Dual Panel1During <03117> David’s <01732> reign there was <01961> a famine <07458> for three <07969> consecutive years <08141> <0310> <08141> <08141>. So David <01732> inquired <01245> of the Lord <03068>. The Lord <03068> said <0559>, “It is because of Saul <07586> and his bloodstained <01818> family <01004>, because he murdered <04191> the Gibeonites <01393>.”
2So the king <04428> summoned <07121> the Gibeonites <01393> and spoke <0559> with <0413> them. (Now the Gibeonites <01393> were not <03808> descendants <01121> of Israel <03478>; they <01992> were a remnant <03499> of the Amorites <0567>. The Israelites <03478> <01121> had made a promise <07650> to them <01992>, but Saul <07586> tried <01245> to kill <05221> them because of his zeal <07065> for the people <01121> of Israel <03478> and Judah <03063>.)
3David <01732> said <0559> to <0413> the Gibeonites <01393>, “What <04100> can I do <06213> for you, and how <04100> can I make amends <03722> so that you will bless <01288> the Lord’s <03068> inheritance <05159>?”
4The Gibeonites <01393> said <0559> to him, “We have no <0369> claim to silver <03701> or gold <02091> from <05973> Saul <07586> or from <05973> his family <01004>, nor <0369> would we be justified in putting to death <04191> anyone <0376> in Israel <03478>.” David asked <0559>, “What <04100> then are you <0859> asking <0559> me to do <06213> for you?”
5They replied <0559> to <0413> the king <04428>, “As for this man <0376> who <0834> exterminated <03615> us and who <0834> schemed <01819> against us so that we were destroyed <08045> and left <03320> without status throughout all <03605> the borders <01366> of Israel <03478>–
6let seven <07651> of his male <0376> descendants <01121> be turned over <05414> to us, and we will execute <03363> them before the Lord <03068> in Gibeah <01390> of Saul <07586>, who was the Lord’s <03068> chosen one <0972>.” The king <04428> replied <0559>, “I <0589> will turn <05414> them over <05414>.”
7The king <04428> had mercy <02550> on <05921> Mephibosheth <04648> son <01121> of Jonathan <03083>, the son <01121> of Saul <07586>, in <05921> light of the Lord’s <03068> oath <07621> that <0834> had been taken between <0996> David <01732> and <0996> Jonathan <03083> son <01121> of Saul <07586>.
8So the king <04428> took <03947> Armoni <0764> and Mephibosheth <04648>, the two <08147> sons <01121> of Aiah’s <0345> daughter <01323> Rizpah <07532> whom <0834> she had born <03205> to Saul <07586>, and the five <02568> sons <01121> of Saul’s <07586> daughter <01323> Merab <04324> whom <0834> she had born <03205> to Adriel <05741> the son <01121> of Barzillai <01271> the Meholathite <04259>.
9He turned <03027> <05414> them over <03027> <05414> to the Gibeonites <01393>, and they executed <03363> them on a hill <02022> before <06440> the Lord <03068>. The seven <07651> of them died <05307> together <03162>; they <01992> were put to death <04191> during <03117> harvest <07105> time– during the first <07223> days of the beginning <08462> of the barley <08184> harvest <07105>.
10Rizpah <07532> the daughter <01323> of Aiah <0345> took <03947> sackcloth <08242> and spread <05186> it out <05186> for herself on <0413> a rock <06697>. From the beginning <08462> of the harvest <07105> until <05704> the rain <04325> fell <05413> on <05921> them, she did not <03808> allow <05414> the birds <05775> of the air <08064> to feed <05117> on <05921> them by day <03119>, nor the wild <07704> animals <02416> by night <03915>.
11When David <01732> was told <05046> what <0834> Rizpah <07532> daughter <01323> of Aiah <0345>, Saul’s <07586> concubine <06370>, had done <06213>,
12he <01732> went <01980> and took <03947> the bones <06106> of Saul <07586> and of his son <01121> Jonathan <03083> from the leaders <01167> of Jabesh <03003> Gilead <01568>. (They had secretly taken <01589> them from the plaza <07339> at Beth Shan <01052>. It was there <08033> that <0834> Philistines <06430> publicly exposed <08518> their corpses <08518> after <03117> they <06430> had killed <05221> Saul <07586> at Gilboa <01533>.)
13David brought <05927> the bones <06106> of Saul <07586> and of Jonathan <03083> his son <01121> from there <08033>; they also gathered up <0622> the bones <06106> of those who had been executed <03363>.
14They buried <06912> the bones <06106> of Saul <07586> and his son <01121> Jonathan <03083> in the land <0776> of Benjamin <01144> at Zela <06762> in the grave <06913> of his father <01> Kish <07027>. After they had done <06213> everything <03605> that <0834> the king <04428> had commanded <06680>, God <0430> responded <06279> to their prayers <06279> for the land <0776>.
15Another <05750> battle <04421> was fought <01961> between <0854> the Philistines <06430> and Israel <03478>. So David <01732> went down <03381> with <05973> his soldiers <05650> and fought <03898> the Philistines <06430>. David <01732> became exhausted <05774>.
16Now Ishbi-Benob <03430> <00>, one of the descendants <03211> of Rapha <07497>, had a spear <07013> that weighed <04948> three <07969> hundred <03967> bronze <05178> shekels <04948>, and he <01931> was armed <02296> with a new <02319> weapon. He had said <0559> that he would kill <05221> David <01732>.
17But Abishai <052> the son <01121> of Zeruiah <06870> came to David’s aid, striking <05221> the Philistine <06430> down and killing him <04191>. Then <0227> David’s <01732> men <0376> took an oath <07650> saying <0559>, “You will not <03808> go out <03318> to battle <04421> with <0854> us again <05750>! You must not <03808> extinguish <03518> the lamp <05216> of Israel <03478>!”
18Later <0310> <01961> there was <01961> another <05750> battle <04421> with <05973> the Philistines <06430>, this time <0227> in Gob <01359>. On that occasion Sibbekai <05444> the Hushathite <02843> killed <05221> Saph <05593>, who <0834> was one of the descendants <03211> of Rapha <07497>.
19Yet another <05750> battle <04421> occurred <01961> with <05973> the Philistines <06430> in Gob <01359>. On that occasion Elhanan <0445> the son <01121> of Jair <03296> the Bethlehemite <01022> killed <05221> the brother of Goliath <01555> the Gittite <01663>, the shaft <06086> of whose spear <02595> was like a weaver’s <0707> beam <04500>.
20Yet another <05750> battle <04421> occurred <01961> in Gath <01661>. On that occasion there was <01961> a large <04067> man <0376> who had six <08337> fingers <0676> on each hand <03027> and six <08337> toes <0676> on each foot <07272>, twenty-four <0702> <06242> in all <04557>! He <01931> too <01571> was a descendant <03205> of Rapha <07497>.
21When he taunted <02778> Israel <03478>, Jonathan <03083>, the son <01121> of David’s <01732> brother <0251> Shimeah <08096>, killed <05221> him.
22These <0428> four <0702> were the descendants <03205> of Rapha <07497> who lived in Gath <01661>; they were killed <05307> by <03027> David <01732> and his soldiers <05650>.