2 Samuel 21

CLV(i) 1 And there is a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David seeks the face of Yahweh, and Yahweh said, `For Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put to death the Gibeonites.. 2 And the king calls for the Gibeonites, and said unto them--as to the Gibeonites, they [are] not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorite, and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul seeks to smite them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah-. 3 yea, David said unto the Gibeonites, `What do I do for you? and with what do I make atonement? and bless you the inheritance of Yahweh.. 4 And the Gibeonites say to him, `We have no silver and gold by Saul and by his house, and we have no man to put to death in Israel;' and he said, `What you are saying I do to you.. 5 And they say unto the king, `The man who consumed us, and who devised against us--we have been destroyed from stationing ourselves in all the border of Israel-. 6 let there be given to us seven men of his sons, and we have hanged them before Yahweh, in the height of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.' And the king said, `I do give;. 7 and the king has pity on Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, son of Saul, because of the oath of Yahweh that [is] between them, between David and Jonathan son of Saul;" 8 and the king takes the two sons of Rizpah daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michal daughter of Saul whom she bare to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite, 9 and gives them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hang them in the hill before Yahweh; and the seven fall together, and they have been put to death in the days of harvest, in the first [days], the commencement of barley-harvest. 10 And Rizpah daughter of Aiah takes the sackcloth, and stretches it out for herself on the rock, from the commencement of harvest till water has been poured out upon them from the heavens, and has not suffered a fowl of the heavens to rest upon them by day, or the beast of the field by night. 11 And it is declared to David that which Rizpah daughter of Aiah, concubine of Saul, has done, 12 and David goes and takes the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the possessors of Jabesh-Gilead, who had stolen them from the broad place of Beth-Shan, where the Philistines hanged them, in the day of the Philistines smiting Saul in Gilboa;" 13 and he brings up thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they gather the bones of those hanged, 14 and bury the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin, in Zelah, in the burying-place of Kish his father, and do all that the king commanded, and Elohim is entreated for the land afterwards. 15 And again have the Philistines war with Israel, and David goes down, and his servants with him, and they fight with the Philistines; and David is weary, 16 and Ishbi-Benob, who [is] among the children of the giant--the weight of his spear [is] three hundred [shekels] weight of brass, and he is girded with a new one--speaks of smiting David, 17 and Abishai son of Zeruiah gives help to him, and smites the Philistine, and puts him to death; then swear the men of David to him, saying, `You do not go out again with us to battle, nor quench the lamp of Israel.. 18 And it comes to pass afterwards, that the battle is again in Gob with the Philistines, then has Sibbechai the Hushathite smitten Saph, who [is] among the children of the giant. 19 And the battle is again in Gob with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim, the Beth-Lehemite, smites [a brother of] Goliath the Gittite, and the wood of his spear [is] like a beam of weavers. 20 And the battle is again in Gath, and there is a man of stature, and the fingers of his hands [are] six, and the toes of his feet [are] six, twenty and four in number, and he also has been born to the giant, 21 and he reproaches Israel, and smite him does Jonathan son of Shimeah, brother of David;" 22 these four have been born to the giant in Gath, and they fall by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.