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18:17. And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the
forest, and they laid an exceeding great heap of stones upon him: but
all Israel fled to their own dwellings.

18:18. Now Absalom had reared up for himself, in his lifetime, a pillar,
which is in the king's valley: for he said: I have no son, and this
shall be the monument of my name. And he called the pillar by his own
name, and it is called the hand of Absalom, to this day.

No son... The sons mentioned above, chap. 14.27, were dead when this
pillar was erected: unless we suppose he raised this pillar before they
were born.

18:19. And Achimaas the son of Sadoc said: I will run and tell the king,
that the Lord hath done judgment for him from the hand of his enemies.

18:20. And Joab said to him: Thou shalt not be the messenger this day,
but shalt bear tidings another day: this day I will not have thee bear
tidings, because the king's son is dead.

18:21. And Joab said to Chusai: Go, and tell the king what thou hast
seen. Chusai bowed down to Joab, and ran.

18:22. Then Achimaas the son of Sadoc said to Joab again: Why might not
I also run after Chusai? And Joab said to him: Why wilt thou run, my
son? thou wilt not be the bearer of good tidings.

18:23. He answered: But what if I run? And he said to him: Run. Then
Achimaas running by a nearer way passed Chusai.

18:24. And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman that was on
the top of the gate upon the wall, lifting up his eyes, saw a man
running alone.

18:25. And crying out he told the king: and the king said: If he be
alone, there are good tidings in his mouth. And as he was coming apace,
and drawing nearer,

18:26. The watchman saw another man running, and crying aloud from
above, he said: I see another man running alone. And the king said: He
also is a good messenger.

18:27. And the watchman said: The running of the foremost seemeth to me
like the running of Achimaas the son of Sadoc. And the king said: He is
a good man: and cometh with good news.

18:28. And Achimaas crying out, said to the king: God save thee, O king.
And falling down before the king with his face to the ground, he said:
Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath shut up the men that have lifted
up their hands against the lord my king.

18:29. And the king said: Is the young man Absalom safe? And Achimaas
said: I saw a great tumult, O king, when thy servant Joab sent me thy
servant: I know nothing else.

18:30. And the king said to him: Pass, and stand here.

18:31. And when he had passed, and stood still, Chusai appeared and
coming up he said: I bring good tidings, my lord, the king, for the Lord
hath judged for thee this day from the hand of all that have risen up
against thee.

18:32. And the king said to Chusai: Is the young man Absalom safe? And
Chusai answering him, said: Let the enemies of my lord, the king, and
all that rise against him unto evil, be as the young man is.

18:33. The king therefore being much moved, went up to the high chamber
over the gate, and wept. And as he went he spoke in this manner: My son
Absalom, Absalom my son: would to God that I might die for thee, Absalom
my son, my son Absalom.

Would to God... David lamented the death of Absalom, because of the
wretched state in which he died: and therefore would have been glad to
have saved his life, even by dying for him. In which he was a figure of
Christ weeping, praying and dying for his rebellious children, and even
for them that crucified him.

2 Kings Chapter 19

David, at the remonstrances of Joab, ceaseth his mourning. He is invited
back and met by Semei and Miphiboseth: a strife between the men of Juda
and the men of Israel.

19:1. And it was told Joab, that the king wept and mourned for his son:

19:2. And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the
people: for the people heard say that day: The king grieveth for his
son.

19:3. And the people shunned the going into the city that day as a
people would do that hath turned their backs, and fled away from the
battle.

19:4. And the king covered his head, and cried with a loud voice: O my
son Absalom, O Absalom my son, O my son.

19:5. Then Joab going into the house to the king, said: Thou hast shamed
this day the faces of all thy servants, that 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.

19:6. Thou lovest them that hate thee, and thou hatest them that love
thee: and thou hast shewn this day that thou carest not for thy nobles,
nor for thy servants: and I now plainly perceive that if Absalom had
lived, and all we had been slain, then it would have pleased thee.

19:7. Now therefore arise, and go out, and speak to the satisfaction of
thy servants: for I swear to thee by the Lord, that if thou wilt not go
forth, there will not tarry with thee so much as one this night: and
that will be worse to thee, than all the evils that have befallen thee
from thy youth until now.

19:8. Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all
the people that the king sat in the gate: and all the people came before
the king, but Israel fled to their own dwellings.

19:9. And all the people were at strife in all the tribes of Israel,
saying: The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he
saved us out of the hand of the Philistines: and now he is fled out of
the land for Absalom.

19:10. But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in the battle: how
long are you silent, and bring not back the king?

19:11. And king David sent to Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests, saying:
Speak to the ancients of Juda, saying: Why are you the last to bring the
king back to his house? (For the talk of all Israel was come to the king
in his house.)

19:12. You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you
the last to bring back the king?

19:13. And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do
God to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army
before me always in the place of Joab.

19:14. And he inclined the heart of all the men of Juda, as it were of
one man: and they sent to the king, saying: Return thou, and all thy
servants.

19:15. And the king returned and came as far as the Jordan, and all Juda
came as far as Galgal to meet the king, and to bring him over the
Jordan.

19:16. And Semei the son of Gera the son of Jemini of Bahurim, made
haste and went down with the men of Juda to meet king David,

19:17. With a thousand men of Benjamin, and Siba the servant of the
house of Saul: and his fifteen sons, and twenty servants were with him:
and going over the Jordan,

19:18. They passed the fords before the king, that they might help over
the king's household, and do according to his commandment. And Semei the
son of Gera falling down before the king, when he was come over the
Jordan,

19:19. Said to him: Impute not to me, my lord, the iniquity, nor
remember the injuries of thy servant on the day that thou, my lord, the
king, wentest out of Jerusalem, nor lay it up in thy heart, O king.

19:20. For I thy servant acknowledge my sin: and therefore I am come
this day the first of all the house of Joseph, and am come down to meet
my lord the king.

19:21. But Abisai the son of Sarvia answering, said: Shall Semei for
these words not be put to death, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?

19:22. And David said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia?
why are you a satan this day to me? shall there any man be killed this
day in Israel? do not I know that this day I am made king over Israel?

19:23. And the king said to Semei: Thou shalt not die. And he swore unto
him.

19:24. And Miphiboseth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and
he had neither washed his feet, nor trimmed his beard: nor washed his
garments from the day that the king went out, until the day of his
return in peace.

19:25. And when he met the king at Jerusalem, the king said to him: Why
camest thou not with me, Miphiboseth?

19:26. And he answering, said: My lord, O king, my servant despised me:
for I thy servant spoke to him to saddle me an ass, that I might get on
and go with the king: for I thy servant am lame.

19:27. Moreover he hath also accused me thy servant to thee, my lord the
king: but thou my lord the king art as an angel of God, do what pleaseth
thee.

19:28. For all of my father's house were no better than worthy of death
before my lord the king; and thou hast set me thy servant among the
guests of thy table: what just complaint therefore have I? or what right
to cry any more to the king?

19:29. Then the king said to him: Why speakest thou any more? what I
have said is determined: thou and Siba divide the possessions.

19:30. And Miphiboseth answered the king: Yea, let him take all,
forasmuch as my lord the king is returned peaceably into his house.

19:31. Berzellai also the Galaadite coming down from Rogelim, brought
the king over the Jordan, being ready also to wait on him beyond the
river.

19:32. Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great age, that is to say,
fourscore years old, and he provided the king with sustenance when he
abode in the camp: for he was a man exceeding rich.

19:33. And the king said to Berzellai: Come with me that thou mayest
rest secure with me in Jerusalem.

19:34. And Berzellai said to the king: How many are the days of the
years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

19:35. I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern
sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I
hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy
servant be a burden to my lord, the king?

19:36. I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee:
I need not this recompense.

19:37. But I beseech thee let thy servant return, and die in my own
city, and be buried by the sepulchre of my father, and of my mother. But
there is thy servant Chamaam, let him go with thee, my lord, the king,
and do to him whatsoever seemeth good to thee.

19:38. Then the king said to him: Let Chamaam go over with me, and I
will do for him whatsoever shall please thee, and all that thou shalt
ask of me, thou shalt obtain.

19:39. And when all the people and the king had passed over the Jordan,
the king kissed Berzellai, and blessed him: and he returned to his own
place.

19:40. So the king went on to Galgal, and Chamaam with him. Now all the
people of Juda had brought the king over, and only half of the people of
Israel were there.

19:41. Therefore all the men of Israel running together to the king,
said to him: Why have our brethren the men of Juda stolen thee away, and
have brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men
of David with him?

19:42. And all the men of Juda answered the men of Israel: Because the
king is nearer to me: why art thou angry for this matter? have we eaten
any thing of the king's, or have any gifts been given us?

19:43. And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said: I have
ten parts in the king more than thou, and David belongeth to me more
than to thee: why hast thou done me a wrong, and why was it not told me
first, that I might bring back my king? And the men of Juda answered
more harshly than the men of Israel.

2 Kings Chapter 20

Seba's rebellion. Amasa is slain by Joab. Abela is besieged, but upon
the citizens casting over the wall the head of Seba, Joab departeth with
all his army.

20:1. And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was
Seba, the son of Bochri, a man of Jemini: and he sounded the trumpet,
and said: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai:
return to thy dwellings, O Israel.

20:2. And all Israel departed from David, and followed Seba the son of
Bochri: but the men of Juda stuck to their king from the Jordan unto
Jerusalem.

20:3. And when the king was come into his house at Jerusalem, he took
the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and
put them inward, allowing them provisions: and he went not in unto them,
but they were shut up unto the day of their death living in widowhood.

20:4. And the king said to Amasa: Assemble to me all the men of Juda
against the third day, and be thou here present.

20:5. So Amasa went to assemble the men of Juda, but he tarried beyond
the set time which the king had appointed him.

20:6. And David said to Abisai: Now will Seba the son of Bochri do us
more harm than did Absalom: take thou therefore the servants of thy
lord, and pursue after him, lest he find fenced cities, and escape us.

20:7. So Joab's men went out with him, and the Cerethi and the Phelethi:
and all the valiant men went out of Jerusalem to pursue after Seba the
son of Bochri.

20:8. And when they were at the great stone which is in Gabaon, Amasa
coming met them. And Joab had on a close coat of equal length with his
habit, and over it was girded with a sword hanging down to his flank, in
a scabbard, made in such manner as to come out with the least motion and
strike.

20:9. And Joab said to Amasa: God save thee, my brother. And he took
Amasa by the chin with his right hand to kiss him.

20:10. But Amasa did not take notice of the sword, which Joab had, and
he struck him in the side, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and
gave him not a second wound, and he died. And Joab, and Abisai his
brother pursued after Seba the son of Bochri.

20:11. In the mean time some men of Joab's company stopping at the dead
body of Amasa, said: Behold he that would have been in Joab's stead the
companion of David.

20:12. And Amasa imbrued with blood, lay in the midst of the way. A
certain man saw this that all the people stood still to look upon him,
so he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and covered him
with a garment, that they who passed might, not stop on his account.

20:13. And when he was removed out of the way, all the people went on
following Joab to pursue after Seba the son of Bochri.

20:14. Now he had passed through all the tribes of Israel unto Abela and
Bethmaacha: and all the chosen men were gathered together unto him.

Abela and Bethmaacha... Cities of the tribe of Nephtali.

20:15. And they came, and besieged him in Abela, and in Bethmaacha, and
they cast up works round the city, and the city was besieged: and all
the people that were with Joab, laboured to throw down the walls.

20:16. And a wise woman cried out from the city: Hear, hear, and say to
Joab: Come near hither, and I will speak with thee.

20:17. And when he was come near to her, she said to him: Art thou Joab?
And he answered: I am. And she spoke thus to him: Hear the words of thy
handmaid. He answered: I do hear.

20:18. And she again said: A saying was used in the old proverb: They
that inquire, let them inquire in Abela: and so they made an end.

20:19. Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to
destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou
throw down the inheritance of the Lord?

20:20. And Joab answering said: God forbid, God forbid that I should, I
do not throw down, nor destroy.

20:21. The matter is not so, but a man of mount Ephraim, Seba the son of
Bochri by name, hath lifted up his hand against king David: deliver him
only, and we will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab:
Behold his head shall be thrown to thee from the wall.

20:22. So she went to all the people, and spoke to them wisely: and they
cut off the head of Seba the son of Bochri, and cast it out to Joab. And
he sounded the trumpet, and they departed from the city, every one to
their home: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

20:23. So Joab was over all the army of Israel: and Banaias the son of
Joiada was over the Cerethites and Phelethites,

20:24. But Aduram over the tributes: and Josaphat the son of Ahilud was
recorder.

20:25. And Siva was scribe: and Sadoc and Abiathar, priests.

20:26. And Ira the Jairite was the priest of David.

2 Kings Chapter 21

A famine of three years, for the sin of Saul against the Gabaonites, at
whose desire seven of Saul's race are crucified. War again with the
Philistines.

21:1. And there was a famine in the days of David for three years
successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord
said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slow the
Gabaonites.

21:2. Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites, said to them: (Now the
Gabaonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remains of the
Amorrhites: and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul
sought to slay them out of zeal, as it were for the children of Israel
and Juda:)

21:3. David therefore said to the Gabaonites: What shall I do for you?
and what shall be the atonement or you, that you may bless the
inheritance of the Lord?

21:4. And the Gabaonites said to him: We have no contest about silver
and gold, but against Saul and against his house: neither do we desire
that any man be slain of Israel. And the king said to them: What will
you then that I should do for you?

21:5. And they said to the king: The man that crushed us and oppressed
us unjustly, we must destroy in such manner that there be not so much as
one left of his stock in all the coasts of Israel.

21:6. Let seven men of his children be delivered unto us, that we may
crucify them to the Lord in Gabaa of Saul, once the chosen of the Lord.
And the king said: I will give them.

21:7. And the king spared Miphiboseth the son of Jonathan the son of
Saul, because of the oath of the Lord, that had been between David and
Jonathan the son of Saul.

21:8. So the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom
she bore to Saul, Armoni, and Miphiboseth: and the five sons of Michol
the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Hadriel the son of Berzellai,
that was of Molathi:

Of Michol... They were the sons of Merob, who was married to Hadriel:
but they are here called the sons of Michol, because she adopted them,
and brought them up as her own.

21:9. And gave them into the hands of the Gabaonites: and they crucified
them on a hill before the Lord: and these seven died together in the
first days of the harvest, when the barley began to be reaped.

21:10. And Respha the daughter of Aia took haircloth, and spread it
under her upon the rock from the beginning of the harvest, till water
dropped upon them out of heaven: and suffered neither the birds to tear
them by day, nor the beasts by night.

21:11. And it was told David, what Respha the daughter of Aia, the
concubine of Saul, had done.

21:12. And David went, and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of
Jonathan his son from the men of Jabes Galaad, who had stolen them from
the street of Bethsan, where the Philistines had hanged them when they
had slain Saul in Gelboe.

21:13. And he brought from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of
Jonathan his son, and they gathered up the bones of them that were
crucified,

21:14. And they buried them with the bones of Saul, and of Jonathan his
son in the land of Benjamin, in the side, in the sepulchre of Cis his
father: and they did all that the king had commanded, and God shewed
mercy again to the land after these things.

21:15. And the Philistines made war again against Israel, and David went
down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. And
David growing faint,

21:16. Jesbibenob, who was of the race of Arapha, the iron of whose
spear weighed three hundred ounces, being girded with a new sword,
attempted to kill David.

21:17. And Abisai the son of Sarvia rescued him, and striking the
Philistine killed him. Then David's men swore unto him saying: Thou
shalt go no more out with us to battle, lest thou put out the lamp of
Israel.

21:18. There was also a second battle in Gob against the Philistines:
then Sobochai of Husathi slew Saph of the race of Arapha of the family
of the giants.

21:19. And there was a third battle in Gob against the Philistines, in
which Adeodatus the son of the Forrest an embroiderer of Bethlehem slew
Goliath the Gethite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

Adeodatus the son of the Forrest... So it is rendered in the Latin
Vulgate, by giving the interpretation of the Hebrew names, which are
Elhanan the son of Jaare.

21:20. A fourth battle was in Geth: where there was a man of great
stature, that had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot,
four and twenty in all, and he was of the race of Arapha.

21:21. And he reproached Israel: and Jonathan the son of Samae the
brother of David slew him.

21:22. These four were born of Arapha in Geth, and they fell by the hand
of David, and of his servants.

2 Kings Chapter 22

King David's psalm of thanksgiving for his deliverance from all his
enemies.

22:1. And David spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day
that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out
of the hand of Saul,

22:2. And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my saviour.

22:3. God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the horn
of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou
wilt deliver me from iniquity.

22:4. I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised: and I shall
be saved from my enemies.

22:5. For the pangs of death have surrounded me: the floods of Belial
have made me afraid.

22:6. The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.

22:7. In my distress I will call upon the Lord, and I will cry to my
God: and he will hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shall come
to his ears.

22:8. The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the mountains
were moved, and shaken, because he was angry with them.

22:9. A smoke went up from his nostrils, and a devouring fire out of his
mouth: coals were kindled by it.

22:10. He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his
feet.

22:11. And he rode upon the cherubims, and flew: and slid upon the wings
of the wind.

22:12. He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out
of the clouds of the heavens.

22:13. By the brightness before him, the coals of fire were kindled.

22:14. The Lord shall thunder from heaven: and the most high shall give
forth his voice.

22:15. He shot arrows and scattered them: lightning, and consumed them.

22:16. And the overflowings of the sea appeared, and the foundations of
the world were laid open at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the
spirit of his wrath.

22:17. He sent from on high, and took me, and drew me out of many
waters.

22:18. He delivered me from my most mighty enemy, and from them that
hated me: for they were too strong for me.

22:19. He prevented me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became
my stay.

22:20. And he brought me forth into a large place, he delivered me,
because I pleased him.

22:21. The Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to
the cleanness of my hands he will render to me.

22:22. Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.

22:23. For all his judgments are in my sight: and his precepts I have
not removed from me.

22:24. And I shall be perfect with him: and shall keep myself from my
iniquity.

22:25. And the Lord will recompense me according to my justice: and
according to the cleanness of my hands in the sight of his eyes.

22:26. With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant
perfect.

22:27. With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou
wilt be perverted.

22:28. And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou shalt
humble the haughty.

22:29. For thou art my lamp O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my
darkness.

22:30. For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the
wall.

22:31. God, his way is immaculate, the word of the Lord is tried by
fire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.

22:32. Who is God but the Lord: and who is strong but our God?

22:33. God who hath girded me with strength, and made my way perfect.

22:34. Making my feet like the feet of harts, and setting me upon my
high places.

22:35. He teacheth my hands to war: and maketh my arms like a bow of
brass.

22:36. Thou hast given me the shield of my salvation: and thy mildness
hath multiplied me.

22:37. Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and my ankles shall not
fail.

22:38. I will pursue after my enemies, and crush them: and will not
return again till I consume them.

22:39. I will consume them and break them in pieces, so that they shall
not rise: they shall fall under my feet.

22:40. Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them
that resisted me to bow under me.

22:41. My enemies thou hast made to turn their back to me: them that
hated me, and I shall destroy them.

22:42. They shall cry, and there shall be none to save: to the Lord, and
he shall not hear them.

22:43. I shall beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I shall
crush them and spread them abroad like the mire of the streets.