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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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 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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Saul's Descendants Are Put to Death</h3><p class="par"><span class="v10_21_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.1" class="v10_21_1">1</span>During David's reign there was a severe famine which lasted for three full years. So David consulted the <span class="nd">Lord</span> about it, and the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said, “Saul and his family are guilty of murder; he put the people of Gibeon to death.” ( </span><span class="v10_21_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.2" class="v10_21_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.21.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The people of Gibeon were not Israelites; they were a small group of Amorites whom the Israelites had promised to protect, but Saul had tried to destroy them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.) </span><span class="v10_21_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.3" class="v10_21_3">3</span>So David summoned the people of Gibeon and said to them, “What can I do for you? I want to make up for the wrong that was done to you, so that you will bless the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s people.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_21_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.4" class="v10_21_4">4</span>They answered, “Our quarrel with Saul and his family can't be settled with silver or gold, nor do we want to kill any Israelite.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_21_4">“What, then, do you think I should do for you?” David asked.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_21_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.5" class="v10_21_5">5</span>They answered, “Saul wanted to destroy us and leave none of us alive anywhere in Israel. </span><span class="v10_21_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.6" class="v10_21_6">6</span>So hand over seven of his male descendants, and we will hang them before the <span class="nd">Lord</span> at Gibeah, the hometown of Saul, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s chosen king.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_21_6">“I will hand them over,” the king answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_21_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.7" class="v10_21_7">7</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.21.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But because of the sacred promise that he and Jonathan had made to each other, David spared Jonathan's son Mephibosheth, the grandson of Saul. </span><span class="v10_21_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.8" class="v10_21_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.21.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> However, he took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons that Rizpah the daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul; he also took the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, whom she had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai, who was from Meholah. </span><span class="v10_21_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.9" class="v10_21_9">9</span>David handed them over to the people of Gibeon, who hanged them on the mountain before the <span class="nd">Lord</span>—and all seven of them died together. It was late in the spring, at the beginning of the barley harvest, when they were put to death.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_21_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.10" class="v10_21_10">10</span>Then Saul's concubine Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, used sackcloth to make a shelter for herself on the rock where the corpses were, and she stayed there from the beginning of harvest until the autumn rains came. During the day she would keep the birds away from the corpses, and at night she would protect them from wild animals.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_21_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.11" class="v10_21_11">11</span>When David heard what Rizpah had done, </span><span class="v10_21_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.12" class="v10_21_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.21.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> he went and got the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan from the people of Jabesh in Gilead. (They had stolen them from the public square in Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged the bodies on the day they killed Saul on Mount Gilboa.) </span><span class="v10_21_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.13" class="v10_21_13">13</span>David took the bones of Saul and Jonathan and also gathered up the bones of the seven men who had been hanged. </span><span class="v10_21_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.14" class="v10_21_14">14</span>Then they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan in the grave of Saul's father Kish, in Zela in the territory of Benjamin, doing all that the king had commanded. And after that, God answered their prayers for the country.</span></p><h3 class="s">Battles against Philistine Giants</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="1CH 20:4-8">1 Chronicles 20.4-8</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v10_21_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.15" class="v10_21_15">15</span>There was another war between the Philistines and Israel, and David and his men went and fought the Philistines. During one of the battles David grew tired. </span><span class="v10_21_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.16" class="v10_21_16">16</span>A giant named Ishbibenob, who was carrying a bronze spear that weighed about seven and a half pounds and who was wearing a new sword, thought he could kill David. </span><span class="v10_21_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.17" class="v10_21_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.21.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to David's help, attacked the giant, and killed him. Then David's men made David promise that he would never again go out with them to battle. “You are the hope of Israel, and we don't want to lose you,” they said.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_21_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.18" class="v10_21_18">18</span>After this there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, during which Sibbecai from Hushah killed a giant named Saph.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_21_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.19" class="v10_21_19">19</span>There was another battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair<a href="#fn" id="link_2Sam.21.19!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> from Bethlehem killed Goliath from Gath, whose spear had a shaft as thick as the bar on a weaver's loom.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_21_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.20" class="v10_21_20">20</span>Then there was another battle at Gath, where there was a giant who loved to fight. He had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. </span><span class="v10_21_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.21" class="v10_21_21">21</span>He defied the Israelites, and Jonathan, the son of David's brother Shammah, killed him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v10_21_22"><span class="reftext" id="2Sam.21.22" class="v10_21_22">22</span>These four were descendants of the giants of Gath, and they were killed by David and his men.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">21.19: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text (see 1 Ch 20.5) </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Jair; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Jaareoregim.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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