David's thanksgiving. Chap. xxil. him. Then the men of David fware unto him, faying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel. 18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Huthathite flew Saph, which was of the fons of the giant. 19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Eihanan the fon of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, flew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. 20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great ftature, that had on every hand fix fingers, and on every foot fix toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. 21 And when he defied Ifrael, Jonathan the fon of Shimeah the brother of David flew him. 22 These tour were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his fervants. CHA P. XXII. David's pfalm of thanksgiving for God's pow LORD had delivered him out of the hand of 3 The God of my rock; in him will I truft; be is my fhield, and the horn of my falvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my faviour; thou faveft me from violence. 4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: fo fhall I be faved from mine enemies. 5 When the waves of death compaffed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; 6 The forrows of hell compaffed me about; the fnares of death prevented me; 7 In my diftrefs 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. 8 Then the earth thook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth. 9 There went up a fmoke out of his noftrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 10 He bowed the heavens alfo, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. 1 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was feen upon the wings of the wind. 12 And he made darknefs pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. 13 Through the brightnefs before him were coals of fire kindled." 14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice. 15 And he fent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and difcomfited them. 16 And the channels of the fea appeared, the foundations of the world were difcovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blaft of the breath of his noftrils. 17 He fent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters; 18 He delivered me from my ftrong enemy, and from them that hated me for they were too frong for me. David's thanksgiving. 19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity but the LORD was my stay. 20 He brought me forth alo into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteoufnefs: according to the cleannefs of my hands hath he recompensed me. 22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 23 For all his judgments were before me : and as for his ftatutes, I did not depart from them. 24 I was alfo upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity. 25 Therefore the LORD hath recompenfed me according to my righteoufnefs; according to my cleannefs in his eye-fight. 26 With the merciful thou wilt fhew thyfelf merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt thew thyself upright. 27 With the pure thou wilt thew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt hew thyself unfavoury. 28 And the afflicted people thou wilt faves thou mayeff bring them down. but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that 29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. 30 For by thee I have run through a troop > by my God have I leaped over a wall. 31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried; he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. 32 For who is God, fave the LORD? and who is a rock, fave our God? 33 God is my strength and power and he maketh my way perfect. 34 He maketh my feet like hinds feet, and fetteth me upon my high places. 35 He teacheth my hands to war; fo that a bow of fteel is broken by mine arms. 36 Thou haft alfo given me the shield of thy falvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great. 37 Thou haft enlarged my fteps under mes fo that my feet did not flip. 38 1 have purfued mine enemies, and de froyed them; and turned not again until had confumed them. 39 And I have confumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arife: yea, they are fallen under my feet. 40 For thou haft girded me with Arength to battle: them that rofe up against me haft thou fubdued under me. 41 Thou alfo haft given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might deftroy them that hate me. 42 They looked, but there was none to fave; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not. 43 Then did I beat them as fmall as the duft of the earth, I did ftamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad. 44 Thou haft alfo delivered me from the ftrivings of my people, thou haft kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which knew not thall ferve me. 45 Strangers fhall fubmit themselves unto me as foon as they hear, they fhall be obedient unto me, 46 Strangers that fade away, and they David professeth his faith II. SAMUEL. fhall be afraid out of their close places. 48 It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me, 49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou haft lifted me up on high above them that rofe up against me: thou haft delivered me from the violent man. 50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will fing praifes unto thy name. 51 He is the tower of falvation for his king: and theweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his feed for evermore. CHAP. XXII. 1 David profeeth his faith in God's promifes: 8 a catalogue of his mighty men. Now there be the last words of David. David the fon of Jeffe faid, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the fweet pfalmift of Ifrael, faid, 2 The Spirit of the LORD fpake by me, and his word was in my tongue. 3 The God of lfrael faid, the Rock of Ifrael fpake to me. He that ruleth over men mut be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4 And he hall be as the light of the morn. Ing, when the fun rifeth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grafs fpringing out of the earth by clear thining after rain. Although my house be not fo with God; yet he hath made with me an everlafting co. venant, ordered in all things, and fure: for this is all my falvation, and all my defire, al though he make it not to grow. 6 But the fons of Belial ball be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: But the men that shall touch them, muft be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the fame place. 8Thefe be the names of the mighty men whom David had: the Tachmonite that fat in the feat, chief among the captains; the fame was Adino the Eznite; be lifted up his spear against eight hundred, whom he flew at one time. 9 And after him was Eleazar the fon of Do. do the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Ifrael were gone away: 10 He arofe, and fmote the Philiftines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the fword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil. 11 And after him was Shammad the son of Agce the Hararite. And the Philiftines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines. 12 But he flood in the midft of the ground, and defended it, and flew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory. 13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harveft time, unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philiftines pitched in the valley of Rephaim. 14 And David was thea in an hold, and in God's promifer. the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem. 15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate! 16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to Davids nevertheless, he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. 17 And he faid, Be it far from me, 0 LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. Thefe things did thefe three mighty men. 18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the fon of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his fpear against three hundred, and flew them, and had the name among three. 19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit, he attained not unto the first three. 20 And Benajah the fon of Jehoiada, the fon of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he flew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down alfo and flew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of fnow: 21 And he flew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a fpear in his hand but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the fpear out of the Egyptian's hand, and flew him with his own fpear. 22 Thefe things did Benaiah the son of Je hoiada, and had the naine among three migh ty men. 23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David fet him over his guard." 24 Afahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the fon of Dodo of Beth. lehem, 25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Ha. rodite, 26 Helez the Paltite, Ira thefon of Ikkesh the Tekoite, 27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Huthathite, 28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Ne. tophathite, 29 Heleb the fon of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the fon of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, 30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash, 31 Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, 32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the ions of Jathen, Jonathan, 33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the fon of Sharar the Hararite, 34 Elipheiet the fon of Alafbai, the fon of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, 35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, 36 Igal the fon of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, 37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharal the Beerothite, armour-bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, 38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, 39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and feven in all, CHAP. XXIV. 1 David numbereth the people: 10 be, having three plagues propounded by Gad,repenteth The three days' peftilence. Chap. xxiv. Araunab's generosity. and chooseth three days' peftilence: 17 his fee what anfwer I thall return to him that intercefon to God. ND the anger Ainded again fact, and he moved Das vid against them to fay, Go, number Ifrael and judah. For the king faid to Joab the captain of the hoft, which was with him,Go now through all the tribes of Ifrael, from Dan even to Beertheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people. 3 And Joab faid unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many foever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may fee it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? 4 Notwithstanding the king's word pre. vafled against Joab, and against the captains of the hoft. And Joab and the captains of the hoft went out from the prefence of the king, to number the people of Ifrael. 5 And they paffed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right fide of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer: 6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodihi;and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon, And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the fouth of Judah, even to Beer-Sheba. 8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerufalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 9 And Joab gave up the fum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were In Ifrael eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the fword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men. 10 ¶ And David's heart (mote him after that he had numbered the people. And David faid unto the LORD, I have finned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy fervant; for I have done very toolishly. 11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's feer, faying, 12 Go and fay unto David, Thus faith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and faid unto him, Shall feven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three day's' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and fent me. great trait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; (for his mercies are great:) and let me not fall into the hand of man. 14 And David faid unto Gad, I am in a 15 So the LORD fent a pestilence upon Ifrael from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheta feventy thousand men. 16 And when the angel ftretched out his hand upon Jerufalem to deftroy it, the LORD repented him or the evil, and faid to the angel that deftroyed the people, It is enough: tay now thine hand. And the angel of the LokD was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite. 17 And David fpake unto the LORD when he faw the angel that fmote the people, and faid, Lo, I have finned, and I have done wickedly but thefe fheep, what have they done? Let thine hand, I pray thee, be again t me, and against my father's house. 18 And Gad came that day to David, and faid unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite. 19 And David according to the faying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded. 20 And Araunah looked, and faw the king and his fervants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground. 21 And Araunah faid, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his fervant? And Da vid fair, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people. 22 And Araunah faid unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what feemeth good unto him: behold, bere be oxen for burnt-facrifice, and threshing inftruments and other inftruments of the oxen for wood. 23 All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah faid unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee. 24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will furely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt-offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing. floor and the oxen for fifty thekels of filver. 25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt-offerings and peace, offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Ifrael. The First Book of the KINGS, commonly called СНАР. 1. Abihag cherisheth David in his extreme age. 5 Adonijah, David's darling, ufurpeth the kingdom. 32 Solomon, by David's appointment, is anointed king by Zadok and Nathan, 50 ddonijab,fering to the borns of the altar, 53 is difmiffed by Solomon. Ow king David was old and fricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. N 2 Wherefore his fervants faid unto him, Let there be fought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her ftand before the king, and let her cherith him, and let her lie in thy bofom, that my lord the king may get heat. 3 so they fought for a fair damfel throughout all the coafts of Ifrael, and found Abihag a Shunamite, and brought her to the king. 4 And the damfel was very fair, and che... Adonijah'streafon discovered. 1. KINGS. hed the king, and minißtered to him: but the king knew her not. 5 Then Adonijah the fon of Haggith ex. alted himself, faying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fitty men to run before him. 6 And his father had not difpleafed him at any time, ia faying, Why hail thou done fo? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Abfalom. 7 And he conferred with Joab the fon of Zerujah, and with Abiathar the prieft: and they following Adonijah helped him. 8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the fon of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which be longed to David, were not with Adonijah. 9 And Adonijak flew theep and oxen and fat cattle by the tone of Zoheleth, which is by Kn-rogel, and called all his brethren the king's fons, and all the men of Judah the king's fer. vants: to But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not. 11Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bath-fheba the mother of Solomon, faying, Haft thou not heard that Adonijah the fon of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not? 12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counfel, that thou mayeft fave thine own life, and the life of thy fon Solomon. 13 Go and get thee in unto king David, and fay unto him, Didft not thou, my lord, O king, (wear unto thine handmaid, faying, Affuredly Solomon thy fon fball reign after me, and he thall fit on my throne? Why then doth Adonijai reign? 14 Benold, while thou yet talkeft there with the king, I will alfo come in after thee, and confirm thy words. 15 And Bath-fheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abifhag the Shunamite mini. ftened unto the king. 16And Bath-theba bowed, and did obeifance unto the king, And the king faid, What wouldeft thou? 17 And the faid unto him, My lord, thou fwareft by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid,faring, Affuredly Solomon thy fon fhall reign after me, and he fhall fit upon my throne. 18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knoweft it not: 19 And he hath flain oxen and fat cattle and theep in abundance, and hath called all the fons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the hoft: but Solomon thy fervant hath he not called. 20 And thou, my lord, Oking, the eyes of all Ifrael are upon thee, that thou thoulceft tell them who fall fit on the throne of my lord the king after him. 21 Otherwife it thall come to pafs, when my lord the king fhall feep with his fathers, that I and my fon Solomon shall be counted offenders. 22 And, lo, while the yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet alfo came in. 23 And they told the king, faying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. Solomon anointed king. 24 And Nathan faid, My lord, Oxing, haft thou faid, Adonijah thall reign after me, and he shall fit upon my throne? flain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abund 25 For he is gone down this day, and hath the captains of the hoft, and Abiathar the priest; ance, and hath called all the king's fons, and and, behold, they eat and drink hetore nim, and fay, God fave king Adonijah. the priest, and Benaiah the fon of Jehoiada, 26 But me, even me thy fervant, and Zadok and thy fervant Solomon, hath he not called. and thou hait not thewed it unto thy fervant, 27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, who fhould fit on the throne of my lord the king after him? Call me Bath-theba: and the came into the 28 Then king David answered and faid, king's prefence, and ftood before the king. LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my foul out 29 And the king fware, and faid, As the of all distress, God of Ifrael, faying, Affurediy Solomon,thy 30 Even as i fware unto thee by the LORD my throne in my stead; even fo will I cer. fon fhall reign after me, and he shall fit upon tainly do this day. 31 Then Bath-theba bowed with her face co faid, Let my lord king David live for ever. the earth, and did reverence to the king, and 32 And king David faid, Call me Zadok naiah the fon of Jehofada. And they came be the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Be. fore the king. you the fervants of your lord, and cause Solo. prophet anoint him there king over Ifrael: may come and fit upon my throne; for he fwered the king, and faid, Amen: the LORD the king, even fo be he with Solomon, and phet, and Benaiah the fon of Jehoiada, and oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solo. 39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of mon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people faid, God faye king Solomon. and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced 40 And all the people came up after him; with great joy, fo that the earth rent with the found of them. were with him, heard it as they had made an 41 And Adonijah and all the gucfts that found of the trumpet, he faid, wherefore is end of eating. And when Joab heard the this noife of the city being in an uproar? 42 And while he yet fpake, behold, Jons. than the fon of Abiathar the priest came A and Adonijah faid unto him, Come in; for hou art a valiant man, and bringeft good idings. 43 Aad Jonathan anfwered and faid to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king. 44 And the king hath fent with him Zadok the prieft, and Nathan the prophet, and Benziah the fon of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caufed him to ride upon the king's mule: 45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon; and they are come up from thence rejoicing, fo that the city rang again. This is the noife that ye have heard. 46 And alfo Salomon fitteth on the throne of the kingdom. 47 And moreover the king's fervants came to blefs our lord king David, faying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed. 48 And alfo thus faid the king, Bleffed be the LORD God of Ifrael, which hath given one to fit on my throne this day, mine eyes even feeing it. 49 And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rofe up, and went every man his way. so And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arole, and went, and caught hold on the hor e altar. 51 And it Solomon, faying, Behold, Adonijath king Solonion for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, faying, Let king Solomon fwear unto me to-day that he will not flay his fervant with the fword. 52 Andlomon faid, if he will fhew himfelfavor, there shall not an hair of him tall the arth: but if wickednefs hall be found in him, he shall die. 53 So kingplomon fent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himfelt to king Solomon: and Solomon faid unto him, Go to thine houfe. С НА РАИ 1 David, having given a charge to Solomon, 10 dieth. 12 Solomon fucceedeth. 13 Ado. nijab is put to death. Nhe hot diet, Dadar geg shot Ow the days of David drew nigh that mon his fon, faying, Adon fhed the blood of war in peac blood of war upon his girdle tha his loins, and in his shoes that feet. 6 Do therefore according to thy wit and let not his hoar head go down to ta grave in peace. But thew kindness unto the fons of Bar, zillai the Gileadite, and let them be of thofe that cat at thy table: for fo they came to me when I fled because of Abfalom thy brother. 8 And, behold, thou haft with thee Shimej the fon of Gera, a Benjamite ot Bahurim, which curfed me with a grievous curic in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I fware to him by the LORD, laying, I will not put thee to death with the fword. 9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wife man, and knoweit what thou oughteft to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood. I go the way of all the earth: be thou frong therefore, and thew thyself a man; 3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his ftatutes, and his commandments, and his judg. ments, and his teftimonies, as it is written in the law of Mofes, that thou mayeft profper in all that thou doeft, and whitherfoever thou turneft thy felf: 10 So David flept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. 11 And the days that David reigned over Ifrael were torty years: feven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerufalem. 12 Then fat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was eftablished greatly. 13 And Adonijah the fon of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And the faid, Comeft thou peaceably? And he faid, Peaceably. 14 He faid moreover, I have fomewhat to fay unto thee. And the faid, Say on. 4 That the LORD may continue his word which he fpake concerning me, faying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart, and with all their foul, there shall not fail thee (faid he) a man on the throne of Ifrael. 5 Moreover, thou knoweft alfo what Joab the fon of Zeruiab did to me, as what he did to the two captains of the hoits of Ifrael, 15 And hefaid, Thou knoweft that the kingdom was mine, and that all Ifrael fet their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit, the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; for it was his from the LRD. 16 And now I afk one petition of thee, deny me not. And the faid unto him, say on. to Abner the fon of Ner, and unto Amafa the fan of Jether, whom he dew, and 17 And he faid, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not fay thee nay,) that he give me Abifhag the Shunamite to wife. 18 And Bath-eba faid, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king. 19 Bath-theba therefore went unto king And the king rofe up to meet her, and bowSolomon, to fpeak unto him for Adonijah. ed himself unto her, and fat down on his throne, and caufed a feat to be fet for the king's mother; and the fat on his right hand. 20 Then the faid, I defire one fmall pctition of thee; I pray thee, fay me not nay. And the king faid unto her, Afk on, my mother: for I will not fay thee nay. 21 And the faid, Let Abithag the Shu namite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wilc. 22 And king Solomon answered and faid unto his m-her, And why dost thou aik Abithag the Shunamite for A lonijah? Ask for him the kingdom alfo; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the prieft, and for Joab the fon of Zeruah. 23 Then king Solemon fware by the LORD, faying, God do foto me and more alfo, if Adonijah have not fpoken this word against his own lite. 24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, |