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cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine said unto David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts

of the field. Then said David to the

Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the GOD of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a GOD in Israel.

Ry. And it came to pass when the LORD would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven,* Elisha cried and said, My father, my father, the

chariot of Israel and the horsemen

thereof. V. As they went on, and talked, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. Elisha.

Lesson III.

ND it came to pass, when the AN Philistine arose and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sank into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and

smote the Philistine, and slew him, but there was no sword in the hand of David. Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith.

Ry. I took thee. p. xxvii.

WEDNESDAY.

Of the 1st Book of Samuel. Lesson I. Chap. xviii.

AND it came to pass as they came,

when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick. And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom? Ry. I have sinned. p. xxviii.

Lesson II.

AND Saul eyed David from that day

and forward. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from GoD came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice. And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul. Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

Ry. Thou hast heard. p. xxviii.

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thee to wife; only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

Py. Hearken. p. xxix.

THURSDAY.

Of the 1st Book of Samuel.

Lesson I. Chap. xix.

ND Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that

and David played with his hand. And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

A

Rz. The LORD that. p. xxvii.

FRIDAY.

Of the 1st Book of Samuel.

Lesson I. Chap. xx.
ND David fled from Naioth in
Ramah, and came and said be-

AN they should kill David. But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, fore Jonathan, What have I done? Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself: and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.

Rz. Prepare. p. xxvi.

Lesson II.

what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life? And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is

not so.

Ry. Saul hath slain. p. xxvii.
Lesson II.

AND Jonathan spake good of David AND David sware moreover, and

unto Saul his father, and said said, Thy father certainly knowunto him, Let not the king sin against eth that I have found grace in thine his servant, against David; because eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan he hath not sinned against thee, and know this, lest he be grieved: but because his works have been to thee-truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy ward very good: for he did put his soul liveth, there is but a step between life in his hand, and slew the Philis-me and death. Then said Jonathan tine, and the LORD wrought a great unto David, Whatsoever thy soul salvation for all Israel: thou sawest desireth, I will even do it for thee. it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then Ry. Ye mountains. p. xxvii. wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

And

Lesson III.

Saul hearkened unto the voice of AND David said unto Jonathan,

Jonathan and Saul sware, As the
LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
Ry. God is the hearer. p. xxvi.
Lesson III.

AND there was war again: and

David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him. And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his ouse with his javelin in his hand

Behold, to-morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even. If thy father at all miss me, then say,

David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family. If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth,

then be sure that evil is determined Ahimelech, And is there not here by him.

Ry. I took thee. p. xxvii.

T

SATURDAY.

under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste. And Of the 1st Book of Samuel. the priest said, The sword of Goliath Lesson I. Chap. xxi. the Philistine, whom thou slewest in HEN came David to Nob to the valley of Elah, behold, it is here Ahimelech the priest: and Ahime-wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: lech was afraid at the meeting of if thou wilt take that, take it: for David, and said unto him, Why art there is no other save that here. And thou alone, and no man with thee? David said, There is none like that; And David said unto Ahimelech the give it me. priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know anything of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place. Now therefore what is under thine hand? Give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.

Ry. I have sinned. p. xxviii.

Lesson II.

AND the priest answered David,

and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel. So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shew-bread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

Ry. Thou hast heard. p. xxviii.

Lesson III.

NOW a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul. And David said unto

Ry. Hearken. p. xxix.

FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
FIRST NOCTURN.

Here beginneth the 2nd Book of
Samuel.

Lesson I. Chap. i.

Now it came to pass after the

death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; it came even

to pass on the third day, that, behold,

a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance. And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped. And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead: and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.

Ry. Prepare. p. xxvi.

Lesson II.

AND David said unto the young thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead? And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen, followed

man that told him, How knowest

hard after him. And when he looked
behind him, he saw me, and called
unto me.
And I answered, Here am
I. And he said unto me, Who art
thou? And I answered him, I am
an Amalekite. He said unto me
again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me,
and slay me for anguish is come
upon me, because my life is yet
whole in me. So I stood upon
him, and slew him, because I was
sure that he could not live after
that he was fallen: and I took the
crown that was upon his head, and
the bracelet that was on his arm,
and have brought them hither unto
my lord.

Ry. God is the hearer. p. xxvi.
Lesson III.

THEN David took hold on his

Gilboa, let there be neither dew nor
rain upon you, nor fields of offerings,
because there the shield of the
mighty is vilely east away, the shield
of Saul, as if he had not been
anointed with oil? What is the reason
why Jeremiah, when he saw that his
preaching was hindered of its effect
by the ill disposition of his hearers,
pronounced a curse, and said: Cursed
be the man who brought tidings to my
father, saying, A man child is born
unto thee?

Ry. Saul hath slain. p. xxvii.
Lesson V.

WHAT fault was there then in

our

the mountains of Gilboa when Saul died, that neither dew nor rain should fall upon them, and the sentence pronounced on them should clothes, and rent them; and like-make them barren for ever? But since wise all the men that were with him: Gilboa, by interpretation, is a flowing and they mourned, and wept, and down: and by Saul who was anointed, fasted until even, for Saul, and for and who died, the death of Jonathan his son, and for the people Mediator is set forth: not unmeetly of the LORD, and for the house of by the mountains the proud hearts of Israel; because they were fallen by the Jews are signified; which, while the sword. And David said unto the they flow downwards in the desires of young man that told him, Whence this world, mingle themselves in the art thou? And he answered, I am bringing to pass the death of CHRIST, the son of a stranger, an Amalekite. that is, the Anointed; and because He And David said unto him, How wast that was anointed King over them thou not afraid to stretch forth thine dieth in the body amongst them, they hand to destroy the LORD's anointed? themselves are dried up from all dew And David called one of the young of grace. men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.

Ry. The LORD that. p. xxvii.

SECOND NOCTURN.

Ry, Ye mountains. p. xxvii.

Lesson VI.

OF which, also, it is well said, that

there could be no fields of first fruits upon them. For the proud

From the Book of the Morals of S. minds of the Jews bring forth no

Gregory the Pope.

Lesson IV.

Book 4. Chaps. 3 and 4.

fruits like the first ones, since, for the most part, remaining in their unbelief at the advent of the Redeemer, they wonld not follow the first teaching of

WHAT is the reason why David, the faith. For the holy Church in its

who rewarded not evil to them that dealt treacherously with him, when Saul and Jonathan had fallen in battle, cursed the mountains of Gilbon, saying: Ye mountains of

beginning was made fruitful by the multitude of the Gentiles, and will just barely at the end of the world receive the Jews whom she will find; and, collecting these last relics, place

them as the final remains of the | Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and harvest.

Ry. I took thee. p. xxvii.

Ry. vii. I have sinned. p. xxviii.
Ry. viii. Two Seraphim. p. xxviii.
MONDAY.

Of the 2nd Book of Samuel.

Lesson I. Chap. ii.

AND it came to pass after this, that

David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said,

over all Israel. Ish-bosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David. And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

Ry. Hearken. p. xxix.

TUESDAY.

Of the 2nd Book of Samuel. Lesson I. Chap. iii.

Whither shall I go up? And he said, AND it came to pass, while there

Unto Hebron. So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite. And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron. And the men of Judah came and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah.

Ry. Remember. p. xxviii.
Lesson II.

AND they told David, saying, That

the men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul. And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him. And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing. Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have

anointed me king over them.

Ry. Thou hast heard. p. xxviii.
Lesson III.

BUT Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; and made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over

was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul. And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine? Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his

brethren, and to his friends, and have

not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to-day with a fault concerning this woman? So do GoD to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so do I to him; to translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.

Ry. LORD, if Thy people. p. xxxiv.
Lesson II.

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