Proverbs 18:19 Cross References - Coverdale

¹⁹ The vnite of brethren is stronger then a castell, and they that holde together are like the barre of a palace.

⁵ but vnto Cain and his offerynge he loked not. Then was Cain exceadinge wroth, and his countenaunce chaunged. ⁶ And the LORDE sayde vnto Cain: Why art thou angrie? and why doth thy countenaunce chaunge? Is it not so? that yf thou do well, thou shalt receaue it: ⁷ but and yf thou do euell, thy synne lyeth open in the dore? Shal he then be subdued vnto the? and wilt thou rule him? ⁸ And Cain talked with Abell his brother. And it happened, that whan they were in the felde, Cain arose agaynst Abell his brother, and slew him.

⁴¹ And Esau bare euell wyll vnto Iacob, because of the blessynge that his father had blessed him withall, and sayde in his herte: The tyme wyll come shortly, that my father shal mourne, for I wil slaye my brother Iacob. ⁴² The was it tolde Rebecca of these wordes of hir elder sonne, and she sent, and bad call for Iacob hir yonger sonne, and saide vnto him: Beholde, thy brother Esau threateneth the, that he wil slaye the. ⁴³ And now my sonne heare my voyce: Get the vp, and flye vnto my brother Laban in Haran, ⁴⁴ and tary there with him a whyle, tyll the furiousnes of thy brother be swaged, and ⁴⁵ till his wrath agaynst ye be turned from the, and he forget what thou hast done vnto him. So wyll I then sende for the, and cause the be fetched from thece. Why shulde I be robbed of you both in one daye?

⁶ The messaungers came agayne vnto Iacob, and sayde: We came vnto thy brother Esau, & he commeth forth also agaynst the with foure hundreth men. ⁷ Then was Iacob sore afrayed, and wyst not what waye to turne himself, & deuyded the people that was with him, and the shepe, and the oxen, & the Camels in to two droues, ⁸ & sayde: Yf Esau come vpon the one droue, and smyte it, the other shal escape. ⁹ Iacob sayde morouer: O God of my father Abraha, God of my father Isaac, LORDE thou that saydest vnto me: Departe agayne to thine owne londe and to thy kynred, and I wyl do the good: ¹⁰ I am to litle for all the mercies and all the trueth that thou hast shewed vnto thy seruaunt (for I had no more but this staff whan I wente ouer this Iordan, and now am I become two droues) ¹¹ delyuer me from ye hande of my brother, fro the hade of Esau, for I am afrayed of him, lest he come and smyte me the mother with the children.

³ Israel loued Ioseph more the all his childre because he had begotte him in his olde age, and he made him a cote of many coloures. ⁴ Now wha his brethre sawe, yt his father loued him more the all his brethre, they had euell wyll at him, & coude not speake a fredly worde vnto hi. ⁵ Ioseph also had once a dreame, and tolde his brethre therof. The hated they him ye more,

¹¹ And his brethre had envie at him. But his father marcked this sayenge.

¹⁸ Now whan they sawe him a farre of, afore he came at the, they deuysed to sleye him, ¹⁹ and sayde one to another: Lo, there cometh the dreamer, ²⁰ come on, and let vs sley him, & cast him in a pytt, and saye: a wicked beast hath deuoured him: the shal it be sene, what his dreames are. ²¹ When Ruben herde that, he wolde haue delyuered him out of their handes, & sayde: O let vs not sley a soule. ²² Ruben sayde morouer vnto him: Shed no bloude, but cast him in to this pytt yt is in the wyldernes, & laye ye no hades vpon him. (He wolde haue delyuered him out of their hades, yt he might haue brought him agayne vnto his father.) ²³ Whan Ioseph now came to his brethre, they stryped him out of his cote, that partye coloured cote which he had vpon him, ²⁴ & toke him and cast him in to a pytt. But the same pytt was emptye, and no water in it, ²⁵ & they sat them downe to eate. In the meane season they lift vp their eyes, and sawe a copany of Ismaelites comynge from Gilead, with their camels, which bare spyces, balme, and myrre, and were goinge downe into Egipte. ²⁶ Then saide Iuda vnto his brethre: what helpeth it vs, that we sleye oure brother, and hyde his bloude? ²⁷ Come, let vs sell him vnto the Ismaelites, that oure handes be not defyled vpon him, for he is oure brother, oure flesh and bloude. And they herkened vnto him.

²² As for Absalom, he spake nether euell ner good to Ammon: but Absalom hated Ammon, because he had forced his sister Thamar.

²⁸ But Absalom commaunded his yongemen, and sayde: Take hede whan Ammon is mery with wyne (and I saye vnto you: Smyte Ammon, and slaye him) that ye be not afrayed: for I haue commaunded you, be stronge, and playe the men.

²³ And the kynge sware by the LORDE, and sayde: God do this and that vnto me, Adonias shall haue spoken this agaynst his lyfe. ²⁴ And now as truly as the LORDE lyueth which hath ordeyned me, and made me to syt vpon the seate of my father Dauid, and hath made me a house ( acordynge as he sayde) this daye shal Adonias dye. ²⁵ And kynge Salomon sent thither by Benaia the sonne of Ioiada, which smote him that he dyed.

¹⁶ But whan all Israel sawe that the kynge wolde not heare them, the people gaue ye kynge an answere and sayde: What porcion haue we then in Dauid or inheritaunce in the sonne of Isai? Get the to thy tentes O Israel. Loke thou now to thy house thou Dauid. So Israel wente vnto their tentes.

¹⁷ so that Abia & his people dyd a greate slaughter vpon them, and there fell wounded of Israel fyue hundreth thousande chosen men.

¹⁹ a false wytnesse yt bringeth vp lyes, & soch one as soweth discorde amonge brethren.

³² A pacient man is better then one that is stroge: and he that can rule him selfe, is more worth then he yt wynneth a cite.

³⁹ And so sharpe was the strife betwene them, that they departed asunder ye one fro the other, and Barnabas toke Marke vnto him, and sayled vnto Cypers.