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is the God of Israel, and let the house of Dauid 14 So Dauid reigned ouer all Israel, and executed
thy seruant bee stablished before thee. 25 For iudgement and iustice to all his people. 15 And
thou, O my God, hast reueiled vnto the eare of Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah was ouer the hoste, and
thy seruant, that thou wilt builde him an house: Iehoshaphat the sonne of Ahilud recorder, 16 And
therefore thy seruant hath bene bolde to pray Zadok the sonne of Ahitub, and Abimelech the
before thee. 26 Therefore nowe Lord (for thou sonne of Abiathar were the Priests, and Shausha
art God, and hast spoken this goodnesse vnto thy the Scribe, 17 And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada
seruant) 27 Now therfore, it hath pleased thee was ouer the Cherethites and the Pelethites: and
the sonnes of Dauid were chiefe about the King.
to blesse the house of thy seruant, that it may
bee before thee for euer: for thou, O Lord, hast 19
blessed it, and it shalbe blessed for euer. 1 After this also Nahash the King of the chil-

18 dren of Ammon dyed, and his sonne reigned in
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1 And after this Dauid smote the Philistims, his stead. And Dauid said, I will shew kindnesse
vnto Hanun the sonne of Nahash, because his
and subdued them, and tooke Gath, and the father shewed kindnesse vnto me. And Dauid
villages thereof out of the hand of the Philistims. sent messengers to comfort him for his father.
2 And he smote Moab, and the Moabites became So the seruants of Dauid came into the lande of
Dauids seruants, and brought giftes. And Dauid the children of Ammon to Hanun to comfort him.
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smote Hadarezer King of Zobah vnto Hamath, 3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said
as he went to stablish his border by the riuer to Hanun, Thinkest thou that Dauid doeth hon-
Perath. 4 And Dauid tooke from him a thou- our thy father, that he hath sent comforters vnto
sand charets, and seuen thousand horsemen, and thee? Arenothisseruantscometotheetosearch,
twentie thousand footemen, and destroyed all to seeke and to spie out the land? 4 Wherefore
the charets, but he reserued of them an hun- Hanun tooke Dauids seruants, and shaued them,
dreth charets. 5 Then came the Aramites of and cut off their garments by the halfe vnto
Damascus to succour Hadarezer King of Zobah, the buttocks, and sent them away. 5 And there
but Dauid slewe of the Aramites two and twen- went certaine and tolde Dauid concerning the
tie thousand. 6 And Dauid put a garison in men: and he sent to meete them (for the men
Aram of Damascus, and the Aramites became were exceedingly ashamed) and the King saide,
Dauids seruants, and brought giftes: and the Lord
preserued Dauid wheresoeuer he went. 7 And Tarie at Iericho, vntill your beardes be growen:
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Dauid tooke the shieldes of gold that were of then returne. When the children of Ammon
saw that they stanke in the sight of Dauid, then
the seruants of Hadarezer, and brought them sent Hanun and the children of Ammon a thou-
to Ierusalem. 8 And from Tibhath, and from sande talents of siluer to hire them charets and
Chun (cities of Hadarezer) brought Dauid exceed- horsemen out of Aram Naharaim and out of Aram
ing much brasse, wherewith Salomon made the Maachah, and out of Zobah. 7 And they hired
brasen Sea, and the pillars and the vessels of them two and thirty thousande charets, and the
brasse. 9 Then Tou King of Hamath heard howe King of Maachah and his people, which came
Dauid had smitten all the hoste of Hadarezer and pitched before Medeba: and the children
King of Zobah: 10 Therefore he sent Hadoram of Ammon gathered themselues together from
his sonne to King Dauid, to salute him, and to their cities, and came to the battell. And when
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reioyce with him, because he had fought against Dauid heard, he sent Ioab and all the hoste of
Hadarezer, and beaten him (for Tou had warre the valiant men. 9 And the children of Ammon
with Hadarezer) who brought all vessels of golde came out, and set their battell in aray at the
and siluer and brasse. 11 And King Dauid did gate of the citie. And the Kings that were come,
dedicate them vnto the Lord, with the siluer and were by them selues in the fielde. 10 When Ioab
golde that hee brought from all the nations, from saw that the front of the battel was against him
Edom, and from Moab, and from the children before and behinde, then he chose out of all the
of Ammon, and from the Philistims, and from choyseofIsrael, andsethimselfeinaraytomeete
Amalek. 12 And Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah the Aramites. 11 And the rest of the people he
smote of Edom in the salt valley eighteene thou- deliuered vnto the hande of Abishai his brother,
sand, 13 And he put a garison in Edom, and and they put them selues in aray against the
all the Edomites became Dauids seruantes: and children of Ammon. 12 And he saide, If Aram be
the Lord preserued Dauid wheresoeuer he went. too strong for me, then thou shalt succour me: