Four giants slain. T 12 And David went and took B. C. 1018. AND David spake unto the LORD Z Jos. 18.28. the words of this song, b in the him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of k k I Sa. 31.11. day that the LORD had delivered Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa : T m ch.24.25. the head. n ch.18.3. 9 2 And he said, the LORD is my rock, c and my fortress, d and my deliverer; 3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust; he is my shield, e and the hornf of my salvation, my high tower, g and my refuge, h my saviour; thou savest me from violence. 4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 6 The 3 sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; 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 candle, or, hanged. lamp. 14 And the bones of Saul and o 1Ki.11.36. Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah. in P 1Ch.20.4. I the sepulchre of Kish his father: 10 or, Sippai, and they performed all that the 11 or, Rapha. king commanded. And after that 12 or, Jair. 5 When the 1 waves of death comGod was entreated m for the land. passed me, the floods of 2 ungodly 15 T Moreover the Philistines had 13or, Rapha.men made me afraid. yet war again with Israel; and 14 or, reDavid went down, and his servants proached, Sa. 17.10. with him, and fought against the 25,26. Philistines: and David waxed faint. 16 And Ishbi-benob, (which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of 8 whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight,) he being girded with a (CHAP. 22.) new sword, thought to have slain a Ps. 116.2.3. b Ps. 18, title. 17 But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah c Deut.32.4. succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then d Ps.91.2. the men of David sware unto him, e Ge. 15.1. Ps.84.11. saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou fLuke 1.69. quench not the 9 lighto of Israel. g Pr. 18.19. David. q 1Sa. 16.9, 18 And it came to pass after this, h Ps.46.1,11. that there was again a battle with Jer. 16. 19. the Philistines at Gob: then Sib-1 or, pangs. bechai p the Hushathite slew 2 Belial. 10 Saph, which was of the sons of 11 the giant. 3 or, cords. 19 And there was again a battle i Jon.2.2. in Gob with the Philistines, where Ps.34.6,15. Elhanan the son of 12 Jaare-oregim, Ju.5.4. a Beth-lehemite, slew the brother Hab.3.6,10. of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of m Job 26.11. whose spear was like a weaver's 4 by. beam. n Ps.97.3,4. o Is.64.1. 5 binding of 20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six P Ps.97.2. fingers, and on every foot six toes. 9 Eze.9.3. four and twenty in number; and r Ps. 104.3. he also was born to 13 the giant. 21 And when he 14 defied Israel, waters. Jonathan the son of Shimeah, g the brother of David, slew him. 22 These four were born to thet giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. CHAPTER XXII. Ps.29.3. u Nahum 1.4. 6 or, anger, or, great. A psalm of thanksgiving for God's 7 In my distress i I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear k my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. 8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven m moved and shook, because he was wroth. 9 There went up a smoke 4 out of his nostrils, and fire out n of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 10 He bowed o the heavens also, and came down and darkness p was under his feet. 11 And he rode upon a cherub, g and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings r of the wind. 12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, 5 dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. 13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. 14 The LORD thundered s from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice. 15 And he sent out arrows, t and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them. 16 And the channels of the sea u appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his 6 nostrils. 17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of 7 many waters; v 18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. 19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay David's psalm 2 SAMUEL, XXIII. wch.15.26. 19 subdued under me. of thanksgiving 20 He brought me forth also into | B. C. 1018. | rose up against me hast thou a large place: he delivered me because he delighted w in me. 21 The LORD rewarded me accord-x 1Sa.26.23. ing a to my righteousness: according to the y cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 22 For I have kept z the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. y Job 17.9. z Pr.8.32. a Ps. 119.30. 8 to him. 9 before his eyes. b Mat.5.7. c Lev.26.23. 23 For a all his judgments were before me and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. 21 I was also upright 8 before him, 10 or,wrestle. and have kept myself from mined Dan.4.37. iniquity. 25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye-sight. 26 With the merciful & thou wilt show thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright. 11 or, candle. 12 or, broken. 13 or,refined. 14 riddeth, or looseth. 15 equalleth. e Hab.3. 19. 16for the war, 17 multiplied me. 18 ankles. 27 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froƒ Mal.4.3. ward c thou wilt 10 show thyself unsavoury. 28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save but thine eyes are upon the haughty, d that thou mayest bring them down. 29 For thou art my 11 lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. g Ps.44.5. 19 caused to bow. h Ge.49.8. Jos. 10.24. i Pr.1.28. Mi.3.4. k 2Kİ.13.7. 7 Mi.7.10. m ch.3. I. 30 For by thee I have 12 run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. 19.9,14. 31 Ás for God, his way is perfect; 20.1,2,22. the word of the LORD is 13 triedn Ps.2.8. he is a buckler to all them that 20 Sons of the 30 trust in him. stranger. 21 lie,or,yield feigned obedience, De.33.29. Ps.66.3. 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 14 maketh my way perfect. 31 He 15 maketh my feet e like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places. 35 He teacheth my hands 16 to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. 36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath 17 made me great. 37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my 18 feet did not slip. 38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them. o Mi.7.17. 22 giveth avengement for me, ch. 18.19,31. 1Sa.25.39. p Ps.52.1,5,8. 2Th.3.2. Ps.89.29,36. (CHAP. 23.) a Ps.78.70,71. b Lu.24.44. 1 c 2 Pet. 1,21, or, Betho ruler,&c. Ps. 110.2. d Pr.31.9. e Ex. 18.21. 39 And I have consumed them, 2Ch.19.7,9. and wounded them, that they f Pr.4.18. could not arise: yea, they areg Ps.79.6. fallen funder my feet. h ch.7.14-16. Is.55.3. 40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them g that 41 Thou hast also given me the h necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. 42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but a he answered them not. 43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust k of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire l ́of the street, and did spread them abroad. 44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings m of my people. thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen; n a people which I knew not shall serve me. 45 20 Strangers shall 21 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 o 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 22 avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me. 49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered p me from the violent man. 50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name. 51 He is the tower of salvation for his king and showeth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for everinore.q CHAPTER XXIII. David in his last words professeth his faith in God's promises. TOW these be the last words of Nowvid. David the son of Jesse Ν said, and the man who was raised a up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist ð of Israel, said, 2 The Spirit c 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, 1 He that ruleth over men must be just, & ruling in the fear e of God. 4 And he shall be as the light ƒ 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.g 5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an h everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my Catalogue of 2 SAMUEL, XXIII. David's mighty men. desire, i although he make it not to B. C. 1018. | Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief grow. 6 T But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, i Ps.73.25,26. because they cannot be taken with hands But the man that shall touch them must be 2 fenced with iron, and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire & in the same place. 8 T These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: 3 The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; (the same was Adino the Eznite :) he lift up his spear against eight hundred, 4 whom he slew at one time. 9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away: 10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil. 2 filled. Mat.3.10. 3 or, Josheb 4 slain. 5 or, for or, the three cap- 1Sa.22.1. 1 slain. 11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and 8 great of the people fled from the Philistines. acts. 12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and 9 lions of slew the Philistines; and the LORD wrought a great victory. God. among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, 7 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, 8 who had done many acts, he slew two lion-like men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow : 21 And he slew an Egyptian, 10 a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his 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 11 more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him 12 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, 27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mabunnai the Hushathite, 28 Zalmon the Ahohíte, Maharai the Netophathite, 29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a 13 And three of the thirty chiefs 10 a man of Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai 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. 14 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison 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 thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. counte nance, or 1 Ch.11.23, 11 or, honour- 12 at his com mand, or, 13 or, valleys. m ch.20.26. 17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I 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 n ch.11.3,&c. did these three mighty men. 18 And Abishai, the brother of out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, 30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the 13 brooks of Gaash, 31 Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, 32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, 33 Shamımah the Hararite, Ahiain the son of Sharar the Hararite, 34 Eliphelet the son of Aliasbai, 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, 37 Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armour-bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, 38 Iram an Ithrite,Gareb an Ithrite, 39 Uriah " the Hittite: thirty and seven in all. CHAPTER XXIV. David, tempted by Satan, forceth Joab to number the people. The three 2 SAMUEL, XXIV. plagues propounded. B. C. 1017. | thee in thy land? or wilt thou fleu AND again a the anger of the 2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, 2 Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number c of the people. 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 that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? 4 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went cut from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel. 5 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, d on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the 3 river of Gad, and toward Jazer:e 1 Satan. 1Ch.21.1, &c. Ja. 1.13,14. b Ch.27.23, 2 c d 24. or, Com. pass. Jer. 17.5. e Nu.32.1,3. g Jos. 19.28. m 1Sa.22.5. 1Ch.29.29. n Le.26.41, 43. while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. 14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD: (for his mercies are great :)p and let me not fall into a the hand of man. 15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. 16 And when the angel r stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented s him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enought stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing-place of Araunah ú the Jebusite. 17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have v sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, w what have they done? Let thine hand, I pray thee, against me, and against my father's house. 6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the 4 land of Tahtim-hodshi: and they came to Dan-jaan,f and o 1Ch.21.12.be about to Zidon, g 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 the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. or, many. p Ps. 103.8,14. Is.47.6. r Ex.12.23. Ps.90.13. 135.14. 9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unt the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that t Is.27.8. drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand inen. 57.16. u ver. 18. 10 T And David's heart smote h him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, Iv beseech thee, O LORD, take away k the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.l 11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad,m David's seer, saying, Ornan. w Ps.74.1. 50. z 1Ki. 19.21. 12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three a Ps.45.16. things; choose n thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seveno years of famine come unto Rev.1.6. 18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshing-floor of 6 Araunah the Jebusite. 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. 21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy z the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed y from the people. 22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen z for burntsacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood. 23 All these things did Araunah, as a king, a give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept b thee. b Job 42.8.9. 24 And the king said unto ArauEze.20.40, nah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt-offerings unto the LORD 41. The First Book of the KINGS, commonly called From the Creation, 2989....Before Christ, 1015.... Year of David, 40. CHAPTER I. Solomon, by David's appointment, is anointed king. Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. 2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let 2 there be sought for my lord the king 3 a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her 4 cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat. 3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 4 And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not. 5 T Then Adonijah a the son of Haggith exalted himself, b saying, 1 will 5 be king: and c he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. 6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom. 7 And 7 he conferred with Joab d the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathare the priest and they, 8 following Adonijah, helped him. B. C. 1015. Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not. 1 entered into days. them seek. 3 a damsel, a virgin. 4 be a cherisher unto. a 2Sam.3.4. b Lu. 14.11. 5 reign. c 2Sam. 15.1. from his This words d ch.2.23. e 2Sa.20.25. 8 helped after Adonijah. ch.4.18. g 2Sa.23.8, &c. 11 ¶ Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord 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 i unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly k 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 10 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. 16 And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said 11 What wouldest thou? 17 And she said unto him, My or, the well lord, thou swarest by the LORD Rogel, thy God unto thine handmaid, say2Sa. 17.17.ing, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne: 8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Na- h2Sa. 12. 1,&c. than the prophet, and Shimei, fand Rei, and the mighty men g which belonged to David, were not with i ver.30. Adonijah. 9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by 9 En-rogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants: 10 But Nathan & the prophet, and 1Ch.22.6-13. 10 fill up. 11 What to thee? Z ver.7-9. 18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not: 19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host; but Solomon thy servant hath he not called. |