Excerpt from The People's Standard Edition of the Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocryphal Writings, Translated From the Hebrew and Greek, and Carefully Compared With Former Translations The work embraces a period of about 120 years, beginning with the birth of Samuel, under the judgeship of Eli, traversing his own judgeship, the reign of King Saul, and substantially concluding that of King David; that is, it begins about the year B. C. 1135, and ends B. C. 1015. It may be analyzed as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.