I Samuel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 297
The History of the People of Israel
58 Philistine being in his hand, and Whose sou are you, my lad ?’ The son of your servant }essai of Bethlehem. (ac. 1o6z.) @mmibun’¤ Qhméreiimr 18 nf Qnhih. And as he finished speaking with
Saul, the soul of jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and jonathan admired him like his own self. Saul also took to him at that time, and would not permit him to return to his father’s house. Then jonathan and David made a treaty to love each other as their own life. And jonathan took off the cloak that he had on him, and put it upon David with his armour, and sword, and bow, and belt. And David went wherever Saul sent him, and was successful, and pleasingto Saul above all the officers of the army, and he was delightful in the eyes of all the people, and also in the eyes of the ministers of Saul. (B.C. 1060.) @uhih’¤ Gliriumph mw Saufs gcaluuzg. It happened, however, that once
when David was returning from defeating the Philishtim, that women came out from all the towns of Israel with song and dances to meet King Saul, with tambourines, tom·toms and triangles, when the women answered to the music, and sung, ‘ Saul has defeated his thousands, And David his ten thousands} But Saul was very angry, and the
refrain was hateful in his ears, so he
I Ch. r7, v. 56. It is worthy of notice, that
the last words of Saul’s command to Abner This—one, he-that—is—t0·· (thereby containing an ornen). If, therefore, our reading of II. Chronicles, Ch. 3.::, v. 32, is right, that Isaiah, the prophet, wrote Samuel and Kings, this is interesting, and quite in the enigmatic style of prediction. H. B. and F. F. 2 V. 7. Or, And the women answering the music sang, ‘ Defeated has Saul His thou-ousands, And David ·-H. B. They have given the ten thousands to David and the thousands to mel What is there more for him Saul con- sequently became irritable with David from that time forward. Then some time after the Evil Spirit from GOD seized upon Saul, as he was walking through his palace, and David was playing on his harp as he did daily, and Saul had javelins in his hand; so I But David escaped them twice. Then Saul became frightened at the presence of David, for the Evan-Livme had come to him, and gone away from Saul. Therefore Saul removed him from near himself, and appointed him colonel of a regiment, and he went out and came in with the forces. David, however,went on his way successfully, for the EvER·L1v1NG waswith him. And Saul saw that he was very
successful, and was afraid of him; for all Israel and judah admired David, for he went out and came back before them. (B.c. moo.) Saul pints in get @atriD hillzh. Saul consequently said to David,
‘ You know my elder daughter Merab; I will give her to you for a wife, and you shall become my most powerful son, and fight the battles of the Evsiz-Livme. But Saul intended, not that he
should become powerful, but that he might be brought into the power of the Philishtim. David, however, replied to Saul,
‘ Who am I ? And what is the clan of my father in Israel, that I should become son~in»law to the Chieftain? ’ But when the time came for giving
Merab, Saul’s daughter, to David, she was given in marriage to Adrial the Mikholathite. IO II I2 16 18
(ac. moo.) Mikal felis in `iuhz {util; gaiiin.-—§a1xl pints his Qzailg ln; it. But Mikal, Saul’s daughter, loved
David, and told it to Saul, and it seemed right in his opinion, so Saul I will promise her to him, and she shall be a trap for him, that he_ may be got into the hands of the Saul therefore said to You shall be 297 20 21 22
