Seven of Saul's sons hanged. II. SAMUEL. David's thanksgiving. 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew the the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, be- brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of cause of the LORD's oath that was between whose spear was like a weaver's beam. them, between David and Jonathan the 20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, son of Saul. where was a man of great stature, that had 8 But the king took the two sons of Riz- on every hand six fingers, and on every foot pah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare six toes, four and twenty in number; and unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and he also was born to the giant. the five sons of Michal the daughter of 21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the the son of Shimeah the brother of David son of Barzillai the Meholathite: slew him. 9 And he delivered them into the hands 22 These four were born to the giant in of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by in the hill before the LORD: and they fell the hand of his servants. all seven together, and were put to death CHAP. XXII. in the days of harvest, in the first days, in AND David spake unto the LORD the -words of this song in the day that the 10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah LORD had delivered him out of the hand took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon of all his enemies, and out of the hand the rock, from the beginning of harvest un- of Saul: til water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. 11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah the concubine of Saul had done. 2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; 3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. 4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy 12 And David went and took the bones to be praised: so shall I be saved from of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son mine enemies. from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had 5 When the waves of death compassed stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, me, the floods of ungodly men made me where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa: 13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged. afraid; 6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; 7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. 14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan 8 Then the earth shook and trembled: his son buried they in the country of Ben- the foundations of heaven moved and jamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his shook, because he was wroth. father: and they performed all that the 9 There went up a smoke out of his nos king commanded. And after that God trils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: was entreated for the land. coals were kindled by it. 15¶ Moreover, the Philistines had yet 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came war again with Israel; and David went down; and darkness was under his feet. down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint. 16 And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant, (the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight,) he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David. 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel. 11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind. 12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. 13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. 14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice. 15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them. 16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were dis18 And it came to pass after this, that covered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at there was again a battle with the Philis- the blast of the breath of his nostrils. tines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Husha- 17 He sent from above, he took me; he thite slew Saph, which was of the sons of drew me out of many waters: the giant. 18 He delivered me from my strong 19 And there was again a battle in Gob enemy, and from them that hated me: for with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son they were too strong for me. A psalm of thanksgiving. CHAP. XXIII. 44 Thou also hast delivered me from the David's, last words. 19 They prevented me in the day of my mire of the street, and did spread them calamity: but the LORD was my stay. abroad. 20 He brought me forth also into a large place he delivered me, because he de- strivings of my people, thou hast kept me lighted in me. to be head of the heathen: a people which 21 The LORD rewarded me according to I knew not shall serve me. my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me. 46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places. 47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock 23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not de- of my salvation. part from them. 48 It is God that avengeth me, and that 24 I was also upright before him, and bringeth down the people under me, have kept myself from mine iniquity. 49 And that bringeth me forth from 25 Therefore the LORD hath recompens-mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up ed me according to my righteousness; on high above them that rose up against according to my cleanness in his eye-sight. me: thou hast delivered me from the vio26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thy-lent man. self merciful, and with the upright man 50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thou wilt shew thyself upright. thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name. 27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. 28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. 29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. 30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. 31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. 32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God? 33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect. 34 Ile maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places. 51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore. CHAP. XXIII. NOW OW these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, 2 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. 3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. 35 He teacheth my hands to war; so 5 Although my house be not so with that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. God; yet he hath made with me an ever36 Thou hast also given me the shield lasting covenant, ordered in all things, and of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my made me great. desire, although he make it not to grow. 6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: 37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip. 38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again un- 7 But the man that shall touch them til I had consumed them. must be fenced with iron and the staff of a 39 And I have consumed them, and spear; and they shall be utterly burned wounded them, that they could not arise: with fire in the same place. yea, they are fallen under my feet. 8 ¶ These be the names of the mighty 40 For thou hast girded me with men whom David had: The Tachmonite strength to battle: them that rose up that sat in the seat, chief among the capagainst me hast thou subdued under me. tains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he 41 Thou hast also given me the necks lifted up his spear against eight hundred, of mine enemies, that I might destroy them whom he slew at one time. that hate me. 9 And after him was Eleazar the son of 42 They looked, but there was none to Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty save; even unto the LORD, but he answer- men with David, when they defied the ed them not. Philistines that were there gathered toge43 Then did I beat them as small as the ther to battle, and the men of Israel were dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the gone away : A catalogue of David's mighty men. 25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the 26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, 27 Abiezer the Ánethothite, Mebunnai II. SAMUEL. 10 He arose, and smote the Philistines| until his hand was weary, and his hand Harodite, clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil. 11 And after him was Shammah the son the Hushathite, of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines. 12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines and the LORD wrought a great victory. 28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, 29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, 30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash, 31 Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth 32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, 13 And three of the thirty chief went the Barhumite, down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim. 14 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem. 33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite, 34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, 35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, 36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, 15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate! 16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and 37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, Beerothite, armour-bearer to Joab the son that was by the gate, and took it, and of Zeruiah, brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. all. 38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, CHAP. XXIV. 17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the AND again the anger of the LORD was blood of the men that went in jeopardy of kindled against Israel, and he moved their lives? therefore he would not drink David against them to say, Go number Isit. These things did these three mighty rael and Judah. men. 2 For the king said to Joab, the captain 18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, of the host, which was with him, Go now the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan And he lifted up his spear against three even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the hundred, and slew them, and had the name people, that I may know the number of among three. the people. 19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three. 3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundred-fold, and 20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, that the eyes of my lord the king may see the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who it: but why doth my lord the king delight had done many acts, he slew two lion-like in this thing? snow: men of Moab: he went down also and 4 Notwithstanding the king's word preslew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of vailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the cap21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly tains of the host went out from the preman: and the Egyptian had a spear in his sence of the king, to number the people of hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear. 22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men. 23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard. 24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem. Israel. 5 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer: 6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon, 7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba. 8 So when they had gone through all David numbers the people. CHAP. 1. the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. His intercession to God. 17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the peo9 And Joab gave up the sum of the ple, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have number of the people unto the king: and done wickedly: but these sheep, what have there were in Israel eight hundred thou- they done? Let thine hand, I pray thee, sand valiant men that drew the sword; be against me, and against my father's and the men of Judah were five hundred house. thousand men. 18 And Gad came that day to David, 10 ¶ And David's heart smote him after and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar that he had numbered the people. And unto the LORD in the threshing-floor of David said unto the LORD, I have sinned Araunah the Jebusite. greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. 11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, 19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded. 20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: And Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground. 12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith 21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose lord the king come to his servant? And thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. David said, To buy the threshing-floor of 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that and said unto him, Shall seven years of the plague may be stayed from the people. famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt 22 And Araunah said unto David, Let thou flee three months before thine enemies, my lord the king take and offer up what while they pursue thee? or that there be seemeth good unto him: behold, here be three days pestilence in thy land? Now oxen for burnt-sacrifice, and threshing-inadvise, and see what answer I shall return struments and other instruments of the to him that sent me. oxen for wood. 14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a 23 All these things did Araunah, as a great strait: let us fall now into the hand king, give unto the king. And Araunah of the LORD; for his mercies are great: said unto the king, The LORD thy God and let me not fall into the hand of man. accept thee. 15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon 24 And the king said unto Araunah, Israel from the morning even to the time Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a appointed: and there died of the people price: neither will I offer burnt-offerings from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thou- unto the LORD my God of that which doth sand men. cost me nothing. So David bought the 16 And when the angel stretched out his threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shehand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the kels of silver. LORD repented him of the evil, and said to 25 And David built there an altar unto the angel that destroyed the people, It is the LORD, and offered burnt-offerings and enough: stay now thine hand. And the peace-offerings. So the LORD was enangel of the LORD was by the threshing-treated for the land, and the plague was place of Araunah the Jebusite. stayed from Israel. * The First Book of the KINGS, commonly called, The Third Book of the KINGS. NOW CHAP. I. 5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith WOW king David was old and stricken exalted himself, saying, I will be king: in years; and they covered him with and he prepared him chariots and horseclothes, but he gat no heat. men, and fifty men to run before him. 2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, 6 And his father had not displeased him Let there be sought for my lord the king a at any time in saying, Why hast thou done young virgin: and let her stand before the so? and he also was a very goodly man; king, and let her cherish him, and let her and his mother bare him after Absalom. lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king 7 And he conferred with Joab the son may get heat. of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: 3 So they sought for a fair damsel and they, following Adonijah, helped him. throughout all the coasts of Israel, and 8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, her to the king. and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men 4 And the damsel was very fair, and which belonged to David, were not with cherished the king, and ministered to him: Adonijah. but the king knew her not. 9 And Adonijah slew sheep, and oxen, Adonijah usurps the kingdom. I. KINGS. David declares Solomon king. and fat cattle, by the stone of Zoheleth, athar the priest; and behold, they eat and which is by En-rogel, and called all his drink before him, and say, God save king brethren the king's sons, and all the men Adonijah. of Judah the king's servants: 10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not. 26 But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called. 11 ¶ Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bath- 27 Is this thing done by my lord the sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy thou not heard that Adonijah the son of servant, who should sit on the throne of my Haggith doth reign, and David our lord lord the king after him? knoweth it not? 12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon. 13 Go, and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign? 14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words. 15 ¶ And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king. 28 Then king David answered and said, Call me Bath-sheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king. 29 And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress, 30 Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day. 31 Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever. 32 And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, 16 And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obei- and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And sance unto the king. And the king said, they came before the king. What wouldest thou? 33 The king also said unto them, Take 17 And she said unto him, My lord, thou with you the servants of your lord, and swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy own mule, and bring him down to Gihon: son shall reign after me, and he shall sit 34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan upon my throne. the prophet anoint him there king over Is18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; rael: and blow ye with the trumpet, and and now, my lord the king, thou knowest say, God save king Solomon. 35 Then ye shall come up after him, that it not: 19 And he hath slain oxen, and fat cat- he may come and sit upon my throne; for tle, and sheep in abundance, and hath call- he shall be king in my stead: and I have ed all the sons of the king, and Abiathar appointed him to be ruler over Israel and the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: over Judah. but Solomon thy servant hath he not called. 36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada an20 And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes swered the king, and said, Amen: the of all Israel are upon thee, that thou should- LORD God of my lord the king say so too. est tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. 21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. 37 As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David. 38 ¶ So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoia22 ¶ And lo, while she yet talked with da, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, the king, Nathan the prophet also came in. went down, and caused Solomon to ride 23 And they told the king, saying, Be- upon king David's mule, and brought him hold Nathan the prophet. And when he to Gihon. was come in before the king, he bowed 39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of himself before the king with his face to the oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Sologround. mon. And they blew the trumpet; and 24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, all the people said, God save king Solohast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after mon. me, and he shall sit upon my throne ? 40 And all the people came up after 25 For he is gone down this day, and him, and the people piped with pipes, and hath slain oxen, and fat cattle, and sheep in rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth abundance, and hath called all the king's rent with the sound of them. sons, and the captains of the host, and Abi- 41 ¶ And Adonijah and all the guests |