* BOOK10 2SAMUEL
= CHAPTER 1 
# 1 NOW IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THE DEATH OF SAUL, WHEN DAVID WAS RETURNED FROM
 THE SLAUGHTER OF THE AMALEKITES, AND DAVID HAD ABODE TWO DAYS IN ZIKLAG;
# 2 IT CAME EVEN TO PASS ON THE THIRD DAY, THAT, BEHOLD, A MAN CAME OUT OF
 THE CAMP FROM SAUL WITH HIS CLOTHES RENT, AND EARTH UPON HIS HEAD: AND SO IT
 WAS, WHEN HE CAME TO DAVID, THAT HE FELL TO THE EARTH, AND DID OBEISANCE.
# 3 AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIM, FROM WHENCE COMEST THOU? AND HE SAID UNTO HIM,
 OUT OF THE CAMP OF ISRAEL AM I ESCAPED.
# 4 AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIM, HOW WENT THE MATTER? I PRAY THEE, TELL ME. AND
 HE ANSWERED, THAT THE PEOPLE ARE FLED FROM THE BATTLE, AND MANY OF THE PEOPLE
 ALSO ARE FALLEN AND DEAD; AND SAUL AND JONATHAN HIS SON ARE DEAD ALSO.
# 5 AND DAVID SAID UNTO THE YOUNG MAN THAT TOLD HIM, HOW KNOWEST THOU THAT
 SAUL AND JONATHAN HIS SON BE DEAD?
# 6 AND THE YOUNG MAN THAT TOLD HIM SAID, AS I HAPPENED BY CHANCE UPON MOUNT
 GILBOA, BEHOLD, SAUL LEANED UPON HIS SPEAR; AND, LO, THE CHARIOTS AND
 HORSEMEN FOLLOWED HARD AFTER HIM.
# 7 AND WHEN HE LOOKED BEHIND HIM, HE SAW ME, AND CALLED UNTO ME. AND I
 ANSWERED, HERE AM I.
# 8 AND HE SAID UNTO ME, WHO ART THOU? AND I ANSWERED HIM, I AM AN AMALEKITE.
# 9 HE SAID UNTO ME AGAIN, STAND, I PRAY THEE, UPON ME, AND SLAY ME: FOR
 ANGUISH IS COME UPON ME, BECAUSE MY LIFE IS YET WHOLE IN ME.
# 10 SO I STOOD UPON HIM, AND SLEW HIM, BECAUSE I WAS SURE THAT HE COULD NOT
 LIVE AFTER THAT HE WAS FALLEN: AND I TOOK THE CROWN THAT WAS UPON HIS HEAD,
 AND THE BRACELET THAT WAS ON HIS ARM, AND HAVE BROUGHT THEM HITHER UNTO MY
 LORD.
# 11 THEN DAVID TOOK HOLD ON HIS CLOTHES, AND RENT THEM; AND LIKEWISE ALL THE
 MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM:
# 12 AND THEY MOURNED, AND WEPT, AND FASTED UNTIL EVEN, FOR SAUL, AND FOR
 JONATHAN HIS SON, AND FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE LORD, AND FOR THE HOUSE OF
 ISRAEL; BECAUSE THEY WERE FALLEN BY THE SWORD.
# 13 AND DAVID SAID UNTO THE YOUNG MAN THAT TOLD HIM, WHENCE ART THOU? AND HE
 ANSWERED, I AM THE SON OF A STRANGER, AN AMALEKITE.
# 14 AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIM, HOW WAST THOU NOT AFRAID TO STRETCH FORTH THINE
 HAND TO DESTROY THE LORDS ANOINTED?
# 15 AND DAVID CALLED ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN, AND SAID, GO NEAR, AND FALL UPON
 HIM. AND HE SMOTE HIM THAT HE DIED.
# 16 AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIM, THY BLOOD BE UPON THY HEAD; FOR THY MOUTH HATH
 TESTIFIED AGAINST THEE, SAYING, I HAVE SLAIN THE LORDS ANOINTED.
# 17 AND DAVID LAMENTED WITH THIS LAMENTATION OVER SAUL AND OVER JONATHAN HIS
 SON:
# 18 (ALSO HE BADE THEM TEACH THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH THE USE OF THE BOW:
 BEHOLD, IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF JASHER.)
# 19 THE BEAUTY OF ISRAEL IS SLAIN UPON THY HIGH PLACES: HOW ARE THE MIGHTY
 FALLEN!
# 20 TELL IT NOT IN GATH, PUBLISH IT NOT IN THE STREETS OF ASKELON; LEST THE
 DAUGHTERS OF THE PHILISTINES REJOICE, LEST THE DAUGHTERS OF THE UNCIRCUMCISED
 TRIUMPH.
# 21 YE MOUNTAINS OF GILBOA, LET THERE BE NO DEW, NEITHER LET THERE BE RAIN,
 UPON YOU, NOR FIELDS OF OFFERINGS: FOR THERE THE SHIELD OF THE MIGHTY IS
 VILELY CAST AWAY, THE SHIELD OF SAUL, AS THOUGH HE HAD NOT BEEN ANOINTED WITH
 OIL.
# 22 FROM THE BLOOD OF THE SLAIN, FROM THE FAT OF THE MIGHTY, THE BOW OF
 JONATHAN TURNED NOT BACK, AND THE SWORD OF SAUL RETURNED NOT EMPTY.
# 23 SAUL AND JONATHAN WERE LOVELY AND PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES, AND IN THEIR
 DEATH THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED: THEY WERE SWIFTER THAN EAGLES, THEY WERE
 STRONGER THAN LIONS.
# 24 YE DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL, WEEP OVER SAUL, WHO CLOTHED YOU IN SCARLET, WITH
 OTHER DELIGHTS, WHO PUT ON ORNAMENTS OF GOLD UPON YOUR APPAREL.
# 25 HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN IN THE MIDST OF THE BATTLE! O JONATHAN, THOU
 WAST SLAIN IN THINE HIGH PLACES.
# 26 I AM DISTRESSED FOR THEE, MY BROTHER JONATHAN: VERY PLEASANT HAST THOU
 BEEN UNTO ME: THY LOVE TO ME WAS WONDERFUL, PASSING THE LOVE OF WOMEN.
# 27 HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN, AND THE WEAPONS OF WAR PERISHED!
= CHAPTER 2 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT DAVID ENQUIRED OF THE LORD, SAYING,
 SHALL I GO UP INTO ANY OF THE CITIES OF JUDAH? AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, GO
 UP. AND DAVID SAID, WHITHER SHALL I GO UP? AND HE SAID, UNTO HEBRON.
# 2 SO DAVID WENT UP THITHER, AND HIS TWO WIVES ALSO, AHINOAM THE
 JEZREELITESS, AND ABIGAIL NABALS WIFE THE CARMELITE.
# 3 AND HIS MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM DID DAVID BRING UP, EVERY MAN WITH HIS
 HOUSEHOLD: AND THEY DWELT IN THE CITIES OF HEBRON.
# 4 AND THE MEN OF JUDAH CAME, AND THERE THEY ANOINTED DAVID KING OVER THE
 HOUSE OF JUDAH. AND THEY TOLD DAVID, SAYING, THAT THE MEN OF JABESHGILEAD
 WERE THEY THAT BURIED SAUL.
# 5 AND DAVID SENT MESSENGERS UNTO THE MEN OF JABESHGILEAD, AND SAID UNTO
 THEM, BLESSED BE YE OF THE LORD, THAT YE HAVE SHEWED THIS KINDNESS UNTO YOUR
 LORD, EVEN UNTO SAUL, AND HAVE BURIED HIM.
# 6 AND NOW THE LORD SHEW KINDNESS AND TRUTH UNTO YOU: AND I ALSO WILL
 REQUITE YOU THIS KINDNESS, BECAUSE YE HAVE DONE THIS THING.
# 7 THEREFORE NOW LET YOUR HANDS BE STRENGTHENED, AND BE YE VALIANT: FOR YOUR
 MASTER SAUL IS DEAD, AND ALSO THE HOUSE OF JUDAH HAVE ANOINTED ME KING OVER
 THEM.
# 8 BUT ABNER THE SON OF NER, CAPTAIN OF SAULS HOST, TOOK ISHBOSHETH THE SON
 OF SAUL, AND BROUGHT HIM OVER TO MAHANAIM;
# 9 AND MADE HIM KING OVER GILEAD, AND OVER THE ASHURITES, AND OVER JEZREEL,
 AND OVER EPHRAIM, AND OVER BENJAMIN, AND OVER ALL ISRAEL.
# 10 ISHBOSHETH SAULS SON WAS FORTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN OVER
 ISRAEL, AND REIGNED TWO YEARS. BUT THE HOUSE OF JUDAH FOLLOWED DAVID.
# 11 AND THE TIME THAT DAVID WAS KING IN HEBRON OVER THE HOUSE OF JUDAH WAS
 SEVEN YEARS AND SIX MONTHS.
# 12 AND ABNER THE SON OF NER, AND THE SERVANTS OF ISHBOSHETH THE SON OF
 SAUL, WENT OUT FROM MAHANAIM TO GIBEON.
# 13 AND JOAB THE SON OF ZERUIAH, AND THE SERVANTS OF DAVID, WENT OUT, AND
 MET TOGETHER BY THE POOL OF GIBEON: AND THEY SAT DOWN, THE ONE ON THE ONE
 SIDE OF THE POOL, AND THE OTHER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POOL.
# 14 AND ABNER SAID TO JOAB, LET THE YOUNG MEN NOW ARISE, AND PLAY BEFORE US.
 AND JOAB SAID, LET THEM ARISE.
# 15 THEN THERE AROSE AND WENT OVER BY NUMBER TWELVE OF BENJAMIN, WHICH
 PERTAINED TO ISHBOSHETH THE SON OF SAUL, AND TWELVE OF THE SERVANTS OF DAVID.
# 16 AND THEY CAUGHT EVERY ONE HIS FELLOW BY THE HEAD, AND THRUST HIS SWORD
 IN HIS FELLOWS SIDE; SO THEY FELL DOWN TOGETHER: WHEREFORE THAT PLACE WAS
 CALLED HELKATHHAZZURIM, WHICH IS IN GIBEON.
# 17 AND THERE WAS A VERY SORE BATTLE THAT DAY; AND ABNER WAS BEATEN, AND THE
 MEN OF ISRAEL, BEFORE THE SERVANTS OF DAVID.
# 18 AND THERE WERE THREE SONS OF ZERUIAH THERE, JOAB, AND ABISHAI, AND
 ASAHEL: AND ASAHEL WAS AS LIGHT OF FOOT AS A WILD ROE.
# 19 AND ASAHEL PURSUED AFTER ABNER; AND IN GOING HE TURNED NOT TO THE RIGHT
 HAND NOR TO THE LEFT FROM FOLLOWING ABNER.
# 20 THEN ABNER LOOKED BEHIND HIM, AND SAID, ART THOU ASAHEL? AND HE
 ANSWERED, I AM.
# 21 AND ABNER SAID TO HIM, TURN THEE ASIDE TO THY RIGHT HAND OR TO THY LEFT,
 AND LAY THEE HOLD ON ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN, AND TAKE THEE HIS ARMOUR. BUT
 ASAHEL WOULD NOT TURN ASIDE FROM FOLLOWING OF HIM.
# 22 AND ABNER SAID AGAIN TO ASAHEL, TURN THEE ASIDE FROM FOLLOWING ME:
 WHEREFORE SHOULD I SMITE THEE TO THE GROUND? HOW THEN SHOULD I HOLD UP MY
 FACE TO JOAB THY BROTHER?
# 23 HOWBEIT HE REFUSED TO TURN ASIDE: WHEREFORE ABNER WITH THE HINDER END OF
 THE SPEAR SMOTE HIM UNDER THE FIFTH RIB, THAT THE SPEAR CAME OUT BEHIND HIM;
 AND HE FELL DOWN THERE, AND DIED IN THE SAME PLACE: AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT
 AS MANY AS CAME TO THE PLACE WHERE ASAHEL FELL DOWN AND DIED STOOD STILL.
# 24 JOAB ALSO AND ABISHAI PURSUED AFTER ABNER: AND THE SUN WENT DOWN WHEN
 THEY WERE COME TO THE HILL OF AMMAH, THAT LIETH BEFORE GIAH BY THE WAY OF THE
 WILDERNESS OF GIBEON.
# 25 AND THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER AFTER ABNER,
 AND BECAME ONE TROOP, AND STOOD ON THE TOP OF AN HILL.
# 26 THEN ABNER CALLED TO JOAB, AND SAID, SHALL THE SWORD DEVOUR FOR EVER?
 KNOWEST THOU NOT THAT IT WILL BE BITTERNESS IN THE LATTER END? HOW LONG SHALL
 IT BE THEN, ERE THOU BID THE PEOPLE RETURN FROM FOLLOWING THEIR BRETHREN?
# 27 AND JOAB SAID, AS GOD LIVETH, UNLESS THOU HADST SPOKEN, SURELY THEN IN
 THE MORNING THE PEOPLE HAD GONE UP EVERY ONE FROM FOLLOWING HIS BROTHER.
# 28 SO JOAB BLEW A TRUMPET, AND ALL THE PEOPLE STOOD STILL, AND PURSUED
 AFTER ISRAEL NO MORE, NEITHER FOUGHT THEY ANY MORE.
# 29 AND ABNER AND HIS MEN WALKED ALL THAT NIGHT THROUGH THE PLAIN, AND
 PASSED OVER JORDAN, AND WENT THROUGH ALL BITHRON, AND THEY CAME TO MAHANAIM.
# 30 AND JOAB RETURNED FROM FOLLOWING ABNER: AND WHEN HE HAD GATHERED ALL THE
 PEOPLE TOGETHER, THERE LACKED OF DAVIDS SERVANTS NINETEEN MEN AND ASAHEL.
# 31 BUT THE SERVANTS OF DAVID HAD SMITTEN OF BENJAMIN, AND OF ABNERS MEN, SO
 THAT THREE HUNDRED AND THREESCORE MEN DIED.
# 32 AND THEY TOOK UP ASAHEL, AND BURIED HIM IN THE SEPULCHRE OF HIS FATHER,
 WHICH WAS IN BETHLEHEM. AND JOAB AND HIS MEN WENT ALL NIGHT, AND THEY CAME TO
 HEBRON AT BREAK OF DAY.
= CHAPTER 3 
# 1 NOW THERE WAS LONG WAR BETWEEN THE HOUSE OF SAUL AND THE HOUSE OF DAVID:
 BUT DAVID WAXED STRONGER AND STRONGER, AND THE HOUSE OF SAUL WAXED WEAKER AND
 WEAKER.
# 2 AND UNTO DAVID WERE SONS BORN IN HEBRON: AND HIS FIRSTBORN WAS AMNON, OF
 AHINOAM THE JEZREELITESS;
# 3 AND HIS SECOND, CHILEAB, OF ABIGAIL THE WIFE OF NABAL THE CARMELITE; AND
 THE THIRD, ABSALOM THE SON OF MAACAH THE DAUGHTER OF TALMAI KING OF GESHUR;
# 4 AND THE FOURTH, ADONIJAH THE SON OF HAGGITH; AND THE FIFTH, SHEPHATIAH
 THE SON OF ABITAL;
# 5 AND THE SIXTH, ITHREAM, BY EGLAH DAVIDS WIFE. THESE WERE BORN TO DAVID IN
 HEBRON.
# 6 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHILE THERE WAS WAR BETWEEN THE HOUSE OF SAUL AND
 THE HOUSE OF DAVID, THAT ABNER MADE HIMSELF STRONG FOR THE HOUSE OF SAUL.
# 7 AND SAUL HAD A CONCUBINE, WHOSE NAME WAS RIZPAH, THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH:
 AND ISHBOSHETH SAID TO ABNER, WHEREFORE HAST THOU GONE IN UNTO MY FATHERS
 CONCUBINE?
# 8 THEN WAS ABNER VERY WROTH FOR THE WORDS OF ISHBOSHETH, AND SAID, AM I A
 DOGS HEAD, WHICH AGAINST JUDAH DO SHEW KINDNESS THIS DAY UNTO THE HOUSE OF
 SAUL THY FATHER, TO HIS BRETHREN, AND TO HIS FRIENDS, AND HAVE NOT DELIVERED
 THEE INTO THE HAND OF DAVID, THAT THOU CHARGEST ME TO DAY WITH A FAULT
 CONCERNING THIS WOMAN?
# 9 SO DO GOD TO ABNER, AND MORE ALSO, EXCEPT, AS THE LORD HATH SWORN TO
 DAVID, EVEN SO I DO TO HIM;
# 10 TO TRANSLATE THE KINGDOM FROM THE HOUSE OF SAUL, AND TO SET UP THE
 THRONE OF DAVID OVER ISRAEL AND OVER JUDAH, FROM DAN EVEN TO BEERSHEBA.
# 11 AND HE COULD NOT ANSWER ABNER A WORD AGAIN, BECAUSE HE FEARED HIM.
# 12 AND ABNER SENT MESSENGERS TO DAVID ON HIS BEHALF, SAYING, WHOSE IS THE
 LAND? SAYING ALSO, MAKE THY LEAGUE WITH ME, AND, BEHOLD, MY HAND SHALL BE
 WITH THEE, TO BRING ABOUT ALL ISRAEL UNTO THEE.
# 13 AND HE SAID, WELL; I WILL MAKE A LEAGUE WITH THEE: BUT ONE THING I
 REQUIRE OF THEE, THAT IS, THOU SHALT NOT SEE MY FACE, EXCEPT THOU FIRST BRING
 MICHAL SAULS DAUGHTER, WHEN THOU COMEST TO SEE MY FACE.
# 14 AND DAVID SENT MESSENGERS TO ISHBOSHETH SAULS SON, SAYING, DELIVER ME MY
 WIFE MICHAL, WHICH I ESPOUSED TO ME FOR AN HUNDRED FORESKINS OF THE
 PHILISTINES.
# 15 AND ISHBOSHETH SENT, AND TOOK HER FROM HER HUSBAND, EVEN FROM PHALTIEL
 THE SON OF LAISH.
# 16 AND HER HUSBAND WENT WITH HER ALONG WEEPING BEHIND HER TO BAHURIM. THEN
 SAID ABNER UNTO HIM, GO, RETURN. AND HE RETURNED.
# 17 AND ABNER HAD COMMUNICATION WITH THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL, SAYING, YE SOUGHT
 FOR DAVID IN TIMES PAST TO BE KING OVER YOU:
# 18 NOW THEN DO IT: FOR THE LORD HATH SPOKEN OF DAVID, SAYING, BY THE HAND
 OF MY SERVANT DAVID I WILL SAVE MY PEOPLE ISRAEL OUT OF THE HAND OF THE
 PHILISTINES, AND OUT OF THE HAND OF ALL THEIR ENEMIES.
# 19 AND ABNER ALSO SPAKE IN THE EARS OF BENJAMIN: AND ABNER WENT ALSO TO
 SPEAK IN THE EARS OF DAVID IN HEBRON ALL THAT SEEMED GOOD TO ISRAEL, AND THAT
 SEEMED GOOD TO THE WHOLE HOUSE OF BENJAMIN.
# 20 SO ABNER CAME TO DAVID TO HEBRON, AND TWENTY MEN WITH HIM. AND DAVID
 MADE ABNER AND THE MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM A FEAST.
# 21 AND ABNER SAID UNTO DAVID, I WILL ARISE AND GO, AND WILL GATHER ALL
 ISRAEL UNTO MY LORD THE KING, THAT THEY MAY MAKE A LEAGUE WITH THEE, AND THAT
 THOU MAYEST REIGN OVER ALL THAT THINE HEART DESIRETH. AND DAVID SENT ABNER
 AWAY; AND HE WENT IN PEACE.
# 22 AND, BEHOLD, THE SERVANTS OF DAVID AND JOAB CAME FROM PURSUING A TROOP,
 AND BROUGHT IN A GREAT SPOIL WITH THEM: BUT ABNER WAS NOT WITH DAVID IN
 HEBRON; FOR HE HAD SENT HIM AWAY, AND HE WAS GONE IN PEACE.
# 23 WHEN JOAB AND ALL THE HOST THAT WAS WITH HIM WERE COME, THEY TOLD JOAB,
 SAYING, ABNER THE SON OF NER CAME TO THE KING, AND HE HATH SENT HIM AWAY, AND
 HE IS GONE IN PEACE.
# 24 THEN JOAB CAME TO THE KING, AND SAID, WHAT HAST THOU DONE? BEHOLD, ABNER
 CAME UNTO THEE; WHY IS IT THAT THOU HAST SENT HIM AWAY, AND HE IS QUITE GONE?
# 25 THOU KNOWEST ABNER THE SON OF NER, THAT HE CAME TO DECEIVE THEE, AND TO
 KNOW THY GOING OUT AND THY COMING IN, AND TO KNOW ALL THAT THOU DOEST.
# 26 AND WHEN JOAB WAS COME OUT FROM DAVID, HE SENT MESSENGERS AFTER ABNER,
 WHICH BROUGHT HIM AGAIN FROM THE WELL OF SIRAH: BUT DAVID KNEW IT NOT.
# 27 AND WHEN ABNER WAS RETURNED TO HEBRON, JOAB TOOK HIM ASIDE IN THE GATE
 TO SPEAK WITH HIM QUIETLY, AND SMOTE HIM THERE UNDER THE FIFTH RIB, THAT HE
 DIED, FOR THE BLOOD OF ASAHEL HIS BROTHER.
# 28 AND AFTERWARD WHEN DAVID HEARD IT, HE SAID, I AND MY KINGDOM ARE
 GUILTLESS BEFORE THE LORD FOR EVER FROM THE BLOOD OF ABNER THE SON OF NER:
# 29 LET IT REST ON THE HEAD OF JOAB, AND ON ALL HIS FATHERS HOUSE; AND LET
 THERE NOT FAIL FROM THE HOUSE OF JOAB ONE THAT HATH AN ISSUE, OR THAT IS A
 LEPER, OR THAT LEANETH ON A STAFF, OR THAT FALLETH ON THE SWORD, OR THAT
 LACKETH BREAD.
# 30 SO JOAB, AND ABISHAI HIS BROTHER SLEW ABNER, BECAUSE HE HAD SLAIN THEIR
 BROTHER ASAHEL AT GIBEON IN THE BATTLE.
# 31 AND DAVID SAID TO JOAB, AND TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, REND
 YOUR CLOTHES, AND GIRD YOU WITH SACKCLOTH, AND MOURN BEFORE ABNER. AND KING
 DAVID HIMSELF FOLLOWED THE BIER.
# 32 AND THEY BURIED ABNER IN HEBRON: AND THE KING LIFTED UP HIS VOICE, AND
 WEPT AT THE GRAVE OF ABNER; AND ALL THE PEOPLE WEPT.
# 33 AND THE KING LAMENTED OVER ABNER, AND SAID, DIED ABNER AS A FOOL DIETH?
# 34 THY HANDS WERE NOT BOUND, NOR THY FEET PUT INTO FETTERS: AS A MAN
 FALLETH BEFORE WICKED MEN, SO FELLEST THOU. AND ALL THE PEOPLE WEPT AGAIN
 OVER HIM.
# 35 AND WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE CAME TO CAUSE DAVID TO EAT MEAT WHILE IT WAS YET
 DAY, DAVID SWARE, SAYING, SO DO GOD TO ME, AND MORE ALSO, IF I TASTE BREAD,
 OR OUGHT ELSE, TILL THE SUN BE DOWN.
# 36 AND ALL THE PEOPLE TOOK NOTICE OF IT, AND IT PLEASED THEM: AS WHATSOEVER
 THE KING DID PLEASED ALL THE PEOPLE.
# 37 FOR ALL THE PEOPLE AND ALL ISRAEL UNDERSTOOD THAT DAY THAT IT WAS NOT OF
 THE KING TO SLAY ABNER THE SON OF NER.
# 38 AND THE KING SAID UNTO HIS SERVANTS, KNOW YE NOT THAT THERE IS A PRINCE
 AND A GREAT MAN FALLEN THIS DAY IN ISRAEL?
# 39 AND I AM THIS DAY WEAK, THOUGH ANOINTED KING; AND THESE MEN THE SONS OF
 ZERUIAH BE TOO HARD FOR ME: THE LORD SHALL REWARD THE DOER OF EVIL ACCORDING
 TO HIS WICKEDNESS.
= CHAPTER 4 
# 1 AND WHEN SAULS SON HEARD THAT ABNER WAS DEAD IN HEBRON, HIS HANDS WERE
 FEEBLE, AND ALL THE ISRAELITES WERE TROUBLED.
# 2 AND SAULS SON HAD TWO MEN THAT WERE CAPTAINS OF BANDS: THE NAME OF THE
 ONE WAS BAANAH, AND THE NAME OF THE OTHER RECHAB, THE SONS OF RIMMON A
 BEEROTHITE, OF THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN: (FOR BEEROTH ALSO WAS RECKONED TO
 BENJAMIN.
# 3 AND THE BEEROTHITES FLED TO GITTAIM, AND WERE SOJOURNERS THERE UNTIL THIS
 DAY.)
# 4 AND JONATHAN, SAULS SON, HAD A SON THAT WAS LAME OF HIS FEET. HE WAS FIVE
 YEARS OLD WHEN THE TIDINGS CAME OF SAUL AND JONATHAN OUT OF JEZREEL, AND HIS
 NURSE TOOK HIM UP, AND FLED: AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SHE MADE HASTE TO FLEE,
 THAT HE FELL, AND BECAME LAME. AND HIS NAME WAS MEPHIBOSHETH.
# 5 AND THE SONS OF RIMMON THE BEEROTHITE, RECHAB AND BAANAH, WENT, AND CAME
 ABOUT THE HEAT OF THE DAY TO THE HOUSE OF ISHBOSHETH, WHO LAY ON A BED AT
 NOON.
# 6 AND THEY CAME THITHER INTO THE MIDST OF THE HOUSE, AS THOUGH THEY WOULD
 HAVE FETCHED WHEAT; AND THEY SMOTE HIM UNDER THE FIFTH RIB: AND RECHAB AND
 BAANAH HIS BROTHER ESCAPED.
# 7 FOR WHEN THEY CAME INTO THE HOUSE, HE LAY ON HIS BED IN HIS BEDCHAMBER,
 AND THEY SMOTE HIM, AND SLEW HIM, AND BEHEADED HIM, AND TOOK HIS HEAD, AND
 GAT THEM AWAY THROUGH THE PLAIN ALL NIGHT.
# 8 AND THEY BROUGHT THE HEAD OF ISHBOSHETH UNTO DAVID TO HEBRON, AND SAID TO
 THE KING, BEHOLD THE HEAD OF ISHBOSHETH THE SON OF SAUL THINE ENEMY, WHICH
 SOUGHT THY LIFE; AND THE LORD HATH AVENGED MY LORD THE KING THIS DAY OF SAUL,
 AND OF HIS SEED.
# 9 AND DAVID ANSWERED RECHAB AND BAANAH HIS BROTHER, THE SONS OF RIMMON THE
 BEEROTHITE, AND SAID UNTO THEM, AS THE LORD LIVETH, WHO HATH REDEEMED MY SOUL
 OUT OF ALL ADVERSITY,
# 10 WHEN ONE TOLD ME, SAYING, BEHOLD, SAUL IS DEAD, THINKING TO HAVE BROUGHT
 GOOD TIDINGS, I TOOK HOLD OF HIM, AND SLEW HIM IN ZIKLAG, WHO THOUGHT THAT I
 WOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM A REWARD FOR HIS TIDINGS:
# 11 HOW MUCH MORE, WHEN WICKED MEN HAVE SLAIN A RIGHTEOUS PERSON IN HIS OWN
 HOUSE UPON HIS BED? SHALL I NOT THEREFORE NOW REQUIRE HIS BLOOD OF YOUR HAND,
 AND TAKE YOU AWAY FROM THE EARTH?
# 12 AND DAVID COMMANDED HIS YOUNG MEN, AND THEY SLEW THEM, AND CUT OFF THEIR
 HANDS AND THEIR FEET, AND HANGED THEM UP OVER THE POOL IN HEBRON. BUT THEY
 TOOK THE HEAD OF ISHBOSHETH, AND BURIED IT IN THE SEPULCHRE OF ABNER IN
 HEBRON.
= CHAPTER 5 
# 1 THEN CAME ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL TO DAVID UNTO HEBRON, AND SPAKE,
 SAYING, BEHOLD, WE ARE THY BONE AND THY FLESH.
# 2 ALSO IN TIME PAST, WHEN SAUL WAS KING OVER US, THOU WAST HE THAT LEDDEST
 OUT AND BROUGHTEST IN ISRAEL: AND THE LORD SAID TO THEE, THOU SHALT FEED MY
 PEOPLE ISRAEL, AND THOU SHALT BE A CAPTAIN OVER ISRAEL.
# 3 SO ALL THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL CAME TO THE KING TO HEBRON; AND KING DAVID
 MADE A LEAGUE WITH THEM IN HEBRON BEFORE THE LORD: AND THEY ANOINTED DAVID
 KING OVER ISRAEL.
# 4 DAVID WAS THIRTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED FORTY
 YEARS.
# 5 IN HEBRON HE REIGNED OVER JUDAH SEVEN YEARS AND SIX MONTHS: AND IN
 JERUSALEM HE REIGNED THIRTY AND THREE YEARS OVER ALL ISRAEL AND JUDAH.
# 6 AND THE KING AND HIS MEN WENT TO JERUSALEM UNTO THE JEBUSITES, THE
 INHABITANTS OF THE LAND: WHICH SPAKE UNTO DAVID, SAYING, EXCEPT THOU TAKE
 AWAY THE BLIND AND THE LAME, THOU SHALT NOT COME IN HITHER: THINKING, DAVID
 CANNOT COME IN HITHER.
# 7 NEVERTHELESS DAVID TOOK THE STRONG HOLD OF ZION: THE SAME IS THE CITY OF
 DAVID.
# 8 AND DAVID SAID ON THAT DAY, WHOSOEVER GETTETH UP TO THE GUTTER, AND
 SMITETH THE JEBUSITES, AND THE LAME AND THE BLIND THAT ARE HATED OF DAVIDS
 SOUL, HE SHALL BE CHIEF AND CAPTAIN. WHEREFORE THEY SAID, THE BLIND AND THE
 LAME SHALL NOT COME INTO THE HOUSE.
# 9 SO DAVID DWELT IN THE FORT, AND CALLED IT THE CITY OF DAVID. AND DAVID
 BUILT ROUND ABOUT FROM MILLO AND INWARD.
# 10 AND DAVID WENT ON, AND GREW GREAT, AND THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS WAS WITH
 HIM.
# 11 AND HIRAM KING OF TYRE SENT MESSENGERS TO DAVID, AND CEDAR TREES, AND
 CARPENTERS, AND MASONS: AND THEY BUILT DAVID AN HOUSE.
# 12 AND DAVID PERCEIVED THAT THE LORD HAD ESTABLISHED HIM KING OVER ISRAEL,
 AND THAT HE HAD EXALTED HIS KINGDOM FOR HIS PEOPLE ISRAELS SAKE.
# 13 AND DAVID TOOK HIM MORE CONCUBINES AND WIVES OUT OF JERUSALEM, AFTER HE
 WAS COME FROM HEBRON: AND THERE WERE YET SONS AND DAUGHTERS BORN TO DAVID.
# 14 AND THESE BE THE NAMES OF THOSE THAT WERE BORN UNTO HIM IN JERUSALEM;
 SHAMMUAH, AND SHOBAB, AND NATHAN, AND SOLOMON,
# 15 IBHAR ALSO, AND ELISHUA, AND NEPHEG, AND JAPHIA,
# 16 AND ELISHAMA, AND ELIADA, AND ELIPHALET.
# 17 BUT WHEN THE PHILISTINES HEARD THAT THEY HAD ANOINTED DAVID KING OVER
 ISRAEL, ALL THE PHILISTINES CAME UP TO SEEK DAVID; AND DAVID HEARD OF IT, AND
 WENT DOWN TO THE HOLD.
# 18 THE PHILISTINES ALSO CAME AND SPREAD THEMSELVES IN THE VALLEY OF
 REPHAIM.
# 19 AND DAVID ENQUIRED OF THE LORD, SAYING, SHALL I GO UP TO THE
 PHILISTINES? WILT THOU DELIVER THEM INTO MINE HAND? AND THE LORD SAID UNTO
 DAVID, GO UP: FOR I WILL DOUBTLESS DELIVER THE PHILISTINES INTO THINE HAND.
# 20 AND DAVID CAME TO BAALPERAZIM, AND DAVID SMOTE THEM THERE, AND SAID, THE
 LORD HATH BROKEN FORTH UPON MINE ENEMIES BEFORE ME, AS THE BREACH OF WATERS.
 THEREFORE HE CALLED THE NAME OF THAT PLACE BAALPERAZIM.
# 21 AND THERE THEY LEFT THEIR IMAGES, AND DAVID AND HIS MEN BURNED THEM.
# 22 AND THE PHILISTINES CAME UP YET AGAIN, AND SPREAD THEMSELVES IN THE
 VALLEY OF REPHAIM.
# 23 AND WHEN DAVID ENQUIRED OF THE LORD, HE SAID, THOU SHALT NOT GO UP; BUT
 FETCH A COMPASS BEHIND THEM, AND COME UPON THEM OVER AGAINST THE MULBERRY
 TREES.
# 24 AND LET IT BE, WHEN THOU HEAREST THE SOUND OF A GOING IN THE TOPS OF THE
 MULBERRY TREES, THAT THEN THOU SHALT BESTIR THYSELF: FOR THEN SHALL THE LORD
 GO OUT BEFORE THEE, TO SMITE THE HOST OF THE PHILISTINES.
# 25 AND DAVID DID SO, AS THE LORD HAD COMMANDED HIM; AND SMOTE THE
 PHILISTINES FROM GEBA UNTIL THOU COME TO GAZER.
= CHAPTER 6 
# 1 AGAIN, DAVID GATHERED TOGETHER ALL THE CHOSEN MEN OF ISRAEL, THIRTY
 THOUSAND.
# 2 AND DAVID AROSE, AND WENT WITH ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM FROM
 BAALE OF JUDAH, TO BRING UP FROM THENCE THE ARK OF GOD, WHOSE NAME IS CALLED
 BY THE NAME OF THE LORD OF HOSTS THAT DWELLETH BETWEEN THE CHERUBIMS.
# 3 AND THEY SET THE ARK OF GOD UPON A NEW CART, AND BROUGHT IT OUT OF THE
 HOUSE OF ABINADAB THAT WAS IN GIBEAH: AND UZZAH AND AHIO, THE SONS OF
 ABINADAB, DRAVE THE NEW CART.
# 4 AND THEY BROUGHT IT OUT OF THE HOUSE OF ABINADAB WHICH WAS AT GIBEAH,
 ACCOMPANYING THE ARK OF GOD: AND AHIO WENT BEFORE THE ARK.
# 5 AND DAVID AND ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL PLAYED BEFORE THE LORD ON ALL
 MANNER OF INSTRUMENTS MADE OF FIR WOOD, EVEN ON HARPS, AND ON PSALTERIES, AND
 ON TIMBRELS, AND ON CORNETS, AND ON CYMBALS.
# 6 AND WHEN THEY CAME TO NACHONS THRESHINGFLOOR, UZZAH PUT FORTH HIS HAND TO
 THE ARK OF GOD, AND TOOK HOLD OF IT; FOR THE OXEN SHOOK IT.
# 7 AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS KINDLED AGAINST UZZAH; AND GOD SMOTE HIM
 THERE FOR HIS ERROR; AND THERE HE DIED BY THE ARK OF GOD.
# 8 AND DAVID WAS DISPLEASED, BECAUSE THE LORD HAD MADE A BREACH UPON UZZAH:
 AND HE CALLED THE NAME OF THE PLACE PEREZUZZAH TO THIS DAY.
# 9 AND DAVID WAS AFRAID OF THE LORD THAT DAY, AND SAID, HOW SHALL THE ARK OF
 THE LORD COME TO ME?
# 10 SO DAVID WOULD NOT REMOVE THE ARK OF THE LORD UNTO HIM INTO THE CITY OF
 DAVID: BUT DAVID CARRIED IT ASIDE INTO THE HOUSE OF OBEDEDOM THE GITTITE.
# 11 AND THE ARK OF THE LORD CONTINUED IN THE HOUSE OF OBEDEDOM THE GITTITE
 THREE MONTHS: AND THE LORD BLESSED OBEDEDOM, AND ALL HIS HOUSEHOLD.
# 12 AND IT WAS TOLD KING DAVID, SAYING, THE LORD HATH BLESSED THE HOUSE 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 HOUSE OF OBEDEDOM INTO THE
 CITY OF DAVID WITH GLADNESS.
# 13 AND IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN THEY THAT BARE THE ARK OF THE LORD HAD GONE SIX
 PACES, HE SACRIFICED OXEN AND FATLINGS.
# 14 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 ISRAEL BROUGHT UP THE ARK OF THE LORD WITH
 SHOUTING, AND WITH THE SOUND 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 SAW KING DAVID LEAPING AND DANCING
 BEFORE THE LORD; AND SHE DESPISED HIM IN HER HEART.
# 17 AND THEY BROUGHT IN THE ARK OF THE LORD, AND SET IT IN HIS PLACE, IN THE
 MIDST OF THE TABERNACLE THAT DAVID HAD PITCHED FOR IT: AND DAVID OFFERED
 BURNT OFFERINGS AND PEACE OFFERINGS BEFORE THE LORD.
# 18 AND AS SOON AS DAVID HAD MADE AN END OF OFFERING BURNT OFFERINGS AND
 PEACE OFFERINGS, HE BLESSED THE PEOPLE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD OF HOSTS.
# 19 AND HE DEALT AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE, EVEN AMONG THE WHOLE MULTITUDE OF
 ISRAEL, AS WELL TO THE WOMEN AS MEN, TO EVERY ONE A CAKE OF BREAD, AND A GOOD
 PIECE OF FLESH, AND A FLAGON OF WINE. SO ALL THE PEOPLE DEPARTED EVERY ONE TO
 HIS HOUSE.
# 20 THEN DAVID RETURNED TO BLESS HIS HOUSEHOLD. AND MICHAL THE DAUGHTER OF
 SAUL CAME OUT TO MEET DAVID, AND SAID, HOW GLORIOUS WAS THE KING OF ISRAEL TO
 DAY, WHO UNCOVERED HIMSELF TO DAY IN THE EYES OF THE HANDMAIDS OF HIS
 SERVANTS, AS ONE OF THE VAIN FELLOWS SHAMELESSLY UNCOVERETH HIMSELF!
# 21 AND DAVID SAID UNTO MICHAL, IT WAS BEFORE THE LORD, WHICH CHOSE ME
 BEFORE THY FATHER, AND BEFORE ALL HIS HOUSE, TO APPOINT ME RULER OVER THE
 PEOPLE OF THE LORD, OVER ISRAEL: THEREFORE WILL I PLAY BEFORE THE LORD.
# 22 AND I WILL YET BE MORE VILE THAN THUS, AND WILL BE BASE IN MINE OWN
 SIGHT: AND OF THE MAIDSERVANTS WHICH THOU HAST SPOKEN OF, OF THEM SHALL I BE
 HAD IN HONOUR.
# 23 THEREFORE MICHAL THE DAUGHTER OF SAUL HAD NO CHILD UNTO THE DAY OF HER
 DEATH.
= CHAPTER 7 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE KING SAT IN HIS HOUSE, AND THE LORD HAD
 GIVEN HIM REST ROUND ABOUT FROM ALL HIS ENEMIES;
# 2 THAT THE KING SAID UNTO NATHAN THE PROPHET, SEE NOW, I DWELL IN AN HOUSE
 OF CEDAR, BUT THE ARK OF GOD DWELLETH WITHIN CURTAINS.
# 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, SAYING,
# 5 GO AND TELL MY SERVANT DAVID, THUS SAITH THE LORD, SHALT THOU BUILD ME AN
 HOUSE FOR ME TO DWELL IN?
# 6 WHEREAS I HAVE NOT DWELT IN ANY HOUSE SINCE THE TIME THAT I BROUGHT UP
 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT, EVEN TO THIS DAY, BUT HAVE WALKED IN A
 TENT AND IN A TABERNACLE.
# 7 IN ALL THE PLACES WHEREIN I HAVE WALKED WITH ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
 SPAKE I A WORD WITH ANY OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, WHOM I COMMANDED TO FEED MY
 PEOPLE ISRAEL, SAYING, WHY BUILD YE NOT ME AN HOUSE OF CEDAR?
# 8 NOW THEREFORE SO SHALT THOU SAY UNTO MY SERVANT DAVID, THUS SAITH THE
 LORD OF HOSTS, I TOOK THEE FROM THE SHEEPCOTE, FROM FOLLOWING THE SHEEP, TO
 BE RULER OVER MY PEOPLE, OVER ISRAEL:
# 9 AND I WAS WITH THEE WHITHERSOEVER THOU WENTEST, AND HAVE CUT OFF ALL
 THINE ENEMIES OUT OF THY SIGHT, AND HAVE MADE THEE A GREAT NAME, LIKE UNTO
 THE NAME OF THE GREAT MEN THAT ARE IN THE EARTH.
# 10 MOREOVER I WILL APPOINT A PLACE FOR MY PEOPLE ISRAEL, AND WILL PLANT
 THEM, THAT THEY MAY DWELL IN A PLACE OF THEIR OWN, AND MOVE NO MORE; NEITHER
 SHALL THE CHILDREN OF WICKEDNESS AFFLICT THEM ANY MORE, AS BEFORETIME,
# 11 AND AS SINCE THE TIME THAT I COMMANDED JUDGES TO BE OVER MY PEOPLE
 ISRAEL, AND HAVE CAUSED THEE TO REST FROM ALL THINE ENEMIES. ALSO THE LORD
 TELLETH THEE THAT HE WILL MAKE THEE AN HOUSE.
# 12 AND WHEN THY DAYS BE FULFILLED, AND THOU SHALT SLEEP WITH THY FATHERS, I
 WILL SET UP THY SEED AFTER THEE, WHICH SHALL PROCEED OUT OF THY BOWELS, AND I
 WILL ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM.
# 13 HE SHALL BUILD AN HOUSE FOR MY NAME, AND I WILL STABLISH THE THRONE OF
 HIS KINGDOM FOR EVER.
# 14 I WILL BE HIS FATHER, AND HE SHALL BE MY SON. IF HE COMMIT INIQUITY, I
 WILL CHASTEN HIM WITH THE ROD OF MEN, AND WITH THE STRIPES OF THE CHILDREN OF
 MEN:
# 15 BUT MY MERCY SHALL NOT DEPART AWAY FROM HIM, AS I TOOK IT FROM SAUL,
 WHOM I PUT AWAY BEFORE THEE.
# 16 AND THINE HOUSE 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, SO DID
 NATHAN SPEAK UNTO DAVID.
# 18 THEN WENT KING DAVID IN, AND SAT BEFORE THE LORD, AND HE SAID, WHO AM I,
 O LORD GOD? AND WHAT IS MY HOUSE, THAT THOU HAST BROUGHT ME HITHERTO?
# 19 AND THIS WAS YET A SMALL THING IN THY SIGHT, O LORD GOD; BUT THOU HAST
 SPOKEN ALSO OF THY SERVANTS HOUSE FOR A GREAT WHILE TO COME. AND IS THIS THE
 MANNER OF MAN, O LORD GOD?
# 20 AND WHAT CAN DAVID SAY MORE UNTO THEE? FOR THOU, LORD GOD, KNOWEST THY
 SERVANT.
# 21 FOR THY WORDS SAKE, AND ACCORDING TO THINE OWN HEART, HAST THOU DONE ALL
 THESE GREAT THINGS, TO MAKE THY SERVANT KNOW THEM.
# 22 WHEREFORE THOU ART GREAT, O LORD GOD: FOR THERE IS NONE LIKE THEE,
 NEITHER IS THERE ANY GOD BESIDE THEE, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT WE HAVE HEARD
 WITH OUR EARS.
# 23 AND WHAT ONE NATION IN THE EARTH IS LIKE THY PEOPLE, EVEN LIKE ISRAEL,
 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 REDEEMEDST TO THEE FROM EGYPT, FROM THE NATIONS AND THEIR GODS?
# 24 FOR THOU HAST CONFIRMED TO THYSELF THY PEOPLE ISRAEL 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 HAST SPOKEN CONCERNING THY
 SERVANT, AND CONCERNING HIS HOUSE, ESTABLISH IT FOR EVER, AND DO AS THOU HAST
 SAID.
# 26 AND LET THY NAME BE MAGNIFIED FOR EVER, SAYING, THE LORD OF HOSTS IS THE
 GOD OVER ISRAEL: AND LET THE HOUSE OF THY SERVANT DAVID BE ESTABLISHED BEFORE
 THEE.
# 27 FOR THOU, O LORD OF HOSTS, GOD OF ISRAEL, HAST REVEALED TO THY SERVANT,
 SAYING, I WILL BUILD THEE AN HOUSE: THEREFORE HATH THY SERVANT FOUND IN HIS
 HEART TO PRAY THIS PRAYER UNTO THEE.
# 28 AND NOW, O LORD GOD, THOU ART THAT GOD, AND THY WORDS BE TRUE, AND THOU
 HAST PROMISED THIS GOODNESS UNTO THY SERVANT:
# 29 THEREFORE NOW LET IT PLEASE THEE TO BLESS THE HOUSE OF THY SERVANT, THAT
 IT MAY CONTINUE FOR EVER BEFORE THEE: FOR THOU, O LORD GOD, HAST SPOKEN IT:
 AND WITH THY BLESSING LET THE HOUSE OF THY SERVANT BE BLESSED FOR EVER.
= CHAPTER 8 
# 1 AND AFTER THIS IT CAME TO PASS THAT DAVID SMOTE THE PHILISTINES, AND
 SUBDUED THEM: AND DAVID TOOK METHEGAMMAH OUT OF THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES.
# 2 AND HE SMOTE MOAB, AND MEASURED THEM WITH A LINE, CASTING THEM DOWN TO
 THE GROUND; EVEN WITH TWO LINES MEASURED HE TO PUT TO DEATH, AND WITH ONE
 FULL LINE TO KEEP ALIVE. AND SO THE MOABITES BECAME DAVIDS SERVANTS, AND
 BROUGHT GIFTS.
# 3 DAVID SMOTE ALSO HADADEZER, THE SON OF REHOB, KING OF ZOBAH, AS HE WENT
 TO RECOVER HIS BORDER AT THE RIVER EUPHRATES.
# 4 AND DAVID TOOK FROM HIM A THOUSAND CHARIOTS, AND SEVEN HUNDRED HORSEMEN,
 AND TWENTY THOUSAND FOOTMEN: AND DAVID HOUGHED ALL THE CHARIOT HORSES, BUT
 RESERVED OF THEM FOR AN HUNDRED CHARIOTS.
# 5 AND WHEN THE SYRIANS OF DAMASCUS CAME TO SUCCOUR HADADEZER KING OF ZOBAH,
 DAVID SLEW OF THE SYRIANS TWO AND TWENTY THOUSAND MEN.
# 6 THEN DAVID PUT GARRISONS IN SYRIA OF DAMASCUS: AND THE SYRIANS BECAME
 SERVANTS TO DAVID, AND BROUGHT GIFTS. AND THE LORD PRESERVED DAVID
 WHITHERSOEVER HE WENT.
# 7 AND DAVID TOOK THE SHIELDS OF GOLD THAT WERE ON THE SERVANTS OF
 HADADEZER, AND BROUGHT THEM TO JERUSALEM.
# 8 AND FROM BETAH, AND FROM BEROTHAI, CITIES OF HADADEZER, KING DAVID TOOK
 EXCEEDING MUCH BRASS.
# 9 WHEN TOI KING OF HAMATH HEARD THAT DAVID HAD SMITTEN ALL THE HOST OF
 HADADEZER,
# 10 THEN TOI SENT JORAM HIS SON UNTO KING DAVID, TO SALUTE HIM, AND TO BLESS
 HIM, BECAUSE HE HAD FOUGHT AGAINST HADADEZER, AND SMITTEN HIM: FOR HADADEZER
 HAD WARS WITH TOI. AND JORAM BROUGHT WITH HIM VESSELS OF SILVER, AND VESSELS
 OF GOLD, AND VESSELS OF BRASS:
# 11 WHICH ALSO KING DAVID DID DEDICATE UNTO THE LORD, WITH THE SILVER AND
 GOLD THAT HE HAD DEDICATED OF ALL NATIONS WHICH HE SUBDUED;
# 12 OF SYRIA, AND OF MOAB, AND OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND OF THE
 PHILISTINES, AND OF AMALEK, AND OF THE SPOIL OF HADADEZER, SON OF REHOB, KING
 OF ZOBAH.
# 13 AND DAVID GAT HIM A NAME WHEN HE RETURNED FROM SMITING OF THE SYRIANS IN
 THE VALLEY OF SALT, BEING EIGHTEEN THOUSAND MEN.
# 14 AND HE PUT GARRISONS IN EDOM; THROUGHOUT ALL EDOM PUT HE GARRISONS, AND
 ALL THEY OF EDOM BECAME DAVIDS SERVANTS. AND THE LORD PRESERVED DAVID
 WHITHERSOEVER HE WENT.
# 15 AND DAVID REIGNED OVER ALL ISRAEL; AND DAVID EXECUTED JUDGMENT AND
 JUSTICE UNTO ALL HIS PEOPLE.
# 16 AND JOAB THE SON OF ZERUIAH WAS OVER THE HOST; AND JEHOSHAPHAT THE SON
 OF AHILUD WAS RECORDER;
# 17 AND ZADOK THE SON OF AHITUB, AND AHIMELECH THE SON OF ABIATHAR, WERE THE
 PRIESTS; AND SERAIAH WAS THE SCRIBE;
# 18 AND BENAIAH THE SON OF JEHOIADA WAS OVER BOTH THE CHERETHITES AND THE
 PELETHITES; AND DAVIDS SONS WERE CHIEF RULERS.
= CHAPTER 9 
# 1 AND DAVID SAID, IS THERE YET ANY THAT IS LEFT OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL, THAT I
 MAY SHEW HIM KINDNESS FOR JONATHANS SAKE?
# 2 AND THERE WAS OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL A SERVANT WHOSE NAME WAS ZIBA. AND
 WHEN THEY HAD CALLED HIM UNTO DAVID, THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU ZIBA?
 AND HE SAID, THY SERVANT IS HE.
# 3 AND THE KING SAID, IS THERE NOT YET ANY OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL, THAT I MAY
 SHEW THE KINDNESS OF GOD UNTO HIM? AND ZIBA SAID UNTO THE KING, JONATHAN HATH
 YET A SON, WHICH IS LAME ON HIS FEET.
# 4 AND THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, WHERE IS HE? AND ZIBA SAID UNTO THE KING,
 BEHOLD, HE IS IN THE HOUSE OF MACHIR, THE SON OF AMMIEL, IN LODEBAR.
# 5 THEN KING DAVID SENT, AND FETCHED HIM OUT OF THE HOUSE OF MACHIR, THE SON
 OF AMMIEL, FROM LODEBAR.
# 6 NOW WHEN MEPHIBOSHETH, THE SON OF JONATHAN, THE SON OF SAUL, WAS COME
 UNTO DAVID, HE FELL ON HIS FACE, AND DID REVERENCE. AND DAVID SAID,
 MEPHIBOSHETH. AND HE ANSWERED, BEHOLD THY SERVANT!
# 7 AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIM, FEAR NOT: FOR I WILL SURELY SHEW THEE KINDNESS
 FOR JONATHAN THY FATHERS SAKE, AND WILL RESTORE THEE ALL THE LAND OF SAUL THY
 FATHER; AND THOU SHALT EAT BREAD AT MY TABLE CONTINUALLY.
# 8 AND HE BOWED HIMSELF, AND SAID, WHAT IS THY SERVANT, THAT THOU SHOULDEST
 LOOK UPON SUCH A DEAD DOG AS I AM?
# 9 THEN THE KING CALLED TO ZIBA, SAULS SERVANT, AND SAID UNTO HIM, I HAVE
 GIVEN UNTO THY MASTERS SON ALL THAT PERTAINED TO SAUL AND TO ALL HIS HOUSE.
# 10 THOU THEREFORE, AND THY SONS, AND THY SERVANTS, SHALL TILL THE LAND FOR
 HIM, AND THOU SHALT BRING IN THE FRUITS, THAT THY MASTERS SON MAY HAVE FOOD
 TO EAT: BUT MEPHIBOSHETH THY MASTERS SON SHALL EAT BREAD ALWAY AT MY TABLE.
 NOW ZIBA HAD FIFTEEN SONS AND TWENTY SERVANTS.
# 11 THEN SAID ZIBA UNTO THE KING, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT MY LORD THE KING
 HATH COMMANDED HIS SERVANT, SO SHALL THY SERVANT DO. AS FOR MEPHIBOSHETH,
 SAID THE KING, HE SHALL EAT AT MY TABLE, AS ONE OF THE KINGS SONS.
# 12 AND MEPHIBOSHETH HAD A YOUNG SON, WHOSE NAME WAS MICHA. AND ALL THAT
 DWELT IN THE HOUSE OF ZIBA WERE SERVANTS UNTO MEPHIBOSHETH.
# 13 SO MEPHIBOSHETH DWELT IN JERUSALEM: FOR HE DID EAT CONTINUALLY AT THE
 KINGS TABLE; AND WAS LAME ON BOTH HIS FEET.
= CHAPTER 10 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON
 DIED, AND HANUN HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD.
# 2 THEN SAID DAVID, I WILL SHEW KINDNESS UNTO HANUN THE SON OF NAHASH, AS
 HIS FATHER SHEWED KINDNESS UNTO ME. AND DAVID SENT TO COMFORT HIM BY THE HAND
 OF HIS SERVANTS FOR HIS FATHER. AND DAVIDS SERVANTS CAME INTO THE LAND OF THE
 CHILDREN OF AMMON.
# 3 AND THE PRINCES OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON SAID UNTO HANUN THEIR LORD,
 THINKEST THOU THAT DAVID DOTH HONOUR THY FATHER, THAT HE HATH SENT COMFORTERS
 UNTO THEE? HATH NOT DAVID RATHER SENT HIS SERVANTS UNTO THEE, TO SEARCH THE
 CITY, AND TO SPY IT OUT, AND TO OVERTHROW IT?
# 4 WHEREFORE HANUN TOOK DAVIDS SERVANTS, AND SHAVED OFF THE ONE HALF OF
 THEIR BEARDS, AND CUT OFF THEIR GARMENTS IN THE MIDDLE, EVEN TO THEIR
 BUTTOCKS, AND SENT THEM AWAY.
# 5 WHEN THEY TOLD IT UNTO DAVID, HE SENT TO MEET THEM, BECAUSE THE MEN WERE
 GREATLY ASHAMED: AND THE KING SAID, TARRY AT JERICHO UNTIL YOUR BEARDS BE
 GROWN, AND THEN RETURN.
# 6 AND WHEN THE CHILDREN OF AMMON SAW THAT THEY STANK BEFORE DAVID, THE
 CHILDREN OF AMMON SENT AND HIRED THE SYRIANS OF BETHREHOB AND THE SYRIANS OF
 ZOBA, TWENTY THOUSAND FOOTMEN, AND OF KING MAACAH A THOUSAND MEN, AND OF
 ISHTOB TWELVE THOUSAND MEN.
# 7 AND WHEN DAVID HEARD OF IT, HE SENT JOAB, AND ALL THE HOST OF THE MIGHTY
 MEN.
# 8 AND THE CHILDREN OF AMMON CAME OUT, AND PUT THE BATTLE IN ARRAY AT THE
 ENTERING IN OF THE GATE: AND THE SYRIANS OF ZOBA, AND OF REHOB, AND ISHTOB,
 AND MAACAH, WERE BY THEMSELVES IN THE FIELD.
# 9 WHEN JOAB SAW THAT THE FRONT OF THE BATTLE WAS AGAINST HIM BEFORE AND
 BEHIND, HE CHOSE OF ALL THE CHOICE MEN OF ISRAEL, AND PUT THEM IN ARRAY
 AGAINST THE SYRIANS:
# 10 AND THE REST OF THE PEOPLE HE DELIVERED INTO THE HAND OF ABISHAI HIS
 BROTHER, THAT HE MIGHT PUT THEM IN ARRAY AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF AMMON.
# 11 AND HE SAID, IF THE SYRIANS BE TOO STRONG FOR ME, THEN THOU SHALT HELP
 ME: BUT IF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON BE TOO STRONG FOR THEE, THEN I WILL COME AND
 HELP THEE.
# 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 SEEMETH 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 SAW THAT THE SYRIANS WERE FLED, THEN FLED
 THEY ALSO BEFORE ABISHAI, AND ENTERED INTO THE CITY. SO JOAB RETURNED FROM
 THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND CAME TO JERUSALEM.
# 15 AND WHEN THE SYRIANS SAW THAT THEY WERE SMITTEN BEFORE ISRAEL, THEY
 GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER.
# 16 AND HADAREZER SENT, AND BROUGHT OUT THE SYRIANS THAT WERE BEYOND THE
 RIVER: AND THEY CAME TO HELAM; AND SHOBACH THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST OF
 HADAREZER WENT BEFORE THEM.
# 17 AND WHEN IT WAS TOLD DAVID, HE GATHERED ALL ISRAEL TOGETHER, AND PASSED
 OVER JORDAN, AND CAME TO HELAM. AND THE SYRIANS SET THEMSELVES IN ARRAY
 AGAINST DAVID, AND FOUGHT WITH HIM.
# 18 AND THE SYRIANS FLED BEFORE ISRAEL; AND DAVID SLEW THE MEN OF SEVEN
 HUNDRED CHARIOTS OF THE SYRIANS, AND FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN, AND SMOTE
 SHOBACH THE CAPTAIN OF THEIR HOST, WHO DIED THERE.
# 19 AND WHEN ALL THE KINGS THAT WERE SERVANTS TO HADAREZER SAW THAT THEY
 WERE SMITTEN BEFORE ISRAEL, THEY MADE PEACE WITH ISRAEL, AND SERVED THEM. SO
 THE SYRIANS FEARED TO HELP THE CHILDREN OF AMMON ANY MORE.
= CHAPTER 11 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER THE YEAR WAS EXPIRED, AT THE TIME WHEN KINGS GO
 FORTH TO BATTLE, THAT DAVID SENT JOAB, AND HIS SERVANTS WITH HIM, AND ALL
 ISRAEL; AND THEY DESTROYED THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND BESIEGED RABBAH. BUT
 DAVID TARRIED STILL AT JERUSALEM.
# 2 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN AN EVENINGTIDE, THAT DAVID AROSE FROM OFF HIS BED,
 AND WALKED UPON THE ROOF OF THE KINGS HOUSE: AND FROM THE ROOF HE SAW A WOMAN
 WASHING HERSELF; AND THE WOMAN WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK UPON.
# 3 AND DAVID SENT AND ENQUIRED AFTER THE WOMAN. AND ONE SAID, IS NOT THIS
 BATHSHEBA, THE DAUGHTER OF ELIAM, THE WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE?
# 4 AND DAVID SENT MESSENGERS, AND TOOK HER; AND SHE CAME IN UNTO HIM, AND HE
 LAY WITH HER; FOR SHE WAS PURIFIED FROM HER UNCLEANNESS: AND SHE RETURNED
 UNTO HER HOUSE.
# 5 AND THE WOMAN CONCEIVED, AND SENT AND TOLD DAVID, AND SAID, I AM WITH
 CHILD.
# 6 AND DAVID SENT TO JOAB, SAYING, SEND ME URIAH THE HITTITE. AND JOAB SENT
 URIAH TO DAVID.
# 7 AND WHEN URIAH WAS COME UNTO HIM, DAVID DEMANDED OF HIM HOW JOAB DID, AND
 HOW THE PEOPLE DID, AND HOW THE WAR PROSPERED.
# 8 AND DAVID SAID TO URIAH, GO DOWN TO THY HOUSE, AND WASH THY FEET. AND
 URIAH DEPARTED OUT OF THE KINGS HOUSE, AND THERE FOLLOWED HIM A MESS OF MEAT
 FROM THE KING.
# 9 BUT URIAH SLEPT AT THE DOOR OF THE KINGS HOUSE WITH ALL THE SERVANTS OF
 HIS LORD, AND WENT NOT DOWN TO HIS HOUSE.
# 10 AND WHEN THEY HAD TOLD DAVID, SAYING, URIAH WENT NOT DOWN UNTO HIS
 HOUSE, DAVID SAID UNTO URIAH, CAMEST THOU NOT FROM THY JOURNEY? WHY THEN
 DIDST THOU NOT GO DOWN UNTO THINE HOUSE?
# 11 AND URIAH SAID UNTO DAVID, THE ARK, AND ISRAEL, AND JUDAH, ABIDE IN
 TENTS; AND MY LORD JOAB, AND THE SERVANTS OF MY LORD, ARE ENCAMPED IN THE
 OPEN FIELDS; SHALL I THEN GO INTO MINE HOUSE, TO EAT AND TO DRINK, AND TO LIE
 WITH MY WIFE? AS THOU LIVEST, AND AS THY SOUL LIVETH, I WILL NOT DO THIS
 THING.
# 12 AND DAVID SAID TO URIAH, TARRY HERE TO DAY ALSO, AND TO MORROW I WILL
 LET THEE DEPART. SO URIAH ABODE IN JERUSALEM 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 SERVANTS
 OF HIS LORD, BUT WENT NOT DOWN TO HIS HOUSE.
# 14 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MORNING, THAT DAVID WROTE A LETTER TO JOAB,
 AND SENT IT BY THE HAND OF URIAH.
# 15 AND HE WROTE IN THE LETTER, SAYING, SET YE URIAH IN THE FOREFRONT OF THE
 HOTTEST BATTLE, AND RETIRE YE FROM HIM, THAT HE MAY BE SMITTEN, AND DIE.
# 16 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JOAB OBSERVED THE CITY, THAT HE ASSIGNED 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
 SOME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SERVANTS OF DAVID; AND URIAH THE HITTITE DIED ALSO.
# 18 THEN JOAB SENT AND TOLD DAVID ALL THE THINGS CONCERNING THE WAR;
# 19 AND CHARGED THE MESSENGER, SAYING, WHEN THOU HAST MADE AN END OF TELLING
 THE MATTERS OF THE WAR UNTO THE KING,
# 20 AND IF SO BE THAT THE KINGS WRATH ARISE, AND HE SAY UNTO THEE, WHEREFORE
 APPROACHED YE SO NIGH UNTO THE CITY WHEN YE DID FIGHT? KNEW YE NOT THAT THEY
 WOULD SHOOT FROM THE WALL?
# 21 WHO SMOTE ABIMELECH THE SON OF JERUBBESHETH? DID NOT A WOMAN CAST A
 PIECE OF A MILLSTONE UPON HIM FROM THE WALL, THAT HE DIED IN THEBEZ? WHY WENT
 YE NIGH THE WALL? THEN SAY THOU, THY SERVANT URIAH THE HITTITE IS DEAD ALSO.
# 22 SO THE MESSENGER WENT, AND CAME AND SHEWED DAVID ALL THAT JOAB HAD SENT
 HIM FOR.
# 23 AND THE MESSENGER SAID UNTO DAVID, SURELY THE MEN PREVAILED AGAINST US,
 AND CAME OUT UNTO US INTO THE FIELD, AND WE WERE UPON THEM EVEN UNTO THE
 ENTERING OF THE GATE.
# 24 AND THE SHOOTERS SHOT FROM OFF THE WALL UPON THY SERVANTS; AND SOME OF
 THE KINGS SERVANTS BE DEAD, AND THY SERVANT URIAH THE HITTITE IS DEAD ALSO.
# 25 THEN DAVID SAID UNTO THE MESSENGER, THUS SHALT THOU SAY UNTO JOAB, LET
 NOT THIS THING DISPLEASE THEE, FOR THE SWORD DEVOURETH ONE AS WELL AS
 ANOTHER: MAKE THY BATTLE MORE STRONG AGAINST THE CITY, AND OVERTHROW IT: AND
 ENCOURAGE THOU HIM.
# 26 AND WHEN THE WIFE OF URIAH HEARD THAT URIAH HER HUSBAND WAS DEAD, SHE
 MOURNED FOR HER HUSBAND.
# 27 AND WHEN THE MOURNING WAS PAST, DAVID SENT AND FETCHED HER TO HIS HOUSE,
 AND SHE BECAME HIS WIFE, AND BARE HIM A SON. BUT THE THING THAT DAVID HAD
 DONE DISPLEASED THE LORD.
= CHAPTER 12 
# 1 AND THE LORD SENT NATHAN UNTO DAVID. AND HE CAME UNTO HIM, AND SAID 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, SAVE ONE LITTLE EWE LAMB, WHICH HE HAD
 BOUGHT AND NOURISHED UP: AND IT GREW UP TOGETHER WITH HIM, AND WITH HIS
 CHILDREN; IT DID EAT 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 SPARED 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 DRESSED IT FOR THE MAN THAT
 WAS COME TO HIM.
# 5 AND DAVIDS ANGER WAS GREATLY KINDLED AGAINST THE MAN; AND HE SAID TO
 NATHAN, AS THE LORD LIVETH, THE MAN THAT HATH DONE THIS THING SHALL SURELY
 DIE:
# 6 AND HE SHALL RESTORE THE LAMB FOURFOLD, BECAUSE HE DID THIS THING, AND
 BECAUSE HE HAD NO PITY.
# 7 AND NATHAN SAID TO DAVID, THOU ART THE MAN. THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF
 ISRAEL, I ANOINTED THEE KING OVER ISRAEL, AND I DELIVERED THEE OUT OF THE
 HAND OF SAUL;
# 8 AND I GAVE THEE THY MASTERS HOUSE, AND THY MASTERS WIVES INTO THY BOSOM,
 AND GAVE THEE THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND OF JUDAH; AND IF THAT HAD BEEN TOO
 LITTLE, I WOULD MOREOVER HAVE GIVEN UNTO THEE SUCH AND SUCH THINGS.
# 9 WHEREFORE HAST THOU DESPISED THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, TO DO EVIL IN
 HIS SIGHT? THOU HAST KILLED URIAH THE HITTITE WITH THE SWORD, AND HAST TAKEN
 HIS WIFE TO BE THY WIFE, AND HAST SLAIN HIM WITH THE SWORD OF THE CHILDREN OF
 AMMON.
# 10 NOW THEREFORE THE SWORD SHALL NEVER DEPART FROM THINE HOUSE; BECAUSE
 THOU HAST DESPISED ME, AND HAST TAKEN THE WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE TO BE THY
 WIFE.
# 11 THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, I WILL RAISE UP EVIL AGAINST THEE OUT OF
 THINE OWN HOUSE, AND I WILL TAKE THY WIVES BEFORE THINE EYES, AND GIVE THEM
 UNTO THY NEIGHBOUR, AND HE SHALL LIE WITH THY WIVES IN THE SIGHT OF THIS SUN.
# 12 FOR THOU DIDST IT SECRETLY: BUT I WILL DO THIS THING BEFORE ALL ISRAEL,
 AND BEFORE THE SUN.
# 13 AND DAVID SAID UNTO NATHAN, I HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD. AND NATHAN
 SAID UNTO DAVID, THE LORD ALSO HATH PUT AWAY THY SIN; THOU SHALT NOT DIE.
# 14 HOWBEIT, BECAUSE BY THIS DEED THOU HAST GIVEN GREAT OCCASION TO THE
 ENEMIES OF THE LORD TO BLASPHEME, THE CHILD ALSO THAT IS BORN UNTO THEE SHALL
 SURELY DIE.
# 15 AND NATHAN DEPARTED UNTO HIS HOUSE. AND THE LORD STRUCK THE CHILD THAT
 URIAHS WIFE BARE UNTO DAVID, AND IT WAS VERY SICK.
# 16 DAVID THEREFORE BESOUGHT GOD FOR THE CHILD; AND DAVID FASTED, AND WENT
 IN, AND LAY ALL NIGHT UPON THE EARTH.
# 17 AND THE ELDERS OF HIS HOUSE AROSE, AND WENT TO HIM, TO RAISE HIM UP FROM
 THE EARTH: BUT HE WOULD NOT, NEITHER DID HE EAT BREAD WITH THEM.
# 18 AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE SEVENTH DAY, THAT THE CHILD DIED. AND THE
 SERVANTS OF DAVID FEARED TO TELL HIM THAT THE CHILD WAS DEAD: FOR THEY SAID,
 BEHOLD, WHILE THE CHILD WAS YET ALIVE, WE SPAKE UNTO HIM, AND HE WOULD NOT
 HEARKEN UNTO OUR VOICE: HOW WILL HE THEN VEX HIMSELF, IF WE TELL HIM THAT THE
 CHILD IS DEAD?
# 19 BUT WHEN DAVID SAW THAT HIS SERVANTS WHISPERED, DAVID PERCEIVED THAT THE
 CHILD WAS DEAD: THEREFORE DAVID SAID UNTO HIS SERVANTS, 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 SET BREAD BEFORE
 HIM, AND HE DID EAT.
# 21 THEN SAID HIS SERVANTS UNTO HIM, WHAT THING IS THIS THAT THOU HAST DONE?
 THOU DIDST FAST AND WEEP FOR THE CHILD, WHILE IT WAS ALIVE; BUT WHEN THE
 CHILD WAS DEAD, THOU DIDST RISE AND EAT BREAD.
# 22 AND HE SAID, WHILE THE CHILD WAS YET ALIVE, I FASTED AND WEPT: FOR I
 SAID, WHO CAN TELL WHETHER GOD WILL BE GRACIOUS TO ME, THAT THE CHILD MAY
 LIVE?
# 23 BUT NOW HE IS DEAD, WHEREFORE SHOULD I FAST? CAN I BRING HIM BACK AGAIN?
 I SHALL GO TO HIM, BUT HE SHALL NOT RETURN TO ME.
# 24 AND DAVID COMFORTED BATHSHEBA HIS WIFE, AND WENT IN UNTO HER, AND LAY
 WITH HER: AND SHE BARE A SON, AND HE CALLED HIS NAME SOLOMON: AND THE LORD
 LOVED HIM.
# 25 AND HE SENT BY THE HAND OF NATHAN THE PROPHET; AND HE CALLED HIS NAME
 JEDIDIAH, BECAUSE OF THE LORD.
# 26 AND JOAB FOUGHT AGAINST RABBAH OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND TOOK THE
 ROYAL CITY.
# 27 AND JOAB SENT MESSENGERS TO DAVID, AND SAID, I HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST
 RABBAH, AND HAVE TAKEN THE CITY OF WATERS.
# 28 NOW THEREFORE GATHER THE REST OF THE PEOPLE TOGETHER, AND ENCAMP AGAINST
 THE CITY, AND TAKE IT: LEST I TAKE THE CITY, AND IT BE CALLED AFTER MY NAME.
# 29 AND DAVID GATHERED ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER, AND WENT TO RABBAH, AND
 FOUGHT AGAINST IT, AND TOOK IT.
# 30 AND HE TOOK THEIR KINGS CROWN FROM OFF HIS HEAD, THE WEIGHT WHEREOF WAS
 A TALENT OF GOLD WITH THE PRECIOUS STONES: AND IT WAS SET ON DAVIDS HEAD. AND
 HE BROUGHT FORTH THE SPOIL OF THE CITY IN GREAT ABUNDANCE.
# 31 AND HE BROUGHT FORTH THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THEREIN, AND PUT THEM UNDER
 SAWS, AND UNDER HARROWS OF IRON, AND UNDER AXES OF IRON, AND MADE THEM PASS
 THROUGH THE BRICK-KILN: AND THUS DID HE UNTO ALL THE CITIES OF THE CHILDREN
 OF AMMON. SO DAVID AND ALL THE PEOPLE RETURNED UNTO JERUSALEM.
= CHAPTER 13 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT ABSALOM THE SON OF DAVID HAD A FAIR
 SISTER, WHOSE NAME WAS TAMAR; AND AMNON THE SON OF DAVID LOVED HER.
# 2 AND AMNON WAS SO VEXED, THAT HE FELL SICK FOR HIS SISTER TAMAR; FOR SHE
 WAS A VIRGIN; AND AMNON THOUGHT IT HARD FOR HIM TO DO ANYTHING TO HER.
# 3 BUT AMNON HAD A FRIEND, WHOSE NAME WAS JONADAB, THE SON OF SHIMEAH DAVIDS
 BROTHER: AND JONADAB WAS A VERY SUBTIL MAN.
# 4 AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, WHY ART THOU, BEING THE KINGS SON, LEAN FROM DAY TO
 DAY? WILT THOU NOT TELL ME? AND AMNON SAID UNTO HIM, I LOVE TAMAR, MY BROTHER
 ABSALOMS SISTER.
# 5 AND JONADAB SAID UNTO HIM, LAY THEE DOWN ON THY BED, AND MAKE THYSELF
 SICK: AND WHEN THY FATHER COMETH TO SEE THEE, SAY UNTO HIM, I PRAY THEE, LET
 MY SISTER TAMAR COME, AND GIVE ME MEAT, AND DRESS THE MEAT IN MY SIGHT, THAT
 I MAY SEE IT, AND EAT IT AT HER HAND.
# 6 SO AMNON LAY DOWN, AND MADE HIMSELF SICK: AND WHEN THE KING WAS COME TO
 SEE HIM, AMNON SAID UNTO THE KING, I PRAY THEE, LET TAMAR MY SISTER COME, AND
 MAKE ME A COUPLE OF CAKES IN MY SIGHT, THAT I MAY EAT AT HER HAND.
# 7 THEN DAVID SENT HOME TO TAMAR, SAYING, GO NOW TO THY BROTHER AMNONS
 HOUSE, AND DRESS HIM MEAT.
# 8 SO TAMAR WENT TO HER BROTHER AMNONS HOUSE; AND HE WAS LAID DOWN. AND SHE
 TOOK FLOUR, AND KNEADED IT, AND MADE CAKES IN HIS SIGHT, AND DID BAKE THE
 CAKES.
# 9 AND SHE TOOK A PAN, AND POURED THEM OUT BEFORE HIM; BUT HE REFUSED TO
 EAT. AND AMNON SAID, HAVE OUT ALL MEN FROM ME. AND THEY WENT OUT EVERY MAN
 FROM HIM.
# 10 AND AMNON SAID UNTO TAMAR, BRING THE MEAT INTO THE CHAMBER, THAT I MAY
 EAT OF THINE HAND. AND TAMAR TOOK THE CAKES WHICH SHE HAD MADE, AND BROUGHT
 THEM INTO THE CHAMBER TO AMNON HER BROTHER.
# 11 AND WHEN SHE HAD BROUGHT THEM UNTO HIM TO EAT, HE TOOK HOLD OF HER, AND
 SAID UNTO HER, COME LIE WITH ME, MY SISTER.
# 12 AND SHE ANSWERED HIM, NAY, MY BROTHER, DO NOT FORCE ME; FOR NO SUCH
 THING OUGHT TO BE DONE IN ISRAEL: DO NOT THOU THIS FOLLY.
# 13 AND I, WHITHER SHALL I CAUSE MY SHAME TO GO? AND AS FOR THEE, THOU SHALT
 BE AS ONE OF THE FOOLS IN ISRAEL. NOW THEREFORE, I PRAY THEE, SPEAK UNTO THE
 KING; FOR HE WILL NOT WITHHOLD ME FROM THEE.
# 14 HOWBEIT HE WOULD NOT HEARKEN UNTO HER VOICE: BUT, BEING STRONGER THAN
 SHE, FORCED HER, AND LAY WITH HER.
# 15 THEN AMNON HATED HER EXCEEDINGLY; SO THAT THE HATRED WHEREWITH HE HATED
 HER WAS GREATER THAN THE LOVE WHEREWITH HE HAD LOVED HER. AND AMNON SAID UNTO
 HER, ARISE, BE GONE.
# 16 AND SHE SAID UNTO HIM, THERE IS NO CAUSE: THIS EVIL IN SENDING ME AWAY
 IS GREATER THAN THE OTHER THAT THOU DIDST UNTO ME. BUT HE WOULD NOT HEARKEN
 UNTO HER.
# 17 THEN HE CALLED HIS SERVANT THAT MINISTERED UNTO HIM, AND SAID, PUT NOW
 THIS WOMAN OUT FROM ME, AND BOLT THE DOOR AFTER HER.
# 18 AND SHE HAD A GARMENT OF DIVERS COLOURS UPON HER: FOR WITH SUCH ROBES
 WERE THE KINGS DAUGHTERS THAT WERE VIRGINS APPARELLED. THEN HIS SERVANT
 BROUGHT HER OUT, AND BOLTED THE DOOR AFTER HER.
# 19 AND TAMAR PUT ASHES ON HER HEAD, AND RENT HER GARMENT OF DIVERS COLOURS
 THAT WAS ON HER, AND LAID HER HAND ON HER HEAD, AND WENT ON CRYING.
# 20 AND ABSALOM HER BROTHER SAID UNTO HER, HATH AMNON THY BROTHER BEEN WITH
 THEE? BUT HOLD NOW THY PEACE, MY SISTER: HE IS THY BROTHER; REGARD NOT THIS
 THING. SO TAMAR REMAINED DESOLATE IN HER BROTHER ABSALOMS HOUSE.
# 21 BUT WHEN KING DAVID HEARD OF ALL THESE THINGS, HE WAS VERY WROTH.
# 22 AND ABSALOM SPAKE UNTO HIS BROTHER AMNON NEITHER GOOD NOR BAD: FOR
 ABSALOM HATED AMNON, BECAUSE HE HAD FORCED HIS SISTER TAMAR.
# 23 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER TWO FULL YEARS, THAT ABSALOM HAD SHEEPSHEARERS
 IN BAALHAZOR, WHICH IS BESIDE EPHRAIM: AND ABSALOM INVITED ALL THE KINGS
 SONS.
# 24 AND ABSALOM CAME TO THE KING, AND SAID, BEHOLD NOW, THY SERVANT HATH
 SHEEPSHEARERS; LET THE KING, I BESEECH THEE, AND HIS SERVANTS GO WITH THY
 SERVANT.
# 25 AND THE KING SAID TO ABSALOM, NAY, MY SON, LET US NOT ALL NOW GO, LEST
 WE BE CHARGEABLE UNTO THEE. AND HE PRESSED HIM: HOWBEIT HE WOULD NOT GO, BUT
 BLESSED HIM.
# 26 THEN SAID ABSALOM, IF NOT, I PRAY THEE, LET MY BROTHER AMNON GO WITH US.
 AND THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, WHY SHOULD HE GO WITH THEE?
# 27 BUT ABSALOM PRESSED HIM, THAT HE LET AMNON AND ALL THE KINGS SONS GO
 WITH HIM.
# 28 NOW ABSALOM HAD COMMANDED HIS SERVANTS, SAYING, MARK YE NOW WHEN AMNONS
 HEART IS MERRY WITH WINE, AND WHEN I SAY UNTO YOU, SMITE AMNON; THEN KILL
 HIM, FEAR NOT: HAVE NOT I COMMANDED YOU? BE COURAGEOUS, AND BE VALIANT.
# 29 AND THE SERVANTS OF ABSALOM DID UNTO AMNON AS ABSALOM HAD COMMANDED.
 THEN ALL THE KINGS SONS AROSE, AND EVERY MAN GAT HIM UP UPON HIS MULE, AND
 FLED.
# 30 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHILE THEY WERE IN THE WAY, THAT TIDINGS CAME TO
 DAVID, SAYING, ABSALOM HATH SLAIN ALL THE KINGS SONS, AND THERE IS NOT ONE OF
 THEM LEFT.
# 31 THEN THE KING AROSE, AND TARE HIS GARMENTS, AND LAY ON THE EARTH; AND
 ALL HIS SERVANTS STOOD BY WITH THEIR CLOTHES RENT.
# 32 AND JONADAB, THE SON OF SHIMEAH DAVIDS BROTHER, ANSWERED AND SAID, LET
 NOT MY LORD SUPPOSE THAT THEY HAVE SLAIN ALL THE YOUNG MEN THE KINGS SONS;
 FOR AMNON ONLY IS DEAD: FOR BY THE APPOINTMENT OF ABSALOM THIS HATH BEEN
 DETERMINED FROM THE DAY THAT HE FORCED HIS SISTER TAMAR.
# 33 NOW THEREFORE LET NOT MY LORD THE KING TAKE THE THING TO HIS HEART, TO
 THINK THAT ALL THE KINGS SONS ARE DEAD: FOR AMNON ONLY IS DEAD.
# 34 BUT ABSALOM FLED. AND THE YOUNG MAN THAT KEPT THE WATCH LIFTED UP HIS
 EYES, AND LOOKED, AND, BEHOLD, THERE CAME MUCH PEOPLE BY THE WAY OF THE HILL
 SIDE BEHIND HIM.
# 35 AND JONADAB SAID UNTO THE KING, BEHOLD, THE KINGS SONS COME: AS THY
 SERVANT SAID, SO IT IS.
# 36 AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SOON AS HE HAD MADE AN END OF SPEAKING, THAT,
 BEHOLD, THE KINGS SONS CAME, AND LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE AND WEPT: AND THE KING
 ALSO AND ALL HIS SERVANTS WEPT VERY SORE.
# 37 BUT ABSALOM FLED, AND WENT TO TALMAI, THE SON OF AMMIHUD, KING OF
 GESHUR. AND DAVID MOURNED FOR HIS SON EVERY DAY.
# 38 SO ABSALOM FLED, AND WENT TO GESHUR, AND WAS THERE THREE YEARS.
# 39 AND THE SOUL OF KING DAVID LONGED TO GO FORTH UNTO ABSALOM: FOR HE WAS
 COMFORTED CONCERNING AMNON, SEEING HE WAS DEAD.
= CHAPTER 14 
# 1 NOW JOAB THE SON OF ZERUIAH PERCEIVED THAT THE KINGS HEART WAS TOWARD
 ABSALOM.
# 2 AND JOAB SENT TO TEKOAH, AND FETCHED THENCE A WISE WOMAN, AND SAID UNTO
 HER, I PRAY THEE, FEIGN THYSELF TO BE A MOURNER, AND PUT ON NOW MOURNING
 APPAREL, AND ANOINT NOT THYSELF WITH OIL, BUT BE AS A WOMAN THAT HAD A LONG
 TIME MOURNED FOR THE DEAD:
# 3 AND COME TO THE KING, AND SPEAK ON THIS MANNER UNTO HIM. SO JOAB PUT THE
 WORDS IN HER MOUTH.
# 4 AND WHEN THE WOMAN OF TEKOAH SPAKE TO THE KING, SHE FELL ON HER FACE TO
 THE GROUND, AND DID OBEISANCE, AND SAID, HELP, O KING.
# 5 AND THE KING SAID UNTO HER, WHAT AILETH THEE? AND SHE ANSWERED, I AM
 INDEED A WIDOW WOMAN, AND MINE HUSBAND IS DEAD.
# 6 AND THY HANDMAID HAD TWO SONS, AND THEY TWO STROVE TOGETHER IN THE FIELD,
 AND THERE WAS NONE TO PART THEM, BUT THE ONE SMOTE THE OTHER, AND SLEW HIM.
# 7 AND, BEHOLD, THE WHOLE FAMILY IS RISEN AGAINST THINE HANDMAID, AND THEY
 SAID, DELIVER HIM THAT SMOTE HIS BROTHER, THAT WE MAY KILL HIM, FOR THE LIFE
 OF HIS BROTHER WHOM HE SLEW; AND WE WILL DESTROY THE HEIR ALSO: AND SO THEY
 SHALL QUENCH MY COAL WHICH IS LEFT, AND SHALL NOT LEAVE TO MY HUSBAND NEITHER
 NAME NOR REMAINDER UPON THE EARTH.
# 8 AND THE KING SAID UNTO THE WOMAN, GO TO THINE HOUSE, AND I WILL GIVE
 CHARGE CONCERNING THEE.
# 9 AND THE WOMAN OF TEKOAH SAID UNTO THE KING, MY LORD, O KING, THE INIQUITY
 BE ON ME, AND ON MY FATHERS HOUSE: AND THE KING AND HIS THRONE BE GUILTLESS.
# 10 AND THE KING SAID, WHOEVER SAITH OUGHT UNTO THEE, BRING HIM TO ME, AND
 HE SHALL NOT TOUCH THEE ANY MORE.
# 11 THEN SAID SHE, I PRAY THEE, LET THE KING REMEMBER THE LORD THY GOD, THAT
 THOU WOULDEST NOT SUFFER THE REVENGERS OF BLOOD TO DESTROY ANY MORE, LEST
 THEY DESTROY MY SON. AND HE SAID, AS THE LORD LIVETH, THERE SHALL NOT ONE
 HAIR OF THY SON FALL TO THE EARTH.
# 12 THEN THE WOMAN SAID, LET THINE HANDMAID, I PRAY THEE, SPEAK ONE WORD
 UNTO MY LORD THE KING. AND HE SAID, SAY ON.
# 13 AND THE WOMAN SAID, WHEREFORE THEN HAST THOU THOUGHT SUCH A THING
 AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF GOD? FOR THE KING DOTH SPEAK THIS THING AS ONE WHICH IS
 FAULTY, IN THAT THE KING DOTH NOT FETCH HOME AGAIN HIS BANISHED.
# 14 FOR WE MUST NEEDS DIE, AND ARE AS WATER SPILT ON THE GROUND, WHICH
 CANNOT BE GATHERED UP AGAIN; NEITHER DOTH GOD RESPECT ANY PERSON: YET DOTH HE
 DEVISE MEANS, THAT HIS BANISHED BE NOT EXPELLED FROM HIM.
# 15 NOW THEREFORE THAT I AM COME TO SPEAK OF THIS THING UNTO MY LORD THE
 KING, IT IS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAVE MADE ME AFRAID: AND THY HANDMAID SAID, I
 WILL NOW SPEAK UNTO THE KING; IT MAY BE THAT THE KING WILL PERFORM THE
 REQUEST OF HIS HANDMAID.
# 16 FOR THE KING WILL HEAR, TO DELIVER HIS HANDMAID OUT OF THE HAND OF THE
 MAN THAT WOULD DESTROY ME AND MY SON TOGETHER OUT OF THE INHERITANCE OF GOD.
# 17 THEN THINE HANDMAID SAID, THE WORD OF MY LORD THE KING SHALL NOW BE
 COMFORTABLE: FOR AS AN ANGEL OF GOD, SO IS MY LORD THE KING TO DISCERN GOOD
 AND BAD: THEREFORE THE LORD THY GOD WILL BE WITH THEE.
# 18 THEN THE KING ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THE WOMAN, HIDE NOT FROM ME, I PRAY
 THEE, THE THING THAT I SHALL ASK THEE. AND THE WOMAN SAID, LET MY LORD THE
 KING NOW SPEAK.
# 19 AND THE KING SAID, IS NOT THE HAND OF JOAB WITH THEE IN ALL THIS? AND
 THE WOMAN ANSWERED AND SAID, AS THY SOUL LIVETH, MY LORD THE KING, NONE CAN
 TURN TO THE RIGHT HAND OR TO THE LEFT FROM OUGHT THAT MY LORD THE KING HATH
 SPOKEN: FOR THY SERVANT JOAB, HE BADE ME, AND HE PUT ALL THESE WORDS IN THE
 MOUTH OF THINE HANDMAID:
# 20 TO FETCH ABOUT THIS FORM OF SPEECH HATH THY SERVANT JOAB DONE THIS
 THING: AND MY LORD IS WISE, ACCORDING TO THE WISDOM OF AN ANGEL OF GOD, TO
 KNOW ALL THINGS THAT ARE IN THE EARTH.
# 21 AND THE KING SAID UNTO JOAB, BEHOLD NOW, I HAVE DONE THIS THING: GO
 THEREFORE, BRING THE YOUNG MAN ABSALOM AGAIN.
# 22 AND JOAB FELL TO THE GROUND ON HIS FACE, AND BOWED HIMSELF, AND THANKED
 THE KING: AND JOAB SAID, TO DAY THY SERVANT KNOWETH THAT I HAVE FOUND GRACE
 IN THY SIGHT, MY LORD, O KING, IN THAT THE KING HATH FULFILLED THE REQUEST OF
 HIS SERVANT.
# 23 SO JOAB AROSE AND WENT TO GESHUR, AND BROUGHT ABSALOM TO JERUSALEM.
# 24 AND THE KING SAID, LET HIM TURN TO HIS OWN HOUSE, AND LET HIM NOT SEE MY
 FACE. SO ABSALOM RETURNED TO HIS OWN HOUSE, AND SAW NOT THE KINGS FACE.
# 25 BUT IN ALL ISRAEL THERE WAS NONE TO BE SO MUCH PRAISED AS ABSALOM FOR
 HIS BEAUTY: FROM THE SOLE OF HIS FOOT EVEN TO THE CROWN OF HIS HEAD THERE WAS
 NO BLEMISH IN HIM.
# 26 AND WHEN HE POLLED HIS HEAD, (FOR IT WAS AT EVERY YEARS END THAT HE
 POLLED IT: BECAUSE THE HAIR WAS HEAVY ON HIM, THEREFORE HE POLLED IT:) HE
 WEIGHED THE HAIR OF HIS HEAD AT TWO HUNDRED SHEKELS AFTER THE KINGS WEIGHT.
# 27 AND UNTO ABSALOM THERE WERE BORN THREE SONS, AND ONE DAUGHTER, WHOSE
 NAME WAS TAMAR: SHE WAS A WOMAN OF A FAIR COUNTENANCE.
# 28 SO ABSALOM DWELT TWO FULL YEARS IN JERUSALEM, AND SAW NOT THE KINGS
 FACE.
# 29 THEREFORE ABSALOM SENT FOR JOAB, TO HAVE SENT HIM TO THE KING; BUT HE
 WOULD NOT COME TO HIM: AND WHEN HE SENT AGAIN THE SECOND TIME, HE WOULD NOT
 COME.
# 30 THEREFORE HE SAID UNTO HIS SERVANTS, SEE, JOABS FIELD IS NEAR MINE, AND
 HE HATH BARLEY THERE; GO AND SET IT ON FIRE. AND ABSALOMS SERVANTS SET THE
 FIELD ON FIRE.
# 31 THEN JOAB AROSE, AND CAME TO ABSALOM UNTO HIS HOUSE, AND SAID UNTO HIM,
 WHEREFORE HAVE THY SERVANTS SET MY FIELD ON FIRE?
# 32 AND ABSALOM ANSWERED JOAB, BEHOLD, I SENT UNTO THEE, SAYING, COME
 HITHER, THAT I MAY SEND THEE TO THE KING, TO SAY, WHEREFORE AM I COME FROM
 GESHUR? IT HAD BEEN GOOD FOR ME TO HAVE BEEN THERE STILL: NOW THEREFORE LET
 ME SEE THE KINGS FACE; AND IF THERE BE ANY INIQUITY IN ME, LET HIM KILL ME.
# 33 SO JOAB CAME TO THE KING, AND TOLD HIM: AND WHEN HE HAD CALLED FOR
 ABSALOM, HE CAME TO THE KING, AND BOWED HIMSELF ON HIS FACE TO THE GROUND
 BEFORE THE KING: AND THE KING KISSED ABSALOM.
= CHAPTER 15 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT ABSALOM PREPARED HIM CHARIOTS AND
 HORSES, AND FIFTY MEN TO RUN BEFORE HIM.
# 2 AND ABSALOM ROSE UP EARLY, AND STOOD BESIDE THE WAY OF THE GATE: AND IT
 WAS SO, THAT WHEN ANY MAN THAT HAD A CONTROVERSY CAME TO THE KING FOR
 JUDGMENT, THEN ABSALOM CALLED UNTO HIM, AND SAID, OF WHAT CITY ART THOU? AND
 HE SAID, THY SERVANT IS OF ONE OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
# 3 AND ABSALOM SAID UNTO HIM, SEE, THY MATTERS ARE GOOD AND RIGHT; BUT THERE
 IS NO MAN DEPUTED OF THE KING TO HEAR THEE.
# 4 ABSALOM SAID MOREOVER, OH THAT I WERE MADE JUDGE IN THE LAND, THAT EVERY
 MAN WHICH HATH ANY SUIT OR CAUSE MIGHT COME UNTO ME, AND I WOULD DO HIM
 JUSTICE!
# 5 AND IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN ANY MAN CAME NIGH TO HIM TO DO HIM OBEISANCE, HE
 PUT FORTH HIS HAND, AND TOOK HIM, AND KISSED HIM.
# 6 AND ON THIS MANNER DID ABSALOM TO ALL ISRAEL THAT CAME TO THE KING FOR
 JUDGMENT: SO ABSALOM STOLE THE HEARTS OF THE MEN OF ISRAEL.
# 7 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER FORTY YEARS, THAT ABSALOM SAID UNTO THE KING, I
 PRAY THEE, LET ME GO AND PAY MY VOW, WHICH I HAVE VOWED UNTO THE LORD, IN
 HEBRON.
# 8 FOR THY SERVANT VOWED A VOW WHILE I ABODE AT GESHUR IN SYRIA, SAYING, IF
 THE LORD SHALL BRING ME AGAIN INDEED TO JERUSALEM, THEN I WILL SERVE THE
 LORD.
# 9 AND THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, GO IN PEACE. SO HE AROSE, AND WENT TO HEBRON.
# 10 BUT ABSALOM SENT SPIES THROUGHOUT ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, SAYING, AS
 SOON AS YE HEAR THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, THEN YE SHALL SAY, ABSALOM REIGNETH
 IN HEBRON.
# 11 AND WITH ABSALOM WENT TWO HUNDRED MEN OUT OF JERUSALEM, THAT WERE
 CALLED; AND THEY WENT IN THEIR SIMPLICITY, AND THEY KNEW NOT ANY THING.
# 12 AND ABSALOM SENT FOR AHITHOPHEL THE GILONITE, DAVIDS COUNSELLOR, FROM
 HIS CITY, EVEN FROM GILOH, WHILE HE OFFERED SACRIFICES. AND THE CONSPIRACY
 WAS STRONG; FOR THE PEOPLE INCREASED CONTINUALLY WITH ABSALOM.
# 13 AND THERE CAME A MESSENGER TO DAVID, SAYING, THE HEARTS OF THE MEN OF
 ISRAEL ARE AFTER ABSALOM.
# 14 AND DAVID SAID UNTO ALL HIS SERVANTS THAT WERE WITH HIM AT JERUSALEM,
 ARISE, AND LET US FLEE; FOR WE SHALL NOT ELSE ESCAPE FROM ABSALOM: MAKE SPEED
 TO DEPART, LEST HE OVERTAKE US SUDDENLY, AND BRING EVIL UPON US, AND SMITE
 THE CITY WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD.
# 15 AND THE KINGS SERVANTS SAID UNTO THE KING, BEHOLD, THY SERVANTS ARE
 READY TO DO WHATSOEVER MY LORD THE KING SHALL APPOINT.
# 16 AND THE KING WENT FORTH, AND ALL HIS HOUSEHOLD AFTER HIM. AND THE KING
 LEFT TEN WOMEN, WHICH WERE CONCUBINES, TO KEEP THE HOUSE.
# 17 AND THE KING WENT FORTH, AND ALL THE PEOPLE AFTER HIM, AND TARRIED IN A
 PLACE THAT WAS FAR OFF.
# 18 AND ALL HIS SERVANTS PASSED ON BESIDE HIM; AND ALL THE CHERETHITES, AND
 ALL THE PELETHITES, AND ALL THE GITTITES, SIX HUNDRED MEN WHICH CAME AFTER
 HIM FROM GATH, PASSED ON BEFORE THE KING.
# 19 THEN SAID THE KING TO ITTAI THE GITTITE, WHEREFORE GOEST THOU ALSO WITH
 US? RETURN TO THY PLACE, AND ABIDE WITH THE KING: FOR THOU ART A STRANGER,
 AND ALSO AN EXILE.
# 20 WHEREAS THOU CAMEST BUT YESTERDAY, SHOULD I THIS DAY MAKE THEE GO UP AND
 DOWN WITH US? SEEING I GO WHITHER I MAY, RETURN THOU, AND TAKE BACK THY
 BRETHREN: MERCY AND TRUTH BE WITH THEE.
# 21 AND ITTAI ANSWERED THE KING, AND SAID, AS THE LORD LIVETH, AND AS MY
 LORD THE KING LIVETH, SURELY IN WHAT PLACE MY LORD THE KING SHALL BE, WHETHER
 IN DEATH OR LIFE, EVEN THERE ALSO WILL THY SERVANT BE.
# 22 AND DAVID SAID TO ITTAI, GO AND PASS OVER. AND ITTAI THE GITTITE PASSED
 OVER, AND ALL HIS MEN, AND ALL THE LITTLE ONES THAT WERE WITH HIM.
# 23 AND ALL THE COUNTRY WEPT WITH A LOUD VOICE, AND ALL THE PEOPLE PASSED
 OVER: THE KING ALSO HIMSELF PASSED OVER THE BROOK KIDRON, AND ALL THE PEOPLE
 PASSED OVER, TOWARD THE WAY OF THE WILDERNESS.
# 24 AND LO ZADOK ALSO, AND ALL THE LEVITES WERE WITH HIM, BEARING THE ARK OF
 THE COVENANT OF GOD: AND THEY SET DOWN THE ARK OF GOD; AND ABIATHAR WENT UP,
 UNTIL ALL THE PEOPLE HAD DONE PASSING OUT OF THE CITY.
# 25 AND THE KING SAID UNTO ZADOK, CARRY BACK THE ARK OF GOD INTO THE CITY:
 IF I SHALL FIND FAVOUR IN THE EYES OF THE LORD, HE WILL BRING ME AGAIN, AND
 SHEW ME BOTH IT, AND HIS HABITATION:
# 26 BUT IF HE THUS SAY, I HAVE NO DELIGHT IN THEE; BEHOLD, HERE AM I, LET
 HIM DO TO ME AS SEEMETH GOOD UNTO HIM.
# 27 THE KING SAID ALSO UNTO ZADOK THE PRIEST, ART NOT THOU A SEER? RETURN
 INTO THE CITY IN PEACE, AND YOUR TWO SONS WITH YOU, AHIMAAZ THY SON, AND
 JONATHAN THE SON OF ABIATHAR.
# 28 SEE, I WILL TARRY IN THE PLAIN OF THE WILDERNESS, UNTIL THERE COME WORD
 FROM YOU TO CERTIFY ME.
# 29 ZADOK THEREFORE AND ABIATHAR CARRIED THE ARK OF GOD AGAIN TO JERUSALEM:
 AND THEY TARRIED THERE.
# 30 AND DAVID WENT UP BY THE ASCENT OF MOUNT OLIVET, AND WEPT AS HE WENT UP,
 AND HAD HIS HEAD COVERED, AND HE WENT BAREFOOT: AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WAS
 WITH HIM COVERED EVERY MAN HIS HEAD, AND THEY WENT UP, WEEPING AS THEY WENT
 UP.
# 31 AND ONE TOLD DAVID, SAYING, AHITHOPHEL IS AMONG THE CONSPIRATORS WITH
 ABSALOM. AND DAVID SAID, O LORD, I PRAY THEE, TURN THE COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL
 INTO FOOLISHNESS.
# 32 AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN DAVID WAS COME TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNT,
 WHERE HE WORSHIPPED GOD, BEHOLD, HUSHAI THE ARCHITE CAME TO MEET HIM WITH HIS
 COAT RENT, AND EARTH UPON HIS HEAD:
# 33 UNTO WHOM DAVID SAID, IF THOU PASSEST ON WITH ME, THEN THOU SHALT BE A
 BURDEN UNTO ME:
# 34 BUT IF THOU RETURN TO THE CITY, AND SAY UNTO ABSALOM, I WILL BE THY
 SERVANT, O KING; AS I HAVE BEEN THY FATHERS SERVANT HITHERTO, SO WILL I NOW
 ALSO BE THY SERVANT: THEN MAYEST THOU FOR ME DEFEAT THE COUNSEL OF
 AHITHOPHEL.
# 35 AND HAST THOU NOT THERE WITH THEE ZADOK AND ABIATHAR THE PRIESTS?
 THEREFORE IT SHALL BE, THAT WHAT THING SOEVER THOU SHALT HEAR OUT OF THE
 KINGS HOUSE, THOU SHALT TELL IT TO ZADOK AND ABIATHAR THE PRIESTS.
# 36 BEHOLD, THEY HAVE THERE WITH THEM THEIR TWO SONS, AHIMAAZ ZADOKS SON,
 AND JONATHAN ABIATHARS SON; AND BY THEM YE SHALL SEND UNTO ME EVERY THING
 THAT YE CAN HEAR.
# 37 SO HUSHAI DAVIDS FRIEND CAME INTO THE CITY, AND ABSALOM CAME INTO
 JERUSALEM.
= CHAPTER 16 
# 1 AND WHEN DAVID WAS A LITTLE PAST THE TOP OF THE HILL, BEHOLD, ZIBA THE
 SERVANT OF MEPHIBOSHETH MET HIM, WITH A COUPLE OF ASSES SADDLED, AND UPON
 THEM TWO HUNDRED LOAVES OF BREAD, AND AN HUNDRED BUNCHES OF RAISINS, AND AN
 HUNDRED OF SUMMER FRUITS, AND A BOTTLE OF WINE.
# 2 AND THE KING SAID UNTO ZIBA, WHAT MEANEST THOU BY THESE? AND ZIBA SAID,
 THE ASSES BE FOR THE KINGS HOUSEHOLD TO RIDE ON; AND THE BREAD AND SUMMER
 FRUIT FOR THE YOUNG MEN TO EAT; AND THE WINE, THAT SUCH AS BE FAINT IN THE
 WILDERNESS MAY DRINK.
# 3 AND THE KING SAID, AND WHERE IS THY MASTERS SON? AND ZIBA SAID UNTO THE
 KING, BEHOLD, HE ABIDETH AT JERUSALEM: FOR HE SAID, TO DAY SHALL THE HOUSE OF
 ISRAEL RESTORE ME THE KINGDOM OF MY FATHER.
# 4 THEN SAID THE KING TO ZIBA, BEHOLD, THINE ARE ALL THAT PERTAINED UNTO
 MEPHIBOSHETH. AND ZIBA SAID, I HUMBLY BESEECH THEE THAT I MAY FIND GRACE IN
 THY SIGHT, MY LORD, O KING.
# 5 AND WHEN KING DAVID CAME TO BAHURIM, BEHOLD, THENCE CAME OUT A MAN OF THE
 FAMILY OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL, WHOSE NAME WAS SHIMEI, THE SON OF GERA: HE CAME
 FORTH, AND CURSED STILL AS HE CAME.
# 6 AND HE CAST STONES AT DAVID, AND AT ALL THE SERVANTS OF KING DAVID: AND
 ALL THE PEOPLE AND ALL THE MIGHTY MEN WERE ON HIS RIGHT HAND AND ON HIS LEFT.
# 7 AND THUS SAID SHIMEI WHEN HE CURSED, COME OUT, COME OUT, THOU BLOODY MAN,
 AND THOU MAN OF BELIAL:
# 8 THE LORD HATH RETURNED UPON THEE ALL THE BLOOD OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL, IN
 WHOSE STEAD THOU HAST REIGNED; AND THE LORD HATH DELIVERED THE KINGDOM INTO
 THE HAND OF ABSALOM THY SON: AND, BEHOLD, THOU ART TAKEN IN THY MISCHIEF,
 BECAUSE THOU ART A BLOODY MAN.
# 9 THEN SAID ABISHAI THE SON OF ZERUIAH UNTO THE KING, WHY SHOULD THIS DEAD
 DOG CURSE MY LORD THE KING? LET ME GO OVER, I PRAY THEE, AND TAKE OFF HIS
 HEAD.
# 10 AND THE KING SAID, WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH YOU, YE SONS OF ZERUIAH? SO
 LET HIM CURSE, BECAUSE THE LORD HATH SAID UNTO HIM, CURSE DAVID. WHO SHALL
 THEN SAY, WHEREFORE HAST THOU DONE SO?
# 11 AND DAVID SAID TO ABISHAI, AND TO ALL HIS SERVANTS, BEHOLD, MY SON,
 WHICH CAME FORTH OF MY BOWELS, SEEKETH MY LIFE: HOW MUCH MORE NOW MAY THIS
 BENJAMITE DO IT? LET HIM ALONE, AND LET HIM CURSE; FOR THE LORD HATH BIDDEN
 HIM.
# 12 IT MAY BE THAT THE LORD WILL LOOK ON MINE AFFLICTION, AND THAT THE LORD
 WILL REQUITE ME GOOD FOR HIS CURSING THIS DAY.
# 13 AND AS DAVID AND HIS MEN WENT BY THE WAY, SHIMEI WENT ALONG ON THE HILLS
 SIDE OVER AGAINST HIM, AND CURSED AS HE WENT, AND THREW STONES AT HIM, AND
 CAST DUST.
# 14 AND THE KING, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, CAME WEARY, AND
 REFRESHED THEMSELVES THERE.
# 15 AND ABSALOM, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THE MEN OF ISRAEL, CAME TO JERUSALEM,
 AND AHITHOPHEL WITH HIM.
# 16 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HUSHAI THE ARCHITE, DAVIDS FRIEND, WAS COME
 UNTO ABSALOM, THAT HUSHAI SAID UNTO ABSALOM, GOD SAVE THE KING, GOD SAVE THE
 KING.
# 17 AND ABSALOM SAID TO HUSHAI, IS THIS THY KINDNESS TO THY FRIEND? WHY
 WENTEST THOU NOT WITH THY FRIEND?
# 18 AND HUSHAI SAID UNTO ABSALOM, NAY; BUT WHOM THE LORD, AND THIS PEOPLE,
 AND ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL, CHOOSE, HIS WILL I BE, AND WITH HIM WILL I ABIDE.
# 19 AND AGAIN, WHOM SHOULD I SERVE? SHOULD I NOT SERVE IN THE PRESENCE OF
 HIS SON? AS I HAVE SERVED IN THY FATHERS PRESENCE, SO WILL I BE IN THY
 PRESENCE.
# 20 THEN SAID ABSALOM TO AHITHOPHEL, GIVE COUNSEL AMONG YOU WHAT WE SHALL
 DO.
# 21 AND AHITHOPHEL SAID UNTO ABSALOM, GO IN UNTO THY FATHERS CONCUBINES,
 WHICH HE HATH LEFT TO KEEP THE HOUSE; AND ALL ISRAEL SHALL HEAR THAT THOU ART
 ABHORRED OF THY FATHER: THEN SHALL THE HANDS OF ALL THAT ARE WITH THEE BE
 STRONG.
# 22 SO THEY SPREAD ABSALOM A TENT UPON THE TOP OF THE HOUSE; AND ABSALOM
 WENT IN UNTO HIS FATHERS CONCUBINES IN THE SIGHT OF ALL ISRAEL.
# 23 AND THE COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL, WHICH HE COUNSELLED IN THOSE DAYS, WAS AS
 IF A MAN HAD ENQUIRED AT THE ORACLE OF GOD: SO WAS ALL THE COUNSEL OF
 AHITHOPHEL BOTH WITH DAVID AND WITH ABSALOM.
= CHAPTER 17 
# 1 MOREOVER AHITHOPHEL SAID UNTO ABSALOM, LET ME NOW CHOOSE OUT TWELVE
 THOUSAND MEN, AND I WILL ARISE AND PURSUE AFTER DAVID THIS NIGHT:
# 2 AND I WILL COME UPON HIM WHILE HE IS WEARY AND WEAK HANDED, AND WILL MAKE
 HIM AFRAID: AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WITH HIM SHALL FLEE; AND I WILL SMITE
 THE KING ONLY:
# 3 AND I WILL BRING BACK ALL THE PEOPLE UNTO THEE: THE MAN WHOM THOU SEEKEST
 IS AS IF ALL RETURNED: SO ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL BE IN PEACE.
# 4 AND THE SAYING PLEASED ABSALOM WELL, AND ALL THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL.
# 5 THEN SAID ABSALOM, CALL NOW HUSHAI THE ARCHITE ALSO, AND LET US HEAR
 LIKEWISE WHAT HE SAITH.
# 6 AND WHEN HUSHAI WAS COME TO ABSALOM, ABSALOM SPAKE UNTO HIM, SAYING,
 AHITHOPHEL HATH SPOKEN AFTER THIS MANNER: SHALL WE DO AFTER HIS SAYING? IF
 NOT; SPEAK THOU.
# 7 AND HUSHAI SAID UNTO ABSALOM, THE COUNSEL THAT AHITHOPHEL HATH GIVEN IS
 NOT GOOD AT THIS TIME.
# 8 FOR, SAID HUSHAI, THOU KNOWEST THY FATHER AND HIS MEN, THAT THEY BE
 MIGHTY MEN, AND THEY BE CHAFED IN THEIR MINDS, AS A BEAR ROBBED OF HER WHELPS
 IN THE FIELD: AND THY FATHER IS A MAN OF WAR, AND WILL NOT LODGE WITH THE
 PEOPLE.
# 9 BEHOLD, HE IS HID NOW IN SOME PIT, OR IN SOME OTHER PLACE: AND IT WILL
 COME TO PASS, WHEN SOME OF THEM BE OVERTHROWN AT THE FIRST, THAT WHOSOEVER
 HEARETH IT WILL SAY, THERE IS A SLAUGHTER AMONG THE PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW
 ABSALOM.
# 10 AND HE ALSO THAT IS VALIANT, WHOSE HEART IS AS THE HEART OF A LION,
 SHALL UTTERLY MELT: FOR ALL ISRAEL KNOWETH THAT THY FATHER IS A MIGHTY MAN,
 AND THEY WHICH BE WITH HIM ARE VALIANT MEN.
# 11 THEREFORE I COUNSEL THAT ALL ISRAEL BE GENERALLY GATHERED UNTO THEE,
 FROM DAN EVEN TO BEERSHEBA, AS THE SAND THAT IS BY THE SEA FOR MULTITUDE; AND
 THAT THOU GO TO BATTLE IN THINE OWN PERSON.
# 12 SO SHALL WE COME UPON HIM IN SOME PLACE WHERE HE SHALL BE FOUND, AND WE
 WILL LIGHT UPON HIM AS THE DEW FALLETH ON THE GROUND: AND OF HIM AND OF ALL
 THE MEN THAT ARE WITH HIM THERE SHALL NOT BE LEFT SO MUCH AS ONE.
# 13 MOREOVER, IF HE BE GOTTEN INTO A CITY, THEN SHALL ALL ISRAEL BRING ROPES
 TO THAT CITY, AND WE WILL DRAW IT INTO THE RIVER, UNTIL THERE BE NOT ONE
 SMALL STONE FOUND THERE.
# 14 AND ABSALOM AND ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL SAID, THE COUNSEL OF HUSHAI THE
 ARCHITE IS BETTER THAN THE COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL. FOR THE LORD HAD APPOINTED
 TO DEFEAT THE GOOD COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL, TO THE INTENT THAT THE LORD MIGHT
 BRING EVIL UPON ABSALOM.
# 15 THEN SAID HUSHAI UNTO ZADOK AND TO ABIATHAR THE PRIESTS, THUS AND THUS
 DID AHITHOPHEL COUNSEL ABSALOM AND THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL; AND THUS AND THUS
 HAVE I COUNSELLED.
# 16 NOW THEREFORE SEND QUICKLY, AND TELL DAVID, SAYING, LODGE NOT THIS NIGHT
 IN THE PLAINS OF THE WILDERNESS, BUT SPEEDILY PASS OVER; LEST THE KING BE
 SWALLOWED UP, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WITH HIM.
# 17 NOW JONATHAN AND AHIMAAZ STAYED BY ENROGEL; FOR THEY MIGHT NOT BE SEEN
 TO COME INTO THE CITY: AND A WENCH WENT AND TOLD THEM; AND THEY WENT AND TOLD
 KING DAVID.
# 18 NEVERTHELESS A LAD SAW THEM, AND TOLD ABSALOM: BUT THEY WENT BOTH OF
 THEM AWAY QUICKLY, AND CAME TO A MANS HOUSE IN BAHURIM, WHICH HAD A WELL IN
 HIS COURT; WHITHER THEY WENT DOWN.
# 19 AND THE WOMAN TOOK AND SPREAD A COVERING OVER THE WELLS MOUTH, AND
 SPREAD GROUND CORN THEREON; AND THE THING WAS NOT KNOWN.
# 20 AND WHEN ABSALOMS SERVANTS CAME TO THE WOMAN TO THE HOUSE, THEY SAID,
 WHERE IS AHIMAAZ AND JONATHAN? AND THE WOMAN SAID UNTO THEM, THEY BE GONE
 OVER THE BROOK OF WATER. AND WHEN THEY HAD SOUGHT AND COULD NOT FIND THEM,
 THEY RETURNED TO JERUSALEM.
# 21 AND IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER THEY WERE DEPARTED, THAT THEY CAME UP OUT OF
 THE WELL, AND WENT AND TOLD KING DAVID, AND SAID UNTO DAVID, ARISE, AND PASS
 QUICKLY OVER THE WATER: FOR THUS HATH AHITHOPHEL COUNSELLED AGAINST YOU.
# 22 THEN DAVID AROSE, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, AND THEY PASSED
 OVER JORDAN: BY THE MORNING LIGHT THERE LACKED NOT ONE OF THEM THAT WAS NOT
 GONE OVER JORDAN.
# 23 AND WHEN AHITHOPHEL SAW THAT HIS COUNSEL WAS NOT FOLLOWED, HE SADDLED
 HIS ASS, AND AROSE, AND GAT HIM HOME TO HIS HOUSE, TO HIS CITY, AND PUT HIS
 HOUSEHOLD IN ORDER, AND HANGED HIMSELF, AND DIED, AND WAS BURIED IN THE
 SEPULCHRE OF HIS FATHER.
# 24 THEN DAVID CAME TO MAHANAIM. AND ABSALOM PASSED OVER JORDAN, HE AND ALL
 THE MEN OF ISRAEL WITH HIM.
# 25 AND ABSALOM MADE AMASA CAPTAIN OF THE HOST INSTEAD OF JOAB: WHICH AMASA
 WAS A MANS SON, WHOSE NAME WAS ITHRA AN ISRAELITE, THAT WENT IN TO ABIGAIL
 THE DAUGHTER OF NAHASH, SISTER TO ZERUIAH JOABS MOTHER.
# 26 SO ISRAEL AND ABSALOM PITCHED IN THE LAND OF GILEAD.
# 27 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN DAVID WAS COME TO MAHANAIM, THAT SHOBI THE SON
 OF NAHASH OF RABBAH OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND MACHIR THE SON OF AMMIEL OF
 LODEBAR, AND BARZILLAI THE GILEADITE OF ROGELIM,
# 28 BROUGHT BEDS, AND BASONS, AND EARTHEN VESSELS, AND WHEAT, AND BARLEY,
 AND FLOUR, AND PARCHED CORN, AND BEANS, AND LENTILES, AND PARCHED PULSE,
# 29 AND HONEY, AND BUTTER, AND SHEEP, AND CHEESE OF KINE, FOR DAVID, AND FOR
 THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, TO EAT: FOR THEY SAID, THE PEOPLE IS HUNGRY,
 AND WEARY, AND THIRSTY, IN THE WILDERNESS.
= CHAPTER 18 
# 1 AND DAVID NUMBERED THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, AND SET CAPTAINS OF
 THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OF HUNDREDS OVER THEM.
# 2 AND DAVID SENT FORTH A THIRD PART OF THE PEOPLE UNDER THE HAND OF JOAB,
 AND A THIRD PART UNDER THE HAND OF ABISHAI THE SON OF ZERUIAH, JOABS BROTHER,
 AND A THIRD PART UNDER THE HAND OF ITTAI THE GITTITE. AND THE KING SAID UNTO
 THE PEOPLE, I WILL SURELY GO FORTH WITH YOU MYSELF ALSO.
# 3 BUT THE PEOPLE ANSWERED, THOU SHALT NOT GO FORTH: FOR IF WE FLEE AWAY,
 THEY WILL NOT CARE FOR US; NEITHER IF HALF OF US DIE, WILL THEY CARE FOR US:
 BUT NOW THOU ART WORTH TEN THOUSAND OF US: THEREFORE NOW IT IS BETTER THAT
 THOU SUCCOUR US OUT OF THE CITY.
# 4 AND THE KING SAID UNTO THEM, WHAT SEEMETH YOU BEST I WILL DO. AND THE
 KING STOOD BY THE GATE SIDE, AND ALL THE PEOPLE CAME OUT BY HUNDREDS AND BY
 THOUSANDS.
# 5 AND THE KING COMMANDED JOAB AND ABISHAI AND ITTAI, SAYING, DEAL GENTLY
 FOR MY SAKE WITH THE YOUNG MAN, EVEN WITH ABSALOM. AND ALL THE PEOPLE HEARD
 WHEN THE KING GAVE ALL THE CAPTAINS CHARGE CONCERNING ABSALOM.
# 6 SO THE PEOPLE WENT OUT INTO THE FIELD AGAINST ISRAEL: AND THE BATTLE WAS
 IN THE WOOD OF EPHRAIM;
# 7 WHERE THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL WERE SLAIN BEFORE THE SERVANTS OF DAVID, AND
 THERE WAS THERE A GREAT SLAUGHTER THAT DAY OF TWENTY THOUSAND MEN.
# 8 FOR THE BATTLE WAS THERE SCATTERED OVER THE FACE OF ALL THE COUNTRY: AND
 THE WOOD DEVOURED MORE PEOPLE THAT DAY THAN THE SWORD DEVOURED.
# 9 AND ABSALOM MET THE SERVANTS OF DAVID. AND ABSALOM RODE UPON A MULE, AND
 THE MULE WENT UNDER THE THICK BOUGHS OF A GREAT OAK, AND HIS HEAD CAUGHT HOLD
 OF THE OAK, AND HE WAS TAKEN UP BETWEEN THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH; AND THE
 MULE THAT WAS UNDER HIM WENT AWAY.
# 10 AND A CERTAIN MAN SAW IT, AND TOLD JOAB, AND SAID, BEHOLD, I SAW ABSALOM
 HANGED IN AN OAK.
# 11 AND JOAB SAID UNTO THE MAN THAT TOLD HIM, AND, BEHOLD, THOU SAWEST HIM,
 AND WHY DIDST THOU NOT SMITE HIM THERE TO THE GROUND? AND I WOULD HAVE GIVEN
 THEE TEN SHEKELS OF SILVER, AND A GIRDLE.
# 12 AND THE MAN SAID UNTO JOAB, THOUGH I SHOULD RECEIVE A THOUSAND SHEKELS
 OF SILVER IN MINE HAND, YET WOULD I NOT PUT FORTH MINE HAND AGAINST THE KINGS
 SON: FOR IN OUR HEARING THE KING CHARGED THEE AND ABISHAI AND ITTAI, SAYING,
 BEWARE THAT NONE TOUCH THE YOUNG MAN ABSALOM.
# 13 OTHERWISE I SHOULD HAVE WROUGHT FALSEHOOD AGAINST MINE OWN LIFE: FOR
 THERE IS NO MATTER HID FROM THE KING, AND THOU THYSELF WOULDEST HAVE SET
 THYSELF AGAINST ME.
# 14 THEN SAID JOAB, I MAY NOT TARRY THUS WITH THEE. AND HE TOOK THREE DARTS
 IN HIS HAND, AND THRUST THEM THROUGH THE HEART OF ABSALOM, WHILE HE WAS YET
 ALIVE IN THE MIDST OF THE OAK.
# 15 AND TEN YOUNG MEN THAT BARE JOABS ARMOUR COMPASSED ABOUT AND SMOTE
 ABSALOM, AND SLEW HIM.
# 16 AND JOAB BLEW THE TRUMPET, AND THE PEOPLE RETURNED FROM PURSUING AFTER
 ISRAEL: FOR JOAB HELD BACK THE PEOPLE.
# 17 AND THEY TOOK ABSALOM, AND CAST HIM INTO A GREAT PIT IN THE WOOD, AND
 LAID A VERY GREAT HEAP OF STONES UPON HIM: AND ALL ISRAEL FLED EVERY ONE TO
 HIS TENT.
# 18 NOW ABSALOM IN HIS LIFETIME HAD TAKEN AND REARED UP FOR HIMSELF A
 PILLAR, WHICH IS IN THE KINGS DALE: FOR HE SAID, I HAVE NO SON TO KEEP MY
 NAME IN REMEMBRANCE: AND HE CALLED THE PILLAR AFTER HIS OWN NAME: AND IT IS
 CALLED UNTO THIS DAY, ABSALOMS PLACE.
# 19 THEN SAID AHIMAAZ THE SON OF ZADOK, LET ME NOW RUN, AND BEAR THE KING
 TIDINGS, HOW THAT THE LORD HATH AVENGED HIM OF HIS ENEMIES.
# 20 AND JOAB SAID UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT NOT BEAR TIDINGS THIS DAY, BUT THOU
 SHALT BEAR TIDINGS ANOTHER DAY: BUT THIS DAY THOU SHALT BEAR NO TIDINGS,
 BECAUSE THE KINGS SON IS DEAD.
# 21 THEN SAID JOAB TO CUSHI, GO TELL THE KING WHAT THOU HAST SEEN. AND CUSHI
 BOWED HIMSELF UNTO JOAB, AND RAN.
# 22 THEN SAID AHIMAAZ THE SON OF ZADOK YET AGAIN TO JOAB, BUT HOWSOEVER, LET
 ME, I PRAY THEE, ALSO RUN AFTER CUSHI. AND JOAB SAID, WHEREFORE WILT THOU
 RUN, MY SON, SEEING THAT THOU HAST NO TIDINGS READY?
# 23 BUT HOWSOEVER, SAID HE, LET ME RUN. AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, RUN. THEN
 AHIMAAZ RAN BY THE WAY OF THE PLAIN, AND OVERRAN CUSHI.
# 24 AND DAVID SAT BETWEEN THE TWO GATES: AND THE WATCHMAN WENT UP TO THE
 ROOF OVER THE GATE UNTO THE WALL, AND LIFTED UP HIS EYES, AND LOOKED, AND
 BEHOLD A MAN RUNNING ALONE.
# 25 AND THE WATCHMAN CRIED, AND TOLD THE KING. AND THE KING SAID, IF HE BE
 ALONE, THERE IS TIDINGS IN HIS MOUTH. AND HE CAME APACE, AND DREW NEAR.
# 26 AND THE WATCHMAN SAW ANOTHER MAN RUNNING: AND THE WATCHMAN CALLED UNTO
 THE PORTER, AND SAID, BEHOLD ANOTHER MAN RUNNING ALONE. AND THE KING SAID, HE
 ALSO BRINGETH TIDINGS.
# 27 AND THE WATCHMAN SAID, ME THINKETH THE RUNNING OF THE FOREMOST IS LIKE
 THE RUNNING OF AHIMAAZ THE SON OF ZADOK. AND THE KING SAID, HE IS A GOOD MAN,
 AND COMETH WITH GOOD TIDINGS.
# 28 AND AHIMAAZ CALLED, AND SAID UNTO THE KING, ALL IS WELL. AND HE FELL
 DOWN TO THE EARTH UPON HIS FACE BEFORE THE KING, AND SAID, BLESSED BE THE
 LORD THY GOD, WHICH HATH DELIVERED UP THE MEN THAT LIFTED UP THEIR HAND
 AGAINST MY LORD THE KING.
# 29 AND THE KING SAID, IS THE YOUNG MAN ABSALOM SAFE? AND AHIMAAZ ANSWERED,
 WHEN JOAB SENT THE KINGS SERVANT, AND ME THY SERVANT, I SAW A GREAT TUMULT,
 BUT I KNEW NOT WHAT IT WAS.
# 30 AND THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, TURN ASIDE, AND STAND HERE. AND HE TURNED
 ASIDE, AND STOOD STILL.
# 31 AND, BEHOLD, CUSHI CAME; AND CUSHI SAID, TIDINGS, MY LORD THE KING: FOR
 THE LORD HATH AVENGED THEE THIS DAY OF ALL THEM THAT ROSE UP AGAINST THEE.
# 32 AND THE KING SAID UNTO CUSHI, IS THE YOUNG MAN ABSALOM SAFE? AND CUSHI
 ANSWERED, THE ENEMIES OF MY LORD THE KING, AND ALL THAT RISE AGAINST THEE TO
 DO THEE HURT, BE AS THAT YOUNG MAN IS.
# 33 AND THE KING WAS MUCH MOVED, AND WENT UP TO THE CHAMBER OVER THE GATE,
 AND WEPT: AND AS HE WENT, THUS HE SAID, O MY SON ABSALOM, MY SON, MY SON
 ABSALOM! WOULD GOD I HAD DIED FOR THEE, O ABSALOM, MY SON, MY SON!
= CHAPTER 19 
# 1 AND IT WAS TOLD JOAB, BEHOLD, THE KING WEEPETH AND MOURNETH FOR ABSALOM.
# 2 AND THE VICTORY THAT DAY WAS TURNED INTO MOURNING UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE:
 FOR THE PEOPLE HEARD SAY THAT DAY HOW THE KING WAS GRIEVED FOR HIS SON.
# 3 AND THE PEOPLE GAT THEM BY STEALTH THAT DAY INTO THE CITY, AS PEOPLE
 BEING ASHAMED STEAL AWAY WHEN THEY FLEE IN BATTLE.
# 4 BUT THE KING COVERED HIS FACE, AND THE KING CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, O MY
 SON ABSALOM, O ABSALOM, MY SON, MY SON!
# 5 AND JOAB CAME INTO THE HOUSE TO THE KING, AND SAID, THOU HAST SHAMED THIS
 DAY THE FACES OF ALL THY SERVANTS, WHICH THIS DAY HAVE SAVED THY LIFE, AND
 THE LIVES OF THY SONS AND OF THY DAUGHTERS, AND THE LIVES OF THY WIVES, AND
 THE LIVES OF THY CONCUBINES;
# 6 IN THAT THOU LOVEST THINE ENEMIES, AND HATEST THY FRIENDS. FOR THOU HAST
 DECLARED THIS DAY, THAT THOU REGARDEST NEITHER 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.
# 7 NOW THEREFORE ARISE, GO FORTH, AND SPEAK COMFORTABLY UNTO THY SERVANTS:
 FOR I SWEAR BY THE LORD, IF THOU GO NOT FORTH, THERE WILL NOT TARRY ONE WITH
 THEE THIS NIGHT: AND THAT WILL BE WORSE UNTO THEE THAN ALL THE EVIL THAT
 BEFELL THEE FROM THY YOUTH UNTIL NOW.
# 8 THEN THE KING AROSE, AND SAT IN THE GATE. AND THEY TOLD UNTO ALL THE
 PEOPLE, SAYING, 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 FLED 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.
# 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 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.
# 14 AND HE BOWED THE HEART OF ALL THE 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
 GO TO MEET THE KING, TO CONDUCT THE KING OVER JORDAN.
# 16 AND SHIMEI THE SON OF GERA, A BENJAMITE, WHICH WAS OF BAHURIM, HASTED
 AND CAME DOWN WITH THE MEN OF JUDAH TO MEET KING DAVID.
# 17 AND THERE WERE A THOUSAND MEN OF BENJAMIN WITH HIM, AND ZIBA THE SERVANT
 OF THE HOUSE OF SAUL, AND HIS FIFTEEN SONS AND HIS TWENTY SERVANTS WITH HIM;
 AND THEY WENT OVER JORDAN BEFORE THE KING.
# 18 AND THERE WENT OVER A FERRY BOAT TO CARRY OVER THE KINGS HOUSEHOLD, AND
 TO DO WHAT HE THOUGHT GOOD. AND SHIMEI THE SON OF GERA FELL DOWN BEFORE THE
 KING, AS HE WAS COME OVER JORDAN;
# 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.
# 20 FOR THY SERVANT DOTH KNOW THAT I HAVE SINNED: THEREFORE, BEHOLD, I AM
 COME THE FIRST THIS DAY OF ALL THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH TO GO DOWN TO MEET MY LORD
 THE KING.
# 21 BUT ABISHAI THE SON OF ZERUIAH ANSWERED AND SAID, SHALL NOT SHIMEI BE
 PUT TO DEATH FOR THIS, BECAUSE HE CURSED THE LORDS ANOINTED?
# 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, 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.
# 25 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE WAS COME TO JERUSALEM TO MEET THE KING,
 THAT THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, WHEREFORE WENTEST NOT THOU WITH ME,
 MEPHIBOSHETH?
# 26 AND HE ANSWERED, MY LORD, O KING, MY SERVANT DECEIVED ME: FOR THY
 SERVANT SAID, I WILL SADDLE ME AN ASS, THAT I MAY RIDE THEREON, AND GO TO THE
 KING; BECAUSE THY SERVANT IS LAME.
# 27 AND HE HATH SLANDERED THY SERVANT UNTO MY LORD THE KING; BUT MY LORD THE
 KING IS AS AN ANGEL OF GOD: DO THEREFORE WHAT IS GOOD IN THINE EYES.
# 28 FOR ALL OF MY FATHERS HOUSE WERE BUT DEAD MEN BEFORE MY LORD THE KING:
 YET DIDST THOU SET THY SERVANT AMONG THEM THAT DID EAT AT THINE OWN TABLE.
 WHAT RIGHT THEREFORE HAVE I YET TO CRY ANY MORE UNTO THE KING?
# 29 AND THE KING SAID UNTO HIM, WHY SPEAKEST THOU ANY MORE OF THY MATTERS? I
 HAVE SAID, THOU AND ZIBA DIVIDE THE LAND.
# 30 AND MEPHIBOSHETH SAID UNTO THE KING, YEA, LET HIM TAKE ALL, FORASMUCH AS
 MY LORD THE KING IS COME AGAIN IN PEACE UNTO HIS OWN HOUSE.
# 31 AND BARZILLAI THE GILEADITE CAME DOWN FROM ROGELIM, AND WENT OVER JORDAN
 WITH THE KING, TO CONDUCT HIM OVER JORDAN.
# 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?
# 36 THY SERVANT WILL GO A LITTLE WAY OVER JORDAN WITH THE KING: AND WHY
 SHOULD THE KING RECOMPENSE IT ME WITH SUCH A REWARD?
# 37 LET THY SERVANT, I PRAY THEE, TURN BACK AGAIN, THAT I MAY DIE IN MINE
 OWN CITY, AND BE BURIED BY THE GRAVE OF MY FATHER AND OF MY MOTHER. BUT
 BEHOLD THY SERVANT CHIMHAM; LET HIM GO OVER 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.
# 39 AND ALL THE PEOPLE WENT OVER JORDAN. AND WHEN THE KING WAS COME OVER,
 THE KING KISSED BARZILLAI, AND BLESSED HIM; AND HE RETURNED UNTO HIS OWN
 PLACE.
# 40 THEN THE KING WENT ON TO GILGAL, AND CHIMHAM WENT ON WITH HIM: AND ALL
 THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH CONDUCTED THE KING, AND ALSO HALF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
# 41 AND, BEHOLD, ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL CAME TO THE KING, AND SAID UNTO THE
 KING, WHY HAVE OUR BRETHREN THE MEN OF JUDAH STOLEN THEE AWAY, AND HAVE
 BROUGHT THE KING, AND HIS HOUSEHOLD, AND ALL DAVIDS MEN WITH HIM, OVER
 JORDAN?
# 42 AND ALL THE MEN OF JUDAH ANSWERED THE MEN OF ISRAEL, BECAUSE THE KING IS
 NEAR OF KIN TO US: WHEREFORE THEN BE YE ANGRY FOR THIS MATTER? HAVE WE EATEN
 AT ALL OF THE KINGS COST? OR HATH HE GIVEN US ANY GIFT?
# 43 AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL ANSWERED THE MEN OF JUDAH, AND SAID, WE HAVE TEN
 PARTS IN THE KING, AND WE HAVE ALSO MORE RIGHT IN DAVID THAN YE: WHY THEN DID
 YE DESPISE US, THAT OUR ADVICE SHOULD NOT BE FIRST HAD IN BRINGING BACK OUR
 KING? AND THE WORDS OF THE MEN OF JUDAH WERE FIERCER THAN THE WORDS OF THE
 MEN OF ISRAEL.
= CHAPTER 20 
# 1 AND 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 PART
 IN DAVID, NEITHER HAVE WE INHERITANCE IN THE SON OF JESSE: EVERY MAN TO HIS
 TENTS, O ISRAEL.
# 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.
# 3 AND DAVID CAME TO HIS HOUSE AT JERUSALEM; AND THE KING TOOK THE TEN WOMEN
 HIS CONCUBINES, WHOM HE HAD LEFT TO KEEP THE HOUSE, AND PUT THEM IN WARD, AND
 FED THEM, BUT WENT NOT IN UNTO THEM. SO THEY WERE SHUT UP UNTO THE DAY OF
 THEIR DEATH, LIVING IN WIDOWHOOD.
# 4 THEN SAID THE KING TO AMASA, ASSEMBLE 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 LORDS SERVANTS, AND PURSUE AFTER HIM,
 LEST HE GET HIM FENCED CITIES, AND ESCAPE US.
# 7 AND THERE WENT OUT AFTER HIM JOABS MEN, AND THE CHERETHITES, AND THE
 PELETHITES, 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 JOABS 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.
# 9 AND JOAB SAID TO AMASA, ART THOU IN HEALTH, MY BROTHER? AND JOAB TOOK
 AMASA BY THE BEARD WITH THE RIGHT HAND TO KISS HIM.
# 10 BUT AMASA TOOK NO HEED TO THE SWORD THAT WAS IN JOABS HAND: SO HE 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.
# 11 AND ONE OF JOABS MEN STOOD BY HIM, AND SAID, HE THAT FAVOURETH JOAB, AND
 HE THAT IS FOR DAVID, LET HIM GO AFTER JOAB.
# 12 AND AMASA WALLOWED IN BLOOD IN THE MIDST OF THE HIGHWAY. AND WHEN THE
 MAN SAW THAT ALL THE PEOPLE STOOD STILL, HE REMOVED AMASA OUT OF THE HIGHWAY
 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 PURSUE AFTER SHEBA THE SON OF BICHRI.
# 14 AND HE WENT THROUGH ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL UNTO ABEL, AND TO
 BETHMAACHAH, AND ALL THE BERITES: AND THEY WERE GATHERED TOGETHER, AND WENT
 ALSO AFTER HIM.
# 15 AND THEY CAME AND BESIEGED HIM IN ABEL OF BETHMAACHAH, AND THEY CAST UP
 A BANK AGAINST THE CITY, AND IT STOOD IN THE TRENCH: AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT
 WERE WITH JOAB BATTERED THE WALL, TO THROW IT DOWN.
# 16 THEN CRIED A WISE WOMAN OUT OF THE CITY, HEAR, HEAR; SAY, I PRAY YOU,
 UNTO JOAB, COME NEAR HITHER, THAT I MAY SPEAK WITH THEE.
# 17 AND WHEN HE WAS COME NEAR UNTO HER, THE WOMAN SAID, ART THOU JOAB? AND
 HE ANSWERED, I AM HE. THEN SHE SAID UNTO HIM, HEAR THE WORDS OF THINE
 HANDMAID. AND HE ANSWERED, I DO HEAR.
# 18 THEN SHE SPAKE, SAYING, THEY WERE WONT TO SPEAK IN OLD TIME, SAYING,
 THEY SHALL SURELY ASK COUNSEL AT ABEL: AND SO THEY ENDED THE MATTER.
# 19 I AM ONE OF THEM THAT ARE PEACEABLE AND FAITHFUL IN ISRAEL: THOU SEEKEST
 TO DESTROY A CITY AND A MOTHER IN ISRAEL: WHY WILT THOU SWALLOW UP THE
 INHERITANCE OF THE LORD?
# 20 AND JOAB ANSWERED AND SAID, FAR BE IT, FAR BE IT FROM ME, THAT I SHOULD
 SWALLOW UP OR DESTROY.
# 21 THE MATTER IS NOT SO: BUT A MAN OF MOUNT EPHRAIM, SHEBA THE SON OF
 BICHRI BY NAME, HATH LIFTED UP HIS HAND AGAINST THE KING, EVEN AGAINST DAVID:
 DELIVER HIM ONLY, 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 WISDOM. AND THEY CUT OFF
 THE HEAD OF SHEBA THE SON OF BICHRI, AND CAST IT OUT TO JOAB. AND HE BLEW A
 TRUMPET, AND THEY RETIRED FROM THE CITY, EVERY MAN TO HIS TENT. AND JOAB
 RETURNED TO JERUSALEM UNTO THE KING.
# 23 NOW JOAB WAS OVER ALL THE HOST OF ISRAEL: AND BENAIAH THE SON OF
 JEHOIADA WAS OVER THE CHERETHITES AND OVER THE PELETHITES:
# 24 AND ADORAM WAS OVER THE TRIBUTE: AND JEHOSHAPHAT THE SON OF AHILUD WAS
 RECORDER:
# 25 AND SHEVA WAS SCRIBE: AND ZADOK AND ABIATHAR WERE THE PRIESTS:
# 26 AND IRA ALSO THE JAIRITE WAS A CHIEF RULER ABOUT DAVID.
= CHAPTER 21 
# 1 THEN THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE DAYS OF DAVID THREE YEARS, YEAR AFTER YEAR;
 AND DAVID ENQUIRED OF THE LORD. AND THE LORD ANSWERED, IT IS FOR SAUL, AND
 FOR HIS BLOODY HOUSE, BECAUSE HE SLEW THE GIBEONITES.
# 2 AND THE KING CALLED THE GIBEONITES, AND SAID UNTO THEM; (NOW THE
 GIBEONITES WERE NOT OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, BUT OF THE REMNANT OF THE
 AMORITES; AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD SWORN UNTO THEM: AND SAUL SOUGHT TO
 SLAY THEM IN HIS ZEAL TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH.)
# 3 WHEREFORE DAVID SAID UNTO THE GIBEONITES, WHAT SHALL I DO FOR YOU? AND
 WHEREWITH SHALL I MAKE THE ATONEMENT, THAT YE MAY BLESS THE INHERITANCE OF
 THE LORD?
# 4 AND THE GIBEONITES SAID UNTO HIM, WE WILL HAVE NO SILVER NOR GOLD OF
 SAUL, NOR OF HIS HOUSE; NEITHER FOR US SHALT THOU KILL ANY MAN IN ISRAEL. AND
 HE SAID, WHAT YE SHALL SAY, THAT WILL I DO FOR YOU.
# 5 AND THEY ANSWERED THE KING, THE MAN THAT CONSUMED US, AND THAT DEVISED
 AGAINST US THAT WE SHOULD BE DESTROYED FROM REMAINING IN ANY OF THE COASTS OF
 ISRAEL,
# 6 LET SEVEN MEN OF HIS SONS BE DELIVERED UNTO US, AND WE WILL HANG THEM UP
 UNTO THE LORD IN GIBEAH OF SAUL, WHOM THE LORD DID CHOOSE. AND THE KING SAID,
 I WILL GIVE THEM.
# 7 BUT THE KING SPARED MEPHIBOSHETH, THE SON OF JONATHAN THE SON OF SAUL,
 BECAUSE OF THE LORDS OATH THAT WAS BETWEEN THEM, BETWEEN DAVID AND JONATHAN
 THE SON OF SAUL.
# 8 BUT THE KING TOOK THE TWO SONS OF RIZPAH THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH, WHOM SHE
 BARE UNTO SAUL, ARMONI AND MEPHIBOSHETH; AND THE FIVE SONS OF MICHAL THE
 DAUGHTER OF SAUL, WHOM SHE BROUGHT UP FOR ADRIEL THE SON OF BARZILLAI THE
 MEHOLATHITE:
# 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 UNTIL WATER DROPPED UPON THEM
 OUT OF HEAVEN, AND SUFFERED NEITHER THE BIRDS OF THE AIR TO REST ON THEM BY
 DAY, NOR THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD BY NIGHT.
# 11 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
 SON FROM THE MEN OF JABESHGILEAD, WHICH HAD STOLEN THEM FROM THE STREET OF
 BETHSHAN, WHERE THE PHILISTINES HAD HANGED THEM, WHEN THE PHILISTINES HAD
 SLAIN SAUL IN GILBOA:
# 13 AND HE BROUGHT UP FROM THENCE THE BONES OF SAUL AND THE BONES OF
 JONATHAN HIS SON; AND THEY GATHERED THE BONES OF THEM THAT WERE HANGED.
# 14 AND THE BONES OF SAUL AND JONATHAN HIS SON BURIED THEY IN THE COUNTRY OF
 BENJAMIN IN ZELAH, IN THE SEPULCHRE OF KISH HIS FATHER: AND THEY PERFORMED
 ALL THAT THE KING COMMANDED. AND AFTER THAT GOD WAS INTREATED FOR THE LAND.
# 15 MOREOVER THE PHILISTINES HAD YET WAR AGAIN WITH ISRAEL; AND DAVID WENT
 DOWN, AND HIS SERVANTS WITH HIM, AND FOUGHT AGAINST THE PHILISTINES: AND
 DAVID WAXED FAINT.
# 16 AND ISHBIBENOB, WHICH WAS OF THE SONS OF THE GIANT, THE WEIGHT OF WHOSE
 SPEAR WEIGHED THREE HUNDRED SHEKELS OF BRASS IN WEIGHT, HE BEING GIRDED WITH
 A NEW SWORD, THOUGHT TO HAVE SLAIN DAVID.
# 17 BUT ABISHAI THE SON OF ZERUIAH SUCCOURED HIM, AND SMOTE THE PHILISTINE,
 AND KILLED HIM. THEN THE MEN OF DAVID SWARE UNTO HIM, SAYING, 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 HUSHATHITE SLEW SAPH, WHICH WAS OF THE
 SONS OF THE GIANT.
# 19 AND THERE WAS AGAIN A BATTLE IN GOB WITH THE PHILISTINES, WHERE ELHANAN
 THE SON OF JAAREOREGIM, A BETHLEHEMITE, SLEW THE BROTHER OF GOLIATH THE
 GITTITE, THE STAFF OF WHOSE SPEAR WAS LIKE A WEAVERS BEAM.
# 20 AND THERE WAS YET A BATTLE IN GATH, WHERE WAS A MAN OF GREAT STATURE,
 THAT HAD ON EVERY HAND SIX FINGERS, AND ON EVERY FOOT SIX TOES, FOUR AND
 TWENTY IN NUMBER; 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.
# 22 THESE FOUR WERE BORN TO THE GIANT IN GATH, AND FELL BY THE HAND OF
 DAVID, AND BY THE HAND OF HIS SERVANTS.
= CHAPTER 22 
# 1 AND DAVID SPAKE UNTO THE LORD THE WORDS OF THIS SONG IN THE DAY THAT THE
 LORD HAD DELIVERED HIM OUT OF THE HAND OF ALL HIS ENEMIES, AND OUT OF THE
 HAND OF SAUL:
# 2 AND HE SAID, THE LORD IS MY ROCK, AND MY FORTRESS, AND MY DELIVERER;
# 3 THE GOD OF MY ROCK; IN HIM WILL I TRUST: HE IS MY SHIELD, AND THE HORN OF
 MY SALVATION, MY HIGH TOWER, AND MY REFUGE, MY SAVIOUR; 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 FLOODS OF UNGODLY 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.
# 8 THEN THE EARTH SHOOK AND TREMBLED; THE FOUNDATIONS OF HEAVEN MOVED AND
 SHOOK, BECAUSE HE WAS WROTH.
# 9 THERE WENT UP A SMOKE OUT OF HIS NOSTRILS, AND FIRE OUT OF HIS MOUTH
 DEVOURED: COALS WERE KINDLED BY IT.
# 10 HE BOWED THE HEAVENS ALSO, AND CAME 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 THE WIND.
# 12 AND HE MADE DARKNESS PAVILIONS ROUND ABOUT HIM, DARK WATERS, AND THICK
 CLOUDS OF THE SKIES.
# 13 THROUGH THE BRIGHTNESS BEFORE HIM WERE COALS OF FIRE KINDLED.
# 14 THE LORD THUNDERED FROM HEAVEN, AND THE MOST HIGH UTTERED HIS VOICE.
# 15 AND HE SENT OUT ARROWS, AND SCATTERED THEM; LIGHTNING, AND DISCOMFITED
 THEM.
# 16 AND THE CHANNELS OF THE SEA APPEARED, THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORLD WERE
 DISCOVERED, AT THE REBUKING OF THE LORD, AT THE BLAST OF THE BREATH OF HIS
 NOSTRILS.
# 17 HE SENT FROM ABOVE, HE TOOK ME; HE DREW ME OUT OF MANY WATERS;
# 18 HE DELIVERED ME FROM MY STRONG ENEMY, AND FROM THEM THAT HATED ME: FOR
 THEY WERE TOO STRONG FOR ME.
# 19 THEY PREVENTED ME IN THE DAY OF MY CALAMITY: BUT THE LORD WAS MY STAY.
# 20 HE BROUGHT ME FORTH ALSO INTO A LARGE PLACE: HE DELIVERED ME, BECAUSE HE
 DELIGHTED IN ME.
# 21 THE LORD REWARDED ME ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS: ACCORDING TO THE
 CLEANNESS 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 STATUTES, I DID NOT
 DEPART FROM THEM.
# 24 I WAS ALSO UPRIGHT BEFORE HIM, AND HAVE KEPT MYSELF FROM MINE INIQUITY.
# 25 THEREFORE THE LORD HATH RECOMPENSED ME ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS;
 ACCORDING TO MY CLEANNESS IN HIS EYE SIGHT.
# 26 WITH THE MERCIFUL THOU WILT SHEW THYSELF MERCIFUL, AND WITH THE UPRIGHT
 MAN THOU WILT SHEW THYSELF UPRIGHT.
# 27 WITH THE PURE THOU WILT SHEW THYSELF PURE; AND WITH THE FROWARD THOU
 WILT SHEW THYSELF UNSAVOURY.
# 28 AND THE AFFLICTED PEOPLE THOU WILT SAVE: BUT THINE EYES ARE UPON THE
 HAUGHTY, THAT THOU MAYEST BRING THEM DOWN.
# 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, SAVE THE LORD? AND WHO IS A ROCK, SAVE OUR GOD?
# 33 GOD IS MY STRENGTH AND POWER: AND HE MAKETH MY WAY PERFECT.
# 34 HE MAKETH MY FEET LIKE HINDS FEET: AND SETTETH ME UPON MY HIGH PLACES.
# 35 HE TEACHETH MY HANDS TO WAR; SO THAT A BOW OF STEEL IS BROKEN BY MINE
 ARMS.
# 36 THOU HAST ALSO GIVEN ME THE SHIELD OF THY SALVATION: AND THY GENTLENESS
 HATH MADE ME GREAT.
# 37 THOU HAST ENLARGED MY STEPS UNDER ME; SO THAT MY FEET DID NOT SLIP.
# 38 I HAVE PURSUED MINE ENEMIES, AND DESTROYED THEM; AND TURNED NOT AGAIN
 UNTIL I HAD CONSUMED THEM.
# 39 AND I HAVE CONSUMED THEM, AND WOUNDED THEM, THAT THEY COULD NOT ARISE:
 YEA, THEY ARE FALLEN UNDER MY FEET.
# 40 FOR THOU HAST GIRDED ME WITH STRENGTH TO BATTLE: THEM THAT ROSE UP
 AGAINST ME HAST THOU SUBDUED UNDER ME.
# 41 THOU HAST ALSO GIVEN ME THE NECKS OF MINE ENEMIES, THAT I MIGHT DESTROY
 THEM THAT 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 SMALL 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 SERVE ME.
# 45 STRANGERS SHALL SUBMIT THEMSELVES UNTO ME: AS SOON AS THEY HEAR, THEY
 SHALL BE OBEDIENT UNTO ME.
# 46 STRANGERS SHALL FADE AWAY, AND THEY SHALL BE AFRAID OUT OF THEIR CLOSE
 PLACES.
# 47 THE LORD LIVETH; AND BLESSED BE MY ROCK; AND EXALTED BE THE GOD OF THE
 ROCK OF MY SALVATION.
# 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 ALSO HAST LIFTED ME
 UP ON HIGH ABOVE THEM THAT ROSE UP AGAINST ME: THOU HAST DELIVERED ME FROM
 THE VIOLENT MAN.
# 50 THEREFORE I WILL GIVE THANKS UNTO THEE, O LORD, AMONG THE HEATHEN, AND I
 WILL SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME.
# 51 HE IS THE TOWER OF SALVATION FOR HIS KING: AND SHEWETH MERCY TO HIS
 ANOINTED, UNTO DAVID, AND TO HIS SEED FOR EVERMORE.
= CHAPTER 23 
# 1 NOW THESE BE THE LAST WORDS OF DAVID. DAVID THE SON OF JESSE SAID, AND THE
 MAN WHO WAS RAISED UP ON HIGH, THE ANOINTED OF THE GOD OF JACOB, AND THE
 SWEET PSALMIST OF ISRAEL, SAID,
# 2 THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SPAKE BY ME, AND HIS WORD WAS IN MY TONGUE.
# 3 THE GOD OF ISRAEL SAID, THE ROCK OF ISRAEL SPAKE TO ME, HE THAT RULETH
 OVER MEN MUST BE JUST, RULING IN THE FEAR OF GOD.
# 4 AND HE SHALL BE AS THE LIGHT OF THE MORNING, WHEN THE SUN RISETH, EVEN A
 MORNING WITHOUT CLOUDS; AS THE TENDER GRASS SPRINGING OUT OF THE EARTH BY
 CLEAR SHINING AFTER RAIN.
# 5 ALTHOUGH MY HOUSE BE NOT SO WITH GOD; YET HE HATH MADE WITH ME AN
 EVERLASTING COVENANT, ORDERED IN ALL THINGS, AND SURE: FOR THIS IS ALL MY
 SALVATION, AND ALL MY DESIRE, ALTHOUGH HE MAKE IT NOT TO GROW.
# 6 BUT THE SONS 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 BE FENCED WITH IRON AND THE STAFF
 OF A SPEAR; AND THEY SHALL BE UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE IN THE SAME PLACE.
# 8 THESE BE THE NAMES OF THE MIGHTY MEN WHOM DAVID HAD: THE TACHMONITE THAT
 SAT IN THE SEAT, CHIEF AMONG THE CAPTAINS; THE SAME WAS ADINO THE EZNITE: HE
 LIFT UP HIS SPEAR AGAINST EIGHT HUNDRED, WHOM HE SLEW AT ONE TIME.
# 9 AND AFTER HIM WAS ELEAZAR THE SON OF DODO 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 ISRAEL WERE GONE AWAY:
# 10 HE AROSE, AND SMOTE THE PHILISTINES UNTIL HIS HAND WAS WEARY, AND HIS
 HAND CLAVE UNTO THE SWORD: AND THE LORD WROUGHT A GREAT VICTORY THAT DAY; AND
 THE PEOPLE RETURNED AFTER HIM ONLY TO SPOIL.
# 11 AND AFTER HIM WAS SHAMMAH THE SON OF AGEE THE HARARITE. AND THE
 PHILISTINES 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 STOOD IN THE MIDST OF THE GROUND, AND DEFENDED IT, AND SLEW THE
 PHILISTINES: AND THE LORD WROUGHT A GREAT VICTORY.
# 13 AND THREE OF THE THIRTY CHIEF WENT DOWN, AND CAME TO DAVID IN THE
 HARVEST TIME UNTO THE CAVE OF ADULLAM: AND THE TROOP OF THE PHILISTINES
 PITCHED IN THE VALLEY OF REPHAIM.
# 14 AND DAVID WAS THEN IN AN HOLD, AND THE GARRISON OF THE PHILISTINES WAS
 THEN IN BETHLEHEM.
# 15 AND DAVID LONGED, AND SAID, OH THAT ONE WOULD GIVE ME DRINK OF THE WATER
 OF THE WELL OF BETHLEHEM, 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 BETHLEHEM, THAT WAS BY THE GATE, AND TOOK IT,
 AND BROUGHT IT TO DAVID: NEVERTHELESS HE WOULD NOT DRINK THEREOF, BUT POURED
 IT OUT UNTO THE LORD.
# 17 AND HE SAID, BE IT FAR FROM ME, O 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. THESE THINGS DID THESE THREE MIGHTY MEN.
# 18 AND ABISHAI, THE BROTHER OF JOAB, THE SON OF ZERUIAH, WAS CHIEF AMONG
 THREE. AND HE LIFTED UP HIS SPEAR AGAINST THREE HUNDRED, AND SLEW 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 SON OF JEHOIADA, THE SON OF A VALIANT MAN, OF KABZEEL,
 WHO HAD DONE MANY ACTS, HE SLEW TWO LIONLIKE MEN OF MOAB: HE WENT DOWN ALSO
 AND SLEW A LION IN THE MIDST OF A PIT IN TIME OF SNOW:
# 21 AND HE SLEW AN EGYPTIAN, A GOODLY MAN: AND THE EGYPTIAN HAD A SPEAR IN
 HIS HAND; BUT HE WENT DOWN TO HIM WITH A STAFF, AND PLUCKED THE SPEAR OUT OF
 THE EGYPTIANS HAND, AND SLEW HIM WITH HIS OWN SPEAR.
# 22 THESE THINGS DID BENAIAH THE SON OF JEHOIADA, AND HAD THE NAME AMONG
 THREE MIGHTY MEN.
# 23 HE WAS MORE HONOURABLE THAN THE THIRTY, BUT HE ATTAINED NOT TO THE FIRST
 THREE. AND DAVID SET HIM OVER HIS GUARD.
# 24 ASAHEL THE BROTHER OF JOAB WAS ONE OF THE THIRTY; ELHANAN THE SON OF
 DODO OF BETHLEHEM,
# 25 SHAMMAH THE HARODITE, ELIKA THE HARODITE,
# 26 HELEZ THE PALTITE, IRA THE SON OF IKKESH THE TEKOITE,
# 27 ABIEZER THE ANETHOTHITE, MEBUNNAI THE HUSHATHITE,
# 28 ZALMON THE AHOHITE, MAHARAI THE NETOPHATHITE,
# 29 HELEB THE SON OF BAANAH, A NETOPHATHITE, ITTAI THE SON OF RIBAI OUT OF
 GIBEAH OF THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN,
# 30 BENAIAH THE PIRATHONITE, HIDDAI OF THE BROOKS OF GAASH,
# 31 ABIALBON THE ARBATHITE, AZMAVETH THE BARHUMITE,
# 32 ELIAHBA THE SHAALBONITE, OF THE SONS OF JASHEN, JONATHAN,
# 33 SHAMMAH THE HARARITE, AHIAM THE SON OF SHARAR THE HARARITE,
# 34 ELIPHELET THE SON OF AHASBAI, THE SON OF THE MAACHATHITE, ELIAM THE SON
 OF AHITHOPHEL THE GILONITE,
# 35 HEZRAI THE CARMELITE, PAARAI THE ARBITE,
# 36 IGAL THE SON OF NATHAN OF ZOBAH, BANI THE GADITE,
# 37 ZELEK THE AMMONITE, NAHARI THE BEEROTHITE, ARMOURBEARER TO JOAB THE SON
 OF ZERUIAH,
# 38 IRA AN ITHRITE, GAREB AN ITHRITE,
# 39 URIAH THE HITTITE: THIRTY AND SEVEN IN ALL.
= CHAPTER 24 
# 1 AND AGAIN THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS KINDLED AGAINST ISRAEL, AND HE MOVED
 DAVID AGAINST THEM TO SAY, GO, NUMBER ISRAEL AND JUDAH.
# 2 FOR THE KING SAID TO JOAB THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST, WHICH WAS WITH HIM, GO
 NOW THROUGH ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, FROM DAN EVEN TO BEERSHEBA, AND NUMBER
 YE THE PEOPLE, THAT I MAY KNOW THE NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE.
# 3 AND JOAB SAID UNTO THE KING, NOW THE LORD THY GOD ADD UNTO THE PEOPLE,
 HOW MANY SOEVER THEY BE, AN HUNDREDFOLD, AND THAT THE EYES OF MY LORD THE
 KING MAY SEE 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 HOST. AND JOAB AND THE CAPTAINS OF THE HOST WENT OUT FROM THE
 PRESENCE OF THE KING, TO NUMBER THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.
# 5 AND THEY PASSED OVER JORDAN, AND PITCHED IN AROER, ON THE RIGHT SIDE 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 TAHTIMHODSHI; AND THEY CAME
 TO DANJAAN, AND ABOUT TO ZIDON,
# 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 BEERSHEBA.
# 8 SO WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGH ALL THE LAND, THEY CAME TO JERUSALEM AT THE
 END OF NINE MONTHS AND TWENTY DAYS.
# 9 AND JOAB GAVE UP THE SUM OF THE NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE UNTO THE KING: AND
 THERE WERE IN ISRAEL 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 NUMBERED THE PEOPLE. AND
 DAVID SAID UNTO THE LORD, I HAVE SINNED GREATLY IN THAT I HAVE DONE: AND NOW,
 I BESEECH THEE, O LORD, TAKE AWAY THE INIQUITY OF THY SERVANT; FOR I HAVE
 DONE VERY FOOLISHLY.
# 11 FOR WHEN DAVID WAS UP IN THE MORNING, THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO THE
 PROPHET GAD, DAVIDS SEER, SAYING,
# 12 GO AND SAY UNTO DAVID, THUS SAITH 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 SAID UNTO HIM, SHALL SEVEN 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 DAYS PESTILENCE
 IN THY LAND? NOW ADVISE, AND SEE WHAT ANSWER I SHALL RETURN TO HIM THAT SENT
 ME.
# 14 AND DAVID SAID 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 NOT FALL INTO THE
 HAND OF MAN.
# 15 SO THE LORD SENT A PESTILENCE UPON ISRAEL FROM THE MORNING EVEN TO THE
 TIME APPOINTED: AND THERE DIED OF THE PEOPLE FROM DAN EVEN TO BEERSHEBA
 SEVENTY THOUSAND MEN.
# 16 AND WHEN THE ANGEL STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND UPON JERUSALEM TO DESTROY IT,
 THE LORD REPENTED HIM OF THE EVIL, AND SAID TO THE ANGEL THAT DESTROYED THE
 PEOPLE, IT IS ENOUGH: STAY NOW THINE HAND. AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD WAS BY
 THE THRESHINGPLACE OF ARAUNAH THE JEBUSITE.
# 17 AND DAVID SPAKE UNTO THE LORD WHEN HE SAW THE ANGEL THAT SMOTE THE
 PEOPLE, AND SAID, LO, I HAVE SINNED, 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 SAID UNTO HIM, GO UP, REAR AN ALTAR
 UNTO THE LORD IN THE THRESHINGFLOOR OF ARAUNAH THE JEBUSITE.
# 19 AND DAVID, ACCORDING TO THE SAYING OF GAD, WENT UP AS THE LORD
 COMMANDED.
# 20 AND ARAUNAH LOOKED, AND SAW 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 SAID, WHEREFORE IS MY LORD THE KING COME TO HIS SERVANT? AND
 DAVID SAID, 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 SAID UNTO DAVID, LET MY LORD THE KING TAKE AND OFFER UP WHAT
 SEEMETH GOOD UNTO HIM: BEHOLD, HERE BE OXEN FOR BURNT SACRIFICE, AND
 THRESHING INSTRUMENTS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS OF THE OXEN FOR WOOD.
# 23 ALL THESE THINGS DID ARAUNAH, AS A KING, GIVE UNTO THE KING. AND ARAUNAH
 SAID UNTO THE KING, THE LORD THY GOD ACCEPT THEE.
# 24 AND THE KING SAID UNTO ARAUNAH, NAY; BUT I WILL SURELY 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 THRESHINGFLOOR AND THE OXEN
 FOR FIFTY SHEKELS OF SILVER.
# 25 AND DAVID BUILT THERE AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD, AND OFFERED BURNT
 OFFERINGS AND PEACE OFFERINGS. SO THE LORD WAS INTREATED FOR THE LAND, AND
 THE PLAGUE WAS STAYED FROM ISRAEL.
