ASV_Strong : 2 Samuel 21
1. And there was a famine[H7458] in the days[H3117] of David[H1732] three[H7969] years[H8141], year[H8141] after[H310] year[H8141]; and David[H1732] sought[H1245] the face of[H6440] Jehovah[H3068]. And Jehovah[H3068] said[H559], It is for Saul[H7586], and for his bloody[H1818] house[H1004], because he put to death[H4191] the Gibeonites[H1393].
2. And the king[H4428] called[H7121] the Gibeonites[H1393], and said[H559] unto them[H1393] (now the Gibeonites were not of the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478], but of the remnant[H3499] of the Amorites[H567]; and the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478] had sworn[H7650] unto them[H7586]: and Saul sought[H1245] to slay[H5221] them in his zeal[H7065] for the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478] and Judah[H3063]);
3. and David[H1732] said[H559] unto the Gibeonites[H1393], What shall I do[H6213] for you[H3722]? and wherewith shall I make atonement, that ye may bless[H1288] the inheritance[H5159] of Jehovah[H3068]?
4. And the Gibeonites[H1393] said[H559] unto him[H5973], It is no matter of silver[H3701] or gold[H2091] between us and Saul[H7586], or his house[H1004]; neither is it for us to put any man[H376] to death[H4191] in Israel[H3478]. And he said[H559], What ye shall say[H559], that will I do for you[H6213].
5. And they said[H559] unto the king[H4428], The man[H376] that consumed[H3615] us[H1819], and that devised against us[H8045], that we should be destroyed from remaining[H3320] in any of the borders[H1366] of Israel[H3478],
6. let seven[H7651] men[H582] of his sons[H1121] be delivered[H5414] unto us[H3363], and we will hang them up unto Jehovah[H3068] in Gibeah[H1390] of Saul[H7586], the chosen[H972] of Jehovah[H3068]. And the king[H4428] said[H559], I will give them[H5414].
7. But the king[H4428] spared[H2550] Mephibosheth[H4648], the son[H1121] of Jonathan[H3083] the son[H1121] of Saul[H7586], because of Jehovah[H3068]'s oath[H7621] that was between them[H1732], between David and Jonathan[H3083] the son[H1121] of Saul[H7586].
8. But the king[H4428] took[H3947] the two[H8147] sons[H1121] of Rizpah[H7532] the daughter[H1323] of Aiah[H345], whom she bare[H3205] unto Saul[H7586], Armoni[H764] and Mephibosheth[H4648]; and the five[H2568] sons[H1121] of Michal[H4324] the daughter[H1323] of Saul[H7586], whom she bare[H3205] to Adriel[H5741] the son[H1121] of Barzillai[H1271] the Meholathite[H4259]:
9. And he delivered[H5414] them into the hands[H3027] of the Gibeonites[H1393], and they hanged[H3363] them in the mountain[H2022] before[H6440] Jehovah[H3068], and they fell[H5307] all seven[H7651] together[H3162]. And they were put to death[H4191] in the days[H3117] of harvest[H7105], in the first[H7223] days[H8462], at the beginning of barley[H8184] harvest[H7105].
10. And Rizpah[H7532] the daughter[H1323] of Aiah[H345] took[H3947] sackcloth[H8242], and spread[H5186] it for her upon the rock[H6697], from the beginning[H8462] of harvest[H7105] until water[H4325] was poured[H5413] upon them from heaven[H8064]; and she suffered[H5414] neither the birds[H5775] of the heavens[H8064] to rest[H5117] on them by day[H3119], nor the beasts[H2416] of the field[H7704] by night[H3915].
11. And it was told[H5046] David[H1732] what Rizpah[H7532] the daughter[H1323] of Aiah[H345], the concubine[H6370] of Saul[H7586], had done[H6213].
12. And David[H1732] went[H3212] and took[H3947] the bones[H6106] of Saul[H7586] and the bones[H6106] of Jonathan[H3083] his son[H1121] from the men[H1167] of Jabesh-gilead[H3003], who had stolen[H1589] them from the street[H7339] of Beth-shan[H1052], where the Philistines[H6430] had hanged[H8511] them[H3117], in the day that the Philistines[H6430] slew[H5221] Saul[H7586] in Gilboa[H1533];
13. and he brought up[H5927] from thence the bones[H6106] of Saul[H7586] and the bones[H6106] of Jonathan[H3083] his son[H1121]: and they gathered[H622] the bones[H6106] of them that were hanged[H3363].
14. And they buried[H6912] the bones[H6106] of Saul[H7586] and Jonathan[H3083] his son[H1121] in the country[H776] of Benjamin[H1144] in Zela[H6762], in the sepulchre[H6913] of Kish[H7027] his father[H1]: and they performed[H6213] all that the king[H4428] commanded[H6680]. And after[H310] that God[H430] was entreated[H6279] for the land[H776].
15. And the Philistines[H6430] had war[H4421] again with Israel[H3478]; and David[H1732] went down[H3381], and his servants[H5650] with him[H3898], and fought against the Philistines[H6430]. And David[H1732] waxed faint[H5774];
16. and Ishbibenob[H3430], who was of the sons[H3211] of the giant[H7497], the weight[H4948] of whose spear[H7013] was three[H7969] hundred[H3967] shekels of brass[H5178] in weight[H4948], he being girded[H2296] with a new[H2319] sword[H559], thought to have slain[H5221] David[H1732].
17. But Abishai[H52] the son[H1121] of Zeruiah[H6870] succored[H5826] him[H5221], and smote the Philistine[H6430], and killed[H4191] him[H582]. Then the men of David[H1732] sware[H7650] unto him[H559], saying, Thou shalt go[H3318] no more out with us to battle[H4421], that thou quench[H3518] not the lamp[H5216] of Israel[H3478].
18. And it came to pass after this[H310], that there was again war[H4421] with the Philistines[H6430] at Gob[H1359]: then Sibbecai[H5444] the Hushathite[H2843] slew[H5221] Saph[H5593], who was of the sons[H3211] of the giant[H7497].
19. And there was again war[H4421] with the Philistines[H6430] at Gob[H1359]; and Elhanan[H445] the son[H1121] of Jaareoregim[H3296] the Beth-lehemite[H1022] slew[H5221] Goliath[H1555] the Gittite[H1663], the staff[H6086] of whose spear[H2595] was like a weaver[H707]'s beam[H4500].
20. And there was again war[H4421] at Gath[H1661], where was a man[H376] of great stature[H4067], that had on every hand[H3027] six[H8337] fingers[H676], and on every foot[H7272] six[H8337] toes[H676], four[H702] and twenty[H6242] in number[H4557]; and he also was born[H3205] to the giant[H7497].
21. And when he defied[H2778] Israel[H3478], Jonathan[H3083] the son[H1121] of Shimei[H8092], David[H1732]'s brother[H251], slew him[H5221].
22. These four[H702] were born[H3205] to the giant[H7497] in Gath[H1661]; and they fell[H5307] by the hand[H3027] of David[H1732], and by the hand[H3027] of his servants[H5650].
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