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THE HOLY BIBLE
Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS
This Book relates the transactions from the death of Saul until the endof David's reign, being a history for the space of about forty-sixyears.
2 Kings Chapter 1
David mourneth for the death of Saul and Jonathan: he ordereth the manto be slain who pretended he had killed Saul.
1:1. Now it came to pass, after Saul was dead, that David returned fromthe slaughter of the Amalecites, and abode two days in Siceleg.
1:2. And on the third day, there appeared a man who came out of Saul'scamp, with his garments rent, and dust strewed on his head: and when hecame to David, he fell upon his face, and adored.
1:3. And David said to him: From whence comest thou? And he said to him:I am fled out of the camp of Israel.
1:4. And David said unto him: What is the matter that is come to pass?tell me: He said: The people are fled from the battle, and many of thepeople are fallen and dead: moreover Saul and Jonathan his son areslain.
1:5. And David said to the young man that told him: How knowest thouthat Saul and Jonathan his son, are dead?
1:6. And the young man that told him, said: I came by chance upon mountGelboe, and Saul leaned upon his spear: and the chariots and horsemendrew nigh unto him,
1:7. And looking behind him, and seeing me, he called me. And Ianswered, Here am I.
1:8. And he said to me: Who art thou? And I said to him: I am anAmalecite.
1:9. And he said to me: Stand over me, and kill me: for anguish is comeupon me, and as yet my whole life is in me.
1:10. So standing over him, I killed him: for I knew that he could notlive after the fall: and I took the diadem that was on his head, and thebracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither to thee, mylord.
I killed him… This story of the young Amalecite was not true, as mayeasily be proved by comparing it with the last chapter of the foregoingbook.
1:11. Then David took hold of his garments and rent them, and likewiseall the men that were with him.
1:12. And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening for Saul, andfor Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the houseof Israel, because they were fallen by the sword.
1:13. And David said to the young man that told him: Whence art thou? Heanswered: I am the son of a stranger of Amalec.
1:14. David said to him: Why didst thou not fear to put out thy hand tokill the Lord's anointed?
1:15. And David calling one of his serv