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Men left before the ark.

B. C. about 1012

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for he is good; for his mercy endureth | unto this day; but have gone from
for ever.
tent to tent, and from one tabernacle
to another.

35 And say ye, Save us, O God of Ps. 106. 47, our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.

1 Kings 8.15.

⚫ Deut. 27. 15.

ch. 21. 29. 2 Chr. 1. 3. 41 Kings 3. 4.

Ex. 29. 38. Num. 23. 3.

36 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.

37 So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required:

B. C. about 1012.

6 Wheresoever I have walked with t Heb. have been. all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedars?

7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following† Heb. from the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:

8 And I have been with thee whith

38 And Obed-edom with their breth-ersoever thou hast walked, and have
ren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom
also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah
to be porters:

39 And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,

40 To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of the burnt Heb. in the offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Israel;

morning, and the evening.

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43 'And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.

CHAPTER XVII.

Nathan approveth the purpose of David to build a house for God. 3 Afterwards by the command of God he forbiddeth him; 11 but promiseth blessings to his seed. 16 David's prayer and thanksgiving.

NOW

OW it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.

2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.

3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in :

5 For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel

cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.

9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,

10 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee, that the LORD will build thee a house.

11 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

12 He shall build me a house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.

after.

15.

13 I will be his father, and he shall b 2 Sam. 7. 14, be my son and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:

14 But I will settle him in mine Luke 1. 33. house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for

evermore.

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

16 And David the king came and 42 Sam. 7. 8. sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto ?

17 And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.

18 What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.

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21 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?

22 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God. 23 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.

24 Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God | of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.

25 For thou, O my God, † hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him a house therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee. 26 And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:

27 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.

CHAPTER XVIII.

He subdueth his enemies.

B. C.

cus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two about 1040. and twenty thousand men.

6 Then David put garrisons in Syriadamascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, and brought gifts. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.

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

Called Betah, 2 Sam. 8.

8.

8 Likewise from "Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Called Berothai, 2 Sam Solomon made the brazen sea, and 8. 3. the pillars, and the vessels of brass. 9 Now when Tou king of Hamath Or, Toi. heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;

10 He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to inquire of his welfare, and + to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;)`and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass. 11 ¶ Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

2 Sam. 8. 9.

Or, Joram,

2 Sam. 8. 10. Or, to salute.

+ Heb. to bless.

Heb.

the

man of wars.

c 1 Kings 7. 15, 23. 2 Chr. 4. 12 15, 16.

12 Moreover, † Abishai the son of Heb. Abhai. Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.

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13 And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.

14 So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and jus

David subdueth the Philistines and the Moabites. 3 tice among all his people.

He smiteth Hadarezer and the Syrians. 9 Tou sendeth his son to him with presents. 11 The presents and the spoil David dedicateth to God. 13 He putteth garrisons in Edom. 14 David's officers.

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TOW after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines.

2 And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.

3 And David smote Hadarezer zer, 2 Sam. 8. king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.

b 2 Sam. 8. 4, seven hundred.

+ Heb. Darmesek.

4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them a hundred chariots.

5 And when the Syrians of † Damas

15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder;

d 2 Sam. 8. 18. e 2 Sam. 8. 14, &c.

|| Or, remenbrancer.

16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, Called 4kim were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;

17 f And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

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elech, 2 Sam 8. 17. Called Seraiah, 2 Sam 8. 17, and Shisha, 1 Kings 4. 3.

f 2 Sam. 8. 18. + Heb. at the hand of the ' king.

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The Ammonites and

B. C. about 1037.

Heb. In thine

eyes doth Da tid, &c.

I. CHRONICLES.

because his father shewed kindness to | me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, † Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?

4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away. 5 Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served; and he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

6¶ And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themHeb.to stink. selves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah.

18.5, 9.

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7 So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

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Syrians are overcome.

B. C.

with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled about 1037. before him.

15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

16¶ And when the Syrians saw that about 1036. they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went be- Or, Shobach, fore them.

17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

18 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.

19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.

CHAPTER XX.

Rabbah is besieged by Joab, spoiled by David, and

the people thereof put to death. A Three giants are slain in three several battles with the Philistines.

a

That is, Euphrates.

2 Sam. 10. 16.

about 1035.

8 And when David heard of it, he AND it came to pass, that t after + Heb. at the

sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

9 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.

10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.

11 And the rest of the people he deHeb.Abhai. livered unto the hand of † Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon. 12 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help thee.

13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight.

14 So Joab and the people that were

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The people numbered.

B. C.

I. CHRONICLES.

5 And there was war again with the about 1018. Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear-staff was like a weaver's beam.

Called also Jaare-oregim, 2 Sam. 21. 19.

+ Heb. a man of measure. f 2 Sam. 21. 20.

+ Heb. born to

6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son

the giant, or, of the giant.
Rapha.
1 Or, re-
proached.

Called "Shammah,

1 Sam. 16. 9.

1017.

a 2 Sam. 24. 1, &c.

b ch. 27. 23.

• ch. 27. 24.

+ Heb. And it was evil in

7 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.

8 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his

servants.

CHAPTER XXI.

David's sin in numbering the people. 8 His confes sion thereof. 9 Of the three judgments offered him, he chooseth the three days' pestilence. 14 The destroying angel is stayed, and Jerusalem spared.

18 David erecteth an altar, and offereth a sacrifice unto the Lord. 28 He continueth to offer sacrifice in the same place.

The people afflicted.

things: choose thee one of them, that B. C. 1017. I may do it unto thee.

11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, + Choose thee

12 Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

+ Heb. Take to thee.

g 2 Sam. 24.13.

13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great Or, many. are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

15 And God sent an angel unto Je- h2 Sam. 24. 16. ND Satan stood up against Is-rusalem to destroy it: and as he was

ber Israel.

provoked David num

2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; band bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people a hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

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6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

7 + And God was displeased with this the eyes of thing; therefore he smote Israel.

the LORD

concerning

this thing.

d2 Sam. 24.10. e 2 Sam. 12. 13.

I See 1 Sam. 9.9.

+ Heb. stretch cut.

8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

9 And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's 'seer, saying,

10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three

repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.

18 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.

20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

i See Gen. 6.6.

1 Or, Araunah,

2 Sam. 24. 18. k2 Chr. 3. 1.

12 Chr. 3. L

| Or. When Ornan turned back and s the angel, then be and his four sons with him hid themselves.

The pestilence is stayed.

B. C. 1017.

+ Heb. Give

= 2 Sam. 24. 24.

• Ler. 9. 24. 2 Ctr. 3. L. &

L

ch. 16. 39.

I. CHRONICLES.

22 Then David said to Ornan, † Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD thou shalt grant it me for the full price that the plague may be stayed from the people.

23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.

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24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost. 25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

26 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and calied upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

27 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.

28 At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place 7 Kazs3.4. at P Gibeon.

16.39. Car 1.3.

• Dat 12.5. / SBE, 21, 18. 21. 18, 19,

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30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

CHAPTER XXII.

David prepareth abundantly for the building of the temple. 6 His charge to Solomon respecting the same. 17 He commandeth the princes to assist his son.

David's charge to Solomon.

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8 But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood 1 Kings 5. 3. abundantly, and hast made great wars : thou shalt not build a house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.

1 Kings 4.

25. & 5. 4.

9 Behold, a son shall be born to ich. 28. 5. thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be "Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.

10 He shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.

11 Now, my son, "the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.

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13 P Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be Deut. 31.7, 8. strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.

Josh. 1. 6, 7, 9. ch. 28. 20.

poverty.

14 Now, behold, in my trouble I Or, in my have prepared for the house of the HEN David said, "This is the LORD a hundred thousand talents of

2 Chr. is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

2 And David commanded to gather Kings 9 21. together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

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