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1ST
CHRONICLES
CHAPTER
1
1
Adam, Sheth, Enosh,
2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Iered,
3 Henoch, Methushelah, Lamech,
4 Noah, She, Ham, & Iapheth.
5 The sonnes of Iapheth were Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Iauan, and Tubal,
and Meshech, and Tiras.
6 And the sonnes of Gomer, Ashchenaz, and Iphath and Togarmah.
7 Also the sonnes of Iauan, Elishah & Tarshishah, Kittim, and Dodanim.
8 The sonnes of Ham were
Cush
, and Mizraim, Put and
Canaan
.
9 And the sonnes of Cush, Siba and Hauilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha.
Also the sonnes of Raamah were
Sheba
and Dedan.
10 And Cush begate Nimrod, who began to be mightie in the earth.
11 And Mizraim begate Ludim and Anamim, Lehabim, and Naphtuhim:
12 Pathrusim also, and Casluhim, of whome came the Philistims, and Caphtorim.
13 Also Canaan begate Zidon his first borne, and Heth,
14 And the Iebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
15 And the Hiuuite, and the Arkite, and the Simite,
16 And the Aruadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
17 The sonnes of Shem were Elam & Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and
Aram
, and Vz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
18 Also Arpachshad begate Shelah, and Shelah begate Eber.
19 Vnto Eber also were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg: for in
his dayes was ye earth deuided: & his brothers name was Ioktan.
20 Then Ioktan begate Almodad and Sheleph, and Hazermaueth and Ierah,
21 And Hadoram and Vzal and Diklah,
22 And Ebal, and Abimael, and
Sheba
,
23 And Ophir, and Hauilah and Iobab: all these were the sonnes of Ioktan.
24 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,
25 Eber, Peleg, Rehu,
26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
27 Abram, which is Abraham.
28 The sonnes of Abraham were Izhak, and Ishmael.
29 These are their generations. The eldest sonne of Ishmael was Nebaioth, and
Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
30 Mishma, and Dumah,
Massa
, Hadad, and Tema,
31 Ietur, Naphish and Kedemah: these are the sonnes of Ishmael.
32 And Keturah Abrahams concubine bare sonnes, Zimran, and Iokshan, and
Medan
, and Midian, and Ishbak, & Shuah: and the sonnes of
Iokshan
,
Sheba
, and Dedan.
33 And the sonnes of Midian were Ephah, & Ephar, and Henoch, and Abida,
& Eldaah: All these are the sonnes of Keturah.
34 And Abraham begate Izhak: the sonnes of Izhak, Esau, and
Israel
.
35 The sonnes of Esau were Eliphaz, Reuel, and Ieush, and Iaalam, and Korah.
36 The sonnes of Eliphaz, Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna,
and Amalek.
37 The sonnes of Reuel, Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah.
38 And the sonnes of Seir, Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon,
and Ezer, and Dishan.
39 And the sonnes of Lotan, Hori, and Homam, and Timna Lotans sister.
40 The sonnes of Shobal were Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam;
the sonnes of Zibeon, Aiah and Anah.
41 The sonne of Anah was Dishon; the sonnes of Dishon, Amran, and Eshban, &
Ithran, and Cheran.
42 The sonnes of Ezer were Bilhan, and Zaauan, and Iaakan. The sonnes of Dishon
were Vz, and Aran.
43 And these were the Kings that reigned in the
land
of
Edom
, before a King reigned ouer the children of
Israel
, to wit, Bela the sonne of Beor, and the name of his citie was Dinhabah.
44 Then Bela died, and Iobab the sonne of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
45 And whe Iobab was dead, Hussham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his
stead.
46 And when Hussham was dead, Hadad the sonne of Bedad which smote Midian in the
fielde of
Moab
, reigned in his steade, and the name of his citie was Auith.
47 So Hadad dyed, and Samlah of Mashrecah reigned in his stead.
48 And Samlah dyed, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the riuer reigned in his stead.
49 And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the sonne of Achbor reigned in his stead.
50 And Baal-hanan dyed, and Hadad reigned in his stead, and the name of his
citie was Pai, & his wiues name Mehetabel the daughter of Matred the
daughter of Mezahab.
51 Hadad dyed also, and there were dukes in Edom, duke Timna, duke Aliah, duke
Ietheth,
52 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
53 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
54 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these were the dukes of Edom.
CHAPTER
2
1 These are the sonnes of
Israel
, Reuben, Simeon, Leui and Iudah, Isshachar, & Zebulun,
2 Dan, Ioseph, and Beniamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
3 The sonnes of Iudah, Er, and Onan, and Shelah. These three were borne to him
of ye daughter of Shua the Canaanite: but Er the eldest sonne of Iudah was euil
in the sight of the Lorde, and he slew him.
4 And Thamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez, and Zerah: so al the sonnes of
Iudah were fiue.
5 The sonnes of Pharez, Hezron & Hamul.
6 The sonnes also of Zerah were Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, &
Dara, which were fiue in all.
7 And the sonne of Carmi, Achar that troubled
Israel
, transgressing in the thing excommunicate.
8 The sonne also of Ethan, Azariah.
9 And the sonnes of Hezron that were borne vnto him, Ierahmeel, and Ram and
Chelubai.
10 And Ram begate Aminadab, and Aminadab begate Nahshon prince of the children
of Iudah,
11 And Nahshon begate Salma, and Salma begate Boaz,
12 And Boaz begate Obed, and Obed begate Ishai,
13 And Ishai begate his eldest sonne Eliab, & Abinadab the second, and
Shimma the third,
14 Nathaneel the fourth, Raddai the fift,
15 Ozem the sixt, and Dauid the seuenth.
16 Whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail; the sonnes of Zeruiah, Abishai, &
Ioab, and Asahel.
17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Iether an Ishmeelite.
18 And Caleb the sonne of Hezron begate Ierioth of Azubah his wife, and her
sonnes are these, Iesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb tooke vnto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.
20 And Hur begate Vri, and Vri begate Bezaleel.
21 And afterward came Hezron to the daughter of Machir the father of
Gilead
, and tooke her when hee was threescore yere olde, and shee bare him Segub.
22 And Segub begate Iair, which had three and twentie cities in the
land
of
Gilead
.
23 And Gesthur with
Aram
tooke the townes of Iair from them, and Kenath and the townes thereof, euen
threescore cities. All these were the sonnes of Machir the father of
Gilead
.
24 And after that Hezron was dead at Caleb Ephratah, then Abiah Hezrons wife
bare him also Ashur the father of Tekoa.
25 And ye sonnes of Ierahmeel the eldest sone of Hezron were Ram the eldest,
then Bunah, and Oren and Ozen and Ahiiah.
26 Also Ierahmeel had another wife named Atarah, which was the mother of Onam.
27 And the sonnes of Ram the eldest sonne of Ierahmeel were Maaz, and Iamin and
Ekar.
28 And the sonnes of Onam were Shammai and Iada; the sonnes of Shammai, Nadab
and Abishur.
29 And the name of the wife of Abishur was called Abiahil, and shee bare him
Ahban and Molid.
30 The sonnes also of Nadab were Seled and Appaim: but Seled died without
children.
31 And the sonne of Appaim was Ishi, and the sonne of Ishi, Sheshan, & the
sonne of Sheshan, Ahlai.
32 And the sonnes of Iada the brother of Shammai were Iether and Ionathan: but
Iether dyed without children.
33 And the sonnes of Ionathan were Peleth and Zaza. These were the sonnes of
Ierahmeel.
34 And Sheshan had no sonnes, but daughters; Sheshan had a seruant that was an
Egyptian named Iarha.
35 And Sheshan gaue his daughter to Iarha his seruant to wife, and she bare him
Attai.
36 And Attai begate Nathan, and Nathan begate Zabad,
37 And Zabad begate Ephlal, and Ephlal begate Obed,
38 And Obed begate Iehu, and Iehu begate Azariah,
39 And Azariah begate Helez, and Helez begate Eleasah,
40 And Eleasah begate Sisamai, and Sisamai begate Shallum,
41 And Shallum begate Iekamiah, and Iekamiah begate Elishama.
42 Also the sonnes of Caleb the brother of Ierahmeel, were Mesha his eldest
sonne, which was the father of Ziph: and the sonnes of Mareshah the father of
Hebron
.
43 And the sonnes of
Hebron
were Korah & Tappuah, and Rekem and Shema.
44 And Shema begate Raham the father of Iorkoam: and Rekem begate Shammai.
45 The sonne also of Shammai was Maon: & Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
46 And Ephah a concubine of Caleb bare
Haran
and Moza, and Gazez:
Haran
also begate Gazez.
47 The sonnes of Iahdai were Regem, and Iotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and
Ephah, and Shaaph.
48 Calebs concubine Maachah bare Sheber and Tirhanah.
49 She bare also Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, and Sheua the father of
Machbenah, & the father of Gibea. And Achsah was Calebs daughter.
50 These were the sonnes of Caleb the sone of Hur the eldest sonne of Ephrathah,
Shobal the father of Kiriath-iearim.
51 Salma the father of Beth-lehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
52 And Shobal the father of Kiriath-iearim had sonnes, & he was the ouerseer
of halfe Hammenoth.
53 And the families of Kiriath-iearim were the Ithrites, and the Puthites, and
the Shumathites, and ye Mishraites of them came the Zarreathites, and the
Eshtaulites.
54 The sonnes of Salma of Beth-lehem, and the Netophathite, the crownes of the
house of Ioab, and halfe the Manahthites and the Zorites.
55 And the families of the Scribes dwelling at Iabez, the Tirathites, the
Shimmeathites, the Shuchathites, which are the Kenites, that came of Hammath the
father of the house of Rechab.
CHAPTER
3
1 These also were the sonnes of Dauid which were borne vnto him in Hebron: the
eldest Amnon of Ahinoam, the Izraelitesse: the seconde Daniel of Abigail the
Carmelitesse:
2 The third Absalom the sonne of Maachah daughter of Talmai King of Geshur: the
fourth Adoniiah the sonne of Haggith:
3 The fift Shepatiah of Abital: ye sixt Ithream by Eglah his wife.
4 These sixe were borne vnto him in
Hebron
: and there hee reigned seuen yeere and sixe moneths: and in Ierusalem he
reigned three & thirtie yeere.
5 And these foure were borne vnto him in Ierusalem, Shimea, and Shobab, and
Nathan, and Salomon of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel:
6 Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphalet,
7 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Iaphia,
8 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine in nomber.
9 These are all the sonnes of Dauid, besides the sonnes of the concubines, and
Thamar their sister.
10 And Salomons sonne was Rehoboam, whose sonne was Abiah, and Asa his sonne,
and Iehoshaphat his sonne,
11 And Ioram his sonne, and Ahaziah his sonne, and Ioash his sonne,
12 And Amaziah his sonne, and Azariah his sonne, and Iotham his sonne,
13 And Ahaz his sonne, and Hezekiah his sonne, and Manasseh his sonne,
14 And Amon his sonne, & Iosiah his sonne.
15 And of the sonnes of Iosiah, the eldest was Iohanan, the second Iehoiakim,
the thirde Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum.
16 And the sonnes of Iehoiakim were Ieconiah his sonne, and Zedekiah his sonne.
17 And the sonnes of Ieconiah, Assir & Shealtiel his sonne:
18 Malchiram also & Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Iecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
19 And the sonnes of Pedaiah were Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sonnes of
Zerubbabel were Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister,
20 And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hazadiah, & Iushabheshed, fiue
in nomber.
21 And the sonnes of Hananiah were Pelatiah, & Iesaiah: the sonnes of
Rephaiah, the sonnes of Arnan, the sonnes of Obadiah, the sonnes of Shechaniah.
22 And the sonne of Shechaniah was Shemaiah: and the sonnes of Shemaiah were
Hattush and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, sixe.
23 And the sonnes of Neariah were Elioenai, and Hezekiiah, and Azrikam, three.
24 And the sonnes of Elioenai were Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub,
and Iohanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seuen.
CHAPTER
4
1 The sonnes of Iudah were Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
2 And Reaiah the sonne of Shobal begat Iahath, and Iahath begate Ahumai, and
Lahad: these are the families of the Zoreathites.
3 And these were of the father of Etam, Izreel, and Ishma and Idbash: and the
name of their sister was Hazelelponi.
4 And Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah: these are
the sonnes of Hur the eldest sonne of Ephratah, the father of Beth-lehem.
5 But Asher the father of Tekoa had two wiues, Heleah, and Naarah.
6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni and Haashtari: these were
the sonnes of Naarah.
7 And the sonnes of Heleah were Zereth, Iezohar and Ethnan.
8 Also Coz begate Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the sonne of
Harum.
9 But Iabez was more honourable then his brethren: and his mother called his
name Iabez, saying, Because I bare him in sorowe.
10 And Iabez called on the God of Israel, saying, If thou wilt blesse me in
deede, and enlarge my coastes, and if thine hand be with me, and thou wilt cause
me to be deliuered from euill, that I be not hurt; God graunted the thing that
he asked.
11 And Chelub the brother of Shuah begate Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.
12 And Eshton begate Beth-rapha, & Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of the
citie of Nahash: these are the men of Rechah.
13 And the sonnes of Kenaz were Othniel and Zeraiah, and the sonne of Othniel,
Hathath.
14 And Meonothai begate Ophrah; Seraiah begate Ioab the father of the valley of
craftesmen: for they were craftesmen.
15 And the sonnes of Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh were Iru, Elah, and Naam; the
sonne of Elah was Kenaz.
16 And the sonnes of Iehaleel were Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.
17 And the sonnes of Ezrah were Iether and Mered, and Epher, and Ialon, and he
begate Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
18 Also his wife Iehudiiah bare Iered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father
of Socho, & Iekuthiel the father of Zanoah: and these are the sonnes of
Bithiah ye daughter of Pharaoh which Mered tooke.
19 And the sonnes of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham the father of
Keilah were the Garmites, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.
20 And the sonnes of Shimon were Amnon & Rinnah, Ben-hanam & Tilon; the
sonnes of Ishi were Zoheth, and Benzoheth.
21 The sonnes of Shelah, the sonne of Iudah were Er the father of Lecah, and
Laadah the father of Mareshah, & the families of the householdes of them
that wrought fine linnen in the house of Ashbea.
22 And Iokim and the men of Chozeba and Ioash, and Saraph, which had the
dominion in
Moab
, and Iashubi Lehem. These also are auncient things.
23 These were potters, & dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt
with the king for his worke.
24 The sonnes of Simeon were Nemuel, and Iamin, Iarib, Zerah, and Shaul,
25 Whose sonne was Shallum, and his sonne, Mibsam, and his sonne Mishma.
26 And the sonnes of Mishma, Hamuel was his sonne, Zacchur his sonne, and Shimei
his sonne.
27 And Shimei had sixteene sonnes, and sixe daughters, but his brethren had not
many children, neither was all their familie like to the children of Iudah in
multitude.
28 And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, & at Moladah, and at Hazar Shual,
29 And at Bilhah, & at Ezem, and at Tolad,
30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
31 And at Beth-marcaboth, and at Hazar Susim, at Beth-birei, & at Shaaraim,
these were their cities vnto the reigne of Dauid.
32 And their townes were Etam, & Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, fiue
cities.
33 And all their townes that were rounde about these cities vnto Baal, These are
their habitations and the declaration of their genealogie,
34 And Meshobab, and Iamlech, and Ioshah the sonne of Amashiah,
35 And Ioel and Iehu the sonne of Ioshibiah, the sonne of Seraiah, the sonne of
Asiel,
36 And Elionai, and Iaakobah, & Ieshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and
Iesimiel, & Benaiah,
37 And Ziza the sonne of Shiphei, the sonne of Allon, the sonne of Iedaiah, the
sonne of Shimri, the sonne of Shemaiah.
38 These were famous princes in their families, and increased greatly their
fathers houses.
39 And they went to the entring in of Gedor, euen vnto the East side of the
valley, to seeke pasture for their sheepe.
40 And they found fat pasture and good, and a wide land, both quiet and
fruitfull: for they of Ham had dwelt there before.
41 And these described by name, came in the dayes of Hezekiah king of Iudah,
& smote their tents, and the inhabitants that were found there, and
destroyed them vtterly vnto this day, and dwelt in their roume, because there
was pasture there for their sheepe.
42 And besides these, fiue hundreth men of the sonnes of Simeon went to mount
Seir, and Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rophaiah, and Vzziel the sonnes of Ishi
were their captaines,
43 And they smote the rest of Amalek that had escaped, & they dwelt there
vnto this day.
CHAPTER
5
1 The sonnes also of Reuben the eldest sonne of
Israel
(for he was the eldest, but had defiled his fathers bed, therefore his
birthright was giuen vnto the sonnes of Ioseph the sonne of
Israel
, so that the genealogie is not rekoned after his birthright.
2 For Iudah preuailed aboue his brethren, and of him came the prince, but the
birthright was Iosephs)
3 The sonnes of Reuben the eldest sonne of
Israel
, were Hanoch & Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.
4 The sonnes of Ioel, Shemaiah his sonne, Gog his sonne, and Shimei his sonne,
5 Michah his sonne, Reaiah his sonne, and Baal his sonne,
6 Beerah his sonne: whom Tilgath Pilneeser King of Asshur caryed away: he was a
prince of the Reubenites.
7 And when his brethren in their families rekoned the genealogie of their
generations, Ieiel and Zechariah were the chiefe,
8 And Bela the sonne of Azaz, the sonne of Shema, the sonne of Ioel, which dwelt
in Aroer, euen vnto Nebo and Baal meon.
9 Also Eastwarde he inhabited vnto the entring in of the wildernes fro the riuer
Perath for they had much cattel in the
land
of
Gilead
.
10 And in the dayes of Saul they warred with the Hagarims, which fell by their
hands: and they dwelt in their tentes in all the East partes of
Gilead
.
11 And the children of Gad dwelt ouer against them in the
land
of
Bashan
, vnto Salchah.
12 Ioel was the chiefest, and Shapham the second, but Iaanai and Shaphat were in
Bashan
.
13 And their brethren of the house of their fathers were Michael, and Meshullam,
&
Sheba
, and Sorai, and Iacan, and Zia and Eber, seuen.
14 These are the childre of Abihail, the sonne of Huri, the sonne of Iaroah, the
sonne of
Gilead
, the sonne of Michael, the sonne of Ieshishai, the sonne of Iahdo, the sonne of
Buz.
15 Ahi the sonne of Abdiel, the sonne of Guni was chiefe of the houshold of
their fathers.
16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in the townes thereof, and in all the
suburbes of
Sharon
by their borders.
17 All these were rekoned by genealogies in the dayes of Iotham King of Iudah,
and in the dayes of Ieroboam King of
Israel
.
18 The sonnes of Reuben and of Gad, and of halfe the tribe of Manasseh of those
that were viliant men, able to beare shield, and sworde, and to draw a bowe,
exercised in warre, were foure & fourtie thousand, seuen hundreth and three
score, that went out to the warre.
19 And they made warre with the Hagarims, with Ietur, and Naphish, and Nodab.
20 And they were holpen against them, and the Hagarims were deliuered into their
hande, and all that were with them: for they cryed to God in the battel, and he
heard them, because they trusted in him.
21 And they led away their cattel, euen their camels fiftie thousand, and two
hundreth, & fiftie thousand sheepe, and two thousand asses, and of persons
an hundreth thousand.
22 For many fel downe wounded, because the warre was of God; they dwelt in their
steads vntill the captiuitie.
23 And the children of the halfe tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land, fro
Baashan vnto Baal Hermon, and Senir, and vnto mount Hermon: for they increased.
24 And these were the heads of the housholds of their fathers, euen Epher and
Ishi, and Eliel & Azriel, and Ieremiah, and Hodauiah, and Iahdiel, strong
men, valiant and famous, heades of the housholdes of their fathers.
25 But they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring
after the gods of the people of the lande, whome God had destroyed before them.
26 And the God of Israel stirred vp the spirit of Pul king of Asshur, and the
spirite of Tilgath Pilneeser king of Asshur, and he caryed them away: euen the
Reubenites and the Gadites, & the halfe tribe of Manasseh, and brought them
vnto Halah and Habor, and Hara, and to the riuer Gozan, vnto this day.
CHAPTER
6
1 The sonnes of Leui were Gershon, Kohath, & Merari.
2 And the sonnes of Kohath, Amram, Izhar, and
Hebron
, and Vzziel.
3 And the children of Amram, Aaron, and Moses & Miriam; the sonnes of Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.
4 Eleazar begate Phinehas. Phinehas begate Abishua,
5 And Abishua begate Bukki, and Bukki begate Vzzi,
6 And Vzzi begate Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begate Meraioth.
7 Meraioth begate Amariah, and Amariah begate Ahitub,
8 And Ahitub begate Zadok, and Zadok begate Ahimaaz,
9 And Ahimaaz begate Azariah, & Azariah begate Iohanan,
10 And Iohanan begate Azariah (it was hee that was Priest in the house that
Salomon built in Ierusalem)
11 And Azariah begate Amariah, & Amariah begate Ahitub,
12 And Ahitub begate Zadok, & Zadok begate Shallum,
13 And Shallum begate Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begate Azariah,
14 And Azariah begate Seraiah, and Seraiah begate Iehozadak,
15 And Iehozadak departed when the Lord caried away into captiuitie Iudah and
Ierusalem by the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar.
16 The sonnes of Leui were Gershom, Kohath and Merari.
17 And these be the names of the sonnes of Gershom, Libni, and Shimei.
18 And the sonnes of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and
Hebron
and Vzziel.
19 The sonnes of Merari, Mahli & Mushi: and these are the families of Leui
concerning their fathers.
20 Of Gershom, Libni his sonne, Iahath his sonne, Zimmah his sonne,
21 Ioah his sonne, Iddo his sonne, Zerah his sonne, Ieaterai his sonne.
22 The sonnes of Kohath, Aminadab his sonne, Korah his sonne, Assir his sonne,
23 Elkanah his sonne, and Ebiasaph his sonne, and Assir his sonne,
24 Tahath his sonne, Vriel his sonne, Vzziah his sonne, and Shaul his sonne,
25 And the sonnes of Elkanah, Amasai, and Ahimoth.
26 Elkanah. The sonnes of Elkanah, Zophai his sonne, and Nahath his sonne,
27 Eliab his sonne, Ieroham his sonne, Elkanah his sonne,
28 And the sonnes of Shemuel, the eldest Vashni, then Abiah.
29 The sonnes of Merari were Mahli, Libni his sonne, Shimei his sonne, Vzzah his
sonne,
30 Shimea his sonne, Haggiah his sonne, Asaiah his sonne.
31 And these be they whom Dauid set for to sing in the house of the Lord, after
that the Arke had rest.
32 And they ministred before the Tabernacle, euen the Tabernacle of the
Congregation with singing, vntill Salomon had built ye house of the Lord in
Ierusalem: then they continued in their office, according to their custome.
33 And these ministred with their children: of the sonnes of Kohath, Heman a
singer, the sonne of Ioel, the sonne of Shemuel,
34 The sonne of Elkanah, the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Eliel, the sonne of
Toah,
35 The sonne of Zuph, the sonne of Elkanah, the sonne of Mahath, the sonne of
Amasai,
36 The sonne of Elkanah, the sonne of Ioel, the sonne of Azariah, the sonne of
Zephaniah,
37 The sonne of Tahath, the sonne of Assir, the sonne of Ebiasaph, the sonne of
Korah,
38 The sonne of Izhar, the sonne of Kohath, the sonne of Leui, the sonne of
Israel.
39 And his brother Asaph stoode on his right hand: and Asaph was the sonne of
Berechiah, the sonne of Shimea,
40 The sonne of Michael, the sonne of Baaseiah, the sonne of Malchiah,
41 The sonne of Ethni, the sonne of Zerah, the sonne of Adaiah,
42 The sonne of Ethan, the sonne of Zimmah, the sonne of Shimei,
43 The sonne of Iahath, the sonne of Gershom, the sonne of Leui.
44 And their brethren the sonnes of Merari were on the left hand, euen Ethan the
sonne of Kishi, the sonne of Abdi, the sonne of Malluch,
45 The sonne of Hashabiah, the sonne of Amaziah, the sonne of Hilkiah,
46 The sonne of Amzi, the sonne of Bani, the sonne of Shamer,
47 The sonne of Mahli, the sonne of Mushi, the sonne of Merari, the sonne of
Leui.
48 And their brethren the Leuites were appointed vnto all the seruice of the
Tabernacle of the house of God,
49 But Aaron and his sonnes burnt incense vpon the altar of burnt offering, and
on the altar of incense, for all that was to do in the most holy place, and to
make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the seruant of God had
commaunded.
50 These are also the sonnes of Aaron, Eleazar his sonne, Phinehas his sonne,
Abishua his sonne,
51 Bukki his sonne, Vzzi his sonne, Zerahiah his sonne,
52 Meraioth his sonne, Amariah his sonne, Ahitub his sonne,
53 Zadok his sonne, and Ahimaaz his sonne.
54 And these are the dwelling places of them throughout their townes and coastes,
euen of the sonnes of Aaron for the familie of the Kohathites, for the lot was
theirs.
55 So they gaue them
Hebron
in the lande of Iudah and the suburbes thereof rounde about it.
56 But the fielde of the citie, and the villages thereof they gaue to Caleb the
sonne of Iephunneh.
57 And to the sonnes of Aaron they gaue the cities of Iudah for refuge, euen
Hebron and Libna with their suburbes, and Iattir, and Eshtemoa with their
suburbes,
58 And Hilen with her suburbes, and Debir with her suburbes,
59 And Ashan and her suburbes, and Bethshemesh and her suburbes:
60 And of the tribe of Beniamin, Geba and her suburbes, and Alemeth with her
suburbes, and Anathoth with her suburbes: all their cities were thirteene cities
by their families.
61 And vnto the sonnes of Kohath the remnant of the familie of the tribe, euen
of the halfe tribe of the halfe of Manasseh, by lot ten cities.
62 And to the sonnes of Gershom according to their families out of the tribe of
Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and
out of the tribe of Manasseh in
Bashan
, thirteene cities.
63 Vnto the sonnes of Merari according to their families out of the tribe of
Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, by lot
twelue cities.
64 Thus the children of
Israel
gaue to the Leuites cities with their suburbes.
65 And they gaue by lot out of the tribe of the children of Iudah, and out of
the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of
Beniamin, these cities, which they called by their names.
66 And they of the families of the sonnes of Kohath, had cities and their
coastes out of the tribe of Ephraim.
67 And they gaue vnto them cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim, and her
suburbes, and Gezer and her suburbes,
68 Iokmeam also and her suburbes, and Bethhoron with her suburbes,
69 And Aialon and her suburbes, and Gath Rimmon and her suburbes,
70 And out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Aner and her suburbes, and Bileam and
her suburbes, for the families of the remnant of the sonnes of Kohath.
71 Vnto the sonnes of Gershom out of the familie of the halfe tribe of Manasseh,
Golan in Bashan, and her suburbes, and Ashtaroth with her suburbes,
72 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh and her suburbes, Daberath and her
suburbes,
73 Ramoth also and her suburbes, and Anem with her suburbes,
74 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal and her suburbes, and Abdon and her
suburbes,
75 And Hukok and her suburbs, and Rehob and her suburbes,
76 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilea and her suburbes, and
Hammon and her suburbes, and Kiriathaim and her suburbes.
77 Vnto the rest of the children of Merari were giuen out of ye tribe of Zebulun
Rimmon and her suburbes, Tabor and her suburbes,
78 And on the other side Iorden by Iericho, euen on the Eastside of Iorden, out
of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wildernesse with her suburbes, and Iahzah
with her suburbes,
79 And Kedemoth with her suburbes, & Mephaath with her suburbes,
80 And out of the tribe of Gad Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbes, and Mahanaim
with her suburbes,
81 And Heshbon with her suburbes, and Iaazer with her suburbes.
CHAPTER
7
1 And the sonnes of Issachar were Tola and Puah, Iashub, and Shimron, foure,
2 And the sonnes of Tola, Vzzi, & Rephaiah, and Ieriel, and Iahmai, and
Iibsam, and Shemuel, heads in the housholdes of their fathers. Of Tola were
valiant men of warre in their generations, whose nomber was in the dayes of
Dauid two and twentie thousand, and sixe hundreth.
3 And the sonne of Vzzi was Izrahaiah, and the sonnes of Izrahaiah, Michael, and
Obadiah, and Ioel, and Isshiah, fiue men all princes.
4 And with them in their generations after the houshold of their fathers were
bandes of men of warre for battel, sixe and thirtie thousand: for they had many
wiues and children.
5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of
warre, rekoned in all by their genealogies foure score and seuen thousand.
6 The sonnes of Beniamin were Bela, and Becher, and Iediael, three.
7 And the sonnes of Bela, Ezbon, and Vzzi, and Vzziel, & Ierimoth, and Iri,
fiue heads of the housholds of their fathers, valiant men of warre, and were
rekoned by their genealogies, two and twentie thousand and thirtie and foure.
8 And the sonnes of Becher, Zemirah, and Ioash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and
Omri, and Ierimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth: all these were the
sonnes of Becher.
9 And they were nombred by their genealogies according to their generations, and
the chiefe of the houses of their fathers, valiant men of warre, twenty thousand
and two hundreth.
10 And the sonne of Iediael was Bilhan, and the sonnes of Bilhan, Ieush, and
Beniamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, & Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
11 All these were the sonnes of Iediael, chiefe of the fathers, valiant men of
warre, seuenteene thousand and two hundreth, marching in battel aray to the
warre.
12 And Shuppim, and Huppim were ye sonnes of Ir, but Hushim was the sonne of
another.
13 The sonnes of Naphtali, Iahziel, & Guni, and Iezer, & Shallum of the
sonnes of Bilhah.
14 The sonne of Manasseh was Ashriel whom she bare vnto him, but his concubine
of
Aram
bare Machir the father of
Gilead
.
15 And Machir tooke to wife the sister of Huppim & Shuppim, and the name of
their sister was Maachah; the name of the second sonne was Zelophthad, and
Zelophehad had daughters.
16 And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a sonne, and called his name Peresh, and
the name of his brother was Sheresh: and his sonnes were Vlam and Rakem.
17 And the sonne of Vlam was Bedan. These were the sonnes of
Gilead
the sonne of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh.
18 And his sister Molecheth bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
19 And the sonnes of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
20 The sonnes also of Ephraim were Shuthelah, and Bered his sonne, & Tahath
his sonne, and his sonne Eladah, and Tahath his sonne,
21 And Zabad his sonne, and Shuthelah his sonne, and Ezer, & Elead: and the
men of Gath that were borne in the land, slewe them, because they came downe to
take away their cattel.
22 Therefore Ephraim their father mourned many dayes, and his brethren came to
comfort him.
23 And when he went in to his wife, she conceiued, and bare him a sonne, and he
called his name Beriah, because affliction was in his house.
24 And his daughter was Sherah, which built Beth-horon the nether, and the vpper,
and Vzzen Sheerah.
25 And Rephah was his sonne, & Resheph, and Telah his sonne, and Tahan his
sonne,
26 Laadan his sonne, Ammihud his sonne, Elishama his sonne,
27 Non his sonne, Iehoshua his sonne.
28 And their possessions and their habitations were Beth-el, & the villages
thereof, & Eastward Naaran, and Westwarde Gezer with the villages thereof,
Shechem also and the villages thereof, vnto Azzah, and the villages thereof,
29 And by the places of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and her villages,
Taanach and her villages, Megiddo and her villages, Dor and her villages. In
those dwelt the children of Ioseph the sonne of
Israel
.
30 The sonnes of Asher were Imnah, and Isuah, & Ishuai, and Beriah, and
Serah their sister.
31 And the sonnes of Beriah, Heber, and Malchiel, which is the father of
Birzauith.
32 And Heber begate Iaphlet, and Shomer, & Hotham, and Shuah their sister.
33 And the sonnes of Iaphlet were Pasach, & Bimhal, and Ashuath: these were
the children of Iaphlet.
34 And the sonnes of Shamer, Ahi, and Rohgah, Iehubbah, and
Aram
.
35 And the sonnes of his brother Helem were Zophah, and Iimna, and Shelesh and
Amal.
36 The sonnes of Zophah, Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
37 Bezer and Hod, and Shamma, & Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
38 And the sonnes of Iether, Iephunneh, and Pispa and Ara.
39 And the sonnes of Vlla, Harah, & Haniel, and Rizia.
40 All these were the children of Asher, the heads of their fathers houses,
noble men, valiant men of warre and chiefe princes, and they were rekoned by
their genealogies for warre and for battell to the nomber of sixe and twentie
thousand men.
CHAPTER
8
1 Beniamin also begate Bela his eldest sonne, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the
third,
2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fift.
3 And the sonnes of Bela were Addar, and
Gera
, and Abihud,
4 And Abishua, and Naaman and Ahoah,
5 And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
6 And these are the sonnes of Ehud: these were the chiefe fathers of those that
inhabited Geba: and they were caryed away captiues to Monahath,
7 And Naaman, and Ahiah, and
Gera
, he caryed them away captiues: and he begate Vzza, and Ahihud.
8 And Shaharaim begate certaine in the coutrey of
Moab
, after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wiues.
9 He begate, I say, of Hodesh his wife, Iobab and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,
10 And Ieuz and Shachia and Mirma: these were his sonnes, and chiefe fathers.
11 And of Hushim he begat Ahitub & Elpaal.
12 And the sonnes of Elpaal were Eber, and Misham and Shamed (which built Ono,
and Lod, and the villages thereof)
13 And Beriah and Shema (which were the chiefe fathers among the inhabitants of
Aialon: they draue away the inhabitants of Gath)
14 And Ahio, Shashak and Ierimoth,
15 And Sebadiah, and Arad, and Ader,
16 And Michael, & Ispah, & Ioha, the sonnes of Beriah,
17 And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hizki, and Heber,
18 And Ishmerai and Izliah, and Iobab, the sonnes of Elpaal,
19 Iakim also, and Zichri, and Sabdi,
20 And Elienai, and Zillethai, and Eliel,
21 And Adaiah, and Beraiah, & Shimrah the sonnes of Shimei,
22 And Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel,
23 And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
24 And Hananiah, & Elam, and Antothiiah,
25 Iphedeiah & Penuel ye sonnes of Shashak,
26 And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,
27 And Iaareshiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sonnes of Ieroham.
28 These were the chiefe fathers according to their generations, euen princes,
which dwelt in Ierusalem.
29 And at Gibeon dwelt the father of
Gibeon
, and the name of his wife was Maachah.
30 And his eldest sonne was Abdon, then Zur, and
Kish
, and Baal, and Nadab,
31 And Gidor, and Ahio, and Zacher.
32 And Mikloth begate Shimeah: these also dwelt with their brethren in Ierusalem,
euen by their brethren.
33 And Ner begate
Kish
, &
Kish
begat Saul, and Saul begate Ionathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
34 And the sonne of Ionathan was Merib-baal, and Merib-baal begate Micah.
35 And the sonnes of Micah were Pithon, & Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
36 And Ahaz begate Iehoadah, & Iehoadah begate Alemeth, and Azmaueth, and
Zimri, and Zimri begate Moza,
37 And Moza begate Bineah, whose sonne was Raphah, and his sonne Eleasah, and
his sonne Azel.
38 And Azel had sixe sonnes, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru and
Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: all these were the sonnes of Azel.
39 And the sonnes of Eshek his brother were Vlam his eldest sonne, Iehush the
second, and Eliphelet the third.
40 And the sonnes of Vlam were valiant men of warre which shot with the bow, and
had many sonnes and nephewes, an hundreth and fiftie: all these were of the
sonnes of Beniamin.
CHAPTER
9
1 Thus all
Israel
were nombred by their genealogies: and beholde, they are written in the booke
of the Kings of Israel & of Iudah, & they were caried away to
Babel
for their trasgression.
2 And the chiefe inhabitants that dwelt in their owne possessions, and in their
owne cities, euen
Israel
the Priestes, the Leuites, and the Nethinims.
3 And in Ierusalem dwelt of the children of Iudah, and of the children of
Beniamin, & of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh.
4 Vthai the sonne of Amihud the sonne of Omri, the sonne of Imri, the sonne of
Bani: of the children of Pharez, the sonne of Iudah.
5 And of Shiloni, Asaiah the eldest, and his sonnes.
6 And the sonnes of Zerah, Ieuel, and their brethren sixe hundreth and ninetie.
7 And of the sonnes of Beniamin, Sallu the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of
Hodauiah, the sonne of Hasenuah,
8 And Ibneiah the sonne of Ieroham, and Elah the sonne of Vzzi, the sonne of
Michri, and Meshullam the sonne of Shephatiah, the sonne of Reuel, the sonne of
Ibniiah.
9 And their brethren according to their generations nine hundreth, fiftie and
sixe: all these men were chiefe fathers in the housholdes of their fathers.
10 And of the Priestes, Iedaiah, and Iehoiarib, and Iachin,
11 And Azariah the sonne of Hilkiah, ye sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Zadok,
the sonne of Meraioth, the sonne of Ahitub the chiefe of the house of God,
12 And Adaiah the sonne of Ieroham, ye sonne of Pashhur, the sonne of Malchiiah,
and Maasai the sonne of Adiel, the sonne of Iahzerah, the sonne of Meshullam,
the sonne of Meshillemith, the sonne of Immer.
13 And their brethre the chiefe of the households of their fathers a thousand,
seuen hundreth & three score valiant men, for the worke of the seruice of
the house of God.
14 And of the Leuites, Shemaiah the sonne of Hasshub, the sonne of Azrikam, the
sonne of Hashabiah of the sonnes of Merari,
15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh & Galal, & Mattaniah the sonne of Micha, the
sonne of Zichri, the sonne of Asaph,
16 And Obadiah the sonne of Shemaiah, the sonne of Galal, the sonne of Ieduthun,
and Berechiah, the sonne of Asa, the sonne of Elkanah, that dwelt in the
villages of the Netophathites.
17 And the porters were Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, & their
brethren: Shallum was the chiefe.
18 For they were porters to this time by companies of the children of Leui vnto
the Kinges gate eastward.
19 And Shallum the sonne of Kore the sonne of Ebiasaph the sonne of Korah, and
his brethren the Korathites (of the house of their father) were ouer the worke,
& office to keepe the gates of the Tabernacle: so their families were ouer
the hoste of the Lord, keeping the entrie.
20 And Phinehas ye sonne of Eleazar was their guide, and the Lord was with him.
21 Zechariah the sonne of Meshelemiah was the porter of the doore of the
Tabernacle of the Congregation.
22 All these were chosen for porters of the gates, two hundreth & twelue,
which were nombred according to their genealogies by their townes. Dauid
established these and Samuel the Seer in their perpetuall office.
23 So they & their children had the ouersight of the gates of the house of
the Lord, euen of the house of the Tabernacle by wardes.
24 The porters were in foure quarters Eastward, Westward, Northward and
Southward.
25 And their brethren, which were in their townes, came at seuen dayes from time
to time with them.
26 For these foure chiefe porters were in perpetuall office, and were of the
Leuites and had charge of the chambers, and of the treasures in the house of
God.
27 And they lay rounde about the house of God, because the charge was theirs,
and they caused it to be opened euery morning.
28 And certaine of them had the rule of the ministring vessels: for they brought
them in by tale, and brought them out by tale.
29 Some of them also were appoynted ouer the instrumentes, and ouer all the
vessels of the Sanctuarie, & of the floure, & the wine, and the oyle,
and the incense, and the sweete odours.
30 And certaine of the sonnes of the Priestes made oyntments of sweete odours.
31 And Mattithiah one of the Leuites which was the eldest sonne of Shallum the
Korhite, had the charge of the things that were made in the frying panne.
32 And other of their brethren the sonnes of Kohath had the ouersight of the
shewbread to prepare it euery Sabbath.
33 And these are the singers, the chiefe fathers of the Leuites, which dwelt in
the chambers, and had none other charge: for they had to do in that busines day
and night:
34 These were the chiefe fathers of the Leuites according to their generations,
and the principall which dwelt at Ierusalem.
35 And in Gibeon dwelt ye father of
Gibeon
, Ieiel, & the name of his wife was Maachah.
36 And his eldest sonne was Abdon, then Zur, and
Kish
, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,
37 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.
38 And Mikloth begate Shimeam: they also dwelt with their brethren at Ierusalem,
euen by their brethren.
39 And Ner begate
Kish
, and
Kish
begate Saul, and Saul begate Ionathan and Malchishua, and Abinadab and Eshbaal.
40 And the sonne of Ionathan was Merib-baal: and Merib-baal begate Micah.
41 And the sonnes of Micah were Pithon, and Melech and Tahrea.
42 And Ahaz begate Iarah, and Iarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaueth, and Zimri, and
Zimri begate Moza.
43 And Moza begate Binea, whose sonne was Rephaiah, & his sonne was Eleasah,
and his sonne Azel.
44 And Azel had sixe sonnes, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ismael,
& Sheariah, and Obadiah, & Hanan: these are the sonnes of Azel.
CHAPTER
10
1 Then the Philistims fought against
Israel
: & the men of
Israel
fled before the Philistims, and fell downe slaine in
mount
Gilboa
.
2 And the Philistims pursued after Saul and after his sonnes, & the
Philistims smote Ionathan, and Abinadab, & Malchishua the sonnes of Saul.
3 And the battel was sore against Saul; and the archers hit him, and he was
wounded of the archers.
4 Then sayde Saul to his armour bearer, Drawe out thy sworde, and thrust me
thorowe therewith, lest these vncircumcised come and mocke at me: but his armour
bearer would not, for he was sore afraid: therefore Saul tooke the sword and
fell vpon it.
5 And when his armour bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise vpon the
sworde, and dyed.
6 So Saul dyed and his three sonnes, and all his house, they dyed together.
7 And when all the men of
Israel
that were in the valley, sawe how they fledde, and that Saul and his sonnes
were dead, they forsooke their cities, and fled away, and the Philistims came,
and dwelt in them.
8 And on the morrowe when the Philistims came to spoyle them that were slaine,
they found Saul and his sonnes lying in
mount
Gilboa
.
9 And when they had stript him, they tooke his head and his armour, and sent
them into the land of the Philistims round about, to publish it vnto their
idoles, and to the people.
10 And they layd vp his armour in the house of their god, and set vp his head in
the house of Dagon.
11 When all they of Iabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistims had done to
Saul,
12 Then they arose (all the valiant men) and tooke the body of Saul, and the
bodies of his sonnes, and brought them to Iabesh, and buryed the bones of them
vnder an oke in Iabesh, and fasted seuen dayes.
13 So Saul dyed for his transgression, that he committed against the Lord, euen
against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and in that he sought &
asked counsel of a familiar spirit,
14 And asked not of the Lorde: therefore he slewe him, and turned the kingdome
vnto Dauid the sonne of Ishai.
CHAPTER
11
1 Then all
Israel
gathered themselues to Dauid vnto
Hebron
, saying, Beholde, we are thy bones and thy flesh.
2 And in time past, euen when Saul was King, thou leddest
Israel
out & in: and the Lord thy God sayde vnto thee, Thou shalt feede my people
Israel
, and thou shalt be captaine ouer my people
Israel
.
3 So came all the Elders of
Israel
to the King to
Hebron
, & Dauid made a couenant with them in
Hebron
before the Lord; they anoynted Dauid King ouer
Israel
, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Samuel.
4 And Dauid and all
Israel
went to Ierusalem, which is Iebus, where were the Iebusites, the inhabitants of
the land.
5 And the inhabitants of Iebus said to Dauid, Thou shalt not come in hither.
Neuertheles Dauid tooke the towre of
Zion
, which is the city of
Dauid
.
6 And Dauid sayd, Whosoeuer smiteth the Iebusites first, shalbe the chiefe and
captaine. So Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah went first vp, and was captaine.
7 And Dauid dwelt in the tower: therefore they called it the citie of Dauid.
8 And he built the citie on euery side, from Millo euen round about, and Ioab
repaired the rest of the citie.
9 And Dauid prospered, and grewe: for the Lord of hostes was with him.
10 These also are the chiefe of the valiant men that were with Dauid, &
ioyned their force with him in his kingdome with al Israel, to make him King
ouer
Israel
, according to the worde of the Lorde.
11 And this is the nomber of the valiant men whome Dauid had, Iashobeam the
sonne of Hachmoni, the chiefe among thirtie: he lift vp his speare against three
hundreth, whom he slewe at one time.
12 And after him was Eleazar the sonne of Dodo the Ahohite, which was one of the
three valiant men.
13 He was with Dauid at Pas-dammim, and there the Philistims were gathered
together to battel: and there was a parcell of ground full of barley, & the
people fled before the Philistims.
14 And they stood in the middes of the field, and saued it, and slewe the
Philistims: so the Lord gaue a great victorie.
15 And three of the thirtie captaines went to a rocke to Dauid, into the caue of
Adullam; the armie of the Philistims camped in the
valley
of
Rephaim
.
16 And when Dauid was in the hold, the Philistims garison was at Beth-lehem.
17 And Dauid longed, and said, Oh, that one would giue me to drinke of the water
of the well of Beth-lehem that is at the gate.
18 Then these three brake thorowe the hoste of the Philistims, and drewe water
out of the wel of Beth-lehem that was by the gate, and tooke it and brought it
to Dauid: but Dauid would not drinke of it, but powred it for an oblation to the
Lord,
19 And said, Let not my God suffer me to do this: should I drinke the blood of
these mens liues? for they haue brought it with the ieopardie of their liues:
therefore he would not drinke it: these things did these three mightie men.
20 And Abishai the brother of Ioab, he was chiefe of the three, & he lift vp
his speare against three hundreth, and slew them, and had the name among the
three.
21 Among the three he was more honourable then the two, and he was their
captaine: but he attained not vnto the first three.
22 Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada (the sonne of a valiant man) which had done
many actes, and was of Kabzeel, he slewe two strong men of
Moab
: he went downe also and slewe a lion in the middes of a pit in time of snowe.
23 And he slewe an Egyptian, a man of great stature, euen fiue cubites long, and
in the Egyptians hand was a speare like a weauers beame: and he went downe to
him with a staffe, and plucked the speare out of the Egyptians hand, and slewe
him with his owne speare.
24 These things did Benaiah ye sonne of Iehoiada, & had the name among the
three worthies.
25 Behold, he was honourable among thirtie, but he attained not vnto the first
three. And Dauid made him of his counsell.
26 These also were valiant men of warre, Asahel the brother of Ioab, Elhanan the
sonne of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
27 Shammoth the Harodite, Helez the Pelonite,
28 Ira the sonne of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
29 Sibbecai the Husathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled ye sonne of Baanah the Netophathite,
31 Ithai the sonne of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Beniamin, Benaiah the
Pirathonite,
32 Hurai of the riuers of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
33 Azmaueth the Baharumite, Elihaba the Shaalbonite,
34 The sonnes of Hashem the Gizonite, Ionathan the sonne of Shageh the Harite,
35 Ahiam the sonne of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the sonne of Vr,
36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahiiah the Pelonite,
37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the sonne of Ezbai,
38 Ioel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the sonne of Haggeri,
39 Zelek the Ammonite, Nahrai the Berothite, the armour bearer of Ioab, the
sonne of Zeruiah,
40 Ira the Ithrite, Garib the Ithrite,
41 Vriah the Hittite, Zabad the sonne of Ahlai,
42 Adina the sonne of Shiza the Reubenite, a captaine of the Reubenites, and
thirtie with him,
43 Hanan the sonne of Maachah, and Ioshaphat the Mithnite,
44 Vzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Ieiel the sonnes of Otham the Aroerite,
45 Iediael the sonne of Shimri, and Ioha his brother the Tizite,
46 Eliel the Mahauite, and Ieribai and Ioshauiah the sonnes of Elnaam, and
Ithmah the Moabite,
47 Eliel and Obed, and Iaasiel the Mesobaite.
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12
1 These also are they that came to Dauid to Ziklag, while he was yet kept close,
because of Saul the sonne of
Kish
: and they were among the valiant and helpers of the battel.
2 They were weaponed with bowes, & could vse the right and the left hand
with stones and with arrowes and with bowes, and were of Sauls brethren, euen of
Beniamin.
3 The chiefe were Ahiezer, and Ioash the sonnes of Shemaah a Gibeathite, and
Ieziel, and Pelet the sonnes of Asinaueth, Berachah and Iehu the Antothite,
4 And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a valiant man among thirtie, and aboue the thirtie,
and Ieremiah, and Iehaziel, and Iohanan, and Ioshabad the Gederathite,
5 Eluzai, and Ierimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
6 Elkanah, and Ishiah, and Azariel, and Ioezer, Iashobeam of Hakorehim,
7 And Ioelah, and Zebadiah, the sonnes of Ieroham of Gedor,
8 And of the Gadites there separated them selues some vnto Dauid into the holde
of the wildernesse, valiant men of warre, and men of armes, and apt for battel,
which coulde handle speare and shielde, and their faces were like the faces of
lyons, and were like the roes in the mountaines in swiftnesse,
9 Ezer the chiefe, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
10 Mishmanah the fourth, Ieremiah the fift,
11 Attai the sixt, Eliel the seuenth,
12 Iohanan the eight, Elzabad the ninth,
13 Ieremiah the tenth, Macbannai the eleuenth.
14 These were the sonnes of Gad, captaines of the hoste: one of the least could
resist an hundreth, and the greatest a thousand.
15 These are they that went ouer Iorden in the first moneth when he had filled
ouer all his bankes, and put to flight all them of the valley, toward the East
and the West.
16 And there came of the children of Beniamin, and Iudah to the hold vnto Dauid,
17 And Dauid went out to meete them, and answered and sayde vnto them, If yee be
come peaceably vnto me to helpe me, mine heart shall be knit vnto you, but if
you come to betray me to mine aduersaries, seeing there is no wickednes in mine
handes, the God of our fathers beholde it, and rebuke it.
18 And the spirit came vpon Amasai, which was the chiefe of thirtie, and he
said, Thine are we, Dauid, and with thee, O sonne of Ishai. Peace, peace be vnto
thee, and peace be vnto thine helpers: for thy God helpeth thee. Then Dauid
receiued them, and made them captaines of the garison.
19 And of Manasseh some fell to Dauid, when he came with the Philistims against
Saul to battell, but they helped them not: for the Princes of the Philistims by
aduisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul for our heads.
20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Iozabad, and
Iediael, and Michael, and Iozabad, and Elihu, and Ziltai, heads of the thousands
that were of Manasseh.
21 And they helped Dauid against that bad: for they were all valiant men and
were captaines in the hoste.
22 For at that time day by day there came to Dauid to helpe him, vntill it was a
great hoste, like the hoste of God.
23 And these are the nombers of the captaines that were armed to battell, and
came to Dauid to
Hebron
to turne the kingdome of Saul to him, according to the worde of the Lord.
24 The children of Iudah that bare shield and speare, were sixe thousand and
eight hundreth armed to the warre.
25 Of the children of Simeon valiant men of warre, seuen thousand and an
hundreth.
26 Of the children of Leui foure thousande and sixe hundreth.
27 And Iehoiada was the chiefe of them of Aaron: and with him three thousande
and seuen hundreth.
28 And Zadok a yong man very valiant, and of his fathers housholde came two and
twentie captaines.
29 And of the children of Beniamin the brethren of Saul three thousande: for a
great part of them vnto that time kept the warde of the house of Saul.
30 And of the children of Ephraim twentie thousande, and eight hundreth valiant
men and famous men in the housholde of their fathers.
31 And of the halfe tribe of Manasseh eighteene thousand, which were appointed
by name to come and make Dauid King.
32 And of the children of Issachar which were men that had vnderstanding of the
times, to knowe what
Israel
ought to doe: the heades of them were two hundreth, & all their brethren
were at their commandement.
33 Of Zebulun that went out to battel, expert in warre, and in all instruments
of warre, fiftie thousande which could set the battell in aray: they were not of
a double heart.
34 And of Naphtali a thousand captaines, and with them with shielde and speare
seuen and thirtie thousande.
35 And of Dan expert in battell, eyght and twentie thousande, and sixe hundreth.
36 And of Asher that went out to the battell and were trained in the warres,
fourtie thousand.
37 And of the other side of Iorden of the Reubenites, and of the Gadites, and of
the halfe tribe of Manasseh with all instruments of warre to fight with, an
hundreth and twentie thousand.
38 All these men of warre that coulde leade an armie, came with vpright heart to
Hebron to make Dauid King ouer all Israel: and all the rest of Israel was of one
accorde to make Dauid King:
39 And there they were with Dauid three dayes, eating and drinking: for their
brethren had prepared for them.
40 Moreouer they that were neere them vntill Issachar, and Zebulun, and Naphtali
brought bread vpon asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, euen meate,
floure, figges, and reisins, and wine and oyle, and beeues and sheepe
abundantly: for there was ioy in
Israel
.
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13
1 And Dauid counselled with the captaines of thousandes and of hundreths, and
with all the gouernours.
2 And Dauid said to all the Congregation of Israel, If it seeme good to you, and
that it proceedeth of the Lorde our God, we will sende to and fro vnto our
brethren, that are left in all the lande of Israel (for with them are the
Priests and the Leuites in the cities and their suburbes) that they may assemble
them selues vnto vs.
3 And we will bring againe the Arke of our God to vs: for we sought not vnto it
in the dayes of Saul.
4 And all the Congregation answered, Let vs doe so: for the thing seemed good in
the eyes of all the people.
5 So Dauid gathered all
Israel
together from Shihor in
Egypt
, euen vnto the entring of Hamath, to bring the Arke of God from Kiriath-iearim.
6 And Dauid went vp and all
Israel
to Baalath, in Kiriath-iearim, that was in Iudah, to bring vp from thence the
Arke of God the Lorde that dwelleth betweene the Cherubims, where his Name is
called on.
7 And they caryed the Arke of God in a newe cart out of the house of Abinadab:
and Vzza and Ahio guided the cart.
8 And Dauid and all
Israel
played before God with all their might, both with songes and with harpes, and
with violes, and with timbrels & with cymbales and with trumpets.
9 And when they came vnto the thresshing floore of Chidon, Vzza put forth his
hand to holde the Arke, for the oxen did shake it.
10 But the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Vzza, and he smote him, because
he layed his hande vpon the Arke: so he dyed there before God.
11 And Dauid was angrie, because the Lorde had made a breach in Vzza, and he
called the name of that place Perez-vzza vnto this day.
12 And Dauid feared God that day, saying, Howe shall I bring in to me the Arke
of God?
13 Therefore Dauid brought not the Arke to him into the citie of Dauid, but
caused it to turne into the house of Obed Edom the Gittite.
14 So the Arke of God remained in the house of Obed Edom, euen in his house
three moneths: and the Lorde blessed the house of Obed Edom, and all that he
had.
CHAPTER
14
1 Then sent Hiram the King of Tyrus messengers to Dauid, and cedar trees, with
masons and carpenters to builde him an house.
2 Therefore Dauid knewe that the Lord had confirmed him King ouer
Israel
, and that his kingdome was lift vp on hie, because of his people
Israel
.
3 Also Dauid tooke moe wiues at Ierusalem, and Dauid begate moe sonnes and
daughters.
4 And these are the names of the children which he had at Ierusalem, Shammua,
and Shobab, Nathan, and Salomon,
5 And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,
6 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Iaphia,
7 And Elishama, and Beeliada, & Eliphalet.
8 But when the Philistims heard that Dauid was anointed King ouer
Israel
, all the Philistims came vp to seeke Dauid; when Dauid heard, he went out
against them.
9 And the Philistims came, and spred them selues in the
valley
of
Rephaim
.
10 Then Dauid asked counsel at God, saying, Shall I goe vp against the
Philistims, and wilt thou deliuer them into mine hande? And the Lorde saide vnto
him, Goe vp: for I will deliuer them into thine hande.
11 So they came vp to Baal-perazim, and Dauid smote them there: and Dauid said,
God hath deuided mine enemies with mine hande, as waters are deuided: therefore
they called the name of that place, Baal-perazim.
12 And there they had left their gods: and Dauid said, Let them euen be burnt
with fire.
13 Againe the Philistims came and spread them selues in the valley.
14 And when Dauid asked againe counsell at God, God said to him, Thou shalt not
goe vp after them, but turne away from them, that thou mayest come vpon them
ouer against the mulberie trees.
15 And when thou hearest the noyse of one going in the toppes of the mulberie
trees, then goe out to battel: for God is gone foorth before thee, to smite the
hoste of the Philistims.
16 So Dauid did as God had commaunded him: and they smote the hoste of the
Philistims from Gibeon euen to
Gezer
.
17 And the fame of Dauid went out into all landes, and the Lorde brought the
feare of him vpon all nations.
CHAPTER
15
1 And Dauid made him houses in the citie of Dauid, and prepared a place for the
Arke of God, and pitched for it a tent.
2 Then Dauid saide, None ought to carie the Arke of God, but the Leuites: for
the Lorde hath chosen them to beare the Arke of the Lord, and to minister vnto
him for euer.
3 And Dauid gathered all
Israel
together to Ierusalem to bring vp the Arke of the Lorde vnto his place, which
he had ordeined for it.
4 And Dauid assembled the sonnes of Aaron, and the Leuites.
5 Of the sonnes of Kohath, Vriel the chiefe, and his brethren sixe score.
6 Of the sonnes of Merari, Asaiah the chiefe, and his brethren two hundreth and
twentie.
7 Of the sonnes of Gershom, Ioel the chiefe, and his brethren an hundreth and
thirtie.
8 Of the sonnes of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chiefe, and his brethren two hundreth.
9 Of the sonnes of
Hebron
, Eliel the chiefe, and his brethren fourescore.
10 Of the sonnes of Vzziel, Amminadab the chiefe, and his brethren an hundreth
and twelue.
11 And Dauid called Zadok and Abiathar the Priestes, and of the Leuites, Vriel,
Asaiah and Ioel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab:
12 And he saide vnto them, Ye are the chiefe fathers of the Leuites: sanctifie
your selues, and your brethren, and bring vp the Arke of the Lorde God of Israel
vnto the place that I haue prepared for it.
13 For because ye were not there at the first, the Lorde our God made a breach
among vs: for we sought him not after due order.
14 So the Priestes and the Leuites sanctified them selues to bring vp the Arke
of the Lorde God of
Israel
.
15 And the sonnes of the Leuites bare the Arke of God vpon their shoulders with
the barres, as Moses had commanded, according to the worde of the Lorde.
16 And Dauid spake to the chiefe of the Leuites, that they should appoint
certaine of their brethren to sing with instruments of musike, with violes and
harpes, and cymbales, that they might make a sounde, and lift vp their voyce
with ioye.
17 So the Leuites appointed Heman the sonne of Ioel, and of his brethren Asaph
the sonne of Berechiah, and of the sonnes of Merari their brethren, Ethan the
sonne of Kushaiah,
18 And with them their brethren in the seconde degree, Zechariah, Ben, and
Iaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Iehiel, and Vnni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah,
and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneah, and Obed Edom, and Ieiel the
porters.
19 So Heman, Asaph and Ethan were fingers to make a sounde with cymbales of
brasse,
20 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Iehiel, and Vnni, and Eliab,
and Maaseiah, and Benaiah with violes on Alamoth,
21 And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneah, and Obed Edom, and Ieiel, and
Azaziah, with harpes vpon Sheminith Ienazzeah.
22 But Chenaniah the chiefe of the Leuites had the charge, bearing ye burden in
the charge, for he was able to instruct.
23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were porters for the Arke.
24 And Shecaniah and Iehoshaphat and Nethaneel and Amasai, and Zechariah, and
Benaiah, and Eliezer the Priestes did blowe with trumpets before the Arke of
God, and Obed Edom and Ieiiah were porters for the Arke.
25 So Dauid and the Elders of Israel and the captaines of thousandes went to
bring vp the Arke of the couenant of the Lord from the house of Obed Edom with
ioye.
26 And because that God helped the Leuites that bare the Arke of the couenant of
the Lorde, they offered seuen bullockes and seuen rammes.
27 And Dauid had on him a linen garment, as all the Leuites that bare the Arke,
and the singers and Chenaniah that had the chiefe charge of the singers: and
vpon Dauid was a linnen Ephod.
28 Thus all
Israel
brought vp the Arke of the Lordes couenant with shouting and sounde of cornet,
and with trumpets, and with cymbales, making a sound with violes and with harpes.
29 And when the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde came into the citie of Dauid,
Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at a windowe, and sawe King Dauid
dauncing and playing, and she despised him in her heart.
CHAPTER
16
1 So they brought in the Arke of God, and set it in the middes of the Tabernacle
that Dauid had pitched for it, and they offred burnt offrings and peace offrings
before God.
2 And when Dauid had made an ende of offering the burnt offering and the peace
offerings, hee blessed the people in the Name of the Lorde.
3 And he dealt to euery one of
Israel
both man and woman, to euery one a cake of breade, and a piece of flesh, and a
bottel of wine.
4 And he appointed certaine of the Leuites to minister before the Arke of the
Lorde, and to rehearse and to thanke and prayse the Lord God of Israel:
5 Asaph the chiefe, and next to him Zechariah, Ieiel, and Shemiramoth, and
Iehiel, & Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed Edom, euen Ieiel with
instruments, violes and harpes, and Asaph to make a sound with cymbales,
6 And Benaiah and Iahaziel Priestes, with trumpets continually before the Arke
of the couenant of God.
7 Then at that time Dauid did appoint at the beginning to giue thankes to the
Lorde by the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
8 Praise the Lorde and call vpon his Name: declare his workes among the people.
9 Sing vnto him, sing praise vnto him, and talke of all his wonderfull workes.
10 Reioyce in his holy Name: let the hearts of them that seeke the Lord reioyce.
11 Seeke the Lord and his strength: seeke his face continually.
12 Remember his marueilous workes that he hath done, his wonders, and the
iudgementes of his mouth,
13 O seede of
Israel
his seruant, O the children of Iaakob his chosen.
14 He is the Lorde our God: his iudgements are throughout all the earth.
15 Remember his couenant for euer, and the worde, which hee commaunded to a
thousand generations:
16 Which he made with Abraham, and his othe to Izhak:
17 And hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a Law, & to Israel for an euerlasting
couenant,
18 Saying, To thee will I giue the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.
19 When ye were fewe in number, yea, a very fewe, and strangers therein,
20 And walked about from nation to nation, and from one kingdome to another
people,
21 He suffered no man to do them wrong, but rebuked Kings for their sakes,
saying,
22 Touch not mine anoynted, and doe my Prophets no harme.
23 Sing vnto the Lord all the earth: declare his saluation from day to day.
24 Declare his glory among the nations, and his wonderful workes among all
people.
25 For the Lorde is great & much to be praised, and hee is to bee feared
aboue all gods.
26 For all the gods of the people are idoles, but the Lord made the heauens.
27 Prayse and glory are before him: power & beautie are in his place.
28 Giue vnto the Lord, ye families of the people: giue vnto the Lord glory and
power.
29 Giue vnto the Lorde ye glory of his Name: bring an offring and come before
him, and worship the Lorde in the glorious Sanctuarie.
30 Tremble ye before him, al the earth: surely the world shalbe stable and not
moue.
31 Let the heauens reioyce, and let the earth be glad, and let them say among
the nations, The Lorde reigneth.
32 Let the sea roare, and all that therein is: Let the field be ioyfull and all
that is in it.
33 Let the trees of the wood then reioyce at the presence of the Lorde: for he
commeth to iudge the earth.
34 Prayse the Lorde, for hee is good, for his mercie endureth for euer.
35 And say ye, Saue vs, O God, our saluation, and gather vs, and deliuer vs from
the heathen, that we may prayse thine holy Name, and glorie in thy praise.
36 Blessed be the Lord God of
Israel
for euer and euer: and let all people say, So be it, and praise the Lorde.
37 Then he left there before the Arke of the Lordes couenant Asaph and his
brethren to minister continually before the Arke, that which was to be done
euery day:
38 And Obed Edom and his brethren, three score and eight: and Obed Edom the
sonne of Ieduthun, and Hosah were porters.
39 And Zadok the Priest and his brethren the Priestes were before the Tabernacle
of ye Lorde, in the hie place that was at Gibeon,
40 To offer burnt offrings vnto the Lord, vpon the burnt offring altar
continually, in the morning and in the euening, euen according vnto all that is
written in the law of the Lord, which hee commaunded Israel.
41 And with them were Heman, and Ieduthun, and the rest that were chosen (which
were appointed by names) to praise the Lorde, because his mercie endureth for
euer.
42 Euen with them were Heman & Ioduthun, to make a sound with the cornets
and with the cymbales, with excellent instruments of musicke: and the sonnes of
Ieduthun were at the gate.
43 And all the people departed, euerie man to his house: and Dauid returned to
blesse his house.
CHAPTER
17
1 Nowe afterward when Dauid dwelt in his house, he saide to Nathan the Prophet,
Beholde, I dwell in an house of cedar trees, but the Arke of the Lordes couenant
remaineth vnder curtaines.
2 Then Nathan said to Dauid, Do all that is in thine heart: for God is with
thee.
3 And the same night euen the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
4 Goe, and tell Dauid my seruant, Thus saith the Lorde, Thou shalt not buylde me
an house to dwell in:
5 For I haue dwelt in no house, since the day that I brought out the childre of
Israel vnto this daye, but I haue bene from tent to tent, and from habitation to
habitation.
6 Wheresoeuer I haue walked with all
Israel
spake I one word to any of the iudges of
Israel
(whome I commanded to feede my people) saying, Why haue ye not built mee an
house of cedar trees?
7 Nowe therefore thus shalt thou say vnto my seruant Dauid, Thus saith the Lorde
of hostes, I tooke thee from the sheepecoat and from following the sheepe, that
thou shouldest bee a prince ouer my people
Israel
.
8 And I haue bene with thee whithersoeuer thou hast walked, and haue destroyed
all thine enemies out of thy sight, and haue made thee a name, like the name of
the great men that are in the earth.
9 (Also I will appoynt a place for my people Israel, and will plant it, that
they may dwell in their place, and moue no more: neither shall the wicked people
vexe them any more, as at the beginning,
10 And since the time that I commaunded iudges ouer my people Israel) And I wil
subdue all thine enemies: therefore I say vnto thee, that the Lord wil buylde
thee an house.
11 And when thy dayes shalbe fulfilled to go with thy fathers, then will I rayse
vp thy seede after thee, which shalbe of thy sonnes, and will stablish his
kingdome.
12 He shall builde me an house, and I will stablish his throne for euer.
13 I wil be his father, and he shalbe my sonne, aud I will not take my mercie
away from him, as I tooke it from him that was before thee.
14 But I wil establish him in mine house, and in my kingdome for euer, and his
throne shalbe stablished for euer,
15 According to all these wordes, and according to al this vision. So Nathan
spake to Dauid.
16 And Dauid the King went in and sate before the Lord & said, Who am I, O
Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
17 Yet thou esteeming this a small thing, O God, hast also spoken concerning the
house of thy seruaut for a great while, & hast regarded me according to the
estate of a man of hie degree, O Lord God.
18 What can Dauid desire more of thee for the honour of thy seruant? for thou
knowest thy seruant.
19 O Lorde, for thy seruantes sake, euen according to thine heart hast thou done
all this great thing to declare all magnificence.
20 Lorde, there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee,
according to all that we haue heard with our eares.
21 Moreouer what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whose God
went to redeeme them to be his people, and to make thy selfe a Name, and to doe
great and terrible things by casting out nations from before thy people, whom
thou hast deliuered out of Egypt?
22 For thou hast ordeined thy people
Israel
to be thine owne people for euer, and thou Lord art become their God.
23 Therefore nowe Lorde, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy
seruant & concerning his house, be confirmed for euer, and doe as thou hast
sayd,
24 And let thy name be stable and magnified for euer, that it may be sayd, The
Lorde of hostes, God of Israel, is the God of Israel, and let the house of Dauid
thy seruant bee stablished before thee.
25 For thou, O my God, hast reueiled vnto the eare of thy seruant, that thou
wilt builde him an house: therefore thy seruant hath bene bolde to pray before
thee.
26 Therefore nowe Lord (for thou art God, & hast spoken this goodnesse vnto
thy seruant)
27 Now therfore, it hath pleased thee to blesse the house of thy seruant, that
it may bee before thee for euer: for thou, O Lord, hast blessed it, and it
shalbe blessed for euer.
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18
1 And after this Dauid smote the Philistims, & subdued them, and tooke
Gath
, and the villages thereof out of the hand of the Philistims.
2 And he smote
Moab
, and the Moabites became Dauids seruants, and brought giftes.
3 And Dauid smote Hadarezer King of Zobah vnto Hamath, as he went to stablish
his border by the riuer Perath.
4 And Dauid tooke from him a thousand charets, and seuen thousand horsemen, and
twentie thousand footemen, and destroyed all the charets, but he reserued of
them an hundreth charets.
5 Then came the Aramites of Damascus to succour Hadarezer King of Zobah, but
Dauid slewe of the Aramites two and twentie thousand.
6 And Dauid put a garison in Aram of Damascus, & the Aramites became Dauids
seruants, and brought giftes: and the Lorde preserued Dauid wheresoeuer he went.
7 And Dauid tooke the shieldes of gold that were of the seruants of Hadarezer,
and brought them to Ierusalem.
8 And from Tibhath, and from Chun (cities of Hadarezer) brought Dauid exceeding
much brasse, wherewith Salomon made the
brasen
Sea
, and the pillars and the vessels of brasse.
9 Then Tou King of Hamath heard howe Dauid had smitten all the hoste of
Hadarezer King of Zobah:
10 Therefore he sent Hadoram his sonne to King Dauid, to salute him, and to
reioyce with him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, & beaten him (for
Tou had warre with Hadarezer) who brought all vessels of golde and siluer and
brasse.
11 And King Dauid did dedicate them vnto the Lorde, with the siluer and golde
that hee brought from all the nations, from
Edom
, and from
Moab
, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistims, and from Amalek.
12 And Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah smote of
Edom
in the salt valley eighteene thousand,
13 And he put a garison in
Edom
, and all the Edomites became Dauids seruantes: and the Lord preserued Dauid
wheresoeuer he went.
14 So Dauid reigned ouer all
Israel
, and executed iudgement and iustice to all his people.
15 And Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah was ouer the hoste, and Iehoshaphat the sonne
of Ahilud recorder,
16 And Zadok the sonne of Ahitub, and Abimelech the sonne of Abiathar were the
Priests, & Shausha the Scribe,
17 And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada was ouer the Cherethites and the Pelethites:
and the sonnes of Dauid were chiefe about the King.
CHAPTER
19
1 After this also Nahash the King of the children of Ammon dyed, and his sonne
reigned in his stead.
2 And Dauid said, I will shew kindnesse vnto Hanun the sonne of Nahash, because
his father shewed kindnesse vnto me; Dauid sent messengers to comfort him for
his father. So the seruants of Dauid came into the lande of the children of
Ammon to Hanun to comfort him.
3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that
Dauid doeth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters vnto thee? Are not
his seruants come to thee to search, to seeke and to spie out the land?
4 Wherefore Hanun tooke Dauids seruants, and shaued them, & cut off their
garments by the halfe vnto the buttocks, and sent them away.
5 And there went certaine and tolde Dauid concerning the men: and he sent to
meete them (for the men were exceedingly ashamed) and the King saide, Tarie at
Iericho, vntill your beardes be growen: then returne.
6 When the children of Ammon saw that they stanke in the sight of Dauid, then
sent Hanun and the children of Ammon a thousande talents of siluer to hire them
charets and horsemen out of Aram Naharaim and out of Aram Maachah, and out of
Zobah.
7 And they hired them two and thirty thousande charets, and the King of Maachah
and his people, which came and pitched before Medeba: and the children of Ammon
gathered themselues together from their cities, and came to the battell.
8 And when Dauid heard, he sent Ioab and all the hoste of the valiant men.
9 And the children of Ammon came out, and set their battell in aray at the gate
of the citie; the Kings that were come, were by them selues in the fielde.
10 When Ioab saw that the front of the battel was against him before and behinde,
then he chose out of all the choyse of
Israel
, and set him selfe in aray to meete the Aramites.
11 And the rest of the people he deliuered vnto the hande of Abishai his
brother, and they put them selues in aray against the children of Ammon.
12 And he saide, If Aram be too strong for me, then thou shalt succour me: and
if the children of Ammon preuaile against thee, then I wil succour thee.
13 Be strong, and let vs shewe our selues valiant for our people, and for the
cities of our God, and let the Lorde doe that which is good in his owne sight.
14 So Ioab and the people that was with him, came neere before the Aramites vnto
the battel, and they fled before him.
15 And when the children of Ammon sawe that the Aramites fled, they fled also
before Abishai his brother, and entred into the citie: so Ioab came to Ierusalem.
16 And when the Aramites sawe that they were discomfited before
Israel
, they sent messengers & caused the Aramites to come forth that were beyond
the riuer: and Shophach the captaine of the hoste of Hadarezer went before them.
17 And when it was shewed Dauid, he gathered all
Israel
, and went ouer Iorden, and came vnto them, & put him selfe in aray against
them: And when Dauid had put him selfe in battel aray to meete the Aramites,
they fought with him.
18 But the Aramites fled before
Israel
, and Dauid destroyed of the Aramites seuen thousand charets, and fourtie
thousand footemen, and killed Shophach the captaine of the hoste.
19 And when the seruants of Hadarezer sawe that they fell before
Israel
, they made peace with Dauid, and serued him; the Aramites would no more succour
the children of Ammon.
CHAPTER
20
1 And when the yere was expired, in the time that Kings goe out a warfare, Ioab
caryed out the strength of the armie, and destroyed the countrey of the children
of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah (but Dauid taryed at Ierusalem) &
Ioab smote Rabbah & destroyed it.
2 Then Dauid tooke the crowne of their King from off his head, and founde it the
weight of a talent of golde, with precious stones in it: and it was set on
Dauids head, and he brought away the spoyle of the citie exceeding much.
3 And he caryed away the people that were in it, and cut them with sawes, and
with harowes of yron, and with axes: euen thus did Dauid with all the cities of
the children of Ammon. Then Dauid and all the people came againe to Ierusalem.
4 And after this also there arose warre at
Gezer
with the Philistims: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slewe Sippai, of the
children of Haraphah, and they were subdued.
5 And there was yet another battell with the Philistims: and Elhanan the sonne
of Iair slewe Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spearestaffe was
like a weauers beame.
6 And yet againe there was a battel at
Gath
, where was a man of a great stature, & his fingers were by sixes, euen
foure and twentie, and was also the sonne of Haraphah.
7 And when he reuiled
Israel
, Iehonathan the sonne of Shimea Dauids brother did slay him.
8 These were borne vnto Haraphah at
Gath
, and fell by the hand of Dauid: and by the hands of his seruants.
CHAPTER
21
1 And Satan stoode vp against
Israel
, and prouoked Dauid to nomber
Israel
.
2 Therefore Dauid said to Ioab, and to the rulers of the people, Go, and nomber
Israel
from Beer-sheba euen to Dan, and bring it to me, that I may knowe the nomber of
them.
3 And Ioab answered, The Lord increase his people an hundreth times so many as
they be, O my lord the King: are they not all my lords seruats? Wherefore doeth
my lord require this thing? Why should he be a cause of trespasse to
Israel
?
4 Neuerthelesse the Kings word preuailed against Ioab; Ioab departed and went
thorowe all
Israel
, and returned to Ierusalem.
5 And Ioab gaue the nomber and summe of the people vnto Dauid: and all
Israel
were eleuen hundreth thousande men that drewe sword: and Iudah was foure
hundreth and seuentie thousande men that drewe sword.
6 But the Leuites and Beniamin counted he not among them: for the Kings worde
was abominable to Ioab.
7 And God was displeased with this thing: therefore he smote
Israel
.
8 Then Dauid saide vnto God, I haue sinned greatly, because I haue done this
thing: but now, I beseech thee, remooue the iniquitie of thy seruant: for I haue
done very foolishly.
9 And the Lorde spake vnto Gad Dauids Seer, saying,
10 Goe and tell Dauid, saying, Thus saith the Lorde, I offer thee three thinges:
choose thee one of them, that I may doe it vnto thee.
11 So Gad came to Dauid, and sayde vnto him, Thus saith the Lord, Take to thee
12 Either three yeeres famine, or three moneths to be destroyed before thine
aduersaries, and the sworde of thine enemies to take thee, or els the sworde of
the Lorde and pestilence in the lande three dayes, that the Angel of the Lorde
may destroy throughout all the coastes of Israel: nowe therefore aduise thee,
what word I shal bring againe to him that sent me.
13 And Dauid said vnto Gad, I am in a wonderfull strait. Let me nowe fall into
the hande of the Lorde: for his mercies are exceeding great, and let me not fall
into the hande of man.
14 So the Lord sent a pestilence in
Israel
, and there fell of
Israel
seuentie thousande men.
15 And God sent the Angel into Ierusalem to destroy it; as he was destroying,
the Lorde behelde, and repented of the euill and sayde to the Angel that
destroyed, It is nowe ynough, let thine hande cease. Then the Angel of the Lord
stoode by the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite.
16 And Dauid lift vp his eyes, and sawe the Angel of the Lorde stande betweene
the earth and the heauen with his sworde drawen in his hand, and stretched out
towarde Ierusalem. Then Dauid and the Elders of Israel, which were clothed in
sacke, fell vpon their faces.
17 And Dauid said vnto God, Is it not I that commanded to nomber the people? It
is euen I that haue sinned and haue committed euil, but these sheepe what haue
they done? O Lorde my God, I beseech thee, let thine hande be on me and on my
fathers house, and not on thy people for their destruction.
18 Then the Angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to Dauid, that Dauid should
goe vp, and set vp an altar vnto the Lord in the thresshing floore of Ornan the
Iebusite.
19 So Dauid went vp according to the saying of Gad, which he had spoken in the
Name of the Lorde.
20 And Ornan turned about, and sawe the Angel, and his foure sonnes, that were
with him, hid them selues, and Ornan thresshed wheat.
21 And as Dauid came to Ornan, Ornan looked and sawe Dauid, and went out of the
thresshing floore, and bowed himselfe to Dauid with his face to the grounde.
22 And Dauid saide to Ornan, Giue me the place of thy thresshing floore, that I
may builde an altar therein vnto the Lorde: giue it me for sufficient money,
that the plague may be stayed from the people.
23 Then Ornan saide vnto Dauid, Take it to thee, and let my lord the King do
that which seemeth him good: loe, I giue thee bullockes for burnt offrings, and
thresshing instruments for wood, and wheat for meate offring, I giue it all.
24 And King Dauid saide to Ornan, Not so: but I will bye it for sufficient
money: for I wil not take that which is thine for the Lord, nor offer burnt
offrings without cost.
25 So Dauid gaue to Ornan for that place sixe hundreth shekels of golde by
weight.
26 And Dauid built there an altar vnto the Lorde, and offred burnt offrings, and
peace offrings, and called vpon the Lorde, and he answered him by fire from
heauen vpon the altar of burnt offring.
27 And when the Lorde had spoken to the Angel, he put vp his sworde againe into
his sheath.
28 At that time when Dauid sawe that the Lorde had heard him in the thresshing
floore of Ornan the Iebusite, then he sacrificed there.
29 (But the Tabernacle of the Lorde which Moses had made in the wildernesse, and
the altar of burnt offring were at that season in the hie place at
Gibeon
.
30 And Dauid could not go before it to aske counsel at God: for he was afraide
of the sworde of the Angel of the Lorde.)
CHAPTER
22
1 And Dauid saide, This is the house of the Lorde God, and this is the altar for
the burnt offring of
Israel
.
2 And Dauid commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the lande of
Israel
, and he set masons to hewe and polish stones to builde the house of God.
3 Dauid also prepared much yron for the nayles of the doores and of the gates,
and for the ioynings, and abundance of brasse passing weight,
4 And cedar trees without nomber: for the Zidonians and they of Tyrus brought
much cedar wood to Dauid.
5 And Dauid saide, Salomon my sonne is yong and tender, and we must builde an
house for the Lorde, magnificall, excellent and of great fame and dignitie
throughout all countreyes. I will therefore nowe prepare for him. So Dauid
prepared very much before his death.
6 Then he called Salomon his sonne, and charged him to builde an house for the
Lorde God of
Israel
.
7 And Dauid said to Salomon, My sonne, I purposed with my selfe to builde an
house to the Name of the Lorde my God,
8 But the worde of the Lorde came to me, saying, Thou hast shed much blood, and
hast made great battels: thou shalt not builde an house vnto my Name: for thou
hast shead much blood vpon the earth in my sight.
9 Beholde, a sonne is borne to thee, which shalbe a man of rest, for I will giue
him rest from all his enemies rounde about: therefore his name is Salomon: and I
will sende peace and quietnes vpon Israel in his dayes.
10 Hee shall builde an house for my Name, and he shalbe my sonne, and I will be
his father, and I will establish the throne of his kingdome vpon
Israel
for euer.
11 Nowe therefore my sonne, the Lord shalbe with thee, and thou shalt prosper,
and thou shalt builde an house to the Lorde thy God, as he hath spoken of thee.
12 Onely the Lorde giue thee wisedome and vnderstanding, and giue thee charge
ouer
Israel
, euen to keepe the Lawe of the Lord thy God.
13 Then thou shalt prosper, if thou take heede to obserue the statutes and the
iudgements which the Lorde commanded Moses for
Israel
: be strong and of good courage: feare not, neither bee afraide.
14 For beholde, according to my pouertie haue I prepared for the house of the
Lord an hundreth thousand talents of golde, and a thousand thousande talents of
siluer, and of brasse and of yron passing weight: for there was abundance: I
haue also prepared timber and stone, and thou mayest prouide more thereto.
15 Moreouer thou hast workmen with thee enough, hewers of stone, and workemen
for timber, and all men expert in euery worke.
16 Of golde, of siluer, and of brasse, and of yron there is no nomber: Vp
therefore, and be doing, and the Lord wilbe with thee.
17 Dauid also commanded all the princes of
Israel
to helpe Salomon his sonne, saying,
18 Is not the Lord your God with you, and hath giuen you rest on euerie side?
for hee hath giuen the inhabitants of the land into mine hand, and the land is
subdued before the Lord and before his people.
19 Nowe set your hearts and your soules to seeke the Lorde your God, and arise,
and builde the Sanctuarie of the Lorde God to bring the Arke of the couenant of
the Lord, and the holy vessels of God into the house built for the Name of the
Lord.
CHAPTER
23
1 So when Dauid was olde and full of dayes, he made Salomon his sonne King ouer
Israel
.
2 And hee gathered together all the princes of
Israel
with the Priestes and the Leuites.
3 And the Leuites were numbred from ye age of thirtie yeere and aboue, and their
nomber according to their summe was eight & thirtie thousand men.
4 Of these foure and twentie thousande were set to aduance the worke of the
house of the Lord, & sixe thousand were ouerseers and iudges.
5 And foure thousand were porters, and foure thousande praised the Lorde with
instruments which he made to praise the Lord.
6 So Dauid deuided offices vnto them, to wit, to the sonnes of Leui, to Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari.
7 Of the Gershonites were Laadan & Shimei.
8 The sonnes of Laadan, the chiefe was Iehiel, and Zetham and Ioel, three.
9 The Sonnes of Shimei, Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haram, three: these were the
chiefe fathers of Laadan.
10 Also the sonnes of Shimei were Iahath, Zina, Ieush, and Beriah: these foure
were ye sonnes of Shimei.
11 And Iahath was the chiefe, and Zizah the seconde, but Ieush and Beriah had
not many sonnes: therfore they were in the families of their father, counted but
as one.
12 The sonnes of Kohath were Amram, Izhar,
Hebron
aud Vzziel, foure.
13 The sonnes of Amram, Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated to sanctifie
the most holy place, hee and his sonnes for euer to burne incense before the
Lord, to minister to him, and to blesse in his Name for euer.
14 Moses also the man of God, and his children were named with the tribe of Leui.
15 The sonnes of Moses were Gershom, and Eliezer,
16 Of the sonnes of Gershom was Shebuel the chiefe.
17 And the sonne of Eliezer was Rehabiah the chiefe: for Eliezer had none other
sonnes: but the sonnes of Rehabiah were very many.
18 The sone of Izhar was Shelomith ye chiefe.
19 The sonnes of
Hebron
were Ieriah the first, Amariah the second, Iahaziel the third, and Iekamiam the
fourth.
20 The sones of Vzziel were Michah the first, and Isshiah the second.
21 The sonnes of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. The sonnes of Mahli, Eleazar and
Kish
.
22 And Eleazar dyed, and had no sonnes, but daughters, and their brethren the
sonnes of
Kish
tooke them.
23 The sonnes of Mushi were Mahli, &
Eder
, and Ierimoth, three.
24 These were the sonnes of Leui according to the house of their fathers, euen
the chiefe fathers according to their offices, according to the nomber of names
and their summe that did the worke for the seruice of the house of the Lorde
from the age of twentie yeeres and aboue.
25 For Dauid sayde, The Lord God of
Israel
hath giuen rest vnto his people, that they may dwell in Ierusalem for euer.
26 And also the Leuites shall no more beare the Tabernacle and al the vessels
for the seruice thereof.
27 Therefore according to the last wordes of Dauid, the Leuites were nombred
from twentie yeere and aboue,
28 And their office was vnder the hand of the sonnes of Aaron, for the seruice
of the house of the Lorde in the courtes, and chambers, and in the purifiyng of
all holy thinges, and in the worke of the seruice of the house of God,
29 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine floure, for the meate offring, and
for the vnleauened cakes, and for the fryed things, and for that which was
rosted, and for all measures and cise,
30 And for to stand euery morning, to giue thanks & praise to the Lorde,
& likewise at euen,
31 And to offer all burnt offrings vnto the Lorde, in the Sabbaths, in the
moneths, and at the appointed times, according to the nomber and according to
their custome continually before the Lorde,
32 And that they should keepe the charge of the Tabernacle of the Congregation,
and the charge of ye holy place, & the charge of ye sonnes of Aaron their
brethren in the seruice of ye house of the Lord.
CHAPTER
24
1 These are also the diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron: The sonnes of Aaron were
Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore
Eleazar & Ithamar executed the Priestes office.
3 And Dauid distributed them, euen Zadok of the sonnes of Eleazar, and Ahimelech
of the sonnes of Ithamar according to their offices in their ministration.
4 And there were found mo of the sonnes of Eleazar by the number of men, then of
the sonnes of Ithamar; they deuided them, to wit, among the sonnes of Eleazar,
sixteene heads, according to the houshould of their fathers, and among ye sonnes
of Ithamar, according to the housholde of their fathers, eight.
5 Thus they distributed them by lot the one from the other, and so the rulers of
the Sanctuarie and the rulers of the house of God were of the sonnes of Eleazar
and of the sonnes of Ithamar.
6 And Shemaiah the sonne of Nethaneel the scribe of the Leuites, wrote them
before ye King and the princes, and Zadok the Priest, and Ahimelech the sonne of
Abiathar, and before ye chiefe fathers of the Priests and of the Leuites, one
familie being reserued for Eleazar, and another reserued for Ithamar.
7 And the first lot fell to Iehoiarib, and the second to Iedaiah,
8 The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
9 The fifth to Malchiiah, the sixt to Miiamin,
10 The seuenth to Hakkoz, the eight to Abiiah,
11 The ninth to Ieshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
12 The eleuenth to Eliashib, the twelft to Iakim,
13 The thirteenth to Huppa, the fouretenth to Ieshebeab,
14 The fiftenth to Bilgah, the sixtenth to Immer,
15 The seuententh to Hezir, the eightenth to Happizzer,
16 The ninetenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Iehezekel,
17 The one and twentie to Iachin, the two & twentie to Gamul,
18 The three and twentie to Deliah, the foure and twentie to Maaziah.
19 These were their orders according to their offices, when they entred into the
house of the Lorde according to their custome vnder the hande of Aaron their
father, as the Lorde God of Israel had commaunded him.
20 And of the sonnes of Leui that remained of the sonnes of Amram, was Shubael,
of the sonnes of Shubael, Iedeiah,
21 Of Rehabiah. euen of the sonnes of Rehabiah, the first Isshiiah,
22 Of Izhari, Shelomoth, of the sonnes of Shelomoth, Iahath,
23 And his sonnes Ieriah the first, Amariah the second, Iahaziel the thirde, and
Iekameam the fourth,
24 The sonne of Vzziel was Michah, ye sonne of Michah was Shamir,
25 The brother of Michah was Isshiiah, the sonne of Isshiiah, Zechariah,
26 The sonnes of Merari, were Mahli and Mushi, the sonne of Iaaziiah was Beno,
27 The sonnes of Merari of Iahaziah were Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur and Ibri.
28 Of Mahli came Eleazar, which had no sonnes.
29 Of
Kish
. the sonne of
Kish
was Ierahmeel,
30 And the sonnes of Mushi were Mahli, &
Eder
, and Ierimoth: these were sonnes of the Leuites after the houshold of their
fathers.
31 And these also cast lots with their brethren the sonnes of Aaron before King
Dauid, & Zadok and Ahimelech and the chiefe fathers of the Priests, and of
the Leuites, euen the chiefe of the families against their yonger brethren.
CHAPTER
25
1 So Dauid and the captaines of the armie separated for the ministerie the
sonnes of Asaph, and Heman, and Ieduthun, who should sing prophesies with harpes,
with violes, and with cymbales, and their nomber was euen of the men for the
office of their ministerie, to wit,
2 Of the sonnes of Asaph, Zaccur, and Ioseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah the
sonnes of Asaph were vnder the hand of Asaph, which sang prophesies by the
commission of the King.
3 Of Ieduthun, the sonnes of Ieduthun, Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Ieshaiah,
Ashabiah and Mattithiah, six, vnder the hands of their father: Ieduthun sang
prophecies with an harpe, for to giue thankes and to praise the Lorde.
4 Of Heman, the sonnes of Heman, Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Vzziel, Shebuel, and
Ierimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Ioshbekashah,
Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.
5 All these were the sonnes of Heman, the Kings Seer in the wordes of God to
lift vp the horne: and God gaue to Heman fourtene sonnes and three daughters.
6 All these were vnder the hande of their father, singing in the house of the
Lorde with cymbales, violes and harpes, for the seruice of the house of God, and
Asaph, and Ieduthun, and Heman were at the Kings commandement.
7 So was their nomber with their brethre that were instruct in ye songs of the
Lord, euen of al that were cunning, two hundreth foure score & eight.
8 And they cast lottes, charge against charge, aswel small as great, the cunning
man as the scholer.
9 And the first lot fell to Ioseph which was of Asaph, the second, to Gedaliah,
who with his brethren and his sonnes were twelue.
10 The third, to Zaccur, he, his sonnes and his brethren were twelue.
11 The fourth, to Izri, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
12 The fift, to Nethaniah, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
13 The sixt, to Bukkiah, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
14 The seuenth, to Iesharelah, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
15 The eight, to Ieshaiah, he, his sonnes & his brethren twelue.
16 The ninth, to Mattaniah, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
17 The tenth, to Shimei, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
18 The eleuenth, to Azareel, he, his sonnes & his brethren twelue.
19 The twelft, to Ashabiah, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
20 The thirteenth, to Shubael, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
21 The fourtenth, to Mattithiah, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
22 The fifteenth, to Ierimoth, he, his sonnes & his brethren twelue.
23 The sixteenth, to Hananiah, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
24 The seuenteenth, to Ioshbekashah, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
25 The eighteenth, to Hanani, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
26 The ninteenth, to Mallothi, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
27 The twentieth, to Eliathah, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
28 The one and twentieth, to Hothir, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
29 The two and twentieth, to Giddalti, he, his sonnes and his brethren twelue.
30 The three & twentieth, to Mahazioth, he, his sonnes and his brethren
twelue.
31 The foure & twentieth, to Romamti-ezer, he, his sonnes and his brethren
twelue.
CHAPTER
26
1 Concerning the diuisions of the porters, of the Korhites, Meshelemiah the
sonne of Kore of the sonnes of Asaph.
2 And the sonnes of Meshelemiah, Zechariah the eldest, Iediael the seconde,
Zebadiah the third, Iathniel the fourth,
3 Elam the fift, Ichohanan the sixt, & Eliehoenai the seuenth.
4 And the sonnes of Obed Edom, Shemaiah the eldest, Iehozabad the second, Ioah
the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fift,
5 Ammiel the sixt, Issachar the seuenth, Peulthai the eight: for God had blessed
him.
6 And to Shemaiah his sonne, were sonnes borne, that ruled in the house of their
father, for they were men of might.
7 The sonnes of Shemaiah were Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad and his
brethren, strong men: Elihu also, and Semachiah.
8 All these were of the sonnes of Obed Edom, they and their sonnes and their
brethren mightie and strong to serue, euen three score & two of Obed Edom.
9 And of Meshelemiah sonnes and brethren, eighteene mightie men.
10 And of Hosah of the sonnes of Merari, the sonnes were Shuri the chiefe, and
(though he was not the eldest, yet his father made him the chiefe)
11 Helkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, & Zechariah the fourth: all the
sonnes & the brethren of Hosa were thirteene.
12 Of these were the diuisions of the porters of the chiefe men, hauing the
charge against their brethren, to serue in the house of the Lord.
13 And they cast lottes both small and great for the house of their fathers, for
euery gate.
14 And the lot on the East side fel to Shelemiah: then they cast lottes for
Zechariah his sonne a wise couseller, & his lot came out Northward:
15 To Obed Edom Southwarde, and to his sonnes the house of Asuppim:
16 To Shuppim & to Hosah Westwarde with the gate of Shallecheth by the paued
streete that goeth vpward, warde ouer against warde.
17 Eastward were sixe Leuites, & Northwarde foure a day, and Southward foure
a day, & toward Asuppim two and two.
18 In Parbar towarde the West were foure by the paued streete, and two in Parbar.
19 These are the diuisions of the porters of the sonnes of Kore, and of the
sonnes of Merari.
20 And of the Leuites. Ahiiah was ouer the treasures of the house of God, and
ouer the treasures of the dedicate things.
21 Of the sonnes of Laadan the sonnes of the Gershunnites descending of Laadan,
the chiefe fathers of Laadan were Gershunni & Iehieli.
22 The sonnes of Iehieli were Zethan & Ioel his brother, appoynted ouer the
treasures of the house of the Lord.
23 Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites and of the Ozielites.
24 And Shebuel the sonne of Gershom, the sonne of Moses, a ruler ouer the
treasures.
25 And of his brethren which came of Eliezer, was Rehabiah his sonne, &
Ieshaiah his sonne, and Ioram his sonne, and Zichri his sonne, and Shelomith his
sonne.
26 Which Shelomith and his brethren were ouer al the treasures of the dedicate
things, which Dauid the King, and the chiefe fathers, the captaines ouer
thousands, and hundreths, & the captaines of the armie had dedicated.
27 (For of the battels and of the spoyles they did dedicate to maintaine the
house of the Lord)
28 And al that Samuel the Seer had dedicate and Saul the sonne of Kish and Abner
the sonne of Ner, & Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah, & whosoeuer had dedicate
any thing, it was vnder the hand of Shelomith, and his brethren.
29 Of the Izharites was Chenaniah and his sonnes, for the busines without ouer
Israel
, for officers and for Iudges.
30 Of the Hebronites, Ashabiah and his brethren, men of actiuitie, a thousande,
and seuen hundreth were officers for
Israel
beyonde Iorden Westward, in all the busines of the Lord, and for the seruice of
the King.
31 Among the Hebronites was Iediiah the chiefest, euen the Hebronites by his
generations according to the families; in the fourtieth yere of the reigne of
Dauid they were sought for: and there were founde among them men of actiuitie at
Iazer in
Gilead
.
32 And his brethren men of actiuitie, two thousand & seuen hundreth chiefe
fathers, whom King Dauid made rulers ouer the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and
the halfe tribe of Manasseh, for euery matter perteining to God, and for the
Kings busines.
CHAPTER
27
1 The children of Israel also after their nomber, euen the chiefe fathers and
captaines of thousandes and of hundreths, and their officers that serued the
King by diuers courses, which came & in went out, moneth by moneth
throughout al the moneths of the yeere: in euery course were foure and twentie
thousand.
2 Ouer the first course for the first moneth was Iashobeam the sonne of Zabdiel:
and in his course were foure and twentie thousand.
3 Of the sonnes of Perez was the chiefe ouer all the princes of the armies for
the first moneth.
4 And ouer the course of the second moneth was Dodai, an Ahohite, and this was
his course, & Mikloth was a captaine, and in his course were foure and
twentie thousand.
5 The captaine of the thirde hoste for the third moneth was Benaiah the sonne of
Iehoiada the chiefe Priest: and in his course were foure and twentie thousand.
6 This Benaiah was mightie among thirtie and aboue the thirtie, and in his
course was Amizabad his sonne.
7 The fourth for the fourth moneth was Asahel the brother of Ioab, &
Zebadiah his sonne after him: and in his course were foure & twentie
thousand.
8 The fift for ye fift moneth was prince Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his
course foure and twentie thousand.
9 The sixt for the sixt moneth was Ira the sonne of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in
his course foure and twentie thousand.
10 The seuenth for the seuenth moneth was Helez the Pelonite, of the sonnes of
Ephraim: and in his course foure and twentie thousand.
11 The eight for the eight moneth was Sibbecai the Hushathite of the Zarhites:
and in his course foure and twentie thousand.
12 The ninth for the ninth moneth was Abiezer the Anethothite of the sonnes of
Iemini: & in his course foure and twentie thousand.
13 The tenth for the tenth moneth was Maharai, the Netophathite of the Zarhites:
& in his course foure and twentie thousand.
14 The eleueth for the eleuenth moneth was Benaiah the Pirathonite of the sonnes
of Ephraim: and in his course foure and twentie thousand.
15 The twelft for the twelft moneth was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel:
& in his course foure and twentie thousand.
16 Moreouer the rulers ouer the tribes of Israel were these: ouer the Reubenites
was ruler, Eliezer the sonne of Zichri: ouer the Shimeonites, Shephatiah the
sonne of Maachah:
17 Ouer the Leuites, Hashabiah the sonne of Remuel: ouer them of Aharon, and
Zadok:
18 Ouer Iudah, Elihu of the brethren of Dauid: ouer Issachar, Omri the sonne of
Michael:
19 Ouer Zebulun, Ishmaiah the sonne of Obadiah: ouer Naphtali, Ierimoth the
sonne of Azriel:
20 Ouer the sonnes of Ephraim, Hoshea the sonne of Azazziah: ouer the halfe
tribe of Manasseh, Ioel the sonne of Pedaiah:
21 Ouer the other halfe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the sonne of Zechariah: ouer
Beniamin, Iaasiel the sonne of Abner:
22 Ouer Dan, Azariel the sonne of Ieroham. these are the princes of the tribes
of
Israel
.
23 But Dauid tooke not the nober of them from twentie yeere olde and vnder,
because the Lord had sayde that he would increase
Israel
like vnto the starres of the heauens.
24 And Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah beganne to nomber: but hee finished it not,
because there came wrath for it against
Israel
, neither was the nomber put into the Chronicles of King Dauid.
25 And ouer the Kings treasures was Azmaueth the sonne of Adiel: and ouer the
treasures in the fieldes, in the cities & in the villages & in the
towers was Iehonathan the sonne of Vzziah:
26 And ouer the workemen in the fielde that tilled the ground, was Ezri the
sonne of Chelub:
27 And ouer them that dressed the vines, was Shimei the Ramathite: and ouer that
which apperteined to the vines, and ouer the store of the wine was Sabdi the
Shiphmite:
28 And ouer the oliue trees & mulberie trees that were in the valleys, was
Baal Hanan the Gederite: and ouer the store of the oyle was Ioash:
29 And ouer the oxen that fed in Sharon, was Shetrai the Sharonite: and ouer the
oxen in the valleyes was Shaphat the sonne of Adlai:
30 And ouer the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite: and ouer the asses was Iehdeiah
the Meronothite:
31 And ouer the sheepe was Iaziz the Hagerite: all these were the rulers of the
substance that was King Dauids.
32 And Iehonathan Dauids vncle a man of counsell & vnderstanding (for he was
a scribe) and Iehiel the sonne of Hachmoni were with the Kings sonnes.
33 And Ahitophel was the Kings counseller, and Hushai the Archite the Kings
friend.
34 And after Ahitophel was Iehoiada the sonne of Benaiah and Abiathar: and
captaine of the Kings armie was Ioab.
CHAPTER
28
1 Nowe Dauid assembled all the princes of Israel: the princes of the tribes, and
the captaines of the bandes that serued the King, and the captaines of thousands
and the captaines of hundreths, and the rulers of all the substance &
possession of the King, and of his sonnes, with the eunuches, and the mightie,
and all the men of power, vnto Ierusalem.
2 And King Dauid stoode vp vpon his feete; and saide, Heare ye me, my brethren
and my people: I purposed to haue buylt an house of rest for the Arke of the
couenant of the Lord, and for a footestoole of our God, and haue made ready for
the building,
3 But God sayde vnto me, Thou shalt not buylde an house for my Name, because
thou hast bene a man of warre, and hast shed blood.
4 Yet as the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father, to
be King ouer Israel for euer (for in Iudah woulde he chuse a prince, & of
the house of Iudah is the house of my father, & among the sonnes of my
father he delited in me to make me King ouer all Israel)
5 So of all my sonnes (for the Lord hath giuen me many sonnes) he hath euen
chosen Salomon my sonne to sit vpo the throne of the kingdome of the Lord ouer
Israel.
6 And he sayd vnto me, Salomon thy sonne, he shall build mine house and my
courtes: for I haue chosen him to be my sonne, and I will be his father.
7 I will stablish therefore his kingdome for euer, if he endeuour himselfe to do
my commandements, and my iudgements, as this day.
8 Now therefore in the sight of all
Israel
the Congregation of the Lorde, and in the audience of our God, keepe and seeke
for all the commandements of the Lord your God, that ye may possesse this good
lande, and leaue it for an inheritance for your children after you for euer.
9 And thou, Salomon my sonne, know thou the God of thy father, and serue him
with a perfit heart, and with a willing minde: For the Lorde searcheth all
hearts, and vnderstandeth all the imaginations of thoughts: if thou seeke him,
he will be found of thee, but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for
euer.
10 Take heede now, for the Lord hath chosen thee to buylde the house of the
Sanctuarie: be strong therefore, and doe it.
11 Then Dauid gaue to Salomon his sonne the paterne of the porch and of the
houses thereof, and of the closets thereof, and of the galleries thereof, and of
the chambers thereof that are within, and of the house of the mercieseate,
12 And the paterne of all that he had in his minde for the courtes of the house
of the Lorde, and for all the chambers round about, for the treasures of the
house of God, and for the treasures of the dedicate things,
13 And for the courses of the Priestes, and of the Leuites, and for all the
woorke for the seruice of the house of the Lorde, and for all the vessels of the
ministerie of the house of the Lord.
14 He gaue of golde by weight, for the vessels of gold, for all the vessels of
all maner of seruice, and all the vessels of siluer by weight, for all maner
vessels of all maner of seruice.
15 The weight also of golde for the candlestickes, & gold for their lampes,
with the weight for euery candlesticke, and for the lampes thereof, and for the
candlestickes of siluer by the weight of the candlesticke, and the lampes
thereof, according to the vse of euery candlesticke,
16 And the weight of the gold for the tables of shewbread, for euery table,
& siluer for the tables of siluer,
17 And pure golde for the fleshhookes, and the bowles, and plates, and for
basens, golde in weight for euery basen, and for siluer basens, by weight for
euery basen,
18 And for the altar of incense, pure golde by weight, and golde for the paterne
of the charet of the Cherubs that spread themselues, and couered the Arke of the
couenant of the Lord:
19 All, said he, by writing sent to me by the hand of the Lord, which made me
vnderstand all the workemanship of the paterne.
20 And Dauid said to Salomon his sonne, Be strong, and of a valiant courage and
doe it: feare not, nor be afraide: for the Lorde God, euen my God is with thee:
he will not leaue thee nor forsake thee till thou hast finished all the worke
for the seruice of the house of the Lord.
21 Beholde also, the companies of the Priests and the Leuites for all the
seruice of the house of God, euen they shall be with thee for the whole worke,
with euery free heart that is skilfull in any maner of seruice. The princes also
and all the people will be wholy at thy commandement.
CHAPTER
29
1 Moreouer Dauid the King sayde vnto all the Congregation, God hath chosen
Salomon mine onely sonne yong and tender, and the worke is great: for this house
is not for man, but for the Lord God.
2 Now I haue prepared with all my power for the house of my God, golde for
vessels of golde, and siluer for them of siluer, and brasse for things of brasse,
yron for things of yron, & wood for things of wood, and onix stones, and
stones to be set, and carbuncle stones and of diuers colours, and all precious
stones, and marble stones in aboundance.
3 Moreouer, because I haue delite in the house of my God, I haue of mine owne
golde and siluer, which I haue giuen to the house of my God, beside all that I
haue prepared for the house of the Sanctuarie,
4 Euen three thousand talents of gold of the golde of Ophir, and seuen thousand
talents of fined siluer to ouerlay the walles of the houses.
5 The golde for the things of golde, and the siluer for things of siluer, and
for all the worke by the handes of artificers: and who is willing to fill his
hand to day vnto the Lord?
6 So the princes of the families, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and
the captaines of thousands and of hundreths, with the rulers of the Kings worke,
offred willingly,
7 And they gaue for the seruice of the house of God fiue thousande talents of
golde, and ten thousand pieces, and ten thousand talents of siluer, and
eighteene thousand talents of brasse, and one hundreth thousand talents of yron.
8 And they with whom precious stones were found, gaue them to the treasure of ye
house of the Lord, by the hand of Iehiel the Gershunnite.
9 And the people reioyced when they offred willingly: for they offred willingly
vnto ye Lord, with a perfite heart; Dauid the King also reioyced with great ioy.
10 Therefore Dauid blessed the Lord before all the Congregation, and Dauid sayde,
Blessed be thou, O Lorde God, of Israel our father, for euer and euer.
11 Thine, O Lord, is greatnesse & power, and glory, and victorie &
praise: for all that is in heauen and in earth is thine: thine is the kingdome,
O Lord, and thou excellest as head ouer all.
12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest ouer all, and in thine
hand is power and strength, and in thine hande it is to make great, and to giue
strength vnto all.
13 Now therefore our God, we thanke thee, and prayse thy glorious Name.
14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we shoulde be able to offer
willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee: and of thine owne hand
we haue giuen thee.
15 For we are stragers before thee, & soiourners, like all our fathers: our
dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, & there is none abiding.
16 O Lorde our God, all this abundance that we haue prepared to buylde thee an
house for thine holy Name, is of thine hand & all is thine.
17 I knowe also, my God, that thou tryest the heart, and hast pleasure in
righteousnesse: I haue offred willingly in the vprightnesse of mine heart all
these things: now also haue I seene thy people which are found here, to offer
vnto thee willingly with ioy.
18 O Lord God of Abraham, Izhak and
Israel
our fathers, keepe this for euer in the purpose, and the thoughts of the heart
of thy people, and prepare their hearts vnto thee.
19 And giue vnto Salomon my sonne a perfit heart to keepe thy commaundements,
thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to doe all things, and to builde the
house which I haue prepared.
20 And Dauid said to all the Congregation, Now blesse the Lord your God; all the
Congregation blessed the Lord God of their fathers, and bowed downe their heads,
and worshipped the Lord and the King.
21 And they offred sacrifices vnto the Lorde, and on the morowe after that day,
they offered burnt offrings vnto the Lorde, euen a thousande yong bullocks, a
thousand rammes and a thousand sheepe, with their drinke offrings, and
sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.
22 And they did eate and drinke before the Lord the same day with great ioy, and
they made Salomon the sonne of Dauid King the seconde time, and anoynted him
prince before the Lord, and Zadok for the hie Priest.
23 So Salomon sate on the throne of the Lorde, as King in steade of Dauid his
father, and prospered: and all
Israel
obeyed him.
24 And all the princes and men of power, and all the sonnes of King Dauid
submitted them selues vnder King Salomon.
25 And the Lord magnified Salomon in dignitie, in the sight of all
Israel
, and gaue him so glorious a kingdome, as no King had before him in
Israel
.
26 Thus Dauid the sonne of Ishai reigned ouer all Israel.
27 And the space that he reigned ouer Israel, was fourtie yeere: seuen yeere
reigned he in Hebron, and three and thirtie yeere reigned he in Ierusalem:
28 And he dyed in a good age, full of dayes, riches and honour, and Salomon his
sonne reigned in his steade.
29 Concerning the actes of Dauid the King first & last, behold, they are
written in the booke of Samuel the Seer, & in the booke of Nathan the
Prophet, and in the booke of Gad the Seer,
30 With all his reigne and his power, and times that went ouer him, and ouer
Israel and ouer all the kingdomes of the earth.
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