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Second Samuel, Second Samuel one after the death of Saul,

when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David

remained two days in zig Lag, and on the third day,

behold a man came from Saul's camp with his clothes

torn and dirt on his head. And when he came

to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage.

David said to him, where do you come from? And

he said to him, I have escaped from the camp

of Israel. And David said to him, how did it go?

Tell me?

And he answered, the people fled from the battle, and

also many of the people have fallen and are dead,

and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.

Then David said to the young man who told him.

How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan

are dead?

And the young man who told him said, by chance,

I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there were

Saul leaning on his spear, and behold, the chariots and

the horsemen were close upon him.

And when he looked.

Behind him, he saw me and called to me, and

I answered, here I am.

And he said to me, who are you.

I answered him, I am an Amalekite, and he said

to me, stand beside me and kill me, for anguish

has seized me.

And yet my life still lingers.

So I stood beside him and killed him, because I

was sure that he could not live. After he had fallen,

and I took the crown.

That was on his head and the arm that was

on his arm, and I have brought them here to

my lord. Then David took hold of his clothes and

tore them, and so did all the men who were

with him. And they mourned and wept and fasted until

evening for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for

the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel,

because they had fallen by the sword. And David said

to the young man who told him, where do you

come from? And he answered, I am the son of

a sojourner and a Malachite. David said to him, how

is it you are not afraid to put out your

hand to destroy the lords anointed. Then David called one

of the young men and said, go execute him, and

he struck him down so that he died. And David said.

To him, your blood be on your head, for your

own mouth has testified against you, saying I have killed

the lords anointed.

And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan

his son, and he said it should be taught to

the people of Judah. Behold it is written in the

book of Jasher. He said, your.

Glorio Israel is slain on your high places.

How the mighty have fallen.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the

streets of Ashkalon. Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,

Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exalt you. Mountains of Gilboa,

Let there be no you or reign upon you, nor

fields of offerings. For there the shield of the Mighty

was defiled, the shield of Saul not anointed with oil,

from the blood of the slain, from the fat of

the Mighty. The bow of Jonathan turn not back, and

the sword of Saul return not empty. Saul and Jonathan

beloved and lovely in life and in death, they were

not divided. They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger

than lions. You, daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who

clothe you luxuriously in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold

on your apparel. How the mighty have fallen in the

midst of the battle. Jonathan lies slain on your high places.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. Very pleasant

have you been to me? Your love to me was extraordinary,

surpassing the love of women. How the mighty have fallen

and the weapons of war.

Perished Second Samuel two. After this, David inquired of the Lord,

shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah.

And the Lord said to him, go up. David said

to which shall I go up? And he said to Hebron.

So David went up there, and his two wives, also

a Hennen, wom of Jezreel, and Abigail, the widow of

Nabel of Carmel. And David brought up his men who

were with him, everyone with his household, and they lived

in the towns of Hebron. And the men of Judah came,

and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah.

When they told David.

It was the men of jabish Gilead who buried Saul.

David sent messengers to the men of jabish Gilead and

said to them, may you be blessed by the Lord,

because you showed this loyalty to Saul.

Your lord, and buried him. Now may the Lord show

steadfast love and faithfulness to you, and I will do

good to you because you have done this thing. Now, therefore,

let your hands be strong and be valiant, for saw

your lord is dead, and the House of Judah has

anointed me king over them.

But Abner, the son of Nr, commander of Saul's army,

took Ishboshev, the son of Saul, and brought him over

to Mahinaem, and he made him king over Gilead and

the Asterites, and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel. Ishboshev,

Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to

reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the

House of Judah followed David, and the time that David

was king in Hebron over the House of Judah was

seven years and six months. Abner, the son of Ner,

and the servants of Ishboshev, the son of Saul, went

out from Mahonaem to Gibeon, and Joab the son of Zuruya,

and the servants of David went out and met them

at the pool of Gibeon, and they sat down, the

one on the one side of the pool and the

other on the other side of the pool. And Abner

said to Joab.

Let the young men arise and compete before us.

And Joab said, let them arise. Then they arose and

passed over by number twelve for Benjamin and Ishbosha, the

son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David,

and each caught his opponent by the head and thrust

his sword in his opponent's side, so they fell down together.

Therefore that place was called helkap Hazarin, which is at Gibeon.

And the battle was very fierce that day, and Abner

and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants

of David, and the three sons of Zuruja were there, Joe,

ab Aby Shy and Assahel. Now Assahel was as swift

as foot as a wild gazelle. And Assahel pursued Abner,

and as he went he turned neither to the right

hand nor to the left from following Abner. Then Abner

looked behind him and said, is it you, asa Hel?

And he answered it is I. Abner said to.

Him, turn aside to your right hand or to your

left it seize one of the young men and take

his spoil.

But Assahel would not turn aside from following him, And

Abner said again to Assahel, turn aside from following me.

Why should I strike you to the ground?

How then could I lift up my face to your brother,

Joe ab But he refused to turn aside.

Therefore Abner struck him in the stomach with the button

whose so that the spear came out at his back,

and he fell there and died where he was. And

all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen

and died stood still. But Joe ab and a by

Shy pursued Abner, and as the sun was going down,

they came to the hill of Amma, which lies before

Gaya on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon. And

the people of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner and

became one group and took their stand on the top

of a hill. Then Abner called to Joe Abner.

Shall the sword the var forever?

Do you not know that the end will be bitter?

How long will it be before you tell your people

to turn from the pursuit.

Of their brothers, and Joab said, as God lives, if

you had not spoken, surely the men would not have

given up the pursuit of their brothers until the morning.

So Joeab blew the trumpet, and all the men stopped

and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight anymore.

And Abner and his men went all that night through

the Araba, they crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole morning,

they came to Mehonaeum. Joe Ab returned from the pursuit

of Abner, and when he had gathered all the people together,

they were missing from David's servants nineteen men besides Assahel.

But the servants of David had struck down of Benjamin

three hundred and sixty of Abner's men, and they took

up Assahel and buried him in the tomb of his father,

which was at Bethlehem. And Joeab and his men marched

all night, and the day broke upon them. At Hebron

Second Samuel three, there was a long war between the

House of Saul and the House of David, and David

grew stronger and stronger. The House of Salt became weaker

and weaker and sons were born to David at Hebron.

His first born was Amnon of Ahinoem of Jezreel, and

his second Kiliab of Abigail, the widow of Nabel of Carmel.

And the third Absalom, the son of Meeka, the daughter

of Talmai, king of Gesher, And the fourth Adonijah, the

son of Hageth, And the fifth Shephatiah, the son of

a Vital, and the sixth Hrium of Egla, David's wife.

These were born to David and Hebron. While there was

war between the house of Saul and the house of David,

Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul.

Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the

daughter of Aa, and Ishboshev said.

To Abner, why have you gone into my father's concubine.

Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ishbosha,

and said, am I a dog head of Judah.

To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the

house of Saul, your father, to his brothers and to

his friends, and have not given you into the hand

of David. And yet you charge me today with a

fault concerning a woman. God, do so to Abner. And

more also, if I do not accomplish for David what

the Lord has sworn to him, to transfer the kingdom

from the house of Saul and set up the throne

of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to

bear Shiva.

And is Boscha could not answer Abner another word because

he feared him. And Abner sent messengers to David on

his behalf, saying.

To whom does the land belong, make your covenant with me,

and behold my hand shall be with you to bring

over all Israel to you.

And he said, good, I will make a covenant with you,

but one thing I require of you, that is, you

shall not see my face unless you first bring Michael,

Saul's daughter when you come to see my face.

Then David sent messengers to Wish bosh saw son, saying.

Give me my wife Michael, for whom I paid the

bridal price of one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

And as Bocheth sent and took her from her husband, Paltiel,

the son of Leish. But her husband went with her,

weeping after her all the way to Beherim. Then Abner

said to him, go return, and he returned, and Abner

conferred with the elders of Israel, saying.

For some time past you have been seeking David as

king over you. Now then bring it about, for the

Lord has promised David, saying, by the hand of my

servant David, I will save my people Israel from the

hand of the hostines and from the hand of all

their enemies.

Abner also spoke to Benjamin, and then Abner went to

tell David at Hebron all that Israel, and the whole

house of Benjamin thought good to do. When Abner came

with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a

feast for Abner and the men who were with him,

and Abner said to David.

I will arise and go and will gather all Israel

to my lord, the King, that they may make a

covenant with you, and that you may reign over all

that your heart desires.

So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.

Just then the servants of David arrived with joab from

a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was

not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away,

and he had gone in peace. When Joab and all

the army that was with him came, it was told.

Joab, Abner the son of Ner came to the king,

and he has let him go, and he has gone

in peace.

Then Joab went to the king and said, what have

you got gone?

Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you

have sent him away? So that he is gone? You

know that after the son of Ner came to deceive

you and to know you're going out and you're coming in,

and to know all that you are doing.

When Joab came out from David's presence, he sent messengers

after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern

of Syrah. But David did not know about it. And

when Abner returned to Heaven, Joab took him aside into

the midst of the gate to speak with him privately,

and there he struck him in his stomach, so that

he died for the blood of Assahal his brother. Afterward,

when David heard of.

It, he said, I and my kingdom are forever guiltless

before the Lord for the blood of Abner, the son

of Ner. May it fall upon the head of Joab,

and upon all his father's house. And may the house

of Joab never be without one who has a discharge,

or who is leprous, or who holds a spindle, or

who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.

So Joab and aby Shy, his brother, killed Abner because

he had put their brother Asahel to death in the

battle at Gibeon. Then David said to Joab and to

all the people who were with him.

Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.

King David followed the buyer. They buried Abner at Hebron,

and the king lifted up his voice and wept at

the grave of Abner, and all the people wept, and

the king lamented for Abner, saying.

Should Abner die as a fool dies, your hands were

not bound, your feet were not fettered. As one falls

before the wicked, you have fallen.

And all the people wept again over him. Then all

the people came to persuade David to eat bread while

it was yet day. But David swore, saying, God.

Do so to me, and more also, if I taste

bread or anything else, till the sun goes.

Down, and all the people took notice of it, and

it pleased them, as everything that the king did pleased

all the people. So all the people and all Israel

understood that day that it had not been the king's

will to put to death Abner, the son of Nerd.

And the king said to his servants, do.

You not know that a prince and a great man

has fallen in this day in Israel?

And I was gentle today, though anointed king.

These men, the sons of Zuruja, are more severe than I.

The Lord repay the evildoer according to his wickedness.

Second Samuel four. When Ishbosheth SAAL's sun heard that Abner

had died at Hebron, his courage failed and all Israel

was dismayed. Now Saul's sun had two men who were

captains of raiding bands. The name of the one was Bayona,

and the name of the other recap sons of Wrimen,

a man of Benjamin from Biirath, for Biirath also is

counted part of Benjamin. The Beurrethites fled to Gaetaeum and

have been sojourners there to this day. The son of

Saul had a son who was crippled in his feet.

He was five years old when the news about Saul

and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him

up and fled, And as she fled in her haste,

he fell and became lame. And his name was Maphibushev.

Now the sons of Rimen, the Beurrethite, Reecab and Bayona

set out, and about the heat of the day they

came to the house of Ishboshev as he was taking

his noonday rest. And they came into the midst of

the house as if to get wheat, and they stabbed

him in the stomach. Then Reecabin Bayona, his brother, escaped.

When they came into the house, as he lay on

his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put

him to death and beheaded him. They took his head

and went by the way of the Araba all night

and brought the head of Ishboshev to David at Hebron,

And they said to the King.

Here is the head of Ishboshev, the son of Saul,

your enemy, who sought your life.

The Lord has avenged.

My lord the King this day on Saul and on

his offspring.

But David answered Recabin Bayona, his brother, the sons of women,

the Beerythite.

As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life out

of every adversity. When one told me, behold, Saul is dead,

and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him

and killed him at zick Lang, which was the reward

I gave him for his news. How much more, when

wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own

house on his bed, shall I not now require his

blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth.

And David commanded his young men, and they killed them

and cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them

beside the pool at hebronhim. But they took the head

of Ashboshev and buried it in the tomb of Abner

at Hebron second Samuel five. Then all the tribes of

Israel came to David at Hebron and said, behold.

We are your bone and flesh.

In times past, when Saul was king.

Over us, it was you who let out and brought

in Israel. And the Lord said to you, you shall

be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be

prince over Israel.

So all the elders of Israel came to the king

at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them

at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king

over Israel. David was thirty years old when he began

to reign, and he reigned forty years, and Hebron he

reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and at

Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty three years.

And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against

the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David.

You will not come in here, but the blind and

the lame will ward you off, thinking David cannot come

in here.

Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is the

city of David. And David said, on that day.

Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the

water shaft to attack the lame and the blind, who

are hated by David's soul.

Therefore it is said.

The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

And David lived in the stronghold and called it the

City of David. And David built the city all around

from the millow inward, and David became greater and greater.

For the Lord, the God of Hosts, was with him.

And Hiram, king of Tire, sent messengers to David and

cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.

And David knew that the Lord had established him king

over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for

the sake of his people Israel. And David took more

concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron,

and more sons and daughters were born to David. And

these are the names of those who were born to

him in Jerusalem, Muah, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nephig, Jefiah, Elishima, Eliadah,

and Eliphilete. When the Philistines heard that David had been

anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to

search for David. But David heard of it and went

down to the stronghold. Now the Philistines had come and

spread out in the valley of Rephaem, and David inquired

of the Lord.

Shall I go up against the Philistines?

Will you give them into my hand. And the Lord

said to David.

Go up, for I will certainly get the Philistines into

your hand.

And David came to bail Parish, and David defeated them there,

and he said.

The Lord has burst through my enemies before me like

a bursting flood.

Therefore the name of that place is called Baale Parism.

And the Philistines left their idols there, and David and

his men carried them away. And the Philistines came up

yet again and spread out in the valley of Rephaem.

And when David inquired of the Lord, he said, you

shall not.

Go up, go around to their rear and come against

them opposite the balsam trees. And when you hear the

sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees,

then rouse yourself, for then the Lord has gone out

before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.

And David did as the Lord commanded him and struck

down the Philistines from Giba to Geezer. Second Samuel six,

David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel. Thirty

thousand and David arose and went with all the people

who were with him from Bailey Judah to bring up

from there the Ark of God, which is called by

the name of the Lord of Hosts, who sits enthroned

on the Cherubim. And they carried the Ark of God

on a new cart and brought it out of the

house of a Bindab, which was on the hill. And

Azza and Ohio, the sons of a Benedab, were driving

the new cart with the Ark of God, and Ohio

went before the ark, and David and all the house

of Israel were making merry before the Lord, with songs

and liars, and harps and tambourines and castanets and symbols.

And when they came to the threshing floor of nacon,

Aza put out his hand to the Ark of God

and took hold of it. The oxen stumbled, and the

anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzah, and God

struck him down there because of his error, and he

died there beside the Ark of God. And David was

angry because the Lord had burst forth against Uzah. And

that place is called Peiras Azza to this day. And

David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said,

how can the Ark of the Lord come to me.

So David was not willing to take the Ark of

the Lord into the city of David. But David took

it aside to the house of obed Edom the Gittite,

and the Ark of the Lord remained in the house

of obed Edom the Gittite three months, and the Lord

blessed obit Edam and all his household. And it was

told King David.

The Lord has blessed the household of obed Edom and

all that belongs to him because of the Ark of God.

So David went and brought up the Ark of God

from the house of obed Edom to the city of

David with rejoicing. And when those who bore the Ark

of the Lord had gone six steps, he sacrificed an

ox and a fattened animal. And David danced before the

Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a

linen ephod. So David, in all the house of Israel

brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouting and

with the sound of the horn. As the Ark of

the Lord came into the city of David, Michael, the

daughter of Saul, looked out of the window and saw

King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she

despised him in her heart. And they brought in the

Ark of the Lord and said it in its place

inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And

David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and

the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name

of the Lord of Hosts, and distributed among all the

people the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women,

a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a

cake of raisins to each one. Then all the people departed,

each to his house, and David returned to bless his household.

But Michael, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet

David and said.

How the King of Israel honored himself today uncovering himself

today before the eyes of his servants, female servants, has

one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself.

And David said to Michael, it was before the Lord

who chose me, above your father and above all his house,

to appoint me as prince over Israel the people of

the Lord.

And I will make Mary before the Lord, I will

make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will

be abased in your eyes.

But by the.

Female servants of whom you have spoken. By them, I

shall be held in honor.

And Michael, the daughter of Saul, had no child to

the day of her death. Second Samuel seven. Now, when

the king lived in his house and the Lord had

given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, the king

said to Nathan the prophet.

See, now I dwell in a house of cedar, but

the Ark of God dwells in a tent.

And Nathan said to the King.

Go do all that is in your heart, for the

Lord is with you.

But that same night the word of the Lord came

to Nathan.

Go and tell my servant David. Thus says the Lord,

would you build me a house to dwell in. I

have not lived in a house since the day I

brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day.

But I have been moving about in a tent for

my dwelling. In all places where I have moved with

all the people of Israel. Did I speak a word

with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded

to shepherd my people Israel, saying, why have you not built.

Me a house of cesar. Now?

Therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David. Thus

says the Lord of Hosts, I took you from the pasture,

from following the sheep, that you should be prince over

my people Israel. And I have been with you wherever

you went, and have cut off all your enemies from

before you. And I will make for you a great name,

like the name of the great ones of the earth.

And I will appoint a place for my people Israel,

and will plant them so that they may dwell in

their own place and be disturbed no more, and violent

men shall afflict them no more as formerly from the

time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And

I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover,

the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make

you a house. When your days are fulfilled, and you

lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your

offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and

I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house

for my name, and I will establish the throne of

his kingdom.

Forever.

I will be to him a father and he shall

be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I

will discipline him with the rod of men, with the

stripes of the sons of men. But my steadfast love

will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul,

whom I put away from. Before you, and your house

and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me.

Your throne shall be established forever.

In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with

all this vision, Nathan spoke to David. Then King David

went in and sat before the Lord, and said.

Who am i, O Lord God? And what is my

house that you have brought me thus are? And yet

this was a small thing.

In your eyes, O Lord God.

You have spoken also of your servant's house for a

great while to come. And this is instruction for mankind,

O Lord God. And what more can David say to you?

For you know your servant, O Lord God, because of

your promise, and according to your own heart, you have

brought about all this greatness to make your servant know it.

Therefore you are great, O Lord God, for there is

none like you, and there is no god besides you.

According to all.

That we have heard, with our ears, and who is

like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom

God went to redeem to be his people, making himself

a name, and doing for them great and awesome things.

By driving out before your people whom you redeemed for

yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods, and you

established for yourself your people Israel, to be your people forever,

and you, o Lord, became their god. And now, O

Lord God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken

concerning your servant and concerning his house. And do as

you have spoken, and your name will be magnified forever, saying,

the Lord of Hosts is God over Israel, and the

house of your servant, David, will be established before you.

For you, o Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel,

have made this revelation to your servant, saying, I will

build you a house. Therefore, your servant has found courage

to pray this prayer to you. And now, O Lord God,

you are God, and your words are true, and you

have promised this good thing to your servant. Now, therefore,

may it please you to bless the house of your servant,

so that it may continue forever before you. For you,

o Lord, God, have spoken, and with your blessing shall

the house of your servant be blessed forever.

Ever Second Samuel eight. After this, David defeated the Philistines

and subdued them. And David took mythig Amma out of

the hand of the Philistines. And he defeated moab and

he measured them with a line, making them lie down

on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put

to death, and one full line to be spared. And

the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute. David

also defeated hey Dad Isser, the son of Rihab, king

of Zoba, as he went to restore his power at

the river Euphrates, and David took from him one thousand,

seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand foot soldiers. And David

hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough for one

hundred chariots. And when the Syrians of Damascus came to

help Haydad Easar, king of Zoba, David struck down twenty

two thousand men of the Syrians. Then David put garrisons

in Aram of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to

David and brought tribute, and the Lord gave victory to

David wherever he went. And David took the shields of

gold that were carried by the servants of Haydad Easar

and brought them to Jerusalem, and from Beta and from

Beirothi cities of Haydad Eaesar. King David took very much bronze.

When Toi, king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated

the whole army of Haydad Easer, Toy sent his son

Joram to King David to ask about his health and

to bless him because he had fought against Haydad Easer

and defeated him. For Haydad Easar had often been at

war with Toy, and Joram brought with him articles of silver,

of gold, and of bronze. These also King David dedicated

to the Lord, together with the s silver and gold

that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued, from Edom, Moab,

the Ammonites, the Philistines, Amelek, and from the spoil of

Haydad Ezer, the son of Rihab, king of Zobah, and

David made a name for himself when he returned from

striking down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Then he put garrisons in edom. Throughout all Edom he

put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants, and

the lord gave victory to David wherever he went. So

David reigned over all Israel, and David administered justice and

equity to all his people. Joab the son of Zurujah,

was over the army, and Jehashafat, the son of a Hilot,

was recorded, and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech

the son of Abiathar were priests, and Soireea was secretary.

And Benea, the son of Jehoyada was over the Keathites

and the Pelethites, and David's sons were priests. Second Samuel

nine and David said, is.

There still anyone left of the House of Saul that

I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake.

Now there was a servant of the House of Saul

whose name was Ziba, And they called him to David

Abe and the king said to him, are you Ziba?

And he said, I am your servant, And the.

King said, is there not still someone of the house

of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God

to him.

Zaiba said to the king.

There is still a son of Jonathan. He is crippled

in his feet.

The king said to him, where is he? And Ziba

said to the king.

He is in the house of Maker, the son of

ama at Lo Deber.

Then King David sent and brought him from the house

of Makir, the son of Amiel at Lo Deber. And Mamphibishev,

the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David

and fell on his face and paid homage. And David said, Maphibashev,

And he.

Answered, behold, I am your servant.

And David said to him, do not fear, for I

will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan.

And I will restore to you all the land of Saul,

your father, and you shall eat at my table always.

And he paid homage and said, what is your servant

that you should show regard for a dead dog such

as I. Then the king called Zaiba Saul's servant and

said to him.

All that belonged to Saul and to all his house,

I have given to your master's grandsons, And you and

your sons and your servants shall till the land for him,

and shall bring in the produce that you, your master's grandson.

May have bread to eat.

But Mephiboshef, your master's grandson, shall always eat at my table.

Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. Then Ziba

said to the king.

According to all that my lord the king commands his servant,

so will your servant do so.

Mamphibischef ate at David's table like one of the king's sons.

And Maphibischef had a young son whose name was Micah.

And all who lived in Ziba's house became Maphibisheth's servants.

So Mamphibischef lived in Jerusalem, for he ate always at

the king's table. Now he was lame in both his

feet Second Samuel. Ten After this, the king of the

Ammonites died, and Henan, his son, reigned in his place.

And David said, I will.

Deal loyally with Hanan, the son of Nahash, as his

father dealt loyally with me.

So David sent by his servants to console him concerning

his father and David's servants came into the land of

the Ammonites. But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hainan.

Their lord, do you think because David has sent comforters

to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not

David sent his servants to you to search the city

and to spy it out and to overthrow it.

So Hanin took David's servants and shaved off half the

beard of each and cut off their garments in the

middle at their hips, and sent them away. When it

was told David, he sent to meet them, for the

men were greatly ashamed, and the king said.

Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then returned.

When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench

to David, the Ammonite sent and hired the Syrian of

beth Rehab and the Syrians of Zoba twenty thousand foot soldiers,

and the king of Mayica with one thousand men, and

the men of Top twelve thousand men. And when David

heard of it, he sent Joab and all the hosts

of the mighty men, and the Ammonites came out and

drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate,

and the Syrians of Zoba and of Rehob, and the

men of Tob and Mayaka were by themselves in the

open country. When Joab saw that the battle was set

against him, both in front and in the rear, he

chose some of the best men of Israel and arrayed

them against the Syrians. The rest of his men he

put in the charge of a Baishai, his brother, and

he arrayed them against the Ammonites.

And he said, if the Syrians are too strong for me,

then you shall help me. But if the Ammonites are

too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

Be of good courage, and let us speak courageous for

our people and for the cities of our God. And

may the Lord do what seems good to him.

So Joab and the people who were with him drew

near to battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.

And when the Amonites saw that the Syrians fled, they

likewise fled before a by Shi and entered the city.

Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came

to Jerusalem. But when the Syrians saw that they had

been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together, and Haydad

Isar sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond

the Euphrates. They came to Helim, with Shobach, the commander

of the army of Haydad Eazar, at their head, and

when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together

and crossed the Jordan and came to Helim. The Syrians

arrayed themselves against David and fought with him, and the

Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians

the men of seven hundred chariots and forty thousand horsemen,

and wounded showback the commander of their army, so that

he died there. And when all the kings who were

servants of Haydad saw that they had been defeated by Israel,

they made peace with Israel and became subject to them.

So the Syrians were afraid to save the Ammonites anymore.

Second Samuel eleven, in the spring of the year, the

time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab

and his servants with him and all Israel, and they

ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabba, But David remained at Jerusalem.

It happened late one afternoon when David arose from his

couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house,

that he saw from the roof a woman bathing. And

the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired

about the woman, And one said.

Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Elia, the wife

of Uriah the Hittite.

So David sent messengers and took her, and she came

to him, and he lay with her. Now she had

been purifying herself from her uncleanness. Then she returned to

her house, and the woman conceived, and she sent and

told David, I am pregnant. So David sent word to Joab,

send me Uriah the Hittite, and Joab sent Uriah to David.

When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing,

and how the people were doing, and how the war

was going. Then David said to Uriah, go down to

your house and wash your feet. And Uriah went out

of the king's house, and there followed him a present

from the king. But Uriah slept at the door of

the king's house with all the servants of his lord,

and did not go down to his house. When they

told David Uriah did not go down to his house.

David said to Uriah, have you not come from a journey.

Why did you not go down to your house?

Uriah said to David, the ark and Israel and Judah

dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants

of my lord are camping in the open field.

Shall I then go to my house to eat and

to drink and to lie with my wife.

As you live and as your soul lives, I will

not do this thing. Then David said to Uriah.

Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.

So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next,

and David invited him, and he ate in his presence

and drank so that he made him drunk. And in

the evening he went out to lie on his couch

with the servants of his lord, but he did not

go down to his house. In the morning, David wrote

a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand

of Uriah. In the letter, he wrote, set Uriah in

the forefront of the hardest fighting, and.

Then draw back from him, that he may be struck

down and die.

And as Joab was beseieing the city. He assigned Uriah

to the place where he knew there were valiant men,

and the men of the city came out and fought

with Joab and some of the servants of David. Among

the people fell Uriah the Hittite also died. Then Joab

sent and told David all the news about the fighting,

and he instructed the messenger.

When you have finished telling all the news about the

fighting to the king, then if the king's anger rises,

and if he says to you, why did you go

so near the city to fight?

Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?

Who killed a Bimelech, the son of Jerubashev, did not

a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall,

so that he died at thebez Why did you go

so near the wall? Then you shall say your servant,

Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

So the messenger went and came and told David all

that Joab had sent him to tell. The messenger said

to David.

The men gained an advantage over us and came out

against us in the field, but we drove them back

to the entrance of the gate then the archer shot

at your servants from the wall. Some of the king's

servants are dead, and your servants Uriah the Hittite is

dead also.

David said to the messenger, thus shall you say to

Joeb do not let this matter trouble you, For the

sword devours now one and now another.

Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it, and

encourage him.

When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah, her husband

was dead, she lamented over her husband. And when the

morning was over, David sent and brought her to his house,

and she became his wife and bore him his son.

But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord

second Samuel twelve, and the Lord sent Nathan to David.

He came to him and said to him.

There were two men in a certain city, the one

rich and the other poor. The rich man had very

many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing

but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And

he brought it up, and it grew up with him

and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel,

and drink from his cup, and lie in his arms.

And it was like a daughter to him. Now there

came a traveler to the rich man, and he was

unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd

to prepare for the guests who had come to him.

But he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it

for the man who had come to him.

Then David Anger was greatly kindled against the man, and

he said to Nathan.

As the Lord lives, the man who has done this

deserves to die, and he shall restore the lamb fourfold.

Because he did this thing, and because he had no.

Pity, Nathan said to David, you.

Are the man. Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel.

I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you

out of the hand of Saul.

And I gave.

You your master's house and your master's wives into your arms,

and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah.

And if this were too little, I would add to

you as much more. Why have you despised the word

of the Lord to do what is evil in his sight?

You have struck down your Raiah the Hittite, with the swords,

and have taken his wife to be your wife, and

have killed him with the sword of the Amana. Now,

therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because

you have despised me and have taken the wife of

Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. Thus says the Lord, behold,

I will raise up evil against you out of your

own house, and I will take your wives before your

eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall

lie with your wives in the sight of this son.

For you did it secretly.

But I will do this thing before all Israel and

before the son.

David said to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord.

And Nathan said to David.

The Lord also has put away your sin. You shall

not die. Nevertheless, Yes, because by this deed you have

utterly scorned the Lord. The child who is born to

you shall die.

Then Nathan went to his house, and the Lord afflicted

the child that Euriah's wife bore to David, and he

became sick. David therefore sought God on behalf of the child.

And David fasted and went in and lay all night

on the ground. And the elders of his house stood

beside him to raise him from the ground, but he

would not, nor did he eat food with them. On

the seventh day, the child died, and the servants of

David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead,

for they said.

Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him,

and he did not listen to us. How then can

we say to him the child is dead. He may

do himself some harm.

But when David saw that his servants were whispering together,

David understood that the child was dead, and said to

his servants, is the child dead? They said, he is dead.

Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself,

and changed his clothes, and he went into the house

of the Lord and worshiped. He then went to his

own house, and when he asked, they set food before him,

and he ate. Then his servant said to him, what.

Is this thing that you have done. You fasted and

wept for the child while he was alive, but when

the child died, you arose and ate food.

He said, while the child was still alive, I fasted

and wept, for I said, who knows whether the Lord

will be gracious to me that the child may live?

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can

I bring him back again? I shall go to him,

but he will not return to me.

Then David comforted his wife Bethsheba, and went into her

and lay with it, and she bore a son, and

he called his name Solomon. And the Lord loved him

and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he

called his name Jedediah because of the Lord. Now Joab

fought against Rabba of the Ammonites and took the royal city.

And Joab sent messengers to David and said.

I have fought against Rabba. Moreover, I have taken the

city of waters. Now, then gather the rest of the

people together and encamp against the city and take it.

Lest I take the city, and it be called by

my name.

So David gathered all the people together and went to

Rabbah and fought against it and took it. And he

took the crown of their king from his head. The

weight of it was a talent of gold, and in

it was a precious stone. And it was placed on

David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the

city a very great amount. And he brought out the

people who were in it and set them to labor

with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made

them toil at the brick kilns. And thus he did

to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and

all the people returned to Jerusalem. Second Samuel thirteen, now Absalom,

David's son, had a beautiful sister whose name was Tamar.

And after a time Amnon, David's son, loved her. And

Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because

of his sister Tamar. For she was a virgin, and

it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.

But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the

son of Shimia, David's brother. And Jonadab was a very

crafty man, and he said to him.

Oh, son of the king, why are you so haggard

mourning after mourning?

Will you not tell me?

Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

Jonadab said to him.

Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill,

And when your father comes to see you, say to him,

let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat,

and prepare the food in my sight that I may

see it and eat it from her hand.

So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill, And

when the king came to see him, Amnon said to

the King, please.

Let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of

cakes in my sight that I may eat from her hand.

Then David sent home to Tamar, saying.

Go to your brother Amnon's house and prepare food for him.

So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house, where he

was lying down, and she took doe and kneaded it

and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.

And she took the pan and emptied it out before him,

But he refused to eat, and Amnon said, send out

everyone for me, so everyone went out from him. Then

Amnon said to Tamar.

Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat

from your hand.

And Tamar took the cake she had made and brought

them into the chamber to Amnon, her brother. But when

she brought them near him to eat, he took hold

of her and said to her, come lie with me,

my sister.

She answered him, no, my brother, do not violate me

for such a thing as not done in Israel. Do

not do this outrageous thing.

As for me, where could I carry my shame, and

as for.

You, you would be as one of the outrageous fools

in Israel.

Now, therefore, please speak to the king, for he will.

Not with a from you.

But he would not listen to her, and being stronger

than she, he violated her and lay with her. Then

Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the

hatred with which he hated her was greater than the

love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said

to her, get up, go, But she said to him, no, my.

Brother, for this wrong in sending me away is greater

than the other earth.

That you did to me.

But he would not listen to her. He called the

young man who served him, and said.

Put this woman out of my presence, and both the

door after her.

Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves, for

thus were the virgin daughters of the king dress. So

his servant put her out and bolted the door after her.

And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the

long robe that she wore. And she laid her hand

on her head and went away, crying aloud. As she went,

and her brother Absalom, he said to her, has am

none your brother been with you. Now hold your peace,

my sister.

He is your brother.

Do not take this to heart. So Tamar lived a

desolate woman in her brother Absalom's house. When King David

heard of all these things, he was very angry. But

Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom

hated Amnon because he had violated his sister Tamar. After

two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers at baal Hazor,

which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons.

And Absalom came to the king and said, behold.

Your servant has sheep shears. Please let the king and

his servants go with your servant.

But the king said to Absalom, no, my son, let

us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.

He pressed him, but he would not go, but gave

him his blessing. Then Absalom said.

If not, please, let my brother Ammon go with us.

And the king said to him, why should he go

with you? But Absalom pressed him until he let Amnon

and all the king's sons go with him. Then Absalom

commanded his servants.

Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine.

And when I say to you, strike Amdan, then kill him.

Do not fear.

Have I not commanded you be courageous and be valiant.

So the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom

had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and each

mounted his mule and fled. While they were on the way,

news came to David.

Absalom has struck down all the king's sons, and not

one of them is left.

Then the king arose and tore his garments and lay

on the earth, and all his servants who were standing by,

tore their garments. But Jonadap, the son of Shimia, David's brother, said, let.

Not my lord suppose that they have killed all the

young men the king's sons.

For Amnon alone is dead.

For by the command of Absalom, this has been determined

from the day he violated his sister Tamar.

Now therefore, let not my lord.

The king so take it to heart as to suppose

that all the king's sons are dead, for Amnon alone

is dead.

But Absalom fled, and the young man who kept the

watch lifted up his eyes and looked and behold, many

people were coming from the road behind him, by the

side of the mountain. And Jonadab said to the king, behold,

the king's sons have come. As your servant.

Said, so it has come about.

And as soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the

king's sons came and lifted up their voice and wept.

And the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly.

But Absalom fled and went to Talmi, the son of

a Maiha, king of Gesher, and David mourned for his

son day after day. So Absalom fled and went to Gesher,

and was there three years. And the spirit of the

king longed to go out to Absalom, because he was

comforted about Amnon since he was dead. Second Samuel fourteen.

Now Joab, the son of Zuruya, knew that the king's

heart went out to Absalom, and Joab sent to Tacoa

and brought from there a wise woman and said to.

Her, pretend to be a mortar and put on mourning garments.

Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a

woman who has been burning many days for the dead.

Go to the king and speak thus to him, so.

Joab put the words in her mouth. When the woman

of Tacoah came to the king, she fell on her

face to the ground and paid homage and said.

Say, your king.

And the king said to her, what is your trouble?

She answered, alas, I am a widow.

My husband is dead.

And your servant had two sons, and they quarreled with

one another in the field. There was no one to

separate them, and once struck the other and killed him.

And now the whole cloud has risen against your servant.

And they say, give up the man who struck his brother,

that we may put him to death for the life

of his brother.

Whom he killed.

And so they would.

Destroy the air.

Also, thus they would quench my coal that is left,

and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on

the face of the earth.

Then the king said to the woman, go to your house,

and I will give orders concerning.

And the woman of Tacoa said to the king.

And maybe they build my lord the king and on

my father's house.

Let the king and his strong be guiltless.

The king said, if anyone says anything to you, bring

him to me, and he shall never touch you again.

Then she said, please.

Let the King invoke the Lord your God.

Let the avenger of blood kill no more, and my

son be not destroyed.

He said, as the Lord lives, not one hair of

your son shall fall to the ground.

Then the woman.

Said, please, let your servant speak a word to my

lord the King.

He said, speak, And the woman said, why.

Then have you planned such a thing against the people

of God? For in giving this decision, the king convicts himself.

Inasmuch as the King does not bring his banished one

home again.

We must all die. We are like water is built.

On the ground which cannot be gathered up again. But

God will not take away life, and he devises means

so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.

Now I have come to say this to my lord

the King, because the people have made me afraid. And

your servant thought, I will speak to the King.

It may be that the King will perform the request

of his servant. For the King will hear and deliver

his servant from the hand of the man that will

destroy me and my son, token from the heritage of God.

And your servant thought.

The word of my lord the King will set me

at rest, for my Lord the King is like the

Angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord

your God be with you.

Then the King answered the woman, do not hide from

me anything I ask you.

And the woman said, let my Lord the King speak.

The King said, is the hand of Joab with you?

And all this? The woman answered and said.

As surely as you live, my Lord the King. One

cannot turn to the right hand or to the left

from anything that my Lord the King has said. It

was your servant Joab who commanded me. It was he

who put all these words in the mouth of your

servant in order to change the course of things.

Your servant Joab did this.

But my Lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the

Angel of God, to know all things that are on

the earth.

Then the King said to Joab Ab, behold, now I

grant this.

Go bring back the young man Absalom. And Joab fell

on his face to the ground and paid homage and

blessed the king.

And Joab said, today your servant knows that I have

found favor in your sight, my Lord the King. In

that the King has granted the request of his servant.

So Joeab arose and went to Gesher and brought Absalom

to Jerusalem, and the king said, let.

Him dwell apart in his own house. He is not

to come into my presence.

So Absalom lived apart in his own house and did

not come into the king's presence. Now in all Israel

there was no one so much to be praised for

his handsome appearance as Absolom. From the soul of his

foot to the crown of his head, there was no

blemish in him. And when he cut the hair of

his head, for at the end of every year he

used to cut it, when it was heavy on him,

he cut it. He weighed the hair of his head

two hundred shekels by the king's wait. They were born

to Absalom, three sons and one daughter, whose name was Tamar.

She was a beautiful woman. So Absalom lived two full

years in Jerusalem without coming into the king's presence. Then

Absolom sent for Joab to send him to the king,

but Joab would not come to him. And he sent

a second time, but Joab would not come. Then he

said to his servants.

See Joab's field is next to mine, and he has

barley there, go and set it on fire.

So absalom servants set the field on fire. Then Joab

arose and went to Absalom at his house and said to.

Him, why have your servants set my field on fire?

Absolom answered Joab.

Behold, I send word to you come here, that I

may send you to the king to ask why have

I come from Guescher. It would be better for me

to be there still now. Therefore, let me go into

the presence of the king, and if there is guilt

in me, let him put me to death.

Then Joab went to the king king and told him,

and he summoned Absalom. So he came to the king

and bowed himself on his face to the ground before

the king, and the king kissed Absalom Second Samuel fifteen.

After this, Absalom got himself a chariot and horses and

fifty men to run before him. And Absalom used to

rise early and stand beside the way of the gate.

And when any man had a dispute to come before

the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and

say from what city are you? And when he said,

you're servant is off. And such a tribe in Israel,

Absalom would say to him.

See, your claims are good and right, but there is

no man designated by the king to hear. You would say, oh,

that I were judge in the land, then every man

with a dispute or cause might come to me, and

I would give him justice.

And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him,

he would put out his hand and take hold of

him and kiss him. Thus Absalom did to all of

Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom

stole the hearts of the men of Israel. And at

the end of four years, Absalom said to the King.

Please let me go and pay my vow which I

have vowed to the Lord in Hebron, For your servant

vowed a vow while I lived at Gesher in Aram, saying,

if the Lord will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem,

then I will offer worship.

To the Lord. The King said to him, go in peace.

So he arose and went to Hebron. But Absalom sent

secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying.

As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet,

then say Absalom.

Is king heaven with Absalom went two hundred men from

Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their

innocence and knew nothing. And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices,

he sent for a hithethel the Guylanite, David's counselor from

his city, Guilom. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the

people with Absalom kept increasing, and a messenger came to

David saying, the hearts.

Of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.

Then David said to all his servants who were with

him at Jerusalem, arise and let us flee, or else

there will be no escape for us from Absalom.

Go quickly, lest you overtake us quickly and bring down

ruin on us, and strike the city with the edge

of the sword.

And the king's servants said to the king.

Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord

the king decides.

So the king went out, and all his household after him,

and the king left ten concubines to keep the house.

And the king went out and all the people after him,

and they halted at the last house, and all his

servants passed by him, and all the Karathites, and all

the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gitthites who had

followed him from Ghad passed on before the king. Then

the king said to Ittai the Gittite, why do you

also go with us?

Go back and stay with the king, For you are

a foreigner and also an exile from your home. You

came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wonder

about with us? Since I go I know not where.

Go back and take your brothers with you, and may

the Lord show steadfast love and faithless to you.

But Itai answered the king.

As the Lord lives, and as my lord, the King lives.

Wherever my Lord, the King shall be, whether for death

or for life, there also will your servant.

And David said to Itai, go then pass on. So

Ittai the get passed on with all his men and

all the little ones who were with him, and all

the land wept aloud as all the people passed by,

And the king crossed the brook Kidrin, and all the

people passed on toward the wilderness, and the Biathar came up,

and behold, Zadok came also with all the Levites, bearing

the ark of the Covenant of God, and they set

down the Ark of God until the people had all

passed out of the city. Then the king said to Zadok.

Carry the Ark of God back into the city. If

I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, he

will bring me back and let me see both it

and his dwelling place. But if he says I have

no pleasure in you, behold here I am. Let him

do to me what seems good to him. The king

also said to Zadok the priest, are you not a seer?

Go back to the city in peace with your two sons,

A Jimaea as your son, and Jonathan, the son of

a Biathar. See, I will wait at the fords of

the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.

So Zadok and Abiathar carried the Ark of God back

to Jerusalem, and they remained there. But David went up

the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he

went barefoot and with his head covered. And all the

people who were with him covered their heads, and they

went up, weeping as they went. And it was told David,

I hate.

The fellows among the conspirators with Absalom.

And David said.

Oh Lord, please turn the counsel of a Hithafel into foolishness.

While David was coming to the summit where God was worshiped, Behold,

Hushai the Archive came to meet him, with his coat

torn and dirt on his head.

David said to him, if you go on with me,

you will be a burden to me. But if you

return to the city and say to Absalom, I will

be your servant, o King, as I have been your

father's servant in time past, So now I will be

your servant, then you will defeat for me the council

of a Hithethel. Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priest

with you there. So whatever you hear from the king's house,

tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. Behold, their

two sons are with them there, Ahemaez Zadok's son, and Jonathan,

a Biothar's son. And by them you shall send to

me everything you hear.

So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city just as

Absalom was entering Jerusalem. Second Samuel sixteen. When David had

passed a little beyond the summit, Zaiba, the servant of

Mephibushev met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing

two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred bunches of raisins,

a hundred of summer and a skin of wine. And

the king said to Ziba, why have you brought these?

Zaiba answered, the donkeys or for the king's household to

ride on. The bread and summer fruit for the young

men to eat, and the wine for those who faint

in the wilderness to drink.

And the king said, and where is your master's son.

Ziba said to the king.

Behold, he remains in Jerusalem. For he said, today the

house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of

my father.

Then the king said to Ziba, behold, all that belonged

to Maphibishev is now yours.

And Ziva said, I pay homage. Let me ever find

favor in your sight, my lord the King.

When King David came to behear him, there came out

a man of the family of the house of Salt,

whose name was SHIMIAI, the son of Ghira. And as

he came he cursed continually, and he threw stones at

David and at all the servants of King David, and

all the people, and all the mighty men were on

his right hand and on his left, and shimmy, I said,

as he cursed, get out, Get.

Out, you man of blood, you worthless man. The Lord

has a benched on you, all the blood of the

House of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, And

the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of

your son Absalom. See your evil is on you, for

you are a man of blood.

Then abye, shy, the son of Zurujah said to the king,

why you just dead dog? Curse my lord? The king,

let me go over and take off his head.

But the king said, what have I to do with you,

you sons of Zuruja? If he is cursing because the

Lord has said to him, cursed David, who then.

Shall say, why have you done so? And David said

to a Bye Shah and to all his servants, behold,

my own son seeks my life.

How much more are now made this Benjamin night Leave

him alone and let him curse, for the Lord has

told him to. It may be that the Lord will

look on the wrong done to me, and that the

Lord will repay me with good for his cursing.

Today, So David and his men went on the road,

while Shimi I went along on the hillside opposite him,

and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him

and flung dust. And the king and all the people

who were with him arrived weary at the Jordan, and

there he refreshed himself. Now Absalom and all the people

the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and a Hithefel

with him. And when Hushai, the archive, David's friend, came

to Absalom, Hushie said to Absalom.

Long live the king, Long live the king.

And Absalom said to Hushi.

Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you

not go with your friend?

And Hushi said to Absalom.

No, for whom the Lord and this people and all

the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be,

and with him I will remain. And again, whom should

I serve? Should it not be his son? As I

have served your father, so I will serve you.

Then Absalom said to a Hithefel.

Give your counsel.

What should we do. A Hithefel said to Absalom.

Go into your father's concubines, whom he has left to

keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you

have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands.

Of all who are with you will be strengthened.

So they pitched a tenth for Absolom on the roof,

and Absalom went into his father's concubines in the sight

of all Israel. Now, in those days, the counsel that

a Hithefel gave was as if one consulted the word

of God. So was all the counsel of a hithefel esteemed,

both by David and by Absalom. Second Samuel seventeen Moreover,

a hit Thefel said to Absolom.

Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise

and pursue David tonight. I will come upon him while

he is weary and discouraged, and throw him into a panic,

and all the people who are with him will flee.

I will strike down only the king, and I will

bring all the people back to you.

As a bride comes home to her husband.

You seek the life of only one man, and all

the people will be at peace.

And the advice seemed right in the eyes of Absolom

and all the elders of Israel. Then Absolom said.

Call Hushai the Archid also, and let us hear what

he has to say.

And when hush I came to Absalom, Absolom said to him.

Thus, has a Hitherfel spoken, shall we do as he says?

If not uspe Then hush I said to Absalom.

This time the council that a Hitherefel has given is

not good. Hush I said, you know that your father

and his men are mighty men, and that they are

enraged like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides,

your father is expert in war.

He will not spend the night with the people beholding.

Even now he has hidden himself in one of the

pits or in some other place. And as soon as

some of the people fall at the first attack, whoever

hears it will say there has been a slaughter among

the people who follow Absalom. Then even the value the

man whose heart is like the heart of a lion,

will utterly melt with fear. For all Israel knows that

your father is a mighty man, and that those who

are with him are valiant men. But my council is

that all Israel be gathered to you from Dan to

Beersheba as the sand by the sea for multitude, and

that you go to battle in person. So we shall

come upon him in some place where he is to

be found, and we shall light upon him as the

Jew falls on the ground, and of him and all

the men with him, not one will be left. If

he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring

roads to that city, and we shall drag it into

the valley until not even a pebble is to be

found there.

And Absalom and all the men of Israel, said.

The council of Hushai, the archive is better than the

council of a.

Hitefel, for the Lord had ordained to defeat the good

council of a Hithophel, so that the Lord might bring

harm upon Absalom. Then hush I said to Zadok and

Abiathar the priests.

Thus and so did Ahefela counsel Absalom and the elders

of Israel, And thus and so have I counseled. Now

therefore send quickly and tell David, do not stay tonight

at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means

pass over, lest the king and all the people who

are with him be swallowed up.

Now Jonathan and a Himaaz were waiting at him Rogel.

A female servant was to go and tell them, and

they were to go and tell King David, for they

were not to be seen entering the city. But a

young man saw them and told Absalom. So both of

them went away quickly and came to the house of

a man at Bahim, who had a well in his courtyard,

and they went down into it, and the woman took

and spread a covering over the well's mouth and scattered

grain on it, and nothing was known of it. When

Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house, they said,

where are Ahemaaz and Jonathan?

And the woman said to them they have gone over

the brook of water.

And when they had sought and could not find them,

they returned to Jerusalem. After they had gone, the men

came up out of the well and went and told

King David. They said, to.

Arise and go quickly over the water. For thus and

so has a Hithaphel counseled against you.

Then David arose and all the people who were with him,

and they crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, not one was

left who had not crossed the Jordan. When a Hithophel

saw that his council was not followed, he saddled his

donkey and went off home to his own city. He

set his house in order and hanged himself, and he

died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Then David came to Mahonaeum and Absalom crossed the Jordan

with all the men of Israel. Susalem had set Amesa

over the army instead of Joab. Ameisa was the son

of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigaw,

the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zuruya, Joab's mother, and

Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead. When

David came to Mahinaean show by the son of Nahash

from Rabba of the Ammonites, and Makir, the son of

Amiel from Lo Debar. And Barzillai, the Gileadite from Rogalum

brought beds, basins and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain,

beans and lentils, honey and curds, and sheep and cheese

from the herd for David and the people with him

to eat. For they said, the people are hungry and weary.

I'm thirsty in.

The wilderness second Samuel eighteen. Then David muster the men

who were with him and set over them commanders of

thousands and commanders of hundreds. And David sent out the army,

one third under the command of Joab, one third under

the command of a Baishai, the son of Zuruya, Joab's brother,

and one third under the command of Ittai, the Gittite.

And the king said to the men, I myself will

also go out with you. But the men said, you

shall not go out, for if we flee, they will

not care about us.

Half of us die.

They will not care about us. But you are worth

ten thousand of us.

Therefore it is better that you send us help.

From the city.

The king said to them, whatever seems best to you,

I will do so.

The king stood at the side of the gate while

all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

And the king ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai.

Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.

And all the people heard when the king gave orders

to all the commanders about Absalom. So the army went

out into the field against Israel. And the battle was

fought in the forest of Ephraim, and the men of

Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and

the loss there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.

The battle spread over the face of all the country,

and the forest devoured more people that nay than the sword,

and Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absolom

was riding on his mule, and the mule went under

the thick branches of a great oak, and his head

caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between

heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him

went on. And a certain man saw it and told Joab.

Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

Joab said to the man who told him what you

saw him, Why then did you not strike him there

to the ground. I would have been glad to give

you ten pieces of sal.

And a belt.

But the man said to Joabab, even.

If I felt in my hand the weight of a

thousand pieces of silver. I would not reach out my

hand against the king's sodden for in our hearing, the

king commanded you and aby Shy and Hippai, for my sake,

protect the young man Absalom. On the other hand, if

I had dealt treacherously against his wife, and there is

nothing hidden from.

The king, then you yourself would have stood aloof.

Joab said, I will not waste time like this with you,

and he took three javelins in his hand and thrust

them into the heart of Absalom while he was still

alive in the oak, and ten young men Joab's armored

bears surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him. Then

Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from

pursuing Israel. For Joab restrained them, and they took Absalom

and threw him into a great pit in the forest,

and raised over him a very great heap of stove,

and all Israel fled everyone to his own home. Now Absalom,

in his lifetime, had taken and set up for himself

the pillar that is in the King's valley. For he said,

I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.

He called the pillar after his own name, and it

is called Absalom's monument to this day. Then a jimai As,

the son of Zadok.

Said, let me run and carry news to the king

that the Lord has delivered him from the hand of

his enemies.

And Joab said.

To him, you are not to carry news today. You

may carry news another day, but today you shall carry

no news because the king's son is dead.

Then Joab said to the Kushite, go tell the king

what you have seen. The Kushite bowed before Joab and ran.

Then a jimai Az, the son of Zadok set again

to Joabb, come on, may let me also run out

of the Kushite.

And Joab said, why will you run, my son, seeing

that you will have no reward for the news.

Come what may, he said, I will run, So he

said to him rod. Then a Himaaz ran by the

way of the plane and out ran the Kushi. Now

David was sitting between the two gates, and the watchman

went up to the roof of the gate by the wall,

And when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he

saw a man running alone. The watchman called out and

told the king, and the king said, if he is alone,

there is news in his mouth. And he drew nearer

and nearer. The watchman saw another man running, And the

watchman called to the gate and said, see another man

running alone. The king said, he also brings news. The

watchman said, I think the running of the first is

like the running of a hema As, the son of Zadok.

And the king said, he is a good man and

comes with good news. Then a himae As cried out

to the king is well. And he bowed before the

king with his face to the earth, and said.

Let it be the Lord, your God, who has delivered

up the men who raised their hand against by Lord

the King.

And the king said, is it well with the young

man Absalom? Jemaas answered, when Joe absent, the King served yourself.

I saw it recommotion, but I do not know what

it was. And the King said, turn aside and stand here.

So he turned aside and stood still, and behold the

Kushite came. And the Kushite said.

Good news for my lord the King, for the Lord

has delivered you this day from the hand of all

who rose up against you.

The king said to the Kushite, is.

It well with the young man Absalom?

And the Kushite answered, made the enemies of my lord,

the king, and all who rise up aguinnesst you for evil,

be like that young man. And the king was deeply

moved and went up to the chamber over the gate

and wept. And as he went he said.

Oh, my son, Absalom, my son, my son, Absalom. Would

I had died instead of you, Oh, Absalom, my.

Son, my son. Second Samuel nineteen. It was told joe Abab.

Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.

So the victory that day was turned into mourning for

all the people. For the people heard that day the

king is grieving for his son. And the people stole

into the city that day as people steal in who

are ashamed when they flee in battle. The king covered

his face, and the king cried with a.

Loud oh, my son, Absalom, Oh Absalom, my son, my son.

Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, you.

Have today covered with shame the faces of all your

servants who have this day saved your life and the

lives of your sons and your daughters, and the lives

of your wives and your concubines, because you.

Love those who hate you, and hate those who love you.

For you have made it clear today that commanders and

servants are nothing to you. For today I know that

if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today,

then you would be pleased. Now, therefore, arise, go out

and speak kindly to your servants, For I swear by

the Lord. If you do not go, not a man

will stay with you this night, and this will be

worse for you than all the evil that has come

upon you from your youth until now.

Then the king arose and took his seat in the

gate game, and the people were all told, behold, the

King is sitting in the gate. And all the people

came before the king. Now Israel had fled, every man

to his own home, and all the people were arguing

throughout all the tribes of Israel.

Saying, the King delivered us from the hand of our

enemies and saved us from the hand of the Philistines.

And now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now, therefore,

why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?

And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar.

The priests say to the elders of Judah, why should

you be the last to bring the king back to

his house? When the word of all Israel has come

to the king. You are my brothers, you are my

bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the

last to bring back the king? And say to Himesa,

are you not my bone and my flesh?

God? Do so to me?

And more also, if you are not commander of my

army from now on in place of Joab.

And he swayed the heart of all the men of

Judah as one man, so that they sent word to

the king.

Return both you and all your servants.

So the king came back to the Jordan, and Judah

came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring

the king over the Jordan. And SHIMIAI, the son of Ghira,

the Benjamin knight from Behim, hurried to come down with

the men of Judah to meet King David, and with

him were a thousand men from Benjamin and Zaiba, the

servant of the House of Saul, with his fifteen sons

and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before

the king, and they crossed the fort to bring over

the king's household and to do his pleasure. And SHIMII,

the son of Ghira, fell down before the king as

he was about to cross the Jordan, and said to

the King, let not, my lord hold me guilty.

You remember how your servant did wrong on the day

my lord the King left Jerusalem.

Do not let the king take it to.

Heart, for your servant knows that I have sin.

Therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of

all the house of Joseph, to come down to meet

by Lord the king.

Abyshi, the son of Zuruya, answered, shall not Shimiya I

be put to death for this? Because he cursed the

Lord's anointed. But David said, what have I to do

with you, you sons of Zuruya, that you should this

day be as an adversary to me?

Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day?

For do I not know that I am this day

king over Israel. And the King said to SHIMIAI, you

shall not die, And the king gave him his oath,

and the Phibisheth, the son of Saul, came down to

meet the king. He had neither taken care of his feet,

nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes from the

day the king departed until the day he came back

in safety. And when he came to Jerusalem to meet

the king, the king said to him.

Why did you not go with me?

Methhibishev he answered, my lord, o King, my servant deceived me.

For your servant said to him, I will saddle the

donkey for myself that I may ride on it and

go with the king.

For your servant is lame. He has slandered your servant

to my lord the King.

But my lord the King is like the angel of God.

Do therefore what seems good to you. For all my

father's house were but men doomed to death before my

lord the King. But you set your servant among those

who eat at your table. What further right have I

then to cry to the king.

And the King said to him, why speak any more

of your affairs. I have decided you and Zaiba shall

divide the land.

And Mephibisheth said to the king, oh, let him take

it all, since my lord the King has come seathly home.

Now Barzili the Gileadite had come down from Roglim, and

he went on with the King to the Jordan to

escort him over the Jordan. Barsila was a very aged man,

eighty years old. He had provided the king with food

while he stayed at Mayonaum, for he was a very

wealthy man. And the king said to Barsili.

Come over with me, and I will provide for you

with me and Jerusalem.

But Barzilai said to the King, how many years have

I still to live that I should go up with

the king to Jerusalem.

I am this day eighty years old.

Can I discern what is present and what is not?

Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks?

Can I still listen to the voice of sin men

and singing women? Why then, should your servant be an

added burden to my lord the King. Your servant will

go a little way over the Jordan with the king.

Why should the king repay me with such a reward.

Please let your servant return that I may die in

my own city, near the.

Grave of my father and my mother.

But here is your servant Kim'am, let him go over

with my lord the King, and do for him whatever

seems good to you.

And the king answered, kim Hem shall go over with me,

and I will do for him whatever seems good to you,

And all that you desire of me, I will do

for you.

Then all the people went over the Jordan, and the

king went over, and the king kissed Barzila and blame him,

and he returned to his own home. The king went

on to Gilgal, and kim Haim went on with him.

All the people of Judah, and also half the people

of Israel brought the king on his way. Then all

the men of Israel came to the king and said

to the.

King, why have our brothers, the men of Judah stolen

you away and brought the king in his household over

the Jordan, and all David's been with him.

All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel.

Because the king is our close relative, Why then are

you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all

at the King's expense, or has he given us any gift?

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah,

we have ten shares in the King and in David. Also,

we have more than you.

Why then did you despise us? Were we not the

first to speak of bringing back our king?

But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer

than the words of the men of Israel. Second Samuel twenty.

Now there happened to be there a worthless man whose

name was Sheba, the son of Bikrai, a Benjamin knight.

And he blew the trumpet and said, we.

Have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance

in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents,

all Israel.

So all the men of Israel withdrew from David and

followed Siba, the son of Bikrai. But the men of

Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem.

And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the

king took the ten concubines whom he had left to

care for the house, and put them in a house

under guard, and provided for them, but did not go

into them. So they were shut up until the day

of their death, living as if in widowhood. Then the

king said to Amesa.

Call the men of Judah together to me within three

days and be here yourself.

So Amesa went to summon Judah, but he delayed beyond

the set time that had been appointed him. And David

said to a Bishi.

Now Sheba, the son of BIKRAI will do us more

harm than Absalom. Take your lord's servants and pursue him,

lest he give himself to fortified cities and escape from us.

And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Karathites,

and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men. They went

out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba, the son of Bikrai.

When they were at the Great Stone, that is in Gibeon,

Amesa came to meet them. Now Joab was wearing a

soldier's garment, and over it was a belt with a

sword in its sheath, fastened on his thigh, and as

he went forward, it fell out, and Joab said to Amesa.

Is it well with you, my brother?

And Joab took Amesa by the beard with his right

hand to kiss him. But Amesa did not observe the

sword that was in Joab's hand. So Joab struck him

with it in the stomach and spilled his entrails to

the ground without striking a second blow, and he died.

Then Joab and Abishai, his brother, pursued Siba, the son

of Bikrai, And one of Joab's young men took his

stand by a mesa and said.

Whoever favors Joab and whoever is for David, let him follow.

Joe Ab and Amesa lay wallowing in his blood in

the highway, and anyone who came by seeing him stopped.

And when the man saw that all the people stopped,

he carried a mesa out of the highway into the

field and threw a garment over him. When he was

taken out of the highway, all the people went on

after Joab to pursue Sheba, the son of Bikrai. And

Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel

of beth Meyica, and all the bik rights assembled and

followed him in. And all the men who were with

Joab came and besieged him. In able of beth Maica.

They cast up a mound against the city, and it

stood against the rampart, and they were battering the wall

to throw it down. Then a wise woman called from

the city.

Listen, listen, tell joe Ab come here that I may.

Speak to you.

And he came near her, and the woman said, are

you joe Ab? He answered I am.

Then she said to him, listen to the words of

your servant, and he answered, I am listening.

Then she said, they used to say in former times.

Let them, but ask counsel at Abel.

And so they settled a matter.

I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful

in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is

a mother in Israel.

Why will you swallow up the heritage of the lord.

Joe Ab answered, far be it from me.

Far be it that I should swallow up or destroy.

That is not true.

But a man of the Hilth hungry of Ephraim, called Siba,

the son of Vikrai, has lifted up his hand against

King David.

Give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city.

And the woman said to Joab, behold, his.

Head shall be thrown to you over the wall.

Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom,

and they cut off the head of Sheba, the son

of Bikrai, and threw it out to Joab. So he

blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every

man to his home, and Joab returned to Jerusalem to

the king. Now Joab was in command of all the

army of Israel, and Benea, the son of Jehoyidah, was

in command of the Karathites and the Pelethites, and a

Dorhum was in charge of the forced labor. And Jehashafat,

the son of a highlod, was the recorder, and Shiba

was secretary, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests, and the

Jayarite was also David's priest Second Samuel twenty one. Now

there was a famine in the days of David for

three years, year after year, and David sought the face

of the Lord.

And the Lord said, there is blood guilt on Saul

and on his house because he put the gibea Knites

to death.

So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them.

Now the gibeaon Kites were not of the people of Israel,

but of the remnant of the Amorites. Although the people

of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought

to strike them down in his zeal for the people

of Israel, and Judah, and David said to the Gibeonites,

what shall I do for you?

And how shall I make atonement that you may bless

the heritage of the Lord.

GIBBEA knight said to him, it is not a matter

of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house.

Neither is it for us to put any man to

death in Israel.

And he said, what do you say that I shall

do for you?

They said to the King, the man who consumed us

and planned to destroy us, so that we should have

no place in all the territory of Israel.

Let seven of his sons be given to.

Us, so that we may hang them before the Lord

at Ghibbia of Saal, the chosen of the Lord.

And the King said, I will give them. But the

King spared Maphibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because

of the oath of the Lord that was between them

between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul. The king

took the two sons of Rispa, the daughter of Aea,

whom she bore to Saul Armani and Maphibosheth, and the

five sons of Mirab, the daughter of Saul, whom she

bore to Adriel, the son of Barzilai, the Maholathite, and

he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and

they hanged them on the mountain before the Lord, and

the seven of them perished together. They were put to

death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning

of barley harvest. Then Rispah, the daughter of Aea, took

sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock from

the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from

the heavens, and she did not allow the birds of

the air to come upon them by day or the

beasts of the field by night. When David was told

what Rispah, the daughter of Aya, the concubine of Saul,

had done, David went and took the bones of Saul

and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men

of Jabish Gilead, who had stolen them from the public

square of beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them

on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa, and

he brought up from there the bones of Saul and

the bones of his son Jonathan. And they gathered the

bones of those who were hanged and they buried the

bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land

of Benjamin in Zelah in the tomb of Kish, his father,

And they did all that the king commanded. And after

that God responded to the plea for the land. There

was war again between the Philistines and Israel, and David

went down together with his servants, and they fought against

the Philistines. And David grew weary, and Ishbai binab, one

of the descendants of the Giants, whose spear weighed three

hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a

new sword, thought to kill David. But Abishai, the son

of Zurujah, came to his aid and attacked the Philistine

and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, you

shall no.

Longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench

the lamp of Israel.

After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob.

Then Sibeki the Hushathaite, struck down sap who was one

of the descendants of the Giants, and there was again

war with the Philistines at Gob, and el Hanan, the

son of Jerry Oregon, the Bethlehemite struck down Goliath the Gittite,

the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

And there was again war at Gath, where there was

a man of great stature, who had six fingers on

each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty four

in number. And he also was descended from the giants.

And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan, the son of SHIMIAI,

David's brother, struck him down. These four were descended from

the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand

of David and by the hand of his servants. Second

Samuel twenty two. And David spoke to the Lord the

words of this song on the day when the Lord

delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and

from the hand of Saul. He said, the Lord.

Is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God,

my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and

the horn of my salvation, my stronghold, and my refuge,

my savior. You saved me from violence. I call upon

the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I

am saved from my enemies, for the waves of death

encompassed me, the torrents of destruction assailed me. The chords

of shield entangled me. The snares of death confronted me.

In my distress, I called upon the Lord, to my God,

I called from his temple. He heard my voice, and

my cry came to his ears. Then the earth reeled

and rocked, The foundations of the heavens trembled and quaint.

Because he was angry, Smoke went up from his nostrils,

and devouring fire from his mouth.

Glowing coals flamed.

Forth from him.

He bowed the heavens and came down. Thick darkness was

under his feet. He rode on the cherub and flew.

He was seen on the wings of the wind. He

made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering

of water out of the brightness before him.

Coals of fire flamed forth.

The Lord thundered from heaven, and the most high uttered

his voice, and he sent out arrows and scattered them,

lightning and routed them. Then the channels of the sea

were seen. The foundations of the world were laid bare

at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of

the breath of his nostrils, he sent from on high.

He took me.

He drew me out of many water. He rescued me

from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for

they were too mighty for me. They confronted me in

the day of my calamity. But the Lord was my support.

He brought me out into a broad place. He rescued

me because he delighted in me. The Lord dealt with

me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of

my hands.

He rewarded me, for I.

Have kept the ways of the Lord and have not

wickedly departed from my God. For all his rules were

before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.

I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.

And the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,

according to my cleanness in his sight. With the merciful,

you show yourself merciful. With the blameless man, you show

yourself blameless. With the purified, you deal purely, and with

the crooked, you make yourself seem tortuous. You save a

humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to

bring them down. For you are my lamp o Lord,

and my God lightens my darkness. For by you I

can run against a troop, and by my God I

can leap.

Over a wall. This God, his way is perfect. The

word of the Lord proves true.

He is a shield for all those who take refuge

in him. For who is God but the Lord, and

who is a rock except our God. This God is

my strong refuge and has made my way blameless. He

made my feet like the feet of a deer, and

set me secure were on the heights. He trains my

hands for warm so that my arms can bend a

bow of bronze. You have given me the shield of

your salvation, and your gentleness made me great.

You gave a wide place for.

My steps under me, and my feet did not slip.

I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and did not

turn back until they were consumed.

I consumed them.

I thrust them through so that they did not rise.

They fell under my feet.

For you equipped me with strength for the battle. You

made those who rise against me sink under me. You

made my enemies turn their facts to me. Those who

hated me, and I destroyed them, They looked, but there

was none to say. They cried to the Lord, but he.

Did not answer them.

I beat them fine as the dust of the earth.

I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire

of the streets. You delivered me from strife with my people.

You kept me as the head of the nations. People

whom I had not known served me. Foreigners came cringing

to me.

As soon as they heard of me. They obeyed me.

Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their fortresses.

The Lord lives and blessed be my rock, and exalted

be my God, the luck of my salvation. The God

who gave me vengeance, had brought down people's under me,

who brought.

Me out from my enemies.

You exalted me above those who rose against me.

You delivered me from men of violence.

For this I will praise you, o Lord, among the nations,

and praises to your name Great salvation. He brings to

his king and shows steadfast love to his anointance, to

David and his offspring.

Forever, Second Samuel twenty three. Now these are the last

words of David, the oracle of David, David, the son

of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised

on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the

sweet Psalmist of Israel.

The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me.

His word is on my tongue.

The God of Israel has spoken, The Rock of Israel

has said to me. When one rules justly over men,

ruling in the fear of God, he dawns on them

like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on

a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout

from the earth. For does not my house stand so