B. 1 Chron. 21.

(Continued.)

or three months to be consumed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days [the sword of the LORD, even] pestilence in the land, [and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel.] Now [therefore]

consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me. 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 are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of 14 man. So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel :

to destroy it: [and as he was about
to destroy,] the LORD [beheld,
and he] repented him of the
evil, and said to the destroying
angel,
It is enough;

now stay thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the 16 Jebusite. [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, clothed in sackcloth, 17 fell upon their faces.] 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 very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, [O LORD my God,] be against me, and against my father's house; [but not against thy people that they should be plagued.]

h The spelling of A. wavers between B. N. Frequently, but no rule.

18

B. 1 Chron. 21.

(Continued.)

Then [the angel of the LORD commanded] Gad to say to David, [that David should] go up, and rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshing-floor of Orhan 19 the Jebusite. 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 that were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.] And [as David came to Ornan,] Ornan looked

21.

22

the to

an altar unto the

that the plague may be stayed from the people. 22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up that which is good in his eyes lo,.. the oxen for [the] burnt offering, and the threshing instruments [and the furniture of the oxen] for wood:

all

23. this, [O king,] doth Araunah give [unto the king]. [And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy 24 God accept thee.] And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will verily buy it [of thee] at price: neither will I

a

offer burnt offerings

[unto the LORD my God'] without cost. So David bought the threshing-floor

[and the oxen 25 for fifty shekels of silver ".] And David built there an altar unto

1 For

saw David,

and

and

went out [of the threshing-floor], and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

Then David said [to Ornan], Give me the place of this threshing-floor, that I may build [thereon] an altar unto the LORD; [for the full price shalt thou give it me:] that the plague may be stayed from the people. 23 And Ornan said unto David, Take [to thee] and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, [I give] the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments

B. the price of the oxen.

D

A. 2 Sam. 24.

(Continued.)

the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

[So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.]

(End of the Books of Samuel.)

B. 1 Chron. 21, 22.
(Continued.)

the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, [and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt 27 offering. 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 threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed 29 there. For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the 30 high place of Gibeon. But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the 22 LORD. Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.]

§ 15.

B. 1 Chron. 29.

(David's instructions to Solomon con. cerning the Temple; numbers and offices of the Levites, the Priests, the Porters, the Captains; charges to the people and to Solomon; David's blessing.)

26

[Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.] 27 And the days that he reigned over Israel were forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three reigned 28 he in Jerusalem. [And he died

1

B. 2 Chron. 1.

(Continuous.)

[And Solomon the sonof David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceed2 ingly. And Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers.]

3

So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; [for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wil4 derness. But the ark of God had David brought up from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at 5 Jerusalem. Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the LORD and Solomon and the

practically the same.

and is rendered 'but' or 'never

unto [thy servant] David my father great kindness, [according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his 7 throne, as it is this day.] And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father and I am but a little child; I know not how 8 to go out or come in. And thy servant is in the midst of thy people, which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. 9 Give thy servant therefore an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this thy great people? 10 [And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked 11 this thing.] And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgement; 12 behold, I have done according to thy word lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise 13 like unto thee. And I have also given thee that which