Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XVII.
Iosaphat succeding in the kingdom preuaileth in battel agaynst the king of Israel. 6. destroyeth Idolaters, and sendeth Priestes and Leuites to instruct the
people. 11. The Philistians and Arabians send presentes to king Iosaphat. 13. the leaders of the armie and souldiars are numbred.
1 And Iosaphat his sonne reigned for him, & grew strong
agaynst Israel.
2 And he appoynted numbers of souldiars
in al the cities of Iuda, that were compassed with walles.
And he placed garrisons in the land of Iuda, and in the cities
of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
3 And our
Lord was with Iosaphat, because he walked in the first waies
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Iosaphat.
of Dauid his father: and he trusted not in Baalim,
4 but in
the God of his father, and went forward in his preceptes,
and not according to the sinnes of Israel.
5 And our Lord
confirmed the kingdom in his hand, and al Iuda gaue giftes
to Iosaphat: and there grew to him infinite riches, and much
glorie.
6 And when his hart had taken courage note for the
waies of our Lord, he tooke away also the Excelses and
groues out of Iuda.
7 And in the third yeare of his kingdom,
he sent of his princes Benhail, and Abdias, and Zacharias,
and Nathanael, and Micheas, that they should teach in the
cities of Iuda:
8 and with them Leuites, Semeias, and Nathanias,
and Zabadias, Asael also, and Semiramoth, and Ionathan,
and Adonias and Tobias, and Thobadonias Leuites,
and with them Elisama, and Ioram Priestes.
9 And they
taught the people in Iuda, hauing the booke of the law of
our Lord: and they went about al the cities of Iuda, and instructed
the people.
10 Therfore the dread of our Lord came
vpon al the kingdomes of the landes, that were round about
Iuda, neither durst they make battel agaynst Iosaphat.
11 Yea
and the Philistians brought giftes to Iosaphat, and tribute
of siluer, the Arabians also brought cattel, of rammes seuen
thousand seuen hundred, and buckegoates as manie.
12 Iosaphat
therfore grewe, and was magnified on high: and he
built in Iuda houses like to toures, and walled cities.
13 And
he prepared manie workes in the cities of Iuda: there were
also men of warre, and valiant in Ierusalem,
14 of whom this
is the number by the houses and families of euerie one: In
Iuda princes of the armie, Ednas duke, and with him most
valiant men three hundred thousand.
15 After him Iohanan
the prince, and with him two hundred eightie thousand.
16 After him also Amasias the sonne of Zechri, consecrated
to our Lord, and with him two hundred thousand of valiant
men.
17 Him followed Eliada valiant to battels, and with
him of them that held bow & shield two hundred thousand.
18 After this man also Iozabad, and with him an hundred
eightie thousand readie souldiars.
19 Al these were at the hand
of the king, beside others, whom he had put in walled cities,
in al Iuda.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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