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Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee. 7.
"If none of the enemy be in sight, I will show you the sacred treasure which I hold at risk of my life." Abishai instantly left the dwelling, half closing the door behind him. "Now Lycidas oh, haste!" exclaimed Zarah in an eager whisper; she was terrified lest the opportunity of retreat which Hadassah had given, should be lost by one moment's delay.
We know what followed the attack upon Salathiel's house: the flight of the Hebrews, the fall of Abishai, whose last word and dying look inflicted upon Pollux a pang keen enough to have satisfied the fiercest thirst for revenge.
"Why waste words!" exclaimed fierce Abishai; "why do you hesitate, Judas? One would scarce deem you to be the descendant of that Phineas who won deathless fame by smiting Zimri and Cosbi through with a dart. 'Thine eye shall not pity, nor thine hand spare. Guilt lies on your head if you let Agag go. Was not the Canaanite to be rooted out of the land?
"Until," she said, with a brightening countenance "until Judah repent of her sin, and turn to Him whom she once denied. Hear, son of Nathan, but one more prophecy from the Scriptures. Abishai left the dwelling of Hadassah with a perturbed spirit, unwilling to own to himself that views so widely differing from his own could have any foundation in truth.
"I will go with my uncle Abishai," said Zarah. "To rejoice and give thanks," cried Hadassah. But Zarah's sinking heart could not respond to any accents of joy. She bowed her head on he clasped hands, and faintly murmured, "To pray for you, for myself, and " No human ear could catch the word which pale lips inaudibly framed. "Go to our young Greek guest, Anna," Hadassah.
Those who should have been his guards lay sleeping round him, for a 'deep sleep from Jehovah was fallen upon them. What a vivid, strange picture it is, and how characteristic of the careless discipline of unscientific Eastern warfare! The tigerish lust for blood awoke in Abishai.
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed? And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
Better, if he must needs die, that the Greek should have fallen by the javelin of my brave kinsman Judas, than by the dagger of Abishai. Mother," cried Zarah, suddenly raising her head, and looking into the face of Hadassah with an earnest, pleading gaze, "may we not hope that the stranger's soul has found mercy with God?
The aged lady scarcely knew which evil she most dreaded: the discovery of Lycidas by Abishai a discovery which would inevitably stain her threshold with blood or the long sojourn under her roof of the dangerous stranger, whom she had unwillingly admitted, and now more unwillingly retained in her home.
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