srael. veth not with I's, and he will pass, when the co meet David, y to meet the

nd took thence ne in his fore d; and he fell vailed over the and smote the o sword in the tood upon the t of the sheath erewith. And dead, they fled, and shouted, d to the gates Philistine, and

men David was tine, that the singing and joy, and with answered one ath slain his And Saul was and he said,

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David was returned from the slau and David had abode two days in pass on the third day, that, behold camp from Saul, with his clothes head and so it was, when he cam the earth, and did obeisance.* From whence comest thou? of the camp of Israel am I escape him, How went the matter? I pra answered, That the people are fled of the people also are fallen dead his son are dead also.

And

2. And David said unto the y How knowest thou that Saul and And the young man that told hi chance upon Mount Gil'boa, beho spear; and, lo, the chariots and ho him. And when he looked bel called unto me. And I answered, unto me, Who art thou? And Am'alekite. He said unto me agai me, and slay me; for anguish is c life is yet whole in me. So I stoo

because I was sure that he could fallen and I took the crown that bracelet that was on his arm, and unto my lord.

3. Then David took hold on hi

*Pron. obeysa

tribes of Israel to David unto HeBehold, we are thy bone and thy when Saul was king over us, thou nd broughtest in Israel: and the halt feed my people Israel, and thou Israel. So all the elders of Israel on; and king David made a league efore the Lord and they anointed David was thirty years old when he igned forty years. In Hebron he en years and six months: and in irty-and-three years over all Israel

men were. with Joab: a

of David; an

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sent and told charged the m of telling the that the king approached ye say thou, Thy 2. So the all that Jo'ab unto David, S unto us in th entering of th wall upon thy dead, and thy David said un Jo'ab, Let not eth one as we against the city And when the was dead, she mourning was and she becam 3. But the t And the Lord him, and said the one rich, an ing many flocks

save one little e

up; and it

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David unto Hebone and thy g over us, thou srael: and the srael, and thou elders of Israel made a league they anointed rs old when he In Hebron he onths: and in over all Israel

with Jo'ab and there fell some of t of David; and Uri'ah the Hit'tite sent and told David all the things o charged the messenger, saying, Whe of telling the matters of the war un that the king's wrath arise, and he approached ye so nigh unto the city say thou, Thy servant Uri'ah the Hit 2. So the messenger went, and all that Jo'ab had sent him for. unto David, Surely the men prevailed unto us in the field, and we were up entering of the gate. And the sh wall upon thy servants; and some dead, and thy servant Uri'ah the Hi David said unto the messenger, T Jo'ab, Let not this thing displease th eth one as well as another: make against the city, and overthrow it: a And when the wife of Uriah heard was dead, she mourned for her hu mourning was past, David sent and and she became his wife.

3. But the thing that David had d And the Lord sent Nathan unto Dav him, and said unto him, There we the one rich, and the other poor. T ing many flocks and herds: but the save one little ewe lamb, which he ha up; and it grew up together with him

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