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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 Literal Standard Version</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" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">LSV</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">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/21-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And there is a famine in the days of David [for] three years, year after year, and David seeks the face of YHWH, and YHWH says, “[This is] for Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put the Gibeonites to death.” <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the king calls for the Gibeonites and says to them—as for the Gibeonites, they [are] not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorite, and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul seeks to strike them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah— <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>indeed, David says to the Gibeonites, “What do I do for you? And with what do I make atonement? And bless the inheritance of YHWH.” <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the Gibeonites say to him, “We have no silver and gold by Saul and by his house, and we have no man to put to death in Israel”; and he says, “What you are saying I do to you.” <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And they say to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us—we have been destroyed from stationing ourselves in all the border of Israel— <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>let there be given to us seven men of his sons, and we have hanged them before YHWH, in the height of Saul, the chosen of YHWH.” And the king says, “I give”;<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and the king has pity on Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, son of Saul, because of the oath of YHWH that [is] between them, between David and Jonathan son of Saul; <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and the king takes the two sons of Rizpah daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Michal daughter of Saul whom she bore to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite, <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and gives them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hang them in the hill before YHWH; and the seven fall together, and they have been put to death in the days of harvest, in the first [days], the commencement of barley-harvest.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Rizpah daughter of Aiah takes the sackcloth, and stretches it out for herself on the rock, from the commencement of harvest until water has been poured out on them from the heavens, and has not permitted a bird of the heavens to rest on them by day, or the beast of the field by night. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And it is declared to David that which Rizpah daughter of Aiah, concubine of Saul, has done, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and David goes and takes the bones of Saul, and the bones of his son Jonathan, from the possessors of Jabesh-Gilead, who had stolen them from the broad place of Beth-Shan, where the Philistines hanged them, in the day of the Philistines striking Saul in Gilboa; <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and he brings up there the bones of Saul, and the bones of his son Jonathan, and they gather the bones of those hanged, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and bury the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin, in Zelah, in the burying-place of his father Kish, and do all that the king commanded, and God accepts the plea for the land afterward.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And again the Philistines have war with Israel, and David goes down, and his servants with him, and they fight with the Philistines; and David is weary, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and Ishbi-Benob, who [is] among the children of the giant—the weight of his spear [is] three hundred [shekels in] weight of bronze, and he is girded with a new one—speaks of striking David, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and Abishai son of Zeruiah gives help to him, and strikes the Philistine, and puts him to death; then the men of David swear to him, saying, “You do not go out with us to battle again, nor quench the lamp of Israel.”<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And it comes to pass afterward that the battle is again in Gob with the Philistines. Then Sibbechai the Hushathite has struck Saph, who [is] among the children of the giant. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the battle is again in Gob with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim, the Beth-Lehemite, strikes [a brother of] Goliath the Gittite, and the wood of his spear [is] like a weavers’ beam. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the battle is again in Gath, and there is a man of [great] stature, and the fingers of his hands [are] six, and the toes of his feet [are] six—twenty-four in number, and he has also been born to the giant, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and he reproaches Israel, and Jonathan son of Shimeah, David’s brother, strikes him; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>these four have been born to the giant in Gath, and they fall by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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