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So they feared the Lord, and made vnto themselues of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

So these nations feared the Lord, and serued their grauen images, both their children, and their childrens children: as did their fathers, so doe they vnto this day.

He trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Iudah, nor any that were before him.

Now behold, thou trustest vpon the staffe of this bruised reed, euen vpon Egypt, on which if a man leane, it will goe into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt vnto all that trust on him.

So the seruants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for hee had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineueh.

So Hilkiah the Priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went vnto Huldah the Prophetesse, the wife of Shallum the sonne of Tikuah, the sonne of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe: now she dwelt in Ierusalem in the colledge: And they communed with her.

And he said, Let him alone: let no man moue his bones: so they let his bones alone, with the bones of the Prophet that came out of Samaria.

So Iehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Iehoiachin his sonne reigned in his stead.

So they tooke the King, and brought him vp to the King of Babylon, to Riblah, and they gaue iudgement vpon him.

And the King of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath: so Iudah was caried away out of their land.

So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies, & behold, they were written in the booke of the Kings of Israel and Iudah, who were caried away to Babylon for their transgression.

So they and their children had the ouersight of the gates of the house of the Lord, namely, the house of the Tabernacle, by wards.

Then saide Saul to his armour bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these vncircumcised come, and abuse mee: but his armour bearer would not, for he was sore afraid. So Saul tooke a sword, and fell vpon it.

So Saul died, and his three sonnes, and all his house died together.

So Saul died for his transgression which hee committed against the Lord, euen against the word of the Lord which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it:

And Dauid said, Whosoeuer smiteth the Iebusites first, shall be chiefe, and captaine. So Ioab the sonne of Zeruiah went first vp, and was chiefe.

So Dauid waxed greater and greater: for the Lord of hostes was with him.

And all the Congregation saide, that they would doe so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.