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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.
02 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.)
03 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?
04 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.
05 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,
06 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.
07 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.
08 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:
09 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.
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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
Shimeah 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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