Davidsetcheth the ark

from Kirjath-jearim,

15 Ibhar also, and Elithua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

16 And Eliihama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.

17 But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to ftek David; and David heard os it, and went down to the hold.

i8ThePhilistinesalfocameand spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

19 And David enquired of the Lo R D , saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the Lord said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.

io And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The Lord hath brokenforth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

a 1 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.

n And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

*3 And when David enquired of the Lor D, he said, Thou shalt not go up: but fetch a compass behind tliem,and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.

- 24. And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou (halt bestir thyself: for then (hall the Lord go out before thee, to finite the host of the Philistines.

15 And David did so, as the Lord had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from'Geba until thou come to Gazer.

CHAP. VI. 1 David se tchith the ark from Kirjath-jearim on a new cart. 6 Uzzah is smitten^' 12 David daneeth before the ark.

20 MichaVs barrenness.

AGAIN, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand,

z And David arose, and went with all the people that inere with him, from Baale os Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whole name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the chcrubims.

3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cai t, and brought it out ot the house of Abinadab that ivas in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave th« new cart.

4 And they brought it out of the houses of Abinadab which ivas at Gibeah, accompanying the ark os God: and Ahio went before the ark.

5 And David and all the hou se of Israel playedbefore the Lo R D on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets,"and on cymbals.

6 •[ And when they came to Nachon'i threfhingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen (hook it.

j And the anger of the Lord •was kindled against.Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

8 And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day.

9 And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, How (hall the ark os the Lord come to me?

10 So David would not remove the ark of the Lo R D unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

11 Ami the ark of the Lo R D continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and the Lord blessed Obed-edom, and all his houlhold.

11 fl And it was told king David, faying, The Lord hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all thatpertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up die ark of God from the bouse of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness.

13 And it wasyi, that when they that bare the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.

14. And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David •was girded with a linen ephod.

15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

16 And as the ark ot the LoRa came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lor D ; and me despised him in her heart.

17 And they brought in the ark of the Lor D, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it; and David _ offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

1% And as sooa as David had made an

©ed Michel's barrenness.

Cod's premise to David.

tad of offering burnt offerings and pee offerings, he blessed the people c the name of the Lord of hosts.

19 And be dealt among all the people, rc/saraongthewhole multitude ot Israel, ••i well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of fjjh and a flagon of •wine.. So all tne peo pis departed every one to his house.

10 % Then David returned to bless his houfhold. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, Ho* glorious was the kink of Israel to <hj, who uncovered himself to day in "■■ eyes of the handmaids of his sernnts, as one of the vain fellows (hameMjrwicovereth himself!

•-i And David said unto Michal, Ifwai before the Lord, which chose me before % father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lo&d, over Israel: therefore will I play before the Lo R D.

"And I will yet be more vile than tins, and will be base in mine own sight: *3d of the maidservants which thou |'-it spoken of, of them (hall I be had in lonour.

J} Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no chUd unto the day of her data,

CHAP. VII. 1 0:4firbidJeth David to build him an **/'. 18 His prayer and thanksgiving.

AND it came to pass, when the king fat in his house, and the Lord had pen him rest round about from all his enemies;

»That the king said unto Nathan the Prcphet, See now, I dwell in an house rf cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth oithin curtains.

5 And Nathan said to the king, Go, & all that is in thine heart; for the Loin u with thee.

, tAnd it came to pass that night, that t« word of the Lord came unto Nathan, tying,

5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus faith the Lord, Shalt thou build ss la house for me to dwell in? 15 Whereas I have not dwelt in any "Wfe since the time that I brought up !« children of Israel out of Egypt, even t<> this day, but have walked in a tent TM in a tabernacle.

7 In all the places wherein I havewalk« with all the children of Israel spake » a word with any of the tribes of If. ""i whom I commanded to feed my P^ple Israel, saying, Why build ye not ■^anhouse of cedars

8 Now therefore so (halt thou say unto my servant David, Thus faith the Lord ot hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:

9 And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy fight, and have made thee a great uame, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.

'io Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them, any raorey as beforetime.

1» And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to reft from all thine enemies. Also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house.

12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou slialt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

13 He mall build an house for my name, and I will stablifh tiic throne of his kingdom for ever.

14.1 will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

isBut mymercy mall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

16 And thine house and thy kingdom (hall be established for ever before thee: thy throne (hall be established for ever.

17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

18 *\ Then went king David in, and sat before the Lord, and he said, Who am I, O Lo R D God ? and what is my bouse, that thou hast brought me hitherto f

19 And this was yet a small thing in thy fight, O Lord God; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord God?

20 And-what can David fay more unto thee? for thou, Lo R D God, knowest th/ servant.

11 For thy word's fake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.

»* Wherefore thou art great, Olord

God« for there is none like thee, neither'

is there any God beside thee, according

to all that we have heard with our ears.

T a »3 And Davidsubdueth the Philistines. II. S A

23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God wont to redeem for a people to himself, and. to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

24. For thou halt confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, Lord, art become their God.

25 And now, O Lo R r> God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast (aid.

26 And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.

27 For thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.

28 And now, O Lor D God, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:

29 Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou j O Lor n God, hast spoken it: arid with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.

CHAP. VIII. i David subdueth the Philistines, and the Maabitis. 3 Hi fmiteth Hadadezer and ■ the Syrians. 16 His officers. ■ rlk ND after this it came to pass, that j£\ David smote the Philistines, and subdued then: and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.

2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines, measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive.- And sb the Moabiles became David's servants, and brought gifts.

3 ^ David smote also Hadadezer, the soncf Rehab, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.

4. And David tookfromliimathousand chariots, and (even hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them/i/- an hundred chariots. • 5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zo

M XJ E L His officers,

bah, David slew of the Syrians two and. twenty thousand men.

6.Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians becamo servants to David, and brought gifts. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.

7 And David took the fliields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadejier, and brought them to Jerusalem.

_ 8 And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,

10 Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king tiavid, to salute him, and to blesi him, because he had soughf against Hada. dezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:

11 Which also kingDaviddid dedicate unto the Lo R D , with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;

n Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob.kingof Zobah.

13 And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of (alt, being eighteen thousand men.

14 And he put garrisons in Edomj throughout all Kdom'put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.

15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgement and justice unto all his people.

16 fl And Joab the son of Zeruiah tva/ over the host; and Jehostiaphat the Ion of Ahilud ivas recorder;

17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, tvere the priests; and Seraiah ivas the scribe;

18 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiad* •■was over both the Chercthites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.

CHAP. IX.

l David fendeth for Mephiboshelh, 7 a/ul

for Jonathan's sale restareth him.

AN D David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may (hew him kindness for Jonathan's fake?

2 And there ivas of the house of Saul, a seryau.1 whose ir.unc ivgj Ziba. And

when

David's kindness tt Mefhibofheth. Chap

when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.

3 And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may (hew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba laid unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, nvkich is lame on his feet.

4 And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba snid unto the king, Behold, he /-' in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, inLo-debar.

5 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of MachLr, the son el Ammiel, from Lo-debar.

6 Now when Mephibolheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibolheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!

7 % And David laid unto him, Fear «ot: for I will surely shew thee kindness, for Jonathan thy father's (like, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy fatherj and thou (halt eat bread at my table continually.

8 And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou Ihouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.

jo Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thv servants, shall till the land for him, arid thou (halt bring in the fruits, that j thy master's Ion may have food to eat: j but Mephibofheth thy master's son (hall; eat bread al way at my table. Now Ziba j bad fifteen sons and twenty servants. j 11 Then said Ziba unto the king, Ac-! cording to all that my lord the king hath J commanded his servant, so sliall thy ser- I vant do. As for Mephiboslieth,/a/V/ the ■ Hn%, be shall eat at my table, as one of the king's son.

i; And Mephiboflieth had a young son, whose name nuas Micha. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba icyr* servants unto Mephibolheth.

i 3 So Mepbibofhethdweltinjerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's tai>le; and was lame on both his feet.

CHAP. X. j Jiatnd"s messenger sfeiit to comfort Hanun, are njillainousty intreated, 6,15 The Ammonites and Syria::: are overcome. Aji £) it came to pass after this, that the king cf the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his fiead.

* Then said David, I will shew kind

. X. The Ammonites and Syrians defeated.

ness unto Hanun the Ion of Nahafh, as his father (hewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

3 And the princes of the children of Ammon (aid unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour, thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it t

4 Wherefore Hanun took Davids servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, c-ven to their buttocks, and sent them away.

5 When they told it unto David, h« sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards ba grown, and then return.

6 »J And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon lent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrian* of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ilh-tob twelve thousand men.

7 And when David heard of;'.', he sent Joab,and all the host of the mighty men.

S And the children of Ammon errme out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: nnd the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob,' and Hh-tob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

9 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice w»of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:''

10 And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abifhai his brother, that he might put them in array against the children of Ammon.

11 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou Halt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.

12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, nnd for the cities of our God: and the Lord do that which seemeth him good.

13 And Joab drew nigh, and the people that ivere with him, unto the. battle against the Syrians : and they ried before him. •

14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were tied, then fled they also belorc Abisliai, and enter