... 'Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer.' (These ... names; and the morecarefully they study it, the fuller and wider does the subject become.'Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.' (Genesis x. 10.) The ruins ... It is evening, and the young lad is alone on the hills, keeping his father'ssheep. The sun is sinking, and all the earth is bathed in golden light. Even the sullen surface of the Dead SeaCHAPTER...