1. What is the Fifth Commandment? 2. Do you hear of any one to-day who broke the Fifth Commandment? 3. How did Absalom break it? 4. Who was Absalom's father? 5. How had David to go away? 6. What did cruel men do? 7. Who came to help David? 8. What did he charge them? 9. Who won the battle? 10. What happened to Absalom? 11. Who saw him there? 12. Whom did the man tell? 13. Why did Joab kill Absalom? 14. Did Absalom deserve it? 15. How did his father behave? 16. What did he cry out? 17. Why was he more sorry than for his baby son? 18. What is sadder than even dying? 19. How should you behave to your parents?
Twenty-third Sunday.
PREPARING FOR THE TEMPLE.
FIRST READING.
"Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price."—2 Samuel 24:24.
WHEN David was king his people did wrong again; and there came a plague upon them, so that a great number of them died all through the land of Israel.