dealt well with me: forafmuch as when the Lord had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedft me not. 19 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou haft done unto me this day. 20 And now behold, I know well that thou shalt furely be king, and that the kingdom of Ifrael fhall be eftablished in thine hand. 21 Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord, that thou wilt not cut off my feed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house. 3. And the battle went fore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was fore wounded of the archers. 4 Then faid Saul unto his armour-bearer, Draw thy fword, and thruft me through therewith; left these uncircumcifed come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armour-bearer would not; for he was fore afraid: therefore Saul took a fword, and fell upon it. 5 And when his armourbearer faw that Saul was dead, he fell likewife upon his fword, and died with him. 6 So Saul died, and his three fons, and his armourun-bearer, and all his men that fame day together. 22 And David fware to Saul and Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold. CHIA P. XXXI. OW the Philiftines fought against Ifrael: and the men of Ifrael fled from before the Philiftines, and fell down flain in mount Gilboa. 2 And the Philiftines followed hard upon Saul, and upon his fons and the Philiftines flew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-fhuah, Saul's fons. 7¶ And when the men of Ifrael that were on the other fide of the valley, and they that were on the other. fide Jordan, faw that the men of Ifrael filed, and that Saul and his fons were dead, they forfook the cities, and fled: and the Philiftines came and dwelt in them. 8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philiftines came to strip the flain, that they found Saul and his three fons fallen in mount Gilboa. 9 And they cut off his head, head, and ftripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philiftines round about, to publish it in the houfe of their idols, and among the people. 10 And they put his armour in the houfe of Afhtaroth and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethfhan. II And when the inhabitants of Jabesh - gilead N heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul; 12 All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul, and the bodies of his fons, from the wall of Beth-fhan, and came to Jabefh, and burnt them there. 13 And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabeh, and fafted seven days. From the Second Book of S AMUEL.. CHAP. I. OW it came to pafs after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the flaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; 2 It came even to pafs 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 fo it was when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeifance. 3 And David faid unto him, From whence comeft thou? And he faid unto him, Out of the camp of Ifrael am I escaped. 4 And David faid 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 alfo are fallen and dead, and Saul and Jonathan his fon are dead alfo. 5 And David faid unto the young man that told him, How knoweft thou that Saul and Jonathan his fon be dead? 6 And the young man that told him, faid, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his fpear: and lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him. 7. And when he looked behind him, he faw me, and called unto me: and I anfwered here am I. 8 And he faid unto me, Who art thou? and I anQ2 il fwered 1 fwered him, I am an Ama- died. lekite. 9 He faid unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and flay me: for anguifh is come upon me, because my life is whole in me. yet 10 So I ftood upon him, and flew him, becaufe I was fure 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. 16 And David faid unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head: for thy mouth hath teftified against thee, faying, I have flain the Lord's anointed. 17 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his fon, 18 (Alfo he bade them teach the children of Judah, the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jafher.) 19 The beauty of Ifrael is flain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! 20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Afkelon: left the daughters of the Philiftines rejoice, left the daughters of the uncircumcifed triumph. 21 Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, nei 12 And they mourned and wept, and fafted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his fon, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Ifrael; because they were fallen by the fword. 13 ¶ And David faid un-ther let there be rain upon to the young man that told you, nor fields of offerings : him, Whence art thou? and for there the fhield of the he answered, I am the fon of mighty is vilely caft away, the a ftranger, an Amalekitę. fhield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. 14 And David faid unto him, How waft thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord's anointed? 15 And David called one of the young men, and fatd, Go near, and fall upon him. And he fimote him, that he 22 From the blood of the flain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the fword of Saul returned not empty. 23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their feat of his own meat, and lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were fwifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. drank of his own cup, and lay in his bofom, and was unto him as a daughter. 4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he fpared to take of his 24 Ye daughters of Ifrael, weep over Saul, who clothed you in fcarlet with other de-own flock, and of his own lights, who put on ornaments herd to drefs for the way faring man that was come unto him, but took the poor of gold upon your apparel. 25 How are the mighty fallen in the midft of the bat-man's lamb, and dreffed it tle! O Jonathan, thou waft flain in thine high places. 26 I am diftreffed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant haft thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, paffing the love A CHAP, XII. for the man that was come to him. 5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he faid to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing fhall furely die. 6 And he fhall refore the lamb four-fold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity. 7 And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus faith the Lord God of Ifrael, I anointed thee king over Ifrael, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; ND the Lord fent Nathan unto David: and he came unto him, and faid unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. 8 And I gave thee thy 2 The rich man had ex-mafter's house, and thy mafceeding many flocks and ter's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the houfe of Ifrael, and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee fuch and fuch things. herds: 3 But the poor man had nothing fave one little ewelamb, which he had bought and nourished up and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did 9 Wherefore haft thou despised Q3 1 defpifed the commandment parted unto his house and of the Lord, to do evil in his fight thou haft killed Uriah the Hittite with the fword, and haft taken his wife to be thy wife, and haft flain him with the fword of the children of Ammon. 10. Now therefore the fword fhall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and haft taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. II Thus faith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own houfe, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neigh bour, and he fhall lie with thy wives in the fight of this fun. 12 For thou didst it fecretly but I will do this thing before all Ifracl, and before the fun. 13 And David faid unto Nathan, I have finned against the Lord, And Nathan faid unto David, The Lord alfo hath put away thy fin; thou fhalt not die. 14 Howbeit, becaufe by this deed thou haft given great occafion to the enemies of the Lord to blafpheme, the child alfo that is born unto thee fhall furely die. 15 And Nathan de the Lord ftruck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very fick. 16 David therefore befought God for the child; and David faîted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. 17 And the elders of his houfe arofe, 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 feventh day, that the child died: and the fervants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they faid, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we fpake 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 faw that his fervants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David faid unto his fervants, Is the child dead? And they faid, He is dead. 20 Then David arofe 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 |