heathen

And I said vnto them, We, after our abilitie, haue redeemed our brethren the Iewes, which were sold vnto the heathen; and will you euen sell your brethren? or shall they be sold vnto vs? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answere.

1611 marginal noteLeuit 25.48.

Also I said, It is not good that yee doe: ought yee not to walke in the feare of our God, because of the reproch of the heathen our enemies?

Moreouer, there were at my table, an hundred and fiftie of the Iewes and rulers, besides those that came vnto vs from among the heathen that are about vs.

Wherein was written; It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu sayth it, that thou and the Iewes thinke to rebell: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their King, according to these words.

1611 marginal noteOr, Geshem, ver. 2.

And it came to passe that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen, that were about vs, saw these things, they were much cast downe in their owne eyes: for they perceiued that this worke was wrought of our God.

¶ Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vaine thing?

1611 marginal noteOr, tumultuously assemble?

1611 marginal noteHebr. meditate.

1611 marginal noteActs.4.25.

Aske of me, and I shall giue thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the vttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

1611 marginal notePsal.72.8.

Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked; thou hast put out their name for euer and euer.

The heathen are sunke downe in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid, is their own foot taken.

1611 marginal notePsal.7.16.

Arise, O LORD, let not man preuaile: let the heathen bee iudged in thy sight.