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Then there was a famine[H7458] in the days[H3117]of[H6440]David[H1732]three[H7969]years[H8141], year[H8141]after[H310]year[H8141]; and David[H1732]enquired[H1245]of[H6440] the LORD[H3068]. And the LORD[H3068]answered[H559], It is for Saul[H7586], and for his bloody[H1818]house[H1004], because he slew[H4191] the Gibeonites[H1393].
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And the king[H4428]called[H7121] the Gibeonites[H1393], and said[H559] unto them;(now the Gibeonites[H1393] were not of the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478], but of the remnant[H3499] of the Amorites[H567]; and the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478] had sworn[H7650] unto them: and Saul[H7586]sought[H1245] to slay[H5221] them in his zeal[H7065] to the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478] and Judah[H3063].)
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Wherefore David[H1732]said[H559] unto the Gibeonites[H1393], What shall I do[H6213] for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement[H3722], that ye may bless[H1288] the inheritance[H5159] of the LORD?[H3068]
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And the Gibeonites[H1393]said[H559] unto him, We will have no silver[H3701] nor gold[H2091]of[H5973]Saul[H7586], nor of[H5973] his house[H1004]; neither for us shalt thou kill[H4191] any man[H376] in Israel[H3478]. And he said[H559], What ye shall say[H559], that will I do[H6213] for you.
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And they answered[H559] the king[H4428], The man[H376] that consumed[H3615] us, and that devised[H1819] against us that we should be destroyed[H8045] from remaining[H3320] in any of the coasts[H1366] of Israel[H3478],
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Let seven[H7651]men[H582] of his sons[H1121] be delivered[H5414] unto us, and we will hang them up[H3363] unto the LORD[H3068] in Gibeah[H1390] of Saul[H7586], whom the LORD[H3068] did choose[H972]. And the king[H4428]said[H559], I will give[H5414] them.
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But the king[H4428]spared[H2550]Mephibosheth[H4648], the son[H1121] of Jonathan[H3083] the son[H1121] of Saul[H7586], because of the LORD'S oath[H7621] that was between them, between David[H1732] and Jonathan[H3083] the son[H1121] of Saul[H7586].
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But the king[H4428]took[H3947] the two[H8147]sons[H1121] of Rizpah[H7532] the daughter[H1323] of Aiah[H345], whom she bare[H3205] unto Saul[H7586], Armoni[H764] and Mephibosheth[H4648]; and the five[H2568]sons[H1121] of Michal[H4324] the daughter[H1323] of Saul[H7586], whom she brought up[H3205] for Adriel[H5741] the son[H1121] of Barzillai[H1271] the Meholathite[H4259]:
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And he delivered[H5414] them into the hands[H3027] of the Gibeonites[H1393], and they hanged[H3363] them in the hill[H2022]before[H6440] the LORD[H3068]: and they fell[H5307] all seven[H7651]together[H3162], and were put to death[H4191] in the days[H3117] of harvest[H7105], in the first[H7223]days[H3117], in the beginning[H8462] of barley[H8184]harvest[H7105].
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And Rizpah[H7532] the daughter[H1323] of Aiah[H345]took[H3947]sackcloth[H8242], and spread[H5186] it for her upon the rock[H6697], from the beginning[H8462] of harvest[H7105] until water[H4325]dropped[H5413] upon them out of heaven[H8064], and suffered[H5414] neither the birds[H5775] of the air[H8064] to rest[H5117] on them by day[H3119], nor the beasts[H2416] of the field[H7704] by night[H3915].
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And it was told[H5046]David[H1732] what Rizpah[H7532] the daughter[H1323] of Aiah[H345], the concubine[H6370] of Saul[H7586], had done[H6213].
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And David[H1732]went[H3212] and took[H3947] the bones[H6106] of Saul[H7586] and the bones[H6106] of Jonathan[H3083] his son[H1121] from the men[H1167] of Jabeshgilead[H3003], which had stolen[H1589] them from the street[H7339] of Bethshan[H1052], where the Philistines[H6430] had hanged[H8511] them, when[H3117] the Philistines[H6430] had slain[H5221]Saul[H7586] in Gilboa[H1533]:
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And he brought up[H5927] from thence the bones[H6106] of Saul[H7586] and the bones[H6106] of Jonathan[H3083] his son[H1121]; and they gathered[H622] the bones[H6106] of them that were hanged[H3363].
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And the bones[H6106] of Saul[H7586] and Jonathan[H3083] his son[H1121]buried[H6912] they in the country[H776] of Benjamin[H1144] in Zelah[H6762], in the sepulchre[H6913] of Kish[H7027] his father[H1]: and they performed[H6213] all that the king[H4428]commanded[H6680]. And after[H310] that God[H430] was intreated[H6279] for the land[H776].
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Moreover the Philistines[H6430] had yet war[H4421] again with Israel[H3478]; and David[H1732] went down[H3381], and his servants[H5650] with him, and fought[H3898] against the Philistines[H6430]: and David[H1732] waxed faint[H5774].
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And Ishbibenob[H3430], which was of the sons[H3211] of the giant[H7497], the weight[H4948] of whose spear[H7013] weighed three[H7969]hundred[H3967] shekels of brass[H5178] in weight[H4948], he being girded[H2296] with a new[H2319] sword, thought[H559] to have slain[H5221]David[H1732].
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But Abishai[H52] the son[H1121] of Zeruiah[H6870]succoured[H5826] him, and smote[H5221] the Philistine[H6430], and killed[H4191] him. Then the men[H582] of David[H1732]sware[H7650] unto him, saying[H559], Thou shalt go[H3318] no more out with us to battle[H4421], that thou quench[H3518] not the light[H5216] of Israel[H3478].
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And it came to pass after this[H310], that there was again a battle[H4421] with the Philistines[H6430] at Gob[H1359]: then Sibbechai[H5444] the Hushathite[H2843]slew[H5221]Saph[H5593], which was of the sons[H3211] of the giant[H7497].
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And there was again a battle[H4421] in Gob[H1359] with the Philistines[H6430], where Elhanan[H445] the son[H1121] of Jaareoregim[H3296], a Bethlehemite[H1022], slew[H5221] the brother of Goliath[H1555] the Gittite[H1663], the staff[H6086] of whose spear[H2595] was like a weaver's beam[H4500].
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And there was yet a battle[H4421] in Gath[H1661], where was a man[H376] of great stature[H4067], that had on every hand[H3027]six[H8337]fingers[H676], and on every foot[H7272]six[H8337]toes[H676], four[H702] and twenty[H6242] in number[H4557]; and he also was born[H3205] to the giant[H7497].
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And when he defied[H2778]Israel[H3478], Jonathan[H3083] the son[H1121] of Shimea[H8092] the brother[H251] of David[H1732]slew[H5221] him.
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These four[H702] were born[H3205] to the giant[H7497] in Gath[H1661], and fell[H5307] by the hand[H3027] of David[H1732], and by the hand[H3027] of his servants[H5650].