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II SAMUEL ยท Chapter 21
21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year
after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is
for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
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.)
21:3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for
you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that all of you may
bless the inheritance of the LORD?
21:4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold
of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shall you kill any man in Israel.
And he said, What all of you shall say, that will I do for you.
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,
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
21:11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine
of Saul, had done.
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:
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.
21:14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the
country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they
performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was implored
for the land.
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.
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.
21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and stroke the Philistine,
and killed him. Then the men of David swore unto him, saying, You shall
go no more out with us to battle, that you quench not the light of Israel.
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.
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.
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.
21:21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah the brother
of David slew him.
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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