force

For the land is full of adulterers, for because of swearing the land mourneth: the pleasant places of the wildernes are dried vp, and their course is euil, and their force is not right.

1611 marginal noteOr, cursing.

1611 marginal noteOr, violence.

They that fled, stood vnder the shadow of Heshbon, because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the middest of Sihon, and shall deuoure the corner of Moab, and the crowne of the head of the tumultuous ones.

1611 marginal noteHeb. children of noise.

1611 marginal noteNum. 21.28.

The diseased haue ye not strengthened, neither haue yee healed that which was sicke, neither haue ye bound vp that which was broken, neither haue yee brought againe that which was driuen away, neither haue yee sought that which was lost; but with force and with crueltie haue yee ruled them.

1611 marginal note1.Pet.5.3.

Because thou hast had a perpetuall hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamitie, in the time that their iniquitie had an end;

1611 marginal noteOr, hatred of old.

1611 marginal noteHeb. powred out the children.

1611 marginal noteHeb. hands.

Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mightie deliuer himselfe:

1611 marginal noteHeb. his soule or life.

And from the dayes of Iohn the Baptist, vntill now, the kingdome of heauen suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

1611 marginal noteOr, is gotten by force, and they that thrust men.

1611 marginal noteLuk. 16.16.

¶ When Iesus therefore perceiued that they would come and take him by force, to make him a King, hee departed againe into a mountaine, himselfe alone.

And when there arose a great dissension, the chiefe captaine fearing lest Paul should haue bene pulled in pieces of them, commanded the souldiers to goe downe, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.

For a Testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all whilest the Testatour liueth.