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2 Samuel

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1 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. 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. 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: 9 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 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 Shimea 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.