young men now arise, and play before US. And Joab said, Let them arise. 15 Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David. 16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkath-bazzurım, which is in Gibeon. David's & Sons. ness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people re turn from following their brethren? 27 And Joab said, As God liveth, un less thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother 28 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more,neither fought they any more. 29 And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and 17 And there was a very sore battle passed over Jordan and went through that day; and Abner was beaten, and all Bithron, and they came to Mala the men of Israel, before the servants nain. of David. 18 T And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asabel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe. 30 And Joab returned from following Abuer: and when be had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel. 19 And Asahel pursued after Abner; 31 But the servants of David had and in going he turned not to the right smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's hand nor to the left from following Ab-men, so that three hundred and three score men died. ner. 20 Then Abner looked behind him,] 32 ↑ And they took up Asahel, and and said, Art thou Asahel? And he buried him in the sepulchre of his fa answered, I am, ther, which was in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day, CHAP. III. 21. And Abner said to him, Turn tlice aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young meo, and take thee his arınour. But OW Asahel would not turn aside from foNo lowing him. 22 And Abner said agam to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up iny face to Joab thy brother! there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker. 2 ¶ And unto David were sons born m Hebron: and his first-born was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess: 3 And his second, Chileab, of Abiguil the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; 4 And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital; 23 Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib,that the spear came out behind him: and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asabel fell down and died stood still, 24 Joab also and Abishai pursued 5 And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah, after Abner; and the sun went down|David's wife. These were born to when they were come to the hill of David in Hebron. Ammah, that lieth before Giah, by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. 25 ¶ And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abuer, and became one troop, and stood on the top of a hill. 6 ¶ And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul, 7 And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and Aiah; and Ish-bosheth said to Abner said, Shall the sword devour for ever? Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my knowest thou not that it will be bitter-father's concubine? Abner revolteth. CHAP. III. Joab killeth lam, 8 Thien was Abuer very wrotn for the fand twenty men with him; and David words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am 1 made Abner, and the men that were a dog's head, which against Judah do with him, a feast. show kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the band of David, that thou chargest me to-day with a fault con-thou mayest reign over all that thy cerning this woman? 9. So do God to Abner,and more also, Except as the Lord hath sworn to David, even so I do to him; 21 And Abner said unto David,I will arise and go, and will gather all Israti unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace. 22 ¶ And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing 10 To translate the kingdon from the a troop, and brought in a great spoil bouse of Saul, and to set up the throne with them: but Abner was not with of David over Israel and over Judah | David in Hebron; for he had sent him from Dan even to Beer-sheba. away, and he was gone in peace. 11 Aud be could not answer Abner a 23 When Joab and all the host that word again, because he feared him. 12 ¶ And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall ve with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee. 13 T And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not sve my face, except thou first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face. 14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines. 15 And Ish-bosheth sent,and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel che son of Laish, 16 And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go,return. And he returned. 17 ¶ And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in time past to be king over you: 18 Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the band of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies. 19 And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel,and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin. 20 So Abner came toDavid toHebron, was with him were come, they told 25 Thou knowest Abner the son of 27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate, to speak with him. quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother. 28 T And afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner; 29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread. 30 So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asabel at Gibeon in the battle. 31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Reud your clothes, and gird you with sack Abner's burial. 11. SAMUEL Ih-boshath slain. cloth, and mourn before Abner. And rothite, Rechab,and Baanah,went,and king David himself followed the bier. came about the heat of the day to the 32 And they buried Abner in Hebrou: house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a and the king lifted up his voice, and bed at noon. wept at the grave of Abucr; and all 6 And they came thither into the the people wept. inidst of the house, as though they 33 And the king lamented over Ab-would have fetched wheat; and they ner, and said, Died Abner as a fool smote him under the fifth rib: and dieth? Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. 31 Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters; as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him. 35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down. 36 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people. 37 For all the people, and all Israel, understood that day, that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner. 38 And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? 39 Aud I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness. CHAP. IV. 7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bed-chamber, and they smote him, aud slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night. 8 And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, aud said to the king, Behold the bead of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the Lord hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed. 9 T And David answered Recbab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the Lond liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversty, 10 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, (thinking to have brought good tidings,) I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings: 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in ND when Saul's son heard that his own house upon his bed? shall I hands were feeble, and all the Israel-your hand, and take you away from ites were troubled. the earth? 2 T Aud Saul's son had two men that 12. And David commanded his young were captains of bands; the name of men, and they slew them, and cut off the one was Bannab, and the name of their mands and their feet, and hanged the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon them up over the pool in Hebron. But a Beerothite,of the children of Benja-they took the head of Ish bosheth, and min: (for Beeroth also was reckoned buried it in the sepulchre of Abuer in to Benjamin; Hebron. 3 And the Becrothites fled to Gittaim, CHAP. V. HIEN came all the tribes of Israe! and were sojourners there until this to David unto Hebron, and spake day.) 4 And Jonathan,Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled; and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame; and his name was Mephibosheth. 5. And the sous of Rimmon the Bee saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. 2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast be that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. 3 So all the elders of Isracl came to Dad's age and reign. CHAP. VI. Philistines smitten. the king to Hebron; and king David seek David; and David heard of it, made a league with them in Hebron and went down to the hold. before the Lord: and they anointed 18 The Philistines also came and David king over Israel. spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. + 1 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for ly years. 5 In Hebron be reigned over Judah seven years and six mouths; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and thres years over all Israel and Judah. 19 And David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up ; for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thy hand. G¶ And the king and his men went 20 And David came to Baal-perazim, to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the and David smote them there, and said, inhabitants of the land; which spake The LORD bath broken forth upon unto David, saying, Except thou take mine enemies before me,as the breach away the blind and the lame, thou of waters. Therefore he called the shalt not come in hither: thinking, name of that place Baal-perazim. David cannot come ju hither. 21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them 22 And the Philistines came up get again, and spread theinselves in the 7 Nevertheless, David took the strong hold of Zion; the same is the city of David. 8 And David said on that day, Whoso-valley of Rephaim. ver getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Where fore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house, 23 And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mul[berry-trees. 24 And let it be, when thou hearest 9 So David dwelt in the fort, and call the sound of a going in the tops of t.e edit, The city of David: and David mulberry-trees, that theu thou shalt built round about from Millo and in-bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD ward. go out before thee, to smite the bost of the Philistines. 10 And David went on, and grew great; and the Lord God of hosts was with him. 1 T And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David a house. 12 And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake. 13 ¶ And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David. 14 And these be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, 25 And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer. CHAP. VI. thousand. 2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of The Lone of hosts that dwelleth between the cheru|bims. 3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, that was in Gibeah; and Uzza and Ahio, the sous of 15 Ibhar also, and Elishun, and Ne-[Abinadab, drave the new cart. pheg, and Japhia, 4 And they brought it out of the house 16 And Elishama, and Eliada and of Abinadab, which was at Gibeah, Eliphalet, accompanying the ark of God; and Ahio went before the ark, 17 T But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over 5 And David, and all the house of Is Israel, all the Philistines came up to|rael, played before the Loud on all Uzun smilten. II. SAMUEL. Michal's barrenness. manner of instruments made of fir-peace-offerings, he blessed the people wood, even on harps,and on psalteries, in the name of the Lond of hosts. and on timbrels, and on cornets, and 19 Aud he dealt among all the peoon cymbals. ple, even among the whole multitude 6 ¶ And when they came to Nachon's of Israel, as well to the women as threshing-floor, Uzzah put forth his inen, to every one a cake of bread, and hand to the ark of God, and took hold a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of of it; for the oxen shook it. wine. So all the people departed every one to his house. 7 And the anger of the LonD was kindled against Üzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God. 20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet David, S And David was displeased, because and said, How glorious, was the king of the LORD had made a breach upon|Israel to-day, who uncovered himself Uzzah; and be called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day. 9 And David was afraid of the Load that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me? to-day in the eyes of the handmaids of 10 So David would not remove the 23 Therefore Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child unto the day of her death. 22 And I will yet be more vile than 11 And the ark of the LORD continu- thus, and will be base in mine own ed in the house of Obed-edom the Git sight; and of the maid-servants which tite three months; and the LonDbles-thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be sed Obed-edom, and all his household. had in honor. 12 TAnd it was told King David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness. sat in his house, and the Lono 13 And it was so, that when they that had given him rest round about from bare the ark of the LORD had gone six (all his enemies; CHAP. VII. AND it came to pass, when the king paces, be sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 2 That the king said unto Nathan the 14 And David danced before the LORD prophet, See now, I dwell in a house with all his might; and David was of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth girded with a linen ephod. within curtains. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lono with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. 3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thy heart; for the Lono is with thee. 4 ¶ And it came to pass that night, 16 And as the ark of the Lono came that the word of the LORD came unto into the city of David, Michal, Saul's Nathan, saying, daughter, looked through a window, 5 Go and tell iny servant David,Thus and saw king David leaping and danc-saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me a ing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart. 17 And they brought in the ark of the Lord, and set it in his prace, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings before the Lond. house for me to dwell in ? 6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that 1 brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel 18 And as soon as David had made spake I a word with any of the tribes an end of offering burnt offerings and of Israel, whom I commanded to feed |