2 Samuel 21:1-9
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21And there was aa famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and bDavid sought the presence of Yahweh. And Yahweh said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.” 2So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites, and athe sons of Israel 1made a covenant with them, but Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah). 3Thus David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And how can I make atonement that you may bless athe inheritance of Yahweh?” 4Then the Gibeonites said to him, “aWe have no concern of silver or gold with Saul or his house, nor is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” And he said, “I will do for you whatever you say.” 5So they said to the king, “aThe man who consumed us and who planned 1to eradicate us from standing within any border of Israel, 6let seven men from his sons be given to us, and we will 1hang them abefore Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, bthe chosen of Yahweh.” And the king said, “I will give them.”
7But the king spared aMephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, bbecause of the oath of Yahweh which was between them, between David and Saul’s son Jonathan. 8So the king took the two sons of aRizpah the daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of 1,bMerab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the cMeholathite. 9Then he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they 1hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, so that the seven of them fell together; and they were put to death in the first days of harvest at athe beginning of barley harvest.