11. SAMUEL. Ne smiteth the Philistine?.

Baanah his brother, the sons of Rim-, 12 And David perceived that the mon the Beerothite, and said unto LORD bad established him king over them, As the LORD iveth, who hath Israel, and that he had exalted his redeemed my soul out of all adversity, kingdom for his people Israel's sake. 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:

12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off 17 But when the Philistines heard their hands and their feet, and hanged that they had anointed David king them up over the pool in Hebron. But over Israel, all the Philistines came they took the head of Ish-bosheth, up to seek David; and David heard of and buried it in the sepulchre of Ab-it, and went down to the hold. ner in Hebron.

CHAP VI.

The ark brought to Jerusalem. beab, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.

5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of firwood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

6 And when they came to Nachon's threshing-floor, Uzzah put forth hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.

7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smate him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

8 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day.

9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?

10 So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

God's promise to inte bis household. And Michal the daugh ter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to-day, who uncovered himself to-day, in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!

21 And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before hy father, and before all his house, to appoint me tuler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: there fore will I play before the LORD.

22 And i will yet be more vile than thus, and will be age in mine own sight; and of the maid-servants which ou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.

23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Sau! had no child until the day of her death.

CHAP. VII.

AND it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;

2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an 11 And the ark of the LORD conti-house of cedar, but the ark of God. nued in the house of Obed-edom the dwelleth within curtains.

Gittite three months: and the LORD 3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, blessed Obed-edom, and all his house-do all that is in thine heart; for the old. LORD is with thee.

12 And it was told king David, say. ing, 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-ed-m into the city of David with gladness.

13 And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.

14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

15 So David and all the house of 15rael brought up the ark o: the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,

5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shait thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but bave walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.

7 in all the places wherein I bave walked with all the children of Israel spake a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom commanded to feed my people Isael, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

8 Now therefore so shalt thou say 16 And as the ark of the LORD came unto my servant David, Thus saith the into the city of David, Michal, Saul's LORD of hosts, I took thee from the daughter, looked through a window, sheep-cote, from following the sheep, and saw king David leaping and dan-to be ruler over ny people, over cing before the LORD; and she despi-Israel: sed him in her heart.

9 And I was with thee whithersever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that

17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings be-are in the earth. fore the LORD.

10 Moreover I will appoint a place 18 And as soon as David had made for my people Israel, and will plant an end of offering burnt-offerings and them, that they may dwell in a place peace-offerings, he blessed the people of their own, and move no more; ne in the name of the LORD of hosts. ther shall the children of wickedness 19 And he dealt among all the peo-afflict them any more, as beforetime, ple, even among the whole multitude 11 And as since the time that I comof Israel, as well to the women as men, manded judges to be over my people 10 every one a cake of bread, and a Israel, and have caused thee to resgood piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. from all thine enemies. Also the LORD Se all the people departed every one telleth thee that be will make thee an

to bis house.

20 Then David returned to blessi

house.

11 And when thy days be fulfilled

David's prayer and thanksgiving. II. SAMUEL. He subdurth the Philistiner thou hast promised this goodness unte thy servant :

and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers,
'I will set up thy seed after thee, which
shall proceed out of thy bowels, and
I will establish his kingdom.

13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men. and with the stripes of the children of

men:

15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established

29 Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O LORD God, hast spoken it and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever. CHAP. VU

AND after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.

2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And 17 According to all these words, and so the Moabites became David's seraccording to all this vision, so did Na-vants, and brought gits. than speak unto David.

for ever.

18 Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am 1, O LORD God and what is my house, that thou hast brought ine hitherto?

19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O LORD God; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the nanner of man, O LORD God?

20 And what can David say more into thee? for thou, LORD God, knowes: thy servant.

21 For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.

3 David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he. went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.

4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot-horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.

5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zorah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whi22 Wherefore thou art great, Othersoever he went. JORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, en like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a peo-1 ple to himself, and to make him a hame, and to do for you great things, and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

8 Aud from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David bad smitten all the host of Hadadezer,

10 Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought a gainst Hdadezer, and smitten him. 24 For thou hast confirmed to thy-for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. self thy people Israel to be a people And Joram brought with him vessels unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, of silver, and vessels of gold, and vesart become their God.

25 And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou last said.

sels of brass :

11 Which also king David did dedi. cate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of al nations which he subdued;

12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of

26 And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts ss the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be esta-Zobah. blished betore thee.

27 For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saving, I will build thee an house: therefore hath tay servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto

thee.

29 And now, O LORD God, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and

13 And David gat him a name when ne returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of Salt, being eigh teen thousand men.

44 And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout al! Edoin put he garrisons, and all they of Edoin became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.

David restareth Mephilasheth. CHAP. IX, X.

Hanun's villang.C -15 ¶ And David reigned over all Is- that dwelt in the house of Ziba were rael and David executed judgment servants unto Mephibosheth. and justice unto all his people.

16 And Joab the son of Zerurah was over the host: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;

17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub,

and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests: and Seraiah was

the scribe:

13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table and was lame on both his feet. CHAP. X.

AND it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned

18 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada | in his stead. was over both the Cherethites and ? Then said David, I will shew kindthe Pelethites: and David's sons were nessunto Hanon the son of Nabash, chief rulers.

AN

CHAP. IX.

as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him, by the band of his servants, for his father. And David's servants came in

ND David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jo-to the land of the children of Ammon. nathan's sake?

2 And there was of the house of Saul, a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they bad called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.

3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? nath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

3 And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that 1 4 Wherefore Hanun took David's may shew the kindness of God unto servants, and shaved off the one half him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jo- of their beards, and cut off their gar nathan hath yet a son, which is lamements in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

on his feet.

4 And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar. 5 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.

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 6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son children of Ammon sent and hired. of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the unto David, be fell on his face, and Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footdid reverence. And David said, Me-men, and of king Maacab a thousand phibosheth. And he answered, Behold men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand thy servant!

men.

7 And when David heard of it, he Joab, and all the host of the

mighty men.

7¶And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kind-sent pess for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.

8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate and the Sy9 And he bowed himself, and said, rians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and IshWhat is thy servant, that thou should-tob, and Maacah, were by themselves est look upon such a dead dog as in the field. I am ↑

9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto him, have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and to all his bouse.

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:

10 And the rest of the people he de10 Thou therefore, and thy sons, livered into the hand of Abishai his and thy servants, shall till the landbrother, that he might put them in arfor him, and thou shalt bring in the ray against the children of Ammon. fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread always at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

11 Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king bath commanded bis servant, so shall thy servant do. As for Mephibosbeth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.

12 And Mephibosheth had a young Son, whose naine war Micha. And all

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.

12 Be of good courage, and let us play the unen for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.

13 And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with hin, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fed before him.

ST. SAMUEL.

Uriah slain. 34 And when the children of Am-1 saying, Uriah went not down unto his mon saw that the Syrians were fled, house, David said unto Uriah, Camest then fled they also before Abishai, thou not from thy journey? why then and entered into the city. So Joab didst thou not go down unto thine eturned from the children of Ammon, house? and came to Jerusalem.

19 And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made 15 And he wrote in the letter, saypeace with Israel, and served them.ing, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.