2Sam 21
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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 YHWH. And YHWH 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 children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of
Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the children
of Israel and Judah);
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and David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make
atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of YHWH?
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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 shall say, that will I do for you.
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And they said to the king, The man that 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 YHWH in
Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of YHWH. And the king said, I will give them.
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But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of
YHWH`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 bare to Saul,
Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she
bare 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 YHWH, 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 her upon the rock,
from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she
suffered 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 them that 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 sepulcher of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king
commanded. And after that God was entreated for the land.
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And the Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants
with him, and fought against the Philistines. And David waxed faint;
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and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three
hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought
to have slain David.
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But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed
him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us
to battle, that you quench not the lamp of Israel.
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And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob:
then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
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And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim
the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver`s
beam.
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And there was again war at 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.
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And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David`s brother, slew him.
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These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and
by the hand of his servants.