{
"book": "1-kings",
"book_title": null,
"hebrew_title": null,
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "There [1] was a man of Ramathaimsophim, of mount Ephraim, & his name Elcana, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliu, the son of Thohu, the son of Suph, an Ephraite:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The first part. Of the governments of Heli and Samuel, and of changing the state into a Kingdom."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and he had two wives, the name of one was Anna, and the name of the second Phenenna. Phenenna had children: but Anna had not children."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And that man went up from his city upon ordinary days, to adore and sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in Silo. And there were the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, Priests of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "The day came therefore, & Elcana immolated, and gave to Phenenna his wife, & to all her sons and daughters parts:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "but to Anna he gave one part with heavy cheer, because he loved Anna. And our Lord had shut her matrice."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Her adversary also afflicted her, and vexed her sore, in so much that she upbraided her, that our Lord had shut her matrice:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and so did she every year, when the time returned, that they went up to the temple of our Lord: and so she provoked her: moreover she wept, and took not meat."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Elcana therefore her husband said to her: Anna, why weepest thou? And why dost thou not eat? And wherefore dost thou afflict thy heart? Am not I better to thee, than ten children?"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Anna arose after she had eaten and drunk in Silo. And Heli the Priest sitting upon a Stool before the posts of the house of our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "whereas Anna had a heavy heart, she prayed to our Lord, weeping aboundantly,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and she vowed a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if regarding thou wilt behold the affliction of thy servant, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give unto thy servant a man child: I (a) will give him to our Lord all the days of his life, & the razor shall not come upon his head.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "This child being of the tribe of Levi, though not of Aaron's stock, was lawfully vowed to the service of the tabernacle, by his parents, during his childhood, but coming to years of discretion he was at his own election to continue or to depart. If he had been of any other tribe, he must have been redeemed. Levit. 27."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And it came to pass, when she multiplied prayers before our Lord, that Heli observed her mouth."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Moreover Anna spake in her heart, and only her lips moved, and voice there was not heard at all. Heli therefore thought her to be drunk,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and said to her: How long wilt thou be drunk? Digest a little the wine, wherewith thou art wet."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Anna answering, Not so, quoth she, my Lord: for I am an exceeding unhappy woman, and wine and whatsoever may inebriate, I have not drunk, but I have poured out my soul in the sight of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Account not thy handmaid as one of the daughters of Belial: for of the multitude of my sorrow and heaviness have I spoken until this present."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and the God of Israel give thee thy petition, which thou hast asked him."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "But she said: Would God thy handmaid may find grace in thine eyes. And the woman went on her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more changed otherwise."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "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 remembered her."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And it came to pass after a certain compass of days, Anna conceived & bare a son, and called his name Samuel: because she asked him of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And Elcana her husband went up, and all her house, to immolate unto our Lord the solemn host, and his vow,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and Anna went not up: for she said to her husband: I will not go till the infant be weaned, and till I may bring him, that he may appear before the sight of our Lord, and may remain there continually."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And Elcana her husband said to her. Do that which seemeth good to thee, and tarry till thou wean him: and I pray that our Lord fulfill his word. The woman therefore tarried, and gave her son suck, till she removed him from the milk."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And she brought him with her, after she had weaned him, with three calves, & three bushels of meal, and a flagon of wine, and she brought him to the house of our Lord in Silo. But the child was yet a little infant:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and they immolated a calf, and offered the child to Heli."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And Anna said: I beseech thee my Lord, thy soul liveth my Lord: I am that woman, which stood before thee here praying our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "For this child did I pray, and our Lord hath given me my petition, which I asked him."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Therefore I also have given him to our Lord all the days, which he shall live, that he may be applied to our Lord. And they adored our Lord there. And Anna prayed, and said:"
}
],
"summary": "Elcana having two wives, the one called Anna, is barren, and for the same is reproached by the other, called Phenenna. 9. Anna voweth, and prayeth for a man child, 19. conceiveth and beareth a son, calleth him Samuel: 24. and presenteth him to the service of God in Silo. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "These books are read at Matins from the feast of the B. Trinity until the first Sunday of August."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "My [1] heart hath rejoiced in our Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God: my mouth is dilated upon mine enemies: because I have joyed in thy salvation.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The Canticle at Lauds on Wednesday."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "There is none holy as our Lord is: for neither is there another beside thee, and there is none so strong as our God."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Do not multiply to speak high things boasting, (a) let old matters depart from your mouth: because our Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him cogitations are prepared.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Leave off to praise idols, as ye have accustomed to do."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "The bow of the strong men is overcome, and the weak are girded with strength."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "They that before were filled have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, until (b) the barren woman bare very many: and (c) she that had many children was weakened.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The Church of Gentiles."
},
{
"label": "c",
"text": "The Synagogue of the Jews. S. Aug. li. 17. 5. 4. civit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Our Lord mortifieth and quickeneth, bringeth down to hell and fetcheth back again."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Our Lord maketh poor and enricheth, humbleth and lifteth up."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "He raiseth the needy man from the dust, and from the dung he lifteth up the poor: that he may sit with Princes, and hold the throne of glory. For the poles of the earth are our Lord's, and upon them he hath set the world."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "The feet of his Saints he will keep, and the impious shall be silent in darkness: because in his own force man shall not be strengthened."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Our Lord shall his adversaries fear: & upon them shall he thunder in the heavens: our Lord shall judge the ends of (d) the earth, & shall give empire to his King, and shall exalt the horn of his Christ.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Neither David nor Salomon, much less any other King, possessed or judged the ends of the earth: but Christ's inheritance reacheth to the ends of the earth. Psal. 2. v. 8."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Elcana went into Ramatha, unto his house: but the child ministered in the sight of our Lord before the face of Heli the Priest."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Moreover the sons of Heli, were the sons of Belial, not knowing our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "nor the office of Priests to the people: but whosoever had immolated a victim, the servant of the Priest came, whilst the flesh was in boiling, and had a flesh hook with three teeth in his hand,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and thrust it into the kettle, or into the cauldron, or into the pot, or into the pan: and all that the flesh hook brought up, the Priest took to himself. So did they to all Israel that came into Silo."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Yea before they burnt the fat, the servant of the Priest came, and said to him that immolated: Give me flesh, that I may boil it for the Priest: for I will not take flesh of thee sod, but raw."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And he that immolated said to him: Let the fat first be burnt today according to the manner, and take unto thee how much soever thy soul desireth. Who answering said to him: Not so: for thou shalt give it now, or else I will take it away by force."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Therefore the sin of the young men was exceeding great before our Lord: because men detracted from the sacrifice of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "But Samuel ministered before the face of our Lord: a child, girded with an ephod of linen."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And his mother made him a little tunic, which she brought upon the ordinary days, going up with her husband to immolate the solemn host."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife: & he said to him: Our Lord render thee seed of this woman, for the usury that thou hast given our Lord. And they went into their place."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Our Lord therefore visited Anna, and she conceived, and bare three sons, and two daughters: and the child Samuel was magnified before our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And Heli was very old, and heard all things which his sons did to all Israel: & how they slept with the women that waited at the door of the tabernacle:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and he said to them: Why do you these kind of things, which I hear, very naughty things, of all the people?"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Do not so my sons: for it is not a good report, which I do hear, that you make the people of our Lord to transgress."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "If man shall sin against man, God may be pacified toward him: but if a man shall sin against our Lord (e) who shall pray for him? And they heard not the voice of their father, (f) because our Lord would kill them.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Sins directly against God, and that hinder his service, are more hardly remitted: but none at all are irremissible before death, because during life every one may truly repent, if he will: & to all true penitents God promiseth remission of sins Ezech. 33."
},
{
"label": "f",
"text": "Gods determination to punish took not away their freewill, but for their obstinacy he left them to themselves, without his grace, & so justly punished them. See S. Aug. l. 5. cont. Iulian. c. 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "But the child Samuel prospered, and grew, and pleased both our Lord and men."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And there came a man of God to Heli, and said to him: Thus saith our Lord: Was not I openly revealed to thy father's house, when they were in Aegypt in the house of Pharao?"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and I chose him of all the tribes of Israel for my Priest, that he might ascend to my altar, and burn to me incense, and might carry the ephod before me: and I gave to thy father's house all things of the sacrifices of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Why have you with your heel rejected my victim, and my gifts which I commanded to be offered in the temple: and hast rather honoured thy sons than me, that you would eat the first fruits of every sacrifice of Israel my people?"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Therefore said our Lord the God of Israel: Speaking I spake that thy house, and the house of thy father should minister in my sight for ever. But now saith our Lord: Be this far from me: but whosoever shall glorify me I will glorify him: and they that contemn me, shall be base."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Behold the days come: and I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there may not be an old man in thy house."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And thou shalt see (g) whom thou enviest in the temple, in all prosperities of Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "This was fulfilled as in the figure in Samuel, not wholly, for priesthood still remained in the line of Aaron, as appeareth in Achias, Abiathar, & Sadoc. ch. 14. 22. & 1. Reg. 8. but perfectly in Christ. S. Beda. qq. in 1. Reg. c. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Notwithstanding I will not altogether take away a man of thee from mine altar: but that thine eyes may fail, and thy soul melt: and a great part of thy house shall die when it is come to man's age."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And this shall be a sign to thee, which shall come upon thy two sons, Ophni, and Phinees: In one day they shall both die."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And I will raise up unto me a faithful Priest, which shall do according to my heart, and my soul: and I will build him a faithful house and the same shall walk before my Christ all days."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall remain in thy house, shall come that he may be prayed for, and shall offer a piece of silver, and a manchet of bread, and shall say: Leave me I beseech thee to one priestly part, that I may eat a morsel of bread."
}
],
"summary": "Anna giveth thanks in a Canticle. 11. The sons of Heli grievously sinning are reprehended, but not duly corrected by their father. 21. Anna beareth three sons more, and two daughters. 27. Heli is threatened, 34. and the death of his two sons foretold."
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And the child Samuel ministered to our Lord before Heli, and the word of our Lord was (a) precious in those days, there was no vision manifest.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Rare things are called precious, and so the gift of prophecy is here termed, which was then granted to few."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "It came to pass therefore on a certain day Heli lay in his place, & his eyes were become dim, neither could he see:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "(b) before the lamp of God was extinguished, Samuel slept in the temple of our Lord, where the ark of God was.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "This vision happened early in the morning, before the time of dressing the lamps, when some were put out and others light."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And our Lord called Samuel. Who answering, said: Lo here I am."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And he ran to Heli and said: Lo here I am: for thou didst call me. Who said: I did not call thee: return and sleep. And he went & slept."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And our Lord added again to call Samuel. And Samuel rising up went to Heli, & said: Lo here I am: because thou didst call me. Who answered: I did not call thee my son, return & sleep."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Moreover Samuel did not yet know our Lord, neither had the word of our Lord been revealed to him."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And our Lord added, & called Samuel yet the third time. Who rising up went to Heli,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "& said: Lo here I am: because thou didst call me. Heli therefore understood that our Lord called the child & said to Samuel: Go, & sleep: and if he shall call thee hereafter, thou shalt say: Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth. Samuel therefore went and slept in his place."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And our Lord came, and stood: and he called, as he had called twice, Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel said: Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And our Lord said to Samuel: Behold I do a thing in Israel: which whosoever shall hear, both his ears shall tingle."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "In that day will I raise up against Heli all things which I have spoken touching his house: I will begin, and accomplish it."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "For I have foretold him that I would judge his house for ever, because of iniquity, for that he knew that his sons did wickedly, and hath not corrected them."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Therefore have I sworn to the house of Heli that the iniquity of his house cannot be expiated with victims and gifts for ever."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Samuel slept until morning, and opened the doors of the house of our Lord. And Samuel feared to tell the vision unto Heli."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Heli therefore called Samuel, and said: Samuel my son. Who answering, said: Here I am."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And he asked him: What is the word, that our Lord hath spoken to thee? I beseech thee conceal it not from me. These things do God to thee, and these do he add, if thou shalt hide from me a word of all the words, which were said to thee."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Samuel therefore told him all the words, and did not hide them from him. And he answered: It is our Lord: let him do that which is good in his eyes."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And Samuel grew, and our Lord was with him, and there fell not of his words upon the ground."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And all Israel knew from Dan to Bersabee, that faithful Samuel was the Prophet of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And our Lord added to appear in Silo, because our Lord had been revealed to Samuel in Silo, according to the word of our Lord. And the word of Samuel came to pass to all Israel."
}
],
"summary": "The Israelites are beaten in battle by the Philisthiims. 3. Who for their better protection and comfort, fetch the Ark of God into the camp: 10. but are beaten again, the Ark taken, and with many others the two sons of Heli are slain. 13. All which Heli understanding falleth from his seat, and breaketh his neck: 19. also his daughter in law presently travailing of child is delivered of a son."
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And it came to pass in those days, the Philisthiims assembled together to fight: and Israel went forth to meet the Philisthiims into battle, & camped beside the Stone of help. Moreover the Philisthiims came into Aphec,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "& put their army in array against Israel. And after they had joined battle, Israel turned their backs to the Philisthiims: and there were slain in the fight here & there through the fields, as it were four thousand men."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the people returned to the camp: & the ancients of Israel said: Why hath our Lord struck us today before the Philisthiims? (a) Let us fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of our Lord from Silo, and let it come into the midst of us, that it may save us from the hand of our enemies.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Their confidence of help from God, by presence of the ark, was good & commendable, but their sins deserved to be punished."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "The people therefore sent into Silo, and they took from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts sitting upon the Cherubims: and the two sons of Heli were with the ark of the covenant of God, Ophni and Phinees."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And when the ark of the covenant of our Lord was come into the camp, all Israel made a shout with a great cry, and the earth sounded."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the Philisthiims heard the voice of the cry, & said: What is this voice of a great cry in the camp of the Hebrews? And they knew that the ark of our lord was come into the camp."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the Philisthiims were afraid, saying: God is come into the camp. And they mourned, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Woe to us: for there was no so great rejoicing yesterday and the day before: woe to us. Who shall keep us from the hand of these high gods? These be the gods that struck Aegypt with all plague, in the desert."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Take courage, & be men, ye Philisthiims: lest you be servants to the Hebrews, as they also have served you: take courage & fight."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "The Philisthiims therefore fought, and Israel was slain, and every man fled into his tabernacle: and there was made an exceeding great plague: and there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And the ark of God was taken: the two sons also of Heli died, Ophni and Phinees."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And a man of Benjamin running out of the battle array, came into Silo that day, his garment rent, and sprinkled on his head with dust."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And when he was come, Heli sat upon a stool over against the way looking. For his heart was fearful for the ark of God. And that man after he was entered in, told it to the city: and all the city howled."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Heli heard the sound of the cry, and said: What is this sound of this same tumult? But he hastened, and came, and told Heli."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Heli was ninety and eight years old, & his eyes were dim, and he could not see."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And he said to Heli: I am he that came from the battle, & I he that fled out of the field this day. To whom he said: What is done my son?"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And he brought the news answering: Israel, quoth he, is fled before the Philisthiims, and a great ruin is made in the people: moreover also thy two sons are dead, Ophni & Phinees: & the ark of God is taken."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And when he had (a) named the ark of God, he fell from his stool backward beside the door, & his neck being broken he died. For he was an old man, & of a great age: & he judged Israel forty years.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "This zeal of religion in Heli towards the ark, is a great sign that he died in good state, though he was temporally punished for not correcting his sons."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And his daughter in law, the wife of Phinees, was great with child, & nigh to be delivered: & hearing the report that the ark of God was taken, & her father in law was dead, & her husband, she bowed herself & was delivered: for sudden pains were fallen upon her."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And in the very moment of her death, they said to her that stood about her: Fear not, because thou hast born a son. Who answered them not, nor gave heed to it."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is translated from Israel, because the ark of God is taken, and for her father in law, and for her husband;"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and she said: The glory is translated from Israel, for that the ark of God was taken."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And the Philisthiims took the ark of God, and carried it from the Stone of help into Azotus."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And the Philisthiims took the ark of God, and brought it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside Dagon."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And when the Azotians had risen early the next day, behold (a) Dagon, lay flat on the ground before the ark of our Lord: and they took Dagon, and restored him into his place.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "So soon as Christ's Gospel or Testament came among the Gentiles, all false gods and idolatry fell down. S. Beda. qq. in 1. Reg. c. 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And again early the next day rising up, they found Dagon lying upon his face on the earth before the ark of our Lord: & the head of Dagon, & the two palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "moreover the body only of Dagon was remaining in his place. For this cause the priests of Dagon, and all that enter into his temple, tread not upon the threshold of Dagon in Azotus until this day."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the hand of our Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he plagued them, and struck Azotus and the coasts thereof in the secret part of the fundament. And the towns and fields bubbled forth in the midst of that country, and there came forth mice, and there was confusion of great death in the city."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the men of Azotus seeing this manner of plague, said: Let not the ark of the God of Israel tarry with us: because his hand is sore upon us, and (b) upon Dagon our god.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The ark being a holy thing, as Relics are, was terrible to their false god, the devil, so the Relics of S. Babilas overthrew the false god Apollo. As S. Chrysost. testifieth at large. li. cont. Gentiles, to. 5."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And sending they gathered together all the Princes of the Philisthiims to them, and said: What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And the Getheites answered: Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about, and they carried about the ark of the God of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And they carrying it about, the hand of our Lord was made through every city by an exceeding great slaughter: and it struck the men of every city, from little unto great, and they had emeroids in their secret parts. And the Getheites took counsel, and made themselves stools of skins."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "They sent therefore the ark of God into Accaron. And when the ark of God was come into Accaron, the Accaronites cried out, saying: They have brought unto us the ark of the God of Israel, to kill us and our people."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "They sent therefore and gathered together all the Princes of the Philistiims, who said: Dismiss the ark of the God of Israel, & let it return into his place, and not kill us with our people."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "For there was made the fear of death in every city, and the hand of God exceeding grievous. The men also that had not died, were strucken in the secret part of the buttocks: and the howling of every city went up into heaven."
}
],
"summary": "The Ark is sent back with five emeroids and five mice of gold, upon a new wain drawn by two milch kine: 13. which coming directly to Bethsames are sacrificed, the wain serving for fire, the Levites keep the Ark. 19. Many others are slain looking of curiosity into it."
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Therefore the ark of God was in the country of the Philisthiims seven months."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And the Philisthiims called the priests and soothsayers, saying: What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us how we may send it back into his place. Who said:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "If you send back the ark of the God of Israel, send it not away empty, but that which you owe render unto it for sin, and then you shall be cured: and you shall know why his hand departeth not from you."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Who answered: What is that which we ought to render unto it for sin? And they answered:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "According to the number of the provinces of the Philisthiims you shall make five golden emeroids, and five golden mice: because there hath been one plague to you, and to your Princes. And you shall make the similitudes of your emeroids, and the similitudes of the mice that have destroyed the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: if perhaps he will lighten his hand from you, and from your gods and from your land."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Why do you harden your hearts, as (a) Aegypt and Pharao did harden their heart? Did not he after he was strucken them dismiss them, and they departed?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Obstinate sinners do harden their own hearts, not God, but by suffering them so to do. See Annot. Exod. 7."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Now therefore take and make one new wain: and two kine having calved, on which there hath no yoke been put, couple in the wain, & shut up their calves at home."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And you shall take the ark of the Lord, and put it in the wain, and the vessels of gold, which you have payed him for sin, you shall put into a little casket at the side thereof: and dismiss it that it may go."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And you shall look: and if so be that it shall go up by the way of his coasts against Bethsames, he hath done us this great evil: but if not, we shall know that his hand hath not touched us, but it hath happened by chance."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "They therefore did in this manner: and taking two kine, that had sucking calves, yoked them to the wain, and shut up their calves at home."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And they laid the ark of God upon the wain, and the little casket, that had the golden mice and the similitudes of emeroids."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "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 Philisthiims followed unto the borders of Bethsames."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Moreover the Bethsamites reaped wheat in the valley: and lifting up their eyes, they saw the ark, & were glad when they had seen it."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the wain came into the field of Josue the Bethsamite, and stood there. And there was a great stone, and they did cut the wood of the wain, and laid the kine upon it an holocaust to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And the Levites took down the ark of God, and the little casket, that was at the side of it, wherein were the vessels of gold, and they put it upon the great stone. The men also of Bethsames offered holocausts, and immolated victims that day to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And the five Princes of the Philisthiims saw, and returned into Accaron that day."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And these are the golden emeroids, which the Philistiims rendered for sin to our Lord: Azotus one, Gaza one, Ascalon one, Geth one, Accaron one:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and the golden mice according to the number of the cities of the Philistiims, of the five provinces, from walled city unto town that was without wall, and unto Abel the great, whereupon they put the ark of our Lord, which was until that day in the field of Josue the Bethsamite."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "But he struck of the men of Bethsames, for that they had (b) seen the ark of our Lord: and he struck of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the common people. And the people mourned, because our Lord had strucken the common people with a great plague.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "As the ark was terrible to the infidels (chap. 5.) so also to those that believed right, but used it not reverently."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And the men of Bethsames said: Who shall be able to stand in the sight of our Lord God this holy one? And to whom shall he go up from us?"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Cariathiarim, saying: The Philistiims have brought back the ark of our Lord, come & fetch it back unto you."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Therefore the men of Cariathiarim came, and (a) brought back the ark of our Lord, and carried it into the house of Abinadab in Gabaa: and Eleazar his son they sanctified, that he might keep the ark of our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These men knowing that the presence of the ark was good for them (though the Bethsamites had been punished for their irreverence towards it) feared not to receive and keep it."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And it came to pass, from the day that the ark of our Lord abode in Cariathiarim, the days were multiplied (for it was now the twentieth year) and all the house of Israel rested after our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Samuel spake to all the house of Israel, saying: If you turn to our Lord in all your heart, take away the strange gods out of the midst of you, Baalim and Astaroth: and prepare your hearts to our Lord, & serve him only, and he will deliver you from the hand of the Philisthiims."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Therefore the children of Israel took away Baalim and Astaroth, and served our Lord only."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And Samuel said: Gather together all Israel into Masphath, that I may pray our Lord for you."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And they assembled into Masphath: and they drew water, and poured it out in the sight of our Lord, and they fasted that day, and said there: We have sinned to our Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Masphath."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the Philisthiims heard that the children of Israel were gathered together into Masphath, and the Princes of the Philisthiims went up to Israel. Which when the children of Israel had heard, they were afraid at the face of the Philisthiims."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And they said to Samuel: cease not to cry to our Lord God for us, that he save us from the hand of the Philisthiims."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Samuel took one sucking lamb, and offered it a whole holocaust to our Lord: and Samuel cried to our Lord for Israel, & our Lord heard him."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And it came to pass, when Samuel offered the holocaust, the Philisthiims began battle against Israel: but our Lord thundered with a great noise in that day upon the Philisthiims, & terrified them, & they were slain before the face of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And the men of Israel issuing out of Masphath pursued the Philisthiims, & struck them unto the place, that was under Bethchar."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And Samuel took one stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen: and he called the name of that place, The stone of help. And he said: Thus far hath our Lord holpen us."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the Philisthiims were humbled, neither added they any more to come into the borders of Israel. Therefore the hand of our Lord was made upon the Philistiims, all the days of Samuel."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the cities, which the Philistiims had taken from Israel, were rendered to Israel, from Accaron unto Geth, and their borders: and he delivered Israel from the hand of the Philistiims, and there was peace between Israel and the (b) Amorrheite.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "That is to say, the Philisthiims, who were one of the seven nations of Chanaan, which God commanded his people to destroy, commonly called the Amorrheites."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Samuel also judged Israel all the days of his life:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and he went every year circuiting Bethel and Galgala and Masphath, and judged Israel in the foresaid places."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And he returned into Ramatha: for there was his house, and there he judged Israel: he built also there an altar to our Lord."
}
],
"summary": "The Ark is brought to the house of Abinadab in Gabaa, 3. By Samuel's exhortation, the people cast away the idols and serve only God. 12. Samuel offering sacrifice and praying, Israel prevaileth against the Philisthiims."
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And it came to pass when Samuel waxed old, he appointed his sons judges over Israel."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And the name of his first begotten son was Joel: and the name of the second Abia, judges in Bersabee."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And his sons walked not in his ways: but they declined after avarice, & took bribes, and perverted judgment."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "(a) Therefore all the ancients of Israel being assembled, came to Samuel into Ramatha.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Heli his sons grievously offending in their office before (chap. 2.) and now Samuel's sons also perverting judgement gave occasion to the people to demand a King, to judge their temporal causes rightly, not declining to wrong for bribes."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: appoint us a king, that he may judge us, as also all nations have."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the word was misliked in the eyes of Samuel, because they had said: Give us a king, that he may judge us. And Samuel prayed to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And our Lord said to Samuel: Hear the voice of the people in all things which they speak to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "According to all their works, which they have done from the day that I brought them out of Aegypt until this day: as they have forsaken me, and served strange gods, so do they also unto thee."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Now therefore hear their voice: but yet testify to them, and foretell them the (b) right of the king, that shall reign over them.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Misphat signifieth manner, fashion, or proceeding."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Samuel therefore spake all the words of our Lord to the people which had desired a king of him,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and said: This shall be the right of the king, that shall reign over you: Your sons he will take, & put in his chariots, and will make them unto him the horsemen, and running footmen before his chariots,",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "& will appoint them his tribunes, & centurions, & the ploughers of his fields, & mowers of his corn, & makers of his armour and of his chariots."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Your daughters also will he take to make ointments, and to be cooks, and bakers."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Your fields also, and vineyards, and the best olivets he will take away, and give to his servants."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Yea and your corn also, and the revenues of your vineyards he will tithe, to give his eunuchs & servants."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Your servants also and handmaids, and goodliest young men, and asses he will take away and put in his work."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Your flocks also will he tithe, you shall be his servants."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And you shall cry in that day from the face of the king, which you have chosen you: and our Lord (c)[1] will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "But the people would not hear the voice of Samuel, but said: Not so: for there shall be a king over us,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "and we also will be as all nations: and our king shall judge us, and shall go forth before us, and shall fight our battles for us."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and spake them in the ears of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And our Lord said to Samuel: Hear their voice, and appoint a king over them. And Samuel said to the men of Israel: Let every man go into his city."
}
],
"summary": "Samuel growing old, and his sons for bribes perverting judgement, the people require to have a king. 7. To whom by God's commandments, Samuel foresheweth the law of a king, to make them cease from their demand; 19. but they persist therein."
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] there was a man of Benjamin named Cis, the son of Abiel, the son of Seor, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphia, the son of a man of Jemini, valiant in strength.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The second part. The election, anointing, and government of King Saul."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And he had a son called Saul, chosen and good: and there was not a man of the children of Israel better than he: from the shoulder and upward he appeared above all the people."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the asses of Cis the father of Saul were lost: and Cis said to Saul his son: Take one of the servants with thee, and rising go, & seek the asses. Who when they had passed by mount Ephraim,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "& by the land of Salisa, & had not found, they passed also through the land of Salim, and they were not: yea and by the Land of Jemini, and found them not."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And when they were come into the Land of Suph, Saul said to the servant that was with him: Come let us return, lest perhaps my father hath let alone the asses, and be careful for us."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Who said to him: Behold a man of God is in this city, a famous man: all that he speaketh, cometh to pass without doubt, now therefore let us go thither, if perhaps he may tell us of our way, for which we are come."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And Saul said to his servant: Lo we will go: what shall we carry to the man of God? The bread is spent in our males: and present we have none to give unto the man of God, nor any thing else."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Again the servant answered Saul and said: Behold there is found in my hand the fourth part of a sicle of silver, let us give it to the man of God, that he may tell us our way."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "(For in time past in Israel so every man spake, going to consult God, Come, and let us go to the seer. For he that at this day is called a Prophet, in time past was called (a) a seer.)",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "One that by divine inspiration foreseeth things to come."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And Saul said to his servant: Thy word is very good, come let us go. And they went into the city, wherein the man of God was."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And when they went up the ascent of the city, they found maids coming forth to draw water, and said to them: Is the seer here?"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Who answering said to them: Here he is. Lo before thee, make haste now, for this day he came into the city, because this day there is a sacrifice of the people in the excelse."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Entering into the city immediately you shall find him, before he go up into the excelse to eat, for the people will not eat till he come: because he will bless the Host, and afterward they shall eat that are invited. Now therefore go up, because this day you shall find him."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And they went up into the city. And when they walked in the midst of the city, Samuel appeared coming forth against them, to go up into the excelse."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And our Lord had revealed the ear of Samuel one day before Saul came, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "This very hour, that now is, tomorrow will I send to thee a man of the Land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him ruler over my people of Israel: & he shall save my people from the hand of the Philistiims: because I have respected my people, for (b) their cry is come to me.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Oppression of innocents cryeth to heaven."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And when Samuel had beheld Saul, our Lord said to him: behold the man, of whom I told thee, this man shall rule over my people."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And Saul came to Samuel in the midst of the gate, & said: Shew me, I pray thee, where is the house of the seer?"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And Samuel answered Saul, saying: I am the seer, go up before me into the excelse, that you may eat with me today, & I will dismiss thee in the morning: and all things that are in thy heart, will I tell thee."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And concerning the asses, which thou didst lose three days agone, be not careful, because they are found. And whose shall be all the best things of Israel? Not to thee and to all thy father's house?"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And Saul answering, said: Am not I the son of Jemini of the least tribe of Israel, and my kindred the last among all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why therefore hast thou spoken this word to me?"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Samuel therefore taking Saul & his servant, brought them into the parlour, & gave them a place in the chief room of them that were invited. For there were about thirty men."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And Samuel said to the cook: Give the portion, which I gave thee, and commanded that thou shouldst lay it up apart with thee."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And the cook lifted up a shoulder, & set it before Saul. And Samuel said: Behold that which hath remained, set it before thee, & eat: because of purpose it was kept for thee, when I called the people. And Saul did eat with Samuel that day."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And they descended from the excelse into the town, & he spake with Saul in the top of the house: & he prepared a bed for Saul in the highest room, & he slept."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And when they were risen in the morning, and it began now to be light, Samuel called Saul in the high chamber, saying: Arise that I may dismiss thee. And Saul arose: and they went both forth, to wit, he and Samuel."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And when they came down in the uttermost part of the city, Samuel said to Saul: Speak to the servant that he go before us, and pass: but stay thou a little while, that I may tell thee the word of our Lord."
}
],
"summary": "Saul by occasion of seeking his father's asses cometh to Samuel. 15. Who had a revelation of his coming, and a commandment to anoint him. 22. He is entertained and lodged with Samuel."
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Samuel took (a) a little vessel of (b) oil, and poured upon his head, and kissed him, and said: Behold, our Lord hath anointed thee upon his inheritance to be Prince, and thou shalt deliver his people out of the hands of their enemies, that are round about them. And this shall be a sign unto thee, that God hath anointed thee to be Prince.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "S. Gregory here noteth, that such as are place in height of government are anointed with oil, which signifieth mercy, light, and curing of others."
},
{
"label": "b",
"text": "But the little vessel foreshewed that Saul not persevering in grace, should be deposed from his kingdom. li. 4. c. 5. in 1. Reg. 10."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "When thou shalt be departed from me this day, thou shalt find two men beside the sepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Benjamin, in the South, and they shall say to thee: The asses are found, which thou didst go to see: and thy father letting go the asses, is careful for you, and saith: What shall I do concerning my son?"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And when thou shalt depart thence, and pass farther, and shalt come to the oak Thabor, three men going up to God into Bethel shall find thee there, one carrying three kids, and another three manchets of bread, and another carrying a flagon of wine."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And when they have saluted thee, they will give thee two loaves, and thou shalt take them of their hand."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "After these things thou shalt come into the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philisthiims is: and when thou shalt be entered there into the city, thou shalt meet there a flock of Prophets coming down from the excelse, and before them psaltery and timbrel, and shalm, and harp, and themselves prophesying."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the Spirit of our Lord shall seize upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be changed into another man."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Therefore when all these signs shall chance to thee, do whatsoever thy hand shall find, because our Lord is with thee."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And thou shalt go down before me into Galgala (for I will come down to thee) that thou mayest offer oblation, and immolate pacific victims: (c) seven days shalt thou expect, till I come to thee, & I will shew thee what thou must do.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Samuel enjoineth obedience to Saul to try his humility. S. Greg. li. 4. c. 5. in 1. Reg. 10."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Therefore when he had turned away his shoulder to depart from Samuel, God (d) changed unto him another heart, and all these things came in that day.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "God gave him peculiar grace for executing the office of a King."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And they came to the foresaid hill, and behold a troop of Prophets meeting him: & the (e) Spirit of our Lord seized upon him, and he prophesied in the midst of them.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "By and by also the gift of prophecy."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And all that had known him yesterday and the day before, seeing that he was with the prophets, & did prophesy, said to each other: What thing hath happened to the son of Cis? What is Saul also among the Prophets?"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And one answered another, saying: And who is (f) there father? Therefore it was turned into a proverb: What is Saul also among the Prophets?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "Their superior."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And he ceased to prophesy, and came to the excelse."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Saul's uncle said to him, and to his servant: Whither went you? Who answered: To seek the asses: which when we had not found we came to Samuel."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And his uncle said to him: Tell me what Samuel said to thee."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And Saul said to his uncle: He told us that the asses were found. But concerning the word of the Kingdom which Samuel had spoken to him, he told him not."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Samuel called together the people of our Lord in Maspha:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And said to the children of Israel: Thus saith our Lord the God of Israel: I brought Israel out of Aegypt, and delivered you from the hand of the Aegyptians, and from the hand of all the kings which afflicted you."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "But you this day have rejected your God, who only hath saved you out of all your evils and tribulations: and you have said: Not so: but appoint a king over us. Now therefore stand before our Lord by your tribes, and by your families."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel, and the (g) lot fell on the tribe of Benjamin.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "By lot the people were assured that the election was of God. S. Greg. ibidem."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And he brought the tribe of Benjamin and the kindreds thereof, & it fell upon the kindred of Metri, and it came unto Saul the son of Cis. They therefore sought him, and he was not found."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And after these things they consulted our Lord whether he would come thither. And our Lord answered: Behold he is hid at home."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "They ran therefore and took him from thence: and he stood in the midst of the people, and he was higher than all the people from the shoulder and upward."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And Samuel said to all the people: Certes you see whom our Lord hath chosen, that there is not the like to him in all the people. And all the people cried, and said: God save the king."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And Samuel spake to the people the law of the Kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before our Lord: and Samuel dismissed all the people, every one into his own house."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "But Saul also departed into his house into Gabaa: & there went with him part of the army, they whose hearts God had touched."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "But the children of Belial said: What, shall this fellow be able to save us? And they despised him, & brought him not presents: but he dissembled as though he heard not."
}
],
"summary": "Saul is anointed King, and confirmed by signs that his ordinance is of God. 10. He prophesieth, which the people doth admire. 17. Samuel calleth the people together, for appointing a king, the lot falleth on Saul. 25. And the law of the king is again mentioned."
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And it came to pass as it were a month after, Naas the Ammonite ascended, and began to fight against Jabes of Galaad. And all the men of Jabes said to Naas: Make a league with us, and we will serve thee."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And Naas the Ammonite answered them: In this will I make a league with you, that I may pluck out the right eyes of you all, and may make you a reproach in all Israel."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the ancients of Jabes said to him: Grant unto us seven days, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: & if there shall not be that may defend us, we will come forth to thee."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "The messengers therefore came into Gabaa of Saul: and they spake these words, in the hearing of the people: and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And behold Saul came, following oxen out of the field, and said: What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the words of the men of Jabes."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the Spirit of our Lord seized on Saul, when he had heard these words, and his fury was exceeding wrath."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And taking both the oxen, he cut them into pieces, & sent them into all the coasts of Israel by messengers, saying: Whosoever shall not go forth, and follow Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. Therefore the fear of our Lord invaded the people, and they went forth as it were one man."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And he numbered them in Bezec: and there were of the children of Israel three hundred thousand: and of the men of Juda thirty thousand."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And they said to the messengers that came: Thus shall you say to the men, that are in Jabes Galaad: Tomorrow, when the sun shall wax hot, you shall have relief. The messengers therefore came, & told the men of Jabes: Who were glad."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And they said: In the morning (a) we will come forth to you: & you shall do to us whatsoever shall please you.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "As the men of Jabes deluded their enemies by equivocation, so speaking that they were otherwise understood than they meant: so the servants of God being tempted with concupiscence of gluttony (signified by Naas ) must deceive their carnal appetite, by promising to satisfy"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And it came to pass, when the morrow was come, Saul set the people into three parts: & entered into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and struck Ammon until the day waxed hot, & the rest were dispersed, so that there were not left among them two together."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And the people said to Samuel: Who is this that said: what, shall Saul reign over us? Give us the men and we will kill them."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Saul said: No man shall be killed this day, because our Lord this day hath relieved Israel:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Samuel said to the people: Come and let us go into Galgal, and let us renew there a Kingdom."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And all the people went into Galgal, and there they made Saul king before our Lord in Galgal, and they immolated there pacific victims before our Lord. And Saul rejoiced there, and all the men of Israel exceedingly."
}
],
"summary": "Ammonites fighting against Jabes Galaad, and the city ready to yield, 5. Saul gathereth an army, 11. overthroweth the enemy, 14. and is established king."
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Samuel said to all Israel: Behold I have heard your voice according to all things which you have spoken to me, and I have appointed a king over you."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And now the king goeth before you: and I am waxen old and have gray hairs: moreover my sons are with you: therefore having conversed with you from my youth until this day, lo I am ready."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Speak of me before our Lord, and before his Christ, whether I have taken any man's oxe, or ass: If I have calumniated any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken gift of any man's hand: and I will contemn that same this day, and will restore it to you."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And they said thou hast not calumniated us, nor oppressed us, nor taken ought of any man's hand."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And he said to them: Witness is our Lord against you, and witness is his (a) Christ in this day, that you have not found any thing in my hand. And they said: Witness.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The anointed King."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Samuel said to the people: Our Lord who made Moyses & Aaron, & brought our fathers out of the Land of Aegypt is present."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Now therefore stand, that I may contend in judgment against you before our Lord, concerning all the mercies of our Lord, which he hath done with you, and with your fathers:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "how Jacob entered 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."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Who forgat our Lord their God, and he delivered them in the hand of Sisara master of the host of Hasor, and in the hand of the Philisthiims, and in the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "But afterward they cried to our Lord, & said: We have sinned, because we have forsaken our Lord, & have served Baalim & Astaroth: now therefore deliver us from the hand of our enemies, & we will serve thee."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And our Lord sent Jerobaal, & [1] Badan, & Jephte, & Samuel, and delivered you from the hand of your enemies round about, & you dwelt securely.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "mighty Samson"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But you seeing that Naas, king of the children of Ammon was come against you, you said to me: (b) Not so, but a king shall reign over us: whereas our Lord your God did reign among you.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "They meant that they would not be ruled & protected as hitherto they had been, by Dukes & Judges ordained & sent immediately by God, but would have a King to reign over them: imagining that so they should be better protected, and defended from foreign enemies: wherein they preferred their own conceit & judgement before God's disposition, and therefore this sin is often here inculcated, and much reprehended. S. Greg. l. 5. c. 2. in 1. Reg. 12."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Now therefore your king is ready, whom you have chosen and desired: behold our Lord hath given you a king."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "If you shall fear our Lord, and serve him, & hear his voice, and not exasperate the mouth of our Lord: both you, & the king which reigneth over you, shall be followers of our Lord your God:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "But if you will not hear the voice of our Lord, but shall exasperate his words, the hand of our Lord shall be upon you, & upon your [1] fathers.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "governors. S. Greg."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But now also stand, & see this great thing which our Lord will do in your sight."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon our Lord, & he will give [1] noises & rain: and you shall know, & see that you have done great evil to yourselves in the sight of our Lord, desiring a king over you.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "thunder."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And Samuel cried to our Lord, & our Lord gave noises & rain in that day."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And all the people feared exceedingly our Lord and (c) Samuel. And all the people said to Samuel: Pray for thy servants to our Lord thy God, that we die not. For we have added evil to all our sins, that we desired unto us a king.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "The feared God so much the more, because they feared also his servant."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Samuel said to the people: Fear not, you have done all this evil: but yet depart not from the (d) back of our Lord, but serve our Lord in all your heart.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "For sinners to come before God's face were presumption, not to come to his back, or to depart from thence, were desperation. So Mary Magdalene with fear & hope approached & tarried at Christ's back. loco citato. Luke 7. S. Greg. loco citato."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And decline not after vain things, which shall not profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And our Lord will not forsake his people for his great name: because our Lord hath sworn to make you a people to himself."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And far from me be this sin in our Lord, that I should cease to pray for you, and I will teach you the good and right way."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Therefore fear our Lord, and serve him in truth and from your whole heart. For you have seen the great works which he hath done among you."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "But if you shall persevere in malice, both you and your king shall perish together."
}
],
"summary": "Samuel being justified by the people for his good behaviour, 6. chargeth them with ingratitude towards God, 14. admonishing them, and shewing by a sign, that they offended in demanding a king. 20. Exhorteth them now to serve God, promiseth to pray for them, and forewarneth that they shall receive as they deserve."
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Achild of (a) one year was Saul when he began to reign, and (b) two years he reigned over Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Saul beginning to reign was innocent & humble as a child of one year."
},
{
"label": "b",
"text": "And in that state reigned the first two years. S. Greg. in hunc locum."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And Saul chose to himself three thousand of Israel: and there were with Saul two thousand in Machmas, and in the mount of Bethel: and a thousand with Jonathas in Gabaa of Benjamin. Moreover the rest of the people he sent back every man into their tabernacles:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Jonathas struck the garrison of the Philisthiims, which was in Gabaa. Which when the Philisthiims had heard, Saul sounded with the trumpet in all the land, saying: Let the Hebrews hear."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And all Israel heard this manner of bruit: Saul hath strucken the garrison of the Philisthiims: & Israel took courage against the Philisthiims. The people therefore cried after Saul in Galgal."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And the Philisthiims were gathered together to fight against Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and the rest of the common people, as the sand which is in the sea shore very much. And going up they camped in Machmas at the East of Bethaven."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Which when the men of Israel had seen themselves put in a strait (for the people was afflicted) they hid themselves in caves, and in secret places, in rocks also, and in dens, and in cisterns."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the Hebrews passed Jordan into the Land of Gad and Galaad. And when Saul was yet in Galgal, all the people was sore afraid, which followed him."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And he expected seven days according to the appointment of Samuel, and Samuel came not into Galgal, and the people slipt away from him."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Saul therefore said: Bring me the holocaust, and the pacifics. And he offered the holocaust."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And when he had finished offering the holocaust, behold Samuel came: and Saul went forth to meet him & salute him."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Samuel spake to him. What hast thou done? Saul answered: Because I saw that the people slipt from me, and thou wast not come according to the days appointed, moreover the Philisthiims were gathered together into Machmas,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Isaid: Now will the Philisthiims come down to me into Galgal, and I have not pacified the face of our Lord. Compelled by necessity, I offered the holocaust."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Samuel said to Saul: Thou hast (c) done foolishly, neither hast thou kept the commandments of our Lord thy God, which he commanded thee. Which (d) if thou hadst not done, even now had our Lord prepared thy Kingdom over Israel for ever,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "He offended in offering sacrifice, being neither a Priest, nor extraordinarily allowed to do that office, and for this & other faults was deposed."
},
{
"label": "d",
"text": "God's foresight of sin, & preordination to punish it, taketh not away freewill, nor possibility of well doing, nor of reward. S. Aug. li. 3. c. 4. de lib. arbit."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "but thy Kingdom shall no farther arise. Our Lord hath sought him a man according to his heart: and him hath our Lord commanded to be Prince over his people, because thou hast not observed the things which our Lord commanded."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Samuel arose & went up from Galgal into Gabaa of Benjamin. And numbered the people, which were found with him, as it were six hundred men."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And Saul and Jonathas his son, and the people that were found with them, was in Gabaa of Benjamin: moreover the Philisthiims had pitched in Machmas."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And there issued forth to prey from the camp of Philisthians three companies. One company went on against the way of Ephra to the Land of Saul."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Moreover another went by the way of Bethhoron, and the third had turned it-self to the way of the border, in the valley Seboim against the desert."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Moreover there was not found an iron smith in all the Land of Israel, for the Philisthiims had so provided, lest perhaps the Hebrews should make sword or spear."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "All Israel therefore went down to the Philisthiims, that every man might whet his plough coulter, and spade, and axe, and rake."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Therefore the edges of the shares, and spades, and forks with three teeth, and axes were blunt, even to the goadprick, which was to be mended."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And when the day was come to fight, there was not found sword and spear in the hand of all the people, that was with Saul and Jonathas, except Saul and Jonathas his son."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And the station of the Philisthiims went forth, to pass up into Machmas."
}
],
"summary": "Saul and Jonathas prevail in battle against the Philisthiims. 5. Who increasing their forces, the Israelites for fear fly away and hide themselves. 8. Samuel not coming to the camp, Saul presumeth to offer sacrifice, 11. for which Samuel reproveth him, and declareth that his Kingdom shall be translated to another. 17. The Philisthiims oppress the Israelites, and deprive them of armour."
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And it chanced on a certain day, that Jonathas the son of Saul said to the young man that bare his armour: Come and Let us pass to the garrison of the Philisthiims, which is beyond yonder place. But to his father he told not this same thing."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Moreover Saul abode in the utmost part of Gabaa under the pomegranate tree, which was in Magron: and the people with him was about six hundred men."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Achias the son of Achitob the brother of Ichabod the son of Phinees, which was born of Heli the Priest of our Lord in Silo, bare the ephod. But the people also was ignorant whither Jonathas was gone."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And there were between the ascents, by the which Jonathas endeavoured to pass unto the garrison of the Philisthiims, rocks standing up on both sides, and as it were in manner of teeth steep broken rocks on either side, the name of one Boses, and the name of the other Sene:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "one rock standing out toward the North over-against Machmas, and the other to the South, against Gabaa."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Jonathas said to the young man that bare his armour: Come, let us pass to the station of these uncircumcised, if happily our Lord will make for us: because it is not hard for our Lord to save either in many or in few."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And his esquire said to him: Do all things which please thy mind: go whither thou desirest, and I will be with thee wheresoever thou wilt."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Jonathas said: Behold we pass to these men. And when we shall appear to them,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "if they shall speak to us in this manner: Tarry till we come to you: let us stand in our place, & not go up to them."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "But if they shall say: Come up to us: let us go up, because our Lord hath delivered them in our hands, (a) this shall be a sign unto us.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Ominous speeches are proved by this and some other examples to be sometimes of God, though sometimes this kind of observation is superstitious. As before is noted, Gen. 24."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Both of them therefore appeared to the station of the Philisthiims: and the Philisthiims said: Behold the Hebrews come out of the caves, wherein they were hid."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And the men of the garrison spake to Jonathas and to his esquire, and said: Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathas said to his esquire: Let us go up, follow me: for our Lord hath delivered them into the hands of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Jonathas went up on his hands and feet creeping, and his esquire after him. Therefore some fell before Jonathas, other some his esquire following slew."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the first slaughter, which Jonathas and his esquire made, was as it were of twenty men, in the half part of an acre, which a yoke of oxen is wont to plough in a day."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And there was made a miracle in the camp, through the fields: yea and all the people of their garrison which had gone to take preys, was astonished, and the land was troubled: and it happened as a miracle from God."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And the watchmen of Saul, which were in Gabaa of Benjamin, looked, and lo a multitude overthrown, and flying hither and thither."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Saul said to the people, which was with him: Inquire, and see who is gone from us. And when they had sought, it was found that Jonathas was not present and his esquire."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And Saul said to Achias: Bring the ark of our Lord. (for the ark of God was there that day with the children of Israel.)"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And when Saul spake to the Priest, there arose a great tumult in the camp of the Philisthiims: and it grew by little and little, and sounded more clearly. And Saul said to the Priest: (b) Draw together thy hand.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Pray no more nor expect no longer: so they proceeded to battle without further warrant."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Saul therefore and all the people that was with him shouted together, and they came to the place of the fight: and behold every man's sword had been turned to his neighbour, and a slaughter exceeding great."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "But the Hebrews also which had been with the Philisthiims yesterday and the day before, and went up with them in the camp, returned to be with Israel, which were with Saul and Jonathas."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "All the Israelites also which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, hearing that the Philisthiims were fled, joined themselves with their fellows in battle. And there were with Saul as it were ten thousand men."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And our Lord in that day saved Israel. And the fight reached as far as Bethaven."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And the men of Israel were joined among themselves in that day: and Saul adjured the people, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat bread until evening, till I be revenged of mine enemies. And the whole people did eat no bread:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and all the common people of the land came into a forest, wherein was honey upon the face of the field."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "The people therefore entered into the forest, and there appeared dropping honey, and no man put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "But Jonathas had not heard when his father adjured the people: & he put forth the tip of the rod which he had in his hand, and dipped it into a honey comb: and he turned his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were illuminated."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And one of the people answering, said: Thy father hath bound the people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat bread this day. (And the people was faint)."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And Jonathas said: (c) My father hath troubled the land: yourselves have seen that mine eyes are illuminated, because I have tasted a little of this honey:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Jonathas was excused by ignorance, & by necessity; and therefore was justly delivered by the people; and his father offended, in not excepting the case of necessity, & through more eager zeal of revenge, than he had warrant from God, whose answer he would not expect. v. 19."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "how much more if the people had eaten of the prey of their enemies, which they found? Had there not been made a greater plague in the Philisthiims?"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "They struck therefore in that day the Philisthiims from Machmas unto Aialon. And the people was wearied exceedingly:"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "and being turned to the prey took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat (d) with blood.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Whereof followed also another sin, that the people fainting for lack of meat did eat flesh with the blood, contrary to the law."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And they told Saul saying that the people had sinned to our Lord, eating with blood. Who said: You have transgressed: Roll to me even now a great stone."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And Saul said: Disperse yourselves among the common people, and tell them that every man bring me his oxe and ram, and kill ye them upon this same, and eat, and you shall not sin to our Lord eating with blood. All the people therefore brought every man his oxe in his hand until night: and slew them there."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And Saul built an altar to our Lord; and then first did he begin to build an altar to our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And Saul said: Let us fall upon the Philisthiims by night, and let us spoil them till it wax light in the morning, neither let us leave a man of them. And the people said: Do all that seemeth good in thine eyes. And the Priest said: Let us approach hither to God."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "And Saul consulted our Lord: Shall I pursue the Philistiims? Wilt thou deliver them into the hands of Israel? And (e) he answered him not in that day.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Before, v. 19. Saul would not expect God's answer: now therefore God will not answer him."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "And Saul said: Bring hither all the corners of the people: and know, and see by whom this sin hath chanced today."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "Our Lord the Savior of Israel liveth, that if it were done by Jonathas my son, he shall die without revoking. Whereunto none of the people gainsaid him."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "And he said to all Israel: Be you separated into one side, and I with Jonathas my son will be on the other side. And the people answered Saul: Do what seemeth good in thine eyes."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And Saul said to our Lord: Lord God of Israel, give a sign: and Jonathas was caught and Saul, and the people went forth."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "And Saul said: Cast ye lot between me, and Jonathas my son. And (f) Jonathas was taken.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "Jonathas was found to have transgressed the unadvised commandment, but Saul himself was in a greater fault of rash proceeding, & undiscreet commanding."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "And Saul said to Jonathas: Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathas told him, and said: Tasting I tasted in the tip of the rod which was in mine hand a little honey, & behold I die."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "And Saul said: These things do God to me, & these things add he, that dying thou shalt die Jonathas."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "And the people said to Saul: Shall Jonathas then die, which hath made this great salvation in Israel? This is unlawful: our Lord liveth, if there shall fall a hair from his head upon the ground, because with God hath he wrought today. The people therefore delivered Jonathas, that he should not die."
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "And Saul retired, neither did he pursue the Philistiims: moreover the Philistiims departed into their places."
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "And Saul, his kingdom being established over Israel, fought round about against all his enemies, against Moab, & the children of Ammon, and Edom, and the kings of Soba, and the Philisthians: and whither soever he turned himself, he overcame."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "And gathering together an army, he struck Amalec, and delivered Israel from the hand of the spoilers thereof."
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "And the sons of Saul, were Jonathas and Jesui, and Melchisua: and the names of his two daughters, the name of the first born Merob, and the name of the younger Michol."
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "And the name of Saul's wife, Achinoam the daughter of Achimaas: and the name of the Prince of his host Abner, the son of Ner, the cousin german of Saul by the father."
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "Moreover Cis was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner, the son of Abiel."
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "And there was mighty battle against the Philisthians all the days of Saul. For whomsoever Saul had seen a valiant man, and fit for battle, he joined him to himself."
}
],
"summary": "Jonathas trusting in God, accompanied with one man, his father not knowing, goeth into the Philisthiims' camp, killeth twenty men, and troubleth their whole army. 16. Saul understanding the same, approacheth with his army, and they get a great victory. 24. But Saul having commanded under pain of death, that none should eat till night, Jonathas for tasting a little honey (though ignorant of the prohibition) is judged to die. 45. But the people oppose themselves, and deliver him from death. 47. Saul prospereth in his Kingdom, with his family."
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Samuel said to Saul: Our Lord sent me to anoint thee king over his people Israel; now therefore hear the voice of our Lord:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have recounted whatsoever Amalec hath done to Israel: how he resisted them in the way when they came up out of Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Now therefore go, and (a) strike Amalec, and (b) destroy all that he hath: spare him not, and covet not ought of his things: but kill from man unto woman, both child & suckling, oxe and sheep, camel and ass.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Amalec is strucken when the flesh is chastised by abstinence."
},
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Destroyed when the mind is restrained from unclean cogitations. S. Greg. li. 6. c. 1. in 1. Reg. 15."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Saul therefore commanded the people, and numbered them as it were lambs: two hundred thousand footmen, & ten thousand of the men of Juda."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And when Saul was come unto the city of Amalec, he laid ambushments in the torrent."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Saul said to the Cineite: Go ye, retire & depart from Amalec: lest perhaps I wrap thee in with him, for thou hast done mercy with all the children of Israel, when they descended out of Aegypt. And the Cineite departed out of the midst of Amalec."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And Saul struck Amalec from Hevila, until thou come to Sur, which is over-against Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And he apprehended Agag the king of Amalec alive: but all the common people he slew in the edge of the sword."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Saul and the people spared Agag, & the best flocks of sheep & herds, & the garments & rams, & all things, that were fair, neither would they destroy them: but whatsoever was vile and refuse, that they destroyed."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And the word of our Lord was made to Samuel, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "It repenteth me that I have made Saul king: because he hath forsaken me, & hath not fulfilled my words in work. And Samuel was strucken sad, and cried to our Lord all the night."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And when Samuel had risen in the night, to go to Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, that Saul was come into Carmelus, and had erected to himself a triumphant arch, and returning was passed, & gone into Galgal. Samuel therefore came to Saul, and Saul offered an holocaust to our Lord of the first of the preys, which he had brought from Amalec."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said to him: Blessed be thou to our Lord, I have fulfilled the word of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Samuel said: And what is this voice of flocks, which soundeth in mine ears, and of herds, which I hear?"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Saul said: They have brought them from Amalec: for the people hath spared the better sheep and herds that they might be immolated to our Lord thy God, but the rest we have slain."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And Samuel said to Saul: Suffer me, and I will shew thee what our Lord hath spoken to me this night. And he said to him: Speak."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Samuel said: When thou wast a little one in thine own eyes, (c) was thou not made chief in the tribes of Israel? And our Lord anointed thee to be king over Israel,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "When Saul was humble he was exalted, now being proud he is rejected."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and our Lord sent thee on the way, and said: Go, and kill the sinners of Amalec, and thou shalt fight against them until the utter destruction of them."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Why therefore hast thou not heard the voice of our Lord: but art turned to the prey, & hast done evil in the eyes of our Lord?"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Saul said to Samuel: Yea I have heard the voice of our Lord, & have walked in the way by which our Lord sent me, & have brought Agag the king of Amalec, & Amalec I have slain."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "But the people took of the prey sheep and oxen, the principal of those things which were slain, to immolate to our Lord their God in Galgal."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And Samuel said: why? Will our Lord have holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of our Lord be obeyed? For (d) Better is Obedience Than Victims: and to harken rather than to offer the fat of rams.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "By ordinary sacrifices, we give our external goods to God, by obedience we give ourselves. S. Greg. l. 6. c. 2. in 1. Reg. 15."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Because it is as it were the sin of enchantment, to resist, & as it were the wickedness of idolatry, to refuse to obey. For as much therefore as thou hast rejected the word of our Lord, our Lord hath rejected thee, that thou shalt not be king."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And Saul said to Samuel: I have sinned, because I have transgressed the saying of our Lord, and thy words, fearing the people, and obeying their voice."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "But now bear I beseech thee my sin, and return with me, that I may adore our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with thee, because thou hast rejected the word of our Lord, and our Lord hath rejected thee that thou shalt not be king over Israel."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And Samuel turned himself to depart: but he caught the hem of his cloak, which also did rend."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And Samuel said to him: Our Lord hath rent the Kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath delivered it to thy neighbour better than thou."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "Moreover the Triumpher in Israel will not spare, and he will not be turned with repentance: for neither is he a man that he may repent."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "But he said: I have sinned: howbeit now honour me before the ancients of my people, and before Israel, & return with me, that I may adore our Lord thy God."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "Samuel therefore returning followed Saul: & Saul adored our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And Samuel said: Bring unto me Agag the king of Amalec. And Agag was presented to him very fat, trembling. And Agag said: Doth bitter death thus separate?"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women without children, so shall thy mother among women be without children. And Samuel hewed him into pieces before our Lord in Galgal."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And Samuel departed into Ramatha: but Saul ascended unto his house into Gabaa."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And Samuel saw Saul no more unto the day of his death: but yet Samuel lamented Saul because it (e) repented our Lord that he had appointed him king over Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "God is said improperly to repent, when he altereth the thing that he did before. S. Amb. li. de Noe c. 4."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Saul is commanded utterly to destroy the Amalecites, 8. but he taking Agag their king spareth his life, & chief of the prey. 10. For which disobedience (20. though pretending that the best things were reserved for sacrifice) he is deposed from his Kingdom. 24. Then acknowledgeth his fault. 32. Samuel cutteth Agag in pieces, 35. and mourneth for Saul."
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] our Lord said to Samuel: How long dost thou mourn Saul, whom I have rejected that he rule not over Israel? Fill thy horn with oil, and come, that I may send thee to Isai the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The third part. David's anointing, his virtues, & persecution."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And Samuel said: How shall I go? For Saul will hear of it, and will kill me. And our Lord said: A calf of the herd shalt thou take in thy hand, and shalt say: I am come to immolate unto our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And thou shalt call Isai to the victim, and I will shew thee what thou must do, and thou shalt anoint whomsoever I shall shew to thee."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Samuel therefore did as our Lord spake to him. And he came into Bethlehem, and the ancients of the city marveled meeting him, and they said: Is thy entrance peaceable?"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And he said: Peaceable: I am come to immolate unto our Lord, be ye sanctified and come with me that I may immolate. He therefore sanctified Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And when they were entered in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is there before our Lord his Christ?"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And our Lord said to Samuel: Respect not his countenance, nor the tallness of his stature: because I have rejected him, neither do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things which appear, but our Lord beholdeth the heart.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Isai called Aminadab, and brought him before Samuel. Who said: Neither this hath our Lord chosen."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Isai brought Samma, of whom he said: This also hath not our Lord chosen."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Isai therefore brought his seven sons before Samuel: & Samuel said to Isai: Our Lord hath not chosen of these."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Samuel said to Isai: Are all thy sons now fully come? Who answered: Yet there is left a little one, & he feedeth sheep. And Samuel said to Isai: Send, and bring him: for neither will we sit down till he come hither."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "He sent therefore, and brought him. And he was red and beautiful to behold, and of a comely face. And our Lord said: Arise, and anoint him, for he it is."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Samuel therefore took the horn of oil, & anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of our Lord from that day & so forward was directed upon David: & Samuel rising went into Ramatha."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the Spirit of our Lord departed from Saul, and a wicked spirit vexed him, (a) from our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "By God's permission. S. Aug. li. 2. q. 1. ad Simplician. S. Beda qq. in 1. Reg. c. 5."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And the servants of Saul said to him: Behold an evil spirit of God vexeth thee."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Let our Lord command, and thy servants which are before thee will seek a man skillful to (b) play on the harp, that when the evil spirit of our Lord shall take thee, he may play with his hand, and thou bear it more easily.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Naturally (as these men truly judged music helpeth some disposition of humours, & draweth also the mind from so vehement apprehension of afflictions: but here it seemeth more probable that God supernaturally relieved Saul by David's playing on the harp, together with his sincere devotion, for more manifest condemnation of the one, and justification of the other. Glos. ordin. S. Greg."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Saul said to his servants: Provide me therefore some man that playeth well, and bring him to me."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And one of the servants answering, said: Behold I have seen the son of Isai the Bethlehemite skillful to play, and very valiant in strength, and a warlike man, and wise in his words, & a beautiful man: and our Lord is with him."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Saul therefore sent messengers to Isai saying: Send unto me David thy son, which is in the pastures."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Isai therefore took an ass loaden with loaves, and a flagon of wine, and one kid of the goats, and sent it by the hand of David his son to Saul."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And David came to Saul, and stood before him: but he loved him exceedingly, and was made his esquire."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let David stand in my sight: for he hath found grace in mine eyes."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Therefore whensoever the evil spirit of our Lord caught Saul, David took his harp, & struck with his hand, & Saul was refreshed, and waxed better, for the evil spirit departed from him."
}
],
"summary": "Samuel by God's commandment anointeth David king. 14. God's spirit parteth from Saul, and a wicked spirit vexeth him. 16. The vexation is mitigated by David's playing on a harp."
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And the Philisthiims gathering together their companies unto battle, assembled into Socho of Juda: and camped between Socho and Azeca in the borders of Dommim."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Moreover Saul and the children of Israel being gathered together came into the valley of Terebinth, and they put the army in array to fight against the Philisthiims."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the Philisthiims stood upon the mountain on this side, and Israel stood upon the mountain on the other side: and the valley was between them."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And there came forth a man that was a bastard from the camp of the Philistians, named (a) Goliath, of Geth, in height six cubits and a palm:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "This bold & impudent challenger signifieth the devil, or any arch-heretic, that provoketh the Church of God: but is overcome by the humble of heart and confident in God, & slain with his own weapon."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and a helmet of brass upon his head, & he was clothed with a coat of mail linked. Moreover the weight of his coat of mail was five thousand sicles of brass:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and he had brazen boots on his thighs, and a target of brass covered his shoulders."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the shaft of his spear was as it were a weaver's beam, and the very iron of his spear had six hundred sicles of iron: and his esquire went before him."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And standing he cried against the bands of Israel, & said to them: Why came you prepared to fight? Am not I a Philistian, and you the servants of Saul? Choose out a man of you, and let him descend to fight hand to hand."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "If he shall be able to fight with me, & strike me, we will be servants to you: but if I shall prevail, & shall beat him, you shall be servants, & shall serve us."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And the Philistian said: I have defied the bands of Israel this day: Give me a man, and let him fight with me hand to hand."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Saul and all the Israelites hearing such words of the Philistians, were astonished, and feared exceedingly."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And there was David the son of a man that was an Ephratheite, of whom there was mention before, of Bethlehem Juda, whose name was Isai, who had eight sons, and he was in the days of Saul an old man, and aged among men."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And his three elder sons went after Saul into battle: and the names of his three sons, which went to battle, were Eliab the first begotten, and the second Abinadab, the third also Samma:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and David was the youngest. The three elder therefore having followed Saul,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father's flock in Bethlehem."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But the Philistian came forth morning and evening, and stood forty days."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Isai said to David his son: Take for thy brethren an ephi of polent, and these ten loaves, and run into the camp to thy brethren,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and these ten little cheeses thou shalt carry to the tribune: and shalt visit thy brethren, if they do well: and learn with whom they are placed."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And Saul, and they, and all the children of Israel fought in the Valley of Terebinth against the Philisthiims."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "David therefore arose in the morning, & commended the flock 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 shout in the battle."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "For Israel had put themselves in array, and the Philisthiims on the contrary side were prepared."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "David therefore leaving the vessels which he had brought, under the hand of him that was keeper at the baggage, ran to the place of the battle, and asked if all things went well with his brethren."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And when he yet spake to them, that man the bastard appeared coming up, named Goliath, the Philistian of Geth, coming up from the camp of the Philistians: and he speaking these self-same words, David heard them."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And all the Israelites when they had seen the man, fled from his face, fearing him exceedingly."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And some one of Israel said: Have you seen this man that came up, to defy Israel he came up? The man therefore (b) that shall strike him, the king will give him his daughter, and he will make his father's house without tribute in Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Christ overcoming the devil received the Church to his spouse. S. Greg."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And David spake to the men that stood with him, saying: What shall be given to the man that shall beat this Philistian, and shall take away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistian, which hath upbraided the armies of the living God?"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And the people reported unto him the self-same word, saying: These things shall be given to the man, that shall strike him."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Which when Eliab his eldest brother had heard, when he spake with others, he was angry against David, and said: Wherefore camest thou? And why hast thou left those few sheep in the desert? I know thy pride, and the wickedness of thy heart: that to see the battle thou art come down."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And David said: What have I done? Is there not cause to speak?"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And he went a little aside from him to another, and said the self-same word. And the people answered him as before."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And the words which David spake were heard, and told in the sight of Saul."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "To whom when he was brought, he spake unto him: Let not any man's heart be discouraged in him: I thy servant will go, and will fight against the Philistian."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And Saul said to David: Thou art not able to resist this Philistian, nor to fight against him, because thou art a child, but he is a man of war from his youth."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And David said to Saul: Thy servant did feed his father's flock, and there came a lion, [1] or a bear, and took a ram out of the midst of the flock:",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "* or, for and. v. 36. 37."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "and I pursued them, and struck them, & plucked them out of their mouth, and they arose up against me, and I caught their chin, & I strangled and slew them."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "For (c) both the lion and the bear did I thy servant kill: therefore this uncircumcised Philistian also shall be as it were one of them. Now will I go & take away the reproach of the people: for who is this uncircumcised Philistian, which hath been so hardy to curse the host of the living God?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "He that hath overcome the spirit of pride & of carnality (signified by a lion & a bear) is able also to overcome the devil."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "And David said: Our Lord which hath delivered me from the hand of the lion, and of the bear, he will deliver me from the hand of this Philistian. And Saul said to David: Go, & our Lord be with thee."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "And Saul clothed David with his raiments, & put an helmet of brass upon his head, and vested him with a coat of mail."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "David therefore being girded with his sword over his raiment, began to prove if he could go armed: for he was not accustomed. And David said to Saul: I cannot go so, because I am not used, & he laid them off."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "And he took his staff, which he had always in his hands, & he chose him five most bright stones out of the torrent, and cast them into the shepherd's scrip, which he had with him, & he took a sling in his hand, & went forth against the Philistian."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And the Philistian went, going, & approaching against David, and his esquire before him."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "And when the Philistian had seen and beheld David, he despised him. And he was a young man red, and beautiful to behold."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "And the Philistian said to David: Why am I a dog, that thou comest to me with a staff? And the Philistian cursed David in his gods,"
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "and said to David: Come to me, & I will give thy flesh to the fowls of the air and the beasts of the earth."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "And David said to the Philistian: Thou comest to me with a sword & spear, & shield, but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the bands of Israel, whom thou hast defied"
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "this day, and our Lord shall give thee in my hand, & shall strike thee, and take away thy head from thee: and I shall give the carcasses of the camp of the Philisthiims this day, to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the earth: that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel."
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "And all this assembly shall know, that not in sword, nor in spear, doth our Lord save, for it is his battle, & he will deliver you into our hands."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "When the Philistian therefore was risen up, & came & approached against David, David made haste, & ran to the battle against the Philistian."
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "And he put his hand into his scrip, and took one stone, and cast it with the sling, and fetching it about struck the Philistian in (d) the forehead, and he fell on his face upon the earth.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Pride having impudency of the forehead, is overthrown by humility of Christ's cross: whose sign therefore we carry in our forehead. S. Aug. li. 50. homil. ho. 31."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "And David prevailed against the Philistian with sling and stone, and he struck, and slew the Philistian. And whereas David had no sword in his hand,"
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "he ran, and stood upon the Philistian, and took his sword, and drew it out of the scabbard, and slew him, & cut off his head. And the Philisthiims seeing that the strongest of them was dead, did fly."
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "And the men of Israel & Juda rising up shouted, & pursued the Philistians till they came into a valley to the gates of Accaron, and there fell wounded of the Philisthiims in the way of Saraim, as far as Geth, and as far as Accaron."
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "And the children of Israel returning, after they had pursued the Philistians, invaded their camp."
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "And David taking the head of the Philistian brought it into Jerusalem: but his armour he laid in his tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 55,
"text": "And at the same time that Saul saw David going forth against the Philistian, he said to Abner the Prince of the army: (e) Of what stock is this young man descended, Abner? And Abner said: Thy soul liveth, o king, if I know.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "Saul knew not David, being perhaps in a shepherd's habit: though he had not long before served & pleased him well. Ch. 16. v. 21."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 56,
"text": "And the king said: Ask thou whose son this young man is."
},
{
"verse": 57,
"text": "And when David was returned, after the Philisthian was slain, Abner took him, and brought him in before Saul, having the head of the Philisthian in his hand."
},
{
"verse": 58,
"text": "And Saul said to him: O young man, of what progeny art thou? And David said: I am the son of thy servant Isai the Bethlehemite."
}
],
"summary": "Goliath a Philistian challengeth any one of Israel to combat. 12. David being sent by his father to visit his brethren, 23. and hearing all Israel so reproachfully provoked, offereth to undertake the challenge: 34. shewing by former acts that he dare accept it. 37. And so by God's special help wherein he trusteth, 49. overthroweth the challenger with a stone of his sling, and cutteth off his head with his own sword. 51. the Philisthiims flying are slain, and David bringeth the man's head to Saul."
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And it came to pass, when he had finished to speak unto Saul, the soul of Jonathas was joined fast to the soul of David, and Jonathas loved him as his soul."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And Saul took him in that day, and did not grant unto him to return into his father's house."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And David and Jonathas entered a league, for he loved him as his soul."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "For Jonathas stripped himself of the coat wherewith he was clothed, and gave it to David, and the rest of his garments, unto his sword, and bow, and unto his belt."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "David also went forth to all things wheretosoever Saul sent him, & he behaved himself wisely: and Saul placed him over the men of war, & he was accepted in the eyes of all the people, & specially in the eyes of Saul's servants."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Moreover (a) when David returned, after he struck the Philistian, the women came forth from all the tribes of Israel, singing & dancing to Saul the king, in timbrels of joy, & in cornets.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "This happened not immediately after the victory against Goliath, but when David had dwelt some time in Saul's house, & was very grateful to him, & to all the court & people."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and the women sang, playing and saying: Saul struck a thousand, and David ten thousand."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Saul was (b) exceeding angry, & this word was displeasant in his eyes, and he said: They have given David ten thousand, & to me they have given a thousand: what remaineth for him but only the Kingdom?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "When the praises of one import diminishing of another, he that is proud, as Saul now was, is moved to envy & malice, more & more as the virtues of the other & his praises do increase."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Therefore Saul did not look upon David with right eyes from that day and afterward."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And a day after, the evil spirit of God invaded Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of his house. And David played with his hand as every day. And Saul held a spear,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and threw it, thinking that he could nail David to the wall, and David declined from his face the second time."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And Saul feared David because our Lord was with him, and was departed from himself."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Saul therefore removed him from him, and made him a tribune over a thousand men, and he went out and came in before all the people."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Also in all his ways David dealt wisely, and our Lord was with him."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Saul therefore saw that he was exceeding wise, and he began to beware of him."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But all Israel and Juda loved David, for he came in and went out before them."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her will I give thee to wife, only be thou a valiant man, and fight the battles of our Lord. And Saul thought saying: Be not my hand upon him, but let the hands of the Philistians be upon him."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And David said to Saul: What am I, or what is my life, or the kindred of my father in Israel, that I should be made the son in law of the king?"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And it came to pass, at what time Merob the daughter of Saul should have been given to David, she was given to Hadriel the Molathite to wife."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "But David loved Michol the other daughter of Saul. And it was told Saul, and it pleased him."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And Saul said: I will give her to him, that she may be a scandal unto him, & that the hand of the Philistians may be upon him. And Saul said to David: In two things thou shalt be my son in law this day."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And Saul commanded his servants: Speak to David secretly out of my presence, saying: Behold thou pleasest the king, and all his servants love thee. Now therefore be thou the king's son in law."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And the servants of Saul spake all these words in the ears of David. And David said: Doth it seem unto you a small matter to be the son in law of a king? But I am a poor man, and of small ability."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And the servants of Saul reported, saying: These manner of words hath David spoken."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king needeth no dowry, but only an hundred prepuces of the Philistians, that revenge may be made of the king's enemies. Moreover Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistians."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And when his servants had reported to David the words that Saul had said, the word was liked in the eyes of David, to be made the king's son in law."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And after few days David rising up, went with the men that were under him, and he struck of the Philisthiims two hundred men, and brought their prepuces, and numbered them to the king, that he might be his son in law, Saul therefore gave him Michol his daughter to wife."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And Saul saw, and understood that our Lord was with David. And Michol the daughter of Saul loved him."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And Saul began more to fear David: and Saul became enemy to David all days."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And the Princes of the Philistians went forth: and from the beginning of their going forth, David behaved himself more wisely, than all the servants of Saul, and his name was made renowned exceedingly."
}
],
"summary": "David and Jonathas enter league of friendship. 6. Saul hearing David praised above himself is offended, 10. and vexed with an evil spirit, attempteth twice to kill him: 17. Promiseth to give him his eldest daughter in marriage, but giveth her to another, 20. and giveth him the younger, thereby to overthrow him: 25. putting him also in more danger, by requiring of him an hundred prepuces of Philisthiims. 27. David bringeth him two hundred, and his fame increaseth."
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Saul spake to Jonathas his Son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. Moreover Jonathas the son of Saul loved David exceedingly."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And Jonathas told David, saying: Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: wherefore look to thyself I beseech thee in the morning, and thou shalt abide secretly, and shalt be hid."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "But I going forth will stand beside my father, in the field wheresoever he shall be: and I will speak of thee to my father, and whatsoever I shall see, I will tell thee."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Jonathas therefore spake good words of David to Saul his father, and said to him: Sin not, o king, against thy servant David, because he hath not sinned toward thee, and his works are very good for thee."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistian, and our Lord made great salvation to all Israel. Thou hast seen & didst rejoice, why therefore sinnest thou in innocent blood killing David, who is without fault?"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Which when Saul had heard, being pacified with the voice of Jonathas, he sware: Our Lord liveth, he shall not be slain."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Jonathas therefore called David and shewed him all these words, and Jonathas brought in David to Saul, and he was before him, as he had been yesterday and the day before."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And there was battle raised again, and David going forth, fought against the Philistiims, and struck them with a great slaughter, and they fled from his face."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And the evil spirit of our Lord came upon Saul, and he sat in his house, and held a spear: moreover David played with his hand."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And Saul endeavoured to nail David to the wall with his spear. And David declined from the face of Saul: and the spear without making wound pierced the wall, & David fled, and was saved that night."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Saul therefore sent of his guard into David's house, that they should keep him, & that he might be killed in the morning: Which when Michol his wife had told David, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, tomorrow thou shalt die:"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "she let him down through a window. Moreover he went and fled away, and was saved."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Michol took (a) a statua, and put it upon the bed, and a hairy skin of goats she laid at the head thereof, and covered it with garments.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "This statua or image cannot import an idol, as the same word teraphim doth. Gen. 31. for here no idolatry at all was committed, but a right office done by the wife towards her husband. The same word also signifieth religious things belonging to God's service. Osee 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Saul sent sergeants, that should take away David by force, and it was answered that he was sick."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And again Saul sent messengers to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And when the messengers were come, there was found a statua upon the bed, & skins of goats at the head thereof."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou mocked me, and let go mine enemy that he might fly? And Michol answered Saul: Because he said to me: Let me go, otherwise I will kill thee."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "But David flying was saved, and came to Samuel in Ramatha, & told him all things that Saul had done to him: and he and Samuel went and abode in Najoth."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And it was told Saul by some saying: Behold David is in Najoth in Ramatha."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Saul therefore sent sergeants to take away David: who when they had seen a troop of Prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing over them, the spirit of our Lord came also on them, and they also began to prophesy."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Which when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers: but they also did prophesy. And again Saul sent the third messengers: who also prophesied. And Saul being wrath for anger,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "went also himself into Ramatha, and came as far as the great cistern, which is in Socho, and asked, and said: In what place are Samuel and David? And it was told him: Lo they are in Najoth in Ramatha."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And he went into Najoth in Ramatha, and the Spirit of our Lord came upon him, and he walked going, and he (b) prophesied till he came into Najoth in Ramatha.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Saul and his messengers had not the gift of prophecy, as godly Prophets had by an inherent habit, but transitory, as Balaam's ass had faculty to speak at one time, but did not afterward speak any more. S. Aug. l. 2. q. 1. ad Simplician."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And he stripped himself of his garments, and prophesied with the rest before Samuel, and sang naked all that day and night. Whereupon there went out also a proverb: What is Saul also among the Prophets."
}
],
"summary": "Saul intending to kill David is pacified by Jonathas. 9. Nevertheless attempteth again to kill him, and missing his purpose, 11. sendeth soldiers to take and bring him back that he may be slain, but Michol his wife helpeth him away, and excuseth herself to her father, as if she had done it for fear. 18. David and Samuel flying into Najoth. 20. Again Saul sendeth soldiers after them three times, and they all do prophesy. 22. Then himself pursueth David, and also prophesieth."
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 0,
"text": "but in vain, to pacify his father) 35. certifieth David of his father's malice against him. 41. They meet again secretly, and sorrowfully part each from other."
},
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "But David also fled from Najoth, which is in Ramatha, and coming spake before Jonathas: What have I done? What is mine iniquity, and what sin of mine against thy father, that he seeketh my life?"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Who said to him: God forbid, thou shalt not die: for neither will my father do any thing great or little, unless he first tell me: this word therefore only hath my father concealed from me? No, this shall not be."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And he sware again to David. And David said: Thy father surely knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, & will say: Let not Jonathas know this, lest perhaps he be sad. Yea more, our Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, by one degree only (as I may so say) I and death are divided."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And Jonathas said to David: Whatsoever thy soul shall say to me, I will do for thee."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And David said to Jonathas: Behold the calends are tomorrow, and I after the manner am wont to sit beside the king to eat: dismiss me therefore that I may be hid in the field until the evening of the third day."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "If thy father looking inquire for me, thou shalt answer him: David desired me, that he might go quickly into Bethlehem his city: because there be solemn victims to all of his tribe."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "If he shall say: Well; peace shall be to thy servant: but if he be angry, know that his malice is complete."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Do mercy therefore toward thy servant: because thou hast caused me thy servant to enter the league of our Lord with thee. But if there be any iniquity in me, do thou kill me, and bring me not in to thy father."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Jonathas said: Be this far from thee, for neither can it be, that I should not tell thee, if I shall certainly know that my father's malice is complete against thee."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And David answered Jonathas: Who shall bring me word, if thy father answer thee perhaps any thing sharply of me?"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Jonathas said to David: Come, let us go forth abroad into the field: and when they were both gone forth into the field,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Jonathas said to David: Lord God of Israel, if I shall search out my father's meaning, tomorrow or the day after, and some good thing be upon David, and I send not immediately unto thee, and make thee know thereof,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "these things do our Lord to Jonathas, and these things add he. But if my father's malice shall persevere against thee, I will reveal thine ear, and will dismiss thee, that thou mayest go in peace, and our Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And if I live, thou shalt do me the mercy of our Lord, but if I die,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "thou shalt not take away thy mercy from my house for ever, when our Lord shall have rooted out the enemies of David, every one out of the land: take he away Jonathas from his house, and our Lord require it of the hands of David's enemies."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Jonathas therefore made a league with the house of David: & our Lord required it of the hands of David's enemies."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Jonathas added to swear unto David, because he love him, for as his own soul, so he loved him."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And Jonathas said to him: Tomorrow are the calends, and thou shalt be asked for:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "for thy sitting will be inquired of till after tomorrow. Thou shalt therefore go down in haste, and shalt come to the place, where thou must be hid in the day, when it is lawful to work, and thou shalt sit beside the stone which is named Ezel."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And I will shoot three arrows near it, and will shoot as it were exercising myself at a mark."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "I will send also a boy saying to him: Go, and fetch me the arrows."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "If I shall say to the boy: Lo, the arrows are on this side thee, take them up: come thou to me, because there is peace to thee, and there is no evil, our Lord liveth. But if I shall speak thus to the boy: Lo the arrows are beyond thee: Go in peace, because our Lord hath dismissed thee."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And concerning the word which I and thou have spoken, our Lord be between thee and me for ever."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "David therefore was hid in the field, and the calends came, and the king sat down to eat bread."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And when the king was set upon his chair (according to the custom) which was beside the wall, Jonathas arose, and Abner sat at the side of Saul, and David's place appeared void."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And Saul said nothing that day, for he thought it had chanced perhaps unto him, that he was not clean, nor purified."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And when the second day was come after the calends, again David's place appeared empty. And Saul said to Jonathas his son: Why came not the son of Isai neither yesterday nor today to eat?"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Jonathas answered Saul: He desired me instantly, that he might go into Bethlehem,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "and he said: Let me go, because there is a solemn sacrifice in the city, one of my brethren hath sent for me: now therefore if I have found grace in thy sight, I will go quickly, & see my brethren. For this cause he came not to the king's table."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "But Saul being wrath against Jonathas, said to him: Thou son of a woman which of her own accord ravisheth a man, am I ignorant that thou lovest the son of Isai unto thine own confusion, & to the confusion of thine ignominious mother?"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "For all the days, that the son of Isai shall live upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy Kingdom. Therefore now presently send, and bring him to me: because he is the son of death."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And Jonathas answering Saul his father, said: Why shall he die? What hath he done?"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And Saul caught a spear to strike him. And Jonathas understood that it was determined of his father, that he would kill David."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Jonathas therefore rose from the table in anger of fury, and did not eat bread the second day of the calends. For he was strucken heavy upon David, because his father had confounded him."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And when the morning appeared, Jonathas came into the field according to the appointment with David, and a little boy with him,"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "and said to his boy: Go, & fetch me the arrows, which I shoot. And when the boy had run, he shot another arrow beyond the boy."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "The boy therefore came to the place of the arrow, which Jonathas had shot: and Jonathas cried behind the back of the boy, and said: Lo the arrow is there further beyond thee."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "And Jonathas cried again behind the back of the boy, saying: Make haste speedily, stand not. And Jonathas his boy gathered up his arrows, and brought them to his master:"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "and he was altogether ignorant, what was done: for only Jonathas and David knew the matter."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "Jonathas therefore gave his armour to the boy, and said to him: Go, and carry them into the city."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And when the boy was gone, David rose out of the place, which did bend to the South, and falling flat on the ground, adored thrice: & kissing one another, they wept together, but David more."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "Jonathas therefore said to David: Go in peace: whatsoever we have sworn both of us in the name of our Lord, saying: Our Lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "And David arose, and departed: but Jonathas also entered into the City."
}
],
"summary": "Jonathas comforteth David, 3. confirmeth their former league. 18. By an appointed sign (24. endeavouring first,"
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And David came into Nobe to Achimelech the Priest: and Achimelech was astonished, because David was come. And he said to him: Why art thou alone, and none is with thee?"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And David 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, & what manner of precepts I have given thee, for my servants also I have appointed into such and such a place."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, yea if but five loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou shalt find."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the Priest answered David, saying: I have no (a) lay breads at hand, but only holy bread, if the servants be clean, especially from women?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Distinction of common & holy bread. Also an example of dispensation in case of necessity."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And David answered the Priest, and said to him: And truly, if the matter be concerning women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the day before, when we came forth, and the vessels of the servants were holy. Moreover this way is polluted, but it also shall be sanctified this day in the vessels."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "The Priest therefore gave him hallowed bread; for neither was any bread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken away from the face of our Lord, that hot loaves might be set down."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And there was there a certain man of the servants of Saul that day, within the tabernacle of our Lord, & his name was Doeg an Idumeite, the mightiest of Saul's pastors."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And David said to Achimelech: Hast thou here at hand a spear, or a sword? Because mine own sword, and mine own weapons I took not with me. For the king's word hastened forward."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And the Priest said: Lo here the sword of Goliath the Philistian, whom thou slewest in the Valley of Terebinth, is wrapped up in a mantle behind the Ephod: if thou wilt take this, take it: for neither is here any other beside that. And David said: there is none other like to that, give me it."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "David therefore arose, and fled that day from the face of Saul: and came to Achis the king of Geth,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "& the servants of Achis said to him, when they had seen David: Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing in dances to this man saying: Saul struck a thousand, and David ten thousand?"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But David put these words in his heart, and feared exceedingly at the face of Achis the king of Geth."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And he (b) changed his countenance before them, and slipt down between their hands: and he stumbled at the doors of the gate, and his spittle ran down upon his beard.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "David most wisely in such distress feigned himself to be a fool. By which the Holy Ghost mystically signified that Christ should do such things not of fear but of divine wisdom, as he should be counted a fool. Mar. 3. v. 21. Luc. 23. v. 11. 1 Cor. 1. v. 23. S. Beda Quest. in 1. Reg. c. 14."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Achis said to his servants: You have seen the man mad: why have you brought him to me?"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Do we lack mad men, that you have brought in this fellow, to play the mad man in my presence? Shall this man enter into my house?"
}
],
"summary": "In case of necessity Achimelech the Priest giveth hallowed bread to David, 8. also the sword which he had taken from Goliath. 10. Then David going to Achis king of Geth, is forced to feign himself mad."
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "David therefore went from thence, and fled to the cave of Odollam. Which when his brethren had heard, and all his father's house, they went down to him thither."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And there were gathered unto him all that were in distress, and oppressed with debt, and of a pensive heart, and he was made their Prince, and there were with him about four hundred men."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And David departed from thence into Maspha which is Moab: and he said to the king of Moab: Let my father and my mother tarry with you, I beseech thee, till I know what God will do to me."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And he left them before the face of the king of Moab, and they abode with him all the days that David was in garrison."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And Gad the Prophet said to David. Tarry not in garrison, depart, and go into the Land of Juda. And David departed, and came into the forest of Haret."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Saul heard that David 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 spear in his hand, and all his servants that stood about him,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "he said to his servants that stood about him: Hear me now ye children of Jemini: will the son of Isai give to all you fields, and vineyards, and make all you tribunes, and centurions:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "because you have all conspired against me, and there is none that telleth me, especially where my son also hath entered league with the son of Isai? There is none of you that pitieth my case, neither is there that telleth me: for that my son hath raised up my servant against me, lying in wait for me until this day."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Doeg the Idumeite which stood by, and was the chief among the servants of Saul, answering, I saw, quoth he, the son of Isai in Nobe with Achimelech the son of Achitob the Priest."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Who consulted our Lord for him, and gave him victuals, yea and the sword of Goliath the Philistian he gave to him."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "The king therefore sent to call for Achimelech the Priest the son of Achitob & all his father's house, the Priests that were in Nobe, who came all to the king."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And Saul said to Achimelech: Hear thou son of Achitob. Who answered: I am ready, my Lord."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Saul said to him: Why have you conspired against me, thou, and the son of Isai, and hast given him bread and a sword, & hast consulted our Lord for him, that he might rise up against me, continuing a traitor until this day?"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Achimelech answering the king, said: And who amongst all thy servants faithful as David, and the king's son in law, and going forth at thy commandment, & glorious in thy house?"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Did I begin this day to consult our Lord for him? Far be this from me: let not the king suspect such a thing against his servant, in all the house of my father: for thy servant knew not any thing concerning this business, either little or great."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And the king said: Dying thou shalt die Achimelech, thou, and all thy father's house."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And the king said to the couriers, that stood about him. Turn yourselves, and kill the Priests of our Lord, (c) for their hand is with David, knowing that he was fled, and they told me not. And (d) the king's servants would not extend their hands upon the Priests of our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Saul unjustly condemning David, condemned also all those that justified him."
},
{
"label": "d",
"text": "Seeing so manifest injustice & cruelty, they obeyed God rather than man."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and run upon the Priests. And Doeg the Idumeite being turned, ran upon the Priests, and murdered in that day eighty five men revested with an ephod of linen."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And Nobe the city of the Priests he struck in the edge of the sword, men and women, and children, and sucklings, and oxe and ass and sheep in the edge of the sword."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "But one son of Achimelech the son of Achitob, escaping, whose name was Abiathar, fled to David,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and told him that Saul had slain the Priests of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And David said to Abiathar: I knew in that day when Doeg the Idumeite was there, without doubt he would tell Saul, I am guilty of all the souls of thy father."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Abide with me, fear not: if any man shall seek my life, he shall seek thy life also, and with me thou shall be preserved."
}
],
"summary": "David with a great retinue goeth to king of Moab, 5. but by advice of Gad the Prophet, returneth into Juda. 6. Saul lamenting that many conspire against him, 9. Doeg accuseth Achimelech, 14. who justifieth both David and himself. 16. He and all the Priests with much people in Nobe are slain by Saul's commandment. 20. only Abiathar escaping flyeth to David."
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And they told David, saying: Behold the Philistiims oppugn Ceila, and spoil the barns."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "David therefore consulted our Lord, saying: Shall I go, and strike these Philistians? And our Lord said to David: Go, and thou shalt strike the Philistians, and shalt save Ceila."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the men that were with David, said to him: Behold we resting here in Jury are afraid, how much more if we shall go into Ceila against the bands of the Philistians?"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Again therefore David consulted our Lord. Who answering said to him: Arise, and go into Ceila: for I will deliver the Philistians in thy hand."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "David therefore and his men went into Ceila, and fought against the Philistians, and drove away their beasts, and struck them with a great slaughter, and David saved the inhabitants of Ceila."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Moreover at that time, when Abiathar the son of Achimelech fled to David into Ceila, he went down having with him an ephod."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And it was told Saul that David was come into Ceila: and Saul said: Our Lord hath delivered him into my hands, & he is shut up being entered the city, where in are gates and locks."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Saul commanded all the people, that they should go down into Ceila to fight, and besiege David and his men."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Which when David understood, that Saul secretly prepared evil against him, he said to Abiathar the Priest: (a) Apply the Ephod.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "By this it appeareth that David consulted God by the high priest: and the high priest for this purpose joined the priestly ornament called Ephod to the Rationale, and so had revelation from God. Exo. 28. Levit. 8."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And David said: Lord God of Israel, thy servant hath heard a bruit, that Saul determineth to come into Ceila, to destroy the city for me:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Will the men of Ceila deliver me into his hands? And will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? Lord God of Israel tell thy servant. And our Lord said: He will come down."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And David said: Will the men of Ceila deliver me, and the men that are with me, into the hands of Saul? And our Lord said: (b) They will deliver thee.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Conditionally: If thou tarry here."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "David therefore arose and his men, about six hundred, and going out of Ceila, wandered hither and thither uncertain: and it was told Saul that David was fled from Ceila, and was saved: for which cause he dissembled to go forth."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "But David abode in the desert in most strong places, & he tarried in the mount of the desert Ziph, in a shadowed hill. Saul notwithstanding sought him always: and our Lord delivered him not into his hands."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And David saw that Saul was gone forth to seek his life. Moreover David was in the desert Ziph, in a wood."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And Jonathas the son of Saul arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hands in God, and said to him:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Fear not; for neither shall the hand of Saul my father find thee, and thou shalt reign over Israel, & I shall be second to thee, yea and my father knoweth this."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Both therefore made a league before our Lord: and David abode in the wood: but Jonathas returned into his house."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And the Zipheites went up unto Saul in Gabaa, saying: Lo, doth not David lie hid with us in the most safe places of the wood, in the hill Hachila, which is on the right hand of the desert?"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Now therefore, as thy soul hath desired, come down, & it shall be our charge to deliver him into the king's hands."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And Saul said: Blessed be ye of our Lord, because you have pitied my case."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Go therefore I pray you, and prepare diligently, and deal curiously, and consider the place, where his foot is, and who hath seen him there, for he thinketh of me, that I craftily lie in wait for him."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Consider and see all his lurking holes, wherein he is hid, and return to me with the certainty of the thing, that I may go with you. Yea and if he shall stop up himself into the earth, I will search him out among all the thousands of Juda."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "But they rising went into Ziph before Saul: and David and his men were in the desert Maon, in the champion country at the right hand of Jesimon."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Saul therefore and his company went to seek him: and it was told David, and forthwith he went down to the rock, and abode in the desert Maon, which when Saul had heard, he pursued David in the desert Maon."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And Saul went at the side of the mountain on the one part: and David and his men were in the side of the mountain on the other part: moreover David despaired that he could escape from the face of Saul: Saul therefore & his men in manner of a ring compassed David & his men, to take them."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And a messenger came to Saul, saying: Make haste, and come, because the Philistiims have poured in themselves upon the land."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Saul therefore returned leaving off to pursue David, and he went to meet the Philistians. For this cause they called that place, The Rock dividing."
}
],
"summary": "The city of Ceila oppugned by the Philisthiims is relieved by David. 7. who fearing to be there betrayed, 13. flyeth into the desert of Ziph. 16. Jonathas repaireth secretly to him, and they confirm again their former league. 19 The Ziphians promise to betray David: 27. but Saul leaveth for a while to persecute him, being forced to defend the land from the Philistians invading it."
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "David therefore went up from thence, and dwelt in the safest places of Engaddi."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And when Saul was returned, after he pursued the Philistians, they told him, saying: Behold, David is in the desert Engaddi."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Saul therefore taking unto him three thousand chosen men of all Israel, went forth to search out David & his men, yea over the steep broken rocks, which are accessible only to wild goats."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And he came to the sheepcotes, which fell in his way as he went, and there was a cave, which Saul entered into, to do his easement: moreover David and his men lay hid in the inner part of the cave."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And the servants of David said to him: Behold the day, whereof our Lord said to thee: I will deliver thee thine enemy, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good in thine eyes. David therefore arose, and cut off the hem of Saul's cloak softly."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "After this (a) David's heart struck him, for that he had cut off the hem of Saul's cloak.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Atender conscience had scruple of a small doubt which was no sin: a large conscience sticketh at nothing."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And he said to his men: Our Lord be merciful unto me, (b) that I do not this thing to my master the anointed of our Lord, that I should lay my hand upon him, because he is the anointed of our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Saul being anointed King by God's appointment, could not lawfully be slain by his subjects without like ordinance from God. For though David was also already anointed, yet that was not to reign presently, but when Saul should die, or otherwise be taken away."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And David persuaded his men with words, and permitted them not to rise against Saul: moreover Saul rising out of the cave, went on his journey begun."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And David rose up after him: and going out of the cave, cried behind Saul's back, saying: My lord king. And Saul looked back behind him: and David bowing himself flat toward the ground adored,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the words of men that say: David seeketh evil against thee?"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Lo this day thine eyes have seen, that our Lord delivered thee in my hand, in the cave, and I had a cogitation to kill thee, but mine eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not extend mine hand upon my Lord, because he is the anointed of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But rather see and know, o my father, the hem of thy cloak in my hand, that when I did cut off the hem of thy cloak, I would not extend my hand upon thee. Mark, and see, that there is no evil in my hand, nor iniquity, neither have I sinned against thee: but thou liest in wait for my life, to take it away."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Our Lord judge between me and thee, and our Lord revenge me of thee, but be not my hand upon thee."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "As also it is said in the old proverb: From The Impious shall impiety proceed: be not therefore my hand upon thee: Whom dost thou persecute, o king of Israel?"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Whom dost thou persecute? Thou persecutest a dead dog, and a flea."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Our Lord be judge, and judge between me and thee, and he see, and judge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And when David had fully ended speaking such words to Saul, Saul said: Is this thy voice my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and said to David: Thou art juster than I: for thou hast done me good turns, and I have rendered thee evil."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And thou hast shewed this day what good things thou hast done to me: how our Lord delivered me into thy hand, and thou hast not killed me."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "For who when he hath found his enemy, will let him go in a good way? But our Lord render thee this good turn, for that which thou hast wrought toward me this day."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And now because I know that thou most certainly shalt reign, and have the Kingdom of Israel in thy hand:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "swear to me in our Lord, not to destroy my seed after me, nor to take away my name from the house of my father."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And David sware to Saul. Saul therefore went into his house: and David and his men went up into safer places."
}
],
"summary": "Saul chancing to come into a cave, David being hid with others in the same place, only cutteth the skirt of his cloak, 5. which after shewing, Saul acknowledgeth his fault, and ceaseth for a time to persecute him."
},
{
"chapter": 25,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered together, and they mourned for him, and buried him in his house in Ramatha. And David rising went down into the desert of Pharan."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, & his possession in Carmel, & that man was exceeding great: and he had three thousand sheep, & a thousand goats: and it chanced that his flock was shorn in Carmel."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the name of the man was Nabal: & the name of his wife Abigail. And that woman was very wise and beautiful: moreover her husband hard, and very ill, and malicious: and he was of the kindred of Caleb."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "When David therefore heard in the desert, that Nabal sheared his flock,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "he sent ten young men, and said to them: Go up into Carmel, & you shall come to Nabal, and shall salute him in my name peaceably."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And you shall say: Peace be to my brethren, and to thee, and peace to thy house, and to all whatsoever thou hast be peace."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "I have heard, that thy shepherds which were with us in the desert did shear: we have never molested them, neither hath ought been wanting to them at any time of the flock, all the time that they were with us in Carmel."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Ask thy servants, and they will tell thee. Now therefore let thy servants find grace in thine eyes: for we are come in a good day, whatsoever thy hand shall find, give thy servants, and thy son David."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And when David's servants were come, they spake to Nabal all these words in David's name: and so held their peace."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David? And what is the son of Isai? There are servants multiplied now a days which fly from their masters."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Shall I then take my breads, and my waters, and the flesh of my cattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I know not whence they are?"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Therefore the servants of David returned by their way, and returning came & told him all the words that he had said."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Then said David to his servants: Every man gird him with his sword. And they were every one girded with their swords. And David also was girded with his sword: and there followed David about four hundred men: moreover two hundred remained at the baggage."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "But to Abigail the wife of Nabal one of their servants told, saying: Behold David hath sent messengers from the desert, to bless our master, and he disdained them:"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "these men were good enough to us, & not troublesome: neither did ever any thing perish all the time, that we have converst with them in the desert:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "they were in stead of a wall to us both in the day and in the night, all the days that we fed the flocks with them."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do, for (a) malice is accomplished against thy husband, & against thy house, and he is the son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Not a malicious mind, such as Saul bore unjustly against David, but punishment is decreed against Nabal, for not only denying a reasonable request, but also for so reproachful an answer."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Abigail therefore made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five muttons ready dresst, and five measures of polent, and an hundred branches of raisins, and two hundred masses of dry figs, and laid them upon asses,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and said to her servants: Go before me; lo, I will follow you at your back: but she told not her husband Nabal."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "When she therefore had gotten upon an ass, and came down to the foot of the mountain, David and his men came down meeting her, whom she also met."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And David said: In vain verily have I preserved all things that were this man's in the desert, and there perished nothing of all that pertained to him, & he hath rendered me (b) evil for good.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Evil words for courteous usage heretofore, and for late gentle entreating by messengers."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "These things do God to the enemies of David, & these things add he, if I shall leave of all things that pertain to him until morning, any thing pissing against the wall."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And when Abigail had seen David, she made haste, & light from her ass, & fell down before David upon her face, & adored upon the earth,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and fell at his feet, & said: In me my lord be this iniquity: let thy handmaid speak I beseech thee in thine ears: and hear the words of thy servant."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Let not my lord the king I pray thee, set his heart upon this naughty man Nabal: because according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I thy handmaid saw not thy servants my lord, whom thou didst send."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Now therefore my lord, our Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath stayed thee that thou shouldst not come unto blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now be thine enemies as Nabal, & they that seek evil to my lord."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Wherefore receive this benediction, which thy handmaid hath brought to thee my lord: and give to thy servants that follow thee my lord."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Take away the iniquity of thy handmaid: for our Lord making will make to my lord a faithful house, because thou my lord dost fight the battles of our Lord: let not malice therefore be found in thee all the days of thy life."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "For if a man shall rise, persecuting thee, & seeking thy life, the life of my lord shall be kept, as in the (c) bundle of the living, with our Lord thy God: Moreover the life of thine enemies shall be whurled, as in the violence, and whurl of a sling.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Things tied in bundles are stronger and more secure, than single and loose."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "When our Lord therefore shall do to thee, my lord, all good things, which he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall constitute thee Prince over Israel,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "this shall not be an occasion of sobbing to thee, and a scruple of heart to my lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or thyself hast revenged thyself: and when our Lord hath bestowed these benefits upon my lord, thou shalt remember thy handmaid."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And David said to Abigail: Blessed be our Lord the God of Israel, who hath sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech,"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "and blessed be thou, which hast stayed me today, that I might not go to blood, and revenge me with mine own hand."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "Otherwise our Lord liveth, the God of Israel, who hath stayed me that I should not do thee any evil, unless thou hadst quickly come to meet me, there had not remained to Nabal until morning light, any pissing against a wall."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "And David took of her hand all things which she had brought him, and said to her: Go peaceably into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice, and have honoured thy face."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, as it were the feast of a king, and Nabal's heart was pleasant: for he was drunk exceedingly: and she told him not a word little or great until morning."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "But early when Nabal had digested his wine, his wife told him these words, & his heart was dead inwardly, & he became as a stone."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "And when ten days had passed, our Lord struck Nabal, & he died."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "Which when David had heard that Nabal was dead, he said: Blessed be our Lord, who hath judged the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, and the malice of Nabal hath our Lord rendered upon his head. David therefore sent, and spake to Abigail, that he might take her to himself to wife."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "And David's servants came to Abigail into Carmel, and spake to her, saying: David hath sent us unto thee, to take thee to his wife."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "Who arising adored flat toward the earth, and said: Lo let thy servant be as an handmaid, to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "And Abigail arose, and made haste, and gat upon an ass, and five women went with her, waiting maids, and followed the messengers of David, and became his wife."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "Yea and Achinoam also did David take of Jezrahel: and both were his wives."
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "But Saul gave Michol his daughter David's wife to Phalti, the son of Lais, who was of Gallim."
}
],
"summary": "Samuel dieth & is mourned. 3. David requesting, 10. and not obtaining victuals of Nabal, 13. threateneth to kill him. 14. But his wife Abigail prudently preventeth the revenge, 18. by sending victuals, 23. and giving good words. 37. All which when Nabal understandeth, he fainteth, and after ten days dieth. 39. David marrieth Abigail: also Achinoam: 44. and his wife Michol is given to another."
},
{
"chapter": 26,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And there came Zipheites unto Saul in Gabaa, saying: Behold David is hid in the hill Hachila, which is over-against the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And Saul arose, and went down into the desert Ziph, and with him three thousand men of the chosen of Israel, to seek David in the desert Ziph."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Saul camped in Gabaa Hachila, which was over-against the wilderness in the way: and David dwelt in the desert. And seeing that Saul was come after him into the desert."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "he sent discoverers, and learned that he was come thither most certainly."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And David arose secretly, and came to the place where Saul was: and when he had seen the place wherein Saul slept, and Abner the son of Ner, the Prince of his war, and Saul sleeping in the tent, and the rest of the multitude round about him,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "David spake to Achimelech the Hetheite, and Abisai the son of Sarvia the brother of Joab, saying: Who will go down with me to Saul into the camp? And Abisai said: I will go with thee."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "David therefore and Abisai came to the people by night, and found Saul lying and sleeping in the tent, & his spear fixed in the ground at his head: and Abner, & the people sleeping round about him."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And Abisai said to David: God hath shut up thine enemy this day into thy hands: now therefore I will thrust him through with my spear in the earth once, and twice shall not need."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And David said to Abisai: Kill him not: for (a) who shall extend his hand upon the anointed of our Lord, & shall be innocent?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "David is resolute, and often repeateth, that it is not lawful for private subjects to kill their Prince, no although himself was anointed to succeed."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And David said: Our Lord liveth, unless our Lord shall strike him, or his day come to die, or descending into battle he perish:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Our Lord be merciful unto me, that I extend not my hand upon the anointed of our Lord. Now therefore take the spear which is at his head, and cup of water, & let us go."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "David therefore took the spear, and cup of water, which was at Saul's head, and they went away: and there was none that saw, or understood, or awaked, but all slept, because the dead sleep (b) of our Lord had fallen upon them.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "God's providence sent this extraordinary sleep, and inspired David to do this fact, for more justification of his innocency."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And when David had passed over against, and stood in the top of the mountain far off, & a good space between them,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying: Wilt thou not answer, Abner? And Abner answering said: Who art thou, that cryest & disquietest the king?"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And David said 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 kill the king thy lord."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "This thing is not good, which you have done: Our Lord liveth, you are the children of death, which have not kept your lord, the anointed of our Lord. Now therefore behold where the king's spear is, & where the cup of water is, which was at his head."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Saul knew David's voice, & said: Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said: My voice, my lord king,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and he said: For what cause doth my lord persecute his servant? What have I done? Or what evil is there in my hand?"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Now therefore hear, I pray, my lord king, the words of thy servant: If our Lord stir thee up against me, let there be odour of sacrifice: but if the sons of men, they are cursed in the sight of our Lord, which have cast me out this day, that I should not dwell in the inheritance of our Lord, saying: Go, serve strange gods."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And now let not my blood be shed upon the earth before our Lord, for the king of Israel is come forth to seek one flea, as the perdix is pursued in the mountains."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And Saul said: I have sinned, return my son David, for I will no more do thee evil, for that my life hath been precious in thine eyes today: for it appeareth that I have done foolishly, & have been ignorant of very many things."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And David answering, said: Behold the king's spear, let one of the king's servants pass, and take it."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And our Lord will reward every one according to his justice and fidelity, for our Lord hath delivered thee this day into my hand, and I would not extend my hand upon the anointed of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And as thy life hath been magnified today in mine eyes, so be my life magnified in the eyes of our Lord, and deliver he me from all distress."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Saul therefore said to David: Blessed art thou my son David: and truly doing thou shalt do, and prevailing thou shalt prevail. And David went into his way, and Saul returned into his place."
}
],
"summary": "The Ziphians bewraying the place, Saul besiegeth David: 5. who by night going where Saul and his men are asleep, 9. hurteth him not: 12. but taketh from him his spear and bottle of water 14. & sheweth what he hath done. 21. Saul again confesseth his fault, and promiseth peace."
},
{
"chapter": 27,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And David said in his heart: at length I shall fall one day into the hands of Saul: is it not better that I fly, and be saved in the Land of the Philistians, that Saul may despair, and cease to seek me in all the coasts of Israel? I will fly therefore his hands."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And David arose, and went himself, and the six hundred men with him, to Achis the son of Maoch, the king of Geth."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And David dwelt with Achis in Geth, he & his men; every man & his house: & David & his two wives, Achinoam the Jezrahelite, & Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And it was told Saul that David was fled into Geth, and he added no more to seek him."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And David said to Achis: If I have grace in thy sight, let there a place be given me in one of thy cities of this country, that I may dwell there: for why abideth thy servant in the city of the king with thee?"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Achis therefore gave him in that day Siceleg: for which cause Siceleg became the kings' of Juda until this day."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistians, was four months."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And David went up, and his men, and drave preys out of (a) Gessuri, and Gerzi, and from the Amalecites: for these villages were inhabited in the land in old time, as men go to Sur, as far as the Land of Aegypt.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These countries were neither subject to the Philistiims nor to the Israelites, and were also of those nations whom God had commanded to destroy, dwelling within the land of Chanaan. Deut. 25."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And David struck all the land, neither left he any man or woman: and taking the sheep, & oxen, and asses, & camels, and garments, he returned & came to Achis."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And Achis said to him: Whom hast thou set upon today? David answered: Against the south of Juda, and against the south of Ieramiel, and against the south of Ceni."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "David gave life neither to man nor woman, neither brought them into Geth, saying: Lest perhaps they speak against us. These things did David, and this was decreed of him all the days that he dwelt in the country of the Philistians."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Achis therefore did credit David, saying: Many evils hath he wrought against his people Israel: Therefore he shall be my servant for ever."
}
],
"summary": "The Philistians fighting against Saul, David promiseth fidelity to Achis. 3. Saul destroyeth magicians, 6. but God not answering him, 7. seeketh a woman that hath a Pythonical spirit, 12. & willeth her to raise up Samuel. 15. Who appearing foretelleth him, that he, and his sons shall die the next day."
},
{
"chapter": 28,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] it came to pass that in those days the Philisthiims gathered together their companies, that they might be prepared to battle against Israel: and Achis said to David: Knowing know thou now, that thou shalt go forth with me in the camp, thou, and thy men.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The fourth part. Of the ruin of Saul, and exaltation of David."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And David said to Achis: Now thou shalt know what thy servant will do. And Achis said to David: And I will appoint thee keeper of my head all days."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Samuel was dead, and all Israel mourned for him, and buried him in Ramatha his city. And Saul took all the magicians & soothsayers out of the land."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the Philisthiims were gathered together, & came & camped in Sunam: and Saul also gathered together all Israel, & came into Gelboe."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And Saul saw the camp of the Philisthiims, and feared, and his heart was afraid exceedingly."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And he consulted our Lord, and he answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Priests nor by Prophets."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And Saul said to his servants: Seek me a woman that hath a pythonical spirit, and I will go to her, and will ask by her. And his servants said to him: There is a woman that hath a pythonical spirit in Endor."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "He therefore changed his habit and was clothed with other garments, and he went himself, and two men with him, and they came to the woman in the night, and said to her: Divine unto me in the pythonical spirit, and raise me up whom I shall tell thee."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And the woman said to him: Lo, thou knowest what great things Saul hath done, and how he hath rased the magicians and soothsayers out of the land: why therefore dost thou lie in wait for my life, that I may be slain?"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And Saul sware unto her in our Lord, saying: Our Lord liveth, there shall no evil happen unto thee for this thing."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And the woman said to him: Whom shall I raise up to thee? Who said: Raise me up Samuel."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And when the woman had seen Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice, and said to Saul: Why hast thou deceived me? For thou art Saul."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the king said to her: Fear not: what sawest thou? And the woman said to Saul: I saw (a) gods coming out of the earth.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Not many but one excellent person, an old man comely in apparel."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And he said to her: What manner of form hath he? Who said: An old man is come up, and he is clothed with a mantle. And Saul [1] understood that it was Samuel, and he bowed himself upon his face on the earth, and (b) adored.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Saul adored not Samuel with divine honour, but with dulia, reverence due to a blessed soul."
},
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* iadagh, cognovit, knew."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Samuel said to Saul: why hast thou disquieted me, that I should be raised up? And Saul said, I am in great distress: for the Philisthiims fight against me, and God is departed from me, and would not hear me, neither in the hand of Prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou shouldst shew me what I shall do."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And Samuel said: Why askest thou, whereas our Lord is departed from thee, and is passed to thine adversary?"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "For our Lord will do to thee as he spake in my hand, and he will cut thy Kingdom out of thy hand, & will give it to thy neighbour David:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "because thou hast not obeyed the voice of our Lord, neither didst thou the wrath of his fury in Amalec. Therefore that which thou sufferest hath our Lord done to thee this day."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And our Lord will give Israel also with thee into the hands of the Philisthiims: and tomorrow thou and thy sons shall be (c) with me: yea the camp also of Israel will our Lord deliver into the hands of the Philisthiims.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "In state of the dead in another world, not in the same particular state."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And forthwith Saul fell stretched forth on the ground, for he feared much the words of Samuel, and there was no strength in him, because he had not eaten bread all that day."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "That woman therefore went unto Saul (for he was very much troubled) and said to him: Behold thy handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand: and I heard the words, which thou spakest to me."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Now therefore hear thou also the voice of thy handmaid, and I will set before thee a morsel of bread, that eating thou mayest recover strength, and be able to go on thy journey."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Who refused, and said: I will not eat. But his servants and the woman forced him, & at length hearing their voice, he arose from the ground, and sat upon the bed."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And that woman had a pasture fed calf in the house, and she made haste, and killed him: and taking meal kneaded it, and baked azymes,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and set before Saul, and before his servants, who when they had eaten rose up, and walked all that night."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 29,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Therefore all the companies of the Philisthiims were gathered together into Aphec: and Israel also camped upon the fountain, which was in Jezrahel."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And the Princes indeed of the Philisthiims marched in hundreds and thousands: but David and his men were in the last company with Achis."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the Princes of the Philisthiims said to Achis: What mean these Hebrews? And Achis said to the Princes of the Philisthiims: Do you not know David, which was the servant of Saul the king of Israel, and is with me many days, or (a) years, and I have not found any thing in him, since the day that he fled to me, until this day?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "He speaketh by amplification, to make his fact seem more reasonable: whereas the time of David's abode with him was but four months. ch. 27. v. 7."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "But the Princes of the Philisthiims were angry against him, and said to him: Let this man return, and abide in his place, wherein thou hast appointed him, & let him not go down with us into battle, lest he become an adversary to us, when we shall begin to fight: for how can he otherwise pacify his lord, but in our heads?"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Is not this David, to whom they sang in dances, saying: Saul hath struck his thousands, and David his ten thousands?"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Achis therefor called David, and said to him: The Lord liveth, thou art just, and good in my sight: and thy going out, and thy coming in is with me in the camp: and I have not found in thee any evil, since the day that thou camest to me until this day: but thou pleasest not the nobles."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Return therefore, and go in peace, and offend not the eyes of the Princes of the Philisthiims."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And David said to Achis: For what have I done, and what hast thou found in me thy servant, since the day that I have been in thy fight, until this day, that I may not come, and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Achis answering spake to David: I know that thou art good in my sight, as an Angel of God: but the Princes of the Philisthiims have said: He shall not go up with us into battle."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Therefore arise in the morning, thou, and the servants of thy lord, which came with thee: and when you are risen in the night, and it shall begin to wax light, go forward."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "David therefore arose in the night, he and his men, that they might set forward in the morning, and return to the land of the Philisthiims: and the Philisthiims went up into Jezrahel."
}
],
"summary": "David going with the Philisthiims towards the war, the Princes urge and force the king to send him back."
},
{
"chapter": 30,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And when David & his men were come to Siceleg the third day, the Amalecites had made an invasion on the south side into Siceleg, & had strucken Siceleg, & burnt it with fire."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And had led away women captive out of it, from the less unto the great: and had not killed any man, but had led them with them, & went on their journey."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "When David therefore and his men were come to the city, and had found it burnt with fire, and their wives and their sons, and their daughters to be led away captive,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "David and the people that was with him, lifted up their voices, and mourned till tears failed them."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "For the two wives also of David were led away captive, Achinoam the Iezraelite, and Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And David was strucken very sad: for the people would have stoned him, because the soul of every man was bitterly affected upon their sons, and daughters: but David was strengthened in our Lord his God."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And he said to Abiathar the Priest the son of Achimelech: Apply (a) unto me the Ephod. And Abiathar applied the Ephod to David,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Consult our Lord for me: so David by the Priest's mediation, was instructed what to do."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and David consulted our Lord, saying: Shall I pursue these thieves, and shall I take them or not? And our Lord said to him: Pursue them: for thou shalt take them without doubt, & take from them the prey."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "David therefore went himself, and the six hundred men that were with him, and they came unto the Torrent Besor: & some being weary stayed."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "But David himself, and four hundred men pursued: for two hundred stayed, who being weary could not pass the Torrent Besor."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And they found an Aegyptian in the field, and brought him to David: and they gave him bread to eat, and water to drink,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "and also a piece of a mass of dry figs, and two bunches of resins. Who when he had eaten, his spirit returned, and he was refreshed: for he had not eaten bread, nor drunken water three days and three nights."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "David therefore said to him. Whose art thou? Or whence? And wither goest thou? Who said: I am a young man of Aegypt, the servant of an Amalecite: and my master hath left me, because I began to be sick three days agone."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "For we brake forth at the south side of Cerethi, and against Juda, and at the south of Caleb, and burnt Siceleg with fire."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And David said to him: Canst thou bring me to this company? Who said: Swear to me by God, that thou wilt not kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my lord, and I will bring thee to this company, And David sware to him."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Who when he had brought them, behold they sat upon the face of all the earth, eating & drinking, and as it were keeping a festival day, for all the prey and spoils which they had taken out of the Land of the Philisthiims, and out of the Land of Juda."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And David struck them from evening until the evening of the next day, and there escaped not any of them, but four hundred young men, which had gotten upon camels, and were fled."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "David therefore rescued all things that the Amalecites had taken, and he rescued his two wives."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Neither was there any wanting from little to great, as well of their sons as of their daughters, and of the spoils, and what things soever they had taken, David brought all again."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And he took all the flocks and herds, and drave them before his face: and they said: This is the prey of David."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And David came to the two hundred men, which being weary had stayed, neither were able to follow David, and he had bidden them to rest in the Torrent Besor: who came forth to meet David, and the people that were with him. And David coming to the people, saluted them peaceably."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And every naughty, and wicked fellow of the men, that had gone with David, answering, said: Because they came not with us, we will not give them any thing of the prey, which we have recovered: but let their wife and children suffice every man, whom when they had received, let them depart."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "But David said: You shall not do so my brethren, of these things, which our Lord hath delivered to us, and hath kept us, and hath given the thieves, that were broken out against us, into our hands:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "neither shall any man hear you upon this talk. For there shall be equal portion of him that went down into battle, and of him that abode at the baggage, and they shall divide alike."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And this hath been done from that day, and ever after (b) it was decreed, and ordained as a law in Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "It is not against God's commandment, Deut. 4. & 12. to make new laws, so they be conformable & not contrary to God's former laws."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "David therefore came into Siceleg, and sent gifts of the prey to the ancients of Juda his neighbours, saying: Take a benediction of the prey of our Lord's enemies."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "To them that were in Bethel, and that were in Ramoth toward the South, and them that were in Gether,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and them in Aroer, and them in Sephamoth, and them in Esthamo,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "and them in Rachal, and them in the cities of Jerameel, and them in the cities of Semi,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "and them in Harama, and them in the lake of Asan, and them in Athach,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "and them in Hebron, and to the rest that were in those places, in the which David had tarried, and his men."
}
],
"summary": "David returning to Siceleg, findeth it burned and spoiled, and himself in danger of the people: 7. By our Lord's warrant he pursueth the enemy, 11. taketh a guide: 17. recovereth all that was taken away: 22. and rewardeth the soldiers, also those that stayed with the baggage, 25. making it a law for the time to come, that the keepers of the baggage shall have like share with those that fight in battle."
},
{
"chapter": 31,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And the Philisthiims fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the face of the Philisthiims, and fell being slain in mount Gelboe."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And the Philisthiims fell upon Saul, and upon his sons, and they struck Jonathas, and Abinadab, and Melchisua the sons of Saul,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and the whole weight of the battle was turned upon Saul: and the archers overtook him, and he was sore wounded of the archers."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And Saul said to his esquire: Draw out thy sword, and strike me: lest perhaps these uncircumcised come, and kill me, mocking me. And his esquire would not: for he was frighted with exceeding fear. (a) Saul therefore caught his sword, and fell upon it.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Saul killing himself after that he was wounded by his enemies, signifieth those that being overcome by tentations desperately persist, & willfully die in their sin. S. Greg. ho. 10."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Which when his esquire had seen, to wit, that Saul was dead, himself also fell upon his sword and died with him."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Saul therefore died, and his three sons, and his esquire, and all his men in that day together."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the children of Israel, that were beyond the valley, and beyond Jordan, seeing that the men of Israel were fled, and that Saul was dead, and his sons, they left their cities, and fled: and the Philisthiims came, and dwelt there."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And when the next day was come, the Philisthiims came to spoil them that were slain, and they found Saul and his three sons, lying in mount Gelboe."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And they did cut off Saul's 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."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And they did put his armour in the temple of Astaroth, but his body they hung on the wall of Bethsam."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Which when (b) the inhabiters of Jabes Galaad had heard whatsoever the Philisthiims had done to Saul,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "These men are commendable for gratitude towards Saul, who had delivered them, ch. 11. for a work of mercy in burying the dead: for piety towards their king and princes, and for fortitude in achieving so heroical an act."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "all the most valiant men arose, and walked all the night, and took the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of Bethsam: and they came to Jabes Galaad, and burnt them there:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and they took their bones, and buried them in the wood of Jabes, and fasted seven days."
}
],
"summary": "Saul with his sons are slain in battle. 7. The Philisthiims possess the place, and hang the dead bodies on a wall, 11. but valiant men of Jabes Galaad take them away, and burn them, bury their bones, and fast seven days."
}
]
}