1 Samuel 8 Cross References - Great

¹ When Samuel was olde, he made his sonnes iudges ouer Israel. ² The name of his eldest sonne was Ioel, and the name of the second Abia: & they were iudges in Beerseba. ³ And his sonnes walked not in his wayes: but turned asyde after lucre, and toke rewarde, and peruerted the ryght. ⁴ Then all the elders of Israel gathered them together, and came to Samuel vnto Rama, ⁵ & sayd vnto him: behold, thou art olde, and thy sonnes walke not in thy wayes. Now therfore make vs a kinge to iudge vs, as all other nacions haue. ⁶ But the thyng displeased Samuel, when they sayde: geue vs a king to iudge vs. And Samuel prayed vnto the Lorde. ⁷ And the Lorde sayde vnto Samuel: heare the voyce of the people in all that they saye vnto the. For they haue not cast the awaye, but me: that I shulde not raygne ouer them. ⁸ And as they haue euer done (sence I brought them out of Egypte vnto thys daye, and haue forsaken me, and serued other goddes) euen so do they vnto the. ⁹ Nowe therfore herken vnto their voyce: howbeit, yet testifye vnto them and shewe them the aucthorite of the king that shall raygne ouer them. ¹⁰ And Samuel told all the wordes of the Lorde vnto the people, that asked a kyng of him, and he sayde: ¹¹ thys shalbe the aucthorite of the kyng that shal raygne ouer you: he wyll take your sonnes and put them to hys charettes, and make hys horsemen of them, to runne before his charet: ¹² and will make him of them, captaynes ouer thousandes and ouer fiftyes, and wyll set them to eare his grounde, and to gather in his heruest, and to make instrumentes of warre, and apparell for his charettes. ¹³ And he wyll take your daughters, & make them apoticaries, cookes and bakers. ¹⁴ And he shall take the best of youre feldes, and of youre vyneyardes, and of your olyue trees, and geue them to hys seruauntes. ¹⁵ And he shall take the tenth of your seed, and of your vyneyardes, and geue it to hys chamberlaynes, and to hys seruauntes. ¹⁶ And he shall take the best of your menseruauntes and maydseruauntes and yong men, and of your asses, and put them to his worke. ¹⁷ And he shall take the tenth of youre shepe, and ye shalbe his seruauntes. ¹⁸ And ye shall crie out at that tyme vpon your kynge, which ye shall haue chosen you, & the Lorde will not heare you at that daye. ¹⁹ Neuertheles, the people wolde not heare the voyce of Samuel, but dyd say: naye, not so. But there shalbe a king ouer vs, ²⁰ that we maye be lyke other nacyons, and that oure kyng maye iudge vs, and go out before vs, and fyght our battaylles. ²¹ Therfore, when Samuel hearde all the wordes of the people, he rehearsed them in the eares of the Lorde. ²² And the Lord sayde to Samuel: herken vnto theyr voyce, and make them a king: And Samuel sayde vnto the men of Israel: go euery man vnto his citye.

¹⁸ Iudges and offycers shalt thou make the in all thy cyties, whych the Lorde thy God geueth the thorowe out thy trybes: and they shall iudge the people ryghteously. ¹⁹ Wrest not thou the lawe, nor knowe any persone, nether take any rewarde: for gyftes blynde the wyse, & peruerte the wordes of the ryghteous.

¹⁰ Speake ye that ryde on fayre asses, & that sitt vppermost in iudgement, & walke by the wayes

²² Then the men of Israel sayde vnto Gedeon: Raygne thou ouer vs, bothe thou, thy sonne & thy sonnes sonne, for thou hast delyuered vs out of the hand of Madian. ²³ And Gedeon sayd vnto them: I wyll not raygne ouer you, nether shall my childe raygne ouer you, but the Lord shall raygne ouer you.

⁴ And he had thyrtie sonnes that rode on thirtie Asse coltes, & they had thirtye cyties, which are called the townes of Iair vnto thys daye, and are in the lande of Gilead.

¹⁴ And he had .xl. sonnes, and thirty neueus, that rode on .lxx. asse coltes. And when Abdon the sonne of Hellel the Pharathonite had iudged Israell eyght yeare,

⁵ And he set iudges in the lande thorowout all the strong cityes of Iuda, citye by citye: ⁶ & sayde to the iudges: take hede what ye do, for ye execute not the iudgmentes of man, but of God, which is wt you in the iudgement.

² And I commaunded my brother Hanani, and Hanania the ruler of the castel at Ierusalem: for he was a faithfull man, and feared God more then dyd many other,

²¹ I testifye before God and the Lord Iesus Christ & the electe angels, that thou obserue these thynges without hastynesse of iudgement, & do nothinge parcially.

¹⁹ So turned Abraham agayne vnto hys yonge men, and they rose vp and went together to Beer Seba. And Abraham dwelt at Beer Seba.

³ When he sawe that, he arose & went for his lyfe and came to Beerseba in Iuda, & left his seruaunt there.

²⁸ and Samuel the sonne of hym. And the sonnes of Samuel: the eldest Uasni, and Abia.

³⁸ the sonne of Izahar, the sonne of Cahath, the sonne of Leui, the sonne of Israel.

⁵ but seke not after Bethel. Come not at Gilgal, and go not to Bersaba: for Gilgal shalbe caryed awaye captyue, and Bethel shall come to naught.

²¹ Morouer thou shalt seke oute amonge all the people, men of actiuite, and such as feare God: true men, hatynge coueteousnes: and make them heedes ouer the people, captaynes ouer thousandes, ouer hundredes, ouer fyftye and ouer ten.

⁸ Thou shalt take no gyftes, for gyftes blynde the seynge, and peruerte the wordes of the ryghteous.

¹⁹ Wrest not thou the lawe, nor knowe any persone, nether take any rewarde: for gyftes blynde the wyse, & peruerte the wordes of the ryghteous.

⁴ Absalom sayde moreouer: Oh, that I were made iudge in the lande, that euery man which hath anye pleye and matter in the lawe, myght come to me, and that I myght do him iustice?

⁶ And kynge Rehoboam toke councell with the olde men that stode before Salomon hys father, while he yet lyued, and sayde: what councell geue ye, that I maye haue matter to answere thys people? ⁷ And they sayde vnto hym: If thou be a seruaunt vnto thys people this daye, and folowe theyr myndes and answere them, and speake kynde wordes to them: they wyll be thy seruauntes for euer. ⁸ But he forsoke the councell that the olde men had geuen him, and called vnto hys councell yonge men, that were growen vp with him, and wayted on hym. ⁹ And he sayde vnto them: what councell geue ye, that we maye answere thys people? for they haue commoned with me, sayenge: make the yocke which thy father dyd putt vpon vs, lyghtter? ¹⁰ And the younge men that were growen vp with hym spake vnto hym sayenge: Thus shalt thou speake vnto thys people (that haue sayde vnto the: thy father made oure yocke heuye, butt make thou it vs lyghtter) Euen thus shalt thou saye vnto them: My lytle fynger shalbe wayghtier, then my father was in the loynes. ¹¹ And nowe where as my father did lade you & put a greuouse yocke vpon you, I wyll make it heuyer. My father also corrected you wt scourges, but I wyll chastyse you with scorpions.

¹ Manasse was twelue yere olde, when he beganne to raygne and raygned fyfty & fyue yere in Ierusalem: hys mothers name also was Hephziba. ² And he dyd euell in the syght of the Lorde, euen after the abhominacyons of the Hethen whom the Lorde cast out before the chyldren of Israel. ³ For he went and buylt vp the hyllaulters, which Hezekia hys father had destroyed. And he reared vp aulters for Baal, and made Idoll groues (as dyd Ahab kynge of Israel,) and worshypped all the Hoste of heauen, and serued them.

⁵ He that hath not geuen hys money vpon vsury, ner taken rewarde agaynst the innocent. Who so doth these thynges, shall neuer fall.

¹⁰ In whose handes is wyckednesse, & their ryghthande is full of gyftes.

¹⁹ And who knoweth, whether he shalbe a wyse man or a fole? And yet shall he be lord of all my labours, which I with soch wysdome haue taken vnder the Sunne Thys is also a vayne thyng.

¹⁵ He that ledeth a godly lyfe, say I, & speaketh the trueth. He that abhorreth gaines wonne by violence & disceyte: he that kepeth his hande that he touch no rewarde: which stoppeth his eares, that he heare no councell agenst the innocent bloude: which holdeth downe his eyes, that he se none euell.

¹⁵ Thynckest thou to raygne, now that thou prouokest me to wrath with the Cedre trees? Dyd not thy father eate and drincke, and prospere well, as longe as he dealt wt equite and righteousnesse? ¹⁶ Yee, when he helped the oppressed and poore to their right, then prospered he well. From whence came thys, but onely because he had me before hys eyes, sayeth the Lorde? ¹⁷ Neuertheles, as for thyne eyes and thyne herte, they loke vpon coueteousnesse, to shed innocent bloude, to do wronge & violence.

³ not geuen to ouer moch wyne, no fyghter, not gredy of fylthye lucre. but gentle, abhorryng fyghtynge, abhorrynge coueteousnes,

¹⁰ For coueteousnes of money is the rote of all euyll: whych whyll some lusted after, they erred from the fayth, & tanglyd them selues with many sorowes.

¹⁶ Goo and gather the elders of Israel to gether, and thou shalt saye vnto them: the Lorde God of youre fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isahac, and the God of Iacob apeared vnto me, and sayde: In visitynge haue I visited you, and knowe that which is done to you in Egypte

¹ And he sayde vnto Moses: come vp vnto the Lorde: thou & Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the .lxx. elders of Israel, and ye shal worshyppe a farre of.

¹⁷ & came agayne to Rama: for there was his house, & ther he iudged Israel also, & there he buylt an aulter vnto the Lorde.

³ And so all the elders of Israel came to the kynge to Hebron. And kyng Dauid made a couenaunt wyth them in Hebron before the Lord. And they annoynted Dauid kyng ouer Israell.

⁹ from the toppe of the rockes I se hym, and from the hylles I beholde hym: loo, the people shall dwell by them selfe, and shall not be rekened among the nacyons.

¹⁴ When thou art come vnto the lande whych the Lorde thy God geueth the, and enioyest it, and dwellest therin: & yf thou shalt saye. I wyll set a kynge ouer me lyke as all the nacyons that are aboute me: ¹⁵ Then thou shalt make hym kynge ouer the, whom the Lorde thy God shall chose: Euen one from amonge thy brethren shalt thou make kynge ouer the, and thou mayst not set a straunger ouer the, whych is not of thy brethren.

⁶ But the thyng displeased Samuel, when they sayde: geue vs a king to iudge vs. And Samuel prayed vnto the Lorde. ⁷ And the Lorde sayde vnto Samuel: heare the voyce of the people in all that they saye vnto the. For they haue not cast the awaye, but me: that I shulde not raygne ouer them. ⁸ And as they haue euer done (sence I brought them out of Egypte vnto thys daye, and haue forsaken me, and serued other goddes) euen so do they vnto the.

¹⁹ Neuertheles, the people wolde not heare the voyce of Samuel, but dyd say: naye, not so. But there shalbe a king ouer vs, ²⁰ that we maye be lyke other nacyons, and that oure kyng maye iudge vs, and go out before vs, and fyght our battaylles.

¹⁷ is it not now wheatheruest? I will call vnto the Lorde, and he shall sende thunder and rayne: that ye maye perceaue and se, howe that youre wickednes is great, which ye haue done in the syght of the Lorde, in askynge you a kynge.

¹⁰ Where are thy kynges nowe, that shulde helpe the in all thy cyties? Yee, and thy iudges, of whom thou saydest: geue me a kyng and princes? ¹¹ well, I gaue the a kynge in my wrath, and in my displeasure will I take hym from the agayne.

²¹ And afterwarde, they desyred a kynge, and God haue vnto them Saul the sonne of Cis, a man of the trybe of Beniamin, by the space of fourty yeares.

²¹ And Moses sayde vnto Aaron: what dyd thys people vnto the, that thou hast brought so greate a synne vpon them?

³² And nowe I praye the, eyther forgeue them their synne: or (yf thou wilt not) wipe me out of thy booke, which thou hast wrytten.

¹⁵ And Moses waxed very angry, & sayde vnto the Lorde. Turne not thou vnto theyr offeryng. I haue not taken so muche as an asse from them, neyther haue I hurte any of them.

²² And they fell vpon their faces and sayde. O moost myghtye God of the spretes of all fleshe, yf one man hath synned, wylt thou be wroth with all the multitude?

⁴⁶ And Moses sayde vnto Aaron: take a censer, and put fier therin out of the aulter, and powre on cens, and go quyckly vnto the congregacion, that thou mayest obteyne forgeuenes for them. For there is wrath gone oute from the Lorde, and there is a plage begonne.

¹¹ it repenteth me, that I haue made Saul kynge. For he is turned from me, and hath not parfourmed my commaundementes. And Samuel was euell apayed, and cried vnto the Lorde all nyght.

³ And when I hearde this saying, I rente my clothes and my rayment, and pluckte of the heer of my heade, and of my beerd, and sate mourninge. ⁴ And there resorted vnto me all soch as feared the wordes of the Lorde God of Israel, because of the transgression of the people of the captiuite. And I sate mournynge vntyll the euenynge sacryfice. ⁵ And aboute the euenynge sacrifice, I rose vp fro my heuynes, and rente my clothes and my rayment, and fell vpon my knees, and spred out my handes vnto the Lorde my God,

⁴ Thus haue they rewarded me euell for good, and hatred for my good wyll.

¹¹ And they were fylled with madnes, and communed together amonge them selues, what they myght do to Iesu. ¹² And it fortuned in those dayes that he went out into a mountayne for to praye, & contynued all nyght in prayer to God.

⁶ Be carefull for nothynge: but in all prayer and supplicacyon let youre peticyons be manifeste vnto God with geuynge of thankes.

⁵ If eny of you lacke wysdome, let hym aske of him that geueth it: euen God, which geueth to all men indifferentlye, and casteth no man in the teeth: and it shalbe geuen him.

⁸ and in the morning, ye shall se the glory of the Lorde: because he hath heard your grudginges agaynst the Lorde. And what are we that ye haue murmured against vs?

²⁰ And God came vnto Balaam by nyghte, & sayde vnto him: If the men come to call the, ryse vp and go with them: but loke what I saye vnto the, that shalt thou do.

¹⁹ And ye haue this daye cast awaye youre God that helped you out of all youre aduersyties & tribulacyons. And ye haue sayd vnto hym: make a kynge ouer vs. Nowe therfore stande ye before the Lorde by youre trybes & youre thousandes.

¹⁷ is it not now wheatheruest? I will call vnto the Lorde, and he shall sende thunder and rayne: that ye maye perceaue and se, howe that youre wickednes is great, which ye haue done in the syght of the Lorde, in askynge you a kynge. ¹⁸ And so, Samuel called vnto the Lorde, and the Lorde sent thunder and rayne the same daye. And all the people feared the Lorde and Samuel exceadyngly. ¹⁹ And all the people sayde vnto Samuel: praye for thy seruauntes vnto the Lord thy God, that we dye not: for we haue synned in askynge vs a kynge, besyde all the synnes that euer we dyd.

¹¹ I am the Lorde thy God, whych brought the out of the lande of Egypt, open thy mouth wyde, and I shall fyll it. ¹² But my people wold not heare my voyce, and Israel wolde not obey me.

⁴ Therfore wyll I also haue pleasure in laughynge them to scorne, and the thynge that they feare, wyll I brynge vpon them. For when I called, no man gaue answere: when I spake, they wolde not heare: But did wickednesse before myne eyes, and chose the thynges that displease me.

²⁴ The disciple is not aboue the master: nor the seruaunt aboue his Lord. ²⁵ It is ynough for the disciple, that he be as his master is, and that the seruaunt be as his Lorde is. If they haue called the Lord of the house, Beelzebub: how moche more shal they call them of his householde so?

⁴⁰ He that receaueth you, receaueth me: & he that receaueth me, receaueth him that sent me.

¹⁶ He that heareth you, heareth me: and he that despyseth you, despyseth me: and he that despyseth me; despyseth him that sent me.

¹⁴ But hys cytesens hated hym, & sent a message after him, sayinge: we will not haue thys man to raygne ouer vs.

²⁷ Moreouer, those myne enemyes, (whych wolde not that I shuld raygne ouer them) brynge hyther, and slee them before me.

¹⁶ Uerely verely, I saye vnto you: the seruaunte is not greater then his master, nether the messenger greater then he that sent hym.

²⁰ Remember the worde that I sayd vnto you: the seruaunt is not greater then the lorde. If they haue persecuted me, they wyll also persecute you. If they haue kept my saying, they will kepe youres also. ²¹ But all these thinges wyll they do vnto you for my names sake, because they haue not knowen hym that sent me.

¹¹ But they sayde vnto Moses: because there were no graues in Egipt, hast thou therfore brought vs awaye for to dye in the wyldernes? wherfore hast thou serued vs thus, for to carye vs out of Egipte? ¹² Dyd not we tell the this in Egipt, saying: let vs be in rest, that we maye serue the Egipcians? For it had bene better for vs to haue serued the Egipcians then for to dye in the wildernesse.

³ And the hole multitude of the children of Israel murmured agaynst Moses and Aaron in the wyldernes:

² And the people chode with Moses, and sayde: geue vs water to drincke. Moses sayde vnto them: why chyde ye with me? wherfore do ye tempte the Lorde?

¹ And when the people sawe, that yt was longe or Moses came downe out of the mountayne, they gathred them selues together vnto Aaron, and sayd vnto hym: Up, make vs goddes to go before vs: for of this Moses (the felowe that brought vs out of the lande of Egypt) we wote not what is become.

² and all the chyldren of Israel murmured agaynst Moses and Aaron. And the whole congregacyon sayde vnto them: wolde God that we hadd dyed in the lande of Egypte, eyther that we had dyed in thys wildernes. ³ Wherfore hath the Lorde brought vs vnto thys lande to fall vpon the swearde: and that our wyues, and oure children shulde be a praye? Were it not better, that we retourne vnto Egypte agayne? ⁴ And they sayde one to another: We wyll make a captayne, and retourne vnto Egipt agayne.

² rose vp before Moses, with other men of the children of Israel, two hundred and fiftye, which were captaynes of the multitude great and famous men in the congregacion: ³ & they gathred them selues together agaynst Moses and Aaron, & sayde vnto them: ye make moche to do, seynge all the multitude are holy euery one of them, and the Lorde is amonge them: Why heaue ye your selues vp aboue the congregacyon of the Lorde?

⁴¹ But on the morowe all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured agaynste Moses and Aaron, sayinge: ye haue kylled the people of the Lord.

²⁴ Ye haue bene disobedient vnto the Lorde, sence the daye that I knewe you.

² And ye also shall make no couenant wyth the enhabytoures of this lande, but shall breake downe their aultares: Neuertheles ye haue not herkened vnto my voice, why haue ye this done? ³ Wherfore, I haue lykewyse determyned, that I wyll not cast them out before you: but they shalbe thornes vnto you, and their goddes shalbe a snare vnto you.

²⁰ And the wrath of the Lorde was moued agaynst Israel, & he sayde: because this people hath transgressed myne appointement which I commaunded their fathers, & haue not herkened vnto my voyce,

¹ And the chyldren of Israel beganne agayne to do wickedly in the syght of the Lord, when Ahud was dead.

¹ And the chyldren of Israell committed wyckednes in the sight of the Lord. And the Lord delyuered them into the handes of Madian seuen yeres.

¹ And the chyldren of Israell began agayne to commytte wyckednes in the sight of the Lord. And the Lord delyuered them into the handes of the Philistines fourty yere.

⁵⁶ He cast out the Heathen also before them, caused their lande to be denyded amonge them for an heritage, and made the trybes of Israell to dwell in their tentes. ⁵⁷ So they tempted and displeased the most hye God, and kepte not hys testimonyes. ⁵⁸ But turned their backes, and fell awaye lyke their forfathers, startynge asyde lyke a broken bowe. ⁵⁹ For they greued hym with their hyll alters, and prouoked him to displeasure wyth their ymages.

¹⁴ But lust came vpon them in the wildernesse, and they tempted God in the deserte. ¹⁵ And he gaue them their desyre, and sent leanesse withall in to their soule. ¹⁶ They angred Moses also in the tentes, and Aaron the sayncte of the Lorde. ¹⁷ So the earth opened, and swalowed vp Dathan, & couered the congregacion of Abiram. ¹⁸ And the fyre was kyndled in their company, the flame brent vp the vngodly. ¹⁹ They made a calfe in Horeb, and worshipped the molten ymage. ²⁰ Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calfe, that eateth haye. ²¹ And they forgat God their Sauioure, which had done so greate thynges in Egipte.

³⁴ Nether destroyed they the Heathen, as the Lorde commaunded them. ³⁵ But were myngled among the Heathen, and lerned their worckes. ³⁶ In so moch that they worshipped their ydoles, which turned to their awne decaye. ³⁷ Yee they offred their sonnes and their daughters vnto deuel ³⁸ And shed innocent bloude, euen the bloude of their sonnes & of their daughters, whom they offred vnto the ydoles of Canaan, and the lande was defyled with bloud. ³⁹ Thus were they stayned with their awne worckes, and went a whorynge wyth their awne inuencions. ⁴⁰ Therfore was the wrath of the Lorde kynled agaynst hys people, in so moch that he abhorred hys awne enheritaunce.

⁵¹ Ye stiffenecked and of vncircumcised hertes and eares: ye haue allwayes resysted the holy ghost: as youre fathers dyd, so do ye. ⁵² Which of the prophetes haue not your fathers persecuted? And they haue slaine them which shewed before of the comming of that Iust, whom ye haue nowe betrayd, and murdred. ⁵³ And ye also haue receaued the lawe by the minystracyon of aungels, and haue not kept it.

¹³ And the Preastes made a lawe for the people, that whensoeuer any man offered any offerynge, the Preastes ladd came, while the fleshe was in sething, & a fleshoke wyth thre tethe in his hand,

¹¹ thys shalbe the aucthorite of the kyng that shal raygne ouer you: he wyll take your sonnes and put them to hys charettes, and make hys horsemen of them, to runne before his charet: ¹² and will make him of them, captaynes ouer thousandes and ouer fiftyes, and wyll set them to eare his grounde, and to gather in his heruest, and to make instrumentes of warre, and apparell for his charettes. ¹³ And he wyll take your daughters, & make them apoticaries, cookes and bakers. ¹⁴ And he shall take the best of youre feldes, and of youre vyneyardes, and of your olyue trees, and geue them to hys seruauntes. ¹⁵ And he shall take the tenth of your seed, and of your vyneyardes, and geue it to hys chamberlaynes, and to hys seruauntes. ¹⁶ And he shall take the best of your menseruauntes and maydseruauntes and yong men, and of your asses, and put them to his worke. ¹⁷ And he shall take the tenth of youre shepe, and ye shalbe his seruauntes. ¹⁸ And ye shall crie out at that tyme vpon your kynge, which ye shall haue chosen you, & the Lorde will not heare you at that daye.

²⁵ Then Samuel tolde the people the dutye of the kyngdome, & wrote it in a boke, and layde it vp before the Lorde, and sent all the people awaye, euery man to hys house.

⁵² And there was sore warre agaynst the Philistines, all the dayes of Saul. And whomsoeuer Saul sawe to be a stronge man, and mete for the warre he toke him vnto him.

¹⁸ If I saye vnto the, concernynge the vngodly man, that (wythout doute) he must dye, and thou geuest hym not warnynge, ner speakest vnto hym, that he may turne from hys euell waye, and so to lyue: Then shall the same vngodly man dye in his awne vnryghteousnes: but hys bloude wyll I requyre of thyne hand.

⁷ Upon both the sydes of the sanctuaryes parte, and by the cytie, there shalbe geuen vnto the prince, whatsoeuer lyeth oueragaynst the citye, as farre as reacheth westwarde & eastwarde: which shalbe as longe as one parte, from the west vnto the east. ⁸ This shalbe hys awne lande in Israel, that my prynces be nomore chargeable vnto my people. And soch as remayneth yet ouer in the lande, shalbe geuen to the house of Israel according to theyr tribes.

¹⁸ The prince also shall take none of the peoples enheritaunce, ner put them from their possession: but to his awne sonnes shall he geue his possession, that my people be not scatered abroade, but that euery man maye haue hys awne.

¹⁴ When thou art come vnto the lande whych the Lorde thy God geueth the, and enioyest it, and dwellest therin: & yf thou shalt saye. I wyll set a kynge ouer me lyke as all the nacyons that are aboute me: ¹⁵ Then thou shalt make hym kynge ouer the, whom the Lorde thy God shall chose: Euen one from amonge thy brethren shalt thou make kynge ouer the, and thou mayst not set a straunger ouer the, whych is not of thy brethren. ¹⁶ But he shall not multiplye horses to him selfe, ner brynge the people agayne to Egypte thorowe the multitude of horses, for as moche as the Lord hath sayde vnto you: ye shall hence forth go no moare agayne that waye. ¹⁷ Also he ought not to multiplie wyues to hym selfe, lest his hert turne awaye, nether shall he gether him syluer and golde to moch. ¹⁸ And when he is sett vpon the seate of hys kyngedome, he shall wryte hym out a copye of thys lawe in a boke, before the Preastes the Leuites. ¹⁹ And it shalbe wyth him, & he ought to reade therin all dayes of hys lyfe, that he maye lerne to feare the Lorde hys God, & to kepe all the wordes of thys lawe and these ordinaunces, for to do them: ²⁰ and that hys hert aryse not aboue hys brethren, & that he turne not from the commaundement: to the ryght hande or to the lefte, but that he maye prolonge hys dayes in hys kyngdome: he, and hys chyldren in Israel.

¹ After this it fortuned, that Absalom gatt hym charettes and horsses, and fyftie men to runne before him.

⁵ And Adonia the sonne of Hagith exalted him selfe, sayinge: I willbe kyng. And he gatt him charettes & horsmen, and fyftie men to runne before him.

²² But of the chyldren of Israel dyd Salomon make no bonde men. But they were men of warre, hys ministers, hys Lordes, his captaynes, and rulers of his charettes, and of hys horsemen. ²³ And these were the Lordes, that were sett ouer Salomons worke: euen fyue hundred were they and fyftye, and they ruled the people that wrought the worcke.

²⁶ And Salomon gathered together charettes and horsmen: and he had a thousande and foure hundred charettes, & twelue thousande horsemen, whom he bestowed in the charette cyties, and with the kynge at Ierusalem.

⁴ thy father made oure yocke greuouse, nowe therfore, make thou the greuouse seruice of thy father and hys sore yocke which he putt vpon vs, lyghtter, & we wyll serue the.

¹⁰ And the younge men that were growen vp with hym spake vnto hym sayenge: Thus shalt thou speake vnto thys people (that haue sayde vnto the: thy father made oure yocke heuye, butt make thou it vs lyghtter) Euen thus shalt thou saye vnto them: My lytle fynger shalbe wayghtier, then my father was in the loynes.

⁴⁶ And the hand of the Lord was on Elia, & he gyrded vp hys loynes, & ranne before Ahab, tyll he came to Iezreel.

¹⁰ And he buylt towres in the wyldernesse, and digged many welles: For he had moche catell, in the valeys and playnes, plowmen and vynedressers in the mountaynes and in Charmel, for he loued husbandrye: ¹¹ And Uzia had an host of fyghtynge men that went out to warre in the armye accordynge to the nombre of theyr office vnder the hande of Ieiel the scrybe & Maasiahu the ruler, & vnder the hande of Hananiahu which was one of the kynges Lordes. ¹² And the hoale nombre of the auncient fathers, & of the men of myght were two thousande and syxe hundred: ¹³ & vnder the hande of them was the armye of the men of warre, euen thre hundred and seuen thousande, & fyue hundred that made warre with the power of an armye, helpyng the kynge against the enemies. ¹⁴ And Uzia prouided them thorowe out all the host, shildes, speares, helmettes, haberginnes, bowes and slynges for to cast stones. ¹⁵ And he made sotle engynnes in Ierusalem, which he inuented & layed on the towres and corners, to shote arowes and greate stones with all. And his name spredd farre abroad, because he was helped so excellently, so that he became very mighty.

⁷ And Saul sayde vnto his seruauntes that stode about him. Heare I praye you you sonnes of Iemini: will the sonne of Isai geue euery one of you feldes and vineardes, & make you all captaynes ouer thousandes & ouer hundredes?

⁷ And Salomon had twelue officiers ouer all Israel, which prouyded vitayle for the kynge and his housholde: eche man hys moneth in a yeare, made prouision for necessary thinges.

²² And Salomons breed for one daye was .xxx. quarters of manchet floure, and thre skore quarters of meale: ²³ ten stalled oxen, and .xx. out of the pastures, and a hundred shepe, besyde hertes, buckes, and wilde goates and capons.

²⁷ And the officers prouyded vytayle for kyng Salomon and for all that came out of any place to kynge Salomons table, euery man hys moneth, so that there lacked nothyng. ²⁸ Barlye also and straw for the horses and mules, brought they vnto the place where the offycers were, euery man in hys offyce.

¹ The chyldren of Israel: after the nombre of them, the auncient heedes & captaynes of thousandes and hundredes, & their offycers that serued the kyng by diuerse courses which came in & went out, moneth by moneth, thorow out all the monethes of the yere. And in euery course were .xxiiii. thousande. ² Ouer the fyrst course for the fyrst moneth, was Iasoboan the sonne of Zabdiel. And in his course were .xxiiii. thousand. ³ And the chefest of all the captaynes of the host for the fyrst moneth, was of the children of Pharez. ⁴ Ouer the course of the seconde moneth was Dodai an Ahohite & in his course was Mikloth a ruler: (his helper) And in that course were .xxiiii. thousande. ⁵ The chefe captayne of the thirde host for the thirde moneth, was Banaiahu the sonne of Iehoiada the hye preaste: And in his course were .xxiiii. thousand. ⁶ This is that Banaiahu, which was most myghtie amonge .xxx. & aboue .xxx. And in his parte was Amizadad his sonne. ⁷ The fourth captayne for the fourth moneth, was Asael the brother of Ioab, and Zabadia his sonne after him. And in his course were .xxiiii. thousande. ⁸ The fyfte capytayne for the fyfte moneth was Samhut the Iezrahite: & in hys course were .xxiiii. thousand. ⁹ The syxte capytayne for the syxte moneth was Ira the sonne of Ickes a Theckutte: & in hys course were .xxiiii. thousande. ¹⁰ The seuenth captayne for the seuenth moneth, was Helez the Pelonite, of the chyldren of Ephraim & in his course were .xxiiii. thousand. ¹¹ The eyght captayne for the eyght moneth, was Sibechai an Husathite of the kynne of Zarhi: & in his course were .xxiiii. thousand. ¹² The nynth capitayne for the nynth moneth, was Abiezer an Anathothite of the sonnes of Iemim: and in hys course were .xxiiij. thousand. ¹³ The tenth capitayne for the tenth moneth, was Mahari the Netophathite of the Zarahites: and in hys course were .xxiiij. thousande. ¹⁴ The leuenth for the eleuenth moneth, was Banaia the Pirathonite of the chyldren of Ephraim: and in his course were .xxiiii. thousand. ¹⁵ The twelueth captayne for the twelueth moneth, was Heldai the Netophathite wt Othoniel, and in his course were .xxiiii. thousand. ¹⁶ And the rulers ouer the trybes of Israel were these: Amonge the Rubenites was Eliezer the sonne of Zichri. Among the Simeonites also was Saphatiahu the sonne of Maacha. ¹⁷ Amonge the Leuites: Hasabia the sonne of Kemuel. Amonge the Haromites: Zadock. ¹⁸ Among them of Iuda: Elihu of the brethren of Dauid. Amonge them of Isachar. Omri the sonne of Michael. ¹⁹ Amonge them of Zabulon: Iesinaiahu the sonne of Obadiahu. Among them of Nephthali: Ierimoth the sonne of Azriel. ²⁰ Amonge, the chyldren of Ephraim: Hosea the sonne of Azartahu. In the halfe trybe also of Manasse: Ioel the sonne of Phedaiahu. ²¹ Of the halfe trybe of Manasse in Gilead: Iido the sonne of Zachariahu. Amonge them of BenIamin: Iaasiel the sonne of Abner. ²² Amonge them of Dan: Azarel the sonne of Ieroham. These are the Lordes of the trybes of Israel.

²⁸ and made store houses for the frutes of corne, for wyne and oyle: and stalles for all maner of beastes, and foldes for shepe. ²⁹ And he made him cyties, and had of shepe and oxen great aboundance. For God had geuen him substaunce exceadinge moch.

⁷ And Iezabell his wyfe sayde vnto hym: Dost thou thus gouerne the kyngedom of Israel? vp, & eate bread, and set thyne hert at rest, I will geue the, the vyneyarde of Naboth the Iezraelite.

¹⁹ And therfore shalt thou saye vnto him thus sayth the Lorde: hast thou kylled, & gotten possession? And thou shalt speake vnto him sayeng: thus sayth the Lorde in the place where dogges lycked the bloud of Naboth, shall dogges licke euen thy bloud also.

³⁶ And the Madianytes solde hym in Egypte vnto Putiphar a Lord of Pharaos, and his chefe Stewarde.

⁷ Yee, and parte of thy sonnes, that shall come of the, and whom thou shalt get, shalbe caryed hence, and become gelded chamberlaynes in the kynge of Babylons courte.

³ And the kynge spake vnto Asphanaz the chefe chamberlayne, that he shulde brynge hym certayne of the chyldren of Israel, that were come of the kynges sede and of prynces,

⁷ Unto these, the chefe chamberlayne gaue other names, and called Daniel, Balthasar: Ananias, Sidrach, Misael, Misach: and Asarias, Abednago. ⁸ But Daniel was at a poynt with hym selfe, that he wolde not be defyled thorowe the kynges meate, ner the wyne which he droncke. And this he desyred of the chefe chamberlayn, lest he shuld defyle hym selfe. ⁹ So God gaue Daniel fauoure and grace before the chefe chamberlay ¹⁰ that he sayde vnto him: I am afrayde of my Lorde the kyng, which hath appoynted you your meate and drincke: lest he spye your faces to be worse lykyng then the other springaldes of your age, and so ye shall make me lose my head vnto the kynge.

¹⁸ Nowe when the tyme was expyred, that the kynge had appoynted to bryng in these yong spryngaldes vnto hym: the chefe chamberlayne brought them before Nabuchodonosor,

⁹ Doth God heare him the soner, when he crieth vnto him in hys necessite?

⁴¹ They shall crye: but there shalbe none to helpe them: yee, euen vnto the Lord, shall they crye: but he shall nott heare them.

²⁵ but all my councels haue ye despised: & set my correccion at naught. ²⁶ Therfore shall I also laugh in youre destruccion, & mocke you, when that thinge that ye feare commeth vpon you: ²⁷ euen when the thynge that ye be afrayed of, falleth in sodenly lyke a storme, & your misery lyke a tempest: yee, when trouble & heuines commeth vpon you. ²⁸ Then shal they call vpon me, but I wyll not heare: they shall seke me early, but they shall not fynde me.

¹³ Whoso stoppeth hys eares at the cryenge of the poore: he shall crye hym selfe, and not be hearde.

¹⁵ They lye vpon me as a burthen, and I am wery of beringe them. Whan ye holde out your handes, I will turne myne eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet wil I heare nothynge at all, seyng your handes are ful of bloude.

²¹ If he do not thys, he stombleth and suffreth hunger. And yf he suffre hunger he is out of pacience, and blasphemeth his kyng & his God. Then loketh he vp warde, & downe warde to the earth,

⁴ Now the tyme shall come, that when they call vnto the Lorde, he shall not heare them, but hyde hys face from them, because that thorow theyr awne Imagynacyons they haue dealte so wyckedly.

²⁵ When the good man of the house is rysen vp, and hath shutt to the dore, and ye beginne to stonde without, and to knocke at the dore sayinge: Lorde, Lord, open vnto vs, and he answer and saye vnto you. (I knowe you not whence ye are)

¹¹ I am the Lorde thy God, whych brought the out of the lande of Egypt, open thy mouth wyde, and I shall fyll it.

¹³ And nowe, though ye haue done all these dedes (sayeth the Lorde) and I my self rose vp euer by tymes to warne you & to comen with you, yet wolde ye not heare me. I called, ye wolde not answere.

¹⁶ As for the wordes that thou hast spoken vnto vs, in the name of the Lorde, we wyll in no wyse heare them:

³¹ These come vnto the, after the maner of a greate people: yee, as who sayth they were my people, they syt downe before the, and heare thy wordes, but they do not therafter for in their mouthes they make a Ieste of them, and theyr herte goeth after theyr awne couetous lucre.

¹⁶ for howe shall it be knowen here, that I and thy people haue founde fauoure in thy syght, but in that thou goest wt vs? Yf thou go with vs, shall not I and thy people haue preemynence before all the people that are vpon the face of the earth?

²⁴ But I haue sayde vnto you: ye shall enioye their lande, and I will geue it vnto you to possesse it, euen a lande that floweth with mylke & honye. I am the Lorde youre God, whyche haue separated you from other nacyons, ²⁵ and therfore shall ye put difference betwene cleane beastes & vncleane, betwene vncleane foules and cleane. Ye shall not defyle youre soules in beastes and foules, and in all maner crepynge thynges that the grounde bryngeth furth, whych I haue separated from you as vncleane. ²⁶ Therfore shall ye be holy vnto me, for I the Lorde am holy, and haue seuered you from other nacyons: that ye shulde be myne.

⁶ For thou art an holy nacyon vnto the Lorde thy God the Lorde thy God hath chosen the, to be a seuerall people vnto hym selfe, aboue all nacyons that are vpon the erth.

⁵ & sayd vnto him: behold, thou art olde, and thy sonnes walke not in thy wayes. Now therfore make vs a kinge to iudge vs, as all other nacions haue.

³⁵ But were myngled among the Heathen, and lerned their worckes.

¹⁹ If ye were of the worlde, the worlde wolde loue his awne. Howbeit, because ye are not of the world. But I haue chosen you out of the world therfore the world hateth you.

¹² Reioyce in hope. Be pacient in tribulacion. Continue in prayer.

¹⁷ Wherfore come out from amonge them, and separate youre selues from them (sayth the Lorde) and touche none vncleane thynge: so wyll I receaue you,

²⁰ But oure conuersacyon is in heauen, from whence we loke for the saueoure, euen the Lorde Iesus Chryst,

⁹ But ye are a chosen generacion, a royall presthod, an holy nacyon, a people whych are wonne: that ye shuld shewe the vertues of hym, that called you out of darcknes into hys meruclous lyght,

¹¹ Then Iephthah went wyth the elders of Gilead. And the people made hym heed and ruler ouer them. And Iephthah rehearsed all hys wordes before the Lorde in Mizpa.

⁷ And the Lorde sayde vnto Samuel: heare the voyce of the people in all that they saye vnto the. For they haue not cast the awaye, but me: that I shulde not raygne ouer them.

¹¹ well, I gaue the a kynge in my wrath, and in my displeasure will I take hym from the agayne.