UP. AND DAVID SAID, WHITHER SHALL I GO UP? AND HE SAID, UNTO HEBRON. # 2 SO DAVID WENT UP THITHER, AND HIS TWO WIVES ALSO, AHINOAM THE JEZREELITESS, AND ABIGAIL NABALS WIFE THE CARMELITE. # 3 AND HIS MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM DID DAVID BRING UP, EVERY MAN WITH HIS HOUSEHOLD: AND THEY DWELT IN THE CITIES OF HEBRON. # 4 AND THE MEN OF JUDAH CAME, AND THERE THEY ANOINTED DAVID KING OVER THE HOUSE OF JUDAH. AND THEY TOLD DAVID, SAYING, THAT THE MEN OF JABESHGILEAD WERE THEY THAT BURIED SAUL. # 5 AND DAVID SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THE MEN OF JABESHGILEAD, AND SAID UNTO THEM, BLESSED BE YE OF THE LORD, THAT YE HAVE SHEWED THIS KINDNESS UNTO YOUR LORD, EVEN UNTO SAUL, AND HAVE BURIED HIM. # 6 AND NOW THE LORD SHEW KINDNESS AND TRUTH UNTO YOU: AND I ALSO WILL REQUITE YOU THIS KINDNESS, BECAUSE YE HAVE DONE THIS THING. # 7 THEREFORE NOW LET YOUR HANDS BE STRENGTHENED, AND BE YE VALIANT: FOR YOUR MASTER SAUL IS DEAD, AND ALSO THE HOUSE OF JUDAH HAVE ANOINTED ME KING OVER THEM. # 8 BUT ABNER THE SON OF NER, CAPTAIN OF SAULS HOST, TOOK ISHBOSHETH THE SON OF SAUL, AND BROUGHT HIM OVER TO MAHANAIM; # 9 AND MADE HIM KING OVER GILEAD, AND OVER THE ASHURITES, AND OVER JEZREEL, AND OVER EPHRAIM, AND OVER BENJAMIN, AND OVER ALL ISRAEL. # 10 ISHBOSHETH SAULS SON WAS FORTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN OVER ISRAEL, AND REIGNED TWO YEARS. BUT THE HOUSE OF JUDAH FOLLOWED DAVID. # 11 AND THE TIME THAT DAVID WAS KING IN HEBRON OVER THE HOUSE OF JUDAH WAS SEVEN YEARS AND SIX MONTHS. # 12 AND ABNER THE SON OF NER, AND THE SERVANTS OF ISHBOSHETH THE SON OF SAUL, WENT OUT FROM MAHANAIM TO GIBEON. # 13 AND JOAB THE SON OF ZERUIAH, AND THE SERVANTS OF DAVID, WENT OUT, AND MET TOGETHER BY 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. # 14 AND ABNER SAID TO JOAB, LET THE YOUNG MEN NOW ARISE, AND PLAY BEFORE US. AND JOAB SAID, LET THEM ARISE. # 15 THEN THERE AROSE AND WENT OVER BY NUMBER TWELVE OF BENJAMIN, WHICH PERTAINED TO ISHBOSHETH THE SON OF SAUL, AND TWELVE OF THE SERVANTS OF DAVID. # 16 AND THEY CAUGHT EVERY ONE HIS FELLOW BY THE HEAD, AND THRUST HIS SWORD IN HIS FELLOWS SIDE; SO THEY FELL DOWN TOGETHER: WHEREFORE THAT PLACE WAS CALLED HELKATHHAZZURIM, WHICH IS IN GIBEON. # 17 AND THERE WAS A VERY SORE BATTLE THAT DAY; AND ABNER WAS BEATEN, AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL, BEFORE THE SERVANTS OF DAVID. # 18 AND THERE WERE THREE SONS OF ZERUIAH THERE, JOAB, AND ABISHAI, AND ASAHEL: AND ASAHEL WAS AS LIGHT OF FOOT AS A WILD ROE. # 19 AND ASAHEL PURSUED AFTER ABNER; AND IN GOING HE TURNED NOT TO THE RIGHT HAND NOR TO THE LEFT FROM FOLLOWING ABNER. # 20 THEN ABNER LOOKED BEHIND HIM, AND SAID, ART THOU ASAHEL? AND HE ANSWERED, I AM. # 21 AND ABNER SAID TO HIM, TURN THEE ASIDE TO THY RIGHT HAND OR TO THY LEFT, AND LAY THEE HOLD ON ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN, AND TAKE THEE HIS ARMOUR. BUT ASAHEL WOULD NOT TURN ASIDE FROM FOLLOWING OF HIM. # 22 AND ABNER SAID AGAIN TO ASAHEL, TURN THEE ASIDE FROM FOLLOWING ME: WHEREFORE SHOULD I SMITE THEE TO THE GROUND? HOW THEN SHOULD I HOLD UP MY FACE TO JOAB THY BROTHER? # 23 HOWBEIT HE REFUSED TO TURN ASIDE: WHEREFORE ABNER WITH THE HINDER END OF THE SPEAR SMOTE HIM UNDER THE FIFTH RIB, THAT THE SPEAR CAME OUT BEHIND HIM; AND HE FELL DOWN THERE, AND DIED IN THE SAME PLACE: AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT AS MANY AS CAME TO THE PLACE WHERE ASAHEL FELL DOWN AND DIED STOOD STILL. # 24 JOAB ALSO AND ABISHAI PURSUED AFTER ABNER: AND THE SUN WENT DOWN WHEN THEY WERE COME TO THE HILL OF AMMAH, THAT LIETH BEFORE GIAH BY THE WAY OF THE WILDERNESS OF GIBEON. # 25 AND THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER AFTER ABNER, AND BECAME ONE TROOP, AND STOOD ON THE TOP OF AN HILL. # 26 THEN ABNER CALLED TO JOAB, AND SAID, SHALL THE SWORD DEVOUR FOR EVER? KNOWEST THOU NOT THAT IT WILL BE BITTERNESS IN THE LATTER END? HOW LONG SHALL IT BE THEN, ERE THOU BID THE PEOPLE RETURN FROM FOLLOWING THEIR BRETHREN? # 27 AND JOAB SAID, AS GOD LIVETH, UNLESS THOU HADST SPOKEN, SURELY THENBOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfIRETH. AND DAVID SENT ABNER AWAY; AND HE WENT IN PEACE. # 22 AND, BEHOLD, THE SERVANTS OF DAVID AND JOAB CAME FROM PURSUING A TROOP, AND BROUGHT IN A GREAT SPOIL WITH THEM: BUT ABNER WAS NOT WITH DAVID IN HEBRON; FOR HE HAD SENT HIM AWAY, AND HE WAS GONE IN PEACE. # 23 WHEN JOAB AND ALL THE HOST THAT WAS WITH HIM WERE COME, THEY TOLD JOAB, SAYING, ABNER THE SON OF NER CAME TO THE KING, AND HE HATH SENT HIM AWAY, AND HE IS GONE IN PEACE. # 24 THEN JOAB CAME TO THE KING, AND SAID, WHAT HAST THOU DONE? BEHOLD, ABNER CAME UNTO THEE; WHY IS IT THAT THOU HAST SENT HIM AWAY, AND HE IS QUITE GONE? # 25 THOU KNOWEST ABNER THE SON OF NER, THAT HE CAME TO DECEIVE THEE, AND TO KNOW THY GOING OUT AND THY COMING IN, AND TO KNOW ALL THAT THOU DOEST. # 26 AND WHEN JOAB WAS COME OUT FROM DAVID, HE SENT MESSENGERS AFTER ABNER, WHICH BROUGHT HIM AGAIN FROM THE WELL OF SIRAH: BUT DAVID KNEW IT NOT. # 27 AND WHEN ABNER WAS RETURNED TO HEBRON, JOAB TOOK HIM ASIDE IN THE GATE TO SPEAK WITH HIM QUIETLY, AND SMOTE HIM THERE UNDER THE FIFTH RIB, THAT HE DIED, FOR THE BLOOD OF ASAHEL HIS BROTHER. # 28 AND AFTERWARD WHEN DAVID HEARD IT, HE SAID, I AND MY KINGDOM ARE GUILTLESS BEFORE THE LORD FOR EVER FROM THE BLOOD OF ABNER THE SON OF NER: # 29 LET IT REST ON THE HEAD OF JOAB, AND ON ALL HIS FATHERS HOUSE; AND LET THERE NOT FAIL FROM THE HOUSE OF JOAB ONE THAT HATH AN ISSUE, OR THAT IS A LEPER, OR THAT LEANETH ON A STAFF, OR THAT FALLETH ON THE SWORD, OR THAT LACKETH BREAD. # 30 SO JOAB, AND ABISHAI HIS BROTHER SLEW ABNER, BECAUSE HE HAD SLAIN THEIR BROTHER ASAHEL AT GIBEON IN THE BATTLE. # 31 AND DAVID SAID TO JOAB, AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, REND YOUR CLOTHES, AND GIRD YOU WITH SACKCLOTH, AND MOURN BEFORE ABNER. AND KING DAVID HIMSELF FOLLOWED THE BIER. # 32 AND THEY BURIED ABNER IN HEBRON: AND THE KING LIFTED UP HIS VOICE, AND WEPT AT THE GRAVE OF ABNER; AND ALL THE PEOPLE WEPT. # 33 AND THE KING LAMENTED OVER ABNER, AND SAID, DIED ABNER AS A FOOL DIETH? # 34 THY HANDS WERE NOT BOUND, NOR THY FEET PUT INTO FETTERS: AS A MAN FALLETH BEFORE WICKED MEN, SO FELLEST THOU. AND ALL THE PEOPLE WEPT AGAIN OVER HIM. # 35 AND WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE CAME TO CAUSE DAVID TO EAT MEAT WHILE IT WAS YET DAY, DAVID SWARE, SAYING, SO DO GOD TO ME, AND MORE ALSO, IF I TASTE BREAD, OR OUGHT ELSE, TILL THE SUN BE DOWN. # 36 AND ALL THE PEOPLE TOOK NOTICE OF IT, AND IT PLEASED THEM: AS WHATSOEVER THE KING DID PLEASED ALL THE PEOPLE. # 37 FOR ALL THE PEOPLE AND ALL ISRAEL UNDERSTOOD THAT DAY THAT IT WAS NOT OF THE KING TO SLAY ABNER THE SON OF NER. # 38 AND THE KING SAID UNTO HIS SERVANTS, KNOW YE NOT THAT THERE IS A PRINCE AND A GREAT MAN FALLEN THIS DAY IN ISRAEL? # 39 AND I AM THIS DAY WEAK, THOUGH ANOINTED KING; AND THESE MEN THE SONS OF ZERUIAH BE TOO HARD FOR ME: THE LORD SHALL REWARD THE DOER OF EVIL ACCORDING TO HIS WICKEDNESS. = CHAPTER 4 # 1 AND WHEN SAULS SON HEARD THAT ABNER WAS DEAD IN HEBRON, HIS HANDS WERE FEEBLE, AND ALL THE ISRAELITES WERE TROUBLED. # 2 AND SAULS SON HAD TWO MEN THAT WERE CAPTAINS OF BANDS: THE NAME OF THE ONE WAS BAANAH, AND THE NAME OF THE OTHER RECHAB, THE SONS OF RIMMON A BEEROTHITE, OF THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN: (FOR BEEROTH ALSO WAS RECKONED TO BENJAMIN. # 3 AND THE BEEROTHITES FLED TO GITTAIM, AND WERE SOJOURNERS THERE UNTIL THIS DAY.) # 4 AND JONATHAN, SAULS SON, HAD A SON THAT WAS LAME OF HIS FEET. HE WAS FIVE YEARS OLD WHEN THE TIDINGS CAME OF SAUL AND JONATHAN OUT OF JEZREEL, AND HIS NURSE TOOK HIM UP, AND FLED: AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SHE MADE HASTE TO FLEE, THAT HE FELL, AND BECAME LAME. AND HIS NAME WAS MEPHIBOSHETH. # 5 AND THE SONS OF RIMMON THE BEEROTHITE, RECHAB AND BAANAH, WENT, AND CAME ABOUT THE HEAT OF THE DAY TO THE HOUSE OF ISHBOSHETH, WHO LAY ON A BED AT NOON. # 6 AND THEY CAME THITHER INTO THE MIDST OF THE HOUSE, AS THOUGH THEY WOULD HAVE FETCHED WHEAT; AND THEY SMOTE HIM UNDER THE FIFTH RIB: AND RECHAB AND BAANAH HIS BROTHER ESCAPED. # 7 FOR WHEN THEY CAME INTO THE HOUSE, HE LAY ON HIS BED IN HISBOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfD THE NAME OF THAT PLACE BAALPERAZIM. # 21 AND THERE THEY LEFT THEIR IMAGES, AND DAVID AND HIS MEN BURNED THEM. # 22 AND THE PHILISTINES CAME UP YET AGAIN, AND SPREAD THEMSELVES IN THE VALLEY OF REPHAIM. # 23 AND WHEN DAVID ENQUIRED OF THE LORD, HE SAID, THOU SHALT NOT GO UP; BUT FETCH A COMPASS BEHIND THEM, AND COME UPON THEM OVER AGAINST THE MULBERRY TREES. # 24 AND LET IT BE, WHEN THOU HEAREST THE SOUND OF A GOING IN THE TOPS OF THE MULBERRY TREES, THAT THEN THOU SHALT BESTIR THYSELF: FOR THEN SHALL THE LORD GO OUT BEFORE THEE, TO SMITE THE HOST OF THE PHILISTINES. # 25 AND DAVID DID SO, AS THE LORD HAD COMMANDED HIM; AND SMOTE THE PHILISTINES FROM GEBA UNTIL THOU COME TO GAZER. = CHAPTER 6 # 1 AGAIN, DAVID GATHERED TOGETHER ALL THE CHOSEN MEN OF ISRAEL, THIRTY THOUSAND. # 2 AND DAVID AROSE, AND WENT WITH ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM FROM BAALE OF JUDAH, TO BRING UP FROM THENCE THE ARK OF GOD, WHOSE NAME IS CALLED BY THE NAME OF THE LORD OF HOSTS THAT DWELLETH BETWEEN THE CHERUBIMS. # 3 AND THEY SET THE ARK OF GOD UPON A NEW CART, AND BROUGHT IT OUT OF THE HOUSE OF ABINADAB THAT WAS IN GIBEAH: AND UZZAH AND AHIO, THE SONS OF ABINADAB, DRAVE THE NEW CART. # 4 AND THEY BROUGHT IT OUT OF THE HOUSE OF ABINADAB WHICH WAS AT GIBEAH, ACCOMPANYING THE ARK OF GOD: AND AHIO WENT BEFORE THE ARK. # 5 AND DAVID AND ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL PLAYED BEFORE THE LORD ON ALL MANNER OF INSTRUMENTS MADE OF FIR WOOD, EVEN ON HARPS, AND ON PSALTERIES, AND ON TIMBRELS, AND ON CORNETS, AND ON CYMBALS. # 6 AND WHEN THEY CAME TO NACHONS THRESHINGFLOOR, UZZAH PUT FORTH HIS HAND TO THE ARK OF GOD, AND TOOK HOLD OF IT; FOR THE OXEN SHOOK IT. # 7 AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS KINDLED AGAINST UZZAH; AND GOD SMOTE HIM THERE FOR HIS ERROR; AND THERE HE DIED BY THE ARK OF GOD. # 8 AND DAVID WAS DISPLEASED, BECAUSE THE LORD HAD MADE A BREACH UPON UZZAH: AND HE CALLED THE NAME OF THE PLACE PEREZUZZAH TO THIS DAY. # 9 AND DAVID WAS AFRAID OF THE LORD THAT DAY, AND SAID, HOW SHALL THE ARK OF THE LORD COME TO ME? # 10 SO DAVID WOULD NOT REMOVE THE ARK OF THE LORD UNTO HIM INTO THE CITY OF DAVID: BUT DAVID CARRIED IT ASIDE INTO THE HOUSE OF OBEDEDOM THE GITTITE. # 11 AND THE ARK OF THE LORD CONTINUED IN THE HOUSE OF OBEDEDOM THE GITTITE THREE MONTHS: AND THE LORD BLESSED OBEDEDOM, AND ALL HIS HOUSEHOLD. # 12 AND IT WAS TOLD KING DAVID, SAYING, THE LORD HATH BLESSED THE HOUSE OF OBEDEDOM, AND ALL THAT PERTAINETH UNTO HIM, BECAUSE OF THE ARK OF GOD. SO DAVID WENT AND BROUGHT UP THE ARK OF GOD FROM THE HOUSE OF OBEDEDOM INTO THE CITY OF DAVID WITH GLADNESS. # 13 AND IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN THEY THAT BARE THE ARK OF THE LORD HAD GONE SIX PACES, HE SACRIFICED OXEN AND FATLINGS. # 14 AND DAVID DANCED BEFORE THE LORD WITH ALL HIS MIGHT; AND DAVID WAS GIRDED WITH A LINEN EPHOD. # 15 SO DAVID AND ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL BROUGHT UP THE ARK OF THE LORD WITH SHOUTING, AND WITH THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET. # 16 AND AS THE ARK OF THE LORD CAME INTO THE CITY OF DAVID, MICHAL SAULS DAUGHTER LOOKED THROUGH A WINDOW, AND SAW KING DAVID LEAPING AND DANCING BEFORE THE LORD; AND SHE DESPISED HIM IN HER HEART. # 17 AND THEY BROUGHT IN THE ARK OF THE LORD, AND SET IT IN HIS PLACE, IN THE MIDST OF THE TABERNACLE THAT DAVID HAD PITCHED FOR IT: AND DAVID OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS AND PEACE OFFERINGS BEFORE THE LORD. # 18 AND AS SOON AS DAVID HAD MADE AN END OF OFFERING BURNT OFFERINGS AND PEACE OFFERINGS, HE BLESSED THE PEOPLE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD OF HOSTS. # 19 AND HE DEALT AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE, EVEN AMONG THE WHOLE MULTITUDE OF ISRAEL, AS WELL TO THE WOMEN AS MEN, TO EVERY ONE A CAKE OF BREAD, AND A GOOD PIECE OF FLESH, AND A FLAGON OF WINE. SO ALL THE PEOPLE DEPARTED EVERY ONE TO HIS HOUSE. # 20 THEN DAVID RETURNED TO BLESS HIS HOUSEHOLD. AND MICHAL THE DAUGHTER OF SAUL CAME OUT TO MEET DAVID, AND SAID, HOW GLORIOUS WAS THE KING OF ISRAEL TO DAY, WHO UNCOVERED HIMSELF TO DAY IN THE EYES OF THE HANDMAIDS OF HIS SERVANTS, AS ONE OF THE VAIN FELLOWS SHAMELESSLY UNCOVERETH HIMSELF! # 2BOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfR THOU HAST CONFIRMED TO THYSELF THY PEOPLE ISRAEL TO BE A PEOPLE UNTO THEE FOR EVER: AND THOU, LORD, ART BECOME THEIR GOD. # 25 AND NOW, O LORD GOD, THE WORD THAT THOU HAST SPOKEN CONCERNING THY SERVANT, AND CONCERNING HIS HOUSE, ESTABLISH IT FOR EVER, AND DO AS THOU HAST SAID. # 26 AND LET THY NAME BE MAGNIFIED FOR EVER, SAYING, THE LORD OF HOSTS IS THE GOD OVER ISRAEL: AND LET THE HOUSE OF THY SERVANT DAVID BE ESTABLISHED BEFORE THEE. # 27 FOR THOU, O LORD OF HOSTS, GOD OF ISRAEL, HAST REVEALED TO THY SERVANT, SAYING, I WILL BUILD THEE AN HOUSE: THEREFORE HATH THY SERVANT FOUND IN HIS HEART TO PRAY THIS PRAYER UNTO THEE. # 28 AND NOW, O LORD GOD, THOU ART THAT GOD, AND THY WORDS BE TRUE, AND THOU HAST PROMISED THIS GOODNESS UNTO THY SERVANT: # 29 THEREFORE NOW LET IT PLEASE THEE TO BLESS THE HOUSE OF THY SERVANT, THAT IT MAY CONTINUE FOR EVER BEFORE THEE: FOR THOU, O LORD GOD, HAST SPOKEN IT: AND WITH THY BLESSING LET THE HOUSE OF THY SERVANT BE BLESSED FOR EVER. = CHAPTER 8 # 1 AND AFTER THIS IT CAME TO PASS THAT DAVID SMOTE THE PHILISTINES, AND SUBDUED THEM: AND DAVID TOOK METHEGAMMAH OUT OF THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES. # 2 AND HE SMOTE MOAB, AND MEASURED THEM WITH A LINE, CASTING THEM DOWN TO THE GROUND; EVEN WITH TWO LINES MEASURED HE TO PUT TO DEATH, AND WITH ONE FULL LINE TO KEEP ALIVE. AND SO THE MOABITES BECAME DAVIDS SERVANTS, AND BROUGHT GIFTS. # 3 DAVID SMOTE ALSO HADADEZER, THE SON OF REHOB, KING OF ZOBAH, AS HE WENT TO RECOVER HIS BORDER AT THE RIVER EUPHRATES. # 4 AND DAVID TOOK FROM HIM A THOUSAND CHARIOTS, AND SEVEN HUNDRED HORSEMEN, AND TWENTY THOUSAND FOOTMEN: AND DAVID HOUGHED ALL THE CHARIOT HORSES, BUT RESERVED OF THEM FOR AN HUNDRED CHARIOTS. # 5 AND WHEN THE SYRIANS OF DAMASCUS CAME TO SUCCOUR HADADEZER KING OF ZOBAH, DAVID SLEW OF THE SYRIANS TWO AND TWENTY THOUSAND MEN. # 6 THEN DAVID PUT GARRISONS IN SYRIA OF DAMASCUS: AND THE SYRIANS BECAME SERVANTS TO DAVID, AND BROUGHT GIFTS. AND THE LORD PRESERVED DAVID WHITHERSOEVER HE WENT. # 7 AND DAVID TOOK THE SHIELDS OF GOLD THAT WERE ON THE SERVANTS OF HADADEZER, AND BROUGHT THEM TO JERUSALEM. # 8 AND FROM BETAH, AND FROM BEROTHAI, CITIES OF HADADEZER, KING DAVID TOOK EXCEEDING MUCH BRASS. # 9 WHEN TOI KING OF HAMATH HEARD THAT DAVID HAD SMITTEN ALL THE HOST OF HADADEZER, # 10 THEN TOI SENT JORAM HIS SON UNTO KING DAVID, TO SALUTE HIM, AND TO BLESS HIM, BECAUSE HE HAD FOUGHT AGAINST HADADEZER, AND SMITTEN HIM: FOR HADADEZER HAD WARS WITH TOI. AND JORAM BROUGHT WITH HIM VESSELS OF SILVER, AND VESSELS OF GOLD, AND VESSELS OF BRASS: # 11 WHICH ALSO KING DAVID DID DEDICATE UNTO THE LORD, WITH THE SILVER AND GOLD THAT HE HAD DEDICATED OF ALL NATIONS WHICH HE SUBDUED; # 12 OF SYRIA, AND OF MOAB, AND OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND OF THE PHILISTINES, AND OF AMALEK, AND OF THE SPOIL OF HADADEZER, SON OF REHOB, KING OF ZOBAH. # 13 AND DAVID GAT HIM A NAME WHEN HE RETURNED FROM SMITING OF THE SYRIANS IN THE VALLEY OF SALT, BEING EIGHTEEN THOUSAND MEN. # 14 AND HE PUT GARRISONS IN EDOM; THROUGHOUT ALL EDOM PUT HE GARRISONS, AND ALL THEY OF EDOM BECAME DAVIDS SERVANTS. AND THE LORD PRESERVED DAVID WHITHERSOEVER HE WENT. # 15 AND DAVID REIGNED OVER ALL ISRAEL; AND DAVID EXECUTED JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE UNTO ALL HIS PEOPLE. # 16 AND JOAB THE SON OF ZERUIAH WAS OVER THE HOST; AND JEHOSHAPHAT THE SON OF AHILUD WAS RECORDER; # 17 AND ZADOK THE SON OF AHITUB, AND AHIMELECH THE SON OF ABIATHAR, WERE THE PRIESTS; AND SERAIAH WAS THE SCRIBE; # 18 AND BENAIAH THE SON OF JEHOIADA WAS OVER BOTH THE CHERETHITES AND THE PELETHITES; AND DAVIDS SONS WERE CHIEF RULERS. = CHAPTER 9 # 1 AND DAVID SAID, IS THERE YET ANY THAT IS LEFT OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL, THAT I MAY SHEW HIM KINDNESS FOR JONATHANS SAKE? # 2 AND THERE WAS OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL A SERVANT WHOSE NAME WAS ZIBA. AND WHEN THEY HAD CALLED HIM UNTO DAVID, THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU ZIBA? AND HE SAID, THY SERVANT IS HE. # 3 AND THE KING SAID, IS THERE NOT YET ANY OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL, THAT I MAY SHEW THE KINDNESS OBOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddf THE SYRIANS: AND THEY FLED BEFORE HIM. # 14 AND WHEN THE CHILDREN OF AMMON SAW THAT THE SYRIANS WERE FLED, THEN FLED THEY ALSO BEFORE ABISHAI, AND ENTERED INTO THE CITY. SO JOAB RETURNED FROM THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND CAME TO JERUSALEM. # 15 AND WHEN THE SYRIANS SAW THAT THEY WERE SMITTEN BEFORE ISRAEL, THEY GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER. # 16 AND HADAREZER SENT, AND BROUGHT OUT THE SYRIANS THAT WERE BEYOND THE RIVER: AND THEY CAME TO HELAM; AND SHOBACH THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST OF HADAREZER WENT BEFORE THEM. # 17 AND WHEN IT WAS TOLD DAVID, HE GATHERED ALL ISRAEL TOGETHER, AND PASSED OVER JORDAN, AND CAME TO HELAM. AND THE SYRIANS SET THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST DAVID, AND FOUGHT WITH HIM. # 18 AND THE SYRIANS FLED BEFORE ISRAEL; AND DAVID SLEW THE MEN OF SEVEN HUNDRED CHARIOTS OF THE SYRIANS, AND FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN, AND SMOTE SHOBACH THE CAPTAIN OF THEIR HOST, WHO DIED THERE. # 19 AND WHEN ALL THE KINGS THAT WERE SERVANTS TO HADAREZER SAW THAT THEY WERE SMITTEN BEFORE ISRAEL, THEY MADE PEACE WITH ISRAEL, AND SERVED THEM. SO THE SYRIANS FEARED TO HELP THE CHILDREN OF AMMON ANY MORE. = CHAPTER 11 # 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED, AT THE TIME WHEN KINGS GO FORTH TO BATTLE, THAT DAVID SENT JOAB, AND HIS SERVANTS WITH HIM, AND ALL ISRAEL; AND THEY DESTROYED THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND BESIEGED RABBAH. BUT DAVID TARRIED STILL AT JERUSALEM. # 2 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN AN EVENINGTIDE, THAT DAVID AROSE FROM OFF HIS BED, AND WALKED UPON THE ROOF OF THE KINGS HOUSE: AND FROM THE ROOF HE SAW A WOMAN WASHING HERSELF; AND THE WOMAN WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK UPON. # 3 AND DAVID SENT AND ENQUIRED AFTER THE WOMAN. AND ONE SAID, IS NOT THIS BATHSHEBA, THE DAUGHTER OF ELIAM, THE WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE? # 4 AND DAVID SENT MESSENGERS, AND TOOK HER; AND SHE CAME IN UNTO HIM, AND HE LAY WITH HER; FOR SHE WAS PURIFIED FROM HER UNCLEANNESS: AND SHE RETURNED UNTO HER HOUSE. # 5 AND THE WOMAN CONCEIVED, AND SENT AND TOLD DAVID, AND SAID, I AM WITH CHILD. # 6 AND DAVID SENT TO JOAB, SAYING, SEND ME URIAH THE HITTITE. AND JOAB SENT URIAH TO DAVID. # 7 AND WHEN URIAH WAS COME UNTO HIM, DAVID DEMANDED OF HIM HOW JOAB DID, AND HOW THE PEOPLE DID, AND HOW THE WAR PROSPERED. # 8 AND DAVID SAID TO URIAH, GO DOWN TO THY HOUSE, AND WASH THY FEET. AND URIAH DEPARTED OUT OF THE KINGS HOUSE, AND THERE FOLLOWED HIM A MESS OF MEAT FROM THE KING. # 9 BUT URIAH SLEPT AT THE DOOR OF THE KINGS HOUSE WITH ALL THE SERVANTS OF HIS LORD, AND WENT NOT DOWN TO HIS HOUSE. # 10 AND WHEN THEY HAD TOLD DAVID, SAYING, URIAH WENT NOT DOWN UNTO HIS HOUSE, DAVID SAID UNTO URIAH, CAMEST THOU NOT FROM THY JOURNEY? WHY THEN DIDST THOU NOT GO DOWN UNTO THINE HOUSE? # 11 AND URIAH SAID UNTO DAVID, THE ARK, AND ISRAEL, AND JUDAH, ABIDE IN TENTS; AND MY LORD JOAB, AND THE SERVANTS OF MY LORD, ARE ENCAMPED IN THE OPEN FIELDS; SHALL I THEN GO INTO MINE HOUSE, TO EAT AND TO DRINK, AND TO LIE WITH MY WIFE? AS THOU LIVEST, AND AS THY SOUL LIVETH, I WILL NOT DO THIS THING. # 12 AND DAVID SAID TO URIAH, TARRY HERE TO DAY ALSO, AND TO MORROW I WILL LET THEE DEPART. SO URIAH ABODE IN JERUSALEM THAT DAY, AND THE MORROW. # 13 AND WHEN DAVID HAD CALLED HIM, HE DID EAT AND DRINK BEFORE HIM; AND HE MADE HIM DRUNK: AND AT EVEN HE WENT OUT TO LIE ON HIS BED WITH THE SERVANTS OF HIS LORD, BUT WENT NOT DOWN TO HIS HOUSE. # 14 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MORNING, THAT DAVID WROTE A LETTER TO JOAB, AND SENT IT BY THE HAND OF URIAH. # 15 AND HE WROTE IN THE LETTER, SAYING, SET YE URIAH IN THE FOREFRONT OF THE HOTTEST BATTLE, AND RETIRE YE FROM HIM, THAT HE MAY BE SMITTEN, AND DIE. # 16 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JOAB OBSERVED THE CITY, THAT HE ASSIGNED URIAH UNTO A PLACE WHERE HE KNEW THAT VALIANT MEN WERE. # 17 AND THE MEN OF THE CITY WENT OUT, AND FOUGHT WITH JOAB: AND THERE FELL SOME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SERVANTS OF DAVID; AND URIAH THE HITTITE DIED ALSO. # 18 THEN JOAB SENT AND TOLD DAVID ALL THE THINGS CONCERNING THE WAR; # 19 AND CHARGED THE MESSENGER, SAYING, WHEN THOU HAST BOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddf WENT IN, AND LAY ALL NIGHT UPON THE EARTH. # 17 AND THE ELDERS OF HIS HOUSE AROSE, AND WENT TO HIM, TO RAISE HIM UP FROM THE EARTH: BUT HE WOULD NOT, NEITHER DID HE EAT BREAD WITH THEM. # 18 AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE SEVENTH DAY, THAT THE CHILD DIED. AND THE SERVANTS OF DAVID FEARED TO TELL HIM THAT THE CHILD WAS DEAD: FOR THEY SAID, BEHOLD, WHILE THE CHILD WAS YET ALIVE, WE SPAKE UNTO HIM, AND HE WOULD NOT HEARKEN UNTO OUR VOICE: HOW WILL HE THEN VEX HIMSELF, IF WE TELL HIM THAT THE CHILD IS DEAD? # 19 BUT WHEN DAVID SAW THAT HIS SERVANTS WHISPERED, DAVID PERCEIVED THAT THE CHILD WAS DEAD: THEREFORE DAVID SAID UNTO HIS SERVANTS, IS THE CHILD DEAD? AND THEY SAID, HE IS DEAD. # 20 THEN DAVID AROSE FROM THE EARTH, AND WASHED, AND ANOINTED HIMSELF, AND CHANGED HIS APPAREL, AND CAME INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND WORSHIPPED: THEN HE CAME TO HIS OWN HOUSE; AND WHEN HE REQUIRED, THEY SET BREAD BEFORE HIM, AND HE DID EAT. # 21 THEN SAID HIS SERVANTS UNTO HIM, WHAT THING IS THIS THAT THOU HAST DONE? THOU DIDST FAST AND WEEP FOR THE CHILD, WHILE IT WAS ALIVE; BUT WHEN THE CHILD WAS DEAD, THOU DIDST RISE AND EAT BREAD. # 22 AND HE SAID, WHILE THE CHILD WAS YET ALIVE, I FASTED AND WEPT: FOR I SAID, WHO CAN TELL WHETHER GOD WILL BE GRACIOUS TO ME, THAT THE CHILD MAY LIVE? # 23 BUT NOW HE IS DEAD, WHEREFORE SHOULD I FAST? CAN I BRING HIM BACK AGAIN? I SHALL GO TO HIM, BUT HE SHALL NOT RETURN TO ME. # 24 AND DAVID COMFORTED BATHSHEBA HIS WIFE, AND WENT IN UNTO HER, AND LAY WITH HER: AND SHE BARE A SON, AND HE CALLED HIS NAME SOLOMON: AND THE LORD LOVED HIM. # 25 AND HE SENT BY THE HAND OF NATHAN THE PROPHET; AND HE CALLED HIS NAME JEDIDIAH, BECAUSE OF THE LORD. # 26 AND JOAB FOUGHT AGAINST RABBAH OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND TOOK THE ROYAL CITY. # 27 AND JOAB SENT MESSENGERS TO DAVID, AND SAID, I HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST RABBAH, AND HAVE TAKEN THE CITY OF WATERS. # 28 NOW THEREFORE GATHER THE REST OF THE PEOPLE TOGETHER, AND ENCAMP AGAINST THE CITY, AND TAKE IT: LEST I TAKE THE CITY, AND IT BE CALLED AFTER MY NAME. # 29 AND DAVID GATHERED ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER, AND WENT TO RABBAH, AND FOUGHT AGAINST IT, AND TOOK IT. # 30 AND HE TOOK THEIR KINGS CROWN FROM OFF HIS HEAD, THE WEIGHT WHEREOF WAS A TALENT OF GOLD WITH THE PRECIOUS STONES: AND IT WAS SET ON DAVIDS HEAD. AND HE BROUGHT FORTH THE SPOIL OF THE CITY IN GREAT ABUNDANCE. # 31 AND HE BROUGHT FORTH THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THEREIN, AND PUT THEM UNDER SAWS, AND UNDER HARROWS OF IRON, AND UNDER AXES OF IRON, AND MADE THEM PASS THROUGH THE BRICK-KILN: AND THUS DID HE UNTO ALL THE CITIES OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON. SO DAVID AND ALL THE PEOPLE RETURNED UNTO JERUSALEM. = CHAPTER 13 # 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT ABSALOM THE SON OF DAVID HAD A FAIR SISTER, WHOSE NAME WAS TAMAR; AND AMNON THE SON OF DAVID LOVED HER. # 2 AND AMNON WAS SO VEXED, THAT HE FELL SICK FOR HIS SISTER TAMAR; FOR SHE WAS A VIRGIN; AND AMNON THOUGHT IT HARD FOR HIM TO DO ANYTHING TO HER. # 3 BUT AMNON HAD A FRIEND, WHOSE NAME WAS JONADAB, THE SON OF SHIMEAH DAVIDS BROTHER: AND JONADAB WAS A VERY SUBTIL MAN. # 4 AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, WHY ART THOU, BEING THE KINGS SON, LEAN FROM DAY TO DAY? WILT THOU NOT TELL ME? AND AMNON SAID UNTO HIM, I LOVE TAMAR, MY BROTHER ABSALOMS SISTER. # 5 AND JONADAB SAID UNTO HIM, LAY THEE DOWN ON THY BED, AND MAKE THYSELF SICK: AND WHEN THY FATHER COMETH TO SEE THEE, SAY UNTO HIM, I PRAY THEE, LET MY SISTER TAMAR COME, AND GIVE ME MEAT, AND DRESS THE MEAT IN MY SIGHT, THAT I MAY SEE IT, AND EAT IT AT HER HAND. # 6 SO AMNON LAY DOWN, AND MADE HIMSELF SICK: AND WHEN THE KING WAS COME TO SEE HIM, AMNON SAID UNTO THE KING, I PRAY THEE, LET TAMAR MY SISTER COME, AND MAKE ME A COUPLE OF CAKES IN MY SIGHT, THAT I MAY EAT AT HER HAND. # 7 THEN DAVID SENT HOME TO TAMAR, SAYING, GO NOW TO THY BROTHER AMNONS HOUSE, AND DRESS HIM MEAT. # 8 SO TAMAR WENT TO HER BROTHER AMNONS HOUSE; AND HE WAS LAID DOWN. AND SHE TOOK FLOUR, AND KNEADED IT, AND MADE CAKES IN HIS SIGHT, AND DID BAKE THE CAKES. BOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfH LIFTED UP HIS EYES, AND LOOKED, AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME MUCH PEOPLE BY THE WAY OF THE HILL SIDE BEHIND HIM. # 35 AND JONADAB SAID UNTO THE KING, BEHOLD, THE KINGS SONS COME: AS THY SERVANT SAID, SO IT IS. # 36 AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SOON AS HE HAD MADE AN END OF SPEAKING, THAT, BEHOLD, THE KINGS SONS CAME, AND LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE AND WEPT: AND THE KING ALSO AND ALL HIS SERVANTS WEPT VERY SORE. # 37 BUT ABSALOM FLED, AND WENT TO TALMAI, THE SON OF AMMIHUD, KING OF GESHUR. AND DAVID MOURNED FOR HIS SON EVERY DAY. # 38 SO ABSALOM FLED, AND WENT TO GESHUR, AND WAS THERE THREE YEARS. # 39 AND THE SOUL OF KING DAVID LONGED TO GO FORTH UNTO ABSALOM: FOR HE WAS COMFORTED CONCERNING AMNON, SEEING HE WAS DEAD. = CHAPTER 14 # 1 NOW JOAB THE SON OF ZERUIAH PERCEIVED THAT THE KINGS HEART WAS TOWARD ABSALOM. # 2 AND JOAB SENT TO TEKOAH, AND FETCHED THENCE A WISE WOMAN, AND SAID UNTO HER, I PRAY THEE, FEIGN THYSELF TO BE A MOURNER, AND PUT ON NOW MOURNING APPAREL, AND ANOINT NOT THYSELF WITH OIL, BUT BE AS A WOMAN THAT HAD A LONG TIME MOURNED FOR THE DEAD: # 3 AND COME TO THE KING, AND SPEAK ON THIS MANNER UNTO HIM. SO JOAB PUT THE WORDS IN HER MOUTH. # 4 AND WHEN THE WOMAN OF TEKOAH SPAKE TO THE KING, SHE FELL ON HER FACE TO THE GROUND, AND DID OBEISANCE, AND SAID, HELP, O KING. # 5 AND THE KING SAID UNTO HER, WHAT AILETH THEE? AND SHE ANSWERED, I AM INDEED A WIDOW WOMAN, AND MINE HUSBAND IS DEAD. # 6 AND THY HANDMAID HAD TWO SONS, AND THEY TWO STROVE TOGETHER IN THE FIELD, AND THERE WAS NONE TO PART THEM, BUT THE ONE SMOTE THE OTHER, AND SLEW HIM. # 7 AND, BEHOLD, THE WHOLE FAMILY IS RISEN AGAINST THINE HANDMAID, AND THEY SAID, DELIVER HIM THAT SMOTE HIS BROTHER, THAT WE MAY KILL HIM, FOR THE LIFE OF HIS BROTHER WHOM HE SLEW; AND WE WILL DESTROY THE HEIR ALSO: AND SO THEY SHALL QUENCH MY COAL WHICH IS LEFT, AND SHALL NOT LEAVE TO MY HUSBAND NEITHER NAME NOR REMAINDER UPON THE EARTH. # 8 AND THE KING SAID UNTO THE WOMAN, GO TO THINE HOUSE, AND I WILL GIVE CHARGE CONCERNING THEE. # 9 AND THE WOMAN OF TEKOAH SAID UNTO THE KING, MY LORD, O KING, THE INIQUITY BE ON ME, AND ON MY FATHERS HOUSE: AND THE KING AND HIS THRONE BE GUILTLESS. # 10 AND THE KING SAID, WHOEVER SAITH OUGHT UNTO THEE, BRING HIM TO ME, AND HE SHALL NOT TOUCH THEE ANY MORE. # 11 THEN SAID SHE, I PRAY THEE, LET THE KING REMEMBER THE LORD THY GOD, THAT THOU WOULDEST NOT SUFFER THE REVENGERS OF BLOOD TO DESTROY ANY MORE, LEST THEY DESTROY MY SON. AND HE SAID, AS THE LORD LIVETH, THERE SHALL NOT ONE HAIR OF THY SON FALL TO THE EARTH. # 12 THEN THE WOMAN SAID, LET THINE HANDMAID, I PRAY THEE, SPEAK ONE WORD UNTO MY LORD THE KING. AND HE SAID, SAY ON. # 13 AND THE WOMAN SAID, WHEREFORE THEN HAST THOU THOUGHT SUCH A THING AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF GOD? FOR THE KING DOTH SPEAK THIS THING AS ONE WHICH IS FAULTY, IN THAT THE KING DOTH NOT FETCH HOME AGAIN HIS BANISHED. # 14 FOR WE MUST NEEDS DIE, AND ARE AS WATER SPILT ON THE GROUND, WHICH CANNOT BE GATHERED UP AGAIN; NEITHER DOTH GOD RESPECT ANY PERSON: YET DOTH HE DEVISE MEANS, THAT HIS BANISHED BE NOT EXPELLED FROM HIM. # 15 NOW THEREFORE THAT I AM COME TO SPEAK OF THIS THING UNTO MY LORD THE KING, IT IS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAVE MADE ME AFRAID: AND THY HANDMAID SAID, I WILL NOW SPEAK UNTO THE KING; IT MAY BE THAT THE KING WILL PERFORM THE REQUEST OF HIS HANDMAID. # 16 FOR THE KING WILL HEAR, TO DELIVER HIS HANDMAID OUT OF THE HAND OF THE MAN THAT WOULD DESTROY ME AND MY SON TOGETHER OUT OF THE INHERITANCE OF GOD. # 17 THEN THINE HANDMAID SAID, THE WORD OF MY LORD THE KING SHALL NOW BE COMFORTABLE: FOR AS AN ANGEL OF GOD, SO IS MY LORD THE KING TO DISCERN GOOD AND BAD: THEREFORE THE LORD THY GOD WILL BE WITH THEE. # 18 THEN THE KING ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THE WOMAN, HIDE NOT FROM ME, I PRAY THEE, THE THING THAT I SHALL ASK THEE. AND THE WOMAN SAID, LET MY LORD THE KING NOW SPEAK. # 19 AND THE KING SAID, IS NOT THE HAND OF JOAB WITH THEE IN ALL THIS? AND THE WOMAN ANSWERED AND SAID, AS THY SOUL LIVETH, MY LORD THE KING, NONE CBOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfNETH IN HEBRON. # 11 AND WITH ABSALOM WENT TWO HUNDRED MEN OUT OF JERUSALEM, THAT WERE CALLED; AND THEY WENT IN THEIR SIMPLICITY, AND THEY KNEW NOT ANY THING. # 12 AND ABSALOM SENT FOR AHITHOPHEL THE GILONITE, DAVIDS COUNSELLOR, FROM HIS CITY, EVEN FROM GILOH, WHILE HE OFFERED SACRIFICES. AND THE CONSPIRACY WAS STRONG; FOR THE PEOPLE INCREASED CONTINUALLY WITH ABSALOM. # 13 AND THERE CAME A MESSENGER TO DAVID, SAYING, THE HEARTS OF THE MEN OF ISRAEL ARE AFTER ABSALOM. # 14 AND DAVID SAID UNTO ALL HIS SERVANTS THAT WERE WITH HIM AT JERUSALEM, ARISE, AND LET US FLEE; FOR WE SHALL NOT ELSE ESCAPE FROM ABSALOM: MAKE SPEED TO DEPART, LEST HE OVERTAKE US SUDDENLY, AND BRING EVIL UPON US, AND SMITE THE CITY WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD. # 15 AND THE KINGS SERVANTS SAID UNTO THE KING, BEHOLD, THY SERVANTS ARE READY TO DO WHATSOEVER MY LORD THE KING SHALL APPOINT. # 16 AND THE KING WENT FORTH, AND ALL HIS HOUSEHOLD AFTER HIM. AND THE KING LEFT TEN WOMEN, WHICH WERE CONCUBINES, TO KEEP THE HOUSE. # 17 AND THE KING WENT FORTH, AND ALL THE PEOPLE AFTER HIM, AND TARRIED IN A PLACE THAT WAS FAR OFF. # 18 AND ALL HIS SERVANTS PASSED ON BESIDE HIM; AND ALL THE CHERETHITES, AND ALL THE PELETHITES, AND ALL THE GITTITES, SIX HUNDRED MEN WHICH CAME AFTER HIM FROM GATH, PASSED ON BEFORE THE KING. # 19 THEN SAID THE KING TO ITTAI THE GITTITE, WHEREFORE GOEST THOU ALSO WITH US? RETURN TO THY PLACE, AND ABIDE WITH THE KING: FOR THOU ART A STRANGER, AND ALSO AN EXILE. # 20 WHEREAS THOU CAMEST BUT YESTERDAY, SHOULD I THIS DAY MAKE THEE GO UP AND DOWN WITH US? SEEING I GO WHITHER I MAY, RETURN THOU, AND TAKE BACK THY BRETHREN: MERCY AND TRUTH BE WITH THEE. # 21 AND ITTAI ANSWERED THE KING, AND SAID, AS THE LORD LIVETH, AND AS MY LORD THE KING LIVETH, SURELY IN WHAT PLACE MY LORD THE KING SHALL BE, WHETHER IN DEATH OR LIFE, EVEN THERE ALSO WILL THY SERVANT BE. # 22 AND DAVID SAID TO ITTAI, GO AND PASS OVER. AND ITTAI THE GITTITE PASSED OVER, AND ALL HIS MEN, AND ALL THE LITTLE ONES THAT WERE WITH HIM. # 23 AND ALL THE COUNTRY WEPT WITH A LOUD VOICE, AND ALL THE PEOPLE PASSED OVER: THE KING ALSO HIMSELF PASSED OVER THE BROOK KIDRON, AND ALL THE PEOPLE PASSED OVER, TOWARD THE WAY OF THE WILDERNESS. # 24 AND LO ZADOK ALSO, AND ALL THE LEVITES WERE WITH HIM, BEARING THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF GOD: AND THEY SET DOWN THE ARK OF GOD; AND ABIATHAR WENT UP, UNTIL ALL THE PEOPLE HAD DONE PASSING OUT OF THE CITY. # 25 AND THE KING SAID UNTO ZADOK, CARRY BACK THE ARK OF GOD INTO THE CITY: IF I SHALL FIND FAVOUR IN THE EYES OF THE LORD, HE WILL BRING ME AGAIN, AND SHEW ME BOTH IT, AND HIS HABITATION: # 26 BUT IF HE THUS SAY, I HAVE NO DELIGHT IN THEE; BEHOLD, HERE AM I, LET HIM DO TO ME AS SEEMETH GOOD UNTO HIM. # 27 THE KING SAID ALSO UNTO ZADOK THE PRIEST, ART NOT THOU A SEER? RETURN INTO THE CITY IN PEACE, AND YOUR TWO SONS WITH YOU, AHIMAAZ THY SON, AND JONATHAN THE SON OF ABIATHAR. # 28 SEE, I WILL TARRY IN THE PLAIN OF THE WILDERNESS, UNTIL THERE COME WORD FROM YOU TO CERTIFY ME. # 29 ZADOK THEREFORE AND ABIATHAR CARRIED THE ARK OF GOD AGAIN TO JERUSALEM: AND THEY TARRIED THERE. # 30 AND DAVID WENT UP BY THE ASCENT OF MOUNT OLIVET, AND WEPT AS HE WENT UP, AND HAD HIS HEAD COVERED, AND HE WENT BAREFOOT: AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WAS WITH HIM COVERED EVERY MAN HIS HEAD, AND THEY WENT UP, WEEPING AS THEY WENT UP. # 31 AND ONE TOLD DAVID, SAYING, AHITHOPHEL IS AMONG THE CONSPIRATORS WITH ABSALOM. AND DAVID SAID, O LORD, I PRAY THEE, TURN THE COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL INTO FOOLISHNESS. # 32 AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN DAVID WAS COME TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNT, WHERE HE WORSHIPPED GOD, BEHOLD, HUSHAI THE ARCHITE CAME TO MEET HIM WITH HIS COAT RENT, AND EARTH UPON HIS HEAD: # 33 UNTO WHOM DAVID SAID, IF THOU PASSEST ON WITH ME, THEN THOU SHALT BE A BURDEN UNTO ME: # 34 BUT IF THOU RETURN TO THE CITY, AND SAY UNTO ABSALOM, I WILL BE THY SERVANT, O KING; AS I HAVE BEEN THY FATHERS SERVANT HITHERTO, SO WILL I NOW ALSO BE THY SERVANT: THEN MAYEST THOU FOR ME DEFEAT THE BOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfFATHER: THEN SHALL THE HANDS OF ALL THAT ARE WITH THEE BE STRONG. # 22 SO THEY SPREAD ABSALOM A TENT UPON THE TOP OF THE HOUSE; AND ABSALOM WENT IN UNTO HIS FATHERS CONCUBINES IN THE SIGHT OF ALL ISRAEL. # 23 AND THE COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL, WHICH HE COUNSELLED IN THOSE DAYS, WAS AS IF A MAN HAD ENQUIRED AT THE ORACLE OF GOD: SO WAS ALL THE COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL BOTH WITH DAVID AND WITH ABSALOM. = CHAPTER 17 # 1 MOREOVER AHITHOPHEL SAID UNTO ABSALOM, LET ME NOW CHOOSE OUT TWELVE THOUSAND MEN, AND I WILL ARISE AND PURSUE AFTER DAVID THIS NIGHT: # 2 AND I WILL COME UPON HIM WHILE HE IS WEARY AND WEAK HANDED, AND WILL MAKE HIM AFRAID: AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WITH HIM SHALL FLEE; AND I WILL SMITE THE KING ONLY: # 3 AND I WILL BRING BACK ALL THE PEOPLE UNTO THEE: THE MAN WHOM THOU SEEKEST IS AS IF ALL RETURNED: SO ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL BE IN PEACE. # 4 AND THE SAYING PLEASED ABSALOM WELL, AND ALL THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL. # 5 THEN SAID ABSALOM, CALL NOW HUSHAI THE ARCHITE ALSO, AND LET US HEAR LIKEWISE WHAT HE SAITH. # 6 AND WHEN HUSHAI WAS COME TO ABSALOM, ABSALOM SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING, AHITHOPHEL HATH SPOKEN AFTER THIS MANNER: SHALL WE DO AFTER HIS SAYING? IF NOT; SPEAK THOU. # 7 AND HUSHAI SAID UNTO ABSALOM, THE COUNSEL THAT AHITHOPHEL HATH GIVEN IS NOT GOOD AT THIS TIME. # 8 FOR, SAID HUSHAI, THOU KNOWEST THY FATHER AND HIS MEN, THAT THEY BE MIGHTY MEN, AND THEY BE CHAFED IN THEIR MINDS, AS A BEAR ROBBED OF HER WHELPS IN THE FIELD: AND THY FATHER IS A MAN OF WAR, AND WILL NOT LODGE WITH THE PEOPLE. # 9 BEHOLD, HE IS HID NOW IN SOME PIT, OR IN SOME OTHER PLACE: AND IT WILL COME TO PASS, WHEN SOME OF THEM BE OVERTHROWN AT THE FIRST, THAT WHOSOEVER HEARETH IT WILL SAY, THERE IS A SLAUGHTER AMONG THE PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW ABSALOM. # 10 AND HE ALSO THAT IS VALIANT, WHOSE HEART IS AS THE HEART OF A LION, SHALL UTTERLY MELT: FOR ALL ISRAEL KNOWETH THAT THY FATHER IS A MIGHTY MAN, AND THEY WHICH BE WITH HIM ARE VALIANT MEN. # 11 THEREFORE I COUNSEL THAT ALL ISRAEL BE GENERALLY GATHERED UNTO THEE, FROM DAN EVEN TO BEERSHEBA, AS THE SAND THAT IS BY THE SEA FOR MULTITUDE; AND THAT THOU GO TO BATTLE IN THINE OWN PERSON. # 12 SO SHALL WE COME UPON HIM IN SOME PLACE WHERE HE SHALL BE FOUND, AND WE WILL LIGHT UPON HIM AS THE DEW FALLETH ON THE GROUND: AND OF HIM AND OF ALL THE MEN THAT ARE WITH HIM THERE SHALL NOT BE LEFT SO MUCH AS ONE. # 13 MOREOVER, IF HE BE GOTTEN INTO A CITY, THEN SHALL ALL ISRAEL BRING ROPES TO THAT CITY, AND WE WILL DRAW IT INTO THE RIVER, UNTIL THERE BE NOT ONE SMALL STONE FOUND THERE. # 14 AND ABSALOM AND ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL SAID, THE COUNSEL OF HUSHAI THE ARCHITE IS BETTER THAN THE COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL. FOR THE LORD HAD APPOINTED TO DEFEAT THE GOOD COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL, TO THE INTENT THAT THE LORD MIGHT BRING EVIL UPON ABSALOM. # 15 THEN SAID HUSHAI UNTO ZADOK AND TO ABIATHAR THE PRIESTS, THUS AND THUS DID AHITHOPHEL COUNSEL ABSALOM AND THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL; AND THUS AND THUS HAVE I COUNSELLED. # 16 NOW THEREFORE SEND QUICKLY, AND TELL DAVID, SAYING, LODGE NOT THIS NIGHT IN THE PLAINS OF THE WILDERNESS, BUT SPEEDILY PASS OVER; LEST THE KING BE SWALLOWED UP, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WITH HIM. # 17 NOW JONATHAN AND AHIMAAZ STAYED BY ENROGEL; FOR THEY MIGHT NOT BE SEEN TO COME INTO THE CITY: AND A WENCH WENT AND TOLD THEM; AND THEY WENT AND TOLD KING DAVID. # 18 NEVERTHELESS A LAD SAW THEM, AND TOLD ABSALOM: BUT THEY WENT BOTH OF THEM AWAY QUICKLY, AND CAME TO A MANS HOUSE IN BAHURIM, WHICH HAD A WELL IN HIS COURT; WHITHER THEY WENT DOWN. # 19 AND THE WOMAN TOOK AND SPREAD A COVERING OVER THE WELLS MOUTH, AND SPREAD GROUND CORN THEREON; AND THE THING WAS NOT KNOWN. # 20 AND WHEN ABSALOMS SERVANTS CAME TO THE WOMAN TO THE HOUSE, THEY SAID, WHERE IS AHIMAAZ AND JONATHAN? AND THE WOMAN SAID UNTO THEM, THEY BE GONE OVER THE BROOK OF WATER. AND WHEN THEY HAD SOUGHT AND COULD NOT FIND THEM, THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM. # 21 AND IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER THEY WERE DEPARTED, THAT THEY CAME UP OUT OF THE WELL, AND WEBOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddf IN HIS HAND, AND THRUST THEM THROUGH THE HEART OF ABSALOM, WHILE HE WAS YET ALIVE IN THE MIDST OF THE OAK. # 15 AND TEN YOUNG MEN THAT BARE JOABS ARMOUR COMPASSED ABOUT AND SMOTE ABSALOM, AND SLEW HIM. # 16 AND JOAB BLEW THE TRUMPET, AND THE PEOPLE RETURNED FROM PURSUING AFTER ISRAEL: FOR JOAB HELD BACK THE PEOPLE. # 17 AND THEY TOOK ABSALOM, AND CAST HIM INTO A GREAT PIT IN THE WOOD, AND LAID A VERY GREAT HEAP OF STONES UPON HIM: AND ALL ISRAEL FLED EVERY ONE TO HIS TENT. # 18 NOW ABSALOM IN HIS LIFETIME HAD TAKEN AND REARED UP FOR HIMSELF A PILLAR, WHICH IS IN THE KINGS DALE: FOR HE SAID, I HAVE NO SON TO KEEP MY NAME IN REMEMBRANCE: AND HE CALLED THE PILLAR AFTER HIS OWN NAME: AND IT IS CALLED UNTO THIS DAY, ABSALOMS PLACE. # 19 THEN SAID AHIMAAZ THE SON OF ZADOK, LET ME NOW RUN, AND BEAR THE KING TIDINGS, HOW THAT THE LORD HATH AVENGED HIM OF HIS ENEMIES. # 20 AND JOAB SAID UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT NOT BEAR TIDINGS THIS DAY, BUT THOU SHALT BEAR TIDINGS ANOTHER DAY: BUT THIS DAY THOU SHALT BEAR NO TIDINGS, BECAUSE THE KINGS SON IS DEAD. # 21 THEN SAID JOAB TO CUSHI, GO TELL THE KING WHAT THOU HAST SEEN. AND CUSHI BOWED HIMSELF UNTO JOAB, AND RAN. # 22 THEN SAID AHIMAAZ THE SON OF ZADOK YET AGAIN TO JOAB, BUT HOWSOEVER, LET ME, I PRAY THEE, ALSO RUN AFTER CUSHI. AND JOAB SAID, WHEREFORE WILT THOU RUN, MY SON, SEEING THAT THOU HAST NO TIDINGS READY? # 23 BUT HOWSOEVER, SAID HE, LET ME RUN. AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, RUN. THEN AHIMAAZ RAN BY THE WAY OF THE PLAIN, AND OVERRAN CUSHI. # 24 AND DAVID SAT BETWEEN THE TWO GATES: AND THE WATCHMAN WENT UP TO THE ROOF OVER THE GATE UNTO THE WALL, AND LIFTED UP HIS EYES, AND LOOKED, AND BEHOLD A MAN RUNNING ALONE. # 25 AND THE WATCHMAN CRIED, AND TOLD THE KING. AND THE KING SAID, IF HE BE ALONE, THERE IS TIDINGS IN HIS MOUTH. AND HE CAME APACE, AND DREW NEAR. # 26 AND THE WATCHMAN SAW ANOTHER MAN RUNNING: AND THE WATCHMAN CALLED UNTO THE PORTER, AND SAID, BEHOLD ANOTHER MAN RUNNING ALONE. AND THE KING SAID, HE ALSO BRINGETH TIDINGS. # 27 AND THE WATCHMAN SAID, ME THINKETH THE RUNNING OF THE FOREMOST IS LIKE THE RUNNING OF AHIMAAZ THE SON OF ZADOK. AND THE KING SAID, HE IS A GOOD MAN, AND COMETH WITH GOOD TIDINGS. # 28 AND AHIMAAZ CALLED, AND SAID UNTO THE KING, ALL IS WELL. AND HE FELL DOWN TO THE EARTH UPON HIS FACE BEFORE THE KING, AND SAID, BLESSED BE THE LORD THY GOD, WHICH HATH DELIVERED UP THE MEN THAT LIFTED UP THEIR HAND AGAINST MY LORD THE KING. # 29 AND THE KING SAID, IS THE YOUNG MAN ABSALOM SAFE? AND AHIMAAZ ANSWERED, WHEN JOAB SENT THE KINGS SERVANT, AND ME THY SERVANT, I SAW A GREAT TUMULT, BUT I KNEW NOT WHAT IT WAS. # 30 AND THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, TURN ASIDE, AND STAND HERE. AND HE TURNED ASIDE, AND STOOD STILL. # 31 AND, BEHOLD, CUSHI CAME; AND CUSHI SAID, TIDINGS, MY LORD THE KING: FOR THE LORD HATH AVENGED THEE THIS DAY OF ALL THEM THAT ROSE UP AGAINST THEE. # 32 AND THE KING SAID UNTO CUSHI, IS THE YOUNG MAN ABSALOM SAFE? AND CUSHI ANSWERED, THE ENEMIES OF MY LORD THE KING, AND ALL THAT RISE AGAINST THEE TO DO THEE HURT, BE AS THAT YOUNG MAN IS. # 33 AND THE KING WAS MUCH MOVED, AND WENT UP TO THE CHAMBER OVER THE GATE, AND WEPT: AND AS HE WENT, THUS HE SAID, O MY SON ABSALOM, MY SON, MY SON ABSALOM! WOULD GOD I HAD DIED FOR THEE, O ABSALOM, MY SON, MY SON! = CHAPTER 19 # 1 AND IT WAS TOLD JOAB, BEHOLD, THE KING WEEPETH AND MOURNETH FOR ABSALOM. # 2 AND THE VICTORY THAT DAY WAS TURNED INTO MOURNING UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE: FOR THE PEOPLE HEARD SAY THAT DAY HOW THE KING WAS GRIEVED FOR HIS SON. # 3 AND THE PEOPLE GAT THEM BY STEALTH THAT DAY INTO THE CITY, AS PEOPLE BEING ASHAMED STEAL AWAY WHEN THEY FLEE IN BATTLE. # 4 BUT THE KING COVERED HIS FACE, AND THE KING CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, O MY SON ABSALOM, O ABSALOM, MY SON, MY SON! # 5 AND JOAB CAME INTO THE HOUSE TO THE KING, AND SAID, THOU HAST SHAMED THIS DAY THE FACES OF ALL THY SERVANTS, WHICH THIS DAY HAVE SAVED THY LIFE, AND THE LIVES OF THY SONS AND OF THY DAUGHTERS, AND THE LIVES OF THY WIVES, AND THE LIVES OF BOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfEYES. # 28 FOR ALL OF MY FATHERS HOUSE WERE BUT DEAD MEN BEFORE MY LORD THE KING: YET DIDST THOU SET THY SERVANT AMONG THEM THAT DID EAT AT THINE OWN TABLE. WHAT RIGHT THEREFORE HAVE I YET TO CRY ANY MORE UNTO THE KING? # 29 AND THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, WHY SPEAKEST THOU ANY MORE OF THY MATTERS? I HAVE SAID, THOU AND ZIBA DIVIDE THE LAND. # 30 AND MEPHIBOSHETH SAID UNTO THE KING, YEA, LET HIM TAKE ALL, FORASMUCH AS MY LORD THE KING IS COME AGAIN IN PEACE UNTO HIS OWN HOUSE. # 31 AND BARZILLAI THE GILEADITE CAME DOWN FROM ROGELIM, AND WENT OVER JORDAN WITH THE KING, TO CONDUCT HIM OVER JORDAN. # 32 NOW BARZILLAI WAS A VERY AGED MAN, EVEN FOURSCORE YEARS OLD: AND HE HAD PROVIDED THE KING OF SUSTENANCE WHILE HE LAY AT MAHANAIM; FOR HE WAS A VERY GREAT MAN. # 33 AND THE KING SAID UNTO BARZILLAI, COME THOU OVER WITH ME, AND I WILL FEED THEE WITH ME IN JERUSALEM. # 34 AND BARZILLAI SAID UNTO THE KING, HOW LONG HAVE I TO LIVE, THAT I SHOULD GO UP WITH THE KING UNTO JERUSALEM? # 35 I AM THIS DAY FOURSCORE YEARS OLD: AND CAN I DISCERN BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL? CAN THY SERVANT TASTE WHAT I EAT OR WHAT I DRINK? CAN I HEAR ANY MORE THE VOICE OF SINGING MEN AND SINGING WOMEN? WHEREFORE THEN SHOULD THY SERVANT BE YET A BURDEN UNTO MY LORD THE KING? # 36 THY SERVANT WILL GO A LITTLE WAY OVER JORDAN WITH THE KING: AND WHY SHOULD THE KING RECOMPENSE IT ME WITH SUCH A REWARD? # 37 LET THY SERVANT, I PRAY THEE, TURN BACK AGAIN, THAT I MAY DIE IN MINE OWN CITY, AND BE BURIED BY THE GRAVE OF MY FATHER AND OF MY MOTHER. BUT BEHOLD THY SERVANT CHIMHAM; LET HIM GO OVER WITH MY LORD THE KING; AND DO TO HIM WHAT SHALL SEEM GOOD UNTO THEE. # 38 AND THE KING ANSWERED, CHIMHAM SHALL GO OVER WITH ME, AND I WILL DO TO HIM THAT WHICH SHALL SEEM GOOD UNTO THEE: AND WHATSOEVER THOU SHALT REQUIRE OF ME, THAT WILL I DO FOR THEE. # 39 AND ALL THE PEOPLE WENT OVER JORDAN. AND WHEN THE KING WAS COME OVER, THE KING KISSED BARZILLAI, AND BLESSED HIM; AND HE RETURNED UNTO HIS OWN PLACE. # 40 THEN THE KING WENT ON TO GILGAL, AND CHIMHAM WENT ON WITH HIM: AND ALL THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH CONDUCTED THE KING, AND ALSO HALF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. # 41 AND, BEHOLD, ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL CAME TO THE KING, AND SAID UNTO THE KING, WHY HAVE OUR BRETHREN THE MEN OF JUDAH STOLEN THEE AWAY, AND HAVE BROUGHT THE KING, AND HIS HOUSEHOLD, AND ALL DAVIDS MEN WITH HIM, OVER JORDAN? # 42 AND ALL THE MEN OF JUDAH ANSWERED THE MEN OF ISRAEL, BECAUSE THE KING IS NEAR OF KIN TO US: WHEREFORE THEN BE YE ANGRY FOR THIS MATTER? HAVE WE EATEN AT ALL OF THE KINGS COST? OR HATH HE GIVEN US ANY GIFT? # 43 AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL ANSWERED THE MEN OF JUDAH, AND SAID, WE HAVE TEN PARTS IN THE KING, AND WE HAVE ALSO MORE RIGHT IN DAVID THAN YE: WHY THEN DID YE DESPISE US, THAT OUR ADVICE SHOULD NOT BE FIRST HAD IN BRINGING BACK OUR KING? AND THE WORDS OF THE MEN OF JUDAH WERE FIERCER THAN THE WORDS OF THE MEN OF ISRAEL. = CHAPTER 20 # 1 AND THERE HAPPENED TO BE THERE A MAN OF BELIAL, WHOSE NAME WAS SHEBA, THE SON OF BICHRI, A BENJAMITE: AND HE BLEW A TRUMPET, AND SAID, WE HAVE NO PART IN DAVID, NEITHER HAVE WE INHERITANCE IN THE SON OF JESSE: EVERY MAN TO HIS TENTS, O ISRAEL. # 2 SO EVERY MAN OF ISRAEL WENT UP FROM AFTER DAVID, AND FOLLOWED SHEBA THE SON OF BICHRI: BUT THE MEN OF JUDAH CLAVE UNTO THEIR KING, FROM JORDAN EVEN TO JERUSALEM. # 3 AND DAVID CAME TO HIS HOUSE AT JERUSALEM; AND THE KING TOOK THE TEN WOMEN HIS CONCUBINES, WHOM HE HAD LEFT TO KEEP THE HOUSE, AND PUT THEM IN WARD, AND FED THEM, BUT WENT NOT IN UNTO THEM. SO THEY WERE SHUT UP UNTO THE DAY OF THEIR DEATH, LIVING IN WIDOWHOOD. # 4 THEN SAID THE KING TO AMASA, ASSEMBLE ME THE MEN OF JUDAH WITHIN THREE DAYS, AND BE THOU HERE PRESENT. # 5 SO AMASA WENT TO ASSEMBLE THE MEN OF JUDAH: BUT HE TARRIED LONGER THAN THE SET TIME WHICH HE HAD APPOINTED HIM. # 6 AND DAVID SAID TO ABISHAI, NOW SHALL SHEBA THE SON OF BICHRI DO US MORE HARM THAN DID ABSALOM: TAKE THOU THY LORDS SERVANTS, AND PURSUE AFTER HIM, LEST HE GET HIM FENCED CITIES, AND ESBOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddf GIBEONITES SAID UNTO HIM, WE WILL HAVE NO SILVER NOR GOLD OF SAUL, NOR OF HIS HOUSE; NEITHER FOR US SHALT THOU KILL ANY MAN IN ISRAEL. AND HE SAID, WHAT YE SHALL SAY, THAT WILL I DO FOR YOU. # 5 AND THEY ANSWERED THE KING, THE MAN THAT CONSUMED US, AND THAT DEVISED AGAINST US THAT WE SHOULD BE DESTROYED FROM REMAINING IN ANY OF THE COASTS OF ISRAEL, # 6 LET SEVEN MEN OF HIS SONS BE DELIVERED UNTO US, AND WE WILL HANG THEM UP UNTO THE LORD IN GIBEAH OF SAUL, WHOM THE LORD DID CHOOSE. AND THE KING SAID, I WILL GIVE THEM. # 7 BUT THE KING SPARED MEPHIBOSHETH, THE SON OF JONATHAN THE SON OF SAUL, BECAUSE OF THE LORDS OATH THAT WAS BETWEEN THEM, BETWEEN DAVID AND JONATHAN THE SON OF SAUL. # 8 BUT THE KING TOOK THE TWO SONS OF RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH, WHOM SHE BARE UNTO SAUL, ARMONI AND MEPHIBOSHETH; AND THE FIVE SONS OF MICHAL THE DAUGHTER OF SAUL, WHOM SHE BROUGHT UP FOR ADRIEL THE SON OF BARZILLAI THE MEHOLATHITE: # 9 AND HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HANDS OF THE GIBEONITES, AND THEY HANGED THEM IN THE HILL BEFORE THE LORD: AND THEY FELL ALL SEVEN TOGETHER, AND WERE PUT TO DEATH IN THE DAYS OF HARVEST, IN THE FIRST DAYS, IN THE BEGINNING OF BARLEY HARVEST. # 10 AND RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH TOOK SACKCLOTH, AND SPREAD IT FOR HER UPON THE ROCK, FROM THE BEGINNING OF HARVEST UNTIL WATER DROPPED UPON THEM OUT OF HEAVEN, AND SUFFERED NEITHER THE BIRDS OF THE AIR TO REST ON THEM BY DAY, NOR THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD BY NIGHT. # 11 AND IT WAS TOLD DAVID WHAT RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH, THE CONCUBINE OF SAUL, HAD DONE. # 12 AND DAVID WENT AND TOOK THE BONES OF SAUL AND THE BONES OF JONATHAN HIS SON FROM THE MEN OF JABESHGILEAD, WHICH HAD STOLEN THEM FROM THE STREET OF BETHSHAN, WHERE THE PHILISTINES HAD HANGED THEM, WHEN THE PHILISTINES HAD SLAIN SAUL IN GILBOA: # 13 AND HE BROUGHT UP FROM THENCE THE BONES OF SAUL AND THE BONES OF JONATHAN HIS SON; AND THEY GATHERED THE BONES OF THEM THAT WERE HANGED. # 14 AND THE BONES OF SAUL AND JONATHAN HIS SON BURIED THEY IN THE COUNTRY OF BENJAMIN IN ZELAH, IN THE SEPULCHRE OF KISH HIS FATHER: AND THEY PERFORMED ALL THAT THE KING COMMANDED. AND AFTER THAT GOD WAS INTREATED FOR THE LAND. # 15 MOREOVER THE PHILISTINES HAD YET WAR AGAIN WITH ISRAEL; AND DAVID WENT DOWN, AND HIS SERVANTS WITH HIM, AND FOUGHT AGAINST THE PHILISTINES: AND DAVID WAXED FAINT. # 16 AND ISHBIBENOB, WHICH WAS OF THE SONS OF THE GIANT, THE WEIGHT OF WHOSE SPEAR WEIGHED THREE HUNDRED SHEKELS OF BRASS IN WEIGHT, HE BEING GIRDED WITH A NEW SWORD, THOUGHT TO HAVE SLAIN DAVID. # 17 BUT ABISHAI THE SON OF ZERUIAH SUCCOURED HIM, AND SMOTE THE PHILISTINE, AND KILLED HIM. THEN THE MEN OF DAVID SWARE UNTO HIM, SAYING, THOU SHALT GO NO MORE OUT WITH US TO BATTLE, THAT THOU QUENCH NOT THE LIGHT OF ISRAEL. # 18 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT THERE WAS AGAIN A BATTLE WITH THE PHILISTINES AT GOB: THEN SIBBECHAI THE HUSHATHITE SLEW SAPH, WHICH WAS OF THE SONS OF THE GIANT. # 19 AND THERE WAS AGAIN A BATTLE IN GOB WITH THE PHILISTINES, WHERE ELHANAN THE SON OF JAAREOREGIM, A BETHLEHEMITE, SLEW THE BROTHER OF GOLIATH THE GITTITE, THE STAFF OF WHOSE SPEAR WAS LIKE A WEAVERS BEAM. # 20 AND THERE WAS YET A BATTLE IN GATH, WHERE WAS A MAN OF GREAT STATURE, THAT HAD ON EVERY HAND SIX FINGERS, AND ON EVERY FOOT SIX TOES, FOUR AND TWENTY IN NUMBER; AND HE ALSO WAS BORN TO THE GIANT. # 21 AND WHEN HE DEFIED ISRAEL, JONATHAN THE SON OF SHIMEAH THE BROTHER OF DAVID SLEW HIM. # 22 THESE FOUR WERE BORN TO THE GIANT IN GATH, AND FELL BY THE HAND OF DAVID, AND BY THE HAND OF HIS SERVANTS. = CHAPTER 22 # 1 AND DAVID SPAKE UNTO THE LORD THE WORDS OF THIS SONG IN THE DAY THAT THE LORD HAD DELIVERED HIM OUT OF THE HAND OF ALL HIS ENEMIES, AND OUT OF THE HAND OF SAUL: # 2 AND HE SAID, THE LORD IS MY ROCK, AND MY FORTRESS, AND MY DELIVERER; # 3 THE GOD OF MY ROCK; IN HIM WILL I TRUST: HE IS MY SHIELD, AND THE HORN OF MY SALVATION, MY HIGH TOWER, AND MY REFUGE, MY SAVIOUR; THOU SAVEST ME FROM VIOLENCE. # 4 I WILL CALL ON THE LORD, WHO IS WORTHBOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfHEY HEAR, THEY SHALL BE OBEDIENT UNTO ME. # 46 STRANGERS SHALL FADE AWAY, AND THEY SHALL BE AFRAID OUT OF THEIR CLOSE PLACES. # 47 THE LORD LIVETH; AND BLESSED BE MY ROCK; AND EXALTED BE THE GOD OF THE ROCK OF MY SALVATION. # 48 IT IS GOD THAT AVENGETH ME, AND THAT BRINGETH DOWN THE PEOPLE UNDER ME. # 49 AND THAT BRINGETH ME FORTH FROM MINE ENEMIES: THOU ALSO HAST LIFTED ME UP ON HIGH ABOVE THEM THAT ROSE UP AGAINST ME: THOU HAST DELIVERED ME FROM THE VIOLENT MAN. # 50 THEREFORE I WILL GIVE THANKS UNTO THEE, O LORD, AMONG THE HEATHEN, AND I WILL SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME. # 51 HE IS THE TOWER OF SALVATION FOR HIS KING: AND SHEWETH MERCY TO HIS ANOINTED, UNTO DAVID, AND TO HIS SEED FOR EVERMORE. = CHAPTER 23 # 1 NOW THESE BE THE LAST WORDS OF DAVID. DAVID THE SON OF JESSE SAID, AND THE MAN WHO WAS RAISED UP ON HIGH, THE ANOINTED OF THE GOD OF JACOB, AND THE SWEET PSALMIST OF ISRAEL, SAID, # 2 THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SPAKE BY ME, AND HIS WORD WAS IN MY TONGUE. # 3 THE GOD OF ISRAEL SAID, THE ROCK OF ISRAEL SPAKE TO ME, HE THAT RULETH OVER MEN MUST BE JUST, RULING IN THE FEAR OF GOD. # 4 AND HE SHALL BE AS THE LIGHT OF THE MORNING, WHEN THE SUN RISETH, EVEN A MORNING WITHOUT CLOUDS; AS THE TENDER GRASS SPRINGING OUT OF THE EARTH BY CLEAR SHINING AFTER RAIN. # 5 ALTHOUGH MY HOUSE BE NOT SO WITH GOD; YET HE HATH MADE WITH ME AN EVERLASTING COVENANT, ORDERED IN ALL THINGS, AND SURE: FOR THIS IS ALL MY SALVATION, AND ALL MY DESIRE, ALTHOUGH HE MAKE IT NOT TO GROW. # 6 BUT THE SONS OF BELIAL SHALL BE ALL OF THEM AS THORNS THRUST AWAY, BECAUSE THEY CANNOT BE TAKEN WITH HANDS: # 7 BUT THE MAN THAT SHALL TOUCH THEM MUST BE FENCED WITH IRON AND THE STAFF OF A SPEAR; AND THEY SHALL BE UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE IN THE SAME PLACE. # 8 THESE BE THE NAMES OF THE MIGHTY MEN WHOM DAVID HAD: THE TACHMONITE THAT SAT IN THE SEAT, CHIEF AMONG THE CAPTAINS; THE SAME WAS ADINO THE EZNITE: HE LIFT UP HIS SPEAR AGAINST EIGHT HUNDRED, WHOM HE SLEW AT ONE TIME. # 9 AND AFTER HIM WAS ELEAZAR THE SON OF DODO THE AHOHITE, ONE OF THE THREE MIGHTY MEN WITH DAVID, WHEN THEY DEFIED THE PHILISTINES THAT WERE THERE GATHERED TOGETHER TO BATTLE, AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL WERE GONE AWAY: # 10 HE AROSE, AND SMOTE THE PHILISTINES UNTIL HIS HAND WAS WEARY, AND HIS HAND CLAVE UNTO THE SWORD: AND THE LORD WROUGHT A GREAT VICTORY THAT DAY; AND THE PEOPLE RETURNED AFTER HIM ONLY TO SPOIL. # 11 AND AFTER HIM WAS SHAMMAH THE SON OF AGEE THE HARARITE. AND THE PHILISTINES WERE GATHERED TOGETHER INTO A TROOP, WHERE WAS A PIECE OF GROUND FULL OF LENTILES: AND THE PEOPLE FLED FROM THE PHILISTINES. # 12 BUT HE STOOD IN THE MIDST OF THE GROUND, AND DEFENDED IT, AND SLEW THE PHILISTINES: AND THE LORD WROUGHT A GREAT VICTORY. # 13 AND THREE OF THE THIRTY CHIEF WENT DOWN, AND CAME TO DAVID IN THE HARVEST TIME UNTO THE CAVE OF ADULLAM: AND THE TROOP OF THE PHILISTINES PITCHED IN THE VALLEY OF REPHAIM. # 14 AND DAVID WAS THEN IN AN HOLD, AND THE GARRISON OF THE PHILISTINES WAS THEN IN BETHLEHEM. # 15 AND DAVID LONGED, AND SAID, OH THAT ONE WOULD GIVE ME DRINK OF THE WATER OF THE WELL OF BETHLEHEM, WHICH IS BY THE GATE! # 16 AND THE THREE MIGHTY MEN BRAKE THROUGH THE HOST OF THE PHILISTINES, AND DREW WATER OUT OF THE WELL OF BETHLEHEM, THAT WAS BY THE GATE, AND TOOK IT, AND BROUGHT IT TO DAVID: NEVERTHELESS HE WOULD NOT DRINK THEREOF, BUT POURED IT OUT UNTO THE LORD. # 17 AND HE SAID, BE IT FAR FROM ME, O LORD, THAT I SHOULD DO THIS: IS NOT THIS THE BLOOD OF THE MEN THAT WENT IN JEOPARDY OF THEIR LIVES? THEREFORE HE WOULD NOT DRINK IT. THESE THINGS DID THESE THREE MIGHTY MEN. # 18 AND ABISHAI, THE BROTHER OF JOAB, THE SON OF ZERUIAH, WAS CHIEF AMONG THREE. AND HE LIFTED UP HIS SPEAR AGAINST THREE HUNDRED, AND SLEW THEM, AND HAD THE NAME AMONG THREE. # 19 WAS HE NOT MOST HONOURABLE OF THREE? THEREFORE HE WAS THEIR CAPTAIN: HOWBEIT HE ATTAINED NOT UNTO THE FIRST THREE. # 20 AND BENAIAH THE SON OF JEHOIADA, THE SON OF A VALIANT MAN, OF KABZEEL, WHO HAD DONE MANY ACTS, HE SLEW TWO LIONLIKEBOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddf GILEAD, AND TO THE LAND OF TAHTIMHODSHI; AND THEY CAME TO DANJAAN, AND ABOUT TO ZIDON, # 7 AND CAME TO THE STRONG HOLD OF TYRE, AND TO ALL THE CITIES OF THE HIVITES, AND OF THE CANAANITES: AND THEY WENT OUT TO THE SOUTH OF JUDAH, EVEN TO BEERSHEBA. # 8 SO WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH ALL THE LAND, THEY CAME TO JERUSALEM AT THE END OF NINE MONTHS AND TWENTY DAYS. # 9 AND JOAB GAVE UP THE SUM OF THE NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE UNTO THE KING: AND THERE WERE IN ISRAEL EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND VALIANT MEN THAT DREW THE SWORD; AND THE MEN OF JUDAH WERE FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN. # 10 AND DAVIDS HEART SMOTE HIM AFTER THAT HE HAD NUMBERED THE PEOPLE. AND DAVID SAID UNTO THE LORD, I HAVE SINNED GREATLY IN THAT I HAVE DONE: AND NOW, I BESEECH THEE, O LORD, TAKE AWAY THE INIQUITY OF THY SERVANT; FOR I HAVE DONE VERY FOOLISHLY. # 11 FOR WHEN DAVID WAS UP IN THE MORNING, THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO THE PROPHET GAD, DAVIDS SEER, SAYING, # 12 GO AND SAY UNTO DAVID, THUS SAITH THE LORD, I OFFER THEE THREE THINGS; CHOOSE THEE ONE OF THEM, THAT I MAY DO IT UNTO THEE. # 13 SO GAD CAME TO DAVID, AND TOLD HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, SHALL SEVEN YEARS OF FAMINE COME UNTO THEE IN THY LAND? OR WILT THOU FLEE THREE MONTHS BEFORE THINE ENEMIES, WHILE THEY PURSUE THEE? OR THAT THERE BE THREE DAYS PESTILENCE IN THY LAND? NOW ADVISE, AND SEE WHAT ANSWER I SHALL RETURN TO HIM THAT SENT ME. # 14 AND DAVID SAID UNTO GAD, I AM IN A GREAT STRAIT: LET US FALL NOW INTO THE HAND OF THE LORD; FOR HIS MERCIES ARE GREAT: AND LET ME NOT FALL INTO THE HAND OF MAN. # 15 SO THE LORD SENT A PESTILENCE UPON ISRAEL FROM THE MORNING EVEN TO THE TIME APPOINTED: AND THERE DIED OF THE PEOPLE FROM DAN EVEN TO BEERSHEBA SEVENTY THOUSAND MEN. # 16 AND WHEN THE ANGEL STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND UPON JERUSALEM TO DESTROY IT, THE LORD REPENTED HIM OF THE EVIL, AND SAID TO THE ANGEL THAT DESTROYED THE PEOPLE, IT IS ENOUGH: STAY NOW THINE HAND. AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD WAS BY THE THRESHINGPLACE OF ARAUNAH THE JEBUSITE. # 17 AND DAVID SPAKE UNTO THE LORD WHEN HE SAW THE ANGEL THAT SMOTE THE PEOPLE, AND SAID, LO, I HAVE SINNED, AND I HAVE DONE WICKEDLY: BUT THESE SHEEP, WHAT HAVE THEY DONE? LET THINE HAND, I PRAY THEE, BE AGAINST ME, AND AGAINST MY FATHERS HOUSE. # 18 AND GAD CAME THAT DAY TO DAVID, AND SAID UNTO HIM, GO UP, REAR AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD IN THE THRESHINGFLOOR OF ARAUNAH THE JEBUSITE. # 19 AND DAVID, ACCORDING TO THE SAYING OF GAD, WENT UP AS THE LORD COMMANDED. # 20 AND ARAUNAH LOOKED, AND SAW THE KING AND HIS SERVANTS COMING ON TOWARD HIM: AND ARAUNAH WENT OUT, AND BOWED HIMSELF BEFORE THE KING ON HIS FACE UPON THE GROUND. # 21 AND ARAUNAH SAID, WHEREFORE IS MY LORD THE KING COME TO HIS SERVANT? AND DAVID SAID, TO BUY THE THRESHINGFLOOR OF THEE, TO BUILD AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD, THAT THE PLAGUE MAY BE STAYED FROM THE PEOPLE. # 22 AND ARAUNAH SAID UNTO DAVID, LET MY LORD THE KING TAKE AND OFFER UP WHAT SEEMETH GOOD UNTO HIM: BEHOLD, HERE BE OXEN FOR BURNT SACRIFICE, AND THRESHING INSTRUMENTS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS OF THE OXEN FOR WOOD. # 23 ALL THESE THINGS DID ARAUNAH, AS A KING, GIVE UNTO THE KING. AND ARAUNAH SAID UNTO THE KING, THE LORD THY GOD ACCEPT THEE. # 24 AND THE KING SAID UNTO ARAUNAH, NAY; BUT I WILL SURELY BUY IT OF THEE AT A PRICE: NEITHER WILL I OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS UNTO THE LORD MY GOD OF THAT WHICH DOTH COST ME NOTHING. SO DAVID BOUGHT THE THRESHINGFLOOR AND THE OXEN FOR FIFTY SHEKELS OF SILVER. # 25 AND DAVID BUILT THERE AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD, AND OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS AND PEACE OFFERINGS. SO THE LORD WAS INTREATED FOR THE LAND, AND THE PLAGUE WAS STAYED FROM ISRAEL. BOOK10BIB[.050044]BOOK10.BIB[.050044]   X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\