2 Samuel Cross References - MLV

¹ And it happened after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and David had abode two days in Ziklag, ² it happened on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes torn and earth upon his head. And so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the ground and bowed-down.
³ And David said to him, From where did you come? And he said to him, I escaped out of the camp of Israel. ⁴ And David said to him, How did the matter go? I beseech you, tell me. And he answered, The people are fled from the battle and many of the people also are fallen and dead and Saul and Jonathan his son are also dead. ⁵ And David said to the young man who told him, How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?
⁶ And the young man who told him said, As I happened by chance upon Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning upon his spear, and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed close after him. ⁷ And when he looked behind him, he saw me and called to me. And I answered, Here I am. ⁸ And he said to me, Who are you? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite. ⁹ And he said to me, I beseech you, stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.
¹⁰ So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after 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 here to my lord.
¹¹ Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them and likewise all the men who were with him. ¹² And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening, for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of Jehovah and for the house of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.
¹³ And David said to the young man who told him, From where are you? And he answered, I am the son of a traveler, an Amalekite. ¹⁴ And David said to him, Why were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Jehovah's anointed? ¹⁵ And David called one of the young men and said, Go near and fall upon him. And he killed* him so that he died. ¹⁶ And David said to him, Your blood be upon your head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain Jehovah's anointed.
¹⁷ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son ¹⁸ (and he commanded them teach the sons of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
¹⁹ Your glory, O Israel, is slain upon your high places! How are the mighty fallen! ²⁰ Do not tell it not in Gath, proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. ²¹ You* mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain upon you*, neither fields of offerings, for there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
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. ²³ Saul and Jonathan, men who were loved and pleasant, undivided; handsome in their lives and undivided in their death; swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
²⁴ You* daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you* delicately in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold upon your* apparel. ²⁵ How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon your high places.
²⁶ I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, exceeding the love of women. ²⁷ How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished!

⁶ Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day. Therefore Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day.

¹⁷ And David killed* them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. And there escaped not a man of them, except four hundred young men who rode upon camels and fled.
¹⁸ And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken and David rescued his two wives. ¹⁹ And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them; David brought back all.
²⁰ And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle and said, This is David's spoil. ²¹ And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide at the brook Besor. And they went forth to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. And when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
²² Then answered all the wicked men and worthless fellows of those who went with David and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil that we have recovered except to every man his wife and his children that he may lead them away and depart.
²³ Then David said, You* will not do so, my brothers, with what Jehovah has given to us, who has preserved us and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand. ²⁴ And who will listen to you* in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle so will his share be who remains by the baggage; they will share alike. ²⁵ And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.
²⁶ And when David came to Ziklag, he sent from the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold, a present for you* from the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah:

⁶ So Saul died and his three sons and his armor bearer and all his men, that same day together.

⁴ On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off.

⁷ For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright. And behold, your* sheaves came all around and bowed-down to my sheaf.
⁸ And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words.
⁹ And he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers. And said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream again. And behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing-down to me.
¹⁰ And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow-down ourselves to you to the earth?

²⁹ And Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he tore his clothes,

³⁴ And Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth upon his loins and mourned for his son many days.

²⁸ And they said, Your servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And they bowed the head and then bowed-down to him.

⁶ And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of Jehovah until the evening, he and the elders of Israel and they put dust upon their heads.

¹² And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt upon his head.

¹⁶ And the man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army and I fled today out of the army. And he said, How did the matter go, my son?

⁴¹ And as soon as the lad had gone, David arose out of a place toward the South and fell on his face to the ground and bowed himself three times. And they kissed each other and wept one with another until David surpassed him.

²³ And when Abigail saw David, she hastened and alighted from her donkey and fell before David on her face and bowed herself to the ground.

¹⁰ when he who told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.

⁴ And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and bowed-down and said, Help, O king.

³² And it happened, that, when David came to the top of the ascent, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn and dirt upon his head.

¹⁶ Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan and fast you* for me and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I also and my maidens will fast in like manner. And so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law. And if I perish, I perish.

¹ Now it happened on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel and stood in the inner court of the king's house, opposite the king's house. And the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, opposite the entrance of the house.

³ Say to God, How awesome are your works! Through the greatness of your power your enemies will submit themselves to you.

² After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up and we will live before him.

¹³ And tear your* heart and not your* garments and turn to Jehovah your* God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and relents of the evil.

⁴⁰ for just-as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea-creature; so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

²¹ Jesus began to show to his disciples from then on, that it is essential for him to go to Jerusalem and to suffer many things from the elders and high-priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to arise in the third day.

⁹ Behold, I give those from the synagogue of the Adversary, those who say they are themselves Jews and they are not, but are lying, behold, I will make them in order that they should come and should worship in the sight of your feet and should know that I have loved you.

²⁵ But he went in and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, From where did you come, Gehazi? And he said, Your servant went nowhere.

¹⁵ and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away. Yes, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword and only I alone have escaped to tell you.
¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, there came also another and said, The fire of God fell from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them and only I alone have escaped to tell you.
¹⁷ While he was yet speaking, there came also another and said, The Chaldeans made three bands and fell upon the camels and have taken them away, yes and slain the servants with the edge of the sword and only I alone have escaped to tell you.
¹⁸ While he was yet speaking, there came also another and said, Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house. ¹⁹ And behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness and killed* the four corners of the house and it fell upon the young men and they are dead and only I alone have escaped to tell you.

¹ Now the Philistines fought against Israel. And the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell down slain in Mount Gilboa.
² And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi shua, the sons of Saul. ³ And the battle went severely against Saul and the archers overtook him and he was greatly distressed because of the archers.
⁴ Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell upon it.
⁵ And when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword and died with him. ⁶ So Saul died and his three sons and his armor bearer and all his men, that same day together.

¹ Now the Philistines fought against Israel. And the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell down slain in Mount Gilboa. ² And the Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons. And the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. ³ And the battle went hard against Saul and the archers overtook him. And he was wounded because of the archers.
⁴ Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell upon it. ⁵ And when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword and died. ⁶ So Saul died and his three sons. And all his house died together.

¹⁵ A simple man believes every word, but the prudent man looks well to his going.

² It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

³ And she went and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers. And her chance was to land on the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

⁹ And watch. If it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, then he has done to us this great evil, but if not, then we will know that it is not his hand that killed* us; it was a chance that happened to us.

⁴ And the Philistines gathered themselves together and came and encamped in Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel together and they encamped in Gilboa.

¹ Now the Philistines fought against Israel. And the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell down slain in Mount Gilboa.
² And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi shua, the sons of Saul. ³ And the battle went severely against Saul and the archers overtook him and he was greatly distressed because of the archers.
⁴ Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell upon it.
⁵ And when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword and died with him. ⁶ So Saul died and his three sons and his armor bearer and all his men, that same day together.
⁷ And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities and fled. And the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

²¹ You* mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain upon you*, neither fields of offerings, for there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

³¹ But by coincidence, a certain priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he evaded him.

⁵⁴ Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer and said to him, Draw your sword and kill me, that men not say of me, A woman killed him. And his young man thrust him through and he died.

¹² And Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.

⁶ And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and bowed-down. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold, your servant!

⁸ And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then I said, Behold, send me.

¹ I was manifested by those who did not ask for me. I am found by those who did not seek me. I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

⁷ And they returned and came to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh) and killed* all the country of the Amalekites and also the Amorites, who dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.

⁸ Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. ⁹ And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us out men and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand. ¹⁰ So Joshua did as Moses had said to him and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
¹¹ And it happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. ¹² But Moses' hands were heavy. And they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side and the other on the other side. And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. ¹³ And Joshua weakened Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
¹⁴ And Jehovah said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. ¹⁵ And Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi. ¹⁶ And he said, Jehovah has sworn, Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

²⁰ And he looked on Amalek and took up his oracle and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end will come to destruction.

¹⁷ Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you* came forth out of Egypt, ¹⁸ how he met you by the way and killed* the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary and he did not fear God. ¹⁹ Therefore it will be, when Jehovah your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You will not forget.

³ Now go and kill* Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not, but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing-baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

⁸ And David and his men went up and made a raid upon the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites, for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.

¹ And it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid upon the South and upon Ziklag and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire,

¹³ And David said to him, To whom do you belong? And from where are you? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite. And my master left me because three days ago I fell sick.

¹⁷ And David killed* them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. And there escaped not a man of them, except four hundred young men who rode upon camels and fled.

⁷ And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.

¹⁸ And the king said to Doeg, Turn and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned and he fell upon the priests and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod.

⁴ Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell upon it.
⁵ And when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword and died with him.

³⁰ And he took the crown of their king from his head. And the weight of it was a talant of gold and in it were precious stones. And it was set on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, exceedingly much.

¹² Then he brought out the king's son and put the crown upon him and gave him the testimony. And they made him king and anointed him. And they clapped their hands and said, Live, O king.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.

² For in what judgment you judge, you will be judged and in what measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

³¹ And David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, Tear your* clothes and gird yourselves with sackcloth and mourn before Abner. And king David followed the funeral.

³¹ Then the king arose and tore his garments and lay on the earth and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

¹⁴ But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard it, they ripped their garments and dashed into the crowd, crying out

¹⁵ Ready to rejoice with the ones rejoicing and to weep with the ones weeping.

³⁵ And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day, but David swore, saying, God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, till the sun is down.

¹³ But as for me, when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting and my prayer returned into my own bosom. ¹⁴ I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as he who weeps for his mother.

¹⁷ Rejoice not when your enemy falls and do not let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

¹ Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

⁶ who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the chief oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

⁴⁴ But I am saying to you, Love^*\'b0 your enemies, speak well of those who curse you, do good things to those who hate you and pray on behalf of those who are railing at you and are persecuting you.

²⁹ Who is weak and I am not weak? Who is offended and I am not on fire?

⁸ Now to the end, all be like-minded, sympathetic, loving the brethren, affectionate, friendly;

⁸ And he said to me, Who are you? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.

⁸ With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly and not in dark speeches and he has beheld the form of Jehovah. Why then were you* not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

⁶ And he said to his men, Jehovah forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Jehovah's anointed, to put forth my hand against him, since he is Jehovah's anointed.

⁹ And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not, for who can put forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed and be guiltless?

⁴ Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell upon it.

¹⁵ saying, Touch not my anointed men and do my prophets no harm.

¹⁰ and especially those who are conducting-themselves after the flesh in the lust of defilement and while despising lordship. Daring and self-willed, they are not trembling when blaspheming heavenly glories;

²⁰ And he said to Jether his firstborn, Up and kill them. But the youth did not draw his sword, for he feared because he was yet a youth.

¹⁷ And the king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn and kill the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Jehovah.
¹⁸ And the king said to Doeg, Turn and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned and he fell upon the priests and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod.

¹⁰ when he who told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
¹¹ How much more, when evil men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your* hand and take you* away from the earth?
¹² And David commanded his young men and they killed them and cut off their hands and their feet and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

²⁵ And king Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and he fell upon him so that he died.

³⁴ Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him and killed him. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

⁴⁶ So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And he went out and fell upon him so that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

¹⁸ A wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness has a sure reward.

⁵ And surely I will require your* blood, the blood of your* lives. I will require it at the hand of every beast. And I will require the life of man at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother. ⁶ Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man. For in the image of God he made man.

⁹ For he who curses his father or his mother will surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood will be upon him.

¹¹ And the man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them will surely be put to death, their blood will be upon them.
¹² And if a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them will surely be put to death. They have worked perversion. Their blood will be upon them.
¹³ And if a man lies with a man, as with a woman, both of them have committed abomination. They will surely be put to death; their blood will be upon them.

¹⁶ And if a woman approaches to any beast and lies down with it, you will kill the woman and the beast. They will surely be put to death; their blood will be upon them.

²⁷ A man or also a woman who has a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, will surely be put to death. They will stone them with stones; their blood will be upon them.

¹⁰ that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance and so blood be upon you.

¹⁹ And it will be, that whoever will go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be upon his head and we will be guiltless. And whoever will be with you in the house, his blood will be on our head if any hand be upon him.

²⁴ that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come and that their blood might be laid upon Abimelech their brother who killed them and upon the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

¹⁰ So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after 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 here to my lord.

²⁸ And afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before Jehovah until everlasting of the blood of Abner the son of Ner. ²⁹ Let it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house. And let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.

³² And Jehovah will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword and my father David did not know it, namely, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
³³ So will their blood return upon the head of Joab and upon the head of his seed everlasting. But to David and to his seed and to his house and to his throne, there will be peace everlasting from Jehovah.

³⁷ For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die; your blood will be upon your own head.

⁶ Your own mouth condemns you and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

² you are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the words of your mouth.

¹³ has given forth upon interest and has taken increase, will he then live? He will not live. He has done all these abominations. He will surely die. His blood will be upon him.

⁵ He heard the sound of the trumpet and took no warning; his blood will be upon him. But if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.

²⁵ And all the people answered and said, His blood is upon us and upon our children.

²² But he says to him, I will be judging you out of your own mouth, you evil bondservant. You knew that I am an austere man, lifting up from what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

²⁶ because I testify to you on this very day, that I am clean from the blood of all men.

¹⁹ Now we know how-much, as many things as the law says, it is speaking to those in the law; in order that every mouth may be sealed and all the world may become under the sentence of God;

¹¹ And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

¹⁹ Your glory, O Israel, is slain upon your high places! How are the mighty fallen!

²⁵ And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. And all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel, and behold, they are written in the lamentations.

¹⁷ Jehovah of hosts says thus, Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come and send for the skillful women, that they may come. ¹⁸ And let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters. ¹⁹ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
²⁰ Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O you* women and let your* ear receive the word of his mouth and teach your* daughters wailing and each one her neighbor lamentation.
²¹ For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces, to cut off the sons from outside, the young men from the streets.

⁸ Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before you.

¹⁰ the day that you stood before Jehovah your God in Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, Assemble the people to me and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth and that they may teach their sons.

¹³ And the sun stood still and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Is this not written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a whole day.

⁷ For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them, as Jehovah our God is whenever we call upon him? ⁸ And what great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you* this day?

⁸ And it happened on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in Mount Gilboa.

²³ Saul and Jonathan, men who were loved and pleasant, undivided; handsome in their lives and undivided in their death; swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

²⁵ How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon your high places.

²⁷ How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished!

² In that day the branch of Jehovah will be beautiful and glorious and the fruit of the land will be excellent and glory for those who have escaped from Israel.

² For he grew up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. And when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

¹ How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down the beauty of Israel from heaven to the earth and has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

⁷ So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly the poor of the flock. And I took to me two staves, the one I called Beauty and the other I called Bands and I fed the flock.

¹⁰ And I took my staff Beauty and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

²⁰ And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. ²¹ And Miriam answered them, Sing to Jehovah, because he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

²⁶ I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men, ²⁷ were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should recognize, lest they should say, Our hand is exalted and Jehovah has not done all this.

³⁴ And Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances. And she was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

¹⁹ And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him and he went down to Ashkelon and killed* thirty men of them and took their spoil and gave the changes of garments to those who declared the riddle. And his anger was kindled and he went up to his father's house.

²³ And the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice, for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. ²⁴ And when the people saw him, they praised their god, for they said, Our god has delivered into our hand our enemy and the destroyer of our country who has slain many of us.

²⁶ And David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What will be done to the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?

³⁶ Your servant killed* both the lion and the bear and this uncircumcised Philistine will be as one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.

⁶ And it happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy and with instruments of music.

⁸ And it happened on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in Mount Gilboa.
⁹ And they cut off his head and stripped off his armor and sent into the land of the Philistines all around to carry the news to the house of their idols and to the people.

²⁷ Behold therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you and have diminished your portion and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

⁵⁷ before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria and of all who are all around her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you all around.

¹⁰ Do not tell it in Gath. Weep not at all. I have rolled myself in the dust at Beth-le-aphrah.

²³ Curse you* Meroz, said the messenger of Jehovah. Curse bitterly the inhabitants of it, because they did not come to the help of Jehovah, to the help of Jehovah against the mighty.

¹ Then Samuel took the vial of oil and poured it upon his head and kissed him and said, Is it not that Jehovah has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

¹ Now the Philistines fought against Israel. And the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell down slain in Mount Gilboa.

¹ Now the Philistines fought against Israel. And the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell down slain in Mount Gilboa.

⁸ And it happened on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in Mount Gilboa.

³ Let the day perish in which I was born and the night which said, There is a male-child conceived.
⁴ Let that day be darkness. Do not let God from above seek for it, nor let the light shine upon it. ⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it. ⁶ As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. ⁷ Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come in it.
⁸ Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. ⁹ Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, nor let it behold the eyelids of the morning. ¹⁰ Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

⁶ And I will lay it waste. It will not be pruned nor hoed, but there will come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

⁵ They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink. Rise up, you* rulers, anoint the shield.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day in which I was born. Do not let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A male-child is born to you, making him very glad. ¹⁶ And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew and did not relent. And let him hear a cry in the morning and shouting at noontime,

¹⁵ The lord Jehovah says thus: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him. And I restrained the rivers of it and the great waters were stayed. And I caused Lebanon to mourn for him and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

⁹ The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah. The priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.

¹⁴ Who knows whether he will not turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Jehovah your* God?

⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my sword will devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.

⁶ And Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Jehovah will work for us, for there is no limitation to Jehovah to save by many or by few. ⁷ And his armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart. Turn and behold, I am with you according to your heart.
⁸ Then Jonathan said, Behold, we will pass over to the men and we will disclose ourselves to them. ⁹ If they say thus to us, Abide until we come to you*, then we will stand still in our place and will not go up to them. ¹⁰ But if they say thus, Come up to us, then we will go up, for Jehovah has delivered them into our hand and this will be the sign to us.
¹¹ And both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves. ¹² And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer and said, Come up to us and we will show you* a thing. And Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me, for Jehovah has delivered them into the hand of Israel.
¹³ And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet and his armor bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan and his armor bearer killed them after him.
¹⁴ And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.

⁴ And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him and gave it to David and his apparel, even to his sword and to his bow and to his belt.

⁶ The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood. It is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams, for Jehovah has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. ⁷ And the wild oxen will come down with them and the bullocks with the bulls. And their land will be drunken with blood and their dust made fat with fatness.

⁴⁹ Jehovah will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose tongue you will not understand,

¹⁸ And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you* had not plowed with my heifer, you* would not have found out my riddle.

¹ And it happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

² And he said to him, Far from it. You will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.

¹ Now the Philistines fought against Israel. And the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell down slain in Mount Gilboa.
² And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi shua, the sons of Saul. ³ And the battle went severely against Saul and the archers overtook him and he was greatly distressed because of the archers.

¹⁸ And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel. And Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.

²⁰ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

⁸ And of the Gadites there separated themselves to David to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and they were as swift as the roes upon the mountains:

²⁶ They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

³⁰ The lion, which is mightiest among beasts and turns not away from any,

¹³ Behold, he will come up as clouds and his chariots as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

¹⁹ Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens. They chased us upon the mountains. They laid wait for us in the wilderness.

³⁰ Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A maiden, two maidens to every man, to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, a spoil of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?

¹² Kings of armies fled quickly and she who remained at home divided the spoil.

²¹ She is not afraid of the snow for her household, because all her household are clothed with scarlet.

¹⁶ Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go and making a tinkling with their feet, ¹⁷ therefore the Lord will kill* with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.
¹⁸ In that day, the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets and the hair nets and the crescents, ¹⁹ the pendants and the bracelets and the mufflers, ²⁰ the bonnets and the ankle chains and the sashes and the perfume-boxes and the amulets, ²¹ the rings and the nose-jewels, ²² the festival robes and the cloaks and the shawls and the satchels, ²³ the hand-mirrors and the fine linen and the turbans and the veils.
²⁴ And it will happen, that instead of sweet spices there will be rottenness and instead of a belt, a rope and instead of well set hair, baldness and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth, branding instead of beauty. ²⁵ Your men will fall by the sword and your mighty in the war. ²⁶ And her gates will lament and mourn and she will be desolate and sit upon the ground.

³² Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

⁹ Likewise also, the women to adorn themselves in a respectable array, with modesty and self-discipline; not in hair braids or gold or pearls or costly garments; ¹⁰ but with what is suitable to women professing godliness through good works.

³ whose adornment, do not let it be the outward adornment of braiding the hair, and of placing on of gold things or of clothing of expensive garments; ⁴ but let it be the hidden human things of the heart, in the incorruptible clothing of a meek and quiet spirit, which is greatly-valued in God’s sight. ⁵ For so, the holy women, those also hoping in God, were previously adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands;

¹⁸ Zebulun was a people who jeopardized their lives to the death and Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.

¹³ And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet and his armor bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan and his armor bearer killed them after him.
¹⁴ And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land. ¹⁵ And there was a trembling in the camp, in the field and among all the people. The garrison and the spoilers, they also trembled. And the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling.

¹ And it happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. ² And Saul took him that day and would no more let him go home to his father's house.
³ Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. ⁴ And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him and gave it to David and his apparel, even to his sword and to his bow and to his belt.

² And Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, I beseech you, take heed to yourself in the morning and abide in a secret place and hide yourself.

¹⁷ And Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him. For he loved him as he loved his own soul.

¹⁶ And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David into the forest and strengthened his hand in God.

¹² And Elisha saw it and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen of it! And he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

¹⁴ Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died. And Joash the King of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen of it!

⁹ He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two. He burns the chariots in the fire.

⁹ And those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go forth and will make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows and the hand staves and the spears. And they will make fires of them seven years, ¹⁰ so that they will take no wood out of the field, nor cut down any out of the forests, for they will make fires of the weapons. And they will plunder those who plundered them and rob those who robbed them, says the lord Jehovah.