...Adullam : and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him. 2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him ; and he became a captain over them : and there were with...

...is not needful here; but I beg to observe, David had his followers, who are thus described : — " ' And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and he became a captain over them ; and there were with...

...were the men who have always been found ready to embark in desperate designs, — ' every one that is in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented.' Talleyrand bas said that hope is the counterpoise of discontent ; with more truth may...

...hundred wretches. " Every one that was in distress, 1 1 Sam. vi. 19. ' Ib. xiii. 19, 20. 3 Ib. xi. 6. and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him."1 This was a man alter God's own heart ; so the first thing...

...precisely the followers who attached themselves to the good king David at the cave of Adullam; videlicet, every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, which the vulgate renders bitter of soul; and doubtless," he said, " they will prove...

...My band is, perhaps, now, somewhat like that which David entertained in the cave of Adullam, when ' every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him ; and he became a captain over them.' * Yet remember, that...

...like those of David, when he sojourned in the cave of Abdullam, " and every one that was in distresH, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto hitn, and he became a captain over them." But this is not the...

...is not needful here; but I beg to observe, David had his followers, who are thus described : — " ' And every one that was in distress and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and he became a captain over them ; and there were with...

...not needful here ; but I beg to observe, David had his followers, who are thus described : — " ' And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and he became a captain over them ; and there were with...

...life. Judges xi. 3. there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him. 1 Sam. xxii. 2. every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt gathered themselves unto htm.-, xxx. 22. tlien answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those...