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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. 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