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The Great Bible 1539
| 10:1 | Ahab had .lxx. sonnes in Samaria. And Iehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria vnto the rulers of Iezrael, to the elders, and to them that brought vp Ahabs children, sayinge: |
| 10:2 | nowe whan thys letter commeth to you, ye that haue with you your masters sonnes, ye haue with you both charettes and horses: a strong citye haue ye also: and harnes, |
| 10:3 | loke which of your masters sonnes is best and most mete, and set hym on hys fathers seate, and fyght for youre Lordes house. |
| 10:4 | But they were exceadingly afrayde, & sayde: se, two kinges were not able to stande before hym, how shall we then be able to stande? |
| 10:5 | And he that was gouerner of Ahabs house, and he that ruled the citye, the elders also, & the tutours sent to Iehu, saieng: we are thy seruauntes, & will do all that thou shalt byd vs: we wyll make no man kynge: therfore do thou what semeth good in thine eyes. |
| 10:6 | Then he wrote another letter to them, sayinge: If ye be myne, and wyll herken vnto my voyce, then take the hedes of the men that are youre masters sonnes, and come to me to Iezrahel by to morowe thys tyme. And the kynges sonnes were .lxx. personnes, and they were with the great men of the citye, which brought them vp. |
| 10:7 | And when the letter came to them, they toke the kynges chyldren, and slue them, euen .lxx. personnes, & layed theyr heedes in baskettes, and sent them to him to Iezrahel. |
| 10:8 | And there came a messenger, and tolde hym, sayinge: they haue brought the heedes of the kynges sonnes. And he sayde: let them laye them on two heapes in the enterynge in of the gate, vntyll the mornynge. |
| 10:9 | And whan it was daye, he went out, and stode, & sayde to all the folke: ye be ryghteous. Beholde, I conspired against my master, and slue him. But who slue all these? |
| 10:10 | Lerne here, that ther shall fall vnto the erth nothyng of the worde of the Lorde, which he spake concerning the house of Ahab. For the Lord hath brought to passe the thinges that he spake by the hande of his seruaunt Elia. |
| 10:11 | And so Iehu slue all that remayned of the house of Ahab, in Iezrahel: and all that were great wt him, & his kynsfolkes and his prestes, so that he let nothing of him remayne. |
| 10:12 | And he arose, & departed, & came to Samaria. And whan Iehu was in the waye to the house where the shepherdes dyd shere their shepe, |
| 10:13 | he met wt the brethren of Ahaziahu king of Iuda, & sayde: what are ye? They answered: the brethren of Ahaziahu are we, and go downe to salute the children of the kinge and of the quene. |
| 10:14 | And he sayde: take them alyue. Whom when they had taken them alyue, they slue them at the well which was besyde the house where the shepe are shoren, euen two and fourtye men, nether left he any of them. |
| 10:15 | And when he was departed thence, he met wt Iehonadab the sonne of Rechab commynge agaynst him. And he blessed him, & sayde to hym: is thyne hert ryght, as myne hert is true wt thine? And Iehonadab answered: yea that it is, then geue me thyne hande. And whan he had geuen him his hand, he toke him vp to him into the charet, |
| 10:16 | & sayde: come wt me, & se the zeale that I haue for the Lord: & so they made him ryde in hys charet. |
| 10:17 | And when he came to Samaria, he slue all that remayned vnto Ahab in Samaria, tyll he had wypte him out, accordyng to the saying of the Lorde which he spake to Elia. |
| 10:18 | And Iehu gathered all the people together and sayd vnto them: Ahab serued Baal a lytle. But Iehu shall serue hym more. |
| 10:19 | Nowe therfore call vnto me all the prophetes of Baal all soch as serue him, & all his prestes, and let none be lackyng. For I haue a greate sacrifyce to do to Baal: & therfore, whosoeuer is myssed, he shall not lyue. But Iehu dyd it for a sutteltye, to the intent that he might destroye the seruauntes of Baal. |
| 10:20 | And Iehu sayde: Proclayme an holy conuocacyon for Baal, |
| 10:21 | and Iehu sent vnto all Israel. And all the seruauntes of Baal came, that ther was not a man lefte behynde that came not. And they came into the house of Baal, & the house of Baal was full from one ende to another. |
| 10:22 | And he sayde vnto hym that was the keper of the vestrye, bringe forth garmentes for all the seruauntes of Baal. And he brought them out garmentes. |
| 10:23 | And when Iehu went with Iehonadab the sonne of Rechab into the house of Baal, he sayde vnto the seruauntes of Baal: searche, and loke, that there be here wt you none of the seruauntes of the Lorde, but the seruauntes of Baal only. |
| 10:24 | And when they went in to offer sacrifice & burntoffringe: Iehu appoynted .lxxx. men without, & sayd: If any of the men whom I haue brought vnder youre handes, escape, he that letteth him go, shall dye for hym. |
| 10:25 | And it fortuned, that assone as he had made an ende of offering the burntsacrifyce, Iehu sayde to the men of warre and to the captaines: go in, and sleye them, let none come out. And they smote them with the edge of the swearde. And the men of warre and the captaynes cast them out, and went vnto the citye of the temple of Baal, |
| 10:26 | and fet the ymages out of the temple of Baal, and burnt them. |
| 10:27 | And they brake the ymage of Baal, & brake the house of Baal, & made a draft house of it vnto thys daye. |
| 10:28 | And so Iehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. |
| 10:29 | But from the synnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to synne: Iehu departed not, nether from folowing of them the golden calues that were in Bethel and in Dan. |
| 10:30 | And the Lorde sayde vnto Iehu: because thou hast done ryght well, in bryngynge to passe the thynge that is ryght in myne eyes, and hast done vnto the house of Ahab accordinge to all thinges that are in myne hert, therfore shall thy children vnto the fourth generacyon syt on the seate of Israel. |
| 10:31 | But Iehu cared not for this, to walke in the lawe of the Lord God of Israel with all his hert: for he departed not from the sinnes of Ieroboam, which made Israel to synne. |
| 10:32 | In those dayes the Lorde began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coastes of Israel, |
| 10:33 | from Iordan eastwarde: euen all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, the Rubenites, and them that were of Manasses, from Aroer vnto the ryuer of Arnon: euen Gilead & Basan. |
| 10:34 | The rest of the wordes that concerne Iehu & all that he dyd, and all his power, are they not written in the boke of the Chronycles of the kynges of Israel? |
| 10:35 | And Iehu slept wt hys fathers, & they buryed him in Samaria, and Iehoahaz his sonne raygned in hys steade. |
| 10:36 | And the tyme that Iehu raygned vpon Israel in Samaria, is .xxviij. yeres. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."