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Ginath to make him King, and the other halfe Cherith, that is ouer against Iorden, And thou
followed Omri. 22 But the people that folowed shalt drinke of the riuer: and I haue comanded
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Omri, preuayled against the people that followed the rauens to feede thee there. So he went and
Tibni the sonne of Ginath: so Tibni dyed, and did according vnto the word of the Lord: for he
Omri reigned. 23 In the one and thirtie yeere of went, and remained by the riuer Cherith that is
Asa King of Iudah bega Omri to reigne ouer Israel, ouer against Iorden. 6 And the rauens brought
and reigned twelue yeere. Sixe yeere reigned him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread
he in Tirzah. 24 And he bought the mountaine and flesh in the euening, and he dranke of the
Samaria of one Shemer for two talents of siluer, riuer. 7 And after a while the riuer dryed vp,
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and buylt in the mountaine, and called the name because there fell no rayne vpon the earth. And
of the citie, which he buylt, after the name of the worde of the Lord came vnto him, saying,
Shemer lord of the mountaine, Samaria. 25 But 9 Vp, and get thee to Zarephath, which is in Zidon,
Omri did euil in the eyes of the Lord, and did and remaine there: beholde, I haue commanded
worse then all that were before him. 26 For he a widow there to sustaine thee. 10 So he arose,
walked in all the way of Ieroboam the sonne and went to Zarephath: and when he came to the
of Nebat, and in his sinnes wherewith he made gate of the citie, beholde, the widowe was there
Israel to sinne in prouoking the Lord God of Israel gathering stickes: and he called her, and sayde,
with their vanities. 27 And the rest of the actes Bring me, I pray thee, a litle water in a vessel, that
of Omri, that hee did, and his strength that he I may drinke. 11 And as she was going to fet it, he
shewed, are they not written in the booke of the called to her, and sayde, Bring me, I pray thee, a
Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 28 And Omri morsell of bread in thine hand. 12 And shee sayde,
slept with his fathers, and was buryed in Samaria: As the Lord thy God liueth, I haue not a cake,
and Ahab his sonne reigned in his stead. 29 Nowe but euen an handfull of meale in a barrel, and a
Ahab the sonne of Omri began to reigne ouer litle oyle in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering a
Israel, in the eyght and thirtie yeere of Asa king of fewe stickes for to go in, and dresse it for me and
Iudah: and Ahab the sonne of Omri reigned ouer my sonne, that we may eate it, and dye. 13 And
Israel in Samaria two and twenty yere. 30 And Eliiah said vnto her, Feare not, come, do as thou
Ahab the sonne of Omri did worse in ye sight of hast sayd, but make me thereof a litle cake first
the Lord then al that were before him. 31 For was of all, and bring it vnto mee, and afterward make
it a light thing for him to walke in the sinnes of for thee, and thy sonne. 14 For thus saith the
Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, except hee tooke Lord God of Israel, The meale in the barrel shall
Iezebel also the daughter of Ethbaal King of the not be wasted, neither shall the oyle in the cruse
Zidonians to wife, and went and serued Baal, be diminished, vnto the time that the Lord send
and worshipped him? 32 Also he reared vp an rayne vpon the earth. 15 So she went, and did
altar to Baal in the house of Baal, which he had as Eliiah sayd, and she did eate: so did he and
buylt in Samaria. 33 And Ahab made a groue, and her house for a certaine time. 16 The barrell of
Ahab proceeded, and did prouoke the Lord God of the meale wasted not, nor the oyle was spent out
Israel more then all the kings of Israel that were of the cruse, according to the worde of the Lord,
before him. 34 In his dayes did Hiel the Bethelite which he spake by the hand of Eliiah. 17 And after
buylde Iericho: he layed the foundation thereof these things, the sonne of the wife of the house
in Abiram his eldest sonne, and set vp the gates fell sicke, and his sicknesse was so sore, that there
thereof in his yongest sonne Segub, according to was no breath left in him. 18 And she said vnto
the worde of the Lord which he spake by Ioshua Eliiah, What haue I to do with thee, O thou man of
God? art thou come vnto me to call my sinne to
the sonne of Nun. remembrance, and to slay my sonne? 19 And he
17 said vnto her, Giue me thy sonne. and he tooke

1 And Eliiah the Tishbite one of the inhabitats him out of her bosome, and caryed him vp into a
of Gilead sayde vnto Ahab, As the Lord God of chamber, where he abode, and laid him vpon his
Israel liueth, before whom I stand, there shall be owne bed. 20 Then he called vnto the Lord, and
neither dewe nor rayne these yeeres, but accord- sayde, O Lord my God, hast thou punished also
ing to my worde. 2 And the worde of the Lord this widowe, with whome I soiourne, by killing
came vnto him, saying, 3 Go hence, and turne her sonne? 21 And he stretched himselfe vpon
thee Eastwarde, and hide thy selfe in the riuer the childe three times, and called vnto the Lord,