2 Samuel 21

1There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”Cross-references: Gen 12:10 · Gen 26:1 · Gen 41:57 · Gen 43:1 · Lev 26:19 · Lev 26:26 · +18 more

2The king called the Gibeonites and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);Cross-references: Gen 15:16 · Deut 7:16 · Josh 9:3 · 1Sam 14:44 · 1Sam 15:8 · 2Ki 10:16 · +5 more

3and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless Yahweh’s inheritance?”Cross-references: Ex 32:30 · Lev 1:4 · 1Sam 2:25 · 1Sam 26:19 · 2Sam 20:19 · Mic 6:6 · +2 more

4The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”Cross-references: Ps 49:6 · 1Pet 1:18

5They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,Cross-references: 2Sam 21:1 · Esth 9:24 · Dan 9:26 · Matt 7:2

6let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.” The king said, “I will give them.”Cross-references: Gen 40:19 · Gen 40:22 · Num 25:4 · Deut 21:22 · Josh 8:29 · Josh 10:26 · +12 more

7But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.Cross-references: 1Sam 18:3 · 1Sam 20:8 · 1Sam 20:15 · 1Sam 20:17 · 1Sam 20:42 · 1Sam 23:18 · +5 more

8But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.Cross-references: 1Sam 18:19 · 2Sam 3:7

9He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites; and they hanged them on the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Num 35:31 · Deut 21:1 · Ruth 1:22 · 1Sam 15:33 · 2Sam 6:17 · +3 more

10Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.Cross-references: Gen 40:19 · Deut 11:14 · Deut 21:13 · Deut 21:23 · 1Sam 17:44 · 2Sam 3:7 · +10 more

11David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.Cross-references: Ruth 2:11 · 2Sam 2:4

12So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;Cross-references: Josh 17:11 · 1Sam 28:4 · 1Sam 31:1 · 1Sam 31:10 · 2Sam 1:6 · 2Sam 1:21 · +3 more

13and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged.

14They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.Cross-references: Ex 32:27 · Num 25:13 · Josh 7:26 · Josh 18:28 · 1Sam 10:2 · 2Sam 3:32 · +8 more

15The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;Cross-references: Josh 14:10 · 2Sam 5:17 · 2Sam 5:22 · 2Sam 5:25 · 1Chr 20:4 · Ps 71:9 · +6 more

16and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought he would kill David.Cross-references: Gen 6:4 · Gen 14:5 · Num 13:32 · Deut 1:28 · Deut 2:10 · Deut 2:21 · +8 more

17But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”Cross-references: 2Sam 14:7 · 2Sam 18:3 · 2Sam 20:6 · 2Sam 22:19 · 2Sam 22:29 · 1Ki 11:36 · +6 more

18After this, there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.Cross-references: 2Sam 21:16 · 2Sam 21:20 · 2Sam 21:22 · 1Chr 11:29 · 1Chr 20:4 · 1Chr 27:11

19There was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:4 · 1Chr 11:26 · 1Chr 20:5

20There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand and six toes on every foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was born to the giant.Cross-references: 2Sam 21:16 · 2Sam 21:18 · 1Chr 20:6

21When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.Cross-references: 1Sam 16:9 · 1Sam 17:3 · 1Sam 17:10 · 1Sam 17:25 · 1Sam 17:36 · 2Ki 19:13 · +2 more

22These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.Cross-references: Josh 14:12 · 1Chr 20:8 · Ps 60:12 · Ps 108:13 · Ps 118:15 · Eccl 9:11 · +3 more