pJer. 22, 18, 19. n 15 And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about, and smote Absalom, and slew him. 16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people. 17 And they took Absalom, and P cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of Josh.7, 26. stones upon him and all Israel fled every one to his & 10, 27. verse 18. Lam. S, 53. 12. tent. 18 New Absalom in his life-time had taken and 1 Sam. 15, reared up for himself a 'pillar, which is in the king's PS. 49, 11. dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in sch. 14, 27. remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own Job 18, 17. name and it is called unto this day, Absalom's Place. 19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me Heb. done now run and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies. him right from the hand, Judg. 2, 16. Psalm 9, + Heb. Thou shalt De no man of errand, 4. or, tidings, chap. 8, 10. Ps. 112, 5. Or, The black moor, Jer. 13, 23. 20 And Joab said unto him, † Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day; but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead. 21 Then said Joab to || Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran. David mourneth for him. 32 And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is. 33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he g went, thus he said, O my son Absalom! my son, my 1 Cor. 11.1 son Absalom! † would God I had died for thee, O James 5,17 Absalom, my son, my son! a CHAPTER XIX. Joab causeth the king to cease his mourning. AND it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth Gal. 5, 17. salvation, 2 And the victory that day was turned into th mourning unto all the people: for the people heard salm 3, 8. say that day how the king was grieved for his son. a Prov. 16, 3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. 4 But the king 'covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son! 5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons, and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines; 22 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, yet again? 7 Now therefore, arise, go forth, and speak † com- Gal. 6, 1. Num. 124. to Joab, But, howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run fortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, † Heb. to after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee Gen. 4,'s run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all 23 But, howsoever, said he, let me run. And he the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now. said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way 8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And of the plain, and overran Cushi. they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king; for Israel had fled, every man to his tent. f2 Kings 9 And all the people were at strife throughout all g the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of is. the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of Rom. 6. 21 the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom. 11 And king David sent to ' Zadok and to Abiathar Rom. 12,11. 27 And the watchman said, † Methinketh the run-the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, 11 Sam. & ning of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back 2 Cor. 5, 2. son of Zadok. And the king said, He is " a good to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come k Mat. 5.16. man, and cometh with good tidings. to the king, even to his house. 28 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king,? All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed be the LORD thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted? up their hand against my lord the king. 29 And the king said, † Is the young man Absalom he peace, the safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was. 1 Cor. 10, 11. 2 Thes. 3,9 12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my Philip 5.17. flesh, wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the i Pet. 2, 21. king? mchap. 17, m I chap. 5, 1. 13 And say ye to " Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more 25. also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the " room of Joab. n ch. 3, 39. & 18,14. verses 5, 6. 14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this Judg. 20, word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants. 1. 15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And 16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, q 1 Kings 2 & CHAPTER XX. t 17 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king. u 18 And there went over a ferry-boat to carry over Heb good the king's household, and to do † what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan; in his eyes. 19 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which eb. 16, 5. thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart. a1 Kings 2, a 9, 10. 1 ch. 9, 3, 6. e Deut. 21, 12. lieb. 13, 3. 22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be fadversaries unto me? Shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel? 23 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him. d 24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down 5,18. to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again t Rom. 12, in peace. 25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me. Mephibosheth? 26 And he answered, My lo.d, O king, my servant deceived me for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame. CHRIST 1023. David blesseth Barziller. 35 I am this day 'fourscore years old; and can I Before discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing-men and singing-women? wherefore 12 then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord k Eccl. 12, the king? 36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king; and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? i Fs. 90, 10 36 37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother: but, behold, thy servant' Chimham, let him go over with my lord 11 Kings 2 the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto Jer. 11, 17. thee. 38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee. 39 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, the king "kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place. 40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him and all the people of Judah con ducted the king, and also half the people of Israel. 41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren, the men of Judah, stolen thee away, and have "brought the king and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jerdan? 42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: where- bands, fore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten chap. 5, 1. at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us any gift? + Heb. dises set us at nought. i Heb. and the men of 43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten † parts in the king, the words of and we have also more right in David than ye: why Judah re { then did ye† despise us, that our advice should not be harder first had in bringing back our king? And the † words 2 of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel. CHAPTER XX. By occasion of the quarrel, Sheba maketh a party in Israel. Judg. 12, 1, chap. 20, 1. q Acts 15, 39. cir. 1022. a chap. 12. 10.111 13. e chap. 19, AND there happened to be there a man of Belial, 10, 11, 1 whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Ps. 54, 19. Benjamite; and he blew a trumpet, and said, We Deut. 15, have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel. 4, 2 2 So every man of Israel went up from after David, a 1 Kings and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men 11 of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem. e S1 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, fch. 15, 15. whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in &16, 22 ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them: Gen. 40,3. so they were shut up unto the day of their death, liv-h Gen. €, 4. 32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even four- 33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou thesof over with me, and I wi!! feed thee with me in Jerufebe salem. h ! Reb. 1 Sam. 25,6. o 1 Chr. 2, 16. John 7, 9. 47. 4 ch. 2, 23. 8 When they were at the great stone" which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out. 0 9 And Joab said to Amasa, † Art thou in health my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to P kiss him. 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was Luke 22, in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri. 11 And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, Deut.20,5. He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab. 2 Kings 15, 29. 12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still. 13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. Seven of Saul's sons hanged. Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites, Before and over the Pelethites; c 24 And Adoram was over the tribute; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; d 25 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests: g CHRIST cir. 1021. c 1 Kings 4, 6. d' Kings 4, 3. 26 And Ira also, the Jairite, was a chief ruler e ch. 8,17. about David. CHAPTER XXI. f Num. 5,32 Judg. 10, The three years' famine for the Gibeonites cease. THEN there was a famine in the days of David & Lev. 26, a a 16. three years, year after year; and David in- b1 Kings quired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is 17,1 17, for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew 12 the Gibeonites. d c Num. 27, 21. 1 Sam. 22, 2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto d Josh. 7, 1, them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children 2 of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them; and Saul Rev. 6, 10. sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of e Josh. 9, 7. Israel and Judah ;) f Deut. 7, 16. 1 Sam. 14, 3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the Gal. 4, 19. atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD? h g Ex. 2,24 Jer. 29, 7. 16. 4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; reither Esther 9, for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What you shall say, that will I do for you. i Esth. 9, 24. Mat. 7, 2. 5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that 'devised against us that we should Prov. 3, 2 14 And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of 2 Chr. 16,4 Abel, and to 'Beth-maachah, and all the Berites; Israel, t Josh. 18, and they were gathered together, and went also after him. 18 Then she spake, saying, They were wont to 9 And he delivered them into the hands of the 1. Deut 20, speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the Phill before P ch. 6, 17. Josh. 9, 14. counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter. the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were 19 I am one of them that are peaceable and faith-put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, ful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a in the beginning of barley-harvest. ble of the mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the infaithful. She speak- heritance of the LORD? 10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them Deut. 21, 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 daugh 21 The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: de-ter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. liver him only, and I will depart from the city. And verses 11, the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to the over the wall. 12 And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street 10, 12 of Beth-shan, 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. 14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son u Josh. 18. buried they in the country of Benjamin in " Zelah, in 28. Davul's worthies slay four giants Before CHRIST 1019. X 1 Sam. 9, 1. CHAPTER XXII. David's psalm of thanksgiving. the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they perform-3 13 Through the brightness before him were " coals Before ed all that the king commanded: and after that, God of fire kindled. was entreated for the land. y 15 I Moreover, the Philistines had yet war again? with Israel; and David went down, and his servants? with him, and fought against the Philistines: and Est. 8, 10. David waxed faint. y Josh. 7, Jonah 1, 15. 4018. 1 Gen. 6, 4. a 1 Sam. 17, 5. a 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, That is, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the about twelve men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the flight of Israel. pound and a half, 1 Sam. 17, 5. 18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then? Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant. 19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where El-hanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the 1 Chr. 20, Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. 22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and d have not wickedly departed from my God. 23 For all his judgments were before me: and as e for his statutes, I did not depart from them. 24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity. f 25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye-sight. Ps. 119, 3. 8, 11. Ps. 119, 120. 12 Kings 20,3. h Mat. 8, 7. 26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merh ciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. 27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; i Mat. 5, 3. froward thou wilt shew thyself un-k Ex. 5. 2. A psalm of thanksgiving for God's powerful deliverance and and with the AND David spake unto the LORD the words of this song, in the day that the LORD had delivered b Ps. 54, 19. him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the Mark 16, hand of Saul: d Psal. 3, 8. e Pr. 13, 10. savoury. k 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 e 3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is (Gen. 15,1. my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high g Mat. 1,21. tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. b P. 18,5 i P. 116, 3. 1 Sam. 18, 21. 1 Acts 12, 5. 4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be k i 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 m Jon. 22 to my God; and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry " did enter into his ears. 8 Then the "earth shook and trembled; the dations of heaven moved and shook, because he was Psalm 18,7. wroth. n Judg. E, 20. © Job 26, 11. F lleb. 12, 29. Ps. 144, 5. Isa. 64, 1, 2. 31 As for God P his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is a 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 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet; and setteth me upon my high places. 35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. 36 Thou hast also given me the "shield of thy salfoun-vation: and thy gentleness hath † made me great. 9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and Pfire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 10 He bowed the heavens also and came down; P. 18, and darkness was under his feet. Gen. 3,24. t Ps. 97, 2 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. David professeth his faith in God. Before CHRIST 1018. II. SAMUEL. 41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. 42 They looked, but there was none to save; even Ex. 23, 27 unto the LORD, but he answered them not. y Gen. 49,8 Josh, 10. 24. 43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of z Ps. 18,41. the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, a18m. 28, and did spread them abroad. 6. Prov. 1, 28. b Ps. 18, 41. & 25, 4. Dail. 2, 35. c Psal. 2, 8. Da, 14. theb. play the hype orites, Acts 8, 13, 13. 44 Thou also bast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me. 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 of my salvation. 48 It is God that "avengeth me, and that bringeth 1 Kings 2, down the people under me, tileb. arm themselves, : 1. d Ps. 91, 1. e 49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them ePs. 13, 48. that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from? the violent man. 4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when Jer 23,5,6 the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear Psalm 72,8. shining after rain. Micah 5, 1. 5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he dt John 1,9. hath made with me an everlasting covenant, "order2 Pet. 1, 13. ed in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, ePe 72, 6. and all my desire, although he make it || not to grow. 6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as fchap. 7,18. k thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken g Isa. 9,6,7. with hands. Before CHRIST A catalogue of David's mighty men. the Hararite: and the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full cir. 1016. 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. 13 And three of the thirty chief went 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. p 1 Sam.22 5. 14 And David was then in a hold, and the garrison 4,5 of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem. 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 drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink 52 53 thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD; 17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that 1 Chr. 11 should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men. 11 Chr. 11 18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three: and he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three. 19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain; howbeit he attained not unto the first three. 20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of " Kabzeel, † who had done many acts; he slew two lion-like men of Moab: he went down great in also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of Luke 24, 1 snow. deeds, 21 And he slew an Egyptian, a † goodly man: and of counte the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went 1Chr. 11, down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear. Σ x 18an. 17, 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 Hebr 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, 25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, 26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, a his hearing. or, obed. ence, 1 8.0: 22 chap. 3, 12 & 20, 20 y ch.2, 1 Jean's nome is not here, 1 Kings 26. 2 ch. 14, 2. 27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hu-chan 5, 27. shathite, 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, d 30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash, 31 Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Bar humite, b 1 Chr. 4, c Judg. 13, 20. Judg. 12, 15. 32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite; of the sons of Jashen, e Julg. 2. % Jonathan, 2. 11 Chr. 1, 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 Gi- ch.18, 12 lonite, |