2 Samuel 9:1-13 And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? In Count Tolstoi's "Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth," he tells us that he felt deep pain when at the early age of six years, he heard his mother confess that he was only a plain homely boy. "I fancied," he says, "that there was no happiness on earth for a person with such a wide nose, such thick lips, and such small grey eyes as I had: I besought God to work a miracle, to turn me into a beauty, and all I had in the present, or might have in the future, I would give in exchange for a handsome face." Yet there is something far more beautiful than these in that rugged face: the deep impress of great moral and spiritual power. Parallel Verses KJV: And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake? |
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