2 Samuel 21
21:1And there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year next to year. And David sought the face of the lord. And the lord said, Against Saul and against his house is the iniquity, in the death of his blood shed, for which he put to death the Gibeonites.
21:2And the king called the Gibeonites, and he spoke to them. And the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel, for they were of the remnants of the Amorites, and the sons of Israel swore an oath to them. But Saul sought to strike them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah.
21:3And David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? And by what means shall I atone, and you shall bless the inheritance of the lord?
21:4And the Gibeonites said to him, There is not a problem with us over silver nor gold with Saul, and with his house; and there is no man for us to put to death from all Israel.
21:5And he said, What you say even I will do for you. And they said to the king, The man who finished us off entirely, and pursued us, who misled to utterly destroy us, we shall remove him, so that he is not established in any border of Israel.
21:6Give to us seven men from his sons, and we will hang them in the sun to the lord in Gibeah of Saul, chosen of the lord. And the king said, I will give them.
21:7And the king spared for Mephibosheth, son of Jonathan, son of Saul, on account of the oath of the lord between them; even between David and between Jonathan the son of Saul.
21:8And the king took 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 bore to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholahite.
21:9And he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites. And they hung them in the sun in the mountain before the lord. And they fell there the seven together. And they were put to death in days of harvest at first, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
21:10And Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and she strew a bed for herself upon the rock from the beginning of the barley harvest until of which time waters dripped upon them from God from heaven. And she did not allow the birds of the heaven to rest upon them by day, nor the wild beasts of the field by night.
21:11And it was reported to David all as much as Rizpah daughter of Aiah concubine of Saul did.
21:12And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabish Gilead, of the ones stealing them from the square of Beth-shan, of the Philistines hanging them there in the day in which the Philistines struck Saul in Gilboa.
21:13And he bore from there the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, and he gathered the bones of the ones hanging in the sun.
21:14And he entombed the bones of Saul, and of Jonathan his son, and the bones of the ones being expose to the sun, in the land of Benjamin, in the side of the hill, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all as much as the king gave charge. And God heeded to the land after these things.
21:15And there was still war against the Philistines with Israel. And David went down and his servants with him, and they waged war with the Philistines; and David grew faint.
21:16And Ishbi of Nob, who was among the progeny of Rapha, and the weight of his spear was three hundred shekels scale-weight of brass, and he being girded with a truncheon, even considered to strike David.
21:17And Abishai son of Zeruiah helped him, and he struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore by an oath, saying, You shall not come forth still with us into battle, that in no way the lamp of Israel should be extinguished.
21:18And it came to pass after these things war was still with the Philistines in Nob. Then Sibbechai the Hushathite struck the ones assembling of the descendants of the giants.
21:19And there was still war with the Philistines in Nob. And Elhanan son of Jaareoregim the Beth-lehemite struck Goliath the Gittite, and the wood of his spear was as the beam of a loom of one weaving.
21:20And there was still war in Gath. And there was a man of Madon, and the fingers of his hands, and the toes of his feet were six and six, twenty-four in number; and indeed he was born to Rapha.
21:21And he berated Israel, and Jonathan son of Shimea brother of David struck him.
21:22These four were born to descendants of the giants in Gath, to the house of Rapha. And they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.