2Samuel:21

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* Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years , year after year ; and David besought the face of Jehovah . And Jehovah answered , It is because of Saul and his bloody house , because he had killed the Gibeonites . * So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them . (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel , but of the remnant of the Amorites . The children of Israel had sworn peace to them , but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah .) * Therefore David said to the Gibeonites , What shall I do for you ? And with what shall I make atonement , that you may bless the inheritance of Jehovah ? * And the Gibeonites said to him , We will have no silver or gold from Saul or from his house , nor shall you kill any man in Israel for us . So he said , Whatever you say , I will do for you . * And they answered the king , As for the man who destroyed us and plotted against us , that we should be annihilated from remaining in any of the territories of Israel , * let seven men of his sons be delivered to us , and we will hang them before Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul , whom Jehovah chose . And the king said , I will deliver them . * But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan , the son of Saul , because of the oath of Jehovah that was between them , between David and Jonathan the son of Saul . * So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth , the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah , whom she had borne to Saul ; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul , whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite ; * and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites , and they hanged them on the hill before Jehovah . So they fell , all seven together , and were put to death in the days of harvest , in the first days , at the beginning of barley harvest . * Now Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock , from the beginning of harvest until the waters poured on them from the heavens . And she did not allow the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night . * And David was told 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 town square of Beth Shan , where the Philistines had hung them up , after the Philistines had struck down Saul in Gilboa . * And he brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there ; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged . * And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin in Zelah , in the tomb of Kish his father . Thus they performed all that the king commanded . And after that God was entreated for the land . * And the Philistines were at war again with Israel . And David and his servants with him went down and fought against the Philistines ; and David grew faint . * And Ishbi-Benob , who was of the sons of the giants , the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze , who was bearing a new sword , intended to kill David . * But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him , and struck the Philistine and killed him . Then the men of David swore to him , saying , You shall go out no more with us to battle , that you not quench the lamp of Israel . * And it happened after this that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob . Then Sibbechai the Hushathite killed Saph , who was of the sons of the giants . * Again there was war at Gob with the Philistines , where Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed one from Goliath the Gittite , the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver ’s beam . * Yet again there was war at Gath , where there was a man of great stature , who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot , twenty-four in number ; and he also was born to the giants . * And when he reproached Israel , Jonathan the son of Shimea , David ’s brother , killed him . * These four were born to the giants in Gath , and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants .

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