of Israel caried of their brethren pre∣soners two hundreth thousande, wemen, son¦nes and doughters, and toke a greate spoy∣le from them, and broughte the spoyle vnto Samaria.
[ B] But euē there was there a prophet of ye LORDE, whose name was Obed, which wē¦te out to mete ye hoost that came to Sama¦ria, and sayde vnto them: Beholde, becau∣se the LORDE God of youre fathers is wroth at Iuda, therfore hath he geuen them ouer in to youre handes: but ye haue slayne them so abhominably, that it is come vnto heauē. Now thinke ye to subdue the children of Iu¦da and Ierusalem, to be bondmen and bond maydens vnto you. Is not this a trespace then wt you agaynst the LORDE yor God? Herken now vnto me, and sende ye presoners hence agayne, whom ye haue caried awaye from youre brethren: for the wrath of ye LOR¦DE is fearce ouer you.
Then gat vp certayne of the chefe of the children of Ephraim, Asarias the sonne of Iohanan, Barachias the sonne of Mesille∣moth, Ezechias the sonne of Sallum, & Ama¦sa ye sonne of Hadlai, agaynst them yt came from ye battayll, & sayde vnto them: Ye shal not brynge the presoners in hither, for youre mynde is but to make vs trespace before the LORDE, to make oure synnes and offences the greater: for the trespace is to moch allrea¦dy, & the wrath is fearce ouer Israel. So the hoost lefte the presoners & the spoyle before ye rulers and before the whole cōgregacion.
[ C] Then stode vp the men (which now were rehearced by name) and toke the presoners, and as many as were naked amonge them, clothed they with ye spoyles, & deckte them, and put shues vpon their fete, and gaue thē to eate and drynke, and anoynted them, and caried them vpon asses (as many as were fe∣ble) and broughte them to Iericho to ye Pal¦me cite vnto their brethren, and came agay∣ne to Samaria. At the same tyme sent kyn¦ge Achas vnto the kynges of Assur, yt they shulde helpe him. And the Edomites came agayne, and smote Iuda, and caried some a∣waye captyue. The Philistynes also fell in to the cities in the playne, & towarde ye south parte of Iuda, & wanne Beth Semes, A••a∣lon, Gederoth, and Socho with the vyllages therof, Timna wt the vyllages therof, & Gim¦so with the vyllages therof, and dwelt ther∣in. For ye LORDE subdued Iuda for Achas sake ye kynge of Iuda, because he made Iu¦da naked, and rebelled agaynst the LORDE. And Teglatpilnesser the kynge of Assur ca∣me agaynst him, and beseged him, & he was not mightie ynough for him.
For Achas spoyled the house of the LOR∣DE, [ D] and the kynges house, and of the rulers, to geue vnto ye kynge of Assur, but it helped him not. Morouer kinge Achas trespaced yet more against the LORDE euen in his trouble, and dyd sacrifyce vnto the goddes of them of Damascon, which had smitten him, & say¦de: The goddes of the kynges of Syria hel∣pe them, therfore wil I offre vnto them, that they maye helpe me also, where as the same yet were a fall vnto him and to all Israel.
And Achas gathered the vessels of ye hou¦se of God together, and brake the vessels in ye house of God, & shut the dores of the house of ye LORDE, and made him altares in all cor¦ners at Ierusalem, and euery where in the cy¦ties of Iuda made he hye places to burne incense vnto other goddes, and prouoked ye LORDE God of his fathers vnto wrath.
What more there is to saye of him and of all his wayes (both first and last) beholde, it is wrytten in the boke of the kynges of Iuda and Israel. And Achas fell on slepe with his fathers, and they buried him in ye cite of Ierusalem: for they brought him not amonge the sepulcres of the kynges of Is∣rael. And Ezechias his sonne was kynge in his steade.