and their kinsmen who were in their villages were obliged to come in every seven days, from time to time, to be with these;

Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and make sport of me.” But his armor-bearer would not; for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword, and fell upon it.

The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be knit to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you.”

Of the half-tribe of Manas′seh eighteen thousand, who were expressly named to come and make David king.

And David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is the will of the Lord our God, let us send abroad to our brethren who remain in all the land of Israel, and with them to the priests and Levites in the cities that have pasture lands, that they may come together to us.

Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Reph′aim.

And when David again inquired of God, God said to him, “You shall not go up after them; go around and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come before him! Worship the Lord in holy array;

Then shall the trees of the wood sing for joy before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth.

And this was a small thing in thy eyes, O God; thou hast also spoken of thy servant’s house for a great while to come, and hast shown me future generations, O Lord God!

But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Have not his servants come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?”

And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the city, and the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country.

These had as their appointed duty in their service to come into the house of the Lord according to the procedure established for them by Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.

Both riches and honor come from thee, and thou rulest over all. In thy hand are power and might; and in thy hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.

“But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from thee, and of thy own have we given thee.

O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building thee a house for thy holy name comes from thy hand and is all thy own.