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. IX.
Other nations fearing Israel ioyne their forces to fight against them, 3. but the
Gabaonites send embassadors, feyning craftily to come farre of, 14. with
whom Iosue and the ancientes of Israel make league binding it by
oath. 16. within three dayes they are detected to be nere inhabitantes.
VVherupon the people murmur against their princes. VVho yet for their
oath, let the Gabaonites liue. 20. only making them and their progenie
perpetual seruantes, to cutte wood, and carie water.
1 VVhich thinges being heard, al the kinges beyond
Iordan, that dwelt in the mountaines and champion
countries, in the places by the sea side and the shore of
the great sea, they also that dwelt beside Libanus, the Herheite
and Amorreite, the Chananeite, the Pherezeite, and
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Gabaonites made seruantes.
the Heueite, and the Iebus eite,
2 were gathered, to fight
against Iosue and Israel with one minde, and one sentence.
3 But they that dwelt in Gabaon, hearing al thinges that
Iosue had done to Iericho and Hai:
4 subtelly deuising tooke
prouision for them selues, laying old sackes vpon their asses,
and bottels of wine rent and sowed againe,
5 and shoes very
old which for a shew of oldenesse were clouted with speckes,
putting on them old garmentes: the loaues also, which they
caried for prouision by the way, were heard, and broken into
peeces:
6 and they went on to Iosue, who then abode in
the campe at Galgal, and said to him, and withal to al Israel:
We are come from a farre countrie, desirous to make peace
with you. And the children of Israel answered them, and said:
7 Lest perhaps you dwel in the Land which is dew to vs by
lotte, and we can not enter a league with you.
8 But they said
to Iosue: We are thy seruantes. To whom Iosue said: Who
are you? and whence came you?
9 they answered: From a
very farre countrie are thy seruantes come in the name of
the Lord thy God. For we haue heard the fame of his might,
al thinges that he did in Ægypt,
10 and to the two kinges of
the Amorrheites that were beyond Iordan, Sehon the king
of Hesebon, and Og the king of Basan, that were in Astaroth:
11 and our ancientes, and al the inhabitantes of our
Land said to vs: Take in your handes victuals for a very long
way, and goe meete them, and say: We are your seruantes,
enter a league with vs.
12 Behold, these loaues we tooke
hotte, when we departed from our houses to come to you,
now they are become drie, and broken for ouer much oldenesse.
13 the bottels of wine we filled being new, now they
are burst & dissolued. The garmentes and shoes that we haue
vpon vs, and which we haue on our feete, for the length of
the long way are worne, and almost consumed.
14 They tooke
therfore of their victuals, and note asked not the mouth of our
Lord.
15 And Iosue made peace with them, and entring a
league promised that they should not be slaine: the princes
also of the multitude sware to them.
16 But three daies after
that the league was made, they heard that they dwelt nigh,
and they should be among them.
17 And the children of Israel
remoued the campe, and came into their cities the third day,
whose names are these, Gabaon, and Chaphira, and Beroth,
and Chariathiarim.
18 And they stroke them not, because
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Gabaonites made seruantes.
the princes of the multitude had sworne in the name of our
Lord the God of Israel. Therfore al the common people
murmured against the princes,
19 Who answered them: We
haue sworne to them in the name of our Lord the God of
Israel, and therfore we may not touch them.
20 But this we
wil doe to them: Let them be reserued in dede aliue, lest the
wrath of God be stirred against vs, if we shal be forsworne:
21 but so let them liue, that for the vses of the whole multitude
they hew wood, and carie in water. Who speaking these
thinges,
22 Iosue called the Gabaonites, and said to them:
Why would you deceiue vs by fraude to say: We dwel very
farre of from you, wheras you are in the middes of vs?
23 Therfore you shal be vnder a curse, and there shal not faile
of your stocke a hewer of wood, and a carier of water into
the house of my God.
24 Who answered: It was told vs thy
seruantes, that the Lord thy God had promised Moyses his
seruant, that he would deliuer you al the Land, and would
destroy al the inhabitantes therof. Therfore we feared excedingly
and prouided for our liues, c&obar;pelled by your terrour,
and we tooke this counsel.
25 And now we are in thy hand:
that which seemeth vnto thee good and right, doe to vs.
26 Iosue therfore did as he had said, and deliuered them from
the hand of the children of Israel, that they should not be
slaine.
27 And he decreed in that day, that note they should be in
the ministerie of al the people, and of the altar of our Lord,
hewing wood, and carying water, vntil this present time, in
the place which our Lord hath chosen.
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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