brother

And Iehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Ierimoth, and Iozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah were ouerseers vnder the hande of Cononiah, and Shimei his brother, at the commandement of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

1611 marginal noteHeb. at the hand.

And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother, king ouer Iudah and Ierusalem, and turned his name to Iehoiakim. And Necho tooke Iehoahaz his brother, and caried him to Egypt.

And when the yeere was expired, King Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother, king ouer Iudah and Ierusalem.

1611 marginal noteHebr. at the returne of the yeere.

1611 marginal noteHeb. vessels of desire.

1611 marginal noteOr, Mattaniah, 2.kin. 24.17. ier. 37.1.

Then I consulted with my selfe, and I rebuked the Nobles, and the rulers, and said vnto them, You exact vsurie, euery one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them:

1611 marginal noteHeb. my heart consulted in me.

That I gaue my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge ouer Ierusalem (for hee was a faithfull man, and feared God aboue many.)

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

1611 marginal noteHeb. stripped the clothes of the naked.

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owles.

1611 marginal noteOr, ostriches.

1611 marginal notePsal. 102.6.

I behaued my selfe as though he had bene my friend, or brother: I bowed downe heauily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

1611 marginal noteHeb. walked.

1611 marginal noteHeb. as a friend, as a brother to me.

None of them can by any meanes redeeme his brother, nor giue to God a ransome for him:

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine owne mothers sonne.