coasts

And he tooke a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoeuer commeth not foorth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it bee done vnto his oxen: and the feare of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

1611 marginal noteHeb. as one man.

And they answered the king, The man that consumed vs, and that deuised against vs, that we should be destroied from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,

1611 marginal noteOr, cut vs off.

So they sought for a faire damosel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the King.

¶ In those dayes the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel:

1611 marginal noteHebr. to cut off the ends.

¶ Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therfore he smote it, and all the women therein that were with child, he ript vp.

¶ Now these are their dwelling places, throughout their castels in their coasts, of the sonnes of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.

And the residue of the families of the sonnes of Kohath, had cities of their coasts, out of the tribe of Ephraim.

Either three yeeres famine, or three moneths to bee destroyed before thy foes (while that the sword of thine enemies ouertaketh thee) or else three dayes the sword of the LORD, euen the pestilence in the land, and the Angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore aduise thy selfe, what word I shall bring againe to him that sent me.

¶ And the Priests and the Leuites that were in all Israel, resorted to him out of all their coasts.

1611 marginal noteHebr. presented themselues to him.

He spake, and there came diuers sorts of flies: and lice in all their coasts.

1611 marginal noteExod.8.17. and 24.