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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
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THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
4 Kings Chapter 1
Ochozias sendeth to consult Beelzebub: Elias foretelleth his death: andcauseth fire to come down from heaven, upon two captains and theircompanies.
1:1. And Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Achab.
1:2. And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper chamber, whichhe had in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, saying to them:Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover ofthis my illness.
1:3. And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias, the Thesbite, saying:Arise, and go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and sayto them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to consult Beelzebub,the god of Accaron?
1:4. Wherefore, thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which thou artgone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. And Eliaswent away.
1:5. And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them:Why are you come back?
1:6. But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and returnto the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith theLord: Is it because there was no God in Israel, that thou sendest toBeelzebub, the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down fromthe bed, on which thou art gone up, but thou shalt surely die.
1:7. And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, andspoke these words?
1:8. But they said: A hairy man, with a girdle of leather about hisloins. And he said: It is Elias, the Thesbite.
1:9. And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that wereunder him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of ahill, he said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou comedown.
1:10. And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a manof God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee, and thy fifty.And there came down fire from heaven and consumed him, and the fiftythat were with him.
Let fire, etc… Elias was inspired to call for fire from heaven uponthese captains, who came to apprehend him; not out of a desire togratify any private passion; but to punish the insult offered toreligion, to confirm his mission, and to shew how vain are the effortsof men against God, and his servants, whom he willeth to protect.
1:11. And he again sent to him another captain of fifty men, and hisfifty with him. And he said to him: Man of God: Thus saith the king:Make haste and come down.
1:12. Elias answering, said: If I be a man of God, let