II. SamvurL XX

est to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt_thou_swallow_up the_ inheritance_of / the Lorp?”
20 d Joab answered and sai “Far_be_it, far_be_it from me, that should_swallow_up or destroy.
21 The matter is not so: but a ‘man of t mount Ephraim, Sheba the_son_of Bichri by_name, shath_lifted_up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will_ depart from the city.” And the woman said unto Joab, “Behold, his head er thrown to thee over the wall.” é
2 Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut_ off -the_head_of Sheba the_son_of Bichri, and cast_it_out to Joab. And he blew @ xtrumpet, and they retired from the city, ‘every_man to his tent. And Joab returned_to Jerusalem unto the king.
23 Now Joab was over all the host_of Israél: and Benaiah the_son_of Je-
B.C. abe 1022 J. Jehova
i, ish. h. the-hil coun!
hoiada was over the ¢ Cherethites and| °°
over the p Pelethites :
24 And Adoram was over the tribute : and Jehoshaphat the_son_of Ahilud was ¥ recorder :
25 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok|”
and Abiathar were the priests : 2 And Ira also the Jairite was a
m chief_ruler about David.
THEN there was a famine inthe_ 2 days_of David three years, year after year; and Dayid sinquired of
J «the Lorp. And ‘the Lorp answered, |, “Tt is for Saul, and for his xbloody) th
house, because he slew -the Gibeon-
ites.
2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeon- ites »twere not of the_se children_of Israél, but of the_remnant_of the Amorites; and the_sechildren_of Is- raél had_sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the_ so children_of Israél and Judah.)
3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, “ What shall_I_do for you ? and wherewith shall _I_make _ the ~_ atonement, that ye *may_bless -the_ inheritance_of ? the Lorp ?”
4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, “We will_have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt_thou_kill *any_man in Israél.” And he said, “ What pe +shall_say, that will_I_do for you.”
5 And they answered the king, “The
tman that consumed us, and that de-|i.
vised against us that we should_be_ destroyed from remaining in any of the_? coasts_of Israél,
6 Let seven «men of his sons be_de- livered unto us, and we -will_hang_ them_up unto !the Lorp in Gibeah_of Saul, whom ‘the Lorp did_choose.” And the king said, “£ will_give them.”
J. Jehoval
‘ish,
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the_son_of Jonathan the_son_of Saul, because_of ! the Lorp’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the_son_of Saul.
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h. the heavens.
THE BONES OF SAUL
a \DAVID IN JEOPARDY.
about 1018,
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seat is in
lamp, Hed. neer, 8-22. 1CHR. 2. 48.
8 But the king took -the_two sons_of Rizpah the_daughter_of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, ~Armoni and -Mephibosheth; and the five sons_of
.|0 Michal the_daughter_of Saul, whom
she ba brought_up for Adriél the_son_ of Barzillai the Meholathite:
9 And he delivered them into the_ hands_of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before 4 the Lorp: and they fell ail seven together, and ,¢were_put_to_death in the_days_ of harvest, in the first days, in the_be- ginning_of barley harvest.
10 And Rizpah the_daughter_of Aiah took Xsackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the_beginning_of harvest until water dropped upon them out_of 4 x=heaven, and suffered neither the_birds_of the air to rest on them by_ day, nor -the_beasts_of the field by_ night.
01 And it was_told David «what Riz- pan the_daughter_of Aiah, the_concu-
‘bine_of Saul, had_done.
122 And David went and took -the_
*|bones_of Saul and -the_bones_of Jona-
than his son from -the_™men_of Ja- besh-gilead, which had-stolen them from the_street_of Bethshan, where the Philistines had_hanged them, when the Philistines had_slain -Saul in xGilboa:
13‘And he brought_up from thence -the_bones_of Saul and «the_bones_of Jonathan his son; and they gathered -the_bones_of them that _were_ hanged. é
14 And -the_bones_of Saul and Jona- than his son buried they in the_coun- try.of Benjamin in Zelah, in the_ sepulchre_of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king com- manded. And after that =God was_in- treated for the land.
15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israél; and David went_ down, and his servants with him, and fought_against -the Philistines; and David waxed _faint.
16 And tIshbi-benob, which was of the_sons_of the *giant, the_weight_of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being_ girded with a new sword, thought to have-_slain ~David.
17 But Abishai the_son_of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote «the Philis- tine, and killed him. Then the_# men_ of David sware unto him, saying, “Thou shalt_go no more out with us to xbattle, that thou ‘quench not -the_ Might_of Israél.”
18 And it came_to_pass after this, that there was again a xbattle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew -Saph, which was of the_sons-_of the giant.
12 And there was again a xbattle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elha- nan the_son_of Jj Jaare-oregim, a xBeth- lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath
‘\the Gittite, the_staff_of whose spear
was like a weaver’s beam.
20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a ‘man_of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in