THE SECOND BOOK OF

SAMUEL. BY THE REV. PROFESSOR W. G. BLAIKIE, D.D., LL.D., New

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. DAVID'S LAMENT FOR SAUL AND JONATHAN. 2 Samuel i.

CHAPTER II. BEGINNING OF DAVID'S REIGN AT HEBRON. 2 Samuel ii. 1-7.

CHAPTER III. BEGINNING OF CIVIL WAR. 2 Samuel ii. 12-32

CHAPTER IV. CONCLUSION OF THE CIVIL WAR. 2 Samuel iii. 1-21.

CHAPTER V. ASSASSINATION OF ABNER AND ISHBOSHETH. 2 Samuel iii. 22-39; iv.

CHAPTER VI. DAVID KING OF ALL ISRAEL. 2 Samuel v. 1-9.

CHAPTER VII. THE KINGDOM ESTABLISHED. 2 Samuel v. 10-25.

CHAPTER VIII. THE ARK BROUGHT UP TO JERUSALEM. 2 Samuel vi.

CHAPTER IX. PROPOSAL TO BUILD A TEMPLE. 2 Samuel vii.

CHAPTER X. FOREIGN WARS. 2 Samuel viii. 1-14.

CHAPTER XI. ADMINISTRATION OF THE KINGDOM. 2 Samuel viii. 15-18.

CHAPTER XII. DAVID AND MEPHIBOSHETH. 2 Samuel ix.

CHAPTER XIII. DAVID AND HANUN. 2 Samuel x.

CHAPTER XIV. DAVID AND URIAH. 2 Samuel xi.

CHAPTER XV. DAVID AND NATHAN. 2 Samuel xii. 1-12; 26-31.

CHAPTER XVI. PENITENCE AND CHASTISEMENT. 2 Samuel xii. 13-25.

CHAPTER XVII. ABSALOM AND AMNON. 2 Samuel xiii. 1-37.

CHAPTER XVIII. ABSALOM BANISHED AND BROUGHT BACK. 2 Samuel xiii. 38, 39; xiv.

CHAPTER XIX. ABSALOM'S REVOLT. 2 Samuel xv. 1-12.

CHAPTER XX. DAVID'S FLIGHT FROM JERUSALEM. 2 Samuel xv. 13.

CHAPTER XXI. FROM JERUSALEM TO MAHANAIM. 2 Samuel xvi. 1-14; xvii. 15-22 and 24-26.

CHAPTER XXII. ABSALOM IN COUNCIL. 2 Samuel xvi. 15-23; xvii. 1-14, and ver. 23.

CHAPTER XXIII. 2 Samuel xviii. 1-18. ABSALOM'S DEFEAT AND DEATH.

CHAPTER XXIV. DAVID'S GRIEF FOR ABSALOM. 2 Samuel xviii. 19-33; xix. 1-4.

CHAPTER XXV. THE RESTORATION. 2 Samuel xix. 5-30.

CHAPTER XXVI. DAVID AND BARZILLAI. 2 Samuel xix. 31-40.

CHAPTER XXVII. THE INSURRECTION OF SHEBA. 2 Samuel xix. 41-43; xx.

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FAMINE. 2 Samuel xxi. 1-14.

CHAPTER XXIX. LAST BATTLES AND THE MIGHTY MEN. 2 Samuel xxi. 15-22; xxiii. 8-39.

CHAPTER XXX. THE SONG OF THANKSGIVING. 2 Samuel xxii.

CHAPTER XXXI. THE LAST WORDS OF DAVID. 2 Samuel xxiii. 1-7. ( See Revised Version and margin. )

CHAPTER XXXII. THE NUMBERING OF ISRAEL. 2 Samuel xxiv.

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE TWO BOOKS OF SAMUEL.

FOOTNOTES:

Transcriber's Notes

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