1 Samuel, in The Douay Old Testament (1609–1610)

The book that Protestant Bibles call 1 Samuel and the Douay, after the Vulgate, calls the First Book of Kings: Heli, Samuel, Saul, and the rise of David. This is 1 Samuel as it stands in the first tome of the Douay Old Testament (Doway: Laurence Kellam, 1609), the English College of Douai’s Catholic translation from the Latin Vulgate, in its original spelling. The page gives the edition’s Argument of the book, every chapter with its printed summary, the verse text and the marginal notes and the Annotations.

THE ARGVMENT OF THE BOOKES OF KINGES AND PARALIPPOMENON IN GENERAL.

AFTER the booke of Iudges (wherunto Ruth is annexed) rightly folow the bookes of Kinges: ſignifying that after the general Iudgement cometh the euerlaſting Kingdome. As venerable Beda expoundeth this connexion [Margin: qq̄. in 1. Reg. c. 1.] [Margin: Theſe hiſtories are alſo expounded myſtically by the ancient Fathers.] of bookes, wherin he alſo explicateth manie other Myſteries of Chriſt & the Church praefigured in theſe hiſtories. Likewiſe S. Gregorie teacheth that beſides [Margin: Prolog⟨illegible⟩ in 1. Reg. li. 17. c. 4. ciuit. Ep. ad Paulin.] the hiſtorical & moral ſenſe expreſſed in the ſimplicitie of the letter, an other myſtical vnderſtanding is to be ſought the height of the Allegorie. In confirmation wherof he citeth S. Auguſtin and S. Hierom; who ſay, that Elcana his two wiues ſignified the Synagogue of the Iewes, and the Church of Chriſt: & that the death of Heli & Saul, with tranſlation of Prieſthood to Samuel and Sadoch, and of the Kingdome, to Dauid and his Succeſſors, praefigured the new Prieſthood, and new Kingdome of Chriſt the old ceaſing which were shadowes therof. So theſe two great Doctors S. Gregorie and S. Beda, inſiſting in the ſteppe of other lerned holie Fathers, that had gone before them, expound theſe hiſtories not only hiſtorically but alſo myſtically. The hiſtorie firſt ſetteth forth the changing of the forme of gouernment [Margin: The general contents of al the bookes of Kinges & Para lippomenon.] from Iudges to Kinges: and then at large what Kinges did reigne ouer the Hebrew people, as wel in one intire Realme, as ouer the ſame people diuided into two kingdomes; their more principal Actes; their good and euil behauiour; alſo the proſperitie, declinations, and final captiuities of both the Kingdomes. Al which is conteined in foure bookes of Kinges, with other two partly repeting that was ſaied before, but eſpecially ſupplying thinges omitted in the whole ſacred hiſtorie from the beginning of the world, called Paralippomenon. The two first are alſo called the Bookes of Samuel, though he writ not [Margin: Samuel writ the firſt part, but vncertaine who writ the reſt.] one of them wholly, for he died before the hiſtorie of the former ended; but they goe both vnder his name, becauſe he annointed the two firſt Kinges, and writ a great part of their Actes. Wherto the reſt was added either by Dauid and Salomon, as ſome thinke, or by Nathan and Gad, as is probably gathered, 1. Paralip. 29. v. 29. The authors alſo of the third and fourth bookes of Kinges, and of the two of Paralippomenon are vncertaine; yet al haue euer bene receiued and held for Canonical Scripture.

THE ARGVMENT OF THE FIRST BOOKE OF KINGES.

THIS firſt booke may be diuided into foure partes. Firſt are recorded the [Margin: Cōtents of the firſt booke, diuided into foure partes.] gouernmētes of Heli & Samuel, with the occaſions of changing the ſtate of that commonwealth into a Kingdome▪ in the eight firſt Chapters, Secondly, the election and gouernment of Saul their firſt King. from the 9. chap. to the 16. Thirdly, Dauids annointing, his vertues, trubles, and perſecutions. from the 16. chap. to the 28. Fourthly, the ruine of Saul and exaltation of Dauid. in the foure laſt Chapters.

THE FIRST BOOKE OF SAMVEL, WHICH WE CAL THE FIRST OF KINGES.

Chapter 1

CHAP. I. Elcana hauing two wiues, the one called Anna, is barren, and for the ſame [Margin: Theſe bookes are read at Mattins from the feaſt of the B Trinitie vntil the firſt ſundaie of Auguſt.] is repro⟨illegible⟩hed by the other, called Phenenna. 9. Anna voweth, and prayeth for a man child, 19. conceiueth and beareth a ſonne, calleth him Samuel: 24. and preſenteth him to the ſeruice of God in Silo.

1 THERE was a man of Ramathaimſophim, of mount Ephraim, & his name Elcana, the ſonne of Ieroham, the ſonne of Eliu, the ſonne of Thohu, the ſonne of Suph, an Ephraite:

2 and he had two wiues, the name of one was Anna, and the name of the ſecond Phenenna. Phenenna had children: but Anna had not children.

3 And that man went vp from his citie vpon ordinarie dayes, to adore and ſacrifice vnto the Lord of hoſtes in Silo. And there were the two ſonnes of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, prieſtes of our Lord.

4 The day came therfore, & Elcana immolated, and gaue to Phenenna his wife, & to al her ſonnes and daughters partes:

5 but to Anna he gaue one part with heauie cheere, becauſe he loued Anna. And our Lord had ſhut her matrice.

6 Her aduerſarie alſo afflicted her, and vexed her ſore, in ſo much that ſhe vp brayded her, that our Lord had ſhut her matrice:

7 and ſo did she euerie yeare, when the time returned, that they went vp to the temple of our Lord: and ſo ſhe prouoked her: moreouer she wept, and tooke not meat.

8 Elcana therfore her huſband ſaid to her: Anna, why weepeſt thou? and why doeſt thou not eate? and wherfore doeſt thou afflict thy hart? Am not I better to thee, then tenne children?

9 And Anna aroſe after she had eaten and drunke in Silo. And Heli the prieſt ſitting vpon a Stoole before the poſtes of the houſe of our Lord,

10 wheras Anna had a heauie hart, she praied to our Lord, weeping aboundantly,

11 and she vowed a vowe, ſaying: O Lord of hoſtes, if regarding thou wilt behold the affliction of thy ſeruant, and wilt be mindeful of me, and not forgette thy handmaide, and wilt geue vnto thy ſeruant a man childe: I [::] wil geue him to our Lord al the daies of his life, & the raſour shal not come vpon his head.

12 And it came to paſſe, when she multiplied praiers before our Lord, that Heli obſerued her mouth.

13 Moreouer Anna ſpake in her hart, and onlie her lippes moued, and voice there was not heard at al. Heli therfore thought her to be drunke,

14 and ſayd to her: How long wilt thou be drunke? digeſt a litle the wyne, wherwith thou art wette.

15 Anna anſwering, Not ſo, quoth she, my lord: for I am an exceding vnhappie woman, and wine and whatſoeuer may inebriate, I haue not drunke, but I haue powred out my ſoule in the ſight of our Lord.

16 Account not thy handmaide as one of the daughters of Belial: for of the multitude of my ſorrow and heauines haue I ſpoken vntil this preſent.

17 Then Heli ſaied to her: Goe in peace: and the God of Iſrael geue thee thy petition, which thou haſt asked him.

18 But she ſayd: Would God thy handmaide may find grace in thyne eyes. And the woman went on her way, and did eate, and her countenance was no more changed otherwiſe.

19 And they roſe in the morning, and adored before our Lord: and they returned, & came into their houſe to Ramatha. And Elcana knew Anna his wife: and our Lord remembred her.

20 And it came to paſſe after a certaine compaſſe of dayes, Anna conceiued & bare a ſonne, and called his name Samuel: becauſe she asked him of our Lord.

21 And Elcana her husband went vp, and al her houſe, to immolat vnto our Lord the ſolemne hoſte, and his vowe,

22 and Anna went not vp: for she ſayd to her huſband: I wil not goe til the infant be weaned, and til I may bring him, that he may appeare before the ſight of our Lord, and may remayne there continually.

23 And Elcana her huſband ſayd to her: Doe that which ſeemeth good to thee, and tarie til thou weane him: and I pray that our Lord fulfil his word. The woman therfore taried, and gaue her ſonne ſucke, til she remoued him from the milke.

24 And she brought him with her, after she had weaned him, with three calues, & three buſhels of meale, and a flagon of wine, and she brought him to the houſe of our Lord in Silo. But the childe was yet a litle infant:

25 and they immolated a calfe, and offered the childe to Heli.

26 And Anna ſaid: I beſech thee my lord, thy ſoule liueth my lord: I am that woman, which ſtoode before thee here praying our Lord.

27 For this childe did I pray, and our Lord hath geuen me my petition, which I asked him.

28 Therfore I alſo haue geuen him to our Lord al the daies, which he shal liue, that he may be applied to our Lord. And they adored our Lord there. And Anna prayed, and ſayd:

Marginal notes to Chapter 1

• 1 The firſt part. Of the gouernments of Heli and Samuel: and of changing the ſtate into a kingdome.
• 11 [::] This childe being of the tribe of Leui, though not of Aarons ſtock, was lawfully vowed to the ſeruice of the tabernacle, by his parentes during his childhood, but coming to yeares of diſcretion he was at his owne electiō to continew, or to depart. If he had bene of anie other tribe, he muſt haue bene redemed. Leuit. 27.

Chapter 2

CHAP. II. Anna geueth thankes in a Canticle. 11. the ſonnes of▪ Heli greuouſly ſinning are reprehended, but not duly corected, by their father. 21. Anna beareth three ſonnes more, and two daughters. 27. Heli is threatned, 34. and the death of his two ſonnes fortold.

1 MY hart hath reioyſed in our Lord, and my horne is exalted in my God: my mouth is dilated vpon myn enemies: becauſe I haue ioyed in thy ſaluation.

2 There is none holie as our Lord is: for neither is there an other beſide thee, and there is none ſo ſtrong as out God.

3 Doe not multiplie to ſpeake high thinges, boaſting: [::] let old matters depart from your mouth: becauſe our Lord is a God of al knowlege, and to him cogitations are prepared.

4 The bow of the ſtrong men is ouercome, and the weake are girded with ſtrength.

5 They that before were filled haue hyred out them ſelues for bread: and the hungrie are filled, vntil [::] the barren woman bare verie manie: and [::] she that had manie children, was weakened.

6 Our Lord mortifieth and quickeneth, bringeth downe to hel and fetcheth backe agayne.

7 Our Lord maketh poore and enricheth, humbleth and lifteth vp.

8 He rayſeth the needie man from the duſt, and from the dung he lifteth vp the poore: that he may ſitte with princes, and hold the throne of glorie. For the poles of the earth are our Lords, and vpon them he hath ſette the world.

9 The feete of his Saintes he wil keepe, and the impious shal be ſilent in darknes: becauſe in his owne force man ſhal not be ſtrengthned.

10 Our Lord shal his aduerſaries feare: and vpon them shal he thunder in the heauens: our Lord s⟨illegible⟩al iudge the endes of [::] the Earth, and shal geue empire to his king, and shal exalt the horne of his Chriſt.

11 And Elcana went into Ramatha, vnto his houſe: but the childe miniſtered in the ſight of our Lord before the face of Heli the prieſt.

12 Moreouer the ſonnes of Heli, were the ſonnes of Belial, not knowing our Lord,

13 nor the office of prieſtes to the people: but whoſoeuer had immolated a victime, the ſeruant of the prieſt came, whiles the flesh was in boyling, and had a flesh hooke with three teeth in his hand,

14 and thruſt it into the kettle, or into the caudron, or into the potte, or into the panne: and al, that the flesh hooke brought vp, the prieſt tooke to him ſelfe. ſo did they to al Iſrael that came into Silo.

15 Yea before they burnt the fatte, the ſeruant of the prieſt came, and ſayd to him that immolated: Geue me flesh, that I may boyle it for the prieſt: for I wil not take flesh of thee ſodde, but raw.

16 And he that immolated ſayd to him: Let the fatte firſt be burnt to day according to the maner, and take vnto thee how much ſoeuer thy ſoule deſireth. Who anſwering ſaid to him: Not ſo: for thou shalt geue it now, or els I wil take it away by force.

17 Therfore the ſinne of the yong men was exceding great before our Lord: becauſe men detracted from the ſacrifice of our Lord.

18 But Samuel miniſtred before the face of our Lord: a child, girded with an ephod of linnen.

19 And his mother made him a litle tunike, which she brought vpon the ordinarie daies, going vp with her husband, to immolate the ſolemne hoſt.

20 And Heli bleſſed Elcana and his wife: and he ſaied to him: Our Lord render thee ſeede of this woman, for the vſurie that thou haſt geuen our Lord. And they went into their place.

21 Our Lord therfore viſited Anna, and she conceiued, and bare three ſonnes, and two daughters: and the childe Samuel was magnified before our Lord.

22 And Heli was very old, and heard al thinges which his ſonnes did to al Iſrael: and how they ſlept with the wemen that wayted at the doore of the tabernacle:

23 and he ſayd to them: Why doe you theſe kinde of thinges, which I heare, very naughtie thinges, of al the people?

24 Doe not ſo my ſonnes: for it is not a good report, which I doe heare, that you make the people of our Lord to tranſgreſſe.

25 If man shal ſinne againſt man, God may be pacified toward him: but if a man ſhal ſinne againſt our Lord [::] who ſhal pray for him? And they heard not the voice of their father, [::] becauſe our Lord would kil them.

26 But the childe Samuel proſpered, and grew, and pleaſed both our Lord and men.

27 And there came a man of God to Heli, and ſaid to him: Thus ⟨illegible⟩ayth our Lord: Was not I openly reueled to thy fathers houſe, when they were in Aegypt in the houſe of Pharao?

28 and I choſe him of al the tribes of Iſrael for my prieſt, that he might aſcend to my altar, and burne to me incenſe, and might carie the ephod before me: and I gaue to thy fathers houſe al thinges of the ſacrifices of the children of Iſrael.

29 Why haue you with your heele reiected my victime, and my giftes which I commanded to be offered in the temple: and haſt rather honoured thy ſonnes then me, that you would eate the firſt fruites of euerie ſacrifice of Iſrael my people?

30 Therfore ſayeth our Lord the God of Iſrael: Speaking I ſpeake that thy houſe, and the houſe of thy father should miniſter in my ſight, for euer. But now ſayeth our Lord: Be this farre from me: but whoſoeuer ſhal glorifie me I wil glorifie him: and they that contemne me, ſhal be baſe.

31 Behold the daies come: and I wil cut of thy arme, and the arme of thy fathers houſe, that there may not be an old man in thy houſe.

32 And thou ſhalt ſee [::] whom thou enuieſt in the temple, in al proſperities of Iſrael and there ſhal not be an old man in thy houſe for euer.

33 Notwithſtanding I wil not altogether take away a man of thee from myn altar: but that thyne eyes may fayle, and thy ſoule melt: and a great part of thy houſe ſhal die when it is come to mans age.

34 And this shal be a ſigne to thee, which shal come vpon thy two ſonnes, Ophni, and Phinees: In one day they shal both die▪

35 And I wil rayſe vp vnto me a faithful prieſt, which ſhal doe according to my hart, and my ſoule: and I wil build him a faythful houſe▪ and the ſame shal walke before my Chriſt al daies.

36 And it shal come to paſſe, that whoſoeuer shal remayne in thy houſe, shal come that he may be prayed for, and shal offer a peece of ſiluer, and a manchet of bread, and shal ſay: Leaue me I beſech thee to one prieſtly part, that I may eate a morſel of bread.

Marginal notes to Chapter 2

• 1 The Canticle at Laudes on weneſday.
• 3 [::] Leaue of to praiſe idoles, as ye haue accuſtomed to doe.
• 5 [::] The Church of Gentiles.
• 5 [::] The Synagogue of the Iewes. S. Aug. li. 17. c. 4. cini⟨illegible⟩.
• 10 [::] Neither Dauid no⟨illegible⟩ Salomon, much l⟨illegible⟩ſſ⟨illegible⟩ an⟨illegible⟩ other King, poſſened or ⟨illegible⟩udged the endes of the ta⟨illegible⟩th: but ⟨illegible⟩ts enheritance reacheth to the endes of the earth. Pſal. 2. v. 18.
• 25 [::] Sinnes directly againſt God, and that hinder his ſeruice, are more hardly remitted: but none at al a⟨illegible⟩e irremiſſible before death, becauſe during life euerie one may truly repent, if he wil: and to al true penitētes God promiſſeth remiſſion of ſinnes Ezech. 33.
• 25 [::] Gods determination to puniſh tooke not away their freewil, but for their obſtinacie he leift them to themſelues, without his grace, and ſo iuſtly puniſhed them. See S. Aug. li. 5. cont. Iulian. c. 3.
• 32 [::] This was fulfilled as in the figure in Samuel, not wholly, for prieſthood ſtil remained in the line of Aaron, as appeareth in Achias, Abiathar & Sadoc. ch. 14. 22. & 2▪ Reg. 8. but perfectly in Chriſt 1. Reg. c. 2.

Chapter 3

CHAP. III. Samuel thriſe called vpon in ſleepe by viſion from God, repaireth to Heli, 10. the fourth time our Lord reueleth to him the euil, that shal fall to Heli, and his houſe. 16. Which he, being requeſted, declateth to Heli.

1 AND the childe Samuel miniſtred to our Lord before Heli, and the word of our Lord was [::] precious in thoſe daies, there was no viſion manifeſt.

2 It came to paſſe therfore on a certayne day Heli lay in his place, and his eies were become dimme, neither could he ſee.

3 [::] before the lampe of God was extinguished, Samuel ſlept in the temple of our Lord, where the arke of God was.

4 And our Lord called Samuel. Who anſwering, ſaid: Loe here I am.

5 And he ranne to Heli and ſaid: Loe here I am: for thou didſt cal me. Who ſaied: I did not cal thee: returne and ſleepe. And he went and ſlept.

6 And our Lord added againe to cal Samuel. And Samuel ryſing vp went to Heli, and ſaid: Loe here I am: becauſe thou didſt cal me. Who anſwered: I did not cal thee my ſonne: returne and ſleepe.

7 Moreouer Samuel did not yet know our Lord, neither had the word of our Lord beene reueled to him.

8 And our Lord added, and called Samuel yet the third time. Who ryſing vp went to Heli,

9 and ſaid: Loe here I am: becauſe thou didſt cal me. Heli therfore vnderſtood that our Lord called the childe, and ſaid to Samuel: Goe, & ſleepe: & if he shal cal the hereafter, thou shalt ſaie: Speake Lord, for thy ſeruant heareth. Samuel therfore went & ſlept in his place.

10 And our Lord came, and ſtoode: and he called, as he had called twiſe, Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel ſayd: Speake Lord for thy ſeruant heareth.

11 And our Lord ſaid to Samuel: Behold I doe a thing in Iſrael: which whoſoeuer shal heare, both his eares shal tingle.

12 In that day wil I rayſe vp againſt Heli al thinges which I haue ſpoken touching his houſe: I wil beginne, and accomplish it.

13 For I haue foretold him that I would iudge his houſe for euer, becauſe of iniquitie, for that he knewe that his ſonnes did wickedly, and hath not corrected them.

14 Therfore haue I ſworne to the houſe of Heli, that the iniquitie of his houſe can not be expiated with victimes and giftes for euer.

15 And Samuel ſlept vntil morning, and opened the doores of the houſe of our Lord. And Samuel feared to tel the viſion vnto Heli.

16 Heli therfore called Samuel, and ſaid: Samuel my ſonne: Who anſwering, ſaid: Here I am.

17 And he asked him: What is the word, that our Lord hath ſpoken to thee? I beſech thee conceale it not from me. Theſe thinges doe God to thee, and theſe doe he adde, if thou shalt hide from me a word of al the wordes, which were ſaid to thee.

18 Samuel therfore told him al the wordes, & did not hide them from him. And he anſwered: It is our Lord: let him doe that which is good in his eies.

19 And Samuel grewe, and our Lord was with him, and there fel not of his wordes vpon the ground.

20 And al Iſrael knewe from Dan to Berſabee, that faithful Samuel was the prophet of our Lord.

21 And our Lord added to appeare in Silo, becauſe our Lord had bene reueled to Samuel in Silo, according to the word of our Lord. And the word of Samuel came to paſſe to al Iſrael.

Marginal notes to Chapter 3

• 1 [::] Rare thinges are called precious, and ſo the gift of prophecie is here termed, which was then granted to few.
• 3 [::] This viſion happened early in the morning, before the time of dreſſing the lampes, when ſome were put out and others light.

Chapter 4

CHAP. IIII. The Iſraelites are beaten in batle by the Philiſthijms. 3. VVho for their better protection and comfort, fetch the Arke of God into the campe: 10. but are beaten againe, the Arke taken, and with manie others the two ſonnes of Heli are ſlaine. 13. Al which Heli vnderſtanding falleth from his ſeate, and breaketh his neck: 19. alſo his daughter in law preſently traueling of childe is deliuered of a ſonne.

1 AND it came to paſſe in thoſe daies, the Philiſthijms aſſembled together to fight: and Iſrael went forth to meete the Philiſthims into battle, & camped beſide the Stone of helpe. Moreouer the Philiſthijms came into Aphec,

2 and put their armie in aray againſt Iſrael. And after they had ioyned battle, Iſrael turned their backes to the Philiſthims: and there were ſlaine in the fight here and there through the fieldes, as it were foure thouſand men.

3 And the people returned to the campe: and the ancientes of Iſrael ſaid: Why hath our Lord ſtricken vs to day before the Philiſthijms? [::] Let vs fetch vnto vs the arke of the couenant of our Lord from Silo, and let it come into the middes of vs, that it may ſaue vs from the hand of our enemies.

4 The people therefore ſent into Silo, and they tooke from thence the arke of the couenant of the Lord of hoſtes ſitting vpon the Cherubims: and the two ſonnes of Heli were with the arke of the couenant of God, Ophni and Phinees.

5 And when the arke of the couenant of our Lord was come into the campe, al Iſrael made a ſhoute with a great crie, and the earth ſounded.

6 And the Philiſthims heard the voice of the crie, and ſaid: What is this voice of a great crie in the campe of the Hebrewes? And they knewe that the arke of our Lord was come into the campe.

7 And the Philiſthijms were afrayd, ſaing: God is come into the campe. And they mourned, ſaing:

8 Woe to vs: for there was not ſo great reioyſing yeſterday and the day before: woe to vs. Who ſhal keepe vs from the hand of theſe high Goddes? theſe be the Goddes, that ſtricke Aegypt with al plague, in the deſert.

9 Take courage, and be men, ye Philiſthijms: leſt you be ſeruantes to the Hebrewes, as they alſo haue ferued you: take courage and fight.

10 The Philiſthijms therfore fought, and Iſrael was ſlaine, and euerie man fled into his tabernacle: and there was made an exeeding great plague: and there fel of Iſrael thirtie thouſand footemen.

11 And the arke of God was taken: the two ſonnes alſo of Heli died, Ophni and Phinees.

12 And a man of Beniamin running out of the battle aray, came into Silo that day, his garment rent, and ſprinkled on his head with duſt.

13 And when he was come, Heli ſate vpon a ſtoole ouer againſt the way looking. For his hart was fearful for the arke of God. And that man after he was entred in, told it to the citie: and al the citie howled.

14 And Heli heard the ſound of the crie, and ſaid: What is this ſound of this ſame tumult? But he haſtened, and came, and told Heli.

15 And Heli was nintie and eight yeares old, and his eyes were dimme, and he could not ſee.

16 And he ſaid to Heli: I am he that came from the battle, and I he that fled out of the field this day. To whom he ſaid: What is done my ſonne?

17 And he brought the newes anſwering: Iſrael, quoth he, is fled before the Philiſthijms, and a great ruine is made in the people: moreouer alſo thy two ſonnes are dead, Ophni and Phinees: and the arke of God is taken.

18 And when he had [::] named the arke of God, he fel from his ſtoole backward beſide the doore, & his necke being broken he died. For he was an old man, and of a great age: and he iudged Iſrael fourtie yeares.

19 And his daughter in law, the wife of Phinees was great with childe, and nigh to be deliuered: and hearing the reporte that the arke of God was taken, and her father in law was dead, and her huſband, she bowed her ſelf and was deliuered: for ſudden paynes were fallen vpon her.

20 And in the very moment of her death, they ſaid to her that ſtoode about her: Feare not becauſe thou haſt borne a ſonne. Who anſwered them not, nor gaue heede to it.

21 And she called the childe Ichabod, ſaing: The glorie is tranſlated from Iſrael, becauſe the arke of God is taken, and for her father in law, and for her huſband;

22 and she ſaid: The glorie is tranſlated from Iſrael, for that the arke of God was taken.

Marginal notes to Chapter 4

• 3 [::] Their confidence of helpe from God, by preſence of the arke was good and commendable, but their ſinnes deſerued to be puniſhed.
• 18 [::] This zele of religion in Heli towards the arke, is a great ſigne that he died in good ſtate though he was temporally puniſhed for not correcting his ſonnes.

Chapter 5

CHAP. V. Dagon falleth downe twiſe in preſence of the Arke, his head and handes broken of. 6. The Philiſthijms being ſore plagued in al their cities where the arke cometh, 11. determine to ſend it backe to the Iſraelites.

1 AND the Philiſtijms tooke the arke of God, and caried it from the Stone of helpe into Azotus.

2 And the Philiſtijms tooke the arke of God, and brought it into the temple of Dagon, and ſette it beſide Dagon.

3 And when the Azotians had riſen early the next day, behold [::] Dagon lay flatte on the ground before the arke of our Lord: and they tooke Dagon, and reſtored him into his place.

4 And agayne early the next day riſing vp, they found Dagon lying vpon his face on the earth before the arke of our Lord: and the head of Dagon, and the two palmes of his handes were cutte of vpon the threshold:

5 moreouer the bodie only of Dagon was remayning in his place. For this cauſe the prieſtes of Dagon, and al that enter into his temple, tread not vpon the threshold of Dagon in Azotus vntil this day.

6 And the hand of our Lord was heauie vpon the Azotians, and he plagued them, and ſtroke Azotus and the coaſtes thereof in the ſecrete part of the fundament. And the townes and fieldes bubbled forth in the middes of that country, and there came forth miſe, and there was confuſion of great death in the citie.

7 And the men of Azotus ſeing this maner of plague, ſaid: Let not the arke of the God of Iſrael tarie with vs: becauſe his hand is ſore vpon vs, and [::] vpon Dagon our God.

8 And ſending they gathered together al the princes of the Philiſtijms to them, and ſaid: What shal we doe with the arke of the God of Iſrael? And the Getheites anſwered: Let the arke of the God of Iſrael be caried about, and they caried about the arke of the God of Iſrael.

9 And they carying it about, the hand of our Lord was made through euerie citie by an exceding great ſlaughter: and it ſtrake the men of euery city, from litle vnto great, & they had emeroides in their ſecrete partes. And the Getheites tooke counſeil, and made themſelues ſtooles of skinnes.

10 They ſent therfore the arke of God into Accaron. And when the arke of God was come into Accaron, the Accaronites cryed out, ſaying: They haue brought vnto vs the arke of the God of Iſrael, to kil vs & our people.

11 They ſent therefore & gathered together al the princes of the Philiſtijms: who ſayd: Dimiſſe the arke of the God of Iſrael, & let it returne into his place, & not kil vs with our people.

12 For there was made the feare of death in euery citie, & the hand of God exceding greuous. the men alſo that had not died, were ſtriken in the ſecrete part of the buttockes: and the howling of euery citie went vp into heauen.

Marginal notes to Chapter 5

• 3 [::] So ſowne as Chriſts Goſpel or Teſtament came among the Gentiles, al falſe goddes & idolatry fel downe. S. Beda. qq in 1. Reg. c. 3.
• 7 [::] The arke being a holie thing, as Reliques are, was terrible to their falſe god, the diuel, ſo the Reliques of S. Babilas ouerthrew the falſe god Apollo as ⟨illegible⟩. Chryſo⟨illegible⟩. teſtifieth at large. li. cont. Gentiles, ⟨illegible⟩. 5.

Chapter 6

CHAP. VI. The Arke is ſent backe with ſiue emeroids and fiue miſe of gold, vpon a new wayne drawne by two milch kyne. 13. which coming directly to Bethſames are ſacrificed, the wayne ſeruing for fire, the Leuites kepe the Arke. 19. Many others are ſlaine looking of curioſitie into it.

1 THEREFORE the arke of God was in the country of the Philiſthijms ſeuen monethes.

2 And the Philiſthijms called the prieſtes and ſoothſaiers, ſaying: What ſhal we doe with the arke of the Lord? tel vs▪ how we may ſend it backe into his place. Who ſaid:

3 If you ſend back the arke of the God of Iſrael, ſend it not away emptie, but that which you owe render vnto it for ſinne, and then you ſhal be cured: and you ſhal know why his hand departeth not from you.

4 Who anſwered: What is that which we ought to render vnto it for ſinne? And they anſwered:

5 According to the number of the prouinces of the Philiſthijms you ſhal make ſiue golden emroides, and fiue golden miſe▪ becauſe there hath bene one plague to you, and to your princes. And you shal make the ſimilitudes of your emeroides, and the ſimilitudes of the miſe, that haue deſtroied the land, and you ſhal geue glorie to the God of Iſrael: if perhaps he wil lighten his hand from you, and from your goddes and from your land.

6 Why doe you harden your hartes, as [::] Aegypt and Pharao did harden their hart? did not he after he was ſtriken, then dimiſſe them, and they departed?

7 Now therfore take and make one new wayne: and two kine hauing calued, on which there hath no yoke beene put, couple in the wayne, and shut vp their calues at home.

8 And you shal take the arke of the Lord, and put it in the wayne, and the veſſels of gold, which you haue payed him for ſinne, you shal put into a litle casket at the ſide thereof: and dimiſſe it that it may goe.

9 And you ſhal looke: and if ſo be that it shal goe vp by the way of his coaſtes againſt Bethſames, he hath donne vs this great euil: but if not: we shal know that his hand hath not touched vs, but it hath happened by chance.

10 They therefore did in this maner: and taking two kine, that had ſucking calues, yoked them to the wayne, and shut vp their calues at home.

11 And they layd the arke of God vpon the wayne, and the litle casket, that had the golden miſe and the ſimilitudes of emeroides.

12 And the kine went directly by the way, that leadeth to Bethſames, and they went one way, going forward and lowing: and they declined not neither to the right hand nor to the left: but the princes alſo of the Philiſtijms folowed vnto the borders of Bethſames.

13 Moreouer the Bethſamites reaped wheat in the valley: and lifting vp their eies, they ſaw the arke, and were gladde when they had ſeene it.

14 And the wayne came into the field of Ioſue the Bethſamite, and ſtoode there. And there was a great ſtone, and they did cut the wood of the wayne, and layed the kine vpon it an holocauſt to our Lord.

15 And the Leuites tooke downe the arke of God, and the litle casket, that was at the ſide of it, wherin were the veſſels of gold, and they put it vpon the great ſtone. The men alſo of Bethſames offered holocauſtes, and immolated victimes that day to our Lord.

16 And the fiue princes of the Philiſtijms ſaw, and returned into Accaron that day.

17 And theſe are the golden emeroides, which the Philiſtijms rendred for ſinne to our Lord: Azotus one, Gaza one, Aſcalon one, Geth one, Accaron one:

18 and the golden miſe according to the number of the cities of the Philiſtijms, of the fiue prouinces, from walled citie vnto towne that was without wal, and vnto Abel the great, wherupon they put the arke of our Lord, which was vntil that day in the field of Ioſue the Bethſamite.

19 But he ſtroke of the men of Bethſames, for that they had [::] ſeene the arke of our Lord: and he ſtroke of the people ſeuentie men, and fiftie thouſand of the common people. And the people mourned, becauſe our Lord had ſtriken the common people with a great plague.

20 And the men of Bethſames ſayd: Who ſhal be able to ſtand in the ſight of our Lord God this holie one? and to whom shal he goe vp from vs?

21 And they ſent meſſengers to the inhabitantes of Caria Thiarim, ſaying: The Philiſtijms haue brought backe the arke of our Lord, come downe & fetch it backe vnto you.

Marginal notes to Chapter 6

• 6 [::] Obſtinate ſinners doe harden their owne hartes, not God, but by ſuffering them ſo to do. ⟨illegible⟩ee A⟨illegible⟩not. ⟨illegible⟩d. 7.
• 19 [::] As the arke was terrible to the infideles, (chap. 5.) ſo alſo to thoſe that beleued right but vſed it not reuerently.

Chapter 7

CHAP. VII. The Arke is brought to the houſe of Abinadab in Gabaa, 3. By Samuels exhortation, the people caſt away the idols and ſerue only God. 10. Samuel offering ſacrifice and praying, Iſrael preuaileth againſt the Philiſthijms.

1 THEREFORE the men of Caria Thiarim came, and [::] brought backe the arke of our Lord, and caried it into the houſe of Abinadab in Gaaba: And Eleazar his ſonne they ſanctified, that he might keepe the arke of our Lord.

2 And it came to paſſe, from the day that the arke of our Lord abode in Caria Thiarim the dayes were multiplied (for it was now the twentith yeare) and al the houſe of Iſrael reſted after our Lord.

3 And Samuel ſpake to al the houſe of Iſrael, ſaying: If you turne to our Lord in al your hart, take away the ſtrange goddes out of the middes of you, Baalim, and Aſtaroth: and prepare your hartes to our Lord, and ſerue him only, and he wil deliuer you from the hand of the Philiſthijms.

4 Therefore the children of Iſrael tooke away Baalim and Aſtaroth, and ſerued our Lord only.

5 And Samuel ſayd: Gather together al Iſrael into Maſphath, that I may pray our Lord for you.

6 And they aſſembled into Maſphath: and they drew water, and powred it out in the ſight of our Lord, and they faſted that day, and ſayd there: We haue ſinned to our Lord. And Samuel iudged the children of Iſrael in Maſphath.

7 And the Philiſthijms heard that the children of Iſrael were gathered together into Maſphath, and the princes of the Philiſthijms went vp to Iſrael. Which when the children of Iſrael had heard, they were afrayde at the face of the Philiſthijms.

8 And they ſaid to Samuel: ceaſe not to crie to our Lord God for vs, that he ſaue vs from the hand of the Philiſthims.

9 And Samuel tooke one ſucking lambe, and offered i⟨illegible⟩ a whole holocauſte to our Lord: and Samuel cried to our Lord for Iſrael, and our Lord heard him.

10 And it came to paſſe, when Samuel offered the holocauſte, the Philiſthijms beganne battel againſt Iſrael: but our Lord thundered with a great noiſe in that day vpon the Philiſthijms, and terrified them, and they were ſlaine before the face of Iſrael.

11 And the men of Iſrael iſſuing out of Maſphath purſued the Philiſthijms, and ſtroke them vnto the place, that was vnder Bethcar.

12 And Samuel tooke one ſtone, and layd it betwen Maſphath and Sen: and he called the name of that place, The ſtone of helpe. And he ſayd: Thus farre hath our Lord holpen vs.

13 And the Philiſtijms were humbled, neither added they any more to come into the borders of Iſrael. Therefore the hand of our Lord was made vpon the Philiſtijms, al the dayes of Samuel.

14 And the cities, which the Philiſtijms had taken from Iſrael, were rendred to Iſrael, from Accaron vnto Geth, and their borders: and ⟨illegible⟩e deliuered Iſrael from the hand of the Philiſtijms, and there was peace betwen Iſrael and th⟨illegible⟩ [::] Amorrheite.

15 Samuel alſo ⟨illegible⟩udged Iſrael al the daies of his life:

16 and he went euerie ⟨illegible⟩eare circu⟨illegible⟩ Bethel and Galgala and Maſphath, and ⟨illegible⟩udged Iſrael in the foreſaid places.

17 And he returned into Ramatha: for there was his houſe, and there he iudged Iſrael: he built alſo there an altar to our Lord.

Marginal notes to Chapter 7

• 1 [::] Theſe men knowing that the preſence of the arke was good for them (though the Bethſamites had benne puniſhed for their irreuerence towardes it) feared not to receiue and kepe it.
• 14 [::] That is ⟨illegible⟩ ſay, the Phili⟨illegible⟩, who were ⟨illegible⟩ o⟨illegible⟩ the ſeuen nations of Chanaan, which God comm⟨illegible⟩nded his people to deſtroy, ⟨illegible⟩ the Amorrheites.

Chapter 8

CHAP. VIII. Samuel growing old, and his ſonnes for bribes peruerting iudgement, the people require to haue a king. 7. ⟨illegible⟩o Whom by Gods commandment, Samuel for⟨illegible⟩heneth the law of a king, to make them ceaſe from their demand; 19. but they perſiſt therein.

1 AND it came to paſſe when Samuel waxed old, he appoynted his ſonnes iudges ouer Iſrael.

2 And the name of his firſt begotten ſonne was Ioel: and the name of the ſecond Abia, iudges in Berſabee.

3 And his ſonnes walked nor in his waies: but they declined after auarice, & tocke bribes, and peruerted iudgement.

4 [::] Therfore al the ancientes of Iſrael being aſſembled, came to Samuel into Ramatha.

5 And they ſayd to him: Behold thou art old, and thy ſonnes walke not in thy wayes: appoynt vs a king, that he may iudge vs, as alſo al nations haue.

6 And the word was miſliked in the eyes of Samuel, becauſe they had ſayd: Geue vs a king, that he may iudge vs. And Samuel prayed to our Lord.

7 And our Lord ſayd to Samuel: Heare the voice of the people in al thinges which they ſpeake to thee. for they haue not “reiected thee, but me, that I ſhould not reigne ouer them.

8 According to al their workes, which they haue done from the day that I brought them out of Aegypt vntil this day: as they haue forſaken me, and ſerued ſtrange goddes, ſo doe they alſo vnto thee.

9 Now therefore heare their voice: but yet teſtifie to them, and foretel them the [::] right of the king, that ſhal reigne ouer them.

10 Samuel therfore ſpake al the wordes of our Lord to the people which had deſired a king of him,

11 and ſayd: This ſhal be“ the right of the king, that ſhal reigne ouer you: Your ſonnes he wil take, and put in his chariotes, and wil make them vnto him the horſemen, and running footmen before his chariotes,

12 and wil appoynt them his tribunes, and centurions, and the plowers of his fieldes, and mowers of his corne, and makers of his armour and of his chariotes.

13 Your daughters alſo wil he take to make ointementes, and to be cookes, and bakers.

14 Your fieldes alſo, and vineyardes, and the beſt oliuetes he wil take away, and geue to his ſeruantes.

15 Yea and your corne alſo, and the reuenewes of your vineyardes he wil tithe, to geue his eunuches and ſeruantes.

16 Your ſeruantes alſo and handmaides, and goodlieſt yong men, and aſſes he wil take away, and put in his worke.

17 Your flockes alſo wil he tithe, you ſhal be his ſeruantes.

18 And you ſhal crie in that day from the face of the king, which you haue choſen you: and our Lord [::] wil not heare you in that day, becauſe you deſired vnto your ſelues a king.

19 But the people would not heare the voice of Samuel, but ſayd: Not ſo: for there ſhal be a king ouer vs,

20 and we alſo wil be as al nations: and our king ſhal iudge vs, and ſhal goe forth before vs, and shal fight our battels for vs.

21 And Samuel heard al the wordes of the people, and ſpake them in the eares of our Lord.

22 And our Lord ſaid to Samuel: Heare their voice, and appoynt a king ouer them. And Samuel ſayd to the men of Iſrael: Let euerie man goe into his citie.

Marginal notes to Chapter 8

• 4 [::] Heli his ſonnes g⟨illegible⟩ieuouſly offending in then office before (chap 2.) and now Samuels ſonnes alſo peruerting iudgem⟨illegible⟩t gaue occaſion to the people, to demand a l⟨illegible⟩ng to iudge their temporal cauſes rightly not declining to wrong for bribes.
• 9 [::] Miſphat ſignifieth maner, faſhion, or proceding.
• 18 [::] God alwaies heareth thoſe that truly repent for their ſinnes, but doth not alwayes deliuer them from afflictions, which are due for offences, or profitable for probation and merite of his children.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. VIII.

7. Reiected me.] For ſo much as God had choſen Iſrael a peculiar people to [Margin: ⟨illegible⟩od. 19. Deut. 17. Iudi⟨illegible⟩. 2. v. 16.] him ſelf, and hitherto ruled the ſame by his Prieſtes eſtabliſhed among them, [Margin: Vvhy the peoples demand to haue a king is diſliked.] and by Iudges extraordinarily raiſed vp, and ſent by him, to deliuer them in their diſtreſſes, their demand now to haue a King, who (after the maner of other nations) ſhould be their Lord, and haue more dignitie, and authoritie ouer them, then Dukes or Iudges had, is interpreted, as in effect to reiect God▪ in that they diſliked, & ſought to change his forme of gouernment. And therfore this requeſt of the people iuſtly diſpleaſed both Samuel and God himſelf.

11. The right of the King.] Samuel here by Gods appointment, to diſwade [Margin: Kinges ſometimes oppreſſe their ſubiectes by Gods ſufferance, but vniuſtly.] the people from their deſire of a king, at leaſt to admoniſh them before hand, what they are like to find by experience, reciteth ſuch thinges, as Kinges abuſing [Margin: ⟨illegible⟩. Cyp. li. 3. ep. 9. ſiue 65. ⟨illegible⟩. Hier⟨illegible⟩ ▪ in Oſee 8. ⟨illegible⟩. Greg. li. 4. c. 2. in 1. Reg. 8.] their powre do oftentimes practiſe, by reaſon of their high dignitie, and litle feare of controlment, but vniuſtly and vnlawfully; according to the doctrin of ancient Fathers. Amongſt others. S. Cyprian calleth the exactions of kinges here recited, greuous iniuries. S. Hierom dura imperia, & ſeruitutem. rigorous or cruel gouernmentes, and ſeruitude. S. Gregorie proueth the ſame by two contrarie examples. Seing (ſayeth he) that which is here foretold, was puniſhed in Achab and Ieſabel (3. Reg. 21.) it ſheweth, that it was not right by diuine iudgement, which they exacted. And when the elect King Dauid was to build an altar to our Lord (1. Paral. 21.) he would not take part of Ornans field, except he payed a iuſt price for it. Moreouer the law preſcribing the dutie of Kinges (Deut. 17. v. 16. &c.) commandeth them not to multiplie horſes, not [Margin: Kinges haue prerogatiues aboue, but not cont⟨illegible⟩aric to the lawes.] to heape riches, not to take high courage, that their hartes be not lifted vp into pride ouer their bretheren. Neuertheles Kinges haue great prerogatiues (more then Dukes, and Iudges) beſides, and aboue, but neuer contrarie to the law; that albeit they can not take their ſubiectes landes or goodes, neither for them ſelues, nor to geue to their ſeruantes at their pleaſure: yet in diuers caſes ſubiectes are bound, to contribute of their priuate goodes, to ſupplie the neceſſitie of the King, or of the commonwealth, as by nature euerie part muſt ſuffer damage, or danger in defence of the principal member, or whole bodie. And if anie refuſe ſo to do, they may iuſtly be compelled.

Furthermore in caſe Kinges or other Princes commit exceſſes, and oppreſſe [Margin: Euil princes may be depoſed by God & the Church▪ but not by the people only.] their ſubiectes, yet are they not by and by to be depoſed by the people, nor [Margin: Concil. Lateran c. 3. de heret.] commonwealth, but muſt be tolerated with patience, peace, and meeknes, til God by his ſouereigne authoritie, left in his Church, diſpoſe of them: which his diuine wiſdom and goodnes often differreth to do, as here he expreſly forewarneth, ſaying: (v. 18) You shal crie in that day, from the face of your King, and our ⟨illegible⟩ord vvil not ⟨illegible⟩eare you And the reaſon is, becauſe he wil puniſh the ſinnes of the people, by ſuffering euil princes to reigne. Iob. 34. v. 30.

Of which important difficultie, falling ſometimes betwen Princes and their [Margin: Pointes obſerued in the conſtitution and depoſition of King Saul.] ſubiectes, who ſo deſireth, may ſearch the iudgement of ancient Fathers, and ſee S. Thomas, and other ſchole Doctors, 2. 2. q. 12. a. 2. Here only for better vnderſtanding of this preſent text, theſe brief pointes may be obſerued Firſt, the people of their owne wil deſired to haue a King. Secondly, they requeſted the ſame at the handes of ſamuel their preſent Superiour. Thirdly, this demand [Margin: 1. 2. 3. 4.] diſpleaſed both Samuel and God himſelf. Fourthly, yet God condeſcended to grant their ſuite, but with an admonition, and forewarning of the inconueniences, which they ſhould finde and feele. Fiftly, God himſelf deſigned [Margin: 5.] the perſon that ſhould be King, reueled him by viſion, and commanded Samuel to annoint him. Sixtly, God neuertheles by guiding the lotte, more manifeſtly [Margin: 6. 7.] declared, and confirmed his election. Seuently, God depoſed the ſame King, for tranſgreſſing his law, chap. 13. v. 13. and diſobeying his commandment. chap. 15. v. 23. appointing an other, by the miniſterie of Samuel. chap. 16. Eightly, notwithſtanding his depoſition, he remained in his dignitie til his [Margin: 8.] death, which happened by other meanes. chap. 31. By al which it appeareth, that God conſtituted Saul the firſt King of the Iewes, the people ſuing to haue a King; but depoſed him for euil behauiour, the people deſiring no ſuch thing, and Samuel the Prophet much lamenting the ſame. Yet was he not actually be⟨illegible⟩iued of the crowne and kingdom during his life.

Chapter 9

CHAP. IX. Saul by occaſion of ſeeking his fathers aſses cometh to Samuel. 15. Who had a reuelation of his coming, and a commandment to annoint him. 22. He is entertained and lodged with Samuel.

1 AND there was a man of Beniamin named Cis, the ſonne of Abiel, the ſonne of Seor, the ſonne of Bechorath, the ſonne of Aphia, the ſonne of a man of Iemini, valiantin ſtrength.

2 And he had a ſonne called Saul, choſen & good: and there was not a man of the children of Iſrael better then he: from the ſhoulder and vpward he appeared aboue al the people.

3 And the aſſes of Cis the father of Saul were loſt: and Cis ſaid to Saul his ſonne: Take one of the ſeruants with thee, and riſing goe, and ſeeke the aſſes. Who when they had paſſed by mount Ephraim,

4 and by the land of Saliſa, and had not found, they paſſed alſo through the land of Salim, and they were not: yea and by the Land of Iemini, and found them not.

5 And when they were come into the Land of Suph, Saul ſaide to the ſeruant that was with him: Come let vs returne, leſt perhaps my father hath let alone the aſſes, and be careful for vs.

6 Who ſayd to him: Behold a man of God is in this citie, a famous man: al that he ſpeaketh, cometh to paſſe without doubt▪ now therefore let vs goe thither, if perhaps he may tel vs of our way, for which we are come.

7 And Saul ſayd to his ſeruant: Loc we wil goe: what ſhal we carie to the man of God? The bread is ſpent in our males: and preſent we haue none to geue vnto the man of God, nor any thing els.

8 Agayne the ſeruant anſwered Saul and ſayd: Behold there is found in my hand the fourth part of a ſicle of ſiluer, let vs geue it to the man of God, that he may tel vs our way.

9 (For in time paſt in Iſrael ſo euery man ſpake, going to conſult God, Come, and let vs goe to the S⟨illegible⟩er. For he that at this day is called a Prophete, in time paſt was called [::] a S⟨illegible⟩r.)

10 And Saul ſayd to his ſeruant: Thy word is very good, come let vs goe. And they went into the citie, wherein the man of God was.

11 And when they went vp the aſcent of the citie, they found maides coming forth to draw water, and ſayd to them: Is the Seer here?

12 Who anſwering ſayd to them: Here he is. Loe before thee, make haſt now: for this day he came into the citie, becauſe this day there is a ſacrifice of the people in the excelſe.

13 Entring into the citie immediatly you ſhal find him, before he goe vp into the excelſe to eate. for the people wil not eate til he come: becauſe he wil bleſſe the Hoſte, and afterward they ſhal eate that are inuited. Now therefore goe vp, becauſe this day you ſhal finde him.

14 And they went vp into the citie. And when they walked in the middes of the citie, Samuel appeared coming forth againſt them, to goe vp into the excelſe.

15 And our Lord had reueled the eare of Samuel one day before Saul came, ſaying:

16 This very houre, that now is, to morrow wil I ſend to thee a man of the Land of Beniamin, and thou ſhalt annoint him ruler ouer my people of Iſrael: and he shal ſaue my people from the hand of the Philiſtiims: becauſe I haue reſpected my people, for [::] their crie is come to me.

17 And when Samuel had beheld Saul, our Lord ſayde to him: Behold the man, of whom I told thee, this man shal rule ouer my people.

18 And Saul came to Samuel in the middes of the gate, and ſayd: Shew me, I pray thee, where is the houſe of the Seer?

19 And Samuel anſwered Saul, ſaying: I am the Seer, goe vp before me into the excelſe, that you may eate with me to day, and I wil dimiſſe thee in the morning: and al thinges that are in thy hart, wil I tel thee.

20 And concerning the aſſes, which thou didſt loſe three dayes agone, be not careful, becauſe they are found. And whoſe shal be al the beſt thinges of Iſrael? not to thee and to al thy fathers houſe?

21 And Saul anſwering, ſayd: Am not I the ſonne of I⟨illegible⟩mini of the leaſt tribe of Iſrael, and my kindred the laſt among al the families of the tribe of Beniamin? Why therfore haſt thou ſpoken this word to me?

22 Samuel therefore taking Saul and his ſeruant, brought them into the parlour, and gaue them a place in the chiefe rowme of them that were inuited. for there were about thirtie men.

23 And Samuel ſayd to the cooke: Geue the portion, which I gaue thee, and commanded that thou shouldeſt lay it vp apart with thee.

24 And the cooke lifted vp a shoulder, and ſette it before Saul. And Samuel ſaid: Behold that which hath remayned, ſette it before thee, and eate: becauſe of purpoſe it was kept for thee, when I called the people. And Saul did eate with Samuel that day.

25 And they deſcended from the excelſe into the towne, and he ſpake with Saul in the toppe of the houſe: and he prepared a bed for Saul in the higheſt rowme, & he ſlept.

26 And when they were riſen in the morning, and it beganne now to be light, Samuel called Saul in the high chāber, ſaying: Ariſe that I may diſmiſſe thee. And Saul aroſe: and they went both forth: to witte, he and Samuel.

27 And when they came downe in the vttermoſt part of the citie, Samuel ſaid to Saul: Speake to the ſeruant that he goe before vs, and paſſe: but ſtay thou alitle while, that I may tel thee the word of our Lord.

Marginal notes to Chapter 9

• 1 The ſecond part. The election, annointing▪ & gouernement of King Saul.
• 9 [::] One that by diuine inſpiration foreſeeth thinges too▪ come.
• 16 [::] Oppreſſion of innocentes crieth to heaven.

Chapter 10

CHAP. X. Saul is annointed king, and confirmed by ſignes that his ordinance is of God. 10. He prophecieth, which the people doth admire. 17. Samuel calleth the people together, for appointing a king, the lotte falleth on Saul. 25. and the law of the king is againe mentioned.

1 AND Samuel tooke [::] a litle veſſel of [::] oyle, and powred vpon his head, and kiſſed him, and ſayd: Behold, our Lord hath annointed thee vpon his inheritance to be prince, and thou ſhalt deliuer his people out of the handes of their enemies, that are round about them. And this ſhal be a ſigne vnto thee, that God hath annointed thee to be prince.

2 When thou ſhalt be departed from me this day, thou ſhalt finde two men beſide the ſepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Beniamin, in the South, and they ſhal ſay to thee: The aſſes are found, which thou diſt goe to ſeeke: and thy father letting goe the aſſes, is careful for you, and ſayeth: What ſhal I doe concerning my ſonne?

3 And when thou ſhalt depart thence, and paſſe farder, and tha⟨illegible⟩t come to the oke Thabor, three men going vp to God into Bethel ſhal finde thee there, one carying three kiddes, and an other three manchettes of bread, and an other carying a flagon of wine.

4 And when they haue ſaluted thee, they wil geue thee two loaues, and thou ſhalt take them of their hand.

5 After theſe thinges thou ſhalt come into the hil of God, where the garriſon of the Philiſthiimes is: and when thou shalt be entered there into the citie, thou shalt meete there a flocke of prophetes coming downe from the excelſe, and before them pſalterie and tymbrel, and ⟨illegible⟩halme, and harpe, and themſelues prophecying.

6 And the Spirit of our Lord shal ſeaſe vpon thee, and thou shalt prophecie with them, and shalt be changed into an other man.

7 Thefore when al theſe ſignes shal chance to thee, doe whatſoeuer thy hand shal finde, becauſe our Lord is with thee.

8 And thou shalt goe downe before me into Galgala (for I wil come downe to thee) that thou mayeſt offer oblation, and immolate pacifique victimes: [::] ſeuen daies shalt thou expect, til I come to thee, and I wil shew thee what thou muſt doe.

9 Therfore when he had turned away his shoulder to depart from Samuel, God [::] changed vnto him another hart, and al theſe thinges came in that day.

10 And they came to the foreſaid hil, and behold a troupe of prophetes meeting him: & the [::] Spirit of our Lord ſeaſed vpon him. and he prophecied in the middes of them.

11 And al that had knowen him yeſterday and the day before, ſeing that he was with the prophetes, & did prophecie, ſaid to ech other: What thing hath happened to the ſonne of Cis? what is Saul alſo among the prophetes?

12 And one anſwered an other, ſaying: And who is [::] their father? therefore it was turned into a prouerbe: What is Saul alſo among the prophetes?

13 And he ceaſed to prophecie, and came to the excelſe.

14 And Sauls vncle ſayd to him, and to his ſeruant: Whitherwent you? who anſwered: To ſeeke the aſſes: which when we had not found, we came to Samuel.

15 And his vncle ſayd to him: Tel me what Samuel ſayd to thee.

16 And Saul ſayd to his vncle: He told vs that the aſſes were found. But concerning the word of the kingdom which Samuel had ſpoken to him, he told him not.

17 And Samuel called together the people to our Lord in Maſpha:

18 And ſayd to the children of Iſrael: Thus ſayth our Lord the God of Iſrael: I brought Iſrael out of Aegypt, and deliuerd you from the hand of the Aegyptians, and from the hand of al the kinges which afflicted you.

19 But you this day haue reiected your God, who only hath ſaued you out of al your euils and tribulations: and you haue ſaid: Not ſo: but appoint a king ouer vs. Now therefore ſtand before our Lord by your tribes, and by your families.

20 And Samuel brought al the tribes of Iſrael, and the [::] lotte fel on the tribe of Beniamin.

21 And he brought the tribe of Beniamin and the kinreds thereof, and it fel vpon the kindred of Metri, and it came vnto Saul the ſonne of Cis. They therfore ſought him, and he was not found,

22 And after theſe thinges they conſulted our Lord whether he would come thither. And our Lord anſwered: Behold he is hid at home.

23 They ranne therefore and tooke him from thence: and he ſtood in the middes of the people, and he was higher then al the people from the shoulder and vpward.

24 And Samuel ſaid to al the people: Certes you ſee whom our Lord hath choſen, that there is not the like to him in al the people. And al the people cried, and ſayd: God ſaue the King.

25 And Samuel ſpake to the people the law of the kingdom, and wrote it in a booke, and layd it vp before our Lord: and Samuel diſmiſſed al the people, euerie one into his owne houſe.

26 But Saul alſo departed vnto his houſe into Gabaa: and there went with him part of the armie, they whoſe hartes God had touched.

27 But the children of Belial ſayd: What shal this fellow be able to ſaue vs? and they deſpiſed him, and brought him not preſentes: but he diſſembled as though he heard not.

Marginal notes to Chapter 10

• 1 [::] ⟨illegible⟩. Gregorie here noteth, that ſuch as are placed in height of gouernement, are annointed with oyle, which ſignifieth mercie, light, and cu⟨illegible⟩ing of others.
• 1 [::] But the litle veſſel foreſhewed that Saul not perſeuering in grace, ſhould be depoſed from his kingdom. li. 4 c. 5. in 1. Reg. 10.
• 8 [::] Samuel enioynet⟨illegible⟩ obedience to Saul to trie his humilitie. S. Greg. li. 4 c. 5. in 1▪ Reg 10.
• 9 [::] God gaue him peculiar grace for executing the office of a king.
• 10 [::] By and by alſo the gift of prophecie.
• 12 [::] Then ſuperious.
• 20 [::] By lotte the people were aſſured that the election was of God. S. Greg. ⟨illegible⟩b⟨illegible⟩dem.

Chapter 11

CHAP. XI. Ammonites fighting against Iabes Galaad, and the citie readie to yelde, 5. Saul gathereth an armie, 11. ouerthroweth the enimie, 14. and is eſtablished King.

1 AND it came to paſſe as it were a moneth after, Naas the Ammonite aſcended, and began to fight againſt Iabes of Galaad. And al the men of Iabes ſayd to Naas: Make a league with vs, and we wil ſerue thee.

2 And Naas the Ammonite anſwered them: In this wil I make a league with you, that I may plucke out the right eyes of you al, and may make you a reproch⟨illegible⟩ al Iſrael.

3 And the ancientes of Iabes ſayd to him: Graunt vnto vs ſeuen daies, that we may ſend meſſengers vnto al the coaſtes of Iſrael: and if there shal not be that may defend vs, we wil come forth to thee.

4 The meſſengers therefore came into Gabaa of Saul: and they ſpake theſe wordes, in the hearing of the people: and al the people lifted vp their voice, and wept.

5 And behold Saul came, folowing oxen out of the field, and ſayd: What ayleth the people that they weepe? And they told him the wordes of the men of Iabes.

6 And the Spirit of our Lord ſeaſed on Saul, when he had heard theſe wordes, and his furie was exceding wrath.

7 And taking both the oxen, he cutte them into peeces, and ſent them into al the coaſtes of Iſrael by meſſengers, ſaving: Whoſoeuer shal not goe forth, and folow Saul and Samuel, ſo shal it be done to his oxen. Therefore the feare of our Lord inuaded the people, and they went forth as it were one man.

8 And he numbered them in Bezec: and there were of the children of Iſrael three hundred thouſand: and of the men of Iuda thirtie thouſand.

9 And they ſayd to the meſſengers that came▪ Thus shal you ſay to the men, that are in Iabes Galaad: To morow, when the ſunne ſhal waxe hote, you ſhal haue relife. The meſſengers therefore came, and told the men of Iabes: Who were glad.

10 And they ſaid: In the morning [::] we wil come forth to you: and you ſhal doe to vs whatſoeuer ſhal pleaſe you.

11 And it came to paſſe, when the morow was come, Saul ſette the people into three partes: and entered into the middes of the campe in the morning watch, and ſtroke Ammon vntil the day waxed hote, and the reſt were diſperſed, ſo that there were not left among them two together.

12 And the people ſayd to Samuel: Who is this that ſaid: what ſhal Saul reigne ouer vs? Geue vs the men and we wil kil them.

13 And Saul ſayd: No man ſhal be killed this day, becauſe our Lord this day hath releued Iſrael:

14 And Samuel ſaid to the people: Come and let vs goe into Galgal, and let vs renewe there a kingdome.

15 And al the people went into Galgal, and there they made Saul king before our Lord in Galgal, & they immolated there pacifique victimes before our Lord. And Saul reioyſed there, and al the men of Iſrael excedingly.

Marginal notes to Chapter 11

• 10 [::] As the men of Iabes deluded their enimies by aequiuocation, ſo ſpeaking that they were otherwiſe vnderſtood then they ment: ſo the ſeruantes of God being tempted with concupiſcence of glutoni⟨illegible⟩ (ſignified by Naas) muſt deceiue their carnal appetite, by promiſing to ſatisfie the deſire of the fleſh, but in deede kepe ſuch temperance, as they may kil the cōcupiſcence, and not be killed by it. S. Greg. li. 5. c. 1. in 1. Reg. 11.

Chapter 12

CHAP. XII. Samuel being iuſtified by the people for his good behauiour, 6. chargeth them with ingratitude towardes God, 14. admonishing them, and shewing by a ſigne, that they offended in demanding a king. 20. Exhorteth them now to ſerue God, promiſeth to pray for them, and forwarneth that they shal receiue as they deſerue.

1 AND Samuel ſayd to al Iſrael: Behold I haue heard your voice according to al thinges which you haue ſpoken to me, and I haue appointed a king ouer you.

2 And now the king goeth before you: and I am waxen old and haue gray heares: moreouer my ſonnes are with you: therfore hauing conuerſed with you from my youth vntil this day, loe I am readie.

3 Speake of me before our Lord, and before his Chriſt, whether I haue taken any mans oxe, or aſſe: If I haue calumniated any man, if I haue oppreſſed any man, if I haue taken gift of any mans hand: and I wil contemne that ſame this day, and wil reſtore it to you.

4 And they ſaid thou haſt not calumniated vs, nor oppreſſed vs, nor taken ought of any mans hand.

5 And he ſayd to them: Witnes is our Lord againſt you, and witnes is his [::] Chriſt in this day, that you haue not found any thing in my hand. And they ſaid: Witnes

6 And Samuel ſaid to the people: Our Lord who made Moyſes and Aaron, and brought our fathers out of the Land of Aegypt is preſent.

7 Now therefore ſtand, that I may contend in iudgement againſt you before our Lord, concerning al the mercies of our Lord, which he hath done with you, and with your fathers:

8 how Iacob entred into Aegypt, and your fathers cried to our Lord: and our Lord ſent Moyſes and Aaron, and brought your fathers out of Aegypt: and placed them in this place.

9 Who forgat our Lord their God, and he deliuered them in the hand of Siſara maſter of the hoſte of Haſer, and in the hand of the Philiſthijmes, and in the hand of the king of Moab, and they ſought againſt them.

10 But afterward they cried to our Lord, and ſaid: We haue ſinned, becauſe we haue forſaken our Lord, and haue ſerued Baalim and Aſtaroth: now therefore deliuer vs from the hand of our enemies, and we wil ſerue thee.

11 And our Lord ſent [a] Ierobaal, and[*] Badan, and Iepte, and Samuel, and deliuered you from the hand of your enemies round about, and you dwelt ſecurely.

12 But you ſeing that Naas, king of the children of Ammon was come againſt you, you ſaid to me: [::] Not ſo, but a king shal reigne ouer vs: whereas our Lord your God did reigne among you.

13 Now therfore your king is readie, whom you haue choſen and deſired: behold our Lord hath geuen you a king.

14 If you shal feare our Lord, and ſerue him, and heare his voice, and not exaſperat the mouth of our Lord: both you, and the king which reigneth ouer you, shal be folowers of our Lord your God.

15 but if you wil nor heare the voice of our Lord, but shal exaſperat his wordes, the hand of our Lord shal be vpon you, and vpon your[*] fathers.

16 But now alſo ſtand, and ſee this great thing which our Lord wil doe in your ſight.

17 Is it not wheare harueſt to day? I wil cal vpon our Lord, & he wil geue * noyſes and rayne: and you shal know, and ſee that you haue done great euil to your ſelues in the ſight of our Lord, deſiring a king ouer you.

18 And Samuel cried to our Lord, and our Lord gaue noyſes and raine in that day.

19 And al the people feared excedingly our Lord and :: Samuel. And al the people ſaid to Samuel: Pray for thy ſeruantes to our Lord thy God, that we die not. for we haue added euil to al our ſinnes, that we deſired vnto vs a king.

20 And Samuel ſayd to the people: Feare not, you haue done al this euil: but yet depart not from the [::] backe of our Lord, but ſerue our Lord in al your hart.

21 And decline not after vaine thinges, which shal not profite you, nor deliuer you, becauſe they are vaine.

22 And our Lord wil not forſake his people for his great name: becauſe our Lord hath ſworne to make you a people to him ſelf.

23 And farre from me be this ſinne in our Lord, that I should ceaſe to pray for you, and I wil teach you the good and right way.

24 Therefore feare our Lord, and ſerue him in truth and from your whole hart. for you haue ſeene the great workes which he hath done among you.

25 But if you shal perſeuer in malice: both you and your king shal perish together.

Marginal notes to Chapter 12

• 5 [::] The annointed king.
• 11 [a] ⟨illegible⟩ immediatly by God, but would haue king to reigne ouer them▪ imagening that ſo they ſhould be better protected, and defended from forraine enemies wherin they preferred their owne conceite and iudgement before Gods diſpoſition. and therfore this ſinne is often here inculcated, and much reprehended. S. Greg li. 5. c. 2. in 1. ⟨illegible⟩. 12.
• 11 [*] mi⟨illegible⟩tie Samſon.
• 12 [::] They ⟨illegible⟩ent that they would not be ruled and protected as hither to they had bene, by Dukes & Iudges ordained
• 15 [*] ⟨illegible⟩ ⟨illegible⟩ures. S. ⟨illegible⟩reg. thunder.
• 20 [::] They feared God ſo much the more▪- becauſe they feared al⟨illegible⟩o his ſeruant. :: For ſinners to come before Gods face were preſumption, not to come to his back, or to depart from thence, were deſperation. So Marie Magdalen with feare and hope approched & taried at Chriſts back. Luc. 7. S. Greg. loco citato.

Chapter 13

CHAP. XIII. Saul and Ionathas preuaile in battel againſt the Philiſthijms. 5. who increaſing their forc⟨illegible⟩s, the Iſra⟨illegible⟩lites for fea⟨illegible⟩e flee away and hid themſelues, 8. Samuel not coming to the campe, Saul preſumeth to offer ſacrifice, 11. for which Samuel reproueth him, and declareth that his kingdom shal be tranſlated to an other. 17. The Philiſthijms oppreſſe the Iſraelites. and depriue them of armour.

1 A CHILD of [::] one yeare was Saul when he began to reigne, and [::] two yeares he reigned ouer Iſrael.

2 And Saul choſe to him ſelfe three thouſand of Iſrael: and there were with Saul two thouſand in Machmas, and in the mount of Bethel: and a thouſand with Ionathas in Gabaa of Beniamin, moreouer the reſt of the people he ſent backe euerie man into their tabernacles.

3 And Ionathas ſtroke the garriſon of the Philiſthijms, which was in Gabaa. Which when the Philiſthijms had heard, Saul ſounded with the trumpet in al the land, ſaying: Let the Hebrewes heare.

4 And al Iſrael heard this maner of bruite: Saul hath ſtriken the garriſon of the Philiſthijms: and Iſrael tooke courage againſt the Philiſthijms. The people therfore cried after Saul in Galgal.

5 And the Philiſthims were gathered together to fight againſt Iſrael, thirtie thouſand chariotes, and ſix thouſand horſemen, and the reſt of the common people, as the ſand which is in the ſea shore very much. And going vp they camped in Machmas at the Eaſt of Bethauen.

6 Which when the men of Iſrael had ſeene them ſelues put in a ſtreict (for the people was afflicted) they hid them ſelues in caues, and in ſecrete places, in rockes alſo, and in dennes, and in ceſternes.

7 And the Hebrewes paſſed Iordan into the Land of Gad and Galaad. And when Saul was yet in Galgal, al the people was ſore afrayd, which folowed him.

8 And he expected ſeuen daies according to the appointment of Samuel, and Samuel came not into Galgal, and the people ſlipt away from him.

9 Saul therfore ſaid: Bring me the holocauſte, and the pacifiques. And he offered the holocauſte.

10 And when he had finiſhed offering the holocauſte, behold Samuel came: and Saul went forth to mete him & ſalute him.

11 And Samuel ſpake to him: What haſt thou done? Saul anſwered: Becauſe I ſawe that the people ſlipt from me, and thou waſt not come according to the dayes appointed, moreouer the Philiſthijms were gathered together into Machmas,

12 I ſaid: Now wil the Philiſthijms come downe to me into Galgal, & I haue not pacified the face of our Lord. Compelled by neceſſitie, I offered the holocauſte.

13 And Samuel ſaid to Saul: Thou haſt [::] done foliſhly, neither haſt thou kept the commandementes of our Lord thy God, which he commanded thee. Which [::] if thou hadſt not done, euen now had our Lord prepared thy kingdom ouer Iſrael for euer,

14 but thy kingdom shal no farder ariſe. Our Lord hath ſought him a man according to his hart: and him hath our Lord commanded to be prince ouer his people, becauſe thou haſt not obſerued the thinges which our Lord commanded.

15 And Samuel aroſe and went vp from Galgal into Gabaa of Beniamin. And numbered the people, which were found with him, as it were ſix hundred men.

16 And Saul and Ionathas his ſonne, and the people that were found with them, was in Gabaa of Beniamin: moreouer the Philiſthijms had pitched in Machmas.

17 And there iſſued forth to praye from the campe of the Philiſthians three companies. One compaine went on againſt the way of Ephra to the Land of Saul.

18 Moreouer an other went by the way of Bethhoron, & the third had turned it ſelf to the way of the border, in the valley Seboim againſt the deſert.

19 Moreouer there was not found an yron ſmith in al the Land of Iſrael. for the Philiſthijms had ſo prouided, leſt perhaps the Hebrewes should make ſword or ſpeare.

20 Al Iſrael therefore went downe to the Philiſthijms, that euerie man might whette his plough culter, and ſpade, & axe, and take.

21 Therefore the edges of the shares, and ſpades, & forkes with three teeth, and axes, were blunt, euen to the godeprick, which was to be mended.

22 And when the day was come to fight, there was not found ſword and ſpeare in the hand of al the people, that was with Saul and Ionathas, except Saul and Ionathas his ſonne.

23 And the ſtation of the Philiſtijms went forth, to paſſe vp into Machmas.

Marginal notes to Chapter 13

• 1 [::] Saul beginning to reigne was innocent and humble as a child of one yeare.
• 1 [::] And in that ſtate reigned the firſt two yeares. S. Greg. in hunc locum.
• 13 [::] He offended in offering ſacrifice being neither a prieſt, nor extraordinarily allowed to do that office, and for this and other faultes was depoſed.
• 13 [::] Gods foreſight of ſinne, and perordination to puniſh it, taketh not away freewil, nor poſſibilitie of wel doing, nor of reward. S. Aug. li. 3. c. 4. de lib. arbit.

Chapter 14

CHAP. XIIII. Ionathas truſting in God, accompained with one man, his father not knowing, goeth into the Philiſthijms campe; killeth twentie men and trubleth their whole armie. 16. Saul vnderſtanding the ſame, approcheth with his armie, and they gette a great victorie. 24. But Saul hauing commanded vnder paine of death, that none should eate til night, Ionathas for taiſting a litle honie (though ignorant of the prohibition) is iudged to die. 45. But the people oppoſe themſelues, and deliuer him from death. 47. Saul proſpereth in his kingdom, with his ſamilie.

1 AND it chanced on a certeine day that Ionathas the ſonne of Saul ſayd to the yong man that bare his armour: Come, & let vs paſſe to the gariſon of the Philiſthijms, which is beyond yonder place. But to his father he told not this ſame thing.

2 Moreouer Saul abode in the vtmoſt part of Gabaa vnder the pomegranate tree, which was in Magron: and the people with him was about ſix hundred men.

3 And Achias the ſonne of Achitob the brother of Ichabod the ſonne of Phinees, which was borne of Heli the prieſt of our Lord in Silo, bare the ephod. But the people alſo was ignorant whither Ionathas was gone.

4 And there were betwen the aſcentes, by the which Ionathas endeuoured to paſſe vnto the gariſon of the Philiſtijms, rockes ſtanding vp on both ſides, and as it were in maner of teeth ſtiepe broken rockes on either ſide, the name of one Boſes, and the name of the other Sene:

5 one rocke ſtanding out toward the North ouer againſt Machmas, and the other to the South, againſt Gabaa.

6 And Ionathas ſayd to the yong man that bare his armour: Come, let vs paſſe to the ſtation of theſe vncircumciſed, if haply our Lord wil make for vs: becauſe it is not hard for our Lord to ſaue either in manie, or in fewe.

7 And his eſquier ſayd to him: Doe al thinges which pleaſe thy minde: goe whither thou deſireſt, and I wil be with thee whereſoeuer thou wilt.

8 And Ionathas ſayd: Behold we paſſe to theſe men. And when we ſhal appeare to them,

9 If they ſhal ſpeake to vs in this maner: Tarie til we come to you: let vs ſtand in our place, and not goe vp to them.

10 But if they ſhal ſay: Come vp to vs: let vs goe vp, becauſe our Lord hath deliuered them in our handes, [::] this ſhal be a ſigne vnto vs.

11 Both of them therefore appeared to the ſtation of the Philiſthims: & the Philiſtijms ſayd: Behold the Hebrewes come out of the caues, wherein they were hid.

12 And the men of the garniſon ſpake to Ionathas and to his eſquier, and ſayd: Come vp to vs, and we wil ſhew you a thing. And Ionathas ſayd to his eſquier: Let vs goe vp, folow me: for our Lord hath deliuered them into the handes of Iſrael.

13 And Ionathas went vp on his handes & feete creeping, and his eſquier after him. Therefore ſome fel before Ionathas, other ſome his eſquier folowing ſlewe.

14 And the firſt ſlaughter, with which Ionathas & his eſquier made, was as it were of twentie men in the halfe part of an aker, which a yoke of oxen is wont to plough in a day.

15 And there was made a miracle in the campe, through the fieldes: yea and al the people of their garriſon, which had gone to take prayes, was aſtonyed, and the land was trubled: and it happened as a miracle from God.

16 And the watchemen of Saul, which were in Gabaa, of Beniamin looked, & loe a multitude ouerthrowen, & fleeing hither and thither.

17 And Saul ſayd to the people, which was with him: Enquire, and ſee who is gone from vs. And when they had ſought, it was found that Ionathas was not preſent and his eſquier.

18 And Saul ſayd to Achias: Bring the arke of our Lord. (for the arke of God was there that day with the children of Iſrael.)

19 And when Saul ſpake to the prieſt, there aroſe a great tumult in the campe of the Philiſtijmes: and it grewe by litle and litle, and ſounded more cleerely. And Saul ſayd to the prieſt: [::] Draw together thy hand.

20 Saul therefore and al the people that was with him, ſhouted together, and they came to the place of the fight: and behold euerie mans ſword had beene turned to his neighbour, and a ſlaughter exceding great.

21 But the Hebrewes alſo which had bene with the Philiſtijms yeſterday and the day before, and went vp with them in the campe, returned to be with Iſrael, which were with Saul and Ionathas.

22 Al the Iſraelites alſo which had hid themſelues in mount Ephraim, hearing that the Philiſtijms were fled, ioyned them ſelues with their fellowes in battel. And there were with Saul as it were ten thouſand men.

23 And our Lord in that day ſaued Iſrael. and the fight reached as farre as Bethauen.

24 And the men of Iſrael were ioyned among themſelues in that day: and Saul adiured the people, ſaying: Curſed be the man, that ſhal eate bread vntil euening, til I be reuenged of myne enemies. And the whole people did eate no bread:

25 and al the common people of the land came into a foreſt, wherein was honie vpon the face of the field.

26 The people therefore entred into the foreſt, and there appeared dropping honie, and no man put his hand to his mouth. for the people feared the oath.

27 But Ionathas had not heard when his father adiured the people: and he put forth the tippe of the rod, which he had in his hand, and dipped it into a honie combe: and he turned his hand to his mouth, and his eies were illuminated.

28 And one of the people anſwering, ſayd: Thy father hath bound the people with an oath, ſaying: Curſed be the man that ſhal eate bread this day. (and the people was faynt)

29 And Ionathas ſayd: [::] My father hath trubled the land: your ſelues haue ſeene that myn eies are illuminated, becauſe I haue taſted a litle of this honie:

30 how much more if the people had eaten of the praye of their enemies, which they found? had there not beene made a greater plague in the Philiſtijms?

31 They ſtroke therefore in that day the Philiſtijms from Machmas vnto Ailon. And the people was wearied excedingly:

32 and being turned to the praye tooke ſheepe, and oxen, and calues, & ſlew them on the ground: and the people did eate [::] with bloud.

33 And they told Saul ſaying that the people had ſinned to our Lord, eating with bloud. Who ſayd: You haue tranſgreſſed: Roule to me euen now a great ſtone.

34 And Saul ſayd: Diſperſe your ſelues among the common people, and tel them that euerie man bring me his oxe and ramme, and kil ye them vpon this ſame, and eate, and you shal not ſinne to our Lord eating with bloud. Al the people therefore brought euerie man his oxe in his hand vntil night: and ſlewe them there.

35 And Saul built an altar to our Lord; and then firſt did he beginne to build an altar to our Lord.

36 And Saul ſayd: Let vs fal vpon the Philiſtijms by night, and let vs ſpoyle them til it waxe light in the morning, neither let vs leaue a man of them. And the people ſayd: Doe al that ſemeth good in thyne eies. And the prieſt ſayd: Let vs approch hither to God.

37 And Saul conſulted our Lord: Shal I purſew the Philiſtijms? wilt thou deliuer them into the handes of Iſrael? And [::] he anſwered him not in that day.

38 And Saul ſayd: Bring hither al the corners of the people: and know, and ſee by whom this ſinne hath chanced to day.

39 Our Lord the ſauiour of Iſrael liueth, that if it were done by Ionathas my ſonne, he shal die without reuoking. Whereunto none of the people gayneſayed him.

40 And he ſayd to al Iſrael: Be you ſeperated into one ſide, and I with Ionathas my ſonne wil be on the other ſide. And the people anſwered Saul: Doe what ſemeth good in thyn eies.

41 And Saul ſayd to our Lord: Lord God of Iſrael, geue a ſigne: and Ionathas was caught and Saul, and the people went forth.

42 And Saul ſayd: Caſt ye lotte betwen me, and Ionathas my ſonne. And [::] Ionathas was taken.

43 And Saul ſayd to Ionathas: Tel me what thou haſt done. And Ionathas told him, and ſayd: Taſting I taſted in the tippe of the rod, which was in myn hand a litle honie, and behold I die.

44 And Saul ſayd: Theſe thinges doe God to me, and theſe thinges adde he, that dying thou shalt die Ionathas.

45 And the people ſaid to Saul: Shal Ionathas then die, which hath made this great ſaluation in Iſrael? this is vnlawful: our Lord liueth, if there shal fal a heare from his head vpon the ground, becauſe with God hath he wrought to day. The people therefore deliuered Ionathas, that he should not die.

46 And Saul retyred, neither did he purſew the Philiſtjims: moreouer the Philiſtijms departed into their places.

47 And Saul, his kingdom being eſtablished ouer Iſrael, fought round about againſt al his enemies, againſt Moab, and the children of Ammon, and Edom, and the kinges of Soba, and the Philiſtians: and whither ſoeuer he turned him ſelf, he ouercame.

48 And gathering together an armie, he ſtroke Amalec, and deliuered Iſrael from the hand of the ſpoylers thereof.

49 And the ſonnes of Saul, were Ionathas and Ieſui, and Melchiſua: and the names of his two daughters, the name of the firſt borne Merob, and the name of the yonger Michol.

50 And the name of Sauls wife, Achinoam the daughter of Achimaas: and the name of the prince of his hoſt Abner, the ſonne of Ner, the coſin german of Saul by the father.

51 Moreouer Cis was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner, the ſonne of Abiel.

52 And there was mightie battel agaynſt the Philiſthians al the dayes of Saul. For whomſoeuer Saul had ſeene a valiant man, and fitte for battel, he ioyned him to him ſelf.

Marginal notes to Chapter 14

• 10 [::] Ominous ſpeaches are proued by this and ſome other examples to be ſometimes of God, though ſometimes this kind of obſeruation is ſuperſticious. As before is noted. Gen. 24.
• 19 [::] Pray no more nor expectno longer▪ ſo they proceded to battel withou ſur⟨illegible⟩er warrant.
• 29 [::] Ionathas was excuſed by ignorance, & by neceſſitie; and therfore was iuſtly deliuered by the people; and his father offended, in not excep⟨illegible⟩ing the caſe of neceſſitie, & through more e⟨illegible⟩g⟨illegible⟩e zele of reu⟨illegible⟩ge, then he had warrant from, God, whoſe anſwer he would not expect v. 19
• 32 [::] VVherof folowed alſo an other ſinne, that the people fainting for lacke of meate did eate fleſh with the blood, contrarie to the law.
• 37 [::] Before, v. 19. Saul would not expect Gods anſwer: now therfore God wil not anſwer him.
• 42 [::] Ionathas was found to haue tranſgreſſed the vnaduiſed cōmandment, but Saul him ſelf was in a greatter fault of raſh proceding, and vndiſcrete commanding.

Chapter 15

CHAP. XV. Saul is commanded vtterly to deſtroy the Amalecites. 8. but he taking Agag their king ſpareth his life, & chiefe of the praye. 10. For which diſobedience (20. though pretending that the beſt thinges were reſerued for ſacrifice) he is depoſed from his kingdom. 24. Then acknowledgeth his fault. 32. Samuel cutteth Agag in peeces 35. and mourneth for Saul.

1 AND Samuel ſaid to Saul: Our Lord ſent me to annointe thee king ouer his people Iſrael; now therefore heare the voice of our Lord:

2 Thus ſayth the Lord of hoſtes: I haue recounted whatſoeuer Amalec hath done to Iſrael: how he reſiſted them in the way when they came vp out of Aegypt.

3 Now therefore goe, and [::] ſtrike Amalec, and [::] deſtroy al that he hath: ſpare him not, and couet not ought of his thinges: but kil from man vnto woman, both childe & ſuckling, oxe and ſheepe, camel and aſſe.

4 Saul therefore commanded the people, and numbered them as it were lambes: two hundred thouſand footemen, & ten thouſand of the men of Iuda.

5 And when Saul was come vnto the citie of Amalec, he laid ambuſhementes in the torrent.

6 And Saul ſaid to the Cineite: Goe ye, retyre and depart from Amalec: leſt perhaps I wrappe thee in with him. for thou haſt done mercie with al the children of Iſrael, when they deſcended out of Aegypt. And the Cineite departed out of the middes of Amalec.

7 And Saul ſtroke Amalec from Heuila, vntil thou come to Sur, which is ouer againſt Aegypt.

8 And he apprehended Agag the king of Amalec aliue: but al the comon people he ſlewe in the edge of the ſword.

9 And Saul and the people ſpared Agag, and the beſt flockes of ſheepe and heardes, and the garmentes and rammes, and al thinges, that were fayre, neither would they deſtroy them: but whatſoeuer was vile and refuſe, that they deſtroyed.

10 And the word of our Lord was made to Samuel, ſaying:

11 It repenteth me that I haue made Saul king: becauſe he hath forſaken me, & hath not fulfilled my wordes in worke. And Samuel was ſtrooken ſadde, and cried to our Lord al the night.

12 And when Samuel had riſen in the night, to goe to Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, that Saul was come into Carmelus, and had erected to him ſelfe a triumphant arch, and returning was paſſed, and gone into Galgal. Samuel therefore came to Saul, and Saul offered an holocauſt to our Lord of the firſt of the prayes, which he had brought from Amalec.

13 And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul ſayd to him: Bleſſed be thou to our Lord, I haue fulfilled the word of our Lord.

14 And Samuel ſayd: And what is this voice of flockes, which ſoundeth in myne eares, and of heardes, which I heare?

15 And Saul ſaid: They haue brought them from Amalec: for the people hath ſpared the better ſheepe and heardes that they might be immolated to our Lord thy God, but the reſt we haue ſlaine.

16 And Samuel ſaid to Saul: Suffer me, and I wil ſhew thee what our Lord hath ſpoken to me this night. And he ſayd to him: Speake.

17 And Samuel ſaid: When thou waſt a little one in thyne owne eyes, [::] was thou not made chief in the tribes of Iſrael? And our Lord annointed thee to be king ouer Iſrael,

18 and our Lord ſent thee on the way, and ſayd: Goe, and kil the ſinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight againſt them vntil the vtter deſtruction of them.

19 Why therefore haſt thou not heard the voice of our Lord: but art turned to the praye, and haſt done euil in the eies of our Lord?

20 And Saul ſaid to Samuel: Yea I haue heard the voice of our Lord, and haue walked in the way by which our Lord ſent me, and haue brought Agag the king of Amalec, and Amalec I haue ſlaine.

21 But the people tooke of the praye ſheepe and oxen, the principal of thoſe thinges which were ſlaine, to immolate to our Lord their God in Galgal.

22 And Samuel ſaid: Why wil our Lord haue holocauſtes and victimes, and not rather that the voice of our Lord be obeyed? For [::] BETTER is obedience then victimes: and to harken rather then to offer the fatte of rammes.

23 Becauſe it is as it were the ſinne of inchantment, to reſiſt: and as it were the wickednes of idolatrie, to refuſe to obey. For as much therefore as thou haſt reiected the word of our Lord, our Lord hath reiected thee that thou shalt not be king.

24 And Saul ſaid to Samuel: I haue ſinned, becauſe I haue tranſgreſſed the ſaying of our Lord, and thy wordes, fearing the people, and obeying their voice.

25 But now beare I beſech thee my ſinne, and returne with me, that I may adore our Lord.

26 And Samuel ſayd to Saul: I wil not returne with thee, becauſe thou haſt reiected the word of our Lord, and our Lord hath reiected thee that thou ſhalt not be king ouer Iſrael,

27 And Samuel turned him ſelfe to depart: but he caught the hemme of his cloke, which alſo did rent.

28 And Samuel ſaid to him: Our Lord hath rent the kingdom of Iſrael from thee this day, and hath deliuered it to thy neighbour better then thou.

29 Moreouer the Triumpher in Iſrael wil not ſpare, and he wil not be turned with repentance: for neither is he a man that he may repent.

30 But he ſaid: I haue ſinned: how be it now honour me before the ancientes of my people, and before Iſrael, and returne with me, that I may adore our Lord thy God.

31 Samuel therefore returning folowed Saul: and Saul adored our Lord.

32 And Samuel ſaid: Bring vnto me Agag the king of Amalec. And Agag was preſented to him very fatte, trembling. And Agag ſayd: Doth bitter death thus ſeparat?

33 And Samuel ſaid: As thy ſword hath made wemen without children, ſo ſhal thy mother among wemen be without children. And Samuel hewed him into peeces before our Lord in Galgal.

34 And Samuel departeth into Ramatha: but Saul aſcended vnto his houſe into Gabaa.

35 And Samuel ſaw Saul no more vnto the day of his death: but yet Samuel lamented Saul becauſe it [::] repented our Lord that he had appointed him king ouer Iſrael.

Marginal notes to Chapter 15

• 3 [::] Amalec is ſtricken when the fleſh is chaſticed by abſtinence.
• 3 [::] Deſtroyed when the mind is reſtrained from vncleane cogitations. S. Greg⟨illegible⟩ li. 6. c. 1. in ⟨illegible⟩. Reg. 15.
• 17 [::] VVhen Saul was humble he was exalted, now being proud he is reiected.
• 22 [::] By ordinarie ſacrifices, we geue our external goodes to God, by obedience we geue our ſelues S Greg. li. 6 c. 2. in 1. Reg. 25.
• 35 [::] God is ſaid improperly to repent, when he altereth the thing, that he did before. S. Amb. li. de Nos ca. 4.

Chapter 16

CHAP. XVI. Samuel by Gods commandment annointeth Dauid King. 14. Gods ſpirite parteth from Saul, and a wicked ſpirite vexeth him. 16. the vexation is [Margin: The third part. Dauids annointing, his vertues, and perſecution.] mitigated by Dauids playing on a harpe

1 AND our Lord ſaid to Samuel: How long doeſt thou mourne Saul, whom I haue reiected that he rule not ouer Iſrael? fil thy horne with oile, and come, that I may ſend thee to Iſai the Bethlehemite: for I haue prouided me a king among his ſonnes.

2 And Samuel ſaid: How ſhal I goe? for Saul wil heare of it, and wil kil me. And our Lord ſaid: A calfe of the heard ſhalt thou take in thy hand, and shalt ſay: I am come to immolate vnto our Lord.

3 And thou shalt cal Iſai to the victime, and I wil ſhew thee what thou muſt doe, and thou shalt annointe whomſoeuer I ſhal ſhew to thee.

4 Samuel therefore did as our Lord ſpake to him. And he came into Bethlehem, and the ancientes of the citie merueled, meeting him, and they ſaid: Is thy entrance peaceable?

5 And he ſaid: Peaceable: I am come to immolate vnto our Lord, be ye ſanctified, and come with me that I may immolate. He therefore ſanctified Iſai and his ſonnes, and called them to the ſacrifice.

6 And when they were entered in, he ſaw Eliab, and ſaid: Is there before our Lord his Chriſt?

7 And our Lord ſaid to Samuel. Reſpect not his countenāce, nor the talnes of his ſtature: becauſe I haue reiected him, neither doe I iudge according to the looke of man: for man ſeeth thoſe thinges which appeare, but our Lord “beholdeth the hart.

8 And Iſai called Aminadab, and brought him before Samuel. Who ſaid: Neither this hath our Lord choſen.

9 And Iſai brought Samma, of whom he ſayd: This alſo hath not our Lord choſen.

10 Iſai therefore brought his ſeauen ſonnes before Samuel: and Samuel ſayd to Iſai: Our Lord hath not choſen of theſe.

11 And Samuel ſayd to Iſai: Are al thy ſonnes now fully come? Who anſwered: Yet there is left a litle one, and he feedeth sheepe. And Samuel ſayd to Iſai: Send, and bring him: for neither wil we ſitte downe til he come hither.

12 He ſent therefore, and brought him. And he was reade and beautiful to behold, and of a comelie face. And our Lord ſaid: Ariſe, and annoint him, for he it is.

13 Samuel therefore tooke the horne of oile, and annointed him in the middes of his brethren: and the Spirit of our Lord from that day, and ſo forward was directed vpon Dauid: and Samuel riſing went into Ramatha.

14 And the Spirit of our Lord departed from Saul, and a wicked ſpirit vexed him, [::] from our Lord.

15 And the ſeruantes of Saul ſaid to him: Behold an euil ſpirit of God vexeth thee,

16 Let our lord command, and thy ſeruantes which are before thee, wil ſeeke a man skilful to [::] play on the harpe, that when the euil ſpirit of our Lord ſhal take thee, he may play with his hand, and thou beare it more it more eaſily.

17 And Saul ſayd to his ſeruantes: Prouid me therefore ſome man that playeth wel, and bring him to me.

18 And one of the ſeruantes anſwering, ſayd: Behold I haue ſeene the ſonne of Iſai the Bethlehemite skilful to play, and very valiant in ſtrength, and a warlike man, and wiſe in his wordes, and a beautiful man: and our Lord is with him.

19 Saul therfore ſent meſſengers to Iſai▪ ſaying: Send vnto me Dauid thy ſonne, which is in the paſtures.

20 Iſai therefore tooke an aſſe loaden with loaues, and a flagon of wine, and one kidde of the goates, and ſent it by the hand of Dauid his ſonne to Saul.

21 And Dauid came to Saul, and ſtoode before him: but he loued him excedingly, & was made his eſquier.

22 And Saul ſent to Iſai, ſaying: Let Dauid ſtand in my ſight: for he hath found grace in myn eies.

23 Therefore whenſoeuer the euil ſpirit of our Lord caught Saul, Dauid tooke his harpe, & ſtrooke with his hand, and Saul was refreshed, and waxed better▪ for the euil ſpirit departed from him.

Marginal notes to Chapter 16

• 14 [::] By Gods per miſſion. S. Aug▪ li 2. q. ⟨illegible⟩. ad Sim⟨illegible⟩l⟨illegible⟩c⟨illegible⟩an S. ⟨illegible⟩eda. qq. ⟨illegible⟩n 1. Reg. c. 5.
• 16 [::] Naturally (as theſe men truly iudged) muſique helpeth ſome il diſpoſition of humores, and draweth alſo the mind from ſo vehement apprehenſion of afflictions: but here it ſemeth more probable, that God ſupernaturally reliued Saul by Dauids playing on the harpe, together with his ſincere deuotion, for more manifeſt condemnation of the one, and inſtification of the other Gloſ. ordin. S. Greg.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. XVI.

7. Beholdeth the hart.] It is proper to God to ſee the ſecrete cogitations of [Margin: How Saintes and Prophetes know mens thoughtes.] mens hartes, of himſelfe and by his owne powre. And glorified Sainctes know our cogitations by ſeing God, in whom al things appeare, that perteine to their ſtate, and for the profite of others. S. Aug. li. de cura promortuis, c. 15. S. Greg. li. 12 c. 13. Moral. Prophetes being yet mortal, by inſpiration do alſo ſee ſecrete cogitations. 1. Reg. 9. 3. Reg. 14. &c.

Chapter 17

CHAP. XVII. Goliath a Philiſtian chalengeth anie one of Iſrael to combate. 12. Dauid being ſent by his father to viſit his brethren. 23. and hearing al Iſrael ſo reprochfully prouoked, offerech to vndertake the chalenge: 34. shewing by former actes that he dare accept it. 37. And ſo by Gods ſpecial helpe wherein he truſteth, 49. ouerthroweth the chalenger with a ſtone of his ſ⟨illegible⟩ing, and cutieth of his head with his owne ſword. 51. the Philiſtijms fleeing are ſlaine, and Dauid bringeth the mans head to Saul.

1 AND the Philiſthijms gathering together their companies vnto battel, aſſembled into Socho of Iuda: and camped betwen Socho & Azeca in the borders of Dommim.

2 Moreouer Saul and the children of Iſrael being gathered together came into the Valley of terebinth, and they put the armie in aray to fight againſt the Philiſtijms.

3 And the Philiſtijms ſtoode vpon the mountaine on this ſide, and Iſrael ſtoode vpon the mountaine on the other ſide: and the valley was betwen them.

4 And there came forth a man that was a baſtard from the campe of the Philiſtians named [::] Goliath, of Geth, in height ſix cubites and a palme:

5 and a helmet of braſſe vpon his head, and he was clothed with a cote of mayle linked. moreouer the weight of his cote of mayle was fiue thouſand ſicles of braſſe:

6 and he had braſſen bootes on his thighes, and a target of braſſe couered his shoulders.

7 And the ſhaft of his ſpeare was as it were a weauers beame. and the verie yton of his ſpeare had ſix hundred ſicles of yron: and his eſquier went before him.

8 And ſtanding he cried againſt the bandes of Iſrael, and ſayd to them: Why came you prepared to fight? Am not I a Philiſtian, and you the ſeruantes of Saul? Chooſe out a man of you and let him deſcend to fight hand to hand.

9 If he ſhal be able to fight with me, and ſtrike me, we wil be ſeruantes to you: but if I ſhal preuaile, and ſhal beate him, you ſhal be ſeruantes, and shal ſerue vs.

10 And the Philiſtian ſayd: I haue defyed the bandes of Iſrael this day: Geue me a man, and let him fight with me hand to hand.

11 And Saul and al the Iſraelites hearing ſuch wordes of the Philiſtian were aſtonied, and feared excedingly.

12 And there was Dauid the ſonne of a man that was an Ephratheite, of whom there was mention before, of Bethlehem Iuda, whoſe name was Iſai, who had eight ſonnes, and he was in the dayes of Saul an old man, and aged among men.

13 And his three elder ſonnes went after Saul into battel: and the names of his three ſonnes, which went to battel, were Eliab the firſt begotten, and the ſecond Abinadab, the third alſo Samma:

14 and Dauid was the yongeſt. The three elder therefore hauing folowed Saul,

15 Dauid went, and returned from Saul, to feede his fathers flocke in Bethlehem.

16 But the Philiſtian came forth morning and euening, and ſtoode fourtie dayes.

17 And Iſai ſayd to Dauid his ſonne: Take for thy brethren an ephi of polent, and theſe ten loaues, and runne into the campe to thy brethren,

18 and theſe ten litle cheeſes thou shalr carie to the tribune: and shalt viſite thy brethren, if they doe wel: and learne with whom they are placed.

19 And Saul, and they, and al the children of Iſrael fought in the Valley of terebiuth againſt the Philiſtijms.

20 Dauid therefore aroſe in the morning, and commended the flocke to the keeper: and he went loaded as Iſai had commanded him. And he came to the place Magala, and to the hoſt, which iſſuing out to fight had made a shoute in the battel.

21 For Iſrael had put them ſelues in aray, and the Philiſtijms on the contrarie ſide were prepared.

22 Dauid therefore leauing the veſſels which he had brought, vnder the hand of him, that was keeper at the bagage, ranne to the place of the battel and asked if al thinges went wel with his brethren.

23 And when he yet ſpake to them, that man the baſtard appeared coming vp, named Goliath, the Philiſtian of Geth, coming vp from the campe of the Philiſtians: and he ſpeaking theſe ſelf ſame wordes, Dauid heard them.

24 And al the Iſraelites when they had ſene the man, fled from his face, fearing him excedingly.

25 And ſome one of Iſrael ſayd: Haue you ſeene this man that came vp, to defye Iſrael he came vp? The man therefore [::] that shal ſtrike him, the King wil geue him his daughter, and he wil make his fathers houſe without tribute in Iſrael.

26 And Dauid ſpake to the men that ſtood with him, ſaying: What shal be geuen to the man that shal beate this Philiſtian, and shal take away the reproch from Iſrael? For who is this vncircumciſed Philiſtian, which hath vpbraided the armies of the liuing God?

27 And the people reported vnto him the ſelf ſame worde, ſaying: Theſe thinges shal be geuen to the man, that shal ſtrike him.

28 Which when Eliab his eldeſt brother had heard, when he ſpake with others, he was angrie againſt Dauid, and ſayd: Wherefore cau⟨illegible⟩cſt thou? and why haſt thou left thoſe few sheepe in the deſert? I know thy pride, and the wickednes of thy hart: that to ſee the battel thou art come downe.

29 And Dauid ſayd: What haue I done? is there not cauſe to ſpeake?

30 And he went a litle aſide from him to an other: and ſayd the ſel ſame word. And the people anſwered him as before

31 And the wordes which Dauid ſpake were heard, and told in the ſight of Saul.

32 To whom when he was brought, he ſpake vnto him: Let not any mans hart be diſcouraged in him: I thy ſeruant wil goe, and wil fight againſt the Philiſtian.

33 And Saul ſayd to Dauid: Thou art not able to reſiſt this Philiſtian, nor to fight againſt him, becauſe thou art a childe, but he is a man of warre from his youth.

34 And Dauid ſayd to Saul: Thy ſeruant did fecde his fathers ſlock, and there came a lyon, [*] or a beare, and tooke a ramme out of the middes of the flocke:

35 and I purſued them, and ſtroke them, and plucked them out of their mouth, and they aroſe vp againſt me, and I caught their chinne, and I ſtrangled and ſlew them.

36 For [::] both the lyon and the beare did I thy ſeruant kil: therefore this vncircumciſed Philiſtian alſo, shal be as it were one of them. Now wil I goe and take away the reproch of the people: for who is this vncircumciſed Philiſtian, which hath beene ſo hardie to curſe the hoſt of the liuing God?

37 And Dauid ſayd: Our Lord which hath deliuered me from the hand of the lion, and of the beare, he wil deliuer me from the hand of this Philiſtian. And Saul ſayd to Dauid: Goe, and our Lord be with thee.

38 And Saul clothed Dauid with his rayments, and put an helmet of braſſe vpon his head, and veſted him with a coate of maile.

39 Dauid therefore being girded with his ſword ouer his rayment, beganne to proue if he could goe armed: for he was not accuſtomed. And Dauid ſayd to Saul: I can not goe ſo, becauſe I am not vſed, and he layd them of.

40 And he tooke his ſtaffe, which he had alwaies in his handes: & he choſe him fiue moſt bright ſtones out of the torrent, and caſt them into the shepherds skrippe, which he had with him, and he tooke a ſling in his hand, and went forth againſt the Philiſtian.

41 And the Philiſtian went, going, and approching againſt Dauid, and his eſquier before him.

42 And when the Philiſtian had ſeene, and beheld Dauid, he deſpiſed him. And he was a yong man redde, and beautiful to behold.

43 And the Philiſtian ſayd to Dauid: Why am I a dogge, that thou comeſt to me with a ſtaffe? And the Philiſtian curſed Dauid in his goddes.

44 and ſayd to Dauid: Come to me, and I wil geue thy flesh to the foules of the ayre and the beaſtes of the earth.

45 And Dauid ſayd to the Philiſtian: Thou comeſt to me with a ſword, and ſpeare, and sheeld, but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hoſts, the God of the bandes of Iſrael, whom thou haſt defied

46 this day, and our Lord shal geue thee in my hand, and I shal ſtrike thee, and take away thy head from thee: and I shal geue the carcaſſes of the campe of the Philiſtijms this day, to the fowles of the ayre, and to the beaſtes of the earth: that al the earth may knowe that there is a God in Iſrael.

47 And al this aſſemblie shal know, that not in ſword, nor in ſpeare, doth our Lord ſaue, for it is his battel, and he wil deliuer you into our handes.

48 When the Philiſtian therefore was riſen vp, and came and approched againſt Dauid, Dauid made haſt, & ranne to the battel againſt the Philiſtian.

49 And he put his hand into his skrippe, and tooke one ſtone, and caſt it with the ſling, and fetching it about ſtroke the Philiſtian in [::] the forehead, and he fel on his face vpon the earth.

50 And Dauid preuailed agaynſt the Philiſtian with ſling and ſtone, and he ſtroke, and ſlew the Philiſtian. And whereas Dauid had no ſword in his hand,

51 he ranne, and ſtood vpon the Philiſtian, and tooke his ſword, and drew it out of the ſcabard, and ſlew him, and cut of his head. And the Philiſtijms ſeing, that the ſtrongeſt of them was dead, did flee.

52 And the men of Iſrael and Iuda riſing vp shouted, and purſued the Philiſtians til they came into a valley to the gates of Accaron, and there fel wounded of the Philiſtijms in the way of Saraim, as farre as Geth, & as farre as Accaron

53 And the children of Iſrael returning, after they had purſued the Philiſtians, inuaded their campe.

54 And Dauid taking the head of the Philiſtian brought it into Ieruſalem: but his armour he layd in his tabernacle.

55 And at the ſame time that Saul ſaw Dauid going forth againſt the Philiſtian, he ſayd to Abuer the prince of the armie: :: Of what ſtocke is this yong man deſcended, Abner? And Abner ſayd: Thy ſoule liueth ô king, if I know.

56 And the king ſayd: Aske thou, whoſe ſonne this yong man is.

57 And when Dauid was returned, after the Philiſthian was ſlaine, Abner tooke him, and brought him in before Saul, hauing the head of the Philiſtian in his hand.

58 And Saul ſayd to him: O yong man of what progenie art thou? And Dauid ſayd: I am the ſonne of thy ſeruant Iſai the Bethlemite.

Marginal notes to Chapter 17

• 4 [::] This bold and impudent chalenger ſignifieth the diuel, or anie arch heretike, that prouoketh the Church of God▪ but is ouercome by the humble of hart and confident in God, & ſlaine with his owne weapon.
• 25 [::] Chriſt ouercoming the diuel receiued the Church to his ſpouſe. S. Greg.
• 34 [*] or, for and. v. 36. 37.
• 36 [::] He that hath ouercome the ſpirit of pride, and of carnalitie (ſignified by a lion, and a beare) is able alſo to ouercome the diuel.
• 49 [::] Pride hauing impudencie of the forhead, is ouerthrowne by humilitie of Chriſts croſſe. whoſe ſigne therfore we carie in our forhead. S. Aug. li. 50. homil. ho. 31.
• 55 :: Saul knew no⟨illegible⟩ Dauid, being perhaps in a ſhep wards habue though he had not long beſore ſerued & pleaſed him wel. ch. 16. v. 21.

Chapter 18

CHAP. XVIII. Dauid and Ionathas enter league of frendship. 6. Saul hearing Dauid praiſed aboue himſelf is offended, 10. and vexed with an euil ſpirit, attempteth twiſe to kil him: 17. premiſeth to geue him his eldeſt daughter in mariage, but geueth her to an other, 20. and geueth him the yonger, thereby to one throw him: 25. putting him alſo in more danger, by requiring of him an hundred prepuces of Philiſtijms. 27. Dauid bringeth him two hundred, and his fame encreaſeth.

1 AND it came to paſſe, when he had finished to ſpeake vnto Saul, the ſoule of Ionathas was ioyned faſt to the ſoule of Dauid, & Ionathas loued him as his ſoule.

2 And Saul tooke him in that day, and did not grant vnto him to returne into his fathers houſe.

3 And Dauid and Ionathas entered a league, for he loued him as his ſoule.

4 For Ionathas ſtripped himſelf of the cote wher with he was clothed, and gaue it to Dauid, and the reſt of his garments, vnto his ſword, & bowe, & vnto his belt.

5 Dauid alſo went forth to al thinges wheretoſoeuer Saul ſent him, & he behaued himſelf wiſely: and Saul placed him ouer the men of warre, and he was accepted in the eies of al the people, and ſpecially in the cies of Saules ſeruantes.

6 Moreouer [::] when Dauid returned, after he ſtroke the Philiſtian, the wemen came forth from al the tribes of Iſrael, ſinging and dancing to Saul the King, in timbrels of ioy, and in cornettes.

7 And the wemen ſang, playing, and ſaying: Saul ſtroke a thouſand, and Dauid ten thouſand.

8 And Saul was [::] exceding angrie, and this word was diſpleaſant in his eies: and he ſayd: They haue geuen Dauid ten thouſand, and to me they haue geuen a thouſand: what remayneth for him but only the kingdom?

9 Therefore Saul did not looke vpon Dauid with right eies from that day and afterward.

10 And a day after, the euil ſpirit of God inuaded Saul, and he prophecied in the middes of his houſe. And Dauid played with his hand as euery day. And Saul held a ſpeare,

11 and threw it, thinking that he could naile Dauid to the wal, and Dauid declined from his face the ſecond time.

12 And Saul feared Dauid becauſe our Lord was with him, and was departed from himſelf.

13 Saul therefore remoued him from him, and made him a tribune ouer a thouſand men, and he went out and came in before al the people.

14 Alſo in al his wayes, Dauid delt wiſely, and our Lord was with him.

15 Saul therefore ſaw that he was exceding wiſe, and he beganne to beware of him.

16 But al Iſrael, and Iuda loued Dauid, for he came in and went out before them.

17 And Saul ſayd to Dauid: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her wil I geue thee to wife, only be thou a valyant man, and fight the battels of our Lord. And Saul thought ſaying: Be not my hand vpon him, but let the handes of the Philiſtians be vpon him.

18 And Dauid ſayd to Saul: What am I, or what is my life, or the kindred of my father in Iſrael, that I ſhould be made the ſonne in lawe of the king?

19 And it came to paſſe, at what time, Merob the daughter of Saul ſhould haue beene geuen to Dauid, ſhe was geuen to Hadriel the Molathite to wife.

20 But Dauid loued Michol the other daughter of Saul. And it was told Saul, and it pleaſed him.

21 And Saul ſayd: I wil geue her to him, that ſhe may be a ſcandal vnto him, and that the hand of the Philiſtians may be vpon him. And Saul ſayd to Dauid: In two thinges thou ſhalt be my ſonne in lawe this day.

22 And Saul commanded his ſeruantes: Speake to Dauid ſecretly out of my preſence, ſaying: Behold thou pleaſeſt the King, and al his ſeruantes loue thee. Now therefore be thou the kinges ſonne in lawe.

23 And the ſeruantes of Saul ſpake al theſe wordes in the eares of Dauid. And Dauid ſayd: Doth it ſeme vnto you a ſmal matter to be the ſonne in lawe of a King? But I am a poore man, and of ſmal ability.

24 And the ſeruantes of Saul reported, ſaying: Theſe maner of wordes hath Dauid ſpoken.

25 And Saul ſayd: Speake thus to Dauid: The king nedeth no dowrie, but only an hundred prepuces of the Philiſtians, that reuenge may be made of the kinges enemies, Moreouer Saul thought to deliuet Dauid into the handes of the Philiſtians.

26 And when his ſeruantes had reported to Dauid the wordes that Saul had ſayd, the word was liked in the eies of Dauid, to be made the kings ſonne in lawe.

27 And after fewe days Dauid riſing vp, went with the men that were vnder him, and he ſtroke of the Philiſtijms two hundred men, and brought their prepuces, and numbered them to the King, that he might be his ſonne in law, Saul therefore gaue him Michol his daughter to wife.

28 And Saul ſaw, and vnderſtood that our Lord was with Dauid. And Michol the daughter of Saul loued him.

29 And Saul began more to feare Dauid: and Saul became enemie to Dauid al daies.

30 And the princes of the Philiſtians went forth: and from the beginning of their going forth, Dauid behaued him ſelf more wiſely, then al the ſeruantes of Saul, and his name was made renowmed excedingly.

Marginal notes to Chapter 18

• 6 [::] This happened not immediatly after the victorie againſt Go⟨illegible⟩ath but when Dauid had dwelt ſome time in Sauls houſe, and was very gratful to him and to al the court and people.
• 8 [::] VVhen the praiſes of one importe diminiſhing of an other, he that is proud, as Saul now was, is moued to enuie and malice, more and more as the vetrues of the other and his praiſes do increaſe.

Chapter 19

CHAP. XIX. Saul intending to kil Dauid is pacified by Ionathas. 9. Neuertheles attempteth agayn to kil him, and miſsing his purpoſe, 11. ſendeth ſouldiars to take and bring him backe that he may be ſlaine, but Michol his wife helpeth him away, and excuſeth her ſelf to her father, as if she had done it for feare. 18. Dauid and Samuel flee into Naioth. 20. Againe Saul ſendeth ſouldiars after them three times, and they al doe prophecie. 22. then himſelf purſueth Dauid, and alſo prophecieth.

1 AND Saul ſpake to Ionathas his ſonne, and to al his ſeruantes, that they ſhould kil Dauid. Moreouer Ionathas the ſonne of Saul, loued Dauid excedingly.

2 And Ionathas told Dauid, ſaying: Saul my father ſeeketh to kil thee: wherefore looke to thy ſelf I beſech thee in the morning, and thou ſhalt abide ſecretly, and ſhalt be hid.

3 But I going forth wil ſtand beſide my father, in the field whereſoeuer he ſhal be: and I wil ſpeake of thee to my father, and whatſoeuer I ſhal ſee, I wil tel thee.

4 Ionathas therefore ſpake good wordes of Dauid to Saul his father: and ſayd to him: Sinne not, o King againſt thy ſeruant Dauid, becauſe he hath not ſinned toward thee, and his workes are very good for thee.

5 And he put his life in his hand, and ſtroke the Philiſtian, and our Lord made great ſaluation to al Iſrael. Thou haſt ſeene & didſt reioice, why therefore ſinneſt thou in innocent blood killing Dauid, who is without fault?

6 Which when Saul had heard, being pacified with the voice of Ionathas, he ſware: Our Lord liueth, he shal not be ſlaine.

7 Ionathas therefore called Dauid and shewed him al theſe wordes, and Ionathas brought in Dauid to Saul, and he was before him, as he had bene yeſterday and the day before.

8 And there was battel rayſed againe, and Dauid going forth, fought againſt the Philiſtijms, and ſtroke them with a great ſlaughter, and they fled from his face.

9 And the euil ſpirit of our Lord came vpon Saul, and he ſate in his houſe, and held a ſpeare: moreouer Dauid played with his hand.

10 And Saul endeuoured to naile Dauid to the wal with his ſpeare. And Dauid declined from the face of Saul and the ſpeare without making wound, pearced the wal, and Dauid fled, and was ſaued that night.

11 Saul therefore ſent of his guarde into Dauids houſe, that they ſhould keepe him, & that he might be killed in the morning: Which when Michol his wife had told Dauid, ſaying▪ Vnles thou ſaue thy ſelf this night, to morowe thou shalt die:

12 she let him downe through a windowe, moreouer he went and fled away, and was ſaued.

13 And Michol tooke [::] a ſtatua, and put it vpon the bed, and a hearie skinne of goates she layd at the head thereof, and couered it with garmentes.

14 And Saul ſent ſerieantes, that should take away Dauid by force, and it was anſwered that he was ſicke.

15 And againe Saul ſent meſſengers to ſee Dauid, ſaying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be ſlaine.

16 And when the meſſengers were come, there was found a ſtatua vpon the bed, and skinnes of goates at the head thereof.

17 And Saul ſayd to Michol: Why haſt thou mocked me, and let goe myn enemie that he might flee? And Michol anſwered Saul: Becauſe he ſayd to me: Let me goe, otherwiſe I wil kil thee.

18 But Dauid fleing was ſaued, and came to Samuel in Ramatha, and told him al thinges that Saul had done to him: and he & Samuel went & abode in Naioth.

19 And it was told Saul by ſome ſaying: Behold Dauid is in Naioth in Ramatha.

20 Saul therefore ſent ſeriantes to take away Dauid: who when they had ſeene a troupe of prophetes prophecying, & Samuel ſtanding ouer them, the ſpirit of our Lord came alſo on them, and they alſo began to prophecie.

21 Which when it was told Saul, he ſent other meſſengers: but they alſo did prophecie. And againe Saul ſent the third meſſengers: who alſo prophecied And Saul being wrath for anger,

22 went alſo him ſelfe into Ramatha, and came as farre as the great ceſterne, which is in Socho, and asked, and ſaid: In what place are Samuel and Dauid? And it was told him: Loe they are in Naioth in Ramatha.

23 And he went into Naioth in Ramatha, and the Spirit of our Lord came vpon him, and he walked going, and he [::] prophecied til he came into Naioth in Ramatha.

24 And he ſtripped himſelfe of his garments, and prophecied with the reſt before Samuel, and ſang naked al that day and night. Wherupon there went out alſo a prouerb: What is Saul alſo among the prophetes.

Marginal notes to Chapter 19

• 13 [::] This ſtatua, or image can not importe an idol, as the ſame word teraphim doth. Gen 31 for here no idolatrie at al was cōmitted, but a right office done by the wife towards her huſband. The ſame word alſo ſignifieth religious thinges belonging to Gods ſeruice. ⟨illegible⟩ee. 3.
• 23 [::] Saul and his meſſengers had not the gift of prophecie, as godlie prophetes had by an inherent habite, but tranſitorie, as Baalams aſſe had facultie to ſpeake, at one time, but did not afterward ſpeake anie more. S. Aug. l⟨illegible⟩. 2. q. 1. ad Simplician.

Chapter 20

CHAP. XX. Ionathas comforteth Dauid, 3. confirmeth their former league. 18. By an appointed ſigne (24. endeuoring first, but in vaine, to pacifie his father) 35. certifieth Dauid of his fathers malice againſt him. 41. They meete againe ſecretly, and ſorowfully part ech from other.

1 BVT Dauid alſo fled from Naioth, which is in Ramatha, and coming ſpake before Ionathas: What haue I done? what is myn iniquitie, and what ſinne of myn againſt thy father, that he ſeeketh my life?

2 Who ſayd to him: God forbid, thou ſhalt not die: for neither wil my father doe any thing great or litle, vnles he firſt tel me: this word therefore only hath my father concealed from me? no this ſhal not be.

3 And he ſware againe to Dauid. And Dauid ſayd: Thy father ſurely knoweth, that I haue found grace in thy ſight, and: wil ſay: Let not Ionathas know this, left perhaps he be ſad. Yea more our Lord liueth, and thy ſoule liueth, by one degree only (as I may ſo ſay) I and death are diuided.

4 And Ionathas ſaid to Dauid: Whatſoeuer thy ſoule shal ſay to me, I wil doe for thee.

5 And Dauid ſayd to Ionathas: Behold the calendes are to morowe, & I after the maner am wont to ſitte beſide the king to eate: diſmiſſe me therefore that I may be hid in the field vntil the euening of the third day.

6 If thy father looking inquire for me, thou ſhalt anſwer him: Dauid deſired me, that he might goe quickely into Bethlehem his citie: becauſe there be ſolemne victimes to al of his tribe.

7 If he ſhal ſay, Wel: peace ſhal be to thy ſeruant, but if he be angrie, know that his malice is complete.

8 Doe mercie therefore toward thy ſeruant: becauſe thou haſt cauſed me thy ſeruant to enter the league of our Lord with thee. but if there be any iniquitie in me, do thou kil me, and bring me not in to thy father.

9 And Ionathas ſayd: Be this farre from thee, for neither can it be, that I ſhould not tel thee, if I ſhal certainly know that my fathers malice is complete againſt thee.

10 And Dauid anſwered Ionathas: Who ſhal bring me word, if thy father anſwer thee perhaps any thing ſharpely of me?

11 And Ionathas ſayd to Dauid: Come, let vs goe forth abroad into the field, and when they were both gone forth into the field,

12 Ionathas ſaid to Dauid: Lord God of Iſrael, if I ſhal ſearch out my fathers meaning, to morowe or the day after, and ſome good thing be vpon Dauid, and I ſend not immediatly vnto thee, and make thee know thereof,

13 theſe thinges doe our Lord to Ionathas, and theſe thinges adde he. But if my fathers malice ſhal perſeuer againſt thee, I wil reuele thyn care, and wil diſmiſſe thee, that thou mayſt goe in peace, and our Lord be with thee, as he hath beene with my father.

14 And if I liue, thou ſhalt doe me the mercie of our Lord, but if I die,

15 thou ſhalt not take away thy mercie from my houſe for euer, when our Lord ſhal haue rooted out the enemies of Dauid, euerie one out of the land, take he away Ionathas from his houſe, and our Lord require it of the handes of Dauides enemies.

16 Ionathas therefore made a league with the houſe of Dauid: and our Lord required it of the handes of Dauids enemies.

17 And Ionathas added to ſweare vnto Dauid, becauſe he loued him, for as his owne ſoule, ſo he loued him.

18 And Ionathas ſayd to him: To morowe are the calendes, and thou ſhalt be asked for:

19 for thy ſitting wil be inquired of til after to morowe. Thou ſhalt therefore goe downe in haſt, and ſhalt come to the place, where thou muſt be hid in the day, when it is lawful to worke, and thou ſhalt ſit beſide the ſtone, which is named Ezel.

20 And I wil ſhoote three arrowes nere it, and wil shoote as it were excerſiſing my ſelf at a marke

21 I wil ſend alſo a boy ſaying to him: Goe, and fetch me the arrowes.

22 If I ſhal ſay to the boy: Loe the arrowes are on this ſide thee, take them vp: come thou to me, becauſe there is peace to thee, and there is no euil, our Lord liueth. But if I shal ſpeake thus to the boy: Loe the arrowes are beyond thee: Goe in peace, becauſe our Lord hath dimiſſed thee

23 And corcerning the word which I and thou haue ſpoken, our Lord be betwen thee and me for euer.

24 Dauid therefore was hidde in the fielde, and the calendes came, and the king ſate downe to eate bread.

25 And when the king was ſette vpon his chaire (according to the cuſtome) which was beſide the wal, Ionathas aroſe, and Abner ſate at the ſide of Saul, and Dauids place appeared voide.

26 And Saul ſayd nothing that day, for he thought it had chanced perhaps vnto him, that he was not cleane, nor purified.

27 And when the ſecond day was come after the calendes, againe Dauids place appeared emptie. And Saul ſaid to Ionathas his ſonne: Why came not the ſonne of Iſa⟨illegible⟩ neither yeſterday, nor to day to eate?

28 Ionathas anſwered Saul: He deſired me inſtantly, that he might goe into Bethlehem,

29 and he ſaid: Let me goe, becauſe there is a ſolemne ſacrifice in the citie, one of my brethren hath ſent for me: now therefore if I haue found grace in thy ſight, I wil goe quickly, and ſee my brethren. For this cauſe he came not to the kings table.

30 But Saul being wrath againſt Ionathas, ſaid to him: Thou ſonne of a woman which of her owne accord rauisheth a man, am I ignorant that thou loueſt the ſonne of Iſai vnto thyne owne confuſion, and to the confuſion of thyne ignominious mother?

31 For al the dayes, that the ſonne of Iſai shal liue vpon the earth, thou shalt not be eſtablished, nor thy kingdom. Therefore now preſently ſend, and bring him to me: becauſe he is the ſonne of death.

32 And Ionathas anſwering Saul his father, faid: Why shal he dye? what hath he done?

33 And Saul caught a ſpeare to ſtrike him. And Ionathas vnderſtood that it was determined of his father, that he would kil Dauid.

34 Ionathas therefore roſe from the table in anger of furie, and did not eate bread the ſecond day of the calendes. For he was ſtroken heauie vpon Dauid, becauſe his father had confounded him.

35 And when the morning appeared, Ionathas came into the field according to the appointment with Dauid, and a little boy with him.

36 and ſaid to his boy: Goe, and fetch me the arrowes, which I shoote. And when the boy had runne, he shotte an other arrowe beyond the boy.

37 The boy therefore came to the place of the arrowe, which Ionathas had shotte: and Ionathas cried behind the back of the boy, and ſaid: Loe the arrowe is there further beyond thee.

38 And Ionathas cried againe behind the back of the boy, ſaying: Make haſt ſpedely, ſtand not. And Ionathas his boy gathered vp his arrowes, and brought them to his maſter:

39 and he was altogether ignorant, what was done: for only Ionathas and Dauid knew the matter.

40 Ionathas therefore gaue his armour⟨illegible⟩ to the boy, and ſaid to him: Goe, and cary them into the citie.

41 And when the boy was gone, Dauid roſe out of his place, which did bend to the South, and falling flatt on the ground, adored thriſe: and kiſſing one another, they wept together, but Dauid more.

42 Ionathas therefore ſaid to Dauid: Goe in peace: what ſoeuer we haue ſworne both of vs in the name of our Lord, ſaying: Our Lord be betwen me and thee, and betwen my ſeede and thy ſeede for euer.

43 And Dauid aroſe, and departed: but Ionathas alſo entred into the Citie.

Chapter 21

CHAP. XXI. In caſe of neceſsitie Achimelech the prieſt g⟨illegible⟩ueth halowed bread to Dauid, 8. alſo the ſword which he had taken from Goliath 10. then: Dauid going to Achis king of Geth, is forced to faine himſelf madde.

1 AND Dauid came into Nobe to Achimelech the prieſt: & Achimelech was aſtonyed, becauſe Dauid was come. And he ſaid to him: Why thou alone, and none is with thee?

2 And Dauid ſaid to Achimelech the prieſt: The king hath commanded me a word and ſaid: Let no man know the thing, for which thou art ſent by me, and what maner precepts I haue geuen thee, for my ſeruantes alſo I haue appointed into ſuch and ſuch a place.

3 Now therfore if thou haue any thing at hand, yea if but fiue loaues, geue me or whatſoeuer thou shalt finde.

4 And the prieſt anſwered Dauid, ſaying I haue no [::] lay breads at hand, but only holy bread, if the ſeruants be cleane, eſpecially from wemen?

5 And Dauid anſwered the prieſt, and ſaid to him: And truly, if the matter be concerning wemen, we haue refrained our ſelues from yeſterday and the day before, when we came for⟨illegible⟩h, and the veſſels of the ſeruants were holie. Moreouer this way is polluted, but it alſo shal be ſanctified this day in the veſſels.

6 The prieſt therefore gaue him halowed bread; for neither was anie bread there, but only the loaues of propoſition, which had bene taken away from the face of our Lord, that hoate loaues might be ſette downe.

7 And there was there a certaine man of the ſeruantes of Saul that day, within the tabernacle of our Lord: and his name was Doeg an Idumeite, the mighti⟨illegible⟩ſt of Saules paſtours.

8 And Dauid ſaid to Achimelech: H⟨illegible⟩ſt thou here at hand a ſpeare, or a ſword? becauſe myn owne ſword, and myne owne weapons I tooke not with me. for the kings word haſtened forward.

9 And the prieſt ſaid: Loe here the ſword of Goliath the Philiſtian, whom thou ſleweſt in the Valley of terebinth, is wrapped vp in a mantel behind the Ephod: if thou wilt take this, take it. for neither is here any other beſide that. And Dauid ſaid: There is none other like to that, geue me it.

10 Dauid therefore aroſe, and fled that day from the face of Saul: and came to Achis the king of Geth,

11 and the ſeruantes of Achis ſaid to him, when they had ſeene Dauid: Is not this Dauid the king of the land? Did they not ſing in dances to this man ſaying: Saul ſtroke a thouſand, and Dauid ten thouſand?

12 But Dauid put theſe wordes in his hart, and feared excedingly at the face of Achis the king of Geth.

13 And he [::] changed his countenance before them, and ſlipt downe betwen their handes: and he ſtumbled at the doores of the gate, & his ſpittle ranne downe vpon his bearde.

14 And Achis ſaid to his ſeruantes: You haue ſeene the man madde: why haue you brought him to me?

15 Doe we lack madde men, that you haue brought in this felowe, to play the madde man in my preſence? ſhal this man enter into my houſe?

Marginal notes to Chapter 21

• 4 [::] Diſtinction of common & holie bread. Alſo an example of diſpenſation in caſe of neceſſitie.
• 13 [::] Dauid moſt wiſely in ſuch diſtreſſe fained himſelf to be a foole. By which the Holie Ghoſt myſtically ſignified that Chriſt ſhould do ſuch things not of feare but of diuine wiſdom, as he ſhould be coūted a foole. Mar. 3. v. 21. Luc. 23. v. 11. 1. Cor. 1. v. 23 ⟨illegible⟩. Beda. Queſt. in 1. Reg. c. 14.

Chapter 22

CHAP. XXII. Dauid with a great retin⟨illegible⟩ goeth to the king of Moab 5. but by aduiſe of Gad the prophet, returneth into Iuda. 6. Saul lamenting that many conſpire againſt him. 9. Doeg accuſeth Achimelech, 14. who iuſtifieth both Dauid and himſelf. 16. He and al the Prieſtes with much people in Nobe are ſlaine by Sauls commandment, 20. onlie Abiathar eſcaping flieth to Dauid.

1 DAVID therefore went from thence, and fled to the caue of Odellam. Which when his brethren had heard, and a his fathers houſe, they went downe to him thither.

2 And there were gathered vnto him, al that were in diſtreſſe, and oppreſſed with debt, and of a penſiue hart, and he was made their prince, and there were with him about foure hundred men.

3 And Dauid departed from thence into Maſpha which is Moab: and he ſaid to the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother tary with you, I beſech thee, til I know what God wil doe to me.

4 And he left them before the face of the king of Moab, and they abode with him al the dayes that Dauid was in garriſon.

5 And Gad the prophet ſaid to Dauid: Tary not in garriſon, depart, and goe into the Land of Iuda. And Dauid departed, and came into the foreſt of Hare⟨illegible⟩.

6 And Saul heard that Dauid had appeared, and the men that were with him. And Saul when he abode in Gabaa, and was in the wood, which is in Rama, holding a ſpeare in his hand, and al his ſeruantes that ſtood about him,

7 he ſayd to his ſeruantes that ſtoode about him: Heare me now ye children of Iemini: wil the ſonne of Iſai geue to al you fieldes, and vineyardes, and make al you tribunes, & centurions:

8 becauſe you haue al conſpired againſt me, and there is none that telleth me, eſpecially where my ſonne alſo hath entred league with the ſonne of Iſai? There is none of you, that pitieth my caſe, neither is there that telleth me: for that my ſonne hath raiſed vp my ſeruant againſt me, lying in waite for me vntil this day.

9 And Doeg the Idumeite which ſtood by, and was the chief among the ſeruantes of Saul, anſwering, I ſawe, quoth he, the ſonne of Iſai, in Nobe with Achimelech the ſonne of Achitob the prieſt.

10 Who conſulted our Lord for him, and gaue him victuals, yea and the ſword of Goliath the Philiſtian he gaue to him.

11 The king therefore ſent to cal for Achimelech the prieſt the ſonne of Achitob, and al his fathers houſe, the prieſtes that were in Nobe, who came al to the king.

12 And Saul ſaid to Achimelec: Heare thou ſonne of Achitob. Who anſwered: I am readie, my Lord.

13 And Saul ſaid to him▪ Why haue you conſpired againſt me, thou, and the ſonne of Iſai, and haſt geuen him bread and a ſword, and haſt conſulted our Lord for him, that he might riſe vp againſt me, continuing a traitour vntil this day?

14 And Achimelech anſwering the king, ſaid: And who amongſt al thy ſeruantes faithful as Dauid, and the kings ſonne in lawe, and going fourth at thy commandmēt, and glorious in thy houſe?

15 Did I beginne this day to conſult our Lord for him? farre be this from me: let not the king ſuſpect ſuch a thing againſt his ſeruant, in al the houſe of my father: for thy ſeruant knew not any thing concerning this buſines, either litle or great.

16 And the king ſaidy: Ding thou shalt dye Achimelec, thou, and al thy fathers houſe.

17 And the king ſaid to the curriers, that ſtood about him: Turne your ſelues, and kil the prieſts of our Lord, [::] for their hand is with Dauid, knowing that he was ⟨illegible⟩led, and they told me not. And [::] the kings ſeruantes would not extend their handes vpon the prieſts of our Lord.

18 And the king ſaid to Doeg: Turne thou, and runne vpon the prieſts. And Doeg the Idumeite being turned, tanne vpon the prieſts, and murdered in that day eightie fiue men reueſted with an ephod of linnen.

19 And Nobe the citie of the prieſts, he ſtroke in the edge of the ſword, men and wemen, and children, and ſucklinges, and oxe and aſſe, and ſhepe in the edge of the ſword.

20 But one ſonne of Achimelech the ſonne of Achitob, eſcaping, whoſe name was Abiathar, fled to Dauid,

21 and told him that Saul had ſlaine the prieſtes of our Lord.

22 And Dauid ſaid to Abiathar: I knew in that day when Doeg the Idumeit was there, without doubt he would tel Saul, I am giltie of al the ſoules of thy father.

23 Abide with me, feare not: if any man ſhal ſeeke my life, he ſhal ſeeke thy life alſo, and with me thou ſhal be preſerued.

Marginal notes to Chapter 22

• 17 [::] Saul vniuſtly condemning Dauid, condemned alſo al thoſe that iuſtified him.
• 17 [::] Seing ſo manifeſt iniuſtice and crueltie they obeyed God, rather then m⟨illegible⟩.

Chapter 23

CHAP. XXIII. The citie of Ceila oppugned by the Philiſtijms is releeued by Dauid. 7. Who fearing to be there betrayed, 13. fleeth into the deſert of Ziph. 16. Ionathas repayreth ſecretly to him, and they confirme againe their former league. 19. The Ziphians promiſe to betray Dauid: 27. but Saul leaueth for a while to perſecute him, being forced to defend the land from the Philistians inuading it.

1 AND they told Dauid, ſaying: Behold the Philiſtijms oppugne Ceila, and ſpoyle the barnes.

2 Dauid therefore conſulted our Lord, ſaying: Shal I goe, and ſtrike theſe Philiſtians? And our Lord ſayd to Dauid: Goe, and thou ſhalt ſtrike the Philiſtians, and shalt ſaue Ceila.

3 And the men that were with Dauid, ſayd to him: Behold we reſting here in Iurie are afrayd, how much more if we shal goe into Ceila againſt the bandes of the Philiſtians?

4 Againe therefore Dauid conſulted our Lord. Who anſwering ſayd to him: Ariſe, and goe into Ceila: for I wil deliuer the Philiſtians in thy hand.

5 Dauid therefore, and his men, went into Ceila, and fought againſt the Philiſtians, and droue away their beaſtes, and ſtroke them with a great ſlaughter, and Dauid ſaued the inhabitantes of Ceila.

6 Moreouer at that time, when Abiathar the ſonne of Achimelech fled to Dauid into Ceila, he went downe hauing with him an ephod.

7 And it was told Saul that Dauid was come into Ceila: and Saul ſayd: Our Lord hath deliuered him into my handes, and he is shut vp being entered the citie, wherein are gates and lockes.

8 And Saul commanded al the people, that they should goe downe into Ceila to fight, and beſeige Dauid, and his men.

9 Which when Dauid vnderſtood, that Saul ſecretly prepared euil⟨illegible⟩ againſt him, he ſayd▪ to Abiathar the prieſt: [::] Applie the Ephod.

10 And Dauid ſayd: Lord God of Iſrael, thy ſeruant hath heard a bruite, that Saul determineth to come into Ceila, to deſtroy the citie for me:

11 Wil the men of Ceila deliuer me into his handes? and wil Saul come downe, as thy ſeruant hath heard? Lord God of Iſrael tel thy ſeruant. And our Lord ſayd: He wil come downe.

12 And Dauid ſaid: Wil the men of Ceila deliuer me, and the men that are with me, into the handes of Saul? And our Lord ſayd: [::] They wil deliuer thee.

13 Dauid therefore aroſe and his men about ſix hundred, and going out of Ceila, wandered hither and thither vncertaine: and it was told Saul that Dauid was ⟨illegible⟩led from Ceila, and was ſaued: for which cauſe he diſſembled to goe forth.

14 But Dauid abode in the deſert in moſt ſtrong places, and he taried in the mount of the deſert Ziph, in a ſhadowed hil. Saul notwithſtanding ſought him alwayes: and our Lord deliuered him not into his handes.

15 And Dauid ſaw that Saul was gone forth to ſeeke his life. Moreouer Dauid was in the deſert Ziph, in a wood.

16 And Ionathas the ſonne of Saul aroſe, and went to Dauid into the wood, and ſtrengthened his handes in God: and ſayd to him:

17 Feare not: for neither ſhal the hand of Saul my father finde thee, and thou shalt reigne ouer Iſrael, and I ſhal be ſecond to thee, yea and my father knoweth this.

18 Both therefore made a league before our Lord: And Dauid abode in the wood: but Ionathas returned into his houſe.

19 And the Zeipheites went vp vnto Saul in Gabaa, ſaying: Loe doth not Dauid lye hid with vs in the moſt ſafe places of the wood, in the Hil Hachila, which is on the right hand of the deſert?

20 Now therefore, as thy ſoule hath deſired, come downe: & it ſhal be our charge to deliuer him into the kinges handes.

21 And Saul ſayd: Bleſſed be ye of our Lord, becauſe you haue pitied my caſe.

22 Goe therefore I pray you, and prepare diligently, and deale curiouſly, and conſider the place, where his foote is, and who hath ſeene him there, for he thinketh of me, that I craftely lye in waite for him.

23 Conſider and ſee al his lurking holes, wherein he is hid, and returne to me with the certeintie of the thing, that I may goe with you. Yea and if he shal ſtoppe vp himſelfe into the earth, I wil ſearch him out among al the thouſandes of Iuda.

24 But they riſing went into Ziph before Saul: and Dauid and his men were in the deſert Maon, in the champaine country at the right hand of Ieſimon.

25 Saul therefore and his companie went to ſeeke him: and it was told Dauid, and forthwith he went downe to the rocke, and abode in the deſert Maon, which when Saul had heard, he purſued Dauid in the deſert Maon.

26 And Saul went at the ſide of the mountaine on the one part: and Dauid and his men were in the ſide of the mountaine on the other part: moreouer Dauid deſpayred that he could eſcape, from the face of Saul: Saul therefore and his men in maner of a ring, compaſſed Dauid and his men, to take them.

27 And a meſſenger came to Saul, ſaying: Make haſt, and come, becauſe the Philiſtijms haue powred in themſelues vpon the land.

28 Saul therefore returned leauing of to purſew Dauid, and he went to meete the Philiſtians. for this cauſe, they called that place, the Rocke diuiding.

Marginal notes to Chapter 23

• 9 [::] By this it appeareth that Dauid conſulted God by the high prieſt▪ and the high prieſt for this purpoſe ioyned the prieſtlie ornament called Ephod to the Rationale, and ſo had reuelatiō from God. Exo 18. Leuit. 8.
• 12 [::] Conditionally: If thou ⟨illegible⟩arie here.

Chapter 24

CHAP. XXIIII. Saul chancing to come into a caue, Dauid being hid with others in the ſame place, only cutteth the skirt of his cloke, 5. which after shewing, Saul acknowledgeth his fault, and ceaſeth for a time to perſecute him.

1 DAVID therefore went vp from thence, and dwelt in the ſafeſt places of Engaddi.

2 And when Saul was returned, after he purſued the Philiſtians, they told him, ſaying▪ Behold, Dauid is in the deſert Engaddi.

3 Saul therefore taking vnto him three thouſand choſen men of al Iſrael, went forth to ſearch out Dauid, and his men, yea ouer the ſteepe broken rockes, which are acceſſible only to wilde goates.

4 And he came to the shepcotes, which fel in his way as he went▪ and there was a caue, which Saul entred into, to doe his caſement: moreouer Dauid and his men lay hid in the inner part of the caue.

5 And the ſeruantes of Dauid ſayd to him: Behold the day, whereof our Lord ſayd to thee: I wil deliuer thee thyne enemie, that thou mayeſt doe to him as it ſhal ſeeme good in thyne eies. Dauid therefore aroſe, and cut of the hemme of Saules cloke ſoftly.

6 After this [::] Dauids hart ſtroke him, for that he had cut of the hemme of Saules cloke.

7 And he ſayd to his men: Our Lord be merciful vnto me, [::] that I doe not this thing to my Maiſter the annointed of our Lord, that I ſhould lay my hand vpon him, becauſe he is the annointed of our Lord.

8 And Dauid perſwaded his men with wordes, and permitted them not to riſe againſt Saul: moreouer Saul riſing out of the caue, went on his iourney begunne.

9 And Dauid roſe vp after him: and going out of the caue, cried behind Sauls backe, ſaying: My Lord King. And Saul looked backe behind him: and Dauid bowing him ſelfe flat toward the ground adored,

10 and ſayd to Saul: Why doeſt thou heare the wordes of men that ſay: Dauid ſeeketh euil againſt thee?

11 Loe this day thyne eies haue ſeene, that our Lord deliuered thee in my hand, in the caue, and I had a cogitation to kil thee, but myn eie hath ſpared thee. For I ſayd: I wil not extend myn hand vpon my lord, becauſe he is the annointed of our Lord.

12 But rather ſee and knowe, o my father, the hemme of thy cloke in my hand, that when I did cut of the hemme of thy cloke, I would not extend my hand vpon thee. Marke, and ſee, that there is no euil in my hand, nor iniquitie, neither haue I ſinned againſt thee: but thou lyeſt in waite for my life, to take it away.

13 Our Lord iudge betwen me and thee, and our Lord reuenge me of thee, but be not my hand vpon thee.

14 As alſo it is ſayd in the old prouerbe: FROM the impiovs ſhal impietie procede: be not therefore my hand vpon thee: Whom doeſt thou perſecute O King of Iſrael?

15 Whom doeſt thou perſecute? thou perſecuteſt a dead dog, and a flea.

16 Our Lord be iudge, & iudge betwen me and thee, and he ſee, and iudge my cauſe, and deliuer me out of thy hand.

17 And when Dauid had fully ended ſpeaking ſuch wordes to Saul, Saul ſayd: Is this thy voice my ſonne Dauid? and Saul lifted vp his voice, and wept:

18 and ſayd to Dauid: Thou art iuſter then I: for thou haſt donne me good turnes, and I haue rendred thee euil.

19 And thou haſt ſhewed this day what good thinges thou haſt done to me: how our Lord deliuered me into thy hande and thou haſt not killed me.

20 For who when he hath found his enemie, wil let him goe in a good way? But our Lord render thee this good turne, for that which thou haſt wrought toward me this day.

21 And now becauſe I knowe that thou moſt certeinly ſhalt reigne, and haue the kingdome of Iſrael in thy hand:

22 ſweare to me in our Lord, not to deſtroy my ſeede after me, nor to take away my name from the houſe of my father.

23 And Dauid ſware to Saul. Saul therefore went in to his houſe: and Dauid and his men went vp into ſafer places.

Marginal notes to Chapter 24

• 6 [::] A tender cōſcience had ſcruple of a ſmal doubt which was no ſinne: a large cōſcience ſticketh at nothing.
• 7 [::] Saul being annointed king by God▪ appointment, could not lawfully be ſlaine by his ſubiectes without like ordinance from God. For though Dauid was alſo already annointed, yet that was not to reigne preſently, but when Saul ſhould die, or otherwiſe be taken away.

Chapter 25

CHAP. XXV. Samuel dieth and is mourned. 3. Dauid requeſting, 10. and not obtaining victuals of Nabal, 13 threatneth to kil him. 14. But his wife Abigail prudently preuenteth the reuenge, 18. by ſending victuals, 23. and geuing good wordes. 37. Al which when Nabal vnderſtandeth, he ⟨illegible⟩ainteth, and after tenne dayes dieth. 39. Dauid marieth Abigail: 43. alſo Achinoam: 44. and his wife Michol is geuen to an other.

1 AND Samuel died, and al Iſrael was gathered together, and they mourned for him, and buried him in his houſe in Ramatha. And Dauid riſing went downe into the deſert of Pharan.

2 And there was a certaine man in the wildernes of Maon, and his poſſeſſion in Carmel, and that man was exceding great: and he had three thouſand sheepe, & a thouſand goates: and it chanced that his flocke was shorne in Carmel.

3 And the name of that man was Nabal: and the name of his wife Abigail. and that woman was very wiſe and beutiful: moreouer her huſband hard, and very il, and malicious: and he was of the kindred of Caleb.

4 When Dauid therefore heard in the deſert, that Nabal sheared his flocke,

5 he ſent tenne yong men, and ſayd to them: Goe vp into Carmel, and you shal come to Nabal, and shal ſalute him in my name peaceably.

6 And you shal ſay: Peace be to my brethren, and to thee, and peace to thy houſe, and to al whatſoeuer thou haſt be peace.

7 I haue heard, that thy shephards which were with vs in the deſert did sheare we haue neuer moleſted them, neither hath ought beene wanting to them at any time of the flocke, al the time that they were with vs in Carmel.

8 Aske thy ſeruantes, and they wil tel thee. Now therefore let thy ſeruantes finde grace in thyne eies: for we are come in a good day, whatſoeuer thy hand shal finde, geue thy ſeruantes, and thy ſonne Dauid.

9 And when Dauids ſeruantes were come, they ſpoke to Nabal al theſe wordes in Dauids name: and ſo held their peace.

10 But Nabal anſwering the ſeruantes of Dauid, ſaid: Who is Dauid? and what is the ſonne of Iſai? There are ſeruantes multiplied now a daies which flee from their maſters.

11 Shal I then take my breades, and my waters, and the flesh of my cattel, which I haue killed for my sheares, and geue to men whom I know nnt whence they are?

12 Therefore the ſeruantes of Dauid returned by their way, and returning came and told him al the wordes that he had ſaid.

13 Then ſayd Dauid to his ſeruantes: Euery man gird him with his ſworde. And they were euery one girded with their ſwordes. And Dauid alſo was girded with his ſworde: and there folowed Dauid about foure hundred men: moreouer two hundred remayned at the baggage.

14 But to Abigail the wife of Nabal one of their ſeruantes told, ſaying: Behold Dauid hath ſent meſſengers from the deſert, to bleſſe our maiſter. & he diſdayned them:

15 theſe men were good ynough to vs, and not trubleſome: neither did euer any thing perish al the time, that we haue couuerſt with them in the deſert:

16 they were in ſteed of a wal to vs both in the day and in the night, al the dayes that we fed the flockes with them.

17 Wherefore conſider, & thinke what thou haſt to doe, for [::] malice is accompliſhed againſt thy huſband, and againſt thy houſe, and he is the ſonne of Belial, ſo that no man can ſpeake to him.

18 Abigail therefore made haſt, and tooke two hundred loaues, and two bottels of wine, and fiue muttons ready dreſt, and fiue meaſures of polent, and a hundred branches of rayſens, and two hundred maſes of drie figges, and laid them vpon aſſes:

19 and ſaid to her ſeruantes: Goe before me: loe, I wil folow you at your backe: but ſhe told not her huſband Nabal.

20 When ſhe therefore had gotten vpon an aſſe, and came downe to the foote of the mountaine, Dauid and his men came downe meeting her, whom ſhe alſo mette.

21 And Dauid ſaid: In vaine veryly haue I preſerued al thinges that were this mans in the deſert, and there periſhed nothing of al that perteined to him: and he hath rendred me [::] euil for good.

22 Theſe thinges doe God to the enemies of Dauid, and theſe thinges adde he, if I ſhal leaue of al thinges that perteine to him vntil morning, any thing piſſing againſt the wal.

23 And when Abigail had ſeene Dauid, ſhe made haſt, and light from her aſſe, and fel downe before Dauid vpon her face, and adored vpon the earth,

24 and fel at his feete, and ſayd: In me my lord be this iniquitie: let thy handmayde ſpeake I beſech thee in thine eares: and heare the wordes of thy ſeruant.

25 Let not my lord the king I pray thee, ſet his hart vpon this naughtie man Nabal: becauſe according to his name, he is a foole, and follie is with him: but I thy handmaide ſawe not thy ſeruantes my lord, whom thou didſt ſend.

26 Now therefore my lord, our Lord liueth, and thy ſoule liueth, who hath ſtayed thee that thou ſhouldeſt not come vnto blood, and hath ſaued thy hand to thee: and now be thine enemies as Nabal, and they that ſeeke euil to my lord.

27 Wherefore receiue this benediction, which thy handmaide hath brought to thee my lord: and geue to thy ſeruantes that folow thee my lord.

28 Take away the iniquitie of thy handmaide: for our Lord making wil make to my lord a faithful houſe, becauſe thou my lord doeſt fight the battels of our Lord: let not malice therefore be found in thee al the dayes of thy life.

29 For if a man ſhal riſe, perſecuting thee, and ſeeking thy life, the life of my lord ſhal be kept, as in the [::] bundel of the liuing, with our Lord thy God: Moreouer the life of thine enemies ſhal be whurled, and in the violence, and whurle of a ſling.

30 When our Lord therefore ſhal doe to thee, my lord, al good thinges, which he hath ſpoken concerning thee, and ſhal conſtitute thee prince ouer Iſrael,

31 this ſhal not be an occaſion of ſobbing to thee, and a ſcruple of hart to my lord, that thou haſt ſhed innocent blood, or thy ſelfe haſt reuenged thy ſelfe: and when our Lord hath beſtowed theſe benefites vpon my lord, thou ſhalt remember thy handmaide.

32 And Dauid ſayd to Abigail: Bleſſed be our Lord the God of Iſrael, who hath ſent thee this day to meete me, and bleſſed be thy ſpeach,

33 and bleſſed be thou, which haſt ſtayed me to day, that I might not goe to blood, and reuenge me with myn owne hand.

34 Otherwiſe our Lord liueth the God of Iſrael, who hath ſtaied me, that I ſhould not doe thee any euil: vnles thou hadſt quickely come to meete me, there had not remained to Nabal vntil morning light, any piſſing againſt a wal.

35 And Dauid tooke of her hand al thinges which ſhe had brought him, and ſaid to her: Goe peaceable into thy houſe, behold I haue heard thy voice, and haue honoured thy face.

36 And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feaſt in his houſe, as it were the feaſt of a king, and Nabals hart was pleaſant: for he was drunke excedingly: and ſhe told him not a word little or great vntil morning.

37 But early when Nabal had digeſted his wine, his wife told him theſe wordes, and his hart was dead inwardly, and he became as a ſtone.

38 And when ten dayes had paſſed, our Lord ſtroke Nabal, and he died.

39 Which when Dauid had heard that Nabal was dead, he ſayd: Bleſſed be our Lord, who hath iudged the cauſe of my reproch at the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his ſeruant from euil, and the malice of Nabal hath our Lord rendred vpon his head. Dauid therefore ſent, and ſpake to Abigail, that he might take her to himſelfe to wife.

40 And Dauids ſeruantes came to Abigail into Carmel, and ſpake to her, ſaing: Dauid hath ſent vs vnto thee, to take thee to his wife.

41 Who ariſing adored flat toward the earth, and ſayd: Loe let thy ſeruant be as an handmaide, to waſh the feete of the ſeruantes of my lord.

42 And Abigail aroſe, and made haſt, and gatte vpon an aſſe, and fiue wemen went with her waiting maides, and folowed the meſſengers of Dauid, and became his wife.

43 Yea and Achinoam alſo did Dauid take of Iezrahel: and both were his wiues.

44 But Saul gaue Michol his daughter Dauids wife to Phalti, the ſonne of Lais, who was of Gallim.

Marginal notes to Chapter 25

• 17 [::] Not a malicious mind, ſuch as Saul bore vniuſtly againſt Dauid; but puniſhmēt is decreed againſt Nabal, for not only denying a reaſonable requeſt, but alſo for ſo reprochful an anſwer.
• 21 [::] Euil wordes for curteous vſage heret o ſore, and for late gentil intreating by meſſengers.
• 29 [::] Things tye⟨illegible⟩ in bundels are ſtronger and more ſecure, then ſingle and looſe.

Chapter 26

CHAP. XXVI. The Ziphians bewrraying the place, Saul beſiegeth Dauid. 5. who by night goeth where Saul and his men are a ſleepe, 9. hurteth him not: 12. but taketh from him his ſpeare and bottle of water: 14. sheweth what he hath done. 21. Saul againe confeſſeth his fault, and promiſeth peace.

1 AND there came Zepheites vnto Saul in Gabaa, ſaying: Behold Dauid is hid in the hil Hachila, which is ouer againſt the wildernes.

2 And Saul aroſe, and went downe into the deſert Ziph, and with him three thouſand men of the choſen of Iſrael, to ſeeke Dauid in the deſert Ziph.

3 And Saul camped in Gabaa Hachila, which was ouer againſt the wildernes in the way: and Dauid dwelt in the deſert. And ſeing that Saul was come after him into the deſet,

4 he ſent diſcouerers, and lerned that he was come thither moſt certainly.

5 And Dauid aroſe ſecretly, and came to the place where Saul was: and when he had ſeene the place, wherein Saul ſlept, and Abner the ſonne of Ner, the prince of his warre, and Saul ſleeping in the tent, and the reſt of the multitude round about him,

6 Dauid ſpake to Achimelech the Hetheit, and Abiſai the ſonne of Seruia the brother of Ioab, ſaying: Who wil goe downe with me to Saul into the campe? And Abiſai ſaid: I wil goe with thee.

7 Dauid therefore and Abiſai came to the people by night, and found Saul lying and ſleeping in the tent, and his ſpeare fixed in the ground at his head: and Abner, and the people ſleeping round about him.

8 And Abiſai ſaid to Dauid: God hath shut vp thine enemie this day into thy handes: now therefore I wil thruſt him through with my ſpeare in the earth once, and twiſe shal not neede.

9 And Dauid ſaid to Abiſai: Kil him not: for [::] who ſhal extend his hand vpon the annointed of our Lord, & shal be innocent?

10 And Dauid ſaid: Our Lord liueth, vnleſſe our Lord shal ſtrike him, or his day come to die, or deſcendig into battel he perish:

11 Our Lord be merciful vnto me, that I extend not my hand vpon the annointed of our Lord. now therefore take the ſpeare, which is at his head, & cuppe of water, and let vs goe.

12 Dauid therefore tooke the ſpeare, and cuppe of water, which was at Saules head, and they went away: and there was none that ſawe, or vnderſtood, or awaked, but al ſlept, becauſe the dead ſleepe [::] of our Lord, had fallen vpon them.

13 And when Dauid had paſſed ouer againſt, and ſtood in the toppe of the mountaine farre of, and a good ſpace betwen them,

14 Dauid cried to the people, and to Abner the ſonne of Ner, ſaying: Wilt thou not anſwer Abner? And Abner anſwering ſayd: Who art thou, that crieſt and diſquieteſt the king?

15 And Dauid ſayd to Abner: Art not thou a man? And who is like thee in Iſrael? why therefore haſt thou not kept thy lord the king? for one of the multitude hath entered in to kil the king thy lord.

16 This thing is not good, which you haue done: Our Lord liueth, you are the children of death, which haue not kept your lord, the annointed of our Lord. Now therefore behold where the kinges ſpeare is, & where the cup of water is, which was at his head.

17 And Saul knew Dauids voice, and ſayd: Is this thy voice, my ſonne Dauid? And Dauid ſayd: My voice, my lord king,

18 and he ſaid: For what cauſe doth my lord perſecute his ſeruant? What haue I done? or what euil is there in my hand?

19 Now therefore heare, I pray, my lord King, the wordes of thy ſeruant: If our Lord ſtirre thee vp againſt me, let there be odoure of ſacrifice: but if the ſonnes of men, they are curſed in the ſight of our Lord, which haue caſt me out this day, that I ſhould not dwel in the inheritance of our Lord, ſaying: Goe, ſerue ſtrange goddes.

20 And now let not my blood be ſhed vpon the earth before our Lord, for the king of Iſrael, is come forth to ſeeke one flea, as the perdix is purſued in the mountaines.

21 And Saul ſayd: I haue ſinned, returne my ſonne Dauid, for I wil no more doe thee euil, for that my life hath bene precious in thyne eies to day: for it appeareth that I haue done foolishly, and haue bene ignorant of very many thinges.

22 And Dauid anſwering, ſayd: Behold the kings ſpeare, let one of the kings ſeruants paſſe, and take it.

23 And our Lord wil reward euerie one according to his iuſtice, and fidelitie: for our Lord hath deliuered thee this day into my hand, & I would not extend my hand vpon the annointed of our Lord.

24 And as thy life hath bene magnified to day in myne eies, ſo be my life magnified in the eies of our Lord, and deliuer he me from al diſtreſſe.

25 Saul therefore ſayd to Dauid: Bleſſed art thou my ſonne Dauid: and truly doing thou shalt doe, and preuayling thou shalt preuaile. And Dauid went into his way, and Saul returned into his place.

Marginal notes to Chapter 26

• 9 [::] Dauid is reſolute, and often repeteth, that it is not lawful for priuate ſubiectes to kil their prince, no although him ſelfe was annointed to ſuccede.
• 12 [::] Gods prouidence ſent this extraordinary ſleepe and inſpired Dauid, to doe this fact, for more iuſtification of his innocencie▪

Chapter 27

CHAP. XXVII. Dauid for more ſecuritie goeth againe to Achis king of Geth, 5. obtaineth of him the citie of Siceleg, (6. by which meanes it becometh ſubiect to the kinges of Iuda) 8. and maketh prayes vpon the enemies of King Achis.

1 AND Dauid ſayd in his hart: at length I shal fal one day into the handes of Saul: is it not better that I flee, and be ſaued in the Land of the Philiſtians, that Saul may deſpaire, and ceaſe to ſeeke me in al the coaſtes of Iſrael? I wil flee therefore his handes.

2 And Dauid aroſe, and went himſelfe, and the ſix hundred men with him, to Achis the ſonne of Maoch, the King of Geth.

3 And Dauid dwelt with Achis in Geth, he and his men; euerieman & his houſe, and his two wiues, Achinoam the Iezrahelite, and Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel.

4 And it was told Saul that Dauid was fled into Geth, and he added no more to ſeeke him.

5 And Dauid ſayd to Achis: If I haue grace in thy ſight, let there a place be geuen me in one of thy cities of this countrie, that I may dwel there: for why abideth thy ſeruant in the citie of the king with thee?

6 Achis therefore gaue him in that day Siceleg: for which cauſe Siceleg became the kinges of Iuda vntil this day.

7 And the number of the daies, that Dauid dwelt in the country of the Philiſtians, was foure monethes.

8 And Dauid went vp, and his men, and draue prayes out of [::] Geſſuri, and Gerzi, and from the Amalecites: for theſe villages were inhabited in the land in old time, as men goe to Sur, as farre as the Land of Aegypt.

9 And Dauid ſtroke al the land, neither left he anie man or woman: and taking the ſheepe & oxen, and aſſes, & camels, and garments, he returned & came to Achis.

10 And Achis ſayd to him: Whom haſt thou ſet vpon to day? Dauid anſwered: Againſt the ſouth of Iuda, and againſt the ſouth of Ier⟨illegible⟩miel, and againſt the ſouth of Ceni.

11 Dauid gaue life neither to man nor woman, neither brought them into Geth, ſaying: Leſt perhaps they ſpeake againſt vs. Theſe thinges did Dauid, and this was decreed of him al the daies that he dwelt in the countrie of the Philiſtians.

12 Achis therefore did credite Dauid, ſaying: Manie euils hath he wrought againſt his people Iſrael: Therefore he ſhal be my ſeruant for euer.

Marginal notes to Chapter 27

• 8 [::] Theſe countries were neither ſubiect to the Philiſtijms not to the Iſraelites, and were alſo of thoſe nations whom God had cōmanded to deſt⟨illegible⟩roy, dwelling within the land of Chanaan. Deut, 25.

Chapter 28

CHAP. XXVIII. The Philiſtians fighting againſt Saul, Dauid promiſeth fidelitie to Achis. 3. Saul deſtroyeth magicians, 6. but God not anſwering him, 7. ſeeketh a woman that hath a Pithon ſpirite, 12. willeth her to raiſe vp Samuel. [Margin: The fourth part. Of the ruine of Saul, and exaltation of Dauid.] 15. who appearing fortelleth him, that he, and his ſonnes shal die the next day.

1 AND it came to paſſe that in thoſe daies the Philiſtijms gathered together their companies, that they might be prepared to battel againſt Iſrael: and Achis ſayd to Dauid: Knowing know thou now, that thou shalt goe forth with me in the campe, thou, and thy men.

2 And Dauid ſayd to Achis: Now thou shalt know what thy ſeruant wil doe. And Achis ſayd to Dauid: And I wil appoint thee keper of my head al daies.

3 And Samuel was dead, and al Iſrael mourned for him, and buried him in Ramatha his citie. And Saul tooke al the magicians and ſoothſayers out of the land.

4 And the Philiſtijms were gathered together, and came and camped in Sunam: and Saul alſo gathered together al Iſrael, and came into Gelboe.

5 And Saul ſaw the campe of the Philiſtijms, and feared, and his hart was afrayd excedingly.

6 And he conſulted our Lord, and he anſwered him not, neither by dreames, nor by prieſtes, nor by prophetes.

7 And Saul ſayd to his ſeruantes: Seeke me a woman that hath a pithonical ſpirite, and I wil goe to her, and wil aske by her. And his ſeruantes ſayd to him: There is a woman that hath a pithonical ſpirite in Endor.

8 He therefore changed his habite and was clothed with other garmentes, and he went himſelfe, and two men with him, and they came to the woman in the night, and ſayd to her: Deuine vnto me in the pythonical ſpirite, and raiſe me vp whom I ſhal tel thee.

9 And the woman ſayd to him: Loe, thou knoweſt what great thinges Saul hath done, and how he hath rayſed the magicians and ſothſayers out of the land: why therefore doeſt thou lye in waite for my life, that I may be ſlaine?

10 And Saul ſware vnto her in our Lord, ſaying: Our Lord liueth, there shal no euil happen vnto thee for this thing.

11 And the woman ſayd to him: Whom ſhal I rayſe vp to thee? Who ſayd: Raiſe me vp Samuel.

12 And when the woman had ſeene Samuel, ſhe cried out with a loud voice, and ſayd to Saul: Why haſt thou deceiued me? for thou art Saul.

13 And the King ſayd to her: Feare not: what ſaweſt thou? And the woman ſayd to Saul: I ſaw [::] Goddes coming out of the earth.

14 And he ſayd to her: What maner of forme hath he? who ſayd: An old man is come vp, and he is clothed with a mantel. And “ Saul [*] vnderſtood that it was Samuel,and he bowed himſelfe vpon his face on the earth, and :: adored.

15 And Samuel ſayd to Saul: why haſt thou diſquieted me, that I ſhould be raiſed vp? And Saul ſayd, I am in great diſtreſſe: for the Philiſtijms fight againſt me, and God is departed from me, and would not heare me, neither in the hand of prophetes, not by dreames: therefore I haue called thee, that thou ſhouldeſt ſhew me, what I ſhal doe.

16 And Samuel ſayd: Why askeſt thou, whereas our Lord is departed from thee, and is paſſed to thine aduerſarie?

17 For our Lord wil doe to thee as he ſpake in my hand, and he wil cut thy kingdome out of thy hand, & wil geue it to thy neighbour Dauid:

18 becauſe thou haſt not obeyed the voice of our Lord, neither didſt thou the wrath of his furie in Amalec. Therefore that which thou ſuffereſt hath our Lord done to thee this day.

19 And our Lord wil geue Iſrael alſo with thee into the handes of the Philiſtijms: and to morow thou and thy ſonnes ſhal be [::] with me: yea the campe alſo of Iſrael wil our Lord deliuer into the handes of the Philiſthijms.

20 And forthwith Saul fel ſtretched forth on the ground, for he feared much the wordes of Samuel, and there was no ſtrength in him, becauſe he had not eaten bread al that day.

21 That woman therefore went vnto Saul (for he was very much trubled) and ſayd to him: Behold thy handmaide hath obeied thy voice, and I haue put my life in my hand: and I heard the wordes, which thou ſpakeſt to me.

22 Now therefore heare thou alſo the voice of thy handmaide, and I wil ſet before thee a morſel of bread, that eating thou mayeſt recouer ſtrength, and be able to goe on thy iourney.

23 Who refuſed, and ſayd: I wil not eate. But his ſeruantes and the woman forced him, and at length hearing their voice, he aroſe from the ground, and ſate vpon the bed.

24 And that woman had a paſture fed calfe in the houſe, and ſ⟨illegible⟩e made haſt, and killed him: and taking meale kneded it, and baked azimes,

25 and ſette before Saul, and before his ſeruantes, who when they had eaten roſe vp, and walked al that night.

Marginal notes to Chapter 28

• 13 [::] Not manie but one excellent perſon, an old man come lie in apparel. :: Saul adored not Samuel with diuine honour, but with dulia, reuerencedue to a bleſſed ſoule.
• 14 [*] ⟨illegible⟩iadag⟨illegible⟩ cognouit Luevv.
• 19 [::] In ſtate of the dead in an other world, not in the ſame particular ſtate.

ANNOTATIONS. CHAP. XXVIII.

14. Saul vnderſtood that it vvas Samuel.] It is not defined nor certaine, whetherthe ſoule of Samuel appeared, or an euil ſpirit tooke his ſhape, and ſpake to Saul. S. Auguſtin (li. 2. q. 3. ad Simplician) propoſeth both the opinions as [Margin: S. Auguſtin: opinion whether Samuele ſoule appeared, or no.] probable. VVhere firſt he ſheweth, that Samuels ſoule might appeare; either brought thither by the euil ſpirite, which is not ſo much to be merueled at, as that our Lord and Sauiour ſuffered him ſelf to be ſette vpon the pinnacle of the temple, and to be caried into a high mountaine by the diuel; yea to be taken priſoner, bound, whipped, and crucified, by the diuels miniſters: or els that the ſpirite of the holie prophet, was not raiſed by force of the inchantment, or anie powre of the diuel, but by Gods ſecrete ordinance vnknowen to the pythonical woman, and to Saul, and ſo appeared in the kings preſence, and ſtroke him with diuine ſentence Againe he anſwereth, that there may be a more eaſie and readie ſenſe of this place, to wit, that Samuels ſpirite (or ſoule) was not in deede raiſed, but an imaginarie illuſion made by the diuels inchantment, which ſemed to be Samuel, and which the Scripture calleth by the name of Samuel, as pictures or images are commonly called thoſe perſons or thinges, [Margin: More probable that his verie ſoule appeared, not compelled by the euil ſpirite but obeying Gods ſecrete ordinance.] which they repreſent. So when we behold pictures in a table, or on a wal, we ſay, this is Cicero, that is Saluſt, that Achilles, that is Rome. To this effect S. Auguſtin diſcourſeth more at large in the place before cited. But in an other worke written after (de cura pro mortuis gerenda. c. 15.) teaching that ſoules of the dead appeare ſometimes to the liuing, he ſaieth expreſly, Samuel the prophet being dead, foretold ſuture thinges to King Saul yet liuing. Though ſome be of opinion (ſaieth he) that Samuel himſelf appeared not, but ſome euil ſpirit tooke his ſimilitude.

And this laſt iudgement of S. Auguſtin is much confirmed; firſt by the wordes of this text, literally and plainly affirming that Samuel appeared, and ſpake [Margin: Firſt prooſe▪] to Saul, and Saul to him. and that Saul vnderſtood (or⟨illegible⟩nevv, not only thought, imagined, or ſuppoſed) that it vvas Samuel. Secondly, this apparition came ſooner, preuenting the inchantment, and in better order, then the pithonical [Margin: 2] woman expected, as appeareth by her anſwer, ſaying ſhe ſaw God (or an excellent perſon) aſcending in comelie maner and attyre: whereas euil ſpirites vſed to appeare (as the Rabbins teſtifie) in vglie bodies, with the heeles into the ayer, and head downward. Thirdly, the Author of Eccleſtaſticus (ch. 46.) amongſt the prayſes of Samuel the prophet, ſaieth, he ſlept, (or died) and certified [Margin: 3] the King, and shevved to him, the end of his life. VVhere it ſemeth clere, that the ſame perſon that died, denounced Gods wil and ſentence to Saul. Moreouer if it had bene an illuſion of an euil ſpirite, it would hardly ſeme anie praiſe at al. Fourthly, the diuel could not naturally foretel that Saul and his ſonnes, [Margin: 4] with manie of the people ſhould be ſlaine the next day, and Dauid reign⟨illegible⟩ after him: neither is it probable, that God reueiled ſuch ſecretes to euil ſpirites, wherby men might take more occaſion to folow nicromancie. Fiftly, moſt Fathers and Doctors are of the ſame iudgement. S. Iuſtinus Martyr. [Margin: ⟨illegible⟩] [Margin: to. ⟨illegible⟩. pag. 210.] Dialogo cum Triphone. S. Baſil. Epiſt. 80. ad Euſtathium. S. Ambroſe li. 1. in Luc. 1. S. Hierom. in Iſaiae. 7. Ioſephus li. 6. c. 15. Antiq. and manie other old and late writers. The chiefeſt argument for the other opinion is the authoritie of Tertullian. li. de anima. Procopius and Eucherius vpon this place. and the vncertaine authors, Queſtionum apud Iuſtinum. q. 52. lib. de mirabil. Sac. Script. and Queſt. vet. Teſtamenti, q. 27. apud Auguſtinum, tomo. 3. et. 4. As for the Proteſtantes denying, that ſoules once parted from their bodies, can appeare to anie aliue, S. Auguſtin confuteth them, both by this example of Samuel, ſuppoſing the [Margin: Soules ſometimes appeare after death.] [Margin: loco ⟨illegible⟩ tat⟨illegible⟩.] booke of Eccleſiaſticus to be Canonical Scripture, and of Moyſes being dead, and Elias yet liuing (whom they hold alſo to be dead) both appearing with Chriſt in his transfiguration. Mat. 17.

Chapter 29

CHAP. XXIX. Dauid going with the Philiſtijms towards the warre, 4. the princes vrge and force the king to ſend him back.

1 THEREFORE al the companies of the Philiſtijms were gathered together into Aphec: and Iſrael alſo camped vpon the fountaine, which was in Iezrahel.

2 And the princes in dede of the Philiſtijms marched in hundreds and thouſandes: but Dauid and his men were in the laſt companie with Achis.

3 And the princes of the Philiſtijms ſayd to Achis: What meane theſe Hebrewes? And Achis ſayd to the princes of the Philiſtijms: Doe you not knowe Dauid, which was the ſeruant of Saul the king of Iſrael, and is with me manie daies, or [::] yeares, and I haue not found any thing in him, ſince the day that he fled to me, vntil this day?

4 But the princes of the Philiſtijms were angrie againſt him, and ſayd to him: Let this man returne, and abide in his place, wherein thou haſt appointed him, and let him not goe downe with vs into battel, leſt he become an aduerſarie to vs, when we ſhal beginne to fight: for how can he otherwiſe pacifie his lord, but in our heades?

5 Is not this Dauid, to whom they ſang in dances, ſaying: Saul hath ſtrooke his thouſandes, & Dauid his ten thouſandes?

6 Achis therefore called Dauid, and ſayd to him: The Lord liueth, thou art iuſt, and good in my ſight: and thy going out, & thy coming in is with me in the campe: and I haue not found in thee anie euil, ſince the day that thou cameſt to me vntil this day: but thou pleaſeſt not the nobles.

7 Returne therefore, and goe in peace, and offend not the eies of the princes of the Philiſtijms.

8 And Dauid ſayd to Achis: For what haue I done, and what haſt thou found in me thy ſeruant, ſince the day that I haue beene in thy ſight, vntil this day, that I may not come, and fight againſt the enemies of my lord the King?

9 And Achis anſwering ſpake to Dauid: I know that thou art good in my ſight, as an Angel of God: but the princes of the Philiſtijms haue ſayd: He shal not goe vp with vs into battel.

10 Therefore ariſe in the morning, thou, and the ſeruantes of thy lord, which came with thee: and when you are riſen in the night, and it shal beginne to waxe light, goe foreward.

11 Dauid therefore aroſe in the night, he and his men, that they might ſette foreward in the morning, and returne to the land of the Philiſtijms: and the Philiſtijms went vp into Iezrahel.

Marginal notes to Chapter 29

• 3 [::] He ſpeaketh by amplification to make his fact ſeme more reaſonable: whereas the time of Dauids abode with him was but foute monethes. ch. 27. v. 7.

Chapter 30

CHAP. XXX. Dauid returning to Siceleg, findeth it burned and ſpoiled, and himſelf in danger of the people: 7. By our Lords warrant be purſueth the enemie, 11. taketh a guide: 17. recouereth al that was taken away: 22. and rewardeth the ſouldiars, alſo thoſe that ſtayed with the baggage; 25. making it a lawe for the time to come, shat the keepers of the baggage, shal haue like share with thoſe that fight in battel.

1 AND when Dauid and his men were come to Siceleg the third day, the Amalecites had made an inuaſion on the ſouth ſide into Siceleg, and had ſtrooken Siceleg, and burnt it with fire.

2 And had led away wemen captiue out of it, from the leſſe vnto the great: and had not killed any man, but had led them with them, and went on their iourney.

3 When Dauid therefore and his men were come to the citie, and had found it burnt with fire, and their wiues, and their ſonnes, and their daughters to be led away captiue,

4 Dauid and the people that was with him, lifted vp their voices, and mourned til teares fayled them.

5 For the two wiues alſo of Dauid were led away captiue, Achinoam the Iezraelite, and Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel.

6 And Dauid was ſtrooken very ſad: for the people would haue ſtoned him, becauſe the ſoule of euerie man was bitterly affected vpon their ſonnes, and daughters: but Dauid was ſtrengthened in our Lord his God.

7 And he ſayd to Abiathar the prieſt the ſonne of Achimelech: Applie [::] vnto me the Ephod. And Abiathar applied the Ephod to Dauid,

8 and Dauid conſulted our Lord, ſaying: Shal I purſue theſe theeues, and shal I take them or no? And our Lord ſayd to him: Purſue them: for thou shalt take them without doubt, & take from them the praye.

9 Dauid therefore went himſelfe, and the ſix hundred men that were with him, and they came vnto the Torrent Beſor: & ſome being wearie ſtayed.

10 But Dauid himſelf, and foure hundred men purſued: for two hundred ſtayed, who being wearie could not paſſe the Torrent Beſor.

11 And they found an Aegyptian in the field, and brought him to Dauid: and they gaue him bread to eate, and water to drink,

12 and alſo a peece of a maſſe of drie figges, and two bunches of reſinnes. Who when he had eaten, his ſpirite returned, and he was refreshed: for he had not eaten bread, nor drunken water three daies, and three nightes.

13 Dauid therefore ſayd to him. Whoſe art thou? or whence? and whither goeſt thou? who ſayd: I am a yong man of Aegypt, the ſeruant of an Amalacite: and my maiſter hath leift me, becauſe I began to be ſicke three daies agone.

14 For we brake forth at the ſouth ſide of Cerethi, and againſt Iuda, and at the ſouth of Caleb, and burnt Siceleg with fire.

15 And Dauid ſayd to him: Canſt thou bring me to this companie? Who ſayd: Sweare to me by God, that thou wilt not kil me, nor deliuer me into the handes of my lord, and I wil bring thee to this companie. And Dauid ſware to him.

16 Who when he had brought them, behold they ſate vpon the face of al the earth, eating and drinking, and as it were keping feſtiual day, for al the praye, and ſpoiles which they had taken out of the Land of the Philiſtijms, and out of the Land of Iuda.

17 And Dauid ſtroke them from euening vntil the euening of the next day, and there eſcaped not anie of them, but foure hundred yong men, which had gotten vpon camels, and were fled.

18 Dauid therefore reskewed al thinges, that the Amalecites had taken, and he reskewed his two wiues.

19 Neither was there anie wanting from litle to great as wel of their ſonnes as of their daughters, and of the ſpoiles, and what thinges ſoeuer they had taken, Dauid brought al againe.

20 And he tooke al the flockes & heardes, and draue them before his face: and they ſayd: This is the praye of Dauid.

21 And Dauid came to the two hundred men, which being wearie had ſtaied, neither were able to folow Dauid, and he had bidden them to reſt in the Torrent Beſor: who came forth to meete Dauid, and the people that were with him. And Dauid coming to the people, ſaluted them peaceably.

22 And euerie naughtie, and wicked felow of the men, that had gone with Dauid anſwering, ſayd: Becauſe they came not with vs, we wil not geue them anie thing of the praye, which we haue recouered: but let their wife and children ſuffice euerie man, whom when they haue receiued, let them depart.

23 But Dauid ſayd: You ſhal not doe ſo my brethren, of theſe thinges, which our Lord hath deliuered to vs, and hath kept vs, and hath geuen the theeues, that were broken out againſt vs, into our handes:

24 neither ſhal anic man heare you vpon this talke. For there ſhal be equal portion of him that went downe into battel, and of him that abode at the baggage, & they shal diuide alike.

25 And this hath beene downe from that day, and euer after [::] it was decreed, and ordained as a law in Iſrael.

26 Dauid therefore came into Siceleg, and ſent giftes of the praye to the ancientes of Iuda his neighboures, ſaying: Take a benediction of the praye of our Lords enemies.

27 To them, that were in Bethel, and that were in Ramoth toward the South, and them that were in Gether,

28 and them in Aroer, and them in Sephamoth, and them in Eſthamo,

29 and them in Rachal, and them in the cities of Ierameel, and them in the cities of Semi,

30 and them in Harama, and them in the lake of Aſan, and them in Athach,

31 and them in Hebron, and to the reſt that were in thoſe places, in the which Dauid had taried, and his men.

Marginal notes to Chapter 30

• 7 [::] Conſuit out Lord for me:ſo Dauid by the prieſts mediation, was inſtructed what to do.
• 25 [::] It is not againſt Gods cōmandment, Deut. 4. &. 12. to make new lawes, ſo they be conformable, & not contrarie to Gods former lawes▪

Chapter 31

CHAP. XXXI. Saul with his ſonnes are ſlaine in battel. 7. The Philiſtijms poſseſse the place, and hang the dead bodies on a wal, 11. but valiant men of Iabes Galaad take them away, and burne them, burie their bones, and fast ſeuen dayes.

1 AND the Philiſtijms fought againſt Iſrael, and the men of Iſrael fled before the face of the Philiſtijms, and fel being ſlaine in mount Gelboe.

2 And the Philiſtijms fel vpon Saul, and vpon his ſonnes, and they ſtroke Ionathas, and Abinadab, and Melchiſua the ſonnes of Saul,

3 and the whole weight of the battel was turned vpon Saul: and the archers ouertooke him, and he was ſore wounded of the archers.

4 And Saul ſayd to his eſquier: Drawe out thy ſword, and ſtrike me: leſt perhaps theſe vncircumciſed come, and kil me, mocking me. And his eſquier would not: for he was frighted with exceding feare. Saul therefore caught his ſword, and fel vpon it.

5 Which when his eſquier had ſeene, to wit that Saul was dead, himſelfe alſo fel vpon his ſword and died with him.

6 Saul therefore died, and his three ſonnes, & his eſquier, and al his men in that day together.

7 And the children of Iſrael, that were beyond the valley, and beyond Iordan, ſeing that the men of Iſrael were fled, and that Saul was dead, and his ſonnes, they left their cities, and fled: and the Philiſtijms came, and dwelt there.

8 And when the next day was come, the Philiſtijms came to ſpoile them that were ſlaine, and they found Saul and his three ſonnes, lying in mount Gelboe.

9 And they did cut of Saules head, and ſpoiled him of his armour, and ſent into the land of the Philiſtians round about, that it ſhould be declared in the temple of their Idols, and among their people.

10 And they did put his armour in the temple of Aſtaroth, but his bodie they hung on the wal of Bethſam.

11 Which when [::] the inhabiters of Iabes Galaad had heard whatſoeuer the Philiſtijms had done to Saul,

12 al the moſt valiant men aroſe, & walked al the night, and tooke the bodie of Saul, and the bodies of his ſonnes, from the wal of Bethſam: and they came to Iabes Galaad, and burnt them there:

13 and they tooke their bones, and buried them in the wood of Iabes, and faſted ſeuen daies.

Marginal notes to Chapter 31

• 4 :: Saul killing himſelf after that he was wounded ⟨illegible⟩ his enimies ſignifieth thoſe that being ouercome by tentations deſperatly perſiſt, & wilfully die in their ſinne. S. Greg. ⟨illegible⟩o 10
• 11 [::] Theſe men are cōmendable for gratitude towards Saul, who had deliuered them. ch. 11. for a vvorke of mercie in burying the dead: for pietie towards their king and princes, and for fortitude in atchiuing ſo heroical an act.

Colophon

The holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other editions in diuers languages. With arguments of the bookes, and chapters: annotations. tables: and other helpes. By the English College of Doway. The first tome (Genesis to Job), Doway: Laurence Kellam, 1609 (STC 2207). Copy: Henry E. Huntington Library, as reproduced in Early English Books Online (image set 2087).

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