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against thee. 12 So the Lord smote the Ethiopians Israel, shalbe slaine, whether he were small or
before Asa and before Iudah, and the Ethiopians great, man or woman. 14 And they sware vnto
fled. 13 And Asa and the people that was with him, the Lord with a loude voyce, and with shouting
pursued them vnto Gerar. And the Ethiopians and with trumpets, and with cornets. 15 And all
hoste was ouerthrowen, so that there was no life Iudah reioyced at the othe: for they had sworne
in them: for they were destroyed before the Lord vnto the Lord with all their heart, and sought
and before his hoste: and they caryed away a him with a whole desire, and he was founde of
mightie great spoyle. 14 And they smote all the them. And the Lord gaue them rest rounde about.
cities rounde about Gerar: for the feare of the 16 And King Asa deposed Maachah his mother
Lord came vpon them, and they spoyled all the from her regencie, because she had made an idole
cities, for there was exceeding much spoyle in in a groue: and Asa brake downe her idole, and
them. 15 Yea, and they smote the tents of cattel, stamped it, and burnt it at the brooke Kidron.
and carried away plentie of sheepe and camels, 17 But the hie places were not taken away out
and returned to Ierusalem. of Israel: yet the heart of Asa was perfit all his
dayes. 18 Also he brought into the house of God
15 the things that his father had dedicate, and that
1 Then the Spirite of God came vpon Azariah he had dedicate, siluer, and golde, and vessels.
the sonne of Obed. 2 And he went out to meete 19 And there was no warre vnto the fiue and
Asa, and said vnto him, O Asa, and all Iudah, and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of Asa.
Beniamin, heare ye me. The Lord is with you,
while ye be with him: and if ye seeke him, he wil 16
be founde of you, but if ye forsake him, he will 1 In the sixe and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of
forsake you. Nowe for a long season Israel hath Asa came Baasha king of Israel vp against Iudah,
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bene without the true God, and without Priest and built Ramah to let none passe out or goe in
to teach and without Lawe. 4 But whosoeuer to Asa king of Iudah. 2 Then Asa brought out
returned in his affliction to the Lord God of Israel, siluer and gold out of the treasures of the house
and sought him, he was founde of them. 5 And of the Lord, and of the Kings house, and sent to
in that time there was no peace to him, that did Benhadad King of Aram that dwelt at Damascus,
goe out and goe in: but great troubles were to saying, There is a couenant betweene me and
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all the inhabitants of the earth. For nation was thee, and betweene my father and thy father:
destroyed of nation, and citie of citie: for God behold, I haue sent thee siluer and golde: come,
troubled them with all aduersitie. Be ye strong breake thy league with Baasha King of Israel
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therefore, and let not your handes be weake: for that hee may depart from me. 4 And Benhadad
your worke shall haue a rewarde. And when Asa hearkened vnto King Asa, and sent the captaines
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heard these wordes, and the prophesie of Obed of the armies which hee had, against the cities
the Prophet, he was encouraged, and tooke away of Israel. And they smote Iion, and Dan, and
the abominations out of all the lande of Iudah,
and Beniamin, and out of the cities which he had Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
taken of mount Ephraim, and he renued the altar 5 And when Baasha heard it, he left building of
of the Lord, that was before the porche of the Ramah, and let his worke cease. 6 Then Asa the
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Lord. And he gathered all Iudah and Beniamin, King tooke all Iudah, and caryed away the stones
and the strangers with them out of Ephraim, and of Ramah and the tymber thereof, wherewith
Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for there fell many Baasha did builde, and he built therewith Geba
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to him out of Israel, when they sawe that the Lord and Mizpah. And at that same time Hanani
his God was with him. 10 So they assembled to the Seer came to Asa King of Iudah, and saide
vnto him, Because thou hast rested vpon the king
Ierusalem in the third moneth, in the fifteenth
yere of the reigne of Asa. 11 And they offred vnto of Aram, and not rested in the Lord thy God,
the Lord the same time of the spoyle, which they therefore is the hoste of the King of Aram escaped
had brought, euen seuen hundreth bullockes, and out of thine hande. 8 The Ethiopians and the
seuen thousande sheepe. 12 And they made a Lubims, were they not a great hoste with charets
couenant to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, and horsemen, exceeding many? yet because
with all their heart, and with all their soule. thou diddest rest vpon the Lord, he deliuered
13 And whosoeuer will not seeke the Lord God of them into thine had. 9 For the eyes of the Lord