2 Samuel 21
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.
