Sheba V

And Judah said unto Onan,

Go in unto thy brother's wife,

and marry her,

and raise up seed to thy brother.

And Onan knew that the seed should not be his;

And when the mourning was past,

David sent and fetched her to his house,

and she became his wife,

and bare him a son.

Howbeit,

because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born un-to thee shall surely die.

And Nathan departed un-to his house.

And he struck it into the pan,

or kettle,

or caldron,

or pot;

all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself.

So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

And the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.

And God blessed them, saying,

Be fruitful,

and multiply,

and fill the waters in the seas,

and let fowl multiply in the earth.

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that w-as in Joab's hand:

so he smote him there-with in the fifth rib,

and shed out his bowels to the ground,

and struck him not again;

and he died.

So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah:

and the Lord struck him,

and he died.

And the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bare un-to David,

And,

behold,

seven other kine came up after them,

poor and very ill favoured

and lean-fleshed,

such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt - for badness:

and it w-as very sick.

David there-fore besought God for the child;

and David fasted,

and went in,

and lay all night upon the earth.          

And the elders of his house arose,

and went to him,

to raise him up from the earth:

but he would not,

neither did he eat bread with them.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;

and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh day,

and sanctified it:

because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

And it came to pass on the seventh day,

that the child died.

And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child w-as dead:

for they said,

Behold,

while the child w-as yet alive,

we spake unto him,

and he would not hearken unto our voice:

how will he then vex himself,

if we tell him that the child is dead?

But when David saw that his servants whispered,

David perceived that the child was dead:

there-fore David said unto his servants,

Is the child dead?

And they said,

He is dead.

Then David arose from the earth,

and washed,

and anointed himself,

and changed his apparel,

and came into the house of the Lord,

and worshipped:

then he came to his own house;

and when he required,

they set bread before him,

and he did eat.

Then said his servants unto him,

What thing is this that thou hast done?

thou didst fast and weep for the child,

while it w-as alive;

but when the child w-as dead,

thou didst rise and eat bread.

And he said,

While the child was yet alive,

I fasted and wept:

for I said,

Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me,

that the child may live?

But now he is dead,

And he said,

Thy name shall be called no more Jacob,

but Israel:

for as a prince hast thou power with God - and with men,

and hast prevailed.

And Jacob asked him,

and said,

Tell me,

I pray thee,

thy name.

And he said,

Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?

And he blessed him there.

where-fore should I fast?

can I bring him back again?

I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

And David comforted Bathsheba his wife,

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and,

lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off:

and went in unto her,

and lay with her:

and she bare a son,

And she said,

Who would have said unto Abraham,

that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

And he said,

Put thine hand into thy bosom again.

And he put his hand into his bosom again;

and plucked it out of his bosom,

and,

behold,

it was turned again as his other flesh.

And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers,

and cast it beside the altar on the east part,

by the place of the ashes:

And the owl,

and the night hawk,

and the cuckoo,

and the hawk after his kind,

Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you,

and destroy all their pictures,

and destroy all their molten images,

and quite pluck down all their high places:

Notwithstanding thou mayest kill - and eat flesh in all thy gates,

whatsoever thy soul lusteth after,

according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee:

the unclean and the clean may eat thereof,

as of the roebuck,

and as of the h-art.

And it shall come to pass,

that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good,

and to multiply you;

so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you,

and to bring you to nought;

and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.

And Samuel took a sucking lamb,

and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord:

and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel;

and the Lord heard him.

And as Samuel w-as offering up the burnt offering,

the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel:

but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines,

and discomfited them;

and they were smitten before Israel.

and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him.

I Am Samuelyeaon