mkjv - 2Samuel:21:1-14

mkjv@2Samuel:21:1 @ And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year. And David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, For Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he killed the Gibeonites.

mkjv@2Samuel:21:2 @ And the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. And the Gibeonites [were] not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites. And the sons of Israel had sworn to them. And Saul sought to kill them in his zeal to the sons of Israel and Judah.

mkjv@2Samuel:21:3 @ And David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And with what shall I atone for this, so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?

mkjv@2Samuel:21:4 @ And the Gibeonites said to him, We will have no silver nor gold from Saul, nor from his house. Also, we will have no man in Israel put to death. And he said, What you shall say, I will do for you.

mkjv@2Samuel:21:5 @ And they answered the king, The man who destroyed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

mkjv@2Samuel:21:6 @ let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD. And the king said, I will give [them].

mkjv@2Samuel: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.

mkjv@2Samuel:21:8 @ But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

mkjv@2Samuel: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, seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first [days], in the beginning of barley harvest.

mkjv@2Samuel:21:10 @ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven. And she did not allow either the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

mkjv@2Samuel:21:11 @ And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

mkjv@2Samuel:21:12 @ And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the plaza of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa.

mkjv@2Samuel:21:13 @ And he brought the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son up from there. And they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.

mkjv@2Samuel:21:14 @ And [they] buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin in Zelah, in the tomb of his father Kish. And they did all that the king commanded. And afterward God heeded prayer for the land.