There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.” Jos 7:11-12Gen 12:10Gen 26:11Ki 17:11Ki 18:21Sa 22:17-191Sa 23:111Sa 23:2
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); Jos 9:3-211Sa 14:441Sa 15:8-92Ki 10:162Ki 10:31Deu 7:16Gen 15:16Luk 9:54-55 and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless the LORD’s inheritance?” 2Sa 20:19Heb 9:221Sa 26:191Sa 2:25Exo 32:30Heb 10:4-12Lev 1:4Mic 6:6-7
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.” 1Pe 1:18-19Psa 49:6-8
He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”
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, 2Sa 21:1Dan 9:26Est 9:24-25Mat 7:2 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” 1Sa 10:241Sa 10:261Sa 11:4Num 25:4-51Sa 10:11Sa 9:16-172Sa 17:232Sa 18:10
The king said, “I will give them.”
But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. 1Sa 18:31Sa 20:151Sa 23:182Sa 4:41Sa 20:82Sa 9:101Sa 20:171Sa 20:42 But 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 Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. 1Sa 18:192Sa 3:7 He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites; and they hanged them on the mountain before the LORD, 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. Rut 1:221Sa 15:332Ki 24:3-42Sa 21:62Sa 6:172Sa 6:21Deu 21:1-9Exo 20:5
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. Deu 21:231Ki 18:41-451Ki 21:272Sa 3:7Jol 2:23Zec 10:1Deu 11:14Deu 21:13 David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. 2Sa 2:4Rut 2:11-12 So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa; 1Sa 31:10-13Jos 17:111Ch 10:11Sa 28:41Sa 31:12Sa 1:212Sa 1:62Sa 2:5-7 and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged. 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 performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land. Jos 18:282Sa 24:25Jos 7:261Ki 18:40-411Sa 10:22Sa 3:322Sa 4:12Amo 7:1-6
The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint; Jos 14:10-112Sa 5:172Sa 5:222Sa 5:25Ecc 12:3Psa 71:91Ch 20:41Pe 1:24-25 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought he would kill David. 2Sa 21:182Sa 21:201Sa 17:4-51Sa 17:45-512Sa 21:222Sa 5:18Deu 1:28Deu 2:10 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.” 1Ki 11:362Sa 18:31Ki 15:4Psa 132:172Sa 14:72Sa 20:6-102Sa 22:192Sa 22:29
After this, there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant. 1Ch 11:292Sa 21:201Ch 27:112Sa 21:161Ch 20:4-82Sa 21:22 There was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. 1Ch 20:51Ch 11:261Sa 17:4-11 There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand and six toes on every foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was born to the giant. 2Sa 21:162Sa 21:181Ch 20:6 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him. 1Sa 16:91Sa 17:101Sa 17:25-261Sa 17:361Ch 2:131Ch 27:321Sa 17:32Ki 19:13 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. 1Ch 20:8Rom 8:31Jer 9:23Ecc 9:11Jos 14:12Psa 108:13Psa 118:15Psa 60:12