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the gouernour of the house, and Elkanah the the Lord) 20 And Tilgath Pilneeser king of Asshur
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second after the King. And the children of Israel came vnto him, who troubled him and did not
tooke prisoners of their brethren, two hudreth strengthen him. 21 For Ahaz tooke a portion out
thousand of women, sonnes and daughters, and of the house of the Lord and out of the Kings
caried away much spoyle of them, and brought house and of the Princes, and gaue vnto the king
the spoyle to Samaria. But there was a Prophet of Asshur: yet it helped him not. 22 And in
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of the Lordes, (whose name was Oded) and he ye time of his tribulation did he yet trespasse
went out before the hoste that came to Samaria, more against ye Lord, (this is King Ahaz) 23 For
and said vnto them, Behold, because the Lord he sacrificed vnto the gods of Damascus, which
God of your fathers is wroth with Iudah, he plagued him, and he sayd, Because the gods of the
hath deliuered them into your hand, and ye Kings of Aram helped them, I wil sacrifice vnto
haue slaine them in a rage, that reacheth vp them, and they will helpe me: yet they were his
to heauen. 10 And nowe ye purpose to keepe ruine, and of all Israel. 24 And Ahaz gathered the
vnder the children of Iudah and Ierusalem, as vessels of ye house of God, and brake the vessels
seruants and handmaides vnto you: but are not of the house of God, and shut vp the doores of
you such, that sinnes are with you before the the house of the Lord, and made him altars in
Lord your God? 11 Nowe therefore heare me, euery corner of Ierusalem. 25 And in euery citie of
and deliuer the captiues againe, which ye haue Iudah hee made hie places, to burne incense vnto
taken prisoners of your brethren: for the fierce other gods, and prouoked to anger the Lord God
wrath of the Lord is toward you. 12 Wherefore of his fathers. 26 Concerning the rest of his actes,
certaine of the chiefe of the children of Ephraim, and all his wayes first and last, beholde, they are
Azariah the sonne of Iehohanan, Berechiah the written in the booke of the Kings of Iudah, and
sonne of Meshillemoth, and Iehizkiah the sonne Israel. 27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and
of Shallum, and Amasa the sonne of Hadlai, stood
vp against them that came from the warre, 13 And they buried him in the citie of Ierusalem, but
said vnto them, Bring not in the captiues hither: brought him not vnto the sepulchres of the Kings
for this shalbe a sinne vpon vs against the Lord: of Israel: and Hezekiah his sonne reigned in his
ye entende to adde more to our sinnes and to stead.
our trespasse, though our trespasse be great, and 29
the fierce wrath of God is against Israel. 14 So
the armie left the captiues and the spoyle before 1 Hezekiah began to reigne, when he was fiue
the princes and all the Congregation. 15 And the and twentie yeere olde, and reigned nine and
men that were named by name, rose vp and tooke twentie yeres in Ierusalem: and his mothers
the prisoners, and with the spoyle clothed all name was Abiiah the daughter of Zechariah.
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that were naked among them, and arayed them, And hee did vprightly in the sight of the Lord,
and shod them, and gaue them meate, and gaue according to all that Dauid his father had done.
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them drinke, and anoynted them, and caryed all He opened the doores of the house of the Lord
that were feeble of them vpon asses, and brought in the first yeere, and in the first moneth of his
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them to Iericho the citie of Palme trees to their reigne, and repared them. And he brought in
brethren: so they returned to Samaria. 16 At the Priests and the Leuites, and gathered them
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that time did King Ahaz sende vnto the Kings of into the East streete, And said vnto them, Heare
Asshur, to helpe him. 17 (For the Edomites came me, ye Leuites: sanctifie nowe your selues, and
moreouer, and slew of Iudah, and caryed away sanctifie the house of the Lord God of your fa-
captiues. 18 The Philistims also inuaded the cities thers, and cary forth the filthinesse out of the
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in the low countrey, and toward the South of Sanctuarie. Forourfathershauetrespassed, and
Iudah, and tooke Bethshemesh, and Aialon, and done euill in the eyes of the Lord our God, and
Gederoth and Shocho, with the villages thereof, haue forsaken him, and turned away their faces
and Timnah, with her villages, and Gimzo, with from the Tabernacle of the Lord, and turned their
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her villages, and they dwelt there. 19 For the backes. They haue also shut the doores of ye
Lord had humbled Iudah, because of Ahaz King porch, and quenched the lampes, and haue nei-
of Israel: for he had brought vengeance vpon ther burnt incense, nor offred burnt offrings in
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Iudah, and had grieuously transgressed against the Sanctuarie vnto the God of Israel. Wherfore
the wrath of the Lord hath bin on Iudah and