Abner is slain by Joab. II. SAMUEL. David mourneth for him. 01 Sam. 25. 41, Phalti, S2, 33, off. and the 9 ver. 9. 37. B. C. her from her husband, even from 28 | And afterward when David B.C. about 1018. • Phaltiel the son of Laish. heard it, he said, I and my kingdom about 1048. 16 And her husband went with her are guiltless before the Lord for ever + Heb. going + along weeping behind her to p Bahu- from the blood of Abner the son of + Heb. bloods. and weeping. rim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, Ner: return. And he returned. 29 a Let it rest on the head of Joab, - 1 Kings 2 17 | And Abner had communication and on all his father's house; and let with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye there not + fail from the house of Joab + Heb, be ezt Heb. both sought for David tin times past to be one that hath an issue, or that is a b Lev. 15.2 yesterday king over you : leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or third day. 18 Now then do it: 9 for the Lord that falleth on the sword, or that the battle. to speak in the ears of David in He- Rend your clothes, and °gird you a Josh 7.6. bron all that seemed good to Israel, with sackcloth, and mourn before ch. 1.3 11. e Gen. 37, 34. and that seemed good to the whole Abner. And king David himself folhouse of Benjamin. lowed the + bier. + Heb. bed. 20 So Abner came to David to He- 32 And they buried Abner in Hebron, and twenty men with him. And bron: and the king lifted up his voice, David made Abner and the men that and wept at the grave of Abner; and were with him a feast. all the people wept. 21 And Abner said unto David, I 33 And the king lamented over Ab• ver. 10, 12 will arise and go, and 'will gather all ner, and said, Died Abner as a 'fool ich. 13. 12, 18. Israel unto my lord the king, that dieth? they may make a league with thee, 34 Thy hands were not bound, nor t 1 Kinge 11. and that thou mayest 'reign over all thy feet put into fetters : as a man that thine heart desireth. And David falleth before + wicked men, so fellest + Heb. chil. dren of in sent Abner away; and he went in thou. And all the people wept again iquity. peace. over him. 23 When Joab and all the host that 36 And all the people took notice good in their eyes. 24 Then Joab came to the king, and understood that day that it was not ants, Know ye not that there is a Ner, that he came to deceive thee, day in Israel ? u 1 Sam. 29.6. and to know thy going out and thy 39 And I am this day tweak, though + Heb. tender. coming in, and to know all that thou anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah * be too hard for me: CHAPTER IV. not. The Israelites being troubled at the death of Ahner, 2 Baanah and Rechab slay Ish-bosheth, and bring his 27 And when Abner was returned head to Hebron. 9 Darid causeth them to be ala in, to Hebron, Joab *took him aside in the So ch. 20.9, 10. 11 Or, peace gate to speak with him ll quietly, and ably. smote him there y under the fifth rib, Abner was dead in Hebron, a his a Ezra 4.4 y ch. 4. 6. . Is, 37. 28. 1 Kings 25, 6, 33, 34 Ps. 28. & 62. 12 2 Tim. 4. 14 x 1 Kings 2.5. and Ish-boshcth's head to be buried. son A that he died, for the blood of 2 Asa- hands were feeble, and all the Israel- • Matt 28 1a, 13. 7. x ch. 2. 23. Ish-bosheth murdered. II. SAMUEL. David king over Israel. nch. 3. 32. & 12. 2. 4 And · Jonathan, Saul's son, had THEN to came all the tribes of Is- 41 Chr. 11. 1. 12. Ps. 78.71. See ch. 7. 7. baal, 1 Chr. 17. & 29. 27. 1 Chr. 3. 4. B. C. And Saul's son had two men that bosheth, and buried it in the "sepul- B. C. about 1018. were captains of bands : the name of chre of Abner in Hebron. about 1048. the one was Baanah, and the name + Heb. second.' of the tother Rechab, the sons of CHAPTER V. The tribes come to Hebron to anoint David king over • Jostk. 18. 5. of Benjamin : for Beeroth also was Israel. 4 His age. 6 He taketh Zion from the Jebreckoned to Benjamin : usites and droelleth in it. 11 Hiram sendeth to Darid. 13 Elcren sons are born to Darid in Jeru4 Neb. 11. 33 3 And the Beerothites fled to d Git- salem. 17 He smiteth the Philistines at Baal-perataim, and were sojourners there until zim, N and again at the mulberry trees. this day. THEN e ch.9.3 rael David a son that was lame of his feet. He spake, saying, Behold, we are thy Gen. 29. 14. was five years old when the tidings bone and thy flesh. Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, king over us, thou wast he that led- <1 Sam. 18. 13. became lame. And his name was feed my people Israel, and thou shalt 1. Or, Merib- ! Mephibosheth. be a captain over Israel. 3 e So all the elders of Israel came 2 3L & 9. 40. 5 And the sons of Rimmon the Be el Chr. 11. 3. erothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, to the king to Hebron ; fand king 12 Kings 11. and came about the heat of the day David made a league with them in to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay Hebron 8 before the Lord: and they 5 Judg. 11.11. on a bed at noon. anointed David king over Israel. 1 Sam. 2. 18. 6 And they came thither into the 4 ? David was thirty years old when midst of the house, as though they he began to reign, band he reigned h1 Chr. 26. 31. would have fetched wheat; and they forty years. smote bim under the fifth rib: and 5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah Rechab and Baanah his brother es- i seven years and six months : and in ich. 2. 11. caped. Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three 7 For when they came into the years over all Israel and Judah. house, he lay on his bed in his bed- 6 | And the king and his men went chamber, and they smote him, and * to Jerusalem unto 'the Jebusites, * Judg. 1. 21. slew him, and beheaded him, and the inhabitants of the land : which Josh, 15.63, Judg. 1. 8. & took his head, and gat them away spake unto David, saying, Except 19. 11, 12 through the plain all night. thou take away the blind and the 8 And they brought the head of Ish- lame, thou shalt not come in hither : bosheth unto David to Hebron, and thinking, David cannot come in Or, saying, said to the king, Behold the head of hither. not, c. Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine 7 Nevertheless, David took the 51 Sum 19.2, enemy, which sought thy life; and strong hold of Zion : mthe same is m ver. 9. the Lord hath avenged my lord the the city of David. 1 Kings 2. 10. king this day of Saul, and of his seed. 8 And David said on that day, Who 9 [ And David answered Rechab soever getteth up to the gutter, and n1 Chr. 11. 6di Gen. 43. 16. unto them, As the Lord liveth, who vid's soul, " he shall be chief and cap23.23 . hath redeemed my soul out of all ad- tain. "Wherefore they said, The blind 11,0r, Because versity, and the lame shall not come into the they had said, Tel. L. 2,4,15. 10 When kone told me, saying, Be- house. and the lame, 1 * Hat he was hold, Saul is dead, #thinking to have 9 So David dwelt in the fort, and brought good tidings, I took hold of called it ° the city of David. And hringer, bye. him, and slew him in Ziklag, I who David built round about from Millo thought that I would have given him and inward. 10 And David + went on, and grew | + Heb. went 11 How much more, when wicked great, and the Lord God of hosts was going and men have slain a righteous person in with him. his own house upon his bed? shall 11 | And P Hiram king of Tyre sent about 1043. Gen. 2.5.6. I not therefore now 'require his blood messengers to David, and cedar trees, of your hand, and take you away from and carpenters, and masons: and + Heb heer: of the stone the earth? they built David a house. of the wall. sch. 1. 15. 12 And David mcommanded his 12 And David perceived that the pi Kings 5, 2. young men, and they slew them, and Lord had established him king over Darid shall 19. 11. 23. 15. 5. 29. & 8. 1. 9. He shall not come into the house. o ver, 7. ! Or schick was the reund I gare hy for his tadiaga. growing. 1 Chr. 14. 1. 4 Deut. 17. 17. 1 Chr. 3. 9. & 14. 3. The Philistines smitten, II. SAMUEL. The ark brought to Zion. r1 Chr. 3. 5. & 14. 4. Josh. 15. the name, even the LORD of 6. called upon. to ride, Ps. 80. 1. 9. 1 Sam. 6. 7. u Josh. 15. 8. 15. broken. B. C. concubines and wives out of Jerusa- all the people that were with him B. C. 1012. about 1043. lem, after he was come from Hebron: from ! Baale of Judah, to bring up and there were yet sons and daugh- from thence the ark of God, I whose 1. Or, Baalai, ters born to David. name is called by the name of the that is, kir. 14 And 'these be the names of those Lord of hosts that dwelleth between jath.jearima, that were born unto him in Jerusa- the cherubim. 11 0r, Shimea, lem ; I Shammuah, and Shobab, and 3 And they + set the ark of God up ! Or, at which 1 Chr. 3. 5. Nathan, and Solomon, on a new cart, and brought it out of || Or, Elisha- 15 Ibhar also, and l Elishua, and Ne- the house of Abinadab that was in name of the ma, 1 Chr. 3. pheg, and Japhia, 11 Gibeah : and Uzzah and Ahio, the hosts, was HOr, Beeliada, 16 And Elishama, and 1 Eliada, and Sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart. † Heb. made 1 Chr. 14. 7. Eliphalet. 4 And they brought it out of the . 1 Chr. 11. 16. 17 T But when the Philistines heard house of Abinadab which was at Gib- 11 Or, The hill. & 14. 8. that they had anointed David king eah, t accompanying the ark of God : + Heb. with 1047. over Israel, all the Philistines came and Ahio went before the ark. bi Sam. 4. 4. up to seek David ; and David heard 5 And David and all the house of < See Num. 7. tch, 3.14. of it, and went down to the hold. Israel played before the Lord on all '18 The Philistines also came and manner of instruments made of fir (1 Sam. 7. I. spread themselves in ų the valley of wood, even on harps, and on psalterIs. 17. 5. Rephaim. ies, and on timbrels, and on cornets, I ch. 2. 1. 19 And David 'inquired of the and on cymbals. 1 Sam. 2. 2, Lord, saying, Shall I go up to the 4. 30. . 6 | And when they came to .Na- el Chr. 18. 9, Philistines ? wilt thou deliver them chon's threshingfloor, Uzzah 'put See Num. 4 into mine hand ? And the Lord said forth his hand to the ark of God, unto David, Go up: for I will doubt- and took hold of it; for the oxen less deliver the Philistines into thine I shook it. 1 Or, stumbledo hand. 7 And the anger of the Lord was y Is. 28. 21. 20 And David came to Baal-pe- kindled against Uzzah, and God smote 81 Sam. 6. 19. razim, and David smote them there, him there for his error; and there he | 1 Or, rashness. breach of waters. Therefore he call the Lord had + made a breach upon + the place li Perez-uzzah to this day. Il That is, The 21 And there they left their images, 9 And David was afraid of the LORD and David and his menzil burned that day, and said, How shall the ark Ps. 119. IM them. of the LORD come to me? city of David : but David carried it il Chr. 13. 13. Gittite three months; and the LORD e So 2 Kings 24 And let it be, when thou hear- blessed Obed-edom, and all his house- 1 Gen. 30. 21. | est the sound of a going in the tops hold. of the mulberry trees, that then thou 12 | And it was told king David, d Judg. 4. 14. shalt bestir thyself: for then shall saying, The Lord hath blessed the the Lord go out before thee, to smite house of Obed-edom, and all that perthe host of the Philistines. taineth unto him, because of the ark 25 And David did so, as the Lord of God. m So David went and brought m1 Chr. 15.25. had commanded him; and smote the up the ark of God from the house el.Chr. 14. 16, Philistines from Geba until thou of Obed-edom into the city of David come to 'Gazer. with gladness. 13 And it was so, that when they Josh. S. S. 1 Chr. 15. 2, David fetcheth the ark from Kirjath-jearim on a neto gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen o See 1 Kings cart. 6 Uzzah is smitten. u God blesseth Obed- and fatlings. 8.5. 1 Chr. 15 edom. 12 David bringing the ark into Zion danc. eth before it. 17 He placeth it in a tabernacle. 20 14 And David P danced before the Michal, reproring David for his religious joy, is Lord with all his might; and David P See Er. 15 was girded with a linen ephod. 91 Sam. 2. 18 1042. GAIN, David gathered together 15 'So David and all the house of 1 Chr. 13.7 rl Chr. 15. 2 a 1 Chr. 13.5, thirty thousand. with shouting, and with the sound 2 And David arose, and went with of the trumpet. breaches, breach of Uzzah. Or, took them away. z Deut. 7.5, 25. I Chr. 14. See Luke 5. 8, 9. 12. Michal reproveth David. II. SAMUEL. God's promises to David. #1 Chr. 15. 29. serrant, to David. 5. 3. & 8. 19. 1 Chr. 22. 8. & 28. 3. tl Chr. 16. 1. Ps. 132.8. 19, 34. i Lev.26.11,12 Deut. 23. 14. 1 Cbr. 16. 2 Matt. 2. 6. Acts 20. 28. * 1 Chr. 16. 3. 11 Sam. 16. 11, 12. Pg. 78. 70. ch. 5. 10.& 8. 6, 14. Ps. 89. 23. 80, 8. Jer. 24. 6. Am. 9. 15. B.C. 10-12 16 And as the ark of the Lord came that the word of the Lord came unto B.C. 1042. into the city of David, Michal Saul's Nathan, saying, 6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any 17 1 And 'they brought in the ark house & since the time that I brought 1 Chr. 13. 1. of the Lord, and set it in his place, up the children of Israel out of Egypt, 51 Kings 8.16. in the midst of the tabernacle that even to this day, but have walked in + Heb, stretch David had + pitched for it: and David ha tent and in a tabernacle. h Ex. 40. 18, I offered burnt offerings and peace of11 Kings 6.5, 7 In all the places wherein I have ferings before the Lord. i walked with all the children of Is18 And as soon as David had made rael spake I a word with any of the II any of the an end of offering burnt offerings tribes of Israel, whom I commanded | judices, 1 Chr. 17. 6. !! Kinge 8.56. and peace offerings, 'he blessed the kto feed my people Israel, saying, ch. 5. 2. people in the name of the Lord of Why build ye not me a house of Ps. 78. 71, 72 hosts. cedar? 19 ? And he dealt among all the peo 8 Now therefore so shalt thou say after. 9 And I was with thee 'whither- m 1 Sam.18.14. about 1012. 20 T . Then David returned to bless soever thou wentest, "and have cut *Pe. So, tice. his household. And Michal the daugh- off all thine enemies tout of thy sight, Heb. from ter of Saul came out to meet David, and have made thee oa great name, thy face. ni Sam. 31.6. and said, How glorious was the king like unto the name of the great men of Israel to day, who buncovered him- that are in the earth. o Gen. 12. 2. i sem. 12. 24. self to day in the eyes of the hand 10 Moreover I will appoint a place • Jadg. 9.4. maids of his servants, as one of the for my people Israel, and will P plant p Ps. 44. 2. & 1 Or, perly. vain fellows shamelessly uncover-them, that they may dwell in a place eth himself! of their own, and move no more ; 21 And David said unto Michal, It neither shall the children of wick- q Ps. 89. 22. was before the Lord, d which chose edness afflict them any more, as beme before thy father, and before all foretime, his house, to appoint me ruler over 11 And as 'since the time that I r Judg. 2. 14, the people of the Lord, over Is- commanded judges to be over my peorael : therefore will I play before the ple Israel, and have 'caused thee to LORD. rest from all thine enemies. Also the 22 And I will yet be more vile than Lord telleth thee 'that he will make thus, and will be base in mine own thee a house. 1 Kingel1.38. i 07, of the sight: and Il of the maidservants which 12 | And when thy days be ful- u 1 Kings 2. 1. {{ay serr. thou hast spoken of, of them shall I filled, and thou shalt sleep with thy Deut.31. 16. Acts 13. 36. 23 Therefore Michal the daughter thee, which shall proceed out of thy 1 Kings 8.20. of Saul had no child unto the day bowels, and I will establish his kingi Mall 1. of her death. dom. 13 2 He shall build a house for my z 1 Kings 5.5. CHAPTER VII. name, and I will a stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. Pe. 89. 4, 29, I will chasten him with the rod of Ps. 89. 26, 27. 1012 c Ps. 89.30, 31, al Chr. 17. 1, king sat in his house, and 32, 33. away from him, d as I took it from a 1 Sam. 15. 23, 2 That the king said unto Nathan Saul, whom I put away before thee. 1 Kings 11. the prophet, See now, I dwell in ba 16 And thine house and thy kinghouse of cedar, but the ark of God dom shall be established for ever be Ps. 89. 36, 37, • Ex. 1. dwelleth within dcurtains. fore thee: thy throne shall be estab- John 12. 34. 3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, lished for ever. '. 1 Kings 2.17, do all that is in thine heart; for the 17 According to all these words, and LORD is with thee. according to all this vision, so did 4 1 And it came to pass that night, Nathan speak unto David. 41 Sam. 13. 14. 13. 28. Heb. 1. 5. A kinot saame this passic when the men, and with the stripes of the chil David's thanksgiving. II. SAMUEL. He subdueth his enemies. 18 De Chen went king Daxidhin, and. A Nhat ofter this tie the Philistines; B. C. 1010. &c. mah Ps. 72. 10. See 1 Sam. 10. 27. i Gen. 18. 19. Ps. 139. 1. Tezer, I Chr. 18. 3. e ch. 10. 6. 2 Chr. 2, 5. Ps. 48. 1. & 86. 10. & 96. 4. & 135. 5. & 18. 6. I Deut. 3. 24. & 4. 35. & 32. m Deut. 4. 7, o Deut. 26. 18. B. C. 1012 David smote , Gen. 32. 10. Who am I, O Lord God? and what and subdued them: and David took a l Chr. 18. 1, is my house, that thou hast brought Metheg-ammah out of the hand of I. Or, The me hitherto? the Philistines. 'bridle of in 19 And this was yet a small thing in 2 And he smote Moab, and meas b Num. 24. 17. & ver. 12, 13. thy sight, O Lord God; 5 but thou hast ured them with a line, casting them spoken also of thy servant's house for down to the ground; even with two h Is. 55. 8. a great while to come. h And is this lines measured he to put to death, + Heb. law. the manner of man, O Lord God? and with one full line to keep alive. c ver. 6, & 14 20 And what can David say more And so the Moabites became David's 3 | David smote also ! Hadadezer, || Or, Hada | Ps. 60, side all these great things, to make thy river Euphrates. servant know them. 4 And David took Il from him a thou- 1 Or, of Ais. k 1 Chr. 16. 25. 22 Wherefore k thou art great, o sand ll chariots, and seven hundred || | As 1 Chr. le Lord God : for 'there is none like horsemen, and twenty thousand foot-See Gen. 15 thee, neither is there any God besides men: and David 5 houghed all the 145.3. Jer. 10, thee, according to all that we have chariot horses, but reserved of them 5 Josh. 11. 6,9. heard with our ears. for a hundred chariots. 23 And mwhat one nation in the 5 h And when the Syrians of Da- bo Kings 12. 23, 24, 25 39.1 Sam. 2 earth is like thy people, even like mascus came to succour Hadadezer 39.6,8. 13.45. Israel, whom God went to redeem king of Zobah, David slew of the 5, 18, 22. for a people to himself, and to make Syrians two and twenty thousand gifts. k And the Lord preserved Da- * ver. 14. ch. 7. Hadadezer, and brought them to Je25 And now, O Lord God, the word rusalem. that thou hast spoken concerning thy 8 And from 1 Betah, and from 1 Bero- | 1 Or, Tibhait servant, and concerning his house, es- thai, cities of Hadadezer, king David 101: Chen tablish it for ever, and do as thou hast took exceeding much brass. said. 9 | When ll Toi king of Hamath Toza, i Chir. ! 26 And let thy name be magnified heard that David had smitten all the for ever, saying, The Lord of hosts host of Hadadezer, m 1 Chr. 18. is the God over Israel: and let the 10 Then Toi sent m Joram his son 10, Hadonas. house of thy servant David be estab- unto king David, to + salute him, and Heb. ask him of peace lished before thee. to bless him, because he had fought 27 For thou, O Lord of hosts, God against Hadadezer, and sınitten him : + Heb. opened of Israel, hast + revealed to thy serv- for Hadadezer thad wars with Toi. + Heb. was a man of BTS 4.4.1 Sam.9. ant, saying, I will build thee a house: And Joram + brought with him vessels therefore hath thy servant found in of silver, and vessels of gold, and ves- + Heb. in his 28 And now, O Lord God, thou art 11 Which also king David did ded- 1 Kings 7. nations which he subdued ; to bless the house of thy servant, that the children of Ammon, and of the 02 Kings 14 r ch. 22. 51. of thy servant be blessed "for ever. 13 And David gat him a name when + Heh. Ais he returned from tsmiting of the Syr smiting. CHAPTER VIII. ians in the valley of salt, Pl being Or. skying pSee I Chr. eighteen thousand men. 18. 12. Ps. 60 Darid subdueth the Philistines and the Moabites. 3 He smileth Hadadezer and the Syrians. 9 Toi 14 1 And he put garrisons in Edom; sendeth Joram 19 him with presents 11 The pres: throughout all Edom put he garri 10. 16. P P8. 48. 14. 1 Chr. 18. & 18.9. 9 Gen. 27. 29, ents and the spoil Darid dedicateth to God. 14 He pultelh garrisons in Edom. 16 Darid's officers. sons, and all they of Edom became title, 37, 0 Nou 21. 18 |