The Syrians and Before CHRIST king hath commanded his servant, | 10 And the rest of the people he de so shall thy servant do. As for about 1040. Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's † Heb. In thine eyes doth David. b Is, 20, 4. & 47.2. cGen. 34.30, Ex. 5. 21. 1 Sam. 13, 4, dch. 8. 3, 5. Or, the men of Toh. See Judg. 11. 3, 5. o ch. 23. S. Iver, 6. CHAPTER X. are villanously 1 David's messengers, sent to comfort Hanun the son of Nahash, entreated. 6 The Ammonites, strengthened by the Syrians, are overcome by Joab and Abishai. 15 Shobach, making a new supply of the Syrians at Helam, is slain by David. A ND it came to pass after this, that the aking of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead. Before livered into the hand of Abishai his CHRIST brother, that he might put them in about 1037. array against the children of Am mon. 11 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee. 12g Be of good courage, and let us hplay the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and ithe LORD do that which seemeth him good. 13 And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him. 14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem. g Deut. 31. 6. h1 Sam. 4.9. 1 Cor. 16, 13. il Sam. 3. 18. 2 Then said David, I will shew 15 And when the Syrians saw that about 1036. ness unto me. And David sent to 16 And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond || the river; and they came to Helam: and || Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them. 17 And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set them 3 And the princes of the children of vid rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it? 4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, beven to their buttocks, and sent them away. 5 When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return. 6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of || Ishtob twelve thousand men. 7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men. 8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ish-tob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field. 9 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians: That is, || Or, 1 Chr. 19. 16. kl Chr.19.18, footmen. 19 And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and Iserved them. 1 ch.8.6. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more. b Dout, 22. 8. e Gen. 34. 2. Job 31. 1. Matt, 5, 28. Or, Or, Ammiel. d ch. 23. 39. James 1, 14. 3 And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this || Bath-sheba, the daughter of || Eliam, the wife dof Uriah the Hittite? 4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, • Ps. 51, title. and he lay with her; || for she was fpurified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. Or, and when she had purified herself, &c. she returned. f Lev. 15. 19, 28. & 18. 19. + Heb, of the peace of, fc. 19. 2. 7 And when Uriah was come him, David demanded of him Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered. 8 And David said to Uriah, Go g Gen. 18. 4. & down to thy house, and & wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king. † Ileb. went out after him. hch. 7.2, 6. i ch. 20. 6. 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house. 10 And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house? 11 And Uriah said unto David, h The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and imy lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. 12 And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the mor mSee 1 Kin. 21. 8, 9. + Hah.strong. † IHeb. from after him. n ch. 12.9. 14 And it came to pass in the morning, that David m wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye † from him, that he may be smitten, and die. 16 And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were. 17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there Uriah is slain in battle. of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also. 181 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; 19 And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king, Before CHRIST about 1035. 20 And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? 21 Who smote Abimelech the son o Judg. 9.03. of P Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Ilittite is dead also. 22 IT So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for. 23 And the messenger said unto David, Surely the nien prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate. 24 And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. 25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth fone as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it and encourage thou him. 26 T And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. 27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done f displeased the LORD. Judg. 6. 32, Jerubbaal. him, and said unto him, There Seech. 14.5, were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. 2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: 3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his 1 Kin, 20. 35 -11. Is. 5. 3. fell some of the people of the servants | own fmeat, and drank of his own t Ileb.morsel. David confesseth his sin. Before cup, and lay in his bosom, and was | 18 And it came to pass on the sev- Before CHRIST unto him as a daughter. about 1034. Or, is worthy to die, or, is a son of death, 1 Sam. 26.16. c Ex. 22. 1, Luke 19. 8. 4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. 5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing || shall surely die: 6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity. 711 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the enth day, that the child died. And CHRIST the servants of David feared to tell about 1034. him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then †vex him- + Heb. do self, if we tell him that the child is dead? 19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead. 20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and d1 Sam.16.13. LORD God of Israel, I danointed e Sec 1 Sam. 15. 19. f Num, 15.31. 8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah, and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat. 21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst 9 Wherefore hast thou despised | rise and eat bread. the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? & thou hast killgch. 11. 15,16, ed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 17, 27. kch. 16. 22. 1 See I Sam. 15. 24. mch. 24.10. Job 7. 20. Ps. 32. 5. & Prov 28. 13. nch. 24.10. Job 7. 21. Ps 32. 1. Mic. 7. 18. Zech. 3. 4. o Is. 52. 5. Ez. 36. 20.23. Rom. 2. 24. + Heb. fasted a fast. 12 For thou didst it secretly: kbut I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. 13 And David said unto Nathan, mI have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath "put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. 14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. 15 1 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. 16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and Play all night upon the earth. p ch. 13. 31. 17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them. hurt. q Ruth 3. 3. r Job 1. 20. 23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but the tJob 7.8, 9, shall not return to me. 24 ↑ And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and "she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him. 25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name || Jedidiah, because of the LORD. 26 And Joab fought against "Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. 27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters. 28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and fit be called after my name. 29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it. 10, 1033. u Matt. 1. 6. x 1 Chr. 22.9. That is, Beloved of the LORD. y 1 Chr. 20. 1. Deut. 3. 11. † Heb. my name be callel upon it. Amnon forceth his sister Tamar, II. SAMUEL. about 1032. ach, 3, 2, 3. b1 Chr. 3.9. + Heb. it was marvellous, or, hidden in the eyes of Amnon. cSee I Sam. 16.9. † Heb. thin. † Heb. morning by morning. d Gen. 18. 6. Or, paste. e Gen. 45, 1. fGen. 39. 12. CHAPTER XIII. 1 Amnon loving Tumar, by Jonadab's counsel feigning himself sick, ravisheth her. 15 He hateth her, and shamefully turneth her away. 19 Absalom entertaineth her, and concealeth his purpose. 23 At a sheepshearing, among all the king's sons, he killeth Amnon. 30 David grieving at the news is comforted by Jonadab. 37 Absalom fleeth to Talmai at Geshur. A ND it came to pass after this, a that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was bTamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. 2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and † Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her. 3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, "the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtile man. 4 And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, flean † from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. 5 And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand. 611 So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and d make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand. 7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat. 8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took || flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes. 9 And she took a pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, "Have out all men from me. And they went out every man from him. 10 And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother. 11 And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he ftook hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister. and afterwards hateth her. 12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not † force me; for Etno such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. 13 And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; i for r he will not withhold me from thee. 14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, kforced her, and lay with her. 15 Then Amnon hated her texceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone. 16 And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her. 17 Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her. 18 And she had la garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her. 19 And Tamar put mashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and "laid her hand on her head, and went on crying. Before CHRIST about 1032. † Heb. humble me, Gen. 34.2. g Lev. 189,11. & 20. 17. + Heb. it ought not so to be done. hGen, 34.7. Judg. 19. 23. & 20. 6. i See Lev. 18. 9, 11. k Deut.22.25. See ch. 12.11. † Heb. with great hatred greatly. 1 Gen. 37. 3. Judg. 5. 30. Ps. 45. 14. LA Josh. 7. 6. ch. 1. 2. Job 2. 12. n Jer. 2.37. Aminon, 20 And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath & Amnon thy brother + Heb. been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar + Heb. set remained & desolate in her brother Absalom's house. 21 11 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. 22 And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon "neither good nor bad: for Absalom Phated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar. not thine + Heb.and desolate, o Gen. 24, 50. & 31. 24. p Lev. 19. 17, 18. 1030. 23 And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheep-q See Gen. 38. shearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons. 24 And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant. 25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him. 26 Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee? 12, 13. 1 Sain, 25.4, 36. r Judg. 19. 6, 9, 22. Ruth 3. 7. 1 Sam. 25 36, Esth. 1. 10. Ps. 104. 15. [Or, will you not, since I have com Josh. 1. 9. go with him. 28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: || have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be † valiant. 29 And the servants of Absalom did Joab's artifice to fetched thence a wise woman, and 3 And come to the king, and speak 4 And when the woman of Teko unto Amnon as Absalom had com-ah spake to the king, she fell on manded you? manded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man + gat him up upon his mule, and fled. † Heb. sons of valour. + Hob, rode. sch. 1. 11. t ch. 12. 16. u ver. 3. + Heb. mouth. Or, settled. x ch. 19. 19. y ver. 38. + Heb. according to the word of thy servant. + Heb. with a great weeping greatly. 1030. sch. 3.3. Or, Ammihur. ach, 14.23,32. & 15. 8. | Or, was consumed, Р3. 84. 2. b Gen. 38. 12. 1027. ach. 13.39. b2 Chr. 11.6. 30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left. 31 Then the king arose, and stare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent. 32 And "Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the tappointment of Absalom this hath been || determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar. 33 Now therefore x let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead. 34 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him. 35 And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come: fas thy servant said, so it is. 36 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept † very sore. 37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of || Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day. 38 So Absalom fted, and went to * Geshur, and was there three years. 39 And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. CHAPTER XIV. 1 Joab, suborning a widow of Tekoah, by a ence. OW Joab the son of Zeruiah per Northernieriah pers a toward Absalom. her face to the ground, and did obei- 6 And thy handmaid had two sons, 7 And, behold, hthe whole family hNum. 35.19. is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder † upon the earth. 8 And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee. 13 And the woman said, Wherefore 2 And Joab sent to b Tekoah, and made me afraid: and thy handmaid || Or, because God hath not taken away his life, he hath also devised means, de. q Num. 35,15, 25. 28. |