Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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CAP. XII.
1 Forsothe Roboam cam in to Sichem;
for al Israel was gaderid thidur to make
hym kyng.
2 `And sotheli Jeroboam, sone
of Nabath, whanne he was &yogh;it in Egipt,
and fledde fro the face of kyng Salomon,
turnede a&yogh;en fro Egipt, for the deeth of
Salomon was herd;
3 and thei senten, and
clepiden hym. Therfor Jeroboam cam, and
al the multitude of Israel, and thei spaken
to Roboam,
4 and seiden, Thi fadir puttide
hardeste &yogh;ok on vs, therfor abate thou a
litil now of the hardest comaundement of
thi fadir, and of the greuousiste &yogh;ok which
he puttide on vs, and we schulen serue
to thee.
5 Which Roboam seide to hem,
Go &yogh;e `til to the thridde dai, and turne &yogh;e
a&yogh;en to me.
6 And whanne the puple hadde
go, kyng Roboam took counsel with the
eldere men, that stoden bifor Salomon,
his fadir, while he lyuyde &yogh;it; and Roboam
seide, What counsel &yogh;yue &yogh;e to me,
that Y answere to the puple?
7 Whiche
seiden to hym, If thou obeiest to dai to
this puple, and seruest this puple, and
&yogh;yuest stide to her axyng, and spekist to
hem li&yogh;te wordis, thei schulen be seruauntis
to thee in alle daies.
8 Which Roboam
forsook the counsel of elde men,
which thei &yogh;auen to hym, and took
&yogh;onge note men, that weren nurschid with
hym, and stoden ny&yogh; him;
9 and he seide
to hem, What counsel &yogh;yue &yogh;e to me, that
Y answere to this puple, that seiden to
me, Make thou esyere the &yogh;ok which thi
fadir puttide on vs?
10 And the &yogh;onge men,
that weren nurschid with hym, seiden to
hym, Thus speke thou to this puple, that
spaken to thee, and seiden, Thi fadir made
greuouse oure &yogh;ok, releeue thou vs; thus
-- --
thou schalt speke to hem, My leest fyngur
is grettere note than the bak of my fader;
11 and now my fadir puttide on &yogh;ou a greuouse
&yogh;ok, forsothe Y schal adde on &yogh;oure
&yogh;ok; my fadir beet &yogh;ou with scourgis,
forsothe Y schal bete &yogh;ou with scorpiouns note.
12 Therfor Jeroboam, and al the
puple, cam to Roboam, in the thridde dai,
as the kyng spak, seiynge, Turne &yogh;e a&yogh;en
to me in the thridde dai.
13 And the kyng
answeride harde thingis to the puple,
while the counsel of eldere men was forsakun,
which thei hadden &yogh;oue to hym;
14 and he spak to hem bi the counsel of
&yogh;onge men, and seide, My fadir made
greuouse &yogh;oure &yogh;ok, forsothe Y schal adde
to &yogh;oure &yogh;ok; my fadir beet &yogh;ou with
scourgis, forsothe Y schal bete &yogh;ou with
scorpiouns.
15 And the kyng assentide not
to the puple, for the Lord hadde turned
awey, `ether hadde wlatid hym, that
the Lord schulde reise his word, which
he hadde spoke in the hond of Ahias of
Silo to Jeroboam, sone of Nabath.
16 Therfor
the puple si&yogh;, that the kyng nolde
here hem; and the puple answeride to the
kyng, and seide, What part is to vs in
Dauid, ether what eritage in the sone of
Ysay? Israel, turne thou a&yogh;en in to thi
tabernaclis; now, Dauid, se thou thin
hows. And Israel &yogh;ede in to hise tabernaclis.
17 Forsothe Roboam regnede on the
sones of Israel, whiche euere dwelliden
in the citees of Juda.
18 Therfore kyng Roboam
sente Adhuram note, that was on the
tributis; and al the puple of Israel stonyde
hym, and he was deed.
19 Forsothe kyng
Roboam stiede hastili on the chare, and
fledde in to Jerusalem; and Israel departide
fro the hows of Dauid, til in to present
dai.
20 Forsothe it was doon, whanne
al Israel hadde herd that Jeroboam turnede
a&yogh;en, thei senten, and clepiden hym,
whanne the cumpany was gaderid togidere,
-- --
and thei maden hym kyng on al
Israel; and no man suede the hows of
Dauid, outakun the lynage aloone of Juda.
21 Forsothe Roboam cam to Jerusalem, and
gaderide al the hows of Juda, and the
lynage of Beniamyn, an hundrid and
fourescore thousynde of chosun men and
weriours, that thei schulden fi&yogh;te a&yogh;ens
the hows of Israel, and schulden brynge
a&yogh;en the rewme to Roboam, sone of Solomon.
22 Forsothe the word of God was
made to Semeia, the man of God, and
seide,
23 Speke thou to Roboam, sone of Salomon,
the kyng of Juda, and to al the
hows of Juda and of Beniamyn, and to
the residue of the puple, and seie thou,
The Lord seith thes thingis,
24 &YOGH;e schulen
not stie, nether &yogh;e schulen fi&yogh;te a&yogh;ens
&yogh;oure britheren, the sones of Israel; `a
man turne a&yogh;en in to his hows, for this
word is doon of me. Thei herden the
word of the Lord, and thei turneden a&yogh;en
fro the iurney, as the Lord comaundide to
hem.
25 Forsothe Jeroboam bildide Sichem,
in the hil of Effraym, and dwellide there;
and he &yogh;ede out fro thennus, and bildide
Phanuel.
26 And Jeroboam seide in his herte,
Now the rewme schal turne a&yogh;en to the
hows of Dauid,
27 if this puple stieth to
Jerusalem, that it make sacrifices in the
hows of the Lord in Jerusalem; and the
herte of this puple schal turne to her
lord, Roboam, kyng of Juda; and thei
schulen sle me, and schulen turne a&yogh;en to
hym.
28 And by counsel thou&yogh;t out, he
made tweyne goldun caluys, and seide to
hem, Nyle &yogh;e stie more in to Jerusalem;
Israel, lo! thi goddis, that ledden thee
out of the lond of Egipt.
29 And he settide
oon in Bethel, and the tother in
Dan.
30 And this word was maad to Israel
in to synne; for the puple &yogh;ede til in to
Dan, to worschipe the calf.
31 And Jeroboam
made templis in hi&yogh;e placis, and `he
-- --
made preestis of the laste men note of the
puple, that weren not of the sones of
Leuy.
32 And he ordeynede a solempne dai
in the ei&yogh;the monethe, in the fiftenthe dai
of the monethe, bi the licnesse of solempnyte
which was halewid in Juda.
And he stiede, and made in lijk maner
an auter in Bethel, that he schulde offre
to the calues, whiche he hadde maad; and
he ordeynede in Bethel preestis of the
hi&yogh;e places, whiche he hadde maad.
33 And
he styede on the auter, which he hadde
bildid in Bethel, in the fiftenthe day of
the ei&yogh;the monethe, which he hadde feyned
of his herte; and he made solempnyte
to the sones of Israel, and he stiede on
the auter, that he schulde brenne encence note.
Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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