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1 Then there was a famine in
the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD.
And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house,
because he slew the Gibeonites.
2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and
said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel,
but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto
them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and
Judah.)
3 Wherefore David said unto the
Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement,
that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We
will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt
thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I
do for you.
5 And they answered the king, The man that
consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from
remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered
unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom
the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
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.
8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah
the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the
five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son
of Barzillai the Meholathite:
9 And he delivered them into the hands of
the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all
seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days,
in the beginning of barley harvest.
10 And Rizpah the daughter of
Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of
harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the
birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
11 And it was told David what Rizpah the
daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
12 And David went and took the bones of
Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had
stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them,
when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
13 And he brought up from thence the bones
of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them
that were hanged.
14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his
son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish
his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God
was intreated for the land.
15 Moreover the Philistines
had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him,
and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.
16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the
sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels
of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have
slain David.
17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah
succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David
sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou
quench not the light of Israel.
18 And it came to pass after this, that
there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the
Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.
19 And there was again a battle in Gob
with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew
the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was
like a weaver’s beam.
20 And there was yet a battle in Gath,
where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and
on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the
giant.
21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the
son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
22 These four were born to the giant in
Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
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