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¶ In the first moneth (that is, the moneth Nisan) in the twelfth yeere of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman, from day to day, and from moneth to moneth, to the twelfth moneth, that is the moneth Adar.

The Iewes ordeined, and tooke vpon them, and vpon their seed, and vpon all such as ioyned themselues vnto them, so as it should not faile, that they would keepe these two dayes, according to their writing, and according to their appointed time, euery yeere:

1611 marginal noteHebr. passe.

As for that night, let darkenesse seaze vpon it, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, let it not come into the number of the moneths.

1611 marginal noteOr, let it not reioyce among the dayes.

Thou crownest the yeere with thy goodnesse; and thy paths drop fatnesse.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the yeere of thy goodnesse.

¶ In the yeere that King Uzziah died, I saw also the LORD sitting vpon a throne, high and lifted vp, and his traine filled the Temple.

1611 marginal noteOr, the skirts thereof.

1611 marginal noteIohn 12.39,40.41.

In the yeere that king Ahaz died, was this burden.

¶ In the yeere that Tartan came vnto Ashdod (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him) and fought against Ashdod and tooke it:

For thus hath the LORD sayd vnto me: Within a yeere, according to the yeeres of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall faile.

¶ Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the citie where Dauid dwelt: adde yee yeere to yeere; let them kill sacrifices.

1611 marginal noteOr, oh Ariel that is the lyon of God: Or, of the citie.

1611 marginal noteHeb. cut off the heads.

For it is the day of the LORDs vengeance, and the yeere of recompences for the controuersie of Zion.

1611 marginal noteChap. 63.4.