2 Samuel 21

¹Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 7:11-12Gen 12:10Gen 26:1Jer 14:1-18Ps 91:15

²And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto 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 unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.) Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 9:3-211 Sam 14:441 Sam 15:8-92 Kgs 10:162 Kgs 10:31Deut 7:16Gen 15:16Luke 9:54-55Rom 10:2Gal 4:17

³Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 20:19Heb 9:221 Sam 26:191 Sam 2:25Exod 32:30Heb 10:4-12Lev 1:4Mic 6:6-7

⁴And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Pet 1:18-19Ps 49:6-8

⁵And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 21:1Dan 9:26Esth 9:24-25Matt 7:2

⁶Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, whom the Lord did choose. And the king said, I will give them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 10:241 Sam 10:261 Sam 11:4Num 25:4-51 Sam 10:11 Sam 9:16-172 Sam 17:232 Sam 18:10Acts 13:21Deut 21:22

⁷But 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 18:31 Sam 20:151 Sam 23:182 Sam 4:41 Sam 20:82 Sam 9:101 Sam 20:171 Sam 20:422 Sam 16:42 Sam 19:25

⁸But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 18:192 Sam 3:7

⁹And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ruth 1:221 Sam 15:332 Kgs 24:3-42 Sam 21:62 Sam 6:172 Sam 6:21Deut 21:1-9Exod 20:5Num 35:31-34

¹⁰And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 21:231 Kgs 18:41-451 Kgs 21:272 Sam 3:7Joel 2:23Zech 10:1Deut 11:14Deut 21:13Ezek 39:4Hos 6:3

¹¹And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 2:4Ruth 2:11-12

¹²And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh–gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth–shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 31:10-13Josh 17:111 Chr 10:11 Sam 28:41 Sam 31:12 Sam 1:212 Sam 1:62 Sam 2:5-7

¹³And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹⁴And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 18:282 Sam 24:25Josh 7:261 Kgs 18:40-411 Sam 10:22 Sam 3:322 Sam 4:12Amos 7:1-6Exod 32:27-29Jer 14:1-7

¹⁵Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 14:10-112 Sam 5:172 Sam 5:222 Sam 5:25Eccl 12:3Ps 71:91 Chr 20:41 Pet 1:24-25Isa 40:28-30Jer 9:23-24

¹⁶And Ishbi–benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 21:182 Sam 21:201 Sam 17:4-51 Sam 17:45-512 Sam 21:222 Sam 5:18Deut 1:28Deut 2:10Deut 2:21Deut 3:11

¹⁷But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 11:362 Sam 18:31 Kgs 15:4Ps 132:172 Sam 20:6-102 Sam 14:72 Sam 22:192 Sam 22:29John 1:8-9John 5:35

¹⁸And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 11:292 Sam 21:201 Chr 27:112 Sam 21:161 Chr 20:4-82 Sam 21:22

¹⁹And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare–oregim, a Beth–lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 20:51 Chr 11:261 Sam 17:4-11

²⁰And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 21:162 Sam 21:181 Chr 20:6

²¹And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 16:91 Sam 17:101 Sam 17:25-261 Sam 17:361 Chr 2:131 Chr 27:321 Sam 17:32 Kgs 19:13

²²These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 20:8Rom 8:31Jer 9:23Eccl 9:11Josh 14:12Ps 108:13Ps 118:15Ps 60:12Rom 8:37