21 SHEMU'EL -2- SAMUEL 21

The Gibeonites Avenged

2 SHEMU'EL - 2 SAMUEL 21:1

  1     ^¶  Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of YAHWEH. And YAHWEH answered, [It is] for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

2 SHEMU'EL - 2 SAMUEL 21:2

  2    And the king called the Gibeonites, and said to them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Yisrael, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Yisrael had sworn to them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Yisrael and Yahudah.)

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  3    Wherefore David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of YAHWEH?

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  4    And the Gibeonites said to him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shall you kill any man in Yisrael. And he said, What you shall say, that will I do for you.

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  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 Yisrael,

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  6    Let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to YAHWEH in Gibeah of Saul, whom YAHWEH 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 YAHWEH's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

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  8    But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare to 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:

2 SHEMU'EL - 2 SAMUEL 21:9

  9    And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before YAHWEH: 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.

Rizpah's Care For The Bodies Of Saul's Descendants
2 SHEMU'EL - 2 SAMUEL 21:10

  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.

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  11    And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

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  12    And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the chief 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:

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  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.

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  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 YAHWEH was intreated for the land.

Battles With The Philistines

2 SHEMU'EL - 2 SAMUEL 21:15

  15     ^¶  Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Yisrael; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.

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  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.

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  17    But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you quench not the light of Yisrael.

2 SHEMU'EL - 2 SAMUEL 21:18

  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.

2 SHEMU'EL - 2 SAMUEL 21:19

  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.

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  21    And when he defied Yisrael, Jonathan the son of Shimea 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.