(KJV) 2 Samuel 21¹

⥃David Avenges the Gibeonites

[1] Then there was a famine² in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired³ of the Lord⁴. And the Lord answered, [It is⁵] for Saul⁶, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.⁷ [2] And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the⁸ Gibeonites [were] not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites⁹; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal¹⁰ to the children of Israel and Judah.) [3] Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith¹¹ shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless¹² the inheritance of the Lord? [4] And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will¹³ 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] And they answered the king, The man¹⁴ that consumed us, and that devised¹⁵ against us [that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel, [6] Let seven¹⁶ men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang¹⁷ them up unto the Lord in¹⁸ Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the Lord did choose¹⁹. And the king said, I will give [them]. [7] But the king spared Mephibosheth²⁰, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because²¹ of the Lord’s oath that [was] between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. [8] But the king took the two sons of Rizpah²² the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons²³ of Michal²⁴ the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for²⁵ Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: [9] And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord²⁶: and they fell [all] seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first [days], in the beginning²⁷ of barley harvest.

[10] And Rizpah²⁸ the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth²⁹, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the³⁰ beginning of harvest until water³¹ dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds³² of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. [11] And it was told David³³ what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

[12] [¶]And David went and took the bones of Saul³⁴ and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh–gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth–shan³⁵, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa³⁶: [13] 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. [14] And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried³⁷ they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah³⁸, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God³⁹ was intreated for the land.

⥃Four Battles against the Philistines ^{[ 1 Chronicles 20:4–8 ]}

[15] Moreover the Philistines⁴⁰ had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint⁴¹. [16] And Ishbi–benob, which [was] of the sons⁴² of the giant⁴³, the weight of whose spear⁴⁴ [weighed] three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought⁴⁵ to have slain David. [17] But Abishai⁴⁶ the son of Zeruiah succoured⁴⁷ him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt⁴⁸ go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench⁴⁹ not the light⁵⁰ of Israel. [18] And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai⁵¹ the Hushathite slew Saph⁵², which [was] of the sons of the giant⁵³. [19] And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan⁵⁴ the son of Jaare–oregim⁵⁵, a Beth–lehemite, slew [the brother of] Goliath⁵⁶ the Gittite, the staff of whose spear [was] like a weaver’s beam. [20] And there was yet a battle⁵⁷ 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 giant⁵⁸. [21] And when he defied⁵⁹ Israel, Jonathan⁶⁰ the son of Shimea⁶¹ the brother of David slew him. [22] These four⁶² were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by⁶³ the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.