IL. Samvur. VII. 21,

B.C. 1042.
A.J. Adona- hy Jeho- yah.
3.4, Jehovah Elohim.
23. Deut. 4.7, 8, 32-34. =G@. =w. both plurals.
24. Deut. 26. 17-19.
t. their Elo- him, their Triune God.
a. according as.
J. Jehovah. of Tseba- hoth.
=6. God, Elo- him, the Divine three in one. A
0. opene: the-ear-of.
to Thee ? for thon, 4=Lord J Gop, -know- est Thy -servant. :
21 For Thy word's sake, and accord- ing_to Thine_own heart, -hast_Thou_ done -all xthese xgreat_things, to make Thy rservant know them.
2 Wherefore Thou -art_great, O_ JLorp =God: for there is none like Thee, neither 7s there any =God beside Thee, according_to all that we shave_ heard with our ears. .
23 And what one nation in the earth is like Thy people, even like Israél, whom =God =went to redeem for a peo- ple to Himself, and to make Him a name, and to do for you xgreat_things and terrible, for Thy land, before Thy people, which Thou redeemedst to Thee om Eeypt, from the nations and their
‘ods ?
24 For Thou hast_confirmed to Thy- self Thy “people Israél to be a people unto Thee for ever: and thou, ? Lorp, -art_become ¢ their =God.
25 And now, O_! Lorp =God, the word that Thou shast_spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, -es- tablish it for ever, and -do «as Thou shast_said.
2 And let Thy name be_magnified for ever, saying, ‘’ The Lorp oF hong the =God over Israél:’ and let the_ house_of Thy servant David be_estab- lished before Thee.
27 For Thou, O_J Lorp of_hosts, =God_ of Israél, -hast_o revealed to Thy ser- vant, saying, ‘I will_build Theea house:’ therefore -hath Thy servant found in
\his “heart to pray xthis xprayer unto
t. truth, sta- bility, Heb. emeth.
THE PHILIS- TINES AND MOABITES SMITTEN. about 1040. 1, 2.1 CHR.
18. 1, 2.
m. Metheg- ammah, Bridle_of the Metro-
polis.
2.Num.24.17.
ma. making them lie down on.
KING OF ZOBAH, AND THE
strung.
Thee,
28 And now, O_A=Lord/ Gop, Thou art that =God, and Thy words ‘be ¢true, and Thou hast_promised xthis xgood- ness unto Thy servant:
29 Therefore now ‘let_it_please Thee to bless the_house_of Thy servant, that it may_continue for ever before Thee: for Thou, O_A=Lord 3 Gop, -hast_spoken it: and with Thy blessing ‘let the_ house_of Thy servant be_blessed for
ever.”
8 AND after this it came_to_pass, that Dayid smote «the Philistines, and
subdued them ; and David took ™ -Me-
theg-xammah out_of the_hand_of the
Philistines.
2 And he smote -Moab, and measured them with a «line, a casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put_to_death, and with one full xline to keep_alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and +brought gifts.
3 David smote also “Hadadezer, the_ son_of Rehob, king_of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euph- rates,
4 And David took from him a thou- sand chariots, and seven hundred horse- men, and twenty thousand footmen:
‘Jand David } houghed «all the chariot
horses, but reserved of them for a hun- dred chariots.
6 And when the_Syrians_of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king_of