Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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CAP. XVI.
1 Forsothe the word of the Lord is doon
to Yau, the sone of Anany, a&yogh;ens Baasa,
seiynge,
2 Forthi that I haue enhaunsid thee
fro powdre, and sette thee duyk vpon
Yrael, my puple; forsothe thow hast
goon in the weie of Jeroboam, and hast
maad my puple Irael to synne, that thow
terre me in the synnes of hem;
3 and lo!
I shal kitte of the hyndirmore of Baasa,
and the hyndirmores of the hows of hym,
and I shal make thin hows as the hows
of Jeroboam, the sone of Naabath.
4 Who
were deed of Baasa in the citee, houndis
shulen eete hym, and who were deed of
hym in the regioun, the foulis of heuen
shulen eete hym.
5 Forsothe the remnaunt
of the wordis of Baasa, and what euer
thingis he dide, and the batayls of hym,
whether not thes ben writyn in the bokis
of the wordis of the dais of the kyngis of
Irael?
6 Thanne Baasa slepte with his faders,
and is biryed in Tharsa; and Hela
his sone, regnede for hym.
7 Forsothe
whanne in the hond of Yau, the sone of
Anany, the prophete, the word of the
Lord was maad a&yogh;ens Baasa, and a&yogh;ens
the hows of hym, and a&yogh;ens al the yuel
that he hadde doon before the Lord, to
terren hym in the werkis of his hondis,
that he were maad as the hows of Jeroboam,
for this cause he slew&yogh; hym, that
is, Yau, the sone of Anany, the prophete.
8 The sixe and twentithe &yogh;eer of Asa, the
kyng of Juda, regnede Hela, the sone of
Baasa, vpon Yrael, in Tharsa, two &yogh;eer.
9 And a&yogh;ens hym rebellid Zamry, his seruaunt,
duyk of the half partie of the
horsmen; forsothe Hela was in Tharsa,
drynkynge and drunken in the hows of
Arsa, prefect of Tharsa.
10 Thanne Zamry
fallinge on smoot, and slew&yogh; hym, the
seuen and twentith &yogh;eer of Asa, kyng of
-- --
Jude; and he regnyde for hym.
11 And
whanne he hadde regned, and sitten vpon
his see, he smoot al the hows of Baasa,
and he lafte not of yt a pisser to the wal,
and `the kynne, and the freendis of hym.
12 And Zamri dide aweye al the hows of
Baasa, after the word of the Lord, that
he hadde spoken to Baasa, in the hoond
of Yau,
13 the prophete, for alle the synnes
of Baasa, and the synnes of Hela, his
sone, the whiche synneden, and maden
Israel to synne, terrynge the Lord God
of Israel in her vanitees.
14 The remenaunt
forsothe of the wordis of Hela, and alle
thingis that he dide, whether not thes
ben writin in the boke of the wordis of
the dais of the kyngis of Israel?
15 The
seuen and twentithe &yogh;eer of Asa, kyng
of Juda, regnede Zamri seuen dais in
Tharsa; forsothe an oost besegide Jebethon,
the citee of Philistees.
16 And
whanne it hadde herde Zamri to han
rebellid, and to han sleyn the king, al
Israel made to hem a kyng Amry, that
was prince of the chyualri vpon Israel, in
that dai, in the tentis.
17 Thanne Amri
stiede vp, and al Israel with him, fro
Jebethon, and segiden Tharsa.
18 Forsothe
Zamri seynge, that the cite was to be
ouercomen, he wente in to the paleis,
and brende vp him self with the kingis
hous;
19 and is deed in his synnes that he
synnede, doynge yuel before the Lord,
and goynge in the weye of Jeroboam,
and in the synnes of hym, by the whiche
he made Yrael to synne.
20 The remnaunt
forsothe of the wordis of Zamry, and of
the spies of him, and of the tyraundise,
whethir thes ben not writyn in the book
of the wordis of the dais of the kyngys
of Yrael?
21 Thanne the puple of Irael is
deuydid in two parties; the half partye
of the puple folwide Thebny, the sone of
-- --
Jeneth, that he ordeyne hym kyng, and
the half parti Amry.
22 Forsothe the puple
that was with Amry hadde the
ouerhoond ouer the puple that folwide
Thebny, the sone of Jeneth; and Thebny
is deed, and Amry regnede.
23 The oon
and thretty &yogh;eer of Asa, kyng of Juda,
regnede Amry vpon Yrael, twelue &yogh;eer;
in Tharsa he regnede sixe &yogh;eer.
24 And he
bou&yogh;te the hille of Samarye of Somer for
two talentis of siluer, and he beeldide
it; and he clepide the name of the citee,
that he bieldide vp, by the name of
Somer, that is, the hil of the Lord, or
the hil of Samarye.
25 Forsothe Amry dide
yuel in the si&yogh;t of the Lord, and he
wro&yogh;te wickidly, ouer alle that weren
before hym.
26 And he wente in al the
weye of Jeroboam, the sone of Nabath,
and in the synnes of hym, bi the whiche
he made Irael to synne, that he terre the
Lord God of Irael in his vanitees.
27 The
remnaunt forsothe of the wordis of Amry,
and the batailis of hym, that he dide,
whether not thes ben wryten in the book
of the wordis of the dais of the kyngis
of Irael?
28 And Amry slepte with his
faders, and is biried in Samarye; and
Achab, his sone, regnede for hym.
29 Achab
forsothe, the sone of Amry, regnede on
Irael the ei&yogh;t and threttithe &yogh;eer of Asa,
kyng of Juda; and Achab, the sone of
Amry, regnede vpon Irael, in Samarie,
two and twenti &yogh;eer.
30 And Achab, the
sone of Amry, dide yuel in the si&yogh;t
of the Lord, ouer alle that weren before
hym;
31 ne it suffiside to hym that he &yogh;ede
in the synnes of Jeroboam, the sone of
Naaboth, but `more ouere he weddide
a wijf, Jezabel, the dou&yogh;ter of Methaal,
kyng of Sydonyes; and he wente, and
seruede to Baal, and honourde hym.
32 And
he sette an auter of Baal in the temple
of Baal, that he hadde beeldid vp in Samarye,
-- --
33 and he plauntide a maumet
wode; and Achab addide in his werke,
terrynge the Lord God of Yrael, ouer
alle the kyngis of Irael that weren before
hym.
34 In the dais forsothe of hym Ahiel
of Bethel beeldide vp Jericho; in Abiram,
his fyrst goten, he foundide it, and in
Segub, his last, he sette the &yogh;atis of it,
after the word of the Lord, that he hadde
spokyn in the hoond of Josue, the sone
of Nun.
Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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