2 Kings 8 Cross References - Great

¹ Then spake Elisa vnto the woman (whose sonne he had restored to lyfe agayne) sayinge: vp and go, thou and thyne house, & soiourne wheresoeuer thou canst, for the Lorde hath called for a derth, and the same shall come vpon the land seuen yeres. ² And the woman arose, and dyd after the sayinge of the man of God, and went both she and her houshold, & soiourned in the lande of the Philistines seuen yere. ³ And at the seuen yeres ende, it fortuned, that the woman came agayne out of the lande of the Philistines, and went out to call vpon the kynge for her house and for her land. ⁴ And the kynge talked with Gehezi the seruaunt of the man of God, sayinge: tell me I praye the all the great deades that Elisa hath done. ⁵ He tolde the kynge, howe he had restored a deed bodye to lyfe agayne: but in the meane tyme the woman (whose sonne he had raysed vp agayne) cryed to the kynge for her house & for her lande. And Gehezi sayde: My Lorde O kyng, thys is the woman, and thys is her sonne whom Elisa raysed vp agayne. ⁶ And whan the kynge asked the woman, she tolde hym. And so the kynge delyuered her a chambrelayne, sayinge: restore thou vnto her all that are hers, and all the frutes of the felde, sence the daye that she left the lande, vnto this tyme. ⁷ And Elisa came to Damascon, & Benhadad the kynge of Siria was sycke. And one tolde him sayinge. The man of God is come hither. ⁸ And the kynge sayde vnto Hazael: take a present in thine hande, and goo mete the man of God, that thou mayest aske the Lord by him, whether I shall recouer of this disease. ⁹ And so Hazael went to mete him and toke the present with him, and of euery good thinge of Damascon, euen as moch as fourtye Cameles coulde beare, and came & presented hym selfe before hym, and sayde: Thy sonne Benhadad kynge of Siria hath sent me to the, sayinge, shall I recouer of this dysease? ¹⁰ And Elisa sayd vnto him: go & saye vnto him: thou shalt recouer, howbeit the Lorde hath shewed me, that he shall surely dye. ¹¹ And he loked asyde, and was asshamed, and the man of God wepte. ¹² And Hazael sayde: why wepeth my Lord? He answered: for I know the euyll thinges that thou shalt do vnto the chyldren of Israel: for their stronge cyties shalt thou sett on fyre, and their younge men shalt thou sley with the swerde & shalt dasshe out the braynes of their suckynge chyldren, & all to teare their wemen with chylde. ¹³ But Hazael sayde: what is thy seruaunt, a dogge, that I shulde do this great thynge? And Elisa answered: the Lorde hath shewed me, that thou shalt be kynge of Siria. ¹⁴ And so he departed from Elisa, & came to his master, which sayde to him. What sayde Elisa to the? He answered: he tolde me, that thou shuldest recouer. ¹⁵ And on the morowe it fortuned, that he toke a thicke cloth, and dypt it in water, and spred it on his face, and he dyed, and Hazael raygned in his steade. ¹⁶ The fyfte yeare of Iehoram the sonne of Ahab kynge of Israel, Iehosaphat beynge also kinge of Iuda, Iehoram the sonne of Iehosaphat kynge of Iuda, beganne to raygne. ¹⁷ .xxxii. yere olde was he, when he beganne to raygne, and he raygned eyght yere in Ierusalem. 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 And the Lorde wolde not destroye Iuda, and that because of Dauid hys seruaunt, as he promysed hym to geue hym all waye a lyght amonge hys chyldren. ²⁰ In those dayes Edom dyd wickedly when he was vnder the hande of Iuda. For they made them a kynge of theyr awne. ²¹ So Iehoram went to Zair, he and all his charettes with hym. And he rose by nyght, and smote the Edomites, which compassed hym in, with the captaynes of hys charettes, & the people fledd into theyr tentes. ²² But Edom rebelled, so that he wold not be vnder the hande of Iuda vnto thys daye. And then Lobnah began to be disobedient euen that same tyme. ²³ The rest of the wordes that concerne Ioram and all that he dyd, are they not wrytten in the boke of the chronicles of the kynges of Iuda? ²⁴ And Ioram rested with hys fathers, and was buryed besyde his fathers in the citie of Dauid. And Ahaziahu his sonne raygned in his steade. ²⁵ In the .xij. yere of Ioram the sonne of Ahab kynge of Israel, dyd Ahaziahu the sonne of Iehoram kinge of Iuda begynne to raygne. ²⁶ Two & twentye yere olde was Ahaziahu when he beganne to raygne, and he raygned one yere in Ierusalem, and hys mothers name was Athaliahu the daughter of Omri kynge of Israel. ²⁷ But he walked in the waye of the house of Ahab, and dyd euell in the sight of the Lorde, euen as dyd the house of Ahab. ²⁸ For he was the sonne in lawe of the house of Ahab. And he went with Ioram the sonne of Ahab to warre agaynst Hazael kynge of Siria, in Ramoth Gilead, & the Sirians wounded Ioram. ²⁹ And kynge Ioram went back agayne to be healed in Iesrahel of the woundes which the Sirians had geuen hym at Ramoth, when he fought agaynst Hazael king of Siria. And Ahaziahu the sonne of Iehoram kynge of Iuda went downe to se Ioram the sonne of Ahab in Iesrael, because he was sycke there.

¹⁰ But there was a derth in that londe, and therfore wente Abram downe in to Egypte, that he myght soiourne there, for there was a sore derth in the londe.

¹ And there came a derth in the lande, passynge the fyrst derth that was in the dayes of Abraham. And Isahac went vnto Abimelech kynge of the Philistyans vnto Gerar.

²⁵ And Ioseph answered Pharao: both Pharaos dreames are one. And God hath shewed Pharao what he is aboute to do.

²⁷ Lykewyse, the .vii. thynne and euell fauored kyne that came out after them, are .vii. yeares: and the .vii. emptye and blasted eares shalbe .vii. yeares of hunger. ²⁸ Thys whych I haue sayde vnto Pharao, is it that God is aboute to do, and sheweth it vnto Pharao.

³² And as concernynge that the dreame was doubled vnto Pharao the seconde tyme, beholde, the thynge is certaynly prepared of God, & God wyll shortly brynge it to passe.

⁴ They sayde moreouer vnto Pharao: for to sogeorne in the lande are we come, for thy seruauntes haue no pasture for theyr shepe, so sore is the fameshment in the lande of Canaan. Nowe therfore let thy seruauntes dwell in the lande of Gosan.

¹⁹ and wyll breake the pryde of youre stubburnesse. And I wyll make youre heauen as yron, and youre erth as brasse. ²⁰ And youre laboure shalbe spent in vayne. For youre lande shall not geue hyr encrease, nether shall the trees of the lande geue theyr frutes.

²⁶ And when I haue broken the staffe of youre bread: ten wyues shall bake youre bread in one ouen, and they shall delyuer you youre bread agayne by weyght ye shall eate, and not be satisfyed.

²² The Lorde shall smyte the with swellynge, wyth feuers, heet, burnynge, and wyth the swerde, with wetherynge, and with blastynge. And they shall folowe the vntyll thou peryshe. ²³ And the heauen that is ouer thy head shalbe brasse, and the erthe that is vnder the, yron. ²⁴ The Lorde shall turne the rayne of the lande vnto powder and dust: euen from heauen shall they come doune vpon the, vntyll thou be brought to nought.

³⁸ Thou shalt carye moche seed out in to the felde, and shalt gether but lytle in: for the greshoppers shall destroye it. ³⁹ Thou shalt plante a vyneyarde and dresse it, but shalt nether dryncke of the wyne, nether gether the grapes, for the wormes shall eate it. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt haue oliue trees thorowe out all thy coastes, but shalt not anoynte thy selfe wyth the oyle, for thyne olyue trees shalbe roted out.

¹ It fortuned, that when the Iudges iudged, there fell a darth in the lande, and a certen man of Bethlehem Iuda went for to soiourne in the contreye of Moab: he and hys wyfe, and hys two sonnes.

¹ Then there fell an hongre in the dayes of Dauid, thre yeres together. And Dauid enquired of the Lorde. And the Lorde answered: it is for Saul, and the house of bloude, because he slue the Gibaonites.

¹³ So Gad came to Dauid, and shewed him, & sayde vnto him. Wilt thou haue seuen yeres hunger to come in thy lande, or wilt thou flee .iij. monethes before thyne enemies, they folowinge the, or that there be thre dayes pestilence in thy lande? Nowe therfore aduyse the, & se, what answere I shall geue to him that sent me.

¹ And Elia the Thesbite (whych was of the enhabiters of Gilead) sayde vnto Ahab: as truly as the Lord God of Israel lyueth, before whome I stande there shalbe nether dewe nor rayne these yeres, but accordynge to my worde.

² And Elia went to shewe hym selfe vnto Ahab, & ther was a great famyshement in Schomron.

¹⁸ And when the chylde was growne, it fell on a daye, that he went out to his father, and to the reapers.

³¹ Gehezi went before them, & layed the staffe vpon the face of the chylde. But there was nether voyce nor any feling. Wherfore he went agayne to mete him, and tolde him, sayinge: the childe is not awaked. ³² And when Elisa was come into the house: Beholde, the chylde was deed and layde vpon his bed. ³³ He went in therfore, & shut the dore to the ladd and him, and prayed vnto the Lorde. ³⁴ And went vp & laye vpon the ladd, & put his mouth on his mouth, & his eyes vpon his eyes, & his handes vpon his handes, and whan he so laye vpon the chylde, the flesshe of the chylde waxed warme. ³⁵ And he went agayne, & walked once vp and downe in the house, and then went vp, and layed him selfe vpon him agayne. And then the chylde gasped seuen times and opened his eyes.

¹⁶ Morouer, he called for a darth vpon the lande, and destroyed all the prouisyon of bread.

³⁴ A frutefull lande maketh he baren, for the wyckednesse of them that dwell therin.

²⁹ For lo, I begynne to plage the cytye, that my name is geuen vnto: thincke ye then that I wyll leaue you vnpunished? Ye shal not go quyte, for why, I call for a swearde vpon all the inhabitours of the earth, sayeth the Lorde of Hostes.

¹¹ I haue called for a drouth, both vpon the lande and vpon the mountaynes, vpon corne, vpon wyne, and vpon oyle, vpon euery thynge that the grounde bryngeth forth, vpon men & vpon catell, yee, and vpon all handy laboure.

²⁵ But I tell you of a treuth: many weddowes were in Israel in the daies of Helias when heauen was shut thre yeares and syxe monethes, when greate famyshment was throughout all the lande,

¹¹ and greate erthquakes shalbe in all places, and honger, and pestilence, & fearfull thinges. And greate sygnes shall ther be from heauen.

²² For these be the dayes of vengeaunce, that all thynges which are wrytten, maye be fulfylled.

²⁸ And there stode vp one of them named Agabus, and sygnifyed by the sprete, that there shuld be greate derth thorow out all the world, which came to passe in the Emperoure Claudius dayes.

³ Of those whom he left, there were fyue lordes of the Philistines, & all the Cananites, & the Sodonites, and the Heuites that dwelt in mount Libanon: euen from mount Baal Hermon vnto Hemath.

¹ And Dauid sayde in his hert: I shall perishe one daye or other by the hand of Saul. Therfore is there nothing better for me, then to flee and saue my selfe in the land of the Philistines, and Saul shall cease & seke me nomore in all the coastes of Israel, & so shall I escape out of his hand. ² And Dauid arose, & he & the syxe hundred men that were wt him went vnto Achis, the sonne of Maoch, king of Geth. ³ And Dauid dwelt wt Achis at Geth, both he & his men, euery man wt his housholde, & Dauid wt hys two wiues: Ahinoam the Iezrahelite, & Abigail Nabals wife of Carmell.

⁸ But yf eny prouide not for her awne (& specially for them of her housholde) the same hath denyed the fayth, and is worsse then an infydell.

⁴ And when the woman of Thekoa had fallen on her face to the grounde, and done obeysaunce, she sayde vnto the kynge: helpe me O kynge.

¹³ And agayne he sayde vnto him: Tell her. Beholde, thou hast bene carefull for vs, and hast made all thys prouision. What shall we nowe do for the? Woldest thou be spoken for to the kynge or to the captayne of the Hoste? She answered I dwell amonge myne awne people.

²⁶ And as the kynge of Israel was goinge vpon the wall, there cryed a woman vnto him sayinge: helpe, my Lorde O kynge.

⁶ And whan the kynge asked the woman, she tolde hym. And so the kynge delyuered her a chambrelayne, sayinge: restore thou vnto her all that are hers, and all the frutes of the felde, sence the daye that she left the lande, vnto this tyme.

³ Defende the poore and fatherlesse, se that soch as be in nede and necessite haue ryght. ⁴ Delyuer the out caste & poore: saue them from the hande of the vngodly.

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?

³ And ther was a certayne wedowe in the same cytye, and she came vnto hym, sayinge: auenge me of myne aduersary. ⁴ And he wolde not for a whyle. But after warde he sayd within him selfe: though I feare not God, nor care for man, ⁵ yet because thys wedowe is importune vpon me, I wyll auenge her, lest she come at the last and rayle on me.

¹⁴ & toke the mantell of Elia (that fell from him,) and smote the waters and he sayd: where is the Lorde God of Elia, and he him selfe? And when he had smyten the waters, they parted this waye & that waye, & Elisa went ouer.

²⁰ He sayde. Brynge me a new cruse, and put salt therin. And they brought it to him. ²¹ And he went vnto the springe of the waters, and cast the salt in thither, & sayde: thus sayth the Lorde. I haue healed this water, ther shall not come henceforthe ether deeth or barennesse. ²² So the waters were healed vnto this daye, accordinge to the sayinge of Eliseus, which he spake.

²⁴ And he turned backe, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lorde. And there came two she Beares out of that woodd & tare .xlii. chyldren of them.

¹⁴ And Elisa sayde: as sure as the Lord of Hostes lyueth (in whose syght I stand) and it were not that I regarde the presence of Iehosaphat the kynge of Iuda, I wolde not loke towarde the, nor yet se the. ¹⁵ But nowe bringe me a mynstrell. And whan the mynstrell played, the hande of the Lorde came vpon him. ¹⁶ And he sayde. Thus sayeth the Lorde. Make this playne grounde full of diches.

³ He sayde vnto her: Go & borowe vessell for the, of them that are without euen of all thy neyboures, emptie vesselles and that not a fewe. ⁴ And when thou art come in, thou shalt shutt the dore after the and after thy sonnes, and powre out into all those vesselles, and sett asyde that which is full. ⁵ And so the woman went from him, and shutt the dore after her and after her sonnes. And they brought to her, & she powred out. ⁶ And it came to passe, that when the vesselles were full, she sayde vnto her sonne: brynge me yet a vessell. And he sayde vnto her: I haue no mo. And the oyle ceased.

¹² and sayde to Gehezi his seruaunt: call this Sunamite. And whan he called her, she presented hyr selfe before hym.

¹⁶ And he sayde by soch a tyme, and as sone as the frute can liue, thou shalt embrace a sonne. And she sayde: Oh naye my Lorde, thou man of God, do not lye vnto thine handmayd. ¹⁷ And the wyfe conceaued, and bare a sonne that same ceason that Eliseus had sayde vnto her as sone as the frute coulde haue lyfe.

¹⁴ Then went he downe, & wasshed him selfe seuen tymes in Iordan, accordynge to the sayinge of the man of God, & his flesshe chaunged, like vnto the flesshe of a lytle chylde, & he was cleansed.

²⁰ Gehezi the seruaunt of Elisa the man of God, sayde: beholde, my master hath spared Naaman thys Syrian, that he wolde not receaue of hys hande those thynges that he offered. As surely as the Lorde lyueth, I wyll runne after him, & take some what of him. ²¹ And so Gehezi folowed Naaman. And when Naaman sawe him runninge after him, he lyght downe from the charet, to mete him, and sayde: is all well? ²² He answered: All is well. Beholde, my master hath sent me, sayinge: se, there be come to me euen nowe from mount Ephraim two yonge men of the chyldren of the prophetes: geue them I praye the, one talent of syluer and two chaunge of garmentes. ²³ And Naaman sayde: With a good will. Take two talentes: & he compelled him to bynde two talentes of syluer in two bagges, with two chaunge of garmentes, and layed them vpon two of his seruauntes, to beare them before him. ²⁴ And whan he came in to a secrete place, he toke them from their hande, & bestowed it in the house, & the men were let go, ²⁵ and they departed. But he went in, and stode before his master. And Elisa sayde vnto him: whence commest thou Gehezi? He sayde: thy seruaunt went no whether. ²⁶ But he sayde vnto hym: went not myne hert with the, when the man turned agayne from his charet to mete the? Is it nowe a tyme to receaue moneye, to receaue garmentes, olyue trees, vyneyardes, shepe and oxen, men seruauntes & mayde seruauntes? ²⁷ The leprosye therfore of Naaman shall cleaue vnto the, and vnto thy seed for euer. And he went out from his presence a leper, as whyte as snowe.

⁶ And the man of God sayde. Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut downe a stycke, & cast it in thither, & immediatly the yron dyd swymme.

⁹ And the man of God sent vnto the kynge of Israel, sayinge: Beware, that thou go not ouer to soch a place, for there the Sirians are lurkynge. ¹⁰ Therfore the kynge of Israel sent to the place which the man of God tolde him, and warned him of, and saued him selfe from it, not once nor twyse. ¹¹ And the hert of the kynge of Siria was troubled for this thinge, and he called for his seruauntes and sayde vnto them: wyll ye not shewe me, which of oure men to the kynge of Israel? ¹² And one of his seruauntes sayde: none my Lorde o kynge. But Elisa the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the kinge of Israel, yea euen, the wordes that thou speakest in thy preuye chambre.

¹⁷ And Elisa prayed and sayde: Lorde (I beseche the) open hys eyes, that he maye se. And the Lorde opened the eyes of the yonge man. And beholde, the mountayne was full of horses, and charettes of fyre rounde aboute Elisa. ¹⁸ And when they came downe to hym, Elisa prayed vnto the Lorde, and sayde: Smyte thys people (I praye the) with blindnesse. And he smote them with blindnes, accordinge to the desyre of Elysa. ¹⁹ And Elisa sayde vnto them this is not the waye, nether is this the towne: folowe me, and I wyll bringe you to the man whom ye seke. But he ledd them to Samaria. ²⁰ And it fortuned, that when they were come to Samaria, Elisa sayde: Lorde, open their eyes that they maye se. And the Lorde opened their eyes, and they sawe. And beholde, they were in the myddes of Samaria.

³² But Elisa satt in his house and the elders satt by him, & the kynge sent a man before him. But yer the messenger came to him, he sayde to the elders haue ye not sene, howe that the sonne of this murtherar hath sent, to take awaye myne heed? be circumspect when the messenger commeth, and shut the dore, and holde him at the dore: is not the sounde of hys masters fete behinde him?

¹ Then Elisa sayde: heare ye the worde of the Lorde: thus sayth the Lorde. to morowe thys tyme shall a bousshell of fyne floure be solde for a Sicle, and two bousshelles of Barley for a Sycle in the gate of Samaria.

³ And there were foure leperous men at the entringe in of the gate. And they sayde one to another, why sytt we here, vntill we dye?

¹⁰ And so they came, & called vnto the porter of the cytie, and tolde them sayinge: we came to the pauilions of the Syrians: & se, there was no man there, nether voyce of man, but horsses and Asses tyed, and the tentes were, euen as they were wont to be.

¹⁶ And the people went out, & spoyled the tentes of the Syrians. And so it came to passe, that a busshel of fyne flowre was sold for a sycle, and two busshelles of barley for a sycle accordynge to the worde of the Lorde. ¹⁷ And the kynge apoynted the Lorde (on whose hand he leaned) to be at the gate. And the people trode vpon him in the gate, and he dyed, accordynge to the worde of the man of God which he sayde, when the kynge came downe to him. ¹⁸ And so came the thynge to passe that the man of God had spoken to the kynge, saynge: two busshelles of barley for a sycle, & a busshell of fyne floure for another, shalbe to morowe this tyme in the gate of Samaria. ¹⁹ Wher vnto that Lorde answered the man of God, and sayde. Yee, and yf the Lorde made wyndowes in heauen myght it come to passe? And he sayde: Beholde, thou shalt se it with thyne eyes, & shalt not eate therof. ²⁰ And euen so chaunced it vnto him: for the people troad vpon him in the gate, and he dyed.

⁸ & he bad them go to Bethleem, & sayd: God your waye thither, & searche diligently for the childe. And when ye haue founde him, bryng me word agayne, that I maye come and worshyp hym also.

⁹ And Herode sayde: Iohn haue I beheaded: but who is this of whom I heare such thinges. And he desyred to se him.

⁸ And when Herode sawe Iesus, he was exceadyng glad, For he was desyrous to se hym of a longe season, because he had hearde many thynges of hym, and he trusted to haue sene some myracle done by hym.

²⁷ He answered them: I tolde you yer whyle, and ye dyd not heare. Wherfore wold ye heare it agayne? Wyll ye also be his disciples?

²⁴ And after a certayne dayes, whan Felix came with his wyfe Drusilla (which was a Iewesse) he called forth Paul, and hearde hym of the fayth, which is towarde Chris

³ And she went, and came to the felde, and geathered after the reapers, and her chaunce was, that the same felde pertayned vnto Booz, which was of the kynred of Elimelec.

¹⁷ And Saul knew Dauids voyce, & sayde is this thy voyce my sonne Dauid? & Dauid sayd: it is my voyce, my Lord, O kyng

³⁵ And he went agayne, & walked once vp and downe in the house, and then went vp, and layed him selfe vpon him agayne. And then the chylde gasped seuen times and opened his eyes.

¹² And one of his seruauntes sayde: none my Lorde o kynge. But Elisa the prophet, that is in Israel, telleth the kinge of Israel, yea euen, the wordes that thou speakest in thy preuye chambre.

¹⁴ Then sayd Zares hys wyfe and all hys frendes vnto him: Let them make a galowse of fyftye cubites hye, and tomorow speake thou vnto the kyng, that Mardocheus maye be hanged theron, & go thou in merely wyth the kynge vnto the bancket. And Haman was wel content with all, & caused the galowes to be made.

¹¹ Then toke Haman the rayment & the horse, and arayed Mardocheus, and brought him on horsbacke thorow the strete of the cytie, and proclaymed before him: Euen thus shall it be done vnto the man whom the kyng is disposed to honoure. ¹² And Mardocheus came agayne to the kynges gate, but Haman gat hym home in all the hast mournynge bare headed,

¹ A thankesgeuynge of Dauid. I Wyll magnifye the, O God my kynge, and I wyll prayse thy name for euer and euer.

⁹ A man deuiseth awaye in his herte, but it is the Lorde that ordreth hys goynges.

¹¹ So I turned me vnto other thinges vnder the Sunne, & I sawe, that in runnyng, it helpeth not to be swyft: in batayle, it helpeth not to be stronge: to fedynge, it helpeth not to be wyse, so riches, it helpeth not to be suttell: to be had in fauoure, it helpeth not to be connyng: but that all lyeth in tyme & fortune.

²⁹ Are not two lytle sparowes sold for a farthyng? And one of them shall not lyght on the grounde with out youre father. ³⁰ Yee, euen al the heares of your head are nombred.

²⁷ And he arose, & went on. And behold, a man of Ethiopia (a chamberlene, & of greate auctorite with Candace quene of the Ethiopians, & had the rule of al her treasure came to Ierusalem for to worshyp. ²⁸ And as he returned home agayne syttinge in hys charet, he red Esay the prophete. ²⁹ Then the sprete sayd vnto Philip: go neare, and ioyne thy self to yonder charet. ³⁰ And Philip ran to hym, and heard him reade the prophete Esay, and sayd: Understandest thou what thou readest? ³¹ And he said: How can I, except I had a gyde? And he desyred Philip, that he wolde come vp, and sytt with hym. ³² The tenoure of the scripture which he read, was this: He was led as a shepe to be slayne: and lyke a lambe domme before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth. ³³ Because of hys humblenes, he was not estemed. But who shal declare hys generacion? for his lyfe is taken from the earth. ³⁴ The chamberlayn answered Philip, and sayd: I praye the of whom speaketh the prophete thys? of hym selfe, or of some other man? ³⁵ Philip opened hys mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached vnto hym Iesus. ³⁶ And as they went on theyr waye, they cam vnto a certen water, and the chamberlayne said: Se, here is water what doth let me to be baptysed? ³⁷ Philip sayde vnto him: If thou beleue with all thyne hert, thou mayest. And he answered, and sayde: I beleue that Iesus Christ is the sonne of God. ³⁸ And he commaunded the charet to stande styll. And they went downe both into the water: both Philip and also the chamberlayn, and he baptysed hym. ³⁹ And assone as they were come out of the water, the sprete of the Lord caught awaye Philip, and the chamberlayn sawe him nomore. And he went on hys waye reioysinge: ⁴⁰ but Philip was founde at Azotus. And he walked thorowout the countre, preaching in all the cyties, tyll he came to Cesarea.

³¹ What shall we then saye to these thinges? yf God be on oure syde, who can be agaynst vs?

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

² And yf thy brother be not nye vnto the, or yf thou knowe hym not, then brynge it vnto thyne awne house, & it shall remayne wyth the, vntyll thy brother aske after them, and then delyuer him them agayne.

¹³ The king of the children of Ammon answered vnto the messengers of Iephthah: Because Israel toke awaye my land, when they came out of Egypt: euen from Arnon vnto Iabok, and vnto Iordan. Now therfore restore those landes agayne wt faire meanes.

⁷ Dauid sayde vnto him: feare not, for I will surely shew the kindnesse for Ionathas thy fathers sake, & will restore the all the feldes of Saul thy father, & thou shalt eate bred on myne awne table continually.

³² And he lyft vp his eyes to the windowe, and sayde: who is of my syde, who? And ther loked out to hym two or thre chamberlaynes.

¹ And Dauid geathered togeather all the Lordes of Israel: the Lordes of the trybes, the Lordes of the companyes that ministred to the kyng by course, the captaynes ouer the thousandes & ouer the hundredes & the Lordes that had the ouersyght ouer all the substaunce and possessyon of Dauid, hys sonnes, wyth the chambrelaynes: all the myghtye and valeaunt and all actiue men vnto Ierusalem.

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

¹ The kynges herte is in the hande of the Lorde, lyke as are the ryuers of water: he maye turne it whithersoeuer he wyll.

¹⁵ And he was sett in Aray vpon them by nyght, he and his seruauntes, and smote them and pursued them vnto Hoba: which lyeth on the lefte hande of Damascos,

¹ Thys is the blessynge wherwyth Moses the man of God blessed the chyldren of Israell before hys death,

² And it was tolde the Azathites, sayeng: Samson is come hither. And they went aboute, & layde awayte for hym there, all nyght in the gate of the cytie, and were still all the nyght, saying: in the mornyng whan it is daye, we shall kyll hym.

²⁴ And he gathered men vnto hym, and became captayne ouer the companye, when Dauid slewe them. And they went to Damasco, and dwelt there, and raigned in Damasco:

¹ And beholde, there came a man of God out of Iuda (by the worde of the Lord) vnto Bethel, & Ieroboam stode by the aulter to put incense.

¹⁸ Then Asa toke all the syluer & golde, that was lefte in the treasures of the house of the Lorde, & the treasures of the kynges house, and delyuered them vnto the handes of hys seruauntes, & Asa sent them to Benhadad the sonne of Tabrimon the sonne of Hezion kynge of Siria, (that dwelt at Damasco,) sayenge:

¹ And Benhadad the kyng of Siria gathered all his hoste together, hauynge .xxxij. kynges wt hym, and horses and charettes: & went vp and beseged Samaria, & warred agaynst it.

³⁴ And he sayd vnto him: the cyties whych my father toke from thy father, I wyll restore agayne. And thou shalt make streates for the in Damasco, as my father dyd in Samaria. And I wyll make an apoyntment with the, & send the awaye. And so he made an appoyntment with him, and sent hym awaye.

⁹ Then the kyng sent vnto him a captayne ouer fyftie, with his fyftie men, which came to him: and beholde, he satt on the toppe of an hyll. And he spake vnto him: Thou man of God, the kyng hath sayd: come downe. ¹⁰ Elia answered and sayde to the captayne ouer the fyftie: yf I be a man of God, fyre come downe from heauen, and consume the & thy fyftie. And there came fyre of God, and consumed him and his fyftie.

¹⁵ And whan the chyldren of the prophetes which were at Iericho sawe hym from a farre, they sayde: the spryte of Elia doth rest on Elisa, and they came to mete him, and fell to the grounde before him,

²⁴ After thys it chaunced, that Benhadad kynge of Siria gathered all his Hoste & went vp, and beseged Samaria.

⁸ for the head cytie of the Sirians is Damascus, but the head of Damascus is Rayzin. And after fyue & threscore yeare, shall Ephraim be no more a people.

⁶ And when they founde them not they drue Iason, & certayne brethren vnto the heades of the cytie, cryinge: these that trouble the worlde, are come hyther also,

⁷ Then sayd Saul to his lad: yf we will go, what shall we bring the man? For our bread is all spent out of oure vessels, & there is no nother present to bring the man of God: what haue we?

¹ At that tyme Abia the sonne of Ieroboam fell sycke. ² And Ieroboam sayde vnto hys wyfe: vp (I praye the) and disguyse thy selfe, that thou be not knowen to be the wyfe of Ieroboam, and get the to Silo. For ther is Ahia the Prophete which tolde me that I shulde be kynge ouer thys people. ³ And take with the ten loues, and cracknelles, and a cruse of honye, and go to him: that he maye tell the what shall become of the childe. ⁴ And Ieroboams wyfe dyd so: and arose, and went to Silo, and came to the house of Ahia. But Ahia coulde not se, for hys eyes were waxen dymme for age.

¹⁵ And the Lorde sayde vnto him: go & turne thy waye to the wildernesse vnto Damasco, that thou mayest annoynte Hazael, kynge ouer Siria.

¹⁷ And it shall come to passe that whoso escapeth the swerde of Hazael, hym shall Iehu slaye: and yf any man scape the swerde of Iehu, hym shall Elisa put to death.

² And Ahazia fell thorowe a graate of hys vpper chambre that he had in Samaria: and whyle he was in his sycknesse, he sent messengers, and sayde vnto them: go and enquyre of Beelzebub the God of Ekron, whether I shall recouer of this my disease.

⁶ They answered him: there came a man vp against vs, & sayde vnto vs? go & turne agayne vnto the kynge that sent you, & saye vnto him: Thus sayeth the Lorde. Is there not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Beelzebub the God of Ekron? Therfore thou shalt not come downe from the bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt dye the death.

¹¹ But Iehosaphat sayde: is there not here a prophet of the Lorde, that we maye enquyre of the Lorde by him? And one of the kynge of Israels seruauntes answered and sayde: here is Elisa the sonne of Saphat, which powred water on the handes of Elia. ¹² And Iehosaphat sayde Is not the worde of the Lorde wt hym? And so the kynge of Israel, & Iehosaphat and the kynge of Edom went downe to him. ¹³ And Elisa sayde vnto the kynge of Israel. what haue I to do with the? Get the, to the prophetes of thy father, and to the prophetes of thy mother. And the kynge of Israel sayde vnto him. Oh naye, For the Lorde hath called these thre kynges together to delyuer them into the hande of Moab.

⁵ And the kynge of Syria sayde: Come and entre in and I wyll sende a letter vnto the kynge of Israel. And he came, and toke with him ten talentes of syluer, and .vj. thousande peces of golde, & ten chaunge of raymentes,

²³ Then sayde one vnto him: Lorde, are ther feaw that be saued? And he sayde vnto him:

³⁰ and brought them out, & sayde: Syrs what must I do to be saued?

⁸ aske thy laddes, & they will shew the. Wherfore let these young men fynde fauore in thine eyes (for we come in a good ceason) and geue I praye the whatsoeuer commeth to thyne hande, vnto thy seruauntes, and to thy sonne Dauid.

¹³ And his seruauntes came, & commoned with hym, and sayde: Father, yf the prophete had bydd the do some great thinge, oughtest thou not to haue done it? How moch rather then, whan he sayth to the: wasshe, and be cleane?

²¹ And the kynge of Israel sayde vnto Elisa, when he sawe them: My father, shall I smyte them:

¹⁴ When Elisa was fallen sycke of hys sycknesse (wher of he dyed) Ioas the kinge of Israel came downe vnto hym, & wepte before him, & sayd: O my father, my father, the charet of Israel, & the horsemen of the same.

⁷ So Ahaz sent messengers to Thiglath Peleser kynge of Assiria, sayinge: I am thy seruaunt and thy sonne, come vp and deliuer me out of the hande of the kynge of Siria, & out of the hande of the king of Israel, which ryse vp agaynst me.

¹⁴ Neuerthelesse, without thy mynde wolde I do nothinge, that the good whych thou doest, shulde not be as it were of necessite, but wyllyngly.

¹⁷ But as touchynge the tre of knowledge of good and euell, thou shalt not eate of it. Els, in what daye soeuer thou eatest therof, thou shalt dye the death.

³⁹ And Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: for as moche as God hath shewed the all thys, there is no man of vnderstondynge or of wysdome lyke vnto the.

¹⁵ And so he came to the kynge, and the kynge sayde vnto hym: Michea, ought we to go agaynst Ramoth in Gilead to batayle or to be still? He answered vnto hym: go and prosper, the Lorde shall delyuer it into the hande of the kynge.

⁴ Wherfore, thus sayth the Lorde: thou shalt not come downe from the bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt die the death. And Elia departed.

¹⁶ And he sayde vnto him, thus sayth the Lorde: for as moch as thou hast sent messengers to aske councell at Beelzebub the God of Ekron as though there had bene no God in Israel whose worde thou mightest seke after: therfore thou shalt not come downe of the bedd on which thou art gone vp, but shalt dye the death.

¹³ But Hazael sayde: what is thy seruaunt, a dogge, that I shulde do this great thynge? And Elisa answered: the Lorde hath shewed me, that thou shalt be kynge of Siria. ¹⁴ And so he departed from Elisa, & came to his master, which sayde to him. What sayde Elisa to the? He answered: he tolde me, that thou shuldest recouer. ¹⁵ And on the morowe it fortuned, that he toke a thicke cloth, and dypt it in water, and spred it on his face, and he dyed, and Hazael raygned in his steade.

²¹ But yf thou wilt not go forth, the Lorde hath tolde me this playnely:

²⁵ So I spake vnto the presoners, all the wordes of the Lorde, whych he had shewed me.

¹³ he lendeth vpon vsury, & taketh more ouer. Shall this man lyue? He shall not lyue. Seynge he hath done all these abhominacyons, he shall dye, his bloude shalbe vpon him.

⁷ Nowe doth the Lorde God no maner of thinge, but he telleth his secrete before vnto hys seruauntes the prophetes.

¹ The Lorde God shewed me soch a vysyon: beholde, there stode one that made greshoppers, euen when the corne was shotynge forth, after the king had clypt his shepe.

⁴ Agayne, the Lord shewed me thys visyon: beholde, the Lorde God called the fyre to punysh wythall, and it deuoured the great depe: yee, it consumed a parte all redy.

⁷ Moreouer, he shewed me thys vysyon: beholde, the Lord stode vpon a plastered wall and a masons trowel in his hande.

¹ The Lorde God: shewed me thys vysyon: and beholde, there was a maunde wt sommer frute.

²⁰ And the Lord shewed me foure carpenters.

¹ And he shewed me a pure ryuer of water of lyfe, clere as Crystall: procedynge out of the seate of God, and the lambe.

² And he wepte alowde, so that the Egypcyans, and the house of Pharao herde it.

¹⁷ And whan they laye vpon him tyll he was ashamed, he sayde. Send. They sent therfore fyftye men, which sought him thre dayes and thre nyghtes, but founde him not.

¹³⁶ Myne eyes gusshe out wyth water, because men kepe not thy lawe.

¹⁹ Ah my bely, ah my bely, (shalt thou cry) how is my hert so sore? my hert panteth within me: I cannot be styll, for I haue herde the crying of the trompettes, and peales of warre.

¹ O who wyll geue my head water ynough, and a wel of teares for myne eyes: that I maye wepe night and daye: for the slaughter of my people?

¹⁸ and synge a mournynge songe of you: that the teares may fall out of oure eyes, and that our eye lyddes maye gusshe out of water.

¹⁷ But yf ye wyll not heare me, that geue you secrete warnyng, I wyll mourne from my whole hert for youre stubburnes. Pyteously wyll I wepe, & the teares shall gusshe out of myne eyes. For the Lordes flocke shall be caryed awaye captyue.

¹⁷ Thys shalt thou say also vnto them. Myne eyes shall wepe without ceassynge daye & nyght. For my people shalbe destroyed wt greate harme, & shall perysh with a greate plage.

⁴¹ And when he was come neare, he behelde the cytie, and wept on it,

³⁵ And Iesus wept.

¹⁹ seruynge the Lorde with all humblenes of mynde, and with many teares & temptacions which happened vnto me by the layinges awayte of the Iewes,

³¹ Therfore awake, & remember, that by the space of .iij. yeres: I ceased not to warne euery one of you nyght and daye with teares.

² that I haue gret heuynes, & contynuall sorowe in my hert.

¹⁸ For many walke (of whom I haue tolde you often and nowe tell you wepynge) that they are the enemies of the crosse of Christ,

¹³ Was it not tolde my Lorde, what I dyd, when Iezabell slue the prophetes of the Lorde howe I hydde an hundred men of the Lordes prophetes, fyftie men in one caue and fyftie in another, and prouyded them of breed and water?

²⁸ Then she sayde: dyd I desyre a sonne of my Lorde? dyd I not require the, that thou shuldest not disceaue me?

³² In those dayes the Lorde began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coastes of Israel, ³³ from Iordan eastwarde: euen all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, the Rubenites, and them that were of Manasses, from Aroer vnto the ryuer of Arnon: euen Gilead & Basan.

¹⁷ Then came Hazael kynge of Siria vp, and fought agaynst Geth and toke it, & Hazael set hys face to go vp to Ierusalem.

³ And the Lorde was angry wyth Israel, and delyuered them into the hand of Hazael kynge of Siria, and into the hande of Benhadad the sonne of Hazael all theyr dayes.

⁷ Neither dyd he leaue of the people to Iehoahaz, but fyftye horsemen ten charettes, & ten thousande fotemen for the kynge of Siria destroyed them, and made them lyke thresshed dust.

¹⁶ The same tyme Menahem destroied Thiphsah, & all that were therin, & the coastes therof from Therzahi. And (because they opened not to hym) he smote it, and rypte vp all their wemen with chylde.

⁸ O daughter of Babylon, wasted with miserye: yee, happye shall he be, that rewardeth the, as thou hast serued vs. ⁹ Blessed shall he be, that taketh thy chyldren, and throweth them agaynst the stones.

¹⁶ Their chyldren shalbe slayne before their eyes, their houses spoyled, and their wyues rauished.

¹⁸ With bowes shall they destroye the yong chidren, & haue no pytie vpon wemen wyth chylde, & their faces shall not spare the chyldren.

¹⁴ there shall growe a sedicyon amonge thy people. All thy stronge cyties shalbe layed waste, euen as Salmana was destroyed with his famyliers, thorowe him that was auenged of Arbell, in the daye of batayll, where the mother peryshed with her chyldren.

¹⁶ As for Samaria, they shalbe made waste, and why? they are dysobedient vnto theyr God. They shall peryshe with the swearde, theyr chyldren shalbe slayne, and their wemen great with chylde shalbe rypte vp:

³ Thus sayeth the Lorde: for thre and foure wyckednesses of Damascus, I will not spare her: because they haue throshed Galaad with yron flayles. ⁴ But I will sende a fyre into the house of Hazaell, the same shall consume the palaces of Benadab. ⁵ Thus will I breake the barres of Damascus, and rote out the inhabyter from the felde of Auen, And him that holdeth the scepter, out of the pleasaunt house: so that the people shalbe dryuen out of fayre Siria, sayeth the Lorde.

¹³ Thus sayeth the Lorde: for thre & foure wickednesses of the chyldren of Ammon, I wyll not spare them: because they rypt vp the wemen greate wyth chylde in Galaad, to make the borders of their landes the wyder.

¹⁰ yet was she dryuen awaye, & brought into captiuite, her yonge chyldren were smitten downe at the head of euery strete, the lottes were cast for the most auncyent men in her, & all her myghtye men were bounde in chaines.

⁴³ And the Philistine said vnto Dauid: am I a dogge, that thou comest to me with a staffe? and the Philistine cursed Dauid in the name of his goddes.

⁸ And he bowed hym self, and sayde: what is thy seruaunt, that thou shuldest vouchesafe to loke vpon soche a deed dogg as I am?

¹⁰ And Elisa sayd vnto him: go & saye vnto him: thou shalt recouer, howbeit the Lorde hath shewed me, that he shall surely dye.

¹⁶ For dogges are come aboute me, & the councell of the wycked laye seage agaynst me.

²⁰ Delyuer my soule from the swearde, my dearlynge from the power of the dogge.

¹⁰ For hys watchmen are all blynde, they haue all together no vnderstandynge, they are all domme dogges, not beynge able to barcke, they are slepy: slogysh are they, and lye snortynge: ¹¹ they are shamelesse dogges, that be neuer satisfyed. The sheperdes also in lyke maner haue no vnderstandynge, but euery man turneth his awne waye, euery one after his awne couetousnes with all hys power.

⁹ Amonge all thynges, man hath the most disceatfull and stubberne herte. Who shall then knowe it?

¹ O wo vnto them, that Imagyn to do herme, and deuyse vngracyousnesse vpon theyr beddes, to perfourme it in the cleare daye: for ther power is agaynst God.

⁶ Geue not ye that whych hys holy vnto dogges, nether cast ye youre pearles before swyne, lest they treade them vnder their fete & the other turne against you, & al to rent you.

³³ Peter answered, & sayde vnto him: though all men be offended because of the, yet will not I be offended. ³⁴ Iesus sayd vnto him: Uerely, I saye vnto the, that in this same myght, before the cocke crowe, thou shalt denye me thryse. ³⁵ Peter sayde vnto him. Yee, though I shuld dye with the, yet will I not denye the: Like wyse also sayde all the disciples.

² Beware of dogges, beware of euyll workers. Beware of dissensyon.

¹⁵ For wythout shalbe dogges and inchaunters, and whormongers, and mortherers, and ydolaters, & whosoeuer loueth or maketh leasynges.

²⁵ and they departed. But he went in, and stode before his master. And Elisa sayde vnto him: whence commest thou Gehezi? He sayde: thy seruaunt went no whether.

¹⁶ And from that tyme forth, he sought oportunite to betraye him.

¹² And he sent, & brought hym in. And he was browne, and of an excellent bewtye, & well fauored in syght. And the Lorde sayde: Aryse, and anoynt him, for this is he. ¹³ Therfore Samuel toke the horne wyth the oyntment, & anoynted him in the myddes of hys brethren. And the sprete of the Lorde came vpon Dauid, from that daye forwarde. And Samuel rose vp, and went to Rama.

⁴ And the men of Dauid sayd vnto him: se, the daye is come, of which the Lorde sayde vnto the: Beholde: I will delyuer thyne enemyes into thyne hand, & thou shalt do to him as it shall seme good in thy syght. Then Dauid arose and cutt of a lappe of Sauls garment priuelye. ⁵ And immediatly Dauids hert smote hym because he had cutt of a lapp of Sauls garment. ⁶ And he sayde vnto his men: the Lorde kepe me from doing that thing vnto my master the Lords anoynted, to laye mine hande vpon hym, seyng he is the anoynted of the Lorde. ⁷ And so Dauid kept of hys seruauntes with these wordes, and soffred them not to ryse agaynst Saul. But Saul rose vp out of the caue & went awaye,

¹³ Accordyng as the olde prouerbe sayeth: wyckednesse proceadeth from the wycked: But myne hande be not vpon the.

⁹ And Dauid sayde to Abisai: destroye him not. For who can laye his hande on the Lordes anoynted, & be gyltlesse? ¹⁰ And Dauid sayde furthermore: as sure as the Lorde lyueth, the Lorde shall smyte him or his daye shall come to dye, or he shall descende into battell, & there perishe. ¹¹ The Lord kepe me from laying myne hande vpon the Lordes anoynted: But take thou now the speare that is at his heed, & the crewse of water, & let vs go.

²⁶ And Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat an Ephrathite of Zareda (whose mother was called Zeruah, which was a wydowe, and he Salomons seruaunt) lyfte vp his hande agaynst the kynge. ²⁷ But this was the cause, that he lyfte vp his hande agaynst the kyng. Salomon buylte Mello, & mended the broken places of the cytie of Dauid his father. ²⁸ And this felowe Ieroboam was a man of warre. And Salomon sawe the younge man, that he was able to do the worke, he made hym ruler ouer all the tribute of the house of Ioseph. ²⁹ And it chaunced at that ceason, that Ieroboam went out of Ierusalem, and the prophete Ahiah the Silonite mett him by the waye hauynge a newe mantell on hym, and they two were alone in the felde. ³⁰ And Ahiah caught the newe mantell that was on hym and rent it in twelue peces, ³¹ and sayde to Ieroboam take the ten peces. For thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel: behold, I wyll rent the kyngdome oute of the handes of Salomon, and wyll geue ten tribes to the ³² and he shall haue one, for my seruaunte Dauids sake and for Ierusalem the cytie whyche I haue chosen out of all the trybes of Israel: ³³ because they haue forsaken me, and haue worshypped vnto Astharoth the God of the Zidons, & Chamos the God of the Moabites, and Milcom the God of the chyldren of Ammon, and haue not walked in my wayes (to fulfyll my pleasure, my statutes and my lawes) as dyd Dauid hys father. ³⁴ I wyll not take the whole kyngdome out of his hande: but wyll make hym chefe all hys lyfe longe, for Dauid my seruauntes sake, whom I chose: because he kepte my commaundementes and my statutes. ³⁵ But I wyll take the kyngdome out of his sonnes hande, & wyll geue it vnto the, euen ten tribes of it: ³⁶ and vnto hys sonne wyll I geue one trybe, that Dauid my seruaunt maye haue a lyght allwaye before me in Ierusalem, the cytie which I haue chosen me, to put my name there. ³⁷ And I wyll take the, & thou shalt raygne accordynge to all that thy soule desyreth, & shalt be kynge ouer Israel.

²⁸ Euen in the thirde yere of Asa kynge of Iuda, dyd Baasa slaye him, and raygned in his steade.

¹⁰ And Zimri came, and smote him, and kylled hym in the .xxvij. yere of Asa kynge of Iuda, and raygned in hys steade.

¹⁸ And when Zimri sawe that the citie must nedes be taken, he went into the palayse of the kynges house, and burnt him selfe and the kynges house wt fyre, and so dyed,

¹³ But Hazael sayde: what is thy seruaunt, a dogge, that I shulde do this great thynge? And Elisa answered: the Lorde hath shewed me, that thou shalt be kynge of Siria.

²⁴ And Iehu toke a bowe in hys handes, and smote Iehoram betwene the armes, & the arowe went thorowe hys hert. And he fell downe flatt in hys charet.

¹⁰ And Sallum the sonne of Iabes conspyred against hym, & smote hym in the syght of the people, & kylled him, & raygned in his steade. ¹¹ The rest of the wordes that concerne Zacharia, beholde, they are wrytten in the boke of the Chronycles of the kynges of Israel. ¹² Thys is also the worde of the Lorde, which he spake vnto Iehu, sayinge: thy sonnes shall syt on the seate of Israel in the fourth generacion after the. And it came so to passe. ¹³ Sallum the sonne of Iabes beganne to raygne in the .xxxix. yere of Azaria kynge of Iuda: & he raygned a moneth in Samaria. ¹⁴ For Menahem the sonne of Gadi went vp from Thirza, & came to Samaria, & smote Sallum the sonne of Iabes in Samaria, & slue him, & raygned in his steade.

²⁵ But Pekah the sonne of Remaliahu, which was a captayne of his, conspired agaynst hym, and smote hym in Samaria, euen in the palace of the kynges house with Argob and Aria: and with him were fyftye men of the Gileadites: and he kylled hym, and raygned in hys rowme.

³⁰ And Hosea the sonne of Ela conspired treason agaynst Pekah the sonne of Remaliah, and smote him, and slue him: and raygned in hys steade in the .xx. yere of Iotham the sonne of Uziahu.

⁴ He ymagyneth myschefe vpon hys bedd, and hath set hym selfe in no good waye, nether doth he abhore any thyng that is euell.

¹ Wo to the that destroiest, when thou waste not destroyed, thou breakest the leage, where as none hath broken it with the: for when thou shalt leaue destroying, thou thy self shalt be destroyed. And when thou ceasest from breakinge the leage, then shall they breake it to the.

⁵⁰ And Iehosaphat dyd slepe with his fathers, and was buryed with hys father in the cytie of Dauid his father: And Iehoram his sonne raygned in his steade.

¹⁷ And so he dyed accordynge to the worde of the Lorde which Elia had spoken. And Iehoram beganne to raygne in his steade, in the seconde yeare of Iehoram the sonne of Iehosaphat kyng of Iuda, because he had no sonne.

¹ Iehoram the sonne of Ahab beganne to raygne vpon Israel in Samaria the .xviij. yere of Iehosaphat kynge of Iuda, and raygned twelue yeres.

¹ Iehosaphat also slepte wt hys fathers, and was buryd with his fathers in the citie of Dauid, & Iehoram his sonne raygned in his steade: ² and he had brethren which were the sonnes of Iehosaphat. Asaria, Iehiel, Zacharia, Asaria, Michael, & Sephatiahu. All these were the sonnes of Iehosaphat kynge of Iuda. ³ And their father gaue them many greate gyftes of golde, and syluer, and other speciall substaunce, wt stronge cityes in Iuda: but the kyngdome gaue he to Iehoram, for he was the eldest. ⁴ And Iehoram rose vp agaynst the kyngdome of his father, and preuayled, and slue all his brethren with the swerde, & diuerse of the lordes of Israel. ⁵ Iehoram was .xxxij. yere olde whan he beganne to raygne, and he raygned eight yere in Ierusalem. ⁶ And he walked in the waye of the kinges of Israel, lyke as dyd the house of Ahab, for he had the daughter of Ahab to wyfe, & he wrought euell in the eyes of the Lorde. ⁷ Howbeit, the Lord wolde nott destroye the house of Dauid, because of the couenaunt that he had made with Dauid, as he promysed to gyue a light to hym and to hys sonnes for euer. ⁸ In hys dayes the Edomites rebelled, whan they were vnder the dominyon of Iuda, and made them selues a kinge. ⁹ And Iehoram went forth wt his lordes, and all hys charettes were wt hym: & he rose vp by nyght, & smote that Edomites, which compased him in, & the captaynes of the charettes. ¹⁰ But Edom rebelled styll, so that they wolde not be vnder the hande of Iuda vnto this daye. That same time also dyd Libna departe from beyng vnder his hande, because Iehoram had forsaken the Lorde God of his fathers. ¹¹ Moreouer, he made hylaulters in the cyties of Iuda, and caused the enhabiters of Ierusalem to commyt fornycacyon, and prouoked Iuda to Idolatrye. ¹² And there came a writynge to him from Elia the prophete, saying: Thus sayth the Lord God of Dauid thy father: because thou hast not walked in the wayes of Iehosaphat thy father, & in the wayes of Asa kynge of Iuda, ¹³ but walkedst in the wayes of the kynges of Israel, & hast made Iuda & the dwellers of Ierusalem to go a whoring, lyke to the whordome of the house of Ahab, & hast slayne thy brethren, euen thy fathers house, which were better then thou: ¹⁴ beholde, wt a greate plage wyll the Lorde smyte thy folke, thy children, thy wyues, and thy goodes. ¹⁵ And thou shalt suffre great payne: euen a dysease of thy bowelles, vntyll thy guttes fall out by reason of thy sycknes, daye by daye. ¹⁶ And so the Lorde stered vp agaynst Iehoram the sprete of the Philistines, & the Arabians that were besyde the blacke mores. ¹⁷ And they came vp into Iuda, and wasted it, and caryed awaye all the substaunce that was found in the kynges house, and hys sonnes, and his wyues: so that there was neuer a sonne lefte him saue Iehohahaz which was the yongest amonge hys sonnes. ¹⁸ And after all these thynges, the Lorde smote him in his bowelles wt an incurable disease. ¹⁹ And it came to passe, that in processe of tyme, euen after the ende of two yeres, hys guttes fell out in his sycknes: and so he dyed of very euell diseases. And they made no burnynge for him lyke the burnyng of hys fathers. ²⁰ When he beganne to raygne, he was .xxij. yeare olde, and raygned in Ierusalem .viij. yere, & lyued wretchedly: howbeit they buryed hym in the citye of Dauid: but not among the sepulchres of the kynges.

⁵ Iehoram was .xxxij. yere olde whan he beganne to raygne, and he raygned eight yere in Ierusalem. ⁶ And he walked in the waye of the kinges of Israel, lyke as dyd the house of Ahab, for he had the daughter of Ahab to wyfe, & he wrought euell in the eyes of the Lorde. ⁷ Howbeit, the Lord wolde nott destroye the house of Dauid, because of the couenaunt that he had made with Dauid, as he promysed to gyue a light to hym and to hys sonnes for euer. ⁸ In hys dayes the Edomites rebelled, whan they were vnder the dominyon of Iuda, and made them selues a kinge. ⁹ And Iehoram went forth wt his lordes, and all hys charettes were wt hym: & he rose vp by nyght, & smote that Edomites, which compased him in, & the captaynes of the charettes. ¹⁰ But Edom rebelled styll, so that they wolde not be vnder the hande of Iuda vnto this daye. That same time also dyd Libna departe from beyng vnder his hande, because Iehoram had forsaken the Lorde God of his fathers.

¹ And it came to passe, that man beganne to be multiplied in the vpper face of the erth, and there were daughters borne vnto them. ² The sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, and they toke them wyues from amonge all that they had chosen. ³ And the Lorde sayde: My sprete shall not allwaye, stryue in man, because he is flesh, and hys dayes shalbe an hundreth & twentye yeares. ⁴ But there were gyauntes in the erth in those dayes: yee and after that the sonnes of God came vnto the daughters of men, and they had gendred vnto them, the same became myghtye men of the worlde, and men of renowne. ⁵ But God sawe that the malyce of man was greate in the erth, and all the ymaginacyon of the thoughtes of hys hert was onely euell euery daye.

³ nether geue thy daughter vnto hys sonne, nor take hys daughter vnto thy sonne. ⁴ For they wyll disceaue thy sonne, that he shuld not feare me and they shall serue straunge goddes, and then wyll the wrath of the Lorde waxe whote agaynst you, and destroye you shortely.

¹ But kynge Salomon loued many outelandishe wemen: and the daughter of Pharao: and wemen of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonites, and Hethites. ² Where as yet (concernynge these nacyons) the Lorde sayde vnto the chyldren of Israell: come not ye at them, nor let them come at you: elles wyll they turne youre hertes after theyr goddes. Neuerthelesse, Salomon claue vnto them in loue. ³ And he had seuen hundred Quenes, and thre hundred concubines, and his wyues. turned a waye his hert. ⁴ For it came to passe, when Salomon was olde, hys wyues turned his herte after other Gods: and his herte was not perfecte with the Lord his God, as was the herte of Dauid his father: ⁵ for Salomon folowed Astaroth the God of the Zidons, and Milcom, the abhominacion of the Ammonites.

²⁵ But there was none lyke Ahab which dyd euen sell hym selfe, to worcke wyckednesse in the syght of the Lorde, and that because Iezabel hys wyfe prycked hym forwarde.

⁵² But he did euell in the syght of the Lorde, and walked in the waye of his father, & in the waye of his mother, & in the waye of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to synne. ⁵³ For he serued Baal, & worshypped him, and prouoked the Lorde God of Israel vnto wrath. accordynge to all that his father had done.

² And he wrought euell in the syght of the Lorde: but not lyke his father and lyke his mother, for he put a waye the ymages of Baal, that his father had made. ³ Neuerthelesse, he cleaued vnto the synnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat (which made Israel to synne) and departed not ther from.

²⁶ Two & twentye yere olde was Ahaziahu when he beganne to raygne, and he raygned one yere in Ierusalem, and hys mothers name was Athaliahu the daughter of Omri kynge of Israel.

⁷ Thou shalt smyte the house of Ahab thy master, that I maye aduenge the bloud of my seruauntes the prophetes, and the bloude of all the seruauntes of the Lorde, of the hande of Iezabel, ⁸ for the whole house of Ahab shalbe destroyed, and I wyll destroye from Ahab, euen hym that maketh water agaynst the wall, and him that is presoned and forsaken in 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.

¹³ And I wyll stretch ouer Ierusalem the squaryng lyne of Samaria, and the plommeth of the house of Ahab. And I wyll wype out Ierusalem, as a man wypeth a disshe, and when he hath wyped it, turneth it vp syde downe.

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

² And Iehu the sonne of Hanam the sear went out to mete hym, and sayde to kynge Iehosaphat: Woldest thou helpe the vngodly, and loue them that hate the Lorde? Therfore is wrath come downe vpon the, from before the Lorde.

⁶ And he walked in the waye of the kinges of Israel, lyke as dyd the house of Ahab, for he had the daughter of Ahab to wyfe, & he wrought euell in the eyes of the Lorde.

¹³ but walkedst in the wayes of the kynges of Israel, & hast made Iuda & the dwellers of Ierusalem to go a whoring, lyke to the whordome of the house of Ahab, & hast slayne thy brethren, euen thy fathers house, which were better then thou:

¹ And the enhabiters of Ierusalem made Ahaziahu hys yonge sonne kinge in hys steade. For the men of warre that came with the host of the Arabians, had slayne all hys eldest sonnes. And so Ahaziahu the sonne of Iehoram kynge of Iuda, was made kynge. ² Two and fourtye yere olde was he, whan he began to raygne, and he raygned one yere in Ierusalem. Hys mothers name was Athaliahu the daughter of Amri. ³ And he walked also in the wayes of the house of Ahab, for hys mother (by her councell) entysed him to do wyckedly. ⁴ Wherfore he dyd that which was euell in the syght of the Lorde, as dyd they that were of the house of Ahab: for they were hys councelers after the deeth of his father, to his destruccyon. And he walked after theyr councell,

²⁵ Then I reproued them, & cursed them, & smote certayne men of them, & made them bare, and toke an ooth of them by God: Ye shal not geue your daughters vnto their sonnes, nether shall ye take their daughters vnto youre sonnes, or for youre selues. ²⁶ Dyd not Salomon the kyng of Israel synne for soch? and yet among many Heythen was there no kynge lyke him, whych was deare vnto his God, & God made him kynge ouer all Israel, & yet neuertheles, outlandysh wemen caused him to synne?

¹⁶ Ye kepe the ordinaunces of Amri, and all the customes of the house of Ahab: ye folowe their pleasures, therfore wyll I make the waste, and cause thy inhabyters to be abhorred, O my people: & thus shalt thou beare thyne awne shame.

¹² And when thy dayes he fulfilled, thou shalt slepe wyth thy fathers, and I wyll set vp thy seede after the, which shall procead out of thy bodye, & will stablyshe his kyngdome. ¹³ He shall bylde an house for my name, & I wyll stablyshe the seate of his kyngdome for euer.

¹⁵ But my mercie shal not depart awaye from him, as I toke it from Saul, whom I put downe before the.

¹⁷ But Abisai the sonne of Zaruia succoured hym, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the seruauntes of Dauid sware vnto him, sayinge: Thou shalt go no moare out with vs to battell, that thou quench not the lyght of Israel.

³⁶ and vnto hys sonne wyll I geue one trybe, that Dauid my seruaunt maye haue a lyght allwaye before me in Ierusalem, the cytie which I haue chosen me, to put my name there.

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: ⁵ because Dauid dyd that which was ryght in the syght of the Lorde, and turned from nothinge that he commaunded hym all the dayes of hys lyfe saue onely in the matter of Urias the Hethite.

³⁴ For I will defende this cytie, to saue it, for myne awne sake, and for Dauid my seruauntes sake.

⁷ Howbeit, the Lord wolde nott destroye the house of Dauid, because of the couenaunt that he had made with Dauid, as he promysed to gyue a light to hym and to hys sonnes for euer.

¹⁴ And therfore the Lord shall geue you a token: Behold, a vyrgin shall conceaue and beare a sonne, and (thou hys mother) shalt cal his name Emanuel.

³⁵ And I wyll kepe and saue the cytie (sayeth he) for myne awne, and for my seruaunte Dauids sake.

²⁵ Therfore thus saieth the Lorde: If I haue made no couenaunt with daye & nyght, & geuen no statute vnto heauen & earth: ²⁶ then will I also cast awaye the sede of Iacob & Dauid my seruaunt: so that I will take no prince out of his sede, to rule the posteritie of Abraham, Isaac & Iacob. But yet I wil turne agayne their captiuitie, & be mercyfull vnto them.

⁹ therfore haue I not turned me to destroye Ephraim in my wrothfull displeasure. For I am God and no man, I am euen that holy one in the middest of the, though I came not within the cytie.

³² He shalbe greate, & shalbe called the sonne of the hyest. And the Lorde God shall geue vnto him the seate of his father Dauid ³³ and he shall raygne ouer the house of Iacob for euer, and of his kyngdome there shalbe none ende.

⁴⁰ And wyth thy swerde shalt thou lyue, and shalt be thy brothers seruaunt. And it wyll come to passe, that when thou shalt gett the mastrye, thou shalt lowse hys yocke from of thy necke.

¹⁴ And he put kepers in Edom, euen thorow out al Edom put he soudyoures, & all they of Edom becam Dauids seruauntes, And the Lorde kept Dauid whatsoeuer he toke in hand.

⁴⁷ There was then no kynge made in Edom.

⁹ And so the kynge of Israel toke his iourneye, and the kynge of Iuda, & the kynge of Edom. And when they had compassed the waye seuen dayes, they had no water for the hoost and for the cattell that folowed them.

²⁷ And then he toke his eldest sonne (that shulde haue raygned in his steade) & offered him for a burnt offering vpon the wall. And ther was great indignacyon agaynst Israel, and they departed from him, and returned to their awne lande.

²² But Edom rebelled, so that he wold not be vnder the hande of Iuda vnto thys daye. And then Lobnah began to be disobedient euen that same tyme.

¹⁷ And they toke Absalom, and cast hym into a great pytt in the wood, & layed a myghtie great heape of stones vpon hym. And all Israel fled to their tentes.

¹³ And thus they gaue to the children of Aaron the preast, a cyte, to the which the slayer might flye: euen Hebron with her Suburbes: Libna with her Suburbes:

⁸ And Rabsakeh went backe agayne, and founde the kynge of Assyria fyghting agaynst Libna: for he had hearde, howe that he was departed from Lachis.

¹⁰ But Edom rebelled styll, so that they wolde not be vnder the hande of Iuda vnto this daye. That same time also dyd Libna departe from beyng vnder his hande, because Iehoram had forsaken the Lorde God of his fathers.

⁴¹ The rest of the wordes that concerne Salomon, and all that he dyd, and hys wysdome: are they not wrytten in the boke of the wordes of Salomon?

²⁹ The rest of the wordes that concerne Rehoboam, and all that he dyd, are they not wrytten in the boke of the Cronicles of the kynges of Iuda?

²³ The remnaunt of all the wordes that concerne Asa, and all hys myght and all that he dyd, & the cyties whych he buylded, are they not wrytten in the boke of the chronicles of the kynges of Iuda? Neuerthelesse in hys olde age he was diseased in hys fete.

⁶ The reste of the wordes that concerne Azaria and all that he dyd, are they not written in the boke of the chronicles of the kynges of Iuda?

³⁶ The rest of the wordes that concerne Iotham, and all that he dyd, are they not written in the boke of the chronycles of the kynges of Iuda.

¹⁰ And so Dauid slepte with hys fathers, and was buryed in the cytie of Dauid.

⁴³ And Salomon slepte and he layde him with hys fathers, and was buryed in the cytie of Dauid his father, and Rehoboam his sonne raygned in hys steade.

²⁰ And the dayes which Ieroboam raygned, were .xxii. yere. And whan he was layed aslepe with hys fathers, Nadab his sonne raygned in his steade.

³¹ And Rehoboam slepte with his fathers, and was buried besyde his fathers in the cytie of Dauid. Hys mothers name was Naama an Ammonite. And Abiam hys sonne raygned in hys steade.

¹¹ whose sonne was Ioran: and hys sonne was Ahazia: and Ioas was hys sonne.

¹ Iehosaphat also slepte wt hys fathers, and was buryd with his fathers in the citie of Dauid, & Iehoram his sonne raygned in his steade:

¹⁷ And they came vp into Iuda, and wasted it, and caryed awaye all the substaunce that was found in the kynges house, and hys sonnes, and his wyues: so that there was neuer a sonne lefte him saue Iehohahaz which was the yongest amonge hys sonnes.

²⁰ When he beganne to raygne, he was .xxij. yeare olde, and raygned in Ierusalem .viij. yere, & lyued wretchedly: howbeit they buryed hym in the citye of Dauid: but not among the sepulchres of the kynges.

⁶ And he returned to be healed in Iezrel, of the woundes which were geuen him at Rama, when he fought wt Hazael kyng of Siria. And Ahaziahu the sonne of Iehoram kynge of Iuda went downe to se Iehoram the sonne of Ahab at Iezrel, because he was diseased.

²³ And Ioas the kynge of Israel toke Amaziahu kyng of Iuda the sonne of Ioahas the sonne of Iehoahas at Bethsames: and brought hym to Ierusalem, & tare the walle of Ierusalem (from the gate of Ephraim vnto the gate that was ouer agaynst it) foure hundred cubytes.

¹⁶ The fyfte yeare of Iehoram the sonne of Ahab kynge of Israel, Iehosaphat beynge also kinge of Iuda, Iehoram the sonne of Iehosaphat kynge of Iuda, beganne to raygne. ¹⁷ .xxxii. yere olde was he, when he beganne to raygne, and he raygned eyght yere in Ierusalem.

²⁹ And in the .xi. yere of Ioram the sonne of Ahab, beganne Ahaziahu to raygne ouer Iuda.

²⁰ When he beganne to raygne, he was .xxij. yeare olde, and raygned in Ierusalem .viij. yere, & lyued wretchedly: howbeit they buryed hym in the citye of Dauid: but not among the sepulchres of the kynges.

²¹ And Iehoram sayde: make ready. And the charet was made ready. And Iehoram kinge of Israel, and Ahaziahu kynge of Iuda went out ether of them in hys charet agaynst Iehu, and met hym in the furlonge of Naboth the Iezraelite. ²² And it fortuned, that when Iehoram sawe Iehu, he sayde: is it peace Iehu? He answered: What peace shulde there be, so longe as the whordoms of thy mother Iezabel, and her witchcraftes are so great? ²³ And Iehoram turned his handes, and fledd, and sayde to Ahaziahu: ther is falshed, o Ahaziahu. ²⁴ And Iehu toke a bowe in hys handes, and smote Iehoram betwene the armes, & the arowe went thorowe hys hert. And he fell downe flatt in hys charet. ²⁵ Then sayde Iehu to Bidkar a captayne: take him, & cast him in the platt of the grounde of Naboth the Iezraelite. For I remembre that whan I and thou roade together in a charet after Ahab his father, the Lorde layed this heuy burthen vpon hym. ²⁶ I haue sene yesterdaye the bloud of Naboth, & the bloude of his sonnes, sayde the Lord: & I will quyte it the in this ground, sayth the Lorde. Nowe therfore take him, & cast hym in the plat of ground, accordyng to the worde of the Lorde. ²⁷ But when Ahaziahu the kynge of Iuda sawe this, he fledd by the waye of the garden house. And Iehu folowed after hym, & sayde: smyte him also in the charet: in hys charet. at the goynge vp to Gur by Iiblean, & he fleed to Magiddo, & ther dyed.

¹ And Athalia the mother of Ahaziahu, when she sawe that her sonne was deed, she arose, and destroyed all the kinges seede.

¹³ And when Athalia heard the noyse of the runnynge of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lorde. ¹⁴ And when she loked, behold, the kyng stode by a piller, as the maner was, and the syngers & the trompettes by the kynge, and all the people of the lande reioysed, and blewe wt trompettes. And Athalia rent her clothes and cryed: treason, treason. ¹⁵ But Iehoiada the preste commaunded the captaynes of the hundredes that had the rule of the hoost, and sayd vnto them: haue her out without the temple, that she maye be within the ranges, and yf any folowe her, kyll hym with the swearde: for the preste had sayd she maye not be slayne in the house of the Lord. ¹⁶ And they layde handes on her tyll she came into the waye, by the which the horses went into the kinges palace: & there was she slayne.

² Two and fourtye yere olde was he, whan he began to raygne, and he raygned one yere in Ierusalem. Hys mothers name was Athaliahu the daughter of Amri.

⁵ and went with Iehoram sonne of Ahab king of Israel, to fight agaynst Hazael king of Siria at Ramoth in Gilead: and the Sirians smote Ioram. ⁶ And he returned to be healed in Iezrel, of the woundes which were geuen him at Rama, when he fought wt Hazael kyng of Siria. And Ahaziahu the sonne of Iehoram kynge of Iuda went downe to se Iehoram the sonne of Ahab at Iezrel, because he was diseased. ⁷ And it cam of God, that Ahaziahu shulde be despysed for hys commynge to Iehoram: for whan he was come, he went out with Iehoram agaynst Iehu the sonne of Nimsi, whom the Lorde had anoynted to destroye the house of Ahab. ⁸ And so it came to passe that whan Iehu was executynge iustice vpon the house of Ahab, & had founde the lordes of Iuda and the sonnes of the brethren of Ahaziahu that wayted on Ahaziahu, he slue them.

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.

²⁶ And I founde, that a woman is bytterer then death: for she hath cast abrode, her herte as a nett that men fishe with, and her handes are cheynes. Who so pleaseth God, shall escape from her: but the synner will be taken with her.

¹⁴ Set your selues at large, and beare not ye the yoke wt the vnbeleuers. For what fellyship hath ryghtewesnes with vnryghtewesnes? Or what company hath lyght wt darknes? ¹⁵ Or what concorde hath Christ with Beliall? Ether what parte hath he that beleueth, with an infidell? ¹⁶ Or how agreeth the temple of God with Images for ye are the temple of the lyuinge God, as sayde God? I wyll dwell amonge them, & walcke amonge them, and wylbe their God: & they shalbe my people. 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,

³⁸ And out of the trybe of Gad, they gaue the cytie for the slear to flye vnto: Ramoth in Gilead with her Suburbes, and Mahanaim with her suburbes,

¹³ the sonne of Gaber had Ramoth Gilead, & his were the townes of Iair: the sonne of Manasse, which are in Gilead, & vnder him was the region of Argob which is in Basan thre skore greate cyties with walles and barres of brasse.

³ And the kynge of Israel sayde vnto hys seruauntes, knowe ye not that Ramoth in Gilead is oures? and we syt stylle, and take it not out of the hande of the kynge of Siria. ⁴ And he sayde vnto Iehosaphat: wilt thou come with me to batayle, agaynst Ramoth in Gilead? And Iehosaphat sayd vnto the kyng of Israel: I will be as thou art, and my people shall be as thyne, and my horsses as thyne.

²⁹ And so the kynge of Israel and Iehosaphat the kyng of Iuda went up to Ramoth in Gilead.

⁷ & went, & sent to Iehosaphat the kynge of Iuda, sayinge: the kynge of Moab hath offended agaynst me, wilt thou come wt me agaynst Moab to battell? He answered: I wyll come vp, for as I am, so art thou and as my people be, so are thy people, & thy horses as myne.

¹² And Hazael sayde: why wepeth my Lord? He answered: for I know the euyll thinges that thou shalt do vnto the chyldren of Israel: for their stronge cyties shalt thou sett on fyre, and their younge men shalt thou sley with the swerde & shalt dasshe out the braynes of their suckynge chyldren, & all to teare their wemen with chylde. ¹³ But Hazael sayde: what is thy seruaunt, a dogge, that I shulde do this great thynge? And Elisa answered: the Lorde hath shewed me, that thou shalt be kynge of Siria.

¹⁵ And on the morowe it fortuned, that he toke a thicke cloth, and dypt it in water, and spred it on his face, and he dyed, and Hazael raygned in his steade.

¹⁵ and kynge Ioram returned to be healed in Iezrahel, of the woundes which the Sirians had geuen him, when he fought with Hazael kynge of Siria. And Iehu sayde: If it be youre myndes, then let no man departe and scape out of the citye, to go, & tell in Iezrahel.

² And after certayne yeres he went downe to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab slue many shepe & oxen for hym, and for the people that he had with hym, and entreated him to go vp with hym vnto Ramoth in Gilead. ³ And Ahab kynge of Israel sayde to Iehosaphat kynge of Iuda: wylt thou go with me to Ramoth in Gilead? And he answered hym: I wyll be as thou, and my people shalbe as thyne, and we wyll go with the to the warre.

³¹ And when the captaynes of the charettes sawe Iehosaphat, they sayde: it is the kynge of Israel, and therfore they compassed about hym to fyght. But Iehosaphat cryed out, & the Lorde helped him, and God chased them awaye from hym.

⁵ and went with Iehoram sonne of Ahab king of Israel, to fight agaynst Hazael king of Siria at Ramoth in Gilead: and the Sirians smote Ioram.

³⁴ And a certen man drewe a bowe ignorantlye and smote the kynge of Israel betwene the ribbes, and his harnesse. Wherfore he sayde vnto the dryuer of his charettes: turne thy hande, and carye me out of the host, for I am sycke.

²⁸ For he was the sonne in lawe of the house of Ahab. And he went with Ioram the sonne of Ahab to warre agaynst Hazael kynge of Siria, in Ramoth Gilead, & the Sirians wounded Ioram.

¹⁵ and kynge Ioram returned to be healed in Iezrahel, of the woundes which the Sirians had geuen him, when he fought with Hazael kynge of Siria. And Iehu sayde: If it be youre myndes, then let no man departe and scape out of the citye, to go, & tell in Iezrahel. ¹⁶ So Iehu gatt vp into a charette, and wente to Iezrahel, where Ioram laye, & Ahaziahu kyng of Iuda was come downe thither to se Ioram.

⁵ and went with Iehoram sonne of Ahab king of Israel, to fight agaynst Hazael king of Siria at Ramoth in Gilead: and the Sirians smote Ioram. ⁶ And he returned to be healed in Iezrel, of the woundes which were geuen him at Rama, when he fought wt Hazael kyng of Siria. And Ahaziahu the sonne of Iehoram kynge of Iuda went downe to se Iehoram the sonne of Ahab at Iezrel, because he was diseased. ⁷ And it cam of God, that Ahaziahu shulde be despysed for hys commynge to Iehoram: for whan he was come, he went out with Iehoram agaynst Iehu the sonne of Nimsi, whom the Lorde had anoynted to destroye the house of Ahab.