DAVID. 
; ool lord, on all manner of re made of firwood, 
and on amare on Haig and on 
on and on cymbals.”” 2 Sam. chap. vi. ver. 5. 
This is related 1 Chron, chap. xili. ver. 8. i in nearly the 
fame words: 
“ And David and all Ifrael played before God with 
all their might, and with finging and with harps, and 
with plalteries, and with ttmbrels, and with cymbals, and 
with trumpets.” 
n all the tranflations thefe inftruments are differently 
med. In the Syriac we are told, that David and ail 
Trael fung before the Lord, compan by the cithara, 
pfaltery, cymbal, and fiftrum. 
he joy which David fhewed, upon this occafion, in 
leaping, dancing, finging, and playing, almoft naked, be- 
fore the ark, feemed, in the eyes of his queen Michal, to 
exceed the bounds of moderation, fo much, that when fhe 
faw him from the window, “ fhe def{pifed him in her heart,” 
2 Sam. vi. 16. and, afterwards, nena him, in terms 
not very honourable to muficians in gener 
“ And Michal, the daughter of Saul, came to meet 
David, and faid, How glorious was the king of Ifrael to- 
ay, aie ancora himfelf in the eyes of the hand-maids 
of his oo as one of the vain fellows fnceily unco- 
vereth mfelf 1? 
ow it i3 much to be feared, that by the vain fellows, the 
meant Levitical fingers, meuficians y trade, who, 
muficians ae 
in a ferrice of the ark, before a temple was ercéted. 
y Chron, xxiii. David appoints on thoufand of the 
Lente to praife ‘the Lord with inftruments ; and chap. 
the number of fuch as were inftru@ted, and 
were connie in fong, is faid to have been two hundred 
four-{core and ei ‘oe 
33. we are told of * the fingers, 
chief of the fathers ee Levites, who remaining in th 
chambers, were free: for they were employed in that work 
day and night. 
Before this time, it does not appear from the facred 
writings, that ahs one inftruments than ee ga or fing- 
chor orus oO oo Wes 
us rites 5 th 
ao 
and feltivity. 
The roj yal ea may well be ftyled ay the Hebrews the 
“¢ Sire o € as his fublime poetical effufions 
and oe no 
eftabufhment, 
commence- 
ment of this tuneful and in{fpired monarch’s reign. 
Davip, Joun Perer, a native of the town of Gea, was 
initiated into the practice of furgery under M. le Cat, whofe 
daughter he married, in 1764. On the death of Le Cat, 
David fucceeded tothe places of furgeon-in-chief to the 
hotel dieu at ets aud profefior of anatomy. e was alfo 
oyal Academy of Sciences, and author of 
are, ‘* Recherches fur la maniere io Saignee,’ 
1763, 12 The fame year he publifhed ¢ cay ashi fur 
ce qvil convenient de-faire, pour diminuer ou fu uppr 
rl 
ait de females 5”? alfo « On-the Manner ‘of aus oP reg: 
nant Women, or Cautions with the view of preventing oe 
tion, or the premature Birth of the Child ;” and in 1771, ¢ 
Philofophical Differtation on the Figure of the Fah a 
H ae | Eloy. Did. Hiit. 
p I., king of Scotland, was brought up in England, 
sles ie married Maud, a grand-niece of William the ean: 
queror. He fucceeded ae brother in 1124. The earldoms 
of Northumberland and Huntingdon devolved on him ; but 
on his return to Scctl a he was welcomed with every mark 
of refpeét and joy. reign was profperous: and his at- 
tention to the admimiftr nae of jultice was truly exemplary. 
He decided himfelf the controverfies of the nobles, an 
watched with the greateft afliduity over the condué of the 
ordinary judges. Onthe death of Henry I, king of Eng- 
land, he vindicated the caufe of his daughter, the emprefs 
Maud, and that of her fon, who was afterwards Henry IT., 
t length, 
1139, a ee took place, and eae was 48 put in pofe 
feffion of all the Inglifh eftates, on Ppa on of acknow- 
ledging the power of Scephen. afterwards landed in 
England, and fent her fon bg aul! i. le to receive the 
a areiverouss fro beard of his 
reign rofperous, excepting the afflie which he feit 
for the Re ee: his only fon. He died at Carlifle i in the year 
1153: 8 a! a pide oe ty nine yea 
.» king of Scotland, fon oF Robert Bruce, was 
only ae years ad at the death of his father in 13293 h 
had, however, for political reafons, been already betrothed 
to Joan, fifter of Edward ILI. of England. The carl of Mar- 
ray was appointed guardian to the young king, who foom 
found a rival in the perfon of Edward, fon of Jchn Bahol, 
who, fupported by the Englifh, invaded the es 
was proclaimed king, and David, like his father, did homage 
as vaflal of England. For the prefent the youthful be 
and his fpoufe were fent to France for fecurity. The Scots 
made a noble ftand for independence: the patriotic caufe at 
jength became triumphant, and mee returned from the 
i gaa in the year 1342, was received with joy, 
e proper returns of aie to thofe who had vin- 
renee his cau e now thought of eee himfelf 
on England, and in 13.46 he invaded the no 
fe) 
47, when he recived his hberty, 
with an acknowledgment of his right to the 
rown, upon 
condition of a large :anfor. On his return, he altered the 
fucceffion to the throne from the fon of his eldeit 
youngeft filler. He employed himfelf 
during the remainder of his. reign, in nee the feuds 
and diforders which prevailed in his own kin He 
was often in England for the purpofe of becca, with 
Edward, who feems to have gained a complete afcendaucy 
over him; fo that David ventured to propofe to his flates, 
that Edward or his fon fhould fucceed him, ‘This propofal, 
however, was not only rejeGed with indignation, but nearly 
occafioned an infurreGtion. His queen dying, he married a 
fecond time, but had no aoe Fe died in 1371, in the 47th 
year . his age. Univer 
ip, Ex Da ao one oo the falfe Mefliahs of the Fews, 
who oad at the end of the rath century in Perfia; he 
profeffed himfelf ie Sioned Meffiah, who was deftined by 
heaven to lead them back to Judea, to re-eftablifh the king- 
dom and a 7 a is followers took up arms in 
his defence, ted various a¢ts of hoftiity. At 
length he was pee au beheaded. His enterprife proved 
thighly 
