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Chapter 21 |
| 1 | Then there was
a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired
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. |
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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: |
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| 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 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 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.
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| 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.
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| 22 | These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of
David, and by the hand of his servants. |
