.


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He built also strong cities in Iudah, because the lande was in rest, and he had no warre in those yeeres: for the Lord had giuen him rest.


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Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars, [while] the land [is] yet <n>While we have the full government of it.</n> before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought [him], and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.


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And Asa had an armie of Iudah that bare shieldes and speares, three hundreth thousande, and of Beniamin that bare shieldes and drewe bowes, two hundreth and foure score thousande: all these were valiant men.


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And there came out against them Zerah the <n>The king of Ethiopia, or Egypt.</n> Ethiopian with an host of a million, and three hundred chariots; and came unto <n>Which was a city in Judah, (Jos_15:44) where Michaiah the prophet was born.</n> Mareshah.


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Then Asa went out before him, and they set the battell in aray in the valley of Zephathah beside Mareshah.


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And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, [it is] nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou [art] our God; <n>Thus the children of God neither trust in their own power or policy, nor fear the strength and subtilty of their enemies, but consider the cause and see whether their enterprises tend to God's glory, and thereupon assure themselves of the victory by him, who alone is Almighty and can turn all flesh into dust with the breath of his mouth.</n> let not man prevail against thee.


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And Asa and the people that was with him, pursued them vnto Gerar; the Ethiopians hoste was ouerthrowen, so that there was no life in them: for they were destroyed before the Lorde and before his hoste: and they caryed away a mightie great spoyle.


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And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the <n>The Lord had stricken them with fear.</n> fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.


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Yea, and they smote the tents of cattel, and carried away plentie of sheepe and camels, and returned to Ierusalem.


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And the Spirit of God came upon <n>Who was called Obed as his father was, (2Ch_15:8).</n> Azariah the son of Oded:


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And he went out to meete Asa, and said vnto him, O Asa, and all Iudah, and Beniamin, heare ye me. The Lorde is with you, while ye be with him: and if ye seeke him, he wil be founde of you, but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.


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Now for a long season Israel [hath been] without the <n>For the space of twelve years under Rehoboam, and three years under Abijah, religion was neglected, and idolatry planted.</n> true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.


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But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he <n>He shows that despite the wickedness of tyrants and their rage, yet God has his whom he hears in their tribulation as he delivered his from Zerah king of the Ethiopians, (2Ch_14:9, 2Ch_14:12) and out of all other dangers, when they called upon the Lord.</n> was found of them.


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And in that time there was no peace to him, that did goe out and goe in: but great troubles were to all the inhabitants of the earth.


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Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your <n>Your confidence and trust in God will not be frustrated.</n> work shall be rewarded.


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And when Asa heard these wordes, and the prophesie of Obed the Prophet, he was encouraged, and tooke away the abominations out of all the lande of Iudah, and Beniamin, and out of the cities which he had taken of mount Ephraim, and he renued the altar of the Lorde, that was before the porche of the Lorde.


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And he gathered all Iudah and Beniamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for there fell many to him out of Israel, when they sawe that the Lorde his God was with him.


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So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the <n>Called Shiuam, containing part of May and part of June.</n> third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.


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And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the <n>Which they had taken of the Ethiopians.</n> spoil [which] they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.


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And they made a couenant to seeke the Lorde God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soule.


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That <n>These were the words of their covenant, which commanded all idolaters be put to death, according to the law of God, (Deu_13:5, Deu_13:9, Deu_13:15).</n> whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.


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And they sware vnto the Lorde with a loude voyce, and with shouting and with trumpets, and with cornets.


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And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was <n>As long as they served him correctly, so long did he preserve and prosper them.</n> found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.


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And also [concerning] Maachah the <n>Or grandmother, and in this he showed that he lacked zeal, for she should have died both by the covenant, as (2Ch_15:13) and by the law of God, but he gave place to foolish pity and would also seem after a sort to satisfy the law.</n> mother of Asa the king, he removed her from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped [it], and burnt [it] at the brook Kidron.


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But the high places were not <n>Which was partly because of lack of zeal on his part, partly through the negligence of his officers and partly by the superstition of the people that all were not taken away.</n> taken away out of <n>Because God was called the God of Israel, by reason of his promise to Jacob, therefore Israel is sometimes taken for Judah, because Judah was his chief people.</n> Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was <n>In respect to his predecessors.</n> perfect all his days.


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Also he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicate, and that he had dedicate, siluer, and golde, and vessels.


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In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa <n>Who reigned after Nadab the son of Jeroboam.</n> Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built <n>He fortified it with walls and ditches: it was a city in Benjamin near Gibeon.</n> Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.


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Then Asa brought out siluer and gold out of the treasures of the house of the Lorde, and of the Kings house, and sent to Benhadad King of Aram that dwelt at Damascus, saying,


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[There is] a league between me and thee, as [there was] between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, <n>He thought to repulse his adversary by an unlawful means, that is, by seeking help from infidels, as they who seek the help of Turks, thinking by it to make themselves stronger.</n> break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.


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And Benhadad hearkened vnto King Asa, and sent the captaines of the armies which hee had, against the cities of Israel; they smote Iion, and Dan, and Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.


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Then Asa the King tooke all Iudah, and caryed away the stones of Ramah and the tymber thereof, wherewith Baasha did builde, and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.


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And at that same time Hanani the Seer came to Asa King of Iudah, and saide vnto him, Because thou hast rested vpon the king of Aram, and not rested in the Lorde thy God, therefore is the hoste of the King of Aram escaped out of thine hande.


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The Ethiopians and the Lubims, were they not a great hoste with charets &amp; horsemen, exceeding many? Yet because thou diddest rest vpon the Lord, he deliuered them into thine had.


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For the eyes of the Lorde beholde all the earth to shewe him selfe strong with them that are of perfite heart towarde him: thou hast then done foolishly in this: therefore from henceforth thou shalt haue warres.


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Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for [he was] <n>Thus instead of turning to God in repentance, he disdained the admonition of the prophet, and punished him, as the wicked do when they are told of their faults.</n> in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of the people the same time.


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And behold, the actes of Asa first and last, loe, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Iudah and Israel.


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And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] <n>God plagued his rebellion and by this declared that it is nothing to begin well, unless we continue to the end, that is, zealous of God's glory and put our whole trust in him.</n> exceeding [great]: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the <n>He shows that it is useless to seek the physicians unless we first seek God to purge our sins, which are the chief cause of all our diseases, and later use the help of the physicians as a means by which God works.</n> physicians.


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And they buryed him in one of his sepulchres, which he had made for him selfe in the citie of Dauid, and layed him in the bed, which they had filled with sweete odours and diuers kindes of spices made by the arte of the apoticarie: and they burnt odours for him with an exceeding great fire.


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And he put garisons in all the strong cities of Iudah, and set bandes in the lande of Iudah and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.


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And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the <n>That is, his virtues meaning before he had committed with Bathsheba, and against Uriah.</n> first ways of his father David, and sought not unto <n>Did not seek help from strange Gods.</n> Baalim;


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But sought the Lorde God of his father, and walked in his commandements, and not after the trade of Israel.


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Therefore the Lorde stablished the kingdome in his hande, and all Iudah brought presents to Iehoshaphat, so that he had of riches and honour in abundance.


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And his heart was <n>He gave himself wholly to serve the Lord.</n> lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.


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Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, [even] to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to <n>He knew it was in vain to profess religion, unless such were appointed who could instruct the people in the same, and had authority to put away all idolatry.</n> teach in the cities of Judah.


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And with them Leuites, Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Iehonathan, and Adoniiah, and Tobiiah, and Tob-adoniiah, Leuites, and with the Elishama and Iehoram Priestes.


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And they taught in Iudah, and had the booke of the Lawe of the Lorde with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Iudah, and taught the people.


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And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that [were] round about Judah, so that they <n>Thus God prospers all who with a pure heart seek his glory, and keeps their enemies in fear, so that they are not able to execute their rage against them.</n> made no war against Jehoshaphat.


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Also some of the Philistims brought Iehoshaphat giftes and tribute siluer, and the Arabians brought him flockes, seuen thousande and seuen hundreth rammes, and seuen thousande and seuen hundreth hee goates.


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And these are the nombers of them after the house of their fathers, In Iudah were captaines of thousands, Adnah the captaine, &amp; with him of valiant men three hundreth thousande.


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And next him [was] Amasiah the son of Zichri, <n>Meaning, who was a Nazarite.</n> who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour.


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And of Beniamin, Eliada a valiant man, and with him armed men with bowe and shielde two hundreth thousand.


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These <n>That is, they were at his ordinary guard.</n> waited on the king, beside [those] whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.


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Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined <n>For Joram Jehoshaphat's son married Ahab's daughter.</n> affinity with Ahab.


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And after [certain] <n>That is, the third year, (1Ki_22:2).</n> years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that [he had] with him, and persuaded him to go up [with him] to <n>To recover it out of the hands of the Syrians.</n> Ramothgilead.


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And Ahab King of Israel saide vnto Iehoshaphat King of Iudah, Wilt thou goe with mee to Ramoth Gilead? And hee answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people, and wee will ioyne with thee in the warre.


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And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the <n>Hear the advise of some prophet to know whether it is God's will.</n> word of the LORD to day.


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Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of <n>Who were the prophets of Baal, signifying that the wicked esteem none but liars and such as will bear with their inordinate affections.</n> prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver [it] into the king's hand.


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But Iehoshaphat sayde, Is there heere neuer a Prophet more of the Lorde that wee might inquire of him?


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And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, [There is] yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I <n>Yet the true ministers of God should not cease to do their duty, even though the wicked magistrates cannot abide them speaking the truth.</n> hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same [is] Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say <n>Meaning, that he should not refuse to hear any that was from God.</n> so.


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And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in [their] <n>That is, in their majesty and royal apparel.</n> robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.


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And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him <n>Read (1Ki_22:11).</n> horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.


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And all the Prophets prophesied so, saying, Go vp to Ramoth Gilead, &amp; prosper: for the Lord shall deliuer it into the hand of the King.


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And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one <n>Thinking, that since four hundred prophets had agreed in one thing, that he being but one man and in least estimation, did not dare to go against it.</n> assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good.


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And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, <n>He spoke this in derision of the false prophets as the king well knew.</n> Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.


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And the King sayd to him, Howe oft shall I charge thee, that thou tell mee nothing but the trueth in the Name of the Lord?


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Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, <n>He prophesied of how the people would be scattered and Ahab slain.</n> These have no master; let them return [therefore] every man to his house in peace.


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And the King of Israel sayde to Iehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee, that he would not prophesie good vnto me, but euill?


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Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the <n>Meaning his angels.</n> host of heaven standing on his right hand and [on] his left.


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And the Lorde sayd, Who shall perswade Ahab King of Israel, that he may go vp, and fall at Ramoth Gilead? And one spake and said thus, and another said that.


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And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And <n>That is, the Lord.</n> [the LORD] said, Thou shalt entice [him], and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do [even] so.


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Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a <n>To those who would not believe the truth, God sent a strong delusion, that they would believe lies, (2Th_2:10).</n> lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.


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Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the <n>By this cruelty his ambition and hypocrisy was discovered; thus the hypocrites boast of the Spirit which they do not have, and declare their malice against them on whom the true Spirit is.</n> cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?


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And Michaiah saide, Behold, thou shalt see that day when thou shalt goe from chamber to chamber to hide thee.


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And the King of Israel sayde, Take ye Michaiah, and cary him to Amon the gouernour of the citie, and to Ioash the Kings sonne,


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And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the prison, and feed him with bread of <n>Keep him in prison, and let him feel hunger and thirst.</n> affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.


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And Michaiah said, If thou returne in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me; he saide, Heare, all ye people.


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And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will <n>Thus the wicked think by their own subtilty to escape God's judgments which he threatens by his word.</n> disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.


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And the King of Aram had commaunded the captaines of the charets that were with him, saying, Fight you not with small, nor great, but against the King of Israel onely.


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And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It [is] the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat <n>He cried to the Lord by acknowledging his fault in going with this wicked king to war against the word of the Lord by his prophet and also by desiring mercy for the same.</n> cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them [to depart] from him.


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For when the captaines of the charets saw that hee was not the King of Israel, they turned backe from him.


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Then a certaine man drewe a bowe mightily, and smote the King of Israel betweene the ioyntes of his brigandine: Therefore he saide to his charetman, Turne thine hand, and carie mee out of the host: for I am hurt.


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And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel <n>He disguised his wound that his soldiers might fight more courageously.</n> stayed [himself] up in [his] chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.


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And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, <n>He declares that the wrath of God is over everyone who supports the wicked and does not show in their actions that they are enemies to everyone that hates the Lord.</n> Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore [is] wrath upon thee from before the LORD.


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Neuertheles good things are found in thee, because thou hast taken away ye groues out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seeke God.


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And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again <n>He visited all his country and brought his people from idolatry to the knowledge of the true God.</n> through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.


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And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who [is] <n>Both to preserve you if you do justly or to punish you, if you do the contrary.</n> with you in the judgment.


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Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do [it]: for [there is] no <n>He will declare by the sharpness of the punishment that he hates all iniquity.</n> iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.


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Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and [of] the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they <n>The priests and Levites who should judge matters according to the word of the Lord.</n> returned to Jerusalem.


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And he charged them, saying, Thus shall yee doe in the feare of the Lord faithfully and with a perfite heart.


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And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between <n>That is, to decide whether or not the murder was done on purpose, (Num_35:11, Deu_4:41).</n> blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and [so] <n>Meaning, that God would punish them most sharply if they would not execute justice correctly.</n> wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.


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And, behold, Amariah the chief priest [is] over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the <n>Shall be chief overseer of the public affairs of the realm.</n> king's matters: also the Levites [shall be] officers <n>They will have the handling of inferior causes.</n> before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the <n>God will assist them that do justice.</n> good.


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It came to pass after this also, [that] the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them [other] beside the <n>That is, who copied the Ammonites in language and apparel. The Hebrews thought that they were the Amalekites, but as it appeared by (2Ch_20:10) they were the Idumeans of mount Seir.</n> Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.


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Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the <n>Called the Dead sea, where God destroyed the five cities because of their sin.</n> sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they [be] in Hazazontamar, which [is] Engedi.


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And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself <n>This declares what the fear of the godly is, which is the prick to stir them to prayer and to depend on the Lord, while it moves the wicked either to seek after worldly means and policies or else to fall into despair.</n> to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.


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And Iudah gathered them selues together to aske counsel of the Lord: they came euen out of all the cities of Iudah to inquire of the Lord,


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And Iehoshaphat stoode in the Congregation of Iudah and Ierusalem in the house of the Lord before the new court,


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And saide, O Lorde God of our fathers, art not thou God in heauen? And reignest not thou on all the kingdomes of the heathen? And in thine hande is power and might, and none is able to withstand thee.


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[Art] not thou our God, [who] didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and <n>He grounds his prayer on God's power, by which he is able to help and also on his mercy, which he will continue toward his, as he has once chosen them and began to show his graces toward them.</n> gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?


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If, [when] evil cometh upon us, [as] the <n>Meaning war which comes by God's just judgments for our sins.</n> sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name <n>That is, it is here called on and you declared your presence and favour.</n> [is] in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.


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And now beholde, the children of Ammon and Moab, and mount Seir, by whome thou wouldest not let Israel goe, when they came out of the land of Egypt: but they turned aside from them, and destroyed them not:


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Behold, I say, they reward vs, in coming to cast vs out of thine inheritance, which thou hast caused vs to inherit.


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O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes <n>We only put our trust in you, and wait for our deliverance from heaven.</n> [are] upon thee.


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And all Judah stood <n>That is, before the ark of the covenant.</n> before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.


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Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came <n>Who was moved by the Spirit of God to prophecy.</n> the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;


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And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the <n>They fight against God and not against you, therefore he will fight for you.</n> battle [is] not yours, but God's.


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To morowe goe yee downe against them: beholde, they come vp by the cleft of Ziz, and ye shall finde them at the ende of the brooke before the wildernesse of Ieruel.


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Ye shall not neede to fight in this battell: stand still, moue not, and behold the saluation of the Lord towardes you: O Iudah, and Ierusalem, feare ye not, neither be afraid: to morow goe out against them, and the Lord wilbe with you.


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And Jehoshaphat <n>Declaring his faith and obedience to the word of the Lord, and giving thanks for the deliverance promised.</n> bowed his head with [his] face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.


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And the Leuites of the children of the Kohathites and of the childre of the Corhites stood vp to prayse the Lord God of Israel with a loude voyce on hie.


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And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his <n>Give credit to their words and doctrine.</n> prophets, so shall ye prosper.


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And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, <n>This was a psalm of thanksgiving which they used commonly to sing when they praised the Lord for his benefits, and was made by David, (Psa. 136:1-26).</n> Praise the LORD; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.


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And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and <n>Meaning, the Idumeans who dwelt in mount Seir.</n> mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.


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For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy [them]: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to <n>Thus the Lord according to Jehoshaphat's prayer declared his power, when he delivered his by causing their enemies to kill one another.</n> destroy another.


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And when Iudah came towarde Mizpah in the wildernes, they looked vnto the multitude: &amp; behold, the carkeises were fallen to the earth, and none escaped.


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And when Iehoshaphat &amp; his people came to take away the spoyle of them, they founde among them in abundance both of substance and also of bodies laden with precious iewels, which they tooke for themselues, till they could cary no more: they were three dayes in gathering of the spoyle: for it was much.


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And on the fourth day they <n>To give thanks to the Lord for the victory: and therefore the valley was called Berachah, that is, blessing or thanksgiving, which was also called the valley of Jehoshaphat, (Joe_3:2, Joe_3:12) because the Lord judged the enemies according to Jehoshaphat's prayer.</n> assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.


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Then euery man of Iudah and Ierusalem returned with Iehoshaphat their head, to goe againe to Ierusalem with ioy: for the Lorde had made them to reioyce ouer their enemies.


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And they came to Ierusalem with viols and with harpes, and with trumpets, euen vnto the house of the Lord.


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And the <n>He declares by this that the works of God always bring comfort or deliverance to his, and fear or destruction to his enemies.</n> fear of God was on all the kingdoms of [those] countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.


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And Iehoshaphat reigned ouer Iudah, and was fiue and thirtie yeere olde, when he began to reigne: and reigned fiue and twentie yeere in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.


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And he walked in the way of <n>Meaning, in his virtues, and those ways in which he followed God.</n> Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD.


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Howbeit the high places were <n>If the great care and diligence of this good king was not able to utterly abolish all the superstition of this people, but they still retained it, how much less are they able to reform evil, who either have little zeal, or not as he had: though here he was not to be excused?</n> not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.


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Concerning the rest of the actes of Iehoshaphat first and last, beholde, they are written in the booke of Iehu the sonne of Hanani, which is mentioned in the booke of the kings of Israel.


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Yet after this did Iehoshaphat King of Iudah ioyne himselfe with Ahaziah King of Israel, who was giuen to do euill.


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Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast <n>Thus God would not have his join in company with idolaters and wicked men.</n> joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.


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Iehoshaphat then slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid: and Iehoram his sonne reigned in his steade.


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And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these [were] the sons of Jehoshaphat king of <n>Read (2Ch_15:17) how by Israel he meant Judah.</n> Israel.


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And their father gaue them great giftes of siluer and of golde, and of precious things, with strong cities in Iudah, but the kingdome gaue he to Iehoram: for he was the eldest.


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Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and <n>Because the wicked always live in fear, and also are ambitious, they become cruel and spare not to murder them, whom by nature they ought most to cherish and defend.</n> slew all his brethren with the sword, and [divers] also of the princes of <n>Meaning, of Judah and Benjamin.</n> Israel.


