Attendants on the ark. I. Chronicles. Nathans meljage. Davids prayer. LORD of hofts, I took thee from the Sheep-cote, even from following the fheep, that thou fhouldft be ruler over my people Ifrael: of the covenant of the LORD, Afaph and his brethren, to minifter before the ark continually, as every days work required: 38 And Obed-edom, with their brethren, threefcore and eight: Obed-edom alfo the fon of Jeduthun, and Hofah to be porters: 39 And Zadok the prieft and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD, in the high place that was at Gibeon, 40 To offer burnt-offerings unto the LORD, upon the altar of the burnt-offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Ifrael: 8 And I have been with thee whitherfoever thou halt walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth. 9 Alfo I will ordain a place for my people Ifrael, and will plant them, and they fhall dwell in their place, and fhall be moved no more; neither hall the children of wickednefs wafte them any more: (as at the beginning, 10 And fince the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Ifrael) moreover, I will fubdue all thine enemies. Furthermore, I tell thee, that the LORD will build thee an houfe. 41 And with them Heman and Jedu thun, and the reft that were chofen, who were expreffed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy endureth II And it fhall come to pafs, when for ever: thy days be expired that thou must go 42 And with them Heman and Jedu-to be with thy fathers, that I will raile thun with trumpets and cymbals, for up thy feed after thee, which fhall be of thofe that fhould make a found, and thy fons, and I will establish his kingwich mufical inftruments of God: and dom. the fons of Jeduthun were porters. 43 And all the people departed ry man to his houfe: and David returned to blefs his house. CHA P. XVII. 12 He fhall build me an houfe, and I eve-will ftablish his throne for ever. 1 David forbidden to build God an houfe, 11 is promifed bleffings in his feed. 16 His prayer and thanksgiving. N Ow it came to pafs, as David fat in his houfe, that David faid to Nathan the prophet, Lo, Fdwell in an houfe of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains. 2 Then Nathan faid unto David, Do all that is in thine heart, for God is with thee. 3 And it came to pafs the fame night, that the word of God came to Nathan, faying, 4 Go and tell David my fervant, Thus faith the LORD, Thou shalt not build mean houfe to dwell in. 13 I will be his father, and he fhall be my fon, and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee. 14 But I will fettle him in mine houfe, and in my kingdom for ever, and his throne fhall be eftablished for evermore. 15 According to all these words, and according to all this vifion, fo did Nathan fpeak unto David.. 16 And David the king came, and fat before the LORD, and faid, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine houfe, that thou haft brought me hi therto? 17 And yet this was a fmall thing in thine eyes, O God, for thou haft alf fpoken of thy fervants houfe for a great while to come, and haft regarded me ac cording to the eftate of a man of high degree, O LORD God. 5 For I have not dwelt in an houfe fince the day that I brought up Ifrael, unto this day, but have gone from tent 18 What can David fpeak more to to tent, and from one tabernacle to anothee for the honour of thy fervant? for thou knoweft thy fervant. ther. 6 Wherefoever I have walked with all Ifael, fpake I a word to any of the judges of Ifracl, (whom I commanded to feed my people) faying, Why have ye not built me an houfe of cedars? 7 Now therefore thus halt thou fay wote my fervant David, Thus faith the 19 O LORD, for thy fervants fake and according to thine own heart haft thou done all this greatness, in making known all thefe great things. 20 O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God befides thee, ac cording to all that we have heard with David Jubdueth the Philistines. Chap. xviii, xix. 21 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Ifrael, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatnefs and terriblenefs, by driving out nations from before thy people whom thou haft redeemed out of Egypt? 22 For thy people Ifrael didft thou make thine own people for ever, and thou, LORD, becameft their God. 23 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou haft spoken concerning thy fervant, and concerning his house, be eftablifhed for ever, and do as thou haft faid. 24 Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, faying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Ifrael, even a God to Ifrael: and let the houfe of David thy fervant be eftablifhed before thee. 25 For thou, O my God, haft told thy fervant, that thou wilt build him an houfe: therefore thy fervant hath found in his heart to pray before thee. 26 And now, LORD, ( thou art God, and haft promised this goodness unto thy fervant) 27 Now therefore let ft please_thee to blefs the house of thy fervant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou bleffeft, O LORD, and it shall be bleffed for ever. CHA P. XVIII. 1 David fubdu eth the Philistines and the Moabites. 3 He fmiteth Hadarezer and the Syrians. N Ow after this, it came to pafs, that David fmote the Philiftines, and fubdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philiftines. 2 And he fmote Moab; and the Moabites beca ne Davids fetvants, and brought gifts. And David- fmote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to ftablish his dominion by the river Euphrates. 4 And David took from him a thou fand chariots, and feven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David alfo houghed all the chariothorfes, but referved of them an hundred chariots. 5 And when the Syrians of Damafcus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David flew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. 6 Then David put garifons in Syriadamafcus, and the Syrians became Da Hefmiteth the Syrians. vids fervants, and brought gifts. Thus the LORD preferved David whither foever he went. 7 And David took the fhields of gold that were on the fervants of Hedarezer, and brought them to Jerufalem. 8 Likewife from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brazen fea, and the pil lars, and the veffels of brass. Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had fmitten all the hoft of Hadarezer king of Zobah: 10 He fent Hadoram his fon to king David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer,and fmitten him, (for Hadarezer had warred with Tou) and with him all manner of veffels of gold, and filver, and brass. 11 Them alfo king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the filver and the gold that he brought from all thefe nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philiftines, and from Amalek. 12 Moreover, Abifhai the fon of Zeruiah flew of the Edomites in the valley of falt, eighteen thousand. 13 And he put garifons in Edom; and all the Edomites became Davids] fervants. Thus the LORD preferved David whitherfoever he went. 14 So David reigned over all If rael, and executed judgment and juftice among all his people. 15 And Joab the fon of Zeruiah was over the hoft, and Jehoshaphat the fon of Ahilud, recorder. 16 And Zadok the fon of Ahitub, and Abimelech the fon of Abiathar, were the priefts, and Shavfha was feribe. 17 And Benaiah the fon of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites, and the Pelethites and the fons of David were chief about the king. CHAP. XIX. 1 Davids messengers fent to comfort Hanun, are villainously entreated. 6 The Ammonites are overcome. N Ow it came to pass after this, that Nahafh the king of the children of Ammon died, and his fon reigned in his ftead. 2 And David faid, 1 will fhew kindnefs unto Hanun the fon of Nahafh, becaufe his father fhewed kindness to me. And David fent maffengers to comfort him concerning his father: fo the fe Hantins villany. T. Chronicles. The Ammonites overcome by Foab. unto the battle; and they filed before him. vants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon, to Hanun, to comfort him. 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon faid to Hanun, Thinkeft thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath fent comforters unto thee? are not his fervants come unto thee for to fearch, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? 4 Wherefore Hanun took Davids fervants, and fhaved them, and cut off their garments in the midft hard by their buttocks, and fent them away. 5 Then there went certain, and told David how the men were ferved; and be fent to meet them (for the men were greatly afhamed) and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return. 6 And when the children of Ammon faw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon fent a thousand talents of filver to hire them chariots and horfemen out of Mefopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah. 7 So they hired thirty and two thoufand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people, who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle. 8 And when David heard of it, he fent Joab, and all the hoft of the mighty men. 9 And the children of Ammon came our, and put the battle in aray before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come, were by themselves in the field. 10 Now when Joab faw that the battle was fet against him, before and behind, he chofe out of all the choice of Ifrael, and put them in aray against the Syrians. 11 And the reft of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they fet themselves in aray againft the children of Ammon. 12 And he faid, If the Syrians be too ftrong for me, then thou fhalt help me but if the children of Ammon be too ftrong for thee, then I will help thee. r3 Be of good courage, and let us behave our felves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which good in his fight. PH 15 And when the children of Ammon faw that the Syrians were fled, they G likewife fled before Abithai his brother, and entred into the city. Then Joab came to Jerufalem. 16 And when the Syrians faw that they were put to the worse before Ifrael, they fent meffengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the hoft of Hadarezer, went before them. 17 And it was told David, and he ga thered all Ifrael, and paffed over Jordan, and came upon them, and fet the battle in aray against them: fo when David had put the battle in aray against the Syrians, they fought with him. 18 But the Syrians fled before Ifrael, and David flew of the Syrians feven thousand men, which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and kil led Shophach the captain of the hoft. 19 And when the fervants of Hadarezer faw that they were put to the worse before Ifrael, they made peace with David, and became his fervants : neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more. СНА Р. XX. 1 Rabbah is besieged by Foab, Jpoiled by David, and the people tortured. 4 Three overthrows of the Philistines. And it came to pals that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to baitle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wafted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and befieged Rabbah (but David tarried at Jerufalem) and Joab fmote Rabbah, and deftroyed it. 2 And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious ftones in it, and it was fet upon Davids head; and he brought alfo exceeding much spoil out of the city. 3 And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with faws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes: even fo dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Je rufalem. 4 And it came to pass after this that there arofe war at Gezer with the Philiftines, at which time Sibbechai the Huthathite, flew Sippai that was of the children of the giant, and they were 14 So Joab and the people that were ve G tu ja e And there was war again with the Philiftines, and Elhaman the fon of Jair, flew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whofe fpear-ftaff was like a weavers beam. 6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great ftature, whofe fingers and toes were four and twenty, fix on each hand, and fix on each foot and he alfo was the fon of the giant. 7 But when he defied Ifrael, Jonathan the fon of Shimea, Davids brother, flew him. 8 Thefe were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his fervants. CHA P. XXI. 1 David numbreth the people. 5 Herepenteth, 9 and cheofeth the peftilence. A Ifrael. Nd Satan ftood up against Ifrael, and provoked David to number 2 And David faid to Joab, and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Ifrael from Beer-fheba 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 an hundred times fo many mo as they be but my lord the king, are they not all my lords fervants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a caufe of trefpafs to Ifrael? 4 Nevertheless, the kings word prevailed against Joab: wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerufalem. 5 And Joab gave the fum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Ifrael were a thousand thoufand and an hundred thousand men that drew fword: and Judah was four hundred threfcore and ten thousand men that drew fword. 6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the kings word was abominable to Joab. 7 And God was difpleafed with this thing, therefore he fmote Ifrael. 8 And David faid unto God, I have finned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy fervant, for I have done very foolishly, 9 And the LORD fpake unto Gad, Davids feer, faying, 10. Go and tell David, faying, Thus faith the LORD, I offer thee three things, choofe thee one of them that I may do it unto thee. His repentance, 11 So Gad came to David, and faid unto him, Thus faith the LORD, Choofe thee 12 Either three years famine, or three months to be deftroyed before thy foes, (while that the fword of thine enemies overtaketh thee) or else three days the fword of the LORD, even the peftilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD deftroying throughout all the coafts of Ifrael: now therefore advise thy felf what word I fhall bring again to him that fent me. 13 And David faid unto Gad, I am in a great ftrait: 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 fent peftilence upon Ifrael and there fell of Ifrael feventy thousand men. 15 And God fent an angel unto Jerufalem to deftroy it: and as he was deftroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and faid to the angel that deftroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD ftood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16 And David lift up his eyes, and faw the angel of the LORD ftand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn fword in his hand ftretched out over Jerufalem: then David and the elders of Ifrael, who were clothed in fackcloth, fell upon their faces. 17 And David faid unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbred? even I it is that have finned and done evil indeed; but as for thefe fheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my fathers houfe, but not on thy people, that they should be plagued. 18 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to fay to David, that David fhould go up and fet up an altar unto the LORD, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebufite. 19 And David went up at the faying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD. 20 And Ornan turned back, and faw the angel; and his four fons wth him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. 21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and faw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed" himself to David with his face to the ground. David's facrifice: His I. Chronicles. preparation for the temple. fo 22 Then David faid to Ornan, Grant 5 And David faid, Solomon my fon is me the place of this threfhing-floor, that young and tender, and the house that is to I may build an altar therein unto the be builded for the LORD,must be exceed LORD thou fhalt grant it me for the ing magnifical, of fame and of glory full price, that the plague may be ftayed throughout all countries: I will therefore y from the people. now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death. 6 Then he called for Solomon his font and charged him to build an houfe for a the LORD God of Ifrael. 23 And Ornan faid unto David, Take iz to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo. I give thee the oxen alfo for burnt-offerings, and the threfhing-inftruments for wood, 7 And David faid to Soloman, My t and the wheat for the meat-offering, Ifon, as for me, it was in my mind to build give it all. an houfe unto the name of the LORD MY God: 24 And king David faid to Ornan, Nay, but I will verily buy it for the foll 8 But the word of the LORD came to price: for I will not take that which is me, faying, Thou haft fhed blood abun thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt-of-dantly, and haft made great wars : thou ferings without coft. fhalt not build an houfe unto my name, because thou haft fhed much blood upon the earth in my fight. 25 So David gave to Ornan for the place, fix hundred fhekels of gold by weight. 9 Behold, a fon fhall be born to thee, 26 And David built there an altar who fhall be a man of reft, and I will unto the LORD, and offered burnt-offer- give him reft from all his enemies round ings and peace-offerings, and called upon about: for his name shall be Solomon, the LORD, and he answered him from and I will give peace and quietnefs unheaven by fire upon the altar of burnt-to Ifrael in his days. offering. 27 And the LORD commanded the angel, and he put up his fword again into the fheath thereof. 28 At that time when David faw that the LORD had answered him in the threfhing-floor of Ornan the Jebufite, then he facrificed there. 29 For the tabernacle of the LORD which Mofes made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt-offering were at that feafon in the high place at Gibeon. 30 But David could not go before it to enquire of God; for he was afraid, because of the fword of the angel of the LORD. CHA P. XXII. 1 David prepareth for the building of the temple. 6 He instructeth Solomon. Hen David faid, This is the houfe altar of the burnt-offering for Ifrael. 2 And David commanded to gather together the ftrangers that were in the land of Ifrael, and he fet mafons to hew wrought ftones to build the house of God. 10 He fhall build an houfe for my name, and he fhall be my fon, and I will be his father, and I will eftablish the throne of his kingdom over Ifrael for ever. 11 Now my fon, the LORD be with thee, and profper thou, and build the houfe of the LORD thy God, as he hath faid of thee. 12 Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Ifrael, that thou mayst keep the law of the LORD thy God. 13 Then fhalt thou profper, if thou takeft heed to fulfil the ftatutes and judgments which the LORD charged Mofes with concerning Ifrael: be ftrong, and of good courage, dread not, nor be difmayed. 14 Now behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the houfe of the LORD an hundred thoufand talents of gold, and a of brass, and fron without weight (for it is in abundance :) timber alio, and ftone have I prepared, and thou mayft add thereto. 15 Moreover, there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers, and work3 And David prepared iron in abun-ers of ftone and timber, and all manner dance for the nails for the doors of the of cunning men for every manner of gates, and, for the joynings; and brafs in work. abundance without weight; 4 Alfo cedar-trees in abundance: for the Zidonians, and they of Tyre, brought much cedar-wood to David. 16 Of the gold, the filver, and the brafs, and the iron, there is no number. Arife therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee. |