David's return to Jerusalem.

+ Heb. By loving, &c.

+ Heb. that princes or

lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy sons and his twenty servants with him;
concubines;
and they went over Jordan before the king.
18 And there went over a ferry boat to
carry over the king's household, and to do
what he thought good. And Shimei the +Heb.
son of Gera fell down before the king, as
he was come over Jordan;

6 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither servants are princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.

not to thee.

4 ch. 15. 14.

+ Heb. are ye silent!

ech. 5. 1.

ch. 17. 25.

8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate.
And they told unto all the people, say-
ing, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate.
And all the people came before the king:
for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
9 ¶ And all the people were at strife
throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying,
The king saved us out of the hand of our
enemies, and he delivered us out of the
hand of the Philistines; and now he is
dfled out of the land for Absalom.

10 And Absalom, whom we anointed
over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore
why speak ye not a word of bringing the
king back?

11 ¶ And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.

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12 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

13 'And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not Ruth 1. 17. of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.

1 Josh. 5. 9.

19 And said unto the king, "Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember "that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

the good in his eyes.

• ch. 13. 33.

22 And David said, 'What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? 'shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel? 23 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, 1 Kings 2.8 Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.

24 ¶ And "Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.

14 And he bowed the heart of all the Judg. 20. 1. men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants. 15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to 28 For all of my father's house were but go to meet the king, to conduct the king dead men before my lord the king: yet +Heb. men over Jordan. didst thou set thy servant among them 16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a that did eat at thine own table. k Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted right therefore have I yet to cry any and came down with the men of Judah to more unto the king? meet king David.

Barzillai dismissed.

b

king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as 43 And the men of Israel answered the
my lord the king is come again in peace men of Judah, and said, We have ten
unto his own house.
parts in the king, and we have also more
31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came right in David than ye: why then did
down from Rogelim, and went over Jor-ye despise us, that our advice should not + Heb. set us
dan with the king, to conduct him over be first had in bringing back our king?
Jordan.
And the words of the men of Judah See Judg.
were fiercer than the words of the men
of Israel.

C

32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great

man.

33 And the king said unto Barzillai,
Come thou over with me, and I will feed
thee with me in Jerusalem.

34 And Barzillai said unto the king,
How long have I to live, that I should
go up with the king unto Jerusalem ?
35 I am this day fourscore years old:
and can I discern between good and evil?
can thy servant taste what I eat or what
I drink? can I hear any more the voice
of singing men and singing women?
wherefore then should thy servant be yet
a burden unto my lord the king?

at light.

8. 1. & 12. 1.

ND there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, "We have no ch. 19. 43. part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: "every man to 1 Kings 12. his tents, O Israel.

с

16.

2 Chr. 10. 16.

ch. 15. 16. &

16. 21, 22.

Heb..

house of ward.

2 So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem. 36 Thy servant will go a little way over 3 ¶ And David came to his house at Jordan with the king: and why should the Jerusalem; and the king took the ten king recompense it me with such a reward? women his concubines, whom he had 37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn left to keep the house, and put them in back again, that I may die in mine own ward, and fed them, but went not in city, and be buried by the grave of my unto them. So they were shut up unto father and of my mother. But behold the day of their death, living in widow-bound. 1 Kings 2.7. thy servant Chimham; let him go over hood. with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee. 38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.

+ Heb. choose.

17.

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+ Heb.

Heb. in widowhood of life.

+ Heb. Call.

4 ¶ Then said the king to Amasa, tAs-ch. 19. 13. semble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.

5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him. 6 And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's ch. 11. 11. servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.

7 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the 'Cherethites, and the lethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

8. When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.

1 Kings 1. 38.

9 And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Matt. 26. 49. Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.

Luke 22. 47.

II. SAMUEL.

10 But Amasa took no heed to the 22 Then the woman went unto all the
sword that was in Joab's hand: so he people "in her wisdom: and they cut off
the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and
cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trump-
et, and they retired from the city, every +Heb. were
man to his tent. And Joab returned to
Jerusalem unto the king.

1 Kings 2.5. smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and
shed out his bowels to the ground, and
struck him not again; and he died. So
Joab and Abishai his brother pursued
after Sheba the son of Bichri.

red together, and went a bosieged him in T of David three years, year after year,

Seven of Saul's sons hanged.

'ch. 3. 7.

Or, Michal's sister.

+ Heb. bare

to Adriel,

1 Sam. 18. 19.

ch. 6. 17.

hver. 8. ch. 3. 7.

1 See Deut.

21. 23.

* 1 Sam. 31. 11, 12, 13.

11 Sam. 31.

10.

them, between David and Jonathan the Hushathite slew "Saph, which was of
son of Saul.
the sons of the giant.

Or, Rapha.

8 But the king took the two sons of Riz- 19 And there was again a battle in Gobor, Sippat.
pah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare with the Philistines, where Elhanan the
unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, or, Jair.
and the five sons of Michal the daughter slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite,
of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the staff of whose spear was like a weav-
the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: er's beam.

h

⚫ See 1 Chr.

20. 5.

1

9 And he delivered them into the hands
of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them
in the hill before the LORD: and they
fell all seven together, and were put to
death in the days of harvest, in the first
days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
10 ¶ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah
took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon
the rock, from the beginning of harvest 22 These four were born to the giant
until water dropped upon them out of in Gath, and fell by the hand of David,
heaven, and suffered neither the birds of and by the hand of his servants.
the air to rest on them by day, nor the
beasts of the field by night.

20 And 'there was yet a battle in Gath, Chr. 20. 6.
where was a man of great stature, that
had on every hand six fingers, and on
every foot six toes, four and twenty in num-
ber; and he also was born to the giant.
21 And when he "defied Israel, Jonathan
the son of "Shimeah the brother of David
slew him.

X

CHAPTER XXII.

11 And it was told David what Rizpah
the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of ND David spake unto the LORD the
Saul, had done.
words of this song, in the day that
12 And David went and took the the LORD had delivered him out of the
bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan hand of all his enemies, and out of the
his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, hand of Saul:
which had stolen them from the street of
Beth-shan, where the Philistines had
hanged them, when the Philistines had
slain Saul in Gilboa:

5 When the waves of death compassed or, pangs. me, the floods of tungodly men made me afraid;

6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me. 7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

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8 Then the earth shook and trembled; "the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

+ Heb.

Belial.

or, cords.

1 Ps. 116. 3.

Ps. 116. 4. Jonah 2. 2.

& 120. 1.

Ex. 3. 7.
Ps. 34. 6, 15,

17.

9 There went up a smoke tout of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came Ps. 144. 5. down; and darkness was under his feet. 11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen 'upon the wings of Ps. 104. 3. the wind.

Is. 64. 1.
Ex. 20. 21.

12.

1 Kings 8. Ps. 97. 2.

" ver. 10.

Ps. 97. 2.

lamp. 18 And it came to pass after this, that 12 And he made darkness pavilions there was again a battle with the Phi-round about him, dark waters, and thick +Heb. the clouds of the skies.

41 Chr. 20. 4.

i Chr. 11. 29. listines at Gob: then Sibbechai

binding of waters.

13 Through the brightness before him thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath were coals of fire kindled. *made me great.