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The Great Bible 1539
| 20:1 | And it came to passe, that after the yere was expyred (aboute the tyme that kynges go out a warrefare.) Ioab caryed out the armye of the hoste, and destroyed the contreye of the chyldren of Ammon, & came, & beseged Rabba, & destroyed it: But Dauid taryed at Ierusalem whyle Ioab smote Rabba and destroyed it: |
| 20:2 | And Dauid toke the croune of their kynge: from of hys heed, & founde that it had the wayght of a talent of golde, and there were preciouse stones in it, and it was ordeyned for Dauids heed. And he brought also exceadynge moche spoyle out of the cytie. |
| 20:3 | And he brought out the people that were in it, and tormented them with sawes and harowes of yron, and with other sharpe instrumentes, and so dealte Dauid with all the cyties of the chyldren of Ammon. And Dauid & all the people came agayne to Ierusalem. |
| 20:4 | After this it fortuned, that there arose warre at Gazer with the Philistines. At which tyme Sobocai the Husathite slue Sippai, that was of the chyldren of Rephaim, and they were subdewed. |
| 20:5 | And there was battell agayne with the Philistines, and Elhanan the sonne of Iair, slue Lahemi the brother of Goliath the Gethite, whose speare was lyke a weauers beame. |
| 20:6 | And there chaunced yet agayne warre at Geth, where as was a man of a great stature wt .xxiiii. fyngers, & toes .vi. on euery hande, and .vi. on euery fote, & was the sonne of Raphah. But whan he defyed Israel, |
| 20:7 | Iehonathan the sonne of Simea Dauids brother slue hym. |
| 20:8 | These were borne vnto Raphah at Geth, & were ouerthrowen in the hande of Dauid, & in the hande of his seruauntes. |
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."