state

And they said, The man asked vs straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet aliue? haue yee another brother? and we tolde him according to the tenour of these words: Could we certainely knowe that he would say, Bring your brother downe?

1611 marginal noteHeb. asking he asked vs.

1611 marginal noteHeb. mouth

1611 marginal noteHeb. knowing could we know?

So the workemen wrought, and the worke was perfected by them: and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.

1611 marginal noteHebr. the healing went vp vpon the worke.

And they gaue them drinke in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diuers one from another) and royall wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.

1611 marginal noteHebr. wine of the kingdome.

1611 marginal noteHeb. according to the hand of the king.

Then the king made a great feast vnto all his princes and his seruants, euen Esthers feast, and hee made a release to the prouinces, and gaue gifts, according to the state of the king.

1611 marginal noteHeb. rest.

Behold, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily euery man at his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.

1611 marginal noteHeb. setled.

1611 marginal notePsal.62.9. & 144.4.

Be thou diligent to knowe the state of thy flocks, and looke well to thy herds.

1611 marginal noteHebr. set thy heart.

For the transgression of a land, many are the princes thereof: but by a man of vnderstanding and knowledge the state thereof shall bee prolonged.

1611 marginal noteOr, by men of vnderstanding and wisedome shall they likewise be prolonged.

And I will driue thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee downe.

Then goeth he, and taketh with himselfe seuen other spirits more wicked then himselfe, and they enter in and dwell there: And the last state of that man is worse then the first. Euen so shal it be also vnto this wicked generation.

1611 marginal noteHeb. 6.4. and 10.26. 2.pet. 2.20.

Then goeth he, and taketh to him seuen other spirits more wicked then himselfe, and they enter in, and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse then the first.