wilderness

¶ And they rose early in the morning, and went foorth into the wildernesse of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Iehoshaphat stood and said, Heare me, O Iudah, and yee inhabitants of Ierusalem; Beleeue in the LORD your God, so shall you be established; beleeue his Prophets, so shall yee prosper.

1611 marginal noteIsai. 7.9.

And when Iudah came toward the watch-tower in the wildernesse, they looked vnto the multitude, and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

1611 marginal noteHeb. there was not an escaping.

And they made a proclamation through Iudah & Ierusalem, to bring in to the LORD, the collection that Moses the seruant of God laid vpon Israel in the wildernesse.

1611 marginal noteHebr. a voice.

Yet thou, in thy manifold mercies, forsookest them not in the wildernesse: the pillar of the cloude departed not from them by day, to leade them in the way, neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherin they should goe.

1611 marginal noteExod. 13.22. num. 14.14. 1.cor. 10.1.

Yea fourtie yeeres diddest thou sustaine them in the wildernesse, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes wared not old, and their feet swelled not.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 8.4.

And beholde, there came a great winde from the wildernes, and smote the foure corners of the house, and it fell vpon the yong men, and they are dead, and I onely am escaped alone to tell thee.

1611 marginal noteHeb from a side, &c.

He taketh away the heart of the chiefe of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wildernes where there is no way.

Behold, as wilde asses in the desart, goe they foorth to their worke, rising betimes for a pray: the wildernes yeeldeth food for them, and for their children.

For want and famine they were solitarie: flying into the wildernesse in former time desolate and waste:

1611 marginal noteOr, darke as the night.

1611 marginal noteHeb. yesternight.

To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man?