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¶ And Dauid came to his house at Ierusalem, and the king tooke the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in vnto them: so they were shut vp vnto the day of their death, liuing in widowhood.

1611 marginal noteHebr. a house of ward.

1611 marginal noteHebr. bound.

1611 marginal noteHebr. in widowhood of life.

1611 marginal noteChap. 16.22.

And the other woman said, Nay, but the liuing is my sonne, and the dead is thy sonne: And this said, No, but the dead is thy sonne, and the liuing is my sonne. Thus they spake before the king.

Then said the King, The one saith, This is my sonne, that liueth, and thy sonne is the dead: and the other saith Nay: but thy sonne is the dead, and my sonne is the liuing.

And the king said, Diuide the liuing childe in two, and giue halfe to the one, and halfe to the other.

Then spake the woman whose the liuing childe was, vnto the king, (for her bowels yerned vpon her sonne) and she said, O my lord, giue her the liuing childe, and in no wise slay it: But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but diuide it.

1611 marginal noteHebr. were hot.

Then the King answered and said, Giue her the liuing child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.

It may be, the LORD thy God will heare all the words of Rabshakeh whome the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproch the liuing God, and will reprooue the wordes which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift vp thy prayer for the remnant that are left.

1611 marginal noteHeb. found.

LORD, bow downe thine eare, and heare: open, LORD, thine eyes; and see: and heare the words of Sennacherib which hath sent him to reproch the liuing God.

In whose hand is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde.

1611 marginal noteOr, life.

1611 marginal noteHeb. all flesh of man.

Man knoweth not the price thereof neither is it found in the land of the liuing.