Four giants are slain. and fought against the Philistines: 16 And Ishbi-benob, which was of 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the P+ light of Israel. 18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then 'Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant. B. C. about 1018. || Or, Rapha, + Heb. the staff, or, the head o ch. 18. 3 + Heb. candle. or, lamp. p 1 Kings 11. 36. & 15. 4. Ps. 152. 17. || Or, Sippai. 1 Or, Rapha 41 Chr. 20.4. r1 Chr. 11.29. 8 But the king took the two sons of 9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest. h 10 T And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for iSee Deut. 21. her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. k 1 Sam. 31. 11, 12, 13. 11 Sam. 31. 10. 11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. $ See 1 Chr. 20.5. spear was like a weaver's beam. | Or, Rapha. ed. 1 Sam. 17. 10, 25, 26. 21 And when he defied Israel, Jon-Or,reproach athan the son of "Shimeah the brother of David slew him. 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. CHAPTER XXII. David's psalm of thanksgiving to God for his deliver- ND David spake unto the LORD u 1 Sam. 16. 9, Shammah. 1 Chr. 20. & 1018. A a Ex. 13.1. 12 And David went and took the that the LORD had delivered him out 13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged. 4 I will call on the LORD, who is 14 And the bones of Saul and Jona-worthy to be praised: so shall I be than his son buried they in the coun- saved from mine enemies. m Josh. 18. 28. try of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sep- 5 When the waves of death com- Or, pangs. ulchre of Kish his father: and they passed me, the floods oft ungodly men performed all that the king command-made me afraid; ed. And after that " God was entreated for the land. n So Josh. 7. 26. ch. 24. 25. about 1018. 15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, 6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me. 7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he † Heb. Belial Or, cords. P. 116. 3. P. 116. 4. & 120. 1. Jonah 2 2 # Job 26. 11. • Ps. 97. 3. Ex. 20. 21. Ps. 97. 2. r Ps. 104. 3. I ver. 10. of waters. 9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. 11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind. 12 And he made 'darkness pavilions Heb.binding round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. 13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. t ver. 9. • Judg. 5. 20. m for God's deliverance. 28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save but thine eyes are upon "the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. B. C. 1018. m Ex. 3. 7, 8. Ps. 72. 12, 13. Job 29. 3. 29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: Or, candle, and the LORD will lighten my darkness. 31 As for God, his way is perfect; P the word of the LORD is " tried: he Or, refined. o Deut. 32. 4. Dan. 4. 37. Rev. 15. 3. is a buckler to all them that trust in 34 Het maketh my feet "like hinds' 15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them. 16 And the channels of the sea ap- 17 He sent from above, he took me, 19 They prevented me in the day of b 20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 21 The LORD rewarded me accord e Sam. 26.23.ing to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. •PR. 24.4. Gen. 18. 19. P. 119. 3. & 11. Prov. 8.32. 22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 23 For all his judgments were before me and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. 24 I was also upright + before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity. 25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousbefore ness; according to my cleanness † in his eyesight. * Matt. 5.7. || Lev. 28. 23, 24. 27, 28. 26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. 27 With the pure thou wilt shew Or, restle, thyself pure; and 'with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. Ps. 18.25. David's last words. B. C. 1018. + Heb. giveth avengement for me, 1 Sam. 25. 39. ch. 18. 19, 31. n Ps. 144. 2. • Ps. 140. 1. p Rom. 15. 9. q Ps. 144. 10. r Ps. 89. 20. sch. 7. 12, 13. Ps. 89. 29. a ch. 7. 8, 9. & 89. 27. II. SAMUEL. Ps. 78. 70, 71. said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, b 1 Sam. 16. 12, 13. Ps. 89. 20. c 2 Pet. 1. 21. d Deut. 32. 4, ch. 22. 2, 31. 32. || Or, Be thou ruler, &c. Ps. 110. 2. e Ex. 18. 21. 2 Chr. 19. 7, f Judg. 5. 31. See Ps.110.3. Ps. 89.29. Is. 55.3. C d 2 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. 3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, "He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. 5 Although my house be not so with g ch. 7. 15, 16. God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. + Heb. filled. Or, Joshebbassebet the Tachmonite, head of the three. 6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: 7 But the man that shall touch them must be † fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place. 8¶ These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lifted up his 11.11. & 27.2. spear against eight hundred, † whom he slew at one time. David's mighty men. 13 And three of the thirty chief Or, the three went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in "the valley of Rephaim. 14 And David was then in a hold, o 1 Sam. 22. 4, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem. 15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate! 16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. 17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men. n ch. 5. 18. 5. P Lev. 17. 10. 18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, q1 Chr. 11.20. the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew + Heb. slain. them, and had the name among three. 19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three. Josh. 15. 21. + Heb. great of acts. + Heb. liona of God. 20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of 'Kabzeel, † who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow. 21 And he slew an Egyptian, ta+ Heb. a man goodly man and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's great stature. hand, and slew him with his own spear. 22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men. David's mighty men. II. SAMUEL. David's confession. B. C. 1018. the first three. And David set him | and the captains of the host went out B. C. 1017. 24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of 1 Sam. 22 14 Dodo of Beth-lehem, tch. 8. 18. & 21.23. @ ch. 2. 18. * See 1 Chr. 11. 27. 25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, 26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, e Deut. 2. 36. Josh. 13. 9, 16. and pitched in Aroer, on the right 6 Then they came to Gilead, and 28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, 29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, 30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash, 31 Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, 32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite; of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, 33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite, 34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, 35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, 36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, 37 Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, 38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, 39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all. AND again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and I he moved David against them to say, b Go, number Israel and Judah. 2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with Or Compass him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people. (Jer. 17.5. 3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, a hundred fold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? 4 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab h 7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba. 8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 3. Or, nether land newly inhabited. g Josh. 19. 47. Judg. 18. 29. h Josh. 19. 28. Judg. 18. 28. 21. 5. 9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight See 1 Chr. hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand 11 For when David was up in the Or, And morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet "Gad, David's 'seer, saying, 12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. n 1 Sam. 22. 5. o 1 Sam. 9. 9. 1 Chr. 29. 29. p See 1 Chr. 21. 12. Ps. 103. 8, 13, 14. & 119. 156. Or, many. r See Is. 47. 6. Zech. 1. 15. 1 Chr. 21. 14. & 27. 24. t Ex. 12. 23. 1 Chr. 21. 15. u Gen. 6. 6. 1 Sam. 15. 11. Joel 2. 13, 14. Jerusalem is spared. B. C. 1017. Ornan. See ver. 18. 2 Chr. 3. 1. II. SAMUEL. the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingx1 Chr. 21. 15, place of Araunah the Jebusite. 17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house. y 1 Chr. 21. 17. &c. niah. The plague is stayed. my lord the king come to his servant? 22 And Araunah said unto David, B. C. 1017. a See Gen. 23 8-16. b Num. 16.48 50. e 1 Kings 19. 21. d Ez. 20. 40, 41. 18 And Gad came that day to z 1 Chr. 21. 18, David, and said unto him, "Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the 24 And the king said unto Araunah, + Heb. Ara-threshingfloor of † Araunah the Jeb- Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee usite. at a price: neither will I offer burnt 19 And David, according to the say-offerings unto the LORD my God of ing of Gad, went up as the LORD com- that which doth cost me nothing. So manded. David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the ch. 21. 14 LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel. 20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground. 21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is 330 • See 1 Chr. 21. 24, 25. g ver. 21. |