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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 Yahweh .
And Yahweh said ,
It is for Saul ,
and for his bloody house ,
because he put to death the Gibeonites .
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And the king called the Gibeonites ,
and said 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 Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah );
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and David said to the Gibeonites ,
What shall I do for you (
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And how shall I make atonement ,
that you {+}
may bless the inheritance of Yahweh ?
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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 you (
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will say ,
that I will do for you {+}.
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And they said to the king ,
The man who consumed us ,
and that devised against us , [
that ]
we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel ,
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let seven men of his sons be delivered to us ,
and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul ,
the chosen of Yahweh .
And the king said ,
I will give them .
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But the king spared Mephibaal ,
the son of Jonathan the son of Saul ,
because of Yahweh '
s oath that was between them ,
between David and Jonathan the son of Saul .
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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 :
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And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites ,
and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh ,
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 barley harvest .
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And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth ,
and spread it for herself on the rock ,
from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from heaven ;
and she allowed neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day ,
nor the beasts of the field by night .
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And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah ,
the concubine of Saul ,
had done .
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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 slew Saul in Gilboa ;
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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 .
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And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela ,
in the tomb of Kish his father :
and they performed all that the king commanded .
And after that God was entreated for the land .