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CHAP. XX, XXI.

Sheba is bebeaded.

7 And there went out after him Joabs men' 20 And Joab answered and faid, Farre be * Chap. 8. and the * Cherethites, and the Belethites, and it, farre be it from me, that I should swallow all the mighty men: and they went out of Je-up or destroy, rufalem, to pursue after Sheba the fonne of Bichri.

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

9 And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took A masa by the beard with the right hand to kisse him.

10 But Amasa took no heed to the Tword that was in Joabs hand: fo he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and † strook him not again, and he died: fo Joab and Abishai his brother purfued after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.

11 And one of Joabs men stood by him, and faid, He that favoureth Joab, and he that # for David, let him go after Joab.

12 And Amasa wallowed in bloud in the mids of the high-way: and when the man faw that all the people stood still, he removed A masa out of the high way into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him, stood still.

13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to purfue after Sheba the sonne of Bichri.

14 And he went through all the tribes of Ifrael unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him...

15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank

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16 Then cried a wife woman out of the Ped totorow city, Heare, heare; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come neare hither, that I may speak with thee.

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21 The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim (Sheba the sonne of Bichri by name) hath lift up his hand against the Heb.by his king, even against David: deliver him onely, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.

22 Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdome, and they cut off the head of Sheba the fonne of Bichri, and cast is out to Joab: and he blew a trumpet, and they tretired from the citie, every man to his tent: Heb.were and Joab returned to Jerufalem unto the king. Scattered

Chap. 8.

23 Now * foab was over all the host of 16. Ifrael: and Benaiah the fonne of sebojada was over the Cherethites, and over the Pelethires: 24 And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the fonne of Ahilud was & re- brancer corder:

25 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:

26 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.

CHA H A P.

XXI.

1 The three yeares famine for the Gibeonizes, cease, by hanging seven of Sauls fonnes, '10 Rizpahs kindnesse unto the dead. 12 David burieth the bones of Saul and lonathan in his fathers fepulchre. 15 Fourebattels against the Philistines, wherein foure valsants of David flay foure giants.

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I David, three years, year after year and

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David † enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for bist Heb. bloudy house, because he flew the Gibeonites, fought the

2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and fase, &c. faid unto them, (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Ifrael, but * of the remnant "Ioth. 9.3. of the Amorites, and the children of Ifrael had 16, 17. sworn unto them: and Saul fought to flay them, in his zeal to the children of Ifrael and Judah)

3 Wherefore David faid unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may blesse the inheritance of the LORD?

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4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, & We & Or. It is will have no filver nor gold of Saul, nor of his ner gold house, neither for us shalt thou kill any man in that we Ifrael. And he said, what you shall lay, that have to do will I do for you.

with Saul or his houses

And they answered the king, The man neither perthat consumed us, and that & devised againft tains it to us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coafts of Ifrael,

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6 Let seven men of his sonnes be delivered us of.
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Sauls feven fonnes are hanged.

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II. SAMUEL.

LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king faid, I will give them.

7' But the king spared Mephibosheth the fonne of Jonathan the fonne of Saul, because 1.Sam. 18 of the LORDS oath that was between them, 3.and 2c. between David, and Jonathan the fonne of

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8 But the king took the two sonnes of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom the bare unto Saul, Armoni, and Mephibosherh, and the five

+ Or, Mich- fonnes of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom als fifter. shet brought up for Adriel the fonne of BarTHeb. bare zillat the Meholathite.

to Adriel.

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9 Andhe 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 leath in the dayes of harvest, in the first dayes, 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, untill water dropped upon them out of heaven, and fuffered neither the birds of the aire to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

In And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah the concubine of Saul had

done.

12 And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his fonne, from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, * 1. Sam, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had lain Saul in Gilboa.

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13 And he brought up from thence the boncs of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his sonne; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his fonne, buried they in the countrey of Benjamin in Zelah, in the fepulchre of Kish his father; and they performed all that the king commanded: and after that, God was intreated for the land.

154 Moreover, the Philistines had yet warre again with Ifrael, and David went down, and his fervants with him, and fought against the Philistines, and David waxed faint.

16 And Ismbi-benob, which was of the fonnes Or, Ra- of the giant, (the weight of whoset spear Pich. the weighed three hundred shekels of braffe in paff, or the weight) he being girded with a new fword,

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17 But Abishai the sonne of Zeruiah fuccoured him and finote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto

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light and

Lamp.

18 * And it came to passe after this, that 1.Chr there was again a battel with the Philistines 2. 4. at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite lew Saph, which was of the fonnes of the giant. Or, Raj

19 And there was again a battel in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the sonne of Jaare-oregima Beth-lehemite, flew the "Seex.C brother of Goliath the Gittite ite, the staff of whose spear was like a weavers beam.

20 And there was yet a battel in Gath, where was a man of great stature; that had on every hand fix fingers, and on every foot fix toes, foure and twenty in number; and he also was born to ≠ the giant.

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21 And when he defied Ifrael, Jonathan proched. 1.San the fonne of * Shimea the brother of David lew him. 16.9.

22 These foure were born to the giant in 'Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

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Nd David spake unto the L words of this song, in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out the hand of Saul.

2 And he said, The LORD is my rock and Pfal.18 my fortresse, and my deliverer,

3 The God of my rock, in him will I truft, be is my shield, and the horn of my salvation; my high tower, and my refuge, my faviour: thou savest me from violence.

4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

5 When the waves of death compassed me: the flouds of † ungodly men made me afraid. 6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

7 In my distresse I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God, and he did heare my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his cares

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

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9 There went up a smoke t out of his to Heb. noftrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

10 He bowed the heavens also and came down:and darknesse was under his feet.

11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did flie: and he was seen upon the wings of the winde. 12 And he made darknesse pavillions round about

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CHAP. XXIII.

about him, † dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

13 Through the brightnesse before him were coals of fire kindled.

14 The LORD thundred 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 chanels of the fea appeared, the foundations of the world were difcovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

17 He fent from above, he took me he

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18 He delivered me from my strong enemie, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

19 They prevented me in the day of my calamite: but the LORD was my stay.

20 He brought me forth alsointo a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted

in me.

21 The LORD rewarded me according to myr ghteoufneffe: according to the cleannesse of my hands hath he recompensed me.

22 For I have kept the wayes of the Lor. D, & have not wickedly departed from my God. 23 For all his judgements were before me, & as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. 24. I was also upright†before him, and have kept my felf from mine iniquitie.

25 Therefore the LORD hath recompenfed me according to my righteousnesse:according to my cleanneffe † in his eye-fight.

26 With the mercifull thou wilt shew thy felf mercifull, and with the upright inan thou wilt shew thy felf upright.

27 With the pure thou wilt shew thy felf pure: and with the froward thou wilt snew 18.27, thy felf unfavourie.

28 And the afflictid people thou wilt save: but thine eyes a are upon the haughtie, that thou mayest bring them down.

#Or, sandle 29 For thou art my #lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkneffe. broken 30 For by thee I have run through a troup: by my God have I leaped over a wall.

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31 As for God, his way is perfect, the word Drefmed of the LORD is tried: hen a buckler to all them that trust in him.

32 For who is God, fave the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?

33 God is my ftrength and power: and he

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34 He maketh my feet like hindes feet:

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35 He teacheth my hands tto warre: fo that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

of thanksgiving.

6 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy falvation; and thy gentlenesse hath † made me + Heb. mulgreat. tiplied me.

37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me : so that my f feet did not flip.

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38 I have pursued mine enemies, and de-ankles. stroyed them: and turned not again untill I 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 strength to battel: them that rose up against me, haft thou † fubdued under me.

41 Thou hast also given me the necks off Heb.caumine enemies, that I might destroy them that fed robowe. hate me.

42 They looked, but there was none to save: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

43 Then did I beat them as fmall as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not, shall ferve me.

45 † Strangers shall ‡ † submit themselves + Heb. unto me: afsoon as they heare, they shall be fonnes of obedient unto me.

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46 Strangers shall fade away, and shall be afraid out of their close places. dience. 47 The LORD liveth, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of the rock of my falvation.

48 It is God that † avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,

'Heb. giveth aven gement for 49 And that bringeth me forth from mine me. enemies: thou alfo haft lifted me up on high above them that rose up againft me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man,

50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, OLORD, among the heathen, and I will fing "Rom.15.9 praises unto thy name.

51 He is the tower of falvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his feed for evermore.

CHAP. XXIII.

I David in his last words professeto his faith in Gods promises, to be beyond fanse or experience. 6 The different State of the wicked. 8 Acatalogue of Davids mightie men.

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3 The God of Ifrael faid, the Rock of Ifrael #Or be thou spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be vuler.&c. just, ruling in the fear of God:

4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the funne riseth, even a morning without clouds: as the tender grafle springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

sAlthough my house be not fo with God; yet he hath made with mean everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this all my falvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.

6. But the fonnes of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands.

7 But the man that shall touch them, must Heb.filled be† fenced with iron, and the staff of a spear, and they shall be utterly burnt with fire in the fame place.

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3 These be the names of the mighty men Or, Toshet whom David had The Tachmonite that fat in Tachmoenite the feat, chief among the captains, (the fame head of the was AdinotheEznite) #he lift up his spear against Chr. eight hundred, † whom he flew at one time. 9 And after him was * Eleazar the fonne of Heb lain. Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battel, and the men of Ifrael were gone away.

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10 He arose, and smote the Philistines untill his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victorie that day, and the people returned after him onely to spoil.

II And after him was Shammah the fonne of Agee the Hararite:and the Philistines were foraging. gathered together # into a troup, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people led from the Philistines.

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12 But he stood in the midst of the ground and defended it, and flew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victorie.

13 And three of the thirtie chief went Three cap- down and came to David in the harvest-time, lains over unto the cave of Adullam:aud the troup of the eshtiy. Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.

14 And David was then in an hold, and the garison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehems

I 15 And David longed, and faid, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate.

Davids worthies.

17 And he said, Be it farre from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the bloud of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightie men.

18 And Abishai the brother of Joab, the 1. Chr sonne of Zeruiah, was chief among three; 11.20. and he lift up his spear 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 Benaiah the sonne of Jehoiada, the sonne of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, † who had done many acts, he flew twotlion-like men of Moab: he went down also and flew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

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21 And he flew an Egyptian, tagoodly contend man and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; ce, or fie but he went down to him with a staff, and called plucked the spear out of the Egyptians hand, 1. Chron and flew him with his own fpear.

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22 These things did Benaiah the sonne of great fla Jehoiada, and had the name among three ture. mighty men.

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23 He was more honourable then the thir- able am tie, but he attained not to the first three: and David set him over his ‡ † guard.

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24 * Afahel the brother of Joab was one of bis com. the thirtie: Elhanan the fonne of Dodo of mand. Bethlehem,

-25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

*Chap. 18.

26 Helez the * Paltite, Ira the sonne of* 1. Chre Ikkesh the Tekoite,

27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the

Hushathithe,

28 Zalimon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

29 Heleb the sohne of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the sonne of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

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31 Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth valleys,

the Bathumite,

22 Eliahba the Shaalbonite: of the sonnes of fashen, Jonathan,

33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the sonne of Sharar the Hararite,

34 Eliphelet the sonne of hasbai, the fonne of the Maachathithe, Eliam the fonne of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, 36 Igal the fonne of Nathan of Zobah, Ba

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 David:neverthelesse he would not drinck thereof, but, ni the Gadite, poured it out unto the LORD.

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37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite,

David repenteth the numbering of Ifrael, CHAP. XXIIII.

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rothite, armour-bearer to Joab the fonne of the word of the LOR D came unto the prophet Zeruiah,

38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,

Gad, Davids feer, faying,

12 Go and say unto David, Thus faith the 39 Uriah the Hittite:thirty and sevenin all. LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee

CHAP. ΧΧΙΙΙΙ.

1-David rempred by Satan forceth loab to number the people. 5 The captains in nine moneths and twenty dayes, bring the muster of thirteen hundred thousand fighting men. 10 David haring three plagues propounded by Gad, repenteth, and chooseth the three dayes pestilence. 15 After the death of shreescore and ten thousand, David by repentance preventeth the defiruction of lerufalem. 18 David by Gads direction purchaseth Araunahs threshing-floore; where having Sacrificed, the plague stayeth.

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Nd again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Ifrael, and he moved David a1. Chron, gainst them, to say, Go number Ifrael & Judah.

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2 For the king faid to foab the captain of the hoft, which was with him, Gonow through all the tribes of Ifrael, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, 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 Godadde unto the people (how many foever they be) an hundred-fold, 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 kings word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the hott: and Joab and the captains of the host went out from the prefence of the king, to number the people of Ifrael.

And they pasled over Jordan, and pitch ed in Aroer, on the right fide of the city that #Or,valley lieth in the midst of the + river of Gad, and toward Jazer.

6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the #Or meither #land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to landnewly Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon,

ancabsted.

7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites:and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba.

8 So 'when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerufalem at the end of nine moneths and twenty dayes.

9 And Joab gave up the summe of the number of the people unto the king, and there were in Ifrael eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

10 And Davids heart smote him, after that he had numbred 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 iniquitie of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

11 For when David was up in the morning,

one of thein, that I may do it unto thee.

13 So Gad came to David, and told him & faid unto him, Shall seven yeares of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three moneths before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three dayes peftilence in thy land?now advise and see what answer I shall return to him that fent me.

14 And David faid unto Gad, I am in a great strait : let us fall now into the hand of the LORD, (for his mercies are ≠ great) and let me & Ormany. not fall into the hand of man.

15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Ifrael, from the morning even to the time appointed:and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba, seventie thousand men.

16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerufalem to destroy it, the LORD *1.Sam. 19 repented him of the evil, and faid to the angel, 11. that deftroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebufite.

17 And David spake unto the LORD when he faw the angel that smote the people, and faid, Lo, I have finned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my fathers house.

18 And Gad came that day to David, and faid unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD, in the threshing-floore of Araunah the Jebufite.

19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.

20 And Araunah looked, and faw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.

21 And Araunah faid, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David fard, To buy the threshing-floore 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 seemeth good unto him: behold, bere be oxen for burrtfacrifice, and threshing-instruments, and other inftruments of the oxen for wood.

23 All these things did Araunah, a king, give unto the king: and Araunah faid unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.

24 And the king faid unto Araunah, Nay; but I will furely buy it of thee at a price: neiHh 3 ther

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