1093 1023 ver. 32 17. + Heb. I see the running loring, Princes OT + Heb. Peace. + Heb.toile hrert of thg Gen. 343 + Heb. Is David mourneth Absalom's death. 2 SAMUEL. He returneth to Jerusalem. Heforest gates: and 'the watchman went up to that day into the city, as people being chemoter the roof over the gate unto the wall, and ashamed steal away when they flee in . the king, and said, Thou hast shamed lives of thy concubines; 28 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto all we had died this day, then it had betro Polecace the king, || + All is well. And he fell pleased thee well. down to the earth upon his face before 7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and the king, and said, Blessed be the LORD speak + comfortably unto thy servants: men that lifted up their hand against my forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto there peace 29 And the king said, † Is the young thee than all the evil that befell thee 30 And the king said unto him, Turn gate, And all the people came before to his tent, 32 And the king said unto Cushi, Is of the hand of the Philistines; and now 33 And the king was much moved, and ing the king back? and wept; and as he went, thus he said, and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak k ch. 19.4. "O my son Absalom, my, son, my son unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are Absalom! would God I had died for thee, ye the last to bring the king back to his 0 Absalom, my son, my son! house? seeing the speech of all Israel is CHAP. XIX. come to the king, even to his house. 12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my 13 'And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not fck. 17.* the room of Joab. 14 And he bowed the heart of all the king weepeth and mourneth for men of Judah, "even as the heart of one Absalom. man; so that they sent this word unto the 2 And the + victory that day was turned king, Return thou, and all thy servants. deliverance. into mourning unto all the people: for 15 So the king returned, and came to the people heard say that day how the Jordan. And Judah came to 'Gilgal, to i Josh ; king was grieved for his son. go to meet the king, to conduct the king 3 And the people gat them by stealth over Jordan. + Hels. Tidings is brought. ch. 51. & Reth 1.17 b Judg. 20 + Heb. inl. sation, or, Before CHRIST Before CHRIST 1023. Food is bus eyes. m i sam. 2 15 many days are the years of my life? Shamei pardoned. CHAP. XIX. Of Barzillai and Chimham. 16 5 And Shimei the son of Gera, a | I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted land. and came down with the men of Judah 30 And Mephibosheth said unto the ca. 16.5 1 Kings 2. & to meet king David. king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as 17 And there were a thousand men of my lord the king is come again in peace La cha, Benjamin with him, and "Ziba the servant unto his own house. of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons 31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came b 1 Kings 2. 18 And there went over a ferry boat Jordan. 32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, Hoteles to do what he thought good. And Shi- even fourscore years old: and he had c ch. 17.97. mei the son of Gera fell down before the provided the king of sustenance while 19 And said unto the king, "Let not great man. my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither 33 And the king said unto Barzillai, obch. 16. 5, 6, do thou remember that which thy servant Come thou over with me, and I will feed did perversely the day that my lord the thee with me in Jerusalem. king went out of Jerusalem, that the king 34 And Barzillai said unto the king, . ch. 13- 33. should take it to his heart. +How long have I to live, that I should Heb. How 20 For thy servant doth know that I go up with the king unto Jerusalem? have sinned: therefore, behold, I am 35 I am this day a fourscore years old : Ps.90.10 p See ch. 16 come the first this day of all Pthe house and can I discern between good and evil? of Joseph to go down to meet my lord can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice answered and said, Shall not Shimei be wherefore then should thy servant be Exod. 22. put to death for this, because he cursed yet a burden unto my lord the king? the Lord's anointed? 36 Thy servant will go a little way. 22 And David said, 'What have I to over Jordan with the king: and why do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should the king recompense it me with should this day be adversaries unto me? such a reward day in Israel? for do not I know that I back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my with my lord the king; and do to him 17. uch.. 24 & And "Mephibosheth the son of what shall seem good unto thee. of me, that will I do for thee. come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that dan. And when the king was come over, * ch. 16. 17. the king said unto him, "Wherefore went the king' kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; est 'not thou with me, Mephibosheth? and he returned unto his own place. 26 And he answered, My lord, O king, 40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, my servant deceived me: for thy servant and + Chimham went on with him: and Heb. Chino said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may all the people of Judah conducted the ride thereon, and go to the king; because king, and also half the people of Israel. thy servant és lame. 41 | And, behold, all the men of Israel yet. 16.3. 27 And he hath slandered thy servant came to the king, and said unto the king, 14 1unto my lord the king; ' but my lord the Why have our brethren the men of Judah king is as an angel of God: do therefore stolen thee away, and have brought the & ver. 15. what is good in thine eyes. king, and his houshold, and all David's What right therefore have I yet to cry angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given ti Kings 2. Gen. 31.55 hver. 19. Before CHRIST 1023 Before CHRIST blod net his stroke. 8.1. & 12. 1. cir. 1032. 10. 16. + Heb. marted to & 21, + Heb. an house of Sheba's revolt. 2 SAMUEL. He is beheaded. the men of Judah, and said, We have ten shed out his bowels to the ground, and parts in the king, and we have also more struck him not again; and he died. So cir. 1012 right in David than ye: why then did ye Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Heb.doma the best us + despise us, that our advice should not after Sheba the son of Bichri. be first had in bringing back our king? 11 And one of Joab's men stood by See Judg; And the words of the men of Judah him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, were fiercer than the words of the men and he that is for David, let him go after Joab. 12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in party in Israel. 3-David's ten concubines the man saw that all the people stood came by him stood still. Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of a ch. 19. 43. and he blew a trumpet, and said, “We Bichri. have no part in David, neither have we 14 9 And he went through all the tribes b1 Kings 12. inheritance in the son of Jesse: "every of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, ku kinnis man to his tents, O Israel. and all the Berites: and they were gather- 18. 4 2. So every man of Israel went up from ed together, and went also after him. after David, and followed Sheba the son 15 And they came and besieged him of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they 'cast 12 Kings 19. unto their king, from Jordan even to up a bank against the city, and || it stood Or, it stsed Jerusalem. in the trench: and all the people that the 3 And David came to his house at were with Joab + battered the wall, to sail. Jerusalem; and the king took the ten throw it down. ch: 15. 16. women his concubines, whom he had 16 1 Then cried a wise woman out of throw down left to keep the house, and put them in the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto them. So they were † shut up speak with thee. tHeb.bound. unto the day of their death, f living in 17 And when he was come near unto dow hood of widowhood. her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? 4 Then said the king to Amasa, a + As And he answered, I am he. Then she * Heb. Call. semble me the men of Judah within three said unto him, Hear the words of thine days, and be thou here present. handmaid. And he answered, I do hear. 5 So Amasa went to assemble the men 18 Then she spake, saying, Is They were 10:n, Thor of Judah: but he tarried longer than the wont to speak in old time, saying, They in the begin set time which he had appointed him. shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so surely change 6 And David said to Abishai, Now they ended the matter. shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more 19 I am one of them that are peaceable second and i Kingle harm than did Absalom: take thou thy and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to . lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest destroy a city and a mother in Israel: to Herminder die he get him fenced cities, and + escape us. why wilt thou swallow up " the inherit- ans. Some 7 And there went out after him Joab's ance of the LORD? they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue swallow up or destroy. 21 The matter is not so: but a man of the wall. 9 And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou 22 Then the woman went unto all the Leven in health, my brother? 6 And Joab took people "in her wisdom. And they cut it is! Amasa by the beard with the right hand off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a + Heb. bi Kings 2 sword that was in Joab's hand: so "he every man to his tent. And Joab returnsmote him therewith 'in the fifth rib, and I ed to Jerusalem unto the king. ward. will ask of Abel, and so from our eyes. n Eecles. ch,... Before Before CHRIST 1ST 9L 13 41.46 Exod. 1021. 11, 13. 10. 15, 16, 17. n So Josh.7. 26. ch. 24. led The three years' famine. CHAP. XXI. Seven of Saul's sons hanged. 23 Now °Joab was over all the host of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them edir. 102. of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoi- in the hill 6 before the LORD: and they cir. 1019. och. & 16, ada was over the Cherethites and over fell all seven together, and were put to 8 ch. 6. 17. the Pelethites: death in the days of harvest, in the first & pi Kings + 24 And Adoram was Pover the tri- days, in the beginning of barley harvest. ch bute: and · Jehoshaphat the son of Ahi 10 9 And Rizpah the daughter of ver. 8. ch. Kingo 4-2. lud was || recorder: Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her 25 And Sheva was scribe: and 'Za- upon the rock, 'from the beginning of i Soe Deute 19.8.17, dok and Abiathar were the priests: harvest until water dropped upon them sch. 23. 3. 26 'And Ira also the Jairite was ll a out of heaven, and suffered neither the price. Gen. chief ruler about David. birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. 12 And David went and took the THEN there was a famine in the days which had stolen them from the street of bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites them that were hanged. the remnant of the Amorites; and the than his son buried they in the country 3 Wherefore David said unto the Gi- that "God was intreated for the land. wherewith shall I make the atonement, war again with Israel; and David went bek 19 that ye may bless the inheritance of the down, and his servants with him, and Lond? fought against the Philistines: and David 4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, waxed faint. teoria de ser ll We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, 16 And Ishbi-benob, which was of the geld te leer nor of his house; neither for us shalt sons of || the giant, the weight of whose 1 Or, Rapha. with Saal or thou kill any man in Israel. And he t spear weighed three hundred shekels of the bottom written per said, What ye shall say, that will I do for brass in weight, he being girded with a head. orthe , fe. you. new sword, thought to have slain David. 5 And they answered the king, The 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah very cat w man that consumed us, and that || devised succoured him, and smote the Philistine, against us that we should be destroyed and killed him. Then the men of David no more out with us to battle, that thou vered unto us, and we will hang them up 18 ? And it came to pass after this, that Po. 132. 17. Sn... unto the LORD 'in Gibeah of Saul, there was again a battle with the Philis- de, or, 1 Sam ja " | whom the Lord did choose. And the tines at Gob: then 'Sibbechai the Huking said, I will give them. shathite slew || Saph, which was of the 20.. 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, sons of || the giant. the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, be 19 And there was again a battle in Gob ? Or, Sippai. Some cause of the Lord's oath that was be with the Philistines, where Elhanan the 10r, Rapha. 12. Kiit tween them, between David and Jona- son of || Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, Or, Jeir. than the son of Saul. slew 'the brother of Goliath the Gittite, 8 But the king took the two sons of the staff of whose spear was like a wea- 5 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she ver's beam. bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibo 20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, Chron. sheth; and the five sons of || Michal the where was a man of great stature, that Bob bere daughter of Saul, whom she + brought up had on every hand six fingers, and on for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meho every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to l the 10r, Raphe. 9 And be delivered them into the hands giant. cir. 1018. pi Kingo 11. 36. & 15.4. lamp. 41 Chron. ni Chron. ORD. 11.99 • See Before CHRIST lois. 101& 1 Or, Te. & 118.5 ech. 15. 26. 1 Sam. 17. 10, 25, 26. 1 Sam. 16. 9. Shan mah. x i Chron. 20.8 a Exod. 15. 1. Judg. 5.1. A Nords of this song in the day that from my Goda b Ps. 18. title. & Ps. 34. 19 e Dent. 32. 4. Ps. 18. 2, & 17. 1. Job . . 2. & 141. 2. h & Prov. 18. 10. 14.6. & 59. 16. & 71. 7. I Lev. **3 24, 27, 28 pure I Or, pangs. + Heb. Belial. 7. & P.72 12, 13 i Ps. 116. 3. 515 Dan. 4 37. k Ps. 116.4. & 120. 1. Job 3 3 Ps. 1. 107, broken a troep. David's psalm of thanksgiving 2 SAMUEL. for manifold blessings. 21 And when he || defied Israel, Jona- | my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. chokerst than the son of "Shimeah the brother of 20 He brought me forth also into a David slew him, large place: he delivered me, because he » Ps. 31.8. proached, 22 *These four were born to the giant delighted in me. in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, 21° - The Lord rewarded me accord- Ps.nl and by the hand of his servants. ing to my righteousness: according to i Sam.. CHAP. XXII. the cleanness of my hands hath he re-kines A psalm of thanksgiving for God's powerful compensed me. deliverance and manifold blessings. 22 For I have 'kept the ways of the 34 ND David spake unto the LORD the LORD, and have not wickedly departed Posts the Lord had delivered him out of the 23 For all his 6 judgments were before Deut. 7.12. hand of all his enemies, and out of the me: and as for his statutes, I did not de- 102. hand of Saul: part from them. 2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, 24 I was also " upright + before him, " Gen. 6. &c. & 31.3 and my fortress, and my deliverer; and have kept myself from mine iniquity. 1. 1. 3 The God of my rock; din him will 25 Therefore the Lord hath recoin- 1 Heb. to a llebr. 2:13. I trust: he is my shield, and the horn pensed me according to my righteous i ver. a1. I Luke 1. 69. of my salvation, my high tower, and my ness; according to my cleanness fin his felles bar jere kis gyd. refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from eye sight. h Ps. 9. 9.& violence. 26 With * the merciful thou wilt shew k Matt. 57. 4 I will call on the Lord, who is worthyself merciful, and with the upright man Jer. 16. ig. thy to be praised : so shall I be saved thou wilt shew thyself upright. from mine enemies. 27 With the thou wilt shew thy, 101,#restle , 5 When the || waves of death compass- self pure; and I with the froward thou • Exod.3. ed me, the floods of tungodly men made wilt || shew thyself unsavoury: me afraid; 28" And the afflicted people thou wilt Job po, 11, | Or, cords. 6 The || 'sorrows of hell compassed me save: but thine eyes are upon the haugh 11 , 12, 17. about; the snares of death prevented me; ty, that thou mayest bring them down. 7 In my distress "I called upon the 29 For thou art my || lamp, O LORD: jor,candle . Jonah 2. 2. LORD, and cried to my God: and he did and the LORD will lighten my darkness. Exod. 27: 1 hear my voice out of his temple, and my 30 For by thee I have || run through a cry did enter into his ears. troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. • Deat. 32 8 Then the earth shook and trem 31 Aš for God, ohis way is perfect; $7. Rer.is bled; the foundations of heaven moved the word of the Lord is || tried: he is a 3 and shook, because he was wroth. buckler to all them that trust in him. 9 There went up a smoke fout of his 32 For ? who is God, save the LORD? 23:573 nostrils, and "fire out of his mouth de- and who is a rock, save our God? Hebr. 12. 29. voured: coals were kindled by it. 33 God is my strength and power: Exod. 15 p Pc. 144 5 Psst. 64.12 10 He Pbowed the heavens also, and and he f*maketh my way perfect. came down; and 'darkness was under 34 He † maketh my feet "like hinds' 31.4 Isas. 21. 1 Kings his feet. & 12. Ps.97. feet: and "setteth me upon my high places, + Heb. sid. 11 And he rode upon a cherub, and 35 "He teacheth my hands F to war; eh, er, ires * Ps. 104.3 did fly: and he was seen upon the wings so that a bow of steel is broken by mine Hebr. 13. of the wind. 12 And he made * darkness pavilions 36 Thou hast also given me the shield zobe + Heb. bind- round about him, + dark waters, and of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath && 119. i. thick clouds of the skies. + made me great. 13 Through the brightness before him 37 Thou hast * enlarged my steps un- d. 18 were t coals of fire kindled. der me; so that my † feet did not slip. 14 The LORD"thundered from heaven, 38 I have pursued mine enemies, and 13. isai 1 * 7, 10. and the most High uttered his voice. destroyed them; and turned not again ye lui 15 And he sent out * arrows, and scat- until I had consumed them. Destydz. tered them; lightning, and discomfited 39 And I have consumed them, and Hebest *77.17. & them. wounded them, that they could not arise: tips 16 And the channels of the sea ap- yea, they are “fallen under my feet. peared, the foundations of the world were 40 For thou hast "girded me with ankles & Exodoben discovered, at the " rebuking of the LORD, strength to battle: them that rose up Pris at the blast of the breath of his || nostrils. against me hast thou + subdued under me. as 17 "He sent from above, he took me; 41 Thou hast also given me the necks 18 “He delivered me from my strong them that hate me. to save; even ® unto the LORD, but he Post 19 They prevented me in the day of | answered them not. Ps6) + Heb. by. Prer. 35 Or, med qi Sam. 22. Isal. 45. 5.6 |