Dual Panel1Then there was a famine <07458> in the days <03117> of David <01732> three <07969> years <08141>_, year <08141> after <0310> year <08141>_; and David <01732> enquired <01245> (8762) of <06440> the LORD <03068>_. And the LORD <03068> answered <0559> (8799)_, [It is] for Saul <07586>_, and for [his] bloody <01818> house <01004>_, because he slew <04191> (8689) the Gibeonites <01393>_. {enquired...: Heb. sought the face, etc}
2And the king <04428> called <07121> (8799) the Gibeonites <01393>_, and said <0559> (8799) unto them; (now the Gibeonites <01393> [were] not of the children <01121> of Israel <03478>_, but of the remnant <03499> of the Amorites <0567>_; and the children <01121> of Israel <03478> had sworn <07650> (8738) unto them: and Saul <07586> sought <01245> (8762) to slay <05221> (8687) them in his zeal <07065> (8763) to the children <01121> of Israel <03478> and Judah <03063>.)
3Wherefore David <01732> said <0559> (8799) unto the Gibeonites <01393>_, What shall I do <06213> (8799) for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement <03722> (8762)_, that ye may bless <01288> (8761) the inheritance <05159> of the LORD <03068>_?
4And the Gibeonites <01393> said <0559> (8799) unto him, We will have no silver <03701> nor gold <02091> of <05973> Saul <07586>_, nor of his house <01004>_; neither for us shalt thou kill <04191> (8687) any man <0376> in Israel <03478>_. And he said <0559> (8799)_, What ye shall say <0559> (8802)_, [that] will I do <06213> (8799) for you. {We will...: or, It is not silver nor gold that we have to do with Saul or his house, neither pertains it to us to kill, etc}
5And they answered <0559> (8799) the king <04428>_, The man <0376> that consumed <03615> (8765) us, and that devised <01819> (8765) against us [that] we should be destroyed <08045> (8738) from remaining <03320> (8692) in any of the coasts <01366> of Israel <03478>_, {devised...: or, cut us off}
6Let seven <07651> men <0582> of his sons <01121> be delivered <05414> (8714) unto us, and we will hang them up <03363> (8689) unto the LORD <03068> in Gibeah <01390> of Saul <07586>_, [whom] the LORD <03068> did choose <0972>_. And the king <04428> said <0559> (8799)_, I will give <05414> (8799) [them]. {whom...: or, chosen of the LORD}
7But the king <04428> spared <02550> (8799) Mephibosheth <04648>_, the son <01121> of Jonathan <03083> the son <01121> of Saul <07586>_, because of the LORD'S <03068> oath <07621> that [was] between them, between David <01732> and Jonathan <03083> the son <01121> of Saul <07586>_.
8But the king <04428> took <03947> (8799) the two <08147> sons <01121> of Rizpah <07532> the daughter <01323> of Aiah <0345>_, whom she bare <03205> (8804) unto Saul <07586>_, Armoni <0764> and Mephibosheth <04648>_; and the five <02568> sons <01121> of Michal <04324> the daughter <01323> of Saul <07586>_, whom she brought up <03205> (8804) for Adriel <05741> the son <01121> of Barzillai <01271> the Meholathite <04259>_: {Michal: or, Michal's sister} {brought...: Heb. bear to Adriel}
9And he delivered <05414> (8799) them into the hands <03027> of the Gibeonites <01393>_, and they hanged <03363> (8686) them in the hill <02022> before <06440> the LORD <03068>_: and they fell <05307> (8799) [all] seven <07651> (8675) <07659> together <03162>_, and were put to death <04191> (8717) in the days <03117> of harvest <07105>_, in the first <07223> [days], in the beginning <08462> of barley <08184> harvest <07105>_.
10And Rizpah <07532> the daughter <01323> of Aiah <0345> took <03947> (8799) sackcloth <08242>_, and spread <05186> (8686) it for her upon the rock <06697>_, from the beginning <08462> of harvest <07105> until water <04325> dropped <05413> (8738) upon them out of heaven <08064>_, and suffered <05414> (8804) neither the birds <05775> of the air <08064> to rest <05117> (8800) on them by day <03119>_, nor the beasts <02416> of the field <07704> by night <03915>_.
11And it was told <05046> (8714) David <01732> what Rizpah <07532> the daughter <01323> of Aiah <0345>_, the concubine <06370> of Saul <07586>_, had done <06213> (8804)_.
12And David <01732> went <03212> (8799) and took <03947> (8799) the bones <06106> of Saul <07586> and the bones <06106> of Jonathan <03083> his son <01121> from the men <01167> of Jabeshgilead <03003> <01568>_, which had stolen <01589> (8804) them from the street <07339> of Bethshan <01052>_, where the Philistines <06430> had hanged <08511> (8804) (8675) <08518> (8804) them, when <03117> the Philistines <06430> had slain <05221> (8687) Saul <07586> in Gilboa <01533>_:
13And he brought up <05927> (8686) from thence the bones <06106> of Saul <07586> and the bones <06106> of Jonathan <03083> his son <01121>_; and they gathered <0622> (8799) the bones <06106> of them that were hanged <03363> (8716)_.
14And the bones <06106> of Saul <07586> and Jonathan <03083> his son <01121> buried <06912> (8799) they in the country <0776> of Benjamin <01144> in Zelah <06762>_, in the sepulchre <06913> of Kish <07027> his father <01>_: and they performed <06213> (8799) all that the king <04428> commanded <06680> (8765)_. And after <0310> that God <0430> was intreated <06279> (8735) for the land <0776>_.
15Moreover the Philistines <06430> had yet war <04421> again with Israel <03478>_; and David <01732> went down <03381> (8799)_, and his servants <05650> with him, and fought <03898> (8735) against the Philistines <06430>_: and David <01732> waxed faint <05774> (8799)_.
16And Ishbibenob <03430>_, which [was] of the sons <03211> of the giant <07497>_, the weight <04948> of whose spear <07013> [weighed] three <07969> hundred <03967> [shekels] of brass <05178> in weight <04948>_, he being girded <02296> (8803) with a new <02319> [sword], thought <0559> (8799) to have slain <05221> (8687) David <01732>_. {the giant: or, Rapha} {spear: Heb. the staff, or, the head}
17But Abishai <052> the son <01121> of Zeruiah <06870> succoured <05826> (8799) him, and smote <05221> (8686) the Philistine <06430>_, and killed <04191> (8686) him. Then the men <0582> of David <01732> sware <07650> (8738) unto him, saying <0559> (8800)_, Thou shalt go <03318> (8799) no more out with us to battle <04421>_, that thou quench <03518> (8762) not the light <05216> of Israel <03478>_. {light: Heb. candle, or, lamp}
18And it came to pass after this <0310>_, that there was again a battle <04421> with the Philistines <06430> at Gob <01359>_: then Sibbechai <05444> the Hushathite <02843> slew <05221> (8689) Saph <05593>_, which [was] of the sons <03211> of the giant <07497>_. {the giant: or, Rapha} {Saph: or, Sippai}
19And there was again a battle <04421> in Gob <01359> with the Philistines <06430>_, where Elhanan <0445> the son <01121> of Jaareoregim <03296>_, a Bethlehemite <01022>_, slew <05221> (8686) [the brother of] Goliath <01555> the Gittite <01663>_, the staff <06086> of whose spear <02595> [was] like a weaver's <0707> (8802) beam <04500>_. {Jaareoregim: or, Jair}
20And there was yet a battle <04421> in Gath <01661>_, where was a man <0376> of [great] stature <04067> (8675) <04055>_, that had on every hand <03027> six <08337> fingers <0676>_, and on every foot <07272> six <08337> toes <0676>_, four <0702> and twenty <06242> in number <04557>_; and he also was born <03205> (8795) to the giant <07497>_. {the giant: or, Rapha}
21And when he defied <02778> (8762) Israel <03478>_, Jonathan <03083> the son <01121> of Shimea <08092> the brother <0251> of David <01732> slew <05221> (8686) him. {defied: or, reproached} {Shimea: also called, Shammah}
22These four <0702> were born <03205> (8795) to the giant <07497> in Gath <01661>_, and fell <05307> (8799) by the hand <03027> of David <01732>_, and by the hand <03027> of his servants <05650>_.