THE LAW ON MURDER.

 

This man, with a javelin in his hand, is King Saul.
See, he is trying to kill that young man whose name is
David.. How did this young man come to be in the
King’s house? Listen, and I will tell you.

This boy was the son of Jesse, and tended the sheep.
One day God said to Samuel, the prophet, “ Fill thine horn
with oil, and go, I will send.thee to Jesse the Bethle-
hemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.”
Samuel went and did as God told him, and the one God
directed him to anoint as king, was David, the shepherd
boy.
At one time, when he was tending the sheep, a bear
-came down upon the flock, and David fell upon him and
slew him. At another time he slew a lion.. Surely he
could not have done this except the Lord had been with
him, and given him strength.

Now King Saul was at war with the Philistines, and
some of David’s brothers went into the army. David's
father told him, one day, that he wanted him to go and see
his brothers and take them some food.

While he was there, a great giant came out of the