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Gibeonite
Revenge |
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| 2 Samuel 21:1 |
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Now there was a famine in the days of David
for three years, year after year; and David 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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| 2 Samuel 21:2 |
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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 the sons of Israel made a covenant with them, but Saul had
sought to kill them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah). |
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| 2 Samuel 21:3 |
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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 the inheritance
of the LORD?" |
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| 2 Samuel 21:4 |
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Then the Gibeonites said to him, "We 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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| 2 Samuel 21:5 |
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So they said to the king, "The man who consumed
us and who planned to exterminate us from remaining within any border of Israel, |
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| 2 Samuel 21:6 |
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let seven men from his sons be given to us,
and we will hang them before the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD."
And the king said, "I will give them." |
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| 2 Samuel 21:7 |
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But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of
Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the LORD which was between them,
between David and Saul's son Jonathan. |
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| 2 Samuel 21:8 |
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So the king took the two sons of Rizpah the
daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the
five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son
of Barzillai the Meholathite. |
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| 2 Samuel 21:9 |
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Then he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites,
and they hanged 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 the
beginning of barley harvest. |
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| 2 Samuel 21:10 |
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And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth
and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until it
rained on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest
on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night. |
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| 2 Samuel 21:11 |
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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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| 2 Samuel 21:12 |
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then 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 open square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them
on the day the Philistines struck down Saul in Gilboa. |
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| 2 Samuel 21:13 |
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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
hanged. |
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| 2 Samuel 21:14 |
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They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his
son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the grave of Kish his father; thus
they did all that the king commanded, and after that God was moved by prayer for
the land. |
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| 2 Samuel 21:15 |
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Now when the 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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| 2 Samuel 21:16 |
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Then Ishbi-benob, who was among the descendants
of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in
weight, was girded with a new sword, and he intended to kill David. |
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| 2 Samuel 21:17 |
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But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and
struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying,
"You shall not go out again with us to battle, so that you do not extinguish the
lamp of Israel." |
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| 2 Samuel 21:18 |
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Now it came about after this that there was
war again with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down
Saph, who was among the descendants of the giant. |
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| 2 Samuel 21:19 |
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There was war with the Philistines again at
Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite,
the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. |
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| 2 Samuel 21:20 |
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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 to the giant. |
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| 2 Samuel 21:21 |
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When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei,
David's brother, struck him down. |
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| 2 Samuel 21:22 |
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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. |
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