Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
During
the
reign
of
David
there was a famine for
three successive
years, and David sought
the
face
of the LORD. And the LORD said
, “
It is because
of
the
blood
shed
by
Saul and his family
, because he killed
the Gibeonites. ”
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 Gibeonites.
At
this,
David
summoned
the Gibeonites and spoke
to
them .
(Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites
, but a
remnant of the Amorites .
The Israelites
had taken
an
oath
concerning
them ,
but
in his zeal for
Israel and Judah ,
Saul
had
sought
to
kill
them
.)
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.)
So
David asked
the Gibeonites, “
What shall I do for you? How
can
I make amends
so
that you
may bless the inheritance of the LORD? ”
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?
The Gibeonites said to
him, “
We need
no silver or
gold from
Saul or
his
house
, nor should
you
put
to
death
anyone
in
Israel
for us. ”
“Whatever
you
ask
, I
will do for you ,”
he
replied
.
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.
And they answered the king, “As
for
the man who
consumed us and plotted
against us to
exterminate
us
from existing
within
any border
of Israel,
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,
let seven of his male
descendants
be delivered to
us so
that
we may
hang them before
the LORD at
Gibeah of Saul, the
chosen
of
the LORD. ”
“
I will give them to
you,”
said
the
king
.
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.
Now
the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan ,
the son of Saul, because of the oath before
the
LORD
between David and Jonathan son of Saul.
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.
But the king took Armoni
and
Mephibosheth,
the two sons whom
Rizpah daughter of Aiah had
borne
to
Saul, as
well
as
the five sons whom
Merab
daughter of Saul had
borne
to
Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite .
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 :
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on
the hill before the LORD .
So
all seven of
them
fell
together ;
they
were put to death in the first
days of the
harvest, at
the beginning of the
barley harvest.
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.
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out
for herself
on
a
rock .
From the beginning of the
harvest until the
rain
from
heaven poured
down
on
the
bodies
, she
did
not
allow
the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
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.
When
David
was told what Saul’s
concubine
Rizpah ,
daughter of Aiah, had done ,
And
it
was told David
what Rizpah the
daughter of Aiah, the
concubine
of
Saul,
had done .
he
went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan
from the men of Jabesh-gilead
, who
had stolen them from the public
square
of Beth-shan
where the Philistines had hung
the bodies
after
they
had struck
down
Saul at
Gilboa .
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 :
So
David
had
the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan
brought
from
there,
along
with
the bones of those
who
had
been
hanged.
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.
And they
buried
the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan
in
Zela
in the land
of Benjamin, in the tomb
of Saul’s
father
Kish .
After
they had
done
everything
the king had
commanded ,
God answered
their
prayers
for the land.
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.
Once
again
the Philistines waged
war against
Israel ,
and David and his servants went
down
and fought against the Philistines ;
but
David became
exhausted
.
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
.
Then
Ishbi-benob
, a
descendant
of Rapha
, whose bronze
spear weighed three hundred shekels and
who
was
bearing
a new sword, resolved
to kill
David.
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.
But Abishai son of Zeruiah came
to
his
aid
, struck
the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s
men swore
to
him, “You
must
never
again
go out with us to battle, so
that the lamp
of Israel may
not
be
extinguished
. ”
But Abishai the
son of Zeruiah 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.
Some
time
later
at
Gob
, there was another
battle with the Philistines .
At that
time
Sibbecai
the Hushathite killed
Saph, one
of the descendants
of Rapha
.
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
.
Once
again
there was a battle with the Philistines at
Gob
, and
Elhanan son of Jair
the
Bethlehemite killed
the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft
of whose spear was like a weaver’s
beam.
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.
And there was still
another
battle at
Gath, where there
was a man of great stature with
six
fingers
on each
hand and
six toes
on each
foot —twenty-
four in all.
He too
was descended
from
Rapha,
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.
and when he taunted
Israel, Jonathan the son of David’s
brother Shimei
killed
him.
And when he defied
Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimeah
the
brother of
David
slew
him.
So
these four descendants
of
Rapha
in Gath fell at
the hands
of David and his servants.
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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