Jeremiah 21:2

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Aske counsayle at the Lorde we pray thee on our behalfe, for Nabuchodonozor the king of Babylon besiegeth vs: if the Lorde (peraduenture) wyll deale with vs according to his maruaylous power, and take hym from vs.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דְּרָשׁ־נָ֤א בַעֲדֵ֙נוּ֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֛י נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֥ר מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֖ל נִלְחָ֣ם עָלֵ֑ינוּ אוּלַי֩ יַעֲשֶׂ֨ה יְהוָ֤ה אוֹתָ֙נוּ֙ כְּכָל־נִפְלְאֹתָ֔יו וְיַעֲלֶ֖ה מֵעָלֵֽינוּ׃

Transliteration

dĕrāš-nāʾ for us ʾet-yhwh for nĕbûkadreʾṣṣar melek-bābel nilḥām against us; ʾûlay yaʿăśeh yhwh with us according to all-niplĕʾōtāyw and yaʿăleh from upon us.

Grammar Details

• *dĕrāš*: verb, qal imperative, masculine singular - inquire/seek
• *nāʾ*: particle - please/now
• *baʿădēnû*: preposition with 1st person plural suffix - for us/on our behalf
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *yhwh*: proper noun - the LORD
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *nĕbûkadreʾṣṣar*: proper noun - Nebuchadnezzar
• *melek*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - king
• *bābel*: proper noun - Babylon
• *nilḥām*: verb, niphal participle, masculine singular - fighting/making war
• *ʿālēnû*: preposition with 1st person plural suffix - against us
• *ʾûlay*: adverb - perhaps/maybe
• *yaʿăśeh*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - will do/make
• *ʾôtānû*: direct object marker with 1st person plural suffix - with us
• *kĕkāl*: preposition + noun, masculine, singular, construct - according to all
• *niplĕʾōtāyw*: noun, feminine, plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his wonders
• *wĕ*: conjunction - and
• *yaʿăleh*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - will go up/withdraw
• *mēʿālēnû*: preposition with 1st person plural suffix - from upon us

Word Meanings

• *dĕrāš*: inquire/seek/consult
• *nilḥām*: fighting/waging war
• *ʾûlay*: perhaps/peradventure/maybe
• *yaʿăśeh*: do/make/perform
• *niplĕʾōtāyw*: wonders/miracles/marvelous works
• *yaʿăleh*: go up/withdraw/depart

Referenced Verses

• Jer 37:3 : 3 Neuerthelesse, Zedekia the king sent Iehucall the sonne of Selemiah, and Sophoniah the sonne of Maasiah the priest, to the prophete Ieremie, saying: O pray thou vnto the Lorde our God for vs.
• Jer 37:7 : 7 Thus saith the Lorde God of Israel, This aunswere shal ye geue to the king of Iuda that sent you vnto me for counsayle: Beholde, Pharaos hoast which is come foorth to helpe you, shal returne into Egypt into his owne lande.
• Ezek 20:1-3 : 1 In the seuenth yere the tenth day of the fift moneth, certayne of the elders of Israel came for to aske counsayle at the Lorde, and sate downe before me. 2 Then came the worde of the Lorde vnto me, saying: 3 Thou sonne of man, speake vnto the elders of Israel, and say vnto them, thus saith the Lorde God, Are ye come to enquire of me? As truely as I liue I wyll not be sought of you, saith the Lorde God.
• Jer 42:4-6 : 4 Then Ieremie the prophete sayde vnto them: I haue hearde you, beholde, I wyll pray vnto God your Lorde as ye haue required me: and loke what aunswere the Lorde geueth, I shall certifie you therof, and kepe nothyng backe from you. 5 And they sayde vnto Ieremie, The Lorde be a true and faithfull witnesse betwixt vs, that we wyll do all that the Lorde thy God commaundeth vs. 6 Whether it be good or euyll, we wyll hearken vnto the voyce of the Lorde God, to whom we sende thee, that we may prosper when we haue folowed the voyce of the Lorde our God.
• Judg 20:27 : 27 And the children of Israel asked the Lord: (for there was the arke of the appoyntment of God, in those dayes:
• 1 Sam 28:6 : 6 And when Saul asked councell of the Lorde, the Lorde aunswered him not, neither by dreames, nor by Urim, nor yet by prophetes.
• 1 Sam 28:15 : 15 And Samuel said to Saul: Why hast thou vnquieted me, to make me be brought vp? Saul aunswered: I am sore encumbred, for ye Philistines make warre against me, and God is departed from me, and aunswereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreames: And therefore I haue called thee, that thou mayest tell me what I shall do.
• 1 Kgs 14:2-3 : 2 And Ieroboam saide vnto his wyfe: Up I pray thee, and disguise thy selfe, that thou be not knowen to be the wyfe of Ieroboam: and get thee to Silo, for there is Ahia the prophet which tolde me that I should be king ouer this people. 3 And take with thee ten loaues, and cracknelles, and a cruse of hony, and go to him, that he may tell thee what shall become of the childe.
• Ps 44:1-4 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a wise instruction of the sonnes of Corach. We haue hearde with our eares O Lorde: our fathers haue tolde vs what workes thou hast done in their daies in the olde tyme. 2 Howe thou hast driuen out the heathen with thy hande and planted them in: howe thou hast destroyed the nations & placed them. 3 For they gat not the lande in possession through their owne sworde: neither was it their owne arme that saued them. But thy ryght hande, and thine arme, & the lyght of thy countenaunce: because thou hadst a fauour vnto them. 4 Thou art my kyng O Lorde: commaunde that Iacob be saued.
• Ps 46:8-9 : 8 O come hither and beholde the workes of God: what distructions he hath brought vpon the earth. 9 He maketh warres to ceasse in all the worlde: he breaketh the bowe, & knappeth the speare in sunder, and burneth the charettes in the fire. 10 Be styll then, and knowe that I am the Lorde: I wyll be exalted among the heathen, I wyll be exalted in the earth. 11 The God of hoastes is with vs: the Lorde of Iacob is our refuge. Selah.
• Ps 48:4-8 : 4 For lo kinges did assemble, and passe by together: 5 they them selues sawe it, lykewyse they marueyled, they were astonyed with feare, and sodenly in haste they were gone away. 6 A feare came there vpon them and sorowe: as vpon a woman in her childe trauayle. 7 Thou didst breake the shippes of the sea: through the east wynde. 8 Lyke as we haue hearde, so haue we seene in the citie of God of hoastes: in the citie of our Lorde, God vpholdeth the same for euer. Selah.
• Ps 105:5-9 : 5 Remember the meruaylous workes that he hath done: his wonders, and the iudgementes of his mouth. 6 O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt, ye his chosen chyldren of Iacob: 7 he is God our Lord, his iudgementes are in all the earth. 8 He hath ben mindfull alwayes of his couenaunt (for he promised a worde to a thousande generations:) 9 euen of his couenaunt that he made with Abraham, and of his othe vnto Isaac. 10 And he appointed the same vnto Iacob for a law: and to Israel for an euerlasting couenaunt. 11 Saying, vnto thee I wyll geue the lande of Chanaan: the lot of your inheritaunce. 12 When they were a fewe men in number, and had ben straungers but a litle whyle in it: 13 and when they went from one nation to another, from one kingdome to another people. 14 He suffred no man to do them wrong: yea he reproued euen kynges for their sakes. 15 Touche not mine annoynted: and triumph not ouer my prophetes. 16 Moreouer he called for a famine vpon the lande: and he made all maner of foode to fayle. 17 But he had sent a man before them: euen Ioseph, who was solde to be a bonde seruaunt. 18 Whose feete they dyd hurt in the stockes: the iron entred into his soule. 19 Vntill the tyme came that his cause was knowen: the worde of the Lorde tryed hym. 20 The king sent and caused hym to be let go: yea the prince of the people opened a way foorth for hym. 21 He made him Lorde of his house: and ruler of all his substaunce. 22 That he might enfourme his princes according to his minde: and teache his senatours wysdome. 23 Israel also came into Egypt: & Iacob was a straunger in the lande of Cham. 24 And he encreased his people exceedinglye: and made them stronger then their enemies. 25 Whose heart so turned that they hated his people: and dealt subtilly with his seruauntes. 26 Then he sent Moyses his seruaunt, and Aaron whom he had chosen: 27 they did their message, workyng his signes among them, and wonders in the lande of Cham. 28 He sent darknes, & it was darke: and they went not from his wordes. 29 He turned their waters into blood: and slue their fishe. 30 Their lande brought foorth frogges: yea euen in their kinges chaumbers. 31 He spake the worde, and there came a swarme of all maner of flyes: and of lyce in all their quarters. 32 He gaue them haylestones for rayne: and flambes of fire in their lande. 33 He smote their vines also & figge trees: and he destroyed the trees that were in their coastes. 34 He spake the worde, and the grashoppers came: & caterpillers innumerable. 35 And they did eate vp all the grasse in their lande: and deuoured the fruite of their grounde. 36 He smote al the first borne in their land: euen the first fruites of all their concupiscence. 37 He also brought them foorth with siluer and golde: there was not one feeble person in their tribes. 38 Egypt was glad at their departing: for they were smytten with dread of them. 39 He spred out a cloude to be a couering: and fire to geue light in the night season. 40 The people required and he brought quayles: and he filled them with the bread of heauen. 41 He opened the rocke of stone and the waters flowed out: so that streames ranne in drye places. 42 For he remembred his holy worde: spoken vnto Abraham his seruaunt. 43 And he brought foorth his people with gladnes: and his chosen with a ioyfull noyse. 44 And he gaue them the landes of the Heathen, and they toke to inheritaunce the labours of the people. 45 To the intent that they shoulde kepe his statutes: and obserue his lawes. Prayse ye the Lorde.
• Ps 136:1-9 : 1 Confesse you it vnto the Lord, for he is gratious: and his mercy endureth for euer. 2 Confesse you it vnto the God of Gods: for his mercy endureth for euer. 3 Confesse you it vnto the Lorde of Lordes: for his mercy endureth for euer. 4 Who onlye doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for euer. 5 Who by his excellent wysdome made the heauens: for his mercy endureth for euer. 6 Who layde out the earth aboue the waters: for his mercy endureth for euer. 7 Who hath made great lightes: for his mercy endureth for euer. 8 The sunne to rule in the day: for his mercy endureth for euer. 9 The moone and the starres to gouerne in the night: for his mercy endureth for euer. 10 Who smote Egypt with their first borne: for his mercy endureth for euer. 11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for euer. 12 With a mightie hande and a stretched out arme: for his mercy endureth for euer. 13 Who deuided the red sea in partes: for his mercy endureth for euer. 14 And made Israel to passe through the myddest of it: for his mercy endureth for euer. 15 He ouerthrewe Pharao and his hoast in the red sea: for his mercy endureth for euer. 16 Who led his people through the wyldernesse: for his mercy endureth for euer. 17 Who smote great kinges: for his mercye endureth for euer. 18 And he slue mightie kynges: for his mercy endureth for euer. 19 Sihon kyng of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for euer. 20 And Og the kyng of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for euer. 21 And he gaue away their lande for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for euer. 22 For an heritage vnto Israel his seruaunt: for his mercy endureth for euer. 23 Who remembred vs when we were brought lowe: for his mercy endureth for euer. 24 And he deliuered vs from our aduersaries: for his mercy endureth for euer. 25 Who geueth foode vnto all creatures: for his mercy endureth for euer. 26 Confesse you it vnto the Lord of heauen: for his mercy endureth for euer.
• Isa 59:1-2 : 1 Beholde, the Lordes hande is not so shortened that it can not helpe, neither is his eare so stopped that it may not heare: 2 But your misdeedes haue seperated you from your God, and your sinnes hyde his face from you, that he heareth you not.
• Jer 32:17 : 17 O Lorde God, it is thou that hast made heauen and earth with thy great power and hye arme, and there is nothing hid from thee.
• Jer 32:24 : 24 Beholde, there are bulwarkes made nowe against this citie to take it, and it shalbe wonne of the Chaldees that besiege it with sworde, with hunger, and death: and looke what thou hast spoken, that same shall come vpon them, for lo all thinges are present vnto thee.
• 1 Kgs 22:3-8 : 3 (And the king of Israel sayde vnto his seruauntes: Know ye not that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we sit still, and take it not out of the hande of the king of Syria?) 4 And he sayde vnto Iehosaphat: Wilt thou come with me to battayle against Ramoth in Gilead? And Iehosaphat sayde vnto the king of Israel: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses. 5 And Iehosaphat sayde vnto the king of Israel: Aske counsel I pray thee at the worde of the Lorde to day. 6 And then the king of Israel gathered the prophetes together, vpon a foure hundred men, & sayde vnto them: Shall I go against Ramoth in Gilead to battayle, or shall I let it alone? And they sayde, Go vp: for the Lorde shall deliuer it into the handes of the king. 7 And Iehosaphat sayd: Is there here neuer a prophete of the Lord more, that we might inquire of him? 8 And the king of Israel sayde vnto Iehosaphat: There is yet one man (Michea the sonne of Iimla) by whom we may aske counsell of the Lorde: But I hate him, for he doth not prophecie good vnto me, but euyll. And Iehosaphat sayde: Let not the king say so.
• 2 Kgs 1:3 : 3 But the angell of the Lorde spake to Elias the Thesbite: Arise, and go vp against the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say vnto them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to aske counsel at Beelzebub the God of Ekrom?
• 2 Kgs 3:11-14 : 11 But Iehosaphat said: Is there not here a prophete of the Lorde, that we maye enquire of the Lord by him? And one of the king of Israels seruauntes aunswered and saide: Here is Elisa the sonne of Saphat, which powred water on the handes of Elias. 12 And Iehosaphat saide: The word of the Lorde is with him. And so the king of Israel, & Iehosaphat, and the king of Edom went downe to him. 13 And Elias saide vnto the king of Israel: What haue I to do with thee? Get thee to the prophetes of thy father, & to the prophetes of thy mother. And the king of Israel saide vnto him, Oh naye: for the Lorde hath called these three kinges together, to deliuer them into the hand of Moab. 14 And Elias saide: As the Lorde of hoastes liueth, in whose sight I stande, and it were not that I regarde the presence of Iehosaphat the king of Iuda, I would not loke towarde thee, nor yet see thee.
• 2 Kgs 22:13-14 : 13 Go ye and enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for al Iuda, concerning the wordes of this booke that is founde: For great is the wrath of the Lord that is kyndled against vs, because our fathers haue not hearkened vnto the wordes of this booke, to do according vnto al that which is written therin for vs. 14 So Helkia the hye priest and Ahikam, Achbor, and Saphan, and Asahia, went vnto Hulda the prophetisse the wyfe of Sallum the sonne of Thikua the sonne of Harhas keper of the wardrope: (which prophetisse dwelt in Hierusalem in the house of the doctrine:) & they communed with her.
• 2 Kgs 25:1-2 : 1 And it fortuned, that in the ninth yere of his raigne, the tenth day of the tenth moneth, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, he & all his hoast, against Hierusalem, and pitched against it, and made engins against it on euery syde. 2 And the citie was besieged vnto the eleuenth yere of king Zedekia.
• 2 Chr 14:9-9 : 9 And there came out against them Zarah the blacke Morian with an hoast of ten hundred thousand, & three hundred charettes, & came as farre as Maresa. 10 And Asa went out before him, and they ioyned the battaile in the valley of Zephata, beside Maresa. 11 And Asa cryed vnto the Lorde his God, and saide: Lorde, it is no harde thing with thee to helpe with many or them that haue no power: Helpe vs therfore O Lorde our God, for we trust to thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude: Thou art the Lord our God, and no man shall preuaile against thee. 12 So the Lord smote the blacke Moores before Asa and Iuda, and the blacke Moores fled. 13 And Asa & the people that was with him, folowed after them vnto Gerar: And the blacke Moores hoast was ouerthrowen, that there was none of them left, but were destroyed before the Lord and before his hoast: And they caryed away a mightie great pray.
• 2 Chr 20:1-9 : 1 After this also, it fortuned that the children of Moab and the children Ammon, & with them other of the Ammonites came against Iehosaphat to battell. 2 And there came some that told Iehosaphat, saying: There commeth a great multitude against thee from the other side of the sea, and out of Syria, and behold they be in Hasason Thamar, which is Engadi. 3 And Iehosaphat feared, & set him selfe to seke the Lorde: and proclaymed fasting throughout all Iuda. 4 And they that were in Iuda gathered the selues together to aske counsel of the Lord: And they came out of al the cities of Iuda, to make intercession to ye lord. 5 And Iehosaphat stoode betweene the congregation of Iuda & Hierusalem in the house of ye Lord before the new court, 6 And sayd: O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heauen, and raignest not thou on all the kingdomes of the Heathen, and in thyne hande is power and might, and there is no man that is able to withstande thee? 7 Art not thou our God, whiche diddest cast out the inhabiters of this lande before thy people Israel, & gauest it to the seede of Abraham thy louer for euer? 8 And they dwelt therin, and haue buylt thee a teple therin for thy name, saying: 9 If euyll come vpon vs, as the sword of iudgement, pestilence or hunger: then, if we stande before this house in thy presence (for thy name is in this house) and crye vnto thee in our tribulation, heare thou, and helpe. 10 And nowe beholde the children of Ammon and Moab, and mount Seir, by whom thou wouldest not let them of Israel go when they came out of the lande of Egypt, but they departed from them, and destroyed them not: 11 See howe they rewarde vs, to come for to cast vs out of thy possession whiche thou hast geuen vs to inherite. 12 O our God, wilt thou not iudge them? for we haue no might against this great companie that commeth against vs: neither wote we what to do, but our eyes be vnto thee. 13 And all Iuda stoode before the Lorde, with their young ones, their wiues, and their children. 14 And there was Iahaziel the sonne of Zacharia, the sonne of Banaia, the sonne of Iehiel, the sonne of Matthania, a Leuite, of the sonnes of Asaph, & vpon hym came the spirite of the Lorde euen in the middes of the congregation: 15 And he sayd, Hearken all Iuda, and ye inhabiters of Hierusalem, and thou king Iehosaphat, thus sayth the Lorde vnto you: Be not afrayd nor faynt hearted by reason of this great multitude: for the battell is not yours, but Gods. 16 To morow go ye downe against them: behold they come vp by the clift of Ziz, and ye shall finde them at the ende of the brooke before the wildernesse of Ieruel 17 Ye shall not neede to fight in this battell: but steppe foorth and stand, and beholde the helpe of the Lorde whiche is with you: feare not, nor let your heartes fayle you O ye of Iuda and of Hierusalem: To morowe go out against them for, the Lord wilbe with you. 18 And Iehosaphat bowed his face to the earth, and all Iuda and the inhabiters of Hierusalem fel before the Lord, worshipping the Lorde. 19 And the Leuites of the children of the Caathites, & of the children of the Corahites, stoode vp to prayse the Lorde God of Israel with a loud voyce on hie. 20 And when they arose early in the morning, they gat them out vnto the wildernesse of Thekoa, and as they went out, Iehosaphat stoode and sayd, Heare me O Iuda, and ye inhabiters of Hierusalem: Put your trust in the Lorde your God, that ye may be founde faythfull: Geue credence to his prophetes, and so shall ye prosper. 21 When he had consulted with the people, and set some to sing vnto the Lorde, and to prayse him in the beautie of holinesse, and to go out before the armie, and to say, Prayse the Lorde, for his mercie lasteth euer. 22 And when they began to shout and to prayse, the Lord layde ambushementes against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, whiche were come against Iuda: And they were ouerthrowen with strokes among theselues. 23 For the children of Ammon and Moab, rose against the inhabiters of mount Seir, and they slue and destroyed them: And when they had made an end of the inhabiters of Seir, euery one helped to destroy another among them selues. 24 And when Iuda came towarde Mispah in the wildernesse, they loked vnto the multitude: and beholde, they were dead carcasses fallen to the earth, and none escaped. 25 And when Iehosaphat and his people came to take away the spoyle of them, they founde among them aboundaunce of goods, rayment, & pleasaunt iewels, which they toke for them selues, more then they could cary away: so that they were three dayes in gathering of the spoyle, it was so much. 26 And the fourth day they assembled in the valley of blessing, for there they blessed the Lord: And therfore they called the name of the same place the valley of blessing, vnto this day. 27 And so all the men of Iuda and Hierusale returned with Iehosaphat their head, for to go againe to Hierusalem with gladnesse: for the Lord had made them to reioyce ouer their enemies. 28 And they came to Hierusalem with psalters and harpes, & shawmes, euen vnto the house of the Lorde. 29 And the feare of God fell on the kingdomes of all landes, when they had heard that the Lorde fought against the enemies of Israel. 30 And so the realme of Iehosaphat was in tranquillitie, and his God gaue him rest on euery side.
• 2 Chr 32:21 : 21 And the Lord sent an angel, which destroyed all the men of warre and the lordes and captaynes of the hoast of the king of the Assyrians, that he turned his face againe with shame towarde his owne lande: And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came of his owne body slue him there with the sworde.
• 1 Sam 7:10-12 : 10 And as Samuel offered the burnt offering, the Philistines came to fight against Israel: But the Lorde thundred a great thunder the same day among the Philistines, & scattered them, that they were slaine before Israel. 11 And the men of Israel went out of Mispah, and pursued the Philistines, & smote the vntill they came vnder Bethchar. 12 And then Samuel toke a stone, and pitched it betweene Mispah & Shen, and called the name thereof Eben ezer, saying: Hitherto hath the Lorde helped vs.
• 1 Sam 10:22 : 22 Therfore they asked the Lord further, if the man should yet come thyther? And the Lord aunswered: Behold he hath hyd him selfe among the stuffe.
• 1 Sam 14:6-9 : 6 And Ionathan sayd to the young man that bare his harnesse: Come, and let vs go ouer vnto the garison of these vncircumcised, it may be that the Lorde will worke with vs: for it is no hardnesse with the Lord to saue either in manie or in fewe. 7 And his harnesse bearer said vnto him, Do all that is in thyne heart: Go where it pleaseth thee, behold I am with thee as thyne heart lusteth. 8 Then sayd Ionathan: Beholde, we go ouer vnto these men, and shall shewe our selues vnto them. 9 Yf they say on this wyse to vs, Tarie vntil we come to you: then we wil stand still in our place, & not go vp vnto them. 10 But and if they say, Come vp vnto vs: then we wil go vp, for the Lorde hath deliuered them into our handes: And this shalbe a signe vnto vs. 11 And they both shewed them selues vnto the garison of the Philistines. And the Philistines sayde: See, the Hebrues come out of the holes where they had hyd them selues in. 12 And the men of the garison aunswered Ionathan & his harnesse bearer, & sayd: Come vp to vs, and we will shewe you a thing. And Ionathan sayde vnto his harnesse bearer: Come vp after me, for the Lorde hath deliuered them into the hande of Israel. 13 And Ionathan clymed vp vpon handes and feete, and his harnesse bearer after him: And they fell before Ionathan, & his harnesse bearer slue the after him. 14 And that first slaughter whiche Ionathan & his harnesse bearer made, was vpon a twentie men, within the compasse as it were about an halfe aker of land which two oxen plowe.
• 1 Sam 17:45-50 : 45 Then sayde Dauid to the Philistine: Thou commest to me with a sword, a speare, & a shielde: But I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hoastes, the God of the hoast of Israel, whom thou hast rayled vpon. 46 This day shal the Lorde close thee into my hand, and I shall smite thee, & take thyne head from thee, & will geue the carkases of the hoast of the Philistines this daye vnto the foules of the ayre, & to the beastes of the earth, that all they which be in the worlde, maye knowe that there is a God in Israel: 47 And all this congregation shal know that the Lorde saueth not with sword, & speare (For the battaile is ye Lordes) and he shall geue you into our handes. 48 And when the Philistine arose to come and drawe nye to Dauid, Dauid hasted, and ran to fight against the Philistine, 49 And Dauid put his hand in his bagge, and toke out a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone suncke into his forehead, and he fell groueling to the earth. 50 And so Dauid ouercame the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and smote the Philistine, & slue him, euen when Dauid had no sword in his hand.
• Jer 38:14-27 : 14 Then Zedekia the kyng sent, & caused Ieremie the prophete to be called vnto hym, into the thirde entrie that is in the house of the Lorde, and the kyng sayde vnto Ieremie: I wyll aske thee somewhat, but hyde nothyng fro me. 15 Then Ieremie aunswered Zedekia, If I be playne vnto thee, thou wylt cause me to suffer death: yf I geue thee counsayle, thou wylt not folowe me. 16 So the kyng swore an oth secretely to Ieremie, saying: As the Lorde liueth that made vs these soules, I wyll not slay thee, nor geue thee into the handes of them that seke after thy lyfe. 17 Then sayde Ieremie vnto Zedekia, Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel: If case be that thou wylt go foorth vnto the kyng of Babylons princes, thou shalt saue thy lyfe, and this citie shall not be brent, yea both thou and thy housholde shall escape with your lyues: 18 But yf thou wylt not go foorth to the kyng of Babylons princes, then shall this citie be deliuered into the handes of the Chaldees, which shall set fire vpon it, and thou shalt not be able to escape them. 19 And Zedekia said vnto Ieremie: I am afrayde for the Iewes that are fled vnto the Chaldees, lest I come into their handes, & so they to haue me in derision. 20 But Ieremie aunswered, No, they shall not betray thee: O hearken vnto the voyce of the Lorde I beseche thee, which I speake vnto thee, so shalt thou be well, and saue thy lyfe: 21 But yf thou wylt not go foorth, the Lorde hath tolde me this playnely, 22 Beholde, all the women that are left in the kyng of Iudas house, shalbe led foorth vnto the kyng of Babylons princes: and they shall say, thou art deceaued, and the men in whom thou didst put thy trust, haue gotten thee vnder, & set thy feete fast in the mire, and gone their way from thee. 23 Therfore all thy wyues with thy children shall they leade foorth vnto the Chaldees, and thou shalt not escape their handes: but shalt be the kyng of Babylons prisoner, and this citie shalt thou cause to be burnt. 24 Then sayde Zedekia vnto Ieremie: Loke that no body knowe of these wordes, and thou shalt not dye. 25 But yf the princes perceaue that I haue talked with thee, and come vnto thee, saying: O speake, what sayde the kyng to thee, hyde it not from vs, and we wyll not put thee to death: tell vs (we pray thee) what sayde the kyng to thee? 26 See thou geue them this aunswere: I haue humbly besought the kyng that he wyll let me lye no more in Iehonathans house, that I dye not there. 27 Then came all the princes vnto Ieremie, and asked hym: and he tolde them after the maner as the kyng bad hym. Then they helde their peace, and let hym alone: for they perceaued nothyng.
• Jer 39:1-2 : 1 Nowe when the citie of Hierusalem was taken (for in the ninth yere of Zedekia kyng of Iuda, the tenth moneth, came Nabuchodonozor the kyng of Babylon and all his hoast, and besieged Hierusalem, and fought agaynst it, 2 And in the eleuenth yere of Zedekia, in the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth, he brake into the citie)
• Jer 52:3-6 : 3 For the Lorde was angry at Hierusalem and Iuda, so long tyll he had cast them out of his presence: and Zedekiah fell from the kyng of Babylon. 4 But in the ninth yere of his raigne, in the tenth moneth, the tenth day of the moneth, it happened that Nabuchodonozor the king of Babylon, with all his hoast, came before Hierusalem, and besieged it, and made bulwarkes rounde about it. 5 And this besiegyng of the citie endured vnto the eleuenth yere of kyng Zedekiah. 6 And in the fourth moneth, the ninth day of the moneth, there was a great hunger in the citie, that there were no more victuals for the people of the lande.
• Ezek 14:3-7 : 3 Thou sonne of man, these men haue set vp their idols in their heartes, and put the stumbling blocke of iniquitie before their face: shoulde I then aunswere them at their request? 4 Therefore speake vnto them, and say vnto them, thus saith the Lorde God: Euery man of the house of Israel that setteth vp his idols in his heart, & putteth the stumbling blocke of his iniquitie before his face, and commeth to the prophete: vnto that man wyll I the Lord my selfe geue aunswere when he commeth, according to the multitude of his idols. 5 That the house of Israel may be snared in their owne heartes, because they be cleane gone from me all of them thorowe their idols. 6 Wherefore tell the house of Israel, thus saith the Lorde God: Returne and cause to returne from your idols, and turne your faces from all your abhominations. 7 For euery man, whether he be of the house of Israel, or a straunger that soiourneth in Israel, whiche departeth from me, and setteth vp his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling blocke of his wickednesse before his face, and commeth to a prophete for to aske counsell at me through hym: vnto that man wyll I the Lorde geue aunswere by mine owne selfe.
• Exod 14:1-9 : 1 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: 2 Speake to the chyldre of Israel, that they turne & pitch their tentes before Pi-hahiroth betweene Migdol and the sea, ouer agaynst Baal-sephon, and before that shall they pitche by the sea. 3 For Pharao wyll say of the chyldren of Israel: they are tangled in the lande, the wyldernesse hath shut them in. 4 And I wyll harden Pharaos heart, that he shall folowe after you, and I wyll get me honour vpon Pharao, and vpon al his hoast: The Egyptians also shall knowe that I am the Lorde. And they dyd euen so. 5 And it was tolde the kyng of Egypt that the people fledde. And the heart of Pharao and of his seruauntes turned agaynst the people, and they said: Why haue we done this, that we haue let Israel go out of our seruice? 6 And he made redy his charette, and toke his people with hym. 7 And toke sixe hundred chosen charets, and all the charets of Egypt, and capitaynes vpon euery one of them. 8 And the Lorde hardened the heart of Pharao kyng of Egypt, and he folowed after ye children of Israel: but the childre of Israel went out with an hye hande. 9 And the Egyptians folowed after the, and al the horses and charettes of Pharao, and his horsemen, and his hoast ouertoke them pitchyng of their tent by the sea beside Pi-hahiroth before Baal-sephon. 10 And when Pharao drewe nygh, the chyldren of Israel lift vp their eyes, and beholde, the Egyptians folowed after them, and they were sore afrayde: and the chyldren of Israel cryed out vnto the Lorde. 11 But they sayde vnto Moyses: because there were no graues in Egypt, hast thou therfore brought vs away for to dye in the wildernesse? Wherfore hast thou serued vs thus, for to carry vs out of Egypt? 12 Dyd not we tell thee this in Egypt, saying, let vs be in rest, that we maye serue the Egyptians? For it had ben better for vs to haue serued the Egyptians, then for to dye in the wyldernesse. 13 And Moyses saide vnto the people: Feare ye not, stande styll, and beholde the saluation of the Lorde whiche he wyll shewe to you this day: For ye that haue seene the Egyptians this day, shal see them no more for euer. 14 The Lorde shall fyght for you, and ye shall holde your peace. 15 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Wherfore cryest thou vnto me? speake vnto the children of Israel that they go forwarde.
• Josh 10:1-9 : 1 Nowe when Adonizedec kyng of Hierusalem had hearde howe Iosuah had taken Ai and had destroyed it: (and howe that as he had done to Iericho and her king, euen so he had done to Ai and her king) and howe the inhabitours of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them: 2 They feared exceedingly, for Gibeon was a great citie as any citie of the kingdome, and was greater then Ai, & all the men therof were very mightie. 3 Wherfore Adonizedec king of Hierusalem sent vnto Hoham king of Hebron, and vnto Pira king of Iarmuth, and vnto Iaphia king of Lachis, and vnto Dabir king of Eglon, saying: 4 Come vp vnto me, and helpe me, that we may smite Gibeon: for they haue made peace with Iosuah, and with the children of Israel. 5 Therfore the fiue kinges of the Amorites, the king of Hierusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Iarmuth, the king of Lachis, and the king of Eglon, gathered them selues together, and went vp, they with all their hoastes, and besieged Gibeon, & made warre against it. 6 And the men of Gibeon sent vnto Iosuah to the hoast in Gilgal, saying: withdrawe not thy hande from thy seruauntes, come vp to vs quickly, and saue vs, and helpe vs: for all the kinges of the Amorites which dwell in the mountaynes are gathered together agaynst vs. 7 And so Iosuah ascended from Gilgal, he and all the people of warre with him, and all the men of might. 8 And the Lorde sayde vnto Iosuah, Feare them not: for I haue deliuered them into thine hande, neither shall any of them stande agaynst thee. 9 Iosuah therfore came vnto them sodaynly, and went vp from Gilgal all nyght. 10 And the Lorde troubled them before Israel, and slue them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth vp to Bethoron, and smote them to Azeka and Makeda. 11 And as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going downe to Bethoron, the Lorde cast downe great stones from heauen vpon them vntyll Azeka, and they dyed: there were mo dead with hayle stones, then they were whom the children of Israel slue with the sworde.
• Judg 4:1-5 : 1 And the children of Israel began agayne to do wickedly in ye sight of the Lord, when Ahud was dead. 2 And the Lorde sold them into the hand of Iabin king of Chanaan, that raigned in Hazor, whose captayne of warre was called Sisara, which dwelt in Haroseth of the gentiles. 3 And the children of Israel cried vnto the Lord (for he had nine hundreth charettes of yron: & twentie yeres he troubled the children of Israel very sore.) 4 And Debora a prophetisse, the wife of Lapidoth, iudged Israel the same time. 5 And the same Debora dwelt vnder a paulme tree, betweene Ramath & Bethel, in mount Ephraim: And the children of Israel came vp to her for iudgment.