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Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If yee be mine, and if ye will hearken vnto my voyce, take ye the heads of the men your masters sonnes, and come to me to Iezreel by to morow this time: (now the kings sonnes being seuenty persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them vp.)

1611 marginal noteHeb. for me.

And it came to passe when the letter came to them, that they tooke the kings sonnes, and slewe seuentie persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Iezreel.

¶ So the LORD sent pestilence vpon Israel: and there fell of Israel, seuentie thousand men.

The children of Parosh, two thousand, an hundred seuentie and two.

The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seuentie and two.

The children of Arah, seuen hundred, seuentie and fiue.

¶ The Priests. The children of Iedaiah, of the house of Ieshua, nine hundred, seuentie and three.

1611 marginal note1.Chro. 24.7.

¶ The Leuites. The children of Ieshua, and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodauia, seuentie and foure.

1611 marginal noteOr, Iuda, chap.3.9.called also Hodeuah, nehem. 7.43.

And of the sonnes of Elam, Ieshaiah the sonne of Athaliah, and with him seuentie males.

Of the sonnes also of Biguai, Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seuentie males.

1611 marginal noteOr, Zaccur, as some read.