VOL. &-No. t
POKTLAN1), OREGON, SEPTEMBER, 1877.
THE HOME OF DAVID IN OIBEAH.
BY BKV, o. H. ATKINSON.
David the young shepherd hid become the
champion of the army of Israel. He had slain
the Philistine giant, Qoliah of Qatht while they
stood trembling around the tent of Saul their king.
HU return with them from pursuing and slaying
the enemy down the valley of Elan over the plains
into their walled cities, Oath and Ekron, wai wel
comed by the women, coming out of all the cities
of Israel, with song and dance, and answering
one another, as they played : "Saul hath slain his
thousands, and David his ten thousands." Those
responses rising, and swelling on every side, from
the glad hearts of wires and mothers and daugh
ers, whose homes
had thus been
freed from their
idolatr o u s op
pressors, aroused
the king's wrath.
The saying dis
pleased him; end
he said, "They
have ascribed un
to David teu
thousands, and
to me they have
ascribed but
thousauds ; and
what can he have
more but the
kingdom?"
Yet his pledge
with oath hsd
been given to all
Israel, "the man
who killeth him
the king will eu
rich him with
great riches, and
will give him his
daughter, and
make his father's
house free in Is
rael." That pnblie
oath m u s t be
kept The rud
dy youth from
the Bethlehem
hills, Jesse's
eighth and
youngest, had
won the prize.
Saul's family
welcomed the
hero of the bat
tle. Jonathan, a
true warrior,
who had a dozen
years before
driven a Philu
t i n e garrison
from their strong
hold on the
heights of Oeba,
and p u t their
whole army to
flight, and led
his forces iu the
rout as far as
Beth-Aven, ad
mired the cour
age of David,
and with a sold
ier's honor ad
mitted his prow
ess. His heart
wanned towards
him. " Then
Jonathan and
David m a d e a
coven ant, be
cause h e loved
him as bis owu
soul."
The king took
lum to his owu
house, but he
eyed htm from
that day forward
and feared him
because the Lord
was with him,
and iu a heat of
passion burled
his javelin at
him, saying, "I
will smite him to
I be wall." H e
made him cap
tain of a thou
sand men that he
might be slain in
battle, and then
offered his eldest
daughter for his
valor, b u t she
was given to an
other. Again
and again the
voting hero led
Israel and Judah
o a t to victory
and won their
low also.
Michel. Saul s
daughter, like her elder brother, felt an admiration
for his heroism, which soon ripened into love. The
king accepted this testimonial, as another chauoe
, to lav a snare for David's life. A hundred more
Philistines slain was to be the dowry. It was
speedily paid. Two hundred were brought. David
becomes the king's son-in-law, through the peril ol
many a battle field before the king's first oath is
; kept. The outward show of honor must be award
ed him, and a house is given him on the brow et
I the hill on which was the walled city Uibeah, Saul's
i royal abode, overlooking the rich plains eastwsrd
1 towards Qilgal and the Jordan Valley. Thither
the vouuff couple moved and made their house
1 The fig, the vine, the mulberry, the olive, the
i roee. the lilv and violet we luxuriantly around
uieir uwemng. rieiasoi wneai ana oaney waveu
in the hreeae, and far down towards the river,
dusters of palms waved their green banners aloft
in token of peace. It was a soldier's lit place of
' rest after the din and carnage of war. But the
king's hatred grew more fierce. Michal saw It In
tier In trier s eye. she reau lis envrnomea jeaiousy
and fell purpose at a glance. She watched the 1
signs as she folded her husband to her heart, and re
solved to shield him from tha first danger. Night
came and her quick ear caught the crackling of tha
hushes as the king's guards silently took their sta
tions around the house of David. She knew that
it meant his death. I'p, she whispers with start
ling earnestness. Plae, David, fie t "If tt
save not thy life to-night, to-morrow thou shalt be
slain Bind thy long mantle to the window bar
and swing out iuto the darkness. Escape I Ton
know every path. The deep caverns in the cliffs
are not far off. The guards are on the stairs I I'll
put tauteraphim.Hlol-tropny ol your prowcw, over
the Philistare In the bed, snd Ml them you are
sick. Away to Engadi ! Bend me a signal that
you are safe !
Don has caught the spirit of this drama and its
closing tragedy, as described in 1st Samuetlttth
and ltth chapters, aad has also wrought the pie
vioueevei.t into tha intense wifely devotion, min
gled with tesror, expressed In the fact of Sant't
daughter, and in the calmer look of David the n
nototed prince nt Israel.
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