Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)

f 4 And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet: he was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled and it came to pass, as

12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron. CHAP. V.

she made haste to flee, that he fell,THEN came all the tribes of

and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

f5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.

6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.

3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they 7 For when they came into the anointed David king over Israel. house, he lay on his bed in his bed-4 1 David was thirty years old chamber, and they smote him, and when he began to reign, and he slew him, and beheaded him, and reigned forty years. took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night. g 8 And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thy enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul and of his seed.

5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.

g 6 T And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither thinking, David cannot come in hither.

f9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, whof 7 Nevertheless, David took the hath redeemed my soul out of all strong hold of Zion: the same is the adversity, city of David.

10 When one told me, saying, 8 And David said on that day, Behold, Saul is dead, (thinking to Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, have brought good tidings,) I took and smiteth the Jebusites, and the hold of him, and slew him in Zik- lame and the blind, that are hated lag, who thought that I would have of David's soul, he shall be chief and given him a reward for his tidings: captain. Wherefore they said, The 11 How much more, when wick-blind and the lame shall not come ed men have slain a righteous per-into the house. son in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it, The city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

10 And David went on, and grewd 23 And when David inquired of great, and the LORD God of hosts the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not was with him. go up: but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees.

f 11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David a house. 12 And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.

a 13 ¶ And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

24 And let it be, when thou hearest a sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself; for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines. g 25 And David did so as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.

CHAP. VI.

AGAIN, David gathered to

gether all the chosen men of

f 14 And these be the names of
those that were born unto him in Je-Israel, thirty thousand.
rusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab,
and Nathan, and Solomon,
15 Ibhar also, and Elishua, and
Nepheg, and Japhia.

16 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.

g 2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of The LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.

f 17 T But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed Davidf 3 And they set the ark of God king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold.

g 18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio the sons of Abinadab drave the new cart.

g 4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.

d 19 And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the LORD said 5 And David and all the house of unto David, Go up: for I will doubt-Israel played before the LORD on less deliver the Philistines into thy all manner of instruments made of hand. fir-wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals. f 6 ¶ And when they came to Nachon's threshing-floor, Uzza put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it for the oxen shook it.

g 20 And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

f 21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.

g22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

m7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his error: and there he died by the ark of God. g 8 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach

upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day.

tude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a 9 And David was afraid of the flagon of wine. So all the people LORD that day, and said, How shall departed every one to his house. the ark of the LORD come to me? 20 Then David returned to f 10 So David would not remove bless his household. And Michal the ark of the LORD unto him into the daughter of Saul came out to the city of David: but David car-meet David, and said, How glorious ried it aside into the house of Obed- was the king of Israel to-day, who edom the Gittite. uncovered himself to-day in the eyes 11 And the ark of the LORD con- of the handmaids of his servants, as tinued in the house of Obed-edom one of the vain fellows shamelessly the Gittite three months and the uncovereth himself! LORD blessed Obed-edom and alle 21 And David said unto Michal, his household. It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.

f 12 ¶ And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness.

13 And it was so that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.

f 14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might: and David was girded with a linen ephod.

15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

f 16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window, and saw king David feaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart. 17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt-offerings and peaceofferings before the LORD.

o 18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.

AND it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies,

c 2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.

3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thy heart: for the LORD is with thee.

4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,

c 5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?

6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.

19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multi- 7 In all the places wherein I have

and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded 18 ¶ Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am 1, O LORD God? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto;

to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me a house of cedar ?

f 8 Now therefore, so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus c 19 And this was yet a small thing saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee in thy sight, O LORD God; but from the sheep-cote, from following thou hast spoken also of thy serthe sheep, to be ruler over my pco- vant's house for a great while to ple, over Israel: come. And is this the manner of man, O LORD God?

9 And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.

20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, LORD God, knowest thy servant.

21 For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast b 10 Moreover, I will appoint a thou done all these great things, to place for my people Israel, and will make thy servant know them. plant them, that they may dwell int 22 Wherefore thou art great, O a place of their own, and move no LORD God: for there is none like more; neither shall the children of thee, neither is there any God bewickedness afflict them any more as sides thee, according to all that we beforetime. have heard with our ears.

11 And as since the time that Ib 23 And what one nation in the commanded judges to be over my earth is like thy people, even like people Israel, and have caused thee Israel, whom God went to redeem to rest from all thine enemies. Also for a people to himself, and to make the LORD telleth thee that he will him a name, and to do for you great make thee a house. things and terrible, for thy land, beb 12 And when thy days be ful-fore thy people which thou redeemfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy edst to thee from Egypt, from the fathers. I will set up thy seed after nations and their gods? thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

r16 And thy house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

17 According to all these words,

b 24 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.

25 And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said,

d 26 And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.

27 For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee a house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.