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.