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¹ And wha they brought in the Arke of God, they set it in ye Tabernacle, that Dauid had pitched for it, and offred burntofferynges & thankofferynges before God.² And wha Dauid had ended the burntofferynges and thankofferynges, he blessed the people in the name of the LORDE,³ & distributed vnto euery man in Israel (both vnto man and woman) a cake of bred, and a pece of flesh and a meece of potage.⁴ And he appoynted before the Arke of ye LORDE certayne Leuites to mynister, that they shulde geue prayse, thankes and loauinges vnto the LORDE God of Israel:⁵ namely Assaph the first, Zacharias the seconde, Ieiel, Semiramoth, Iehiel, Mathithia, Eliab, Benaia, Obed Edom and Iehiel, with psalteries and harpes. But Assaph with loude Cymbales.⁶ Benaia and Iehasiel the prestes with tabrettes, allwaye before the Arke of ye couenaunt of God.

⁷ At the same tyme ordeyned Dauid first of all to geue thakes vnto the LORDE by Assaph and his brethren.⁸ O geue thankes vnto the LORDE, call vpon his name, tell the people what thinges he hath done.⁹ O let youre songes be of him: prayse him, and let youre talkynge be of all his wonderous workes.¹⁰ Geue his holy name a good reporte: let ye hert of them reioyce, that seke the LORDE.¹¹ O seke the LORDE and his strength, seke his face euermore.¹² Remebre his maruelous workes that he hath done, his wonders, and the iudgmetes of his mouth.¹³ Ye sede of Israel his seruaunt, ye children of Iacob his chosen.¹⁴ He is the LORDE oure God, his iudgmetes are in all londes.¹⁵ Be myndefull euer of his couenaut what he hath commaunded in to a thousande generacions.¹⁶ Which he made with Abraham, & his ooth vnto Isaac.¹⁷ And he comfirmed the same vnto Iacob for a perpetuall lawe, and to Israel for an euerlastinge couenaunt.¹⁸ And sayde: Vnto the wyl I geue ye londe of Canaan, ye metelyne of yor inheritaunce.¹⁹ Wha they were yet but small & fewe in nobre, and straungers in the same londe.²⁰ And they wente from one nacion to another, & from one realme to another people.²¹ He suffred no man to hurte them, and reproued euen kynges for their sakes.²² Touch not myne anoynted, & do my prophetes no harme.²³ O synge vnto ye LORDE, let all ye earth be tellynge of his saluacion from daye to daye.²⁴ Declare his holynes amoge the Heythe, & his wonderous workes amonge ye people.²⁵ For the LORDE is greate, and can not worthely be praysed, and more to he had in awe then all goddes.²⁶ As for all the goddes of the Heythe, they are but Idols: but it is the LORDE that made the heauens.²⁷ Thankesgeuynge and worshipe are before him, strength and ioye is in his place.²⁸ Ascrybe vnto the LORDE ye kynreds of nacions: ascrybe vnto the LORDE worshipe and strength.²⁹ Ascrybe vnto the LORDE the honoure of his name: brynge presentes, and come before him, and worshipe ye LORDE in ye bewtye of holynes.³⁰ Let the whole earth stode in awe of him: he hath made the compase of the worlde so fast, that it can not be moued.³¹ Let the heauens reioyse, and let the earth be glad: and let it be tolde amonge the Heythen, that the LORDE reigneth.³² Let the See make a noyse, and the fulnesse therof: let the felde be ioyfull, and all that therin is.³³ Let all the trees in the wod leape for ioye before the LORDE, for he commeth to iudge the earth.³⁴ O geue thankes vnto the LORDE, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for euer.³⁵ And saye: Helpe vs O God oure Sauioure, and gather vs together, and delyuer vs from the Heythen, that we maye geue thankes vnto yi holy name, and synge prayses vnto the in thy Psalmes.³⁶ Praysed be the LORDE God of Israel from euerlastinge to euerlastinge: and let all people saye, Amen, And: Prayse be vnto the LORDE.

³⁷ So he lefte Assaph and his brethren there before the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE, to mynister allwaye before the Arke, euery daye his daye worke.³⁸ But Obed Edom and their brethren, eight and thre score, and Obed Edom the sonne of Iedithun, and Hossa, to be dore kepers.³⁹ And Sadoc ye prest, & his brethre the prestes, lefte he before the habitacion of the LORDE vpon the hye place at Gibeo,⁴⁰ to offre burntsacrifices daylie vnto the LORDE vpon the altare of burntofferynges in the mornynge & in the euenynge, as it is wrytten in the lawe of the LORDE, which he comaunded vnto Israel.⁴¹ And with them Heman & Iedithun, and ye other chosen, which were named by name to geue thankes vnto the LORDE, because his mercy endureth for euer.⁴² And with them Heman & Iedithun to stryke vpon the tabrettes and Cymbales, and the musicall instrumentes of God. As for the childre of Iedithun, he made them dorekepers.⁴³ So all the people departed, euery one to his house: and Dauid returned also to blesse his house.