2Samuel:21:1-14
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Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years ,
year after year ;
and David sought the face of the LORD .
And the LORD said , "
There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house ,
because he put the Gib '
eonites to death ."
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So the king called the Gib '
eonites .
Now the Gib '
eonites were not of the people of Israel ,
but of the remnant of the Amorites ;
although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them ,
Saul had sought to slay them in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah .
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And David said to the Gib '
eonites , "
What shall I do for you ?
And how shall I make expiation ,
that you may bless the heritage of the LORD ?"
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The Gib '
eonites said to him , "
It is not a 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 do you say that I shall do for you ?"
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They said to the king , "
The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us ,
so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel ,
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let seven of his sons be given to us ,
so that we may hang them up before the LORD at Gibeon on the mountain of the LORD ."
And the king said , "
I will give them ."
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But the king spared Mephib '
osheth ,
the son of Saul '
s son Jonathan ,
because of the oath of the LORD which was between them ,
between David and Jonathan the son of Saul .
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The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Ai '
ah ,
whom she bore to Saul ,
Armo '
ni and Mephib '
osheth ;
and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul ,
whom she bore to A '
dri-el the son of Barzil '
lai the Meho '
lathite ;
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and he gave them into the hands of the Gib '
eonites ,
and they hanged them on the mountain before the LORD ,
and the seven of them perished together .
They were put to death in the first days of harvest ,
at the beginning of barley harvest .
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Then Rizpah the daughter of Ai '
ah took sackcloth ,
and spread it for herself on the rock ,
from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens ;
and she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day ,
or the beasts of the field by night .
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When David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Ai '
ah ,
the concubine of Saul ,
had done ,
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David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Ja '
besh-gil '
ead ,
who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan ,
where the Philistines had hanged them ,
on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilbo '
a ;
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and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan ;
and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged .
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And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela ,
in the tomb of Kish his father ;
and they did all that the king commanded .
And after that God heeded supplications for the land .
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