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+<book name='2 Samuel' permalink='2-samuel' id='10'>
+  <chapter no='1'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was  returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two  days in Ziklag;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man  came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon  his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the  earth, and did obeisance.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he  said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee,  tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and  many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his  son are dead also.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest  thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the young man that told him said, As I happened by  chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo,  the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto  me. And I answered, Here am I.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am  an Amalekite.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay  me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that  he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that  was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have  brought them hither unto my lord.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and  likewise all the men that were with him:</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul,  and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the  house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art  thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch  forth thine hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near,  and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy  mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD's  anointed.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over  Jonathan his son:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of  the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are  the mighty fallen!</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of  Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the  daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let  there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield  of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had  not been anointed with oil.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the  bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not  empty.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives,  and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than  eagles, they were stronger than lions.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in  scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your  apparel.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O  Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant  hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love  of women.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='2'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the  LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the  LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And  he said, Unto Hebron.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam  the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man  with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David  king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men  of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and  said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this  kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I  also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye  valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have  anointed me king over them.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took  Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and  over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to  reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah  followed David.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of  Judah was seven years and six months.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the  son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went  out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one  on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the  pool.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and  play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin,  which pertained to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the  servants of David.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust  his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore  that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which is in Gibeon.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was  beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and  Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not  to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And  he answered, I am.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or  to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee  his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from  following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then  should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the  hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear  came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same  place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where  Asahel fell down and died stood still.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went  down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah  by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together  after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour  for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter  end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from  following their brethren?</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken,  surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from  following his brother.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and  pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And Abner and his men walked all that night through the  plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they  came to Mahanaim.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had  gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants  nineteen men and Asahel.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of  Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of  his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all  night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='3'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the  house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of  Saul waxed weaker and weaker.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn  was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the  Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of  Talmai king of Geshur;</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth,  Shephatiah the son of Abital;</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were  born to David in Hebron.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And it came to pass, while there was war between the house  of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the  house of Saul.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the  daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou  gone in unto my father's concubine?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and  said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day  unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends,  and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest  me to day with a fault concerning this woman?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath  sworn to David, even so I do to him;</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set  up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to  Beersheba.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he  feared him.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying,  Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold,  my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one  thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except  thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my  face.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying,  Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred  foreskins of the Philistines.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even  from Phaltiel the son of Laish.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to  Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel,  saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying,  By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the  hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went  also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to  Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him.  And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will  gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league  with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart  desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from  pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was  not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in  peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they  told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath  sent him away, and he is gone in peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done?  behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away,  and he is quite gone?</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive  thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that  thou doest.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers  after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David  knew it not.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside  in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the  fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom  are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son  of Ner:</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's  house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an  issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth  on the sword, or that lacketh bread.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had  slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with  him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before  Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his  voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a  fool dieth?</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as  a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people  wept again over him.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat  while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more  also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them:  as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>For all the people and all Israel understood that day that  it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there  is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men  the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer  of evil according to his wickedness.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='4'>
+    <verse no='1'>And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his  hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the  name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons  of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also  was reckoned to Benjamin.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners  there until this day.)</verse>
+    <verse no='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 she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his  name was Mephibosheth.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah,  went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth,  who lay on a bed at noon.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his  bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and  took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to  Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of  Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my  lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons  of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who  hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to  have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag,  who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person  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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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 Ishbosheth, and buried it in the  sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='5'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and  spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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  anointed David king over Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he  reigned forty years.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>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.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is  the city of David.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the  gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind that are  hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they  said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David.  And David built round about from Millo and inward.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts  was with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar  trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And these be the names of those that were born unto him in  Jerusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David  king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David  heard of it, and went down to the hold.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the  valley of Rephaim.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the  Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said  unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into  thine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And David came to Baalperazim, 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  Baalperazim.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And there they left their images, and David and his men  burned them.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves  in the valley of Rephaim.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not  go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against  the mulberry trees.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And let it be, when thou hearest the 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote  the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='6'>
+    <verse no='1'>Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel,  thirty thousand.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And they set the ark of God 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD  on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on  psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put  forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen  shook it.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>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.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach  upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How  shall the ark of the LORD come to me?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into  the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of  Obededom the Gittite.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom  the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his  household.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed  the house of Obededom, 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 Obededom into the city of David with gladness.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD  had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and  David was girded with a linen ephod.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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  leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 peace offerings before the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole  multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake  of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the  people departed every one to his house.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the  daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the  king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the  handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly  uncovereth himself!</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And David said unto Michal, 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in  mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of  them shall I be had in honour.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the  day of her death.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='7'>
+    <verse no='1'>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;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell  in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine  heart; for the LORD is with thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD  came unto Nathan, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt  thou build me an house for me to dwell in?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>In all the places wherein I have walked with all the  children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel,  whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me  an house of cedar?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus  saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following  the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and  will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move  no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any  more, as beforetime,</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my  people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies.  Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with  thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out  of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the  throne of his kingdom for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit  iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes  of the children of men:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it  from Saul, whom I put away before thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for  ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>According to all these words, and according to all this  vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he  said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast  brought me hitherto?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but  thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come.  And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD,  knowest thy servant.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast  thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like  thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we  have heard with our ears.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even  like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to  make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy  land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from  the nations and their gods?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to  thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy  servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be  true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:</verse>
+    <verse no='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 Lord  GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant  be blessed for ever.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='8'>
+    <verse no='1'>And after this it came to pass that David smote the  Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the  hand of the Philistines.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting  them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to  death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became  David's servants, and brought gifts.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah,  as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven  hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all  the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer  king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the  Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD  preserved David whithersoever he went.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants  of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king  David took exceeding much brass.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the  host of Hadadezer,</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him,  and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten  him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him  vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the  silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of  the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of  Rehob, king of Zobah.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of  the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he  garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD  preserved David whithersoever he went.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed  judgment and justice unto all his people.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and  Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of  Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the  Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='9'>
+    <verse no='1'>And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house  of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was  Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him,  Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of  Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto  the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto  the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in  Lodebar.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of  Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul,  was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David  said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew  thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all  the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table  continually.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that  thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto  him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and  to all his house.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till  the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's  son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat  bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord  the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for  Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the  king's sons.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Micha. And  all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat  continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='10'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass after this, that the king of the  children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of  Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to  comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's  servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun  their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he  hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants  unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the  one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle,  even to their buttocks, and sent them away.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because  the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until  your beards be grown, and then return.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before  David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob  and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a  thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host  of the mighty men.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in  array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of  Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him  before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put  them in array against the Syrians:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of  Abishai his brother, that he might put them in array against the  children of Ammon.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou  shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee,  then I will come and help thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people,  and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him  good.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, unto  the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were  fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So  Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before  Israel, they gathered themselves together.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were  beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of  the host of Hadarezer went before them.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together,  and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set  themselves in array against David, and fought with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men  of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen,  and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw  that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and  served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any  more.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='11'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time  when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants  with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and  besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from  off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the  roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful  to look upon.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said,  Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the  Hittite?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in  unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her  uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said,  I am with child.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite.  And Joab sent Uriah to David.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how  Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy  feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed  him a mess of meat from the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the  servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down  unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy  journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah,  abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are  encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat  and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul  liveth, I will not do this thing.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to  morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day,  and the morrow.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before  him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed  with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a  letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the  forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be  smitten, and die.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he  assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and  there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the  Hittite died also.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the  war;</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an  end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto  thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight?  knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman  cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in  Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the  Hittite is dead also.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that  Joab had sent him for.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed  against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them  even unto the entering of the gate.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants;  and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the  Hittite is dead also.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto  Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as  well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and  overthrow it: and encourage thou him.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was  dead, she mourned for her husband.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her  to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the  thing that David had done displeased the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='12'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him,  and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and  the other poor.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb,  which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him,  and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own  cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared  to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the  wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and  dressed it for the man that was come to him.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and  he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this  thing shall surely die:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this  thing, and because he had no pity.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the  LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered  thee out of the hand of Saul;</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives  into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if  that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such  and such things.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to  do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the  sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with  the sword of the children of Ammon.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house;  because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the  Hittite to be thy wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against  thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine  eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives  in the sight of this sun.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before  all Israel, and before the sun.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD.  And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou  shalt not die.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion  to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born  unto thee shall surely die.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the  child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>David therefore besought God for the child; and David  fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise  him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died.  And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead:  for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto  him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex  himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>But when David saw that his servants whispered, David  perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his  servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed  himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD,  and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required,  they set bread before him, and he did eat.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that  thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was  alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and  wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that  the child may live?</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him  back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto  her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name  Solomon: and the LORD loved him.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called  his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and  took the royal city.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought  against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and  encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be  called after my name.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And David gathered all the people together, and went to  Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight  whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set  on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great  abundance.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put  them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and  made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus did he unto all the  cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned  unto Jerusalem.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='13'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of  David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of  David loved her.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister  Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do  anything to her.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of  Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son,  lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I  love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and  make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto  him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress  the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king  was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar  my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may  eat at her hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother  Amnon's house, and dress him meat.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid  down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight,  and did bake the cakes.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And she took a pan, and poured them out before him; but he  refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went  out every man from him.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber,  that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had  made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold  of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for  no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for  thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I  pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being  stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred  wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved  her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in  sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But  he would not hearken unto her.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and  said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with  such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then  his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of  divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went  on crying.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy  brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy  brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her  brother Absalom's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But when king David heard of all these things, he was very  wroth.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor  bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had  sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom  invited all the king's sons.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy  servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his  servants go with thy servant.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all  now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he  would not go, but blessed him.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon  go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the  king's sons go with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now  when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite  Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be  courageous, and be valiant.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had  commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up  upon his mule, and fled.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that  tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons,  and there is not one of them left.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the  earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered  and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young  men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of  Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his  sister Tamar.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his  heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is  dead.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch  lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by  the way of the hill side behind him.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons  come: as thy servant said, so it is.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of  speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice  and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud,  king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three  years.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom:  for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='14'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart  was toward Absalom.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman,  and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put  on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a  woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So  Joab put the words in her mouth.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on  her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she  answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together  in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the  other, and slew him.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine  handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we  may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will  destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left,  and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the  earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I  will give charge concerning thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king,  the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his  throne be guiltless.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the king said, Whoever saith ought unto thee, bring him  to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD  thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to  destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD  liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak  one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a  thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as  one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his  banished.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground,  which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person:  yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my  lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy  handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king  will perform the request of his handmaid.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the  hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the  inheritance of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall  now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to  discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not  from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman  said, Let my lord the king now speak.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all  this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the  king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my  lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put  all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab  done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an  angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this  thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself,  and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I  have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath  fulfilled the request of his servant.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to  Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let  him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not  the king's face.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as  Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of  his head there was no blemish in him.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end  that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he  polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels  after the king's weight.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one  daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not  the king's face.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the  king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second  time, he would not come.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is  near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And  Absalom's servants set the field on fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and  said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying,  Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I  come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now  therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in  me, let him kill me.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had  called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face  to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='15'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him  chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the  gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to  the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what  city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and  right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the  land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me,  and I would do him justice!</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him  obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to  the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said  unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have  vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in  Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem,  then I will serve the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and  went to Hebron.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel,  saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say,  Absalom reigneth in Hebron.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that  were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any  thing.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's  counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered  sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased  continually with Absalom.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of  the men of Israel are after Absalom.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And David said unto all his servants that were with him at  Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from  Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring  evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy  servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the king went forth, and all his household after him.  And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and  tarried in a place that was far off.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the  Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred  men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest  thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for  thou art a stranger, and also an exile.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make  thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou,  and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth,  and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king  shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant  be.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the  Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were  with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the  people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron,  and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him,  bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of  God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of  the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into  the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring  me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here  am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a  seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you,  Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until  there come word from you to certify me.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to  Jerusalem: and they tarried there.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as  he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the  people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up,  weeping as they went up.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the  conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn  the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of  the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to  meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou  shalt be a burden unto me:</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will  be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto,  so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the  counsel of Ahithophel.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the  priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear  out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the  priests.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz  Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall send  unto me every thing that ye can hear.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom  came into Jerusalem.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='16'>
+    <verse no='1'>And when David was a little past the top of the hill,  behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of  asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an  hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a  bottle of wine.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And  Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the  bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that  such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba  said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To  day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that  pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that  I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out  a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the  son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king  David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand  and on his left.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out,  thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house  of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered  the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art  taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why  should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray  thee, and take off his head.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of  Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse  David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold,  my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more  now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the  LORD hath bidden him.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and  that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along  on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw  stones at him, and cast dust.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the king, and all the people that were with him, came  weary, and refreshed themselves there.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to  Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's  friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save  the king, God save the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy  friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and  this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with  him will I abide.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the  presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will  I be in thy presence.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what  we shall do.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's  concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall  hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all  that are with thee be strong.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and  Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those  days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the  counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='17'>
+    <verse no='1'>Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out  twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this  night:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed,  and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall  flee; and I will smite the king only:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom  thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in  peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let  us hear likewise what he saith.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him,  saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his  saying? if not; speak thou.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel  hath given is not good at this time.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that  they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed  of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will  not lodge with the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place:  and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first,  that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the  people that follow Absalom.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of  a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a  mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered  unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea  for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be  found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and  of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so  much as one.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel  bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until  there be not one small stone found there.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of  Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the  LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the  intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests,  Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel;  and thus and thus have I counselled.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge  not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over;  lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might  not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and  they went and told king David.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went  both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which  had a well in his court; whither they went down.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's  mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house,  they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them,  They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and  could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they  came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto  David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel  counselled against you.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and  they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of  them that was not gone over Jordan.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed,  he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his  city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and  was buried in the sepulchre of his father.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan,  he and all the men of Israel with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab:  which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that  went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's  mother.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that  Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir  the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat,  and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and  parched pulse,</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for  David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said,  The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='18'>
+    <verse no='1'>And David numbered the people that were with him, and set  captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds over them.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And David sent forth a third part of the people under the  hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of  Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the  Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with  you myself also.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we  flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will  they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore  now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will  do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by  hundreds and by thousands.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying,  Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all  the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning  Absalom.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>So the people went out into the field against Israel: and  the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of  David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty  thousand men.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the  country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword  devoured.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon  a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and  his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven  and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I  saw Absalom hanged in an oak.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou  sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I  would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a  thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine  hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee  and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man  Absalom.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own  life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself  wouldest have set thyself against me.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took  three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom,  while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about  and smote Absalom, and slew him.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from  pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the  wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel  fled every one to his tent.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for  himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no  son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his  own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear  the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this  day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt  bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast  seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But  howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said,  Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings  ready?</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>But howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him,  Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went  up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and  looked, and behold a man running alone.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king  said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace,  and drew near.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman  called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And  the king said, He also bringeth tidings.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the  foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king  said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And  he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said,  Blessed be the LORD thy God, which hath delivered up the men that  lifted up their hand against my lord the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And  Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy  servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And  he turned aside, and stood still.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord  the king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose  up against thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe?  And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise  against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over  the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my  son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son,  my son!</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='19'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth  for Absalom.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all  the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved  for his son.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city,  as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a  loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou  hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have  saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the  lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends.  For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes  nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and  all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto  thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will  not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee  than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto  all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all  the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his  tent.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes  of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies,  and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is  fled out of the land for Absalom.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle.  Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests,  saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to  bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is  come to the king, even to his house.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore  then are ye the last to bring back the king?</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my  flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the  host before me continually in the room of Joab.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the  heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return  thou, and all thy servants.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to  Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of  Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba  the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty  servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's  household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera  fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto  me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the  day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should  take it to his heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore,  behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go  down to meet my lord the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not  Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of  Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there  any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am  this day king over Israel?</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And  the king sware unto him.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king,  and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his  clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in  peace.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet  the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with  me, Mephibosheth?</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me:  for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon,  and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but  my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in  thine eyes.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>For all of my father's house were but dead men before my  lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat  at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more  unto the king?</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of  thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all,  forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own  house.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went  over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old:  and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim;  for he was a very great man.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me,  and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live,  that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between  good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I  hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore  then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king:  and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may  die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my  mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord  the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I  will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever  thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was  come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned  unto his own place.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with  him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the  people of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and  said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee  away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men  with him, over Jordan?</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because  the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this  matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath he given us  any gift?</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said,  We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David  than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be  first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah  were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='20'>
+    <verse no='1'>And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name  was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and  said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son  of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>So every man of Israel went up from after David, and  followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their  king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took  the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and  put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were  shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah  within three days, and be thou here present.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried  longer than the set time which he had appointed him.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri  do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and  pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And there went out after him Joab's men, and the  Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went  out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa  went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto  him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the  sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And  Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand:  so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to  the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai  his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that  favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And  when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out  of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw  that every one that came by him stood still.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went  on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and  to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together,  and went also after him.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and  they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and  all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I  pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou  Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words  of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time,  saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the  matter.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel:  thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou  swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me,  that I should swallow up or destroy.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the  son of Bichri by name, hath 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 shall be thrown to thee over  the wall.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>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 a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man  to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the  son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of  Ahilud was recorder:</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the  priests:</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='21'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then there was a famine in the days of David three years,  year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered,  It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the  Gibeonites.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now  the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant  of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and  Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and  Judah.)</verse>
+    <verse no='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 LORD?</verse>
+    <verse no='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 Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and  that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in  any of the coasts of Israel,</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will  hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose.  And the king said, I will give them.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the  son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between  David and Jonathan the son of Saul.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the  son of Barzillai the Meholathite:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and  they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven  together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first  days, in the beginning of barley harvest.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread  it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water  dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the  air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the  concubine of Saul, had done.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of  Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them  from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them,  when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in  the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father:  and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was  intreated for the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and  David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the  Philistines: and David waxed faint.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Ishbibenob, 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the  Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him,  saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench  not the light of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And it came to pass after this, that there was again a  battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew  Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines,  where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother  of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's  beam.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 number; and he also was born to the giant.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the  brother of David slew him.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the  hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='22'>
+    <verse no='1'>And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the  day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies,  and out of the hand of Saul:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my  deliverer;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield,  and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour;  thou savest me from violence.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so  shall I be saved from mine enemies.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly  men made me afraid;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death  prevented me;</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God:  and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into  his ears.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven  moved and shook, because he was wroth.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of  his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was  under his feet.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon  the wings of the wind.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters,  and thick clouds of the skies.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Through the brightness before him were coals of fire  kindled.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered  his voice.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and  discomfited them.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the  world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the  breath of his nostrils.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many  waters;</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that  hated me: for they were too strong for me.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD  was my stay.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered  me, because he delighted in me.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness:  according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly  departed from my God.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>For all his judgments were before me: and as for his  statutes, I did not depart from them.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from  mine iniquity.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my  righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with  the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the  froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are  upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my  darkness.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I  leaped over a wall.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is  tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our  God?</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my  high places.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is  broken by mine arms.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy  gentleness hath made me great.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did  not slip.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned  not again until I had consumed them.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could  not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that  rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I  might destroy them that hate me.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD,  but he answered them not.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I  did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people,  thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not  shall serve me.</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they  hear, they shall be obedient unto me.</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of  their close places.</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the  God of the rock of my salvation.</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the  people under me.</verse>
+    <verse no='49'>And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast  lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast  delivered me from the violent man.</verse>
+    <verse no='50'>Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the  heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.</verse>
+    <verse no='51'>He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy  to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='23'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse  said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of  Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my  tongue.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He  that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun  riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing  out of the earth by clear shining after rain.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with  me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this  is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to  grow.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust  away, because they cannot be taken with hands:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron  and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in  the same place.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The  Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was  Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he  slew at one time.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were  gone away:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was  weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great  victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And  the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece  of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it,  and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David  in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the  Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the  Philistines was then in Bethlehem.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink  of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the three mighty men brake through the host of the  Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by  the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would  not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do  this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their  lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three  mighty men.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was  chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred,  and slew them, and had the name among three.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their  captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man,  of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab:  he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of  snow:</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had  a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked  the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the  name among three mighty men.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not  to the first three. And David set him over his guard.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan  the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of  Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite,  Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to  Joab the son of Zeruiah,</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='24'>
+    <verse no='1'>And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel,  and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was  with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to  Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the  people.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto  the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes  of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight  in this thing?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and  against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host  went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the  right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and  toward Jazer:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi;  and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities  of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south  of Judah, even to Beersheba.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>So when they had gone through all the land, they came to  Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto  the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men  that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand  men.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the  people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I  have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of  thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD  came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee  three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall  seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee  three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that  there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what  answer I shall return to him that sent me.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall  now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me  not fall into the hand of man.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning  even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even  to Beersheba seventy thousand men.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to  destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel  that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the  angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that  smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done  wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray  thee, be against me, and against my father's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up,  rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the  Jebusite.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the  LORD commanded.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming  on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king  on his face upon the ground.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his  servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an  altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and  offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt  sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen  for wood.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king.  And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy  it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the  LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the  threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered  burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the  land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+</book>