The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Samuel 21
1 There 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.”
2 The 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);
3 and 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?”
4 The 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.”
5 They 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,
6 let 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.”
7 But 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.
8 Butthe king took the two sons ofRizpah
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.
9 He delivered them into the hands ofthe
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.
10 Rizpah 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.
11 David was told what Rizpah the
daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul,
had done.
1 There 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.”
2 The 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);
3 and 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?”
4 The 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.”
5 They 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,
6 let 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.”
7 But 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.
8 Butthe king took the two sons ofRizpah
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.
9 He delivered them into the hands ofthe
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.
10 Rizpah 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.
11 David was told what Rizpah the
daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul,
had done.