2 Samuel 21
The Avenging of the
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Then there was a famine in the days of
David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he
slew the Gib'e-onites.
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And the king called the Gib'e-onites, and
said unto them; (now the Gib'e-onites were not of the
children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the
children of Israel had sworn unto them: Josh. 9.3-15 and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of
Israel and Judah:)
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wherefore David said unto the
Gib'e-onites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make
the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
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And the Gib'e-onites 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.
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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,
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let seven men of his sons be delivered
unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gib'e-ah of Saul, whom the LORD did
choose. And the king said, I will give them.
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But the king spared Mephib'osheth, 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. 1 Sam. 20.15-17 · 2 Sam. 9.1-7
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But the king took the two sons of Rizpah
the daughter of Ai'ah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armo'ni and
Mephib'osheth; and the five sons of Michal 1 Sam. 18.19 the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for A'dri-el the
son of Barzil'lai the Meho'lathite:
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and he delivered them into the hands of
the Gib'e-onites, 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.
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And Rizpah the daughter of Ai'ah 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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And it was told David what Rizpah the
daughter of Ai'ah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
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And David went and took the bones of Saul
and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Ja'besh-gil'e-ad,
which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the
Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in
Gilbo'a: 1 Sam. 31.8-13
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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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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 entreated for the land.
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Abishai Rescues David
from the Giant |
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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.
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And Ish'bi-be'nob, 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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But Ab'ishai the son of Zeru-i'ah
succored 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.
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The Giants Slain by
David's Men |
1 Chr. 20.4-8 |
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And it came to pass after this, that
there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then
Sib'bechai the Hu'shathite slew Saph, which was of the sons
of the giant.
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And there was again a battle in Gob with
the Philistines, where Elha'nan the son of Ja'are-o'regim, a
Beth'lehemite, slew the brother of Goli'ath the Gittite, the
staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
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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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And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the
son of Shim'e-ah the brother of David slew him.
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These four were born to the giant in
Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his
servants.
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