The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP. XXI.

1 Iehoshaphat dyeth. 1 Iehoram succedeth him. 4 Which killeth his brethen. 6 He was broght to idolatrie. 11 And seduceth the people. 16 He is oppressed of the Philistims. 18 His miscrable end.

1 IEhoshaphat then slept with hys fathers, and was buryed with hys fathers in the ci∣tie of Dauid: and Iehorám his sonne reigned in his stead.

2 And he had brethren the sonnes of Ieho∣shaphat, Azariáh, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and Zechariáh, and Azariáh, and Michaél, and Shephatiáh. All these were the sonnes of Iehoshaphat King ofa 1.1 Israél.

3 And their father gaue them greate giftes of siluer and of golde, and of precious things,* 1.2 with strōg cities in Iudah, but the kingdome gaue he to Iehoram: for he was the eldest.

4 * And Iehoram rose vp vpon the kingdome of his father, and made him selfe strong, andb 1.3 sle we all his brethren with the sworde, and also of the princes ofc 1.4 Israél.

5 Iehoram was two and thirtie yere olde, whē he began to reigne, ād he reigned eight yere in Ierusalém.

6 And he walked in the waye of the Kings of Israél, as the house of Ahab had done: for he had the daughter of Ahab tod 1.5 wife, and he wroght euil in the eies of the Lord.

7 Howbeit the Lorde wolde not destroye the house of Dauid, because of the * couenant* 1.6 that he had made with Dauid, and because* 1.7 he had promised to giue a light to hym, and* 1.8 to his sonnes for euer.* 1.9

8 ¶In his dayes Edóm rebelled frō vnder the hand of Iudah, and made a King ouer them.

9 And Iehoram went forthe with his princes, and al his charets with him: ād he rose vp by

night, and smote Edóm, which had cōpassed him in, and the captaines of the charets.

10 But Edóm rebelled from vnder the hand of Iudáh vnto this day. then dide 1.10 Libna rebell at the same time from vnder his hand, be∣cause he had forsaken the Lord God of his fathers.

11 ¶Moreouer he made hie places in the moū∣taines of Iudáh, and claused the inhabitants of Ierusalém to commitf 1.11 fornication, and cō pelled Iudáh (thereto.)

12 And there came a writing to him frōg 1.12 Eliáh the Prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Dauid thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the wayes of Iehoshaphát thy father, nor in the wayes of Asá King of Iudáh,

13 But hast walked in the way of the Kings of Israél, & hast made Iudáh and the inhabitants of Ierusalém to go a whoring, as the house of Aháb went a whoring, and hast also sleane thy brethren of thy fathers house, whiche were better then thou,

14 Beholde, with a great plague wil the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wiues, and all thy substance,

15 And thou shalt be in great diseases in the di∣sease of thy bowels, vntilh 1.13 thy bowels fall out for the disease, day by day.

16 ¶So the Lord stirred vp against Iehorám the spirit of the Philistims, and the Arabians that were beside thei 1.14 Ethiopians.

17 And they came vp into Iudáh, and brake in∣to it, and caried away all the substance that was founde in the Kings house, and his son∣nes also, and his wiues, so that there was not a sonne left him, sauek 1.15 Iehoaház, the yongest of his sonnes.

18 And after all this, the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

19 And in processe of time, euen after the end of two yeres, his guttes fell out with his di∣sease: so he dyed of sore diseases: and his peo ple made no burning for him like the bur∣ning of his fathers.

20 When he began to reigne, he was two and thirtie yere olde, and reigned in Ierusalém eight yere,l 1.16 and liued without being desired yet they buryed him in the citie of Dauid, but not among the sepulchres of the Kings.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Read chap. 15. 17 how by Israel 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ment Iudah.
• * 1.2

  2. King. 8. 16.
• b 1.3

  Because the wic ked liue euer in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ād also are ambitious, they become cruel, ād spare not to mur ther thē, whome by nature they ought 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to cherishe and de∣fende.
• c 1.4

  Meanyng, of Iu dah and Benia∣min.
• d 1.5

  So that we se howe it cannot be that we shuld ioyne with the wicked and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 God.
• * 1.6

  2. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 7. 12.
• * 1.7

  1. King. 2. 4. and 9. 5.
• * 1.8

  2. King. 8. 19.
• * 1.9

  Chap. 6. 16.
• e 1.10

  Read 〈◊〉〈◊〉, King. 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 22.
• f 1.11

  Meaning, idola trie, because that the idolater brea keth promes with GOD 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as doeth the adulte∣resse to her hous∣band.
• g 1.12

  Some thinke that this was Elishá, so called, because he had the Spirit in abū dance, as had Eliáh.
• h 1.13

  we se this exā ple daily practi∣sed vpon them that fall away 〈◊〉〈◊〉 God, and be∣comeidolaters & murtherers of their brethren.
• i 1.14

  There were o∣ther Arabians in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 South∣ward toward Egypt.
• k 1.15

  Called also Aha ziáh, as Chap. 22, 1, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Azariáh, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• l 1.16

  That is, assome write, hewas not regarded, but de∣posed for his wic kednes & idola∣trie so that his sonne reigned 22 yeres, (his father yet lyuing) with out honour, & af∣ter his fathers death he was cō 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to reigne 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as Chap. 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 〈◊〉〈◊〉.