\NormalFont\ShortTitle{2 Samuel}
{\MT The Second Book of Samuel

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
after
the
death
of
Saul,
when
David,
having
come
back
from
the destruction
of
the
Amalekites,
had
been
in
Ziklag
for
two
days;
\VS{2}On
the
third
day
a
man
came
from Saul's tents,
with
his
clothing
out
of order
and
earth
on
his
head:
and
when
he
came
to
David,
he
went
down
on
the
earth
and
gave
him honour.
\VS{3}And
David
said
to
him,
Where
have
you
come
from?
And
he
said,
I
have
come
in flight
from
the tents
of
Israel.
\VS{4}And
David
said
to
him,
How
did
things
go?
Give
me
the
news.
And
in
answer
he
said,
The
people
have
gone
in
flight
from
the
fight,
and
a great
number
of
them
are
dead;
and
Saul
and
his
son
Jonathan
are
dead.
\VS{5}And
David
said
to
the
young
man
who
gave
him
the
news,
Why
are
you
certain
that
Saul
and
his
son
Jonathan
are
dead?
\VS{6}And
the
young
man
said,
I
came
by
chance
to
Mount
Gilboa,
and
I
saw
Saul supporting himself
on
his
spear;
and
the war-carriages
and
horsemen
overtook
him.
\VS{7}And
looking
back,
he
saw
me
and
gave
a
cry
to
me.
And answering
him
I
said,
Here
am
I.
\VS{8}And
he
said
to
me,
Who
are
you?
And
I
said,
I
am
an
Amalekite.
\VS{9}Then
he
said
to
me,
Come
here
to
my side,
and
put
me
to
death,
for
the pain
of
death
has
me
in
its grip
but
my
life
is
still strong
in
me.
\VS{10}So
I
put
my foot
on
him
and
gave
him
his death-blow,
because
I
was
certain
that
he
would
not
go
on
living
after
his
fall:
and
I
took
the
crown
from
his
head
and
the
band
from
his
arm,
and
I
have
them
here
for
my
lord.
\VS{11}Then
David
gave
way
to bitter grief,
and
so
did
all
the
men
who
were
with
him:
\VS{12}And
till
evening
they gave
themselves
to
sorrow
and
weeping,
and took no
food,
weeping
for
Saul
and
for
Jonathan,
his
son,
and
for
the
people
of
the
Lord
and
for
the
men
of
Israel;
because
they
had
come
to
their end
by
the
sword.
\VS{13}And
David
said
to
the
young
man
who
had given
him
the
news,
Where
do
you come
from?
And
he
said,
I
am
the
son
of
a
man
from
a strange land;
I
am
an
Amalekite.
\VS{14}And
David
said
to
him,
Had
you
no
fear
of stretching
out
your
hand
to
put
to death
the
one marked
with
the holy oil?
\VS{15}And
David
sent
for
one
of
his
young
men
and
said,
Go
near
and
put
an end
to
him.
And
he
put
him
to
death.
\VS{16}And
David
said
to
him,
May
your
blood
be
on
your
head;
for
your
mouth
has given witness
against
you,
saying,
I
have
put
to
death
the
man marked
with
the holy oil.
\VS{17}Then
David
made
this song
of grief
for
Saul
and
Jonathan,
his
son:
\VS{18}(It
is
recorded
in
the
book
of
Jashar
for
teaching
to
the
sons
of
Judah)
and
he
said:
\VS{19}The glory, O
Israel,
is
dead
on
your
high
places!
How
have
the
great
ones been made low!
\VS{20}Give
no
news
of
it
in
Gath,
let
it
not
be said
in
the
streets
of
Ashkelon;
or
the
daughters
of
the
Philistines
will
be
glad,
the
daughters
of men
without circumcision
will
be uplifted
in
joy.
\VS{21}O
mountains
of
Gilboa,
let
there
be
no
dew
or
rain
on
you,
you
fields
of death:
for
there
the arms
of
the
strong
have been shamed,
the arms
of
Saul,
as
if
he
had
not been marked
with
the holy
oil.
\VS{22}From
the
blood
of
the
dead,
from
the
fat
of
the
strong,
the
bow
of
Jonathan
was
not
turned
back,
the
sword
of
Saul
did
not
come
back unused.
\VS{23}Saul
and
Jonathan
were
loved
and pleasing;
in
their
lives
and
in
their
death
they
were
not
parted;
they went
more quickly
than
eagles,
they
were
stronger
than
lions.
\VS{24}O
daughters
of
Israel,
have
sorrow
for
Saul,
by whom
you
were delicately
clothed
in
robes
of
red,
with
ornaments
of
gold
on
your dresses.
\VS{25}How
have
the
great
ones been
made low
in
the
fight!
Jonathan
is
dead
on
your
high
places.
\VS{26}I am full
of grief
for
you,
my
brother
Jonathan:
very
dear
have
you been
to
me:
your
love
for
me
was
a wonder, greater
than
the
love
of
women.
\VS{27}How have
the
great
ones
been
made low,
and
the arms
of
war
broken!

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
after
this,
David, questioning
the
Lord,
said,
Am
I
to
go
up
into
any
of
the
towns
of
Judah?
And
the
Lord
said
to
him,
Go
up.
And
David
said,
Where
am
I
to
go?
And
he
said,
To
Hebron.
\VS{2}So
David
went
there, taking
with
him
his
two
wives,
Ahinoam
of Jezreel,
and
Abigail,
the
wife
of
Nabal
of Carmel.
\VS{3}And
David
took
all
his
men
with
him,
every
man
with
his
family:
and
they
were
living
in
the
towns round
Hebron.
\VS{4}And
the
men
of
Judah
came
there,
and
with
the holy
oil
made
David
king
over
the
people
of
Judah.
And
word
came
to
David
that
it
was
the
men
of Jabesh-gilead
who
put Saul's body
in
its last resting-place.
\VS{5}And
David
sent
to
the
men
of Jabesh-gilead
and
said
to
them,
May
the
Lord give
you
his
blessing,
because
you
have
done
this kind
act
to
Saul
your
lord,
and
have
put
his body
to rest!
\VS{6}May
the
Lord
be
good
and
true
to
you:
and
I
myself
will
see
that
your
kind
act
is rewarded,
because
you
have
done
this
thing.
\VS{7}Then
let
your
hands
be
strong,
and
have no fear:
though
Saul
your
lord
is
dead,
the
people
of
Judah
have
made
me
their
king.
\VS{8}Now
Abner,
the
son
of
Ner,
captain
of Saul's
army,
had
taken Saul's
son
Ish-bosheth
over
to
Mahanaim,
\VS{9}And
made
him
king
over
Gilead
and
the Asherites
and
over
Jezreel
and
Ephraim
and
Benjamin,
that
is,
over
all
Israel.
\VS{10}(Saul's
son
Ish-bosheth
was
forty
years
old
when
he
became
king
over
Israel,
and
he
was ruler
for
two
years.)
But
Judah
was
on
the
side
of
David.
\VS{11}And
the
time
when
David
was
king
in
Hebron
over
the
people
of
Judah
was
seven
years
and
six
months.
\VS{12}And
Abner,
the
son
of
Ner,
with
the
servants
of Saul's
son
Ish-bosheth,
went
out
from
Mahanaim
to
Gibeon.
\VS{13}And
Joab,
the
son
of
Zeruiah,
and
the
servants
of
David,
went
out
and
came face
to face
with
them
by
the
pool
of
Gibeon;
and
they
took
up
their position, facing
one
another
on
opposite
sides
of
the
pool.
\VS{14}And
Abner
said
to
Joab,
Let
the
young
men
give
a test
of
their strength
before
us.
And
Joab
said,
Let
them
do
so.
\VS{15}So
they
got
up
and
went
over
by
number:
twelve
for
Benjamin
and
Ish-bosheth
and
twelve
of
the
servants
of
David.
\VS{16}And
every
one got
the
other
by
the
head, driving
his
sword
into
the other's
side,
so
they
all
went
down
together:
and
that
place
was
named
the Field
of
Sides,
and
it
is
in
Gibeon.
\VS{17}And
there
was
hard fighting
that
day;
and
Abner
and
the
men
of
Israel
gave
way
before
the
servants
of
David.
\VS{18}There
were
three
sons
of
Zeruiah
there,
Joab
and
Abishai
and
Asahel:
and
Asahel
was
as quick-footed
as
a roe
of
the
fields.
\VS{19}Asahel
went running
after
Abner,
not
turning
to
the
right
or
to
the
left.
\VS{20}Then
Abner, looking
back,
said,
Is
it
you,
Asahel?
And
he
said,
It
is
I.
\VS{21}And
Abner
said,
Then
go
to
the
right
or
to
the
left
and
put
your hands
on
one
of
the fighting-men
and
take
his arms.
But
Asahel
would
not
be
turned
away
from going
after
Abner.
\VS{22}Then
again
Abner
said
to
Asahel,
Go
to
one
side,
do
not
keep
on coming
after
me:
why
will
you
make
me
put
an
end
to
you?
for
then
I
will
be shamed
before
your
brother
Joab.
\VS{23}But
still
he
did
not
go
to
one
side:
so
Abner
gave
him
a
back blow
in
the stomach
with
his
spear,
so
that
the
spear
came
out
at
his
back;
and
he
went
down
on
the earth,
wounded
to
death:
and
all
those
who
came
to
the
place
where
Asahel
went
down
dead,
came
to
a
stop.
\VS{24}But
Joab
and
Abishai
went
after
Abner:
and
the
sun
went
down
when
they
came
to
the
hill
of Ammah,
which
is
to
the
east
of
the
road
through
the waste
land
of Geba.
\VS{25}And
the
men
of
Benjamin
came
together
after
Abner
in
one
band,
and
took
their places
on
the
top
of
a
hill.
\VS{26}Then
crying
out
to
Joab,
Abner
said,
Are fighting
and destruction
to
go
on
for
ever? do
you
not
see
that
the
end
will
only
be
bitter?
how
long
will
it
be
before
you send
the
people
back
and
make
them
give
up attacking
their
countrymen?
\VS{27}And
Joab
said,
By
the
living
God,
if
you
had
not given
the
word,
the
people
would
have
gone
on attacking
their
countrymen till
the
morning.
\VS{28}So
Joab
had
a
horn
sounded,
and
all
the
people came
to
a
stop,
and gave
up going
after
Israel
and
fighting
them.
\VS{29}And
all
that
night
Abner
and
his
men
went
through
the
Arabah;
they
went
over
Jordan
and
through
all Bithron
and
came
to
Mahanaim.
\VS{30}And
Joab
came
back
from fighting
Abner:
and
when
he
had got
all
his
men
together,
it
was seen
that
nineteen
of David's
men,
in addition
to
Asahel,
were
not
with
them.
\VS{31}But David's
men
had
put
to
death
three
hundred
and
sixty
of
the
men
of
Benjamin
and
of Abner's
men
\VS{32}And
they
took Asahel's body
and
put
it
in
the last resting-place
of
his
father
in Beth-lehem.
And
Joab
and
his
men, travelling
all
night,
came
to
Hebron
at dawn.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
there
was
a
long
war
between Saul's people
and David's people;
and
David
became
stronger
and
stronger,
but
those
on Saul's side
became more
and more feeble.
\VS{2}While
David
was
in
Hebron
he
became
the
father
of
sons:
the
oldest
was
Amnon,
son
of
Ahinoam
of Jezreel;
\VS{3}And
the
second,
Chileab,
whose mother
was
Abigail,
the
wife
of
Nabal
the
Carmelite;
and
the
third,
Absalom,
son
of
Maacah,
the
daughter
of
Talmai,
king
of
Geshur;
\VS{4}And
the
fourth,
Adonijah,
the
son
of
Haggith;
and
the
fifth,
Shephatiah,
the
son
of
Abital;
\VS{5}And
the
sixth,
Ithream, whose mother
was David's
wife
Eglah.
These
were
the
sons
of
David, whose
birth took place
in
Hebron.
\VS{6}Now
while
there
was
war
between Saul's people
and David's people,
Abner
was
making
himself
strong
among
the supporters
of
Saul.
\VS{7}Now
Saul
had
among
his wives
a
woman
named
Rizpah,
the
daughter
of
Aiah:
and
Ish-bosheth
said
to
Abner,
Why
have
you taken
my father's wife?
\VS{8}And
Abner
was
very
angry
at
the
words
of
Ish-bosheth,
and
he
said,
Am
I
a dog's
head
of
Judah?
I
am
this
day
doing
all
in
my
power
for
the
cause
of
your
father
Saul
and
for
his
brothers
and
his
friends,
and
have
not
given
you
up
into
the
hands
of
David,
and
now
you
say
I
have
done
wrong
with
a
woman.
\VS{9}May God's punishment
be
on
Abner,
if
I
do
not
for
David
as
the
Lord
in
his
oath
has
said,
\VS{10}And if
I do
not
take
away
the
kingdom
from
the
family
of
Saul
and
make
David ruler
over
Israel
and
Judah
from
Dan
as
far
as Beer-sheba!
\VS{11}And
so great
was Ish-bosheth's
fear
of
Abner
that
he
was
not
able
to
say
a
word
in
answer.
\VS{12}And
Abner
sent
men
to
David
at Hebron,
saying,
Make
an
agreement
with
me,
and
I
will give
you
my
support
in getting
all
Israel
on
your
side.
\VS{13}And
he
said,
It
is
well;
I
will
make
an
agreement
with
you,
but
on
one
condition,
which
is,
that
when
you
come
before
me, Saul's
daughter
Michal
is
to
come
with
you; till
she
comes
you
will
not
see
my
face.
\VS{14}And
David
sent
men
to Saul's
son
Ish-bosheth,
saying,
Give
me
back
Michal,
my
wife,
whom
I
made mine
for
the price
of
the private parts
of
a
hundred
Philistines.
\VS{15}So
Ish-bosheth
sent
and
took
her
from
her
husband
Paltiel,
the
son
of Laish.
\VS{16}And
her
husband
went
with
her
as
far
as
Bahurim,
weeping
while
he
went.
Then
Abner
said
to
him,
Go
back.
And
he
went
back.
\VS{17}Then
Abner
had
a
talk
with
the chief
men
of
Israel,
saying,
In
the
past
it
was
your
desire
to make
David
your
king:
so
now, do
it:
\VS{18}For
the
Lord
has
said
of
David,
By
the
hand
of
my
servant
David
I
will
make
my
people
Israel
safe
from
the
Philistines,
and
from
all
who
are
against
them.
\VS{19}And
Abner
said
the
same
things
to
Benjamin:
and
he
went
to
David
in
Hebron
to make
clear
to
him
what
seemed
good
to
Israel
and
to
all
the
people
of
Benjamin.
\VS{20}So
Abner,
with
twenty
men,
came
to
Hebron,
to
David.
And
David
made
a
feast
for
Abner
and
the
men
who
were
with
him.
\VS{21}And
Abner
said
to
David, Now
I
will
go,
and
make
all
Israel
come
to
my
lord
the
king,
so
that
they
may
make
an
agreement
with
you,
and
your
kingdom
may
be
as wide
as
your heart's
desire.
Then
David
sent
Abner
away
and
he
went
in
peace.
\VS{22}Now
the
servants
of
David
and
Joab
had been
out attacking
a
band
of armed
men,
and
they
came
back
with
a
great store
of goods taken
in
the fight:
but
Abner
was
no
longer
in
Hebron
with
David,
for
he
had
sent
him
away
and
he
had
gone
in
peace.
\VS{23}When
Joab
and
his
men
came,
news
was given
them
that
Abner,
the
son
of
Ner,
had
come
to
the
king,
who
had
let
him
go
away
again
in
peace.
\VS{24}Then
Joab
came
to
the
king,
and
said,
What
have
you
done?
when
Abner
came
to
you
why
did
you
send
him
away
and
let
him
go?
\VS{25}Is
it
not
clear
to
you
that
Abner,
the
son
of
Ner,
came
with deceit
to
get
knowledge
of
your
going
out
and
your
coming
in
and
of
all
you
are
doing?
\VS{26}And
when
Joab
had
come
out
from
David,
he
sent men
after
Abner,
and
they overtook
him
at
the water-spring
of
Sirah,
and
made
him
come
back
with
them:
but
David
had
no
knowledge
of
it.
\VS{27}And
when
Abner
was
back
in
Hebron,
Joab
took
him
on
one
side
by
the doorway
of
the
town
to
have
a
word
with
him quietly,
and
there
he
gave
him
a wound
in
the stomach, causing
his
death
in payment
for
the
death
of
his
brother
Asahel.
\VS{28}And
when
David
had
word
of
it
he
said,
May
I
and
my
kingdom
be clear
for
ever
in
the eyes
of
the
Lord
from
the
blood
of
Abner,
the
son
of
Ner:
\VS{29}May
it
come
on
the
head
of
Joab
and
all
his father's
family:
among
the
men
of Joab's
family
may
there ever
be
some
who
are diseased
or
lepers,
or
who
do
the work
of women,
or
are
put
to
the
sword,
or
are wasted
from need
of
food!
\VS{30}So
Joab
and
Abishai
his
brother
put
Abner
to
death,
because
he
had
put
to
death
their
brother
Asahel
in
the
fight
at
Gibeon.
\VS{31}And
David
said
to
Joab
and
all
the
people
who
were
with
him,
Go
in grief
and
put haircloth
about
you,
in sorrow
for
Abner.
And
King
David
went
after
the dead body.
\VS{32}And
they
put Abner's body
to rest
in
Hebron;
and
the
king
and
all
the
people
were
weeping
loudly
by
the resting-place
of Abner's body.
\VS{33}And
the
king made
a song
of grief
for
Abner
and
said,
Was
the
death
of
Abner
to
be
like
the
death
of
a
foolish
man?
\VS{34}Your
hands
were free,
your
feet
were
not chained:
like
the
downfall
of
a
man
before
evil
men,
so
was
your
fall.
And
the
weeping
of
the
people
over
him
went
on
again.
\VS{35}And
the
people
came
to
make
David
take
food,
while
it
was
still
day,
but
David
with
an
oath
said,
May God's punishment
be
on
me
if
I
take
a
taste
of
bread
or
any
other
thing till
the
sun
has
gone
down!
\VS{36}And
all
the
people
took
note
of
it
and
were
pleased:
like
everything
the
king
did,
it
was
pleasing
to
the
people.
\VS{37}So
it
was
clear
to
Israel
and
to
all
the
people
on
that
day
that
the
king
was
not responsible
for
the
death
of
Abner,
the
son
of
Ner.
\VS{38}And
the
king
said
to
his
servants,
Do
you
not
see
that
a
chief
and
a
great
man
has
come
to
his end
today
in
Israel?
\VS{39}While
I, though
I
am crowned
king,
have little strength,
and
these
men,
the
sons
of
Zeruiah,
are
out
of
my control:
may
the
Lord
give
to
the evil-doer
the
reward
of
his evil-doing!

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
when Saul's
son Ish-bosheth
had news
that
Abner
was
dead
in
Hebron,
his
hands became
feeble,
and
all
the
Israelites
were troubled.
\VS{2}And Saul's
son
had
two
men,
captains
of
bands,
one
named
Baanah
and
the
other
Rechab,
sons
of
Rimmon
the
Beerothite,
of
the tribe
of
Benjamin; (for
Beeroth
was
at
one
time
taken
to
be
part
of
Benjamin:
\VS{3}But
the people
of Beeroth
had
gone
in
flight
to
Gittaim,
where
they
have
been
living
to
this
day.)
\VS{4}Now
Jonathan, Saul's
son,
had
a
son
whose
feet
were damaged.
He
was
five
years
old
when
news
of
the death
of
Saul
and
Jonathan
came
from
Jezreel,
and
the
woman
who
took care
of
him
took
him
up
and
went
in
flight:
and
while she
was getting
him
away
as quickly
as she
was able,
he
had
a
fall
and
his
feet
were damaged.
His
name
was
Mephibosheth.
\VS{5}And
Rechab
and
Baanah,
the
sons
of
Rimmon
the
Beerothite,
went
out
and
came
to
the
house
of
Ish-bosheth
in
the
heat
of
the
day,
when
he
was
resting
in
the middle
of
the
day.
Now
the
woman
who kept
the door
was cleaning grain,
and
sleep overcame
her.
\VS{6}And
Rechab
and
his
brother
Baanah
got
in without being seen.
\VS{7}And
when
they
came
into
the
house, Ish-bosheth
was stretched
on
his
bed
in
his
bedroom;
and
they
made
an
attack
on
him
and
put
him
to
death,
and, cutting
off
his
head,
they
took
it
with
them
and
went
by
the
road
through
the
Arabah
all
night.
\VS{8}And
they
took
the
head
of
Ish-bosheth
to
David
in
Hebron,
and
said
to
the
king,
Here
is
the
head
of
Ish-bosheth,
the
son
of
Saul
your hater,
who
would
have
taken
your
life;
the
Lord
has
taken payment
for
the wrongs
of
my
lord
the
king
from
Saul
and
his
seed
today.
\VS{9}And
David
made
answer
to
Rechab
and
his
brother
Baanah,
the
sons
of
Rimmon
the
Beerothite,
and
said
to
them,
By
the
living
Lord,
who
has kept
me safe
from
all
my
trouble,
\VS{10}When
one
came
to
me
with
the
news
of Saul's
death,
in
the belief
that
it
would
be
good
news,
I
took
him
and
put
him
to
death
in
Ziklag,
which
was
the
reward
I
gave
him
for
his
news:
\VS{11}How
much
more,
when
evil
men
have
put
an
upright
person
to
death,
in
his
house,
sleeping
on
his
bed,
will
I take payment
from
you
for
his
blood,
and
have
you cut
off
from
the
earth?
\VS{12}And
David
gave
orders
to
his
young
men
and
they
put
them
to death, cutting
off
their
hands
and
their
feet
and
hanging
them
up
by
the
side
of
the
pool
in
Hebron.
But
they
took
the
head
of
Ish-bosheth
and
put
it
in
its last resting-place
with Abner's body
in
Hebron.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
came
to
David
in
Hebron
and
said, Truly,
we
are
your
bone
and
your
flesh.
\VS{2}In
the past
when
Saul
was
king
over
us,
it
was
you
who
went
at
the head
of
Israel
when
they
went
out
or
came
in:
and
the
Lord
said
to
you,
You
are
to
be
the keeper
of
my
people
Israel
and
their
ruler.
\VS{3}So
all
the responsible
men
of
Israel
came
to
the
king
at
Hebron;
and
King
David
made
an
agreement
with
them
in
Hebron
before
the
Lord:
and
they
put
the holy
oil
on
David
and
made
him
king
over
Israel.
\VS{4}David
was
thirty
years
old
when
he
became
king,
and
he
was
king
for
forty
years,
\VS{5}Ruling
over
Judah
in
Hebron
for
seven
years
and
six
months,
and
in
Jerusalem,
over
all
Israel
and
Judah,
for
thirty-three
years.
\VS{6}And
the
king
and
his
men
went
to
Jerusalem
against
the
Jebusites,
the
people
of
the
land:
and
they
said
to
David,
You
will
not
come
in
here,
but
the
blind
and
the feeble-footed
will
keep
you
out;
for
they
said,
David
will
not
be able
to
come
in
here.
\VS{7}But
David
took
the strong place
of
Zion,
which
is
the
town
of
David.
\VS{8}And
that
day
David
said,
Whoever
makes
an
attack
on
the
Jebusites,
let
him
go
up
by
the water-pipe,
and
put
to
death
all
the
blind
and feeble-footed
who
are
hated
by
David.
And
this
is
why
they
say,
The
blind
and feeble-footed
may
not
come
into
the
house.
\VS{9}So
David took
the strong tower
for
his living-place, naming
it
the
town
of
David.
And
David took
in hand
the
building
of
the
town
all
round, starting
from
the
Millo.
\VS{10}And
David
became
greater
and
greater;
for
the
Lord,
the
God
of
armies,
was
with
him.
\VS{11}And
Hiram,
king
of
Tyre,
sent men
to
David,
with cedar-trees
and woodworkers
and stoneworkers:
and
they
made
David
a
house.
\VS{12}And
David saw
that
the
Lord
had
made
his
position safe
as
king
over
Israel,
and
that
he
had
made
his
kingdom great
because
of
his
people
Israel.
\VS{13}And
David
took
more
women
and
wives
in
Jerusalem,
after
he
had
come
from
Hebron:
and
he
had
more
sons
and
daughters.
\VS{14}These
are
the
names
of
those
whose birth took place
in
Jerusalem:
Shammua
and
Shobab
and
Nathan
and
Solomon
\VS{15}And
Ibhar
and
Elishua
and
Nepheg
and
Japhia
\VS{16}And
Elishama
and
Eliada
and
Eliphelet.
\VS{17}And
when
the
Philistines
had news
that
David
had
been
made
king
over
Israel,
they
all
went
up
in
search
of
David;
and
David,
hearing
of
it,
went
down
to
the strong
place.
\VS{18}And
when
the
Philistines
came,
they
went
in every direction
in
the
valley
of
Rephaim.
\VS{19}And
David, desiring
directions
from
the
Lord,
said,
Am
I
to
go
up
against
the
Philistines?
will
you
give
them
up
into
my
hands?
And
the
Lord
said,
Go
up,
for
I
will
certainly
give
up
the
Philistines
into
your
hands.
\VS{20}And
David
went
to
Baal-perazim,
and overcame
them
there;
and
he
said,
The
Lord
has
let
the forces fighting
against
me
be
broken
before
me
as
a wall
is
broken
by rushing
waters.
So
that
place
was
named
Baal-perazim.
\VS{21}And
the Philistines,
when
they
went
in flight,
did
not
take
their
images
with
them,
and
David
and
his
men
took
them
away.
\VS{22}And
the
Philistines
came
up
again,
and
went
in every direction
in
the
valley
of
Rephaim.
\VS{23}And
when
David
went
for directions
to
the
Lord,
he
said,
You
are
not
to
go
up
against
them
in
front;
but
make
a
circle
round
them
from
the
back
and
come
on
them
opposite
the spice-trees.
\VS{24}Then
at
the
sound
of footsteps
in
the
tops
of
the
trees,
go
forward quickly,
for
the
Lord
has
gone
out
before
you
to overcome
the
army
of
the
Philistines.
\VS{25}And
David
did
as
the
Lord
had
said;
and
he overcame
the
Philistines,
attacking
them
from Gibeon
to
near
Gezer.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
David got together
all
the fighting-men
of
Israel
to
the number
of
thirty
thousand;
\VS{2}And
David,
and
all
the
people
who
were
with
him,
went
to Baal
of Judah
to
get
the
ark
of
God,
over
which
the holy
name
is
named,
the
name
of
the
Lord
of
armies,
whose
place
is
between
the winged ones.
\VS{3}And
they
put
the
ark
of
God
on
a
new
cart
and
took
it
out
of
the
house
of
Abinadab
which
was
on
the
hill:
and
Uzzah
and
Ahio,
the
sons
of
Abinadab,
were
the drivers
of
the
cart.
\VS{4}And Uzzah
went
by
the
side
of
the
ark,
while
Ahio
went
before
it.
\VS{5}And
David
and
all
the
men
of
Israel
made melody
before
the
Lord
with
all
their
power,
with songs
and
with corded instruments
and instruments
of brass.
\VS{6}And
when
they
came
to Nacon's grain-floor,
Uzzah
put
his hand
on
the
ark
of
God
to
keep
it safe
in
its
place,
for
the
oxen
were
out
of control.
\VS{7}And
the
wrath
of
the
Lord, burning
against
Uzzah, sent destruction
on
him
because
he
had
put
his hand
on
the
ark,
and
death came
to
him
there
by
the
ark
of
God.
\VS{8}And
David
was
angry
because
of
the Lord's
outburst
of wrath
against
Uzzah:
and
he
gave
that
place
the
name
Perez-uzzah,
which
is
its
name
to
this
day.
\VS{9}And
such
was David's
fear
of
the
Lord
that
day,
that
he
said,
How
may
I let
the
ark
of
God
come
to
me?
\VS{10}So
David
did
not
let
the
ark
of
the
Lord come
back
to
him
to
the
town
of
David:
but
had
it
turned
away
and
put
into
the
house
of
Obed-edom
the
Gittite.
\VS{11}And
the
ark
of
the
Lord
was
in
the
house
of
Obed-edom
the
Gittite
for
three
months:
and
the
Lord sent
a
blessing
on
Obed-edom
and
all
his
family.
\VS{12}And
they
said
to
King
David,
The
blessing
of
the
Lord
is
on
the
family
of
Obed-edom
and
on
all
he
has,
because
of
the
ark
of
God.
And
David
went
and
took
the
ark
of
God
from
the
house
of
Obed-edom
into
the
town
of
David
with
joy.
\VS{13}And
when
those
who
were lifting
the
ark
of
the
Lord
had
gone
six
steps,
he
made
an
offering
of
an
ox
and
a fat young beast.
\VS{14}And
David,
clothed
in
a
linen
ephod,
was
dancing
before
the
Lord
with
all
his
strength.
\VS{15}So
David
and
all
the
men
of
Israel
took
up
the
ark
of
the
Lord
with
cries
of
joy
and sounding
of
horns.
\VS{16}And
when
the
ark
of
the
Lord
came
into
the
town
of
David,
Michal, Saul's
daughter,
looking
out
of
the
window,
saw
King
David
dancing
and jumping
before
the
Lord;
and
to
her
mind
he
seemed foolish.
\VS{17}And
they
took
in
the
ark
of
the
Lord,
and
put
it
in
its
place
inside
the
tent
which
David
had
put
up
for
it:
and
David
made burned
offerings
and peace-offerings
to
the
Lord.
\VS{18}And
after
David
had
made
the burned
offerings
and
the peace-offerings,
he gave
the
people
a
blessing
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
of
armies.
\VS{19}And
he gave
to
every
man
and
woman
among
all
the
people,
among
all
the
masses
of
Israel,
a
cake
of
bread
and
a measure
of wine
and
a
cake
of dry grapes.
Then
all
the
people
went
away,
every
man
to
his
house.
\VS{20}Then
David
came
back
to
give
a
blessing
to
his
family.
And
Michal, Saul's
daughter,
came
out
to
him
and
said,
How
full
of
glory
was
the
king
of
Israel
today,
who
let
himself
be
seen
uncovered
by
his servant-girls
like
a
foolish
person uncovering
himself without shame!
\VS{21}And
David
said
to
Michal,
I
was dancing
before
the
Lord,
who
put
me
over
your
father
and
all
his
sons,
to make
me
a
ruler
over
the
people
of
the
Lord,
over
his
people
Israel:
and
I
will go
on
playing
before
the
Lord;
\VS{22}And
I
will do
even worse
than
this,
and
make myself
even
lower
in
your
eyes:
but
the servant-girls
of
whom
you
were talking
will
give
me honour.
\VS{23}And
Michal, Saul's
daughter,
had
no
child
till
the
day
of
her
death.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
when
the
king
was
living
in
his
house,
and
the
Lord
had
given
him
rest
from war
on
every
side;
\VS{2}The
king
said
to
Nathan
the
prophet,
See
now,
I
am
living
in
a
house
of
cedar,
but
the
ark
of
God
is housed
inside
the
curtains
of
a
tent.
\VS{3}And
Nathan
said
to
the
king, Go
and
do
whatever
is
in
your
heart;
for
the
Lord
is
with
you.
\VS{4}Now
that
night
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
to
Nathan,
saying,
\VS{5}Go
and
say
to
my
servant
David,
The
Lord
says,
Are
you
to
be
the builder
of
a
house,
a living-place
for
me?
\VS{6}For
from
the
day
when
I
took
the
children
of
Israel
up
out
of
Egypt
till
this
day,
I
have
had
no
house,
but
have
gone
from
place
to
place
in
a
tent.
\VS{7}In
all
the
places
where
I
went
with
all
the
children
of
Israel,
did
I ever
say
to
any
of
the judges
of
Israel,
to
whom
I
gave
the care
of
my
people
Israel,
Why
have
you
not
made
me
a
house
of
cedar?
\VS{8}Then
say
these words
to
my
servant
David,
The
Lord
of
armies
says,
I
took
you
from
the fields,
from keeping
the
sheep,
so
that
you
might
be
a
ruler
over
my
people,
over
my
people
Israel:
\VS{9}And
I
have
been
with
you
wherever
you
went, cutting
off
before
you
all
those
who
were
against
you;
and
I
will
make
your
name
great,
like
the
name
of
the
greatest
ones
of
the
earth.
\VS{10}And
I
will
make
a resting-place
for
my
people
Israel, planting
them
there,
so
that
they
may
be
living
in
the
place
which
is theirs,
and
never
again
be
moved;
and
never
again
will
they
be
troubled
by
evil
men
as
they
were
at
the
first,
\VS{11}From
the
time
when
I
put
judges
over
my
people
Israel;
and
I
will
give
you
peace
from
all
who
are
against
you.
And
the
Lord says
to
you
that
he
will
make
you
the head
of
a line
of kings.
\VS{12}And
when
the
time
comes
for
you
to
go
to
rest
with
your
fathers,
I
will
put
in
your
place
your
seed
after
you,
the
offspring
of
your
body,
and
I
will
make
his
kingdom strong.
\VS{13}He
will
be
the builder
of
a
house
for
my
name,
and
I
will
make
the
seat
of
his
authority
certain
for
ever.
\VS{14}I
will
be
to
him
a
father
and
he
will
be
to
me
a
son:
if
he
does wrong,
I
will
give
him punishment
with
the
rod
of
men
and
with
the blows
of
the
children
of
men;
\VS{15}But
my mercy
will
not
be
taken
away
from
him,
as
I
took
it
from
him
who
was
before
you.
\VS{16}And
your
family
and
your
kingdom
will keep
their
place
before
me
for
ever:
the
seat
of
your
authority
will
never
be overturned.
\VS{17}So
Nathan gave
David
an
account
of
all
these
words
and
this
vision.
\VS{18}Then
David
the
king
went
in
and
took
his
seat
before
the
Lord,
and
said,
Who
am
I,
O
Lord
God,
and
what
is
my
family,
that
you
have
been
my guide
till
now?
\VS{19}And
this
was
only
a
small
thing
to
you,
O
Lord
God;
but
your words
have
even been
about
the far-off
future
of
your servant's
family,
O
Lord
God!
\VS{20}What
more
may
David
say
to
you?
for
you
have
knowledge
of
your
servant,
O
Lord
God.
\VS{21}Because
of
your
word
and
from
your
heart,
you
have
done
all
this
great
work,
and let
your
servant
see
it.
\VS{22}Truly
you
are
great,
O
Lord
God:
there
is
no
one
like
you
and
no
other
God
but
you,
as
is
clear
from
everything
which
has come
to
our
ears.
\VS{23}And
what
other
nation
in
the
earth,
like
your
people
Israel,
did
a
god
go
out
to
take
for
himself,
to
be
his
people,
and
to
make
a
name
for
himself,
and
to
do
great
and strange
things
for
them, driving
out
a
nation
and
its
gods
from
before
his
people?
\VS{24}But
you
took
and
made strong
for
yourself
your
people
Israel,
to
be
your
people
for
ever;
and
you,
Lord,
became
their
God.
\VS{25}And
now,
O
Lord
God,
may
the
word
which
you
have
said
about
your
servant
and
about
his
family,
be
made
certain
for
ever,
and
may
you
do
as
you
have
said!
\VS{26}And
let
your
name
be
made
great
for
ever,
and
let
men
say,
The
Lord
of
armies
is
God
over
Israel:
and
let
the
family
of
David
your
servant
be
made strong
before
you!
\VS{27}For
you,
O
Lord
of
armies,
the
God
of
Israel,
have clearly
said
to
your
servant,
I
will
make
you
the head
of
a
family
of kings:
and
so
it
has
come
into
your servant's
heart
to
make
this
prayer
to
you.
\VS{28}And
now,
O
Lord
God,
you
are
God
and
your
words
are
true
and
you
have
said
you
will
give
your
servant
this
good
thing;
\VS{29}So
may
it
be
your pleasure
to
give
your
blessing
to
the
family
of
your
servant,
so
that
it
may
go
on
for
ever
before
you: (for
you,
O
Lord
God,
have
said
it,)
and
may
your
blessing
be
on
your servant's
family
line
for
ever!

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
about
after
this
that
David
made
an
attack
on
the
Philistines
and overcame
them;
and
David
took
the
authority
of
the mother-town
from
the
hands
of
the
Philistines.
\VS{2}And
he overcame
the
Moabites,
and
he
had
them
measured
with
a
line
when
they
were
stretched
out
on
the
earth; marking
out
two lines
for
death
and
one
full
line
for
life.
So
the
Moabites
became
servants
to
David
and
gave
him
offerings.
\VS{3}And
David overcame
Hadadezer,
the
son
of
Rehob,
king
of
Zobah,
when
he
went
to
make
his
power seen
by
the
River.
\VS{4}And
David
took
from
him
one
thousand,
seven
hundred
horsemen
and
twenty
thousand
footmen:
and
David
had
the leg-muscles
of
the
horses cut,
only keeping
enough
of
them
for
a
hundred war-carriages.
\VS{5}And
when
the Aramaeans
of
Damascus
came
to
the
help
of
Hadadezer,
king
of
Zobah,
David
put
to
the sword
twenty-two
thousand
of
the Aramaeans.
\VS{6}And
David
put armed
forces
in
Aram
of
Damascus:
and
the Aramaeans
became
servants
to
David
and
gave
him
offerings.
And
the
Lord
made
David overcome
wherever
he
went.
\VS{7}And
David
took
their
gold body-covers
from
the
servants
of
Hadadezer
and
took
them
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{8}And
from Tebah
and Berothai,
towns
of
Hadadezer,
King
David
took
a
great store
of
brass.
\VS{9}And
when
Tou,
king
of
Hamath,
had news
that
David
had overcome
all
the
army
of
Hadadezer,
\VS{10}He
sent
his
son Hadoram
to
David,
with words
of
peace
and
blessing,
because
he
had overcome
Hadadezer
in
the
fight,
for
Hadadezer
had
wars
with
Tou;
and Hadoram
took
with
him
vessels
of
silver
and
gold
and
brass:
\VS{11}These
King
David
made
holy
to
the
Lord,
together
with
the
silver
and
gold
which
he
had taken
from
the
nations
he
had overcome —
\VS{12}The nations
of
Edom
and
Moab,
and
the
children
of
Ammon
and
the
Philistines
and
the
Amalekites
and
the goods
he
had taken
from
Hadadezer,
the
son
of
Rehob,
king
of
Zobah.
\VS{13}And
David got great honour
for himself,
when
he
came
back,
by
the destruction
of
Edom
in
the
valley
of
Salt,
to
the number
of
eighteen
thousand
men.
\VS{14}And
he
put armed
forces
in
Edom;
all
through
Edom
he
had armed
forces
stationed,
and
all
the
Edomites
became
servants
to
David.
And
the
Lord
made
David overcome
wherever
he
went.
\VS{15}And
David
was
king
over
all
Israel, judging
and giving
right
decisions
for
all
his
people.
\VS{16}And
Joab,
the
son
of
Zeruiah,
was chief
of
the
army;
and
Jehoshaphat,
the
son
of
Ahilud,
was keeper
of
the records;
\VS{17}And
Zadok
and
Abiathar,
the
son
of
Ahimelech,
the
son
of
Ahitub,
were
priests;
and
Seraiah
was
the
scribe;
\VS{18}And
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
was over
the
Cherethites
and
the
Pelethites;
and David's
sons
were
priests.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
David
said,
Is
there
still
anyone
of Saul's
family living,
so
that
I
may
be
a friend
to
him,
because
of
Jonathan?
\VS{2}Now there
was
of Saul's people
a
servant
named
Ziba,
and
they
sent
him
to
David;
and
the
king
said
to
him,
Are
you
Ziba?
And
he
said,
I am.
\VS{3}And
the
king
said,
Is
there
anyone
of Saul's
family
still
living,
to whom
I
may
be
a
friend
in God's
name?
And
Ziba
said,
There
is
a
son
of
Jonathan,
whose
feet
are damaged.
\VS{4}And
the
king
said
to
him,
Where
is
he?
And
Ziba
said
to
the
king,
He
is
in
the
house
of
Machir,
the
son
of
Ammiel,
in
Lo-debar.
\VS{5}Then
King
David
sent,
and
had
him
taken
from
Lo-debar,
from
the
house
of
Machir,
the
son
of
Ammiel.
\VS{6}And
Mephibosheth,
the
son
of
Jonathan,
came
to
David,
and
falling
down
on
his
face,
gave
him honour.
And
David
said,
Mephibosheth.
And answering
he
said,
Your
servant
is
here.
\VS{7}And
David
said
to
him,
Have
no
fear:
for
truly
I
will
be good
to
you,
because
of
your
father
Jonathan,
and
I
will
give
back
to
you
all
the
land
which
was Saul's;
and
you
will
have
a
place
at
my
table
at
all
times.
\VS{8}And
he
went
down
on
his
face
before
the king,
and
said,
What
is
your
servant,
for
you
to take note
of
a
dead
dog
such
as
I am?
\VS{9}Then
the
king
sent
for
Ziba, Saul's
servant,
and
said
to
him,
All
the
property
of
Saul
and
of
his
family
I
have
given
to
your master's
son.
\VS{10}And
you
and
your
sons
and
your
servants
are
to
take
care
of
the
land
for
him,
and
get
in
the
fruit
of
it,
so
that
your master's
son
may
have
food:
but
Mephibosheth,
your master's
son,
will
have
a
place
at
my
table
at
all
times.
Now
Ziba
had
fifteen
sons
and
twenty
servants.
\VS{11}Then
Ziba
said
to
the
king,
Every
order
which
you
have
given
to
your
servant
will
be
done.
As
for
Mephibosheth,
he
had
a
place
at David's
table,
like
one
of
the king's
sons.
\VS{12}And
Mephibosheth
had
a
young
son
named
Mica.
And
all
the
people living
in
the
house
of
Ziba
were
servants
to
Mephibosheth.
\VS{13}So
Mephibosheth went
on
living
in
Jerusalem;
for
he
took
all
his meals
at
the king's
table;
and
he
had
not
the
use
of
his
feet.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
after
this,
death
came
to
the
king
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
Hanun,
his
son,
became
king
in
his
place.
\VS{2}And
David
said,
I
will
be
a friend
to
Hanun,
the
son
of
Nahash,
as
his
father
was
a friend
to
me.
So
David
sent
his
servants,
to
give
him words
of
comfort
on account
of
his
father.
And David's
servants
came
into
the
land
of
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{3}But
the
chiefs
of
the
children
of
Ammon
said
to
Hanun
their
lord,
Does
it
seem
to
you
that
David
is honouring
your
father
by
sending
comforters
to
you?
has
he
not
sent
his
servants
to
go
through
the
town
and
make secret observation
of
it,
and overcome
it?
\VS{4}So
Hanun
took David's
servants,
and
after cutting
off
half
the hair
on
their chins,
and cutting
off
the skirts
of
their robes
up
to
the
middle,
he
sent
them
away.
\VS{5}When
David
had
news
of
it,
he
sent
men
out
with
the purpose
of meeting
them
on
their
way,
for
the
men
were
greatly shamed:
and
the
king
said,
Go
to
Jericho
till
your hair
is
long
again,
and
then
come
back.
\VS{6}And
when
the
children
of
Ammon
saw
that
they
had
made
themselves hated
by
David,
they
sent
to
the Aramaeans
of
Beth-rehob
and
Zobah,
and got
for payment
twenty
thousand
footmen,
and
they got
from
the
king
of
Maacah
a
thousand
men,
and
from
Tob
twelve
thousand.
\VS{7}And
hearing
of
this,
David
sent
Joab
and
all
the
army
and
the best fighting-men.
\VS{8}And
the
children
of
Ammon
came
out
and
put
their
forces
in position
at
the way
into
the
town:
and
the Aramaeans
of
Zobah
and
of
Rehob,
with
the
men
of
Tob
and
Maacah,
were
by
themselves
in
the
field.
\VS{9}Now
when
Joab
saw
that
their
forces
were
in position
against
him
in
front
and
at
his
back,
he
took
the best
of
the
men
of
Israel
and put
them
in
line
against
the Aramaeans;
\VS{10}And
the
rest
of
the
people
he
put
in position
against
the
children
of
Ammon,
with
Abishai,
his
brother,
at
their head.
\VS{11}And
he
said,
If
the Aramaeans
are
stronger
and
get
the better
of
me,
then
you
are
to
come
to
my
help;
but
if
the
children
of
Ammon
get
the better
of
you,
I
will
come
to
your
help.
\VS{12}Take heart,
and let
us
be
strong
for
our
people
and
for
the
towns
of
our
God,
and
may
the
Lord
do
what
seems
good
to
him.
\VS{13}Then
Joab
and
the
people
with
him
went
forward
to
the
fight
against
the Aramaeans,
and
they
went
in
flight
before
him.
\VS{14}And
when
the
children
of
Ammon
saw
the
flight
of
the Aramaeans,
they
themselves
went
in
flight
from
Abishai,
and
came
into
the
town.
So
Joab
went
back
from fighting
the
children
of
Ammon
and
came
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{15}And
when
the Aramaeans
saw
that
Israel
had overcome
them,
they got
themselves
together.
\VS{16}And
Hadadezer
sent
for
the Aramaeans
who
were
on
the
other
side
of
the
River:
and
they
came
to
Helam,
with
Shobach,
the
captain
of Hadadezer's
army,
at
their
head.
\VS{17}And
word
of
this
was given
to
David:
and
he got
all
Israel
together
and
went
over
Jordan
and
came
to
Helam.
And
the Aramaeans
put
their
forces
in position
against
David,
and
made
an
attack
on
him.
\VS{18}And
the Aramaeans
went
in
flight
before
Israel;
and
David
put
to
the sword
the
men
of
seven
hundred Aramaean war-carriages
and
forty
thousand footmen,
and
Shobach,
the
captain
of
the
army,
was
wounded,
and came
to
his
death
there.
\VS{19}And
when
all
the
kings
who
were
servants
of
Hadadezer
saw
that
they
were overcome
by
Israel,
they
made peace
with
Israel
and
became
their
servants.
So
the Aramaeans,
in
fear,
gave
no
more
help
to
the
children
of
Ammon.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
in
the
spring,
at
the
time
when
kings
go
out
to war,
David
sent
Joab
and
his
servants
and
all
Israel
with
him;
and
they
made
waste
the land
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
took
up
their position
before
Rabbah, shutting
it
in.
But
David
was
still
at
Jerusalem.
\VS{2}Now
one
evening,
David
got
up
from
his
bed,
and
while
he
was
walking
on
the
roof
of
the king's
house,
he
saw
from
there
a
woman
bathing;
and
the
woman
was
very
beautiful.
\VS{3}And
David
sent
to
get knowledge
who
the
woman
was.
And
one
said,
Is
this
not Bath-sheba,
the
daughter
of
Eliam
and
wife
of
Uriah
the
Hittite?
\VS{4}And
David
sent
and
took
her;
and
she
came
to
him,
and
he
took
her
to
his
bed: (for
she
had been
made clean;)
then
she
went
back
to
her
house.
\VS{5}And
the
woman became
with
child;
and she
sent
word
to
David
that she
was
with
child.
\VS{6}And
David
sent
to
Joab saying,
Send
Uriah
the
Hittite
to
me.
And
Joab
sent
Uriah
to
David.
\VS{7}And
when
Uriah
came
to
him,
David
put questions
to
him
about
how
Joab
and
the
people
were,
and
how
the
war
was
going.
\VS{8}And
David
said
to
Uriah,
Go
down
to
your
house
and
let
your
feet
be
washed.
And
Uriah
went
away
from
the king's
house,
and
an offering
from
the
king
was
sent
after
him.
\VS{9}But
Uriah
took
his
rest
at
the
door
of
the king's
house,
with
all
the
servants
of
his
lord,
and
did
not
go
down
to
his
house.
\VS{10}And
when
word
was given
to
David
that
Uriah
had
not
gone
down
to
his
house,
David
said
to
Uriah,
Have
you
not
come
from
a
journey?
why
did
you
not
go
down
to
your
house?
\VS{11}And
Uriah
said
to
David,
Israel
and
Judah
with
the
ark
are
living
in tents,
and
my
lord
Joab
and
the
other
servants
of
my
lord
are sleeping
in
the
open
field;
and
am
I
to
go
to
my
house
and
take
food
and
drink,
and
go
to
bed
with
my
wife?
By
the
living
Lord,
and
by
the
life
of
your
soul,
I
will
not
do
such
a
thing.
\VS{12}And
David
said
to
Uriah,
Be
here
today,
and
after
that
I
will
let
you
go.
So
Uriah
was
in
Jerusalem
that
day
and
the
day
after.
\VS{13}And
when
David
sent
for
him,
he
took meat
and
drink
with
him,
and
David
made
him
the worse
for
drink:
and
when
evening
came,
he
went
to
rest
on
his
bed
with
the
servants
of
his
lord,
but
he
did
not
go
down
to
his
house.
\VS{14}Now
in
the
morning,
David
gave
Uriah
a
letter
to
take
to
Joab.
\VS{15}And
in
the
letter
he
said,
Take
care
to
put
Uriah
in
the very
front
of
the
line,
where
the fighting
is most violent,
and
go
back
from
him,
so
that
he
may
be overcome
and
put
to
death.
\VS{16}So
while
Joab
was
watching
the
town,
he
put
Uriah
in
the
place
where
it
was clear
to
him
the best fighters
were.
\VS{17}And
the
men
of
the
town
went
out
and
had
a
fight
with
Joab:
and
a number
of David's
men
came
to
their
death
in
the
fight,
and
with
them
Uriah
the
Hittite.
\VS{18}Then
Joab
sent
David news
of
everything
which
had taken
place
in
the
war:
\VS{19}And
he
gave
orders
to
the
man
who
took
the
news,
saying,
After
you
have
given
the
king
all
the
news
about
the
war,
\VS{20}If
the
king
is
angry
and
says,
Why
did
you
go
so
near
the
town
for
the
fight?
was
it
not
certain
that
their
archers
would
be
on
the
wall?
\VS{21}Who
put
Abimelech,
the
son
of Jerubbaal,
to
death?
did
not
a
woman send
a great stone
down
on
him
from
the
wall,
putting
him
to
death
at
Thebez?
why
did
you
go
so
near
the
wall?
Then
say
to
him,
Your
servant
Uriah
the
Hittite
is
among
the
dead.
\VS{22}So
the
man
went,
and
came
to
David,
and
gave
him
all
the news
which
Joab
had
sent
him
to
give;
then
David
was angry
with
Joab
and said,
Why
did
you
go
so near
the town
for
the fight?
was
it
not
certain
that
their archers
would
be
on
the wall?
who
put Abimelech,
the son
of Jerubbaal,
to death?
did
not
a woman
send
a great
stone
down
on
him
from
the wall,
putting
him
to death
at Thebez?
why
did
you
go
so near
the wall?
\VS{23}And
the
man
said
to
David,
Truly
the
men
got
the
better
of
us,
and
came
out
against
us
into
the open
country,
but
we
sent
them
back
to
the
very
doors
of
the
town.
\VS{24}And
the
archers sent
their arrows
at
your
servants
from
the
wall,
and some
of
the king's
servants
are
dead,
and
among
them
is
your
servant
Uriah
the
Hittite.
\VS{25}Then
David
said
to
the man, Go
and
say
to
Joab,
Do
not
let
this
be
a
grief
to
you;
for
one man
may come
to
his death
by
the
sword
like
another:
put
up
an
even
stronger
fight
against
the
town,
and
take
it:
and
do
you
put heart
into
him.
\VS{26}And
when
the
wife
of
Uriah
had news
that
her
husband
was
dead,
she
gave
herself
up
to weeping
for
him.
\VS{27}And
when
the days
of weeping
were past,
David
sent
for
her,
and
took
her
into
his
house,
and
she
became
his
wife
and
gave
him
a
son.
But
the
Lord
was
not
pleased
with
the
thing
David
had
done.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
the
Lord
sent
Nathan
to
David.
And
Nathan
came
to
him
and
said,
There
were
two
men
in
the
same
town:
one
a
man
of great wealth,
and
the
other
a
poor
man.
\VS{2}The
man
of wealth
had
great numbers
of
flocks
and
herds;
\VS{3}But
the
poor
man
had
only
one
little she-lamb,
which
he
had got
and
taken
care
of:
from
its birth
it
had
been
with
him
like
one
of
his
children;
his meat
was
its
food,
and
from
his
cup
it
took
its
drink, resting
in
his
arms,
and
it
was
like
a
daughter
to
him.
\VS{4}Now
a traveller
came
to
the house
of
the
man
of wealth,
but
he
would not
take anything
from
his
flock
or
his
herd
to
make
a meal
for
the traveller
who
had
come
to
him,
but
he
took
the
poor man's
lamb
and
made
it ready
for
the
man
who
had
come.
\VS{5}And
David
was full
of
wrath
against
that
man;
and
he
said
to
Nathan,
By
the
living
Lord,
death
is
the right punishment
for
the
man
who
has
done
this:
\VS{6}And
he
will
have
to give
back four times
the value
of
the
lamb,
because
he
has
done
this
and
because
he
had
no
pity.
\VS{7}And
Nathan
said
to
David,
You
are
that
man.
The
Lord
God
of
Israel
says,
I made
you
king
over
Israel, putting holy
oil
on
you,
and
I kept
you safe
from
the
hands
of
Saul;
\VS{8}I
gave
you
your master's
daughter
and
your master's
wives
for
yourself,
and
I
gave
you
the daughters
of
Israel
and
Judah;
and
if
that
had
not
been
enough,
I
would
have
given
you
such
and
such
things.
\VS{9}Why
then
have
you
had no respect
for
the
word
of
the
Lord,
doing
what
is
evil
in
his
eyes?
You
have
put
Uriah
the
Hittite
to death
with
the
sword,
and
have
taken
his
wife
to
be
your
wife;
you
have
put
him
to death
with
the
sword
of
the
children
of
Ammon.
\VS{10}So
now
the
sword
will
never
be
turned
away
from
your
family;
because
you
have
had
no respect
for
me,
and
have
taken
the
wife
of
Uriah
the
Hittite
to
be
your
wife.
\VS{11}The
Lord
says,
From
those
of
your
family
I
will
send
evil
against
you,
and
before
your very
eyes
I
will
take
your
wives
and
give
them
to
your neighbour,
and
he
will
take
your
wives
to
his
bed
by
the light
of
this
sun.
\VS{12}You
did
it secretly;
but
I
will
do
this
thing
before
all
Israel
and
in
the light
of
the
sun.
\VS{13}And
David
said
to
Nathan, Great
is
my
sin
against
the
Lord.
And
Nathan
said
to
David,
The
Lord
has
put
away
your
sin;
death
will
not come
on
you.
\VS{14}But
still,
because
you
have
had
no respect
for
the
Lord,
death
will
certainly overtake
the
child
who
has newly come
to birth.
\VS{15}Then
Nathan
went
back
to
his
house.
And
the hand
of
the
Lord
was
on David's son,
the
child
of Uriah's
wife,
and
it
became very ill.
\VS{16}So
David
made prayer
to
God
for
the
child;
and
he
took no food day
after day,
and
went
in
and, stretching
himself
out
on
the
earth,
was there
all night.
\VS{17}And
the chief
men
of
his
house
got
up
and
went
to
his
side
to
make
him
get
up
from
the
earth,
but
he
would
not;
and
he
would
not
take
food
with
them.
\VS{18}And
then
on
the
seventh
day
the child's
death
took
place.
And David's
servants
were
in
fear
of
giving
him
the
news
of
the child's
death:
for
they
said,
Truly,
while
the
child
was
still
living
he
gave
no
attention
when
we
said
anything
to
him:
what
will
he
do
to
himself
if
we
give
him
word
that
the
child
is
dead?
\VS{19}But
when
David
saw
that
his
servants
were talking together quietly,
he
was certain
that
the
child
was
dead:
and
he
said
to
his
servants,
Is
the
child
dead?
and
they
said,
He
is.
\VS{20}Then
David
got
up
from
the
earth,
and
after
washing
and rubbing
himself
with oil
and changing
his
clothing,
he
went
into
the
house
of
the
Lord
and
gave
worship:
then
he
went
back
to
his
house,
and
at
his order
they
put
food
before
him
and
he
had
a
meal.
\VS{21}Then
his
servants
said
to
him,
Why
have
you
been acting
in
this
way?
you
were
weeping
and going without
food
while
the
child
was
still
living;
but
when
the
child
was
dead,
you
got
up
and
had
a
meal.
\VS{22}And
he
said,
While
the
child
was
still
living
I went without food
and
gave
myself up
to
weeping:
for
I
said,
Who
is able
to
say
that
the
Lord
will
not
have
mercy
on
me
and
give
the
child
life?
\VS{23}But
now
that
the child
is
dead
there
is
no reason
for
me
to
go
without food;
am
I
able
to
make
him
come
back
to
life?
I
will
go
to
him,
but
he
will
never
come
back
to
me.
\VS{24}And
David
gave
comfort
to
his
wife Bath-sheba,
and
he
went
in
to
her
and
had connection
with
her:
and
she
had
a
son
to
whom
she
gave
the
name
Solomon.
And
he
was dear
to
the
Lord.
\VS{25}And
he
sent word
by
Nathan
the
prophet,
who
gave
him
the
name
Jedidiah,
by
the word
of
the
Lord.
\VS{26}Now
Joab
was
fighting
against
Rabbah,
in
the land
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
and
he
took
the water-town.
\VS{27}And
Joab
sent
men
to
David,
saying,
I
have
made war
against
Rabbah
and
have
taken
the water-town.
\VS{28}So
now, get
the
rest
of
the
people
together,
and
put
them
in position
against
the
town
and
take
it,
for
if
I
take
it,
it
will
be
named
after
my
name.
\VS{29}Then
David got
all
the
people
together
and went
to
Rabbah
and
made war
on
it
and
took
it.
\VS{30}And
he
took
the
crown
of Milcom
from
his
head;
the
weight
of
it
was
a
talent
of
gold,
and
in
it
were
stones
of
great price;
and
it
was
put
on David's
head.
And
he
took
a
great store
of goods
from
the
town.
\VS{31}And
he
took
the
people
out
of
the
town
and
put
them
to
work
with wood-cutting
instruments,
and
iron grain-crushers,
and
iron
axes,
and
at brick-making:
this
he
did
to
all
the
towns
of
the
children
of
Ammon.
Then
David
and
all
the
people
went
back
to
Jerusalem.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
after
this,
it
came
about
that
Absalom, David's
son,
had
a
beautiful
sister,
whose
name
was
Tamar;
and David's
son
Amnon
was
in
love
with
her.
\VS{2}And
he
was
so deeply
in love
that
he became ill
because
of
his
sister
Tamar;
for
she
was
a
virgin,
and
so
it
seemed
hard
to
Amnon
to
do
anything
to
her.
\VS{3}But
Amnon
had
a
friend
whose
name
was
Jonadab,
the
son
of
Shimeah, David's
brother:
and
Jonadab
was
a
very
wise
man.
\VS{4}And
he
said
to
him,
O
son
of
the
king,
why
are
you getting thinner
day
by
day?
will
you
not
say what
your trouble
is?
And
Amnon
said
to
him,
I
am
in
love
with
Tamar,
my
brother Absalom's
sister.
\VS{5}Then
Jonadab
said
to
him,
Go
to
your
bed,
and
let
it
seem
that
you
are ill:
and
when
your
father
comes
to
see
you,
say
to
him,
Let
my
sister
Tamar
come
and
give
me
bread,
and
get
the
food ready
before
my
eyes,
so
that
I
may
see
it
and
take
it
from
her
hand.
\VS{6}So
Amnon
went
to
bed
and made
himself
seem ill:
and
when
the
king
came
to
see
him,
Amnon
said
to
the
king,
Please
let
my
sister
Tamar
come
and
make
me
one
or
two
cakes
before
my
eyes,
so
that
I
may
take
food
from
her
hand.
\VS{7}Then
David
sent
to
the
house
for
Tamar
and
said,
Go
now
to
your
brother Amnon's
house
and
get
a meal
for
him.
\VS{8}So
Tamar
went
to
her
brother Amnon's
house;
and
he
was
in
bed.
And
she
took paste
and
made
cakes
before
his
eyes, cooking
them
over
the fire.
\VS{9}And
she
took
the cooking-pot,
and
put
the cakes
before
him,
but
he
would
not
take
them.
And
Amnon
said, Let
everyone
go
away
from
me.
So
they
all
went
out.
\VS{10}Then
Amnon
said
to
Tamar,
Take
the
food
and
come
into
my
bedroom,
so
that
I
may
take
it
from
your
hand.
So
Tamar
took
the
cakes
she
had
made
and
went
with
them
into
her
brother Amnon's
bedroom.
\VS{11}And
when
she
took
them
to
give
them
to
him,
he
put
his arms round
her
and
said,
Come
to
bed,
my
sister.
\VS{12}And answering
him,
she
said, O
my
brother,
do
not put shame
on
me;
it
is
not
right
for
such
a
thing
to
be
done
in
Israel:
do
not
this evil
thing.
\VS{13}What
will
become
of
me
in
my
shame?
and
as
for
you,
you
will
be looked
down
on
with disgust
by
all
Israel.
Now
then,
go
and
make
your request
to
the
king,
for
he
will
not
keep
me
from
you.
\VS{14}But
he
would
not
give
attention
to
what
she
said:
but being
stronger
than
she,
he
took
her
by force,
and
had connection
with
her.
\VS{15}Then
Amnon
was full
of
hate
for
her,
hating
her
with
a
hate
greater
than
his earlier
love
for
her.
And
he
said
to
her,
Get
up
and
be gone.
\VS{16}And
she
said
to
him,
Not
so,
my brother,
for
this
great
wrong
in
sending
me
away
is
worse
than
what
you
did
to
me
before.
But
he
gave
no
attention
to
her.
\VS{17}Then
he
gave
a
cry
to
the
servant
who
was waiting
on
him
and
said,
Put
this woman
out,
and
let
the
door
be locked
after
her.
\VS{18}Now
she
had
on
a long
robe,
such
as
in past times
the king's
virgin
daughters
were
dressed
in.
Then
the
servant
put
her
out, locking
the
door
after
her.
\VS{19}And
Tamar,
in
her grief,
put
dust
on
her
head;
and
she
put
her
hand
on
her
head
and
went
away
crying loudly.
\VS{20}And
her
brother
Absalom
said
to
her,
Has
your
brother
Amnon
been
with
you?
but
now,
let
there
be
an end
to
your crying,
my
sister:
he
is
your
brother,
do
not
take
this
thing
to
heart.
So
Tamar
went
on
living uncomforted
in
her brother's
house.
\VS{21}But
when
King
David
had news
of
all
these
things
he
was
very
angry;
but
he did
not
make trouble
for Amnon
his son,
for
he
was dear
to
David, being
his oldest son.
\VS{22}But
Absalom
said
nothing
to
his brother
Amnon,
good
or
bad:
for
he
was full
of
hate
for
him,
because
he
had taken
his
sister
Tamar
by force.
\VS{23}Now
after two
full
years,
Absalom
had
men cutting
the wool
of
his sheep
in
Baal-hazor,
which
is
near
Ephraim:
and
he sent
for
all
the king's
sons
to
come
to
his feast.
\VS{24}And
Absalom
came
to
the
king
and
said,
See
now,
your
servant
is cutting
the wool
of
his sheep;
will
the
king
and
his
servants
be pleased
to
come?
\VS{25}And
the
king
said
to
Absalom,
No,
my
son,
let
us
not
all
go,
or
the number
will
be over-great
for
you.
And
he
made
his request again,
but
he
would
not
go,
but
he
gave
him
his
blessing.
\VS{26}Then
Absalom
said, If
you
will
not
go,
then
let
my
brother
Amnon
go
with
us.
And
the
king
said
to
him,
Is there
any reason
for
him
to
go
with
you?
\VS{27}But
Absalom went
on requesting
him till
he
let
Amnon
and
all
the king's
sons
go
with
him.
And
Absalom
made
a great feast
like
a feast
for
a
king.
\VS{28}Now
Absalom
had
given
orders
to
his
servants,
saying,
Now
take
note
when Amnon's
heart
is glad
with
wine;
and
when
I
say
to
you,
Make
an
attack
on
Amnon,
then
put
him
to
death
without
fear:
have
I
not
given
you
orders?
be
strong
and
without
fear.
\VS{29}So Absalom's
servants
did
to
Amnon
as
Absalom
had
given
them
orders.
Then
all
the king's
sons
got
up,
and
every
man
got
on
his beast
and
went
in
flight.
\VS{30}Now
while
they
were
on
their
way,
news
was given
to
David
that
Absalom
had
put
to death
all
the
sons
of
the
king
and
that
not
one
of
them
was
still
living.
\VS{31}Then
the
king
got
up
in great grief, stretching himself
out
on
the
earth:
and
all
his
servants
were
by
his side,
with
their
clothing parted.
\VS{32}And
Jonadab,
the
son
of
Shimeah, David's
brother,
said,
Let
not
my
lord
have
the idea
that
all
the
sons
of
the
king
have
been
put
to
death;
for
only
Amnon
is
dead:
this
has
been purposed
by
Absalom
from
the
day
when
he
took
his
sister
Tamar
by force.
\VS{33}So
now,
let
not
my
lord
the
king
take
this
thing
to
heart,
with
the
idea
that
all
the king's
sons
are
dead:
for
only
Amnon
is
dead.
\VS{34}But
Absalom
went
in
flight.
And
the
young
man
who kept
the
watch,
lifting
up
his
eyes,
saw
that
a
great band
of
people
was
coming
down
the slope
by
the
way
of
the Horons;
and
the
watchman
came
and gave word
to
the king, saying,
I
saw
men
coming
down
by
the
way
of
the Horons,
from
the hillside.
\VS{35}And
Jonadab
said
to
the
king,
See,
the king's
sons
are
coming;
as
your
servant
said,
so
it
is.
\VS{36}And
while
he
was
talking,
the king's
sons
came,
with
weeping
and
loud
cries:
and
the
king
and
all
his
servants
were
weeping
bitterly.
\VS{37}So
Absalom
went
in
flight
and
came
to
Talmai,
the
son
of Ammihud,
the
king
of
Geshur,
where
he
was
for three
years.
\VS{38}And
the king
was sorrowing
for
his son all
the
time.
\VS{39}And
the heart
of
David
was wasted
with desire
for
Absalom:
for
he
was
comforted
for
the
death
of
Amnon.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
it
was clear
to
Joab,
the
son
of
Zeruiah,
that
the king's
heart
was turning
to
Absalom.
\VS{2}And
Joab
sent
to
Tekoa
and
got
from
there
a
wise
woman,
and
said
to
her,
Now
make
yourself seem
like
one given
up
to grief,
and
put
on
the
clothing
of
sorrow,
not using
any sweet
oil
for
your
body,
but
looking
like
one
who
for
a
long
time
has
been weeping
for
the
dead:
\VS{3}And
come
to
the
king
and
say
these
words
to
him.
So
Joab
gave
her
words
to
say.
\VS{4}And
the
woman
of
Tekoa
came
to
the
king,
and
falling
on
her
face,
gave
him honour
and
said,
Give
me
help, O
king.
\VS{5}And
the
king
said
to
her,
What
is
your trouble?
And
her
answer
was,
Truly
I
am
a
widow,
and
my
husband
is
dead.
\VS{6}And
I
had
two
sons,
and
the
two
of
them
had
a
fight
in
the
field,
and
there
was
no
one
to come
between
them,
and
one
with
a blow
put
the
other
to
death.
\VS{7}And
now
all
the
family
is
turned
against
me,
your
servant,
saying,
Give
up
him
who
was
the
cause
of
his brother's
death,
so
that
we
may
put
him
to
death
in payment
for
the
life
of
his
brother,
whose
life
he
took;
and
we
will
put
an end
to
the
one
who
will
get
the heritage:
so
they
will
put
out
my
last burning
coal,
and
my
husband
will
have
no
name
or offspring
on
the
face
of
the
earth.
\VS{8}And
the
king
said
to
the
woman, Go
to
your
house
and
I
will
give
orders
about this.
\VS{9}And
the
woman
of
Tekoa
said
to
the
king,
My
lord,
O
king,
may
the
sin
be
on
me
and
on
my
family,
and
may
the
king
and
the
seat
of
his
kingdom
be clear
of
sin!
\VS{10}And
the
king
said, If anyone
says
anything
to
you,
make
him
come
to
me,
and
he
will
do
you
no
more damage.
\VS{11}Then
she
said,
Let
the
king
keep
in
mind
the
Lord
your
God,
so
that
he
who gives punishment
for
blood
may
be kept
back
from
further
destruction
and
that
no
one
may send
death
on
my
son.
And
he
said,
By
the
living
Lord,
not
a
hair
of
your son's
head
will
come
to
the
earth.
\VS{12}Then
the
woman
said,
Will
the
king
let
his
servant
say
one
word more?
And
he
said,
Say
on.
\VS{13}And
the
woman
said,
Why
have
you
had
such
a
thought
about
the
people
of
God? (for
in
saying
these
very
words
the
king
has
put himself
in
the wrong
because
he
has
not taken
back
the
one whom
he
sent
far
away.)
\VS{14}For
death comes
to
us
all,
and
we
are
like
water drained
out
on
the
earth,
which
it
is
not possible
to
take
up
again;
and
God
will
not
take
away
the
life
of
the
man
whose purpose
is
that
he
who
has
been sent
away
may
not
be completely cut
off
from
him.
\VS{15}And
now
it
is
my
fear
of
the
people
which
has
made
me
come
to
say
these
words
to
my
lord
the
king:
and
your
servant
said,
I
will
put
my
cause
before
the
king,
and
it
may
be
that
he
will
give effect
to
my
request.
\VS{16}For
the
king
will
give ear,
and
take
his
servant
out
of
the
power
of
the
man
whose purpose
is
the
destruction
of
me
and
my
son
together
from
the
heritage
of
God.
\VS{17}Then
your
servant
said,
May
the
word
of
my
lord
the
king
give
me peace!
for
my
lord
the
king
is
as
the
angel
of
God
in
his
hearing
of
good
and
bad:
and
may
the
Lord
your
God
be
with
you!
\VS{18}Then
the
king
said
to
the
woman,
Now
give
me
an
answer
to
the
question
I
am going
to put
to
you; keep
nothing
back.
And
the
woman
said,
Let
my
lord
the
king
say
on.
\VS{19}And
the
king
said,
Is
not
the
hand
of
Joab
with
you
in
all
this?
And
the
woman
in
answer
said,
By
the
life
of
your
soul,
my
lord
the
king,
it
is
not possible
for
anyone
to
go
to
the
right
hand
or
to
the
left
from
anything
said
by
the
king:
your
servant
Joab
gave
me
orders,
and
put
all
these
words
in
my
mouth:
\VS{20}This
he
did, hoping
that
the
face
of
this
business
might
be
changed:
and
my
lord
is
wise,
with
the
wisdom
of
the
angel
of
God,
having
knowledge
of
everything
on
earth.
\VS{21}And
the
king
said
to
Joab,
See
now,
I
will
do
this
thing:
go
then
and
Come
back
with
the
young
man
Absalom.
\VS{22}Then
Joab,
falling
down
on
his
face
on
the
earth,
gave
the
king honour
and
blessing;
and
Joab
said,
Today
it
is clear
to
your
servant
that
I
have
grace
in
your
eyes,
my
lord
king,
because
the
king
has
given
effect
to
the
request
of
his
servant.
\VS{23}So
Joab
got
up
and
went
to
Geshur
and
came
back
again
to
Jerusalem
with
Absalom.
\VS{24}And
the
king
said,
Let
him
go
to
his
house,
but
let
him
not
see
my
face.
So
Absalom
went
back
to
his
house
and
did
not
see
the
face
of
the
king.
\VS{25}Now
in
all
Israel
there
was
no
one
so
greatly
to
be
praised
for
his
beautiful
form
as
Absalom:
from
his
feet
to
the
crown
of
his
head
he
was
completely
beautiful.
\VS{26}And
when
he
had
his
hair
cut, (which
he
did
at
the
end
of
every
year,
because
of
the
weight
of
his
hair;)
the
weight
of
the
hair
was
two
hundred
shekels
by
the king's
weight.
\VS{27}And
Absalom
was
the
father
of
three
sons
and
of
one
daughter
named
Tamar,
who
was very
beautiful.
\VS{28}For
two
full
years
Absalom
was
living
in
Jerusalem
without ever
seeing
the
face
of
the
king.
\VS{29}Then
Absalom
sent
for
Joab
to
send
him
to
the
king,
but
he
would
not
come
to
him:
and
he
sent
again
a
second
time,
but
he
would
not
come.
\VS{30}So
he
said
to
his
servants,
See, Joab's
field
is
near mine,
and
he
has
barley
in
it; go
and
put
it
on
fire.
And Absalom's
servants
put
the
field
on
fire.
\VS{31}Then
Joab
came
to
Absalom
in
his
house
and
said
to
him,
Why
have
your
servants
put
my
field
on
fire?
\VS{32}And Absalom's
answer
was,
See,
I
sent
to
you
saying,
Come
here,
so
that
I
may
send
you
to
the
king
to
say,
Why
have
I
come
back
from
Geshur?
it
would
be
better
for
me
to
be
there
still:
let
me
now
see
the king's
face,
and
if
there
is
any
sin
in
me,
let
him
put
me
to
death.
\VS{33}So
Joab
went
to
the
king
and
said these words
to
him:
and
when
the
king
had sent
for
him,
Absalom
came,
and
went
down
on
his
face
on
the
earth
before
the
king:
and
the
king
gave
him
a kiss.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
after
this,
Absalom got
for
himself
a carriage
and
horses,
and
fifty
runners
to
go
before
him.
\VS{2}And
Absalom
got
up
early,
morning
after
morning,
and
took
his
place
at
the
side
of
the public meeting-place:
and
when
any
man
had
a
cause
which
had
to
come
to
the
king
to
be
judged,
then
Absalom,
crying
out
to
him,
said,
What
is
your
town?
and
he
would
say,
Your
servant
is
of
one
of
the
tribes
of
Israel.
\VS{3}And
Absalom
would
say
to
him,
See,
your
cause
is true
and
right;
but
no
man
has been named
by
the
king
to
give
you
a
hearing.
\VS{4}And
more
than
this,
Absalom
said,
If
only
I
was
made
judge
in
the
land,
so
that
every
man
who
has
any
cause
or question
might
come
to
me,
and
I
would
give
a
right
decision
for
him!
\VS{5}And
if
any
man
came
near
to
give
him honour,
he
took
him
by
the
hand
and
gave
him
a kiss.
\VS{6}And
this
Absalom
did
to
everyone
in
Israel
who
came
to
the
king
to
have
his
cause
judged:
so
Absalom,
like
a thief,
took
away
the
hearts
of
the
men
of
Israel.
\VS{7}Now
at
the
end
of
four
years,
Absalom
said
to
the
king,
Let
me
go
to
Hebron
and
give effect
to
the oath
which
I
made
to
the
Lord:
\VS{8}For
while
I
was
living
in
Geshur
in
Aram,
your
servant
made
an oath,
saying,
If
ever
the
Lord lets
me
come
back
to
Jerusalem,
I
will
give
him
worship
in Hebron.
\VS{9}And
the
king
said
to
him,
Go
in
peace.
So
he
got
up
and
went
to
Hebron.
\VS{10}But
Absalom
at
the
same
time
sent watchers
through
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
to
say,
At
the
sound
of
the
horn
you
are
to
say,
Absalom
is
king
in
Hebron.
\VS{11}And
with
Absalom,
at
his
request,
went
two
hundred
men
from
Jerusalem,
who
were
completely unconscious
of
his designs.
\VS{12}And
Absalom
sent
for
Ahithophel
the
Gilonite,
one
of David's helpers,
from
Giloh
his
town,
while
he
was making
the
offerings.
And
the design
against
David
became
strong,
for
more
and
more
people
were
joined
to
Absalom.
\VS{13}And
one
came
to
David
and
said,
The
hearts
of
the
men
of
Israel
have
gone
after
Absalom.
\VS{14}And
David
said
to
all
his
servants
who
were
with
him
at
Jerusalem,
Come,
let
us
go
in
flight,
or
not
one
of
us
will
be safe
from
Absalom:
let
us
go
without loss
of
time,
or
he
will
overtake
us
quickly
and send
evil
on
us,
and
put
the
town
to
the
sword.
\VS{15}And
the king's
servants
said
to
the
king,
See,
your
servants
are ready
to
do
whatever
the
king
says
is
to
be
done.
\VS{16}So
the
king
went
out, taking
with
him
all
the
people
of
his
house,
but
for
ten
of
his
women,
who
were
to
take
care
of
the
house.
\VS{17}And
the
king
went
out,
and
all
his servants
went
after
him,
and
made
a
stop
at
the
Far House.
\VS{18}And
all
the
people
went
on
by
his
side;
and
all
the
Cherethites
and
all
the
Pelethites
and
all
the
men
of Ittai
of
Gath,
six
hundred
men
who
came
after
him
from
Gath,
went
on
before
the
king.
\VS{19}Then
the
king
said
to
Ittai
the
Gittite,
Why
are
you coming
with
us?
go
back
and keep
with
the
king:
for
you
are
a man
of
another
country,
you
are
far
from
the
land
of
your birth.
\VS{20}It
was only
yesterday
you
came
to
us;
why
then
am
I
to
make
you
go
up
and
down
with
us?
for
I
have
to
go
where
I
may;
go
back
then,
and
take
your
countrymen
with
you,
and
may
the Lord's mercy
and good
faith
be
with
you.
\VS{21}And
Ittai
the Gittite
in
answer
said,
By
the
living
Lord,
and
by
the
life
of
my
lord
the
king,
in
whatever
place
my
lord
the
king
may
be,
for
life
or
death,
there
will
your
servant
be.
\VS{22}And
David
said
to
Ittai,
Go forward,
then.
And
Ittai
the
Gittite
went
on,
with
all
his
men
and
all
the
little
ones
he
had
with
him.
\VS{23}And
there
was
great
weeping
in
all
the
country
when
all
the
people
went
through;
and
the
king
himself
was waiting
in
the
Kidron
valley
and
all
the
people
went
by
him
in
the
direction
of
the olive-tree
on
the
edge
of
the waste
land.
\VS{24}Then
Zadok
came,
and
Abiathar,
and
with
them
the
ark
of God's
agreement:
and
they
put
down
the
ark
of
God,
till
all
the
people
from
the
town
had
gone
by.
\VS{25}And
the
king
said
to
Zadok,
Take
the
ark
of
God
back
into
the
town:
if
I
have
grace
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord,
he
will let
me
come
back
and
see
it
and
his House
again:
\VS{26}But
if
he
says,
I
have
no
delight
in
you:
then,
here
I
am;
let
him
do
to
me
what
seems
good
to
him.
\VS{27}The
king
said further
to
Zadok
the
priest,
See,
you
and
Abiathar
are
to
go
back
to
the
town
in
peace,
with
your
two
sons,
Ahimaaz,
your
son,
and
Jonathan,
the
son
of
Abiathar.
\VS{28}See,
I
will
be
waiting
at
the
way across
the
river,
in
the waste land,
till
I
get news
from
you.
\VS{29}So
Zadok
and
Abiathar
took
the
ark
of
God
back
to
Jerusalem,
and did not
go
away
from
there.
\VS{30}And
David
went
up
the slopes
of
the
Mount
of
Olives
weeping
all
the
way,
with
his
head
covered
and
no shoes
on
his feet:
and
all
the
people
who
were
with
him, covering
their
heads,
went
up
weeping.
\VS{31}And
word
came
to
David,
saying,
Ahithophel
is
among
those
who
are
joined
to
Absalom.
And
David
said,
O
Lord,
let
the wisdom
of
Ahithophel
be
made
foolish.
\VS{32}Now
when
David
had
come
to
the
top
of
the slope,
where
they
gave
worship
to
God,
Hushai
the
Archite
came
to
him
in
great grief
with
dust
on
his
head:
\VS{33}David
said
to
him,
If
you
go
on
with
me,
you
will
be
a trouble
to
me:
\VS{34}But
if
you
go
back
to
the
town
and
say
to
Absalom,
I
will
be
your
servant,
O
king;
as
in
the past
I
have
been
your father's
servant,
so
now
I
will
be
yours:
then
you
will
be able
to keep Ahithophel's
designs against
me
from
being
put
into effect.
\VS{35}And
have
you
not
there
Zadok
and
Abiathar
the
priests?
so
whatever
comes
to
your ears
from
the king's
house,
give
word
of
it
to
Zadok
and
Abiathar
the
priests.
\VS{36}See,
they
have
with
them
their
two
sons,
Ahimaaz, Zadok's
son,
and
Jonathan,
the
son
of
Abiathar;
by
them
you
may
send
word
to
me
of
everything
which
comes
to
your ears.
\VS{37}So
Hushai, David's
friend,
went
into
the
town,
and
Absalom
came
to
Jerusalem.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
when
David
had gone
a
little
way past
the
top
of
the slope,
Ziba,
the
servant
of
Mephibosheth,
came
to
him,
with
two asses
on
which
were
two
hundred cakes
of
bread
and
a
hundred stems
of dry grapes
and
a
hundred
summer fruits
and
a skin
of
wine.
\VS{2}And David
said
to
Ziba,
What
is
your reason
for
this?
And
Ziba
said,
The asses
are
for
the
use
of
the king's
people,
and
the
bread
and
the
fruit
are
food
for
the
young
men;
and
the
wine
is
for
drink
for
those
who
are overcome
by weariness
in
the waste land.
\VS{3}And
the
king
said,
And
where
is
your master's
son?
And
Ziba
said,
He
is
still
at
Jerusalem:
for
he
said,
Today
Israel
will
give
back
to
me
the
kingdom
of
my
father.
\VS{4}Then
the
king
said
to
Ziba, Truly
everything
which
was Mephibosheth's
is yours.
And
Ziba
said,
I give honour
to
my
lord,
may
I
have
grace
in
your
eyes,
my
lord, O
king!
\VS{5}And
when
King
David
came
to
Bahurim,
a
man
of Saul's
family
named
Shimei,
the
son
of
Gera,
came
out
from
there, calling
curses
after
him.
\VS{6}And
he sent
stones
at
David
and
at
all
the king's
servants
and
at
all
the
people
and
at
all
the
men
of war
by
his
side,
on
the
right
hand
and
on
the
left.
\VS{7}And
Shimei
said,
with
curses,
Be
gone,
be
gone,
you
man
of
blood,
you
good-for-nothing:
\VS{8}The
Lord
has
sent
punishment
on
you
for
all
the
blood
of
the
family
of
Saul,
whose
kingdom
you
have
taken;
and
the
Lord
has
given
the
kingdom
to
Absalom,
your
son:
now
you
yourself
are
taken
in
your
evil,
because
you
are
a
man
of
blood.
\VS{9}Then
Abishai,
the
son
of
Zeruiah,
said
to
the
king,
Is
this
dead
dog
to
go
on
cursing
my
lord
the
king?
let
me
go
over
and
take
off
his
head.
\VS{10}And
the
king
said,
What
have
I
to
do
with
you,
you
sons
of
Zeruiah?
Let
him go
on
cursing,
for
the
Lord
has
said, Put
a
curse
on
David,
and
who
then
may
say,
Why
have
you
done
so?
\VS{11}And
David
said
to
Abishai
and
to
all
his
servants,
You
see
how
my
son,
the
offspring
of
my
body,
has
made designs
against
my
life:
how
much
more
then
may
this
Benjamite
do
so?
Let
him
be,
and
let
him
go
on
cursing;
for
the
Lord
has
given
him
orders.
\VS{12}It
may
be
that
the
Lord
will
take
note
of
my wrongs,
and
give
me
back
good
in
answer
to
his
cursing
of
me
today.
\VS{13}So
David
and
his
men
went
on
their
way:
and
Shimei
went
by
the hillside
parallel
with
them,
cursing
and sending
stones
and
dust
at
him.
\VS{14}And
the
king
and
his
people
came
tired
to Jordan,
and
took
their rest
there.
\VS{15}And
Absalom
and
the
men
of
Israel
came
to
Jerusalem,
and
Ahithophel
was
with
him.
\VS{16}Then
Hushai
the
Archite, David's
friend,
came
to
Absalom
and
said,
Long
life
to
the
king,
long
life
to
the
king!
\VS{17}And
Absalom
said,
Is
this
your
love
for
your
friend?
why
did
you
not
go
with
your
friend?
\VS{18}And
Hushai
said
to
Absalom,
Not
so;
I
am
for
that
man
whom
the
Lord
and
this
people
and
all
the
men
of
Israel
have
taken
as king,
and
I
will
take
my
place
with
him.
\VS{19}And
more
than
this!
where
is
my
place
as
a
servant?
is
it
not
before
his
son?
as
I
have
been
your father's
servant,
so
will
I
be yours.
\VS{20}Then
Absalom
said
to
Ahithophel,
Give
your opinion now,
what
are
we
to
do?
\VS{21}And
Ahithophel
said
to
Absalom,
Go
in
to
your father's women
who
are here looking
after
his
house;
then
all
Israel
will
have
the
news
that
you
are hated
by
your
father,
and
the
hands
of
your supporters
will
be
strong.
\VS{22}So
they
put
up
the
tent
for
Absalom
on
the
top
of
the house,
and
Absalom
went
in
to
his father's women
before
the
eyes
of
all
Israel.
\VS{23}In
those
days
the opinions
of
Ahithophel
were valued
as
highly
as
if
through
him
a
man
might get direction
from
God;
so
were
they valued
by
David
as
much
as
by
Absalom.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Ahithophel
said
to
Absalom,
Let
me
take
out
twelve
thousand
men
and
this very
night
I
will
go
after
David:
\VS{2}And
I
will
come
up
with
him
when
he
is tired
and
feeble,
and
make
him
full
of
fear:
and
all
the
people
with
him
will
go
in
flight;
and
I
will
make
an
attack
on
the
king
only:
\VS{3}And
I
will
make
all
the
people
come
back
to
you
as
a bride
comes
back
to
her
husband:
it
is
the life
of
only
one
man
you
are
going
after;
so
all
the
people
will
be
at
peace.
\VS{4}And
the
saying
was
pleasing
to
Absalom
and
to
the responsible
men
of
Israel.
\VS{5}Then
Absalom
said,
Now send
for
Hushai
the
Archite,
and
let
us
give ear
to
what
he
has
to
say.
\VS{6}And
when
Hushai
came,
Absalom
said
to
him,
This
is
what
Ahithophel
has
said:
are
we
to
do
as
he
says?
if
not,
what
is
your suggestion?
\VS{7}And
Hushai
said
to
Absalom, Ahithophel's idea
is
not
a
good
one
at
this
time.
\VS{8}Hushai
said further,
You
have
knowledge
of
your
father
and
his
men,
that
they
are
men
of
war,
and
that
their
feelings
are
bitter,
like
those
of
a
bear
in
the
field
whose young
ones
have
been taken
from
her:
and
your
father
is
a
man
of
war,
and
will
not
take
his night's rest
with
the
people;
\VS{9}But
he
will
certainly
have
taken cover
now
in
some hole
or secret
place;
and
if
some
of
our
people,
at
the
first attack,
are
overcome,
then
any
hearing
of
it
will
say,
There
is destruction among
the
people
who
are
on Absalom's
side.
\VS{10}Then
even
the strongest,
whose
heart
is
like
the
heart
of
a
lion,
will become
like water;
for
all
Israel
is conscious
that
your
father
is
a
man
of war,
and
those
who
are
with
him
are
strong
and without fear.
\VS{11}But
my suggestion
is
that
all
Israel,
from
Dan
as
far
as Beer-sheba,
comes
together
to
you,
a
great
army
like
the sands
of
the
sea
in
number;
and
that
you
yourself
go
out
among
them.
\VS{12}Then
we
will
come
on
him
in
some
place,
wherever
he
may
be,
falling
on
him
as
the
dew
comes
on
the
earth:
and
of
him
and
all
the
men
who
are
with
him
not
one
will
get
away
with
his life.
\VS{13}And
if
he
has
gone
into
some
town,
then
let
all
Israel
take strong
cords
to
that
town,
and
we
will
have
it pulled
into
the
valley,
till
not
one small
stone
is
to
be seen
there.
\VS{14}Then
Absalom
and
all
the
men
of
Israel
said, Hushai's suggestion
is
better
than
that
of
Ahithophel.
For
it
was
the
purpose
of
the
Lord
to make
the wise
designs
of
Ahithophel without effect,
so
that
the
Lord
might send
evil
on
Absalom.
\VS{15}Then
Hushai
said
to
Zadok
and
Abiathar,
the
priests,
This
is
the suggestion made
by
Ahithophel
to
Absalom
and
the responsible
men
of
Israel,
and
this
is
what
I
said
to
them.
\VS{16}So
now
send
the
news
quickly
to
David,
and
say,
Do
not take
your night's rest
by
the
way
across
the river
to
the waste land,
but
be
certain
to
go
over;
or
the
king
and
all
the
people
with
him
will come
to destruction.
\VS{17}Now
Jonathan
and
Ahimaaz
were waiting
by
En-rogel;
and
a servant-girl
went
from time
to time
and
gave
them news
and
they
went
with
the news
to
King
David,
for
it
was
not wise
for
them
to
let
themselves
be
seen
coming
into
the
town.
\VS{18}But
a
boy
saw
them,
and
gave
word
of
it
to
Absalom:
so
the
two
of
them
went
away
quickly,
and
came
to
the
house
of
a
man
in
Bahurim
who
had
a water-hole
in
his garden,
and
they
went
down
into
it.
\VS{19}And
a
woman
put
a cover
over
the hole,
and
put
crushed
grain
on
top
of
it,
and
no
one
had
any
knowledge
of
it.
\VS{20}And Absalom's
servants
came
to
the
woman
at
the
house
and
said,
Where
are
Ahimaaz
and
Jonathan?
And
the
woman
said
to
them,
They
have
gone
from
here
to
the
stream.
And
after
searching
for
them,
and seeing
nothing
of
them,
they
went
back
to
Jerusalem.
\VS{21}Then
after
the servants
had
gone
away,
they
came
up
out
of
the water-hole
and
went
to
give
King
David
the
news;
and
they
said,
Get
up
and
go
quickly
over
the
water,
for
such
and
such
are Ahithophel's designs
against
you.
\VS{22}So
David
and
all
the
people
who
were
with
him
went
up
over
Jordan:
when
dawn
came,
every
one
of
them
had
gone
over
Jordan.
\VS{23}Now
when
Ahithophel
saw
that
his suggestion
was
not
acted
on,
he
got
his ass ready,
and
went
back
to
his
house,
to
the
town
where
he
came
from,
and
having
put
his
house
in
order,
he
put
himself
to
death
by hanging;
so
he
came
to
his end
and
was
put
in
the resting-place
of
his
father.
\VS{24}And
David
came
to
Mahanaim.
And
Absalom,
with
all
the
men
of
Israel,
went
over
Jordan.
\VS{25}And
Absalom
put
Amasa
at
the head
of
the
army
in
place
of
Joab.
Now
Amasa
was
the
son
of
a
man
named
Ithra
the Ishmaelite,
who
had
been
the lover
of
Abigail,
the
daughter
of Jesse,
sister
of
Zeruiah, Joab's
mother.
\VS{26}And
Israel
and
Absalom put up their tents
in
the
land
of
Gilead.
\VS{27}Now
when
David
had
come
to
Mahanaim,
Shobi,
the
son
of
Nahash
of
Rabbah,
the
Ammonite,
and
Machir,
the
son
of
Ammiel
of
Lo-debar,
and
Barzillai
the
Gileadite
of
Rogelim,
\VS{28}Came
with
beds
and
basins
and
pots,
and
grain
and
meal,
and all sorts
of dry
foods,
\VS{29}And
honey
and
butter
and
sheep
and milk-cheeses,
for
David
and
his
people:
for
they
said,
This
people
is
in
the waste land, needing
food
and drink
and rest.

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
David
had
the
people
who
were
with
him
numbered,
and
he
put
over
them
captains
of
thousands
and
captains
of
hundreds.
\VS{2}And
David
sent
the
people
out,
a
third
of
them
under
the
orders
of
Joab,
and
a
third
under
the
orders
of
Abishai,
son
of
Zeruiah, Joab's
brother,
and
a
third
under
Ittai
the
Gittite.
And
the
king
said
to
the
people,
And
I
myself
will
certainly
go
out
with
you.
\VS{3}But
the
people
said,
It
is
better
for
you
not
to
go
out:
for
if
we
are
put
to
flight,
they
will
not
give
a
thought
to
us,
and
if
death
overtakes
half
of
us,
it
will
be
nothing
to
them:
but
you
are
of
more value
than
ten
thousand
of
us:
so
it
is
better
for
you
to
be
ready
to
come
to
our
help
from
this
town.
\VS{4}And
the
king
said
to
them,
I
will
do
whatever
seems
best
to
you.
So
the
king
took
his
place
by
the door
of
the
town,
and
all
the
people
went
out
by
hundreds
and
by
thousands.
\VS{5}And
the
king
gave
orders
to
Joab
and
Abishai
and
Ittai,
saying,
Because
of
me,
be gentle
to
the
young
man
Absalom.
And
this
order
about
Absalom
was
given
in
the
hearing
of
all
the
people.
\VS{6}So
the
people
went
out
into
the
field
against
Israel,
and
the
fight
took
place
in
the
woods
of
Ephraim.
\VS{7}And
the
people
of
Israel
were overcome
there
by
the
servants
of
David,
and
there
was
a
great destruction
that
day,
and
twenty
thousand
men
were put
to
the sword.
\VS{8}And
the fighting
went
on
over
all
the
face
of
the
country:
and
the
woods
were responsible
for
more deaths
than
the
sword.
\VS{9}And
Absalom
came
across some
of David's
men.
And
Absalom
was
seated
on
his
mule,
and
the
mule
went
under
the
thick
branches
of
a
great tree,
and
his
head
became fixed
in
the tree
and
he
was
lifted
up
between
earth
and
heaven,
and
the beast
under
him
went
on.
\VS{10}And
a
certain
man
saw
it
and
said
to
Joab,
I
saw
Absalom
hanging
in
a tree.
\VS{11}And
Joab
said
to
the
man
who
had
given
him
the
news,
If
you
saw
this,
why
did
you
not
put
your sword
through
him,
and
I
would
have
given
you
ten bits
of
silver
and
a band
for
your robe?
\VS{12}And
the
man
said
to
Joab,
Even
if
you
gave
me
a
thousand bits
of
silver,
I
would
not
put
out
my
hand
against
the king's
son:
for
in
our
hearing
the
king
gave
orders
to
you
and
Abishai
and
Ittai,
saying,
Take
care
that
the
young
man
Absalom
is
not touched.
\VS{13}And
if
I
had
falsely put
him
to
death (and
nothing
may
be
kept secret
from
the
king),
you
would
have
had
nothing
to
do
with
me.
\VS{14}Then
Joab
said,
I
would
have
made
it safe
for
you.
And
he
took
three
spears
in
his
hand,
and
put
them
through Absalom's
heart,
while
he
was
still
living,
in
the
branches
of
the tree.
\VS{15}And
ten
young
men,
servants
of
Joab, came
round
Absalom
and
put
an end
to
him.
\VS{16}And
Joab
had
the
horn
sounded,
and
the
people
came
back
from
going
after
Israel,
for
Joab
kept
them
back.
\VS{17}And
they
took Absalom's body
and
put
it
into
a
great hole
in
the wood,
and
put
a
great mass
of
stones
over
it:
and
every
man
of
Israel
went
in
flight
to
his
tent.
\VS{18}Now
Absalom,
before
his death,
had
put
up
for
himself
a
pillar
in
the king's
valley, naming
it
after
himself;
for
he
said,
I
have
no
son
to
keep
my
name
in
memory:
and
to
this
day
it
is
named Absalom's
pillar.
\VS{19}Then
Ahimaaz,
the
son
of
Zadok,
said,
Let
me
go
and
give
the
king
news
of
how
the
Lord
has
done right
in
his cause
against
those
who
took
up
arms
against
him.
\VS{20}And
Joab
said,
You
will take
no
news
today;
another
day
you
may give
him
the
news,
but
you
will take
no
news
today,
because
the king's
son
is
dead.
\VS{21}Then
Joab
said
to
the
Cushite, Go
and
give
the
king
word
of
what
you
have
seen.
And
the
Cushite, making
a sign
of respect
to
Joab, went
off
running.
\VS{22}Then
Ahimaaz,
the
son
of
Zadok,
said
to
Joab
again,
Whatever
may
come
of
it,
let
me
go
after
the
Cushite.
And
Joab
said,
Why
have
you
a desire
to
go,
my
son, seeing
that
you
will get
no
reward
for
your
news?
\VS{23}Whatever
may
come
of
it,
he
said,
I
will
go.
Then
he
said
to
him,
Go.
So
Ahimaaz
went
running
by
the lowland
road
and overtook
the
Cushite.
\VS{24}Now
David
was
seated
between
the
two
town doors;
and
the
watchman
went
up
to
the
roof
of
the doorways,
on
the
wall,
and, lifting
up
his
eyes,
saw
a
man
running
by
himself.
\VS{25}And
the
watchman
gave
news
of
it
to
the
king.
And
the
king
said,
If
he
is
coming
by
himself,
then
he
has
news.
And
the man
was travelling quickly,
and
came
near.
\VS{26}Then
the
watchman
saw
another
man
running:
and
crying
out
in
the direction
of
the door
he
said,
Here
is
another
man
running
by
himself.
And
the
king
said,
He,
like
the
other, comes
with
news.
\VS{27}And
the
watchman
said,
It seems
to
me
that
the
running
of
the
first
is
like
the
running
of
Ahimaaz,
the
son
of
Zadok.
And
the
king
said,
He
is
a
good
man,
and
his
news
will
be
good.
\VS{28}And
Ahimaaz,
crying
out
to
the
king,
said,
It
is
well.
And falling
down
before
the
king,
with
his
face
to
the
earth,
he
said,
May
the
Lord
your
God
be
praised,
who
has
given
up
the
men
who
took
up
arms
against
my
lord
the
king!
\VS{29}And
the
king
said,
Is
it
well
with
the
young
man
Absalom?
And
Ahimaaz
said
in
answer,
When
Joab
sent
me,
your
servant,
I
saw
a
great outcry going
on,
but
I
had
no
knowledge
of
what
it
was.
\VS{30}And
the
king
said, Get
back
and
take
your
place
here.
So
turning
to
one
side,
he
took
his
place
there.
\VS{31}And
then
the
Cushite
came
and
said,
I
have
news
for
my
lord
the
king:
today
the
Lord
has
done
right
in
your cause
against
all
those
who
took
up
arms
against
you.
\VS{32}And
the
king
said
to
the
Cushite,
Is
the
young
man
Absalom
safe?
And
the
Cushite
said
in
answer,
May
all
the king's haters
and
those
who
do
evil
against
the
king,
be
as
that
young
man
is!
\VS{33}Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
word
was
given
to
Joab
that
the
king
was
weeping
and sorrowing
for
Absalom.
\VS{2}And
the salvation
of
that day
was changed
to
sorrow
for
all
the people:
for
it
was said
to
the people,
The
king
is
in bitter grief
for
his son.
\VS{3}And
the
people
made
their
way back
to
the town quietly
and secretly,
as
those
who
are shamed
go secretly
when
they
go
in flight
from
the war.
\VS{4}But
the king, covering
his face,
gave
a great cry, O
my son Absalom, O Absalom,
my son,
my son!
\VS{5}And Joab came into
the house
to
the
king
and said, Today
you
have put
to shame
the
faces
of
all
your servants
who
even
now
have kept
you
and
your
sons
and
your daughters
and
your wives
and
all
your women safe
from death;
\VS{6}For
your haters,
it
seems,
are dear
to
you,
and
your friends
are hated.
For
you
have
made
it
clear
that captains
and
servants
are
nothing
to
you:
and
now
I
see
that
if Absalom
was
living
and
we
had
all
been
dead
today,
it
would
have
been right
in
your eyes.
\VS{7}So get
up
now,
and go
out
and say
some kind words
to
your
servants;
for,
by
the Lord,
I
give
you
my oath,
that
if
you
do
not go
out,
not
one
of
them
will keep
with
you tonight;
and
that
will
be worse
for
you
than
all
the evil
which
has overtaken
you
from
your earliest
years.
\VS{8}Then
the
king
got
up
and
took
his seat
near
the town-door.
And
word
was
given
to
all
the
people
that
the
king
was
in
the public
place:
and
all
the
people
came
before
the
king.
Now
all
the
men
of Israel
had
gone
back
in flight
to
their tents.
\VS{9}And
through
all
the tribes
of
Israel
the
people
were
having arguments,
saying,
The
king
made
us safe
from
the hands
of
those
who
were
against
us
and
made
us free
from
the hands
of
the Philistines;
and
now
he
has
gone
in
flight
from
the
land,
because
of Absalom.
\VS{10}And
Absalom, whom
we
made
a ruler
over
us,
is dead
in
the fight.
So
now why
do
you
say
nothing
about getting
the
king back?
And
word
of
what
all
Israel
was
saying
came
to
the
king.
\VS{11}And
King David
sent word
to Zadok
and Abiathar,
the priests, Say
to
the responsible men
of Judah,
Why
are
you
the last
to
take steps
to
get
the
king
back
to
his house?
\VS{12}You
are
my brothers,
my bone
and
my flesh;
why
are
you
the
last
to
get
the
king
back
again?
\VS{13}And say
to Amasa,
Are
you
not
my
bone
and
my
flesh?
May God's punishment
be
on
me,
if
I
do
not
make
you chief
of
the army before
me
at all times
in
place
of Joab!
\VS{14}And
the hearts
of
the
men
of Judah
were moved
like
one
man;
so
that
they
sent
to
the king,
saying,
Come back,
with
all
your servants.
\VS{15}So
the
king
came
back,
and
came
as
far
as Jordan.
And
Judah
came
to Gilgal, meeting
the
king
there,
to
take
him
back
with
them
over Jordan.
\VS{16}And Shimei,
the son
of Gera,
the Benjamite
from Bahurim, got
up quickly
and
went down
with
the men
of
Judah
for
the purpose
of meeting
King David;
\VS{17}And
with
him
a thousand
men
of Benjamin,
and Ziba,
the servant
of Saul,
with
his fifteen
sons
and twenty
servants,
came rushing
to Jordan
before
the
king,
\VS{18}And kept going
across
the river
to
take
the
people
of
the king's
house
over,
and
to do whatever
was desired
by
the
king.
And Shimei,
the
son
of Gera,
went
down
on
his
face
in
the dust
before
the
king,
when
he
was
about
to go
over
Jordan,
\VS{19}And said
to
him, Let
me
not
be judged
as
a sinner
in
your
eyes,
O
my lord,
and
do
not
keep
in
mind
the wrong
I
did
on
the day
when
my lord
the
king
went
out
of Jerusalem,
or take
it
to heart.
\VS{20}For
your
servant
is conscious
of
his
sin:
and
so,
as
you
see,
I
have
come
today,
the
first
of
all
the sons
of
Joseph,
for
the
purpose
of meeting
my
lord
the
king.
\VS{21}But Abishai,
the son
of Zeruiah, said,
Is
not death
the
right
fate
for Shimei,
because
he
has
been cursing
the
one marked
by
the holy oil?
\VS{22}And David
said,
What
have
I
to do
with
you,
you
sons
of
Zeruiah,
that
you
put
yourselves against
me today?
is
it
right
for
any
man
in Israel
to
be
put
to
death today?
for
I
am certain today
that
I
am king
in Israel.
\VS{23}So
the
king
said
to Shimei,
You
will
not
be
put
to
death.
And
the
king
gave
him
his oath.
\VS{24}And
Mephibosheth,
the son
of Saul's son,
came down
for
the purpose
of meeting
the
king;
his feet
had
not
been cared
for
or
his hair cut
or
his clothing washed
from
the day
when
the
king
went away till
the day
when
he
came
back
in peace.
\VS{25}Now
when
he
had
come
from Jerusalem
to
see
the
king,
the
king said
to
him,
Why
did
you
not
come
with
me,
Mephibosheth?
\VS{26}And
he
said
in
answer,
Because
of
the deceit
of
my servant,
my lord
king:
for
I,
your servant,
said
to
him,
You
are
to
make ready
an ass
and
on
it
I
will
go
with
the
king,
for
your servant
has
not
the
use
of
his feet.
\VS{27}He
has
given
you
a false
account
of
me:
but
my
lord
the
king
is
like
the angel
of
God: do
then whatever seems good
to
you.
\VS{28}For all
my father's family
were only dead
men
before
my
lord
the
king:
and still
you put
your
servant
among those
whose place
is
at
the king's table.
What
right
then
have
I
to say anything more
to
the
king?
\VS{29}And
the
king
said, Say
nothing
more
about
these
things.
I say,
Let
there
be
a division
of
the land between Ziba
and
you.
\VS{30}And Mephibosheth
said, Let
him take
it
all,
now
that
my lord
the
king
has come
back
to
his house
in peace!
\VS{31}And Barzillai
the Gileadite
came down
from Rogelim;
and
he
went
on
as
far
as Jordan
with
the
king
to
take
him across Jordan.
\VS{32}Now
Barzillai
was
a very old man,
as much
as eighty years old:
and
he
had given
the
king everything
he
had need
of,
while
he
was
at Mahanaim,
for
he
was
a very great man.
\VS{33}And
the
king said
to
Barzillai, Come
over
with
me,
and
I
will take care
of
you
in Jerusalem.
\VS{34}And
Barzillai
said
to
the
king, How much
of
my life
is
still
before
me,
for
me
to
go
up
to
Jerusalem
with
the
king?
\VS{35}I am
now eighty
years old: good
and bad
are
the same
to
me;
have meat
and drink
any taste
for
me
now? am
I able
to
take pleasure
in
the voices
of
men
or women
in song?
why
then am
I
to
be
a trouble
to
my lord
the
king?
\VS{36}Your servant's desire
was
only
to
take
the
king
over Jordan;
why
is
the
king
to
give
me
such
a reward?
\VS{37}Let
your
servant now
go back again,
so
that
when death comes
to
me,
it
may
be
in
my town
and
by
the resting-place
of
my father
and mother.
But
here
is
your
servant Chimham: let
him
go
with
my lord
the
king,
and
do
for
him
what seems good
to
you.
\VS{38}And
the
king said
in
answer,
Let
Chimham
go
over
with
me,
and
I
will
do
for
him
whatever
seems
good
to
you:
and
whatever
your desire
is,
I
will
do
it
for
you.
\VS{39}Then
all
the
people went
over Jordan,
and
the
king went
over:
and
the
king
gave Barzillai
a kiss,
with
his blessing;
and
he went back
to
his
place.
\VS{40}So
the
king
went
over
to Gilgal,
and Chimham
went
with
him:
and
all
the
people
of Judah,
as well
as half
the
people
of
Israel,
took
the
king
on
his
way.
\VS{41}Then
the
men
of
Israel came
to
the
king
and said, Why
have
our countrymen
of
Judah
taken
you
away
in secret
and come
over Jordan
with
the
king
and
all
his family,
because
all
his
people
are David's
men?
\VS{42}And
all
the
men
of
Judah
gave
this
answer
to
the
men
of
Israel,
Because
the
king
is
our
near relation:
why
then
are
you angry
about
this?
have
we
taken
any
of
the king's
food,
or
has
he given
us
any offering?
\VS{43}And
in
answer
to
the
men
of
Judah,
the
men
of
Israel
said,
We
have ten
parts
in
the
king,
and
we
are
the
first
in
order
of birth:
why
did
you
make
nothing
of
us?
and
were
we
not
the
first
to
make suggestions
for getting
the
king
back?
And
the
words
of
the
men
of
Judah
were
more violent
than
the
words
of
the
men
of
Israel.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
by
chance
there
was
present
a
good-for-nothing
person
named
Sheba,
the
son
of
Bichri,
a Benjamite:
and
he, sounding
the
horn,
said,
We
have
no part
in
David,
or
any interest
in
the
son
of
Jesse:
let
every
man go
to
his
tent,
O
Israel.
\VS{2}So
all
the
men
of
Israel, turning
away
from
David,
went
after
Sheba,
the
son
of
Bichri:
but
the
men
of
Judah
were true
to
their
king,
going
with
him
from
Jordan
as
far
as
Jerusalem.
\VS{3}And
David
came
to
his
house
at
Jerusalem:
and
the
king
took
the
ten
women
to
whom
he
had
given
the
care
of
the
house,
and
had
them shut
up,
and
gave
them
the necessaries
of
life,
but
did
not
go
near
them.
So
they
were shut
up
till
the
day
of
their
death,
living
as
widows.
\VS{4}Then
the
king
said
to
Amasa, Get
all
the
men
of
Judah
together,
and
in
three
days
be
here
yourself.
\VS{5}So
Amasa went
to get
all
the men
of
Judah
together,
but
he
took longer
than
the
time David
had given
him.
\VS{6}And
David
said
to
Abishai,
Sheba,
the
son
of
Bichri,
will do
us
more damage
than
Absalom did;
so
take
some
of
your lord's
servants
and go
after
him,
before
he
makes
himself safe
in
the walled
towns,
and
gets
away
before
our
eyes.
\VS{7}So
there
went
after Abishai,
Joab
and
the
Cherethites
and
the
Pelethites
and
all
the fighting-men;
they
went
out
of
Jerusalem
to overtake
Sheba,
the
son
of
Bichri.
\VS{8}When
they
were
at
the
great
stone
which
is
in
Gibeon,
Amasa
came
face
to
face
with
them.
Now
Joab
had
on
his war-dress,
and round
him
a band
from
which
his
sword
was hanging
in
its
cover;
and
while
he
was walking,
it
came
out,
falling
to
the earth.
\VS{9}And
Joab
said
to
Amasa,
Is
it
well,
my
brother?
And
with
his
right
hand
he
took
him
by
the hair
of
his chin
to give
him
a kiss.
\VS{10}But
Amasa
did
not
see danger
from
the
sword
which
was
now
in Joab's left
hand,
and
Joab
put
it
through
his
stomach
so
that
his
inside
came
out
on
to
the
earth,
and
he
did
not
give
him
another blow.
So
Joab
and
his
brother
Abishai
went
on
after
Sheba,
the
son
of
Bichri.
\VS{11}And
one
of Joab's
young
men, taking
his place
at Amasa's
side,
said,
Whoever
is
for
Joab
and
for
David, let
him go
after
Joab!
\VS{12}And
Amasa
was stretched
out
in
a pool
of
blood
in
the
middle
of
the
highway.
And
when
the
man
saw
that
all
the
people
were stopping,
he
took
Amasa
out
of
the
highway
and
put
him
in
a
field,
with
a
cloth
over
him,
when
he
saw
that
everyone
who
went
by
came
to
a
stop.
\VS{13}When
he
had
been
taken
off
the road,
all
the
people
went
on
after
Joab
in search
of
Sheba,
the
son
of
Bichri.
\VS{14}And
Sheba
went
through
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
to
Abel
of
Beth-maacah;
and
all
the Bichrites
came together
and
went
in
after
him.
\VS{15}And
Joab
and
his
men got
him shut
up
in
Abel
of
Beth-maacah,
and
put
up
an earthwork
against
the
town:
and
all Joab's
men
did
their best
to
get
the
wall broken
down.
\VS{16}Then
a
wise
woman got
up
on
the wall,
and
crying
out
from
the
town,
said,
Give ear,
give ear;
say
now
to
Joab,
Come
near,
so
that
I
may
have
talk
with
you.
\VS{17}And
he
came
near,
and
the
woman
said,
Are
you
Joab?
And
he
said
in
answer,
I
am.
Then she
said,
Give ear
to
your servant's
words.
And
he
said,
I
am giving ear.
\VS{18}Then
she
said,
In
the
old days, there
was
a
saying,
Let
them put
the
question
in
Abel
and
in Dan,
saying,
Has
what
was
ordered
by
men
of good faith
in Israel ever
come
to
an
end?
\VS{19}Your purpose
is
the destruction
of
a mother-town
in
Israel:
why
would
you
put
an
end
to
the
heritage
of
the
Lord?
\VS{20}And
Joab, answering
her,
said,
Far,
far be
it
from
me
to be
a cause
of death
or
destruction;
\VS{21}Not
so:
but
a
man
of
the hill-country
of
Ephraim,
Sheba,
son
of
Bichri,
by
name,
has
taken
up
arms
against
the
king,
against
David:
give
up
this
man
only,
and
I
will
go
away
from
the
town.
And
the
woman
said
to
Joab,
His
head
will
be
dropped
over
the
wall
to
you.
\VS{22}Then
the
woman
in
her
wisdom
had talk
with
all
the
town.
And
they
had Sheba's
head
cut
off
and
sent
out
to
Joab.
And
he
had
the
horn
sounded,
and
sent
them
all
away
from
the
town,
every
man
to
his
tent.
And
Joab
went
back
to
Jerusalem
to
the
king.
\VS{23}Now
Joab
was
over
all
the
army;
and
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
was
at
the head
of
the Cherethites
and
the
Pelethites;
\VS{24}And
Adoram
was overseer
of
the
forced work;
and
Jehoshaphat,
the
son
of
Ahilud,
was
the
recorder;
\VS{25}And Sheva
was
the
scribe,
and
Zadok
and
Abiathar
were
priests;
\VS{26}And
in
addition,
Ira
the
Jairite
was
a
priest
to
David.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}In
the
days
of
David
they
were short
of
food
for
three
years,
year
after
year;
and
David
went
before
the
Lord
for
directions.
And
the
Lord
said,
On
Saul
and
on
his
family
there
is
blood,
because
he
put
the
Gibeonites
to
death.
\VS{2}Then
the
king
sent
for
the
Gibeonites; (now
the
Gibeonites
were
not
of
the
children
of
Israel,
but
were
the last
of
the
Amorites,
to
whom
the
children
of
Israel
had
given
an
oath;
but
Saul,
in
his passion
for
the
children
of
Israel
and
Judah,
had
made
an attempt
on
their
lives:)
\VS{3}So
David
said
to
the
Gibeonites,
What
may
I
do
for
you?
how
am
I
to
make
up
to
you
for
your wrongs,
so
that
you
may
give
a
blessing
to
the
heritage
of
the
Lord?
\VS{4}And
the
Gibeonites
said
to
him,
It
is
not
a question
of
silver
and
gold
between
us
and
Saul
or
his
family;
and
it
is
not
in
our
power
to
put
to
death
any
man
in
Israel.
And
he
said,
Say,
then,
what am
I
to
do
for
you?
\VS{5}And
they
said
to
the
king,
As
for
the
man
by
whom
we
were wasted,
and
who
made designs
against
us
to
have
us
completely cut
off
from
the
land
of
Israel,
\VS{6}Let
seven
men
of
his family
be
given
up
to
us
and
we
will
put
an end
to
them
by
hanging
them before
the
Lord
in Gibeon,
on
the hill
of
the
Lord.
And
the
king
said,
I
will
give
them.
\VS{7}But
the
king
did
not give
up
Mephibosheth,
the
son
of Saul's
son
Jonathan,
because
of
the Lord's
oath
made
between
David
and
Jonathan,
the
son
of
Saul.
\VS{8}But
the
king
took
Armoni
and
Mephibosheth,
the
two
sons
of
Saul
to
whom
Rizpah,
the
daughter
of
Aiah,
had
given
birth;
and
the
five
sons
of Saul's
daughter
Merab,
whose
father
was
Adriel,
the
son
of
Barzillai
the
Meholathite:
\VS{9}And
he
gave
them
up
to
the
Gibeonites,
and
they
put
them
to
death,
hanging
them
on
the
mountain
before
the
Lord;
all
seven
came
to
their end
together
in
the
first
days
of
the grain-cutting,
at
the start
of
the cutting
of
the
barley.
\VS{10}And
Rizpah,
the
daughter
of
Aiah,
took haircloth,
placing
it
on
the
rock
as
a bed
for
herself,
from
the start
of
the grain-cutting
till
rain
came
down
on
them
from
heaven;
and
she
did
not
let
the
birds
of
the air come
near
them
by
day,
or
the
beasts
of
the
field
by
night.
\VS{11}And news
was given
to
David
of
what
Rizpah,
the
daughter
of
Aiah,
one
of Saul's wives,
had
done.
\VS{12}And
David went
and
took
the
bones
of
Saul
and
his
son
Jonathan
from
the
men
of Jabesh-gilead,
who
had
taken
them
away secretly
from
the public
place
of
Beth-shan,
where
the
Philistines
had
put
them,
hanging
up
the bodies
there
on
the
day
when
they
put
Saul
to death
in
Gilboa:
\VS{13}And
he
took
the
bones
of
Saul
and
his
son
Jonathan
from
that
place;
and
they
got
together
the
bones
of
those
who
had
been
put
to death
by hanging.
\VS{14}And
they
put
them
with
the
bones
of
Saul
and
his
son
Jonathan
in
the resting-place
of
Kish,
his
father,
in
Zela
in
the
country
of
Benjamin;
they
did
all
the
king
had
given
them
orders
to
do.
And
after
that,
God
gave ear
to
their
prayers
for
the
land.
\VS{15}And
the
Philistines
went
to
war
again
with
Israel;
and
David
went
down
with
his people,
and
while
they
were
at Gob
they
had
a
fight
with
the
Philistines:
\VS{16}And
there
came against
David
one
of
the offspring
of
the
Rephaim,
whose
spear
was
three
hundred
shekels
of
brass
in
weight,
and having
a
new sword,
he
made
an attempt
to
put
David
to death.
\VS{17}But
Abishai,
the
son
of
Zeruiah,
came
to
his
help,
and, turning
on
the
Philistine,
gave
him
his death-blow.
Then David's
men
took
an
oath,
and
said,
Never
again
are
you
to
go
out
with
us
to
the
fight,
so
that
you
may
not
put
out
the light
of
Israel.
\VS{18}Now
after
this
there
was
war
with
the
Philistines
again
at
Gob,
and
Sibbecai
the
Hushathite put
to death
Saph,
one
of
the offspring
of
the
Rephaim.
\VS{19}And
again
there
was
war
with
the
Philistines
at
Gob,
and
Elhanan,
the
son
of Jair
the Beth-lehemite, put
to death
Goliath
the
Gittite,
the stem
of
whose
spear
was
like
a cloth-worker's rod.
\VS{20}And
again
there
was
war
at
Gath, where
there
was
a
very tall
man,
who
had
twenty-four
fingers
and
toes,
six
fingers
on
his
hands
and
six
toes
on
his
feet;
he
was
one
of
the offspring
of
the
Rephaim.
\VS{21}And
when
he
was purposing
to put shame
on
Israel,
Jonathan,
the
son
of
Shimei, David's
brother, put
him
to death.
\VS{22}These
four
were
of
the offspring
of
the
Rephaim
in
Gath;
and
they
came
to
their end
by
the
hands
of
David
and
his
servants.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
David
made
a
song
to
the
Lord
in
these
words,
on
the
day
when
the
Lord
made
him free
from
the
hands
of
all
his haters,
and
from
the
hand
of
Saul:
\VS{2}And
he
said,
The
Lord
is
my
Rock,
my walled town,
and
my saviour, even mine;
\VS{3}My
God,
my
Rock,
in
him
will I put
my faith;
my breastplate,
and
the
horn
of
my
salvation,
my high tower,
and
my
safe place;
my saviour,
who keeps
me
safe
from
the
violent man.
\VS{4}I
will send up
my
cry
to
the
Lord,
who
is
to
be
praised;
so
will
I
be
made
safe
from
those
who
are against
me.
\VS{5}For
the
waves
of
death came round
me,
and
the seas
of
evil put
me
in fear;
\VS{6}The
cords
of hell
were
round
me:
the nets
of
death came
on
me.
\VS{7}In
my
trouble
my
voice
went
up
to
the
Lord,
and
my
cry
to
my
God:
my
voice
came
to
his
hearing
in
his holy
Temple,
and
my prayer
came
to
his
ears.
\VS{8}Then
the
earth
was
moved
with
a violent shock;
the bases
of
heaven
were
moved
and shaking,
because
he
was
angry.
\VS{9}There
went
up
a
smoke
from
his
nose,
and
a
fire
of destruction
from
his
mouth:
coals
were
lighted
by
it.
\VS{10}The
heavens
were
bent,
so
that
he might
come
down;
and
it
was
dark
under
his
feet.
\VS{11}And
he went
through
the
air,
seated
on
a storm-cloud: going quickly
on
the
wings
of
the
wind.
\VS{12}And
he
made
the
dark
his tent
round
him,
a
mass
of
waters,
thick
clouds
of
the
skies.
\VS{13}Before
his shining
light
his dark clouds went past, raining ice
and
coals
of
fire.
\VS{14}The
Lord
made
thunder
in
the
heavens,
and
the
voice
of
the
Highest
was sounding
out.
\VS{15}And
he
sent
out
his
arrows,
driving
them
in all directions;
by
his flames
of fire they were
troubled.
\VS{16}Then
the deep beds
of
the
sea
were
seen,
and
the bases
of
the
world
were
uncovered, because
of
the Lord's
wrath, because
of
the
breath
of
his mouth.
\VS{17}He
sent
from
on
high,
he
took
me, pulling
me
out
of
great
waters.
\VS{18}He
made
me free
from
my
strong hater,
from
those
who were
against
me,
because
they were
stronger
than
I.
\VS{19}They
came
on
me
in
the
day
of
my trouble:
but
the
Lord
was
my support.
\VS{20}He
took
me
out
into
a wide
place;
he was
my saviour
because
he
had
delight
in
me.
\VS{21}The
Lord
gives
me
the reward
of
my
righteousness,
because
my
hands
are clean before
him.
\VS{22}For
I
have
kept
the
ways
of
the
Lord;
I
have
not
been turned away
in sin
from
my
God.
\VS{23}For
all
his
decisions
were
before
me,
and
I
did
not
put
away
his laws
from
me.
\VS{24}And
I
was upright before
him,
and
I
kept myself
from
sin.
\VS{25}Because
of
this
the
Lord
has given
me
the reward
of
my
righteousness, because
my hands
are clean
in
his
eyes.
\VS{26}On
him
who
has mercy
you
will
have mercy;
to
the upright
you
will be upright;
\VS{27}He
who
is holy will see that
you
are holy;
but
to
the man whose way
is not straight
you will
be
a hard judge.
\VS{28}For
you
are
the saviour
of
those
who
are
in
trouble;
but
your
eyes
are
on
men
of pride,
to
make
them
low.
\VS{29}For
you
are
my
light,
O
Lord;
and
the
Lord
will
make
the
dark bright
for
me.
\VS{30}By
your help
I
have made
a way
through
the
wall which
was shutting
me
in:
by
the help
of
my
God
I
have gone over
a
wall.
\VS{31}As
for
God,
his
way
is
all good:
the
word
of
the
Lord
is
tested;
he
is
a safe cover
for
all
those
who put
their faith
in
him.
\VS{32}For
who
is
God
but
the
Lord?
and
who
is
a
Rock
but
our
God?
\VS{33}God puts a
strong band
about me, guiding me
in a straight
way.
\VS{34}He makes
my
feet
like roes'
feet,
and puts
me
on
high
places.
\VS{35}He makes
my
hands
expert
in
war,
so
that
a
bow
of brass
is bent
by
my
arms.
\VS{36}You
have
given
me
the breastplate
of
your
salvation,
and
your mercy
has
made
me great.
\VS{37}You
have
made
my
steps
wide
under
me,
so
that
my
feet
make
no
slip.
\VS{38}I
go
after
my haters
and overtake
them;
not
turning
back
till
they
are
all overcome.
\VS{39}I
have sent destruction
on
them
and given
them
wounds,
so
that
they
are
not able
to
get
up:
they
are stretched
under
my
feet.
\VS{40}For
I have been
armed
by
you
with
strength
for
the
fight:
you have made
low
under
me those
who came
out
against
me.
\VS{41}By
you
their
backs are
turned
in flight,
so
that
my haters are
cut
off.
\VS{42}They
were crying
out,
but
there
was
no
one
to come
to
their
help:
even
to
the
Lord,
but
he
gave
them
no
answer.
\VS{43}Then
they
were
crushed
as small
as
the
dust
of
the
earth,
stamped down under my feet
like
the waste
of
the
streets.
\VS{44}You
have
made
me free
from
the fightings
of
my
people;
you
have
made
me
the
head
of
the
nations:
a
people
of whom
I
had
no
knowledge
will
be
my
servants.
\VS{45}Men
of other countries
will,
with false hearts, put
themselves under
my authority:
from
the time
when
my name comes
to
their
ears,
they
will
be ruled
by
me.
\VS{46}They
will
be wasted
away, they
will
come out
of their secret places shaking
with fear.
\VS{47}The
Lord
is
living;
praise
be
to
my
Rock,
and let
the
God
of
my
salvation
be honoured:
\VS{48}It
is
God
who
sends punishment
on
my haters,
and
puts
peoples
under
my rule.
\VS{49}He
makes
me
free
from
my haters:
I am
lifted
up
over
those
who
come
up
against
me:
you
have
made
me
free
from
the
violent
man.
\VS{50}Because
of
this
I
will
give
you
praise,
O
Lord,
among
the
nations,
and
will
make
a
song
of
praise
to
your
name.
\VS{51}Great
salvation
does
he give
to
his
king;
he
has mercy on
the
king
of
his selection,
David,
and on
his
seed
for
ever.

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
these
are
the
last
words
of
David.
David,
the
son
of
Jesse,
says,
the
man
who
was lifted
up
on
high,
the
man
on
whom
the
God
of
Jacob put
the holy oil,
the loved
one
of Israel's
songs,
says:
\VS{2}The
spirit
of
the
Lord
had voice
through
me,
his
word
was
on
my
tongue.
\VS{3}The
God
of
Israel
said,
the
word
of
the
Rock
of
Israel
came
to
me:
When
an upright king
is
ruling
over
men,
when
he
is
ruling
in
the
fear
of
God,
\VS{4}It
is
as
the
light
of
the
morning,
when
the
sun
comes
up,
a
morning
without
clouds; making young
grass come
to life
from
the
earth.
\VS{5}For
is
not
my
house
so
with
God?
For
he
has
made
with
me
an
eternal
agreement, ordered
in
all
things
and certain:
as
for
all
my
salvation
and
all
my
desire,
will
he
not
give
it increase?
\VS{6}But
the evil-doers,
all
of
them,
will
be
like
thorns
to
be pushed
away,
because
they
may
not
be gripped
in
the
hand:
\VS{7}But
anyone
touching
them
has
to
be
armed
with
iron
and
the rod
of
a
spear;
and
they
will
be
burned
with
fire,
every
one
of
them.
\VS{8}These
are
the
names
of David's
men
of war: Ishbaal
the Hachmonite,
chief
of
the three;
his axe
was lifted
up
against
eight
hundred put
to death
at
one
time.
\VS{9}After
him
was
Eleazar,
the
son
of Dodai
the
Ahohite,
one
of
the
three
great fighters,
who
was
with
David
in Pas-dammim
when
the
Philistines
came
together
there
for
the
fight;
and
when
the
men
of
Israel
had
gone
in flight,
\VS{10}He
was
with
David
and
went
on fighting
the
Philistines
till
his
hand
became
tired
and stiff
from gripping
his
sword:
and
that
day
the
Lord
gave
a
great
salvation,
and
the
people
came
back
after
him
only
to
take
the goods
of
the
Philistines.
\VS{11}After
him
was Shammah,
the
son
of Ela
the
Hararite.
And
the
Philistines
came
together
in Lehi,
where
there
was
a bit
of
land
full
of seed;
and
the
people
went
in
flight
from
the
Philistines.
\VS{12}But
he
kept
his place
in
the
middle
of
the bit
of
land,
and
kept back
their
attack
and overcame
the
Philistines:
and
the
Lord
gave
a
great
salvation.
\VS{13}And
three
of
the
thirty
went
down
at
the start
of
the grain-cutting,
and
they
came
to
David
at
the strong
place
of
Adullam;
and
the
band
of
Philistines
had
taken
up
their position
in
the
valley
of
Rephaim.
\VS{14}And
at
that
time
David
had taken cover
in
the strong
place,
and an armed force
of
the
Philistines
was
in Beth-lehem.
\VS{15}And
David, moved
by
a strong
desire,
said,
If only
someone
would
give
me
a
drink
of
water
from
the water-hole
of Beth-lehem,
by
the doorway
into
the
town!
\VS{16}And
the
three
men, forcing
their way
through
the
Philistine
army, got
water
from
the water-hole
of Beth-lehem,
by
the doorway
into
the
town,
and
took
it
back
to
David:
but
he
would
not
take
it,
but, draining
it
out,
made
an
offering
of
it
to
the
Lord.
\VS{17}And
he
said,
Far
be
it
from
me,
O
Lord,
to
do
this;
how
may
I
take
as
my
drink
the life-blood
of
men
who
have put
their
lives
in danger?
So
he
would
not
take
it.
These
things
did
the
three
great
men
of war.
\VS{18}And
Abishai,
the
brother
of
Joab,
the
son
of
Zeruiah,
was
chief
of
the
thirty.
He put
to death
three
hundred
with
his
spear,
and
he got
for
himself
a
name
among
the
thirty.
\VS{19}Was
he
not
the noblest
of
the
thirty?
so
he
was
made
their
captain:
but
he
was
not
equal
to
the first
three.
\VS{20}And
Benaiah
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
a fighting
man
of
Kabzeel,
had
done
great acts;
he
put
to death
the
two
sons
of
Ariel
of
Moab:
he
went
down
into
a hole
and
put
a
lion
to death
in
time
of
snow:
\VS{21}And
he
made
an
attack
on
an
Egyptian,
a tall
man:
and
the
Egyptian
had
a
spear
in
his
hand;
but
he
went
down
to
him
with
a stick,
and pulling
the
spear
out
of
the
hands
of
the
Egyptian,
put
him
to death
with
that
same
spear.
\VS{22}These
were
the
acts
of
Benaiah,
the
son
of
Jehoiada,
who
had
a
great
name
among
the
thirty
men
of war.
\VS{23}He
was honoured
over
the rest
of
the
thirty,
but
he
was
not equal
to
the first
three.
And
David
put
him
over
the fighting men
who kept
him safe.
\VS{24}Asahel,
the
brother
of
Joab,
was
one
of
the
thirty;
and
Elhanan,
the
son
of Dodai,
of Beth-lehem,
\VS{25}Shammah
the
Harodite,
Elika
the
Harodite,
\VS{26}Helez
the
Paltite,
Ira,
the
son
of
Ikkesh
the
Tekoite,
\VS{27}Abiezer
the
Anathothite, Sibbecai
the
Hushathite,
\VS{28}Zalmon
the
Ahohite,
Maharai
the
Netophathite,
\VS{29}Heldai,
the
son
of
Baanah
the
Netophathite,
Ittai,
the
son
of
Ribai
of
Gibeah
of
the
children
of
Benjamin,
\VS{30}Benaiah
the
Pirathonite,
Hiddai of
the
valleys of
Gaash,
\VS{31}Abiel
the
Arbathite,
Azmaveth of Bahurim,
\VS{32}Eliahba
the
Shaalbonite,
Jashen
the Gunite,
\VS{33}Jonathan,
the
son
of
Shammah
the
Hararite,
Ahiam,
the
son
of
Sharar
the
Hararite,
\VS{34}Eliphelet,
the
son
of
Ahasbai
the
Maacathite,
Eliam,
the
son
of
Ahithophel
the
Gilonite,
\VS{35}Hezrai
the
Carmelite,
Paarai
the Archite,
\VS{36}Igal,
the
son
of
Nathan
of
Zobah,
Bani
the
Gadite,
\VS{37}Zelek
the
Ammonite,
Naharai
the
Beerothite,
who
had
the care
of
the arms
of
Joab,
son
of
Zeruiah,
\VS{38}Ira
the
Ithrite,
Gareb
the
Ithrite,
\VS{39}Uriah
the
Hittite: thirty-seven
in number.

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Again
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
was burning
against
Israel,
and moving
David
against
them,
he
said, Go,
take
the
number
of
Israel
and
Judah.
\VS{2}And
the
king
said
to
Joab
and
the
captains
of
the
army,
who
were
with
him,
Go
now
through
all
the
tribes
of
Israel,
from
Dan
as
far
as Beer-sheba,
and
have
all
the
people
numbered,
so
that
I
may
be
certain
of
the
number
of
the
people.
\VS{3}And
Joab
said
to
the
king,
Whatever
the number
of
the
people,
may
the
Lord
make
it
a
hundred
times
as
much,
and
may
the
eyes
of
my
lord
the
king
see
it:
but
why
does
my
lord
the
king
take
pleasure
in doing
this
thing?
\VS{4}But
the king's
order
was
stronger
than
Joab
and
the
captains
of
the
army.
And
Joab
and
the
captains
of
the
army
went
out
from
the
king,
to
take
the
number
of
the children
of
Israel.
\VS{5}And
they
went
over
Jordan,
and starting
from
Aroer,
from
the
town
which
is
in
the
middle
of
the
valley,
they
went
in
the direction
of
the
Gadites,
and
on
to
Jazer;
\VS{6}Then
they
came
to
Gilead,
and
to
the
land
of
the Hittites
under Hermon;
and
they
came
to Dan,
and
from Dan
they
came
round
to Zidon,
\VS{7}And
to
the walled
town
of
Tyre,
and
to
all
the
towns
of
the
Hivites
and
the
Canaanites:
and
they
went
out
to
the
South
of
Judah
at Beer-sheba.
\VS{8}So
after
going
through
all
the
land
in
every direction,
they
came
to
Jerusalem
at
the
end
of
nine
months
and
twenty
days.
\VS{9}And
Joab
gave
the
king
the
number
of
all
the
people:
there
were
in
Israel
eight
hundred
thousand fighting
men
able
to
take
up arms;
and
the
men
of
Judah
were
five
hundred
thousand.
\VS{10}And
after
the
people
had
been
numbered, David's
heart
was
troubled.
And
David
said
to
the
Lord,
Great
has
been
my
sin
in
doing
this;
but
now,
O
Lord,
be pleased
to
take
away
the
sin
of
your
servant,
for
I
have
done
very
foolishly
\VS{11}And
David
got
up
in
the
morning;
now
the
word
of
the
Lord
had
come
to
the
prophet
Gad, David's
seer,
saying,
\VS{12}Go
and
say
to
David,
The
Lord
says,
Three
things
are offered
to
you:
say which
of
them
you
will
have,
and
I
will
do
it
to
you.
\VS{13}So
Gad
came
to
David,
and
gave
him
word
of
this
and
said
to
him,
Are
there
to
be
three
years
when
there
is
not enough food
in
your
land?
or
will
you
go
in
flight
from
your haters
for
three
months,
while
they
go
after
you?
or
will
you
have
three
days
of violent
disease
in
your
land?
take
thought
and
say
what
answer
I
am
to
give
to
him
who
sent
me.
\VS{14}And
David
said
to
Gad,
This
is
a
hard decision
for
me
to
make:
let
us
come
into
the
hands
of
the
Lord,
for
great
are
his
mercies:
let
me
not
come
into
the
hands
of
men.
\VS{15}So David
made selection
of
the disease;
and
the
time
was
the days
of
the grain-cutting,
when
the disease
came
among
the
people, causing
the
death
of
seventy
thousand
men
from
Dan
as
far
as Beer-sheba.
\VS{16}And
when
the
hand
of
the
angel
was
stretched
out
in
the
direction
of
Jerusalem,
for
its
destruction,
the
Lord
had
regret
for
the
evil,
and
said
to
the
angel
who
was
sending
destruction
on
the
people,
It
is
enough;
do no
more.
And
the
angel
of
the
Lord
was
by
the grain-floor
of
Araunah
the
Jebusite.
\VS{17}And
when
David
saw
the
angel
who
was causing
the destruction
of
the
people,
he
said
to
the
Lord, Truly,
the
sin
is mine;
I
have
done
wrong:
but
these
are only
sheep;
what
have
they
done?
let
your
hand
be
against
me
and
against
my
family.
\VS{18}And
that
day
Gad
came
to
David
and
said
to
him,
Go
up,
and
put
up
an
altar
to
the
Lord
on
the grain-floor
of
Araunah
the
Jebusite.
\VS{19}So
David
went
up,
as
Gad
had
said
and
as
the
Lord
had
given
orders.
\VS{20}And
Araunah,
looking
out,
saw
the
king
and
his
servants
coming
to
him:
and
Araunah
went
out,
and
went
down
on
his
face
to
the
earth
before
the
king.
\VS{21}And
Araunah
said,
Why
has
my
lord
the
king
come
to
his
servant?
And
David
said,
To
give
you
a price
for
your grain-floor,
so
that
I
may
put
up
an
altar
to
the
Lord,
and
the disease
may
be
stopped
among
the
people.
\VS{22}And
Araunah
said
to
David, Let
my
lord
the
king
take
whatever
seems
right
to
him,
and
make
an
offering
of
it:
see, here
are
the
oxen
for
the burned
offering,
and
the grain-cleaning
instruments
and
the ox-yokes
for
wood:
\VS{23}All
this
does
the servant
of
my
lord
the
king
give
to
the
king.
And
Araunah
said,
May
the
Lord
your
God
be
pleased
with
your
offering!
\VS{24}And
the
king
said
to
Araunah,
No,
but
I
will
give
you
a
price
for
it;
I
will
not
give
to
the
Lord
my
God burned
offerings
for
which
I
have given
nothing.
So
David
got
the grain-floor
and
the
oxen
for
fifty
shekels
of
silver.
\VS{25}And
there
David
put
up
an
altar
to
the
Lord, making burned
offerings
and peace-offerings.
So
the
Lord gave ear
to
his
prayer
for
the
land,
and
the disease
came
to
an end
in
Israel.
\par }