A Loroswas kindled against these The three 2 SAMUEL, XXIV. plagues propounded. ND again a the anger of the B. C. 1017. thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies rael, and i he moved David against a ch.21.1. while they pursue thee? or that them to say, Go, b number Israel 1 Satan. there be three days' pestilence in and Judah. iCh.21.1, thy land ? Now advise, and see 2 For the king said to Joab the &c. what answer I shall return to him captain of the host, which was with Ja. 1.13,14. that sent me. him, ? Gonow through all the tribes b Ch.27.23, 14 And David said unto Gad, I am of Israel, from Dan even to Beer 21. in a great strait: let us fall now sheba, and number ye the people, into the hand of the LORD; (for his that I may know the number c of 2 or, Com mercies are 5 great :)p and let me the people. pass. not fall into o the hand of man. 3 And Joab said unto the king, c Jer. 17.5. 159 So the Lord sent a pestilence Now the LORD thy God add unto d Jos. 13.9,16. upon Israel, from the morning even the people, (how many soever they 3 or, valley. to the time appointed: and there be,) an hundred-fold, and that the died of the people from Dan even to eyes of my lord the king may see Nu.32.1,3. Beer-sheba seventy thousand men, it: but why doth my lord the king or, nether 16 And when the angel r stretched delight in this thing? land newly out his hand upon Jerusalem to 4 Notwithstanding the king's word inhabited.' destroy it, the LORD repented s him prevailed against Joab, and against f Ju.18.29. of the evil, and said to the angel the captains of the host. And Joab g Jos, 19.28. that destroyed the people, it is and the captains of the host went n 1Sa.24.5. enough:t stay now thine hand. out from the presence of the king, And the angel of the LORD was by to number the people of Israel. i ch.12.13. the threshing-place of Araunah is 51 And they passed over Jordan, k Ho.14.2. the Jebusite. and pitched in Aroer, d on the right i 1Sa. 13.13. 17 And David spake unto the LORD side of the city that lieth in the when he saw the angel that smoke midst of the 3 river of Gad, and to m 1Sa.22.5. the people, and said, Lo, I have v ward Jazer:e 1Ch.29.29. sinned, and I have done wickedly: 6 Then they came to Gilead, and n Le.26.41, but these sheep, w what have they to the 4 land of Tahtim-hodshi; 43. done? Let thine hand, I pray thee, and they came to Dan-jaan, f and o 1Ch.21.12. be against me, and against my fiabout to Zidon, 9 ther's house. 7 And came to the strong hold of 18 T And Gad came that day to Tyre, and to all the cities of the 5 or, many. David, and said unto him, Go ur, Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and rear an altar unto the LORD in the they went out to the south of Judah, P.P$.103:8; 14. threshing-floor of Arauuuh the 119.156. even to Beer-sheba. CXXXVI. Jebusite. 8 So when they had gone through 19 And David, according to the sajall the land, they came to Jerusa- 9 Ps. 106.41, 42. ing of Gad, went up as the LORD lem at the end of nine months and Is.47.6. commanded. twenty days. 20 And Araunah looked, and saw 9 And Joab gave up the sum of the r Ex. 12.23 the king and his servants coming number of the people unto the king: 18 Ps.90.13. on toward him: and Araunah weut and there were in Israel eight hun- 135.14. out, and bowed luimself before the dred thousand valiant men that t Is. 27.8. king on his face upon the ground. drew the sword; and the men of 57.16. 21 And Araunah said, Wherefore Judah were five hundred thousand Joel 2.13, is my lord the king come to his ser: men. 14. vant? And David said, To buy : 10 T And David's heart smote h u ver. 18. the threshing-floor of thee, to build him after that he had numbered iCh.21.15, an altar unto the Lord, that the the people. And David said unto Ornan, plague may be stayed y from the the LORD, Ii have sinned greatly 2Ch.3.1. people. in that I have done: and now, I v Ps.51.4. 22 And Araunalı said unto David, beseech thee, O Lord, take away k w Ps.74.1. Let my lord the king take and olier the iniquity of thy servant; for up what seemeth good unto him: have done very foolishly. 6 Araniah. behold, here be oxen z for purut11 For when David was up in the x Ge.23.8,16. sacritice, and threshing instruments morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, m Dato y Nu. 16.47- and other instruments of the oxeu 50. for wood. vid's seer, saying, 23 All these things did Araung, Z IKi. 19:21. 12 Go and say unto David, Thus as a king, a give unto the king, saith the LORD, I offer thee three a Ps.45.16. And Araunah said unto the king, things; choose n thee one of them, Rev. 1.6. The LORD thy God accept b thee. that I may do il unto thee. Job 42.8,9. 24 And the king said unto Arau. 13 So Gad came to David, and told Eze.20.10, nah, Nay; but I will surely bay him, and said unto him, Shall se 41. of thee at a price : neither will ven o years of famine come unto! offer burnt-offerings unto the LORD David builds an altar. my God of that which doth cost) B. C. 1017. Junto the LORD, and offered burntme nothing. So David bought the offerings and peace-offerings. So threshing-Hoor and the oxen for the LORD was entreated c for the fifty shekels of silver. c ch.21, 14. land, and the plague was stayed 25 And David built there an altar from Israel. The First Book of the KINGS, commonly called The Third Book of the KINGS. From the Creation, 2989.... Before Christ, 1015.... Year of David, 40. No was her not. were. CHAPTER I. B. C. 1015. Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon, by David's appointment, is Solomon his hrother, he called anointed king. I entered not. OW stricken in years, and they into days. il Wherefore Nathan spoke unto Bath-sheba the mother of Socovered him with clothes, but he a them seek. lomon, saying, Hast thou not heard gat no heat. 2 Wherefore his servants said un 3 a dansel, that Adonijah the son of Haggith to him, Let 2 there be sought for a virgin. doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not? my lord the king a young virgin : * be a che 12 Now therefore come, let me, I and let her stand before the king, risher untp. pray thee, give thee counsel, that and let her cherish him, and let thou mayest save thine own life, her lice in thy bosom, that my lord a 2Sam.3.4. and the life of thy son Solomon. the king may get heat. b Lu. 14.11. 13 Go and get thee in unto king 3 So they sought for a fair damsel David, and say unto him, Didst not throughout all the coasts of Israel, Steign. thou, my lord, o king, swear i unto and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. © 2Satr.15.1, thine handmaid, saying, Assured ly k Solomon thy son shall reign 4 And the damsel was very fair, 6 from his after me, and he shall sit upon my and cherished the king, and minis- days. throne? why then doth Adonijah tered to him: but the king knew This words reign? 14 Behold, while thou yet talkest 5 T Then Adonijah a the son of there with the king, I also will Haggith exalted himself, b saying, d ch.2.28. come in after thee, and 10 confirm I will 5 be king: and che prepared thy words. him chariots and horsemen, and 2Sa.20.25. 15 And Bath-sheba went in unta fifty men to run before him. 8 helped the king, into the chamber; and 6 And his father had not displeased the king was very old ; and Abishim 6 at any time in saying, Why Adonijah. (hag the Shunammite ministered hast thou done so? and he also unto the king. 1028 a very goodly man; and his f ch.4.18. 16 And Bath-sheba bowed, and did mother hare him after Absalom. & 28a,23.8, obeisance unto the king. And the 7 And 7 he conferred with Joab d &c. king said 11 What wouldest thou? the son of Zeruiah, and with Abia 17 And she said unto him, My lowing Adonijah, helped him. hare the priest; and they, 8 fol. 9 or, the well lord, thou swarest by the LORD Rogel, thy God unto thine handmaid, say8 But Zadok the priest, and Be. 2Sa, 17.17. ing, Assuredly Solomon thy son maah the son of Jehoiada, and Na- k2Sa, 12. 1,&c. shall reign after me, and he shall than the prophet, and Shimei, f and sit upon my throne: Rei, and the mighty men g which 18 And now, behold, Adonijah belonyed to David, were not with i ver.30. reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not: RiCh.22.6-13. 9 And Adonijah slew sheep and 19 And i he hath slain oxen and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of 10 fill up. fat cattle and sheep in abundance, Wheleth, which is by 9 En-ro- 11 What to and hath called all the sons of the gel, and called all his brethren the king, and Abiathar the priest, and thee king's sons, and all the men of Ju Joab the captain of the host : but dah the king's servants : 1 ver.7-9. Solomon thy servant hath he pot 10 But Nathan h the prophet, and called. 329 after Adonijah. king to me, Solomon anointed. 1 KINGS, 1. Adonijah's quests fty. 20 And thou, my lord, o king, the B. C. 1015. ye with the trumpet, and say, God eyes of all Israel are upon thee, save king Solomon. that thou shouldest tell them who 35 Then ye shall come up after shall sit on the throne of my lord m ch.2.10. him, that he may come and sit the king after him. 12 sinners. upon my throne; for he shall be 21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, king in my stead and I have apwhen my lord the king shall sleep m n ver. 19. pointed him to be ruler over Israel with his fathers, that I and my son 13 Let king and over Judah. Solomon shall be counted 12 of Adonijah 36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiafenders. live. da answered the king, and said, 22 T And, lo, while she yet talked Amen: w the LORD * God of my with the king, Nathan the propheto 1Sa. 10.24. lord the king say so too. also came in. 37 As v the LORD hath been with 23 And they told the king, saying, "4 before the my lorú the king, even so be he Behold Nathan the prophet. And with Solomon, and make his throne when he was come in before the p 2Sam.4.9. greater z than the throne of my king, he bowed himself before the lord king David. king with his face to the ground. q ver. 13,17. 38 So Zadok the priest, and Na24 And Nathan said, My lord, O r Ne.2.3. than the prophet, and Benaiah the king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall Dan.2.4. son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethreign after me, and he shall sit upon 5.10. ites, and the Pelethites, went down, my throne ? 6.21. and caused Solomon to ride upon 25 For n he is gone down this day, king David's mule, and brought s 2Sa.20.6. and hath slain oxen and fat cattle him to Gihon. and sheep in abundance, and hath 15 which be- 39 And Zadok the priest took an called all the king's sons, and the longeth horn of oil a out of the tabernacle, captains of the host, and Abiathar and b anointed Solomon. And they the priest ; and, behold, they eat Es.6.8. blew the trumpet; c and all the and drink before him, and say, 13 people said, God save king Solo t 2Ch.32.30. God save o king Adonijah. mon. 26 But me, even me thy servant, u ch.19.16. 40 And all the people came up after and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah 1Sa, 10.1. him; and the people piped with 16 the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant 16.3, 12. pipes, and rejoiced with great jos, Solomon, hath he not called. 2Sam.2.4. so that the earth rent with the 27 Is this thing done by my lord 5.3. sound of them. the king, and thou hast not showed 2Ki.9.3. 41 T And Adonijah and all the it unto thy servant, who should sit guests that were with him heard it on the throne of my lord the king Ps. 89,20,36. as they had made an end of eating.de after him? Is.45.1. And when Joab heard the sound 28 T Then king David answered 2Cor.1.21, of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore and said, Call me Bath-sheba. And 22. is this noise of the city being in an she came 14 into the king's pre uproar ? sence, and stood before the king. v 2Ki.9.13. 42 And while he yet spake, be29 And the king sware, and said, p hold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar As the LORD liveth, that hath re the priest came; and Adonijah said deemed my soul out of all distress, unto him, Come in; for e thou art 30 Even as I sware q unto thee by w Ps.72.19. a valiant man, and bringest good the LORD God of Israel, saying, As 2 1Ch.17.27. tidings. suredly Solomon thy son shall reign 43 Ănd Jonathan answered and after me, and he shall sit upon my y Jos.1.5, 17. said to Adonijah, Verily our lord throne in my stead ; even so will I z ver.47. king David hath made Solomon certainly do this day. Ps. 89.27. king. 31 Then Bath-sheba bowed with 44 And the king hath sent with her face to the earth, and did re-a Ex.30.23- him Zadok the priest, and Nathan verence to the king, and said, Letr 25. the prophet, and Benajah the son my lord king David live for ever. Ps. 89.20. of Jehojada, and the Cherethites, 32 T And king David said, Call me b ICh.29.22. and the Pelethites, and they have Zadok the priest, and Nathan the caused him to ride upon the king's prophet, and Benaialı the son of c 1Sa.10.24. mule : Jehoiada. And they came before 45 And Zadok the priest and Na; the king. 16 or, flutes. than the prophet have anointeủ 33 The king also said unto them, him king in Gihon: and they are Take with you the servants s of a Pr. 14. 13. come up from thence rejoicing, so your lord, and cause Solomon my Ec.7.46. that the city rang again. This is son to ride upon 15 mine own mule, the noise that ve have heard. e 2Sa. 18.27. and bring him down to Gihon :t 34 And let Zadok the priest and 46 And also Solomon sitieth f ou Nathan the prophet anoint u him fiCh.29.23. the throne of the kingdom. there king over Israel: and blow u 47 And moreover the king's ser vants came to bless our lord king 330 11.12. David's charge. David's death. David, saying, God g make the B. C. 2015. This loins, and in his shoes that were name of Solomon better than thy on his feet. name, and make his throne greater & ver.37. 6 Do therefore according m to thy than thy throne. And h the king h Ge.47.31. wisdom, and n let not his hoar heado bowed himself upon the bed. ich.3.6. 48 And also thus said the king, go down to the grave in peace. Ps.132.13 7 But show kindness unto the sons Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, 1; Ps: 129,5,6. of Barzillai p the Gileadite, and let which i hath given one to sit on my ni... 14.45. them be of those that eat at thy throne this day, mine eyes k even seeing it. Ac. 27.34. table: for so they came to me 49 And all the guests that were n Job 15.22, when I fled because of Absalom thy Pr. 13.6. brother. with Adonijah were afraid, and rose 21.12. 8 And, behold, thou hast with thee up, and went every man his way. o ch.2.21-25. Shimei'r the son of Gera, a Ben50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, a Ge.47.29. (CHAP. 2.) jamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a 4 grievous curse in the and caught I hold on the horns De.31.14. day when I went to Mahanaim : the altar. Job 7.1. huts he came down to meet me at 51 And it was told Solomon, say- Jos.23.14. Jordan, and I sware to him by the ing, Behold, Adonijah feareth king c Ps.89:48. LORD, saying, I will not put thee to Solomon : for, lo, he hath caught Heb.9.27. death with the sword. hold on the horns of the altar, say d Ec.12.13. 9 Now therefore hold t him not ing, Let king Solomon swear unto 1 Cor. 16.13. me today, that he will not slay his e Ps. 17. 18-20, guiltless : for thou art a wise man, De.29.9. and knowest what thou oughtest servant with the sword. 1 or, do to do unto him; but his hoar head 52 And Solomon said, If he will wisely, bring thou down to the grave with show himself a worthy man, therem 1Sa. 18.5, blood. shall not an hair of him fall to the 14,30. 10 So David slept u with his faeurth: but n if wickedness shall Ps. 132.12. thers, and was buried v in the city w be found in him, he shall die. O 23a.7.16. of David. 53 So king Solomon sent, and they 2 be cut off 11 And the days that David brought him down from the aitar. from the reigned over Israel were forty years: And he came and bowed himself from the to king Solomon; and Solomon turore. seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned said unto him, Go to thine house. i 252.19.5-7. he in Jerusalem, 12S4,2.10. 12 T Then y sat Solomon upon the David having yiven a charge to Solo put. throne of David his father, and his kingdom was established z greatly. a the days of David drew 13 T And Adonijah the son of Hagaugh gith came to Bath-sheba the mocharged Solomon his son, saying, n ver.31.34. ther of Solomon. And she said, 216 go the way of all c the earth : o Ge.42.38. Comest a thou peaceably? And he 44.31. p 2Sa. 19,31, said, Peaceably. 14 He said moreover, I have some3 And keep the charge of the r 28a, 16.5, what to say unto thee, And she LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, &c. said, Say on. to keep his statutes, and his com- 4 strong. 15 And he said, Thou knowest mandments, and his judgments, : 282.29. 18. that the kingdom was mine, b and and his testimonies, as it is writ- t Ex.20.7. that all Israel set their faces on me ten e is the law of Moses, that f Job 9.28. that I should reign : howbeit the thon mayest 1 prosper in all that u ch.1,21, kingdom is turned about, and is bethoudoest, and whithersoever thou Ac. 13.36. come my brother's; for it was his c timest thyself: v Acts 2.29, from the LORD. w 2Sam.5.1. 4 That the LORD may continue . 16 And now I ask one petition of his word which he spake concern- Ch.29.23. thee, 5 deny me not. And she said ing me, saying, Ify thy children 2Ch, 1.1. take heed to their way, to walk z Ps.72.8,&c. 17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, before me in truth with all their a 1 Sa.16.4,5. unto Solomon the king, (for he will heart anul with all their soul, there h b ch.1.5. not say thee nay.) that he give me shall not a fail thee (said he) a man c ICh.22.9. Abishag d the Shúnammite to wife. on the throne of Israel. Je.27.5.8. 18 And Bath-sheba said, Well; I 5 Moreover, thon knowest also Dan.2.21. will speak for thee unto the king. 5 what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to 5 tuurn not 19 Bath-sheba therefore went me, i and what he did to the two away my unto king Solomon, to speak unto face, captains of the hosts of Israel, unto hiyn for Adonijah. And the king Ps. 132.10. Abner k the son of Ner, and untod ch.1.3.4. rose e up to meet her, and f bowed Amasa l the son of Jether, whom a Cev.19.32. himself unto her, and sat down on ke slew, and 3 shed the blood of f Ex.20.12. his throne, and caused a seat to be war in peace, and put the blood of set for the king's mother, and she war upon kis girdle that was about 3 mom, dieth. & Ps.45.9. Isat on his right y hand. died. Adonijah put to death. 1 KINGS, II. Joab put to death 20 Then she said, I desire one) B. C. 1015. which Joab shed, v from me, and small petition of thee; I pray thee, from the house of my father. say me not nay. And the king said h ch.17. 32 And the LORD shall return w his unto her, Ask' on, my mother: for blood upon his own head, who fell I will not say thee nay. i 2Sa.3.35. upon two men more righteous and 21 And she said, Let Abishag the better x than he, and slew them A 2Sa.7.11.13. Shunammite be given to Adonijah with the sword, my father David thy brother to wife. I ch.1.52. not y knowing thereof, to wit, Abner 22 And king Solomon answered the son of Ner, z captain of the host and said unto his mother, And why m Jos.21.18. of Israel, and 'Amasaa the son of dost thou ask Abishag the Shunam-s a man of Jether, captain of the host of Jumite for Adonijah? ask for him the death. dah. kingdom also; (for he is mine elder 1Sa.26.16. 33 T'heir blood shall therefore rebrother:) even for him, and for turn upon the head of Joab, and Abiathar h the priest, and for Joab n 182.23.6. upon the head of his seed for the son of Zeruiah. 252.15.21, ever : but c upon David, and upon 23 Then king Solomon sware by 29. his seed, and upon his house, and the LORD, saying, God i do so to me, o 1Sa. 22.20- upon his throne, shall there be and more also, if Adonijah have 23. peace for ever d from the LORD. not spoken this word against his 34 So Benaiah the son of jehojada own life. p Sa.2.30-36. went up, and fell upon him, and 24 Now therefore, as the LORD q ch.1.7. slew hiin: and he was buried in liveth, which hath established me, his own house in the wilderness, and set me on the throne of David r De.32.35. 35 9 And the king put Benaiah my father, and who hath made me sch. 1.50. the son of Jehoiada in his roome an house, as hek promised, Adoni over the host: and Zadok f the jah shall be put to deathl this day. 1 Ex.21.14. priest did the king put in the room 25 And king Solomon sent by the Eze.9.6. of Abiathar.g hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoia- 1 Pet.4.17. 36 And the king sent and called da; and he fell upon him that he for Shimei, h and said unto him, u Nu.35.33. Build thee an house in Jerusalem, 26 T And unto Abiathar the priest De, 19.13. and dwell there, and go not forth said the king, Get thee to Ana 21.8,9. thence any whither. thoth, m unto thine own fields; for 37 For it shall be, that on the day thou art 5 worthy of death: but I thou goest out, and passest over will not at this time put thee to v ver.5. the brook Kidron, i thou shalt know death, because n thou barest the for certain that thou shalt surels ark of the Lord God before David w domu 9, 161,57. die : thy k blood shall be upon my father, and because thou hast thine own head. been afflicted o in all wherein my x 2 Ch.21.13. 38 And Shimei said unto the king, father was afflicted. The saying is good : as my lord the 27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar y 28a.3 37. king hath said, so will thy servant from being priest unto the LORD ; 2 28a.3 27. do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusathat he might fulfil the word of the lem many days. LORD, which he spake concerning p a 252.20.10. 39 And it came to pass at the end the house of Eli in Shiloh. b 2Sa.3.29. of three years, that two of the ser28 T Then tidings came to Joab: vants of Shimei ran away unto (for Joab had g turned after Adonic Pr.25.5. Achish l son of Maachah king of jah, though r he turned not after a Ps.89.36, Gath. And they told Shimei, sarAbsalom.) And Joab filed unto the 37. ing, Behold, thy servants be in Gath. tabernacle of the LORD, and caught Is.9.6,7. 40 And Shimei arose, and saddled s hold on the horns of the altar. 29 And it was told king Solomon his ass, and went to Gath to Achish e Job 34.24. to seek his servants: and Shimei that Joab was fled unto the taber-f Nu.25.11. went, and brought his servants nacle of the LORD; and, behold, he 13, frorn Gath. is by the altar. t Then Solomon 1Ch.6.53. 41 And it was told Solomon that sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, 24.3. Shimei had gone from Jerusalem saying, Go, fall upon him. to Gath, and was come again. 30 And Benaiah came to the ta- & ver.27. 1Sa.2.35. 42 And the king sent and called bernacle of the LORD, and said un for Shimei, and said unto him, Dad to him, Thus saith the king, Come h ver.8. I not make thee to swear by the forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought Lord, and protested unto thee, ser. i 2Sa. 15.23. the king word again, saying, Thusk Lev.20.9. ing, Know for a certain, on the day said Joab.and thus he answered me, thou goest out, and walkest abroad Jos.2.19. 31 And the king said unto him, Do any whither, that thou shalt sarely 2Sa.1.16. as he hath said, and fall upon him, die ? and thou saidst unto me. The and bury him; that u thou mayest i 1Sa.27.2. word that I have heard is good. take away the innocent blood, 13 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the com |