2 Chronicles · Chapter 16

[ edit] The ſixe and þrittiþe ȝeer forſoþe of his regne Baza, kyng of Yrael, ſteiȝide up in to Judam, and wiþ a wal he enuyrounde Rama, þat no man ſikirly myȝte gon oute or comme in fro þe rewme of Aza. Forſoþe Aza brouȝt forþ gold and ſyluer fro þe treſories of þe hous of þe Lord, and fro þe kyngis treſories; and ſente to Benadab, kyng of Cyrie, þat dwellid in Damaſch, ſeyinge, Couenaunt of peſe is betwene me and þee, forſoþe my fadir and þi fader hadden acord; for what þing I haue ſente to þee ſyluer and gold, þat þe peſe couenaunt broken, þat þou haſt wiþ Baza, kyng of Yrael, þou make hym gon awey fro me.

Þe whiche þing founden, Benadab ſente þe princis of his hooſtis to þe cytees of Yrael, þe whiche ſmyten Achyon, and Dan, and Abelmaym, and alle þe walled cytees of Neptalym. Þe whiche þing whanne Baaza hadde herd, he ceſede to bylden up Rama, and he laft of his werk. Bot kyng Aza toke al Judam, and þei token þe ſtoones of Rama, and þe trees, þat Baaza had maad redy to bildyng; and he bilde up of hem Gaba, and Maſpha. In þat tyme came Ananye, þe prophete, to Aza, kyng of Juda, and ſeide to hym, For þou haddiſt truſt in þe kyng of Cyrye, and not in þe Lord þi God, þerfore þe hooſt of þe kyng of Cyrie is ſcapid fro þin hond.

Wheþer Eþiopes and Libies weren not many mo wiþ carris of foure hors, and þe horſmen, and þe ful grete multitude; þe whiche whanne þou haddiſt trowed to þe Lord, he toke in to þin hondis? Þe eeȝen forſoþe of þe Lord beholden al þe erþ, and ȝeuen ſtrengþe to hem, þat in perfijte herte bileeuen in to hym. Folily þanne þou didiſt, and for þat alſo in þe preſent tyme aȝeins þee batailes ſchul rijſen. And Aza is wroþ aȝeinus þe ſear, and comaundide hym to be putt in þe ſtockis. Forſoþe myche vpon þat was þe Lord ſtered to indignacioun, and he ſlewȝ of þe puple in þat tyme manye. Þe werkis forſoþe of Aza, þe firſt and þe laſt, ben writen in þe boke of þe kyngis of Juda and of Yrael.

Forſoþe Aza was ſeeke þe nyne and þrittiþe ȝeer of his regne, moſt hidouſly in ſorowe of feet; and neþer in þe infirmyte he ſouȝte þe Lord, bot more in þe craft of lechis he truſtide. And Aza ſlepte wiþ his fadirs, and is deed þe oon and fouretiþe ȝeer of his regne. And þei birieden hym in his ſepulcre, þat he hadde maad to hym in þe cytee of Dauiþ; and þei putten hym vpon his bed ful of ſwote ſpices and ſtrumpetis oynementis, þat weren maad by þe craft of pyment makers, and þei brenden vpon hym in a ful myche mouynge to luſt.