God

And Iabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest blesse mee indeede, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might bee with me, and that thou wouldest keepe mee from euill, that it may not grieue me. And God granted him that which he requested.

1611 marginal noteHeb. If thou wilt, &c.

1611 marginal noteHeb. doe me.

And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were deliuered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battell, and he was intreated of them, because they put their trust in him.

For there fell downe many slaine, because the warre was of God. And they dwelt in their steads vntil the captiuity.

¶ And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the Gods of the people of the land, whome God destroyed before them.

1611 marginal note2.King. 17.7.

And the God of Israel stirred vp the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he caried them away (euen the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh:) & brought them vnto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the riuer Gozan, vnto this day.

1611 marginal note2.Kings 15.19.

1611 marginal note2.King. 17.6.

Their brethren also the Leuits were appointed vnto all maner of seruice of the Tabernacle of the house of God.

¶ But Aaron, and his sonnes offered vpon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the worke of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the seruant of God had commaunded.

1611 marginal noteLeuit. 1.9.

1611 marginal noteExod. 30.7.

And Azariah the sonne of Hilkiah, the sonne of Meshullam, the sonne of Zadok, the sonne of Meraioth, the sonne of Ahitub the ruler of the house of God.

And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand, and seuen hundred and threescore, very able men for the worke of the seruice of the house of God.

1611 marginal noteHeb. mightie men of valour.

For these Leuites, the foure chiefe porters, were in their set office, and were ouer the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.

1611 marginal noteOr, trust.

1611 marginal noteOr, storehouses.