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2 Samuel 21

Gibeonite Revenge

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Now there was  aa famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and  bDavid sought the presence of the LORD. And the LORD said, "It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death."

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So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites, and  athe sons of Israel  1made a covenant with them, but Saul had sought to  2kill them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah).

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Thus David said to the Gibeonites, "What should I do for you? And how can I make atonement that you may bless  athe inheritance of the LORD?"

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Then the Gibeonites said to him, " aWe have no concern of silver or gold with Saul or his house, nor is it for us to put any man to death in Israel." And he said, "I will do for you whatever you say."

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So they said to the king, " aThe man who consumed us and who planned  1to exterminate us from remaining within any border of Israel,

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let seven men from his sons be given to us, and we will  1hang them  abefore the LORD in Gibeah of Saul,  bthe chosen of the LORD." And the king said, "I will give them."

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But the king spared  aMephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul,  bbecause of the oath of the LORD which was between them, between David and Saul's son Jonathan.

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So the king took the two sons of  aRizpah the daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of  1 bMerab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the  cMeholathite.

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Then he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they  1hanged them in the mountain before the LORD, so that the seven of them fell together; and they were put to death in the first days of harvest at  athe beginning of barley harvest.

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 aAnd Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until  1it rained on them from the sky; and  bshe  2allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

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When it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done,

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then David went and took  athe bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the open square of  bBeth-shan,  cwhere the Philistines had hanged them on the day  dthe Philistines struck down Saul in Gilboa.

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He brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of those who had been  1hanged.

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They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in  aZela, in the grave of Kish his father; thus they did all that the king commanded, and after that  bGod was moved by prayer for the land.

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Now when  athe Philistines were at war again with Israel, David went down and his servants with him; and as they fought against the Philistines, David became weary.

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Then Ishbi-benob, who was  aamong the descendants of the  1giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight,  2was girded with a new sword, and he  3intended to kill David.

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But  aAbishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, " bYou shall not go out again with us to battle, so that you do not extinguish  cthe lamp of Israel."

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 aNow it came about after this that there was war again with the Philistines at Gob; then  bSibbecai the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was among the descendants of the  1giant.

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There was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite  1killed  2Goliath the Gittite,  athe shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

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There was war at Gath again, where there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also had been born  ato the  1giant.

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When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, struck him down.

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 aThese four were born to the  1giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.



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