The Home of God's People (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...the hostile village of Shimei and Phaltiel, they darted. In it was a friendly house which they sought. In its court, they climbed down a well, over the mouth of which their host's wife spread a cloth with a heap of corn, and with an equivocal reply turned aside the pursuers. The youths hasted on down the pass, woke up the King from his sleep, called upon him to cross ' the water, ' and before the break of day, the whole party were in safety on the farther side. It has been conjectured with much probability that as the first sleep of that evening was commemorated in the fourth Psalm, so in the third is expressed the feeling of David's Jhankfulness at the final close of those twenty-four hours of which every detail has been handed down, as if with the consciousness of their importance at the time. He had 'laid him down in peace' that night'and slept;' for in that great defection of man, 'the Lord alone had caused him to dwell in safety. He had laid down and slept and awaked, for the Lord had sustained him.' The tradition of the Septuagint ascribes the one hundred and forty-third Psalm to the time 'when his son was pursuing him.' Some at least of its contents might well belong to that night. 'Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O Lord, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.' 'Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.' There is another group of Psalms--the forty-first, fiftyfifth, sixty-ninth, and one hundred and ninth--in which a long popular belief has seen an amplification of David's bitter cry, 'O Lord, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.' Many of the circumstances agree. The dreadful imprecations in...