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go over, I pray thee, and take off his head. And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the Lord hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say,

Wherefore hast thou done so? And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse: for the Lord hath bidden him. It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day.

IN DEFEATING THE COUNSEL OF AHITHOPHEL BY HUSHAI, IN ANSWER TO DAVID'S PRAYER.

2 SAM. xvii. 14.

And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel: for the Lord had appointed to defeat the

good counsel of Ahithophel: to the intent that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.

IN THE PUNISHMENT OF THE INGRATITUDE AND REBELLION OF ABSALOM.

2 SAM. xviii. 9-14.

And Absalom met the servants of David; and Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth, and the mule that was under him went away. And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. And Joab said unto the man that told him, And behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground, and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle? And the man said unto Joab, Though I should re

ceive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged thee, and Abishai, and Ittai, saying, Beware, that none touch the young man Absalom. Otherwise, I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself, wouldest have set thyself against me. Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

THE AFFECTING LAMENTATION OF DAVID FOR HIS SON ABSALOM.

2 SAM. xviii. 33.

And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

THE THANKSGIVING OF DAVID WHEN THE LORD HAD DELIVERED HIM OUT OF THE HAND OF ALL HIS ENEMIES. 2 SAM. xxii. 1-3. 18-20.

And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul. And he said, The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay. He brought me forth also into a large place he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

IN STAYING THE HAND OF THE DESTROYING ANGEL WHEN STRETCHED OUT UPON JERUSALEM.

2 SAM. xxiv. 15-17.

So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing place of Araunah the Jebusite. And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.

And when the angel stretched

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