2 Samuel Chapter 21

2 Samuel Chapter 21
1 Then there was a famine in the days of
David, three years together: and David
asked counsel of the Lord, and the Lord
answered, It is for Saul, and for his
bloody house, because he slew the
Gibeonites.
2 Then the king called the Gibeonites
and said unto them. (Now the Gibeonites
were not of the children of Israel, but a
remnant of the Amorites, unto whom the
children of Israel had sworn: but Saul
sought to slay them for his zeal toward
the children of Israel and Judah)
3 And 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?
4 The Gibeonites then answered 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.
5 Then they answered the king, The man
that consumed us and that imagined evil
against us, so that we are destroyed
from remaining in any coast of Israel, 6
Let seven men of his sons be delivered
unto us, and we will hang them up unto
the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, the Lord's
chosen. And the king said, I will give
them.
7 But the king had compassion on
Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan the
son of Saul, because of the Lord's oath,
that was between them, even between
David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
8 But the king took the two sons of
Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she
bear unto Saul, even Armoni and
Mephibosheth and the five sons of
Michal, the daughter of Saul, whom she
bear to Adriel the son of Barzillai the
Meholathite.
9 And he delivered them unto the hands
of the Gibeonites, which hanged them in
the mountain before the Lord: so they
died all seven together, and they were
slain in the time of harvest: in the first
days, and in the beginning of barley
harvest.
10 Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah
took sackcloth and hanged it up for her
upon the rock, from the beginning of
harvest, until water dropped upon them
from the heaven, and suffered neither the
birds of the air to light on them by day,
nor beasts of the field by night.
11 And it was told David, what Rizpah
the daughter of Aiah the concubine of
Saul had done.
12 And David went and took the bones
of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son
from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead,
which had stolen them from the street of
Beth-shan, where the Philistines had
hanged them, when the Philistines had
slain Saul in Gilboa.
13 So he brought thence the bones of
Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son,
and they gathered the bones of them that
were hanged.
14 And the bones of Saul and of
Jonathan his son buried they in the
country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the
grave of Kish his father: and when they
had performed all that the king had
commanded, God was then appeased
with the land.
15 Again the Philistines had war with
Israel: and David went down, and his
servants with him, and they fought
against the Philistines, and David
fainted. 16 Then Ishbi-benob which was
of the sons of Haraphah ( the head of
whose spear weighed three hundred
shekels of brass) even he being girded
with a new sword, thought to have slain
David.
17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah
succored him, and smote the Philistine,
and killed him. Then David's men swear
unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more
out with us to battle, lest thou quench the
light of Israel.
18 And after this also there was a battle
with the Philistines at Gob, then
Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph,
which was one of the sons of Haraphah.
19 And there was yet another battle in
Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan
the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite
slew Goliath the Gittite: the staff of
whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
20 Afterward there was also a battle in
Gath, where was a man of a great
stature, and had on every hand six
fingers, and on every foot six toes, four
and twenty in number: who was also the
son of Haraphah.
21 And when he reviled Israel, Jonathan
the son of Shima the brother of David
slew him.
22 These four were born to Haraphah in
Gath, and died by the hand of David and
by the hands of his servants.