...Adullam : and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him. 2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him ; and he became a captain over them : and there were with him about four...

...not needful here; but I beg to observe, David had his followers, who are thus described : — " ' And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and he became a captain over them ; and there were with him about four...

...were the men who have always been found ready to embark in desperate designs, — ' every one that is in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented.' Talleyrand bas said that hope is the counterpoise of discontent ; with more truth may it be said to...

...hundred wretches. " Every one that was in distress, 1 1 Sam. vi. 19. ' Ib. xiii. 19, 20. 3 Ib. xi. 6. and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him."1 This was a man alter God's own heart ; so the first thing he does is...

...precisely the followers who attached themselves to the good king David at the cave of Adullam; videlicet, every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, which the vulgate renders bitter of soul; and doubtless," he said, " they will prove mighty men of...

...My band is, perhaps, now, somewhat like that which David entertained in the cave of Adullam, when ' every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him ; and he became a captain over them.' * Yet remember, that with such men...

...like those of David, when he sojourned in the cave of Abdullam, " and every one that was in distresH, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto hitn, and he became a captain over them." But this is not the fact now. Whatever...

...not needful here; but I beg to observe, David had his followers, who are thus described : — " ' And every one that was in distress and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and he became a captain over them ; and there were with him about four...

...needful here ; but I beg to observe, David had his followers, who are thus described : — " ' And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and he became a captain over them ; and there were with him about four...

...them to their conductors." — Ibidem, p. 1 9. parted thence, and went to the cave of' Adullam. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves togetlier unto him, and he became a captain over them.' What think you of that?"...