Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
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CHAP. XXIII.
David relieveth Ceila besieged
by the Philistines. He
fleeth into the desart of
Ziph. Jonathan and he
confirm their former covenant.
The Ziphites discover
him to Saul, who pursuing
close after him, is
called away by an invasion
from the Philistines.
1 And they told David,
saying: Behold the Philistines
fight against Ceila, and
they rob the barns.
2 Therefore David consulted
the Lord, saying: Shall
I go and smite these Philistines?
And the Lord said to David:
Go and thou shalt smite the
Philistines, and shalt save Ceila.
3 And the men that were
with David, said to him: Behold
we are in fear here in Judea,
how much more if we
go to Ceila against the bands
of the Philistines?
4 Therefore David consulted
the Lord again. And he
answered and said to him: Arise,
and go to Ceila: for I
will deliver the Philistines into
thy hand.
5 David therefore, and
his men, went to Ceila, and
fought against the Philistines,
and brought away their cattle,
and made a great slaughter of
them: and David saved the
inhabitants of Ceila.
6 Now at that time, when
Abiathar the son of Achimelech
-- --
fled to David to Ceila,
he came down having note an
ephod with him.
7 And it was told Saul
that David was come to Ceila:
and Saul said: The Lord
hath delivered him into my
hands, and he is shut up, being
come into a city, that
hath gates and bars.
8 And Saul commanded
all the people, to go down to
fight against Ceila, and to besiege
David, and his men.
9 Now when David understood,
that Saul secretly
prepared evil against him, he
said to Abiathar the priest:
Bring hither the ephod.
10 And David said: O
Lord God of Israel, thy servant
hath heard a report, that
Saul designeth to come to
Ceila, to destroy the city for
my sake:
11 Will the men of Ceila
deliver me into his hands?
and will Saul come down, as
thy servant hath heard? O
Lord God of Israel tell thy
servant. And the Lord said:
He will come down.
12 And David said: Will
the men of Ceila deliver me,
and my men, into the hands
of Saul? and the Lord said:
They will deliver thee up.
13 Then David and his
men, who were about six hundred,
arose, and departing from
Ceila, wandered up and down
uncertain where they should
stay: and it was told Saul that
David was fled from Ceila and
had escaped: wherefore he
forbore to go out.
14 But David abode in the
desart in strong-holds, and he
remained in a mountain of the
desart of Ziph, in a woody
hill. And Saul sought him
always: but the Lord delivered
him not into his hands.
15 And David saw that
Saul was come out to seek his
life. And David was in the
desart of Ziph, in a wood.
16 And Jonathan the son
of Saul arose, and went to David
into the wood, and strengthened
his hands in God: and
he said to him i
17 Fear not: for the hand
of my father Saul shall not
find thee, and thou shalt reign
over Israel, and I shall be next
to thee, yea and my father
knoweth this.
18 And they two made a
covenant before the Lord:
and David abode in the wood:
but Jonathan returned to his
house.
19 And the Ziphites went
up to Saul in Gabaa, saying:
Lo doth not David lie hid
with us in the strong-holds of
the wood, in mount Hachila,
-- --
which is on the right hand of
the desart?
20 Now therefore come
down, as thy soul hath desired
to come down: and it shall
be our business to deliver him
into the king's hands.
21 And Saul said: Blessed
be ye of the Lord, for you
have pitied my case.
22 Go therefore I pray
you, and use all diligence,
and curiously inquire, and
consider the place, where his
foot is, and who hath seen
him there, for he thinketh of
me, that I lie craftily in wait
for him.
23 Consider and see all his
lurking holes, wherein he is
hid, and return to me with
the certainty of the thing,
that I may go with you.
And if he should even go
down into the earth to hide
himself, I will search him out
in all the thousands of Juda.
24 And they arose and
went to Ziph before Saul:
and David and his men were
in the desart of Maon, in the
plain at the right hand of
Jesimon.
25 Then Saul and his men
went to seek him: and it was
told David, and forthwith he
went down to the rock, and
abode in the wilderness of Maon,
and when Saul had heard
of it, he pursued after David
in the wilderness of Maon.
26 And Saul went on this
side of the mountain: and
David and his men were on
the other side of the mountain:
and David despaired of
being able to escape from the
face of Saul: And Saul and
his men compassed David and
his men round about to take
them.
27 And a messenger came
to Saul, saying: Make haste
to come, for the Philistines
have poured in themselves
upon the land.
28 Wherefore Saul returned,
leaving the pursuit of David,
and went to meet the
Philistines. For this cause,
they called that place, the
Rock of division.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
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