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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Samuel 21 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_samuel/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_samuel/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</a> > 2 Samuel 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_samuel/20.htm" title="2 Samuel 20">◄</a> 2 Samuel 21 <a href="../2_samuel/22.htm" title="2 Samuel 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/2_samuel/21.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Gibeonite Revenge</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>There was famine in the days of David for three consecutive years; and David sought the presence (face) of the LORD [asking the reason]. The LORD replied, “It is because of Saul and his bloody house, because <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>he put the Gibeonites to death.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons (descendants) of Israel but of the remnant (survivors) of the Amorites. The Israelites had sworn [an oath] to [spare] them, but Saul in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah had sought to strike down the Gibeonites). <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? How can I make it good so that you will bless the LORD’S inheritance (Israel)?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The Gibeonites said to him, “We will not accept silver or gold belonging to Saul or his household (descendants); nor is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” David said, “I will do for you whatever you say.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So they said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to exterminate us from remaining in any territory of Israel, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>let seven men [chosen] from his sons (descendants) be given to us and we will hang them before the LORD [that is, put them on display, impaled with broken legs and arms] in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>Gibeah of Saul, the chosen one of the LORD.” And the king said, “I will give them.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the LORD’S oath that was between David and Saul’s son Jonathan. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So 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 <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He handed them over to the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD, and the seven died together. They were put to death in the first days of the grain harvest, the beginning of the barley harvest [in the spring]. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest [in the spring] until [the autumn] rain fell on them; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on their bodies by day, nor the beasts of the field [to feed on them] by night. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>concubine of Saul, had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then David went and took the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the open square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day when the Philistines had killed Saul in Gilboa. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He brought up the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged [with their arms and legs broken]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They 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 did all that the king commanded. After that, God was moved by prayer for the land. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now the Philistines were at war again with Israel. David went down with his servants, and as they fought against the Philistines, David became weary. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then Ishbi-benob, who was among the descendants of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred <i>shekels</i> (six pounds) of bronze, was armed with a new <i>sword,</i> and he intended to kill David. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to David’s aid, and struck and killed the Philistine. Then David’s men swore to him, “You shall not go out again with us to battle, so that you do not extinguish the lamp of Israel.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>After this, there was war again with the Philistines at Gob (Gezer). At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph (Sippai), who was among the descendants of the giant. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>There was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, killed Goliath the Gittite, whose spear shaft was like a weaver’s beam. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>There was war at Gath again, where there was a man of <i>great</i> stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; he also was a descendant of the giants. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And when he taunted <i>and</i> defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>These four [warriors] were descended from the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hands of David and his servants.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> There is no more information about this elsewhere. 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