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And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captiue with thy sword, and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eate, and drinke, and go to their master.

¶ In those dayes the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel:

1611 marginal noteHebr. to cut off the ends.

(In those dayes the LORD began to send against Iudah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the sonne of Remaliah)

And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right, against the LORD their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen, to the fenced city.

¶ He remooued the high places, and brake the images, and cut downe the groues, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for vnto those dayes the children of Israel did burne incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

1611 marginal noteHeb. statues.

1611 marginal noteNumb. 21.8.

¶ In those dayes was Hezekiah sicke vnto death: and the Prophet Isaiah the sonne of Amos came to him, and saide vnto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not liue.

1611 marginal noteHebr. giue charge concerning thine house.

1611 marginal note2.Chron. 32.24. Isa. 38.1.

And he caried away Iehoiachin to Babylon, and the kings mother, and the kings wiues, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those caried hee into captiuitie, from Ierusalem to Babylon.

1611 marginal noteOr, Eunuches.

1611 marginal note2.Chron. 36.10. esth. 2.6.

These were the Potters, and those that dwelt amongst plants and hedges. There they dwelt with the king for his worke.

And with them Heman and Ieduthun with trumpets and cymbales, for those that should make a sound, and with musicall instruments of God: and the sonnes of Ieduthun were Porters.

1611 marginal noteHeb. for the gate.

¶ And hee built fenced cities in Iudah; for the land had rest, and hee had no warre in those yeeres; because the LORD had giuen him rest.