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Matthew's Bible 1537
| 7:1 | And the men of Kariathiarim came & set vp the arcke of the Lord & brought it into the house of Abinadab in Gabaah, & sanctified Eleazar hys sonne to wayte vpon the arcke of the Lorde. |
| 7:2 | And whyle the arcke abode in Kariathiarim, the dayes multyplyed, that it was twentye yeares, & all Israel lamented after the Lorde. |
| 7:3 | And Samuel spake vnto al Israel, saying: yf ye become agayne vnto the Lorde wyth al youre hertes, then put awaye the straunge Goddes from among you, & Astharoth, & prepare your hertes vnto the Lorde, & serue hym alone, & so shal he rydde you out of the handes of the Philistines. |
| 7:4 | And then the chyldren of Israel, did put awaye Baalim and Astaroth, & serued the Lorde onelye. |
| 7:5 | Then sayd Samuel: gather al Israel to Mazphah, that I maye pray for you vnto the Lorde. |
| 7:6 | And they gathered together to Mazphah, & drue water & poured it out before the Lorde, & fasted the same daye, & sayde there: we haue synned agaynst the Lord. And Samuel iudged the causes of the chyldren of Israel in Mazphah. |
| 7:7 | When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mazphah, the Lordes of the Philistynes went vp agaynste Israel. And when the chyldren of Israel heard that, they were afraid of the Philistines |
| 7:8 | & sayd to Samuel: cease not to crye vnto the Lorde oure God for vs, that he maye saue vs out of the handes of the Philistines. |
| 7:9 | And Samuel toke a suckyng lambe & offered it all together for a burntofferyng, vnto the Lorde, and cryed vnto the Lord for Israel: & the Lorde hearde him. |
| 7:10 | And as Samuel offered the burntofferyng, the Philistines came to fyght agaynst Israel. But the Lorde thundered a great thunder that same daye vpon the Philistines, & turmoyled them, that they were beaten before Israel. |
| 7:11 | And the men of Israel issued out of Mazphah & pursued the Philistines & slue them, vntil they came vnder Bethcar. |
| 7:12 | And then Samuel toke a stone, & pitched it betwene Mazphah & Sen, & called the name therof the stone of help, saying: thus farre hath the Lorde holp vs. |
| 7:13 | And so the Philistines were broughte vnder that they came no more into the coastes of Israell: for the hande of the Lorde was vpon the Philistines all the dayes of Samuel. |
| 7:14 | Therto the cityes which the Philistines had taken from Israel, came again to Israel, euen from Acaron to Geth, with the coastes of the same, which Israel plucked out of the handes of the Philistines For there was peace betwene Israell & the Amorites. |
| 7:15 | And Samuel iudged Israel all the dayes of hys lyfe, |
| 7:16 | & went about yere by yere, to Bethel Galgal & Mazphah, and iudged Israel in all those places, |
| 7:17 | & came agayne to Ramath: for there was hys house, and there he iudged Israell, & there he buylt an aultare vnto the Lorde. |
Matthew's Bible 1537
The Matthew Bible, also known as Matthew's Version, was first published in 1537 by John Rogers, under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew". It combined the New Testament of William Tyndale, and as much of the Old Testament as he had been able to translate before being captured and put to death, with the translations of Myles Coverdale as to the balance of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, except the Apocryphal Prayer of Manasses. It is thus a vital link in the main sequence of English Bible translations.