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. XXXII.
Sennacherib king of Assyria inuading Iuda, king Ezechias encorageth the
people, and prouideth to defend the countrie. 9. the Assyrians threaten
the people, and blaspheme God. 20. Ezechias and Isaias pray. 21. An
Angel destroyeth the Assyrians armie, so their king retiring home, is slayne
in his idols temple, by his owne sonnes. 22. Ezechias reigneth in peace, 24.
falleth into deadlie sicknes, but miraculously recouereth, offendeth in pryde,
and repenteth. 27. is exceding rich, which he imprudently sheweth to
strangers: 32. dieth, and Manasses succedeth.
1 After which thinges, and note this maner of truth, came
Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians, and entering
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Ezechias.
into Iuda, besieged the fensed cities, desirous to take them.
2 Which when Ezechias had sene, to witte, that Sennacherib
was come, and the whole force of the battel to be turned
agaynst Ierusalem,
3 taking counsel with the princes, and
the most valiant men, to stoppe vp the heades of the fountaynes,
that were without the citie: and the sentence of them al
decreing this,
4 he gathered a very great multitude, & they
stopped vp al the fountaynes, and the riuer, that ranne in the
middes of the land, saying: Lest the kinges of the Assyrians
come, and finde abundance of waters.
5 He built also
doing industriously euerie wall that had bene destroyed, and
built towers vpon them, and an other wall without: and he
repayred Mello in the citie of Dauid, and made armour and
shildes of al sortes:
6 And he appointed princes of warryers
in the armie: and he called them al together in the streate of
the gate of the citie, and spake to their hart, saying:
7 Doe
manfully, and take courage: feare not, neither dread ye the
king of the Assyrians, and al the multitude, that is with him:
for there are manie moe with vs, then with him.
8 For with
him is an arme of flesh: with vs the Lord our God, which is
our helper, and fighteth for vs. And the people was encouraged
with these maner of wordes of Ezechias the king of
Iuda.
9 Which thinges after they were done, Sennacherib
the king of the Assyrians sent his seruantes to Ierusalem (for
himself with al his armie beseiged Lachis) to Ezechias the
king of Iuda, & to al the people, that was in the citie, saying:
10 Thus sayth Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians: In
whom hauing affiance, doe you sitte besieged in Ierusalem?
11 Hath Ezechias deceiued you, to deliuer you to death in
hunger and thirst, affirming that the Lord your God can deliuer
you from the hand of the king of the Assyrians?
12 Why,
is not this Ezechias, that hath destroyed his excelses, and altars,
and hath commanded Iuda & Ierusalem, saying: Before
one altar you shal adore, and on it you shal burne incense?
13 Are you ignorant what thinges I haue done, and my fathers
to al the peoples of the landes? haue the goddes of nations,
and of al landes bene able to deliuer their countrie out of my
hand?
14 Who is there of al the goddes of the nations, which
my fathers wasted, that could deliuer his people out of my
hand, that your God also can deliuer you out of this hand?
15 Let not therfore Ezechias deceiue you, nor delude you
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Ezechias.
with vayne persuasion, neither beleue ye him. For if no god
of al nations and kingdomes, could deliuer his people out of
my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers, consequently
neither shal your God be able to deliuer you out of my hand.
16 Yea and manie other thinges did his seruantes speake,
agaynst our Lord God, and agaynst Ezechias his seruant.
17 Letters also he wrote ful of blasphemie against our Lord the
God of Israel, and he spake agaynst him: as the goddes of
their nations could not deliuer their people out of my hand,
so the God also of Ezechias can not deliuer his people out of
this hand.
18 Moreouer also with a lowd crie, in the Iewes
tongue, he sounded against the people, that sate on the walles
of Ierusalem, that he might terrifie them, and take the citie.
19 And he spake agaynst the God of Ierusalem, as agaynst the
goddes of the peoples of the earth, the workes of mens handes.
20 Ezechias therfore the king, and Isaias the prophet the
sonne of Amos, prayed agaynst this blasphemie, and cried out
euen to heauen.
21 And our Lord sent an Angel, which stroke
euerie strong man, and warryer, and prince of the armie of
the king of the Assyrians: and he returned with ignominie
into his countrie. And when he was entered into the house
of his God, his sonnes that were come forth of his wombe,
slewe him with the sword.
22 And our Lord saued Ezechias
and the inhabitantes of Ierusalem, out of the hand of Sennacherib
the king of the Assyrians, and out of the hand of al,
& gaue them rest round about.
23 Manie also brought hostes,
and sacrifices to our Lord into Ierusalem, and giftes to Ezechias
the king of Iuda: who was exalted after these thinges
before al nations.
24 In those daies Ezechias was sick euen
to death, and he prayed our Lord: and he heard him, and gaue
him a signe.
25 But not according to the benefites, which he
receiued, did he recompense, note because his hart was eleuated:
and wrath came agaynst him, and agaynst Iuda and Ierusalem.
26 And he was humbled afterward, because his hart had
bene exalted, both he and the inhabitantes of Ierusalem: and
therfore the wrath of our Lord came not vpon them in the
daies of Ezechias.
27 And Ezechias was rich, and glorious excedingly
and gathered to himself great treasures of siluer and
of gold, and of pretious stone, of spices, and of armour of al
kinde, and of vessels of great price.
28 Storehouses also of
corne, of wyne, and of oyle, and stalles of al beastes, and
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Manasses.
foldes of cattel,
29 and six cities he built to him self: for he had
flockes of sheepe, and of heardes innumerable, because our
Lord had geuen him substance exceding much.
30 The same
is Ezechias, that stopped the vpper fountaine of the waters
of Gihon, and turned them away vnderneth toward the West
of the Citie of Dauid: in al his workes he did prosperously
what he would.
31 But yet in the embassie of the princes of
Babylon, that were sent to him, to aske of the wonder, that
had chanced vpon the earth, God leift him that he might be
tempted, and al thinges might be made knowen, that were in
his hart.
32 But the rest of the wordes of Ezechias, and of his
mercies are writen in the vision of Isaias the sonne of Amos
the prophete, and in the booke of the kinges of Iuda & Israel.
33 And Ezechias slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
the chiefe sepulchres of the children of Dauid: and al Iuda
celebrated his funeralles, & al the inhabitantes of Ierusalem:
and Manasses his sonne reigned for him.
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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