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+THE HOLY BIBLE
+
+
+
+
+Translated from the Latin Vulgate
+
+
+Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,
+and Other Editions in Divers Languages
+
+
+THE OLD TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Douay
+A.D. 1609 & 1610
+
+and
+
+THE NEW TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Rheims
+A.D. 1582
+
+
+With Annotations
+
+
+The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with
+the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner
+A.D. 1749-1752
+
+
+
+
+
+THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS
+
+This Book relates the transactions from the death of Saul until the end
+of David's reign, being a history for the space of about forty-six
+years.
+
+
+2 Kings Chapter 1
+
+David mourneth for the death of Saul and Jonathan: he ordereth the man
+to be slain who pretended he had killed Saul.
+
+1:1. Now it came to pass, after Saul was dead, that David returned from
+the slaughter of the Amalecites, and abode two days in Siceleg.
+
+1:2. And on the third day, there appeared a man who came out of Saul's
+camp, with his garments rent, and dust strewed on his head: and when he
+came to David, he fell upon his face, and adored.
+
+1:3. And David said to him: From whence comest thou? And he said to him:
+I am fled out of the camp of Israel.
+
+1:4. And David said unto him: What is the matter that is come to pass?
+tell me: He said: The people are fled from the battle, and many of the
+people are fallen and dead: moreover Saul and Jonathan his son are
+slain.
+
+1:5. And David said to the young man that told him: How knowest thou
+that Saul and Jonathan his son, are dead?
+
+1:6. And the young man that told him, said: I came by chance upon mount
+Gelboe, and Saul leaned upon his spear: and the chariots and horsemen
+drew nigh unto him,
+
+1:7. And looking behind him, and seeing me, he called me. And I
+answered, Here am I.
+
+1:8. And he said to me: Who art thou? And I said to him: I am an
+Amalecite.
+
+1:9. And he said to me: Stand over me, and kill me: for anguish is come
+upon me, and as yet my whole life is in me.
+
+1:10. So standing over him, I killed him: for I knew that he could not
+live after the fall: and I took the diadem that was on his head, and the
+bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither to thee, my
+lord.
+
+I killed him... This story of the young Amalecite was not true, as may
+easily be proved by comparing it with the last chapter of the foregoing
+book.
+
+1:11. Then David took hold of his garments and rent them, and likewise
+all the men that were with him.
+
+1:12. And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening for Saul, and
+for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house
+of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.
+
+1:13. And David said to the young man that told him: Whence art thou? He
+answered: I am the son of a stranger of Amalec.
+
+1:14. David said to him: Why didst thou not fear to put out thy hand to
+kill the Lord's anointed?
+
+1:15. And David calling one of his servants, said: Go near and fall upon
+him. And he struck him so that he died.
+
+1:16. And David said to him: Thy blood be upon thy own head: for thy own
+mouth hath spoken against thee, saying: I have slain the Lord's
+anointed.
+
+1:17. And David made this kind of lamentation over Saul, and over
+Jonathan his son.
+
+1:18. (Also he commanded that they should teach the children of Juda the
+use of the bow, as it is written in the book of the just.) And he said:
+Consider, O Israel, for them that are dead, wounded on thy high places.
+
+1:19. The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are
+the valiant fallen?
+
+1:20. Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon:
+lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the
+uncircumcised triumph.
+
+1:21. Ye mountains of Gelboe, let neither dew, nor rain come upon you,
+neither be they fields of firstfruits: for there was cast away the
+shield of the valiant, the shield of Saul as though he had not been
+anointed with oil.
+
+1:22. From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the valiant, the
+arrow of Jonathan never turned back, and the sword of Saul did not
+return empty.
+
+1:23. Saul and Jonathan, lovely, and comely in their life, even in death
+they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, stronger than
+lions.
+
+1:24. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you with
+scarlet in delights, who gave ornaments of gold for your attire.
+
+1:25. How are the valiant fallen in battle? Jonathan slain in the high
+places?
+
+1:26. I grieve for thee, my brother Jonathan: exceeding beautiful, and
+amiable to me above the love of women. As the mother loveth her only
+son, so did I love thee.
+
+1:27. How are the valiant fallen, and the weapons of war perished?
+
+2 Kings Chapter 2
+
+David is received and anointed king of Juda. Isboseth the son of Saul
+reigneth over the rest of Israel. A battle between Abner and Joab.
+
+2:1. And after these things David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I go
+up into one of the cities of Juda? And the Lord said to him: Go up. And
+David said: Whither shall I go up? And he answered him: Into Hebron.
+
+2:2. So David went up, and his two wives Achinoam the Jezrahelitess, and
+Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel:
+
+2:3. And the men also that were with him, David brought up every man
+with his household: and they abode in the towns of Hebron.
+
+2:4. And the men of Juda came, and anointed David there, to be king over
+the house of Juda. And it was told David that the men of Jabes Galaad
+had buried Saul.
+
+2:5. David therefore sent messengers to the men of Jabes Galaad, and
+said to them: Blessed be you to the Lord, who have shewn this mercy to
+your master Saul, and have buried him.
+
+2:6. And now the Lord surely will render you mercy and truth, and I also
+will requite you for this good turn, because you have done this thing.
+
+2:7. Let your hands be strengthened, and be ye men of valour: for
+although your master Saul be dead, yet the house of Juda hath anointed
+me to be their king.
+
+2:8. But Abner the son of Ner, general of Saul's army, took Isboseth the
+son of Saul, and led him about through the camp,
+
+2:9. And made him king over Galaad, and over Gessuri, and over Jezrahel,
+and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
+
+2:10. Isboseth the son of Saul was forty years old when he began to
+reign over Israel, and he reigned two years; and only the house of Juda
+followed David.
+
+He reigned two years... Viz., before he began visibly to decline: but in
+all he reigned seven years and six months; for so long David reigned in
+Hebron.
+
+2:11. And the number of the days that David abode, reigning in Hebron
+over the house of Juda, was seven years and six months.
+
+2:12. And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Isboseth the son of
+Saul, went out from the camp to Gabaon.
+
+2:13. And Joab the son of Sarvia, and the servants of David went out,
+and met them by the pool of Gabaon. And when they were come together,
+they sat down over against one another: the one on the one side of the
+pool, and the other on the other side.
+
+2:14. And Abner said to Joab: Let the young men rise, and play before
+us. And Joab answered: Let them rise.
+
+2:15. Then there arose and went over twelve in number of Benjamin, of
+the part of Isboseth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of
+David.
+
+2:16. And every one catching his fellow by the head, thrust his sword
+into the side of his adversary, and they fell down together: and the
+name of the place was called: The field of the valiant, in Gabaon.
+
+2:17. And there was a very fierce battle that day: and Abner was put to
+flight, with the men of Israel, by the servants of David.
+
+2:18. And there were the three sons of Sarvia there, Joab, and Abisai,
+and Asael: now Asael was a most swift runner, like one of the roes that
+abide in the woods.
+
+2:19. And Asael pursued after Abner, and turned not to the right hand
+nor to the left from following Abner.
+
+2:20. And Abner looked behind him, and said: Art thou Asael? And he
+answered: I am.
+
+2:21. And Abner said to him: Go to the right hand or to the left, and
+lay hold on one of the young men and take thee his spoils. But Asael
+would not leave off following him close.
+
+2:22. And again Abner said to Asael: Go off, and do not follow me, lest
+I be obliged to stab thee to the ground, and I shall not be able to hold
+up my face to Joab thy brother.
+
+2:23. But he refused to hearken to him, and would not turn aside:
+wherefore Abner struck him with his spear with a back stroke in the
+groin, and thrust him through, and he died upon the spot: and all that
+came to the place where Asael fell down and died stood still.
+
+2:24. Now while Joab and Abisai pursued after Abner, the sun went down:
+and they came as far as the hill of the aqueduct, that lieth over
+against the valley by the way of the wilderness in Gabaon.
+
+2:25. And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together to
+Abner: and being joined in one body, they stood on the top of a hill.
+
+2:26. And Abner cried out to Joab, and said: Shall thy sword rage unto
+utter destruction? knowest thou not that it is dangerous to drive people
+to despair? how long dost thou defer to bid the people cease from
+pursuing after their brethren?
+
+2:27. And Joab said: As the Lord liveth, if thou hadst spoke sooner,
+even in the morning the people should have retired from pursuing after
+their brethren.
+
+2:28. Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and all the army stood still, and
+did not pursue after Israel any farther, nor fight any more.
+
+2:29. And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plains:
+and they passed the Jordan, and having gone through all Beth-horon, came
+to the camp.
+
+2:30. And Joab returning, after he had left Abner, assembled all the
+people: and there were wanting of David's servants nineteen men, beside
+Asael.
+
+2:31. But the servants of David had killed of Benjamin, and of the men
+that were with Abner, three hundred and sixty, who all died.
+
+2:32. And they took Asael, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father
+in Bethlehem and Joab, and the men that were with him, marched all the
+night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 3
+
+David groweth daily stronger. Abner cometh over to him: he is
+treacherously slain by Joab.
+
+3:1. Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of
+David: David prospering and growing always stronger and stronger, but
+the house of Saul decaying daily.
+
+There was a long war between the house of Saul, etc... Rather a strife
+or emulation than a war with arms; it lasted five years and a half.
+
+3:2. And sons were born to David in Hebron: and his firstborn was Ammon
+of Achinoam the Jezrahelitess:
+
+3:3. And his second Cheleab of Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel: and
+the third Absalom the son of Maacha the daughter of Tholmai king of
+Gessur:
+
+3:4. And the fourth Adonias, the son of Haggith: and the fifth Saphathia
+the son of Abital:
+
+3:5. And the sixth Jethraam of Egla the wife of David: these were born
+to David In Hebron.
+
+3:6. Now while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of
+David, Abner the son of Ner ruled the house of Saul.
+
+3:7. And Saul had a concubine named Respha, the daughter of Aia. And
+Isboseth said to Abner:
+
+3:8. Why didst thou go in to my father's concubine? And he was
+exceedingly angry for the words of Isboseth, and said: Am I a dog's head
+against Juda this day, who have shewn mercy to the house of Saul thy
+father, and to his brethren and friends, and have not delivered thee
+into the hands of David, and hast thou sought this day against me to
+charge me with a matter concerning a woman?
+
+3:9. So do God to Abner, and more also, unless as the Lord hath sworn to
+David, so I do to him,
+
+3:10. That the kingdom be translated from the house of Saul, and the
+throne of David be set up over Israel, and over Juda from Dan to
+Bersabee.
+
+3:11. And he could not answer him a word, because he feared him.
+
+3:12. Abner therefore sent messengers to David for himself, saying:
+Whose is the land? and that they should say: Make a league with me, and
+my hand shall be with thee: and I will bring all Israel to thee.
+
+3:13. And he said: Very well: I will make a league with thee: but one
+thing I require of thee, saying: Thou shalt not see my face before thou
+bring Michol the daughter of Saul: and so thou shalt come, and see me.
+
+3:14. And David sent messengers to Isboseth the son of Saul, saying:
+Restore my wife Michol, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of
+the Philistines.
+
+3:15. And Isboseth sent, and took her from her husband Phaltiel, the son
+of Lais.
+
+3:16. And her husband followed her, weeping as far as Bahurim: and Abner
+said to him: Go and return. And he returned.
+
+3:17. Abner also spoke to the ancients of Israel, saying: Both yesterday
+and the day before you sought for David that he might reign over you.
+
+3:18. Now then do it: because the Lord hath spoken to David, saying: By
+the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hands
+of the Philistines, and of all their enemies.
+
+3:19. And Abner spoke also to Benjamin. And he went to speak to David in
+Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to all Benjamin.
+
+3:20. And he came to David in Hebron with twenty men: and David made a
+feast for Abner, and his men that came with him.
+
+3:21. And Abner said to David: I will rise, that I may gather all Israel
+unto thee my lord the king, and may enter into a league with thee, and
+that thou mayst reign over all as thy soul desireth. Now when David had
+brought Abner on his way, and he was gone in peace,
+
+3:22. Immediately, David's servants and Joab came, after having slain
+the robbers, with an exceeding great booty. And Abner was not with David
+in Hebron, for he had now sent him away, and he was gone in peace.
+
+3:23. And Joab and all the army that was with him, came afterwards: and
+it was told Joab, that Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he
+hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
+
+3:24. And Joab went in to the king, and said: What hast thou done?
+Behold Abner came to thee: Why didst thou send him away, and he is gone
+and departed?
+
+3:25. Knowest thou not Abner the son of Ner, that to this end he came to
+thee, that he might deceive thee, and to know thy going out, and thy
+coming in, and to know all thou dost?
+
+3:26. Then Joab going out from David, sent messengers after Abner, and
+brought him back from the cistern of Sira, David knowing nothing of it.
+
+3:27. And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the
+middle of the gate, to speak to him treacherously: and he stabbed him
+there in the groin, and he died, in revenge of the blood of Asael his
+brother.
+
+3:28. And when David heard of it, after the thing was now done, he said:
+I, and my kingdom are innocent before the Lord for ever of the blood of
+Abner the son of Ner:
+
+3:29. And may it come upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father's
+house: and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an
+issue of seed, or that is a leper, or that holdeth the distaff, or that
+falleth by the sword, or that wanteth bread.
+
+3:30. So Joab and Abisai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed
+their brother Asael at Gabaon in the battle.
+
+3:31. And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him:
+Rend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloths, and mourn
+before the funeral of Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
+
+3:32. And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, king David lifted up his
+voice, and wept at the grave of Abner: and all the people also wept.
+
+3:33. And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as
+cowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.
+
+3:34. Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet laden with fetters: but as
+men fall before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all
+the people repeating it wept over him.
+
+3:35. And when all the people came to take meat with David, while it was
+yet broad day, David swore, saying: So do God to me, and more also, if I
+taste bread or any thing else before sunset.
+
+3:36. And all the people heard, and they were pleased, and all that the
+king did seemed good in the sight of all the people.
+
+3:37. And all the people, and all Israel understood that day that it was
+not the king's doing, that Abner the son of Ner was slain.
+
+3:38. The king also said to his servants: Do you not know that a prince
+and a great man is slain this day in Israel?
+
+3:39. But I as yet am tender, though anointed king. And these men the
+sons of Sarvia are too hard for me: the Lord reward him that doth evil
+according to his wickedness.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 4
+
+Isboseth is murdered by two of his servants. David punisheth the
+murderers.
+
+4:1. And Isboseth the son of Saul heard that Abner was slain in Hebron:
+and his hands were weakened, and all Israel was troubled.
+
+4:2. Now the son of Saul had two men captains of his bands, the name of
+the one was Baana, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Remmon
+a Berothite of the children of Benjamin: for Beroth also was reckoned in
+Benjamin.
+
+4:3. And the Berothites fled into Gethaim, and were sojourners there
+until that time.
+
+4:4. And Jonathan the son of Saul had a son that was lame of his feet:
+for he was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan
+from Jezrahel. And his nurse took him up and fled: and as she made haste
+to flee, he fell and became lame: and his name was Miphiboseth.
+
+4:5. And the sons of Remmon the Berothite, Rechab and Baana coming, went
+into the house of Isboseth in the heat of the day: and he was sleeping
+upon his bed at noon. And the doorkeeper of the house, who was cleansing
+wheat, was fallen asleep.
+
+4:6. And they entered into the house secretly taking ears of corn, and
+Rechab and Baana his brother stabbed him in the groin, and fled away.
+
+4:7. For when they came into the house, he was sleeping upon his bed in
+a parlour, and they struck him and killed him and taking away his head
+they went off by the way of the wilderness, walking all night.
+
+4:8. And they brought the head of Isboseth to David to Hebron: and they
+said to the king: Behold the head of Isboseth the son of Saul thy enemy
+who sought thy life: and the Lord hath revenged my lord the king this
+day of Saul, and of his seed.
+
+4:9. But David answered Rechab, and Baana his brother, the sons of
+Remmon the Berothite, and said to them: As the Lord liveth, who hath
+delivered my soul out of all distress,
+
+4:10. The man that told me, and said: Saul is dead, who thought he
+brought good tidings, I apprehended, and slew him in Siceleg, who should
+have been rewarded for his news.
+
+4:11. How much more now when wicked men have slain an innocent man in
+his own house, upon his bed, shall I not require his blood at your hand,
+and take you away from the earth?
+
+4:12. And David commanded his servants and they slew them: and cutting
+off their hands and feet, hanged them up over the pool in Hebron: but
+the head of Isboseth they took and buried in the sepulchre of Abner in
+Hebron.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 5
+
+David is anointed king of all Israel. He taketh Jerusalem, and dwelleth
+there. He defeateth the Philistines.
+
+5:1. Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying:
+Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.
+
+5:2. Moreover yesterday also and the day before, when Saul was king over
+us, thou wast he that did lead out and bring in Israel: and the Lord
+said to thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince
+over Israel.
+
+5:3. The ancients also of Israel came to the king of Hebron, and king
+David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they
+anointed David to be king over Israel.
+
+5:4. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
+forty years.
+
+5:5. In Hebron he reigned over Juda seven years and six months: and in
+Jerusalem he reigned three and thirty years over all Israel and Juda.
+
+5:6. And the king and all the men that were with him went to Jerusalem
+to the Jebusites the inhabitants of the land: and they said to David:
+Thou shalt not come in hither unless thou take away the blind and the
+lame that say: David shall not come in hither.
+
+5:7. But David took the castle of Sion, the same is the city of David.
+
+5:8. For David had offered that day a reward to whosoever should strike
+the Jebusites and get up to the gutters of the tops of the houses, and
+take away the blind and the lame that hated the soul of David: therefore
+it is said in the proverb: The blind and the lame shall not come into
+the temple.
+
+5:9. And David dwelt in the castle, and called it, The city of David:
+and built round about from Mello and inwards.
+
+5:10. And he went on prospering and growing up, and the Lord God of
+hosts was with him.
+
+5:11. And Hiram the king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar
+trees, and carpenters, and masons for walls: and they built a house for
+David.
+
+5:12. And David knew that the Lord had confirmed him king over Israel,
+and that he had exalted his kingdom over his people Israel.
+
+5:13. And David took more concubines and wives of Jerusalem, after he
+was come from Hebron: and there were born to David other sons also and
+daughters:
+
+David took more concubines and wives of Jerusalem... Not harlots, but
+wives of an inferior condition; for such, in scripture, are styled
+concubines.
+
+5:14. And these are the names of them, that were born to him in
+Jerusalem, Samua, and Sobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
+
+5:15. And Jebahar, and Elisua, and Nepheg,
+
+5:16. And Japhia, and Elisama, and Elioda, and Eliphaleth.
+
+5:17. And the Philistines heard that they had anointed David to be king
+over Israel: and they all came to seek David: and when David heard of
+it, he went down to a strong hold.
+
+5:18. And the Philistines coming spread themselves in the valley of
+Raphaim.
+
+5:19. And David consulted the Lord, Saying: Shall I go up to the
+Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said
+to David: Go up, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into thy
+hand.
+
+5:20. And David came to Baal Pharisim: and defeated them there, and he
+said, The Lord hath divided my enemies before me, as waters are divided.
+Therefore the name of the place was called Baal Pharisim.
+
+5:21. And they left there their idols: which David and his men took
+away.
+
+5:22. And the Philistines came up again and spread themselves into the
+valley of Raphaim.
+
+5:23. And David consulted the Lord: Shall I go up against the
+Philistines, and wilt thou deliver them into my hands? He answered: Go
+not up against them but fetch a compass behind them, and thou shalt come
+upon them over against the pear trees.
+
+5:24. And when thou shalt hear the sound of one going in the tops of the
+pear trees, then shalt thou join battle: for then will the Lord go out
+before thy face to strike the army of the Philistines.
+
+5:25. And David did as the Lord had commanded him, and he smote the
+Philistines from Gabaa until thou come to Gezer.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 6
+
+David fetcheth the ark from Cariathiarim. Oza is struck dead for
+touching it. It is deposited in the house of Obededom: and from thence
+carried to David's house.
+
+6:1. And David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel,
+thirty thousand.
+
+6:2. And David arose and went, with all the people that were with him of
+the men of Juda to fetch the ark of God, upon which the name of the Lord
+of Hosts is invoked, who sitteth over it upon the cherubims.
+
+6:3. And they laid the ark of God upon a new cart: and took it out of
+the house of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa, and Oza and Ahio, the sons of
+Abinadab, drove the new cart.
+
+Gabaa... The hill of Cariathiarim, where the ark had been in the house
+of Abinadab, from the time of its being restored back by the
+Philistines.
+
+6:4. And when they had taken it out of the house of Abinadab, who was in
+Gabaa, Ahio having care of the ark of God went before the ark.
+
+6:5. But David and all Israel played before the Lord on all manner of
+instruments made of wood, on harps and lutes and timbrels and cornets
+and cymbals.
+
+6:6. And when they came to the floor of Nachon, Oza put forth his hand
+to the ark of God, and took hold of it: because the oxen kicked and made
+it lean aside.
+
+6:7. And the indignation of the Lord was enkindled against Oza, and he
+struck him for his rashness: and he died there before the ark of God.
+
+6:8. And David was grieved because the Lord had struck Oza, and the name
+of that place was called: The striking of Oza, to this day.
+
+6:9. And David was afraid of the Lord that day, saying: How shall the
+ark of the Lord come to me?
+
+6:10. And he would not have the ark of the Lord brought in to himself
+into the city of David: but he caused it to be carried into the house of
+Obededom the Gethite.
+
+6:11. And the ark of the Lord abode in the house of Obededom the Gethite
+three months: and the Lord blessed Obededom, and all his household.
+
+6:12. And it was told king David, that the Lord had blessed Obededom,
+and all that he had, because of the ark of God. So David went, and
+brought away the ark of God out of the house of Obededom into the city
+of David with joy. And there were with David seven choirs, and calves
+for victims.
+
+Choirs... Or companies of musicians.
+
+6:13. And when they that carried the ark of the Lord had gone six paces,
+he sacrificed and ox and a ram:
+
+6:14. And David danced with all his might before the Lord: and David was
+girded with a linen ephod.
+
+6:15. And David and all the louse of Israel brought the ark of the
+covenant of the Lord with joyful shouting, and with sound of trumpet.
+
+6:16. And when the ark of the Lord was come into the city of David,
+Michol the daughter of Saul, looking out through a window, saw king
+David leaping and dancing before the Lord: and she despised him in her
+heart.
+
+6:17. And they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in
+the midst of the tabernacle, which David had pitched for it: and David
+offered holocausts, and peace offerings before the Lord.
+
+6:18. And when he had made an end of offering holocausts and peace
+offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.
+
+6:19. And he distributed to all the multitude of Israel, both men and
+women, to every one, a cake of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and
+fine flour fried with oil: and all the people departed every one to his
+own house.
+
+6:20. And David returned to bless his own house: and Michol the daughter
+of Saul coming out to meet David, said: How glorious was the king of
+Israel to day, uncovering himself before the handmaids of his servants,
+and was naked, as if one of the buffoons should be naked.
+
+6:21. And David said to Michol: Before the Lord, who chose me rather
+than thy father, and than all his house, and commanded me to be ruler
+over the people of the Lord in Israel,
+
+6:22. I will both play and make myself meaner than I have done: and I
+will be little in my own eyes: and with the handmaids of whom thou
+speakest, I shall appear more glorious.
+
+6:23. Therefore Michol the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of
+her death.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 7
+
+David's purpose to build a temple is rewarded with the promise of great
+blessings in his seed: his prayer and thanksgiving.
+
+7:1. And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord
+had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,
+
+7:2. He said to Nathan the prophet: Dost thou see that I dwell in a
+house of cedar, and the ark of God is lodged within skins?
+
+7:3. And Nathan said to the king: Go, do all that is in they heart:
+because the Lord is with thee.
+
+7:4. But it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came to
+Nathan, saying:
+
+7:5. Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou
+build me a house to dwell in?
+
+7:6. Whereas I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought the
+children of Israel out of the land of Egypt even to this day: but have
+walked in a tabernacle, and in a tent.
+
+7:7. In all the places that I have gone through with all the children of
+Israel, did ever I speak a word to any one of the tribes of Israel, whom
+I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying: Why have you not built me
+a house of cedar?
+
+7:8. And now thus shalt thou speak to my servant David: Thus saith the
+Lord of hosts: I took thee out of the pastures from following the sheep
+to be ruler over my people Israel:
+
+7:9. And I have been with thee wheresoever thou hast walked, and have
+slain all thy enemies from before thy face: and I have made thee a great
+man, like unto the name of the great ones that are on the earth.
+
+7:10. And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant
+them, and they shall dwell therein, and shall be disturbed no more:
+neither shall the children of iniquity afflict them any more as they did
+before,
+
+7:11. From the day that I appointed judges over my people Israel: and I
+will give thee rest from all thy enemies. And the Lord foretelleth to
+thee, that the Lord will make thee a house.
+
+7:12. And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with
+thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed
+out of the bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
+
+I will establish his kingdom... This prophecy partly relateth to
+Solomon: but much more to Christ, who is called the son of David in
+scripture, and who is the builder of the true temple, which is the
+church, his everlasting kingdom, which shall never fail.
+
+7:13. He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the throne
+of his kingdom fore ever.
+
+7:14. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he
+commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with
+the stripes of the children of men.
+
+7:15. But my mercy I will not take away from him, as I took it from
+Saul, whom I removed from before my face.
+
+7:16. And thy house shall be faithful, and thy kingdom for ever before
+thy face, and thy throne shall be firm for ever.
+
+7:17. According to all these words and according to all this vision so
+did Nathan speak to David.
+
+7:18. And David went in, and sat before the Lord, and said: Who am I, O
+Lord God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?
+
+7:19. Bur yet this hath seemed little in thy sight, O Lord God, unless
+thou didst also speak of the house of thy servant for a long time to
+come: for this is the law of Adam, O Lord God:
+
+7:20. And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy
+servant, O Lord God:
+
+7:21. For thy word's sake, and according to thy own heart thou has done
+all these great things, so that thou wouldst make it known to thy
+servant.
+
+7:22. Therefore thou art magnified, O Lord God, because there is none
+like to thee, neither is there any God besides thee, in all the things
+that we have heard with our ears.
+
+7:23. And what nation is there upon earth, as thy people Israel, whom
+God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and
+to do for them great and terrible things, upon the earth, before the
+face of thy people, whom thou redeemedst to thyself out of Egypt, from
+the nations and their gods.
+
+7:24. For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be an
+everlasting people: and thou, O Lord God, art become their God.
+
+7:25. And now, O Lord God, raise up for ever the word that thou hast
+spoken, concerning thy servant and concerning his house: and do as thou
+hast spoken,
+
+7:26. That thy name may be magnified for ever, and it may be said: The
+Lord of hosts is God over Israel. And the house of thy servant David
+shall be established before the Lord.
+
+7:27. Because thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to the
+ear of thy servant, saying: I will build thee a house: therefore hath
+thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to thee.
+
+7:28. And now, O Lord God, thou art God, and thy words shall be true:
+for thou hast spoken to thy servant these good things.
+
+7:29. And now begin, and bless the house of thy servant, that it may
+endure for ever before thee: because thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it,
+and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 8
+
+David's victories, and his chief officers.
+
+8:1. And it came to pass after this that David defeated the Philistines,
+and brought them down, and David took the bridle of tribute out of the
+hand of the Philistines,
+
+8:2. And he defeated Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them
+down to the earth: and he measured with two lines, one to put to death,
+and one to save alive: and Moab was made to serve David under tribute.
+
+8:3. David defeated also Adarezer the son of Rohob king of Soba, when he
+went to extend his dominion over the river Euphrates.
+
+8:4. And David took from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and
+twenty thousand footmen, and houghed all the chariot horses: and only
+reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
+
+8:5. And the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Adarezer the king of
+Soba: and David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
+
+8:6. And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and Syria served
+David under tribute, and the Lord preserved David in all his
+enterprises, whithersoever he went.
+
+8:7. And David took the arms of gold, which the servants of Adarezer
+wore and brought them to Jerusalem.
+
+8:8. And out of Bete, and out of Beroth, cities of Adarezer, king David
+took and exceeding great quantity of brass.
+
+8:9. And Thou the king of Emath heard that David had defeated all the
+forces of Adarezer.
+
+8:10. And Thou sent Joram his son to king David, to salute him, and to
+congratulate with him, and to return him thanks: because he had fought
+against Adarezer, and had defeated him. For Thou was an enemy to
+Adarezer, and in his hand were vessels of gold, and vessels of silver,
+and vessels of brass:
+
+8:11. And king David dedicated them to the Lord, together with the
+silver and gold that he had dedicated of all the nations, which he had
+subdued:
+
+8:12. Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children Ammon, and of the
+Philistines, and of Amalec, and of the spoils of Adarezer the son of
+Rohob king of Soba.
+
+8:13. David also made himself a name, when he returned after taking
+Syria in the valley of the saltpits, killing eighteen thousand:
+
+8:14. And he put guards in Edom, and placed there a garrison: and all
+Edom was made to serve David: and the Lord preserved David in all
+enterprises he went about.
+
+8:15. And David reigned over all Israel: and David did judgment and
+justice to all his people.
+
+8:16. And Joab the son Sarvia was over the army: and Josaphat the son of
+Ahilud was recorder:
+
+Recorder... Or chancellor.
+
+8:17. And Sadoc the son of Achitob, and Achimelech the son of Abiathar,
+were the priests: and Saraias was the scribe:
+
+Scribe... Or secretary.
+
+8:18. And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethi and Phelethi:
+and the sons of David were the princes.
+
+The Cerethi and Phelethi... The king's guards.-Ibid. Princes...
+Literally priests. (Cohen) So called, by a title of honour, and not from
+exercising the priestly functions.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 9
+
+David's kindness to Miphiboseth for the sake of his father Jonathan.
+
+9:1. And David said: Is there any one, think you, left of the house of
+Saul, that I may shew kindness to him for Jonathan's sake?
+
+9:2. Now there was of the house of Saul, a servant named Siba: and when
+the king had called him to him, he said to him: Art thou Siba? And he
+answered: I am Siba thy servant.
+
+9:3. And the king said: Is there any one left of the house of Saul, that
+I may shew the mercy of God unto Him? And Siba said to the king: There
+is a son of Jonathan left, who is lame of his feet.
+
+9:4. Where is he? said he. And Siba said to the king: Behold he is in
+the house of Machir the son of Ammiel in Lodabar.
+
+9:5. Then King David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir
+the son of Ammiel of Lodabar.
+
+9:6. And when Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul was come
+to David, he fell on his face and worshipped. And David said:
+Miphiboseth? And he answered: Behold thy servant.
+
+9:7. And David said to him: Fear not, for I will surely shew thee mercy
+for Jonathan thy father's sake, and I will restore the lands of Saul the
+father, and thou shalt eat bread at my table always.
+
+9:8. He bowed down to him, and said: Who am I thy servant, that thou
+shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?
+
+9:9. Then the King called Siba the servant of Saul, and said to him: All
+that belonged to Saul, and all his house, I have given to thy master's
+son.
+
+9:10. Thou therefore and the sons and thy servants shall till the land
+for him: and thou shalt bring in food for thy master's son, that he may
+be maintained: and Miphiboseth the son of thy master shall always eat
+bread at my table. And Siba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
+
+9:11. And Siba said to the king: As thou my lord the hast commanded thy
+servant, so will thy servant do: and Miphiboseth shall eat at my table,
+as one of the sons of the King.
+
+9:12. And Miphiboseth had a young son whose name was Micha: and all that
+kindred of the house of Siba served Miphiboseth.
+
+9:13. But Miphiboseth dwelt in Jerusalem: because he ate always of the
+king's table: and he was lame of both feet.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 10
+
+The Ammonites shamefully abuse the ambassadors of David: they hire the
+Syrians to the their assistance: but are overthrown with their allies.
+
+10:1. And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of
+Ammon died, and Hanon his son reigned in his stead.
+
+10:2. And David said: I will shew kindness to Hanon the son of Daas, as
+his father shewed kindness to me. So David sent his servants to comfort
+him for the death of his father. But when the servants of David were
+come into the land of the children of Ammon,
+
+10:3. The princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanon their lord:
+Thinkest thou that for the honour of thy father, David hath sent
+comforters to thee, and hath not David rather sent his servants to thee
+to search, and spy into the city, and overthrow it?
+
+10:4. Wherefore Hanon took the servants of David, and shaved off the one
+half of their beards, and cut away half of their garments even to the
+buttocks, and sent them away.
+
+10:5. When this was told David, he sent to meet them: for the men were
+sadly put to confusion, and David commanded them, saying: Stay at
+Jericho, till your beards be grown, and then return.
+
+10:6. And the children of Ammon seeing that they had done an injury to
+David, sent and hired the Syrians of Rohob, and the Syrians of Soba,
+twenty thousand footmen, and of the king of Maacha a thousand men, and
+of Istob twelve thousand men.
+
+10:7. And when David heard this, he sent Joab and the whole army of
+warriors.
+
+10:8. And the children of Ammon came out, and set their men in array at
+the entering in of the gate: but the Syrians of Soba, and of Rohob, and
+of Istob, and of Maacha were by themselves in the field.
+
+10:9. Then Joab seeing that the battle was prepared against him, both
+before and behind, chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them
+in array against the Syrians:
+
+10:10. And the rest of the people he delivered to Abisai his brother,
+who set them in array against the children of Ammon.
+
+10:11. And Joab said: If the Syrians are too strong for me, then thou
+shalt help me, but if the children of Ammon are too strong for thee,
+then I will help thee.
+
+10:12. Be of good courage, and let us fight for our people, and for the
+city of our God: and the Lord will do what is good in his sight.
+
+10:13. And Joab and the people that were with him, began to fight
+against the Syrians: and they immediately fled before him.
+
+10:14. And the children of Ammon seeing that the Syrians were fled, they
+fled also before Abisai, and entered into the city: and Joab returned
+from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
+
+10:15. Then the Syrians seeing that they had fallen before Israel,
+gathered themselves together.
+
+10:16. And Adarezer sent and fetched the Syrians, that were beyond the
+river, and brought over their army: and Sobach, the captain of the host
+of Adarezer, was their general.
+
+10:17. And when this was told David, he gathered all Israel together,
+and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam: and the Syrians set
+themselves in array against David, and fought against him.
+
+10:18. And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David slew of the Syrians
+the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen: and
+smote Sobach the captain of the army, who presently died.
+
+10:19. And all the kings that were auxiliaries of Adarezer, seeing
+themselves overcome by Israel, were afraid and fled away, eight and
+fifty thousand men before Israel. And they made peace with Israel: and
+served them, and all the Syrians were afraid to help the children of
+Ammon any more.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 11
+
+David falleth into the crime of adultery with Bethsabee: and not finding
+other means to conceal it, causeth her husband Urias to be slain. Then
+marrieth her, who beareth him a son.
+
+11:1. And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time when
+kings go forth to war, that David sent Joab and his servants with him,
+and all Israel, and they spoiled the children of Ammon, and besieged
+Rabba: but David remained in Jerusalem.
+
+11:2. In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after
+noon, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: And he saw from the
+roof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the
+woman was very beautiful.
+
+11:3. And the king sent, and inquired who the woman was. And it was told
+him, that she was Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urias the
+Hethite.
+
+11:4. And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him,
+and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her
+uncleanness:
+
+11:5. And she returned to her house having conceived. And she sent and
+told David, and said: I have conceived.
+
+11:6. And David sent to Joab, saying: Send me Urias the Hethite. And
+Joab sent Urias to David.
+
+11:7. And Urias came to David. And David asked how Joab did, and the
+people, and how the war was carried on.
+
+11:8. And David said to Urias: Go into thy house, and wash thy feet. And
+Urias went out from the king's house, and there went out after him a
+mess of meat from the king.
+
+11:9. But Urias slept before the gate of the king's house, with the
+other servants of his lord, and went not down to his own house.
+
+11:10. And it was told David by some that said: Urias went not to his
+house. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey?
+why didst thou not go down to thy house?
+
+11:11. And Urias said to David: The ark of God and Israel and Juda dwell
+in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon the
+face of the earth: and shall I go into my house, to eat and to drink,
+and to sleep with my wife? By thy welfare and by the welfare of thy soul
+I will not do this thing.
+
+11:12. Then David said to Urias: Tarry here to day, and to morrow I will
+send thee away. Urias tarried in Jerusalem that day and the next.
+
+11:13. And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made
+him drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with
+the servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.
+
+11:14. And when the morning was come, David wrote a letter to Joab: and
+sent it by the hand of Urias,
+
+11:15. Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle,
+where the fight is strongest: and leave ye him, that he may be wounded
+and die.
+
+11:16. Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the
+place where he knew the bravest men were.
+
+11:17. And the men coming out of the city, fought against Joab, and
+there fell some of the people of the servants of David, and Urias the
+Hethite was killed also.
+
+11:18. Then Joab sent, and told David all things concerning the battle.
+
+11:19. And he charged the messenger, saying: When thou hast told all the
+words of the battle to the king,
+
+11:20. If thou see him to be angry, and he shall say: Why did you
+approach so near to the wall to fight? knew you not that many darts are
+thrown from above off the wall?
+
+11:21. Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal? did not a woman cast a
+piece of a millstone upon him from the wall and slew him in Thebes? Why
+did you go near the wall? Thou shalt say: Thy servant Urias the Hethite
+is also slain.
+
+11:22. So the messenger departed, and came and told David all that Joab
+had commanded him.
+
+11:23. And the messenger said to David: The men prevailed against us,
+and they came out to us into the field: and we vigorously charged and
+pursued them even to the gate of the city.
+
+11:24. And the archers shot their arrows at thy servants from off the
+wall above: and some of the king's servants are slain, and thy servant
+Urias the Hethite is also dead.
+
+11:25. And David said to the messenger: Thus shalt thou say to Joab: Let
+not this thing discourage thee: for various is the event of war: and
+sometimes one, sometimes another is consumed by the sword: encourage thy
+warriors against the city, and exhort them that thou mayest overthrow
+it.
+
+11:26. And the wife of Urias heard that Urias her husband was dead, and
+she mourned for him.
+
+11:27. And the mourning being over, David sent and brought her into his
+house, and she became his wife, and she bore him a son: and this thing
+which David had done, was displeasing to the Lord.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 12
+
+Nathan's parable. David confesseth his sin, and is forgiven: yet so as
+to be sentenced to most severe temporal punishments. The death of the
+child. The birth of Solomon. The taking of Rabbath.
+
+12:1. And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when he was come to him, he
+said to him: There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the other
+poor.
+
+12:2. The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen.
+
+12:3. But the poor man had nothing at all but one little ewe lamb, which
+he had bought and nourished up, and which had grown up in his house
+together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of his
+cup, and sleeping in his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter.
+
+12:4. And when a certain stranger was come to the rich man, he spared to
+take of his own sheep and oxen, to make a feast for that stranger, who
+was come to him, but took the poor man's ewe, and dressed it for the man
+that was come to him.
+
+12:5. And David's anger being exceedingly kindled against that man, he
+said to Nathan: As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this is a
+child of death.
+
+12:6. He shall restore the ewe fourfold, because he did this thing, and
+had no pity.
+
+12:7. And Nathan said to David: Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord
+the God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered
+thee from the hand of Saul,
+
+12:8. And gave thee thy master's house and thy master's wives into thy
+bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and Juda: and if these things
+be little, I shall add far greater things unto thee.
+
+12:9. Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil
+in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast
+taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the
+children of Ammon.
+
+12:10. Therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because
+thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urias the Hethite to
+be thy wife.
+
+12:11. Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee
+out of thy own house, and I will take thy wives before thy eyes and give
+them to thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of
+this sun.
+
+I will raise, etc... All these evils, inasmuch as they were punishments,
+came upon David by a just judgment of God, for his sin, and therefore
+God says, I will raise, etc.; but inasmuch as they were sins, on the
+part of Absalom and his associates, God was not the author of them, but
+only permitted them.
+
+12:12. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing in the sight
+of all Israel, and in the sight of the sun.
+
+12:13. And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And
+Nathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt
+not die.
+
+12:14. Nevertheless, because thou hast given occasion to the enemies of
+the Lord to blaspheme, for this thing, the child that is born to thee,
+shall surely die.
+
+12:15. And Nathan returned to his house. The Lord also struck the child
+which the wife of Urias had borne to David, and his life was despaired
+of.
+
+12:16. And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast,
+and going in by himself lay upon the ground.
+
+12:17. And the ancients of his house came, to make him rise from the
+ground: but he would not, neither did he eat meat with them.
+
+12:18. And it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died: and
+the servants of David feared to tell him, that the child was dead. For
+they said: Behold when the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he
+would not hearken to our voice: how much more will he afflict himself if
+we tell him that the child is dead?
+
+12:19. But when David saw his servants whispering, he understood that
+the child was dead: and he said to his servants: Is the child dead? They
+answered him He is dead.
+
+12:20. Then David arose from the ground, and washed and anointed
+himself: and when he had changed his apparel, he went into the house of
+the Lord: and worshipped, and then he came into his own house, and he
+called for bread, and ate.
+
+12:21. And his servants said to him: What thing is this that thou hast
+done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive, but
+when the child was dead, thou didst rise up, and eat bread.
+
+12:22. And he said: While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept for
+him: for I said: Who knoweth whether the Lord may not give him to me,
+and the child may live?
+
+12:23. But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Shall I be able to
+bring him back any more? I shall go to him rather: but he shall not
+return to me.
+
+12:24. And David comforted Bethsabee his wife, and went in unto her, and
+slept with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon, and
+the Lord loved him.
+
+12:25. And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his
+name, Amiable to the Lord, because the Lord loved him.
+
+Amiable to the Lord... Or, beloved of the Lord. In Hebrew, Jedidiah.
+
+12:26. And Joab fought against Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and
+laid close siege to the royal city.
+
+12:27. And Joab sent messengers to David, saying: I have fought against
+Rabbath, and the city of waters is about to be taken.
+
+The city of waters... Rabbath the royal city of the Ammonites, was
+called the city of waters, from being encompassed with waters.
+
+12:28. Now therefore gather thou the rest of the people together, and
+besiege the city and take it: lest when the city shall be wasted by me,
+the victory be ascribed to my name.
+
+12:29. Then David gathered all the people together, and went out against
+Rabbath: and after fighting, he took it.
+
+12:30. And he took the crown of their king from his head, the weight of
+which was a talent of gold, set with most precious stones, and it was
+put upon David's head, and the spoils of the city which were very great
+he carried away.
+
+12:31. And bringing forth the people thereof he sawed them, and drove
+over them chariots armed with iron: and divided them with knives, and
+made them pass through brickkilns: so did he to all the cities of the
+children of Ammon: and David returned, with all the army to Jerusalem.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 13
+
+Ammon ravisheth Thamar. For which Absalom killeth him, and flieth to
+Gessur.
+
+13:1. And it came to pass after this that Ammon the son of David loved
+the sister of Absalom the son of David, who was very beautiful, and her
+name was Thamar.
+
+13:2. And he was exceedingly fond of her, so that he fell sick for the
+love of her: for as she was a virgin, he thought it hard to do any thing
+dishonestly with her.
+
+13:3. Now Ammon had a friend, named Jonadab the son of Semmaa the
+brother of David, a very wise man:
+
+A very wise man... That is, a crafty and subtle man: for the counsel he
+gave on this occasion shews that his wisdom was but carnal and worldly.
+
+13:4. And he said to him: Why dost thou grow so lean from day to day, O
+son of the king? why dost thou not tell me the reason of it? And Ammon
+said to him: I am in love with Thamar the sister of my brother Absalom.
+
+13:5. And Jonadab said to him: Lie down upon thy bed, and feign thyself
+sick: and when thy father shall come to visit thee, say to him: Let my
+sister Thamar, I pray thee, come to me, to give me to eat, and to make
+me a mess, that I may eat it at her hand.
+
+13:6. So Ammon lay down, and made as if he were sick: and when the king
+came to visit him, Ammon said to the king: I pray thee let my sister
+Thamar come, and make in my sight two little messes, that I may eat at
+her hand.
+
+13:7. Then David sent home to Thamar, saying: Come to the house of thy
+brother Ammon, and make him a mess.
+
+13:8. And Thamar came to the house of Ammon her brother: but he was laid
+down: and she took meal and tempered it: and dissolving it in his sight
+she made little messes.
+
+13:9. And taking what she had boiled, she poured it out, and set it
+before him, but he would not eat: and Ammon said: Put out all persons
+from me. And when they had put all persons out,
+
+13:10. Ammon said to Thamar: Bring the mess into the chamber, that I may
+eat at thy hand. And Thamar took the little messes which she had made,
+and brought them in to her brother Ammon in the chamber.
+
+13:11. And when she had presented him the meat, he took hold of her, and
+said: Come lie with me, my sister.
+
+13:12. She answered him: Do not so, my brother, do not force me: for no
+such thing must be done in Israel. Do not thou this folly.
+
+13:13. For I shall not be able to bear my shame, and thou shalt be as
+one of the fools in Israel: but rather speak to the king, and he will
+not deny me to thee.
+
+13:14. But he would not hearken to her prayers, but being stronger
+overpowered her and lay with her.
+
+13:15. Then Ammon hated her with an exceeding great hatred: so that the
+hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love with which he
+had loved her before. And Ammon said to her: Arise, and get thee gone.
+
+13:16. She answered him: The evil which now thou dost against me, in
+driving me away, is greater than that which thou didst before. And he
+would not hearken to her:
+
+13:17. But calling the servants that ministered to him, he said: Thrust
+this woman out from me: and shut the door after her.
+
+13:18. And she was clothed with a long robe: for the king's daughters
+that were virgins, used such kind of garments. Then his servant thrust
+her out: and shut the door after her.
+
+13:19. And she put ashes on her head, and rent her long robe and laid
+her hands upon her head, and went on crying.
+
+13:20. And Absalom her brother said to her: Hath thy brother Ammon lain
+with thee? but now, sister, hold thy peace, he is thy brother: and
+afflict not thy heart for this thing. So Thamar remained pining away in
+the house of Absalom her brother.
+
+13:21. And when king David heard of these things he was exceedingly
+grieved: and he would not afflict the spirit of his son Ammon, for he
+loved him, because he was his firstborn.
+
+13:22. But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for Absalom
+hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar.
+
+13:23. And it came to pass after two years, that the sheep of Absalom
+were shorn in Baalhasor, which is near Ephraim: and Absalom invited all
+the king's sons:
+
+13:24. And he came to the king, and said to him: Behold thy servant's
+sheep are shorn. Let the king, I pray, with his servants come to his
+servant.
+
+13:25. And the king said to Absalom: Nay, my son, do not ask that we
+should all come, and be chargeable to thee. And when he pressed him, and
+he would not go, he blessed him.
+
+13:26. And Absalom said: If thou wilt not come, at least let my brother
+Ammon, I beseech thee, come with us. And the king said to him: It is not
+necessary that he should go with thee.
+
+13:27. But Absalom pressed him, so that he let Ammon and all the king's
+sons go with him. And Absalom made a feast as it were the feast of a
+king.
+
+13:28. And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying: Take notice when
+Ammon shall be drunk with wine, and when I shall say to you: Strike him,
+and kill him, fear not: for it is I that command you: take courage, and
+be valiant men.
+
+13:29. And the servants of Absalom did to Ammon as Absalom had commanded
+them. And all the king's sons arose and got up every man upon his mule,
+and fled.
+
+13:30. And while they were yet in the way, a rumour came to David,
+saying: Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one
+them left.
+
+13:31. Then the king rose up, and rent his garments: and fell upon the
+ground, and all his servants, that stood about him, rent their garments.
+
+13:32. But Jonadab the son of Semmaa David's brother answering, said:
+Let not my lord the king think that all the king's sons are slain: Ammon
+only is dead, for he was appointed by the mouth of Absalom from the day
+that he ravished his sister Thamar.
+
+13:33. Now therefore let not my lord the king take this thing into his
+heart, saying: All the king's sons are slain: for Ammon only is dead.
+
+13:34. But Absalom fled away: and the young man that kept the watch,
+lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold there came much people by a
+by-way on the side of the mountain.
+
+13:35. And Jonadab said to the king: Behold the king's sons are come: as
+thy servant said, so it is.
+
+13:36. And when he made an end of speaking, the king's sons also
+appeared: and coming in they lifted up their voice, and wept: and the
+king also and all his servants wept very much.
+
+13:37. But Absalom fled, and went to Tholomai the son of Ammiud the king
+of Gessur. And David mourned for his son every day.
+
+13:38. And Absalom after he was fled, and come into Gessur, was there
+three years. And king David ceased to pursue after Absalom, because he
+was comforted concerning the death of Ammon.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 14
+
+Joab procureth Absalom's return, and his admittance to the king's
+presence.
+
+14:1. And Joab the son of Sarvia, understanding that the king's heart
+was turned to Absalom,
+
+14:2. Sent to Thecua, and fetched from thence a wise woman: and said to
+her: Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, and be
+not anointed with oil, that thou mayest be as a woman that had a long
+time been mourning for one dead.
+
+14:3. And thou shalt go in to the king, and shalt speak to him in this
+manner. And Joab put the words in her mouth.
+
+14:4. And when the woman of Thecua was come in to the king, she fell
+before him upon the ground, and worshipped, and said: Save me, O king.
+
+14:5. And the king said to her: What is the matter with thee? She
+answered: Alas, I am a widow woman: for my husband is dead.
+
+14:6. And thy handmaid had two sons: and they quarrelled with each other
+in the field, and there was none to part them: and the one struck the
+other, and slew him.
+
+14:7. And behold the whole kindred rising against thy handmaid, saith:
+Deliver him that hath slain his brother, that we may kill him for the
+life of his brother, whom he slew, and that we may destroy the heir: and
+they seek to quench my spark which is left, and will leave my husband no
+name, nor remainder upon the earth.
+
+14:8. And the king said to the woman: Go to thy house, and I will give
+charge concerning thee.
+
+14:9. And the woman of Thecua said to the king: Upon me, my lord be the
+iniquity, and upon the house of my father: but may the king and his
+throne be guiltless.
+
+14:10. And the king said: If any one shall say ought against thee, bring
+him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.
+
+14:11. And she said: Let the king remember the Lord his God, that the
+next of kin be not multiplied to take revenge, and that they may not
+kill my son. And he said: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair
+of thy son fall to the earth.
+
+14:12. The woman said: Let thy hand maid speak one word to my lord the
+king. And he said: Speak.
+
+14:13. And the woman said: Why hast thou thought such a thing against
+the people of God, and why hath the king spoken this word, to sin, and
+not bring home again his own exile?
+
+14:14. We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down
+into the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth,
+meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.
+
+14:15. Now therefore I am come, to speak this word to my lord the king
+before the people. And thy handmaid said: I will speak to the king, it
+maybe the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
+
+14:16. And the king hath hearkened to me to deliver his handmaid out of
+the hand of all that would destroy me and my son together out of the
+inheritance of God.
+
+14:17. Then let thy handmaid say, that the word of the Lord the king be
+made as a sacrifice. For even as an angel of God, so is my lord the
+king, that he is neither moved with blessing nor cursing: wherefore the
+Lord thy God is also with thee.
+
+14:18. And the king answering, said to the woman: Hide not from me the
+thing that I ask thee. And the woman said to him: Speak, my lord the
+king.
+
+14:19. And the king said: Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this?
+The woman answered, and said: By the health of thy soul, my lord, O
+king, it is neither on the left hand, nor on the right, in all these
+things which my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he
+commanded me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy handmaid.
+
+14:20. That I should come about with this form of speech, thy servant
+Joab commanded this: but thou, my lord, O king, art wise, according to
+the wisdom of an angel of God, to understand all things upon earth.
+
+14:21. And the king said to Joab: Behold I am appeased and have granted
+thy request: Go therefore and fetch back the boy Absalom.
+
+14:22. And Joab falling down to the ground upon his face, adored, and
+blessed the king: and Joab said: This day thy servant hath understood,
+that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king: for thou hast
+fulfilled the request of thy servant.
+
+Blessed... That is, and gave thanks to the king.
+
+14:23. Then Joab arose and went to Gessur, and brought Absalom to
+Jerusalem.
+
+14:24. But the king said: Let him return into his house, and let him not
+see my face. So Absalom returned into his house, and saw not the king's
+face.
+
+14:25. But in all Israel there was not a man so comely, and so
+exceedingly beautiful as Absalom: from the sole of the foot to the crown
+of his head there was no blemish in him.
+
+14:26. And when he polled his hair (now he was polled once a year,
+because his hair was burdensome to him) he weighed the hair of his head
+at two hundred sicles, according to the common weight.
+
+14:27. And there were born to Absalom three sons: and one daughter,
+whose name was Thamar, and she was very beautiful.
+
+14:28. And Absalom dwelt two years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king's
+face.
+
+14:29. He sent therefore to Joab, to send him to the king: but he would
+not come to him. And when he had sent the second time, and he would not
+come to him,
+
+14:30. He said to his servants: You know the field of Joab near my
+field, that hath a crop of barley: go now and set it on fire. So the
+servants of Absalom set the corn on fire. And Joab's servants coming
+with their garments rent, said: The servants of Absalom have set part of
+the field on fire.
+
+14:31. Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said: Why
+have thy servants set my corn on fire?
+
+14:32. And Absalom answered Joab: I sent to thee beseeching thee to come
+to me, that I might send thee to the king, to say to him: Wherefore am I
+come from Gessur? it had been better for me to be there: I beseech thee
+therefore that I may see the face of the king: and if he be mindful of
+my iniquity, let him kill me.
+
+14:33. So Joab going in to the king, told him all: and Absalom was
+called for, and, he went in to the king: and prostrated himself on the
+ground before him: and the king kissed Absalom.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 15
+
+Absalom's policy and conspiracy. David is obliged to flee.
+
+15:1. Now after these things Absalom made himself chariots, and
+horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
+
+15:2. And Absalom rising up early stood by the entrance of the gate, and
+when any man had business to come to the king's judgment, Absalom called
+him to him, and said: Of what city art thou? He answered, and said: Thy
+servant is of such tribe of Israel.
+
+15:3. And Absalom answered him: Thy words seem to me good and just. But
+there is no man appointed by the king to hear thee. And Absalom said:
+
+15:4. O that they would make me judge over the land, that all that have
+business might come to me, that I might do them justice.
+
+15:5. Moreover when any man came to him to salute him, he put forth his
+hand, and took him, and kissed him.
+
+15:6. And this he did to all Israel that came for judgment, to be heard
+by the king, and he enticed the hearts of the men of Israel.
+
+15:7. And after forty years, Absalom said to king David: Let me go, and
+pay my vows which I have vowed to the Lord in Hebron.
+
+15:8. For thy servant made a vow, when he was in Gessur of Syria,
+saying: If the Lord shall bring me again into Jerusalem, I will offer
+sacrifice to the Lord.
+
+15:9. And king David said to him: Go in peace. And he arose, and went to
+Hebron.
+
+15:10. And Absalom sent spies into all the tribes of Israel, saying: As
+soon as you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, say ye: Absalom
+reigneth in Hebron.
+
+15:11. Now there went with Absalom two hundred men out of Jerusalem that
+were called, going with simplicity of heart, and knowing nothing of the
+design.
+
+15:12. Absalom also sent for Achitophel the Gilonite, David's
+counsellor, from his city Gilo. And while he was offering sacrifices,
+there was a strong conspiracy, and the people running together increased
+with Absalom.
+
+15:13. And there came a messenger to David, saying: All Israel with
+their whole heart followeth Absalom.
+
+15:14. And David said to his servants, that were with him in Jerusalem:
+Arise and let us flee: for we shall not escape else from the face of
+Absalom: make haste to go out, lest he come and overtake us, and bring
+ruin upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
+
+15:15. And the king's servants said to him: Whatsoever our lord the king
+shall command, we thy servants will willingly execute.
+
+15:16. And the king went forth, and all his household on foot: and the
+king left ten women his concubines to keep the house:
+
+Concubines... That is, wives of an inferior degree.
+
+15:17. And the king going forth and all Israel on foot, stood afar off
+from the house:
+
+15:18. And all his servants walked by him, and the bands of the Cerethi,
+and the Phelethi, and all the Gethites, valiant warriors, six hundred
+men who had followed him from Geth on foot, went before the king.
+
+15:19. And the king said to Ethai the Gethite: Why comest thou with us:
+return and dwell with the king, for thou art a stranger, and art come
+out of thy own place.
+
+15:20. Yesterday thou camest, and to day shalt thou be forced to go
+forth with us? but I shall go whither I am going: return thou, and take
+back thy brethren with thee, and the Lord will shew thee mercy, and
+truth, because thou hast shewn grace and fidelity.
+
+15:21. And Ethai answered the king, saying: As the Lord liveth, and as
+my lord the king liveth: in what place soever thou shalt be, my lord, O
+king, either in death, or in life, there will thy servant be.
+
+15:22. And David said to Ethai: Come, and pass over. And Ethai the
+Gethite passed, and all the men that were with him, and the rest of the
+people.
+
+15:23. And they all wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed
+over: the king also himself went over the brook Cedron, and all the
+people marched towards the way that looketh to the desert.
+
+15:24. And Sadoc the priest also came, and all the Levites with him
+carrying the ark of the covenant of God, and they set down the ark of
+God: and Abiathar went up, till all the people that was come out of the
+city had done passing.
+
+15:25. And the king said to Sadoc: Carry back the ark of God into the
+city: if I shall find grace in the sight of the Lord, he will bring me
+again, and he will shew me it, and his tabernacle.
+
+15:26. But if he shall say to me: Thou pleasest me not: I am ready, let
+him do that which is good before him.
+
+15:27. And the king said to Sadoc the priest: O seer, return into the
+city in peace: and let Achimaas thy son, and Jonathan the son of
+Abiathar, your two sons, be with you.
+
+15:28. Behold I will lie hid in the plains of the wilderness, till there
+come word from you to certify me.
+
+15:29. So Sadoc and Abiathar carried back the ark of God into Jerusalem:
+and they tarried there.
+
+15:30. But David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, going up and
+weeping, walking barefoot, and with his head covered, and all the people
+that were with them, went up with their heads covered weeping.
+
+Weeping, etc... David on this occasion wept for his sins, which he knew
+were the cause of all his sufferings.
+
+15:31. And it was told David that Achitophel also was in the conspiracy
+with Absalom, and David said: Infatuate, O Lord, I beseech thee, the
+counsel of Achitophel.
+
+15:32. And when David was come to the top of the mountain, where he was
+about to adore the Lord, behold Chusai the Arachite, came to meet him
+with his garment rent and his head covered with earth.
+
+15:33. And David said to him: If thou come with me, thou wilt be a
+burden to me:
+
+15:34. But if thou return into the city, and wilt say to Absalom: I am
+thy servant, O king: as I have been thy father's servant, so I will be
+thy servant: thou shalt defeat the counsel of Achitophel.
+
+15:35. And thou hast with thee Sadoc, and soever thou shalt hear out of
+the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests.
+
+15:36. And there are with them their two sons Achimaas; the son of
+Sadoc, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar: and you shall send by them to
+me every thing that you shall hear.
+
+15:37. Then Chusai the friend of David went into the city, and Absalom
+came into Jerusalem.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 16
+
+Siba bringeth provisions to David. Semei curseth him. Absalom defileth
+his father's wives.
+
+16:1. And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold Siba
+the servant of Miphiboseth came to meet him with two asses, laden with
+two hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred
+cakes of figs, and a vessel of wine.
+
+16:2. And the king said to Siba: What mean these things? And Siba
+answered: The asses are for the king's household to sit on: and the
+loaves and the figs for thy servants to eat, and the wine to drink if
+any man be faint in the desert.
+
+16:3. And the king said: Where is thy master's son? And Siba answered
+the king: He remained in Jerusalem, saying: To day, will the house of
+Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
+
+16:4. And the king said to Siba: I give thee all that belonged to
+Miphiboseth. And Siba said: I beseech thee let me find grace before
+thee, my lord, O king.
+
+16:5. And king David came as far as Bahurim: and behold there came out
+from thence a man of the kindred of the house of Saul named Semei, the
+son of Gera, and coming out he cursed as he went on,
+
+16:6. And he threw stones at David, and at all the servants of king
+David: and all the people, and all the warriors walked on the right, and
+on the left side of the king.
+
+16:7. And thus said Semei when he cursed the king: Come out, come out,
+thou man of blood, and thou man of Belial.
+
+16:8. The Lord hath repaid thee for all the blood of the house of Saul:
+because thou hast usurped the kingdom in his stead, and the Lord hath
+given the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and behold thy evils
+press upon thee, because thou art a man of blood.
+
+16:9. And Abisai the son of Sarvia said to the king: Why should this
+dead dog curse my lord the king? I will go, and cut off his head.
+
+16:10. And the king said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia?
+Let him alone and let him curse: for the Lord hath bid him curse David:
+and who is he that shall dare say, why hath he done so?
+
+Hath bid him curse... Not that the Lord was the author of Semei's sin,
+which proceeded purely from his own malice, and the abuse of his free
+will. But that knowing, and suffering his malicious disposition to break
+out on this occasion, he made use of him as his instrument to punish
+David for his sins.
+
+16:11. And the king said to Abisai, and to all his servants: Behold my
+son, who came forth from my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now a
+son of Jemini? let him alone that he may curse as the Lord hath bidden
+him.
+
+16:12. Perhaps the Lord may look upon my affliction, and the Lord may
+render me good for the cursing of this day.
+
+16:13. And David and his men with him went by the way. And Semei by the
+hill's side went over against him, cursing, and casting stones at him,
+and scattering earth.
+
+16:14. And the king and all the people with him came weary, and
+refreshed themselves there.
+
+16:15. But Absalom and all his people came into Jerusalem, and
+Achitophel was with him.
+
+16:16. And when Chusai the Arachite, David's friend, was come to
+Absalom, he said to him: God save thee, O king, God save thee, O king.
+
+16:17. And Absalom said to him, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why
+wentest thou not with thy friend?
+
+16:18. And Chusai answered Absalom: Nay: for I will be his, whom the
+Lord hath chosen, and all this people, and all Israel, and with him will
+I abide.
+
+16:19. Besides this, whom shall I serve? is it not the king's son? as I
+have served thy father, so will I serve thee also.
+
+16:20. And Absalom said to Achitophel: Consult what we are to do.
+
+16:21. And Achitophel said to Absalom: Go in to the concubines of thy
+father, whom he hath left to keep the house: that when all Israel shall
+hear that thou hast disgraced thy father, their hands may be
+strengthened with thee.
+
+Their hands may be strengthened, etc... The people might apprehend lest
+Absalom should be reconciled to his father, and therefore they folllowed
+him with some fear of being left in the lurch, till they saw such a
+crime committed as seemed to make a reconciliation impossible.
+
+
+16:22. So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and he
+went in to his father's concubines before all Israel.
+
+16:23. Now the counsel of Achitophel, which he gave in those days, was
+as if a man should consult God: so was all the counsel of Achitophel,
+both when he was with David, and when he was with Absalom.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 17
+
+Achitophel's counsel is defeated by Chusai: who sendeth intelligence to
+David. Achitophel hangeth himself.
+
+17:1. And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand
+men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.
+
+17:2. And coming upon him (for he is now weary, and weak handed) I will
+defeat him: and when all the people is put to flight that is with him, I
+will kill the king who will be left alone.
+
+17:3. And I will bring back all the people, as if they were but one man:
+for thou seekest but one man: and all the people shall be in peace.
+
+17:4. And his saying pleased Absalom, and all the ancients of Israel.
+
+17:5. But Absalom said: Call Chusai the Arachite, and let us hear what
+he also saith.
+
+17:6. And when Chusai was come to Absalom, Absalom said to him:
+Achitophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do it or not? what
+counsel dost thou give?
+
+17:7. And Chusai said to Absalom: The counsel that Achitophel hath given
+this time is not good.
+
+17:8. And again Chusai said: Thou knowest thy father, and the men that
+are with him, that they are very valiant, and bitter in their mind, as a
+bear raging in the wood when her whelps are taken away: and thy father
+is a warrior, and will not lodge with the people.
+
+17:9. Perhaps he now lieth hid in pits, or in some other place where he
+liest: and when any one shall fall at the first, every one that heareth
+it shall say: There is a slaughter among the people that followed
+Absalom.
+
+17:10. And the most valiant man whose heart is as the heart of a lion,
+shall melt for fear: for all the people of Israel know thy father to be
+a valiant man, and that all who are with him are valiant.
+
+17:11. But this seemeth to me to be good counsel: Let all Israel be
+gathered to thee, from Dan to Bersabee, as the sand of the sea which
+cannot be numbered: and thou shalt be in the midst of them.
+
+17:12. And we shall come upon him in what place soever he shall be
+found: and we shall cover him, as the dew falleth upon the ground, and
+we shall not leave of the men that are with him, not so much as one.
+
+17:13. And if he shall enter into any city, all Israel shall cast ropes
+round about that city, and we will draw it into the river, so that there
+shall not be found so much as one small stone thereof.
+
+17:14. And Absalom, and all the men of Israel said: The counsel of
+Chusai the Arachite is better than the counsel of Achitophel: and by the
+will of the Lord the profitable counsel of Achitophel was defeated, that
+the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.
+
+17:15. And Chusai said to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests: Thus and thus
+did Achitophel counsel Absalom, and the ancients of Israel: and thus and
+thus did I counsel them.
+
+17:16. Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Tarry not
+this night in the plains of the wilderness, but without delay pass over:
+lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that is with him.
+
+17:17. And Jonathan and Achimaas stayed by the fountain Rogel: and there
+went a maid and told them: and they went forward, to carry the message
+to king David, for they might not be seen, nor enter into the city.
+
+17:18. But a certain boy saw them, and told Absalom: but they making
+haste went into the house of a certain man in Bahurim, who had a well in
+his court, and they went down into it.
+
+17:19. And a woman took, and spread a covering over the mouth of the
+well, as it were to dry sodden barley and so the thing was not known.
+
+17:20. And when Absalom's servants were come into the house, they said
+to the woman: Where is Achimaas and Jonathan? and the woman answered
+them: They passed on in haste, after they had tasted a little water. But
+they that sought them, when they found them not, returned into
+Jerusalem.
+
+17:21. And when they were gone, they came up out of the well, and going
+on told king David, and said: Arise, and pass quickly over the river:
+for this manner of counsel has Achitophel given against you.
+
+17:22. So David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they
+passed over the Jordan, until it grew light, and not one of them was
+left that was not gone ever the river.
+
+17:23. But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled
+his ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and
+putting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the
+sepulchre of his father.
+
+17:24. But David came to the camp, and Absalom passed over the Jordan,
+he and all the men of Israel with him.
+
+To the camp... The city of Mahanaim, the name of which, in Hebrew,
+signifies The camp. It was a city of note at that time, as appears from
+its having been chosen by Isboseth for the place of his residence.
+
+17:25. Now Absalom appointed Amasa in Joab's stead over the army: and
+Amasa was the son of a man who was called Jethra, of Jezrael, who went
+in to Abigail the daughter of Naas, the sister of Sarvia who was the
+mother of Joab.
+
+17:26. And Israel camped with Absalom in the land of Galaad.
+
+17:27. And when David was come to the camp, Sobi the son of Naas of
+Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammihel of
+Lodabar and Berzellai the Galaadite of Rogelim,
+
+17:28. Brought him beds, and tapestry, and earthen vessels, and wheat,
+and barley, and meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and
+fried pulse,
+
+17:29. And honey, and butter, and sheep, and fat calves, and they gave
+to David and the people that were with him, to eat: for they suspected
+that the people were faint with hunger and thirst in the wilderness.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 18
+
+Absalom is defeated, and slain by Joab. David mourneth for him.
+
+18:1. And David, having reviewed his people, appointed over them
+captains of thousands and of hundreds,
+
+18:2. And sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab,
+and a third part under the hand of Abisai the son of Sarvia Joab's
+brother, and a third part under the hand of Ethai, who was of Geth: and
+the king said to the people: I also will go forth with you.
+
+18:3. And the people answered: Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee
+away, they will not much mind us: or if half of us should fall, they
+will not greatly care: for thou alone art accounted for ten thousand: it
+is better therefore that thou shouldst be in the city to succour us.
+
+18:4. And the king said to them: What seemeth good to you, that will I
+do. And the king stood by the gate: and all the people went forth by
+their troops, by hundreds and by thousands.
+
+18:5. And the king commanded Joab, and Abisai, and Ethai, saying: Save
+me the boy Absalom. And all the people heard the king giving charge to
+all the princes concerning Absalom.
+
+18:6. So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the
+battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.
+
+18:7. And the people of Israel were defeated there by David's army, and
+a great slaughter was made that day of twenty thousand men.
+
+18:8. And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the
+country, and there were many more of the people whom the forest
+consumed, than whom the sword devoured that day.
+
+Consumed... Viz., by pits and precipices.
+
+18:9. And it happened that Absalom met the servants of David, riding on
+a mule: and as the mule went under a thick and large oak, his head stuck
+in the oak: and while he hung between the heaven and the earth, the mule
+on which he rode passed on.
+
+18:10. And one saw this and told Joab, saying: I saw Absalom hanging
+upon an oak.
+
+18:11. And Joab said to the man that told him: If thou sawest him, why
+didst thou not stab him to the ground, and I would have given thee ten
+sicles of silver, and a belt?
+
+18:12. And he said to Joab: If thou wouldst have paid down in my hands a
+thousand pieces of silver, I would not lay my hands upon the king's son
+for in our hearing the king charged thee, and Abisai, and Ethai, saying:
+Save me the boy Absalom.
+
+18:13. Yea and if I should have acted boldly against my own life, this
+could not have been hid from the king, and wouldst thou have stood by
+me?
+
+18:14. And Joab said: Not as thou wilt, but I will set upon him in thy
+sight. So he took three lances in his hand, and thrust them into the
+heart of Absalom: and whilst he yet panted for life, sticking on the
+oak,
+
+18:15. Ten young men, armourbearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him
+slew him.
+
+18:16. And Joab sounded the trumpet, and kept back the people from
+pursuing after Israel in their flight, being willing to spare the
+multitude.
+
+18:17. And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the
+forest, and they laid an exceeding great heap of stones upon him: but
+all Israel fled to their own dwellings.
+
+18:18. Now Absalom had reared up for himself, in his lifetime, a pillar,
+which is in the king's valley: for he said: I have no son, and this
+shall be the monument of my name. And he called the pillar by his own
+name, and it is called the hand of Absalom, to this day.
+
+No son... The sons mentioned above, chap. 14.27, were dead when this
+pillar was erected: unless we suppose he raised this pillar before they
+were born.
+
+18:19. And Achimaas the son of Sadoc said: I will run and tell the king,
+that the Lord hath done judgment for him from the hand of his enemies.
+
+18:20. And Joab said to him: Thou shalt not be the messenger this day,
+but shalt bear tidings another day: this day I will not have thee bear
+tidings, because the king's son is dead.
+
+18:21. And Joab said to Chusai: Go, and tell the king what thou hast
+seen. Chusai bowed down to Joab, and ran.
+
+18:22. Then Achimaas the son of Sadoc said to Joab again: Why might not
+I also run after Chusai? And Joab said to him: Why wilt thou run, my
+son? thou wilt not be the bearer of good tidings.
+
+18:23. He answered: But what if I run? And he said to him: Run. Then
+Achimaas running by a nearer way passed Chusai.
+
+18:24. And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman that was on
+the top of the gate upon the wall, lifting up his eyes, saw a man
+running alone.
+
+18:25. And crying out he told the king: and the king said: If he be
+alone, there are good tidings in his mouth. And as he was coming apace,
+and drawing nearer,
+
+18:26. The watchman saw another man running, and crying aloud from
+above, he said: I see another man running alone. And the king said: He
+also is a good messenger.
+
+18:27. And the watchman said: The running of the foremost seemeth to me
+like the running of Achimaas the son of Sadoc. And the king said: He is
+a good man: and cometh with good news.
+
+18:28. And Achimaas crying out, said to the king: God save thee, O king.
+And falling down before the king with his face to the ground, he said:
+Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath shut up the men that have lifted
+up their hands against the lord my king.
+
+18:29. And the king said: Is the young man Absalom safe? And Achimaas
+said: I saw a great tumult, O king, when thy servant Joab sent me thy
+servant: I know nothing else.
+
+18:30. And the king said to him: Pass, and stand here.
+
+18:31. And when he had passed, and stood still, Chusai appeared and
+coming up he said: I bring good tidings, my lord, the king, for the Lord
+hath judged for thee this day from the hand of all that have risen up
+against thee.
+
+18:32. And the king said to Chusai: Is the young man Absalom safe? And
+Chusai answering him, said: Let the enemies of my lord, the king, and
+all that rise against him unto evil, be as the young man is.
+
+18:33. The king therefore being much moved, went up to the high chamber
+over the gate, and wept. And as he went he spoke in this manner: My son
+Absalom, Absalom my son: would to God that I might die for thee, Absalom
+my son, my son Absalom.
+
+Would to God... David lamented the death of Absalom, because of the
+wretched state in which he died: and therefore would have been glad to
+have saved his life, even by dying for him. In which he was a figure of
+Christ weeping, praying and dying for his rebellious children, and even
+for them that crucified him.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 19
+
+David, at the remonstrances of Joab, ceaseth his mourning. He is invited
+back and met by Semei and Miphiboseth: a strife between the men of Juda
+and the men of Israel.
+
+19:1. And it was told Joab, that the king wept and mourned for his son:
+
+19:2. And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the
+people: for the people heard say that day: The king grieveth for his
+son.
+
+19:3. And the people shunned the going into the city that day as a
+people would do that hath turned their backs, and fled away from the
+battle.
+
+19:4. And the king covered his head, and cried with a loud voice: O my
+son Absalom, O Absalom my son, O my son.
+
+19:5. Then Joab going into the house to the king, said: Thou hast shamed
+this day the faces of all thy servants, that have saved thy life, and
+the lives of thy sons, and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives,
+and the lives of thy concubines.
+
+19:6. Thou lovest them that hate thee, and thou hatest them that love
+thee: and thou hast shewn this day that thou carest not for thy nobles,
+nor for thy servants: and I now plainly perceive that if Absalom had
+lived, and all we had been slain, then it would have pleased thee.
+
+19:7. Now therefore arise, and go out, and speak to the satisfaction of
+thy servants: for I swear to thee by the Lord, that if thou wilt not go
+forth, there will not tarry with thee so much as one this night: and
+that will be worse to thee, than all the evils that have befallen thee
+from thy youth until now.
+
+19:8. Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all
+the people that the king sat in the gate: and all the people came before
+the king, but Israel fled to their own dwellings.
+
+19:9. And all the people were at strife in all the tribes of Israel,
+saying: The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he
+saved us out of the hand of the Philistines: and now he is fled out of
+the land for Absalom.
+
+19:10. But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in the battle: how
+long are you silent, and bring not back the king?
+
+19:11. And king David sent to Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests, saying:
+Speak to the ancients of Juda, saying: Why are you the last to bring the
+king back to his house? (For the talk of all Israel was come to the king
+in his house.)
+
+19:12. You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you
+the last to bring back the king?
+
+19:13. And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do
+God to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army
+before me always in the place of Joab.
+
+19:14. And he inclined the heart of all the men of Juda, as it were of
+one man: and they sent to the king, saying: Return thou, and all thy
+servants.
+
+19:15. And the king returned and came as far as the Jordan, and all Juda
+came as far as Galgal to meet the king, and to bring him over the
+Jordan.
+
+19:16. And Semei the son of Gera the son of Jemini of Bahurim, made
+haste and went down with the men of Juda to meet king David,
+
+19:17. With a thousand men of Benjamin, and Siba the servant of the
+house of Saul: and his fifteen sons, and twenty servants were with him:
+and going over the Jordan,
+
+19:18. They passed the fords before the king, that they might help over
+the king's household, and do according to his commandment. And Semei the
+son of Gera falling down before the king, when he was come over the
+Jordan,
+
+19:19. Said to him: Impute not to me, my lord, the iniquity, nor
+remember the injuries of thy servant on the day that thou, my lord, the
+king, wentest out of Jerusalem, nor lay it up in thy heart, O king.
+
+19:20. For I thy servant acknowledge my sin: and therefore I am come
+this day the first of all the house of Joseph, and am come down to meet
+my lord the king.
+
+19:21. But Abisai the son of Sarvia answering, said: Shall Semei for
+these words not be put to death, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?
+
+19:22. And David said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia?
+why are you a satan this day to me? shall there any man be killed this
+day in Israel? do not I know that this day I am made king over Israel?
+
+19:23. And the king said to Semei: Thou shalt not die. And he swore unto
+him.
+
+19:24. And Miphiboseth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and
+he had neither washed his feet, nor trimmed his beard: nor washed his
+garments from the day that the king went out, until the day of his
+return in peace.
+
+19:25. And when he met the king at Jerusalem, the king said to him: Why
+camest thou not with me, Miphiboseth?
+
+19:26. And he answering, said: My lord, O king, my servant despised me:
+for I thy servant spoke to him to saddle me an ass, that I might get on
+and go with the king: for I thy servant am lame.
+
+19:27. Moreover he hath also accused me thy servant to thee, my lord the
+king: but thou my lord the king art as an angel of God, do what pleaseth
+thee.
+
+19:28. For all of my father's house were no better than worthy of death
+before my lord the king; and thou hast set me thy servant among the
+guests of thy table: what just complaint therefore have I? or what right
+to cry any more to the king?
+
+19:29. Then the king said to him: Why speakest thou any more? what I
+have said is determined: thou and Siba divide the possessions.
+
+19:30. And Miphiboseth answered the king: Yea, let him take all,
+forasmuch as my lord the king is returned peaceably into his house.
+
+19:31. Berzellai also the Galaadite coming down from Rogelim, brought
+the king over the Jordan, being ready also to wait on him beyond the
+river.
+
+19:32. Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great age, that is to say,
+fourscore years old, and he provided the king with sustenance when he
+abode in the camp: for he was a man exceeding rich.
+
+19:33. And the king said to Berzellai: Come with me that thou mayest
+rest secure with me in Jerusalem.
+
+19:34. And Berzellai said to the king: How many are the days of the
+years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
+
+19:35. I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern
+sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I
+hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy
+servant be a burden to my lord, the king?
+
+19:36. I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee:
+I need not this recompense.
+
+19:37. But I beseech thee let thy servant return, and die in my own
+city, and be buried by the sepulchre of my father, and of my mother. But
+there is thy servant Chamaam, let him go with thee, my lord, the king,
+and do to him whatsoever seemeth good to thee.
+
+19:38. Then the king said to him: Let Chamaam go over with me, and I
+will do for him whatsoever shall please thee, and all that thou shalt
+ask of me, thou shalt obtain.
+
+19:39. And when all the people and the king had passed over the Jordan,
+the king kissed Berzellai, and blessed him: and he returned to his own
+place.
+
+19:40. So the king went on to Galgal, and Chamaam with him. Now all the
+people of Juda had brought the king over, and only half of the people of
+Israel were there.
+
+19:41. Therefore all the men of Israel running together to the king,
+said to him: Why have our brethren the men of Juda stolen thee away, and
+have brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men
+of David with him?
+
+19:42. And all the men of Juda answered the men of Israel: Because the
+king is nearer to me: why art thou angry for this matter? have we eaten
+any thing of the king's, or have any gifts been given us?
+
+19:43. And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said: I have
+ten parts in the king more than thou, and David belongeth to me more
+than to thee: why hast thou done me a wrong, and why was it not told me
+first, that I might bring back my king? And the men of Juda answered
+more harshly than the men of Israel.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 20
+
+Seba's rebellion. Amasa is slain by Joab. Abela is besieged, but upon
+the citizens casting over the wall the head of Seba, Joab departeth with
+all his army.
+
+20:1. And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was
+Seba, the son of Bochri, a man of Jemini: and he sounded the trumpet,
+and said: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai:
+return to thy dwellings, O Israel.
+
+20:2. And all Israel departed from David, and followed Seba the son of
+Bochri: but the men of Juda stuck to their king from the Jordan unto
+Jerusalem.
+
+20:3. And when the king was come into his house at Jerusalem, he took
+the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and
+put them inward, allowing them provisions: and he went not in unto them,
+but they were shut up unto the day of their death living in widowhood.
+
+20:4. And the king said to Amasa: Assemble to me all the men of Juda
+against the third day, and be thou here present.
+
+20:5. So Amasa went to assemble the men of Juda, but he tarried beyond
+the set time which the king had appointed him.
+
+20:6. And David said to Abisai: Now will Seba the son of Bochri do us
+more harm than did Absalom: take thou therefore the servants of thy
+lord, and pursue after him, lest he find fenced cities, and escape us.
+
+20:7. So Joab's men went out with him, and the Cerethi and the Phelethi:
+and all the valiant men went out of Jerusalem to pursue after Seba the
+son of Bochri.
+
+20:8. And when they were at the great stone which is in Gabaon, Amasa
+coming met them. And Joab had on a close coat of equal length with his
+habit, and over it was girded with a sword hanging down to his flank, in
+a scabbard, made in such manner as to come out with the least motion and
+strike.
+
+20:9. And Joab said to Amasa: God save thee, my brother. And he took
+Amasa by the chin with his right hand to kiss him.
+
+20:10. But Amasa did not take notice of the sword, which Joab had, and
+he struck him in the side, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and
+gave him not a second wound, and he died. And Joab, and Abisai his
+brother pursued after Seba the son of Bochri.
+
+20:11. In the mean time some men of Joab's company stopping at the dead
+body of Amasa, said: Behold he that would have been in Joab's stead the
+companion of David.
+
+20:12. And Amasa imbrued with blood, lay in the midst of the way. A
+certain man saw this that all the people stood still to look upon him,
+so he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and covered him
+with a garment, that they who passed might, not stop on his account.
+
+20:13. And when he was removed out of the way, all the people went on
+following Joab to pursue after Seba the son of Bochri.
+
+20:14. Now he had passed through all the tribes of Israel unto Abela and
+Bethmaacha: and all the chosen men were gathered together unto him.
+
+Abela and Bethmaacha... Cities of the tribe of Nephtali.
+
+20:15. And they came, and besieged him in Abela, and in Bethmaacha, and
+they cast up works round the city, and the city was besieged: and all
+the people that were with Joab, laboured to throw down the walls.
+
+20:16. And a wise woman cried out from the city: Hear, hear, and say to
+Joab: Come near hither, and I will speak with thee.
+
+20:17. And when he was come near to her, she said to him: Art thou Joab?
+And he answered: I am. And she spoke thus to him: Hear the words of thy
+handmaid. He answered: I do hear.
+
+20:18. And she again said: A saying was used in the old proverb: They
+that inquire, let them inquire in Abela: and so they made an end.
+
+20:19. Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to
+destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou
+throw down the inheritance of the Lord?
+
+20:20. And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should, I
+do not throw down, nor destroy.
+
+20:21. The matter is not so, but a man of mount Ephraim, Seba the son of
+Bochri by name, hath lifted up his hand against king David: deliver him
+only, and we will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab:
+Behold his head shall be thrown to thee from the wall.
+
+20:22. So she went to all the people, and spoke to them wisely: and they
+cut off the head of Seba the son of Bochri, and cast it out to Joab. And
+he sounded the trumpet, and they departed from the city, every one to
+their home: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
+
+20:23. So Joab was over all the army of Israel: and Banaias the son of
+Joiada was over the Cerethites and Phelethites,
+
+20:24. But Aduram over the tributes: and Josaphat the son of Ahilud was
+recorder.
+
+20:25. And Siva was scribe: and Sadoc and Abiathar, priests.
+
+20:26. And Ira the Jairite was the priest of David.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 21
+
+A famine of three years, for the sin of Saul against the Gabaonites, at
+whose desire seven of Saul's race are crucified. War again with the
+Philistines.
+
+21:1. And there was a famine in the days of David for three years
+successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord
+said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slow the
+Gabaonites.
+
+21:2. Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites, said to them: (Now the
+Gabaonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remains of the
+Amorrhites: and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul
+sought to slay them out of zeal, as it were for the children of Israel
+and Juda:)
+
+21:3. David therefore said to the Gabaonites: What shall I do for you?
+and what shall be the atonement or you, that you may bless the
+inheritance of the Lord?
+
+21:4. And the Gabaonites said to him: We have no contest about silver
+and gold, but against Saul and against his house: neither do we desire
+that any man be slain of Israel. And the king said to them: What will
+you then that I should do for you?
+
+21:5. And they said to the king: The man that crushed us and oppressed
+us unjustly, we must destroy in such manner that there be not so much as
+one left of his stock in all the coasts of Israel.
+
+21:6. Let seven men of his children be delivered unto us, that we may
+crucify them to the Lord in Gabaa of Saul, once the chosen of the Lord.
+And the king said: I will give them.
+
+21:7. And the king spared Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan the son of
+Saul, because of the oath of the Lord, that had been between David and
+Jonathan the son of Saul.
+
+21:8. So the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom
+she bore to Saul, Armoni, and Miphiboseth: and the five sons of Michol
+the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Hadriel the son of Berzellai,
+that was of Molathi:
+
+Of Michol... They were the sons of Merob, who was married to Hadriel:
+but they are here called the sons of Michol, because she adopted them,
+and brought them up as her own.
+
+21:9. And gave them into the hands of the Gabaonites: and they crucified
+them on a hill before the Lord: and these seven died together in the
+first days of the harvest, when the barley began to be reaped.
+
+21:10. And Respha the daughter of Aia took haircloth, and spread it
+under her upon the rock from the beginning of the harvest, till water
+dropped upon them out of heaven: and suffered neither the birds to tear
+them by day, nor the beasts by night.
+
+21:11. And it was told David, what Respha the daughter of Aia, the
+concubine of Saul, had done.
+
+21:12. And David went, and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of
+Jonathan his son from the men of Jabes Galaad, who had stolen them from
+the street of Bethsan, where the Philistines had hanged them when they
+had slain Saul in Gelboe.
+
+21:13. And he brought from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of
+Jonathan his son, and they gathered up the bones of them that were
+crucified,
+
+21:14. And they buried them with the bones of Saul, and of Jonathan his
+son in the land of Benjamin, in the side, in the sepulchre of Cis his
+father: and they did all that the king had commanded, and God shewed
+mercy again to the land after these things.
+
+21:15. And the Philistines made war again against Israel, and David went
+down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. And
+David growing faint,
+
+21:16. Jesbibenob, who was of the race of Arapha, the iron of whose
+spear weighed three hundred ounces, being girded with a new sword,
+attempted to kill David.
+
+21:17. And Abisai the son of Sarvia rescued him, and striking the
+Philistine killed him. Then David's men swore unto him saying: Thou
+shalt go no more out with us to battle, lest thou put out the lamp of
+Israel.
+
+21:18. There was also a second battle in Gob against the Philistines:
+then Sobochai of Husathi slew Saph of the race of Arapha of the family
+of the giants.
+
+21:19. And there was a third battle in Gob against the Philistines, in
+which Adeodatus the son of the Forrest an embroiderer of Bethlehem slew
+Goliath the Gethite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
+
+Adeodatus the son of the Forrest... So it is rendered in the Latin
+Vulgate, by giving the interpretation of the Hebrew names, which are
+Elhanan the son of Jaare.
+
+21:20. A fourth battle was in Geth: where there was a man of great
+stature, that had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot,
+four and twenty in all, and he was of the race of Arapha.
+
+21:21. And he reproached Israel: and Jonathan the son of Samae the
+brother of David slew him.
+
+21:22. These four were born of Arapha in Geth, and they fell by the hand
+of David, and of his servants.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 22
+
+King David's psalm of thanksgiving for his deliverance from all his
+enemies.
+
+22:1. And David spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day
+that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out
+of the hand of Saul,
+
+22:2. And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my saviour.
+
+22:3. God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the horn
+of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou
+wilt deliver me from iniquity.
+
+22:4. I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised: and I shall
+be saved from my enemies.
+
+22:5. For the pangs of death have surrounded me: the floods of Belial
+have made me afraid.
+
+22:6. The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.
+
+22:7. In my distress I will call upon the Lord, and I will cry to my
+God: and he will hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shall come
+to his ears.
+
+22:8. The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the mountains
+were moved, and shaken, because he was angry with them.
+
+22:9. A smoke went up from his nostrils, and a devouring fire out of his
+mouth: coals were kindled by it.
+
+22:10. He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his
+feet.
+
+22:11. And he rode upon the cherubims, and flew: and slid upon the wings
+of the wind.
+
+22:12. He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out
+of the clouds of the heavens.
+
+22:13. By the brightness before him, the coals of fire were kindled.
+
+22:14. The Lord shall thunder from heaven: and the most high shall give
+forth his voice.
+
+22:15. He shot arrows and scattered them: lightning, and consumed them.
+
+22:16. And the overflowings of the sea appeared, and the foundations of
+the world were laid open at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the
+spirit of his wrath.
+
+22:17. He sent from on high, and took me, and drew me out of many
+waters.
+
+22:18. He delivered me from my most mighty enemy, and from them that
+hated me: for they were too strong for me.
+
+22:19. He prevented me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became
+my stay.
+
+22:20. And he brought me forth into a large place, he delivered me,
+because I pleased him.
+
+22:21. The Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to
+the cleanness of my hands he will render to me.
+
+22:22. Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly
+departed from my God.
+
+22:23. For all his judgments are in my sight: and his precepts I have
+not removed from me.
+
+22:24. And I shall be perfect with him: and shall keep myself from my
+iniquity.
+
+22:25. And the Lord will recompense me according to my justice: and
+according to the cleanness of my hands in the sight of his eyes.
+
+22:26. With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant
+perfect.
+
+22:27. With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou
+wilt be perverted.
+
+22:28. And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou shalt
+humble the haughty.
+
+22:29. For thou art my lamp O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my
+darkness.
+
+22:30. For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the
+wall.
+
+22:31. God, his way is immaculate, the word of the Lord is tried by
+fire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.
+
+22:32. Who is God but the Lord: and who is strong but our God?
+
+22:33. God who hath girded me with strength, and made my way perfect.
+
+22:34. Making my feet like the feet of harts, and setting me upon my
+high places.
+
+22:35. He teacheth my hands to war: and maketh my arms like a bow of
+brass.
+
+22:36. Thou hast given me the shield of my salvation: and thy mildness
+hath multiplied me.
+
+22:37. Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and my ankles shall not
+fail.
+
+22:38. I will pursue after my enemies, and crush them: and will not
+return again till I consume them.
+
+22:39. I will consume them and break them in pieces, so that they shall
+not rise: they shall fall under my feet.
+
+22:40. Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them
+that resisted me to bow under me.
+
+22:41. My enemies thou hast made to turn their back to me: them that
+hated me, and I shall destroy them.
+
+22:42. They shall cry, and there shall be none to save: to the Lord, and
+he shall not hear them.
+
+22:43. I shall beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I shall
+crush them and spread them abroad like the mire of the streets.
+
+22:44. Thou wilt save me from the contradictions of my people: thou wilt
+keep me to be the head of the Gentiles: the people which I know not,
+shall serve me,
+
+22:45. The sons of the stranger will resist me, at the hearing of the
+ear they will obey me.
+
+22:46. The strangers are melted away, and shall be straitened in their
+distresses.
+
+22:47. The Lord liveth, and my God is blessed: and the strong God of my
+salvation shall be exalted:
+
+22:48. God who giveth me revenge, and bringest down people under me,
+
+22:49. Who bringest me forth from my enemies, and liftest me up from
+them that resist me: from the wicked man thou shalt deliver me.
+
+22:50. Therefore will I give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles,
+and will sing to thy name.
+
+22:51. Giving great salvation to his king, and shewing mercy to David
+his anointed, and to his seed for ever.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 23
+
+The last words of David. A catalogue of his valiant men.
+
+23:1. Now these are David's last words. David the son of Isai said: The
+man to whom it was appointed concerning the Christ of the God of Jacob,
+the excellent psalmist of Israel said:
+
+23:2. The spirit of the Lord hath spoken by me and his word by my
+tongue.
+
+23:3. The God of Israel said to me, the strong one of Israel spoke, the
+ruler of men, the just ruler in the fear of God.
+
+23:4. As the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, shineth in the
+morning without clouds, and as the grass springeth out of the earth by
+rain.
+
+As the light, etc... So shall be the kingdom of Christ.
+
+23:5. Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me
+an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my
+salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that
+springeth not up.
+
+Neither is my house, etc... As if he should say: This everlasting
+covenant was not due to my house: but purely owing to his bounty; who is
+all my salvation, and my will: that is, who hath always saved me, and
+granted me what I beseeched of him; so that I and my house, through his
+blessing, have sprung up, and succeeded in all things.
+
+23:6. But transgressors shall all of them be plucked up as thorns: which
+are not taken away with hands.
+
+23:7. And if a man will touch them, he must be armed with iron and with
+the staff of a lance: but they shall be set on fire and burnt to
+nothing.
+
+23:8. These are the names of the valiant men of David: Jesbaham sitting
+in the chair was the wisest chief among the three, he was like the most
+tender little worm of the wood, who killed eight hundred men at one
+onset.
+
+Jesbaham... The son of Hachamoni. For this was the name of this hero, as
+appears from 1 Chron. or Paralip. 11.-Ibid. Most tender, etc... He
+appeared like one tender and weak, but was indeed most valiant and
+strong. It seems the Latin has here given the interpretation of the
+Hebrew name of the hero, to whom Jesbaham was like, instead of the name
+itself, which was Adino the Eznite, one much renowned of old for his
+valour.
+
+23:9. After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the
+three valiant men that were with David when they defied the Philistines,
+and they were there gathered together to battle.
+
+Dodo... In Latin, Patrui ejus, which is the interpretation of the Hebrew
+name Dodo. The same occurs in ver. 24.
+
+23:10. And when the men of Israel were gone away, he stood and smote the
+Philistines till his hand was weary, and grew stiff with the sword: and
+the Lord wrought a great victory that day: and the people that were fled
+away, returned to take spoils of them that were slain.
+
+23:11. And after him was Semma the son of Age of Arari. And the
+Philistines were gathered together in a troop: for there was a field
+full of lentils. And when the people were fled from the face of the
+Philistines,
+
+23:12. He stood in the midst of the field, and defended it, and defeated
+the Philistines: and the Lord gave a great victory.
+
+23:13. Moreover also before this the three who were princes among the
+thirty, went down and came to David in the harvest time into the cave of
+Odollam: and the camp of the Philistines was in the valley of the
+giants.
+
+23:14. And David was then in a hold: and there was a garrison of the
+Philistines then in Bethlehem.
+
+23:15. And David longed, and said: O that some man would get me a drink
+of the water out of the cistern, that is in Bethlehem, by the gate.
+
+23:16. And the three valiant men broke through the camp of the
+Philistines, and drew water out of the cistern of Bethlehem, that was by
+the gate, and brought it to David: but he would not drink, but offered
+it to the Lord,
+
+23:17. Saying: The Lord be merciful to me, that I may not do this: shall
+I drink the blood of these men that went, and the peril of their lives?
+therefore he would not drink. These things did these three mighty men.
+
+23:18. Abisai also the brother of Joab, the son of Sarvia, was chief
+among three: and he lifted up his spear against three hundred whom he
+slew, and he was renowned among the three,
+
+23:19. And the noblest of three, and was their chief, but to the three
+first he attained not.
+
+23:20. And Banaias the son of Joiada a most valiant man, of great deeds,
+of Cabseel: he slew the two lions of Moab, and he went down, and slew a
+lion in the midst of a pit, in the time of snow.
+
+23:21. He also slew an Egyptian, a man worthy to be a sight, having a
+spear in his hand: but he went down to him with a rod, and forced the
+spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, and slew him with his own spear.
+
+23:22. These things did Banaias the son of Joiada.
+
+23:23. And he was renowned among the three valiant men, who were the
+most honourable among the thirty: but he attained not to the first
+three: and David made him of his privy council.
+
+23:24. Asael the brother of Joab was one of the thirty, Elehanan the son
+of Dodo of Bethlehem.
+
+23:25. Semma of Harodi, Elica of Harodi,
+
+23:26. Heles of Phalti, Hira the son of Acces of Thecua,
+
+23:27. Abiezer of Anathoth, Mobonnai of Husati,
+
+23:28. Selmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
+
+23:29. Heled the son of Baana, also a Netophathite, Ithai the son of
+Ribai of Gabaath of the children of Benjamin,
+
+23:30. Banaia the Pharathonite, Heddai of the torrent Gaas,
+
+23:31. Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth of Beromi,
+
+23:32. Eliaba of Salaboni. The sons of Jassen, Jonathan,
+
+23:33. Semma of Orori, Aliam the son of Sarar the Arorite,
+
+23:34. Eliphelet the son of Aasbai the son of Machati, Eliam the son of
+Achitophel the Gelonite,
+
+23:35. Hesrai of Carmel, Pharai of Arbi,
+
+23:36. Igaal the son of Nathan of Soba, Bonni of Gadi,
+
+23:37. Selec of Ammoni, Naharai the Berothite, armourbearer of Joab the
+son of Sarvia,
+
+23:38. Ira the Jethrite, Gareb also a Jethrite;
+
+23:39. Urias the Hethite, thirty and seven in all.
+
+2 Kings Chapter 24
+
+David numbereth the people: God sendeth a pestilence, which is stopt by
+David's prayer and sacrifice.
+
+24:1. And the anger of the Lord was again kindled against Israel, and
+stirred up David among them, saying: Go, number Israel and Juda.
+
+Stirred up, etc... This stirring up was not the doing of God, but of
+Satan; as it is expressly declared, 1 Chron. or Paralip. 21.1.
+
+24:2. And the king said to Joab the general of his army: Go through all
+the tribes of Israel from Dan to Bersabee, and number ye the people that
+I may know the number of them.
+
+24:3. And Joab said to the king: The Lord thy God increase thy people,
+and make them as many more as they are now, and again multiply them a
+hundredfold in the sight of my lord the king: but what meaneth my lord
+the king by this kind of thing?
+
+24:4. But the king's words prevailed over the words of Joab, and of the
+captains of the army: and Joab, and the captains of the soldiers went
+out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
+
+24:5. And when they had passed the Jordan, they came to Aroer to the
+right side of the city, which is in the vale of Gad.
+
+24:6. And by Jazer they passed into Galaad, and to the lower land of
+Hodsi, and they came into the woodlands of Dan. And going about by
+Sidon,
+
+24:7. They passed near the walls of Tyre, and all the land of the
+Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and they came to the south of Juda into
+Bersabee:
+
+24:8. And having gone through the whole land, after nine months and
+twenty days, they came to Jerusalem.
+
+24:9. And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king,
+and there were found of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that
+drew the sword: and of Juda five hundred thousand fighting men.
+
+24:10. But David's heart struck him, after the people were numbered: and
+David said to the Lord: I have sinned very much in what I have done: but
+I pray thee, O Lord, to take away the iniquity of thy servant, because I
+have done exceeding foolishly.
+
+David's heart struck him, after the people were numbered... That is he
+was touched with a great remorse for the vanity and pride which had put
+him upon numbering the people.
+
+24:11. And David arose in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to
+Gad the prophet and the seer of David, saying:
+
+24:12. Go, and say to David: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee thy choice
+of three things, choose one of them which thou wilt, that I may do it to
+thee.
+
+24:13. And when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either seven
+years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt flee three
+months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee: or for three
+days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now therefore deliberate,
+and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
+
+24:14. And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better
+that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many)
+than into the hands of men.
+
+24:15. And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning unto
+the time appointed, and there died of the people from Dan to Bersabee
+seventy thousand men.
+
+24:16. And when the angel of the Lord had stretched out his hand over
+Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord had pity on the affliction, and said
+to the angel that slew the people: It is enough: now hold thy hand. And
+the angel of the Lord was by the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.
+
+24:17. And David said to the Lord, when he saw the angel striking the
+people: It is I; I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these
+that are the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I beseech thee,
+be turned against me, and against my father's house.
+
+24:18. And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an
+altar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.
+
+24:19. And David went up according to the word of Gad which the Lord had
+commanded him.
+
+24:20. And Areuna looked, and saw the king and his servants coming
+towards him:
+
+24:21. And going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to the
+earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And
+David said to him: To buy the thrashingfloor of thee, and build an altar
+to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may cease.
+
+24:22. And Areuna said to David: Let my lord the king take, and offer,
+as it seemeth good to him: thou hast here oxen for a holocaust, and the
+wain, and the yokes of the oxen for wood.
+
+24:23. All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna
+said to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.
+
+24:24. And the king answered him, and said: Nay, but I will buy it of
+thee, at a price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God holocausts
+free cost. So David bought the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sicles of
+silver:
+
+24:25. And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered
+holocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the
+land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
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