ness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed 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 com

4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen :) David also houghed all the chariothorses, but reserved of them a hundred 7 Heb. Dar- fort him. chariots.

5 And when the Syrians of 7 Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two 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.

8 Likewise from 8 Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, David brought very much brass, with which Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

9 ¶ Now when 9 Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;

10 He sent 10 Hadoram his son to king David 1 to inquire of his welfare, and 12 to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer 13 had warred with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold, and silver, and brass.

.11 Them also king David dedicated to 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.

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

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 justice among all his people.

15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, 14 recorder;

mesek.
8 called in

the book of
Samuel

Beta and
Berothai.
61 Kings 7.

23.
2 Chr. 4. 15.
9or, Toi,
10 or, Joram,
2 Sam. 8.10.
or, to sa-
12 Heb.

2 Sam. 8. 9.

lute.

to bless.

13 Heb. was
the man of
14 or,remem;
brancer,

wars.

15 called

2 Sam. 8.17.

Ahimelech 16 called Seraiah, 2Sam. 8.17. 1 Kings 4.3. 17 Heb. at the hand of the king. a2 Sam. 10.1,

and Shisha,

&c.

Heb. In doth Da vid, &c.

thine eyes

2 Heb to
stink.

3

Heb. the face of the battle was.

3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, 1 Thinkest thou that David doth honor thy father, that he hath sent comforters to thee? are not his servants come to thee to search, and to overthrow, and to explore 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 are grown, and then return.

6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves 2 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.

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

8 And when David heard of it, he 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 had come were by themselves in the field.

10 Now when Joab saw that s the battle was set against him before and behind, he selected all the 4 choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.

11 And the rest of the people he delivered to the hand of 5 Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

12 And he said, If the Syrians shall be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon shall be too strong for thee, then I will help thee.

16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and 15 Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and 16 Shavsha was scribe; 17 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief or, young and for the cities of our God: and let the 17 about the king.

CHAP. XIX.

men.

13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people,

LORD do that which is good in his sight. 14 So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him. 15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

16 T And when the Syrians saw that they were defeated before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river: and

7 Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.

17 And it was told to 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 who fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.

19 And when the servants of Hadare-2 Heb. the zer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any

more.

CHAP. XX.

3

1 Rabbah is besieged by Joab, spoiled by Da-7 vid, and the people tortured. 4 Three gi ants are slain in three several overthrows of

the Philistines.

or, contin

ued.

4 Heb. stood.
5 or, Gob.
6 or, Rapha.
called also
Jaareore-
gim, 28am.

21. 19.

Sam. 21.

of measure.

AND & it came to pass, that 1 after the
year had expired, at the time that 20.
kings go out to battle, Joab led forth theeba man
power of the army, and wasted the coun-9 Heb. born
try of the children of Ammon, and came to the giant,
and besieged Rabbah. But David tar- or, Rapha.
10 or, re-
ried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote
proached.
Rabbah, and destroyed it.
li called

2 And David took the crown of their king from his head, and found it 2 to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also a great quantity of spoil out of the city.

3 And he brought out the people that

Shammah,
1 Sam. 16.9.

lem. 18 David by Gad's direction, purchaseth Ornan's threshing floor: where having built an altar, God giveth a sign of his favor by fire, and stayeth the plague. 28 David sacrificeth there, being restrained from Gibeon by fear of the angel.

AND Satan stood up against Israel,

and incited David to number Israel.

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

3 And Joab answered, the LORD make his people a hundred times more numer ous than they are: 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 to David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew sword.

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

71 And God was displeased with this thing, therefore he smote Israel.

8 And David said to God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away

were in it, and cut them with saws, and 42 Sam. 24. the iniquity of thy servant; for I have

1

with harrows of iron, and with axes. 1, &c.
Even so David dealt with all the cities
of the children of Ammon. And David
and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
4 And it came to pass after this,
that there 34 arose war at 5 Gezer with
the Philistines: at which time Sibbechai
the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of
the children of the giant: and they were
subdued.

Heb. And in the eyes it was evil of the LORD concerning this thing.

11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, 3 Choose thee 12 Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes,

5 And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of 7 Jairam. 24. while the sword of thy enemies overta

slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear-staff was like a weaver's beam.

10.

2 Heb.

stretch out.

6 And yet again & there was war at Gath, where was 8 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 9 the son of to thee. the giant.

3 Heb. Take

7 But when he 10 defied Israel, Jonathan the son of u Shimea, David's broth-4 or, many. er, slew him.

8 These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. CHAP. XXI.

1 David tempted by Satan, forceth Joab to number the people. 5 The number of the people being brought, David repenteth of it. 9 David having three plagues propounded by Gad, chooseth the pestilence. 14 After the death of seventy thousand, David by repentance prevénteth the destruction of Jerusal

€ 2 Sam. 24.
16.

keth 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 borders of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

13 And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great 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 to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented of the evil, and said to the angel that deAraunah,stroyed, It is enough, stay now thy hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshing-floor of 5 Ornan the Jebusite. 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and

5 or,

2 Sam. 24.

18.

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.

6

Before CHRIST, 1017.

turned

17 And David said to God, Is it not Id2 Chr. 3. 1. 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 thy 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 afflicted. 18 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and erect an altar to the LORD in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

or, When Ornan back and saw the angel, then he and his with him four sons hid themselves.

6 He instructeth Solomon in God's promises, and his dnty in building the temple. 17 He chargeth the princes to assist his son.

THEN David said, This is the house

of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt-offering for Israel.

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

3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;

4 Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.

5 And David said, a Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be very

19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the 7 Heb. Give. magnificent, of fame and of glory LORD.

206 And Ornan turned back, and saw

24.

throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So

fore his death.

the angel; and his four sons with him 2 Sam. 24. David made abundant preparation behid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

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

22 Then David said to Ornan, 7 Grant me the place of this threshing-floor, that I may build an altar in it to the LORD: thou shalt grant it to me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.

1Kings 3.4.
c. 16. 39.
2 Chr. 1. 3.

23 And Ornan said to David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that c. 29. 1. 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.

24 And king David said to Ornan, No; 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.

b c. 28. 3.

25 So David gave to Ornan for the 1 That is, place six hundred shekels of gold by peaceable. weight.

C

6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for the LORD God of Israel.

7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house to the name of the LORD my God:

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

9 Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies around: for his name shall be 1 Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to 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

26 And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt-offerings 2 Sam.7.13. said of thee. and peace-offerings, and called 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 its sheath.

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

2 or, in my
poverty.

29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, das ver. 3. which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt-offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

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.

CHAP. XXII.

1 David foreknowing the place of the temple, prepareth abundance for the building of it:

3 That is,

masons
and car-
penters.

12 Only the LORD give thee wisdom' and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.

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

14 Now behold, 2 in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without a weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add to them.

15 Moreover, there are workmen with thee in great numbers, hewers and 3 workers of stone and timber, and all

2 The number and distribution of the Le3 or, Zizah, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

vites. 7 The families of the Gershonites. 12] The sons of Kohath. 21 The sons of Merari. 24 The office of the Levites.

So when David was old and full of days, he made a Solomon his son king over Israel.