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¶ And an Angel of the LORD came vp from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to goe vp out of Egypt, and haue brought you vnto the land which I sware vnto your fathers, and I said, I will neuer breake my Couenant with you.

1611 marginal noteOr, messenger.

And Ioshua the sonne of Nun, the seruant of the LORD died, being an hundred and ten yeeres old.

And when he had made an end to offer the Present, he sent away the people that bare the Present.

¶ And after him was Shamgar the sonne of Anath, which slew of the Philistines sixe hundred men with an oxe goad, and he also deliuered Israel.

Then Iael Hebers wife, tooke a naile of the tent, and tooke an hammer in her hand, and went softly vnto him, and smote the naile into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: (for he was fast asleepe, and weary;) so he died.

1611 marginal noteHebr. put.

¶ And there came an Angel of the LORD, and sate vnder an Oake which was in Ophrah, that pertained vnto Ioash the Abi-Ezrite: and his sonne Gideon threshed wheat by the winepresse, to hide it from the Midianites.

1611 marginal noteHebr. to cause it to flye.

1611 marginal noteHeb. 11.32. called Gideon.

¶ And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and vnleauened cakes of an Ephah of floure: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out vnto him vnder the oake, and presented it.

1611 marginal noteHebr. a kid of the goates.

And when Gideon perceiued that hee was an Angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O LORD God: for because I haue seene an Angel of the LORD face to face.

1611 marginal noteExod. 33.20. chap. 13.22.

Then Gideon built an Altar there vnto the LORD, and called it Iehouah shalom: vnto this day it is yet in Ophrah, of the Abi-Ezrites.

1611 marginal noteThat is, The LORD send peace.

And builde an Altar vnto the LORD thy God vpon the top of this rocke, in the ordered place, and take the second bullocke, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the groue, which thou shalt cut downe.

1611 marginal noteHebr. strong place.

1611 marginal noteOr, in an orderly maner.