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And it came to passe when hee made mention of the Arke of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his necke brake, and hee died: for hee was an old man, and heauie, and hee had iudged Israel fortie yeeres.

And the Philistine drewe neere, morning and euening, and presented himselfe forty dayes.

Ishbosheth Sauls sonne was fortie yeeres olde when he began to reigne ouer Israel, and reigned two yeres: but the house of Iudah followed Dauid.

¶ Dauid was thirtie yeeres old when he began to reigne, and he reigned fourtie yeeres.

And the Syrians fled before Israel, and Dauid slew the men of seuen hundred charets of the Syrians, and fourtie thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captaine of their hoste, who died there.

¶ And it came to passe after fourtie yeeres, that Absalom said vnto the king, I pray thee, let mee goe and pay my vow which I haue vowed vnto the LORD in Hebron.

And the dayes that Dauid raigned ouer Israel, were fourty yeeres: seuen yeeres raigned hee in Hebron, and thirty and three yeeres raigned hee in Ierusalem.

1611 marginal note2.Sam.5.4. 1.Chron. 29.26,27.

¶ And Solomon had fourtie thousand stalles of horses for his charets, and twelue thousand horsemen.

1611 marginal note2.Chro. 9.25.

And the house, that is, the Temple before it, was fortie cubites long.

And it was couered with Cedar aboue vpon the beames, that lay on fortie fiue pillars, fifteene in a row.

1611 marginal noteHeb. ribs.