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2 Samuel 21 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had tried to wipe them out in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.) </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How shall I make expiation, that you may bless the heritage of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>The Gibeonites said to him, “It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put anyone to death in Israel.” He said, “What do you say that I should do for you?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel— </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>let seven of his sons be handed over to us, and we will impale them before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> at Gibeon on the mountain of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.”<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8587a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> The king said, “I will hand them over.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>But the king spared Mephibosheth,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8588b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, because of the oath of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> that was between them, between David and Jonathan son of Saul. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The king took the two sons of Rizpah daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8589c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> and the five sons of Merab<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8589d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they impaled them on the mountain before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. The seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it on a rock for herself, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell on them from the heavens; she did not allow the birds of the air to come on the bodies<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8591e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> by day, or the wild animals by night. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>When David was told what Rizpah daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the people of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hung them up, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>He brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who had been impaled. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>They buried the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of his father Kish; they did all that the king commanded. After that, God heeded supplications for the land.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Exploits of David’s Men</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>The Philistines went to war again with Israel, and David went down together with his servants. They fought against the Philistines, and David grew weary. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was fitted out with new weapons,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8597f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> said he would kill David. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You shall not go out with us to battle any longer, so that you do not quench the lamp of Israel.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>After this a battle took place with the Philistines, at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Then there was another battle with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, killed Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great size, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; he too was descended from the giants. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of David’s brother Shimei, killed him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>These four were descended from the giants in Gath; they fell by the hands of David and his servants.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 21:6">2 Samuel 21:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare Gk and 21.9: Heb <i>at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span></i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 21:7">2 Samuel 21:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Merib-baal</i>: See 4.4 note</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 21:8">2 Samuel 21:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Merib-baal</i>: See 4.4 note</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 21:8">2 Samuel 21:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Two Heb Mss Syr Compare Gk: MT <i>Michal</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 21:10">2 Samuel 21:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>them</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 21:16">2 Samuel 21:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>was belted anew</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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