. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. nce would occasion to his son ; but all the princeswent, and among them and the chief of them was the eldest, Amnon. Now Absalom felt thatthe day of his vengeance was come; and while he received his company with distinction, androyally entertained them, he gave secret orders to his servants to fall upon Amnon, and slayhim, even at the table, on a given signal from himself. This was done. Amnon was slainwhile his heart was warmed with wine; on which the other princes, expecting perhaps thesame fate,
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. nce would occasion to his son ; but all the princeswent, and among them and the chief of them was the eldest, Amnon. Now Absalom felt thatthe day of his vengeance was come; and while he received his company with distinction, androyally entertained them, he gave secret orders to his servants to fall upon Amnon, and slayhim, even at the table, on a given signal from himself. This was done. Amnon was slainwhile his heart was warmed with wine; on which the other princes, expecting perhaps thesame fate, made all haste to get to their mvdes, and fled to Jerusalem. Their arrival relievedthe king from the horror into which he had been plunged by a rumour that all his sons hadbeen slain; but still his indignation and grief were very great. Absalom himself fled thecountry, and found refuge with his maternal grandfather, Talmai, the king of Gesliur, withwhom he remained for three years. During tliis time the grief of David for the murder of Amnon was gradually assuaged, and Chap. II.] DAVID. 481. [Flight on Mules.] his heart insensibly turned with kindnesstowards Absalom, to whom he alwajshad been much attached, and who wasnow his eldest son, and who might seemto have the more claim on his indulgenceand sympathy on account of his exclusionfrom the succession to the throne, to whichby birth he deemed himself entitledJoab was not slow to perceive the tuinwhich the kings feelings were taking,and was desirous of bringing about a re-conciliation between David and Absalom ;but not daring to speak openly to the king himself, in the first instance, he engaged a shrewd woman of Tekoah to come before the kingwith a fictitious tale of distress, which, as in the case of Nathans story, might be made instruc-tively applicable to the circumstances. The woman played her part to admiration; but whenshe began to make her application, the king at once guessed that she had been prompted byJoab ; and t
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