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They are more commonly named by +the Fathers, the first and second book of kings. As to the writer of +them, it is the common opinion that Samuel composed the first book, as +far as the twenty-fifth chapter; and that the prophets Nathan and Gad +finished the first, and wrote the second book. See 1 Paralipomenon, +alias 1 Chronicles, 29.29. + + +1 Kings Chapter 1 + +Anna the wife of Elcana being barren, by vow and prayer obtaineth a son: +whom she calleth Samuel: and presenteth him to the service of God in +Silo, according to her vow: + +1:1. There was a man of Ramathaimsophim, of Mount Ephraim, and his name +was Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliu, the son of Thohu, the +son of Suph, an Ephraimite: + +An Ephraimite... He was of the tribe of Levi, 1. Par. 6.34, but is +called an Ephraimite from dwelling in mount Ephraim. + +1:2. And he had two wives, the name of one was Anna, and the name of the +other Phenenna. Phenenna had children: but Anna had no children. + +1:3. And this man went up out of his city upon the appointed days, to +adore and to offer sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Silo. And the two +sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were there priests of the Lord. + +1:4. Now the day came, and Elcana offered sacrifice, and gave to +Phenenna, his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, portions: + +1:5. But to Anna he gave one portion with sorrow, because he loved Anna. +And the Lord had shut up her womb. + +1:6. Her rival also afflicted her, and troubled her exceedingly, +insomuch that she upbraided her, that the Lord had shut up her womb: + +1:7. And thus she did every year, when the time returned, that they went +up to the temple of the Lord: and thus she provoked her: but Anna wept, +and did not eat. + +1:8. Then Elcana, her husband, said to her: Anna, why weepest thou? and +why dost thou not eat? and why dost thou afflict thy heart? Am not I +better to thee than ten children? + +1:9. So Anna arose after she had eaten and drunk in Silo: And Heli, the +priest, sitting upon a stool before the door of the temple of the Lord; + +1:10. As Anna had her heart full of grief, she prayed to the Lord, +shedding many tears, + +1:11. And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look +down, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt +give to thy servant a manchild: I will give him to the Lord all the days +of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head. + +1:12. And it came to pass, as she multiplied prayers before the Lord, +that Heli observed her mouth. + +1:13. Now Anna spoke in her heart, and only her lips moved, but her +voice was not heard at all. Heli therefore thought her to be drunk, + +1:14. And said to her: How long wilt thou be drunk? digest a little the +wine, of which thou hast taken too much. + +1:15. Anna answering, said: Not so, my lord: for I am an exceeding +unhappy woman, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I +have poured out my soul before the Lord. + +1:16. Count not thy handmaid for one of the daughters of Belial: for out +of the abundance of my sorrow and grief have I spoken till now. + +1:17. Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant +thee thy petition, which thou hast asked of him. + +1:18. And she said: Would to God thy handmaid may find grace in thy +eyes. So the woman went on her way, and ate, and her countenance was no +more changed. + +1:19. And they rose in the morning, and worshipped before the Lord: and +they returned, and came into their house at Ramatha. And Elcana knew +Anna his wife: And the Lord remembered her. + +1:20. And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived +and bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of +the Lord. + +Samuel... This name imports, asked of God. + +1:21. And Elcana, her husband, went up, and all his house, to offer to +the Lord the solemn sacrifice, and his vow. + +1:22. But Anna went not up: for she said to her husband: I will not go +till the child be weaned, and till I may carry him, that he may appear +before the Lord, and may abide always there. + +1:23. And Elcana, her husband, said to her: Do what seemeth good to +thee, and stay till thou wean him: and I pray that the Lord may fulfil +his word. So the woman staid at home, and gave her son suck, till she +weaned him. + +1:24. And after she had weaned him, she carried him with her, with three +calves, and three bushels of flour, and a bottle of wine, and she +brought him to the house of the Lord in Silo. Now the child was as yet +very young: + +1:25. And they immolated a calf, and offered the child to Heli. + +1:26. And Anna said: I beseech thee, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my +lord: I am that woman, who stood before thee here praying to the Lord. + +1:27. For this child did I pray, and the Lord hath granted me my +petition, which I asked of him. + +1:28. Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord all the days of his +life, he shall be lent to the Lord. And they adored the Lord there. And +Anna prayed, and said: + +1 Kings Chapter 2 + +The canticle of Anna. The wickedness of the sons of Heli: for which they +are not duly corrected by their father. A prophecy against the house of +Heli. + +2:1. My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my +God: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I have joyed in thy +salvation. + +My horn... The horn in the scriptures signifies strength, power, the +horn is said to be exalted, when a person receives an increase of +strength or glory. + +2:2. There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other beside +thee, and there is none strong like our God. + +2:3. Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters +depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to +him are thoughts prepared. + +2:4. The bow of the mighty is overcome, and the weak are girt with +strength. + +2:5. They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread: +and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she +that had many children is weakened. + +2:6. The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and +bringeth back again. + +2:7. The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth: + +2:8. He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor from +the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of +glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord's, and upon them he hath +set the world. + +2:9. He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent +in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength. + +2:10. The adversaries of the Lord shall fear him: and upon them shall he +thunder in the heavens: The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and +he shall give empire to his king, and shall exalt the horn of his +Christ. + +2:11. And Elcana went to Ramatha, to his house: but the child ministered +in the sight of the Lord before the face of Heli the priest. + +2:12. Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the +Lord, + +2:13. Nor the office of the priests to the people: but whosoever had +offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest came, while the flesh was +in boiling, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand, + +2:14. And thrust it into the kettle, or into the cauldron, or into the +pot, or into the pan: and all that the fleshhook brought up, the priest +took to himself. Thus did they to all Israel that came to Silo. + +2:15. Also before they burnt the fat, the servant of the priest came, +and said to the man that sacrificed: Give me flesh to boil for the +priest: for I will not take of thee sodden flesh, but raw. + +2:16. And he that sacrificed said to him: Let the fat first be burnt to +day, according to the custom, and then take to thee as much as thy soul +desireth. But he answered, and said to him: Not so: but thou shalt give +it me now, or else I will take it by force. + +2:17. Wherefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before the +Lord: because they withdrew men from the sacrifice of the Lord. + +2:18. But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child +girded with a linen ephod. + +2:19. And his mother made him a little coat, which she brought to him on +the appointed days, when she went up with her husband, to offer the +solemn sacrifice. + +2:20. And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife: and he said to him: The Lord +give thee seed of this woman, for the loan thou hast lent to the Lord. +And they went to their own home. + +2:21. And the Lord visited Anna, and she conceived, and bore three sons, +and two daughters: and the child Samuel became great before the Lord. + +2:22. Now Heli was very old, and he heard all that his sons did to all +Israel: and how they lay with the women that waited at the door of the +tabernacle: + +2:23. And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I +hear, very wicked things, from all the people? + +2:24. Do not so, my sons: for it is no good report that I hear, that you +make the people of the Lord to transgress. + +2:25. If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his +behalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for him? +And they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord +would slay them. + +Who shall pray for him... By this word Heli would have his sons +understand, that by their wicked abuse of sacred things, and of the very +sacrifices which were appointed to appease the Lord, they deprived +themselves of the ordinary means of reconciliation with God; which was +by sacrifices. The more, because they were the chief priests whose +business it was to intercede for all others, they had no other to offer +sacrifices and to make atonement for them. Ibid. Because the Lord would +slay them... In consequence of their manifold sacrileges, he would not +soften their hearts with his efficacious grace, but was determined to +destroy them. + +2:26. But the child Samuel advanced, and grew on, and pleased both the +Lord and men. + +2:27. And there came a man of God to Heli, and said to him: Thus saith +the Lord: Did I not plainly appear to thy father's house, when they were +in Egypt in the house of Pharao? + +2:28. And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, +to go up to my altar, and burn incense to me, and to wear the ephod +before me: and I gave to thy father's house of all the sacrifices of the +children of Israel. + +2:29. Why have you kicked away my victims, and my gifts which I +commanded to be offered in the temple: and thou hast rather honoured thy +sons than me, to eat the firstfruits of every sacrifice of my people +Israel? + +2:30. Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed +that thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my +sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but +whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise +me, shall be despised. + +2:31. Behold the days come: and I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of +thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house. + +2:32. And thou shalt see thy rival in the temple, in all the prosperity +of Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever. + +Thy rival... A priest of another race. This was partly fulfilled, when +Abiathar, of the race of Heli, was removed from the priesthood, and +Sadoc, who was of another line, was substituted in his place. But it was +more fully accomplished in the New Testament, when the priesthood of +Aaron gave place to that of Christ. + +2:33. However, I will not altogether take away a man of thee from my +altar: but that thy eyes may faint, and thy soul be spent: and a great +part of thy house shall die, when they come to man's estate. + +2:34. And this shall be a sign to thee, that shall come upon thy two +sons, Ophni and Phinees: in one day they shall both of them die. + +2:35. And I will raise me up a faithful priest, who shall do according +to my heart, and my soul and I will build him a faithful house, and he +shall walk all days before my anointed. + +2:36. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall remain in thy +house shall come that he may be prayed for, and shall offer a piece of +silver, and a roll of bread, and shall say: Put me, I beseech thee, to +somewhat of the priestly office, that I may eat a morsel of bread. + +1 Kings Chapter 3 + +Samuel is four times called by the Lord: who revealeth to him the evil +that shall fall on Heli, and his house. + +3:1. Now the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Heli, and the +word of the Lord was precious in those days, there was no manifest +vision. + +Precious... That is, rare. + +3:2. And it came to pass one day when Heli lay in his place, and his +eyes were grown dim, that he could not see: + +3:3. Before the lamp of God went out, Samuel slept in the temple of the +Lord, where the ark of God was. + +3:4. And the Lord called Samuel. And he answered: Here am I. + +3:5. And he ran to Heli, and said: Here am I: for thou didst call me. He +said: I did not call: go back and sleep. And he went and slept. + +3:6. And the Lord called Samuel again. And Samuel arose and went to +Heli, and said: Here am I: for thou calledst me. He answered: I did not +call thee, my son: return and sleep. + +3:7. Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither had the word of the +Lord been revealed to him. + +3:8. And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose up +and went to Heli, + +3:9. And said: Here am I: for thou didst call me. Then Heli understood +that the Lord called the child, and he said to Samuel: Go, and sleep: +and if he shall call thee any more, thou shalt say: Speak, Lord, for thy +servant heareth. So Samuel went, and slept in his place. + +3:10. And the Lord came, and stood, and he called, as he had called the +other times, Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel said: Speak, Lord, for thy +servant heareth. + +3:11. And the Lord said to Samuel: Behold I do a thing in Israel: and +whosoever shall hear it, both his ears shall tingle. + +3:12. In that day I will raise up against Heli all the things I have +spoken concerning his house: I will begin, and I will make an end. + +3:13. For I have foretold unto him, that I will judge his house for +ever, for iniquity, because he knew that his sons did wickedly, and did +not chastise them. + +3:14. Therefore have I sworn to the house of Heli, that the iniquity of +his house shall not be expiated with victims nor offerings for ever. + +3:15. And Samuel slept till morning, and opened the doors of the house +of the Lord. And Samuel feared to tell the vision to Heli. + +3:16. Then Heli called Samuel, and said: Samuel, my son. And he +answered: Here am I. + +3:17. And he asked him: What is the word that the Lord hath spoken to +thee? I beseech thee hide it not from me. May God do so and so to thee, +and add so and so, if thou hide from me one word of all that were said +to thee. + +3:18. So Samuel told him all the words, and did not hide them from him. +And he answered: It is the Lord: let him do what is good in his sight. + +3:19. And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and not one of his +words fell to the ground. + +3:20. And all Israel, from Dan to Bersabee, knew that Samuel was a +faithful prophet of the Lord. + +3:21. And the Lord again appeared in Silo, for the Lord revealed himself +to Samuel in Silo, according to the word of the Lord. And the word of +Samuel came to pass to all Israel. + +1 Kings Chapter 4 + +The Israelites being overcome by the Philistines, send for the ark of +God: but they are beaten again, the sons of Heli are killed, and the ark +taken: upon the hearing of the news Heli falleth backward and dieth. + +4:1. And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered +themselves together to fight: and Israel went out to war against the +Philistines, and camped by the Stone of help. And the Philistines came +to Aphec, + +The Stone of help... In Hebrew Eben-ezer; so called from the help which +the Lord was pleased afterwards to give to his people Israel in that +place, by the prayers of Samuel, chap. 7.12. + +4:2. And put their army in array against Israel. And when they had +joined battle, Israel turned their backs to the Philistines: and there +were slain in that fight, here and there in the fields, about four +thousand men. + +4:3. And the people returned to the camp: and the ancients of Israel +said: Why hath the Lord defeated us to day before the Philistines? Let +us fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Silo, and let +it come in the midst of us, that it may save us from the hand of our +enemies. + +4:4. So the people sent to Silo, and they brought from thence the ark of +the covenant of the Lord of hosts, sitting upon the cherubims: and the +two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were with the ark of the covenant +of God. + +4:5. And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord was come into the +camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, and the earth rang again. + +4:6. And the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, and they said: +What is this noise of a great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they +understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp. + +4:7. And the Philistines were afraid, saying: God is come into the camp. +And sighing, they said: + +4:8. Woe to us: for there was no such great joy yesterday, and the day +before: Woe to us. Who shall deliver us from the hand of these high +Gods? these are the Gods that struck Egypt with all the plagues in the +desert. + +4:9. Take courage, and behave like men, ye Philistines: lest you come to +be servants to the Hebrews, as they have served you: take courage and +fight. + +4:10. So the Philistines fought, and Israel was overthrown, and every +man fled to his own dwelling: and there was an exceeding great +slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. + +4:11. And the ark of God was taken: and the two sons of Heli, Ophni and +Phinees, were slain. + +4:12. And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Silo +the same day, with his clothes rent, and his head strewed with dust. + +4:13. And when he was come, Heli sat upon a stool over against the way, +watching. For his heart was fearful for the ark of God. And when the man +was come into the city, he told it: and all the city cried out. + +4:14. And Heli heard the noise of the cry, and he said: What meaneth the +noise of this uproar? But he made haste, and came, and told Heli. + +4:15. Now Heli was ninety and eight years old, and his eyes were dim, +and he could not see. + +4:16. And he said to Heli: I am he that came from the battle, and have +fled out of the field this day. And he said to him: What is there done, +my son? + +4:17. And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel is fled +before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter of the +people: moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are dead: and the ark +of God is taken. + +4:18. And when he had named the ark of God, he fell from his stool +backwards by the door, and broke his neck and died. For he was an old +man, and far advanced in years: And he judged Israel forty years. + +Named the ark, etc... There is great reason, by all these circumstances, +to hope that Heli died in a state of grace; and by his temporal +punishments escaped the eternal. + +4:19. And his daughter in law, the wife of Phinees, was big with child, +and near her time: and hearing the news that the ark of God was taken, +and her father in law, and her husband, were dead, she bowed herself and +fell in labour: for her pains came upon her on a sudden. + +4:20. And when she was upon the point of death, they that stood about +her said to her: Fear not, for thou hast borne a son. She answered them +not, nor gave heed to them. + +4:21. And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is gone from +Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and for her father in law, and +for her husband: + +Ichabod... That is, Where is the glory? or, there is no glory. We see +how much the Israelites lamented the loss of the ark, which was but the +symbol of God's presence among them. How much more ought Christians to +lament the loss of God himself, when by sin they have driven him out of +their souls. + +4:22. And she said: The glory is departed from Israel, because the ark +of God was taken. + +1 Kings Chapter 5 + +Dagon twice falleth down before the ark. The Philistines are grievously +afflicted, wherever the ark cometh. + +5:1. And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it from the +Stone of help into Azotus. + +5:2. And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the +temple of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. + +5:3. And when the Azotians arose early the next day, behold Dagon lay +upon his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord: and they took +Dagon, and set him again in his place. + +5:4. And the next day again, when they rose in the morning, they found +Dagon lying upon his face on the earth before the ark of the Lord: and +the head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands, were cut off upon +the threshold: + +5:5. And only the stump of Dagon remained in its place. For this cause +neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that go into the temple, tread on +the threshold of Dagon in Azotus unto this day. + +5:6. And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he +destroyed them, and afflicted Azotus and the coasts thereof with +emerods. And in the villages and fields in the midst of that country, +there came forth a multitude of mice, and there was the confusion of a +great mortality in the city. + +5:7. And the men of Azotus seeing this kind of plague, said: The ark of +the God of Israel shall not stay with us: for his hand is heavy upon us, +and upon Dagon, our god. + +5:8. And sending, they gathered together all the lords of the +Philistines to them, and said: What shall we do with the ark of the God +of Israel? And the Gethites answered: Let the ark of the God of Israel +be carried about. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about. + +5:9. And while they were carrying it about, the hand of the Lord came +upon every city with an exceeding great slaughter: and he smote the men +of every city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their +secret parts. And the Gethites consulted together, and made themselves +seats of skins. + +5:10. Therefore they sent the ark of God into Accaron. And when the ark +of God was come into Accaron, the Accaronites cried out, saying: They +have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our +people. + +5:11. They sent therefore, and gathered together all the lords of the +Philistines: and they said: Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and +let it return into its own place, and not kill us and our people. + +5:12. For there was the fear of death in every city, and the hand of God +was exceeding heavy. The men also that did not die, were afflicted with +the emerods: and the cry of every city went up to heaven. + +1 Kings Chapter 6 + +The ark is sent back to Bethsames: where many are slain for looking +through curiosity into it. + +6:1. Now the ark of God was in the land of the Philistines seven months. + +6:2. And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, +saying: What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? tell us how we are to +send it back to its place. And they said: + +6:3. If you send back the ark of the God of Israel, send it not away +empty, but render unto him what you owe for sin, and then you shall be +healed: and you shall know why his hand departeth not from you. + +6:4. They answered: What is it we ought to render unto him for sin? and +they answered: + +6:5. According to the number of the provinces of the Philistines you +shall make five golden emerods, and five golden mice: for the same +plague hath been upon you all, and upon your lords. And you shall make +the likeness of your emerods, and the likeness of the mice, that have +destroyed the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: to +see if he will take off his hand from you, and from your gods, and from +your land. + +6:6. Why do you harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharao hardened their +hearts? did not he, after he was struck, then let them go, and they +departed? + +6:7. Now, therefore, take and make a new cart: and two kine that have +calved, on which there hath come no yoke, tie to the cart, and shut up +their calves at home. + +6:8. And you shall take the ark of the Lord, and lay it on the cart, and +the vessels of gold, which you have paid him for sin, you shall put into +a little box at the side thereof: and send it away, that it may go. + +6:9. And you shall look: and if it go up by the way of his own coasts, +towards Bethsames, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we +shall know that it is not his hand hath touched us, but it hath happened +by chance. + +6:10. They did therefore in this manner: and taking two kine, that had +sucking calves, they yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at +home. + +6:11. And they laid the ark of God upon the cart, and the little box +that had in it the golden mice, and the likeness of the emerods. + +6:12. And the kine took the straight way, that leadeth to Bethsames, and +they went along the way, lowing as they went: and turned not aside +neither to the right hand nor to the left: and the lords of the +Philistines followed them as far as the borders of Bethsames. + +6:13. Now the Bethsamites were reaping wheat in the valley: and lifting +up their eyes, they saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it. + +6:14. And the cart came into the field of Josue, a Bethsamite, and stood +there. And there was a great stone, and they cut in pieces the wood of +the cart, and laid the kine upon it a holocaust to the Lord. + +6:15. And the Levites took down the ark of God, and the little box that +was at the side of it, wherein were the vessels of gold, and they put +them upon the great stone. The men also of Bethsames offered holocausts, +and sacrificed victims that day to the Lord. + +6:16. And the five princes of the Philistines saw, and they returned to +Accaron the same day. + +6:17. And these are the golden emerods, which the Philistines returned +for sin to the Lord: For Azotus one, for Gaza one, for Ascalon one, for +Geth one, for Accaron one: + +6:18. And the golden mice, according to the number of the cities of the +Philistines, of the five provinces, from the fenced city to the village +that was without wall, and to the great Abel (the stone) whereon they +set down the ark of the Lord, which was till that day in the field of +Josue the Bethsamite. + +6:19. But he slew of the men of Bethsames, because they had seen the ark +of the Lord, and he slew of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand +of the common people. And the people lamented, because the Lord had +smitten the people with a great slaughter. + +Seen... And curiously looked into. It is likely this plague reached to +all the neighbouring country, as well as the city of Bethsames. + +6:20. And the men of Bethsames said: Who shall be able to stand before +the Lord this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us? + +6:21. And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Cariathiarim, +saying: The Philistines have brought back the ark of the Lord, come ye +down and fetch it up to you. + +1 Kings Chapter 7 + +The ark is brought to Cariathiarim. By Samuel's exhortation the people +cast away their idols and serve God alone. The Lord defeateth the +Philistines, while Samuel offereth sacrifice. + +7:1. And the men of Cariathiarim came, and fetched up the ark of the +Lord, and carried it into the house of Abinadab, in Gabaa: and they +sanctified Eleazar, his son, to keep the ark of the Lord. + +In Gabaa... That is, on the hill, for Gabaa signifieth a hill. + +7:2. And it came to pass, that from the day the ark of the Lord abode in +Cariathiarim, days were multiplied (for it was now the twentieth year) +and all the house of Israel rested, following the Lord. + +7:3. And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying: If you turn to +the Lord with all your heart, put away the strange gods from among you, +Baalim and Astaroth: and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve +him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. + +7:4. Then the children of Israel put away Baalim and Astaroth, and +served the Lord only. + +7:5. And Samuel said: Gather all Israel to Masphath, that I may pray to +the Lord for you. + +7:6. And they gathered together to Masphath, and they drew water, and +poured it out before the Lord, and they fasted on that day, and they +said there: We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the +children of Israel in Masphath. + +7:7. And the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered +together to Masphath, and the lords of the Philistines went up against +Israel. And when the children of Israel heard this, they were afraid of +the Philistines. + +7:8. And they said to Samuel: Cease not to cry to the Lord our God for +us, that he may save us out of the hand of the Philistines. + +7:9. And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it whole for a +holocaust to the Lord: and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the +Lord heard him. + +7:10. And it came to pass, when Samuel was offering the holocaust, the +Philistines began the battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered with +a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and terrified them, +and they were overthrown before the face of Israel. + +7:11. And the men of Israel going out of Masphath, pursued after the +Philistines, and made slaughter of them till they came under Bethchar. + +7:12. And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen: and +he called the place The stone of help. And he said: Thus far the Lord +hath helped us. + +7:13. And the Philistines were humbled, and they did not come any more +into the borders of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the +Philistines, all the days of Samuel. + +7:14. And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel, were +restored to Israel, from Accaron to Geth, and their borders: and he +delivered Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and there was peace +between Israel and the Amorrhites. + +7:15. And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life: + +7:16. And he went every year about to Bethel and to Galgal and to +Masphath, and he judged Israel in the foresaid places. + +7:17. And he returned to Ramatha: for there was his house, and there he +judged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord. + +1 Kings Chapter 8 + +Samuel growing old, and his sons not walking in his ways, the people +desire a king. + +8:1. And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he appointed his +sons to be judges over Israel. + +8:2. Now the name of his firstborn son was Joel: and the name of the +second was Abia, judges in Bersabee. + +8:3. And his sons walked not in his ways: but they turned aside after +lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. + +8:4. Then all the ancients of Israel being assembled came to Samuel to +Ramatha. + +8:5. And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in +thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have. + +8:6. And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they +should say: Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to the Lord. + +8:7. And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in +all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that +I should not reign over them. + +Rejected, etc... The government of Israel hitherto had been a theocracy, +in which God himself immediately ruled, by laws which he had enacted, +and by judges extraordinarily raised up by himself; and therefore he +complains that his people rejected him, in desiring a change of +government. + +8:8. According to all their works, they have done from the day that I +brought them out of Egypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and +served strange gods, so do they also unto thee. + +8:9. Now, therefore, hearken to their voice: but yet testify to them, +and foretell them the right of the king, that shall reign over them. + +The right... That is, the manner (misphat) after which he shall proceed, +having no one to control him, when he has the power in his hand. + +8:10. Then Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that had +desired a king of him, + +8:11. And said: This will be the right of the king that shall reign over +you: He will take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and will make +them his horsemen, and his running footmen, to run before his chariots, + +8:12. And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and his +centurions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make +him arms and chariots. + +8:13. Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be +his cooks, and bakers. + +8:14. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best +oliveyards, and give them to his servants. + +8:15. Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues +of your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants. + +8:16. Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, +and your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work. + +8:17. Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants. + +8:18. And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom +you have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that +day, because you desired unto yourselves a king. + +8:19. But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, and they said, +Nay: but there shall be a king over us, + +8:20. And we also will be like all nations: and our king shall judge us, +and go out before us, and fight our battles for us. + +8:21. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and rehearsed them +in the ears of the Lord. + +8:22. And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to their voice, and make them +a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel: Let every man go to his +city. + +1 Kings Chapter 9 + +Saul seeking his father's asses, cometh to Samuel, by whom he is +entertained. + +9:1. Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Cis, the son of +Abiel, the son of Seror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphia, the son +of a man of Jemini, valiant and strong. + +9:2. And he had a son whose name was Saul, a choice and goodly man, and +there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: +from his shoulders and upward he appeared above all the people. + +9:3. And the asses of Cis, Saul's father, were lost: and Cis said to his +son Saul: Take one of the servants with thee, and arise, go, and seek +the asses. And when they had passed through Mount Ephraim, + +9:4. And through the land of Salisa, and had not found them, they passed +also through the land of Salim, and they were not there: and through the +land of Jemini, and found them not. + +9:5. And when they were come to the land of Suph, Saul said to the +servant that was with him: Come, let us return, lest perhaps my father +forget the asses, and be concerned for us. + +9:6. And he said to him: Behold there is a man of God in this city, a +famous man: all that he saith, cometh certainly to pass. Now, therefore, +let us go thither, perhaps he may tell us of our way, for which we are +come. + +9:7. And Saul said to his servant: Behold we will go: but what shall we +carry to the man of God? the bread is spent in our bags: and we have no +present to make to the man of God, nor any thing at all. + +9:8. The servant answered Saul again, and said: Behold there is found in +my hand the fourth part of a sicle of silver, let us give it to the man +of God, that he may tell us our way. + +9:9. Now in time past in Israel, when a man went to consult God, he +spoke thus: Come, let us go to the seer. For he that is now called a +prophet, in time past was called a seer. + +Seer... Because of his seeing by divine light hidden things and things +to come. + +9:10. And Saul said to his servant: Thy word is very good, come let us +go. And they went into the city, where the man of God was. + +9:11. And when they went up the ascent to the city, they found maids +coming out to draw water, and they said to them: Is the seer here? + +9:12. They answered and said to them: He is: behold he is before you, +make haste now: for he came to day into the city, for there is a +sacrifice of the people to day in the high place. + +A sacrifice... The law did not allow of sacrifices in any other place, +but at the tabernacle, or temple, in which the ark of the covenant was +kept; but Samuel, by divine dispensation, offered sacrifices in other +places. For which dispensation this reason may be alleged, that the +house of God in Silo, having lost the ark, was now cast off; as a figure +of the reprobation of the Jews, Ps. 77.60, 67. And in Cariathiarim where +the ark was, there was neither tabernacle, nor altar.-Ibid. The high +place... Excelsum. The excelsa, or high places, so often mentioned in +scripture, were places of worship, in which were altars for sacrifice. +These were sometimes employed in the service of the true God, as in the +present case: but more frequently in the service of idols; and were +called excelsa, which is commonly (though perhaps not so accurately) +rendered high places; not because they were always upon hills, for the +very worst of all, which was that of Topheth, or Geennom, (Jer. 19.) was +in a valley; but because of the high altars, and pillars, or monuments, +erected there, on which were set up the idols, or images of their +deities. + +9:13. As soon as you come into the city, you shall immediately find him, +before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat +till he come; because he blesseth the victim, and afterwards they eat +that are invited. Now, therefore, go up, for to day you shall find him. + +9:14. And they went up into the city. And when they were walking in the +midst of the city, behold Samuel was coming out over against them, to go +up to the high place. + +9:15. Now the Lord had revealed to the ear of Samuel the day before Saul +came, saying: + +9:16. To morrow about this same hour I will send thee a man of the land +of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be ruler over my people +Israel: and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: +for I have looked down upon my people, because their cry is come to me. + +9:17. And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him: Behold the man, of +whom I spoke to thee, this man shall reign over my people. + +9:18. And Saul came to Samuel in the midst of the gate, and said: Tell +me, I pray thee, where is the house of the seer? + +9:19. And Samuel answered Saul, saying: I am the seer; go up before me +to the high place, that you may eat with me to day, and I will let thee +go in the morning: and tell thee all that is in thy heart. + +9:20. And as for the asses, which were lost three days ago, be not +solicitous, because they are found. And for whom shall be all the best +things of Israel? Shall they not be for thee and for all thy father's +house? + +9:21. And Saul answering, said: Am not I a son of Jemini of the least +tribe of Israel, and my kindred the last among all the families of the +tribe of Benjamin? Why then hast thou spoken this word to me? + +9:22. Then Samuel taking Saul, and his servant, brought them into the +parlour, and gave them a place at the head of them that were invited. +For there were about thirty men. + +9:23. And Samuel said to the cook: Bring the portion which I gave thee, +and commanded thee to set it apart by thee. + +9:24. And the cook took up the shoulder, and set it before Saul. And +Samuel said: Behold what is left, set it before thee, and eat; because +it was kept of purpose for thee, when I invited the people. And Saul ate +with Samuel that day. + +9:25. And they went down from the high place into the town, and he spoke +with Saul upon the top of the house: and he prepared a bed for Saul on +the top of the house and he slept. + +9:26. And when they were risen in the morning, and it began now to be +light, Samuel called Saul on the top of the house, saying: Arise, that I +may let thee go. And Saul arose: and they went out both of them: to wit, +he and Samuel. + +9:27. And as they were going down in the end of the city, Samuel said to +Saul: Speak to the servant to go before us, and pass on: but stand thou +still a while, that I may tell thee the word of the Lord. + +1 Kings Chapter 10 + +Saul is anointed. He prophesieth, and is changed into another man. +Samuel calleth the people together, to make a king: the lot falleth on +Saul. + +10:1. And Samuel took a little vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, +and kissed him, and said: Behold, the Lord hath anointed thee to be +prince over his inheritance, and thou shalt deliver his people out of +the hands of their enemies, that are round about them. And this shall be +a sign unto thee, that God hath anointed thee to be prince. + +10:2. When thou shalt depart from me this day, thou shalt find two men +by the sepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Benjamin to the south, and +they shall say to thee: The asses are found which thou wentest to seek: +and thy father, thinking no more of the asses, is concerned for you, and +saith: What shall I do for my son? + +10:3. And when thou shalt depart from thence, and go farther on, and +shalt come to the oak of Thabor, there shall meet thee three men going +up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another three loaves +of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine. + +Bethel... Where there was at that time an altar of God; it being one of +the places where Samuel judged Israel. + +10:4. And they will salute thee, and will give thee two loaves, and thou +shalt take them at their hand. + +10:5. After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where the garrison +of the Philistines is: and when thou shalt be come there into the city, +thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place, +with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp before them, and +they shall be prophesying. + +The hill of God... Gabaa, in which there was also at that time, a high +place or altar.-Prophets... These were men whose office it was to sing +hymns and praises to God; for such in holy writ are called prophets, and +their singing praises to God is called prophesying. See 1 Par. alias 1 +Chr. 15.22, and 25.1. Now there were in those days colleges, or shcools +for training up these prophets; and it seems there was one of these +schools at this hill of God; and another at Najoth in Ramatha. See 1 +Kings 19.20, 21, etc. + +10:6. And the Spirit of the Lord shall come upon thee, and thou shalt +prophesy with them, and shalt be changed into another man. + +10:7. When therefore these signs shall happen to thee, do whatsoever thy +hand shall find, for the Lord is with thee. + +10:8. And thou shalt go down before me to Galgal, (for I will come down +to thee), that thou mayst offer an oblation, and sacrifice victims of +peace: seven days shalt thou wait, till I come to thee, and I will shew +thee what thou art to do. + +Galgal... Here also by dispensation was an altar of God. + +10:9. So when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave unto +him another heart, and all these things came to pass that day. + +10:10 And they came to the foresaid hill, and behold a company of +prophets met him: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he +prophesied in the midst of them. + +10:11. And all that had known him yesterday and the day before, seeing +tha the was with the prophets, and prophesied, said to each other: What +is this that hath happened to the son of Cis? is Saul also among the +prophets? + +10:12. And one answered another, saying: And who is their father? +therefore it became a proverb: Is Saul also among the prophets? + +Their father... That is, their teacher, or superior. As much as to say, +Who could bring about such a wonderful change as to make Saul a prophet? + +10:13. And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high +place. + +10:14. And Saul's uncle said to him, and to his servant: Whither went +you? They answered: To seek the asses: and not finding them, we went to +Samuel. + +10:15. And his uncle said to him: Tell me what Samuel said to thee. + +10:16. And Saul said to his uncle: He told us that the asses were found. +But of the matter of the kingdom of which Samuel had spoken to him, he +told him not. + +10:17. And Samuel called together the people to the Lord in Maspha: + +10:18. And he said to the children of Israel: Thus saith the Lord the +God of Israel: I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you from +the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of all the kings who +afflicted you. + +10:19. But you this day have rejected your God, who only hath saved you +out of all your evils and your tribulations: and you have said: Nay: but +set a king over us. Now therefore stand before the Lord by your tribes, +and by your families. + +10:20. And Samuel brought to him all the tribes of Israel, and the lot +fell on the tribe of Benjamin. + +10:21. And he brought the tribe of Benjamin and the kindreds thereof, +and the lot fell upon the kindred of Metri, and it came to Saul, the son +of Cis. They sought him therefore, and he was not found. + +10:22. And after this they consulted the Lord whether he would come +thither. And the Lord answered: Behold he is hidden at home. + +10:23. And they ran and fetched him thence: and he stood in the midst of +the people, and he was higher than any of the people from the shoulders +and upward. + +10:24. And Samuel said to all the people: Surely you see him whom the +Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people. And +all the people cried and said: God save the king. + +10:25. And Samuel told the people the law of the kingdom, and wrote it +in a book, and laid it up before the Lord: and Samuel sent away all the +people, every one to his own house. + +10:26. Saul also departed to his own house in Gabaa: and there went with +him a part of the army, whose hearts God had touched. + +10:27. But the children of Belial said: Shall this fellow be able to +save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents; but he +dissembled as though he heard not. + +1 Kings Chapter 11 + +Saul defeateth the Ammonites, and delivereth Jabes Galaad. + +11:1. And it came to pass about a month after this, that Naas, the +Ammonite, came up, and began to fight against Jabes Galaad. And all the +men of Jabes said to Naas: Make a covenant with us, and we will serve +thee. + +11:2. And Naas, the Ammonite, answered them: On this condition will I +make a covenant with you, that I may pluck out all your right eyes, and +make you a reproach in all Israel. + +11:3. And the ancients of Jabes said to him: Allow us seven days, that +we may send messengers to all the coasts of Israel: and if there be no +one to defend us, we will come out to thee. + +11:4. The messengers therefore came to Gabaa of Saul: and they spoke +these words in the hearing of the people: and all the people lifted up +their voices, and wept. + +11:5. And behold Saul came, following oxen out of the field, and he +said: What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the words +of the men of Jabes. + +11:6. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul, when he had heard these +words, and his anger was exceedingly kindled. + +11:7. And taking both the oxen, he cut them in pieces, and sent them +into all the coasts of Israel, by messengers, saying: Whosoever shall +not come forth, and follow Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his +oxen. And the fear of the Lord fell upon the people, and they went out +as one man. + +11:8. And he numbered them in Bezec: and there were of the children of +Israel three hundred thousand: and of the men of Juda thirty thousand. + +11:9. And they said to the messengers that came: Thus shall you say to +the men of Jabes Galaad: To morrow, when the sun shall be hot, you shall +have relief. The messengers therefore came, and told the men of Jabes, +and they were glad. + +11:10. And they said: In the morning we will come out to you: and you +shall do what you please with us. + +11:11. And it came to pass, when the morrow was come, that Saul put the +people in three companies: and he came into the midst of the camp in the +morning watch, and he slew the Ammonites until the day grew hot, and the +rest were scattered, so that two of them were not left together. + +11:12. And the people said to Samuel: Who is he that said: Shall Saul +reign over us? Bring the men, and we will kill them. + +11:13. And Saul said: No man shall be killed this day: because the Lord +this day hath wrought salvation in Israel: + +11:14. And Samuel said to the people: Come, and let us go to Galgal, and +let us renew the kingdom there. + +11:15. And all the people went to Galgal, and there they made Saul king, +before the Lord in Galgal, and they sacrificed there victims of peace +before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced +exceedingly. + +1 Kings Chapter 12 + +Samuel's integrity is acknowledged. God sheweth by a sign from heaven +that they had done ill in asking for a king. + +12:1. And Samuel said to all Israel: Behold I have hearkened to your +voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you. + +12:2. And now the king goeth before you: but I am old and greyheaded: +and my sons are with you: having then conversed with you from my youth +until this day, behold here I am. + +12:3. Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I +have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have +oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will +despise it this day, and will restore it to you. + +12:4. And they said: Thou hast not wronged us, nor oppressed us, nor +taken ought at any man's hand. + +12:5. And he said to them: The Lord is witness against you, and his +anointed is witness this day, that you have not found any thing in my +hand. And they said: He is witness. + +12:6. And Samuel said to the people: It is the Lord who made Moses and +Aaron, and brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt. + +12:7. Now, therefore, stand up, that I may plead in judgment against you +before the Lord, concerning all the kindness of the Lord, which he hath +shewn to you, and to your fathers: + +12:8. How Jacob went into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the Lord: and +the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, and brought your fathers out of Egypt, +and made them dwell in this place. + +12:9. And they forgot the Lord their God, and he delivered them into the +hands of Sisara, captain of the army of Hasor, and into the hands of the +Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought +against them. + +12:10 But afterwards they cried to the Lord, and said: We have sinned, +because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served Baalim and Astaroth: +but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee. + +12:11. And the Lord sent Jerobaal, and Badan, and Jephte, and Samuel, +and delivered you from the hand of your enemies round about, and you +dwelt securely. + +Jerobaal and Badan... That is, Gedeon and Samson called here Badan or +Bedan, because he was of Dan. + +12:12. But seeing that Naas, king of the children of Ammon, was come +against you, you said to me: Nay, but a king shall reign over us: +whereas the Lord your God was your king. + +12:13. Now, therefore, your king is here, whom you have chosen and +desired: Behold the Lord hath given you a king. + +12:14. If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and hearken to his +voice, and not provoke the mouth of the Lord: then shall both you, and +the king who reigneth over you, be followers of the Lord your God. + +12:15. But if you will not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but will +rebel against his words, the hand of the Lord shall be upon you, and +upon your fathers. + +12:16. Now then stand, and see this great thing which the Lord will do +in your sight. + +12:17. Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call upon the Lord, and he +shall send thunder and rain: and you shall know, and see that you +yourselves have done a great evil in the sight of the Lord, in desiring +a king over you. + +Wheat harvest... At which time of the year, it never thunders or rains +in those countries. + +12:18. And Samuel cried unto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and +rain that day. + +12:19. And all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. And all +the people said to Samuel: Pray for thy servants to the Lord thy God, +that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask +for a king. + +12:20. And Samuel said to the people: Fear not, you have done all this +evil: but yet depart not from following the Lord, but serve the Lord +with all your heart. + +12:21. And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit +you, nor deliver you, because they are vain. + +12:22. And the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's +sake: because the Lord hath sworn to make you his people. + +12:23. And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should cease +to pray for you: and I will teach you the good and right way. + +12:24. Therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in truth, and with your +whole heart, for you have seen the great works which he hath done among +you. + +12:25. But if you will still do wickedly: both you and your king shall +perish together. + +1 Kings Chapter 13 + +The war between Saul and the Philistines. The distress of the +Israelites. Saul offereth sacrifice before the coming of Samuel: for +which he is reproved. + +13:1. Saul was a child of one year when he began to reign, and he +reigned two years over Israel. + +Of one year... That is, he was good and like an innocent child, and for +two years continued in that innocency. + +13:2. And Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel: and two thousand +were with Saul in Machmas, and in mount Bethel: and a thousand with +Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent back +every man to their dwellings. + +13:3. And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines which was in +Gabaa. And when the Philistines had heard of it, Saul sounded the +trumpet over all the land, saying: Let the Hebrews hear. + +13:4. And all Israel heard this report: Saul hath smitten the garrison +of the Philistines: and Israel took courageagainst the Philistines. And +the people were called together after Saul to Galgal. + +13:5. The Philistines also were assembled to fight against Israel, +thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and a multitude of +people besides, like the sand on the seashore for number. And going up +they camped in Machmas, at the east of Bethaven. + +13:6. And when the men of Israel saw that they were straitened (for the +people were distressed), they hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, +and in rocks, and in dens, and in pits. + +13:7. And some of the Hebrews passed over the Jordan into the land of +Gad and Galaad. And when Saul was yet in Galgal, all the people that +followed him were greatly afraid. + +13:8. And he waited seven days, according to the appointment of Samuel, +and Samuel came not to Galgal, and the people slipt away from him. + +13:9. Then Saul said: Bring me the holocaust, and the peace offerings. +And he offered the holocaust. + +13:10. And when he had made an end of offering the holocaust, behold +Samuel came: and Saul went forth to meet him and salute him. + +13:11. And Samuel said to him: What hast thou done? Saul answered: +Because I saw that the people slipt from me, and thou wast not come +according to the days appointed, and the Philistines were gathered +together in Machmas, + +13:12. I said: Now will the Philistines come down upon me to Galgal, and +I have not appeased the face of the Lord. Forced by necessity, I offered +the holocaust. + +13:13. And Samuel said to Saul: Thou hast done foolishly, and hast not +kept the commandments of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee. And +if thou hadst not done thus, the Lord would now have established thy +kingdom over Israel for ever: + +13:14. But thy kingdom shall not continue. The Lord hath sought him a +man according to his own heart: and him hath the Lord commanded to be +prince over his people, because thou hast not observed that which the +Lord commanded. + +13:15. And Samuel arose and went up from Galgal to Gabaa of Benjamin. +And the rest of the people went up after Saul, to meet the people who +fought against them, going from Galgal to Gabaa, in the hill of +Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people, that were found with him, about +six hundred men. + +13:16. And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present +with them, were in Gabaa of Benjamin: But the Philistines encamped in +Machmas. + +13:17. And there went out of the camp of the Philistines three companies +to plunder. One company went towards the way of Ephra to the land of +Sual; + +13:18. And another went by the way of Bethoron, and the third turned to +the way of the border, above the valley of Seboim towards the desert. + +13:19. Now there was no smith to be found in all the land of Israel, for +the Philistines had taken this precaution, lest the Hebrews should make +them swords or spears. + +13:20. So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man +his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake. + +13:21. So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and +their axes, were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended. + +13:22. And when the day of battle was come, there was neither sword nor +spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and +Jonathan, except Saul and Jonathan his son. + +13:23. And the army of the Philistines went out in order to advance +further in Machmas. + +1 Kings Chapter 14 + +Jonathan attacketh the Philistines. A miraculous victory. Saul's +unadvised oath, by which Jonathan is put in danger of his life, but is +delivered by the people. + +14:1. Now it came to pass one day that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said +to the young man that bore his armour: Come, and let us go over to the +garrison of the Philistines, which is on the other side of yonder place. +But he told not this to his father. + +14:2. And Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gabaa, under the +pomegranate tree, which was in Magron: and the people with him were +about six hundred men. + +14:3. And Achias, the son of Achitob, brother of Ichabod the son of +Phinees, the son of Heli, the priest of the Lord in Silo, wore the +ephod. And the people knew not whither Jonathan was gone. + +14:4. Now there were between the ascents, by which Jonathan sought to go +over to the garrison of the Philistines, rocks standing up on both +sides, and steep cliffs like teeth on the one side, and on the other, +the name of the one was Boses, and the name of the other was Sene: + +14:5. One rock stood out toward the north, over against Machmas, and the +other to the south, over against Gabaa. + +14:6. And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, let +us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised, it may be the Lord +will do for us: because it is easy for the Lord to save either by many, +or by few. + +14:7. And his armourbearer said to him: Do all that pleaseth thy mind: +go whither thou wilt, and I will be with thee wheresoever thou hast a +mind. + +14:8. And Jonathan said: Behold we will go over to these men. And when +we shall be seen by them, + +14:9. If they shall speak thus to us: Stay till we come to you: let us +stand still in our place, and not go up to them. + +14:10. But if they shall say: Come up to us: let us go up, because the +Lord hath delivered them into our hands, this shall be a sign unto us. + +This shall be a sign... It is likely Jonathan was instructed by divine +inspiration to make a choice of this sign: otherwise the observation of +omens is superstitious and sinful. + +14:11. So both of them discovered themselves to the garrison of the +Philistines: and the Philistines said: Behold the Hebrews come forth out +of the holes wherein they were hid. + +14:12. And the men of the garrison spoke to Jonathan, and to his +armourbearer, and said: Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And +Jonathan said to his armourbearer: Let us go up, follow me: for the Lord +hath delivered them into the hands of Israel. + +14:13. And Jonathan went up creeping on his hands and feet, and his +armourbearer after him. And some fell before Jonathan, others his +armourbearer slew as he followed him. + +14:14. And the first slaughter which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, +was of about twenty men, within half an acre of land, which a yoke of +oxen is wont to plough in a day. + +14:15. And there was a miracle in the camp, in the fields: and all the +people of their garrison, who had gone out to plunder, were amazed, and +the earth trembled: and it happened as a miracle from God. + +14:16. And the watchmen of Saul, who were in Gabaa of Benjamin looked, +and behold a multitude overthrown, and fleeing this way and that. + +14:17. And Saul said to the people that were with him: Look, and see who +is gone from us. And when they had sought, it was found that Jonathan +and his armourbearer were not there. + +14:18. And Saul said to Achias: Bring the ark of the Lord. (For the ark +of God was there that day with the children of Israel.) + +14:19. And while Saul spoke to the priest, there arose a great uproar in +the camp of the Philistines: and it increased by degrees, and was heard +more clearly. And Saul said to the priest: Draw in thy hand. + +14:20. Then Saul, and all the people that were with him, shouted +together, and they came to the place of the fight: and behold every +man's sword was turned upon his neighbour, and there was a very great +slaughter. + +14:21. Moreover, the Hebrews that had been with the Philistines +yesterday and the day before, and went up with them into the camp, +returned to be with the Israelites, who were with Saul and Jonathan. + +14:22. And all the Israelites that had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, +hearing that the Philistines fled, joined themselves with their +countrymen in the fight. And there were with Saul about ten thousand +men. + +14:23. And the Lord saved Israel that day. And the fight went on as far +as Bethaven. + +14:24. And the men of Israel were joined together that day: and Saul +adjured the people, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat food till +evening, till I be revenged of my enemies. So none of the people tasted +any food. + +14:25. And all the common people came into a forest, in which there was +honey upon the ground. + +14:26. And when the people came into the forest, behold the honey +dropped, but no man put his hand to his mouth. For the people feared the +oath. + +14:27. But Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people: +and he put forth the end of the rod, which he had in his hand, and dipt +it in a honeycomb: and he carried his hand to his mouth, and his eyes +were enlightened. + +14:28. And one of the people answering, said: Thy father hath bound the +people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat any food +this day. (And the people were faint.) + +14:29. And Jonathan said: My father hath troubled the land: you have +seen yourselves that my eyes are enlightened, because I tasted a little +of this honey: + +14:30. How much more if the people had eaten of the prey of their +enemies, which they found? had there not been made a greater slaughter +among the Philistines? + +14:31. So they smote that day the Philistines, from Machmas to Aialon. +And the people were wearied exceedingly. + +14:32. And falling upon the spoils, they took sheep, and oxen, and +calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people ate them with the +blood. + +14:33. And they told Saul that the people had sinned against the Lord, +eating with the blood. And he said: You have transgressed: roll here to +me now a great stone. + +14:34. And Saul said: Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell +them to bring me every man his ox and his ram and slay them upon this +stone, and eat, and you shall not sin against the Lord, in eating with +the blood. So all the people brought every man his ox with him till the +night: and slew them there. + +14:35. And Saul built an altar to the Lord: and he then first began to +build an altar to the Lord. + +14:36. And Saul said: Let us fall upon the Philistines by night, and +destroy them till the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. +And the people said: Do all that seemeth good in thy eyes. And the +priest said: Let us draw near hither unto God. + +14:37. And Saul consulted the Lord: Shall I pursue after the +Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hands of Israel? And he +answered him not that day. + +14:38. And Saul said: Bring hither all the corners of the people: and +know, and see by whom this sin hath happened to day. + +14:39. As the Lord liveth, who is the Saviour of Israel, if it was done +by Jonathan, my son, he shall surely die. In this none of the people +gainsayed him. + +14:40. And he said to all Israel: Be you on one side and I, with +Jonathan, my son, will be on the other side. And the people answered +Saul: Do what seemeth good in thy eyes. + +14:41. And Saul said to the Lord: O Lord God of Israel, give a sign, by +which we may know, what the meaning is, that thou answerest not thy +servant to day: If this iniquity be in me, or in my son Jonathan, give a +proof: or if this iniquity be in thy people, give holiness. And Jonathan +and Saul were taken, and the people escaped. + +14:42. And Saul said: Cast lots between me, and Jonathan, my son. And +Jonathan was taken. + +Jonathan was taken... Though Jonathan was excused from sin, through +ignorance of the prohibition, yet God was pleased on this occasion to +let the lot fall upon him, to shew unto all the great obligation of +obedience to princes and parents. + +14:43. And Saul said to Jonathan: Tell me what thou hast done. And +Jonathan told him, and said: I did but taste a little honey with the end +of the rod, which was in my hand, and behold I must die. + +14:44. And Saul said: May God do so and so to me, and add still more: +for dying thou shalt die, O Jonathan. + +14:45. And the people said to Saul: Shall Jonathan then die, who hath +wrought this great salvation in Israel? this must not be: As the Lord +liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he +hath wrought with God this day. So the people delivered Jonathan, that +he should not die. + +14:46. And Saul went back, and did not pursue after the Philistines: and +the Philistines went to their own places. + +14:47. And Saul having his kingdom established over Israel, fought +against all his enemies round about, against Moab, and against the +children of Ammon, and Edom, and the kings of Soba, and the Philistines: +and whithersoever he turned himself, he overcame. + +14:48. And gathering together an army, he defeated Amalec, and delivered +Israel from the hand of them that spoiled them. + +14:49. And the sons of Saul, were Jonathan, and Jessui, and Melchisua: +and the names of his two daughters, the name of the firstborn was Merob, +and the name of the younger Michol. + +14:50. And the name of Saul's wife was Achinoam, the daughter of +Achimaas; and the name of the captain of his army was Abner, the son of +Ner, the cousin german of Saul. + +14:51. For Cis was the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner, was +son of Abiel. + +14:52. And there was a great war against the Philistines all the days of +Saul. For whomsoever Saul saw to be a valiant man, and fit for war, he +took him to himself. + +1 Kings Chapter 15 + +Saul is sent to destroy Amalec: he spareth their king and the best of +their cattle: for which disobedience he is cast off by the Lord. + +15:1. And Samuel said to Saul: The Lord sent me to anoint thee king over +his people Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the +Lord: + +15:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have reckoned up all that Amalec +hath done to Israel: how he opposed them in the way when they came up +out of Egypt. + +15:3. Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that +he hath: spare him not, nor covet anything that is his: but slay both +man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. + +Child... The great Master of life and death (who cuts off one half of +all mankind whilst they are children) has been pleased sometimes to +ordain that children should be put to the sword, in detestation of the +crimes of their parents, and that they might not live to follow the same +wicked ways. But without such ordinance of God it is not allowable, in +any wars, how just soever, to kill children. + +15:4. So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two +hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda. + +15:5. And when Saul was come to the city of Amalec, he laid ambushes in +the torrent. + +15:6. And Saul said to the Cinite: Go, depart, and get ye down from +Amalec: lest I destroy thee with him. For thou hast shewn kindness to +all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. And the +Cinite departed from the midst of Amalec. + +15:7. And Saul smote Amalec from Hevila, until thou comest to Sur, which +is over against Egypt. + +15:8. And he took Agag, the king of Amalec, alive: but all the common +people he slew with the edge of the sword. + +15:9. And Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the flocks of +sheep, and of the herds, and the garments and the rams, and all that was +beautiful, and would not destroy them: but every thing that was vile, +and good for nothing, that they destroyed. + +15:10. And the word of the Lord came to Samuel, + +15:11. It repenteth me that I have made Saul king: for he hath forsaken +me, and hath not executed my commandments. And Samuel was grieved, and +he cried unto the Lord all night. + +15:12. And when Samuel rose early, to go to Saul in the morning, it was +told Samuel that Saul was come to Carmel, and had erected for himself a +triumphant arch, and returning had passed on, and gone down to Galgal. +And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul was offering a holocaust to the Lord, +out of the choicest of the spoils, which he had brought from Amalec. + +15:13. And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said to him: Blessed be +thou of the Lord, I have fulfilled the word of the Lord. + +15:14. And Samuel said: What meaneth then this bleating of the flocks, +which soundeth in my ears, and the lowing of the herds, which I hear? + +15:15. And Saul said: They have brought them from Amalec: for the people +spared the best of the sheep and of the herds, that they might be +sacrificed to the Lord thy God, but the rest we have slain. + +15:16. And Samuel said to Saul: Suffer me, and I will tell thee what the +Lord hath said to me this night. And he said to him: Speak. + +15:17. And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thy own eyes, +wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the Lord +anointed thee to be king over Israel. + +15:18. And the Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the +sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast +utterly destroyed them. + +15:19. Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord: but +hast turned to the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord? + +15:20. And Saul said to Samuel: Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of +the Lord, and have walked in the way by which the Lord sent me, and have +brought Agag, the king of Amalec, and Amalec I have slain. + +15:21. But the people took of the spoils, sheep and oxen, as the +firstfruits of those things that were slain, to offer sacrifice to the +Lord their God in Galgal. + +15:22. And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and +not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is +better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or +rams. + +15:23. Because it is like the sin of witchcraft, to rebel: and like the +crime of idolatry, to refuse to obey. Forasmuch, therefore, as thou hast +rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord hath also rejected thee from +being king. + +15:24. And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned, because I have +transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words, fearing the +people, and obeying their voice. + +15:25. But now bear, I beseech thee, my sin, and return with me, that I +may adore the Lord. + +15:26. And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with thee, because +thou hath rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee +from being king over Israel. + +15:27. And Samuel turned about to go away: but he laid hold upon the +skirt of his mantle, and it rent. + +15:28. And Samuel said to him: The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel +from thee this day, and hath given it to thy neighbour who is better +than thee. + +15:29. But the triumpher in Israel will not spare, and will not be moved +to repentance: for he is not a man that he should repent. + +15:30. Then he said: I have sinned: yet honour me now before the +ancients of my people, and before Israel, and return with me, that I may +adore the Lord thy God. + +15:31. So Samuel turned again after Saul: and Saul adored the Lord. + +15:32. And Samuel said: Bring hither to me Agag, the king of Amalec. And +Agag was presented to him very fat, and trembling. And Agag said: Doth +bitter death separate in this manner? 15:33. And Samuel said: As thy +sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among +women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal. + +15:34. And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to his house in +Gabaa. + +15:35. And Samuel saw Saul no more till the day of his death: +nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul, because the Lord repented that he +had made him king over Israel. + +Saw Saul no more till the day of his death... That is, he went no more +to see him: he visited him no more. + +1 Kings Chapter 16 + +Samuel is sent to Bethlehem, where he anointeth David: who is taken into +Saul's family. + +16:1. And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, +whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, +and come, that I may send thee to Isai, the Bethlehemite: for I have +provided me a king among his sons. + +16:2. And Samuel said: How shall I go? for Saul will hear of it, and he +will kill me. And the Lord said: Thou shalt take with thee a calf of the +herd, and thou shalt say: I am come to sacrifice to the Lord. + +16:3. And thou shalt call Isai to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee +what thou art to do, and thou shalt anoint him whom I shall shew to +thee. + +16:4. Then Samuel did as the Lord had said to him. And he came to +Bethlehem, and the ancients of the city wondered, and meeting him, they +said: Is thy coming hither peaceable? + +16:5. And he said: It is peaceable: I am come to offer sacrifice to the +Lord, be ye sanctified, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he +sanctified Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. + +16:6. And when they were come in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is the Lord's +anointed before him? + +16:7. And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on +the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge +according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, +but the Lord beholdeth the heart. + +16:8. And Isai called Abinadab, and brought him before Samuel. And he +said: Neither hath the Lord chosen this, + +16:9. And Isai brought Samma, and he said of him: Neither hath the Lord +chosen this. + +16:10. Isai therefore brought his seven sons before Samuel: and Samuel +said to Isai: The Lord hath not chosen any one of these. + +16:11. And Samuel said to Isai: Are here all thy sons? He answered: +There remaineth yet a young one, who keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said +to Isai: Send, and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come +hither. + +16:12. He sent therefore and brought him. Now he was ruddy and beautiful +to behold, and of a comely face. And the Lord said: Arise, and anoint +him, for this is he. + +16:13. Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst +of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that +day forward: and Samuel rose up, and went to Ramatha. + +16:14. But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit +from the Lord troubled him. + +From the Lord... An evil spirit, by divine permission, and for his +punishment, either possessed or obsessed him. + +16:15. And the servants of Saul said to him: Behold now an evil spirit +from God troubleth thee. + +16:16. Let our lord give orders, and thy servants who are before thee, +will seek out a man skilful in playing on the harp, that when the evil +spirit from the Lord is upon thee, he may play with his hand, and thou +mayst bear it more easily. + +16:17. And Saul said to his servants: Provide me then some man that can +play well, and bring him to me. + +16:18. And one of the servants answering, said: Behold I have seen a son +of Isai, the Bethlehemite, a skilful player, and one of great strength, +and a man fit for war, and prudent in his words, and a comely person: +and the Lord is with him. + +16:19. Then Saul sent messengers to Isai, saying: Send me David, thy +son, who is in the pastures. + +16:20. And Isai took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and +a kid of the flock, and sent them by the hand of David, his son, to +Saul. + +16:21. And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him +exceedingly, and made him his armourbearer. + +16:22. And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let David stand before me: for he +hath found favour in my sight. + +16:23. So whensoever the evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul, David +took his harp, and played with his hand, and Saul was refreshed, and was +better, for the evil spirit departed from him. + +Departed from him... Chased away by David's devotion. + +1 Kings Chapter 17 + +War with the Philistines. Goliath challengeth Israel. He is slain by +David. + +17:1. Now the Philistines gathering together their troops to battle, +assembled at Socho of Juda: and camped between Socho and Azeca, in the +borders of Dommim. + +17:2. And Saul and the children of Israel being gathered together, came +to the valley of Terebinth, and they set the army in array to fight +against the Philistines. + +17:3. And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and +Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley +between them. + +17:4. And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the +Philistines, named Goliath, of Geth, whose height was six cubits and a +span: + +17:5. And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clothed +with a coat of mail with scales, and the weight of his coat of mail was +five thousand sicles of brass: + +17:6. And he had greaves of brass on his legs, and a buckler of brass +covered his shoulders. + +17:7. And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and the head +of his spear weighed six hundred sicles of iron: and his armourbearer +went before him. + +17:8. And standing, he cried out to the bands of Israel, and said to +them: Why are you come out prepared to fight? am not I a Philistine, and +you the servants of Saul? Choose out a man of you, and let him come down +and fight hand to hand. + +17:9. If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, we will be servants +to you: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, you shall be +servants, and shall serve us. + +17:10. And the Philistine said: I have defied the bands of Israel this +day: give me a man, and let him fight with me hand to hand. + +17:11. And Saul and all the Israelites hearing these words of the +Philistine, were dismayed, and greatly afraid. + +17:12. Now David was the son of that Ephrathite, of Bethlehem Juda, +before mentioned, whose name was Isai, who had eight sons, and was an +old man in the days of Saul, and of great age among men. + +17:13. And his three eldest sons followed Saul to the battle: and the +names of his three sons that went to the battle, were Eliab, the +firstborn, and the second, Abinadab, and the third Samma: + +17:14. But David was the youngest. So the three eldest having followed +Saul, + +17:15. David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father's flock at +Bethlehem. + +17:16. Now the Philistine came out morning and evening, and presented +himself forty days. + +17:17. And Isai said to David, his son: Take for thy brethren an ephi of +frumenty, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren, + +17:18. And carry these ten little cheeses to the tribune: and go see thy +brethren, if they are well: and learn with whom they are placed. + +17:19. But Saul, and they, and all the children of Israel, were in the +valley of Terebinth, fighting against the Philistines. + +17:20. David, therefore, arose in the morning, and gave the charge of +the flock to the keeper: and went away loaded, as Isai had commanded +him. And he came to the place of Magala, and to the army, which was +going out to fight, and shouted for the battle. + +17:21. For Israel had put themselves in array, and the Philistines who +stood against them were prepared. + +17:22. And David leaving the vessels which he had brought, under the +care of the keeper of the baggage, ran to the place of the battle, and +asked if all things went well with his brethren. + +17:23. And as he talked with them, that baseborn man, whose name was +Goliath, the Philistine, of Geth, shewed himself coming up from the camp +of the Philistines: and he spoke according to the same words, and David +heard them, + +17:24. And all the Israelites, when they saw the man, fled from his +face, fearing him exceedingly. + +17:25. And some one of Israel said: Have you seen this man that is come +up, for he is come up to defy Israel. And the man that shall slay him, +the king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, +and will make his father's house free from tribute in Israel. + +17:26. And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying: What shall +be given to the man that shall kill this Philistine, and shall take away +the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that +he should defy the armies of the living God? + +17:27. And the people answered him the same words, saying: These things +shall be given to the man that shall slay him. + +17:28. Now when Eliab his eldest brother heard this, when he was +speaking with others, he was angry with David, and said: Why camest thou +hither? and why didst thou leave those few sheep in the desert? I know +thy pride, and the wickedness of thy heart: that thou art come down to +see the battle. + +17:29. And David said: What have I done? is there not cause to speak? + +17:30. And he turned a little aside from him to another: and said the +same word. And the people answered him as before. + +17:31. And the words which David spoke were heard, and were rehearsed +before Saul. + +17:32. And when he was brought to Saul, he said to him. Let not any +man's heart be dismayed in him: I thy servant will go, and will fight +against the Philistine. + +17:33. And Saul said to David: Thou art not able to withstand this +Philistine, nor to fight against him: for thou art but a boy, but he is +a warrior from his youth. + +17:34. And David said to Saul: Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and +there came a lion, or a bear, and took a ram out of the midst of the +flock: + +17:35. And I pursued after them, and struck them, and delivered it out +of their mouth: and they rose up against me, and I caught them by the +throat, and I strangled, and killed them. + +17:36. For I thy servant have killed both a lion and a bear: and this +uncircumcised Philistine shall be also as one of them. I will go now, +and take away the reproach of the people: for who is this uncircumcised +Philistine, who hath dared to curse the army of the living God? + +17:37. And David said: The Lord who delivered me out of the paw of the +lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand +of this Philistine. And Saul said to David: Go, and the Lord be with +thee. + +17:38. And Saul clothed David with his garments, and put a helmet of +brass upon his head, and armed him with a coat of mail. + +17:39. And David having girded his sword upon his armour, began to try +if he could walk in armour: for he was not accustomed to it. And David +said to Saul: I cannot go thus, for I am not used to it. And he laid +them off, + +17:40. And he took his staff, which he had always in his hands: and +chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them into the +shepherd's scrip, which he had with him, and he took a sling in his +hand, and went forth against the Philistine. + +17:41. And the Philistine came on, and drew nigh against David, and his +armourbearer went before him. + +17:42. And when the Philistine looked, and beheld David, he despised +him. For he was a young man, ruddy, and of a comely countenance. + +17:43. And the Philistine said to David: Am I a dog, that thou comest to +me with a staff? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. + +17:44. And he said to David: Come to me, and I will give thy flesh to +the birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth. + +17:45. And David said to the Philistine: Thou comest to me with a sword, +and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of +the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, which thou hast +defied. + +17:46. This day, and the Lord will deliver thee into my hand, and I will +slay thee, and take away thy head from thee: and I will give the +carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the +air, and to the beasts of the earth: that all the earth may know that +there is a God in Israel. + +17:47. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with +sword and spear: for it is his battle, and he will deliver you into our +hands. + +17:48. And when the Philistine arose, and was coming, and drew nigh to +meet David, David made haste, and ran to the fight to meet the +Philistine. + +17:49. And he put his hand into his scrip, and took a stone, and cast it +with the sling, and fetching it about, struck the Philistine in the +forehead, and he fell on his face upon the earth. + +17:50. And David prevailed over the Philistine, with a sling and a +stone, and he struck, and slew the Philistine. And as David had no sword +in his hand, + +17:51. He ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and +drew it out of the sheath, and slew him, and cut off his head. And the +Philistines seeing that their champion was dead, fled away. + +17:52. And the men of Israel and Juda rising up shouted, and pursued +after the Philistines till they came to the valley and to the gates of +Accaron, and there fell many wounded of the Philistines in the way of +Saraim, and as far as Geth, and as far as Accaron. + +17:53. And the children of Israel returning, after they had pursued the +Philistines, fell upon their camp. + +17:54. And David taking the head of the Philistine, brought it to +Jerusalem: but his armour he put in his tent. + +17:55. Now at the time that Saul saw David going out against the +Philistines, he said to Abner, the captain of the army: Of what family +is this young man descended, Abner? And Abner said: As thy soul liveth, +O king, I know not. + +17:56. And the king said: Inquire thou, whose son this young man is. + +17:57. And when David was returned, after the Philistine was slain, +Abner took him, and brought him in before Saul, with the head of the +Philistine in his hand. + +17:58. And Saul said to him: Young man, of what family art thou? And +David said: I am the son of thy servant Isai the Bethlehemite. + +1 Kings Chapter 18 + +The friendship of Jonathan and David. The envy of Saul, and his design +upon David's life. He marrieth him to his daughter Michol. + +18:1. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, +the son of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved +him as his own soul. + +18:2. And Saul took him that day, and would not let him return to his +father's house. + +18:3. And David and Jonathan made a covenant, for he loved him as his +own soul. + +18:4. And Jonathan stripped himself of the coat with which he was +clothed, and gave it to David, and the rest of his garments, even to his +sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle. + +18:5. And David went out to whatsoever business Saul sent him, and he +behaved himself prudently: and Saul set him over the soldiers, and he +was acceptable in the eyes of all the people, and especially in the eyes +of Saul's servants. + +18:6. Now when David returned, after he slew the Philistine, the women +came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king +Saul, with timbrels of joy, and cornets. + +18:7. And the women sung as they played, and they said: Saul slew his +thousands, and David his ten thousands. + +18:8. And Saul was exceeding angry, and this word was displeasing in his +eyes, and he said: They have given David ten thousands, and to me they +have given but a thousand, what can he have more but the kingdom? + +18:9. And Saul did not look on David with a good eye from that day and +forward. + +18:10. And the day after, the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and +he prophesied in the midst of his house. And David played with his hand +as at other times. And Saul held a spear in his hand, + +Prophesied... Acted the prophet in a mad manner. + +18:11. And threw it, thinking to nail David to the wall: and David stept +aside out of his presence twice. + +18:12. And Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him, and was +departed from Saul himself. + +18:13. Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him a captain over +a thousand men, and he went out and came in before the people. + +18:14. And David behaved wisely in all his ways, and the Lord was with +him. + +18:15. And Saul saw that he was exceeding prudent, and began to beware +of him. + +18:16. But all Israel and Juda loved David, for he came in and went out +before them. + +18:17. And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her will +I give thee to wife: only be a valiant man, and fight the battles of the +Lord. Now Saul said within himself: Let not my hand be upon him, but let +the hands of the Philistines be upon him. + +18:18. And David said to Saul: Who am I, or what is my life, or my +father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law of the king? + +18:19. And it came to pass at the time when Merob, the daughter of Saul, +should have been given to David, that she was given to Hadriel, the +Molathite, to wife. + +18:20. But Michol, the other daughter of Saul, loved David. And it was +told Saul, and it pleased him. + +18:21. And Saul said: I will give her to him, that she may be a +stumblingblock to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be upon +him. And Saul said to David: In two things thou shalt be my son in law +this day. + +18:22. And Saul commanded his servants to speak to David privately, +saying: Behold, thou pleasest the king, and all his servants love thee. +Now, therefore be the king's son in law. + +18:23. And the servants of Saul spoke all these words in the ear of +David. And David said: Doth it seem to you a small matter to be the +king's son in law? But I am a poor man, and of small ability. + +18:24. And the servants of Saul told him, saying: Such words as these +hath David spoken. + +18:25. And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any +dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of +the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of +the Philistines. + +18:26. And when his servants had told David the words that Saul had +said, the word was pleasing in the eyes of David to be the king's son in +law. + +18:27. And after a few days David rose up, and went with the men that +were under him, and he slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and +brought their foreskins and numbered them out to the king, that he might +be his son in law. Saul therefore gave him Michol, his daughter, to +wife. + +18:28. And Saul saw, and understood that the Lord was with David. And +Michol, the daughter of Saul, loved him. + +18:29. And Saul began to fear David more: and Saul became David's enemy +continually. + +18:30. And the princes of the Philistines went forth: and from the +beginning of their going forth, David behaved himself more wisely than +all the servants of Saul, and his name became very famous. + +1 Kings Chapter 19 + +Other attempts of Saul upon David's life. He cometh to Samuel. Saul's +messengers, and Saul himself prophesy. + +19:1. And Saul spoke to Jonathan, his son, and to all his servants, that +they should kill David. But Jonathan, the son of Saul, loved David +exceedingly. + +19:2. And Jonathan told David, saying: Saul, my father, seeketh to kill +thee: wherefore look to thyself, I beseech thee, in the morning and thou +shalt abide in a secret place, and shalt be hid. + +19:3. And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where +thou art: and I will speak of thee to my father, and whatsoever I shall +see, I will tell thee. + +19:4. And Jonathan spoke good things of David to Saul, his father: and +said to him: Sin not, O king, against thy servant, David, because he +hath not sinned against thee, and his works are very good towards thee. + +19:5. And he put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the +Lord wrought great salvation for all Israel. Thou sawest it and didst +rejoice. Why therefore wilt thou sin against innocent blood, by killing +David, who is without fault? + +19:6. And when Saul heard this, he was appeased with the words of +Jonathan, and swore: As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain. + +19:7. Then Jonathan called David, and told him all these words: and +Jonathan brought in David to Saul, and he was before him, as he had been +yesterday and the day before. + +19:8. And the war began again, and David went out, and fought against +the Philistines, and defeated them with a great slaughter, and they fled +from his face. + +19:9. And the evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul; and he sat in +his house, and held a spear in his hand: and David played with his hand. + +19:10. And Saul endeavoured to nail David to the wall with his spear. +And David slipt away out of the presence of Saul: and the spear missed +him, and was fastened in the wall, and David fled, and escaped that +night. + +19:11. Saul therefore sent his guards to David's house to watch him, +that he might be killed in the morning. And when Michol, David's wife, +had told him this, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, to +morrow thou wilt die: + +19:12. She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and +escaped. + +19:13. And Michol took an image, and laid it on the bed, and put a +goat's skin, with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with +clothes. + +19:14. And Saul sent officers to seize David; and it was answered that +he was sick. + +19:15. And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the +bed, that he may be slain. + +19:16. And when the messengers were come in, they found an image upon +the bed, and a goat skin at his head. + +19:17. And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou deceived me so, and let my +enemy go and flee away? And Michol answered Saul: Because he said to me: +Let me go, or else I will kill thee. + +19:18. But David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel in Ramatha, and +told him all that Saul had done to him: and he and Samuel went and dwelt +in Najoth. + +Najoth... It was probably a school or college of prophets, in or near +Ramath under the direction of Samuel. + +19:19. And it was told Saul by some, saying: Behold David is in Najoth, +in Ramatha. + +19:20. So Saul sent officers to take David: and when they saw a company +of prophets prophesying, and Samuel presiding over them, the Spirit of +the Lord came also upon them, and they likewise began to prophesy. + +Prophesying... That is, singing praises to God by a divine impulse. God +was pleased on this occasion that both Samuel's messengers and himself +should experience the like impulse, that he might understand, by this +instance of the divine power, how vain are the designs of man against +him whom God protects. + +19:21. And when this was told Saul, he sent other messengers: but they +also prophesied. And again Saul sent messengers the third time: and they +prophesied also. And Saul being exceeding angry, + +19:22. Went also himself to Ramatha, and came as far as the great +cistern, which is in Socho, and he asked, and said: In what place are +Samuel and David? And it was told him: Behold they are in Najoth, in +Ramatha. + +19:23. And he went to Najoth, in Ramatha, and the Spirit of the Lord +came upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied till he came to +Najoth, in Ramatha. + +19:24. And he stripped himself also of his garments, and prophesied with +the rest before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and night. This +gave occasion to a proverb: What! is Saul too among the prophets? + +1 Kings Chapter 20 + +Saul being obstinately bent upon killing David, he is sent away by +Jonathan. + +20:1. But David fled from Najoth, which is in Ramatha, and came and said +to Jonathan: What have I done? what is my iniquity, and what is my sin +against thy father, that he seeketh my life? + +20:2. And he said to him: God forbid, thou shalt not die: for my father +will do nothing, great or little, without first telling me: hath then my +father hid this word only from me? no, this shall not be. + +20:3. And he swore again to David. And David said: Thy father certainly +knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, and he will say: Let not +Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the Lord liveth, +and thy soul liveth, there is but one step (as I may say) between me and +death. + +20:4. And Jonathan said to David: Whatsoever thy soul shall say to me, I +will do for thee. + +20:5. And David said to Jonathan: Behold to morrow is the new moon, and +I, according to custom, am wont to sit beside the king to eat: let me go +then that I may be hid in the field till the evening of the third day. + +To morrow is the new moon... The neomenia, or first day of the moon, +kept according to the law, as a festival; and therefore Saul feasted on +that day: and expected the attendance of his family. + +20:6. If thy father look and inquire for me, thou shalt answer him: +David asked me that he might run to Bethlehem, his own city: because +there are solemn sacrifices there for all of his tribe. + +20:7. If he shall say: It is well: thy servant shall have peace: but if +he be angry, know that his malice is come to its height. + +20:8. Deal mercifully then with thy servant: for thou hast brought me, +thy servant, into a covenant of the Lord with thee. But if there be any +iniquity in me, do thou kill me, and bring me not in to thy father. + +20:9. And Jonathan said: Far be this from thee: for if I should +certainly know that evil is determined by my father against thee, I +could do no otherwise than tell thee. + +20:10. And David answered Jonathan: Who shall bring me word, if thy +father should answer thee harshly concerning me? + +20:11. And Jonathan said to David: Come, and let us go out into the +field. And when they were both of them gone out into the field, + +20:12. Jonathan said to David: O Lord God of Israel, if I shall discover +my father's mind, to morrow, or the day after, and there be any thing +good for David, and I send not immediately to thee, and make it known to +thee, + +20:13. May the Lord do so and so to Jonathan, and add still more. But if +my father shall continue in malice against thee, I will discover it to +thy ear, and will send thee away, that thou mayst go in peace, and the +Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father. + +20:14. And if I live, thou shalt shew me the kindness of the Lord: but +if I die, + +20:15. Thou shalt not take away thy kindness from my house for ever, +when the Lord shall have rooted out the enemies of David, every one of +them from the earth, may he take away Jonathan from his house, and may +the Lord require it at the hands of David's enemies. + +May he take away Jonathan, etc... It is a curse upon himself, if he +should not be faithful to his promise.-Ibid. Require it, etc... That is, +revenge it upon David's enemies, and upon me, if I should fail of my +word given to him. + +20:16. Jonathan therefore made a covenant with the house of David: and +the Lord required it at the hands of David's enemies. + +20:17. And Jonathan swore again to David, because he loved him: for he +loved him as his own soul. + +20:18. And Jonathan said to him: To morrow is the new moon, and thou +wilt be missed: + +20:19. For thy seat will be empty till after to morrow. So thou shalt go +down quickly, and come to the place where thou must he hid, on the day +when it is lawful to work, and thou shalt remain beside the stone, which +is called Ezel. + +20:20. And I will shoot three arrows near it, and will shoot as if I +were exercising myself at a mark. + +20:21. And I will send a boy, saying to him: Go and fetch me the arrows. + +20:22. If I shall say to the boy: Behold the arrows are on this side of +thee, take them up: come thou to me, because there is peace to thee, and +there is no evil, as the Lord liveth. But if I shall speak thus to the +boy: Behold the arrows are beyond thee: go in peace, for the Lord hath +sent thee away. + +20:23. And concerning the word which I and thou have spoken, the Lord be +between thee and me forever. + +20:24. So David was hid in the field, and the new moon came, and the +king sat down to eat bread. + +20:25. And when the king sat down upon his chair, (according to custom) +which was beside the wall, Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, +and David's place appeared empty. + +20:26. And Saul said nothing that day, for he thought it might have +happened to him, that he was not clean, nor purified. + +20:27. And when the second day after the new moon was come, David's +place appeared empty again. And Saul said to Jonathan, his son: Why +cometh not the son of Isai to meat neither yesterday, nor to day? + +20:28. And Jonathan answered Saul: He asked leave of me earnestly to go +to Bethlehem. + +20:29. And he said: Let me go, for there is a solemn sacrifice in the +city, one of my brethren hath sent for me: and now if I have found +favour in thy eyes, I will go quickly, and see my brethren. For this +cause he came not to the king's table. + +20:30. Then Saul being angry against Jonathan, said to him: Thou son of +a woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest +the son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy +shameless mother? + +20:31. For as long as the son of Isai liveth upon earth, thou shalt not +be established, nor thy kingdom. Therefore now presently send, and fetch +him to me: for he is the son of death. + +The son of death... That is, one that deserveth death, and shall surely +be put to death. + +20:32. And Jonathan answering Saul, his father, said: Why shall he die? +What hath he done? + +20:33. And Saul caught up a spear to strike him. And Jonathan understood +that it was determined by his father to kill David. + +20:34. So Jonathan rose from the table in great anger, and did not eat +bread on the second day after the new moon. For he was grieved for +David, because his father had put him to confusion. + +20:35. And when the morning came, Jonathan went into the field according +to the appointment with David, and a little boy with him. + +20:36. And he said to his boy: Go, and fetch me the arrows which I +shoot. And when the boy ran, he shot another arrow beyond the boy. + +20:37. The boy therefore came to the place of the arrow which Jonathan +had shot: and Jonathan cried after the boy, and said: Behold the arrow +is there further beyond thee. + +20:38. And Jonathan cried again after the boy, saying: Make haste +speedily, stand not. And Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and +brought them to his master: + +20:39. And he knew not at all what was doing: for only Jonathan and +David knew the matter. + +20:40. Jonathan therefore gave his arms to the boy, and said to him: Go, +and carry them into the city. + +20:41. And when the boy was gone, David rose out of his place, which was +toward the south, and falling on his face to the ground, adored thrice: +and kissing one another, they wept together; but David more. + +20:42. And Jonathan said to David: Go in peace: and let all stand that +we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying: The Lord be +between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. + +20:43. And David arose, and departed: and Jonathan went into the city. + +1 Kings Chapter 21 + +David receiveth holy bread of Achimelech, the priest: and feigneth +himself mad before Achis, king of Geth. + +21:1. And David came to Nobe, to Achimelech, the priest and Achimelech +was astonished at David's coming. And he said to him: Why art thou +alone, and no man with thee? + +Nobe... A city in the tribe of Benjamin, to which the tabernacle of the +Lord had been translated from Silo. + +21:2. And David said to Achimelech, the priest: The king hath commanded +me a business, and said: Let no man know the thing for which thou art +sent by me, and what manner of commands I have given thee: and I have +appointed my servants to such and such a place. + +21:3. Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, though it were but +five loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou canst find. + +21:4. And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at +hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from +women? + +If the young men be clean, etc... If this cleanness was required of them +that were to eat that bread, which was a figure of the bread of life +which we receive in the blessed sacrament; how clean ought Christians to +be when they approach to our tremendous mysteries. And what reason hath +the church of God to admit none to be her ministers to consecrate and +daily receive this most pure sacrament, but such as devote themselves to +a life of perpetual purity. + +21:5. And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what +concerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the day +before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were holy. +Now this way is defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this day in the +vessels. + +The vessels... i. e., the bodies, have been holy, that is, have been +kept from impurity.-Ibid. Is defiled... Is liable to expose us to +dangers of uncleanness.-Ibid. Be sanctified, etc... That is, we shall +take care, notwithstanding these dangerous circumstances, to keep our +vessels holy, that is, to keep our bodies from every thing that may +defile us. + +21:6. The priest therefore gave him hallowed bread: for there was no +bread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken +away from before the face of the Lord, that hot loaves might be set up. + +21:7. Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, +within the tabernacle of the Lord: and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, +the chiefest of Saul's herdsmen. + +21:8. And David said to Achimelech: Hast thou here at hand a spear, or a +sword? for I brought not my own sword, nor my own weapons with me, for +the king's business required haste. + +21:9. And the priest said: Lo, here is the sword of Goliath, the +Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Terebinth, wrapped up in +a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take this, take it, for here +there is no other but this. And David said: There is none like that, +give it me. + +21:10. And David arose and fled that day from the face of Saul: and came +to Achis, the king of Geth: + +21:11. And the servants of Achis, when they saw David, said to him: Is +not this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing to him in their +dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten +thousands? + +21:12. But David laid up these words in his heart, and was exceedingly +afraid at the face of Achis, the king of Geth. + +21:13. And he changed his countenance before them, and slipt down +between their hands: and he stumbled against the doors of the gate, and +his spittle ran down upon his beard. + +21:14. And Achis said to his servants: You saw the man was mad: why have +you brought him to me? + +21:15. Have we need of mad men, that you have brought in this fellow, to +play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house? + +1 Kings Chapter 22 + +Many resort to David. Doeg accuseth Achimelech to Saul. He ordereth him +and all the other priests of Nobe to be slain. Abiathar escapeth. + +22:1. David therefore went from thence, and fled to the cave of Odollam. +And when his brethren, and all his father's house, had heard of it, they +went down to him thither. + +22:2. And all that were in distress, and oppressed with debt, and under +affliction of mind, gathered themselves unto him: and he became their +prince, and there were with him about four hundred men. + +22:3. And David departed from thence into Maspha of Moab: and he said to +the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother tarry with you, I beseech +thee, till I know what God will do for me. + +22:4. And he left them under thc eyes of the king of Moab, and they +abode with him all the days that David was in the hold. + +The hold... The strong hold, or fortress of Maspha. + +22:5. And Gad the prophet said to David: Abide not in the hold, depart, +and go into the land of Juda. And David departed, and came into the +forest of Haret. + +22:6. And Saul heard that David was seen, and the men that were with +him. Now whilst Saul abode in Gabaa, and was in the wood, which is by +Rama, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing +about him, + +22:7. He said to his servants that stood about him: Hear me now, ye sons +of Jemini: will the son of Isai give every one of you fields, and +vineyards, and make you all tribunes, and centurions: + +22:8. That all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one to +inform me, especially when even my son hath entered into league with the +son of Isai? There is not one of you that pitieth my case, nor that +giveth me any information: because my son hath raised up my servant +against me, plotting against me to this day. + + +22:9. And Doeg, the Edomite, who stood by, and was the chief among the +servants of Saul, answering, said: I saw the son of Isai, in Nobe, with +Achimelech, the son of Achitob, the priest. + +22:10. And he consulted the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and +gave him the sword of Goliath, the Philistine. + +22:11. Then the king sent to call for Achimelech, the priest, the son of +Achitob, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nobe, and +they came all of them to the king. + +22:12. And Saul said to Achimelech: Hear, thou son of Achitob. He +answered: Here I am, my lord. + +22:13. And Saul said to him: Why have you conspired against me, thou, +and the son of Isai, and thou hast given him bread and a sword, and hast +consulted the Lord for him, that he should rise up against me, +continuing a traitor to this day. + +22:14. And Achimelech answering the king, said: And who amongst all thy +servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son in law, and +goeth forth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thy house? + +22:15. Did I begin to day to consult the Lord for him? far be this from +me: let not the king suspect such a thing against his servant, or any +one in all my father's house: for thy servant knew nothing of this +matter, either little or great. + +22:16. And the king said: Dying thou shalt die, Achimelech, thou and all +thy father's house. + +22:17. And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn, +and kill the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David, because +they knew that he was fled, and they told it not to me. And the +king'sservants would not put forth their hands against the priests of +the Lord. + +22:18. And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. +And Doeg, the Edomite, turned, and fell upon the priests, and slew in +that day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod. + +22:19. And Nobe, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the +sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and ox, and ass, and +sheep, with the edge of the sword. + +22:20. But one of the sons of Achimelech, the son of Achitob, whose name +was Abiathar, escaped, and fled to David, + +22:21. And told him that Saul had slain the priests of the Lord. + +22:22. And David said to Abiathar: I knew that day when Doeg, the +Edomite, was there, that without doubt he would tell Saul: I have been +the occasion of the death of all the souls of thy father's house. + +22:23. Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life, +seeketh thy life also, and with me thou shalt be saved. + +1 Kings Chapter 23 + +David relieveth Ceila, besieged by the Philistines. He fleeth into the +desert of Ziph. Jonathan and he confirm their former covenant. The +Ziphites discover him to Saul, who pursuing close after him, is called +away by an invasion from the Philistines. + +23:1. And they told David, saying: Behold the Philistines fight against +Ceila, and they rob the barns. + +23:2. Therefore David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go and smite +these Philistines? And the Lord said to David: Go, and thou shalt smite +the Philistines, and shalt save Ceila. + +23:3. And the men that were with David, said to him: Behold we are in +fear here in Judea, how much more if we go to Ceila against the bands of +the Philistines? + +23:4. Therefore David consulted the Lord again. And he answered and said +to him: Arise, and go to Ceila: for I will deliver the Philistines into +thy hand. + +23:5. David, therefore, and his men, went to Ceila, and fought against +the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and made a great +slaughter of them: and David saved the inhabitants of Ceila. + +23:6. Now at that time, when Abiathar, the son of Achimelech, fled to +David, to Ceila, he came down, having an ephod with him. + +An ephod... Or the ephod. That is, the vestment of the high priest, with +the urim and thummim, by which the Lord gave his oracle. + +23:7. And it was told Saul that David was come to Ceila: and Saul said: +The Lord hath delivered him into my hands, and he is shut up, being come +into a city that hath gates and bars. + +23:8. And Saul commanded all the people to go down to fight against +Ceila, and to besiege David and his men. + +23:9. Now when David understood that Saul secretly prepared evil against +him, he said to Abiathar, the priest: Bring hither the ephod. + +23:10. And David said: O Lord God of Israel, thy servant hath heard a +report, that Saul designeth to come to Ceila, to destroy the city for my +sake: + +23:11. Will the men of Ceila deliver me into his hands? and will Saul +come down, as thy servant hath heard? O Lord God of Israel, tell thy +servant. And the Lord said: He will come down. + +23:12. And David said: Will the men of Ceila deliver me and my men into +the hands of Saul? And the Lord said: They will deliver thee up. + +23:13. Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose, and +departing from Ceila, wandered up and down, uncertain where they should +stay: and it was told Saul that David was fled from Ceila, and had +escaped: wherefore he forbore to go out. + +23:14. But David abode in the desert in strong holds, and he remained in +a mountain of the desert of Ziph, in a woody hill. And Saul sought him +always: but the Lord delivered him not into his hands. + +23:15. And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life. And David +was in the desert of Ziph, in a wood. + +23:16. And Jonathan, the son of Saul, arose, and went to David, into the +wood, and strengthened his hands in God: and he said to him: + +23:17. Fear not: for the hand of my father, Saul, shall not find thee, +and thou shalt reign over Israel, and I shall be next to thee; yea and +my father knoweth this. + +23:18. And they two made a covenant before the Lord: and David abode in +the wood: but Jonathan returned to his house. + +23:19. And the Ziphites went up to Saul, in Gabaa, saying: Lo, doth not +David lie hid with us in the strong holds of the wood, in mount Hachila, +which is on the right hand of the desert. + +23:20. Now therefore come down, as thy soul hath desired to come down: +and it shall be our business to deliver him into the king's hands. + +23:21. And Saul said: Blessed be ye of the Lord, for you have pitied my +case. + +23:22. Go, therefore, I pray you, and use all diligence, and curiously +inquire, and consider the place where his foot is, and who hath seen him +there: for he thinketh of me, that I lie craftily in wait for him. + +23:23. Consider, and see all his lurking holes, wherein he is hid, and +return to me with the certainty of the thing, that I may go with you. +And if he should even go down into the earth to hide himself, I will +search him out in all the thousands of Juda. + +23:24. And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: and David and his +men were in the desert of Maon, in the plain at the right hand of +Jesimon. + +23:25. Then Saul and his men went to seek him: and it was told David, +and forthwith he went down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of +Maon: and when Saul had heard of it, he pursued after David in the +wilderness of Maon. + +23:26. And Saul went on this side of the mountain: and David and his men +were on the other side of the mountain: and David despaired of being +able to escape from the face of Saul: and Saul and his men encompassed +David and his men round about, to take them. + +23:27. And a messenger came to Saul, saying: Make haste to come, for the +Philistines have poured in themselves upon the land. + +23:28. Wherefore Saul returned, leaving the pursuit of David, and went +to meet the Philistines. For this cause they called that place the rock +of division. + +1 Kings Chapter 24 + +Saul seeketh David in the wilderness of Engaddi: he goeth into a cave +where David hath him in his power. + +24:1. Then David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds of +Engaddi. + +24:2. And when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, they +told him, saying: Behold, David is in the desert of Engaddi. + +24:3. Saul, therefore, took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, +and went out to seek after David and his men, even upon the most craggy +rocks, which are accessible only to wild goats. + +24:4. And he came to the sheepcotes which were in his way. And there was +a cave, into which Saul went, to ease nature: now David and his men lay +hid in the inner part of the cave. + +24:5. And the servants of David said to him: Behold the day, of which +the Lord said to thee: I will deliver thy enemy unto thee, that thou +mayst do to him as it shall seem good in thy eyes. Then David arose, and +secretly cut off the hem of Saul's robe. + +24:6. After which David's heart struck him, because he had cut off the +hem of Saul's robe. + +Heart struck him... Viz., with remorse, as fearing he had done amiss. + +24:7. And he said to his men: The Lord be merciful unto me, that I may +do no such thing to my master, the Lord's anointed, as to lay my hand +upon him, because he is the Lord's anointed. + +24:8. And David stopped his men with his words, and suffered them not to +rise against Saul: but Saul, rising up out of the cave, went on his way. + +24:9. And David also rose up after him: and going out of the cave, cried +after Saul, saying: My lord the king. And Saul looked behind him: and +David bowing himself down to the ground, worshipped, + +24:10. And said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the words of men that say: +David seeketh thy hurt? + +24:11 Behold this day thy eyes have seen, that the Lord hath delivered +thee into my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought to kill thee, but my +eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not put out my hand against my +lord, because he is the Lord's anointed. + +A thought to kill thee... That is, a suggestion, to which I did not +consent. + +24:12. Moreover, see and know, O my father, the hem of thy robe in my +hand, that when I cut off the hem of thy robe, I would not put out my +hand against thee. Reflect, and see, that there is no evil in my hand, +nor iniquity, neither have I sinned against thee: but thou liest in wait +for my life, to take it away. + +24:13. The Lord judge between me and thee and the Lord revenge me of +thee: but my hand shall not be upon thee. + +Revenge me of thee... Or, as it is in the Hebrew, will revenge me. The +meaning is, that he refers his whole cause to God, to judge and punish +according to his justice: yet so as to keep himself in the mean time, +from all personal hatred to Saul, or desire of gratifying his own +passion, by seeking revenge. So far from it, that when Saul was +afterwards slain, we find, that instead of rejoicing at his death, he +mourned most bitterly for him. + +24:14. As also it is said in the old proverb: From the wicked shall +wickedness come forth: therefore my hand shall not be upon thee. After +whom dost thou come out, O king of Israel? + +24:15. After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea. + +24:16. Be the Lord judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and +judge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand. + +24:17. And when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, +Saul said: Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his +voice, and wept: + +24:18. And he said to David: Thou art more just than I: for thou hast +done good to me, and I have rewarded thee with evil. + +24:19. And thou hast shewed this day what good things thou hast done to +me: how the Lord delivered me into thy hand, and thou hast not killed +me. + +24:20. For who when he hath found his enemy, will let him go well away? +But the Lord reward thee for this good turn, for what thou hast done to +me this day. + +24:21. And now as I know that thou shalt surely be king, and have the +kingdom of Israel in thy hand: + +24:22. Swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed after +me, nor take away my name from the house of my father. + +24:23. And David swore to Saul. So Saul went home: and David and his men +went up into safer places. + +1 Kings Chapter 25 + +The death of Samuel. David, provoked by Nabal, threateneth to destroy +him: but is appeased by Abigail. + +25:1. And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered together, and they +mourned for him, and buried him in his house in Ramatha. And David rose, +and went down into the wilderness of Pharan. + +25:2. Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his +possessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great: and he had three +thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and it happened that he was +shearing his sheep in Carmel. + +25:3. Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was +Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman: but her husband +was churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of +Caleb. + +25:4. And when David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal was shearing +his sheep, + +25:5. He sent ten young men, and said to them: Go up to Carmel, and go +to Nabal, and salute him in my name with peace. + +25:6. And you shall say: Peace be to my brethren, and to thee, and peace +to thy house, and peace to all that thou hast. + +25:7. I have heard that thy shepherds that were with us in the desert +were shearing: we never molested them, neither was there ought missing +to them of the flock at any time, all the while they were with us in +Carmel. + +25:8. Ask thy servants, and they will tell thee. Now therefore let thy +servants find favour in thy eyes: for we are come in a good day, +whatsoever thy hand shall find give to thy servants, and to thy son +David. + +25:9. And when David's servants came, they spoke to Nabal all these +words in David's name, and then held their peace. + +25:10. But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David? +and what is the son of Isai? servants are multiplied now days who flee +from their masters. + +25:11. Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my +cattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I know +not whence they are? + +25:12. So the servants of David went back their way, and returning came +and told him all the words that he said. + +25:13. Then David said to his young men: Let every man gird on his +sword. And they girded on every man his sword. And David also girded on +his sword: and there followed David about four hundred men, and two +hundred remained with the baggage. + +25:14. But one of the servants told, Abigail, the wife of Nabal, saying: +Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness, to salute our +master: and he rejected them. + +25:15. These men were very good to us, and gave us no trouble: Neither +did we ever lose any thing all the time that we conversed with them in +the desert. + +25:16. They were a wall unto us, both by night and day, all the while we +were with them keeping the sheep. + +25:17. Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is +determined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son +of Belial, so that no man can speak to him. + +25:18. Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two +vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of +parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes +of dry figs, and laid them upon asses: + +25:19. And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow +after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal. + +25:20. And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the +foot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and +she met them. + +25:21. And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to +this fellow in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that +pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good. + +25:22. May God do so and so, and add more to the foes of David, if I +leave of all that belong to him till the morning, any that pisseth +against the wall. + +If I leave, etc... David certainly sinned in his designs against Nabal +and his family, as he himself was afterwards sensible, when he blessed +God for hindering him from executing the revenge he had proposed. + +25:23. And when Abigail saw David, she made haste and lighted off the +ass, and fell before David, on her face, and adored upon the ground. + +25:24. And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity be, +my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears, and hear +the words of thy servant. + +25:25. Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, regard this naughty man, +Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: +but I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou +sentest. + +His name... Nabal, in Hebrew, signifies a fool. + +25:26. Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who +hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand to +thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek evil +to my lord. + +25:27. Wherefore receive this blessing, which thy handmaid hath brought +to thee, my lord: and give it to the young men that follow thee, my +lord. + +25:28. Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely +make for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the +battles of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in thee all the +days of thy life. + +25:29. For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek +thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the +living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall be +whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling. + +25:30. And when the Lord shall have done to thee, my lord, all the good +that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have made thee prince +over Israel, + +25:31 This shall not be an occasion of grief to thee, and a scruple of +heart to my lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or hast revenged +thyself: and when the Lord shall have done well by my lord, thou shalt +remember thy handmaid. + +25:32. And David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, +who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech: + +25:33. And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to +blood, and revenging me with my own hand. + +25:34. Otherwise, as the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, who hath +withholden me from doing thee any evil, if thou hadst not quickly come +to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light, any +that pisseth against the wall. + +25:35. And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and +said to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice, +and honoured thy face. + +25:36. And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his +house, like the feast of a king: and Nabal's heart was merry, for he was +very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning. + +25:37. But early in the morning, when Nabal had digested his wine, his +wife told him these words, and his heart died within him, and he became +as a stone. + +25:38. And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he +died. + +25:39. And when David had heard that Nabal was dead, he said: Blessed be +the Lord, who hath judged the cause of my reproach, at the hand of +Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, and the Lord hath returned +the wickedness of Nabal upon his head. Then David sent and treated with +Abigail, that he might take her to himself for a wife. + +Blessed be, etc... David praiseth God, on this occasion, not out of joy +for the death of Nabal (which would have argued a rancour of heart), but +because he saw that God had so visibly taken his cause in hand, in +punishing the injury done to him; whilst, by a merciful providence he +kept him from revenging himself. + +25:40. And David's servants came to Abigail, to Carmel, and spoke to +her, saying: David hath sent us to thee, to take thee to himself for a +wife. + +25:41. And she arose, and bowed herself down with her face to the earth, +and said: Behold, let thy servant be a handmaid, to wash the feet of the +servants of my lord. + +25:42. And Abigail arose, and made haste, and got upon an ass, and five +damsels went with her, her waiting maids, and she followed the +messengers of David, and became his wife. + +25:43. Moreover David took also Achinoam of Jezrahel: and they were both +of them his wives. + +25:44. But Saul gave Michol, his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti, the +son of Lais, who was of Gallim. + +1 Kings Chapter 26 + +Saul goeth out again after David, who cometh by night where Saul and his +men are asleep, but suffereth him not to be touched. Saul again +confesseth his fault, and promiseth peace. + +26:1. And the men of Ziph came to Saul in Gabaa, saying: Behold David is +hid in the hill of Hachila, which is over against the wilderness. + +26:2. And Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph having +with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the +wilderness of Ziph. + +26:3. And Saul encamped in Gabaa Hachila, which was over against the +wilderness in the way: and David abode in the wilderness. And seeing +that Saul was come after him into the wilderness, + +26:4. He sent spies, and learned that he was most certainly come +thither. + +26:5. And David arose secretly, and came to the place where Saul was: +and when he had beheld the place, wherein Saul slept, and Abner, the son +of Ner, the captain of his army, and Saul sleeping in a tent, and the +rest of the multitude round about him, + +26:6. David spoke to Achimelech, the Hethite, and Abisai, the son of +Sarvia, the brother of Joab, saying: Who will go down with me to Saul +into the camp? And Abisai said: I will go with thee. + +26:7. So David and Abisai came to the people by night, and found Saul +lying and sleeping in the tent, and his spear fixed in the ground at his +head: and Abner and the people sleeping round about him. + +26:8. And Abisai said to David: God hath shut up thy enemy this day into +thy hands: now then I will run him through with my spear, even to the +earth at once, and there shall be no need of a second time. + +26:9. And David said to Abisai: Kill him not: for who shall put forth +his hand against the Lord's anointed, and shall be guiltless? + +26:10. And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike +him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and +perish: + +26:11. The Lord be merciful unto me, and keep me that I never put forth +my hand against the Lord's anointed. But now take the spear which is at +his head, and the cup of water, and let us go. + +26:12. So David took the spear, and the cup of water which was at Saul's +head, and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, or awaked, but +they were all asleep, for a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon +them. + +26:13. And when David was gone over to the other side, and stood on the +top of the hill afar off, and a good space was between them, + +26:14. David cried to the people, and to Abner, the son of Ner, saying: +Wilt thou not answer, Abner? And Abner answering, said: Who art thou, +that criest, and disturbest the king? + +26:15. And David said to Abner: Art not thou a man? and who is like unto +thee in Israel? why then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there +came one of the people in to kill the king thy lord. + +26:16. This thing is not good, that thou hast done: as the Lord liveth, +you are the sons of death, who have not kept your master, the Lord's +anointed. And now where is the king's spear, and the cup of water, which +was at his head? + +26:17. And Saul knew David's voice, and said: Is this thy voice, my son +David? And David said: It is my voice, my lord the king. + +26:18. And he said: Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? What +have I done? or what evil is there in my hand? + +26:19. Now therefore hear, I pray thee, my lord the king, the words of +thy servant: If the Lord stir thee up against me, let him accept of +sacrifice: but if the sons of men, they are cursed in the sight of the +Lord, who have cast me out this day, that I should not dwell in the +inheritance of the Lord, saying: Go, serve strange gods. + +26:20. And now let not my blood be shed upon the earth before the Lord: +for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as the partridge is +hunted in the mountains. + +26:21. And Saul said: I have sinned; return, my son David, for I will no +more do thee harm, because my life hath been precious in thy eyes this +day: for it appeareth that I have done foolishly, and have been ignorant +in very many things. + +26:22. And David answering, said: Behold the king's spear: let one of +the king's servants come over and fetch it. + +26:23. And the Lord will reward every one according to his justice, and +his faithfulness: for the Lord hath delivered thee this day into my +hand, and I would not put forth my hand against the Lord's anointed. + +26:24. And as thy life hath been much set by this day in my eyes, so let +my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me +from all distress. + +26:25. Then Saul said to David: Blessed art thou, my son David: and +truly doing thou shalt do, and prevailing thou shalt prevail. And David +went on his way, and Saul returned to his place. + +1 Kings Chapter 27 + +David goeth again to Achis king of Geth, and obtaineth of him the city +of Siceleg. + +27:1. And David said in his heart: I shall one day or other fall into +the hands of Saul: is it not better for me to flee, and to be saved in +the land of the Philistines, that Saul may despair of me, and cease to +seek me in all the coasts of Israel? I will flee then out of his hands. + +27:2. And David arose, and went away, both he and the six hundred men +that were with him, to Achis, the son of Maoch, king of Geth. + +27:3. And David dwelt with Achis at Geth, he and his men; every man with +his household, and David with his two wives, Achinoam, the +Jezrahelitess, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel. + +27:4. And it was told Saul that David was fled to Geth, and he sought no +more after him. + +27:5. And David said to Achis: If I have found favour in thy sight, let +a place be given me in one of the cities of this country, that I may +dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with +thee? + +27:6. Then Achis gave him Siceleg that day: for which reason Siceleg +belongeth to the kings of Juda unto this day. + +27:7. And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines, +was four months. + +27:8. And David and his men went up, and pillaged Gessuri, and Gerzi, +and the Amalecites: for these were of old the inhabitants of the +countries, as men go to Sur, even to the land of Egypt. + +Pillaged Gessuri, etc... These probably were enemies of the people of +God: and some, if not all of them, were of the number of those whom God +had ordered to be destroyed: which justifies David's proceedings in +their regard. Though it is to be observed here, that we are not under an +obligation of justifying every thing that he did: for the scripture, in +relating what was done, does not say that it was well done. And even +such as are true servants of God, are not to be imitated in all they do. + +27:9. And David wasted all the land, and left neither man nor woman +alive: and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the +camels, and the apparel, and returned and came to Achis. + +27:10. And Achis said to him: Whom hast thou gone against to day? David +answered: Against the south of Juda, and against the south of Jerameel, +and against the south of Ceni. + +27:11. And David saved neither man nor woman, neither brought he any of +them to Geth, saying: Lest they should speak against us. So did David, +and such was his proceeding all the days that he dwelt in the country of +the Philistines. + +27:12. And Achis believed David, saying: He hath done much harm to his +people Israel: Therefore he shall be my servant for ever. + +1 Kings Chapter 28 + +The Philistines go out to war against Israel. Saul being forsaken by +God, hath recourse to a witch. Samuel appeareth to him. + +28:1. And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered +together their armies, to be prepared for war against Israel: And Achis +said to David: Know thou now assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me +to the war, thou, and thy men. + +28:2. And David said to Achis: Now thou shalt know what thy servant will +do. And Achis said to David: And I will appoint thee to guard my life +for ever. + +28:3. Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel mourned for him, and buried +him in Ramatha, his city. And Saul had put away all the magicians and +soothsayers out of the land. + +28:4. And the Philistines were gathered together, and came and encamped +in Sunam: and Saul also gathered together all Israel, and came to +Gelboe. + +28:5. And Saul saw the army of the Philistines, and was afraid, and his +heart was very much dismayed. + +28:6. And he consulted the Lord, and he answered him not, neither by +dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets. + +28:7. And Saul said to his servants: Seek me a woman that hath a +divining spirit, and I will go to her, and enquire by her. And his +servants said to him: There is a woman that hath a divining spirit at +Endor. + +28:8. Then he disguised himself: and put on other clothes, and he went, +and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night, and he said +to her: Divine to me by thy divining spirit, and bring me up him whom I +shall tell thee. + +28:9. And the woman said to him: Behold thou knowest all that Saul hath +done, and how he hath rooted out the magicians and soothsayers from the +land: why then dost thou lay a snare for my life, to cause me to be put +to death? + +28:10. And Saul swore unto her by the Lord, saying: As the Lord liveth, +there shall no evil happen to thee for this thing. + +28:11. And the woman said to him: Whom shall I bring up to thee? And he +said, Bring me up Samuel. + +28:12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice, +and said to Saul: Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul. + +28:13. And the king said to her: Fear not: what hast thou seen? and the +woman said to Saul: I saw gods ascending out of the earth. + +28:14. And he said to her: What form is he of? And she said: An old man +cometh up, and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul understood that it +was Samuel, and he bowed himself with his face to the ground, and +adored. + +Understood that it was Samuel... It is the more common opinion of the +holy fathers, and interpreters, that the soul of Samuel appeared indeed: +and not, as some have imagined, an evil spirit in his shape. Not that +the power of her magic could bring him thither, but that God was pleased +for the punishment of Saul, that Samuel himself should denounce unto him +the evils that were falling upon him. See Eccli. 46.23. + +28:15. And Samuel said to Saul: Why hast thou disturbed my rest, that I +should be brought up? And Saul said: I am in great distress: for the +Philistines fight against me, and God is departed from me, and would not +hear me, neither by the hand of prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I +have called thee, that thou mayst shew me what I shall do. + +28:16. And Samuel said: Why askest thou me, seeing the Lord has departed +from thee, and is gone over to thy rival? + +28:17. For the Lord will do to thee as he spoke by me, and he will rend +thy kingdom out of thy hand, and will give it to thy neighbour David: + +28:18. Because thou didst not obey the voice of the Lord, neither didst +thou execute the wrath of his indignation upon Amalec. Therefore hath +the Lord done to thee what thou sufferest this day. + +28:19. And the Lord also will deliver Israel with thee into the hands of +the Philistines: and to morrow thou and thy sons shall be with me: and +the Lord will also deliver the army of Israel into the hands of the +Philistines. + +With me... That is, in the state of the dead, and in another world, +though not in the same place. + +28:20. And forthwith Saul fell all along on the ground; for he was +frightened with the words of Samuel, and there was no strength in him, +for he had eaten no bread all that day. + +28:21. And the woman came to Saul, (for he was very much troubled) and +said to him: Behold thy handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put +my life in my hand: and I hearkened unto the words which thou spokest to +me. + +28:22. Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also to the voice of thy +handmaid, and let me set before thee a morsel of bread, that thou mayst +eat and recover strength, and be able to go on thy journey. + +28:23. But he refused, and said: I will not eat. But his servants and +the woman forced him, and at length hearkening to their voice, he arose +from the ground, and sat upon the bed. + +28:24. Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she made haste +and killed it: and taking meal, kneaded it, and baked some unleavened +bread, + +28:25. And set it before Saul, and before his servants. And when they +had eaten they rose up, and walked all that night. + +1 Kings Chapter 29 + +David going with the Philistines is sent back by their princes. + +29:1. Now all the troops of the Philistines were gathered together to +Aphec: and Israel also encamped by the fountain, which is in Jezrahel. + +29:2. And the lords of the Philistines marched with their hundreds and +their thousands: but David and his men were in the rear with Achis. + +29:3. And the princes of the Philistines said to Achis: What mean these +Hebrews? And Achis said to the princes of the Philistines: Do you not +know David who was the servant of Saul, the king of Israel, and hath +been with me many days, or years, and I have found no fault in him, +since the day that he fled over to me until this day? + +29:4. But the prices of the Philistines were angry with him, and they +said to him: Let this man return, and abide in his place, which thou +hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest he +be an adversary to us, when we shall begin to fight: for how can he +otherwise appease his master, but with our heads? + +29:5. Is not this David, to whom they sung in their dances, saying: Saul +slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands? + +29:6. Then Achis called David, and said to him: As the Lord liveth, thou +art upright and good in my sight: and so is thy going out, and thy +coming in with me in the army: and I have not found any evil in thee, +since the day that thou camest to me unto this day: but thou pleasest +not the lords. + +29:7. Return therefore, and go in peace, and offend not the eyes of the +princes of the Philistines. + +29:8. And David said to Achis: But what have I done, or what hast thou +found in me thy servant, from the day that I have been in thy sight +until this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my +lord the king? + +29:9. And Achis answering, said to David: I know that thou art good in +my sight, as an angel of God: But the princes of the Philistines have +said: He shall not go up with us to the battle. + +29:10. Therefore arise in the morning, thou, and the servants of thy +lord, who came with thee: and when you are up before day, and it shall +begin to be light, go on your way. + +29:11. So David and his men arose in the night, that they might set +forward in the morning, and returned to the land of the Philistines: and +the Philistines went up to Jezrahel. + +1 Kings Chapter 30 + +The Amalecites burn Siceleg, and carry off the prey: David pursueth +after them, and recovereth all out of their hands. + +30:1. Now when David and his men were come to Siceleg on the third day, +the Amalecites had made an invasion on the south side upon Siceleg, and +had smitten Siceleg, and burnt it with fire, + +30:2. And had taken the women captives that were in it, both little and +great: and they had not killed any person, but had carried them with +them, and went on their way. + +30:3. So when David and his men came to the city, and found it burnt +with fire, and that their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, +were taken captives, + +30:4. David and the people that were with him, lifted up their voices, +and wept till they had no more tears. + +30:5. For the two wives also of David were taken captives, Achinoam, the +Jezrahelitess, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel. + +30:6. And David was greatly afflicted: for the people had a mind to +stone him, for the soul of every man was bitterly grieved for his sons +and daughters: but David took courage in the Lord his God. + +30:7. And he said to Abiathar, the priest, the son of Achimelech: Bring +me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought the ephod to David. + +30:8. And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I pursue after these +robbers, and shall I overtake them, or not? And the Lord said to him: +Pursue after them: for thou shalt surely overtake them and recover the +prey. + +30:9. So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and +they came to the torrent Besor: and some, being weary, stayed there. + +30:10. But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred +stayed, who, being weary, could not go over the torrent Besor. + +30:11. And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to +David: and they gave him bread to eat, and water to drink, + +30:12. As also a piece of a cake of figs, and two bunches of raisins. +And when he had eaten them, his spirit returned, and he was refreshed: +for he had not eaten bread, nor drunk water, three days and three +nights. + +30:13. And David said to him: To whom dost thou belong; or whence dost +thou come? and whither art thou going? He said: I am a young man of +Egypt, the servant of an Amalecite: and my master left me, because I +began to be sick three days ago. + +30:14. For we made an invasion on the south side of Cerethi, and upon +Juda, and upon the south of Caleb, and we burnt Siceleg with fire. + +30:15. And David said to him: Canst thou bring me to this company? and +he said: Swear to me by God, that thou wilt not kill me, nor deliver me +into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee to this company. And +David swore to him. + +30:16. And when he had brought him, behold they were lying spread abroad +upon all the ground, eating and drinking, and as it were keeping a +festival day, for all the prey and the spoils which they had taken out +of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda. + +30:17. And David slew them from the evening unto the evening of the next +day, and there escaped not a man of them, but four hundred young men, +who had gotten upon camels, and fled. + +30:18. So David recovered all that the Amalecites had taken, and he +rescued his two wives. + +30:19. And there was nothing missing small or great, neither of their +sons or their daughters, nor of the spoils, and whatsoever they had +taken, David recovered all. + +30:20. And he took all the flocks and the herds, and made them go before +him: and they said: This is the prey of David. + +30:21. And David came to the two hundred men, who, being weary, had +stayed, and were not able to follow David, and he had ordered them to +abide at the torrent Besor: and they came out to meet David, and the +people that were with him. And David coming to the people, saluted them +peaceably. + +30:22. Then all the wicked and unjust men, that had gone with David, +answering, said: Because they came not with us, we will not give them +any thing of the prey which we have recovered: but let every man take +his wife, and his children, and be contented with them, and go his way. + +30:23. But David said: You shall not do so, my brethren, with these +things, which the Lord hath given us, who hath kept us, and hath +delivered the robbers that invaded us into our hands: + +30:24. And no man shall hearken to you in this matter. But equal shall +be the portion of him that went down to battle, and of him that abode at +the baggage, and they shall divide alike. + +30:25. And this hath been done from that day forward, and since was made +a statute and an ordinance, and as a law in Israel. + +30:26. Then David came to Siceleg, and sent presents of the prey to the +ancients of Juda, his neighbours, saying: Receive a blessing of the prey +of the enemies of the Lord. + +30:27. To them that were in Bethel, and that were in Ramoth to the +south, and to them that were in Jether. + +30:28. And to them that were in Aroer, and that were in Sephamoth, and +that were in Esthamo, + +30:29. And that were in Rachal, and that were in the cities of Jerameel, +and that were in the cities of Ceni, + +30:30. And that were in Arama, and that were in the lake Asan, and that +were in Athach, + +30:31. And that were in Hebron, and to the rest that were in those +places, in which David had abode with his men. + +1 Kings Chapter 31 + +Israel is defeated by the Philistines: Saul and his sons are slain. + +31:1. And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel +fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelboe. + +31:2. And the Philistines fell upon Saul, and upon his sons, and they +slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchisua, the sons of Saul. + +31:3. And the whole weight of the battle was turned upon Saul: and the +archers overtook him, and he was grievously wounded by the archers. + +31:4. Then Saul said to his armourbearer: Draw thy sword, and kill me: +lest these uncircumcised come, and slay me, and mock at me. And his +armourbearer would not: for he was struck with exceeding great fear. +Then Saul took his sword, and fell upon it. + +31:5. And when his armourbearer saw this, to wit, that Saul was dead, he +also fell upon his sword and died with him. + +31:6. So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all +his men that same day together. + +31:7. And the men of Israel, that were beyond the valley, and beyond the +Jordan, seeing that the Israelites were fled, and that Saul was dead, +and his sons, forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came +and dwelt there. + +31:8. And on the morrow the Philistines came to strip the slain, and +they found Saul and his three sons lying in mount Gelboe. + +31:9. And they cut off Saul's head, and stripped him of his armour, and +sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the +temples of their idols and among their people. + +31:10. And they put his armour in the temple of Astaroth, but his body +they hung on the wall of Bethsan. + +31:11. Now when the inhabitants of Jabes Galaad had heard all that the +Philistines had done to Saul, + +31:12. All the most valiant men arose, and walked all the night, and +took the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of +Bethsan: and they came to Jabes Galaad, and burnt them there. + +31:13. And they took their bones, and buried them in the wood of Jabes: +and fasted seven days. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 9 *** + +********** This file should be named 8309.txt or 8309.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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