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2 Samuel 21 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Gibeonite Revenge

2Sa 21:1

2Sa 21:1Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

2Sa 21:2

2Sa 21:2So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the sons of Israel [fn]made a covenant with them, but Saul had sought to [fn]kill them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah).

2Sa 21:3

2Sa 21:3Thus David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And how can I make atonement that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”

2Sa 21:4

2Sa 21:4Then the Gibeonites said to him, “We have no concern of silver or gold with Saul or his house, nor is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” And he said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”

2Sa 21:5

2Sa 21:5So they said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who planned [fn]to exterminate us from remaining within any border of Israel,

2Sa 21:6

2Sa 21:6let seven men from his sons be given to us, and we will [fn]hang them before the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” And the king said, “I will give them.”

2Sa 21:7

2Sa 21:7But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of the LORD which was between them, between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.

2Sa 21:8

2Sa 21:8So the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of [fn]Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

2Sa 21:9

2Sa 21:9Then he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they [fn]hanged them in the mountain before the LORD, so that the seven of them fell together; and they were put to death in the first days of harvest at the beginning of barley harvest.

2Sa 21:10

2Sa 21:10And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until [fn]it rained on them from the sky; and she [fn]allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

2Sa 21:11

2Sa 21:11When it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done,

2Sa 21:12

2Sa 21:12then David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the open square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day the Philistines struck down Saul in Gilboa.

2Sa 21:13

2Sa 21:13He brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of those who had been [fn]hanged.

2Sa 21:14

2Sa 21:14They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the grave of Kish his father; thus they did all that the king commanded, and after that God was moved by prayer for the land.

2Sa 21:15

2Sa 21:15Now when the Philistines were at war again with Israel, David went down and his servants with him; and as they fought against the Philistines, David became weary.

2Sa 21:16

2Sa 21:16Then Ishbi-benob, who was among the descendants of the [fn]giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, [fn]was girded with a new sword, and he [fn]intended to kill David.

2Sa 21:17

2Sa 21:17But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You shall not go out again with us to battle, so that you do not extinguish the lamp of Israel.”

2Sa 21:18

2Sa 21:18Now it came about after this that there was war again with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was among the descendants of the [fn]giant.

2Sa 21:19

2Sa 21:19There was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite [fn]killed [fn]Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

2Sa 21:20

2Sa 21:20There was war at Gath again, where there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also had been born to the [fn]giant.

2Sa 21:21

2Sa 21:21When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, struck him down.

2Sa 21:22

2Sa 21:22These four were born to the [fn]giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
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NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: had sworn to
Literally: smite
Literally: against us that we should be exterminated
Literally: expose them
So Gr and Heb mss
Literally: exposed them
Literally: water was poured
Literally: gave
Literally: exposed
Hebrew: Raphah
Literally: and he was
Literally: said
Hebrew: Raphah
Literally: smote
In 1 Chr 20:5, Lahmi, the brother of Goliath
Hebrew: Raphah
Hebrew: Raphah
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