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DAVID AND JONATHAN  HE modern traveller in Palestine will find, about three miles south of Hebron, a rounded hill or height of some hundred feet, which the Arabs call *Tell Zif*. It is some three miles northward from Carmel, and half a mile east of it are some ruins, which are those probably of a citadel used by the tribe (the Ziphites) from which the hill takes its name. There are indications that once the place was heavily wooded, and the lay of the land shows that before the forest was burned or cut away it must have been a tolerably secure fastness or retreat. There were two young men to whom, in an eventful crisis of their lives, it proved to be so. One of them was that youth, a little while before a shepherd boy, than whose history there is nothing more pict-

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