Identifier: sweetstoriesofgo00poll (find matches)
Title: Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Pollard, Josephine, 1834-1892. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible stories, English
Publisher: New York, Akron, Ohio (etc.) The Werner company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s men went throughthe towns on their way back from the fight, the folkscame out and sang and danced to praise them forwhat they had done. But they said more in praise of Da-vid than ofSaul, and when Saul heard it he was wroth, and fromthat day ceased to be Da-vids friend. The next day Da-vid stood near Saul with hisharp in his hand to play him some sweet tunes. David and Saul. 169 And Saul held a spear in his hand, and he cast it at Da-vid so that it would go through him and pin him to the wall. But Da-vid saw it and took a step one side, and it did him no harm. Twice was thisdone, and whenSaul found that hecould not hurt Da-vid, he was in greatfear of him, for heknew the Lord waswith him. So hedrove Da-vid fromhis house, and sentmen to lay in waitto kill him. But Da-vid fledfrom them and ranto the place whereJon-a-than was,and said to him,What have I done that the king seeks my life? Now Jon-a-than did not know that the king meantto kill Da-vid, so he said to him, Thou shalt not die.
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JON-A-THAN AND DA-VID. 170 History of the Old Testament. My fath-er would have told me if he meant to killthee. But Da-vid said it was true. The next day was to be a feast day, and theking would look for Dav-id to come and eat withhim. But Da-vid was in such fear of Saul that hedid not care to go, and begged Jon-a-than to let himhide him-self for three days. If the king asks whereI am, said Da-vid, tell him that thou didst give meleave to go home. Jon-a-than told Da-vid that at the end of the threedays he should come and hide in the field near a rockthat was there. And Jon-a-than said he would shootthree ar-rows as if he took aim at a mark. And hewould send a lad out to pick them up. And if hesaid to the lad, Go, find them, they are on thisside of thee, then Da-vid might know that all was atpeace and the king would do him no harm. But ifhe should cry out that the darts were be-yond the lad,then Da-vid would know that he must flee, for theking meant to do him harm. So Da-vid hid him-se

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