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قراءة كتاب The Life of David: As Reflected in His Psalms
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The Life of David: As Reflected in His Psalms
The Household Library of Exposition.
THE LIFE OF DAVID
AS REFLECTED IN HIS PSALMS.
THE
LIFE OF DAVID
AS REFLECTED IN HIS PSALMS.
BY
ALEXANDER MACLAREN, D.D.
NINTH EDITION.
London:
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
27, PATERNOSTER ROW
MCMIII
Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London
CONTENTS
| Page | ||
| I. | Introduction, | 1 |
| II. | Early Days, | 14 |
| III. | Early Days,--continued | 31 |
| IV. | The Exile, | 49 |
| V. | The Exile,--continued | 70 |
| VI. | The Exile,--continued | 86 |
| VII. | The Exile,--continued | 110 |
| VIII. | The Exile,--continued | 130 |
| IX. | The King, | 144 |
| X. | The King,--continued | 157 |
| XI. | The King,--continued | 174 |
| XII. | The King,--continued | 185 |
| XIII. | The Tears of the Penitent, | 205 |
| XIV. | Chastisements, | 232 |
| XV. | The Songs of the Fugitive, | 245 |
| Index, | 262 | |
| Works by the same Author, | 263 | |
| Bible Class Expositions, | 264 | |
| The Household Library of Exposition | 265 |
I.—INTRODUCTION.
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the life of David is its romantic variety of circumstances. What a many-coloured career that was which began amidst the pastoral solitudes of Bethlehem, and ended in the chamber where the dying ears heard the blare of the trumpets that announced the accession of Bathsheba's son! He passes through the most sharply contrasted conditions, and from each gathers some fresh fitness for his great work of giving voice and form to all the phases of devout feeling. The early shepherd life deeply influenced his character, and has left its traces on many a line of his psalms.
"Love had he found in huts where poor men lie;
His daily teachers had been woods and rills;
The silence that is in the starry sky,
The sleep that is among the lonely