II Samuel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 327
The History of the People of Israel
latc widow woman whose husband died. But your servant had two sons, who fought in the field when there was no separator between them, and the one struck the other, and killed him; so all the clan arose against your servant and said, ‘Give up the murderer of his brother! and we will kill him, for the life of his brother whom he has murdered Thus the property will be desolated; and my heir will be destroyed, and the only coal left to me to continue my husba¤d’s name, will be extin- guished on the ground. But the king said tothe woman,
‘Go to your home, and I will give orders about you. Then the Thiquoan woman an-
Let the fault fall upon me, your Majesty, and on the house of my fathers, and let the King and his throne be innocent. Whmver
threatens you, bring him to me, and he shall never again injure you. King, re-
member your Even-Livmo Gon, mighty redeemer of bloodshed! and let them not destroy my son. By the life of
the EvER·LIv1NG not a hair of your son shall fall to the ground! Let
your handmaid now speak a word to his Majesty the King. Speak to me. When the woman continued, “ But
why have you thought like this about the People of Gov? Why has the king spoken thus, when he is in fault, by not having brought back his own fugitive? For the dead who has died, is like water poured upon the earth, which cannot be recovered, until Gon raises the soul; and a thought, when thought is and thrown out, goes from us} So now why I have come to speak with your Ma- jesty this speech was because I am afraid of the People, so your servant said, ‘I will speak. to the king, my chief; the king will do the thing he
16 says for his handmaidl And the V. 14. This beautiful metaphor shows that
the Old Hebrews believed in a Resurrection of Man, althou%i some modern critics assert the contrary.- . F. king has listened, and will deliver his subgect from the hand of the man who would destroy her, and her only son, from the estate of Gon. Your handmaid also said, ' The promise of his Majesty the King will be a gift, for his Majesty is like a Messenger of GOD, listening to good and bad;' so may your Evmz-Livmo Gon be with Then he interrupted her, and said
Do not hide hom me, I pray, what I ask of you. Speak then, your Majesty. Is not the hand of ]'oab in all this P ’ By the
life of your soul, your Majesty, there is not to the right or left of all that has been spoken to your Majesty anything but what your servant }‘oab has instructed me l He put into the mouth of your handmaid all these speeches, with the purpose of using my mouth for an object., Your ser- vant ]'oab madethese addresses. And my Prince is wise, with the wisdom of a messenger of Gon, who knows The king consequently said to
Since then you have con- trived this conversation with me, go and, bring back the young man So ]’oab bent his face to the earth, and bowed, and thanked the king. ‘ I know to·day
that I have found favour in your eyes, your Majesty, because the king has made such a promise to his d went 'oab accordingl :8 21 22 ] y arose an to Gheshur, and brought Absalom. to jerusalem. But the king commanded, 24 ‘Let him reside in his own house, for he shall not see my face. Absalom therefore resided in his
own house, and did not see the face of the king. (ac. roz5.) Qlzsulnm suit his Quinn: after lining furhmtzh fur Mur- heriug Quutmt. Absalom was, however, the hand-
somest man in all Israel; very splendid. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was not a defect in him. When they cut his hair,-—-and it was cut every year 29'7 26
