ADVERTISEMENT. There may be many who will think this work needless. There will probably be many who will think the task inadequately performed. The book, however, has not been hastily put together, and it is hoped that some will welcome it. The writer has freely used several of the works of his predecessors in the task, and has, he believes, generally, if not always, acknowledged his obligations in the text, or in the notes. The book makes no pretensions to great learning, and is, indeed, simply a life of David drawn out, in the main, from the Scriptures. CONTENTS. SECTION 1. Introductory. Ancestors of David. Jesse and his family. Zeruiah and her sons. SECTION 4. David tending his father's sheep. Sent to the SECTION 5. Presented to the king by Abner. Friendship springs up between the king's son and David. David praised in the songs of the Israelite women. Saul jealous. Gives him a dangerous SECTION 6. Saul pursues him to Ramah. David flies from SECTION 7. David flies to Nob. Interview with Ahimelech, SECTION 8. Cave of Adullam. His brethren join him. Diffi- culties. SECTION 9. Goes over to Moab, and leaves his parents there. Returns into Judæa. Forest of Hareth. Saul's rage. Doeg and Ahimelech. murdered, and Nob destroyed. Abiathar flies SECTION 11. The men of Ziph. Saul. David's narrow escape. The Philistines. Saul again. David spares him. |