them by stealth from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul 13 in Gilboa. And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the 14 bones of them that were hanged. And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the land of Benjamin. in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they did all that the king commanded. And after that God hearkened to entreaty for the land.

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And the Philistines had war again with Israel. And David went down, and his servants with him, and fought the Philis16 tines. And David became weary. And Ishbi-benob, who was of the sons of the giant, and whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a 17 new sword, thought to smite David. But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David adjured him, saying: Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.

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And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.

And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines. And Elhanan the son of Jair, the Beth-lehemite, slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

And there was yet a battle in Gath. And there was a man of great stature, that had on each hand six fingers, and on each foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also 21 was born to the giant. And he defied Israel; and Jonathan 22 the son of Shimeah, the brother of David, slew him. These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

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AND David spoke to Jehovah the words of this song, in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul. And he said :

Jehovah, my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

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The God of my rock, in him will I trust,

My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my fortress, and my refuge,

My savior, thou savest me from violence.

I will call on Jehovah, who is to be praised;

And I shall be saved from my enemies.

For the waves of death were around me;
The floods of the ungodly made me afraid.
The bands of the underworld surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.

In my distress I called upon Jehovah;
And to my God I cried.

And from his temple he heard my voice,
And my cry came into his ears.

Then the earth shook and quaked;
The foundations of the heavens trembled,
And were shaken, because he was wroth.
There went up smoke in his nostril,

And fire out of his mouth devoured;

Coals were kindled from it.

And he bowed the heavens and came down;

And thick darkness was under his feet.

And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly;

And he appeared on wings of the wind.

And he made darkness pavilions round about him,
Gathered waters, thick clouds of the skies.

From the brightness before him,

Coals of fire were kindled.

Jehovah thundered from the heavens,

And the Most High uttered his voice.

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And he sent out arrows, and scattered them;
Lightning, and discomfited them.

He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Jehovah requited me according to my righteousness;
According to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah,

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And have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all his judgments are before me ;

And his statutes, I do not depart from them.

And I was upright toward him, and kept myself from my iniquity.
And Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness;
According to my cleanness before his eyes.

With the gracious thou wilt show thyself gracious;
With the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright.

With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure;

And with the froward thou wilt show thyself froward.

And the afflicted people thou wilt save;

But thine eyes are against the lofty, thou wilt bring them low.
For thou art my lamp, O Jehovah;

And Jehovah will enlighten my darkness.

For by thee I shall run through a troop;

By my God I shall leap over a wall.
As for God, his way is perfect;

The word of Jehovah is tried;

A shield is he to all that trust in him.
For who is God besides Jehovah ?

And who is a rock besides our God?
God is my tower of strength;

And he leads the upright in his way.

He makes my feet like hinds',

And on my high places makes me stand;
Teaching my hands to war,

And a bow of brass is bent in my arms.

And thou givest me the shield of thy salvation;
And thy condescension makes me great.

37 Thou enlargest my steps under me;

And my ankles have not wavered.

I shall pursue my enemies, and destroy them;
And not turn again till they are consumed.
And I shall consume them, and crush them,
That they shall not arise;

And they shall fall under my feet.

For thou hast girded me with strength for the battle;

Thou wilt make them crouch under me that rise up against me.

V. 27. Will show thyself froward; by abandoning them to their frowardness, when persisted in. This just and merciful principle of moral government is recognized by the Apostle :-"As they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind." (Rom. 1: 28.)

As mire of the street shall I crush them, tread them down.
And thou wilt deliver me from the strifes of my people;
Thou wilt keep me to be head of the heathen;

A people I have not known shall serve me.
Strangers will profess submission to me;
At the hearing of the ear, they will obey me.
Strangers will fade away,

And will tremble from their strongholds.

Jehovah lives, and blessed be my rock;

And exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation;

The Mighty, who avenges me, and brings down the peoples under me,
And brings me out from my enemies.

And thou wilt lift me high above them that rise up against me;

From the man of violence thou wilt rescue me.

Therefore will I praise thee, Jehovah, among the heathen,

And to thy name will I sing.

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Great deliverances he gives to his king,

And shows kindness to his anointed,

To David and to his seed, for evermore.

AND these are the last words of David.

David the son of Jesse said;

And the man who was raised on high,
The anointed of the God of Jacob,

And the sweet psalmist of Israel, said:—

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And his word was on my tongue.

The God of Israel said,

The Rock of Israel spoke to me:

He that rules over men must be just,

Ruling in the fear of God.

And he is as the morning light, when the sun arises,

A morning without clouds;

As the tender grass out of the earth,

By clear shining after rain.

For is not so my house with God?

For he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
Ordered in all things, and assured.

For all my salvation, and all desire,

Shall he not then cause to grow?

But the wicked, as thorns thrust away, are they all.

For they are not taken with the hand;

And the man that touches them arms himself,

With iron and with shaft of spear;

And with fire shall they be utterly burned in the place.

V. 51. To his anointed-to David and to his seed. These words are the key to the sentiments of this psalm, and all of like import. The Psalmist speaks as the representative of that divinely constituted sovereignty, of which he was the head, and which was opposed in his person. (The writer's note in his revised version of the Psalms.)

8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had. Josheb-basshebeth the Tachmonite, chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against eight hundred, slain at one time. 9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite; one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were gathered there for battle, and 10 the men of Israel went up. He rose up, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave to the sword. And Jehovah wrought a great deliverance that 11 day; and the people returned after him only to spoil. And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop; and there was there a piece of ground full of lentiles; and the people 12 fled before the Philistines. But he stood in the midst of the ground, and rescued it, and smote the Philistines; and Jeho13 vah wrought a great deliverance. And three of the thirty chiefs went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and a troop of the Philistines encamped 14 in the valley of Rephaim. And David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth15 lehem. And David had longing, and said: Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, 16 which is by the gate! And the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took and brought it to David. And he would not drink thereof, but 17 poured it out unto Jehovah. And he said: Be it far from me, Jehovah, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty 18 men. And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. And he lifted up his spear against 19 three hundred slain, and had a name among the thirty. He was most honorable of the thirty, and became their captain; 20 but he attained not to the three. And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he smote two lion-like men of Moab; and he