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¶ And Solomon numbred all the strangers that were in the lande of Israel, after the numbring wherewith Dauid his father had numbred them: and they were found an hundred and fiftie thousand, and three thousand and sixe hundred.

1611 marginal noteHebr. the men the strangers.

1611 marginal noteAs Ver. 3.

Since the day that I brought foorth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no citie among all the tribes of Israel to builde an house in, that my Name might be there, neither chose I any man to be a ruler ouer my people Israel:

Then heare thou from the heauens, and forgiue the sinne of thy people Israel, and bring them againe vnto the land which thou gauest to them, and to their fathers.

Then heare thou from heauen, and forgiue the sinne of thy seruants, and of thy people Israel; when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walke, and send raine vpon the land, which thou hast giuen vnto thy people for an inheritance.

¶ If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mil-dew, locusts or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land: whatsoeuer sore, or whatsoeuer sicknesse there be:

1611 marginal noteHebr. in the land of their gates.

1611 marginal noteChap. 20.9.

That they may feare thee, to walke in thy waies so long as they liue in the land which thou gauest vnto our fathers.

1611 marginal noteHebr. all the dayes which.

1611 marginal noteHebr. vpon the face of the land.

If they sinne against thee (for there is no man which sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliuer them ouer before their enemies, and they cary them away captiues vnto a land far off or neere:

1611 marginal noteHeb. they that take them captiues cary them away.

1611 marginal noteProu. 20.9. eccles. 7.21. iames 3.2. 1.iohn 1.8.

Yet if they bethinke themselues in the land whither they are caried captiue, and turne and pray vnto thee in the land of their captiuitie, saying, Wee haue sinned, we haue done amisse, and haue dealt wickedly:

1611 marginal noteHeb. bring back to their heart.

If they returne to thee with all their heart, and with all their soule, in the land of their captiuitie, whither they haue caried them captiues, and pray toward their land which thou gauest vnto their fathers, and toward the citie which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I haue built for thy Name:

If I shut vp heauen that there bee no raine, or if I command the locusts to deuoure the land, or if I send pestilence among my people: