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Lord, bow downe thine eare, and heare: open, Lord, thine eyes; and see: and heare the words of Sennacherib which hath sent him to reproch the liuing God.

Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, saue thou vs out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know, that thou art the Lord God, euen thou onely.

Then Isaiah the sonne of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to mee against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I haue heard.

And it came to passe as hee was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adramelech, and Sharezer his sonnes, smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia, and Esarhaddon his sonne reigned in his stead.

Turne againe, and tell Hezekiah the captaine of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Dauid thy father, I haue heard thy prayer, I haue seene thy teares: behold, I will heale thee; on the third day thou shalt goe vp vnto the house of the Lord.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such euill vpon Ierusalem and Iudah, that whosoeuer heareth of it, both his eares shall tingle.

And he forsooke the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.

And she said vnto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me;

But to the king of Iudah which sent you to enquire of the Lord, Thus shall yee say to him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, as touching the woordes which thou hast heard:

And as Iosiah turned himselfe, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, & tooke the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them vpon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

Then hee said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Iudah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.

And the King commanded all the people saying, Keepe the Passeouer vnto the Lord your God, as it is written in this booke of the Couenant.

And Iabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest blesse mee indeede, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might bee with me, and that thou wouldest keepe mee from euill, that it may not grieue me. And God granted him that which he requested.

And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were deliuered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battell, and he was intreated of them, because they put their trust in him.

For there fell downe many slaine, because the warre was of God. And they dwelt in their steads vntil the captiuity.

And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the Gods of the people of the land, whome God destroyed before them.

And the God of Israel stirred vp the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he caried them away (euen the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh:) & brought them vnto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the riuer Gozan, vnto this day.

Their brethren also the Leuits were appointed vnto all maner of seruice of the Tabernacle of the house of God.

But Aaron, and his sonnes offered vpon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the worke of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the seruant of God had commaunded.

span data-lang="eng" data-trans="kja" data-ref="1ch.6.1" class="versetxt"> The sonnes of Leui: Gershon, Kohath & Merari. And the sonnes of Kohath: Amram, Izahar, & Hebron, & Uzziel. And the children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sonnes also of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Eleazar begate Phinehas, Phinehas begate Abishua. And Abishua begate Bukki, and Bukki begate Uzzi, And Uzzi begate Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begate Meraioth, Meraioth begate Amariah, and Amariah begate Ahitub, And Ahitub begate Zadok, and Zadok begate Ahimaaz, And Ahimaaz begate Azariah, and Azariah begate Iohanan, And Iohanan begate Azariah, (hee it is that executed the Priests office, in the temple that Solomon built in Ierusalem) And Azariah begate Amariah, and Amariah begate Ahitub, And Ahitub begate Zadok, and Zadok begate Shallum, And Shallum begate Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begate Azariah, And Azariah begate Seraiah, and Seraiah begate Iehozadak, And Iehozadak went into captiuitie, when the Lord caried away Iudah and Ierusalem by the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar. The sonnes of Leui: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. And these be the names of the sonnes of Gershom: Libni, & Shimei. And the sonnes of Kohath were: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. The sonnes of Merari: Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Leuites, according to their fathers. Of Gershom: Libni his sonne, Iahath his sonne, Zimmah his sonne, Ioah his sonne, Iddo his sonne, Zerah his sonne, Ieaterai his sonne, The sonnes of Kohath: Amminadab his sonne, Korah his sonne, Assir his sonne, Elkanah his sonne, and Ebiasaph his sonne, and Assir his sonne, Tahath his sonne, Uriel his sonne, Uzziah his sonne, and Shaul his sonne. And the sonnes of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth. As for Elkanah: the sonnes of Elkanah, Zophai his sonne, and Nahath his sonne, Eliab his sonne, Ieroham his sonne, Elkanah his sonne. And the sonnes of Samuel: the first borne Uashni, and Abiah. The sonnes of Merari: Mahli, Libni his sonne, Shimei his sonne, Uzza his sonne, Shimea his sonne, Haggiah his sonne, Asaiah his sonne. And these are they, whom Dauid set ouer the seruice of song in the house of the Lord, after that the Arke had rest. And they ministred before the dwelling place of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, with singing, vntill Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Ierusalem: and then they waited on their office, according to their order. And these are they that waited with their children of the sonnes of the Kohathites, Heman a singer: the sonne of Ioel, the sonne of Shemuel, The sonne of Elkanah, the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Eliel, the sonne of Toah, The sonne of Zuph, the sonne of Elkanah, the sonne of Mahath, the sonne of Amasai, The sonne of Elkanah, the sonne of Ioel, the sonne of Azariah, the sonne of Zephaniah, The sonne of Tahath, the sonne of Assir, the sonne of Ebiasaph, the sonne of Korah, The sonne of Izhar, the sonne of Kohath, the sonne of Leui, the sonne of Israel. And his brother Asaph (who stood on his right hand) euen Asaph the sonne of Berachiah, the sonne of Shimea, The sonne of Michael, the sonne of Baasiah, the sonne of Melchiah, The sonne of Ethni, the sonne of Zerah, the sonne of Adaiah, The sonne of Ethan, the sonne of Zimmah, the sonne of Shimei, The sonne of Iahath, the sonne of Gershom, the sonne of Leui. And their brethren the sonnes of Merari, stood on the left hand: Ethan the sonne of Kishi, the sonne of Abdi, the sonne of Malluch, The sonne of Hashabiah, the sonne of Amaziah, the sonne of Hilkiah, The sonne of Amzi, the sonne of Bani, the sonne of Shamer, The sonne of Mahli, the sonne of Mushi, the sonne of Merari, the sonne of Leui. Their brethren also the Leuits were appointed vnto all maner of seruice of the Tabernacle of the house of God. But Aaron, and his sonnes offered vpon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the worke of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the seruant of God had commaunded. And these are the sonnes of Aaron: Eleazar his sonne, Phinehas his sonne, Abishua his sonne, Bukki his sonne, Uzzi his sonne, Zerahiah his sonne, Meraioth his sonne, Amariah his sonne, Ahitub his sonne, Zadok his sonne, Ahimaaz his sonne. Now these are their dwelling places, throughout their castels in their coasts, of the sonnes of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot. And they gaue them Hebron in the land of Iudah, and the suburbes thereof round about it. But the fields of the citie, and the villages thereof, they gaue to Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh. And to the sonnes of Aaron they gaue the cities of Iudah, namely Hebron the citie of refuge, and Libna with her suburbes, and Iattir and Eshtemoa, with their suburbes, And Hilen with her suburbes, Debir with her suburbes, And Ashan with her suburbes, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbes. And out of the tribe of Beniamin, Geba with her suburbes, and Alemeth with her suburbes, Anathoth with her suburbes. All their cities throughout their families were thirteene cities. And vnto the sonnes of Rohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities giuen out of the halfe tribe, namely out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities. And to the sonnes of Gershom throughout their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteene cities. Unto the sonnes of Merari were giuen by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelue cities. And the children of Israel gaue to the Leuites these cities, with their suburbs. And they gaue by lot, out of the tribe of the children of Iudah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Beniamin, these cities, which are called by their names. And the residue of the families of the sonnes of Kohath, had cities of their coasts, out of the tribe of Ephraim. And they gaue vnto them of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim, with her suburbs: they gaue also Gezer with her suburbs, And Iokmeam with her suburbs, & Beth-horon with her suburbs,