So he said: "Throw her down!" And they threw her down, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses, and he trode her underfoot. Then Jehu came in, and he ate and drank; and when he rose up from table he said: "Go, and see now this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter." And they went to bury her, but found nothing left of her body but the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. So they returned to Jehu and told him. And he answered in these solemn words— "This is the Word of the Lord, which He spake by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: and the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel: so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel." [Illustration] XXXIII. A STORY OF VICTORY KING SAUL had disobeyed God, and the Lord had rejected him from being king. The Prophet Samuel had set his heart on this first King of Israel, and he grieved terribly that the Lord had reject him. So he went down to his house and mourned over all that had happened. But at length the Lord spoke to Samuel and He said words like these: "How long will you mourn for Saul? Take your horn of oil and go to Bethlehem, for I have provided me a king among the sons of Jesse the Bethlehemite." So Samuel did what the Lord commanded, and took with him a heifer for a sacrifice to the Lord, and called Jesse and his sons to share in the sacrifice. Samuel did not know which of Jesse's sons was to be the king, and as one and another passed before him, the Lord told him that He had not chosen that one. At length Samuel said to Jesse: "Are these seven all thy sons?" And Jesse answered: "There is still the youngest, and he is with the sheep." So David was sent for, and the Lord said to Samuel: "Arise, anoint him: for this is he." And the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that time forward. By and by the Philistines, who were enemies of Israel, gathered their armies together to battle, and Saul and the men of Israel went out to meet them; and the two armies stood on two mountain sides, opposite to each other with a valley between them, ready to begin to fight. Then the Philistines sent out a great giant as a champion, and he defied the armies of Israel, telling them to choose one of their men to fight with him; and promising if their champion was able to kill him, then the Philistines would be their servants: but if he killed their champion, the Israelites would have to serve the Philistines. When Saul and his soldiers heard these words, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. And day after day for forty days, the giant came out and defied the Children of Israel. David's father, Jesse, had three sons at the war, and one day Jesse told David to go and see how his brothers were, and to carry a present of food to the captain of their thousand.