Volume II
The Second Book of Samuel
With John Brown’s marginal references, notes and reflections · Vol. II, p. 675
Contains the history of forty years; exhibiting the troubles and triumphs of the man according to God's own heart; particularly, His concern for the death of Saul and Jonathan, i. His struggles against, and prevalence over, the house of Saul, ii.-iv. His instalment on the throne of Israel; bringing up the ark to Jerusalem, and resolution to build a temple for it, v.-vii. His kindness to Mephibosheth, ix. His conquests of the Philistines, Moabites, Edomites, Syrians, and Ammonites, v. viii. x. xii. xxi. His adultery with Bathsheba and murder of Uriah; with the punishment of it in the death of his adulterous child—in the incest and murder of Amnon—in the rebellion, incest, and death of Absalom—and in the revolt of Sheba, xi.-xx. His removal of the famine inflicted for Saul's murdering of the Gibeonites, xxi. His song of praise for his deliverances, xxii. His last words, and the list of his noted warriors, xxiii. And his stopping of the plague which he procured by his numbering of the people, xxiv.