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2 Samuel 21 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:1 - And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, There is [fn]guilt upon Saul and his house because of his [fn]bloody murder, whereby he slew the Gabaonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:2 - And king David called the Gabaonites, and said to them;—(now the Gabaonites are not the children of Israel, but are of the remnant of the Amorite, and the children of Israel had sworn to them: but Saul sought to smite them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Juda.)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:3 - And David said to the Gabaonites, What shall I do to you? and wherewithal shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:4 - And the Gabaonites said to him, We have no question about silver or gold with Saul and with his house; and there is no man for us to put to death in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:5 - And he said, What say ye? speak, and I will do it for you. And they said to the king, The man who would have made an end of us, and persecuted us, who plotted against us to destroy us, let us utterly destroy him, so that he shall have no standing in all the coasts of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:6 - Let one give us seven men of his sons, and let us hang them up in the sun to the Lord in Gabaon of Saul, as chosen out for the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:7 - But the king spared Memphibosthe son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, even between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:8 - And the king took the two sons of Respha the daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, Hermonoi and Memphibosthe, and the five sons of Michol daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Esdriel son of Berzelli the Moülathite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:9 - And he gave them into the hand of the Gabaonites, and they hanged them up to the sun in the mountain before the Lord: and they fell, even the seven together: moreover they were put to death in the days of harvest at the commencement, in the beginning of barley-harvest.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:10 - And Respha the daughter of Aia took sackcloth, and fixed it for herself on the rock in the beginning of barley harvest, until water dropped upon them out of heaven: and she did not suffer the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:11 - And it was told David what Respha the daughter of Aia the concubine of Saul had done, [[fn]and they were faint, and Dan the son of Joa of the offspring of the giants overtook them.]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:12 - And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of the sons of Jabis Galaad, who stole them from the street of Bæthsan; for the Philistines set them there in the day in which the Philistines smote Saul in Gelbue.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:13 - And he carried up thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and gathered the bones of them that had been hanged.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:14 - And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and the bones of them that had been hanged, in the land of Benjamin in the hill, in the sepulchre of Cis his father; and they did all things that the king commanded: and after this God hearkened to the prayers of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:15 - And there was yet war between the Philistines and Israel: and David went down and his servants with him, and they fought with the Philistines, and David went.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:16 - And Jesbi, who was of the progeny of Rapha, and the head of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, who also was girt with a club, even he thought to smite David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:17 - And Abessa the son of Saruia helped him and smote the Philistine, and slew him. Then the men of David swore, saying, Thou shalt not any longer go out with us to battle, and thou shalt not quench the lamp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:18 - And after this there was a battle again with the Philistines in Geth: then Sebocha the Astatothite slew Seph of the progeny of Rapha.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:19 - And there was a battle in Rom with the Philistines; and Eleanan son of Ariorgim the Bethleemite slew Goliath the Gittite; and the staff of his spear was as a weaver's beam.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:20 - And there was yet a battle in Geth: and there was [fn]a man of stature, and the fingers of his hands and the toes of his feet were six on each, four and twenty in number: and he also was born to Rapha.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:21 - And he [fn]defied Israel, and Jonathan son of Semei brother of David, smote him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:22 - These four were born descendants of the giants in Geth, the family of Rapha; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
BES Footnotes
Gr. iniquity.
Lit. the death of his bloods.
Heb. omits the words in italics.
Gr. The original is Hebrew in Greek letters.
Or, reproached.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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