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And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisedome and knowledge for thy selfe, that thou mayest iudge my people, ouer whom I haue made thee King:

¶ 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.

Then what prayer, or what supplication soeuer shall bee made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when euery one shal know his owne sore and his owne griefe, and shall spread foorth his hands in this house:

1611 marginal noteOr, toward this house.

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.

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:

And they departed not from the commandement of the King vnto the Priests and Leuites, concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

And Asa cried vnto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to helpe, whether with many, or with them that haue no power. Helpe vs, O LORD our God, for we rest on thee, and in thy Name wee goe against this multitude: O LORD thou art our God, let not man preuaile against thee.

1611 marginal noteOr, mortall man.

1611 marginal note11.Sam. 14.6.

That whosoeuer would not seeke the LORD God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 13.9.

¶ In the sixe and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of Asa, Baasha king of Israel came vp against Iudah, and built Ramah, to the intent that hee might let none goe out or come in to Asa king of Iudah.

1611 marginal note1.Kings 15.17.

Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets foure hundred men, and said vnto them, Shal we goe to Ramoth Gilead to battel, or shal I forbeare? And they said, Goe vp, for God will deliuer it into the kings hand.