2 Chronicles 17 Cross References - Great

¹ And Iehosaphat his sone raygned in hys steade, & preuayled agaynst Israel. ² And he put souldyers in all the stronge cityes of Iuda, and sett rulers in the lande of Iuda and in the cityes of Ephraim, which Asa his father had wonne. ³ And the Lorde was with Iehosaphat, because he walked in the olde wayes of his father Dauid, and sought not Baalim. ⁴ But sought the Lorde God of hys father, & walked in hys commaundmentes: and not after the doynges of Israel. ⁵ And the Lord stablisshed the kyngdome in his hande, and all they that were in Iuda, brought hym presentes, so that he had aboundance of riches and honoure. ⁶ And he lyft vp his hert vnto the wayes of the Lorde, and he putt downe yet more of the hylaultars and groues out of Iuda. ⁷ In the thyrde yere of hys raygne he sent to hys lordes, euen to Benhail, Obadia, Zacharia, Nethanel and to Michaahu, that they shulde teach in the cityes of Iuda, ⁸ and with them he sent leuites: euen Semeiahu, Nethaniahu, Zabadiahu, Asahel, Semiramoth, & Tubadonia, and with them Elisamah and Iehoram prestes. ⁹ And they taught in Iuda, and had the boke of the lawe of God wt them, and went about thorowout all the cityes of Iuda, and taught the people. ¹⁰ And the feare of the Lorde fell vpon all the kyngdomes of the landes that were rounde about Iuda, & they fought not agaynst Iehosaphat. ¹¹ And some of the philistines brought Iehosaphat gyftes, and tribute syluer: And therto the Arabians brought him catell: euen .vij.M. and .vij.C. rammes, and .vij.M. and .vij.C. he goates. ¹² And so Iehosaphat prospered & grue vp on hye. And he buylt in Iuda, castels and stronge cityes, ¹³ & he had great substaunce in the cities of Iuda, but the men of armes & strongest soudiers were in Ierusalem. ¹⁴ And these are the offyces of them in the houses of their fathers, the captaines ouer thousandes in Iuda. Adna the captayne, & with hym of fightynge men .iij.C.M. ¹⁵ And next to hys hande was Iehohanan a captayne, and with hym .ij.C. and .lxxx.M. ¹⁶ And nexte him was Amazia the sonne of Zichri, which of his awne good wil offred him selfe vnto the Lord, and wt hym .ij.C.M. myghty men of warre. ¹⁷ And of the chyldren of Beniamin, Eliada a man of myght, and had with hym armed men with bowe & shylde .ij.C.M. ¹⁸ And nexte hym was Iehosabad, and with hym an .C. and .lxxx.M. that were prepared for the warre. ¹⁹ These wayted on the kynge, besydes those which the kinge put in the stronge cityes thorowout all Iuda.

¹⁶ And Ionathas Sauls sonne arose, & went to Dauid in to the thicket, & comforted his hand in God,

²⁴ And Asa slepte wyth hys fathers, & was buryed besyde his fathers in the cytie of Dauid hys father. And Iehosaphat his sonne raygned in his steade.

⁴¹ Iosaphat the sonne of Asa beganne to raygne vpon Iuda in the fourth yere of Ahab kyng of Israel,

¹⁰ These are the principall men of power whom Dauid had, and that claue to hym in hys kyngdome with all Israel, to make hym kynge, accordynge to the worde of the Lorde vnto Israel.

¹ And it came to passe, that when Rehoboam had stablysshed the kyngdome, and became myghtye, he forsoke the lawe of the Lorde, and all Israel with him.

⁸ And the Ammonites gaue tribute to Uzia, and his name spredde abroade euen to the entryng in of Egypte: for he played the man exceadingly.

⁵ And Hezekia went to lustelye, and built vp all the wal where it was broken, & made ordinaunce vpon the towres and to the other wall without, and repayred Myllo in the cytie of Dauid, and made many dartes and shyldes.

²⁷ The kynge shall mourne, the Prynces shalbe clothed with heuynesse, and the handes of the people in the lande shall tremble for feare. I wyll do vnto them after theyr awne wayes, accordynge to their awne iudgementes wyll I iudge them: to learne them for to knowe, that I am the Lorde.

⁸ Asa begat Iosaphat. Iosaphat begat Ioram. Ioram begat Osias.

¹⁰ Finally my brethren, be stronge thorowe the Lorde and thorowe the power of his myght.

⁵ And Rehoboam dwelt in Ierusalem, and buylt stronge cyties in Iuda.

¹¹ And he repayred the stronge holdes & put captaynes in them, and store of vitayle, & wyne, & oyle. ¹² And in all cyties he put shyldes & speares, and made them exceadynge stronge, hauynge Iuda and Beniamin on his syde.

⁸ And when Asa hearde those wordes, and the prophesye of Azaria the sonne of Oded the prophete, he toke courage, & put awaye the abhominable ydols out of all the lande of Iuda and Beniamin, & out of the cityes which he wanne in mount Ephraim, and renued the aultar of the Lorde, that was before the porch of the Lorde.

² And God was with Ioseph, & he became a luckye man, continuynge in the house of his master the Egyptian. ³ And his master sawe that God was with him, & that God made all that he dyd to prosper in his hande.

²¹ but the Lorde was wyth Ioseph, and shewed hym mercye, and gote hym fauoure in the syghte of the Lorde of the preson.

¹² And he answered: I wyll be wyth the. And thys shalbe a token vnto the that I haue sent the: after that thou hast brought the people out of Egypte, ye shall serue God vpon thys mountayne.

¹² Therfore I will be with thy mouth, & teache the what thou shalt saye.

⁵ There shall not a man be able to withstande that all the dayes of thy lyfe. For as I was with Moses, so will I be with the and will not fayll the, nor forsake the.

⁹ Haue not I commaunded the, that thou shuldest be stronge & hardye & not feare ner be faynt harted? For I the Lord thy God am with the, whether soeuer thou goest.

¹¹ And then the children of Israel dyd wyckedlye in the syght of the lorde, and serued Baalim,

¹⁸ And when the lord raysed them vp Iudges, he was with the Iudge, and delyuered them out of the handes of their enemyes all the dayes of the Iudge for the Lorde had compassyon ouer their sorowinges, whych they had, by the reason of them that oppressed them & vexed them:

¹² & the angell of the Lord apeared vnto hym, & sayde: the Lord is wyth the, thou mightie man of warre.

³³ But it fortuned, that as sone as Gedeon was deed, the children of Israel turned awaye & went a whoring after Baalim, & made a couenaunt wt Baal to be their God,

¹⁰ And Dauid prospered & grew, and the Lord God of hostes was with him

¹⁵ And Dauid raygned ouer all Israel, and executed ryght, & Iustice vnto all his people.

⁶ And Salomon wrought wyckednesse in the sight of the Lorde, & folowed not the Lorde perfectly, as dyd Dauid hys father.

³ And he walked in all the synnes of his father, which he had done before hym and hys hert was not perfect with the Lord hys God as the hert of Dauid his father. ⁴ Neuerthelesse for Dauids sake dyd the Lord hys God geue hym a lyght in Ierusalem, that he sett vp his sonne after hym, and to stablisshe Ierusalem:

³ And he dyd that which is good in the syght of the Lorde, yet not lyke Dauid his father: but dyd accordynge to all thynges as Ioas hys father dyd.

² Twentye yere olde was he, when he was made kynge: and raygned syxtene yere in Ierusalem, and dyd not that which was ryght in the eyes of the Lorde hys God, lyke Dauid hys father:

³ and he dyd that which is ryght in the syght of the Lorde accordyng to all as dyd Dauid hys father.

² He dyd that which is ryght in the syght of the Lorde, and walked in all the wayes of Dauid his father, and bowed nether to the ryght hande or to the lefte.

¹⁸ Is not the Lord yor God wt you? & hath he not geuen you rest on euery syde? for he hath geuen the enhabitoures of the lande into my hande, & the lande is subdued before the Lord & before his people.

² And Asa dyd that was good & right in the eyes of the Lorde hys God: ³ for he toke awaye straunge aultars and the hyllaultars, and brake downe the ymages, and cut downe the groues, ⁴ and commaunded Iuda to seke the Lorde God of their fathers, and to do accordynge to the lawe and commaundement. ⁵ And he put awaye out all the cyties of Iuda the hylaultars and the ymages: and the kyngdome was quyet before hym.

¹¹ And Asa cryed vnto the Lorde hys God, & sayde: Lorde, it is no harde thinge with thou to helpe ether many, or them that haue no power: helpe vs therfore, O Lorde our God, for we trust to the, and in thy name we go agaynst thys multytude. Thou arte the Lorde oure God, and no man shall preuayle agaynst the.

² And he went out to mete Asa, & sayde vnto him: heare me Asa, and all Iuda, Beniamin. The Lorde is with you, whyle ye be with hym, and when ye seke hym, he wyll be founde of you: and agayne, when ye forsake hym, he also wyll forsake you.

⁸ And when Asa hearde those wordes, and the prophesye of Azaria the sonne of Oded the prophete, he toke courage, & put awaye the abhominable ydols out of all the lande of Iuda and Beniamin, & out of the cityes which he wanne in mount Ephraim, and renued the aultar of the Lorde, that was before the porch of the Lorde. ⁹ And he gathered all Iuda and Beniamin, and the straungers with them out of Ephraim, Manasse, & Simeon. For there fell many to hym out of Israel, when they sawe that the Lorde hys God was wt hym. ¹⁰ So they assembled at Ierusalem the thyrde monethe, the fyftenth yeare of the raygne of Asa. ¹¹ And they offered vnto the Lord the same tyme of the spoyle which they had brought .vij.C. oxen, and .vij. thousande shepe. ¹² And they made a couenaunt to seke the Lorde God of theyr fathers, with all theyr hert & all theyr soule. ¹³ And whosoeuer wolde not seke the Lorde God of Israel, shulde dye for it: whether he were small or great man or woman.

⁷ The Lord of Hostes is wt vs, the God of Iacob is oure refuge. Sela.

¹¹ The Lorde of Hostes is wyth vs, the God of Iacob is oure defence. Sela.

¹ A songe of the steares. Lord, remembre Dauid, and all his trouble. ² Howe he swore vnto the Lorde, and vowed a vowe vnto the almyghtye God of Iacob: ³ I wyll not come wythin the tabernacle of my house, nor clyme vp in to my bedd. ⁴ I wyll not suffre myne eyes to slepe, nor myne eye lyddes to slomber. ⁵ Untill I fynde out a place for the temple of the Lorde, an habitacion for the myghtye God of Iacob.

¹⁰ take your councell together, yet must your councel come to naught: go in hande withall, yet shall it not prospere: for God is with vs.

¹⁰ be not afrayed, for I am wt the. Melt not away as waxe, for I am thy God, to strength the, helpe the, & to kepe the wt this ryght hande of myne.

²³ Saye not nowe: I am not vnclene, and I haue not folowed Baal. Loke vpon thyne awne wayes in the woddes, valleys and dennes: so shalt thou knowe, what thou hast done. Thou art lyke a swyft Dromedary, that goeth easely his waye:

²³ Behold, a mayd shalbe wt chylde, & shall bring forth a sonne, & they shall call his name Emanuel, which yf a man interpret, it is asmoch to say as God with vs.

²⁰ For where two or thre are gathered to gether in my name, there am I in the myddes of them

²⁰ Teachinge them to obserue all thinges, whatsoeuer I haue commaunded you. And lo I am wyth you allwaye, euen vntyll the ende of the worlde.

²² The Lorde Iesus Christ be with thy sprete. Grace be with you: Amen.

²⁸ Wherupon the kynge toke councell, and made two calues of golde, and sayde vnto them. It is muche for you to go vp to Hierusalem. Beholde, O Israel: these are thy goddes, which brought you out of the lande of Egypte.

³⁰ And this thynge turned to synne. for the people went (because of the one) as farre as Dan.

³³ And he offered burnt offeringes vpon the alter, which he had made in Bethel, the .xv. daye of the eyght moneth: euen in the moneth which he had ymagened of hys awne herte: and made a solempne feast vnto the chyldren of Israel, and offred vpon the aultare, and burnt incense.

³³ Howbeit, for all that, Ieroboam conuerted not from hys wycked waye: but turned backe, and made of the lowest of the people preastes of the hill aultares. And whoso pleased hym, he fylled hys hande, and he became preaste of the hill aultares. ³⁴ And this thynge turned to synne vnto the house of Ieroboam euen to destroye hym, and to brynge hym to naught from of the face the erthe.

³¹ For it semed vnto hym but a lyght thinge to walke in the synnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat. He toke Iezabel also the daughter of Ethbaal kynge of the Sidonites to wyfe, and went and serued Baal, & worshypped hym. ³² And he reared vp an aultare for Baal in the temple of Baal, whych he had buylded in Schomron. ³³ And Ahab made groues, and proceded further in angrynge the Lorde God of Israel then all the kynges of Israel that were before hym.

¹⁸ And he walked in the wayes of the kinges of Israel, as they that were of the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wyfe, and he dyd euell in the syght of the Lorde.

¹⁹ Neuertheles, Iuda also kept not the commaundementes of the Lorde theyr God, but walked in the ceremonies of Israel, which they made

⁷ hast thou sene also (when she had done all thys) howe I sayde vnto her: that she shulde turne agayne vnto me, & yet she is not returned? Iuda that vnfaythfull syster of hers also sawe thys: ⁸ Namely, that after I had well sene the aduoutrye of the shrynckyng harlot Israel, I put her awaye, and gaue her a byll of deuorcement. For all this, her vnfaythfull syster Iuda was not ashamed, but went backe & played the whore also:

¹⁵ Though thou Israel art disposed to playe the harlot, yet shuldest not thou haue offended, O Iuda: thou shuldest not haue runne to Gilgal ner haue gone vp to Bethauen, ner haue sworne, the Lord lyueth.

⁶ they were, both ryghteous before God, and walked in all the lawes and ordynaunces of the Lorde, that no man coulde fynde fawte with them.

¹² that ye wolde walke worthy of God, whych hath called you vnto his kyngdome and glorye.

¹ Furthermore, we beseche you (brethren) and exhorte you by the Lord Iesus, that ye increace more & more euen as ye haue receaued of vs, how ye ought to walcke and to please God.

² And Abram was very ryche, in catell in syluer & golde.

¹³ & the man waxed myghtye, and went forth and grewe tyll he was exceadinge great, ¹⁴ for he had possessyon of shepe, of oxen and a myghtye housholde, and therfore the Philistians had enuy at hym:

¹³ and when thy beastes, and thy shepe are waxed manye, and thy syluer & golde is multiplied, and all that thou hast is encreased, ¹⁴ then beware, lest thyne herte ryse & thou forgett the Lorde thy God, whych brought the out of the lande of Egypte, and from the house of bondage,

²⁷ But the chyldren of Belial sayde: howe shall he saue vs? and they despised him, and brought him no presentes. And he helde is tonge.

²⁵ And now (Lord God) the worde that thou hast spoken concernyng thy seruaunt and his house: make it good for euer, and do as thou hast sayd. ²⁶ For so shall thy name be magnified for euer, of men that shall saye: the Lorde of Hostes is the God of Israell: and the house of thy seruaunt shall be stablyshed before the.

²¹ And Salomon raygned ouer all kyngdoms, from the ryuer vnto the lande of the Philistines: euen vnto the border of Egypt, and they brought presentes, and serued Salomon all the dayes of hys lyfe.

⁴ And yf thou wylt walcke before me (as Dauid thy father walcked, in purenesse of herte and in ryghteousnesse) to do all that I haue commaunded the, and wylt kepe my statutes, & my lawes, ⁵ then wyll I stablysshe the seate of thy kyngdome vpon Israel for euer, as I promysed to Dauid thy father sayinge. Thou shalt not be without a man vpon the seate of Israel.

²⁵ And brought him euery man his present, vessels of syluer and vessels of golde, rayment, harnesse, and swete odoures and horsses and Mules, yere by yere.

²⁷ And the kynge made syluer in Ierusalem as plenteous as stones, & Cedar as plenteouse as the wylde fygge trees that growe aboundauntly in the feldes.

¹⁵ And the kynge made syluer and golde at Ierusalem, as plenteous as stones: and Cedar trees made he as plentie as the mulbery trees that growe in the valeyes

²⁷ And the kynge made syluer in Ierusalem as plenteous as stones, and Cedar trees as plenteous, as the mulbery trees that growe in the valleyes.

¹ And Iehosaphat had aboundance of rychesse and honoure, and ioyned affinyte wt Ahab.

²³ And many brought offerynges vnto the Lord to Ierusalem, and presentes to Hezekia king of Iuda: so that he was magnifyed in the syght of all nacions from thence forth.

²⁷ And Hezekia had exceadynge moche ryches and honour. And he gat hym treasures of syluer and golde, precious stones, and spices, shyldes, and of all maner pleasaunt Iuelles: 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.

¹² And the Lorde made Iob rycher then he was before: for he had fourtene .M. shepe .vj.M. camels, a .M. youck of oxen, and a .M. asses.

²⁹ For thy temples sake at Ierusalem: so shall kynges brynge presentes vnto the.

¹⁰ The kynges of Tharsis and of the Iles shall geue presentes, the kynges of Araby and Saba shall bring gyftes.

¹¹ Promyse vnto the Lorde youre God, & kepe it, all ye that be rounde about hym: bryng presentes vnto hym that ought to be feared.

¹ A songe of Salomon of the stayres. Except the Lorde buylde the house, their laboure is but lost that buylde it.

¹² Of the frute of thy body shall I set vpon thy seate.

¹¹ and went into the house, and found the chylde with Mary his mother & fel downe flatt and worshipped hym, and opened their treasures & offered vnto hym gyftes, golde, franckincense, & myrre.

³³ But rather seke ye fyrst the kyngdome of God, and the ryghteousnesse therof, and al these thinges shalbe ministred vnto you.

¹⁰ But the God of all grace whych hath called vs vnto hys eternall glory by Christ Iesus, shall hys awne selfe (after that ye haue suffred a lytell affliccyon) make you perfect: settle, strength and stablisshe you.

⁴⁷ because thou seruedst not the Lorde thy God wyth ioyfulnesse and wyth a good herte, whan thou haddest aboundaunce of all thynges,

⁴³ And he walked in all the wayes of Asa hys father and bowed not therfrom: but dyd that which was ryght in the eyes of the Lorde. Neuertheles, the hyllaulters were not taken out of the waye: for the people offered & burnt incense yet, in the hyllaultares.

³ for he toke awaye straunge aultars and the hyllaultars, and brake downe the ymages, and cut downe the groues,

¹⁷ But all the hylaulters were not taken awaye out of Israel: though the hert of Asa was perfecte all hys dayes.

³ Neuertheles, there are some good actes founde in the, in that thou hast hewen downe the groues out of the lande, and hast prepared thyne herte to seke God.

³³ Howbeit the hylaultars were nott taken awaye, for the people had not yet prepared theyr hertes vnto the God of theyr fathers.

¹ And when all these thynges were fynysshed, all they of Israel that were present in the cyties of Iuda, went out and brake the ymages, and cut downe the Idoles groues, & al to brake the hye places, and aulters, thorow out all Iuda and Beniamin, in Ephraim also and Manasse, vntyll they had vtterly destroyed them al. And all the children of Israel returned euery man to his possessions & to their awne cyties.

³ In the .viij. yere of hys raygne (when he was yet a childe) he beganne to seke after the God of Dauid hys father. And in the twelueth yeare he beganne to pourge Iuda and Ierusalem from hylaulters, groues, kerued ymages, and ymages of metall: ⁴ and they brake downe the aulters of Baalim euen in hys presence: and other ymages that were in greater honoure then they, he caused to be destroyed. And the groues, kerued ymages, and ymages of metall he brake and made dust of them, and strawed it vpon the graues of them that had offered to them. ⁵ And he burnt the bones of the preastes vpon the aulters of them, and clensed Iuda and Ierusalem. ⁶ And euen so dyd he in the cyties of Manasse, Ephraim, Simeon vnto Nephthali. And in the wyldernesses of them rounde about, ⁷ he plucked a sondre the aulters and the groues, and dyd beate them and stampte them to powdre, & beate downe all the ymages thorow out all the lande of Israel: and returned to Ierusalem agayne.

²⁶ Then shalt thou haue thy delite in the Almightie, & lyft vp thy face vnto God.

²¹ Because I haue kepte the wayes of the Lorde: and haue not forsaken wyckedlye my God. ²² For I haue an eye vnto all hys lawes: & wyll nott cast out hys commaundementes fro me.

¹ Blessed are those that be vndefyled in the waye: and walke in the lawe of the Lorde.

⁵ Yee, they shall synge in the wayes of the Lorde, that great is the glory of the Lorde.

⁹ Who so is wise, shall vnderstand thys: and he that is ryght enstructe, wyll regarde it. For the wayes of the Lorde are ryghteous, soch as be Godly wyll walke in them. As for the wycked, they wyll stomble therin.

¹⁰ and sayde. O full of all suttelty and disseytfulnesse, thou chylde of the deuyll, thou enemy of all righteousnes: wilt thou not cease to peruerte the strayght wayes of the Lorde?

⁵ Behold I haue taught you ordinaunces and lawes, soch as the Lorde my God commaunded me, that ye shulde do euen so in the lande, whether ye go to possesse it.

¹⁰ They shall teache Iacob thy iudgementes, and Israel thy lawe. They shall put cens before thy nose, and the burnt sacrifyce vpon thyne altare.

³ And truly, for a longe season in Israel no man sought the true God, no man regarded the preste that taught them, no man cared for the lawe.

²² And Hezekia spake hertely vnto all the Leuites that had vnderstandyng and were of a good mynde toward the Lorde. And they dyd eate thorowe out that feast, seuen dayes longe, & offered peaceofferynges, & thanked the Lorde God of theyr fathers.

³ And he sayde vnto the Leuytes (that taught all Israel, and were sanctifyed vnto the Lord) put the holy arcke in the house whych Salomon the sonne of Dauid kyng of Israel, dyd buyld, there shall no other burthen be layd vpon youre shoulders: But now serue the Lorde youre God and hys people Israel.

⁷ And Iesua, Baam, Serabiah, Iamin, Acub, Sebathai, Hadaia, Maasia, Celita, Azaria, Iozabad, Hanan, Pelaia: and the Leuites caused the people to geue hede vnto the lawe, & the people stode in their place. ⁸ And they red in the boke of the lawe of God distinctly & playnly, so that men vnderstode the thinge that was red.

¹³ And on the nexte daye were geathered together the chefe fathers amonge all the people and the preastes and Leuites, vnto Esdras the scrybe, that they myght vnderstand the wordes of the lawe. ¹⁴ And they founde wrytten in the lawe (which the Lorde had commaunded by Moses) that the children of Israel shulde dwell in bothes in the feast of the seuenth moneth:

³ & stode vp in theyr place, & red in the boke of the lawe of the Lord their God foure tymes on the daye, and they knowleged, & worshipped the Lord their God foure tymes on the daye.

¹¹ Come ye chyldren & herken vnto me, I wyll teach you the feare of the Lorde.

¹³ Then shall I teach thy wayes vnto the wicked, and synners shall be conuerted vnto the.

¹² I my selfe the Preacher, was kyng of Israel at Ierusalem,

⁹ All is but vanite (sayth the Preacher) all is but playne vanyte. ¹⁰ The Preacher was yet more wyse, and taught the people knowledge: he gaue good hede, sought out the grounde, and set forth many parables.

²³ For kinges shalbe thy nursyng fathers, and quenes shalbe thy nursing mothers. They shall fall before the wt theyr faces flatt vpon the earth: and lycke vp the dust of thy fete: that thou mayst knowe how that I am the Lorde. And who so putteth his trust in me, shall not be confounded.

²³ And Iesus went about all Galile, teachynge in their synagoges, & preachynge the gospel of the kingdome, and healing all maner of sycknes, & all maner of disease amonge the people.

² And he taught them many thinges by parables, and sayde vnto them in his doctrine?

⁴³ And he sayde vnto them: I must preach the kyngdome of God to other cyties also: for therfore am I sent. ⁴⁴ And he preached in the synagoges of Galile

¹ In the former treatyse (Deare Theophylus) we haue spoken of all that Iesus beganne to do and teache,

⁸ Moreouer, in Ierusalem dyd Iehosaphat set of the leuites, and of the prestes and of the auncient fathers ouer Israel, in the iudgement & cause of the Lord. And they returned agayne to Ierusalem.

¹ After these actes, there was in the raygne of Arthaxerses kyng of Persia, one Esdras the sonne of Saraiah, the sonne of Asaria, the sonne of Helkia, ² the sonne of Sallum, the sonne of Zadoc, the sonne of Ahitob, ³ the sonne of Amaria, the sonne of Asaria, the sonne of Meraioth, ⁴ the sonne of Zeraia, the sonne of Uzi, the sonne of Bucki, ⁵ the sonne of Abisua, the sonne of Phinebes, the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron the chefe preast. ⁶ This Esdras also went vp from Babilon, and was a perfite scribe in the lawe of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel did geue. And the kyng gaue him all that he requyred, because the hande of the Lorde hys God was vpon him.

⁷ For in the prestes lyppes shulde be sure knowledge, that men may seke the lawe at his mouth, for he is a messaunger of the Lorde of hostes.

⁴ Heare O Israel, the Lorde oure God is Lorde only, ⁵ and thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thyne harte, & with all thy soule, & with all thy might. ⁶ And these wordes which I commaunde the thys daye, shalbe in thine herte, ⁷ and thou shalt shewe them vnto thy chyldren, and shalt talke of them when thou art at home in thyne house, and as thou walkest by the waye, and when thou lyest doune, and when thou rysest vp: ⁸ and thou shalt bynde them for a sygne vpon thine hande. And they shalbe warnynges betwene thyne eyes ⁹ and thou shalt write them vpon the postes of thy house and vpon thy gates.

¹¹ when all Israel is come to apeare before the Lord thy God, in the place whych he hath chosen: thou shalt reade thys lawe before all Israel in theyr eares. ¹² Gether the people together: men, wemen and chyldren, and the straunger that is wythin thy gates, that they maye heare, and lerne and feare the Lorde your God, and kepe, and obserue all the wordes of thys lawe, ¹³ and that their chyldren whych knowe nothynge, maye heare, and lerne to feare the Lord your God, as longe as ye lyue in the lande, whether ye go ouer Iordan to possesse it.

⁷ Onely be thou strong & as bolde as thou canst, that thou mayest obserue & do according to all the lawe, which Moses my seruaunt commaunded the. Tourne therfrom nether to the right hand, nor to the lefte: that thou mayste do wysely in all thou takest in hande: ⁸ let not the boke of this lawe departe out of thy mouthe: But recorde therin daye & night that thou mayst obserue, & do according to all that is written therin. For then shalt thou make thy waye prosperouse, and then thou shalt do wysely.

⁷ And Iesua, Baam, Serabiah, Iamin, Acub, Sebathai, Hadaia, Maasia, Celita, Azaria, Iozabad, Hanan, Pelaia: and the Leuites caused the people to geue hede vnto the lawe, & the people stode in their place.

²⁰ If eny man want lyght, leet hym loke vpon the lawe, and the testimony, whether they speake not after this meaning.

²³ But when they persecute you in this cytie, flye ye into another. For verely I saye vnto you: ye shall not go thorowe all the cyties of Israell tyll the sonne of man be come.

¹ And it came to passe, that when Iesus had made an ende of commaunding his twelue disciples he departed thence, to teache and to preache in theyr cyties,

² why do thy disciples transgresse the tradicion of the elders? for they washe not theyr handes when they eate bread. ³ But he answered & sayde vnto them: why do ye also transgresse the commaundement of God, because of youre awne tradicion: ⁴ For God commaundeth sayinge: honoure father and mother, and he that cursseth father or mother: let hym dye the deeth. ⁵ But ye saye: euery one shall saye to his father and mother: what gift so euer shulde haue come of me, the same is turned vnto thy profyt: & so shall he not honoure his father or his mother. ⁶ And thus haue ye made the commaundement of God of none effecte, because of youre awne tradicyon. ⁷ Ypocrites, full well dyd Esaye prophesie of you, saying: ⁸ This people draweth nye vnto me with theyr mouth, and honoureth me with lyppes, howbeit, their hertes are farre from me: ⁹ but in vayne do they serue me; teachynge the doctrines and preceptes of men.

¹⁹ Go ye therfore, & teach all nacions, baptising them in the name of the father, & of the sonne, & of the holy goost: ²⁰ Teachinge them to obserue all thinges, whatsoeuer I haue commaunded you. And lo I am wyth you allwaye, euen vntyll the ende of the worlde.

¹⁷ And there was delyuered vnto hym the boke of the prophete Esayas. And when he had opened the boke, he founde the place, where it was wryten. ¹⁸ The sprete of the Lord vpon me, because he hath annoynted me: to preache the Gospell to the pore he hath sent me: to heale the broken harted, to preach delyueraunce to the captyue, & syght to the blynde: frely to set at liberte them that are brosed, ¹⁹ and to preach the acceptable yeare of the Lorde.

³⁹ Search the scriptures, for in them ye thinke ye haue eternall lyfe & they are they which testify of me.

⁴⁶ For had ye beleued Moses, ye wolde haue beleued me for he wrote of me.

⁴⁰ but Philip was founde at Azotus. And he walked thorowout the countre, preaching in all the cyties, tyll he came to Cesarea.

¹⁵ And after the lecture of the lawe and the prophetes, the rulers of the synagoge sente vnto them, sayinge: Ye men and brethren, yf ye haue eny sermon to exhorte the people, saye on.

²¹ For Moses of olde tyme hath in euery cytie them that preache hym, in the synagoges, when he is redd euery Saboth daye.

²³ And when they had appoynted him a daye, ther came many to hym into hys lodgyng. To whom he expounded and testifyed the kyngdom of God and preached vnto them of Iesus: both out of the lawe of Moses and out of the Prophetes, euen from morninge to nyght.

² Surely verye moch. Fyrst because that vnto them were commytted the wordes of God.

¹¹ If eny man speake, let him talke as the wordes of God. If eny man mynister, let him do it as of the abylite, whych God mynystreth vnto hym. That God in all thynges maye be glorifyed thorow Iesus Christ, to whom be prayse and dominion for euer and euer. Amen.

⁵ And whan they departed, the feare of God fell vpon the cyties that were rounde aboute them. And they dyd not folowe after the sonnes of Iacob.

¹⁴ The nations heard and were afrayed, sorowe came vpon the Philistines. ¹⁵ Then the dukes of the Edomites were amased, and the mightyest of the Moabites, tremblynge came vpon them: all the inhabiters of Canaan waxed faynte harted: ¹⁶ Lett feare and dreade fall vpon them in the greatnes of thyne arme, let them be as styll as a stone, tyll thy people passe thorowe, O Lorde, whyle thys people passe thorowe, which thou hast goten.

²⁴ Whan I cast out the nacions before the, and enlarge thy coastes: so that no man shall desyre thy lande, thou shalt go vp to appeare before the Lorde thy God, thryse in the yeare.

⁹ & sayde vnto the men: I knowe, that the Lorde hathe geuen you the lande for the feare of you is fallen vpon vs, & the enhabiters of the land faynt at the presence of you. ¹⁰ For we haue heard, how the Lorde dried vp the water of the redd see before you when you came out of Egypte, & what you dyd vnto the two kynges of the Amorites, that were on the other side Iordan Sehon, & Og, whom ye vtterlye destroyed. ¹¹ And as sone as we had heard these thynges oure hertes dyd fainte. And there remayned no moare courage in any man at the presence of you. For the Lord youre God, he is the God in heauen aboue, & on the erth benethe.

¹⁴ And they smote all the cyties rounde about Gerar. For the feare of the Lorde came vpon them. And they spoyled all the cyties and there was exceadynge moche spoyle in them.

⁹ For the eyes of the Lorde beholde all the erth, to strength them that are of perfecte hert towarde him. Herin thou hast done folyshly, and therfore from hensforth thou shalt haue warre.

⁷ When a mans wayes please the Lorde, he maketh his very enemyes to be his frendes.

² And he smote the Moabites & measured them with a lyne, & cast them downe to the grounde. Euen wyth two lynes measured he them whom he slue, and the length of one lyne saued he alyue. And so becam the Moabites Dauids seruauntes, & payed trybute. Dauid smote also,

⁴ And Mesa kynge of Moab was a Lorde of shepe, and rendered vnto the kynge of Israel an hundred thousande lambes & an hundred thousande rammes with the wolle.

¹⁴ besydes that which chapmen and marchauntes brought: and all the kynges of Arabia and rulers of that countrey, brought gold and syluer to Salomon.

⁵ And the Lord stablisshed the kyngdome in his hande, and all they that were in Iuda, brought hym presentes, so that he had aboundance of riches and honoure.

²⁵ And the Lorde magnified Salomon in dignitye, in the syght of all them of Israel, and gaue him so gloriouse a kyngdome as no kynge had before him in Israel.

² he buylte the cyties that Hiram gaue him, and put of the chyldren of Israell in them. ³ And Salomon went to Hamath Zoba, and strengthed it. ⁴ And he buylt Thadmor in the wyldernesse, and repayred all the store cyties which were in Hamath. ⁵ And he buylt Bethhoron the vpper and Bethhoron the nether, stronge cyties, hauynge walles, gates and barres. ⁶ And Baalah and all the stoare cyties that Salomon had, and al the charet cyties, and the cyties of the horsemen, and euery pleasaunt place, that Salomon had lust to buylde in Ierusalem and Libanon, and thorowe out all the lande of his dominion.

⁵ And Rehoboam dwelt in Ierusalem, and buylt stronge cyties in Iuda. ⁶ He buylded vp Bethleem, and Etham, and Theko: ⁷ Bethzur, Socho and Adullam: ⁸ Gath, and Maresa: and Ziph Adurahim, ⁹ Lachis and asecha: ¹⁰ Zorca Aialon and Hebron, which is in Iuda & Beniamin, stronge cyties.

⁶ And he buylte stronge cities in Iuda: because the land was in rest, and he had no warre in those yeares. For the Lorde had geuen hym rest. ⁷ Therfore he sayde to Iuda: let vs buyld these cityes, and make about them walles, towres, gates and barres, for the lande is yet in rest before vs, because we haue sought the Lorde oure God: we haue sought hym, and he hath geuen vs rest on euery side: & so they buylt and it prospered with them.

⁶ And he went to batell agaynst the Philistines, and brake downe the wall of Geth, & the wall of Iabne, and the wall of Asdob, & buylt cyties about Asdod & among the Philistines. ⁷ And God holpe him against the Philistines, and agaynst the Arabiens that dwelt in Gurbaal and Hammehunim. ⁸ And the Ammonites gaue tribute to Uzia, and his name spredde abroade euen to the entryng in of Egypte: for he played the man exceadingly. ⁹ Moreouer Uzia buylt towres in Ierusalem by the corner gate, & by the valeye gate, and at the turninge of the wall, and made them stronge.

⁴ Moreouer he buylt cyties in the mountaynes of Iuda, and in the wood countreye he buylt castelles and towres.

²⁵ Ouer the kynges treasures was Azmaueth the sonne of Adiel. And ouer the treasures of the feldes, in the cyties & villages & castelles, was Iehonathan, the sonne of Uziahu. ²⁶ And ouer the worckmen in the feldes that tylled the ground, was Ezri the sonne of Chelub. ²⁷ And the ouersyght of the vineyardes had Semei the Ramathite. Ouer the increase also of the vineyardes, & ouer the winesellers was Sabdi the Hasiphunite. ²⁸ And ouer the oliuetrees & mulberytrees that were in the valeyes, was Baal Hanan the Gederite. And ouer the treasure of oyle, was Ioas: ²⁹ ouer the oxen that fed in Saron, was Setari the Saronite. And ouer the oxen that were in the valeyes was Saphat the sonne of Adlai. ³⁰ Ouer the camelles, Obil the Ismaelyte. And ouer the Asses was Iohadtahu the Meronothite. ³¹ Ouer the shepe, was Iazis the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance of kynge Dauid.

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.

² And I wyll make of the a greate people, and wyll blesse the, & make thy name greate, that thou mayest be euen a blessynge.

¹⁶ And I wyll make thy seed, as the dust of the erth: so that yf a man can nombre the dust of the erth, than shall thy seed also be nombred.

⁵ And he brought him out & sayde: loke vp vnto heauen, and tell the starres, yf thou be able to nombre them. And he sayde vnto him Euen so shall thy seed be.

² take ye the summe of all the multitude of the chyldren of Israel, after theyr kynredes & housholde of theyr fathers wyth the nombre of theyr names, all that are males, heed by heed,

¹⁸ and gethered all the congregacyon together, the fyrst daye of the seconde moneth, and they were rekened thorowe out their kinredes & houses of their fathers by name from .xx. yeare and aboue, heed by heed.

¹ And whan Rehoboam was come to Ierusalem, he gathered of the house of Iuda & Beniamin, nyne score thousande chosen men of warre to fight agaynst Israel, & to brynge the kyngdome agayne to Rehoboam.

³ And Abia made prouisyon for the warre, hauyng valeaunt & expert men of warre, euen .iiii.C.M. chosen men. And Ieroboam set him selfe in araye to fyght agaynst hym, wt .viii.C.M. picte men which were stronge & men of armes.

⁸ And Asa had an armye of men that bare shyldes and speares, out of Iuda, thre hundred thousand: and out of Beniamin that bare shyldes and drue bowes, two hundred & foure skore thousande, all these were valeaunt men.

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.

² Prayse ye the Lord, for the auengyng of Israel, and for the people that became so wylling.

⁹ My hart loueth the gouerners of Israel, and them that are willing amonge the people. O prayse ye the Lorde.

⁹ And the people reioysed, whan they were so wyllynge to geue their goodes, and wyth a perfecte hert they offred vnto the Lorde. And Dauid the kynge reioysed wyth great gladnesse.

¹⁴ But whom am I? and what is my people? that we shulde enforce oure selues to geue these thinges so willingly? But all thynges come of the: and of that which we receaued of thyne hande we haue geuen the.

¹⁷ (I wote also my God) that thou tryest the hertes, and hast pleasure in vnfaynednesse. And in the unfaynednesse of myne herte. I haue willinglye offred all these thinges. And nowe haue I sene thy people which are founde here, to offer vnto the willyngly and wyth gladnesse.

³ In the daye of thy power shall thy people offre the frewyll offrynges wt an holy worshippe, the dewe of thy byrth is of the wombe of the mornyng.

³ For to theyr powers, I beare them recorde, yee, & beyonde theyr power, they were wyllynge of theyr awne accorde, ⁴ and prayed vs with great instaunce, that we wolde receaue their benefyte, and suffre them to be partetakers with other in minystrynge to the saynctes. ⁵ And thys they dyd, not as we loked for: but gaue their awne selues fyrst to the Lord, and after vnto vs by the wyll of God:

¹² For yf there be fyrst a wyllynge mynde, it is accepted accordynge to that a man hath, and not accordynge to that he hath not.

²¹ Ye mountaynes of Gilboa, vpon you be nether dewe nor rayne, not vpon these feldes of offerynges. For there the shilde of the myghtie is cast downe: the shylde of Saul, as though he had not bene anoynted with oyle. ²² The bowe of Ionathas & the swerde of Saul turned neuer backe agayne emptie, from the bloude of the slayne, & from the fatte of the myghtye warryoures.

¹² And in all cyties he put shyldes & speares, and made them exceadynge stronge, hauynge Iuda and Beniamin on his syde.

²³ And he played wysely, and scatered all his chyldren thorowe out all the countreyes of Iuda and Ben Iamin vnto euery stronge cytie. And he gaue them aboundaunce of vitayle, and obtayned many wyues.

² And he put souldyers in all the stronge cityes of Iuda, and sett rulers in the lande of Iuda and in the cityes of Ephraim, which Asa his father had wonne.

¹² And so Iehosaphat prospered & grue vp on hye. And he buylt in Iuda, castels and stronge cityes,