2Samuel:21

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* And there was a famine in the days of David three years , year after year ; and David sought the face of LORD . And LORD said , It is for Saul , and for his bloody house , because he put to death the Gibeonites . * And the king called the Gibeonites , and spoke to them (now 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 [yet ] Saul sought to kill them in his zeal * and David said to the Gibeonites , What shall I do for you ? And with what shall I make atonement that ye may bless the inheritance of LORD ? * And the Gibeonites said to him , It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house , neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel . And he said , What ye shall say , that I will do for you . * And they said to the king , The man who consumed us , and who devised against us , [that ] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel , * let seven men of his sons be delivered to us , and we will hang them up to LORD in Gibeah of Saul , the chosen of LORD . And the king said , I will give them . * But the king spared Mephibosheth , the son of Jonathan the son of Saul , because of LORD 's oath that was between them , between David and Jonathan the son of Saul . * 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 Merab the daughter of Saul whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite . * And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites . And they hanged them in the mountain before LORD , and they fell [all ] seven together . And they were put to death in the days of harvest , in the first days , at the beginning of * And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth , and spread it for her upon the rock , from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven . And she neither allowed the birds of the heaven to rest on them by day * And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah , the concubine of Saul , had done . * 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 street of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hanged them in the day that the Philistines kille * and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son , and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged . * And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela , in the sepulcher of Kish his father . And they performed all that the king commanded . And after that God was appealed for the land . * And the Philistines had war again with Israel . And David went down , and his servants with him , and fought against the Philistines . And David grew faint , * and Ishbibenob , who was of the sons of the giant , the weight of whose spear was three hundred [shekels ] of brass in weight , he being girded with a new [sword ], thought to have slain David . * But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him , and smote the Philistine , and killed him . Then the men of David swore to him , saying , Thou shall no more go out with us to battle , that thou not quench the lamp of Israel . * And it came to pass after this , that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob . Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph , who was of the sons of the giant . * And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob . And Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite , the staff of whose spear was like a weaver 's beam . * And there was again war at Gath , where there was a man of great stature who had on every hand six fingers , and on every foot six toes , twenty-four in number , and he also was born to the giant . * And when he defied Israel , Jonathan the son of Shimei , David 's brother , killed him . * These four were born to the giant in Gath , and they fell by the hand of David , and by the hand of his servants .

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