2SA-21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three
years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the
LORD answered, [It is] for Saul, and for [his] bloody house,
because he slew the Gibeonites.
2SA-21:2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them;
(now the Gibeonites [were] not of the children of Israel, but of
the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had
sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the
children of Israel and Judah.)
2SA-21:3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I
do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye
may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
2SA-21:4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no
silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt
thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say,
[that] will I do for you.
2SA-21:5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us,
and that devised against us [that] we should be destroyed from
remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
2SA-21:6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we
will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the
LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give [them].
2SA-21:7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan
the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that [was] between
them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
2SA-21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter
of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and
the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought
up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
2SA-21:9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites,
and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell
[all] seven together, and were put to death in the days of
harvest, in the first [days], in the beginning of barley harvest.
2SA-21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and
spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest
until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered
neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the
beasts of the field by night.
2SA-21:11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah,
the concubine of Saul, had done.
2SA-21:12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the
bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which
had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the
Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul
in Gilboa:
2SA-21:13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and
the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of
them that were hanged.
2SA-21:14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they
in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish
his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And
after that God was entreated for the land.
2SA-21:15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel;
and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought
against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.
2SA-21:16 And Ishbibenob, which [was] of the sons of the giant,
the weight of whose spear [weighed] three hundred [shekels] of
brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to
have slain David.
2SA-21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and
smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David
sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to
battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.
2SA-21:18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a
battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the
Hushathite slew Saph, which [was] of the sons of the giant.
2SA-21:19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the
Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a
Bethlehemite, slew [the brother of] Goliath the Gittite, the
staff of whose spear [was] like a weaver's beam.
2SA-21:20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of
[great] stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on
every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was
born to the giant.
2SA-21:21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah
the brother of David slew him.
2SA-21:22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by
the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
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