2 Samuel

Matthew^{(i) 1} After the death of Saule, when Dauid was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, & had ben two dayes in Zikeleg: ² Beholde, there came a man the thyrde daye out of the hoste from Saul wyth his clothes rent & earth vpon hys head. And when he came to Dauid, he fell to the earthe, & dyd obeysaunce. ³ To whome Dauid said whence comest thou? And the other aunswered hym: Out of the host of Israel am I escaped. ⁴ And Dauid sayd to him agayne: How hath it chaunced? tell me. And he sayde: the people fleed from the battell: & many of the people are ouerthrowen & dead: and Saul and Ionathas his sonne are dead therto. ⁵ And Dauid sayde vnto the young man that tolde hym: how knowest thou that Saul and Ionathas hys sonne be dead? ⁶ and the younge man that tolde hym, sayde: I was by chaunce in mount Gelboe. And se, Saul leaned vpon hys speare, and the charettes and horsemen folowed him at the heles. ⁷ And Saul loked back and called me. And I aunswered: here am I. ⁸ And he sayde vnto me: what arte thou? and I sayde vnto hym: I am an Amalekite. ⁹ And he sayde vnto me: come on me & slee me: For anguyshe is come vpon me, and my lyfe is yet all in me. ¹⁰ And I went on hym & slue hym: for I was sure that he coulde not lyue, after that he was fallen. And I toke the croune that was vpon hys head and the Braselet that was on hys arme, and haue brought them vnto my Lorde hyther. ¹¹ Then Dauid toke hys clothes and rente them, and so dyd all the men that were wyth hym. ¹² And they mourned, wepte & fasted vntyll euen, for Saul and Ionathas hys sonne, & for the people of the Lorde, and for the house of Israel, because they were ouerthrowen with the swerde. ¹³ Then sayde Dauid vnto the younge man that brought hym tydynges. Whence arte thou? And he sayde: I am the sonne of an alyaunt an Amalekyte. ¹⁴ And Dauid sayde vnto hym: How is it that thou wast not afrayed to laye thyne hande on the Lordes annoynted, to destroy hym? ¹⁵ And Dauid called one of his young men & sayde: Go to and runne vpon hym. And he smote hym that he dyed. ¹⁶ Then sayde Dauid vnto hym: thy bloude vpon thyne owne head. For thyne own mouth hath testyfyed agaynste the sayinge: I haue slayne the Lordes anoynted. ¹⁷ And Dauid sang thys song of mourning ouer Saule and ouer Ionathas hys sonne, ¹⁸ & bad to teache the chyldren of Israel the staues thereof. And beholde it is wrytten in the boke of the ryghteous. ¹⁹ The glorye of Israell is slayne vpon the hye hylles: Oh how were the myghtye ouerthrowen? ²⁰ Tell it not in Geth: nor publyshe it in the streates of Askalon: lest the doughters of the Philistines reioyse, and that the doughters of the vncircumcysed triumphe thereof. ²¹ Ye mountaynes of Gelboe, vpon you be nether dewe nor raygne, nor feldes whence heaue offerynges come. For there the shyldes of the myghtye were cast from them: the shyld of Saul, as though he had not bene anoynted wyth oyle. ²² The boowe of Ionathas and the swerde of Saule turned neuer backe agayne emptye, from the bloude of the wounded and from the fatte of the myghtye warryours. ²³ Saul and Ionathas louely and pleasaunte in theyr lyues, were in theyr deethes not deuyded, men swifter then Egles and stronger then Lyons. ²⁴ Ye doughters of Israel, wepe ouer Saule, whiche clothed you in purple and garmentes of pleasure, and bordered youre rayment wyth ornamentes of goulde. ²⁵ How were the myghtye slayne in battell? Ionathas on the hye hylles was wounded to death. ²⁶ Woo is me for the my brother Ionathas: delectable to me wast thou excedyng. Thy loue to me was wonderfull, passyng the loue of wemen. ²⁷ How were thy myghtye ouerthrowen, & how were the weapons of warre forloren.