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That work, however, in its entirety, was far +too costly for the larger and ever-widening circle of M. Dore's +admirers, and to meet the felt and often-expressed want of this +class, and to provide a volume of choice and valuable designs +upon sacred subjects for art-loving Biblical students generally, +this work was projected and has been carried forward. The aim has +been to introduce subjects of general interest—that is, those +relating to the most prominent events and personages of +Scripture—those most familiar to all readers; the plates being +chosen with special reference to the known taste of the American +people. To each cut is prefixed a page of letter-press—in, +narrative form, and containing generally a brief analysis of the +design. Aside from the labors of the editor and publishers, the +work, while in progress, was under the pains-taking and careful +scrutiny of artists and scholars not directly interested in the +undertaking, but still having a generous solicitude for its +success. It is hoped, therefore, that its general plan and +execution will render it acceptable both to the appreciative and +friendly patrons of the great artist, and to those who would wish +to possess such a work solely as a choice collection of +illustrations upon sacred themes.</p> +<br><br><br><br> +<center><h2>GUSTAVE DORE.</h2></center> +<br> +<p>The subject of this sketch is, perhaps, the most original and +variously gifted designer the world has ever known. At an age +when most men have scarcely passed their novitiate in art, and +are still under the direction and discipline of their masters and +the schools, he had won a brilliant reputation, and readers and +scholars everywhere were gazing on his work with ever-increasing +wonder and delight at his fine fancy and multifarious gifts. He +has raised illustrative art to a dignity and importance before +unknown, and has developed capacities for the pencil before +unsuspected. He has laid all subjects tribute to his genius, +explored and embellished fields hitherto lying waste, and opened +new and shining paths and vistas where none before had trod. To +the works of the great he has added the lustre of his genius, +bringing their beauties into clearer view and warming them to a +fuller life.</p> + +<p>His delineations of character, in the different phases of +life, from the horrible to the grotesque, the grand to the comic, +attest the versatility of his powers; and, whatever faults may be +found by critics, the public will heartily render their quota of +admiration to his magic touch, his rich and facile rendering of +almost every thought that stirs, or lies yet dormant, in the +human heart. It is useless to attempt a sketch of his various +beauties; those who would know them best must seek them in the +treasure—house that his genius is constantly augmenting with +fresh gems and wealth. To one, however, of his most prominent +traits we will refer—his wonderful rendering of the powers of +Nature.</p> + +<p>His early wanderings in the wild and romantic passes of the +Vosges doubtless developed this inherent tendency of his mind. +There he wandered, and there, mayhap, imbibed that deep delight +of wood and valley, mountain—pass and rich ravine, whose variety +of form and detail seems endless to the enchanted eye. He has +caught the very spell of the wilderness; she has laid her hand +upon him, and he has gone forth with her blessing. So bold and +truthful and minute are his countless representations of forest +scenery; so delicate the tracery of branch and stem; so +patriarchal the giant boles of his woodland monarchs, that the' +gazer is at once satisfied and entranced. His vistas lie +slumbering with repose either in shadowy glade or fell ravine, +either with glint of lake or the glad, long course of some +rejoicing stream, and above all, supreme in a beauty all its own, +he spreads a canopy of peerless sky, or a wilderness, perhaps, of +angry storm, or peaceful stretches of soft, fleecy cloud, or +heavens serene and fair—another kingdom to his teeming art, +after the earth has rendered all her gifts.</p> + +<p>Paul Gustave Dore was born in the city of Strasburg, January +10, 1833. Of his boyhood we have no very particular account. At +eleven years of age, however, he essayed his first artistic +creation—a set' of lithographs, published in his native city. +The following year found him in Paris, entered as a 7. student at +the Charlemagne Lyceum. His first actual work began in 1848, when +his fine series of sketches, the "Labors of Hercules," was given +to the public through the medium of an illustrated, journal with +which he was for a long time connected as designer. In 1856 were +published the illustrations for Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" and +those for "The Wandering Jew "—the first humorous and grotesque +in the highest degree—indeed, showing a perfect abandonment to +fancy; the other weird and supernatural, with fierce battles, +shipwrecks, turbulent mobs, and nature in her most forbidding and +terrible aspects. Every incident or suggestion that could +possibly make the story more effective, or add to the horror of +the scenes was seized upon and portrayed with wonderful power. +These at once gave the young designer a great reputation, which +was still more enhanced by his subsequent works.</p> + +<p>With all his love for nature and his power of interpreting her +in her varying moods, Dore was a dreamer, and many of his finest +achievements were in the realm of the imagination. But he was at +home in the actual world also, as witness his designs for +"Atala," "London—a Pilgrimage," and many of the scenes in "Don +Quixote."</p> + +<p>When account is taken of the variety of his designs, and the +fact considered that in almost every task he attempted none had +ventured before him, the amount of work he accomplished is fairly +incredible. To enumerate the immense tasks he undertook—some +single volumes alone containing hundreds of illustrations—will +give some faint idea of his industry. Besides those already +mentioned are Montaigne, Dante, the Bible, Milton, Rabelais, +Tennyson's "Idyls of the King," "The Ancient Mariner, +Shakespeare, "Legende de Croquemitaine," La Fontaine's "Fables," +and others still.</p> + +<p>Take one of these works—the Dante, La Fontaine, or "Don +Quixote"—and glance at the pictures. The mere hand labor +involved in their production is surprising; but when the quality +of the work is properly estimated, what he accomplished seems +prodigious. No particular mention need be made of him as painter +or sculptor, for his reputation rests solely upon his work as an +illustrator.</p> + +<p>Dore's nature was exuberant and buoyant, and he was youthful +in appearance. He had a passion for music, possessed rare skill +as a violinist, and it is assumed that, had he failed to succeed +with his pencil, he could have won a brilliant reputation as a +musician.</p> + +<p>He was a bachelor, and lived a quiet, retired life with his +mother—married, as he expressed it, to her and his art. His +death occurred on January 23, 1883.</p> +<br><br><br><br> + +<center> +<table summary="Illustrations"> +<tr><td> +<h2>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> +<br> + +<a href="#front">GUSTAVE DORE</a><br> +<a href="#022">DEBORAH'S SONG OF TRIUMPH</a><br> +<a href="#023">JEPHTHAH MET BY HIS DAUGHTER</a><br> +<a href="#024">JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER AND HER COMPANIONS</a><br> +<a href="#025">SAMSON SLAYING THE LION</a><br> +<a href="#026">SAMSON AND DELILAH</a><br> +<a href="#027">THE DEATH OF SAMSON</a><br> +<a href="#028">NAOMI AND HER DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW</a><br> +<a href="#029">RUTH AND BOAZ</a><br> +<a href="#030">THE RETURN OF THE ARK</a><br> +<a href="#031">SAUL AND DAVID</a><br> +<a href="#032">DAVID SPARING SAUL</a><br> + + + + + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + + + + + +<br><br> +<a name="022"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>DEBORAH'S SONG OF TRIUMPH.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/022.jpg"><img alt="022th.jpg (36K)" src="images/022th.jpg" height="496" width="373"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Then sang Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam on that day, +saying:—</p> + +<p>Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, When the people +willingly offered themselves. Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye +princes; I, even I, will sing unto the Lord; I will sing praise +to the Lord God of Israel. Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, +When thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, +and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. The +mountains melted from before the Lord, Even that Sinai from +before the Lord God of Israel.</p> + +<br><hr><br> + +<p>Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite +be; Blessed shall she be above women in the tent. He asked water, +and she gave him milk; She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. +She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's +hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, She smote off his +head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At +her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: At her feet he bowed, he +fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. The mother of +Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why +is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his +chariots? Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer +to herself, Have they not sped? Have they not divided the prey; +To every man a damsel or two; To Sisera a prey of divers colours, +a prey of divers colours of needlework, Of divers colours of +needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take +the spoil? So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: But let them +that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. +Judges v, 2-5, 24-31</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="023"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>JEPHTHAH MET BY HIS DAUGHTER.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/023.jpg"><img alt="023th.jpg (28K)" src="images/023th.jpg" height="472" width="390"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah, and he passed +over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and +from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of +Ammon.</p> + +<p>And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou +shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, +then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my +house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of +Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a +burnt offering.</p> + +<p>So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight +against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands. And he +smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even +twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very +great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before +the children of Israel.</p> + +<p>And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his +daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and +she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor +daughter. Judges xi, 29-34.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="024"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER AND HER COMPANIONS</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/024.jpg"><img alt="024th.jpg (31K)" src="images/024th.jpg" height="381" width="490"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his +clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very +low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened +my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.</p> + +<p>And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy +mouth unto the Lord, do to me according to that which hath +proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the Lord hath taken +vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of +Ammon. And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for +me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the +mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.</p> + +<p>And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she +went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the +mountains.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she +returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow +which he had vowed: and she knew no man.</p> + +<p>And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel +went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four +days in a year. Judges xi, 35-40.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="025"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>SAMSON SLAYING THE LION.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/025.jpg"><img alt="025th.jpg (34K)" src="images/025th.jpg" height="479" width="374"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to +Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath; and, behold, a +young lion roared against him. And the Spirit of the Lord came +mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, +and he had nothing in his hand; but he told not his father or his +mother what he had done. Judges xiv, 5-6.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="026"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>SAMSON AND DELILAH.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/026.jpg"><img alt="026th.jpg (35K)" src="images/026th.jpg" height="481" width="376"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the +valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.</p> + +<p>And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said +unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, +and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind +him to afflict him; and we will give thee every one of us eleven +hundred pieces of silver.</p> + +<p>And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy +great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to +afflict thee. And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with +seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, +and be as another man. Then the lords of the Philistines brought +up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she +bound him with them. Now there were men lying in wait, abiding +with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines +be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow +is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not +known.</p> + +<p>And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and +told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest +be bound. And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with clew +ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as +another man. Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him +therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, +Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And +he brake them from off his arms like a thread.</p> + +<p>And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, +and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And +he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with +the web. And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The +Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, +and went away with the pin of the beam and with the web.</p> + +<p>And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when +thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three +times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. And +it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and +urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; that he told +her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor +upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my +mother's womb if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, +and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.</p> + +<p>And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she +sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up +this once, for he hath showed me all his heart. Then the lords of +the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their +hand. And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a +man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; +and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. And +she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out +of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, +and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from +him. Judges xvi, 4-20.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="027"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE DEATH OF SAMSON.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/027.jpg"><img alt="027th.jpg (35K)" src="images/027th.jpg" height="484" width="373"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and +brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; +and he did grind in the prison house.</p> + +<p>Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was +shaven.</p> + +<p>Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for +to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: +for they said, Our God hath delivered Samson our enemy into our +hand. And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for +they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and +the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us. And it came +to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for +Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out +of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him +between the pillars. And Samson said unto the lad that held him +by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the +house standeth, that I may lean upon them. Now the house was full +of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were +there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and +women, that beheld while Samson made sport.</p> + +<p>And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, +remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only +this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the +Philistines for my two eyes. And Samson took hold of the two +middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was +borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with +his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And +he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the +lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead +which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in +his life.</p> + +<p>Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, +and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah +and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. And he +judged Israel twenty years.—Judges xvi; 21-31</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="028"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>NAOMI AND HER DAUGHTERS IN LAW.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/028.jpg"><img alt="028th.jpg (26K)" src="images/028th.jpg" height="465" width="387"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that +there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of +Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and +his wife, and his two sons. And the name of the man was +Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his +two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And +they came into the country of Moab, and continued there. And +Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two +sons. And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of +the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelt +there about ten years. And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of +them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.</p> + +<p>Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might +return from the country of Moab for she had heard in the country +of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them +bread. Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, +and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way +to return unto the land of Judah.</p> + +<p>And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each +to her mother's house the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have +dealt with the dead, and with me. The Lord grant you that ye may +find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.</p> + +<p>Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and +wept. And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee +unto thy people.</p> + +<p>And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with +me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your +husbands? Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old +to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have +a husband also to night, and should also bear sons; would ye +tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from +having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for +your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.</p> + +<p>And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah +kissed her mother in law but Ruth cleave unto her.</p> + +<p>And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her +people, and unto her gods return thou after thy sister in +law.</p> + +<p>And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from +following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and +where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, +and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will +I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but +death part thee and me.</p> + +<p>When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, +then she left speaking unto her.</p> + +<p>So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem.—Ruth i, +1-19.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="029"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>RUTH AND BOAZ.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/029.jpg"><img alt="029th.jpg (36K)" src="images/029th.jpg" height="477" width="378"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of +wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.</p> + +<p>And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the +field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall +find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. And she went, +and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and her hap +was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was +of the kindred of Elimelech.</p> + +<p>And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the +reapers, The Lord be with you. And they answered him, The Lord +bless thee. Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the +reapers, Whose damsel is this? And the servant that was set over +the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that +came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab: and she said, I +pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the +sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning +until now, that she tarried a little in the house.</p> + +<p>Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go +not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide +here fast by my maidens: let thine eyes be on the field that they +do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men +that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go +unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have +drawn.</p> + +<p>Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and +said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou +shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?</p> + +<p>And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed +me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the +death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy +mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people +which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, +and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under +whose wings thou art come to trust.</p> + +<p>Then she said, Let me find favor in thy sight, my lord; for +that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken +friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of +thine handmaidens.</p> + +<p>And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat +of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat +beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did +eat, and was sufficed, and left. And when she was risen up to +glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even +among the sheaves, and reproach her not: and let fall also some +of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may +glean them and rebuke her not.</p> + +<p>So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she +had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.—Ruth ii. +1-17,</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="030"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE RETURN OF THE ARK.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/030.jpg"><img alt="030th.jpg (33K)" src="images/030th.jpg" height="382" width="486"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines +seven months. And the Philistines called for the priests and the +diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the Lord? tell +us wherewith we shall send it to his place. And they said, If ye +send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in +any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, +and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from +you. Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we +shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five +golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the +Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords. +Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of +your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God +of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, +and from off your gods, and from off your land. Wherefore then do +ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened +their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did +they not let the people go, and they departed? Now therefore make +a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no +yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home +from them: and take the ark of the Lord, and lay it upon the +cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a +trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it +away, that it may go. And see, if it goeth up by the way of his +own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: +but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote +us; it was a chance that happened to us.</p> + +<p>And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to +the cart, and shut up their calves at home: and they laid the ark +of the Lord upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold +and the images of their emerods. And the kine took the straight +way to the way of Beth-shemesh, and went along the highway, +lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to +the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them, unto +the border of Beth-shemesh. And they of Beth-shemesh were reaping +their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, +and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it. And the cart came into +the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there +was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and +offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord.</p> + +<p>And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord, and the coffer +that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them +on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt +offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the +Lord.—1 Samuel vi, 1-5.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="031"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>SAUL AND DAVID.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/031.jpg"><img alt="031th.jpg (32K)" src="images/031th.jpg" height="485" width="376"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto +Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, +and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that +day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.</p> + +<p>Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him +as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that +was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his +sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.</p> + +<p>And David went out withersoever Saul sent him, and behaved +himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was +accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of +Saul's servants.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from +the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all +cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with +tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music. And the women +answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain +his thousands, and David his ten thousands.</p> + +<p>And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he +said, "They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me +they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but +the kingdom?" And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from +God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: +and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was +a javelin in Saul's hand. And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, +I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided +out of his presence twice.—1 Samuel xviii, I-II.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="032"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>DAVID SPARING SAUL.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/032.jpg"><img alt="032th.jpg (34K)" src="images/032th.jpg" height="487" width="375"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the +Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in +the wilderness of Engedi. Then Saul took three thousand chosen +men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon +the rocks of the wild goats. And he came to the sheepcotes by the +way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and +David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.</p> + +<p>And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which +the Lord said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into +thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto +thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe +privily. And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote +him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt. And he said unto his +men, The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, +the Lord's anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, +seeing he is the anointed of the Lord.</p> + +<p>So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered +them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, +and went on his way. David also arose afterward, and went out of +the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And +when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the +earth and bowed himself.</p> + +<p>And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, +saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt? Behold, this day thine +eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered thee to-day into +mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee; but mine eye +spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against +my lord; for he is the Lord's anointed. Moreover, my father, see, +yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off +the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see +that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I +have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take +it. The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of +thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. As saith the proverb +of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine +hand shall not be upon thee. After whom is the king of Israel +come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a +flea. The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, +and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine +hand.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking +these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son +David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. And he said to +David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me +good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. And thou hast shewed +this day how that thou hast dealt well, with me: forasmuch as +when the Lord had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me +not. For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? +wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto +me this day. And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely +be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in +thine hand. Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord, that thou +wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy +my name out of my father's house.</p> + +<p>And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and +his men gat them up unto the hold.—2 Samuel xxiv, 2—22.</p> + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p2.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="8710-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p4.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + |