| 1 And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year
after year; and David sought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for
Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death 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 for the children of Israel and Judah); 3 and David
said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make
atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of Jehovah? 4 And the
Gibeonites said unto 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 ye shall say, that will I do for you. 5 And they said
unto 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, 6 let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang
them up unto Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Jehovah. And the king
said, I will give them.
7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul,
because of Jehovah'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 bare to Adriel the son of Barzillai
the Meholathite: 9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites,
and they hanged them in the mountain before Jehovah, 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.
10 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. 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 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; 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 they buried the bones of Saul and
Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish
his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that
God was entreated for the land.
15 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; 16 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. 17 But
Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored 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 lamp of Israel.
18 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. 19 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. 20 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. 21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the
son of Shimei, David's brother, slew him. 22 These four were born to the
giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his
servants.
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