h See Luke S. 8, 9.

* Josh. 19.45.

kr Chr. 13. 14.

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Chr. 15.25.

See 1 Chr. 15. 26.

See Exod. 15. 20.

1 Chr. 15.29.

PI Chr. 16. J.

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

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19 And he dealt among all the people, Before even among the whole multitude of Ifrael, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, 1042. Chr. 16. 3. and a flagon of wine: fo all the people departed every one to his house.

20¶ Then David returned to blefs his Pfal. 30, title. houfhold and Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and faid, How glorious was the king of Ifrael to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his fervants, as one of the vain fellows † fhamelefly uncovereth for, openly. himself!

21 And David faid unto Michal, It was before the LORD," which chofe me before 1 Sam. 13. 14 thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Ifrael: therefore will I play before the

LORD.

23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul *See 1 Sam. had no child * until the day of her death. CHAP. VII.

1 Nathan first approving the purpose of David to build God an houfe, 4 after by the word of God forbiddeth him. 12 He promifeth him benefits and blessings in his feed. 18 Davids prayer and thanksgiving.

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IS. 35. Ila. 22. 14. Matth. 1.25.

of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it afide into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

II And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite, three months and the LORD bleffed Obed-edom, 'and all his houfhold.

12 ¶ And it was told king David, faying, The LORD hath bleffed the houfe of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the houfe of Obed-edom, into the city of David, with gladness.

13 And it was fo, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD, had gone fix m oxen and fatlings. paces, he facrificed

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

15 So David and all the house of Ifrael brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the found of the trumpet.

16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Sauls daughter looked through a window, and faw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and the despised him in her heart.

17 And P they brought in the ark of the 1 Ch.15.1. LORD, and fet it in his place, in the midft *Heb.fretched. of the tabernacle that David had * pitched

for it and David offered burnt-offerings, and peace-offerings before the LORD.

18 And affoon as David had made an end of offering burnt-offerings, and peace-offerKings $.55. ings, he bleffed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.

1 Chr. 16, 2,

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3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart: for the LORD is with thee.

4 ¶ And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, faying,

5 Go and tell my fervant David, Thus faith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an houfe for me to dwell in ?

6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any houfe,

e fince the time that I brought up the children of Ifrael out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.

*Heb. te my f seer Kings

vant to David

S. 3.

1 Chr. 22.8.

28.3. 1 Kings 8. 1

7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Ifrael, fpake I a word with any of the tribes of Ifrael, +1 Chr. 17.6 whom I commanded to feed my people any of the judge. Ifrael, faying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

8 Now therefore, fo fhalt thou fay unto my fervant David, Thus faith the LORD of hofts, I took thee from the fheep-cote, from following the fheep, to be ruler over my people, over Ifrael.

*Pfal $9.26,37. John 12. 34.

Ifa.ss.8. †Heb. law.

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

14 P I will be his father, and he shall be my fon: if he commit iniquity, I will chaften him with the rod of men, and with the ftripes of the children of men:

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

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16. And thine houfe, and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, fo did Nathan speak unto David.

18 ¶ Then went king David in, and fat before the LORD, and he faid, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou haft brought me hitherto?

19 And this was yet a small thing in thy fight, O Lord GOD; but thou haft fpoken allo of thy fervants houfe for a great while to come; and is this the † manner of man, O Lord GOD?

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20 And what can David fay more unto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy

servant.

23 And "what one nation in the earth is Deut. 4. 7,32. like thy people, even like Ifrael, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things, and terrible, for thy land, before thy people which thou redeemedit to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

Píal. 48. 14.

24 For thou haft confirmed to thy felf thy people Ifrael to be a people unto thee for ever: * and thou, LORD, art become their God.

25 And now, O LORD God, the word that thou haft fpoken concerning thy fervant, and concerning his houfe, eftablish it for ever, and do as thou haft faid.

26 And let thy name be magnified for ever, faying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Ifrael: and let the houfe of thy fervant David be established before thee.

27 For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of

Davids victory.

Ifrael, haft revealed to thy fervant, faying, Bekoze I will build thee an houfe: therefore hath Christ thy fervant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.

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28 And now, O Lord GoD, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou haft promifed this goodness unto thy fervant. Therefore now let it please thee to blefs the house of thy fervant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, Ó Lord GOD, haft fpoken it, and with thy bleffing let the house of thy fervant be bleffed for ever.

CHAP. VIII

1 David fubdueth the Philistines and the Moabites. 3 He fmiteth Hadadezer, and the Syrians. 9 Toi fendeth Foram with prefents to bless him. 11 The prefents and the fpoil David dedicateth to God. 14 He putteth garifons in Edom. 16 Davids officers.

Nd after this it came to pass, that David fmote the Philistines, and fubdued them: and David took *Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.

2 And he fmote Moab, and measured them with a line, cafting them down to the ground: even with two lines measured he, to put to death; and with one full line, to keep alive and fo the Moabites became Davids fervants, and brought gifts.

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3 David fmote alfo +Hadadezer the fon of Rehob, king of d Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.

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Ruth. 4.4.

1 Sam. 9. 15. John 17. 17.

Heb. be to

pleafed and bl.

4 And David took from him a thoufand * chariots, and feven hundred horfemen, "As 1 Chr. 18.44 and twenty thoufand footmen: and David fhoughed all the chariot-borfes, but referved 'Joh. 11.5. of them for an hundred chariots.

24, 25.

58 And when the Syrians of Damafcus 1 Kings 11.73, came to fuccour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David flew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

Nd David faid, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may fhew him kindness for Jonathans fake? 2 And there was of the house of Saul, a fervant whofe name was Ziba: and when 19.17, 29. they had called him unto David, the king faid unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he faid, Thy fervant is he.

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3 And the king faid, Is there not yet any 1 Sam. 20.14. of the houfe of Saul, that I may fhew the b kindness of God unto him? And Ziba faid unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.

Chap.4.4.

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And the king faid unto him, Where is he? And Ziba faid unto the king, Behold, Chap. 17.27. he is in the houfe of 4 Machir, the fon of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.

5 ¶ Then king David fent, and fet him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.

6 Now when Mephibofheth the fon of Jonathan the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David faid, Mephibofheth. And he answered, Behold thy fervant.

7¶ And David faid unto him, Fear not; for I will furely fhew thee kindness, for Jonathan thy fathers fake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father, and thou fhalt eat bread at my table continually.

8 And he bowed himself, and faid, What is thy fervant, that thou fhouldst look upon * 1 Sam. 24. 15. fuch a dead • dog as I am?

See Chap.

19.29.

9 Then the king called to Ziba Sauls fervant, and faid unto him, f I have given unto thy masters fon all that pertained to Saul, and to all his house.

10 Thou therefore and thy fons and thy fervants fhall till the land for him, and thou fhalt bring in the fruits, that thy masters fon may have food to eat but Mephibofheth thy mafters fon fhall eat bread alway at my

h Ver.3.

Nd it came to pafs after this, that the tit. 1037. king of the children of Ammon died, 1 Chr. 19.1. and Hanun his fon reigned in his stead.

2 Then faid David, I will fhew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahafh, as his father fhewed kindness unto me. And David fent to comfort him by the hand of his fervants, for his father. And Davids fervants came into the land of the children of Am

mon.

3 And the princes of the children of Am- cit. 1037mon faid unto Hanun their lord, *Thinkeft *Heb. In thine thou that David doth honour thy father, that “ye dosh David? he hath fent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his fervants unto thee, to fearch the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

4 Wherefore Hanun took Davids fervants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and fent Ifa. 20.4. them away.

5 When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly afhamed: and the king faid, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then

return.

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6 And when the children of Ammon faw that they ftank before David, the children of Ammon fent and hired the Syrithe Syri- Chap. 3. 3, So ans of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob, twelve thousand men.

7 And when David heard of it, he fent Joab, and all the hoft of the mighty men.

8 And the children of Ammon came out, tit. 1037. and put the battle in aray at the entring in of the gate and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ih-tob, and Maacah were by themselves in the field.

9 When Joab faw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chofe of all the choice men of Ifrael, and put them in aray against the Syrians.

10 And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abifhai his brother, that he might put them in aray against the children of Ammon.

II And

The Syrians overcome.

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cit. 1036.

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

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

14 And when the children of Ammon faw that the Syrians were fled, then fled they alfo before Abifhai, and entred into the city: fo Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerufalem.

15 ¶ And when the Syrians faw that they were fmitten before Ifrael, they gathered themselves together.

16 And Hadarezer fent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the river: and Or, Shophach, they came to Helam; and † Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.

Chr. 19.16.

Uriah flain.

Chrift

5 And the woman conceived, and fent efoze and told David, and faid, I am with child. 6¶ And David fent to Joab, faying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab fent Uriah Cir. 1035. to David.

7 And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him † how Joab did, t Heb. of the and how the people did, and how the war peace of, &c. profpered.

8 And David faid to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the kings houfe, and there followed him a mefs of meat from the king. Heb. went ont 9 But Uriah flept at the door of the kings after him. houfe, with all the fervants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

IO And when they had told David, faying, Uriah went not down unto his houfe, David faid unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?

II And Uriah faid unto David, The ark, and Ifrael, and Judah abide in tents, and f my lord Joab, and the fervants of my lord 'Chap. 20.6. are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine houfe, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou liveft, and as thy foul liveth, I will not do this thing.

12 And David faid to Uriah, Tarry here to day alfo, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerufalem, that day and the morrow.

13 And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him, and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the fervants of his lord, but went not down to his houfe.

14 ¶ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and fent it by the hand of Uriah.

15 And he wrote in the letter, faying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hotteft *Heb. Arong. battle, and retire ye† from him, that he may tHeb. from afbe fmitten, and die.

16 And it came to pafs when Joab obferved the city, that he affigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.

17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell fome of the people of the fervants of David, and Uriah the Hittite died alfo.

18 Then Joab fent, and told David all the things concerning the war:

19 And charged the meffenger, faying, When thou haft made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,

20 And if fo be that the kings wrath arife, and he fay unto thee, Wherefore approached ye fo nigh unto the city when did fight? knew ye not that they would fhoot from the wall?

ye

ter him.

21 Who fmote & Abimelech the son of Je- Judg. 9. 5 3. rubbefheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a milftone upon him from the wall that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then fay thou, Thy fervant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

22 So the meffenger went, and came and fhewed David all that Joab had sent him for. 23 And

Wefoze 23 And the meffenger faid unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we

Christ tit. 1035. were upon them even unto the entring of the gate.

24 And the hooters fhot from off the wall upon thy fervants, and fome of the kings fervants be dead, and thy fervant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

25 Then David faid unto the messenger, Thus fhalt thou fay unto Joab, Let not this #Heb.beevil in thing displease thee: for the fword devou-. ‡ reth one as well as another make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it; and encourage thou him.

thine eyes. *Heb. fo and

Such.

26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, the mourned for her husband.

27 And when the mourning was paft, David fent, and fet her to his house, and the became his wife, and bare him a fon : but +Heb. evil the thing that David had done, † displeased CHAP. XII.

in the eyes of the LORD.

I Nathans parable of the ew-lamb, caufeth David to be his own judge. 7 David, reproved by Nathan, confeffeth his fin, and is pardoned. 15 David mourneth, and prayeth for the child, while it lived. 24 Solomon is born, and named Jedidiah. 26 David taketh Rabbah, and tortureth the people thereof.

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Pfal. 51, title. See Chap. 14. 5, &c.

1 Kings 20,

35----41.

Nd the LORD fent Nathan unto David: and a he ⚫ he came unto him, and faid unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds :

3 But the poor man had nothing fave one little ew-lamb, which he had bought and nourished up and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat *Heb. morfel. of his own* meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he fpared to take of his own flock, and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him, but took the poor mans lamb, and dreffed it for the man that was come to him.

5 And Davids anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he faid to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done tor, is worthy this thing † fhall furely die.

to die.

Exod. 22. I.

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6 And he fhall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

7 And Nathan faid to David, Thou ¶ art the man. Thus faith the LORD God & 1 Sam. 16.13. of Ifrael, I anointed thee king over Ifrael, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul:

8 And I gave thee thy mafters house, and thy mafters wives into thy bofom, and gave thee the houfe of Ifrael and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee fuch and fuch things.

9 Wherefore haft thou defpifed the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his fight? thou haft killed Uriah the Hittite with the fword, and hast taken his wife to be thy

Solomon born.

19 But when David faw that his fervants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his fervants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house, and when he required, they fet bread before him, and he did eat.

21 Then faid his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst faft and weep for the child while it was alive, but when the child was dead, thou didst rife and eat bread.

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m See Ifa. 38.1.

22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fafted and wept : for I faid, Who Jonah 3.9. can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I faft? can I bring him back again? I fhall go to him, but " he fhall not return to me.

24 And David comforted Bath-fheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her and fhe bare a fon, and P he called his name Solomon; and the LORD loved him.

25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet,

"Job 7.8, 9,

10.

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• Matth. 1. 6.