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Ioela and Sabadia the children of Ieroham of Gedor.

These were of the children of Gad, heades in the hoost, the leest ouer an hundreth, and ye greatest ouer a thousande

There came of the children of BenIamin also and of Iuda vnto the castell of Dauid.

Of the children of Simeon noble men of armes for the battayll, seuen thousande and an hudreth.

Of the children of Leui foure thousande and sixe hundreth.

Of the children of BenIamin Sauls brother, thre thousande: for vnto that time helde many of the yet with the house of Saul.

Of ye children of Ephraim, twentie thousande and eighte hundreth valeaunt men of armes, and famous in the house of their fathers.

Of the children of Isachar (which were men of vnderstondynge, whan nede requyred to knowe what Israel shulde do) two hundreth captaynes, and all their brethren folowed their worde.

And Dauid broughte the children of Aaron & the Leuites together.

Of the children of Kahath: Vriel the chefe wt his brethren, an C. and twentye.

Of the children of Merari: Asaia the chefe wt his brethre, two C. and twentye.

Of the children of Vsiel: Amminadab the chefe, with his brethren, an hudreth and twolue.

And the children of Leui bare the Arke of God the LORDE vpon their shulders with the staues theron, as Moses comaunded acordinge to ye worde of the LORDE.

Then the Leuites appoynted Heman ye sonne of Ioel: and of his brethren Assaph the sonne of Barachias: and of the children of Merari their brethren, Ethan the sonne of Cusaia:

Ye sede of Israel his seruaunt, ye children of Iacob his chosen.

for I haue dwelt in no house sence the daye that I broughte forth the children of Israel, vnto this daye: But where the Tabernacle and habitacion hath bene, there haue I bene where so euer

Then sayde Dauid: I wil do mercy vpon Hanun the sonne of Nahas, for his father dyd mercy vpon me: and so he sent messaungers to comforte him ouer his father. And wha Dauids seruauntes came in to the londe of the children of Ammon vnto Hanun to comforte him,

the prynces of the children of Ammon sayde vnto Hanun: Thinkest thou that Dauid honoureth thy father in thy sighte, that he hath sent coforters vnto the? Yee his seruauntes are come vnto the, to search and to ouerthrowe, and to spye out the londe.

Whan the childre of Ammon sawe, that they stynked in ye sighte of Dauid, both Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousande taletes of syluer, to hyre charettes and horsmen out of Mesopotamia, out of Maecha and out of Zoba:

and hyred two and thirtie thousande charettes, & ye kynge of Maecha with his people, which came & pitched their tentes before Medba. And the children of Ammon gathered them selues together out of their cities, and came to the battayll.